#'beyond our ken' is a great title for the article

[poirott]

A Haunting in Venice feature in TOTAL FILM September 2023 issue

James Prichard, Agatha Christie's great-grandson and executive producer of A Haunting in Venice, did a little teaser interview.

He talks about the characters, Christie's legacy, a possible 4th Poirot film (yes, they'll do another if Branagh and the screenwriter want to do it!), and the film's nods to the paranormal as per the book and that they're just what the franchise needs. "If we are going to continue to make these films, we can' t do the same thing over and over. Departure at this moment is possibly risky, but it also has the potential to keep it alive, bring in a different audience, and do something interesting that will hopefully surprise and delight."

He didn't want to share any spoilers but said: "In some ways the supernatural is a suspect." :)

[orioleroofing]

Best of Success 2019 Draws Record Crowd

reprinted by Oriole Roofing, a Baltimore roofing contractor, from https://www.roofingcontractor.com/articles/94119-best-of-success-2019-draws-record-crowd

Best of Success 2019 Draws Record Crowd

The 15th annual conference held in Miami drew another large crowd of roofing professionals from around the globe.

Hundreds of roofing contractors from across the United States and beyond traveled to South Florida to be part of RC’s 15th annual Best of Success conference.

Hundreds of roofing contractors from across the United States and beyond traveled to South Florida to be part of RC’s 15th annual Best of Success conference.

Hundreds of roofing contractors from across the United States and beyond traveled to South Florida to be part of RC’s 15th annual Best of Success conference.

Hundreds of roofing contractors from across the United States and beyond traveled to South Florida to be part of RC’s 15th annual Best of Success conference.

Hundreds of roofing contractors from across the United States and beyond traveled to South Florida to be part of RC’s 15th annual Best of Success conference.

Hundreds of roofing contractors from across the United States and beyond traveled to South Florida to be part of RC’s 15th annual Best of Success conference.

December 18, 2019Art Aisner and Chris GrayKEYWORDS Best of Success / Commercial Roofing Contractor / conference / education / miami / Residential Roofing ContractorReprintsNo Comments

Hundreds of roofing contractors from across the United States and beyond traveled to South Florida to be part of RC’s 15th annual Best of Success conference at the J.W. Marriott Miami Turnberry Resort & Spa in September.

RC Publisher Jill Bloom kicked off the event reminding attendees of the event’s history and overall mission to help roofing contractors improve their businesses.

“The first Best of Success conference launched with 75 people, in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and wow! Look where we are today,” Bloom said while looking out at the crowd of more than 550 attendees. “We go back and forth between the East Coast, West Coast and sometimes the central U.S., and peer-to-peer sharing is the foundation of what we do.”

Bloom also touched on recent inspiration provided by serial entrepreneur and business coach Jesse Itzler, who delivered the keynote address at the 2019 International Roofing Expo in Nashville. During his speech, Itzler talked about his experience of hiring a former U.S. Navy SEAL to live with his family for 30 days, which he later turned into a book.

“The stories he shared, and the life-changing takeaways from the experience truly made an impact and made me think about what we’ve done here at Best of Success for 15 years,” Bloom said. “What struck me from his book is you can do so much more than you realize if you just stretch yourself. I mean mental barriers we put on ourselves that we don’t even realize.”

Check out more content from Best of Success, including more seminars, photo galleries from the event, and more highlights from the show! ( 2019 Best of Success Highlights )

Gender Gap

The unique roofing industry experience began with multiple events before the conference’s official start, including a workshop organized by National Women in Roofing (NWIR) that focused on how women can assert and articulate their ideas effectively in the workplace. Roughly two dozen women were treated to a presentation by Thea Dudley, of Pocket Protectors LLC, titled “Know Your Worth at Work (and how to leverage it).”

Dudley, who previously served as vice president of customer financial relations at SRS Distribution, presented eye-opening statistics about women in the workforce, including how women make up only 19 percent of C-suite executives. She said part of this stems from how, if someone doesn’t believe in themselves or their career goals, then they can’t expect others to believe in them.

“If you think of yourself as a product, whether you work for a company or yourself, you’re a product, and what you have to market is your skills and yourself and what you bring to the table,” Dudley said.

Dudley provided advice on how to become a self-promoter and accomplish career goals, from conducting honest self-evaluations to keeping a career journal to chronicle career highlights.

“Don’t worry so much about career pathing, be a strategic opportunist, and shameless self-promotion is your friend,” Dudley said. “It’s okay to toot your own horn.”

During the event, NWIR representatives announced the organization is rolling out a new program for members to become mentors or mentees. Members can update their profiles to list themselves as a mentor or mentee, and upon doing so, can search for a match using criteria like department or company.

Michelle Boykin, COO of Rackley Roofing, spoke highly of mentorship, saying it is important for women in the industry to find other women to lean on and learn from.

“Had I not joined NWIR years ago I wouldn’t be where I am today,” said Boykin, who serves as NWIR Treasurer. “If you’re not utilizing it to be your best self, I encourage you to do that today.”

Time to Connect

As the roofing industry continues to evolve, so does the Best of Success conference as an event. Those that arrived early were again greeted with a welcome reception on the outskirts of one of the resort’s elegant outdoor pools. That was just the warm-up to the annual networking reception along the picturesque golf course following the first day’s festivities.

New this year, RC added additional time after the close of day one for a Speaker Connect session. All roofing professionals scheduled to present over the two days were stationed at small tables set up just outside the main conference area to answer questions and meet other attendees face-to-face.

“We wanted to give our speakers more of an opportunity to engage with roofing contractors and the feedback was tremendous,” Bloom said. “This helped advance the learning piece of Best of Success, while also giving attendees a better opportunity to meet presenters and drill down on their topic of expertise.”

Big Winners

RC continued its annual tradition of announcing the Residential and Commercial Roofing Contractors of the Year at the conclusion of day one of the 15th Best of Success conference.

Kelly Roofing, of Bonita Springs, Fla., was named the 2019 Residential Roofing Contractor of the Year, and Don Kennedy Roofing, of Nashville, earned the 2019 Commercial Roofing Contractor of the Year designation.

RC Editorial Director Rick Damato and Editor Art Aisner delivered the awards before a packed ballroom of more than 500 roofing professionals in attendance.

Roughly 100 contractors from across the country submitted applications for the award earlier this year.

“Ken has a great roofing story, from being thrust into leadership at such a young age to navigating a family business through ups and downs over decades,” said Bloom. “But beyond his business success, he’s the kind of guy you want to surround yourself with because he’s organized, motivating and inspirational.”

Kelly, who took over his father’s business, was thrilled to accept the award, and made sure his first call after receiving it was to his father.

“This is one of those moments where you say to yourself, ‘You arrived,’” Kelly said. “This is the Super Bowl of the industry.”

Kennedy said he was just as humbled for the honor and to be able to share it with most of his family in attendance. He also presented his company’s story the following day during a presentation.

“It was a great surprise,” Kennedy said. “This is just a summation of everything that the people we work with has come together and they’ve created a great thing.”

In presenting the award to Kennedy, Damato noted how all of Kennedy’s employees work and act like they are the owners, and how the business constantly strives to better itself.

“This business had everything in order, it was focused on getting better. It’s more than a family business, it’s a family,” Damato said. “Consistently managing to attract the best people is one of the many reasons it makes our 2019 Commercial Contractor of the Year so special.”

The Roofing Technology Think Tank (RT3) awarded Rackely Roofing President Curtis Sutton with its first-ever Innovator of the Year Award during day one of RC’s Best of Success.

RT3 is a group of progressive roofing professionals focused on technology solutions in the roofing industry. The group provides insights from progressive thought leaders both inside and outside the roofing industry along with practical resources for implementing potential solutions successfully.

Charles Antis, founder and CEO of Antis Roofing & Waterproofing, along with Anna Anderson, CEO of Art Unlimited, presented the award. Anderson, who serves as Award Task Team Leader and an RT3 board member, said it was difficult selecting the first recipient of the new award.

“We had many great nominations and it was very hard to narrow the field down to just one,” said Anderson. “We selected Rackley Roofing because they embrace technology and have demonstrated that they are early adopters when it comes to implementing new innovations.”

Sutton brings a respect for the traditional craftsmanship of a professional roofer and passion for the latest technological innovations. Under his leadership, Rackley has introduced industry-leading technologies like Rackley RoofCheck and Rackley RoofView. Rackley has implemented the use of virtual reality safety headsets that allow everyone to experience being on a roof and learn best safety practices. The company is beginning the use of in-ear translators that can translate speech into any language and dialect.

“We are in total control of who we hire, but as far as technology, we have to seek outside the business doors, and at times, outside of the roofing industry to look at the world to see who does what best,” Sutton said.

Following the success of last year’s inaugural Social Media Star award recognizing the attendee with the best engagement on social media, RC partnered again with No Time for Social and tracked use of the #BOSConf hashtag over the two-day period. For his efforts, John Kenney of Sutter Roofing in Florida earned his company three months of Social Media Stockpile, a customizable program for contractors that offers a full complement of social media content. 

What: 2020 Best of Success conference 

When: September 2020; exact dates TBD

Where: The Omni Frisco Hotel, Frisco, Texas

Who: Roofing contractors and industry professionals

Notables: The 16th annual unique two-day experience returns to the Metroplex in order to help roofing professionals grow their businesses and become more successful. Featured will be:

A new roster of roofing industry leaders and experts willing to share their expertise and business know-how to move the industry forward.

Unique and unrivaled networking and social opportunities with roofing industry leaders, as well as some of the most influential product and service providers in the roofing business.

Online registration begins next spring at www.BestofSuccessConference.com.

In addition to this award and the contractors of the year, RC rewarded roughly two dozen attendees with giveaways from generous event sponsors ranging from gift cards to a drone.

Star Struck

The annual tradition of bringing together the best and brightest the roofing industry has to offer in one location continues again next year. Join RC as we head back to The Star in Frisco, Texas, the official home of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys. The venue hosted Best of Success 2018, which at the time was the largest event to date with more than 500 registered attendees. Bloom said to count on September, however, official event dates won’t be determined until after the NFL schedule is released in April 2020.

Check back with Roofing Contractor’s print edition and website regularly for updates or visit www.BestofSuccessConference.com.

Art Aisner is the editor of Roofing Contractor.

Oriole Roofing – Baltimore Maryland roofing contractor

Business info: Oriole Roofing +1 (410) 989-6661 5307 Frankford Ave, Baltimore, MD 21206 39.324788, -76.541216 https://orioleroofing.com https://www.google.com/maps?cid=9853636130133482043 https://drive.google.com/open?id=11pw6fPEN4qNET3lOnCWx_DjaRCTWGS0o&usp=sharing https://youtu.be/WBJSVEUYMps

Company description Oriole Roofing is a roofing contractor in Baltimore, MD that repairs roofs, replaces roofs, and installs new roofs throughout the Baltimore metro area. We will repair, replace, or install: asphalt, metal, tile, slate, or any other type of roof imaginable.

Related Baltimore, MD roofing terms baltimore roofing company, baltimore roofing contractor, baltimore roof repair, roofing baltimore md, flat roof repair baltimore, fick brothers roofing baltimore, roofing companies baltimore md, baltimore roofing, roofing contractors baltimore md, roofing companies in baltimore, baltimore roofing contractors, roof repair baltimore md, roofing contractors baltimore, slate roof repair baltimore, allied roofing baltimore, baltimore md roofing, horizon roofing baltimore, roof repair baltimore, baltimore roofing companies, roofing baltimore, roofing company baltimore, roofing companies baltimore, emergency roof repair baltimore, slate roof baltimore, roof cleaning baltimore, rosedale roofing baltimore md, liberty roofing baltimore, cole roofing baltimore, roofing company baltimore md, baltimore md roofing contractor, roofing contractors in baltimore md, alliance roofing baltimore, roof repair baltimore city,

Driving directions to Oriole Roofing in Baltimore MD https://goo.gl/maps/9LiZYgEXSCCa7YPA9 https://goo.gl/maps/K6ZQmxR1F2wxnLaB8 https://goo.gl/maps/nYdCk9vHueHyW7Mw7 https://goo.gl/maps/ip4MhNxgJK5UTdY48 https://goo.gl/maps/GtDUUqHNubWhUwuAA https://goo.gl/maps/7F4Z3hhHJiP33QoT9 https://goo.gl/maps/pbA2f5uqw8CY9rwi6 https://goo.gl/maps/TZ4zvN3Ua8RQsdRZ6 https://goo.gl/maps/HEogVHCaxaoyqaKT9 https://goo.gl/maps/qZQXESyw4BgCCroD7 https://goo.gl/maps/5dQ9f3Y8CCGhWkvq5 https://goo.gl/maps/4y4hj8u6igswkSvb9 https://goo.gl/maps/N2A7fKApxKszvuaNA https://goo.gl/maps/zpjVXYEaWRkr9yjj6 https://goo.gl/maps/NBqykQeeh5ZJkFkm6 https://goo.gl/maps/RKts4TbE17y7ZJ2w8 https://goo.gl/maps/ixFVNVZLat4S7mx86 https://goo.gl/maps/5xpZ7wqsepfXW1uL9 https://goo.gl/maps/Fi9AJuqJALC9owxFA https://goo.gl/maps/QLUb2S658pEF1W9V6 https://goo.gl/maps/3YJgo1wezHWrRoPo9 https://goo.gl/maps/nD1bVxgmEvs4F7Fq6 https://goo.gl/maps/z5vFfoN1kf7ttvhw5 https://goo.gl/maps/rHMtimpoeZb8RSrq5 https://goo.gl/maps/bcHWDiJsjvujMaw78 https://goo.gl/maps/52cisvAxbxqv1sCT9 https://goo.gl/maps/PA7NnWswoqiLL1Wf7 https://goo.gl/maps/bpE8yHUsZV7jPdMg8 https://goo.gl/maps/fTRERXsp8woijuuZ9 https://goo.gl/maps/xECV1UijWDbdMN446 https://goo.gl/maps/wq2JgWp7Wyj1Y6qn9 https://goo.gl/maps/EtaELVY48kagGEe7A https://goo.gl/maps/8eXeqp53C92VATMA9 https://goo.gl/maps/vVPuLMqKqhGudfts8 https://goo.gl/maps/hz1oVYAuHhLugufS9 https://goo.gl/maps/45UKpfX6Y5yAHj6e9 https://goo.gl/maps/QRdNdBzwhgbiUq1x8 https://goo.gl/maps/8nWZeopupG1gPg4i6 https://goo.gl/maps/vpnpRj2nh1VPw3Tv6 https://goo.gl/maps/qcBHXKy4dCCmdoML6 https://goo.gl/maps/uYZmAPhESnrY8B2u6 https://goo.gl/maps/vwcLWF4sTstqqmqE7 https://goo.gl/maps/a8WKUKg8Am6yDgNv9 https://goo.gl/maps/dVdxBHomkdsYqJt89 https://goo.gl/maps/Bd6ACVENUrrd8J1j8 https://goo.gl/maps/HCtUAcF7AG8TJ2Ci6 https://goo.gl/maps/wNq4q7igVFTysAUu7 https://goo.gl/maps/miduWbszGwxigHBp8 https://goo.gl/maps/K2WT7vSe3Un4JoN1A https://goo.gl/maps/oh7b5XjCh7fXvGKm6 https://goo.gl/maps/5TwqcwN7uRyiUu8q6 https://goo.gl/maps/FpyZtY5Rv5q5uf1HA https://goo.gl/maps/ezYdrwBMY3B9H5YbA https://goo.gl/maps/KvPKhYvc5CrC9LLH9 https://goo.gl/maps/Fi9AJuqJALC9owxFA https://goo.gl/maps/bgttmqeStowjVdSv5 https://goo.gl/maps/YimsDA1SjdisVJ187 https://goo.gl/maps/TbTT4cUWw8vqyrzHA https://goo.gl/maps/D4S4LCb7mWqwMUZY8 https://goo.gl/maps/ERjfb6phYoxRzcY19 https://goo.gl/maps/ESpdAE4yxb7WdDma9 https://goo.gl/maps/5NGQs9gVwGctNDBj6 https://goo.gl/maps/UAU8QXXRge3xu1mf7 https://goo.gl/maps/A3Fnpu8JKWxdc87d8 https://goo.gl/maps/nzE6GG3yGxvGFSQa7 https://goo.gl/maps/C3iaJ3kbWt5rC12cA https://goo.gl/maps/1dL3NXbNGFnJSqx57 https://goo.gl/maps/Vz5CHDrjQ9oausGi6 https://goo.gl/maps/8DZNKHifC1ZA9iTE7 https://goo.gl/maps/svws8epAEFFfSf6UA

Common searches for roofing contractors in Baltimore, Maryland https://www.google.com/search?q=oriole+roofing+baltimore+md https://www.google.com/search?q=oriole+roofing+baltimore+md&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=baltimore+md+roofing+companies+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=baltimore+md+roofing+companys+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=baltimore+md+roofing+contractors+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=baltimore+md+roofing+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=baltimore+roofing+contractors+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=baltimore+roofing+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=emergency+roofing+baltimore+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=emergency+roofing+contractors+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=baltimore+emergency+roofing+contractors+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=roof+repair+baltimore+md+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=roofing+contractors+baltimore+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=rosedale+md+roofing+contractors+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=roofing+contractors+rosedale+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=roofing+contractors+Overlea+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=roofing+contractors+Essex+MD+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=Rosedale+roofing+companies+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=Rosedale+MD+emergency+roofing+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=Overlea+MD+roofing+companies+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=roofing+repair+rosedale+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=Four+Twelve+Roofing+roofing+contractors+rosedale+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=Charm+City+Roofing+roofing+contractors+rosedale+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=Rosedale+Roofing+Co+roofing+repair+rosedale+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=Fick+Brothers+Roofing+Co+roofing+contractors+rosedale+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=Rosedale+Roofing+Co+roofing+contractors+Baltimore+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=Advance+MP+Roofing+Company+Baltimore+Best+Roof+Repair+roofing+contractors+Baltimore+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b https://www.google.com/search?q=Mid+Atlantic+Remodeling+Company+Roofing+&+Storm+Damage+Restoration+Baltimore+County+roofing+contractors+Baltimore+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Oriole+Roofing/@39.3210873,-76.6043102,13z/data=!4m8!1m2!2m1!1soriole+roofing+baltimore+md!3m4!1s0x89c80790ff5733df:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cox+Roofing+Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/baltimore+md+roofing+companies+Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/baltimore+md+roofing+companys+Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/baltimore+md+roofing+contractors+Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/baltimore+md+roofing+Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/emergency+roofing+baltimore+Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/emergency+roofing+contractors+Rosedale+Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/baltimore+emergency+roofing+contractors+Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/roof+repair+baltimore+md+Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/roof+repair+Rosedale+md+Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/roofing+contractors+baltimore+Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/roofing+contractors+Rosedale+Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/roofing+contractors+Overlea+Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/roofing+contractors+Essex+MD+Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/Rosedale+roofing+companies+Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fick+Brothers+Roofing+Co+roofing+contractors+rosedale+Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/Rosedale+Roofing+Co+roofing+contractors+Baltimore+Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/Advance+MP+Roofing+Company+Baltimore+Best+Roof+Repair+roofing+contractors+Baltimore+Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mid+Atlantic+Remodeling+Company+Roofing+&+Storm+Damage+Restoration+Baltimore+County+roofing+contractors+Baltimore+Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/roof+repair+Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/metal+roofing+Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214https://www.google.com/maps/place/roofing+installation+Oriole+Roofing/@39.3247763,-76.5434027,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x88bf25da828f9a3b!8m2!3d39.3247763!4d-76.541214

https://www.google.com/search?q=Cox+Roofing+roofing+contractors+Baltimore+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8bhttps://www.google.com/search?q=roofing+contractors+Baltimore+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8bhttps://www.google.com/search?q=Baltimore+MD+roofing+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8bhttps://www.google.com/search?q=roofing+contractors+Baltimore+MD+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8bhttps://www.google.com/search?q=Baltimore+roofing+companies+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8bhttps://www.google.com/search?q=Baltimore+emergency+roof+repair+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8bhttps://www.google.com/search?q=Cox+Roofing+roofing+contractors+Baltimore+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8bhttps://www.google.com/search?q=leaking+roof+Baltimore+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8bhttps://www.google.com/search?q=roofing+Baltimore+oriole+roofing&kponly&kgmid=/g/11j48h5g8b

via Oriole Roofing in Baltimore MD Roofing contractors Baltimore MD Roofing contractors Columbia MD Roofing contractors Dundalk MD Roofing contractors Towson MD Roofing contractors Windsor Mill MD Roofing contractors West Chester PA Roofing contractors York PA Roofing contractors Rosedale MD

From the Twitter feed of Oriole Roofing, a Baltimore roofing contractor

baltimore roof repair Roofing Baltimore MD Roofing Columbia MD Roofing Dundalk MD Roofing Towson MD Roofing Windsor Mill MD Roofing West Chester PA Roofing York PA Roofing Rosedale MD

from Oriole Roofing https://ift.tt/2PJitC0 roofing contractors Baltimore MA flat roof repair Baltimore Baltimore roofing roofing contractors Baltimore MD

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

30-Year Stellar Survey Cracks Mysteries Of Galaxy’s Giant Planets Current and former astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have wrapped up a massive collaborative study that set out to determine if most solar systems in the universe are similar to our own. With the help of W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi, the 30-year planetary census sought to find where giant planets tend to reside relative to their host stars. In our solar system, the giant planets—Jupiter and Saturn—are found in the chilly outer regions, while smaller planets tend to orbit closer to the Sun. Earth lives in an intermediate tropical zone well-suited to life, at a distance of 1AU (astronomical unit) from the Sun. Jupiter is about 5 AU from the Sun, and Saturn is at 9 AU. An AU, the distance from the Earth to our Sun, is about 93 million miles. “Dynamically speaking, Jupiter and Saturn are the VIPs—Very Important Planets—of the solar system,” said IfA Parrent Postdoctoral Fellow Lauren Weiss. “They are thought to have shaped the assembly of the terrestrial planets, potentially stunting the growth of Mars and slingshotting water-bearing comets toward Earth.” We Are Normal New data reveals that, on average, there are 14 cold giant planets per 100 stars in the galaxy, so although the solar system is not the most common type of planetary system in the galaxy, it is well represented. The number of giant planets detected around nearby stars suggest that billions of giant planets reside in the Milky Way Galaxy. Researchers also found that giant planets tend to reside about 1 to 10 AU from their host stars, a mostly icy region located beyond these stars’ temperate zones. The research team included Weiss, former IfA graduate student BJ Fulton, and former IfA professor Andrew Howard, who is now a Caltech professor of astronomy. Fulton, now a staff scientist at Caltech’s astronomy center, received the Astronomical Society of the Pacific’s 2018 Robert J. Trumpler Award, recognizing his PhD thesis work on the distribution of extrasolar planet masses as unusually important to astronomy. The new research is reported in two journal articles accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement. Lee Rosenthal, a graduate student at Caltech who works with Howard, is lead author of one study, and Fulton is lead author of the second paper. Maunakea Plays Key Role in Data Collection Researchers observed 719 sun-like stars for more than three decades, finding 177 planets, including 14 that were newly discovered. The planets have masses between one-hundredth and 20 times the mass of Jupiter. The project, called the California Legacy Survey, originated in the Golden State in the 1990s; half of the data was obtained using Keck Observatory’s High-Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES). It is the longest-duration exoplanet survey to date. Rosenthal explains that the survey was designed to be unbiased by carefully selecting random stars, “as if you could put your hand in a grab bag of stars and pull a random planet out.” Working on this project as part of his PhD thesis, Rosenthal says it was “humbling to work on a 30-year project where some of the data are older than I am.” In our solar system, we also have planets that are a bit smaller than Jupiter and Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, which are located out beyond Saturn. The California Legacy Survey is not sensitive to planets in that size range and at that distance. “While we can’t detect smaller planets similar to Neptune and Uranus that are very distant from their stars, we can infer that the large gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn are extremely rare in the outermost regions of most exoplanetary systems,” explained Fulton. “This survey is a great jumping-off point for future instruments that are sensitive to planets the size of Earth,” said Howard, who is leading one such cutting-edge instrument, the Keck Planet Finder, which is expected to be shipped to Keck Observatory in 2022. The collaboration included researchers from IfA, Caltech, and the University of California, and primarily used Keck Observatory and the Shane and Automated Planet Finder telescopes at Lick Observatory, near San Jose, California. The team plans to continue to sift through data for new patterns and clues to help understand the characteristics and formation of other star systems, as well as our own solar system. They are also looking forward to next-generation surveys. The first paper in the series, led by Rosenthal, is titled, “The California Legacy Survey I. A Catalog of 177 Planets from Precision Radial Velocity Monitoring of 719 Nearby Stars Over Three Decades.” The second paper in the series, led by Fulton, is titled, “California Legacy Survey II. Occurrence of Giant Planets Beyond the Ice Line.” The California Legacy Survey is funded and supported by Caltech, the University of California, the University of Hawaiʻi, Tennessee State University, NASA, the National Science Foundation, the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, Google, and Ken and Gloria Levy. TOP IMAGE....Where Giant Planets Live: This Illustration shows where giant planets reside with respect to their host stars. Recent findings from the California Legacy Survey, in which hundreds of stars and planets were surveyed, reveal that giant planets around other stars tend to orbit between 1 and 10 astronomical units (AU) from their stars. An AU is the distance between Earth and the sun. The results are depicted in this chart, such that the taller buildings show where most of the giant planets tend to “live” relative to their stars, i.e., in the zone between 1 and 10 AU from their stars. Giant planets residing very close to their stars, colloquially known as “hot Jupiters,” receive an abundance of light and heat from their nearby host stars, and are thus adorned in sunglasses. More distant giants receive much less light from their host stars and therefore are colder and depicted with hats and earmuffs. Image credit: California Legacy Survey/T. Pyle (Caltech/IPAC) LOWER IMAGE....Giant Planet Occurence: This graph of data collected by the California Legacy Survey indicates that most giant planets in the galaxy tend to reside about 1 to 10 astronomical units (AU) from their host stars. An AU is defined as the distance from Earth to our sun, or about 93 million miles. This is similar to what we see in our own solar system: Earth orbits at 1 AU; Jupiter is situated at about 5 AU and Saturn at 9 AU. Image credit: California Legacy Survey/T. Pyle (Caltech/IPAC)

[johnaculbreath]

Blawg 100 Hall of Fame

Home

In-Depth Reporting

Blawg 100 Hall of Fame

ABA Journal Web 100

Blawg 100 Hall of Fame

By Sarah Mui, Molly McDonough and Lee Rawles

December 2018

Since 2012, the ABA Journal has maintained the Blawg 100 Hall of Fame to note consistently outstanding law blogs. The list of best blogs has grown to 60, with five new additions for 2018. Descriptions which follow were written in the year the blog joined the Hall of Fame.

Warning labels on products generally result from someone, somewhere trying something boneheaded, whether it be the consumer or the company itself. At Abnormal Use, breathtaking examples of the tort cases that result from such failures of judgment are cataloged and analyzed.

In a Supreme Ambitions post this fall, David Lat summed up the blog he founded in this way: “Above the Law … covers the legal profession at large, in a sweeping, high/low mix—from the heights of the U.S. Supreme Court to the depths of disgraced and depraved attorneys.” That pretty much nails it. We’ll also note that ATL has added directories of law schools, law firms and recruiters this year, as well as a few new columnists.

Law firm consultant Bruce MacEwen’s “synthesis of economics and the law is especially interesting in the work I do and because both topics, separately and combined, make for great reading post-2008. Moreover, MacEwen is a careful writer, and his articles reflect that.” —Mark Reber, senior marketing manager at Bullivant Houser Bailey in Portland, Oregon

Clear writing in a contract can avert disaster, and Ken Adams’ blog exists to keep legal writers from steering into icebergs. Many posts focus on a single, common turn of phrase—such as “in furtherance of the foregoing”—in contracts and why the phrase should never be used. Adams also pays close attention to other writing experts in the legal blogosphere and notes where he disagrees with their assessments.

Stinson Leonard Street lawyer Liz Kramer’s blog marked its sixth “blogiversary” during what she called the Summer of Arbitration because of the avalanche of arbitration cases and regulation. But Kramer goes beyond recounting rulings to look for arbitration trends and lessons for her “warm community of fellow arbitration geeks.”

The bloggers of Attorney@Work truly fulfill the promise of their slogan: “One really good idea every day for enterprising lawyers.” Law practice management may not be for the faint of heart, but the tips and tricks offered by this blog can make it easier.

At this blog, law professors discuss what skills and qualities—beyond knowing the law—the future lawyers in their classrooms really need and the nitty-gritty of how to teach them. Recent posts discuss suggestions for bar exam reform, approaches to take with Generation Z law students who were raised on the internet, and what law students remember about professors decades later.

This South Texas College of Law professor has captured our attention with his U.S. Supreme Court-predicting algorithm, his Harlan Institute focused on education and his FantasySCOTUS league; and he has kept it with his more than 9,000 posts on the Supreme Court and constitutional law.

Canna Law Blog helped the Canna Law Group of Harris Bricken make a name for itself in this emerging practice area. “People might have laughed about the idea of cannabis law as a field, but there is no doubt it has become, in every sense, legitimate,” Wu says. “Here is a great resource for the curious as well as those interested in actually entering the specialty.”

American Lawyer reporter Vivia Chen writes graceful prose without dancing around the issues near and dear to her readers, who want to succeed in law on their own terms. Some choice questions from her posts this year: Should men be gagged, tied up and forced to take paternity leave? Do you ever feel like wringing the necks of underlings who seem incapable of following your directives? Keep telling us how you really feel, Vivia, and we’ll keep reading.

This is a highly specific niche blog that nonetheless deserves its spot in the top 100 because of how utterly indispensable it is for its demographic. If you practice law in or around China or if you do any business with Chinese companies, you probably already have this bookmarked. Heck, if you’re even visiting China, give it a read because the bloggers provide excellent practical advice on not getting kidnapped. (We admit being fascinated by the anti-kidnapping advice.)

Why are we featuring an employment law blog for Connecticut and not a state with a higher population? Because Hartford-based blogger (and ‘09 Legal Rebel) Daniel Schwartz consistently impresses us with concise and incisive analysis of the latest cases and issues to arise in employment law, although occasionally venturing into more lighthearted territory. (“Ten of the Best Workplace Songs for Labor Day,” for example.)

This National Constitution Center blog covers the U.S. Supreme Court, legal history and other constitutional news and debate. In the weekly We the People podcast, NCC President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen talks to leading experts on timely or historical constitutional topics. At the blog you can also find the NCC’s Interactive Constitution, where a pair of scholars—one selected by the Federalist Society, the other by the American Constitution Society—find common ground and write a joint statement about each provision of the constitution.

Houston criminal defense attorney Mark Bennett has been at the legal blogging game for more than 10 years. In his posts, he sides against creating new laws and policies that might protect some but chip away at the First Amendment for all; calls out questionable ethical moves by fellow lawyers and judges in Texas; and shares random tidbits about little things he does to boost his advocacy—like taking improv classes and filing pleadings on quality paper stock.

How technology and social media affect modern employers and employment law has been a particular focus of Molly DiBianca, although she ably covers other topics as well. The blog is full of thoughtful and well-reasoned advice to employers and their attorneys; while the laws cited may be specific to Delaware, the broader principles are applicable across the country.

Since 2011, Jean P. O’Grady has been a voice for the rarely sung but invaluable information professionals in the industry. Emerging technologies have changed the landscape for law librarians; O’Grady’s blog provides guidance on the newest tools available to the profession and on opportunities for librarians to be a driving force for innovation.

Lee Rosen’s blog may have the word divorce in its name, but its usefulness extends beyond family law practitioners. Any attorney who runs a law practice can benefit from the practical, concrete advice Rosen gives readers for marketing and managing a firm.

Brief and exceedingly timely posts by law professor Rick Hasen of the University of California at Irvine provide exhaustive coverage of the election law issues of the day. This is a good one to bookmark as an election year approaches.

Eric Meyer’s blog “is a must-read every day for employment lawyers,” says Kevin Wicka of the Tarantino Law Firm in Buffalo, New York. Meyer provides “witty analysis of current legal developments,” says Jen Cornell of Nilan Johnson Lewis in Minneapolis. “I can often turn it into use right away for my clients.” His blog’s loyal readers say Meyer has fun with his subject matter. His posts recognize “the humor in dealing with human beings,” says Julie Young of JMY Law in Worthington, Ohio.

“As employment counsel, I review all of the [Americans with Disabilities Act] reasonable accommodations as well as [Family Medical Leave Act] issues. For that reason, this blog is a critical resource to me and my staff. I tell all of our EEO and HR employees to sign up for the newsletter and to use this blog for information concerning FMLA and ADA issues.” —John Kim, NYC Health and Hospitals

Read more ...

Blawg 100 Hall of Fame republished via ABA Journal Daily News - Business of Law

[roselleparknews]

The first meeting of the municipality was rescheduled due to snow from its original January 4th date to this past Sunday. At noon, with a pounding  of the gavel, as Mayor Carl Hokanson started the last year of his first-term as the head of the borough, Roselle Park introduced the 118th version of the borough’s governing body.

After Mariann Brenner led those in attendance with singing the National Anthem, First Ward Councilman Eugene Meola gave his farewell address. Counilwoman-At-Large Charlene Storey was not in attendance, having stated during the December 28th special meeting of the governing body that she would be absent due to the health of her 96-year-old father-in-law. At that meeting, Councilwoman Storey gave her closing remarks and are available in a separate article [link].

[accordions load=”0″] [accordion title=”Click to read Councilman Meola’s Farewell Address”][In] 2011, I sat here and I said my farewells and I thought that everyone on council was going to have a hard time without me but I said, ‘No, they’ll be just fine.’

I’ve seen a lot more now since then and I know the hard work that goes into being a councilperson. What you see here, just us sitting up here and saying ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to certain questions put before us, is just the tip. Meetings that come and… every day there seems to be something that we have to talk about, some fires that we have to put out, and some things that need to be discussed. It’s a long process and I wish Jayme all the luck in the world and I will be at her disposal should she need me for any reason at all. I’ll be available for any questions or any particular person in the first ward you might want me to comfort or talk to. Because I know over the years, they’ve chewed my ears a few times and told me how they like things and how they didn’t like them and we always came to a compromise. These are first ward residents.

Being a councilperson, I made a lot of friends that will be here after I step off this dais. I expect to speak with them now that I’m not a councilperson anymore and they’ve taken the time to tell me so. This is a plus to me. I can’t put it [into] words [but] it comes from my heart. There’s a lot of good people in this community; people that make this community. The people in the borough hall, I take my hat off to you; to do this every day. The councilpeople, all the clerks, and the people in charge. I don’t know how Ken [Blum] does this. I wish he was here so I could tell him, I don’t know how he does it but he makes the borough run, and the clerk, everyone. So I’m going to just be brief and I will come back from time-to-time to tell people what I liked [and] what I don’t like but I’ll be sitting out there when I do it.

So, that being that, I will just say my farewells to everyone on council, wish them the best of luck, and that’s it. Say [my] goodbyes and that’s it. Thank you very much for hearing me out and farewell.

Thank you.[/accordion] [/accordions]

Mr. Meola stepped down and entered private life as he sat in the audience.

The oaths of office were then given publicly and formally to two new councilmembers. Newcomer, and the only woman on the dais, Jayme Negron, was sworn in as first ward councilwoman. Former mayor Joseph DeIorio also, for the seventh time, raised his hand and gave his word that he would do his best for Roselle Park as Councilman-At-Large. This is the third elected office Mr. DeIorio has held in local government.

Once both took their seats on the dais, the 2018 municipal governing body roll call was held with all elected officials in attendance. The only person missing from the dais was Chief Financial Officer Ken Blum.

Mayor Hokanson started the year’s offical business with his annual address.

[accordions load=”0″] [accordion title=”Click to read Mayor Hokanson’s Annual Address”]There are some old and new faces – two new faces to be exact – sitting up here on the dais. I want to ‘tank’ Councilman Meola for his services that he’s given to the people of the first ward and to the borough. I also want to ‘tank’ [that’s] t-a-n-k, it’s a little thing I have, the rest of council and the other department heads for their service. I have always viewed this time of year as a time to stop and reflect on the past accomplishments and also set aggressive goals – but still realistically – for the coming year.

Recently, a friend reminded me of a quote by a baseball coach. He said, “It’s amazing how much can be accomplished when no one worries about taking the credit.”

This is so true, and the point is that as a group we are able to accomplish much. And to those who are privileged to sit up here, hopefully, we will do more.

The borough is on the move. The Meridia project – the largest construction in 50 years – means growth and tax ratables for you, the taxpayers of the Borough of Roselle Park. The new development of the old Sullivan property, as in baseball terms, is on the on-deck circle, which will bring more ratables for you, the taxpayer of the Borough of Roselle Park. Beyond the economic benefit, I am encouraged that the new developments on Westfield Avenue mean foot traffic to help the businesses that are already here to grow and be more prosperous. To meet the needs of the new development, we, not me, we – as council – expanded the hours of the construction department. Thank you, Frank. All new development will [be] up to code and in full compliance.

No one can say that Roselle Park is no business-friendly anymore. You have seen this action take place. It applies to the Hawthorne Street project [which] remained stagnant for 17 years. Again, thank you, Frank. I have said it; if you build it, they will come. And they are coming, folks. Yes, they are coming. I made a promise to my members of the Municipal Land Use Board. I told them last year I will keep you busy. I’m going to keep that promise again this year. Promises will bring in more tax revenue to help you, the taxpayer of the Borough of Roselle Park.

My proposal to grant tax abatement [for] home improvements has also been adopted to help you, again, the taxpayer of Roselle Park, and [to] watch the impact this has on – not mine – our community.

As we enter the new year, I believe that real leadership means always striving to carve out a fresh path. Our differences are so minor compared to our common goals. Let us not be afraid to boast about – not mine, not yours – [but] our Roselle Park. All the different ethnic mix of this community, the fact that we are readily available for rail service, accesses to major highways, and other big businesses [are big pluses]. Thank you, Tom Kean, for getting us that handicap accessibility to make Roselle Park even greater.

Our residents are intense, and the spirit of Roselle Park is alive, very much alive. For those who know me, you know I can’t end my remarks without a reference to the great tank commander General George S. Patton, Jr. He once said, “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”

Let us strive to work together and show respect for one another’s input so that our wonderful borough can achieve, grow, and prosper. Support our troops. God bless.[/accordion] [/accordions]

First Ward Councilwoman Jayme Negron gave her inaugural address as a public official:

[accordions load=”0″] [accordion title=”Click to read Councilwoman Negron’s remarks”]Good afternoon everyone. First of all, I’m honored to take the place of first ward councilwoman. It is a privilege to serve the first ward, and I hope residents reach out to me with any concerns they might have.

Campaigning can bring out the worst in people. I made a very deliberate choice early on to not speak negatively about my opponents. To be honest, every person who has sat up here has made a mistake at some point. Every person who will hold a place here in the future, myself included, will make a mistake. We are human. Those mistakes will be learning experiences for some and for others their mistakes will be their undoing. But I’d like to believe one of the things that binds all of the previous councilmembers and mayors to the future ones is their love for this town. I know that’s what drove me to run.

So with that said, I’d like to thank Eugene Meola and Maxine Padulsky for running during this election. I believe we all want what’s best for this borough and I have nothing but respect for both candidates. I’d like to thank Eugene specifically for his kindness and support. We stood side-by-side in the rain on election day thanking every resident for coming out to vote, regardless of who they were voting for. That is the way small-town politics should be.

Next, I would like to thank the team of people who worked alongside me and believed in me during my campaign. I chose to run as a Republican not because I believe in party politics but because running with a party of people like Joe DeIorio, Thos Shipley, and Will Fahoury was an honor and a privilege. I knew these men for their character and dedication to Roselle Park before I knew which party they belonged to. Thank you all for your support, advice, and hard work. I have met so many supporters during my campaign and now have the privilege to call some friends. You all know who you are so, in an attempt to keep this speech brief, thank you to each and every one of you.

From the bottom of my heart, I’d like to thank my family. To my husband Antonio, your support and love are what drives me, your encouragement is what fuels me, and your belief in me is what keeps me going. I always will love you more than yesterday. To my children Ayden and Dyanna, you are two pieces of my heart that beat outside of me. I can never tell you enough how proud I am to be your mother. God truly blessed me with two of the most polite, optimistic, tender, cheerful, and loving children any woman could ever hope to have. To all of my family and friends that are here today, thank you for your support, and I love you all endlessly.

In closing, I’d like to give my gratitude to God. My husband and I try our best to go to church on Sundays and apply the lessons we learn to our life every day. At the beginning of my campaign, there were times I doubted myself. Then, one Sunday, our pastor spoke about Nehemiah. God called Nehemiah to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. Nehemiah faced all kinds of criticism. He was not a carpenter, and many thought he would fail. But he stayed the course and did what he felt God wanted him to do. And he knew God had a plan for him. And in just 52 days he had rebuilt the walls and temple with the help of people who rallied around him and had faith his vision could be accomplished. That Sunday, my doubts were put to rest. I related to Nehemiah’s story. I know I will be faced with opposition often. I know there will be those that prefer to criticize the decisions I make while I’m on council. But there will also be people that stand tall, roll up their sleeves, and work with me to move our borough into a brighter future. It might take longer than 52 days, but we’ll get there if we work together. Thank you all, God bless, and I look forward to working together to make the town we all love even better.

Thank you.[/accordion] [/accordions]

Councilman-At-Large Joseph DeIorio, for the 21st time, addressed residents as an elected official:

[accordions load=”0″] [accordion title=”Click to read Councilman DeIorio’s Remarks”]Ladies and Gentlemen, I am honored to be given the opportunity to return to the governing body as your Councilman-At-Large. My return would not have been possible without the support of the people of Roselle Park – the new families and longtime residents – and for that, I am deeply grateful. For those that chose to vote differently or not vote at all, I hope to earn your trust and support.

It goes without saying that my mom, Gilda DeIorio, is my number one fan. She has been there since day one in good times and in bad and continues to be the strong-willed, independent businesswoman and caring individual that I love and admire. By the way, right now she’s cooking up a storm at La Casa di Martino, so after today’s ceremonies, please join all of us regardless of party or… If you want a good time, come to La Casa di Martino after today’s meeting and enjoy some good hot food and say hi to mom.

I would also like to offer my sincere gratitude to my extended family of friends, new and old; many who are here today, and special thank you to Councilman William Fahoury and to Jessica Johns for your tenacity during this campaign and to most of all for your friendship. To Councilwoman Jayme Lynn Negron, I could not have run with a better person and have been able to know such a wonderful family. I look forward to your new energy and perspective on council.

I would like to thank the members of the local and county Republican Committee, the Roselle Park Chairman Larry Leone, and our 21st District representatives Senator Tom Kean, Assembly members Bramnick and Munoz. Thank you for being here today.

I would also like to thank my husband, Councilman Thos Shipley. It wasn’t surprising that we became the focus of a negative campaign because of the possibility of us being in elected office and as a married couple. But the ever-changing opinions of the people of Roselle Park and the acceptance of the voters thought otherwise, and today we make history in the State of New Jersey and possibly nationwide. As my husband, I love you dearly, but as councilman, I can assure you and to the public that our opinions will not always be the same.

To our retiring members Councilwoman Charlene Storey and Councilman Eugene Meola, thank you. Thank you for your service, and I wish you well in private life. Your service to the borough did not go unnoticed, and many times it was a thankless job. And especially to Councilman Meola; you showed many times that you can be a true gentleman.

I look forward to serving with you Mayor Hokanson and the members of governing body. Individually, we have strengths, skills, and experiences to offer. If we can place our focus on these strengths, we can accomplish much.

While I return to this governing body as councilman-at-large, I return with a different perspective. I did not have to run. I wanted to run for office to share my experiences, more so from my experiences working for and with other communities outside Roselle Park. Interacting with other professionals, learning about their best practices and strengths and strategies and tools, has afforded me the opportunity to bring this knowledge back to Roselle Park.

I have many ideas to share but to implement those ideas and the ideas of all of my colleagues; we need your help. Everyone, not just us sitting up here, but the public at large. This is our community. We play a role, big or small in its development, its successes or its failures.

That is why I will be starting a regular ‘Conversations with your Councilman’ program based on Mayor Hokanson’s successful ‘Meetings with the Mayor’. These meetings will be held periodically in small businesses and other locations throughout the borough, giving small business and organizations the opportunity to share information about their product or service and then lead into an interactive discussion about town business. These ideas will be conveyed over time, but the focus of business development will be paramount.

It has been said [that] Roselle Park is not business-friendly. They said that when I was in office and the same has been said even today. Back then I did not want to believe it, and to some degree, I took offense to it. You see, while I consider elected officials back then and now to be friendly, welcoming of businesses, and excited to recognize existing businesses, as [a] borough government we convey the sentiment inside and outside our municipality in a different way.

I grew up around small business. I grew up pumping gas at my father’s gas station and later working at my mother’s delicatessen. Owning a small business isn’t glamorous. You work long hours, you don’t get paid holidays or paid vacation, and there’s no such thing as sick time. And paid health insurance? Unheard of.That is why 20% of businesses will fail in their first year, and by their fifth year, only half of them will survive. So as everyday people struggle to make ends meet, businesses are also struggling to survive, not only to pay their business expenses but to pay to keep the roof over theirs and their family’s heads.

We have all of the key elements to be a greater community. I’m not just saying this. Statewide research has pointed out that Roselle Park has the key features to succeed and prosper. We all want to be business-friendly, but how we prove will be the larger question.

In his book “Looking Forward”, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote, “It is common sense to [take] a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another but above all, try something.”

We have a lot of challenges facing us, but I am positive with the right attitude and the work of this governing body we will get the job done. Thank you.[/accordion] [/accordions]

The meeting proceeding with the necessary business of appointments of those who would serve, in one capacity or another, the residents of Roselle Park.

Fourth Ward Councilman William Fahoury was unanimously elected as council president.

Councilman-At-Large Joseph DeIorio was appointed without objection as the liaison to the Municipal Land Use Board (MLUB).

Fourth Ward Councilman William Fahoury was reappointed by all as the Diversity Committee Council Liaison.

The Recreation Committee liaison was, once again, Second Ward Councilman Joseph Petrosky.

Committees of council was the next item to be voted on with five out of the seven members of council getting two appointments each. Councilman Petrosky was given appointed to the Legislative Committee. Mayor Carl Hokanson was appointed only as the police commissioner.

[table id=637]

[table id=638]

The library board saw the return of Jenny Lichtenwalner for a five-year term, replacing Maxine Padulsky who was not re-appointed after completing Alex Balaban’s unexpired term. Ms. Lichtenwalner had been on the board previously but was not re-appointed when her initial term was completed.

[table id=639]

The arts committee had Joseph DeIorio appointed as a resident with Councilman Shipley remaining as the council liaison.

[table id=640]

Animal Control had an additional appointment of former Roselle Park resident Alex Balaban.

[table id=641]

[table id=642]

[table id=643]

[table id=645]

[table id=646]

[table id=647]

[table id=648]

[table id=649]

[table id=650]

[table id=651]

Noticeable from this Solid Waster Advisory Council is that the designee is listed as a position, DPW Superintendent, and not the actual current superintendent Mark Pasquali.

[table id=652]

[table id=653]

[table id=654]

[table id=656]

[table id=657]

36 resolutions were read into the record and voted on. There was only resolution, the appointment of the borough historian, that was not unanimous. Resolution 29-18 had Councilman-At-Large DeIorio voting against appointing Patricia Butler as borough historian. When asked for his vote, Councilman-At-Large DeIorio stated, “I felt that the position has become too partisan. Back in March of 2016, I had addressed the governing body at that time regarding an incident that disturbed me when certain members of council were acknowledged by the historian for their donation to the borough’s 115 birthday celebration – leaving out the mayor and other councilmembers. So specifically, because I felt that it’s become partisan.”

Another significant change in the order of business was the postponement of various service professional providers’ appointments, which are usually approved at the first meeting of the year. Those appointments will be made at the January 18th Mayor & Council meeting, after bidders for annual service contracts – which include various attorney positions – are interviewed on two nights – January 9th and 15th.

The 2018 annual organization meeting ended with Mariann Brenner – once again – leading those in attendance in singing “God Bless America”.

Click to enlarge photograph

2018 Roselle Park Governing Body

    2018 Municipal Annual Organization Meeting The first meeting of the municipality was rescheduled due to snow from its original January 4th date to this past Sunday.

[clubofinfo]

Expert: The title of the editorial said it all: The Guardian view on George W Bush: a welcome return. In a tongue-in-cheek, almost jovial, piece the Guardian unsubtly rehabilitated a man responsible for crimes that are among the most egregious in all history. Bush was responsible for the destruction of an entire country, the killing of one million Iraqis, the wounding and displacement of countless millions more. The car bombs, the suicide bombs, the mass executions, the dead-of-night disappearances, the blow torch and electric drill tortures, the bombs in London and Madrid, the rise of Islamic State, and much, much more – they all began with George W. Bush. But the Guardian japed: During his time in the White House, George W Bush was regarded as a warmonger and hardline conservative. As president he did an awful lot to polarise the country and was viewed as such a threat to world peace that when he left office the Nobel committee handed his successor the peace prize – for not being him. The piece continued: It says a lot about the United States that Mr Bush can be seen now as a paragon of virtue. He sounds a lot better out of office than in it. And so ‘the 43rd US president should be applauded’. Not a single syllable was uttered about his literally millions of victims. It is unthinkable, of course, that the Guardian would ‘welcome’ the return of an Assad, or a Putin, or any Official Enemy, in this way. But it is ‘normal’ for a newspaper that tirelessly attempts to rehabilitate Bush’s great partner in war crime, Tony Blair. One of the foundations of the ‘mainstream’s’ Grand Propaganda Narrative is that some people are simply, somehow, permanent members of The Club – respectable, well-intentioned, fundamentally decent – where others are beyond the pale, to be reviled, abused, hunted and killed, if possible. Historian Mark Curtis tweeted a link to the editorial: Perhaps a single article can define a newspaper. The Sun: Gotcha. The Mail: Migrant Scroungers. The Guardian: this… So how did the Guardian’s progressive journalists respond? George Monbiot was asked if he had a view on an editorial ‘trying to normalise’ Bush ‘and not mentioning the 100,000s deaths he caused?’ Monbiot replied blankly: I don’t agree with it. In June 2011, Monbiot was rather more forthright in using his Guardian column to identify and damn a ‘malign intellectual subculture that seeks to excuse savagery by denying the facts’ of the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda. To a global audience, Monbiot named and shamed Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, David Peterson, John Pilger, and Media Lens as political commentators who ‘take the unwarranted step of belittling… acts of genocide’. In a stirring conclusion, Monbiot wrote: The rest of us should stand up for the victims, whoever they are, and confront those trying to make them disappear. See our discussion of these claims here. We asked Monbiot about the need to ‘confront’ the Guardian now as it disappeared the victims of George Bush. He replied: You plainly believe there’s no difference between not mentioning something and actively airbrushing it, as Herman/Peterson did. But in 2011, Monbiot, of course, made no such specious distinction when he insisted on the need to ‘confront those trying to make’ victims ‘disappear’. As former Guardian journalist Jonathan Cook commented on Twitter: Man of principle @GeorgeMonbiot suddenly lost for words as @guardian – his employer – glosses over Bush’s crimes against humanity in Iraq A prime example of the kind of activist Monbiot was urging to ‘confront’ injustice and denial is his colleague at the Guardian, Owen Jones. In a rousing series of tweets in November 2014, Jones reported from a train carriage on what it means to walk the talk: Just told man to take his racism + get out of (packed) carriage after he threatened to “end” Indian bloke for disrespecting in “my” country How did the perp respond to the Guardian columnist’s order to vacate the carriage? He legged it to the toilet. When he emerged he yelled “I’m not a racist by the way”, and the carriage laughed What a fool! And what a contrast Jones paints to his own heroic actions. How did fellow passengers react? murmurs of “well said” to be fair. Wasn’t bowled over though Alas, only the author came out of the incident with real credit – according to the author. Jones responded with comparable vigour last year to obviously cynical claims, driven by Israeli lobby propaganda, that Corbyn’s Labour party was infested with anti-Semitism. Jones tweeted: John McDonnell [Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer] was right to swiftly force Naz Shah’s resignation – but now the party has to suspend her. One day later, Jones added: Ken Livingstone has to be suspended from the Labour Party. Preferably before I pass out from punching myself in the face. Jones’s response to the Guardian’s rehabilitation of George Bush was rather different: The Trump calamity doesn’t mean rehabilitating George W Bush, a man chiefly responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and other horror There were no calls for the comment editor to be suspended, or for the editor to resign. In fact, Jones made no mention of his employer and did not link to the editorial. Happily for the Guardian, many of his Twitter followers will have had no idea what he was on about. The truth is that Guardian, Independent and BBC regulars never criticise their employers. But they do celebrate and defend them. Last December, former Guardian journalist Jonathan Cook challenged Monbiot on Twitter: Guardian, your employer, is precisely part of media problem. Why this argument is far from waste of energy. It’s vital. Monbiot replied: that’s your view. I don’t share it. Most of my work exposing corporate power has been through or with the Guardian. In March 2015, Jones tweeted: Incredible news that @KathViner is new Guardian editor! Nearly whooped in the quiet carriage. That’s how excited I am. Spare a thought for Jones’s fellow passengers. He certainly spared a thought for his outgoing boss: Like so many others, owe so much to Alan Rusbridger. The Guardian is a global force, and that’s so much down to him. Surreal he’s gone And: Surreal he’s going, that is. He’s still the boss! After 18 months of turning a blind eye to the Guardian’s relentless attack on Corbyn, both Jones and Monbiot have publicly dumped him. Jones told the Evening Standard last month: The Left has failed badly. I’d find it hard to vote for Corbyn. More recently, Jones plunged the knife in to the hilt. Having completely ignored the media’s anti-Corbyn campaign, Monbiot commented on Twitter: I was thrilled when Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour Party, but it has been one fiasco after another. I have now lost all faith. Monbiot added: I hoped Corbyn would be effective in fighting the government and articulating a positive alternative vision. Neither hope has materialised. Conclusion – Status From Silence The truth is that the ‘free press’ does not tolerate authentic dissent. In the final analysis, high-profile dissidents are salaried corporate employees. They can speak no more honestly about their employers, other potential employers, or the industry in general, than someone selling cars, computers or mobile phones. The exalted status of our most famous ‘left-leaning’ media corporations is based on de facto censorship rather than truth-telling. After all, why would the public doubt the honesty of the Guardian or the Independent when they are essentially never subject to serious criticism? This matters because the role of the corporate media is not just one issue among many – it is the key issue determining how all other issues are communicated to a mass audience. The result is devastating – empowered by their ill-deserved reputations, ‘left-leaning’ media, in fact, relentlessly agitate for wars in countries like Libya and Syria, relentlessly attack progressive voices challenging power and, worst of all, literally sell the high-tech, climate killing, corporate-led status quo as ‘normal’. Are we suggesting that writers of principle should resign from corporate media? Yes, it is time to stop pretending anything will ever be achieved by publishing radical journalism that will be used to draw readers into a moral and intellectual killing zone serving big business. There are other alternatives now – it’s time to boycott the corporate media, dump them in the dustbin of history, and build alternatives that will allow democracy and people to breathe. http://clubof.info/

[hermanwatts]

Sensor Sweep: Sword and the Sorcerer, Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore, Ian Fleming, Appendix N

Cinema (1000 Misspent Hours): Albert Pyun is another one of my great cinematic nemeses; if you watch anywhere near as many low-budget movies as I do, he’s probably one of yours, too. Pyun’s big claim to fame is his nearly sure-fire touch with what ought to be a categorically impossible subgenre, the action-less action movie. No filmmaker I know of, living or dead, can match Pyun’s ability to drag out a fight scene until the audience loses all interest, or to craft a maddeningly convoluted story that never develops even the faintest hint of forward momentum.

              Pulp Science Fiction (SF Magazines): I suspect that this was a fragment that Moore started and abandoned, and which Kuttner largely or entirely completed (compare the amount of description versus incident in the first quarter against that in the remainder, and you will see what I mean). Whatever, it is the worst thing of theirs I’ve read, and certainly not up to the quality of their other 1943 work. To that latter point—how on Earth did this become a Hugo finalist when Moore’s Judgement Night was overlooked? What on Earth were the Retro Hugo nominators thinking?

  Paperback Science Fiction (Rich Horton): On to Beyond Earth’s Gates. This is bylined “Lewis Padgett and C. L. Moore”, which is curious because “Lewis Padgett” is generally regarded as a collaborative pseudonym for Moore and her husband Henry Kuttner. I do suspect, though, that the Padgett pseudonym was probably more often used for stories in which Kuttner was the primary author (while I suspect “Lawrence O’Donnell” stories were more often primarily by Moore.)

Art (DMR Books): Over the years, Finlay illustrated stories by most of the top writers in the field, including H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, Edmond Hamilton, Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore, Seabury Quinn, Jack Williamson, Carl Jacobi, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, A. Merritt, George Allan England, John Taine, H. Rider Haggard, H. G. Wells, Talbot Mundy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Murray Leinster, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Collier, E.F. Benson, Manly Wade Wellman, Stanley G. Weinbaum, James Blish, Frank Belknap Long. The list is almost endless.

  Robert E. Howard (John C. Wright): This yarn truly merits the nickname later invented by Fritz Leiber for the genre of Sword and Sorcery. There is a more sword and a lot more sorcery than any Conan story to date.

The energy and action, the clash of steel on steel, so evident in his shorter works, here loose no tension on the larger canvass. Some authors who show admirable economy in the short story betray a lack of discipline in their novels, indulging in digression and needless ornament. Not so here. The rapidfire pace the Conan reader has come to expect is maintained.

        Pulp Adventure (DMR Books): The fifth installment in the serialized version of Tros of Samothrace is titled “Admiral of Caesar’s Fleet” and consists of what would become chapters 52 – 66 of the novel published in 1934. Set in the spring of the year 54 B.C., this story tells of the aftermath of Julius Caesar’s first invasion of Britain and was first published in the October 10th 1925 issue of Adventure magazine.  It is available in a number of editions in book form or you can read it here at the invaluable library of Roy Glashan.

Culture Wars (Jon del Arroz): What it comes down to is Wikipedia trying to erase mention of any of its political opponents because of its extreme left-biased agenda. It’s not enough for them to just hate and try to attack us anymore, they’re trying to erase everyone from existing — complete dehumanization — because they’ve lost all semblance of argument for their horrific behavior they’ve foisted upon us for daring disagree with their politics.

  Weird Tales and History (Tellers of Weird Tales): This week, I finished reading D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster, 1994). While reading, I ran across the name of a teller of weird tales, R. Ernest Dupuy (1887-1975), who, as General Eisenhower’s press aide, was first to confirm to the press that the invasion had commenced by reading the following communiqué at about 9:30 a.m. London time: “Under the command of General Eisenhower, Allied naval forces, supported by strong air forces, began landing Allied armies this morning on the northern coast of France.”

  Reading (Black Gate): It may seem a bit peculiar to write an article about the decline in reading for a site that has done so much to promote the works of writers past and present. Most assuredly, regular visitors to this site are readers. Unfortunately, they are the exception and not the rule in the present day.

During the pulp era, writers were sometimes referred to disparagingly as the Penny-a-Word Brigade. Flash forward to the end of the second decade of the 21st Century and you’ll find far too many pulp writers who would salivate at the thought of earning a penny a word for their efforts. Far too many receive no financial compensation at all, some do not even receive comp copies of their own titles.

  Robert E. Howard (National Review): Cross Plains, Texas — We start where it ended. “The car would have been sitting just about here,” says Jack Baum, a few feet behind the Robert E. Howard Museum. A small group of us take it in. Several of us squirm. This is the spot where the pulp writer put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. When he killed himself in his car in 1936, the creator of Conan the Barbarian — one of the most iconic characters to spring from American fiction — was 30 years old.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (Erbzine): Of the several books Edgar Rice Burroughs consulted in his research on Apaches, one bore the rather cumbersome and dry sounding title: Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1887-’88.  This five-pound plus tome (first published in 1892) was part of an ongoing set of matched volumes bound in dark brown cloth, with gilt spine lettering, bearing the imprint of the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.

  RPG (Bloomberg): On a recent Friday evening, Devon Chulick stood in the kitchen of his San Francisco apartment brewing potions. A dry-erase game board with a grid of black squares to assist in drawing maps was laid neatly across the coffee table in the living room, along with a dozen or so miniature elves, wizards, and drow rogues, which had been released from their Tupperware prisons.

  Ian Fleming (Elgin Bleeker): A lot of years have gone by since I last read anything by Ian Fleming. The last was Thrilling Cities, a non-fiction collection of travel essays. I found a paperback copy in a used-book store in the 1990s. But I could not tell you the last time or title of one of Fleming’s James Bond stories.

Something on-line triggered an urge to dig out my paperback copy of From Russia With Love.

  Michael Crichton (Western Genre Musings): Here we have Michael Crichton’s only Western novel published posthumously. The timeline has it written perhaps in the 1970’s and it still has the mark of his trademark blending of science and narrative, here in the form of the Dinosaur Bone Wars of Professors Cope and Marsh, actual feuding personages.

Will follow our naïve young protagonist Westward and watch him mature and learn more than a good deal along the way.

  Appendix N (Ken Lizzi): With few reservations, I applaud the list and recommend at least some of the works by the included authors. Notably excluded is Margaret St. Clair. Others (Gary Gygax, obviously) enjoy her writing. But otherwise, Appendix N gets the Ken Lizzi seal of approval. The material is primarily pulp; a good thing from my perspective. It runs the gamut from rather disposable, light entertainment to quality work of rather high literary value. Let’s call it a Fox to Vance scale, but don’t let that lead you to believe I am disparaging Gardner Fox. I like disposable, light entertainment.

    Sensor Sweep: Sword and the Sorcerer, Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore, Ian Fleming, Appendix N published first on https://sixchexus.weebly.com/