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The South Oldham Fire Department is announcing the creation of an Auxiliary Program to provide support for firefighters and our local community. An organizational meeting for any interested members will take place on Thursday, November 15th at 7:00 p.m. at the South Oldham Fire Department located at 6310 Old LaGrange Road in Crestwood.
For additional questions, please contact Kevin Parker, Assistant Chief, at 502-639-5050Angus King, gay marriage lead in Maine
The independent former governor of Maine is in control of the state's Senate race, winning 50 percent of support as his Democratic and Republican opponents divide up the rest:
A new WBUR poll shows former Maine Gov. Angus King as the heavy favorite to replace retiring Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe. Current poll numbers have King, who is running as an independent, with 50 percent of likely voters, Maine Secretary of State, Republican Charlie Summers, with 23 percent and Democratic State Sen. Cynthia Dill with 9 percent.
King, who served as governor of the state from 1995 to 2003, benefits from a large advantage in name recognition and a 60 percent favorability. By comparison, 71 percent of voters did not offer an opinion of Dill and 57 percent did not rate Summers.
King is making no promises on which caucus he'd join in the Senate; we reported on Friday that he has told potential donors in D.C. not to give to his campaign if they need a promise on party allegiance. And there's no reason why King would shift in that position as long as he maintains a commanding lead in the polls.
In other news, the poll shows that a referendum legalizing gay marriage has more supporters than opponents at this point: 55 percent favor the measure, compared with 36 who oppose it. It was only in 2009 that a different Maine referendum blocked the legalization of same-sex marriage in the state.Corrosion effects of three sterilization methods on experimental implant surfaces.

Autoclave sterilization of paper-wrapped stainless steel implants resulted in slight general surface corrosion and crystalline contamination. Such artifacts may produce microanodes which induce local tissue reactions, thereby lowering the pH and further activating the corrosion process. Implants sterilized in ethylene oxide or benzalkonium chloride did not show artifact corrosion or contamination. Mechanisms are presented to show the effects contaminants have upon both the corrosion behavior and the tissue reaction of implant materials.A Night To Remember captures Sweden's Evergrey live in their hometown of Gothenburg, at Stora Teatern. It was a special performance set up specifically for the recording of a DVD, this 2CD set being the audio version of that set. Both the CD and DVD include pieces from each of Evergrey's albums, and for the most part, dips into each in equal measure (2 from Dark Discovery, 3 from Solitude*Dominance*Tragedy, 4 each from In Search Of Truth and Recreation Day, and 5 from Inner Circle). The DVD includes a second disc with bonus features (I'll be reviewing the DVD package separately).
The band were on this night, perhaps making more certain it was so knowing they were recording the performance. The sound mix is great, the drums and bass (Jonas Ekdahl and Michael Hakansson, respectively), which are strongly heard, do not crowd out the sound of the keyboards (Rikard Zander), guitar (Thomas S. Englund, Henrik Danhage), or vocals (Englund). That is to say, the sound mix has studio clarity. But, it also has that certain audio quality one gets when playing live, a certain immediacy (and not just because the crowd is audible...). So, what you get is Evergrey barnstorming - blasting - through 20 pieces of impassioned, chugging progressive metal.
There is very little between song banter, just a bit at key points; but it's not missed either, because the band have this momentum going that pausing would just kill it. For the most part, other than announcing what song is coming up, or from what album, it's just wall to wall Evergrey and audience.
After a short intro, the band kick off with "Blinded" from Recreation Day, and not that they needed to get the audience geared up, the energy with which the band play this instantly gets the audience involved. And without missing a beat, they launch into "End Of Your Days," Englund's vocal delivery drips with emotion - though hardly soggy because of it. And the band laid it all out for "More Than Ever" - a throbbing, chugging assault... madly wild guitar solos.
From Inner Circle, this is destined to become an Evergrey classic. This electric energy is continued for an explosive rendering of "She Speaks To The Dead." Things get comparatively calmer for the darker "Rulers Of The Mind" from In Search Of Truth. A brutal "Blackened Dawn" follows - this from their debut Dark Discovery...
We get a breather with the balladic "Waking Up Blind" - showing that this a band that can also play with subtlety, this piece featuring vocals, keys and percussion only, the vocals including those of guests Carina Englund, Tinna Karlsdotter, Andy Engberg as the chorus (they are heard elsewhere as well). This leads into a soaring version "As I Lie Here Bleeding," smoothly transitioned into via a keyboard/guitar solo interplay intro.
Disc One is capped by terrific performances "Mislead" and "Mark Of The Triangle," both from ISOT.
Disc Two begins with a trio of pieces from IC, the mostly orchestral, instrumental/soundbyte-filled "When The Walls Go Down," the swingy "Harmless Wishes" and "Essence Of Conviction." Listening to these, and then the earlier material, you can hear the band's evolution, their growing maturity. And that's saying something because "Solitude" (from S*D*T), for example, which follows, shows a lot maturity right out of the gate. I mean, Evergrey didn't and don't get stuck in one chugging groove and stay there - not that's a baseline from which their musical excursions take off from. Shadings... that makes all the difference. What follows is powerful "Nosferatu" (also from S*D*T), then the epic title track from Recreation Day - again, and throughout, the emotion in Englund's vocals is spot on, all backed by the impressive and tight playing of the whole band. The set is closed out by "For Every Tear That Falls" DD, "Touch Of Blessing" (IC) and a rousing version of "The Masterplan" (ISOT).
Song after song, Evergrey hit the mark, each song reinforcing why this quintet are the revered band they are. This is an excellent live set - truly, it was a "Night To Remember" - a must if you are an Evergrey fan... and a great entry point if you're not, as it will fire you up to hear their whole catalog.
By Ryan Falkenberg, co-CEO, CLEVVA
In order to make the most of our employees’ time and the skills they have, and take advantage of a digitally-connected, remote workforce, we need to look at a different way of engaging people, and take a new attitude to digital workers.
Digital workers – virtual assistants, chatbots, RPA robots and the like – have largely been seen as a threat to people’s jobs. The converse is also true. They offer us a chance to liberate our workforces from repetitive, boring and process-driven activity and free them up to be more creative and innovative. To think up new ways of doing things that improve the organisation and the value it offers its customers.
In order to do that, organisations need to prepare to ramp up their digital workforces, and better utilise their human ones. Here are four ways to achieve this.
Assign the repetitive, process-driven work to digital process specialists. These digital process specialists allow you to automate your front and back-office processes without changing your current operating systems. They are designed to always ask the right questions, offer the right answers, gather the right information and perform the right system actions just like human experts. As a result, you no longer have to worry about whether your processes were correctly applied in context.
Assign the complex data and predictive work to AI. The sheer volume of data makes it very difficult for humans to stay on top of things. Joining the dots, when data is located in multiple places and is often unstructured, is work that AI thrives on. So is learning from patterns and being able to better predict outcomes. Humans simply don’t stand a chance when having to compete with AI in this field of specialisation.
Assign the complex emotional tasks to humans. Customers don’t just make brain-led decisions. They are also influenced by intuition and feelings. And while AI is getting very good at predicting what you will do based on past behaviour and current facial expressions, there remains a deep emotional layer that humans have greater ability to tap into (at present). This is why leadership remains a human endeavour. It’s also why so many people still prefer human to human conversations e.g. call centres over