Tanzania pulls 29 bodies from rubble of fallen building

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Rescue workers have pulled 29 bodies from the rubble of a collapsed building in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam, a senior official said on Sunday.

The building of more than 12 storeys, which had been under construction near a mosque in the Kariakoo district around the city center, caved in on Friday morning. Several cars were crushed and boys playing soccer nearby were among the dead.

"We have now recovered a total of 29 bodies from the rubble of the collapsed building," Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner Said Meck Sadick told Reuters.

He said workers were now reaching the basement where there was a store for equipment and more bodies might be found. He said digging would continue until all bodies were recovered.

Tanzania's buoyant economy has fuelled a building boom, especially in Kariakoo and the city center. But the speed of construction has raised concerns about safety standards.

President Jakaya Kikwete, who visited the scene on Friday, ordered authorities to act against responsible parties. Police said four people had been arrested over the incident.

(Reporting by Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala; Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/tanzania-pulls-29-bodies-rubble-fallen-building-163048814--finance.html

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Diversity, flexibility lead North Carolina's Mitch Cox Construction ...

Mitch Cox, president and CEO, Mitch Cox Companies

Editor?s Note: Mitch Cox was a finalist for 2012 Contractor of the Year. He started Mitch Cox Construction Inc. in 1980 in Johnson City, Tennessee. The company has 35 employees with annual volume of $8 million to $10 million. The company serves the?MOB, renovation, office and retail construction?markets.

Mitch Cox, CEO and founder of the company that bears his name, started his career developing commercial real estate, subcontracting the shells of buildings on his sites and using his own people to finish the interiors. As his hometown of Johnson City, Tennessee, continued to grow and prosper so did Mitch?s real estate business and construction division.

?We started with one guy, then two, three, four and just kept hiring,? Cox says.

Some 75 to 80 percent of the work performed by his construction division was for his own properties, including shopping centers, warehouses and flex space projects. ?We probably built 20,000 to 30,000 square feet of office space every year,? Cox says. ?We never ran out of work because if we finished with something we had in place, we?d just go build a spec office building.

The business model of a developer with a construction capability, works well in a small market like Johnson City. ?We can create more work than the typical contractor,? Cox says. ?We try to do as much design-build as we can. We?ve had an architect on staff for the last 10 or 11 years. Being multi-disciplined, having that architect on staff, and being able to do design-build has helped us in this down economy. It allows us to be a little choosier in doing what we know and what we?re good at.?

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Single vs. multifamily

In 1997 Cox developed a 75-acre property for residential housing and mixed use. ?For 20 years we avoided residential work. I used to pride myself on that,? Cox says. ?I found out that building residential is a totally different business. You use a different set of subs because commercial subs just can?t compete with the smaller residential subs,? Cox says. ?So getting started was like starting a new business where you have to build relationships. It took a couple of years before we could be competitive.?

Multifamily, however, has been a bright spot the last few years. ?We?ve actually built 150 apartments in the last couple of years,? Cox says. The banks and government lending authorities are supporting multifamily, and he sees it as being a strong market for a few more years.

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Satisfied customers

Project manager Odell Cash (left) and Mitch Cox confer on the progress of a commercial building project.

The company?s multi-disciplinary approach to building has not only proven to be a good formula for growth and profitability, it?s made a lot of happy customers. Roy Lee Robertson of Cherokee United Methodist Church credits Mitch Cox Construction with ?value engineering? more than $200,000 in savings for a 77,000-square-foot church construction project.

?It was never a problem for the Cox team to move a door or a wall, change a ceiling height, move a heating duct, or slice through a rock as big as a car where the kitchen grease trap was to be installed,? Robertson says. ?They worked very hard and built a quality facility at a reasonable cost. They had great rapport with their subcontractors, vendors and the city inspectors.?

Guy Wilson is a pharmacist who has known Mitch Cox most of his life but first got involved with him on a business level in 1989 when Cox built him a building. Wilson is on his third Mitch Cox Construction building now. He says as a pharmacist he appreciates the company?s professionalism, attention to detail and community involvement.

?He?s done an awful lot of philanthropic things, fairly large scale donations, particularly to youth organizations that he and his wife support.? Wilson says. ?He?s very generous and well thought of in the community.?

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Professional management

About nine years ago, Cox hired Raymond McBride to be the construction manager for the company. Unlike some construction managers who come up the ladder in the trades, McBride, who is now president of Mitch Cox Construction, graduated from the construction engineering and management program at East Tennessee State University.

Cox says he wanted somebody who was educated as a contractor, with good computer and communication skills. ?I had to learn more about real estate and banking,? says McBride. ?And my job is more of a business development role now ? contract negotiations, preconstruction management, things like that. The building is easy. That?s the fun part. The challenge is when that opportunity first comes through the door ? selling yourself and the company, why we can do it better and more efficiently and with better quality than others.?

And what sells the company, McBride says, is teamwork and experience. There?s a lot of good chemistry between Mitch, the development partners and the architect, he says. ?We?ve all worked together for years, to the point where we can help each other out. That carries through to our field staff, our supervisors and foremen. We don?t have a high turnover rate here. Many of our guys have been here 14, 15, 16 years.?

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Changing times

Mitch Cox (left) discusses a sitework with Raymond McBride, president of Mitch Cox Construction and Scotty Lane, senior superintendent.

Cox says the construction landscape changed significantly during the recession. He thinks today?s economy makes it harder, if not impossible, for young people to do what he?s done, to diversify and do both development and construction. The constrained lending environment today will make it much more difficult, he says.

The reason his company was able to survive during the recession is that its diversity allowed it to be flexible, follow the market and focus on what was working, Cox says. That formula is almost impossible to recreate for construction companies getting started today.

?Commercial real estate was the premier driver for which banks loaned money in the past,? says Cox. ?When they turned off the money supply, they turned off new development.?

Bonding companies also pose a challenge. ?In the last three or four years, clients and the banks have required contractors to bond jobs more than in the past,? Cox says.

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Required reading

The other key, says Cox, is something that?s echoed in some of the top business books he credits with shaping his thinking early on. These include Napoleon Hill?s ?Think and Grow Rich;? ?The Power of Positive Thinking,? by Norman Vincent Peale; and more recently ?Good to Great? by Jim Collins.

Another lesson Cox has learned, that?s detailed in Collins? latest book ?Great By Choice,? is having the discipline to make very slow changes even after you know it?s absolutely the right thing to do and you?ve done all your due diligence. ?When I look back at my life, the things that have hurt me were usually when I?d jumped out and done something sporadically, instead of for a good reason ? something I did as a knee kick reaction to something else.?

Cox sees the economy starting to turn around, but the government and regulatory environment won?t make anything easier. The Dodd-Frank financial reform bill and Obamacare are going to be toughest on entrepreneurs and small companies trying to make a go of it for the first time, he says.

Nonetheless, Cox maintains a positive outlook, true to his reading list. The key, he says is to find your niche and refine it until you?re better than anyone else. ?Specialize,? he says. ?All of us have different sweet spots. The secret is to stay in that niche and be the best in that niche.? If you do that and you pursue your goals with an insatiable desire, you will be successful, no matter what happens, he says.

Source: http://www.equipmentworld.com/diversity-flexibility-lead-north-carolinas-mitch-cox-construction-through-recession/

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CBS halts replays of basketball player's injury

NEW YORK (AP) ? After two initial replays, CBS stopped showing footage Sunday of Louisville basketball player Kevin Ware breaking his leg during the first half of his team's NCAA men's tournament game against Duke.

The injury during the nationally televised game, and the shocked reaction of Ware's fellow players, called to mind the gruesome broken leg suffered by Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann in a Monday Night football game in 1985. During Sunday's game, Theismann tweeted his best wishes to Ware.

Ware had leaped to try and block a shot by Duke's Tyler Thornton. His leg landed awkwardly, buckled and flopped as he fell to the ground. The first hint that the injury was out of the ordinary came from Thornton, who put his hands to his face and had an anguished look as he ran back on defense.

CBS commentator Clark Kellogg described the injury was "gruesome."

"If you can bear to watch it, take a look but it's a gruesome-looking injury," Kellogg said.

CBS showed the replay twice in slow motion, although not with a close-up of Ware landing. The network also never showed a close-up of the injury.

CBS then concentrated on reaction shots. Three of Ware's teammates were on the ground near the basket. Wayne Blackshear cried, Chane Behanan knelt on his hands and knees and Peyton Silva sat, a hand covering his mouth.

The network aired a close-up of medical officials working on Ware, showing the player only from the face up.

CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus said that because of the graphic nature of the injury, the network decided not to show it after the original replays. People could quickly find replays on YouTube, anyway.

"We did not zoom in on the injury when he was taken off," McManus said. "We did not try to highlight it. I think we did the right thing."

At halftime, Greg Gumbel noted that CBS would not show the injury. Its highlight package again focused on the reactions, including Louisville coach Rick Pitino wiping away tears. Pitino answered questions from CBS during the game about Ware, noting the injured player was exhorting his teammates to win the regional final. A Louisville spokesman said Ware was "resting comfortably" at Indianapolis' Methodist Hospital.

As is often the case, the coverage quickly became a hot topic on Twitter. Sports writer Jason Whitlock tweeted that "CBS handled this curveball (Ware injury) masterfully."

The network's decision to stop showing the replay only goes so far. Right after the game ended, the CBS affiliate in Phoenix aired the footage of Ware being injured in a local sports report.

Coverage of the injury represented the second difficult call of the day for CBS. Earlier, the network cut away from the dramatic conclusion of the Sony Open men's final, switching to the tipoff of the NCAA tournament game between Michigan and Florida. The network did alert viewers that if the third set between Andy Murray and David Ferrer went to a tiebreaker, it would switch coverage of the Tennis Channel.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cbs-halts-replays-basketball-players-injury-233552593--spt.html

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Russ Kick's staggering "The Graphic Canon" - Entertaining Views ...

?? ? The adaptors and artists do not slavishly illustrate everything that happens in each work.? Instead, here are two approaches, among many imaginative, beautiful, and intellectually engaging versions, that are extremely memorable.? Rick Geary takes on The Book of Revelation and, by being visually realized, it makes complete sense in terms of its system of symbols and the overall narrative.? I remember friends in college saying that St. John must have been on something when writing this book, but it?s very persuasive when seen.? Molly Crabapple crystallizes the sexual politics and the theatricality of the upper crust, decadent world of Choderlos de Laclos? Dangerous Liaisons in just three images ? yes, three.? ?

?? ? It?s not too early to save October 12 for Books by the Banks at the Duke Convention Center this year.? There were many wonderful authors willing to share their expertise and sign their books this past October.? The Kids section was pretty exhaustive so it?s a nice, cheap choice for a family day in downtown Cincinnati.

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Marketing studies help craft health overhaul pitch

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Obama administration is tapping the secrets of mass marketing to help sell the health care law to millions of uninsured Americans.

It's a big challenge:

How do you convince folks that one of the most complex and controversial programs devised by government may actually be a good for them?

The federal Health and Human Services Department has posted marketing research online that provides insight into more than 48 million uninsured.

Three groups are critical to so-called "Obamacare's" success or failure:

They're the "Healthy & Young," about 48 percent of the uninsured, the "Sick, Active & Worried," 29 percent, and the "Passive & Unengaged," 15 percent.

The challenge for the administration: sign up lots of the Healthy & Young to offset the higher costs of covering the sick and worried.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/marketing-studies-help-craft-health-overhaul-pitch-132308584--finance.html

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FE colleges urged to adopt new flag and anthem | FE Week

Colleges will be urged to help solve FE?s ?Cinderella complex? with a bold new marketing campaign that includes a sector flag.

Principals will also be asked to adopt a sector ?anthem? for use as their institutions? telephone hold music and for official functions.

The song, a ?re-imagining? of S Club 7 hit Reach, has already been recorded with vocals by former Four Poofs and a Piano singer Ian Parkin.

The campaign is aimed at attracting more students to FE and boosting the sector?s profile.

It is being spearheaded by the Association of Colleges and is due to be launched today.

Association chief executive Martin Doel (top left, displaying the new flag alongside FE Week editor Nick Linford) said: ?Just recently, speaking to the Education Select Committee, even Ofsted?s Sir Michael Wilshaw made reference to FE?s Cinderella complex ? how, despite the essential work it does, it can sometimes seem neglected compared to other parts of the education system.

?We?ve taken great strides in overcoming this and will continue to do so, but after hearing Sir Michael?s comments I thought maybe we should try a new and different tack.?

He added: ?The flag was the first element that came to mind because the sector doesn?t have a unified symbol.

?The thinking behind it was very much inspired by the popularity of the London Olympics design and linked to that was the anthem idea.?

London-based firm Pink Salmon Media donated their time to designing the flag and employed Ivor Novello award-winning composer Paul K Joyce to write the anthem, provisionally named Reach For The College.

I ended up finding a singing voice I never knew I had? Martin Doel, AoC

Mr Joyce said: ?I hope the anthem makes people smile but I also hope it encourages them to really think about further education as an option.?

His previous credits include Can We Fix It?, the theme tune for children?s TV show Bob the Builder, which sold more than a million records and was the biggest selling single of 2000, and The Snow Queen, a stage show and animated film based on the Hans Christian-Anderson story, featuring Juliet Stephenson and Patrick Stewart.

Shane Palmer, Pink Salmon managing director, said: ?It was an honour for us to be appointed this task and I think our team has produced a stunning image for the FE sector to be proud of.

?We have utilised the profile of a mountain to signify the uphill journey to improvement and placed a flag on top of the mountain to signify achievement.

?Having the flag within the flag is also redolent of the learning that takes place within the learning environment because lecturers are on their own journey of discovery, as we all are.?

She added: ?I?m especially pleased with Paul?s re-imagining of the S Club 7 classic Reach, which made it all the way to number two in 2000, for the sector anthem.?

Colleges will be able to register to use the flag and the anthem on a special website due to be launched next week.

Mr Doel said: ?The anthem has already been recorded and I?m sure it will surprise many with just how catchy and upbeat it is ? and that?s something that rings true for the sector and how positive we want to be about it.

?Recording it was also an amazing experience. I only went along to the studios to oversee production and I actually got asked to do some backing vocals ? I ended up finding a singing voice I never knew I had.?

Ian Parkin recording Reach For The College at a studio in?Soho, London

Words to Reach For The College

When your work leaves you feeling blue,

Or you?re leaving school, FE will be there for you,

We can help, free your hopes and dreams,

With an apprenticeship, or a traineeship

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We?ll help you find employment,

Upskill, or learn a new trade,

Learn in college or workplace,

Skills for the economy so

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Reach for the college

Climb the FE mountain higher

Reach for the college

Learn to your hearts desire

Reach for the college

And whichever future best suits you

We?ll help your dreams to all come true

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Don?t fret if you?re over twenty three,

There?s a special loan, that can help you pay fees,

Earn and learn, with an apprenticeship,

Build up that cv, train for a vocation,

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If you want to do cooking,

Hair styles, finance or building

Never ever forget that

You can learn this with FE so

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Reach for the college

Climb the FE mountain higher

Reach for the college

Learn to your hearts desire

Reach for the college

And whichever future best suits you

We?ll help your dreams to all come true

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Doesn?t matter if you?re young or old,

There?s more than one way you can reach your goal,

If work or uni?s what the future holds

There ain?t nothing you can?t be

With the whole world of FE

I said reach

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Climb the FE mountain (reach)

Reach for new skills (reach)

Follow that pathway

And your dreams will all come true

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Reach for the college

Climb the FE mountain higher

Reach for the college? [Chorus x2]

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Doesn?t matter if you?re young or old,

There?s more than one way you can reach your goal,

If work or uni?s what the future holds

There ain?t nothing you can?t be

With the whole world of FE

I said reach

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Climb the FE mountain (reach)

Reach for new skills (reach)

Follow that pathway

And your dreams will all come true

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Reach for the college

Climb the FE mountain higher

Reach for the college? [Chorus x2]

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Source: http://feweek.co.uk/2013/04/01/fe-colleges-urged-to-adopt-new-flag-and-anthem/

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