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2005318 Mothers Day Flyer Set 7EM6DLG
Photoshop PSD, AI | 2 Mb
Easy to customize with well organize file, which helps you design the Brochure easily!
Package includes:
- PSD files and Ai files
- 8.27 × 11.69 inch booklet (with bleed)
- Fully layered Ai and PSD file.
- Fully customizable and editable.
- Worktable size A4
- CMYK @ 300 DPI – Ready to print.
Font used:
- https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Galada?query=galad
- https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Fira+Sans+Condensed?query=fira+sans
- You can find the font I use in the readme file. (It is also free and free for Commercial use).
- Mock up not included.


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No-Code and Avoiding Data Silos
Over the last year, I've been invited to speak on a number of interesting podcasts. Just recently, I went back to listen to a few of them and reflect on how both Appify and I have changed in 2020.
Back in September, I chatted with Jon Dwoskin, a business coach and podcaster for THINK Business Live. I touched on some of the issues plaguing businesses and IT teams.
"Most enterprises have either large technology stacks that are difficult to customize – or they have thousands of SaaS apps running around creating silos of data."
Of course, today that still rings true. It is still an issue that IT and operational teams are facing as they try to balance the requests from their business with the necessary maintenance of their current technology.
No-code solutions have arrived
The Appify no-code app platform is one way that companies are solving this problem. Allowing IT to more quickly serve the needs of their business, so that they have the time needed to maintain their current systems. Since that September when I was discussing with Jon how businesses need agility to deliver apps quickly to their employees, there has also been some growth in the number of no-code apps that a business now has to manage.
Appify partners with IT to avoid the data silos
That's why Appify is a no-code app platform designed for IT professionals with the security and scale necessary to serve a large organization. IT and other operational people can deliver apps to solve the challenges that their business colleagues are facing, and they can also manage those apps for the business. This avoids creating a second wave of chaos that merely replaces the data silos of all of our Cloud Apps with more siloed no-code apps. If IT and other operational people can manage these apps in a centralized fashion. IT can make sure the apps are built for scale, they connect into the right data sources, and manage any users of the apps along with all the other technology systems they have in their infrastructure.
I also shared some learnings about how to build a brand, be a CEO and how I run my Appify team using OKRs. Hope you enjoy it!

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Opinion: The World's Navies and Merchant Fleets Need a Stronger Bond
[By Peter Cook]
In his authoritative tome Seapower, Geoffrey Till observes that navies "have to work alongside rather than regard themselves as distant from and somehow superior to many other maritime stakeholders with their grubby little concerns." Mariners indeed need to be "all of one company," as Drake recommended.
As the world's navies dramatically shrink relative to the ever growing fleets of commercial shipping cousins, they should take time to understand their fellow maritime stakeholders. Major powers are never going to be able to significantly alter the ratio of warships to commercial vessels, so they must seriously revisit the strategy for how the protection of trade is conducted in peace and in conflict.
Navies and commercial shipping
Since humanity devised methods for crossing bodies of water (starting with rivers and lakes, then seas and oceans), people have been carrying items from one side to another as gifts, or offerings, to barter and trade. This symbiotic movement is synonymous with the development and emergence of civilizations, and the building of great nations like the United States and China. Today, more than 80 percent of all trade is moved by sea, which makes seaborne trade a crucial backbone of the global economy and human progress.
In comparison to the thousands of years of continuous commercial seaborne exchange, formal standing navies are relative newcomers. For centuries the principal reason for having a navy was to protect merchant ships from criminal activity, like piracy. It was the maritime explorer kingdoms of Portugal and Spain that established the first standing navies, followed by the burgeoning northern European trading nations. King Henry VIII's break with Rome and the dissolution of almost a thousand wealthy monasteries funded the building of what would become the British Royal Navy in the 16th century. From their inception, navies have been intrinsically linked to the economic development of a country, and in England "The navy served the City of London, not the crown." Similarly, the U.S. Navy was initially formed to defend U.S. trade passing through the Mediterranean against Barbary pirates from North Africa. According to Lincoln Paine's excellent book, The Sea and Civilisation, the forming of a naval force was based on the "naval-commercial complex" being the dominant characteristic of economic growth from maritime expansion.
Despite most democratic maritime nations listing "protection of trade" or similar phrases within their core purposes of maritime strategy, it seems that this driver is often overshadowed by political maneuvering, demonstrating that "The modern world takes the free use of the seas for granted and assumes shipping services are wholly detached from national policy."
It is useful to look at the composition of the modern maritime space. The principal driver behind commercial shipping fleet size and shape is derived demand driven by the consumer. As the global population continues to swell and the worldwide consumer class grows, the demand for manufactured goods, foods, and fuel increases at a voracious rate. The requirement for more vessels carrying cargo, moving passengers, catching and processing seafood, extracting and producing fossil fuels, mining rare metals and blue biotechnology from the ocean and seabed increases rapidly.
A burgeoning maritime space
Today, around 1.6 million seafarers crew the 98,140 oceangoing cargo vessels, carrying over 11 billion tons of cargo, including 811.2 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) containers handled worldwide, and passing through more than 5,250 ports. There are 4,428 passenger-carrying ships (cruise ships and ferries), around 4.6 million fishing vessels (including artisanal, coastal and ocean going), and approximately 25 million pleasure craft across the world in 2019. This makes for extremely complex and dynamic global trade routes and coastal areas.
The increasing demand for new cargo ships ensures a busy shipbuilding industry, which in 2019 launched a staggering 66 million GT of new shipping, which is the equivalent tonnage of roughly 660 U.S. Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. Almost all new merchant ships are constructed in East Asia (China 40 percent, Republic of Korea 25 percent, and Japan 25 percent), whilst the remaining 10 percent of ships are built in shipyards across the rest of the world.
By comparison, the main naval powers' fleets are shrinking. While systems, sensors, and weapons are undeniably more capable, the ratio between the number of naval platforms available to protect sea lanes and the quantity of commercial vessels is becoming more and more disproportionate.
Applying Lessons Learned
There was a glimpse of how the interaction between navies and commercial shipping can work very successfully for a specific problem, providing some valuable lessons. During the period of Somali piracy (2008-2012), three separate international naval coalitions were established, demonstrating unprecedented cooperation and collaboration between different navies to counter the piracy threat. Additionally, the naval coalition commanders, and leaders of the shipping industry and marine insurance industry formed the Senior Leadership Forum, which held periodic meetings at a naval headquarters near London to discuss strategic and policy issues related to Somali piracy.
From late 2008 the naval coalitions and shipping industry worked together in the quarterly Shared Awareness and Deconfliction (SHADE) Group meetings in Bahrain, allowing all parties to discuss the operational situation with naval commanders in the region. At the tactical level, the Royal Navy's UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) organization provided a "911" first responder-type service to merchant ships entering the Western Indian Ocean, briefed masters' and crews visiting UAE ports, and assisted with the coordination of maritime forces when piracy attacks happened.
The formation of these tiered levels of liaison and interaction between the naval coalition forces and the shipping industry paved the way to the suppression of Somali piracy by mid-2012. The structure was also regarded by many senior naval officers as a fascinating and edifying experience to work closely with their shipping industry counterparts, demonstrating the benefits of viewing elements of maritime power as "all of one company." The downside to the achievements of this successful model was that it was possibly too short-lived for the valuable lessons to be fully inculcated and applied more broadly.
As we move further into what is being called the maritime century, it is inevitable that interaction between navies and the shipping industry will become more common, whether it be through state-on-state friction, piracy and armed robbery at sea, maritime terrorism, or mass maritime migration. It is therefore important that both naval officers and the shipping industry better understand each other. Both organizations should include within their respective trainings new educational periods and liaison visits to understand their maritime counterparts. This closer relationship would engender a far greater understanding and appreciation of each other's ethos, outlook, concerns, and fears. A closer relationship created over time will build trust, and hopefully induce the conditions for naval forces and the commercial shipping industry to become "all of one company."
Peter Cook is a former Royal Marines Officer and spent a significant part of his 24-year career involved in different aspects of maritime security, including from maritime counterterrorism to formulating counterpiracy policy and procedures for the UK Ministry of Defence. In 2011 he developed the concept and was the co-founding CEO of the Security Association for the Maritime Industry (SAMI), the representative body for the global private maritime security industry.
This article appears courtesy of CIMSEC and is reproduced here in an abbreviated form. It may be found in its original form (including footnotes and references) here.
The opinions expressed herein are the author's and not necessarily those of The Maritime Executive.


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Fantasy Football Week 15: Start or Sit Jimmy Graham, Vernon Davis, or Blake Jarwin?
Chances are, if you're reading this, you're in the thick of it. I'm not talking about being trapped under an overly large hookup from the night before, unable to leave since your pants are ten feet away and you've got 250 lbs. of regret laying on you. This is the playoffs, baby! Turn it up to 11 and make your lineup the absolute best you can.
Start or Sit Jimmy Graham at Chicago
Graham would have been considered a boom or bust play at one point. Though even a layman can look at his numbers and see there's not much value there. With Green Bay ditching their head coach, many Packers fans are looking at a possibility of Graham having more of a role in offensive plays. Though it's fair to mention that Graham had 11 targets in McCarthy's final game coaching. He dropped to only 5 targets a week after, gaining only 13 yards off of his 2 receptions. It looks like his role in the offense hasn't changed just yet. The thing is, the Packers offense is buzzing right now, coming off their 34-20 win against the Falcons at home. They're ready to win out the season with some fairly easy games, but this next one certainly won't be pleasant. Chicago is doing extremely well against tight ends this season, especially in the last several games. No tight end has gone for more than 50 yards all season against them. They'd be ranked higher if they didn't give up so many touchdowns to the position early on. Luckily, they haven't allowed one since week 6. In fact, no quarterback has targeted their tight end more than 8 times in any of the games this season against the Bears. It's a tough decision whether to start or sit Graham this week, I get it. He's bound to have a good game, right? Certainly not this week. Green Bay will travel to the Jets in week 16 and come home for a fun matchup against the Lions in week 17, and while those plays are definitely appealing, there's simply not much wiggle room for Graham to do well against Chicago this week. Consider him a sit this week.
Start or Sit Vernon Davis at Jacksonville
You don't see his name too often, but he's slowly creeping up the charts. Not in a bad "I've got a disease" way, but more like a "HAY YOU GUYS" kind of way, like Sloth from The Goonies. While we're not going to see Davis save children and talk about Baby Ruth candy bars, we are going to see him quietly slink away for the following three games. Davis has seen some decent production since week 12, where he had 73 yards and a touchdown off of only four targets. His production slowed down in the following two weeks where he was only targeted 6 times total, though he redeemed himself a bit against the Giants with a successful 2 pt. conversion. These last three weeks have given fantasy owners reason to stash him away on the bench, but to be fair, his numbers are liars. Yes, he's seen a decent amount of points in the last three weeks. Yes, he's hauled in 80% of his passes in that timespan. But no. Just no, don't think too hard about whether to start or sit Vernon Davis. Your targets are too low and you're simply too touchdown dependent. Jacksonville isn't perfect at defending against tight ends, but Vernon simply doesn't get enough attention to consider him a threat. He'll most likely be targeted three or four times, but there's just not he can do. While the Jags do give up a fair amount of touchdowns to tight ends, I simply don't see the Redskins targeting him very much in the remainder of the season. Vernon Davis is a definite sit this week.
Start or Sit Blake Jarwin at Indianapolis
This might be a no-brainer, but I've actually heard a considerable amount of discussion regarding whether to start or sit Jarwin in light of his potential killer performance this week. I think it's time to ground ourselves a bit. Jarwin is obviously not a major piece of the Cowboy's offense, but last week he was targeted 7 times and brought them all in for 56 yards. The Cowboys are going through what some might consider a 'blooming' period where Dak is coming a bit more alive on a 5 game win streak and the offense is waking up. It's easy to assume Jarwin will be targeted a fair amount in this next game. At this point in the season, it's just too risky to play him. He could be targeted ten times or zero, you just don't know. Indianapolis hasn't allowed a touchdown to the position since week 8. Jarwin is the kind of guy who needs more than open field targets to make him a viable play this week. Last week's performance was great, yes, but it's just not guaranteed at this point that he'll see any sort of attention from Prescott. Tight ends are extremely tempting when it comes to changes of tempo. Offenses realize sometimes that teams aren't doing a great job at guarding the position against the pass and will work their tight ends into the offensive scheme on a game-to-game basis, but I just don't see Jarwin getting much attention for the remainder of the season. His extremely low floor and low ceiling makes him a sit this week.
Playoff teams certainly don't need to be playing in the muck. One position can ruin your entire season at this point, so choose wisely. These three might be an easy pass for many, but the position is simply difficult for many who haven't locked down a reliable tight end to play each week. If you find yourself in the unfortunate position of streaming a tight end this week, avoid these three at all costs. There are certainly better options.
If you're pretty set on these three, I'd rank them as:
1. Jimmy Graham
2. Blake Jarwin
3. Vernon Davis
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