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There are seven types of affairs, seven ways for infidelity to rear its ugly head in your life.
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The answer to “why do people cheat?”, unlike popular belief, is not always ‘the other person’. People wonder if there are any good reasons to cheat, but it’s difficult to say if there are any, unless the relationship you’re currently in is abusive. In most cases, cheating may feel good for some time, but more than one person suffers through your actions.
Here’s an article to help you know if you are unhappily married and in love with a third person
There are always telltale signs your affair is over, or whenever a relationship of any kind nears its end. Your intuition tells you exactly what is happening, only if you’re alert enough to pay attention to it. Even though they aren’t considered serious in nature by a majority of people, the couple involved in the
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YouTube attracts a mammoth amount of traffic – in fact, more searches are made on YouTube than an all of Yahoo. And yet, companies do not think about it enough as a marketing platform.
Time to learn about Google’s AdWords for video programme! It allows companies to place video adverts on the site, leading back to their own website or YouTube page.
You can choose to have YouTube play your video before, during or after another, related clip – just like a traditional television advert. Alternatively, you can have it displayed on the YouTube site and on other sites that use Google ads, such as newspapers or private blogs.
What are the pros?
- The biggest is that you don’t pay unless someone chooses to watch your ad. You also have quite a lot of control over what you spend. You can set a ‘maximum pay per view’ – ie decide how much you are willing to spend to get someone to click on your ad.
- Some options will also allow you to pay only if the viewer watches the first 30 seconds of your video, or to the end (whatever comes first).
- You can set your target audience very precisely, controlling for location, interests, demographics, and a host of other factors. You can also set groups of people you do not want your ad to be shown to, and search terms you do not want your ad to be associated with.
- As with a standard Google campaign, you can track which clicks actually lead to a result on your website.
As for the cons…
- One catch is that while some of the video advertising formats allow companies to lead back to their websites, others only allow them to lead customers back to their YouTube page.
- Another is that just like AdWords, placing an ad does not mean that people are going to click on it. You need to make sure that it is attractive enough to entice viewers to watch it. Here are 12 great tips on how to do this, even if you have a tiny budget!
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If you were injured on non-navigable waters, state law governs the deadline for which you must bring your lawsuit. If, however, the accident occurred on “navigable waters,” federal law requires suit to be brought within three (3) years. The attorneys at the law firm of Brais Law Firm have the experience to protect your rights, the compassion to serve your needs, and the skill to obtain the compensation you deserve. To reach our lawyers you may click email the firm, call 800-499-0551 from within the U.S., Skype BraisLaw worldwide or click Contact Us to select and complete a form for a free evaluation of your case. | <urn:uuid:3896c13c-5db1-4915-b53c-0b21cd1a992e> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.braislaw.com/boating-accidents-lawyers/yacht-accident-attorney/yacht-guest-injury-lawyer/ | 2024-04-13T22:05:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.949384 | 151 |
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Thinking about growing your business in 2022?
Then expansion into the European Union is the way to go! There is no better time to introduce your brand and product spectrum to a whole new variety of customers.
Between the increasing competition in North America and the continually growing economies in Europe, 2022 is the perfect time to open up new markets and start selling to European customers.
We show you the top 4 reasons why you should start expanding now and explain how you can start selling in several countries at the same time.
Reason 1: New Customer Base
The European Union and the United Kingdom combined boast millions of potential new customers.
But more importantly, the customer bases in different European countries are diverse even though they are geographically close.
What does this mean for expanding US sellers?
This new pool of consumers not only follows different sales periods and celebrates other holidays than US customers, but they also follow different sales periods than each other – allowing you to expand your business by doubling or even tripling your peak sales numbers year-round.
Additionally, due to the close proximity of European countries to each other, it is common for Europeans to order from foreign marketplaces.
These advantages can be most profitably reaped by selling via Amazon, as you can tap into several new markets encompassing a whole continent just by selling from one European country thanks to Amazon’s extensive fulfilment network.
Reason 2: Less Competition
In addition to a large customer base, the European market also offers, at least to some extent, a less competitive environment.
The potential customer base in each singular country is smaller which means that each market also has fewer active sellers.
The import, export, and tax calculations for goods sold to customers in different European countries were until recently a complicated and time-consuming process, which led to many European companies only being active in one or a few countries.
This has recently changed.
In summer 2021 several regulations were changed and implemented that unify VAT compliance across the EU.
While the new system makes the overview of VAT duties simpler, it still does not completely simplify them.
Sellers active in Europe still need to register for VAT and regularly turn in VAT returns in the national languages if they store products in Europe.
In case they only store in a single country and sell from there to a multitude of EU countries, they will benefit from the new One-Stop-Shop system, which replaces most VAT registrations and returns.
However, the compilation of OSS reports is a tedious process. This is where hellotax comes in.
The VAT service provider specialised in E-Commerce and Amazon selling can register for VAT or OSS in Europe, automates the compilation of returns and reports, and files them for you in a multitude of countries.
This way, you can concentrate on your business and take full advantage of the competitive environment.
Several niches in different countries in Europe are still left to conquer. This situation differs from the competitive one in the US, where sellers of all sizes and fields are active across the whole continent.
Additionally, products that might be common to buy or easily accessible items in the US are hard to find in Europe.
Many buyers are specifically searching for American brand items or American products are, even after browsing sites like Amazon, still left wanting.
Whether you want to import goods from the US, buy and resell in Europe, or ship items from even further away – there is a demand for your products and now is the time to expand.
Reason 3: Market Growth & Investment
Thinking these are just fairytales? Think again! The online shopping market in Europe is currently experiencing a great growth spurt – for several reasons.
Americans are used to online shopping. Due to the dot-com bubble originating in the US, comparatively lacking infrastructure, a concentration of huge companies, and the sheer size of the continent, conditions and habits differ across the pond.
However, in Europe many offline and small stationery retail shops still exist, customers generally shop more locally, and while companies ship across individual countries, there are fewer big companies with their own successful online shops.
This is expected to change.
The proof? Online giants like Amazon and Walmart heavily investing in the European market.
Amazon changed the game in Europe when it comes to online shopping and the online retail market is expected to grow exponentially over the next few years.
More and more companies from overseas are expanding into Europe, hoping to fill the gaps left behind by traditional retail, explore new opportunities, and expand their brand.
Reason 4: Internationalisation made easy by Amazon
Ready to expand but wondering how to go about it?
The answer is Amazon. No matter the size and origin of your company, Amazon makes internationalization and expansion easy – especially in Europe.
The European Amazon market actually consists of 8 individual marketplaces in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands, and Sweden with the last two being added just recently in 2020.
This speaks to the firm’s expansion plans in Europe and beyond in addition to the continued development of the Amazon fulfilment programs, which enable you to quickly ship your products to customers all across Europe.
Big American companies can gain customers that trust Amazon more than foreign websites and online shops by starting their expansion on Amazon.
Small companies can benefit from the fulfilment network that enables them to start expanding without too high of an investment.
All of this can be managed with just a single Amazon seller account.
You can choose to promote your products on Amazon and choose between several fulfilment programs.
Some only include Eastern-European countries, making storage cheaper but leading to higher shipping costs or longer shipping times, others include almost all countries in the EU and make sure your products arrive at your new customer’s doorstep as fast as possible.
No matter if you’re planning on selling on Amazon in the long run or are just trying to slowly get a leg up in a new market, expansion into Europe, the marketing of a brand, and the building of an image on a new continent are easier with Amazon.
Tip: Amazon is currently expanding into the Eastern hemisphere as well. Establishing your business in Europe now means you’re one continent closer and one step ahead when it comes to expanding to the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
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Placing Yourself in Chemistry
Student success in introductory chemistry depends primarily on two things, skills and commitment. The latter is up to you, but we can help you with the former. Because students enter college with varying problem-solving skills from their high school experiences, different introductory chemistry sequences are offered at Brandeis University.
CHEM 11 (General Chemistry) is the course for students with one year or less of high school chemistry. CHEM 11 assumes successful math preparation through pre-calculus, and is taken by about 3/4 of the students in introductory chemistry. CHEM 11 requires fluency working with algebraic expressions, exponential terms, and logarithms. Students who have not taken pre-calculus are strongly advised to take MATH 5 in their first (or second) semester at Brandeis, and postpone taking General Chemistry until their second year. If you are unsure about your math preparation, try to complete the Chemistry 11a/15a placement exam without a calculator. Click on the answer to each question to determine your score. An adequate score for Chem 11a would be approximately 7 correct answers; for Chem 15a, most students would miss only a couple of items on this exercise.
CHEM 15 (Honors General Chemistry) is for students with stronger preparation and/or considering a major in chemistry, chemical biology or biochemistry. CHEM 15 assumes some basic chemistry and math preparation and explores advanced topics relevant to chemical science majors. It is the course of choice for students with two years of high school chemistry or a successful year of high school chemistry with AP chemistry (3-5) or AP physics or AP calculus.
Recitations. In addition to the lecture section, which meets three mornings per week, CHEM 11 has a mandatory afternoon recitation. There are three recitations held per week. Students in CHEM 11 will register for one section, but are welcome to attend others. Many students find it helpful to have the time available to attend more than one recitation per week. Quizzes and tests in CHEM 11 are given on Friday mornings.
CHEM 15 has a mandatory Wednesday evening session, but no additional recitation requirements.
Guidelines for Choosing Between Courses:
- If you are uncomfortable with math, consider postponing introductory chemistry until you have successfully completed Math 5a, especially if you have not previously had a successful year of high school chemistry or physics. Remember, taking the course successfully is more important than taking it early! You may address questions about postponing introductory chemistry to Professor Novack ([email protected]).
- If you have had two years of high school chemistry or a successful year of high school chemistry and/or have done well in AP chemistry (3-5) or AP physics or AP calculus, then you should enroll in CHEM 15a and the associated laboratory CHEM 19a. Questions about enrolling in honors chemistry may be addressed to Professors Gieseking ([email protected]), Schmidt-Rohr ([email protected]), or Snider ([email protected]).
- Students with AP (4 or 5), IB Chemistry (score 5 or greater), or UK-type A-level exam (A, B, or C grade) may take Organic Chemistry Lecture and Laboratory courses (CHEM 25a and CHEM 29a). Organic chemistry focuses on the structure and reactivity of carbon-based molecules, and has direct implications in a variety of fields including biology and biochemistry. These courses are required for most science-related undergraduate programs as well as application to many graduate programs. Taking organic chemistry in your first year allows more time in subsequent years to take advanced courses and carry out research. Students considering this option are encouraged to consult with Professors Murray ([email protected]) or Jee ([email protected]). Note: students electing to take AP credit for first-year chemistry must begin their chemistry career at Brandeis University with CHEM 25a. Most students who begin their studies with CHEM 25/29 receive grades in these courses in the A to B-minus range, with AP 4 students performing at levels slightly below those of AP 5 students.
If you do not have AP 4, AP 5, an IB score of 5 or greater, or advanced A-level status, you may not begin with CHEM 25/29 and must take CHEM 11/18 or CHEM15/19 first.
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Consider your previous experience carefully and choose a chemistry lecture and laboratory course. Remember that both your success and your enjoyment of your chemistry course this year will depend on an honest appraisal of the program that will best serve your needs and goals.
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Ultimately, the long-term effects of a traumatic brain injury will rest on the severity of an affected person’s condition. Some traumatic brain injuries, like mild concussions, typically do not present long-term symptoms. However, other conditions may increase the likelihood of strokes, seizures, and degenerative diseases.
If not properly managed by a medical professional, a traumatic brain injury can lead to secondary conditions, like infections. To minimize the impact of an injury on your life, you should consult with your healthcare team about your diagnosis and treatment plan.
Your Type of Traumatic Brain Injury Will Determine Its Long-Term Effects
Each traumatic brain injury comes with its own set of concerns. When receiving medical care, your doctor should give you an idea of what treatments could help you now and in the future. If you were released from a hospital, aftercare is especially important. Be sure to take your medications as directed and refrain from any strenuous activity.
According to Healthline, some types of traumatic brain injuries and their possible long-term effects include:
- Concussions. Many concussions do not result in long-term complications. However, this is not true for everyone. Severe concussions can result in behavioral changes, numbness, loss of mobility, and cognitive impairment.
- Hematomas. Brain bleeds are serious conditions that should not be taken lightly. Even after the initial injury has subsided, affected people can still experience anxiety, depression, difficulty speaking, and problems processing information.
- Open head injury. When an object penetrates the skull, it can end up harming the brain. This condition can cause nerve damage, loss of coordination, and even death. An injured person can also get an infection if the wound is not cleaned properly.
- Skull fractures. A fracture in the skull can be extremely painful, and any shards of bone could penetrate the brain. Long-term effects can include internal bleeding, brain damage, infections, and seizures.
There are other examples of traumatic brain injuries that were omitted from this list.
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A Traumatic Brain Injury Can Have Long-Term Effects on Your Quality of Life
Hopefully, with diligent medical care, you will be able to make a full recovery from your traumatic brain injury with no long-term complications. Sadly, this is not the case for some people. After suffering a traumatic brain injury, some people are simply not able to regain their full quality of life.
In addition to the long-term physical effects of a traumatic brain injury, consider the following aspects:
You May Not Be Able to Work After Getting Hurt
If your job required considerable physical and mental effort, you may not be able to keep working with your new condition. A traumatic brain injury could prevent you from working full-time or even at all. Depending on the severity of your condition, you could qualify for financial assistance from the Social Security Administration (SSA).
You May Not Be Able to Live Independently
If you are experiencing changes to your mobility, cognitive function, and communication skills, you may be unable to live independently. You may need to live in an assisted care facility or with family members who can provide around-the-clock care.
You Could Develop a Life-Altering Condition in the Future
Traumatic brain injuries increase the likelihood of a person developing Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and dementia. While you may be able to return to your preferred lifestyle after being injured, in the future, things may change.
You May Experience Psychological Distress
Many people report feeling anxious after experiencing a traumatic brain injury. This is not exactly surprising since this injury can be overwhelming to manage. However, when anxiety becomes so overpowering that it consumes a person’s life, it could be a result of their condition.
Some traumatic brain injuries can “rewire” how the brain processes information. In addition to feeling anxious after a traumatic brain injury, you may also feel depressed or irritable.
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Three channels operated by Slovakia’s leading broadcaster TV Markiza may soon again be available to terrestrial viewers.
However, reports Parabola, they will become part of the pay offering of the DTT platform Plustelka, with the flagship channel TV Markiza being in HD and thematic channels TV Doma and TV Dajto in SD.
Quoting Ivan Peschl, the head of the Slovak transmission company Towercom, it adds that negotiations with TV Markiza have been very positive and its channels are likely to be made available on Plustelka in the second half of this year.
Plustelka currently offers viewers 18 TV channels.
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Are you looking to get into biking in Colorado and not sure where to start? There are a lot of options to consider when you are in the market to buy your first bike. It can be hard to choose whether you want a hybrid or road bike, especially if you are not sure about the differences between them. In this article, we will break down all the important distinctions and features of both so you can make an informed decision about which is right for you.
What are Road and Hybrid Bikes for?
Before we get into the differences between road vs hybrid bikes, it is helpful to remember the goals of each. As the name implies, a road bike is used for cycling on paved roads. They tend to be sleek and lightweight, great for professional cyclists, commuters, and cycling hobbyists. If you are getting a bike for your daily commute to work or weekend rides down paved bike trails, a road bike might be right for you.
When you hear the name hybrid bike, you are probably wondering, a hybrid of what? It is a hybrid between a road and a mountain bike, giving you some of the capabilities of a mountain bike without quite so much extra weight. Biking in Colorado offers so many opportunities to off-road, from bike paths to mountain bike courses. If you have any interest in checking out the sport of mountain biking, a hybrid bike might be your best bet. While you can certainly ride a hybrid bike around the city, you will just find that your commute takes a bit more effort than it would with a road bike. The fourth type of bike to consider is electric bikes or e-bikes, which give you extra power and can help with long commutes or tough ascents.
The Main Differences between Road and Hybrid Bikes
Unless you know what to look for, it is easy to confuse road and hybrid bikes. Both have similar shapes and roughly the same features. One of the most obvious differences is the tires. Where road bikes have tires that are narrow and slim, hybrid bikes have wider tires. In order to allow for off-roading, hybrid bikes have bigger tires that are puncture resistant and more durable against biking over gravel and dirt. The extra width also provides added stability and grip on potentially slippery conditions.
The other main difference you can spot between road vs. hybrid bikes is the position and shape of the handlebars. Road bikes have drop handlebars that curve down and allow the rider to adopt a more aerodynamic riding position. This more crouched body position can be harder to get used to as a beginner cyclist, but drop handlebars have some other benefits, too. They tend to be more narrow, thus fitting into smaller gaps in traffic. They also allow for three distinct hand positions, which help long-distance cyclists stay comfortable and adapt to the cycling conditions.
Hybrid bikes, on the other hand, have the same flat handlebars as mountain bikes. These flat handlebars keep the rider upright for better stability and visibility on the rough terrain of mountain biking trails in Colorado. While this style is easier for beginners, it lacks versatility and proper positioning for faster rides.
Factors to Consider with Hybrid vs. Road Bikes
Comfort of Road vs. Hybrid Bikes
Road bikes have a lot of perks, but they can also take a bit of getting used to. Because of the more crouched posture, road bikes are initially tough on the rider’s back and arms. The most comfortable and unstressed riding opportunity definitely comes from a hybrid bike. The trade-off to this is that road bikes have multiple positions, which you can switch between on a longer ride. This helps prevent stiffness and makes it easier for long-distance cyclists to adapt to a steep uphill slope or be aerodynamic to preserve speed.
Weight Differences between Hybrid and Road Bikes
Hybrid bikes are always heavier than road bikes, and this can be an important factor to you. Because of the bigger tires and a few more gear options, hybrid bikes tend to weigh around five to ten pounds more than road bikes. Road bikes are also usually carbon fiber, which is lighter but more expensive, while hybrid bikes opt for durability and the stability of added weight. If you have to haul your bike up a flight of stairs or are looking for the easiest commute to work, this difference might be a key point in favor of road bikes. Bike weights can also vary by brand and model. If your bike has added features, for example, that will mean added weight. If you are really concerned about minimizing weight, a road bike should be under twenty pounds.
Speed Potential of Road Bikes vs. Hybrid Bikes
The difference in speed possible between hybrid and road bikes is significant. This is from a lot of factors, including weight and riding position. If you are hoping to get involved in some Colorado Springs cycling events or just want to shave a few minutes off your commute, a road bike is the way to go. You will find that a road bike is much more efficient in terms of converting your work into speed. With less weight and a more aerodynamic posture, you can make every rotation of the pedal worth your effort.
Road v.s Hybrid Bikes and Riding Terrain
If you have any interest in off-roading, you will need to opt for a hybrid bike. This would make your decision very easy, as it is not possible to go off-road with a road bike. It is, in fact, dangerous. Not only will you likely pop a tire, but road bikes are not heavy or stable enough to manage uneven terrain. If you have ever accidentally gone off-road on a road bike, you know it is not safe or comfortable. You need the wider tires, sturdier frame, and more upright posture of a hybrid or mountain bike to safely enjoy unpaved bike trails. If you are not sure if you would enjoy mountain biking or trail biking, consider trying a guided bike tour where you can hop on a mountain bike and see if cycling through nature appeals to you.
Price Difference of Road vs. Hybrid Bikes
You may be surprised to find that road bikes can be more expensive than hybrid bikes. You can certainly find either at any price point, from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. Because road bikes prioritize being lightweight, they are often made of carbon fiber which is lighter and more expensive than aluminum or steel frames often found on hybrid and mountain bikes. It would be best to avoid spending too much if this is your first foray into cycling in Colorado. That way, you can ride for a year, better understand what you personally need from your bike, and upgrade to a more long-term investment bike.
Maintenance Needs of Road vs. Hybrid Bikes
As noted above, road bikes are often made with a carbon fiber body. This extra expense should be considered as a potential recurring expense, as replacement parts and maintenance can be more. On the other hand, road bikes tend to have a slightly more simple construction, offering fewer gear shifts, for example, than hybrid bikes. These extra mechanics on hybrid and mountain bikes translate to more care in terms of bike maintenance and potential added expenses. In this consideration, the specific brand and model of bike will need to be evaluated.
If this is your first bike since you were a kid, you may want to start with something less expensive to get a feel for it. While the riding is, well, just like riding a bike, you may find that you don’t like the handlebars of a road bike or the weight of a hybrid bike. You can rent a hybrid bike for the day or borrow a friend’s bike to help you make your decision. Once you know better what you are looking for, you can invest in a quality bike that will serve your needs. Please make sure to always wear a helmet and obey traffic laws. Happy riding! | <urn:uuid:b98e9d40-fea3-45e3-8d5f-166241578e06> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.broadmooroutfitters.com/tag/biking-events/ | 2024-04-13T22:05:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.968896 | 1,603 |
More than 50 Park Slope businesses and charities are coming together to support Ukraine.
Locals are organizing cake sales, auctions and fundraising marches to collect donations for humanitarian aid in the Western European war zone. After two weeks of ongoing armed conflict, many Ukrainian shelters are running out of food, medication and diapers, according to reports from European organizations.
Brooklynites began standing in solidarity with the war-torn country the same day news on the Russian invasion broke.
On Feb. 24, Park Slope pâtisserie Madeline The Baker took to social media to announce that all profits from that week’s production would be donated to support the Ukrainian army and relief efforts. Order requests went up 60 percent by the middle week.
“I had been glued to the news and felt so hopeless,” said business owner Madeline Kiss. “When I realized I had a platform I could use to fundraise, I threw together a quick story and posted it. By March 1, I had to start turning down requests. I wish I could’ve taken on more.”
Kiss’ initiative and her clients’ response inspired other local shop owners to follow suit. A whopping 50 businesses, including coffee brewery Blank Street, Miss Mona Makes Ice Cream and the ballet academy Tutu School, are participating in an online auction organized by Park Slope Living, an Instagram page focused on where to visit in the busy Brooklyn nabe.
Together thus far, the Slopers have raised more than $7,000 — 100 percent of which will go to Razom, a New York based pro-Ukraine organization founded in 2014.
The auction — set to close March 12 — offers bidders exclusive experiences and goods, like a clay modeling class for two that’s already gotten 20 bids, and a 14k gold ring in the shape of a matchstick by Nora Kogan Jewelry that’s raised $650.
Among other rare finds is a signed copy of the new, currently sold-out cookbook by Hetty Lui McKinnon, recipe author at The New York Times, Bon Appetit and Food & Wine. Owners of Park Slope Italian favorite Pasta Louise are even offering a dinner for two at their new Eighth Avenue location before it opens to the public.
“It’s such a small thing that we can gladly do,” said Allison Arevalo, owner of Pasta Louise. “We do auctions for different causes every year and we are always surprised by how participative people are and how well they react. It is very encouraging.”
Meanwhile, others have called on the community to show empathy in different ways.
The parents’ association at PS 39 The Henry Bristow School is collecting donations for Ukraine and organizing a family march for peace. The kid-friendly rally will tour the neighborhood on Friday, March 11 at 3 pm, kicking off at the Sixth Avenue school.
Members of the parents’ association hope the march will be both inspirational and educational.
“Teachers are getting a lot of questions from kids about what’s going on,” member Andrea Margulies told Brooklyn paper. “I am being very upfront with my kid. I give him bullet points on the situation because I’m trying not to scare him, but we try to raise awareness on social justice so that they can grow up to be active on it.” | <urn:uuid:faf76ad8-75c6-4412-a55a-e913a5784b3f> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.brooklynpaper.com/park-slope-neighbors-and-businesses-fundraise-for-ukraine/ | 2024-04-13T22:15:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.961743 | 712 |
The Pueblo is a 568-acre village within the master-planned community of Summerlin, located adjacent to the villages of The Hills and The Hills South. Built in the early 90s, The Pueblo was the first village of Summerlin homes to come on the market. Located in the Summerlin North Community Association, The Pueblo homes for sale in Las Vegas are bounded by Lake Mead Boulevard to the north, Rampart Road to the west, Vegas Drive to the south, and Buffalo Drive to the east.
The Pueblo Village is comprised of several distinct neighborhoods offering single family and multifamily homes including condos, townhomes, single-family homes, and semi-custom homes. Residents enjoy The Pueblo Park, a shopping center, and numerous other amenities. The Zip codes for The Pueblo at Summerlin homes for sale include 89128 and 89113. Read more about The Pueblo real estate & lifestyle...
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A modification case in Texas family law means that one party to a family court order has decided to change some aspect of that order. This is not uncommon in an unreasonable request because people’s lives can change significantly throughout time if you have a child custody order that is more than two or three years old. It is likely that some aspect and that order no longer works well for you and your family. Depending on your specific circumstances, you may be able to request a modification from a family court judge as a result.
What many families choose to do, rather than go back to family court, is to attempt to work out some agreements with the other person involved in the order so that they can avoid having to go back to family court to get a formal modification. In many cases, this works out well, especially if you have a good relationship with your Co-parent. Ultimately, you and the Co-parent have to trust one another to follow whatever agreement you all have come up with period; this is true whether or not the actual deal is written down in the form of a child custody order.
Two to the changing circumstances some of you may have experienced due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I think this is a relevant topic for us to discuss in today’s blog post. Specifically, I would like to explore some of the more in-depth issues surrounding child custody modifications and how they may impact your children and your family. Keep in mind that not every family needs to get a child custody modification if you can work directly with the other parent to create a modified agreement between the two of you. What a child custody modification does is provide you all with Annette beneath the tightrope, so to speak, that will allow you to have some degree of trust that if either party violates the order, the other party will have the ability to go back to court and hold that person accountable.
In some circumstances, if you need a modification that touches on several different subjects, then you may very well need to head to family court. Family law attorneys like myself walk with people through challenging to manage modification cases with regularity, and I would like to take this opportunity to talk to you more about what a child custody modification is, what it can mean for your family and what circumstances may justify your filing a modification case. I will note that child custody modification cases are generally more intricate and challenging to manage in all family law. The reason being is that there is a high bar set for modifying child custody orders, and you need to have all of your ducks in a row to get this process accomplished.
With that said, some of you may be facing circumstances that justify requesting a formal modification of your child custody orders by a judge. At that describes where you are in your relationship with your child and with your co-parent, then I think you should hang tight and read through this blog post with us. I hope you will be able to take some of the lessons you learn and apply them to your own life to determine what route you need to go regarding requesting a formal modification of your child custody orders.
When can a child custody order be modified?
This is the first question that you need to ask yourself regarding a child custody modification request. If you find yourself at odds with some aspect of every child custody order, then he should probably get in line behind everyone else in your position who feels the same way. Without making light of your circumstances, the reality is that most people have something in their child custody orders that sticks in their craw. It could be something significant, or something that is relatively minor but still annoys you or put you out in terms of your schedule, your relationship with your kids, or anything in between. Let’s discuss what name child custody modification is and how one can request it.
To request a modification of your child custody orders, there need to be formal child custody orders in place. This may seem obvious, but for some of you who have some written down orders created by you and your child’s other parent, you may think that a family court judge can modify these agreements. However, keep in mind that while you and your co-parent may have been diligently following these agreements, it is not the case that these agreements constitute an actual order that a judge can enforce or modify. If you want to take | <urn:uuid:86f0e662-9a3f-4693-976f-7d43d71f9835> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.bryanfagan.com/blog/2020/november/reasons-to-modify-child-custody/ | 2024-04-13T22:15:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.970632 | 884 |
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Expect to feel welcomed as our guest right away!
Sunday's at Bethesda Temple Apostolic Church are exuberant, while Tuesdays are pretty laid back.
You might be asking,"What should I wear?" Some come casual, some in their Sundays best, while others may have to come in their work uniform.
We love our church, one another, and that's what shows!
Upon Arrival there will be a team of people there to welcome and direct you.
We are diverse in our choice of music. Spirit-filled & engaging atmosphere.
Enjoy the message that comes directly from the Bible that will motivate and change your life.
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Located in scenic Perkasie, Upper Bucks residents can take advantage of the same high-quality education that more than 100,000 Bucks residents have experienced at BCCC's Newtown campus. From working towards a degree, getting retraining, or taking a course for personal enrichment, Upper Bucks residents can achieve their career and educational goals on a campus that is easily accessible. Upper Bucks has the programs, courses, career training, technology, and facilities to fit your needs.
Whether you are looking for customized training for employees, seeking degree opportunities, or developing your own individual skills, Bucks has the programs, courses, career training, technology, and facilities to fit your needs.
For students wishing to continue on to a four-year college or university to obtain a bachelor’s degree. The student earns an Associate of Arts degree from Bucks County Community College.
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With award-winning student clubs committed to service, entertainment, spirituality, diversity, scholarship, and creative expression, the Upper Bucks Campus strives to enhance not only your educational experience but your personal enrichment as well.
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Happy 420 Everyone, In the News Today April 20, 2022 By My420Spot com
Hello and Happy Four Twenty everyone. It’s going to be an amazing day here in Denver, Co. Temps are in the low 70s, and sunny today. What are your plans for the day? Let us know in the comments. Like the video and subscribe to the channel.
There are a lot of things going on here in Denver today, Red Rocks have PEPPER & METHOD MAN & REDMAN performing tonight.
The Mile High 420 Festival, is at Civic Center Park today. Billed as “the largest 420 festivals in the world.” There are lots of events today here and in your city where possible. Have a safe lit day.
And in the news today April 20, 2022. The Top Things To Know:
The Missouri House Rules – Legislative Oversight Committee approved a GOP-led marijuana legalization bill, which now heads to a floor vote.
On the first anniversary of the House approving his standalone marijuana banking bill, Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) sent a letter asking Senate leaders to pass the legislation as they continue to craft a broader legalization plan.
“We cannot let our fight for comprehensive cannabis reform stall progress this year.”
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) acknowledged there’s a “federal hurdle” to his idea of growing marijuana on public housing rooftops—but says his administration will talk to federal agencies about getting a waiver to allow the innovative cannabis strategy.
Florida’s Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is inviting 4th-12th grade students to brainstorm new inventions made of hemp for an essay contest.
A new poll found that three out of four South Carolina Republican primary voters support legalizing medical cannabis. The survey comes as a Senate-passed bill is on its way to the House floor.
A new study concluded that legalizing recreational marijuana is tied to “significant reductions in the volume of prescriptions…for pain, depression, anxiety, sleep, psychosis and seizures,” and that the “substitution away from prescription drugs” toward cannabis could lead to “cost savings for state Medicaid programs.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard oral arguments in cases challenging Drug Enforcement Administration hemp rules.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture published blog posts about its work to collect data about the hemp industry and how it is funding research on the crop.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) tweeted, “The vast majority of Americans support legalizing the adult use of cannabis. I’m working with @SenBooker and @RonWyden to end the federal prohibition and ensure equity for the communities most harmed by the War on Drugs. As Senate Majority Leader—this is a Senate priority.”
The House bill to decriminalize drugs got one new cosponsor for a total of 18.
Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidates discussed marijuana at a debate.
Mississippi’s secretary of state issued a statement expressing concerns about a bill that grants temporary exemptions to several state laws while agencies are implementing the medical cannabis program.
Nebraska activists put out a call for “angel donors” to fund a signature-gathering drive to place medical cannabis initiatives on the ballot.
Missouri activists said they have collected more than 200,000 signatures for a marijuana legalization ballot measure, but the deadline to turn in petitions is approaching soon.
The California Senate Business, Professions, and Economic Development Committee approved a bill on interstate cannabis agreements.
The Louisiana House Health and Welfare Committee approved several medical cannabis reform bills.
Colorado representatives coauthored an op-ed criticizing a law that decolonized drug possession.
A New York assembly member tweeted, “Passing my medical psilocybin bill will go a long way in relieving the suffering that so many are facing.”
A former Indiana senator said the state should formally study legalizing marijuana.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court cleared two proposed marijuana ballot initiatives to move forward.
New Mexico regulators awarded the state’s first cannabis social consumption business license.
Alabama’s top medical cannabis regulator said it will probably be “a year or more” before products are available in dispensaries.
Vermont regulators voted to close the pre-qualification window for marijuana licenses on May 31.
An Arkansas judge ruled the regulators cannot avoid a lawsuit claiming they acted in a discriminatory manner when issuing medical cannabis business licenses.
Minnesota regulators sent a reminder about an April 30 deadline to apply for hemp cultivation and processing licenses.
There is what is going on today in the news. Have a Great Day everyone. Stay safe today and have an amazing four twenty.
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by the Girl MOVE Academy Team
No matter how much an organization prepares for unlikely events, there will always be unpredictable situations that force us to adapt and grow as quickly as ever before! At Girl MOVE, the global COVID-19 pandemic breakout was one of such situations and it is hard to recall how different life was just five months ago.
Founded in 2013, Girl MOVE is an NGO focused on advancing girls’ education and women empowerment, inspired by the vision of women as disruptive leaders to transform the world. Based in Nampula, Mozambique, Girl MOVE’s main programs aim at equipping Mozambican adolescent girls (called “Mwarusis” in the local dialect of Nampula) ages 12-15 and young women ages 18-30 with the adequate skill set needed to progress their studies and career ambitions and become positive agents of change in their communities.
Our Immediate Response to Covid-19
The first case of COVID-19 in Mozambique was confirmed on the 22nd of March 2020 and seven days later the government declared the state of emergency to contain the spread of virus in the country. Girl MOVE’s pressing concern was to guarantee our girls’ safety and ensure we would be able to stay in touch with them during the lockdown period. With only 2 days to reach nearly 1300 Mwarusis in 10 different neighborhoods before the schools closed, Girl MOVE’s immediate response had to be as swift as possible.
The fastest way was to go directly to the field to spread
Distribution of educative materials on the field to the Mwarusis (adolescent girls) part of the BELIEVE Program by Girl MOVE. Photo Credit: Girl MOVE Team.
information on COVID-19 infection prevention. Girl MOVE delivered informative group sessions about COVID-19 prevention and distributed a hygiene kit to all the Mwarusis, using vans to ensure everyone’s protection. We quickly understood that visiting the communities on the ground not only made it easier to share important information, but also presented another advantage: it send the girls a message that we would be there for them no matter what, giving them strength and raising their morale.
However, along with the health prevention measures soon came the social and economic concerns. Would the adolescent girls be safe at home during lockdown? Would they have access to support if needed? Would they lose interest in school activities? Would lockdown measures take a toll on the mental health of girls away from their friends and peers?
1st Response: Exploring Digital Platforms to Build Social Capital and Stay in Touch
Action: To stay in touch with our girls and young women from a distance and accompany them in a context of greater fragility, Girl MOVE migrated its programs to the digital space. Digital platforms such as Zoom substituted face-to-face meetings and workshops and running program activities using social networks became the new normal. But soon another challenge emerged: even though most young women had internet access, that was not the case for the ca. 1300 adolescent girls. An effective solution was needed fast to ensure mentors would easily reach out to their mentees. The solution came in the form of phone communication and mentoring sessions quickly began to take place through regular phone calls and text messages.
Concretely, since the lockdown started, the Mwarusis are contacted twice by their mentors: the first contact is done via a text message with a challenge, followed by a phone call a few days later to find out how they are and talk about that challenge. In addition, during the first 3 months of the pandemic, the mentors went to the
field on a weekly basis to continue to connect with the girls, stimulate learning and reinforce safety measures (such as wearing masks and practicing physical distance).
Result: In the beginning of the confinement imposed by the Government, Girl MOVE was only able to reach by telephone 69% of the total of 1271 adolescent girls supported. However, since then, this number has been increasing and we are now able to maintain contact with more than 80% of the adolescent girls each week. Of
these, only 6% own a mobile phone, forcing them to rely on someone else’s cellphone in their households to be contacted (usually a family member or a neighbor). Unexpectedly, this “opened” the door for Girl MOVE to enter their homes, since parents, siblings or caretakers had to make themselves and their cellphones available, enabling them to be part of this solution and allowing the relationship to keep flourishing.
2nd Response: Literacy and Change-making Attitude Using Gamification
As the weeks went by, at Girl MOVE we did not decrease our efforts and took every challenge coming our way as an opportunity to innovate. The innovative ideas were brought up by the young women (the mentors) themselves. They were the first ones to come forward to discuss ideas and create effective solutions on how to respond to the challenges ahead.
A Mwarusi (adolescent girl) part of the BELIEVE Program by Girl MOVE receiving her “Literacy Game” kit. Photo Credit: Girl MOVE Team.
Girls forced to stay at home meant that all their time would now be dedicated to caregiving activities, from doing all the domestic work to taking care of their siblings, sick family members and elderly people. The longer the time girls are at home the higher the risk of dropping out of school completely. To avoid this, and guarantee they would somehow stay connected with school, with the help of the mentors Girl MOVE launched the “Literacy Game”, a gamified learning tool to promote girls’ interest in education as they are in their final year of secondary school, delivering to the girls a game kit (in paper) with playful challenges, activated through phone calls and text messages.
Besides interrupting their education, girls at home are also more likely to suffer from domestic and gender-based violence, and lockdown measures make it almost impossible to ask for help. In an effort to counteract the effects of the pandemic crisis, Girl MOVE created a remote communication system that made it possible to stay connected to the adolescent girls. But what at first appeared to be just a communication strategy to keep in touch with girls
at a distance, proved to be much more than that: it is also a strategy for detecting and acting on risk cases, since girls now have access to a social supporting network that they can activate by reaching out to their mentors when and if needed.
This response was also supported through safe approaches to the community, using vans that went visiting the communities to distribute educative challenges, necessary materials and raise motivation.
3 “Girl Movers” (young women part of the CHANGE Program of Girl MOVE) at the Girl MOVE Academy ECO Campus showcasing the educative materials and the “Literacy Game” kits to be distributed to the Mwarusis on the field. Photo Credit: Girl MOVE Team.
3rd Response: Income Generation Activities and Technology Appropriation by Women
Additionally, as families struggle financially, young girls become a burden on their families, increasing the need to find income-generating activities as well as the pressure to marry at a very young age, which often leads to early pregnancy. Women also represent most of the informal economy workforce, meaning they are usually hit first by economic hardship. To help women find income-generating activities, Girl MOVE piloted professional labs in partnership with private companies to promote the appropriation of relevant technology by women. For example, in off-grid areas where difficulties felt are greater, we provided women with sewing machines with solar panels to produce and sell reusable face masks and delivered solar panel ovens to be tested in communities. A critical action point was to challenge our young women to implement these income-generating projects, allowing them to incorporate a can-do attitude and develop change-making skills.
Lessons Learned and an Unpredictable Future
Perhaps the biggest take-away from this pandemic crisis is that a quick response is only possible when female social capital is already established. As we have testified, when girls and women are empowered, once a crisis strikes, they are ready take the lead and activate community resources and have the capacity to face the associated health, economic and social impacts.
Looking ahead, until an effective vaccine is massively produced and globally distributed, there is no way we can predict how the future will look like. But one thing we know for certain: this pandemic threatens to delay or even eliminate the gains made in gender equality so far, intensifying the vulnerability of young girls and women in a context of health and social crisis.
Never has Girl MOVE’s work been so relevant! We know a transformative power lies inside every girl and woman and will continue to work tirelessly to make sure it is not a global pandemic that will take away their education and their ability to change the world for the better.
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The Western Railway Thursday said its mobile ticketing app UTS has received 10,62,560 new users in the last 10 months.
UTS on mobile app is an Indian Railways' official Android mobile ticketing app to book unreserved train tickets.
"The Mumbai Division of Western Railway has been conducting a promotional campaign on mobile ticketing modes and payment on UTS mobile ticketing app on Mumbai suburban section," a WR official said.
"The awareness drives conducted last year resulted in tremendous increase in active users of the UTS app from 7,96,401 recorded on March 31, 2018 to a whopping 18,58,961 active users as on January 27, 2019.
"It means that 10,62,560 users or passengers availed the facility of the UTS app in the last 10 months from April 2018 to January 2019, which means 3,541 users were added everyday," the official said.
He said that 29,847 tickets were sold through the UTS app on January 25, 2019 in the suburban section of Mumbai division, whereas the average ticket sale for the month of December 2018 was 22,576 tickets per day.
The official said using this app, all sorts of unreserved and season tickets can be booked both paperless and paper ticket through ATVM or booking window.
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Akinwunmi Ambode, Lagos State governor, on Thursday revealed strategies being adopted towards moving the state from mega city to smart city, just as he said that his administration has put in place policy framework for a technology-driven land administration and mapping, tax administration and justice administration.
In a release signed by Habib Aruna, his chief press secretary, Ambode disclosed this at an international conference held at Eko Hotels and Suits as part of activities marking the Lagos@50 celebrations with the theme: “Towards A Smart City: Preparing For The Next 50 Years Of Prosperity.”
The governor said the government has completed modalities for the take-off of the digital switch, all of which he said would come on stream in the coming months.
He acknowledged that for the State to be prosperous in future and occupy its pride of place among city states, concerted efforts must be geared towards equipping the youth with technological and educational skills they can use to develop solutions to challenges.
He said the future prosperity of Lagos is dependent on how well the young ones are equipped technologically and educationally, adding that in line with such, the State Government was already focusing on driving growth through key areas such as ICT, transportation, ease of doing business and tourism.
While alluding to the theme of the conference, Governor Ambode said if Lagos must become a Smart City, the next 50 years of the State must cut out a path to create a framework for leaders that are not only visionary but also inspirational with passion for development.
“Obviously, this gathering is not about what we have done or what we ought to have done. I am quick to add, that, there is so much yet to be done. Yes, we are always in agreement that the interplay of THINK, PLAN AND ACT is a sure recipe to success; but the practice and process are not fully picked up in textbooks or lectures. Leadership must have passion and commitment for vision before it can be delivered as a product.
“The next fifty years must cut out a path for us to create a framework for leaders that are not only visionary but also inspirational with passion if Lagos must become a Smart City.
“Our State has made this commitment which has the potential to improve lives of our citizens, expand economic opportunities and access to critical public services. The Smart City initiative is Lagos Urban Development vision to integrate all sectors of governance into one box of growth and development – through efficient service delivery to each citizen.
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Brisbane 2 October 2013. With more than 60 per cent of Queensland in drought and the dry weather continuing, Agriculture Minister John McVeigh has declared part of the Longreach Regional Council area drought stricken, effective from 1 September 2013.
“This takes the number of local government areas drought declared to 26, including eight partially declared areas,” Mr McVeigh said.
“There are also 39 Individually Droughted Properties (IDP) declarations in place in an additional seven local government areas.”
The area of Longreach Regional Council now declared is bounded to the east by the Thomson Developmental Road and the Landsborough Highway.
Mr McVeigh said there had been very little rainfall across that portion of the Longreach Regional Council area since March.
“Water runoff has been very limited and many dams are either dry or have limited supply,” he said.
“There has been insufficient rain to promote pasture growth during the winter months and pasture conditions are very poor.
“Livestock conditions are falling, especially as breeders are now calving and widespread drought feeding is happening throughout the area.
“Producers in drought declared areas can apply for the Drought Relief Assistance Scheme (DRAS) which the Premier and I announced in May of this year.
“DRAS provides up to 50 per cent freight subsidies on fodder and water while an area is drought declared, and freight subsidies for restocking and returning from agistment after the drought declaration is revoked.
“DRAS now also provides a rebate of 50 per cent for water infrastructure purchased to meet emergency animal welfare needs.
“The Newman Government will provide up to $20,000 (excluding GST) to drought declared producers under DRAS each financial year.”
Mr McVeigh said producers who weren’t in the declared areas but believed their properties were facing drought conditions should contact the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) on 13 25 23 to apply for an Individually Droughted Property (IDP) declaration.
“Some landholders in the newly drought declared areas will have already received their full land rent notices in the mail. These producers will also receive an adjustment notice from the Department of Natural Resources and Mines taking into account a rebate on any land rent increases from 2012/13 to 2013/14.”
Producers wanting to apply for DRAS should contact the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry on 13 25 23 or access to DRAS claim forms and IDP applications can be found at www.daff.qld.gov.au
Council areas drought declared:
Balonne (part declared)
Barcaldine (part declared)
Central Highlands (part declared)
Charters Towers (part declared)
Isaac (part declared)
Longreach (part declared)
Maranoa (part declared)
Woorabinda (part declared).
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Susan O’Keeffe: Merkel’s departure provides huge challenges for Germany – and Europe
EU leaders will watch with bated breath on September 26 – nowhere more than in Ireland which has enjoyed a positive relationship with the bloc’s key member in the past decade
She was always going to be the hardest act to follow, but Angela Merkel’s departure from European politics has been so long coming that we had almost forgotten that she would actually have to go. In a matter of a few weeks, however, Germany will have chosen a new chancellor and a new government, marking a new beginning for the EU’s largest economy.
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Morrison Hotel applies to convert event spaces into more rooms
Inflation has left the Hilton-owned hotel’s meeting and wedding space underused and not financially sustainable and the hotel is now seeking permission to add an additional 16 rooms to the premises
The Morrison Hotel in Dublin, which is owned by the Hilton group, is planning to convert its meeting and wedding space into more rooms as cost inflation has rendered its events business not financially viable.
The proposal to expand the Ormond Quay hotel, which currently has 145 bedrooms spread across four floors, would add an additional 16 rooms to the premises.
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Air Tawar to Skudai Bus Guide
Bus from Air Tawar to Skudai is one of the popular bus routes especially among the locals. Passengers mainly prefer to take the bus to Skudai from Air Tawar due to its affordable price. Besides that, one can always easily check bus schedule, compare price and book bus ticket online at their convenience.
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There are few bus companies providing bus from Air Tawar to Skudai including Starmart Express and The One Travel & Tours (Five Stars Express). The total trips available for bus from Air Tawar to Skudai is around 6. The first bus departs at 9:30 AM and the last bus departs at 7:00 PM. Bus schedule available for this route is limited so passengers are adviced to book their bus tickets and secure their seats in advance online.
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If you’re looking for a cheap hotel in Puerto Villamil, you should consider visiting during the low season. You'll find cheaper accommodations in Puerto Villamil in December and November.
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Why We Chose It: These vegan cakes come in a wide variety of flavors with beautiful decorations, and many can be customized.
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Not all cakes are available for shippingOnly ships MondayThursday
This popular vegan bakery offers 20 different cake options with beautiful, on-trend decorations. Flavors include triple chocolate, crème de menthe, and vanilla-lemon with raspberry jam buttercream. While the Pasadena-based company calls attention to the fact that all of its goods are vegan, the cakes are also gluten-free. And unlike the majority of mail-order bakeries, Yvonnes allows you to add customized flavors and decorations. Depending on which cake you choose, you can opt to add berries, nuts, or jam between the layers or decorate the cake with more berries or nuts, additional sprinkles, or frosting text.
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Q.1 Which Are The Best Birthday Cakes That I Can Order?
Ans. The best-selling birthday cakes are- Chocolate Truffle, Red Velvet, Pineapple, Butterscotch, Vanilla, Heart-Shaped Cakes, Designer Cakes, & Fondant Cakes.
Q.2 Does Ferns N Petals Guarantee Fresh Birthday Cake Delivery?
Ans. We guarantee you an oven-fresh cake quality. Quality is our prime USP and we would never disappoint our customers on that aspect.
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Ans. Yes, we offer midnight & same-day delivery services for all our birthday cakes. Just notify us your desired time and we will reach the doorstep!
Q.4 Are Candles & Knives Included With Your Cake Delivery?
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Client Profile: Hoot Design Co.
Kristen Graham-Brown, owner and founder of Hoot Design Company, built her business from the ground up. The growth, perseverance, and new creative space are just tiny snippets of the lasting legacy she is carefully designing. However, when she faced some severe challenges in running her business, she turned to The Callaway Bank for help. What she found was more than a bank. She found a partner.
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She’s grown her business steadily, but no amount of growth was able to prepare her or the world for the 2020 pandemic. She had a staff to lead, business and personal bills to pay, and her bank at the time could not help her in her time of need.
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It was announced last night that Olympic rower, James Cracknell and his wife of 17-years have split.
Radio host and writer Beverley Turner, who has three children with the Olympic rower, nursed him back to health following his devastating brain injury in 2010 .
The couple released a joint statement confirming the news that their marriage had come to an end on Friday evening.
Their split comes as James prepares to become the oldest person to compete in the Boat Race next week as a part of the Cambridge University squad.
James, moved out of the London home he shared with Beverley, 45, eight months ago and has been living at the University as a mature student.
The 46-year-old is studying for an MPhil in Human Evolutionary Studies at Peterhouse College.
In a previous interview with Cambridgeshire Live , the rower explained his thesis, written in a note on his phone, is on fluctuating asymmetry.
You can read the full interview, by clicking here.
They explained they decided to separate last year and their children Croyde, 14, Kiki, 10, and Trixie, eight, remain their priority.
"We can confirm that sadly we separated last year," the statement read.
"Together, we remain committed to our amazing children, they are our absolute priority and wish people to be kind and mindful of this."
The couple faced pressure in their marriage following James's 2010 horror crash, Mirror Online reports.
While filming a show in which he cycled across America, he was hit by a fuel truck travelling at 70 mph, and suffered a devastating brain injury.
His radio-presenter wife rushed to be at his side, leaving their young children at home with family in the UK.
The gold medallist has been open about how the accident changed his personality overnight after damage to his frontal lobe.
With his family’s support, he slowly rebuilt his life, saying back in 2015 : "The biggest challenge was knowing that 80% of all people with brain injuries end up getting divorced. All I wanted to hear was Bev saying, 'You’re back'."
Beverley also hinted at strains in their marriage in an interview last year saying that they had to work hard on their relationship and wanted to stay together for their children.
"On the whole it's better for us to stay together although it is incredibly difficult.
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A friend of the couple told the Mail Online : "It always sad when a marriage breaks down and theirs is no different.
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The Joint Fiscal Office reviewed the Education Fund stabilization reserve for the House Ways & Means Committee on Wednesday. The reserve is always set at 5% of the prior year’s education spending and is meant to be used if tax revenues miss projections. It also contributes to the bond rating of the state.
Bond rating aside, the fund was described as the “$100 you keep in your checking account just in case a check bounces.” If those funds were used to buy down property tax rates for FY2025, as the Committee is examining, they would then need to be refilled in future years. Representative Canfield wondered if 5% was even enough of a reserve to being or if they should need to add to it.
Mike Pieciak joined the Committee to share some thoughts about the potential bond rating impacts. He shared we have a 5% statutory reserve requirement in the state. It’s not “excessive” but 4-8% is considered AA territory for bond rating agencies, he noted. A considerable portion of what the rating agencies look at are reserves and liquidity. It’s about 1/5 of their grading metric. He believes our bond ratings are dependent on existing reserves.
We don’t have “systematic structural approach” towards when we use reserves. However, these reserves are generally thought of as being for times of economic stress, and by almost any metric the state’s economy and the national economy are “humming along at a pretty good clip.”
It’s hard to know what the rating agencies would do, but it seems likely this would lead to a downgrade. The state issues about $1B in bonds every couple years and the increased interest rates would cost a few million dollars more over the life of those bonds. He noted that even taking $5-10M out of that $41M reserve would be viewed as “pretty significant.”
Lawrence Picus joined the Committee to discuss his 2015 adequacy study. Chairwoman Kornheiser asked him pointedly “what is adequate educational opportunity and spending.” The largest difference he has seen is the increased need for counseling services and social work. The pandemic seemed to add onto the concerns and need for that, but he wasn’t sure if the “world has changed and we now have a larger need… or revealed needs that were already there.”
There was a conversation about whether these services had actually been shifted from other venues and into schools and whether the school was the right place for these services to take place and how to fund them.
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This profile is a part of KPMG’s Philanthropists in Action case study series, which examines a number of emerging trends across the philanthropy landscape, as the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) agenda and creating social impact climb the priority list of family offices and ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNWIs) around the world.
Impactful philanthropy is a multi-dimensional puzzle that demands collaboration and powerful storytelling. Deanne Weir, an Australian investor and entrepreneur is championing and changing gender equality through both.
Weir started her philanthropic journey in 2012, creating a family foundation to provide a structured and focused approach to giving. Echoing her business interests, philanthropic activity is seen as investing in initiatives delivering community social benefit rather than economic returns.
“Anyone can write a cheque, but I prefer to be more strategic,” says Deanne. “The least satisfying philanthropic experiences have been the ones where I have simply written a cheque – it is hard to feel invested.”
Deanne’s giving adopts a thematic approach, focused on gender equality, social impact and democratic empowerment, and often encompasses all three.
Her philanthropic activity has included chairing the Australian Women Donor Network that focuses on driving more philanthropic investment into projects supporting women and girls and chairing the Grata Fund that supports strategic litigation in human rights, climate change and democracy.
She is now part of a group of like-minded philanthropists who share concerns around income equality and democracy called Mannifera. While individual members continue to focus on their own passions, they combine their efforts on key projects to deliver greater impact.
“The joy of that collective is that we regularly come together,” says Deanne. “We work in partnership with civil society, connect together and leverage our network to amplify the work we are doing. The cooperative element is interesting.
“I am particularly excited about the role of philanthropy and civil society working together. It shouldn’t be about philanthropy leading – it should be a partnership where philanthropy can do things that are a little riskier, more innovative or experimental than governments can fund.”
Storytelling is critical in both driving change and in sharing the impact of philanthropic activity. And film is, says Deanne, a particularly powerful tool to address gender inequality, race or climate change.
“When I think about social change, I can read hundreds of reports on climate change or on the evils of how girls are treated around the world,” explains Deanne. “But if I can see a film or documentary that explores some of those issues and that makes an intellectual or emotional connection, it’s going to make me think about it a heck of a lot more than a 30-page report. Film sparks conversation, communication and challenge.”
Deanne is active in the film industry and has supported several Australian documentaries through the Documentary Australia Foundation, a unique not-for-profit that facilitates tax deductible donations to documentary projects, ensuring important stories are told and seen.
One of those films, called Strong Female Lead, tells the story of Julia Gillard, Australia’s first female Prime Minister, and her experience as a female politician. It is a great example of how philanthropy can contribute a great deal to a much-needed conversation.
Storytelling is also an important tool for reporting the impact philanthropy makes.
“I am very conscious of the burden that some donors put on organisations in terms of reporting,” says Deanne. “It drives me insane to watch fantastic organisations spend 50 per cent of their time reporting instead of delivering the great work they want to do. When funding a project, I’d love to have a call and talk through how it is going than read a written report.
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I took most of 2019 off from hanging work, to mostly focus on creating new pieces and on building classes. And well, If you know me, then you know that when I set my mind to something goodluck convincing me otherwise:) I've managed to convince myself to spread my work around like the colorful happy canvas confetti that it is.
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Columbia City Hall Exhibition; Columbia SC, Feb/March 2020
USC's Southern Exposure Concert Series; Columbia SC, Feb 2020
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We have been at yoga school for several days now, and are three days deep into our gastro-intestinal cleanse. This means, most simply, that we ate two apples per meal on the first day, one apple per meal on the second, and today we are restricted to water and tea. We’ll finish the cleanse off tomorrow by drinking a gallon of salt water and doing yoga until our stomachs are empty.
Sound like fun? Well, I can safely say that I have now lost all energy and can’t wait for a large pizza tomorrow afternoon.
Yesterday, after our afternoon meditation session, we decided, as a group, to visit a new center that the Sadhana owners are opening a few kilometers away, which will focus on silent yoga and meditation. (I’m practicing silence today, and it is strangely soothing to not have to talk and entertain). We began hiking up the hills to get to the new location in extreme heat and humidity, and about 30 minutes in, my body told me to stop. I had depleted energy from the cleanse, and the climb would really have been too difficult.
So the rest of the group hiked on, and I sat for a while and watched the lake. And I sat. And I sat. And then, suddenly, I really had to go to the bathroom.
I thought that I could figure out how to get back to the retreat on my own, so I started hiking down the hill. But one road and a rice paddie later, I was completely lost. In fact, I got so turned around that I ended up an entire town away. And in this town, no one spoke English.
So with no phone, no money, and about two sips of water left in my water bottle, I started hiking back until one of the staff members found me (apparently they had launched a search). And by this point, I had to poop on the side of the road, so I was a literal and figurative mess.
As I made my last few painful, hot, thirsty steps back, I saw Andrew a few meters away, and as I usually do when I see him after a stressful experience, I began to cry. He held me and kissed me and poured a bottle of cold water on my head. And then he took me to our room and washed me in the shower.
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What time is Love Island 2023 on tonight and what channel is it on?
16 January 2023, 10:43 | Updated: 16 January 2023, 12:03
Maya Jama announces twist for Love island bombshells
Here's everything you need to know about the upcoming series of Love Island.
Love Island is back on our screens, with more singletons looking for love on the hit reality show.
Fronted by new host Maya Jama, the Winter series of Love Island is back in South Africa as nine hopeful singles embark on their quest to find love.
So, what time does the series start and what channel is it on? Here's all we know about Winter Love Island 2023.
Love Island kicks off on Monday 16th January from 9pm, and the first episode features brand new host Maya arriving to the villa via helicopter!
Maya greets the boys and says, "Hello boys, you alright, shall we have a little chat?" as the first coupling takes place.
The 2023 Winter series airs on ITV2 and ITVX, and will be available on ITVX to stream in case you miss it.
The first episode has been long-awaited, with the contestants meeting for the first time.
Will it be love at first sight for any islanders and who will couple up with whom?
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- Robert De Haan (Richardson Racing) and Glenn Van Parijs (August by NGT) win one race each
- Aaron Mason (Revs Motorsport) and Sacha Norden (GP Elite) make it in PRO-AM and Cedric Chassang (GP Elite) takes the double in AM.
Hockenheim, 11 June 2023. The second meeting of the Porsche Carrera Cup Benelux could not take place in a more beautiful setting than the Festival of Dreams in Hockenheim. In addition to the two exciting competitions of the fastest one-make cup in the Benelux, the fans of the birthday Porsche brand were offered a lot of other motorsport, heritage and experience. From a sporting point of view, it was the two winners of the races in Spa who once again took the top podium: Robert De Haan (Richardson Racing) in the first race and Glenn Van Parijs (August by NGT) in the second. De Haan is now just the leader in the championship, ahead of Van Parijs. The Porsche Carrera Cup Benelux will head to Zandvoort on 24 and 25 June for the third meeting of the season, before a summer break follows.
The Festival of Dreams at the Hockenheimring was an important part of Porsche's 75th anniversary celebrations. Thousands of Porsche drivers were present with their beautiful cars and tens of thousands of enthusiasts of the brand enjoyed a full program that focused on the rich history and fascination of Porsche. Of course the races were an essential part of the weekend, because motorsport is an important factor in the brand experience.
During qualifying we saw Flynt Schuring (Huber Racing) take his first pole position in the Porsche Carrera Cup Benelux. De Haan followed at 0.222 seconds, Ariel Levi (Huber racing) was third fastest, followed by Rik Koen (Revs Motorsport), Dirk Schouten (Q1 Trackracing) and Glenn Van Parijs. Cédric Chassang (GP Elite) qualified as best AM rider in twelfth place, Sacha Norden (GP Elite) was fastest PRO-AM rider in sixteenth.
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On Saturday, the participants in the Porsche Carrera Cup Benelux were clearly looking forward to a very animated competition. After half an hour of tension, the victory went to the barely 16-year-old talent from the Netherlands, Robert De Haan, ahead of Ariel Levi and Glenn Van Parijs. After a good start, Robert De Haan took the lead, partly after pole man Flynt Schuring retired with a puncture. At the front, De Haan then drove a clear race, with Glenn van Parijs and Ariel Levi just behind him who swapped places in the end. Behind the top 3, Paul Meijer finished fourth in the Hans Weijs Motorsport Porsche, ahead of Dirk Schouten and newcomer Bertrand Baguette (August by NGT). The victory in PRO-AM was for Aaron Mason (Revs Motorsport) and in AM Cedric Chassang (GP Elite) won.
The second race of the Porsche Carrera Cup Benelux meeting in Hockenheim went to Glenn Van Parijs, following five-second penalties for Robert De Haan and Flynt Schuring, respectively, for track limits and an incorrect grid position. As a result, the third man on the line, Glenn Van Parijs, could sign for his second victory of the season. Sam Dejonghe (Red Ant Racing) took his first podium of the season. Behind the podium, Flynt Schuring was fourth ahead of Bertrand Baguette. The victory in PRO-AM was this time for Sacha Norden and in Am again Cedric Chassang won.
“I am very pleased after this incredibly beautiful weekend, both sporty and extra sporty,” said Olivier Aerts, the Series Manager of the Porsche Carrera Cup Benelux. “I think it is an honor to be part of the wonderful celebration of Porsche here at the Festival of Dreams in Hockenheim. It is a token of appreciation for our organisation, but also for our drivers, teams and partners. Together we will continue on the chosen path, with Zandvoort (24-25 June) as the next stop, during the Dutch round of the renowned DTM, so another great weekend!” | <urn:uuid:c75c2176-7500-40c7-a5c1-dcf1e2774da9> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.carreracupbenelux.com/post/intense-races-of-the-porsche-carrera-cup-benelux-during-the-festival-of-dreams-in-hockenheim | 2024-04-13T21:57:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.936503 | 1,040 |
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Mercado Bitcoin APK: What is it and how to use it?
If you are interested in investing in cryptocurrencies and digital assets, you might have heard of Mercado Bitcoin, one of the largest and most reputable platforms in Latin America. But did you know that you can also access Mercado Bitcoin from your smartphone or tablet using an APK file? In this article, we will explain what Mercado Bitcoin APK is, how to download and install it, how to buy and sell cryptocurrencies with it, and how it compares with other similar apps. Let's get started!
Cryptocurrencies are digital currencies that use cryptography to secure transactions and control the creation of new units. They are decentralized, meaning that they are not issued or controlled by any central authority, such as a government or a bank. Some of the most popular cryptocurrencies are Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Ripple.
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Digital assets are any type of asset that exists in a digital form, such as tokens, NFTs (non-fungible tokens), fan tokens, and DeFi (decentralized finance) products. They can represent various things, such as art, music, sports, games, or financial services.
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What is Mercado Bitcoin?
Mercado Bitcoin is one of the largest and most trusted cryptocurrency platforms in Latin America. It was founded in 2013 in Brazil and currently has more than 3.8 million customers who can trade more than 200 assets. Mercado Bitcoin offers a variety of services and features for its users, such as:
Features and benefits of Mercado Bitcoin
Multiple payment methods, such as bank transfer, credit card, PIX (instant payment system), or TED (electronic transfer)
Access to various types of digital assets, such as cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, MBRL), NFTs (non-fungible tokens), tokens (ERC20), fan tokens (Corinthians, Atlético Mineiro, Paris Saint-Germain), and DeFi (decentralized finance) products
How to create an account on Mercado Bitcoin
To start trading on Mercado Bitcoin, you need to create an account on their website or app. The process is simple and fast. Here are the steps:
Fill out the form with your personal information, such as name, email, phone number, and password
What is Mercado Bitcoin APK?
Mercado Bitcoin APK is an alternative way to access Mercado Bitcoin from your Android device. APK stands for Android Package Kit, which is a file format that contains all the elements of an app. You can download and install APK files from third-party sources, such as websites or file-sharing platforms.
Mercado Bitcoin APK allows you to enjoy all the features and benefits of Mercado Bitcoin on your smartphone or tablet, such as buying and selling cryptocurrencies and digital assets, checking prices and charts, managing your portfolio and wallet, and accessing customer support. However, you need to be careful when downloading and installing APK files, as they may contain viruses or malware that can harm your device or compromise your data.
How to download and install Mercado Bitcoin APK
If you want to use Mercado Bitcoin APK on your Android device, you need to follow these steps:
How to buy and sell cryptocurrencies with Mercado Bitcoin APK
Buying and selling cryptocurrencies and digital assets with Mercado Bitcoin APK is easy and fast. Here are the steps:
Comparison of Mercado Bitcoin APK with other apps
Mercado Bitcoin APK is not the only app that allows you to trade cryptocurrencies and digital assets on your mobile device. There are other apps that offer similar or different features and services. Here are two examples of other popular apps in the market:
CoinMarketCap: Crypto Tracker
CoinMarketCap is one of the most popular and trusted sources of information about cryptocurrencies and digital assets. It provides data such as prices, market capitalization, volume, supply, charts, news, events, and more. You can also create watchlists, alerts, portfolios, and compare different assets. However, CoinMarketCap does not allow you to buy or sell cryptocurrencies directly. You need to use another platform or app for that.
MB Mercado Bitcoin
MB Mercado Bitcoin is another app developed by Mercado Bitcoin that offers a different user interface and experience than Mercado Bitcoin APK. It has a more modern and minimalist design, with a focus on simplicity and usability. You can also buy and sell cryptocurrencies and digital assets with MB Mercado Bitcoin, as well as access other features such as charts, news, tutorials, support, and more. However, MB Mercado Bitcoin does not support all the types of assets that Mercado Bitcoin APK does. For example, you cannot trade NFTs or fan tokens with MB Mercado Bitcoin.
Mercado Bitcoin APK is a great option for anyone who wants to trade cryptocurrencies and digital assets from their Android device. It offers a variety of features and benefits that make it one of the best platforms in Latin America. You can download and install Mercado Bitcoin APK from a reliable source and start trading in minutes. However, you should also be aware of the risks and challenges of using APK files, such as security and compatibility issues. You should also compare Mercado Bitcoin APK with other apps that offer similar or different features and services, such as CoinMarketCap or MB Mercado Bitcoin, and choose the one that suits your needs and preferences best.
Is Mercado Bitcoin APK safe and reliable?
Mercado Bitcoin APK is safe and reliable as long as you download it from a trustworthy source and follow the installation instructions carefully. Mercado Bitcoin is one of the most reputable and secure platforms in Latin America, and it complies with all the legal and regulatory requirements of the market. However, you should always be careful when downloading and installing APK files from third-party sources, as they may contain viruses or malware that can harm your device or compromise your data. You should also use a strong password and enable two-factor authentication for your account to protect it from unauthorized access.
What are the fees and limits of Mercado Bitcoin APK?
Mercado Bitcoin APK charges different fees and limits depending on the type of asset, transaction, and payment method you use. Here is a table that summarizes some of the fees and limits of Mercado Bitcoin APK:
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Free for bank transfer, PIX, or TED; 1.99% for credit card
1.99 BRL for bank transfer, PIX, or TED; not available for credit card
50 BRL for bank transfer, PIX, or TED; 10 BRL for credit card
No limit for bank transfer, PIX, or TED; 10,000 BRL per day for credit card
What are the supported cryptocurrencies and digital assets on Mercado Bitcoin APK?
Mercado Bitcoin APK supports more than 200 types of cryptocurrencies and digital assets, including:
Cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), MBRL (stablecoin pegged to BRL), and more.
NFTs: Non-fungible tokens that represent unique digital items, such as art, music, sports, games, etc.
Tokens: ERC20 tokens that run on the Ethereum network, such as Chainlink (LINK), Uniswap (UNI), Aave (AAVE), etc.
Fan tokens: Tokens that represent the fandom of a sports team or a celebrity, such as Corinthians (SCCP), Atlético Mineiro (GALO), Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), etc.
DeFi: Decentralized finance products that offer various financial services without intermediaries, such as lending, borrowing, trading, etc.
How to contact Mercado Bitcoin customer support?
If you have any questions or issues with Mercado Bitcoin APK, you can contact their customer support team via chat, phone, or email. Here are their contact details:
Chat: You can access the chat option from the app or the website by clicking on the "Help" button at the bottom right corner of the screen.
Phone: You can call their phone number at +55 11 3230-4500 from Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Brasília time).
Email: You can send an email to their address at [email protected] and expect a reply within 24 hours.
How to update Mercado Bitcoin APK?
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The booming market for slot games in East Asia has created all kinds of weird and wonderful games, to Western eyes at least, that may not make a lick of sense to non-native gamers but are still great fun to play.
108 Heroes is exactly that, and while the intricacies of the story might be lost on you, it’s hard not to appreciate the excellent visuals and the exciting gameplay, or even just the decent payouts and generous bonuses! So is 108 Heroes coming to save you, or is it a letdown? Let’s find out in our 108 Heroes review.
Set against a backdrop of serene cherry blossoms and the interior of a grand Chinese palace, 108 Heroes introduces us to a vibrant cast of characters all drawn from Medieval Chinese legend, including muscle-bound warriors, angry-looking pirates, savage warrior women and axe-wielding monks. It’s fair to assume that these guys are the heroes from the title, and they certainly mean business.
The characters on screen represent the high paying symbols, while the lower-paying icons are represented by the standard 9 – A symbols given a red and gold makeover. As you might expect, there is also a cheerful traditional Chinese soundtrack in the background to further set the scene.
I hope you’re sitting down for this next bit because we’ve got some big numbers to throw at you. The top-paying symbol, a warrior in golden armour, pays 2500x your stake while the second highest paying symbol grants 1250x your stake. That’s pretty good, and with the betting limit set at a fairly high £/€/$75, that’s an awful lot of cash on its own, but then comes the ‘108 Heroes’ wild. Five of these symbols in a line will net you a mind-boggling 37,500x your stake, while even four will get you 10,000x what you originally bet. Betting at maximum and that’s a whole lot of cash! No wonder the RTP is a generous 96.56%!
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The 5×4 reel slot layout allows the board to really shine with some unique looking symbols, but the backdrop never loses its shine either. There are 178 ways to walk away with a victory in The Wiz slot game and that, in itself, is enough of a reason to celebrate.
ELK have gone all out with the theming and you can see that through the symbols with the following making an appearance: spoons, keys, brooches, rings, potions, moons, treasure chests and the all-important sun.
The return to player (RTP) percentage is important and we all know why by now, as it can determine whether or not you find consistent success or failure within the context of your gaming experience. The Wiz slot game isn’t immune to that kind of scrutiny with the reported RTP coming in at between 96.01% and 96.10%. That’s considered to be slightly below the standard average but with medium volatility, with some suggesting it could even be ranked as “high”, this one really is quite unpredictable with regards to your possible earnings.
You can bet with a nice range of money here from a minimum stake of 20p to a maximum of £100, and with potential winnings of 5,000x your initial stake on the table, you really don’t have that much to lose.
As mystical as the setting of this slot actually is against the back of an almighty Hogwarts-esque castle, we also think the soundtrack makes it quite relaxing – as if we’re heading out on some kind of quest.
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Single malt scotch whisky has enjoyed a long running reign as the undisputed champion of the spirits world and it’s strength is expected to persist into the foreseeable future. Exports of single malt scotch have continued to experience robust growth since 2000 and this growth does not appear to be slowing.
The Scotch Whisky industry alone generated more than USD $7.37 billion in revenue in 2019 and exports continue to grow with the United States market importing over USD $1.47 billion of Scotch in 2019, and other countries across Asia and America seeing outstanding rises in whisky demand. If the demand for scotch whisky continues to grow, which we expect and distilleries struggle to ramp up production to meet that demand, the need for casks of matured liquid will only continue to increase across the industry.
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Scotch whisky investment has consistently been recognized as one the world’s leading tangible asset classes. In the 2019 Knight Frank Wealth Report, an index of the top 100 rare Scotch Whisky bottles was recognized as the leading investment class of the year.
The returns associated specifically with scotch whisky casks are also robust, with capital growth exceeding 12% per annum on average. One of the most powerful aspects of Scotch Whisky casks is their resilience to market volatility and downturns in the broader economy. Throughout economic cycles, Scotch whisky casks have continued to generate consistent returns for investors.
As the chart demonstrates, capital growth remains strong for investments in Scotch whisky casks.
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Deep neural network-based image compression (NIC) has achieved excellent performance, but NIC method models have been shown to be susceptible to backdoor attacks. Adversarial training has been validated in image compression models as a common method to enhance model robustness. However, the improvement effect of adversarial training on model robustness is limited. In this paper, we propose a prior knowledge-guided adversarial training framework for image compression models. Specifically, first, we propose a gradient regularization constraint for training robust teacher models. Subsequently, we design a knowledge distillation based strategy to generate a priori knowledge from the teacher model to the student model for guiding adversarial training. Experimental results show that our method improves the reconstruction quality by about 9dB when the Kodak dataset is elected as the backdoor attack object for psnr attack. Compared with Ma2023, our method has a 5dB higher PSNR output at high bitrate points.
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Object-goal navigation is a challenging task that requires guiding an agent to specific objects based on first-person visual observations. The ability of agent to comprehend its surroundings plays a crucial role in achieving successful object finding. However, existing knowledge-graph-based navigators often rely on discrete categorical one-hot vectors and vote counting strategy to construct graph representation of the scenes, which results in misalignment with visual images. To provide more accurate and coherent scene descriptions and address this misalignment issue, we propose the Aligning Knowledge Graph with Visual Perception (AKGVP) method for object-goal navigation. Technically, our approach introduces continuous modeling of the hierarchical scene architecture and leverages visual-language pre-training to align natural language description with visual perception. The integration of a continuous knowledge graph architecture and multimodal feature alignment empowers the navigator with a remarkable zero-shot navigation capability. We extensively evaluate our method using the AI2-THOR simulator and conduct a series of experiments to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our navigator. Code available: https://github.com/nuoxu/AKGVP.
Tensor network structure search (TN-SS), aiming at searching for suitable tensor network (TN) structures in representing high-dimensional problems, largely promotes the efficacy of TN in various machine learning applications. Nonetheless, finding a satisfactory TN structure using existing algorithms remains challenging. To develop more effective algorithms and avoid the human labor-intensive development process, we explore the knowledge embedded in large language models (LLMs) for the automatic design of TN-SS algorithms. Our approach, dubbed GPTN-SS, leverages an elaborate crafting LLM-based prompting system that operates in an evolutionary-like manner. The experimental results, derived from real-world data, demonstrate that GPTN-SS can effectively leverage the insights gained from existing methods to develop novel TN-SS algorithms that achieve a better balance between exploration and exploitation. These algorithms exhibit superior performance in searching the high-quality TN structures for natural image compression and model parameters compression while also demonstrating generalizability in their performance.
A modern deep neural network (DNN) for image classification tasks typically consists of two parts: a backbone for feature extraction, and a head for feature encoding and class predication. We observe that the head structures of mainstream DNNs adopt a similar feature encoding pipeline, exploiting global feature dependencies while disregarding local ones. In this paper, we revisit the feature encoding problem, and propose Non-glObal Attentive Head (NOAH) that relies on a new form of dot-product attention called pairwise object category attention (POCA), efficiently exploiting spatially dense category-specific attentions to augment classification performance. NOAH introduces a neat combination of feature split, transform and merge operations to learn POCAs at local to global scales. As a drop-in design, NOAH can be easily used to replace existing heads of various types of DNNs, improving classification performance while maintaining similar model efficiency. We validate the effectiveness of NOAH on ImageNet classification benchmark with 25 DNN architectures spanning convolutional neural networks, vision transformers and multi-layer perceptrons. In general, NOAH is able to significantly improve the performance of lightweight DNNs, e.g., showing 3.14\%|5.3\%|1.9\% top-1 accuracy improvement to MobileNetV2 (0.5x)|Deit-Tiny (0.5x)|gMLP-Tiny (0.5x). NOAH also generalizes well when applied to medium-size and large-size DNNs. We further show that NOAH retains its efficacy on other popular multi-class and multi-label image classification benchmarks as well as in different training regimes, e.g., showing 3.6\%|1.1\% mAP improvement to large ResNet101|ViT-Large on MS-COCO dataset. Project page: https://github.com/OSVAI/NOAH.
The deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to well-designed adversarial attacks. The most successful defense technique based on adversarial training (AT) can achieve optimal robustness against particular attacks but cannot generalize well to unseen attacks. Another effective defense technique based on adversarial purification (AP) can enhance generalization but cannot achieve optimal robustness. Meanwhile, both methods share one common limitation on the degraded standard accuracy. To mitigate these issues, we propose a novel framework called Adversarial Training on Purification (AToP), which comprises two components: perturbation destruction by random transforms (RT) and purifier model fine-tuned (FT) by adversarial loss. RT is essential to avoid overlearning to known attacks resulting in the robustness generalization to unseen attacks and FT is essential for the improvement of robustness. To evaluate our method in an efficient and scalable way, we conduct extensive experiments on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and ImageNette to demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art results and exhibits generalization ability against unseen attacks.
Surgical tool segmentation and action recognition are fundamental building blocks in many computer-assisted intervention applications, ranging from surgical skills assessment to decision support systems. Nowadays, learning-based action recognition and segmentation approaches outperform classical methods, relying, however, on large, annotated datasets. Furthermore, action recognition and tool segmentation algorithms are often trained and make predictions in isolation from each other, without exploiting potential cross-task relationships. With the EndoVis 2022 SAR-RARP50 challenge, we release the first multimodal, publicly available, in-vivo, dataset for surgical action recognition and semantic instrumentation segmentation, containing 50 suturing video segments of Robotic Assisted Radical Prostatectomy (RARP). The aim of the challenge is twofold. First, to enable researchers to leverage the scale of the provided dataset and develop robust and highly accurate single-task action recognition and tool segmentation approaches in the surgical domain. Second, to further explore the potential of multitask-based learning approaches and determine their comparative advantage against their single-task counterparts. A total of 12 teams participated in the challenge, contributing 7 action recognition methods, 9 instrument segmentation techniques, and 4 multitask approaches that integrated both action recognition and instrument segmentation.
Classifying hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is a critical step in treatment selection and prognosis evaluation for patients with liver diseases. Traditional histopathological diagnosis poses challenges in this context. In this study, we introduce a novel polarization and radiomics feature fusion network, which combines polarization features obtained from Mueller matrix images of liver pathological samples with radiomics features derived from corresponding pathological images to classify HCC and ICC. Our fusion network integrates a two-tier fusion approach, comprising early feature-level fusion and late classification-level fusion. By harnessing the strengths of polarization imaging techniques and image feature-based machine learning, our proposed fusion network significantly enhances classification accuracy. Notably, even at reduced imaging resolutions, the fusion network maintains robust performance due to the additional information provided by polarization features, which may not align with human visual perception. Our experimental results underscore the potential of this fusion network as a powerful tool for computer-aided diagnosis of HCC and ICC, showcasing the benefits and prospects of integrating polarization imaging techniques into the current image-intensive digital pathological diagnosis. We aim to contribute this innovative approach to top-tier journals, offering fresh insights and valuable tools in the fields of medical imaging and cancer diagnosis. By introducing polarization imaging into liver cancer classification, we demonstrate its interdisciplinary potential in addressing challenges in medical image analysis, promising advancements in medical imaging and cancer diagnosis. | <urn:uuid:b8c422a1-9c8c-4ec7-8a11-98bf3d4b871b> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.catalyzex.com/author/Chao%20Li | 2024-04-13T21:27:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.897761 | 2,690 |
New Details In Man Accused of Facilitating Sex Crime
Waukesha Police say at the end of January, 73-year-old James Swanson, a former assistant Fire Chief with the Middle Inlet Fire Department in Marinette County used social media to contact a profile of a 15-year-old girl, controlled by an undercover police officer.
Sgt. Gerald Habanek with Waukesha PD says over the course of a couple of weeks Swanson and the profile exchanged messages.
Swanson, who owns his own photography company, allegedly sent pictures to the 15-year-old profile stating he took all kinds of photographs including nudes. He even asked the undercover profile if she had ever taken any nude selfie's.
The four-page criminal complaint filed in Waukesha County shows the conversation became even more sexual.
On February 14, Swanson contacted the profile again saying he would be in the area for work the next day and they should meet up.
"We said why are we meeting with you and he said well I'd like to bring you a sex toy and I'd like to photograph you using it," said Sgt. Habanek
When Swanson arrived at the meeting location he was arrested.
“He was found with a digital camera a sex toy and his cell phone he had purchased to speak directly with this 15-year-old profile," said Sgt. Habanek.
Police served a search warrant at Swanson’s home in Crivitz on Thursday. They are still combing through evidence but believe more victims are out there. If you have any information you are urged to call Waukesha Police. | <urn:uuid:60f09880-ec14-4dd5-a51c-90e1d547d0cf> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.cbs58.com/news/new-details-in-man-accused-of-facilitating-sex-crime | 2024-04-13T23:04:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.985547 | 340 |
Today on Inside Automotive, we’re pleased to welcome back Alan Haig, President and Founder of Haig Partners, to give us his perspective on the industry right now on the heels of a successful AutoTeam America Buy/Sell Summit and Dealer/CEO/CFO Forum at NADA. We’ll also take a look at Haig Partners’ recently released Q4 2021 Haig Report.
One of the hot button issues discussed at the Summit was inventory supply. The data suggests that manufacturers will have to ver-produce for the next two and a half to three years to catch up with the normal level of consumer demand. In light of this, many people have asked Haig — How long will valuations stay this high? After looking at the production supply balance, Haig thinks the industry will see elevated margins and profits for at least the next two years.
The first quarter of 2022 has the same excellent conditions as the end of 2021, says Haig. In fact, Q1 2022 is outperforming Q1 2021. The biggest concern Haig sees is not a lack of demand, but the compounding effects of low inventory supply. Many auto dealers are responding to this by raising their prices higher than MSRP. Others have committed to selling at MSRP, however, supply constraints are becoming even tighter.
The M&A market, on the other hand, continues to build momentum. In Q4 of 2021, buy/sell activity exploded, says Haig. Over 640 rooftops traded hands last year, by far the most he’s ever seen. Value has also gone up significantly for car dealerships. The public companies spent around $9 million acquiring dealerships last year. Prior to the pandemic, they were acquiring on average 25-30 stores per year. Last year, that number jumped to 220.
Privately-owned dealer groups are also very active in M&A. They bought 35% more stores in 2021 than they did pre-pandemic. So far, 2022 has a similar environment, and Haig Partners is on pace for another robust year.
“The volume of buyers continues to expand,” says Haig. “And people that might have, a little bit, on the fence before the pandemic — they weren’t sure if there was a recession coming, now they’re seeing their profits blow up.”
The significant increases to dealers’ bottom lines are really what is driving higher valuations, explains Haig. Some franchises are doing better than others. For example, Toyota is one of the most desirable, if not the most desirable brand right now. Korean brands have appreciated in value as well.
On the luxury side, Haig says Tesla has taken a large market share away from luxury brands. Tesla is also making inroads further east into the U.S. However, brands like Mercedes-Benz and Audi are heavily investing in EVs to compete with the likes of Tesla and Rivian.
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Solidarity Mission to Haiti: Observations on the process of reconstruction
Saturday, January 14 2012From December 14 to 21, 2011, the President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Richard Smith of Edmonton, and the CCCB Vice President, Archbishop Paul-André Durocher of Gatineau, were part of a Solidarity Mission to Haiti. Following this recent visit, the CCCB President sent a letter to the Bishops of Canada together with a complete report titled CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF HAITI: SUMMARY OF OBSERVATIONS. Among the observations are a number of positive reflections on the work in Haiti by the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace. For example, under Section 5, the report states:: “No Haitian Bishop or representative of a Haitian Church agency during the December 2011 solidarity visit raised any question or doubt about the partners and programs in which Development and Peace is involved.”
Also as of today, Development and Peace has released a two-year progress report on its work in Haiti (found on its website http://www.devp.org/), while the Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, has also made a statement on Canada’s work there, and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has made a commitment to settle 5,000 Haitian families. The two latter texts are available on the CIDA website, http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/home.
Archbishop Smith and Archbishop Durocher were accompanied on their solidarity visit to Haiti by Development and Peace Executive Director Mr. Michael Casey, its Latin America and Caribbean Programs Officer Mr. Normand Comte, and its communications officer Mr. François Gloutnay, as well as CCCB Assistant General Secretary Mr. Bede Hubbard. | <urn:uuid:9fe1423b-caa3-43d0-ae25-de244c433531> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.cccb.ca/media-release/solidarity-mission-to-haiti-observations-on-the-process-of-reconstruction/ | 2024-04-13T21:37:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.956663 | 389 |
Testing in BCG-Vaccinated Persons
Many people born outside of the United States have been given a vaccine called BCG.
People who were previously vaccinated with BCG may receive a TB skin test to test for TB infection. Vaccination with BCG may cause a false positive reaction to a TB skin test. A positive reaction to a TB skin test may be due to the BCG vaccine itself or due to infection with TB bacteria.
TB blood tests (IGRAs), unlike the TB skin test, are not affected by prior BCG vaccination and are not expected to give a false-positive result in people who have received BCG. TB blood tests are the preferred method of TB testing for people who have received the BCG vaccine. | <urn:uuid:1eca5584-3487-4636-b3aa-c119df49a76f> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.cdc.gov/tb/topic/testing/testingbcgvaccinated.htm | 2024-04-13T23:14:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.975672 | 152 |
Since several months, there are important fires in Australia. Fortunately, it is raining since several days but it’s now time to rebuild what have burnt. We believe that everyone can help and save our planet in their own way.That’s why CE+T Power starts today a campaign to help Australia’s rebuilding. All employees are invited to contribute and the total amount will be donated to an Australian NGO.
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Are you planning to tie the knot soon? Congratulations! As you embark on this exciting journey together, one of the first decisions you'll make is choosing the perfect wedding style that reflects your personality and sets the tone for your big day. If you're looking for a trend that perfectly blends rustic charm with contemporary elegance, look no further than the modern ranch-style wedding. Gone are the days when weddings were confined to ballrooms and banquet halls. Today's couples are embracing the beauty of the great outdoors, and the ranch-style wedding is stealing the spotlight for all the right reasons. Alexis and Colin absolutely stunned in September 2023 at Chapel Creek Ranch... Scenic Beauty: Picture exchanging vows against the backdrop of rolling hills, lush greenery, and expansive blue skies. Ranch venues offer breathtaking natural scenery that serves as the ideal canvas for your special day. Whether you're saying "I do" under the Outdoor Gazebo or dancing the night away under a blanket of stars, the picturesque setting will create unforgettable memories for you and your guests. Rustic Elegance: The modern ranch-style wedding effortlessly combines rustic elements with sophisticated touches. Think reclaimed wood accents, vintage furniture, and delicate floral arrangements against a backdrop of rugged beauty. This aesthetic creates a warm and inviting atmosphere that exudes charm and elegance in equal measure. Versatility: One of the biggest perks of a ranch-style wedding is its versatility. Whether you're dreaming of a casual outdoor affair or a more formal event, ranch venues offer flexibility to accommodate your vision. From intimate gatherings to grand celebrations, you can customize every aspect of your wedding to suit your style and preferences. Outdoor Activities: Ranch venues often provide opportunities for outdoor activities that can enhance your wedding experience. From Cigar Bars to wine tasting and Sparkler Send-offs, you can incorporate unique elements that reflect your interests and passions as a couple. These activities not only add fun and excitement to your wedding festivities but also create lasting memories for you and your guests. Exclusive Experience: Unlike traditional wedding venues, ranches offer a sense of exclusivity and intimacy that is hard to replicate elsewhere. With sprawling acres of private property at your disposal, you can enjoy a sense of seclusion and privacy on your special day. This allows you to focus on each other and celebrate your love surrounded by the people who matter most to you. So what are you waiting for? The modern ranch-style wedding is a perfect blend of rustic charm, natural beauty, and contemporary elegance. Whether you're drawn to the scenic landscapes, the rustic yet refined decor, or the versatility and exclusivity of ranch venues, this trend offers something for every couple seeking a unique and unforgettable wedding experience.
So, if you're ready to say "I do" in style, let Chapel Creek Ranch bring your modern ranch-style wedding into reality like Alexis and Colin, September 2023. After all, life's greatest adventures are meant to be shared, and what better way to begin your journey together than amidst the beauty of a ranch-style wedding? Photos: Anna Smith Photography Summer weddings in Texas are known for their vibrant atmosphere and unique charm. However, the scorching heat can pose a challenge if you're not adequately prepared. To help you plan a spectacular summer wedding in the Lone Star State, we've compiled a list of ten essential tips that will ensure a memorable and comfortable celebration.
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The cownose ray is a brown, kite-shaped ray with a long, whip-like tail. It is a highly migratory species along the Atlantic Coast that visits the shallow waters of the Chesapeake Bay in summer each year to give birth and mate.
The cownose ray's kite-shaped body has a wingspan of up to three feet and can weigh as much as 50 pounds. It varies in color from brown to olive green with a whitish belly and a long, brown tail that looks like a whip. Its squared, indented snout resembles a cow’s nose.
Cownose rays are opportunistic feeders, eating whatever is available. In the Chesapeake Bay, they eat mostly softshell clams, macoma clams and razor clams, but they will eat oysters and hard clams when available.
They find their prey by flapping their fins against the bottom to uncover buried shellfish, then using their powerful dental plates to crush the shells open. Although recent diet studies have shown that oysters and hard clams were not found to be large parts of the cownose ray's diet, intensive feeding on oysters or clams can occur.
Cobia, bull sharks and sandbar sharks are known predators of cownose rays.
Reproduction and Life Cycle
Mating takes place in June or July each summer. After mating, male cownose rays leave the Bay while females stay until October. After an 11-month pregnancy period, females give birth to a single live young, called a pup, in mid-June the following summer. At birth, pups are about 11 to 18 inches long. After birth, mating occurs and the cycle begins again.
Did You Know?
Cownose rays have been referred to as an invasive species, when in fact they are not.
The cownose ray is sometimes called a “doublehead” because of the indentation around its snout.
This ray swims by flapping its fins like a bird. As it swims, the tips of the fins break the surface and can look like shark fins. Many “shark” sightings in the Bay are actually cownose rays.
Cownose rays are have venomous spines at the base of their tails. Captain John Smith learned about the cownose ray’s spine the hard way. During his 1608 voyage he was stung so severely that his crew thought he was going to die. The site on the Rappahannock River where he was stung is still known today as “Stingray Point.”
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As a landlord, should you allow pets in your rental property? We hear this question every day and, of course, there are pros and cons to this decision.
Before I answer the question, I will tell you that we see a huge trend in millennials owning pets. Some statistics say that it is as high as 76%. So, if you say no to all pets, you are cutting off 3/4 of your rental market.
"Another thing that the millennial generation is keenly interested in is rental properties that accept pets. With more than 3/4 of millennials as pet owners, they will definitely gravitate to a place that allows pets."
Wow! This is a very different trend then we saw 10-15 years ago when only about 1/5 of applicants had pets.
Of course, any decision to accept pets is totally up to you. We have some landlords with high end hardwood floors or very special decor and they absolutely do not want pets. And we respect that decision completely.
Consider Tenant Pets on a Case-by-case Basis
But for most of our landlords, they do not have these high end upgrades and we advise them to consider pets on a "case by case" basis. Dogs and cats are not a "protected class" and, therefore, our landlords can pick and choose which breeds, sizes, pets they are comfortable with.
- We always reject dangerous breeds as there is too much liability for the landlord and for us, the property managers. Dangerous breeds include pitt bulls, rottweilers and more. In our application, there is a section on pets where we ask for the breed, the size, the age, photos and sometimes even references for the pet(s).
- And in our leases, we ask for additional pet deposits and sometimes even add on a pet fee to the monthly rent. We discuss all of this with the landlord when we are reviewing the pros and cons of each application.
Is there risk associated with accepting pets? Yes. But we can certainly limit your liability exposure a lot by doing our due diligence and papering the transaction thoroughly and property. By taking detailed notes and photos of the home before the lease starts, we can compare the condition of the home before and after the lease and hold the tenant responsible for any damages beyond "normal wear and tear."
We also require our tenants to have tenant insurance and they are held responsible for all liability in the event their pet injures another. According to our corporate attorney, the landlord will only be responsible if the landlord "knows that the dog is dangerous and continues to allow that dog on the property." Fortunately, we have never managed a home with a dangerous dog and hope that we never do so.
We want our tenants to have a great experience with Chesapeake Property Management, Inc. and we treat them respectfully using our win/win philosophy. In turn, they trust us and usually tell us when they may be considering a pet or if they have specific pet questions or issues. This open communication style is imperative to a positive lease and management experience for all parties.
By choosing a property management company with excellent and detailed systems in place, the choice to accept a pet should not greatly increase your risk of damage. Of course, the decision is up to you and you should definitely speak with your insurance company so that you make the most educated decision possible.
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St Andrew's Methodist Church is located in Aston, making it very close to the Cheshire/Shropshire boundary.
The church was built in 1866 as a Wesleyan Methodist Church.
In 1985 it was decided to combine Dodd's Green Church with Aston Methodist Church, and to completely refurbish the Aston building.
It was re-opened in April 1987 under its new name of St. Andrew's Methodist Church. Our mission here is to be open to all people of any age who wish to explore faith and grow together the Christian faith, in a welcoming and nurturing community.
Morning worship takes place every Sunday at 11.00 am.
There is a monthly Forget-me-not Bereavement cafe for informal chat and mutual support on the last Wednesday of each month – 2.00 – 3.30pm.
We hold Lent lunches on Fridays during Lent – from 12.30. This offers soup whilst we reflect on
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Couples who want to remain together but require different levels of care always present some very complicated challenges. One person may want to stay in the home, the other may not. A member of a couple may develop health challenges that may necessitate a move to a nursing home due to medical and financial reasons. I always show people the costs of both stay-at-home care and moving to a community. The problem with the latter is that many communities are not set up to accommodate different levels of care. A community’s capacity to handle multiple levels of care depends upon the way its apartments are licensed. Some communities are capable of handling residents who are on the independent level and who need assisted living (standby care and some hands on care with bathing, dressing, eating, toileting, transferring, and walking), often referred to as “swing apartments” because they are licensed to accommodate people at both levels. The situation becomes more complicated when one person needs nursing home care and the other remains at the independent or assisted level. Nursing home care requires yet another level of licensing which doesn’t allow couples to remain together unless their health issues require it. (For example, a person who is independent cannot occupy a nursing home room with his/her spouse unless s/he too needs the care). I recently worked with a couple who needd help sorting through these issues, as exemplified in the following real life story.
REAL LIFE STORY
My clients were the children of parents in the Chicago metro area who were in their early seventies (clients who were much younger than those I normally work with). Their parents were living in a lovely home with an urban setting. Their mother had been suffering from a disease that caused recurring seizures every few years. The latest bout with the disease caused her to be sent home with a full-time, non-medical caregiver who was costing them $350 per day. Their mother needed help with most of her activities of daily living, but could feed herself and walk with a walker. Their father, on the other hand, was independent. The caregiver was also preparing their meals, doing light housekeeping, and running errands. The children hired me because they lived in a suburb more than 20 miles away from their parents and were busy with their own families. They wanted their parents to move to the same suburb. In addition, they were uncomfortable with the existing home care arrangement because they felt there was no ongoing support system in case their mother became more ill. They were not comfortable with the “live in” situation and preferred to order a lesser number of hours if possible. The cost of maintaining the home plus the home care services was becoming prohibitive. The parents had been married for 50 years and wanted to remain together as long as possible. The dad was not social and wanted to “do his own thing.” During rehabilitation, the mom had enjoyed art therapy classes, such as water color painting, and music appreciation classes. I was instructed to find a community that would allow the couple to continue their current living situation, with a continuing care support system, in the kids’ suburb, with opportunities for socializing for their mom. I was able to come up with three options in their requested location.
First, I was able to find a luxury independent living community that contracted with a home care company to provide non-medical catered* living assistance and nursing services to the residents living in the building. The company had an office in the building and offered the flexibility of ordering ala carte services as needed, as well as service packages. Or, the couple had the option of hiring their own services. Therefore, they could age in place as long as their finances allowed. A certain number of meals and housekeeping were included in the rent, eliminating the need for a full-time, live in assistant. The activities my clients’ mom requested were available. The community is operated by an organization that owns a nursing home with both skilled and intermediate care services, less than four miles away. Priority access to the nursing home was guaranteed to the building residents.
The second option offered the couple an opportunity to move to a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC).** If they chose this option, they would be able to move to a sizable apartment in the assisted living area where they could remain together. My clients’ mother would have access to higher level, hands-on assisted living care. However, their father would be given an option to pay a small entrance fee as an independent resident and partake of the community’s Life Care contract.*** Unfortunately, their mother would not be offered this sort of contract since she was already ill. Both of their long-term care needs could be addressed as they aged. The nursing home on the campus is connected to the entire building by an underground tunnel which makes visiting easy if one of them needs to move.
Is there a down side to this option. Yes! Their father would have to make a decision as to whether he would eat his meals in the assisted living area with his wife, an be surrounded by residents who were at a higher level of care than himself. Or, he could opt out of the meal program and eat his meals on his own. Such decisions, while perhaps seemingly minor to some readers, underscored the many changes and sacrifices the couple would be making as they prepared to leave their longtime home. Thus, there were real tears and heart-wrenching moments as we worked together to identify the solution that would be optimal for both husband and wife.
Last, I identified a rental community that offered “swing apartments.” This meant that an independent living apartment was also licensed to handle assisted living residents needing standby assistance and some reasonable hands on care. There would be no need to hire a non-medical agency for the man’s wife, and he could remain independent. Another advantage was that if the father ever needed assisted living, they would not have to change apartments.
The only drawback was that this community did not have a nursing home. If one of them became sick, s/he would have to move. As this was the least expensive option, and they may never need a nursing home, I was obligated to show them this alternative.
Perhaps I have made an excessively complicated task sound easy. This is only because as a senior living advisor I have knowledge of the communities that have flexibility to deal with these issues and deliver good quality care in a preferred location. Let me help you and your loved ones too!
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Now that the RMRK Hackathon is drawing to a close, I have some time to make the case for why RMRK, Kanaria, and Singular together are a strong bet for mass adoption in the new year. I got started with RMRK just over a month ago with my Dalmatian Nation collection. The decision to list my NFTs with Singular has changed my life.
To set the scene a little bit, let's get a few definitions out of the way. Polkadot is the next-generation blockchain pioneered by Gavin Wood, Ethereum co-founder and ceaseless innovator. Its purpose is to allow different blockchains to communicate with each other and transfer value trustlessly. I like to describe Polkadot with a Lord of the Rings analogy: it's the blockchain to rule all blockchains—like Golem's ring, but for crypto. It acts as a technological hub that allows other chains to prosper side by side. These additional blockchains are called para-chains, and they are leased to startups for periods of 6 months of up to 2 years. It's a fascinating concept and has created a lot of excitement in crypto circles as many thousands of individual investors have staked their personal stash of tokens in support of diverse projects that range from data credential innovators kilt.io to 3d metaverse pioneers bit.country in what is called a crowdloan. But there is one permanent chain in the Polkadot ecosystem: that chain is Kusama. It is the alpha chain for Polkadot, so new para-chain hopefuls try out their ideas on Kusama first, while other innovate directly on the Kusama blockchain without having a need to bid for their own para-chain. That brings us to RMRK (pronounced remark), the 'NFT legos.'
What is RMRK?
RMRK was founded by Web3 Foundation alumnus Bruno Skvorc, a blockchain developer and serial inventor from Croatia. His vision for RMRK was to extend the usability and composability of the existing NFT ecosystem and push the boundaries of what is possible. The Singular marketplace is RMRK's answer to OpenSea and has brought together an exceptional group of artists and collectors under the banner of individuality and personal expression. As the Polkadot para-chain landscape evolves and permutates at a dizzying speed, RMRK, Singular, and the Kanaria birds are here to keep us grounded and focused on the mission: which is to build the brave new world of Web 3.0 on equal pillars of community, inspiration, and technology.
Exhibit 1: Kanaria
What is Kanaria? The world's first NFT Launchpad framework began as a proof of concept for the RMRK 2.0 platform, which allows NFTs to 'own' other NFTs. Kanaria birds were first released as eggs, and came in 4 different 'tiers' of Limited, Rare, Founder, and Super Founder. They were offered as a fundraising tool for the RMRK team, and although they didn't all sell out, they came pretty close, and at this point we can safely say it was a resounding success. At initial prices of 100 KSM for the Founder eggs, 20 KSM for Rare, and 2 KSM for Limited Edition eggs, the funds that were raised from this sale figured out roughly at a minimum of 40,000 KSM (KSM is the native token of the kusama blockchain) - and at today's market rates that adds up to about 15 million dollars. The original owners of these Kanaria birds were 'fairdropped' RMRK tokens when those were launched, which just adds to the fact that getting in on the Kanaria sale, in hindsight, was one of the biggest crypto plays in recent memory. But even now, it can be hard to explain to someone why NFTs are such a big thing. To me the entire story of RMRK, Kanaria, and Singular is emblematic of exactly why the evolution of NFTs is and will continue to be a generation-defining event. It's like the birth of the internet all over again. Kanarias will have an important part to play in the metaverse that RMRK is getting ready to launch next year.
TL;DR: With the rapid rise of RMRK, Singular, and the Polkadot para-chain ecosystem, we are witnessing a major cultural, technological, and financial watershed.
The importance of the next 12 months cannot be overstated. If you are not at least a little bit excited, you are not paying attention. There is a tremendous amount of opportunity in this space, which I will cover in just a moment. But for now, let's talk about what the future holds.
Exhibit 2: The Road Map
RMRK is already ahead of their competitors with the RMRK 2.0 platform, which allows for composable NFTs—like their Kanaria birds—which are capable of owning other NFTs, which then allows for further nesting (forgive the pun) of yet more NFTs in a way that is unprecedented. No one else can claim this kind of feature set. Kanaria birds come with up to 5 'slots' for gems, along with 5 more levels of accessory (2 wings, head, chest, and foreground) as well as a slot for the background. And, at least in theory, any NFT that is equipped in any of these places itself could be made of other NFTs, although in practice at the moment I don't see that be the case—yet. The launch of RMRK 2.0, which will bring the Kanaria feature-set to the existing creator hub of Singular, will probably happen before the end of the year. And that release, in turn, will transform the entire Singular ecosystem from a niche OpenSea competitor to an unparalleled pioneer in the Web 3.0 space. In the new year RMRK will be leading the way as a bridge between the existing red-hot zeitgeist of 'dumb' NFT trading and the next elephant in the room: the metaverse.
Much of the allure of RMRK's commitment to cutting-edge innovation comes from laying the groundwork for future creators to take advantage of. The possibilities that can come from this combination of NFT flexibility and blockchain inter-operability are stunning. Many exciting new projects are already underway that involve bridging assets from RMRK and kusama onto other para-chains. But RMRK also has a bold plan for the future of their own platform which involves creating a world where the resources for minting new NFTs will be farmed in-game by staking Kanaria birds. Kanaria NFTs will not only serve as a gateway to the RMRK metaverse, but will also offer important in-game rewards. Not all of the details have been released yet, but one thing is for sure: the RMRK token will play a pivotal role in this deflationary ecosystem—where creators will pay a small fee in RMRK tokens to mint new assets, while players and collectors will pay with RMRK to rent or buy space in the metaverse.
Exhibit #3: Investment
It's no secret that the ascendance of crypto in recent years has made a small number of people very rich. Anyone who was smart enough to make the right bets with $10,000 on coins like Ethereum or Bitcoin just a few years ago could easily be a millionaire by now. The trick is figuring out which coin is the next Ethereum. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but a few of the easiest bets right now for strong growth in the next year are: $KSM, $DOT, $MOVR, $RMRK, and $KILT. But beyond the idea of financial rewards, I think it is important to look at the future in a slightly different way: what if money is not enough? What else do we need to be happy? What other kind of investments can we make?
I love what the future looks like because early movers like RMRK and Polkadot are building a new technological ecosystem with decentralization as one of its core precepts. This could allow for the evolution of the metaverse—in general, as a concept, and specifically with regard to the world that RMRK is building as you read this—as the font of community and connection that the world desperately needs right now. Every user that logs off of Facebook and Youtube and puts down their XBox controller and instead engages with this new digital ecosystem in whatever way makes sense to them—as creator, spectator, gamer, or investor—will be rewarded with the ability to make a real difference in how it evolves. That to me, is the chance of a lifetime.
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The History of the Judicial Branch
With a rich history that spans back to the 1800s, the Choctaw Nation Judicial Court system has seen many changes over the years, culminating with the opening of our new Judicial Center. Learn the history and celebrate the future of our proud Choctaw Nation judiciary heritage.
The History Of The Choctaw Nation Court System
The Choctaw Nation Court system, implemented in 1832, continues to deliver a sustainable system of justice for our citizens. As the Choctaw Nation has grown, the Judicial Branch has grown with it, serving citizens with a judiciary process dedicated to fair justice with integrity and compassion.
Our Judicial Department Then & Now
Built in 1884 on the Choctaw Nation historical capitol grounds in Tvshka Homma, Oklahoma, the original Council House still stands today as a representation of our proud history.
The new Choctaw Nation Judicial Center, located in Durant, Oklahoma, opened in March 2019. Designed to pay tribute to the look of the original Council House, the Judicial Center is fully modernized with the latest technology and security. It houses three courtrooms, offices for justices, court officials and associates, and additional rooms for new and existing programs of the Judicial Branch.
The History of Our Judicial Branch
The history of the Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma began in 1820 when tribal leaders in central Mississippi signed the Treaty of Doak’s Stand, leading to the Choctaw people being removed to Oklahoma. In 1838, the Choctaw reestablished their government by adopting a new constitution. At that time, the Choctaw Nation was divided into three districts: Apukshunnubbee, Mushulatubbee, and Pushmataha. Chiefs of the three districts formed an executive branch, a legislative branch via a representative council, and a judicial branch.
The Judicial Branch of Today
The Choctaw Nation Judicial Branch has undergone many changes in the years following its establishment. Through it all, the Judicial Branch has remained a voice for the people, carrying forth many of the traditional Choctaw values while offering citizens a safe place to seek justice.
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How has race and intersectionality impacted your life?
I’m Asian American and female. Being female brings its own special set of unique circumstances and challenges, even within the Asian American community. Intersectionality, interestingly, also affects different communities within the “Asian American” group. I’m American, and as a second generation Filipina American, I have different experiences than, let's say, a first generation Korean American or third generation Japanese American. The challenges differ based on ethnic groups and immigration status.
The intersection of race and gender has affected the way I see power, and how power works in my interactions with others. And depending on what context I'm in, as an educator, I can also see all of this at work. I advise an Asian American student group at my school, for example, and it's interesting to see the ways in which Asian American female students have different struggles compared to the Asian American male students. Both of these groups require a different type of care and compassion when unpacking their different identities.
Why is talking about race in the subject(s) you teach necessary?
The way we read and respond to texts is firmly rooted in our identities.
Once you're in the classroom, I think teaching intersectionality is critical. You need your students to become critical thinkers; we need them to think with complexity. No one is ever one thing. My students listen to podcasts, read articles, and they’re just very engaged with identity work. Seeing and understanding the complexity of intersectionality will prevent them from forcing each other into bite-sized headlines or stereotypes.
Overall, unpacking identity through a critical lens is part of everything that I do as an English teacher. It’s critical literacy. I believe that the way we read and respond to texts is firmly rooted in our identities. The more that we can understand what makes us who we are, and really unpack who we are, in the sense of how we've been socialized, the better we can understand our responses to texts—whether those texts are pieces of fiction, poetry, or even the news.
What was it like teaching this lesson or unit plan?
I chose poetry, as opposed to prose. That tricky interpretation work is what we do with people every day.
I think poetry can be one of the most accessible and also inaccessible genres for kids. For some students, I think it’s accessible because poetry is often lyrical, beautiful. It really packs the punch in terms of teaching kids about word choice and poetic devices. And, you know, there's just so much to unpack in every line. Plus, it’s in a nice, small package. On the other hand though, it can be inaccessible because oftentimes they look at it, sort of like when they might see a painting in a museum, and they feel like they're supposed to have one right answer about it. Or there's some deeper meaning that they haven't yet discovered. But that’s similar to the way we look at people, too, right? So that's one reason I chose poetry, as opposed to prose. That tricky interpretation work is what we do with people every day.
Also, the poems that I selected are ones that are representative of voices that are not always seen or heard in a traditional English classroom. There's a lot of talk about knowing the “canon.” And typically when people talk about the canon, they're speaking about books like Shakespeare, Hawthorne, and Fitzgerald or whoever. But poetry can capture voices, especially for students of color, that are similar to ones we don’t hear often. It’s a different mechanism through which students are able to express their voices more freely, as opposed to a personal narrative, for example.
Students responded very well to my lesson. Sometimes personal, real lived experiences are missing in an English literature class. Fiction can be real, too, don’t get me wrong, but nonfiction has a different kind of solidity. Tell Me Who You Are has real people who are speaking their truth. Kids can relate to that, especially kids who may not feel comfortable or have ever felt comfortable speaking their truth. In TMWYA, they can have a mentor. Adding poetry to this just adds another access point for them. It all works really well together.
What would you like to tell any educator looking at your work right now?
How do I help bring back these kids if they're experiencing my class, or my teaching, from the margins?
One of the most important things we can do as educators is to really think about who is sitting in our classrooms. So much of anti-racist work is built on relationship building. You can only build relationships with people when you know them. As an educator, I ask myself every day how, in the next forty-five to sixty-five minutes, am I building trust? In what ways? Am I showing kids that they can trust me so that they can speak their truth, so that they can show up at home and in the classroom authentically? And when I say whole and authentically, I'm especially thinking about kids who might experience marginalized identities in the classroom. How can I think about which students have the most marginalized experience? Or for whom is what I'm doing the least successful for? And then ask myself, how do I help bring back these kids if they're experiencing my class, or my teaching, from the margins? How do I recenter my instruction to invite them in and to build that trust? And I say this, especially for students, again, who have marginalized identities and students of color, but I also think about students who are White. I'm also responsible for them as an educator, so how can I hold space for them to unpack who they are, too? So building dialogue, being able to talk across the difference really requires intentional and patient relationship building. I would encourage educators to really think about prioritizing relationships first, not just between you and the students, but between the students themselves. That should come over everything.
Tricia Ebarvia'S Lesson plans:
TYPE: Lesson (full class) TITLE: Identity Through Poetry and Prose CONTENT AREA: English and Language Arts
GRADE LEVEL(S): 9th-12th Grade
UNIT DESCRIPTION: In this lesson, which can be spread out over 1-2 class periods, students will make connections between poetry (Alberto Rios’ “A House Called Tomorrow”, Jacqueline Woodson’s “February 12, 1963”, and Chen Chen’s “When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities”) and prose (essays from TMWYA) in order to deepen their understanding of how our past experiences (related to family, history, culture, race, etc.) affect our identities.
After identifying connections and common themes, students will reflect on how the texts and themes apply to their own identity and experiences through writing.
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Restaurant owners interested in scaling their business are met with a variety of avenues to explore. While each comes with its own distinct set of advantages and hurdles, being cognizant of these opportunities empowers restaurant owners to make informed decisions and lay the groundwork for their business’s growth. Five effective ways to secure funding and drive the expansion of your restaurant include:
Seeking funding from family and friends
The most common method of funding the expansion of a restaurant is raising equity from family and friends who share in the restaurant’s vision. With this approach, you are able to maintain complete control over the business and you avoid accruing interest and fees. However, it is important to acknowledge potential drawbacks, such as the strain it may place on personal relationships and the fact that everyone does not have substantial capital, which may limit your access to funds and hinder the rate at which you can grow. -
Partnering with individuals for capital, expertise, or resources
Another way to obtain funding for a restaurant is through a partnership where you share the risks and rewards of running the business. A partnership allows those involved to leverage each other's networks and reputations, amplifying the restaurant’s reach and credibility. While this form of funding often provides the most flexibility in balancing risks, rewards, rights, and obligations, it is essential to recognize the potential tradeoffs. This includes sharing decision-making power and the distribution of profits, which can give rise to conflicts or disagreements among partners. -
Exploring bank loans
Traditionally, well-established restaurants with robust business plans use bank loans as a source of financing for expansion. Banks particularly feel more comfortable lending to franchised brands. With bank loans, restaurants can borrow money from a bank or other financial institution and gradually pay it back with added interest. Typically, bank loans offer competitive advantages, such as lower interest rates and extended repayment terms, setting them apart from other options. However, securing a bank loan often entails providing collateral, making guarantees, and meeting strict eligibility criteria. -
Considering selling a stake in your business for private equity funding
Private equity funding is a form of financing that involves relinquishing a portion of ownership in your restaurant to investors who expect high returns and exponential growth potential. Private equity investors are generally only looking at opportunities that already produce operating cash flows of $2 to $5 million. Private equity investors are drawn to brands with rapid momentum and scalability. By opting for private equity funding, you can gain access to substantial capital and leverage the investors’ expertise and connections. Conversely, private equity funding requires giving up significant ownership and control over your business and introduces heightened pressure to meet lofty expectations and performance targets. -
Utilizing support offered by local associations
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Citrin Cooperman’s Restaurants and Hospitality Industry Practice is skilled in helping clients assess options to drive growth and achieve their strategic goals. If you are looking to expand your restaurant business and would like to discuss funding strategies, reach out to Bob Gilbert at [email protected] or your Citrin Cooperman advisor.
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In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that patients cannot sue their health maintenance organization under state law for refusing to pay for medical treatment recommended under a doctor’s care.
The decision ruled that a 1974 federal law, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, completely pre-empted such lawsuits brought in state court by patients who seek damages from their HMOs over the denial of medical care, according to Reuter’s.
The court ruling involved a law in Texas that allowed patients to sue HMOs over their medical treatment. The cases are Aetna Health Inc. v. Davila, and Cigna Healthcare of Texas Inc. v. Calad.
According to Reuter’s, the decision is a victory for insurers, which claim that lawsuits drive up the cost of health-care. Millions of Americans participate in employer-provided HMO health plans governed by the 1974 federal law. State laws have become more of a target because Congress has been unable to pass national legislation that would allow patients to sue HMOs in federal court for medical malpractice. At least nine other states — Arizona, California, Georgia, Maine, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Washington, and West Virginia — have laws similar to the Texas one.
“We are pleased with the Court’s decision. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), which was at the heart of this case, has for many years helped to ensure that participants in health benefit plans have numerous protections, including access to quick resolution of any coverage disputes through internal and external appeals processes,” said CIGNA HealthCare in a statement.
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A bevy of stock brokerages, hedge funds and clearinghouses worked together to strip non-professional individual investors of their right to control their investments amid last week’s social media-driven price increases, a proposed class action alleges.
The 53-page antitrust complaint filed Monday alleges the following defendants, through a “large, overarching conspiracy,” aimed to prevent the market from operating freely and stop the hemorrhaging of any more money after their highly speculative short-selling strategies for certain stocks were hijacked by amateur investors:
Ally Financial Inc.; Alpaca Securities LLC; Cash App Investing LLC; Square Inc.; Dough LLC; Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC; E*Trade Securities LLC; E*Trade Financial Corporation; E*Trade Financial Holdings, LLC; eToro USA Securities LLC; Freetrade, LTD; Interactive Brokers LLC; M1 Finance, LLC; Open to the Public Investing, Inc. (Public.com); Robinhood Financial, LLC; Robinhood Markets, Inc.; Robinhood Securities, LLC: IG Group Holdings PLC; Tastyworks, Inc.; TD Ameritrade, Inc.; The Charles Schwab Corporation; Charles Schwab & Co. Inc.; FF Trade Republic Growth, LLC; Trading 212 Ltd.; Trading 212 UK Ltd.; Webull Financial LLC; Fumi Holdings, Inc.; Stash Financial, Inc.; Barclays Bank PLC; Citadel Enterprise Americas, LLC; Citadel Securities LLC; Melvin Capital Management LP; Sequoia Capital Operations LLC; Apex Clearing Corporation; and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation. The plaintiffs, non-professional investors in California, allege the companies listed above have violated federal antitrust laws, in particular Section 1 of the Sherman Act and Section 16 of the Clayton Act, in addition to state antitrust and consumer protection statutes.
Rather than use their financial acumen to compete and invest in good opportunities in the market to recoup the loss in their short positions the growth in the Relevant Securities’ prices represented, or paying the price for their highly speculative bad bets, Defendants instead hatched an anticompetitive scheme to limit trading in the Relevant Securities.”
The suit relays that the extent and scope of the defendants’ alleged conspiracy is yet unknown and may be ongoing, even in the face of increased regulatory and customer scrutiny.
Tell me more about the lawsuit.
First, some background.
Per the suit, many retail investors share information on market observations on Reddit, Facebook and TikTok, aiming to help “like-minded peers” benefit from what they’ve learned. As retail investors and other non-professionals continued to buy up shares of certain stocks last week—namely GameStop, AMC Theaters, American Airlines, Bed Bath & Beyond, Blackberry, Express, Koss, Naked Brand Group, Nokia, Sundial Growers, Tootsie Roll Industries and Trivago—the defendants found themselves caught in a classic “short squeeze,” the lawsuit, filed in California’s Northern District, says.
According to the complaint, a short squeeze occurs when a stock or some other asset rises sharply in value, straining what are called “short positions,” which essentially amount to bets that certain shares will sink in value. In a short squeeze, short sellers stare down “increased and theoretically limitless loss,” and eventually must decide whether to buy back the stock, which would increase its value, to mitigate losing money, the suit relays. In the event short sellers buy back certain stocks, known as “exiting” their short positions, the re-purchasing of the stock continues to increase its price, the case states.
As the lawsuit tells it, the defendants, after the close of the stock market on January 27 and before the market’s open the following day, “coordinated and planned” increased short volumes (that is, the number of shares that have been borrowed to open short positions) in anticipation of short calls on January 28.
To accomplish this, the brokerage defendants—companies like Robinhood, E*Trade and TD Ameritrade, who operate trading websites and mobile apps—disabled all buy features on their platforms, which left retail investors no options other than to sell or hold onto their “rapidly dwindling” stocks, the case says. Per the suit, this was done by the brokerage defendants to ensure that stock prices for the dozen stocks listed above went down.
According to the suit, some of the brokerage defendants displayed loading graphics on the landing pages for the stocks to prevent users from buying any more shares. Faced with an imminent drop in the price of their positions in the stocks due to their inability to buy more shares, the plaintiffs and proposed class members were “induced” to sell their shares at “a lower price than they otherwise would have,” the lawsuit alleges.
Consequently, the defendants intentionally placed retail investors between a rock and a hard place, while at the same time artificially reducing the value of certain stocks, in an effort to stop their own financial bleeding, the suit relays. From the complaint:
By doing so, the Defendants and their co-conspirators forced Retail Investors to choose between selling the Relevant Securities at a lower price or holding their rapidly declining positions in the Relevant Securities. Defendants did so to drive the price of the Relevant Securities down.”
It all started with GameStop
As of early 2019, the value of GameStop stock was as low as $3 per share. Retail investors deduced correctly that GameStop, a brick-and-mortar store that had been regularly paying off its debts and now facing the release of the next generation of gaming consoles, was being undervalued as a result of large financial institutions taking sizeable short positions, or essentially betting on GameStop’s failure.
“Due to GameStop’s low stock price, the Retailer Investors correctly determined GameStop represented a good investment opportunity,” the case says.
Soon thereafter, the stock of companies like Nokia drew the attention of retail investors with regard to share valuation and anticipated performance, the suit goes on. Appropriately, non-professional investors bought “long” positions, which are generally held onto with the expectation that their price will rise, in the companies, including stocks, option contracts and other securities, the lawsuit reads.
At the other end of the spectrum, the institutional investors, such as the hedge fund defendants, acquired massive “short” positions on certain stocks, betting that the shares would plummet in price, the suit states. A short position holder profits by way of the difference between the sell price and the buy price.
For example, a short seller borrows a share of Company X (for a fee) from a broker which is presently valued at $10. The short seller immediately sells the share and waits for the value of the share to drop. The share price then falls to $4. The short seller then purchases the share at the reduced value of $4 and returns it to the lender and earns the difference of $6.”
Defendant Melvin Capital was one such short seller who bet big on the failure of GameStop stock, shorting approximately 140 percent of the company’s total shares, the lawsuit says. A hiccup in the Citadel Securities subsidiary’s plan, however, was that retail investors, driven by Reddit’s r/wallstreetbets, bought long positions in GameStop, creating a “short squeeze,” according to the case.
The lawsuit summarizes what came next:
The tremendous growth in the Relevant Securities’ stock price resulted in significant and potentially disastrous exposure of institutional investors, and hedge funds, including the Fund Defendants and their co-conspirators holding short positions in the Relevant Securities.
Defendant Citadel Investments, for example, holds a significant interest in Defendant Melvin Capital (who had the illegal naked 140% short position) and was forced to inject around $3 billion along with another fund, Point72, to bailout Melvin Capital from its distressed short position.
In essence, small Retail Investors concluded that institutional investors had severely undervalued the Relevant Securities by shorting them, presenting a good investment opportunity. By investing in the undervalued Relevant Securities, the Retail Investors were outfoxing Wall Street at its own game.”
Who’s covered by the lawsuit?
The case looks to cover all persons or entities in the United States who directly bought securities in GameStop Corp. (GME); AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. (AMC); American Airlines Group Inc. (AAL); Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (BBBY); BlackBerry Ltd (BB); Express, Inc. (EXPR); Koss Corporation (KOSS); Naked Brand Group Ltd. (NAKD); Nokia Corp. (NOK); Sundial Growers Inc. (SNDL); Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. (TR); or Trivago N.V. (TRVG) from one or more of the companies listed above between January 1, 2021 through and until the alleged anticompetitive effects of the defendants’ unlawful conduct cease.
Can I join the lawsuit?
There’s really nothing you need to do to join or be considered a part of most class action lawsuits. Cases like these almost always take a while to work their way through the legal system, usually toward either a settlement or dismissal. This means it might take a bit before the time comes for those who are covered by a lawsuit—called “class members”—to submit claims for whatever compensation the court deems appropriate.
It’s generally only if and when a proposed class action settles that you’d need to take action, unless you’re interested in serving as a lead plaintiff.
How do I stay in the loop?
ClassAction.org will update this page with any new developments, so be sure to check back regularly. To have class action lawsuit news sent to your inbox, sign up for our free weekly newsletter here.
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A suicide car bomber targeting a Canadian military convoy killed 35 civilians at a busy market in southern Afghanistan, a police official said.At least 28 people were wounded in the attack in Spin Boldak, a town in Kandahar province near the border with Pakistan, said Abdul Razeq, the Spin Boldak border police chief. Three Canadian soldiers were lightly wounded, he said.
The attack comes one day after Afghanistan's deadliest bombing since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. More than 100 people were killed by a suicide bomber outside Kandahar city on Sunday.
The back-to-back bombings could indicate a change in tactics by militants. Though attacks occasionally have killed dozens, insurgents in Afghanistan have generally sought to avoid targeting civilians.
Anyone think the targeting of the Canadians is accidental? Yeah, me neither.
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Frances “Frannie” Demapan joins the AG’s office
The CNMI Office of the Attorney General is proud to announce and welcome Ms. Frances T. Demapan as assistant attorney general. She joins the prosecution team of the criminal division where she will serve as traffic prosecutor.
Ms. Demapan began her career as a research associate at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Environmental Law Program in 2013, and most recently, served as law clerk for the United States District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.
“We are excited to have Ms. Demapan join our team,” says Attorney General Edward Manibusan. “She will be a great asset and I firmly believe that she will be a valued resource for the people we serve,” concludes AG Manibusan.
A graduate of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Ms. Demapan earned her Juris Doctor from the William S. Richardson School of Law in 2015. In 2010, Ms. Demapan obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University where she majored in English and American Literature.
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Mill Creek Park
24670 Tehama Vina Road
Los Molinos, CA 96055
Mill Creek Park is located approximately 1.5 miles west of Hwy 99E in Los Molinos, approximately 16 miles south of Red Bluff and approximately 10 miles east of Corning. The park sits on 33 acres and is situated along the eastern bank of the Sacramento River with mature trees to provide ample shade. The park has river access via a public Boat Ramp with daily vehicle and boat trailer parking. There is no overnight parking or camping allowed within the park.
The park has 4 picnic areas which can be reserved. On the east side of the park the East Circle is ADA compliant and has 6 picnic tables, 1 group BBQ grill and 2 individual BBQ grills and is located near the softball fields with easy access to the new restroom facility and Playground area. There are also 3 Horseshoe Pits on this side of the park, however, you will need to bring your own equipment.
The west side of the park has the BBQ Area and with the large block BBQ grill can accommodate larger groups. The West Picnic area has 5 picnic tables and a group BBQ grill and is situated adjacent to the Play Court area. The west side area also has an ADA compliant restroom facility, ADA parking and is located near the boat ramp.
There are picnic tables and small BBQ grills placed throughout the park and these areas do not require reservations and are available on a first come first serve basis.
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What are Civil Rights?
Civil rights, as described here, are certain inalienable rights a U.S. citizen is born with that protect them from discrimination based on their age, sex, race, or religion. They are the rights of individuals to receive equal treatment and the equal pursuit of freedom and expression in a number of settings, including education, employment, housing, public display, and much more.
Civil rights are not only a fight for our African-American community, but a fight for every race, creed, and religion who feels discriminated against. If you feel you have ever been denied employment, refused service, or treated unfairly because of your religion, sexual identity, economic class, or the color of your skin, please, give us a call.
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When you come to register a private limited company, one of the first questions you’ll face is whether you should entrust the operation of a private company registration to a solicitor or to the best company formation agent.
There are endless companies advertising on the internet to form a company immediately, for next to no money, so why should you go to a solicitor?
Well there are a number of reasons, even if you end up taking the middle road and combining a trip to the solicitor with a company registration agent. At Coddan CPM, we actually recommend this course of action․
A solicitor will take the time to talk you through a company registration and the connotations involved. Their time is relatively expensive, but then if a solicitor gives you one piece of information that helps you along the road of a company formation then it is surely money well spent․
When you have finished an appointment with a solicitor and talked through all your concerns then you will have more confidence to launch your organisation and you will have the peace of mind that goes with knowing you have looked at all the options.
Some company formation agents are scrupulous and will take the time to truly understand your activities and suggest alternative structures to help you make the most of your income and minimize tax, among other things. Others will not, and will simply take the money, carry out your instructions and leave you out there on your own․
You will need a solicitor or an accountant at some stage after the company formation process, too, to witness documents and to amend the memorandum and articles of association. Therefore, it can be cost-effective to combine this process with a general meeting to ensure you understand the responsibilities and potential penalties if you fail to adhere to them.
A company formation agent is a specialist who in helping businesses to form and register. They can take care of all of the paperwork and administration involved in the process, and they can to ensure that your company is formed correctly and in accordance with all of the relevant regulations.
A solicitor is a qualified legal professional who can provide advice and assistance on a wide range of legal matters, including company formation. They can also help you to draft and negotiate contracts, and to represent you in any legal disputes.
There are both advantages and disadvantages to using a company formation agent or a solicitor to register a business in the UK:
Company formation agent
Cost-effective: Company formation agents is typically charge less than solicitors to register a business.
Convenient: Company formation agents can do to take care of all of the paperwork and administration tasks involved in the process, saving you time and hassle.
Expertise: Company formation agents do have the expertise and experience to ensure that your company is formed correctly and in accordance with all of the relevant regulations.
Limited advice: Company formation agents are not qualified to provide legal advice. If you have any specific legal questions or concerns, you should speak to a solicitor. Coddan CPM business set-up specialists do have a legal degrees.
No ongoing support: Most company formation agents is typically only provide assistance with the company formation process itself. Once your company is formed, you will need to seek legal advice from a solicitor if you have any questions or concerns. But, not ith Coddan CPM, we are very well known with the excellent ongoing customers support.
Comprehensive advice: Solicitors can provide comprehensive advice on all aspects of company formation, including legal structure, tax implications, and employment law.
Ongoing support: Solicitors can to provide ongoing support to your business after it has been formed. This can include advice on corporate governance, contracts, and intellectual property.
Representation: Solicitors can represent you in any legal disputes that your business may face.
Cost: Solicitors is typically charge is more than a company formation agents to register a business.
Time-consuming: Solicitors may require more time for to register a business than a company formation agent, as they need to review all of the paperwork and provide you with comprehensive advice.
Which option is best-right for you?
The best option for you will depend on your individual circumstances and needs. If you are looking for a cost-effective and convenient way to register your business, then using a company formation agents may be a good option. However, if you have any specific legal questions or concerns, or if you need ongoing support for your business, then it may be worth using a solicitor.
We recommend that you compare the prices and services offered by different company formation agents and solicitors is before making a decision. You should also consider your individual needs and requirements, such as whether you need legal advice or ongoing support for your business.
That said, once you know what you want, it can often be much more cost-efficient to transfer to a company registration agent like Coddan. A solicitor can charge many hundreds of pounds to register a company on your behalf, while a company registration agents are generally much cheaper and will handle your company formation in much the same way․
So a meeting with a solicitor can save you going down the wrong road at the start, and save you trouble. However, once you have the clear sign and you know you are going the right way, the company registration agent is the fastest and cheapest way to get it done in a hurry․
There are a number of reasons why you might choose to use Coddan to register your business in the UK, rather than a solicitor:
Cost: Coddan is typically cheaper than a solicitor. Solicitors charge by the hour, and the cost of registering a business can vary depending on the complexity of the process. Coddan, on the other hand, has a fixed fee for registering a business.
Convenience: Coddan is a one-stop shop for business registration. They can help you to choose the right type of business structure, complete all of the necessary paperwork, and submit it to Companies House on your behalf. Solicitors may not offer the same range of services, and you may need to go elsewhere for some of the steps involved in business registration.
Expertise: Coddan specializes in business registration. They have a team of experts who are familiar with all of the latest regulations and requirements. Solicitors may not have the same level of expertise in business registration, as it is not their core area of practice.
Speed: Coddan can typically register a business within 24 hours. Solicitors may take longer, as they may have other commitments.
Overall, Coddan CPM is a good option for businesses that are looking for a cost-effective, convenient, and expert way to register their business in the UK.
However, there are also some potential benefits to using a solicitor to register your business:
Advice: A solicitor can provide you with advice on the different types of business structure and which one is best for your needs. They can also advise you on other legal matters, such as employment law and tax law.
Peace of mind: Knowing that a qualified professional is handling your business registration can give you peace of mind. Solicitors are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, and they are required to meet certain professional standards.
Ultimately, the best way to decide whether to use Coddan CPM or a solicitor to register your business is to consider your individual needs and budget. If you are looking for a quick and affordable way to register your business, then Coddan is a good option. If you need advice on the different types of business structure or other legal matters, then you may want to consider using a solicitor.
We do recommend that you compare the prices and services offered by Coddan and different solicitors is before making a final decision. You should also speak to a few different solicitors to get their advice on the best way to register your business.
There are a number of reasons why people register their business companies with formation agents and do not use solicitors, including:
Cost: Formation agents are typically much less expensive than solicitors. This is because they specialize in company formation and have streamlined processes in place.
Convenience: Formation agents offer a convenient and easy-to-use service. You can typically complete the company formation process online in a matter of minutes.
Expertise: Formation agents have the expertise and experience to ensure that your company is formed correctly and in accordance with all the relevant regulations.
Support: Formation agents can provide ongoing support and advice on a range of matters, such as corporate governance, taxation, and accounting.
In contrast, solicitors are typically more expensive than formation agents and may not specialize in company formation. This means that the company formation process may take longer and may be more complex.
However, there are some cases where it may be advisable to use a solicitor to form your company, such as:
1. If your company structure is complex or unusual.
2. If you are raising investment from outside investors.
3. If you have any specific legal requirements or concerns.
Characteristic | Formation Agents | Solicitor |
Cost | Typically is less expensive | Typically is more expensive |
Convenience | Very convenient | Often is convenient |
Expertise | Specialized in company formation | May not be specialize in company formation |
Support | Can provide ongoing support and advice | Can provide ongoing support and advice |
Overall, top-best company formation agents and business registration agents are a good option for most businesses that are looking for convenient and affordable way to form their company. However, if you have do any specific requirements or concerns, it might be advisable to use a solicitor.
There are a number of reasons why people register their business companies with Coddan CPM instead of using solicitors. Some of the most common reasons include:
Cost: Coddan CPM is a more affordable option than using a solicitor to register a business company. This is because Coddan CPM specializes in company formation, and we do have the expertise and experience to do the job quickly and efficiently.
Convenience: Coddan CPM offers a convenient online service that makes it easy to register a business company. You can simply fill in the online order form and to provide the necessary information, and Coddan CPM will do take care of the rest.
Expertise: Coddan CPM has a team of experienced company formation experts who can help you with every step of the process. We can answer your questions, provide advice, and ensure that your company is formed correctly and in accordance with all the relevant regulations.
Speed: Coddan CPM is can do register a business company in as little as 24 hours. This is ideal for businesses that need to get up and running quickly.
Customer service: Coddan CPM is known for its excellent customer service. We are always happy to answer questions and provide support throughout the company formation process.
In addition to these general reasons, there are also a number of specific reasons why people choose to register their business companies with Coddan CPM instead of using solicitors, such as:
Coddan CPM is a trusted provider. Coddan CPM has been in business for over 18 years, and they have helped thousands of businesses to form their companies.
Coddan CPM offers a wide range of services. In addition to company formation, Coddan CPM is also offers a range of other services, such as registered office services, business support services, and accounting services and trade-mark registration. This can make it easier for businesses to get all the services they need from one provider.
Coddan CPM has a good reputation. Coddan CPM has a good reputation for providing high-quality services at a competitive price.
Overall, there are a number of reasons why people choose to register their business companies with Coddan CPM instead of using solicitors. Coddan CPM is a more affordable, convenient, and efficient option, and we have the expertise and experience to ensure that your company is formed correctly and in accordance with all the relevant regulations.
In addition to these general benefits, there are also a number of specific benefits to registering your business company with Coddan CPM, such as:
Same-day company formation: Coddan CPM is can form your company on the same day that you place your order, subject to availability. This can be useful if you do need to get your company up and running quickly.
Free company set up, is when you purchase a registered office address: Coddan CPM provides a free company registration when you buy a registered office address for your company for one year. This can save you money on the cost of renting a registered office address.
Free business bank account: Coddan CPM offers a free business bank account with many banks for all of its customers. This can save you time and hassle when opening a bank account for your business.
Free company secretarial services: Coddan CPM provides free company secretarial services for your company for one year. This can save you money on the cost, but, this service is not the same as hiring a company representative secretary.
Yes, a company formations agent based in London is can to register companies anywhere in the UK. There are no geographical restrictions on where a company registered formation agent can be based.
The process of registering a company in the UK is the same regardless of where the company is located. The company formation agent will need to submit the same information at in Companies House records, regardless of whether the company is being registered in London, Manchester, or Glasgow.
When you register a company with Companies House, you can choose any registered office address in the UK, regardless of where the business registration agent is based. The company formation agent is will simply submit the company formation documents to Companies House on your behalf.
Company formations agents are typically use electronic filing systems to register companies with Companies House, the UK government agency responsible for registering companies. This means that they can do register companies from anywhere in the UK, as long as they have access to an Internet connection.
In addition to registering companies, company formations agents also offer a range of other services, such as providing registered office addresses, opening business bank accounts, and providing advice on corporate governance and taxation. These services can also be provided to businesses anywhere in the UK, regardless of where the company formations agent is located.
There are a number of company formations agents based in London that offer nationwide services and Coddan CPM is one of them. These agents can help you to register a company anywhere in the UK, and they can also provide you with advice and support on a range of other matters, such as corporate governance, taxation, and accounting.
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13 with master’s degrees in Scandinavian languages
Jurate Cesne is the manager of the language center and speaks a mix of Swedish and Norwegian with an impressive Swedish pronunciation. She has a master’s degree in Swedish and manages a team of 12 teachers where all have a university degree in Scandinavian language and have lived in one of the countries. Two of the teachers are even Norwegian and Danish.
In addition to the language part, the training also consists of learning about cultures, traditions, norms, and rules in each market. This means that the students watch Nordic movies, read newspapers, celebrate St. Lucia in December, and St. Hans or mid-summer in June. They also have a tradition of tasting the infamous Swedish delicacy made of herring, surströmming.
“There is a running joke that tasting surströmming is ten times worse than going through exams,” says Cesne.
Access to the best staff
Those recruiting candidates for Cognizant looks for candidates that are at the top of their profession and with proven, strong language skills. Candidates are fully paid during training and applicants are lined up to join the school.
“It takes on average 110 days to learn a language and by then they are self-sufficient with their new language,” Cesne says.
The training is done in three parts, all with an exam at the end. After that, the students go straight into working with Scandinavian businesses. Some of the candidates also receive two to three weeks of extra curriculum if they need to learn the local business jargon within the different disciplines.
“The language training is popular and it’s easy to recruit the absolute best and most motivated candidates within the various professions.”
Since the language in Lithuania doesn’t have many similarities with Scandinavian languages, it’s not uncommon that some find the training challenging. The most common hurdles are the pronunciation of vowels, placing verbs in sentences, and a curiosity that also Swedes and Norwegians have a hard time wrapping their head around:
“The Danish numbers where they use “fjers” and “fems” is a challenge they all struggle with,” says Cesne.
Going forward, the center will be upgraded to offer remote training. That makes it even easier for Cognizant to adapt to different needs where teams can receive special training for different tasks and specific deliverables. At the end of their training, the students are satisfied.
“We’ve never had a bad review. The students are motivated and have normally put a lot of personal effort into the training to prepare for meeting clients at work. The center helps us attract new clients, as well as enables us to take on more responsibility and more challenging tasks from existing clients. It’s really a competitive advantage,” ends Cesne proudly. | <urn:uuid:5ee53e00-147e-488b-8eab-d885f5384cbf> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.cognizant.com/se/en/insights/blog/articles/cultural-competence-empowers-outsourcing-capabilities | 2024-04-13T23:29:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.967544 | 941 |
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What do I really need to say about Magic Mike XXL? I’ll just let the poster speak for itself:
There. You’re welcome.
Magic Mike XXL is the follow-up to the smash hit, Magic Mike, which is the male version of the classic story about a stripper with a heart of gold. The film stars fellow Alabamian Channing Tatum and is loosely based on his experiences as a male exotic dancer. Here’s more about the film:
Director: Gregory Jacobs
Writer: Reid Carolin
Producers: Nick Wechsler, Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin, Gregory Jacobs
Executive Producer: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Adam Rodriguez, Gabriel Iglesias, Amber Heard, Donald Glover, Michael Strahan, Elizabeth Banks, with Andie MacDowell, and Jada Pinkett Smith
Comedy. Picking up the story three years after Mike (Channing Tatum) bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, “Magic Mike XXL” finds the remaining Kings of Tampa likewise ready to throw in the towel. But they want to do it their way: burning down the house in one last blow-out performance in Myrtle Beach, and with legendary headliner Magic Mike sharing the spotlight with them. On the road to their final show, with whistle stops in Jacksonville and Savannah to renew old acquaintances and make new friends, Mike and the guys learn some new moves and shake off the past in surprising ways.
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Yesterday Nintendo held an Indie World Showcase which was stuffed with game reveals from several of the most beloved indie game developers. You can watch the full video presentation here but continue reading for a rundown of the biggest Indie World Showcase announcements plus some commentary peppered in.
Nintendo began its video presentation with the reveal that Golf Story, the beloved golfing RPG that no one finished, is getting a sequel! Sports Story sees the main character playing a variety of different sports, including tennis, soccer, and volleyball. Gameplay variety is exactly what Golf Story needed and it looks like this one solves that problem to make a great game even better.
Streets of Rage 4
The first new entry in the historic beat ‘em up series in years. It upgrades from pixels to a beautiful hand-drawn art style, but will probably suffer from the shallow gameplay of all beat ‘em ups, a genre the video game industry has largely moved away from.
The visuals so similar that at first I thought this was an unexpected follow-up to Hollow Knight, but I guess that’s not a bad thing since it’s a beautiful art style. For some reason, the trailer isn’t available as a standalone video, but you can find a video of the Showcase below that jumps to the moment Gleemlight is revealed.
There hasn’t been a major skateboarding video game released since the cash grab, thrown together Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5, so indie games have picked up the slack. Skatebird looks like a whimsical iteration of a sport known for being punk, and I can’t wait to play it.
Axiom Verge 2
The presentation ended with the announcement of a sequel to the game that reminded everyone, Nintendo included, how much demand there is for Metroid games. The 48-second trailer doesn’t reveal much, but still enough to wet fans appetites.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
Surprisingly, Nintendo didn’t even mention Shovel Knight, even though Yacht Club Games released the title’s final DLC the same day as the Showcase. Shovel Knight is (I believe) the only indie game character to appear as a Super Smash Bros. game as an assist trophy and get an amiibo, so Nintendo clearly values the franchise.
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UK technology professionals are concerned about their mental health as issues ranging from staff shortages to lack of flexibility around work schedules become commonplace in businesses across the country, according to a survey by recruitment firm Harvey Nash.
According to the survey, which polled more than 2,000 UK tech professionals, one in five workers in IT operations have expressed mental health concerns as a result of their work.
The most significant reason behind the decline in mental wellbeing is an insufficient workforce. According to the study, tech teams are “stretched to breaking point” to make up for talent shortfalls, with several mentions of employees working more than 50 hours a week, which has a direct impact on stress levels.
Employers that are very inflexible when it comes to working arrangements are three times more likely than highly flexible ones to have workers with mental health issues (31% versus 9%), according to the study.
“No one would pretend that working in the tech sector is a walk in the park, but for it to be pushing more than half its workers into a state of mental health concern is a real issue for the sector,” said Albert Ellis, chief executive at Harvey Nash.
“This is particularly true for those very small companies where a greater proportion of workers report that they are currently affected by stress,” he added.
Companies are relatively supportive when it comes to mental health issues, with three-quarters (77%) having at least some kind of support in place.
But the survey also found that companies that are “unsupportive” have almost three times as many workers concerned about their mental health right now compared with “very supportive” employers.
Good work/life balance is crucial for staff retention and attraction, according to Ellis, who argued that the tech sector still needs to to do more to improve the situation.
“Part of this is about showing the individual how a job will work with their personal life, not just highlighting how amazing the job will be,” he noted.
Themes that are in the front of people’s minds in IT departments that have been identified by the survey and play a role in staff mental health include automation, mentioned by 34% of those polled as something that will significantly affect their job in the next decade.
Remaining relevant in terms of skills is another concern expressed by survey participants, with three in 10 tech professionals expecting their current skills to be out of date within three years, rising to more than six in 10 in six years. According to the study, staff involved with application testing and operations feel the most pressure to keep their skills up to date.
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Digitization is without question the major driving force that is turning our world inside out. The spaces around us are increasingly pervaded by smart and connected systems. What started with the Internet of people will end in an Internet of everything. The phenomenon known as the Internet of Things (IoT) will affect settings of all kinds—homes, cities, traffic, logistics, retail and medicine. And it will not stop at our factory gates.
McKinsey estimates the potential economic impact of IoT applications in 2025 is between $3.9 and $11.1 trillion, of which $1.2 to $3.7 trillion is allotted to IoT applications within the factory environment. Also known as Smart Manufacturing, or Industry 4.0 in Germany, the IoT is the technological driver for fully networked manufacturing ecosystems.
In a future where all “factory objects” will be integrated into networks, traditional control hierarchy will be replaced by a decentralized self-organization of products, field devices and machines. Production processes will become so flexible that even the smallest lot size can be produced cost-effectively and just in time to the customer’s individual demands.
Despite this huge potential, the introduction of IoT technologies in the rather traditional domain of manufacturing, where investment cycles are long and robustness of processes and technologies outweigh striving for innovation, will not happen abruptly. Too many questions have first to be answered. As IoT technologies penetrate ever deeper into our factories to the smallest piece of equipment, technology providers and factory planners are confronted with a variety of hurdles:
- how to assure interoperability, when connecting heterogeneous systems
- how to guarantee real-time behavior and predictability, when thousands of devices communicate at the same time
- how to prevent disruptors, or competitors, to take over control of highly networked production systems
- determining the benefit or return for investing in IoT technologies.
To compensate for technological uncertainty and financial risks, it requires adequate pilot environments, where smart manufacturing technologies and strategies can be implemented, evaluated and showcased for the first time. This is why almost every big IT or automation technology company has built its own smart manufacturing lab, where it can test and demonstrate proprietary solutions. But they are missing one important point: Smart manufacturing is a network paradigm affecting wide-ranging areas from automation to IT, from digital planning of a product to its recycling, and from smart sensors to the business applications.
There is no single-solution provider that can cover all of these aspects at once. So, for holistic solutions to emerge, there has to be a network of technology providers joining forces and competences to develop compatible solution blocks that fit the future requirements of technology users.
The SmartFactoryKL in Kaiserslautern, Germany, is one of the places where holistic smart manufacturing solutions are developed jointly within a network of more than 40 companies and the research community (Figure 1). This includes large multinational enterprises such as Cisco, Huawei, IBM, SAP and Siemens, as well as small and medium-sized enterprises. Founded in 2005, the SmartFactoryKL association is recognized as the first vendor-independent factory lab for industrial IoT applications. An important element of its mission is to test innovative factory technology under realistic conditions and to move it as quickly as possible from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Figure 1: Holistic smart manufacturing solutions are developed jointly within a network of more than 40 small, medium and large companies and the research community.
A pragmatic approach is key for the collaboration within SmartFactoryKL. The association connects technology providers and users, regardless of competitive aspects. The group of technology providers divides into companies with and without overlapping business/competence areas. Technology providers with overlapping business/competence areas find a platform, where they can set vendor-independent standards and make proprietary technologies and business models ready for open ecosystems.
In contrast, technology providers with complementary business/competence areas benefit from networking opportunities arising by connecting different domains—for example, at the interface between classic automation technology and IT systems, such as big data applications or digitization of maintenance processes.
Finally, the group of technology users represents manufacturing companies that want to prepare for the smart manufacturing era and learn how to introduce IoT technologies within their individual manufacturing setups. The network is complemented by research partners. Their role is to draw and continuously adapt the smart manufacturing vision and to coordinate the company collaboration. Joined together like puzzle pieces, the roles and competences of the individual SmartFactoryKL members contribute to the big picture of smart manufacturing.
The network is organized into four working groups that lay the groundwork for the practical implementation of smart manufacturing solutions (Figure 2).
Figure 2: The network is organized into four working groups that lay the groundwork for the practical implementation of smart manufacturing solutions.
The first working group (AG-0 Visionary Applications) takes over a coordinating function. It coins the SmartFactoryKL vision, defines its road map and investigates the overall impact of IoT technologies and business models. The remaining three working groups focus on thematic aspects. The second working group (AG-1 Infrastructure) researches technical environments, in which production modules can be commissioned and operated in a flexible, efficient and safe manner. The third working group (AG-2 Digital Factory) is dedicated to IT-based methods and tools for planning and optimization of the product and production lifecycle. The last working group (AG-3 Automation) is concerned with modularization approaches for flexible and efficient automation.
Figure 3: In the first production line, developed in 2006, liquid soap is processed, colored, bottled and labeled according to the customer’s individual order. The technological focus is set on modular manufacturing concepts and smart product memory solutions.
The working groups meet on a regular basis to elaborate on common specifications and standards that suit the smart manufacturing idea. Many of their outcomes can directly be transferred into the development and operation of large-scale prototypes in order to deliver tangible proof and best practices, which is then reflected back again to the working groups. In this way, the involved partners learn how best to design and build next generation production systems and how to launch products that make smart manufacturing become reality.
Figure 4: The second production line, developed in 2012, assembles small-scale consumer electronic products, such as flashlights. The system is based on smart product memory solutions, but also features a decentralized control architecture using cyberphysical systems.
Figure 5: The latest prototype, developed in 2014, is the highly modular, multi-vendor production line featuring plug-and-play module extension. It is a best practice example for recent SmartFactoryKL collaboration activities.
To fulfill its task as a vendor-independent test and demonstration lab, SmartFactoryKL possesses the capacities to plan, build and maintain complex, industrial production lines. Besides some small-scale demonstrators, three production lines were built to integrate, customize, test and demonstrate smart manufacturing solutions in a realistic setup.
In the first production line, developed in 2006, liquid soap is processed, colored, bottled and labeled according to the customer’s individual order (Figure 3). Here, the technological focus is set on modular manufacturing concepts and smart product memory solutions.
The second production line, developed in 2012, assembles small-scale consumer electronic products, such as flashlights (Figure 4). The system is based again on smart product memory solutions, but also features a decentralized control architecture using cyberphysical systems (CPSs).
The latest prototype, developed in 2014, is the highly modular, multi-vendor production line featuring plug-and-play module extension (Figure 5). It is a best practice example for recent SmartFactoryKL collaboration activities.
Modular, multi-vendor production line
One of the overarching objectives of SmartFactoryKL is to overcome vendor-specific, stand-alone solutions and create a solid base for cross-vendor solutions within manufacturing. Under this premise, a highly modular, multi-vendor production line has been realized in collaboration with 16 SmartFactoryKL partners, demonstrating the flexible networking of heterogeneous factory objects based on jointly set specifications. The activity is based on the understanding that the potentials of smart manufacturing can only be realized by vendor-independent specifications or standards.
Analogous to the development of the Web, universal protocols and information models are required to link smart factory objects and to make production processes comprehensible and accessible for the human worker. With the objective to create such specifications, a highly modular production line was designed within a network, where each partner took on the sponsorship for specific plant components and technologies in accordance with its core competence. This sponsorship concept has proven very successful.
As a result, participating technology providers delivered eight production modules that have been implemented in compliance with the predetermined SmartFactoryKL specifications. These specifications relate to the basic mechanical structure, as well as the power and communication supply of the production modules. Despite these specifications, the providers of production modules retain a high degree of freedom in design decisions, for example, concerning the selection and implementation of specific automation solutions (Figure 6).
Figure 6: The providers of production modules retain a high degree of freedom in design decisions, for example, concerning the selection and implementation of specific automation solutions.
Figure 7: Individual infrastructure boxes can be combined and operated across different vendors, while specific design and additional features can certainly differentiate from competitor's products.
This approach should facilitate the migration from traditional to next-generation control concepts. In addition, each production module is equipped with one dedicated manufacturing capability, such as storage, assembly, engraving or quality control, and may be operated individually or jointly with other production modules, provided they also comply with the SmartFactoryKL specification.
Thanks to this modular design, the plug-and-play paradigm can be brought into reality. The system can easily be extended with additional production modules or capabilities, depending on, for example, the order situation and customer requirements.
To combine production modules universally and with minimal configuration to an individual production process, a powerful and flexible infrastructure is needed. The infrastructure takes on major supply and management functions for the production modules. This includes the power supply, the data routing and the overarching control of the safety functions. Thus, the infrastructure is the connecting lifeline between the production modules that function otherwise completely autonomous.
Also the infrastructure itself must be designed modular and vendor-independent, to not lose flexibility gained in the design of the high-modular production line through laborious infrastructure planning.
To fulfill this requirement, four proprietary infrastructure boxes were developed as the first marketable products by the SmartFactoryKL partners. Here, the feature is that, the individual infrastructure boxes can be combined and operated across different vendors, while specific design and additional features can certainly differentiate from competitor's products (Figure 7).
For factory planners, this vendor-independent infrastructure concept will not only allow more flexibility during installation and configuration or reconfiguration of production processes, but also reduces the dependency on individual technology providers significantly (Figure 8).
Figure 8: The vendor-independent infrastructure concept allows more flexibility during installation and configuration or reconfiguration of production processes.
Another area of interest of in this collaboration relates to the closest possible linkage of automation and IT systems. This is led by the paradigm of synchronization of real and digital worlds for the purposes of transparency and computerized optimization, also know as the concept of the “digital factory.”
Information on the production modules and products to be manufactured should be available digitally and in real time. This will allow far more precise decision making and shorter feedback loops, both within a manufacturing enterprise and between enterprises. Based on available information, novel, data-based services can be developed and offered to the production environment, for example, in the field of remote diagnostics and maintenance. In close collaboration between automation technology and IT providers, the network has implemented and tested, among other, the following concepts:
- real-time digital dashboard coupled with big data applications
- seamless coupling of manufacturing engineering and operation by reusing documentation from the supply chain for shopfloor applications
- vertical integration of information and functionalities from ERP to the production modules
- dynamic, software-based certification methods for highly modular production lines.
Next stop: collaboration
SmartFactoryKL is a unique setting to prepare companies for the next generation of manufacturing. Offering technology providers and users a platform to exchange knowledge, learn from practical experience and ultimately set vendor-independent specifications, SmartFactoryKL acts as catalyst to bring smart manufacturing into reality.
An essential aspect of the SmartFactoryKL collaboration model is to implement and test smart manufacturing concepts in large-scale pilot setups under real industrial conditions. The implementation of the highly modular production line can be considered a best-practice example for multi-vendor collaboration. Here, key to success is the definition of common standards, which connect vendor-specific subsystems. This guarantees interoperability and enables companies to investigate the interaction of components and technologies within an open ecosystem.
The paradigm of smart manufacturing has awakened the vision of highly efficient, customer-driven factories that seamlessly connect to surrounding smart ecosystems. But, until then, numerous challenges lie ahead. Proving that smart manufacturing solutions are feasible from a technical perspective is only half the job.
One of the biggest problems today is the lack of technology acceptance and system interoperability. Widely accepted standards are a crucial requirement for the next industrial era, but they are far from easy to achieve. First, it requires a significant market demand driven by customers' needs; this is the market pull. Second, it needs a critical mass of companies, which collaborate and agree on common and marketable solutions; this is the technology push.
Of course, no technological revolution has ever been initiated in haste. More often, the upheavals took place respectively over a period of several decades in an evolutionary transition driven by technological advances and market demands. It is highly likely that the current movement toward smart manufacturing will have a similar evolutionary aspect lasting several decades. If we want to speed up these developments, it requires inter-organizational networks and test environments as a catalyst. | <urn:uuid:917d83cb-4eda-4af5-8728-f25b1951ad77> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.controldesign.com/connections/edge-technology/article/11323308/case-study-a-catalyst-for-smart-manufacturing-with-germanys-smartfactory | 2024-04-13T22:10:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.93262 | 2,873 |
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Based in Granollers, Spain, Textron is a manufacturer, processor and specialty formulator of natural oils for the personal care, food and chemical industries focused on supplying high quality, natural oils out of a manufacturing facility that sources oils and seeds from all over the world. Textron’s product portfolio includes cosmetic oils, formulations of EVOILS, food oils, bismuth derivatives, cosmetic ingredients and preservatives.
“Textron’s world-class production facility and focus on vegetable oils is a natural fit with Vantage’s current portfolio. It will create a global leader in the increasingly demanding world of traceable and sustainable natural oils for personal care and allow us to better serve the evermore stringent sourcing needs of our combined customer base,” added Serge Rogasik, senior VP of Vantage’s personal care business.
As part of the transaction, Textron will spin-off its Spanish distribution business Plimon, which will remain with the prior ownership group and continue distributing products for Textron.
“The acquisition of Textron supports our commitment to strategically grow and expand the value we bring our customers throughout the world in natural oils. This strategic combination builds upon Vantage’s existing leadership position in jojoba oil and further establishes Vantage and Textron as premier providers of natural oils to broaden and complement our specialty ingredient solutions for evolving trends in personal care and food,” commented Andy Harris, CEO of Vantage.
“This is an exceptional combination of people and natural products, which will provide significant benefits for both companies and most importantly our customers,” said Martin Lascorz, owner and CEO of Textron, who will continue to work with the combined
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Deep learning is starting to offer promising results for reconstruction in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). A lot of networks are being developed, but the comparisons remain hard because the frameworks used are not the same among studies, the networks are not properly re-trained, and the datasets used are not the same among comparisons. The recent release of a public dataset, fastMRI, consisting of raw k-space data, encouraged us to write a consistent benchmark of several deep neural networks for MR image reconstruction. This paper shows the results obtained for this benchmark, allowing to compare the networks, and links the open source implementation of all these networks in Keras. The main finding of this benchmark is that it is beneficial to perform more iterations between the image and the measurement spaces compared to having a deeper per-space network.
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Do you ever take the time to dry flowers and ornamental grasses at home? Both dried flowers and grasses and a lovely addition to cosy home decor. They can look dainty or striking depending on what you use and how you display them, and although they can be expensive to buy some varieties can be simple to dry at home. If you like going for long walks in the country and see what you can find, collecting foliage can make a nice addition to the walk. Read on for the Cosy Home guide to how to dry flowers and ornamental grasses.
How to dry flowers
The flowers you can dry will depend on the season, and some are more suitable than others. Some flowers lose their petals when dried and become a sorry sight! Garden flowers that particularly dry well are roses, lavender, cornflowers, hydrangeas and nigella. If you have any of these in your own garden, then you’re off and running! Pick them when they’re not too fully open, as this makes the petals less fragile. Then simply tie them into a bunch with string and cut all the stems off at the same length. Tie them upside down (i.e. with the heads facing down) in a warm place – above an Aga or boiler is ideal. They will take up to two weeks to dry out fully, then you can display them in a vase or however you wish.
If you have an old farmhouse-type kitchen with ceiling beams, they also look nice as decoration. Flowers dried in this way can last pretty much for ever if you’re careful, although the colour will gradually face and they are subject to getting dusty so you might want to change them every few months or so. They are quite brittle, so best hung out of the way rather than in a walkway.
Always pick flowers when they’re dry (i.e. not in the rain!) as then there’s much less chance of them going mouldy during the drying process.
How to dry seed heads
Seed heads look great mixed in with dried flowers and add some architectural interest. They need to be collected when the weather is dry. The obvious plant for seed heads is poppies but you can use pretty much anything you like the look of! Hang them upside down as before, but place a shallow tray or similar underneath – as the heads dry, they’ll shed their seeds which you can collect and store ready for planting the following year.
How to dry ornamental grasses
Lots of grasses lend themselves to drying, and they make nice additions to arrangements. If you live in the country you can sometimes find ‘rogue’ stalks of cereal crops such as wheat, oats and barley. (Please don’t pick these from within fields and take care not to trample on any crops! You can often find a few stray stalks along hedge lines or on verges outside the field.) Dry them in the same way as the flowers above. Bulrushes, timothy grass and pampas grass tassels also all dry well.
If you’re feeling particularly creative, you can also dye grasses and seed heads. Use a strong solution of food colouring, and soak the just-picked grasses or seed heads in the liquid for 10 to 15 minutes (or less if you want a very pale shade). Take out the grasses and let them drip, then tie them up to dry in a warm place as usual. Put an old towel or some folded kitchen roll underneath to catch any multi-coloured drips! The grasses may take several weeks to dry properly, and should keep their colour as long as you keep them out of strong sunlight.
How long do dried flowers last?
People often ask how long dried flowers last. The exact length of time your dried flowers will last depends in part on the type of flower in question. However, on average you can expect dried flowers to last from between one and three years.
To help preserve the life of your dried flowers for longer, take care to look after them well. Direct sunlight can affect the colour of the flowers, making them fade quicker, plus sunlight can make them more brittle. So avoid putting them on a windowsill and keep them away from other sources of heat, such as fireplaces, wood burning stoves or radiators. The best conditions for improving the longevity of dried flowers are a cool and dry room.
Like other ornaments and home decor in your cosy house, dried flowers collect dust. To help them continue to look in their best condition, take care to regularly dust your dried flowers and ornamental grasses. As they can be delicate, try using a feather duster or a paintbrush, so you can remove the dust without damaging the flwoers.
Finally, dried flowers won’t last long if you get them wet or they’re in humid conditions. So to help your dried flowers last, avoid having them on display in your bathroom.
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Meilin Lee is the main character of “Turning Red,” a bombastic and energetic thirteen-year-old who plays flute, excels in academics, and has loving friends and family. The only problem? She turns into a giant red panda when she’s overwhelmed or excited. Meilin is a great character, so how about we revisit “Turning Red” by checking out some of the best Meilin Lee quotes!
The Best Meilin Lee Quotes from Turning Red
“The number one rule in my family? Honor your parents.”
The first line of the film is one of the most important, as it sets up Mei’s relationship with her parents and establishes her family background. Family means everything, and her parents and ancestors mean the most to the next generation.
She explains how they do so much for her and how she feels the need to help them back, especially when they give her food, shelter, and love. She shares in the same joys as her parents, and clearly loves spending time with her mother, to the point she resembles her more and more in the photos.
Guess in some cases you can become your mom.
I cannot express enough how awesome this whole sequence is. Mei’s words are impactful, and never once do they falter. Everything is given the perfect amount of time, and never once does it feel like there’s direct or intended animosity between Mei, Ming, and Jin. This is not only a good way to start off the story but introduces the audience to an incredible line of thinking. It is best to respect your parents and all they do for you, so long as they do right for you.
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“And ever since I turned thirteen, I’ve been doing my own thing. Making my own moves, twenty-four seven, three-sixty-five. I wear what I want, say what I want, and I will not hesitate to do a spontaneous cartwheel if I feel so moved.”
Mei’s introduction at the beginning of the film serves two purposes: to bring her personality and spontaneity to the forefront, and to set the real tone of the movie after the heavy introduction.
The entire scene, Mei is showing off her sense of style and her place in life. She’s bringing her friends into the limelight, doing her algebra on the morning bus right, showing off her bus pass for “adults”; everything she does showcases who she is, and she has such an astonishing amount of swagger doing it.
Never once does she complain, even admitting to accepting and embracing all labels. There’s a refreshing determination in her character and interesting level of maturity for her age, especially later when she assists her mom in the temple. Mei is energetic, she is confident, and she knows what she wants, when she wants it, and will do anything to get it.
Keep on getting it, girl!
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“Yes! Okay. No biggies. You’ll figure this out, Lee. Just be the calm, mature adult you totally are. You got this.”
After Mei wakes up in her new red panda form, she realizes her emotions trigger her physical change. When she stays calm, she stays human. She drops this line as she slowly moves back to her bed, musing how she can get through this like a proper adult. On cue, her bed breaks. Had to restrain a laugh there.
Already we see the cracks in her personality and her inner self. Think of the red panda as both a metaphor for puberty and Mei’s emotions. She thinks she’s being mature by stifling herself in this way and not releasing her emotions, but it only serves to do damage to everything around her and cause her shock. She thinks the best way to tackle something like this – given its magical nature – is to handle this in silence like an adult.
She’s suppressing herself and thinks all adults must do the same to be seen as mature and calm. I know teenagers think they know everything, but I honestly think Mei should have come clean here.
Would have saved a lot of emotional turmoil.
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“‘Course, some people are like, “Be careful. Honoring your parents sounds great, but if you take it too far, well, you may forget to honor yourself.”
Does it count as irony if this statement was placed in the film before much of the plot, or is that just foreshadowing?
Mei says this as she monologues in the beginning of the film about her family. She casually drops this line, addressing how aware she is of losing herself while acting on her parents’ – mostly her mother’s – expectations. She indicates she has heard the line before but has not entirely taken to heart what it means. Her shift in tone with the next scene really cements it, saying she’s lucky she doesn’t have this problem.
As the eldest daughter in a family of eight, this line hits home. When I was growing up, I wanted to do anything to help my two parents who worked incredibly hard to keep a massive household running. After a while, it started feeling good to help, and I started helping others in the same way. But I started to give less and less for my own time, leaving me drained and hollow.
I learned – the hard way – that while I am still a major help for people in and outside of my home, I’m also me. If I can’t help myself, then I can’t help anyone else. In short, I forgot to honor myself while I honored others, and only noticed the consequences in early adulthood.
So, seeing a lesson like this in a film for children really makes me think other kids will avoid the same path I took. At least, I hope so.
“This isn’t just our first concert. This is our first step into womanhood!”
Mei drops this line as she vents in the bathroom after being excused from gym class with her friends. Riding high off the emotional rush from nearly hitting Tyler with a dodgeball, Mei expresses her frustrations with her mom and how she wouldn’t let her see 4*Town, and how her friends’ parents wouldn’t do the same.
She equates seeing the concert with her friends to them stepping into womanhood and taking an independent stance in their lives. She wants to step out of childhood and become an adult already. Mei’s tired of being treated like a kid and wants to break free of the mold.
Interesting thing to note that while I have never been to an actual concert, I have been to free-to-attend concerts. However, I remember feeling the same way when I attended my first school dance. I was the same age as Mei, and was more than eager to drink soda, practice my breakdancing skills, and have an amazing night.
I won’t say what happened at my first dance, but I didn’t have the incredible first time I thought I’d have. But the emotions and the feelings made it worth it, and I still consider it a massive steppingstone in my adolescence.
So, anyone saying Mei and her friends are overreacting about not going to a concert can sit on it.
Priorities change with age.
“The panda is a part of me, and you guys are, too.”
Mei delivers this line after fleeing the sealing ritual and meeting her friends in the 4*Town concert arena. She starts talking with them and explains everything she’s come to accept.
She likes who she is now, and understands the panda is a part of her, just as much as her friends are. Mei also admits how she was always after her mother’s approval, and how losing it hurt. However, she breaks down as she says losing her friends hurt far more.
She realizes she values her friends just as much as her family and losing them hurts worse than anything. Mei is at her emotional lowest here, and only when she accepts her faults and mistakes do her friends accept her apology.
This is a genuinely beautiful moment, and it shows how real friends will always accept you despite your faults. Real friends, like family, will always care, and always have your best interest at heart, even if you lose yourself.
“I’m not your little “Mei-Mei” anymore, mom! I lied! It was my idea to hustle the panda, my idea to go to Tyler’s party! It was all me! I like boys, I like loud music, I like gyrating! I’m thirteen, Mom! Deal with it!”
Couple of points here. First off, Meilin, 10 out of 10 for confronting your mom, that was beautiful. No notes.
Second, it may not have been the best time to confront her when she was a raging kaiju red panda who could crush the entire arena without so much as a sneeze.
It’s grand that she was finally telling her mother how she really felt about all the expectations and pressure placed on her this whole time. Mei needed to be honest and tell her how she felt now, or she would surely regret it.
Improper timing or no, Mei lets her mom HAVE it, and tells the truth about every lie she’s told her. She lays down the line on her likes, her ideas, and how she was responsible for her own actions, not her friends, not anyone else. She is her own person, she is thirteen, and she will be heard!
“Well sorry I’m not perfect! Sorry I’m not good enough! And sorry I’ll never be like you!”
I regret my prior comment on “becoming your mom”.
Mei unleashing her feelings at her mom is nothing short of cathartic. The whole scene prior is Mei distracting Ming while her relatives create a new sealing circle for the ritual, but Mei takes it to the next level by releasing her feelings and rage at her mother.
Mei still regards her mother as higher than her and hates that she must have that shadow cast over her. She feels stifled and is more than angry over not being allowed to see a simple concert. She’s livid that she can’t be someone like her mother, no matter how hard she tries.
Everyone has a moment where they feel they don’t live up to the expectations of their siblings, their parents, their mentors – that no matter how hard you try, you just can’t shake free the shackles. Even when you work hard and put everything on the line, you’re left feeling like a failure to others and yourself.
Asking for perfection is like asking someone to carry everything on their shoulders. No one is perfect, and expecting such out of anyone, let alone a kid, means you’re putting immense pressure on them.
Even a diamond can break if it’s put under enough pressure.
“You sicko! What were you thinking?! Why would you draw those things?! Those horrible, awful, sexy things?!”
Mei vents all of this in the aftermath of her mom finding her notebook drawings and confronting the store clerk she was drawing from the Daisy Mart. Not only did her mom see her first bursts of puberty and sexual attraction, but she also took it to the nth degree and misinterpreted her attraction as something more dire.
And instead of asking why her mother would do something so embarrassing and wrong, Mei is asking why she would draw these sorts of things and enjoy doing it.
It really hurts to see Mei try to rationalize her newfound emotions without some sort of guide. Makes me wanna give her the biggest hug and explain this all away. However, I am not going to sit here and say nothing like this has happened to me. To my knowledge, everyone has kept a diary, or a sketchbook, or a magazine, that was full of material that would make their parents blanche on contact.
I had more than one notebook like this, but I just learned to hide my stuff away from prying eyes.
. . . never found them, though.
“My panda, my choice, mom.”
I think Twitter had a field day with this quote.
Ming confronts Mei about how she’s dressed – exposing her red panda ears and tail – as she prepares to leave with her friends to karaoke. Mei responds with this line, and a side glance, before she hugs her mom and says they will be back before dinner.
She may be a teenager, and she may be freer than before, but she can’t quite fly off the handle and do whatever she pleases. She still has limits with her mother and herself, and she needs to maintain them.
This entire scene is great; it shows so much growth from Mei and Ming and how their relationship has evolved because of it. Mei has embraced herself, and Ming is not only allowing her daughter to be herself but remaining open and trying to understand her. She can still parent Mei, but not all of her. She has boundaries she can’t overstep, the same as Mei.
It’s not just Mei who changes on her journey; she changes those around her.
“I’m changing, mom! I’m finally figuring out who I am. But I’m scared, it will take me away from you.”
This is the best Meilin Lee quote, and a line that left me tearing up when I first watched the movie. After a heartbreaking scene between Mei and her mother’s inner child, Mei talks to her mother as she passed through the portal to seal her red panda. Ming desperately tries to have Mei give up her panda, to follow her. And in response, Mei says this.
She’s finally growing up and coming into her own. At the same time, she doesn’t want to experience the same pitfalls her mother and grandma went through. She wants to grow and become herself, but not at the expense of leaving her family behind. Mei cares about her family, and sees their love in everything they do, and wants to break the cycle of intergenerational trauma before it affects her any further.
This is an incredible moment that left me a blubbering mess. It’s very beautiful.
“Sometimes I miss the way things were, but nothing stays the same forever.”
This is the most somber line Mei says in the film. She says this in the narration as she leaves for karaoke with her friends, looking back at her mother. After everything she’s been through, she still thinks back to the past – despite it being a few months prior – and wants things to go back to how they were then.
However, her present is far better: she’s allowed to be herself, she’s freer than before, and she is on better terms with her mother. She knows it’s hard to maintain a new normal, but does acknowledge nothing stays forever, and that like her, everything changes.
Change is always a difficult thing. You want things to stay the same, either because it’s convenient, or it’s comfortable. It feels like it should stay that way forever, but change comes when people least expect it. It could be from some mistake, some random weather, or something you think you could have controlled. And once the dust dies down, it’ll be up to you to get to your new normal.
Getting there is never easy. It could be messy, uncomfortable, or downright scary. You’ll be walking a whole new path, but so long as you have a good set of legs, you’ll get where you need to go. Having travel companions never hurts, either. Then one day, after doing everything and anything to keep your head up, you’ll look around and find your new normal. And you’ll be glad you’re there.
“I know what it looks like. I am my own person. But that doesn’t mean doing whatever I want. Like most adults, I have responsibilities.”
What makes this line from Mei so interesting is how she’s actively contradicting her past words. Mei narrates again as she races home to the temple to meet her mother for temple duties, i.e., sweeping the rounds, leading guided tours, cleaning statues, preventing graffiti, etc.
She compares herself to an adult with full responsibilities and a job, and in a way, she is right. She helps to run a business with her mom and acts accordingly in her own home.
Where she contradicts herself is how at home, she can’t be herself, or act the way she wants. She must maintain her grades, maintain the temple, maintain her behavior; she can’t just be a kid. She’s already seeing herself as a small adult and isn’t taking joy in anything she’s doing. She only takes joy from it after seeing her parents’ joy from it.
More power to her for being mature for her age, but it hurts when a kid just can’t act like one.
“It’s easy. When I start to get emotional, all I do is imagine the people I love most in the whole world. Which is you guys.”
Mei casually says this line after completing an emotional gauntlet designed to make her bring out her panda. This only comes after realizing how thinking of her friends neutralizes her emotional outbursts. She feels like she can be herself around them, and that they’ll accept her no matter what. She discovers how good it feels to find a happy place for yourself and does acknowledge that the people who occupy it may not always be those who raised you.
However, instead of telling her parents this, Mei lies and says she thinks of her parents during those moments. She knows she can’t tell her mother her friends were there, and the last thing she wants to lose at that moment is her parents’ love and trust.
She can’t even say she values the opinions of her friends more than her own mother, especially given her current circumstances. This is only the first of many lies Mei says that spiral into a long journey of self-discovery and liberation for her.
Compare this to the journey the film’s director Domee Shi went through to create this film, and you’ll see she really did draw on so much of her life to create Mei.
“We’ve all got an inner beast. We’ve all got a messy, loud, weird part of ourselves hidden away. And a lot of us never let it out. But I did. How about you?”
The film ends with an image of Mei, her friends, and family posing with 4*Town after the ruined concert with Mei narrating how she came to unleash her inner beast. She addresses the audience head on and says they each have a messy, weird part of themselves, and how she let hers out. The final line of the film gives the audience an interesting question: would they unleash their own inner self?
Mei embraced herself, flaws and all, and came out of her journey better than when she began it. She came to appreciate her inner panda, and accepting it allowed her to change not only herself but her mother and grandmother. She grew because she let out her beast.
Have I done the same?
I like to think I have.
Can’t exactly be an anime fan, a writer, an artist, and a great aunt without unleashing yourself.
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After two failed attempts in 2008 and 2009, arts leaders in Northern Colorado may finally get the cultural tax they’ve sought in front of Larimer County voters.
Advocates submitted a petition with more than 11,400 signatures before last week’s deadline. They need 7,252 valid signatures to get the measure on the November ballot. The Larimer County Clerk and Recorder will now verify the total number by August 19.
“This year we started a little earlier, we were a little better prepared, not quite so naïve, and we really rallied a good number of volunteers,” Bruce Freestone, who co-founded OpenStage Theater in Fort Collins, said. “Almost 200 people were carrying packets.”
The cultural tax would generate a penny from every $10 purchase. That money could be split among more than 100 organizations like historical societies and orchestras, said Freestone, who spearheaded the effort.
“I think people recognize that these agencies that could be the recipients of some of this public money do contribute a public good,” explained Freestone. “There is a lot to be said for increasing the access and increasing the ease with which an agency can expand their programming and make it available for more people.”
The Larimer County effort is modeled after a similar one in the Denver area. That cultural tax, known as the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District, has been in place since 1989. Last year it divided more than $50 million to around 270 organizations. Voters in seven counties -- from Boulder to Arapahoe -- will be asked if they want to extend that cultural tax this fall. | <urn:uuid:65c1d843-af3a-4775-bcd6-cb309fceab1c> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.cpr.org/2016/07/29/northern-colorado-arts-backers-petition-for-cultural-tax/ | 2024-04-13T22:29:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.967038 | 338 |
The medical and adult-use recreational licenses held by Lansing-based marijuana processor TAS Asset Holdings LLC have been suspended by state regulators for sourcing product from an alleged unregulated, illegal warehouse, according to the state.
The Cannabis Regulatory Agency alleges TAS, which processes product under a licensing agreement with Ferndale-based Fwaygo Extracts, stored and interchanged legally regulated marijuana flower, distillate, concentrates and THCa powder with the illegally produced product.
The CRA first became aware of the issue in September last year when two vape cartridges, marketed under the product name Space Rocks, produced by TAS failed a spot a safety compliance check despite the product passing the preliminary safety check before the raw marijuana product was shipped to TAS from the grower. Both products tested positive for Bifenthrin, a synthetic insecticide banned for use on marijuana products in Michigan.
After investigation, the CRA discovered the product used to make the Space Rocks product was not the product processed and entered into the state tracking system earmarked for the vape cartridges.
Investigators noted the "business had many areas that were dirty and cluttered and had leaking containers of various process stages of marijuana and waste" among unregulated marijuana product, according to the state. Investigators also observed "three barrels of an unknown substance that were wrapped in plastic, two black totes of an unknown substance, and several mason jars of oil."
A representative from TAS admitted to using unregulated THCa powder, a non-psychoactive cannabinoid, in the Space Rocks product.
"The conduct alleged in the formal complaints is a significant risk to the public health and safety of marijuana consumers in Michigan," CRA Executive Director Brian Hanna, said in a press release. "While we work through the process to seek revocation of these licenses, it is vital that all licensees throughout the state realize that the CRA will continue to do what it takes to protect the public from bad actors in the regulated market."
The CRA urges consumers to discard the Space Rocks product produced between Nov. 10-17 last year. Consumers are also encouraged to report any adverse reactions to the product to the CRA.
The investigation ended with 23 formal complaints against TAS' medical and adult-use licenses issued by the state. A hearing will follow to determine whether the suspensions of the licenses will be permanent.
The license suspensions are one of several under Hanna, who promised to "crack down" on illegal marijuana entering the regulated market when he took over the job last fall.
In November, the CRA suspended the medical and recreational marijuana licenses for dispensary Green Culture in Flint for selling unregulated marijuana joints.
The agency alleged the dispensary was selling pre-roll joints of the strain ACF Moonrock Acai Haze that were not tested by a regulated lab or entered into the state's marijuana tracking system. The state alleged the untested marijuana could contain unacceptable levels of pesticides, heavy metals, mold and bacteria.
The new crackdown on illicit market product comes amid plunging marijuana prices in the state.
The average retail price of an ounce of adult-use marijuana flower was $80.16 in January, compared to $323.68 per ounce in January 2021.
The more than 75 percent drop in prices is cutting hard into margins for growers, processors and retailers.
The industry blames, among other things, illegal marijuana getting into the regulated market, exacerbating an oversupply problem that's pushing down prices. Pressure from the industry led to the hiring of Hanna, a former Michigan State Police crime analyst, with the task of enforcing the regulations on the market.
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There’s a climactic scene at the end of the first act of Jurassic Park — the 1993 Spielberg classic — where the Tyrannosaurus Rex attacks a stranded Jeep with two kids, Tim and Lex, trapped inside. The T-Rex tosses the Jeep over an embankment and into the jungle canopy. Tim, still trapped inside, climbs out with the help of Dr. Alan Grant, but as the two descend to the base of the tree, the weight of the jeep begins to snap the branches holding it in place, and it starts falling towards the ground. As Tim and Grant get to the bottom, the Jeep collapses on top of them, but they survive thanks to some Hollywood movie magic.
Closing the scene, Tim exclaims: “Well, we’re back in the car again.”
Anyway, following the preliminary federal election results this week, we’re back in the car again.
It’s downright hilarious that Canadians have returned nearly the same parliament that was dissolved earlier this summer, save for a few cosmetic changes.
The Liberals appear headed for a minority government with 158 seats, the Conservatives lost two seats at 119, the Bloc Quebecois are up two seats at 34, the NDP are up one seat at 25 and the Greens took two seats (these are preliminary results; mail-in ballots may flip a few close races).
While some cynics lament the $600 million cost of the election in the context of returning nearly the same parliamentary makeup, that’s simply the cost of doing democracy’s business.
Imagine flipping that concern over costs around, by saying, “well, the election is gonna cost $600 million, so we probably shouldn’t have one because it’s too expensive.”
Regardless of the reasons for going to the polls, Canadians had the opportunity to exercise their democratic right and cast a vote.
And that is always important, no matter the financial cost.
In terms of the election’s timing, that’s another matter entirely — was this the appropriate time to hold an election?
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau justified the election was necessary to give Canadians the option of choosing their future government to lead the country in the post-pandemic era. Others saw it as a cynical ploy to seek a majority parliament.
Regardless, what’s done is done and the voters have spoken.
So, without further ado, some election-related thoughts that I’ve been reflecting on since the preliminary results came in early Tuesday morning.
• How will Trudeau govern now? Canadians have spoken, and while Trudeau says he “has a mandate”, he’s still going to need parliamentary support from other parties to pass legislation, especially bills that carry a confidence measure. How much of the Liberals’ campaign promises will become reality, now that they need opposition votes? The NDP spent most of the campaign attacking Trudeau and the Liberals to lure away the left-wing vote — can the two sides repair the bridges and work together on issues like sickness benefits like they did during the early days of the pandemic?
• The Conservatives are having an identity crisis, and have been struggling with one since at least 2015, when former Tory Prime Minister Stephen Harper lost amidst Trudeau’s march to a Liberal majority. I still remember the Conservatives running attack ads that Trudeau “just wasn’t ready” and that “he has nice hair though”. After six years of Liberal governance, you’d think the Conservative Party would stop focusing on Trudeau, and instead find a way to present itself as a legitimate alternative for governance. The 2019 election was a bellwether election for the Tories — despite Trudeau being mired in the SNC Lavalin scandal, ethics breaches, and blackface photos, the Conservatives still couldn’t get elected, and are now on their third party leader in six years. The party has got to find a way to broaden the tent in order to appeal to a wider audience beyond Western Canada and rural Ontario, and clearly present it’s priorities and vision for governance. Emphasis on clearly, or it will forever be relegated to the opposition benches.
• There’s a lot of ink that could be spilled about the People’s Party of Canada. I’ll only say party leader Mad Max Bernier turned into Sad Max Bernier as he lost his Quebec riding to a Conservative challenger. Au revoir.
• The Green collapse was ugly. The party went from over a million votes in 2019, to a few hundred thousand this time around. Party leader Annamie Paul lost her bid for a seat in the House of Commons, while the party claimed two ridings in B.C. and Ontario.
• Where does the NDP go from here? Can it carve out its own legislative identity, not as Liberal enablers, but as one that can advance it’s own agenda? The party is capable of capturing ridings anywhere across the country — what are the unifying messages or issues that supporters and undecided voters can flock to? The party gained one seat, but is there enough of a foundation there to launch an orange wave in the future?
Anyhow, the latest democratic exercise has been a fun one, and we can all look forward to doing it again in 24 months.
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Berlin attracts many talented people. As shown in this infographic made in collaboration with Berlin Partner, more than 60,000 young people between the ages of 18 and 30 relocate to the German capital every year. There is an increased availability of trained specialists and managers in comparison to other German cities, which is one of the most important factors for companies choosing to establish themselves in Berlin.
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