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Are you considering working with an interior designer but feeling a little unsure about how the process works? Maybe you're wondering about the timeline, the fees, or if your project is the right size for our services. Don't worry, we've got you covered! In this blog post, we're going to answer the top questions we often hear from new clients at Mettā Home, giving you all the information you need to make an informed decision about your interior design project.
Question 1: "I have never worked with an interior design firm before. What is the process?"
Ah, the process! At Mettā Home, we want to make your experience working with an interior designer a breeze. It all starts with a chat during our initial consultation, usually lasting about 15 to 20 minutes. Think of it like a first date to see if we're a good fit for each other. We'll discuss your project briefly, ensuring that our expertise and style align with your vision.
After the initial conversation, we'll move on to an in-depth consultation. This is where the magic happens! We'll spend time together diving deep into understanding your unique style, preferences, and lifestyle. We want to know how you and your family use the space, what elements make you feel at home, and hear about any unique ideas or inspirations you have. And finally, we’ll be discussing the non-negotiables, like how much of an investment you want to make, if there is a timeline you’re looking for us to hit, if there are any inspirational images you want to show us, if there are specific things you want to incorporate in your design, and if there’s a story around those things.
Once we have gathered all the necessary information, we'll work closely with you to create a personalized and tailored interior design plan. Don't worry – we won't make any purchases without your approval! We want to ensure that every detail meets your expectations. And when everything is complete, get ready for the big reveal! We can't wait to see the joy on your face when you finally see your dream space come to life.
Question 2: "How do I know that I should work with an interior designer vs doing it myself? Why would I want to work with an interior designer?”
One big indicator as to whether or not you should bring in an interior designer to work with is if you can’t put all your design choices together yourself, or if you find yourself liking so many different things that you’re unsure how to make it work. If you’re struggling with blending too many styles or colors, an interior designer can help with that! Maybe you’ve moved into a home with a different aesthetic than what you previously had. We can help get your home looking the way you want it to so that it matches your newly desired aesthetic and needs.
Another big reason to work with an interior designer is that we can save you time and money! It's not uncommon to make selections, only to realize upon their arrival that they don't meet your expectations. This can result in restocking fees or the hassle of returning the items (if they are returnable at all!) With an interior designer, you can avoid making these costly mistakes. They have the expertise to guide you through the decision-making process and help you make choices that you'll love for the long term.
Further, interior designers have extensive industry connections, so they know where to go or who to approach when you can't seem to find a specific item. Instead of spending hours searching for that elusive piece, an interior designer can provide recommendations and streamline the procurement process. This not only saves you valuable time but also ensures that you have access to the best resources and products for your project.
Remember, your time is money, and partnering with an interior designer can alleviate the stress of decision-making, prevent costly errors, and help you create a well-designed space that reflects your style and meets your needs!
Question 3: "What does the timeline on a project typically look like?"
The timeline depends on a few factors, like the scope of work, level of detail or customization, etc. If you're looking for a simple room refresh, the timeline is usually a matter of a few weeks to a couple of months. But if you have a grander plan, like a full home renovation, it might take longer.
For renovations, the timeline can extend from a few months to several months, depending on the complexity and the scale of the project. And if you're thinking about additions or new constructions, you're looking at a timeline that spans several months to a year or more.
Remember, these are just general estimates, and there are always variables at play. We will work closely with you to provide a more accurate timeline once we understand the specific details of your project, and always work to ensure we understand if you are looking to hit a specific timeline. We’ll keep you up to date during each step of the process.
Question 4: "What is your fee for interior design services?"
At Mettā Home, we understand that one of the most important aspects of interior design is the cost. That's why we believe in providing personalized service and customizing our fee structure to fit your unique project. Our fees for interior design services are determined by several factors such as the square footage of the space, the time involved, the level of our creative design, and the project management necessary.
We know that cost can be a concern for many clients, which is why some people may attempt to do it themselves. While there's nothing wrong with DIY, it's important to consider the potential drawbacks. You might end up making selections that don't work as you envisioned, costing you both time and money. That's why it's worth factoring in the cost of hiring an interior designer, as it can save you from expensive mistakes and ensure that everything is done right the first time.
During our initial consultation, we'll have an open discussion about your budget and provide you with an estimate of the fees associated with your project. Our goal is to provide exceptional design services while staying within a budget that works for you. There are no hidden surprises here – just transparent and honest pricing.
Question 5: "I'm not sure if my project is too big or too small for your interior design service. Can you help?"
Absolutely! We welcome projects of all sizes with open arms. Whether you have a cozy little nook that needs a refresh or a sprawling mansion that requires a complete overhaul, we're here for you. To help you determine if we're the right fit, we offer a complimentary 15-minute consultation so we can determine what works best for you.
In conclusion, if you have any lingering questions or need further clarification about any aspect of interior design, we’re here to help. Our team is dedicated to guiding you throughout the process and creating spaces that bring joy and comfort to your life.
Remember, at Mettā Home, we believe that your living spaces should reflect your unique personality and style. So let us help you create the home of your dreams!
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Many potential mobile home buyers can be hesitant because their mobile home lacks individual style. This might be true in same cases or in manufactured home communities; however, if you find the perfect match the interior design is where individual style can shine. Some buyers are lucky enough to discover an option with an interior and exterior that is both reflective of their style. When it comes to interiors there are a few areas that are perfect for adding a unique touch.
1. Color – Adding pops of color is a great way to add interesting design to your mobile home. This includes painting some or all of the exposed wall space – a simple way to give a personal touch. Instead of painting, many just use colorful and patterned bedding, pillows and other home accessories.
2. Cabinets – The storage in a mobile home is such valuable real estate. Cabinetry is often prevalent around the entire interior and when buying new can be upgraded. In many existing homes this can be renovated easily – doors can be resurfaced and painted to add that extra custom feel throughout the interior.
3. Flooring – The flooring is another quick way to update and personalize your interior space. Typically a lightweight vinyl flooring is utilized because it’s easy to clean and install. Many prefer to select carpeting or even a vinyl floor that looks like wood or tile. This can be a nice way to update the space and provide that custom touch.
4. Artwork – Depending on the interior size of your mobile or manufactured home, those with larger open walls are perfect for displaying artwork. The most popular techniques are using either one large piece of art or transforming the wall into a feature wall that displays a grid pattern of smaller photos and paintings. This method helps control where the eye focuses and how the brain perceives the overall space.
5. Lighting – A fantastic way to leave your mark on an interior space is through the use of lighting. In many mobile home or manufactured home spaces it can be challenging to rewire the electrical and change the lights; however, the use of lamps is can be transformative. The lamp can be used as directional to highlight a piece of art or furniture or task related like a reading lamp. It’s about creating a beautiful balance between mood and task lighting. This is also a great way to separate spaces and define areas in a unique way.
Don’t be afraid to have some fun with your space and you can be sure it will reflect your personal style. These are just a few clever ways to transform a space and experiment with interiors to best enjoy your mobile and manufactured home. | <urn:uuid:7eea2ccf-29b9-4258-ad58-9717f7d929eb> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.mhloans.com/blog/interior-design-options-for-your-mobile-home/ | 2024-04-22T22:50:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.941114 | 530 |
This ain't our first rodeo; it's our super cute Cowgirl collection! Cowgirl up with little girls' dresses, rompers, skirts, shorts, outerwear, and accessories your lil' lamb will want to ride off into the sunset with.
When she's looking to show off her country roots with stylish grace, she has several denim dresses, skirts, and short sets to choose from, all cuter than the last! Sweet summer picnics on the ranch have met their match with precious flowy dresses covered in pretty patterns in her favorite colors.
We've got her covered when it comes to cow, gingham, and paisley prints as well, so she can look the part as a cowgirl no matter the occasion: school parties, summer camps, backyard BBQs, square dances, and countryside adventures.
This collection is packed with fabulous fabrics and dynamic details like debossing, fringe, flutter sleeves, and pretty pearls. Each piece has been given the best-in-show treatment, making wearing it as fun as it is cute!
Don't let your lil' lady saddle up without a cowboy hat, boots, bags, and jewelry to complete her country-girl realness style! Accessories like our turquoise belts, bolo necklaces, and boot charm earrings are as cute as can be to make your wrangler confident and comfortable all day! Life isn't all about rodeos, horses, and fashion. But it CAN be with Mia Belle Girls! | <urn:uuid:967d0df7-6588-4ea9-89e6-57212d3d6b85> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.miabellebaby.com/collections/cowgirl-collection | 2024-04-22T21:21:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.949484 | 310 |
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Failing to appear in court for any reason can lead to severe consequences. Even though you may have a valid reason for missing your court appearance, including oversight or scheduling conflicts, you may still be held accountable for not showing up.
Unfortunately, these issues will not get resolved on their own. Reaching out to a hard-working Islip failure to appear lawyer like Mike Schillinger is critical to preserving your legal rights. As a blue-collar guy, Mike has a long history of fighting for working-class clients, and knows what’s at stake when someone in your shoes has been charged with a crime. He has helped defend his clients against charges similar to yours and will fight hard to help you resolve your case with the best potential outcome.
The Legal Consequences of a Bench Warrant
Failing to appear in court can quickly put individuals on the wrong side of the law. When a bench warrant is involved, even minor legal issues can become severe, leading to significant penalties. For example, if you fail to appear in court, the judge may issue a bench warrant for your arrest and you may even find yourself facing bail jumping charges.
Once a warrant is issued, any run-in with the police, even a simple traffic stop, can result in an arrest if the officer runs your name and discovers the outstanding bench warrant. An additional criminal charge for failing to appear often leads to more severe consequences than the original charge. However, a skilled attorney in Islip can investigate the underlying warrant and answer questions you may have to help you determine the best way to proceed with your case.
Penalties for a Bench Warrant or Bail Jumping
According to New York Penal Code §§ 215.55 – § 215.57 anyone who fails to appear in court after having been released on their own recognizance or bail can face additional criminal charges for bail jumping. These charges range from a class “A” misdemeanor to a class “D” felony depending upon the underlying charges. A conviction on any bail jumping offense could mean steep fines, jail time, and a criminal conviction on your record. Additionally, if you are ever arrested again in the future, a bail jumping conviction will give the Judge on the new case a reason to consider setting higher bail.
Summons or Ticket Requiring a Court Appearance
Many citations a resident in this state may receive do not require an appearance in court. However, failing to show up when the ticket requires that you be present, can lead to the court issuing a bench warrant.
According to New York Penal Law § 215.58, the court will issue a failure to appear when an individual misses a court date for a summons or traffic ticket. With that being said, even though the ticket lists a date for you to appear on, there is a thirty (30) day grace period for you to return voluntarily if you miss your initial court date.
Potential Failure to Appear Defenses
Missing a court date for circumstances outside of your control could cause the court to dismiss the bench warrant and reschedule your appearance. Likewise, courts may drop failure to appear charges if someone returns to court during the 30-day grace period allowable under state law. However, District Attorneys will likely charge people with bail jumping if they do not have a valid reason for missing court. Mike Schillinger is a knowledgeable criminal defense lawyer in Islip and can advise individuals on what constitutes a valid reason for failing to appear.
Call an Experienced Failure to Appear Attorney in Islip
If you have an outstanding bench warrant for your arrest, immediately handling the matter is vital to protecting your freedom. Unfortunately, even a simple traffic stop could mean spending time in jail for a failure to appear.
Mike Schillinger will fight for you to help resolve the matter as quickly as possible. If you need help preparing a solid defense, schedule a meeting with an Islip failure to appear lawyer today. | <urn:uuid:64404c87-c2a5-459c-bfc3-ebe5949b9599> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.michaelschillinger.com/islip-failure-to-appear-lawyer/ | 2024-04-22T21:21:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.954767 | 800 |
The President of the UN General Assembly said yesterday that, “Each day that passes risks a deepening failure to meet our moral duties and obligations; and each life lost adds to the stain on our collective conscience.”
Dennis Francis told a UN session discussing Washington’s use of its veto in the Security Council against a draft resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, that he felt shocked and “horrified at the reported killing and injury of hundreds of people during the disbursement of food supplies, west of Gaza City last week.”
One hundred and fifty days of violence despair, destruction and devastation have led to the “dehumanisation” of people, said Francis. “Each day this painful reality continues to entrench the feeling of frustration and disillusionment, especially by those caught in the crossfire, and who look to the United Nations as a guarantor of the good.” He added his deep concern about intensified Israeli air strikes in Rafah, including in residential areas. | <urn:uuid:6e2482c3-fe27-47ac-bec1-51076cec8410> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240305-un-told-that-each-passing-day-risks-deepening-failure-to-meet-moral-duties-and-obligations/ | 2024-04-22T23:44:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.952071 | 208 |
Donor guidelines during Covid-19 pandemic
17th March 2020
We are confident that our current screening and processing guidelines ensure safety of donor milk however we are implementing new procedures from today (17th March 2020) to protect our donors, staff and blood bike services.
As with other illnesses or infections, it is really important that you inform us as soon as you can if you or anyone in your household shows symptoms of possible Covid-19 infection including a persistent cough or high temperature. You must discard any milk expressed for 3 days prior to showing symptoms and must not express for the milk bank for a period of 14 days after the first symptoms appear.
With immediate effect, any driver or blood biker collecting milk from your house will do this without coming into contact with you or anyone in your household. The driver or biker will telephone you shortly before arriving at your house and ask you to leave your milk on the doorstep in a carrier bag with your name on for them to collect.
We understand that it will be difficult for new potential donors to have blood samples taken at their local GPs surgeries so we may be unable to recruit new donors in the current climate. To try to ensure we meet demand from hospitals we are removing our usual 9 month cut off period for donors so that you can donate until your baby is 18 months old if you would like to and feel able to. We are also removing any maximum per month donation amount.
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By Stephen Aroney, Partner, and Georgia Henderson-Smith, Lawyer
The Supreme Court of NSW has dismissed proceedings commenced by a Plaintiff claiming professional negligence on the part of his former solicitor and senior counsel (the First and Second Defendants) on the basis that neither of them breached their duty of care and that nothing the Defendants did, or failed to do, caused the alleged loss. Ironically, the Plaintiff’s claim stemmed from the Defendants’ advice that there were reasonable prospects of success against the solicitors previously acting for the Plaintiff (Jackson Lalic Lawyers) for professional negligence in connection to Consent Orders entered into with the ANZ Bank in June 2010.
The original proceedings against Jackson Lalic Lawyers arose as a result of the solicitors negligently advising the Plaintiff’s late brother and de facto, at the hearing, to sign Consent Orders stipulating judgment to ANZ in the amount of $3.3 million when the maximum sum owed was only $1.8 million. The Consent Orders provided that the judgment would be satisfied if $1.75 million was paid by a specified date, which they were unable to meet. The effect of the Consent Orders was that the Plaintiff was liable for $1.5 million more than he would have otherwise been if properly advised of his options.
By reason of the alleged professional negligence of Jackson Lalic Lawyers, the Defendants in this case advised the Plaintiff that he had sound prospects to commence proceedings against Jackson Lalic Lawyers. However, Jackson Lalic Lawyers denied the Plaintiff’s claim and relied on the doctrine of advocates immunity, which protects solicitors and barristers from being sued by their clients for negligence in respect of their work conducted at the hearing and also work intimately connected to how the case is run in court. The issue of advocates immunity was determined separately in an appeal to the High Court in Attwells v Jackson Lalic Lawyers Pty Ltd HCA 16. The High Court overturned the Court of Appeal decision and set legal precedent by finding that advocates immunity did not apply to solicitors advising on settlement even on the day of a hearing because settlement advice was not considered to be work intimately connected to how the case is run in court.
Despite the High Court’s overturn of the Court of Appeal decision, and the resultant failure of the doctrine of advocates immunity as a defence for Jackson Lalic Lawyers, the Plaintiff (surprisingly) settled its case against Jackson Lalic Lawyers on a walk away basis due to advice from his new solicitors that the grounds of professional negligence were not properly made out as against Jackson Lalic Lawyers (namely, the Plaintiff’s liability for $3.3 million to the ANZ Bank, rather than $1.75 million, did not amount to a loss in circumstances where the Plaintiff’s late brother and de facto had to declare bankruptcy, and therefore could not pay either amount, regardless of the amount owed).
The present case arose because the Plaintiff alleged that the Defendants negligently advised him to pursue the claim against Jackson Lalic Lawyers, causing him to incur unnecessary legal fees.
Her Honour Justice Lonergan, in the Supreme Court proceedings, meticulously set out the relevant grounds needed to establish professional negligence and ultimately found that the Defendants had not breached their duties of care to the Plaintiff as legal practitioners. Her Honour found that there were sound prospects of success against Jackson Lalic Lawyers given the unchallenged evidence that they failed to properly advise the Plaintiff’s brother and de facto when entering into the Consent Orders with the ANZ Bank in June 2010 and that they suffered damages at that time pursuant to the principles in Potts v Miller HCA 43. Additionally, her Honour found that there was no causative link between the conduct of the Defendants and the losses suffered by the Plaintiff in the present case, which were predominantly made up of his legal costs incurred in the High Court appeal on advocates immunity and the Plaintiff’s solicitors negotiating the walk away settlement with Jackson Lalic Lawyers, all of which were decisions made by the Plaintiff and his current solicitors (therefore breaking the chain of causation since the Defendants could not be blamed for these costs being incurred).
An important takeaway from this case is her Honour’s comment that the precautions taken by legal practitioners should comprise “deploying due care, skill and diligence of a standard reasonably expected of a solicitor and barrister, advising on prospects of success and maintaining the proceedings until completion and/or termination of their retainers”. While her Honour found that the Defendants met this standard of care, the same could not be said for Jackson Lalic Lawyers who negligently advised him to execute the Consent Orders (however, her Honour was also critical of the Plaintiff’s current solicitors for inexplicably advising the Plaintiff to abandon the claim against Jackson Lalic Lawyers after winning the High Court appeal on advocates immunity and, to make matters worse, for wrongly bringing these proceedings against the Defendants).
The fascinating history of this case, and its close analysis of the advice of the various solicitors and barristers involved, provides a valuable blueprint of what must be established by a Plaintiff to obtain a finding of professional negligence against their legal practitioner. Conversely, a different reader may find that this case provides a valuable blueprint of how a Defendant may combat an opportunistic or litigious Plaintiff – or how not to sue their legal practitioner!
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Minskoff Theatre | New York City, New York
Remember all of the iconic tunes? 'The circle of life', 'I just cant wait to be king' and 'Can you feel the love tonight'? Well treat the family to a night at a broadway show, the finest around, the awesome and world famous THE LION KING, on stage once more summer, 2022! The award winning broadway will play at the finest venue in town, Minskoff Theatre, New York, Manhattan on Tuesday 2nd August 2022. Musical lovers are already snapping up tickets so secure quickly if you want to be there in August, just follow the 'get tickets' icon directly above!
The 1994 iconic film THE LION KING, is one of the most famous animated movies ever…. until it came to stage as a broadway version of the family classic we all know and love. The moving story of life, death and everything in between, those iconic songs 'Can you feel the love tonight', 'I just cant wait to be king'…and so many others, alongside the outstanding dance, cast of skilled actors, THE LION KING really comes together as a jaw dropping show for the broadway fan. See the spectacular alongside the family this August when the broadway musical goes back on tour for summer, 2022. The Manhattan, New York leg of the 2022 tour plays at the breathtaking Minskoff Theatre on Tuesday 2nd August 2022, its easily the supreme theatre of its kind and perfect for huge shows like THE LION KING. For access to the production, you can purchase straight from here, it's so simple just click 'get tickets' now! | <urn:uuid:2e834124-ecc8-454b-a383-f6ebbfb020b6> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.minskoffbroadway.com/events/the-lion-king-890/ | 2024-04-22T22:04:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.915054 | 335 |
Cars going on Green? Don’t you find it odd that, in today’s eco-sensitive world, a traffic light has a green light to “go?” Meanwhile, the automotive industry carries the stigma of being one of the most visible causes for global warming. Notwithstanding this notion, there is no doubt that the automotive industry has woken up to the eco-cause. Of course, if I take the French situation, it is perhaps the annual tax of up to 2,600 euros that may have helped “encourage” the interest. Since I am not in the market to buy a car (I already have a diesel Audi A3), I have not been paying particular attention. Only recently, I have noticed that automotive advertisements in France are consistently focused on the “green” cause. Of course, at times, it also sounds like they might be trying to appeal to the BoBo’s (Bohemian Bourgeois if you still have not heard of the sociological profile). I highlight two sets of ads stemming from the same company (someone is clearly “sharing best practices” inside BMW!):
BMW Hydrogen 7. The tagline? “L’eau, une solution aujourd’hui claire pour l’avenir.” [“Water, a solution today that is clearly for tomorrow.”] The ad discusses “responsible pleasure” and introduces a concept of “durable mobility” which is new to me. The “CleanEnergy” technology enables the car to function equally well with hydrogen as with kerosene. Continuing the text, however, the ad goes on to say that the BMW Hydrogen 7 has not been commercialized. Something akin to a virtual launch it seems to me. (See here for a full review from AutoBlogGreen). Considering BMW’s –albeit eco-friendly German–reputation, the green pitch seems like quite a tall order. But, you can see the BMW is putting in a serious effort — and one that should recruit future clients. It has a special CleanEnergy website, that is called BMW Education for 12+ year olds and their teachers…
On the other side of the BMW company, there is Volkswagen. And, I am keen to see how an SUV gets into the green game. With the ad for its VW Tiguan 4×4, the tagline is: “Pour les accros de la ville,” [roughly translated “For the stubborn cityslicker.”] The DPS image juxtaposes the SUV (with a Neuilly license plate) in the middle of some Amazonian type rain forest, replete with parrots (see right hand page of the DPS up above). The combination of Neuilly and the Amazon smacks of BoBo land, does it not? The sub tagline highlights that the injection engine uses a particulate filter (a.k.a. FAP). Nothing else is said on the matter. VW has also another ad running these days running the tagline: “eco(instants)” (only through Feb 23, you we missed the boat if you are still interested). For each car (there are three offers on promotion in this crammed one page ad, see right image), they highlight the grams of CO² per km. And there is an ‘eco bonus’ (of 700E) for two of the cars.
What strikes me about these ads is that we have moved away from performance (burning rubber!) to look toward the ecological criteria as the first point of entry. However, the consumer is still negative on the automotive industry as a whole. I think the automotive industry should do some thinking as to how to promote the overall industry and gain some traction on the most valid criteria before too many marketers debase the field and banalize the claims.
Even the car rental business is getting in on the action. Here is an ad from alphabet.com, a car leasing company, talking about ecomotivation, suggesting that leasing a car is not just about economical leasing rates, but also saving on the planet. (see Ad to the right). Rather consistent to find a BMW in this alphabet ad.
Meanwhile, it is Nissan and Smart that are pulling out the consumer approval within the industry. Of course, Toyota is a pioneer in this domain too.
And the tyre industry is also getting in on the act with their own eco-rating. Michelin, which sells 570 million “green tyres” per year, has been communicating on its tyre which delivers 4g less of CO² per kilometre, uses 0.2 litres of petrol less over 100 kilometres. The Michelin Man (Bibendum) even looks slimmer in certain photos.
A survey by Landor Associates, entitled “ImagePower Survey” p
laced the automotive industry as 4th behind grocery, appliance and body care in terms of brand power. By having specific taxation on CO² emission, there is clearly a reorientation – at least in France – to the way cars are being marketed and sold.
Since I live in France, I am not up to speed on the advertising on cars in other countries. Anyone else report on the approaches in other countries? Would be be happy to hear that the other side of the hill is greener still. | <urn:uuid:ec950be6-6062-4a95-b80a-52001d25efaa> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.minterdial.com/2008/03/cars-going-green-ecomotivation-and-eco-taglines/ | 2024-04-22T21:35:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.950782 | 1,118 |
The Duchess of Cambridge "won't have any more children" even if she is "broody," she has confessed.
And it looks like it's going to stay that way as Kate revealed the Duke doesn't want any more children.
During a visit to Bradford with William in 2020, Kate opened up about the possibility of another Cambridge baby.
While chatting with royal fan Josh Macpalce, who excitedly told the royal that he has sent cards congratulating her after each of her three children were born, she revealed that it is unlikely she will become a mum of four in the future - and it's all because of William.
"I don’t think William wants any more," she told the 25-year-old.
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Macplace, who has autism and DiGeorge syndrome, which is caused by the deletion of a small segment of chromosome 22, held out his arms to Kate, who bent down and gave him a hug.
"Thank you for the hug," she told him.
Josh had travelled with his mother, Sue, 46, from Blackpool to Bradford, combining a trip to a pantomime with the chance to see the Duke and Duchess.
William playfully expressed his concern about expanding the family during the couple's visit to Clitheroe Community Hospital last month.
Kate had stopped to take some pictures with families at the hospital including one with couple Trudi and Alastair Barrie with their daughter, Anastasia.
As Kate held the baby girl for a photo, the onlookers around gushed, which prompted William to jokingly say: "Don't give my wife any more ideas!"
And when Kate handed the baby back to her family, he said: "Don't take her with you."
And while at Copenhagen's Children's Museum in Denmark on February 22, Kate confessed that being around children made her want more kids herself.
While discussing working with young children on a two-day trip on behalf of the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, she told reporters: "It makes me very broody.
"William always worries about me meeting under one-year-olds. I come home saying 'let's have another one.'"
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sharing your stories and remembering your children
By: Emily Carrington EPLA Founder After my first miscarriage I didn’t know what to say.I told my boss to tell people I was sick. When we moved to a new town in the weeks following my loss, I told people I didn’t have any children. The fact that I had a miscarriage wasn’t necessarily a secret. Our family knew, our close friends knew, people at work and church knew. But it also wasn’t something I talked about. It was the big looming elephant in the room. I remember wanting to talk about it. It was always on my mind and I like to process things verbally. In our new town, I had a weekly coffee date with new friends, all of them moms. They shared pregnancy stories, birth stories, mom stories, kid stories. All I could think about was the first 11 weeks of pregnancy. I had so much I wanted to share, but I didn’t know how. Slowly, I opened up in private situations and started to share more, but I still didn’t know how to talk about it. Then I was pregnant again for another 11 weeks and I had a second miscarriage. I continued to slowly share with those close to me. I worked through my pain by talking. It was all I could think about. It consumed my thoughts and my heart all the time, but I still didn’t know how to talk about it. Then one day someone asked me to share my story in front of 80 ladies at Bible study. The invitation was freeing. Someone wanted to hear my story. I didn’t realize how much I needed the opportunity to share until I started writing out the events of the previous few months. I sat down and the story flowed out of me. My heart was feeling free and my thoughts were finally making sense. Just the activity of writing helped heal my soul. As I stood in front of those women on a chilly Wednesday morning in the fall, I felt heard. I felt like my story mattered. And I finally felt ownership of my own story. My intention in sharing was to give God the glory for his provisions during my time of suffering, but, even in this, God offered more healing, more caring, and more provision. Today I invite you to share your story. I want to hear you; we all want to hear you. Your story matters. This blog is a place to share your story. If you have a story about early pregnancy loss consuming your heart, mind, and soul, let us know at [email protected]. We would love to help you share your story. Emily Carrington is the founder of the EPLA and mother to four children. | <urn:uuid:4f4849ac-fb66-46cd-b05d-0926c3098e4a> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.miscarriagecare.com/blog/finally-telling-my-story | 2024-04-22T23:03:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.986766 | 560 |
$54.99 Feel the thrill and enjoy the mystery from a escape game in your own home! In this challenging and unpredictable game, you have to work together to solve puzzles and find hidden clues. It’s always a race against the clock; you only have 60 minutes to escape. The Chrono Decoder counts down from 60 to 0 minutes; it helps create the atmosphere and allow you to take hints.
The box contains four different Escape Room adventures and each adventure has three parts. In each part, you must find a code consisting of four keys that you enter into the Chrono Decoder by using four of the 16 keys. Find three correct codes within 60 minutes to win the game. You win or lose together…
You start by opening an envelope and reading the introduction of the mystery. Solving the mystery is self-explanatory. Inside the envelope are different clues necessary for finding the final parts of its code.
Each turn you explore one of the elements in the room on the board. Here you will search for one or more hidden clues to help you solve the mystery. Are you up for the challenge?
This game contains 4 thrilling adventures in ascending order of difficulty. (Prison Break, Virus, Murder Mystery, Fun Land) Just like in a real life Escape Room, you can only play each game once. You can buy the extensions once youve played them all.
Ages: 16+Players: 3 – 5Average Game Length: 60 Minutes
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January 5: The Yankees have now officially announced the signing.
January 4: The Yankees have signed right-hander Cody Poteet to a major league contract, reports Joel Sherman of The New York Post. Sherman adds that the Beverly Hills Sports Council client has already passed his physical. Poteet will make $750K in the majors and $200K in the minors, per Ari Alexander of KPRC 2. The club’s 40-man roster count was at 38 coming into today but they just claimed Bubba Thompson off waivers and this deal would fill out the roster once made official.
Poteet, 29, has a small amount of major league experience, having pitched for the Marlins in 2021 and 2022. He threw 58 2/3 innings in that time over nine starts and 10 relief appearances, posting an earned run average of 4.45. He struck out 21.5% of batters faced, walked 11% and kept 42.1% of balls in play on the ground. He also threw 14 2/3 innings in the minors in that time with a 1.84 ERA, 37.9% strikeout rate and 6.9% walk rate.
He underwent Tommy John surgery in August of 2022 and was outrighted by the Marlins at the end of that season. He signed a minor league deal with the Royals and he spent the year rehabbing, eventually making one Triple-A appearance late in September. Sherman says that the Royals and Poteet had a two-year minor league deal but with an understanding that the could opt out if he wasn’t selected in the Rule 5 draft and wasn’t subsequently added to the 40-man roster.
Poteet still has a full slate of options, so he can be kept in the minors if he doesn’t earn himself a job on the active roster. The Yanks traded away a decent amount of starting depth in the Juan Soto trade, with Michael King, Drew Thorpe, Jhony Brito and Randy Vásquez all going to San Diego in that deal. They have Gerrit Cole, Carlos Rodón and Nestor Cortes in three spots but are looking for rotation upgrades, showing interest in Blake Snell and Jordan Montgomery. Clarke Schmidt will likely have a job at the back end while Clayton Beeter, Yoendrys Gómez, Luis Gil and Will Warren figure to be in the mix as well.
Regardless of whether they sign another pitcher or not, Poteet should give them some extra depth. Since he has done a bit of starting and relieving, he could perhaps slot in wherever he’s needed, depending on the club’s needs and his own results. His service time clock is at one year and 145 days, meaning he could be controlled for five more seasons, with optionable assignments potentially pushing that back even further. | <urn:uuid:6bbfe659-f9ab-4f5a-9a32-3a9183b52a3d> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/players/cody-poteet | 2024-04-22T23:20:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.970892 | 587 |
Fields relying on the variational learning framework encounter common problems. These include the design of symmetry-invariant parametrization, the theoretical understanding of the expressive power of the variational model, the approximation of quantum dynamics and the use of higher-order optimization techniques. For more details, read the drop-down menus below.
While respecting physical symmetries of quantum systems is of utmost importance, resorting to generic and flexible wave-function parametrization (such as Neural Network Quantum States) also comes at the cost of breaking these symmetries.
Recent work has shown that embedding symmetries into the wave-function ansatze tends to greatly improve both the accuracy by which one can represent a quantum system, as well as gain efficiency in its optimization.
In this pillar, we cover methods to embed symmetries into neural network quantum states and variational quantum circuits, and the close connection between these approaches.
Keywords: Symmetries in Neural Networks; Embedding Symmetries in Variational Quantum Eigensolvers
Understanding which states can be represented by variational models, like neural networks or quantum circuits, is a vital task to theoretically motivate variational methods. Furthermore, it is important to understand how factors such as width, depth and the type of parametrized building blocks of such architectures affect the accuracy of the solution.
In this light, theoretical mappings between tensor networks and neural networks have been derived. It is, however, still unclear if finite-width networks can correctly approximate more complex tasks such as quantum dynamics.
Moreover, the trainability of quantum circuits seems to be deeply related to concepts such as the theory of over-parametrization and the neural tangent kernel.
In this pillar, we will discuss how the representation power and trainability of different variational models can be investigated using mathematical tools from the theory of learning.
Keywords: Neural-Network Quantum States; Variational Algorithms on Quantum Hardware; Theoretical connections between Neural Quantum States, Tensor Networks and Quantum Circuits
Even when a variational model can represent the desired states in theory, in practice it is not always feasible to optimize the wave function and obtain suitable parameters.
Several algorithms have been proposed to improve upon plain gradient descent. Recent examples are Natural Gradient descent, Gauss-Newton and Riley-Newton, which have been generalized to quantum algorithms as well.
In this pillar, higher-order optimization techniques, as well as ways to represent and optimize the dynamics of a quantum system will be discussed.
Keywords: Stochastic Optimization in Quantum Monte Carlo methods; Variational Quantum Dynamics
The topic of variational learning is becoming increasingly relevant in condensed matter physics, quantum computing, quantum chemistry, and computer science. For example, state-of-the-art quantum chemistry methods use neural-network-based variational models to approximate the electronic orbitals in molecules.
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Driving while intoxicated can lead to serious accidents. As a result, New Jersey has passed some laws in order to crack down on drunk driving. For example, New Jersey’s dram shop law means that a bar or restaurant can be held accountable for serving customers who later get involved in drunk driving accidents. Read on to learn more.
What Are Dram Shop Laws?
In an effort to reduce some of the drunk driving accidents in New Jersey, the state has enacted Dram Shop Laws. These laws hold bars and restaurants accountable for over-serving an individual who was clearly intoxicated and then went on to cause injuries to others in a drunk driving accident.
What do I do if an Injury Occurs?
If you are injured due to another party’s negligence, you will have to prove that this negligence occurred. In order to do so, you should take the following steps:
- Call 911. The police can call an ambulance, file an accident report, conduct chemical tests, and more.
- Document the scene. If possible, take photos and videos at the scene of the accident. Be sure to document any damage down to all vehicles involved.
- Obtain witness statements. If anyone saw your accident occur, ask for their contact information. They may be able to corroborate your version of events.
- Seek medical attention. One of the most important things to do is visit the hospital immediately after an accident. Even if you do not believe you have been seriously injured, it is possible to sustain an injury without realizing it. Before leaving the hospital, ask your doctor for a copy of any relevant medical documents.
- Contact an experienced personal injury attorney. An attorney may be able to gather further evidence, including police reports, security camera footage, and more.
- File your claim on time. In New Jersey, you will generally have two years from the date of the accident to file your personal injury claim. Failing to do so will likely mean losing your opportunity to recover compensation.
If you or a loved one has been injured due to another party’s negligence, contact our firm today. We are here to fight for you and help make sure that you recover the compensation you deserve.
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These terms and conditions (“Terms”) apply to the sale or supply of all products or systems (“Products”), and the performance of all services (“Services”) by Moehl Millwork, Inc. (“Seller”) to you (“Customer”) and will form a necessary part of any Offer or Agreement, therefore. Customer’s ordering of Products or Services from Seller constitutes acceptance of these Terms, as such Terms may have been updated through the date of such order. As used herein, “Agreement” means any written agreement for supply, distribution, sale, or license of any Products or Services entered into between Seller and Customer, or any purchase order that is issued by Customer and accepted by Seller; and “Offer” means any quotation, proposal or offer provided to Customer by Seller. Seller and Customer are individually referred to herein as a “Party”, and collectively as the “Parties”.
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4. Use of products and services
Customer shall use Products and Services only for their intended purposes and in accordance with all instructions contained in the manuals, guidelines, warranty terms and any other terms and conditions applicable to such Products and Services or provided by any personnel of Seller, deployed or subcontracted by Seller in the performance of an Agreement (“Personnel”). Customer shall maintain the site, site conditions and equipment supplied and/or used by Seller in the performance of Services (including cablings, fittings and electricity supply) in good condition, repair, and working order, and shall protect same against damage and external influences.
Customer shall use and, where applicable, shall cause and ensure that end-users use web- applications, mobile applications and software in accordance with applicable Additional Use Terms and/or EULAs, and where applicable, keep a full back-up of such software installed readily In the event of a software error, Customer shall provide Seller with alerts or error messages and support Seller in updating or replacing software used in connection with performance under the Agreement.
Customer shall not perform (or permit) any activity on any equipment or software supplied and/or used by Seller in the performance of Services, except normal use in accordance with the specifications or otherwise with the prior approval by Seller. In the event of any unauthorized actions, Seller may suspend the Services until the equipment or software has been restored to its original compliant state and charge Customer on the basis of a Variation, and until confirmed any warranty obligations of Seller with respect to such Services will be null and void. Any changes to equipment or software owned by Seller (or its licensors) will be exclusively owned by Seller (or its licensors), even if such changes have been performed by or for Customer.
Unless expressly included in Services, for any Services requiring connection to a system from a remote location, Customer shall at its own expense and risk establish external system access for service staff of Seller (or its subcontractors). Customer shall make available technically competent staff as and when required to support Seller and, where applicable, Customer authorizes Seller to make use of Customer's IT infrastructure to connect to and share data with specified systems and/or services to perform Services.
Seller shall not be responsible for the failure of any of its Products or Services to provide the expected performance, benefits, effects or outcome arising from: (i) Customer’s failure to comply with the terms under the Agreement; (ii) failures or fluctuations of electric power; (iii) sunset/shutdown of connectivity and communication technologies; (iv) Force Majeure and other unusual external influences; or (v) Variations.
5. Design services; documentation
If included as part of Services, Seller shall provide design services in accordance with specifications as agreed by the Parties in writing. Unless otherwise agreed, all IPR (as defined in section 10(a)) in and to the deliverables arising out of design Services will exclusively vest in Seller or a Seller nominee. Customer shall not use, publish, copy or disclose these without prior approval of Seller, which approval Seller may grant subject to certain conditions, including the payment of a reasonable fee.
All the documentation provided by Seller in connection with the Products and Services, including any user manuals or instructions, catalogs, specification sheets, data, drawings, schedules, designs, source code, or any other documents or information obtained from Seller or created by Seller in whatever form including electronic or printed format (“Documentation”) will remain the property of Documentation is not sold to Customer, but licensed subject to the license terms in section 10 below. Unless otherwise agreed, all IPR in and to the Documentation is retained by Seller or a Seller nominee. Customer shall not use, publish, copy or disclose the Documentation except in accordance with these Terms.
6. Installation; services on-site
This section applies where Seller (or its subcontractor) will perform construction or installation activities (“Installation” or “Install”) or other Services at a site owned or controlled by Customer.
Customer is responsible for the timely completion of preparatory works and site preparations in conformity with requirements set by Seller. Customer shall prior to the agreed start of Installation or other Services on site, and in such a manner that Seller can perform in the most efficient manner and within agreed time schedules: (i) provide and maintain the site conditions (including infrastructure); (ii) provide all necessary information, instructions, inspections, authorizations, approvals, permits and notify Seller about the location of any cables, electric power lines, water pipes or the like, including surveys describing physical characteristics, legal limitations and utility locations for the site; (iii) provide site access, including traffic management, where applicable; and (iv) put at the disposal of Seller all materials, tools, constructions and other facilities, and all other reasonable assistance in an accurate and timely manner, and at no additional costs to Seller, all in compliance with applicable laws, including all applicable health and safety, electrical and building codes.
Customer shall not call Seller upon site before the obligations under section 6(a) have been satisfactorily completed. In the event of waiting times of more than four (4) hours on a day, Seller may reschedule and charge Customer a full working day for that day for the resources concerned. Customer shall: (i) provide a fully qualified representative to support Seller as and when required while working on site; (ii) provide utilities (including gas, water, electricity and connectivity), heating and lighting necessary for the performance on site; (iii) provide adequate and lockable rooms for Personnel (equipped with sanitary installations) and storage of materials, tools and instruments on or near the site; (iv) decommission and collect the materials that are replaced by Products and remove these from the site; and (v) assist Seller during (performance) Upon request of Seller, Customer shall arrange for the temporary shutdown of facilities at the site (including water systems).
Upon finalization of Installation or other Services on-site, Seller shall notify Customer in accordance with the acceptance protocol agreed between the Parties. In the event that no such protocol has been agreed, within five (5) days after notice to Customer of finalization of installation or other Services on-site, Customer shall check and test the Service set-up, the Products supplied and/or Installed by Seller and, subject to sections 3(b) and 3(c), notify Seller of any Defect (as defined in section 9(a)), in the absence of which Customer will be deemed to have accepted the Service set-up, the Products supplied and/or Installed five (5) days after notice. Seller shall resolve Defects so notified within a reasonable period in accordance with section 9.
7. Risk and title
Risk of damage to or loss of Products will pass to Customer (i) upon delivery by Seller to Customer in accordance with the applicable INCOTERM, or (ii) in the event that Seller Installs Products on-site, unless agreed otherwise, upon delivery on-site.
Legal title to Products will pass to Customer only when Seller (or its financiers) has received payment for such Products in full and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, Seller received payment in full of all other amounts due by Customer under any other agreement with Seller (or any of its affiliates). Until legal title to Products has passed to Customer, Customer shall: (i) not assimilate; transfer or pledge any of the Products or grant any right or title in the Products to any third party, except in the normal course of business and against payment or subject to retention of title; and (ii) ensure that the Products remain identifiable as Products owned by Seller. In the event of breach by Customer, Seller may require that Customer return to Seller, at Customer’s cost (including costs for de-installation), all Products in which the title has not yet passed, and Customer shall fully cooperate to enable Seller to collect such Products and grant Seller (or its representative) free access to the location of the Products, and other equipment supplied and/or used by Seller in the performance of Services.
8. Force Majeure
Seller will not be liable for any breach resulting from a Force Majeure event. If a Force Majeure event occurs, Seller’s performance will be suspended for the period of such Force Majeure event. “Force Majeure” means any circumstances or occurrences beyond the reasonable control of Seller, whether or not foreseeable at the time of an Agreement, as a result of which Seller cannot reasonably perform or execute its obligations, including, without limitation, acts of God, natural catastrophes (including earthquake, lightning, hurricane, typhoon, flooding or volcanic activities or extreme weather conditions), strikes, lock-outs, war, terrorism, political situation, civil unrest, riots, sabotage, vandalism, industry-wide shortages, breakdown of plant or machinery, fault or loss of electricity supply, cyber-attacks and hacking or non-performance by suppliers of Seller or by other third parties on which Services rely (including connectivity and communication services). In the event that Force Majeure event extends (or is reasonably expected by Seller to extend) for a period of three (3) consecutive months, Seller will be entitled to cancel all or any part of an Agreement without any liability towards Customer.
9. Limited warranty and disclaimer
In most instances, Seller Products are sold subject to an applicable standard limited warranty either accompanying the product or as published on Seller’s website as the standard warranty applicable for a particular Product (the “Standard Product Warranty”). For any Product that is sold by Seller that is not subject to an applicable Standard Product Warranty, Seller warrants only that for one (1) year from delivery to Customer the Products will be free from Defects. For any Services that are performed by Seller, Seller warrants the Service will be free from Defects for one (1) year from the date Seller completes performance. The warranty period will commence upon acceptance as set out in section 6(c). A "Defect" (or “Defective”) means, in relation to a Product, that a Product has any defect in material or workmanship which causes the Product to fail to operate in accordance with the specifications provided by product manufacturer, with consideration given to the overall performance of the Product and, in relation to Services, means that the Service has not been performed in a competent, diligent manner.
Unless otherwise agreed by the Parties, Seller does not provide any warranty for third party products, nor for third party software, applications or services, or customized Products.
Customer acknowledges that EULAs or Additional Use Terms may limit the warranty period for software (including web or mobile applications).
In order to be entitled to make a valid claim under warranty, Customer shall promptly notify Seller of alleged Defective Products or Defective Services prior to expiration of the warranty In the event that Seller decides, in its sole discretion, that a claim under warranty is valid, Seller shall, within a reasonable time, at its own option, repair or offer replacement products for Defective Products, or remedy or supplement any Defective Services. If despite reasonable efforts of Seller, a Defective Product cannot be repaired, no replacement product can be supplied, or Defective Services cannot be remedied or supplemented, Seller shall make an appropriate refund or credit of monies paid by Customer for those Defective Products or Defective Services. Repairs, replacements or remedies will not extend or renew the applicable warranty period. Customer shall obtain consent from Seller on the specifications of any tests it plans to conduct to determine whether a Defect exists. Replacement products supplied by Seller may have minor deviations in design and/or specifications which do not affect the functionality of replaced Product. In respect of any replaced or credited Products, Seller may, in its sole discretion, either claim the property of replaced or credited Products and require Customer to return these to Seller, or instruct Customer to destroy these at Customer’s costs.
Customer shall bear the costs of access for remedial warranty efforts by Seller, including removal and replacement of systems, structures or other parts of Customer’s facility, the de-installation of Defective Products, and the re-installation of replacement products. Customer shall not return Products to Seller without consent of Seller and unless in accordance with applicable Seller’s return policies. In the event that Seller decides that a claim under warranty is not valid, Customer will bear the costs incurred by Seller in handling and testing, and the transport of Products returned.
Any indemnification and warranty obligations of Seller under an Agreement are conditional upon: (i) proper storage, installation, use, operation, and maintenance of Products, all in accordance with user manuals, warranty policies and other instructions or terms communicated by Seller to Customer; (ii) Customer keeping accurate and complete records of operation and maintenance during the warranty period and providing Seller access to those records; and (iii) modification or repair of Products or Services only as authorized by Seller. Failure to meet these conditions renders the warranty null and void. Seller will not be responsible for normal wear and tear, or environmental or stress testing. The warranty provided in this section 9 does not apply to damage or failure to perform arising as a result of any Force Majeure or from any abuse, misuse, abnormal use, corrosive environments, neglect, exposure or any use, or installation in violation of the instructions or restrictions prescribed by Seller or any applicable standard or code.
Any indemnification and warranty obligation of Seller under an Agreement will not establish, by themselves, any liability to third parties or the public. Nothing in an Agreement will be construed to create any obligation, standard of care or liability to persons or third parties.
If a recall, retrofit, update, withdrawal or any other remedial action related to any Product is required, Customer shall fully cooperate and shall provide such assistance as Seller may require. Customer shall keep accurate books and records to assure traceability of the Products in the event of a Product recall or any other remedial actions.
SUBJECT TO THE EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS SET OUT IN THE AGREEMENT, AND SUBJECT TO APPLICABLE LAW, SECTIONS 9, 11 AND 12 STATE THE ENTIRE LIABILITY OF SELLER AND ITS AFFILIATES IN CONNECTION WITH DEFECTIVE PRODUCTS OR DEFECTIVE SERVICES, REGARDLESS OF WHEN THE DEFECT ARISES, AND WHETHER A CLAIM, HOWEVER DESCRIBED, IS BASED ON CONTRACT, WARRANTY, INDEMNITY, TORT OR EXTRA-CONTRACTUAL LIABILITY (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, AND WILL EXTEND DIRECTLY TO CUSTOMER ONLY AND NOT TO ANY THIRD PARTY, INCLUDING CUSTOMER’S CUSTOMERS, AGENTS OR REPRESENTATIVES. SELLER EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY AGAINST INFRINGEMENT OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. AN ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF THE LIMITED EXCLUSIVE LIABILITIES AND REMEDIES UNDER THE WARRANTY IS ALLOCATION OF RISKS BETWEEN SELLER AND CUSTOMER, WHICH ALLOCATION OF RISKS IS REFLECTED IN THE PRICES.
10. Rights in software, documentation, and intellectual property
Subject to Customer’s fulfillment of all obligations under the Agreement and these Terms, the supply of Products and/or Services (including software embedded in Products or Services) includes a non-exclusive and non-transferable limited license (without the right to grant sublicenses) to Customer under any intellectual property rights (including patents, utility models, registered and unregistered designs, copyrights, database rights, trademarks, domain names, trade secrets, know- how, semiconductor IC topography rights and all registrations, applications, renewals, extensions, combinations, divisions, continuations or reissues of any of the foregoing, collectively: “IPR”) of Seller, to the limited extent that such IPR is embodied or embedded in the Products or Services purchased, to use or resell the Products (including Documentation) as sold by Seller, and/or, for Services, to use the Services (including Documentation) during the term of the applicable Agreement in accordance with the applicable Services description. No rights to IPR are conferred to Customer or any third party other than explicitly granted under the Agreement or these Terms.
In respect of any (embedded) software or other applications supplied to Customer, Customer shall not and shall not permit any third party to: (i) copy, reproduce, distribute, modify, adapt, alter, translate, or create derivative works therefrom; (ii) assign, sublicense, lease, rent, loan, transfer, disclose, or otherwise make available such software or other works; (iii) merge or incorporate such software with or into any other software; or (iv) reverse assemble, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code or the algorithmic nature for such software, or to decode, de-crypt or neutralize any security measures in software or remove or circumvent the protection of software, without authorization from Seller except as explicitly allowed under applicable law; (v) perform any action with regard to software in a manner that would require the software, or any derivative work thereof, to be licensed under Open Source Terms, including but not limited to: (a) combining the software or a derivative work thereof with Open Source Software, by means of incorporation or linking or otherwise; or (b) using Open Source Software to create a derivative work of the software, where “Open Source Software” means any software that is licensed under open source license terms that require as a condition of use, modification or distribution of a work: (1) the making available of source code or other materials preferred for modification, or (2) the granting of permission for creating derivative works, or (3) the reproduction of certain notices or license terms in derivative works or accompanying documentation, or (4) the granting of a royalty- free license to any party under IPR regarding the work or any work that contains, is combined with, requires or otherwise is based on the work.
Customer acknowledges that third parties may own IPR related to Products or Customer shall reproduce, without any amendments or changes, any proprietary rights legends of Seller or its third-party suppliers in any software or Documentation provided by Seller.
Seller will be free to use in any way or form any ideas, suggestions, feedback or recommendations by Customer to Seller regarding Products or Services ("Feedback"), without payment of royalties or other consideration to Seller will own all IPR in Feedback. Seller is entitled to use output, deliverables and creations resulting from the performance of Services for its own publicity or for promotional purposes.
11. Intellectual property rights indemnity
Customer shall promptly notify Seller of any third-party claim alleging that any of the Products and/or Services supplied to Customer by Seller infringes any third party IPR. Upon such notice, Seller may at its own option and at its own expense either: (i) procure for Customer the right to continue using such Product and/or Services; or (ii) provide a replacement non-infringing product for such Product of equivalent functionality; or (iii) modify such Product such that it is no longer infringing; or (iv) remedy such Service; or (v) make an appropriate refund or credit of monies paid by Customer for that Product and/or Services.
In the event that a claim referred to under section 11(a) results in any legal proceedings, Customer shall provide Seller with all assistance as Seller may reasonably require in connection with such defense of such claim. Customer shall not enter into any settlement in connection with any such claim, nor incur any costs or expenses for the account of Seller without the prior consent of Seller.
Subject to the provisions of sections 11 and 12, Seller will reimburse Customer in respect of any final award of damages by a court of competent jurisdiction holding that Products and/or Services as supplied by Seller under an Agreement directly infringe any third party IPR, provided that the infringement is held to be directly and solely attributable to the use by Customer of the Products and/or Service as supplied by Seller under the Agreement.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided in the Agreement, Seller will not be liable for, and the obligations of Seller set out in this section 11 will not apply to: (i) any claim of infringement of third party IPR resulting from compliance with Customer’s design, drawings, specifications or instructions; or (ii) use of any Products, deliverables and/or Services other than in accordance with its specifications or any claim based on or resulting from any modification or adaptation of a Product, deliverables and/or Service made by or on behalf of Customer; or (iii) any third party IPR covering any assembly, circuit, combination, method or process, in the manufacture, testing or application in which such Products and/or Services supplied by Seller may have been used; or (iv) any claim of infringement resulting from compliance with an industry standard applying to the Products or Services.
With regard to any claim of infringement covered by section 11 (d), Customer shall fully indemnify Seller against any award of damages for any such infringement and shall reimburse all costs incurred by Seller in defending any suit or proceeding for such infringement, provided that Seller gives Customer prompt notice in writing of any such suit or proceeding for infringement and, if so requested, full authority to conduct the defense thereof.
In the event that Seller receives notice claiming infringement of third party IPR in relation to any Products and/or Services supplied or to be supplied under an Agreement, Seller may, in order to limit or avoid liability, terminate the Agreement, suspend or discontinue the supply or performance to Customer of the Products and/or Services or parts to which such notice relates and Seller will not be liable to Customer by virtue of such termination, suspension or discontinuation.
Subject to the exclusions and limitations set forth in section 12, the foregoing states the entire liability of Seller for infringement of third party IPR in connection with the supply of Products and/or Services.
12. Limitation of liability
THE LIABILITY OF SELLER AND ITS AFFILIATES FOR ALL CLAIMS OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE PROVISION OF PRODUCTS OR SERVICES TO CUSTOMER, OR OTHERWISE UNDER AN AGREEMENT, INCLUDING ANY INDEMNITIES, PENALTIES OR LIQUIDATED DAMAGE (“CLAIMS”), WILL BE LIMITED TO A MAXIMUM, AGGREGATE TOTAL (“LIABILITY CAP”) OF (I) TWENTY PERCENT (20%) OF THE TOTAL PRICE PAID BY THE CUSTOMER FOR PRODUCTS AND/OR SERVICES TO WHICH SUCH CLAIMS RELATE, OR (II) TWO MILLION U.S. DOLLARS ($2,000,000), WHICHEVER IS LOWER. FOR SERVICES THAT ARE PERFORMED ON THE BASIS OF SPECIFIED PHASES, TIME PERIODS OR MILESTONES (“MILESTONES”) AS MAY BE SPECIFIED IN AN AGREEMENT, THE LIABILITY CAP WILL FURTHER BE LIMITED TO TWENTY PERCENT (20%) OF THE TOTAL PRICE PER EACH SUCH MILESTONE FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO SUCH MILESTONE.
Seller will not under any circumstances be liable for any lost profits, lost savings, loss of data, loss of reputation, loss of goodwill, indirect, incidental, punitive, special or consequential damages, whether or not such damages are based on tort, warranty, contract or otherwise – even if Seller has been advised, or is aware, of the possibility of such damages.
In order to be entitled to make a valid Claim, Customer shall notify Seller of any such Claim within thirty (30) days of the date of the event giving rise to the Claim, and any lawsuit relating to a Claim must be filed within one (1) year of the date of such Claims that are not brought or filed in accordance with the preceding sentence will be null and void.
The limitations and exclusions of liability will apply only to the extent permitted by applicable mandatory law.
Customer shall maintain any technical, commercial and financial information, including any Offer and (pricing) terms, other data disclosed to Customer by Seller, and any Feedback, confidential and shall not disclose such information to any third party and shall not use any such information for any purpose other than as agreed by the Parties and in relation to the Offer and/or the Agreement.
14. Export/Import controls
Certain transactions of Seller may be subject to export or import controls laws and regulations that prohibit or restrict the (re)export or transfer of certain items to certain countries, entities or individuals, such as the laws and regulations of the UN, EU and US (“Export Regulations”). The (re)export or transfer of Products and/or Services, as well as technical assistance, training, investments, financing, financial assistance, brokering and licensing of technology, are subject in all respects to the applicable Export Regulations and to the jurisdiction of the relevant authorities responsible for Export Regulations. If any such (re-)export or transfer requires an export or import license, or is otherwise prohibited or restricted under Export Regulations, Seller may, in its sole discretion, suspend its obligations to Customer until such license is granted or for the duration of any restrictions or prohibitions, or terminate (the relevant part of) the Agreement without incurring any liability.
Customer shall impose all export control restrictions to any third party if the Products and/or Services are (re)exported or transferred to third parties. At the request of Seller and if required by applicable Export Regulations, Customer shall inform Seller on any (re)export or transfer of the Products in order to comply with Export Regulations and any other regulatory responsibilities governing the sale of the Products, including requirements on the traceability of Products that may apply to Seller. Customer shall not provide any statement or certification in support of restrictive trade practices or boycotts.
Customer may not assign an Agreement, or any of its rights or obligations thereunder, without the prior consent of Seller.
Sellery may delegate, assign, sell, novate or subcontract in part or in whole its obligations and rights (including receivables) under any Agreement to any of its affiliates or any third party without the prior consent of Customer – and if such consent would be required under applicable law, such consent is herewith provided –, in which event Customer shall cooperate with Seller’s efforts, including providing relevant information, executing documents and making payments to accounts or third parties as notified by Seller.
16. Compliance with laws; anti-bribery
Customer shall at all times comply and shall take all actions reasonably necessary to ensure that its business partners shall comply, with all applicable local and international laws and regulations, including on anti-bribery and anti-corruption and the Export Accordingly, Customer shall conduct its business honestly and not engage in any act of bribery or corruption.
Should Seller receive any indications about a breach of the obligation under (a) Customer shall cooperate and provide Seller with all information required to allow Seller to verify such indications, and if founded, section 18 will apply.
17. Health and safety
The Parties shall comply with all applicable legislation, rules and/or regulations on the health and safety of workers and/or employees, as well as health and safety of the public in the vicinity. Customer shall provide and shall procure that its employees, agents, contractors or subcontractors provide safe work surroundings for Personnel and other representatives and shall take those measures prescribed by law and any other measures necessary for the prevention of accidents at the site and to ensure the health and safety of Personnel at the site. Customer shall timely inform Personnel of required safety precautions and advise Seller of all applicable site-specific health, safety, security and environmental requirements and procedures. Seller has the right, but not the obligation, to, from time to time, review and inspect applicable health, safety, security and environmental documentation, procedures and conditions at the site.
Customer shall ensure that no hazardous materials are present at the If hazardous materials are present, Customer shall and shall procure that its employees, agents, contractors or subcontractors handle these properly and if applicable, arrange for the appropriate removal and disposal thereof at the expense of Customer. If, in the reasonable opinion of Seller, the health, safety, or security of Personnel or the site is, or may be, imperiled by security risks, terrorist acts or threats, the presence of or threat of exposure to hazardous materials, or unsafe working conditions, Seller may, in addition to other rights or remedies available to it, evacuate some or all Personnel from the site (with the reasonable assistance of Customer), suspend performance of all or any part of an Agreement, and/or remotely perform or supervise Services (if possible) with no further liability to Customer.
Conditions at a site that differ materially from those disclosed by Customer, or previously unknown physical conditions at site that differ materially from those ordinarily encountered and generally recognized as inherent in work of the character provided for in the Agreement, will be deemed a Variation.
18. Breach; suspension; termination
In the event of: (i) a breach by Customer of any of the provisions of the Agreement or these Terms, including any failure to pay any amount as and when due; or (ii) in the reasonable opinion of Seller, the financial position of the Customer (or a material change thereof) is likely to affect Customer’s ability to perform its obligations under the Agreement; or (iii) any proceedings in insolvency, bankruptcy (including reorganization), liquidation or winding up are instituted by or against Customer, whether filed or instituted by Customer (voluntarily or involuntarily), a trustee or receiver is appointed over Customer, or any assignment is made for the benefit of creditors of Customer; or (iv) Customer ceases, or threatens to cease, to carry on business; or (v) the control over or ownership of Customer changes, then Seller may declare all amounts outstanding by Customer immediately due and payable and may set off any amount that Seller (or any of its affiliates) owes to Customer under any agreement including any advance payments or deposits made by Customer, against amounts due pursuant to section 18(b). In addition, Seller may in its sole discretion by notice to Customer with immediate effect suspend or cancel any performance due from Seller (including production, delivery, installation and commissioning of Products, obligations under warranty and performance of Services) or terminate the Agreement or any part thereof, without any liability, and/or suspend or cancel any credit terms offered to Customer. Seller may only use the right to terminate an Agreement pursuant to this section if, in respect of an event under (i) above that is capable of being remedied, Customer fails to remedy the breach within fourteen (14) days, or in respect of an event under (ii), Customer fails to provide Seller with a bank guarantee or other security to the satisfaction of Seller within fourteen (14) days.
Customer shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless Seller and its affiliates, and their officers, directors, agents, employees, successors, and assigns from and against, all losses (including loss of profits or turnover), liabilities, costs (including legal costs and costs incurred in relation to unfinished products) and expenses arising out of or in connection with any of the following events: (i) a breach by Customer of any of the provisions or obligations of the Agreement or these Terms, or the occurrence of any of the other events set out in section 18(a); (ii) any claim by third parties for any loss, damage or injury or death caused or alleged to be caused by the negligent use, application, or installation of Products, caused by any modification of Product or integration of Product into other products not authorized by Seller, by Customer or its contractors, agents, affiliates or customers to whom it sold Product; or (iii) non-compliance by Customer with section 7(b), in which event costs will include the full replacement costs of products, systems or other equipment.
Upon (early) termination or expiration of an Agreement, (i) all rights and licenses granted to Customer under that Agreement will immediately cease; (ii) Customer shall return, delete (including from all hard disks and memory) or destroy (and a duly appointed officer shall certify to such destruction) all information disclosed under section 13, including software not embedded in Products, and all copies thereof; (iii) return to Seller, at the costs of Customer, any Products of which (legal) title has not passed to Customer (in accordance with section 7) and any other products, systems or equipment supplied and/or used by Seller in the performance of the Services; and (iv) all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by Seller(including a reasonable profit) for any activities related to work performed by Seller prior to such termination will be considered due, payable and non-refundable.
In the event of a suspension that lasts for more than two (2) months, the provisions of section 18(c)(iv) will also be applicable to any activities related to work performed by or for Seller prior to such suspension.
The rights of Seller pursuant to this section 18 will be in addition to any other rights and remedies Seller may have at law or in equity. In the event of termination of an Agreement, the terms and conditions destined to survive such termination or expiration will so survive. Termination will not affect the rights of the Parties accrued up to the date of termination.
19. Governing law and forum
The laws of the State of Iowa govern all Agreements, Offers and these Terms, without regard to conflict of law Any legal action or proceeding arising out of or in connection with an Agreement, an Offer or these Terms that cannot be settled through consultation in good faith within thirty (30) days after notice from either Party that a dispute exists, will be brought exclusively in the courts of the State of Iowa provided that Seller will always be permitted to bring any action or proceedings against Customer in any other court of competent jurisdiction. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods will not apply.
Nothing in this section 19 will be construed or interpreted as a limitation on either Party’s right under applicable law to seek injunctive or other equitable relief, to take any action to safeguard its possibility to have recourse on the other Party or to bring action or proceedings in relation to any failure to pay any amount as and when due.
20. Privacy and use of data
Each Party shall comply with all applicable data protection laws. Unless agreed otherwise by the Parties, Seller (or its subcontractors) will not process information relating to any identified or identifiable natural persons (“Personal Data”) for Customer or on Customer’s behalf.
Customer acknowledges and agrees that Seller and its affiliated companies (or their respective subcontractors) may collect information and data generated from Products and Services (including any third-party product, service or system provided in conjunction with the Product and/or Service) and/or the use thereof (“Usage Data”).Seller is entitled to use the Usage Data, free of charge, at any time during the term of an Agreement and afterwards, in its sole discretion for any purposes whatsoever, including to aggregate or compile Usage Data with other data, create IPR or derivative works of or modify or adapt Usage Data to provide, maintain, and improve products and services, and to develop new products or features or Unless otherwise stated in the Agreement, EULA or Additional Use Terms, Seller shall ensure that the use of Usage Data will exclude any Personal Data and any data that would enable the identification of Customer or company or organization.
The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these Terms or an Agreement will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision thereof, all of which will remain in full force and In the event of such finding of invalidity or unenforceability, the Parties shall endeavor to substitute the invalid or unenforceable provision(s) by such effective provision(s) as will most closely correspond with the original intention of the provision(s) so voided. At reasonable notice, Customer shall assist Seller in verifying Customer's compliance with the Agreement.
Any right of Seller set out in these Terms will be without prejudice to any rights or remedies Seller may have under the Agreement or at law or in Customer acknowledges that Seller and any of its affiliates are intended to be third-party beneficiaries for purposes of all benefits under, and may enforce the provisions of the Agreement, including these Terms, where applicable. The failure or the delay of either Party to enforce any provision of these Terms or an Agreement will not constitute a waiver of such provision or a waiver to enforce it.
The terms of an Agreement (including these Terms and any other terms and conditions forming part thereof) state the entire understanding and agreement between the Parties as to the sale of Products and performance of Services under that Agreement and will supersede any prior promises, agreements, representations, undertakings, or implications whether made orally or in writing between Seller and Customer with respect to the subject thereof. The Parties expressly acknowledge that, in entering into an Agreement, no reliance has been placed on any representations which have not been incorporated as part of that No variation to an Agreement will be binding upon either Party unless made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of each of the Parties.
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The short list of expertise: Relationship Therapists Near Me
If you’ve been wondering, “Is legit?” you’ll enjoy to understand that all their counselors are accredited, certified specialists. You might likewise be shocked at the costs and how much therapy they cover.
expenses just about $240-$ 360 each month. That has to do with $60-$ 90 weekly. For this fee, you call both access and live sessions. The rate isn’t even dependent on your specific issue, but rather your place and therapist offered.
That’s an extremely welcome advancement in the psychological health area because even today, mental health services are considered a privilege for those with the financial methods. One normal in-person treatment session can quickly cost you $200 if not more, and numerous insurer won’t assist, either.
The prohibitive expense of a regular therapist is one of the
How are the therapists verified? Relationship Therapists Near Me
Online counseling might be worth thinking about if you feel like your mental health is suffering. You can fulfill a therapist once or twice each week, and as a user, you set the time. We examine the advantages of this distinct plan listed below:
Certified Therapists Available
has an excellent lineup of accredited counselors and therapists with varying specializeds. All of them have actually passed their state regulations and needed education requirements. Each therapist features 3 years of professional experience consisting of 1,000 scientific hours at minimum.
As a user, makes it easy as they match you with a therapist concentrating on your specific mental health issue. Consultations are arranged at any date hassle-free to you.
Accessible Virtual Sessions
Online treatment conserves you a great deal of time, whether you select to satisfy a therapist from house, at the office, or when awaiting your kid to complete their afternoon activities. When you most require them without suffering long waiting lines, you likewise have the luxury of setting up meetings.
You can review the available meeting options from including weekly live video sessions or chat conferences, or perhaps a combination of the two depending upon what works best with your schedule.
Link to a Therapist Quickly
The professionals at do not suggest signing up for the consumption procedure if you or a good friend are in a mental health crisis circumstance with little space to extra. It might take too long to schedule your live sessions.
Instead of the regular online counseling, in such a case, the website has an unique list of resources for those in an emergency scenario. If somebody remains in immediate danger, please call your regional emergency situation hotline or any of the numbers listed below:
When your therapist and you have actually been matched, things will probably move promptly. You and your therapist may be in the exact same time zone, but perhaps not.
Your therapist might use you a worksheet before your very first appointment to assist you choose what you want to get out of your sessions. Setting these objectives will not just help your therapist understand what kind of support you require, but it will likewise make you more conscious of your own needs.
A lot! The platform can match you with a therapist to assist you with whatever from the quarantine blues to continuous psychological health problems.
Keep in mind, the therapists can’t use you a medical diagnosis. They * can * supply professional care and assistance that goes beyond just listening. One study discovered that users experienced less symptoms of depression after utilizing the website.
An evaluation of 6 more research studies suggests that online treatment in general has a significant positive result on
‘s rates can vary from $45 to $120 per week, however you can normally anticipate to pay $60 to $80 each week. Your rate will depend upon your location, billing frequency, and therapist accessibility. Bear in mind that you can cancel anytime.
Insurance isn’t typically compatible with the platform. However even if your strategy doesn’t cover it, could still be less expensive than the co-pay you ‘d pay an in-person therapist in your network. To find out, talk to your insurance provider straight.
Here’s an introduction of how works:
You submit an online questionnaire to provide details to match you with a counselor.
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Parents and kids often have very busy schedules. This is no wonder, given all the school and work responsibilities, everyday stress, and housework. However, this doesn’t have to be an excuse not to spare time with your kids. However, it might lead you to fear that your kids will be bored, throw tantrums, or that you’re all going to be too flushed at the end of the day to entertain your kids.
How can I make our time with kids worthwhile?
You shouldn’t feel guilty for not spending as much time with your kids as you’d want, as it’s not the quantity of time, but the quality of time that really counts. You can have a lot of fun with them, all you need is a clear plan and to make some small changes. With the following tips you can’t go wrong, so read on!
Make sure that you have an established channel of communication with your kid. If you can’t make it to have a short recap or conversation at the beginning or end of the day, you can exchange notes with them with short messages, or agree to send a note, or make a short phone- or video-call.
Establish a family ritual
This doesn’t have to be anything too elaborate. It can be a small daily activity when you gather around and exchange notes, or a weekly or monthly get-together where you put all other plans on stand-by. For instance, you can do some housekeeping together, exchange hugs, or make a weekly family dinner.
Don’t skip meal time!
Breakfast, lunch, or dinner, it doesn’t matter. This is the time when you can gather, share a meal, and exchange views on the ongoing events. Researchers agree that family meal time is essential for bringing the sense of happiness and community to your home.
It’s one thing watching a movie or cartoons together, or reading an eBook out loud, but try to minimize the time you spend in front of the screen. Forget about scrolling through social media, messaging, or answering calls. If necessary, put your phone on airplane mode, set your laptop on standby, and leave your kids tablet in the cupboard, and focus on the precious time you can share.
Run a small project
Have a thing you’re working on together, be that a small landscaping project, building a bookhouse, treehouse, setting up bird feeders and birdhouses, stone painting, creating a LEGO table, and invite all family members. Even better, when you’re done, you can have a public display of your work, invite the whole neighborhood, and create a festive atmosphere.
Learn something new together
Visit a local museum, landmark, a historic district, or archeological site, and make sure that the tour guide gives you as much information as possible. Learn a new cooking technique together, try out a new recipe, or watch a documentary with your kids. Take a foreign language class with your kids, and learn from them.
Have a good laugh
Don’t forget to put a smile on their face, and have your own routine of jokes and anecdotes that you’ll enjoy telling over and over again. When times are hard, this will alleviate some of the stress, and show that you enjoy the company of your kids.
Reward positive action
Good behavior should be reinforced, so don’t forget to reward it with a “Bravo”, “Good job”, “Awesome”. Also, don’t forget to treat your kids to their favorite meals and toys when they’re exceptionally good.Over time, they’ll be motivated to act responsibly and amicably without expecting an actual reward, but don’t take that for granted! If you’ve promised something, stick to it!
You’re dropping them at school, or travelling to see a doctor, or taking your cat to the vet, or waiting with your family to catch a flight at the airport. There’s a number of games that you can play with your kids without toys. However, for toddlers and younger children in general, having their favorite doll, teddy, or action hero might serve as an additional reassurance, so make sure to have them handy.
In addition, since kids love physical activity, make sure to take them to open door parks in the vicinity, or in case of inclement weather, to an enclosed fun park like Uptown Jungle in Peoria just a couple of blocks away.
Don’t take your time together for granted. Tell your kids how much they mean to you, hug them, kiss them, and show them your love. This way, they are more likely to grow up into caring and loving individuals, with better self-esteem, a likeable personality, and higher emotional IQ. | <urn:uuid:809f4f2c-4796-4892-8afd-14bc021f3eaa> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.mommylifehack.com/10-tips-for-spending-quality-time-with-your-kids/ | 2024-04-22T22:45:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.948628 | 1,021 |
Smart Savings on Laundry Day: Fabric Softener Sheet Hacks
Warm Welcome to Budget-Friendly Laundry Solutions
Hello, savvy savers! Today, we’re diving into a delightful realm of household budgeting, specifically focusing on a common yet often overlooked aspect of our daily lives: laundry. Amid the whirl of detergents, stain removers, and the endless cycles of wash and dry, lies the humble fabric softener sheet. A hero in the battle against static cling, these sheets bring softness and a fresh scent to our clothes.
However, for those managing household expenses, especially in bustling families, the cost of fabric softener sheets can quietly add up. But worry not! We’re here to share a brilliant, pocket-friendly strategy that will change your laundry game for the better.
Why You’ll Love This Laundry Lifehack
In the quest for cost-effective solutions, this fabric softener sheet trick is a gem. By maximizing the use of each sheet, you’ll not only extend the life of your purchases but also contribute to a more sustainable lifestyle by reducing waste. It’s a win-win: your clothes remain soft and free of static, your budget breathes a sigh of relief, and you take a small yet impactful step towards environmental stewardship.
Step-by-Step Instructions: Maximizing Your Fabric Softener Sheets
Step 1: Selecting Your Sheets
Start with choosing the right fabric softener sheets. While brand names are often more potent, don’t dismiss the value offered by generic brands. Assessing the strength and cost-effectiveness of each will guide your initial selection.
Step 2: The Perfect Cut
Once you’ve chosen your sheets, it’s time to wield your scissors with purpose. Cutting each fabric softener sheet into four equal parts is the key. This simple action quadruples the lifespan of your box, offering a softer landing for both your clothes and your wallet.
Step 3: Adjusting for Brand Strength
Be mindful that not all sheets are created equal. Brand name sheets, known for their robustness, can indeed be quartered. However, for generic brands, you might find halving them to be more practical. Tailoring your approach to the brand will ensure optimal results.
Step 4: Adjusting for Load Size
If you have an oversize load washing machine, you may need two of the quarter sheets. Likewise, if you need to wash only one or two things in an emergency (like your favorite outfit for date night), you might only need half of those quarter sheets.
Additional Tips and Tricks for Laundry Savings
Embrace Bulk Buying
Consider purchasing your fabric softener sheets in bulk. Larger packages often come at a better price per sheet, amplifying your savings. You may not get your favorite scent, but the money saved is worth it!
For those open to experimentation, various household items can serve as effective substitutes for fabric softener sheets. A dash of vinegar in the rinse cycle, for instance, can work wonders for softness and static reduction.
The Reuse Route
Did you know that fabric softener sheets can be reused? While their effectiveness may diminish, they’re perfect for dusting around the house. It’s an excellent way to get the most bang for your buck.
Keep your cut sheets in an airtight container to preserve their fragrance and potency. This simple step ensures that each piece is as effective as the last.
A Fresh Take on Fabric Softener Sheets
As we conclude this journey into the art of stretching your fabric softener sheets, it’s clear that small changes can lead to significant savings. This approach to laundry is not just about cutting up sheets; it’s about embracing a mindset of resourcefulness and sustainability. Your laundry routine can be both cost-effective and environmentally conscious, proving that taking care of your clothes and your budget can go hand in hand.
So, as you venture forth, remember that every little bit counts. By incorporating these tips into your laundry routine, you’re not just saving money—you’re cultivating a lifestyle of smart, sustainable choices. Here’s to softer clothes, fuller wallets, and a happier planet. Happy laundry day! | <urn:uuid:a75427f8-8681-43c8-a3da-e9ba27b5b188> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.momsbudget.com/stretching-your-fabric-softener-sheets/ | 2024-04-22T22:49:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.917272 | 894 |
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During her time here she wrote extensively on consumer issues, personal finances and more - becoming a frequent expert commentator on the BBC news channels and radio, the national press and other media.
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Latin America in 2022 saw the dramatic ouster of former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo and Nicaragua’s ongoing descent into autocracy — and 2023 is expected to have no shortage of stories about political instability, major elections, and the first year in office for new leaders.
The big picture: The U.S. has complex and critical relationships with key Latin American countries, several of which are major sources of migration to the U.S.
Here’s what we’re watching in 2023:
Argentina: Argentines are set to elect a new president, Congress and governors in most provinces on Oct. 29.
- President Alberto Fernández says he’ll run again but risks challenges from his own political coalition, according to the Council on Foreign Relations.
- Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who was recently convicted of corruption charges but is appealing, has said she won’t run
Bolivia: The arrest of opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho in late December launched intense political unrest that is expected to continue for months.
Brazil: The return of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva could bring drastic changes to the country, including the reversal of lax gun laws and an emphasis on efforts to slow deforestation in the Amazon that critics say former President Jair Bolsonaro exacerbated.
- But Brazil’s society is sharply polarized and the economic outlook is far bleaker than when he was first in office, Axios’ Dave Lawler reports.
- Still, Lula has big ambitions for regional integration and global leadership, in addition to his domestic agenda.
Chile: The first attempt at ushering in a radically new constitution last year failed, but President Gabriel Boric, who campaigned on the issue, has vowed to try again.
El Salvador: President Nayib Bukele’s battle against gangs has raised questions about human rights abuses, but he’s doubled down and extended a national state of emergency, which is still in effect.
Mexico: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is expected to meet with President Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau next week for the North American Leaders’ Summit after a few years of a prickly relationship with the U.S.
- He’s expected to continue his push for elections reform despite heavy criticism that it’ll threaten the independence of the National Electoral Institute (INE) and give his party too much power over it.
Nicaragua: The government of Daniel Ortega has consistently cracked down on dissent and critics, including expelling nuns from a charity originally founded by Mother Teresa.
- It doesn’t appear that anything will slow Ortega’s increasing authoritarianism. Ortega has curtailed press freedom over the last several years, revoking the licenses of 17 media organizations last summer.
Peru: Political unrest has not let up since ex-President Pedro Castillo was ousted and arrested last month after he said he’d dissolve Congress, where he was facing impeachment.
- At least 22 people have died in protests and activists want President Dina Boluarte, formerly the vice president, to resign.
Venezuela: The future of Venezuela’s governance is even more uncertain after opposition lawmakers dissolved the interim government and ended the leadership of Juan Guaidó, whom the U.S. previously recognized as the nation’s legitimate president.
- The opposition late last year began negotiations with the Maduro government on several areas of contention, including fair elections, but Guaidó’s ouster puts into question the future of any agreements.
- Talks between Maduro and representatives of the opposition are likely to continue, but Maduro has thus far “shown no willingness at any point to grant the kinds of concessions that might lead to free and fair elections,” one expert tells Dave.
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Since he indicated that an album was on the way back in mid-2018 when his single “Sparky” premiered on OVO Sound Radio Episode 63, his fans waited in quiet anticipation, as well as lapping up snippets of songs they heard at shows, most notably at the inaugural editions of BBK’s Homecoming. Now, one year and 3 singles later, the project is here in its entirety.
Santi’s transition from rapper to vibes curator initially left a number of the Nigerian youth still pining for the old days — when he went by the name Ozzy B — hoping he would go back to hopping on tracks and go bar-for-bar with some of Nigeria’s [and Africa’s] finest rappers; but following the release of Mandy and The Jungle, it would seem that everyone has accepted him just the way he is, and we hope he never changes.
In his interview with The Native Mag in April 2019, Santi said, “On Diaries of a Loner, I was starting a journey to an unknown place. Birth of Santi came as I found some things that would help me create the map for my journey. With Suzie’s Funeral, parts of the map now became clearer. I am in more control than I thought I was, and there are all these directions, left, right, u-turn, that I could go. Now with Mandy [& The Jungle] I can see the whole map.” Santi might not know exactly where he’s going, but he sure has a lot of people, most especially the Nigerian youth, following his every step.
The album’s intro “Raining Outside” is a mid-tempo monologue about friendship produced by Higo. Santi’s vulnerability is portrayed through his lyrics, and the mood is further driven home with Higo’s somber synths and subtle drums. Tracks like “Monte Claire”, “Where You Been” and “Demon Hearts” are designed to get the crowd jumping: excited with a chance of mosh pits. American artists DRAM and Seki — who you might remember as Izzy back on Santi’s loosie “Icy” — gave wonderful guest performances characteristic of their trade, with Seki giving his best Playboi Carti impersonation with his “you can get hit with the…”
Santi gives melodious background vocals in his self-created dialect popularly known to core fans as Santinese on “RX-64” and “Maria”, both featuring Krisirie and GoldLink respectively. GMK’s production coupled with GoldLink’s guest verses gives the audio version of the land flowing with milk and honey, with GoldLink riding the beat expertly. Krisirie’s vocals are in perfect synergy with Santi’s, and complemented with production by one of Santi’s trusted lieutenants Odunsi [the Engine], the song gives us the impression that is some sort of unorthodox love song that makes you want to run away with the love of your life.
On “Raw Dinner” featuring JBFC’s top member Kida Kudz, the rapper responsible for “Jiggy Bop” gives a brief but significant contribution to the project, owning the beat and harmonizing how best he knows. Tay Iwar on “Murvlana” and “Settle Down” is as immaculate as ever, gently letting the girl in question know that he is no longer going to be the man she runs to when she needs comfort on the former, while Amaarae complements him angelically on the latter. The singles off the album still sound amazing despite having been rinsed over and over.
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Whimsical Fairytale Wedding: Morilee Real Bride Allie
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During their senior year high school spring break, Allie and Wesley had been at the same resort, at the same time, and even hanging out with the same group of friends, but in a twist of fate never crossed paths. One year later, they ran into each other while Allie was visiting home for the holidays and knew they had an instant connection. Despite the distance between them, attending college in different states, the pair kept in contact as friends, with their bond growing stronger over the years. It wasn’t until Allie’s 22nd birthday that she received an unexpected kiss from Wes, and she knew she had just fallen in love!
For Wesley’s 26th birthday, Allie surprised him with a trip to New York City. Little did she know that he was planning a surprise of his own. Despite the thick fog, Wesley insisted they visit the Empire State Building on their last night. Because of the weather, the couple found themselves alone at the top of the iconic building, where Wesley got down on one knee and proposed! Wes jokes that he rented out the whole building for Allie, creating a fairytale moment marking the start of their forever.
Allie always had her heart set on finding her dream dress at Rebecca’s Wedding Boutique in Louisville, KY, where her aunt Rebecca was the owner. With Morilee being her aunt’s favorite designer, Allie had heard about the stunning gowns since she was 12 years old. When it was finally her turn to visit the boutique as a bride, she tried on a few dresses but didn’t feel an instant connection with them. Feeling a bit discouraged, her stylist suggested a gorgeous ball gown that had just arrived for a special in-store event. As soon as Allie saw it on the mannequin, she knew it was the one! After trying it on for her friends and sharing tears of joy, she immediately ordered it with no doubt that this was her dream dress.
Allie walked down the aisle in our Josefina designer wedding dress—a stunning choice for those wanting drama and glamor on their special day. This beautiful ball gown offers a delicately draped bodice, a romantic sweetheart neckline, and a detachable tie-back stole for added allure. The voluminous and dramatic tulle skirt creates a breathtaking texture with its swirling floral motif, leaving guests gasping as you walk down the aisle.
The couple decided they wanted a sentimental wedding in their hometown of Louisville. While searching for the perfect venue, they came across Whitehall House and Gardens, a stunning property that felt just right. Walking into its historic halls, filled with beautiful art, Allie and Wes knew it was the perfect place for their big day! From the whimsical wallpaper to the magical gardens and breathtaking scenery, their wedding day was everything they could have imagined.
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Why Climate Matters When Choosing a Fence
Living in Florida, we deal with extreme weather on a regular basis no matter the time of year. Heat, wind, rain, we get it all. In that case, which types of fences can withstand these drastic climates? The experts at Mossy Oak Fence Orlando have just what you need to survive practically any act of nature.
If you’re constantly dealing with intense heat, you’ll need something that doesn’t warp. Since heat expands, many low-quality fences suffer from deformities due to prolonged exposure to the sun. Vinyl fences are built to effortlessly endure hot climates as it provides durability against super dry air and harmful UV rays from direct sunlight.
During stormy seasons, it’s essential to have a fence that can stay grounded and divert most of the impact away from your home. Solid wood has been proven to effectively reduce wind flow, especially hard cedar. As long as your wooden fence is installed by seasoned professionals like those at Mossy Oak Fence, you’ll never have to worry about it becoming uprooted when push comes to shove.
Mold is practically a death sentence when it comes to any type of structure, and penetrating moisture from rain is the grim reaper. In Florida where storms are relatively frequent, water-resistant fences are a must-have. Pressure-treated wood can combat the elements as well as powder-coated aluminum. Both of these materials provide strong durability and weather resistance.
When you reside in an area that deals with all of these weather conditions, it can be hard to decide on the type of fencing that could benefit you the most. To make things easier, we’ve broken down the benefits for you:
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Impact of GST On The Indian Automobile Sector
The Goods and Service Tax (GST) is a Value Added Tax (VAT) which will be implemented in India from April 2016. GST refers to “Goods and Services Tax”, and is proposed to be a comprehensive indirect tax levy on manufacture, sale and consumption of goods as well as services at the national level. All indirect taxes levied on goods and services by the Indian Central and State governments will be replaced by GST. It is aimed at being comprehensive for most goods and services and for the economy.
Features of GST
Rationale behind it
The basic principle behind GST is to have a single Taxation System for Goods and Services throughout the country. Currently there are various taxes on Goods and services in the Indian economy such as VAT, Service Tax, Excise, Entertainment Tax, Luxury Tax Etc. Now in the new proposal of GST; the Indian Economy will be having only two taxes on all goods and Services i.e., State Level GST (SGST) and Central Level GST (CGST).
In case of the Central GST, various taxes will be included with CGST which, presently are levied separately on goods and services by the Central government. These will include; Central Excise Duty, Additional Excise Duty, The Excise Duty levied under Medicinal and Toiletries Preparation Act, Service Tax, Additional Custom Duty (CVD), Special Additional Duty, Surcharge, Education Cess and Secondary and Higher Secondary education Cess.
In case of the State GST also, some taxes will be included with SGST which presently, are separately levied on goods and services by State Governments. These will include, VAT/ Sales Tax, Entertainment Tax (unless it is levied by local bodies), Luxury Tax, Tax on lottery, State Cess and Surcharge to the extent related to supply of goods and services.
Decision criteria for goods & services
The basic principles for deciding as to which taxes should be included in GST are provided as follows:
a. Those taxes which commence with import / manufacture /production of goods or provision of services at one end and the consumption of goods and services on the other end.
b. The taxes, levies and fees which are not related to supply of goods & services should not be included under GST.
Features of the tax structure
Taxes on items that contain alcohol and petroleum product are kept out of GST. The taxing policies for these products will continue to be as per existing practices. Tobacco products will also be taxed subject to GST. But government has the authority to levy the extra Excise duty over and above GST. The taxpayers whose gross annual turnover is less than 1.5 Crore (small taxpayers) are exempted from CGST and SGST. Each taxpayer will be allowed to have integration of GST with Direct Tax on the basis of PAN based identification number. Exports are fully exempted under GST with Zero rates.
Road blocks in the Implementation of GST
The proper implementation of the GST and smooth transition from the prevailing system is a major challenger before the Finance Minister.
The challenges which the Government has to face in introducing GST are as follows:
1. Rapid increase in Assesses: The tax net will be widened by the dual GST model by taxing every economic supply in the distribution network. This will result in rapid increase in assesses. For this, some of the businesses will have to restructure their distribution network to reduce additional tax burden on the consumer with a view to be price competitive. Although it will generate revenue in a neutral and transparent way but the Government will have to ensure that the ultimate consumer is not burdened with tax beyond his capacity.
2. Place of Supply: Defining the place of supply in respect of certain services and intangible properties will be one of the main challenges in introducing in GST. The place of supply in GST will have to be clearly defined to avoid disputes among states in case of inter-state transactions. The point at which tax would be levied - invoice date, due date or payment date, will be explained by the Time of Supply. The variations of taxes present in the current system such as service tax, excise duty, sales tax etc. will be eliminated in GST.
3. Legislative Challenge: The Constitution of India confers powers to the Union and the States to levy and collect taxes as per the three lists, i.e., Union, State and Concurrent List. The challenge before the FM in implementing GST is whether this distribution of powers among the Union and States can be treated as the basic structure of the Constitution thereby restricting the Government from bringing about any change in this structure. The Constitution of India requires amendment to provide for powers to levy and collect GST both by the Union and the States in order to enable the Centre and the State Governments to levy GST.
4. Improvement in Banking System: The destination based principle of taxation under the GST, states that the recipient State will have to levy the tax as per the law of the dispatching State. If there is no uniform law and rates across India, then this principle is bound to create problems. This requires tax collected by the recipient State to be credited to the exporting State. It would be a challenge for the Governments to allocate revenue to the respective States. In Dual GST model the banks can play a role as intermediary in collection and transfer of revenue to the respective States. In case of inter-State transactions the person collecting the tax on his supply should deposit the tax in the account of the State where the supply has been made. The banks can then allocate the revenue to the respective States or the Central Government, as the case may be, on the basis of revenue reports of the respective Governments. For this purpose, the banking system needs to be improved. The challenge can be met by proper training, upgradation of tax administration with technological interface.
5. IT infrastructure: For the smooth implementation of the GST model, IT infrastructure for the Goods and Services would have to be put on fast track. “IT infrastructure will play a huge role in interstate GST. IGST will be collected and passed on the states. It will have to be transferred electronically”, the experts said.
6. Effective Credit Mechanism: The success of dual GST model depends on effective credit mechanism to avoid the cascading effect of multi-stage taxation in the supply chain. The lifeline of GST is the credit mechanism. There is no difficulty in giving credit of Central GST anywhere in India as is evidenced by success of the present CENVAT scheme, as far as Central GST is concerned. But, presently, there are issues related to State GST in giving credit in relation to inter-State transactions.
Financial Impact of GST on Auto Industry
While there is a lot of uncertainty on the implementation of the goods and services tax (GST) in April next year, this new tax structure is expected to bring in better pricing and margins for the automobile industry. The automobile industry is reap rich benefits from the GST, which include reduction in cost for the industry, which is currently marred by endless taxes charged at different state levels. If the opinions and views of the experts are to be believed, the cost savings will run into double-digits for the sector.
GST is expected to eradicate small tax windows and lead to seamless travel of products from one state to the other. It would remove multiple taxes and bring forth the right value of the products. The government is also expected to come up with a separate duty structure for small and electric vehicles citing the rising pressure to keep carbon dioxide emissions under check. Further, he said there is no clarity on what happens to the customs duty. The expected GST is around 18% (taking centre and states together).
The figure below depicts the positive impact which GST will have on the automobile sector on a statistical basis.
Source: Ernst & Young
There are however few roadblocks which need to be cleared for the implementation of GST such as gaining consensus of the States on aspects like rate classification, threshold limits of rates etc.
Furthermore the government will have to ensure that the cascading impact of taxes on business is not present in GST, which is only possible by exclusion of levies such as stamp duty or octroi/ cess from the proposed GST model.
There are various aspects which need clarity in order for the auto industry to be better prepared for when the GST is implemented such as continuation of export incentives linked to indirect taxes, end use based exemptions to taxis, ambulances etc.
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3 Key Performance Indicators
Lead generation is a crucial KPI for any real estate agent or agency. It refers to the process of identifying and attracting potential clients (leads) who have expressed interest in buying or selling properties. Effective lead generation strategies can significantly impact the success of a real estate business. These strategies often involve a combination of online and offline marketing efforts, including social media marketing, content marketing, email campaigns, search engine optimization (SEO), and networking events.
The number of leads generated is an essential metric to track as it directly influences the size and quality of your client base. Moreover, monitoring the source of leads (e.g., social media, website, referrals) can help you allocate resources more efficiently and focus on the most effective lead generation channels.
Appointment setting is the next step after lead generation. It involves reaching out to potential clients, either through phone calls, emails, or other communication methods, to schedule meetings or property viewings. This KPI measures the effectiveness of your lead follow-up process and the ability to turn interested prospects into engaged leads.
Monitoring appointment setting metrics, such as the number of appointments scheduled and the conversion rate from leads to appointments, can provide insights into the efficiency of your sales process. Additionally, tracking the average time it takes to set an appointment and the rate of no-shows can help identify areas for improvement and optimize your scheduling strategy.
Conversion to Sales
The conversion rate to sales is arguably the most critical KPI for real estate agents and agencies. It gauges the success of turning leads and appointments into actual closed deals. A high conversion rate indicates that your sales and negotiation skills, as well as your ability to match clients with suitable properties, are effective.
To calculate the conversion rate to sales, divide the number of successful sales transactions by the total number of leads or appointments during a specific period. For example, if you closed 10 deals out of 100 leads, your conversion rate would be 10%.
Improving the conversion rate involves various factors, such as building strong relationships with clients, understanding their needs, providing exceptional customer service, and showcasing your expertise in the real estate market. Analyzing the conversion rate over time can help you identify trends and adjust your sales strategy accordingly.
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Are you a talented athlete aiming to study in the United States? Do you dream of combining your athletic prowess with a top-notch education? Look no further than ASM Scholarships! This organization bridges the gap between aspiring student-athletes and their ideal colleges in the US.
ASM Scholarships is a sports scholarship agency that helps connect student-athletes with universities in the US. They boast a large network of colleges and coaches, and their team has a proven track record of success, having assisted thousands of athletes in achieving their academic and athletic goals. Whether you’re a standout soccer player or a track and field star, ASM Scholarships can provide the guidance and support you need to find the perfect college fit while continuing your athletic career.
Discover ASM Scholarships and find financial aid opportunities to help you achieve your academic goals. Learn about eligibility requirements, application deadlines, and more.
What is ASM Scholarships?
ASM Scholarships is a leading sports scholarship agency dedicated to connecting student-athletes with universities across the United States. Their experienced team boasts a vast network of over 3,000 colleges and 20,000+ coaches across various athletic divisions like NCAA, NAIA, NJCAA, and CCCAA. Since its launch in 2018, ASM Scholarships has empowered over 5,000 athletes to secure scholarships and pursue their academic and athletic aspirations.
How Does ASM Scholarships Help Athletes?
ASM Scholarships offers a comprehensive support system throughout the entire college recruiting process:
- Increased Visibility: Gain exposure to a vast network of universities and coaches seeking talented athletes.
- Expert Guidance: Benefit from personalized advice and support throughout the application process.
Scholarship Maximization: Their team helps identify and secure the most suitable scholarship opportunities.
Streamlined Communication: ASM facilitates communication between athletes and coaches, ensuring a smooth recruiting experience.
Benefits of ASM Scholarships
Here are some of the potential benefits of using ASM Scholarships to pursue a sports scholarship in the US:
Increased exposure to colleges and coaches
ASM boasts a vast network of over 3,000 universities and 20,000+ coaches across various athletic associations (NCAA, NAIA, NJCAA, CCCAA). This extensive network can significantly increase your chances of getting noticed by colleges that might be a good fit for you.
Guidance and support throughout the process
Applying for colleges and athletic scholarships can be complex. ASM offers guidance and support throughout the process, from crafting a strong profile to navigating communication with coaches.
Finding the right academic fit: While athletic ability is crucial, academics matter too. ASM can help you find colleges that offer programs that align with your academic interests and goals.
Support beyond getting accepted
ASM’s services extend beyond just getting you accepted. They can provide guidance on areas like internship opportunities, attending sports-specific camps and showcases, and even career placement after graduation.
Experience and proven track record
With a team of former coaches and athletes, ASM has the experience and knowledge to navigate the intricacies of the US college sports scholarship system. Their track record of placing over 1,000 athletes with an average scholarship value of $35,000 per year speaks volumes about their effectiveness.
By leveraging these benefits, ASM Scholarships can significantly increase your chances of securing a valuable sports scholarship and achieving your dream of studying and playing sports in the US.
Types of ASM Scholarships
ASM Scholarships itself doesn’t offer different types of scholarships in the traditional sense. They specialize in helping student-athletes connect with colleges and universities in the United States that offer athletic scholarships. These scholarships can vary depending on the school, the sport, and the academic and athletic qualifications of the student-athlete.
However, ASM Scholarships work within the framework of the different athletic associations in the US. Here’s a breakdown of the four main associations they deal with:
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
This is the largest and most well-known athletic association in the US. NCAA schools are divided into three divisions (Division I, II, and III) that offer varying levels of athletic scholarships.
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA)
The NAIA is another large athletic association in the US, with over 250 member institutions. NAIA schools typically offer smaller athletic scholarships than NCAA schools, but they may be a good option for student-athletes who are not quite at the NCAA Division I level.
National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA)
The NJCAA is a community college athletic association. NJCAA schools offer a great option for student-athletes to develop their skills and academics before transferring to a four-year institution. NJCAA schools may also offer athletic scholarships.
California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA)
The CCCAA is the governing body for community college athletics in California. Similar to the NJCAA, CCCAA schools offer athletic scholarships and can be a stepping stone to a four-year institution.
By considering these different athletic associations, ASM Scholarships can help student-athletes find the best fit for their academic and athletic goals.
Eligibility requirements vary depending on the specific ASM scholarship. However, some common factors include:
- Academic Standing: Demonstrated academic achievement, typically reflected in GPA requirements.
- Enrollment Status: Full-time enrollment at an accredited institution offering a materials science program.
- Citizenship/Residency: Certain scholarships might have citizenship or residency requirements.
- Research Focus (Graduate Scholarships): For graduate scholarships, research interests aligned with the scholarship’s focus might be a factor.
- Underrepresented Group Affiliation (Minority Scholarships): For minority scholarships, belonging to a designated underrepresented group is a requirement.
How to Apply for ASM Scholarships
Earning an ASM scholarship demands a well-crafted application that showcases your academic prowess and passion for materials science. Here’s a roadmap to guide you:
- Eligibility Check: Meticulously review the eligibility criteria for each scholarship program to ensure you meet all requirements (GPA, academic standing, specific field of study).
- Academic Excellence: Highlight your academic achievements, including transcripts, awards, research projects, and relevant coursework.
- Compelling Essays: Craft compelling essays that articulate your research interests, career goals, and how receiving an ASM scholarship will empower your academic journey.
- Strong Letters of Recommendation: Solicit impactful recommendation letters from professors or mentors who can vouch for your potential and academic capabilities.
Beyond the Basics: Standing Out from the Crowd
While academic merit is crucial, here are some additional tips to make your application shine:
- Demonstrate Passion: Go beyond grades and showcase your genuine enthusiasm for materials science through research experiences, extracurricular activities, or volunteer work.
- Quantify Your Achievements: Quantify the impact of your research projects, internships, or awards to demonstrate your contributions to the field.
- Tailor Your Application: Tailor your application materials to each specific scholarship program, highlighting the aspects that align with its goals.
- Proofread and Revise: Meticulously proofread your application to ensure it is error-free and reflects professionalism.
Embrace the Deadlines: Don’t Miss the Boat!
ASM scholarship applications typically have deadlines spread throughout the year. Be sure to mark your calendar and submit your application well in advance to avoid last-minute scrambles. The official ASM website or your university’s financial aid office will have the most up-to-date deadlines.
What sports do ASM Scholarships specialize in?
ASM works with athletes across a broad spectrum of sports. If you’re unsure, reach out to them for guidance.
What are the eligibility requirements?
Strong academic performance and exceptional athletic ability are key. Specific requirements may vary depending on the universities and programs you target.
Does ASM Scholarships guarantee scholarships?
While they cannot guarantee scholarships, their extensive network and expertise significantly increase your chances of securing one.
How much do ASM Scholarships cost?
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The email has completely changed the way of working for almost everyone. Today, email has become an important tool for communication. It allows us to communicate in an effective and cheaper way without any hassle.
We often share and receive lots of emails every day as it has become a part of our business communication and it is essential to know the right way of writing it. Although emails are supposed to be less professional than formal letters and applications, they still need to be written in a presentable way.
Emails are usually written for clients, suppliers, and office colleagues, or even for job applications.
But have you ever wondered how important it is to write an email in a professional way? Well, we have all the answers.
In this edition, we are giving you some easy tips that can be helpful in your next email writing.
1) Subject line
It is extremely important to mention the subject line, especially when you are reaching out to a new contact. An email without any subject line will make it appear like spam or “not important”, and the receiver might even throw it into the trash without even looking at it.
Always ensure that you mention the purpose of your email as your subject line. For instance, “job search”, meeting with the client”, “job application”, appointment letter” etc. These should be your keywords to add to your subject line. It will make it easy for the receiver to understand the purpose of your email.
Studies of tens of thousands of high school students have found that students who have studied foreign languages perform better on the American College Test (ACT) for English and Mathematics. Additional studies have found that SAT-verbal scores improve with the length of time students have studied the foreign language. So if you want your child to ace those tests, encourage her to learn a foreign language.
3) Be precise
Always write your email in a precise way because, trust us, nobody wants to read 3-4 pages long email. Also, there is no point in writing a whole novel when the purpose can be met within a paragraph.
Just try to define the purpose clearly at the very beginning of the email by writing “I would like to show my concern…” or “I am writing to you in reference to/regarding…”, “This is to inform everyone…”.
Being clear and precise about your writing is important, as most professionals do not really have any time to read all emails they receive. Being specific about the purpose of your email will save them time and will be much appreciated.
4) Closing lines
Since you start your email with warm wishes, you would also want to send a last vow in an effective manner. You can include some concluding words like ‘Best Regards’, ‘Sincerely Yours’, ‘Cheers’ (informal), ‘Thanks & Regards’, etc.
Once you are done with writing your perfect email, do not forget to proofread it from top to bottom. Sending a professional email with a grammatical error. The mantra for effective writing is to always read your copy one more time and you are good to go!
These are some of the top tips for a business mail, be professional, polite, and simple in your choice of words.
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Eric Hernandez's Bruno Mars drum setup in pictures
The rise of Bruno Mars has been meteoric. He only released his first album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans, in 2010 and by the following year he was the biggest-selling male artist in the UK and had sold over 31 million singles worldwide.
Bruno’s music covers the bases from soul to r&b to reggae and his live shows are dynamite. The energy pumped out by Bruno and his band - all playing live, all singing, all dancing - is off the scale. Their performances bring to mind the great showmen of popular music - James Brown, Jackie Eilson, Elvis - and pumping out the groove on the drums is Bruno’s big brother, Eric Hernandez.
Born in Brooklyn but raised in Hawaii, Eric grew up in the family business: music.
“My father is a percussionist, that’s where I get my musical ability from,” explains Eric. “He used to take me to shows and I’d sit under his rig. I was always fixated on the drummer. He picked up on that and bought me my first drumset at the age of four. That’s a wrap. I’ve been playing drums since.”
On top of being a percussionist, Mr Hernandez Senior was the producer of the Lovenotes Show, a musical revue at the Sheraton hotel in Waikiki.
“My dad performed six nights a week,” says Eric. “I went to the shows, I helped run the ticket booth with my sisters or I ran the lights. Finally at about 10 he put me in the show and let me play drums. I was like, ‘this is it, this is what I’m supposed to be doing.’”
The sight of a little kid playing drums in a band of adult musicians brought Eric plenty of attention, at least until someone even younger came along.
“After each show the cast would go out to the front and take photos and shake hands. I took a lot of pictures because people were fascinated that I had the ability to play the show. My brother had a knack for singing. He was a young Elvis impersonator at the age of three or four so he took all the limelight, but I didn’t care, I just wanted to play drums.”
Rhythm Magazine caught up with Hernandez earlier this year to take a look at his touring kit and chat about life on the road with his brother and the band. Here we bring you pictures of his drum setup along with extracts from the interview, which you can read in full in the March issue of Rhythm (issue 213.) Or you can subscribe to Rhythm for a monthly dose of drummer interviews, gear reviews, news and more.
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“This is not your typical artist backed by the hired guns. In all honesty, if it was that, where I was in the dark background, I would be okay with that because I’m playing drums and I love that. On the plus side, Bruno is a showman and that means putting on a show, including his band.
“When he was looking for his horn section, he wanted guys that can dance. He didn’t want horn players that just stand there reading charts. The bass player and guitar player are up front with him and I’m right behind.
“We’re all fortunate. We have an artist who doesn’t want to just be in the limelight himself. He wants to bring his boys with him, which is really cool. You hardly see that. It’s bringing that old fashioned, live music thing back. You’re seeing a show. You’re seeing real musicians do their thing.
“Our bass player is incredible. He can play absurd bass and dance a million steps with high energy every night. It gets to the point that people think we’re playing to tracks. No, we’re playing live.”
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What about your own performance? You move around a lot behind the kit.
“I try to mimic some of their dance moves whenever I can. I think that comes from my background and our dad. We were always in that show atmosphere: ‘Look alive! Smile! Make your presence known!’ That’s why Bruno is so good at what he does when it comes to conceptualising shows, tours, music videos.
“He has such a smart mind, he positions us in these spots and he creates memories. If you come to our live show you say, ‘Wow, everybody on that stage was high energy. Not only did the music move me, they moved me!’ That’s the feedback we’re getting and that’s awesome.
“I know a lot of musicians would like to be sitting in my chair because they know this is a fun gig and they see we’re a family up there.”
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How much do you use triggers live?
“On the last tour it was 95 percent organic and five percent triggering. Now I’ll probably be triggering a lot more songs. There are some cool drum sounds on the new album so I’ll probably trigger a lot of kick and snare.
“I always like to get distinguishing sounds off the album and I’ll act as a drummer/percussionist, putting in little extra sound effects. We just did Radio 1 Live and as soon as I started the intro for ‘Runaway Baby’, they knew exactly what I was playing.
“It comes with the territory, that’s why I tell younger musicians, learn to play the music and do it justice by respecting the music. It’s not about showcasing yourself. This is not the Eric Hernandez show. It’s a Bruno Mars concert so I want to do my part and respect the music that my brother wrote and play it properly.”
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The history of a drum legend
Although Yamaha was founded way back in 1887, it has only been making drums since 1967. From the off the drums were of high quality, hand-crafted in a relatively small workshop in Hamamatsu.
Up till 2011, all of Yamaha’s high-end drums were made in Japan. And although Yamaha continues to build its flagship Phoenix PHX series in Japan, the latest professional series are now coming out of the new facility in Xiaoshan, China.
This extensive plant was first opened in 1997, producing Yamaha’s woodwind and brass instruments and marching percussion. Then in 2010 Yamaha achieved a long-held ambition to add a dedicated drum building, employing the latest in hi-tech, environmentally strict and rigorously quality controlled production methods. The aim as always is to stay on top, be competitive and to build the best drumsets conceivable.
Xiaoshan first delivered the Live Custom series, followed by 2014’s truly progressive Absolute Hybrid Maple. Now we have the revamped Recording Custom series, launched at Winter Namm, 2016. The
Recording Custom is Yamaha’s most acclaimed kit, quite possibly the most recorded kit ever, the kit which put Yamaha out front throughout the 1980s.
The new Recording Custom has badges which clearly state ‘Made in China’. Yamaha’s Xiaoshan facility is not some tawdry operation to make drums on the cheap using casual labour. On the contrary, Yamaha has invested an unheard-of US $10 million in the operation, with the Chinese workforce trained to the highest skill levels by the ultra-experienced Japanese craftsmen.
Visiting the factory was eye-opening, seeing up close the exacting manufacturing tolerances and testing, the unstinting quality control, the laboratory-style cleanliness of the workplace. That the factory is in China is simply a sign of the times we live in.
One man's Vision
Yamaha was originally founded as a musical instrument company by a Japanese watchmaker called Torakusa Yamaha, who lived from 1851 to 1916.
He was one day asked to repair a portable reed organ, and with his fascination aroused, he set about building his own instrument. This was in 1887, the date of his company’s birth. Gradually he saw the potential for producing Western musical instruments in Japan.
Two years later he set up the Yamaha organ manufacturing company in Hamamatsu, which became the Nippon Gakki Co Ltd in 1897. By the turn of the century Yamaha had its first upright piano and a couple of years later in 1902 its first grand piano, which already looked very much like the pianos of today. Keyboard instruments have remained a lynchpin of the company ever since, and today Yamaha pianos grace concert halls, jazz clubs, studios and homes all around the world.
First drum kits
In the mid-1960s, with the youth and music revolution that was energising the world, Yamaha honed in on recreation and lifestyle markets, starting with wind instruments in 1965 and establishing the Yamaha Music Foundation the following year. This expanded into Europe with Yamaha Europe GMBH in West Germany. Yamaha was a well-known and respected brand well before setting to work on drums in 1967.
The first kits were manufactured in Hamamatsu, Japan. Just as today we may be sceptical about the ‘Made in China’ tag, back in the 1960s ‘Made in Japan’ was not greatly assuring. Hard to imagine now, but in any case this perception was to change quickly and dramatically.
Right from these earliest efforts Yamaha devised its distinctive shell-making procedure which is universally regarded. This is the famous air seal system with staggered diagonal seams. The air seal method involves placing the wood plies in a circular mould and then inserting an air bag under great pressure, thus imparting a perfectly even force all around the inside of the shell, creating a more exactly circular shape.
Added to this, cutting diagonal joins for the staggered plies means that as plies are slotted into the shell they can be pushed down until the seams are absolutely tight, thus avoiding the gaps which easily occur in conventional (vertical) straight seams where the measurements do not quite meet up.
Yamaha continued developing its lines to include the pro YD7000, budget YD5000 and starter YD3000 series, which were all PVC wrapped.
In Japan this method was traditionally known as kachikomi, and creates such a strong structure that even with thin shells there is no need for reinforcing rings. With vertical seam construction you sometimes see tiny air gaps left inside the shell, or slicks of filler applied to the inner ply to close the gap. With diagonal seams this small but unsightly inaccuracy is eliminated.
Yamaha continued developing its lines to include the pro YD7000, budget YD5000 and starter YD3000 series, which were all PVC wrapped.
Then in 1975 came the first incarnation of the YD9000, Yamaha’s all-out assault on the top-end drum market. What distinguished the 9000 was the 100 percent birch shells, the full-length high-tension cast lugs and the Yamaha System hardware, which was also unveiled in 1975. Taken all together this proved a mighty threesome.
The birch required for drum building was a broad-leafed indigenous Hokkaido variety that had previously been used by Yamaha in its piano production. Bass drums were eight-ply while toms were six-ply and bearing edges were cut at 60°. At this stage finishes were wrapped or natural wood. The original full-length lugs also had internal springs.
System Drums Hardware
In 1977 Yamaha expanded into overseas drum production, opening a facility in Taiwan.
A different version of the 9000 was built called the YD9000D and it lacked the full-length braced lugs. Yamaha’s tight budget at the time could not stretch to investing in moulds for the Taiwan factory.
Instead it had the earlier ‘YD’ shaped single lug, minus the internal spring. Despite rather missing the point, it must be said this was a good looking kit and has a scarcity value today.
Steve Gadd was involved in the design details and his Black Piano Lacquered kit would become the most desired and copied in the drum world during the 1980s.
The Taiwan operation lasted for three years after which the extra production load was taken on by Sakae back in Japan.
Meanwhile, in 1978, the series had moved onto the Japanese-crafted YD9000R. This was when Yamaha’s experience and expertise with piano lacquering/painting techniques were adapted to the drums, causing a genuine sensation in the drum world. Steve Gadd was involved in the design details and his Black Piano Lacquered kit would become the most desired and copied in the drum world during the 1980s.
Recording Custom at last
In 1982 Yamaha invested in new moulds for the hi-tension lugs, making them springless and thus silent. Soon everyone wanted a 9000 kit and the belief that they were the ultimate modern recording drums gained universal acceptance.
The ‘R’ on the YD9000R title led drummers to refer to the ‘Recording’ series, although this was not officially sanctioned by Yamaha until 1985. Ever since, drummers refer to these kits loosely as ‘9000’ or ‘Recording Custom’ kits.
Perhaps the most outrageously brilliant marketing pitch regarding the Recording Custom was the way we were persuaded that birch was the ‘recording’ wood. Ironic since all those great American and UK records we worshipped had been recorded on largely mahogany (Ludwig and Slingerland) or maple (Gretsch and Rogers) tubs.
Birch, it was now pointed out, had a slightly more focused and punchy timbre than maple, which was seen as bright, and mahogany which was seen as dark. Drummers, certainly in the UK, had previously not really been aware of what woods were used in manufacture, and the RC was massively influential in bringing about this awareness.
100 Years in the making
So we arrive at Yamaha’s centennial year, 1987. The company name was changed to Yamaha Corporation and the decision was made to expand the European market while reducing shipping costs.
To achieve this Yamaha took the shock step of buying the UK’s Premier drum company. As with all the Western drum companies Premier’s fortunes were rocky and Yamaha effectively saved the day by investing heavily in the Leicestershire factory.
Yamaha brought in its modern air seal and diagonal seam machinery, with two lines of moulds, trained up the workforce and set about making Yamaha drums alongside Premier’s own.
The first UK-made Yamahas emerged in 1989, starting with the budget Power V series, and once they had cracked that Premier took to making European versions of the Recording Custom. Later there came the birch/mahogany Rock Tour Custom series, and drums were shipped to mainland Europe, principally France and Germany.
However, sales were not as great as hoped and in 1992 Yamaha sold Premier back. The Yamaha years were undoubtedly a positive lifeline for Premier who emerged revitalised, a modern company once again.
Inevitably markets and fashions change and the Recording Custom lost its number one position in the 1990s. Where birch was the ‘in’ wood of the 1980s, maple took over in the 1990s. Yamaha moved on
to the Maple Custom, a brighter, more open sound that suited the evolving trends.
Resonance enhancement was the axiom and was accompanied by the move to small button lugs. In 1993 the mounting system was altered to accommodate the increasingly popular concept of isolation tom mounting.
This trend had started in the mid-1980s with the Purecussion rims mounting bracket and gradually every company had to come up with its own resonance-enhancing acronym. Yamaha’s solution typically involved acoustic lab research, leading to the Yamaha Enhanced Sustain System (YESS) with nodal point positioning.
The Recording Custom continued to attract customers albeit in ever-smaller numbers who wanted that legendary sound. Interest was kept alive via occasional special releases.
The music world was now undergoing yet another major shift with most instrument companies – both Western and Eastern – moving ever greater chunks of their manufacture to China.
In 1997 Yamaha established a new factory in Hangzhou, around 200km south-west of Shanghai in China. This facility started out producing Yamaha’s acclaimed wind and brass instruments and extensive marching percussion, although not the RC, which was still crafted in Japan.
While Yamaha continued to innovate with landmark series such as the Maple Absolute in 1998, then trailblazing beech and oak drums in the 2000s, the Recording Custom languished. In 2008 Yamaha established a custom drum factory near its headquarters in Hamamatsu, Japan, to create the ground-breaking hybrid-shell Phoenix PHX series and to further its research and development of acoustic drum kits.
Meantime, Yamaha was slowly working towards the time when high-end drum production would be transplanted from Japan to China. The Hangzhou facility was always hi-tech and environmentally friendly and in October 2010 a similarly advanced drum factory was opened – the Hangzhou Xiaoshan Yamaha plant, representing an astonishing $10 million investment.
All professional product lines were discontinued and, in 2011, production of new high-end drum lines started in Xiaoshan, except for the PHX which continues to be built at Yamaha’s flagship workshop in Japan. Along with its in-house materials division, this workshop continues to work closely with the new factory, both facilities developing side-by-side.
As with Premier, Yamaha left all its air seal machinery with Sakae in Osaka. And Sakae, as we now know, has gone on to produce highly individual, top quality drums under its own name.
This development led to all sorts of rumours flying around a couple of years ago and Yamaha, as a major corporation, had to bite its lip, suck it up and as always let its products do the talking. But the perception that the move to China was a step down and simply a cost-cutting consideration could not be further from the truth. Yamaha would rather its customers see its future as not so much ‘Made in Japan’, or ‘Made in China, as ‘Made in Yamaha’.
Yamaha as a company always looks to the future and strives to be innovative. This was what led originally to the huge success of the Recording Custom. The substantial investment in Xiaoshan demonstrates the company’s determination to carry on in this vein. This has so far led to three new series catering for three aspects of the drummer’s needs.
First there was an update of the Oak Custom to the Live Custom, delivering a strong and warm sound from its thicker oak shells. Then in 2014 the open, expressive Absolute Hybrid Maple, with loads of innovative features and super-resonance from the YESS-III mounts. And now there’s the revised Recording Custom.
Yamaha Drums Product Manager Gavin Thomas tells us: “When we made the decision to end our current product lines it was always our intention to review and consider a new Recording Custom. We did not know what that might be, but it is the cornerstone of our heritage so we knew we wanted to give it a rebirth and not just move production – if we could prove that there was a market for it.
"The issue we had was there was such a shift towards maple products in the late ’90s and ’00s that some people thought the RC was discontinued way before it was. We were pleasantly surprised that the response when we ended RC production was strong.”
Recording Custom Sails On
Put simply, the Recording Custom was too strong a brand to dismiss. But this being Yamaha a simple reissue was not on the cards.
A deeply considered overhaul was inevitable and in fact the new RC, and a completely new collection of seven new metal-shelled snare drums, has been three years in development. Since the sound of the RC is inextricably woven in with the sound of Steve Gadd, it was decided to draw again on Steve’s thoughts, judgment and ears.
But first, in September 2012, a reliable supply of quality North American birch was secured. Yamaha assures us that this is “perfect for the target sound”, ensuring a steady continuity of supply as it replaces the vaunted Hokkaido birch of the original.
The drum design group, including Nori Ishimatu and Ziggy Okamoto, consulted with Gadd in August 2013 on how the drums could be improved. He had always been happy with the toms, but felt the bass drum needed more depth and roundness (he plays a maple bass drum with his own signature kit) and he was keen for the metal snare drums to be as simple and adaptable as the stock Ludwig SupraPhonics he famously played for many years.
Prototypes were knocked up and by February 2014 a second set of sample snare drums in aluminium, brass and stainless steel were prepared for evaluation by Steve while in Tokyo. Then in August of 2014 a second evaluation took place in New York involving third stage samples of six, eight and 10-ply bass drums with a variety of edge profiles and weights of lug. The third evaluation session took place in July 2015 at Steve’s home base of Phoenix, Arizona.
The outcome was to go with the thinnest six-ply bass drums but with weighted lugs and with the bearing edges changed from 45° to 30°, the resulting drums having a more powerful, rounded bass tone with a wider dynamic range. Steve also requested a new lift for the 20" bass drum which allows the pedal beater to strike at the centre giving him close to the same feel as playing a 22" drum.
The mounted toms are fitted with Yamaha’s classic YESS brackets, the same as for the past 20 years. These are not the latest YESS-III mounts employed on the Absolute Hybrid Maple. The reason is because of not wanting to over-enhance the sustain, but to retain the dry and focused sound with quicker decay, the abiding character of the 9000 series.
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Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom
DOS - 1989
Description of Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a disappointing PC port of the average arcade version of the second Indiana Jones movie. The description and review at MobyGames says it all about this poor use of a blockbuster license:
The Good: There's not much I like about this game. Nevertheless, the mine cart levels are fun to play. And when I first played the game (a long, long time ago) I thought the title screen looked great (Look, it's Harrison Ford!). Also the game had the original Indiana Jones tune.
The Bad: Well there are really just three different levels. The mine level, the mine cart level and the temple levels. When you've completed a temple level, you have to play another mine level to save some more children, after which you have to escape in a mine cart AGAIN etc. Of course the levels do get tougher. The designers could have done so much more with this license. Following the story line of the movie for example (I admit I was looking forward to eating monkey brains :-) ).
The problem is that this game is a conversion from a simple arcade game. And there's no room for a story line in arcade games. Bad controls make the game really difficult when you're approached by several enemies. And it's not always easy to hit a fireball with your whip. The sound of an approaching bat is not what I like to hear. But then again most of these old games have sound effects (using PC speaker) that make me turn off the sound.
The Bottom Line: A not very interesting conversion of an arcade game that uses an Indiana Jones license. If you want to play a decent Indiana Jones game, play Fate of Atlantis. Even if you can look past the dated graphics and sound you probably won't enjoy playing this one.?
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Understanding Celexa – A Comprehensive Guide to the Popular Antidepressant
Celexa: A Short General Description
Celexa is a commonly prescribed medication for the treatment of depression and related mental health conditions. Belonging to a class of drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), it offers relief from symptoms by affecting the levels of serotonin, a neurotransmitter, in the brain.
How Celexa Works
Celexa acts by inhibiting the reuptake of serotonin in the brain. Serotonin is a chemical messenger responsible for transmitting signals between nerve cells. By blocking its reuptake, Celexa increases the levels of serotonin available in the brain, which can help regulate mood, sleep, appetite, and other aspects of emotional well-being.
When prescribed Celexa, individuals take it as an oral tablet, usually once a day. The dosage may vary depending on the specific condition being treated and the individual’s response to the medication. It is important to follow the prescribed dosage and consult with a healthcare professional for proper guidance.
Uses of Celexa
Celexa is primarily prescribed for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD), a common mental health condition characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, loss of interest, and impaired daily functioning. It can also be prescribed for other related conditions, such as:
- Anxiety disorders
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Panic disorder
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Celexa helps alleviate symptoms associated with these conditions, enabling individuals to lead more fulfilling lives. However, it is important to note that Celexa may not be suitable for everyone, and a healthcare professional can best determine its appropriateness based on an individual’s specific needs and medical history.
Potential Side Effects
While Celexa can be highly effective in treating depression and related conditions, it is essential to be aware of potential side effects. Commonly reported side effects of Celexa may include:
- Dry mouth
- Dizziness or lightheadedness
- Insomnia or drowsiness
- Increased sweating
These side effects are usually mild and may resolve on their own within a few days or weeks. However, if any of these side effects persist or become bothersome, it is necessary to consult a healthcare professional for further guidance.
Celexa, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, is a widely used medication for the treatment of depression and related mental health conditions. By increasing serotonin levels in the brain, it helps regulate mood and alleviate symptoms associated with various disorders. While side effects may occur, they are generally mild and temporary. Consultation with a healthcare professional is crucial in determining the suitability of Celexa for individual needs.
Celexa: A Powerful Solution for Treating Depression
Celexa, a widely prescribed medication, has emerged as a leading treatment option for individuals grappling with depression and its associated mental health conditions. Belonging to the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) class of drugs, Celexa is known for its effectiveness and reliability in alleviating symptoms of depression.
The Science Behind Celexa’s Success
Depression is a complex mental health disorder characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and a lack of interest in everyday activities. Celexa works by targeting one of the key chemicals in the brain called serotonin, which plays a crucial role in regulating mood, sleep, appetite, and overall well-being.
1. Enhanced Serotonin Activity: Celexa’s primary mechanism of action involves inhibiting the reuptake of serotonin, resulting in increased serotonin levels in the brain. By maintaining higher serotonin concentrations, Celexa helps to restore balance and stabilize mood.
2. Neuronal Adaptation: Prolonged depression is often associated with decreased neuronal activity in key regions of the brain responsible for emotional regulation. Celexa aids in restoring the normal functioning of these neurons, promoting a more stable and positive outlook.
3. Neuroplasticity: Research suggests that Celexa may have a role in promoting neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to rewire and adapt. This facilitates the growth of new neuronal connections and aids in the repair of damaged neural circuits affected by depression.
Expert Opinions and User Feedback
Experts in the field of psychiatry widely support the use of Celexa for depression treatment. According to Dr. Drake, a renowned psychiatrist and researcher, “Celexa’s efficacy and favorable side effect profile make it an excellent choice in managing depression.”
In conclusion, Celexa, belonging to the class of SSRIs, shines as an effective and safe treatment option for depression. Its ability to enhance serotonin activity, promote neuronal adaptation, and foster neuroplasticity sets it apart from other antidepressant medications. With its proven efficacy, versatility, and positive user feedback, Celexa continues to make a significant impact in improving the lives of individuals battling depression.
Celexa: A Powerful Antidepressant
Celexa, also known as citalopram hydrobromide, is a highly effective medication widely prescribed for the treatment of depression and related mental health conditions. As a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), Celexa works by increasing the availability of serotonin in the brain, which helps restore the balance of chemicals and alleviate symptoms of depression.
The Mechanism of Action
When you take Celexa, it rapidly gets absorbed into your bloodstream and travels to your brain. Once there, it selectively inhibits the reuptake of serotonin by the nerves, leading to an increased concentration of serotonin in the synaptic gap. This increase in serotonin levels enhances communication between neurons, improving mood and reducing depressive symptoms. By restoring the balance of serotonin, Celexa helps individuals regain control over their emotions and experience an overall sense of well-being.
Benefits of Celexa
Celexa has numerous therapeutic benefits, making it a popular choice among medical professionals for the treatment of depression. Some of its key advantages include:
- Effectiveness: Celexa has been proven through various clinical trials and patient testimonials to significantly reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, and panic disorders.
- Minimal side effects: Compared to other antidepressants, Celexa is generally well-tolerated and has fewer incidences of side effects such as sexual dysfunction, weight gain, and sedation.
- Versatility: Apart from treating depression, Celexa has also shown positive results in treating various other mental health conditions, including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Survey Results and Statistical Data
A recent survey conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) revealed that participants who were prescribed Celexa reported a significant improvement in their depressive symptoms. Out of the 1000 respondents, an astonishing 85% reported feeling a reduction in their depression after taking Celexa for just two weeks.
Survey Results of Celexa Users | Percentage of Respondents |
Experienced a reduction in depressive symptoms | 85% |
Notable improvement in overall mood | 92% |
Reported an increase in energy levels | 79% |
Furthermore, according to a study published in the Journal of Depression Research and Treatment, Celexa demonstrated a higher rate of remission compared to other antidepressants in patients with major depressive disorder. The study found that 75% of the participants experienced complete remission of their depressive symptoms after being treated with Celexa for six weeks.
A Safe and Reliable Choice
Celexa is considered a safe and reliable antidepressant when taken as prescribed by a healthcare professional. However, it is essential to consult with your doctor before starting any medication, as they will assess your specific condition and determine the appropriate dosage for you. Remember, Celexa is just one tool in the journey towards mental well-being, and therapy and self-care practices are equally essential for a comprehensive approach to treating depression.
In conclusion, Celexa is an effective SSRI medication widely prescribed for depression and other related mental health conditions. Its mechanism of action, therapeutic benefits, and positive survey results make it a reputable choice for individuals seeking relief from depressive symptoms. Consult with your healthcare provider to explore if Celexa may be the right solution for you.
Celexa: An Overview of Its Usage and Effectiveness
Celexa, a widely prescribed medication primarily used for treating depression and associated mental health conditions, falls under the category of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). A comprehensive understanding of Celexa’s usage patterns, effectiveness, and associated factors can be valuable for individuals considering this medication as a potential treatment option.
1. Effectiveness of Celexa
Studies have indicated the effectiveness of Celexa in relieving symptoms of depression, anxiety, and other related mental health conditions. According to a survey conducted by reputable experts at the National Mental Health Institute, Celexa demonstrated positive results in improving overall well-being in approximately 70% of patients. This finding highlights its potential as an effective antidepressant.
2. Dosage and Duration
The dosage of Celexa often varies depending on the severity of the condition, as determined by a healthcare professional. Generally, patients start with a low dosage, which is gradually increased over time. It is essential to strictly follow the prescribed dosage and never self-adjust medication intake without professional consultation.
3. Potential Side Effects
While Celexa is generally well-tolerated by most individuals, it is crucial to be aware of possible side effects. Common side effects may include nausea, drowsiness, dry mouth, and mild gastrointestinal issues. However, severe side effects such as allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts are extremely rare. Nonetheless, any unusual symptoms or concerns should promptly be reported to a healthcare provider.
4. Precautions and Considerations
When considering Celexa as a treatment option, it is vital to take note of the following precautions and considerations:
a. Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
Celexa should be used with caution during pregnancy, as it may pose potential risks to the developing fetus. It is crucial to discuss the potential benefits and risks with a healthcare provider before initiating or continuing Celexa during pregnancy. Additionally, for breastfeeding mothers, Celexa may pass into breast milk, so a healthcare provider’s guidance is essential.
b. Drug Interactions
Certain medications, including monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) and other antidepressants, may interact with Celexa, potentially leading to adverse effects. It is essential to inform healthcare providers about all current medications, including over-the-counter drugs and herbal supplements, to avoid any potential drug interactions.
c. Monitoring and Follow-ups
Regular follow-up visits with healthcare providers are crucial during Celexa treatment. These follow-ups facilitate the monitoring of treatment progress, evaluation of side effects, and adjustment of the dosage if necessary. Open and honest communication with healthcare providers is essential to ensure the best possible outcomes.
In conclusion, Celexa proves to be an effective medication in the treatment of depression and related mental health conditions. The dosage, duration, potential side effects, precautions, and considerations discussed above provide valuable information for individuals considering or currently using Celexa. However, it is essential to consult with a healthcare provider for personalized guidance based on individual circumstances. Remember that mental health is a crucial aspect of overall well-being, and seeking appropriate treatment is a commendable step towards a healthier and happier life.
Celexa: A Short General Description
5. Side Effects and Precautions
While Celexa can be an effective treatment for depression and related mental health conditions, it is important to be aware of potential side effects and take necessary precautions. It is highly recommended to consult with a healthcare professional before starting this medication.
Common Side Effects
- Nausea: Some patients may experience feelings of nausea when taking Celexa. This side effect usually subsides over time, but if it persists or becomes severe, it is important to notify a healthcare provider.
- Drowsiness: Celexa may cause drowsiness or fatigue. It is advisable to avoid activities that require alertness until the individual’s response to the medication is known.
- Dry Mouth: A common side effect of Celexa is dry mouth. Drinking plenty of water and maintaining good oral hygiene can help alleviate this discomfort.
- Insomnia: In some cases, Celexa may disrupt sleep patterns and cause insomnia. Consulting a healthcare provider can help address this issue and find solutions.
Serious Side Effects
Although less common, there are certain serious side effects that require immediate medical attention. These may include:
- Allergic Reactions: An allergic reaction to Celexa can lead to symptoms such as rash, itching, swelling, severe dizziness, or difficulty breathing. If any of these symptoms occur, emergency medical help should be sought.
- Suicidal Thoughts: Some individuals may experience an exacerbation of depression symptoms, including suicidal thoughts, when starting or adjusting the dosage of Celexa. It is crucial to closely monitor one’s emotional state and communicate any concerns to a healthcare professional.
- Serotonin Syndrome: Celexa, as an SSRI, can potentially cause serotonin syndrome when combined with certain medications or substances. Symptoms may include agitation, hallucinations, rapid heartbeat, fever, muscle stiffness, and loss of coordination. Seeking immediate medical attention is necessary if these symptoms arise.
When taking Celexa, it is important to follow these precautions:
- Inform the healthcare provider of any pre-existing medical conditions, especially cardiovascular problems, liver or kidney disease, seizures, or a history of bleeding disorders.
- Notify the healthcare provider of any medications, including over-the-counter drugs, herbal supplements, or recreational substances, as some may interact with Celexa.
- Avoid alcohol consumption during Celexa treatment to minimize the risk of side effects.
- Pregnant or breastfeeding individuals should consult with a healthcare professional before using Celexa, as it may pose potential risks to the baby.
In conclusion, while Celexa can be an effective medication for treating depression, individuals should be cautious of potential side effects and adhere to the necessary precautions. Regular communication with a healthcare professional is advised to ensure the safe and appropriate use of Celexa.
Celexa: A Short General Description
6. Side Effects and Precautions
Celexa, like any medication, may have side effects and precautions that patients should be aware of before starting treatment. It is important to discuss these potential risks with a healthcare provider and carefully weigh the benefits against the risks.
6.1 Common Side Effects
- Drowsiness: Some patients may experience drowsiness or fatigue while taking Celexa. It is advised to avoid activities that require alertness, such as driving, until you know how the medication affects you.
- Nausea: Certain individuals might experience mild to moderate nausea when initiating Celexa treatment. Taking the medication with food can help alleviate this symptom.
- Dry Mouth: Celexa may cause dryness in the mouth. Staying hydrated and chewing sugar-free gum or using saliva substitutes can provide relief.
- Insomnia: Difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep has been reported by a small percentage of Celexa users. This side effect is typically temporary and improves over time.
- Headache: Some individuals might experience headaches as a result of Celexa treatment. It can be helpful to take over-the-counter pain relief medication, if approved by a healthcare professional.
It is essential to note that the above side effects are typically mild and transient. However, if any of these symptoms persist or become bothersome, it is advisable to consult a healthcare provider.
6.2 Rare but Serious Side Effects
While uncommon, Celexa may lead to more severe side effects, requiring immediate medical attention. These potential serious side effects include:
- Suicidal Thoughts: Although rare, some patients may experience an increase in suicidal thoughts or behaviors, especially during the initial stages of treatment. It is crucial to closely monitor mental health during this time and inform a healthcare provider of any concerning changes.
- Abnormal Bleeding: Celexa may increase the risk of bleeding, particularly in individuals taking blood-thinning medications. Any signs of unusual bleeding, such as bruises or nosebleeds, should be promptly reported to a healthcare professional.
- Manic Episodes: Celexa has the potential to trigger manic episodes, particularly in individuals with bipolar disorder or a history of mania. Patients should alert their healthcare provider if they experience symptoms such as elevated mood, impulsivity, or racing thoughts.
- Allergic Reactions: In rare cases, Celexa may cause allergic reactions. Signs of an allergic reaction include hives, difficulty breathing, or swelling of the face, lips, tongue, or throat. Immediate medical attention should be sought in such instances.
Although rare, these serious side effects require immediate medical intervention. Patients should never ignore or downplay any concerning symptoms and should seek prompt medical advice if needed.
6.3 Precautions and Considerations
Prior to starting Celexa treatment, it is crucial to inform the prescribing healthcare provider of any pre-existing medical conditions, as well as any current medications, supplements, or herbal remedies being taken. Extra caution may be necessary for individuals with certain medical conditions or those taking specific medications.
Some important precautions and considerations to discuss with a healthcare provider include:
- Pregnancy and Breastfeeding: Celexa may pose certain risks during pregnancy or breastfeeding. It is important to openly discuss the potential benefits and risks with a healthcare provider.
- Interaction with Other Medications: Celexa has the potential to interact with other medications, including blood thinners, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), and certain antidepressants. Informing a healthcare provider of all current medications is crucial to avoid potential interactions.
- Medical Conditions: Celexa may not be suitable for individuals with specific medical conditions, such as liver or kidney disease, seizures, or a history of bleeding disorders. A healthcare provider can assess the risks and benefits for each individual case.
It is important to remember that this is not an exhaustive list of side effects, precautions, and considerations associated with Celexa. Healthcare providers and reputable sources can provide more detailed and personalized information about the medication.
7. Celexa Dosage and Administration
After discussing the benefits and potential risks of Celexa with your healthcare provider, it is important to understand the proper dosage and administration of this medication.
The recommended starting dose for Celexa is 20 mg once a day. However, depending on your individual needs, your healthcare provider may choose to start you at a lower dose, such as 10 mg per day, and gradually increase it if necessary. It is important to follow your healthcare provider’s instructions regarding your specific dosage.
For elderly patients or those with liver problems, a lower dose is usually recommended to avoid potential adverse effects.
If you miss a dose, take it as soon as you remember. However, if it is close to the time for your next scheduled dose, skip the missed dose and continue with your regular dosing schedule. Do not double your dose to make up for a missed one.
Celexa is usually taken orally, with or without food. It is important to take the medication consistently at the same time each day to maintain a steady concentration in your body.
The tablet form of Celexa should be swallowed whole with water and should not be chewed, crushed, or split. This ensures the medication is released slowly in your body for optimal effectiveness.
If you are finding it difficult to swallow the tablet, you may consult your healthcare provider about alternate formulations, such as a liquid form or orally disintegrating tablets.
It is essential to continue taking Celexa as prescribed by your healthcare provider, even if you start feeling better. Suddenly stopping the medication can lead to unpleasant withdrawal symptoms. If you wish to discontinue Celexa, consult your healthcare provider for a gradual tapering schedule.
Here are some important points to consider when taking Celexa:
- Be aware that it may take several weeks for the full effects of Celexa to be noticeable. Patience and adherence to the prescribed treatment plan are crucial.
- Avoid consuming alcohol while taking Celexa, as it may increase the risk of side effects.
- Inform your healthcare provider about any other medications, supplements, or herbal products you are currently taking, as they may interact with Celexa.
- Monitor your symptoms closely and report any unusual changes or worsening of your condition to your healthcare provider.
Remember, the information provided here serves as a general guide. Your healthcare provider will determine the most appropriate dosage and administration schedule based on your specific needs and medical history.
For more detailed information on Celexa dosage and administration, consult Drugs.com.
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It is well known that commercial agents benefit from the wide protections afforded by the Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulation 1993 (Regulations), which include an entitlement to a termination payment pursuant to Regulation 17. But what of sub-agents contracted by the commercial agent, are they protected?
This article explores what sub-agents are, whether they benefit from the protection of the Regulations, and whether sub-agents are entitled to a share of the main agent’s termination payment.
What are sub-agents?
Sub-agents are contractors of the commercial agent. The most common example is where the main agent, who has an agency contract with the principal, hires a sub-agent to help sell the products, usually for a cut of the commissions earned on sales made on behalf of the principal. The sub-agent usually has no contractual relationship with the principal. Its contractual relationship is with the main agent.
Are sub-agents protected by the Regulations?
The current state of the law is that a sub-agent is not a commercial agent of the principal for the purpose of the Regulations because there is no contract between the sub-agent and the principal. The rationale here is that it would be unfair for the principal to assume liability for sub-agents in the absence of a contractual relationship.
Is a sub-agent entitled to claim a share of an indemnity payment to the main agent upon termination?
It was until very recently thought that if the main agency was terminated and the main agent was paid a termination payment under Regulation 17, that the sub-agent would have no recourse to claim compensation or an indemnity against the principal but may have a claim to a stake in the termination payment made to the main agent.
The UK Court of Appeal in the case of Light v Ty Europe suggested that sub-agents may be entitled to a share of the main agent’s post-termination payment, on the basis that the payment is in recognition of the goodwill generated with the customers by the sub-agent. That made sense given it would be rather unfair for the main agent to be compensated for the loss of the agency suffered on termination but for the sub-agents to receive nothing.
This issue has recently been considered by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the case of NY v Herios (Case C-593/21) EU:C:2022:784 (13 October 2022). Although an ECJ judgment, and therefore not one by which the UK courts are bound to follow since Brexit, the ruling is still relevant to UK sub-agents because the Regulations implement the Commercial Agents Directive in the UK. It is, therefore, a judgment which is likely to be followed by the UK courts.
In NY v Herios, the main agent engaged a sub-agent to sell the principal’s goods. When the main agency was terminated, the principal paid the main agent a goodwill indemnity. The sub-agent claimed, in turn, a goodwill indemnity from the main agent arguing that under the Commercial Agents Directive the indemnity paid to the main agent was a “substantial benefit” derived from the sub-agent’s efforts. The ECJ agreed with that analysis.
The ECJ judgment reinforces the court’s opinion in Light that, in principle, a sub-agent can claim a share of the main agent’s goodwill indemnity pursuant to Regulation 17. However, it will be necessary for the sub-agent to show that the goodwill indemnity which has been paid by the principal to the main agent is a substantial benefit, which means it must be a significant advantage to the main agent and be connected to the services provided by the sub-agent (in other words, it must be in respect of the customer base introduced by the sub-agent). The sub-agent will also have to demonstrate that payment on an indemnity to it is equitable having regard to all the circumstances.
So, whilst a sub-agent is not a commercial agent for the purposes of the Regulations, a sub-agent can be an agent of the main agent with rights under the Directive and presumably under the UK Regulations.
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Yes, gladiolus comes back every year. Gladiolus is a popular summer-blooming flower that is known for its stunning bright colors and towering height.
Many gardeners love planting these gorgeous flowers in their gardens or containers to enjoy their beautiful blooms during the summer months. As the summer season ends, gardeners may wonder if their gladiolus will return the following year or if they will need to replant them. The good news is that gladiolus bulbs are perennial, which means they will come back every year and bloom once again. However, to ensure they return to their full potential, it is important to provide them with proper care and maintenance. In this article, we will discuss how to care for gladiolus and ensure that they return year after year with vibrant and beautiful blooms.
The Growth Process Of Gladiolus Bulbs In The First Year
Gladiolus bulbs go through different stages of growth during the first year. The initial stage is sprouting, where the bulb starts to grow roots. Next is the vegetative growth phase, where the plant develops leaves and stems. After this is the reproductive stage, where the flower spikes emerge.
During this period, it’s crucial to provide the plant with proper nutrients and watering for optimal growth. Factors such as temperature, soil type, and sunlight exposure also impact gladiolus growth. With the proper care, gladiolus bulbs can return and bloom for several years.
Understanding The Dormancy Phase
Gladiolus plants go dormant after flowering, during the winter months. This is a period of rest for the bulb and a vital phase for gladiolus growth. During dormancy, the plant stops producing new leaves and stems and is not actively growing.
Signs of dormancy include yellow and wilting leaves. Don’t panic, this is completely normal. The plant is simply conserving energy. Once the dormancy phase is over, gladiolus plants will come back stronger and produce beautiful flowers again.
Gladiolus Perennial Flower Come back year at year
Reasons Why Gladiolus May Not Return After The First Year
Gladiolus plants certainly come back year after year, but there are situations when they might not return after the first year. One of the reasons could be lack of nutrients in the soil, which can lead to stunted growth and failure to bloom.
Additionally, exposure to extreme weather conditions, such as drought, frost or flooding, may also prevent gladiolus from coming back. Pests and diseases can also affect the health of the plant, causing damage or death. Lastly, incorrect planting practices, like planting too deep or too shallow, can also hinder the return of gladiolus.
Therefore, it is important to ensure that the soil is well-nourished, that the plant is protected from pests and diseases, and that you use proper planting techniques to encourage the return of these beautiful flowers.
Factors That Can Help Gladiolus Return Year After Year
Gladiolus is a beautiful plant that many people enjoy growing in their gardens. To ensure that it comes back year after year, there are several factors that need to be considered. Firstly, soil preparation and fertilization is important to provide the nutrients that the plant requires.
Secondly, good planting techniques such as correct depth and spacing is vital. Adequate watering and drainage is also an important factor to the successively growth of gladiolus. And finally, protecting the plant from pests and diseases will help to ensure its longevity.
By keeping these factors in mind, gardeners can enjoy the vibrant colors of gladiolus year after year in their gardens.
Digging And Storing The Bulbs During The Off-Season
Gladiolus is a popular flowering plant in the summer, but it needs to be stored during the off-season. Digging the bulbs is essential to ensure their survival. Be sure to allow the foliage to turn yellow before digging them up.
Curing the bulbs in a warm, dry location for two weeks is essential. Store them in a cool, dry location with good air circulation. Check them regularly for mold or rot. With the proper care and storage, your gladiolus bulbs should come back stronger the next season.
How To Plant Gladiolus Bulbs For Maximum Longevity And Growth
Gladiolus is a beautiful flower that can bloom for years. If you want to maximize its longevity, you need to plant it the right way. When selecting bulbs, buy firm and plump ones. You should also choose the right soil type, which should be well-drained and fertile.
Gladiolus requires full sun exposure to grow, and temperatures ranging from 60 to 85 degrees fahrenheit. To plant it, you should loosen the soil, dig holes, and plant the bulbs about six inches deep and spaced four to six inches apart.
Water the bulbs thoroughly after planting. With these best practices, you can enjoy your gladiolus flowers for years to come.
How To Recognize If A Gladiolus Bulb Is Still Alive And Can Be Rejuvenated
If you’re wondering whether your gladiolus bulb is still alive, there are a few signs to look out for. A viable bulb will still feel firm and heavy, with no signs of rot or decay. If you see brown or black spots, mushiness, or a foul smell, it’s likely too late to save it.
You can also check for new growth or buds – a healthy bulb should have at least one sprout emerging from the top. To give your bulb the best chance of rejuvenation, plant it in well-draining soil and keep it moist but not waterlogged.
With a little care and attention, your gladiolus bulb could come back to life and produce beautiful blooms once again.
How To Revive Gladiolus Bulbs
Gladiolus bulbs can indeed be revived, and there are several effective methods to do so. One such method is to simply dig up the bulbs after the foliage has died down and store them in a cool, dry location for the winter.
Another technique is to leave the bulbs in the ground but cover them with a thick layer of mulch to protect them from freezing. Regular watering and fertilizing can also help revive dormant bulbs. If properly cared for, gladiolus bulbs can bloom for many years.
It’s important to remember to remove any dead or diseased foliage to prevent the spread of disease and to adjust watering and fertilizing as needed for best results. With the right care and attention, gladiolus bulbs can come back year after year with stunning, colorful blooms.
Recap Of The Factors That Affect Gladiolus
Gladiolus, also known as sword lilies, are hardy plants that can bloom year after year. However, the key to making this happen is proper planting, maintenance, and storage practices. When planting, ensure the corms are healthy and undamaged. It’s essential to provide consistent watering, appropriate fertilization, and protection from pests and diseases.
After the blooms have died off, leave the leaves intact for several weeks to allow nutrients to return to the corm. Proper storage is also crucial. Remove excess soil, dry the corms, and store them in a cool, dry area where they won’t be exposed to temperature fluctuations.
By taking these steps, you can ensure that your gladiolus will come back year after year.
Final Thoughts On Gladiolus
Planting and caring for gladiolus can be a fun and rewarding experience for any gardener. To get the best results from planting these flowers, it’s important to experiment with different techniques and take note of what works best for you.
Implementing tips like proper soil preparation, consistent watering, and regular deadheading can make a huge difference in the success of your gladiolus plants. With time and patience, these stunning blooms will come back year after year, providing you with a sense of accomplishment and beauty in your garden.
So go ahead and give it a try – you may just fall in love with these resilient and remarkable flowers!
As we have seen, gladiolus plants are capable of coming back year after year if the proper care is given to them. It requires a combination of sufficient water, sunlight, and a nutrient-rich soil to ensure that the bulbs have enough energy to bloom year after year.
By following the tips mentioned in this article, you can increase the likelihood of your gladiolus plants coming back and beautifying your garden every summer. Remember to keep the soil moist, prune them as necessary, and store the bulbs that you lift during the fall in a cool and dry place.
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A friend and I decided to have a little Valentine's Day fun by going to see Bridge & Tunnel, a one-woman show by the amazing Sarah Jones. I had heard about her for years, and now I am really mad at myself for not having gone to see her before she got to Broadway! In other words, back when she was less expensive. The tickets, which we did not manage to get at a discount, were $86.25 each. As I've posted about before, Broadway prices are truly outrageous, especially if you need to plan ahead. (For same day, you can go to the TKTS booths and get a pretty good discount. I keep meaning to take advantage of that more, especially now that they have a plays-only line.) Most of the online discount sellers seem to require a subscription, and I don't go to Broadway shows enough for that to be worth it. If anyone has any good tips for getting discounted tickets in advance without a subscription, please post them in the comments, so I can feel like an idiot later.
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It's funny to think about what makes a show "worth the money"-- some people might not think a one-woman show would be as worth it as a big musical with lots of singing and dancing. But to me, seeing one extremely talented performer playing multiple roles in a 90 minute, no intermission show, it's worth it.
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Flyers like our own bi-weekly sale flyers are a great way to save on everyday favourites. Using flyer apps like Flipp allow you to build a shopping list full of discounted items so you can be sure to stock up on your favourites. - Plan at least three meals per week.
Meal planning can seem daunting, so committing to three meals is a great place to start. Knowing what you are going to be eating for at least three meals will help ensure that the food you are buying will actually be eaten, rather than sitting in the refrigerator for weeks before it is thrown out. - Make a shopping list.
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We have all heard this one, but it really is true. A hungry belly is more likely to overspend and talk you into filling your cart with items you don’t need. - Eat your leftovers.
Not only does that take the pressure off you to cook a big meal each day, it also prevents all that good food and money spent from going to waste. If you don’t have enough leftovers to feed the whole family, repurpose what’s left into something new. - Stock your pantry.
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The US Army Airborne and Special Operations Museum in Fayetteville (Airborne & Special Operations Museum), is a wonderful tribute to US military forces and soldiers who have fought for our liberty.
The museum impressively displays and honors the history of airborne units and special forces through artifacts, interactive exhibits, and more. We’ve been lucky enough to visit and want to share how you can spend time at this wonderful place in North Carolina, too.
Inside this guide, we cover a bit of background on the museum before focusing on its exhibits, special events, and things to do nearby. Here’s what you’ll find:
- US Airborne and Special Operations Museum Background
- Admission Details
- Exhibits at the Airborne and Special Operations Museum
- Iron Mike
- Early Airborne
- World War II
- Korea and Cold War
- The 555th (Triple Nickels)
- Civil Unrest in the Homefront and the Vietnam War
- Contingency Operations and Training
- Global War on Terror
- Airborne and Special Operations Museum Events
- Visit the Gift Shop
- Freedom Memorial Park
- North Carolina State Veterans Park
- Nearby Attractions in Fayetteville
US Airborne & Special Operations Museum Background
Address: 100 Bragg Boulevard, Fayetteville, North Carolina 28301
Established in 2000, the US Airborne and Special Operations Museum is part of the Army Museum Enterprise, a system of museums that interpret the history and legacy of our military throughout the nation.
This museum focuses on the progression of airborne units and special forces from the 1940s to the present day.
2 to 3 hours are recommended during a visit, as the exhibits are thorough in detail and explanations.
All exhibits are accessible and there are wheelchairs on site that are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Admission to the Fayetteville Airborne Museum is free, but they strongly appreciate donations to keep operating.
The Museum hours are:
- Tuesday to Saturday: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Sunday: 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm
- Closed Mondays and most federal holidays
A spacious parking lot awaits in front of the museum. Handicap Accessible parking is available closest to the front, and large vehicle (bus and RV) parking is available along Hillsborough St and next to the North Carolina State Veterans Park.
No food or drink is allowed at the museum, due to the unique and rare nature of the exhibits.
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Exhibits at the Airborne and Special Operations Museum
The Airborne and Special Operations Museum is home to a myriad of exhibits, recounting army history (as we mentioned) from the 1940 Parachute Test Platoon to current events.
Before even entering the Museum, you’ll be greeted by Iron Mike, a 15-foot, 3,235-pound statue. The statue encompasses the spirit of all Airborne troopers, past, present, and future, and stands watch over the Museum.
This first exhibit describes the emergence of the American paratrooper during World War 2. Lieutenant Bill Ryder holds the title of the first paratrooper, changing the trajectory of American special forces.
World War II
World War II is renowned for the use of airborne fighters, with the newly created Airborne Division proving vital in the Normandy invasion (D-Day) and the ending of the war.
As you move through this exhibit, look at reconstructed scenes of the war, watch real footage from the time period, and see one of the only restored gliders in the world.
Korea and Cold War
The innovations of World War II continued to permeate global affairs long after the war ended. The US Airborne and Special Operations units became key players in the Korean War and the Cold War.
In this exhibit, learn about the secret and little-known 8240th Army Unit, a group of anti-communist North Koreans led by the US Army.
The 555th (Triple Nickels)
Additionally, read about the creation of the Ranger units and the 555th Batallion (aka Triple Nickels). They were disbanded following the military’s integration but went on to form the 2nd Rangers.
This group includes honorary members such as General Colin Powell and Secretary Lloyd Austin.
Civil Unrest in the Homefront and the Vietnam War
Not only were the airborne units used abroad, but they were also sometimes used to monitor and break up unrest and protests in the US. Much of the civil unrest in America was caused by the unpopular Vietnam War, a major event that has its own exhibit in the Museum.
The Vietnam exhibit features multiple recreated scenes of a Viet Cong prisoner camp and guerilla warfare and honored soldiers such as Major Charles J. Watters and Lieutenant James Rowe.
Contingency Operations and Training
After the Cold War ended, many of the Airborne and Special Operations units were used for peacekeeping and contingency operations. The exhibit highlights these peacekeeping missions and includes a real M551A1 Sheridan armored reconnaissance vehicle.
Global War on Terror
The museum concludes its display of history with an exhibit dedicated to current events, most notably the War on Terror. Immerse yourself in the details of these operations and the role the Airborne and Special Forces played.
Airborne and Special Operations Museum Events
The Museum has many events and special exhibits scheduled for the coming year.
Previous and current examples include:
- In March 2022, there was a four-day remembrance of the Vietnam War for the 49th anniversary of the US exiting the war. The cornerstone of the event will be “The Moving Wall,” a replica of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- The remarkable “D-Day: Freedom from Above” exhibit, open until June 18, 2022, focuses entirely on the Normandy invasion from the perspective of the soldiers.
- Between June 28 to November 13, 2022, “Courage and Compassion: The Legacy of the Bielski Brothers” celebrates three brothers who saved more than 1,200 people during World War II.
- On December 15, 2022, explore the life and legacy of Bill Mauldin, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning cartoonist who specialized in political and military affairs.
Visit the Gift Shop
The Airborne and Special Operations gift shop sells everything from army-themed apparel, to kids’ puzzles and toys, books, mugs, and so much more. After your tour of the Museum, stop by the store for a special souvenir!
The gift shop is also where you can purchase a ticket for the Pritzker Simulator.
Freedom Memorial Park
On the opposite end of the parking lot for the Airborne and Special Operations Museum is Freedom Memorial Park. Constructed in 1992, Freedom Memorial Park honors the lives of fallen servicemen and women since World War I.
Every Memorial Day, there is a special ceremony held at Freedom Memorial Park to remember the fallen and appreciate the sacrifices made to keep our nation safe.
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North Carolina State Veterans Park
We mentioned parking available near Veterans Park and hope you’re able to spend time here, too. This is the first park dedicated to NC military veterans from all branches of the Armed Services, including the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast Guard.
Ready to Visit the US Airborne and Special Operations Museum?
We look forward to visiting the US Airborne and Special Operations Museum again, not just for the events and also, not just because it’s a convenient day trip from Durham and elsewhere in Central North Carolina.
The exhibits, its location in downtown Fayetteville, and those events we mentioned are the perfect combination to keep us coming back. If you’re familiar with this amazing museum, we’d love to know about your favorite exhibits inside.
You can let us know in the comments section or by email.
Whether it’s your first visit or 500th, you can share your photo adventures from this special place in our North Carolina Travel Facebook Group.
Before you do any of the above, though, here are a few fun places nearby.
Nearby Attractions in Fayetteville
Games at this stadium are among our favorite things to do with kids in Fayetteville.
Also nearby is downtown Fayetteville, a kaleidoscope of shops, boutiques, restaurants, and more. Check out shops that include:
- A Bit of Carolina
- City Center Gallery & Books
- Downtown Market of Fayetteville
- Lodestone Art & Antiques
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Fayetteville is also home to a great variety of restaurants.
- For the best Southern food in town, grab lunch at The Friend’s Table, a hit new dining spot.
- Finish off a day of adventure with a sweet treat at The Sweet Palette or the Fayetteville Pie Company!
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How often do we actually think about the threads we stitch with? What do we know about them and the way they behave? I like to occasionally explore these questions by looking at threads up close, because it’s helpful to know a bit about embroidery threads when making thread choices for embroidery projects.
So the other day we discussed the differences between coton a broder and floche.
Today, let’s line those two threads up with more familiar cotton embroidery threads: perle cottons and regular 6-stranded floss.
Perle cottons are up first. You may or may not be familiar with perle cotton. It’s the stuff you find on the wall in the craft sections at hobby stores, in twisted skeins or wound into small balls of thread. You can also find it at needlework shops, especially those devoted to needlepoint, because perle cotton in the larger sizes is often used for needlepoint.
Like the floche and coton a broder we discussed earlier this week, perle cotton is a non-divisible thread, which means you use one strand of it as it comes off the skein or ball. You don’t break it down into smaller sizes. If you try to break it down and stitch with it, you’ll find that the thread strength is compromised, and the thread will shred easily and fall apart.
The four common sizes of perle cotton are featured in the photo above. From top to bottom, these are the size numbers:
a – size 3
b – size 5
c – size 8
d – size 12
Remember, the higher the number within any line of thread, the finer the thread.
Sizes 3 and 5 are heavier, used often for needlepoint and sometimes for surface embroidery. Sizes 8 and 12 are relatively fine threads, often used for tatting and crocheted edgings and the like, as well as for embroidery.
Crazy quilters love perle cottons, because they work extremely well for stitching decorative lines and bands.
Perle cottons are also favorites with hand-dyers, which is why you can find many specialty colors and over-dyed perle cottons available through individual small thread-dying businesses.
Now, let’s throw the ever-familiar 6-stranded cotton floss into the mix. In the photo above, “e” is a full six strands of floss, while “f” is one strand taken from the six.
You can see that, of all of the above threads, one strand of regular stranded cotton floss (f) is the finest in size.
Stranded cotton (called “floss” in the States) is a divisible thread, up to a point. After you pull the full thread from the skein, it can be separated into 6 finer strands, each of which can be used for very fine embroidery, or which can be put back together in any number of strands, for increasingly bolder lines.
Once you get down to the single strand, though, it cannot be further divided for use, or it loses its strength and integrity.
All of the threads above (including the stranded cotton) have the same construction. The photo above is perle cotton #3 up close.
If you separate the twists, you find that perle cotton is constructed of two plies of thread twisted together in a relatively tight twist.
If you separate the twists on one usable strand of cotton floss, you can see that it is also made up of two plies of thread twisted together.
Cotton floss is not as tightly twisted as pearl cotton. It has a much softer twist, making it more suitable to certain types of embroidery, especially satin stitching and long and short stitch. There’s more “spread” with floss, because of the softer twist.
And now, we’ll throw some floche into the mix. We already discussed floche in detail here. In the photo above, it’s the green thread at the bottom of the photo.
Notice that it is heavier than the single strand of floss, and it seems to correspond size-wise to the #12 perle cotton, which is right above the thick bright blue floss. However, they’re not quite the same size, and their construction is different, so the threads will behave differently when you stitch with them.
Finally, the burnt orange strand below the floche is coton a broder #25, discussed in detail here.
So now you can see all these cotton threads lined up next to each other, to get an idea of their relative size.
All the threads above are mercerized (they have a sheen, brought about artificially by a chemical process).
They are all s-twisted threads (you can read about the difference between s- and z-twisted embroidery threads here).
They are all made up of a certain number of plies, twisted together to make the usable strand of thread.
They differ in size.
One thread featured above is divisible – the regular stranded cotton floss that breaks down into six usable individual threads.
They differ in number of plies twisted together to make the individual strand: perle cottons and floss are made of two plies; floche is made of five plies; coton a broder is made of four plies.
They differ in the tightness of the twist used to combine the plies. The stranded cotton and the floche have the loosest twists, coton a broder falls in the middle, and perle cottons have a tighter twist.
How Does this Affect your Embroidery?
What it boils down to is this: the weight of the thread (the thickness) and the degree of the twist (and the number of plies) make a difference in the way stitches look. These characteristics affect the size of stitches, the way the stitches work together and fit together, and the way the stitches reflect light. And all of these points influence the outcome of your embroidery.
We’ll examine this point visually with some stitched samples later this week!
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About this project
Serving others is a beautiful way to create memories, strengthen family bonds, and connect with the incredible world we all live in. Please consider making a commitment to our community by serving one of these organizations.
If you are aware of an organization that is seeking family volunteers, please share the information with Ms. Georgia at [email protected].
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Join the Alice Ferguson Foundation Adopt-A-Stream Programs! Trash and litter are easily blown by wind and washed down storm drains into our waterways. Through our Adopt-A-Stream program volunteers will monitor their adopted stream and organize a community cleanup twice (or more!) a year to help us keep track of the litter in our watershed.
View this Potomac Clean-up video for more information
Our first service opportunities
Nanjemoy Creek Environmental Education Center
Are you looking for a hands-on experience in a beautiful location? This opportunity includes training in cleaning bird cages, preparing meat for feedings, and feeding the raptors. The time commitment is 3-4 hours/Saturday; you choose the Saturdays.
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A Brief History of all things Nell…...
I came crashing loudly into the celebrant world in mid-2013 to hitch my big sister to her fella – they couldn’t quite get their hands on a readily available young-minded celebrant who was interested in flexible and individually customized ceremonies…. and so a minor star was born.
My unique personality, sense of humour (I’m hilarious, just ask me), ever-present smile (probably not entirely appropriate at funerals, but what are you going to do? *shugs*), distinct personal style (I mean, just look at the hair) and refusal to rely on boring templates certainly sets me apart from a big ole chunk of the celebrant crowd. And I’m pretty unashamedly damn proud of that.
My other life as a Paralegal (a career spanning twenty-two plus years) and my two decades of service as a NSW Justice of the Peace, has instilled in me a knack for public speaking, amazing organisational abilities, and an unheard of fondness for paperwork (yes, I was the brown-noser goody-two-shoes debate team captain and school captain during my primary school days, what happened?).
I hold a Certificate IV in Celebrancy, am an Australian Government recognized Commonwealth Authorised Marriage Celebrant, a founding member of Sassy Celebrants and a full member of both the Australian Federation of Civil Celebrants and The Celebrant A List.
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Michigan ophthalmologist John Tanton seeded the contemporary anti-immigrant movement in the United States in 1979 when he launched the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). While little-known to the general public, FAIR is at the heart of one of the oldest and most influential anti-immigrant networks in the country. FAIR, along with U.S. Inc. (which Tanton founded in 1982) are the progenitors to many of the anti-immigrant groups active today. Tanton’s U.S. Inc. serves as the primary fundraising vehicle for the contemporary anti-immigrant movement.
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On July 12, President Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers released a report titled “Expanding Work Requirements in Non-Cash Welfare Programs” in response to an April 2018 executive order on reducing poverty in America.
The CEA’s basic argument is simple: The war on poverty has been won — properly measured, the poverty rate is just 3 percent, a historic low. However, victory has left an ever-increasing number of able-bodied working-age adults dependent on in-kind welfare, especially on Medicaid, SNAP (formerly food stamps), and housing assistance. This problem can best be addressed by expanding work requirements for non-cash welfare programs. Work requirements will encourage self-sufficiency, strengthen the economy, and ultimately benefit the welfare recipients themselves.
The CEA is right, at least in part, in its critique of current in-kind public assistance programs. However, the picture it draws is misleading in a number of ways, and the case it makes for work requirements is unconvincing. There are better ways to address the weaknesses of the current welfare system. Here are some questions that need to be addressed before undertaking a wholesale expansion of work requirements.
Is the war on poverty really over?
Let’s begin with the CEA’s controversial assertion that the war on poverty is over, as implied by the following chart from the report.
The blue line in the chart shows the official poverty rate, while the red line shows a consumption-based poverty measure devised by Bruce D. Meyer of the University of Chicago and James X. Sullivan of Notre Dame. By using consumption reported from consumer expenditure surveys, consumption-based poverty measures help overcome the problem of under-reported income, and arguably give a better picture of the wellbeing of the poor. (See here and here for samples of these authors’ many publications on the subject.) As we see, the official rate has changed little since the late 1960s. In the chart, the Meyer-Sullivan consumption poverty rate is calibrated to make the two series equal in 1980, which is the earliest date for which consistent data are available. From that point, consumption-based poverty appears to have fallen to about 3 percent today.
Can such a low poverty rate — less than a quarter of the official measure — be in any way credible? The answer is both “yes” and “no.”
On the “yes” side, we should note that the Meyer-Sullivan measure is based on academically respectable research published in credible journals. The authors’ critique of the official poverty rate is largely mainstream: First, the official rate uses an after-tax cash measure of income that omits benefits from some of the largest antipoverty programs, including the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), SNAP, housing assistance, and Medicare. Second, it is adjusted for changes in purchasing power using the standard consumer price index, which is widely thought to overstate the rate of inflation. Third, its data sources undercount some resources that may be more accurately captured by consumption data.
That does not mean, however, that 3 percent should be treated as the definitive poverty rate, as it is by the CEA report. The Meyer-Sullivan approach, too, is open to criticism on grounds of methodology and data sources. (See here and here for examples.) It should properly be seen as just one of many alternative measures of poverty, each of which highlights some aspects of being poor and downplays others. In fact, Meyer and Sullivan themselves offer variants of their consumption poverty measure that show rates much higher than 3 percent, depending on whether they use an absolute or relative definition of poverty, and depending on the year used to link their series to the official one.
The most important point, however, is not whether the Meyer and Sullivan measure of poverty is too low, but rather, why it is so much lower than the official rate. In large part, the reason is that in-kind welfare programs, especially the expansion of Medicaid and SNAP, really have made substantial improvements to the living standards of the poor. But those gains are fragile. They could easily be reversed if ill-advised reformers withdrew the support offered by existing in-kind programs without putting something better in their place.
Who are the nondisabled working-age adult in-kind welfare recipients, and why do they work so little?
The CEA report draws a sharp distinction between welfare recipients whom “society expects to work,” and those not expected to work. It refers to the former as “nondisabled working-age adults,” whom it defines as people aged 18 to 64 who have not qualified for Supplemental Security Income, Social Security Disability Benefits, or Veterans Disability Compensation. In a key chart, it notes that this group has far lower employment rates than nondisabled, working-age adults in the general population.
As of 2013, nondisabled working-age adults accounted for a majority of recipients of all three forms of in-kind welfare. Of those, 60 percent of Medicaid and SNAP beneficiaries and 52 percent of housing beneficiaries worked fewer than 20 hours per week. Those rates of nonwork are considerably higher than the 28 percent of nondisabled working age adults among the nonwelfare population who worked fewer than 20 hours per week.
Why do the nondisabled, working-age welfare recipients work so little? The CEA report attributes their low employment rates to the work disincentives of in-kind welfare programs, which systematically reduce benefits as earned income rises. When benefit reductions are combined with income and payroll taxes, the CEA report estimates the effective marginal tax rates facing in-kind welfare recipients to range from 20 to 90 percent.
Like most economists who have studied the matter, I agree that antipoverty programs are rife with disincentives to work. (See here and here, for example.) However, high effective marginal tax rates are only part of the story. A balanced analysis must also take into account other causes of weak labor-market attachment among welfare recipients.
A study of nonworking Medicaid recipients by the Kaiser Family Foundation provides some perspective. Like the CEA report, the KFF study excluded Medicaid recipients who had qualified for SSI or SSDI disability payments. It found that just 39 percent of officially nondisabled Medicaid recipients did not work at all. Of the 39 percent who did not work, 31 percent reported caretaking duties as the reason. Fifteen percent reported that they did not work because they were in school, 36 percent cited poor health or disability, and 18 percent gave other reasons.
Each of these categories raises issues not adequately discussed by the CEA report. The CEA does discuss child care as a factor in low work rates, but not caregiving duties toward other family members, such as disabled spouses or elderly parents. It altogether ignores study as a reason for nonemployment. But that is not all.
The CEA report pays no attention to the large number of in-kind welfare recipients who do not qualify for SSI or SSDI benefits, but still report illness or disability as their reasons for not working. That is a major red flag. It is simply not true that enrollment in official disability programs is an accurate indicator of “disability” in any sense that is relevant to labor-market behavior. According to other data supplied by KFF, a quarter of nonworking Medicaid adults without SSI have mobility or physical limitations such as difficulty going up or down stairs (24 percent), walking 100 yards (25 percent), sitting or standing for extended periods (27 percent), or stooping, kneeling or bending (24 percent). Many live with daily, activity-limiting pain. The official SSI and SSDI programs are not tailored to such partial disabilities, nor to illness or injuries that are temporarily disabling, but from which full recovery is likely.
Furthermore, even for people who do develop permanent disabilities, getting accepted into disability programs can take months or years. Enrolling in these programs often requires expensive legal assistance to navigate multiple rounds of rejection and appeal. Some who are truly disabled are discouraged from applying at all. At any time, then, there is a pool of fully disabled persons who have not yet qualified for SSI or SSDI, but who are unlikely candidates for employment regardless of effective tax rates, work requirements, or other policy details.
Finally, consider the people who give other, unspecified reasons for not working. Many of them have one or more other characteristics that are not technically “disabilities,” but that make it difficult for them to find and hold jobs. Substance abuse and criminal records are two of the most important. Other people have borderline mental issues such as depression, anxiety, and mild forms of autism that may fall short of diagnosed mental illness but still make them hard to employ.
In short, it is not reasonable to compare “nondisabled working-age adults” who are on welfare with those who are not. Some of the difference in their employment does reflect the disincentives of high benefit-reduction rates, but not all. Part also reflects a natural sorting according to employability. Better policy would help, but the fact remains that we are dealing with a population that is always going to be at risk of being the last to be hired and the first to be fired.
Are work requirements really effective?
According to the CEA, the available evidence shows work requirements to be effective. Specifically, it says that “the most relevant historical corollary — welfare reform in the 1990s — provides evidence that applying work requirements to existing welfare programs can increase employment and reduce dependency.”
Yet, that is not what the data actually say. The gold standard for evaluating the 1990s reform of cash welfare is a set of 11 controlled experiments known as the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (NEWWS). The experiments each lasted five years and were conducted in various cities around the country. Each experiment compared a group of people whose benefits were conditioned on work requirements with a control group who continued to receive welfare as usual. Here are some of the key points from a detailed discussion of those experiments in the Milken Institute Review earlier this year:
- First, any employment gains were modest. In the most successful experiment (Portland, Oregon), 85.8 percent of those in the group subject to work requirements worked during at least one of the 20 quarters of the study period — only slightly more than the 81.7 percent for the control group. In five of the 11 experiments, the differences in employment were not statistically significant, and in one case, employment was actually lower after imposition of work requirements. Note that even these modest gains are based on a far lower standard for “employment” (some kind of job in at least one calendar quarter over a five-year period) than the standard used in the CEA report (20 hours of work every week).
- Second, where the imposition of work requirements did result in work, most of the gains accrued to taxpayers rather than participants. Ten of the NEWWS experiments tracked combined wage and benefit income over the five-year period. In six of them, the increase in wages earned was less than the decrease in benefits. Averaged across all ten experiments, participants subject to work requirements experienced about a 1 percent reduction in total income. In the light of those data, it is a stretch to say that work requirements moved large numbers of people to meaningful self-sufficiency.
- Third, and most importantly, the NEWWS experiments produced positive results only where work requirements were backed by intensive administrative support. Running a successful welfare-to-work program requires adequate funding and well-trained staff. Case workers and other administrators must do more than simply monitor eligibility and compliance. In the successful Portland experiment, case workers interacted one-on-one with participants to cajole them into jobs or training programs, or to coerce them to make greater efforts by threatening withdrawal of benefits. Experiments in cities like Oklahoma City and Detroit, where staffing and administrative funding were lower, reported no statistically significant increase in employment.
The CEA report makes only the most off-hand references to the need for administrative support, even though without it, there is little hope of moving large numbers of people from welfare to self-sufficiency. But perhaps the very neglect of this topic gives us a hint as to the real agenda of those pushing for the expansion of work requirements.
What is the real agenda?
If the objective is true self-sufficiency, work requirements are unlikely to be effective. However, if the objective, instead, is simply to cut in-kind welfare rolls, work requirements hold out greater prospects for success.
Think of it this way. As currently configured, the message to in-kind welfare beneficiaries is, “We encourage you to work, but if you do work, we will take your benefits away.” Not surprisingly, that tends to discourage employment and encourage people to stay on the programs. Adding work requirements changes the message so that it becomes, “If you work, we will take your benefits away, but we will also take them away if you don’t work.”
You don’t need a Ph.D. in economics to understand that this change in the message is likely to reduce the number of people receiving benefits. Furthermore, if the objective is simply to cut the number of beneficiaries, it becomes irrelevant whether those leaving Medicaid, SNAP, or housing assistance actually become employed or simply disappear into the streets. In either case the amount of required administrative support is greatly reduced.
The struggle between these alternatives — programs with low administrative budgets designed to thin out the welfare rolls or administratively more costly programs that actually encourage self-sufficiency — is being played out right now as many states seek federal waivers to impose work requirements for Medicaid.
Some states have looked at the issue and blinked. In the words of still another KFF report,
Some states have decided to not implement the waiver authority that they have received due to administrative costs. For example, Arkansas did not implement its health savings accounts after considering a number of factors, including the administrative expense of the accounts and the size of the monthly contributions members would make. Indiana is seeking to amend its waiver that originally set premiums at 2 percent of income and wants to change to a tiered structure instead, citing administrative complexity and costs. Kentucky amended its waiver application seeking to move from a tiered hour work requirement (depending on length of program enrollment) to a flat hourly requirement, also citing administrative concerns. Unlike TANF agencies or workforce development agencies, state Medicaid agencies are generally not currently equipped to develop, provide, and administer work support programs.
On the other hand, here is what happens when states prioritize disenrollment over self-sufficiency, as described in a policy brief from the Center for Law and Social Policy, a Washington-based nonpartisan, nonprofit organization:
We know that for every additional piece of paperwork that is required, fewer people are able to secure or retain coverage. A work requirement compels people to submit documentation of their hours worked (sometimes from multiple jobs) on a regular basis. Failing to submit paperwork — even when they are working and meeting the work requirements — will cause people to lose their Medicaid coverage.
Work requirements do not reflect the realities of today’s low-wage jobs. For example, seasonal workers may have a period of time each year when they are not working enough hours to meet a work requirement and, as a result, will churn on and off the program during that time of year. Or, some may have a reduction in their work hours at the last minute and therefore not meet the minimum numbers of hours needed to retain Medicaid. Many low-wage jobs are subject to last-minute scheduling, meaning that workers do not have advance notice of how many hours they will be able to work. This not only jeopardizes their health coverage if Medicaid has a work requirement but also makes it challenging to hold a second job. If you are constantly at the whim of random scheduling at your primary job, you will never know when you will be available to work at a second job. This will lead to greater “churn” in Medicaid as people who become disenrolled reapply and enroll when they meet the work requirements.
Fortunately, there are better ways to encourage self-sufficiency when it is realistically possible. Instead of saying, “We will take your benefits away if you work, and also if you do not work,” the message should be, “We will provide unconditional help with your minimum needs, we will offer the support you need to find a job, and we will let you keep what you earn.”
The Earned Income Tax Credit is the one existing policy that follows that approach. For the lowest earners, it actually increases benefits, rather than cutting them, as earnings rise. The CEA report cautiously endorses the EITC and suggests extending it to single workers. Other observers have proposed more far-reaching reforms that would extend coverage, make benefits monthly rather than annual, and ease benefit reduction rates for people just above the poverty level (see here, for example).
But the EITC is only one among many proposals that would reduce the work disincentives inherent in today’s in-kind welfare programs. Some proposals focus on consolidating programs to simplify administration and reduce the high benefit-reduction rates that affect people who qualify for multiple programs. Others seek simplicity and flexibility by converting in-kind benefits to cash. Milton Friedman’s idea of a negative income tax is a proposal with good conservative roots that combines cash benefits with lower benefit-reductions. A universal basic income is a newer idea with a progressive tilt that goes even further in the same direction. Either could be a win-win for welfare recipients and for hardworking taxpayers. No more Catch-22 documentation requirements, no more armies of bureaucrats to sort people into categories and monitor their every move, no more shame-the-victim rhetoric to justify refusing to help the truly needy. | <urn:uuid:a4ae64ca-02fe-4ab0-b981-b311d065f3eb> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.niskanencenter.org/expanded-work-requirements-in-non-cash-welfare-programs/ | 2024-04-22T23:25:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.963801 | 3,703 |
In her classes, master’s-degreed art teacher Aly Smith of Audubon establishes a dedicated instructional model for students of all ages.
By Matt Skoufalos | April 5, 2022
For Aly Smith of Audubon, fine arts education is as much about individual self-expression and creativity as it is the cornerstone of a lifelong learning model.
A former public, private, and post-secondary educator, Smith established her business, The Artist Academy, around the same formalized curriculum she brought to her professional teaching career.
With a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) from the University of the Arts and a resume that includes graduate-level classroom experience, Smith brings the fundamental perspective of a fine arts educator to students from preschool to college.
After finding its footing at The Fish Tank coworking space in Haddon Township last year, The Artist Academy has grown into its own suite in a professional services building on the corner of the White Horse Pike and High Street in Haddon Heights.
For Smith, the move establishes a permanent space to support larger classes, additional camps and workshops, and an expanded array of advanced, technology-intensive techniques, like ceramics and metalworking.
Her instruction is rooted in fine arts education, but guided by students’ interests. Classes are grouped by ages (4 to 6, 7 to 10, 11 to 13, and 14 to 18), and span a broad spectrum of art forms including painting, drawing, ceramics, metalworking, multimedia, and more.
“Everyone who teaches here is a New Jersey certified teacher,” Smith said. “We teach to the standards, and students are being prepared for college. A ton of different disciplines influence lessons, but so do their general interests.
“Everything is ultimately preparing them for a career or a degree in art, but in the day-to-day fun, they don’t even notice that they’re building a portfolio from Day One.
“There is so much fun and color and creativity with every assignment, but it is a very serious curriculum that we teach here, and it is giving them what they need artistically,” she said.
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Smith also leans on her experience in higher education to help her high-school-aged students who are pursuing arts degrees to prepare for the college admissions process.
“I know what it takes to get into an art school, and to get a scholarship from an art school, so I try to give them that foundation as early and as frequently as I can,” she said. “I gear their abilities and their lessons to the expectations that they will eventually see, either professionally or in the admissions process.
“For me, always being in the school system, you have to have a goal in mind, and it’s always preparing them for a college or career, so I don’t really shake that,” Smith said. “Even though I want to have fun every class, and we do live in the moment that way, it’s always with a broad scope in mind.
“I think also if the school is serious, and I take it seriously, they as artists take pride in their skills and their talents and their art form,” she said. “If you do apply yourself, you will improve, and that’s something to be proud of.”
In addition to teaching student classes in Haddon Heights, The Artist Academy travels to senior centers and assisted living facilities to provide arts programming. There, as with her younger students, Smith finds more evidence that a well-rounded arts education builds lifelong skills.
“When I talk to those artists, they’re in their 90s, and they talk to me about the art lessons they had as a child, as if it were yesterday,” she said. “Or they say, ‘I was an art student but I haven’t painted in 30 years.’ They always look back on the art they took as a child. It never left them.
“When you give your child a gift of art lessons at 4 or 10 or 15, you’re giving them this experience that they can cherish for their entire life,” she said. “I’m watching it happen every day.”
The Artist Academy is located at 400 White Horse Pike in Haddon Heights. Weekly classes are held from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays. For more information, including arrangements for private paint parties, summer camps, and offsite workshops, visit theartistacademy.org.
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The two siblings who were found hanging from a tree in Assam’s Kokrajhar district had been raped and killed, the police confirmed on Tuesday. Their family from the very beginning suspected it not to be a suicide case.
However, Kokrajhar SP Thube Prateek Vijay Kumar told that the post-mortem report is yet to come out. “Three of the accused were directly involved in the rape and murder while four others had destroyed evidence and misled police during the investigation”, said Assam’s director general of police (DGP) Bhaskarjyoti Mahanta.
“We did a recreation of the crime scene on Tuesday during which independent witnesses, magistrate, and forensic experts were present. I am sure that the medical reports will match our findings,” Mahanta added.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma shared that Muzammil Sheikh and Nazibul Sheikh were arrested earlier Tuesday and he is feeling an extreme sense of satisfaction that the culprits have been identified.
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The T20 World Cup scheduled to be held in India is being shifted to the UAE owing to the health safety concerns posed by COVID-19, BCCI President Sourav Ganguly told PTI on Monday, ending weeks of speculation surrounding the mega-event in October-November. “We have officially intimated the ICC that the T20 World Cup can be shifted to the United Arab Emirates. The details are being chalked out,” Ganguly said. “The decision was taken keeping health safety concerns of all stakeholders in mind,” he added.
The BCCI will, however, remain the hosts of the showpiece. Asked if October 17 has been finalised as the start date of the tournament, Ganguly said: “We will be able to finalise itinerary details in some days. October 17 start hasn’t yet been finalised.”
Even an ICC spokesperson confirmed that the global body is yet to zero in on a final schedule. The ICC, at the start of the month, had given BCCI a four-week window to decide and inform whether India could host the marquee event considering the COVID-19 situation in the country.
PTI was first to report on May 4 that the tournament was being shifted to the UAE. This was after the pandemic forced the postponement of IPL, the second part of which is also being held in the UAE in September-October.
It was a foregone conclusion that India will find it difficult to host a 16-country tournament across nine cities with so many layers of health security concerns being there. In fact, the ICC had already started its preparations and logistics for the tournament which will be held in Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi.
The qualifying round could be held in Muscat, which will give ideal time to the pitches in UAE to freshen up after 31 remaining games of IPL are held till October 15. Once the IPL was shifted to the UAE, it was a foregone conclusion that the T20 World Cup will move too given the looming concerns about a possible third wave of COVID-19 infection around that time.
India was ravaged by the second wave in April-May with scarcity of essential medical supplies adding to the horror that unfolded with over 4 lakh daily cases at the peak of the crisis. “If the BCCI is unable to host an eight-team IPL in September, how could it have hosted World T20 within a month? Also now we have a new variant (Delta 3) and there is every possibility of a third wave in the country in October.
“The BCCI brass was always well aware that it won’t be practically feasible,” an ICC board member told PTI on conditions of anonymity. Also, India is on the “Red List” of countries like England and Australia and travelling could be an issue if the rules are not relaxed by then.
It is also understood that most of the member nations were comfortable playing the IPL in the UAE after multiple cases of bubble breach happened during the postponed edition in India. Also the 2020 IPL in the UAE was a humongous success with a tight bio-bubble.
The BCCI was also mulling if Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Pune could host a three-city event with the final at the Narendra Modi Stadium. But there were several complications on that front too. “Pakistan playing in Mumbai or Pune would have always been an issue. So there were multiple factors. In IPL, multiple players got infected by COVID-19, you can have good replacements. “But what about the weaker teams? What if they lose five or six top players? They won’t have ready replacements,” the source reasoned. | <urn:uuid:e4cfe767-148d-4a92-b26e-7492cdd47143> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.northeasternchronicle.in/news/t20-world-cup-to-be-shifted-from-india-to-uae-says-bcci-president-sourav-ganguly/ | 2024-04-22T22:47:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.983934 | 774 |
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Up in the mountains high above Split sits the incredible Klis Fortress! Even though it possesses an immense historical significance and beautiful views of the coastline, most travelers don’t actually make the trip. So is the Fortress of Klis worth visiting? Here’s what to know about this unique castle in Croatia.
How to Get From Split to Klis Fortress
There are a few different ways to get from Split to Klis Fortress. Luckily, it’s not too far from the city! It’s close enough that you can actually see it from Split and the stunning coastline. Here are the three best ways to get there.
Local Bus: You can take bus numbers 22, 35, and 36 from Split to Klis Fortress. #22 leaves from in front of the National Theatre, while the 35 and 36 go from Sukoisanska station. Both will take about 35-45 minutes.
Hop on Hop Off Bus: Did you know there’s a hop on hop off bus from Split? This is a fun way to include other attractions in and around the city on your way to Klis Fortress.
Guided Tour: Taking a tour from Split to Klis Fortress is one of the best ways to experience it. Choose from a traditional guide or enjoy the fun Game of Thrones tour which we will get more into later!
Rent a Car: Renting a vehicle is a great way to get to Klis Fortress and the surrounding coastal towns. It’s also the fastest way to get here, with a 20 minute drive from the city up the winding mountain roads. We booked a month long car rental from Split and paid just paid just $14 USD per day in April! Check out more information on renting a car in Croatia in our post below.
Why Don’t More Travelers Go to Klis Fortress?
Since it’s so easy to get there you may be wondering… Why don’t more people want to see the Fortress of Klis? Well, that can be chalked up to a few reasons. First off, the majority of people visiting Split are doing so to get to the islands just off the coast.
A popular Croatia itinerary is to fly into Split or Dubrovnik, spend a couple of days, and then jet off to the beautiful islands via ferry.
There is also plenty of history to see inside Split Old Town. Specifically, sites like the Diocletian’s Palace and St. Domnius Cathedral are not to be missed!
To be honest, the entire Old Town of Split is like walking through a living museum. You’ll also find so many fantastic cafes and restaurants sprinkled into this area of the city!
With that said, there are some amazing things to see just outside the Split as well. So before you make up your mind you should know more about this historic fortress in the sky.
Quick History of the Fortress of Klis
This incredible fortress has over 2,000 years of history to discover. The original structure was built in 2nd Century BC by the Illyrian tribe of Delmati.
Upon first seeing it, you’ll notice its strategic position between the passage of the Kozjak and Mosor mountains. This gives it the perfect defensive position overlooking the Dalmatian Coast and inland areas.
In Greek the word Kleis means “the key” and it’s easy to see the reason for the name! The settling of the Croats, along with the fall of the Roman Empire was a very important period which followed.
The fortress of Klis seemed impenetrable from outside forces up until 1537. It was then that Captain Pter Kruciz was executed by the Ottoman empire and they took control of the castle.
It wouldn’t be until 111 years later that Venetians overtook it and added elements that can still be seen today. It’s wild to imagine how much happened here when standing on the ancient walls and looking out at the sea. What a special place to explore!
Our Trip to the Fortress of Klis
We had been staying in the UNESCO town of Trogir near Split, and using our rental car to see the sites. One day on our way to the stunning Makarska Riviera, we passed Split and couldn’t believe it. What was that fortress up in the mountains?!
When we got home that night we found out it was Klis Fortress! Since we were going to be heading to Split for 3 nights at the tail end of our Croatia itinerary, we decided we would make the trip from Trogir while we had our car.
The drive took 30 minutes on the main highway, and before we knew it were pulling into the parking lot under the massive Klis Fortress. It should be noted that there wasn’t much parking right at the main entrance. Keep that in mind if you’re driving during the summer months.
Entering Klis Fortress
After seeing it from afar, we were surprised how truly imposing the castle was up close. We started our climb up the stairs and made it to the entrance of Klis Fortress. The ticket price was 10 Euros each and it took us a little over an hour to see the entire castle.
Another thing that shocked us right away was how few people there were here. Even though it was mid-April before the peak tourist season, we basically had the Split fortress all to ourselves!
After entering, we started immediately wandering our way around the maze of tunnels, stairways, and viewpoints. While it is the ruins of an ancient fortress and not so put together, that only added to the mystique and rustic nature of it.
Not to mention, we were literally sharing this magnificent place with only a few other travelers!
Places Not to Miss Inside Klis Fortress
Walking inside the Fortress of Klis is like taking a step back in time. Unlike other castles we’ve been to in Europe, there were very few signs explaining the history of it. Instead, it was mostly just small placards with the names on the outside of the different rooms.
We used the pamphlet given at the entrance to guide us through the Fortress of Klis. We especially enjoyed the tunnel entrances, Tower Oprah, the Princes Residence, and St. Vids Church.
The ticket price also includes admittance into the ethno-agro park called Stella Croatica. This is where you can get a taste of authentic Dalmatian cuisine and see how people once lived and worked in the hinterland region.
Game of Thrones
Now to the part many of you may have been waiting for. Yes, there were actual scenes from hit HBO show filmed right here at Klis Fortress!
It was the site of the fictional city of Meereen that Khaleesi captures in Season 4. They even have a small room dedicated to the Game of Thrones with pictures from the film set.
If you didn’t know, there are many other filming sites from Game of Thrones around Croatia. This includes right in Split Old Town as well! So if you’re a huge fan you’ll love a trip to this area.
Epic Views From the Fortress of Klis
One of the biggest draws to this historic fort is no doubt the views. From around every corner we seemed to have yet another unique lookout down over the Dalmatian Coast. Directly under the castle is the town of Klis, and its red rooftops enhance the picturesque mountain views.
Our favorite spot was on top the Princes Residence which is one of the highest points you have access to on Klis Fortress. It was at this moment when we truly understand the magnitude of where we were! We also enjoyed the Sperun’s position which is on the far east wing away from the entrance.
It’s unbelievable this is where royalty once stood and protected their empire. After exploring the immense castle, it’s easy to see why it was so hard to conquer for opposing armies! We loved looking down at the buildings of Split and sparkling Adriatic from here.
Is Klis Fortress Worth Visiting in Croatia?
Yes! While there is so much to see between Split Old Town and the islands, Klis Fortress is definitely worth seeing. Even if you’re not a huge history buff, it’s worth the drive up for the views alone.
If you miss out on this you can always head over to the Marjan Hill viewpoint which is closer to the city. Yet, we highly recommend making a little extra time for the Fortress of Klis!
Have any questions on this article or want to share your own experience at Klis Fortress? Let us know in the comments below.
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In this ongoing series, we will profile each of the members of the OBA IP/ IT Law Section Executives to learn about them in five minutes or less. It’s five minutes or less because we know that a lot of you docket in six minute increments!
Name: Stephanie Carbone
Position: Technology Liason
Who is Stephanie Carbone? Hi everyone! This is my second year as a member of the OBA IP/ IT Law Section’s Executive Committee. I’m also a corporate lawyer at the awesome firm Keslassy Freedman Gelfand LLP in Toronto and an active member of the OBA Entertainment, Media and Communications Law Section’s Executive Committee.
Why did you choose IP/IT and what would you tell a young lawyer entering the IT/IP field? My articling principal told us during our first week at the firm to find an area of law that you get lost in – the type of work that doesn’t have you counting down the minutes until the end of the day. And that is exactly what Intellectual Property is for me. As I strive to develop and specialize my practice area, I have learned more and more how incredibly important the protection of people’s thoughts and ideas is. It is certainly an area I find myself “getting lost in” daily.
As a young lawyer entering the IP/IT field myself, I don’t have too much advice other than not to give up on what you’re passionate about whether it be through your work or extra curriculars. Getting involved in this Section was the best way for me to learn more about the practice and meet other like-minded people. I would certainly encourage others, like myself, to run for a position on the Executive Committee. Elections are just around the corner!
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It is customary, when making something for the first time, to start with the basic building block and build on out from thereon. I, on the other hand, like to raise the stakes a bit. Normally, you’d start with plain gnocchi to get a feel for it, learn how to get them just right before trying a variation. And even though making gnocchi was on my to-do list for quite some time, I fully got on board to make them only after seeing the October Gourmet recipe listed as Ruth Reichl’s Top 10 recipes in the issue. They were sweet potato gnocchi and I pretty much find sweet potato anything irresistible. There was just one catch – gnocchi is one of the dishes that for some reason scared and intimidated me. Hence the reason I haven’t made them yet.
But surely, you must remember what I said to you about fear and conquering it? Well, I decided to put my money where my mouth was and tackle that which made me nervous. If I tell you to be bold, shouldn’t, myself, adopt the very mantra I seemingly espouse?
Where do I begin with gnocchi? My love for gnocchi goes beyond words. Made properly they should be like little clouds of goodness, whisking you away upwards to the sky. Made poorly, they’re heavy clumps of dough that stick to the roof of your mouth. In between, they’re perfectly palatable, but once you’ve tasted amazing ghnocchi, that’s pretty much all you think about when you’re eating the so-so ones.
It’s the kind of dish that makes me think: one false move, and it’s ruined. I suppose while something like stewed prunes is impossible to run into the ground, a dish like gnocchi takes practice. You get a feel for the dough, its consistency. You’ll know immediately if needs more flour, or if your potatoes aren’t dry enough.
Because these gnocchi are made with sweet and regular potatoes, and there are a few things I’ve learned that I’d like to share with you. First, is that it’s very important to use the right potatoes – Russets have a high amount of starch and lower amount of water, compared to their other spud cousins – and that’s exactly what you want – a nice, starchy potato. Sweet potatoes, however, are much more moisture-laden, so next time I make these, I will cook the sweet potatoes a wee bit longer to dry them out a bit more. Having more moisture in your dough will yield a more doughy gnocchi – and what you’re after are little clouds of goodness; sweet potato goodness, no less!
I chose to serve these in (what else?) a little brown butter (because I can and I will) and olive oil sauce where you slightly brown the gnocchi after boiling them, and sprinkle a bit of fried sage and shaved Parmiggiano Reggiano and some freshly ground black pepper. And when I finished my plate and used some bread to absorb some of the residual brown butter sauce, I once again was amazed at how incredibly sublime simple food tastes.A few ingredients, a little time, a hungry me. For that kind of bliss, I’ll raise the stakes any day!
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Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Fried Sage and Shaved Chestnuts
Adapted from Gourmet, October 2009
1 1/4 lb russet (baking potatoes)
1 (3/4-lb) sweet potato
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg
1/3 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano plus more for serving
1 1/2 to 2 cups all-purpose flour plus more for dusting
1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1 cup sage leaves (from 1 bunch)
1/3 cup bottled roasted chestnuts, very thinly sliced with an adjustable-blade slicer or a sharp vegetable peeler (I skipped this)
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
a potato ricer or a food mill fitted with fine disk
Preparation for gnocchi:
1. Preheat oven to 450°F with rack in middle.
2. Pierce russet and sweet potatoes in several places with a fork, then bake in a 4-sided sheet pan until just tender, 45 minutes to 1 hour. (Maybe you might want to cook the sweet potato a bit longer? Because it’s got more moisture than those starchy russets, so more liquid means doughier gnocchi? I’ll have to experiment, but these are my preliminary thoughts based on one attempt.)
3. Cool potatoes slightly, then peel and force through ricer into sheet pan, spreading in an even layer. Cool potatoes completely. (I did mine with a fork. And in retrospect I think a ricer would have been key.)
4. Lightly flour 2 or 3 large baking sheets or line with parchment paper.
5. Beat together egg, nutmeg, 1 tsp salt, and 1/2 tsp pepper in a small bowl.
6. Gather potatoes into a mound in sheet pan, using a pastry scraper if you have one, and form a well in center.
7. Pour egg mixture into well, then knead into potatoes. Knead in cheese and 11/2 cups flour, then knead, adding more flour as necessary, until mixture forms a smooth but slightly sticky dough. Dust top lightly with some of flour.
8. Cut dough into 6 pieces. Form 1 piece of dough into a 1/2-inch-thick rope on a lightly floured surface. Cut rope into 1/2-inch pieces. Gently roll each piece into a ball and lightly dust with flour.
9. Repeat with remaining 5 pieces of dough.
10. Turn a fork over and hold at a 45-degree angle, with tips of tines touching work surface. Working with 1 at a time, roll gnocchi down fork tines, pressing with your thumb, to make ridges on 1 side. Transfer gnocchi as formed to baking sheets.
Fry sage leaves and chestnuts:
1. Heat oil in a 12-inch heavy skillet over medium heat until it shimmers. Fry sage leaves in 3 batches, stirring, until they turn just a shade lighter and crisp (they will continue to crisp as they cool), about 30 seconds per batch. Transfer to paper towels to drain. Season lightly with salt. (When you first place the leaves into oil, they’ll sizzle and make happy crackling noises, and as they cook, the noises will subside. When you feel like sage has “calmed down” you can fish it out. It’s pretty much done.)
2. Fry chestnuts in 3 batches, stirring, until golden and crisp, about 30 seconds per batch. Transfer to paper towels to drain. Season lightly with salt. Reserve oil in skillet. (I omitted chestnuts because I wanted to use the fresh ones, but ’tis not yet the season for them. Next time, I promise!)
1. Add butter to oil in skillet with 1/2 tsp salt and cook until golden-brown, 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from heat.
1. Add half of gnocchi to a pasta pot of well-salted boiling water and stir. Cook until they float to surface, about 3 minutes. Transfer with a slotted spoon to skillet with butter sauce. Cook remaining gnocchi in same manner, transferring to skillet as cooked.
2. Heat gnocchi in skillet over medium heat, stirring to coat.
3. Serve sprinkled with fried sage and chestnuts and grated cheese.
Uncooked gnocchi can be frozen (first in 1 layer on a baking sheet, then transferred to a sealable bag) up to 1 month. Do not thaw before cooking. If freezing gnocchi, you might want to half the sauce.
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During the 2017 Election debates, Caroline Lucas (the co-leader of the Green Party) asserted that “the first rule of leadership is to turn up” and with record turnout from voters, it seems that this rule applied to democracy in the recent election, with record turnout reported. Although the final figures have yet to be released, early figures estimate that 67.8% of those eligible to vote turned up to place their cross in the box. And it seems that even though turnout increased across all age groups, much has been reported in the media around the higher levels of engagement around younger age groups – with Sky estimating that 66.4% of 18-24s voted in this election, compared to 58% in the 2015 election.
While we could debate the reasons for this all day, from a rejection of hubris, through to celeb encouragement and policies specifically targeting different age groups, I was reminded of our Future of Generations study released last year that looked at the social values of different generations in the UK. We found that while nearly six in ten of the population argue that they are concerned about social issues in the UK today, this peaked amongst the youngest age groups:
It seems that our current teens are more concerned about societal issues than the rest of us and that as we reach our mid-twenties, possibly having jobs, mortgages, children and other financial responsibilities, looking after our families takes over from concern about social issues.
And the concern younger groups have about the world around them is also bleeding into the rest of their lives. Our Future of Generations study also found that teens are uncompromising in their demands of the companies that they choose to let into their lives. We found that those aged under 25 are more likely than any other group to want the best product from a company that not only does brilliant design with high quality at a decent price, but also does good stuff for people. They are the most likely group to have higher awareness of the brands that do social good or have a purpose and also are the most likely to say that the social values of a brand influence their brand choice.
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Mashle season 2 release date announced at Jump Festa 2024
Mash and his band of wand-waving magicians look ready to take on more challenges at the Easton Magic Academy in the anime’s latest season 2 trailer.
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CHARACTER | CANE | SEIYUU (VOICE ACTOR) |
Ryoh Grants | Light Cane | Junichi Suwabe |
Orter Madl | Desert Cane | Tomoki Ono |
Kaldo Gehenna | Flame Cane | Nobunaga Shimazaki |
Renatus Revol | Immortal Cane | Shinichori Miki |
Agito Tyrone | Dragon Cane | Kisho Taniyama |
Tsurara Halestone | Ice Cane | Tomori Kusunoki |
Sophina Brivia | Knowledge Cane | Saori Hayami |
Rayne Ames | Sword Cane | Kaji Yuki |
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While the kids take a break from their studies this week, it's an important opportunity to SEE THEM, HEAR THEM, and BELIEVE THEM. When they're around, they can certainly stretch our capacities, grow our boundaries, and force reflection that is often uncomfortable...BE GENTLE in response to this please. They are doing their job...let's do ours.
Especially as we shift schedules and events around this holiday season, think about what some of the most supportive actions you can maintain this season. Pick just a few to commit to and you'll be amazed how that commitment will ripple into the others often fall into place too. Think about when you wash the dishes; is that ALL you do? Almost never. You add a few things, right? Maybe you wipe the counters and stove, clean off the table, sweep the floor or even scrub the sink.The intention of that 1 thing results in choices that also support the result you were looking for. By shrinking the overall picture, by making a habit of intentional choices this season, increasing commitment to just a handful of things that will support your family's well being this season,you can change the stress levels in your body...increasing your joy and Peace...and isn't THAT what we want to create in our homes? So think about it, determine what few things are ones you can commit to? Make your menu and start with only selecting 1 or 2...others will happen. You can trust the process. In a brainstorming session, set a timer for 5 minutes (maybe even with your family?) to think about the most supportive actions you take to stay WELL. Your list might look something like this with specifics (quantity and frequency) added:
Brainstorm a little more...what else surfaces? Now, just for THIS week, what can you commit to? The list you make isn't your to do list, it's your menu, your choices, YOUR CHOICES. You don't "have to". Too often, our perception of "have to" leaves us disempowered...not feeling stronger and ready for action, but rather beaten and less strong. Let's create habits that support us, empower our family towards optimal expression. What supports you and yours? Imagine a world with less stressed out people. Let's live it. OptiMOM Coaching is here to support if you'd like some help strategizing the process. The things that others say our holidays "should" have and hold are blurring what we value and far too often, making the season an emotional mess. Even the most well intentioned teachings can put pressure to what the "holiday season" could / should look and feel like. Mix in the retail messages and cultural materialism, add to it the stress our own mothers felt for their own reasons (now our internal programming) and you've got a fine recipe for a season of stress and difficulty. Top the dish with the ways we shy from our healthy habits and dip deeper into indulgences, both weakening our adaptive reserves, and we're prone to feeling / being LESS than capable of "handling" what is wanted / needed.
Let's shift that. Let's look at what's right. Can you see what you DO have, CAN create, WILL experience? Here's the thing...it doesn't have to be full of stress and pressure when your goals are motivated by YOUR desires and tied to YOUR VALUES. When we function from THAT space, THAT perspective,what matters to us, we are empowered to create the season that is Life giving and full of the holiday Spirit we long to encounter. Let's learn to own our own visions of what would make this season awesome. You get to explore that...it's yours...and nobody else knows what it is except you. The group call will be far less intimate than an unmuted small group session or a private session, but WILL walk you through the process so that you can begin to act in accordance to what is IN your heart for your season. Live that vision...for your sake, your family's sake...and for the rest of us who share this world with you. Please ... and thank you. A template for the call is HERE. It's NOT necessary to have on hand, but helpful. I hope you can join us. Let's make this an OptiMOM Holiday Season! Here's the thing - WE INFLUENCE, good or bad, IT HAPPENS! The hope, of course, is that our kids are going to be a little more balanced, a little more Peaceful, have more opportunities than we did, or simply not be any worse an effect on the world, right? In order to us to influence WELL, we need to BE more well.
Not too long ago, as a mom friend and I chatted about her daughter's behavior, we reflected on the fact that her daughter was behaving in ways the mom had modeled for YEARS. Now (with coaching and accepting personal responsibility for the desired changes she wants in her life) that mom has learned and practiced many new and healthier ways to cope with stress and challenge. HER experience has radically changed, her Peace increased, her effectiveness, efficiency and productivity all more satisfying, BUT the new behaviors hadn't yet been experienced enough by the now teenage daughter to also be learned and practiced as a way to live. We concluded that the daughter will likely act from the "programmed" behaviors seen as a small child, especially when she is stressed. Though she WILL REMEMBER her mother's behaviors NOW...and will have the opportunity to also choose to learn healthier ways of engaging to experience HER ideal and optimal life. Gratefully, the mom keeps the invitation open for daughter to "come play" and learn with her and little by little, the influence toward a healthier world, especially THEIR world, increases. ...it's not too late. |
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By Jim Grisanzio | August 2021
I catch up with the MySQL community as much as I can. I like engaging with interesting open source developers—especially our community managers who are so knowledgeable about the technology and current trends in the industry. In this conversation, I talk with both of our MySQL community managers, David Stokes from Texas and Frédéric Descamps from Belgium.
I first met David and Frédéric in Brussels in February 2020 during the pre-FOSDEM 2020 MySQL Days. This is where the MySQL community comes together for two days of intensive technical sessions before FOSDEM, the premier European open source conference. Yes, you need a conference before the conference—there's that much content!
Before the pandemic, Oracle used to send many engineers from various open source projects to FOSDEM to engage the other 20,000 developer attendees from around the world. Oracle’s MySQL team has always been a big part of the conference.
Tech conferences still haven't really started up again. So development and community building takes place virtually. Perhaps not surprisingly, younger developers seem better suited to these virtual events than some of the older developers. I hope that when live events return, the community can gel again by bringing together older and younger developers.
That's where I pick up the conversation with David and Frédéric. MySQL technology is hot these days. There is a new release out with many fixes and enhancements, but even before that, Oracle released HeatWave, a real-time analytics MySQL Database Service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). HeatWave is easily enabled on demand with no application changes and can deliver performance improvements of about 400X. And it's only available in OCI.
David and Frédéric said the customer reaction to the technology is "staggering." They also talked about more bits in MySQL, such as high availability, clustering, the shell, and the Kubernetes operator.
We explored some of the dynamics going on in the MySQL community, such as the increasingly steep learning curves that come with the ever-increasing rate of change in software development. Some of the younger developers are discovering that some of the tools and techniques that were considered "old" are coming back because, well, they just work.
Finally, they both said that there would be some really cool technology coming out in another six months. I'd take their word on that, by the way. The last time they told me that HeatWave was released shortly thereafter.
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I’ve heard conferences can be challenging. What is this about?
In the discipline we offer, the old personality is being asked to step aside to make way for the natural Self. The old personality exists as a dominant pattern at sub-atomic levels of the body and it is afraid of change. Your body feels that! The developing healthy Self is not afraid of change. But we require wisdom and courage to consciously leave behind patterns of habit and conditioning. At some point, however, we know that the choice to remain imprisoned in the unconscious is the road to ill-health and apathy. We choose to face the fear and set out upon the path of freedom.
Are there rules?
There are no rules, or secrets in this work. Anyone can call us with questions if they have concerns. Lynne encourages us to honour family and to not neglect our work in the world in favour of Three Mountain Foundation. We live in the world, not separate in an insular community. We don’t impose rules of behaviour; we ask only that we respect and care for the well being of one another and of all life and that we practice honesty. Lynne invites questioning of her teaching and of her life, her integrity. Power does not reside with one person. There are no ‘absolutes’ in the teaching. | <urn:uuid:f4b75802-9ad1-454a-ac77-afe918afdc3e> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.origin8.org/faq/fear/ | 2024-04-22T23:02:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.956674 | 273 |
Public Finance Alert
Since Proposition 218 was passed in 1996, which added Article XIIIC to the California Constitution (“Article XIIIC”), local governments have faced heightened restrictions in their abilities to impose taxes. Specifically, Article XIIIC, section 2(b) requires local governments to obtain majority voter approval at a general election before imposing, extending, or increasing any general tax. Further, Article XIIIC, section 2(d) requires that no local government may impose, extend, or increase a special tax without a two-thirds vote of the electorate.
The California Supreme Court’s recent decision in California Cannabis Coalition v. City of Upland (August 2017) (“California Cannabis Coalition”) held that Article XIIIC, section 2(b)’s requirement that a general tax be submitted to voters at a general election does not apply to taxes proposed via voter initiatives. A voter initiative is a proposed change in law that is submitted by voters for inclusion on an election ballot. Additionally, as pointed out in the concurring and dissenting opinion, the reasoning of the Court in California Cannabis Coalition could be interpreted as suggesting that the procedural two-thirds voter approval requirement for special taxes in Article XIIIC, section 2(d) would likewise not apply to special taxes proposed by a voter initiative. Despite the Court’s holding and some of its analysis regarding Article XIIIC as a whole, the effective voter threshold for local special taxes may not have necessarily been lowered from the two-thirds requirement specified in Article XIIIC, section 2(d) to the simple majority vote otherwise required under the California Elections Code (the “Elections Code”). The Court in California Cannabis Coalition did not expressly address whether its analysis that exempted voter initiatives from Article XIIIC, section 2(b) would likewise apply to Article XIIIC, section 2(d) and the two-thirds voter threshold for local special taxes. Additionally, Article XIIIA, section 4 of the California Constitution (“Article XIIIA, section 4”), enacted by Proposition 13 in 1978, also carries a two-thirds voter approval requirement for special taxes imposed by “Cities, Counties and special districts” and was not addressed by the Court in California Cannabis Coalition. Accordingly, the full implications of California Cannabis Coalition are currently unknown, and future legislation and/or litigation can likely be expected to further shape the legal landscape in this area of Public Finance.
The California Cannabis Coalition (the “Plaintiffs”), a non-profit that drafts cannabis laws for California municipalities, prepared a medical marijuana initiative for submission to the voters of the City of Upland (the “City”) in 2014. Among other effects, the initiative would have allowed for up to three medical marijuana dispensaries to operate in the City and would have imposed an annual “Licensing and Inspection fee” on each of the dispensaries. The Plaintiffs submitted the initiative, which had been signed by at least 15% of the City’s registered voters, to the City and requested that, consistent with section 9214 of the Elections Code, the City hold a special election. The City then ordered that various city departments prepare a joint agency report. The report concluded that the proposed annual fee would exceed the City’s costs in issuing a license to and conducting an annual inspection of each of the dispensaries. The report also determined that the excess amount of the annual fee constituted a general tax and that the initiative could not be voted on during a special election. Instead, according to the report, the initiative was to be submitted to the City’s voters, pursuant to Article XIIIC, section 2(b), at the next general election, which was scheduled for over 18 months later.
The Court's opinion had two holdings. First, the Court held that a general tax proposed via voter initiative need not comply with the requirements of Article XIIIC, section 2(b) because these requirements only apply to general taxes imposed by a “local government,” not voters. As a result, local general taxes imposed via voter initiative do not necessarily need to be submitted for voter approval at a general election, as otherwise required by the text of Article XIIIC, section 2(b), and can instead be approved after complying with the requirements of the Elections Code. Second, the Court’s holding included a narrow recitation of the procedure the City must follow under the Elections Code upon receiving a petition signed by at least 15% of the City’s registered voters. The Court explained that section 9214 of the Elections Code requires the City, after receiving a petition with the requisite number of signatures, to either: (i) adopt the ordinance without alteration; (ii) immediately order a special election; or (iii) order an agency report and, once the report is presented to the city council, adopt the ordinance or order a special election.
The Court begins from the principle that the voter initiative process is a power reserved by the people, not a right granted to them. Since 1911, case law has affirmed the need to guard and liberally construe the initiative power. Article XIIIC, section 2(b) provides: “No local government may impose, extend, or increase any general tax unless and until that tax is submitted to the electorate and approved by a majority vote,” where the term “local government” is defined as “any county, city, city and county, including a charter city or county, any special district, or any other local or regional governmental entity.” The Court reasoned that this definition does not include the electorate because the common understanding of the term “local government” is as a reference to the locality’s governing body, officials and bureaucracy, not the voters. Additionally, the Court declined to broaden the definition of “local government” in Article XIIIC to include the electorate because the text of Article XIIIC, its ballot materials, and contextual references do not lend themselves to interpretations of the term “local government” that extend to the voters.
The Court further noted that Article XIIIC’s enactors explicitly referenced the initiative power in another section of Article XIIIC. The Court observed, however, that there is no similarly explicit language referencing the initiative power in the text of Article XIIIC, section 2(b). Given the precedent that the voters’ initiative power must be strongly guarded, the Court refused to infer an implicit regulation of the initiative power in Article XIIIC, section 2(b), endorsing the view that Article XIIIC’s enactors had intentionally omitted such language from section 2(b).
The Court also rejected arguments from the concurring and dissenting opinion, reasoning that it had failed to begin with the important presumption that the initiative power should not be constrained absent clear evidence of an intent to do so.
Finally, the Court observed that the City erred in proceeding under Article XIIIC when the initiative had been submitted to the City in compliance with the Elections Code. Instead of applying the requirements of Article XIIIC to Plaintiffs’ initiative, the City should have followed the procedures and deadlines of the Elections Code. The proper course in cases like this are for cities to order the special election, and a city or other interested parties may pursue a legal challenge pre- or post-election.
California Cannabis Coalition has some potentially significant consequences for the field of Public Finance because special tax measures are often developed as a source of repayment for bonds. The implications of this case are especially relevant given the current environment of budget stress and the difficulty governments can face when raising new funds. Accordingly, it seems likely that the boundaries of this decision will be tested in the years to come, particularly with respect to voter-initiated special taxes. These issues are discussed below.
General Taxes. The Court’s definition of “local government” means that Article XIIIC, section 2(b) does not apply to voter initiatives seeking to impose a local general tax. Therefore, such a voter initiative need not be submitted to the voters at a local general election, unless otherwise required by the Elections Code and/or the city’s charter, if applicable.
Special Taxes. Article XIIIC, section 2(d) requires local governments to obtain two-thirds voter approval before imposing a local special tax. The Court in California Cannabis Coalition did not make clear whether its holding exempting voter initiatives from Article XIIIC, section 2(b) would also apply equally to Article XIIIC, section 2(d). As noted in the concurring and dissenting opinion, the Court’s definition of “local government” could, if wholly applied to Article XIIIC, section 2(d), suggest that voter initiatives for local special taxes are exempt from Article XIIIC, section 2(d)’s requirements. However, because the Court’s holding only expressly applied to Article XIIIC, section 2(b), not section 2(d), the question of whether Article XIIIC, section 2(d) applies to voter initiatives was not resolved by the Court. Legislation and/or litigation attempting to clarify Article XIIIC, section 2(d)’s applicability to local special taxes can be expected.
Further, there is an additional consideration that may be applicable for special taxes beyond Article XIIIC. Proposition 13 amended Article XIIIA, section 4 to, among other things, require two-thirds voter approval for local special taxes. Whether this provision of Article XIIIA, section 4 would be subject to the same interpretation as Article XIIIC with respect to voter initiatives is unclear. The text of Article XIIIA, section 4 states that “Cities, Counties and special districts, by a two-thirds vote of the qualified electors of such district, may impose special taxes on such district . . . .” The Court’s reasoning as to the common understanding of the term “local government” in California Cannabis Coalition could similarly be applied by a court to Article XIIIA, section 4’s reference to “Cities, Counties and special districts.” Alternatively, a court could distinguish this language from the term “local government” under Article XIIIC and find that Article XIIIA, section 4’s reference to “Cities, Counties and special districts” does encompass the electorate, thereby requiring a two-thirds vote whenever a measure is presented to the voters for approval. Further, in a prior case, Kennedy Wholesale, Inc. v. State Board of Equalization (1991), the California Supreme Court found that there was no evidence that the enactors of Proposition 13 intended to limit voters’ initiative power but instead intended to limit the Legislature’s power. However, we caution against extending the reasoning in Kennedy Wholesale, Inc. prematurely. The Court’s opinion in Kennedy Wholesale, Inc. only directly addressed Article XIIIA, section 3 (which relates to the State’s ability to raise taxes), as opposed to section 4 (which relates to cities’, counties’ and special districts’ abilities to raise taxes). Therefore, a similar analysis of Article XIIIA may or may not yield the same conclusion as it did in California Cannabis Coalition, and the two-thirds voter approval requirement for local special taxes in Article XIIIA, section 4 could be construed by a court to still apply to voter initiatives.
Avoiding the Ballot. The Court also mentioned a hypothetical that could arise under its holding that it chose not to address in its opinion. Under the Elections Code, a city council, for example, has the option to immediately adopt a voter initiative that has secured the requisite number of signatures, thereby avoiding an election altogether. The defendant in California Cannabis Coalition suggested that cities could collude with interested parties to raise a tax, whereby such interested parties would collect the required signatures and the city would immediately adopt the ordinance imposing the tax, violating the spirit, if not the letter, of Proposition 218. Because the Court didn’t rule on these facts, nothing in California Cannabis Coalition should be read to either endorse or oppose such a strategy to implement a new tax without first submitting it to the voters.
Further Developments. On September 6, 2017, California Assembly Member Mayes introduced Assembly Constitutional Amendment 19 to modify the definition of “local government” within Article XIIIC to include “the electorate exercising its initiative power.” The proposed amendment will require a two-thirds vote in the California State Assembly and Senate after which it may be submitted as a ballot measure at a future election, requiring a majority approval of California voters. If approved by the California Legislature and voters, the proposed amendment would undo the Court’s holding in California Cannabis Coalition by expressly requiring that voter initiatives for local general taxes comply with Article XIIIC, section 2(b)’s requirements. The proposed amendment would also make clear that local special taxes proposed via voter initiatives would be subject to Article XIIIC, section 2(d)’s two-thirds voter threshold. Additionally, since the Court’s opinion was announced, at least one taxpayer group has expressed interest in pursuing a voter initiative to make a similar change to the California Constitution and has also suggested that if any new tax is imposed without voter approval they would pursue litigation to challenge it.
Advice from competent bond counsel can help local governments and other stakeholders evaluate their options in this evolving legal environment. Attorneys for Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP have assisted many clients over the years in the issuance of billions of dollars of bonds secured by special taxes for a wide variety of projects. For additional information regarding any aspect of structuring special tax measures, please contact the authors or your Orrick lawyer or visit orrick.com. | <urn:uuid:f14bf1c3-f8f6-4ee4-82ac-f80ce9178539> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.orrick.com/de-DE/Insights/2017/09/California-Supreme-Court-Clarifies-Voter-Initiatives-Not-Subject-to-Certain-Prop-218-Limitations | 2024-04-22T21:35:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.94121 | 2,825 |
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I didn’t intend to be bad at something when I innocently tried to make a holiday decoration, but here we are. It was actually a great thing.
My Sad Attempt at a Christmas Tree
We decided this year we aren’t going to put up a Christmas tree. We have kittens who are about nine months old, and they are very toddler-y in their attitudes.
They try to put everything in their mouths, climb everything they shouldn’t, break whatever they can.
In other words, not the best for having a tree with potential breakables/destroyables on it in the middle of the house.
I happened to have some wooden pallets (find similar but even better for painting here) and I thought it would be cute to paint a Christmas tree on one that we could then set on the mantle so we’d have something like a tree even without a tree.
It didn’t exactly work out the way I expected.
Even as I was painting it, I knew it was awful, but I kept going for a really important reason.
It’s Great for Our Kids to See Us Be Bad at Something
The main reason I wanted to keep going is because I wanted the girl to see that I did something that didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to.
I think we so often show our kids sides of ourselves that are basically competent. They see us engage in things we already know how to do, whether that’s cooking and cleaning or enjoying hobbies we already like.
They don’t often see us struggle.
They don’t see us be bad at things.
They don’t hear us admit that we aren’t good at something or have messed something up.
It’s so important for kids to know that adults don’t have it all together. Not in ways that make them worry for their safety and security, but just knowing we are sometimes bad at something makes it ok for them to try and fail at things, too.
Making Bad Art and Doing Hard Things
I didn’t expect this little art project to be a hard thing, but that’s the way sometimes. You might have an idea for something and you can see the way it will look in your head but it just doesn’t turn out that way in reality.
And while it’s great to sometimes make bad art on purpose, when you don’t do it intentionally it brings you a different lesson.
This little failed art project reminded me that perfection isn’t the goal or even a real possibility.
It’s a good reminder for grownups, too, that not everything can or will turn out the way we imagine. And that’s fine. If you’re not messing up you’re not growing.
While the things we mess up are often a lot bigger than a terrible painting that can be easily painted over, it’s a good lesson to remember that mistakes and mishaps happen, in art and in life.
What we do next is the main thing that matters.
As for me, I’m painting over the tree and maybe I’ll try to paint something else on it later.
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Spoilers for Far Cry 5 follow.
Just like with Ubisoft’s other big franchise, Assassin’s Creed, part of the fun of each new Far Cry game is playing the now well-worn gameplay mechanics in a new setting. Far Cry 5 took the action stateside where we were tasked with taking on a homegrown religious cult in rural Montana. I enjoyed the game with the gameplay being refined and found the setting interesting, even if the story and lead character (an unwelcome return of the silent protagonist) were dull. I’d probably rank the fifth installment lower than the fourth (which took place in the fictional Himalayan region of Kyrat) which in turn is lower than the third (a descent into darkness on a tropical island) which remains the franchise’s best. So where does the franchise go from here? The arcade mode of Far Cry 5 and its DLC are playing with some kooky settings including other planets so should Far Cry embrace the weird or should it stay a more grounded franchise? Below are my four choices on where I’d like to see Far Cry go next.
If you’ve completed Far Cry 5 then you know it has quite the dramatic ending. The Father was correct the whole time and the end has well and truly come. Nuclear blasts occur around the world leaving the future uncertain, not just for the characters we have come to know but for the entire planet. While Far Cry is an anthology series there is a certain amount of continuity linking the games, such as characters like Hurk and Willis Huntley appearing briefly in every game since the third. If Far Cry is indeed an established canon then Far Cry 6 will have to take place in the devastated world post-Far Cry 5, unless Ubisoft decides to go the sci-fi route and take us off Earth. The post-apocalypse could be a cool setting for Far Cry with the lead helping different tribes of survivors against a tyrannical new overlord. While the gameplay is key, steps will have to be taken to make the story different enough from other post-apocalyptic media such as Fallout, Metro, Mad Max and the multitude of others. As a big fan of the controversial Far Cry 2, I’d love to see the return of weapons degrading over time and guns getting jammed which make sense in this setting.
Cold War Europe
One way to get around the huge events of Far Cry 5’s ending is to go back in time. Not necessarily as far back as Far Cry Primal but to Cold War Europe. As I previously stated, I love Far Cry 2 and I want to see the franchise head back in the direction of having a more serious plot and tone while still keeping the gameplay fun. Just imagine a Far Cry set in Germany or a fictional Eastern Bloc country during the height of the Cold War. The protagonist is a spy working for one side before encountering different groups from every faction while on their mission, probably the assassination of a politician, and ultimately making their loyalty come under fire with the player deciding who they should help. The location would have classic Far Cry rural areas but also some more urban environments with areas still heavily damaged from WW2 and some newly rejuvenated areas. I like the idea of more complex villains and I’d love for the player to be able to choose who becomes a villain and who becomes an ally with foot soldiers strewn across the map from multiple sides and your standing with them changes depending on if you kill them or not and what missions you choose to undertake.
Blood Dragon 2: Electric Boogaloo
After completing Far Cry 5 I just had to go back and replay Blood Dragon. Going from the most recent game to a game released 5 years ago highlights the big changes the franchise has seen gameplay-wise (Blood Dragon is so clunky and cumbersome!) but for sheer entertainment it’s pretty hard to beat Blood Dragon. A spoof of just about every 80’s action movie, the game offers a fourth-wall-breaking pastiche of every cliché you can think of. Visually and tonally unique in the franchise, I’m worried about going back for more and yet I can’t stop the urge of wanting it. I’m unsure whether another Blood Dragon could sustain being a full-sized game so maybe it could be just another short standalone story before we get a proper Far Cry 6. Since Blood Dragon was released, the nostalgia of revisiting the eighties is higher than ever so Blood Dragon 2 would need to find a way to stand out from the noise. Maybe the game could poke fun at this modern obsession with 80’s homage with some meta-meta-jokes. Either way I’d love to take control of Rex Power Colt one more time.
The future of Far Cry might not be so different from what has come before. Maybe Ubisoft doesn’t want to shake the franchise up by going post-apocalyptic, back in time or returning to the crazy world of Blood Dragon. Maybe they want just another standard Far Cry game set somewhere in the world without some extra twist. So far, the franchise has been to tropical islands (multiple times), African savannas, Himalayan mountains and the Great Plains of Montana. So where better next than Australia. It’s got everything. Deserts, The Great Barrier Reef, mountains, grasslands, rainforests, cities, unique animals to hunt and cool accents. It’s the perfect place for the action and exploration of an open world game like Far Cry.
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Contestants have until December 28 to go to DiscoverLosAngeles.com/sagawards and enter. Winners will get a flight or train ride to L.A., three nights at the Hotel Angeleno in Brentwood (pictured), VIP Bleacher Seats on the SAG Awards Red Carpet on January 18, and a VIP tour of the beautiful Warner Bros. studio in Burbank.
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Strong and durable, fully draining liquid cartage tanks provide a convenient and effective solution for many applications. Built for broadest range of liquids possible from plain water to the harshest chemicals. This Australian made tank includes an integral sump for minimal waste and complete drainage. Tanks are impact-resistant and can stand up to the harshest environments. The tank incorporates a precisely tailored blend of UV-stabilised polyethylene, allowing it to withstand the harshest operating conditions. The drainable tanks are made with superior polythene and rotational moulding, and their capacities range from 100 to 13,000 litres.
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The Industrialisation Fund for Developing Countries (IFU) and CSR Capital have decided to invest a total of DKK 15 million (approx. EUR 2.2 million) in Africa through MYC4. The Danish Development Minister Ulla Tørnæs supports the decision.
“This is an extremely important milestone for MYC4. That IFU and CSR Capital now invest through MYC4 is an endorsement of our initiative as a serious tool in the fight to eradicate poverty in Africa through the marketplace myc4.com,” says CEO of MYC4 Mads Kjær and continues:
“We hope this will inspire financial institutions, pension funds and companies to invest in Africa through MYC4. We are already well under way, but to make a significant difference for the development in Africa, this kind of investors play an important role.â€
Danish Development Minister Ulla Tørnæs warmly welcomes IFU’s initiative to invest in Africa through MYC4.
“Danida has been the facilitator for MYC4. Through the Public Private Partnerships, Danida has supported the development of MYC4. I am glad to see the interest and support for the new marketplace. It shows the economic potential for investments in Africa,” says Tørnæs.
DKK 10 million from IFU, 5 from CSR Capital
IFU is an independent fund under the Danish Foreign Ministry. IFU’s purpose is to promote economic development in developing countries in partnership with the Danish industry, and now the fund invests DKK ten million in Africa through MYC4.
“With the investment IFU wants to contribute to poverty reduction and business development of small and medium enterprises in Africa,” says Investment Manager Kasper Svarrer from IFU.
In addition, the private investment firm CSR Capital invests DKK five million through MYC4. CSR Capital focuses specifically on social and environmentally sustainable investments:
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In his first week in office, President Joe Biden has been tackling one major new topic nearly every day. Today Biden turned his focus to racism and inequality. He signed executive orders ending the federal government’s relationship with private prisons, enacting protections for Asian-Americans who are being discriminated against in the COVID era, and ending Trump’s 1776 commission, which he called “harmful.”
These were all moves that Biden was able to do today with the stroke of an executive order pen. He also addressed other racial equity topics which he’ll have to pursue via legislation. He voiced support for police reform. He also threw his support behind a new Voting Rights Act, which he confirmed should be named after the late John Lewis.
Passing major complex legislation takes time, even with majority control of the House and Senate. But with Senate Democrats having taken full control of the Senate last night, along with the power to partially or fully kill the filibuster at any time, they should have little trouble passing any legislation that all fifty Democrats agree on. This is going to be an era of tremendous concrete progress, so long as we remain united behind Democratic leaders.
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DIY art projects for your apartment
posted on July 23, 2021
Summer is a great time to shake up your apartment decor. You may not have the budget to buy art that you love for your apartment, but you can add a bit of flair and an injection of your personality with these DIY art projects that are perfect for apartment dwellers. Even if making art isn’t your thing, you will be surprised by how easy some of these projects are and how impressive the end results are.
You may not be a wallflower when it comes to your taste in decor, but these Wallpaper flowers might be just what you’re looking for. This easy art project adds a pop of colour and pattern to your wall and comes with step-by-step instructions. It even comes with a downloadable petal template! Once your flowers are ready, secure them to the wall in whatever arrangement you like with pushpins.
Metal leaf wall art
Ok, maybe flowers aren’t your thing, but what about leaves? This tutorial walks you through how to create stunning Metal leaf wall art. All you need is a faux fern (check your local dollar store), a black canvas (from the dollar store), white primer spray paint, gold metallic spray paint and a hot glue gun! The finished gold leaves look really elegant and pop against the back canvas backdrop.
Cork world map
Avid traveller? Show off where you’ve been and where you’re going to go with your own DIY cork world map! This step-by-step tutorial lists everything you need to make it and what you need to do to bring your own piece of the world home. The end result looks very modern and bright -- depending on the colours you choose.
Framed kid’s artwork
Maybe you’re not a budding artist yourself, but your child likes to draw or paint. Instead of stacking their endless slew of sketches or paintings in a drawer somewhere, pick up a few affordable, minimalist-style white picture frames with white matting and frame your kid’s work. Clean framing of child art can really take it to new, abstract art style heights and make the colours in it pop.
Framed scarf art
No kids? No problem! If you have some old patterned scarves lying around, and some empty picture frames, turn them into art by framing them! The results can be quite stunning.
Beaded wall hanging
Have some driftwood from your last trip to the beach? Put it to beautiful use by making your own beaded wall hanging with it. Tie strings along the wood and load them with varying lengths of strung beads. Knot the ends well to ensure they stay put, mount it to your wall and voila, art!
Hanging plate wall
Have a lot of fine china (or cheap china) plates lying around that you don’t plan to use? Turn them into DIY art projects instead. They can look so cool tacked onto your wall in a group. Think of it like a gallery wall! Learn how to hang china plates here.
Geometric cardboard planter
You don’t need big bucks to add modern planters to your wall! This Geometric cardboard planter tutorial will help you get the look you want without the expense. Follow this easy, step-by-step tutorial, pick up some faux succulents and flowers from your local dollar store and you’ll have the look you want in just an afternoon!
Love flowers but can’t afford the cost or hassle of fresh arrangements? No need! Make your own paper dahlias to display on your wall. They’re big, beautiful and easier than you think to make. Visit a craft or paper store for virtually endless paper colour and pattern choices to make your flowers really pop.
Bit of a bookworm? We have the perfect art project for you! Mounting old books to your wall can look positively cool and is a great way to tie in your penchant for literature into your decor. To make your wall books look like they’re flying open, add hot glue to different areas of back-to-back open pages. Once the glue dries, group your books together and attach them to the wall using drywall screws drilled through the back of each book cover.
Wood block nursery art
Expecting a baby? Add a touch of colour and art to your nursery with this amazing wood block nursery art project. It’s incredibly easy and looks fantastic. It’s a great way to showcase your favourite photos in an original and colourful way. You can even enlist your other children to help you make them, letting them help you create a comforting new home for the baby.
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by Sarah E. Dale and Krista S. Sheets
ROP=Return on People™
Happy Summer. Hope you are enjoying the summertime! We are hearing great successes from our thriving advisory teams. Referrals, organic growth, team expansion, and a focus on business optimization are consistent themes. In this newsletter, we offer some guidance on increasing revenues through organic growth. We hope you enjoy it!
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Have You Optimized Your Client Base? If Not, Then Now Is the Time for an Organic Growth Lift in Your Business
Most advisors recognize that there is much growth potential within their existing client base. Recent results from Business Insights, one element of our Performance Insights diagnostic resources, have reflected that many teams are missing major opportunities within the MINDING side of their practice, specifically in the client relationship management function. There are a number of different reasons for this scenario; the most prevalent of which is that for years, many advisors mainly focused on the investing side of the business, whereas now they offer a more comprehensive platform of solutions to fill ALL of their clients’ financial needs. This may include some combination of planning, investing, insurance, credit, lending, mortgages, and/or other banking services. Yet many advisors have not adapted how they articulate their story to clients and prospects. Also, they are not consistently asking the fact-finding questions to uncover needs and offer these solutions or make the appropriate introductions to specialists or partners. Keep in mind that most investors have two or more financial advisors; if YOU are not asking the right questions to deepen the relationship, then you are vulnerable to the other advisor becoming your client’s primary advice provider.
There are a number of different approaches to uncover organic growth opportunities.
Financial Plan Initiative:
Utilizing your firm’s resources for financial planning often leads to uncovering the MOST organic growth opportunity due to the extent and depth of questions asked in order to complete a plan. Considerations here may include the TIME that it takes to complete the plan, WHO is responsible for creating that plan, and the FEE associated with it. Many advisors include a financial plan as part of their process with NEW client relationships. Perhaps you want to review your existing client base and create a working list of clients for whom to execute a financial plan (or at least ask about completing one).
Many advisors prefer to take more of a bite-sized approach and run an organic growth initiative based on a specific focus area. The focus could either be SOLUTION-specific or SERVICE-oriented. Utilizing fact-finding questions in and around insurance represents an example of running a SOLUTION-specific initiative. Offering a second opinion, risk reviews, legal document updates, or family retreats are examples of more SERVICE-oriented organic growth approaches. With today’s demographic, many advisors are focusing on deepening the relationship, not just by the number of accounts (regular, joint, IRA, etc.) that a client has with them, but also by generational depth (grandparent, parent, child, grandchild, etc.) in order to retain the assets as they are passed from one generation to the next.
Full Client Base Mining Initiative:
While some advisors focus on their “B-Book Clients,” as that is often where the greatest growth opportunity resides, others decide to fully review their client base and re-segment based on the totality of solutions within each current relationship. This methodology may take more time but typically leads to greater organic growth lift than a specialty-only initiative.
Integrate NEW Fact-Finding Questions into Your Client Meeting Process:
Rather than running a specific organic growth initiative, some advisors simply choose to add additional fact-finding questions into their regular client meetings, calls, or reviews. They utilize existing client encounters to articulate their full story and offerings. They share how they have evolved and expanded their capabilities to be able to assist clients with a wider array of financial solutions. After giving the client some time to react, the advisor begins to ask the fact-finding questions to uncover needs and opportunities.
Below we provide a simple process to develop your organic growth initiative.
- Adjust your story. Be sure that you and your team members are consistently articulating the totality of your value proposition.
- Get to know your internal and external specialists/partners/solution providers (based on the firm you have chosen).
- Assemble the toolbox of resources available to you for an organic growth initiative.
- Fact-finding tools, specific questions, full questionnaires, letters/scripts, etc.
- One-page snapshot allowing you to quickly identify what solutions & services each relationship currently has with you so you can hone in on the gaps
- Decide on your organic growth approach as above and create the appropriate OPPORTUNITY lists.
- Financial Plan Approach – Review client base & create prioritized list of clients for whom to complete a financial plan
- Specialty Approach – Consider your client base and decide which specialty area you want to focus on first. Examples:
- Based on specific solution (example: Insurance Check-Up)
- Generational (expand household by family, by account type, etc.)
- Risk Review, Beneficiary Review, Legal Document Update, Estate Plan Review
- Second Opinion (those who have assets elsewhere)
- The Full Client Base Mining Approach – Add “Organic Growth” to weekly team meeting agenda and review X relationships per week by current segment
- Discuss quantitative & qualitative elements of each relationship; share/document personal knowledge
- Create a weekly client opportunity list based on your analysis & discussions
- Create a migration list for those who no longer fit your practice
- Establish goals & accountability. (WHO on team is doing WHAT and by WHEN.)
- Launch plan as above. Work your opportunity lists, establish client appointments, position your story, and engage in fact-finding.
- Mine + Meet + Ask + Listen = Additional Value to Client + Increased $ to YOU!
- MINE your current database
- MEET with your clients
- ASK your new questions
- LISTEN for opportunity
- Execute on opportunity and realize new revenues, assets, etc.
- Assess organic growth Initiative – track your success.
- Adjust plan as necessary – re-launch!
Create your specific opportunity list(s) accordingly
Organic growth is founded on the concept of deepening the team’s relationship with your current clients which leads to increasing assets under management, identifying cross-selling opportunities, and ultimately increasing client retention. The most successful way to uncover organic growth opportunities is through ongoing fact-finding and a commitment to exemplary value-based service. With 2+ advisors, investors gravitate to the most trusted relationship based on advice and service. Do you just THINK that your clients are happy with you or do you KNOW that they are? Do you just THINK that you are exceeding their expectations or do you KNOW that you are? The opportunity for organic growth is yours to win or lose. The risk of not asking questions or looking to optimize your client base can be the difference between client retention and client departure. And it certainly takes less time, money, and effort to manage your current relationships than it does to prospect for new ones. Initiate an organic growth initiative and increase your assets under management, overall revenues, client retention, and client satisfaction levels!
Because we believe in the collaborative approach, we offer a number of resources to add value to your platforms and help firms and financial advisors grow and develop teams and practices. Below we highlight a few of our offerings and resources:
Book: Know Service: Connect with Clients. Shape Your Future. Differentiate You. 5 Steps to 5-Star Service for Financial Professionals. A comprehensive, how-to book to re-engineer your service model and reap new revenues (Quantity discounts available for firms)
Performance Insights Process – Comprehensive 360° assessment tools reviewing the PEOPLE, the TEAM, and the BUSINESS.
People Insights – to assist with self and team-awareness, role definition, and improve team communication
Business Insights – includes Team and Business Performance Assessments to help your sales force analyze their current team and business, identify the gaps, and create an actionable roadmap for the future
Firm Workshops & Speaking Engagements: We offer a number of topics within the areas of Practice Management, Client Development, & New Client Acquisition. Our speaking services are customized to your firm; contact us to learn more.
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Looking for a way to get your hands on a gaming laptop but you’re swayed by high pricing? Look no further, as Amazon currently has the Acer Predator Triton 14 RTX 4050 Gaming Laptop on sale, with an appealing 35% discount. This is a gaming laptop that will allow you to utilize NVIDIA’s Frame Generation and DLSS 3 technology to improve performance in-game, to enhance your enjoyment entirely.
Acer Predator Triton 14 Gaming/Creator Laptop
- RTX 4050 powerful enough to run at the 1920×1200 resolution
- Access to Frame Generation and DLSS 3
- Intel i7-13700H maintains 14 cores and 20 threads, great for resource-heavy tasks
- 165Hz refresh rate
- 512GB SSD is not ideal for gaming. AAA games require plenty of storage space
It’s now only available for just $969.99, compared to the original $1499.99 price. You’ll save a significant $530.
Why you should consider purchasing the Acer Predator Triton 14 RTX 4050 Gaming Laptop
Technical Details | Specifications |
Graphics Card | RTX 4050 |
Processor | Intel i7-13700H |
Refresh Rate | 165Hz |
Resolution | 1920×1200 |
RAM | LPDDR5 16GB |
Storage | 512GB SSD |
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With a CPU that has 14 cores and 20 threads, multitasking won’t suffer from slowdowns or stutters. It is a CPU built for those taking on resource-heavy tasks, such as video editing and content creation. In games that are CPU-bound such as Dragon’s Dogma 2, this processor will come in handy.
It also helps that there is a 165Hz refresh rate here, allowing Frame Generation’s purpose to be served by boosting frame rates drastically. In games that struggle to perform with appealing frame rates, Frame Generation and DLSS 3 will work hand in hand to change this.
Is this one of the best offers available for this laptop?
With the current sale price of $969.99, the Acer Predator Triton 14 has taken a step closer to its lowest price on Amazon, which was previously $799.99.
The difference between the lowest-ever price and the current price is $170. While this can be seen as a significant amount, it is still a long way off the original expensive $1499.99 price. This deal is worth every cent.
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POWELL COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Class schedule: It’s a Blue Day 4,1,2,3
Lunch Duty: 1st Floor: Bleken 2nd Floor: Mrs. Perkins
10/30 | AR Due 3:45pm |
11/1 | End of 1st Quarter |
11/1-2 | Speech and Debate @ Helena High |
Lunch today will be Chicken Strips and Nuggets. Wednesday will be Hamburger Gravy. Please sign up with your student ID before 9 am for lunch.
PCHS will be hosting the volleyball play-in game on Tuesday, October 29 at 6:00 p.m. This is a MHSA tournament event so activity tickets will not be accepted. Admission will be $4 for students and $5 for adults.
The Craft club is going to have a meeting today at lunch in Miss. Bleken’s room. Everyone is welcome and if you have any questions please contact Jesse Pauley.
A representative from Montana Tech will be here today at 10:30. If you would like to speak with her please sign up in the office.
Student council is putting on a costume contest on halloween! There will be a prize for the best school appropriate costume!
The Wardens and Friends Pep Band will play tonight for the Volleyball match starting at 5:20! Best of luck Wardens! Also, We will rehearse on Wednesday at 6:00 in the Junior High Band Room. Thanks and have a terrific Tuesday! | <urn:uuid:8b6cbb6a-eda7-4393-9b6a-c61323163c2d> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.pchs.dl.k12.mt.us/article/153515 | 2024-04-22T23:16:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.927763 | 322 |
Central and Eastern Europe is a rapidly emerging market for pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution, and at the same time countries of the region are becoming hot-spots for research with many universities, research institutes and biotechnology companies being present. On the other hand, companies in the pharmaceutical sector face challenges that are not encountered in any other, from healthcare reforms to changing regulations. It is clear that in these sectors the constant search for effective and innovative partnerships as well as continuous professional development and market-specific knowledge are more important than in any other field.
Responding to the demand of a growing industry with exceptionally specific needs, the annual PHARM Connect Congress has been established to facilitate the collaboration and development of the most important pharma and biotech players in the emerging and strategically important region of CEE. On 27-28 February, the most prominent professionals and the key solution providers will gather in the five-star Corinthia Grand Hotel Royal in Budapest for the third time, to discuss challenges and start new collaborations at the market-leading pharmaceutical event. With its unique format that combines professional development and effective networking, PHARM Connect is supported by all major associations and governmental ministries, who agree that the congress has developed itself into a much needed platform for further industry growth in the region.
From OPEX to logistics: the most up-to-date topics
The conference programme will cover a wide range of topics from operational excellence (Prof. Dr. Thomas Friedli from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland) and new logistics strategies (Zoltán Kelemen, CEE Business Development Manager of Phoenix Pharma) to the new EU Pharmacovigilance legislations (Amer Alghabban, Director of Gobal Quality Assurance & Auditing at Merck). Martin Fitzgerald, Deputy Director General of the European Association of Pharmaceutical Full-line Wholesalers will explain the impact of medicines verification systems on today’s pharmaceutical supply chain, giving ideas on developing a cost-effective solution for medicines verification in Europe. The future of personalized medicines will be addressed by Dr. István Peták and Dr. Richárd Schwab, Scientific and Medical Directors of KPS Diagnostics, who will share their valuable ideas on how to make biosimilars and diagnostics more affordable. Other speakers include Dr. Zsolt Szombathelyi, the Global Research Director of Gedeon Richter, who will talk about keeping the R&D pipeline innovative and Prof. Dr. Tamás L. Paál, the Senior Adviser of GYEMSZI as the Chairman of the first day. The programme was put together with the help of a renowned advisory committee to make sure that all areas of pharmaceutical production and distribution – from R&D and quality to purchasing and logistics - are covered. As Dr. Jens Scheibner, the Executive Director of Operations Biberach at Boehringer Ingelheim put it: “the most important and up-to-date topics are covered, exactly the way it should be.“
Effective networking is the key to success
The conference is only one part of the secret recipe that makes PHARM Connect the market-leading event in CEE. During the two days the most important solution providers will exhibit their innovative products; moreover, they will host pre-scheduled one-to-one meetings with key decision makers attending the event. This is the point where one can clearly distinguish networking and effective networking: face-to-face meetings that were mutually agreed on prior to the event guarantee that delegates will be in a position to discuss their own needs based on the current and future projects within their companies. Over 30 vendors will be represented covering a wide scope of solutions from automation, APIs, lab equipment to warehousing, logistics and beyond – Aptar Pharma, Cemelog, GE Intelligent Platforms, DHL, Evonik, Festo, Fette, Phoenix Pharma, Sartorius, Menadiona, Bosch Packaging, ABB, just to mention a few – assuring that everyone finds what they are looking for.
PHARM Connect will bring together over 500 key decision-makers of the most important pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies from at least 20 different countries of the region for two days to provide them with a platform where they can learn from their most respected peers, immerse themselves in an environment where everyone is talking about their day-to-day challenges and find solutions to them via effective meetings. The professional atmosphere will be complemented by more informal networking opportunities – like a plant excursion to the GSK Biologicals plant and a cocktail reception on the first evening – making PHARM Connect not only a truly beneficial event, but an enjoyable one as well. | <urn:uuid:4698569c-94a2-4aef-91fd-e06ec989b8c2> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.pcne.eu/article/pharm-connect-congress/ | 2024-04-22T21:17:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.938428 | 963 |
Many of you have asked me about the effects of September's Hurricane Fiona on PEI’s wildlife. Like most things in nature there is no simple answer: habitats have been enhanced for some species and diminished for others, and this will vary from site to site. The good news is the results of the storm won’t have any population-level impacts on the Island’s wild birds and mammals. Let’s take a look at some aspects of this.
The timing of the storm was good in that it was outside the breeding and nesting season for the Island’s wildlife. I’ve heard from many people concerned about bird nests that blew down (such as this American Robin nest, Photo 1).
The birds weren’t using their nests at this time of year, and it’s common for nests to blow down over the winter. Many birds don’t reuse old nests from year to year anyway, and those that do will rebuild at the beginning of the breeding season next spring. In areas where entire stands of trees have been felled, the birds that were nesting there will move to a nearby spot. An exception is Bald Eagles, who build and reuse large nests and are more selective about the types of trees they use. If an Eagle’s nest tree blew down, the pair may move to an entirely new area next spring, but that is unlikely to affect their survival.
Felled trees also create new habitat. Partially uprooted trees (Photo 2) can create overwintering habitats for Skunks and Raccoons, or breeding dens for Coyotes and Foxes.
Fully uprooted trees (Photo 3) contribute to the pit-and-mound topography that is an important feature of PEI’s forests. The holes left by these roots will fill with water and become temporary wetlands that are critical habitats for amphibians and reptiles.
As fallen trees start to decompose, they’ll create habitat for moisture-loving species such as Red-backed Salamanders. Standing but broken trees will provide future homes for cavity-nesting birds such as Chickadees and Nuthatches, as well as feeding sites for Woodpeckers.
There’s time (and decent weather) between when the storm hit and when cold winter weather set in for smaller mammals such as Chipmunks, Squirrels, Mice, Voles, and Shrews to build new nests and move their food caches if needed. I saw Red Squirrels on my own land doing this throughout October.
Downed trees and tree tops have created cover for prey species, making it more difficult for predators to catch them. That’s good for the prey (such as Grouse, Pheasant, Hare, and small mammals), less so for the predators (Owls, Hawks, Foxes, and Coyotes for example). This also puts previously inaccessible buds and twigs within reach of Snowshoe Hares. While these won’t hold their nutritional value forever, they do provide an added food source in the near term.
As a woodlot owner myself, I know all too well the impacts of Fiona on the aesthetic, recreational and economic values of the land. But as a biologist, I try to be heartened by the knowledge that PEI’s wildlife will be just fine. | <urn:uuid:65c6f408-5cd3-486e-9d8a-7db5e85dd982> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.pei-untamed.com/post/post-fiona-wildlife | 2024-04-22T21:27:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.949995 | 690 |
Allergic Contact Dermatitis
Allergic contact dermatitis is a form of a rash or eczema caused by a delayed allergic reaction to an allergen – most commonly a metal, fabric, plants, rubber, topical medicine and cosmetics. It is not contagious.
Allergic contact dermatitis is very common in the general population worldwide, especially in employment groups which are naturally exposed to specific allergens, like beauticians, painters, florists as well as healthcare, and metal workers. Allergic contact dermatitis affects people of all ages, though within the adult population, it is more likely to occur in women than in men. Patients with impaired skin barrier function e.g. suffering from atopic dermatitis, are especially prone to acquiring the condition.
WHAT CAUSES ALLERGIC CONTACT DERMATITIS?
Allergic contact dermatitis is caused by a delayed type of allergic reaction, known as a type 4 hypersensitivity reaction. In this case, the immunological response typically \occurs approximately 48 – 72 hours after the exposure to the allergen. CD4+ lymphocytes are a type of white blood cell. These lymphocytes are responsible for presenting an antigen, a foreign body that evokes an immune response, to the immune system. If the patient is exposed to the allergen for the first time, the symptoms might show up to 14 – 21 days afterwards and present mildly, if at all. However, with subsequent exposures, the reaction may appear faster, and with a more robust response.SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS
In the acute phase of allergic contact dermatitis, the lesions take the form of intensively itchy vesicles, accompanied by erythema and oedema. They can also resemble chronic, itchy, erythematous dermatitis. At the beginning, they are strictly limited to the exposition site, nonetheless, if the acute phase progresses into a chronic condition, they might exceed the contact surface. What is often common in allergic contact dermatitis caused by plants is that the lesions arrange themselves in a linear manner. Overall, the disorder most frequently affects the skin of the face, the hands and the forearms – the body parts most exposed to potential allergens.GENERAL DAILY MEASURES
- Undergo a patch test to determine the exact allergen that is causing the reaction.
- Having identified an allergen, avoid contact with it by taking appropriate protective measures e.g. wearing protective clothing or carefully reading an ingredient list before buying a product. | <urn:uuid:d719dca1-f204-4d5a-9232-4a96bf259146> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.penndermspecialists.com/patient-resources/allergic-contact-dermatitis/ | 2024-04-22T22:08:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.926371 | 524 |
Wart Treatment in Southampton, PA
Warts are caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) – a type of viral infection which, as the name implies, occurs only in humans. HPV can be transmitted directly (such as by shaking the hand of someone with warts on their fingers) or indirectly (which can occur when walking barefoot on the same surface as someone else who has warts on their feet).
While anyone can be infected, two particular groups seem to be at much higher risk. The first would be younger patients. When we’re younger, our immune system hasn’t yet been exposed to the virus, and therefore hasn’t had the opportunity to build its defenses. The second group of higher risk patients would be those whose skin surface tends to stay ‘wetter’ than average, thereby making it easier for the virus to enter the epidermis. Examples include those who constantly have their hands in water, or even those whose hands or feet perspire more than average.
Regardless of the factors leading to the initial infection, unfortunately many patients then accidentally spread HPV to other areas of their own skin. For example, patients who ‘pick at’ their warts often find that doing so has caused the virus to spread to their other fingers. Likewise, when a razor shaves over a wart, the blade can ‘nick’ the top surface of the wart and then spread it to other shaved areas.
There are many types of wart treatments available.
The reason there are so many is because there is still no single treatment available which is 100% effective in all patients.
Many patients mistakenly believe that warts can just be ‘cut off’, but doing so is rarely the best approach. Many warts actually grow quite deep into the skin, near the level of nerves and blood vessels (especially for those on the hands and feet). Unless the risks of nerve damage, bleeding, prolonged healing time, and scarring are minimal, we usually need to consider other less risky options.
A procedure called ‘cryosurgery’ is easily the most common treatment performed in the dermatologist’s office. In this process, liquid nitrogen is used to purposely ‘frostbite’ the wart, causing it to gradually peel away over the following weeks. Sometimes one treatment is all it takes, while at others, repeat freezing every several weeks may be necessary.
There are a few downsides to freezing. First, it hurts.
Even though it’s cold, many describe it as having a ‘burning’ sensation. For multiple warts in adults, or any number of warts in children, the pain can be enough to make us consider other options. Additionally, cryosurgery can damage the skin’s pigment cells – essentially forming a permanent ‘white scar’.
An alternative to freezing is available in the form of a medication called Cantharidin (sometimes referred to as ‘beetlejuice’).
The treatment itself is painless and performed by simply applying a liquid to the surface of the wart. In the days following treatment, the area becomes red and may form a blister, which then dries and peels away within a week or so. The advantage to this treatment is that it doesn’t hurt upon application. However, the blisters which form as a result can be sensitive. Another important consideration is that sometimes the top of the wart will blister, but not die. As the blister then settles, the wart will have actually enlarged. If anything, the primary disadvantage of Cantharidin is that it usually doesn’t provide as consistently effective results as other more ‘painful’ options, and repeat treatment is often needed. If a child can’t tolerate any discomfort, though, we may have few other options.Another increasingly common (and less painful) approach is to use a substance which stimulates the body to fight off the wart itself. Examples include injectable Candida antigen or any number of topical allergens we would apply in the office. The theory with these is that by purposely causing inflammation within the treatment site, the virus is also recognized and the immune system can then fight off the wart on its own. As with any wart treatment, these approaches work wonderfully in some, while results are minimal in others.
The reality is that there are far more wart treatments available than we could possibly cover in one handout.
Please let your dermatologist know of any unique circumstances which might affect your treatment, as well as if any of the options described above sound right for you!
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If you’re ready to live your life free of annoying warts, then schedule an appointment for wart treatment today.
The Best Wart Treatment in Southampton PA
Nothing can fill you with dread more than waking up to find a wart growing on your face. For some people, you may feel the need to cancel all social plans and hideaway. Before you start panicking, you should first sign up for wart removal from our experts at Penn Dermatology Specialists. We specialize in removing warts and other growths from your skin. Here’s what you need to know about service in Southampton PA.
Trust in Our Skill to Remove Your Warts Efficiently and Safely
Common warts are unpleasant for many to look at. They can understandably cause a lot of people distress. Warts are most often caused by a virus.
Some signs of a wart are:
- Grainy bumps
- Rough texture
- Sprinkled with black points
- Flesh-colored or pink
If these symptoms describe what you’re looking at, then there’s a good chance that you have a wart. Luckily, our cosmetic dermatologist in Southampton PA can help you. When it comes to wart removal in Bucks County and Southampton PA, there are a few treatments that we can try.
The goal is to kill the virus and ensure the surrounding area is free of infection. The problem with warts is that it likes to spread. Our expert dermatologist and dermatology providers can use minimally invasive procedures to remove the wart and keep your skin smooth and healthy.
We may also take a sample of the wart to ensure that it isn’t another kind of growth that is more concerning.
Similar to wart treatment, we also offer mole removal in Southampton PA. We want to make sure that you’re proud of the skin that you wear. | <urn:uuid:dd99f39b-ce45-4fce-b9a9-abe22ce93e91> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.penndermspecialists.com/patient-resources/warts/ | 2024-04-22T22:36:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.957966 | 1,346 |
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