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From being able to manage leads at a faster rate and with less hassle to being able to cut back on forgetfulness and human error in the workplace, CRMs are here to stay, and here’s why!
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Senior Account Executive - Smart Financial
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Erika Navarette and Gavin Koontz were Neil Thobani’s first thought when I mentioned doing a podcast episode with Smart Financial. He saw a great opportunity to share the expertise of his team with our audience and we couldn’t agree more! Erika is an account manager with Smart Financial and Gavin is a senior account executive.
We wanted to work with Smart Financial for this episode because when the world went remote, it was usually a company’s technology that helped determine if they would be able to transition an office that had once been in-person. CRMs are browser-based customer management tools that, for many, have already been the edge up in their field. Erika and Gavin help break down why that is and what things to look for if you’re in the market for your own CRM.
Halie Morris 0:31
Hello everyone, and welcome to Everyday Business Solutions. My name is Halie Morris. As always, I’m your podcast coordinator and host.
With me today I have some really cool people from Smart Financial. I have Gavin and Erika with me and they’re going to take a chance to just introduce themselves and also tell us a little bit more about what Smart Financial does. So if you guys don’t mind.
Erika Navarette 0:53
Thank you for having us. My name is Erika, Erika Navarette. I’m an account manager at Smart Financial. So what we do is very magical. We connect insurance agents with new consumers every day, and we cover the entire country.
Now on the consumer side, we connect them with insurance agents that can either give them a better policy, a better experience the best better customer service. So we’re making a lot of people very happy.
Gavin Koontz 1:27
Yeah, my name is Gavin. I’m with Smart Financial as well. Just to pair it off of what she’s saying, we work directly with insurance agents.
So our job is to make sure that the people we’re connecting them with end up becoming sales. We are all about making people effective with their process and that’s what we do.
Thank you both for that introduction, I think it is really cool what Smart Financial does.
As a little background for our listeners, our parent company, Double A Solutions often works with Smart Financial, because we also work with the insurance companies to provide a CRM, and also an auto dialer.
What we’re actually going to be talking about today is CRMs, because when you have huge pivots in society and when you have huge times of changes, if you don’t have the right processes, support, and systems in place, you’re more than likely going to slip and fall.
So we’re going to dive into what exactly makes a CRM beneficial to a business, and how you can go about picking one, choosing a different one, or optimizing your own if you’re in that boat.
Would you start off first by telling us what your definition of CRM is, as you know it?
Sure. I’ll go first on that one. By definition, it’s a Customer Relationship Manager. That’s what we do. That’s what we use a CRM for.
How do we make these customers and manage these prospects that we have? How do we make them into customers?
What a CRM does is to manage, or help you organize, and automate your workflow. You are either gonna call your consumers, email them, or text them and so the CRM will help you do all of that so that at the end of the day, you can do what you do best.
In our case, our agents can stick to selling policies, and depending on any other type of business, they can stick to doing what they do.
I’ll just add to that quickly. We focus a lot because of our role in connecting with the consumers. That’s kind of the big hurdle we face, getting the policy sold, but there’s so much more to it, too.
If you are the business owner, the CRM helps you stay organized, stay on top of your stuff in the same timeline that you wanted to, and not let anything just fall off into unmanaged riffraff.
To kind of summarize, from my perspective, it’s about optimizing those background processes and nuances of what you do to connect with your customer in order to do what you came into work to do at the beginning of the day and at the beginning of your business.
It’s really cool because, from your guys’ perspective, you use a CRM, but it’s not like where we sell one. You recommend them because of their functionality, because of their use, and their benefits.
So if you don’t mind, tell me a little bit more about the benefits that you see on your side as far as specific features that actually cause that optimization.
I can use that to maximize their investment and exposure to the areas we’re seeing the best results from, and help to strategize the game plan for the coming weeks and months.
Yeah, and with my agents, a lot of times it’s just the question of when I start working with a new agent, I say, “Hey if you want to make these leads work better, we should take a look at what we’re doing.”
Usually, a CRM is the first place we look, because if you’re not using a CRM, you probably don’t know how many calls your people made today, how long they were on the phone, what prospects they talked to, what kind of notes were left on them, and what kind of disposition status those leads have.
So a CRM helps you stay organized and then make sure you follow up at the right time. Along with that, just as a business owner, you’re paying a lot of money for leads and then someone like me says, “Hey, well, you should definitely invest in a CRM.”
They ask me, “Why? I already spent all this money on these leads. What features am I going to get out of it?”
What I say is, you want to use a power dialer? Do you want to stay organized, leave your notes, have clarity on what your people are doing? Just be able to, at a glance, know where you’re at with your leads or just any of your business prospects?
You don’t really want to have to dive in for 15 minutes to figure out ‘Oh, Frank told me to call him back a couple of weeks from now, but what was the thing that he asked for and I realized I just missed that by a day because I didn’t have a CRM that told me to call him.
That’s good. It’s cool with a CRM, a really great way to think about the history notes and some of the tracking that you do as if it’s increased memory. It’s like your backup drive for yourself.
It’s your own notes. It’s your own hand that makes them. A machine isn’t running your calls and creating the notes for you. It’s you doing it. It’s you doing all the input and all the work.
It’s just making things more efficient around the people aspect of what you do.
Yeah, we’re all people. I wish I had an iron trap memory and could remember ‘Oh, I told him I’d call him in two days,’ but I’ve got too many other things going on. CRM is the only way I can get it done.
Yeah and I don’t know about you guys, but the way time passes, I’m pretty sure two weeks flies by way too quickly than what it’s supposed to. Especially because it was just March yesterday.
Yeah. That was the last time I left my house.
Another thing I noticed, I see the difference between an agent who does have a CRM and one who doesn’t. It’s very obvious sometimes. They’re having better success whenever we know there’s a CRM involved in their follow up and in their campaign.
So it makes the difference. It really does. Investing in it, it is worth it, especially with us. That way, they can completely maximize their investment with us.
We see it and we recommend it every day and we integrate with a lot of them. There’s a lot out there, but there’s probably a few features that might be more important to others, depending on the business. So we support many CRMs.
If I could just add a little to that. Depending on what industry you’re in, for the people that are listening, they may not be insured or I’m assuming they’re not.
There’s a bunch of things that you realize that, like just interacting with a customer, it’s never one call, we’re done, and move on with life.
There’s usually like, he’s ready in a week and now I got to call him in a week to remind him, but I also want to send an email a day before to make sure that he knows I’m going to call.
If I’m telling myself, okay, Gavin, remember to email this guy on Thursday and then call him at 12 o’clock on Friday. I have too many things to do. I wish I could do that, but it’s just one of those things where it helps you make sure that you get to the end product or end state that you want.
So whether you’re dealing with a customer, just a task, or anything that your business needs, how are you tracking that. Are you using a calendar where you write handwrite it in there?
I love doing that, but also, that calendar doesn’t slap you in the face and say hey, you needed to call this guy today. That’s what I like about my CRM. It tells me what to do.
I like it too, because, for example, if you do call somebody during an appointment, you forget to enter the notes and check that off, it’ll put it in your lead into neglected or indicate that you’re late and you didn’t do that task.
Then you can actually go back into the notes and be like, “Oh, yeah, I have to schedule this appointment to follow up” versus if you’re just relying on a calendar and you forget to write it, then you forgot to write it. If you have to follow up in a week, two weeks, or six months, you forget to follow up.
Yeah. Anything that we do manually just takes longer and that delays our goal at the end of the day, which is to make sales in all industries.
When we’re selling a product, sales reps are hungry for sales. So it isn’t anything that they’re doing wrong. It’s just that there’s a delay between the manual calling that they’re doing, the manual emails, and it just it’ll speed up the process a lot with the CRM when it is implemented.
The one thing I noticed, too, that is probably especially big right now when we have so many people working from home, it reduces some of that human error.
We were talking about dropping the ball on appointments and stuff like that, but other things as far as how you enter where people are at, it’s easier to pick out incongruencies or where things were missed.
It reduces that error so that people can be confident in their job, because, especially if you’re training someone new and they’re making mistakes, sometimes it’s very disheartening, and that’s not necessarily a character fault.
It just means they want to do good, and they feel they aren’t. So the system gives them room to focus on what they’re doing and celebrate those successes.
Yeah. If I could just make a point real quick. If I am talking with my agent, and we’re asking like, what’s the difference between one that uses CRM and one that doesn’t-
A lot of times, if someone’s asking me why they should get a CRM, I’ll say, go time one of your agents working one lead. Figure out how much time that takes exactly. Is it two minutes, three minutes, four minutes?
Then let’s think, if we have a 20 to 30 to 40 percent contact rate with our leads on one call, then we need to make X amount of calls. If it takes me three minutes to make that one call, to pull up the paper, look at the name, look at the phone number, dial the phone number, then make the call, leave a little note, a file that paper, pull up the next paper….
All those little steps add up when you scale them, they’re your bottlenecks. With a lot of my agents, it’s how many minutes is that going to take? If it’s three minutes and I can get you on a CRM, I can get that down to one minute.
You’ll start the phone call, you’ll have your notes ready, they picked up or didn’t pick up, move on, already dialing the next call.
That’s also just a lot easier for us as people to sit down, get those calls done by clicking a button and leaving some notes, not by having to literally hand key 10 digits for each name, and then go through that whole process. It’s just so much easier on us as people to use a system that facilitates all that stuff.
And other people are. So if you’re working in the insurance industry, or you’re working somewhere else, a lot of times the competitors are already using a CRM, because it is so efficient.
It makes sense and it doesn’t matter if they’re all doing it. Even if one is doing it, they’re taking your customers… So if you’re not beating them to the ball, you might drive yourself right out of business at the end of the day.
With that, we’ve mentioned that it hinders you significantly if you’re taking leads from Smart Financial, or someone like you, and you don’t have a CRM to put them in.
Do you know what it does as far as the amount of those leads that actually get contacted versus not?
There is a lower contact rate when you don’t have a CRM. A few months ago with the pandemic, we knew everyone was home. Everyone’s schedule was a little predictable. They were easier to contact.
But now everyone’s going back to their normal routines going, going back to work. So when we’re calling someone that we don’t know what their schedule is, it may require multiple calls to get a hold of them at the time that’s best for them.
We’re all busy living very fast-paced lives. It may not always be easy to get a hold of someone if you’re only calling them once a day.
Let’s say you’re calling that consumer once a day at the same time. What if you’re calling them the same time that they’re on they’re driving to work? You’re not going to get a hold of them.
So CRMs will help you automate the times that you’re following up with your consumer and help you call them at a different time. It will tell you when to call next when to email next when text next. That improves your contact rate automatically.
I see it affects that, but then what about the ability to be quick about contacting them- forgetting the word right now- but that quick response?
Speed to dial. A big thing in the industry is if I get a lead right now, that means someone just filled out a form. They’re sitting there waiting at their computer for someone to call them and give them the actual quote.
A lot of people get really focused on this. They say, “Hey, if I get this lead if I miss that speed to contact if I’m five minutes late? Well, you know what they’re already on a phone call with another agent. So I missed that opportunity,”
In every statistic you see everywhere, it will say that if you’re working your leads, you’re like 200 to 300 percent more likely to be able to contact that lead if you call them within the first five minutes.
So a CRM is going to help you. For example, how our stuff will work; we would port directly into the CRM, you get a little notification and a lot of CRMs will have the option to just immediately start a phone call.
Then you’re faster than a human. I guarantee it because it’s just on.
I think that’s a big thing, but also if they don’t pick up, the lead is not done because you made one call. In fact, if you look at the old advertising rules of it takes seven to ten contact attempts before someone even makes a decision on an ad.
You see the Coca Cola banner go buy, go buy, and go buy again, but until the seventh or tenth time, you don’t decide yes or no. It’s just kind of passing by. I think that definitely applies to leads.
Sometimes people don’t expect the phone call or they’re maybe more resistant to answering a phone call. Email me all that stuff! I prefer that.
Well, if you’re a sales agent, you want to get on the phone. You want to have a phone conversation, not an email conversation where you send them the rate, and they say, “Oh, that’s high.” You’re like, “no, it’s high because of the coverage I gave you and the things that you need.”
You don’t really have that same ability to have that conversation through email, at least in my opinion. So I think that if you have a CRM and you get the lead now and you call them right away, because you have that feature, and they don’t pick up?
Well, I think it’s a great idea if you call them in an hour. If we just think about getting multiple leads a day, and so they don’t pick up on one call, now I have a call in an hour. Do you like setting a timer on your phone? How are you doing that?
That’s just so hard. If I had a CRM that just teed up a call in an hour and said, hey, it’s time to call this guy again, my job is so much easier.
So I digress, but I love CRMs.
But that’s the point, isn’t it? You’re passionate about it, even though it’s not a product that you sell, because it actually is so beneficial. You guys use one too, right?
We have our very own call center as well, which is smiling and dialing all day long for our agents. They go through many calls throughout the day to get the contact and we see what it does, even on that side.
It’s huge and it’s so good to hear. Not only are you pressing it to these new consumers, because it’s beneficial to them, but you can tell firsthand why it’s beneficial because you use it in the house. I feel like that’s a huge thing as well.
You’ve got to remember that our job relies on the agents selling the leads. If they’re not making a return on investment, they’re not going to be our customers for very long. So it all hinges on this kind of stuff. That’s why we like it.
Our ultimate goal is to have a long term partnership with our agents because no one is driving around looking for them. The digital transformation that we’re going to, this is why consumers come on the internet, on a website like ours, and are actively looking for them without knowing how to find them.
So that digital transformation has made the shift in our industry anyway and the way our agents get consumers in their books.
It’s like you said, it’s so much different these days and there’s such an emphasis on instant gratification. From the business side, you have to be able to keep up with it.
You have to be able to respond because somebody is already doing it. That’s why the demand is already in place for a quick response.
I want to move on then to talk about when someone is looking for a CRM and say they’re listening to this episode right now. They say, “That sounds like a great idea and I don’t have one yet.”
First off, what if a business says, “what if I’m too small? I only have 10 people. I don’t think I need a CRM because I think it’d be too big of a system,” what do you have to say to that?
What I recommend and what I see is that the numbers play such an important role on our end. So although they have that means, knowing that there are 10 sales reps right away, I know they need at least 100 leads a day.
That sounds like a lot to some agencies, but it really isn’t when you have a CRM that can help you automate the workflow and it takes off.
It will also allow the sales reps to stick to what they’re doing. It’s selling the policy and going through more leads quicker and faster.
So the numbers play such an important role, even when we have agents that are a one-man show. They also require a CRM and it allows them to go through more leads faster, especially when they don’t have sales reps selling for them. They’re doing it all.
As a business owner and a one-man-show, CRM is even more important. The smaller you are, the more important the CRM is.
It’s a great question because seriously, there are people who sign up for this and they said, “I just spent $1,000 on these leads. Do you mean that I need to buy another product? Why didn’t you tell me this when I sign up.”
Well, we don’t sell a CRM, but you should have one because, frankly, if you’re expecting to get a certain return on some leads- First of all, how are you tracking that? A CRM.
So you want to make sure that whatever investment that you make on whatever your lead base is if you’re buying leads or something like that, that you actually recoup that cost. In my mind, it’s almost like you’re doing a halfway attempt if you’re not using one.
Because you’re saying, I’ll remember all the things I’ll do all the work. I’ll do all of the heavy liftings myself. But what’s going to happen is, in a couple of weeks, if you don’t immediately see the results that you’re looking for, you’re not going to want to do all the heavy lifting.
It’s going to be so much harder. Your mojo will be gone at that point and you’re not seeing the results. You’re thinking, “Oh, should I give up or what? There must be some other solution.”
But what I would say is, if you had gotten a CRM or if you get one now, you can then take all your effort, and you could streamline it to just that 80/20 rule, that 20% of the things that really are going to give you the value. That’s the stuff that you as a person should be involved in and the rest of the stuff, let your CRM do it.
It made me think, as you were talking of, to get leads from a source like yours, so they order the leads or they work with you and they purchase the leads and they’re waiting for them to come in-
It’s almost like showing up to a race, getting in your blocks, and wearing regular tennis shoes instead of getting a pair of spikes.
Yeah, you’re gonna be able to run the race and you may be pretty fast, you may actually not do half bad, but that person who’s got spikes on the bottom of their shoes that are built to fit their foot just right is going to probably outsprint you 90 percent of the time because they have the tools to support the race they just signed up for.
So that’s what I thought about as you were talking about it. I was on track for five years and it’s what made me think of it. I admit I did high jump. I did not run but it makes me think, what if I had shown up to high jump in just my tennis shoes. I would not have gotten very far.
Coming from my perspective, and I love track- I used to do cross country- but I just built a bunch of woodwork stuff. I realized having the right tool for the job makes the difference in being able to do the thing the way you want it to do or like cobbling it together.
There’s a big difference but just have the right tools and don’t do all the work. Don’t make it so much harder on yourself. Use the right tool.
We just did laminate on our basement walls. It gives it a really cool, lodge feel. It makes it look super expensive and it wasn’t, but if we hadn’t bought the nail gun I’m sure we would have had a field day putting those boards up.
And it wouldn’t have looked as good.
No, and it wouldn’t have gone nearly as fast. Especially because the first time we got the wrong materials and it all fell down.
Yeah. So I had to stop there because of putting that into perspective, that’s what people are doing if they come to you, and they want all these leads. They order a bunch of them and they don’t have the tools to support it like a CRM.
All right. So this person who’s got less than 10 people in place, right? You were talking to them, and they say, “Okay, I’m gonna do a CRM. You’ve convinced me. But CRMs are big.
I just did my research and there’s a lot of things in them. What features should I look for first, if I want to start my research, and I want to start talking to these companies to sell them?”
Well, if I were to jump in here. I’m not an expert in what any other business needs. I can just speak on insurance and I just know that there are certain things, if I were to evaluate that 80/20 rule that I was talking about earlier, what are the things that actually make me get me results?
I want to put myself in those activities. I want to also have a good organization so that I never miss those opportunities and I’m on them.
If I’m a business owner that needs to make sure my people hit a certain number of calls a day or hit a certain metric every day. I want that kind of stuff to not occupy my mind.
So I want to look for all the features that I would need to manage the elements of my business that I might need. Do I need inventory management? Do I need hour management? Let’s get that stuff in order so you can focus on the important stuff.
The metrics of the results we can see, they can see exactly what revenue is coming in, if there are any losses as well, or if something’s not working out.
They can take a look at all that or with their team, they can also see who may need some coaching, who’s not selling enough, who’s not producing enough. They can also take a look at all that. A lot of the time, their team may also need some coaching on selling their product or improving their process.
I would agree and I think the only thing I would add to that is that the last aspect is training. Make sure that not just the front end training is there because that’s great, but that you also have continuous training.
If you bring on someone new, or if you add a feature, or you’re using it and you just want to optimize your use of it further, CRMs are big. That’s why I asked that question. They’re huge systems.
A lot of times you start smaller and you work with a couple of different features. You learn those and then you grow. You optimize more of the system over time versus gung ho, feet in.
I don’t think there are too many people who can actually go at all the features of a CRM the first time and just have it mastered in a day. So it is really important for, like you said, identifying those areas that are important.
Could I just say that one thing that I know you should look at is to make sure they have good support because there’s a lot?
CRMs they’re very technical and if you’re the person trying to figure out how to make the tech work, especially if you’re a business owner, you’re focused on other things. You’re not a computer expert, which is most of the people I deal with. You want to be able to pick up the phone, talk to someone, have them show you what to do.
Also, what’s always great is having a website that has a really good support page where if I did want to just get it done myself, I can look up the problem that I have or the instruction manual, and very quickly find what I need. I think that’s huge.
If you have a bigger team too, your own team is going to be calling up or looking for information to help them. To be able to have both options available, to have really good options on both sides, they’re able to seek the help themselves and then possibly even help get their teammates up to speed.
All right. Well, I think we’re getting to a good point where we can start wrapping up so I want to ask you both; what advice would you give somebody who is looking to either optimize a CRM that they purchased already or are looking into purchasing their own CRM for their business to help it grow?
Want me to go? I’ll go. Let’s do this!
I would say, do an audit of your current actions. Where are you strong in? What are you actually getting done? Just do a clear-eyed look at your activities and just say, where do I need help?
If you’re unsatisfied with any of those numbers when you take a look at that, figure out what systems you need in place to increase that. Start that process now.
At the end of the day, the cost will pay itself off. If someone’s afraid to invest in a CRM, from what I see the losses are worse than just taking the time to spend a little bit more to improve your system and follow a process better.
Alright, thank you both. Thank you, Gavin. Thank you, Erica, for coming on the show today.
Thank you everyone for tuning in for yet another episode of Everyday Business Solutions. I want to remind you, don’t forget to subscribe if you aren’t already and give us a review. Let us know what you think of this episode and the other episodes that we’ve had so far.
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Save the Date: 20.10. – 22.10.2021
The trade fair curtains are about to rise again after 725 days – at last! Since the end of our last trade fair at the Hannover Exhibition Centre, the EMO 2019 exhibition, we have been eagerly waiting for this moment. We can hardly imagine that the moment is really approaching, and we won’t believe it’s there until we really see YOU again live and in person!
After 1 long year and 359 even longer-seeming days, we look so much forward to welcoming you to our trade fair stand at the Turning & Milling Days in Villingen-Schwenningen!
Thanks to a well-conceived safety concept, we will be able to present to you, in compliance with the entire set of applicable rules, all the highlights of our product portfolio, including a Zeiss Vista device – perfectly retrofitted with our software U-SOFT SOLID ultra Version 7.
It’s after a seemingly endless stretch of 23 months and 25 days that we can now also show you the very latest in high-precision shaft measurement: Come and see for yourself how chirurgical implants can be reliably measured in one go and how measurement of complex shapes can be tied in with cutting and milling operations.
Turn old into new? Absolutely! Your old treasure is in the best of hands with us: We offer well-designed modernisation solutions not only for devices manufactured in-house at Schneider, but also for third-party devices, and we will be delighted to let you discover how fast and reasonably priced your measuring machine can be checked and upgraded to the state of the art!
So come and dive into the versatile Schneider world and discover our huge range of optimised high-precision solutions. By the way, for the first time ever at our trade fair stand, you will also have the opportunity to enjoy a live connection with our demo center “Technikum” located in our Bad Kreuznach headquarters: There’s no better way of exploring our measurement solutions with a “well-rounded” 360° view.
And finally, to cut this unparalleled “long-distance“ story really short after such a long while, let’s discuss what’s on your mind “face to face” again – over a good cup of coffee!
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Neal Barnard, MD has learned first hand how a whole foods plant based diet has profound effects on the health of your body AND mind, and is now a leading voice in the idea of food as medicine.
This pot is used on an almost daily basis in the Carney household to slow bake squash, yams, sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, carrots, etc... Place a little water in the pan and then fill it up. Bake at 300 degrees for three hours. Our oven timer starts at 3:00 AM. Then by six AM all is cooked for a simple quick breakfast. We just wash the veggies and don't even cut them until after they have cooled down.
Whether you are one of the millions who are anxious to get a jumpstart on weight loss or who already know about the benefits of a plant-based diet but have no idea how or where to start, this book is the kickstart you've been waiting for.
The China Study caused millions of people to take the idea of whole food plant based diets seriously. The data is clear. People who eat this way have fewer chronic diseases, from type 2 diabetes to heart disease, to obesity, to stroke.
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In this enlightening and humorous talk, Jeff will show you why choosing the wrong kinds of calories is a major contributing factor to the obesity epidemic.
With doctors and conventional medicine unable to help, Joe traded in junk food and hit the road with a juicer and generator, vowing only to drink fresh fruit and vegetable juice for 60 days. This is a great film about how quickly the human body can heal of diseases. The plant-based diet is the key to success.
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California’s Yosemite National Park—a quintessential family vacation destination—offers fun for all ages, and design for the ages, too.
National park road trips are as classic as the line Are we there yet? But if a trip to one makes you think only of sleeping bags and station wagons and not of, say, Victorian architecture and grand dining halls, focus your binoculars on Yosemite National Park. “Yosemite really stands out for its wide range of lodging,” says David Scott, who, along with his wife, Kay, wrote The Complete Guide to the National Park Lodges. They’ve spent six entire summers (so far) exploring national parks. (Their next book, A Traveler’s Guide to the Oregon Trail, is due out in the fall.)
You can roll out a sleeping bag at the Housekeeping Camp; with its rustic, canvas-roof accommodations, it’s among Yosemite’s options for roughing it. You’ll get an eyeful of Yosemite Falls, the tallest waterfall in North America, and Half Dome, the park’s iconic 5,000-foot granite formation. Camping fans also flock to Curry Village, which has canvas-tent cabins and sits below one of Yosemite’s most mind-boggling overlooks, Glacier Point.
“But then there’s the Wawona and Ahwahnee hotels, a whole other world,” says Kay. The Wawona, established in 1856, “is like stepping back in time.” Rooms are filled with period decor (floral drapery, marble-top dressers, and claw-foot tubs) and spread among six Victorian buildings with wraparound verandas. At night, guests gather around the piano for performances.
The Ahwahnee, opened in 1927, “was built to attract wealthy and influential people who might support the National Park Service,” says David. Presidents and royalty have rested their heads here, including Queen Elizabeth in 1983. The rich interiors include soaring ceilings with hand-stenciled beams, wrought-iron chandeliers, and mosaic flooring in Native American designs.
Inspired by the park’s interiors— whether the cabin-cozy vibes of Curry Village or the cabin-chic decor of the Ahwahnee—visitors can dig for design treasures in nearby Mariposa, a historic gold rush town just outside Yosemite’s west entrance. Shop nature prints at Brick Wall Boutique, Navajo-inspired Pendleton blankets at Fremont House, and rechargeable copper lanterns and enamel dishware at Mae It Be Home. Afterward, saunter up the street to the Hideout Saloon for pizza and smoked barbecue in a place that keeps with the Old West feel.
As charming as it is to shop and eat outside Yosemite, sleeping inside the park is still the best way to see Yosemite. “The park is busy in the afternoon, but early in the morning and in the evening it empties out and it’s just the people staying there,” says Kay. “It becomes your park, and that feeling is so special.”
Bring the Yosemite Look Home
Perfect as a campy bedside reading light, this Barebones Living Lantern ($70) is rechargeable but looks like the real thing.
The Nola Folding Stool ($175)—leather, brass, and all kinds of cool.
Proceeds from this hand-poured Lodgepole Pine Candle ($36) support the Yosemite Conservancy.
Use this Waxed-Canvas Log Carrier ($70) for its intended purpose or as a rugged overnight bag.
This Echo Bluff Coverlet (starting at $179) has cabin cozy written all over it.
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By Adam Oberfoell
The Jake is one of the most versatile crankbaits in the industry. It has been a long time favorite of mine. Beginning in the spring, my clients and I throw lots of Jakes in the 6” version. It is an awesome twitch bait for working the shallows for finicky post spawn muskies. The size and action perfectly imitate the many panfish that frequent the shallow this time of year. Simply find the warmest water, new weed growth and panfish and you will be into muskies in no time!
In the summer when water temps are high, I like to troll the 8 and 10” versions looking for suspended muskies. I prefer to match the forage with perch, crappie and bluegill patterns. If you keep the Jakes tuned properly, they have no problem running around 4mph without blowing out.
Fall is by far my favorite time of year to use Jakes. The 8” Jake is my favorite throw back bait on a musky that has followed another lure but didn’t strike. I have found that many muskies simply have a hard time passing up a well twitched Jake. I do have a trick that really makes twitching more effective. I add bell sinkers to the split rings that hold the hooks on the bait. The 8” version only requires one weight added to the front hook split ring. The 10” version requires three weights to be added to each hook split ring. Ideally you want the bait to stay horizontal in the water when you pause the bait. The Jake is very buoyant by design, adding weight allows the bait to suspend and hang without leaving the muskies strike zone. This is especially effective in the late fall when water temps are cold and muskies want an easy meal. Also, a straight wire leader will allow the bait to turn sideways with far less effort than a thicker fluorocarbon leader.
Finally, my very favorite technique for using Jakes is late fall structure trolling. Although the 10” version is probably known as one of the very best fall trolling around, I really like to the use large 14” version when targeting trophy muskies. The large profile will get big muskies to move the extra distance to intercept this bait. This bait matches the size of many whitefish and cisco very well. The Jakes design is far superior for making contact with structure. The lip is extremely durable and will really take a pounding when digging into the rocks. This lip design is critical to avoid snagging up when trolling rocks. The buoyancy of this bait is very important for this type of fishing. If you are trolling tight to structure and find yourself getting a bit too shallow you can simply back off on your speed to allow the baits to rise up very quickly to clear the structure before hammering back down on the throttle. (This is a great trigger!)
Jakes are a staple bait in my boat due to their versatility and solid design.
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Most pet lovers have gone through the complex moment of saying goodbye. For this reason, there is an option that is emerging, which in the near future could help extend the bond of more pets. It is about cloning, which until now can be done in dogs, cats and horses.
While South Korea is at the forefront of these processes, since it made the first cloned pet 17 years ago, ViaGen is in the United States, the first and only company in America to offer the service since 2015.
Melain Rodríguez, customer service manager of the company, said that, despite not having an official publication of its services, the number of clonings made has been increasing over the years.
ViaGen Pets is a Texas-based company that can clone pets. It famously cloned Barbara Streisand's dog in 2018. The company can clone dogs for $50,000, cats for $35,000, and horses for an initial payment of $45,000. #petcloning pic.twitter.com/f6GVs224yd
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One of the points in favor and success of this type of process is that the genetic material of the pet that is going to replicate can be stored indefinitely. This situation is only determined by the human family and the health status of the dogs that are going to lend their wombs to house the puppies.
However, there is a cost to cloning pets that not everyone is able or willing to pay. The price for having a twin for your puppy is $50,000, $30,000 for a cat and $85,000 for someone who wants to clone a horse.
The truth is that despite taking samples from the animals that are going to be cloned to duplicate their DNA, the new pets could have variations in spots, fur and eyes, among other characteristics.
When John Mendola‘s pet was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he decided to clone it to produce two genetically identical replicas. In 2018, Barbra Streisand revealed she had used ViaGen to clone two puppies from her former pet Samantha. That same year, The Sun reported that Simon Cowell was “100% cloning” his three Yorkshire terriers.
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Individual therapy can address a range of symptoms including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), phobias (e.g., driving, flying, needles, etc.), school avoidance, and anxiety. I typically meet with clients once per week to address these symptoms using evidence-based treatments (more information below). Treatments that I offer include cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), exposure and response prevention (ERP), cognitive processing therapy (CPT), prolonged exposure (PE), and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). Therapy typically lasts three to five months and may include booster sessions.
Evidence-based therapies are treatments that have undergone clinical trials to show that they work. In the same way that medicines undergo studies to ensure that they are helpful, therapies are also tested. Evidence-based therapies are short-term, focus on strategies, and conclude with the client feeling confident that they have a set of skills moving forward.
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Wexford County Council HQ, Irish Building, Offices, Headquarters Design
Wexford County Council Headquarters
Civic Building in Ireland – design by Robin Lee Architecture
29 Jun 2012 + 2 Aug 2011
Wexford County Council Headquarters, Ireland
Design: Robin Lee Architecture, formerly NORD LLP
Release by Robin Lee Architecture:
Robin Lee Architecture, in association with Arthur Gibney and Partners, has completed Wexford County Council Headquarters in Ireland.
The 11,500 sqm building on the outskirts of Wexford town brings together the services and departments of Wexford County Council that, until now, have been housed separately within the centre of the town.
The new headquarters gives identity to the collective endeavour of the council as a unified organization while giving individual expression to the separate departments and their unique activities.
The accommodation is laid out as a series of six discrete blocks; each block houses key services and individual departments. The blocks are gathered around a large central space, a ‘civic forum’, which gives access to all of the council facilities.
Open and fully accessible, the space supports the way-finding strategy with enquiry desks, public counters and informal seating throughout. It allows the building to be navigated in a safe and efficient manner, while offering opportunities for civic ceremonies, presentations and social gatherings.
Separating the blocks, and filled with planting and serene pools of still water, courtyards bring light into the deeper portions of building and connect the interiors with the surrounding landscape, providing a sense of place and context.
These spaces combine to place social interaction at the heart of the building and allow the public realm to pervade the whole building at ground floor.
Inside walls and floors are clad in Irish blue limestone, creating a sculpted interior volume with a calm, refined atmosphere. Externally an outer an outer layer of glass wraps around the blocks and acts as the outer skin of a double façade to optimize energy efficiency whilst giving the building a single, coherent identity and scale appropriate to its civic status.
Wexford County Council HQ – Building Information
Location: Wexford, County Wexford, Ireland
Size: 11,500 sqm
Client: Wexford County Council
Architect: Robin Lee Architecture
Executive Architect: Arthur Gibney & Partners
Contractor: Pierse Contracting Ltd and Wexford County Council
Structural Engineer: Buro Happold
Services Engineer: Buro Happold
QS: Mulcahy McDonagh & Partners
Landscape Architects: Mitchell & Associates
Wexford County Council Headquarters images / information from Robin Lee Architecture
Wexford County Council + Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland Architecture Competition
Location: Wexford, County Wexford, Republic of Ireland
Irish Architecture Designs
Contemporary Architecture in Ireland
Irish Architectural Designs – chronological list
The New Wexford Opera House
Office of Public Works Architects with Keith Williams Architects
Wexford Opera House photo : Ros Kavanagh
Wexford Festival Opera
Athlone Civic Centre + Square, Athlone, Republic of Ireland
Keith Williams Architects
photo : Eamonn O’Mahony
Irish civic building
Aviva Stadium, Dublin, Ireland
photo : Chris Gascoigne
Child and Psychiatric Unit, Cork, southwest Ireland
McCullough Mulvin Architects
picture © Christian Richters
Child and Psychiatric Unit Cork
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First tee open at Stoney Brook
- Updated: February 9, 2016
Jacksonville golf course is up for sale, but owners dispel rumors of closing, saying it will ‘for sure be open through the season’
By Al Muskewitz
East Alabama Sports Today
The rumors Calhoun County golfers have been hearing about the future of Stoney Brook Golf Course are only partially true.
The Jacksonville golf course indeed is on the market, but as far as it closing any time soon, the owners say it will be open for play this season.
Renda Jaskowski, who operates the course with her husband Bob, has been beating back rumors about the course’s closure for months. But she told East Alabama Sports Today Tuesday it would remain open through the summer.
“It’s for sure going to stay open through the season; it’s not closing in April,” she said. “It’s going to stay open at least through the season. Beyond that, I can’t say.”
The season could be to the end of August or the end of September. The final decision on its future rests with her parents.
Frank and Merl Wade bought the course from original designer Bill Brannon in 1984 when golf was in its heyday. They operated it until they moved back to Texas.
The course’s golf cart lease expires in April. With no interest in extending for another four years, in order to remain in operation it will lease carts on a month-to-month basis.
“I had decided when the lease was up we’re done, but my dad wants to keep it open,” Renda said. “Dad’s like I’d really like to stay on ‘til it sells.”
The asking price is $900,000 and Renda said the family has had “some interest” from potential buyers.
Stoney Brook is one of eight golf courses in operation in Calhoun County, joining the private Anniston Country Club, Anniston Municipal Golf Course, Cane Creek Golf Course, Oxford’s Cider Ridge Golf Club, Indian Oaks Golf Club, Pine Hill Country Club and Silver Lakes. Indian Oaks recently was reopened after being purchased by its neighborhood homeowners. | <urn:uuid:51299dc1-1e47-47ba-bc31-cff515fed53c> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.easportstoday.com/2016/02/09/first-tee-open-at-stoney-brook/ | 2024-04-25T06:43:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.973611 | 481 |
If you have a golfer in your life, whether that be your one of your parents, spouse, sibling, or friend, then you know it can be difficult to find high-quality golf equipment whenever you’re in the market for new items.
There are also many different options to choose from when it comes to presents surrounding golf, but you want to find the best golf items yet. We’ve all had a tough year, so why not treat yourself to something that will get you back out on the course over the summer!
You can now give your loved one the special surprise of a golf club shaft! A hand-picked or custom golf club shaft is something that will really knock your golf socks off. Now, you’re probably wondering where exactly you can find the best quality golf shafts online, and the answer would have to be Dallas Golf Company.
This online golf store specializes in all types of golf equipment including, golf bags, travel gear, golf balls, and any other golf accessories you can think of. They also supply their online store with all of the best top brands that are popular amongst golfers including Nike, Titleist, Mizuno, Sun Mountain, and Cobra.
Not only do they stock their website with everything an avid golfer could ever need, but they also supply custom golf shafts that allow a whole new experience to the process of buying golf equipment. Any golfer would know that not every golf club can be suited for everyone. It’s not a one size fits all type of golding equipment.
A golf shaft needs to be fitted to the actual golfer. Depending on the size, height, and overall technique of each golfer should determine what kind of golf shaft they need. Purchasing a golf shaft online is a unique way to get yourself excited about getting back out on the golf course with your new gear.
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The entire process for customizing your own golf club shaft is extremely easy and also fun! Dallas Golf Company makes it so easy to pick out exactly what you are looking for and if you ever need help, they are with you every step of the way to help with whatever you need.
Why choose Dallas Golf? That’s easy. We love and appreciate golf as much as the next golfer. We are a leading online golf equipment provider to help any golfer, new or experienced, to find the right golf equipment for them.
Their online store is fully stocked with adjustable shaft adapters and gives you the ability to build any type of graphite shaft in any way you want, while also giving you the option to put it into any type of driver you wish. This whole process is available due to their in-house custom clubs team, which is composed of extremely skilled and experienced members who know everything you need to know about building your own golf clubs.
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On Earth Day this year, we’re thinking about the intersections between social and environmental justice and how we can show up for both in our communities. In honor of the Garden Issue making its way to mailboxes now, we’ve compiled a list of organizations that support gardens, gardeners, what gardens need (water, pollinators, and the like), as well as green and growing spaces and the equitable access to them.
These are difficult and wearying times, and the burdens are unequally distributed through our communities. If you find yourself with resources to share, these organizations are wonderful places to consider lending support in whatever way you are able. This list is by no means comprehensive, but we hope it offers a handful of seeds, a place to begin.
Co-founded by Leah Penniman, Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous community farm with a wide range of programs that serve over ten thousand people each year. In their words, they are committed to the intertwined goals of “uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system.” Their work encompasses every level of farming and food justice—individual, communal, systemic, and spiritual. They train and mentor farmer-activists, host a community-sourced reparations map for BIPOC farmers, develop youth food-justice workshops, deliver food to under-resourced households, and educate policy makers. They are currently seeking donations as part of a development initiative to fortify the foundation and future of the farm, as they build new infrastructure that will make their food-sovereignty work sustainable for decades to come.
On a nationwide level, the National Black Food and Justice Alliance is a network of Black-led organizations focused on Black food sovereignty, furthering Black visions for sustainability and justice, and creating self-determining food economies. Their food map and directory is an invaluable community resource. Their website offers several ways to donate and otherwise support their work, including contacting your senators in support of the Justice for Black Farmers Act.
The Asian Pacific Environmental Network amplifies the power of Asian immigrant and refugee communities in California through community organizing around environmental justice. Located in the Bay Area—specifically in Richmond and in Oakland Chinatown—APEN’s work includes community gardening projects, health education, multilingual environmental emergency alerts, eviction protections, and advocacy for affordable housing and safe working conditions. Since the 1990s, APEN has supported and nurtured young activists through the Asian Youth Advocates summer program.
Here in what is now known as North Carolina, American Indian Mothers Inc. is a cultural organization and social support agency that serves American Indians and other minorities in rural communities. They work to support women and empower and preserve families at the margins, offering transitional housing, counseling, job training, cultural awareness, scholarships, and mentoring. AIMI also works to address food insecurity and hunger on both the immediate level with food banks and meal programs, and on the systemic level with a community organic farm and cannery, a partnership between farms, fisheries, ranches, and tribes in the southeastern part of the state.
For more than thirty years, the Indigenous Environmental Network has been fighting for environmental and economic justice. IEN works to support tribal governments and Indigenous communities in protecting sacred sites, caring for the environment, promoting dialogue, and creating sustainable economies.
Founded by an artist and an activist, Signal Fire Arts is dedicated to connecting artists to our remaining wild places. They develop wilderness studio programs and backcountry retreats on public lands to advocate for equitable access—as well as preservation of—open landscapes. Signal Fire provides fellowships for communities typically marginalized from the culture of outdoor exploration and American environmentalism. They also offer yearly Indigenous artist retreats, designed by Native artists for Native artists. During the pandemic, Signal Fire has been offering BIPOC Virtual Workshops. They are returning to in-the-field programming this summer and are currently accepting applications.
Across North America, Pollinator Partnership seeks to preserve and protect the health of pollinator species with a multifacted approach of conservation, education, and research. Every year, the Partnership sponsors Pollinator Week; this year’s weeklong celebration of pollinator goodness starts on June 21. Year round, the Partnership promotes bee-friendly farming, disburses honey-bee health grants, distributes school gardening kits, provides educational modules and trainings on pollinator protection, and generally works to increase pollinator habitats and decrease threats. They provide ecoregional planting guides, a useful resource for any Earth Day planting project.
Finally, we’ll end with a fundamental need of every human and every garden: water. The Waterkeeper Alliance is fighting for the basic human right to clean water worldwide. They work toward the goal of drinkable, fishable, swimmable water for every community through education, advocacy, legal work, policy, and action. The Alliance patrols and protects waterways on six continents through an extensive community network—you can find your nearest waterkeeper here to learn about water in your place and get involved locally. Ecotone is edited and published from the Cape Fear River Basin, where local folks can support the Cape Fear River Watch and join clean-up days and other socially distanced volunteer opportunities.
Happy Earth Day, everyone!
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BIM2TWIN Horizon EU Project - Webinars
BIM2TWIN is an EU innovation project that creates a Digital Building Twin Platform for construction site management with artificial intelligence and semantically linked data techniques providing full simulation awareness and extensive construction management applications. The platform provides a complete situational insight into the as-built and as-performed processes, which uses and compares to the as-designed applications to implement a close-loop plan-do-check-act process. The entire process relies on multiple onsite sensors for data acquisition, cross-domain analysis, and complex AI-based event processing. The Digital Building Twin offers a programming interface application that allows construction management applications to cooperate with its data, information, and knowledge bases.
The project Consortium has organised a series of 5 Webinars dedicated to exploring the main components of the project, that is now getting to an end, i.e the Digital Building Twin Platform and its applications.
The webinars will be held from the 1st of March until the 1st of April.
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Resist Spartan Rage and Avoid God of War Ragnarok Spoilers Like the Plague
They're spreading already.
Sigh, we suppose it was inevitable, wasn’t it? With the hotly anticipated God of War Ragnarok now in reviewers’ hands, some idiots are out to spoil the game for the rest of you. With a little over two weeks until the title officially launches, you’re going to need to tread very carefully on social media if you don’t want the entire campaign outed before you get to go hands on with it.
It’s extremely frustrating to see so many sensitive screenshots shared online. Fans have been waiting over four years for the follow-up to Kratos’ award-winning Norse adventure, and with this instalment capping off the current storyline, we can’t imagine anyone will want to have the big moments ruined. Hopefully Sony can wrestle back control from the muppets sharing these images and information.
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The following is Part VII in a multi-part series on how to draft and leverage an ESI protocol in any litigation. Part I of our series discussed the When, How and Why in planning for and creating your ESI protocol. Part II addressed the Key Components of an ESI Protocol, Part III walked through the Top 10 Situations You Can Avoid with a Protocol, and Part IV discussed Planning for the Production of Social Media. Part V covered the importance of including Manner of Production in your protocols. Part VI discussed the value of metadata and what to ask for.
In conjunction with this series, eDiscovery Assistant has created a new section in Checklists and Forms titled ESI Protocols that will include new content with each part of this series. That section includes sample ESI protocols, checklists on what to include and a list of metadata fields for inclusion in your protocol.
If you’ve drafted an ESI protocol, you know that form of production—i.e. the format in which you agree to receive data for each type of ESI at issue—is one of the main reasons that protocols are so key. Absent a written agreement on form of production, or specific instructions in the requests for production, Rule 34 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure allows a producing party to produce data in any reasonable format.
What is a reasonable format? That issue is still open. Some courts have held TIFF images and load files are reasonable, others have held non-searchable pdfs are reasonable (yes, I agree with your incredulous expression). Only the most progressive courts have required native production.
You have an opportunity to take Rule 34’s reasonable format language out of the equation by drafting a protocol that sets out exactly how the parties will deal with each issue on form of production. There are many issues to consider, and form of production is absolutely NOT a cut and paste job from your previous protocol.
As with each section of the protocol that we’ve discussed in this series, the form of production section needs to 1) address each of the issues on form for each of the types of ESI that you expect to have in your case, 2) to take into account the review platform you will use and 3) consider what you need for how you want to present information at trial. We’ll focus on 1 and 2 for this post and revisit trial presentation in a later post.
The most crucial part of form of production is to think through exactly how specific sections of your protocol will play out in practice, and make decisions about what you want and how you’ll use the data when you receive ESI. If thinking through how you will use ESI at trial is not something you know or understand, talk through what you want to have happen with your discovery counsel, litigation support or service provider and get feedback on how to accomplish what you need. As is always the case in ediscovery, the more thought you put in upfront, the less problems you’ll have later.
Form of production is generally a heading in a protocol, or a separate section, depending on how you set up your document. For each protocol, consider whether and how to include each of the following elements and how they play into what you need for your case and the technical requirements of your ediscovery review platform:
- No downgrading of usability of data. Generally, we provide that ESI will be produced in the form specified in the protocol and that no producing party can reformat, scrub, or alter ESI to intentionally downgrade its usability. That can mean converting data that makes images fuzzier, hides text or alters data in any way that precludes the receiving party from having the same reasonably useable data that the producing party can use.
- Specifics on form of production for individual types of data. This can get complex when you have cases involving source code, specific databases, social media, mobile devices, text messages, instant messaging or other cloud based applications. While we all know what TIFF images plus a load file means, you need to make sure you provide the exact specifications on the size of images, structure of the load file and the other technical specifications that your team needs for the platform you are using. We generally provide different specs based on the source of ESI — think Snapchat, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc.
- If you are requesting TIFF Images with a load file, you need a separate paragraph that details what types of documents will be produced natively. Typically, this includes PPT, XLS, CSV, Audio, Video, all image files, and non-standard document formats. Placeholders with bates labeled slip sheets are always key when documents are produced natively so that you know when you are viewing the images in document format. The slipsheet will show up telling you that the document was produced natively, so you can click to the native viewer or download the document for viewing.
- Family relationships. Generally, you want to preserve parent-child relationships but you need to also provide how to deal with family members when one member is privileged or needs to be withheld for other reasons like privacy or confidentiality of third parties (hint, put them on privilege log). How to deal with non-responsive documents in families is another issue and one to address in the Form of Production section of the protocol.
- Metadata fields. Most often, we see metadata in chart form as we discussed in Part VI of our series that addresses ALL of the metadata fields for each type of ESI and includes the Field order for loading, Field Name, Description of the Field, and an example of how the data will appear in production. For example, in Part IV of this series on social media, we talked about outlining the metadata needed for each platform that you would want. Just this week on our #caseoftheweek series, we talked about Snapchat and where information lives in that platform. Know your sources of ESI and plan for the specific metadata fields you need for each source.
- No obligation to manually code fields. Back in 1997, yes, I have been practicing that long, we printed emails and coded them manually into Summation. Now that we produce metadata, that is no longer needed as a general rule. But it’s helpful to state with specificity that fields that are not automatically generated by the processing of ESI or do not exist as metadata need not be manually coded. The exception is the following fields: BegBates, EndBates, BegAttach and EndAttach. You need bates numbers to match up documents, so don’t forget that piece.
- Extracted Text. This can be a separate paragraph or added to the form for each type of ESI. Wherever you include it, the goal is to provide that the parties shall provide extracted text for all files that originated in electronic form. If extracted text is not available, the producing party should OCR documents and provide OCR text, and OCR text should be provided for any documents that originated in hard copy but are being scanned and produced electronically.
- De-NISTing documents. The National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) maintains an industry standard list of file types that are not relevant for ediscovery purposes. It includes things like operating system files, etc. and is pre-loaded into your review platform such that when data is loaded, it will De-NIST or remove those file types that should be excluded.
- As a sub-category here, oftentimes parties will exclude additional file types, like signatures from emails, that are junk files (they don’t contain any material information). You can agree on the parameters of this limitation and also include language that if a receiving party can show a need for information in those file extensions, it may request them.
- Redactions. How you handle redactions depends on what you will need redacted. Is your case one where unrelated, confidential business information may be redacted? If so, you need to provide how a party identifies that information in the redaction box, and whether that information may be logged. Plan for each type of redaction that you may have. The protocol should specify what language should be used in the redaction box for privilege and work product as well.
- Bates Numbers and Confidentiality. Address the range for bates nos. and abbreviations for the parties to use in identifying documents and stay consistent throughout the case. We put bates nos. in the lower right corner and confidentiality designations in the lower left. Make sure your system starts at the next number every time you run a production. However you position these items on the document, be sure to articulate it in the protocol so there can be no questions. Make sure to reference your protective order on file, or include the levels of confidentiality in the protocol (confidential, highly confidential, attorneys eyes only). Pay attention to apostrophes and makes sure lit support follows what you include. We’ve had counsel complain that we used Attorneys’ Eyes Only sometimes and Attorneys Eyes Only others. Yes, really.
- De-duplication. Decide on what type of de-duplication you want—global is the most common using the hash value of the document so that you eliminate exact duplicates. There are several other types of de-duplication that you can run once you receive data to expedite review, but global de-dupe is the best generally.
Form of production is the key component to getting and using data constructively in litigation. If you want to capitalize on using the newest technology to create efficiencies in review and production, you need data in the right formats. Go through your existing protocols and make sure you incorporate each of these elements in a way that works for ESI in your case. It may be simple, or stunningly complex—it all depends on the case. In our next post, we’ll talk about how form of production can impact your case and situations you’ll want to avoid.
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On Friday, the Obama administration announced an experimental program that will give up to 10,000 low-income students access to federal Pell grants to take college courses while still in high school.
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High school students who take college courses through “dual enrollment” programs will be eligible. Those programs allow high school kids to take classes at a local college, often earning college credit.
In the article, June Kronholz visits an Indianapolis dual enrollment program and talks with the high school students who are taking advantage of it. The article focuses on high-achieving students who are looking for an extra challenge, but increasingly policymakers are looking to introduce larger numbers of low-income high school students to college courses as a way to jumpstart their higher education. | <urn:uuid:b1dae550-5b2a-462a-bab9-6ae6b1944058> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.educationnext.org/behind-the-headline-college-aid-obama-to-extend-pell-grants-to-some-hs-students/ | 2024-04-25T09:01:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.955361 | 201 |
When it was in the opposition, New Democracy had criticized Alexis Tsipras’s leftist government for distributing the country’s primary budget surplus in the form of an end-of-the year handout.
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Jackie, MSN, RN, has been a nurse for 30 years at El Camino Health’s hospitals. She started as a night shift nurse on the cardiac telemetry unit and eventually made her way to day shift where she worked as a staff nurse, charge nurse and unit educator. Jackie enjoyed the teaching aspect of being a nurse and frequently was a preceptor for new staff and student nurses. A believer in lifelong learning, Jackie returned to school to obtain her bachelor’s degree in nursing.
After receiving her bachelor’s degree, Jackie became a clinical nurse instructor at De Anza College and San Jose State University (SJSU) in addition to working at El Camino Hospital. Wanting to be more involved in the professional growth of her students, Jackie applied for the Betty and Gordon Moore Fellowship at SJSU where she was accepted into an accelerated master’s program. Upon completion of the program, graduates were required to work at a Bay Area nursing school and Jackie was selected by Evergreen Valley College to be a full-time faculty member. El Camino Hospital accommodated her teaching schedule, so that she could teach during the day, and work as a nurse on weekends and during school breaks.
Five years ago, Jackie returned to full-time nursing when a nurse education position became available at the Los Gatos hospital. Today, her nurse educator role spans both campuses and she serves as the student placement coordinator for student nurses and a site coordinator for the new graduate residency program.
Jackie has played a key role in developing the curriculum for the hospital’s new graduate residency program which began in 2016. This program was recently accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) as a Practice Transition Program with Distinction. At the time of accreditation, it was one of only 40 hospital programs nationwide to receive this certification and the only one in the Bay Area to have it.
Achieving excellence and high standards is not new to El Camino Health. The Mountain View Hospital (El Camino Hospital) was the first facility in the Bay Area to achieve Magnet® designation of Nursing Excellence from the ANCC. It has received the recognition three times; a designation that less than five percent of hospitals worldwide receive.
“I love teaching at the bedside,” shared Jackie. “Seeing all these fresh faces and their excitement to make such a difference in the lives of others is the most rewarding aspect of my job.”
Beyond the walls of the hospital, Jackie also knows the importance of being part of the greater community and enjoys being part of the team. She participates in almost every fun activity the hospital sponsors, including staff celebrations or dressing up like a Christmas tree for local holiday parades. As one of nine children, Jackie learned how to make her own fun and brings that joy of making other people happy with her to work every day. “When you are happy at work, it carries over into other aspects of your life. Participating in community events outside of work with your co-workers allows you to see other sides of people and helps you develop close bonds with others,” says Jackie. She feels the family-like environment at El Camino Health has helped create cohesive teams where nurses feel comfortable sharing their voice in decisions involving patient care.
She is recognized throughout the hospitals as “Team Member Jackie” and it’s not unusual to hear people call out to her as she walks down the hall. Yet, she was still shocked to receive the Excellence in Nursing Award earlier this year from her fellow team members. “Being recognized for doing what you love was really overwhelming. I was flattered to be nominated, but truly blown away when I won. I love coming to work every day and this award validated the importance of what I do,” explains Jackie. | <urn:uuid:9dcd8908-2467-426d-b6df-3bdf4f5c921a> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.elcaminohealth.org/newsroom/veteran-nurse-educator-teaches-high-standards-dose-fun | 2024-04-25T08:14:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.978114 | 787 |
SCHURTER has extended the range of rated currents in their compact, high-performance fuse SHF 6.3x32 downwards. The device is a ceramic fuse for higher voltages (AC and DC) with fast tripping features. Their high withstand voltage, and high breaking capacity of 1500A reveals new fields of application. The company now provides the fuse in 13 rated currents between 500mA and 8A. The high breaking capacity of 1500A at a rated voltage of up to 500VAC/VDC characterises the fuse. As well as a multitude of applications in the energy and industrial sector, the fuse is suitable for the protection of three-phase systems. The fuse is offered as a fuse-insert and pigtail version (rated current >1A). Fuse-inserts are ideal for mounting in clips and fuseholders, which makes it possible to speedily replace the fuse without desoldering. The company offers suitable clips and fuse holders for this option. The pigtail version enables direct mounting on PCBs using through-hole technology and soldering. The fuse can be used as RoHS-compliant fuse for lead-free systems. The compatibility with competitor products enables the company to provide the fuse as a replacement product. The fuse is also cURus-approved. | <urn:uuid:566d9380-3d47-4068-adbe-a93dca9da259> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.electropages.com/2019/01/schurter-ceramic-fuse-higher-voltages-offers-fast-tripping-features | 2024-04-25T08:03:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.940029 | 262 |
Paying CJRS grants back
As the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) enters its final months, now is the time to review grants that you have claimed under the scheme, and pay back any amounts claimed in error. You may also choose to repay voluntarily funding that you have received under the scheme if your business does not need it. Some notable large companies in the retail and hospitality sectors have opted to do this.
The CJRS allows employers to claim grants to pay employees who are furloughed or flexibly furloughed. Under the scheme, the employee must be paid 80% of their usual pay for their unworked hours, subject to a cap of £2,500 a month or equivalent. The employer can claim some or all of this back from the Government under the CJRS. If the amount that you have claimed is less than the amount you need to pay the employee (as will be the case for July, August and September 2021), you must make up the shortfall.
If you have claimed too much or you want to make a voluntary repayment, you can either:
• correct the overpayment in your next claim; or
• get a payment reference from HMRC and repay the money within 30 days.
HMRC have published guidance which explains how to make a repayment.
Making a correction in your next claim
If you still have employees who are furloughed or flexibly furloughed and you will be making another claim under the CJRS, you can correct the overclaim when you do your next claim. If you have another claim to make, you should adjust that claim rather than making a repayment direct to HMRC.
To correct an overclaim, you should initially work out your next claim as usual. If you are sending a file containing your claim details, you should prepare this as normal without taking account of the amount overclaimed.
You will then need to work out the amount you have overclaimed, and deduct this from the amount that you are claiming this time. The result is the amount that you will need to enter in the ‘claim amount’ box on the claim form. You will also need to enter the amount that you have overclaimed in the ‘overclaim’ box. For example, if you are making a claim for July 2021 for £20,000 and you have realised that you overclaimed £2,000 for June 2021, you will need to enter ‘£18,000’ in the claim box. This is the net amount that you are claiming for July 2021 after adjusting for the overclaim. You will also need to enter ‘£2,000’ in the overclaim box.
Paying HMRC back
You should only make a payment direct to HMRC if you do not have further claims to make and are not able to repay the amount that you owe by adjusting a subsequent claim. Before making a payment, you will need to get a payment reference from the online service. It is important that you use the correct reference.
Payments can be made to the following HMRC account using faster payments, CHAPS or Bacs:
• sort code: 08 32 10;
• account number: 12001039;
• account name: HMRC Cumbernauld.
Payments can also be made by debit card or using a corporate credit card (but not a personal credit card).
If you have overclaimed, you must tell HMRC by the later of:
• 90 days after the date on which you received the money to which you were not entitled; and
• 90 days from the date on which you ceased to be eligible to keep the grant because your circumstances changed.
To avoid being charged a penalty, you will need to notify HMRC and repay the overclaimed grant within this time frame.
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“WanderBox is a custom built, portable gallery and residency space, presented by artist Jo Marsh. The project hosts exhibitions of contemporary visual and applied arts, and offers residencies to both established and emerging artists in a wide variety of locations and settings.
WanderBox is taking a tour of Wales between November 2015 and March 2015, starting in Ruthin and travelling to Caernarfon, Cardiff, Swansea and Llangollen. WanderBox will host a different exhibition and artist in residence at each location.
Artist Thomas Goddard will be undertaking a WanderBox residency at Elysium from Monday 5th to Friday 9th January 2015. During this time WanderBox will be set up as a confessional and the artist will interview visitors on film, as well as creating a series of hand made signs. WanderBox will remain on display, housing an exhibition of Goddard’s work produced during the residency, until Saturday 25th January.
Goddard selected Elysium for his time with WanderBox as he wanted to become temporarily part of their artist studio network, sometimes unseen and other times visible. Goddard’s WanderBox at Elysium will be a space for people, for production, a space for work and a space for living.
Join us at Elysium from 8.30pm on 17th January for Austerity Disco – a special event presented by Art’s Birthday, Wales + Wanderbox.*
For more information and to follow the WanderBox tour, see www.wanderbox.org
*Austerity Disco will include: No snacks, caffeine-free drinks, xmas leftovers, one battery powered music system (batteries half empty) and an intermittent fading light. Everyone will be invited to have their ears painted on the night. We will use the fold down desk on WanderBox for a really crap buffet.Our motto is: we like to party like it’s 61 AD (61 AD was the date of the Menai massacre. The last massacre in Wales.)
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Just minutes before boarding a plane to leave the country at Brunei International Airport, a Sri Lankan national was arrested by the Royal Brunei Police Force (RBPF) on the suspicion of using fraudulent ATM cards to withdraw cash from ATM machines in the capital by, the Daily Mirror reported.
On a report lodged by a bank on late Monday afternoon after their ATM machines were found to have retained counterfeit ATM cards, a swift action was taken by the Commercial Crime Investigation Division (CCID), RBPF press release stated.
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For the past 15 years, EMKA has been successfully represented in China. At its Tianjin location, the major port city in the northeast, and in another branch office in Shanghai, more than 100 employees ensure EMKA is gaining a nationwide degree of prominence.
In 2001, EMKA owner Friedhelm Runge with Zhigao Ning opened the EMKA branch office in Tianjin. The sustainable positive business development in China, the capacities for production, logistics, and local sales have increased the production area of about 4,000 m2. This is the equivalent of ten football fields. However, this growth in the Tianjin area is by far from complete, as the customers’ response to EMKA solutions in China remains positive. Currently, EMKA China has many interesting orders on the records, especially from customers in the telecommunications industry and railway technology. Furthermore, other customers are located South Korea, Japan and in the Asia-Pacific regions.
"I am especially proud of the commitment and the strong loyalty of our employees who work hard every day for our success," says Simon Komizo, General Manager of EMKA China.
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Porsche 928 S4 | European version | History known | 1989
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Ahmad Hanandeh has been the Minister of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship in Jordan, since October 2020, where he overseas the development of Jordan's ICT and digital infrastructure and the state's mandate to grow the digital economy.
His most recent role has been the Chief Executive Officer of Zain Jordan, a leading Telecommunications company with more than 1300 employees and over 469 million US Dollars in revenues. In 2011, He Joined Zain Group as Zain Sudan Chief Financial Officer and after less than three months and demonstrating leadership and business acumen, has been appointed the CEO of Zain Jordan in June 2011.
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- COVID learning loss is still real–here’s how districts are leveraging tutoring strategies
- Transforming summer school with high-dosage tutoring
- 5 ways virtual tutoring reinforces our after-school program
- For more news on tutoring, see eSN’s Educational Leadership page
The benefits of high-dosage tutoring can’t be ignored. Research shows that tutoring is one of the most effective ways to increase academic achievement, including among students from lower socio-economic households–one of the groups disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
High-dosage tutoring is a crucial strategy for student advancement regardless of a student’s abilities or where they may struggle academically.
In fact, high-dosage tutoring is a main component of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Improving Student Achievement Agenda for 2024, which focuses on accelerating academic performance for every child in school. The initiative will adopt three evidence-based strategies that improve student learning: increasing student attendance; providing high-dosage tutoring; and increasing summer learning and extended or after-school learning time.
Here are 5 things to know about high-dosage tutoring:
1. Since the pandemic, students have struggled markedly in math, particularly algebra. According to NAEP Mathematics Assessment data, eighth-graders’ algebra scores were eight points lower in 2022 than in 2019. According to the Nation’s Report Card, the average eighth-grade mathematics score was lower than all previous assessment years—going back to 2003. As a gateway content area, algebra prepares students to tackle advanced study in calculus, physics, and other subjects—yet it often is a sticking point for many middle and high school students. Without a solid understanding of algebra, many students find that they get stuck in their math studies. Here are 5 ways to help students struggling with algebra learning.
2. Policymakers must take action to support states and districts in implementing high-dosage tutoring to ensure opportunities for student success. The pandemic left students, on average, five months behind in math and four months behind in reading by the end of the 2021-22 school year, with even more significant losses for students in majority-Black or low-income schools. This gap shows an increased inequality in educational outcomes across racial and socioeconomic lines. Thankfully, extensive research points toward one incredibly effective option in recovering learning loss: high-dosage tutoring. Learn more about how to implement high-dosage tutoring programs in schools and districts.
3. To truly help students build deep understanding, intervention requires the right time, place, people, and curriculum. As educators continue to work to accelerate learning for students following the pandemic, many are turning to tutoring to provide support. Tutoring is one of the most effective math interventions available for students, but the quality of tutoring varies widely. Here are 6 key steps to ensure tutoring, including high-dosage tutoring, is as effective as possible for students.
4. When this North Dakota school district analyzed student achievement data from multiple measures and through the lens of student groups, district administrators saw an immediate need to provide additional reading intervention to help students recover from the effects of the pandemic. Yet, due to staffing shortages, leaders knew they could not provide the level of personalized support each student needed. Thanks to a data-driven approach to tutoring, the district has been able to help students increase their growth and confidence in reading. Here are five strategies the district implemented to create an effective high-impact tutoring program.
5. In a review of research on high-dosage tutoring as an intervention strategy, from K-12 assessment and research organization NWEA, authors looked at the evidence on high-dosage tutoring and highlighted the benefits of using this strategy, especially in supporting at-risk students. The report also noted several “non-negotiable” factors that lead to high-dosage tutoring being used effectively to accelerate academic growth. Key takeaways from the report include: At-risk students continue to need support, especially now as the share of at-risk students has increased post pandemic; high-dosage tutoring programs can produce large gains in reading and math test scores for at-risk students (if implemented appropriately); high-dosage tutoring is effective for building foundational skills in elementary grades, and can aid struggling middle and high school students; and as part of implementation planning, districts must address barriers that hinder student access to HDT by ensuring an equitable selection criteria and offering holistic supports for student learning. Read the full report here. | <urn:uuid:b879e7e1-1171-4b83-82c2-14c9bdd17096> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.eschoolnews.com/educational-leadership/2024/02/26/5-things-to-know-about-high-dosage-tutoring/ | 2024-04-25T07:28:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.947799 | 952 |
FUEL, a leader and pioneer in unique stylist-friendly delivery systems, introduces its innovative, cost-effective and eco-friendly new dispensing technology: Air-Pump paste, pomade and putty.
FUEL’s revolutionary clear-bottle design removes any guesswork by letting a salon pro see precisely how much product remains in each 3.38 ounce bottle for extracting 100% of each Air-Pump product.
Simply remove the two protective caps, then gently use one finger lightly directing the nozzle toward the palm of the other hand. Carefully-controlled dispensing of the recommended nickel-sized dollop is aided by an adjacent, strategically-placed buffer which halts excess product from dispersing. Hand-powered by clean air, contents are pushed slightly upward with each pump instead of settling at the bottle’s bottom. Sanitary and active properties are meticulously retained from the first use through the last.
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Say goodbye to gslossy, gooey or glue-y results and hello to a fab-matte finish for structured short styles. Air-Pump Paste produces maximum hold for difficult-to-manage hair. Luscious botanicals of antioxidant-rich green tea extract protect against free radicals, while bamboo extract strengthens hair cuticles. Shea butter naturally nourishes with richly conditioning vitamins and fatty acids that moisturize even the most challenging dry hair. Air-Pump Paste suggested retail price is $26.00 (3.38 oz).
For styles requiring clean, sleek and polished perfection as seen on NYFW’s Spring 2018 catwalks, Air-Pump Pomade delivers the looks, creating definition and separation where needed. Fusing high shine with flexible light hold powered by natural ingredients, Air-Pump Pomade is the ideal potion for creating and holding slicked-back styles or an elegant pompadour-ponytail combo in place all night long. Clean ingredients include aloe vera extract for preventing moisture loss while bamboo revs up shine. Air-Pump Pomade suggested retail price is $26.00 (3.38 oz).
Delivering workable hold for intentionally tousled styles now takes less time when using the right product: Air-Pump Putty creates volume and texture with a conditioner-like hand-feel and without any crunchy stiffness, ensuring a client’s style isn’t gone with the wind in one winter gust. Like the paste formulation, Putty also boosts green tea and bamboo extracts plus shea butter. Air-Pump Putty suggested retail price is $26.00 (3.38 oz).
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How To Unlock iPhone 5S Without Jailbreak: If you have bought an AT&T iPhone 5S without a contract over the past few days, chances are that you want to unlock it to use it on another carrier. Just restore the phone in iTunes and it will be unlocked.
After restoring the device in iTunes, the user is prompted with the usual unlocking message: “Congratulations, your iPhone has been unlocked.”
This message wasn’t enough for me though. I need more proof that I could use the iPhone on every carrier and abroad.
After receiving the notification my new iPhone was unlocked, I cut a micro-SIM card into the shape of a nano-SIM by using the AT&T SIM card that was already in the iPhone 5S as a guide. In a couple of seconds, the iPhone was able to pick up the T-Mobile network, and calls and EDGE data connectvity worked as expected. Some reports, including on AT&T forum, confirm this.
The iPhone 5S we tested was bought in an Apple retail store, but we couldn’t confirm this with another, pre-ordered iPhone 5S — even though the device was purchased at full price, it was tied to an existing AT&T account during the pre-order process. The carrier clearly states on its website that you have to be either a former customer or a customer without contract obligations to be eligible to go through the entire process, fax included. It could be problematic as well if you bought your iPhone 5S directly from AT&T. | <urn:uuid:b904f2d4-0786-452f-bf1b-2d9e943a7d4a> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.evad3rs.net/how-to-unlock-ios-7-on-iphone-5s-without-jailbreak-for-free.html | 2024-04-25T08:09:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.97646 | 319 |
A Creative Studio launched by KrazyFox in partnership with Moj
by EVENTFAQS Bureau Entertainment | August 29, 2022 | News
Krazyfox and Moj, launched a state-of-the-art studio in Mumbai to help creators create professional video content. It is a strategically designed property of over 3500 square feet with impeccable interiors and equipment to meet the growing needs of creators, influencers, and celebrities, with all the equipment needed to deliver a seamless shoot, such as tripods, ring lights, DOP, and professional camera setups. The artistically designed studio has 19 different layouts, including a pantry, powder room, and changing room. Besides, it has designated workstations with high-speed internet for content creators to edit.
Krazyfox has long-standing relations with Moj for influencer marketing campaigns and creator needs. This initiative is taking their partnership to another level and inviting young creators to monetize from their content, which will further help strengthen the creator economy.
OzairYermal, the co-founder, Krazyfox Technology said, "It was a wonderful experience working with Moj on this creative space. It is an upgrade to our services designed to cater to brands' and creators' video content needs. This studio will offer a platform for creators to come together and collaborate on various projects. As a result, creators can seize these opportunities to boost their earnings. We have dedicated indoor and outdoor spaces for creators to produce high-value content with more professional backgrounds, camera setups, and lighting. We believe this will take influencer marketing and brand promotion to another level."
Shashank Shekhar, Sr. Director of Content Strategy and Operations, Moj said, "It has been a pleasure to collaborate with the Krazyfox team, who share our vision of empowering creators to excel in their pursuit of creative content creation. Our studio is designed to meet all the requirements of a shoot. We have seen many creators and celebrities visit the studio since it opened, and it will provide great learning opportunities for new creators."
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"Ohio’s greatest potential for creating advanced energy is offshore in Lake Erie, and this partnership marks a significant step forward," Strickland said. "In Ohio, we have all the right assets to make offshore wind energy successful, including an innovative workforce and the manufacturing strengths that would allow us to build all the component parts for wind turbines. This partnership will not only advance offshore wind energy technologies, it will also advance Ohio’s economy."
According to the Ohio Business Development Coalition, the nonprofit organization that markets the state for capital investment, the partnership and project is a significant step towards demonstrating the viability of offshore wind energy in the Great Lakes. GE has committed to providing offshore wind turbines and maintenance services for an initial 20-megawatt wind farm.
"Ohio is well-positioned to lead the nation to energy independence. This announcement further demonstrates how the state is rapidly becoming an ideal location choice for companies in the wind energy industry," said Ed Burghard, executive director of the Ohio Business Development Coalition. "Ohio is a world leader in advanced manufacturing, advanced materials and advanced design. These capabilities are being leveraged to help Ohio become the world’s leading manufacturer of OEM and parts for the advanced energy industry. Every form of advanced energy can be researched, developed and supported in the state—Ohio truly is the State of Perfect Balance."
Upon its completion, targeted for late 2012, this project would be located off the shores of Lake Erie, near Cleveland. This would be followed by subsequent projects with a long-term goal of 1,000 megawatts of wind energy in the Ohio waters of Lake Erie by 2020.
This development demonstrates the viability of fresh water wind farms and helps make the Great Lakes a major economic wind energy engine for Northern Ohio, capitalizing on the region’s skilled workforce and expertise in advanced manufacturing.
The LEEDCo – GE partnership builds on the momentum of a four-year effort by The Great Lakes Energy Development Task Force and other Ohio partners to establish the viability offshore wind industry on Lake Erie, leveraging the region’s strong manufacturing base and helping the Region to be more energy independent.
In addition to collaborating on the initial 20-megawatt project, GE and LEEDCo will create a strategic plan to identify opportunities to make offshore wind energy in the Great Lakes economically viable for the nation, and also work jointly on advocacy and public policy issues to increase support for offshore wind energy.
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By Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian
If you look in the lower-right corner of each page of a book printed between the 15th and 18th centuries you will usually spot a word, or part of a word, that anticipates the first word of the following page. These words and half-words, situated outside the main text, are called catch-words and they helped the person assembling the book to fold and sew the loose pages together in the right order. You will likely see other clues, too. Printers assigned each page (leaf) of the book a unique code, or signature, usually a letter or letters followed by a number; for example, A, A2, B, B2 or Aa, Aa2, Bb, Bb2, etc. These signatures, printed at the bottom of pages, provided additional clues to assembling the pages in the right order. Even in our modern world, books remain familiar, everyday objects. We may not think of printed books as objects of art and design, but for centuries they were hand-printed and hand-crafted and by deciphering clues within books, such as catch-words and signatures, we can understand how they were printed, assembled and bound.
Heritage Open Days (8-17 September) is a national annual festival of history and culture. To celebrate this year’s theme of Creativity Unwrapped, we are offering unique opportunities to delve behind the scenes and look more closely at some of the Cathedral Library’s most beautiful hand-printed books, including the Nuremberg Chronicle, King James Bible and Sarum Missal, and ground-breaking works of science and natural history, such as John Gerard’s Herball, Galileo’s Systema cosmicum, and Robert Hooke’s fabulously illustrated Micrographia. Workshops are free: find out more and book your place here. | <urn:uuid:fb3d5bcc-7b69-43d7-9d27-b0d9e3818215> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/news-events/latest-news/how-to-make-a-book/ | 2024-04-25T06:35:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.941165 | 390 |
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Manganese Alloys Market: Overview
The market size for manganese alloys was USD 2,739.4 million in 2021, and during the course of the projection period, it is expected to expand at a CAGR of 8.7 percent. Rapid urbanization in developing nations has increased the demand for new buildings, roads, trains, and residences. This has greatly boosted the building sector in developing nations like China and India, which could present a lucrative opportunity for manganese alloy suppliers in the near future. Additionally, the market is growing due to increased investments in infrastructure development projects, automotive production, and fast urbanization in emerging nations. In China, cities were home to around 64,7% of the country's inhabitants in 2021. The price recovery of manganese ore and manganese ferroalloy and the advent of new application sectors are some drivers supporting the manganese alloy market.
Manganese alloys are rapidly employed in the automobile sector to comply with energy conservation, safety, consumption reduction, and reduced material consumption. Effectively addressing this need is manganese steel. Utilizing manganese steel as the primary component in the manufacture of automobiles might help decrease the body's thickness and weight while enhancing the vehicles' safety capabilities. The market for manganese alloys is further fueled by the demand for lightweight cars to achieve weight reduction, improved fuel efficiency, and lower CO2 emissions. In the near future, the market is anticipated to increase due to the rising demand for electric vehicles and the consequent rise in manganese demand for the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries. Global EV sales (passenger cars, light trucks, and light commercial vehicles) reached 6.75 million in 2021 (9.5 million are expected to be sold in 2022), a startling 108 percent rise from 2020.
To expand their market reach and survive the fierce rivalry in the market, the big players present on the international stage have used crucial strategies like mergers, acquisitions, collaborations, and partnerships. Additionally, these alloys were being utilized more and more in various industries, including dry cell batteries, chemicals, dyes, fertilizer, and animal feed. Throughout the forecast period, this is expected to provide new potential prospects for the industry.
Manganese Alloys Market: COVID-19 Impact
Coronavirus transmission has had a serious impact on the mining industry. Both human and material transportation have been hampered, which has messed up the product's supply chain. For longer times, the main 5 producers of manganese—South Africa, Australia, China, Gabon, and Brazil—are completely shut down. These limitations have had a significant negative impact on import-export activities as well as mining activity in these countries. This has affected both the manufacture of manganese alloys and the availability of manganese ore.
Manganese Alloys Market: Drivers
Steel Industry Expansion is Anticipated to be Major Driver of Growth
The main application of manganese alloy is the manufacture of alloy steels. With the governments in China, India, Brazil, and South Africa putting more emphasis on developing solid infrastructure and housing for their expanding populations, there has been a significant increase in demand for steel products in recent years. This increase in steel production is anticipated to be the main driver of the Mn alloys market growth, with the total amount of crude steel produced worldwide reaching 1,950.5 MT in 2021, a 3.7% increase from 1,880.4 MT in 2020.
Opportunities for Growth to Arise due to Automotive Sector’s Increasing Need for Manganese Steel
The automotive industry has always looked for materials that can increase the strength of the car's body structure. With its high strength-to-weight ratio and superior impact resistance, steel has been the material of choice for vehicle bodies among makers of cars and commercial vehicles. Steel consumption is anticipated to increase throughout the projected period as the automotive industry is anticipated to rebound following COVID-19 due to rising consumer expenditure, particularly in Asia and Latin America. In addition, the need for commercial vehicles for heavy-duty work and logistics is growing in the worldwide market, which will play a significant role in the profitable expansion of the demand for alloy steels and, in turn, drive the growth of the entire market throughout the projection period.
Manganese Alloys Market: Restraints
Regulations on Manganese Exposure Could Reduce Demand
Despite the massive amounts of manganese alloys used in producing steel alloys, exposure to manganese dust and fumes has been related to poisoning, which can impair motor function and result in cognitive impairments in humans. To safeguard human health, agencies like the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) have set the permissible and recommended exposure limits for manganese at 5 mg/m3 and 1 mg/m3 over an 8-hour workday, respectively. In addition, they have demonstrated that human life is endangered by manganese exposure at levels greater than 500 mg/m3. Therefore, it is anticipated that such laws will make it more difficult for manganese and its alloys to be adopted in various end-use sectors where direct exposure is possible.
Manganese Alloys Market: Segment Overview
Iron-Manganese Alloys to Dominate Market due to Increased Steel Demand
With the significant demand from numerous BRICS nations, including Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, the construction sector is anticipated to grow. The development of the building sector will, in turn, create new growth prospects for the Iron-Manganese Alloys sector globally in the upcoming years. With the increasing demand for steel worldwide, the Iron-Manganese Alloys segment is anticipated to expand in the foreseeable future. Additionally, it is anticipated that the worldwide Iron-Manganese Alloys market will advance in the near future due to increased demand for the chemical used to manufacture aluminum alloys. Stainless steel is a crucial material utilized in the construction sector because it gives good strength, toughness, and corrosion resistance qualities that give building structures support and strength. Therefore, the growing usage of stainless steel in bridge construction, building construction, and other construction projects will support the expansion of the Iron-Manganese Alloys sector.
With Its Improved Strength, Manganese Alloy to be Widely Used in Construction Sector
Steel contains manganese because it improves the material's tensile strength and hardenability. For applications in buildings (structural sections, reinforcing bars, sheet goods, non-structural steel, and others), infrastructure, and transportation, more than 40% of the steel produced worldwide is used in the construction industry. Additionally, manganese has a minor oxidizing effect. Steel is also utilized in pressure vessels, power plants, hydroelectric plants, bridges, civil engineering, and construction equipment. President Biden of the United States unveiled a USD 2 trillion plan in 2021 to renovate and modernize the country's infrastructure and transition it to a greener industry. Therefore, it is anticipated that the aforementioned factors will substantially impact the manganese market in the years to come.
Manganese Alloys Market: Regional Landscape
Asia Pacific to Acquire Major Market Share due to Increased Construction Activities in Region
In the forecast period, Asia Pacific dominated the market worldwide. The increase in the use of high-carbon ferromanganese in the steel industry is credited with the expansion. China's rising steel production activities will also boost the region's demand. Recent years have seen increased investments in new construction projects due to increased urbanization, particularly in emerging nations. With the increase in investments in China, India, Japan, and ASEAN nations, Asia Pacific has become the region with the most investments in the construction sector globally.
About 9% of the GDP of India is derived from the building sector. The automatic route in India allows 100% foreign direct investment in finished projects to manage and operate townships, malls/shopping centers, and commercial buildings. During the anticipated term, this is anticipated to increase the industry. Chinese industrial production increased by roughly 2.4% in 2020 compared to 2019, according to the National Bureau of Statistics of China. Additionally, after increasing by 7% Y-o-Y the previous month, industrial production climbed by 7.3% Y-o-Y in December 2020, which boosted demand for the market under study. Therefore, it is anticipated that the aforementioned factors will substantially impact the manganese market in the years to come.
North America is predicted to increase favorably due to product consumption in the steel and stainless steel business. With the rising purchasing power and quick industrialization, steel is used in a residential and commercial buildings. The need for stainless steel is also expected to increase in various applications, including consumer items, food and beverage equipment, and structural and ornamental vehicle components. In addition, the demand for residential construction will increase the demand for steel as the construction industry expands quickly. The high pace of urbanization, the spike in automobile production, and the huge budget given for infrastructure development all contribute to the region's market's rapid expansion.
Global Manganese Alloys Market: Competitive Landscape
In May 2021, Impex Metals & Ferro Alloys was acquired by Maithan Alloys Ltd. (IMFAL). The goal of this acquisition was to grow and raise the company's production capacity by 49,500 TPA of silicomanganese or 70,355 tonnes per annum of Ferro manganese. Maithan Alloys has announced that it must pay Rs 74.22 crore to acquire Impex Metals & Ferro Alloys. In April 2021, Salasar Techno Engineering announced the opening of its new structural steel fabrication plant in Hapur (Uttar Pradesh). With a total output capacity of 15000 tonnes annually, the newly launched facility is one of the largest installed capabilities in North India. The 60,000-square-meter manufacturing complex specializes in heavy structural steel fabrication for bridges, power plants, process plants, high-rise structures, PEB buildings, warehouses, airport hangers, and metro stations.
Few of the players in the Manganese Alloys Market include ERAMET, Cometal S.A., Assmang Limited, Westbrook Resources Ltd, Manganese International Institute, Ferroglobe, Concast Metal Products Co., and Acme Alloys.
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Key Elements Included In The Study: Global Manganese Alloys Market
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Real-time tactics (RTT) is a subgenre of tactical wargames played in real-time simulating the considerations and circumstances of operational warfare and military tactics. It is also sometimes considered a subgenre of real-time strategy and may in this context exist as an element of gameplay or as a basis for the whole game. It is differentiated from real-time strategy gameplay by the lack of resource micromanagement and base building, as well as the greater importance of individual unitsand a focus on complex battlefield tactics. The RTT genre is less commonly called fixed-unit real-time strategy or real-time combat simulator.
Real-time tactics games generally endeavour to present a realistic experience of battlefield tactics.
Typical real-time strategy titles generally encourage the player to focus on logistics and production as much as or more than combat, whereas real-time tactics games more commonly do not feature resource-gathering, production, base-building or economic management, instead focusing on tactical and operational aspects of warfare such as unit formations or the exploitation of terrain for tactical advantage.
Real-time tactical gameplay is characterized by the expectation of players to complete their tasks using only the combat forces provided to them, and usually by the provision of a realistic (or at least believable) representation of military tactics and operations. This contrasts with other current wargame genres: for instance, in large-scale turn-based strategy games battles are generally abstracted and the gameplay close to that of related board games, and real-time strategy games de-emphasize realism and focus on the collection and conversion of resources into production capacities which manufacture combat units thereafter used in generally highly stylised confrontations. In contrast, real-time tactics games‘ military tactical and realistic focus and comparatively short risk/reward cycleusually provide a distinctly more immediate, intense and accessible experience of battlefield tactics and mêlée than strategy games of other genres.
As suggested by the genre’s name, also fundamental to real-time tactics is real-time gameplay. The genre has its roots in tactical and miniature wargaming, the recreation of battle scenarios using miniatures or even simple paper chits. These board and table-top games were out of necessity turn-based: Only with computer support was turn-based play and strategy successfully transposed into real-time. Turn-based strategy and turn-based tactics were obvious candidates for computer implementation. As computer implementation eventually allowed for ever more complex rulesets, some games became less timeslice-focused and more continuous until eventually „realtime“ play was achieved.
Compared to other strategy games, games of the real-time tactics genre often have distinctly detailed and complex environments due to the tactical implications of elevation, hard cover and true line of sight. Due to the demands of realism units in real-time tactical games also often have a significant degree of autonomy over their actions within the context of their orders compared to the relatively or fully passive units of other strategy genres (e.g. units in MechCommander 2 are remarkably autonomous).
Further, in many real-time tactics games a player’s force is maintained between battles. This allows units to become more proficient as they gain more battle experience and can even encourage an affinity between the player and his or her troops, breaking down the stereotypical anonymity of the expendable, mass-produced units found in strategic games. To this end Bungie Studios‘ Myth series gave each soldier a unique name, and in Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat and Warhammer: Dark Omen units were individually named and under the leadership of their own captains with distinct visual and vocal feedback.
While some publications do refer to „RTT“ as a genre others consider it to be a sub-genre of real-time strategy, there are also publications that do not make such distinctions. Nonetheless, there are often efforts to distinguish these games from the classic perceptions of the „RTS“ denomination; titles of the genre has been described as „real-time combat simulators“ and „military strategy“ games, Nexus: The Jupiter Incident was called a „tactical fleet simulator“ by its developers, and Blitzkrieg II was somewhat verbosely called a „real time simulator of WWII battles on company regimental level“ rather than „real-time strategy“ in a review.
Relatively few developers or publishers use the terms „RTT“ or „real-time tactics“ in marketing, though one example is Massive Entertainment, which explicitly described its game Ground Control II: Operation Exodus as real-time tactics rather than a real-time strategy title (which is ironic in that the title veered toward a real-time strategy mode by introducing resources and in-battle reinforcements unlike its predecessor); David Heart of Matrix Games describes the Close Combat series as „the overall tone emphasized realism, and modelled the emotional state of the units under your command, including panic, desertion, and surrender. Close Combat was never an RTS in the classic sense since resource gathering and other typical factors played no part in the game. Close Combat was far more of a tactical simulation and would be better described as a RTTS (Real Time Tactical Simulation)“ and f.i. Close Combat: Modern Tactics is sold as a „real time tactical warfare“ game on their site; and Namco Bandai announced the „Battle March“ expansion to their 2006 title Warhammer: Mark of Chaos as „tactical real-time“.
Establishing the genre: the late-nineties rise in popularity
Perhaps the first game that can be recognised as a qualified exemplar of the real-time tactics genre was Fields of Glory, released in 1993 by MicroProse. The game was a purely real-time tactical wargame that attempted to realistically recreate several of the major battles of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Waterloo campaign. Though meticulous and ambitious it suffered from the low-resolution graphics of the day and had to compromise with the visual presentation of its large-scale battles and abstracted away low-level battlefield aspects.
Around 1995, however, computer hardware and developer support systems had developed enough to facilitate the requirements of large-scale real-time tactical games. It was in 1995 that the regimentally focused wargame Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat was released, groundbreaking not only in that it focused purely on the operational aspects of combat (with all aspects pertaining: regimental manoeuvring and formations, support tactics, terrain, etc.), nor only in that it was entirely real-time, but also that it introduced zoomable and rotatable 3D terrain. In 1997 Firaxis Games‘ released Sid Meier’s Gettysburg!, a detailed and faithful recreation of some of the most significant battles of the American Civil War that introduced large scale tactical battlefield command using 3D.
3D visuals only became established in the real-time strategy genre around eight years after their advent in real-time tactics; it could be argued that the nature of real-time tactics games and the genre’s focus lends more naturally to 3D representation, for instance to check line of sight, while the faster pace, rapid-click, highly stylized nature of real-time strategy games were better presented in 2D. Real-time tactics games need not be in 3D however: the Close Combat series as well as Sudden Strike, both successful titles, functioned in two dimensions. Released in 1996 by Atomic Games, Close Combat is a simulation of squad- and platoon-type World War II combat tactics which introduced a higher degree of operational realism than seen before. Combat Mission went even further. Further, as Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat was a translation of the Warhammer Fantasy Battle table-top system, FASA Studios‘ MechCommander from 1998 was a translation of the BattleTech boardgame into a 2D computer game format.
In 1997, Bungie released Myth, which introduced radically larger battlefields than ever before and included a realistic (at the time) physics engine. In 2000, Creative Assembly created Shogun: Total War taking map sizes even further as well as introducing historical and tactical realism on levels until then unheard of in real-time computer games. Ground Control was also released in 2000, gaining much attention for its luscious visuals but earning developers Massive Entertainment few sales. In 2007 World in Conflict, also made by Massive Entertainment was released and is currently the last game made in this genre.
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To make your bust appear firm and beautiful, you really don’t need to take the route of expensive surgery. All you have to do is regularly perform a few straightforward exercises, all of which can help to lift and even improve the shape of your breasts.
Join your hands together in front of your chest. Press them together with enough force to strain your pectoral muscles. Make sure you keep your back straight.
Stand half a meter away from a wall, stretch your arms out in front of you, and begin to press against it with your fists. You’ll feel your pectoral muscles being exercised. Press for 20 seconds, then rest for 10 seconds. Repeat 3 times.
This exercise will stretch your muscles and help give your bust a beautiful shape. Take your dumbbells. When standing up, slightly bend your legs at the knee, and incline your torso forward.
When you breathe in, lift your arms to the sides (they should also be slightly bent at the elbows).
Your forearms should be parallel to the ground. Carry out 2 sets of 12 reps each.
Clench your hand into a fist, and raise it to your chin. Press on your fist with your chin for 5 seconds, then relax for 5 seconds. Repeat 2-3 times.
Lie on your stomach, bend your legs at the knees, and grab hold of them at the ankles. If you’re a beginner, hold this position for 20 seconds, then have a 10-second break. Repeat this 3 times.
Push-ups can help strengthen your pectoral muscles. If you’re new to them, begin by doing them on your knees or while resting against a chair or sofa. Place your arms as far apart to your sides as you can, and pull your legs together. When pressing your body to the ground, slowly move your elbows to your sides. Perform 3 sets of 12-15 push-ups.
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Last week my friend Susan created a new group on Facebook, Heritage Travel for Genealogists. I am super excited about this group because it opens up a new area of discussion for genealogists that normally happen on their FB Pages (which leaves us no way to search for the information at a future date).
DearMyrtle posted that it would be useful to know about a few aspects of planning a heritage travel trip. Here are my replies to those items:
Weather is a very important part of any travel we plan. I recommend googling the average weather for the time you are planning your trip. For example, I was planning my trip to Ireland for the end of October through the beginning of November. By googling the information I learned that the weather can vary from about 30 – 65 degrees and should be rainy.
Clothes – Once you know what the expected weather is, it will make packing your clothes easier. Some things I made sure we had because of the rain: hiking boots, water resistant coats (got to love NorthFace), umbrellas. For the possible cold weather, we packed heavy sweaters, jeans, enough socks that we could wear two pairs if too cold, and other clothes that can be layered.
Electronics – Lets be real, we live in a world where everything has to be at our hands, all the time. When I vacation not only do I bring my phone and camera, I bring my laptop and my Ipad. I know it’s a lot. But, it’s just how it is. So when packing these things make sure you have the correct chargers for each of them. One day I plan to get a small case that will just hold these cords. They get so tangled in whatever I normally have them in.
With going overseas we also needed converters to be able to charge our electronics. We purchased two that could be used in multiple countries and they worked well, once we figured them out. Most of the hotels in Ireland (that we stayed in) had units in the room that were already converted to the US.
Medicines – It’s obvious that you need to bring whatever medicine that is prescribed by your doctor, but I always make sure to bring allergy medicine, Sudafed (24 hour relief, for said allergies) and something for heartburn. These are a staple no matter where I travel.
Travel Documents – Obviously you will need your state ID, but when traveling out of the country you will need a passport (and maybe a visa, check into that before you go). I make a photocopy of these to bring with, and to leave a set at home, you never know what will happen. These go in your carry on, you will need to have access to them.
Reservation Information – I normally create a spreadsheet with all of our reservations, this will include where we will be, the addresses and phone #’s, as well as our reservation #’s. If you do not do this, it is important to print out each confirmation! Especially if you fly overnight. There is no way to be 100% you will get sleep on the flight and you could be a bit loopy when you arrive at your destination.
I will be honest here, we did not do much research on this. My neighbors are Irish immigrants so we just asked. We went to our bank and they advised us what to do. So take some time and look into this.
Cell Phone Fees:
Traveling international can be expensive when it comes to your cell phone. Many of us carry a smart phone and once you turn that on you might incur roaming fees, and they can be astronomical. For our trip we added an international data package to one of the phones. We paid $120 for a month of international access, which gave us phone and text usage, plus a small amount of data. It was not enough, we needed to add it to the second phone as well. One thing I will caution everyone to is this, make sure the carrier only charges you for the one month. Ours went on for many months, it took a lot to get the credits we were due.
For our next trip I will be looking into getting a sim card from where ever we are traveling too so that will pay less for the internet and be able to make calls locally.
Free wifi is great, but don’t depend on it. At the hotels we stayed at, we rarely had any problems. But out and about during the day is not the same. I had a lot of trouble just trying to pick up the signal.
If you are looking to make contact back home, I suggest using Facetime of some other free video software (like Skype or Google Hangouts). We used this our first night to talk to one of the kids in the US.
Ask those who have visited before you. We were told not to get a car in Dublin, we did not listen. In the future, we will not get a car in Dublin. The streets all go one way, and it’s not the way you want to go. It took us forever to get where we wanted to go.
Keep in mind if you will be driving on the other side of the road and the other side of the car. Are you prepared to do that? If not, forego the car and look into public transportation.
This is where we had a major mess up in our travel. I found us a great rate on a rental car through our Marriott’s card. I booked the car and made no notations because I had an email confirmation. An email confirmation which I could not get to because I had no flippen internet! We went to the car rental place and they could not find our reservation so they gave us the “best” they had. It was a fine car, but not as big as we wanted and not a manual transmission.
Three days later while on the hotels wifi I found my email, we were at the right counter but with the wrong company. Thankfully it was not a prepaid vehicle and we were not charged for it.
One other thing to keep in mind is this, you need to know about the roads you are traveling. Will there be mountains? How rough is the terrain? Though we wanted a manual car, we were thankful we did not get it. If we did, we would not have seen some of the sites because of how steep the mountains were.
International Driver’s License Required?
Great question. AAA can assist you with getting an international drivers license if you need it. The cost is currently $20 and is valid for a year. You can find their form and who honors the driver’s license on the AAA website.
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Cabinet-based unit devours dust and decibels and puts controls on the outsideSynopsis: The ultimate router table would be as convenient as a shaper or a tablesaw — all of the common tasks and adjustments are done from above or outside the unit. It would also have the dust-collecting ability and vibration-dampening mass of a cabinet-mounted tool. John White of Fine Woodworking designed and built a router table that does all that and it’s quiet to boot. He used a screw-driven mechanism to raise and lower the router and also attached a shopmade mounting block. Simple parts, smart function — detailed drawings and complete explanations on how to build your own are included in the article.
I have always been dissatisfied with the popular designs for router tables and the versions available on the market. In some way or another, they are all less convenient than standard woodworking machines. For one thing, you have to reach under the table a lot to adjust bit height, change bits or hit the power switch. The ultimate router table would be as convenient as a shaper or tablesaw—all of the common tasks and adjustments are done from above or outside the unit. It would also have the dust-collecting ability and vibration-dampening mass of a cabinet-mounted tool.
I came up with a router cabinet that meets all of the above criteria and is super-quiet to boot. The design relies on the JessEm Rout-R-Lift, a screw-driven mechanism that allows you to raise and lower the router and bit by cranking a handle inserted from above. The JessEm unit is also sold by Jet as the Xacta Lift, for the same price—around $200 in many catalogs. By adding a shopmade mounting block to the lift, I was able to raise the router high enough to allow bit changes from above the table as well.
Eliminating the need to reach underneath the top let me mount the table on a cabinet, which could enclose a shop vacuum and muffle its sound and the roar of the router itself. A dust-collection manifold fits under the tabletop and behind the lift unit. A fence system with a dust port ties into the system below.
I mounted a switched outlet for the router and vacuum unit outside the cabinet. Just for fun, I threw in racks for bit and tool storage. Casters under one end of the cabinet make it mobile—like a wheelbarrow—but still stable on the floor.
Materials cost just over $300, including the shop vacuum and the router lift but not a fixed-base router (the more powerful, the better for use in a table). The investment in time and money was significant but reasonable, considering the performance and convenience I gained.
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This Ontario County town is getting $170,000 in federal funding to extend its municipal water system.
The funding was announced in a recent press release from U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. It was provided through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Grant Program.
Specifically, the money will be used to develop Hopewell Central Water Extension #3, which will bring clean and safe drinking water to 75 area residents.
“I want to thank the senators and the USDA for awarding us this grant, which provides the final piece of funding that we need to move forward with this project. Our plans to improve the water system were put on hold for several years due to a lack of funding,” Hopewell Supervisor Ted Bateman said. “This grant puts us back on track and we are ready to break ground later this year.”
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Police report the arrest of a 50-year-old Waterloo driver following a crash on August 31st.
The Seneca Falls Police Department reports that the crash happened on North Road when Tammy Cook, 50, crossed the center line with her vehicle and struck another.
Investigation determined that she was under the influence of a controlled substance at the time of the crash.
Police say Cook was issued an appearance ticket for driving while intoxicated, driving while ability impaired by drugs, failure to keep right, and moving from lane unsafely.
Cook will appear in Seneca Falls Town Court at a later date.
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We have established collaborative partnerships with several organizations to help enhance your understanding of Fishtown and its maritime traditions. Click on the links below to be connected to their websites.
Inland Seas Education Associations (ISEA)
ISEA’s mission is to help people of all ages experience the science and spirit of the Great Lakes through shipboard and on-shore programs.
Michigan Sea Grant
Michigan Sea Grant is part of the National Sea Grant College Program, a network of 30 university-based programs in coastal states across the United States.
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Cameron Davis ‘23 wasn’t sure what to expect in college. He was a good student at Gardner High School, but as a first-generation college student he didn’t have many frames of reference at home for what life at a university would be like.
He applied to 10 schools, hoping his choices would be narrowed down by the various admissions offices. When he was accepted into all 10, he had to amend his calculations. Fitchburg State was a logical option. As a student in Gardner, he became familiar with Fitchburg State through his activity with the Upward Bound Math and Science program.
“I had tons of interactions with the Fitchburg State campus growing up,” he said. “What drew me to Fitchburg State was the community and the makeup of the students here. There’s no sense of entitlement, and they know they have to put in the work.”
Davis had always been a good math student and found enthusiastic mentors among the department faculty who encouraged his interest in applied mathematics, and he joined the university chapter of the Pi Mu Epsilon National Mathematics Honorary Society. During his junior year he applied for a National Science Foundation grant-funded research opportunity for undergraduates (REU) for which he was accepted. Davis earned a stipend while conducting research on modeling the spread of a neglected tropical disease called visceral leishmaniasis (VL).
The research was rewarding, he said, because he can imagine the work leading to better public health responses that will save lives.
His research became the subject of his Honors Thesis, “A Data-Driven Mathematical Model of Visceral Leishmaniasis that Incorporates Sandfly Seasonality.” And in January, Davis presented a paper on the topic at the Pi Mu Epsilon National Mathematics Honorary Society Contributed Paper Session at the 2024 Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Francisco. It was his first time traveling alone, and his first visit to the West Coast.
Davis said he was pleasantly surprised to find several math faculty had traveled to support him in the talk, including Professors Mary Ann Barbato, Catherine Buell and Ben Levy.
“If it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t have had the motivation to have done all this,” Davis said.
“Cameron has been a standout student in each of our classes together,” said Levy. “Cameron has embraced the opportunity to grow academically and explore his options to help guide his future career choices. After participating in the summer REU program he returned to campus with great ideas to fuel his honors project and I had the pleasure of guiding him through his work over the course of a year. It was amazing to see the level of initiative he would take each week to further his work and by the end of the year he developed a truly novel model that we are now preparing for publication. Cameron truly excels in everything he takes on and we all look forward to seeing what he chooses to pursue moving forward.”
Following his talk, Davis was selected for the society’s 2024 speaker award, which recognizes outstanding student speakers from the conference’s paper sessions. In addition to the accolade itself, the award carries a cash prize.
Davis graduated with his bachelor’s degree in mathematics last May, and is currently enrolled in Fitchburg State’s master’s program in computer science. Beyond the classroom, he has been a talented member of the Falcons’ track and cross country teams. Because he lost a year of eligibility during COVID, he is proud to continue representing the Falcons during his graduate studies.
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We get calls and questions from potential clients who just want a "simple will." They may believe without a complicated net worth, they don't need more than a will. Maybe they checked out some forms online and just want a lawyer to look over the filled-in form and make sure it's correct.
A will directs a judge how to divide your assets when you die. But if you become incapacitated and cannot manage your affairs while you recover, your loved ones could be forced to petition the court and seek appointment as your guardian. A thorough estate plan prepares for this.
If you have minor children, you'll need to consider their care.
If you have assets you want to control after you die--maybe you want to delay inheritance or make it conditioned on certain events--then a trust is a powerful tool. | <urn:uuid:4950f64a-053f-4832-9e23-bcd3ded6e3b7> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.flalawfirm.com/post/i-just-need-a-simple-will | 2024-04-25T06:53:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.971823 | 166 |
Hong Kong's Secretary for Transport and Logistics Lam Sai-hung has predicted the city will drop one spot to 10th in the rankings of the world’s busiest ports in terms of container throughput in 2023, with economists attributing the decline to competition from mainland China. The city has slipped in the rankings in recent years, falling gradually from No 3 in the world in 2008 to ninth between 2020 and 2022, according to the latest available data from the Marine Department.
Hong Kong’s container throughput in 2023 was 14.4 million TEU, lower than the 16.68 million TEU the city handled in 2022, and the 14.45 million TEU that year at the Dutch port of Rotterdam, which ranked No 10. “While some may focus on the declining trend, I believe it is crucial for us to seize the opportunity to consolidate and develop the advantages of Hong Kong’s port and this has also been the ongoing direction of the Transport and Logistics Bureau’s efforts,” Lam wrote. The 2023 world rankings for container ports was expected to be revealed in the middle of this year, he said. Since overtaking Singapore in 2010, the world’s top port in terms of container throughput has been Shanghai. Lam said the government had been enhancing the competitiveness of Hong Kong’s port, aiming to make it “green” and “smart”. Citing the government’s Maritime and Port Development Strategy Action Plan, he noted that measures included developing Hong Kong into “a quality green maritime fuel bunkering center”, as well as promoting the development of a “smart port” through the use of a digitalized port community system.
Simon Lee, Honorary Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Institute of Business at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said that the main cause for the city’s decline in its container throughput was competition from mainland ports in terms of cost and convenience. “Factories there can use Shanghai, Shenzhen, Ningbo instead of Hong Kong. It is hard to change the situation as, again, costs are high in Hong Kong,” he said. Lee noted that the government could only raise its rankings by one or two spots through reducing costs and increasing convenience for its users, but it would be extremely difficult as competition among ports was very keen.
Of the world’s top 10 ports in terms of throughput ranked by the Marine Department in 2022, six are on the mainland – Shanghai, Ningbo-Zhoushan, Shenzhen, Qingdao, Guangzhou and Tianjin. Professor Terence Chong, Executive Director of the Chinese University’s Lau Chor Tak Institute of Global Economics and Finance, agreed that costs presented an issue for the city when compared with the mainland. He added that the mainland also had more land available for expansion. “It would not be possible for our rankings to go back up, as we are constricted in terms of size, unless we decide to build a new port and several more berths,” Chong said. “As China and other countries will continuously build ports, there is not much point for us to compete in terms of throughput.” He suggested that authorities instead focus on the value of the cargo coming to the city instead of quantity, as well as the use of green and innovative technology to help Hong Kong stay competitive, the South China Morning Post reports. | <urn:uuid:eb524cc9-8fb6-422d-8cd0-f35e78e57b01> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.flanders-china.be/en/newsletterpublications/hong-kong-expected-to-drop-to-10th-place-in-ranking-of-busiest-container-ports | 2024-04-25T07:40:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.958667 | 706 |
Dr. G M Wali Ullah is a finance academic with more than 8 years of experience in teaching, coordinating and developing courses taught in various mediums (face-to-face, online and hybrid) and programs (undergraduate, postgraduate coursework, postgraduate research and MBA) to domestic and international students, across several universities and tertiary education providers in Australia and Bangladesh. He holds a Ph.D. in Corporate Finance from the University of Adelaide, MSc in International Finance from the University of Westminster, UK, and a BBA in Finance from East West University, Bangladesh. His doctoral thesis focused on the effects of managerial ability and CEO behavioral characteristics in corporate financial decision-making. Dr. Wali Ullah previously held teaching positions at the University of Adelaide, Australian Institute of Business, UniSA Online, and Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). His teaching philosophy is to ensure that even a non-finance background learner can understand the intricacies of finance without feeling left out and taking away some financial concepts for use in real life.
Dr. Wali Ullah’s research interests are multidisciplinary in nature, in the intersection of Corporate Finance, Behavioural Finance, FinTech, Supply Chain Management, and Social Sciences. He has presented at prestigious academic conferences such as the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Doctoral Symposium, the Financial Markets and Corporate Governance (FMCG) Conference, the New Zealand Finance Meeting and the Multinational Finance Society Conference. His research has also been published in esteemed journals such as Energy Economics, International Review of Economics and Finance, Finance Research Letters International Journal of Managerial Finance and Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics.
Ph.D. Corporate Finance - the University of Adelaide, Australia
MSc International Finance - University of Westminster, United Kingdom
BBA Finance - East West University, Bangladesh
Mace Bearer of the Graduating Class of 2022, University of Adelaide
Awarded the Adelaide Scholarship International (ASI) for Doctoral studies, University of Adelaide
Awarded the Westminster Business School Full Fee Waiver Scholarship for Postgraduate studies, University of Westminster
Graduated Summa Cum Laude and awarded the Chancellor’s Gold Medal for Academic achievements, East West University
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When you become a wife at first you realize it's not just a fairytale but actually hard work. Two people from completely different back grounds must now live together in unity. It's not easy and a lot of times walking out seems like the best way to go. Just easier for everyone.
Then comes the children and you realize being a mom is also not a fairytale! It entitles long nights, tired days, teaching, loosing yourself in routine and chaos, loosing complete focus of where you were on your way too.
Both these things, marriage and children are the biggest blessings you can have but most importantly enjoy! God has really been speaking to me about prayer and faith this year and He is not letting go. There is definitely a lesson to be learnt here for me. The power of prayer is incredible, I have seen things happen in our lives that has only been covered by prayer. Best of all, the outcome is Godly, it's the best outcome you could ever dream of.
So a funny thing happened yesterday, I was asked by my sister in-law if I ever watched the movie, WAR ROOM, and I never so she explained to me it's a motivational movie about prayer. It felt like God is again knocking on my door with the same thing He's been talking to me about, so I had to go get the movie and watch it. So worth watching and today I can honestly say I will pray even more intense, even better than yesterday. Our husbands and kids need our prayer, not our judgement or constant braking down of character.
Do yourself a favor and watch this movie, and become a prayer warrior for your family. Prayer is what protects us while we going to our destination and faith is what gets us to our destination.
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282 Series Manual Brass Ball Valves
The 282 series manual ball valves are full port, brass, manual ball valves. They are available with NPT Female end connections (NPT Male x Female, and Solder call for details) . Four different manual handle styles are offered. They are ideal to use when you need to stop the water flow in order to change out or make repairs to a flow meter. It offers a relatively inexpensive up front investment to save you future stress! If you cannot afford to have a complete stoppage of flow we would recommend a 3-way valve to bypass the flow around the meter to be removed.
Ideal applications include as a main water shut off valve, and before and after a sewer deduct meter.
Features & Benefits
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As the Ontario government moves to temporarily enact stronger powers for police officers to enforce emergency COVID-19 orders, community members, advocates and opposition politicians are raising concerns about the authority being given to randomly stop residents and demand identification.
Premier Doug Ford and members of his cabinet unveiled several measures that they said were in an effort to combat record-high COVID-19 cases and the vast spread of variants of concern.
The latest restrictions will see distribution centres, warehouses and manufacturing plants remain open while outdoor gatherings will be restricted to members of the same household. However, people who live alone can join another household.
Also, all recreational facilities such as sports fields, playgrounds and golf courses will be closed.
In addition, essential retailers will have to further lower capacity limits to 25 per cent, indoor religious services will be limited to 10 people, and non-essential construction will have to shut down.
Border checks are also set to go up at the Quebec and Manitoba borders as of April 19. Visitors will be prohibited from entering and exiting Ontario with the exception of essential purposes such as work, medical care and the transportation of goods.
But included in the suite of measures was a regulation to amend the province’s emergency orders to temporarily increase powers given to officers, something officials said was done to “increase public compliance” with public health measures. The powers were slated to last as long as the stay-at-home order is in place and can only apply to the provisions of the order.
As of 12:01 a.m. on April 17, police officers and those designated as provincial offences officers will be able to stop vehicles to ask those inside why they left their homes. People will also be required, if asked by officers, to show proof of their home address and the reason why they aren’t there.
“We’re losing the battle between the variants and vaccines,” Ford told reporters Friday afternoon.
“The reality is there are few options left.”
After Friday’s announcement, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) called it the “Black Friday of rights slashing.” The CCLA said granting police the authority to stop and question anyone at random risks a “rash of racial profiling.”
“Random police stops during COVID are unconstitutional, presuming those outdoors or driving to be guilty,” Michael Bryant, who heads up the CCLA, said.
Desmond Cole, a Toronto-based journalist, activist and author of The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power, has been a longtime advocate against the ability for police to randomly stop people and the ability for them to produce identification, encouraging people to intervene and question when it happens.
When asked about Friday’s announcement, he called it “terrifying” and said it involves “draconian fines and measures in response to a health issue.”
“It’s scary to think how easily this can simply be announced and the complete wiping away … you’re kind of gradually promoting the culture where that becomes normal, where we are to obey,” Cole told Global News.
“This is an extension of what is always happening to Black people in this province, to Indigenous people, to Muslims, to other racialized groups. It’s just an extension of what we’ve been seeing.
“All of these policing measures are a way of saying it’s not the government’s fault, it’s the individual’s fault.”
He said he believes the new orders will mean officers will be in the neighbourhoods with the highest number of cases, and areas where there are an increased number of people from marginalized, vulnerable and racialized populations.
Cole said any money spent on police enforcement would be better spend on increasing social supports and providing paid sick leave provisions at a provincial level, something many medical experts and advocates have been calling for over several months.
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Sam Tecle, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto and member of Jane-Finch Action Against Poverty, said racialized communities in the city are already on edge about police presence and that there is “hyper-policing” in some neighbourhoods, including Jane and Finch.
“That danger and that risk just got magnified 100 times by the expansion of police powers in the province. I am literally terrified thinking about what we might need to do as a community to keep each other safe,” he told Global News.
Tecle said the Jane and Finch neighbourhood, for instance, is going to have a pop-up vaccination clinic over the weekend. He said he is worried about community members travelling to the site being stopped and questioned by police.
“What if folks are walking towards the vaccination site — are they going to be stopped? Asked their address? Profiled? Carded? Will they be safe? These interactions are not safe,” he said.
Tecle noted the neighbourhood is home to a significant number of front-line workers and that these concerns are an added toll on the mental health of area residents.
Meanwhile, Cole called on opposition parties and other politicians who opposed carding in the past to speak out on the new policing measures.
When asked for comment, Ontario NDP and Ontario Liberal Party (OLP) representatives slammed the initiatives.
“Black, Indigenous and racialized people are more likely to get COVID-19 in Ontario. They’re also more likely to be an essential worker — the folks who care for our sick and elderly loved ones, stock grocery store shelves, and keep factories running. Instead of giving them the help they desperately need to stay healthy, Doug Ford chose to police and punish them,” Laura Mae Lindo, the Ontario NDP critic for anti-racism and chair of the party’s Black caucus, told Global News in a statement Friday night, echoing calls for a provincial sick days program.
“People need vaccines, not police pulling them over again and again. The Ontario NDP has long opposed carding and demanded that all information collected through the practice be destroyed.
“We find Mr. Ford’s new endorsement of carding chilling. It will lead to discrimination, as it always has, and no experts have suggested it could help stop COVID-19.”
OLP leader Steven Del Duca called the measure a “dangerous attack on racialized Ontarians.”
“I can’t believe (Premier Doug) Ford is calling carding a public health measure while refusing paid sick days,” he said in a statement.
“There are so many things he could have done that would have been helpful for curbing the spread of COVID-19 without being harmful to the racialized Ontarians hit hardest by this pandemic. Instead he chose carding, which has been proven as an inequitable and dangerous practice for racialized people.
Hospital intensive care units facing severe strain
The new measures came just hours after Ontario’s science advisers warned that the province’s COVID-19 infections could soar past 15,000 cases per day by June without tougher restrictions.
The dire predictions came after the government pleaded with other provinces to send in nurses and health workers as its hospital system was pushed to the brink.
“Our progress is both frustrating and frightening,” Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, co-chair of Ontario’s science advisory panel, said in presenting the latest projections.
Ontario reported 4,812 new cases — another record — on Friday, up from Thursday’s record of 4,736. It also reported 25 more deaths related to the virus.
The latest data from Critical Care Services Ontario showed 684 COVID-19 patients in adult intensive care units. That number had reached 701 by Friday.
Hospitals were “bursting at the seams” and care was already being compromised, Brown said as his group urged Ford to order everyone to stay home for six weeks, and ramp up vaccinations as the only way to gain some control of the pandemic.
Data modellers said the only way to flatten the surge of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations is a six-week stay-at-home order and for at least 100,000 doses of vaccine administered a day.
Officials also noted under every scenario, more vaccinations mean a faster resolution to the COVID-19 crisis in the long run.
Here’s how several police services are responding to the order
Police services across Ontario began issuing statements Friday evening in response to the new orders.
A Toronto police spokesperson said the service was reviewing the new regulations.
“The provincial government announced stricter measures today to stop the spread of COVID-19 which includes new, temporary powers for police officers in all services across Ontario,” a service spokesperson said in an email.
“Prior to any change in our enforcement strategy, we will notify the public on how we plan to implement the new provincial orders.”
The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police said officers will do their part to enforce stay-at-home orders and new enforcement measures.
“Our police officers will use their discretion in using such measures,” the association said in a release.
The Waterloo Regional Police Service said it will review the new regulations, but in the meantime, it will focus on speaking to people to educate them. It said enforcement will be a last resort.
“We will not be conducting random vehicle or individual stops. As before, our initiatives will be both complaint-driven or proactive, with the goal of gaining compliance,” the service said in a release.
“Those that refuse to comply will receive the appropriate penalty.”
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I don’t think I have to explain what this post is about. Everyone knows about My Lai in 1968, right?
So here’s just an interesting take on things from Thompson — the American helicopter pilot credited with saving civilian lives.
“One of the ladies that we had helped out that day came up to me and asked, ‘Why didn’t the people who committed these acts come back with you?’ And I was just devastated. And then she finished her sentence: she said, ‘So we could forgive them.'” Thompson said he himself could never forgive the Americans who killed those civilians. “I’m not man enough to do that,” he said.
I also want to reflect on a post I wrote a while ago about Operation Dingo in Mozambique, November 1977, which had many of the same chilling hallmarks of the My Lai Massacre (and was based on similar “kill rate” tactics) except nobody ever talks about it.
American perpetrators of the My Lai massacre, as revealed in their memoirs, were using phrases in 1968 almost identical to those by the Rhodesian white separatist forces in Mozambique a decade later.
Calley later described his training as intense and lacking in nuance. “Nobody said, ‘Now, there will be innocent civilians there,’…”and I told myself, I’ll act as if I’m never secure. As if everyone in Vietnam would do me in. As if everyone’s bad.” […] Calley and other members of Charlie Company set out for My Lai by helicopter. They started shooting even before the helicopters had landed. “Everyone moved into My Lai firing automatic,” Calley later wrote. “And went rapidly, and the GIs shot people rapidly. Or grenaded them. Or just bayoneted them: to stab, to throw someone aside, to go on.”
Thompson always should remain the focus of this sad story, despite refusing to be called a hero, because he took such huge risks to stand up to Calley and stop the massacre of innocent civilians.
Thompson continued to fly observation missions in Vietnam, despite suspicions he’d been assigned missions purposely to get him killed. He was hit by enemy fire a total of eight times and in a final crash after his helicopter was brought down by enemy machine-gun fire, he broke his back. In 1998, the Army did an about-face. Thompson and his crew were awarded the Soldier’s Medal in a ceremony near the Vietnam Memorial.
On a similar note, Lt Gen William Peers investigated the My Lai massacre under mixed orders from the US Army Chief of Staff.
Peers was a decorated veteran of World War II, a founder of the Green Berets and special forces who conducted counterintelligence and covert operations during the Korean War, and a former Vietnam corps commander. He was chosen to head the investigation because he was not a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy. […] “You do this for me, and I’ll make sure you get that fourth star,” Army Chief of Staff William Westmoreland told him, according to Peers’ daughter, Chris Neely. Instead, Peers next assignment was as a deputy commander in Korea — serving under a four-star the Army brought out of retirement. “He made the Army look bad. He got punished and the guys that murdered people didn’t,” Neely said. “He was appalled by that.”
Peers might have been appalled by that, yet the enticement of that fourth star for the report allegedly corrupted his independence on Westmoreland’s role.
But what the press and public have never understood is that the Peers Commission was involved in an even bigger cover-up: It exonerated the commander of US forces in Vietnam, Gen. William Westmoreland, from any responsibility for My Lai, despite the fact that the policy Westmoreland conveyed to his subordinates was to treat civilians who remained in long-term Vietnamese Communist, or Viet Cong (VC), base areas like My Lai as enemy combatants. […] The directive actually allowed the creation of free-fire zones in hamlets and villages under long-term Viet Cong control such as My Lai, in which the civilian population would have no protection whatsoever. Although the official MACV directive did not explicitly state that civilians living in “specified strike zones” were not to be given any protection, it clearly implied that this was indeed the policy.
“Free-fire zones” is a crucial phrase here. While it starkly describes America intentionally killing innocent civilians in the Vietnam War, it also sets the stage for veterans shifting into Mozambique ten years later to assist with “Fire Force” tactics doing much of the same.
However in Mozambique there was no Peers, and definitely no Thompson. Their significance today is that while the My Lai massacre has documentation such that historians don’t dither about it (or dare I say Sand Creek, the My Lai massacre of 1864), white insecurity extremist groups instead invoke stories of similar tactics and massacres in Mozambique to bypass censorship. | <urn:uuid:bb2e4b26-0451-4858-a66e-eccb5a0d5d21> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.flyingpenguin.com/?p=32430 | 2024-04-25T08:56:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.980032 | 1,096 |
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The slot receiver is a crucial position in the modern NFL offense. They are typically shorter and tougher than traditional wide receivers, but they are still able to compete with linebackers and secondary players for the ball. They are normally used in the nickel and dime packages, meaning that they will see a lot of action in the passing game. They must be able to run just about any route in the book, and have excellent timing with the quarterback. They also need to be a good blocker.
In addition to running routes, slot receivers are also important blockers for the ball carrier. They are often asked to help pick up blitzes from the linebackers and provide protection on outside run plays. They need to be able to run slant and sweep routes, and they must have strong hands. The best slot receivers have great chemistry with their quarterbacks and can catch almost any type of pass.
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Another common use of the word is in electronics, where it refers to the circuitry that carries data between different parts of a machine. The first electronic slots were electromechanical machines that had tilt switches, which would make or break a circuit if the machine was tilted in a way that tampered with the door switch. Later, slot machines used digital technology that weighed symbols according to their frequency on the reels, and this impacted jackpot sizes.
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Conagra Brands is in talks to sell JBS SA its Hebrew National brand of hot dogs and other brands, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
The deal, which could possibly include Egg Beaters and Odom’s Tennessee Pride, has a potential value of $700 million, the Journal reports.
Like many established brands, Hebrew National got a boost from the pandemic, with retail sales rising 39% in the quarter ending May 31. But Conagra, like many processors of comfort foods and center-store products, is looking to retain the momentum it gained in the pandemic – and in many cases, that may comprise shedding newly popular brands while they are at peak value.
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Lloyd’s Register Foundation is helping to fund a project to educate a new generation of food safety professionals in the developing world.
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) project began in 2019 and is based in East Africa and the Caribbean. Work has been extended until the end of 2021. There are also plans to use the project as a pilot and potentially roll out the initiative across Africa.
Relief efforts for foodborne diseases in the developing world are still critically underfunded. During the past seven years, on average, only $55 million was invested annually in food safety,
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Sandy Copeman and his team of master craftsmen in Bristol, England, build cars that enthusiasts covet: the 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 Mille Miglia, 1938 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO 3589GT, 1961 Jaguar E-Type Series 1-3.8 Coupé and 1957 Porsche 356A Speedster, to name a few. Each car is an impeccably detailed, beautifully painted handmade masterpiece—and costs a fraction of what these vintage vehicles and contemporary exotics would sell for at auction or through a dealer.
Then again, they’re also one eighth the size. That’s because Copeman’s company, Amalgam Collection, specializes in building meticulous scale models of vintage and modern automobiles. In fact, without a visual clue to reveal the relative size, it’s often hard to tell Amalgam’s miniature masterpieces from the real thing. “That’s the goal,” says the 65-year-old founder. “If you can take a high-resolution photograph and put it in front of somebody, and they have no idea whether they’re looking at a model or the real car, then we’ve done our job.”
Some of Amalgam’s models even perform like their full-size cousins. For example, the new 1:8 scale McLaren Senna, which costs a little more than $13,000, features headlights, taillights and hazards that light up via remote control. The doors are motorized and can move up and down on command.
Copeman’s interest in tinkering developed when he was a teenager. He built a reflecting telescope when he was 14, as well as a couple of electric guitars. One of his greatest passions was modifying and racing mopeds. “I used to strip all the steelwork off them and turn them into lean, mean machines and then race them in my parents’ garden in London,” he recalls with a chuckle.
After dropping out of school at 17, Copeman became something of a nomad: “I was a young hippie and traveling throughout Europe and North Africa. That’s what anyone with a sense of adventure would look to do at the time.” He eventually settled in an artists’ colony in Somerset, England, called Nettlecombe Studios, which was established by British painter and printmaker John Wolseley. At Nettlecombe, Copeman found his vocation as a model maker after being asked to create scaled buildings and villages for an architecture firm.
He moved to Bristol in the late 1970s, and within a decade he and three of his colleagues had formed Amalgam Modelmakers. “After six years [working for a small model-making company], our skills and confidence had grown to the point where we decided to start our own partnership making architectural models for the likes of Norman Foster and other rising starchitects, as well as industrial designers like James Dyson,” Copeman says.
Amalgam began designing model cars for Formula 1 racing teams in 1995 after approaching Jordan Grand Prix, a nascent F1 constructor. “It was the crystallization of a passion for motorsport that I and several members of our team had, especially for Formula 1,” Copeman says. As a kid he was a fan of Jim Clark, one of the greatest Formula 1 drivers of all time, and was an enthusiastic slot-car racer at age 15. “My passion for 1960s Formula 1—and car design in general—was just waiting to find an outlet,” he says. “We got the opportunity to make a first model under license [the Jordan 196], then got a deal with Williams Formula 1 in 1996 and finally with Ferrari in 1998.”
In 2004, Amalgam split into two entities: Amalgam Modelmakers and Amalgam Fine Model Cars; one team made one-off architectural models and the other produced scores of miniature cars. “I had ambitions to build a brand making the best model cars in the world,” Copeman says. “That involved a degree of risk taking and a mission not shared with my partners.” The two companies remain deeply connected, though. “We operated out of the same building for several years and are still good friends today,” he insists. But Copeman has no financial interest in the original company. “We do share ownership of our original workshop,” he adds.
From 2006 to 2007, Ferrari’s then-president, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, commissioned Amalgam to make miniatures of current and classic road-going Ferraris. “We started with the 250TR, as opposed to the GTO,” says Copeman. “A Scaglietti car.” It took some time, but Lamborghini, McLaren and other automakers eventually wanted models of their vehicles as well. That’s when business really took off.
Today the company, which Copeman renamed Amalgam Collection in 2016, has revenues around $10 million a year, building more than 500 models a month that range in price from $685 to upwards of $150,000, depending on size and the amount of detail. It employs more than 200 people and has two manufacturing facilities outside of Bristol, in Chang An, China, and Pécs, Hungary.
“We manage the design and tooling of the models in Bristol,” Copeman says, “but most of the models are fabricated in China and Hungary. We are also increasingly making one-offs and doing special projects out of Bristol.”
So how does a model go from concept to finished form? In the case of newer cars, the Amalgam team works from original CAD drawings, obtained from the manufacturers, to produce minutely accurate drawings of each car part. “[By using the CAD data], all the parts fit together and connect together in a good, solid, well-engineered fashion,” Copeman says.
Designs for models of classic cars are formulated from digital scans of the car and hand measurements. “We also work from 600 to 800 photographs,” Copeman says. “We use them to make sure everything is dimensionally correct.”
Once the design is set, it is meticulously scaled down to bring the details to life in miniature. Molds are created for the individual parts, and metal, carbon fiber or rubber is used to create each piece of the puzzle, while some are produced by 3-D printers.
After the parts are cast, they are washed, cleaned and sanded. Then each set of parts goes through a fettling and fitting process to ensure they go together perfectly. Afterward, the models are primed, spray-painted and polished. Decals and printed finishes are applied, then subassemblies such as engines, wheel hubs and suspensions are built, followed by final assembly. “About 90% of the skills we use are very traditional,” Copeman says of the process, most of which is done by hand and which he likens to fine watchmaking. “Ten percent are modern.”
Producing the design molds takes between 2,500 hours (for, say, open-wheel racers) to 4,500 hours for complex classics, and it takes another 250 to 450 hours to make each model. “For example,” Copeman says, “The Ferrari LaFerrari takes about 3,500 hours to develop and another 350 to build.”
Amalgam’s elite clientele still consists of Formula 1 teams, drivers and managers, but it also includes famous collectors. Sylvester Stallone bought a limited edition 1:8-scale Ferrari F1 car from the early-2000s Michael Schumacher era. Ralph Lauren commissioned 17 models of cars from his collection while they were on display at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, including a Jaguar D-Type, like the model whose shark fin blazed a triumphant trail at Le Mans in 1955, 1956 and 1957. Swiss watchmaker Richard Mille commissioned several 1:5-scale models of cars from his collection, which contains some of the rarest and most significant vintage race cars, including Bruce McLaren’s first Formula 1 car (the M2B from 1966) and the Ferrari 312B, which won the 1970 Italian Grand Prix and was driven by Mario Andretti.
Surprisingly, Copeman does not collect cars himself. For him it’s all about the personal experience of riding or driving. “I have owned some lesser but interesting vehicles along the way, such as a 1950s-era MG Magnette, and I’ve had some memorable drives, like the 160 mph race up the M1 motorway in a Sunbeam Tiger against a Jaguar E-Type,” he says. “But I’ve owned many more motorcycles than cars.” His everyday ride is a Mercedes CLS Shooting Brake: “It’s a fun drive if you want to push it a bit.”
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Some vehicles just lend themselves to customization. Mustangs have always served as a foundation for enthusiasts to manifest their personalities with modifications. For some, that means creating all-out race cars. For others, it is about building pristine show machines. Then we have those who fall somewhere in the middle. Regardless of where you fall, very few are ever really “finished” in the eyes of their owners.
In the case of Jason Brozak, his 2015 Mustang GT became the blank canvas onto which he could bring his artistic visions to life atop its slippery sheetmetal. For him, it’s been about cars for as long as he can remember, but when he laid eyes on the first Mustang created for a global audience, he just had to have one.
The Start Of A Life-Long Obsession
“My parents said that when I was three years old, I could call out the different brands of vehicles I saw on the road. I was obsessed with cars from the start,” Jason recalls. “I eventually bought a 2012 Mustang, but as soon as I saw the new S550 style, I loved it. I ordered mine on November 11, 2014, and it showed up at my dealership a month later. If you have seen some of the past themes I’ve done, it is a magnificent vessel for the race car liveries I’ve run on it.”
While many longtime enthusiasts took a minute to adapt to the S550 style, Jason was onboard from the jump. Rather than pining for retro, he appreciated its cutting-edge style, and it became his muse.
“I loved that it looked totally different from anything from the past, but was still recognizable as a Mustang. The lines reminded me of a Porsche with the wide-looking fenders at all four corners, it looks almost a little exotic,” he adds.
Dipping Into A New Art
While you might be familiar with custom paint and vinyl wraps, Jason is a proponent of another medium for car art: liquid wraps, also known as dips. These spray-on coatings allow for creating a custom look that is easily removable, which allows for changing up the look of a vehicle on a whim.
“When dips started getting popular back in 2011 for small stuff, I was instantly hooked. It was a great way for a do-it-yourself guy like me to customize my car on a budget. Plus the added bonus that it is peelable was huge. I didn’t have multiple cars to choose from in my stable, so being able to change the look, then peel it and change it again was an amazing option,” Jason says of custom liquid wraps. “The first full car I did was my 2012 Mustang GT. I did a replica livery of Vaughn Gittin Jr.’s 2013 Formula Drift competition car. His car was one of the coolest looking at the time and I thought, ‘how awesome would it be to do a replica and drive it on the street?’ I actually got invited to Texas Motor Speedway by Vaughn for the Formula Drift event to meet him! I changed my car every year since and finally just over five years ago I quit my day job and went full time just spraying custom Plastidip for people.”
This process has several advantages, but chief among them is the lack of permanence. While a custom paint job can seem like a lifetime commitment, like a tattoo, and a vinyl wrap can become an albatross when it’s time to peel it off, a dip provides both durability and flexibility.
“Sometimes vinyl can be a pain to remove depending how long it’s been on the vehicle, the climate vehicle is in, and the quality of the material itself. Liquid wrap products bond to the car but not with glue, so there’s no adhesive to break down over the years,” Jason explains. “When I do a theme or livery, it’s all done in layers and stages, like paint. That means all the artwork lines up from panel to panel, making a wonderful, seamless flow to the design. It’s old-school painting techniques meets new-school products.”
Paying Homage To Ken Block
As you can see, Jason obviously has a gift for combining traditional painting techniques with more modern liquid wrap technologies to create custom looks. His Mustang serves not only as a canvas for his art but a rolling billboard for his business. However, the designs for his own vehicles have come from a pair of noted tire slayers.
“I’ve always been a huge fan of Vaughn, Ken, and everything Hoonigan. They have the coolest cars with the wildest liveries,” he adds. “They inspire all gearheads to modify our cars and try to make our mark on the history of car culture.”
While it can take anywhere from a couple to several days to create a custom-dipped look like the Ken Block livery seen here, removing it is far less time-consuming. Such a look can be peeled off in a matter of hours, which leaves the door open to another custom dip.
“It just depends on how I’m feeling. When I come up with an idea, such as the Monster Energy theme, I was inspired by Ken. I actually did my current Ken Block theme in February of last year and was inspired by his 2020 Cosworth Escort livery. Jason says. “I changed it up a little for my taste, but it’s recognizable as a Ken Block livery. I got to meet Ken Block at SEMA in 2015, so when I learned of his passing I cut his numbers out of vinyl and installed them on my car. So my ‘inspired by’ livery became a tribute livery and I plan to run it the rest of the year.”
Making An Appearance
Underneath that striking visage is a 2015 Mustang GT augmented by a Victor Racing Active Aero wing, carbon fiber side skirts, and a carbon fiber front splitter. It rides on Cosmis XT206R 20-inch wheels with a staggered fitment. They are wrapped in Toyo Proxes tires, and the car sits just right above them thanks to Eibach Sportline springs.
While its powertrain is largely stock, there is some extra bark to go along with that bite into the pavement courtesy of an MBRP H-pipe and MBRP Race mufflers. Combined with its striking look, the performance sound helps garner plenty of attention when Jason is out driving.
“It usually gets a lot of attention. It’s wild, it’s bright, and it has a huge wing. It looks like a race car that is being driven on the street,” Jason says. “Lots of people ask if they can take a picture when I’m out just running normal errands. We even went down to Port Aransas, Texas, last month and it happened to be during spring break. We drove up the beach and it garnered a lot of attention.”
The End Is Far From Near
As popular as it is in its current form. Jason is always plotting a new look for the car. He didn’t give us any hints about the car’s next iteration, but rest assured it will resonate with fans of Blue Oval performance.
“I’ve had the car for over eight years and put 141,000 miles on the odometer. Other than changing up the livery next year, I do not have a ton of major changes planned. Unless I pick up some potential sponsorships from this article…” he jokes. “I have some Ford-inspired ideas brewing for it, but I’m not planning to change it until after the first of the year.”
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Replacing a roof is a major home renovation, but homeowners often only need to repair individual sections of a roof to keep it in good condition. Some of the signs that shingles need to be replaced include thin and crinkled edges, a smooth texture or a lighter color. Homeowners can check their shingles periodically by looking out from a second-story window or climbing up a ladder. It’s not always convenient or safe to climb 15 to 30 feet on a ladder, so it makes sense to schedule yearly inspections with a team of Middlesex County roofers.
Professional roofing contractors should be factory trained to ensure they can spot the signs that a roof needs work, and if the contractor has been trained by the roofing supplies company GAF, they may be able to offer a factory inspection on a newly installed roof. GAF Master Elite contractors make up a special class of roofers recognized by GAF as providing superior workmanship and upholding stringent safety and quality standards, and only the top 3 percent of roofers are given this status.
There are many benefits of working with Master Elite roofers, and for an investment as important as a roof, hiring contractors who receive ongoing training will ensure that the proper procedure is always followed.
One of the most overlooked parts of a roofing project is the fenestration, or skylights, installed on the various sides of the roof. Skylights that are improperly installed can be inefficient when it comes to heating in the winter and cooling in the summer, but they can also pose a serious safety hazard if they ever come loose in a high-ceiling room. Skylights are made from acrylic or tempered glass glazing, so they don’t break into large shards of glass if they are knocked in by a tree branch or falling object. Still, it could cost a significant amount to repair.
The U.S. Department of Energy and the National Fenestration Rating Council recommends getting Energy Star skylights that reduce solar heat gain in the summer and increase it in the winter. Homeowners who are completely replacing their roofs have the opportunity to install skylights in different locations and perhaps choose different sizes. North- and south-facing skylights provide the most light with the least solar heat gain; east- and west-facing skylights provide light and warmth at dawn and dusk, respectively. However, it’s important to consider the glare from east- and west-facing windows when planning a renovation. The roofers at Fortified Roofing of Middlesex County NJ can answer your questions regarding new roofs or gutters.
Fortified Roofing of Middlesex County NJ defines a common roofers term:
The word fenestration refers to doors and windows, and the National Fenestration Rating Council provides ratings on the energy efficiency of skylights, windows, windowed doors and sliding glass doors. The most efficient fenestration receives the Energy Star label from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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How can someone check if shingles have leaks?
Leaks don’t always appear in obvious places, and an unseen leak can thoroughly damage floors and ceilings in attics, closets and other places that aren’t inspected regularly. Upstairs windows give homeowners a limited view of the roof, so climbing up on a ladder is the only way to look for brittle, cracked and worn shingles as well as algae, moss and hail damage. Factory-trained contractors provide this service during routine inspections.
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- With celebrities continuing to pad their bank accounts through endorsement deals, some questions remain: What makes them an icon? Is it their initial rise to fame or their brand? (See the Roger Federer story below)
- And a follow-up question: Do the celebrities make the brands or do the brands make the celebrity, and just how much influence do they have? For instance, can Kevin Durant’s new partnership with cannabis marketplace Weedmap destigmatize marijuana like the Kardashians did for CBD? This could help vindicate Sha'Carri Richardson after her Olympic dreams were dashed.
- Speaking of brands, what do Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Tiffany & Co. and Basquiat have in common? Well, they share an ad and a controversy. The power couple recently unveiled their ownership of the late artist's painting in an ad for Tiffany & Co. Social media has been questioning as to how the notoriously anti-capitalism Basquiat would weigh in on this choice.
- Finally, "I think we'll need a bigger boat" (or bandwagon that is) as the NFT craze continues adding names like Visa, eSports, and the late, great Kobe. But with all the hype, the hackers are circling the waters.
As a friendly reminder, if there are topics you’d like to see featured, please feel free to contact me at [email protected].
Endorsements, Sponsorships & Investments
Roger Federer’s Biggest Legacy? It Might Be His Billion-Dollar Brand
August 25, 2021 via New York Times - Global Business (subscription may be required)
He was on his way to becoming one of the few athletes in history to earn one billion dollars during his playing career, a milestone he reportedly surpassed this year, joining Tiger Woods, Floyd Mayweather, LeBron James, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Federer’s two decades of on-court achievements only begin to account for that stunning total: About $130 million of Federer’s earnings has come from official prize money, a figure that puts him second on the all-time list in tennis to Djokovic’s $152 million. The rest has come through sponsorships, endorsements, appearance fees at tournaments and lucrative exhibition events around the world.
$tar Coin's New Brand Ambassadors: Mark Thomas, Nick Merico, Nashla Aguilar, MoonTellThat And Tavo Betancourt
August 24, 2021 via Benzinga
$tar Coin, riding high after its successful launch, is making more news with the announcement that celebrities Nashla Aguilar, Tavo Betancourt, MoonTellThat, Nick Merico and Mark Thomas have become $tar Coin’s Brand Ambassadors. The endorsements from five major figures in the entertainment industry are sure to excite $tar Coin’s supporters.
Gonzaga Inks Deal With Giannis-Backed Sports Drink Brand Ready
August 24, 2021 via Sportico – Business (subscription may be required)
Perennial college basketball powerhouse Gonzaga University has selected Giannis Antetokounmpo-backed sports brand Ready Nutrition as the official sports drink of its athletic department. The two-time NBA MVP and star of the champion Milwaukee Bucks is an investor and co-owner of the company, alongside three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year.
Celebrity Endorsed Fitness Brand Limbers Up in Leeds
August 24, 2021 via The Business Desk - Yorkshire
A well-known fitness brand is adding Leeds to its list of locations with a brand new studio. Barrecore is opening its 13th studio on Thursday, September 2nd, at the city’s brand-new Mustard Wharf complex at South Bank. With celebrities including Claudia Schiffer and Rita Ora as huge fans of the method and publicly endorsing the technique it proves suitable for everyone due to its low impact way of working the body.
Beyoncé, Jay-Z Blasted Over Basquiat Painting in Tiffany & Co. Ad
August 23, 2021 via New York Post
This is a real Basquiat case. New York City’s preeminent power couple, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, are facing backlash online after appearing in a new Tiffany & Co. advertising campaign that features a never-before-seen painting by late NY artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Many critics are wondering how the anti-capitalist Basquiat would feel about having his work featured in a jewelry ad.
Cal Signs Landmark Sponsorship Deal With Crypto Exchange: Get Ready for FTX Field at Memorial Stadium
August 23, 2021 via Mercury News - Business
In its relentless search for new sources of revenue, the Cal athletic department has gone to a place where cash is neither cold nor hard. The Bears announced on Monday (August 23) a sponsorship agreement with FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange regulated in the United States that will receive naming rights to the field at Memorial Stadium.
Kevin Durant Aims to Destigmatize Pot With New Partnership
August 19, 2021 via ESPN
In a significant step, Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant announced a partnership and sponsorship deal with cannabis marketplace Weedmaps on August 19, and said he plans to use his platform to destigmatize marijuana use among athletes.
Cleared to Earn Money, College Athletes Tap Creative Sides
August 18, 2021 via Honolulu Star Advisor
The NCAA’s decision to allow athletes to be paid for their fame and celebrity has led to scores of deals big and small from coast to coast since July 1. Sponsorships and endorsements are the most common, but there has been another welcome wrinkle: athletes are now able to show off their creative, artistic sides and earn some money while they’re at it.
Film & TV
How the ‘Black Widow’ Battle Could Break the Mold on Hollywood Dealmaking
August 25, 2021 via Hollywood Reporter
When Scarlett Johansson sued Disney on July 29 over her Black Widow pay, one community in Hollywood took the development especially personally: the ranks of transactional attorneys who negotiate deals for top talent. For many of them, the suit over the film’s concurrent release in theaters and on Disney+ not only highlights the complexity of compensation in the streaming era, it’s also evidence of massive disruption to relationships.
Pac-12 Football Strategy: Timing of Expansion Decision, Future of Conference Schedule and Goal of ACC-Big Ten Alliance
August 23, 2021 via Press-Enterprise - News
The Pac-12 is facing a series of momentous strategic and structural decisions this year as the college sports landscape undergoes massive transformation. One matter will be resolved before the others. The conference will decide within weeks whether it wants to expand — but not which schools it might add. “We’ll have a decision in the next couple weeks about whether or not we’re looking at expansion,’’ commissioner George Kliavkoff told the Hotline. “If we do look at expansion, then it would be a process that we would go through.
Colin Cowherd Network Acquires SEC Podcast as Super Status Looms
August 24, 2021 via Sportico – Business (subscription may be required)
Colin Cowherd’s podcast network, The Volume, is diving deeper into college football with the acquisition of its first daily program, The Jboy Show, hosted by former South Alabama baseball player-turned-college football coach Jake Crane. Since launching a year ago, the SEC-focused podcast has amassed 2 million downloads.
Concerts Have Been Pummelled by the Pandemic. These Should Be the Live Music Industry’s Golden Rules for the Next Year
August 25, 2021 via Music Business Worldwide
Live music has been bruised the hardest during recurring lockdowns, but the tentative first steps back are being taken. Venues, artists, crew, suppliers and the rest suffered enormously during the pandemic and so we should go to more shows than ever to help propel this part of the business to new heights.
Mindset, an Artist-Driven Mental Wellness Audio Platform, Raises a $8.7 Million From Scooter Braun and Others
August 25, 2021 via Techcrunch
Mindset, a platform featuring personal story collections from recording artists, announced on August 25 that it raised $8.7 million in seed funding. As co-founders of the K-pop focused podcast production company DIVE Studios, brothers Brian Nam, Eric Nam and Eddie Nam noticed that the studio’s best performing content came from podcast episodes.
Aerosmith Inks Deal to Bring Entire Catalog to Universal Music Group
August 23, 2021 via Music Business Worldwide
This past week, it was Madonna and Warner Music Group. This time, it’s Aerosmith and Universal Music Group, jointly unveiling a new deal inked just ahead of the band’s 50th anniversary.
Applebee’s Puts Smooth Marketing Moves on ‘Fancy Like’ Song
August 23, 2021 via Nation's Restaurant News
Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill + Bar is bringing back the Oreo Cookie Shake as country singer Walker Hayes’ “Fancy Like” hit, with lyrics that feature the treat as well as the brand’s Bourbon Street Steak, continues to dominate the record charts.
Method Man Launches Tical World™- the First Crypto- & Community-Owned Comic Universe
August 21, 2021 via Metro Atlanta Black
Method Man is a multi-talented personality, having transitioned his multi-platinum, award-winning success in the music industry into the film industry, with an award-winning career in acting and producing; as an NAACP Award-winning actor in Power: Book II and executive producing "Wu-tang: An American Saga," now entering its second season on Hulu. Now, the self-proclaimed "comic book geek," and host of the Marvel/Method podcast, is following in the footsteps of Stan Lee by launching his own comic universe, Tical World™, featuring original characters that will evolve into storylines for interactive comic books, TV shows, feature films, and video games.
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
2CrazyNFT, a Tripod of Crypto, eSports and NFTs
August 23, 2021 via MarketWatch - All Company Press Releases News & Commentary
Merging the emerging technology of non-fungible tokens and the multibillion-dollar online gaming industry otherwise known as eSports is a crazy but innovative idea. A major highlight of the idea is that it is bound to attract more utility to NFTs, which have gained wide social acceptance, both in the crypto and creators communities. 2CrazyNFT is trailing this novel path with its NFT cum eSports platform positioned to provide more fun and experience for online game enthusiasts and players.
Visa Buys a Mohawked CryptoPunk NFT for $165,000: All You Need to Know
August 24, 2021 via NDTV - Technology
Visa is the latest major firm to join the burgeoning NFT craze. It has announced that it bought a CryptoPunk, one of thousands of NFT-based digital avatars, for nearly $165,000.
Soon NFTs Will Enable In-Game Item Ownership in the Metaverse
August 24, 2021 via Yahoo Finance - Top Stories
Cryptocurrencies and the gaming industry merge around NFTs. This is because NFTs represent a form of provable, digital ownership. An NFT can be linked to art, such as digital music, movies, or it could be tied to real-world property, such as real estate.
A Trove of Unseen Kobe Bryant Photos Will Be Auctioned as NFTS, With All Proceeds Going to His Youth Sports Foundation
August 24, 2021 via Business Insider- Silicon Alley Insider News
A collection of never-before-seen photos of the legendary Kobe Bryant is being launched as NFTs. The collection, entitled "Kobe," consists of eight black and white photos of the basketball player photographed in 1999. All proceeds will benefit the Mamba & Mambacita Sports Foundation.
This Time It’s Different: When Defi Meets NFTS
August 23, 2021 via CryptoPost
With decentralized finance and NFTs seeing a meteoric rise, it’s easy to believe crypto apps are finally breaking through. But is there actually real user growth, or is it just the same influencers moving from one hyped market to the next?
$500,000 for a Picture of a Rock NFT Says Where the Cycle Is
August 24, 2021 via Washington Post - Business News
NFTs are an innovation that might be even more important than the cryptocurrencies they are based on. But not like this.
NBA Top Shot Adds WNBA Moments Amid NFT Rebound
August 25, 2021 via Sportico – Business (subscription may be required)
Even before Dapper Labs executives launched NBA Top Shot, they knew to expect volatility. Such is life in the early days of blockchain technology. Through the ups and downs, Dapper Labs head of partnerships Caty Tedman said in an interview on August 24 that her hope is that, “every time there’s a spike, there’s something new for people to do… so that there’s a reason to stick around.”
NFTs Are Here to Stay, Dominate and Slay
August 25, 2021 via Crunchbase - News
Everything blockchain comes in waves and cycles, and the NFT craze is absolutely no exception. The hype wave of the first half of 2021 as many celebrities raced to cash in on the mania ultimately fizzled out. Still, the NFT obituaries that started circulating the crypto press were premature.
Hackers Impersonate OpenSea Employees in an Attempt to Steal Cryptocurrency Assets and NFTs
August 25, 2021 via IT Security News
Recently, it has been found that an aggressive phishing attack in progress on the crypto gods platform OpeaSea is targeting its clients in order to steal NFTs and cryptocurrency.
Right of Publicity
Atlanta Braves Become First MLB Team to Sign NIL Deals With Student-Athletes
August 23, 2021 via WRDW
The Atlanta Braves announced on August 23 the signing of NIL contracts with two local student-athletes, University of Georgia gymnast Rachel Baumann and Georgia Tech quarterback Jordan Yates. With this signing, the Braves become the first Major League Baseball team to officially partner with student-athletes since the NCAA and state regulations were passed last month.
After Losing MLB License, Topps Should Pivot to College Sports Trading Cards
August 23, 2021 via Forbes – Business (subscription may be required)
Founded as a chewing gum company in 1938, Topps has been synonymous with baseball trading cards since the 1950s. As recently as last month, Topps was planning to go public with an exciting $1.3 billion SPAC merger with Mudrick Capital. However, last week, both Major League Baseball and the MLBPA declined to extend their licensing deals with Topps, thus placing the company’s long-term future in peril.
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- Fun in the Sun
For splashing good times, head up to the 20th floor for some fun in the sun at our Family Pool. Lounge all day in the cabanas, chill on the poolside swing, forget about time and enjoy the smiles all around. With 360˚ views of the city, it is impossible not to be inspired and energized from here.
- Kid-friendly Amenities
Spacious and botanically inspired, our rooms and suites celebrate the natural, verdant flora of the Garden City. Our thoughtful touches and kid-friendly amenities such as child-sized bathrobes, plush toys and age-appropriate activity kits are certain to delight young guests and make their stays comfortable.
- Kids Eat Free
Getting food to be both nutritious and tasty for children is no mean feat, but our culinary maestros take pride in creating enjoyable dining experiences for our youngest guests. During your stay, enjoy complimentary kid-friendly menu options for kids ages 6 and under and 50% off breakfast for children ages 7 to 12 (excluding In-Room Dining and poolside orders). Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times in our dining outlets.
- Eat, Play, Shop and Dine
Head to downtown Orchard Road and take a leisurely walk down one of the world’s largest shopping streets just minutes away from our Hotel, and enjoy the many family-friendly malls, restaurants, cafés, and indoor activity centres and playgrounds along the way. A specially created guide to kid-friendly activities around town is also available upon request, making it even easier to maximize time and fun together.
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SINGAPORE BOTANIC GARDENS
Recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015, this 150-year-old green space features highlights such as the National Orchid Garden, a swan lake and tropical trees. Let us arrange a picnic by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra or a visit to the Jacob Ballas Children’s Garden, where your kids can learn about shrubs, plants and all things green through interactive exhibits and fun activities. - An approximate 15-minute drive from the Hotel
Step into the Kampong Glam district – originally a thriving port town and Singapore’s oldest urban quarter – and discover an eclectic enclave where history and culture blend seamlessly with a trendy lifestyle scene. Visit the 195-year-old Sultan Mosque, one of Singapore’s most prominent mosques, and explore the many side streets. Discover the rich heritage of the Malay, Arab and Bugis communities through iconic markers such as the Malay Heritage Centre and a variety of shops along Arab Street and Bussorah Street that span quirky boutiques by local labels to those touting traditional wares, including Persian carpets and fabrics, kebaya (traditional Nonya dress) and handmade perfumes. - An approximate 20-minute drive from the Hotel
From family-friendly play areas and attractions to pristine beaches, Sentosa is brimming with activities for families, as well as plenty of hotel and dining options. Whether you’re looking for an adrenaline rush or a day of relaxing in the sun, the well-loved island resort is bound to fulfil your wishes. - An approximate 30-minute drive from the Hotel
JEWEL CHANGI AIRPORT
Singapore’s Changi Airport is a destination in itself. Consistently ranked as the best airport in the world, Changi boasts an addition inside: Jewel Changi Airport, which transforms Singapore’s world-class aviation hub into a lifestyle destination. Seamlessly linked to Terminal 1’s Arrival Hall and by a pedestrian walkway from Terminals 2 and 3, the Jewel complex intertwines artistry and nature in a 10-storey nexus that features a sparkling mix of dining establishments, retail options and a vast playscape.
More for Kids
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- Child-Sized Bathrobes and Slippers
- Children and Infant Toiletries
- Complimentary In-Restaurant Dining for Children under age 6
- DVDs and Video Games
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Certain things about Better Call Saul are fated to happen, as we know where Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) will end up in several year’s time. The fun is seeing the details of the journey, but chances to truly surprise us are difficult to execute. Jimmy’s tenure at Davis & Main was doomed from the start, of course, and last week I theorised that he may try and start a law practice with Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn), and “Inflatable” saw both of those things happen.
Well, sort of.
While there are still ways for the writers to bend the specifics of what happens, to keep us on our toes, but this was an episode that largely went exactly as expected.
That’s not a criticism. “Inflatable” was a huge amount of fun, and I was very pleased to get an episode with the focus back on Jimmy after a string of episodes where Mike’s (Jonathan Banks) been the star of the show. The opening flashback was very interesting—mainly because it started to to suggest an alternative explanation for Chuck’s story about Jimmy swindling their father out of $14,000, sending him to an early grave, but ended in a way that actually confirmed Chuck’s theory.
It seems that Chuck Snr (Rafael Sbarge) was a naive sucker, frequently targeted by scam artists passing through town, and little Jimmy was the only person who could see his dad’s trusting nature was being exploited. For awhile, it seemed likely the McGill patriarch actually lost $14k through a lifetime of being conned by strangers, not his youngest son being light-fingered, but it seems little Jimmy did take one grifter’s talk of “wolves and sheep” to heart and started stealing from his own family. That was unexpected, because until then the scene was doing a marvellous job presenting a different view on Chuck’s story from last week’s episode, but I guess Better Call Saul wants us to remember Jimmy’s far from a saint.
The major storyline this week was about Jimmy and Kim finding new employment. Jimmy decided to get himself fired from D&M, so he can keep a bonus, and went out of his way to become a huge irritant to Cliff (Ed Begley, Jr.): wearing garish suits, refusing to flush toilets after using them, using a messy juicer at work, playing the bagpipes badly in his office, and generally being more like the ‘Saul Goodman’ character from Breaking Bad, in the kind of environment that won’t tolerate kooky behaviour. And it was all presented in a dazzling sequence of colourful split-screens, with the amusing presence of the inflatable Airdancer that gave Jimmy the idea to begin with.
Naturally, it worked. Jimmy was fired from the best job he’s ever had, and then moved back to the Nail Salon back-office, with only his beloved Cocobolo desk to show for it. I have to wonder how the Sandpiper case will go for D&M, now Jimmy’s not around to grease the wheels with all the elderly claimants, but perhaps that whole storyline is being retired now.
I’d suggested this idea only last week, so was feeling pleased with myself for predicting Jimmy would want to go into business with Kim, suggesting they join forces as Wexler-McGill. As former mailroom employees who have risen through the ranks, almost in parallel, it would be the dream situation for Jimmy to work alongside his girlfriend in business—but, alas, it wasn’t to be. Not quite. While Kim’s tempted by Jimmy’s offer, and eventually realises her move to Schweikart & Cokely would be just as suffocating as Jimmy’s employment with Davis & Main has been, by the end of “Inflatable” she’s offering him a compromise: they each run two separate law firms, under the same roof, sharing some of the financial burden. It seems fair. Both achieve independence and can support each other as friendly rivals, but Kim doesn’t have to get involved with Jimmy’s more “colourful” approach to lawyering.
Mike’s subplot wasn’t very substantial this week, although it nudged things along towards the finale. He’s changed his story to the cops, meaning Tuco’s sentence will be halved, and has used Hector Salamanca’s payoff to get his daughter-in-law Stacey (Kerry Condon) to a new house in a better part of town. The shot of Mike parked outside the Salamanca’s restaurant was very ominous. Is he plotting some of revenge? Isn’t that a bit stupid? Does Mike really think he can get his own back on the Salamanca family?
Overall, “Inflatable” was a deceptively important episode, as it’s clearly moving the story on to a different level with Jimmy and Kim’s careers. Better Call Saul continues to do an impressive job making it all feel very interesting, although a lot of that comes from the performances of Odenkirk and Seehorn. I’m a little disappointed we won’t be getting a season of Wexler-McGill exploits, however, as watching someone like Kim trying to work with someone like Jimmy would have been comedy gold. | <urn:uuid:3d08a90f-ed9f-47c5-8559-7a802fbb4972> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.framerated.co.uk/better-call-saul-2x7-inflatable/ | 2024-04-25T07:31:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.981437 | 1,163 |
'You come into this world taking your first breath, and ...'
This is a story about the ordinary — a common, everyday event happening to someone everywhere.
But it wasn’t to Mary Flesner when it fell upon her.
Mary stood at her husband’s bedside and looked down with helpless, empty hands as Jim’s breathing struggled like an exhausted runner. Then it stopped.
She leaned over for a final kiss, and when she lifted her head she was alone, even among her good friends standing nearby.
Sickness sometimes gives plenty of notice of what is to come, and the approach of death seems to be a long road. However, the terminus of that road is always a cliff, and when you fall over, you’re a widow.
Mary Flesner was a widow.
He was gone, the 65-year-old man who had been every day to her for almost 44 years.
One month later, Mary, 64, sits in her comfy dollhouse home in the Windansea area of La Jolla and talks about dealing with Thanatos, as the Greeks personified death. She is not a teary, handkerchief-twisting woman. When she chokes up, she chokes it back.
Mary’s memory of Wednesday, June 14, is as fresh as a red scar.
“By 11:10 in the morning he was gone. My friends and I just went through the motions at lunch. I came home, just mentally exhausted and numb.
“And when the door was finally shut that night, the house was empty.”
She’s been supported by female friends, but they can’t be there at night when half the bed is empty and the ceiling is the only thing to stare at.
“We talk a lot about Jim and cry sometimes because he was such a special guy. I’m lucky. I've been surrounded by people almost every day, but people do have their own lives, I understand that.”
Jim and Mary lived quietly in retirement in their small house not far from the beach. They had both retired early from airline jobs at the airport.
Then in 2015, the beginning of the end: Jim Flesner was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver. It was a shock to both because he had not been more than an average drinker. But there are multiple causes by which that clever disease can sneak into the body.
“When he was diagnosed, he didn't accept it at first. But, like, if he’d have a glass of wine, he’d make it half wine and half water. It was kinda cute in a way. Then about 10 months ago, he just quit (drinking) completely.”
Jim also developed congestive heart failure, diagnosed last November. Sustainable health was gone and would never return.
Early last month, his body faltered and he spent 36 hours in the hospital, then sent home on Sunday, June 11. He wasn’t well, but there seemed no reason for him not to go home. However, as Mary and the doctors later learned, an infection was already hard at work.
“I was very blessed that I was able to sleep with him that night. Our cat slept with us; I think the cat knew something was going on.
“The next morning, Monday, June 12, he was not feeling good. I could barely get him out of the shower. I put him in a chair in our bedroom and asked my girlfriend to come over to kind of observe him. I just need another set of eyes and somebody to help me.
“I called his liver specialist. She suggested he go back to the E.R. and so I called 911. Jim did not want to go back into the hospital, but I said, ‘We gotta go.’
“When the paramedics came, Jim apologized to them. He said, ‘Sorry, guys. I didn’t mean to disrupt your day.’ He was an ultra considerate guy.”
After Jim was admitted to the emergency room, his decline became precipitous. Unaware of what was happening, Mary was alone in the waiting room when she saw something ominous approaching — two doctors.
“When you’re in the E.R. waiting room, you don’t ever want to get a visit from two doctors.”
The solemn physicians told her that Jim was very sick. Sepsis, or blood poisoning, was attacking his weakened system and winning.
In a corner of the waiting room, in low voices, she was asked if she had a DNR (do not resuscitate) order and whether she had her affairs in order.
Those words seeped in like water sluggishly swirling into a slow drain.
She says, “Now when I look back, yeah. They were being honest with me. I was stunned, but never in denial. But I thought, ‘I’ve got to give Jim a fighting chance.’”
Jim was moved to the intensive care unit where all the drugs, beeping monitors, wires and IV punctures could not forestall the creeping chill of what was coming. On Monday night, a ventilator was inserted down his throat and he was kept unconscious with drugs, Mary was told.
For two days, Mary was there, sort of — part fog, part shadow, part glare of reality. Hospital staff members came in and did their jobs quietly and with straight faces. They gave off rays of compassion.
Though Mary and Jim had no children, or even extended family, her troupe of friends shared her vigil, took her to lunch, spoke their support or just held her hand.
She had planned to spend Tuesday night in a recliner in his room, but she remembered that Jim hated the idea of a “death watch.” So when a nurse said, “Mary, go home,” she did.
Wednesday morning, as she stood at Jim’s bedside, it was clear what was going to happen. Only when.
The critical care doctor came into the room. He was Dr. Achal Dhupa, and Mary recognized him as the one who had treated Jim years earlier.
“I said, ‘Dr. Dhupa, Jim was one of your patients.’ He said, ‘I know,’ and he touched Jim on the shoulder, which, to me, I thought it was just so — nice.
“Dr. Dhupa just quietly said, ‘Let’s let Jim have some dignity.’ And then he also said, ‘You come into this world taking your first breath, and you leave this world taking your last.’ I just loved the things he said. It gave me peace.”
The staff quietly prepared to turn off the life-support equipment.
“My girlfriends came in, eight girls, all of us crying — they all knew Jim — and we all said our goodbyes. And then I said to Dr. Dhupa, I said, ‘Let’s do it.’ Jim was gone in five minutes.”
And that was that.
Before she departed, she sought out a kind nurse whom Jim had wanted to particularly thank but didn’t have the chance. Mary tracked down ICU nurse Matt Lugendill and thanked him for Jim.
Time to go. She walked out of the hospital holding Jim’s bag of clothes. In a few days, they would be fingered over on a Salvation Army rack.
All that was weeks ago, or like yesterday, depending on whether the perspective is yours or Mary’s. Loneliness has moved into her small house until she’s ready to kick it out.
She’s left with financial and other paper threads to untangle. Death creates jobs for the bureaucracy.
“I break down emotionally a little bit by going through all this paperwork. I think, ‘Oh, I want somebody else to do it for me.’ But ultimately, the only person who can do it is me.”
It doesn’t sound like you have pressing financial worries.
“Knock on wood. Hopefully.”
She is aware that ghouls and predators sometimes try to take financial advantage of grieving widows, but none has come around to her house.
Mary has intensified her commitment to a greyhound rescue organization. She also had a second memorial for Jim on July 30. And then, well … you have to find ways to keep busy.
She’s gifting herself with a new paved patio out front. She’s going to spread Jim’s ashes in the shrubs at the edge of the patio because he loved to sit out there and watch life go by.
Sitting in her small living room, she’s relaxed and smiling, but tears are obviously just off-stage. Her eyes redden, but she doesn’t weep, not in front of someone who’s not a girlfriend.
Memories and reminders are everywhere, like knickknacks in a great-grandma’s parlor. She points across the room to a commercial leather chair.
“That’s Jim’s barber chair. He always wanted one. Actually, it’s really comfortable.”
Mary, have you thought about what you'll be doing in, say, 10 years?
She’s matter-of-fact. “I hope I’m not alive in 10 years, to tell you the truth.”
No! Why do you say that?
“I don’t know. Just right now it’s, like, I’m OK if I was to leave this earth right now. I would be OK.”
She pauses and backs off that idea. “I guess it’s the loneliness talking. Anyway, that’s kind of a dumb statement to make.”
That’s depression talk. You don’t seem depressed.
“No, I’m not. I don’t think I am. I have a lot ahead of me. I can travel.”
Who knows? Maybe remarriage.
She feigns being aghast. “Oh, lord no!”
Mary’s on that grief-recovery roller coaster. Tears erase smiles, or is it the other way around?
“I owe it to myself to remain strong. I mean, Jim’s gone. I just gotta keep moving forward. Going backward doesn’t do any good.”
She flashes the waggish humor she shared with Jim. “At least I don’t think it does.”
You seem a bounce-back person.
“Yeah, I’m trying to be. To tell you the truth, Jim, he didn’t dwell on his sickness. I would get upset sometimes and cry about it and he’d say, ‘Why are you crying? Quit your crying.’ That always is in the back of my mind. I can hear him saying that to me, so it's kind of like I haven’t really cried. Death isn’t the worst thing in the whole world.”
She shakes her head as a form of sighing. “I guess death is actually the worst thing in the world.” Then, she rethinks that. “Well, I don't know about that. Actually, it’d be how you die. You could ...”
You could die unloved.
“Right, and ...”
You could die alone.
That’s a word with an echo. She absorbs it. “Alone.”
Carry on, Mary.
Once, while browsing the UC Berkeley bookstore, I ran across a small book of verse by an undersung writer named Theodora Kroeber. She wrote, thoughtfully:
When I am dead
Cry for me a little.
Think of me sometimes
But not too much.
It is not good for you
For your thoughts to dwell
Too long on the Dead.
Think of me now and again
As I was in life
It is pleasant to recall
But not for long.
Leave me in peace
As I shall leave
you, too, in peace.
While you live
Let your thoughts be
with the Living.
Fred Dickey’s home page is freddickey.net
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It’s a common problem and a very annoying one: Your dog is well-behaved when you’re home, but as soon as you leave, he can’t seem to keep his mouth shut.
How to Stop Your Dog Barking When Alone teaches you how to teach your dog not to bark when he is left alone.
Click below for the video (with full transcript) …
Here are a few ideas for you.
1. Exercise. Your dog needs exercise before you leave the house. Tired dogs are more likely to want a quiet rest time.
2. Toys. Place treats inside a Kong toy, and the dog will work to get the treats out. This is a behaviour that is incompatible to barking.
3. Sounds. Leave your radio or television on at a normal level. These approximate normal household sounds you are present.
4. Smells. Puppies and dogs have powerful noses. Make sure to leave something of yours that has your scent.
This is a problem you need to fix, and fast!
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My indicator fuse has blown a few times over the last few days. I had to change the fuse again today but it has made both the indicators go at the same time. Is there anything else I can check to fix the problem?
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- Shorted or sticking Hazard switch
- Shorted Flasher Control Module
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We also developed a web application of the Vehicle Agent Framework for a vehicle organization with a user-friendly application for its customers and management. This Online Car Dealer offers a mechanism for the management to keep track of vehicle information, their customer details, employee details, and even payment details through a web-based program, and even to communicate to the world.
Web Vehicle Agent System
The company performs all the vehicle transfers manually and the company stores the customer information and the vehicle details and the RTO document transfer data in paper files, this method is not reliable because maintaining the record details in paper files is not easy and they find it very difficult to hold the record in the paper as they have to do a lot of transactions every day and up to n. So we’ve already created this online application.
The “Web Vehicle Dealer” stores day-to-day management purchases remotely and allows management to keep track of transactions better. Customers may search for the vehicles they wish to purchase on the web and may place an order for the vehicle they wish to purchase and if they are not happy with the list of vehicles that have been posted to the site, may also submit a request message to the vehicle agency. Any client who wishes to sell his or her car to the vehicle agency should give the details of his or her vehicle to the company online, and the management can quickly meet the needs of the customer.
A message reception device is available where the vendor receives a message until the R.C transfer has been completed and even the purchaser receives a message about the R.C transfer so that he can retrieve the records.
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The inhabited part of the island is in the southeastern corner, on either side of the isthmus that leads to the point of Capo Graziano. This was the site of excavations of two early Bronze Age settlements, and the area gives its name to the "Capo Graziano culture," a period of settlement in the archipelago in the early 2nd millennium B.C.
An underwater archaeological museum lies off the coast of Capo Graziano. Accessible to experienced scuba divers accompanied by a local guide, it serves as a reminder of the innumerable shipwrecks off these coasts. Relics date from Greek ships of the 5th century B.C. to a 17th-century Spanish galleon. For information on visiting the site and other dives off Filicudi, contact I Delfini.
The Spiaggia del Porto and Spiaggia di Pecorini on either side of Capo Graziano are good pebbly beaches (no sandy beaches are on the island), and countless coves and inlets are ready to explore on boat trips around the island. Keep an eye out to the north of the island for a vast pointed basalt rock known as Il Giafante, Sicilian dialect for "elephant," the animal it (very approximately) resembles. On the west coast of the island, Punta Perciato, a natural arch carved out of the volcanic rock by infinite waves, sticks out into the sea. Nearby is the Grotta del Bue Marino. The most celebrated of the myriad caves around the island's coastline, "the Cave of the Sea-Ox" is named for the oxenlike "lowing" made by the echo of the waves. Rent a boat at the port, or catch a ride with a fisherman to get close, then swim into the cave to appreciate the beautiful light effects that turn the water an extraordinary shade of deep turquoise. The Festa del Mare is a moveable feast, celebrated here each August, when a candlelit procession of decorated boats makes its way toward the cave where a statue of Eolus is deposited on the seabed.
The sunset from Stimpagnato, on the south of the island, to the east of Pecorini a Mare, is spectacular. The sun sinks into the sea by the rock known as La Canna, with Alicudi in the background.
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Student iPad User Agreement
In November 2018, a bond was passed by the Flagstaff Unified School District community in support of renovating and maintaining schools, upgrading technology and school buses, and enhancing learning environments with the use of technology in instructional resources in grades K-12. Beginning in January 2020, FUSD will begin rolling out iPad’s to every student at Coconino High School, Flagstaff High School, Summit High School, Mount Elden Middle School, and Sinagua Middle School. iPads will be distributed to all elementary schools in the beginning of the 2020-2021 academic year.
As part of this program, each student and their parent or guardian is required to sign a usage agreement. The content of the agreement is available below and the signature page is available here for download in English and available here for download in Spanish.
iPad Loan Agreement
Flagstaff Unified School District
iPad Loan Agreement
iPads are intended for use at school each day. In addition to teacher
expectations for iPad use, students may access grades, attendance
and other information through the StudentVUE app. Students are
responsible for keeping their iPad’s battery charged for school each
day and bringing their iPad to all classes, unless specifically instructed
not to do so by their teacher. If your iPad is left at home, you are
responsible for getting the coursework completed as if you had
your iPad present.
Receiving Your iPad
You will receive your iPad once:
● You have signed and submitted an FUSD Technology Responsible Use Agreement
● You and your parents/guardians have reviewed the iPad Loan Agreement, have accepted the terms of the iPad Loan Agreement and have returned the signed Agreement to your school.
Prior to receiving your student iPad:
● Identify a passcode that is secure, will be easy to remember and be prepared to enter that during the iPad distribution process. Each iPad will require a six character number and/or letter security passcode. Once a passcode is set up, Touch ID can also be set up and used to unlock the iPad.
Taking Care of Your iPad
The iPad is school property and all users are expected to follow the acceptable use policy for technology within Flagstaff Unified School District (FUSD Technology Responsible Use Agreement). You are responsible for the general care of the iPad you have been issued by the school. iPads that are broken or fail to work properly must be taken to your school library for evaluation of the equipment.
iPad and iPad Accessory Care
You will be held responsible for maintaining your assigned iPad and for keeping it along with the issued accessories in good working order.
A. Your iPad should be secured properly in a bag or backpack while transporting. It should never be transported, stored or used in the same location as water bottles or other liquids.
B. Keep your iPad charging “brick” and cable together.
C. Your iPad batteries must be charged and ready for school each day.
D. iPad district barcodes may not be removed.
E. Your iPad and accessories must remain free of any writing, drawing, stickers, labels, paint, nail polish, etc. or any other physical alterations that are not the property of or applied by FUSD.
F. Your iPad should always be kept within the protective case provided by the District.
G. iPad cases provided by the school district must be returned with only normal wear and no alterations to avoid paying a case replacement fee. (see Fee schedule below)
H. Apple iPad charging cables and Apple power adapter charging “bricks” provided by the school district must be returned in normal working condition, free of wear and exposed components and with no alterations to avoid paying a replacement fee.(see Fee schedule below)
I. iPads that malfunction or are damaged must be reported to your school library.
J. iPads that are stolen must be reported immediately to your school library and a Police Report must be filed by parent or guardian.
K. In instances of intentional damage or lost iPad , please refer to the Fee schedule below.
L. When at home, do not leave your iPad unattended where it could be accidentally damaged by food, liquids, pets or young children.
● Only use a clean, soft, dry cloth or anti-static cloth to clean the screen. No cleansers of any types (i.e. no Clorox wipes). Cleansers will damage the anti-reflective and fingerprint-resistant coating.
● Do not lean on the top of the iPad. The screens are particularly sensitive to damage from excessive pressure on the screen.
● Do not place anything near the iPad that could put pressure on the screen or scratch the glass (keep this in mind when placing your iPad in a backpack or shoulder bag). Close the protective cover on the case when not in use.
Storing your iPad
If your school allows you to take your iPad home, iPads should not be stored in a student’s vehicle at school or at home. When you are not using your iPad, it should be stored in a secure location. iPads must never be left in a location susceptible to extreme cold or hot weather. You are responsible for the care of the keyboard that comes with your iPad case.
iPads left in Unsupervised Areas
Under no circumstances should iPads be left in unsupervised areas. Unsupervised areas include the school grounds and campus, lunchroom, computer lab, locker rooms, library, unlocked classrooms, gymnasiums, auditorium, and hallways as well as off-campus locations. Any iPad left in these areas is in danger of being stolen. If an iPad is found in an unsupervised area, it will be taken to the school office or library.
Student iPads can be identified in the following ways:
● Student name visible on the iPad login screen
● Record of serial number
● Enrollment of iPads within the district Mobile Device Management system.
Managing Files & Software
It is strongly recommended that you save documents to your district iCloud or Google Drive account. In addition, you are able to share documents via Google Classroom or Canvas.
Please note: Storage space will be available on the iPad, but it is LIMITED and it will NOT be backed up in case of re-imaging or device malfunction. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that work is not lost due to mechanical failure or accidental deletion. iPad malfunctions are not an acceptable excuse for not handing in schoolwork. Should iPad issues occur, talk with your teachers regarding those circumstances.
In the rare case that the network is unavailable, the District will not be responsible for lost or missing data.
Settings and Operations
Your iPad has security features and filtering intended to protect and prohibit students from accessing inappropriate materials on the internet. Security features and filtering are in effect at school, home or other networks, including public libraries, restaurants and airports.
Circumvention of Managed Settings
All student iPads are remotely managed by the Technology Department for the purposes of initializing and managing all iPads in a secure and organized fashion. Any attempts by students to circumvent any district management settings through software restoration, iOS setting manipulation, remote proxy settings or jailbreaking will result in confiscation of the iPad and/or disciplinary action.
The district retains control, custody and supervision of all district technology. The district reserves the right to monitor student usage of all district technology. Students have no right of privacy in their use of district technology, including stored files. Students may be selected at random, at any time, to provide their iPad for inspection.
If technical difficulties occur, your iPad will be restored to factory settings. This approach minimizes the “down time” for use of the device during the instructional day. The school does not accept responsibility for the loss of any software or documents deleted due to a reformat and reimage. It is recommended to have all your data backed up to iCloud and/or Google Drive at all times. Students should be able to recover files they have saved to these cloud storage services. Depending on the nature of the issues, potential consequences for issues caused intentionally to one’s own or another’s issued iPad may result in confiscation of the iPad with usage allowed only during the school day.
How-to and Troubleshooting Guides - Students have access to simple troubleshooting steps via their school’s website.
Repairing/Replacing Your iPad
FUSD recognizes that with the implementation of student iPads there is a need to protect the investment by both the District and the family.
The following is covered by the district with no charge to families:
● Accidental damage caused by liquid, spills, drops, or other unintentional events.
● Loss of device due to theft; claim must be accompanied by a valid police report.
● Damage caused by fire; claim must be accompanied by official fire report from investigating authority.
● Damage due to an electrical surge.
● Loss or damage caused by natural disasters.
The following is NOT covered by the district and a fee will be charged, see fee schedule below :
● Damage caused by dishonest, fraudulent, intentional, and negligent (not locked and/or stored in an insecure manner or location) or criminal acts. Students and parents will be responsible for the full amount of repair/replacement for damage or loss that falls in this category.
● Damage incurred to a device that is not in the school-issued protective case.
●Intentionally damaged or missing Consumables: USB cables, AC adapters, case or software.
● “Jailbreaking” or otherwise voiding the manufacturer’s warranty by altering the software. Jailbreaking is a term used to describe a process by which normal manufacturer controls on the functionality of the device are bypassed. Jailbreaking of school-issues mobile devices is not permitted.
Costs for iPad repair or replacement
The following prices are estimated costs for each incident that will be made upon further inspection of the iPad or case.
Lost iPad and case and Applecare
Stolen iPad and case (with police report)
Lost iPad Case
Intentionally* damaged beyond repair iPad and Case
Lost or damaged Apple charging cable
Lost or damaged Apple power adapter (12W)
Jailbreaking (modifying the iOS to remove restrictions)
*INTENTIONAL DAMAGE: Students and parents/guardians are responsible for full payment of intentional damages to issued iPads or accessories, or intentional damage to the iPad or accessories of others.This includes any damage to the iPad while the case is not appropriately on the iPad, or damage to the iPad while in the case, and the case has been damaged and has not been submitted for repair. Site Principal will determine culpability.
Should a student’s device become accidentally damaged, the library will provide a replacement device.
The use of FUSD technology resources is a privilege, not a right. The privilege of using the technology resources provided by the district is not transferable or extendable by students to people or groups outside FUSD and terminates when a student is no longer enrolled in FUSD. This iPad Loan Agreement and FUSD Policy are provided to make all users aware of the responsibilities associated with efficient, ethical, and lawful use of technology resources. If a person violates any of the User Terms and conditions named in this document or the Technology Responsible Use Agreement, privileges may be terminated, access to the school district technology resources may be denied, and the appropriate disciplinary action shall be applied. FUSD Student Discipline policies shall be applied to all student infractions. Violations may result in disciplinary action up to and including suspension/expulsion for students. When applicable, law enforcement agencies may be involved.
Student Activities Strictly Prohibited:
● Accessing or downloading VPNs or other proxy-avoiding extensions with the intent of bypassing district security features and filtering.
● Any action that violates existing Board policy or public law.
● Gaining access to other students’ accounts, files, and/or data.
● Exchanging iPads and/or switching iPads (including case and or keyboard); switching/defacing identification labels to conceal fault of damage.
● Use of the school’s Internet for financial or commercial gain or for any illegal activity.
● Participation in credit card fraud, electronic forgery or other forms of illegal behavior.
● Vandalism (any malicious attempt to harm or destroy hardware, software or data, including, but not limited to, the uploading or creation of computer viruses or computer programs that can infiltrate computer systems and/or damage software components) of school equipment.
● Comply with trademark and copyright laws and all license agreements. Ignorance of the law is not immunity. If you are unsure, ask a teacher or parent/guardian.
● Plagiarism is a violation of FUSD’s Code of Conduct. Give credit to all sources used, whether quotes or summarized. This includes all forms of media on the Internet, such as graphics, movies, music and text.
● Use or possession of hacking software is strictly prohibited and violators will be subject to Acceptable Use Policy and Code of Student Conduct. Violation of applicable state or federal law will result in criminal prosecution and/or disciplinary action by the District.
Returning Your Student iPad
Your school iPad and accessories must be returned to the library when the school year ends or your enrollment at the school ends. Students who graduate. graduate early, withdraw, are expelled, or terminate enrollment within FUSD for any other reason must return on the date of withdrawal their individually issued school iPad, district provided case, Apple charging cable, and Apple power adapter charging “brick”, each in damage-free, working condition. If a student fails to return the iPad and accessories (case, cable, power adapter/charging brick, etc.) at the end of the school year or upon termination of enrollment with FUSD, that student and/or student’s parent/guardian will be subject to criminal prosecution or financial/civil liability. FUSD iPad serial numbers have been registered and are traceable with Apple’s Device Enrollment Program servers and may only be activated with a valid FUSD username and password. | <urn:uuid:e6d6f415-9408-48a5-86a4-3100e82b632b> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.fusd1.org/Page/16152 | 2024-04-25T08:35:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.936581 | 2,982 |
California Transparency in Supply Chains Act
Galls, LLC and its divisions, subsidiaries, parents, and affiliates support the goals of the California Transparency in Supply Chain Act of 2010 and does not condone or permit the use of child, forced, indentured, prison, involuntary, or uncompensated labor in the manufacturing of any materials sold by Galls.
The core focus of our commitment is our Vendor Code of Conduct, which outlines Galls’ principal expectations of its supplier’s social employment practices. Galls’ Code of Conduct covers topics including: compliance with laws and regulations, compensation and benefits, labor, labor hours, hiring and employment practices, health and safety, freedom of association, harassment, abuse, and discrimination. Galls requires our suppliers to sign an agreement in which they acknowledge and agree that they will abide by the standards contained in the Code of Conduct.
Galls’ Code of Conduct requires our suppliers to certify that they will abstain from the use of forced, indentured, bonded, voluntary, prison, or uncompensated labor. Galls requires that our Code of Conduct, translated to the native language, is posted in every facility where products Galls sells are made. Additionally, Galls proactively seeks opportunities to partner with Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production (WRAP) certified supplier facilities and encourages all suppliers to obtain WRAP certification.
Galls confirms compliance with its Code of Conduct through a combination of third party certifications and audits conducted by approved third-party audit firms. Any violation or potential violation of the Code of Conduct or any laws or regulations are documented and discussed with the audited facility, which is then required to implement corrective measures. Follow-up audits verify that such corrective measures have taken place, and Galls reserves the right to terminate an agreement with any supplier that does not comply with the Galls’ Code of Conduct.
Suppliers that work with Galls agree to comply with the obligations outlined in Galls’ Code of Conduct and any applicable laws or regulations in the U.S. or abroad. Galls reserves the right to require suppliers to reaffirm, at intervals determined by Galls, their commitment to the Code of Conduct.
Galls’ suppliers are expected to act ethically and are required to maintain compliance with the Galls’ Code of Conduct. In the event of an alleged violation of the Code of Conduct, Galls is committed to investigating and responding with the appropriate action, up to and including termination of the supplier agreement.
The Galls Code of Conduct is provided to each of Galls’ supply chain decision makers (merchandisers, buyers, and sourcing managers) for review and acknowledgment.
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In the vibrant and diverse world of gaming, simulators have always held a special place, offering players an opportunity to step into various real-life roles and experiences. One such simulator that has gained significant popularity, particularly in Bangladesh, is the "Leak BD" bus driving game. Let's take a closer look at this enthralling game that provides a virtual journey through the bustling streets of Bangladesh.
The appeal of the Leak BD game lies in its cultural relevance. Bangladesh, with its unique road conditions and chaotic traffic, presents a distinctive driving experience. The game allows players to navigate through streets reminiscent of Dhaka, Chittagong, or other cities in Bangladesh. For gamers from Bangladesh or those familiar with its urban landscape, this provides a nostalgic and relatable gaming adventure.
Realism and Authenticity
Developers of the Leak BD game have placed a strong emphasis on creating a realistic gaming environment. From accurately replicating local buses and their interior designs to mimicking the specific routes and landmarks, the game strives for authenticity. The realistic depiction of traffic, pedestrians, and the general hustle and bustle of Bangladeshi streets immerse players in an experience that closely mirrors real life.
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Another factor contributing to the game's popularity is its accessibility. The game is designed to be user-friendly, allowing both experienced gamers and newcomers to enjoy the gameplay. This inclusivity has played a crucial role in attracting a diverse player base, expanding its popularity beyond dedicated gamers to casual users looking for an engaging pastime. | <urn:uuid:95e9cd19-069f-4b80-92f6-87918b1b27bd> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.gamesaki.com/2023/09/bus-driving-bangladesh-leak-bd-new.html | 2024-04-25T07:50:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.947741 | 318 |
After nearly ten years without a good PC port, Resident Evil 4, the game that redefined both horror games and the third-person shooter genre, is receiving an HD port for Windows come February 28, 2014, Capcom announced yesterday.
Originally an exclusive on the Gamecube and later ported to practically every console made since, Resident Evil 4‘s PC port was riddled with poor controller support, leaving it mostly ignored by gamers. The HD game will boast keyboard and mouse support, full controller support, 60fps, and bonus content from the original game. Those who pre-order will receive a digital artbook and a digital soundtrack. At a mere $20, this port costs significantly less than the most recent Resident Evil port, Resident Evil: Revelations, which is a full-priced title after being ported from the 3DS.
The game hardly looks HD judging from the screenshots, but for those who never got a chance to enjoy the original or those who just wish to relive their favorite Resident Evil moments, Resident Evil 4: Ultimate HD Edition for PC may prove to be a worthy investment. | <urn:uuid:3dd534e4-e450-451e-8a2b-20ed434310cb> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.gameskinny.com/news/resident-evil-4-ultimate-hd-edition-announced-for-pc/ | 2024-04-25T08:17:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.951752 | 221 |
What are the best books you've ever read?
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1.2.1. % of microfinance self-help groups led by women
1.2.2. % of female membership of self-help groups
2.2. Increased participation of women in governance related to sanitation programs and initiatives
2.2.1. # of women, in senior (director and above) positions in the relevant decision making body (municipal government, utility) directly involved in the design and implementation of sanitation programs and initiatives
The most common direct measure of agency is decision-making. Common proxy indicators include education, employment or individual control over assets. Although they are more focused, direct measures often require more questions in a survey to capture a full picture of agency. Proxy measures may be simpler and cheaper to implement, but they do not necessarily give a full picture of reality. For example, the proxy measure education would not tell you whether a woman’s level of education causes or is caused by greater empowerment among women. In some studies, proxy indicators are categorized as resources, and so are used in addition to the direct measure of decision-making (one component of agency) to capture a more accurate picture of agency in that setting. | <urn:uuid:3c19c5b5-832b-47b4-a12b-4a8d3eb9f3a3> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.gatesgenderequalitytoolbox.org/measuring-empowerment/agency/leadership/ | 2024-04-25T07:14:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.953295 | 382 |
Vehicular homicide is basically a DWI that results in a death. For the vehicular homicide law to apply, the accident must lead to the death of another person other than the driver due to the negligence of a motor vehicle driver.
The reasons for vehicular homicide can include reckless driving, speeding, drunk driving, and gross negligence. Vehicular homicide is also called vehicular manslaughter in other states.
Who is at Risk?
Vehicular homicide is considered one of the most serious criminal offenses in the United States, and is a growing concern in Louisiana. Commonly, vehicular homicide can endanger the lives of people who may be
A passenger from another vehicle
Vehicular Homicide in Louisiana
Louisiana laws are stringent when dealing with cases involving vehicular homicide. Under the rules and regulations specified under Louisiana law, any individual who contributes to or causes the death of another individual while driving a motor vehicle under the influence of drugs or alcohol can be charged with vehicular homicide.
There can be several reasons behind such incidents, but the major ones include driving under the influence of substances like drugs or alcohol that can impair the driver’s hand-eye coordination. The following are the major reasons for most of the vehicle homicides in Louisiana.
Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol
Louisiana law states that a driver who causes a lethal or fatal accident under the influence of intoxicating beverages like alcohol can be charged with vehicular homicide. The same includes drivers whose blood alcohol concentration measures 0.08% or more by weight based upon grams of alcohol per one hundred cubic centimeters of blood when driving a vehicle.
Driving After Consumption of Drugs
With vehicular homicide, Louisiana law penalizes a driver who causes a fatal crash under the influence of legal or illegal, prescribed or non-prescribed drugs. So, vehicular homicide cases can be imposed on drivers under the following circumstances.
If the Individual is under the influence of a controlled substance (like abused substances, designer drugs, or illegal drugs). These substances must fall under Louisiana law's Schedule I, II, III, IV, or V laws.
If any detectable level of a metabolite thereof or controlled substance is found in the driver’s bloodstream.
If the driver has taken legal or non-prescribed medications, regardless of the amount.
Vehicular homicide cases also apply to drivers who may cause accidents under the influence of both alcohol and drugs.
Louisiana’s Vehicular Homicide Penalties
Vehicular homicide is considered a felony in Louisiana. So, convicted drivers may be penalized by law and by regulatory authorities.
A person convicted of vehicular homicide in Louisiana can be required to pay not less than $2,000 and not greater than $15,000 as a penalty or fine.
The convicted driver may also face a two-year driver’s license suspension, including 5 to 30 years in prison, depending on the severity of the offense.
On the other hand, defendants with around 0.15% BAC ( Blood Alcohol Level Chart) have to face at least 5 years in prison.
For repeat offenders, imprisonment comes without the benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.
Apart from that, all offenders of vehicular homicide must mandatorily attend a substance abuse program. The court may also ask them to complete a driver improvement program.
Legal Assistance for Vehicular Homicide in Louisiana
A person charged with vehicular homicide in Louisiana might wish to consider contacting an experienced criminal defense attorney. A vehicular homicide charge can lead to severe punishment by fines or imprisonment, as mentioned above. So, a skillful criminal trial lawyer may be the best resort to handle such cases, assess the overall situation, analyze all aspects of the incident, and build a strong argument for the driver accused of causing someone’s death.
Vehicular homicide is considered a serious offense in Louisiana. Having knowledge of the penalties and fines associated with vehicular homicide can discourage drivers from reckless driving. If you, a friend, or a relative has been charged with vehicular homicide, you should call an experienced criminal defense lawyer immediately. An experienced professional will help you cope with the legal consequences of the case.
Contact Us Today!
Have you been charged with vehicular homicide or another serious crime in Louisiana? Gaynell Williams LLC Attorney at Law offers a free initial consultation to discuss your case. The first consultation can be in person or virtual, on the Internet. Call Gaynell Williams today at (504) 302-2462 for a free consultation as soon as possible.
This information has been provided for informational purposes, is not intended, and should not be construed as legal advice. Please consult your attorney regarding any specific situation under Louisiana law and the applicable state or local laws that may affect your legal rights. | <urn:uuid:e71effb6-3578-4161-9bb5-a2477182edab> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.gaynellwilliamslaw.com/post/vehicular-homicide-in-louisiana-a-comprehensive-guide-for-2023 | 2024-04-25T06:45:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.93184 | 975 |
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The nonprofit Benzie Food Partners benefits from each purchase of this Stars Without Number / Worlds Without Number RPG bundle.
As you’d expect, none of the RPGs in the bundle is based on the Open Game License (OGL).
Like Free RPG Day, the purpose of New Year, New Game is to make trying a new tabletop roleplaying game less scary and more attractive.
DriveThruRPG’s big Christmas in July sale has been on for a few days, with about two weeks left. That’s enough time to see which games are contenders for the best sellers.
Routinely Itemised is a RPG news wrap-up from Geek Native and plenty of other tabletop hobby blogs.
This league table looks like the top 20 fantasy RPGs published this year and sold the best.
Drama again this week with attack lawyers dispatched against Wizards of the Coast, hassles over Kickstarters at Dragonmeet and confusion and concern over the direction Kickstarter itself might be taking.
It’s sale season and DriveThruRPG and sister site DMs Guild have impressive Black Friday and Cyber Monday offers. But, only for 4 or so days.
It’s the run-up to D&D Live 2021, and Wizards of the Coast find themselves in hot water. Renegade and Paradox have pushed turbo on Vampire: The Masquerade, and while Kickstarter activity is down in launches, it’s up in requests.
Worlds Without Number and its fantasy tools are built to be fully compatible with the sci-fi gaming of Stars Without Number and other OSR games, using classic old-school mechanics such as the traditional six attribute scores, hit points, AC, classes, and levels, along with certain modifications and refinements meant to accommodate more modern tastes. | <urn:uuid:281151d5-dc8b-45fc-9ea5-25e6f0636e14> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.geeknative.com/tag/worlds-without-number/ | 2024-04-25T07:30:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.926862 | 366 |
Scientists at Harvard Medical School, the University of California–San Francisco, and the University of Georgia have described how the protein that allows strep and staph bacteria to stick to human cells is prepared and packaged.
Their study (“Unraveling the sequence of cytosolic reactions in the export of GspB adhesion from Streptococcus gordonii”), which could facilitate the development of new antibiotics, appears in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
“Many pathogenic bacteria, including Streptococcus gordonii, possess a pathway for the cellular export of a single serine-rich-repeat protein that mediates the adhesion of bacteria to host cells and the extracellular matrix. This adhesin protein is O-glycosylated by several cytosolic glycosyltransferases and requires three accessory Sec proteins (Asp1–3) for export, but how the adhesin protein is processed for export is not well understood. Here, we report that the S. gordonii adhesin GspB is sequentially O-glycosylated by three enzymes (GtfA/B, Nss, and Gly) that attach N-acetylglucosamine and glucose to Ser/Thr residues,” wrote the investigators.
“We also found that modified GspB is transferred from the last glycosyltransferase to the Asp1/2/3 complex. Crystal structures revealed that both Asp1 and Asp3 are related to carbohydrate-binding proteins, suggesting that they interact with carbohydrates and bind glycosylated adhesin, a notion that was supported by further analyses. We further observed that Asp1 also has an affinity for phospholipids, which is attenuated by Asp2. In summary, our findings support a model in which the GspB adhesin is sequentially glycosylated by GtfA/B, Nss, and Gly and then transferred to the Asp1/2/3 complex in which Asp1 mediates the interaction of the Asp1/2/3 complex with the lipid bilayer for targeting of matured GspB to the export machinery.”
All bacteria have a standard secretion system that allows them to export different types of proteins outside of their cells. An important class of extracellular molecules produced by pathogenic bacteria are adhesins, proteins that enable bacteria to adhere to host cells. For unknown reasons, the SRR (serine-rich-repeat) adhesins of Staphylococcus and Streptococcus bacteria—pathogens that can be involved in serious infections such as bacterial meningitis, bacterial pneumonia, and pericarditis—are transported via a secretion pathway that is similar to the standard system, but dedicated solely to adhesin.
Tom Rapoport, Ph.D., a professor at Harvard Medical School who oversaw the new study, wanted to understand what exactly these dedicated molecular supply chains were doing.
“I was intrigued by the fact that there is a second secretion system in some bacteria that is separate from the canonical secretion system and is just dedicated to the secretion of one protein,” Dr. Rapoport said. “There is a whole machinery and it's only doing one thing.”
Yu Chen, Ph.D., at the time a postdoctoral research associate in Dr. Rapoport's lab, led the investigation. She found that, in order to be transported, the adhesin protein needed to be modified with specific sugars by three enzymes acting in a specific sequence. These sugar modifications stabilize the protein and enhance its stickiness to target cells. Furthermore, the experiments showed that two proteins in the adhesin-specific pathway, whose function had previously been mysterious, seemed to be able to bind to these sugars, presumably enabling them to carry the adhesin to the cell membrane where adhesin's dedicated exit channel is located.
The complexity of the adhesin transport system necessitated collaboration with research teams at UCSF, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Georgia.
“It's a complicated system because it involves protein modification, chaperone activity, and membrane targeting, so we encountered a lot of challenges,” Dr. Chen said. “This [study] is a great example of how collaboration across labs in the scientific community advances human knowledge.”
The reason that these bacteria use this separate export pathway for adhesins remains elusive. But because this pathway is unique to strep and staph bacteria, the new understanding of its components could help researchers develop highly targeted antibiotics to treat infections caused by these bacteria in the future.
“You could imagine that you could develop novel antibiotics that could target this pathway,” according to Dr. Rapoport. | <urn:uuid:dccec2de-f4e2-4fc5-9331-02d06f4232ad> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.genengnews.com/news/novel-antibiotics-could-arise-from-adhesion-protein-structure-analysis/ | 2024-04-25T08:59:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.957296 | 995 |
The Importance of Valuing Time: An Investment in Self and Others
Mar 06, 2024"People who don't value their own time won't value yours". This quote may seem harsh, but it carries a profound truth about the significance of time management.
It drives home the point that how we value our own time is a reflection of how we respect others' time. Today, we'll delve deeper into understanding the essence of valuing time, its impact on our personal and professional relationships, and ways to enhance your time management skills.
Time is a non-renewable resource. Once spent, it can never be regained. Hence, prioritising our time is crucial to leading a balanced and fulfilling life. When we fail to value our time, we tend to squander it on unproductive activities, leaving little room for essential tasks and responsibilities.
Consider a professional scenario. If an employee consistently arrives late for meetings, it not only disrupts the workflow but also indicates a lack of respect for the team's time. This behaviour can lead to strained relationships and decreased productivity in the workplace.
On a personal front, imagine a friend who frequently cancels plans at the last minute. Such actions may eventually strain the friendship, as it demonstrates a lack of respect for your time.
So, how do we start valuing our time more effectively? Here are some strategies:
1. Set Clear Goals: Having defined objectives gives direction to your time and helps you avoid unnecessary distractions.
2. Prioritise Tasks: Not all tasks hold equal importance. Learn to distinguish between urgent and important tasks, and prioritise accordingly.
3. Eliminate Time Wasters: Identify activities that consume your time without adding any value to your life and try to minimise or eliminate them.
4. Learn to Say No: Overcommitting can lead to stress and reduce the quality of your work. Respect your time by learning to decline tasks that don't align with your goals.
5. Practice Mindfulness: Being present in the moment helps you focus better and improves productivity.
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Effect of a goal-focused exercise program on participation outcomes in frail older people
This study will establish whether tailored, goal-focused exercise program increases participation in frail, community-dwelling older persons. The findings will lead to improved function, reduced hospitalisation and reduced institutionalisation in the frail older population.
This is a substudy of The Frailty Intervention Trial is funded by a NHMRC Program Grant in health services titled Transition Care: Innovation and Evidence led by Professor Ian Cameron at the Rehabilitation Studies Unit.
This randomised controlled trial compares a goal focused exercise program to usual care and is conducted at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Health Service. | <urn:uuid:707a8909-55e3-4c23-94bc-a9806b89e252> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.georgeinstitute.org/projects/effect-of-a-goal-focused-exercise-program-on-participation-outcomes-in-frail-older-people | 2024-04-25T07:37:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.927529 | 137 |
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