 don’t provide change; that would encourage more ridership or something. Now we’ve been sitting in the hot sun for ten straight minutes without moving. Why do San Franciscans stand for this? It makes Emeryville traffic a bit more bearable.
The Dirtbombs deliver danceable, dirty Detroit rock n roll to open the Twin Peaks stage. “Underdog” is predictable highlight. Great vocals from female vocalist. Who needs GM when we got the Dirtbombs? Well, okay, NUMMI. Never mind.
Nortec Collective sound great. They’re like Ennio Morricone for the club set. Just too bad they went on at 1:30 p.m. and not 1:30 a.m.
Raphael Saadiq is covering “Search & Destroy” by Iggy and the Stooges. C for execution but A+ for effort.
A large green dragonfly hovers helicopterlike above the sunbaked, dancing crowd at Groundation. Maybe thinking what the fuck? Many gawk but it isn’t fazed and stays throughout an excellent reggae set.
I've just updated the People, Landscape, and Outdoor Play sections of my Portfolio Web Site with images shot in the first half of this year.
I've added a few shots to my Colombia portfolio. You can find them HERE.
Just for fun...one of my favorite places is...
even green underwater. Donde estas?
I'll be out shooting for Cycle Washington until July 20th. It should be a pretty cool event run by a great crew at Adventure Cycling.
Go HERE for the skinny.Detailed Instructions: The provided text is in English, and we ask you to translate the text to the Croatian language. Please bear in mind the following guidelines while translating: 1) We want a natural translation, a formal form. 2) Use the symbols like '#@%$-+_=^&!*' as-is. *Include* the special characters as suited when translating to Croatian. 3) Quantities like millions or billions should be translated to their equivalent in Croatian language 4) Note the input is all case-sensitive except for special placeholders and output is expected to be case-sensitive. 5) The output must have Croatian characters like Ž or č and the output must preserve the Croatian language characters. 6) The input contains punctuations and output is expected to have relevant punctuations for grammatical accuracy.
See one example below:
Problem: I want you now to imagine a wearable robot that gives you superhuman abilities, or another one that takes wheelchair users up standing and walking again.
Solution: Želim da sada zamislite nosiv robot koji vam daje nadljudske sposobnosti, ili neki drugi koji omogučuje korisnicima invalidskih kolica da stoje i ponovno hodaju.
Explanation: The translation correctly preserves the characters in Croatian.

Problem: We were despondent.
Solution:
Bili smo utučeni.A state law requiring home inspectors to be licensed will finally be enforced, two decades after it was enacted. WPRI-TV reported that legislators passed a law in 2000 mandating that home inspectors be licensed, but state officials never created regulations to enforce the licensing requirements. Paul Brunetti, who has been a home inspector for years, said he...For the past several weeks Kevin O’Leary also known as “Mr. Wonderful” has defended enemy number one in the current crypto space, Sam Bankman-Fried, calling him “one of the most brilliant traders in the crypto universe.” O’Leary was a known investor and paid spokesperson in the now bankrupt FTX.
He went as far as to admit he would invest in SBF if he was asked again. Many in and out of the crypto space were shocked that he’d be willing to do it given that O’Leary reportedly lost millions. This comes on the heels of him stating during an interview with TechCheck that he would never make the same mistake again.
On Wednesday November 30, Sam Bankman-Fried had his first interview since the collapse of FTX, the crypto exchange he founded in 2019. SBF spoke with Andrew Ross Sorkin of CNBC via a zoom call during the DealBook Conference from what is believed to be his Bahamas residence where he’s been since.
Bankman-Fried sporting his typical t-shirt and puffy hair appeared apologetic, taking responsibility saying hurting customers was never his intention.
A reported $8 billion dollars was lost, with one investor claiming, in a letter read to SBF by Sorkin, to have lost his life savings of $2 million dollars. How many countless others have similar stories as this? How many lives were ruined or destroyed due to this alleged Ponzi?
Lest not forget John Ray assisted in the Enron Bankruptcy, and FTX was far worse.
No financial, communication or hiring records were kept by FTX according to John Ray with some employees including Sam Bankman-Fried choosing to communicate via a software that was set to auto-delete messages. Going as far as to encouraging other employees of FTX to use the same chat software.
Sure every one deserves the presumption of innocence until proven guilty but many documents and information have surfaced to point to his guilt. Why then would anyone in their right mind still choose to defend someone who is accused of stealing billions from retail investors.
Bernie Madoff was arrested the next day while SBF walks free in the Bahamas. The audience in attendance at the DealBook Conference even standing in applause at the end of his interview. Is this what millions of dollars in political and media donations buy you? It seems that way but there’s a battle between mainstream media and decentralized media via twitter at the moment.
Mainstream media like “The New York Times” and their puff pieces which try to elevate Sam Bankman-Fried as a sort of crypto savior who ran into bad luck and twitter users which have been digging up connections between FTX, Wall Street and politics. This is all still unraveling and I’m sure when it’s all said and done we will know the truth, but will justice be served?
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Prairie Elementary students are fundraising to fight cancer!. Minnesota State is planning what to do with its bonding funds for universities and colleges, including Minnesota West. The city of Worthington is pondering a storage facility for impounded vehicles. CRIME. A K-9 unit reportedly helped discover more than 54...
Buzz: Worthington hobbyist has kept bees for 10 years
WORTHINGTON — While the buzz might have died down during the winter months, Worthington resident Myron Meyer has invested a lot into his beekeeping hobby over the past decade. Going into his 11th year, Meyer has learned a lot about honey harvesting, beekeeping and bees in general — knowledge...Delivering a great customer experience is equally about sales and service. Great sales gets you market share, but great service gets you both wallet share and makes your customer a brand advocate. Pretty much every business / church / charity / individual, right now, is offering fist-clenchingly bad service – so when you serve them like they are royalty, hey presto!, you are being unique.
Another thought: when you deliver great service, it is often issolated – in other words, between the customer and you. By following the few tips (well, 10) below, you can also begin making your customer service spreadable, in other words, so that people can see how well you are serving. FYI, I define spreadbility as easy of access, ease of use, and ease of share.
Provide multi-touch support. Become more accessible by also taking service issues over Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter in addition to your website and/or blog.
Clearly illustrate, that if out of your operating hours, how your customer and get emergency service. Perhaps points them to the social media above. Perhaps, get an emergency phone and sleep with it. In other words, lift the restriction of time.
Provide a non 0845/0870/0871 number, i.e. give them your local office phone number. This creates reassurance. When they call, give your name. Make sure the same person handles the service all the way through, or clearly give the name of the person you handing the issue to.
 Insider hint: people get angry waiting on call queuing systems. Also, remove voice activated stuff. It doesn’t work.
When you engage with your customer, tell them exactly how things are going to progress, and keep communicating this. This makes them feel safe, and everyone wants to feel safe when something is broken.
Give your employees who handle customer service more room to offer compensation, and to offer it more quickly. It may cost you, but you will create an advocate. If they want to escalate, let them, and have a great attitude about it, like it is you who is inconveniencing them – because as far as they care, you are!
Exceed expectation. If they are looking for one thing, give them something better – preferable something that they can share. Scale the pyramid of expectation.
When you resolve an issue through a social media enquiry, if the info is not sensitive, publicly answer it so others can see. This way you are both marketing and serving at the same time.
If they provided their social media details, or contacted you through social media, then do