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(I'd also add that this made me think of Kamikaze Zibbet Style)
Did the admins at Zibbet drop zeee bomb or pull the plug on the ship?
They sent someone in to say she was tired of being tag teamed picked on and mistreated...or whatever that was....
and fact is most people in the cyber world kind of look at this one as the pouncer and bouncer over there in the Z hub who tells everyone else about how vile and viperish they are acting.
the side bets are
#1-this Zibbet handmaiden has already served her purpose and people there are tired of what she keeps saying....
#2-Andy and Jon sent her in as a sacrifice for the venue to create some sort of NON drama about supposedly being "attacked" and now she really is outie there.
I mean I know all about Kamikaze Pilot situations so I'd say if she is really gone...that dive she took without the helmet deserves at least a couple of seconds of internet fame hey?
The night the lights went out in Georgia (insert Zibbet hub)...insert they hung an innocent man with (someone said they got hung but from the outside looking in appeared as though not so nicey was always in fact kind of hung on herself ) and yep....maybe had a secret kind of love thang obsession for the powers that be... but hey....pure speculation on that handmaiden obsession speculation that keeps circulating out here in cyber land.
So long story short.....
Because we all know how RUMORS get started over there and some really need to be taken with a grain of salt kind of thang...
they evidently closed the hub after shutting down the "rebuild thread"
What is it about this rebuild forever and ever question that continues to cause so dog gone much turmoil and angst over there ? Well awhile ago (key phrase "awhile ago") someone said something about how they could have already rebuilt the elusive rebuild at this point. Seriously. They really could have.
And why beat around the bush?
Why close off a forum to all new people landing there?
Why do that kind of thing to sellers who are promoting that venue until their bush is blue and dragging? They have busted their bush promoting a venue and working on their shops and basically
BOTTOM LINE BUSTING BUSH....
Oh bright idea....
anyone who googles Zibbet
now has to sign up
when they land in the community to find out about it?
beat my bush and shut the front door
the last time I looked the only people who would actually sign up for anything would actually want to view the "community" or whatever it was called before they would sign up to see anything at all.
Sellers just got another shot in the foot before they had a chance out of that rebuild gate jump start so many were still hoping for.
Placing more restrictions on a site that is already not being seen and where sellers are not getting sales because of little to no traffic?
Who thought this one up?
I would have to place my bet......
not on those 2 new site techs (they said they hired.)
Most people would realize that the way to get business is to make it as easy as possible for people to become acquainted with said venue.
And the day when Ceo's and what is left of the certain group of forum runners decide to get all pissy pants and say
"Boo hoo you have to be a member before you can see what is going on around here"
Damn.... that kind of stinks like more hidey holes and behind the scenes kind of things that in no way shape or form benefits the sellers there who are trying their darndest to sell their wares.
But the $79 or is it $89 now dollar question????
Who does it benefit?
Yep this kind of move (in my opinion) does indeed benefit the CEO's who are in the market of selling Premium seller accounts. And Ceo's who by the way do not currently benefit from Final Value Fee sales from Sellers there.
And some of those people out there who continually want to call some people vile and vipers and all of that spam....
for simply questioning the Zibbet plan and actions up until this point.
I still stick to my opinion and say that there never would have been a problem in the first place if people would have simply admitted their mistakes and been honest.
Seems that when that huge influx of sellers came last Fall and gave that Premium seller $ because they truly believed in the heart of the venue......
many of those experienced ones who could have truly brought the site to the next level...
yep.... I said it awhile back
the momentum has indeed left the building.
But I will say this tonite
this recent "closed community" move
well.....it further kills any chance
of more sellers
or Buyers (GASP)
to land in the first place.
yep they might have finally figured out how to get Zibbet trending on Twitter....
and it was because a bomb got dropped in the forums
not due to a Twitter bomb
gotta go clutch some more of my pearls peeps...
seriously best wishes to all sellers still doing their damndest to try and sell something there.
Jonathan Peacock (Zibbet's CEO)replied to HeirloomAngel (Angela)'sdiscussion Forum Visibility
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Sales Targeting Strategy – Your Complete Guide
Your sales targeting (also known as account targeting sales strategy), is one of the more important parts of your marketing and sales efforts.
The reason it’s so important is because it’s crucial to get your product in service in front of the right prospects and potential clients.
In this article we’ll look at what sales targeting strategy is, the types of sales targets to monitor, and how to find your market.
Sales Targeting Strategy – Your Complete Guide
What is a sales targeting strategy?
A sales targeting strategy is the process used to find out who your potential clients are, and how you can reach them in a way to bring awareness to your product or service.
Depending on your product or service, there are many different ways in which you could potentially reach them (which we’ll cover in this article).
Your sales targeting strategy is important because it allows you to formulate a way to get the right type of exposure for your business; in which you can then connect with prospects and win sales.
How to find your ideal targets?
When you’re selling a product or service, you need to niche out what kind of people will benefit from it. Thinking anyone will benefit from it, and that everyone is your potential customer is one of the quickest ways at failing at this task.
The reason being is you’re only going to have so much advertising spend, and time to reach people. By trying to reach everybody, the chances of burning your advertising spend greatly increases, and you won’t correctly resonate with one type of ideal client.
If you try to serve everybody – you’ll end of serving nobody.
By creating a niche, it allows you to focus and hone in your efforts on serving one type of prospect, so your messaging and brand aligns and resonates with that person. Secondly, it allows you to focus your time, effort and ad spend on getting more exposure within that niche.
The first exercise is to understand – who would ideally benefit from this product or service and secondly; who would pay for this product or service?
Many people may love what you’re selling; but if you fail to target people who would actually buy it, you’ll be no better than prospecting to people who don’t qualify.
List your ideal prospects
Once you have an understanding of the types of people or businesses that will buy what you’re selling, the next part of your sales targeting strategy is to list them down.
Once you have your list, you’ll then need to work out where they hang out.
They may be on Facebook.
Perhaps the qualified decision maker may be on LinkedIn?
Once you understand where your potential clients are hanging out, you can start putting together what kind of campaign to use to create brand awareness and reach them.
Inbound or outbound marketing?
Depending on what you’re selling and what kind of client you’re trying to attract; you may need to use inbound marketing efforts, or outbound efforts in your sales targeting strategy.
Inbound marketing is the process to attract leads to you; using a sales funnel and marketing system.
Outbound marketing is the process of reaching out to your prospects directly, using either cold calling, email, or direct messaging efforts.
To learn more about prospecting, click the related article below.
Related article: Two Types of Sales Prospecting Methods For More Sales
An important step in your sales targeting strategy, is knowing the following information:
- Profit do you make per product sold
- How many people do you need to speak with/ contact to get a meeting
- The number of meetings you need to attend, to win a sale
- What is the lifetime value of a client
To increase your ratio of winning sales for every person you meet, you’ll need sales training; particularly on following a consistent sales process.
The lifetime value of a client is important to know, because this will inform you how much a customer is potentially worth. If they buy from you once, it may be expensive acquiring that person and not profitable. However if they continue buying from you again and again – it gives you more room to budget your advertising spend to acquire a customer.
Once you understand the above metrics, you can now set your sales targets.
Depending on what you have come up with numbers and metrics wise; the following may apply to you.
- Daily sales target
- Weekly sales target
- Your monthly sales target
- How many sales per quarter
- The number of sales per year/ annum to hit your goals
Your sales targeting strategy is crucial for your business to succeed, because if your potential clients don’t know you exist, you won’t remain in business.
If you want to learn how you can put in place inbound and outbound strategies for your business, check out the programs below.
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Earlier in the pandemic, it was easy to assume that, once you got COVID-19, you were immune from getting it again—or, at least, protected for a while. But reinfections became increasingly common as the pandemic wore on and it’s now not uncommon to hear of someone getting COVID twice—or more.
Unfortunately, reinfections can happen after you’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19, too. All of that raises a huge question: How many times can you get COVID? And, with that, how often can you get COVID?
Experts point out that we’re still only two years into this pandemic. And, with that, health experts are still figuring a lot of this out. “We’re still learning,” says Thomas Russo, M.D., professor and chief of infectious disease at the University at Buffalo in New York. Still, there are some things doctors know about COVID reinfections at this point. Here’s a breakdown.
So, how many times can you get COVID-19?
There’s no hard and fast answer here and, unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a limit on how many times you can get COVID-19. “Based on experience with other coronaviruses that are endemic, people will get COVID multiple times during their lives,” says Amesh A. Adalja, MD, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
A recent study published in the journal Science analyzed epidemiological surveillance data in South Africa and found that reinfections of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) seem to be more common with the Omicron wave. Among the 2.9 million people with a lab-confirmed case of COVID-19, there were 105,323 suspected reinfections.
The researchers also included this note: “Individuals with identified reinfections since November 1, 2021 had experienced primary infections in all three prior waves, and an increase in third infections has been detected since mid-November 2021. Many individuals experiencing third infections had second infections during the third (Delta) wave that ended in September 2021, strongly suggesting that these infections resulted from immune evasion rather than waning immunity.” Meaning, even when these people had immunity from a previous infection, they were still vulnerable to a new COVID infection with a different variant.
As for how many times you can get infected, “the answer is ‘we don’t know,’” Dr. Russo says. “More than once is clearly the answer,” he adds.
The big issue is variants, Dr. Russo says. While a previous infection can provide some level of protection against future variants, it doesn’t seem to completely get rid of your risk of getting reinfected. “If you were infected with an earlier variant, they’re quite imperfect in protecting against Omicron,” he says. “And even with Omicron, you have BA.1, BA.2, and BA.2.12.1 to think about.”
How often can you get COVID-19?
Public health experts used to think that, once you got COVID, you were protected from another infection for at least three months. But that’s not really the case anymore, Dr. Russo says.
“We thought you were good for three months in terms of waning immunity but we’ve learned that the variant is critical as well,” he says. “People who might have gotten Delta are at risk of Omicron. The same is playing out with people who got BA.1 over the holidays—BA.2 and BA.2.12.1 shows up and they’re getting infected with those variants.”
In general, Dr. Adalja says, reinfections “will usually be separated by several months to a year.” But, he adds, “With a virus like SARS-CoV-2, and the current vaccine technologies, I think that reinfections are unavoidable.”
How to protect yourself from a COVID-19 reinfection
The ways of protecting yourself from a COVID reinfection are similar to how you’d protect yourself from a first COVID infection, Dr. Russo says. “Get vaxxed to the max and, when there’s high community burden of disease, avoid risky situations and wear a mask,” he says. “Our vaccines are imperfect against preventing infections, but that is your best strategy.” (See our guide to the best N95 and KN95 masks).
Dr. Russo cautions against relying on immunity from a previous infection. “If you’ve been infected previously, your best protection is packaging that with vaccination,” he says. “You shouldn’t feel like, ‘I’ve had COVID, this is behind me and it’s all good.’ That’s just not the reality.”
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When we listen to the words “Street food” what comes to our mind first? Most of the time we think it is something delicious and we enjoyed eating it on the roadside or the street. Fast food means the food which is ready to eat and it is useful for immediate consumption. They are usually low is cost. Many people prefer street food than the homemade food as less effort is needed as well as variety is available.
They wake up with the smell of jalebi and in the evening they have their mouth full of water because of golgappe. People often overeat the street food and blame it on the stall owner who makes the food so yummy. One of the most famous is Hariya ki lassi which is full of cream and when we finish it we are so satisfied with the quality that we don’t realize of having the cream over our mouth. Abu Lane is very famous for papri chaat. One can find a huge crowd in the evening while to Abu Lane. The variety is not limited; it has extended to South Indian as well as Chinese food too. Let us have a look on 20 most loved street food of Meerut
Well, if you think you can ignore it then surely you are going to regret it later as no one can stop the mouth to get filled with water as it is very tempting. Different types of golgappas are available with different taste of water. There is a Braj Mohan Tikki stall near RV College, and the owner said that you can never go wrong with the chaat stall here. He doesn’t feel that pizzas or burger are even in the competition. Chaat is also available for different people who like different taste. As the stall is near girl’s college, it is always surrounded by girls and for girls golgappas are always tempting. Pani puri is very famous among all the age group.
2. Sandwiches, bread pakora, tea
Most famous tea stall is at Budhana Gate and owner is Goldie Gupta. Many people such as businessman, policeman, doctors and even the workers visit this shop after the morning walk for the breakfast. These things are not easy to make at home especially when it comes to jalebi so the shop has the huge demand of the food. It is so tasty that people get them packed and take it to their home so that they can eat it later.
3. Wheat grass juice
Wheat grass juice stall is the famous one which is making its place in the street food market. It is one of the latest stalls and has been running for more than six months by Sanjay Malhotra. It is located in front of Chaudhary Charan Singh University campus. It is a very tasty juice and is very beneficial when taken empty stomach. The opening time is 5.30 in the morning and remains open till 8.30 am.
Even in North India, we have South Indian food lover. When one person feel like eating South Indian means no other food variety will go with his/her taste. Dosa is all time favorite which is available with a lot of variety. From Madurai to Meerut where you will get South Indian food in North India is Madrasi Dosa. It is a savior. The owner is Shekhar. He shifted the stall from Madurai to Meerut for the better business. It is also a spot for treats for South Indian food lover.
5. Hariya ki Lassi
Hariya is Lassi has taken over market for 45 years. It was Sudhir Kumar’s father who started this Lassi chain. In the hot summer, it is the most selling drink. They also keep some of the sweets but Lassi is all time favourite. Consumers are hygiene free and wear gloves that make the customers happy.
6. Local Chaat Bazaar
Meerut is very popular for Chaat with mixture of sweetness, spiciness, and tanginess. It offers various charts but what is at the top of the list is Matar ki Chaat and this is what city is popular for. Chaat bazaar is located in the Cantonment area of Meerut. It is linked with other shops too which has various food items such as pav bhaji, kachori, etc. There is a market nearby the shops. When people get tired or hungry after shopping, they often visit these shops to eat some tasty food to fill their stomach and refresh their mood with tasty food while talking.
Various Tikki stalls are found at Cantonment area, Sadar Bazaar, Central market, Modinagar. Some of the Tikkis are aloo tikki, bun tikki, methi tikki and many more. The ingredients used are potatoes, onions, and spices. Tikki represents the small cutlet. Tikki are crispy to eat and easy to chew which are filled with aloo.
When it is winter, there is nothing better than eating pakodas and taking tea. A small shop is available in Begum pul, where you can find a variety of pakodas. It serves people with onion pakoda, paneer pakoda, aloo pakoda, etc. Along with pakoda, he serves chutney. The cost is appropriate so that even the poor people can afford it.
You can find make kulcha stalls on the street. They are so delicious that you will not believe until and unless you eat it. It brings water to the mouth of many and people can’t resist it. In addition you also get chole. You can ask the kulcha wala to add spices according to your needs and taste.
10. Paan Corner
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Should we be worried that Moscow deployed 429 more warheads than Washington? Why the number may be misleading—and Putin ditching other treaties may be scarier.
David Axe 10.07.16 12:00 AM ET
As of Oct. 1, Russia had hundreds more nuclear warheads deployed than the United States did. A startling 429 more, in fact, according to the U.S. State Department.
Don’t panic quite yet. The current warhead gap is probably temporary. But that doesn’t mean all’s well when it comes to potentially world-ending weaponry.
The reason for the current disparity is simple. While the U.S. military has been steadily cutting the number of nukes it loads on submarines and bombers and in missile silos, Russian forces have recently been adding nukes.
Seemingly more worrying for the United States, Russia’s 1,796 deployed warheads exceed—by a whopping 246 weapons—the cap of 1,550 deployed nuclear weapons that Moscow and Washington agreed to as part of the 2011 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
The United States, meanwhile, is already well below the New START cap. America’s missile submarines, nuclear-capable heavy bombers, and land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles are armed with just 1,367 warheads, according to the State Department.
Both Russia’s nuke surplus and America’s lesser total could change in the next 17 months. Washington and Moscow have agreed on a Feb. 5, 2018, deadline for fully implementing New START. Until then, the countries’ respective nuclear arsenals could fluctuate in size—and often.
“You have to keep in mind that numbers go up and down on day-to-day basis, so a one-day [snapshot] may mislead about force trends over time,” Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear expert who blogs at Arms Control Wonk, told The Daily Beast.
Both the United States and Russia have signaled their intention to abide by New START’s terms, meaning Russia will probably start shedding old warheads pretty soon, replacing them with a smaller number of newer atomic munitions and ultimately erasing the current nuclear disparity. “Neither of us is in violation of the agreement,” Lewis stressed.
New START is actually one of the few reasons for optimism amid the ongoing U.S.-Russia strategic arms race. For starters, the treaty only covers deployed nukes—meaning those on quick alert aboard subs, on planes, and in silos.
The treaty doesn’t limit how many perfectly functional nuclear weapons the United States and Russia can keep in storage. In many cases, those warheads could go from “stored” to “deployed” with just a few hours’ work.
Neither Washington nor Moscow discloses the exact number of nukes it keeps in storage, but Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, has estimated each country’s total stockpile to be around 4,500 warheads.
Neither government has expressed any interest in cutting its overall atomic stockpile. And both governments plan to spend hundreds of billions of dollars in coming decades modernizing their nuclear arsenals with new warheads… and better rockets, bombers, and submarines to carry them.
“Although these programs do not constitute a buildup of the overall nuclear arsenal, they are very comprehensive and reaffirm the determination by both Russia and the United States to retain large offensive nuclear arsenals at high levels of operational readiness,” Kristensen wrote on his blog.
While New START seems to be holding strong, a separate disarmament deal—whereby the United States and Russia agreed to dispose of excess fissile material—has just collapsed. The Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement, signed in 2000, covered 34 tons of surplus, weapons-grade plutonium in each country.
Under the terms of the agreement, both Russia and the United States would render the plutonium unusable for military purposes—not only to decrease nuclear tensions between the two powers, but also to ensure the excess plutonium didn’t somehow wind up in terrorists’ hands.
Citing a “radically changed environment,” Russian president Vladimir Putin announced on Oct. 3 that Russia was pulling out of the deal. Nevertheless, Moscow informally pledged that it wouldn’t use the old plutonium in weapons—agreement or no.
“The decision by the Russians to unilaterally withdraw from this commitment is disappointing,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said. “The announcement about the Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement is more in line with those kinds of decisions that have only deepened Russia’s isolation in the international community.”
Meanwhile, the United States has been insisting for at least three years now that Russia is violating the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which bans many types of short-range nuclear weapons.
U.S. officials have not said just how Russia is allegedly violating the treaty, but the purported breach might involve the road-mobile SS-25 ballistic missile and the RS-26, a small, nimble ballistic missile apparently designed to thwart U.S. missile defenses.
Earnest expressed cautious optimism that, despite everything, Russia is still committed to reducing the risk of atomic warfare. He pointed to Russia’s cooperation with the United States in negotiating the deal with Iran to end that country’s nuclear-weapons program. “I think that’s an indication of the priority that Russia has placed on nonproliferation,” Earnest said.
But Russia’s and America’s equal commitments to maintaining and modernizing their overall nuclear arsenals—regardless of any agreement to cap the number of deployed warheads—speaks to an underlying atomic distrust that lingers a quarter-century after the Cold War ended.
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Grilled Chipotle Shrimp Recipe
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, chopped plus 1/4 cup adobo sauce
- 6 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons water
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 pounds uncooked large shrimp, peeled and deveined
- CILANTRO CREAM SAUCE:
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1/3 cup minced fresh cilantro
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1-1/2 teaspoons grated lime peel
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon minced fresh mint
- 1. In a small saucepan, bring the brown sugar, chipotles, adobo sauce, garlic, water, lime juice, oil and salt to a boil. Reduce heat; cook and stir 2 minutes longer. Remove from the heat; cool completely.
- 2. Transfer mixture to a large resealable plastic bag. Add the shrimp; seal bag and turn to coat. Refrigerate for up to 2 hours.
- 3. Meanwhile, combine the sauce ingredients; chill until serving.
- 4. Drain and discard marinade. Thread shrimp onto metal or soaked wooden skewers. Using long-handled tongs, moisten a paper towel with cooking oil and lightly coat the grill rack.
- 5. Grill shrimp, covered, over medium heat or broil 4 in. from the heat for 6-8 minutes or until shrimp turn pink, turning once. Serve with sauce. Yield: about 5 dozen (1-1/4 cups sauce).
1 shrimp with 1 teaspoon sauce: 27 calories, 1g fat (1g saturated fat), 21mg cholesterol, 47mg sodium, 1g carbohydrate (1g sugars, 0 fiber), 3g protein.
Reviews for Grilled Chipotle Shrimp
"Did not care for the shrimp at all; very disappointed given all the great reviews. But the dipping sauce is killer. Will be using that in other recipes."
"Definite WOW factor here! This is our favorite appetizer for parties! Everyone loves them!"
"This recipe so good...Husband loved it!!"
"The shrimp had a really nice kick to them and it was delicious. I did mine on the grill and it was perfect. I will definitely make it for future BBQs"
"Everyone LOVED these...couldn't make enough!"
"This is a fantastic recipe! We make it for every cookout and it always impresses!! Definitely a dish that impresses!"
"It was delicious, the shrimp had so much flavor, it was a fantastic marinade. Thanks for the recipe!"
"Not sure which I like better, the shrimp or the sauce! Both are favs."
"Not sure which I like better, the shrimp or the sauce! Both are favs"
"This is a fabulous recipe! The marinade gives the shrimp heat and the wonderful dipping sauce cools them down. This is perfect and I wouldn't change a thing."
"I switched a few ingredients around. I used 1/4 cup "Lawry's" Baja Chipotle marinade instead of the adobo sauce and peppers because I couldn't find them. But it helped because it had both chipotles AND lime juice in it. i also added a dash of adobo seasoning to it. Other than that i made it for my 18th birthday. I had ppl leaning back and looking at the shrimp going. Hooooooo mann! Thank you very much for the recipe :)"
"best marinade for shrimp i've ever tried. make it every weekend"
"Fantastic!! Tasted gourment! Will definitely make again!"
"Best shrimp ever!!"
"I loved this. The shrimp was just spicy enough and the sauce has a light, delicate flavor that went perfectly. I will definitely serve at my next BBQ."
"These are really delicious. Everything can be prepped earlier in the day and then broiled or grilled right before serving. They flew off the table when I served them at a family gathering."
"Shrimp were quite tasty, just the right amount of "kick". I didn't like the sauce, but I substituted parsley for the cilantro because my husband and I don't like cilantro. However, in this case, it probably needs cilantro, even for non-cilantro people. Also, I minced the parsley, but the sauce still came out kind of crunchy... I was going to use my immersion blender to see if I could do a better job making it creamier, but I lost it apparently." | <urn:uuid:bcde7af4-4c30-4f2e-930e-da42a4b3c993> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/grilled-chipotle-shrimp/print | 2017-08-17T16:07:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886103579.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170817151157-20170817171157-00416.warc.gz | en | 0.941615 | 987 |
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed the first major piece of federal gay rights legislation, a milestone that activists compared to the passage of 1960s civil-rights legislation empowering blacks.
The new law adds acts of violence against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people to the list of federal hate crimes. Gay-rights activists voiced hope that the Obama administration would advance more issues, including legislation to bar workplace discrimination, allow military service and recognize same-sex marriages.
Congress passed the hate crimes protections as an unlikely amendment to this year's Defense Authorization Act. Obama, speaking at an emotional evening reception with supporters of the legislation, said that more than 12,000 hate crimes had been reported the past decade based on sexual orientation.
He spoke of President Lyndon Johnson signing protections for blacks in the 1960s and said this was an extension of that work. "We must stand against crimes that are meant not only to break bones but to break spirits," Obama said. "No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hands of the person they love."
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Legislation barring firms from firing employees on the basis of their sexual orientation could win passage in the House of Representatives by year's end, gay-rights advocates said. More than half of U.S. states currently allow employers such freedom.
Obama has promised to push Congress to repeal the military's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy that prohibits being openly gay while serving. A Senate panel is expected to hold a hearing on that issue next month, and legislation could be debated next year.
Gay-rights activists also hope for repeal next year of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which would give federal legitimacy to gay marriages recorded in states that allow them.
The amendment signed into law Wednesday was named partly for Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming who died after a 1998 beating targeting him because he was gay, and whose parents were instrumental in leading the fight for such legislation. The law also was named for James Byrd Jr., a black Texas man dragged to his death in a racially motivated killing the same year.
The measure also extends protections to those attacked because of their gender or disability.
Federal hate crimes law already covers race, religion and national origin. The new law strengthened it substantially however, by removing a requirement that a victim must have been participating at the time of the assault in some federally protected activity, such as voting, for it to apply.
Matthew Shepard's parents joined Obama for the bill signing, as did the family of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, who until his death in August was deeply involved in pushing the legislation.
The Shepards' fight took a decade. With recent elections adding more lawmakers who are supportive of gay rights, by 2007 the Congress had sufficient votes to pass the legislation, but then-President Bush indicated that he'd veto it.
Obama, campaigning last year, promised to sign it.
Judy Shepard issued a statement saying that she and her husband, Dennis, "are incredibly grateful to Congress and the president for taking this step forward on behalf of hate crime victims and their families, especially given the continuing attacks on people simply for living their lives openly and honestly."
She also called on Americans to look beyond legislation and work in their own lives to advance acceptance of gays.
Critics of the legislation, including several Republican congressional leaders, argued that an attack against another person is an attack, regardless of motivation and that no special categories are appropriate.
Many also voiced concerns about "thought police" and fears that the new legal protections could curb free speech if those who oppose gay rights fear they could somehow be prosecuted for publicly voicing their thoughts. The law punishes acts, however, not thoughts.
Gay-rights advocates said that the legislation will enable the Justice Department to step in when states can't or won't, and will make extra federal money and resources available to local law enforcement officials who need help preventing or prosecuting such attacks.
They also predicted that it would affect American society in a meaningful way.
"It sends a number of messages across America: that hate will not be tolerated, that this Congress and administration value all Americans," said Joe Solmonese, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest gay-rights advocacy group.
Malcolm Lazin, the founder of another advocacy group, Equality Forum, said the legislative progress comes at a time when reported violence against gays is on the rise. Last year, he said, 29 gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender Americans were killed because of their sexual orientation.
"This is really the first federal gay rights bill," Lazin said. "So it is a literally historic moment. This is America acknowledging homophobia as a social problem."
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Last week, the CBI pressed the government to apply the same rigour to tackling long-term unemployment as it has shown to reducing the deficit. The scale of the challenge certainly warrants such a focus. In the UK, 2.46 million people are unemployed; 5 million people of working age are on benefits and 2 million children live in households where nobody works. These statistics carry a huge economic and social cost: for society and government, for families and for the individual.
Education and skills professionals are at the frontline in tackling a key cause of worklessness. This work, if the CBI is right, will only become more urgent as the UK moves further towards a high-skilled jobs market, and opportunities for those without qualifications fall sharply.
Digital skills are now vital for education and employment: we know that you're 25% more likely to get work when you have web skills, and, once in that job, you'll earn 10% more. Unison, the biggest public sector union, has just conducted a skills survey of some of its 1.3 million members. Almost half of middle-aged, low-paid women (cleaners, catering staff, carers) argued that lack of digital savvy was their most serious skills gap. Our figures show that 4 million of the 8.7 million UK adults who have never used the internet are from our hardest-to-reach groups.
At Race Online 2012, we are pushing to build a 100% networked nation in the UK by the time of the Olympics. We now have more than 1,100 partners, and many of them have worked with us to recruit a 100,000-strong national volunteer force of "local digital champions" to inspire and encourage people in their communities to go online. This is key, because peers and family members are best placed to encourage the 64% of people who say they have never been online due to lack of motivation. Other partners are working with us to remove the other key obstacle – the cost of kit – by taking part in our national scheme to get high-quality but low-cost recycled PCs to low-income groups for as little as £92. The Trades Union Congress's learning affiliate, Unionlearn, is working with employers and us to ensure that anyone facing redundancy, early retirement or redeployment in the current downturn has these vital skills.
Connecting more people with the web is a vital first step. But the close correlation between disadvantage and digital skills underscores what a vast untapped market there is for great, innovative educational tools to reach and engage our hardest-to-reach groups.
There is a large and growing body of evidence that shows that technology can transform people's experience of education. The clever use of technology lets students study at their own pace, using interactive, collaborative, conversational teaching modules, supported by teachers who can tailor their support to individuals' needs. This is hugely significant, especially for those who might have had bad experiences of the traditional classroom environment first time around.
In the UK, we have a few notable success stories of traditional bricks-and-mortar institutions that are already putting technology at the heart of how they design education for the 21st century, such as the Open University's expansion into digital with its iTunes and OpenLearn channels. We also have innovative platforms such as the secure prisoner learning intranet, Virtual Campus, whose roll-out should be a key plank of the "rehabilitation revolution". Both represent tremendous opportunities to widen access to education.
However, educationists in India and the US are a step ahead in really seizing the chance these new and powerful tools provide to tackle educational inequality. Back in 1999, Professor Sugata Mitra put a computer in a lean-to in the centre of a New Delhi slum. His experiment proved how quickly anyone could master basic computer skills, and showed that with the right content you could inspire the unlikeliest of demographics to engage with informal learning. The results were so convincing that the computer kiosks have been rolled out across the slum and into India's villages.
Technology is helping to shake up formal learning environments, too: in New York, when he was city schools commissioner, Joel Klein pressed relentlessly for people to reimagine schools for the 21st century, particularly concentrating on failing schools. The New York department of education is now embarked on a technology programme, both for education professionals to share strategies to tackle stubborn problems, and to really exploit digital learning tools to improve student attainment.
A good example of that type of thinking is the Khan Academy – a tiny education charity that didn't even exist five years ago, but has now delivered 59m lessons online. The charity grew from Salman Khan's decision to upload chatty, personalised maths seminars on to YouTube so he could coach his 12-year-old cousin in maths. The academy now has 2,100 free learning videos and a grant from the Gates Foundation.
We urgently need education professionals to connect our hardest-to-reach groups with technology. But if we're to build the skills we need for UK plc to stay relevant in the 21st century, we should go further and be bolder. This is not about wiring up more classrooms, but about rewiring our brains to think internet-first in education, so we realise the opportunity to reinvent our institutions of learning for the modern age.
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Galaxy S3 vs HTC 1S – Overview
See below for a detailed specification by specificaiton comparison of the Galaxy S3 and HTC 1S.
The Galaxy S3 is best in class and competes directly with the HTC 1X. The HTC 1S is the ‘little brother’ of the HTC 1X. It’s in the same range but deliberately pitched as a smaller sized product with specifications a bit ‘lower’ than the 1X. A glance at a feature comparison list will tell you that.
They look very different. The Samsung Galaxy S3 is a grown up, cutting edge product. The 1S, smaller and offering a form factor which is less imposing – it’s impressively thin at only 8mm.
Galaxy S3 vs HTC 1S – Key device specification comparison :
Unusually, within comparisons of the top 7 mobile phones that Whatphone offers, there are some enormous differences in the capability of the components used in the Samsung Galaxy 3 and the HTC 1S.
The One S definitely picks up the rear specification wise.
Galaxy S3 vs HTC 1S – Key device specification comparison : What’s different ?
- Processors :
The Galaxy S3 has Quad Core 1.4 GHz processors – compared to the Dual core 1.67 GHz processors in the HTC 1S. However, there is little difference to the experience of using even high load applications like video in terms of perceived performance between the 2 mobiles, when the devices are used in a normal way. Browsing, scrolling through pages, email and all the normal stuff that will make up 95% of all your activity are almost identically performed, irrespective of which device you’re using.
- Screen :
The Galaxy S3 has an amazing screen. 1280 x 720 High Definition Super AMOLED. The 1S has a Super AMOLED screen too – but the resolution is only 540 x 960. For me was the worst thing about the 1S. Although the 1S was brighter than the S3, the quality of what was rendered really let it down.
- Weight :
The HTC 1S is lighter. 17 grams or so lighter. What seems strange to me is that the screen is so much smaller on the HTC 1S but the height and breadth dimensions of the 1S are not substantially different to the Gal S3. It’s only half a centimetre less across and tall than the Galaxy S3.
- External Memory :
The 1S is limited to a maximum 16GB of on board memory which, in my view is nowhere near enough. The S3 comes in 16GB ad 32GB options and has an external memory slot in to which you can put as much and as many SD memory cards as you want. Especially important for anyone with a decent music collection they want to take with them or who watches video on their devices.
- Battery :
We have some serious questions about the battery on the Samsuns Galaxy S3 at Whatphone. Not just one but several S3s seem to have consistently challenged batteries. The battery on the HTC 1S was better but still not great.
Galaxy S3 vs HTC 1S – Technical Specification Comparison – What’s the same ?
- Camera :
Both the Galaxy S3 and the HTC 1S have 8 Megapixel cameras and both take good shots & 1080 p ( High Definition ) video – although playing them back on the One S’s screen is not nearly as nice an experience as a result of the reduced resolution.
Galaxy S3 vs HTC 1S – other influencers
As was covered in the HTC 1X / Galaxy S3 comparison, there are small differences in the installed GUI – or Graphical User Interface – which is put in place by Samsung ( TouchWiz ) and Sense ( HTC. )
Both companies have installed the latest version of their GUIs and each has its strengths and weaknesses. Overall, I prefer the Galaxy S3’s new gadgets and gizmos.
My favourite is the Smart Alert feature on the S3 which watches your eyes to see when it can turn itself off. It tries not to when you’re looking at it. It’s not perfect but it’s a big improvement on the most annoying aspect of Smartphones with big screens – them hibernating to save battery.
Galaxy S3 vs HTC 1S – summing up
I prefer the Galaxy 3. Despite the battery management issues. I can forgive the dual core processor in the 1S, there’s little practical difference between the perceived performance on both products right now. For me, this comparison comes down to a couple of key things
- The screen on the 1S is not nearly as good as the Galaxy S3. If you watch video, take photos or have had any experience with a better screen, you’re going to feel let down while you’re using this one.
- The 16 GB of on board, memory which can’t be expanded is so restricted, it can only really be sufficient for a light smartphone users.
In truth, I think the 1S is more of a competitor to the Galaxy S2 than the S3. The technical specifications between them ( the Galaxy S2 and HTC One S ) are almost identical – the pricing isn’t. The Galaxy S2’s substantially less expensive.
The 1X is a much better device and competes on more even terms with the Samsung Galaxy S3. Don’t compare the HTC 1S to the Galaxy S3, it’s not a fair fight.
Galaxy S3 vs HTC 1S – price alerts
Why choose the HTC 1S over the 1S when there is such a small price difference ?
As usual, it all comes down to the balance of quality and price. As such, we invite you to sign up to the whatphone price alerts. Every week for a month, we will email you the best price plan deals for each of the handsets.
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Over 50,000 people attended the LightPool Festival from October 28 to November 2 2016 in Blackpool. The newest light art festival in North England (and newest Light Up The North network member), it celebrated last year’s Blackpool Illuminations, the world’s oldest, free light show.
In 2014, The Coastal Communities Fund invested £2million into Blackpool over two years with the aim to create sustainable growth through cultural innovation. Building on the love for the Illuminations, LightPool developed a creative vision for the 105-year old show. Reconnecting The Lights with the people of Blackpool is a key part to this, and with additional support from Arts Council England, LightPool brought together the strands of the two-year programme into a free celebration of light, art and fire.
“There is nothing quite like Blackpool Illuminations in terms of scale,” said Alex Rinsler, Creative Lead and Festival Director. “Over many years the Illuminations have played with light and lighting technologies to create a magical experience for people to enjoy. The LightPool Festival offered the opportunity to make work in the place where The Lights began.”
35 light installations included 21 new commissions, six large-scale productions, five giant projection shows on Blackpool Tower, on-going community and engagement work and a conference. Installations were curated to appeal to a wide range of audiences, and to celebrate the diversity of light technologies with 2D, 3D, durational and interactive works. From a rusted Punch and Judy booth playing a fifteen-minute projection (Salvage Sideshow by Hannah Fox), to a colour wheel of light transforming the Winter Gardens’ iconic dome (Round Gradient Remix by Liz West, in partnership with Lumenpulse), or a ghostly figure haunting a lonely bench on Blackpool’s promenade (I Waited by Elisa Artesero), the festival opened up the town in unusual ways.
A scientific piece, Brain Container by Jo Berry, illuminates a series of digital design drawings from a range of neuroimages from Dr. Lena Palaniyappan’s research to create images for a thoughtprovoking installation.
The display is accompanied by music by composer Angela Slater, having designed the sound in response to imagery found in Berry’s studio.
Activist and light art pioneer Yoko Ono offered two works created 50 years apart: Parts of a Light House and Imagine Peace. Parts of a Light House – 60 delicate glass prisms refracted light in response to Ono’s original script from 1965, describing the lighthouse as ‘a phantom house that is built by sheer light’. The work illuminated the altar of Blackpool’s Sacred Heart Church, well-known for its unusual octagonal roof. Secluded in a chapel to one side, was Michael Trainor’s Goodbye Coco, a coffin for a fictional clown, bedecked in 540 fairground lights.
Turner-prize nominee Mark Titchner created two projected works that referenced ‘Progress’: Blackpool’s borough motto. Plenty and Progress, inspired by Claudegen’s 1930s neon designs, to illuminate Blackpool Town Hall – a symbol for development and prosperity. Nearby, What use is life without progress? reflected unreasonable pressures for self-improvement, a giant gobo projection not out of place on Blackpool’s promenade.
The LightPool project has enabled the town to come together around light: The Grundy Art Gallery hosted NEON: The Charged Line, which attracted a record number of visitors and received national coverage, including iconic works from Tracey Emin and David Batchelor. Works from the show spilled out of the gallery, including Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Tim Etchells, positioned on the roof of the building.
Also of note was Art Is Your Human Right: five illuminated signs from Bob & Roberta Smith, manufactured at the Illumination’s depot. They create a visual trail and work to challenge perceptions of public space. It appealed to the artist that the signs would need to be cared for and maintained over time, just like our own human rights.
“Producing a light art festival in Blackpool presents its own challenges,” added Rinsler. “The town is already bathed in flashing lights. We encouraged artists to play with what is already here – not to compete with it. Local ownership is vital to its success in the long-term, so events like Lumidogs (a mass illuminated doggy fashion show) are just as important as strategic partnerships with makers and innovators like Lumenpulse, or presenting work from some of the world’s most important light artists.”
The aim is to develop the event as a biennial, showcasing the best of light and fire-based performance, as well as visual arts. “Blackpool’s history with light and with entertainment sets it apart from other places. It’s a gap in the cultural landscape that fits Blackpool’s personality and history,” concluded Rinsler. | <urn:uuid:5287dcf8-047f-477d-89fd-b77813f0063d> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://joberry.co.uk/index.php/press/article/http_www.mondoarc.com_lightpool-uk1/ | 2017-10-22T02:32:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187825057.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20171022022540-20171022042540-00899.warc.gz | en | 0.932672 | 1,074 |
Lal Kitab: An Introduction to Philosophy, Lal Kitab Remedies and Lal Kitab Upay
Lal Kitab is a remarkable branch of Vedic astrology. Collection of the 5 books, written during the period of 1939-1952 is called Lal Kitab. Written in ancient Urdu language, first time in the history of astrology, Lal Kitab introduced a new style of horoscope analysis with quick and affordable remedies (Lal Kitab Upay in Hindi). Authorship of the books seems to be disputed. However, finding by our research community shows that the books were written by Pt. Roop Chand Joshi.
Surprisingly to apprise that Lal Kitab throws sufficient light over vivid dimensions of human life which were never discussed in classical astrology. Much younger than its classical counterpart, it covers the modern lifestyle and day to day events which were hard to find in classical astrology. It is important to note that palmistry, Vastu & phrenology are also part and parcel of the Lal Kitab. Wide coverage of topics put Lal Kitab in the class of ancient Hindu Samhitas like Brihat Samhita and Narad Samhita.
Lal Kitab remedies/ Upay are affordable, easy and provide quick results. The effect of remedies is unbelievable. It is said that these remedies/ upay are especially suitable for quick results in Kaliyuga as the traditional methods viz. mantra, yagna, japa, havana etc. have become very difficult in this period. The remedies/ upay are as easy in throwing something in running water or establishing something in home. However, beware that Lal Kitab remedies/ upay can also backfire, if not properly studied and performed. That is why one should be very cautious as and when you take shelter of Lal Kitab consultancy. It is advisable to stop performing remedies/ upay immediately if you observer any negative side effects.
As a matter of fact, it is very difficult and cumbersome to understand Lal Kitab due to its mysterious and talismatic language used by the author. Rationale behind the farmaans, the couplets of the Lal Kitab, and remedies/ upay thereof are also difficult to understand. However, years together involvement and encounter with this book, we are of the opinion that number of the astrologers who are having good command and sound knowledge in this field is negligible. Due to unavailability of authentic knowledge, people are being misguided by the crooks who want to take advantage of the prevailing confusing environment.
Last but not the least, Lal Kitab still not has been decoded in every sphere. There are so many topics and areas in Lal Kitab which are still undiscovered and lying in darkness. A research is being conduced by our institution to decode Lal Kitab as to provide its maximum benefit to the mankind. Kindly check the book resources section for more details, if you wish to learn it. If you are interested in getting help from our Lal Kitab expert panel, please go though the Lal Kitab consultancy section.
Our Involvement with Lal Kitab:
We have established a research community on Lal Kitab which is trying to decode the Lal Kitab and unleash its secrets. The community can be reached at http://www.astrosage.com/lalkitab/. If you are interested in learning Lal Kitab, it is the best place to start. Our software company, AstroCAMP, is providing the necessary tools and technologies which are required to achieve the objective of the community. The AstroCAMP website can be reached at http://www.astrocamp.com.
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(ha ha ha - that should give the googlers something to scratch their heads about).
Now, I have spent so much time agonising over this post and writing it into my head, that of course it is now a whole bloddy series and then I dreamed last night that I had posted something trivial and relevant and ruined the whole 300th thing.
(Oh, and I just realised that this is really 299, so somewhere in the archives is one draft I never published - darn - practice, hey?)
Ever notice I obsess a bit?
Anyhow, what with the poetry requests (aren't you lovely readers) and wanting to see corporate Jeanie (isn't my sister evil) and someone wanting to know the meaning of my world, I have come up with a concept and will see if it will fly...
So what I am going to give you, as I put it together, over the next little bit is the career lowlights, and how a nice country girl became a corporate woman and then slid down the greasy pole of success to follow her dreams of poetry and pottering.
Will that work for you?
Also, I will excuse the lack of the Reader's Digest photo at the moment - I haven't laid my hands on a copy to scan and I am awaiting Bush Babe finding her copy.
To whet your appetite, a poem - not about being a career woman, but one I wrote during that phase of my life and one brought to mind by the post I read at Kill the Goat this morning.
OUTPOURINGS (and the curious behaviour of bed linen)
Freshly washed sheets,
Laundered in the romantic dream that you may make your bed with me,
Lay waiting, like a sacrificed virgin,
Until the culinary delights I have blessed you with,
Have been washed down by the superlative wine you bought at the
bottle-oh up the road.
And the mating dance begins.
My move first.
I shall accidentally touch you, perhaps,
A seemingly accidental caress
That I wait for a reaction to -
A litmus test - perhaps you pass
So now it is your move
Until all the pawns are removed.
This is the proving ground.
Once concessions have passed
And boundaries pressed,
The Queen makes her move -
Long, noiseless, imperceptible.
And the staccato raps of the static clergy;
The excitable knights;
The bigoted rooks
Attempt to save the King.
If I grow bored, you leave,
Perhaps you go after coffee anyway
With early morning rituals ahead.
Or maybe you stay.
Now, mind, no mutual move has yet been made,
And we may both yearn for common tracks,
And so we bundle in bed.
Talking. Holding out on dawn.
Again there are many possible trails,
And now I pour out my request
As I have always wished to have the guts to do,
Or I have often wanted from my lovers.
Possible route one (no pun intended)
Is that we agree these encounters are to proceed
In the direction of a self-deprecating hope
To please another, in the hope
That by doing so we will get pleasure
But we doubt it, so we hope
That if we do not enjoy the joining,
We will at least enjoy the vicarious pleasure we bring.
And that by the early hours, again hope sprouts
That we can regard each other honestly.
We can continue to talk
And tread over the woven threads of our lives
And so a basis of mutual recognition form
And we hold each other
We sleep, and let slumber pass as peacefully as possible,
Without snores, or farts, or sleeptalking of deeper desires
Upset our equilibrium.
We can decide to abandon the shards of discomforting formality
And agree to let lust rule the night -
Give way to hedonism
And disregard the fear of the uncertain future;
Let loose with all the text book logic
Plus a few tricks picked up on the way;
Swing from the chandeliers (to coin a phrase)
Bid inhibition adieu -
And really get down to the nitty-gritty
Of the practical aspects.
And if this be a one-night stand
Let it stand as testimony
To a DAMNED good time!
And if it extends to a second night
Let BLISS mark the first.
But these are never raised
As usual options.
And so only the freshly laundered sheets
Anticipate the next move.
White, no sugar,
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Yesterday, the Senate approved President Bush's proposal to forbid corporations from extending loans to top executives. The measure, almost certain to become law, will come far too late for companies like WorldCom, which has virtually no hope of collecting the $400 million it lent to former CEO Bernard Ebbers. And there's little reason to believe the ban will reduce runaway executive compensation.
But it is sure to have some unintended consequences. Consider what happened the last time Congress played executive compensation consultant: It inadvertently set the table for today's scandals
In the early 1990s, angered by coincident downsizings and reports of large executive payouts, Congress ended the deductibility of executive salaries above $1 million. Before the change, all salaries paid to workers and executives were deductible from a company's taxable income. The new law penalized companies that paid outsized salaries to their top five officers. If General Motors wanted to pay its CEO $5 million, $4 million of that sum would no longer be tax deductible. Assume a 40 percent tax rate for companies (as compensation consultant Pearl Meyer & Partners does) and that $4 million would cost GM an extra $1.6 million.
But the measure excluded from the $1 million limit items that the Internal Revenue Service deems to be incentive-based or performance-based. As a result, the ban encouraged companies to funnel executive compensation into these murky areas, which are far more difficult for investors and the public to understand, and which are prone to abuse. Indeed, the ban created tax-based incentives for companies to craft some of the pornographic CEO compensation practices that helped get us into the current mess.
Companies like to operate in a tax-efficient manner, which is a euphemism for saying they like to avoid paying taxes. They'll move to Bermuda, hire lobbyists to change the tax code, and shell out vast sums to accountants for advice—all to lower their tax burden.
Companies also like to be tax efficient when crafting compensation plans for their employees generally and for top employees in particular. So, when the new law took effect, CEO base salaries predictably stagnated, because they butted up against the $1 million limit. Between 1996 and 2002, according to Pearl Meyer, the average base salary for CEOs at the top 200 U.S. corporations rose just 15 percent, from $896,385 in 1996 to $1,031,184. But in the same years, alternate types of compensation that received more favorable tax treatments skyrocketed, notably incentive-based payment such as restricted stock, performance bonuses, long-term incentive plans, and stock-option grants. As a result, between 1996 and 2002 overall CEO compensation doubled from $5.8 million to $11.5 million, according to Pearl Meyer. Yet the base salary constituted only 9 percent of CEO pay.
Some of the most richly compensated executives of recent years received base salaries of less than—or exactly—$1 million. At Enron, Jeffrey Skilling's 2000 base salary was a mere $850,000. At Tyco where compensation abuses were rife, only one of the top five officers—alleged tax-dodging ex-CEO Dennis Kozlowski—had a base salary of more than $1 million in 2001. Michael Eisner of Disney has a base salary of exactly $1 million a year. At Citigroup, both Sanford Weill and Robert Rubin take home million-dollar bases. Bernard Ebbers of WorldCom had a base salary of $1 million. A coincidence?
The base-salary limit has helped cause the enormous problems with incentive-based compensation that plague us today. With the surge in performance-based pay like stock options, as Alan Greenspan put it today, stock options have "perversely created incentives to artificially inflate reported earnings in order to keep stock prices high and rising." It is clear that executives at many companies used aggressive and occasionally illegal accounting methods to protect the source of their greatest compensation: the company's stock price. Scott Sullivan, the WorldCom CFO who allegedly engineered the misallocation of $3.8 billion in costs, received a 2001 salary of $700,000. However, that year he was awarded 619,140 options with an exercise price of $15.62—adding to the 2.6 million options he already held. Their potential value dwarfed his salary.
The rise of incentive-based compensation also provided an easy justification for companies to pay their top executives far more than they ever could if they were simply paying straight salaries. For a large part of the 1990s, bosses could hold their hands up and say, with a straight face, that their salary was merely in the high six figures, and that it was their daring performance that had earned them their untold millions. After all, much of the compensation came in restricted stock and options, whose value could fluctuate with the stock price and was theoretically at risk.
I say theoretically, because companies in recent years have proved ingenious at defining performance in ways that benefited top executives. Stock options were frequently issued far below the market price. Companies began to engineer arrangements by which CEOs would receive a percentage of any increase in net income. When stocks fell, making existing option grants worthless, companies repriced options at lower strike prices or issued new ones at lower prices. As a result, CEOs routinely received substantial "performance-based" bonuses in years where their stocks fell or lagged the broader indices. In 2001, a year when Citigroup's stock stagnated, Sandy Weill received a $16.9 million performance-based bonus. In 2000, Scott Sullivan of WorldCom received a $10 million retention bonus that depended on him "remaining with WorldCom for at least two years after September 2000." For Sullivan, 100 percent of "performance" was just showing up. (Not that he even managed that. Sullivan was bounced from the company for his accounting tricks before the two years ended, and WorldCom is suing to reclaim the cash.) | <urn:uuid:7ba630ba-0f31-4221-994d-6080af08941d> | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2002/07/give_that_ceo_a_pay_raise.html | 2015-04-19T19:53:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246639414.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045719-00266-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971769 | 1,217 |
What is the Electoral College?
The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.
The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress.
The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Your state’s entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators. Read more about the allocation of electoral votes.
Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College. For this reason, in the following discussion, the word “state” also refers to the District of Columbia.
Each candidate running for President in your state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generally chosen by the candidate’s political party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are. Read more about the qualifications of the Electors and restrictions on who the Electors may vote for.
The presidential election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. You help choose your state’s electors when you vote for President because when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate’s electors.
Most states have a “winner-take-all” system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate. However, Maine and Nebraska each have a variation of “proportional representation.” Read more about the allocation of Electors among the states and try to predict the outcome of the Electoral College vote.
After the presidential election, your governor prepares a “Certificate of Ascertainment” listing all of the candidates who ran for President in your state along with the names of their respective electors. The Certificate of Ascertainment also declares the winning presidential candidate in your state and shows which electors will represent your state at the meeting of the electors in December of the election year. Your state’s Certificates of Ascertainments are sent to the Congress and the National Archives as part of the official records of the presidential election. See the key dates for the 2012 election and information about the roles and responsibilities of state officials, the Office of the Federal Register and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and the Congress in the Electoral College process.
The meeting of the electors takes place on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December after the presidential election. The electors meet in their respective states, where they cast their votes for President and Vice President on separate ballots. Your state’s electors’ votes are recorded on a “Certificate of Vote,” which is prepared at the meeting by the electors. Your state’s Certificates of Votes are sent to the Congress and the National Archives as part of the official records of the presidential election. See the key dates for the 2012 election and information about the roles and responsibilities of state officials and the Congress in the Electoral College process.
Each state’s electoral votes are counted in a joint session of Congress on the 6th of January in the year following the meeting of the electors. Members of the House and Senate meet in the House chamber to conduct the official tally of electoral votes. (On December 28, 2012, President Obama signed Pub.L. 112-228, as passed by both houses of Congress, moving the day of the vote count from January 6, 2013 (a Sunday) to January 4, 2013.) See the key dates for the 2012 election and information about the role and responsibilities of Congress in the Electoral College process.
The Vice President, as President of the Senate, presides over the count and announces the results of the vote. The President of the Senate then declares which persons, if any, have been elected President and Vice President of the United States.
The President-Elect takes the oath of office and is sworn in as President of the United States on January 20th in the year following the Presidential election.
Learn about the Electors
Roles and Responsibilities in the Electoral College Process
The Office of the Federal Register coordinates the functions of the Electoral College on behalf of the Archivist of the United States, the States, the Congress, and the American People. The Office of the Federal Register operates as an intermediary between the governors and secretaries of state of the States and the Congress. It also acts as a trusted agent of the Congress in the sense that it is responsible for reviewing the legal sufficiency of the certificates before the House and Senate accept them as evidence of official State action.
See the key dates for the 2012 election and information about the roles and responsibilities of state officials, the Office of the Federal Register and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and the Congress in the Electoral College process.
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In the quest to milk its iconic motorcycle brand Royal Enfield, widely called Bullet, the favourite of the best bikers in India, its owner Eicher Motors is adopting a strategy that mirrors what other iconic brands have successfully monetised.
Royal Enfield is not just a bike. The company wants to create a new revenue stream by selling its own branded gears, accessories, apparels and more. Royal Enfield gear like T-shirts and helmets can be found in standalone stores at Khan Market in Delhi or in Colaba, Mumbai, where the core business is just gears and accessories and not bikes.
As the riding culture grows in India, motorcycling is becoming a way of life say biking connoisseurs. Owning a brand like a Royal Enfield, Triumph or Harley is a fashion statement now. Not surprisingly, the company is ensuring that its gears and apparels are found in upmarket locations across the country. Royal Enfield gears, T-shirts, jackets, helmets and shoes can be found in standalone stores of Khan Market in Delhi or in Colaba, Mumbai, where the core business is just gears and not bikes.
Apart from standalone stores, the company has gradually seeded itself in retail chains like the Central Mall across half a dozen locations, which eventually will turn into double digits, where Royal Enfield will retail its gears, helmet and apparels amongst other things.
Som declined to give the numbers but agreed on the potential growth of 100s of millions of dollars.
“I can’t quote numbers but these are potential opportunities. We know that a successful motorcycle business like ours could have a sizable turnover coming from non-motorcycle business like global peers,” added Som.
And the potential is something that has begun to look apparent. At 8 lakh units, Royal Enfield branded helmet was the fourth largest brand in the country in FY-18. In the year gone, Royal Enfield sold more than 1 lakh riding gears and 8 lakh helmets. For every 7 motorcycles that Royal Enfield sold last year, it sold one gear.
The company says usually jackets and helmets are considered purchase decision, but out of its experience of selling gears and accessories, the company has started getting a lot of impulse buying at these retail stores. Interestingly 33% of the total helmet sales come from the central departmental store for the company. Eicher is focussing on high footfall areas or malls to generate additional business. It is also in discussion with several other mall majors like Phoenix for further expansion.
All this is apart from more than 800 touch points – which will cross 1000 in few years where it sells gears, apparels, shoes in some form or the other. Royal Enfield is also leveraging the online platform to give access to brand Royal Enfield, apart from its own online platform. The company sells its merchandise through Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra among others. Sales through ecommerce accounts for 16% of the total non-motorcycle business.
Vimal Sumbly, managing director of Triumph India Motorcycles, said 12.5% of his company’s revenues come from non-motorcycle business of gears, accessories, parts and that segment of business has been doubling every year.
“Globally, bike majors enjoy about 15% to 25% of their total revenue from gears and accessories business, but the potential in India is huge. Our nonmotorcycle business should touch 20% in the next three years,” added Sumbly.
Triumph has been increasing its fashion clothing collection rapidly and with every new launch, the company offers over 50 customisation or accessorisation option to its customers. Triumph has summer, winter and core biking clothing options. The apparels are no more restricted just for the male rider. Either. There are options available for the entire family including the women and kids.
Indian brands can potentially enjoy almost a third of their business from allied segments, which is double of the global average thanks to the huge bike park and growing number of millennials, said the head of Triumph Motorcycles in India. “The youth of today is not buying a product; he or she is buying into the brand.
They are buying into a lifestyle. Their understanding of brand is very sharp and they like to express and indulge themselves. All this presents a huge opportunity for motorcycle brands like ours to keep them engaged with the brand,” added Sumbly.
This area of business is a big space for vehicle makers to tap into and these are highly margin accretive to the business as well.
Even for a new entrant like Ducati which entered in 2013, the share of apparels and accessories already accounts for 16-21% of the overall market. “It is a very important part of business and an avenue to build a brand. We always say, that when you sell a bike, you dont sell just the bike, you also need to sell accessories along with it. There are hundreds of options available for a rider to personalise his bike. He can buy add ons that match his personality or the kind of ride he prefers - on road, off road, ride on the hills, appropriate accessories are available to enhance the ride,”said Sergio Canovas, MD at Ducati India Pvt Limited. | <urn:uuid:3fcfd3e5-41a3-4b6e-bce3-505bd36c00cc> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/business-of-brands/royal-enfield-focusses-on-its-own-branded-gears-and-accessories-as-the-new-growth-engine/64516744 | 2020-09-27T14:44:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400279782.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20200927121105-20200927151105-00687.warc.gz | en | 0.959123 | 1,096 |
Dedication to marine science, the health of the St. John River and the future of his community has netted Jacksonville University Marine Science Research Institute Executive Director Dr. Quinton White the top annual award given by the Northeast Florida Regional Council.
Dr. White will receive the council’s overall Regional Leadership Award Thursday, Dec. 4, at the2014 Regional Leadership Awards Program held at the University of North Florida.
It’s the second prestigious civic award he’s won this year: In August, he was awarded the 2014 Christi P. Veleta Environmental Award, given annually by the City of Jacksonville’s Environmental Protection Board to an individual who has shown long-term environmental stewardship, exhibited superior environmental initiative and consistently promoted environmental education and outreach.
The marine science professor has spent the better part of nearly four decades championing the St. Johns River and educating people about the value of natural resources. He’s considered a patriarch and gentle uniter, working both with those who have interests in developing the river and those who have concerns about protecting it.
“It would be hard to imagine a marine biologist and civic-minded leader with more dedication to his community and its future,” Dr. White’s nomination by NEFRC staff states. “We are lucky he chose to live and work in Northeast Florida.”
The council works to foster cooperation among Northeast Florida’s seven counties to enchance the area’s quality of life and its environment. Its awards recognize regional excellence in a variety of critical arenas and showcase the remarkable achievements of the Northeast Florida Region.
As founding Executive Director of the MSRI, which opened in 2010, Dr. White was charged with establishing an interdisciplinary educational and research facility on the JU campus. As the region’s premiere coastal marine research facility, it is housed in a $10 million, LEED Gold-certified, 32,000-square-foot building on JU’s riverfront campus. It includes a state-of-the-art floating classroom, and also is home to the St. Johns Riverkeeper, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission offices and the Millar Wilson Laboratory for Chemical Research.
The facility is Dr. White’s signature achievement, though there’s plenty more he’s done for JU and the region.
At JU, his responsibilities included fundraising, fiscal planning and implementation, faculty recruitment, and long-range planning. Dr. White was appointed by JU’s President to be Chair of the Campus Sustainability Committee to develop policy and procedures and to expand the campus program to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
Dr. White’s public service has been highlighted by his willingness to serve the region as it seeks to choose a bright future, according to an NEFRC news release. He chaired the Natural Resources Committee of the Regional Community Institute as it created First Coast Vision, a 50-year vision for growth and development in the seven-county Northeast Florida Region. This was used to enhance the relevancy of the Strategic Regional Policy Plan update of 2013. He is a longstanding and dedicated member of the Board of Directors of the Regional Community Institute, the non-profit that undertakes policy work for NEFRC.
Dr. White also provides expertise to the Jacksonville Waterways Commission, especially as it pertains to its Manatee Protection Plan. He writes a monthly column, River Life, for the Florida Times-Union, and is a member of the Jacksonville Port Task Force, which focuses on Jaxport’s strategic priorities including the channel deepening project which would allow for larger ships to access the port.
His professional involvements include the National Marine Education Association (former treasurer) and the Southeastern Estuarine Research Society (former secretary-treasurer).Locally, he is involved with the Museum of Science and History Board of Trustees (former president), Tree Hill Nature Center Board (former president), Planned Parenthood of Northeast Florida Board (former president), Lee and Mimi Adams Environmental Advisory Board (former chair), Leadership Jacksonville (Class of 1988, former president of board), Arlington Kiwanis Club (former president) and was an American Council of Education Fellow in 1997-98 at Elon College.
His many other awards include Leadership Jacksonville’s 2011 Celebration Honoree as Community Trustee, the City of Jacksonville Mayor’s Environmental Achievement Award for 2010, the Hands-On Jacksonville Nature of Caring Award in 2009 and the St. Johns Riverkeeper’s River Advocate Award for 2008. | <urn:uuid:b37982f9-79dd-4852-9b28-108b0d54798b> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://wavemagazineonline.com/second-major-civic-award-2014-msris-dr-quinton-white/ | 2023-05-29T15:20:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644867.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529141542-20230529171542-00441.warc.gz | en | 0.945787 | 944 |
Close your business
Closing your business can be a difficult choice to make. The Small Business Administration’s local assistance finder can connect you with local guidance in planning your exit strategy. It’s also helpful to seek advice from your lawyer and a business evaluation expert, along with other business professionals including accountants, bankers, and the IRS.
Follow these steps to closing your business:
- Decide to close. Sole proprietors can decide on their own, but any type of partnership requires the co-owners to agree. Follow your articles of organization and document with a written agreement.
- File dissolution documents. Failure to legally dissolve an LLC or corporation with any state you’re registered in will expose you to continued taxes and filing requirements. Look up your state for more information from the Secretary of State, Business Bureau, or Business Agency websites.
- Cancel registrations, permits, licenses, and business names. Protect your finances and reputation by canceling any of these that you no longer need, including your trade name.
- Comply with employment and labor laws. Reference the Department of Labor’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) for employee payment after closing, along with other federal and state laws.
- Resolve financial obligations. Handle final returns for income tax and sales tax. Cancel your Employer Identification Number, notify federal and state tax agencies, and follow this checklist from the IRS with instructions on how to close your business.
- Maintain records. You may be legally required to maintain tax and employment records, among other files. Common guidelines advise keeping records for anywhere from three to seven years.
Sell your business
After careful consideration, you may decide to sell your business. Sound planning can help ensure you cover all your bases.
Use business valuation to set a monetary value before marketing to prospective buyers. You can do a self-evaluation and learn more about the resources needed for business valuation appraisals from The Appraisal Foundation.
Accurately value all property and real estate tied to your small business. This can include intangible assets like brand presence, intellectual property, customer information, and projection of future revenue.
When you’re figuring out how much your business is worth, consider these common valuation methods:
- Income approach. Looks at projected revenue and accounts for potential risks.
- Market approach. Compares your business to other similar businesses that have recently sold.
- Assets approach. Subtracts total business liabilities from the total value of all assets.
Make a sales agreement
You must prepare a sales agreement to sell your business officially. This document allows for the purchase of assets or stock of a corporation. An attorney should review it to make sure it’s accurate and comprehensive.
List all inventory in the sale along with names of the seller, buyer, and business. Fill in background details. Determine how the business will be run prior to close and the level of access the buyer will have to your information. Note all adjustments, broker fees, and any other aspects relevant to the terms of agreement.
Don’t leave out any assets and liabilities, or this can create problems even after the sale has been finalized.
Many small business owners will face a time when they need to transfer their ownership rights to another person or entity. You’ll have a few different options available for doing so.
|Liz owns a local clothing boutique that hasn’t performed well. With several other businesses on her plate, she can no longer afford to continue running it. She needs a quick exit and quick cash.
|By selling a business in full, you will transfer ownership immediately and receive payment right away.
|Bill owns a market near his home. After the birth of his granddaughter, he now spends most of his time at his daughter's home several hours away. After transferring business ownership, Bill no longer has to worry about running his business but is still receiving a monthly income.
|This option often benefits individuals that can’t afford an outright sale, but instead are able to finance a long-term payment plan. A gradual sale is a flexible option for transferring a business.
|Barbara has decided to take a year-long cruise around the world. To take care of her day care center she's decided to transfer ownership to a friend through a lease.
|By transferring your business ownership through a lease, you'll commit to a contract that details the conditions and payments you'll receive for the temporary rights to the business.
Transferring ownership of a family business may have legal impacts, such as estate and gift tax obligations imposed by the IRS. A transfer of property would also likely require taxation.
It’s also important to understand how to approach the exit strategy based on business type. You may want to consult with a lawyer to see which additional rules could apply.
File for bankruptcy or liquidate
A forced exit has implications for your employees, assets and tax obligations.
During a bankruptcy case, you need to stay up to date with all filing requirements and taxes. Reference the IRS Bankruptcy Tax Guide online for information on debt cancellation, tax procedures, and considerations for different types of business structures.
Liquidating assets usually comes as a last-resort strategy after no buyers, merges, or successors appear on the horizon. This process of redistributing assets to creditors and shareholders still requires a sound plan of action.
Before terminating your lease, selling equipment, and disconnecting utilities, talk to your lawyer and accountant. They’ll help you develop a plan to present to creditors, whose cooperation you need during this process.
Reference these steps in the asset liquidation process.
- Prepare an inventory and determine assets for sale
- Secure your merchandise
- Set liquidation value of assets with a qualified appraiser
- Use that value to estimate net sale proceeds and re-evaluate your decision
- Choose sale type: negotiated, consignment, internet, sealed bid, or retail
- Select the best time and location for your sale
- Hire an auctioneer, dealer, broker, or other expert to conduct
- Use a non-recourse bill of sale so buyer accepts the associated risk
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What is Vigrx?
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Proclaiming itself as the world’s leading male enhancement supplement, VigRX is a Canadian-made male supplement by Comfort Click Ltd, and is composed of natural and herbal ingredients guaranteed to invigorate any man’s sex life. This product is not to be confused with the popular male supplement VigRX Plus by Leading Edge Health.
Who is the Manufacturer of Vigrx ?
A number of men all over the world suffer from erectile dysfunction, or inability to sustain a sufficient erection. To address this, manufacturers have been churning out herbal male supplements by the dozen, promising boons of a better erection and a renewed sexual experience.
VigRX is no different—it purportedly guarantees not only improved sexual performance, increased stamina and firmer erections, but also claims that penis size and girth can increase eventually with continued use. VigRX is also said to be made of natural ingredients, so you can expect no side effects.
Vigrx Ingredients – Are they Safe & Effective?
VigRX stated that in terms of ingredients, they don’t offer anything new to the male supplement market. And indeed, VigRX’s main contenders are old favorites in the market.
What they claim to have going for them is the right concentration of these ingredients in their capsules, which is something other supplements failed to accomplish. Here are some of the noteworthy key ingredients of this male enhancement product:
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Other ingredients found in VigRX are mainly mood relaxants, blood circulation boosters and sexual performance stimulants. The manufacturer has released the list of ingredients with corresponding concentration on their official website, which is a plus.
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- Improve sexual stamina and performance
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Should Mets Trade Jason Bay for A.J. Burnett?
This rumor just won’t go away, and there isn’t much else news to report from Flushing, so we may as well mull it over.
The theory goes like this: the Yankees are looking for a righthanded power bat for a corner outfield spot / DH. Why? Because everyone seems to have forgotten that Andruw Jones was re-signed earlier this winter. Additionally, the Yankees are looking to unload A.J. Burnett, who has been — put lightly — a disappointment. Further, the Yankees suddenly have a surplus of pitching, after signing Hiroki Kuroda and acquiring Michael Pineda. Burnett is excess baggage they are motivated to move for a power bat.
From the Mets’ perspective, Bay has also been a disappointment, and he’s an expensive contract to bear for a business going bankrupt. Though they’re not exactly flush with outfielders, the Mets are desperate to rid themselves of any and every multi-year, multi-million dollar contract. The immediate future is looking bleak, and even if Jason Bay returns to his monster form, it’s unlikely to make much difference in the Mets’ fortunes. Additionally, the Mets have very little depth behind their projected 5-man starting rotation — and a few of those projected starters have question marks. Getting another MLB starter is a distinct need, and there are worse options than Burnett — who might benefit from a return to the National League.
Now the reality: does it make sense for the clubs to do such a deal? It would seem to, considering the above. But let’s look specifically at the proposal from the Mets’ point of view: would the Mets be better off with A.J. Burnett than Jason Bay?
It pains me to say it, but, probably. From a pure entertainment standpoint, I much prefer to watch and root for Jason Bay — even though I believe he’ll continue to decline and play at level that is completely incongruent with his salary. In contrast, A.J. Burnett turns me off. Sure, his electric stuff can be exciting to watch once out of every dozen starts, but there’s something about his attitude and inconsistency that rubs me the wrong way. However, when I look at this from purely an objective POV, it makes sense for the Mets to do such a deal.
Financially speaking, the deal is more or less a wash. Burnett is owed $33M through the end of 2013, while Bay is guaranteed $35M ($16M for ’12 and ’13 plus a $3M buyout for ’14). Even though the Mets don’t have much depth nor big-time prospects to step into Bay’s spot, there are still a few affordable free agent options available and the Mets could push someone like Juan Lagares or Kirk Nieuwenhuis to the bigs for the time being. Bottom line is this: finding a stopgap corner outfielder is rarely a difficult challenge — particularly in comparison to finding a starting pitcher.
Which brings us to the second part of this proposal: obtaining A.J. Burnett. As already mentioned, the Mets have little depth behind their starting five, which is headed by a fragile Johan Santana. Even if Santana is healthy, what are the chances that he and all four of the others — R.A. Dickey, Jonathon Niese, Mike Pelfrey, and Dillon Gee — all remain healthy throughout the season as well? Do you know how rare it is for 5 MLB starters to make 32+ starts in one year? At some point, someone will break down — even if briefly — and the next-best option the Mets have are questionable entities such as Chris Schwinden, Josh Stinson, Miguel Batista, and Dylan Owen (we are assuming that the Mets do the prudent thing and allow Zack Wheeler, Jeurys Familia, and Matt Harvey spend a full year in the minors to continue developing).
But there is another factor at play here, and that is tradeability and trade value. Jason Bay will have to make a complete transformation from what he’s done over the past two years to become a tradeable asset. Bay would have to return to being the slugger he was in Boston for other teams to consider giving up prospects for him and/or assuming some or all of his contract. That’s a tall order, and though anything is possible, such a turnaround would seem to be improbable.
On the other hand, A.J. Burnett doesn’t necessarily have to return to being a lights-out 18-game winner to become a trading chip. All he has to do is continue missing bats at his usual 8-9 K/9 rate, get a little lucky, and have a few of those eye-popping outings he normally sprinkles in a typical year. When A.J. Burnett is “on”, opposing scouts drool over his potential, and teams imagine him as a legit postseason starter. If Burnett can be “on” just enough times in the first three months of the season, a few contending teams looking for arms could convince themselves he’s “figured it out” and take a chance on him at the deadline. Maybe the Mets won’t get a boatload of prospects in return, but they might have a chance to rid themselves of all or most of Burnett’s (and previously Bay’s) contract — which is the primary goal anyway.
So that’s my argument: Burnett has a better chance to be trade bait next July than Bay, partially because it’ll be easier for Burnett to appear valuable and partially because starting pitching is generally in more demand than corner outfielders. Ergo, if the Mets can trade Bay for Burnett, they should do it.
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Oman: Risk Assessment
Country Risk Rating
Business Climate Rating
- Strategic location on the Strait of Hormuz
- Increasingly diversified economy (petrochemicals, port operations, tourism)
- Solid banking system and openness to foreign investments
- Significant tourism potential
- Exposure to oil price fluctuations; production cutbacks
- Shortages of qualified local labor, leading to 20% youth unemployment and reliance on imported external expertise
- Ongoing uncertainties around succession to Sultan Qaboos
- Income inequalities exacerbated by cuts to social subsidies
Towards a Return to Growth
Low oil prices and the commitment to a 5% cut in production, as agreed with OPEC, have not been offset by the 2.5% growth in the non-oil and gas sectors, leading to a virtual standstill in growth in 2017. Growth is, however, expected to be positive in 2018, thanks to an upturn in the oil and gas sector, and the continuation of a moderate growth rate in other sectors. The slight upwards movement in barrel price, investments aimed at reducing the breakeven point for oil production – which is the highest of the Gulf producing countries at USD 73 per barrel -, and, above all, the Khazzan Project managed by BP and Oman Oil Company Exploration & Production that is set to boost the country’s gas output by 25%, will together likely offset the restrictions on oil production. Exports should improve with the restarting of trade with Iran, and the ongoing Qatar diplomatic crisis could help Oman recover market share in the trade and tourism industries.
However, the rate of growth in the non-oil and gas sectors is largely dependent on public spending. The reduction in oil revenues, which in 2016 accounted for 70% of State revenues, necessitated the implementation of budgetary consolidation measures:
- a reduction in energy subsidies, in public employee wages, and in security and defense spending and pension;
- the scheduled imposition of VAT in 2018, jointly with all the other Gulf Cooperation Council, and an increase in corporation tax (from 12 to 15%).
These measures will likely have a negative impact on investment and household consumption. In addition, the introduction of a 5% VAT rate, as well as the slow rise in the price of oil and in basic commodities, is set to stimulate inflation, increasing the pressure on the pegging of the Omani rial to the dollar. As part of the ninth five-year plan (2016-2020), huge investments have been made in education and the creation of public sector jobs (a plan to create 25,000 jobs was announced in October 2017) as part of the fight against unemployment (17.5% at the end of 2016) and a dependence on foreign labour. The Tanfeedh Program, launched in 2016 with the aim of enhancing economic diversification, focuses on developing tourism, industrial manufacturing, and logistics. The reforms are thus aimed at attracting foreign investment and improving bureaucratic processes.
Scale of Twin Deficits Generating Risk of Instability
The fall in oil revenues caused a worsening in public deficit to the worrying level of -19% at the end of 2016, compared with a budget surplus that was almost 5% before 2014. The budget consolidation, together with increased tax revenues, will likely make it possible for the Sultanate to reduce the deficit, but not to achieve the target of 10% of GDP in 2018. These factors have placed question marks against public investment projects, as well as the state’s ability to provide aid to the banks, which could face liquidity pressures and an increase in credit risks because of the budget consolidation. As a result, the three leading credit rating agencies have downgraded Oman’s rating to one level above “junk”, with a negative outlook. Part of the finance for the deficit comes from currency reserves (28%) and the rest through increased recourse to international bank loans (67%).
The current account deficit reflects the country’s overexposure to fluctuations in oil and gas export revenues. The balance of trade highlights the level of dependency on oil and gas to offset imports of consumer and capital goods. The country’s currency reserves have improved, following a number of years of decline, and should hold steady in 2018 at around eight months of imports, which is adequate to support the balance of trade and guarantee the dollar pegging. Although there remains a risk of speculation, and despite the decision not to apply the uplift in the key lending rate by the US Federal Reserve in June 2017, monetary policy will remain restrictive (rates are expected to be raised gradually) and the pegging of the Omani rial to the dollar will continue in 2018.
Fragile Political Stability in a Menacing External Context
Although there are no immediate political dangers, there are genuine concerns around the stability of the Sultanate. The fragile health of Sultan Qaboos, the keystone of the regime, is again generating questions regarding his succession. The context of economic slowdown and budget consolidation also gives rise to dangers in the social arena, echoing the raised social expectations of 2011, with youth unemployment at 20% in a country in which 40% of the population is under 25. On top of this, the country is in an increasingly hostile regional situation, with the worsening of events in Yemen constituting a direct threat to its internal security. | <urn:uuid:0ef99cb2-d92f-4c67-a266-a3af9bca1975> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://globaledge.msu.edu/countries/oman/risk | 2019-05-27T11:09:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232262369.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20190527105804-20190527131804-00402.warc.gz | en | 0.943254 | 1,083 |
MELBOURNE, Australia — Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova recovered from an embarrassing miss and a two-game lapse to beat Ana Ivanovic 6-2, 7-6 (2) on Monday for a spot in the Australian Open quarterfinals.
The 21-year-old Czech was dominant against Ivanovic until her game momentarily came undone near the end of the second set after she missed a routine overhead at the net to allow the former French Open champion to trim her deficit to 5-4.
Kvitova lost the next eight points to fall behind 6-5 — badly missing on a couple of wild groundstrokes — and only managed to force a tiebreaker with two big serves out wide in the 12th game.
Ivanovic’s two double-faults early in the tiebreaker gave Kvitova some easy points and took the pressure off.
The match seemed close to ending much earlier when Kvitova got into perfect position to put away an innocuous lob from Ivanovic but played through the shot too quickly and was hit instead on the body.
“It was a very tough match at the end. I mean it was a really easy point then I thought I got it and I lost eight points in a row,” she said. “I’m very happy I played very well in the tiebreak.”
She’ll next play either Sara Errani of Italy or China’s Zheng Jie, a semifinalist here in 2010.
China’s top hope went out Sunday when French Open champion Li Na wasted four match points before losing to defending champion Kim Clijsters in a rematch of last year’s final.
The fourth-round comeback victory by “Aussie Kim” sent a charge through the crowd before the fans dressed in canary yellow then turned their attention toward supporting one of their own.
Then along came Roger Federer to flatten their hopes.
Federer has won four of his record 16 Grand Slam singles titles at Rod Laver Arena, and he more or less held a clinic Sunday night — a 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 victory over Bernard Tomic that moved him into the quarterfinals for a 31st consecutive major.
Federer mixed soft, angled drop shots that just cleared the net with crisp groundstrokes that hit the lines and — for good measure — a leaping, backhand overhead.
“It was like boxing in the beginning. You don’t want to take too many chances,” Federer said, explaining why there weren’t any service breaks until the ninth game, when he produced two drop shots for winners with Tomic stranded in the backcourt. “Had one game when I was starting to feel better, next thing you know I’m up a break. Maybe I broke his will there a bit.”
Federer’s quarterfinal will be his 1,000th tour-level match. He plays 2009 U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro, whom he once expected to rise to No. 1.
Clijsters won despite limping on a badly sprained left ankle. She saved four match points in a tiebreaker en route to her 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-4 win over Li. That put the Belgian veteran on course for a quarterfinal against Caroline Wozniacki, who has held the year-end No. 1 ranking the last two seasons without winning a major.
Wozniacki had a 6-0, 7-5 win over former No. 1 Jelena Jankovic and said her confidence is high.
“If I play like I did today, Kim will have to really play well to beat me,” she said.
Clijsters has been a longtime favorite in Australia, dating to her time as Lleyton Hewitt’s fiancee. She came into the tournament with a hip injury. When she fell after spraining her ankle in the seventh game against Li, there was concern her last Australian Open run might finish prematurely.
She needed painkillers to get through the 2-hour, 23-minute match and now she’s hoping ice treatment will help her recover in time for the quarterfinals.
Third-seeded Victoria Azarenka advanced with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Iveta Benesova. She next plays eighth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska.
Rafael Nadal had a convincing win over fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez on Sunday. The 2009 champion’s right knee was heavily wrapped and his left ankle needed to be taped after three games of the first set. Afterward, he said he was fine.
He next plays Tomas Berdych, hoping to avoid a third consecutive quarterfinal loss in Melbourne.
Berdych beat Nicolas Almagro 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2), then was jeered by the crowd at Hisense Arena after he refused to shake hands with his Spanish rival.
The Czech was upset that Almagro had hit the ball straight at him while he was at the net during the fourth set.
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|Strength||500 mg + 600 mg|
|Generic Name||Ciprofloxacin Tinidazole|
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Ciplox TZ 500 mg 600 mg
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How to use Ciplox TZ 500 mg 600 mg?
Ciplox TZ should be taken an hour or two hours after meals with a glass of water.
For adults, the usual recommended dose is one tablet twice daily for 5 to 10 days, depending on severity and response. It is not recommended for children. Any calcium you take as part of a meal will not seriously affect uptake, so your diet cannot interfere with the absorption of Ciplox TZ. However, dairy products or calcium-fortified orange juice are the exceptions.
If you have further questions, please ask your doctor.
What are the Precautions?
- Concurrent usage with Tizanidine is contraindicated.
- Ciplox TZ is contraindicated in patients with hypersensitivity to Ciprofloxacin, Tizanidine, or any product’s components.
- The medicine should not be used in patients with a previous history of hypersensitivity to Tinidazole or another nitroimidazole.
- It should not be used during the first trimester of pregnancy and in nursing mothers.
Before you take Ciplox TZ 500 mg 600 mg:
- If you are hypersensitive to Ciprofloxacin, Tinidazole, or any other ingredients of the medicine. Signs and symptoms of an allergic reaction include a rash, breathing problems, wheezing, lips, face, throat, or tongue swelling.
- If you have central nervous system disorder, including epilepsy
- If you have a blood disorder or a history of blood disorders
- If you are initially thirteen weeks pregnant, trying to become pregnant, or breastfeeding.
Speak to your doctor before taking Ciplox TZ if any of the following applies to you:
- If you have epilepsy or are at risk of fits
- If you have ever had kidney problems. Your doctor may need to be adjusted
- If, during the treatment, you develop neurological signs such as vertigo, dizziness, and difficulty in controlling movements
- If you have a history of tendon problems at the time of previous treatment with an antibiotic drug like Ciprofloxacin.
- If you have diabetes because you may experience a risk of hypoglycemia with Ciplox TZ
- If you have a muscle weakness called myasthenia gravis, symptoms may worsen.
- If you have heart disease, exercise caution when using the medicine if you have a salt imbalance in the blood, have a weak heart, have a history of heart attack, you are female or elderly.
Also, let your doctor know if you are taking any of the following medicines:
- Other medicines can alter heart rhythm.
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by Terry Heick
The following post is excerpted from an email exchange between myself and Grant Wiggins last year.
I’ve had a niggling question on how to more seamlessly and naturally integrate data into unit planning.
This question has surfaced for me in a variety of forms and insights–first with the concept of “power standards,” then big ideas anchoring curriculum planning. At that point the concept of summative assessments started seeming faulty to me: at what point is it ever best practice to accept non-mastery/confusion/failure/incongruity between performance and potential (or however you’d like to label less than ideal academic progress).
So in a classroom where there is a climate of assessment–with assessment simply indicators of where to go next for resources and alternative forms of assessments–why aren’t all assessments formative? All of these snapshots-of-understanding-as-data are useful, so why sit in the company of evidence of mastery and non-mastery, and continue planned instruction?
More precisely, how are we designing our activities/lessons/units to naturally absorb this data to inform revision of those planned activities/lessons/units?
An Overview Of How We Plan
If I begin curriculum planning by identifying “power standards,” designing big ideas and subsequent enduring understandings (using 40/40/40, among other local tools and initiatives/mandates), then deciding what forms of assessment will offer me the best evidence of those understandings (using 6 Facets of Understanding, again, among other tools), where does the differentiation-based-on-assessment-results occur?
Let’s say in an English-Language Arts classroom I design an assessment matrix or pattern of sorts where I would like for students to be able to explain the most significant difference between allegory and symbolism, then after a series of activities, 3 days later I’d like for them to apply what they’ve learned–e.g., use either allegory or symbolism to promote political propaganda based on audience and thesis.
After giving the assessment, 75% of the class is ready for the second assessment, but 25% are “stuck” back at assessment 1. Whether or not I’ve backward-planned with appropriately rigorous instruction, this is inevitable. So the remaining mountain for any classroom teacher once they’ve clarified what they want the students to know and how they can demonstrate that knowledge is what to do for those students who are not “demonstrating proficiency”–not “remediate struggling learners with additional homework/heterogeneous grouping, etc.”, but real, authentic instructional design that reflects the same intentional, best-practice planning the rest of our instructional planning does?
Schools and districts are scrambling to develop ways to react to this very predictable quantity of non-proficiency (remediation, RTI, etc.), but this can be a ham-fisted, sledgehammer approach where all “non-proficient students” are dealt with on the terms of that non-proficiency, often beyond the walls of their classroom, with other non-proficient peers, beyond the normal scope of school hours, etc., all requiring tremendous investment of time and energy on the parts of everyone–a noble response to struggling learners, but might there not be a way to use curriculum and instructional planning to plan for this in a more natural, we-expected-this sort of way?
I keep envisioning some sort of revision to how we plan–adding something to our mapping, unit design, or lesson creation that pre-emptively plans and accommodates for non-proficiency from the beginning, rather than assuming all students will meet all learning targets, and then offering a mediocre response when they don’t (not because we’re lazy, but because personalizing the learning of 30+ students in an outcomes-based learning environment with curriculum maps made by someone else is essentially impossible).
A Flow Chart Of Understanding
Data is core to the instructional design process, so a sort of flow-chart based on the results from an intentional assessment pattern makes sense, doesn’t it? There are countless ways teachers use to respond when students aren’t demonstrating those understandings–sometimes it’s as simple as giving another opportunity for the same assessment, offering a revised assessment, revised rubric, reduce number of steps, alter sequence of steps, etc.–but these are on the shoulders of the classroom teacher in real-time.
I’m not suggesting that we completely remove this from the teacher’s shoulders (as I see two of a teacher’s primary roles as that of master of resources and assessment), but would like to have non-mastery intentionally planned for during instructional design process so that non-mastery can be met with a planned, known, strategic and flexible response.
This isn’t about accepting non-proficiency (whatever that means), but rather planning for it from the beginning.
I’ve got an idea how this might happen, but first I’d like to hear your thoughts.
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The Keeper of Night is a twisted and engaging horror/fantasy tale of a half British Reaper, half Japanese Shinigami. Reapers and Shinigami are both soul collectors who serve their respective God/Goddess of Death by facilitating a soul’s passage into the afterlife. Simple enough. However, Ren does not fit seamlessly into either society as she is bi-racial. While Ren was raised solely by her father as a British Reaper, her peers see her as much too Shinigami and do not accept her into their society. Not only do her physical attributes favor her mother who was Shinigami, but her abilities also differ from other Reapers which leads her to be mercilessly tormented.
After a particularly harsh confrontation with her peers, Ren loses control of her emotions and her powers leading to her severely injuring one of the other Reapers. Ren knows that this will mean the end of her life, and decides to flee to Japan in search of her mother. While quickly preparing to leave, her younger half-brother, Nevan, convinces Ren to allow him to accompany her on the journey. While Nevan is fully Reaper and widely accepted among the other Reapers, he too is a bit different in that he is very empathetic and sweet - unlike the stoic and emotionally-detached Reapers.
The pair successfully flee Britain and make their way to Japan, but quickly realize being accepted into Shinigami society won’t be easy either. They make their way into Yomi, Japan’s underworld, encountering several terrifying spirits on the way. However, they also meet Hiro, an outsider like Ren, who has inexplicably been banished from Shinigami society and who promises to act as a guide for the pair. Finally, Ren is face-to-face with the Goddess of Death. But instead of being welcomed with open arms as she had hoped, the Goddess tasks Ren with killing three exceptionally powerful Yokai, which are demon-type creatures.
Ren, Nevan, and Hiro set off on their quest, facing a myriad of challenges along the way. Ren must navigate this new society and decide how far she’s willing to go and what she will sacrifice to be accepted. But what Ren actually wants and what she’s willing to risk might not be what she thinks it is.
This book is a must-read to those who love Japanese mythology or anyone fascinated by death customs. Baker does a fantastic job guiding readers through the underworld and introducing them to the various spirits and gods. Yomi itself is reminiscent of the world of Kami portrayed in Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away - except maybe more terrifying. As readers dip their toes into the story, each supernatural introduction becomes more and more dark and intense with each spirit turning more vicious than the next.
Baker’s writing is fluid and detailed without being superfluous and after an initial introduction, the plot moves quite quickly. However, if you are looking for a witty, light-hearted, character-driven book, this is not what you should read.
Throughout the book, Ren really struggles to find her place in the world. She lacks acceptance from any person except Nevan and especially lacks self-acceptance. Her inner monologue is constantly measuring herself against others and pointing out perceived shortcomings. She’s fiercely determined to not only fit in and be accepted but to be a renowned Shinigami valued for her contributions to serving the Goddess. Because of her blind need to prove herself, Ren lacks a lot of critical thinking skills leading to some dicey situations. However, Ren is a relatable and overall likable character despite being morally gray and having a somewhat gloomy outlook.
On the other hand, Nevan is an incredibly sweet, empathetic, and pure character who is not only sure of himself but also sure of Ren. He offered a great juxtaposition against Ren’s character and played the voice of reason many times throughout the book.
Finally, we have Hiro. Ren and Nevan meet Hiro on their initial descent into Yomi. When they meet him, he is currently acting as a river and fish spirit, and he is not forthcoming about his past. While his history is a bit of a mystery for most of the novel, but it becomes apparent quickly that he is extremely disliked in the Shinigami community. Ren immediately gravitates toward him as he is not only very attractive but can relate to Ren’s struggles. His character is a complex one with reveals being drawn out throughout the book.
The ending is sure to leave readers immediately begging for more and we cannot wait for book two!
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/ 5 stars
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We are several weeks into our series on the book of Esther. It’s not what I as a Pastor of preaching expected to find thus far. A ‘hidden’ God, a spiritual mentor with bad advice and a less than virtuous heroine are just some of the surprises which awaited me in my personal study and now public exposition of this Old Testament book.
But then I have also found the expected, a sovereign God, the fickle, shallow and self absorbed political leaders, and the world’s materialistic definition of success. Nothing new there, it’s the same today as it was in Esther’s day. Sin and pleasure can be so predictable. The complexion changes but unredeemed man’s nature and pursuits remain the same.
Our main encouragement from the scriptures thus far has been that God always makes His will stand regardless of the plans of men (Proverbs 19:21). God uses our obedience and our disobedience to bring about His purpose of redemption for a desperate and needy people. He is sovereign in our righteous decisions and sovereign in our sinful decisions. He’s not simply reactive but proactive in all things, saving a people from themselves and saving them from Him. He doesn’t resort to a plan B when we mess up to make things realign with His ultimate plan but He’s literally in the actions of man at each step.
What great encouragement to know then that a good, merciful, forgiving and yet righteous and holy God sits on the throne of the universe governing in the very affairs of each one of us. He doesn’t wink at our sin but offers forgiveness and newness from sin as we return to Him. Esther, Mordecai and Pastor Guy sit in the very palm of the Creator God who brings about His plan of redemption for them in all their circumstances. We trust His promises when we can’t see His providence.
soli deo gloria!
The newest Getty CD is out with some great hymns. Enjoy the video release of Living Waters. I think we have some new ‘Songs of the Month’ for Center Hill.
Soli Deo Gloria
Center Hill, so glad we were a part of this. Let the passion and message grip our hearts to take Jesus to a dead world!
soli deo gloria!
by Burk Parsons
The love language of all marriages is self-denial. When both husband and wife are consumed not with their own immediate happiness but with the happiness of one another, they will enjoy a happy marriage. The same is true for enduring friendships and for authentic community.
With the disintegration of marriage has come the dissolution of community. As such, community has fallen on hard times. What every generation in every society in all of history has enjoyed, the rising generation will have to fight for. With the rise of online communities, online church, and online everything, face-to-face, eye-to-eye, shoulder-to-shoulder community has become increasingly difficult to find. Moreover, many don’t know what real community is and thus don’t know what to look for. Real community doesn’t happen on its own—it takes time, patience, repentance, forgiveness, and love that covers a multitude of sins. The church community is not just a crowd of people on a Sunday morning; it is the gathered, worshiping people of God in a congregation where masks aren’t needed and where real friends help bear the real burdens of one another. Community is not just getting together; it is living together, suffering together, rejoicing together, and dying together.
Although many Christians claim to want genuine community, many want it only on their own terms, when it’s convenient, and when it demands nothing from them. What they want isn’t the church community, but a country club where they pay their dues for services rendered. They want to be served without having to serve anyone else. Real community forces us to die to ourselves and get over ourselves so that we might love one another as ourselves. Francis Schaeffer observed that “the early church practiced two things simultaneously: orthodoxy of doctrine and orthodoxy of visible community.” Such orthodoxy of visible community is grounded in the “one another” passages of Scripture, which provide us with the essential elements of authentic community. They strike at the root of our self-centeredness, and they lead us to take our eyes off ourselves and to deny ourselves so that we might love one another, encourage one another, confess our sins to one another, forgive one another, and not slander one another, gossip about one another, devour one another, or envy one another. In so doing, our Father in heaven is glorified as we manifest the beauty of the gospel of Christ through the power of the Spirit, who has united a bunch of repentant sinners like us.
From Tabletalk magazine http://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/orthodoxy-community/
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You seem to need a hug, as much as you need an answer to a question. So...
That done, bankruptcy is nothing to be ashamed of. Donald Trump did it, and he's a billionaire. Bankruptcy is part of the U.S. Constitution. It's not just permitted -- it's a constitutional right, and it is intended to prevent the establishment of debtor's prisons in the USA -- because the Founders did not want to continue the abhorent practices of their European predecessors.
You have huge debt, and from what you have described, you can get out from under it all, and start a new life with the stroke of a pen.
Life is way too short. What are you waiting for?
Hope this helps.
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A canned answer?
I regret that you feel that what, but the answer was the farthest thing from a canned answer. Ordinarily, I wouldn't go into the emotional content of a question, but your question seemed to beg for it. Apparently I misread your request -- though you really didn't ask a specific question -- you just wanted "thoughts."
That said, there is no better option for you, or for anyone else, than bankruptcy. Every other debt settlement system, in my view, is a scam, because it does not have the power of the court to force lenders to comply.
Short sales, are also a scam, though no real estate agent will ever tell you this. The reason is that the short sale guarantees that the lender can get a deficiency judgment and attempt to collect any unpaid loan balance -- whereas in many state jurisdictions, a foreclosure wipes out the debt and any income tax liability for that debt, as well.
Most homeowners would be far better to tell the bank that they want to try to qualify for a modification, stall foreclosure for as long as possible, save their mortgage payments and then move out and file bankruptcy. The banks have no qualms in doing the reverse, i.e., claiming that they will give the borrower a modification, when in fact it's just a trick to get the borrower to keep paying the mortgage and maintaining the property, until suddenly, the bank forecloses without any warning.
Debt settlement businesses generally charge maintenance fees that far exceed the legal fees for a consumer bankruptcy -- and once again, there is no certainty in outcome, because the creditor can back out of the deal, and the debt settlement company can go bankrupt.
Your income may preclude you from filing Chapter 7 (liquidation), and you may have to file Chapter 13, which means making payments for 5 years on your debt, through the bankruptcy court. But, it's still the cheapest way out of your circumstances. If you want to see whether you qualify for a Chapter 7, you can take the "means test," at this link. There is no other way to know for certain whether or not you qualify.
Note: unlike anyone else you may talk to, I have no vested interest in providing anything other than the unvarnished facts. I'm not selling anything here except the truth -- because that's all I have that's worth anything.
Thank you. That does help. I failed to mention that I've already done a loan modification back in Nov. 2009 but then with reduced child support income and the high interest rates on my cards, before I was able to get a few to lower their interest rates, I've still not been able to meet bills although I'm not in the rears on any but taxes at this point. Why not just a foreclosure?
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Each time a Community Health Systems or an Anthem or a Premera Blue Cross gets hacked, sensitive patient records flood into the cyber underground.
But cyber thieves are by no means the only parties responsible for exposing sensitive information protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
Company insiders also are playing a major role in PHI—protected health information—getting into the wrong hands.
What’s more, it is not just medical facilities and health care insurers losing PHI. Government agencies, financial services companies, law and accounting firms, and even retailers are losing health care data at an alarming rate.
Those are the big takeaways from Verizon’s 2015 Protected Health Information Data Breach Report, a special look at more than 1,500 actual incidents, predominantly in the United States, in which at least 392 million PHI records have turned up lost or stolen. Most of the incidents occurred between 2004 and 2014.
The report was assembled by the same team of investigators and analysts responsible for Verizon’s highly regarded Data Breach Investigations Report, an annual assessment of patterns found in hundreds of actual data breach investigations.
Verizon’s analysts found:
Lost devices big threat
The big takeaway for Marc Spitler, senior analyst for Verizon Enterprise Solutions and one of the report authors, was the high rate of lost computing devices carrying unencrypted PHI.
“We’re a little surprised and disappointed that we’re still seeing such a significant amount of lost and stolen devices being reported as potential vectors of PHI theft,” Spitler says.
After all, full-disk encryption (FDE) is “a very basic security mechanism” that renders sensitive data on laptops unusable, Spitler points out. Full-disk encryption amounts to a “get-out-of-jail-free card,” since lost or stolen devices containing protected data are not required to be reported to authorities, he says.
Robin Daniels, chief revenue officer for Vera, a data security company, feels much the same. “It’s nearly criminal to me that the number (of unencrypted devices) is this high in 2015,” Daniels says.
Daniels says that encryption is still widely viewed as cumbersome and expensive, which it used to be—20 to 30 years ago.
“Of course, that’s not the case anymore,” says Daniels, adding that data protection and encryption have become top priorities for many industries.
Complexities hamper security
Still, the health care industry lags behind other sectors in implementing security tools such as encryption. Even the FBI issued a warning that this sector is much less resilient than others, such as the financial and retail sectors.
Part of the challenge is that integrating technology and health care delivery is much more complex, says Michael Ebert, a health care and life sciences consultant at KPMG.
A typical medical environment can have tens of thousands of endpoints, including employee mobile devices, treatment equipment and scanning machines, Ebert says. “A lot of that technology is not encrypted because it requires FDA approval, and that process takes a long time,” he adds.
Furthermore, disparate subsystems—the operating room, emergency department and intensive care unit, for instance—have to be seamlessly integrated, says Michelle Knighton, a lab manager at ICSA Labs, which certifies security and health IT products.
“All those systems have to work together to provide that central patient record to the physician,” she says. “That adds complexity and introduces more weaknesses.”
False peace of mind
Knighton sees a movement toward encryption, but it’s limited mostly to technology such as electronic health record systems, which have mandatory minimum security features.
“Compliance doesn’t equal security,” she says. “There’s a misconception that using a certified EHR system that’s been tested for certain security criteria provides a guarantee that a system can’t be breached and data won’t be lost. That’s completely untrue.”
Many health care organizations are realizing that compliance is not enough. Ebert says in the past, entities were mostly interested in the criteria imposed by HIPAA. But in the past six months, he’s seen a growing interest in applying a much broader framework to security.
“Organizations are getting more cybersecurity guidance, and they’re starting to look at it in a more complex way,” he says.
And the health care industry is not the only one on the hook for securing PHI. Verizon found that almost one-third of medical record breaches occurred in other sectors.
“Even if you’re in industry X, realize that if you have employees, you may have PHI and you need to know where that information resides and what protections you have in place,” Spitler says.
He notes that even when medical information is breached, the bad actors often are after other data, such as Social Security numbers and financial information.
“The attackers are looking more for weaknesses in certain systems than going after specific corporations; the attacks are more opportunistic than targeted,” he says.
Regardless of the industry, Daniels believes there’ll be mounting pressure for companies to protect their data.
“I think what will be a watershed moment in 2016 is that the public is going to demand it,” he says. “Any organization will be expected to protect you from breaches.”
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Roulette is a famous game that players have been enjoying for quite some time now. Today, players can enjoy playing online from the comfort of their own home. Online gambling clubs have taken it one step further by offering live dealer roulette. In this article, we will look at the advantages of playing roulette with live sellers in an online casino.
Live Roulette Features
- Authentic gaming experience
Live Dealer Roulette offers an authentic gaming experience that cannot be compared to traditional online roulette games. The game is played in real time, the real dealer spins the wheel and throws the ball. Players can interact with the dealer and other players, creating a more immersive and social gaming experience.
Playing roulette with a live dealer in an online casino is convenient for players. They can play the game from the comfort of their own home, at any time of the day. Players do not need to travel to a land-based casino to play the game, saving them time and money.
- Higher limits
Live dealer roulette games at online casinos often have higher betting limits than traditional online roulette games. This means that high rollers can wager large amounts of money, potentially winning larger payouts.
- Bonuses and Promotions
Online casinos offer bonuses and promotions for players who play live dealer roulette. This may include free spins, cashback and deposit bonuses. These bonuses can boost a player’s bankroll, giving them more opportunities to win.
- Justice and safety
Online casinos use cutting-edge technology to ensure that live dealer roulette games are fair and secure. The games are reviewed by third party companies to ensure that the results are random and independent of the casino. In addition, online casinos use encryption technology to protect players’ personal and financial information.
- Best Odds
Playing live dealer roulette often has better odds than a traditional online roulette game. This is due to the fact that the game is played in real time, which makes it difficult for players to cheat. In addition, some online casinos offer special rules and bonuses that can increase a player’s chances of winning.
- Easy to learn
Live dealer roulette is easy to learn, making it a great option for beginners. The game has simple rules and players don’t have to worry about making difficult decisions. In addition, players can play for free to practice their skills before playing for real money.
- Mobile Compatibility
Online casinos offer mobile compatibility for live dealer roulette games. This means that players can enjoy the game on their smartphones and tablets, allowing them to play the game on the go.
Varieties of live roulette
Several types of live roulette can be found at the casino, including:
European Roulette: This is the most popular version of roulette in casinos. It has 37 numbered cells from 0 to 36. The house edge is 2.7%.
American Roulette: This version of roulette has 38 numbered slots including 0 and 00. The house edge is higher than European roulette by 5.26%.
French Roulette: This version of roulette is similar to European roulette with 37 numbered slots. However, it has additional rules such as La Partage and En Prison that can reduce the house edge to 1.35%.
Mini Roulette: This version of roulette has only 13 numbered slots, including one zero. This is a simpler and more dynamic game than traditional roulette.
Double Ball Roulette: This version of roulette uses two balls instead of one, increasing the chances of winning. This is a relatively new option that can be found in some casinos.
Immersive Roulette: This version of Roulette uses multiple cameras and slow motion replays to give players an immersive experience. This is a popular option among online players.
Lightning Roulette: In this version of roulette, lightning strikes can randomly multiply payouts by certain numbers. It is also a popular option among online players.
Basic rules of the game
Here are a few basic rules for playing live roulette at an online casino:
- Choose a legit online gambling club that offers live roulette games.
- Place your bids before the seller turns the wheel. You can bet on a specific number, range of numbers, or other betting options such as red or dark, odd or even, high or low.
- When the bets are closed, the seller will turn the wheel one way and the ball the other.
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For nearly 150 years, people have lined the streets of Pensacola each winter in hopes of catching a string of shining beads, a handful of candy, or the most coveted throw off all, the Moonpie. (Moonpies, for the uninformed, are chocolate dipped marshmallow pies. They also come in vanilla, strawberry and banana-dipped, but chocolate is king.)
In 1874, Pensacola residents saw all the fun their Gulf Coast neighbors were having celebrating Fat Tuesday, and decided to start their own Mardi Gras.
Now, more than a century later, the Pensacola Mardi Gras Grand Parade is one of the biggest celebrations on the Gulf Coast with up to 100,000 people attending.
Winding through Historic Downtown Pensacola — the event includes a king, queen and royal court, about 250 floats, marching bands and dance teams, an avalanche of green, gold and purple beads and balloons — all manned by about 6,000 people. It is quite a bedazzled spectacle. (Heads up: the Grand Parade can last more than four hours from beginning to end, so wear comfortable shoes and bring drinks and snacks.)
Although the Pensacola Beach Mardi Gras celebration is a fledgling — its first parade took place in February 1980, more than 100 years after Downtown Pensacola’s — you couldn’t ask for a more beautiful parade backdrop. Parents with young kids flock to this family-friendly parade that parallels the sugar-white sands of the beach. (Quick tip: plan ahead for travel time on the bridges if you don’t plan to spend the day at the beach… But why wouldn’t you? It’s the perfect time of year to sprawl on the sand.)
Pensacola’s parade celebrations aren’t just limited to land either. As the saying goes, “whatever floats your boat,” right? Each year, the Pirates of Lost Treasure host their own unique Mardi Gras celebration with the Pirate Flotilla – an annual floating boat parade that travels down the Intracoastal Waterway in Perdido Key. (FYI – the flotilla starts at Hub Stacey’s and ends at the legendary Flora-Bama Bar, where the unofficial party continues afterward.)
Mardi Gras runs from Jan. 6, the 12th night after Christmas, until Fat Tuesday. Why Fat Tuesday? Well, it’s your last chance to eat, drink, and be merry before the fasting and sacrifice of the Christian Lenten season begins on Ash Wednesday.
Want to eat like a Fat Tuesday reveler? Traditional Mardi Gras fare includes red beans and rice, gumbo and the king cake. (A king cake is a bread-like pastry shaped like a wreath with icing and sugar sprinkles in the royal colors of purple, yellow and green. But its most distinctive trait is the small, plastic baby hidden inside. As the tradition goes, whoever gets the slice with the baby is named “King’ for the day and should have good luck for the coming year.) You’ll find plenty of these treats and more in local shops and restaurants as Pensacola celebrates the Mardi Gras season.
So, take the opportunity so soak up a little Gulf Coast culture, sunshine, food and fun as we countdown to the biggest party of the year!
For more information:
Pensacola Beach: pensacolabeachmardigras.com
Quick tips for first timers
- Don’t worry about pushing your way to the barricades to catch throws. Our krewes are experts and know how to toss beads and bears to the less aggressive folk and the “stroller set” in the back.
- The best place to be? At the beginning of the parade route, where they are super generous with throws and then at the end, where they are trying to get rid of everything that’s left. (As the end of the parade goes by you’ll see a determined crowd scramble for a second shot at parade’s end.)
- Don’t squabble over throws. There is always going to be another string of plastic beads flying toward your face.
- If candy hits the ground, let it go.
- Ever wondered when you would wear that ridiculous lighted top hat, your blinking tiara, or that full-body cow suit from Halloween 2012? This is the place!
- Have fun! There are going to be crowds, and someone in that crowd will catch an elbow to the eye. There is going to be a lot of walking. Someone within earshot – man, woman, child – is going to cry over a stuffed monkey. It’s Mardi Gras! So go in relaxed, jam with the bands, have a Moonpie for dinner and laissez le bon temps roulez!
- Feb. 18 – The Pirate Flotilla -- Perdido Key, 9 a.m.
- Feb. 18 -- Kids and Kritter Parade -- Pensacola Beach, 2 p.m.
- Feb. 25 -- Pensacola Grand Mardi Gras Parade -- Pensacola, 2 p.m.
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For those seeking a new beachside lifestyle, this is indeed a rare opportunity that must be seriously considered. This 1988 built large family residence enjoys the highly desirable ocean views-the asp.. Show more >
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EU actions in the electronic communications field have led to greater consumer choice, falling phone bills and higher standards of service. The main laws and actions related to electronic communications are:
- a sound regulatory framework for electronic communications, promoting competition and consumer rights
- the European Electronic Communications Code
- the BEREC regulation
- promoting investment in broadband networks to turn Europe into a gigabit society
- supporting wireless technologies, such as 5G and LTE, through the radio spectrum policy programme
- protecting mobile users from high roaming charges when travelling in the EU
- introducing a price cap for intra-EU communications
- taking a leading role in international discussions on Internet development and governance
The European Electronic Communications Code Directive's main provisions are:
- clear rules: the same rules will apply all over Europe;
- higher quality of services: the Code will foster competition for investments, in particular in very high capacity networks such as 5G networks, meaning higher connection speeds and better coverage;
- consumer protection: the Code will benefit and protect consumers, irrespective of whether end-users communicate through traditional means such as calls and SMS, or web-based services;
- equality of treatmentof all players in the telecom services sector: whether traditional or web-based, the Code will clarify the definition of electronic communication services.
Key Directives and Regulations
- The Framework Directive is based on the Framework Directive 2002/21/EC and the Better Regulation Directive 2009/140/EC.
- The Access Directive is based on the Access Directive 2002/19/EC and the Better Regulation Directive 2009/140/EC.
- The Authorisation Directive is based on the Authorisation Directive 2002/20/EC and the Better Regulation Directive 2009/140/EC.
- The Universal Service Directive is based on the Universal Service Directive 2002/22/EC and the Citizens' Rights Directive 2009/136/EC.
- The Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications is based on the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications 2002/58/EC, the Amending Directive 2006/24/EC and the Citizens' Rights Directive 2009/136/EC.
- The European Electronic Communications Code.
- The BEREC Regulation.
- The Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications is based on the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications 2002/58/EC, and the Citizens' Rights Directive 2009/136/EC.
- The Regulation on roaming on public mobile communications networks
The telecoms market is not always sufficient to generate growth, protect consumers and ensure a level playing field for new companies in the telecoms sector.
The European Commission regulates the market in order to counterbalance the significant market power of former monopolies, to ensure universal service and to protect consumers.
The Commission's aim is to contribute to the timely and consistent implementation of the telecoms rules by:
- monitoring and reporting on implementation in the Member States;
- launching infringement proceedings against Member States which do not respect telecoms rules;
- carrying out community consultation procedures through the Article 7 procedure;
- supporting the work of the Communications Committee which brings together Member States’ officials to coordinate the implementation of the telecoms rules;
- cooperation with Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) which assists the Commission and the national regulatory authorities (NRAs) in the implementation of the EU telecoms rules;
- organising seminars for national judges focusing on various aspects of telecoms regulation.
The Commission has the power to launch infringement proceedings against any Member State that fails to comply with EU telecoms laws and regulations. If necessary, the Commission may refer the case to the Court of Justice of the European Union. In the majority of infringement cases, Member States comply with their obligations under EU law before they are referred to the Court.
Any person or organisation may send a complaint to the European Commission against a Member State they consider to have taken measures incompatible with EU law. The Commission first tries to solve the issue with a Member State bilaterally. If the problem is not solved, the Commission can decide to open infringement proceedings.
For non-conformity issues, the infringement proceedings consist of the following steps:
- A "Letter of Formal Notice" to the Member State concerned, which must generally be answered within two months.
- If the Commission is not satisfied with the response given by the Member State, the Commission can send a formal request to comply with EU Law (a "Reasoned Opinion"), calling on the Member State to inform the Commission of the measures taken to comply with the rules within two months.
- If a Member State fails to ensure compliance with EU law, the Commission may then decide to refer the Member State to the Court of Justice following Article 258 TFEU. The Court of Justice will then issue a judgment.
- If, despite the Court's judgment, a Member State still fails to act in order to comply with the judgement, the Commission may open a further infringement case with only one written warning before referring the Member State back to Court under Article 260 TFEU.
- If the Commission refers a Member State to Court for a second time it may propose financial penalties on the Member State concerned based on the duration and severity of the infringement and the Member State’s ability to pay (both lump sum depending on the time elapsed since the original Court ruling and a daily penalty payment for each day after a second ruling until the infringement ends).
Under article 260(3) TFEU, when a Member State fails to inform the European Commission of the new legislation transposing a directive, financial penalties are proposed with the first referral to Court.
Judgments of the Court are binding on all EU Member States as well as on the EU institutions themselves.
The Secretariat General, which coordinates the Commission's work on the application of Community law, provides general details on infringement proceedings.
- Overview of infringement procedures opened for non-communication of the 2009 revised telecoms rules (.pdf)
- Overview of infringement procedures opened for incorrect implementation of the Regulatory Framework (.pdf)
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Surgery to Repair Broken Finger
Emily's Sports Medicine Patient Story
Emily was playing the offensive position of jammer for her roller derby team when one of her opponents swept in for a big hit. Emily’s finger was pulled away from her hand resulting in the fifth metacarpal bone being fractured. Emily practiced through the pain not thinking anything was seriously wrong. She posted a picture on Facebook of the injured finger and her friend, Dr Bree Simmons, who is also a sports medicine doctor at St. Vincent Sports Performance, suggested that maybe her injury was serious and needed a professional evaluation.
Emily visited Dr. Simmons, and she first splinted the injury to try to get the bone to reset on its own. She continued to play roller derby in a hard, protective splint. After several weeks, though, it became clear via X-ray that the bone was healing out of position. Since Emily is a writer by profession, her hand is a commodity, Dr. Simmons referred her to Dr. Kathryn Peck of the Indiana Hand to Shoulder Center for an complete evaluation. Dr. Peck said surgery would be needed to repair the fracture and put it in a better position. Dr. Peck would implant a small plate and screws to support the bone.
"Emily had an impending mal-union where her bone was displaced and causing her fingers to cross over whenever she made a fist. It affected her grip strength as well as the function of her hand”, said Dr Peck. Dr.Peck would basically scrape off the part of the bone that was regenerating, restore the pieces to alignment and attach them with hardware. Emily had surgery just days after she met with Dr. Peck.
After surgery Emily visited the therapy department to start regaining her range of motion. The therapist used ultrasound treatment and exercises to restore the movement and range of flexibility in her hand. Emily also had exercises she had to do multiple times daily at home. “The staff was always very friendly and gave me different exercises to keep my hand on a steady arc of improvement. They also gave me different splints to maximize the range of movement my hand could have. This made my life easier at home and I'm sure encouraged the restoration of full function to my hand.” said Emily
Emily was unable to participate in roller derby for around six weeks. Dr. Peck worked with Dr. Simmons (who is a former roller derby player who works to ensure all athletes keep as active as possible while healing from injury) to track her progress. “I think I was off skates for about four weeks, then I was allowed to skate with no contact for about two weeks, then finally I was allowed to fully participate with a protective splint. When they determined the bone was healed and not in danger of easily breaking in the same spot, I stopped using the splint.“ Emily said.
“Emily worked incredibly hard to get back to roller derby as quickly as possible. Her dedication and commitment to the rehabilitation process was amazing” said Dr Peck.
“My experience with the Indiana Hand to Shoulder Center was the best you could expect from the situation of having a broken bone. I was reassured by the fact that I was going to a center with expertise in hands. Dr. Simmons had strongly recommended the practice and Dr. Peck in particular. Dr. Peck explained everything to me in terms I could understand and was open to helping me get back into full participation in my sport as soon as possible. I don't know if she was familiar with roller derby before I walked into her office, but some medical professionals are freaked out by and overly cautious about the fact that I would choose to spend my free time playing a full-contact sport on wheels. However, Dr. Peck seemed to understand its importance and open to helping me reach my goals of getting back on skates as soon as possible. I felt she combined the best qualities in a health care provider in that she was both straightforward and honest, but also projected the kind of caring and concern you want in a medical experience. I also enjoyed working with the various therapists at the center. I like that the surgery center was attached to the same place where I met with Dr. Peck and got my x-rays. It felt like a comprehensive and cohesive practice in a way that's kind of rare these days in health care.” said Emily.
“Any time I hear anyone has a hand or shoulder injury, I recommend the Indiana Hand to Shoulder and Dr. Peck. Her down-to-earth approach, combined with her expertise, make her an excellent physician, from this patient's perspective. I only have a small scar and my hand works great.“ | <urn:uuid:eeb59bb8-4415-4f3c-bf81-64d4ecf0f3a8> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://www.indianahandtoshoulder.com/testimonial-emily | 2021-03-07T23:40:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178381230.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20210307231028-20210308021028-00433.warc.gz | en | 0.985245 | 960 |
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What a great night of TV again! Let’s get straight to the On The Red Carpet interviews with George Pennacchio….
First, Kelly and Derek! Kellie said she felt more comfortable last night, but, the mirrors on her outfit cut Derek (lol). Derek has more daring moves planned for the future. They are happy with last night’s dance and plan to work hard next week. Derek wants to work to the full capacity and not cut Kellie short for what she can do.
George tells Jacoby that he thinks the judges love his charm, attitude, and fun factor. Karina says she and Jacoby haven’t had a conflict yet and they both respect each other. Jacoby wants to keep getting better and he plans to work hard. Check out his face at the end when Karina says he’s given away their strategy (priceless). He mentions practicing the Rumba and the Jazz (does this mean they have a Rumba next week?).
Zendaya says this whole experience of dancing on Dancing With The Stars is so fun. She loves performing, the work, the judges comments, etc. George asks them about their high scores, but, Val says they don’t plan to think or concentrate on them or how good Zendaya might be. Val says to “get it” and to keep going and reaching expectations, they have to focus on dancing and working really hard (Val, that’s right. Keep this up!). Zendaya agrees.
George asks Andy what it was like having his former “Less Than Perfect” cast mates there for support last night. They talk of how they are “family”. Andy said he cried (awwww) after their dance. He got caught up in all the emotion from what they’ve all been through and was so glad they and his family were there last night. Sharna talks of the creative effort put into their dance and how she and Andy worked together. For whatever happens tonight, Andy is happy for this journey. To see George also interview Andy’s former “Less Than Perfect” cast mates about Andy and the night, see this link.
George says the judges love Ingo!! He and Kym are happy about being in 5th place. It gives them somewhere to go. Kym loves that Ingo is “musical” and can pick it up in his dancing. He loves this show and glad he took the challenge on. If they make it, they have the Paso Doble which they planned to work on last night.
George asks Dorothy about her injury. She explains about her ankle and she feels so bad about their bad performance and hard week. Tristan reassures her how he is not disappointed in her. She gave it all she could under the circumstances and that’s all that matters. They don’t know what will happen if they make it to next week. They will let the medics decide. TV Guide has an article up on this subject of whether Dorothy will continue on as well.
George praises Aly for having no fear. Aly is nervous, but, she just relaxed last night and had fun. Mark talks of when he might play another card soon. They talk of Mark’s tattoos as well. If they make it to week 3 (Prom Week), Aly says she hopes to show a romantic side that people haven’t seen in her yet.
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The latest MSI VR JAM Awards were announced! MSI VR JAM offered motivators to encourage VR game developers creating magnificent VR games. MSI has achieved another milestone in gaming. MSI was honored to host the VR JAM with the official partner, the Institute for Information Industry(III), to build a preliminary judge panel. Over 600 teams from 72 countries were evaluated by professionals from a variety of fields and MSI's expertise. Through the series of judging process, the competition was extremely fierce and worth waiting for the outcome.
January 24th, come to witness fabulous VR Gaming masterpieces and outstanding honorees with awesome prizes at Syntrend!
Highlights the winners of MSI VR JAM: The 1st place - "Block Rocking Beats" which creates the extraordinary interactive rhythm game application, the author is Sander Sneek from Netherlands. The 2nd place - "Mass Exodus" belongs to the team of Dan Knight and Ben Barton from England whose work has delivered the stimulating adventure movie scene. The 3rd place - "Derail Valley" is highly praised by rail fans made by Serbia winners Slobodan Stevic and Nenad Ognjanovic. Finally, the most popular community's choice award which perfectly displays the gaming setting with futuristic design and cool weapon as lightsaber in Star Wars drives all VR gamers crazy.
MSI VR JAM Landing Page: https://goo.gl/bvTEyo
Over the world, MSI awards excellent VR Jammer to accelerate the best VR experience for all gamers!
MSI VR JAM is the biggest VR JAM for worldwide VR Game developers. MSI teamed up with Intel, the world leading processors vendor; Unity, the mainstream game development engine, UploadVR, WEARVR, the leaders in VR technologies, and Institute for Information Industry(III).
"In the competition entries, we discovered many wonderful creative contents from numerous developers; VR JAM is a driving force in VR ecosystem that further adds to its sparkle and vitality. With MSI's core faith of commitment and dedication to the best and innovative gaming experience, MSI is glad to look forward to more amazing VR JAM works and is willing to be the promoter of the VR games," said MSI Marketing director Sam Chern.
What is "Jam" spirit?
"Jam" shares the same creative application as "Game Jam", the main purpose of the activity is to stimulate creativity and develop participants' potential through limited time, shortage of resource and techniques support. In an extremely short time, participants have to provoke effective exchanging experience by finding partners with the same ideas. Meanwhile, team members feedback and learn from strong opponents to finish the entire game, sharing the spirit of Jammer to build VR works on the cutting edge of technology trend. As the leading brand of the gaming industry, MSI is always ahead of others in meeting gamers' needs by encouraging innovative solutions and providing the stylish, slim and powerful gaming rigs for all gamers.
The total prize pool for MSI VR JAM competition will exceed 80,000 USD, with high bounty for the top three winners being 30,000 USD, 25,000 USD, and 15,000 USD respectively. Part of the prizes pool are MSI high-end hardware products, the newest MSI GP62M VR gaming laptop, Aegis X gaming desktop, Intel X99 A GAMING PRO CARBON motherboard, GeForce GTX 1070 ARMOR 8G OC graphics card and so on. Furthermore, the best is yet to come, MSI will also be giving away the world's smallest VR-Ready gaming desktop "Trident" as a special prize for the winner of the Community's Choice Award!
MSI VR JAM Awards Info
Date: Tuesday 24th January, 2017
Charge : Free
Time: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Venue: Syntrend, 5F Clapper Studio
Location: No.2, Sec. 3, Civic Blvd., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei City 100, Taiwan.
MSI VR official website: https://vr.msi.com/
MSI VR JAM: http://vr.msi.com/event/msi-vr-jam/
MSI VR Facebook: https://www.Facebook.com/VRMSI/
MSI Global Facebook: https://www.Facebook.com/MSIHQFANCLUB/
Unity Game Engine: https://unity3d.com
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Malaga is a historical jewel on the Costa del Sol. A Roman amphitheatre and a Moorish fortress provide the backdrop to more modern pleasures, including contemporary galleries, a revitalised port area, and the art district of Soho. The birthplace of Picasso also has gastronomy, parks, nature reserves, beaches… and third wave coffee.
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The inside of Cocóra Coffee, café and roastery. Credit: Cocóra Coffee
Why These Four?
Choosing the best coffee shops in any city is impossible, but I can list my personal favourites. These spots have been selected for the quality of their coffee and their unique ambience. There is something for every coffee-lover on this list.
1. Santa Canela
This specialty coffee roaster is in the artsy and central Soho neighbourhood. Take a seat in the cozy space and watch as they roast the beans they sell. Photographs and illustrations from artists all over the world add to the warm atmosphere.
Alternatively, sip a drink on the large street terrace, where you can sample the homemade products while people-watching in this vibrant area.
Santa Canela from the street. Credit: Santa Canela
|Where||Calle de Tomas de Heredia 5, Barrio de las Artes, 29001|
|Espresso Machine||La Cimbali M100 3Gr|
|Coffee Offerings||Espresso-based drinks and filter coffees, all roasted in-house|
|Must-Try Drink||Orange coffee (coffee, orange zest, milk foam, and cinnamon)|
|Retail Offerings||Seasonal origins|
|Food & Other Drinks||Teas, smoothies, fresh juices, crepes, homemade cakes, and sandwiches|
|Nearby Sights||Soho neighbourhood, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, galleries, shops, and restaurants|
2. Bertani Café
Opened in 2012, this tiny place was the first specialty coffee shop in the city. Bertani serves up whole-bean coffee from nine different plantations or origins, and you can also buy bags to take home with you. It also offers barista tools, courses, and tastings.
The cozy interior of Bertani Café. Credit: Bertani Café
|Where||Calle San Juan, 40, 29005|
|Espresso Machine||Dalla Corte EVO2|
|Coffee Offerings||Finca San José in Honduras, Finca Montecristo in Brazil, and a decaf (Swiss Water process) Mexican coffee roasted by Café de Finca|
|Must-Try Drink||The Honduras San José as a flat white|
|Retail Offerings||Roasted coffee from various origins and barista tools|
|Food & Other Drinks||Baked goods and sandwiches|
|Nearby Sights||The historical centre; San Juan Church; Atarazanas food market; and the famous shopping street, Calle Larios|
3. Mia Coffee Shop
Just five minutes from Bertani, this small coffee shop has outdoor seating, good coffee, and a cosy atmosphere with homemade decorative features. The family-run business is in a small square opposite the decorative Iglesia de los Mártires and is a great spot to take a break from the busy city centre.
The tiny but charming Mia Coffee Shop. Credit: Mia Coffee Shop
|Where||Plaza de los Mártires Ciriaco y Paula, 4, 29008|
|Espresso Machine||Wega Pegaso|
|Coffee Offerings||Coffees from around the world|
|Must-Try Drink||House blend|
|Food & Other Drinks||Homemade baked goods with vegan and gluten-free options|
|Nearby Sights||The Iglesia de los Mártires and Carmen Thyssen Malaga Museum|
4. Cocóra Coffee Roasters
Outside of the city of Malaga, in the resort town of Estepona, this a great option for a change of pace. Take a break in a charming city that features whitewashed buildings and a promenade lined with palm trees. In a central square full of orange trees, Cocóra Coffee Roasters is the ideal place to rest, relax, and contemplate life over a coffee.
Enjoy a drink among orange trees on the terrace. Credit: Cocóra Coffee Roasters
|Where||Calle Lozano, 10, 29680 Estepona|
|Espresso Machine||Sanremo Verona RS|
|Grinder||Mahlkönig EK43 and Compak E8|
|Coffee Offerings||Filter and espresso-based options, all roasted in-house|
|Must-Try Drink||Espresso or V60|
|Retail Offerings||In-house filter and espresso roasts|
|Food & Other Drinks||Croissants, organic cacao, raw vegan snacks, and chai|
|Nearby Sights||Barrio de la vila, marina, St Louis castle, and the clock tower of the Church of Los Remedios|
Malaga may only have a handful of speciality coffee shops at the moment, but they each bring something unique to the scene. Take a trip to southern Spain and between the beach, the sangria, and the tapas, make sure to visit at least one of these local spots.
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Written by David Muñoz of D·Origen Coffee Roasters.
All views within this opinion piece belong to the guest writer, who is a local of southern Spain, and do not reflect Perfect Daily Grind’s stance.
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Next Animal Crossing game may improve Happy Home Paradise facilities
New Horizons’ Animal Crossing: Happy Home Paradise has introduced facilities, and as great as it is, it can get even better in the upcoming AC game.
One of the best parts of Animal crossing: new horizons‘ Happy home paradise The DLC is the inclusion of facilities, and they could be expanded further in the future. Animal crossing following. the Happy home paradise the extension allows THAT for players to push their creative skills further than the series has ever allowed, by tasking them with designing a plethora of vacation homes for the game’s many different animals. As fun as it can be to create vacation homes based on the game. On weird themes, the best part of the expansion allows players to build a variety of different facilities around the central resort area of the DLC as well.
Among the facilities that players can design in Happy home paradise are a restaurant, cafe, school and even a hospital. The functionality is quite robust by Animal crossing design standards; in some cases this allows the player to design multi-room facilities and each of the buildings can be provided with any animals the player wishes. All of this is a welcome addition to the New Horizons experience, but it always feels like it could easily be improved.
Nintendo has already said that New Horizons No longer will receive substantial content updates, so players will unfortunately have to wait for the next installment in the series to see any additions to the installation system. However, thanks to New Horizons‘massive success, a future payout is virtually guaranteed, which means now is the perfect time to speculate on how to Happy home paradiseThe facilities can be upgraded in the next game. Some adjustments and additions to the system presented in Happy Home ParadisWe could help redefine the series and make the next episode even better than New Horizons.
Animal Crossing facilities should be buildable on the main island
The most obvious way to expand the facility system is to allow the player to build and place facilities around their own island. Spend hours designing a restaurant at Happy home paradise and then watching it come alive with the daily animal visitors is great fun, but it is also a bit of a pain having to fly to the resort area every time the player wants to see it. As big as the Happy home paradise the expansion is, THAT players will probably still spend the vast majority of their time in New Horizons on their islands, which limits the time they can spend in their facilities. Having the facilities locked in a different area makes sense in this context, given that the DLC is separate from the main game, but a future episode of the series that includes facilities in the base game would be the perfect opportunity to give players more flexibility with where they build their facilities.
Nintendo could go one step further by giving players full control over the exact location of buildings on their island, in the same way that players can move the locations of Nook’s Cranny and Able Sisters. Being able to create a full-fledged shopping district, with multiple stores and restaurants would be a dream come true for many THAT players, and could give people more control over their islands than ever before. As cool (and adorable) as seeing animals on vacation working in restaurants in Happy home paradise, it would be even cooler if players could see their loved one Animal crossing villagers working in the facilities instead. All of this would add a level of customization to installations that Happy home paradise was missing and would help make player islands even more personal and suited to them.
In the same vein of more customization options, it would also be great if the next one THAT installment added more types of facilities. Happy home paradise lays a solid foundation by allowing players to build a restaurant, cafe, school, hospital, and clothing store, but there are still plenty of opportunities for expansion here. To come back to the subject of a shopping district, maybe the next one THAT The game could allow players to design and build their own supermarket alongside the more furniture-centric Nook’s Cranny. Now seems like the perfect time for something like this, especially with the latest Animal crossing update adding so many new foods to the game. The game could go even further by allowing the player to customize each type of installation. Maybe his island could have not only an upscale five-star restaurant, but also a fast food establishment, with its own drive-thru design. Allowing players the freedom to choose their type of setup as well as the ability to place it anywhere on their island would provide an unparalleled level of freedom.
Animal Crossing facilities could incorporate more mini-games
Finally – and this one could be a bit long – Nintendo could also offer players more ways to interact with their facilities, possibly in the form of different mini-games. It doesn’t have to be too extravagant – maybe the player can earn some bells by taking on a delivery job for the restaurant in town. Players could be tasked with delivering food orders to different residents across the island, even gaining additional incentives based on how quickly they complete their deliveries. Maybe players could even participate in some real touch or rhythm based mini-games at their facilities. It’s not something the series is particularly well known for, but with the addition of the stretch activity in the last one. ACNH update, something like that doesn’t seem like too much of a step anymore.
As great as the functionality of installing in New Horizons‘ Happy home paradise The DLC is, it also feels like it’s just the first step towards something even bigger. New Horizons fans will probably be waiting a while for a new installment. But when it does finally arrive, hopefully, it will be complete with more fleshed out installation capabilities. There are plenty of ways for Nintendo to expand the functionality in an upcoming sequel, which should hopefully bring all that was great about Animal crossing: new horizons base game and DLC expansions, and more.
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Hundreds of police and sheriff’s departments across the country are either testing or adopting body-worn video cameras for their officers. Is this a rare issue where left and right can agree?
Unions mustn’t prevail
Body cameras are no panacea. Although small studies in Rialto, and Mesa, Ariz., found body cameras can reduce the number of citizen complaints, it’s too early to make broad generalizations about the technology’s benefits.
So what makes body cameras so attractive? As one Southern California county sheriff put it to me recently, “It’s just one more piece of a larger puzzle.”
Think of body cameras as one more tool in the law enforcement toolbox. Often tools have multiple applications. Sometimes tools can be misused. Employed properly, however, the police and the public should benefit from increased transparency and accountability.
But the police unions have been wary at best, and often hostile to the idea.
The LAPD in December became the largest police department in the nation to begin rolling out the cameras. The police union, which just concluded contract negotiations with the city earlier this month, took to the airwaves and newspapers saying while they favor body cameras, they want a “fair” system.
In a just world where the common good prevails, a “fair” system would ensure the interests of the public trump interests of the public-employees’ union. In our world, a “fair” system entails protecting union members from the consequences of misconduct or negligence.
What the unions really want is for their departments to let officers review videos after officer-involved shootings or other “critical incidents.” Ordinarily, a cop would give a statement on the scene, and later submit to a formal interview as part of an internal investigation. The unions argue that officers should have a chance to review footage to help them provide a full account.
In reality, reviewing that footage would also allow officers to shape their testimony to their advantage. Some prosecutors would call that “coaching.” And so rather than enhancing law enforcement’s credibility, it looks once again like the police are simply protecting their own.
Elected officials, always looking for endorsements, may be tempted to roll over. But for the body-camera experiment to succeed, the police unions must fail.
— Ben Boychuk
Not perfect, but better
As best I can tell, there are two big complaints from liberals about police-worn body cameras: First, that they aren’t perfect. Second, that they might invade civil liberties of people being investigated by police.
The first complaint is easy to address: No, body cameras aren’t perfect. We know already that police misdeeds caught on camera don’t always result in police accountability — videos ranging from the Rodney King beating to the Eric Garner in Staten Island choking left little doubt about the brutality involved, and yet responsible officers in both cases avoided punishment.
To date, however, no perfect system has presented itself. But cameras are a big improvement. Think: We will never know precisely what happened in Michael Brown’s shooting in Ferguson, Mo.? Eyewitness accounts can be faulty or change over time thanks to the faults of human memory. With a video, at least, it’s easier to answer the question of what, exactly, happened during an incident, even if we might still find substantial disagreement on the meaning of those facts.
In other words: Cameras are better, much better, than your lying eyes.
As for civil liberties — cop-worn body cameras don’t really concern me on that front. If you live in a city of any size, there are already hundreds of publicly and privately owned surveillance cameras watching the streets at all time. Which would be a problem, perhaps, except that when you venture into public, where people can see you, you don’t have any real expectation of privacy: Anybody who wants to take a picture of you is already legally allowed to do so.
The ACLU, though, has offered its own recommended guidelines to protect us. It suggests officers notify citizens when they’re being recorded, and that all conversations between police and civilians be recorded — with an exception for “First Amendment activities” that an officer has no reason to suspect are connected to crime.
Sounds good. Body cameras are new. We’ll have to come up with new rules to govern their use. But they’re also a new opportunity to watch the watchers. That, folks, is an opportunity we should never pass up.
— Joe Mathis
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Richard was born Kansas City, Missouri, September 3, 1952; admitted to bar, 1978. Missouri and U.S. District Court. Western District of Missouri-, 1994, U.S. District Court of, Eastern District of Missouri; 1995, Washington. D.C. 1- 1996 Kansas and U.S. District Court, District of Kansas. Territorial Court of the U.S. Virgin Islands, 1999. Education: Longview Community College (A.A., 1972): University of Missouri at Kansas City (B.B.A., 1974; M.P.A., 1975; J.D., 1978). Omicron Delta Kappa; Phi Delta Phi; Phi Theta Kappa. Author: "Criminal Corrections: Reform in the Community." The UMKC Business and Public Administration Student Review. Fall, 1975: "Child Abuse Legislation - Preserving the Family Unit." The UMKC Business and Public Administration Student Review, Summer, 1978. Administrative Hearing Officer, Housing Authority of Kansas City, Missouri, 1988. Approved Mediator, Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri. Member: Kansas City Metropolitan (Member, 1978-2000 and Chairman, 1994-2000, Municipal Courts Committee-, Family Law Section, 1978-2000) and American Bar Associations (Member, Standing Committee on Association Standards for Criminal Justice, 1977-1978): The Missouri Bar Member, Young Lawyers Section: Administration of Criminal Justice, 1977-1978: Family Law Section, 1978-2000): First Amendment Lawyers Association: Missouri Association of Trial Lawyers; National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys; Kansas City, Missouri City Council (Chairman, Drug Prosecution Committee).
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I’d always been of the opinion that blokes who drove about in tarted up hatch backs were idiots. Spotty cap wearing hood rats who tear about any suburban town centre in under powered cars, those originally designed for their mothers to park on the zigzags during the school run.
It’s true to say that most of my road life as a pedestrian, cyclist, motorcyclist and driver has been blighted by the grinning buffoon in the blacked out 1.0 Nova of death. It hasn’t been an easy relationship sharing the road with these guys, there has been numerous near misses, most of them in the suburban satellite towns of Colchester, Chelmsford and Dartford, the true boy racer badlands of our time.
From an outsiders perspective the modding scene seemed utterly pointless, even a little dangerous. The wet herringbone brickwork of the bypass business park played out a ludicrous scenario of idiocy that was so far removed from anything I knew, and that’s rich coming from me.
I hated everything about their culture, and to a certain extent still do. Hanging around at the MacDonalds “Drive Thru”, the shit Drum and Bass emanating from the peeling blacked out windows, the sticker on the side of the Fiat Punto that reads “Mutha Fukka from Hell”. I turned my nose up at the stupid fart noise that came from the exhaust, the crunching as the Vauxhall Corsa, already sitting two inches from the tarmac, grounds out over a speed bump outside B&Q.
My aspirational middle class snobbery moved into overdrive at the mere sight of their cheap clothes from JD Sports, the MacKenzie T shirts and Reebok classics. It all riled me as much as Jeremy Clarkson and the two sycophants he presents that idiot BBC TV show with. Awful.
The closest I’ve ever came to being a part of this culture is owning an XR2 I brought it off my Dad (naturally aspirated Weber carb). Not exactly an “Alan Minter”, but it was lowered, noisy and great fun to drive. My girlfriend at the time called it “The Beast”, it did 25mpg, the cabin reeked of petrol fumes and I swear the fuel guage could be seen to move, but yes, it was a little bit bad. And yes I did feel a little bit “Rad” grounding it in petrol station forecourts, undertaking on roundabouts and borching along the A120 of a morning like a prize fucking tool that I was and hopefully still am.
It was fun. However I was never the real deal. I resisted the need to “Debadge”, tint the windows or indeed make any modifications that would plunge my lovely XR2 even further into the depths of suburban cuntishness.
The thing is, as the years have gone by I’ve started to see another side to this culture that I’d previously missed.
The poorly fitted bodykit, the aftermarket spotlights from Halfords, oversize wheels scraping the wheel arches and doors with no handles may seem a bit tacky, but it’s also creative. The creativity is in making something unique and different on a limited budget and with limited resources, the place where all BBC4 documentaries about music and art begin.
I’ve started to admire their attempts at being truly individual. Yes the results may look ridiculous, sometimes laughably so, but you’ll never see two modded cars that are alike. For me this is where creativity is at. Spontaneous, evolving, cheap to produce and free at the point of delivery. Not like the tedious BBC or those boorish art galleries in places like Brighton or Bath.
The ideals of trying to be different, of doing something your own way and of constantly trying to improve your way of life should be celebrated, not laughed at. There is a sense of anarchy and independence about the modding culture that if it were middle class would almost certainly be something to gloat about at the local gastro pub (Locally produced “Bangers” with a herb and organic mustard mash). Moreover, the ability to experiment with design and technology is something that should be championed, there’s more than enough conformity in the workplace as it is.
There’s comparisons to draw with the personal computer. The MacBook is somehow seen as the mark of creativity, especially amoungst the Volvo and Bugaboo brigade where it is the must have device. Yet it’s widely regarded that Apple Mac PC is fairly conventional, certainly from an outsiders perspective they all look the same. That’s the irony in the Apple “Think Different” campaign, there’s nothing different about Apple Mac in the same way as there’s nothing different about the boring cars that Apple Mac users drive.
Who else has got a opalescent pink lowered Citroen Saxo with oversized wheels and a rear spoiler from a Cessna? Who else is going to have a ThinkPad T43p (Old IBM model, stolen from the Great Portland Street office) jacked up with another 2GB of RAM and loaded with a blazingly fast cloud desktop?
Modding your PC to your very own specification is little different from tuning your car.
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Modern marketing teams have exploded in size in the last few years. With so many specialized roles between management, creative, and technology, it's hard to know when to build out your team and when you should outsource to an agency.
In this post, we’ll look at how modern marketing teams are structured and how to decide which roles require full-time, in-house employees and which roles you should outsource to an agency.
To get started, here's an outline of what a fully-built B2B marketing team would look like:
- VP of Marketing or CMO
- Marketing Operations Manager
- Product Marketing Manager
- Social Media Manager
- Content Manager
- Demand Generation Manager
- Marketing Programs Manager
- Field Marketing
- Events Manager
- Press Relations
- Analyst Relations
- Brand Manager / Creative Director
- Graphic Designer
- Web Developer
- Video marketing
- Marketing Systems Management
Bonus (these roles might not live in marketing, but frequently do)
- Sales Operations Manager
- Business Development Representatives
- Customer Service and Support
I know – it’s a lot of roles.
Depending on your company size all of these roles might be one person, like a Marketing Manager who does everything, or it could also be thirty-five people spread across the country.
It really depends on what stage your company is at, your market, and your business goals.
But before you build out or expand your team, you need to ask yourself one question: is this something you should keep in-house, or something you should outsource to an agency?
Why use an agency?
Agencies help you scale-up (or down) very quickly to fit your business needs. They have experts who work in these specialized silos all day, every day.
Need help with your editorial strategy? A content marketing agency can help make that happen.
Implementing a marketing automation system? A digital agency will know each system inside-and-out.
Is this a long-term strategy or short-term execution? That’s a bit trickier.
Agencies attract the best creative talent: designers, web developers, and copywriters pushing the boundaries of what's possible. With a great creative director (and a willing client), these teams will push out stuff you've only ever dreamed of.
They can make your business seem bigger than it is.
It may not be easy, but learning how to choose a marketing agency is key. You need to review their portfolio, get client references, and ensure you have flexible terms. Make sure you understand the difference between a creative agency and a production house.
For tips on working with your agency, read You're My Favorite Client by Mike Monteiro.
But, there are also downsides to outsourcing:
- Agencies are expensive; changes are expensive; maintenance is expensive.
- Agencies are a time-suck, you need to actively manage the relationship.
- You're going to wait longer for work; if you're a small client, you can end up on the back burner.
- It will take more iterations to get their creative to where you want it to be.
- They don't know your audience / target market as well as your team.
Why move work in-house?
When the cost of an agency outstrips its value, you should consider bringing that role in-house.
An agency will charge you 4-8x more per hour than a specialized marketer in fully-burdened salary (depending on the role). If you use a social media agency for 10 hours of work per week, that role would be more cost-effective in-house.
You'll get more (and better quality) work done, but you need to ruthlessly prioritize which role to bring on and when.
When your company is small, you can even share these roles across the company.
A copywriter can write blog posts, press releases, and micro-copy inside your product. A graphic designer can work on your brand, spruce up your social media posts, and help your development team with UI. (Whether they can do each of these things well can only be determined by you.)
In-house teams enable you to move fast, iterate quickly, and work towards a common vision. They know your target audience inside-and-out. And they can react to changes in the market immediately. You'll also reduce miscommunication by having everyone working towards common goals.
There are downsides to keeping all your marketing efforts in-house as well:
- Hiring good creative talent is hard; if you get stuck with a bad designer, you now have a full-time employee to fire.
- You need to be careful with headcount, which makes it painful to scale down your team in tough times.
- In-house teams are made up of individual people who need management and mentorship, where an agency usually only has one contact person; do you have the time for this?
There is no right answer.
You will always need agencies: finding agencies that treat you like a partner is the most important trait. Working with multiple, specialized agencies (especially for things like video) is important.
Always be opportunistic about getting the best people you can afford involved, whether they're in-house or not. Because at the end of the day, quality people make a world of difference, no matter which side of the fence they are on.
This blog post is brought to you by Marko Savic, Founder & CEO of Funnelcake, Customer Journey Analytics for B2B marketing teams.
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When I was a kid, I always wondered why we changed the time twice a year. I asked my dad and he said, “Because of the farmers. They need more light in the summer to farm.” (Okay. I bought that, even though I was thinking that the light would be the same, regardless of what hour we called it. My dad was omniscient then.) This is a common thought, however incorrect. Daylight Savings Time (DST) is a controversial subject.
It is really for the benefit of retailers, manufacturers, and the sports business. Farmers don’t like it. They need their paid workers to work later, rather than leave earlier. Farmers get up at sunrise no matter what the clock says. The entertainment industry doesn’t like it – they make their money mostly after dark. Railroads don’t like it either, as the coordination of schedules and making sure all their employees are on the correct time can be a hassle, especially when trains run through several different times zones, and some don't observe DST.
DST is very political. Not standardized in the U.S. until 1966, a 1987 extension was voted for by both Idaho senators. Studies showed that fast-food restaurants sell more French fries (made from Idaho potatoes, natch!) during DST. The extension was funded by Clorox (owner of Kingsford Charcoal – got to have those late afternoon barbeques) and 7-Eleven. A 1984 article in Fortune magazine stated estimates that a mere seven week extension of DST would yield $30 million more for 7-Eleven stores, and the National Golf Foundation figured that same time extension would earn the golf industry $200-300 million more.
What? Golf? Yes. If DST bugs you, it’s no wonder. It was first proposed by an entomologist, New Zealander George Vernon Hudson (unknown if he golfed). He presented a paper in 1895 proposing a two hour shift. In 1905, Londoner William Willett proposed advancing the clock during the summer, and he was an avid golfer. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, also an avid golfer, was in support of it as well. The golf industry is not the only sport who gains profits by DST. With more daylight hours, people play more sports after school and after work in general.
Ancient civilizations adjusted daily schedules to the sun, rather than divide each day into equal hours. So the Roman hora tertia, the third hour after sunrise, was 44 minutes at the winter solstice, but 75 minutes at the summer solstice. The world ran for millennia without standard timekeeping. It was only after railroads and advanced communications came into being that the need for precise schedules arose.
An early goal was to reduce evening use of incandescent lighting – a big electricity suck. Currently there is little information on how DST affects energy use, and what does exist is contradictory. The first use of DST began in 1916 by Germany and its allies. Sommerzeit, as they called it, was a way to conserve coal during WWI. A few other countries, including Russia, started it the following year, and the U.S. in 1918.
No state in the U.S. is required to follow DST, but if a state chooses to it must adhere to the start and end times set by federal law. Arizona (minus the Navajo Nation) and Hawaii are the only states that do not observe it. The continents of Asia and Africa, for the most part, do not follow it. Nor do countries along the equator, since there isn’t much of a variation of sunrise times. Here’s a link to see how various countries in the world deal with it.
Technically, the name of local time changes when DST is observed, the word “standard” replacing “daylight”, so in my neck of the woods, PST (Pacific Standard Time) becomes PDT (Pacific Daylight Time). During WWII President Roosevelt instituted DST yearlong, replacing the center words with “war”, so PST became PWT.
If you feel strongly that DST, called “Daylight Slaving Time” by opponents, should end, you may want to join this group. An early dissenter against DST was Robertson Davies, who stated that he detected “the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.”
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STEM Recruiting: The Biggest Area You’re Ignoring
When it comes to the future of higher education, there’s no shortage of conversation and/or focus on the importance of STEM education (science, technology, engineering, and math). While STEM learning is a hot topic in academic institutions, many companies are unaware that the pipeline of talent in STEM fields is drastically under-filled.
It is estimated that by 2020 there will be more jobs in tech than there are bodies to fill them. Somewhere between 1 million and 2.5 million jobs will go unfilled, most of them in the engineering and computer science fields. That’s a serious shortage.
This means companies will face more competition than ever before when it comes to recruiting STEM-focused candidates. From a recruiting standpoint, this is a wakeup call for both HR pros and senior leaders. Getting these potential job-seekers on the radar screen early and making a concerted effort to build relationships that will endure through the education process will hopefully lead them back in your direction when they’re ready to dive into a career.
What does that relationship-building look like? Smart companies of all sizes are getting involved and/or spearheading STEM-focused initiatives in their communities. They are connecting with young people in middle school and high school and encouraging an interest in STEM learning, and showing them real-life examples what a career in STEM might look like. They are sponsoring science and tech competitions; sponsoring Maker Fairs and robotics teams; and they are sending engineers, data analysts and scientists into schools to talk about what it is they do – all with a view toward exposing young people to STEM careers and inspiring them to want to know more.
Fostering exploration, developing relationships, and even mentoring young people can have a tremendous impact on a company’s recruiting process. Here are a few things to keep in mind that will help you redesign your recruiting to build a great STEM pipeline.
Build Relationships with Candidates Before They Are Job Hunting
When people think of partnerships with universities, they often think of attending career fairs and sending job postings; but that is just the beginning for most forward-thinking companies.
A well-structured internship or mentorship program goes a long way. These programs allow your employees to share their expertise, and you get to build your brand and story with potential recruits. In many cases, these programs result in a reduction of recruiting time, as you have a pool of candidates who you already know and have seen in action.
And those candidates often still have an open mind about where their career paths are heading. Naomi Catherine Gheorghe, a student at NYU, switched her major from speech pathology to computer science after an internship last summer exposed her to software.
“I was so used to one type of science, like biology or chemistry, but through the internship, I saw the software person was able to combine science that I was used to with computer science. This introduction to computer science showed me there was (sic) absolutely more aspects to science.”
That early introduction can make a big difference. Many talented STEM students like Gheorghe won’t reach the job market, or your HR department, because they’re already in the pipeline of the forward-thinking organization that helped them explore their interest in a particular field through an internship program.
Focus on Diversity: In Hiring and Brand Messaging
Like it or not, STEM fields have a reputation; engineering in particular has not historically been very diverse, with females and minorities largely underrepresented.
Though it’s slowly changing, our culture has unfortunately tended to reinforce those negative stereotypes from a young age, especially as it relates to girls ages 7 to 12, often discouraging them when it comes to math and science. You can dispel those preconceived notions by making sure your recruitment efforts are diverse, and then putting women and minorities in front of young audiences on a regular basis.
If you’re looking to attract the very best talent in engineering, computer science, and other STEM fields, embrace diversity initiatives internally, make sure your brand messaging articulates your stance on diversity, and make sure that women and minorities know they are welcome and that opportunities are abound.
Be Innovative: Create Your Own Talent Pipeline
Etsy tackled the gender diversity challenge during the past few years by making a concerted effort to hire and support female engineers. They didn’t just “talk the talk,” they dove in innovatively, creating their own pipeline called, “Etsy Hacker Grants.” The program was a three-month hacker school for men and women that had gender distribution as a key metric. The grant program included scholarships that were needs-based, so if a candidate passed the application process, they were guaranteed a spot regardless of their financial situation. The results were amazing. In one year, Etsy increased the number of female engineers on their team by 500 percent.
This way of thinking and these creative approaches on the part of both recruiting pros and senior leaders can be applied to nearly any niche group in STEM industries. The key tenets of building relationships often and early, educating and mentoring, focusing on diversity internally and in your external brand messaging and storytelling, and creating your own innovative talent pipelines. These strategic activities can set you on the path to not only attracting the best and brightest talent, but also developing a reputation for STEM commitment and leadership in your community and beyond.
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Do you suffer from arthritis, repetitive strain injury, wrist injuries, tendonitis of the elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome or any other related or non related injury that affects the way you surf traffic exchanges using a multi-tabbed browser?
Do you wish surfing with a multi-tabbed browser was easier and less painful and that you could do it for longer than 10 minutes at a time without your tab switching finger/s developing a mind of their own?
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My name is Andy Donald and I started online in 2002 and know only too well the problems faced by many of us who simply want to advertise what we are selling and can afford nothing more than the time required by surfing. So we surf...
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Fatigue is another major contributing factor even if you don't suffer any of the ailments described above. It became increasingly apparent that a solution was required... A solution that would take away the requirement to navigate to the next tab, every time we clicked the image in the current tab. Lets face it, we are surfing for two reasons; to view the pages of fellow surfers, and to show our own page to our fellow surfers. Lets remove the need to navigate to the next tab, and all of a sudden you have time, lots more of it to view other members pages, and that's not to mention all the extra credits you will be earning in the meantime.
This is where Auto-TAB comes into play. Auto-TAB actually detects when you click the image/link on the traffic exchange within the selected tab of your preferred web browser, then it tells the browser you use to select the next tab without you having to select it yourself. Then you click the image on that tab, and so on... Can you see what's happening? All you are doing is clicking the image required to show the next ad. Auto-TAB does the rest. You've just removed the need to use a keyboard when surfing.
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The new Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid looks spaceship-like, but is it as exciting as it looks? Tim Barnes-Clay put it to the test at the International Launch in Barcelona.
Let’s get one thing answered – the 2017 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid is not exciting, okay? But, that doesn’t mean it’s a bad car. So, let’s be positive here and start with its good points.
This is one very ingenious machine, with some awesome features – the most outstanding being the solar panel roof that can place just enough ‘go’ into the Toyota’s drive battery for an extra few free miles every day. The Prius PHV - as it’s abbreviated to - also has a refreshed electric powertrain.
A large 8.8kWh lithium ion battery is housed under the floor of the Toyota’s boot, together with a hi-tech electrical arrangement to move clout through it. This works well and provides, what is essentially a fourth-generation Prius, some worthwhile shove, especially as the car also has a twin motor hybrid powertrain. This raises pure electric power from 72PS to 103PS. All this gives the Toyota five-door hatch a maximum speed of 84mph when driven in unadulterated electric mode. Mind you, you can only get away with this form of propulsion for so long – the electric range is 39 miles, but expect 20-25 miles real-world.
The Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid also has a 1.8 petrol engine, and along with the electric wizardry, 122PS is produced – giving a zero to 62mph time of 11.1sec and a maximum speed of 101mph. Hardly exciting, as I said earlier – but it’s not abysmal performance, either. More importantly, the Prius PHV breaths out a tiny 22g/km of CO2 and it’s possible to get 283mpg out of the car. No, that’s not a typo – that’s the claimed figure.
Of course, reality doesn’t always match up to what we’re told, and on a long motorway stretch, I only managed to get 59mpg – but then I did have my foot down – and hardly used electric mode. Instead, I mucked around with the ‘Normal’ ‘Eco’ and ‘Power’ settings, seeing what difference they made to the car. It’s difficult to tell much difference between ‘Eco’ and ‘Normal’ – but the ‘Power’ mode does give you a bit of a push in the back – and a lot more noise – reminiscent of a slightly unhinged vacuum cleaner.
Anyway, away from the tech and figures, the new Prius PHV is pretty similar to the normal Prius – apart from a couple of things. Unlike the regular model, it’s only got two seats in the rear – so it’s a strict four-seater - and the boot is smaller. This is all due to the bigger, newer battery. So, there is a trade off after all, I hear you cry. Yes, these two things could well be a deal-breaker for some potential buyers or leasers. Oh, and I nearly forgot - there is one other notable way of telling the PHV apart from the usual Prius: its rear lights are horizontal, not vertical. I think it looks better this way.
On the move, the car is hushed, due to extra sound-deadening materials, and, when I did venture off the motorway onto Spanish rural routes, the Prius handled corners with barely any lean at all. This is down to retuned suspension springs and dampers. However, there is another trade-off – the tauter set-up means the car does bang and crash over potholes. Yet, back on smooth surfaces, the Toyota feels refined and, when using electric-only mode, I found the car almost silent. Only the whoosh of wind and tyre rumble disturbs the otherwise library-like calm in the cabin.
Once I’d stopped hooning the PHV and started using the electric settings, I achieved a hybrid-mode fuel economy figure of 69mpg – which is loads better than many Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) will do. Alas, that’s only a tiny fraction – probably about 5mpg - better than you’d eke from a run-of-the-mill Prius. It’s also hard to recommend this car over the excellent regular Prius – due to its strict four-seater configuration and its shallower boot.
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- Engine layout: 1,798 cc 4-cylinder petrol electric
- Max. power (PS): 122
- CO2: 22 g/km
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ODDS COMPARISON FOR NETHERLANDS FIRST DIVISION
More than just an odds comparison. In our odds comparison for the Holland First Division, also called the Jupiter League, which is the second highest Dutch football division, you will find an odds history and more game info in addition to a classic odds comparison of the best betting odds, so you can place your best possible bets. We provide up-to-date odds, which are automatically updated. We show you the best odds for each game day of teams such as NEC Nijmegen, FC Eindhoven, Roda JC Kerkrade, FC Emmen, and many more. In the First Division, 20 teams are competing and fighting for the coveted title each season, along with promotion to the top League Eredivisie (Honor Division).
What is an odds comparison for Eerste Divisie supposed to point out?
It's particularly hard for players, who want to bet on the Dutch Eerste Divisie or other second class leagues to find the right bets. Gathering information about the respective clubs alone is much more work than for well-known clubs and leagues. In order to also find the right tips for Eerste Divisie an odds comparison is inevitable. Such an odds comparison doesn't replace advance information about condition and development in the league's business, but at least an odds comparison can show you where to get the best odds. Such an odds comparison is supposed to display a possible odds slope. Particularly unfamiliar leagues often show striking differences between single bookies. So you should definitely consult an odds comparison in order to not get stuck with bizarre odds. Nowadays the world wide web is full of such odds comparisons. You can find "very good" ones as well as "completely unreliable" ones. As mentioned we at bettingformat provide an odds comparison for the Dutch Eerste Divisie. In addition we give you detailed statistics, which should make betting on matches of rather unknown leagues like the Dutch Eerste Divisie much easier.
Which one is the most attractive betting provider for the Dutch Eerste Divisie?
Dutch football has a very good reputation especially in Europe. One reason for that are legendary players of the last century, another one are the famous training institutions of Dutch football. The most famous one is Ajax Amsterdam, which has become noticeable in the 90s in particular. Stars like Frank Rijkaard, Clarence Seedorf or Denis Bergkamp have become absolute world elite in this time. This superb youth program also gave the national team an enormous push, which resulted in the Netherlands being part of the favorites circle in big competitions. The Dutch Eerste Divisie has always been a breeding ground for many of these great players. That's where the top clubs have their "Jong Teams" and the young players so have the opportunity to take their first steps in grown-ups football. This makes the league very interesting and that also got through to the betting market. Nordic bookies in particular provide their fans with a great betting portfolio for the Dutch Eerste Divisie, first of all the betting provider Betsson. This popular Swedish bookie doesn't only score with a big betting portfolio for the second highest Dutch league, but they also have more than fair odds. So if you are a fan of Eerste Divisie and are looking for attractive betting tips for it, a glance at the Betsson betting page is almost unavoidable.
Which bookmakers have the best odds for the Dutch Eerste Divisie?
The Dutch Eerste Divisie is a pretty unfamiliar league. If you are actively looking for content regarding this league, you won't get much information on TV nor online. Extensive knowledge about the current league's business is very important in sports betting in order to be successful in the long run. Apart from expert knowledge you should also always take a closer look at the odds of your desired betting tips. In order to be well informed you should consult an odds comparison. But what makes an odd comparison good? It's particularly important that the odds are always up-to-date. If this is the case you should also take a closer look at the compared betting providers. Traditionally Scandinavian bookies like Unibet, Betsson or Betsafe have good odds for the Dutch Eerste Divisie. They have been scoring for years with reliably high odds and a good betting portfolio.
Are there also odds comparisons for live bets for the Dutch Eerste Divisie?
Live bets have been the non plus ultra in the sports betting business in the last couple of years. Of course there are also odds comparisons for live bets. Those are usually not as detailed as the ones for standard bets. The reason for that are mainly many odds changes during a live event. Due to many different game situations it's often a matter of only a few seconds until a new odds pop up. So of course there is not much time to compare odds. It's quite difficult to find an odds comparison for live bets for the Dutch Eerste Divisie. With a little bit of research it is possible though. Just like with all other odds comparison sites you should also act cautiously and check the comparisons well beforehand.
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Why Did Traffic Accident Fatalities Jump 20 Percent In Memphis In 2016?
- April 25th, 2017
- The Law Office of David E. Gordon
Traffic accidents in the Memphis area rose during the past year at an alarming rate, according to recently released figures.
Records from the Memphis Police Department show that an estimated 130 fatal car accidents occurred in 2016 within the city limits, marking a jump of nearly 20 percent from the previous year.
Unfortunately, as our law firm has observed, many traffic accidents are preventable events. They result from drivers’ careless and dangerous behaviors.
Memphis Car Accident Statistics
The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (DSHS) reports that more than 200,000 accidents occurred in the state in 2016 alone. As a result of these accidents, nearly 1,000 people died, while more than 50,000 others suffered serious injuries.
Car accident statistics for the Memphis area should especially raise concern. Crash reports from DSHS show that:
- Shelby County ranks second in the state for the total number of traffic accidents and injuries.
- The county ranks third for the number of drivers killed in accidents that were under the age of 24 and fifth for those ages 65 and older.
- With close to 10,000 injuries and 135 deaths reported in 2016 in Shelby County, these numbers have steadily increased by 10 percent or more over the last 10 years.
Common Causes of Memphis Car Accidents
It is important to examine factors that may be causing the rise in fatal auto accidents in the Memphis area.
While driving under the influence remains a major issue on U.S. roads, including those in Memphis, a USA Today report indicates that other types of reckless and aggressive driving behaviors have become an increasing concern as well.
Surveys cited by the report state that these types of behaviors appear to be more common now. They contribute substantially to overall increases in the number of fatal traffic accidents throughout the country.
The report states that nearly eight million drivers admit to regularly experiencing angry outbursts or episodes of road rage behind the wheel, which in turn causes them to engage in risky behaviors such as tailgating or cutting off other drivers.
Even among those who generally do not lose their cool, nearly eight in 10 drivers admit to experiencing such an episode over the previous year.
In addition to aggressive driving, driver inattention, distracted driving, and other types of reckless driving behaviors put motorists at risk.
Tennessee DSHS and the State Highway Patrol accident reports list the following as the leading causes of traffic accidents, injuries and fatalities in Shelby County during 2016:
- Not paying attention behind the wheel
- Careless and erratic driving
- Failing to obey traffic signals
- Failing to yield the right of way
- Following too closely
- Improper lane changing, turns and passing
- Reckless and negligent driving
- Going too fast for conditions.
Protecting Yourself Against Aggressive and Reckless Drivers
You can prevent accidents by keeping your cool when you are behind the wheel. You should be considerate of others and avoid taking actions that could lead to problems such as tailgating, cutting off other drivers or suddenly driving slowly in the fast lane.
Additionally, laying on your horn, making gestures or yelling at other drivers are all behaviors that can be seen as aggressive. They may escalate a situation and make accidents more likely.
While you cannot always prevent an accident, you can take steps to protect yourself if you encounter an aggressive driver. The American Automobile Association (AAA) recommends that you:
- Steer clear. If you notice someone driving erratically, give the driver plenty of space – even if it means having to pull over safely or take an exit ramp.
- Avoid confrontations. Just because someone challenges you on the road does not mean that you have to respond. If another driver honks the horn, races past you or makes a gesture, realize that it is not worth putting your life in danger to respond.
- Do not take it personally. Realize that the other driver’s actions say more about them than they do about your own abilities as a driver.
- Get help if necessary. If someone starts following you or tailgates your vehicle, you can use your cell phone to notify law enforcement.
What To Do If An Accident Occurs
If an accident occurs involving an aggressive driver, you should notify law enforcement, get treatment for your injuries and report it to your insurance company right away.
At the same time, you should realize that insurance companies have a financial motive in undervaluing and denying claims. So, speak with an auto accident attorney in Memphis before you give any statements or sign any documents.
David E. Gordon is available to help. He is one of fewer than two percent of lawyers in the state who is board certified. He has a proven reputation for providing personalized service and top notch legal representation that gets clients results.
He can negotiate with the insurance company on your behalf and, if an appropriate settlement amount cannot be reached, he can aggressively pursue a personal injury lawsuit against the other driver involved in the crash.
The damages you could pursue in an auto accident claim include:
- Past and future medical expenses, including hospital bills, medications, and rehabilitative costs
- Lost wages and future losses in earning due to your diminished earning capacity
- Compensation for your pain and suffering
- Punitive damages if the at-fault driver engaged in conduct that was particularly reckless or negligent.
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Today, President Donald Trump spoke exclusively with The Scott Sands Show about Ohio's path to economic recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic -- click here to listen on our free iHeartRadio app.
During this nearly 20-minute conversation, President Trump explained, "We have the best doctors, the best military leaders, and the best logistics professionals anywhere in the world. And, we're orchestrating a massive Federal response unlike anything our country has ever seen."
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Additional information provided by officials at The White House.
Response and recovery efforts are locally executed, State managed, and Federally supported. Successfulemergencymanagementrequiresnationwidecooperationandunityofeffort,combiningthestrength and ingenuity of our citizens and private sector with a sweeping, all-inclusive, and whole-of-government response. The below is a partial overview of Federal assistance provided to the State of Ohio and the people of Ohio to combat the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). The information is bolstered by hundreds of additional actionsbytheFederalgovernmenttohelpthepeopleofOhio.ImplementationoftheCARESActisongoingand will also bring additional support to Ohio. President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have appreciated the strong State-Federal partnership with Governor MikeDeWine.
Supportive Actions by President Donald J. Trump:
-President Trump Declares a National Emergency: On March 13, President Trump declared a national emergency concerning COVID-19. The emergency declaration authorized direct Federal assistance, temporary facilities, commodities, equipment, and emergency operation costs for all States, including Ohio, pursuant to section 501(b) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency AssistanceAct.
-Ohio’s Major Disaster Declaration: On March 28, Governor DeWine submitted a major disaster declarationrequesttotheFederalEmergencyManagementAgency(FEMA).OnMarch31,PresidentTrump approved the request declaring a major disaster in the State of Ohio and ordered Federal assistance to supplement State, local, and tribal recovery efforts in the areas affected by COVID-19. For the first time in ourNation’shistory,everyStateandterritoryhasapresidentialdisasterdeclarationatthesametime.
-Historic Economic Relief: On March 27, President Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act into law. The law provides unprecedented economic relief to American citizens,smallbusinesses,workers,healthcareproviders,andState,local,andtribalgovernmentsandbuilds ontheFamiliesFirstCoronavirusResponseAct.
-National Guard Support: On April 2, President Trump FEMA to fund 100% of the emergency assistance activities provided by Ohio National Guard personnel in Title 32 duty status, per Governor DeWine’ request.
Testing, Resource & Logistics Support: FEMA is working with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), other Federal agencies, and private sector partners, to produce, allocate, and distribute key resources to Ohio. Most notably, these include personal protective equipment (PPE), ventilators, and the expedition of critical supplies from overseas to various U.S. locations.
-HHS,theCentersforDisasterControlandPrevention(CDC),andtheFoodandDrugAdministration(FDA), are providing unprecedented regulatory flexibilities, resources, and guidance to expand the availability of testing and to assist Ohio and States across the country in scaling testing.
-The Federal government is supporting mobile testing efforts to increase testing capacity and availability in Ohio.
-InsupportoftheWhiteHouseCoronavirusTaskForce,FEMAandHHSarecoordinatingawhole-of-America approachtosourcepersonalprotectiveequipment(PPE),ventilators,andothercriticalresourcesforStates, Tribes, and Territories. The effort is led by Rear Admiral John Polowczyk of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. For more on the Supply Chain Stabilization Task Force.
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The chairman of THISDAY Editorial Board, Mr Olusegun Adeniyi has been elected and admitted into the Honorary Fellowship of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL). A letter to Adeniyi by the NAL Secretary, Prof. Ayobami Kehinde, dated 30th May 2019, reads: “On behalf of the President of NAL, Prof. Francis Egbokhare, FNAL, it is with very great delight that I write to congratulate you on your admission into the Honorary Fellowship of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL). This followed your election on Wednesday, 29 May, 2019 by the Executive Committee of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL) in recognition of your contributions to knowledge in the field of humanities, as well as your outstanding contributions to national development and exemplary character.
• “The investiture of the new Fellows will take place on Thursday, 8th August, 2019, in the J.F. Ade Ajayi Auditorium of the University of Lagos. The time is 11.00 a.m. The official letter in respect of the above will soon be forwarded to you soon. Congratulations.”
• Adeniyi was elected as a Honourary Fellow along with former Daily Times Managing Director, Dr Yemi Ogunbiyi. Also elected into the Regular Fellowship are Prof. Ifeoma Mabel Onyemelukwe, Prof. AbdulRasheed Naallah, Prof. Sunday Enessi Ododo, Prof. Ademola O. Dasylva, Prof. Jim Unah and Prof. Albert ‘Lekan Oyeleye while Prof. Tanure Ojaide was elected as an Overseas Fellow.
• Of the seven Foundation Fellows of the Academy, only three are still alive. They are Professor Emeritus Ayo Bamgbose, NNOM, Professor J. P. Clark-Bekederemo, NNOM, and Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka. The deceased Foundation Fellows are Professor Emeritus J. F. Ade Ajayi, NNOM, Professor Emeritus Adiele Afigbo, NNOM, Professor Emeritus Adeboye Babalola, NNOM and Professor Chinua Achebe, NNOM.
• Fellows are appointed for life and every prospective fellow must be nominated by a living Fellow. Self-nomination is forbidden. The Fellowship is given rarely to distinguished professors after a rigorous election exercise. Not more than two candidates from any discipline and not more than four in any one year can be admitted into the Academy. Elected Fellows are inducted at an investiture ceremony, which formally confers on them the right to use the post-nominal Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (FNAL). There are currently 84 Fellows in the Academy comprising seven foundation fellows, 51 regular fellows, 12 overseas fellows and 14 honorary fellows.
• A 1989 BSc holder in International Relations from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife with a Masters in International Law and Diplomacy (MILD) from the University of Lagos in 1997, Adeniyi began his journalism career as a Staff Reporter with ‘The Guardian’ newspaper of Nigeria in December 1990.In April 1992, he left ‘The Guardian’ to join the ‘African Concord’ magazine as a Senior Staff Writer and in September of the same year, he was appointed the magazine’s Abuja Bureau Chief with accreditation to cover the State House.
• Adeniyi joined THISDAY newspaper in January 1999 as Deputy Editor of the Saturday newspaper before he later became editor of the Sunday THISDAY; and in August 2005, he was appointed the editor of THISDAY title. On May 30, 2007, he was appointed by the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to be his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, a position he occupied until Yar’Adua died on May 5, 2010.
• Adeniyi has attended and participated in several professional and academic programmes in many countries. Notably, in July 2007, he attended the International Visitor Leadership Programme organised by the US State Department in Washington. He also attended the Chinese government-sponsored ‘Seminar on Press and Publications in Developing Countries’ in Beijing in April 2012. He spent the 2010/2011 academic session as a Fellow at the Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs, Harvard University where he conducted his research on the factors that shape incumbent presidential elections in Africa. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Nigeria Leadership Initiative (NLI) and a founding member of the National Stakeholder Working Group of the Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI).
• Adeniyi has authored several books, including: The Last 100 Days of Abacha; Abiola’s Travails; Fortress on Quicksand; POLITRICKS: National Assembly under Military Dictatorship; Power, Politics and Death: A front-row account of Nigeria under the late President Yar’Adua; Against The Run of Play: How an incumbent president was defeated in Nigeria and From Frying Pan to Fire: How African Migrants Risk Everything in their Futile Search for a Better Life in Europe.
• Recently appointed into the Belt and Road News Network (BRNN) Council in Beijing, China, Adeniyi was a member of the Panel of Judges for the Nigeria Breweries Plc ‘Maltina Teacher of the Year’ for 2015 and 2016. He is also a member of the advisory board for the Africa Initiative for Governance (AIG), with a focus on partnering with leading academic institutions in the world for the award of post-graduate scholarships to outstanding Nigerians and Ghanaians who are expected to come back and work in their respective country’s public sector as change agents.
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if I ever got it together for runfessions, my number one would be that I have not missed racing one bit. I’ve been trying to figure out what that meant since March with little luck. I don’t even mean in the sense that “it’s not safe, so we shouldn’t be racing”, but rather I did not care that Pride, Cinco de Mayo weren’t happening. For Cherry Blossom 10 miler I was more sad about missing the cherry blossoms in DC (and the chance to see Deborah and Coco!) then I was about not running ten miles. Not to say I didn’t feel bad for those who lost goal and other races they were looking forward to –it just didn’t matter to me personally. It didn’t occur to me until I finally read Amanda Brooks’ Run to the Finish (my review here, Wendy’s here. Did anyone else read & review this?) this week that it was my first running book since at least March. I could definitely get behind her BQ by 80 plan and definitely felt like she was speaking right to me with her IT Band injury.
Unofficial diagnosis? Injury related burnout. I think I pushed running through pain too far and it really took away my love of running, and that’s why pain-free running even if “just” four miles has made me so happy this summer. I’m very glad I did Bermuda, and was with Elizabeth for her first race back (and my beloved frozen penguin), but I had no business doing Manhattan 7 or Super Bowl Sunday. I’m so glad I belatedly had the there’s no point in running when it hurts epiphany and came to my senses, because I do love running again and am looking forward to a real race in 2021 since the balance of NYRR’s 2020 slate just cancelled. I haven’t been about all of the virtual races, but might need to do Season of Light and Ted Corbett, because Ted will always be one of my favorites.
Not all racing is lost for 2020! Since Kim was an ambassador for the Bix 7 race, we decided we’d take advantage of not generally being able to run together, and run virtually together. With a theme of fire due to the heat, Kim, Kim, Renee, Montana, Zenaida and I (with Deborah with us in spirit) got out there for some solid mischief and miles. This was so much fun! 7 miles is the longest I’ve run since February and was impressed with myself especially with the god-awful humidity. The route (thanks, Montana, for teaching us how to manually upload to Strava!) is known as “shade seeking” and “lap avoidance” as I did not want to do fourteen laps of the Great Lawn. More on why I wasn’t running the river below. While stiff and tight, I felt good after. I was pre-emptively planning to use I need an extra recovery day as a reason not to run Monday morning when the low is 80, but we’ll see what happens there.
- seen on my Monday morning walk. It was too hot to run, or even walk at an exercise speed. Forward is a pace, and I called this a Monday done even though I didn’t even get step goal.
- Tuesday: up at 4:30 twice in three days. Who *am* I? It was absolutely worth it though. As I do more runrises, I’ve been thinking more about running safety and finally took advantage of the Bix coupon and ordered a RoadID attachment for my Garmin.
- Wednesday: I slept in a little and did some errands before work.
- Thursday: didn’t make runrise, which was OK as it was kind of wonderfully overcast. As I mentioned above re: Mother Nature, the East River is eating the esplanade and I hate to say it will probably be closed off soon for safety. I’m going to miss this breeze for August runs. The pic above isn’t the big one, but rather another that opened north of Gracie Mansion. I came home to the Garmin outage and I have to say, the memes are excellent.
- summer Friday: although we’ve had summer hours, they haven’t felt much like summer Fridays due to workload and because typical activities (museums, beach) have been off the table. Amid some other unplanned errands, I made it up to the Museum of the City of New York to see the outdoor portion of New York Responds, a look at how the city has handled the covid-19 pandemic and protests that followed the killing of George Floyd. The photos are amazing and I look forward to exploring more of All In NYC: Public Art.
- Saturday: Bix 7 race day! Outfit planning was fun and I lucked out that mom was coming into the city and could bring me my red Squirrel Stampede shirt. It was beginning to feel like Delray when I was hunting for a red shirt. Moral of the story, have one everywhere! The esplanade closure has complicated even erranding, but I capped off the day with sushi and a lovely nap along the river.
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EY’s Global Tax Alert provides a succinct summary of the latest OECD and BEPS developments, including:
- G20 and exchange of information upon request standard
- Multilateral instrument, 68 countries moving forward
- Peer reviews on BEPS 4 minimum standards:
- Action 5, harmful tax practices
- Action 6, treaty abuse
- Action 13, country-by-country reporting (CbCR)
- Action 14, dispute resolution
- Action 5 peer reviews of preferential tax regimes
- Action 13, CbCR exchange relationships; important for US MNE’s and similar jurisdictions without obligatory 2016 reporting
- MAP peer reviews
- Discussion drafts on profit splits and attribution of profits re: PE’s; comment period to Sept. 15, 2017
- Branch mismatch forthcoming revisions
- Common reporting standard
- Digital taxation
OECD is still very busy, with a plethora of BEPS follow-up and other activities, although there seems to be continuing flexibility to gain collaboration that will also lead to added complexity and disputes.
OECD has released discussion drafts on Action 7, attribution of profit to permanent establishments (PEs) and Actions 8-10 (profit splits).
It also requested public review of the document containing conforming changes to Chapter IX (business restructurings) of the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines (TPG).
The PE Discussion Draft is not restricted to issues related to PEs that will result from the changes made by the Action 7 Final Report, but also takes into account the results of the work on other parts of the BEPS Action Plan dealing with transfer pricing, in particular the work related to intangibles, risk and capital. This factor is especially important if countries do not adopt the new Action 5 PE Guidelines in a bilateral tax treaty or via the pending multilateral instrument. Thus, this section will be all-encompassing and important to understand the drivers, such as key people functions, behind this issue.
The profit split guidance is indicia of a trend for some governments to apply this standard, albeit not from a pure economic/technical perspective. Therefore, this complex guidance will enhance knowledge of those being asked the question from tax authorities, as well as in developing transfer pricing guidance.
EY’s Global Tax Alert describes these developments in greater detail.
TEI has provided comments in response to several OECD BEPS Actions, linked herein for reference.
Action 10:Profit Splits-Key comments:
- Profit split methodologies should be limited to scenarios where there is not reliable arm’s length pricing.
- Simple examples provided do not provide a comprehensive basis for detailed replies and consideration.
- A profit split approach may be subject to abuse by tax authorities.
- Hindsight application of transfer pricing methodologies should only be used in exceptional circumstances.
Actions 8-10: TP Guidelines
- Transfer pricing analyses discussed in the proposal would require significant resources for MNE’s and tax authorities.
- The possible merging of the approaches of attributing profits for Article 7 (PE) and Article 9 (Associated Enterprises) should be clarified.
- The imposition of “insufficient transfer pricing documentation” penalties should be abandoned/relaxed by tax authorities for a reasonable period of time after implementation of the new guidelines.
- Additional compliance burdens elicit increased complexity and confusion.
Action 4: Interest
- The proposal represents a shift away from the arm’s length principle, introducing difficult and impractical problems to resolve.
- Capitalisation factors include many considerations other than tax.
- Double tax consequences are more likely, as MNE’s will not be able to easily rearrange financing structures worldwide.
- The withholding tax impacts should be clarified for foreign tax credit and related calculations.
- MNE’s with a higher effective tax rate, and thus less prone to base erosion or profit shifting arrangements, should be excluded.
- The concept of global limitation calculations, and interest sharing, needs to be further discussed to determine efficient audit guidance.
Action 10: Commodities
- Right to use publicly available quoted exchange prices as a comparable is a welcome proposal.
- Discussion of other issues, including pricing, pricing date, and documentation should be further considered and clarified.
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It almost feels like cheating.
While we understand the intended meaning of 'free speed,' we're resolute in our understanding that nothing is free. However, without sounding crass, speed can be bought within the realm of triathlon. And since 2XU launched its Project X wetsuits in 2010, this has become a well-documented fact. Furthering this welcomed truth is the second iteration of this ground-breaking line, the X:2 Project X Wetsuit. With it, 2XU advances past technologies into race-ready wetsuits for today's level of competition.
The path to speed takes many forms, and accordingly, the path to a faster wetsuit requires many engineering features. So, 2XU approached the X:2 with a four-part ideology -- body position, flexibility hydrodynamics, and buoyancy. Coincidentally, much of 2XU's engineering towards body position also aids in buoyancy. And accordingly, the X:2 ensures an efficient body position through the development and implementation of its velocity strakes and rollbar technologies. Basically, the velocity strakes are strategically placed and angled points of 5mm raised surface that run from the neck to the knee. These strakes perform many functions, but one of their more notable applications is improving posture in the water, or more precisely put, they efficiently channel water along the body in order to increase your stability and flow. This results in less sideways movement in choppy conditions, and also, it provides an enhanced lift to the body in glassy waters. The rollbars that run along the sides from the hip to the top of scapula operate with the same principle -- minimizing the shoulder and lats tendency to sink inwards during the locomotion of your stroke.
Surely, the aforementioned system of position control sounds right on paper, but you're probably wondering what its real-world application is? Well, aside from proprioceptive dynamics, it also brings us to our next subject, hydrodynamics. Basically, the X:2's goal is to make you faster in the water. And just as curvy, sleek shapes minimize your drag coefficient on land, the wetsuit's level of buoyancy is the minimizing variable in the water. The supporting science behind this claim is fairly elementary -- water is around 1000 times denser than air, and it produces a potential drag coefficient 10 times that of air, as well. So, minimizing your body's submergence is vital to optimizing hydrodynamics. Accordingly, the X:2 features a 5mm front panel from the neck to knee -- the maximum thickness allowed under IFR. This neoprene segment also has the highest available cell density, 40 cell rubber, for the greatest level of buoyancy in the triathlon market. Additionally, the X:2 benefits from a Nano SCS coating that provides an added 4% of buoyancy over standard SCS, while lowering the suit's coefficient of kinetic friction to 0.026, compared to an untreated neoprene's coefficient of 4.0. Without entering into a physics lesson, the coefficient of kinetic friction is most simply described as the ratio of the force of friction between two bodies, and the force pressing them together. And in this case, the two bodies are your body and the water and friction occurs concurrently with their motions. So, in the real-world, Nano SCS acts almost like an accelerant as it reduces the friction between yourself and the water, ultimately requiring you to exert less force in order to gain more speed.
So, we've discerned how the X:2 design assists in conserving your energy by lowering your required output of force. But, the X:2 also has features that maximize the force that you apply. For example, 2XU equipped the forearms and lower legs with its propulsion panels. These sections of the suit provide the appendages with a drastically increased surface area. So, with the panels, more water is displaced during your catch and kick phase. Accordingly, your propulsion through the water is maximized with less required force. And for further efficiency, 2XU varied the propulsion panels' density from 1mm on the inner to 5mm on the outer portions.
And to support the aforementioned movements, 2XU made the X:2 its most flexible suit to date. The Yamamoto 40 cell neoprene is not only buoyant, but it also features the most flexible rubber composition on the market. Furthermore, like the propulsion panels, the entire X:2 suit has a varied density -- a vital component to articulation. Along these lines, the X:2 has a minimal, 1.5mm density on the underarm and lateral panels, 2mm on the shoulders, and 3mm on the lower legs. Additionally, the front panel utilizes 2XU's ultra-flexible, triple-buoyancy, and seamless X-Flex technology. So, you'll find that your efficiency will be further increased by the panel's directing of an effective body roll and flex throughout your swim. Rounding out the suit's flexibility is its floating zip panel. Whereas most zip closures tighten and pull at the lateral, arm, and shoulder panels when closed, the X:2's zipper lies on its own panel. So, when its closed, the suit's material isn't pulled in towards the zipper teeth. Thus, every aspect of your motion has been accounted for and guaranteed by the X:2.
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Electrical Safety Inspection Tips For Fall
An electrical safety inspection this fall should be atop your list of priorities. You should be able to enjoy life in your home this season without the additional stress of things like damaged outlets and loose wiring threatening your home’s level of safety at every turn. However, the dangers of ignoring any safety hazards are great and real. You risk a wide range of setbacks including higher electrical bills, lower property resale, and the ability to use your most essential electrical fixtures to their fullest. Worse, you also risk life-threatening situations like residential fires and electrocution. When your family’s well-being is at such high risk, you need to focus on settling your electrical needs before it’s too late. Even if it’s something like a misplaced wire or frequent circuit breaker trips, you need to act fast so you avoid trouble later in the year.
Who Should You Call for Electrical Service?
If you are looking for a team of electricians to take care of your every need this fall, look no further than Upstate Electrical Solutions for any assistance. We are your number one destination for any electrical repair you need throughout the season. After all, we want to make sure the needs of all our customers are covered. That’s why we offer a wide range of repairs on anything from outlets to whole home surge protection. If you have an electrical problem, we have a solution guaranteed to fix it. We also work quickly so you are not spending another moment with electrical safety hazards in your home. Once we work on your electrical system, you are ensured a worry-free season that your family will be able to enjoy better peace of mind.
The Top 7 Tips for Electrical Safety
Even though we deliver top-notch service, you should also play a role in ensuring your safety for the season. Sometimes all it takes is a closer look on your end to make your home totally safe, or else any lingering issues will continue and be left to grow into something worse. If you want to know what you can do, please follow these 7 electrical safety inspection tips:
Check Outdoor Safety Lighting: Motion sensors, pathway lighting, accented lighting, and more needs to be inspected to ensure it is doing its job in keeping out intruders. Outdoor safety lighting when it’s working at its best will give intruders little room to hide. With night falling progressively earlier throughout the fall and winter, it’s important to check outdoor safety lighting before the time arrives when the sun goes down too early.
Check Electrical Panels: Your electrical panel is the heart of your home’s electrical system, delivering a steady, balanced flow of electrical power throughout your home. However, if you notice problems like frequent circuit breaker trips, it’s time to call Upstate for electrical panel service for further inspection to see if we need to make any necessary repairs.
Inspecting Wiring for Any Damage: If you notice your appliances have any damaged cords, please do not use them and call for service immediately. While it is natural for wiring to sport some wear and tears as it ages, it may prove significant enough where it actively puts your safety at risk. Damaged or frayed wiring can lead to fires or short circuits. Patches of duct tape on damaged areas won’t prove an effective solution, and will instead require electrical rewiring from a professional.
Avoid Any Clutter: Leaves will be falling off trees in bulk soon. That may be a normal part of the season, but any dry leaves can block any outdoor electrical fixtures, which could easily catch fire due to one small spark. The same is true for indoor electrical fixtures. Clutter like piles of laundry can prove highly flammable material if left too close to an outlet. Make sure any buildup is kept far away from fixtures both in and out of your home.
Check Outdoor Power Tools: Outdoor power tools such as leaf blowers or trimmers will see plenty of usages this fall, but they should be checked before the season begins. As with any appliances inside your home, they need to be inspected for any damaged or frayed wiring well before their first use.
Avoid Heavy Usage of Extension Cords: This holds true for any time of year, but especially fall, when you will be relying on indoor appliances much more. However, extension cords can still be used in moderation. Excessive usage may result in cord damage, which can prove a huge safety hazard.
Be Careful of Electrical Lines: If you’re the type who doesn’t mind doing any outdoor work during the fall involving climbing up ladders, you need to proceed with caution. You will most likely be in closer contact with power lines which, if you are not careful, can be displaced due to one wrong move.
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Jill Stein’s Progressive Bill of Rights
by Stephen Lendman
The horror of dirty business as usual continuing whether Clinton or Trump succeeds Obama should arouse a groundswell of activism for progressive change.
The choice is easy, a no-brainer, as they say - between oligarch rule, endless wars, neoliberal harshness and tyranny v. a nation at peace, renouncing militarism, social justice, and governance serving all its people equitably.
It resembles Franklin Roosevelt’s Economic Bill of Rights - proposed in his last State of the Union address (January 1944), saying the Constitution’s first 10 amendments (the Bill of Rights) “proved inadequate…” His plan called for guaranteeing:
- employment with a living wage;
- freedom from unfair competition and monopolies;
- enhanced social security to keep millions of retirees, disabled and qualified survivors from the ravages of poverty;
- “a realistic tax law - which will tax all unreasonable (corporate) profit(s)” and high-income individuals according to their ability to pay;
- “a cost of food law” - with floor and ceiling limits on prices; and
- reenactment of the October 1942 stabilization statute, pertaining to prices, wages and salaries affecting the cost of living.
Roosevelt said everyone should have:
The right to a useful and remunerative job.
The right to a good education.
The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies.
The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident and unemployment.
The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health.
The right of every family to a decent home.
The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation."
He said “true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.” Today we have neoliberal harshness, neoserfdom, unprecedented inequality in modern times, out-of-control militarism and tyranny a hair’s breadth from full-blown.
Jill Stein is a physician turned politician who cares. She envisions a “human-centered” America, putting people, peace and ecosanity over profits - today’s system benefitting the few at the expense of most others.
She proposed a “Green New Deal,” creating millions of good jobs, transitioning to clean renewable energy, and investing in vital infrastructure sorely neglected for so long - America’s resources today going for militarism and endless wars, not a nation fit to live in.
Living-wage jobs are a human right, she says. Democracy should mean what it says - rule of and for all the people, not just its privileged few.
The world’s richest nation should prioritize ending poverty once and for all “to assure every American a life of dignity,” Jill maintains.
Healthcare and education are human rights. Jill wants them guaranteed, including Medicare for all, abolition of student debt and “world-class” tuition-free public education to the highest levels. Other components of her plan include:
- a federally guaranteed $15 minimum wage;
- breaking up too-big-to fail banks;
- “democratiz(ing) the Federal Reserve,” putting money power in public hands where it belongs;
- progressive business and individual taxation;
- fair over so-called free trade agreements;
- putting a moratorium on GMOs and harmful pesticides;
- racial justice along with freedom and equality for all;
- ending Big Brother spying, mass incarceration, torture prisons like Guantanamo, and “(e)stablish(ing) a foreign policy based on diplomacy, international law and human rights.
Cut military spending in half, she urges. End imperial wars. Close America’s empire of bases and bring all foreign-based US forces home.
Abolish corporate personhood. Reform America’s debauched political system. Use the nation’s resources for productive, not destructive purposes.
Make it the world’s most respected one, instead of the most feared and reviled like now.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at [email protected].
His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III."
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
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We interview Rauce Padgett, the winner of the Orlando Weekly best stand up of Orlando and Comedian of the Year from The Monsters in the Morning. So many things covered, you just have to listen!
Tons of things discussed like the recent Eat The Elderly show we all attended, tonight's fight with McGregor and Mayweather, and other stuff that was awesome but I can't remember!
We talk about Home Alone and how much the house is worth, Are You Afraid of the Dark 25th anniversary TODAY! We're loving this conversation. We touch on Pickle Rick from Rick and Morty!
We talk about Rob Schneider, endangered animals, Eat The Elderly, and pump-cocks. So much fun to be back in the studio!
Why the hell did Angel come back? Because we're fun to hang out with. That's all I can think of. It really comes through in this show, we had a great time.
Always a fun time with Crespo, it doesn't matter what you talk about! It doesn't have to be movies!
Hanging out with Alex from BYOCB! We talk shop with Fast Food Jesus himself!
What The Hell Is Angel Listening To? This podcast. Because he's on it.
Our first of two episode with Chris Crespo (Cinema Crespodiso) we talk about much more than movies! Enjoy!
There was a week that went by with no What's The Fuss episode. Etchie was out west in San Francisco and something went wrong with the episode upload.
Since we had the Oh No Radio Show Bowling Tournament (happy 300th, guys!), we wanted an episode where we talked about it. The episode before that just talked about how we were going to attend it soon and we were excited about it.
This is one of the two missing recordings. The other one will be a bonus episode some time soon.
We play a bit of Tupac, talk about the Oh No Radio Show bowling tournament (check out episode 300 of their podcast!) and Etchie's trip to San Francisco.
We laugh at Trump and the whole stupid Kathy Griffin thing. After the breaks we talk about Etchie's friends, Kortney and David, and how Bill totally found his stride and killed it at pinball. Etchie is so proud.
Another segment of Force Feed Etchie, and he loves it! Lots more nostalgia talk and plenty of talk about hot sauce.
We talk a good bit about child stars and what they look like now, and then discuss things like Push-up Pops and why it was hard to find any of them that weren't orange, among other things.
It was a good time! We had Dave on for half of it and then pissed away what time we had left. Awesome, right?
We finally get English Dave in studio and there's a three part Force Feed Etchie! Lots of talk about music and England.
Aj is in the studio and we get the rare opportunity to hear live music! We talk to him about his influences and shows he's done, then we lay back and do what we do best. Stuff.
We introduce our new (unnamed) segment in which we talk about what happened a year ago today. We're trying to find stories that aren't political but that's proving to be very difficult. In this case though, Prince died a year ago today. Don't worry though, that's not all we talked about.
It's all about taking care of our pups and dog sitting for others! We also talk about doing adult things, like getting a bank loan or filing taxes. This episode was total butter.
Both Bill and Etchie have a great news story to share, but neither one is real. But who cares? They were great stories. We talk about Rocky showing an awesome kid in his neighborhood how to build a skateboard and even gives him some spare parts (check it out on both the Pfft and WTF Facebook pages). A fun time with just the three of them.
Lots of Carnival talk. Stories from long ago, and not so long ago. Risky rides and bullshit game vendors that steal your money. There's no attempt to fool anyone with anything here. April Fool's Day sucks.
Just the three of us this episode. We learn Rocky hasn’t had salami since he was a kid, during a segment of Force Feed Etchie. Also, a new Fireside Chat with Hurricane Bill. Etchie feels compelled to bring up hot mormons.
Fritz is back, and this time he brought his Man Daddy! We go a little into his new podcast, "Fort Fritz" and then fly off the rails harder than Indy Jones. The three of us agree, this is our best episode yet. I know we say that a lot, but that's because it happens a lot when you're this good at podcasting. | <urn:uuid:660ce474-5678-45f5-9ef5-21a8105590de> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | http://whatsthefuss.libsyn.com/page/4/size/25 | 2019-02-19T04:22:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247489343.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20190219041222-20190219063222-00515.warc.gz | en | 0.979588 | 1,019 |
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Pat Mills is a punk … he has always written outrageously violent, scabrously satirical and often hilariously funny attacks on authority and the establishment.”
“it’s fun, disgusting and hits the mark”
Are you ready for your demonic irrigation?
Reprinted for the first time, horror favourite Psychokiller was originally printed in 1990’s comic Toxic!
This gruesome and bizarre, darkly surreal fever dream of Ouija boards, dead gangsters, bathroom murders, demonic infestation, and teenage lust is essential reading for comic buffs and fans of all things schlock.
With new front and back covers from the artist Dave Kendall, and a hauntingly horrific 6-page bonus art gallery.
Doctor Morbus will see you now
What the readers are saying
“Entertaining and gripping” “Interesting, informative and funny this is essential reading”
“A fantastic expose of the early years of 2000ad and beyond, and some very pertinent thoughts about the future of the comics industry as a whole!”
Be Pure! is available as a paperback from Amazon, as an ebook through the Kindle App – read on any device, and as an audiobook
“A JOYOUS RIDE.”
“Just finished this twisted, very funny novel – 1st in a series by Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill. Brilliant skewering of 1970s kids’ comics.”
Inspector Rebus novels
Serial Killer is available as a paperback from Amazon or as an ebook through the Kindle App – read on any device.
The 1970s were a dangerous time for kids.
With Dave at work, it’s a more dangerous time for the adults who harm them.
Happily chewing his liquorice pipe and plotting evil, Dave is a comic book editor with mischief on his mind. He adds lethal info to his stories, and his readers act on it. So far – so gruesome.
But then his femme fatale mother starts nagging him to solve her murder. She’s definitely dead, but is she really a figment of his imagination?
Is Dave victim, villain … or vigilante? Can he find his mother’s killer? And how many adults can his readers knock off before Dave finds himself in the firing line?
All the joy of a box set binge of your favourite sitcom wrapped up in a funny book.Amazon Reviewer
This is a book with teeth, it will flick you in the balls with a towel and get off with your girlfriend behind your back. It is full of nuanced speech and setting, full of energy and cunning and most of all you will devour it and ask where the next serving is coming from.Antony Esmond
Quite a few times I’d start laughing my head off reading this in the kitchen and my daughters would want to know what was so funny.Amazon Reviewer
Get your paperback or ebook copy of Serial Killer now.
Last month, we celebrated 2000AD's 40th Birthday in Hammersmith. It was a fantastic event: kudos to Rebellion and the entire team of staff and volunteers who made it such a huge success. Some good stuff has been written about it on DownTheTubes, BBC Arts and The...read more
February 11th sees the 2000AD convention and a celebration of the comic’s 40th birthday. It’s also the official launch for my text novel Serial Killer, with a signing at Gosh! bookshop the day before. Serial Killer is the first book in the Read Em and Weep series, a...read more
Congratulations to us all on Prog 2000, due out tomorrow! All these celebrations remind me of earlier – and less happy – anniversaries, such as my Thargshead Revisited, where I scripted and showcased the artists' complaints. One of them, involving plagiarism, it would...read more
In answer to the vexed question of running credits in 2000AD ... first things first: IPC In my younger days never employed me to remove artists' signatures. Indeed, had that been a job it would have taken less then 10 minutes to do over ten years or more. Only two apt...read more
Working on the black comedy novel Read Em And Weep with Kevin O’Neill, which deals, in a fictional way, with the origins of the Comics Revolution, including the creation of our version of 2000AD, I was suddenly struck by a somewhat uncomfortable thought. I hope I’m...read more
We were dismayed to receive a further email from Angus, Angus & Angus requesting an apology and a donation to charity for publishing their comments on our forthcoming book, READ EM AND WEEP: SERIAL KILLER. We're not sure how to respond, so while we discuss our...read more
Kevin and I sent Scottish publishers, Angus, Angus & Angus, an advance copy of our book for review because they once employed our main character, Dave Maudling, and we’ve just received their response today. However, it wasn't quite what we were hoping for. To be...read more | <urn:uuid:bf7b2d35-7d90-4034-8914-fa6e26ef00fe> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | https://www.millsverse.com/ | 2017-12-16T20:17:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948589177.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20171216201436-20171216223436-00375.warc.gz | en | 0.958718 | 1,068 |
Bloggers of the world unite!
Don't worry, this won't be another "I can't blog" blog that would do Samuel Beckett proud. When you dive into a new medium like this, it's natural to wonder about how this all works and what's happening with it. I like to read columns about blogs to try to understand this whole concept and how it's being used. I think that this is still being figured out and that's actually a good thing because it's leading to a lot of interesting experiments before anything becomes written in stone about what a blog should be.
For anyone who's already immersed in the blogsphere (great word, eh?), David Shaw's recent L.A. Times piece Do Bloggers Deserve Basic Journalist Protections? is a bucket of cold water in the face. At first, I was pretty disturbed by his arrogance: his answer to the title was a resounding "no." Seems typical of a major newspaper to get defensive about these online upstarts. Check out these two paragraphs:
"When I or virtually any other mainstream journalist writes something, it goes through several filters before the reader sees it. At least four experienced Times editors will have examined this column, for example. They will have checked it for accuracy, fairness, grammar, taste and libel, among other things. If I'm careless - if I am guilty of what the courts call a "reckless disregard for the truth" - The Times could be sued for libel - and could lose a lot of money. With that thought - as well as our own personal and professional commitments to accuracy and fairness - very much in mind, I and my editors all try hard to be sure that what appears in the paper is just that, accurate and fair."
It seems pretty haughty and he's rightfully skewered by Jack Shafer in Don't Fear the Bloggers and later, when Shaw's paper pulls a series of boners despite the checks-and-balances he touts, he's again nailed by Shafer (Chico and the Man). But Shaw does some legit points. He goes on to use Matt Drudge as an example and rightfully says that a rumor-mongering slimebag like that does nothing to earn the same legal protection that reporters have, though Shafer points out the TV and print media don't have identical rights (not to mention that we're subject to slanted, pseudo-reporting like Fox News provides). Shaw admits out that there are also legit writers who do blogs and break news or find holes in news stories. The problem is that the earnest writers out there are then lumped in with the Drudge's and there's no middle-ground. Either they're all protected by law or they aren't, which means that they're open to libel and slander suits.
A recent lawsuit by Apple against a blog that posted company secrets would appear to be a huge defeat to the blog world but some argue that the ruling was actually more about leaking insider information than about blogs per se. Surely, there's going to be other suits that will delve into this grey area about blogs and free speech, which will have an effect on the whole medium and what's said there.
(Actually, traditional media isn't having it any easier as a recent Pennsylvannia court case ruling has gone against a newspaper who reported defamatory comments from a politician. They decided that this kind of journalism didn't fall under the "neutral reportage privilege.")
To try to separate the earnest bloggers from the sleaze merchants, the American Press Institute put together A Blogger's Code of Ethics. This includes such lofty headers as "Be Honest and Fair," "Minimize Harm" and "Be Accountable." Certainly admirable goals (even if they're not practiced by some print and TV media) but even the API admits "These are just guidelines -- in the end it is up to individual bloggers to choose their own best practices." Which means that it's a self-policing environment with no way to enforce these measures. As we see with the way that the Environmental Protection Agency has tried the same policy with polluters, this doesn't work (many employees left the EPA in Bush's first term because they were disgusted with these policies).
So what's to be done about the good bloggers out there? Should they just be resigned to their fate and hope they're never dragged into court because they've ruffled the feathers of some powerful individual or company? Should they just try to break into print media so that they don't have to worry about these problems? Even worse, will Congress (who've shown to be heavy-handed with any new technology) step in and start taking punitive measures against blogger that's deemed 'offensive'? (you know like with the FCC fines).
If there isn't any way for good bloggers to try to do sincere work with threats circling around them, then the whole blog-world is in for a grim future. Rather than taking up Shaw's solution and just leaving them all out in the wild to fend for themselves, it would be much better for a group of civic minded people to band together and make some kind of blog organization. I know that goes against the whole spontaneous, off-the-cuff amateur status of blogs but I seriously doubt that it's going to stay an unregulated, above-the-law realm for long. Bloggers of the world need to unite- they have nothing to lose but lawsuits and their inherent right to blather. | <urn:uuid:36a1f6c5-14ea-473c-8de5-a09c0d514c72> | CC-MAIN-2015-22 | http://yeweiblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/bloggers-of-world-unite.html | 2015-05-24T17:03:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/segments/1432207928030.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20150521113208-00174-ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976448 | 1,119 |
It seems like everyone from the age of 21 to 35 is a social media marketing expert these days. I swear that every other person’s Twitter bio says they’re some sort of Internet marketing or social media marketing guru/expert/enthusiast, or whatever.
Just as young entrepreneurs have been attracted to this trend, small business owners have been drawn to social media as a new way to market their business and get people in the door. Unfortunately, very few small businesses have actually had success with it, causing many to abandon their Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, and location-based social media deals.
Problems with social media marketing are usually the result of a lack of knowledge and understanding of this modern medium. Business owners believe that simply setting up an account or profile and posting updates will generate the views and business they’re looking for. They overlook the fact that social media is a marketing tool, and should be treated as such. As with anything else you might use to market your business, you need to be creative and come up with a unique strategy for it.
Choosing Facebook for Social Media Marketing
Part of this strategy should be focusing on one outlet that will best meet your needs. Unless you are one of the many social media gurus (or have the extra cash to pay one), you shouldn’t spread yourself too thin by trying to keep up with multiple sites. If you’re unsure of where to start, take a look at what other businesses have done. In all likelihood, you’ll find that the majority of them have chosen to focus on Facebook.
For many small businesses, a Facebook page makes the most sense. Facebook allows you to create custom pages, have conversations with your customers, and easily post photos and videos. It is also very user-friendly, and reaches a wide audience. Even if you don’t have a personal Facebook account, it is more than likely you know someone who does. When used properly, Facebook can be an amazing tool for generating business.
Here are five ways to boost sales by taking your Facebook page to the next level.
Tips for Using Facebook for Business
1. Promote your page with contests and giveaways.
You may have already done this, but how well did you do it? And, did you follow Facebook’s guidelines? My suggestion is to use the Wildfire Apps. For a small fee, this professional looking app will run your contest or giveaway, and the built-in features will encourage the contest to go viral. Offer something great for prizes. Ask yourself, “Would I want to enter this contest or giveaway?” The better the prize, the more people you’ll get to like your page.
2. Promote your page at your business.
I think this is one of the most overlooked tips for small business owners. There’s nothing at their place of business telling people to connect with them. In the age of smart phones, people can “like” your page anytime, anywhere. Instead of just putting a sign up on your door or front desk, create a reason for people to “like” you right then and there. For example, offer an instant discount if they show you on their phone that they connected with your Facebook page.
3. Post content that encourages people to interact with you.
Your Facebook page should not look like a billboard. Post content that makes people want to interact with you. Facebook just came out with a great feature called “Facebook Questions,” which allows you to create a status update that acts as a poll. People love polls, and they are more likely to interact with your question than to post a comment about your new special or promo. Posting interesting photos and videos are also great ways to get people to interact with you. Users are more inclined to look at photos than to read a five sentence paragraph about how great your new product is.
As an example, Burt’s Bees has a fantastic Facebook fan page that is interactive and looks great.
4. Pay for graphic design.
If you want your Facebook page to get to the next level, then it needs to have a custom look. A welcome tab is the first step. When someone lands on your Facebook page and they haven’t “liked” it yet, a welcome tab not only prompts them to do so, but it also tells them why they should. Keep in mind that it needs to look really good. Don’t try making one yourself in MS Paint. There are plenty of freelance graphic designers out there that’ll charge $25 to $50 an hour to create the custom tab on your Facebook page, and install the graphic for you.
5. Reward your most faithful social media followers.
If you want people to start talking about your Facebook page, you’ve got to start making the faithful followers feel special. Have a “Facebook Fans Only” night. Choose a particular person that always comments on your page and do something special for them. This kind of stuff goes a long way, and it will really beef up your word-of-mouth marketing.
Being on Facebook, or other social media outlets, is all about two things: connecting with as many people as possible and getting them to interact with you on a daily basis. Everything you do on your Facebook page should have those goals in mind.
In order to get the most out of your social media marketing, you need a robust plan and strategy. Accumulating a ton of “likes” is nice, but if all you do is push out marketing copy to people, they’ll soon get bored of your page and your business, and they’ll end up hiding you in their Facebook news feed. Along the same line, having 500 Facebook fans is great, but hitting 5,000 will mean a marked increase in business as a direct result of your Facebook page. Do the five things I’ve suggested here, and you’ll start seeing results over the next few months.
Does your business have a Facebook page? What tips and strategies have worked for you? Please share in the comments!
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God is The Creator of All Things Of Heaven and Earth.
Psalm 30:12 - That my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
John 8:44 - You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
1 John 5:13-14 - I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
Psalm 72:17 - May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!
Psalm 41:13 - Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.
1 John 5:20 - "And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life."
Genesis 2:7 - Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
Job 14:14-16 - If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come. You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made. Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin.
1 Corinthians 15:3 - For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures.
Psalms 119:89 - For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
God The Creator Videos
God is The Creator of All Things Of Heaven and Earth.
Dr. P.M.H. Atwater - Books and Stories - Near Death Experiences
Near-Death Experiences, The Rest of the Story: What They Teach Us About Living and Dying and Our True Purpose - Dr. P. M. H. Atwater
Real-life stories of out-of-body experiences, encountering a special light, greeters from the afterlife, life reviews, tunnels, and 360-degree vision--are all part of this intriguing look at near-death experiences (NDEs) by one of the world's noted authorities, Dr. P.M.H. Atwater. Atwater shares her amazing findings, based on her sessions with more than 4,000 adults and children, and over 40 years of research; a breathtaking culmination to a successful and controversial career.
Atwater examines every aspect of the near-death phenomenon: from first-hand accounts of survivors experiencing flash forwards, waking up in morgues, and developing psychic abilities, to stunning cases of groups experiencing NDEs together. Atwater offers statistics from her findings to show the distinctive common patterns that people experience, as well as the common aftereffects and how it changed their lives.
She also explores the physiological and spiritual changes that result from near-death experiences and looks at the connections between the NDE experience and what is often called "enlightenment." Near Death Experiences provides a glimpse of not only what lies beyond the veil of our temporal existence, but points to what--or who--we really are and what we are meant to be.
The New Children and Near-Death Experiences - Dr. P. M. H. Atwater
Presents an in-depth look at children who have experienced the near-death phenomenon and the heightened abilities that these children exhibit
• Provides compelling evidence for the existence of a generation of children who represent the spiritual evolution of the human race
• Includes firsthand testimonies of children who have returned from near death
The New Children and Near-Death Experiences is the first book to provide--from the view of the child--an in-depth study of children who have experienced the near-death phenomenon and its aftereffects. Atwater notes that the child who returns from a near-death experience is not the same child as before, but is a “remodeled, rewired, reconfigured, refined version of the original.” Presenting data to support her contention that these children have experienced structural, chemical, and functional changes in the brain, she also shows how their greater empathic abilities as well as dramatically higher intelligence are qualities that are also present in children born since 1982--enhanced abilities that cannot be tied to simple genetics. Atwater shows that understanding the near-death experiences of children can help us prepare for a quantum leap in the evolution of humanity.
We Live Forever: The Real Truth About Death - Dr. P. M. H. Atwater
Dr. P.M.H. Atwater was born in Twin Falls, Idaho, and died in Boise, Idaho. Yes, the author of this book died- three times to be exact. Since those experiences, she has traveled, studied, spoken and written about what happened to her and others when they died. Considered an authority on death, near death, and the afterlife, Atwater has written a book that gives details and deep insights into what really happens when you die and what it truly means. She also explores such mysteries as heaven and hell, the souls’ existence after death, the power of prayer, and delves into the truths and myths about death that may shed new light on the real truth about life and living. | <urn:uuid:91a1b1e8-19b7-4d49-b242-5cc2f7a62971> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://godisthecreator.com/index-books-atwater.php | 2017-12-18T05:08:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948608836.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20171218044514-20171218070514-00164.warc.gz | en | 0.961098 | 1,228 |
WHAT IS KETO FLU?
Do not think Ketosis flu as fever or like having a cold.
It is a name given to a set of symptoms which people generally feel when they start a ketogenic diet for the first time.
I am sure you have heard about the term ketosis. When you are pushing your body to enter ketosis then you may catch up with some side effects called ‘keto flu’.
Till now your body was converting carbs into energy and suddenly you are saying to convert fat for the energy. So keto flu is a natural reaction which comes along.
WHAT CAUSES KETO FLU?
The main causes of ketosis flu are:
Withdrawal from Carbs
You are putting your body in a shock when you are forcing it to stay away from carbs and sugar withdrawal.
Till now your body was habituated and dependant on these kinda foods preferences.
Carbs are sweet comfort foods which are hard to leave. But it gifts us diabetics, heart disease as well as obesity. So it is better that we choose to tell our body to start living without it.
Once the carbs are eliminated then the fats are converted into energy for our daily works.
This readjustment of our body takes from a few weeks to even months and has considerable side effects what is known as ‘keto flu’.
Adjusting to fat intakes
All of a sudden a great amount of fats are given, and the body is said to break down the fatty acids into ketones which in turn will be used as fuel.
The body needs time to get fat adapted ‘keto adapted’ for which sometimes we have headaches and fatigue.
New to Keto Adaption
We have fat converting enzymes which drastically increases when keto-adapted.
Once you are keto-adapted means now your body is easily converting fatty acids into ketones.
Now the body is building up more enzymes to convert more fat easily and this new adaptation sometimes leads to keto flu.
Not enough Electrolytes
Electrolytes control all the major functions of our body. From controlling ph level, muscle contractions and others.
An electrolyte deficiency causes nausea and fatigue.
What happens in a keto diet is that the fat in the cells are replaced by water and hence we need much much more water than we were taking earlier to avoid any dehydration.
While in a keto diet people may also become deficient in potassium, magnesium and other vital nutrients. So take supplements to replenish it or have the foods which are high in such minerals.
KETO FLU SYMPTOMS
The common symptoms of ketosis flu are:
- Sugar cravings
- Difficulty in falling asleep
- Irritability of mind
- A cough
Do not worry about the symptoms it will last only for a few days to weeks.
HOW LONG DOES IT LAST?
It seriously varies from person to person.
I personally never had any such strong side effects except the sweet cravings and a bit of dizziness.
For me, it lasted for 2 weeks or so.
People have also reported that they had such feelings till 2-3 months. I guess probably it is because they always had a very high carb diet. And the body was having a tough time to get fat adapted.
It is not even necessary that every person going for a keto diet will get keto flu.
HOW TO AVOID KETO FLU?
Keto electrolytes: Get more electrolytes
Replenish your electrolytes as often as you can.
Potassium, magnesium, sodium and other important nutrients. Take additional supplements if required.
Have electoral water more as it will serve the purpose of having more water as well as it will replenish the electrolytes.
Get more fats
Your body needs energy. And it is not getting any from sugar or carbs. So have healthy fats to provide energy for the body.
Coconut oil, butter, olive oil, ghee will help you to enter into ketosis.
Add more salt to the diet
You tend to lose more water while on a low carb diet. Even the insulin level goes down and hence you cannot retain the desired sodium level.
To maintain the required sodium level, put a lil’ bit more salt in your food.
Don’t worry, your body will not get bloated. Imagine the amount of sodium our fries and burgers used to contain. So definitely we are going to consume lesser than that.
Drink enough water
have water, lemon flavored water, berry flavored water or anything. Just have water the entire day. The fat in the cells are going to get replaces by the water. so imagine the amount you need to put in. Have 2-3 liters of water every day.
One of the best ways to try and curb the symptoms of the keto flu is to replenish your electrolytes.
Nausea and fatigue are caused by dehydration. So be hydrated.
Slow and steady wins the Race
A ketogenic diet recommends 30 grams of carbs a day.
So initially it is like you are not having anything at all. Super dizziness.
Do not rush into it. Go slow. GIVE YOURSELF TIME.
Cut your carb intake by 10-15 grams a day. And keep on adding more fat to your diet daily. Let the body know you are changing something.
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Mobile technology is growing strongly exponentially, but battery technology does not stand up. We reach the physical limits of what conventional lithium and lithium polymer patterns can do. The solution can be something called a solid state battery.
What is a solid state battery?
In a conventional battery design, lithium ion two solid metal electrodes are usually used with a liquid lithium salt which acts as an electrolyte. Ionic particles move from one electrode (cathode) to the other (anode) when the battery is charging and in reverse when it is released. The liquid lithium electrolyte is the medium that allows that movement. If you have ever seen a battery corrode or become punctured, the "battery acid" that oozes (or occasionally explodes) exposes the liquid electrolyte.
In a solid state battery, both positive and negative electrodes are used, and the electrolyte between them is metal, alloy, or other synthetic material. The term "solid state" can remind you of SSD data, and it's not a coincidence. Solid State storage devices use flash memory, which does not move, as opposed to a regular hard drive, which stores data on a spin-magnet disk powered by a small engine.
Although the thought of solid state batteries has been around for decades, development in its development has begun, currently accelerated by investments from electronics companies, car manufacturers and general industry suppliers.
What's better about solid state batteries?
Solid State batteries promise some clear advantages over their fluid-filled cousins: better battery life, faster charging times and a safer experience.
Solid State batteries compress the anode, cathode and electrolyte into three planar layers, instead of suspending the electrodes in a liquid electrolyte. This means you can make them smaller or at least smoother while keeping as much energy as a larger liquid-based battery. So if you replace the lithium ion or lithium polymer battery in your phone or laptop with a solid state battery of the same size, it would be a lot longer charge. Alternatively, you can make a device that keeps the same charge much smaller or thinner.
Solid State batteries are also safer because there is no toxic flammable liquid to spill and they do not feed as much heat as ordinary rechargeable batteries. When applied to batteries that run power electronics or even electric cars, they can load much faster, even that ions can move much faster from the cathode to the anode.
According to the latest research, a solid state battery can exceed conventional rechargeable batteries by 500% or more in terms of capacity and charging within a tenth of time.
What are the disadvantages?
Because solid state batteries are an emerging technology, they are extremely expensive to manufacture. So expensive, the fact that they are not installed in any major consumer electronics electronics at the time of writing. In 2012, analysts who wrote for the University of Florida Software Analysis and Advanced Materials Processing assessed that a typical battery-charged solid state battery would cost about $ 15,000 to manufacture. A big enough to drive an electric car costs $ 100,000.
Part of this is because scalability is not in place Hundreds of millions of rechargeable batteries are manufactured each year at the moment, so manufacturing costs for materials and equipment are spread over large supply lines. There are only a few companies and universities investigating solid state batteries, so the cost of producing each one is astronomical.
Another problem is the materials. While the properties of various metals, alloys and metallic salts used for conventional rechargeable batteries are well known, we do not currently know the best chemical and atomic composition for a solid electrolyte between metal anodes and cathodes. Current research reduces this, but we need to gather more reliable data before we can gather or synthesize the materials and invest in manufacturing processes.
When will I use a solid state battery?
As with all emerging techniques, trying to figure out when you get your hands at it is at best guesswork.
It is encouraging that many huge companies invest in the research needed to bring solid batteries to the consumer market, but shy of a major breakthrough in the near future, it is difficult to say if it will be a big step forward. At least one car company says it will be ready to put a vehicle in 2023, but do not guess how much the car can cost. Five years seem too optimistic; ten years seems more likely. It may be twenty years or more before the materials are determined and the manufacturing processes are being developed.
But as we said at the beginning of the article, conventional battery technology begins to hit a wall. And there is nothing like potential sales to stimulate research and development. It's at least something (very small) that you may be able to use a gadget or drive a powered state battery soon.
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The Hard Rock Hotel got a new president and chief executive officer on June 1. Joseph A. Magliarditi comes with extensive experience in the Las Vegas casino industry and promises to bring a new focus to the property.
Magliarditi started in gaming operations with the Marnell family at the Rio, where he shepherded the property through several expansions and stayed on after Harrah’s Entertainment acquired it in 1999.
After leaving the Rio, Magliarditi moved into software, reuniting with the Marnells at Tririga, an enterprise software provider. In 2007, he returned to gaming with Anthony Marnell III, when the latter’s Marnell Sher Gaming acquired Laughlin’s Colorado Belle and Edgewater casinos from MGM Mirage. As chief operating officer and vice president, Magliarditi oversaw a complete transformation of the properties.
“I took over the two properties, stripped them down to their bare bones and built them up,” he says. His encore? Being the operations guy at the M Resort, “from drawing to opening.”
His 16 years in the business have given him plenty of insight into what it will take to bring the Hard Rock to the next level.
“The unique thing that I bring to the table,” he says, “is that I have an operations and finance background, but I’ve been lucky enough to work in properties that were hip and mainstream, both in times when gaming was taking off and when it was much tougher.”
The biggest adjustment for Magliarditi isn’t the new job, but his new teammates.
“There’s really not much difference,” he says of the move up from COO to CEO. “With [Marnell] I had the liberty to make my own decisions. Of course now there’s slightly more responsibility, but the biggest change is that this is my first new venture away from the people I’ve been with for the past 16 years.”
He has plenty of work ahead of him. Las Vegas is facing “huge macroeconomic challenges,” and he has a property to reintroduce. If all you know about the Hard Rock is its Rehab pool party and the iconic Center Bar, Magliarditi wants to talk to you.
“Yes, we have the party atmosphere in those places,” he says, “but we’ve added venues like SkyBar and the HRH Beach Club with a more subtle, sophisticated vibe. They’re going to appeal to an older demographic that’s looking for something at the top of the market.”
Interviewed barely 48 hours into his new job, Magliarditi was admittedly still in “information-gathering mode,” but was already bowled over by his new co-workers.
“I’m inspired by the great sense of pride our employees have,” he says. “They’ve got a great spirit. I’m just blown away by how great all of the line-level employees are.”
These men and women—who interact directly with customers in ways that no CEO can—will be critical in realizing Magliarditi’s vision for the property. He sees some strategic expansions ahead.
“Initially, we’re going to cater to the customer we have now, but we’re looking to expand our horizons to customers that are a good fit to HRH Tower—a more upscale accommodation—and the Paradise Tower, which we’re gearing towards conventions.” With 80,000 square feet of meeting space, they now have that luxury.
But Magliarditi is also planning to dip a toe into the increasingly competitive locals market.
“There’s been talk about dabbling in the local slot business since the place opened [in 1995], but it’s never been addressed,” he says. “We need to let them know what type of product we have here.”
Magliarditi believes that the Hard Rock’s rooms, food and beverage, and convention facilities can compete with Strip properties, and hails its entertainment lineup as second to none. With resident headliner Santana’s regular stints at The Joint spelled with acts ranging from Crosby, Stills & Nash to the Dropkick Murphys to Alice in Chains, it would be hard to argue with him.
With so much of the bigger economic picture uncertain, one thing is clear: The Hard Rock Hotel won’t be suffering from a lack of vision or clarity at the top. Joseph Magliarditi knows where the property needs to be, and he’s confident that the rest of his team will help him get there. | <urn:uuid:687d6bc5-3143-446b-aaad-154531530cb1> | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | http://vegasseven.com/2010/06/10/taking-helm-hard-rock-hotel/ | 2016-12-05T02:24:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698541518.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170901-00184-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964148 | 1,009 |
Java is an island in Indonesia and is the 13th largest in the world. With a population of nearly 160 million, the island is home to the world’s largest population and is one of the most populous places in the world. Although it only occupies the fifth largest, Java is inhabited by 60% of Indonesia’s population. This figure is decreased when compared to the 1905 population census which reaches 80.6% of the population of Indonesia. The population decline in Java Island by percentage is caused by population movement ( Transmigration) from Java Island to all over Indonesia. The capital of Indonesia, Jakarta, is located in northwestern Java (precisely at the westernmost tip of the Pantura Line).
Most of the people speak in three major languages. Javanese is the mother tongue of 100 million Indonesians, and most of its speakers live on the island of Java. Most of the population is bilingual, who speak Indonesian both as a first and second language. The other two important languages are Sundanese and Betawi. Most of the population of Java Island is Muslim and Christian, but there are various beliefs, religions, ethnic groups, and cultures on the island.
With a population of 160 million Java is an island that houses more than 60% of the Indonesian population. With a density of 1,317 souls / km², the island is also one of the world’s most populous islands. Approximately 45% of Indonesia’s population comes from Javanese ethnicity. However, the western third of the island (West Java, Banten, and Jakarta) has a population density of over 1,500 inhabitants / km2.
Java has an area of about 126,700 km2. The longest river is Bengawan Solo, which is 600 km long. This river is sourced in central Java, precisely in Lawu volcano. The river flow then flows north and east, towards its estuary in the Java Sea near the city of Surabaya.
Almost the entire Javanese region has had the impact of volcanic activity. There are thirty-eight mountains stretching from east to west of the island, all of which have at times been active volcanoes. The highest volcano in Java is Mount Semeru (3,676 m), while the most active volcano in Java and even in Indonesia is Mount Merapi (2,968 m) and Mount Kelud (1731 m). The distant mountains and plateau help the inland areas to be divided into areas that are relatively isolated and suitable for wetland rice fields. Paddy rice fields in Java are among the most fertile in the world. Java is the first place to plant coffee in Indonesia, which is since 1699. Now, arabica coffee is widely grown in the Highlands of Ijen either by small farmers or by large estates.
The average temperature throughout the year is between 22 ° C to 29 ° C, with an average humidity of 75%. The northern coast is usually hotter, with an average of 34 ° C during the day in the dry season. The south coast is generally cooler than the north coast, and the upland plateau is cooler. The rainy season begins in October and ends in April, where the rain usually falls in the afternoon, and in the months other than that it usually only goes down intermittently. The highest rainfall generally occurs in the months of January and February.
Bali is a province of Indonesia. The capital of this province is Denpasar. Bali is also one of the islands of Nusa Tenggara Island. At the beginning of Indonesian independence, the island was included in the Lesser Sunda Province of the city of Singaraja, and is now divided into three provinces: Bali, West Nusa Tenggara and East Nusa Tenggara.
Besides consisting of the island of Bali, the province of Bali also consists of smaller islands in the vicinity, namely Nusa Penida Island, Nusa Lembongan Island, Nusa Ceningan Island, Serangan Island, and Menjangan Island.
Geographically, Bali is located between Java Island and Lombok Island. The majority of Bali’s population are Hindus. In the world, Bali is well known as a tourism destination with its unique art-culture variety, especially for Japanese and Australian tourists. Bali is also known by the nickname of the Island of the Gods and Pulau Seribu Pura.
The island of Bali is part of the Lesser Sunda Islands 153 km long and 112 km wide about 3.2 km from the island of Java. Astronomically, Bali is located at 8 ° 25’23 “South Latitude and 115 ° 14’55” East Longitude which makes it tropical like other parts of Indonesia.
Gunung Agung is the highest point in Bali as high as 3,148 m. This volcano last erupted in March 1963. Mount Batur is also one of the mountains in Bali. About 30,000 years ago, Mount Batur erupted and produced a terrible catastrophe on earth. In contrast to the northern part, the southern part of Bali is a lowland flowing by rivers. | <urn:uuid:803232cb-fdbb-4193-978c-7d4ba1f03c30> | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | http://www.justgoindonesia.com/java-and-bali/ | 2018-02-18T03:26:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891811352.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20180218023321-20180218043321-00742.warc.gz | en | 0.956936 | 1,074 |
Back Pain is NOT a Normal Condition!
I recently read an article that claimed that back pain is a normal human condition! Although it is true that 80% of the US population will suffer from back pain in their lives, it does not mean it is a "normal human condition."
It would be like saying illiteracy in the 1800s was a "normal human condition." Granted it was "normal" to be uneducated at the time, but to brand that condition a "normal human condition" would have been a major mischaracterization as in 2003 in many parts of the world the literacy rate was over 90% (99% in the US). (Max Roser and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina (2016) – ‘Literacy.' Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: https://ourworldindata.org/literacy/ )
Is it then possible to theorize that one can educate oneself on how to prevent back pain from ever occurring in the first place? Is our society functionally illiterate regarding the spine, one of the most important parts of our bodies?
25 years ago FIT was established to prevent back and shoulder injuries (and since then, office ergonomic injuries too). Our first discovery was that most back injuries are caused by what we call CMT (cumulative micro trauma). CMT is an accumulation of tiny physical transgressions on our bodies that over time add up to fatigue, discomfort, pain and if continued, injury.
Secondly, we discovered shockingly, that as a culture we are virtually 100% illiterate as to the structure and practical function of our spines. This lack of understanding leads to a life of accumulating unnecessary CMT!
80% of the US population will experience back pain. A back injury can, in a brief moment, change one's life or cause one to be on potentially addictive pain medication. Yet despite this horrific "natural human condition" no one has educated us (properly!) on how to perform normal activities of daily living in a way that would prevent CMT and its painful manifestations.
How many cylinders do you have in your car? 4, 6 or 8? 70% of you or so will know that answer. How many bones (vertebrae) make up your spine? I will wait while you Google this, because, like me years ago, I had NO IDEA! Why are there curves in your spine? How many curves? We know more about our darn cars and trucks than we do our backs and we can replace our vehicles! Don't feel bad, virtually 100% of us are functionally illiterate relating to our back and how to use it properly.
The spine is an engineering feat! You have to really work hard to "earn" a back injury. You have 24 bones: 7 cervical (neck), 12 thoracic (hump in your mid back); and 5 lumbar (base of spine)… and 3 curves.
After "practically educating" over one million employees about the very simple laws of lifting and living in a world with a 24/7 gravitational force, we can 100% pronounce that when people become educated why and on how to lift, bend, work, care for their children, mow the lawn, shovel snow, do laundry, work on a computer, in other words "live life," injuries plummet.
We trained 20,000 flight attendants for an airline on how to do their work and life duties and how to properly stretch away CMT, and back and neck injuries dropped 63%!
Our Backsafe® on-site workshops experientially educate workers on how to NOT become a victim of back and shoulder pain. One of our Backsafe laws to prevent CMT is never reach for or with a load. Holding a box, baby, or bundle close to you significantly reduces "intradiscal" pressure on your spine. A 10 pound object held 10" away from you becomes a virtual weight of 100 pounds on your spine.
Do this exercise: Stand up. Hold your arms out in front of you for a few seconds or until you feel a little fatigue. This is 12% of your body weight. Now relax your arms to a normal position and feel the relief. The relief you feel is your body thanking you for keeping your arms close to your body.
Now make believe you have a box or laundry basket in your hands and you want to set it down on a desk or table. Move close to the table whereby you can set the "load" down without reaching. How pathetically simple Yet, extremely beneficial to know and apply to your life.
FIT wants to increase employees' physical literacy as pertains to musculoskeletal well-being. The beautiful part about our process is no matter an organization's morale, employees are eager to know how to relieve pain and discomfort and willingly buy-in to change their behaviors on and off the job.
Email us at [email protected] or call us at (800) 775-2225 and schedule an interview to learn how we can help your employees and help your company to prevent painful injuries and to save money in 2017.
Prevent tomorrow's injuries today!™
Dennis Downing, President
Future Industrial Technologies
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Future Industrial Technologies, Inc. (F.I.T.) offers workplace safety and ergonomics training programs. Backsafe® teaches employees how to perform their specific job tasks in a manner that is biomechanically correct. Sittingsafe® teaches office employees how to adapt their existing workstations so they are ergonomically correct. These injury prevention programs make your workplace safer and are proven to reduce injuries and worker compensation insurance costs.
For more information contact Dennis Downing at:
Future Industrial Technologies, Inc.
5951 Encina Road, Suite 201 | Goleta, CA 93117
Tel (800) 775-2225 | Fax (805) 967-2487
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Ten Questions Executive Leadership Can Ask to Identify If You Have a Toxic Culture
For most people it is fairly easy to detect the personal qualities and behaviors that exemplify a full-blown toxic leader that creates a toxic culture. Identifying a leader that is in the early stages of creating a toxic culture can be a bit more challenging. Below are some questions to consider when trying to detect a shift in culture that is beginning to become toxic.
1. Are members in the culture allowed to mistreat or disrespect the weakest or lowest members in the organization?
2. Are decisions made in a vacuum or are thought processes concealed from other who should be a part of the decision making process?
3. Are statements that are clearly untrue allowed to stand without being challenged regardless of a person’s authority?
4. Are members of the culture allowed to externalize blame rather than take responsibility?
5. Do leaders in the culture blame others (internally or externally) for lack of organizational performance?
6. Does the culture allow for managers to make decisions based on their own self-interests rather than for the organization?
7. Does the culture encourage and promote yes-people who don’t or won’t challenge the leader’s thinking process?
8. Does members of the culture allow a few vital people to do the heavy lifting while others continue to perform poorly?
9. Does the culture allow for the development of an “inner-circle” (ie. favorites) who are held to a different (ie. lesser) standard of performance?
10. Does the culture allow its members to have an explanation for adverse events that never requires members to take responsibility or require change because of those events?
These are just ten questions that can begin to detect the creation (or existence) of a toxic culture. Of course, this list is not comprehensive; there are other questions and factors that can detect the creation of a toxic culture. Nonetheless, if you can answer “Yes” to 3 or more of these, you may be a part of a culture which is (or heading in the direction of being) toxic.
As I say in every one of my culture presentations, “Culture starts at the top of every organization.” If you are the leader in an organization who has people (managers and/or employees) who are creating a toxic culture which you do not want in your organization; if you have taken the necessary steps to coach, train, and communicate the adverse effect their behaviors have on your organizational culture and there is still no positive change; if you would like to save or improve the culture of your organization, your role is to “set them free.” Give them to freedom to pursue success in another organization. If you are an employee in a toxic culture, it is important to gain a sense of predictability so that you can know when it is most likely for other members in the culture to behave in a toxic manner.
A pattern of toxicity can usually be determined by taking into account the people and/or situations that surround them when they are behaving in a non-toxic manner. This may make their behavior more predictable, and therefore, more manageable. Nonetheless, people who have to manage or cope with the behaviors that exist in a toxic culture have a difficult task before them. Yet several options available to them. There is no option that is right for every situation. All options require a calculated risk for each individual and/or group. Below some of those options are:
Stay: This decision will typically require some change in personal attitude or perspective in order to accept the toxic behaviors inside the organizational culture
Leave: This decision requires a great deal of consideration balancing the risk of leaving with the long term effects and consequences of staying.
Reform: This decision requires risk in the approaching the leaders who are responsible for creating the culture, requesting change, and the consequences that may follow such an approach. This approach is stronger when supported by a coalition of people, but an individual can also attempt this approach if s/he has a strong rapport with the leaders responsible for the culture. If the leader is likely to stay in place, this is the step that will most likely effect change.
Revolt: This can be among the most risky decision as it requires the creation of a coalition and the involvement of the higher levels in the organization, such as a member of the board of directors.
The differences in these choices are typically informed by a sense of urgency that is brought to the table by people that are stuck in a toxic culture. Caught early enough in their development, toxic cultures can indeed be reformed if members can agree on the toxic behaviors that need to change.
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Dr. Gustavo Grodnitzky (Dr. Gustavo) is a speaker, author, consultant, and psychologist whose diverse background brings a unique and multidimensional perspective to his global clients. For the past 15 years, he has focused on engagements with corporate clients, and has worked with Global 1000 companies around the world, as well as with smaller, often family-run, businesses addressing a variety of topics, including corporate culture, emotional intelligence, anger management, and integrating multigenerational workforces. | <urn:uuid:37436308-3624-4072-ba53-7787c1fceb35> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://www.mikkiwilliams.com/single-post/2018/11/13/ten-questions-executive-leadership-can-ask-to-identify-if-you-have-a-toxic-culture | 2021-02-25T13:01:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178351134.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20210225124124-20210225154124-00490.warc.gz | en | 0.956293 | 1,073 |
SAN ANGELO, Texas — On Thursday, the No. 9-ranked Angelo State University baseball team got "lucky" in a 6-4 win over Eastern New Mexico.
On Friday, the Rams left luck out of the equation and put 21 runs on the scoreboard to sweep the Greyhounds in a doubleheader and take a 3-0 series lead entering today's finale.
ASU pounded out 12 hits in a 13-3 Game 1 win, then poured on five runs late in the nightcap to come away with an 8-2 victory.
"Yesterday I thought we got lucky," said ASU junior outfielder Lee Neumann, who hit a home run and two doubles on the day, collecting four RBIs.
"We knew we were going to have to come out and swing the bats because they weren't going to give us anything."
Trailing 3-1 going into the bottom of the fourth inning of Game 1, the Rams' bats came to life and erupted in the rout of the Greyhounds. In Game 2, a three-run first inning put ASU in front and they never looked back.
"We did a good job of finally putting somebody away," ASU head coach Kevin Brooks said. "We tacked on (runs) when we needed to and turned a real close game into a blowout. That was good to see."
The Rams unloaded in the latter half of Game 1, scoring two runs in the fourth, four in the fifth and six in the sixth, while starting pitcher Jake Feckley silenced Eastern New Mexico's offense.
Lee Neumann and Tate Allison both doubled and homered for ASU, driving in three runs apiece. Andrew LaCombe also brought three more runs across the plate, and Brett Parsons finished 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs to add to the offensive explosion.
"The offense did great," Feckley said. "They really turned it on there in the fourth inning and never took their foot off the gas."
Ryan Greer, who entered the day leading the Lone Star Conference in steals, swiped four in the two games to increase his lead in the category.
Feckley scattered five hits over six solid innings of work, but gave up two hits in the third along with a walk and a hit batsmen as the Greyhounds took the early lead, scoring three runs in the frame.
"That was unacceptable on my part," Feckley said. "But it's a team sport and the team picked me up by putting up a lot of runs, and I was able to go out there and cruise after that."
The sophomore hurler rebounded nicely and allowed only one other hit through the next three innings, before Jake Albert came on in relief to close out the game.
In Game 2, junior pitcher Michael Lange improved to 5-0 on the season, tossing 5.1 innings while allowing only one Greyhound run to cross the plate.
Austin Church and Albert combined the rest of the way to allow only one other run to Eastern New Mexico.
Toby Semler went 2-for-3 with a double and three RBIs in the nightcap to lead the ASU offense.
"I thought we did twice today what we have not done, and that's bury them at the end," Brooks said. "We did let them stick around for a little while, but when we had the chance to land the knockout punch, we did.
"That's big and something we need to continue to do."
The Rams look to complete the series sweep today, when the two teams square off in the finale. The first pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m.
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Whether you call it Bruxism, Teeth Grinding or TMJ Pain, clenching and grinding your teeth at night causes symptoms that can be painful and distracting, and sometimes disabling. A long list of ailments can potentially be tracked back to this common night-time affliction that affects more than 60 million Americans.
Do you find yourself waking up in the middle of the night, or exhausted when you wake in the morning? Studies show that roughly 8% of the population suffers at one point or another in their lifetime from teeth grinding. When your body prepares for sleep, it begins relaxing all muscles, your jaw included. Unfortunately our jaws are very heavy and as your relaxing muscles let it fall, it begins to block airway passages. Researchers have found that some forms of teeth grinding are the result of trying to open airways again, alleviating one problem, but causing another.
Teeth grinding irregularly rubs our upper and lower teeth together and can have harmful effects, such as worn and/or fractured teeth. The damage can be severe, with studies showing that 10% of teeth grinders may reduce their teeth to nubs and require reconstructive surgery.
It's not always the pillow causing a sore and stiff neck! While teeth grinding puts a ton of pressure on your jaw, the clenching and gnashing back and forth causes your neck muscles to tighten, as well. The constant movement puts an added strain on these muscles, causing both irritation and inflammation, leaving to wake up with a tight and uncomfortable neck.
Normally a good nights’ sleep is the best remedy to a headache, but if you suffer from teeth grinding, this can actually be the cause of the pain. Our lower jaws are connected to the temporal bone at the base of our skull. When we eat a meal or chew a piece of gum, the motion is only temporary and does not normally cause any problems. But a whole night of grinding rubs the bone relentlessly, often causing a deep and dull headache that can persist for hours.
Do hot and cold foods cause your mouth discomfort? Grinding can wear down the enamel on your teeth, allowing the dentin to be exposed. Dentin is the middle layer of our teeth and consist of hollow tubes that lead to your nerves. Without the enamel to protect it, we are leaving those nerves vulnerable to everything we eat and drink, causing a painful zap whenever we sip a hot coffee or slurp a frosty milkshake.
Four muscles are used whenever you chew something, causing your whole face to move with it, from your cheeks to your ears. So it’s no surprise that constant chewing or grinding at night can result in a tender and sore face in the morning. If you find yourself waking up with dull and achy pains underneath your eyes or around your ears, teeth grinding may be the culprit.
Did you know that when your jaw overworks, other muscles in your body make up for it, known as “muscle recruitment?” When teeth grinding tires out your jaw, muscles in your neck pick up the slack, and when they are exhausted, your shoulders begin to work instead. This can cause you to wake up with stiff and sore shoulders who just pulled an all nighter!
We know that our jaws, neck, and shoulders can be overworked, but did you know that teeth grinding can cause back pain as well? We’ve discussed how muscles who are overworked recruit other muscles to take over and when the jaw, neck, and shoulders have been used up, our backs come to the rescue. So when you find yourself with back pain, don’t try to stretch, instead, open up your mouth and take a look inside!
Partner Sleep Disturbance
Has your partner ever told you that your sleeping wakes them up at night? Along with painful side effects, teeth grinding can be loud as well, leaving both you and your partner sleepy in the morning. Some have reporting that the sounds coming from a grinders mouth can be mild like a chattering, but some more severe cases have been reported to sound like the person is crunching on crackers!
Did you know that our jaws biting force can equal up to 250 lbs per square inch? That’s enough to crack the shell of a walnut! Teeth grinding causes this weight to be pushed onto our upper and lower teeth throughout the night. When this much force is pressed upon our jaws, it can cause fractures, chips, and even cracked teeth. Fractures can appear brown in color, which cause many people to go to the dentist thinking this is the result not brushing regularly.
While tinnitus is a common side effect of teeth grinding, doctors are unsure how the two are linked. One theory is that the nerve supply from our jaws are connected to parts of the brain that are involved with hearing and listening. The constant movement of our jaws overwork these nerves, causing damage with hearing. Tinnitus is commonly described as a ringing in the ears, but has also been described as a buzzing or clicking sound and can affect one or both ears.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Democrats are targeting the state attorney general’s race as their best chance to break the stranglehold Republicans have over state government.
Democrats spent months castigating current Republican Attorney General Curtis Hill over allegations that he drunkenly groped a state lawmaker and three other women, only to see former U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita narrowly defeat Hill for the GOP nomination in July.
Democratic candidate Jonathan Weinzapfel, a former Evansville mayor, says he wants to tone down partisanship in the office of state government’s top lawyer.
Rokita counters as an unabashed President Donald Trump supporter with an aggressive law-and-order and anti-abortion agenda that will continue Hill’s tactics of joining Republican lawsuits against what they regard as federal overreach, such as the Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare.”
Weinzapfel said he saw no difference between Rokita and Hill over what he called “gross politicization of the office.”
Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb faced opposition from Hill on policies such as the governor’s support of needle-exchange programs for intravenous drug users long before Holcomb called for Hill’s resignation when the groping allegations became public in 2018.
Rokita has foreshadowed possible similar splits by not defending Holcomb against conservative critics of the executive orders he’s issued during the coronavirus pandemic, including restrictions on personal movement, forcing some businesses to close and a statewide mask mandate.
With Holcomb holding big fundraising and organization advantages for his reelection campaign, Weinzapfel points to his bipartisan work leading Indiana’s third-largest city in 2004-12 as a sign that he wouldn’t focus on stirring political conflicts.
“I’m not running to be an adversary to the governor,” Weinzapfel said. “Voters, if I am elected, they will expect me to be an independent voice, but it’s not my goal to be an adversary.”
Rokita won statewide elections as secretary of state in 2002 and 2006 before he held a central Indiana congressional seat for eight years. He’s trying to make a political comeback after he lost a 2018 bid for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination to Mike Braun and unsuccessfully sought the party’s 2016 nomination for governor after then-Gov. Mike Pence became Trump’s vice presidential running mate.
Rokita has faced several controversies, including allegations that his congressional staffers often felt obligated to do political work to help his campaigns. And a 2018 Associated Press analysis of state and congressional spending records revealed that Rokita had spent more than $3 million in public money on advertising campaigns that often coincided with his bids for office.
Statewide police organizations are backing Rokita, who opposes steps backed by Weinzapfel, such as eliminating criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana.
Rokita said he supports evaluations of how to improve police training but does not share the racial injustice concerns that Holcomb discussed during an August speech, when the governor described racism as a “virus that’s equally voracious” as the coronavirus outbreak for the state and nation.
Spring protests over the death of George Floyd in Minnesota turned violent in Indianapolis and left behind widespread damage to downtown businesses, while smaller protest marches occurred in several communities across the state.
“To say that there is systemic racism because people are out on the street marching ... absolutely not,” Rokita said. “I don’t base my conclusions because there’s lawlessness in the street.”
Rokita said a priority would be fighting to limit federal government regulations and pursuing court challenges, such as the Obamacare lawsuit.
“That has been a lifelong work for me, so that will absolutely continue,” Rokita said. “Perhaps, given this office, with more ability for success than I’ve had in Congress, for example. I’m absolutely looking forward to that and doing everything I can to help President Trump do the same thing.”
Weinzapfel is trying to break the streak of Democratic defeats in statewide races that stretches back to the 2012 election. Republicans also hold commanding majorities in the Legislature, giving Democrats little influence in state government.
Labor unions and national Democratic groups have given hundreds of thousands toward Weinzapfel’s campaign, which they have not done for the underfunded campaign of Democratic governor candidate Woody Myers.
Rokita only launched his campaign in May but has been boosted by a network of donors from his nearly two decades of political runs. He’s also collected at least some $800,000 from the Republican Attorneys General Association, the Washington-based group that largely funded Hill’s 2016 campaign.
Weinzapfel professes optimism that he can break through.
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Information, facts and data about Assis Airport (Assis Marcelo Pires Halzhausen State Airport). In the municipality of Assis, in the São Paulo state, in Brazil. Other airports nearby are Assis Marcelo Pires Halzhausen State Airport, Cornélio Procópio Francisco Lacerda Junior Airport and Ourinhos Jornalista Benedito Pimentel Airport. The airport is situated above sea level by 1850 feet/564 meters. Closest big cities and communities are Marília 71 km (44 mi) (c. 212,200 pop), Assis 5 km (3 mi) (c. 101,600 pop), Ourinhos 71 km (44 mi) (c. 97,800 pop), Tupã 79 km (49 mi) (c. 62,000 pop), Cornélio Procópio 63 km (39 mi) (c. 48,500 pop), Ibiporã 93 km (58 mi) (c. 44,800 pop) and Garça 95 km (59 mi) (c. 41,300 pop). Other names can be Assis Marcelo Pires Halzhausen State Airport, Aeroporto de Assis, Marcelo Pires Halzhausen State Airport, International. If you are planning or will be flying to/from, and use , you will find information about the airport, maps, contact information and the weather here. You will find accurate information about where to pick up and/or return your car on your order/voucher. All rental car companies have their own offices where you pick up keys etc. Assis Plaza Shopping, Elitecar, Marmoaria Amazonas, Camelódromo Shopping Popular, Atração FIAT and Shopping Pertutti are nearby the airport if you want to shop or are looking for tax-free goods. They are within 3 km (2 mi). Nearby bus stops and bus stations for buses are Terminal Rodoviario de Assis, Terminal de Ônibus Coletivo and Bus Terminal.
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Sam Smith – The most notorious party we ever gave not only made it into the Washington Post and Washington Star-News, but also into the hearing record of the Senate Judiciary Committee’ investigation into “subversion of law enforcement intelligence gathering operations.” The 1974 event was a fund-raiser for the Fifth Estate, a creation of Norman Mailer. The organization had not quite gotten off the ground since at its launch a year earlier at New York City’s Four Seasons. Even the air in the room couldn’t have passed a breathalyzer test. “At the end of the glittery and boisterous evening,” reported the Star-News, “a sweating, bloodshot-eyed Mailer announced he was starting the Fifth Estate — a people’s counterespionage organization designed to spy right back at the CIA and the FBI to keep the nation from ‘sliding towards totalitarianism.'”
Later, Mailer merged his baby with a functioning public interest group called the Committee for Action/Research on the Intelligence Community and was ready to try again. Mailer was sober and the crowd serious. According to the Star-News, I “gazed around at the houseful of anonymous young men in turtlenecks, girls in black, and vociferous gray-haired ladies with name tags” and told the reporter, “We’re all part of the central cause. The central cause still exists, in spite of what you read in the papers.”
Earlier that day, my favorite high school English teacher had called to say he was in town, which allowed me to reply with something of the sort I had always wanted to say to him, “Great, Bob, why don’t you come over tonight? Norman Mailer will be here.” It’s not every night you can have Norman Mailer and your favorite high school English teacher in your house at the same time.
The Star-News wrote of the guest of honor:
“Finally he mounted a stair landing to speak. With one hand on the balustrade and the other gesticulating from the elbow, he spoke at great length about himself and his cause. ‘This idea came to me through the aegis of an angel,’ he said. ‘This angel said, ‘You are the dauphin. You must ride forth and bring this idea. You must save France.’ The angel was a drunk and he meant America.
“‘So I said, ‘Okay, anything to relieve my illimitable boredom . . . I am just Phineas T. Dauphin. If this remains my plaything, nothing will happen to it. I just want to be remembered as old Uncle Norman who had something to do with it.”
[It is reflective of the subsequent decline of Washington that the always well-reported Star-News died, while the Post — which claimed that Mailer had called himself the “dolphin” and was suffering from “inimitable” boredom — survived.]
Among those attending the party were ex-CIA agent Victor Marchetti whose new book had been enjoined from publication because of government objections, as well as a woman who said, “I’m a very bored radical right now, and I’d love to leave, but the person who brought me wants to ask Mailer something.”
The Post reported that, “many of the guests, mostly elegantly dressed, articulate antiwar activists, had come not knowing quite what to expect but with the thought that, as one woman put it, ‘wine and cheese and Norman Mailer were probably worth $10 a head.'”
Also on hand was a New York television director, Paul Jacobs, who told crowd that he didn’t trust men with “two last names and tasseled Bass Weejuns without socks” and added: “People are starting other conversations. People are dying to leave. Mailer talked too long. This is the wrong audience. There’s no social status to be gained here.”
With this curious pitch, he started asking for funds as several bowls were circulated among the crowd. Mailer contributed $500. At 11:30, the Post spotted Mailer “standing on the chilly front porch, drinking ice water, still talking abut the Fifth Estate.”
A number of organizations that would actually survive held one of their earliest meetings on our front porch or in our living room, including the Center for Voting & Democracy and a bunch of pizza-munching activists who dreamed of some day starting a national Green party. Unfortunately, the Fifth Estate was not one of them. It was soon gone.
But not completely forgotten. In the permanent record of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s 1976 hearings there is this report from a committee investigator:
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- How can you tell if you have a temperature without a thermometer?
- What is the best fever reducer for adults?
- How do you break a fever naturally?
- When should you medicate a fever?
- How long is it OK to have a fever for adults?
- What is the fastest way to cure a fever?
- How do I know if my fever is viral or bacterial?
- Should I sleep with a blanket if I have a fever?
- Can I check my temperature with my phone?
- How do you feel when you have a fever?
- Why do I feel hot but no fever?
- How do you get an Adults temperature down?
- What is a high fever for an adult?
How can you tell if you have a temperature without a thermometer?
“The most common way to check if someone has a fever without a thermometer is to feel the forehead or neck with the back of your hand,” Lee says.
“Check to see if it feels warmer than usual.
Do not use the palm, as it is not as sensitive to temperature changes as the back of the hand is.”.
What is the best fever reducer for adults?
Best fever reducer adults: Acetaminophen (Tylenol) Best fever reducer for infants: Infant liquid acetaminophen (Tylenol) Best fever reducer for children: Ibuprofen (Motrin, Advil)
How do you break a fever naturally?
Home Remedies: Fighting a feverDrink plenty of fluids. Fever can cause fluid loss and dehydration, so drink water, juices or broth. … Rest. You need rest to recover, and activity can raise your body temperature.Stay cool. Dress in light clothing, keep the room temperature cool and sleep with only a sheet or light blanket.
When should you medicate a fever?
Medication isn’t needed. Call the doctor if the fever is accompanied by a severe headache, stiff neck, shortness of breath, or other unusual signs or symptoms. If you’re uncomfortable, take acetaminophen (Tylenol, others), ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin IB, others) or aspirin.
How long is it OK to have a fever for adults?
Most fevers usually go away by themselves after 1 to 3 days. A persistent or recurrent fever may last or keep coming back for up to 14 days. A fever that lasts longer than normal may be serious even if it is only a slight fever.
What is the fastest way to cure a fever?
How to break a feverTake your temperature and assess your symptoms. … Stay in bed and rest.Keep hydrated. … Take over-the-counter medications like acetaminophen and ibuprofen to reduce fever. … Stay cool. … Take tepid baths or using cold compresses to make you more comfortable.More items…
How do I know if my fever is viral or bacterial?
Bacterial InfectionsSymptoms persist longer than the expected 10-14 days a virus tends to last.Fever is higher than one might typically expect from a virus.Fever gets worse a few days into the illness rather than improving.
Should I sleep with a blanket if I have a fever?
There’s no evidence that layering on blankets “and trying to sweat out the fever” has any benefit, Dr. Ferrer says. Instead, you’ll probably feel better if you stay cool, he says. One way to beat the heat is to take a lukewarm or cool shower or bath at a temperature that’s comfortable to you.
Can I check my temperature with my phone?
Fingerprint Thermometer is a smartphone android app that measures the most accurate temperature rate monitor app for any smartphone. Using the app can optimize your health and track your fever.
How do you feel when you have a fever?
The most common symptoms associated with a fever are feeling hot or flushed, chills, body aches, sweating, dehydration, and weakness. If you’re experiencing one or more of these symptoms, and you feel warm to the touch, it’s likely that you have a fever.
Why do I feel hot but no fever?
People may feel hot without a fever for many reasons. Some causes may be temporary and easy to identify, such as eating spicy foods, a humid environment, or stress and anxiety. However, some people may feel hot frequently for no apparent reason, which could be a symptom of an underlying condition.
How do you get an Adults temperature down?
Get plenty of rest. Take ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, or others), naproxen, (Aleve, Naprosyn, or others), acetaminophen (Tylenol, others) or aspirin to help relieve head and body aches and lower your temperature. Take a slightly warm, not cool, bath or apply damp washcloths to the forehead and wrists.
What is a high fever for an adult?
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There are many financing options available for self-employed individuals and entrepreneurs. For instance, you can apply with Giggle Finance for a cash advance for independent contractors. Your business will not have to reach into its own pockets for funds to maintain its cash flow with these financing options.
What is a Cash Advance?
A cash advance is simply money you borrow and repay using future sales. This loan is more flexible than other financing options for independent contractors. You only need to repay a fixed percentage of your future revenues every month. Fluctuating income means your repayment terms change each month, eliminating the risk of default.
A cash advance does not have strict documentary requirements. You only need to show the lender a recent history of profits in your financial statements. Aside from that, the approval process is quicker than traditional term loans. You can apply for up to $5000 and receive the funds within five minutes.
Why Choose a Cash Advance Over Other Loans?
There are several benefits to choosing a cash advance over the other financing options for independent contractors. These include:
Lenders will only charge you a percentage of future sales. Your obligations will adjust to your actual sales. You pay lower fees for slow months and more when you’re earning more in the following months.
No credit check
If you have a credit score of 562, you may still be able to borrow money from lenders who consider your sales history instead of your credit score. However, it’s important to note that a lower credit score can make it more difficult to get approved for loans and may result in higher interest rates. In any case, focusing on building up your sales history and improving your credit score over time can help you increase your chances of getting approved for loans and better interest rates in the future.
No late penalties
Cash advance providers will arrange an auto-debit facility that will automatically deduct your repayment from your account. You won’t have to worry about overlooking your payments and getting slapped with late penalties.
Applying for traditional term loans is cumbersome with their comprehensive documentary requirements. With an independent contractor cash advance, you only need to upload digital copies of your previous bank statements through the lender’s website. You don’t have to visit a physical office either.
You can view all the information about your cash advance in the contract. The lender will provide you a copy after approval for your signature. All fees are outlined in this document, so make sure you take the time to read it, including the fine print.
How Do You Apply for an Independent Contractor Cash Advance?
Your first step is to create an account on the lender’s website. You only need to provide your full name, e-mail address, contact number, and approximate monthly income. Afterward, you’ll have to link your newly established account with your bank so the lender can access your previous statements. You will then receive an offer from the lender and a contract.
The final step is to agree to the terms and sign the contract. You’ll receive your funds in your bank account within five to ten minutes.
How Do You Use the Funds From an Independent Contractor Loan?
Unlike loans like equipment financing, an independent contractor cash advance does not impose restrictions on fund usage. You’re free to use the money for any purpose, including:
You can consolidate your existing debts by paying them in full using the cash advance.
After receiving the funds, you can purchase new computer parts, office furniture, and tools. You can also spend the money on equipment repairs.
Keep your workforce happy by paying their wages on time, despite a sudden decrease in revenues.
You can maintain optimal inventory levels ahead of big sales with the help of a self-employed cash advance.
Growing your business can be expensive. A cash advance can provide you with the funds to make your operations larger.
The Bottom Line
Self-employed individuals, 1099 workers, freelancers, and independent contractors have limited access to traditional financing. These institutions view your fellow self-employed individuals as a high risk due to fluctuating income levels. Contractors must have a good credit score or must pledge assets as collateral.
On the other hand, an independent contractor cash advance provides you with access to funding without banks’ strict requirements. All the lenders require is a copy of your bank statement. Lenders also provide an online platform where you can apply, link a bank account, and submit the necessary documents.
Cash advances for gig workers also have shorter approval processes than traditional loans. You can finish the application process in just five minutes. Once approved, the lender will instantly wire the funds to your linked bank account.
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By Raven Fon
WHY DO WE FEEL THE NEED TO ALWAYS GIVE EXPLANATIONS?
Being an active member of society can fill you with all sorts of pressure and stress. Certain situations make you feel like you must respond a certain way or act in a specific manner. And yes, some people think they know what is best for you and your livelihood.
REGARDLESS OF ALL OF THOSE THINGS, YOU MUST REMEMBER, YOU DON’T OWE ANYONE AN EXPLANATION FOR…
1. YOUR LIVING SITUATION.
The way you live your life at home is no one’s business but your own. It doesn’t matter whether you have housemates, live alone, live unmarried with a partner, or if you still live with your ex.
2. YOUR LIFE PRIORITIES.
Dream of opening a restaurant? Want to become a pastor at your church? Have an urge to sell all of your belongings and backpack through Peru? Go for it! And remember, you never need to explain your priorities to anyone because they areyour priorities, and are not there to impress people.
3. NEEDING ALONE TIME.
If you require alone time in your life, you’re not being rude, introverted, or unfriendly, despite what others might think. You just need time to be by yourself- alone. We all need time to find our center and refocus.
4. YOUR PHYSICAL APPEARANCE.
We all go through changes with our bodies. Losing weight, gaining weight, getting a new hairstyle, growing a beard, or doing anything different with your physical appearance doesn’t require an explanation. They will just have to deal with your purple hair.
5. YOUR FOOD PREFERENCES.
Not everyone is fan of pizzas and burgers. Some folks like banana and bacon sandwiches, or they prefer spaghetti with butter instead of tomato sauce. We all have different tastes when it comes to food. If someone tries to judge you over it, don’t pay them any mind. You just go ahead an dip your french fries in your ice cream.
6. YOUR SEX LIFE.
This is a no-brainer. It is a very personal part of your life, and whether your sex life does or doesn’t exist, it’s no one’s business but your own. There will always be someone who will pass judgement on you for who you sleep with or what your sexuality is. But I’ve found, their opinion doesn’t matter.
7. YOUR CAREER OR PERSONAL LIFE CHOICES.
Go in the direction you want to go, and follow the path of your choosing. If you are a talented artist who desires working in the legal field, follow your heart. If being a lawyer is your dream, go for it. The ones who truly care for you will support your decision.
8. YOUR RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL VIEWS.
These days, it’s easy to pick a fight- just ask someone what their political or religious affiliation is and watch the battle ensue. Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, a Catholic or a Protestant, it is your choice and yours alone, and you never need to defend your beliefs (as long as they don’t harm anyone). Of course, if someone wants to have a mature, candid discussion with you about the topic, then go for it. Exchanging ideas and viewpoints can expand the mind and is beneficial for both parties.
9. BEING SINGLE.
Regardless if you’ve been single for a week or a year, you’re probably comfortable with the decision at this point in your life. If people are pressuring you to find a date, or to get married and settle down, tell them to mind their own. Being single can be great.
10. YOUR RELATIONSHIP CHOICES.
Did your ex ask you to get back together and you said yes? Did you forgive the one that cheated on you?Did you turn down a marriage proposal? Well guess what? All of these decisions were made by you for your own set of reasons. You followed your heart and this is where you landed, and you don’t owe anyone an explanation for that.
Life can be complicated, and the people around us can either make it more difficult, or they can ease the burdens by supporting your choices. You don’t have to give explanations for everything.
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A 13-year-old boy was arrested and charged with second degree murder after his 5-year-old sister died Sunday. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Detectives say the boy admitted to practicing "WWE" moves on theMore >>
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In a move that has the medical world buzzing, The American Medical Association has changed its stance on obesity, officially declaring it a disease instead of a "public health issue." The new distinctionMore >>
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PINAL COUNTY, AZ (CBS5) -
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is upset with the president. He sent a letter telling the president that he did not agree with his proposed gun legislation and would not be following them if passed.
"Surprise I haven't received a response by the president or anyone on his administrative staff," Babeu said.
In the letter, dated Jan. 16, the sheriff tells the president, "it's not the gun that's at fault but rather the criminals who use them."
He goes on to tell the president that there is a process that must be followed before something becomes law and that as a Constitutional attorney he should know better.
The letter goes on to say, "You are not a dictator or a king, who can act unilaterally and ignore our legislative process of law making."
Even though the president's proposals have not been passed, the sheriff has told his staff as well as the president that he will not follow them.
"I am writing you this letter today to inform you that any 'law' or regulation created by an executive order of your office which is contrary to what the Constitution of the United States of America says, shall be deemed as unlawful and not be carried out by myself or my office," he wrote.
Babeu says he sent the letter not only in written form, but electronically as well. He welcomes a response by either the president or his staff.
There is one mistake in Babeu's letter, however. He spelled the president's name wrong. It is addressed to "Barak" instead of "Barack" Obama. CBS 5 News pointed out the misspelling to Babeu's spokesman, Tim Gaffney, who replied, "Ugh...Thanks I can't wait for this week to be done..."
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By Jerry Donato
Ruffa Gutierrez is one celebrity who uses her popularity to push for an advocacy for a disadvantaged sector of society. Hers is Avon Speak-Out Against Domestic Violence. After what she went through in her marriage back in 2007, Ruffa is now not just being admired for her acting and beauty, but also for her inner strength. Many now look up to her as an empowered woman.
“I have been an ambassador of Avon Speak-Out Against Domestic Violence since 2009,” says Ruffa in a presscon held recently at the East Avenue Medical Center. “It was also in 2009 when I celebrated my birthday here for the first time. After four years, I’m here again… I cry when I hear your stories and (when I’m) just being surrounded by beautiful and strong women. It’s good to hear and think that you are not victims but survivors.”
Ruffa encourages victims of domestic violence not to go back to their lives but to set out on a new journey, though the first step is tough.
“I’ve been through a lot with my life,” she recalls. “I think I have survived the worst in my life and I know that God will give me a second chance to be happy. It’s been two years that I don’t have a boyfriend. It’s by choice. Kung ako’y iiyak lang sa piling ng isang lalaki, I would rather be happy alone because I know I can survive.”
Daughters Lorin and Venice are Ruffa’s source of joy. They are the reasons why “I really work hard to save money (and) to put them in the best schools.”
These days, Ruffa is also in the mood for learning. She was accepted at King’s College Summer School. Four days after her birthday (June 24), Ruffa will leave for London.
“I’ll be staying (there) for a month,” says Ruffa. “I’m taking up (a short course on) international political economy.” She is also eyeing to study the art of leadership. King’s College Summer School is under University of London.
The beauty queen-actress is excited about the idea of attending classes and listening to lectures along with other students, instead of going to private lessons. In London, Ruffa will be just an ordinary student acing her way to complete academic requirements.
“You know when I was 19, I received a letter from Schiller International University and I was already accepted to study international relations then,” she shares. “It wasn’t pushed through because my movies were back to back. So, I decided to forego my education and concentrate on my career. Opportunity only knocks once.
I was doing five movies then.” After finishing the course, Ruffa will be back in Manila and begin shooting for a movie which will be released by Star Cinema in August.
“I’ll be able to use (the course) in my everyday life,” says Ruffa. She clarifies that it is not in preparation for a political career; she congratulates our public servants because their job is not a walk in the park. But Ruffa sees herself working as ambassador in the future.
Ruffa will definitely agree that education can empower anybody. That’s why women who participated in the Avon-Women Crisis Center event received scholarships to study either commercial cooking or basic computer skills to expand their economic opportunities. This is a way of making them financially independent. But before abused women enjoy that independence, they need first a shoulder to cry on.
“Kung ilalagay mo lang sa puso mo ang problema mo, you will explode one day,” shares Ruffa. “Baka di mo makayanan. It’s very important to speak to a friend, to a colleague, to a group like the Women’s Crisis Center to share what you’re going through. At least they can help you rectify the situation, and even if they can’t help, there’s someone who can listen to you and to provide you support.”
Ruffa also thinks that one should never lose hope and try to improve oneself. Abused women have to use “the pain to be better individuals.”
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Submitted by Nir on Mon, 07/30/2012 - 20:56
I get to check off a few big ones with tonight's build. The user info feature is something I know has been sorely missing in SoulseekQt since the very beginning. I've never been particularly happy with the way it turned out in the original Soulseek client, but I wasn't sure how I'd prefer it. The way it ended up this time around feels like an improvement. The user picture and textual description are shown contiguously on one page using an HTML control. Extra information like upload slots and upload availability are shown in small fields on top.
Submitted by Nir on Wed, 07/18/2012 - 20:21
This one fixes a non-response of the SoulseekQt client to a somewhat less common type of upload request coming from the original client. It's not a huge deal on the individual user level, but I've been wanting to do a little more advertising of SoulseekQt, and I figured I'd get this out of the way before I start. Other changes include:
Submitted by Nir on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 23:10
It's been a rough few days, trying to figure out how not to undo all of the work I did standardizing Unicode as the client's de facto method of handling strings. I literally went through three separate conversions. The first to ensure that the data system could easily handle switching to any new method of storing basic values, seeing as I had changed it once, then back when it turned out Qt's Unicode QStrings couldn't handle extended ASCII characters as gracefully as I needed them to.
Submitted by Nir on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 23:13
Update: It appears the across-the-board conversion to Unicode is making the new build unable to download files with extended ASCII characters in their name (shared by users of the original Soulseek client.) I've pulled the download links and auto update notification until I can figure out a solution.
Submitted by Nir on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 03:51
Though most of you would probably find the update notification to be the most useful new feature of tonight's build, most of the work went toward implementing user-initiated uploads, seeing as those had to be made to work in both directions if the feature were to be considered complete. To attempt to send a file to a user, right-click their name and select 'Upload to user'. A share browse window will open showing your own files, or at least what subset of them should be available to the particular user based on your shared folder privacy settings.
Submitted by Nir on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 00:23
One of the most oft requested features over the years, and one I've always resisted strongly is that of automatically banning users who aren't visibly sharing anything from one's download queue. I have no desire to repeat the many fine points that have been raised time and time again on either side of the argument in a multitude of discussions here and on our original forum. Suffice it to say that I understand that Soulseek relies on openness, on the willingness of its users to share the things that they love with those around them.
Submitted by Nir on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 01:33
Whew, that took a lot longer than I expected. To wit!
Submitted by Nir on Tue, 03/20/2012 - 14:36
As I've had to port SoulseekQt to 64-bit Mac, I do intend to start offering 64-bit versions of the SoulseekQt client for Linux eventually. Until then, user frd was kind enough to post instructions for getting 32-bit SoulseekQt running on 64-bit Linux. You can read them here.
Update: User Dewb wrote an Ubuntu specific guide that also shows you how to integrate SoulseekQt with the Ubuntu shell.
Submitted by Nir on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 00:32
I usually wait longer before releasing a new version, but I've been working on a user notes feature, and am quite pleased with how it turned out. So I figured, why the hell not. This is the equivalent of the user notes feature in the original Soulseek client, but with a better integrated, more prominent user interface that makes it less of a secret feature. To add or edit a user's note, use the corresponding context menu option. The attached note will appear next to their entry in your user list and any other list you put them in, meaning the unshared or ignored lists.
Submitted by Nir on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 00:33
Tonight's build of SoulseekQt for Mac is the first public version of SoulseekQt that's built as a 64-bit executable. Up until recently, I've been using a version of OSX tweaked for use with an AMD processor inside of a virtual machine. The difficulties this created were many. It was not stable, it was very slow, but worst of all it did not support 64-bit programs, and consequently could not run the newest version of Qt Creator. Instead, I had to settle for an older 32-bit version that linked against older versions of the Qt library and could never be updated. | <urn:uuid:06d9856a-1709-4208-9491-1e7058f3a14a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.soulseekqt.net/news/taxonomy/term/1 | 2016-10-23T20:19:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719416.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00522-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963932 | 1,106 |
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Sport facilities of Potchefstroom
Potchefstroom is known as the North-West Province’s “Home of Sport”. The provincial headquarters of 17 of the most important sports are situated in the city. The City Council places a high priority on the establishment, maintenance and upgrading of the sport facilities under its control, especially to meet the variety of sporting and recreational needs of its youthful community. The Mooi River trails as well as other trails add extra colour and variety to these facilities available to resident and tourist alike.
Potchefstroom has played host to two world cup winning teams, cricket and football respectively, and has thus become the home away from home to many international athletes and teams. Potchefstroom is the only place in the world with a perfect balance between altitude training and quality training at 1400m. The fact that Potch (shortened name) has no large scale factories it has very clean air. The city also boasts with one of the lowest crime rates in South Africa. All of this is perfect for international athletes. Athletes and professional sports teams train at the HPI (High Performance Institute of Sport) of the North West University
Cricket is a very popular sport with Senwes Park being the Home of Cricket for the Highveld Lions. Potchefstroom hosted matches during the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup between Australia and the Netherlands, Australia and Namibia, and also between South Africa and Kenya. Potchefstroom were also co-hosts for the 2009 Cricket World Cup Qualifier. The Proteas chooses Potchefstroom on a regular basis as their destination for off season training camps. And, from time to time Potchefstroom will also play host to the Australians during off season cricket camps. During the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup, Australia’s cricket team chose Potchefstroom as their home base. They also went on to win the World Cup.
Rugby is arguably the most popular sport in Potchefstroom. Olën Park is the main rugby stadium and is mostly used for Rugby Union matches by the Leopards Rugby Union in the first division of the Currie Cup, as well as the Vodacom Cup.
The stadium is also used for football matches and has hosted a few matches for the South Africa under-23 football team. Jomo Cosmos, a PSL team, recently relegated to NFD also uses the stadium to host some of their matches.
Profert Olën Park was named after Carl Ludwig Theodor Olën who was the President of the Western Transvaal Rugby Union during the period 1922 to 1934. In recent times a local fertilizer company situated in Potchefstroom, Profert has been contributing not only financially but also with their products and expertise, towards the upkeep of the playing field and as thus obtained the naming rights of the stadium.
There is also the Fanie du Toit Sports Grounds located on the North West University. The main rugby field on the sports grounds have also seen a few games of the Leopards. It also plays host to the PUK’s (NWU) Varsity Cup matches which always sees a full house of locals and students supporting the Pukke (NWU) rugby team.
Kenneth McArthur Stadium is the local athletics stadium. The stadium, which received its fourth ‘make-over’ in 2014, was erected in 1892 and the oval was named after Kenneth McArthur, the Potchefstroom policeman who was awarded a gold medal for winning the marathon at the 1912 Olympic Games.
Potchefstroom has produced numerous other famous sports people as well. Some include: Godfrey Khotso Mokoena, silver medal winner in long jump at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Hezekiél Sepeng, Jorrie Muller, Justine Robbeson and Ryan Diedericks.
The visit of the Spanish team “La Roja” during the FIFA 2010 World Cup introduced a new level of sporting exposure to Potchefstroom and the NWU. The Spanish national football team, who went on to win their first ever FIFA World cup title, chose Potchefstroom to be their base camp for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. To prepare for the team a new sporting complex was built at the North West University and the local airport was extended to host large passenger planes to land.
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Fig & Honey Ricotta Cheesecake
with poached figs and warm caramel sauce
Please note, I use the term lighter, lightly…
This dessert, with its ginger-nut base and warm caramel sauce, is as decadent as my other cheesecakes, but it redeems its lighter quality with some lighter touches….
Ricotta and greek yoghurt replace the heavier cream cheese and double cream alternatives, and an unrefined sweetness is born of raw honey and dried figs.
On the other hand, the warm caramel sauce stands firm in all its deliciously sweet and creamy glory.
If you wanted to enhance the lightness of this dessert, you could use the sauce straight from the poached figs, without the added caramel invoking ingredients.
Fig & Honey Ricotta Cheesecake
Yield: One 8″ cheesecake
250g ginger biscuits
1 orange (zest only)
30g almond meal
Place the biscuits, orange zest and almond meal in a food processor and pulse until you are left with a fine crumb.
If your honey is quite thick, melt it in the microwave for a few seconds so that it is runny, but not hot.
Add the butter and honey to the food processor and pulse again until the mixture comes together.
Line the base of an 8 inch springform cake tin with baking paper and grease the sides with butter. Press the mixture into the base of the tin and up the sides, then refrigerate for at least 20 minutes.
150g dried figs
300g cream cheese
40g (4 Tbsp) plain flour
100g greek strained yoghurt
Preheat oven to 165°C/325° F/Gas Mark 3.
Place the figs, 100g of honey and 150ml of water into a saucepan and bring to boil. Reduce the heat and simmer until the liquid has reduced.
Set aside to cool, then place in a food processor and pulse until you are left with a smooth paste.
In a mixing bowl, beat the cooled fig and honey paste with 100g cream cheese until combined. Beat in the remaining cream cheese, and then the remaining 75g honey.
Add the eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition, then sift in the flour.
Stir in the yoghurt, then add the ricotta and beat until mixture is smooth.
Pour the cheesecake mixture onto the chilled base and bake in your preheated oven for 1 hour, or until the cheesecake is set, but still slightly wobbly in the centre. Turn the oven off, but leave the cheesecake inside to cool for about an hour.
Remove from the oven and refrigerate once the cheesecake is cool enough.
140g greek strained yoghurt
3 fresh figs
Briefly beat together the mascarpone and strained yoghurt just until combined.
Check that your cheesecake is completely cooled, then spread a thin layer of the yoghurt mascarpone topping over the cake and decorate with fresh figs.
Tip: If your yoghurt is not very thick, up the ratio of mascarpone to yoghurt.
14 dried figs
1 zestless orange, juice only (from base recipe)
1 cup of water
Place the figs, honey and orange juice into a saucepan and cover with water – I used one cup.
Bring to a boil, then reduce heat, cover, and simmer for 30 minutes.
Remove figs and set aside, leaving the remaining syrup in the saucepan for the caramel sauce.
Poached fig syrup (above)
130g brown sugar
To the saucepan containing the poached fig syrup, add the butter and brown sugar. Once melted, simmer for a further five minutes, then remove from heat and whisk in the mascarpone until caramel is smooth.
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Interested in learning how a credit builder loan can help improve your credit score if you’ve lost your job or household income? If you are not yet familiar with credit builder loans, you’re not alone. Here’s a brief guide that the finance team at Coast Tradelines put together to help you understand why they’ve become a workable option for building or restoring credit quickly.
A credit builder loan can improve your credit score faster than a secured credit card.
Individuals who need to upgrade their creditworthiness quickly have turned to credit builder loans to improve their scores. When time is of the essence — especially when you need to get back on your feet — you could build a positive payment history much faster with a credit builder loan than by using secured credit cards.
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The first step is determining how much income you could dedicate toward a credit builder loan. Typical loan sizes range between $500 and $1,000 with a payment plan of up to 24 months. For example, a $500 loan with a 12-month term would require a monthly payment of about $44, which includes the principal and interest.
You could also choose the amount of your credit builder loan based on how much you can realistically afford to pay each month. The payment arrangements are based on how many years you want to put toward improving your credit score and your plans for the future. Overall, we don’t think you’ll find more affordable options than what the team at Coast Tradelines can offer.
Your on-time credit builder loan payments are reported to the major credit bureaus.
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The Test results page provides multiple views that allow you to view the test results in different ways. Use the toolbar View selector to select a particular view.
This section describes the Batch summary view .
The Batch summary view displays information about the batch currently selected from the list in the left pane. The charts in this view display information and statistics based on the current status information.
Each chart is color-coded and is accompanied by a legend. In the example below, the Diff status chart shows Accepted and Unresolved segments of the chart using green and yellow respectively.
Sometimes, the legend associated with a chart indicates that there are more possible states than those displayed in the chart. The legend in the Diff Status chart also, refers to Rejected statuses that are color-coded red. However, the chart below does not show information for Rejected Diffs, indicating that the data sample did not contain Diffs that were rejected.
Hovering the mouse pointer over a chart
Hovering the mouse pointer over a chart segment displays extra information about the data or the status of that segment of the chart. In the example below, hovering the mouse pointer over the yellow segment in the Checkpoints chart shows the number of mismatching checkpoints.
The Test results status is a Radial chart that displays the pass rate for all the tests executed as part of the batch. The pass rate represents the ratio of tests that passed compared to the tests that did not pass, expressed as a percentage.
A Radial chart that displays the percentage of Diffs that are currently Accepted, Rejected or Unresolved for the selected batch.
The Baseline status chart gives you an overview of your work progress on the batch. It shows the number of steps changed and saved compared to the total number of steps in the batch. A change refers to you accepting or rejecting a step, or adding a region, remark, or issue to it.
- Saved steps refers to steps that were changed in some way and subsequently saved to the baseline.
- Unsaved changes refers to steps that have beenchanged in some way but have not yet been saved to the baseline.
- Unsaved refers to steps that have not been changed in anyway since the batch ran.
A Radial chart that indicates the total number of tests in the batch and the number of those tests that are Completed, Running or Aborted.
A Radial chart that indicates the number of tests that ran in parallel in the batch out of the maximum number of tests that are allowed to run in parallel for the account.
- Matching refers to checkpoints for which Eyes did not detect any differences.
- Mismatching refers to checkpoints that Eyes recognized as missing or checkpoints that were identified as having differences.
- New refers to checkpoints for which no corresponding baseline image was found.
A Bar chart that shows the test result status across browsers on which tests were executed as part of the batch.
A Bar chart that shows the test results status in the batch as distributed across emulated devices and desktop browsers.
A Bar chart that shows the test result status across Operating systems on which tests were executed as part of the batch.
A Bar chart that shows the test result status across the Viewport sizes on which tests were executed as part of the batch.
A bar chart that indicates the test result status of tests that were assigned to each team member. Tests that were not assigned to any team member are represented by a bar that is labeled as Unassigned.
A Bar chart that shows two bars, one for Issues and one for Remarks, that indicate the number of Issue and Remark regions applied in steps checked as part of the batch. The Issues and Remarks bars are color-coded to show the number of Issues or Remarks that are New or that were already Existing. New issues and remarks are those which were created in the current batch. Existing issues and remarks are those which were created in a previous batch.
You can reposition charts in the Batch Summary view by dragging and dropping them into new positions. You can also expand the chart size to zoom in on detailed information.
You can rearrange the default position of charts in the Batch summary view. For instance, you can position charts that you refer to frequently at the top of the view.
- Hover the mouse pointer over the symbol in the chart title bar and the mouse pointer changes to a Drag icon.
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You can expand the size of the status information charts in the Batch Summary view. Expanding the chart size opens the chart as a pop-up window that overlays the main view.
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AN advanced £23m Recovery Centre for wounded, injured and sick serving military personnel, veterans and their families in the South West is due to be opened by the Duke of York.
The Naval Service Recovery Centre (NSRC) is the first in the region and is funded by the charity Help for Heroes and run jointly with the Ministry of Defence.
The opening ceremony is on Thursday (April 10) in HM Naval Base, Devonport, and will be attended by guests including partners in industry, charities and by users.
The centre comprises two buildings Parker VC and Endeavour. Parker VC is a specialist accommodation building and was completed in May 2013, whilst Endeavour is a rehabilitation centre which completed in December 2013.
Bryn Parry OBE, Co-Founder and CEO, Help for Heroes, said: “The Naval Service Recovery Centre will play a vital role in providing long-term support for serving and veteran members of the Armed Services who have suffered life-changing injuries and illnesses.
"As a former Serviceman himself, His Royal Highness (The Duke of York) is all too aware of the sacrifices that Servicemen and women make on our behalf. Thanks to everyone who has supported Help for Heroes - from donating £2 for a wristband to joining the Hero Ride or giving professional time and experience – we have been able to build these new facilities which will inspire, enable and support our wounded, and their families for the rest of their lives.’’
Parker VC comprises 60 single cabins, six family cabins, social spaces, a large multi-functional space, conference facility and 24-hour reception support. Parker VC name was chosen in memory of a military man awarded the VC.
Endeavour building consists of three buildings and includes a sprung-floor gymnasium, eight medical consultation rooms, a Support Hub for veterans, a multi-functional space containing Café Hero, a hydrotherapy area, changing rooms and a 25 metre, six-lane competition pool. Work began on the project in August 2011 and now complete, Endeavour caters for those living with life-changing injuries, offering them vital support for life.
Endeavour was named because it defines the nature of the effort put into recovery activities. The Royal Navy has a sophisticated and well established process to command, manage and care for wounded, injured and sick personnel and those requiring long term support for medical, welfare, maternity or disciplinary reasons.
The ‘recovery pathway’ is designed to support an individual’s return to effective service employment or to have access to the key services and resources needed to make a smooth transition into civilian life if they are unable to continue to serve in the Armed Forces.
The Recovery Cell in HMS Drake, in the naval base, manages personnel with a realistic and timely expectation of regaining full fitness, but who are unable to be supported by their current unit. The new NSRC offers excellent services allowing personnel in the Recovery Cell to make this transition more effectively.
Hasler Company is a military unit in the naval base, part of the Naval Service Recovery Pathway.
Hasler primarily seeks to care for the most complex, seriously injured and long-term ill Naval Service personnel.
Its aim is to optimise recovery to enable its assigned personnel to achieve their maximum recovery potential so that their continued service can be effectively assessed.
Officer Commanding Hasler Company Major Scotty Mills Royal Marines, said: “The opening of the Endeavour Naval Service Recovery Centre represents a significant opportunity for my 91 complex, seriously injured and long-term ill Hasler Company patients.
“Since its inception five years ago, Hasler Company, a key part of the Naval Service Recovery Pathway, has been well supported both nationally and regionally and this state-of-the-art facility really demonstrates how determined we all are to ensure that we continue to support our wounded, injured and sick.’’
Major Mills said the new centre supported the multi-faceted recovery activity that Hasler Company delivers in conjunction with H4H and other charitable organisations: “It is now up to us to ensure that these facilities are utilised to their full potential and that our wounded sick and injured, both serving and veterans, get to benefit from both the services and capabilities that it offers. We are most grateful to Help for Heroes and those who donate to them for this outstanding centre of excellence.’’
The NSRC provides support for individuals with life-changing injuries or illnesses – and their families – for life. The NSRC forms part of the wider Defence Recovery Capability, a Ministry of Defence initiative, in partnership with Help for Heroes and The Royal British Legion.
With guidance from military and civilian specialists, residents develop their own individual recovery plan through activities, including educational programmes, work placements and sport.
All are designed to help them achieve their long-term goals and aspirations by improving personal independence, raising morale and enjoying the camaraderie of fellow Servicemen and veterans to help rebuild their lives.
Sergeant Lee Riley, who will attend the opening, said: ”Since being injured on Operation Herrick 14 in 2011, I have been supported by service charities such as Help For Heroes, Royal Navy Royal Marine Charity, Royal Marines Charitable Trust Fund.
"Throughout my recovery, the Endeavour Centre here in HMS Drake is a fantastic facility and I will continue to use it even as a veteran as I will be leaving the service this summer. Help For Heroes have made a massive contribution in support of the royal Navy and its new Recovery Centre and its users are very grateful.”
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We know that everyone who watches this series misses Nathan. It’s true, Robert Sheehan was the standout star of this show, really bringing down the house with his no holds barred comedy and wise cracking. Hell, I miss him more than anything. So much so, that I didn’t watch the third series until now. My grieving was great, but it was time to figure out who gets what new powers in this series.
Amazingly enough, this series doesn’t ease old viewers in with the typical start you’d think of the old characters reuniting. This series hits you off kilter at first with Joseph Gilgun who plays Rudy, the psychologically ripped apart sociopath with two personalities. So what do you think his power is? Who would’ve guessed?
Now, Joseph Gilgun is kinda meant to replace Nathan. His character Rudy is, for lack of a better word, rude, and insensitive. He never
apologizes and is always looking for the next shag. Often confused and slow, this hides his sensitive side that never wants to be hurt. He is a good replacement. I have to say it. I enjoyed Gilgun just as much as I enjoyed Sheehan’s wisecracking. They’re both sexually ignorant and rude, and they both have this immaculate sense of timing. I was impressed, so give him a chance, you lot of Nathan lovers out there.
From there we hit the ground running. Everyone has their new powers all lined up in a row, Alisha can do this, and Curtis can do that, and Simon has his own thing going on. Kelly, well, she’s just Kelly. (And she has become a Hell of a lot funnier.) Out of community service, it just so happens that Rudy stumbles upon them, befriends them, and steals a car, getting them all back into community service as accessories to the crime.
From here, the show features 8 episodes, most focusing around Simon’s destiny with the past and Alisha. Some focus around Rudy and his new spice he brings to the group, and, in a surprise twist, some focuses around Seth (Matthew McNulty) the drug dealer turned power swapper. There’s some juicy gossip there I can’t get into, but you’ll see soon enough. I also have to mention this before I forget, but, if while watching this show, you feel Rudy talks and acts like a comic version of Christian Bale (skinny of course, and lanky…) then let me know via comment.
As with every season of Misfits, I am more and more impressed with the show. It has such great characters that you grow with and hope for the best for. The comedy is spot on and there’s even more geeky references to movies and pop culture in this season! The sex is toned down and the relationships between the characters have improved. Nobody hates each other as much as they used to, and you can see the friendships growing. There’s not even that much gripe about Rudy joining the group. The ending is bittersweet and I have no idea what they’re gonna do next season.
Here’s why. Kelly (Lauren Socha) is leaving for personal reasons. Her character wasn’t properly sent off or anything so I have no idea what’s happening there. Simon (Iwan Rheon) and Alisha (Antonia Thomas) were properly sent off, and each of them made the appropriately professional and separate choice to leave the show. They had a great run and this is what you come to expect from British T.V. Curtis (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) is staying on, which I found a surprise. This leave Rudy (Gilgun) and Curtis on the show currently. They are only seeking out another female, and two male roles. Looks like the makings of a sausage fest.
They have made strides in who they have picked for the new series though. It has been confirmed that three new
characters named Jess, Finn and Alex. Jess will be played by Karla Crome will play Jess. From the pictures I’ve just looked up on Google (she hasn’t done anything I’ve seen) she should be a good, darker character addition to the show (and I don’t mean skin color, the pics online show her to be a femme fatale). Finn was confirmed as Nathan McMullen, the goofy and nice kid. They have one pic of this kid online over and over, and he looks like a sweet, curly headed kid. Guess he fits the part. These kids are so young these days…
So I hope everyone is ready for a hell of a good time with Series 3, and looking forward to Series 4. I know I am, and I’m gonna give Series 3 a good rating that it deserves. Not the same as Series 1 or 2, but something different and good all the same. 9 out of 10. | <urn:uuid:7b633389-e037-4e42-a6b8-48827b968725> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://reviewsfromtheabyss.wordpress.com/tag/geeky-references/ | 2022-12-03T22:18:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710941.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20221203212026-20221204002026-00533.warc.gz | en | 0.972825 | 1,053 |
Mechanics Bank Reports 3rd Straight Quarter of Profit Gains
Bank continues aggressive provisions for loan loss reserves
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RICHMOND, CA, November 4, 2010 -- Mechanics Bank earnings improved for the 3rd straight quarter of 2010, but remained significantly below 2009 profits for the comparable periods. The bank’s $2.55 million of net income in the 3rd Quarter 2010 was $376,000 (17%) higher than 2nd Quarter 2010 earnings, but $1.3 million below the 3rd Quarter 2009 earnings. Net income for the first nine months of 2010 totaled $6.7 million, a drop of $5.7 million from earnings in the comparable period of 2009.
The bank’s 3rd Quarter 2010 expense for loan losses was $9 million, bringing the total loan loss provisions taken in 2010 to $30 million. As of September 30, 2010 the allowance for loan losses totaled $35.6 million, or 1.98% of gross loans, an increase of $10.1 million compared to September 30, 2009.
“Every dollar—and then some—of decreased profits from 2009 levels can be explained by our increased provisions for loan losses in 2010,” said Steve Buster, Mechanics Bank CEO. “For the first nine months of 2010 we added $12.5 million more to loan loss provisions than during the comparable period in 2009. We also have continued our historically aggressive approach to charge-offs. 2010 has been a year to focus on bolstering our balance sheet against future portfolio risk. We are entering the economic recovery as a much stronger bank.”
The balance sheet held $2.89 billion total assets at September 30, 2010, which was $65 million or 2.32% more assets than year ago levels. This was due primarily to increased customer deposits and investments. Total deposits at September 30, 2010 were $2.40 billion, $104 million or 4.54% more than reported a year earlier. The bank maintained strong liquidity (cash, federal funds and investment securities) of $982 million at September 30, 2010, equal to 34% of total assets. Total loans declined to a level of $1.8 billion at September 30, 2010, $54 million or 2.91% below the level of a year ago.
“We are ready and eager for opportunities to lend—the weakness is on the demand side, not the supply side, where loans are concerned,” said Buster. “However, our strong liquidity and capital positions us advantageously for possible acquisitions. The opportunities in the next two years should be prime to acquire smaller community banks faced with increased compliance costs and lingering loan exposures.”
Mechanics Bank remains among the best capitalized banks in California with total risk-based capital of 15.61%. The regulatory standard for “well capitalized” is 10%. The bank’s simple equity ratio was 10.29% of total assets on Sept. 30th, 2010, and its Tier 1 Leverage Capital Ratio was 9.92%.
“Mechanics Bank’s shareholders have encouraged us to take appropriate measures to prevent future, unanticipated losses,” said Buster. “By building up loan loss reserves to almost 2% of total loans—and with significant collateral securing most of our non-performing loans—we are confident that we can safely put our recessionary loan losses behind us. While we are not forecasting a double dip in the economy, we are prepared for a slow-growth recovery.”
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About Mechanics Bank
For more than a century, Mechanics Bank has been committed to helping people build prosperous communities as a trusted financial partner, forging lasting relationships through teamwork, respect and integrity. The $2.9 billion independent bank, headquartered in Richmond, California, offers personal banking, business banking, trust, brokerage and wealth management services through 33 offices across Northern California.
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The Amazon logo is displayed on the smartphone and PC screen.
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Social media giants Meta as well as Click inform investors that the online advertising market is experiencing some turbulence due to the economic downturn. Amazon sends a completely different message.
While the bulk of its business is in e-commerce and cloud computing, Amazon has created reliable online advertising department forcing brands to pay big bucks to promote their products on the company’s website and app.
in second quarter, Amazon grew faster than any of its larger competitors in the market and also outperformed the rest of the major players. Amazon’s advertising revenue rose 18% year-over-year to $8.76 billion, beating analysts’ expectations and highlighting the division’s meteoric growth and growing importance to brands.
Against, Facebook advertising business shrink, shrink For the first time in history, there are no analyst estimates, and the company is forecasting a second consecutive decline in revenue in the current period.
Here are the growth rates in descending order for the leading online advertising platforms.
- Amazon – 18%
- Click – 13%
- Google – 12%
- Pinterest – 9%
- Twitter – 2%
- Facebook – (1.5%)
It’s not just social media companies that are criticizing the challenging advertising environment. streaming service Roku reported a disappointing second quarter results and said in a letter to shareholders that the current advertising market is reminiscent of the beginning pandemic Covid-19“when marketers prepared for macroeconomic uncertainty by rapidly cutting ad spend across all platforms.”
Meanwhile, Amazon reassured Wall Street by forecasting third-quarter revenue growth from 13% to 17%. This will be a boon for the advertising department because “the advertising business is going the same way as the commercial business,” said Andrew Lipsman, an analyst at Insider Intelligence.
“I think in the long run Amazon will create absolute advertising power,” Lipsman said. “This engine will change advertising.”
Amazon has a clear advantage over several social media platforms that have been struggling lately. In 2021 Apple iOS privacy changes have made it harder for advertising sites to track users. huge impact on Facebook and Snap. Amazon, by contrast, is a separate silo where advertisers are directly involved in creating campaigns.
Lipsman said companies worried about a potential recession are allocating more of their ad budgets to places like Amazon, where they’re more likely to get a return on their investment.
“Ad dollars are running to safety right now, and that safety is when you can show a measurable return on ad spend,” Lipsman said.
The prospect of advertising leading to direct sales is driving many pinterest current strategy. The company is investing heavily in e-commerce and recently named former Google head of commerce Bill Ready as its new CEO, replacing co-founder Ben Silbermann.
Justin Patterson, analyst at KeyBanc Capital Markets, said there are indications that Pinterest has seen some success in e-commerce and that its “algorithms to help people find contacts or find items on Pinterest to shop also continue to improve.”
Pinterest’s revenue fell slightly short of analyst estimates, and the company also posted a disappointing mid-single digit growth forecast. But stocks up 12% after activist investor Elliott Management revealed he was the company’s largest shareholder and said, “Pinterest is in a unique position in the advertising and commerce ecosystem.”
For all the doom and gloom surrounding the broader online advertising market, Keith Scott-Dawkins, global director of business intelligence at media investment firm GroupM, sees plenty of reason to be optimistic. Facebook parent company Meta is still making a lot of money, she said, and while social media platforms aren’t experiencing the same explosive growth they did during the pandemic, they’re still attracting the attention of top advertisers.
Brand awareness is important for companies in the consumer goods industry and beyond, regardless of the current economic climate, Scott-Dawkins says.
“We’ve heard from consumer product brands in the past about the importance they place on advertising and brand advertising in times of recession, simply in terms of consumers choosing their brand over a generic brand,” she said.
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Chris Christie lays out a national vision
Gov. Chris Christie today delivered a broadside against the broken politics of Washington and the need for straight talk to solve the country's problems in a speech that will stoke talk of a 2012 presidential bid by the New Jersey Republican.
"I look at what's happening in Washington right now and I am worried," said Christie in an address at the American Enterprise Institute. "What game is being played down here is irresponsible and it's dangerous."
Asked whether he would consider running for president in 2012, Christie acknowledged that he "see[s] the opportunity" but quickly added: "That's not a reason to be president of the United States."
And yet, Christie's speech, which spanned roughly 45 minutes, had all the traditional markers of someone eyeing national office.
"Leadership today in America has to be about doing the big things and being courageous," said Christie. At another point, Christie argued that "we have to bring a new approach and a new discipline to this."
Christie repeatedly drew on his experiences in New Jersey -- tightening the state's budget, facing down public-sector unions -- to draw a harsh contrast with the kick-the-can-down-the-road-ism that he believes has infected politics in Washington.
Dismissing the "old playbook" of putting off hard choices until after the next -- and then the next -- election, Christie noted that after the 2012 election Medicare will be less than five years away from insolvency. "My childrens' future is more important than some political strategy," said Christie. "We need to say these things and we need to say them out loud."
Christie insisted that "restoring and maintaining fiscal sanity", reforming health and pension benefits and "reforming an education system that costs too much and produces too little" should be the sole focus of the country's leaders.
That trio of issues are "not partisan...they are obvious," said Christie, noting that Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) and he have taken very similar approaches to solving what have long been considered intractable problems. (Christie repeatedly referenced Cuomo in the speech, at one point referring to himself and the New York governor as "soulmates".)
Christie's speech was couched in the sort of populist, average Joe tone that has rapidly become his trademark.
Recounting threats from Democratic state legislators that they would shut down the state government rather than pass his budget, Christie said he told the pols that he had no plans to sleep in his office -- as his predecessor in the job had done --but would rather head to the governor's mansion, "open a beer, order a pizza and watch the Mets".
Christie later said that when he went to speak to a group of union workers who were angry with him, he crumpled up his notes, threw them on the ground and told the crowd that he was the only politician willing to tell them the truth.
And, he added to that straight-talking reputation by offering a critique of his own party -- most notably on the idea of American exceptionalism, a principle that former Govs. Mitt Romney (Mass.) and Tim Pawlenty (Minn.) have embraced whole-heartedly as they prepare to run for president in 2012.
"American exceptionalism has to include the courage to do the right thing," said Christie.
The speech, which Politico's Mike Allen billed as a "D.C. rollout" for the New Jersey governor, is sure to stir speculation -- despite Christie's protestations to the contrary -- that a national bid is on the horizon for him.
As we have argued in this space before, there is a slot for an tea party economic conservative in the field. Christie is the most obvious person in the party who could step in and fill that spot.
We take him at his word that he doesn't believe he is ready to be president just yet. But, speeches like the one he gave today at AEI will do little to diminish the demand for his voice to be heard at the national level.
Politics -- as President Obama proved in 2008 -- is about seeing opportunity and taking it. Christie, as he himself acknowledged today, has an opportunity. Will he grasp it?
| February 16, 2011; 2:42 PM ET
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Let’s follow the bouncing ball here:
1. The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) released the top 10 office trends of 2014 recently; admittedly it reads a little bit like a press release from someone in their 50s who’s nervous about the future, but there are interesting components. Unsurprisingly, “big data” is the No. 1 trend for 2014 (and presumably beyond).
3. The base assumption is that there isn’t “good talent” out there who can work well with data — track it, analyze it, and then present it in a brief and contextual fashion.
4. If the talent isn’t there, is the problem the schools? Some schools, like GW in DC, seem to understand that developing business analytics people would be a good thing:
“You have to acknowledge that the kinds of data that we’re dealing with, the sources they’re coming from, the volume of it … these are all clearly things that we haven’t seen before or we haven’t had access to,” said Srinivas Y. Prasad, an associate professor of decision sciences and faculty director of the business analytics degree at GWU.
And look here: IBM is now on board.
Jim Spohrer, director of IBM’s Global University Programs, said about 40 percent of the institutions that participate in its big data program are business schools. Another 40 percent are engineering schools, with the balance comprised of other academic fields, such as social science or health.
“It’s not like we could solve the problem if we had more computer scientists in data analytics,” Spohrer said. “The fact of the matter is we need marketing people who know big data analytics. We need health care people who know big data analytics.”
5. This is actually a fairly big deal, contextually. Check out this June 2011 report from McKinsey:
There will be a shortage of talent necessary for organizations to take advantage of big data. By 2018, the United States alone could face a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with deep analytical skills as well as 1.5 million managers and analysts with the know-how to use the analysis of big data to make effective decisions.
6. Alright, so … now we get into tricky waters. There is a base stereotype that Asians and Indians are better at math/data science than your good ol’ fashioned American. I’m not sure that’s conclusively true — although it can often seem true — and right now, about 40 percent of the Fortune 500 (and as high as 70 percent of Silicon Valley) are companies founded by immigrants. I’m not saying every successful company was founded by an Asian who understands “big data” — far from it — but this is a trend line to watch for the next 10 years. Companies want big data analysts, and those may be coming from … the Far East. That could shift the immigration discussion, or cause more companies to relocate major offices abroad, or … any number of things could happen, but it’s interesting to consider.
7. There are ideas around teaching big data in high school. I’m a big fan of this. I went to a top-three private high school (I mean top three nationally, as in, that’s where it’s often ranked) and despite being in HS from 1995 to 1999, when I’m pretty sure Excel was in full use, I never once touched Excel in high school. That seems like a bit of a failure, even though overall it’s a really strong high school. Excel is the most basic way most people understand “data” — rows and cells — and what we’re talking about above isn’t even that (it’s bigger than that), but shouldn’t even fifth graders be learning how to observe, record, analyze and report back on data and findings? If we really believe the knowledge economy is replacing the former behemoth that is the industrial economy, then the most important skill we can provide (outside of respect, broader lessons) is the ability to capture, synthesize, and engage others in data, right? I mean, that seems logical — but I could be misguided.
I’ve been in a ton of MBA classes over the past two years — top-25 program too — and I’ve only had one, or maybe 1.5, focused on data analysis and reporting. I had an entire strategy class where we did SWOTs for three hours. SWOTs. I don’t feel like the business world of 2020 will be interested in a SWOT so much as a three-minute PowerPoint saying “Our 51 million customers are here, here and here and like this, this, and this, so going forward we should do A, B, and C.” Sometimes I think the biggest problem with the job side of everything is that businesses change rapidly (because they must), whereas the premier universities that ultimately feed the businesses can be equivalent to dinosaurs (because they’re allowed that privilege). Big data should be a focus all the way down to second grade science experiments. Let’s do this thing, America. | <urn:uuid:4361c2b5-50f0-42b8-9e33-a6b5b742e2ba> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://thecontextofthings.com/2014/02/13/big-data-is-the-future-but-no-one-seems-to-understand-it-and-were-not-teaching-it-enough-can-this-end-well/ | 2016-07-02T05:33:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00018-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955394 | 1,110 |
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