A few weeks ago, I realized I wasn't happy with my relationship with technology. I wanted to be more present with my children, but found myself distracted by the chimes and buzzes of my smartphone more often than not.
My oldest daughter starts her first year of school in the late summer and I am expecting to deliver our third child a few weeks after that. I knew how busy our lives would be in a few short months, and if I didn't pay attention the season would slip through my fingers.
Instead of enjoying my summer, I was spending too much time watching other people live their lives through the screen of my phone. My smartphone was also tethering me to my work at all times. Technology should be a useful tool to my career, but overuse was playing a role in stunting my creativity. It was too easy to become consumed with work when a client could reach me at any moment. I was jumping up to answer every vibration of my phone, hoping to nail another contract or hear back from a potential client, no matter what special moment I might have been engaging in prior.
So, I took the leap—I swore to limit face-to-screen time for the summer. I deleted several apps from my phone and changed my settings to be less intrusive. And at first, it worked. I spent the first day of my break cleaning my house and playing with my children, my phone sitting idly in the corner. The second day, I spent working, and enjoyed walking through the city, observing the people around me, while my phone was on silent in the bottom of my purse.
I couldn't believe how much I struggled to keep myself occupied without technology at my side.
I'd hoped the third day would present me with a new lease on life, that I would officially be free from the ball and chain of endless notifications and vibrations. That wasn't the case. By lunchtime I was bored silly, by the end of the day I was re-downloading a few apps and swearing to only check them once or twice, and by the end of the week, I was back to my old habits. I was using social media less, but still felt I was using it more than was healthy. I was checking my emails while playing with my kids, I was scrolling through Facebook while cooking dinner and distracted by Instagram while working. I couldn't believe how much I struggled to keep myself occupied without technology at my side.
Shortly after I realized I was using my smartphone to avoid boredom, I spoke with Nancy Colier, psychotherapist and author of the forthcoming book, "The Power of Off: The Mindful Way to Stay Sane in a Virtual World". I asked her what a tech addiction looks like, and she said it mimics any other addiction. Basically, a person who knows they are overusing tech, recognizes the negative effects this habit has on their life, but does not cut back.
On the other hand, a debate exists concerning whether or not addiction to technology is even possible.
While disagreement exists on whether or not overuse of technology can be qualified as an addiction, both Prause and Colier offered advice for cutting back when technology gets in the way of living the life you envision for yourself.
Colier recommends a more mindful approach: pay attention to your tech cravings and observe how you feel when you indulge or deny those cravings. Then, pay close attention to how it feels to be bored or just sit in each moment without the entertainment of technology.
After our conversation, I felt more empowered to take control of my own technology use. I let go of unrealistic expectations of disconnecting entirely and, instead, have started with the small steps Prause and Colier suggested. Now, I ask my husband to pipe up when he notices I'm lost in my phone, and I make an effort to be mindful of how I feel when I am too connected and how it feels to simply sit with my family without getting online.
The impulse to reach for my phone is always there, but after experiencing some success in cutting back on my time online, I feel confident I can control my use of technology instead of technology controlling my days. Spending less time looking at my phone's screen has brought more happiness into my life. And since less of my day is spent distracted by work or social media, I have more freedom to spend my time connecting with my children face-to-face, no screens included.


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Facing cancer: the biggest challenge of all
Posted by hacketteonthehow on March 1, 2017 August 7, 2017
I passed one of those markers in time in January, this year. My brother too. One of those times when you look again at the faded monochrome photos you've had framed and propped by your desk, or stuffed into musty old albums, dog-eared edges straying from their black photo mounts. And I mean really look, desperately trying to see them now, animated and smiling. Alive. In colour.
There's one of me, perched on a chest of drawers. My very early twenty-something mum, face still unlined and freckled (the best looking mum at the school gate), leans into me, smiling at the camera. My dad too, handsome and tall, hair slicked with Brylcreem. And for some inexplicable reason, I am holding a bottle of Gordon's gin.
Forty years. Forty long years since we lost him to bowel cancer, at just 53. And it made me think. He wasn't even told he was terminally ill. Doctors and nurses spoke in hushed tones behind his back. The entire family colluded in not telling him the truth, 'because it would kill him'. Ironic, eh?
Nobody knows, until it hits them, how they might react on receiving any life-changing diagnosis. And all too often, Life, the Universe, God – who or whatever it is pulling those punches – delivers the knock out blow too soon. But at least – I think, most of the time – you get a chance these days. The chance to make peace with yourself, your family and friends, even those you've fought against. The chance to say goodbye. At least you get the chance to fight. The chance to live.
My dad never got that chance.
'Every four minutes,' says Cancer Research, 'someone in the UK dies from cancer'. Overall the numbers have gone up but the 'big four' – breast, bowel, lung and prostate cancer – have become less deadly, relatively speaking. Now, according to one friend's GP, the incidence of rare cancers – such as the one which her husband fought so valiantly for the very few short weeks between diagnosis and death – is increasing.
Sometimes you just can't dodge that killer punch, even when you know it's coming. And everyone (everyone I've known, at least) fights – however deep their faith that this life isn't all we have, however sure they are that life goes on behind that veil. They just keep spinning that barrel till it clicks. Often in the face of insurmountable odds. Every one of them an inspiration. Braver and stronger than those around them. Because they have to be.
Take my friend Graeme.
It was 1986 when a young, fresh-faced physiotherapist, new to the St John Street practice of the legendary Freddie Griffiths (Manchester's physio to the stars), stepped chirpily into the treatment room to assess me. Even then, it was clear he took pride in keeping himself fit, looking after himself, confident in the power of self-discipline in the healing process – characteristics which Fate has tested to their extreme.
We became pals, regularly catching up on the ups and downs of our respective lives over the course of him delivering a pummelling for some drawing board or ski-related twinge or other. That said, I think my favourite diagnosis ever was his assertion that I had undoubtedly contracted a dose of 'knitter's neck'. But I digress.
When he set up his own practice, we kept in touch. It was during a catch up there, after a ski tumble trapped my right hand – still inside the glove, still attached to the ski pole – beneath a tangle of my own body weight and my skis. My impatient tug free snapped the ligaments in one of my fingers – now irreparably bent. Yes, ouch!
Anyway, there I was with my swollen finger and Graeme said he had news. I doubt even he realised, just then, what a rollercoaster ride he had climbed aboard.
He remembers well the day he first knew something was wrong: 30 October 2010. A beautiful day. He and his partner Lesley were driving south from Manchester on the M6 for her birthday weekend. He noticed his right eye watering. 'Perhaps a touch of conjunctivitis,' he reasoned. 'Nothing to worry about'. But, without so much as a fanfare, 'the alien' had tip-toed into his life.
By December, his eye was still watering, despite the use of over-the-counter eye drops. His GP prescribed antibiotics. But still, no difference.
Later, about to head off skiing for a week and concerned at his now very sore eyes, he popped into A&E at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. 'Blepharitis', said the doctor. 'It's your age'.
Relieved at such a simple explanation, Graeme thanked the doctor and set about a routine of eye drops and daily cleaning of the margins of his eyelids. But, while the redness subsided, the eye watering didn't.
In January 2011, he returned to A&E, this time sure his tear duct was blocked. 'Blepharitis,' they said, again. But a referral, a month later, for a tear duct examination brought scant relief. 'Probably a blockage and it's cleared now. You're discharged', said the doctor.
Back with another GP, a month later, Graeme's suggestion that the problem might be linked to his sinuses was brushed aside with, 'Try this steroid spray for a month'.
So, given the apparent reluctance to refer him anywhere, he took a different tack. How about health check? You know. Just in case.
'Why? Do you think you've got a problem?' said the doctor. Surely he could take his blood pressure himself? And as for blood tests, she didn't think that relevant.
A month later, his eye still watering and an even greater feeling of pressure, he noticed a slight gap beginning to form on the inside of his eye, where the eyelids meet, as if a cyst was forming. Determined not to be fobbed off a second time, he wrote to the doctor asking for a referral to ENT.
With what, in hindsight, appears a spectacular lack of urgency, it was two months later when Graeme arrived at Withington Hospital for his appointment with Mr Potoula, an ENT consultant. By then, the swelling had developed towards the nose side of his eye and he had a noticeable pain in his right sinus. Eight months since the alien first made its presence known, a CT scan was ordered.
Used to looking at scans of backs and necks, but not skulls, Graeme could clearly see the black egg-shape mass overlapping his right eye socket. Time for an MRI scan.
'By now,' says Graeme, 'the pain was increasing, my eye was visibly pushing out of my head and I had difficulty breathing through my right nostril.' But the tumour, said the doctors, was 'benign'. The relief was palpable. All they had to do was remove it.
By the time that moment came, in August 2012, the pain was really bad. So bad, he says. he would happily have allowed 'a porter with a knitting needle' to 'have a go'.
'The tumour was growing exponentially, filling my right nasal cavity and deflecting the nasal septum dividing left and right sides of the nose. I looked in the mirror. Using a torch I could see the grey mass, part way up my nostril!'
Mr El-Kholi, the surgeon, was Egyptian. Over the years, Graeme and his colleague Cheryl had looked after many of Mr El-Kholi's fellow countrymen during the national squash championships, several British Opens and the World Open. Hopefully, that care would now be reciprocated. And sure enough, on coming round from the anaesthetic, the pain had gone, he could breathe more easily and his eye was almost back to its rightful position.
Back to his physiotherapy practice and back on the squash court, life was good again. But two weeks later, back in clinic, Graeme's world fell apart.
'I'm afraid the tumour's malignant.'
Gauntlet thrown, the alien had snarled.
I can't remember exactly when it was that I walked into Graeme's clinic with my swollen finger (he will no doubt remember precisely), but I do remember driving home that day with a heavy heart. As he says himself, he 'ticked none of the boxes'.
And so it was I joined an ever growing band of friends who he has kept informed along every dip and climb of his six-year rollercoaster ride. More recently this has meant the almost constant pinging of the mobile as he updates us all with progress – peppered with his own, thoroughly well-researched tips on keeping well. It's positively humbling to see the love and regard people have for this man – each and every one there with him, virtually – in spirit, if not physically, 'riding with the alien' – his dogged determination an inspiration to us all.
Nasal nitty gritty
If it's details you're after, the alien in question was a 'sinonasal intestinal-type adenocarcinoma' – cancer of the nasal lining – a cancer so rare, it didn't even have its own classification. Consequently, it was grouped with the one most like it: intestinal.
There were no secondaries but this single tumour had eaten its way into the shelf of bone supporting his brain and the nasal cavity, and fractured his right eye orbit. They would have to remove the eye. And the facial disfigurement would be such that a prosthetic eye was out of the question.
'But my eye's fine,' he said. 'I've got normal vision'. The consultant remained silent. Unconvinced.
How long would he have without the op? 'Maybe four weeks for it to fully enter your brain,' they said. So he went for the op.
The surgeon outlined his plans.
'An incision would be made through both my eyebrows, crossing the bridge of my nose, down the right side of my nose then under my nose, spreading out to both left and right, where the top of a moustache would be. They would go in through my forehead frontal bone to remove the tumour in its entirety.
'A portion of the sheet of bone that divides the upper sinus from the brain, the skull base, would be removed, together with the associated layers of tissue surrounding the brain, the dural lining (meninges). The dura would be replaced with fascial tissue from the outside of my thigh, where there is a nice strip to harvest, and secured in place with a plastic and titanium plate. Any tissue the tumour had come into contact with would need removing, including the specialised lining of the nose, the turbinates (bony fins inside the nose that humidify and filter the air) and the nasal septum that divides the left and right sides.'
Immediately after the op, Graeme's sons Elliot and Sam kept us informed, and the news was good. His eye had been saved. A plastic and titanium plate now supported his right eye, replacing the bony eye orbit – although he still had double vision on the left side. 'So much so,' he jests, 'I didn't know which of the two tea mugs to go for!'
The good news, however, was short-lived. Problems with his eye persisted. First, they removed the plate – achieved by chomping it into small pieces with cutters and removing it via his nostril. But it wasn't enough. Hiding behind the right side of his nose, the alien snarled again and, this time, the operation required drastic reconstruction surgery.
Ambitious though it was, that too failed and, in October 2013, Graeme learned that he would, after all, lose his right eye, some of his cheekbone, the reconstructed area of his nose and some brain tissue. There could be no half measures. It was a stark choice: have the surgery or face leaving Lesley and his boys.
For Graeme – who had continued working, playing squash and training for a cycling challenge throughout all this – there was nothing else for it.
'There could be only one winner,' he says. But when the neurosurgeon reviewed the scans, declaring the site inoperable, it was another body blow. 'This alien was more difficult to eradicate than Japanese Knotweed!'
A couple of weeks later, the doctors reversed their decision. They would operate, remove the tumour and fashion a flap of skin across his right eye, nose and cheek. Imagine a huge flesh-coloured sticking plaster, permanently in place, diagonally across the eye and there you have it.
Riding with the Alien
This is the Graeme we now know, the Graeme who appeared on our news screens and across social media, unashamedly – defiantly – promoting the Facing Challenges Together bike ride he undertook with Elliot and Sam. In July 2014, the intrepid cyclists rode the 1370km trip round the highest peaks of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland – a climb of 4257m – over eleven days. Not bad for a man not long emerged from major surgery.
They called their jaunt 'Facing Challenges Together', in not just a nod to Graeme's own experiences but in celebration of the challenges we all face, in all our lives. And since then, they've inspired other people to use their logo, to go off and face their own challenges, do their own things for charity. Any charity.
Their efforts raised over £10,000 for The Christie, a similar sum for Macmillan and £11,000 for the Dallaglio Foundation.
It would have been wrong – and long-winded – of me to tell the story blow by blow here. Graeme did it so well himself in his own book Riding with the Alien, which is still available from Amazon. It's a harrowing and honest read, packed with the quotidian detail of life with cancer. Indeed, he wrote it to inform fellow sufferers and their families, not for profit.
Left to right: Professor Jarrod Homer, Graeme's main consultant, Elliot Heward, Graeme Heward and Sam Heward, ready for the off at The Christie © Graeme Heward. Main image: Group of doctors in a hospital corridor © Sudok1 (Adobe Stock)
By July 2015, he'd had the attention of more than 30 consultants, 40+ scans and 15 operations totalling 46+ hours and the alien was gone. Life returned to normal. Well, as normal as it could be.
And I wish, I so wish, I could say that was the end of it. In October last year, we learned that the rollercoaster was back in action. The alien had returned, nestling behind Graeme's throat, up close to the base of his skull, close to the major blood vessels supplying his brain. They could neither operate nor irradiate – although this latter news he was grateful for.
'During my earlier treatment, there were periods,' he tells me, 'when I was having radio and chemo together. All I could eat was eggs – boiled or scrambled – and mushroom soup! Anything else, I'd be hopping round the house screaming with the pain in my throat'.
So chemo it was. Three-week cycles of intravenous, then oral, then a week off, during which he played squash and cycled. And, in true Graeme-style, no piece of research, no cookery book, no website remains unturned in the quest to fight this foe.
'I need to exercise, to promote the feel-good chemicals and oxygenate my blood. Exercise also squidges around your lymph. All my cells are getting this toxicity, so it's important to clear them. Then there's ten minutes meditation every morning – something I never thought I'd be doing!'
In fact, he was back playing county squash not long before Christmas. And those days when he sat at The Christie, drip on hand, he was busy texting his band of pals with his own healthy eating tips – his 'alien unfriendly, immune boosting diet'. The bucketloads of Brussels sprouts and organic baked beans caused quite a stir – and the turmeric with everything. But, believe it or not, he allows himself the occasional glass of Cabernet Sauvignon. And he's big on juicing.
Recent discussions have included liver flushing with Epsom salts in water – either side of a glass of olive oil mixed with grapefruit juice and four ornithine tablets (an amino acid which plays a part in the urea cycle) – and the merits of garlic cloves as rectal suppositories (only during a full moon, apparently). And, perhaps less upsetting if you're reading this over breakfast, the joys of looking after Gromit, the family's recently acquired puppy and 'cancer distraction'.
And, through all this – despite all this – he always has time to offer encouragement and support to others.
A glimmer of light
A few weeks ago, his scans showed 'no detectable sign of cancer', a result he celebrated with vegetable soup and a game of squash. But his regime continues. Nobody can tell whether this particular alien still lurks, bruised and battered, in some dark corner, licking its wounds, regrouping for battle. Constant surveillance is needed. But one thing is certain, this particular alien appears to have met its match.
If his next scan, at the end of March, brings good news, and the alien remains cowed, there's a better chance Graeme can proceed with forehead, nose and tear duct reconstruction. I can safely say, a lot of fingers are crossed.
And, still in his early fifties, still with the hope of so many more years ahead of him – he is far from bitter about the path his life has taken. Thinking back to those initial consultations, to the months of eye watering dismissed as merely an unfortunate consequence of advancing middle age, he is remarkably phlegmatic, forgiving. Accepting. Would things be different now had the alien been spotted earlier? No point in dwelling on what might have been, he says.
'Mine was a very unusual and rare tumour. 1 in 100,000. I had symptoms of blepharitis, which may have acted as a red herring. My symptoms had been relatively insignificant – a watering eye. There is nothing to be gained from looking back. I am here now.'
Indeed. Sadly, not everyone gets the chance to fight so long and so hard. Sometimes the battle is just too great. The invading foe too wily. Sometimes too, I guess, you can choose not to fight. But at least, now – most of the time – you do get the chance.
Good luck, my friend. Good luck and long life.
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Now that the keys to the Sunset Lounge were officially turned over to the city's Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), the organization will seek input from the community on how to proceed.
In addition to the Sunset Lounge, the CRA now also owns the apartment building on the east side of the lounge, as well as the entire square block in front of the lounge. That block, which includes several other apartment buildings slated for demolition, will be a public park, said CRA Executive Director Jon Ward. What goes in that park will be up to the neighborhood.
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Nightwing: Lethal Force
Rick Burchett
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Categories: Crime, Superhero
Unlike earlier Nightwing collections featuring Chuck Dixon's work, this is titled after a single issue story, which alone gives a hint as to the mixed continuity within. The final chapter in Shrike was used to set up forthcoming plots, but apart from a brief look inside jail there's barely movement on any of them over the first six episodes here.
That's not a bad thing by definition, but in this case it is because the plots we want to read about are being delayed by intrusions from crossovers that dip below the usual excitement levels expected of Nightwing. Two feature the Joker, but are run of the mill, and in some other collection there's a chapter tying into those where Dick believes he's killed the Joker. Perhaps DC could have included it considering it leads to moping and soul-searching, but only briefly because it's time for the next crossover, this the Bruce Wayne: Murderer story. Dick's relationship with Barbara Gordon is given a passing nod, while her talents as Oracle are what's required for the plot. What keeps this section from being as average as Dixon's produced since his earliest days on Nightwing are the tense crime drama of the title story and the type of Christmas story superhero comics can present so well. It has the necessary festive sentimentality, but shot through with a hefty dose of danger and social realism.
Fill-ins require different artists, and Staz Johnson and Rick Burchett both show up well against the increasingly stylised Trevor McCarthy pages. That's a matter of opinion, of course, and some readers may prefer visual dynamism to traditional storytelling. McCarthy never slips into the anatomical excess seen earlier in the series, except where it's called for by a brute's transformation for what's in effect Nightwing taking on the Hulk, but not many of his pages are attractive. William Rosado, who also fills in, has a handle on the storytelling clarity, but draws anything living as some type of angular geometric exercise rather than with curved lines.
When Dixon can finally address the plans Dexter Soames and Tad hatched for their jailbreak at the end of Shrike, he hasn't got the time to do much with them. However, that's partly his fault because in addition to having to incorporate still more crossover material, he opts to revive another revenge mission and return another old villain. His final pages on the series have a retributive elegance, but it's to conclude a meandering collection that's nowhere near the best of his run.
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Unless you have been locked up or are living on a desert island you will be aware of the Grenfell Tower disaster and its devastating consequences. There is, as a result, a major review of the existing fire regulations and protocols that will affect you and your business.
Prior to Grenfell but in the system virtually unnoticed there are also major changes in sentencing guidelines. This means that for all Health and Safety non-compliances, fines are now levied not on a specific level, but directed at the value or worth of the business. Fundamental changes in UK law now makes owners, tenants, and managers legally and wholly responsible should safety issues arise. This could mean large fines or even a custodial prison sentences for transgressions.
Secondly and following on from Grenfell, the government commissioned an independent review of the Building Regulations & Fire Safety, chaired by Dame Judith Hackitt (formerly head of the HSE). She is due to report fully in the spring/summer of 2018.
THE INTERIM REPORT: DECEMBER 2018
We now know that the interim report produced in December 2017 pulls no punches and states the current fire regulatory regime "is not fit for purpose". The report states that regulations are too complex and so poorly implemented.
The report calls for "simplified and unambiguous" regulations and clearer guidance on fire safety. It suggests as an interim measure the government should consider "presentational changes" to improve the clarity of Approved Document B, which accompanies the Building Regulations.
It further states that "The regulations themselves are pretty simple but what sits below them
is a whole series of guidance documents which stacked on top of one another would be two feet high."
Hence it is cumbersome and as a result inconsistent in application.The report calls for radical change in fire safety culture, as many "experts" look for ever more ways to work around it.
A cultural and behavioural change as seen in the construction industry is now required.
PHASE 2 OF THE REVIEW
It is suggested that "regular" fire risk assessments not review's need to be carried out by qualified parties at least annually or whenever a building is altered.
Similarly, the "Responsible persons" under existing Fire Safety Orders are frequently not identified and there is no doubt that these changes will increase the scrutiny of their role and more strictly enforce what is required of them, their duties and responsibilities.
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// Code generated by client-gen. DO NOT EDIT.

package v1alpha1

import (
	"context"
	"time"

	v1alpha1 "github.com/libopenstorage/stork/pkg/apis/stork/v1alpha1"
	scheme "github.com/libopenstorage/stork/pkg/client/clientset/versioned/scheme"
	v1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
	types "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/types"
	watch "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/watch"
	rest "k8s.io/client-go/rest"
)

// ApplicationBackupsGetter has a method to return a ApplicationBackupInterface.
// A group's client should implement this interface.
type ApplicationBackupsGetter interface {
	ApplicationBackups(namespace string) ApplicationBackupInterface
}

// ApplicationBackupInterface has methods to work with ApplicationBackup resources.
type ApplicationBackupInterface interface {
	Create(ctx context.Context, applicationBackup *v1alpha1.ApplicationBackup, opts v1.CreateOptions) (*v1alpha1.ApplicationBackup, error)
	Update(ctx context.Context, applicationBackup *v1alpha1.ApplicationBackup, opts v1.UpdateOptions) (*v1alpha1.ApplicationBackup, error)
	UpdateStatus(ctx context.Context, applicationBackup *v1alpha1.ApplicationBackup, opts v1.UpdateOptions) (*v1alpha1.ApplicationBackup, error)
	Delete(ctx context.Context, name string, opts v1.DeleteOptions) error
	DeleteCollection(ctx context.Context, opts v1.DeleteOptions, listOpts v1.ListOptions) error
	Get(ctx context.Context, name string, opts v1.GetOptions) (*v1alpha1.ApplicationBackup, error)
	List(ctx context.Context, opts v1.ListOptions) (*v1alpha1.ApplicationBackupList, error)
	Watch(ctx context.Context, opts v1.ListOptions) (watch.Interface, error)
	Patch(ctx context.Context, name string, pt types.PatchType, data []byte, opts v1.PatchOptions, subresources ...string) (result *v1alpha1.ApplicationBackup, err error)
	ApplicationBackupExpansion
}

// applicationBackups implements ApplicationBackupInterface
type applicationBackups struct {
	client rest.Interface
	ns     string
}

// newApplicationBackups returns a ApplicationBackups
func newApplicationBackups(c *StorkV1alpha1Client, namespace string) *applicationBackups {
	return &applicationBackups{
		client: c.RESTClient(),
		ns:     namespace,
	}
}

// Get takes name of the applicationBackup, and returns the corresponding applicationBackup object, and an error if there is any.
func (c *applicationBackups) Get(ctx context.Context, name string, options v1.GetOptions) (result *v1alpha1.ApplicationBackup, err error) {
	result = &v1alpha1.ApplicationBackup{}
	err = c.client.Get().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("applicationbackups").
		Name(name).
		VersionedParams(&options, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Do(ctx).
		Into(result)
	return
}

// List takes label and field selectors, and returns the list of ApplicationBackups that match those selectors.
func (c *applicationBackups) List(ctx context.Context, opts v1.ListOptions) (result *v1alpha1.ApplicationBackupList, err error) {
	var timeout time.Duration
	if opts.TimeoutSeconds != nil {
		timeout = time.Duration(*opts.TimeoutSeconds) * time.Second
	}
	result = &v1alpha1.ApplicationBackupList{}
	err = c.client.Get().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("applicationbackups").
		VersionedParams(&opts, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Timeout(timeout).
		Do(ctx).
		Into(result)
	return
}

// Watch returns a watch.Interface that watches the requested applicationBackups.
func (c *applicationBackups) Watch(ctx context.Context, opts v1.ListOptions) (watch.Interface, error) {
	var timeout time.Duration
	if opts.TimeoutSeconds != nil {
		timeout = time.Duration(*opts.TimeoutSeconds) * time.Second
	}
	opts.Watch = true
	return c.client.Get().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("applicationbackups").
		VersionedParams(&opts, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Timeout(timeout).
		Watch(ctx)
}

// Create takes the representation of a applicationBackup and creates it.  Returns the server's representation of the applicationBackup, and an error, if there is any.
func (c *applicationBackups) Create(ctx context.Context, applicationBackup *v1alpha1.ApplicationBackup, opts v1.CreateOptions) (result *v1alpha1.ApplicationBackup, err error) {
	result = &v1alpha1.ApplicationBackup{}
	err = c.client.Post().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("applicationbackups").
		VersionedParams(&opts, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Body(applicationBackup).
		Do(ctx).
		Into(result)
	return
}

// Update takes the representation of a applicationBackup and updates it. Returns the server's representation of the applicationBackup, and an error, if there is any.
func (c *applicationBackups) Update(ctx context.Context, applicationBackup *v1alpha1.ApplicationBackup, opts v1.UpdateOptions) (result *v1alpha1.ApplicationBackup, err error) {
	result = &v1alpha1.ApplicationBackup{}
	err = c.client.Put().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("applicationbackups").
		Name(applicationBackup.Name).
		VersionedParams(&opts, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Body(applicationBackup).
		Do(ctx).
		Into(result)
	return
}

// UpdateStatus was generated because the type contains a Status member.
// Add a +genclient:noStatus comment above the type to avoid generating UpdateStatus().
func (c *applicationBackups) UpdateStatus(ctx context.Context, applicationBackup *v1alpha1.ApplicationBackup, opts v1.UpdateOptions) (result *v1alpha1.ApplicationBackup, err error) {
	result = &v1alpha1.ApplicationBackup{}
	err = c.client.Put().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("applicationbackups").
		Name(applicationBackup.Name).
		SubResource("status").
		VersionedParams(&opts, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Body(applicationBackup).
		Do(ctx).
		Into(result)
	return
}

// Delete takes name of the applicationBackup and deletes it. Returns an error if one occurs.
func (c *applicationBackups) Delete(ctx context.Context, name string, opts v1.DeleteOptions) error {
	return c.client.Delete().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("applicationbackups").
		Name(name).
		Body(&opts).
		Do(ctx).
		Error()
}

// DeleteCollection deletes a collection of objects.
func (c *applicationBackups) DeleteCollection(ctx context.Context, opts v1.DeleteOptions, listOpts v1.ListOptions) error {
	var timeout time.Duration
	if listOpts.TimeoutSeconds != nil {
		timeout = time.Duration(*listOpts.TimeoutSeconds) * time.Second
	}
	return c.client.Delete().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("applicationbackups").
		VersionedParams(&listOpts, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Timeout(timeout).
		Body(&opts).
		Do(ctx).
		Error()
}

// Patch applies the patch and returns the patched applicationBackup.
func (c *applicationBackups) Patch(ctx context.Context, name string, pt types.PatchType, data []byte, opts v1.PatchOptions, subresources ...string) (result *v1alpha1.ApplicationBackup, err error) {
	result = &v1alpha1.ApplicationBackup{}
	err = c.client.Patch(pt).
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("applicationbackups").
		Name(name).
		SubResource(subresources...).
		VersionedParams(&opts, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Body(data).
		Do(ctx).
		Into(result)
	return
}

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MyObjectives
This event has concluded.
Thank you for attending the Engagement Game.
Stay tuned for upcoming videos of our speakers.
Engagement Game is the free, premier webcast covering the past, present and future of gamification in management.
Engagement Game will bring together the most critical elements of harnessing the power of employees in the workplace, through engaging technology and tools. Engagement Game showcases the most respected experts in industries such as gamification, leadership, Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and The Balanced Scorecard.
Speaker Topics
Jane McGonigal
Gaming: The Future of Management – Observing the transformation of adding gaming to the workplace.
Mario Herger
Enterprise Gamification – Why gamification works, and how it can be applied in a work environment.
Paul Niven
The Rebirth of the Balanced Scorecard – Adding gaming and imagery to the Balanced Scorecard to engrain the methodology in organizational culture.
Ben Lamorte
Harnessing the Power of Gamification – Analyzing the current wave in management, OKRs and how gamification improves engagement.
Your host for the Engagement Game, Brett, will be sharing his expertise in performance management as he navigates the following topics and introduces speakers.
Chris Pieper
Chris will be co-hosting the webcast, providing insight to how gamification enhances employee engagement in the workplace.
Author, SuperBetter and Reality is Broken
Jane McGonigal is a visionary game designer and futurist, and she is harnessing the power of the Internet games in new ways to help solve some of the biggest challenges facing our world today and tomorrow.
Jane McGonigal is today's leading speaker on the engagement economy and the application of game design to the real world. Referencing lessons learned through her work creating games for organizations such as the World Bank, the Olympic Games, the American Heart Association, the New York Public Library, and many more. Her book, Reality Is Broken: How Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change The World, is a New York Times bestseller.
Jane is notable for bringing gaming to the healthcare space. Her best-known project is SuperBetter, a mobile app and web-based game that helps individuals challenge personal health challenges (depression, anxiety, chronic pain, stress reduction), and get support from their "allies" — real-life friends and family. With more than 125,000 players, it is currently under study at OSU Medical Center and the University of Pennsylvania. Jane's other healthcare games include collaborations with the American Heart Association and the Myelin Repair Foundation.
She is currently an advisor and affiliate researcher with the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California, where she served for four years as the Director of Game Research and Development. Her recent projects include a Games for Healthcare initiative with IFTF and the White House as well as Paths Out Of Poverty, a crowdsourcing game by IFTF for the Rockefeller Foundation.
CEO and founder, Enterprise Gamification Consultancy LLC
Mario is the CEO, founder and partner of Enterprise Gamification Consultancy LLC, a strategic consulting group focused on gamification, innovation, creativity, social business, and intrapreneurship in the enterprise. He had been Senior Innovation Strategist at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, California and Global Head of the Gamification Initiative at SAP where he had worked for 15 years. In 2013 he also co-founded and leads the Austrian Innovation Center Silicon Valley (AICSV) that connects European companies with the Silicon Valley to understand the entrepreneurial and innovative spirit of the region.He also publishes analyst reports with evaluations and comparisons of technologies, including gamification platforms, OKR tools, sales gamification platforms, or innovation tools.
In his work as a gamification consultant and at SAP he has encountered and supported gamification efforts in the enterprise from multiple levels and departments, like Sustainability, On Demand, Mobile, HR, Training & Education, Banking etc. He has driven the awareness around gamification by organizing and leading innovation events around this topic, holding dozens of one- or two-day gamification and innovation workshops, working with gamification platform- & service-providers and game studios, consulting and advising organizations, and by incorporating gamification into the strategy.
President, The Senalosa Group, Inc.
Mr. Niven is a management consultant, author, and noted speaker on the subjects of Strategy and the Balanced Scorecard. As both a practitioner and Consultant he has developed successful Balanced Scorecard systems for clients large and small in a wide variety of organizations, including Fortune 1000 companies, public sector, and nonprofit agencies.
His bestselling books have been translated into over fifteen languages. His latest is "Balanced Scorecard Evolution: A Dynamic Approach to Strategy Execution." Other books include: "Roadmaps and Revelations," (his first business fable, which provides practical solutions for strategic planning), "Balanced Scorecard Step by Step: Maximizing Performance and Maintaining Results," "Balanced Scorecard Step by Step for Governments and Nonprofits" and "Balanced Scorecard Diagnostics."
In addition to consulting and writing, he has delivered keynote addresses on Strategy and the Balanced Scorecard in cities around the world, including: Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Vancouver, Toronto, Mexico City, Ottawa, London, Stockholm, Reykjavik, Oslo, Helsinki, Dubai, Beirut, Riyadh, Singapore, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Bucharest, Copenhagen, and many others.
President, OKRs.com
Ben Lamorte is a driver-based planning and goal management thought leader. Lamorte coaches business leaders to define and make measurable progress on their most important goals. He has helped hundreds of managers get started with Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
Prior to launching OKRs.com, Ben was a key player in the early stages of Alight. He developed business development, sales and marketing programs to help scale the install base from 10 to 250 customers and designed and implemented vertical marketing programs in healthcare and higher education. Lamorte identified, sold, and implemented the Alight solution at Kaiser, Alight's first key account.
After Alight, Ben led a project for Hobsons to facilitate a metrics-driven decision making culture leveraging cascading dashboards and Objectives Key Results (OKRs) as a KPI Analyst. He saw how OKRs could be combined with driver-based planning to create a more aligned, focused, culture where everyone makes measurable progress at work. Ben's lucky to have mentors including Rand Heer, Jeff Walker, and Dennis Matthies.
Founder and CEO of Performance Measurement and Management Consulting
Brett Knowles is the founder and CEO of Performance Measurement and Management (PM2Consulting), a consulting firm specializing in delivering performance measurement and management solutions. Brett is known for his simple yet effective approaches that have been used by thousands of organizations in all sectors and around the world. Brett is a popular speaker and author on many topics related to strategy and execution.
Currently, Brett contributes to ManagementbyGaming.com as the University Moderator. Brett explores key areas Management by Gaming identifies as essential to implement in every business. Key areas will include goals, gamification, the study of team dynamics and objectives management.
CEO, Alliance Enterprises, Inc.
Chris joined Alliance as the Company's CEO in September 2008. Chris' experience includes over 25 years as a Chief Executive of technology based software companies. He is recognized internationally as a thought leader in performance management, cost management and process optimization.
Prior to joining Alliance Enterprises, Chris was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of C-Speak Partners, a North Carolina-based consulting firm specializing in executive coaching for growth oriented technology startups. Chris' experience includes Chief Executive roles with FormRouter, a North Carolina firm specializing in Software-as-a-Service, electronic forms and data collection; ABC Technologies, Inc., an Oregon-based software firm specializing in Activity-Based Costing and Performance Management (ABC/M); and BetterManagement.com, a leading Performance Management Internet portal. ABC Technologies, an Inc. 500 company, and BetterManagement.com were acquired by SAS in April 2002, where Chris served as the Executive Vice President of SAS's Performance Management Division.
Chuck Coonradt
Author, The Game of Work
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of The Game of Work, founded in 1973 and dedicated to the success of its corporate clients. Graduate of Michigan State University. Internationally recognized in the fields of goal setting and profit improvement, as an author, consultant, and speaker. Chuck's best selling books The Game of Work, The Better People Leader, Scorekeeping For Success, Managing The Obvious, and The Four Laws of Debt Free Prosperity have been labeled management "must reads." He is a contributing author to the best selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series and quoted in an additional two dozen books. He is a founding member of the School of Entrepreneurship, Brigham Young University, Marriott School of Management. Labeled by Forbes Magazine as "the Grandfather of Gamification" in 2013.
The Game of Work's client list includes many Fortune 500, as well as other nationally and internationally recognized firms. Companies that have successfully utilized and implemented Chuck's unique concepts include Pepsi Cola, The Chicago Tribune, Nordstroms, The US Air Force and Postal Service, Boeing, Marker Bindings, Molina Healthcare, Coca-Cola Consolidated and International Paper. Over one million executives, managers, and supervisors on five continents have been exposed to Chuck's ideas on feedback, scorekeeping, goal setting, coaching, choice and accountability.
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Statement: Facts on #TakeBacktheTech
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Since Friday, 9 October 2015, a mounting online attack has been launched against the Twitter hashtag #TakeBacktheTech and associated initiatives.
Take Back the Tech! was launched in 2006 by a group of young women in Southeast Asia in response to an increasing recognition that emerging ICT developments like mobile phones and geolocation software were used to extend the violence that women faced in physical spaces through SMS harassment and cyber stalking by abusive partners. See here for full research on case studies in seven countries.
Echoing the Take Back the Night campaigns by women's movements in different parts of the world, the campaign saw the importance of reclaiming the transformative potential of digital spaces for the exercise of women's human rights, including the right to freedom of expression, public participation and safety. The campaign was initiated by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) Women's Rights Programme, and has been taken up, adapted and owned by individuals, organisations and collectives in places such as Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Germany, India, Kenya, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, the United Kingdom, the United States and Uruguay. The campaign is linked to the longstanding 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence global campaign.
Take Back the Tech and APC have never supported censorship; to the contrary, we have explicitly explored means of addressing online hate speech in general, and misogynist content in particular, without resorting to censorship. Claims to this effect in the recent efforts to hijack the #takebackthetech hashtag are simply not accurate. APC's Internet Rights Charter, a document which interprets how fundamental human rights apply on the internet, was released in 2001.
Claims that APC supports doxing (defined in Wikipedia as searching for and publishing private or identifying information about a particular individual on the internet, typically with malicious intent) are also not accurate. This claim was made in response to a reference in an educational comic available on the Take Back the Tech! site to the case of Mary Beard who was offered, via a public tweet, contact details of the mother of a tweeter who had been attacking her online. She did not seek it out nor did she use it. Instead she communicated directly with the person who had been posting the abusive tweets and in a rare instance, was able to resolve the situation.
APC collaborates closely with the United Nations. APC and Take Back the Tech did not author the ITU Broadband Commission report "Cyber Violence against Women and Girls: A world-wide wake-up call". We agree with most of the content of this report, but there are areas of analysis and recommendations in the report that we do not support in full. To learn more about what APC's position is with regard to online free expression and responding to harmful content refer to: http://www.genderit.org/feminist-talk/pulling-back-veil-free-speech.
APC and Take Back the Tech are stakeholders of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Best Practice Forum to share learning and experiences on how to respond to online abuse and violence against women. The IGF is a multistakeholder platform that facilitates policy dialogue on key and emerging issues related to internet policy and governance. As with all other IGF processes, the work of this Best Practice Forum has been inclusive and transparent. It is unfortunate that this transparency has been used to misrepresent the goals of this process. If anyone wants to access accurate information about the IGF and this Best Practice Forum, refer to: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/best-practice-forums/4-practices-to-count… Similarly, if anyone wants to make constructive contributions to the Best Practice Forum's work, please comment on Draft II, currently published for public input: http://review.intgovforum.org/igf-2015/best-practice-forums/draft-ii-bpf…
The attack against APC and Take Back the Tech and efforts to hijack the #takebackthetech hashtag, which has involved people who self-associate with #Gamergate posting threats targeting members of our community and images that depict women being subjected to physical and sexual violence, illustrate how women's and girls' voices are silenced on social networking platforms by violent and sexist expression.
The scale of this attack thus far has involved more than 20,000 tweets and memes containing anti-feminist, racist, violent and abusive content, which has also been targeted at those who expressed support for #TakeBacktheTech. Emails that included threatening content have also been sent to individuals associated with organising the the initial Twitter conversation that launched the attack. It bears repeating that the attacks are coordinated, planned and organised, and this demonstrates the importance of continuing, collaborative efforts to address this issue.
Thanks to those who have expressed their support.
To find out more about online violence against women: http://www.genderit.org/sites/default/upload/end_violence_malhotra_dig.pdf
Jac Sm Kee
Women's Rights Programme Manager, Association for Progressive Communications
Email: jac@apcwomen.org
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Proud to be born in April? Those born in April are said to be active and dynamic. Brave and fearless. Adventurous.
A design that sparkles from every angle. This stunning heart skull princess ring features a beautiful heart shaped cubic zirconia stone at center, with two skulls at the shoulder, as well as smaller sparkling cubic zirconia accents in a floral design in the sides of the band.


Currency? Property? Both?! To the IRS, users of the virtual cryptocurrency bitcoin can call it whatever they want -- as long as you pony up at tax time.
Ahh Bitcoin. Some say its a currency. Some say its not. Some say its property. Some say its closer to tulips. Some even say that its a platform that could be as revolutionary as the Internet itself.
And its in these murky waters that the Internal Revenue Service has for once shone through as a beacon of clarity, kind of. To the IRS, its irrelevant how you define Bitcoin. You've still got to pay taxes on it.
How big of a check will you be cutting come April 15?
On Tuesday, the IRS released Notice 2014-21 (gotta love the way bureaucracy labels press releases), its guidance for "Virtual Currency". In the release, and particularly in the Q&A section, the IRS details exactly how it will treat bitcoin transactions from a tax standpoint. Here is what you need to know.
In this case, your employer will report your income on a W-2 just as though you were being paid in dollars. These earnings are subject to federal withholding and payroll taxes.
If you're a contractor, your income must be reported still, typically on form 1099. The normal tax rules for self employed individuals still apply.
If you're in the Bitcoin business as a speculator, miner, or holder of the currency, your gains will be taxed at the capital gains tax rates for short term or long term holdings. So just like day trading stocks, your short term gains will largely be split with the government.
In all of these cases, the IRS requires you to calculate the fair market value of the Bitcoin in dollar terms at the time of the transaction. The government does not recognize Bitcoin as legal tender, and therefore it must be converted into dollars.
In essence, the IRS is saying that you can pay or be paid with Bitcoin (facilitating a transaction, kind of like a currency...), but if you trade Bitcoin or exchange it for other property you must pay on gains above your cost basis (like property). With no comparable invention existing in the tax code, the IRS has jammed a square peg into a round hole.
For the serious Bitcoin players -- the miners, rich enthusiasts, and Silk Road varieties -- the tax implications of dealing with Bitcoin will likely just mean a relocation to offshore tax havens.
For the rest of us, this notice just codifies the need for painstaking and expensive record keeping -- you will have to document the number of Bitcoins and their value relative to the dollar at the specific point and time. The exchange rate changes constantly -- just thinking about documenting all these transactions makes my head hurt. For the law abiding this is definitely annoying, and probably also a headwind for wide adoption of the currency.
Alphonse Capone, the world's most famous tax evader?
The story for the "bad guys" is a little different. Bitcoin is anonymous, and with encryption technologies like Tor, it can be nearly impossible to trace. Even further complicating the enforcement matter is that Bitcoin is a truly international currency. There are 7 billion people populating 196 countries in the world. From Russia to China to Pakistan to Venezula, Brazil, Liberia, and beyond--the task of tracking down a criminal running an encrypted browser and using an anonymous currency is daunting at best and impossible at worst.
So for the drug and gun dealers, the child pornographers, the terrorists, and the money launderers, this IRS guidance will not change their Bitcoin dealings in any meaningful way. It does increase their risks though, which is a move in the right direction for the government. Don't forget, Al Capone went down for tax evasion, not murder or running a criminal empire.
I do not own any Bitcoin, and I personally do not plan to get into the virtual currency game anytime soon. The risks are too uncertain and the volatility is far, far too great. I find Bitcoin a very intriguing invention, but my money will stay invested in businesses that I know and understand, in real estate, and in diversified index funds. With these investments, I can sleep well at night (and I'm sure my accountant appreciates it too).


Don't forget, I have a giveaway of this book going on right now! Make sure to stop by and enter to win!!
Like yesterday's thoughts on Beastkeeper, this is an interesting one for me: on one level, I really like it, and on another, I have some pretty major issues with it.
This is a retelling of The Princess & the Pea set in a crime family, about a girl with a rare disease that makes her incredibly delicate, and that is kinda genius. The Princess & the Pea can be a kind of problematic story, and it's certainly always been one that required a HUGE suspension of disbelief: there's a girl who's so fragile, a single pea under a massive stack of mattresses (which somehow don't just squish the pea into oblivion) causes her massive discomfort; this is somehow a desirable trait... It's one of the more odd fairy tales out there (though by no means the oddest). Both the affliction that Penelope has, and her status as a result among the various crime Families, really works to tie in the retelling aspects and make it actually believable. There are a lot of clever nods to the story, most of which subtle enough to be unobtrusive, but well-developed enough to add that extra layer.
The crime family aspect, and even some of the general plot, hit some of the same notes as the Birthright series, which I love. Penny isn't cold like Anya, though, so it's like getting the plot elements -- crime family, questions of legalization, constant danger, grief for those lost -- but filtered through a completely different character. This may be a comparison that will be lost on those who haven't read All These Things I've Done and the rest, and it may even be personal to me entirely, but I think if you like any of the things I mentioned, either here, just now, or in any of my reviews for the Birthright series, then you may like this as well.
To also be seemingly already in love with someone she's always known, to then be so immediately and obsessively drawn to someone new, whom she's just met, who she knows nothing about and who followed her home and she keeps finding waiting outside her apartment (keep in mind: she's in hiding, so people watching her apt should set off MAJOR warning bells...) -- it all starts to get a little TSTL, which is a term I hate, but come on now! And even though I pegged who this new guy was immediately, and I understand the need to work him in somehow, I have to say, I didn't love the way it played out. Though it ended up kinda endearing, it took me time to wrap my head around, and it was time that I felt like it should have taken Penny. It happened to fast to feel like there was any real basis for it; it reads as a flight of fancy, on both their parts. Forced love-triangles aren't my thing; nor are ultra-convenient coincidences. And to accomodate this new player in town, it has to throw other things into chaos, which is also something I saw coming a mile away, and also didn't like how that played out. Again, it felt shallow and somewhat baseless, and for a story that started strong and was reminding me of a fast favorite, it sure didn't end that way. The shift was so dramatic that I almost stopped reading.
In the end, I did enjoy myself, and am even curious enough to see how it plays out, that I'll likely read the next book -- eventually. I think plenty of readers will be able to get lost in and enjoy this, though, and if you are a lover of fairy tale retellings, it's worth it if only for the clever (and actually pretty solid) spin on The Princess & the Pea. But it is a mixed bag, and if some of these things are pet peeves of yours, know that going in, because this may not be the book for you.
I love the fact that this is a retelling of The Princess and the Pea! I'm such a huge fan of fairytale retellings! Great review!
The Princess and the Pea is one of my favorite fairy tales. I love how unique and weird it is when compared to other stories (I mean a bed made with so many mattresses? I want to sleep there!). This book sounds fantastic and I can't wait to read it.


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FBI investigation of 'human chop shop' uncovers buckets of body parts, 'Frankenstein' corpse
Gary Dinges @gdinges
Jul 26, 2019 at 1:06 PM Jul 26, 2019 at 3:38 PM
FBI agents investigating an alleged "human chop shop" say there were all sorts of ghastly sights when they raided an Arizona business.
That firm, the Biological Research Center, has since closed.
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Rossi Jarvis will miss up to six weeks after breaking two toes in Lowestofts midweek win. Picture: Shirley D Whitlow - Credit: Archant
Ady Gallagher will ask his depleted Lowestoft Town squad for a repeat of their midweek heroics this afternoon.
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With untimely injuries rearing their ugly head, Gallagher will demand more of the positive elements from Tuesday night.
"We know as a squad if we perform to our best levels and take opportunities we can win games of football," said Gallagher. "Against Thurrock we kept battling away but it wasn't just a dogged performance, there was a lot of good quality in that game. We retained possession well. I was very pleased with some of the good qualities we showed - and when we got the late goal, we managed out the remaining minutes well too.
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Home Forum Formula One General chat Formula One races 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix - Sakhir, March 26 - 28 - Page 66
Hamilton wins tight battle for Bahrain victory Sun Mar 28, 2021
Lewis Hamilton has won the Bahrain Grand Prix after a very close battle with Max Verstappen in the closing stages of the race. Verstappen finished furiously in second after having to give up first place for exceeding track limits. Bottas completed the podium for Mercedes.
Verstappen storms to pole in Bahrain qualifying,
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2021 Bahrain Grand Prix - Sakhir, March 26 - 28
For ease of use, there is one thread per grand prix where you can discuss everything during that specific GP weekend. You can find these threads here.
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Re: 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix - Sakhir, March 26 - 28
Post Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:07 am
carisi2k wrote: ↑
The problem with this theory is that Lewis went outside the track limits 29 times in the race at turn 4. It allowed him to gain a significant advantage because it allowed him to keep in contact with Max early in the race. The rule I thought was that they would not penalise unless you gained an everlasting advantage. Lewis certainly did gain an everlasting advantage because what if Max had an extra 2-5 second gap around the pit stops. This is enough that he could have pitted the following lap and retained the lead.
From the screenshots, it looked like Max was off track an awful lot as well.
Also, if the race director explicitly tells the drivers that track limits wouldn't be monitored there, then you can't then expect the drivers to stick to them. Masi confirmed as much after the event, and even admitted that they changed the directive mid-race because some drivers were taking it too far. Overtaking off track has always been outlawed, otherwise, every driver would just not bother braking, shoot past and rejoin ahead. As for the argument that the move was already done, Max was only able to get ahead because he was able to brake later because he could run wide afterwards. It would be like people just not braking in time for the end chicane in canada - flying straight on while the other car takes the corner and rejoining in front. If one applied the same argument, you could say that the car behind was in front before the corner - obviously, if you don't brake hard enough to take the corner and the car in front does. You will over take them before the bend, you just will then be going too fast to make the corner.
KiLLu12258
e30ernest wrote: ↑
Shrieker wrote: ↑
foxmulder_ms wrote: ↑
People are a bit harsh to Bottas. Without the 11sec pit he would be fighting and undercut Max.
He pitted with the gap hovering around 3.7 seconds, and either would've leapfrogged him, or forced him to pit a lot earlier than he actually did, helping the team immensely. And when Max was pushing to catch Hamilton, he could've eased off a bit, look after the tires, and wait for them to fall back towards him when they inevitably got entangled in the end.
PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑
The undercut wss gone but Bottas would have been used as blocker when Max pits to fall behind him.
Most certainly it wasn't. Bottas pitted with a gap of 3.7 seconds to Max, meaning Max would've had to respond immediately the following lap, or get leapfrogged. Bottas would've almost certainly clawed back more than 3.7 secs in 2 laps. The pit mishap was really, really unfortunate for Bottas, and could've costed the team the win.
I feel bad for Bottas. He drove a good race. There are times when he deserves the criticism, but this time around, he doesn't.
coulve be a good race if he didnt slept the whole beginning. Again he lost the start like nearly every Race and after that he lost seconds over seconds over the first stint.
At some point it was a decent drive but its the same as usual for him. He is not "there" from the start and losing ground for that reason.
dans79
DChemTech wrote: ↑
I can drive within the lines on a highway, and I'm not a particularly spectacular driver at that.
youu're not driving at the limit of downforce, mechanical grip, tire temperature, brake temperature, engine temperature, etc etc.
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dans79 wrote: ↑
Ah, yes, that part was the essence of my post
Anyhow, despite driving at those limits, F1 drivers appear to be quite capable of coloring within the lines if they are told to (and quite consistent in crossing them if they're not).
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lh13 wrote: ↑
NL_Fer wrote: ↑
What if Max just followed both Lewis' pitstops? He would be much closer and the guy in front.
Maybe struggle with tyre wear, but so would Hamilton.
He would have ended up behind if he pitted the next lap, because the undercut was too strong, and then there would be no fight, as both would be on tires with the same life.
I think it would have been interesting to see. I don´t see RB's theoretical superiority on long runs so maybe Lewis would be able to hold Max.
About the incident, I see extrange how Max looked slower after he let Lewis go through. I was sure he had a problem but It seems I was wrong. Still, I consider it a weird thing as he was clearly faster before the overtake. He should have been able to attack Lewis again but he couldn´t do it.
bosyber
Vasconia wrote: ↑
We could see he had a slight stepping out at the back just after, might well be that his tyres overheated a bit, and when that happens, they lose out quite a bit.
El Scorchio wrote: ↑
What do you guys think of Danny Ric?
Great qualifying but the race got away from him a bit.
I think he needs a bit of time to settle in, but I also think a lot of people have been underestimating Lando Norris.
Maybe struggling with the stopping power of the new merc ?
Did those Diff issues cause enough - perhaps paired to a damaged floor - to 'hand' Lewis the win? Perhaps, it surely didn't help.
The floor would have been repaired as allowed in parc ferme rules.
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Seb is over. Binotto dishing out the insults.
"Sebastian there's very, you're a member of a very select few.. Stewart, Lauda, Piquet, Senna, Prost, Schumacher, Fangio.. VETTEL!"
Schuttelberg wrote: ↑
That's really very Ferrari, shows insecurity, lack of class, kicking someone when he's down etc. and doesn't help anyone. Anyone doing that, or cheering for it, goes down in my opinion.
And yeah, sure, you can opt to allow one or two minor digressions and only give warnings, and only penalize the third, like is already done now in some cases. But that last part is where the problem is: now, it is in some cases. Which corners are monitored changes per race, and apparently, mid-race. There should be absolutely no ambiguity on track limits: you stay in the lines, whole track, every corner, unless you are pushed off or avoiding an incident - and warnings should add up over all the track, not on a per-corner basis.
It's the inconsistency that is the issue, not how the rule is applied. The drivers were told that Turn 4 is free game in the race. Some took that on board and drove accordingly, some didn't. But then to change the rule mid race was where it went wrong.
The irony was that it was Horner coming on the radio and making a big thing of telling Max to drive wide in Turn 4 that caused the race director to change his mind. Horner got his way because Massi changed the rule mid race. But it didn't help Max in the way that Horner hoped. That's a bit of karma, really, because Horner was trying to mess with the race in a non-racing way.
But Max's overtake was always going to be illegal and he would always have been penalised - either by a "hand back" requirement or a time penalty. Even if Max had ignored the "hand back" notice, I'm sure the stewards would have given a time penalty that resulted in him being second. Remember Kimi wandering in to the cool down room after the race a couple of years ago, Max asking him why he was there and Kimi saying "you've been penalised for your overtake" (with a smile on his face)?
Restomaniac
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Just_a_fan wrote: ↑
zibby43 wrote: ↑
Both teams will have tough decisions this year though, as these cars are development dead ends.
Is it a tough decision? This year, currently, both are in with a good chance of the title(s). Next year, they might fluff it anyway and then be behind the front end of the grid. So it's a good chance this year or a possible chance next.
Or: Jam today, jam tomorrow.
I think Mercedes will want to get the title this year because, if for no other reason, it would mean they had all of the titles for this particular era. That is unheard of in the history of F1, isn't it? So they may be prepared to risk next year if it gets them this year in the bag.
Surely it isn't like for like anyway. There are far more prescribed parts so I can't see how it would take the amount of work as previously.
Restomaniac wrote: ↑
There are enough areas that a team can find an advantage. If it's a hidden/hard to see part of the car, it could take a season to overcome it.
InsaneX_Badger
What did Binotto say about Vettel?
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