My wife and decided to have a last minute get away and thought that the Bahamas cruise on the Elation would be a great choice. Overall we did enjoy our holiday but there were some areas that could be greatly improved on the Elation. The first, and biggest was the food. This started badly and did not improve. My wife ordered a fajita from the pool side taco bar and the beef used was very poor, and it can't have been on the ship too long, we hadn't even left the port at this point. The only positive from a food perspective was Guy's Burger Bar. The biggest disappointment was the main restaurant. The service, on 3 of the 4 nights was incredibly slow, so slow in fact that we missed the start of the late show. In fact, when we first arrived at the restaurant on the first night, my wife and were sat at different tables, which was frustrating and took about 15 minutes to resolve. The servers also did not know the menu and could not answer simple questions about the meals. The menu was uninspired, with one token vegetarian special, which was the same each evening. Finally, the quality was bang average, and far below other cruises we have taken. Once we did make it out of the dinner and to the entertainment, the quality was average. The Epic Rock show was better than the Divas show, which did not seem to fit the casts skills, but was still entertaining. The interactive shows were again a mixed bag. The Gender Game was awkward and not entertaining but the Couple Game was much better. Outside of the main theatre, we thoroughly enjoyed Sam's performances in the Piano Bar, as well as the man trivia competitions. The ship itself and room was nice and the room was a good size, although my wife and I arrived to a room with the beds separated. Once in the room, there was plenty of cupboard space, a nice little fridge and the bathroom was adequate, with good water temp and pressure. The service outside of the restaurant was also of a much higher quality, in particular the fun squad, who were, as expected, fun. Approachable and helpful as well as entertaining. Overall, there were certain elements we enjoyed, but we did not feel the sense of lavishness and luxury you would associate with a cruise and that was a result of the poor food quality and restaurant service. If you want a quick getaway, with a family, this could be nice for you, but don't expect to feel spoiled with the meals.
My wife and decided to have a last minute get away and thought that the Bahamas cruise on the Elation would be a great choice. Overall we did enjoy our holiday but there were some areas that could be greatly improved on the Elation.
The first, and biggest was the food. This started badly and did not improve. My wife ordered a fajita from the pool side taco bar and the beef used was very poor, and it can't have been on the ship too long, we hadn't even left the port at this point. The only positive from a food perspective was Guy's Burger Bar. The biggest disappointment was the main restaurant. The service, on 3 of the 4 nights was incredibly slow, so slow in fact that we missed the start of the late show. In fact, when we first arrived at the restaurant on the first night, my wife and were sat at different tables, which was frustrating and took about 15 minutes to resolve. The servers also did not know the menu and could not answer simple questions about the meals. The menu was uninspired, with one token vegetarian special, which was the same each evening. Finally, the quality was bang average, and far below other cruises we have taken.
Once we did make it out of the dinner and to the entertainment, the quality was average. The Epic Rock show was better than the Divas show, which did not seem to fit the casts skills, but was still entertaining. The interactive shows were again a mixed bag. The Gender Game was awkward and not entertaining but the Couple Game was much better. Outside of the main theatre, we thoroughly enjoyed Sam's performances in the Piano Bar, as well as the man trivia competitions.
The ship itself and room was nice and the room was a good size, although my wife and I arrived to a room with the beds separated. Once in the room, there was plenty of cupboard space, a nice little fridge and the bathroom was adequate, with good water temp and pressure. The service outside of the restaurant was also of a much higher quality, in particular the fun squad, who were, as expected, fun. Approachable and helpful as well as entertaining.
Overall, there were certain elements we enjoyed, but we did not feel the sense of lavishness and luxury you would associate with a cruise and that was a result of the poor food quality and restaurant service. If you want a quick getaway, with a family, this could be nice for you, but don't expect to feel spoiled with the meals.
Cabin was nice enough. Good size, lots of storage for clothes, bathroom was adequate.
Nice snorkeling excursion, although the fish were not extremely exotic.


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Book Review | No Virgin by Anne Cassidy
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No Virgin by Anne Cassidy
Publisher | Hot Key Books (November 2016)
Genre | YA, Contemporary
Rating | 4/5
I would like to thank Net Galley and Hot Key Books for providing me an eARC of No Virgin by Anne Cassidy in exchange of an honest review.
From the author of the critically acclaimed, LOOKING FOR JJ, shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize in 2004 and the Carnegie Medal in 2005.
A raw, powerful, moving tale about a girl attempting to deal with the aftermath of a sexual attack.
My name is Stacey Woods and I was raped.
Stacey is the victim of a terrible sexual attack. She does not feel able to go to the police, or talk about it to anybody other than her best friend, Patrice. Patrice, outraged, when she cannot persuade her to go to the police, encourages Stacey to write everything down. This is Stacey's story.
A tautly told and important book, perfect for readers of Asking for It by Louise O'Neill.
I have heard a lot of good things about Anne Cassidy's works, and this is the first novel of hers that I have read.
No Virgin is about Stacey's story, and straight away she tells us what happened to her:
And this book recounts the events that lead to her sexual assault and its aftermath. After telling her best friend, Patrice, that she has been raped - Patrice encourages Stacey to write down her story. Starting from the beginning and to leave nothing out.
This has been a quick and short read that talks about the difficult subject of rape. I believe that this is a powerful novel, and it shows you how it really is from the perspective of the victim of sexual assault.
I think this is a good book for teenagers to read, or anyone for that matter just to give an insight to the fact that individuals who have been victims of sexual assault can, and will, blame themselves for what has happened to them - that they have gotten themselves into this situation and there's nothing they can do. That sexual predators can be anyone, they can be nice to you and may act like genuine people when in reality they're not.
It isn't a necessarily original plot for a novel, but it does it's job in looking at rape victims and of the blame culture that societies have.
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Dorsey's Costa Mesa Lawyers Selected for Inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2016
Gabrielle Wirth , Dennis Wong
International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today that three lawyers in the Firm's Costa Mesa office were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2016.
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Over 79,000 leading attorneys globally are eligible to vote, and Best Lawyers reports that it has received more than 12 million votes to date on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2016 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, 6.7 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 55,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.
The lawyers listed in Best Lawyers do not decide in which areas of the law they are listed. They are included in areas as a result of the votes they receive from their peers. The areas listed are based on information from a variety of sources. For more information, visit the Best Lawyers website.
Listed below are the Dorsey Costa Mesa lawyers named as Best Lawyers, the areas in which they are named, and the first year they were listed.
The Best Lawyers in America 2016:
Juan C. Basombrio (2007)
Litigation – Antitrust
Gabrielle M. Wirth (2007)
Dennis Wong (2011)
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For design fans and vintage-lovers, 1956 was a true banner year, giving us the Saarinen Tulip Chair and Eames Lounge Chair, Grace Kelly's wedding dress and Elvis Presley's first number one hit. Meanwhile, Switzerland was also celebrating a premiere of its own: it was the year in which Carl F. Bucherer introduced a chronograph with a design that was ahead of its time. The curved lines of the delicate 34 mm case combined with the elongated chronograph push buttons gave the watch a sporty look, while gold plating added a touch of elegance.


Mr Eddie See, a Malaysian-comic artist founded Pinko Creative in the early 2012. Pinko Creative is a publishing company which focus more into comic discussions corporation as well as publishing comics, novels, and many more.
To promote and encourage the development of comics in Malaysia, thus, enhancing the image of the public view in comics.
A publication platform in assisting local and foreign whether rookie or established comic artists in publishing their own individual comics.
To strengthen the connection between overseas peers.
《Ge Mei Lia》was introduced in 1997 by the chairman of Pinko Creative, Mr Eddie See. It began its monthly publishing in 2003. In 2009, the monthly sales exceeded 150 thousands which broke the sales record compared to any other mandarin- based comics in Malaysia.《Ge Mei Lia》are well known to all local Malaysian Chinese mostly students and parents, at the same time leading children to a wave of reading comics at this market.


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West Liberty, Iowa Mary Jane Simpson Ruess, 95, passed away Saturday, September 26, 2020 at Simpson Memorial Home, West Liberty. Private family graveside services will be held on Thursday, October 1, 2020. A celebration of life will be held at a later date. The Henderson-Barker Funeral Home in West Liberty is caring for the family. Online condolences may be made to the family at www.hendersonbarkerfuneralhome.com. Memorials may be made to the activities program at the Simpson Memorial Home. Jane was born August 14, 1925 in Nichols, Iowa to David and Charlotte Porter. She had 7 siblings, 2 of which are still living. She enjoyed playing on the girls basketball team with her sister Jean and was involved in theater during high school. After high school she worked as a telephone operator. Jane was united in marriage to Lloyd Simpson on September 27, 1948. They farmed and resided in the West Liberty area. She enjoyed raising her five children and spending time with her numerous grandchildren on their farm. Jane loved spending time outside with flowers and maintaining the home. Lloyd and Jane were members of St. Joseph Catholic church, where they attended with their family. After Lloyd passed in 1985, she was united in marriage to Kenneth Ruess. They spent time with friends dancing and traveling together to Hawaii. They were fortunate to share 30 happy years together. Jane will always be remembered by her family as a mother and grandmother who was devoted to her family. She will be deeply missed by her 5 children: Ron (Deb) Simpson, Lindsey (Deb) Simpson, Sheri Chelf, Julie (Scott) McKillip, and Marc (Lisa) Simpson. She also leaves behind 23 grandchildren, 46 great grandchildren, and 3 great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by both husbands. Jane's family would like to extend their sincere appreciation to Simpson Memorial Home for their devoted care these past three years. Especially during this pandemic, they were her family when family couldn't be there.
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Coffee and a Book Chick: SIBA 2014 - Are You Attending?
SIBA 2014 - Are You Attending?
Four years ago when I first started seriously (and consistently) blogging, Bermuda Onion posted that SIBA was heading to Daytona Beach for their annual trade show. It was the first time I'd heard of a trade show dedicated to books, and at the time, I only lived an hour and a half north in the Jacksonville beaches area. I dragged my amazing and supportive partner/husband/father-of-our-cute-son, Jason, and couldn't believe my eyes. A conference room filled with exhibitors and books! Not only did I have the best time walking the floor, speaking with publicists about which books to select, I met four key ladies that day: Sandy from You've Gotta Read This, Kathy from Bermuda Onion, Heather from Raging Bibliomania, and Stacy from The Novel Life. I was a lowly blogger with about four months writing under my belt, but these ladies were so welcoming and treated me as though I had been blogging for years. I thought all trade shows were like that.
Until I went to BEA in New York the following year. Keep in mind that I'm used to big cities and absolutely love them. I grew up outside of Baltimore, went to school six miles outside of Washington, D.C., and regularly visit Boston, New York, and more. I love big cities. I love the energy and the ability to walk two feet and have an overwhelming number of restaurants to choose from. Surprisingly, BEA was just a bit too much for me, even though the Blogger Conference and my own sightseeing resulted in the actual fun that I took away from that time. With the BEA trade show however, gone was the intimacy, to interact with representatives and authors without an uptight atmosphere. I missed the smaller get-togethers. I made the decision that if I were to attend BEA again, it would likely be only for the Blogger Conference, which back in 2011 was when I met *the* gal, Jenn from The Picky Girl, who motivated me to start my own blog.
When my husband and I moved to Virginia Beach a few years ago, I was excited to attend the Virginia Festival of the Book held in Charlottesville. This was an even smaller event, and although I enjoyed it, I missed SIBA. I wasn't able to go the past couple of years because of moving, or I was pregnant, etc. But this year? This year is different.
SIBA is being held this year in... Norfolk, Virginia! And since Virginia is for lovers, it's now also going to be for book lovers as well! A short twenty-five minute drive will bring me back to an event that I have the best memories of and I urge you to check it out. If you're even just a few hours away, make the drive. SIBA is so much fun and the author and publisher events are aplenty!
If you tweet about it, use #siba14 as your hashtag.
And if you're planning on attending, let me know!
I grew up in that area so I'd love to go but it's just too far out for me to commit to anything like that right now.
I'm so glad you'll be able to go...and that it's so close! For the second year in a row I'll miss BEA. But I'll be in New York in November for my brother's wedding, so I'm trying not to be too disappointed.
As you saw this morning, my blog has been dead in the water for a while now, but it was officially dead for about the past week. I miss it, though. So much. I'm ready to get back into my groove. I'm still reading, but the urge to review had just left me. In fact, I'm still trying to figure out what I want my weekly posts to look like. I'm not sure yet, but I do know I'm not ready to let go. It's been four fun years, and I love having the outlet.
New York is such a fun and beautiful place to visit. Have fun at your brother's wedding! I'm sure it's going to be a blast, and at least you'll be in New York during the fall, which is one of my favorite times to visit.
I go through phases with my blog. As you can see from last year, I barely blogged. This year, same thing, but I'm trying to change it up. I think my blog might change focus a little bit and blog less, but with content that I am more interested to write about, versus solely posting about books. I don't think I could really ever say good-bye to blogging, either. It's become such a part of my life. I might take the occasional sabbatical, but I think I'll always try to keep this little corner of the web. Chin up, my friend. You run a great blog, and inspiration will strike you when you least expect it. I especially enjoy your "Fridays at Home" series, by the way!
I want to go to BEA (one time; just to say I did and see it) but I doubt I will love it. I crave that interaction too. I bet I would dig SIBA.
Definitely try to go at least once to BEA; you might like it more than I did! The best part was the Blogger Conference, a dinner with bloggers, and then my own personal vacation and sight-seeing with my husband. Otherwise, that was it for me with BEA.
I won't be there or at BEA. Flying from So Cal if just too expensive these days. It would be hard for me to justify the airfare for such a brief trip.
This sounds so much more appealing to me than BEA. I really should try to make it happen, especially since my granddaughter lives in VB (Kempsville area)!


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How Does Search Impact My Marketing Beyond SEO?
Posted By Yext on 11/11/2020
Search marketing and SEO have been pretty synonymous since the first search engine launched more than two decades years ago. But today, it's a very different story: If you're not thinking about search beyond SEO, it's likely that your search strategy is stuck back in the 90s — meaning you're losing out on valuable clicks and conversions.
Don't get me wrong, employing SEO best practices for search engines is still important. (Google does have about 87% of the international search engine market, though that percentage has fallen in recent years.) But as search as a whole has evolved, SEO has become just one piece of the puzzle. Here are the impacts your team might not be thinking about.
Search Outside the Google Box
Google is far and wide the dominant player in search. But things are starting to slowly change as consumers' needs and tastes evolve. DuckDuckGo has dominated headlines recently due to their focus on privacy, and for marketers articles abound that give tips for slight SEO differences specific to Bing and Yahoo. But it's not just about disruptors in "traditional" search. Consumers are increasingly asking questions via a wider variety of platforms and services that don't strictly fit with the search engine label.
Amazon Alexa. Microsoft Cortana. Even platforms like Pinterest. The rise of voice and image search has customers both discovering brands and asking questions about existing favorites in new ways. That means businesses need to embrace best practices that can help them surface the proper information when customers ask a direct question about their brand out loud, as if they were having a conversation.
How? It all starts with building a knowledge graph as part of your search strategy. To truly "speak the language" of these AI-powered discovery services, your organization needs to be able to store your own facts, all mapped to one another, in a way that these services can read and understand. This is the foundation for leveraging artificial intelligence in a martech stack and answering sophisticated questions everywhere consumers search.
It sounds like a complex idea, but it's one that just about every brand can take advantage of fairly easily. Learn more about building your own knowledge graph here.
Make Your Website Work For You, Not Against You
Where else are customers searching more than ever? Your website. But it turns out that a lot of businesses can't answer simple questions via their own site search experience — creating a negative experience that bounces would-be customers off your website over to Google, where they can easily get intercepted by a competitor. (Remember, your website really is your only pandemic-proof property.)
"[You have to] meet the customer where they are," says Ryan Hohman, director of eCommerce operations at Justice, explaining why it's valuable to monitor the kind of questions customers are asking — and then deliver answers. "We ask 'How are our customers finding us?' 'What questions are they asking on our site?' We then leverage these insights to create meaningful content and experiences. This has been a winning formula for us."
If you aren't managing the search experience (and monitoring customer queries) on your website as part of your overall search strategy, you've already lost: Customers who search on-site are incredibly valuable, producing 1.8x more conversions than customers who only browse — but 68% of people wouldn't return to a website that provided a poor search experience. Instead, they become likely to bounce back to Google to ask their questions, leaving brands with no control over the customer experience.
The good news? This breakdown is fixable. As our CEO put it: "If brands invested in a modern, sophisticated search experience on their own websites they could stop sending their customers away to Google — and also stop shelling out big bucks to then try to win them back."
What does that actually mean for your website? To start, you need:
Universal search — where you can search for everything from one search box
Search that understands natural language — just like search engines
Search results that are complete, actionable answers — making it easy for searchers to convert
Read more about site search must-haves here.
The world of search is ripe for disruption — and marketers can use that to their advantage by thinking about search in new ways beyond just SEO.
That means building a website that is set up to deliver on three search objectives. Capturing high-intent traffic by ranking in organic search — there's the SEO part — is one of them. But the two most important in 2020? Delivering answers in non-traditional search experiences, and providing a fantastic site search experience that helps you win (and keep!) valuable customers on your site.
Learn more here, and keep an eye out for poll questions on our LinkedIn — letting you vote on what question we answer next!
LAURYN CHAMBERLAIN
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The dog days of summer are a great time for the Tax Specialist to review 2014 returns for Proprietors and Partnerships to determine whether it is time for some of these taxpayers to consider incorporating their business and removing their business from their personal tax return. But when is the best time to incorporate?
1. Is the taxpayer currently paying a higher effective income tax rate than the corporate tax rate for the province of residence?
The current federal tax rate for a Canadian Controlled Private Corporation is 11% on the first $500,000 of net income. Provincially, rates vary by province from a low of 0% in Manitoba to 4.5% in Ontario and PEI. To put this in perspective, a net corporate income of ~$34,000 in Ontario attracts about a 15.5% effective tax rate. If this corporate tax rate is lower than the proprietor's personal income tax rate, it may be time to look at incorporating.
2. Is the taxpayer earning more money in the proprietorship than is required to meet their personal and household needs?
A corporation's lower income tax rate is only effective if the earned income remains within the corporation. If the proprietorship is earning $100K and the taxpayer needs $100K, it is unlikely that a corporation is beneficial for tax purposes.
3. Is there a liability or asset protection benefit to incorporation?
Even if there is no tax benefit to incorporating, there may be a benefit from a liability or asset protection viewpoint. A corporation is a separate legal entity; therefore, the individual cannot be held personally liable for debts incurred within the corporation. This protection can go a long way to protecting family wealth in the event of a business mishap.
4. Is there currently income-splitting potential within the proprietorship?
In most cases the answer to this is no. However, within a corporate structure different classes of shares can be issued, opening up various dividend options. This will then allow income sprinkling among family members to take full advantage of individual graduated rates, exemptions and deductions.
5. Is your client financially disciplined enough to manage a fiscal year-end?
One of the underlying advantages to operating through a corporate structure is the ability to establish a non-calendar fiscal year. This opens up income deferral options, allowing the taxpayer to retain more wealth longer by utilizing ITA S. 78(4).
Acme Corporation has a fiscal year-end of July 30th and elects to declare a bonus payable of $30,000. The bonus is expensed on the corporate tax return as of July 30, 2015.
The bonus is then paid to the individual on January 3rd, 2016 – within the 179 day requirement of S. 78(4).
The bonus is reported on the T4 slip for 2016 and reported on the personal tax return filed April 30, 2017, resulting in a 21-month deferral of personal income taxes.The move from proprietorship to corporation may hold many benefits for the individual taxpayer and at the same time opens up many tax planning and wealth retention opportunities for the individual and their Tax Specialist to explore as the business continues to grow.
It's a warm summer day. You're relaxing in the yard and wondering what could possibly make this day better. And then, out of the blue, you receive an e-mail from Canada Revenue Agency stating that they've discovered they owe you money! Could this be true? Or, do you need to wake up and smell the coffee . . . .? There are two scams in particular to brief your clients about: Refund and Collection Scams.
Refund Scams. Even though hundreds of millions of individuals use e-mail daily, CRA does not. So it's pretty much guaranteed that the e-mail you just received asking for your banking information so that CRA can deposit the funds into your account, is not legitimate. In fact, when you go to check that the funds have been deposited, you will find that you have become a victim and all your funds are gone.
While scams like this are not new and have been happening probably as long as there has been e-mail, they seem to have been especially aggressive this year; CRA currently lists 22 variations of e-mail scams that are being used to extract money from your clients fraudulently.
In addition to e-mail schemes, scammers also use text messages, online form submissions and, in some cases, good old snail mail!
So, a key tax literacy message for your clients is this: CRA does not communicate with taxpayers by electronic means outside of the "My Account" and "My Business Account" portals on their website.
Collection Scams. Reports of telephone calls purportedly from CRA Collections have been making the news recently. According to the CRA newsroom, these calls are very aggressive in nature and go as far as threatening court charges, jail or deportation. The caller demands immediate payment by credit card and, if no credit card exists, demands the immediate purchase of a prepaid credit card.
Is there a reason that CRA may be calling? Do I have a tax balance outstanding?
Is the requestor asking for information I would not include on my tax return?
Is the requestor asking for information I know the CRA already has on file for me?
How did the requestor get my e-mail address or telephone number?
Am I confident I know who is asking for the information?Remember, you can always turn the tables. Ask the caller for the amount on line 150 of your latest tax return. If they can't or won't answer that question, they are not from CRA.If you or your clients have received suspected fraudulent communications from someone, contact the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre at www.antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca or toll-free at 1-888-495-8501.
Michael and Jessica are a young couple living in their condo in Vancouver. How will the budget affect them?
Michael and Jessica are a young couple living in their condo in Vancouver. Condo fees are $250 per month. They have no children and both work earning a total of $100,000. Michael has a registered pension plan at work but Jessica does not. Jessica has accumulated a small RRSP. The couple has no TFSA savings.
Will Michael and Jessica be better off in 2015 than in 2014?
This couple is generally unaffected by changes announced in October 2014 or the 2015 Budget changes. If income in 2015 is unchanged from 2014, the couple's taxes will be reduced slightly as a result of indexation of personal amounts and tax brackets. Depending on income levels, Michael or Jessica may pay slightly more in Employment Insurance Premiums and contribute more to CPP in 2015 as a result of the increase in the maximum insurable and pensionable earnings.
This couple has the potential to derive major benefits from increase in TFSA contribution room. As a young couple, they have a significant period to make contributions to their own TFSAs to generate a significant tax-free retirement income. If fact, with Michael's pension plan, their TFSA accumulations could be more than enough to support a comfortable lifestyle in retirement. Jessica need not use her RRSP contribution room at all – at least until her income is in the highest tax bracket.


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Methadone access is limited at L.A.'s overdose 'epicenter'
To shake off the grip of addiction, Loretta Elias tries daily to get to the unassuming clinic in Boyle Heights where she waits to down a meticulously measured cup of red liquid.
Methadone has helped the 42-year-old avoid the sickness and cravings that come with trying to kick opioids. Elias credits it with helping her to stop using fentanyl, the powerful synthetic drug that has driven up deaths among homeless people in Los Angeles.
But the Boyle Heights clinic is not an easy trip for Elias, who lives on the edge of skid row in the Cecil Hotel. She uses a walker and finds it painful to ride the bus because of a mending hip. So she relies on Soma Snakeoil, an artist and activist who heads a nonprofit, to drive her there daily in her Jeep.
"The hardest part is to get there," Elias said. "Soma — she has so much to do and she goes out of her way to help so many people. But she is only one person."
Skid row has long been the downtown zone where Los Angeles has shunted services for its most destitute. Yet when people like Elias want to try to wrench free from opioid addiction, the closest options for getting daily doses of methadone may be miles away in Boyle Heights, Westlake and South Park, according to federal and local directories. The VA also has a downtown clinic providing methadone treatment, but it treats only veterans eligible for its care.
"It's a real challenge for my patients," said Dr. Emily Thomas, deputy medical director of Housing for Health, a division in the L.A. County Department of Health Services. What health officials here have learned, she said, "is that you really have to bring healthcare services to people experiencing homelessness — and those who are formerly homeless — where they are."
The gap is especially troubling, Thomas said, in an area that is "our overdose epicenter in Los Angeles County."
"The hardest part is to get there," says Elias, who lives at the edge of skid row and gets her daily dose of methadone in Boyle Heights.
(Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)
Medications such as methadone, which dampen cravings and the pangs of withdrawal, have been a crucial way to help people escape opioid addiction, a mission that has only grown more urgent as deaths from drug overdoses have skyrocketed. Less than 12% of teens and adults with opioid use disorder said they had received medication to help them stop misusing opioids in the previous year, according to the 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
It's "key to solving the opioid epidemic," said Jason Kletter, president of California Opioid Maintenance Providers, a group that represents treatment providers across the state. "We know it works. We know that medication combined with counseling is really the gold standard."
Methadone is not the only medication available to people trying to quit opioids: In L.A., Thomas and others at Housing for Health have sought to smooth access to Suboxone, which includes the prescription drug buprenorphine and is not as tightly restricted as methadone. The health services department has been doing monthly prescriptions with refills for people living on the streets — an easier option for many Angelenos than having to come into a clinic daily for methadone.
But buprenorphine is not the best option for everyone. For some fentanyl users, it can trigger a painful experience called precipitated withdrawal. Elias said she tried Suboxone but endured pain when providers had trouble gauging the right dose for her.
"It's a miracle for some people," she said, "but not for me."
Soma Snakeoil is executive director of the Sidewalk Project, which assists unhoused people who use drugs, sex workers, and people facing crises with their mental or physical health. "We have so many people that want to be using methadone," said the nonprofit leader, who goes by the same pseudonym she once used as a sex worker to destigmatize that part of her history. "But you have to drive to Boyle Heights or up towards Filipinotown" — and in skid row, people worry about leaving their tents.
"People are at risk of losing everything, every time they choose to leave the area," she said.
Soma Snakeoil, holding the door open for Elias, is executive director of the Sidewalk Project, which assists unhoused people who use drugs, among others.
L.A. health officials have long been frustrated by the lack of methadone treatment in skid row, but opening a new clinic isn't a simple task. Methadone is "the most regulated area of healthcare," said Dr. Brian Hurley, medical director of the Division of Substance Abuse Prevention and Control for the L.A. County Department of Public Health.
Hurley said that although the county can approve or deny contracts for methadone providers — and would welcome an eligible one in skid row — the location needs to be approved federally and by the state.
When methadone rules were first established, it was part of "the war on crime," said Frances McGaffey, associate manager with the Pew Charitable Trusts' substance use prevention and treatment initiative. "Those rules were not designed to meet the needs of people struggling with a behavioral health condition," and the programs "were set up outside of mainstream medical care."
Unlike in Canada or Britain, methadone cannot be prescribed at a typical clinic in the United States. It can be dispensed only by federally regulated opioid treatment programs that are required to provide counseling and do drug testing. Kletter said that in California, finding and licensing a site can take a year, and getting Medi-Cal certification once a provider is already operating can take additional time, "so you have all the costs of opening a facility, yet you can't bill that program for some time … and you've got to front the costs of physicians, nurses, counselors and security."
Seven years ago, a skid row clinic told The Times it was seeking state approval to dispense methadone there; it never got that approval and the clinic later closed, one of its physicians said.
Hurley said that as it stands, L.A. County doesn't have any contracted providers for the treatment in skid row "due to the lack of contractors who have obtained the federal and state licensure to operate there" and existing providers not having "exercised their authority to set up a satellite clinic there."
At the beginning of taking methadone, patients must generally come in daily to get their medication administered; patients who are deemed stable enough may gradually be allowed to take home a limited number of doses instead of arriving daily. Under federal regulations, patients had been required to be in treatment at least two years before becoming eligible to take home a monthly supply of medication.
Those federal rules were loosened somewhat during the pandemic, allowing more patients to take home a few weeks of medication at a time. Researchers have found that under the looser rules, patients were not significantly more likely to overdose or to stop adhering to the treatment.
But taking home methadone may not be an option for homeless people: Federal and state regulations require methadone providers to consider whether someone has a stable "home environment" and a safe way to store methadone before they can take it home.
The strict rules surrounding the treatment are tied to concerns about methadone — itself a synthetic opioid — being resold and misused to deadly effect. But amid the enduring crisis in overdose deaths, many experts have argued that regulations need to be eased to help more people get treatment.
Methadone treatment is difficult to access in many parts of the country, and "there's a group of people that just don't want to go to a methadone clinic. … How do we address this?" said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health.
One option that is being researched is expanding methadone treatment to pharmacies and other physicians' offices, she said. NIDA has also awarded a grant to a company that is developing a methadone tablet that releases the medication slowly over a week, so that patients do not have to take it as often, Volkow said.
Elias downs her methadone, a meticulously measured red liquid, at the treatment center. In the U.S., it can be dispensed only by federally regulated opioid programs.
BAART Programs, which runs the Boyle Heights clinic, has tried to improve access to methadone and other forms of opioid treatment by obtaining a state grant to operate the Boyle Heights location around the clock. Kletter, who is also president of BayMark Health Services— the parent company to BAART — said the company is working with L.A. County officials to bring more methadone services directly to skid row, possibly through a mobile unit that dispenses the medication.
Federal regulators reopened the door last year to starting more mobile methadone programs, which had been limited by a moratorium for over a decade. But mobile programs can be costly: Kletter said it can cost as much as $350,000 to buy and customize a van for methadone treatment. Another idea is to set up a shuttle to drive people from skid row to its existing sites a few miles away.
Guilt creeps in for Soma Snakeoil when she can't eke out the time in her schedule to drive Elias, an errand that can stretch much longer if a line runs out the door at the Zonal Avenue clinic. She takes work calls and has held Zoom meetings in the parking lot. The two have tried, unsuccessfully so far, to get rideshares to the clinic covered by Elias' health insurance.
"When we miss a day or two because of my schedule, then I feel like I'm really failing this woman … But I just can't," Soma Snakeoil said. "And I want to see so many more people have access, and I don't have a van or time to pick everyone up."
Elias traces her opioid use back to a rollover crash that left her in pain after she was discharged from the hospital. She started with heroin, then later switched to fentanyl. She was in a tent and ailing when Soma Snakeoil first met her years ago. The artist helped coax Elias to go to the hospital to get attention for a grisly wound and stayed with her all night.
Getting Elias into housing has been halting work, thwarted by her shaky health, an overdose that sent Elias back into the hospital, and a thicket of government bureaucracy, Soma Snakeoil said. Since Elias moved into an apartment at the Cecil, she has been taking methadone for a few months, riding to the Boyle Heights clinic and back whenever the nonprofit leader can take her.
"I'm doing things little by little, but it's happening," says Elias, who says she wants to stay off fentanyl for her children and grandchildren.
She has been feeling better and regaining weight. Her wounds — which once were "so big you could put your fist inside them" — are healing.
"I'm doing things little by little," Elias said in the Jeep on the drive over to the Boyle Heights clinic, "but it's happening."
"Little things add up, though, right?" Soma Snakeoil replied, steering the car through downtown. "You're doing so good."
Elias has been especially elated to reunite with her children and grandchildren. Her right arm is tattooed with stars representing each of her children. "Before, I was just telling my kids that I was going to change and do things different," she said. "Now I'm actually getting an opportunity to show them that I'm really trying to get better."
At the Boyle Heights clinic, Elias made her way in on the entry ramp, gripping her walker. She checked in at the reception window, then waited in line. When her turn arrived, Elias headed back to the small room where the medication is administered, recited her birthdate, then downed the cup as a nurse watched behind a clear partition. "Yuck," she uttered.
In the back seat of the Jeep, riding back to the Cecil, Elias pointed to the offices of the L.A. County medical examiner. She had once been interested in mortuary science and was close to earning her degree in forensics, she said.
Now her goals are to stay off fentanyl. To keep seeing her kids and grandkids. To get her ID and Social Security card.
"I haven't participated in the world for the last five years," she said wistfully, gazing out the Jeep window.
"But if you can get on the right path, it's a good path to be on."
Times staff writer Aida Ylanan contributed to this report.
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There is no denying the fact that Saskatchewan is one big, beautiful place. Located in the heart of Canada, bordering Manitoba to the east and Alberta to the west, the province covers a sweeping quarter million square miles. Saskatchewan's majestic geography strikes a chord with visitors and has a deep, resounding impact on those who call Saskatchewan home. No matter where you are, nature is always in your backyard. Explore rugged badlands and pine-topped hills in the south. Heading north, you will pass through mysterious valleys and rolling parklands to arrive at a massive northern boreal forest that shelters 100,000 pristine lakes and an abundance of fish and wildlife. Bears, elk, moose, deer, loons, pelicans, bison and wolves are just a sampling of the wildlife that can be seen. Overhead, dramatic "Living Skies" command attention. With five million acres of parkland and seemingly endless expanses of blue sky as your backdrop, the province has much to offer outdoor adventure seekers. World-class freshwater fishing, canoeing, hiking, wildlife watching, and authentic ranch experiences are just a few of the adventures that await. Along the way you'll discover authentic cultural experiences, vibrant cities and local flavours. At Wanuskewin Heritage Park, discover First Nations culture and stories dating back more than 6,000 years – older than the Egyptian pyramids. In Regina, visit the home of a national icon. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)'s Training Academy has trained all members here since 1885. The richness of the province's agricultural bounty means easy access to fresh, high-quality ingredients for chefs, brewers and distillers.


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In this simulation, students investigate the electric field at various points along a line. They can activate one or two charged particles and set the charge from -30 to 30 nC. A graph showing the electric field as a function of position may be viewed or hidden. Net electric field is calculated at the bottom of the screen.
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We are a small family owned and operated farm in DeKalb County that pastures our animals, working with nature...as it should be.
Steve and Marcia Provines moved on to his family's farm in the summer of 1989 where Steve grew up farming alongside his dad. Throughout the years since they have raised hogs, sheep, chickens, turkeys and cattle for their family. Over 15 years ago they started growing and selling pumpkins and Azzitshudbe Farm was born!
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Bashir Jama is Director of Director of Soil Health at the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). He is a soil scientist who leads a program to help increase food security and improve livelihoods among smallholder farmers in 17 sub-Saharan Africa countries by promoting the use of crop-boosting practices such as integrated soil fertility management. Previously, Jama was a policy advisor for Agricultural and Rural Development with the United Nations Development Program in New York. Jama also worked with the government of Kenya on renewable energy technologies and, for over 19 years, with the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi, Kenya as a principal scientist and regional coordinator for the eastern and central Africa region. He has also served on several international expert committees, most notably the U.N. Millennium Project Task Force on Hunger. Jama has conducted research and published extensively on agroforestry technologies, particularly on integrated soil fertility management strategies for smallholder, low-input systems in sub-Sahara Africa. He has also written about resource management and conservation strategies for drylands. Jama holds a doctorate in agroforestry from the University of Florida at Gainesville.


According to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development rankings of child income poverty rates, the United States disgracefully falls in between Mexico and Lithuania.
All pain of others is ignored…the selfish society!
Unfettered capitalism and trickle down theory at it's very finest!
Want to change it, wherever we find it?
Then as simple as building a few, walk away safe thorium reactors! The using the world's cleanest, safest, cheapest carbon free energy. Power new space age desalination!
And because it's relatively simple! Able to be progressively funded out of existing aid budgets!? Which will eventually be able to be partially unchained from that simple task. To do other more important things!
Deliver reliable affordable potable water then enough food and fibre forever! As drought proofed agriculture!
Which will reverse the current drought created exodus and with that, improve the standard of living both north and south of any border!
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish even allegorically and you feed him and his family forever.
The only danger and forever lurking waiting for yet another chance at delivering a killer blow? Is the pernicious, parasitical paradigm, privatise the profits and socialise the losses. And mostly responsible for all this social injustice and starving millions!
By all means lets give the entrepreneurs free reign! Just not the kitchen sink, the refrigerator and stove, (energy and capital) as part of a bargain for beggars!
If corrupt US politicians care more about their stock portfolios in the health and insurance sectors what exactly do you want me to do about it?
When the most powerful "leader" in the west, owns three companies he hasn't contributed a red cent of his own money too, but rather, owns them courtesy of the taxpayer?
And where the richest man in America, the Oracle from Omaha, only pays half the personal tax, as a percentage of his income, than his Secretary? One begins to understand where the problem lies?
Or when the basic wage is still only seven dollars an hour? And maybe less for many migrant farm workers, while the taxpayer pours annual billions into the farm bill! You start to understand the nature of the problem!
But particularly when you contrast it with the unprecedented period of post war prosperity, brought about by Keynesian economics and massive forced stimulus spending, still peculating up through the real economy!
And not likely to improve anytime soon, with the current economic paradigm in play. Even as we face quite massive technological change and massive job losses accruing to Automation!
So when all the jobs have been automated genius? And virtually all the "labour market" living on charity or their wits? Who is going to pay the tax bill to fund the services and the infrastructure repairs/restoration/renovation/roll out? Father Christmas?
Or should we just wait until the light at the end of the tunnel turns out to be the headlight of the thundering steaming express, destination permanent economic ruin!? As we speed ever faster in ever tightening downward spiral makes us all disappear down some cosmic fundamental?
We was going round the bend doing a million miles an hour, when the chain on my bicycle broke. I was scrapped all over, by the rocks and the gravel and ruptured to death by a spoke.
What a wonderful party! More tea? Hallelujah and pass the biscuits. Ah said biscuits son, not dried cow pats!
I'm still convinced that my 'Socialist Base Level Jobs' idea I came up with a year or so back is the only idea that can change the path of western society.
It might be a big call, but I don't see any other answers.
Then it stands to reason we need Capitalist Jobs (What we have now) with a Socialist Base Level (Socialst Level Jobs).
My idea is 'Double Dole Payment' for anyone who wants to work full time - essentially doing things that save the government money, or be more efficient.
And so we create hundreds of thousands of jobs, all across the country on national infrastructure and incorporating low cost training.
And we remove the 'I can't get a job' excuse, and 'create a culture of employment within the ranks of the unemployed'.
With jobs, the aim is to 'make use of the 5% pool of unemployed workers that capitalism requires to prevent wage growth'.
We administer these jobs in a modern way - through the use of a 'myGov' App - 'Log-In, Select a shift, Confirm, Go to Work'.
The existing system has 'Working Credits'.
I want to include 'Training Credits', where you earn rewards points which can be spent towards training for new skills.
And I want to update the normal standard resume, to a 'digital resume', where the 'App' you log into knows your skills; and offers you different 'job shifts' based on these skills.
With so many jobs, there will be plenty of opportunities to save on the cost of training, which can also be streamlined through 'Apps'.


Bulldogs Win the 80/35 Tournament in a Nail Biter!
Thirteen Denver Bulldogs, including two new rookies made the 10 hour drive north east through Nebraska to Des Moines for the season opening 80/35 Tournament. The Bulldogs have won this tournament 3 of the last 4 years but have traveled with larger numbers and more experienced groups in the past.
With the last of the team arriving after 3am it was always going to be interesting to see how the team performed in their first game against the home team. Assistant Coach Harko designed a game plan around kicking long and running hard but with new players and only a few weeks of training for the team to gel it was going to be a challenge. Led by captain Aaron Summers, the boys had a strong wind behind them in the first half and took advantage of it. The ball was coming out of the middle quickly thanks to some good rucking by the combo of Wufy / Phil and the in and under work from Mich. Nick and Bob both kicked goals early to give the Bulldogs a lead going in to the second half.
Despite kicking in to the wind after the break the Bulldogs increased their lead thanks to the rebound efforts in the back line by Harko and the Posey twins. Inaccurate kicking up forward saw the Bulldogs waist some opportunities but still come out on top 8.10.58 to Des Moines/Tulsa 4.4.28.
In the second game the Bulldogs faced Minnesota, a club that has had the wood on us recently and are packed full of mid-size hard running Americans and a few good Aussies. Kicking with the wind in the first half the Bulldogs were wasteful with several costly turnovers down back and missed opportunities in front of goals. Flashes of brilliance from Wufy in the middle and hard straight-line running from rookie Colin were promising, however, with Minnesota playing one of their best Aussies down back as a loose man in defense they managed to bring the ball out time and time again. The Bulldogs went in to half time down by a goal.
Going in to the final game all clubs were faced with the interesting scenario of being tied at 1 win and 1 loss, so the final games and percentage would be used to determine the winner. With this in mind and the Bulldogs went in with fire in their bellies. Kicking in to the wind in the first half the Bulldogs dropped an extra defender back leaving the forward line a man down. Luckily Wufy stepped up and snuck forward to kick 2 goals in to the breeze staking his claim as a potential forward line player this year. The Bulldogs went in to the half 7 points in front however they knew then would need a win and a percentage booster to secure a championship.
After the scores were tallied the Bulldogs were crowned champions over Minnesota on percentage and skipper Aaron was named among the best of the Tournament. Adam Wufsus won the Players Cup for his consistent work all day and for kicking some crucial goals. Brian Posey won the Clanger Award for telling everyone he was 'turned on' rather than 'switched on' during the Minnesota game.
Well done to the boys who made the trip and to the rookies who stepped up and made the club proud. Next stop is Indianapolis for Centrals Championship.


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Kanō Takanobu (, 1 de diciembre de 1571–18 de octubre de 1618), apodado Ukonshōgen, fue un pintor japonés de la Escuela Kanō de pintura durante el periodo Azuchi–Momoyama (1573–1615). Era el padre de Kanō Tannyū, uno de los pintores más importantes de la escuela.

Vida y carrera
Takanobu nació en Kyoto en el 25º día del 11º mes del 2º año de Genki. Era el hijo más joven de Kanō Eitoku (1543–1590), pintor principal de la Escuela Kanō  y hermano pequeño de Kanō Mitsunobu.

Cuando Kanō Naganobu (1577–1654) - el hermano de Eitoku - se puso a las órdenes del ascendente shogunato Tokugawa y se mudó a su capital administrativa, Edo (Tokio) hacia 1610-1615, Takanobu se quedó en Kioto, donde los pedidos que recibía indicaban que era uno de los favoritos de la Corte.  En ese momento, únicamente Takanobu y Naganobu tenían habilidades suficientes como para encabezar ramas de la escuela.

Con el respaldo financiero del shogunato Tokugawa, Takanobu concibió y dirigió la decoración pictórica para el palacio nuevo del Emperador Go-Mizunoo;  este trabajo fue finalizado en 1614 con Takanobu aplicando los toques finales a muchos de los paneles correderos allí y en los edificios circundantes.  Los veinte tableros que representan a treinta y dos sabios chinos en el salón del trono del shishin-den están atribuidos a Takanobu.  Estos paneles son algunos de los pocos trabajos de Takanobu que han sobrevivido y son las pinturas conservadas más antiguas del shishin-den.

En 1617, Tannyū, el hijo mayor de Naganobu, fue convocado a Edo y convertido en un goyō eshi (ja
), un puesto de pintor exclusivo para el shogunato.  Otro de sus hijos, Kanō Naonobu (1607–50), sobre salió como cabeza de la rama de Kyoto a la muerte de Takanobu en 1618, aunque él también se mudará a Edo en 1630.  La línea continuaría con otro hijo de Mitsunobu, Sadanobu, quién murió sin un heredero en 1623, pero que había adoptado al hijo menor de Takanobu, Yasunobu, el cual continuó así la línea de Kyoto línea hasta que él también fue nombrado goyō eshi y se trasladó a Edo, aunque mantuvo su reclamación como cabeza de la rama de Kyoto.

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Bibliografía

Gerhart, Karen M. (2003). "Talent, Training, and Power: The Kano Painitng Workshop in the Seventeenth Century". In Brenda G., Jordan; Virginia, Weston. Copying the Master and Stealing His Secrets. University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 9–30. ISBN 9780824862008.
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Faster Connectivity: The application on an average only takes 2.74 seconds to establish a connection to the VPN. This is one of the fastest connection times in the case of VPN connectivity.
Free Account: A Free version is also provided by which one can test the application before making the purchase.
Fair Refund Policy: If you make the purchase and then realize that it doesn't match with your requirements, then you can ask for the refund before seven days of purchase.
Cheaper: The monthly price is only six dollars which is one of the cheapest deals.
Mobile Only Plans: They have a separate plan for mobile devices which just costs two dollars.
Poor Speed for Free Accounts: Speed is not that good for the free users as there are very few servers available for them. However, if you purchase the product, you can use forty plus server locations, and hence, speed would be more.
Limited Platforms: The client is not available for MacOS, and no extension is added for any browser.
No Server Sorting: They do not offer any server sorting option, and one needs to select the server automatically.
Live Chat Missing: No live chat option is present, and the only way to contact them is by generating a ticket.
ZPN comes under the law of the United Arab Emirates which is not one of the Fourteen Eyes, and that's one reason one can trust the application.
The application has a simple user interface which is having a few features. These features are explained under the "User Interface and Experience" section and are related to connectivity, protection, and client behavior. The simplistic design is a special attribute of ZPN.
The speed, availability of platforms, and customer support are also discussed, and suggestions are provided along with it during this review.
ZPN has a long way to go to reach the summit, but as of now its limitations can be neglected if you are looking for cheap VPN deals.
Have a look at different aspects by which the VPN is judged, and you will find if it is a perfect solution for you or not.
For the free version, very few servers are provided, and to use all the servers, you need to buy the premium account. After buying the premium account, you will be able to access all the servers they offer.
In total, forty plus server locations are provided which are present in thirty plus countries. Out of these forty plus server locations, only less than ten server locations are available for free users. This will directly affect the speed. As there are only a few servers for free users, the load would be high, and speed would be low.
If we first talk about the free users, the servers are located in France, the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, The United States, Canada, and Italy. So, the free servers are only situated in North America and Europe. That's why the free version of this application is not recommended for the users of continents other than North America and Europe.
However, if you purchase the application, you will be able to access servers located in other continents also. In Europe itself, one gets the option to connect to twenty plus server location, ten plus in the case of North America, and eight locations for Asia.
In South America, the server is located in Brazil. Similarly, the option to connect to the only Oceanian server located in Australia will get enabled with the paid account.
P2P optimized servers are also added, but not provided for the free users.
However, they can also add some sorting options according to load, distance, and latency. That will help the user to identify the perfect server for his requirement. An additional server list for streaming servers can also be added to the application.
The connection time analysis provided us with astonishing results by connecting our system to the VPN in less than four seconds. It is one of the highest connection times until now, and that ensures that the application efficiently sets up a reliable connection.
Among all the trials, the highest connection time is 3.61 seconds, and the lowest one is 2.43 seconds. All the other trials are placed between these two trials which deliver a range of 1.18 seconds. This is the one the smallest ranges provided by any VPN provider.
Due to a small range, one can predict that the exact time in which the application will establish a connection to the VPN. In the ZPN's case, one can be ensured that it will connect just after the user presses the connect button.
Also, it is connected to the server location situated in France. That shows that the ZPN's connection time will always be high irrespective of the distance between the user's location and the server.
In rare chances, it may go up to five seconds, but it is still acceptable as it is also not that high. The highest connection time of ZPN is lesser than the least connection time of most of the providers. So, when it comes to connectivity, ZPN gets a clean pass.
Like the other VPN providers, ZPN uses OpenVPN, and with this protocol, it is tough to get such a slower connection time due to the presence of additional security layers. However, there are a few VPN providers such as Astrill which uses a protocol which is "connectionless protocol," but in with that protocol, high security can't be ensured.
Speed is not at all up to the mark. ZPN can't be used for streaming purpose as the reduction noticed in the case of download speed is 70%. With such a reduction even if you have high-speed internet, the speed obtained after the connection can't be marked acceptable.
The original download and upload speeds were 9.13 Mbps and 8.19 Mbps respectively. With such speeds, we were expecting that we will at least get a download speed of 5 Mbps and upload speed of 4 Mbps. Generally, the VPN applications are efficient enough to provide half of the original speed.
However, in the ZPN's case, the disappointment was high and not the speed. They only provided 2.74 Mbps as download speed and 0.64 Mbps as upload speed. If you have a look at the upload speed, you will see that it cannot be used even for uploading high resultion images. It may also cause a problem while sending messages as you may end up seeing various communication errors.
The reduction in upload speed is 93%, and such a reduction is not seen while using any other VPN application before.
However, we connected our system with France's server which was selected automatically. The distance between our location and France is more than seven thousand kilometers. Hence, high speed cannot be experienced. But even if the location is that far, it must have provided at least 40% in both the cases (download and upload).
There is server present in our own country but setting up a connection to it was not be possible as it requires premium version. Among all the limited servers provided for the free users, France's server was provided by default. Hence, it can be concluded as the fastest one in all the options we have. So, free users can't expect a higher speed. However, if you purchase the premium version, an acceptable speed may be provided.
Bandwidth limit of 10 GB per month is there for the free users.
The company has implemented AES 256-bit encryption, and OpenVPN is available along with it. No combination can deliver higher security than the combination of AES encryption and OpenVPN protocol.
In addition, there are various leak protection features added in the application.
One's data is safeguarded from IPv6 leakage. Also, they have their own DNS servers which provide DNS leak protection.
The most necessary security requirement: the kill switch can also be found under general settings.
When it comes to data logging, they only keep our email ID in their databases. However, the bandwidth associated with that email is also calculated for free users as there is a limit of 10 GB. For the paid users there is no bandwidth tracking.
They share user's data with partnered agencies which support ZPN. Other than these companies, the data is not being shared with any other third-party. But the law asks for the information, they may need to hand over all the data they may have which is definitely risky. If the government asks them to keep track of the user's activity, they claim that they inform the user about this, and stop the service if necessary.
The client has efficiently made a balance between simplicity and user control. Only a few, but most of the required features are added to the application. This means .
The features are divided into two categories: General and Connectivity.
Under the "General" settings, not only the client behavior features, but the protection features are also added.
When it comes to the client behavior, you get the option to choose when you wish to connect the application to the VPN, i.e., you can checkmark the option "automatically want it to connect to the VPN on Windows startup." You can also select to reconnect it automatically if the VPN connection drops. That reduces the manual task of connecting the application every time whenever you start the system or whenever the VPN connection drops.
Below these features, there are leak protection features. You can checkmark IPv6 leak protection which will block the IPv6 data that is not supported by the application. That way, the unsupported data won't get leaked.
Similarly, for safeguarding the information about the DNS requests, DNS leak protection is added.
The Kill switch is also added which blocks the internet traffic whenever the VPN connection goes down. In case if you are using the internet, and the security layer of the VPN tunnel goes OFF, all of your data can be exposed, similar to the standard internet traffic. At that time, hackers may easily obtain it. To avoid this, the kill switch is an important implementation.
Under the connection settings, you can choose the gateway: API or Google. Generally, API is recommended, but if you aren't able to establish a consistent connection, you can use the other option. However, it is a third-party tool, and one should avoid using it whenever possible.
Other than OpenVPN protocol, they use two other protocols: AntiDPI, which is the by default protocol, and the SSL VPN. If user is concerned about security along with privacy, then OpenVPN must be used every time as it provides security as well as an acceptable speed.
With OpenVPN, if the connection isn't consistent, then you can switch between TCP and UDP. Also, availability of port selection is a relief as it allows you to change the protocol and port combination to get a consistent connection finally.
Other than these features, nothing else is added, not even server sorting options. But they have marked file sharing servers by adding "P2P" after the location name in the server list.
For improving the user experience, they first need to enhance the speed. For the free users, the application is not worthy. If speed is high in case of premium users, then this application is perfect for the users who don't wish to use a VPN application which has many configuration options.
Also, if they improve the customer support with the help of live chat, the application may get attention from users of various locations, but if you are planning it to use it for free, you can't expect much.
When it comes to the platforms that ZPN has covered, the answer would be unsatisfactory. It has not even covered all the major platforms. The free client is only available for Windows, iOS, and Android. It is not even available for MacOS.
For MacOS, you can install the configuration files available for OpenVPN and L2TP.
Configuration files are also available for Windows, iOS, Android, and Linux. One can install the setups with OpenVPN protocol or L2TP protocol.
Other than this, you can download ZPN box setup which you can use for configuring ZPN Box which is a hardware device.
There are five simultaneous connections possible which are enough according to the platforms which they provide. However, they should add router configuration and an extension for mainstream browsers.
Live chat is not there when someone need quicker help, and FAQs section is also not having many questions answered. The question-answers available in this section doesn't provide much information about the queries.
The only way to get help is by generating a ticket. All you need to do is to provide them an email ID, and then send them the query. They will contact you back through email.
However, you can't expect instant replies to the email, and thus, if you are using the ZPN, it isn't suggested to rely on customer support.
ZPN has a simple client which is best suited for the users who just wish to encrypt the internet traffic and change their location. However, if somewhat improvement in the speed is made, the usability of the client will improve exponentially.
There can be the possibility that such a low speed was experienced because we were using the free-trial. Perhaps, if we are using the paid version, the speed would be higher. You can also try it yourself, and if you are not satisfied, they will refund the amount if requested before the seven days of purchase.
Also, one major factor that stops us from recommending ZPN is its customer support. They only have the option of ticket generation if someone wishes to contact with them. If live chat is added, direct communication will become easy.
However, with a price of six dollars per month, they bring us one of the cheapest deals. And if you don't wish to buy it, you can also take advantage of their free-trial which has no hidden costs.


Tucked in between the University Avenue Bridge and the Gray's Ferry Bridge, behind the Waste Management transfer center and the old Dupont-Marshall lab site, is the newest segment of the Schuylkill River Trail under construction and the first to touch South Philadelphia. The Crescent, a 3300 stretch of greenway that will have a multi-use path and open green space, hugs the east side of the Schuylkill River between 34th Street and Wharton Avenue. When completed, it will be the first SRT segment built since the path was completed in 2004 between the Art Museum and Locust Street. According to the project's sponsor, the Schuylkill River Development Corporation , planting will start in the fall and the completion date should be around the end of the year. You can access the path from the bottom of the Gray's Ferry Bridge (at 36th Street, next to the FedEx Express Ship Center driveway) and at the corner of Wharton and Schuylkill (near the Philadelphia Trolley Works). A ramp from the 34th Street Bridge (not yet built) will be the third access point. Photos of the Crescent at various stages of construction are here.


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Amazon's Jeff Bezos to Step Down as CEO
Bezos founded Amazon in 1994.
Updated: Feb 2, 2021 10:20 pm
Posted: Feb 2, 2021 9:24 pm
Amazon has announced that CEO and founder Jeff Bezos will resign from his position during the third quarter of 2021, and will transition to executive chair of Amazon's board. Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Andy Jassy will replace Bezos, according to CNBC.
"I'm excited to announce that this Q3 I'll transition to Executive Chair of the Amazon Board and Andy Jassy will become CEO," Bezos wrote in a statement sent to employees. "In the Exec Chair role, I intend to focus my energies and attention on new products and early initiatives. Andy is well known inside the company and has been at Amazon almost as long as I have. He will be an outstanding leader, and he has my full confidence."
Bezos continued his statement saying that he will use his new role as executive chair of Amazon's board to focus on initiatives like Amazon's Day 1 Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, the Washington Post, and others.
Bezos originally founded Amazon in 1994, growing what began as an online bookstore into a massive online retailer that competes in numerous sectors, including food delivery, technology, and movie and television streaming. Amazon passed a $1 trillion market cap in 2020 under Bezos' leadership.
Bezos is worth approximately $182 billion as of last December, according to NPR, making him the wealthiest person on the planet.
Jassy joined Amazon in 1997. He has directed work on Amazon Web Services since its launch in 2006. AWS provides a wide variety of cloud computing and API services to individuals and companies, including data storage, networking, developer tools, and more. To give you an idea of how important AWS had become to Amazon's success, CNBC reports that AWS accounted for 52% of Amazon's operating income in October 2020.
AWS supports various game developers' operations, including Clash of Clans' developer Supercell, Borderlands 3's Gearbox Software, and Monster Hunter World's Capcom.
Amazon's forays into first-party video game development have gone considerably less successful in the past year, with their free-to-play team shooter Crucible shutting down in November last year. An extensive report from Bloomberg in January shed light on Amazon Game Studios' alleged culture of sexual discrimination and mismanagement.
Amazon's game streaming platform, Amazon Luna, is also currently in beta. Amazon's MMO, New World, is expected to launch in Spring 2021.
After stepping further away from day-to-day operations at Amazon, Bezos found himself pulled back in due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the logistical complications that arose as a result, according to the New York Times.
Bezos has also been criticized numerous times in the past for anti-worker policies, including aggressively monitoring employee behavior to stop unionization efforts, according to CNBC. Amazon also temporarily closed a New Jersey warehouse after a spike in COVID-19 cases among workers in December. In October, Amazon stated that 20,000 employees had caught COVID-19 during the first six months of the pandemic.
Joseph Knoop is a writer/producer for IGN.


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By Tyler DurdenPosted on March 20, 2017
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Empires have one historical constant: they fail.
President Trump likes deals and campaigned on his deal-making prowess. Negotiation requires parties who respect each other enough to bargain in good faith. It is a lost art in US foreign policy, replaced by imperatives: we tell you what to do and you do it. This makes the US government the world's most hated institution. Negotiation poses an existential threat to a Deep State grown powerful and wealthy imposing US dominance on the rest of the world, and increasingly, the American people. Dominance implies unipolarity; negotiation implies multipolarity.
During his campaign, Trump resonated with voters and put the Deep State on alert, voicing two criticisms of unipolarity: its cost and its failures. Trump's criticism of NATO, particularly of costs borne primarily by the US, should be an opening salvo in a wider war against the costs of US empire. The US has over 800 bases in over 150 countries. The annual expense of maintaining those outposts is substantial, and other personnel costs, high-tech weaponry, and foreign military interventions run into the hundreds of billions. (Foreign interventions are usually kept off budget by one of Washington's beloved accounting tricks.) Total annual spending for the military and intelligence, including veterans benefits, is close to $1 trillion.
There is significant waste and corruption. The Defense Department has never passed an audit, and trillions of dollars remain unaccounted for. Most of the intelligence agencies' budgets are "black box"—undisclosed—but waste and corruption on a comparable scale is probably a safe assumption.
All that money has bought multiple failures. The US has turned the Middle East and Northern Africa into a chaotic quagmire that has led to increased terrorism and refugee flows in the millions. Trump's campaign adroitly played on popular fears of refugees and terrorism, but he's maintaining the policies that produce them. More US forces are being sent to Iraq and Syria, and one special forces' operation in Yemen has resulted in the first US military death (and the deaths of at least 10 Yemeni civilians) on Trump's watch. He has shown no inclination to stop or curtail drone strikes, covert operations, or proxy warfare.
Trump's military policy in the Middle East has been indistinguishable from Obama's, and a subtle diplomatic shift demonstrates that US unipolarity, rather than multipolar "deals," will continue to be the order of the day. Obama's nuclear deal with Iran was a throwback to presidents Kennedy, Nixon, and Reagan, who negotiated arms control agreements with hostile powers. It has achieved its primary aim – nobody claims Iran is now developing nuclear weapons – yet Trump and team continuously criticize it. Iran has taken a substantial risk with the nuclear treaty. Muammar Gaddafi explicitly renounced nuclear weapons and terminated Libya's embryonic program, while Saddam Hussein never had them, and the US violently deposed both of them. ( And US officials wonder why North Korea "clings" to its nuclear program!) Yet, Trump officials have put Iran "on notice," called for renewed sanctions, and rattled the invasion sabers because Iran fired missiles that were not banned in the agreement.
An objective assessment of repressive "state sponsors of terrorism" in the Middle East would conclude that Saudi Arabia is at least as culpable, if not more so, than Iran. Saudi Arabia has supported al Qaeda offshoot ISIS (which Iran is fighting) in Syria and Iraq. It is waging war against its tiny, impoverished neighbor, Yemen, on the unproven contention that the Houthi rebels they're fighting are an Iranian proxy force. Al Queda in Yemen has been the beneficiary of this Saudi campaign. The US has been helping the Saudis, providing weapons and other military and intelligence support. After a Saudi missile, bought from the US, struck a Yemeni funeral, killing over 100 people, Obama held up an arms sale, but Trump is reconsidering and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is pushing for it. Thousands of its citizens are dying of malnutrition, but relief convoys can't get through because Saudi Arabia has bombed much of the infrastructure. Yet, nobody is putting Saudi Arabia "on notice." Trump recently sat down with the Saudi deputy crown prince for a convivial lunch.
Yemen marks the latest in a string of American military adventures stretching back to Korea. These forays have increased the power and wealth of the US military-industrial-intelligence complex, but have not attained any concrete military objective, i.e., winning. In Washington, nothing succeeds like failure. Trump has promoted some of failure's architects to prominent places in his administration, and he's increasing the military's already bloated budget, with no check on its spendthrift ways. Notwithstanding failure's staggering costs in blood and treasure, substantial elements of the foreign policy, military, and intelligence establishment, (including Hillary Clinton), want to train their sights on Syria, Iran, North Korea, Russia and China. After sixteen years the US cannot win a war in Afghanistan, but they want to take on the world's second and third largest military forces (and nuclear arsenals) and three of their allies.
Trump's voters elected him to reject, not buy into, the establishment and Clinton's absurdity. Russia and China do not have the economic or military strength to build empires. (Nobody does; empires dissipate, not increase, strength.) They recognize the multipolarity the US rejects, and are leading diplomatic, financial, and economic initiatives with nations stretching from Southeast Asia to Europe. Whatever noises Trump made about establishing better relations with Russia have fallen by the wayside in the wake of the Russian "election hacking" and undue influence allegations. His administration's stance towards China has been nonstop bluster. Last week Tillerson told North Korea it had better shape up or else, the "else" being possible US military action (LINK). As Justin Raimondo has argued, the tense and highly militarized situation on the Korean peninsula requires negotiations between the US, the Koreas, and China; saber rattling could lead to Korean War II or worse.
Trash talk, gestures, and threats may play well to domestic crowds, but they don't get you far in international relations. If Trump engages in skirmishes over the Deep State's surveillance of him, but carries water for its disastrous policies, including its surveillance of the American people, then his election was a waste of time. He can recognize the evolving multipolar world and negotiate, compromise, and deal, or he can try to maintain the US's fading dominance. If he chooses the former, he has a shot at greatness. If he chooses the latter, his presidency will fail with the US empire.
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