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How a scrappy community foundation set out to raise $100 million
Cara Dingus Brook
Philanthropy Magazine Fall 2018
Here in Appalachian Ohio, we often say our community foundation started like an Amish barn-raising: everyone showed up with what they could offer, and we got to work. We lacked traditional financial assets, endowments, and philanthropy know-how, but were rich in vision and commitment from the community.
We opened our offices in Nelsonville, at the heart of the "Little Cities of Black Diamonds"—an area nicknamed for the coal it produced. Many of our communities had developed as mining-company towns. They boomed when resource extraction was in full swing, and endured the economic and psychological depression that came with the busts.
Today, 20 years after we opened our doors, we are surrounded by physical reminders of our region's challenges and resilience. Across from our office is an architectural treasure—a former hotel where U.S. presidents stood on an ornate second-floor balcony to deliver speeches to miners gathered below. The hotel is now used for low-income housing, a necessity in our county, where the poverty rate is 31 percent. A few doors in the other direction is a food pantry. One in five local families depends on this or another pantry. One of the most painful situations in our region today are the families and lives disintegrating because of addiction.
Amid these visible needs, we are at an unseen disadvantage when it comes to pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps: a severe "philanthropy gap." Appalachian Ohio has 90 percent fewer philanthropic assets per capita than the rest of Ohio.
This gap has nothing to do with a lack of generosity. During our boom period, our communities were new and had not yet developed the civic infrastructure, local ownership, or capacity required to retain wealth. More developed economic centers like Pittsburgh and Cleveland were better able to reinvest and retain the wealth flowing from our local natural resources—so secondary business successes, and then great philanthropy, were concentrated there. When the bust arrived, our citizens had to pick up and move, or be swept into a consuming struggle to make ends meet.
The dominant style of giving that emerged emphasized immediate demands, and neighbors helping neighbors. Obituaries commonly share how to help with funeral expenses. In a coffee shop below the historic balcony described above there is a bulletin board where citizens post information on fundraisers helping families in crisis: all-you-can-eat dinners, motorcycle "poker runs," "Chinese auctions," and other benefit events aimed at helping pay medical bills and other expenses.
Inside the coffee shop there are frequently informal meetings among barbers, bankers, and business owners where they plan ways to pool resources to help others. One recent project aimed to boost the crown jewel of Nelsonville—a beautiful opera house, built when our economy attracted theater troupes to perform for miners with cash in their pockets. Against many odds, the community raised funds for renovations ensuring a lively community music and arts center.
Our community foundation was created in 1998 to offer the stability and sustainability that endowments, joint trusts, and legacy gifts can provide to a close-knit area like ours. Today, the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio is home to more than 450 charitable funds, serving all 32 counties of Appalachian Ohio, including an endowment for Nelsonville's opera house. Our remarkable journey is worth sharing.
Built from scratch
When Frederick Goff founded the world's first community foundation, the Cleveland Foundation, in 1910, the starting funds were mostly shifted from trusts that already existed. When we launched our local counterpart we began with no resources at all. Our initial asset was a pledge from the state to match every gift we could secure for operations, up to $1 million. Gifts came in all sizes, but most were small.
One major commitment came from the Ford Foundation, which had a program for seeding community philanthropy in new places, like ours. A Nebraska-based surgeon who had grown up in our region provided an endowment for an annual scholarship to honor his high-school football coach. An elderly woman in California sought us out through her attorney after watching a television program on Appalachia, establishing a fund to benefit children.
Even with these generous gifts, we did not have significant dollars to grant, so we started by developing a public-awareness campaign. The region's losses had resulted in a culture of diminished expectations. Our trademarked I'm a Child of Appalachia initiative shares stories of educational, entrepreneurial, and charitable success. A first honoree and spokesman was Bob Evans, founder of the popular restaurant chain.
A CPA working with us suggested that as a regional foundation we could help by developing local community funds under our umbrella. That effort has yielded ten active county community foundations supporting and inspiring local philanthropy. The first of these foundations now distributes $250,000 in annual grants. Our work to create wide, small-scale participation helped us establish a large grassroots network of partners. And when one community developed a successful initiative, it often produced ideas that could quickly be shared with others nearby. For example, a grant to a community drug coalition in one county sparked prevention strategies in 12 other locations.
We also led larger regional improvements. We formed a business council and a regional economic development organization. These help us retain local business talent, and stimulate the wealth creation that ultimately leads to philanthropic giving.
The Foundation for Appalachian Ohio is working to match the region's physical beauty with a robust philanthropic infrastructure.
Despite these accomplishments, I felt completely out of place at national philanthropy gatherings. Many foundation heads commanded large sums, and wondered where to channel them. Sometimes my primary concern was making payroll.
A first-of-its-kind "IPO"—Initial Philanthropic Offering
All this was on my mind when a board member asked, "What do you think we could do for the region if we were not always worried about raising our operating dollars?" My reply came so swiftly it surprised even me: "We would raise $100 million."
It sounded outlandish—we were struggling to secure our annual budget of $800,000. But I was painfully aware of how much time was absorbed to keep our lights on. If we could secure some major gifts and expand our asset base, we could actually have more energy for working with our partners to improve life in this region.
We studied the idea and concluded that if we devoted ourselves to the task for five years, raising $100 million was not impossible. First we would pull together $3.2 million to underwrite our operating budget during the campaign. That capital would buy us the freedom to focus on our long-term goal.
We asked ourselves what we would do to raise this sum if we were a private company. Our board chair was an angel investor. Another board member had taken his company public. Yet another had led a venture-capital fund. We devised an "IPO"—an Initial Philanthropic Offering—centered on the compelling value proposition that if our neighbors would invest $3.2 million in us, that would equip us to raise $100 million in new philanthropy in the handful of years following.
We set up a system of "shares"—each constituting a gift of $32,000—and went looking for 100 "shareholders." Within six months, we had secured all the required pledges. Our Initial Philanthropic Offering was a success.
These early shareholders were mostly friends and family. They included all of our board members. Our initial founders. Everyone who held a donor-advised fund with us. Many local businesses. And some large national corporations. As we asked for financial pledges, we also asked each shareholder for his or her personal commitment to help us succeed via a different set of gifts—ideas, experience, introductions, and feedback.
Most participating families gifted one share. One spouse, though, decided she wanted to have a share of her "own," so her family contributed two. Several families who could afford it followed her lead. Many gave sacrificially at a time in their lives when they faced the expenses of raising children. A large-equipment dealer, Ohio CAT, offered to match gifts so that those who found a full share beyond their giving capacity could join in. Some of the people who gave shares lived outside our region, but had grown up here; giving a share was a way for them to reconnect with their roots.
Gulfport Energy, the largest natural gas-and-oil company in Ohio, felt so strongly about helping make sure that our region's shale-energy development would generate local philanthropic wealth that it provided a major leadership gift—one "share" for every community it operated within. Another unexpected gift of multiple shares came from Ohio University, which understood how our region's philanthropy gap impeded its educational mission. Our final gift came from the region's largest utility, American Electric Power. It pushed us over the top of our initial goal to 106 shares.
We held a public celebration and anounced that we were going to raise a total of $100 million to transform Appalachian Ohio. The next morning we returned to the office feeling, as one shareholder put it, "like the dog who was chasing a van and caught it." What were we going to do with this thing in our mouth? How would we keep this promise?
The case for endowment
Our IPO raised more than just initial funding—it raised all of our expectations. We provided our shareholders a constant stream of information about strategy and results, endowment growth, new partners, and exciting grantmaking. Our investors became close partners, and their belief and energy was crucial to the next step of our challenge—building an endowment.
Raising endowment funds is no easy task. Amid urgent human needs, funding an endowment can seem like an inert form of philanthropy. Most givers these days prefer to support specific programs, where they can see immediate results, and have hands-on involvement. And, nationally, there have been too many reports of bloated endowment trusts, unresponsive managers, and endowed organizations that drift from or openly disrespect the original intentions of donors.
But in a community like ours, an endowment can be a powerful new tool. One of the fundamental barriers to progress in Appalachia is that our charitable investments are rarely sustained. Watching promising efforts dissipate due to a lack of long-term funding zaps energy from our most talented citizens. Stable endowments will help us create lasting and permanent improvements, by providing the resources we need to direct our own future.
When we set our goal of raising $100 million, we gave ourselves a 15-year timeframe. Four years later, we have more than $64 million delivered or pledged—the vast majority for endowment. An early leadership donation helped to set the pace. A shareholder and his partner pledged 97 percent of their estate to endowments benefiting the region, inspiring many others to make planned gifts.
Our grantmaking since our IPO has tripled. Our shareholders' generous gifts to our operations freed us to devote our energy to working deeply with our partners on successful regional programs. An early first step has been building five funds we call the "Pillars of Prosperity"—endowments dedicated to community and economic development, education, arts and culture, environmental stewardship, and health and human services. And to give donors the best of both worlds, we've created a unique blended-gift campaign that allows donors to give simultaneously to present-day programming and endowment.
As with any entrepreneurial venture, we don't know exactly where we will end up. Continual improvisation and improvement is the name of the game. But we are confident we will succeed—because we do not go alone. Our confidence is placed in the hands and hearts of the children of Appalachia.
Cara Dingus Brook is president and CEO of the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio.


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Joe Biden's inaugural address gives hope to the millions who stutter
Jan 21, 2021 12:33 PM By The Conversation
President Joe Biden was sworn in on January 20th, showing that a speech disorder is not an insurmountable barrier to reaching America's highest office. POOL / Kevin Dietsch
Rodney Gabel, Binghamton University, State University of New York
President Joe Biden called for American unity after four years of political divisiveness and the "raging fire" it provoked. He promised to be a president for all Americans. "I will fight as hard for those who did not support me as for those who did," he said.
It was a message of hope and optimism. And while his intent was clearly to speak to all of America, his speech spoke in a different way to a particular community. The new president stutters, and his speech, made with the whole world watching, was a powerful example to those millions of Americans who, like me, stutter.
When I was 11 years old, my speech-language pathologist told me: "Look, John Stossel (the television personality) stutters, and he speaks beautifully. You will be able to do that, too."
My therapist was trying to motivate me, but the message was that my goal should be to speak perfectly.
For me, that was not the case. By age 14, I already knew my stuttering was not going anywhere. Although I'm a fairly strong communicator, I continue to experience stuttering – a neurological condition that impacts the fluent, forward flowing production of speech.
Like me, roughly 1% of the world's population stutters. That translates to more than 70 million people worldwide and over 3 million people in the United States, including Biden.
Biden's experience with stuttering is a compelling one. What inspires me is the way he talks about his experience as a person who stutters. For people who stutter, the presidential campaign, Biden's election and his inauguration mark an important change in how we discuss stuttering.
A need for understanding
People who stutter often suffer discrimination at work, as students and in social relationships.
Several studies show that the general population knows very little about stuttering. Many Americans also believe that people who stutter are less intelligent, less competent and more anxious.
Although I was surrounded by good friends, it felt very lonely to be a child who stutters. I was bullied and teased by my peers. People imitated how I spoke, interrupted when I was talking and even laughed when I stuttered.
Unfortunately, most role models were not helpful. Mel Tillis, the American country singer who used his stuttering as part of his stage persona, and Porky Pig, a cartoon character who stuttered, were the targets of jokes.
My goal became clear around my fifth birthday: I must find a way not to stutter.
Today, many children who stutter receive this message, although there is no "cure" for stuttering. Therapy and group support can help. But for many, stuttering requires attention for their entire lives.
Biden stands up to bullies
Biden has spoken about his struggles with stuttering during speeches for the National Stuttering Association and the American Institute for Stuttering.
But he had spoken sparingly about his stuttering in the mainstream media until his campaign for president began in 2019. Throughout the campaign season, President Donald Trump and his surrogates began seizing on hesitations and other characteristics of Biden's speech.
During the campaign trail, Trump called Biden "Sleepy Joe" and said he was out of touch. He said Biden suffers from dementia. These insults were due partially to Biden's age but also to the differences in his speech.
Biden responded to former White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, who mocked his stuttering during a 2019 Democratic presidential debate.
"I've worked my whole life to overcome a stutter. And it's my great honor to mentor kids who have experienced the same. It's called empathy. Look it up," Biden said via Twitter.
During a CNN town hall in February 2020, he said he continues to stutter when he is tired.
This was good for me to hear, and I believe good for other people who stutter. Talking about stuttering, instead of trying to hide it, is an important part of coping.
Biden also chose Brayden Harrington to speak at the virtual Democratic National Convention. Harrington, a teenager who stutters, shared how Biden had helped him in 2019 by telling him it was OK to stutter.
He also shared how the former vice president continued to stay in touch. "Joe Biden cares," Harrington said during his speech.
To me, it felt as if stuttering was finally being discussed in public and in a positive manner.
The first president who stutters
Certainly, Biden's election as president matters for many reasons.
I suspect there have been more news articles and opinion pieces about stuttering published in major newspapers in the past 18 months than in the prior 18 years.
This is important because it raises awareness of stuttering and helps those in the stuttering community feel connected with others who also stutter, thus helping all of us understand their struggles.
Biden is an important role model because he has begun to talk openly about stuttering and because he has demonstrated that one can still stutter while communicating well and achieving astonishing goals.
Rodney Gabel, Professor and Founding Director, Binghamton University, State University of New York

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Last month, I described the key provisions of buy/sell agreements, which allow families to restrict business ownership to people with whom they choose to be partners. If a current shareholder intentionally or unintentionally transfers stock to a non-permitted person, the agreement specifies how the stock may be returned to appropriate hands.
It is the equivalent of a prenuptial agreement, since it sets the terms of a business divorce should the undesirable event ever occur in the future. However, despite the noble objectives, many families have trouble discussing and agreeing to some of the most critical terms.
Perhaps the toughest provision of all is valuation. Since the triggering event may not occur for many years or even decades, it is wise to set a mechanism that will self-adjust based upon changing conditions.
There are numerous ways to set the pricing mechanism, but they can be divided into several categories.
Book value is the difference between assets and liabilities on the balance sheet. A multiple or fraction of book value probably is the most common valuation approach. It is simple, easily understood and easily calculated.
Can be manipulated through choice of accounting methods.
Reflects historical asset cost, not current asset value.
Reflects past earnings, not future earnings potential.
The latter point is particularly important for most family businesses. For example, assume two businesses, each with a book value of $1 million. The first business is expected to generate annual profit of $500,000, while the second only $10,000. Do you think both are worth $1 million? If you do, give me a call. I have a nice bridge for sale.
Some families punt on the valuation question by agreeing to meet periodically to set a new stock price. This approach allows the family to adjust the value for changes in business conditions.
As long as no one wants or needs to sell, it is easy to agree on a new value. However, if someone is considering a sale, you can bet that the next meeting will become a major negotiation. That defeats the buy/sell objective of avoiding negotiations when tensions are high and interests diverge.
In my experience, families just don't seem to get around to doing it. Since the most recent value sticks until the parties agree to change it, the price tends to get rather stale.
An independent appraisal is, at least theoretically, the most accurate way to determine fair market value. Why? A good appraiser considers not only history, but also current asset value and future earnings potential. Granted, appraisers are not astrologers, but at least they consider facts and trends at the time of the transaction.
The shareholders don't know what their stock value is from time-to-time unless the company periodically incurs the cost of an appraisal.
Appraisals are somewhat subjective. Qualified appraisers may come up with different values. However, appraisers usually fall within a reasonable range if they are truly independent, unbiased and given the same information. Pay attention to buy/sell provisions concerning appraiser selection and the appraisal process.
A major potential point of contention is discounts for lack of marketability and control. Perhaps the family should agree to the size of these discounts and not leave it to the appraiser's discretion. The agreement can instruct the appraiser accordingly.
An appraiser friend says he knows he has found fair value when both sides are mad at him! That speaks volumes. It might be better for family members to be mad at the appraiser than each other!
For operating businesses, appraisers usually place great weight on multiples of earnings and/or cash flow. The multiples are based on price-to-earnings and similar ratios of comparable public companies. To avoid appraisal costs, you could use these types of formulas in your buy/sell to approximate fair market value.
An informed approach to selecting formulas is to ask an appraiser to describe the primary mechanics he would use to value your business. Those mechanics become formulas specified in your buy/sell agreement.
Formulas don't do too well at peaks and valleys of business cycles. For example, using a multiple of the average of the past three years earnings could yield a high value, even though conditions indicate the beginning of a downturn. Conversely, formulas would tend to undervalue a business that is starting a business upturn.
Results can be affected (some might say, manipulated) by tinkering with the underlying components. For example, if you want to lower the company's earnings-based value, pay yourself a bigger salary. An objective appraiser would adjust out the effects of such unusual items. A formula-based agreement can spell-out adjustments, but might not adequately anticipate subsequent creative management or changing business conditions.
Formulas should be changed when there is a major change in the type of business or the assets owned by it. The bigger issue is whether the shareholders will agree to the change at that time.
Picking a valuation technique would be easy except for one little bitty question. WHO GETS BOUGHT OUT FIRST AND WHO HAS TO PAY FOR IT? Actually, I guess that's two questions.
If you think you'll be the first to sell, you'll argue for a valuation approach that will yield a high value. If you want the business to remain in the family forever, you want a low value to discourage family members from selling. As the debate over pricing gets more heated, other issues are brought to the surface. The entire process turns into a quagmire and grinds to a halt.
That raises another question for family business leadership. Do we really even want to let this genie out of the bottle? Maybe we should just not bother with a buy/sell agreement. It's like that darn prenuptial agreement. We're really happy together now. Why risk messing up our relationship by talking about what will happen if we ever need to split up?
Stay tuned. The saga continues next month.


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Forgotten Weapons: The Mitrailleuse
An early Franco-Belgian machine gun developed before military commanders truly understood how to use automatic weapons.
By Ian McCollum
The mitrailleuse was one of the early types of mechanical machine gun, along with the Gatling, Gardner, Nordenfelt, and others. "Mitrailleuse" is actually a general name for a volley gun–one with many barrels in a cluster, which are fired sequentially. The two most common types were the Montigny (a Belgian design fired by a lever) and the Reffye (a French design fired by crank).
The Reffye was a top-secret weapon used by the French in the Franco-Prussian War, which was expected to be a huge game-changer. However, there was little experience worldwide in how best to use a weapon like this, and the French commanders chose to use them like artillery, firing at long range where they were inaccurate and underpowered. In this role, they were utterly outclassed by the Prussian Krupp artillery, leading to a general European disdain for the effectiveness of machine guns that would last until the First World War.
Reffye mitrailleuse in use, firing blanks:
Excellent CAD animation of a Reffye:
The Montigny was typically a 37-barreled affair, using a removable cartridge plate for loading which allowed it to maintain a very high rate of fire (as long as loaded plates were available to the gunners). The breech was a large block containing 37 separate firing pins, which the cartridge plate attached to the front of. A large lever at the rear of the gun connected to a knee-joint type cam that would push the breechblock forward, chambering the 37 cartridges and locking the breechblock in place. A second lever on the side of the gun would then be pulled up vertically, firing the barrels in succession.
Belgian Montigny mitrailleuse
The firing mechanism was quite simple. When the breechblock was pulled rearward, all of the firing pins would be cocked against their own individual springs, and a plate would slide up between the firing pin and its port in the front of the breechblock. The firing lever simply pulled that blocking plate downward, allowing the firing pins to snap forward against their cartridges in sequence. The rate of fire would be determined by the speed with which the firing lever was pulled, and could be as slow as single shots if the gunner was careful.
Once the cartridges had all been fired, the rear lever would be used to unlock the breech and pull it backwards. The cartridge plate (now full of empty cases) would be pulled out the top of the gun, and a fresh loaded one put in its place. This sequence would be repeated as desired until the gun overheated or ammunition ran out.
Loading plate for a Montigny mitrailleuse
The Mitrailleuse as a general type of firearm saw only one major combat usage, and that was the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. The French had adopted the Reffye Mitrailleuse and considered it a game-changer. Unfortunately for the French, the tactical understanding of how to use a weapon like the Mitrailleuse was still totally lacking. The guns were treated like artillery, and used to fire at ranges of 1500 meters or more against German infantry. The sights on the Mitrailleuse were simple post and notch affairs like rifles of the day, and the extreme range required excellent range estimation (which the gunners were not trained for). To compound the problem, the combination of long range and small projectiles made it nearly impossible to observe point of impact when firing, and it was nearly impossible to actually hit targets as a result.
The problems with French use of the Mitrailleuse were compounded by the secrecy surrounding the guns. The Army was so focused on preventing the Germans from discovering the guns that virtually no training was given to troops on their use–few had even seen them prior to battle. The secrecy had not been particularly effective, though, and the Prussians knew about the guns. Concerned about their potential effectiveness, they were made a high-priority target for the very effective Prussian field guns, which could easily destroy them from well beyond the range of return fire.
As a result of their utter failure to provide the French Army with an advantage, a general feeling of the inferiority of all such rapid-fire rifle-caliber weapons would permeate military culture for several decades. Ultimately, it was only the use of Maxim guns in WWI that would change the minds of generals and ordnance departments worldwide (although a forward-looking few did learn from conflicts like the Russo-Japanese War).
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text: Nov21772 Rethinking Localisation OOONA was founded in 2012 with the aim to develop professional management and production tools to service the media localisation industry. The brainchild of the company's founding team, the OOONA platform is a cloud-based system for managing translation, subtitling and captioning workflows with a user-centric approach. This has been recognised by Corporate Vision as the Best Solution for Localisation and Production Tool, 2022, so we take a closer look at what it has to offer customers. OOONA is a sophisticated, fully online translation management platform for media localisation work. It is a system able to handle any type of video localisation workflow and any team size, continuously tested and secure, able to scale at whim as content volumes fluctuate. It is also able to handle client orders automatically, auto- or bulk-assign work to resources, and maintain metrics on users. It includes live dashboards and file management for a complete end-to-end solution, thus cutting down on duplication of effort, turnaround time, the potential for error, and offering a seamless experience to user. It is accompanied by a set of world-class, state-of-the-art online production tools to create, conform, reformat, export and burn subtitle and caption files, but also scripts, metadata, and synopses, as well as any other type of information around video that helps automate and streamline video localisation workflows. Focusing on the end user has always been the company's driving force. The management team see OOONA as a complete solution that services all the needs of the media localisation market. The company strives to offer literally everyone access to great localisation software, so even a single subtitler could start their own business and have the comfort of working in the same system that a large customer uses and enjoy all the benefits that come with it. It's about supporting the market and making it sustainable. CEO and co-founder of OOONA, Wayne Garb said, "We want OOONA to be a brand synonymous with the media market, that can cover any localisation need, whether it's for production, training or resource onboarding purposes. This is why we developed an education platform as well – so people continue being trained properly, especially in the midst of the pandemic: there are currently many universities and colleges using the OOONA EDU platform. We also offer an online academy in GOSUB, so we can provide all prospective OOONA users with high-end training specific to our media localisation tools. It's also why we took the initiative to create the infrastructure for the POOOL, an online directory for media localisation talent, and we are in the process of developing a certification programme as well for such talent, with the support of many language service providers, academics, unions and translators." There is a great hand-picked team at OOONA that continuously goes above and beyond expectations and who its clients love working with. As published on Slator, Simon Constable, SVP of Global Language Services at Visual Data Media Services shares why his company chose OOONA: "We set out to find a secure cloud-based toolset that we could integrate with our existing production management system. OOONA ticked all the boxes we needed for our captioning, scripting, and subtitling workflows – and we have never regretted our decision to partner with them. When we need security updates or product updates, the development team moves quickly, which is crucial for success in the fast-paced, ever-changing world of media and entertainment. Our team loves working with OOONA." Wayne Garb added, "We aspire to be the industry standard when it comes to enterprise-level tools for the media space, but the best tools in the world alone won't do the trick without a great team to maintain and support them. That's what our staff bring to the success of our company." The last 18 months have been a busy time for OOONA, both in terms of sales and development work. The company has seen an increase in sales due to everyone's sudden need to move to the cloud as a result of the pandemic and needing to work remotely. OOONA has multiple servers on AWS and the system scales automatically according to load, CPU usage and traffic, so the company could support the sudden increase in usage of its platform worldwide. It also completed a year of ongoing penetration testing, renewed its ISO 27001 certification and passed a number of security audits by major streaming platforms, so it can guarantee the security of its clients' content. Looking towards the future, OOONA has plans to expand internationally so as to meet the growing market demands. Ultimately, OOONA aims to keep being the best management and production solution out there while having as wide a reach as possible. Company: OOONA.NET Ltd Contact: Wayne Garb Email: [email protected] Website: www.ooona.net


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2017 Nevada Legislature Changes Venue Statute
by admin Posted: Wednesday, 11/29/2017
The 2017 Nevada Legislature changed the state statute (NRS Chapter 13) related to venue. Venue is a term describing where in a jurisdiction, in this case Nevada, a legal action can or should be filed. The Legislature expands through Assembly Bill 102, subject to other consumer protection laws where a civil action can be filed, but allows a defendant in a civil action to object to the venue. Hayes and Welsh has experience handling civil matters in courts throughout Nevada. We can advise our clients on both the law and the strategy for selecting the venue for an action.
Wage Garnishments Extended from 120 Days to 180 Days
by admin Posted: Monday, 11/20/2017
On June 3, 2017, Nevada Senate Bill 230 was passed and signed into law. The most exciting part of this bill is that beginning on October 1, 2017, writs of garnishment for wages are now effective for 180 days, when previously they were only effective for 120 days. This will lock in a creditor's right to garnish a debtor's wages for an additional 60 days each time a writ of garnishment is served. The writ of garnishment will now only need to be renewed twice a year.
Are you ready to execute on a judgment? Our firm is experienced in all forms of judgment execution, including garnishment of wages and bank accounts, and the sale of real property through a sheriff sale. If you do not yet have a Nevada judgment, we can help. We are experienced at obtaining Nevada judgments and domesticating foreign state judgments to Nevada.
Megan K. Mayry McHenry, Esq.
July Bar Exam Results Released
by admin Posted: Thursday, 10/26/2017
The July 2017 exam results were released on Tuesday, October 10. The unofficial pass rate is 66 percent. Congratulations to all who passed. Swearing-in ceremonies will be held in Reno onWednesday, October 18, at 3:30 p.m. at the Washoe County Administrative Complex, 1001 East 9th Street, with a reception following, hosted by the Washoe County Bar Association. A ceremony will be held in Las Vegas on Friday, October 20, at 3:30 p.m. at the Las Vegas City Hall Council Chambers, 495 South Main Street. The Nevada Supreme Court and Clark County Bar Association will host a reception at Las Vegas City Hall immediately following the ceremony.
The Historic 5th Street School was formerly known as the Las Vegas Grammar School. It is located on Las Vegas Boulevard (formerly 5th Street). Having recently been renovated, it now hosts a variety of cultural, art and architectural events.
#VegasStrong
October 1, 2017 was a tragic day in Las Vegas, and our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and victims of the Route 91 concert shooting. We hope for a complete recovery of those who are injured. We are so proud to be members of the Las Vegas community, and have seen the true strength and unity that exists here over the past several days. We are #VegasStrong.
Supreme Court names Guardianship Commission members
by admin Posted: Friday, 9/22/2017
The Nevada Supreme Court has selected 20 Nevadans to serve on the Permanent Guardianship Commission established by the court. Justice James W. Hardesty was named the chairperson of the permanent commission. The commission is made up of judges, private and public guardians, lawyers and statewide representatives.
The commission will make recommendations to the Nevada Supreme Court for statewide rules to aid in administering guardianship cases pursuant to Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 159, and provide review and oversight for the implementation of new laws enacted during the 2017 Legislature to reform Nevada's guardianship statutes.
The Commission to Study the Administration of Guardianships in Nevada's Courts proposed seven major reforms to Nevada's guardianship statutes, resulting in five bills approved in the Legislature and signed by Governor Brian Sandoval.
Enacted by legislation were: Creation of a State Guardianship Compliance Office in the Administrative Office of the Courts, with investigators and accountants to review the administration of guardianship cases; a Guardianship Bill of Rights; and mandatory appointment of legal counsel.
Gov. Sandoval Appoints Kathleen Drakulich to Second Judicial District Court
by admin Posted: Thursday, 7/27/2017
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On June 30, Governor Brian Sandoval announced the appointment of Kathleen Drakulich to the Second Judicial District Court, Department 1. Drakulich will fill the vacancy created by Judge Janet Berry's retirement earlier this year.
Drakulich is currently a partner at the law firm McDonald Carano, where she focuses on issues related to energy, environment, and natural resources. She started her career in the Washoe County District Attorney's Office, where she served as a prosecutor. Drakulich has also served as assistant general counsel for Nevada's largest electric service providers and as private counsel for Nevada's largest energy users. She has also extensive experience in legislative and public policy matters. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley and her Juris Doctorate from the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law.
Uniform Laws Commision-Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act
by admin Posted: Sunday, 7/16/2017
Many of the laws adopted and enacted by the states are promulgated and updated by the Uniform Law Commission. The ULC website provides helpful information not only about longtime statutes, such as the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act and the UCC, but some that have recently been adopted. The following FAQ from the ULC website describes this role:
What is the Uniform Law Commission?
For more than a century, the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) has served the states and their citizens by drafting state laws on subjects on which uniformity across the states is desirable and practicable. It is a nonprofit unincorporated association comprised of state commissioners from each state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Now in its 122nd year, the ULC is the nation's oldest state governmental association. A nonpartisan, volunteer organization, the ULC is the source of more than 300 acts that secure uniformity of state law when differing laws would undermine the interests of citizens throughout the United States.
How are Uniform Law Commissioners Appointed?
Every ULC commissioner must be an attorney. Each jurisdiction determines the method of appointment and its number of commissioners. In most states, the governor appoints the state's commissioners to serve a specified term. In a few states, ULC commissioners serve at the will of the appointing authority and have no specific term.
ULC commissioners are volunteers who do not receive salaries or other compensation for their public service.
What is a Uniform State Law?
The Uniform Law Commission drafts uniform laws for the states to consider and enact. A uniform act is one that seeks to establish the same law on a subject among the various jurisdictions. When the term "uniform" is used in the nation's laws, it is highly likely that the ULC drafted the act.
The ULC also promulgates "model" acts. An act may be designated as "model" if the act's principal purposes can be substantially achieved even if the act is not adopted in its entirety by every state.
Track Important Legislation During the Nevada Legislature
The Nevada Legislature is currently in session. The Legislature has an excellent website that makes researching and tracking pending legislation very easy. To research and track legislation, the website is: https://www.leg.state.nv.us.
Nevada Supreme Court strengthens law on out of state garnishments and collections
by admin Posted: Friday, 2/3/2017
Many creditors use garnishments as a means to enforcing their judgments. In a recent Nevada Supreme Court decision, Pacific Western Bank, v. The Eighth Judicial District Court 132 Nev. Adv. Op. 78 (2016), the Court recognized that a garnishment can occur on assets physically residing outside Nevada as long as the garnishee has contacts with Nevada in order to receive the writ. The case involved a Nevada creditor attempting to reach a student savings plan, under the direction of Wells Fargo bank in Nevada where Wells Fargo contracted with an out of state servicer for the student savings plan. The Court also recoginzed that laws should be interpreted broadly to allow for the collection of valid court judgments.
Hayes and Welsh is a top ranked commercial litigation law firm with expertise and experience in creditor's rights action.
2017 Nevada Legislature
by admin Posted: Wednesday, 1/18/2017
The 2017 Nevada Legislature will convene February 6, 2017. Legislation usually includes changes to Nevada's collection and creditor laws as well as changes to judicial procedure. The attorneys at Hayes and Welsh follow these major legislative changes. Future blog posts will include important new legislation.
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Sunscreen For Nails: For Fingers That Won't Fade!
It may sound crazy, but while you've been searching high and low, looking up all the necessary SPFs to keep your skin, hair, lips, nose, and what-not protected against the harsh summer rays, did you know that you were probably missing one vital area that needs protection? Your nails! Yes, your polished tips could actually use some sunscreen as well as all exposed areas of your epidermis... even if the reasons are only cosmetic rather than health-based.
The latest sunscreen-infused top coats for your nails are designed to help preserve your polish color as long as possible while also delivering shine and protecting against chipping, per usual. With special non-yellowing formulas that still tout a high-gloss finish, you can ensure that your manicure won't budge or fade -- so you can be sure that coral polish will still match the bright accents in your brand-new tribal-printed maxi dress no matter how long you're sipping margaritas in the sunny outdoors!
Pictured above: Deborah Lippmann 'On a Clear Day' Top Coat, Orly Primetime Primer Nail Treatment, and Fingerpaints Top Coat.
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Q: How to modify application shortcut property in Kali Linux 2.0 Today I installed Kali Linux 2.0 after installing updates I installed Google Chrome. Now The problem is that I cannot access chrome command property in Kali Linux 2.0 nor in the Top Bar nor in the Dash to Dock . The Kali Dev team have changed the simple gnome to gnome 3.14.
In early versions of Kali we right click on an application in Top bar and select property. where we were changing command.

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I need this for chrome because I want to run google-chrome as standard user while logged in as root.
I have created a user for chrome using....
useradd -m chromeuser

Now whenever i want to run chrome as standard user while logged in as root I run.
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I want to add this line to chrome property command .
My question is is there any way to modify application shortcut property in Kali Linux 2.0 (Gnome 3.14.1) using CLI?

A: With Kali Linux 2.0, re-modifying flags for chromium became harder than old releases of Kali, or maybe impossible. For instance; old cracking techniques like we did in hexeditor by changing 'geteuid' to 'getppid' doesn't work anymore. Also folder hierarchy seems to be completely changed, for example the file /opt/google/google-chrome/default or /opt/chromium/default doesn't exist anymore.
So, to make the long story short, thing you wish to perform seems currently doest have a way out. But if you want, you can run chromium without sandbox flag checks by the code line below:
chromium --user-data-dir --disable-namespace-sandbox --disable-setuid-sandbox

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Tahitians indifferent to independence movement in weekend elections
May 6, 2013 Kevin Lees	2 Comments
Although you may be aware of Malaysia's blockbuster elections yesterday and even elections held yesterday in the 60 million-plus Indian state of Karnataka, you may not have realized that French Polynesia also held elections on May 5.
Polynésie française exists officially as an overseas country within the French republic — and its most well-known and populous component is the island of Tahiti (around 70% of the country's population), though the entire French Polynesian nation comprises a huge group of islands over a wide swath in the south Pacific Ocean.
Though its population, at around 270,000 people, is less than you'd find in Iceland, French Polynesia's islands cover an area larger than Europe, and they are a highly strategic holding for France, which has controversially engaged in nuclear testing on one of the islands, Fangataufa, most recently in 1995.
The high commissioner, Jean-Pierre Laflaquière, and the French government, which sits nearly 10,000 miles away, holds the final say on the 'overseas country's' policy on justice, security, defense and even its education. That's one reason why the independence movement has attracted more attention in recent years, including as in the lead-up to Sunday's election for the territorial assembly.
Politics in French Polynesia is dominated by the personal rivalry between two leaders: its current president Oscar Temaru (pictured above) and the leader of the opposing, conservative, anti-independence Tāhōʻēraʻa Huiraʻatira (Popular Rally), Gaston Flosse. Flosse dominated local politics for decades until 2004, when Temaru first won local elections, though power has revolved among Flosse, Temaru and Flosse's one-time ally, Gaston Tong Sang. Temaru leads the more leftist, pro-independence Tavini Huiraatira (People's Servant), one of several parties that comprise the larger Union pour la Démocratie (Union for the Democracy) coalition that Temaru also heads.
Temaru has spent his entire political career of four decades in pursuit of one goal — full independence for French Polynesia. It's a goal that Temaru appeared to be closer to achieving in the past couple of years, winning support from the French Polynesian assembly in 2011 for a petition to place French Polynesia back on the United Nations's list of nations to be decolonized. Sunday's result is widely seen as a result of discontent over an unemployment rate of between 20% and 30% and a poverty rate of around 20% throughout the islands rather than a rebuke against independence, though it's hardly clear that Tahitians and the rest of French Polynesia remain incredibly enthusiastic about independence.
Following Sunday's election, power seems likely to revolve once again from Temaru to Flosse, which means that the flickers of life for French Polynesian independence are likely to recede in the coming years. Continue reading Tahitians indifferent to independence movement in weekend elections →
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Download and install GBWhatsApp 2019 latest version from this page. Are you looking for the newest version of GBWhatsApp? This article contains the step-by-step guide on how to download and install GBWhatsApp latest version on your Android phone. We also include here the download link where you can get the APK file for this messaging app.
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If you currently have an Amazon Firestick and you love the Showbox app, wouldn't it be nice to combine them into a single device? That would be one of the best things that happened since Netflix and Amazon Prime came into existence. To learn how to install Showbox on Firestick would be awesome.
For users who have been with the Showbox for a good amount of time, they know that this app has brought the entertainment platform to a whole new level. And with the rise of Amazon Firestick or Fire TV Stick, there is more to look forward to when it comes to mobile entertainment.
So in this article, we will be giving you the step-by-step tutorial on how to merge these two magnificent entertainment entities and make your movie time even more exciting. If that sounds good to you then maybe we should start this brief guide right away.
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Did you know that the Firestick and all other Amazon devices' Fire OS are based on the Android operating system? This means that you can actually install some Android apps and even games within the Fire OS environment. But since this is not entirely an Android OS but just a trimmed down and explicitly designed for content consumption, you cannot expect it to behave like most Android devices such as your phone.
On that note, that means the Showbox APK is compatible with the Fire OS. Yes, that is the reason why we claim that we can install Showbox on Firestick. But unlike installing an Android APK file to a regular Android device, we need to do some tweaking first within the Fire OS system settings.
We will give the tutorial to you in the simplest way possible and the easiest to understand step-by-step guide. Now, if you are ready, here's how it goes.
Step 1. Let's start booting up your TV and plugging in your Firestick on your TV through the HDMI slot.
Step 2. Once the Firestick is ready and the Home screen is available, go to the "Settings" menu.
Step 5. Inside the "Developer Options," you will find the "ADB Debugging" and "Apps from Unknown Sources." Turn them on because these are necessary for you to be able to download the APK files that are needed to make this process work.
Step 6. Once you finished activating those two services, go back to the Home screen.
Step 7. From the Home screen, open the "Search" menu on the top-left corner of the screen next to the "Home" button.
Step 8. On the Search screen, type in "Downloader" and confirm.
Step 9. The search result should display the Downloader app. Hit on it to install onto the Fire OS.
Step 10. When the installation finishes, go back to the Home screen again. If you do not see the Downloader app, hit on the Home button for 3 seconds to show the App menu.
Step 12. Hit on the "Apps" to display all the installed apps on your Firestick or Fire TV Stick.
Step 13. Scroll up and down to find the "Downloader" app.
Step 14. When you see it, hit on it to launch immediately.
Step 15. Once the Downloader browser launches hit on its Settings menu.
Step 17. Hit the back button to go back to the Downloader main screen.
Step 18. Type in the the address of the APK file you have downloaded on the address bar and confirm.
Step 19. Scroll down and find the Showbox download button.
Step 20. Wait for the download to finish and it will auto-install the Showbox APK file.
Step 21. Before the installation, it will ask you to confirm installation, just hit on the "Next" button.
Step 23. Now, exit the Downloader browser for now and go back to the Firestick Home screen.
Step 24. If the Showbox app does not show on the list of apps on the Home screen, long-press on the Home button just like you did when you looked for the "Downloader" app.
Step 25. Hit on the "Apps" button to display the list of all the apps installed in your Fire OS.
Step 26. Scroll up and down to find the Showbox app.
Step 27. When you see it, hit on it to launch the app.
Step 28. That's it. You can now use the Showbox app on your Firestick device.
Using the Showbox app on Firestick might be a bit challenging without a mouse toggle. This is because you can only do scrolling up and down within the app's user interface. So the mouse toggle will be your remedy for this issue. Here's how to make it work on Firestick.
#1. Once again, launch the Downloader app that we installed earlier. If it is not available on the Home screen, just hold the "Home" button to display the "Apps" menu again.
#2. Hit on it to show the list of installed apps on your Firestick device.
#3. Scroll up and down to find the Downloader app.
#4. When you find it, hit on it to launch the app.
#5. Download the Mouse Toggle.
#6. Once it finishes the download, it should automatically request permission to install.
#7. Hit on the "Next" button.
#8. Once the installation finishes, exit the Downloader app and go to the Fire OS Home screen again.
#9. If you do not see the Mouse Toggle on the Home screen, long press the Home button again to go to the apps list.
#10. Scroll up and down to find the Mouse Toggle app.
#11. When you see it, hit on it to activate. You do not need to change any of the settings of the Mouse Toggle. As soon as you launch it, it is activated already.
#12. Now launch the Showbox app.
#13. To activate the Mouse Toggle, just double press the "Play" button on the remote control. The Mouse Toggle will then appear on the screen. You may now use it to navigate through the Showbox menus and thumbnails.
#14. To deactivate the Mouse Toggle, just press the "Play" button once. That's it. You may now enjoy full control over the Showbox user interface.
I hope that this tutorial has been helpful for all of you to install Shobox on Firestick. We have tried to make this guide as simple and as comprehensive as possible.
Now, if you did not encounter any problems or issues with the process, kindly tell us how the experience was using the Showbox on Firestick. We would love to know what you think.
If you have questions about the step-by-step guide, feel free to leave a message in the comment section below. You may also tell us some of your ideas or suggestions if you think there is a better way to install Showbox on Firestick. We will appreciate any helpful insights for the betterment of our community.


NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) plans to spend an additional $4 billion and commit 5,000 extra employees to fix risk and compliance issues after a slew of investigations by regulatory authorities, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
Another 2,000 assigned to the bank's various business lines are also working on compliance issues, a person familiar with the matter who would not provide the total cost told Reuters.
Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said in April in his annual letter to shareholders that the bank's first priority had become fixing its control and compliance issues. He warned then that the company was forgoing some business investment projects to do the work.
On Monday, the company called the effort "unprecedented" and said it now involves 23 different work streams, including remedial work on the capital plan it had submitted to the Federal Reserve earlier this year and actions the government ordered in January to fix its controls, abide the Bank Secrecy Act and fight money laundering.
JPMorgan has been under intense scrutiny from regulators since May 2012 when Dimon announced that the company was losing billions of dollars in a corporate office in London on derivatives trades that were far worse than he knew.
Dimon initially called news reports of possible losses by a trader known as the "London Whale" a "tempest in a teapot". The positions ultimately cost more than $6.2 billion.
Since the derivatives debacle, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other government agencies have developed investigations into subjects including energy trading, possibly bribery in hiring practices in China, possibly fraudulent sales of mortgage securities.
The multiple probes are driving the higher costs for litigation, the company said on Monday. Chief Financial Officer Marianne Lake said then that the legal tab was still being calculated and promised to provide more details when the company next reports quarterly results on October 11.
The company spent about $5 billion, pre-tax, on litigation in each of the past two years.
This year JPMorgan's legal costs are likely to reach similar levels, analyst Charles Peabody of Portales Partners has said.
JPMorgan reported $21.3 billion in net income for 2012.


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FACELIFT, the UK's leading independent supplier of powered access equipment, would like to invite you to celebrate their 25th year of being in the access hire industry this July.
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Paris town clerk waits for board action on resignation as manager
By Leslie H. Dixon, Staff Writer
PARIS — Town Clerk Anne Pastore said she was told by Board of Selectmen Chairman David Ivey on Monday that she must remain as interim town manager until the board meets July 13.
Pastore was appointed by selectmen Thursday to replace Sharon Jackson, who was fired June 22.
The next day, Pastore submitted her resignation.
"As you know, I had declined as of Friday," said Pastore. "I was told today they couldn't accept the resignation until the 13th. I could fight and say no, but I just want to move ahead and keep everything calm. I just want to get through this."
Ivey was not available for comment Tuesday.
Pastore, one of the town's three deputy tax collectors, said she initially accepted the position because she thought it would involve financial responsibilities held by Jackson, the tax collector, and she wanted to do what was best for the town.
Selectmen offered that part of the former town manager's responsibilities to Deputy Tax Collector Elizabeth Knox, which caused Pastore to rethink her position.
Selectman Ray Glover said Tuesday night that as far as he was concerned, the town has no manager.
"In my mind, there is none," he said. If Pastore refused to take the job and did not take the oath of office, she is simply not the interim town manager, Glover said.
"There was a vote to appoint her," he said. "If she says no, they don't have to take a vote for her resignation because she never was sworn in."
Pastore said Tuesday night that she did in fact take the oath of office Thursday night after being appointed. She is not under a contract for the post.
"I'd like to know who told her that and what's the basis of making that statement," said Glover of forcing Pastore to take on the town manager job. "I think they're exceeding their authority," he said.
Glover said the chairman should have called an emergency meeting of the board immediately to resolve the issue and start the process for replacing Jackson.
"I don't know what they're waiting for," he said.
As for Pastore, who along with fellow office staff has been busy this week handling end-of-fiscal-year commitments, she hoped to continue to work in the best interest of the town.
"I can't fight it right now," she said. "I have to move on."
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Dermatology deals with studying the causes of skin, hair and nails diseases; seeking the methods to cure them and what is more, preventing their occurrence.
This is a basic area of medicine which does not require any surgery.
Camea Institute of Aesthetic Medicine signed up an agreement with NFZ (the National Health Fund) to provide medical services in the range of dermatology and venereology.
A referral to a dermatological clinic is of utmost importance if you are willing to use medical services as part of the health insurance.


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Q: how to open .tsv file in python (mac); UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xbc in position 2: invalid start byte just not able to read data in python which is a .tsv.7z file, any heads up would be appreciated. I am using mac os 10.13 macOS High Sierra. Thanks!!
train = pd.read_csv('/Users/sherrymukim/Documents/mercari/train.tsv', sep='\t',encoding='utf-8')

train = pd.read_csv('/Users/sherrymukim/Documents/mercari/train.tsv', sep='\t',encoding='utf-8') Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 1, in train = pd.read_csv('/Users/sherrymukim/Documents/mercari/train.tsv', sep='\t',encoding='utf-8')

File "/Users/sherrymukim/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers.py", line 655, in parser_f return _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)

File "/Users/sherrymukim/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers.py", line 405, in _read parser = TextFileReader(filepath_or_buffer, **kwds)

File "/Users/sherrymukim/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers.py", line 764, in init self._make_engine(self.engine)

File "/Users/sherrymukim/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers.py", line 985, in _make_engine self._engine = CParserWrapper(self.f, **self.options)

File "/Users/sherrymukim/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers.py", line 1605, in init self._reader = parsers.TextReader(src, **kwds)

File "pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx", line 562, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader.cinit (pandas/_libs/parsers.c:6175)

File "pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx", line 781, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._get_header (pandas/_libs/parsers.c:9691)

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xbc in position 2: invalid start byte