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Eighth consecutive drop in incidence of days away from work due to workplace injuries and illnesses
In 1998, the incidence rate for cases of on-the-job injuries and illnesses involving days away from work was 2.0 cases per 100 full-time workers, down slightly from 2.1 in 1997. The drop marked the eighth year in a row that this incidence rate fell.
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The incidence rate of cases with days away from work was 3.4 cases per 100 full-time workers in 1990, so the rate has dropped by 41 percent in eight years. The rate for 1998 was the lowest on record.
Note that most cases of occupational injuries and illnesses in 1998 did not involve days away from work. Of the 5.9 million cases of workplace injuries and illnesses last year, 1.7 million involved one or more days away from work.
The BLS Safety and Health Statistics Program produced these data. The figures in this article pertain to injuries and illnesses in private industry workplaces. Find more information on occupational injuries and illnesses in 1998 in Workplace Injuries and Illnesses in 1998, news release USDL 99-358.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Eighth consecutive drop in incidence of days away from work due to workplace injuries and illnesses at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/1999/dec/wk4/art02.htm (visited January 21, 2022).
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Epcor Tower is an office tower in downtown Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The tower is capped by two spires that are capped with four flagpoles each. When the spires were taken into account, it was the tallest building in Edmonton from 2011 to 2017. Epcor Tower is the first building in the Station Lands project. Tenants includes EPCOR Utilities, Capital Power, Ernst & Young, Intuit, and BioWare.

History
Development of the tower started in May 2007 when EPCOR Utilities began seeking proposals from developers to lease  of office space for their 1,100 employees in downtown Edmonton.

It was announced on December 7, 2007, that the company had chosen Qualico to provide the space with the construction of new office tower on the Station Lands site by the CN Tower. Epcor entered into a 20-year lease to become the anchor tenant of the tower with an option for a 15-year renewal. The structure was certified to a silver standard or higher under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. LEED certification is a widely used standard for reducing energy, water and other resources in buildings. With the completion of the building, Edmonton saw its first new office tower in 17 years. Due to the nature of the anchor tenant, the building has been nicknamed the "Power Tower".

Construction of the tower began in spring 2008 and was completed in 2011.

In April 2008, Edmonton City Council approved $45 million in funding to immediately build a 180-metre underground portion of the future Metro LRT line beneath the tower's underground parkade, at the same time as the building's construction. The coordinated construction effort saved the City of Edmonton approximately $140 million. The remaining construction of the Metro Line resumed in 2012, with the line opening in September 2015.

Also in April 2008, Qualico announced plans to bid on the right to host a new Canadian national portrait gallery in the new building. However, the federal government scrapped the plan later in the year.

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See also
 List of tallest buildings in Edmonton

References

External links

Skyscrapers in Edmonton
Headquarters in Canada
Skyscraper office buildings in Canada
Towers in Alberta
Office buildings completed in 2011
Retail buildings in Canada

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AMD has shifted to the average power measurement in the hopes of presenting "apples to apples" comparisons with Intel. AMD has tended to give maximum power consumption figures in the past – usually only attainable in the labs – and chastised Intel for giving average power consumption figures. In addition, Intel tends to leave out the power consumption issues it faces from things such as FB-DIMMs.
AMD, of course, also has a 45nm four-core follow-on to Barcelona called Shanghai set for 2008. Then the company should follow with a pair of octal core chips in 2009, according to Pat Patla, director of AMD's server and workstation business. So far, AMD has confirmed the latter chip as running on a new "Sandtiger" core but has yet to release a code-name for the earlier octal-core part.
* N.B.: Ashlee actually used the term "octal core." I've also seen "octal-core." Both of these strike me as awkward. I hereby create a new term, "octacore," and will use it with wanton abandon when writing about the next generation of chips. Also, I'm going with quadcore from now on (not quad core or quad-core or Quad Core). Just so you know.
I was using the word octacore early last year searching for news on its development. I found several sites using the very same word "octacore" how you think you've come to be the first i don't know.
perhaps you claim to have invented other things that are already in use?
does the term "bollox" mean anything to you?
sijarvis – first of all, we try to keep things civil here, so tone it down a bit. Secondly, if you're going to be snarky, pay closer attention to the dates. You posted your comment on Oct 9 of 2008 on an entry published September 12, 2007.
Future aggressively snarky posts will be deleted.
Yeah ok that's fair enough.
I didn't look at the date of the original post. However, after a quick google search I found use of the word "octacore" from as early as feb 2005, over 2 1/2 yrs previous to the blog in question.
Imho people posting such threads on the net must learn that reality comes before fantasy. Anyone can sit in front of a monitor and pretend they invented such and such. It's only when someone points their stories out that they at least have a chance to get a grip with the truth. Really this should have been done before.
If you think this reply is "snarky" delete it. I personally see it as being straight forward. Perhaps something the computer community isn't ready for.
Nope, this post isn't snarky at all, no need to delete it. I'm very careful with the facts, and my readers know that I appreciate being called out when I'm wrong.
I suspect you aren't a regular reader of insideHPC. My regular readers have grown accustomed to that tone, and that comment was intended to be humorous (note my use of the phrase "wanton abandon.") During this time the world was on fire with multicore frenzy, and I was poking fun.
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Q: Print a hierarchical tree structure in javascript I'm working on a problem where given an array of file paths I would like to print the file structure. For example with the given array ["/a/b/c", "a/a/a", "/a/b/d"], the ideal structure would look like :
a
 b
  c
  d
 a
  a

But my structure ends up looking more like this:
a
 b
  c
a
 a
a
 b

From what I can gather this is being caused by my tree not recognizing when a node already exists in a tree. So it is adding the node "a" three times as opposed to recognizing that an "a" already exists and traversing into it.
let paths = ["/a/b/c", "a/a/a", "/a/b/d"]

class TreeNode {
    constructor(value) {
        this.value = value;
        this.children = [];
    }

    addChild(element) {
        this.children.push(element)
    }
}

const head = new TreeNode('Head');
let cur = head;

paths.forEach(element => {
    cur = head;
    let filePath = element.split('/');
    filePath.shift();

    filePath.forEach(element => {
        let newNode = new TreeNode(element);
        if(!cur.children.includes(newNode)) {
            cur.addChild(newNode);
            cur = cur.children[cur.children.length - 1];
        } else {
            cur = cur.children.indexOf(newNode);
        }
    })
})

var spaceAppend = function(num) {
    let i = 0;
    let space = "";
    while(i < num) {
        space += " ";
        i++;
    }
    return space;
}

var traverse = function(node, level = 0){
    if(node === null)
        return;

    console.log(spaceAppend(level), node.value)
    if(node.children) {
        for(const n of node.children) {
            traverse(n, level + 1);
        }
    }
}

traverse(head)

Is there an issue with my tree implementation?

A: Some issues:

*

*.includes() is not the right way to find a matching value. Use .find() instead.

*.indexOf() will return an index, so that is not the right value you want to assign to cur in the else block.

*shift may throw away an essential part of the path when it does not start with /. You can ease the processing by using .match() instead of .split(), so that you get exactly the non-empty parts of the path.

Less of an issue:

*

*There is no need to define cur outside of the outer loop.

*JavaScript has a native function for something like spaceAppend. You can use .repeat().

*new TreeNode(element) is also called when you actually don't need it. Only create a new node when you know there is no matching node.

*You could replace the inner .forEach() loop with .reduce(), which gives a better scope-handling for the cur variable.

Here is your code with those remarks taken into account:

class TreeNode {
    constructor(value) {
        this.value = value;
        this.children = [];
    }

    addChild(element) {
        this.children.push(element);
    }
}

let paths = ["/a/b/c", "a/a/a", "/a/b/d"];
const head = new TreeNode('Head');

paths.forEach(element => {
    // Use .match() to only get non-empty elements
    let filePath = element.match(/[^\/]+/g);

    filePath.reduce((cur, element) => {
        // Use .find() instead of .includes()
        let node = cur.children.find(child => child.value === element);
        // Only create the node when needed:
        if (!node) {
            node = new TreeNode(element);
            cur.addChild(node);
        }
        // Walk down one step in the tree
        return node; // ...becomes the value of `cur`
    }, head); // Initial value of reduction
});

const traverse = function(node, level=0) {
    if (node === null) return;
    // Use .repeat():
    console.log(" ".repeat(level), node.value);
    if (node.children) {
        for (const n of node.children) {
            traverse(n, level + 1);
        }
    }
}

traverse(head);

A: Is the starter array meant to be ["/a/b/c", "/a/a/a", "/a/b/d"] ("/a/a/a" instead of ("a/a/a")?
I think the crux of the problem you're having is the line
if(!cur.children.includes(newNode)) { ... }

When a new node is created, even if it has the same value as a previous one, it will not result in equity when comparing the two TreeNode objects. You need to compare the value of the nodes, not the nodes themselves.
So an example with a simplified version of your node object:

class TreeNode {
    constructor(value) {
        this.value = value;
    }
}

a1 = new TreeNode('a');
a2 = new TreeNode('a');

console.log("a1 == a2");
console.log(a1 == a2); // false

console.log("a1.value == a2.value");
console.log(a1.value == a2.value); // true

I adjusted the inner forEach loop with one that compares the values instead of the TreeNode objects
filePath.forEach(element => {
    let newNode = new TreeNode(element);
    let tempNode = null;
    for (var i = 0; i < cur.children.length; i++) {
      if (cur.children[i].value == newNode.value) {
        tempNode = cur.children[i];
      }
    }
    if (tempNode == null) {
      cur.addChild(newNode);
      cur = newNode;
    } else {
      cur = tempNode;
    }
});

Full code snippet on codepen
Object equality in javascript isn't particularly nice to deal with see this other answer for more information

A: Here is a solution using lodash and object-treeify. While it's simpler code, there is obviously a trade-off introducing additional dependencies.
This solution works by first converting the paths into a tree structure and then visualizing it using object-treeify

// const lodash = require('lodash');
// const objectTreeify = require('object-treeify');

const myPaths = ['/a/b/c', 'a/a/a', '/a/b/d'];

const treeify = (paths) => objectTreeify(paths.reduce((p, c) => {
  lodash.set(p, c.match(/[^/]+/g));
  return p;
}, {}), {
  spacerNoNeighbour: ' ',
  spacerNeighbour: ' ',
  keyNoNeighbour: '',
  keyNeighbour: ''
});

console.log(treeify(myPaths));
/* =>
a
 b
  c
  d
 a
  a
*/
.as-console-wrapper {max-height: 100% !important; top: 0}
<script src="https://bundle.run/lodash@4.17.20"></script>
<script src="https://bundle.run/object-treeify@1.1.31"></script>

Disclaimer: I'm the author of object-treeify

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Trialbike World Champion, Kenny Belaey, rides his brand new GT Bikes down the mountains of Les Arcs and Peisey-Vallandry, both of which are truly technical and epic landscapes.
His GT Sanction is sick. The best do-it-all bike.
Ugh, that was painful. Kenny has such good style on his trials bike, but apparently it doesn't quite translate into his trail riding. Still plenty of skill, no doubt, but all sorts of awkwardness too.


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1, This Is the Beginning of A New Age
Shimizu, Eiichi
Graphic Novel - 2015
"Shinjiro is an ordinary teenager but his father is the legendary Shin Hayata. When he learns that his father passed on the "Ultraman Factor" to him and that he possesses incredible powers, nothing will ever be the same again" -- Unedited summary from the book.
Publisher: San Francisco, CA :, Viz Media,, [2015]
Edition: Viz signature edition.
Branch Call Number: GN Y SHIM
Characteristics: 232 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Additional Contributors: Shimoguchi, Tomohiro 1978-
Yamazaki, Joe - Translator
Stan! 1964-- Adapter
Alternative Title: This is the beginning of a new age
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Scythers Jan 16, 2018
An intriguing series. Be forewarned, it is slightly graphic at times when humans are killed by aliens: not so much seeing guts and stuff, but rather the concepts of how they are being killed. The premise is that there are aliens on earth, and there was a hero named Ultraman (which was a real previous series by another author) who defeated invading aliens and sent off the rest (so we thought) away from earth. Turns out some friendlies and old acquantances stuck around, as well as some not so friendly aliens and some new ennemies. Now there are two new ultramen: one with similar abilities to the original, enhanced by a high-tech mechanical suit, the other by an ever-more advanced mechanized suit that gets tweeked all the time. So far, it is not a light-happy series with it's dark moments and moods, but judging by it's genre and it's predecessor, things will be viewed with an ever more positive, friendship-wins-all lense.
ResidentEvilFanboy Dec 11, 2017
Like every manga reboot, better than the original
arndtj Jul 18, 2016
Remember that cheezy Japanese sci-fi with massive monsters that would destroy the city and a massive Power Ranger-like hero who would wrestle them and defend the city?
That was Ultraman.
This is the 2012 manga reboot. The monsters and heroes are smaller, but the actions is still plenty destructive.
It only took an afternoon to clear this one. It was fun though. It's nice to have an easy read once in a while.
There's aliens, exo-suit armour, blasters, a touch of science, a dash of father-son drama, lots of smart action panels and a heavy dose of predictability.
I'll look for volume 2, but it's not on my priority list.
Robblerocket Jun 11, 2016
Robblerocket thinks this title is suitable for between the ages of 13 and 99
Human-alien Encounters — Comic Books, Strips, Etc.
Heroes — Comic Books, Strips, Etc.
Superhero Comics.
Science Fiction Comics.
Graphic Novels.


Me too - Michael Bulmer, same story as you said. He sounded legit too - kite for his son. He claimed to have a Fedex account so he was going to send for pickup of the kite. Supposedly the check was mailed, and he has inquired about it, but no word from him in a few days. Oddly enough, when his communications became sporadic I suggested that he call me and he DID! Seemed legit. Sellers beware.
same dude maybe who contacted me via facebook.
I had some other e mail like it, total fraud.
One time I replied and almost fell for it.
But I never gave out any personal info.
mrlaroo wrote: Looks like George Bush is influencing people all over the world. So weak.... Thanks for the heads up.


Attempts to breach the network perimeter and obtain access to LAN resources were successful in 92 percent of external pentests, and at half of the companies they were able to breach the network perimeter in just one step.
Vulnerabilities in web application code are the main problem on the network perimeter. 75 percent of penetration vectors are caused by poor protection of web resources. Reaching an internal network from the outside can typically be accomplished with well-known security vulnerabilities, without requiring exceptional skill or knowledge on the part of would-be attackers.
She also pointed out that as a web application grows in complexity and number of features, there is a higher chance of a coding error by developers, and this is where an attacker can slip through.
"These errors are frequently found during penetration testing, but by far the best way to find them is white-box testing with analysis of source code. Fixing vulnerabilities after the fact usually involves changing the code, which requires a lot of time. To avoid downtime and disruption, we recommend installing a web application firewall to prevent exploitation of vulnerabilities while fixes are pending, as well as to protect from new and zero-day vulnerabilities," she added.
They also recommend minimizing the number of services on the network perimeter and making sure that sensitive information (access credentials, corporate address books, etc.) is not available publicly. Finally, for monitoring the effectiveness of protection measures, undergoing penetration testing on a regular basis is advised.
PT's testers managed to obtain full control of infrastructure on all tested systems in internal pentesting engagements.
Brute force attacks against the internal network (using dictionary passwords to break into an account) and insufficient protection against recovery of passwords from OS memory. Also, interception of account credentials was exploited with great success: among companies at which network traffic was analyzed, not one secured sensitive information from interception.
Failure to install updates, especially those fixing critical vulnerabilities. On internal infrastructure, vulnerable OS versions were the most frequent, and were found on 44 percent of tested systems.
Vulnerability to social engineering – Specially crafted emails with attachments or web links were sent to employees. Results showed that one out of three employees risked running malware on a work computer, one out of seven engaged in dialog with an imposter and disclosed sensitive information, and one out of ten entered account credentials in a fake authentication form.
Vulnerability in Wi-Fi networks – a key vector for threats against internal corporate infrastructure. At 87 percent of tested clients, Wi-Fi networks were accessible from outside of client premises, such as from a nearby cafe, parking lot, or public waiting area. On 63 percent of systems, weak Wi-Fi security enabled accessing resources on the local network.
For more insights and specific security recommendations, check out the report.


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Popcorn Diary
Popcorn Preview: The Wolf of Wall Street
Cast includes: Leonardo DiCaprio (The Great Gatsby), Jonah Hill (Moneyball), Margot Robbie (About Time), Matthew McConaughey (The Lincoln Lawyer), Kyle Chandler (Zero Dark Thirty), Rob Reiner (All in the Family)
Director: Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas, Hugo)
Genre: Drama | Comedy | Crime | Biography (180 minutes) Based on a book by Jordan Belfort
"The world of investing can be a jungle," says Jordan Belfort. In this jungle, Jordan is king... drugs, hookers, gambling. "You're lower than pond scum!" That's what they told him when he was 22 and got his first job at Rothschild. He was a straight arrow back then... money crazed, yes... mainlining nothing but adrenaline. Mark Hanna recognized star power and took Jordan to lunch on his first day. "The goal is to move money from the client's pocket to yours," says Mark. "And hopefully make money for client, too," says Jordan. "It's not fucking real!" says Mark. The money's only on paper... "They're fucking addicts," Mark explains. While clients move pseudo-money from one stock to another, the only ones getting rich are the brokers, who take home cold hard cash on every transition. Mark has two pieces of advice for Jordan... jerking off regularly and often... and cocaine... it keeps you sharp between the ears.
Jordan's first day as a licensed broker was October 19, 1987... Black Monday. "Wall Street had swallowed me up and shit me out." Wall Street jobs are gone, but surprisingly, there's a tiny ad in the paper for stockbrokers. In a dumpy little strip mall, Jordan finds a little company where they sell penny stocks. "Who buys this shit?" It's true... selling stock for 6¢ a share isn't glamorous, but the commission is 50%. That's all Jordan needs to hear. He turns on the charm and starts hauling in the money. He catches the attention of Donnie Azoff... who quits his job on the spot to come work for Jordan, when he learns how much money can be made. In a local auto body shop, Jordan and Donnie start their own penny stock company, employing their best drug pushers to sell for them. From penny stock, the duo moved on to start a semi-legal brokerage company, Stratton Oakmont. Jordan's selling philosophy, over-the-top life style and total lack of morals helps propel Stratton to the cover of Forbs Magazine. A scathing article, entitled "The Wolf of Wall Street," should have destroyed the company. Instead, it propels Stratton to even greater heights. Never underestimate the power of greed. "One of these days, the chickens are gonna come home to roost," says Jordan's dad.
During the late 80s and 90s, Stratton Oakmont was the country's largest OTC brokerage firm until their excesses brought them down. This isn't the first film inspired by Jordan Belford and his boiler room operation, but it's the first that's biographical. There's a disclaimer about non-accuracy, but it's actually based on Jordan Belfort's book. Although it's obvious these crooks are going to pay a price for their corruption, viewers may not find the price equal to the crimes. In fact many viewers may this film morally offensive... the question is whether or not we are supposed to be offended. One would hope so. While the film has many excellent parts, three hours of wild sex, drugs, vulgar consumption and debauchery is quite exhausting. Leonardo DiCaprio gives a mesmerizing performance though as Jordan Belfort... he is both despicable and charismatic at the same time. Like a rabid football coach at halftime, he demands that his brokers "not hang up the phone until their client either buys or fucking dies!"
3 popped kernels (Scale: 0-4)
Based on actual events, Jordan Belfort takes Wall Street greed to a new low
Popcorn Profile
Rated: R (Language, Nudity, Violence, Sexual Content, Crime, Drugs)
Audience: Young Adults
Gender Style: Macho
Distribution: Mainstream Wide Release
Mood: Neutral
Tempo: Pure Adrenalin Rush
Visual Style: Nicely Varnished Realism (CGI aided)
Nutshell: Wall Street greed
Language: Rude & Crude
Social Significance: Thought Provoking
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> Inspector Alleyn Mysteries
> The Inspector Alleyn Case Files
Inspector Alleyn Mysteries
The Inspector Alleyn Case Files
Inspector Roderick Alleyn is more than a little familiar with the murky underbelly of upper-crust society. Let's leaf through some of his most memorable cases…
Patrick Malahide as Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn in the episode A Man Lay Dead.
A MAN LAY DEAD
The murder of an apparent monk? A stolen chalice? Sounds altogether Gothic, and not the kind of case we'd expect Inspector Alleyn to be involved in. Yet the sleuth has no way of getting out of the situation, despite being keen to take some well-deserved time off so he can romance his beloved Agatha Troy. Speaking of which, the delightful Ms Troy is spending time at her uncle's splendid country home, along with a group of posh types who make a picture-perfect array of suspects.
Suspects in what? Why, a murder of course. Not the monk's, but another murder - this one taking place at Troy's uncle's manor. Rather juicily, the killing happens during an innocent game of "Murder", where one member of the group is secretly designated as the killer. During this game, someone really does turn up dead, and Alleyn is soon put on the case. But is this skulduggery linked to the monk and the chalice?
The Final Curtain (Inspector Alleyn Mysteries).
THE FINAL CURTAIN
How about another array of posh, potential villains? This time, we're delving into the very dodgy world of the Ancred dynasty. The patriarch of the clan is Sir Henry, a "legendary" thespian. Or ham actor, if you want to be unkind. A big, blustering fellow with a taste for velvet smoking jackets and an eye for the ladies (preferably ladies much younger and blonder than himself), Sir Henry is surrounded by family members who are generally rather creepy and peculiar. And seemingly concealing hidden agendas.
A strange set-up indeed, but one which Agatha Troy has to engage with when she's commissioned to paint Sir Henry's portrait. She soon realises that the various Ancreds members are competing for the family fortune, and some very sinister things are afoot. Before long, something very bad happens - and we're not just talking about the whoopee cushion at the dinner table...
Death At The Bar (Inspector Alleyn Mysteries).
DEATH AT THE BAR
What kind of bar? The kind you drink at, or the ones barristers are called to? Well, both, as it happens. Our victim in this case is a brilliant, flamboyant and altogether cocky lawyer named Luke Watchman, who is known for his flashing intelligence and special way of utterly dismantling the lies of criminals in court. In other words, there are many people with very good reasons to seek revenge on Watchman. And yet, this London barrister is far from home when the end does come.
He is, in fact, in Cornwall. On what's supposed to be a pleasant, relaxing holiday by the sea. The only thing is, strange looks are exchanged behind his back when he arrives, and there's air of foreboding about things. Then, one night in the pub, a local fellow starts to show off his aim with a set of darts, and what's supposed to be an entertaining stunt takes a very deadly turn. Time to send for Inspector Roderick Alleyn...
Dead Water (Inspector Alleyn Mysteries).
Celtic rituals, miraculous waters, and sudden death threats? It's yet another bizarre case for Roderick Alleyn to unravel. This one concerns an old teacher of his named Miss Emily Pride. Her name is appropriate, because she is a truly imperious older lady who is absolutely sure of her own opinions and judgments. Indeed, this is why she's in trouble. Having inherited some land in Scotland, she has become the owner of a local spring which the locals believe can cure medical ailments, and want to turn into a mystical commercial attraction.
Miss Pride is dead set against it - she has no time for some vulgar poppycock. As a result, she's been getting death threats. Or, as she puts it, "someone in this idyllic backwater intends to do me harm". Not that this will make her change her mind. As Alleyn says, when it comes to sticking her neck out, Miss Pride could teach giraffes a thing or two. But will her stubbornness get her killed?
Scales of Justice (Inspector Alleyn Mysteries).
What do you do when a dying friend entrusts you with his memoirs and implores you to publish them after he's shuffled off this mortal coil? Why, you do it of course - even if members of the man's family are vehemently against it. That's the situation Colonel Cartarette is placed in when his old friend Sir Henry Lacklander hands him the manuscript while on his deathbed.
The thing is, Sir Henry's writings contain a reference to the suicide of a fellow aristocrat who had been accused of being a Nazi sympathizer. Could this be the reason behind the brutal murder which follows? Perhaps. Or perhaps it's got something to do with the landing of a prize trout on Lacklander's property. Sounds all very unusual. But then, Inspector Alleyn specializes in the unusual.
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Patrick Malahide stars as Inspector Alleyn, the gentleman detective.
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Latest critic reviews of Predators are in!
Here are some of the few reviews rolling in of Predators. Thanks to Manya for the heads up!
The cast in general is surprisingly solid, especially the ineffably cool Alice Braga and a memorable Walton Goggins, who earns most of the films laughs with some off-colour humour.
Walton Goggins was a favorite of mine. He brought the laughs to the film through his deadpan comments and humour. I really enjoyed Stans.
Source: AvPGalaxy *Contains detailed spoilers, beware!
What's Next for Raylan and Boyd?
*Spoilers for those who haven't seen the finale.
Few were left standing at the end of Justified's bloody first-season finale, but among the survivors was Walton Goggins' Boyd Crowder, a character who has escaped death twice this season.
In the finale, Boyd, who was originally intended to die in the pilot, survived a shootout between his friend/nemesis Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) and two Miami drug-cartel assassins. Even though Raylan spent much of the second half of the season trying to put Boyd back in jail after he blew up a meth lab, he still lets Boyd give chase to an assassin instead of bringing him in.
"We hadn't planned that the arc would be about Raylan and Boyd, but that became apparent when we decided to keep Boyd alive," creator and executive producer Graham Yost tells TVGuide.com. "We knew the bad relationship would help form the spine of the season. Heading into the finale we knew we wanted to both resolve some things, get some answers, and yet throw open more questions.
Still here? Then you already know who bit the dust last night — Boyd Crowder's (Walton Goggins) wily papa Bo (M.C. Gainey). And you saw how Boyd, the show's resident scene stealer, reacted to Bo's brutal murder of Boyd's religious cohorts, which seemed to prove that Boyd had been sincere about the born-again proclamation he sprung on Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) and the rest of Harlan County's denizens after his brief incarceration earlier in the season.
Goggins, who, we have to reiterate, so deserves an Emmy nod for his 'Justified' role (and will be among the contenders for a nomination in the Guest Actor in a Drama category … he becomes a series regular in season 2), talked to TV Squad before the finale, and shared his thoughts on Bo's death, Boyd finding — and maybe losing? — his religion and where his recent losses might lead him in season 2.
How crazy was that? And after the beating [that Bo ordered Crowder cousin Johnny to administer to Boyd]. Did that make you feel for Boyd?
Oh yeah, definitely. But I felt for Boyd several times throughout the season. The biggest was when he went back to camp and found his men dead, hanging from the trees. His reaction, and that he cut them down and buried each one of them … you could see he was crushed. And it was the first definite bit of evidence as to what his motivations really are. He cared about those men, and didn't take lightly that they had pledged their loyalty and trust to him.
Exactly! That is exactly it. It's between that moment, and a question that Boyd asks a few scenes later, when he says to Raylan, 'Do you believe in God?' He asks Raylan that question. And I think that's the first question that Boyd asks over the course of the entire season — ever — maybe ever in his life — where he doesn't know the answer to it. He genuinely doesn't know. And so, for me, that was a clear indication of where his heart was along this whole first season.
Now that his father is dead, will it be freeing for Boyd, or will he be in even more turmoil, trying to figure out who he is without this imposing figure there?
I think he has to figure out who he is without his father's presence there, both physically and metaphysically. Both his fathers, I think, are dead in his eyes … one being his earthly father, and the other being his spiritual father. I don't know where this guy goes from here.
A person who has a world view like Boyd Crowder's … I don't know what they do when their foundation — a person whose foundation is rarely, if ever, rocked — gets rocked. It may change, but he's able to transfer this weighty foundation … he's always grounded in some truth or another that he's able to live out, that gives him a purpose for living. And now, all of that's been taken away. Everything has been taken away.
I suppose he will continue his journey. I don't know if he's going to become a Buddhist or [laughs], you know, if he will go back into a life of crime, or if he will be against all things spiritual. I don't know if he will give up his faith in spirituality or humanity … I just don't know what will happen with this guy. That's what so interesting … all these unanswered questions, and it could go anywhere.
Have you started work at all on season 2?
No, no we haven't. We've had some initial discussions about it, but we're all just kind of letting [the first season] settle and see how it plays out.
Boyd is a leader, too, so it's tough to imagine he'll be kept down, however he decides to proceed next season.


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Sharyl Attkisson Slams Obama's Media Gatekeepers
Michelle Moons / Breitbart News
Michelle Moons
13 Mar 2015 San Diego, CA
Former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson held the fixed attention of Californians Wednesday night in a packed Ronald Reagan Library forum in Simi Valley. She shared stories of the bias and intimidation in today's mainstream media, echoing her new book, Stonewalled.
Atkisson noted the presence of "gatekeepers" at CBS News, adding that she felt as though they
almost would cast a story and enlist the reporters and producers as a casting agent at times, saying something like, "do a story on such and such, find a character who will say such and such," in other words they already know what they want the person to say, and use these points in your piece.
And if you would come back to them as many producers and reporters do–and this is not CBS, this is an issue at a lot of places–but if you would come back and say "that's not what we found and we found somebody that said this which is a little bit different than what's really happening on the ground," in the past where that might have been appreciated by managers, managers who want you to fairly present a story, managers who would listen to the reporters at the ground level, the last couple of years in my experience at least, there were managers that didn't want to hear it.
So you either had to change the story in a way that I would say was unnatural or even sometimes factually incorrect, or not change it and they wouldn't want to run it.
One of the more impactful moments of the night was when Attkisson recalled one producer who illustrated this situation particularly well.
We call New York and New York will tell us in the field, "gee, Associated Press, the wire service, says the car is red that you're doing a story on," and we'll tell them "well we're right here and we're looking at the car and the car is blue." And they'll say 'well okay, but make the car red.'"
In a nutshell, Attkisson said, managers have a preconceived notion of the facts based on their biases, and they won't listen to journalists on the ground.
Obama's Washington, as Attkisson calls it, inhibits original investigative reporting. She says there is now "a widespread consensus" that acknowledges that "this administration is the worst that we've dealt with personally for transparency and freedom of the press." She references a recent further downgrade of the U.S. from Reporters Without Borders for rankings on press freedom. She recounted activities by politicians such as altering Wikipedia pages, using 50 people to wield some 500 social media accounts, and the like–all to control PR messaging.
The Obama administration is particularly clever in using social media, Attkisson said.
In addition to using it's blogging partners to put out their talking points and the news media to do it, they launch these aggressive campaigns on a daily basis. And not just with CBS, or me, but anybody who's doing reporting that they don't like. They may call three times a day. They may fan out their phone calls. In other words, one person from the White House might call my bureau chief after I've done a story on Healthcare.gov, nothing wrong with the story, legally approved by our internal folks, gone through the editorial process, no fact errors, but they don't like it. So they'll call and just raise a ruckus. My bureau chief once in a while used to say to me, "Jay Carney's on the phone, what's he calling about?" I'm like, "He probably doesn't like tonight's story again." And he would kind of chuckle. I would say the next day "What did Jay complain about?" and he'd say "He didn't really have anything specific." He would call, the calling and the harassing and the bothering the managers and then someone else may call the news anchor and then they email. Then someone else may call the news division president, they fan out and they do this, in the hopes, I believe, that there's some effect of self-censorship, because who wants to go through that?
Comparing notes with others in the news media, Attkisson said they have received the same treatment, with incessant phone calls and harassment.
Full video of Attkisson's Wednesday night appearance at the Reagan Library:
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Economics	Outcomes	Policy
June 7, 2021: A Day of Promise and Peril for U.S. Healthcare
Mark June 7, 2021 as both an auspicious and infamous date in the annals of American healthcare. On this day, two revolutionary health companies, OneMedical and Iora Health, announced their intention to combine operations in pursuit of human-centered, tech-powered healthcare across all stages of human life. Growth, customer engagement, improved health and value are sure to follow.
Also on this day, the Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A.) announced accelerated approval for Biogen's Aduhelm, a new, risky and extremely expensive Alzheimer's drug with scant evidence of efficacy. Disappointment, profiteering, copycatting and monumental waste will follow as surely as night follows day.
In his 1944 masterpiece Children of Light and Children of Darkness, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr made this prescient observation about democracy and humanity's capacity for both good and evil,
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible.
Man's inclination toward injustice makes democracy necessary.
I applied Niebuhr's logic and phrasing to healthcare in the introduction to The Customer Revolution in Healthcare as follows,
Healthcare's capacity for innovation makes value possible.
Healthcare's proclivity for waste makes value necessary.
Never have healthcare's light and darkness been so concurrently on display as they were on June 7th. OneMedical's acquisition of Iora creates an expansive, scalable, member-centered health services company that delivers better outcomes and lower costs with better consumer and caregiver experience. Their innovations, cultures and business orientation make healthcare better.
Biogen's ability to use political maneuvering to pressure the F.D.A. into approving Aduhelm exemplifies how the Healthcare Industrial Complex™ wreaks havoc on American society. Aduhelm will make billions for Biogen's shareholders while peddling false hope, wasting vital resources and establishing precedent for premature drug approvals. This is just the latest example of how a self-dealing Healthcare Industrial Complex oppresses the American people and causes grievous harm.
Given the crass opportunism embodied by the F.D.A.'s decision to approve Aduhelm, it's difficult to avoid becoming cynical. All is not lost. The OneMedical-Iora combination offers real hope for a brighter healthcare future. Let's explore their enticing value proposition before returning to healthcare's darker side.
Revolutionary Healthcare Available to All
A joke I like asks "What English Majors are good for?" The surprising answer is "Wait and see!" I can't wait to see the magic that OneMedical and Iora will create together. I know each company well, believe in their customer-centric business models and greatly admire their CEOs, OneMedical's Amir Rubin and Iora's Rushika Fernandopulle.
I'm a OneMedical member and even featured them in the 4sight Health song "My Digital Front Door", a parody of Credence Clearwater Revival's "Looking Out My Front Door." As UCLA's COO, Stanford's CEO and Optum's EVP, Amir always wore suits. Now, As CEO and Board Chair of a cutting-edge, tech-heavy services company, he sports a jeans-black-t-shirt-sneakers look as OneMedical "disrupts healthcare from inside the ecosystem." Who says healthcare executives can't change their stripes?
I honored Rushika in my first book, Market vs. Medicine as one of an elite eight "Healthcare Rebels with a Cause" and made a short video last year to celebrate Iora's tenth anniversary. Rushika's affable demeanor belies an incisive mind and absolute commitment to "restoring humanity to healthcare." He launched Iora to disrupt healthcare in the same way Southwest Airlines has disrupted the airline industry — by offering higher value services. Through lots of ups and downs, Iora always delivers holistic, person-centric care that emphasizes well-being.
OneMedical and Iora share many cultural, organizational and business model features. Started ten years ago, both companies align their service offerings with member needs to drive better health outcomes. Each relies heavily on per-member-per-month revenues, a salaried staff and purpose-built technology to build trusted, long-term relationships with their members. They succeed by advancing health, not by churning healthcare transactions.
With their high-touch, high-tech platforms, both OneMedical and Iora engage their members deeply and regularly. Each company has a 5-to-1 ratio of virtual "touches" to in-person meetings. That's incredible. Exceptional member engagement drives high net promoter scores. It enables more effective chronic disease management, results in many fewer acute interventions and generates superior health status metrics.
Once the transaction closes, the expanded OneMedical will operate in 28 markets with a combined population of 120 million people. That's 40% of the U.S. population. Its offerings will cover all age groups. The company is poised for aggressive growth at high performance levels, particularly in fast-growing Medicare Advantage. The reconfigured company is well positioned to accept financial risk for managing the care of distinct populations but can operate successfully with fee-for-service as well as capitated payment models.
How will OneMedical and Iora coming together transform healthcare for the better? Let's wait and see!
"Crappy" Drugs Are Us
Harvard healthcare economist Amitabh Chandra refers to high-cost drugs that offer little or no benefit to patients as "crappy" drugs. That's Amitabh's colloquial description for drugs that create negative economic value. Aduhelm certainly qualifies as "crappy" given its staggering price tag and questionable efficacy.
Alzheimer's is a devastating and growing disease that afflicts six million Americans and 30 million people worldwide. Aduhelm is the first new Alzheimer's drug since 2003 and the first to target the amyloid plaques that clog the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
It's unclear that reducing amyloid plaques can slow the onset of dementia. Despite this uncertainty and desperate for new treatments, Alzheimer's patient advocacy groups lobbied the F.D.A. heavily to approve Aduhelm for immediate use.
That approval was controversial and came despite limited drug trials, conflicting evidence of efficacy, a negative recommendation from the F.D.A.'s independent advisory committee, its monstrous price tag and dangerous side effects. Biogen's stock jumped 38% on news of the F.D.A.'s approval.
Biogen has set the annual price for patients receiving Aduhelm at $56,000. Forty percent of patients in Phase 3 trials experienced brain swelling and bleeding, necessitating ongoing monitoring for those receiving the drug. Consequently, there will be tens of thousands of more dollars spent per patient for diagnostic tests and brain scans.
Aduhelm requires monthly infusions for the remaining life of Alzheimer's patients. Given this treatment protocol, Medicare Part B will cover the lion's share of the new drug's cost. Medicare Part B pays physicians six percent of the drug's average sales price for administering infusion drugs.
Easy money stimulates economic activity. Infusion payments, along with additional payments for diagnostic procedures, will create a windfall for physicians prescribing Aduhelm. This, along with intense patient demand, will speed the drug's entry into the marketplace.
Unfortunately, Aduhelm's approval will likely make it more difficult to conduct trials for new Alzheimer's drugs as well as F.D.A.-mandated, post-approval trials for Aduhelm. The slow onset of dementia in Alzheimer's patients makes recruiting trial participants and assessing efficacy difficult under the best of circumstances.
With its widespread availability, many Alzheimer's patients will be reluctant to forego receiving Aduhelm in order to enter a new drug trial where 50% of participants receive placebos. Dr. G. Caleb Alexander, a member of the F.D.A. advisory committee, makes this point using animal metaphors,
Once the product is approved, the cat's out of the bag, the horse is out of the barn. There's no way to recover the opportunity to understand whether or not the product really works in the post-approval setting.
Aduhelm's accelerated approval use by the F.D.A. creates a nightmare scenario for U.S. healthcare. Medicare will need to fund the drug's enormous lifetime treatment costs for millions of people despite Aduhelm's questionable efficacy, serious side effects and potential to retard further research into future Alzheimer's treatments.
In gaining this approval, Biogen has played the F.D.A. like a Stratovarius by maximizing political pressure to gain a favorable outcome. Its gargantuan payday comes at the expense of American society, the F.D.A.'s integrity and the future effectiveness of medical research. Other Big Pharma companies will certainly follow Biogen's playbook.
Count Aduhelm's approval as a decisive win for the Healthcare Industrial Complex. Its card-carrying members are celebrating this week while America weeps.
Plunder or Progress
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1961 "Farewell Address" is best known for originating the term "Military Industrial Complex" and Eisenhower's prophetic warning regarding the grave threat it posed to American liberties. Near the end of his speech, Eisenhower also make another prophetic warning about the risks of profligate government spending,
As we peer into society's future, we-you and I, and our government-must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.
The moral force of Eisenhower's warning rings through the decades. Plundering the U.S. Treasury today for an elusive Alzheimer's cure means weakening the country's wherewithal to support future generations. It makes Eisenhower's goal of "human betterment" more difficult to achieve.
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A punchy and provocative "guide book" to Gaza
David Cronin The Electronic Intifada 15 April 2013
Dervla Murphy's latest book A Month By the Sea: Encounters in Gaza has an ironic and provocative title. At first, it conjures up images of a sun-dazzled vacation. Then you realize that the sea in question is heavily polluted with human excrement because Israel has bombed Gaza's sewage treatment facilities; that fishermen who depend on this sea are regularly attacked by the Israeli navy.
Now in her eighties, Murphy is described as "Ireland's pre-eminent travel writer" by her publishers, Eland. But calling her a "travel writer" appears too reductive. Murphy shuns the "what to eat, where to stay" formula typical of Lonely Planet or Time Out guides, focusing more on political analysis than on Gaza's admittedly scarce tourist attractions.
Her stay in Gaza — during the summer of 2011 — came after she spent five months in the West Bank (renting a room in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus), as well as three months inside present-day Israel. She is planning a separate book about those experiences but there is no doubt that everything she witnessed in Palestine reinforced her long-held disdain for the Zionist project. Israel, she writes, is an "artificial creation, founded on self-deceit and bolstered by the success of world-deceiving propaganda."
Operation Cast Lead — Israel's all-out offensive against Gaza in late 2008 and early 2009 — offered a master-class in that type of propaganda. In a grotesque distortion of reality, Israel presented its bombardment of an already besieged population as an act of self-defense.
"Strident" criminality
Murphy seems repelled by the frequently superficial and testosterone-fuelled nature of war reporting. When a local chaperone takes her to meet surviving members of the Samouni family — who lost 21 members in a January 2009 massacre — she is "vaguely uncomfortable" about how visiting the scene of the crime has become a "must" for foreigners in Gaza. Her unease disappears, however, when she senses that the Samounis appreciate gestures of solidarity.
Whereas other authors might limit themselves to recording the family's recollections, Murphy puts them in a broader context. The weapon used in the massacre, she notes, was American, recalling that while Barack Obama "made his famous Islam-friendly speech" in Cairo during June 2009, "the US was replacing the many multi-ton bombs dropped on Gaza" earlier that year.
Her contempt for the profiteers of occupation is equally apparent when she meets Nasser Abu Shabaan, a surgeon in Gaza City's al-Shifa hospital, who has chronicled the effects of "innovative" weapons such as white phosphorous. Post-mortem images saved on his computer show "melted brains, shredded lungs, cooked livers, exploded kidneys," Murphy writes, asking if "arms manufacturers and their politician customers ever look at such pictures."
Murphy argues that "Zionist criminality is becoming ever more strident and arrogant" to the point that it is no longer shocking to compare Israel with Nazi Germany. She draws this conclusion after hearing an unnamed Palestinian friend posit the theory that Israel may have subjected Gaza's 1.6 million inhabitants to collective punishment because of a "hideous hangover from the Holocaust" (Murphy's words). When she confesses not to understand the logic behind this reasoning, her friend replies: "We're not talking about logic. We're talking about something very deep and dark and twisted. Something so sick that the international community is afraid to go near it."
No love for Hamas
The "international community" referred to is comprised of the US and its lackeys, of course. Speaking of America's lackeys, Murphy denounces senior European Union diplomats who occasionally pop into Gaza for a few hours but refuse to meet Hamas representatives.
Murphy has no time for the "we don't talk to terrorists" line parroted by those diplomats. She displays a firm grasp of Hamas' history, lamenting that the "outside world" paid scant attention to the strategic thinking behind a 2004 document on Israel's "anticipated withdrawal from the Gaza Strip," in which Hamas sought to gain international recognition as what she calls a "legitimate resistance movement." A lengthy conversation with a founding member of Hamas, Mahmoud al-Zahar, leads her to praise him as a man of "integrity."
Despite being slightly in awe of the "handsome" al-Zahar, she does not romanticize Hamas. On the contrary, she decries the restrictions on personal freedom that it has imposed in Gaza. She decries, too, patriarchy in Palestinian society and is especially appalled by "honor killings" — the murder of women or girls who disobey rules (stipulated by men) on relations between the sexes. The practice reminds her of how the Catholic church in her native Ireland ran the Magdalene Laundries until the late twentieth century, effectively imprisoning women who got pregnant out of wedlock.
Harsh words for Ireland
Murphy, incidentally, reserves some of her harshest words for the Irish government's willingness to engage with Israel. She excoriates Eamon Gilmore, the country's foreign minister, for attending a film festival sponsored by the Israeli government in 2011. By doing so, Gilmore gave a boost to the "Brand Israel" initiative, which uses art and sport in an attempt to promote Israel as a "normal" country. Ireland's insistence that it is not hostile to Israel per se conveys the impression that the oppression of the Palestinians is "some isolated error of judgment," she writes. In truth, it has been "central" to Israel's existence since 1948.
As well as correctly identifying Zionism as being the root cause of Palestine's problems, Murphy is clear about what tactics should be used to try and defeat it. She is a strong supporter of the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. Isolating Israel is necessary, she believes, because its government and international backers are "allergic to talking honestly about justice as the basis for peace."
Judging by this punchy and perceptive book, Murphy suffers from no such allergies.
David Cronin is a contributing editor with The Electronic Intifada. His book Europe's Alliance With Israel: Aiding the Occupation is published by Pluto Press.
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Wellington-founded virtual reality company 8i says new mobile technology being developed by Apple and Google will help bring its holographic videos to the global mainstream.
The company, founded in May 2014, has developed a platform that enables users to create, experience and share lifelike 3D video using a virtual reality headset and holographic technology.
Chief executive Steve Raymond said it was an exciting time for the company with the launch of its latest product, Holo.
"As consumers are augmenting, mixing and creating new content on their smartphones on a massive scale, mobile presents an unparalleled opportunity for distribution of holograms," Raymond said.
"[Holo is] a consumer mobile app that allows people to interact with our holograms in their own environments, and record and share the video experiences they create," he said. "We're excited about the potential for it."
The latest funding round was led by New York investment firm Time Warner Investments, with participation from Baidu Ventures, Hearst Ventures, Verizon Ventures, One Ventures, Carsten Maschmeyer's Seed & Speed Ventures, and existing investors.
Movie star Ashton Kutcher and Samsung were among a group of global investors that first backed the company in 2015, with the latest funding taking its total raised capital to $57m.
Kutcher is one of the most prolific tech investor in Hollywood, with seed and venture capital investments in a total of 70 startups.
Wellington-founded virtual reality company 8i makes holographic human content a reality with its breakthrough volumetric capture technology. Photo / NZ Herald Focus
Time Warner Investments managing director Scott Levine, who joins the board of 8i, said the opportunities with the company were huge.
"With [virtual reality] and [augmented reality], we're seeing the very beginning of a new generation of immersive media," Levine said.
"8i makes holographic human content a reality in this new era with its breakthrough volumetric capture technology, while lowering the barrier for creators," he said.
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USA -(Ammoland.com)- "It's not only about hiring veterans but hiring those who miss the camaraderie and that brotherhood," said Brian Steorts Owner and Founder of Flags of Valor (FOV). Flags of Valor, based out of Ashburn, Virginia, is a veteran-owned, combat veteran-made Americana woodwork company molded by three ideals: "Made in America" still matters, employing and empowering veterans and giving back to the community.
Steorts started the business just over a year ago in October of 2015 when he was recovering from a non-combat related injury he sustained in Afghanistan. However, to share FOV's journey, we have to start with Brian's.
Brian became a U.S. Army Paratrooper and was assigned to the esteemed 82nd Airborne stationed at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, North Carolina. After serving three years in the Army, Brian attended college using benefits from the G.I. Bill where he earned a degree in business. It was shortly after where he felt obligated to serve once again.
"During college, September 11 happened and like most Americans I was very upset. I came from a family who had all served in combat and I had not so I felt like I had an unfinished chapter in my book," he explained. "I decided I wanted to fly. I wanted to try to be a pilot so I joined the Air Force. I was commissioned in 2005 where I then got to join Air Force Special Operations Command."
As an AFSOC pilot, he supported ground forces by flying a U-28 Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft. He provided intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance to help outsmart, outmaneuver and outfight the enemy. After serving nine deployments, he officially retired in January of 2016. When he returned from his final deployment, Brian decided he wanted to start a business.
"Because I was going through rehabilitation I didn't wear my uniform anymore, and I always had a flag on my shoulder before that," he shared. He began searching for ways to fill that void while out of uniform and "found a flag" he liked online.
"It was a wooden flag, and it was beautiful," Brian continued. "But I found out it wasn't made in the United States, and of course that upset me. So then I decided, 'why not try to make my own?'"
Despite having no prior woodworking experience, he found craftsmanship therapeutic. Fortunately, the appropriate tools had been passed down to Brian from his father, allowing for a beginning as humble as the man.
After donating several flags to families of fallen Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) service members, he realized there was a lot more work to be done. Brian made it his mission to find combat veterans who were willing to work with him.
"I wanted to surround myself with people who were exemplary and they all found me one way or another," he explained.
All flag makers at the company are combat veterans, but many of them didn't have carpentry experience, so Brian took them under his wing. He began training his growing staff as they came in to give them the foundation they needed.
"We are very old school. We do everything by hand. From selecting the wood, to sanding, cutting, routing, painting, distressing and finally sealing, there is no automation; no machine takes that piece of wood and turns it into a flag," he explained.
Every item utilized by FOV is made in the U.S.A. — something they take extreme pride in. They source everything locally, from boxes and crates to the tools they use every day. With their domestic devotion in mind, they reached out to 20 U.S. companies hoping to start a working friendship among businesses. Stanley Black & Decker was the only company who got back to FOV. Not only did Stanley Black & Decker respond, but they donated numerous DeWalt tools from their "Made in U.S.A." line.
They began to grow the business through point of sale and e-commerce with four combat veteran craftsmen. Brian participated in various gun shows in hopes of expanding his company, and it didn't take him long to hit a turning point that would change their company forever.
"When we were at one of the charity events in D.C., a lady there who was a director of the Republican National Convention asked if we wanted to be a vendor at the RNC," Brian said. "She explained only 22 vendors are allowed to participate, so of course we said yes! I went on Fox and Friends and Fox Business the following Monday, and our company grew overnight."
Because of that single opportunity, they were able to hire more veterans to meet the incredible demand.
"We had a long back order but everyone understood because they knew the story from the interviews on TV and were like, 'Hey we don't care how long it takes, as long as we get one,' and those people just bought right there on the spot," he explained. "We weren't going to sacrifice the quality of our handmade product by rushing through all of the orders."
Brian's vision to build a company was blossoming and his craftsmen were following the same track. FOV's team includes veterans from each branch of the U.S. military, the lone exception being the U.S. Coast Guard (for now).
"Running your own company is an honor. Getting to work with America's best is a privilege," he said proudly. "Everyone here improves one another in a way and we all have a shared vision. I can't do any of this without them, and they can't do any of this without each other."
This group is a rare breed of men who work as a team, get through their day as a team and work through their struggles as a team.
"From everyday issues to getting through injuries they've sustained, [FOV] has helped a lot of them in many ways that you can't measure," said Brian.
Giving back to the team at FOV is just one of many ways the company contributes to other veterans. They spend a lot of time and effort working with foundations such as Special Operations Warrior Foundation Luke's Wings, Officer Down Memorial Page, C.O.P.S. and the Navy S.E.A.L. Foundation. The group consistently gives to charities by donating flags to live auctions. Their last 10 flags alone raised $120,000.
"It's very rewarding to present a flag made by our team, we know what it means to us and what it means to them," Brian said humbly. "Who better to give to than someone who has worn it on his or her sleeve? It's a feeling you can't buy."
This year Flags of Valor entered a new partnership with Friends of NRA through its Vendor Direct Program. They've also donated pieces to Friends of NRA banquets along with other NRA related events.
Helping an organization that strongly supports the U.S. military and veterans hits home with Brian.
"We're all [NRA] Life Members," he said. "Donating our flags to their events is just one more organization that we can create friendships with and support."
Hardly a year old, Brian's business has already doubled in size. He's aiming to hire 10 more veterans this year and maintains a goal to diversify their product line and increase the amount of veterans they employ.
To learn more about Flags of Valor visit their website at www.flagsofvalor.com.
All photos courtesy of Flags of Valor.
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I would like to order one of your wooden Flags, please give me your telephone number where I can place an order. Thank you and God bless
LeeAnn says:
These guys should check out Red October on YouTube he makes woodwork that would contribute to these guys business…just a suggestion
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Getting back behind the wheel after a car accident isn't always easy. We often speak to people who feel anxious or stressed about getting back on the road. But don't worry.
We've put together some tips to help you regain your confidence on the road.
Even the smallest bump can be unnerving, even for experienced drivers - so it's important not to bottle things up. Talking to friends and family about what's happened - as well as how you're feeling about driving again - can help more than you might think.
Wait until you're ready
While you won't want to wait forever, getting back on the road too early will only increase anxiety. So don't force yourself to start driving again until you feel comfortable to do so.
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Having a passenger with a lot of driving experience who can reassure you that you're on the right track - or just someone alongside to offer emotional support if you become overwhelmed - can be really helpful when you're starting to get back on the road.
Start with a short journey
Pick a route you drive regularly and have never had any problems with. Choose a time of day that's likely to be quiet, such as late morning on a weekday, to reduce the pressure.
Even after your first few trips, you might not feel back to full confidence. Don't be too hard on yourself. It might help to revisit the earlier steps suggested here, like talking to a friend or asking them to accompany you.
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MixTree is an ever-expanding constellation of events, ideas, and especially people and that is why, in the last two years, we have begun to organize English language courses as well (www.mixtreelang.nl), in an effort to integrate more and more people (expats from all over the world, refugees) into the vibrant and all-welcoming Amsterdam atmosphere.
During the last three years, we have been operating in the OT301 building on Overtoom, organizing hundreds of cultural events (art exhibitions, concerts, theatre and poetry nights, special events devoted to exploring different cultural traditions, workshops, movie screenings, you-name-it), but time has come to explore new surroundings, to cross-pollinate new urban areas.
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