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Achieving Your Desired Lifestyle by Hiring the Right People with Brian Ellwood
In today's show, Larry talked with Brian Ellwood. Brian is doing a lot of deals and is having fun making money and living the lifestyle. They talked about how hiring an acquisition manager changed his business and helped him achieve the lifestyle he desired.
Brian's background
How he discovered real estate
How he started his own business
Working with a coach
The impact of hiring an acquisition manager
Permanently moving to Denver
Being passionate about helping other people achieve financial freedom
Brian's book - Fire Yourself
What Brian's business looks like - business structure - process
Percentage of each real estate investments
How he pays his private money lenders
Structuring the terms
Typical price range of the houses Brian buys
Building their buyer's list
How they are getting their deals
What PPC is
Recruiting Bird Dogs
Brian's advice
"I am just really passionate about helping other people achieve financial freedom and being able to design their lifestyle the way they wanted it to look."
"You have to know what your numbers are."
"Lifestyle is the real end goal."
"The fortune is in the follow up."
Fire Yourself Book
The Collective Genius
Larry: Welcome to the Brain-Pick-A-Pro Show live from Lake Wylie South Carolina and Colorado. I'm really excited about our special guest today. He is a rock star, he's doing a lot of deals, he's having fun and making money and living the lifestyle. Please welcome Brian Elwood. What's going on buddy?
Brian: What's up Larry? Thanks for having me.
Larry: How you been?
Brian: Man I've been pretty good. I was actually born in South Carolina.
Larry: Really what part?
Brian: Spartanburg.
Larry: Spartanburg I bought a lot of houses in Spartanburg and Greenville and Woodruff all down in there.
Brian: Okay yeah my grandma still lives in Spartanburg. So I'm there a couple a year to see her.
Larry: That's great that is awesome. I'm glad to hear it. So why don't you start out and tell our listeners a little bit about yourself?
Brian: So I grew up mostly in Nashville Tennessee, went to the University of Tennessee. I moved back to the corporate thing for a little while and absolutely hated it.
Larry: What did you do in the corporate world?
Brian: Oh man I sat at a desk and pretended to work, I'm being honest but it was like health insurance claim so I'd work claims and try to get the companies to pay for their claims.
Larry: You needed something a little more exciting huh?
Brian: Yeah everyone's eyes are glazing over just listening to that much of that story. So after that I discovered real estate, started birddogging for a local investor and finding him deals. He paid me a little finders' fees but that really taught me how to find deals.
Larry: Good.
Brian: And then started my own business doing wholesale deals and fix and flip deals, six years ago or so, five six years ago. And we grew to where we're doing over 100 deals a year.
Larry: And this is in Nashville right?
Brian: Yeah this is in Nashville.
Larry: I was in Nashville this morning.
Brian: No way.
Larry: I'm serious. I had a 5:40AM flight out of Nashville back to the office. I was at the office before 9AM.
Brian: Jeez, you just had to lay over there?
Larry: Yeah no, I was in Nashville for the last few days at a Mastermind that I'm in.
Brian: Oh cool neat. Yeah Nashville is a great real estate market and it really was back then especially. If you look at it today statistically it's one of the strongest real estate markets in the US.
Larry: Wow.
Brian: But it's also very competitive and inflated like a lot of other cities right now.
Larry: Sure.
Brian: But back when the gig was real good we were doing over 100 deals a year and fix and flips and wholesale deals buying rentals. And we started working with Joe McCall as our coach at this time.
Larry: I saw Joe yesterday.
Brian: Did you?
Larry: Yeah I hang out with him the last three days.
Brian: I love Joe.
Larry: He's a great guy.
Brian: Yeah I can attribute a lot of my success to things that Joe helped me with over the years.
Brian: I was thinking about this this morning I wondering how I could repay him.
Larry: I'm going to get him on here soon. I'm going to get him on the podcast soon.
Brian: Awesome. Yeah so hired Joe and he taught us how to start making our business more virtual, how replace ourselves. He taught us to hire an acquisition manager because at that time we were only making 300 grand a year in gross revenue running around like crazy with all these deals and closing.
And there was no more time in the day and he taught us that's the first
person you replace yourself with. And when we hired out first acquisition manager not only did he give us back a lot of our time but he literally grew our revenue to a million bucks. He was spending all day finding deals and just tripling the volume of activity that we were able to do when we were doing and everything else.
We got real interested in this idea of making the business virtual we started saying, "Well where else can we replace ourselves?" And we hired a project manager so we never had to go manage rehabs and we hired an office manager so we never had to addend closings anymore. And anything that required our physical presence we'd put somebody in that seat.
And then I started travelling a lot we were still doing a bunch of deals. I'd take three-week road trips across the country, work from my laptops in coffee shops and things. And it's like man this is the life. I didn't realize real estate could be virtual. You think that you got to be up at the courthouse steps to do real estate deals but.
Brian: And then three years ago I tested that theory out fully by permanently moving to Denver and I live here now. And I run the real estate business in Nashville and I also have an education business where I teach people how to do what I do. I started out about a year ago.
Brian: And yeah today I'm just really passionate about helping other people achieve financial freedom and being able to design their lifestyle the way they want it to look. So they can sit here like you and me and do cool stuff like his on a Wednesday morning and not have to go to a job I used to and all that stuff.
Larry: That's awesome man that's great. Now you actually wrote a book about how to hire your first acquisition manager right?
Brian: I did. It's called Fire Yourself.
Larry: I love it.
Brian: It's just soup to nuts operations manual, everything we did to hire that guy that tripled our revenue and gave us back all our free time. Since that day I've never talked to another seller myself I mean that was years and years ago. And I never will because I don't like that part of this business, but I want good deals. And I'm happy to pay somebody a percentage of the deal so that they can do that for me.
And a lot of newbies get hang up they send out their direct mail right and then all the calls come in and they freeze up. And then, "I don't want to call these people back I'm scared what if they get ticked off or whatever?"
Brian: I was the same and I powered through for a couple years as our acquisition manager and it never really got any better or more fun for me because it's not my personality. So yeah if you're that type of person I suggest checking out the book. I only charge the cost it cost me to print and ship.
Brian: At fireyourself.net you can get a free copy if anyone wants to check it out more.
Larry: Good we'll put that in the resources on the show.
Brian: Awesome.
Larry: Yeah that's good, fireyourself.net.
Brian: Yeah.
Larry: That's awesome I love it. So tell us a little bit about what your business looks like, what's the structure, how many people do you have and what do they do?
Brian: Sure, so you may have met my business partner Frank when we were at Collective Geniuses where we've always been there together. But as of like the third, fourth quarter of 2017 we split up and we kind of few employees were with me a few went with him.
So I think it'd be more helpful for me to describe to you how our business was just a handful of months ago, because that's how it's going to be pretty soon again just on my own. It was an amicable split we wanted to do different things.
Brian: So basically we have an acquisition manager obviously to go on all the appointments and work all the hot and warm leads.
Brian: And then inside sales rep which is someone who basically works the phone all day.
Larry: That's a lead manager right? Is that a lead manager or something different?
Brian: We have had a full time lead manager at one time, as of lately we realize that that might be a little bit overkill when you can train someone like your acquisition manager or your inside sales rep to analyze leads while they're talking to people.
Brian: So yeah nowadays we actually let our acquisition manager do the lead analysis piece.
Larry: So they take it from when the lead comes in all the way through getting a contract?
Brian: So a call comes in and the inside sales guy will answer it and set the appointment gauge motivation, ask all the right questions. And then hands the lead off to the acquisition manager which is like the outside sales rep the main lead guy alright. And then he analyzes the lead, attends the appointment, does the repair estimate on the spot, makes an offer.
If the offer gets accepted then our project manager gets activated and he goes out there with an inspector and the contractor maybe a realtor or a property manager. And gets all the advice from all the experts on what's this house going to take to get fixed up and what's it going to rent for all that. Then the acquisition manager also acts as our transaction
coordinator. So he'll send the contract to the title company, make sure the closing gets handled.
Larry: So the acquisition manager handles the closing pretty much.
Brian: The office manager will attend the closings just to sign. We give her a onetime resolution for every deal because she's stamped permission to sign for us. So I've never had to go to the title company. It's been a year or two since I've had to go to a title company.
Larry: That's awesome.
Brian: I used to go four times every week and I hated it. I would just hang out in the parking lot of the title company which I mean there's worse things you could spend your life doing. And then after we close on it, project manager works with contractors get it renovate it and then we either sell it or keep it as a rental hand out to the property manager. That's essentially the bullet points.
Larry: That's awesome. So I know you do wholesaling, you do fix and flip you keep some as rentals. What kind of a percentage is each?
Brian: Nowadays it's very little to know wholesaling.
Larry: Oh really?
Brian: Yeah I'm just more- I really like to take title to the property take it down.
Brian: And I know you know Mark Terrio he always tells his students on his podcasts like step one is you get the contract signed for a good price. And then step two is you decide on your monetization strategy. And the first thing you should always try to do is hold the property. If you can, hold it.
Brian: Because then that's like passive income is kind of what gives people the lifestyle they think they're after when they get started in real estate anyway. Because a lot of people end up with this huge crazy business they're like, "Man I thought I was going to be sitting on a beach but instead I'm managing 12 employees." So I agree with that philosophy.
Brian: So that's why I try to hold everything I can, and really I started raising private money regularly to buy rentals, that's been a really powerful strategy that I teach a lot. Now I don't like banks they're really difficult to deal with.
Brian: Yeah I spend a lot of time talking to lenders whether it's a friend from grade school or a local investor or whoever, anyone who wants to make six to 9% on their money that's guaranteed and it's backed by a real asset can talk to me and do a loan. And that's been powerful.
So it's shifted it's like in early days it was like, "Let's wholesale as many deals as possible." And now I slowed down a bit I'm like, "I want to build something that's really going to last. I want a portfolio of assets that money hits my mailbox every month. My philosophy has shifted over time for sure.
Larry: You don't want to sell the goose that lays the golden egg right?
Brian: Yeah exactly.
Larry: That's good. Now you pay your private money lenders around six to 9%, is that right?
Brian: Sometimes as high as 10% and then there's usually one to four points in there, of course that's a wide range. But it's all deal dependent.
Brian: So a lot of people feel like they're at the mercy of private money lenders but what I usually do is when a deal comes across my plate I'll run my own numbers and just determine the most that I can pay.
Brian: And I'll just draw the line and be like, "Look I can only pay 8% plus two points on this deal. Is anyone interested in taking this?"
Brian: And if they aren't that's okay I don't really negotiate and that's a better way to kind of frame it.
Larry: That's a good point. Now how do you structure the terms? Is it interest only or is it fully amortized?
Brian: So if it's 18 months or less it's usually an interest only loan because there's really no point in amortizing for that short of a loan. It confuses the lender especially if you're pitching someone new. It's so much easier to say, "Look if you loan me 50 grand for a yeah I'll mail you a cheque each month for 300 buck which is just interest."
Brian: And at the end of the year I'll pay you back your 50 grand in full right.
Brian: So they don't have to think about oh this little part knocks off the principal. But if you and some private money lenders will do three five seven year loans just an individual, which is awesome. And then you usually go amortized.
Brian: Just because it's a long- you don't want to pay interest only for five years that yeah.
Larry: Right you want to be building some equity.
Brian: Exactly yeah.
Larry: That is good. What's a typical price range house that you're buying now?
Brian: That's one of the things I really love about my market. And maybe you have the same thing going on in south Carolina is everything is under $100,000 just to give you a rough starting point. So every like we always have a handful of fix and flip deals going on at any given time.
Brian: But if they don't sell, if I list it and the market crushes or something, and it won't sell, what it will rent for always is going to cover the payment. I can always double every deal I do would double as a rental. It's kind of a rule I made especially here in 2018 where things are crazy inflated, I don't want to have 10 speculative half a million dollar rehabs sitting on the market fingers crossed hoping they sell.
We've worked too hard to get to where we are to lose it all at this point. So I really like cheaper blue collar markets like not really rough areas but working class neighborhoods. You can get a house for 60, 70 grand, it'll rent for 1000 bucks a month. And it's rented most there's no problems with vacancies and things like that. That's been my sweet spot.
Larry: Awesome that's really good. And it's very similar to what we do, we buy a lot of houses for 30, 40, 50, 60 and then if we're wholesaling them we're wholesaling them for 40, 50, 60, 70. Or we're doing a lease option of a land contract or something like that. But I love and I know you have a lot in your market like this, I love the three bedroom, one a half or two bath brick ranch houses, 1100, 12, 1500sqft. Love those kinds of houses.
Brian: Yeah it's the perfect investment I mean and multifamily probably are awesome too I haven't gotten into that. But for single family houses, yeah like it doesn't get any better. I would hate to have a @300,000 house that I was trying to make work as a rental property. That would be stressful you can't do it. Really I'd much rather have six $50,000 houses.
Larry: Exactly.
Brian: For many reasons.
Larry: So tell us a little about you've got an acquisition manager, one acquisition manager and an inside sales person which is really your lead manager. They're doing the set when the leads come in. and then you've got your operations manager she's basically doing your closings it sounds like.
Brian: Right.
Larry: Now are all these people full time?
Brian: Yes.
Larry: Okay. Now what about your salesperson? Do you have a salesperson that's wholesaling you fix and flip stuff?
Brian: So for the fix and flip stuff it's just our relator because we'll lease that retail.
Larry: Right that makes sense.
Brian: For the wholesalers back when we were doing a lot of them, we would have our lead manager also be the disposition manager I think that's what people call it. Person that sells the contracts and stuff like that. That was definitely one of our strengths back in the day was building a buyers' list that' something that we could do very easily and very well. I can talk about that if you want me to.
Larry: Yeah that would be awesome. How do you build your buyers? What's a great way to do that?
Brian: Okay. So some people pitch this model where it's like I want to email these like 30,000 people in my market that I'm just going to blast every deal to," but I don't really like that approach.
Brian: I like to work with just a handful of real players where I can make a few phone calls and sell the deal without posting it anywhere because you can get busted for stuff like that too sometimes. Like the local real estate commissions for advertising deals in a bunch of different places when you have it under contract. It's different in every market.
Brian: But I always like to just do it via a phone call or an email just to one person. So in order to get like people ask me all the time, "How do you build a buyers' list?" and they pay for software and stuff to do it but I think it's really simple and easy. What I do is okay so normally you obviously know about going in and pulling a direct mail list for absentee sellers, right it's one of those-
Larry: Right explain that to our listeners though so they can understand if they look familiar.
Brian: So for normal direct mail you're learning about real estate marketing they would say, "Let's start with direct mail and pull a list of absentee owners in your market of people who own a property but they don't live in it. And you send a mail and you'll get leads okay. So my strategy for getting buyers is the same as that but with a small tweak.
So you go in and pull a list for absentee owners. But normally what you do is you will put about 10 years of equity in there. so if today is 2017 you might pull the list they had to own it anywhere from 1900 all the way back up until call it 2007.
Brian: Alright. So they've had it for at least 10 years. That's how you would normally pull a list. For a buyers' list you actually go only about one year or two years back at most from present day. So I would put in there for the dates, I want absentee owners who have bought properties from February 2016 to February 2018.
So just in the last two years. And then when you go to purchase the list, you don't exclude duplicates so you get every purchase. So you basically end up with a spreadsheet that has every house that every investor has bought in the last couple of you years.
Larry: And how many.
Brian: And how many. And then you put that spreadsheet you create what's called a Pivot Table to where you can see it just shows you, it ranks it in order. So you can see but you don't do it by the name of the LLC you actually do it by the address because some investors will have 10 different LLCs but they always use the same address. So you create the pivot table by the address.
Larry: That's a great tip.
Brian: Yeah and then you end up with on a spreadsheet literally a list of the ranking top 10 buyers in your market. And sometimes the top two will be like those the big hedge funds like American Homes for Rent and if oh they bought 296 and then the next one somebody bought 186 houses and then some guy bought 97 and then some guy bought 86.
Brian: And it goes down in order from most to least on the pivot table. So once I have that, I call that your dream buyer's list.
Brian: Our disposition manager when he didn't have a contract to sell he would just call and send letters to everyone on that list regularly, follow up with them like diligently, send them like gifts to their office. Before we had him we used to drive around and knock on the doors, we'd go to the addresses and we're like, "Hey are you so and so LLC?" and they'd be like, "Yeah, who are you?"
And I'm like, "We want to bring you some deals." And they'd be like, "Come on in you guys want a water or a coffee?" and all of a sudden we're at their roundtable and they're showing us the areas they like to buy in and these are the guys that are buying 50 houses a year or more. So it's so easy to work with, they're not stingy about prices and stuff, they just want volume.
So that's how we've done hundreds of wholesale deals every year it's just with that top 20 list let's call it, who are the top 20 players in your market? Pull that list every six to 12 months and you'll always have your finger on who's the main buyer at that time. And man that's a powerful list it just makes your life simple too as a wholesaler.
Larry: Right, that's awesome. Now let's talk about on the acquisition side. Tell us how are you getting your deals?
Brian: So historically direct mail has always been our bread and butter. As
you probably know it worked a lot better back in the day than it's working today.
Brian: So direct mail was the main way we did it for the first three, four five years. Then it started to work a little worse, we added in PPC.
Larry: Explain PPC. I mean you know I know what it is but just so the people can understand.
Brian: Yeah so I don't know a lot about it because we hired a company to do it for us but basically if someone Googles sell my house Nashville, we want to be in the top one to three results in the sponsored section on the very top of the Google results. And then they click that link and it goes to a squeeze page, has a guy in our company saying, "Hey you want to sell your house, put your details in this form right here."
And then it enters into our podio, becomes a lead, acquisition guy gets a text calls those leads back real fast because PPC leads are expensive and they're also really valuable. But they're fleeting you have to jump on them pretty quick. But I mean they're expensive yes and you might get a deal and on one bought PPC.
It doesn't seem like it's very scalable like I can't just keep dumping more money on it, it's going to get sweeter and sweeter. One strategy that I'll talk about real quick that I think is one of the most underappreciated strategies is building a huge network of birddogs and wholesalers.
Brian: And this strategy works better if you're going to flip the houses because otherwise you're just trying to co-wholesale everything which some wholesalers don't want to enter into that agreement with you.
Larry: And the profits get thin.
Brian: Exactly yeah. But the good thing is that your cost per deal is basically zero it's just your time. So those offset like the expensive direct mail deals that we're doing nowadays. And we don't have it going this crazy at this time but at the peak I mean we would have like 100 people on a webinar every couple of weeks.
There were local birddogs and wholesalers in our market and just teaching them how to find deals, how to put it under contract, what to say to the seller, how to analyze the deal. So really we invest in these people and train them and then who do you think they bring the deal to when they get one? Who are they going to think of first; the guy that does weekly Q&As with them or whatever.
But you shouldn't give them all your personal cellphone number because all you'll do is talk to these guys they'll call you every time they get a lead because they're confused. These days you can do Facebook Lives and just create a closed group and people can put their questions as a comment and you can just answer them.
Brian: On live video, Friday for two hours each Friday or something like that.
Brian: That's a free marketing channel. If you're someone who likes to give back and educate which I know you are like me, it's fun to help other people. And then you also get what you want out of it which is deals. So I love that channel. Like people over estimate the importance of the fact that a wholesaler network that your cost per lead is zero.
Your cost per deal is zero. That matters business, because no business can escape the fact that you can't get deals. If your customer acquisition costs divided by lifetime value the customer doesn't work out, you know how the business speaks really.
Brian: Right you have to know what your numbers are. And all the cheap for free deals that you can get, I think you should really scale those marketing channels first. And then from there you can start to spend money and track it.
Larry: That's awesome. That's really good. I love the birddog thing. How do you recruit your birddogs? How do you find the people that you're going to get on the webinar and nurture them and get them out there finding deals for you?
Brian: It's a good question. So back in the day it was a little more difficult before social media was as big as it is now. You go to the local REA meetings, REA club or whatever in your city with your business cards and hand them out to people. I remember a lady at mine one time had those binders you put baseball card in.
Larry: Yeah.
Brian: She put business cards in them and she had like really just ages of business cards. And I'm sitting thinking, "That looks cool but how much money is that really making you?" Anyways that was the old way of doing it, and you might spend a few hours at the meeting once a month and come home with five new contacts or whatever.
Brian: Today, you can literally make one post on your local Facebook group if you're REA whatever usually most market will have 10 different Facebook groups. Like Houston Cash Buyers, Houston REA Club, Houston Wholesale Deals. You just find them all and join them all and post in those, "Hey I'm a buyer I'm look for birddogs wholesalers I'll teach you what to do just put your email address in the comments.
I've literally from one post in one group gotten 25 email addresses.
Brian: From a Facebook post. But things are easy nowadays, easy to network nowadays and find the person you're trying to find. That's one of the beauties of the modern age is that part of it is just so much easier.
Brian: That's it. I mean you can do things like Craigslist and stuff but like social media if you ideally post on there because not everyone's going to see it every time, I think you could end up with a list of 100 or 200 people relatively quick. And then you treat that like an email list, put them on email them once a week. You could put them on a drip sequence with your auto responder.
You can create like in podio what we did is we just created a link, they clicked it and it takes them to a form in Podio where they fill out the address. So anytime they had a lead they wanted to share with us, they just clicked the link and then it just goes in our podio and it's tagged with their name. so we know that if we do a deal out of it we have to pay them whatever we agreed upon, $1000 finder's fee or.
Because if they just give you the lead it's less valuable than them bringing you the contract. So yeah I love this marketing channel especially today in 2018 where I mean hard direct mail costs are crazy right now. It's like 300 bucks to get a lead in the door at least in Nashville proper. In the fringe markets it's cheaper but the more I learn about marketing the more I realize that I need to track that stuff cost per lead cost per deal average deal size.
Because you can't scale a company even if it costs you five grand to get a deal and you're only making 10 grand from the deal, that's a 2:1 ratio. That's not good enough to scale a company, you kind of have to be a one man show, you can put employees in. So you have to be like 3:1 to 4:1 in those ratio, what it cost you to get a deal and what you can make from the deal.
It has to be 1:3 or1:4 ratio to be healthy. If it's greater than 1:4 you can actually afford to spend more money on it. But if it's less and which it is for a lot of people, the only way you're going to make money if you do every single thing yourself. So there's no other costs.
Larry: That's not why you got into real estate to begin with.
Brian: Yeah exactly. Most people want to make money in real estate because they believe that the money will afford them a certain type of lifestyle. They're like, "Once I have the money things will be awesome." But there's a lot of billionaires in the world that are depressed and unhappy and working 100 hours a week and on antidepressants and they can't sleep at night.
Brian: Because they've created this monster that now runs their lives and they can't remove themselves from it.
Brian: You think, well man they're crazy if I had a billion dollars I wouldn't do that. But the things you have to do to earn a billion dollars change you.
Brian: It changes your reality and like changes you, you becomes attached to things you no longer were. I know this is a bit a tangent but-
Larry: No it's good, it's rough.
Brian: It's really like when I coach people I really start with lifestyle. What type of day are you trying to live on a day to day basis and how can we build a business that's definitely going to afford that lifestyle. Forget about money for a second, let's just what can we do to- because the lifestyle is the real angle to have that you love and enjoy. And that's what I'm really passionate about at the end of the day.
Larry: I love it that's great. Now you mentioned podio tell us a little bit about your podio and did you create it yourself or have somebody develop it for you or get it out of the box system or what?
Brian: We just created it ourselves over time. There's three main apps that we use. There's one for leads obviously and then there's one for contracts. Once you get the contract signed. And there's another one for contacts. So we separate someone's name, phone number, email address from the lead itself. It's in the lead too but it's like the contact it linked to it in the lead. So it's a separate app. It's easier for marketing.
Larry: But they're connected.
Brian: They're connected and then we have some cool and I don't honestly know how this works because our COO set it all up. But we have cool automation built in there where it's like a new lead comes into podio, the first week they'll get a phone call. The second week they'll get a voice blast, the third week they'll get a text blast and the fourth week they'll get a direct mail piece.
Larry: That's nice.
Brian: It's one touch every week for four weeks and then that repeats. And that's a big part of us being able to do a lot of deals is just having good follow up. That's a thing that if you're a newbie listening to this you got to squeeze every bit of juice out of the fruit that you can. And follow up is everything in the business.
Larry: The fortune is in the follow up.
Brian: Yeah,
Larry: Because if you don't have follow up, you're just wasting your money on direct mail or PPC or whatever. You're just wasting your money because a lot of the deals and you can tell our listeners this, a lot of the deals they come after six months or a year or two years. What's the oldest lead you've ever sold or bought their house?
Brian: Two or three years probably.
Larry: That's amazing. Man I really appreciate you sharing all this stuff with us, this is really good stuff. What kind of parting words would you have to somebody out there listening? Maybe they're brand new or maybe they're a one man show and they're trying to scale or maybe they're just trying to create the lifestyle. Or what's some parting words you would share to somebody? Some words of wisdom that will help them get past where they are right now.
Brian: Man I'll just try to be brief because I could go for an hour of course. But let's just go with three quick things. Alright one, always have a mentor of some kind it doesn't have to be like a coach like me where you pay good money to. It can be a local person who will meet you for coffee and has experience and will do it for free or the cost of some deals or whatever.
Always have someone that's ahead of you that's helping you stay on the right path, helps you figure out what you need to do. Second, get really clear on the lifestyle that you're going after. What do I want to do when I wake up? Where do I live? Who do I work with? What am I doing? When do I do it? Just get clear on what that lifestyle looks like.
And then craft a vision for your business that clearly links to that lifestyle being lived right like you can read the vision for the business and say, "You know what, if I build this business it will give me this lifestyle." They're clearly linked right. Because you don't want to end up somewhere you were never trying to go in the first place. You do those three things as the foundation for success, there's lots of other things you have to do but that will really set you up to have a good chance of succeeding.
Larry: That is awesome. That's really good stuff. Well man I really appreciate your being on here and what's that website again where people can run grab your book? It sounds like a really good book.
Brian: Yeah it's www.fireyourself.net .
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EQS-Ad-hoc News vom 08.05.2017
HOCHDORF Holding Ltd: Dr Daniel Suter takes on the role of Chairman
HOCHDORF Holding AG / Key word(s): AGM/EGM
08-May-2017 / 07:00 CET/CEST
Release of an ad hoc announcement pursuant to Art. 53 KR
Press release for the HOCHDORF Group AGM on 5 May 2017
Dr Daniel Suter takes on the role of Chairman
Hochdorf, 8 May 2017 - The 301 shareholders attending the Annual General Meeting for HOCHDORF Holding Ltd accepted the proposals submitted by the Board of Directors. The shareholders confirmed a slight increase in the dividend from reserves from capital investments to CHF 3.80 (PY CHF 3.70). The shareholders also elected Dr Daniel Suter to succeed Josef Leu as the new Chairman of the Board of Directors.
The Extraordinary General Meeting was led by Josef Leu, Chairman of the Board of Directors of HOCHDORF Holding Ltd, with 301 shareholders in attendance representing a total of 751,428 share votes (71.61 per cent of the share votes).
The proposals submitted by the Board of Directors were approved by the shareholders. This included approval of the Annual Report for 2016, the Group accounts and the annual accounts for HOCHDORF Holding Ltd as of 31 December 2016, in addition to full support for the members of the Board of Directors and the senior management team. The remuneration report was also approved along with the proposed remuneration of the Board of Directors and the senior management team.
Slight increase in dividend
The shareholders approved the request for a slight increase in the dividend to CHF 3.80 per share in view of the company's substantial investments. As in the previous year, the dividend is paid from capital reserves and is tax free for natural persons resident in Switzerland. The dividend is to be paid out on 11 May 2017.
Change in the Board of Directors
Prior to the election of the Board of Directors, Anton von Weissenfluh, Vice Chairman, discharged Josef Leu, outgoing Chairman of the Board of Directors and Meike Bütikofer, member of the Board of Directors for many years. He thanked them both for their commitment to the HOCHDORF Group. The shareholders then confirmed the election of all former members of the Board of Directors standing again. Dr Daniel Suter was elected as Chairman of the Board of Directors, as proposed. Ulrike Sailer was elected as a new member of the Board of Directors. She will use her international experience in marketing, sales and brand positioning to support the HOCHDORF Group in the future. Ulrike Sailer is due to take up a new position with Tchibo, Hamburg as of 1 June 2017 after completing a further education course. As Director of International Sales (Coffee & Non-Food) she will be part of the Leadership Team Circle at Tchibo. The shareholders appointed Dr Anton von Weissenfluh, Niklaus Sauter and Dr Walter Locher onto the personnel and remuneration committee.
Dr Urban Bieri of the law firm Rudolf & Bieri, Emmenbrücke, was appointed as independent proxy for the period up to and including the 2018 AGM. The AGM elected Ernst & Young Ltd, Lucerne as the auditing agency for the same period of time.
Collaboration with Pharmalys working well
In his presentation, Dr Thomas Eisenring, CEO, explained the interim goals that had been reached as part of the new strategy fixed for the HOCHDORF Group in the past year. Dr Eisenring explained that the majority shareholding in the Pharmalys Group had been an important step in the direction of forward integration: "Our new joint collaboration in the market has started well. We have defined joint goals and we also want to use the Pharmalys distribution network for sales of additional HOCHDORF products in the future." He emphasised that further increases in profitability would require additional work on projects defined in all business areas and their successful implementation.
Outlook for 2017 confirmed
Dr Eisenring confirmed the forecasts for the 2017 fiscal year were still achievable, despite a somewhat cautious start to the new year: "The investment projects in Sulgen are on track, the collaboration with Pharmalys is working well and the plants were well utilised, despite slightly reduced milk quantities." In March the HOCHDORF Group forecast a gross sales revenue for the 2017 fiscal year in the region of CHF 635 to 670 million and a percentage EBIT compared to the production revenue of between 6.1 and 6.6%.
Document: http://n.eqs.com/c/fncls.ssp?u=UAAMIAKFPI
Document title: Press release for the HOCHDORF Group AGM 2017
End of ad hoc announcement
Information and Explanation of the Issuer to this News:
The HOCHDORF Group, based in Hochdorf, achieved a consolidated gross sales revenue of CHF 551.5 million in 2016. It is one of the leading foodstuff companies in Switzerland, employing 630 staff as of 31.12.2016. Made from natural ingredients such as milk, wheat germ and oil seeds, HOCHDORF products have been contributing to our health and wellbeing since 1895 - from babies to senior citizens. Its customers include the food industry and the wholesale and retail sectors. Its products are sold in over 90 countries. The shares are traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange in Zurich (ISIN CH0024666528).
Company: HOCHDORF Holding AG
Siedereistrasse 9
E-mail: hochdorf@hochdorf.com
Internet: www.hochdorf.com
ISIN: CH0024666528
Listed: SIX Swiss Exchange
End of Announcement EQS Group News Service

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Shirvell relishes the opportunity to grow the Yale-NUS Athletics Department.
1,500 meter and one mile events – Shirvell now works alongside Wainright Khoo in the expanding Athletics Department, bringing his previous collegiate sports experience to Yale-NUS to build teams and look for competitive platforms.
"Now that we have more structured teams we can try and form invitationals, more friendlies, more competitive matches with other schools. We would go to the Athletics Council … on who they want to play." Shirvell commented.
Currently, the basketball team is the only competitive group heading to Shanghai. An ongoing conversation around competitive exchanges is the extent a team goes to win. How should the team approach their game, knowing their actions on court could shape the longevity of the exchange?


Could Kliff Kingsbury's seven-year recruitment of Kyler Murray finally pay off?
The Oakland Athletics still don't know when or if top draft pick Kyler Murray will report to camp.
The two-sport star has a locker and a No. 73 jersey waiting for him in Oakland's clubhouse at Hohokam Park, but general manager David Forst said Sunday they were still talking to the Murray family as the Heisman Trophy winner tries to decide whether to pursue MLB as an outfielder or the NFL as a quarterback.
The A's pitchers and catchers will hold their first workout of spring training on Monday. Position players are scheduled to report on Friday.
In other developments Sunday, manager Bob Melvin addressed the possibility the A's might need to again get creative with their uncertain rotation as they head into camp, including leaning on their relief pitchers as "openers" to start games.
Reliever Liam Hendriks became the most dependable in that role last season, making nine of the 10 "opener" starts for Oakland in September and October, including in the AL wild-card game against the Yankees.
The makeshift bullpen games helped the A's earn a surprising postseason appearance, and Hendriks is eager to return to the role. He's ready to pitch every other day if asked — "I'd love to be able to get to 81 games pitched, just to be able to say I did it," he said.
The Athletics are getting an early start on spring training because they're heading to Japan for a season-opening series on March 20-21. The teams will be allowed expanded 28-man rosters for those games, and Melvin expects to use the extra roster space to more carefully manage his pitchers.
Besides Mike Fiers and newcomer Marco Estrada, nothing is set in the rotation. Estrada battled hip and back problems last season while with the Blue Jays, yet still made 28 starts, posting a 7-14 record and 5.64 ERA.
Last season, Oakland starters combined for 824 1/3 innings, the fewest in team history. Every member of the season-opening starting rotation dealt with injuries.
Daniel Mengden is the most likely pitcher to join Fiers and Estrada in the rotation. He appeared in 22 games (17 starts) last season and was often used as the long man following the "openers." Frankie Montas and Chris Bassitt are also strong possibilities, while injured starters Jharel Cotton, Sean Manaea and Andrew Triggs may return at some point in 2019.


This newly refurbished New Jersey hotel located near historic attractions and area sights is the place to stay when visiting Morristown, New Jersey.
Inside the Best Western Plus Morristown Inn, guests will find that each well-appointed and recently renovated room in this boutique-style hotel comes complete with cable satellite television, 42-inch flat screen TVs and wireless high-speed Internet access.
This downtown Morristown hotel is also 100 smoke-free and meets AHLA green guidelines. The hotel also provides thoughtful amenities such as, complimentary wine tasting Monday through Wednesday, a local area shuttle Monday - Friday to businesses within a five mile radius, an on-site Caribbean/American restaurant, live jazz music four times per week, daily complimentary breakfast featuring a made to order omelet station and a fitness center.
Getting work done while on the road is easy with this Morristown hotels on-site business services as well as ample meeting facilities. Businesses like Pfizer, Novartis, AT&T, Morristown Medical Center, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, Honeywell and other Fortune 500 companies are close in proximity.
Just outside the Best Western Plus Morristown Inn, guests will find plenty to see and do. History buffs will love seeing Washingtons Headquarters, Morristown Town Green and the Fosterfields Living Historical Farm. Gourmands will appreciate the local restaurants, shopping and lively downtown nightlife. And families visiting students will love being near Drew University, Fairleigh Dickenson University and College of St. Elizabeth. There are also several local catering and wedding halls - like Park Savoy and Brooklake Country Club - nearby.
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Health experts weigh in on protecting children from COVID-19
1 week 4 days 5 hours ago Wednesday, January 05 2022 Jan 5, 2022 January 05, 2022 8:15 AM January 05, 2022 in News - Local
By: Santiago Caicedo
On Tuesday, Monterrey resident Gabriela Cantu's two sons were vaccinated against COVID-19 in the Valley.
For now, kids under the age of 15 in Mexico cannot get a COVID-19 shot.
"I think the Mexican government is not up to par with getting children vaccinated," Cantu said, adding that she believes all children deserve to get protected against the virus.
RELATED: Reaction from parents mixed as McAllen ISD students return to in-person classes
Even though children over the age of five in the U.S. can get the shot, several Valley school districts decided to postpone classes.
Dr. Luis Ostrosky, an infectious disease specialist in Houston, says he has seen a spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations in children in his area.
Channel 5 News contacted several Valley hospitals, and they all say pediatric hospitalizations for COVID-19 have not reached concerning levels.
But some health experts say everyone that gathered in large groups over the holidays should get tested.
RELATED: Back-to-school testing encouraged at Edinburg CISD
"You have the responsibility to take certain measures about it," said Dr. Raul Garza Bulnes, a pediatrician at Christus Muguerza Hospital Monterrey.
One pharmacist says the good news is that there is high demand for shots against COVID-19.
"The kids that have not gotten vaccinated, please vaccinate them so that we can have less severe disease," said DHR Hospital pharmacist Annette Ozuna.
Experts say that the end of the holiday season, combined with the start of in-person learning is creating the perfect storm.
However, they do say that kids could lower the risk of getting sick with COVID-19 if they simply wear their facemask, maintain social distancing, do as many activities as possible outdoors, and if they're over the age of five, get fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
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 El Castellot (Balsareny), al Bages
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Q: spark-submit : pass runtime variable to spark script I am submiting Pyspark/SparkSQL script using spark-submit option and I need to pass runtime variables (database name) to script
spark-submit command:
spark-submit --conf database_parameter=my_database my_pyspark_script.py

pyspark script
database_parameter = SparkContext.getConf().get("database_parameter")

DF = sqlContext.sql("SELECT count(*) FROM database_parameter.table_name")

spark version is: 1.5.2
Python version is: 2.7.5
The solution I am trying is not working.  Error is : AttributeError: type object 'SparkConf' has no attribute 'getConf'.
I am looking for a way to pass runtime variable while calling the script through spark-submit and use those variables in script.

A: You can use the usual sys.argv
args.py
#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
print sys.argv[1]

Then you spark-submit it :
spark-submit args.py my_database

This will print:
my_database

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The trouble with long-term political pledges is that they often get taken over by short-term economic swings.
Last July, most of us were rather stunned by George Osborne's pledge of a £9 'National Living Wage' by 2020. This figure was not quite plucked out of thin air: it's based on the aim of setting it at 60 per cent of average wages for over-25s. On that basis, with projected wages growth, the NLW would have been £9.35 by 2020, giving some wiggle room in meeting the political commitment.
There's just one snag. This is that the average wages forecasts on which all this is based, made by the Office for Budget Responsibility, seem to be based on a rather optimistic approach. They always seem to show that, in the relatively foreseeable conditions of the coming year or two, there will be quite modest wage growth of one or two per cent, but in the longer term, the best guess is that they return to their long-term historic growth levels of three or four per cent a year. Looking over a five year period, this gives pretty healthy cumulative wages growth of around 15 per cent or more.
This expectation of a sustained period of steady growth in wages, however, seems constantly to recede into that imaginary future. As the Institute for Fiscal Studies has just pointed out, the OBR's downward revisions of wages growth this week could hit general living standards. But will it also force the government to revise its commitment to a £9 NLW by 2020?
The immediate answer is "not yet". So far the revisions since last summer put average wages about three per cent lower in 2020 – just about within the "wiggle room" the Chancellor gave himself. But any further downward revision will leave him with two alternatives: break the £9 promise, or increase even further than promised the level of the National Living Wage relative to average pay.
So in 2020 we can all still hope that pay will rise both generally and, more rapidly, for the least well paid over-25s. But unless things go pretty well from now on, maintaining current commitments will be tough. This will be a big test of how robust is the government's new-found commitment to improve pay at the bottom.
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Angela Ahrendts is Apple's senior vice president of retail and online stores. Born June 12, 1960 in New Palestine, Indiana, after graduating with a degree in merchandising and marketing from Ball State University, she went to work for Donna Karen in New York City. Ahrendts worked at a series of fashion and brands including Henri Bendel and Fifth & Pacific, where she was promoted to executive vice president and held responsibility for the Liz Claiborne line. In 2006 Ahrendts became CEO of fashion retailer Burberry.
In May of 2014 Ahrendts joined Apple, unifying the previously separately-run online and retail store divisions.
Ahrendts was awarded an honorary doctorate of human letters from Ball State University in 2010 and in 2014 she was made an honorary dame commander of the British Empire (DBE).
Angela Ahrendts sat down with Fast Company for an interview, in which she discussed strategies she implemented as head of Apple retail to boost morale and improve employee retention. Ahrendts mentioned that she treats retail employees as executives, which led to an 81 percent retention rate in 2015, the highest in the company's history.
Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts has been announced as a speaker at Bloomberg's upcoming Year Ahead business summit, where she'll speak about progressive leadership heading into 2016.
Both Tim Cook and Angela Ahrendts made launch day appearances at Apple Stores today, with Cook popping up in Georgetown, and Ahrendts making her way to London.


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Q: pass comma separated string to in clause in codeigniter I want to pass comma separated string to IN clause. My controller code is as:-
        $batchpost = $this->input->post('batch');//print_r($batch);

        $batch_id = '';
        for($i=0;$i<count($batchpost);$i++ ) {
            $batch_id = $batch_id . $batchpost[$i] . ',';
        }
        $batch_string = rtrim($batch_id, ',');
        $batch = str_replace(",", ",", $batch_string) ;

        $list = $this->admin_model->get_attendance_datatables($batch);

Here $batchpost will return array value, and I want to convert it to a comma separated string and pass to the model.
My model code is as:-
    $this->db->select('offline_student.*,batch.batch_name,offline_course.course');
    $this->db->from($this->table8);
    $this->db->join('offline_course', 'offline_course.id = offline_student.course', 'left');
    $this->db->join('batch', 'batch.id = offline_student.batch', 'left');
    $this->db->where('offline_student.status', 'Active');
    $this->db->where_in('batch.id', $batch);
    $this->db->order_by('offline_student.id', 'asc');

Suppose in a row for batch column having two value(2,3)in database, if I pass only '2' or '2,3' to model, query will return my result, but when i pass only 3, It's not showing that record.

A: Remove the following lines:
$batch_id = '';
for($i=0;$i<count($batchpost);$i++ ) {
    $batch_id = $batch_id . $batchpost[$i] . ',';
}
$batch_string = rtrim($batch_id, ',');
$batch = str_replace(",", ",", $batch_string) ;

...and make it like this:
$batchpost = $this->input->post('batch');//print_r($batch);
$list = $this->admin_model->get_attendance_datatables($batchpost);

you don't need to convert $batchpost to comma separated string, because where_in() method expects an array on it's second param.
See the docs of where_in(), here https://www.codeigniter.com/userguide3/database/query_builder.html#looking-for-specific-data


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Re: Man Accused Of Switchblade Assault On GOP Cong...
Man Accused Of Switchblade Assault On GOP Congressional Candidate
jimc91
Re: Man Accused Of Switchblade Assault On GOP Congressional Candidate
@nctarheel wrote:
@jimc91 wrote:
@nctarheel Why don't you and I start by moving away from attacking those with differing opinions? I am in, how about you?
First of all, there was no attack, as you say.
I just pointed out that the rhetoric used by CANDIDATE TRUMP ratcheted up use of inappropriate and infantile name calling.
As one reviews TRUMP'S discourse throughout the campaign and, now, as PRESIDENT, one sees that the inappropriate and infantile name calling has not abated, but has gotten worse.
Most, if not all, of his targets refrain from returning the same BABYISH NAME CALLING.
But then, @jimc91, you state that we have differing opinions.
So if my opinion is that calling someone LYIN' TED, LIDDLE MARCO, WACKY OMAROSA, CROOKED HILLARY, LOW ENERGY JEB, POCAHONTAS, AND FLAKE JEFF FLAKE is not only immature and inappropriate BUT is solely meant to insult.
And then you state that we have DIFFERING OPINIONS.
That can only mean YOU DON'T believe TRUMP'S UTTERANCES are immature, inappropriate insults at all.
I will move away from challenging Donald Trump's IMMATURE, INAPPROPRIATE, AND INSULTING language on one condition.
YOU MUST ADMIT that this PRESIDENT uses IMMATURE, INAPPROPRIATE, and INSULTING language and that YOU will NEVER defend HIS IMMATURE, INAPPROPRIATE, and INSULTING language ever again.
Then I'll be in!!
Jim can only control the behavior of Jim.
Yep I'm all in, I do not feel compelled to insult anyone with a different opinion from mine.
I believe in personal responsibility and accountability for those that break the law.
It is not my place to judge anyone on this earth, that is reserved for my Lord.
Enjoy the rest of your day.
VIMTSTL
Got that, jim? Attack a guy with a knife, go to a Republican baseball practice to kill as many as you can, call somebody "little Marco" - samo-samo.
umbarch64
Peters was not injured according to the report. That's a good thing. I don't see anything getting better until both sides curb their rhetoric. That's not a good thing. A never ending merry-go-round ride.
I'm with Jim on that. It has to stop.
The attacker's name was Farzad Fazeli. That name would possibly put his ethnic origin as Persian or Saudi Arabian and his religious affiliation as Muslim. Another Farzad Fazeli is a family medicine Doctor in Dallas, Texas.
Harsh and irresponsible rhetoric commonly used by sectors of Republican Politicians toward those of that origin and religion have built up a stereotype. That stereotype is now reinforced by Farzad Fazeli's actions, whether precipitated by Peters or not. Farzad Fazeli could tell you with certainty whether or not that harsh rhetoric had anything to do with his mental state and his actions. All else is speculation.
What is not speculation is an observation that harsh rhetoric has consequences. One of them is violence.
@H2Oh wrote:
This is a terrible thing to happen to anyone, and I hope the man recovers quickly.
It shouldnt happen, I agree. The guy that was attacked is a MAGA candidate. The incumbent is an anti trump Republican that is on a CIA committee. I recomend visiting both of their websites.
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/09/11/man-assaults-republican-congressional-candidate-switchb...
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Where is the tolerance and civility today? It is incumbent upon the politicians to dial down the rhetoric before someone gets killed for having a differing opinion.
And it all began with one candidate breaking with political decorum and using:
(1) LYIN' TED
(2) LITTLE MARCO
(3) LOW ENERGY JEB
(4) LOOK AT THAT FACE CARLY
(5) CRAZY JOE
(6) MOONBEAM BROWN
(7) WACKY OMAROSA
(8) LYIN' HILLARY
and, of course, leading the chant of his cult's minions.... lock her up, lock her up.
Yep, @jimc91, you've hit the nail on the head on this one. I am not going to even dispute your source.
Because everyone knows, without a shadow of a doubt............
WHO DIALED UP THE RHETORIC!!!!!!
CASTRO VALLEY (CBS SF) – A man was arrested on suspicion of felony assault and other charges after allegedly attempting to stab a Republican congressional candidate with a switchblade over the weekend at in Castro Valley, according to the Alameda County Sheriff's Office.
On Sunday, September 9, at approximately 3:45 p.m., deputies working at the Castro Valley Fall Festival were alerted to a possible knife attack at one of the vendor booths.
Deputies arrived at the booth and made contact with the victim, Republican candidate Rudy Peters, who is running against incumbent Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin) for the 15th congressional district seat
The Castro Valley News first reported on the attack.
According to witnesses, 35-year-old Castro Valley resident Farzad Fazeli approached Peters at his booth in an aggressive manner and made disparaging, profanity-laced remarks about the Republican party and President Donald Trump.
During the incident, Fazeli allegedly pulled out a switchblade knife and attempted to stab Peters. The knife malfunctioned and the candidate became involved in a physical struggle with Fazeli, according to sheriff's Sgt. Ray Kelly.
The suspect then fled the scene, but was detained a short time later by deputies and was found in possession of a switchblade knife, Kelly said.
Fazeli was arrested for felony assault, criminal threats, brandishing a weapon and possession of a switchblade knife and booked into Santa Rita Jail.
Peters wasn't injured. Fazeli, who lists his occupation as cashier, was booked into Santa Rita Jail in Dublin on suspicion of felony assault, criminal threats, brandishing a weapon and possession of a switchblade knife.
Kelly said the case has been forwarded to the Alameda County District Attorney's Office for charging.
Peters talked to KPIX 5 about the frightening encounter Tuesday.
"He would have stabbed me," Peters said. "I mean, he had it out saying, 'I'm going to kill you MFer! I'm going to kill you!' I could see his thumb trying to get the knife out."
He said the encounters started with verbal threats.
"He picks up a coffee cup to rear back and throw it at us. And I jumped around the table. He throws the coffee cup and misses us. It hits the ground and breaks," remembered Peters. "So I come out and grab him and wrestle him and throw him down to the ground."
He said that was when Fazeli pulled out a knife.
"He's screaming, 'I'll kill you MFer! I'll kill you! I'll kill you!' And he's kind of circling me trying to get the knife out," said Peters
Fazeli made his first court appearance Tuesday for possession of a switchblade and threatening to commit great bodily injury or death. But Fazeli's mother and attorney say he is the victim.
"My client at this point was afraid for his life and afraid for his health and safety. And I believe that it is alleged that he pulls out a folded knife. The knife was never opened," argued defense attorney Frederick Remer.
Fazeli's mother Dolly Adams was at the festival at the Democratic booth.
"Mr. Peters got physical first," said Adams.
While she said she didn't see what happened during the altercation, she talked to her son before he was arrested.
"He said that Mr. Peters has taken him by his shoulders and shoved him to the ground. And there was blood on him and blood on his booth," said Green.
Peters said when Fazeli took out the knife, he shielded himself by reaching for one of his election signs for protection.
He said he never worried about his safety and the safety of his Republican supporters until now.
"I've asked my supporters and followers at open events, I don't want them around me. I don't want their safety in jeopardy," said Peters.
On Tuesday, Swalwell posted on Twitter about the attack, saying he was "glad to hear Mr. Peters is okay." He also discouraged the use of violence in any disagreement, political or otherwise.


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GNU Ch 83 Part 3 – To Make Clear (III)
Liu Yi felt his head throbbed in ache. He tried to reminded again: "Your Highness, the Emperor misses you so much. The original schedule was for you two to meet during the lantern festival, but now it has to be extended for another day. The Emperor is very concerned about why you didn't come last night.
The Emperor used the excuse of celebrating the Lantern Festival with common people to go out of the palace. The so-called celebrating with common people were actually no more than staying in a tower owned by the imperial family, which was no different than the palace. However, compared to the palace, the rules were more relaxed, and it was easier for the Emperor to get away briefly and meet Cheng Yuanjing in secret. Unfortunately, Cheng Yuanjing couldn't make it last night. Therefore, the Emperor had no choice but to prolong his excursion for one more day.
When the person above opened their mouth, it was the people below who almost broke their legs, rushing to make the order come true. There was no need to think of how much trouble the Emperor's sudden decision had caused. Hearing Liu Yi's words, Cheng Yuanjing fell into thought.
Liu Yi lowered his head, not daring to disturb his master. After a while, Cheng Yuanjing put down his brush, stamped his private seal on the paper, and said: "I know. I will tell him later."
Liu Yi understood the meaning implied. His Highness warned him to keep his mouth shut. Liu Yi's back suddenly was drenched in a cold sweat. Fortunately, he had served the crown prince closely and could figure out His Highness' mind to an extent. When the Emperor's messengers came to inquire, he gave a vague answer, only saying that His Highness was suffering from sudden cold and didn't mention about eldest miss Cheng at all. It seemed that his decision saved his neck.
Liu Yi's mood was very conflicted, and for a moment, he didn't know what to say. Finally, he glanced at the cold-dispelling medicine that was about to cool down on the table and cautiously said: "Your Highness, you should take the medicine."
Cheng Yujin fell ill after the incident last night. Cheng Yuanjing was fine, but all his eunuch attendants were frightened. If something slightly wrong happened to His Highness, it was them who would bear the whole blame.
Therefore, they also prepared cold-dispelling medicine for Cheng Yuanjing. But Cheng Yuanjing felt that his body was fine and was too lazy to drink it. Liu Yi tried to persuade, but didn't dare to be too nagging, so he changed his method and used a soft reminder.
Sure enough, Cheng Yuanjing merely glanced indifferently and showed no intention to drink the medicine. Liu Yi's head ached even more. He wanted to persuade again when his ears suddenly caught on something. Cheng Yuanjing also heard the movement outside and asked in a deep voice, "Who?"
The guard stopped just outside the door and replied respectfully: "Master, eldest miss Cheng's servant girl is here."
Liu Yi saw that Cheng Yuanjing's expression softened in an instant. His posture also relaxed as he ordered: "Let her in."
Du Ruo entered the door. Her head was down in respect, dared not to look directly at the person sitting in the room. After giving a proper salute, she conveyed Cheng Yujin's message: "Ninth Master, Miss has woken up and wants to express her gratitude in person. Is it convenient for Ninth Master to see Miss now?"
Liu Yi lamented silently. Of course it was not convenient. The Emperor was still waiting for His Highness, and there was also a backlog of works to be taken care of. If His Highness went to see eldest miss Cheng, those things would have to be pushed back again. But Liu Yi also understood that His Highness always had the free time for eldest miss Cheng.
Sure enough, hearing that Cheng Yujin was awake, Cheng Yuanjing stood up almost immediately and strode out: "When did she wake up? Why didn't you report it immediately?"
Cheng Yujin was leaning on the couch, stirring a bowl of red bean and white fungus soup. There was a plum preserve in her mouth. When Cheng Yuanjing arrived, she had only eaten two.
Cheng Yujin put down the bowl, stood up, and gave a very formal curtsy: "Ninth Uncle."
Seeing Cheng Yujin's formal attitude, Cheng Yuanjing's frowned. He signaled Cheng Yujin to put down the formality and was about to help her stand, but the girl stepped back slightly, avoided his hand, and completed a full set of formal greetings.
"This niece thanks Ninth Uncle for your life-saving grace."
Cheng Yuanjing lowered his eyes and glanced at his empty hand before staring deeply at Cheng Yujin. Cheng Yujin didn't falter. Under Cheng Yuanjing's silent gaze, she maintained the most formal posture and waited in obeisance.
Cheng Yujin truly lived up to her fame. Even when she hadn't yet fully recovered from a serious illness, she could maintain the curtsy for so long without shaking. In the end, it was Cheng Yuanjing who couldn't bear seeing her like this. Cheng Yujin could neglect her own health, but Cheng Yuanjing couldn't.
"Yes." Upon Cheng Yuanjing's permission, Cheng Yujin replied respectfully and rose without delay. Her attitude was completely different from how the Cheng family's young miss usually faced her Ninth Uncle.
In other words, this was the supposed normal distance between them.
Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, all the servants had already withdrawn. The door closed, leaving Cheng Yujin and Cheng Yuanjing alone.
Cheng Yuanjing sat, but Cheng Yujin kept standing. Her eyes were lowered slightly, staring at the ground in a respectful manner. Seeing her attitude, Cheng Yuanjing finally couldn't hold it anymore and ask: "What do you mean by this?"
"This is what this subject daughter should do." Cheng Yujin lowered her eyelashes, covering all the emotion in her eyes. "This subject daughter greets Your Highness the Crown Prince."
5 comments on "GNU Ch 83 Part 3 – To Make Clear (III)"
Ooooh. He's gonna be mad/sad isn't he? Hahaha. Thanks for the update!
Being dense on purpose because she doesn't want to make inappropriate or embarrassing assumptions 🙄 Poor Crown Princey you gotta spell it out for her letter by letter 🤦🏻♀
Thanks for the chapter 🙃
sunnyflowers
OHHHH she knows!! But girl it's better to act dense than to admit and establish clear boundaries… you're playing with fire! You're only gonna make things worse for you aiya, Cheng Yuanjing pampers and protects you like so, you think he's gonna let you act distant? HAHA
Now you've admitted your understanding of the situation, Cheng Yuanjing can pursue directly with no false pretenses in front of you… meaning you are no longer able to pretend familial relations to get away from his pursue 😉
Oh my gosh I'm so excited for what's to come HAAHAH
FanKing
Paragraph 9 – "Cheng Yujin also heard the movement outside and asked in a deep voice, "Who?" Should this be Cheng Yuanjing?
Thanks for your hard work in translating this lovely story. Take care and stay safe
Fixed. Thanks!


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A look at our top 5 latest songs of the past week plus a couple of extras because 5 wasn't enough with the volume of this week's releases. Let us know what you think in the comments. Soundcloud playlist available.
1. XXXTentacion – I Don't Wanna Do This Anymore
Before you think that this guy just shouts and makes angry music, think again. This is is SMOOTH R&B and echoes Spooky Black and early Weeknd with that cloud type production. This bangs – short but sweet, where are the rest of these songs?! The Florida native released his mixtape 'Revenge' this week and we'd highly recommend giving it at least one spin, obviously 'Look At Me' remains the stand out.
2. Travis Scott – Butterfly Effect
Following up last weekend's fiasco, where he was arrested in Houston for citing a riot at his concert, Travis Scott decided to celebrate being back on streets Monday night by dropping three new tracks on his soundcloud page. Have a listen Murda Beatz produced 'Butterfly Effect' above which is our pick of the three. If you want to hear all three have a listen here.
3. Mount Kimbie ft. Micachu – Marilyn
Mount Kimbie's latest release 'Marilyn', featuring Micachu, fully reveals not just their new aspirations but the new figures influencing Mount Kimbie's universe. The song is watery and noisy allowing a viscous synths, clicking drums, and whirling ambient noise to rule its direction. This is lo-fi meets Crooks and Lovers.
4. Beach House – Chariot
Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House have revealed plans to release an album of B-Sides and leftover tracks from Depression Cherry and Thank Your Lucky Stars recording sessions. 'Chariot' is one of two previously unaired songs that will feature on the 11-track record, inevitably eery and consistently dreamy, have a listen below.
5. ABRA ft. Stickz Greenz – Play
Tooting (London) born ABRA (the Dark Wave Duchess) dropped a new track this week, 'Play' featuring Stickz Greenz. It's been about six years since the The Atlanta singer and producer begin uploading covers to YouTube. Currently signed to Awful Records, ABRA delivers a smooth R&B track for the summer. ABRA's sound is typified by a heavy bass line and pleasantly reminiscent of 90s R&B summer loops, have a listen below.
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Vince Staples – Big Fish
The newest offering from Vince's upcoming album, 'Big Fish', is a meditation on rap's transformative properties. Unlike "BagBak," which considered rap's impact on the wider world through racial profiling, gentrification, and class warfare, 'Big Fish' engages with rap as a mechanism to escape poverty, the video is in usual fashion creative and offers a lucid offering to Staples' take on current affairs in America. This guy is underrated big time.
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Activated charcoal detox: Does it work?
Recently, using activated charcoal to detoxify the body has become a trend. People may consume activated charcoal after overindulging with food or alcohol in an effort to remove toxins from the body.
However, activated charcoal is only effective against certain toxins in certain circumstances.
In this article, we describe how activated charcoal works and its uses. We also provide information about the risks, including possible adverse effects, of an activated charcoal detox.
Activated charcoal may prevent the gut from absorbing poison.
Doctors sometimes use activated charcoal if people have ingested certain poisons. The charcoal binds to the poison in the upper digestive tract, preventing the gut from absorbing it.
Charcoal comes from burning carbon-rich material, such as wood, to produce a fine, black substance.
Manufacturers then treat the charcoal to make it more porous. Increasing its surface area in this way allows more substances to bind to it. This treatment is what makes the charcoal "activated."
The next stage of manufacturing involves making the powder into a beverage.
Activated charcoal can only bind to certain substances. For this reason, it can only help prevent the effects of specific poisons.
Other uses for activated charcoal include:
Some over-the-counter activated charcoal products claim to support general detoxification of the body. However, no scientific evidence currently supports these claims.
The different uses of activated charcoal are outlined below, along with information about their effectiveness.
Activated charcoal can prevent the body from absorbing toxic substances that bind to this type of charcoal.
If a person ingests one of these specific toxins, they must receive activated charcoal treatment within 1 hour for it to work. After this time, the substance will have left the stomach, and the treatment will be ineffective.
However, some substances move through the digestive tract more slowly than others, and a doctor may decide to administer activated charcoal beyond the typical 1-hour window. In this case, the person will receive a single dose.
The right amount of activated charcoal depends on the amount of poison that the person has swallowed. The initial dose of charcoal may be 40 times the amount of the poison ingested.
Another strategy involves administering a dose of 1 gram of activated charcoal per kilogram of bodyweight. The doctor may choose this option if they are unsure how much poison the person has ingested.
In some cases, the doctor may prescribe multiple doses of activated charcoal. This can help treat life threatening poisonings that result from ingesting:
dapsone
dextropropoxyphene
digitoxin
disopyramide
nadolol
phenylbutazone
sotalol
amiodarone
dosulepin
Certain substances do not bind to activated charcoal. As a result, charcoal will not help combat the toxic effects of these substances, which include:
some metals, such as salts of iron and lithium
hydrocarbons, such as gasoline and paint thinners
Also, activated charcoal cannot eliminate the following substances:
electrolytes, such as magnesium, potassium, and sodium
very acidic or very alkaline substances, which are sometimes called "caustic"
Removing heavy metals from drinking water
Heavy metals, such as lead, nickel, and chromium, can be harmful to humans, even in very small amounts.
A 2014 study tested whether activated carbon could remove heavy metals from drinking water.
The researchers found that activated carbon removed, for example, 90% of nickel from drinking water. However, it was less effective than a combined water treatment of activated carbon and silica.
Protection against organic vapors
Certain products give off vapors that are damaging to health. Examples include:
In workplaces that use or produce these products, employees have a risk of inhaling these toxic vapors.
Workplaces often require at risk staff to wear respirators containing activated charcoal cartridges. The cartridges filter out the airborne toxins so that the person does not inhale them.
Removing phosphorus from the blood
When a person has chronic kidney disease, their kidneys are less able to remove excess phosphorus from their blood. This can result in various complications, particularly cardiovascular disease.
In 2019, researchers investigated whether oral activated charcoal could remove phosphorus from the blood of people with kidney disease.
One group of participants with this disease received activated charcoal, while two similar groups received other phosphorus-binding substances.
The researchers found that the participants who had taken activated charcoal showed significantly delayed increases in phosphorus levels, which could improve health in people with kidney disease.
Many people do not enjoy the taste or texture of activated charcoal drinks. Some even vomit after swallowing this substance.
Experts report that some people aspirate their vomit after drinking activated charcoal. Aspiration, in this case, involves inhaling vomit into the lungs. This can lead to an infection called aspiration pneumonia.
Also, large or repeated doses of activated charcoal can cause a blockage in a person's digestive tract.
Because of these dangers, doctors will only give people activated charcoal if the benefits outweigh the risks.
Experts do not recommend activated charcoal detoxes for general use. Unless the levels of toxins are high, the body is typically able to detoxify itself.
Activated charcoal is only effective against certain toxins in certain circumstances.
Doctors use it to remove specific poisons from the body shortly after ingestion. Also, the treatment is only effective while the toxins remain in the upper digestive tract.
In addition, activated charcoal can remove some toxins from the air and water, and doctors have used it to filter excess phosphorus from the blood of people with chronic kidney disease.
Activated charcoal can cause adverse effects, especially in large or repeated doses. A doctor will only administer it if the potential benefits outweigh the risks.
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We Are Cloud Launches First Genuine Cloud BI Service in China [PRESS RELEASE]
March 14, 2012 by jonathan in Releases
Localized Version of Award-Winning Business Analytics and Visualization
Targets the Needs of 42 Million SMBs and Government Agencies in the Mainland
BEIJING, CHINA, and MONTPELLIER, FRANCE. 14 March 2012. We Are Cloud, the creator of the cloud business intelligence service Bime and "ICT European start up of the year," today announced the launch of Bime China, a fully customized version of its award-winning BI platform that allows enterprises and government agencies of any size to mine their own business and answer the complex questions posed by the age of big data.
With headquarters in the capital Beijing and branch offices in the economic powerhouses of Shanghai and Guangzhou, Bime China provides customers with a local cloud computing platform consisting of distributed local servers, an adapted and localized product as well as sales and technical support to guarantee satisfied cloud BI users in China.
"Our team has more than a dozen years experience in the BI field and is made up of a diverse team of Chinese and international experts. We've never seen a product as innovative, fresh and constantly ahead of the market as Bime," says Greaman Wu, General Manager of Bime China and a graduate of the prestigious Beijing University. "We Are Cloud's speed of development and focus on constantly improving their service is crucial in a market such as China, which is just now beginning to embrace cloud computing on a larger scale. We are confident that Bime China will be the first true cloud BI service to crack this demanding market. "
Bime China will initially target the country's more than 42 million small and medium-size businesses, many of which are becoming aware of the power, efficiency and cost advantages of cloud computing but have not yet tapped its potential. According to recent surveys, roughly one in five Chinese businesses have either used cloud computing services or are testing them. Moreover, Business intelligence has become the top priority in how private enterprises, government industries and public agencies handle, mine and share important data in one of the world's most dynamic economies.
The Chinese government attaches great importance to building a top-notch national cloud-computing infrastructure and is therefore rolling out deployments in key cities across the country. Bime China is partnering with cloud computing centers in various provinces which service local SMBs, as well as government trade associations which provide targeted solutions in their respective industries. Not unlike the approach taken for its global customer base, in China Bime provides its BI tools to meet the needs of vertical markets such as finance, telecommunications and selected government industries.
"We are excited and very proud to be the first global BI provider to offer a service that fits China's needs as its IT infrastructure moves into the cloud," says Rachel Delacour, co-founder and CEO of We Are Cloud, based in Montpellier, France. "Business intelligence born in the cloud and built for the cloud is a particularly difficult challenge. Customers must be certain that their data is safe, secure and always accessible," she adds. "Bime enables our customers around the world to run even very complex reports. They can tap into and blend all kinds of data sources, no matter whether it's a spreadsheet, a large database on a mainframe, or web analytics data streaming in."
Unlike other cloud BI vendors, We Are Cloud recognizes that not all enterprises and government entities at the regional, provincial or national level want to run their sensitive analysis and visualization in the public cloud. That's why Bime China supports on-premise clouds and hybrid installations, depending on each customer's individual needs to turn their data into valuable insights in minutes.
Bime is a subscription-based software as a service (SaaS) that lets users mix and mine large data sets in real-time, right in their browser. Customers can answer hard business questions with intuitive visualizations, and publish or securely share the results via dashboards. Taken together, Bime helps its users answer key business questions at the speed of thought and together arrive at decisions faster -- whether they use a PC, laptop, tablet or smartphone.
About We Are Cloud
We Are Cloud is the creator of Bime, a pioneer solution of cloud BI, born in and built for the Cloud. We started because business intelligence was mostly just too hard: too hard to use, too hard to manage, too hard to buy and too hard to get right. Bime delivers simple-to-use yet powerful BI, analytics, data visualization and dashboarding in a software-as-a-service application, making data analysis fast, easy and low-cost. We Are Cloud was founded in 2009 in Montpellier, an academic R&D hotbed in the South of France. The company has been recognized as a trailblazer in the cloud BI field, most recently as "Best European Start Up of the Year" at ICT Spring 2011 in Luxembourg and "Best Cloud Application" by the Cloud Computing World Series Awards in London.
To find out more, visit: http://bimeanalytics.com.
Andrea Heuer Heuer Media Tel: 917-886-5113 andrea@heuermedia.com @andiepear
For any inquires related to Bime China, please contact (in Chinese or English) Caroline Liu at cliu@bime-china.com
March 14, 2012 /jonathan
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I've given up on London Reconnections - too much uninformed speculation and power-crazy moderators who like to edit or delete half the comments.
Surely it's unique in having had three different stocks all with different, incompatible, power supply arrangements!?
I think the Great Northern & City also qualifies. Has anywhere had four?
Some sections of the North London Line have had 4-rail, 3-rail and ac ohle, and at least five types of stock (Oerlikon, 501, 416, 313, 378).
The GN&C also had the 501s converted to battery power, class 31 and 08 when BR took over! I personally worked the battery cars to Old Street, and someone I know took an 08 as far as Essex Road where it hit the tunnel roof! 31s ventured into the tunnel at Drayton Park but not too far in!


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Q: Can I request for a TLS version upgrade if I'm on Bronze support? How can I do it? We have setup our api service behind an App Engine's flexible environment. We are currently on the Bronze support plan.
We were recently audited by a security contractor and one of the issues reported back to us is the fact that our service accepts older versions of TLS.
I found a couple similar questions abound this topic, namely:

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*How to update TLS version

*Google App Engine Node.js TLS 1.2

*Is there a way to customize nginx proxy in google flexible appengine
So, the information I gathered by now is that cannout customize this, but I might be able to request for our load balancer to only support TLS >= 1.2. Is this info still valid as of 2020?
If it is, could someone help me figure out how? I seem to only find the chat and phone support for Billing issues. Do I need to request for someone to update our support plan for this kind of request?