Is Your Company Guilty of These 9 Workplace Safety Policy Mistakes?
To help ensure your company doesn't suffer from easily avoidable accidents, we have put together a list of all the common workplace safety mistakes, as well as simple ways to avoid them. The accident causes are easy to miss but preventing the accidents are even easier.
When it comes to creating a safe work environment for both you and your employees, you want to make sure you are constantly on the lookout for any potential dangers that could result in injury. Check your floors and walkways daily. People have a tendency to leave things in the way or spill without cleaning up.
If you work in a restaurant, it is smart to have a routine floor cleaning process that takes place every few hours.
It's human nature to get complacent and step over problems. However, complacency puts humans in the danger zone. Pretend you've never seen the area before and imagine what could happen.
If you see a potential problem, fix it right then and there. Don't wait or hope someone else sees the problem and takes action. You need to be proactive to promote a positive workplace safety policy.
Shoes are the most overlooked aspect of slip-trip-fall prevention. For instance, a restaurant owner who keeps the floors clean but fails to find that his employees' shoes are slick and worn out has only done half the job.
Planning is the most important aspect of lifting and moving loads. Organizing the use of material handling equipment can save backs, knees, and shoulders.
In addition, sometimes the use of material handling equipment, such as dollies or forklifts can also cut down on the amount of time it takes your employees to finish the task. Meaning, not only will it increase the effectiveness workplace safety policy, it will also cut down on your labor cost and free up your employees to work on other jobs sooner.
Making two trips is better than carrying too much and hurting yourself. For instance, a pool cleaning company eliminated their back injury problem by switching from 50-pound bags of salt to 25-pound bags.
Pool techs were required to make two trips rather than carry a 50-pound bag from truck to the pool pump. In turn, this helped them avoid a risk of injury to their body, as well as helped them preserve their energy to continue working throughout their shift.
People aren't robots. You have to train them and re-train them in proper lifting techniques. And then train them again.
You should also stress to your employees the importance of this as good lifting will save their knees and backs from potential long-term injury in the future.
This goes well beyond simply checking their motor vehicle record once a year. Are you really going to put that worker in your expensive truck without testing their driving ability?
We recommend ride-along testing. This will give you a chance to witness firsthand your employee's driving skill.
All vehicles should be inspected daily before use. Vehicles that are not in working order should be repaired before put into use or taken out of service.
Similar as you would with your personal vehicle, you want to stay up-to-date on all routine maintenance of your work vehicles, including changing the oil, rotating the tires, checking the fluid levels, and so on. The last thing you want is for your employee to be left stranded out in the field because their car or truck failed, or worse, end up causing an accident because of an avoidable failure.
Business owners can create and enforce safety rules that protect their employees. Do you allow employees to text and talk on the cell phone while driving on your behalf? Worse yet, do you promote that behavior and encourage your employees to not pay attention to the road while driving?
You should stress to your employees the importance of paying attention to the road while driving, including putting away their cell phones. As an employer, if you know your employee is driving try to wait until he or she gets back to the office or at least when you know they are no longer behind the wheel.
Don't worry if you've made several of these workplace safety policy mistakes because most people do. These are the little details that can reach out and really damage your business. That said, you now know what to look for and can make an impact.


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Home Florida Raheem Morris dismisses latest job rumor
Raheem Morris dismisses latest job rumor
Bucs' Head Coach Raheem Morris dismissed the latest report, about his coaching future. He said he doesn't respond to speculation.
ESPN's John Clayton reported that the Bucs intended to fire Morris on Monday, a day after the 41-14 loss to Jacksonville. But the team didn't have a suitable assistant on the staff to take over.
There were no collaborations to the story.
"I know there's a cloud outside the organization," said Raheem Morris. "But once you come inside there are rays of sunshine… But you've seen how these guys react to each other, and how they play.. You guys (media) make it gloomy and doomy for us, but we do our best to keep the rain away… They're awesome… We don't worry about that stuff."
The Buccaneers take on the Dallas Cowboys, Saturday, at Tampa's Raymond James Stadium.
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In Absentia: Tulsi Gabbard and the Anti-Politician
It is as remarkable as it is wasteful, the creativity with which we demonize our political opponents. My neighbor, who intends to vote for Andrew Yang in February of next year, and who expresses his intention by planting the candidate's banner in his front yard, is not only an irredeemable fool, but an active and bloodstained participant in the toppling of the Bolivian state. Yet, this shameful expenditure of energy is itself surpassed by the frantic haste with which we shift this designation, depending on our momentary need. In 2012, we reassured ourselves of our liberal virtue, ours and Obama's, by envisioning the Republican Party as a cabal of decadent billionaires; in 2020, we will convince ourselves of our enduring moral superiority, ours and the Democratic Party nominee's, by depicting the Republicans as a mob of toothless, impoverished hicks.
We cannot stop to note the incompatibility of these political ink blots, lest we shake our confidence in the simplicity of our institutional structure. Complexity begets questions, and questions are the seeds of uncertainty—and uncertainty is anathema to politics. Indeed, one negates the other: can you imagine anything more surreal than a politician who stands before a crowd and admits that he doesn't have all the answers, that he hasn't exhausted every single puzzle and has devised a simple solution to all? How could be a politician ever admit to doubt; are we supposed to believe he is a human? Should such a candidate appear, he would be no politician at all, but would have more in common with the intellectual.
On Wednesday, the anti-politician emerged. As the House of Corporate Representatives convened to vote to impeach President Trump, Tulsi Gabbard refused to join the asinine assembly. Because she saw no cause to celebrate this joust's protracted, bitter, and unsatisfying climax, she cast a lone vote of "present" so as to deny, as much as she was able, credibility to the political pageant. Alas, she couldn't deny the victors their spoils, as the Democrats compelled obedience among their ranks sufficient to achieve impeachment. Her defiance, no less substantive for being symbolic, has been received with opportunistic applause by the Right and inevitable bloodlust by the Left.
President Trump has offered Gabbard halfhearted, insincere praise for her vote. Like many right-wing figures and commentators, Trump pretends to admire Gabbard, even though she represents everything he loathes and opposes; clearly, the neoconservative goal is to exploit her unpopularity in the Democratic Party so as to strengthen the Republican Party. They assume no risk, as Gabbard cannot overcome the Democrats' restrictive apparatus to become the nominee, and it is only now, as this grim reality becomes increasingly clear, that they are willing to acknowledge her existence. Previously, they had to ignore her, lest the only candidate who offers a clear ideological alternative to Trump threaten his re-election.
While the neoconservatives' respect for Gabbard is plainly facetious, the neoliberals' disdain for her is quite sincere. Because she offers such a clear ideological alternative to Trump, so, too, does she expose her intraparty rivals' similarities to Trump. She dispels the illusion of the Democratic-Republican duopoly and simultaneously threatens the stability of the fascistic system. This is why the corporate media, whose lifeblood depends on the system's endurance, cannot afford to cover her campaign, lest it jeopardize its own existence. Hitherto, it has acknowledged her only to remind its loyal consumers, and the loyal members of the Democratic Party, that voting for her is a waste of time because, for reasons that are never articulated, she has no chance of winning the nomination or, heaven forbid, the presidency.
The tradeoff to this strategy is that the corporate media exposes its own destructive machinery to those who pay attention. Few as they are, they can't ignore the obscenity of the process unfolding before them. As soon as Gabbard voted "present" in an act of rather obvious protest, suddenly the media took a preternatural, conspicuous interest in her. Multiple denunciatory hashtags (including #TulsiCoward and #TulsiIsARussianAsset) made waves and reached a large audience on Twitter, just as a bevy of establishment apologists—including former Senator McCaskill and the allegedly unfiltered Emma Vigeland—condemned her as an abscess on the body politic. We won't question the authenticity of their outrage, but we will ask them this: if Gabbard really is so irrelevant, then why do they ascribe such importance to her vote? What inspired their burst of intrigue?
Regardless of its substance, Gabbard's vote was, in effect, a third-party vote, and nothing is more threatening to the establishment (in this case, the Democrat establishment) than a third-party vote. Voting third-party used to be a statement of pride, but Hillary Clinton has worked very hard in the last three years to villainize and ostracize those who refuse to feed the duopolistic beasts. Third-party voters were all but officially scapegoated in the prelude to the midterms of 2018, with Chelsea Handler screaming "Fuck those guys!" in a chat with Bill Maher. The corporate media, and the benighted and beguiled Americans who consume it, echo her unlettered animadversion today.
We must conclude that Gabbard is not a cynical contrarian appealing solely to the most uncivilized fringe. Any assertion to the reverse is reached in ignorance, and promoted to the end of persuading people not to think. When I interviewed Gabbard in July, I asked her why the so-called progressive media, with its relentless emphasis on diversity, had taken no notice of her, despite her fulfillment of almost every minority quota. She hasn't enjoyed any of the categorical protections afforded to the other female and colored Democrats, nor have any of her white male contemporaries endured ad hominem attacks of such intensity. I'm not suggesting that this inconsistency is forged in racial bigotry, but I cannot forget that the same white liberals who describe this Polynesian woman as a foreign menace insisted that the birther controversy was inherently racist.
Whatever their motivation, these jockeys of public opinion want to clear Gabbard's hurdle before she steers them off-course and brings them to stumble. Accustomed to no meaningful challenge in Washington, they are unprepared for an opponent like Gabbard, and although they have succeeded in their war against her, their freewheeling improvisation has been sloppy, even reckless. We can hope only that Gabbard maintains her presence and maintains her fight—not because we buy into political solutions, not because we believe in revolutions at the ballot box, but because we want to witness the mouthpieces tripping over their tongues.
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LAMB Movie of the Month: Bande a Part
Written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, that is based on the novel Fool's Gold by Dolores Hitchens, Bande a Part (Band of Outsiders) is the story of a young woman who meets two wannabe criminals as they go into an adventure around Paris figuring out how to do the perfect crime. The film is among one of Godard's finest films of his revered period of the 1960s during the French New Wave as it would prove to be influential to many filmmakers. Starring Anna Karina, Sami Frey, Claude Brasseur, and Louisa Colpeyn. Bande a Part is an extraordinary film from Jean-Luc Godard and company.
Franz (Sami Frey) and Arthur (Claude Brasseur) are wannabe criminals seeking a break as they learn about a substantial amount of money in the home of a woman named Madame Victoria (Louisa Colpeyn). Befriending the woman's niece Odile (Anna Karina) whom they met in English classes, the men let her know what they plan to do as she reveals that the money belongs to a lover of her aunt. Odile reluctantly helps in the planning as she falls for Arthur, in whom she had never met before, while the two and Franz continue to plan while doing various things in Paris.
After a night with Odile, Arthur gets himself in trouble with his uncle (Ernest Menzer) who asks for money prompting Arthur to act quickly. The plans he, Franz, and Odile have are suddenly falling apart as they figure how to move quickly. The first attempt in the evening goes wrong as Arthur decides to make a second attempt the next day before his uncle decides to do the job himself. With the next attempt happening, Franz is consumed with guilt while Odile becomes disillusioned with the ordeal as things start to fall apart.
The film is essentially about two criminals and a young woman getting together to create the perfect crime to steal some money so they can buy some happiness. Inspired by American crime films, Jean-Luc Godard allows the film to play up the conventions of the crime movie by having two guys, who watched a lot of those films, try to create a crime of their own. They have a target, an accomplice, and motives to want to steal all of this money from the lover of a woman who lives in a rich house. Along the way, Godard narrates throughout the film about the events that is happening along with brief thoughts about what the characters are feeling and such.
The deconstruction of the crime film with all of its planning and the act itself allows Godard to create something that is very loose and lively. At the same time, he wants to focus more on the three criminals that are planning this crime where a love triangle sort of happens. Franz is a young man that comes up with the idea as he starts off as the dominant figure only to realize that it takes a lot more to be a criminal. Arthur is someone who is more determined as he ends up becoming much darker though he shows a sensitive side in the way he deals with Odile whom he falls for in the film. Then there's Odile who becomes the reluctant accomplice who goes to English classes so she can please her aunt and become a nurse. For her, it's about getting the money to be free of her aunt though the experience later on would have her question her own morality.
The lack of a conventional script allows Godard to direct the film very loosely in the style that he's known for in his films of the 1960s. This style of shooting on location and letting things happen naturally is part of what Godard does in order to make the film seem like it's actually happening. At the same time, he allows the film to let things happen as if he uses it to kill time such as a scene where a moment of silence happens where no sound occurs. Other notable famous scenes include a dance scene where music plays while Godard comments on what the characters are feeling and a scene of the three characters running through the Louvre to break a record.
These iconic scenes help move the film very seamlessly without distracting itself from the narrative as it's all for the characters to kill time as they plan out their criminal activity. Godard also creates some amazing compositions for the audience to be engaged by what is going on while maintaining that free-wielding filmmaking style. Overall, Godard creates what is truly an exciting yet intense film that subverts the crime film by adding some humanistic themes and some humor.
Cinematographer Raoul Coutard does a fantastic job with the film's black-and-white photography that is truly stylish for many of its exterior settings without being too grainy as it is one of the film's technical highlights. Editors Francoise Collin, Dahlia Ezove, and Agnes Guillemot do a great job with the editing in maintaining a straightforward though rhythmic approach to the pacing while keeping up with its energetic feel from its jump-cuts. Costume supervisor Christane Fageol does a very good job with choosing the clothes the characters wear such as Franz's trench coat and the sweaters that Odile wears.
The sound work by Antoine Bonfanti and Rene Levert is excellent for its naturalist approach along with gun shots and the music that is played while taking the sound out for its minute of silence scene. The film's score by Michel Legrand is phenomenal for its array of styles ranging from plaintive string pieces to flourishing piano cuts to play up the film's witty tone.
The casting is brilliant as it features some memorable appearances from Daniele Girard as the English teacher, Chantal Darget as Arthur's aunt, Ernest Menzer as Arthur's uncle, and Louise Colpeyn as Odile's posh aunt. Sami Frey is wonderful as Franz, the organizer of the theft who tries to flirt with Odile only to realize what it takes to truly become a criminal. Claude Brasseur is superb as Arthur, the aggressor of the group who charms Odile while showing a darker side when he is pressured into stealing the money. Finally, there's Anna Karina in an enchanting performance as Odile. Karina's performance is very lively as a young woman seeking adventure in crime while coming to terms with the fact that she's an accomplice to something that goes very wrong as it's one of Karina's most iconic performances.
Bande a Part is a mesmerizing yet glorious film from Jean-Luc Godard. The film is definitely one of Godard's finest films of his career as well as one of his most accessible of the period from 1960 to 1967. Anyone interested in Godard and the French New Wave will find this film as a nice introduction though A Bout de Souffle and Francois Truffaut's The 400 Blows are much better intros. Yet, it's also a great introduction for anyone interested in Godard's great collaboration with Anna Karina, who was his wife at the time, as it's one of the best director-actor collaborations. In the end, Bande a Part is a fun yet enthralling film from Jean-Luc Godard.
Jean-Luc Godard Films: All the Boys Are Called Patrick - Charlotte et son Jules - Breathless - The Little Soldier - A Woman is a Woman - Vivre Sa Vie - The Carabineers - Contempt - (A Married Woman) - Alphaville - Pierrot Le Fou - Masculine Feminine - Made in U.S.A. - Two or Three Things I Know About Her - (La Chinoise) - Weekend - One Plus One (Sympathy for the Devil) - (Joy of Learning) - (Tout va Bien) - (Letter to Jane) - (One A.M.) - (Number Two) - (Here and Elsewhere) - (Every Man for Himself) - (Passion) - (First Name: Carmen) - (Hail Mary) - (Soft and Hard) - (Detective) - (King Lear (1987 film)) - (Keep Your Right Up) - (Novelle Vague) - (Allemagne 90 neuf zero) - (JLG/JLG - Self-Portrait in December) - (For Ever Mozart) - (Historie(s) de Cinema) - (In Praise of Love) - (Notre musique) - (Film Socialisme) - (Adieu au Language) - (The Image Book)
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Nice work, like always you've written a very thorough review. You are right about the cinematography being a technical highlight, especially because in those days movie cameras weren't exactly portable devices.
thevoid99 said...
That's because Godard favored something that felt real and Raoul Coutard was the right cinematographer at that time. His work definitely felt loose and captured the energy of the film which is why I love it so much.
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Don Miller: Easter and Passover: Hope and the…
Don Miller: Easter and Passover: Hope and the true 'normal' life
By Don Miller | dmiller@santacruzsentinel.com | Santa Cruz Sentinel
PUBLISHED: April 3, 2021 at 4:15 p.m. | UPDATED: April 4, 2021 at 6:45 a.m.
Along our section of coast fronting Monterey Bay, as spring heralds new life and we dance to the warmth of the sun – for a moment, just a flicker of a moment, it's possible to pretend the past 13 months were just a temporary wrong turn in our inevitable progress.
An aberration. Once everything lines up again, once "normal" becomes the norm, again, COVID-19 and all the fear and hatred and violence and craziness of the past year will slink away, out of sight and, somewhat, out of mind.
Normal. And that looks like …
Locally, the cost of housing hitting the seven-figure mark for even tract homes. City and county leaders continuing to struggle to solve the intractable plight of the homeless while dealing with the anger of residents who encounter tent camps and sometimes frightening behavior. Where rain is an occasional visitor to our heavily forested mountains that were engulfed last summer and are already dry months before the normal fire season. Where water will again be a precious and limited resource.
The new normal, I guess.
Can we apply that label to the divisions that have slipped slightly beneath the surface, but just momentarily?
Or to a virus that shape shifts into new death masks; while anti-vaxxers seem determined our herd won't reach immunity?
How about the insanity of gun violence and mass slaughters of innocent people that seem to be reaching yet another crescendo? Normal?
Blessed are the peacemakers, if you can find them.
Maybe they're hiding along this path we tread, or floating above the cold darkness where so much seems crushed by the gravity of fear and despair.
It was written long ago there's nothing new under the sun; everything is vanity.
Indeed. There are a hundred billion galaxies in our universe and we are just vapor.
And so we gather whatever wealth and possessions we can, knowing all the while none of it comes with us when we pass from this world.
Yet, today, Easter Sunday, hundreds of millions of people around the world will consider the resurrection of "hope." We're also almost at the end of the Jewish festival of Passover, which ends tonight.
Passover recognizes the deliverance of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. Easter marks the day for Christians when Jesus, a Jew who kept Passover, rose from the dead and delivered his people from the curse of sin and death.
Easter and Passover remind us that we pass through this world quickly — and hopefully leave behind more than a trail of likes and dislikes, of tasks accomplished.
Both celebrate the true normal: hope.
Here's the dictionary definition: "Hope is a belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life."
But, based on what we see around us, a positive outcome could seem highly unlikely.
So, we worry about tomorrow — as if there is a guaranteed tomorrow.
However, worry doesn't change circumstances, nor add a moment to our lives.
It's been said hope deferred makes the heart sick. And that's true. Without hope, life loses meaning and our decisions to act on behalf of others and for those who will follow us seem futile and foolish.
But that isn't how generations that came before us saw it. For thousands of years, people hoped for what they did not see, hoped it would be better for their children and their children's children.
The ancient Jews had good reason to lose hope they'd ever be freed from the yoke of bondage, but many believed the promise that something better awaited. The early Christians could have scattered when their leader was tortured and executed by the Romans, but were empowered when he reappeared.
People then, as now, mourned the loss of loved ones, understood the fleeting pleasures of this short life, feared for their futures and wondered if their restless wandering would ever end.
Then as now, religion was often stifling, judgmental, demanding and lifeless. Privileged classes played by their own rules. Demagogic leaders led the masses into the abyss. Violence, power, and sex ruled the world.
As they do today.
We move in the cadence of time — hoping this outcome will be better than the last, before time itself runs out.
Hope, though, is the narrow path leading from this world of broken dreams.
The ancient wisdom has much to teach us. When the Jewish people took the blood of a lamb and put it on their door frames, God passed over them while bringing judgment and death to Pharaoh and Egypt.
Let my people go.
With the blood, new life.
And we wait in hope for the rising of the sun.
Don Miller is the Sentinel's Opinion Editor and the former Editor of the Sentinel and Monterey Herald.
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Rajasthan is the largest state of India in terms of total area. With the promulgation of the Rajasthan Secondary Education Act in 1957, this Board was set up in Jaipur on 4th Dec, 1957. It was shifted to Ajmer in 1961. The Rajasthan Board 10th exam 2015 is Starting from Thursday, 19th March 2015 and ends on Monday, 30th March 2015.
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According to Tibetan Buddhists completing the kora (walking) around the sacred Mt. Kailash rids one's self of the sins (negative karma) accumulated over a lifetime. It's a bit tougher than walking in to a confessional at your local Catholic Church, but then again Tibetan Buddhism is not a religion for those wishing to practice from an arm chair. This 6714 m (22,156 ft) sacred mountain has been revered for centuries and is the source of both the Brahmaputra and Indus rivers. It is the Mt. Olympus of Hinduism, home of the Gods, specifically the abode of Siva. For Tibetans it is where the great guru Milarepa won a victory over the Bon (the pre Buddhist Tibetan religion) master Naro Bonchung in a religious contest establishing the supremacy of Buddhism in Tibet. For Jains it is where the first of the tirthankars was enlightened. As we approached the mountain, the sky was deep blue, and weather could not have been better. The kora starts from the grubby town of Darchen, a decidedly unholy beginning to this mythical trek. Darchen is a collection of concrete buildings and guesthouses amidst garbage strewn streets. However, once out of town, the trail soon follows the Indus River and offers spectacular views of the mythical mountain. I was excited as I walked along side the mountain past prayer flags and stupas, having wanted to do this trek ever since I had first heard about it last time I was in Tibet. There are three famous treks in the world that having heard of them I had always wanted to do some day. The Inca trail in Peru, which I did a few years ago, the Kailash kora which I was now doing, and the Annapurna circuit in Nepal which was next on my agenda. On completing the first day of hiking, I still had enough energy to hike up to the prayer flag adorned glacial overlook at the base of the North face of Mt. Kailash; a spectacular sight. I sat resting from the tough climb in the thin air with the shear North face encompassing my entire view and thinking how lucky I was to be here and to have such great weather for the trek.
The second day of the trek was the most difficult although my months at high altitude seemed to pay off because getting over the 5650 m (18,645 ft) pass, breaking my personal record from Everest base camp for the highest point I have been, was easier than I had expected. Just before the top of the pass the faithful go through a symbolic death leaving a piece of clothing, or hair behind. Perhaps many would like to die at this point as the air is incredibly thin making the last 600 ft or so to the pass particularly tough. On the other side of the pass we had a brief laps in our good weather as a hail storm moved down the valley. I felt like the storm cloud was following me, I could see blue sky in front and behind me but was unable to walk out of the hail. Fortunately this part of the trek was less scenic, without views of the mountain, so if I had to have bad weather on any portion of the trek I was happy it was during this stretch. The final day of the kora took a mere 3 hours of walking back to the town of Darchen. Tired and sick of instant noodle soup I enjoyed a "sin free" celebratory non-noodle soup lunch with my trekking companions back in Darchen. Amazingly enough many Tibetans do the entire 50 km (31 mile) kora in one day, maybe next time I give that a try when I accumulate enough sins to make the trip back worth while. Or maybe I'll just take the Protestant way out and, just say "forgive me," skipping the whole walking part altogether. Of course if you really want to accumulate merit then you can prostrate around Kailash a feat I witnessed two pilgrims performing and which I could not possible imagine completing.


Survey sheds light on safety issues around drug use and music festivals in B.C.
In 2015, the B.C. Coroners Service reported that drug-related deaths in the province had reached an all-time high. By the year's end, that number, a 33-percent increase from the 364 deaths in 2014, represented 484 lives lost, and with an increase in the use of the potent opiate fentanyl, it was showing no signs of slowing down.
Tragically, it did not, and drug-related deaths are still on the rise. Just three months into 2016, another 200 people died, and B.C. now finds itself in the throes of a public-health emergency .
As a result, many initiatives have been developed to address these high-risk populations, with harm-reduction programs such as Toward the Heart and the long-established Insite aiming to increase access to safe spaces, education, and substance-use facilities for street-drug users.
occasional weekend at a club or with friends.
In the summer of 2014 alone, almost 100 people were hospitalized due to drug-related incidents at just two music festivals in Canada. Three of these people died.
The sad truth is that many of these deaths and incidents could have been prevented with better access to drug testing to prevent ingestion of adulterated or unknown substances, better legislation surrounding harm reduction, and better discussion and education about recreational drug use. Making assumptions about a homogenous drug-user population may leave a portion of those users vulnerable, particularly recreational users who may not have easy access to harm-reduction strategies or education.
Currently, a major barrier to making changes in harm-reduction strategies for this population is a lack of good data on use patterns and perspectives of young people regarding drugs.
measures for this subpopulation and address the barriers that leave them at risk of preventable consequences.
We aimed to create information that stakeholders, agencies, insurance providers, security teams, and patrons might find useful to help maximize opportunities for event safety and to benefit harm-reduction organizers and educators looking to address gaps in young peoples' knowledge of drug use.
We had Vancouver-based harm-reduction organization Karmik review the survey prior to launch and provide feedback on the questions. Once ready, it was disseminated exclusively online, with the assistance of the B.C. Centre for Addictions Research, Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy, the Canadian Working Group on Overdose, and social-media outlets.
Almost half of the participants reported first using substances between the ages of 12 and 15, which is valuable information in conversations about when to introduce drug-related education to youth.
The three most common reasons selected, when asked what their motivations were in using illicit substances, were (one could select all that applied): to have fun/relax (89 percent), to enhance an experience (82 percent), and to learn about yourself/your mind/the world (64 percent).
How much do people know about drugs?
the Internet (94 percent) and friends as their primary sources of information.
Thirty-six percent of people surveyed reported having an "unexpected" response to a substance at some point in their lives. Some of the common things experienced were dizziness, vomiting, sweating, blurred vision, and rapid or irregular heartbeat, with some needing to utilize event medic services or being sent to the hospital.
Almost half (42 percent) of the people surveyed indicated they were "very aware" of the danger signs to look out for. The habits described in the hundreds of responses we received paint a picture of educated, inquisitive, cautious people who use drugs socially and thoughtfully, people who feel confident and informed about their choices, but are receptive and wanting access to more science-based, factual information.
What substances are people using and why?
When asked where they are using drugs, music festivals and concerts (78 percent) was selected as one of the primary sites of drug use, alongside parties (77 percent) and with friends (89 percent). This is important. Festival season is about to begin in B.C., with dozens of large single- and multi-day music gatherings happening over the next four months.
Drug-related hospitalizations and, more tragically, deaths do happen at festivals in B.C. and across Canada. These are realities that are usually preventable. We need to be realistic and expect that some of those festivalgoers are going to be indulging recreationally. What do they need to help keep themselves and each other safe?
Asked if they had a preference between using drugs or alcohol, drugs were preferred by a slightly higher margin (35 percent) than alcohol (22 percent), informing us that entertainment events need to be prepared to prevent and handle harms coming from both. When asked if the legal status of a substance factored into their choices, 51 percent answered "not at all" and 22 percent stated "a little".
Banning drug use and outside alcohol is standard at most live-music events, but to pretend that prohibition policies are an effective enough safety measure ignores the first basic principle of harm reduction: pragmatism.
What is being done? What can we do?
Shambhala Music Festival in B.C.'s Kootenay region has established a "gold standard" for music-festival harm reduction. Working with the area health authority and with full support from the local RCMP, ANKORS (a Nelson-based group) offers a full gamut of safer-substance-use education and intervention, including on-site substance-testing (pills and powders) carried out by trained volunteers.
However, this model has not been easy for other communities to replicate. Across Canada, and elsewhere in North America, events intending to include testing, sanctuary space, or even just a table with harm-reduction information have been forced to make the choice between having the event shut down, losing their liability insurance, or removing the offending harm-reduction measure in question.
This is concerning, given that: only 53 percent of survey respondents reported feeling "fairly confident" that what they are buying is the substance they want; 21 percent would like to test before using but don't know where or how to go about that; and 95.5 percent indicated that they would test before using if the resources were available.
Setting up substance-testing facilities, or offering ticketholders test kits, is a legal issue because, unlike simply offering information, substance-testing requires the explicit acknowledgement that patrons are in possession of narcotics at the event. This acknowledgement weighs heavy on hosts and insurance providers and is one that, even in our fentanyl crisis, is not always supported by the RCMP, police, local government, or the community. This makes it hard to balance patron safety in communities where support for harm reduction is inconsistent, limited, or nonexistent.
It is important to acknowledge that testing is not a catch-all solution, as there is no test yet that can detect fentanyl, and with powerful designer drugs like W-18 (reportedly up to 100 times stronger than fentanyl) surfacing on a regular basis, test kits cannot be relied on to keep up with the production of new and deadly analogues. It also doesn't mitigate the risks of polysubstance use or other medical risks at concerts and festivals, such as how heat and dehydration further complicate substance use.
So where does this leave us? Herein lies the problem. To date, there are no established provincial or federal guidelines to provide consistent direction on how to prevent and manage drug- and alcohol-related incidents at entertainment events.
Therefore, it is important that harm-reduction measures are as comprehensive as possible and even creative in their delivery to this demographic, including accurate information about drugs, including polysubstance use as well as other aspects of self-care and safety.
The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (no affiliation with our survey) and UBC's Mass Gathering Medicine Interest Group—recognizing the dangers swimming in the trenches between reality, theory, and the law—hosted a stakeholder meeting that created some recommendations for large-scale events.
Bass Coast Music Festival in Merritt has a robust, fact based harm-reduction component to its events, which, like Shambhala, use trained volunteers and outreach to promote safety, community, and informed choice. Harm-reduction group Karmik brings representatives, workshops, and information to both large festivals and smaller-scale local events.
The strengths of these and similar harm-reduction programs, despite a challenging political climate, come from their use of a peer-based approach. This was clear as we were poring over people's detailed responses to our survey. We continue to be encouraged by people's reflections on the importance of learning and the ongoing responsibility to look after themselves and each other.
Please join us at our "Panel & Pub Event" tonight (June 9), at 6 p.m. at the Blarney Stone Pub (216 Carrall Street). Representatives from the following groups will be joining us on a panel to discuss our findings: the Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy, Karmik, Vancouver Art and Leisure, and a security representative from both Bass Coast Music and the Shambhala Music Festival (this year) and the 2015 Pemberton Music Festival.
The data collected and shared in this survey belong to the authors.
Stacey Forrester is a Vancouver-based harm-reduction advocate and nurse involved in projects on health and safety at live-music events and is focusing her studies at UBC on the intersection of community, gender, and health. Kimberly Girling is a UBC PhD candidate in neuroscience with a strong interest in global health and accessible medicine who has worked with the Student Biotechnology Network and who volunteers with the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition.


RC: Protecting consumer information remains a hot topic in the US. Could you outline in broad terms the role the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is playing in this area?
Ingis: In recent years, rapid growth and innovation in the data-driven economy has unlocked tremendous benefits to consumers and businesses. From advertising to aviation, telecommunications to transportation, and everywhere in between, consumers are witnessing and experiencing revolutionary advances in data-driven solutions and technology that boost their quality of life. An important part of what has helped drive this success has been policymakers' support of successful industry self-regulation that promotes and enforces best practices, backed up by existing, sectoral laws that combat concrete harms. The FTC has an important role to play in this area by encouraging industry to continue to innovate for the benefit of consumers. The Commission's workshops, staff reports and published guidance should reflect the goal of maximising the benefits of innovation and economic growth, the Commission should keep working with industry to ensure that the benefits of data driven innovation continue to inure to consumers.


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Fall is my busiest time of year as a Eugene, OR family photographer. I love getting to see all my past clients that come back to me each year and meet all of the new ones. It is pretty amazing and I am grateful. My last blog post was in Sept! Yikes! My blog get's seriously neglected. I hope to get caught up and share the beautiful families and seniors from this fall soon.
I chose to share this recent lifestyle/documentary session because it's seriously adorable and most definitely one of my favorites from this year. I have photographed this family several times over the last 3 years and this session could not have been more perfect. This was our first lifestyle/documentary session. The kids were comfortable and happy. I got to see so much of their personalities, thus capturing so many sweet and real moments. The whole family made cookies together. I let their magical moments unfold. The kids felt no pressure to look at me and smile. They just were their cute selves. It really was magical and I literally could share their entire gallery. Their mama kept saying how special this session was because she felt like it was something her kids would look back on and remember.
My own kids will be off to college in a couple short years. Our time together goes by so fast. These sweet moments are so worth capturing. Your session can be as simple as preparing dinner together and having family dinner or your bedtime routine. These simple times together are the ones you will want to remember.


When TPM-based protector is used to protect the operating system volume, the security of the BitLocker protection is affected only if the TPM firmware version is 1.2.
But the script what Microsoft provided doesn't include detection if TPM firmware version is 1.2 or not.
If you have Windows 7, and didn't update Windows Management Framework 5.0 or 5.1 yet, you can't use Get-TPM, but you can use this instead.
Anyway, my co-worker Bamberg Antti figured we can use SQL query those information from ConfigMgr, and of course you should have hardware inventory enable for Win32_TPM.
Antti and me modified the SQL and WQL query so that I can put them in this post, please modify as your own needs.
Not sure that DisplayName0 (Line 79) is correct, at least it throws an error when i run it.
Just change that from DisplayName0 to Name0 and runs perfectly.
Well actually, it depends on What is chosen to discovery in Active directory user discovery, if there is not discovered displayname, then of course it can't be found in report too.


KI Media - Khmer Intelligence: From reader: បងប្អូនចង់ដឹងក្រុមបាតដៃទី៣ជាមនុស្សរបស់អ្នកណា ?
Disgusting picture from the traitors on above picture I'd rather die than be one on the picture above or any Cambodia s traitor.
You and me both, William! Thanks.
Ah hun manet look more youn.
What is so disgusting about this picture? Can't a man enjoy a drink?
Or about the soldiers with guns?


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One of my favorite summertime herbals to collect is the Passion Vine, Passiflora incarnata, also known as maypop, purple passionflower, true passionflower, wild apricot, and wild passion vine. Many people don't know that this vine, native to much of the American South, is the source for Passionfruit, a tasty treat if you can get to them before the animals do. This fruit is starting to come out now here in the Ozarks, but won't be ripe until late Fall or early Winter. It seems the first frost does a lot to ripen the fruit. Many people I've encountered who know about the plant will say it's not edible on account of picking them far too early in the season.
The leaves and flowers of the vine have traditionally been used in sedative formulas, and the active chemical compound passiflorine acts as a mild depressant. If you pick up an herbal sleep aid formula from the store it will probably have Passion Vine in it.
The Modern Herbal has this to say about the Passion Flower:
"The drug is known to be a depressant to the motor side of the spinal cord, slightly reducing arterial pressure, though affecting circulation but little, while increasing the rate of respiration. It is official in homoeopathic medicine and used with bromides, it is said to be of great service in epilepsy. Its narcotic properties cause it to be used in diarrhoea and dysentery, neuralgia, sleeplessness and dysmenorrhoea."
Here's a recipe for the sedative tincture I make:
Passion Vine (leaves and flowers, dried and chopped)
Lemon Balm (leaves)
Self Heal, Prunella vulgaris (leaves and flowers)
I make this in a quart mason jar, the plant matter should all be in equal parts and fill about half of the jar. Fill with vodka or whiskey. Macerate the mixture once a day for one month. Strain and bottle. Dosage is 60-90 drops or about half of a shot.
While Passion Vine is generally considered safe, please be advised that as it is a sedative it may interact with other prescribed CNS depressants. Passion Vine may also cause dizziness or drowsiness, so be aware of that. Herbal sedatives such as passion flower are also contraindicated in patients with depression and insomnia marked by increasing restlessness during the early hours of the morning.
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Alban Gerster (* 26. Dezember 1898 in Laufen, Kanton Basel-Landschaft; † 12. März 1986 ebenda) war ein Schweizer Architekt und Archäologe.

Leben und Werk
Alban Gerster war ein Sohn des Joseph Gerster-Roth und der Ida, geborene Roth. Er studierte an der ETH Zürich Architektur, Kunstgeschichte und Archäologie und eröffnete 1924 ein Architekturbüro in Laufen. Ab 1933 war er korrespondierendes Mitglied des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. 1970 erhielt Gerster den Dr. h. c. der Universität Bern für seine Verdienste in Denkmalpflege und Archäologie.

In seinem architektonischen Schaffen nahm die Denkmalpflege einen wichtigen Platz ein, u. a. die Restaurierung des Schlosses und der Jesuitenkirche in Porrentruy (1962–1967), des Kapuzinerklosters in Dornach (1966–1967), des Klosters Hauterive (Kanton Freiburg, 1968–1974) und der Kirche St. Katharina in Laufen 1971.

Gerster war Mitglied der Bernischen Kommission für Denkmalpflege. Als Liebhaber und Kenner der Archäologie erforschte Gerster privat die Überreste römischer Bauten wie dem römischen Gutshof Müschhag bei Laufen oder dem Bau des Römerhauses in Augst BL (Nachbau einer römischen Villa, dient als Museum innerhalb der Ruinen von Augusta Raurica).

Sein Sohn war der Architekt, Denkmalpfleger und Autor Giuseppe Gerster (* 1938).

Literatur
 Alban Gerster, Laufen [Ehrendoktor]. In: Der Bund 121. Jg., Nr. 286 vom 7. Dezember 1970, S. 35. (e-npa.ch).
 NoZ 9. Dezember 1970, 6. Januar 1971.
 Leo Jermann: Alban Gerster, Laufen. In: Laufentaler Jahrbuch 1987, S. 103–108.
 Walter Drack: Dr. h. c. Alban Gerster (1898-1986). Archäologische Bibliographie von Alban Gerster. In: Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte JbSGUF 70 (1987), S. 272. (E-Periodica).

 Lorenzo Gerster: Architektonische Skizzen eines Archäologen. Zeichnungen von Alban Gerster-Giambonini aus den Jahren 1918 bis 1934. Zürich: Tontafelverlag 1996. ISBN 3-908541-12-3.

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We are so thankful for your desire to partner with us here at Sunnyside Church to reach out and serve with our community for Jesus Christ. It is critical for our mission to have like-minded people willing to partner with us as disciples who have a passion to make other disciples in our community and around the world.
To be an effective Sunnyside Partner we believe that we all need to be united in two key areas: First, we must be united in our beliefs, and second, we must be united in the mission that God has given us.
We believe that unity in these two areas equals being a partner with a passion and a drive to carry out God's plan for Sunnyside Church in Happy Valley and around the world.
Please refer to "What the Foursquare Church Believes" and "Introducing the Foursquare Gospel" pamphlets located in our Welcome Center in the church foyer, and/or the link in our church website under the "Our Beliefs" Section.
Be faithful to pray for Sunnyside Church, it's mission, staff, pastors, and volunteers.
Being faithful in giving financial gifts and service to the Lord here at Sunnyside.
Have a heart to bring others to the Lord, fulfilling the Great Commission to go into all the world, making disciples of all men.
Grow spiritually through personal Bible study, prayer, and spiritual disciplines.
You can fill out or partnership application online instead of having to print it out and take it to the office.
If you would like to print out an application and drop it off at the church office you can download the PDF.


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Josef Hrabě (14. března 1816 v Praze-Bubenči - 20. března 1870 v Praze) byl český kontrabasista a hudební pedagog.

Hudební činnost
V letech 1831-1837 byl žákem profesora Václava Gauzeho na Pražské konzervatoři a od roku 1845 jej v této pozici vystřídal. Hrabě byl členem mnoha pražských orchestrů a vystupoval také jako sólista

Roku 1865 vydal učebnici Navedení k hraní na bassu a 86 etud pro kontrabas, které se dodnes používají na hudebních školách a staly se součástí mnoha pozdějších vydání a také koncertní variace a přepisy českých lidových písní.

Mezi žáky Harběte byl také jeden z největších kontrabasistů přelomu 19. a 20. století, František Simandl.

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 Klára Kolofíková. Hrabě, Josef // Český hudební slovník osob a institucí

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Mean green fighting machine: the Aston Martin DBR9 was locked in a season-long, occasionally acrimonious fight for GT racing honors with the Chevrolet Corvette C6.R.
If open-wheel racing is a mere blip on the radar screen of big-time American auto racing, then sports-car racing is a speck of dust on a palace floor. No one except racing junkies seems to care who's doing what in the Grand American Road Racing (GARR) Rolex Sports-Car Series or the American Le Mans Series (ALMS).
Yet there's a sliver of hope for sports-car racing, and it's coming from the GT classes, particularly the GT1 class of the ALMS. Here, Aston Martin and Chevrolet have been battling each other with highly professional works-backed teams stocked by quality drivers, many of them with Formula 1 résumés. In 10 rounds in 2006, honors were even at five class wins apiece. Chevrolets, however, beat the Astons at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The GT1 rules essentially allow heavily modified versions of existing sports cars, retaining the body outline, engine block and heads, driver's bulkhead, and chassis, along with the location of the transmission. Performance among these rivals is equalized in a number of ways: air restrictors on an engine's intake system, alterations to fuel-tank capacity, and the addition of ballast. Proof of parity was demonstrated last July at the New England Grand Prix at Lime Rock, where the lead Aston beat the lead Corvette by 0.035 second after two hours and 45 minutes of racing.
Despite howling from the Chevrolet and Aston teams about how much parity the organizers allowed - and despite justifiable complaints from Aston that the Corvettes use neither standard engine blocks nor a standard chassis frame - the result was fantastic racing. Moreover, it was racing that fans can understand. Although the cars at the front of the GARR field look like caricatures of GTP machinery and the ones in the ALMS are bespoke open prototypes that look more like wide-body F1 cars, fans can relate to the DBR9 and C6.R because they look akin to the production DB9 and Corvette, only sexier. Imagine sports-car racing with a field of similarly striking GT cars based on Ferrari 599GTBs, Lamborghini LP640s, Dodge Vipers, and even Moslers, backed up by lower-powered Ferraris, Astons, Jaguars, Panozes, Mustangs, and Porsches fighting for class honors. How much cooler is that than watching diesel-powered Audis take on Zyteks, Radicals, and Lolas?
That said, GT1 racing is expensive. To develop a car for the series, factory involvement is pretty much imperative. That's the case with the DBR9. The program was kick-started by Aston chairman and CEO Ulrich Bez and David Richards, chairman of Prodrive, a British company that's best known for running the Subaru World Rally Championship team. From the start, the idea was to produce a run of cars that could be used by a factory racing effort and also be sold to customers. Bez and Richards thought a GT program would be more accessible to customers than multimillion prototypes such as the Audi R8 and R10. A DBR9 runs about $900,000, not counting the tax.
From Prodrive's point of view, team principal George Howard-Chappell says Aston made sense because "it's a great British marque and represented a good business opportunity." Aston Martin saved some cost because it was able to tap into Prodrive's prior development of the Ferrari 550 Maranello, a program funded by Swiss businessman Frédéric Dor, who bought the first two DBR9s.
Cars like the DBR9 are first-rate racing machines, as we discovered while testing one of Prodrive's works cars at Mosport, near Toronto, and at a proving ground in California. With about 625 horsepower on tap and masses of downforce, and the ability to reach 100 mph from rest in 6.4 seconds (and 150 mph in 13.9 seconds), the DBR9 demands a driver's full attention. Adding to the challenge, Mosport is one of those racetracks where a mistake is going to be expensive and, possibly, very painful - and the damage won't be just to one's ego. That's because the track swoops up and down rolling countryside, and it has negligible runoff and some of the fastest corners of any road-racing track in North America.


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WATCH: Andrea Leadsom, Lord Myners and Jonathan Portes: are there green economic shoots?
Watch to the end to see Andrew 'Teaboy' Neil in pinny at the kitchen sink.
Andrea Leadsom: The 2010 intake are are "a eurosceptic bunch, but we don't tend to be favouring getting out all together we strongly favour a renegotiation"


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Angelika Führing (born on 4 October 1976 in Vienna) is a former competitive Austrian ice dancer.  With Peter Wilczek, she won the gold medal at the Austrian National Figure Skating Championships in 1993 and 1994.  She later teamed with partner Bruno Ellinger and won three more national titles from 1997 to 1999.

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The current trend in the smartphone industry is a screen design without bezels and has the highest possible screen-to-body ratio. This leaves little or no room for sensors. Until now, Samsung has chosen to leave a small edge at the top of its smartphones for the placement of some sensors. Apple also saw this problem and decided to use a "notch" in the iPhone X, a notch in the display to place the camera and sensors. A new patent application from Samsung hints to the possible arrival of the notch to a Samsung smartphone.
Samsung Electronics has applied for a patent with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on 3 July 2017, which was published on 11 January 2018 in the organisation's database. The patent describes a user interface and a device that is suitable for this interface. Unfortunately, the text of the application is in Korean so we can not go into the details of the patent, but the sketches from the patent tell a clear story. The illustrations show various designs that are very similar to the Essential Phone notch.
One of the images shows a smartphone design with a more extensive Infinity Display and the front camera is placed in the top right corner. In the application, we can also see that the aspect ratio could be 19:9 due to the new design. The Galaxy S8 currently has an aspect ratio of 18.5: 9.
Maybe this is the design for the Note 9, but it is also possible that the notch will never be part of a Galaxy smartphone. After all, Samsung files for new patents almost every day, a large part of the approved patent never sees the light of day. Whether or not Samsung will introduce the notch in the next few phones, we will soon find out. The Galaxy S9 will be presented next month at the Mobile World Congress (MWC).


This is my editorial from the March 2011 edition of InternetRetailing Magazine. You can see the digital copy online on our March 2011 Digital Edition.
For this issue of IR Magazine we've been looking at Sustainability and, in the supplement, Customer Service. While we've covered the 'green' aspects of sustainability as a starting point, throughout we have also recognised the importance of economic sustainability and the improvements in profitability from managing costs.
A further dimension of sustainability inferred from our supplement on Customer Service: sustaining customer relationships over time is vital to the profitability of an enterprise, and therefore its viability or sustainability. In order to fully engage with a customer we need to conceive of the relationship as more than a one-off, a purchase or a single opportunistic transaction. We need to have a long-term view of the costs of maintaining that relationship (an investment) in order to reap the benefits.
Growing up in Wales in the 1970s, service was personal and familial. Personal in that everyone knew you and you knew the shopkeepers and their foibles. Equally, the shopkeepers knew your parents and grandparents, and had a view of the overall family expenditure and custom in a 'dynastic' timeframe. Some stores and relationships can echo this, even in the churning humanity we see in London or major cities - the local corner store, one's favoured specialist store or a hobby retailer where a shared passion is supported over the years. A new retailer will not have the track-record to allow such a view, and indeed perhaps not to cash to sustain the learning, and so this sort of retailing becomes a matter of attitude and approach. One treats ones customers as if they're going to be with you for life and the service immediately improves.
Jonathan Wright, our Supplement Editor, mentions "All of us, even if we're just buying a newspaper or a pint of milk, expect to be treated with courtesy" - something the long view encourages.
An important, related aspect is "giving" to your customers. Improvements in staff training, technology and systems have led to an homogenised high street experience. Competence in service is now taken for granted and, despite the eye-catching horror stories, is wide-ranging. The correlative of this is that customers are no longer grateful for good customer service: they expect it. There's no prize for good practice, simply a penalty for poor service. Good service of itself is no longer a differentiator - there needs to be something "more".
In previous issues we've profiled Zappos.com who had not only made customer service a mantra ('we're a customer service company that happens to sell shoes') but encouraged customers to share random acts of kindness with customers, from flowers to special delivery surprises. However, sustained and profitable customer delight is not an extravagant action, but altogether more subtle.
Mr Williams, the butcher, would wink as he gave a thicker cut than the scales indicated. "It's between us", his wink would say. Jones the Dairy had a similar wink for the generous slice of cheese - partly for me, but also for the family, Gran's 40 years of patronage and my potential 40 further years. Now in London Jo at Mak's News slips three small chocolate frogs into the Bag For Life containing the empty-fridge pre-breakfast food run - winking (of course!) at the kids conspiratorially. Vicky, at the Royal Oak, treats the measure line on a wine glass as the time to slow, rather than stop, her pouring.
The consistent element in these small gestures of generosity is that they're a form of 'sharing'. Neither a sucker's promotional discount, nor too good to be true (or sustainable), these small tokens are a personal and intimate gesture, and reflect a sharing of the profits.
These underlying attitudes of taking a longer view, treating customers as if they'll be with you for decades, sharing some of the profits and connecting with them in the moment, are vital to bring customer service to life, rather than aiming for compliance with good practice. The latter is a form of efficient, institutionalised non-caring.
In considering both the sustainability of our business and the impact upon our customers, we might think of Williams, Jones or Jo's winks and give our customers a thicker slice.


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SUDHIR JAMBHEKAR
SAY IT LOUD - NOW Exhibitor
New York & India Based Designer
Sudhir Jambhekar is an architect with considerable experience on a wide variety of project types and scales. Sudhir approaches design as a perceptive search for meaning and usefulness, narrowing the infinite possibilities for a project to an idea that balances the forces at work in each. His approach is rooted in the belief that all elements are part of the larger whole, and each element of the built environment is not only worthy of, but requires, design excellence.
The great architect, Sudhir Jambhekar is an architect with considerable experience on a wide variety of project types and scales. Sudhir approaches design as a perceptive search for meaning and usefulness, narrowing the infinite possibilities for a project to an idea that balances the forces at work in each. His approach is rooted in the belief that all elements are part of the larger whole, and each element of the built environment is not only worthy of, but requires, design excellence.
Sudhir joined FXFOWLE (FXCollaborative Architects LLP) as Senior Partner when the firm he cofounded, Jambhekar Strauss, merged with FXFOWLE. He led the design effort on wide variety of projects in the USA and internationally prior to stepping down from FXFOWLE partnership in 2015. He joined Archwert/Neilsoft in 2016 as a Senior Design Director and led design effort on numerous projects prior to retiring in February of 2019. Prior to forming Jambhekar Strauss Architects, PC, Sudhir worked with Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), John Carl Warnecke and Associates and I.M. Pei and Partners. He is a graduate of Columbia University in New York City with undergraduate degree from University of Bombay, India. Sudhir was bestowed fellowship in design by the American Institute of Architects in 2008 and is a member of Royal Institute of Architects, LEED accredited professional and a member of the Council of Architecture in India.
Sudhir's project's have won several major design awards including international awards. Just to name few select awards, AIA New York chapter recognized the Sixth Crossing Bridge in Dubai and the Queens Museum Competition, The Chicago Athenaeum recognized the Mosque project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and CityScape in Dubai recognized India Tower design.
Many of Sudhir's projects have been published in leading design publications, including World Architecture News, Metropolis, Perspective, CityScape Magazine, Oculus (journal of AIA, New York), Architectural record, Architecture and Competitions. The Korean publication AW magazine featured five of Sudhir's projects in a special issue. Two monographs on the works of FXFOWLE (FXCollaborative) include number of projects designed under the leadership of Sudhir in collaboration with various project teams. He has also published ten volumes of e books on his work titled "Thinking Design" and autobiography in two Indian languages.
Sudhir's projects have been exhibited in Architectural league, AIA NY chapter, Cornell University, Venus Biennale and in Istanbul and Dubai. Special traveling exhibition of his work was organized with an opening at J J College of Architecture in Mumbai.
Sudhir has lectured and served on design awards juries at several AIA chapters in the USA and Hong Kong, and the Indian Institute of Architects in Bangalore and Satara in India. He has spoken at tall building conferences in Seoul, Dubai, Shanghai, and Mumbai. Additionally, he has also spoken at various conferences in Istanbul, Singapore, Mumbai and Dubai, served on design juries at IIT in Chicago and spoken at various architectural schools in India including JJ college of Architecture, Columbia University's international chapter, Urban design Institute in Mumbai, and private venues like LOFT in Pune.
Sudhir's extensive interest in 16th to 19th century paintings from India as well as contemporary art, furniture, product design, music and history further enhanced his contribution to the design dialogue.
King Abdulla Financial District (KAFD), Parcel 5.05.
Construction completed around 2017-2018.
Senior Design Partner. Led the design effort for twelve buildings at KAFD including a museum. Only two of the total twelve buildings on parcel 5.05 are being featured here.
The King Abdullah Financial District comprises seven development parcels in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Programmatic components include office, residential, educational, sports, retail, cultural and religious components. Truly a mixed-use project. Planning/urban design vision proposes a separation between pedestrian and vehicular traffic, while including public spaces within each site. Projected skywalks will encourage pedestrian movement during daytime, Wadi will encourage pedestrian activities during evening hours and monorail connecting various parcels will promote public transportation. A Wadi as proposed is inspired by natures creation of dry riverbed to collect runoff, creates a continuous green open public space connecting the four of the seven development parcels and provides shelter for local plants and animals. Green roofs provide additional landscaped areas.
KAFD Parcel 5.05 – Mixed-use project comprises of office, residential, retail, parking, and public spaces. Approximately 94,000 m2 (1,011,440 Sq. Ft) project is located on a prominent site at the center of the KAFD. Skywalk connects the project to the surrounding parcels including a museum site. Monorail, when completed will run along the access street to the east in front of the building.
Design is based on a direct response to the shape of the site, optimizing site utilization, views, and efficiencies, creating a great visual statement. Residential tower and office tower are composed on top of retail podium of three floors with circular skylight admitting day light into the space with green roof top for social activities and environmental reasons. Façade treatments of these two buildings were in response to the climatic conditions of Riyadh. Office tower façade with direct southern exposure is uniquely designed with faceted form with lamination of marble on a insulated glass units to diffuse the day light but in the late hours would glow from an artificial lighting within the building.
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USS LST-473 was a United States Navy  used in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater during World War II. As with many of her class, the ship was never named. Instead, she was referred to by her hull designation.

Construction
LST-473 was laid down on 10 July 1942, under Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 993, by  Kaiser Shipyards, Vancouver, Washington; launched 9 December 1942; and commissioned on 16 March 1943.

Service history
During World War II, LST-473 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater and participated in the following operations: the Lae occupation in September 1943; the Leyte operation in October 1944; the Lingayen Gulf landings in January 1945; the Zambales-Subic Bay operation in January 1945; and the Mindanao Island landings in March 1945.

LST-473 returned to the United States and was decommissioned on 18 March 1946. She was struck from the Navy list on 17 April, that same year. On 21 April 1948, the tank landing ship was sold to Hughes Bros., Inc., New York City, and subsequently scrapped.

Honors and awards
LST-473 earned five battle stars for her service in World War II.

See also
 List of United States Navy LSTs
 List of United States Navy losses in World War II

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1942 ships
Ships built in Vancouver, Washington
World War II amphibious warfare vessels of the United States
LST-1-class tank landing ships of the United States Navy
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What is a stock really, if not "a set of contractual rights"?
To oversimplify, property rights are often said to be good against the world, while contract rights are good against specific others.
A share of stock is itself a set of contractual rights, but the record owner has a property right in the share (and often a physical certificate). It doesn't matter if someone takes your share or inadvertently/accidentally sells it to an innocent buyer. It's still yours and you have a better claim to it than any buyer or later holder.
If your broker or DTC accidentally or inadvertently disposes of too many shares (and this can happen surprisingly often) you only have recourse against your broker or DTC. The agreements between [you and your broker] and [your broker and DTC] do not bind the new owner of the shares, who has no obligation under those agreements and, as a bona fide buyer + current holder, also has a better claim to the shares than you do.
The key word is "attenuated". When you have in a drawer the stock certificate issued by the company the situation is much simpler.


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FAN DUEL REVEALS ECLIPSES
Edited NTRA Staff Release ― The National Thoroughbred Racing Association, National Turf Writers And Broadcasters (NTWAB), and Daily Racing Form announced today that FanDuel TV will televise live the announcement of the finalists in the horse and human categories for the 2022 Eclipse Awards this Saturday, Jan. 7 at 11:30 a.m. ET/8:30 a.m. PT.
The Eclipse Awards, honoring excellence in Thoroughbred racing, are voted upon by the NTRA, represented by member racetrack racing officials and Equibase field personnel, NTWAB, and Daily Racing Form, and are produced by the NTRA. The announcement of the Eclipse Awards finalists on FanDuel TV is sponsored by Keeneland and John Deere.
FanDuel TV also will televise live the 52nd Annual Eclipse Awards, presented by John Deere, Keeneland, and The Jockey Club, from The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday, Jan. 26. The evening will begin with the Keeneland Red Carpet show at 6:30 p.m. ET, hosted by Todd Schrupp and Christina Blacker, followed by the awards ceremony at 7:30 p.m. ET. The ceremony, which will be streamed on additional outlets, will culminate with the announcement of the 2022 Horse of the Year. Finalists in the Horse of the Year category also will be announced earlier that evening.
The Eclipse Awards are named after the great 18th-century racehorse and foundation sire Eclipse, who began racing at age five and was undefeated in 18 starts, including eight walkovers. Eclipse sired the winners of 344 races, including three Epsom Derbies. The Eclipse Awards are bestowed upon horses and individuals whose outstanding achievements in North America have earned them the title of Champion in their respective categories. Eclipse Awards also are given to recognize members of the media for outstanding coverage of Thoroughbred racing
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Germany Win Fourth World Cup Title
Germany were crowned world champions for the fourth time as Mario Gotze's extra-time winner beat Argentina in the 2014 World Cup final.Gotze demonstrated perfect technique and commendable calm to chest down Andre Schurrle's pass and sweep in a left-foot finish with the prospect of a penalty shootout only seven minutes away.
Argentina, with skipper Lionel Messi looking subdued despite flashes of his talent, could not respond and Germany claimed their first World Cup since they beat the same opponents in Rome 24 years ago.
The success means Joachim Low's side have become the first European team to win the trophy in South America.
Gonzalo Higuain wasted Argentina's best chance in the first half while Germany defender Benedikt Howedes hit the post with a header seconds before half-time.
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5 Shots on target 0
3 Shots off target 9
2 Blocked Shots 1
64 Possession % 36
Germany had to regroup after losing key midfielder Sami Khedira to injury in the warm-up – and his replacement Christoph Kramer to a blow to the head before half-time – but they shrugged off these setbacks to write another triumphant chapter in their sporting history.
Argentina's fans were in the vast majority of a crowd that created a vibrant atmosphere inside the Maracana – although Germany were well represented and had the support of many yellow-clad Brazil supporters who still turned up despite seeing their hopes of watching the hosts in the World Cup final dashed by that stunning semi-final beating at the hands of Germany.
German supporters stayed in their places more than an hour after the final whistle as the victorious side indulged in lengthy celebrations of a win that vindicated the rebuilding plan put in place when they suffered the humiliation of going out of Euro 2004 at the group stage, which resulted in then coach Rudi Voller's resignation.
Germany had reached the semi-finals of the previous two World Cups but have now managed the crowning achievement for coach Low, who not only brought the trophy back to Germany, but also ended Europe's grim record in this tournament on South American soil.
Argentina failed to have a shot on target in the entire game and four-time world player of the year Messi looked an increasingly jaded figure as the game went on.
The Barcelona star never stopped striving to carry his team over the line in the manner achieved by his great predecessor Diego Maradona, who inspired them to their last World Cup when they beat Germany in Mexico City in 1986.
For Germany this completes the transition for a group of emerging players such as Golden Glove winner Manuel Neuer, midfield man Mesut Ozil, defender Mats Hummels, captain Philipp Lahm, Thomas Muller, Toni Kroos and even the injured Khedira.
After destroying hosts Brazil 7-1 in Tuesday's semi-final in Belo Horizonte, this was a game that required different qualities such as resilience and concentration – but Germany were never found wanting and their ecstatic celebrations at the end were in contrast to the tears of the Argentines.
And ominously, 22-year-old match-winner Gotze symbolises the next generation of Germany players that coach Low declared would dominate for years to come when he addressed the media 24 hours before this final.
For now, though, they have another World Cup to celebrate and while it may not have been the extravaganza many hoped would crown this thrilling tournament, Germany are worthy winners.
Argentina, with Messi's speed and sleight of foot posing problems for the previously untroubled Hummels in the early phases, had the game's first big opportunity courtesy of Toni Kroos' error.
Germany have won the World Cup for a fourth time. Only Brazil (5) have more wins. Argentina conceded a goal in extra time at the World Cup for the first time.
Argentina failed to have a shot on target in a World Cup game for the first time since the 1990 final v West Germany. Germany are the first European team to win a World Cup in the Americas.
Germany's total of 18 goals is the most in a World Cup since Brazil scored 18 in 2002. Argentina only trailed for seven minutes in the entire tournament.
The Bayern Munich midfielder delivered a misplaced header that sent Higuain clear on goal but the striker did not live up to his elevated reputation with a horrible miscued finish that did not trouble Neuer.
Higuain had the ball in the net soon after from Ezequiel Lavezzi's cross but he was clearly offside – although his prolonged celebration suggested he thought differently.
As Argentina continued to trouble the German defence, it needed a crucial clearance from Jerome Boateng on the goalline as Messi pulled the ball back for his inrushing colleagues.
It was not all Argentina though, and keeper Sergio Romero made a fine save from substitute Schurrle – on for Kramer – a stop made even better as Ozil ducked right in front of the unsighted keeper as the shot came in.
The closest either side came to a goal was right on half-time, when Howedes crashed Kroos' corner against the post with Romero beaten.
Messi had been threatening and he almost put Argentina ahead seconds after the break, only to pull a poor finish across goal with his normally lethal left foot.
As the final entered the closing 10 minutes, Kroos had Germany's clearest opening for some time but he sent a sidefoot finish off target after Ozil had laid the ball invitingly into his path.
So it was extra time – and while Rodrigo Palacio was off target when he lofted a finish over Neuer – Gotze showed class and composure to decide an increasingly attritional game with the final flourish of quality this Fifa World Cup in Brazil fully deserved as its conclusion.
More than 250,000 German fans are estimated to have watched their country's win at Berlin's famous Brandenburg Gate
More than 25,000 police, soldiers and firefighters ensured there was tight security around the Maracana ahead of kick-off. Brazilian authorities said it was Rio de Janeiro's largest ever security operation Thousands of supporters packed on to Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach to watch the match on big screens Fifa president Sepp Blatter is flanked in the Maracana stands by Russia President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Brazil's three-time World Cup winner Pele is always a target for the cameras – as are compatriot Kaka and ex-England skipper David Beckham. Germany fans were determined to see their side win the World Cup for the fourth time – and stop Argentina triumphing in the home of Brazilian football
Argentina striker Gonzalo Higuain had only scored once at the World Cup before spurning a golden opportunity in the 21st minute of the final
Napoli striker Higuain did sweep Ezequiel Lavezzi's cross into the net shortly after – but it was correctly ruled out for offside Germany defender Benedikt Howedes headed against the post in first-half stoppage-time, ensuring five of the last seven World Cup finals have been goalless at the break Argentina did not manage a shot on target in the 120 minutes, with Lionel Messi dragging a decent chance wide in the second half
Some Argentina fans inside the Maracana could barely watch the action in a tense period of extra time Germany's win was their fourth World Cup triumph – and the first since reunification in 1990 Gotze's winning goal was the 32nd goal by a substitute at the tournament, a World Cup record
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Cancer survivor Tracy Randall understands "It Feels Good" to be alive
April 11, 2013 by mitchmuse
Tracy Randall
Lavish Records artist Tracy Randall isn't supposed to be here. In 2006, he was diagnosed with acute blastic leukemia and after aggressive rounds of chemo and radiation therapy, his doctors gave up and in February 2007 told him to go home and prepare to die.
"The doctor told me to get my affairs in order because he didn't know if I had 3 months or 6 months to live," Randall said in a news release. He left the office that cold, rainy afternoon and started walking.
"I began to pray and talk to God not about me but about my family and their survival because I'm the breadwinner," as he walked past the 42nd Street subway where he usually caught the train and kept walking, talking. "By the time I got to 96th Street, this voice said, `You're going to be okay.'"
Randall fought his illness back with his renewed faith and improved his diet. He also began an expensive medical therapy that isn't covered by insurance.
"I don't want people to think that I no longer have the illness," Randall says. "I have pain and depression. There are times that I don't sleep for days because I am afraid to sleep. However, my faith has grown tremendously. I am still growing, and I still get mad and ask God, 'Why me?' Yet, He touched my soul, and I am still here."
It's against this backdrop that Randall wrote his new radio single, "It Feels Good," a bouncy track guaranteed to make the stiffest body move.
"I opened up my eyes and thanked God for a new day," he sings on the up-tempo beat. "I've been blessed in so many ways if I wanted to write 'em down there wouldn't be enough pages."
The song is the latest single from Randall's sophomore CD "Troubled Times" that features 14 tracks of what he calls rhythm & gospel.
"It's gospel music," Randall said. "But it has that urban R&B beat."
He just wrapped a new concept video on the track and has now incorporated pop radio with his inspiring tune "I Am All You Need" debuting at No. 36 on the Top 40 Main chart this week with almost a 50 percent increase in spins.
The Lake Charles, La., native grew up on a musical diet of Donny Hathaway and Stevie Wonder. After completing his undergraduate degree from LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, Randall was signed to the Isley Brothers' T-Neck/Island Records label. After Universal/Polygram took over the company in 1999, he left to start Lavish Records. He released his first gospel CD "Sinners Have Souls, too" in 2007 and has done a lot of behind the scenes work in the music industry.
Randall co-wrote four songs on Shaggy's Grammy Award nominated "Summer in Kingston" CD that reached No. 1 on Billboard's Top Reggae Albums chart in 2012.
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