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require 'rubygems'
require 'bundler/setup'
require 'pathname'
require 'fileutils'

module Gat
  class Path
    attr_reader :name

    def self.from(filepath)
      filepath.kind_of?(self) ? filepath : new(filepath)
    end

    def self.from_git(filepath)
      path = new(filepath)
      unless path.git?
        warn "Error: '#{path.absolute}' is not a git repository"
        path = nil
      end
      path
    end

    def self.git_root(filepath)
      path = from_git(filepath)
      path.git_root unless path.nil?
    end

    def self.mkfilepaths(prefix, spec)
      pathname = Pathname(prefix)
      FileUtils.mkdir_p(pathname) unless pathname.directory?
      spec.each do |k, v|
        current = pathname + k
        if v.nil?
          FileUtils.touch(current)
        elsif v.kind_of?(Hash)
          mkfilepaths(current, v)
        else
          raise ArgumentError, "Invalid value #{v} type #{v.class}"
        end
      end
    end

    def self.rsync(source_filepath, target_filepath, mkdir = false)
      source_pathname = Pathname(source_filepath)
      target_pathname = Pathname(target_filepath)
      if source_pathname.exist?
        target = target_pathname.to_path
        source = source_pathname.to_path
        source += '/.' unless mkdir || !source_pathname.directory?
        FileUtils.cp_r(source, target)
      end
    end

    def self.rsync_alt(source_filepath, target_filepath, mkdir = false)
      target = Pathname(target_filepath)
      source = Pathname(source_filepath)
      target += source.basename if mkdir
      Pathname.glob(source + '**/*') do |f|
        unless f.directory?
          relative = f.relative_path_from(source)
          target_file = target + relative
          FileUtils.mkdir_p(target_file.dirname)
          FileUtils.cp(f, target_file)
        end
      end
    end

    def initialize(filepath)
      @name = Pathname(filepath)
    end

    def to_s
      absolute.to_s
    end

    def to_path
      @name.to_path
    end

    def subdirectory?(filepath)
      (@name + filepath).directory?
    end

    def ascend_find(&block)
      result = nil
      absolute.ascend do |p|
        path = self.class.new(p)
        result = path if block.call(path)
        break unless result.nil?
      end
      result
    end

    def absolute
      @name.expand_path
    end

    def git_subdir
      '.git'
    end

    def git_root?
      subdirectory?(git_subdir)
    end

    def git_root
      @git_root = ascend_find { |p| p.git_root? } unless defined?(@git_root)
      @git_root
    end

    def git?
      !git_root.nil?
    end

    def gat_subdir
      '.gat'
    end

    def gat_repo
      git_root.name + gat_subdir
    end

    def gat_file(filepath)
      gat_repo + filepath
    end

    def gat_branches_subdir
      'branches'
    end

    def gat_branches_dir
      gat_file(gat_branches_subdir)
    end
  end
end


BIRMINGHAM, Ala. & NEW YORK, Jul 17, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Books-A-Million, Inc. and On Demand Books, the company behind the Espresso Book Machine ("EBM"), have entered into an agreement to install an EBM in Books-A-Million's store in Portland, Maine, and one other location to be announced at a later date. The EBM brings a revolutionary book-publishing technology to one of the nation's premier book retailers.
"We are excited to be utilizing the Espresso Book Machine. This offering means something special for BAM customers, who will now have access to a virtual inventory of seven million titles instantly available to them," said Terrance G. Finley, CEO of Books-A-Million, Inc. "Our customers will also be able to print their self-published works or any user generated content, photo books, recipes, etc. in a matter of minutes and pick it up in our store."
"ODB is delighted that the Espresso will be installed at Books-A-Million's Portland store and to partner with a premier leader in the industry," said Dane Neller, CEO of On Demand Books. "With the Espresso, Books-A-Million will be able to provide a self and custom publishing center, as well as add a catalogue of over seven million titles to its current book offering."
The EBM is the only digital-to-print at retail solution on the market. Within minutes, the EBM can produce a bookstore quality paperback with color cover, in any standard trim size, at point of sale. The content is fed to the machine via EspressNet, On Demand Books' growing digital network of titles. These titles are available through partnerships with Google, Lightning Source, Harper Collins, Hachette, Penguin, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, and others, and includes content from publishers like Random House, W.W. Norton, and Simon & Schuster.
Like iTunes for books, EspressNet retrieves, encrypts, transmits, and catalogues books from a multitude of English and foreign language content providers (including public domain, in copyright, and self-published). Through the SelfEspress software, writers can format, design, edit, and upload their book for printing and inclusion on the EBM catalog, as well as convert the print file to an .epub format suitable for e-readers. The EBM provides a new sales channel for publishers and vastly increases the availability of titles for physical bookstores, significantly reducing loss of sales due to books being out-of-stock. And the EBM technology offers brick-and-mortar retailers the opportunity to become community self-publishing centers, providing a new distribution platform for self-published authors. The EBM also improves efficiency and sustainability by eliminating shipping, returns, and the pulping of unwanted books.
Xerox manages the worldwide service for the EBM.
Books-A-Million, Inc. is one of the nation's leading book retailers and sells on the Internet at www.booksamillion.com. The Company presently operates 253 stores in 33 states and the District of Columbia. The Company operates large superstores under the names Books-A-Million (BAM!), Books & Co. and 2nd & Charles and traditional bookstores operating under the names Bookland and Books-A-Million. The common stock of Books-A-Million, Inc. is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol BAMM. For more information, visit the Company's corporate website at www.booksamillioninc.com.
On Demand Books was cofounded in 2003 by Jason Epstein, former Editorial Director of Random House; Dane Neller, former CEO of Dean & DeLuca; and Thor Sigvaldason, former technology consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Espresso Book Machines have been placed in bookstores, libraries, universities, and other locations in the USA, Canada, the UK, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, South Africa and the Caribbean. In September 2010, On Demand Books and Xerox announced a partnership whereby Xerox will service the Espresso Book Machine globally. Made in the USA, Espresso Book Machines are environmentally friendly green machines. For more information go to www.ondemandbooks.com.
Espresso Book Machine(R) and EspressNet(R) are trademarks of On Demand Books, LLC in the United States and/or other countries.


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Pandey, J S and Kumar, Rakesh and Devotta, S (2005) Health risks of NO2, SPM and SO2 in Delhi (India. Atmospheric Environment , 39. pp. 6868-6874.
There is increasingly growing evidence linking urban air pollution to acute and chronic illnesses amongst all age groups. Therefore, monitoring of ambient concentrations of various air pollutants as well as quantification of the dose inhaled becomes quite important, specially in view of the fact that in many countries, policy decisions for reducing pollutant concentrations are mainly taken on the basis of their health impacts. The dose when gets combined with the likely responses, indicates the ultimate health risk (HR). Thus, as an extension of our earlier studies, HR has been estimated for three pollutants, namely, suspended particulate matter (SPM), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) for Delhi City in India. For estimation and analyses, three zones have been considered, namely, residential, industrial and commercial. The total population has been divided into three age classes (infants, children and adults) with different body weights and breathing rates. The exercise takes into account age-specific breathing rates, body weights for different age categories and occupancy factors for different zones. Results indicate that health risks due to air pollution in Delhi are highest for children. For all age categories, health risks due to SO2 (HR_SO2) are the lowest. Hence, HR_SO2 has been taken as the reference with respect to which HR values due to SPM and NO2 have been compared. Taking into account all the age categories and their occupancy in different zones, average HR values for NO2 and SPM turn out to be respectively 22.11 and 16.13 times more than that for SO2. The present study can be useful in generating public awareness as well as in averting and mitigating the health risks.

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MexSeptember 26, 2022
New information surrounding the collapse of a building located at 2/4 Oye Sonuga Street, Palm Avenue, Mushin area of Lagos state has emerged.
It was reported earlier that the building collapsed on Friday, September 23, killing four people.
Some of the emergency officials who spoke off the record told Daily Trust that two of the victims, a male, and female were engaged in intercourse when the building collapsed.
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"In fact, they were naked when their bodies were recovered."
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"We were shocked by what we saw at the scene. The last two victims whose dead bodies were recovered were having sexual intercourse. The man was on top of the prostitute when the building collapsed. They both died."
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As of the time of filing this report, the families of the victims are yet to be found.
"We have to reach out to their colleagues there who are all prostitutes to get information on the victims' families," the official stated.
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Does Rocketize Token have all the tools to sustain like Ethereum and Solana?
By EWN • 20 December 2022 • 11:39
Ethereum (ETH) – a multi-purpose platform for all intents and purposes
Rank: 2nd
Capitalisation: $147.9 billion
Price: $1222.2
Volume: $49.2 billion
Stopping short of Bitcoin, Ethereum is the most influential platform in the industry. A decentralised open-source blockchain project, Ethereum boasts its cryptocurrency, Ether. Ethereum's greatest contribution is that it has served as the foundation for countless cryptocurrencies. ETH is still the best choice for the execution of smart contracts. The platform was introduced towards the end of the first wave of cryptocurrencies. The project emerged in a whitepaper published in 2013 by Vitalik Buterin. The following year, Buterin and his peers gathered enough funds for an online crowd sale, where they raised an outstanding $18.3 million in Bitcoin.
The team set Ethereum's starting price at $0.311 in its initial coin offering (ICO) and managed to sell 60 million Ether. Based on Ethereum's current price, the return on investment (ROI) has quadrupled annually since 2014. Since the blockchain was officially launched by the Ethereum Foundation in 2015, there have been several updates. The prototype was named "Frontier." "Constantinople" and "Istanbul" followed in 2019, while "Berlin" and "London" were released in 2021. The Ethereum Foundation created the platform to become the global leader for decentralised applications (dApps). Token holders can operate software that isn't prone to fraud, downtime, or censorship.
Solana (SOL) – the ideal decentralised finance solution
Rank: 12th
Capitalization: $6.81 billion
Volume: $6.31 billion
Solana is one of the premier tokens on the market. The adaptable open-source platform was launched in 2020 by the Solana Foundation after three years of rigorous research and development. SOL was developed to allow users to create decentralised applications. Solana's unique selling proposition is a hybrid model that combines an innovative proof-of-history (PoH) consensus with the current proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism.
The advantage of providing a distinctive hybrid model is that Solana is extremely popular among clients, whether they are small-scale traders or large-scale companies. The varied engagement is ideal for the Solana Foundation because they want to make decentralised finance (DeFi) available to everyone. The principal figure behind SOL is Anatoly Yakovenko, who created the hybrid model that gave Solana such prominence. The hybrid solutions give SOL greater scalability, which augments its usability. Moreover, Solana is synonymous with considerably short processing times, a consequence of the hybrid model mentioned above. Validation periods are reduced for transaction and smart contract execution.
Rocketize Token (JATO) – a meme token with a difference
The makers of Rocketize Token believe that they've created a meme token that can prevail in a challenging market. There is no scarcity of meme cryptocurrencies, let alone new tokens. Dozens of new projects are being announced and released daily. JATO (Jet Assisted Take Off) is being touted as the apparent heir to the likes of Dogecoin and Shiba Inu. The only difference is that Rocketize Token has a rocket in its symbol instead of a dog.
JATO operates on Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and is BEP-20 compliant. Users are collectively known as the "Atomic Nation," and they can enjoy DeFi services when they join Rocketize Token. The developers of JATO focused on decentralised finance because they know the solution is in high demand.
Rocketize Token's distribution is called "Rockenomics," and its details are mentioned below:
Total: one trillion tokens (1,000,000,000,000)
50% of tokens burned at launch
50% of tokens burned, 2% tax during the current phase
50% of tokens burned, 2% tax in the future stage
If you're interested in Rocketize Token, you can purchase tokens on exchange platforms like PancakeSwap, Uniswap, Coinmarketcap, and Coingecko.
Entering stage one of JATO's presale will give you a handsome 8% bonus, which is why we recommend becoming an early adopter of Rocketize Token.
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Telegram: https://t.me/RocketizeTokenOfficial
The investment in crypto assets is not regulated, it may not be suitable for retail investors and the total amount invested could be lost
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StudyPortals among the fastest growing Dutch companies for the fourth consecutive year
02.11.2017 By: StudyPortals
Company StudyPortals, recently participant of Transfer LBC in the royal mission to New Zealand and Portugal, received the prestigious FD Gazellen Award for one of the fastest growing companies in the Netherlands according to the Dutch financial publication, Financieele Dagblad (FD). This is the fourth time StudyPortals has won the prestigious FD Gazellen Award. Transfer LBC congratulates Study Portals with this excellent achievement and is very proud to have been able to contribute to this.
Eindhoven, NL – October, 24, 2017 – StudyPortals, the global education search platform, is thrilled to announce that, for the fourth consecutive year, it has been named one of the fastest growing companies in the Netherlands according to the Dutch financial publication, Financieele Dagblad (FD). This is the fourth time StudyPortals has won the prestigious FD Gazellen Award, having received the same recognition every year since 2014.
The annual awards are offered to companies who have maintained growth of at least 20% over a period of three years. According to Financieele Dagblad's research team, only one in five (or 18%) of all award-winners are able to consistently make the list for four or more years. StudyPortals competes in the Middle Growth category, shortlisted alongside other Dutch companies with revenue between €2 million and €10million.
Joran van Aart, COO of StudyPortals, shares with great enthusiasm:
"This award is a remarkable acknowledgement of our company's achievements: a few organisations can claim to sustain a fast, yet steady growth for several years in a row. It is also a proof that purpose-driven companies are for a fact revenue-generating companies. Our genuine dedication to making higher education transparent and boundary-free has made StudyPortals the successful organisation that it is today.
Study choice is so much more than earning a degree, it's a pivotal decision in the life of any student, and we are proud to be making a positive impact on the international education community by improving students' chances at a better career, a more connected and fulfilling life."
In 2014, StudyPortals won the FD Gazellen Award's 1st place in the category 'international', receiving recognition for their global focus. Today, global coverage remains a core milestone of the StudyPortals roadmap. The international expansion of the company has grown to encompass both its student reach, listing more than 114,000 study programmes, as well as its client operations. To support a growing base of universities across three different continents, StudyPortals has opened offices in Romania, the US, the U.K., Australia, while still maintaining its headquarters in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
From its beginning in 2009, StudyPortals has grown to 180 employees, from 35 different nationalities. The platforms attract over 19 million visits a year from searching students worldwide, and this number is projected to exceed 29 million by the end of the year. StudyPortals is working with over 2,450 universities and institutions worldwide to promote international education.
To accelerate its internationalisation, in March 2017, StudyPortals raised an investment of €5 million in series A, led by the Dutch VC firm KEEN Venture Partners. StudyPortals' ambition is to become the preferred and most comprehensive global education marketplace for international students and higher educators alike.


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Rosario's Pinch Hit Blast Lifts Twins, Snaps Skid
Minnesota Twins' Eddie Rosario, left, goes through the celebration line with a high-five from coach Tony Diaz after the Twins defeated the Oakland Athletics 6-3 in a baseball game Thursday, July 18, 2019, in Minneapolis. Rosario hit a three-run home run in the seventh inning off Athletics' Yusmeiro Petit, who took the loss. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — After their dominant start to the season, the Minnesota Twins were starting to sag a bit.
With one powerful swing Thursday through that thick midsummer night air, Eddie Rosario provided quite the jolt.
The pinch-hitting Rosario produced a go-ahead, three-run homer on the first pitch from reliever Yusmeiro Petit in the seventh inning, and the Twins beat Oakland 6-3 to stop a five-game winning streak by the Athletics.
"He does love being in these situations," Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said. "I think he fully expected to hit a home run."
Rosario gave the Twins their first pinch-hit homer of the year and the third of his career. Mitch Garver and C.J. Cron each went deep in the eighth to pad the lead, and Taylor Rogers pitched two scoreless innings for his 14th save in 17 tries to ensure the end of a season-high three-game losing streak by the Twins.
"I saw everybody kind of put their heads down in the dugout. That moment lifted everybody up, and that's what I was trying to do," said Rosario, who screamed at his exuberant teammates as he ran along the first base line. "Keep everybody together and pump everyone up."
The A's, who have surged into the wild card race with 12 wins in their last 15 games, used an RBI double by Khris Davis in the fourth inning and Jurickson Profar's two-run home run in sixth off Kyle Gibson to take a 3-1 lead.
The Twins trailed entering the seventh against A's starter Mike Fiers, who was 7-0 with a 2.09 ERA over his previous 12 turns starting with his no-hitter on May 7. Luis Arraez, the rookie second baseman who has provided an unexpected midseason spark, doubled with one out before Miguel Sanó drew a walk.
Fiers was pulled for Petit (2-2), the most-used pitcher in the major leagues with 49 appearances, and Rosario crushed the right-hander's 90 mph fastball off the videoboard facade beneath the second deck in right-center while admiring the trajectory before his trot around the bases. Petit said he tried to aim down and away, but the ball caught a little too much of the middle of the plate.
"Pretty good pitch," he said.
That was Rosario's 21st home run, his first since June 23 due to a stint on the injured list for a sprained left ankle, and he obliged the Target Field crowd of 28,432 with a curtain call.
"Just about everybody was on the top step," said Gibson (9-4), who finished seven innings for the victory. "You can feel those moments, and that was going to be the inning we were going to do it. It was pretty exciting to see it off the bat."
With Cleveland on a five-game winning streak to whittle the AL Central lead to four games, the smallest since May 19, the Twins badly needed this jolt from Rosario, who was held out of the original lineup along with All-Star shortstop Jorge Polanco for pre-planned rest. Center fielder Byron Buxton has also been notably absent this week because of concussion-like symptoms, and the atmosphere around the ballpark felt a little off until Rosario's big swing.
"The energy everywhere in the building changed after that," Baldelli said.
FIERS FADES
Fiers threw only 89 pitches, but the heat factored into manager Bob Melvin's decision to remove him. Fiers also had the misfortune of glancing at the scoreboard and seeing Gibson's pitch count of 106, mistakenly believing it was his.
"Mentally, it crushed me," Fiers said.
With the first-pitch temperature at 87 degrees on an extra-muggy night, home plate umpire Quinn Wolcott was hit with a double whammy when Cron's foul ball banged off his mask. He was removed from the game, with Bruce Dreckman moving from second base to fill in after a delay of about 10 minutes. After the unexpected break, Fiers finished the inning with one pitch by completing his strikeout of Cron.
BULLPEN SHUFFLE
For the second time this week, the Twins dropped a reliever from the roster, this time designating right-hander for assignment Matt Magill, who gave up six unearned runs in one inning Wednesday. Right-hander Kohl Stewart was recalled from Triple-A to take his place, creating a fourth opening on the 40-man roster for potential trades in the next two weeks before the deadline.
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Twins: Buxton participated in pregame baseball activities on the field and, according to Baldelli, was "energy-wise doing very well." He's eligible to return on Monday, but Baldelli declined to speculate about whether he would be immediately reinstated.
Athletics: RHP Chris Bassitt (6-4, 3.98 ERA), who threw six shutout innings last week in a win against Chicago, takes the mound on Friday night.
Twins: All-Star RHP Jake Odorizzi (11-4, 3.06 ERA), who is 6-0 with a 2.28 ERA in six starts at home this season, pitches the second game of the series.
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I can't tell you how thrilled I am to hear that Keith Giffen, JM DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire are teaming up to do a mini-series (and if this does well, an ongoing!) about the Defenders.
So much so that the classic trade that I am recommending today is Justice League: A New Beginning, by the same creative team.
This trade, collecting the first 7 issues of the Justice League comic book (before it was retitled Justice League International) is just an excellent blend of humor and action.
Yes, Captain Marvel is probably portrayed as being a bit too dumb.
Yes, Blue Beetle's maturity level is lowered a bit (and the guy had had a DC Comic for, like, a year at this point).
But everything else is note perfect.
The art, by newcomer Maguire, was excellent.
The plots from Giffen were inspired, and the dialogue from DeMatteis was miles and miles better than anything DeMatteis had ever done in the past.
Forgetting the fact that this particular approach to a major superhero team really had never been attempted before, these issues are just plain good reads.
I'm glad you convinced me to buy this when it came back in to print last year. It is a lot of fun, and I've actually re-read it a few times, which I rarely ever do with comics. Sometimes your fawning over Giffen really pays off!
I would recommend you to then try the NEXT trade, in order, Justice League International: The Secret Gospel of Maxwell Lord...but it is long out of print, and you'd probably be able to find the actual issues for the same price as the trade.
I was planning on looking for the issues on E-Bay at some point, since they're not likely to ever collect the whole run. I found the first 12 issues of Justice League Europe (with shockingly decent work from Bart Sears!) cheap that way, and I can probably fill out a run with a few large auctions. The back issue bins here are not kind, although I did find a couple issues of JLI for a buck last summer.
I read this trade when it was reprinted and I must say...I agree. Lots of fun. It still stands up as funny (for the most part) after all these years and that's impressive.
Yeah, this was pretty amazing stuff, mistreatment of Cap or no. The thing that the original run had that "I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League" didn't have was a balance of drama and humor. In an ongoing, it was much easier to have both. In a mini, you kind of have to pick a tone and run with it.
Yeah, Eliot, I should have mentioned that in the review (in fact, I have half a mind to go back and edit it in), but that is one of the more impressive things about the run, I think, is that the humor holds up...which is often rare.


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I had [actually that should read as 'have'] reservations about Captain America: The First Avenger. The reservations? You can read about them over here but they stem from a character and story perspective. Putting those problems aside I come to appreciate the pulpy spectacle a little bit more than I did before.
The First Avenger's story finds Steve Rogers deemed unfit for service in World War II but volunteers for a special project that gives a man super-human gifts. Finally getting his chance to serve his country he travels to Europe to stop Johann Schmidt a.ka. Red Skull (Hugo Weaving), a Hydra scientist who intends to win the war with his new weapon of destruction, the Tesseract.
The First Avenger is a much better action/adventure film than it is one about its own characters. Chris Evans' Steve Rogers is a standout, but that's expected since he's the star of the show. The other actors do well in their roles, the, ahem, buxom Hayley Atwell foreshadows the kind of tough, heroic woman that Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow would come to be; Tommy Lee Jones grizzled, avuncular performance works extremely well here and Stanley Tucci's Abraham Erskine is another standout in the film's first half-hour or so.
It's in the other characters that film shows its limitations. Hugo Weaving's Johann Schimdt makes for a standard foe, your typical 'he's like the hero but one step removed' sort of villain. He's obviously evil and villanous and perhaps that's all he needs to be. It doesn't make for a memorable antagonist despite the fact that his skin has been burnt off. Most of the other characters get the short-shrift and bow out too early to have an impact, leaving the film's action to pick up the slack. It's a good thing that the action is pretty great.
There's a physicality to Captain America that clearly differentiates itself from other superheroes particularly in the Marvel canon. Most of the heroes have some kind of miscellaneous item to fight with (Thor has his hammer: Black Widow her, um, guns, Hawkeye his bow and Iron Man his suit/repulsor tech blah, blah, blah). Captain America has his shield but he's the closest character to the Hulk that uses his fists than any other kind of weird technology. He's not about to bring out a rapier mid-battle or have gauntlets to stab you with in the mould of Assassin's Creed. He brawls, keeping in line with serial heroes like Flash Gordon and Indiana Jones, and that added level of physicality is a bit more enjoyable than someone getting blasted or hit flush in the face with a gigantic hammer.
In the end The First Avenger most problematic issue is in its pacing. Characters don't get enough time to establish themselves and their relationships and in turn tend to be rather shallow. The film runs rather than jogs, to get where it needs to be. It wouldn't necessarily be a problem for me, if only there was only something to be invested in other than the action. From an action perspective Captain America: The First Avenger is enjoyable piece of genre filmmaking…but there's always that feeling that it could have been better.
[Does anyone care what happened to Sebastian 'Bucky' Barnes because I don't and that's a massive problem with this film. Things happened and you can't quite muster the interest/attachment to characters' fate since the film isn't interested in bookending its stories than bridging Rogers into The Avengers. – a thing I do like about the film is that, like Thor, it introduces a more fantastical bent with the Tesseract making the action way over the top]
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Death and Medicine: Why Lethal Injection Is Getting Harder
By Stephanie Pappas 2015-06-30T13:24:49Z
A gurney used for lethal injections in Florida.
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A controversial drug used in lethal injections will not be banned for use in the death penalty in the United States. A Supreme Court decision yesterday (June 29) found that the sedative had not been proven more "cruel and unusual" than the alternatives.
The drug, midazolam, is just the latest to fall under scrutiny as more and more of the drugs used in the death penalty become unavailable, pulled from sale to prisons by manufacturers who don't want their products associated with execution. As a result, corrections facilities have been facing shortages of lethal injection drugs for years.
Improvising on the fly, prisons have tried various drug cocktails, botching some executions in the process. In January in Ohio, for example, condemned murderer Dennis B. McGuire gasped and choked for 25 minutes before expiring. Midazolam was used in that execution. The same drug was used in an execution in August 2014 in Arizona in which the condemned took almost two hours to die. [Mistaken Identity? 10 Contested Death Penalty Cases]
In comments sections on articles about these drawn-out spectacles, one question comes up again and again: Why is it so hard to kill someone via lethal injection? After all, veterinarians manage to euthanize pets rapidly every day, with minimal discomfort. Why aren't those drugs used in executions?
Prison officials think the same way. The problem, however, is not that these drugs can't be used on humans, for the most part. It's with supply. Nearly every drug that prison officials turn to for lethal injections has been restricted from that use by manufacturers.
Traditionally, lethal injections have used a three-drug cocktail: sodium thiopental for sedation, pancuronium bromide to paralyze the muscles and potassium chloride to stop the heart. In 2011, however, Hospira Pharmaceuticals, the only U.S. manufacturer of sodium thiopental, stopped making the drug because of its use in executions. That same year, the European Union banned the export of sodium thiopental as well as other barbiturate drugs used in executions, ruling that companies had to ensure any exports would not be used for lethal injections. [How Does Execution Drug Midazolam Work?]
Pentobarbital, the barbiturate often used in animal euthanasia, was covered under the ban. (The drug is also used in physician-assisted suicides in the Netherlands and in Oregon.) Fourteen states have used the drug in executions, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, which advocates against capital punishment. But supplies of the drug are limited. Some states, including Texas, have turned to anonymous compounding pharmacies, which custom-make medications, to get the drug.
Another common drug used both in human anesthesia and in veterinary medicine is propofol, which is not a barbiturate. Missouri planned to use this drug in lethal injections, but the EU threatened to end exports to the United States, and the state's plan was scrapped.
The supply problem highlights a long-standing issue with the medicalization of the death penalty: Doctors are not, generally speaking, on board. The American Medical Association (AMA) opposes physician involvement in capital punishment, as does the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA).
"Patients should never confuse the death chamber with the operating room, lethal doses of execution drugs with anesthetic drugs, or the executioner with the anesthesiologist," J. Jeffrey Andrews, the secretary of the ABA, wrote in a commentary in May 2014. "Physicians should not be expected to act in ways that violate the ethics of medical practice, even if these acts are legal. Anesthesiologists are healers, not executioners."
While prisons can often find physicians to preside over executions, the involvement of the medical profession in executions does not always proceed smoothly. In 2006, executions in California halted when two anesthesiologists resigned from participation in the execution of Michael Morales. They quit after finding out that they would be expected to intervene directly if the execution procedure went wrong.
"The Morales case unearthed a nagging paradox. The people most knowledgeable about the process of lethal injection — doctors, particularly anesthesiologists — are often reluctant to impart their insights and skills," wrote Deborah Denno, a professor at the Fordham University School of Law, in a 2007 paper on medicine and the death penalty.
A doctor was presiding over the June 2014 execution of Clayton D. Lockett, who died of heart failure 43 minutes after Oklahoma prison officials began his execution. But a medical technician was doing the actual procedure. Witnesses reported that it took nearly an hour of poking and prodding before the technician gave up on setting a catheter in Lockett's arms, legs or feet, and instead tried to place a line through the femoral artery. An independent autopsy commissioned by the condemned man's lawyers found that the line was not placed properly, perhaps explaining why Lockett appeared to wake up after the first sedative drug was injected.
Execution alternatives
The Supreme Court's pass on midazolam may be moot. In February, a major manufacturer of the sedative told the Anniston Star newspaper of Anniston, Alabama, that it disapproved of the use of its drug in executions and would not sell midazolam to the prison system or to middlemen who sell to prison officials. The paper reported that of eight other companies that make the drug, at least six have policies in place to prevent the substance's use in executions.
If botched executions and drug shortages continue, the future of capital punishment is unclear. Tennessee allows the use of the electric chair if lethal injection drugs run out; Utah allows the firing squad. Starting in November, Oklahoma will use nitrogen gas asphyxiation as its backup method. This method works by displacing oxygen in the lungs, causing rapid unconsciousness and then death. Nitrogen inhalation has never been used as an execution method, but scuba divers exposed to excess nitrogen while diving often report feeling giddy.
Electrocution was originally devised as a humane approach to hanging, but after executions that required multiple jolts of electricity and occasionally resulted in flames and smoke, the method fell out of favor. Nebraska, the last state to use the electric chair as its only method of execution, declared electrocution unconstitutional in 2008. Some states allow inmates to choose this method of death; the last to do so was Robert Charles Gleason, Jr., executed in Virginia in January 2013.
Utah banned death by firing squad in 2004, though one inmate, Ronnie Lee Gardner, died that way, in 2010. Gardner was sentenced before the ban, and thus was allowed to choose the firing squad as his method of death. In March 2015, however, Utah reinstated the firing squad in the event that lethal injection drugs become unavailable.
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White Mountain Tissue Appoints CNG As Its Exclusive Sales And Marketing Representative
White Mountain Tissue Appoints CNG As Its Exclusive Sales And Marketing RepresentativeKatelyn KrywaruczenkoJune 18, 2012 April 8, 2022
GORHAM, N.H., June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — White Mountain Tissue today announced that it has appointed Central National-Gottesman Inc. (CNG) as its exclusive sales and marketing representative.
In September 2012, White Mountain Tissue (a joint venture between Gorham Paper and Tissue, and Old Town Fuel & Fiber) will begin the operation of a $35 million, state-of-the-art tissue machine at its facility in Gorham, New Hampshire. In conjunction with this project, CNG will act as the exclusive sales and marketing representative for all tissue produced on the new machine. Through CNG, White Mountain Tissue intends to establish long-term supply relationships with North American tissue converters.
This new machine, delivered by ABK Machinery, will produce 36,000 tons per year of premium virgin parent rolls of bath tissue, towel, and napkin, serving the needs of independent and integrated tissue converters. In early 2013, the installation of a re-winder will allow the mill to also supply multi-ply grades.
Most of the pulp for White Mountain Tissue will be supplied by its sister company in Maine, Old Town Fuel & Fiber. Old Town is FSC-certified and produces 200,000 tons per year of premium quality, northern bleached hardwood kraft pulp. The Old Town facility is an industry leader focused on high quality fiber, renewable energy and advanced biotechnology.
"We are very excited as we approach our September start-up," said Dick Arnold, President/CEO. "The 75 ton Yankee dryer was lowered into place on May 17th and our project team is working tirelessly to ensure a smooth start to operations. We are also very pleased to expand our partnership with CNG as our sales and marketing representatives. CNG is the exclusive sales representative for our Old Town pulp facility and I am certain that together we will quickly establish White Mountain as the preferred supplier of tissue parent rolls."
Central National-Gottesman Inc. was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York. The company is a leading international marketer of pulp and paper, with sales offices in 26 U.S. cities and 22 countries worldwide. CNG operates several divisions, including Central National, a global provider of pulp, paper, and packaging, and Lindenmeyr, the largest independent paper merchant in the United States. CNG is committed to environmental sustainability and holds certifications from FSC, SFI, and PEFC. The company's sales of pulp and paper exceed $4 billion annually. To learn more, please visit www.cng-inc.com.
In May of 2011, Gorham Paper and Tissue, LLC (GPT) located in Gorham, NH acquired the former Fraser Papers paper mill via investment funds managed by Patriarch Partners, LLC (Patriarch). Patriarch is a private equity firm and holding company managing 75 companies across 14 industry sectors with revenues in excess of $8 billion. Founded by Lynn Tilton in 2000, Patriarch focuses on the acquisition and invigoration of undervalued iconic American brands where time, capital and sound strategy can rescue a business and restore its value, creating and preserving jobs in America. Gorham's value and the diversity of its manufacturing model are synergistic with Patriarch's pulp mill in Old Town, ME. Both Gorham and Old Town are WBENC certified companies.
CNG's Spicers Paper/PPI Adds to Packaging Business, Acquires Southern California's Kilmer, Wagner & Wise (KWW)Katelyn KrywaruczenkoDecember 4, 2019 April 8, 2022
December 4, 2019 April 8, 2022 |BY Katelyn KrywaruczenkoCNG's Spicers Paper/PPI Adds to Packaging Business, Acquires Southern California's Kilmer, Wagner & Wise (KWW)
PURCHASE, New York, December 4, 2019 - Central National Gottesman Inc. (CNG), which owns a...
Central National Gottesman's (CNG) Spicers Paper Inc. Acquires Northern California's JC Paperlmstaging2022August 15, 2017 April 8, 2022
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Kacey Musgraves Voices Opinion on Controversial Alabama Abortion Law With Snarky Tweet
Kacey Musgraves, one of country music's more outspoken artists, chimed in on Twitter on Thursday (May 16), after a controversial abortion bill passed through the state of Alabama's legislature. The star's tweet is a little snarky, but shows her disapproval of the newly signed law.
On Tuesday (May 14), Alabama state senators voted 25-6 to approve HB 314, which classifies an abortion at any stage of pregnancy, including in cases of rape or incest, as a felony crime. The doctor who performs the abortion could receive a sentence of 10-99 years in prison, though the woman who seeks the abortion will not be punished. Exceptions will only be made if the woman's health is at risk.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, signed the law into action on Wednesday (May 15). "Every life is a sacred gift from God," she says of the decision. Per the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, abortion is a Constitutionally protected right, and is still legal within the United States as a whole.
"Sooo what's gonna happen when one of those Alabama senators knocks up one of his mistresses?" writes Musgraves on Twitter. The 25 state senators who voted in favor of the new law are all men.
In addition to Alabama, the states of Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi and Ohio all also recently approved abortion bans that will make it illegal for women to seek abortions once the fetus' heartbeat is detected, which occurs at about six weeks into a pregnancy. Louisiana may soon pass a smiliar ban, while lawmakers in Missouri have banned abortions, with no exceptions for rape or incest, at eight weeks.
A number of celebrities have spoken out against these recently enacted laws, though Musgraves is the only major country artist to do so.
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During a recent trip to Bristol I visited an exhibition called 'Parcels of Comfort' in the Cathedral in the centre of town. This small display used textiles to illustrate the contents of parcels which were sent to British Army soldiers during World War I. Most remarkable was the way that much of the work on view was produced by GCSE students at a local secondary school in Cotham.
The exhibits illustrated the crucial role played by women and girls in the fabrication of garments for serving soldiers and how they plugged the gap left by a shortage of woollen garments. Magazines of the day provided patterns.
Socks were deemed to be the most important items to send as a fresh supply of clean dry socks could prevent the onset of 'trench foot' which is a fungal infection that can lead to gangrene or even amputation. For me the eeriest item was the rifle glove pictured above. This has two significant apertures- one for the thumb and the other for the trigger finger. I can't imagine what it must have been like knitting one of these for a close relative knowing that the hand that it is being made for may kill or that the person wearing it may die from a hand wearing a similar garment.
Blankets were also knitted for hospitals. During this war wool was in short supply and had to be imported from Australia, New Zealand and even South America. Women were encouraged to use subdued colours such as grey, khaki and brown but occasionally brighter coloured wool was used.
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This has meant that I have had lots of time to focus on the yoked sweater that I returned from Iceland enthusing about. I had never knitted one before and really wanted to learn about the construction of such a garment. Whilst in the Hand Knitting Association of Iceland shop in Reykjavik I bought nine 50g balls of dark blue Léttlopi, and two 50g balls each of pale pink and sea green.
Every part of this project seemed so easy. My major worry was the joining of the sleeves to the body to form the yoke but it actually all worked out fine. It did seem to take an age to get around the 272 stitches that were on the needle at one point but it was only for nineteen rows as on row 20 the first of five sets of decreases commenced.
I must say that I really loved making this jumper and work started taking a go slow towards the collar as I didn't really want it to end. I now have no ongoing knitting here at the moment as I try to decide whether the next pullover will be a traditional gansey style or a pullover with a yoke.
Albie and Bootsy's coats are starting to grow back now as it has been four and a half months since they were sheared. Luckily, for them, we have had a really mild winter up to now. I found it very hard to get down to the field to feed them with the bad foot so one particularly dark, muddy evening I decided to put their feed in the boot of my car and drive down to them. All was going well until I got the car stuck in a ditch and had to get a local farmer to pull the car out the following day.
As my left leg is now the main shaker around here I have had to train it to work the treadle on the spinning wheel. I'm getting better at it I must say as the spinning wheel now remains stationary rather than being pushed towards the middle of the floor by an over zealous foot. I would really love to make my next knitting project from Albie's fleece so there will be plenty of spinning going on now that the left leg is as good as the right used to be!
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Subsequently, Abdel Salam Al Hassani began his musical endeavours with Moroccan artists which had led him to Cairo - where his interest in spiritual music was ignited. The realm of spiritual music inspired his subsequent album 'Naseem' which influenced Spiritual Islamic music in 2003. In 2005, Abdel Salam Al Hassani signed with GoodNewsRecords and began his work on his album 'Aman'.
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Interview with Mike Robertsoninstitutemain2017-07-26T22:40:14+00:00
Interview with Mike Robertson
Industry icon, Mike Robertson has grown IFast from it being just a concept to over a decade of success. They're one of the most highly regarded training facilities in the country. Mike has been a contributor to pretty much every relevant media outlet on the planet, an incredible presenter, and he trains a list of highly successful professional athletes.
Robertson Training Systems (RTS) came about around 2005-2006. I had been working at a small facility in Fort Wayne. I wasn't really happy with the position. I knew I wanted to make a change. I was doing a lot of writing for T-Nation and various other online & offline outlets at the time. While I was okay going to work for somebody else, ultimately I knew I wanted to work for myself.
I was doing in-home training for a great little company called Custom Fitness, where we worked with very high end & elite or affluent people here in Indianapolis. I was also slowly kind of growing RTS. Believe it or not, that's when blogs were just becoming a thing. I had my type pad, or whatever it was, blog going and just started putting out content. Eric Cressey and had this idea since we've been putting out a lot of content, maybe we should create a product, which was a big step for us.
We created Magnificent Mobility and we both realized this was a viable way to help us make a living. From that day forward I knew my livelihood was going to live in two worlds. I have this online piece where I influence and educate people from across the globe, which is really the allure for me. I love the fact that whether it's people here locally in Indianapolis or in California or even in a country like Slovenia or the UK or Australia, they can go to my website and learn from me and hopefully I can make them a better trainer or coach.
I had that thing going and, as I was still doing training, Bill Hartman and myself started hanging out and discovered we had a lot of similar interests. We're both into sports; we're both into lifting weights; we're both into music. In January 2008, we sat down together and we're like, I was driving all over God's creation to train people and he was going into a PT training job that he wasn't really thrilled with. We decided we're pretty competent guys and we need to get serious about opening a gym. In August of 2008, Bill and I joined forces and we opened IFast.
"People are willing to not only travel but they're willing to pay if they perceive you to be the best solution."
The last eight years has been a whirlwind, but we've gone from that point where we're this small start-up gym, it was actually in the back of an underground casino which was the space that we took over once the cops ran them out. Now we're at about 5,000 square feet closing in on, I think, 200 members total and slowly growing the kind of business that we want. We're growing the business that everybody here is not only proud of but that they're excited to come to work in every day.
What the Business Looks Like Now
First, there is not one business, that is something of a myth. There's always been two businesses. It's odd because I really feel like there are days where I live a double life. There's RTS which is very focused on the education piece, the consulting. That's any kind of writing, continuing education products for trainers, speaking. All of that falls under the RTS umbrella. There's that and then there's IFast. At IFast there's two roles that I play.
Number one, I play a coach to the athletes that I work with, but then I'm also very much the entrepreneur and trying to come up with strategy for the business. Trying to come up with an overall vision which I think is really important as an entrepreneur because you can have the best people working for you, but they will never have your vision for the business.
I'm trying to do a better job now of constantly trying to think what is the vision of the business, who are we trying to pull in, who do we want to market to, cater to and, ultimately, what kind of business do we want to build? When you're starting out it's whoever is going to give you money you're going to train. I was there myself. I worked with a client at 9:00 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday when we opened. She would cry every single workout, literally leaving in tears. It wasn't because of me. She had all these emotional issues, self-worth issues.
We needed money and we had to keep our gym open. You take those clients when you're opening up. I think as you grow and evolve as a business it becomes more about wanting to create your ideal business. Those are some of the questions we're coming up with now. What is our ideal business? What is our ideal customer? How do we put all the pieces in place so that we can develop that?
Again, for RTS it's very much all the roles and that's more for the consulting piece. For IFast, it's kind of that dual role of coach to my athletes and then a visionary—and I hate that term. That makes me sound way more important than I am. The visionary is the person that has the vision for the business and then sort of the integrator as well, trying to put all my people in the right place so that they can be as successful as possible.
One thing that has always been important for me is that if I'm going to talk to other coaches and trainers, I need to be coaching and training people myself. When you look at my day-to-day schedule it's very much seasonal. I'm trying to fix that. But right now, you look at my schedule from say October through the end of February, I am very much in coach and trainer role.
I'm coaching 20-30 hours a week. Again, when I started and it was just Bill and me on the floor, we're working 50-60 hours a week. I really tried and condense it down. I love working my guys in groups. If I did everybody as a private, could I work 40 or 50 hours a week? Sure, but I very much prefer, especially with athletes to have them in small groups. I think the energy is better. I think the coaching is better because there is less down time, there's more energy. Everybody is feeling good about themselves. The best part is when you've got athletes I love the competition, I love them working against each other.
Even in my busiest months I'm probably only coaching 20 to 30 hours out of a week. When it gets slow during the summer it's as little as 8-10. A lot of that is the soccer teams are in season so I don't have them quite as much, but I still have a small group of distance clients that come in and work with me either weekly or monthly. Those people are fun, too, because they're like projects. A lot of them are power lifters or adults that just want to get into really awesome shape. It's nice because it gives me a blend and it keeps me engaged. I always say athletes are like cheating—they're so good at what they do, their nervous system is so good, they move so well, they're very easy to coach. Athletes are almost too easy. Sometimes when you go back and you work with general population people it reminds you of what it's like to train a normal human being and not some super elite freak-a-zoids.
Distance Coaching
Other than the athletes that I work with, pretty much everybody is a distance client. These people typically have come to me because they've had some sort of injury or issue and it's been more of a tandem approach where they will see Bill, maybe initially for some physical therapy or for his assessment piece and then they transition into working with me. That is the bulk of who I work with. It's like 100%.
As far as day-to-day local people that work in Indianapolis, that's not really my thing at this point because I've got really good coaches on the floor here at IFast whether it's Jay, Lance, Brandon, Ty, or Tony. We've got really, really good guys. If they need training every day, unless they're a pro athlete or need the services that I offer, I am more than comfortable giving my guys those people because they are very, very qualified coaches in their own right.
"I think seeking out people smarter than you and at this point in time there's no reason not to outsource things that you're not good at."
Distance coaching is something that we have always offered at IFast. It started off as just a once a month program that we offered for people that were local but maybe the funds were an issue or they didn't know how much coaching they really wanted or needed. What that evolved into was people that found out about myself or they found out about Bill but they lived in St. Louis or they lived in Lexington or Cleveland or Columbus. They lived in these remote areas from Indianapolis, and they said, we think you're the best solution for us and we want to work with you personally.
It was a natural evolution to our business. It's not something that I ever chased, per se. It's really not something that we market, but it's something where people are willing to not only travel but they're willing to pay if they perceive you to be the best solution. Kind of the end result to that or a side piece of that is just pure online coaching. Thinking about that, I've trained people from the UK, from Asia, from Australia, literally across the globe via online training. That's not something we could have ever fathomed 20 years ago. Even 10 years ago when I started doing it, video was not a big deal. It's literally assessing somebody by static pictures that take forever to upload and download. This is where the evolution, I think, of our businesses are. If you're an expert or somebody that caters to a specific niche, people are willing to pay more if they're willing to travel or to work with you remotely if you can help them achieve the result that they want.
How to Evolve and Grow
The best thing that Eric Cressey did when he opened Cressey Performance was bring on Pete Dupuis as a business person. Because he's got somebody to outsource that to. The worst thing Bill and I did was going into business together in that regard because neither of us are pure business people. We are very much technicians. I think the best thing that we did was we knew that early on and we sought out people better than us. Early in my career I remember the day that Alan Cosgrove and I sat in some random bar. We had lunch together, had a beer and he said, "Okay. This is the date you're going to open IFast." I just said, "Okay." Alan, early on, was a very influential piece of our business because he gave us the foundation and some structures and rules to build from. And having Pat Rigsby as somebody that I can constantly reach out to and have access to has been huge. The evolution of our business, the training piece, is easy for us.
Bill and I, our staff, we are passionate and we are dedicated about learning more about training, about the best ways to train the human body, the best ways to evaluate the human body. That part has always been easy for us. That gives us a natural leg up because it's easy to say you're the best when you really firmly believe that. From a business side, we have always tried to seek out people better than us. Having you tell us, "Okay. Look, this is what you need to do with your trial or this is what you need to do to close people better."
"If you can step back and realize, hey, maybe I'm the problem here, what do I need to do, what can I delegate, those things will ultimately make you a more effective business in the long run."
When we were doing our trial and Pat had us, instead of trying to sell on day 30, we introduced the gift card and now we're selling in the first week versus day 30. Immediately we saw our conversions go up by at least 50%. That subtle change in our business allowed us to legitimately grow our business almost twice as fast. It's been little things like that that have allowed us to tweak and refine things because, yes I do think of myself to a degree as a business person, but for me I've always struggled like there's this internal pull from me as an entrepreneur, as a human being, because I'm passionate about coaching.
That's what I really, really love but at the same time, if I'm going to own a business then I need to honor that and reflect that and I need to put the time in there as well. I think seeking out people smarter than you and at this point in time there's no reason not to outsource things that you're not good at. You can't outsource your entire business but you can at least get people around you that can help you grow and evolve your business that are better at some things than you are.
If you're an entrepreneur and you're kind of a go-getter, you're willing to learn things, you're willing to do whatever it takes. It's hard to step back and realize that a lot of times as an entrepreneur you are also the biggest bottleneck in your business. If you can look at that, if you can be okay with that, and then start to let go of some of those things, which is something I'm working on with IFast right now. It's one of those things where I have this mentality of if I don't do it, it won't get done right. Then, ultimately, I've got so many things on my plate that it doesn't get done at all. If you can step back and realize, hey, maybe I'm the problem here, what do I need to do, what can I delegate? Those things will ultimately make you a more effective business in the long run.
Owning and operating a business is hard enough and I'm trying to do two. Both RTS and IFast have grown to a point now where I had to step back and realize where these businesses are at. Creating the ideal business is always evolving. What is ideal to you now may not be ideal in five years. You've got different priorities or you want to chase something else. I think that's important, too. To constantly step back and not only evaluate yourself but your business and kind of get an idea of where you're at and what you need to do to get to that next level.
Mike's Ideal Business
I'm not sure RTS changes all that much for me because for me RTS is just a way to constantly educate and give back to the industry. I love the blogging, the videos, the podcasts. All the content I create that's just a passion I have. Luckily, it allows me to drive some product sales and that sort of thing that help RTS grow and thrive. I'm not sure that changes all that much.
A big change for me was going from pure written content to more of a multi-media approach. Going from only written articles to an article one day, a video another day, and a podcast another. That's kind of the content strategy that I'm using now. That was a big shift for me. I'm not sure how much I want to change there, but with regards to IFast, I think the big thing that we're looking at is continuing to tweak and evolve the programs that we offer.
"I think you can be very busy being busy and not moving in the direction that you want."
For instance, right now we're very well known for our semi-private program. We've done incredibly well with that. Understanding the semi-private setting and the way that we run semi-private where anybody can sign up for a 4:00 o'clock time slot, it may not be the best way to integrate if your 4:00 o'clock involves a 50-year-old woman who just wants to look and feel better and a 14-year-old kid that wants to be better at baseball.
What we're going to try and do is to slowly evolve and put people in the right places by making our semi-private more adult focused. Then making, what we're going to call our elite athlete development program or body development program, geared solely towards kids. Kind of separating those two pieces out and cranking up the team training and making sure that's where we want it to be, too. That's something that we always offer and we've had momentum with it in the past. As a business owner, it's a very profitable piece of your business. If you're just looking at dollars and cents, you're paying your coach x-amount of dollars per hour whether he's got one person or 15.
I think trying to niche those three pieces out, target our marketing in a specific way so that we're generating or pulling in the type of people that we want for those sections of the business. Again, having a clearer idea of what we want IFast to be, the clients we want to train and then filling up those specific classes by offering to the people that we want.
Ideal Business Advice
The first piece of advice I would give is very simply to step back and breathe. What I think happens too often is we get caught up, especially in this day and age, of it's go, go, go. You hear people talking about the grind and whatever. I think you can be very busy being busy and not moving in the direction that you want. Now if you haven't done it in a while, do it today or tomorrow or as soon as you can. Ideally, set up a date quarterly where you evaluate your business, take a step back, what's working well, what's not working well. Look at the people that you're training. Look at the people you work with. Look at all the aspects of your business. Do your best to be really open and honest about it. Sometimes it's really easy to sweep things under the rug or not look in the corners. I think if you're open and honest with things then you have a much clearer idea of what's really going on, and it will help you get a better idea of where you want to go.
The second step beyond taking that step back is give yourself some sort of framework to build from. What are the big things that you need to do to get that done? Set up an action plan or something of that nature. In the third step, because one and two still are kind of easy, but number three is the hardest. Go out and do something. Too often we think of procrastination as doing nothing. Procrastination, for a lot of people, is oh, I've got these important things to do but I'm going to clean up my office or I'm going to do email. Something of that nature. Sometimes it's really hard to just do something that is focused on the big picture because you don't get that instant reward, that instant gratification.
Step back, evaluate where you're at. Number two, come up with an action plan or a strategy to put the pieces in play. What are the big things you need to be working on? Number three, do something that's actually relevant to your action plan. If you can do those three things, and do a little bit of number three every day. Whether you get up 30 minutes early, an hour early or you stay up 30 minutes late at night, constantly do something that's going to help you grow and build your ideal business. If you're doing that every day, then chances are in six months, 12 months down the line, your business is going to look considerably different than it does now.
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Absolute Drift: Zen Edition Review (Switch)
The Slow and the Soothing
While driving games aren't my strongest suit, chill games absolutely are. And when they have a minimalist aesthetic to them? Sign me up. So nabbing Absolute Drift: Zen Edition when it came into the review inbox seemed like a no-brainer. After all, it's not like a traditional racing or driving game, so maybe it'll play differently and I'll like it, right? Right. Riiiiiight.
Developed and self-published by Funselektor Labs, Absolute Drift: Zen Edition was originally released back in 2016 on PS4 and PC, on XBox One a year later, and on PS5 and Nintendo Switch this year. Although Absolute Drift: Zen Edition is a little on the older side, it's definitely not showing its age, feeling as fresh and new as it did four years ago. And for only $11.99, it's a reasonably priced little gem that will absolutely give you a run for your money.
Absolute Drift: Zen Edition is not only minimalist in its aesthetics but in its approach to story — you drift, therefore you are. It's strongly recommended to play the free roam area first before getting into any challenges, as this is where mechanics mastery takes place. If you're like me and don't play drifting games very often, let along racing games, the free roam area is going to be where you spend a great deal of time upfront learning all the twists and turns involved in drifting.
Hearing that Absolute Drift: Zen Edition originally released on PC boggles my mind, because I can't possibly imagine playing this on a mouse and keyboard. I won't lie to you, this was a somewhat frustrating experience for novice to the genre but I'd be hesitant to chalk up that frustration to the controls, which were fairly smooth on the Switch. In fact, I found the joy-cons to be a decent enough experience, a pro-controller not necessarily a requirement. Absolute Drift: Zen Edition is not a game about speed or competition but patience, precision, and persistence, so if you're not okay with doing the same thing over and over again, this might not be the game for you.
Although Absolute Drift: Zen Edition is a driving game, it's not a competitive one — this title is single-player only. Although some people might wish to drift alongside friends while racing to the finish line, I strongly preferred the calming, zoned-out feeling I got while drifting down massively unsafe freeways. It's funny to use words like "chill" and "relaxing" to describe a driving game, a genre which has been proven to bring out more agitation and aggression in gamers than violent FPS titles, but Absolute Drift: Zen Edition has proven it can be done.
While there's certainly a lot to love about Absolute Drift: Zen Edition, my favorite aspect has to be the music. This is one gloriously soothing soundtrack! Back when commutes were a thing, I used to drive 90 minutes to work and 90 minutes back, zoning out most of the time to chill music. When the drifting got good, I was able to recapture that zoned-out feeling that I legitimately enjoyed as part of a normal work day…
…but that is, of course, when the drifting actually got good. Again, I'm hesitant to blame the controls, but at the same time, I struggled to learn the overall drifting mechanic and barely felt rewarded when I performed drifts properly. Don't get me wrong, I did eventually enjoy my time with Absolute Drift: Zen Edition, but it took a lot longer than 30 minutes for me to figure out the skills and goals but also how I was supposed to interact with objects in the environment.
It's like this — Absolute Drift: Zen Edition is undeniably a good game, but I can't say it's for everyone. It's a bit like baseball vs. golf — one is all about hitting that ball as hard as you can and running like the devil's after you, whereas the other is all about keeping track of things like terrain, wind speed, and 42 different clubs while you plan your varying strategies. Sure Absolute Drift: Zen Edition is a driving game, but it's the golf of driving games; if you're more of a batting cages kinda player like I am, this one might be more of a swing and a miss, no matter how pretty it is (and it is pretty). However, if you're more of a golfer, this is absolutely a hole in one — it just depends on which stick you like to use to whack a few balls, really (that's a sentence I wrote and I'm sticking to it).
If I sounded harsh on Absolute Drift: Zen Edition, I don't mean to be. So much deserved praise has been heaped on this super chill, super minimalist game that is certainly worth the price of admission, so if this sounds like your cup of green tea, please grab it on any platform with a controller that suits your fancy. If you like chill games but don't typically make the trip into the driving genre, watch a few let's plays first before starting your engines. Either way, this has been a uniquely smooth ride my eyes and ears won't forget any time soon.
Final Verdict: 3.5/5
Available on: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Switch (reviewed); Publisher: Funselektor Labs Inc.; Developer: Funselektor Labs Inc.; Players: 1; Released: December 3, 2020; MSRP: $11.99
Editor's note: This review is based on a copy of Absolute Drift: Zen Edition provided by the publisher.
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Jen Fisher is a leading voice on workplace well-being and creating human-centered organizational cultures. She frequently speaks and writes about building a culture of well-being at work and serves as Deloitte's chief well-being officer in the United States, where she drives the strategy and innovation around work-life, health, and wellness. Jen is also the host of WorkWell, a podcast series on the latest work-life trends and author of the book, Work Better Together: How to Cultivate Strong Relationships to Maximize Well-Being and Boost Bottom Lines (McGraw-Hill, June 2021). Jen is a healthy lifestyle enthusiast and seeks to infuse aspects of wellness in everything she does. She believes self-care is a daily pursuit and considers herself an exercise fanatic, sleep advocate, and book nerd! As a breast cancer survivor, she is passionate about advocating for women's health and sharing her recovery journey. Jen lives in Miami with her husband, Albert and dog, Fiona.
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