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package types

// CommonSubmitArgs defines the common parts of the submitAthd
type CommonSubmitArgs struct {

	// Name stores the job name,match option --name
	Name string `yaml:"-"`

	// Namespace  stores the namespace of job,match option --namespace
	Namespace string `yaml:"-"`

	// TrainingType stores the trainingType
	TrainingType TrainingJobType `yaml:"-"`

	// NodeSelectors defines the node selectors,match option --selector
	NodeSelectors map[string]string `yaml:"nodeSelectors"`

	// ConfigFiles stores the config file which is existed in client host node
	// and map it to container,match option --config-file
	ConfigFiles map[string]map[string]ConfigFileInfo `yaml:"configFiles"`

	// Tolerations defines the tolerations which tolerates node taints
	// match option --toleration
	Tolerations []string `yaml:"tolerations"`

	// Image stores the docker image of job,match option --image
	Image string `yaml:"image"`

	// GPUCount stores the gpu count of the job needs,match option --gpus
	GPUCount int `yaml:"gpuCount"`

	// Envs stores the envs of container in job, match option --env
	Envs map[string]string `yaml:"envs"`

	// WorkingDir stores the working directory of container in job,match option --working-dir
	WorkingDir string `yaml:"workingDir"`

	// Shell specify the linux shell type
	Shell string `yaml:"shell"`

	// Command stores the command of job
	Command string `yaml:"command"`

	// Mode is used for horovod,match option --sync-mode
	Mode string `yaml:"mode"`

	// WorkerCount stores the count of job worker,match option --workers
	WorkerCount int `yaml:"workers"`

	// Retry defines the retry times
	Retry int `yaml:"retry"`

	// DataSet stores the kubernetes pvc names
	DataSet map[string]string `yaml:"dataset"`

	// DataDirs stores the files(or directories) in k8s node which will map to containers
	// match option --data-dir
	DataDirs []DataDirVolume `yaml:"dataDirs"`

	// EnableRDMA enable rdma or not,match option --rdma
	EnableRDMA bool `yaml:"enableRDMA"`

	// EnableQueue enables the feature to queue jobs after they are scheduled.
	EnableQueue bool `yaml:"enableQueue"`

	// UseENI defines using eni or not
	UseENI bool `yaml:"useENI"`

	// Annotations defines pod annotations of job,match option --annotation
	Annotations map[string]string `yaml:"annotations"`

	// Labels specify the job labels and it is work for pods
	Labels map[string]string `yaml:"labels"`

	// IsNonRoot is root user or not
	IsNonRoot bool `yaml:"isNonRoot"`

	// PodSecurityContext defines the pod security context
	PodSecurityContext LimitedPodSecurityContext `yaml:"podSecurityContext"`

	// PriorityClassName defines the priority class
	PriorityClassName string `yaml:"priorityClassName"`

	// Coscheduling defines using Coscheduling
	Coscheduling bool

	// PodGroupName stores pod group name
	PodGroupName string `yaml:"podGroupName"`

	// PodGroupMinAvailable stores pod group min available
	PodGroupMinAvailable string `yaml:"podGroupMinAvailable"`

	// ImagePullSecrets stores image pull secrets,match option --image-pull-secrets
	ImagePullSecrets []string `yaml:"imagePullSecrets"`

	// HelmOptions stores the helm options
	HelmOptions []string `yaml:"-"`
}

// DataDirVolume defines the volume of kubernetes
type DataDirVolume struct {
	// HostPath defines the host path
	HostPath string `yaml:"hostPath"`
	// ContainerPath defines container path
	ContainerPath string `yaml:"containerPath"`
	// Name defines the volume name
	Name string `yaml:"name"`
}

// LimitedPodSecurityContext defines the kuberntes pod security context
type LimitedPodSecurityContext struct {
	RunAsUser          int64   `yaml:"runAsUser"`
	RunAsNonRoot       bool    `yaml:"runAsNonRoot"`
	RunAsGroup         int64   `yaml:"runAsGroup"`
	SupplementalGroups []int64 `yaml:"supplementalGroups"`
}

// ConfigFileInfo defines the config files which will be mounted to containers
type ConfigFileInfo struct {
	ContainerFileName string `yaml:"containerFileName"`
	HostFile          string `yaml:"hostFile"`
	Key               string `yaml:"key"`
	ContainerFilePath string `yaml:"containerFilePath"`
}

type SubmitSyncCodeArgs struct {
	SyncMode   string `yaml:"syncMode"`            // --syncMode: rsync, hdfs, git
	SyncSource string `yaml:"syncSource"`          // --syncSource
	SyncImage  string `yaml:"syncImage,omitempty"` // --syncImage
	// syncGitProjectName
	SyncGitProjectName string `yaml:"syncGitProjectName,omitempty"` // --syncImage
}


Home Insurance for a vacant property can be difficult to secure. Companies do not like to offer vacant home insurance because unoccupied property attracts insurance risk. Aside from being a target for break-ins, arson, vandalism and water damage from freezing pipes, there is a larger possibility of injury on the property while it is vacant. Given the risks, insurers usually limit vacant home insurance coverage to 30 days from date of vacancy. Normally, when an insurance company finds that a house is vacant, they will cancel your insurance policy and give you the date upon which your coverage will end.
TIP: It is difficult to find unoccupied home insurance, so do your best to avoid having your existing insurance policy cancelled.
Leave furniture in the home-minimal essentials such as a bed or lamps.
Maintain outdoor lighting. If possible put these lights on a timer to turn off in the day and on at night. This will hopefully minimize break-ins and vandalism.
Stay in the home every so often if possible. If this is not possible, enlist the help of a friend or nearby neighbor in the same city.
Keep the lawn and the shrubs maintained.
If it is during the winter months, maintain heat in the home to prevent pipes from freezing.
If you feel the home is going to be vacant for some time, consider installing an alarm. Make sure you notify your insurance carrier of the installation in order to get a home protection discount.
TIP: If you have decided to rent this house out, make sure you change the type of insurance from homeowners insurance to a landlord-tenant policy. Only do this after you get a tenant. Doing it before could notify your insurance company that you have moved out AND notify them of the possibility of the house being vacant.
Ideally, you will not ever have to look for insurance for your vacant home because you will be able to sell or occupy the home before your previous insurance is cancelled. Finding vacant home insurance is difficult, particularly when you are starting from scratch because the home is not insured. If you find it difficult to locate an insurance company that will provide your unoccupied home's insurance, contact the department of insurance for your state. Nearly every state has an assigned risk home insurance carrier for those risks that mainstream insurance companies are unable to insure. Most departments of insurance will direct you to a carrier that will be able to provide insurance for an unoccupied home.
TIP: Last resort insurance will come at a higher premium! However, the price may well be worth the trade off to avoid a catastrophic claim happening with no insurance.
Increase your deductible. This will lower the premium. But keep in mind, if something should happen, you will incur a large deductible before any claim is paid.
Lower your personal property coverage. If you don't have any property in the home, lowering this coverage may save you a few dollars. However, don't reduce the coverage so low as to tip the insurance company off that the home has nothing in it! You may find that bringing it down $50,000-60,000 could save you some money.
Reduce the utilities by unplugging everything left in the home until it is used. Keep the heat or a/c on low. Saving on utilities will allow you to put more money towards the vacant home's insurance premium.
TIP: Don't skimp on coverage to lower the premium on your vacant home insurance. This could be a mistake! If an accident should occur, you want to be adequately covered.
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Macphie of Glenbervie becomes a B Corp
30 September 2015 by Lisa Jenkins
Independent food ingredients company Macphie of Glenbervie has become one of the first companies in the UK to achieve B Corp certification as acknowledgment of its commitment to social and environmental ethics, transparency and accountability.
Chairman Alastair Macphie (pictured) said: "At Macphie we're passionate about corporate social responsibility and sustainability, driving a number of initiatives to help the environment and local communities. We invest time, resources and money to work proactively to build meaningful links with community groups, charities and education. It's been a key part of who we are over the past 40 years and it will continue to be at the heart of everything we do.
James Perry, director of B Lab UK, the non-profit organisation of entrepreneurs behind the B Corporation, said: "We are delighted to welcome Macphie to our founding UK B Corp Community. The B Corp movement is a global community of businesses who are using the power of business to solve social and environmental problems.
"It includes more than 1,400 businesses in 42 countries and over 120 industries. The UK is well placed to help lead this global movement, and companies such as Macphie are a great example of a business taking leadership in their field."
The process to become B Corp certified starts with an assessment of a company's social and environmental performance focusing on four key areas - governance, workers, community and environment. Companies meeting the rigorous standard become B Corp accredited but most fail to achieve the required level.
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The Correlation of Mercury, Ions, and Weather Conditions at PA-47
by Ashley Orehek and Andrew Yarosh
Research conducted in the 1970s found that the emissions of SO2 and NOx proved to be a widespread problem through the formation of acid rain. In 2002, PA-47 was established to close an NTN/MDN measurement gap in south-central Pennsylvania, and sample collection conducted by Millersville University (MU) meteorology students has continued uninterrupted ever since. PA-47 is located approximately three kilometers from the MU Weather Information Center where a full suite of meteorological variables are recorded and archived. This research uses ion/Hg analyses and meteorological data from 2004 through 2013 to understand the correlation between the variability observed in the NADP record and the weather conditions that could have contributed to the variability. This period corresponds to the availability of trajectory analyses using the HYSPILT – Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory Mode, which will be employed in this study. Anomalies were found as deviations from the mean concentrations of mercury, sulfate, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sodium, ammonium, and chlorine. This resulted in the isolation of those weeks that exhibited anomalies that were one and two standard deviations outside the mean. The meteorological conditions were found for the anomalies and categorized according to wind direction and time of year, and HYSPLIT was used to obtain back trajectories to determine source regions for this air. Results suggest that weather conditions are well correlated with variability in the weekly ion and mercury data. Our preliminary data show that highest concentrations are found when the wind direction is from the southwest in the summer seasons and in moderate precipitation events that occur after an extended period of dry conditions.
Ashley and Andrew are both senior meteorology majors. Both are minoring in Environmental Hazards and Emergency Management (EHEM) while Ashley is also minoring in Mathematics. Ashley joined the NADP team in spring of 2014 and is the Alternate/Back-up Site Operator for the 2015-16 school year. She will continue with the program through her final semester this fall as Site Operator. Andrew was selected and trained as a collector for PA-47 during the spring of 2013 and is currently the Site Operator for the 2015-16 school year.


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Q: What is BB-8's power source? In Episodes VII and VIII we see BB-8, Poe Dameron's droid, be quite active, follow our heroes around, climb stairs, move very quickly in the sand etc, but as far as I remember we never see it (him/her?) actually recharge.
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Discussion in 'ISO 9001:2015 - Quality Management Systems' started by mohamed raazith, May 9, 2017.
According to ISO 9001:2015 tools and methodologies needs to demonstrate continual improvement.
Can you specifically quote the exact statement in ISO 9001:2015 that requires "tools and methodologies"? I'm reading my copy of the standard and I can't find any statement about this.
Appropriate tools and methodologies should be employed by the organization to support the activity.
I also seen the ISO copy but there is no Statement like these.
Are you ISO 9001:2008 already? It is not a "new" requirement to do improvement, if you are already ISO 9001:2008 compliant. Can you confirm?
we are having ISO 9001:2008 already..
In Clause 10.1 there is a NOTE providing examples of improvement such as "correction, corrective action, continual improvement, breakthrough change, innovation and re-organization".
Hi Tony, Can you give me an example of the difference between breakthrough change and innovation?
While Tony rests, I can! Breakthrough might come from a Six Sigma project, or implementing a LEAN (TPS) methodology. Innovation can come from small scale improvement workshops like Kaizen, Quality Circles. There's often components of both in each method adopted, in some cases. (Kaizen is part of TPS). ISO 9001 recognizes that either can be adopted, depending on the organization's needs.
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Identify process weaknesses, and determine what needs to be done to improve a spefic process. Assign an owner, determine the time-line for completion and monitor the project. In our company each Manager, including Top Management, must identify a CI project as one of their annual objectives.
Building upon Andy's thoughts to this, I also look at breakthrough change and innovation as a completely new/novel way of doing things.
For example, my organization focuses on in-home health care. When someone is discharged from the hospital, but still requires some form of care, support, therapy, we're the ones that go into their homes. For us, an example of 'breakthrough change and innovation' came through recognizing that it's not just the patient who needs our care and support, but also the care giver (e.g., spouse, adult child, loved ones). We developed a brand new product line dedicated to these amazing people who care for their family members, while trying to hold down a job, maybe even raise their own family. We recognized an unserviced demographic.
Or maybe it's a new change to your organization in communication. In an organization I worked for previously, it was a big step forward for us to implement a system that showed all organization projects and metrics, and how they tied in to each other. We demonstrated how each project aligned with objectives and contributed to overall targets - results and activities were connected from a team level up to the highest organizational level, allowing us to show how even the smallest team at our smallest location contributed to the overall organizational performance.
Or maybe it's a new way of showing process performance - In the organization I just spoke about, we added a simple visual indicator - viewable anywhere along the line - to show the status of the product (in this case, steel) as it rolled down the line. This way, we didn't just rely on visual observation of a problem and trust operators to use their radios to ask the first step operators to hold the line. They could see from the board that there was a problem and hold up on sending any more product down the line, before any thing came over the radio. The radio was, however, still used as a secondary confirmation of a problem. This reduced our product waste and improved process output.
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The company where I work now has a group called Futurists. Their role is to network outside of the organization and identify trends and innovation - and consider how to bring such concepts internal to us.
However, if you're looking for some ideas that are a little more affordable, in my previous company we had a formally defined problem solving process. It was up to our operators to identify problems and form teams to solve them - supported by a facilitator who specialized in the problem-solving process and our software for capturing the results of step of the process. The idea was for solutions to be low cost and low tech.
We had competitions each year at each of our sites, with the winner going to our national problem solving competition. The top three from each national level went on to compete in our global, organization-wide, competition.
Each presentation went into an online "library" so that that sites could see what other problems had been solved. This was done to avoid sites starting from the very beginning of solving a problem, when another site might have already solved a similar issue.
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Daniel, you're very fortunate that I wasn't around when you asked this question. Honestly, I'll just copy what Andy and Roxane have shared to us.
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Breakthrough Change and/or Innovation? You guys are making this more difficult than it really is. Why not just focus on the Risks and Opportunities that have been identified because continuous improvement us required for both.
I don't believe that's correct. The question is NOT what to work on, but HOW.
Breakthrough Change and/or Innovation? You guys are making this more difficult than it really is.
Daniel is asking about examples of the differences between breakthrough change and innovation. Andy and Roxane provided helpful answers. I, just copied them. Can you share your answer?
Sorry but breakthrough change and innovation is not what ISO9001 actually requires with Continual Improvement. Continual Improvement is not requiring you to select a model for developing a business. It is actually a behaviour or approach for improving the QMS of organisation. The standard requires you to take incremental steps when improving the system. You should have smaller PDCA cycles implemented to QMS activities like, resource management, operations, purchase activities, objectives, control of nonconforming outputs, training etc. The standard requires to periodically evaluate suitability, adequacy and effectiveness of these actions. Every step you take should return a more efficient QMS. KPIs are crucial for Continual Improvement. You should develop an approach for selecting, monitoring and evaluating KPIs in long term. Changing the KPIs frequently will create chaos and you'll fail in evaluating long term success.
Some companies use tools like Quality Circles or Kaizen for process improvement. This type of improvement is more suitable to the QMS as it is a process based system and Kaizen groups are typically formed of persons who do similar work.


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In continents and countries the anthropo-geographer looks to see not what reliefs are present, but how they are distributed. The plains, indeed, have been both source and recipient of every form of historical movement. Temperate grasslands have an innate and prevailing fitness for agriculture, trade and intercourse. They are favored regions for the final massing of a settled population.
The long needles of the Scots Pine
Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus)
Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area, Meewasin Valley Authority, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Well-watered lowlands invite expansion, ethnic, commercial and political. In these areas the whole range of historical movements meet few obstacles beyond the waters gathering in their runnels and the forests nourished in their rich soils. The vast level plains of the earth have found their distinctive and lasting historical importance in the fact of their large and unbounded surface.
And, looking far ahead, can you hear the heart of the West Swale lowlands beating as one with the heart of the Bluegrass, and both beating as one with the heart of the world.
In the plains geography makes for fusion. Without boundary or barrier, there are no secluded corners where settlements could entrench themselves and preserve their individual identity. There is, as a point in fact, a vast melting-pot, which has succeeded in amalgamating the most diverse elements.
The more flat and featureless a prairie is, the more important become even the slightest surface irregularities which can draw faint dividing lines among the population. Here a gentle land-swell, river, lake, forest, or water-soaked wetlands serves as boundary. Especially apparent is the differentiating influence of difference of soils. Gravel and alluvium, sand and clay, limestone and more recent marine sediments, emphasize small geographical differences.
The meager rainfall of the aspen parkland ecosystem eliminates forests and restricts vegetation to aspen bluffs, grasses, sedges and those forms which can survive a prolonged summer drought and require a short period of growth.
The grasslands, the beloved Blue-grass land, known to the Saskatchewan pioneer and indigenous civilization developed historical importance only after the domestication of cattle, sheep, goats, bison, and horses. This step in progress resulted in the evolution of peoples who renounced the precarious subsistence of the chase and escaped the drudgery of agriculture, to devote themselves to pastoral life.
Historically, however, environment determined the nomadic habits of the prairie dweller. The distribution of pasture and water fixes the scope and the rate of his wandering; these in turn depend upon geographic conditions and vary with the season.
Heredity and environment act and react upon each other with the regularity and inevitability of succession of night and day. Neither tells the whole story; together they make up the sum of life; of the generations that are to come!
Heredity and environment create the make up of the geography of the eco-system, the physical biome of an area.
This process has been best described by Ellen Churchill Semple, Ellen Churchill Semple (January 8, 1863 – May 8, 1932) a geographer who focused on anthropogeography, environmentalism, and "environmental determinism". An analysis of Semple's works is one theory which unzips the heredity and environment of the Saskatchewan prairies, the world's most endangered ecosystem.
The heredity and environment of the afforestation area has been examined. The afforestation areas are within the larger context of the West Swale. What is the heredity and environment of the West Swale?
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This website is about the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area - an urban regional park of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The hosts are the stewards of the afforestation area. The afforestation area received its name in honour of the great humanitarian, Richard St. Barbe Baker. Richard St. Barbe Baker (9 October 1889 – 9 June 1982) was an English forester, environmental activist and author, who contributed greatly to worldwide reforestation efforts. As a leader, he founded an organization, Men of the Trees, still active today, whose many chapters carry out reforestation internationally. {Wikipedia} Email is StBarbeBaker AT yahoo.com to reach the Stewards of the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area View all posts by stbarbebaker
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Rose with newsagent Danny — who also sells the boxing gloves his family in Pakistan makes.
Harlesden — it's not somewhere you'd normally think about when considering a safari. But then, there's nothing normal about Rose Rouse and she's not on a normal 'safari'.
A former journalist for iconic 80s music magazine The Face, she's been pelted with bread rolls by Frankie Goes To Hollywood for giving them a bad review, got into scraps with comedy duo French And Saunders, and got off on the bad foot with The Stranglers.
She's also the author of a delightful blog, the best bits of which have now been collected and are being published as a book, A London Safari — Walking Adventures in NW10. If you've never read about her exploits in this somewhat-maligned part of London, Rose explores her locale on foot, encountering — or taking with her — some of its diverse residents.
Rose talks like the clappers. Despite professing to be exhausted, her energy fizzes as she rails against the way journalism has changed since her first forays into the trade: "There used to be this combative spirit when we sat down with a star — it wasn't this nice, 'no-difficult-questions' PR-led exercise," she says.
It's what inspired her to start the blog. She wanted to revive that spirit — in her own way.
Since the first steps of her Harlesden 'safari', she's pounded the pavement with documentary-maker Louis Theroux, comedian Alexei Sayle, UK reggae scene pioneer Locksley Gichie, as well shop owners, railway enthusiasts, community campaigners and a host of the wonderful and colourful characters from this often-ignored corner of the borough of Brent.
With UK reggae scene pioneer Locksley Gichie of The Cimarons.
While other writers such as Will Self and Ian Sinclair walk and write with great knowledge about the areas they're in, Rose freely admits to "walking with ignorance and wonder". It's a charming trait which comes across in her writing: open, almost childlike in its innocence and sense of curiosity, and she's unafraid to ask awkward questions (she makes a point of taking many people she walks with into her local lingerie shop, just to provoke a reaction). It certainly seems to work: her interviewees respond to her lack of inhibitions with candour.
One of her favourite walks is the one with George Mpanga — AKA George The Poet. The 23-year-old was brought up on the St Raphael's Estate — which was one of the roughest estates in the area — but defied the odds to secure a place at Cambridge University, from where he has gone on to become a renowned spoken-word artist.
"I told him I had never been to St Raphael's Estate, so he agreed to take me," she remembers. "It's an estate with a lot of problems, and there was a a lot of stabbings and shootings when he was growing up there. It really affected him.
One of her more celebrity-oriented outings came about after discovering that comedian and writer Alexei Sayle took a regular afternoon walk. So she contacted him and invited him to join her for a change.
Along a walk and talk encompassing architecture, Communism and whether there's anywhere to get a decent coffee in Harlesden, Rose indulges her desire for some combative journalism. She takes Sayle to the lingerie shop. "He was utterly disinterested," she recalls, but did get a much stronger response when walking with self-styled "tantric goddess", Kavida Rai, who delighted in the detour.
It's not the only risqué experience she had with Rai.
In the three years since she started the blog, Rose has really warmed to the area.
"I've learned a lot about Harlesden," she says. "My relationship with it has changed. For example, now when I walk past the Paddy Power, I also know it used to be a cinema, but it also used to be a nightclub called The 32 Club, which is where music promoter [and founder of the Mean Fiddler group] Vince Power told me he met his first wife there, when he was 18."
A traditional safari usually means you leave with a camera full of snaps and a head full of animals. Rose's adventures have left her with a head full of snapshots of other people's memories. It may not seem as exotic, but it's a richer experience of a very particular type of animal.
A London Safari — Walking Adventures In NW10 by Rose Rouse is published on 30 October.


I think one of the two reasons why Bruce Timm's iteration of Batman continues to be such a celebrated staple of animation is that Timm didn't just take Batman seriously, he took his audience seriously. Before then, if you wanted to see an animated version of Batman, you had to watch "The Super Friends," "Scooby Doo Movies," or the Filmation series. "Batman: The Animated Series" stands on its own in the annals of 90's animation and is still considered the gold standard by fans, right down to the voice actors.


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Elevator Maintenance Crisis in Canada
Recently, there have been several articles published about the safety of elevators and the crisis Canada is facing with Elevator Maintenance. According to the National Post, last year in Ontario alone, firefighters responded to 4,461 calls to extricate people from elevators — more than a dozen a day — and double the number from 2001. The article quoted Rob Isabelle, a mechanical engineer and elevator consultant to property managers and owners, as stating "I don't think we're heading toward a crisis, I believe we're already there. If we look at the reliability of a large number of pieces of equipment, it's really the worst it's ever been.".
The root of the problem is a combination of the increase in the number of elevators — Ontario has seen a 10 percent increase over the past five years – as well as aging equipment.
According to Isabelle, thirty years ago a technician would typically service about 35 to 45 elevators for about $1,000 per elevator a month. The maintenance contract included everything needed to keep the elevators moving on a daily basis. Today, however, that same contract might be worth about $600 — with each technician responsible for over 100 elevators. With service technicians overloaded, preventive maintenance is falling to the wayside resulting in a rise in accidents, more elevator downtime, and an increase in costs for both building owners and elevator service companies. As well, property owners and managers — particularly those looking after older buildings — are increasingly dealing with an expensive dilemma as parts and experienced technicians familiar with the aging equipment become hard to find or disappear altogether.
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Mass Transit Accidents
Los Angeles Mass Transit Accident Lawyers Hold Government Agencies Responsible
Aggressive advocacy for people hurt by public transportation vehicles throughout Southern California
Every day, more than a million people travel with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA). These busses and railways move the residents of Southern California millions of miles every single week. While the vast majority of these trips end in safe arrivals, injury-causing accidents can and do happen. When these incidents occur, you need an aggressive Los Angeles mass transit accident attorney to assert your rights against powerful government entities.
At Taylor & Ring, we have successfully represented our clients against numerous public agencies. We understand the complexities of these matters, so you can confidently trust us with the details of your case. If you were seriously injured as a passenger on public transportation or in a collision with a commuter bus or train, secure qualified legal representation without delay. These cases require extensive investigation and preparation. Don't lessen your chances for high-value compensation by waiting to obtain high-quality representation.
Types of mass transit injuries
Trust our knowledgeable attorneys to explain your rights and evaluate your claims if you or a family member was involved in one of the following incidents:
Pedestrian injuries. When drivers negligently operate their transit vehicles, they place pedestrians at risk of harm. Speeding, failing to follow stoplights and intoxication can all lead to these tragedies.
Auto collisions. Driver negligence, along with mechanical failures, can also lead to violent collisions involving buses or trains.
Passenger injuries. When public transit vehicles stop abruptly or become involved in crashes, passengers can be severely injured or killed.
Our lawyers have successfully represented numerous transit accident victims, obtaining significant awards on their behalf, including:
$4.25 million settlement for a man hit by an MTA train in Los Angeles
Our experience extends to cases involving the Metro Rail trains and the various MTA bus systems. We help clients who have suffered injuries on Metro Transitway (Metro Liner), Metro Local, Metro Rapid and Metro Express.
$3.25 million settlement for a woman involved in a Metrolink collision in Chatsworth
$2.2 million settlement for the wrongful death of a man and a child whose car was hit by a train
Representing parties injured on transit platforms
Transit injuries do not only occur aboard the vehicles. We also represent victims injured within transit stations and on platforms. LACMTA is responsible for also maintaining these facilities in a reasonably safe manner. When this duty is not met, transit riders can become seriously injured. For example, a train rider slips and falls on a spill inside the Wilshire/Vermont station. Though this injury did not occur on a bus or train, the transit authority may still be held responsible.
Along with slip-and-fall accidents, the criminal actions of others are also common causes of injury within transit stations. While the transit authority cannot be held responsible for every criminal act, it does have a responsibility to maintain stations and platforms in a reasonably secure manner. Surveillance cameras and security guards can be used to meet this goal. They can also make an effort to ensure that all employees meet minimum background check requirements. When stations or platforms become unreasonably dangerous, our knowledgeable Los Angeles mass transit accident attorneys assist people injured by this negligence.
Skilled attorneys can handle the complexities of a government case
There are special legal considerations when suing a government entity, including a short window of available time to file notice of the claim. Once the statute of limitations expires, you cannot recover compensation, even for a permanent injury. To hold LACMTA accountable for your injuries, you must file a Notice of Claim within six months of the date of the accident.
There are also immediate concerns regarding the preservation of critical evidence. Particularly with public trains and buses, valuable evidence can be easily tainted or lost forever. Thus, engaging a qualified attorney with mass transit experience early is important. We move quickly to thoroughly investigate your claims and identify the exact cause of your injuries.
Our Los Angeles mass transit accident attorneys have brought successful suits against the MTA for accidents and injuries involving buses and light rail trains. We provide vigorous representation throughout Los Angeles County and the surrounding counties of Southern California.
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Along with getting a professional and effective book cover design the next element which any author should be focusing upon are the materials used to help promote their book to a wider audience, if you are an indie author however, you'll be well aware that the book's promotion and exposure will be down to you completely, so it pays to consider how your book will be represented.
This should be considered as early as possible even as you're in the process of writing the first couple of chapters, most authors will start with a 'slow-trickle' approach to the promotion of their book building the awareness of the title and its future release. What it isn't about is 'spamming' followers on social media or excessive comments (packed with links) on others blogs, again, this is a slow tickle to generate genuine interest.
With that in mind we have to look at the type of content which you are posting, when it comes to the use of Twitter and Facebook then you should be using something visual to grab the attention of the reader, it's also worth taking into consideration that both social media streams get inundated with updates very quickly so you will only have a small window to catch your viewers eye.
Using a small digital poster to update your followers will allow you to stand out in the crowd, on top of this it helps to cement your standing as a professional author too. Digital posters and banner ads should be based around the design of your book cover, however, if you're starting the process early then you may not even have a book cover designed yet, but don't let this stop you.
Without a cover your promotional banner/ad should take elements from with the book itself, it should make the viewer aware of the book's overall concept and theme, you want the banner/ad to be memorable and eye-catching but without becoming too busy or crowded.
The size of your banner/ad is also very important, most of the social media streams will only show a portion of a larger image so sizing the poster to the smaller 'what's seen' size will ensure that the reader gets the message. You have to be realistic and understand that most ads never get clicked on (to open up for the full message), so it's here where you need to make it readable in an instant.
So along with the images and designs which you'll use on social media you should consider what images you'll use within your website or blog.
Again, banners and ads will really help and you'll also have the advantage of being able to control the size and placement of the designs too, the use of 3D renderings of your book is also important as it shows your book as a tangible product. For the 3D elements then there are several ways to showcase your book, you'll want to show the book as a paperback, hardback and even upon the screen of a tablet to represent the eBook version.
But along with the images of your actual book it is still good to use some elements from within the book itself, these can become backgrounds or headers/footers to the pages of your site or blog, it all adds to the overall perception that your readers will have of you, again, you want this to accurately reflect the professionalism and creativity of your book and writing skills.
Getting published by yourself can be as hard or as easy as you want it to be, we all know that you can quite easily upload your manuscript to a POD publisher and in a matter of several days be ready to sell, a staggering amount of indie authors do take this approach but it does mean that all of your promotion will be up to you.
So you have to treat the launch of your new book (to some degree anyway) like the launch of a new business venture, I know that some authors won't like this approach and may not even feel comfortable in trying to sell their own work, however, with the sheer numbers of new books being launched on a daily basis, whether you like it or not you need to sell to be successful.
As with any plan (be it a business or the promotion of a book) the earlier you can start the better, you should be planning to start your promotional campaign from the moment you put pen to paper. Now this can of course can be easier said than done (especially if your using a working title which may alter over the course of writing the book), but the theme will remain the same and this still gives you great scope for making the public aware.
Using social media is now one of the most popular ways to get the message of your book out, from the beginning you should be able to make posts which hint at your new masterpiece and spark interest, however, this is a balancing act at times, too many posts turn off your audience (you become viewed as nothing more than a spammer), so keep it to several per day across your channels.
As with any advertising your posts will need to stand out, most social network feeds move very quickly and as such your time to grab the attention of the viewer will be limited, so you have to become eye-catching and the easiest way to do this is visually. Making a poster which fits the respective feed is paramount, it needs to captivate the viewer into looking further and do so within just a few words, from here you should also embed a link to your own website or blog (the interested reader can learn more about you and your up and coming novel).
Posters and visuals for your social feeds will help you sand out online but they can also help at fairs and launches too, getting a small leaflet designed or even adding visuals to a business card will help to spread the word when you go along to author's fairs, writer's conferences and publisher events. Making connections with professionals within the industry can be made more memorable when you are able to give them a professional business card or (small) leaflet.
As your book gets closer to completion you should be planning the cover and beginning to increase your promotional campaign, any great book cover designer will able to work with you in preparing your design ready for its edit and possible page count alterations, they should also be able to help in your promotional materials such as banners, posters and 3D product images.
Once you have your book cover designed you should start to use this within your promotional posts and online interactions (as well as off line ones), it may be several months before your book is live but you're still looking at getting the message across on a consistent basis.
Having product images of your book in several guises helps to make it feel more tangible to your viewer, images of the book as a paperback, hardback and even upon the screen of a tablet will help to showcase your work as a professional publication. You can then incorporate these images into posters, business cards, banners and your website or blog.
Advertising your book early, professionally and consistently will ensure that more people see your work and that it is taken seriously, more importantly, a well thought out approach to the promotion of your book will ensure success and sales.
Creating a book cover design for some of the bigger print on demand publishers normally involves working to a certain set of parameters, the larger services will offer explicit guidelines on how they want their PDF's to be delivered to them but it is worth understanding this prior to actually making the design itself.
For some publishers the use of a template is very common place too, you simply input the details of your book's chosen trim size, paper color, interior color, binding type, page count and (in some cases) ISBN, the template is then created and available to download ready for use.
These templates vary from service to service and you will notice slight variations in margins, however, the premise is the same with them all, they give you the base-layer from which to build your design from. It is worth noting that for some of these templates a little experience is very handy too, for example, with Createspace we've found that moving their margins a little further from the spine ensures that content doesn't ride up over the binding mark.
It's also worth considering the systems and software that you'll be using to create your book cover, for most professionals the use of Adobe is a very popular choice (and far more accessible these days than it has ever been), they make the layout of your book cover far more precise and interchangeable between software packages, if you design artwork in Photoshop then 'place' it into your design within InDesign, any changes you make in PS will be updated in ID with the click of a button.
What InDesign also does very well is in enabling you to alter the design when the page count changes, if you have based the layout of your book cover upon a template then that's great as long as your page count stays the same, but if it alters (as it normally does) then you will need to alter the width of the spine. In InDesign you are able to adjust the spine (or Gutter) very easily along with the overall dimensions of the book's trim size, again, you can also go back to Photoshop at the same time to alter the artwork to line up with the spine too.
So templates are great but you still need to be flexible enough in order to make adjustments further down the line. When it comes to exporting your work as the PDF (which will be uploaded as your book cover) the POD services again will vary, some will allow your design to be created in RGB but most will prefer it in CMYK, again, this is another important area to consider. If you have designed a cover in RGB with vivid colors and then it gets converted into CMYK you'll notice a shift in color and a slight dulling of your design, you may also find that some POD services go on to restrict the ink levels too, and this can produce a further color shift.
As with anything, the more preparation you do with your design the better, using a template will help but you still need to understand the requirements of your printing service, it also helps if you have software and an attitude which is flexible enough to make changes when needed.
Getting the best from your book cover designer is all about working in partnership with them, from a designer's perspective any work that is produced goes on to not only represent your book but also the identity and standard of the designer too.
So when it comes to the choice of your designer and then the process of working with them there are several things that you should take in to consideration, budget can be one of the first questions which springs to mind and having a discussion with your designer from the start of the project is always advisable. You should ask about the total cost and dig deeper as to if they charge for images, hourly rates and also extra fees for any revisions.
If your designer doesn't advertise their fees (and not everyone does) then they should be willing to give you a quote based around your exact needs along with scope for any variation, most authors will be working to a certain budget and your designer should understand this too. As a professional book cover designed for print can cost the author anything up to $1000, it's best to be aware from the very beginning and have no surprises.
Once you have found a designer which fits your budget you should ensure that you are happy with their style of design, now most designers will accommodate a wide client base and use different designers within their team to ensure they can create for multiple genres, but you may see a specific style of work throughout their portfolio, for example, if they are illustrators only and you need a book cover for a gritty thriller then it may be wise to keep looking.
Looking through their portfolio will give you a good idea as to how expert they are and also their experience, another way to see this is by looking for reviews (both on and off of their website) and also checking their social media pages, you would expect to find a decent amount of history and followers too.
Getting in touch with your selected designer should be easy, most websites will either have a direct email address or a form for you to fill in, personally speaking you shouldn't really have to wait anything longer than 48 hours to get a response (but do take weekends into account).
In your email to them try to be specific about your needs for the book, what style of cover you're looking for and how far along the editing process you are too (it helps the designer judge where in the process you are). The more information you can give the more specific they can be when getting back in touch with you.
From here you should next expect to pay a deposit to secure the project, this can be anywhere from 15% up to 50% and would be non-refundable (your designer will put many hours of work into your drafts alone).
The designer will then look to get as much detailed information about your book and your needs as the author from you as possible, they'll either speak over the phone or send out a briefing form, most designers prefer to use a briefing form or emails as it creates a more detailed account which they can easily refer to throughout the design process.
They key element is to keep in touch and make your designer aware of any changes to your book (especially page count changes), you may find that your blurb alters too and so communicating this in a timely fashion will ensure that your cover gets updated correctly.
Getting a professional book cover designed is an exciting process to be involved with, it's where the face of your book is created along with materials to help sell it to your readers, it should be fun and give you the inspiration ready for your launch.
The act of writing a book is something that a great many people have started but few have actually finished, let's face it, there must be countless pages of half written novels which will never see the light of day, and this is a real shame. The next J.K. Rowling, Steven King or even Charles Dickens are still doing their day jobs unaware of what could have been, and for us (the audience), well, we've missed out on a novel which might just have change the way we look at life (or at the very least entertained us).
So why do so many people start but only make it halfway through writing their masterpiece? The honest answer is that it's a great deal harder than the average person may realize, the writers which you may see in films and on TV give an impression of a romantic lifestyle which leaves out the actual hard work that goes into the process.
You'll also see an increase of writing towards the start of the year (as per the increase of gym memberships), where we all make new year's resolutions to write the novel which is within (the saying goes that we all have one). And in a similar fashion to a first work out, our over enthusiasm ends up making us write like crazy for a couple of weeks until we end up putting ourselves off and find reasons as to why we'll put it on the 'back-burner' for a couple of days, weeks, months, years until we forget all about it.
If you scan the internet there are plenty of blogs telling you that you can also make a fast buck by writing a novel, and for some authors writing does become a lucrative career which they can work at full time. However, if you only approach the task of writing from a financial angle then you will find the process a lot tougher, those who write from a place of passion and love for their craft will always be at an advantage.
So, if you have the desire to start writing a book, what should you do next?
Well, the writing and creative process will vary from author to author but there are some elements which will always be the same (or very similar), the first will be your idea and how well you have planned it out. Developing your story and having a clear understanding of the location, timeframe, characters and their relationships to each other and the dynamics of the story will ensure a professional book.
Planning is key, not only for the story but also for how and when you'll actually write the book, as mentioned earlier, it's very easy to try and write too much within the first few weeks (which ends up pitting you off). From day one you need to be realistic with how much time you can actually spend writing, and think long-term too, if you work a full time job or have other commitments which take up the majority of your day then plan how much free time you have.
Writing for 30mins every other day is better than trying to spend two solid hours on every Sunday, if you give yourself smaller writing times you're more likely stick to them and produce writing of a higher caliber too.
Plan where you're going to write, it's obvious to say that you want as few distractions around you as possible, if you have a spare room set it up as your office (for the purposes of writing anyway), if you don't, then a kitchen table will work fine too, just make sure that anyone else in the house is aware of what you're doing and not to distract you.
Switch off Facebook, Twitter and any other social media channels whilst you're writing and also keep your internet usage to just research, you'll have plenty of time for this once you put your planed writing time in.
Writing a great book which means something to you should be an enjoyable process, but don't worry about time frames too much (this is easy for an indie author), if you need to take twelve months to create your book then do so, if you need twenty-four then take twenty-four, your attention to detail will lead to a brilliant novel the more focused you are.
Getting a great book cover to fully represent your work is more than just a vanity project for any author, it has become a necessity, the reason why is the explosion in books being published. There are on average between 600,000 and 1,000,000 books being published every year in the US alone, reports also show that 350,000 approx. are from self-publishing authors too.
This breaks down to 2,100 books a day being published (and about 1,000 being from Indie authors too).
You need to appreciate that from day one you will have a great deal of competition, but don't panic, there are a lot of things that you can do to ensure that your works floats to the top of the pile and attracts the readers (and sales) that it deserves.
The first thing that any book marketer will tell you is to start early, the sooner you can get the ball rolling on your marketing the better, it should be viewed in the same way that a small business views its own marketing and growth plan (this may seem alien to a lot of authors, but taking a pragmatic approach to the successful launch and promotion of your book will ensure a higher chance of success in a clearly saturated market).
Ensuring you stand out within the crowd is vital, that's why an early start gives you time to build momentum, it's important that any author understands this and that they think about their marketing strategy from the moment they actually start the book itself. Again, this may seem like overkill but with over 2,000 books being published every day you have to be organized.
There are key elements that any author will need when marketing their up and coming book, some of the bigger ones on your list will be your website, social media feeds, blog, author media pack, professional book cover design, marketing materials, formatting, editing and securing reviews/testimonials.
This may seem a lot to organize, but starting early will give you time to plan and budget for all of them accordingly.
Your digital footprint as an author has become a major element in both self-promotion and the actual sales of your book too, with some authors becoming their own distributors of the physical copies along with eBooks. Your website can become the hub for you to both sell and promote future releases to your readers, gathering and maintaining a mailing list will help you here.
Along with a website, social media will play a constructive role within the promotional aspect of your publication, however, just like publishing it has become saturated with a great deal of spam. Blatant posts which simply say 'Buy My Book' (or words to that effect) will have people un-following you very quickly indeed, engaging with your followers is a two-way thing and needs to be remembered whilst you're actively promoting. So get involved with discussions, chat, like, retweet and enjoy, it can be great fun and you'll learn a thing or two along the way.
The book cover you choose will also play a major role in how your book is perceived and if a reader will want to pick it up (or click upon the icon), do not fool yourself, people judge books (and pretty much everything else) by the way it looks initially. The job of your cover will be to grab the reader's eye and in a split second tell them if your book is worth taking seriously.
When working with a designer be open to their suggestions (after all, you're paying for their skills, so get the most from them), of course every author will have ideas as to what they'd like to see upon the cover, but your designer will know how to best lay them out and also the best way to create impact for you.
Working together you will be able to get a great book cover design which will relate well to your audience.
Once you have a professional book cover you should strongly consider the other promotional elements which will help your work stand out, these are things like banners for your social media sites, 3D renderings of your book (which look great upon your own site or within posts), posters and bookmarks for fairs and launches and even t-shirts and business cards, all of these things can give you the edge and help you stand out.
So in this over-saturated market of several thousand books a day being launched, your approach to the book cover and marketing has never been more important, take it seriously and start early!


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Home Breaking News Hillsborough cop says he didn't cover victim with bin bag
Hillsborough cop says he didn't cover victim with bin bag
Sep 8, 2015: 5:03 pm
Fresh inquests resumed last week into the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans who died as a result of the Hillsborough disaster.
The inquests have heard evidence relating to individual fans' last movements.
Gerard Baron, who died aged 67, was the oldest victim. The court last week heard evidence from his son, Gerard Baron Jr, who was with him in pen 3.
He described his dad having a look of "sheer terror" on his face as the crush worsened.
South Yorkshire Police inspector Robert Purdy gave Gerard CPR. In a statement Purdy said Gerard's "lungs started to fill up". He added, "I thought he had a chance."
Hillsborough victim Eric Hankin died aged 33. Police constable Richard Liversidge described in his notebook helping a man thought to be Eric.
He said, "As we carried him he opened his eyes and I could see he was alive. When he got some space and air, he seemed to recover a lot, and after a minute or two he managed to sit up."
Liversidge also helped Gerard Baron. His notebook entry said, "He appeared to be dead, but also seemed to have a glimmer of life left in him."
Tommy Howard, 39, and his 14 year old son Tommy Jr both died as a result of the disaster. They were in pen 3.
Police constable Graham Butler told the inquests he found Tommy Jr lying on the pitch following the crush. He said, "I saw a glimpse of what I thought was life. I thought I saw a flicker in his eyes and he was warm. I thought there was a chance he might survive."
Police constable Peter Muir said he saw Tommy Howard lying at the front of pen 3. He told the court, "I had to move people from above Mr Howard to be able to get to Mr Howard.
"Mr Howard was the only one I could see that I thought I could see signs of life for."
In a statement Muir said he saw a "flicker of the eyes and movement of the lips" in Tommy Howard.
Peter Tootle died aged 21 after being crushed in pen 3. Police officer Jon Frend found Peter lying on the ground near the pitch after the crush. He said in a 1989 statement that it was "obvious" Peter was dead. He told the court that he covered Peter with his anorak.
Mark George questioned Frend on behalf of Peter's family. He said footage showed Peter's face was covered with a bin bag. Frend said, "As far as I'm aware my coat was used."
David Roberts gave evidence to the inquests on Monday of this week. Two of his friends, Alan McGlone and Joseph Clark, died as a result of the disaster. David told the court that the three were crushed towards the front of pen 3.
He said he ended up on the pitch after the pressure from the crush forced a gate in the perimeter fence open. "It was like water," he said. "I was poured onto the pitch."
David climbed onto the fence to look for Joseph and Alan. He said initially Joseph made a joke, but later the crush got worse. David said, "He couldn't move, but he shouted to me, 'Get me out! Get me out!'"
The inquests continue.
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Plaintiffs often seek declaratory judgments to settle issues dealing with contracts, deeds, leases, and wills. An insurance company, for example, might seek a declaratory judgment as to whether a policy applies to a particular person or event. In that case, although the insurance company has not yet lost any money as a result of adding a person or event to the policy, they might lose money in the future as a result of the addition. When disputing a will, a beneficiary may seek a declaratory judgment to determine what portion of the estate she is to receive before the estate has been divided.
In contrast, if someone filed a claim with their insurance company for a person or event that was not covered, then it would be too late for the insurance company to seek a declaratory judgment. Similarly, a beneficiary looking to claim a different or larger portion of an estate after it has already been divided should not seek declaratory judgment. Because these situations involve plaintiffs that have already been harmed financially, they would be better suited to litigation.
Declaratory judgments are a form of preventive justice because, by informing parties of their rights, the court can help them to avoid breaking certain laws or terms of a contract. Because it is preventive, a declaratory judgment has no way of managing the parties involved once the judgment has been issued. Instead, it merely states the court's opinion regarding the legal nature of the issue, without requiring either party to do anything. Also, because of their preventive nature, courts are usually unwilling to issue declaratory judgments. Instead, most judges would prefer to wait until actual damages have been incurred. However, by stepping in early, the court can prevent one or both parties from breaching their contract or breaking the law. By extension, the court prevents a long and costly legal battle between the parties, which would be a drain on the court's resources as much as it would be a burden for the litigants involved.
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Marcel Nico Andreas Heinig (born on 16 November 1981 in Cottbus) is a German extreme sportsman who has had his greatest success in decatriathlons, which are more than fifty times the distance of the Olympic Distance Triathlon. He scored his biggest victory by winning the gold medal at the World Championships in Decatriathlon (10x Ironman Hawaii) in 2008.

Heinig attended Leonardo da Vinci School in Cottbus. In his youth, Heinig skipped physical education and did everything possible to dodge sports activities. He was 40 kg overweight and very unsportsmanlike. However, when he joined the army in 2001, he could no longer avoid intense physical activity. He faced problems due to being overweight during the Physical Fitness Test, drills and orientation process. However, seven years later, the once unathletic Marcel became the youngest World Champion in the history of the Decatriathlon.

Achievements and titles
 Worldwide youngest member of the "100 Marathon Club" (Germany), 2005
 Age group- and Group world record in the 10-day-triathlon, 2006
 World Cup Champion International Ultra Triathlon Association, 2008
 World Champion Decatriathlon, 2008
 Worldrecord overall in the 10-Days-Triathlon, 2009

References

External links

 Official website

1981 births
Living people
German male triathletes
German male long-distance runners
German ultramarathon runners
Endurance games
Sportspeople from Cottbus
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iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Lineup Announced!
October 10, 2017 Michelle Alexandria
Everyone who has read this site for awhile knows I'm a Jingle Baller. It's one of my favorite shows of the year. You get to see all the hot touring artist in one night. Just the hits with no filler. This year's line up has been announced and I gotta say, I'm not that enthused by the DC lineup. Check it out after the jump. The star-studded lineup features: Fall Out Boy, Kesha, Logic, Zedd, Charlie Puth, Camila Cabello, Liam Payne, Julia Michaels and Why Don't We Ticket information available via hot995.iheart.com. The Capital One Cardholder Pre-Sale begins Wednesday, October 11 at 10am.
The exclusive iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Capital One Cardholder Pre-Sale begins Wednesday, October 11 at 10 a.m. local market time and runs through Saturday, October 14 at 10 a.m. local market time or while supplies last. Tickets will be available at www.iHeartRadio.com/CapitalOne.
In addition to the Capital One Cardholder pre-sale, at each of the tour stops, one lucky Capital One cardholder will have the exclusive opportunity to announce an artist on stage. To learn more visit www.iHeartRadio.com/CapitalOne beginning in November for more details.
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Dallas, Texas – Tuesday, November 28 at 7:30 p.m. CST – 106.1 KISS FM's Jingle Ball 2017 Presented by Capital One at American Airlines Center
The star studded lineup features: The Chainsmokers, Charlie Puth, Kesha, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Camila Cabello, Julia Michaels and Why Don't We
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San Francisco/San Jose, Ca. – Thursday, November 30, at 7:30 p.m. PST – WiLD 94.9's FM's Jingle Ball 2017 Presented by Capital One at SAP Center, San Jose
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Los Angeles, Ca. – Friday, December 1, at 7:30 p.m. PST – KIIS FM's Jingle Ball 2017 Presented by Capital One at The Forum
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Texas nonprofit hires ex-offenders to build houses for veterans
Posted on December 12, 2014 February 11, 2018 by Jails to Jobs
Maria Schneider, Terra Shelter, Inc.
Maria Schneider is out to change the construction industry in Dallas, Texas, one ex-offender at time. Her way to do this: By building a nonprofit that sells rehabbed homes to veterans at below market rate prices and hires employees who were formerly incarcerated.
Her original plan was to rehab houses, but how she decided to hire formerly incarcerated workers came about in a rather serendipitous way.
Trained as an electrical engineer and a biomedical engineer, Schneider got started in construction in her late 20s. The only house she could afford to buy needed a lot of work, and she did it in her spare time. She loved the process and later launched a construction company.
"I had a residential custom building business in the mid 2000s. It was in Austin, and there was an economic boom there," she says. "The only people I could find to work were ex-offenders, and I got to know them really well and started understanding some of the issues involved in reentry."
These issues ranged from a lack of a place to live and bad relationships with family members to substance abuse and access to reliable transportation. Another issue was not having a way to make money, which Schneider solved by hiring them.
It wasn't easy though. "You really have to start from scratch and teach them a lot of things besides the job. You have to teach them a lot of life skills and tell them what to do," she says.
"But ex-offenders are excluded by a lot of places automatically, so if someone doesn't include them they're not going to end up with jobs. A lot of programs provide job training but not jobs. You have to provide them not just with the job training but a job that goes along with it, so they'll have some income while they're developing skills and be able to show some experience on their resume."
After starting to build homes again and forming a nonprofit, Terra Shelter, Inc., Schneider remembered those workers she had once hired and wanted to create jobs for others like them. And she has. In fact, she has made it her mission to do so.
Although Schneider is just, as she says, starting out, her organization has already rehabbed five homes built in the 1920s and 1930s – most of which had to be completely gutted – and located in some of the worst neighborhoods in the city of Dallas.
She's teamed up with the Tarrant County Housing Partnership. The organization works with several banks, which are required by the government to donate some of the foreclosed homes they receive to nonprofits as part of an anti-blight effort.
The organization began about a year and a half ago, when it received donated houses that were in pretty bad shape. "While our focus was on providing affordable housing, in the process I decided that what I really wanted to do was to work with ex-offenders and teach them the skills they needed to do the job," she says.
Although working with employees who have been incarcerated has more than its share of challenges, Schneider has found many of them to be very loyal and hard working.
Up until now, she has hired people rather randomly. In the rough and tumble neighborhood of southeast Dallas where her nonprofit works rehabbing houses, she's often approached by ex-offenders looking for work.
After dealing with the unreliability of some of the workers she hired this way, Schneider decided this recruitment method was unsustainable and has partnered with the Oasis Center, a nonprofit organization providing reentry services and mentoring that help formerly incarcerated individuals get a new start.
In the meantime, her site supervisor is an ex-offender, and Schneider tries to hire as many formerly incarcerated individuals as possible. If she can't, however, she turns to veterans. Her plumber and electricians fall into this category.
The houses she's rehabbed have been a really good learning experience, but as a sustainability consultant, Schneider is passionate about green building and would like to get into new home construction. "Trying to build green and affordable is kind of radical here in Texas," she says.
But no doubt so is hiring ex-offenders. And both are challenges she's determined to take on.
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Limerick motorist caught travelling at high speed during 24-hour clampdown
David Hurley
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National Slow Down Day concluded at 7am this Saturday
A motorist is facing possible prosecution before the courts after they were caught driving at high speed during National Slow Down Day.
Gardai have confirmed several motorists were caught speeding at locations across Limerick during the 24-hour operation which concluded at 7am today.
They have highlighted a number of notable detections from across the country - one of which includes a motorist who was caught travelling at 162km/h in a 100km/h zone on the N21 at Castlematrix, Rathkeale.
Other local detections, which were made during the operation include:
76km/h in a 50km/h zone on the Ballinacurra Road, Limerick
77km/h in a 60km/h zone on the N20 at Ballyfookeen, Bruree
68km/h in a 50km/h zone on the R527 at Ballysimon Road, Limerick
62km/h in a 50km/h zone on the R510 at Dock Road, Limerick
65km/h in a 50km/h zone on the R522 at Appletown, Feohanagh
132km/h in a 100km/h zone on the N18 at Clonmoney North, Bunratty
During the operation, An Garda Síochána and GoSafe checked 186,125 vehicles across the country and detected 892 vehicles travelling in excess of the applicable speed limit.


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GTA's hot condo market moderates in first quarter
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Rising development costs and high-profile project cancellations have injected a note of caution into Toronto's hot condo market, with more project terminations likely to come, says development research company Urbanation.
It found Toronto condo launch prices were up 23 per cent year over year at the end of the first quarter, but also an extraordinary number of projects that launched a year ago — 53 developments with nearly 14,000 units — still hadn't begun construction.
It's not unusual for a project to take more than a year to go from pre-sale launch to building. But about a third of those units — about 4,000 — are in developments that are still seeking approvals.
"Our belief is that most will still proceed… but a portion are at risk," said Shaun Hildebrand, Urbanation senior vice-president.
Cancellations such as Liberty Development's 1,153 Cosmos condos in Vaughan last month and last year's Castlepoint Numa 168-unit Museum Flts last fall, "remain isolated instances," he said.
"I don't think there's any question the industry's reputation is likely to take at least a minor hit this year," he said. "That's going to occur as I believe more projects will announce cancellation."
But he added, "this still represents a fairly minor share of overall development.
"The record number of units now under construction (61,337 at the end of the first quarter of 2018) should add confidence to the market that projects are proceeding."
With condo construction at a 25-year high — 70,000 apartments in the Toronto region if you include purpose-built rentals — construction prices are rising and there is a logjam of projects in the approval pipeline. Even projects that are 86-per-cent sold out and have secured construction financing will have a hard time getting a construction contract without the approvals to build, said Hildebrand.
The number of new condo sales returned to a more normal level in the first quarter — down to 4,219 units compared to 9,744 in the first quarter of 2017. The number of projects launched also fell by 38 per cent compared to last year, in part because some developers moved up their timelines.
https://www.thestar.com/business/real_estate/2018/05/01/gtas-hot-condo-market-moderates-in-first-quarter.html
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