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UFC 207: Dominick Cruz at peace vs. Cody Garbrandt
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UFC Bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz grapples with Darrion Caldwell at Alliance MMA in Chula Vista. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
By Brian Martin | bmartin@scng.com | Daily News
PUBLISHED: December 28, 2016 at 1:40 p.m. | UPDATED: September 6, 2017 at 4:43 a.m.
LAS VEGAS >> For more than half his life, Dominick Cruz has developed his body to fight — initially as a wrestler, then as a mixed martial artist. Along the way, Cruz has experienced many triumphs.
Yet for the worst moments of his professional career, the culprit was his own body. Knee and quad injuries decimated four years of his prime.
Now Cruz has reigned over the UFC 135-pound division for nearly a year, and his chin will surely be tested when he defends his bantamweight title against heavy-handed Cody Garbrandt in the UFC 207 co-main event Saturday at T-Mobile Arena.
Cruz (22-1) waves off any doubts about getting lit up by Garbrandt (10-0, 9 KOs).
"I'm in there, knowing in every single fight you're going to get hit," Cruz said recently after a workout at Alliance Training Center in Chula Vista.
"But I also know I'm going to get hit much less than he is, and I'm going to beat the crap out of him."
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After defeating T.J. Dillashaw via split decision for the title in January, then dominating longtime rival Urijah Faber in a trilogy fight in June, Cruz will be in his third consecutive fight against someone with ties to Team Alpha Male.
He is 5-1 against the Sacramento-based team, including a pair of wins over top-ranked flyweight Joseph Benavidez.
Toughest opponent?
Yet of all the opponents Cruz has faced, perhaps his toughest foe resides in his own head.
It might be true that where the mind goes, the heart follows. But when the body goes, in Cruz's case, the mind struggled.
"Having my knees hurt like that, all those injuries back to back, made me focus so much on my mind, because I felt like I was trapped in my body. I literally felt trapped, like a prison cell," Cruz said. "It forced me to deal with my emotions, it forced me to deal with my spirit, it forced me to deal with my mind, and in doing all those things, it let me let go of the things I couldn't control.
"As soon as I let go of the things I couldn't control, my body healed and I was right back in here. And I'm winning again, just like I never stopped."
Cruz has long been known as one of the sport's most cerebral fighters — and that is reinforced any time he puts on a headset to offer commentary or analysis on Fox Sports.
Then again, Cruz calls that easy. "It's my career, it's my life, it's what I do. So it's easy to talk about it," he said.
Considerably more difficult was reconciling with himself the need to let go if he were to grow mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
"It's not been easy. I'm learning," the Tucson native said. "It's still a building process, but the peace just keeps getting more and more, and the less I need certain things, the more peace I have. I can live in the present instead of living in the past and the future."
In order to build his mind and spirit, Cruz realized he had to let go of his ego. And if you weren't sure MMA was a sport driven by ego, check the recent trash-talking between the champ and challenger.
Instead, he has accepted his flaws. He speaks of filling gaps in his spirit, mind and body. He has lessened his mental weaknesses and found more peace.
"Not needing things to be happy, not wanting things to be happy, but understanding that they're just a piece in the good life we should be living, regardless of what we do or don't have," Cruz said.
Honing his skills
Cruz has also rounded out his fight game. Known for being an elusive target, he has been sparring incessantly with professional boxers. Bellator bantamweight contender and former NCAA wrestling champion Darrion Caldwell has proved to be an ideal grappling foil.
What's more, Alliance recently brought in Lee Kemp as a coach, allowing Cruz to pick the brain of one of America's greatest wrestlers of all time.
"Dominick is so coachable, he's so focused," said Kemp, a three-time NCAA champion at Wisconsin. "He looks you right in your eyes and he'll try to do everything you tell him to do. That's unusual as a coach to find. There's no pushback on anything. He just tries to do what you tell him to do."
Cruz feels fortunate to pick the brain of someone so wise, someone who understands what it takes to compete and succeed at the highest level.
"I try to be as open-minded as I can to this man and … he does have a championship mentality," Cruz said. "So if he just sat there and you tied him to a chair and he just yelled at us, you're going to learn so much from him if you're intelligent enough and open-minded enough to accept it."
As wrestling relates to striking, and striking to wrestling, and both to jiu-jitsu, all flow together as one to incorporate Cruz's nearly perfect well-rounded repertoire.
Garbrandt concedes Cruz is a great fighter, but says the champ avoids the fight.
"He's good at running, dancing around, dotting people up with his weak punches, and scoring takedowns," the 25-year-old challenger said. "He … has ring awareness, very good at ring awareness, about when to score the points for later in the rounds, or if he's down on the card, he's going to mix it up, take a takedown, just to score the points."
Opponents never admit what he does right, Cruz says, because they don't understand why he's doing it. His movement and the reasons behind it are more than "just dancing," he says.
And those reasons are why Cruz anticipates closing out 2016 having triumphed over a dangerous opponent and that he'll be at peace with his body, mind and spirit.
"The whole point of this game is that everything flows together in one simple movement … it should just flow and be fluid," Cruz said. "And that's what I want to bring to the table every single time I fight. And I enjoy making it look, you know, like an art."
Brian Martin | Deputy Sports Editor
Brian Martin is a deputy sports editor for the Southern California News Group and writes about mixed martial arts. He began working at the L.A. Daily News as a news editor in 2004. Before that, he was with the Glendale News-Press and Times Community News as a sportswriter, sports editor, news editor and managing editor. He joined the Daily News sports department as deputy sports editor in 2009. He began covering MMA with a 2011 story on future UFC superstar Ronda Rousey, which was awarded second place for Best Story in the California Newspaper Publishers Association's Better Newspapers Contest.
bmartin@scng.com
Follow Brian Martin @TheBMartin


With Android 9 Pie, Google has rolled out a number of new features, which includes Adaptive Battery. This feature is here thanks to the partnership between Android and Deepmind (which is Alphabet's AI-centric arm). This feature is essentially the next step for Google, in attempting to conserve battery in Android, allowing a single charge to last even longer. Google has been working for quite a few years now at improving battery life on Android, and it has come a long way. Essentially, Adaptive Battery is going to learn your habits and make adjustments behind-the-scenes to improve your battery life.
Google is using AI to learn how you use your smartphone each day, and will use what it learns to extend your battery life. Whether that's putting your phone into deep sleep during parts of the day that you don't use the phone much, or purging apps from its memory that you don't use often, it'll do what it can to make that battery last even longer. How it works is pretty simple. For example, if you wake up everyday around 7AM and check your email, Twitter, Facebook and so forth, but don't touch your phone again until around lunch time. Then Android knows that it can close those apps and keep them from refreshing every few minutes - which saves battery. Android knows this because it essentially tracks everything you do on your phone, and that's not a new thing. It has been doing that since the beginning. Your phone is going to take some time to learn your habits of your smartphone usage. But if you do use your phone the same way each day, you can really save quite a bit of juice with Adaptive Battery.
There's another advantage here, in optimizing apps that you don't use all day long, means that the apps that you do use constantly will be ready to go as soon as you pick up your phone and unlock it. Instead of needing to wait for it to open and load all of the data back up again. This is because it is kept in memory, and while many may believe that this slows down their smartphone or uses more battery, it makes it quicker to jump into these apps and do what you want to do, without having to wait. Adaptive Battery is basically doing just that. Figuring out which apps you use frequently and keeping those apps in memory, while those you don't use often are purged once you're finished with them.
Adaptive Battery isn't the best way to conserve battery on Android right now, but it is getting there. It's the next step for Google, after releasing Doze and refining it in the past few years. And it only makes sense that Google uses AI for Adaptive Battery, since it is infusing just about every other product under its umbrella with AI. If you just installed Android 9 Pie onto your smartphone this week, then Adaptive Battery likely won't be much of an improvement and that's because it needs to learn your habits first. Which could take a week or even longer. But once it does start to learn your habits, it will save some juice, and it will also improve over time. It's hard to say how much of an improvement you might see (in fact, Google doesn't even mention how much of an improvement you'll see), and that's because it's going to differ for everyone. If you use your phone quite a bit during the day, you'll see less of an improvement then those that only use their phone before and after work.
Android Pie is full of plenty of other great features, and Adaptive Battery is just one of many in this new version of Android. However, it is likely going to be one of the more popular features, and that's because battery-saving features are always pretty popular. That's due to the fact that many people don't like having to plug in their phone that much, so the longer they can go without plugging it in, the better.


Epilepsia Open Prizes started in 2018 and are given to the two best original articles, clinical and basic science, that were published during the preceding year. The Epilepsia Open Prize – Clinical will be awarded at the 13th ECE.
Read the winning article "Seizures, electroencephalographic abnormalities, and outcome of ischemic stroke patients": https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/epi4.12075.
Carla Bentes studied at the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon University. Her post-graduate clinical training, first in Neurology and after in Neurophysiology, was mainly performed at Hospital de Santa Maria in Lisbon. She was an overseas fellow at the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology at King's College Hospital London. Currently, she is the head of the EEG/Sleep Laboratory at the Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, member of the Refractory Epilepsy Reference Centre at Santa Maria Hospital – North Lisbon Hospitalar Centre, and a PhD Finalist Student at Lisbon Academic Medical Centre in Lisbon.
During her first years of neurology residency she was strongly influenced by Dr. Francisco Pinto, one of the first Portuguese epileptologists and at that time the President of the Portuguese Chapter of the International League Against Epilepsy. With him, she discovered the clinical challenges and caveats of epilepsy diagnosis, treatment and outcome prediction. She also had the chance to learn the clinical usefulness of EEG with Professor Teresa Paiva and to grow up in a very productive clinical neurology research environment at the Department of Neurology whose Director, Professor José M. Ferro, became her PhD supervisor.
Her clinical interest and research curiosity for epilepsy developed together. In the clinical environment she realized that epileptic seizures and cerebrovascular disorders are two of the most frequent neurological pathologies imposing important mutual challenges. Furthermore, in the last years, stroke care has remarkably evolved and facing a new paradigm of acute standard care (centered on multidisciplinary Stroke Units), she thought that epileptic seizures (as stroke complications) deserved to be rethought. Also, in everyday clinical practice, she realized that the EEG is an essential neurophysiological exam in the evaluation of patients with epileptic seizures, status epilepsy and/or epilepsy, both for diagnosis and classification, as well as for the establishment of a correct treatment or outcome prediction. However, the clinical usefulness of the EEG in the differential diagnosis of transient neurological symptoms, namely in the differentiation between a transient ischaemic attack and some epileptic seizures, and also in the diagnosis or prediction of post-stroke seizures or in post-stroke prognosis prediction, remained uncertain. For these reasons, she decided that her PhD thesis would be about post-stroke seizures and EEG in cerebrovascular disease.
Epileptic Disorders and the ILAE identify and honour the paper which has made the most significant contribution to the educational mission of Epileptic Disorders, published the previous year. The Epileptic Disorders Educational Prize will be awarded at the 13th ECE.
Rohit Shankar is awarded the Epileptic Disorders Educational Prize for his paper, Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP): what every neurologist should know, by Rohit Shankar, Elizabeth J. Donner, Brendan McLean, Lina Nashef, and Torbjörn Tomson, Epileptic Disord 2017; 19 (1): 1-9.
Rohit Shankar is a Consultant Developmental Neuropsychiatrist and clinical director for the adult Intellectual Disability Neuropsychiatry services for Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. He is an Hon. Clinical Associate Professor (Senior Clinical Lecturer) at Exeter Medical School. He did his MBBS in Coimbatore Medical College followed by post-graduation at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuroscience (NIMHANS) India.
He was conferred into the Membership of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, British order of knighthood instituted in 1917 by King George V to reward outstanding achievement or service to the intellectual disability community and was awarded the Royal College of Psychiatrists Fellowship (FRCPsych) as a mark of recognition for his work to Psychiatry in 2016, as well as many other awards and commendations. He has over 100 publications, oral and poster presentations in peer reviewed journals and international conferences, chaired three national RCPsych College Reports and contributed to five books.
Rohit Shankar's research focus is SUDEP and the impact of ID in PWE. He has set up the UK ID AED research register to look at outcomes of AEDs in people with ID which has been adopted by NIHR and is currently running the PIXIE genetic project in Cornwall. He has created the SUDEP and seizure safety checklist (https://www.sudep.org/checklist) and released EpSMon (https://www.sudep.org/epilepsy-self-monitor) which has positive Cochrane reviews and NHIR systemic technological appraisals and is the world's first evidence based mobile application for people with epilepsy to monitor their risk. The checklist and app are both part of the UK national epilepsy commissioning toolkit.


I'll be available on Saturday the 15th.  I can also print out some handouts, maybe best as half-pagers.  I'll see what I can generate from the web site by then if noone provides a better one.
The only vehicle I'll have available to show is my Prius, which I asked Mary whether she thought was worth bothering with.  It'd be nice to see one or more electrics, maybe especially Don's Solectira, perhaps.  Anyone that can bring a vehicle please contact Mary ("Mary Packard at 033" <MPackard at itt-tech.edu> is where this latest one came from).
Thanks to all that can help, and even to those who just seriously considered it!


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Q: How do I see if a file is readable by a specific user on Linux? I have a complicated file hierarchy and I don't want to check the permissions on each directory. Is there any way to find out immediately if one file is readable by a given user? (outside of logging in as that user)

A: This will only work if you have root privileges

if the user has a valid login shell
su username -c 'ls /long/dir/user/filename'
if the user has a nologin shell /sbin/nologin and similar:
su username -s /bin/sh -c 'ls /long/dir/user/filename'
To find out why a user cannot access a file (builds readable output tree with permissions):

# namei -om /home/someuserhomedir/Maildir/

f: /home/someuserhomedir/Maildir/
dr-xr-xr-x root     root      /
drwxr-xr-x root     root      home
drwx------ someuser somegroup someuserhomedir
drwx------ someuser somegroup Maildir

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Today I am sharing week 12 of my 52 Week Photo Challenge. This weeks subject is Black & White.
I LOVE Black & White images. Some images are made to be in B&W. And then there are some images that are not. It's funny because when I first started this photography journey I didn't necessarily have an eye for this. I would just randomly turn images in B&W. And sometimes it worked… However, more than often it didn't.
I immediately know that it would be a lovely Black & White picture.
This past Monday I had the honor of mentoring a young girl who is also on this photography journey. She is smart, beautiful, and very motivated. I will be blogging about the mentoring session next week… So be on the lookout for that!
After our session, we went out and did some fun headshots at Fort Monroe. I have said this before and I say it again, I love Fort Monroe. This place has so much to offer as far as location and so many different looks. It is so much fun to shoot there!
When I took these two pictures of the beautiful Miss Brooke… I immediately knew I wanted them in Black & White. Something about the way her eyes are looking into the camera in the first one. And then of course the emotion of laughter in the second one. I love them both in color… However, I am more emotionally connected once they are in B&W.
I know weird… But it's how I process things! LOL.
And remember to hashtag #52weekswithlukeandash if you want to join in with me! Not too late!


ALIQUIPPA � A little more than 24 hours after an ice storm throttled the region, it appeared as though there were some lingering effects inside the Aliquippa High School gymnasium.
Quite frankly, when the Lady Quips took on Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, they were ice cold.
The Aliquippa girls were off the mark on 39 field goal attempts and missed 14 free throws and OLSH took full advantage Monday as the Chargers rolled to a 51-37 non-conference victory in the final exhibition game before section play begins.
OLSH improved to 3-0 prior to its 3-AA opener against Seton-La Salle on Thursday. Aliquippa, which fell to 1-2, will open 6-AA play Thursday against Quaker Valley.
Although Aliquippa was having trouble finding the basket, OLSH�s defense added to the Quips� troubles by forcing 13 first half turnovers. OLSH limited Aliquippa to single digits in three of the four quarters.
Sciulli sparked the Chargers, scoring nine of her 14 points in the first half and five in the final 3:41 of the second quarter as OLSH expanded a 19-13 advantage into a 27-16 halftime lead. She later added a three-point basket in the third quarter to move OLSH�s lead to 13 points, 36-23.
Aliquippa could get no closer than 11 points in the second half. Nakira Emerson led the Quips with 14 points.
Aliquippa also couldn�t find an answer for OLSH�s Emily Lauro, who scored eight of her 13 points after intermission.
Eckerle was especially impressed with his team�s depth, as foul trouble caused him to go deep into his bench. His players responded, as nine of the 10 players who entered the game scored.


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Virginia Overtime Wage Act: A Handy Guide to Overtime Protections for Virginia Employees
by tcattorneynet | Dec 13, 2021 | Employment Law |
The Virginia Overtime Wage Act ("VOWA") requires employers to pay covered employees overtime compensation. In some ways, the VOWA is similar to the overtime provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. In other ways, including the calculation of overtime rates for salaried employees, the availability of triple damages, and the time period for which damages can be recovered, VOWA is more powerful and beneficial to employees than the FLSA. For example, if the court finds that an employer knowingly fails to pay overtime wages to an employee in accordance with the VOWA, the court must award the employee triple the amount of overtime wages due and reasonable attorney fees and costs.
Employ Defined
Like the FLSA, the VOWA defines "employ" broadly, as "to permit or suffer to work." VA Code § 40.1-29.2(A).
Employee Defined and Misclassification of Salaried Employees
The VOWA also defines "employee" broadly, as "any individual employed by an employer[.]" VA Code § 40.1-29.2(A). This definition specifically includes employees of derivative carriers within the meaning of the federal Railway Labor Act, 45 U.S.C. § 151 et seq. Id.
There are a few exceptions, however, to the definition of "employee." These exceptions cover some, but not all, categories of workers who are exempt from (i.e. not covered by) the overtime provisions of the federal FLSA. For purposes of the VOWA, "employee" does not include:
(i) any individual who volunteers solely for humanitarian, religious, or community service purposes for a public body, church, or nonprofit organization that does not otherwise employ such individual; and
(ii) any person who is exempt from the [FLSA] federal overtime wage pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 213(a).
Workers who truly fall into one of these "not an employee" categories are not covered by VOWA, but employers often make mistakes in how they classify employees. The carve-out in § 40.1-29.2(A)(ii) includes the FLSA exemptions commonly referred to as the "white collar" exemptions for workers who meet the criteria for administrative, executive, or professional exemptions. The criteria for these exemptions can be tricky, delving into the application of abstract rules to specific job duties, and employers often wrongly classify workers as meeting these exemptions simply because they are paid a salary. The notion that salaried employees are not entitled to overtime pay, merely because they receive a salary, is incorrect.
Employers who misclassify workers as "exempt" can cost the workers a great deal of income in the form of unpaid overtime compensation. Workers who believe they may be incorrectly classified as "exempt" from the overtime laws because they receive a salary should contact an employment attorney to review their situation.
(iii) any person who meets the exemptions set forth in 29 U.S.C. § 213(b)(1) or 213(b)(11).
The exemption in § 40.1-29.2(A)(iii) includes the FLSA exemptions for motor carriers (29 U.S.C. § 213(b)(1)) and drivers and driver's helpers making local deliveries who are paid under plans approved by DOL (29 U.S.C. § 213(b)(11)). Workers who believe they may be misclassified as exempt under any of these exemptions should contact an employment attorney.
Employer Defined
The VOWA also defines "employer" broadly, as "any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee." VA Code § 40.1-29.2(A).
There are a few exceptions, however, to the definition of "employer." Under the VOWA, "employer" does not include:
any labor organization, other than when acting as an employer;
anyone acting in the capacity of officer or agent of such labor organization; or
any carrier subject to the federal Railway Labor Act, 45 U.S.C. §§ 151 through 188, except derivative carriers within the meaning of the federal Railway Labor Act.
VA Code § 40.1-29.2(A). Notably, under this definition, employers whose operations do not satisfy the enterprise coverage requirements of the FLSA may still be "employers" subject to the VOWA. Thus, the scope of "employer" covered by the VOWA is broader than that covered by the FLSA.
Person Defined and Waiver of Sovereign Immunity
Relevant to the definition of "employer," the VOWA defines "person" as:
an individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, legal representative, any organized group of persons, or the Commonwealth, any of its constitutional officers, agencies, institutions, or political subdivisions, or any public body. This definition constitutes a waiver of sovereign immunity by the Commonwealth.
VA Code § 40.1-29.2(A). Two aspects of this definition are especially notable.
It means that the VOWA can apply to individuals, such as business owners, and not just to companies.
It also means that the VOWA applies to the Commonwealth. This definition explicitly constitutes a waiver of sovereign immunity by the Commonwealth, so that state or local government employees who are not paid overtime consistent with the VOWA's requirements may bring suit to recover their damages.
Wages Defined and Impact on Overtime Rates
The definition of "wages" is important to the calculation of an employee's overtime pay rate. The VOWA defines "wages" the same as that term is defined in the Virginia Minimum Wage Act, VA Code § 40.1-28.9. The VMWA defines "wages" broadly, as
legal tender of the United States or checks or drafts on banks negotiable into cash on demand or upon acceptance at full value. "Wages" includes the reasonable cost to the employer of furnishing meals and lodging to an employee if such board or lodging is customarily furnished by the employer and used by the employee.
VA Code § 40.1-29.2(A); VA Code § 40.1-28.9(A). Wages may include tips. VA Code § 40.1-28.9(B).
In short, the VOWA's broad definition of wages means that nearly all forms of compensation, from salaries, bonuses, and commissions, to lodging and tips, must be included in calculating an employee's regular and overtime rates of pay. The VOWA excludes from the calculation of regular and overtime rates the same forms of compensation that are excluded from the regular rate by the federal FLSA, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq., and its implementing regulations. VA Code § 40.1-29.2(B).
Workweek Defined
The VOWA defines "workweek" as "a fixed and regularly occurring period of 168 hours or seven consecutive 24-hour periods." VA Code § 40.1-29.2(A). A workweek does not have to coincide with the calendar week and may begin on any day and at any hour. The VOWA provides that the beginning of the workweek may be changed if the change is intended to be permanent and is not designed to evade the overtime requirements of this section. Id.
Overtime Compensation Requirement
The VOWA's substantive overtime provision parallels that of the FLSA:
For any hours worked by an employee in excess of 40 hours in any one workweek, an employer shall pay such employee an overtime premium at a rate not less than one and one-half times the employee's regular rate, pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 207.
VA Code § 40.1-29.2(B).
Importantly, however, the VOWA differs from the FLSA in its requirements for calculation of the regular rate of certain employees, and thus, the employees' overtime pay rate.
Calculation of Regular Rate and Prohibition of Fluctuating Workweek Method
The VOWA provides that an employee's regular rate shall be calculated as follows:
1. For employees paid on an hourly basis, the regular rate is the hourly rate of pay plus any other non-overtime wages paid or allocated for that workweek, excluding any amounts that are excluded from the regular rate by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq., and its implementing regulations, divided by the total number of hours worked in that workweek.
2. For employees paid on a salary or other regular basis, the regular rate is one-fortieth of all wages paid for that workweek.
VA Code § 40.1-29.2(B). These VOWA requirements prohibit employers from calculating a salaried employee's overtime pay rate using the "fluctuating workweek" method. The fluctuating workweek method, also called "Chinese overtime" or "diminishing half-time," involves dividing all compensation for the week by the total hours worked to get a regular rate, then paying the employee half of that regular rate for each hour of overtime. This method, which is permissible for salaried employees under the FLSA, results in salaried employees being paid less overtime compensation per hour the more hours they work. This method is outlawed by the VOWA, because the VOWA requires employers to calculate regular rates using a 40-hour workweek and to pay overtime equal to 1.5 times the regular rate. Thus, under the VOWA, the overtime rate for salaried employees does not diminish as more hours are worked.
Virginia's Gap Pay Act for Fire Protection and Law Enforcement Employees
The VOWA references the FLSA's special work period rules for fire protection and law enforcement employees, located at 29 U.S.C. § 207(k). In general, those rules allow fire departments or police departments to establish a work period ranging from 7 to 28 days in which overtime need be paid only after a specified number of hours in each work period. See this prior post for a detailed explanation of those rules. Paying overtime based on these work periods can create a "gap" of uncompensated working time between the hours covered by the employee's salary, and the hours the employee has to work to receive overtime compensation under § 207(k) of the FLSA.
For this reason, the VOWA also references Virginia's Gap Pay Act, VA Code § 9.1-701. That state law provides, generally, that certain fire protection and law enforcement employees must be paid overtime compensation for the "gap," that is, "for all hours of work between the statutory maximum permitted under 29 U.S.C. § 207(k) and the hours for which an employee receives his salary, or if paid on an hourly basis, the hours for which the employee receives hourly compensation." VA Code § 9.1-701(A).
The VOWA provides:
For fire protection or law-enforcement employees of any public sector employer for whom 29 U.S.C. § 207(k) applies, such employer shall pay an overtime premium as set forth in this section for (i) all hours worked in excess of the threshold set forth in 2[9] U.S.C. § 207(k) and (ii) any additional hours such employee worked or received as paid leave as set forth in subsection A of [VA Code] § 9.1-701.
VA Code § 40.1-29.2(C). Thus, the VOWA requires that fire protection and law-enforcement employees receive overtime compensation for both:
(i) all hours worked in excess of the threshold set forth in 29 U.S.C. § 207(k), and
(ii) any additional hours the employee worked or received as paid leave as set forth in subsection A of Virginia's Gap Pay Act, VA Code § 9.1-701(A).
VA Code § 40.1-29.2(C).
The VOWA further provides that compliance with 207(k) and the Gap Pay Act is compliance with VOWA's overtime requirements. It states:
No agency, institution, political subdivision, or public body that complies with the requirements of 29 U.S.C. § 207(k) and § 9.1-701 shall be deemed to have violated subsection B [of VOWA] with respect to fire suppression or law-enforcement employees covered by such statutes.
VA Code § 40.1-29.2(E).
Exemptions and Affirmative Defenses
The VOWA allows employers to assert some, but not all, of the exemptions available under the federal FLSA.
An employer may assert an exemption to the overtime requirement of this section for employees who meet the exemptions set forth in 29 U.S.C. § 213(a)(1) or for employees who meet the exemptions set forth in 29 U.S.C. §§ 213(b)(1) or 213(b)(11).
VA Code § 40.1-29.2(D). As discussed above, 29 U.S.C. § 213(a) includes the FLSA exemptions commonly referred to as the "white collar exemptions" for workers who meet the criteria for administrative, executive, or professional exemptions. The criteria for these exemptions are complicated, delving into the application of abstract rules to specific job duties, and employers frequently mistakenly classify workers as meeting these exemptions simply because they are paid a salary. The notion that salaried employees are not entitled to overtime pay, merely because they receive a salary, is incorrect.
The exemption in 29 U.S.C. § 213(b)(1) applies to motor carriers regulated by the Secretary of Transportation. The exemption in (29 U.S.C. § 213(b)(11) covers drivers and driver's helpers making local deliveries who are paid under plans approved by DOL.
Employers who misclassify workers as "exempt" can cost the workers a great deal of income in the form of unpaid overtime compensation. Workers who believe they may be misclassified as exempt under any of these exemptions should contact an employment attorney.
Remedies for Employees, Private Cause of Action, and Hybrid Cases
Importantly, the VOWA incorporates the remedies provisions of the Virginia Wage Payment Act, VA Code § 40.1-29(J). The VOWA provides:
Any employer that violates the overtime wage requirements of this section shall be liable to the employee for all remedies, damages, or other relief available in an action brought under subsection J of § 40.1-29.
VA Code § 40.1-29.2(F). Thus, the VOWA authorizes employees to file suit in court against an employer who fails to pay overtime wages, and to recover the same categories of remedies, damages, and other relief available for violations of the VWPA.
Like the VWPA, the VOWA authorizes both individual and group lawsuits. If an employer fails to pay overtime wages in accordance with the VOWA, the employee may bring an action, individually, jointly with other employers, or on behalf of similarly situated employees as a collective action consistent with the collective action procedures of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 216(b), to recover payment of the wages.
An employee who has experienced violations of both the FLSA and the VOWA may bring a hybrid collective action and class action in federal court. So long as the requirements of Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are met, in addition to the collective FLSA claims, an employee may be able to assert a class action in federal court covering the state law VOWA claims. Class actions have some advantages over collective actions, such as tolling of the limitations period for putative class members during the pendency of the action. See, e.g., Am. Pipe & Const. Co. v. Utah, 414 U.S. 538, 554 (1974).
If the employee or employees prevails on the VOWA claims, the court must award:
The wages owed;
An additional amount as liquidated damages;
Prejudgment interest at an annual rate of eight percent from the date the wages were due; and
Reasonable attorney fees and costs.
Triple damages are also possible. If the court finds that the employer "knowingly" failed to pay wages to an employee in accordance with the VOWA, the court must award the employee an amount equal to triple the amount of wages due and reasonable attorney fees and costs. VA Code § 40.1-29(J)&(G); VA Code § 40.1-29.2(F).
"Knowingly" Defined
For purposes of the triple damages provision, the VWPA and the VOWA provide that a person acts "knowingly" with respect to information if the person:
(i) Has actual knowledge of the information;
(ii) Acts in deliberate ignorance of the truth or falsity of the information, or
(iii) Acts in reckless disregard of the truth or falsity of the information.
Notably, establishing that a person acted "knowingly" does not require proof of specific intent to defraud. VA Code §§ 40.1-29(J) & (K); VA Code § 40.1-29.2(F).
The VOWA provides that an action for overtime violations must be commenced within three years after the cause of action accrued. VA Code § 40.1-29.2(G).
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I heard about this contest via twitter back in the end of October, and immediately I thought, why not! I've always been a fan of Mattia's field recordings, so why not try my hand at a chance to obtain some great sounds.
My entry into the Mattia Cellotto A Sound Effect Volcano sound design challenge recently won in the "Over the Top" category.
For this contest, the challenge was to design sounds using only the human voice, so naturally I started by putting up a microphone and hitting record. After watching the video a few times, I knew I would need a buildup, explosion, and aftermath elements. I also wanted the recordings to sound (tonality wise) like I had a really bad stomach ache, and I knew that I wanted to put in a few samples of silence before the explosion. After a few layering passes, a beatboxing intro, and some help from good ol' pitch shift, decapitator (for more destruction like qualities), and reverb, I came up with the results above. Enjoy!


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Here's a sneak peek at Harleywood & Vine, Hollywood's immersive BIRDS OF PREY experience
Plus, a Q&A with the cast and director Cathy Yan
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By Henry Barajas
The Hollywood & Highland Center has been re-imagined by the chaotic mind that is Harley Quinn in a new pop-up celebrating Birds of Prey. Warner Bros. launched its immersive courtyard experience, Harleywood & Vine, near the historic TCL Chinese Theatre on Thursday night, and the event will open to the public this weekend.
Harleywood & Vine. Photo by Henry Barajas.
Amid Los Angeles' most premier influencers getting their hair dyed to show off Splat's new Harley Quinn-influenced colors and makeup glow up, the film's costume designer, Billie Valentine, showed off her movie-inspired jewelry that features a dog tag with 'Bruce' engraved in the middle. Hot Topic showcased its Birds of Prey apparel with Black Mask Club and Birds of Prey jackets that look like they walked off the movie set. The Funko BOP-inspired pieces of Harley Quinn, Incognito Harley Quinn, Cassandra, Black Canary, Huntress, Detective Renee Montoya, and Roman Sionis received the glass case treatment. If makeup, clothes, or Funkos aren't your jam, Triumph Motorcycles had its Street Triple RS model—that can be seen on the big screen—parked by the La Croix and hummus.
Even though Harleywood & Vine wasn't an official red carpet ceremony, it felt that way when director Cathy Yan and the main Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) cast members showed up after the gaggle of Harleys rollerbladed and danced on the stage. Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Ella Jay Basco, Ewan McGregor, and Chris Messina launched a medley of fireworks, streamers, and party lights before rushing through the crawling Hollywood Blvd traffic to the Dream Hotel in a double-decker bus.
The cast and crew made themselves very available for a roundtable Q&A with all your favorite press outlets. At the same time, guests were enjoying Pink Puddin' snacks and getting their initials embroidered on pairs of complementary black leather gloves.
Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, and Ella Jay Basco at Harleywood & Vine. Photo by Henry Barajas.
Basco and Yan described working on Birds of Prey as "humbling and surreal" when it comes to the amount of diversity in this film.
"It's a great responsibility," Yan added. "Hopefully, the movie is just good—and you can just talk about it as a really great fun movie, and it just so happens to have a female Asian director and Asian female lead."
But 13-year-old Basco wasn't afraid to speak what was on her mind. "I think it should've happened sooner — but it's such an honor to be apart of this," Basco confessed.
"We wanted to diversify age range as well," Robbie said. "We're an eclectic group. But we're a group that represents the world around us."
When it comes to the look and feel of Birds of Prey, it's evident that screenwriter Christina Hodson, Yan, and Robbie were looking to tap into what Harley became during DC Comics' New 52 launch.
"When we talked about the look of this movie, we wanted it to feel almost like a comic, so it has that kind of colorful, tactile quality to it," Yan said.
"Margot and I very early in the process went to the DC library about four years ago—and we just took stacks of comics home, " Hodson recalled. "She did loads of research on Harley for Suicide Squad. We went on a deep dive in the Birds of Prey." Hodson admitted that Chuck Dixon's, Amanda Conner's, and Jimmy Palmiotti's work helped shape the script.
It's too early to confirm, but there might be more going on between McGregor's and Messina's Black Mask and Zsasz characters: "I think my character is in love with every living thing," Messina said.
"There was lots of complexity in our relationship," McGregor intervened. "It was incredibly fun to discover. It's not just to do with sex, but it's much more to do with power and need."
Of course, their Variety interview might have confirmed everyone's sneaking suspicions.
Are Ewan McGregor and Chris Messina's characters gay in #BirdsofPrey? pic.twitter.com/f1avM9aGSO
The race bending of Black Canary played by Smollett-Bell was something Robbie and Hodson wanted to do since the first draft of the script.
"It felt right to me. I wanted to do it. Warner [Bros.] has been wonderful and supportive—and no one ever questioned it," Hodson said.
Smollett-Bell shared that she was hip to Black Canary before she was cast from playing the Injustice 2 fighting game by NetherRealm Studios. "I went back to the comics. I read all the Birds of Prey comics—and I tried to read as many of the Black Canary comics [as I could]," Smollett-Bell said. Black Canary's always ever-changing continuity and origin stories were overwhelming at first, but, Smollett-Bell feels that they gleaned enough from the source material that honored the story they were trying to tell.
Birds of Prey isn't Robbie's first time in Gotham, but it's not the same city we've seen her in before. "It has been so fascinating I've played Harley twice now with two different filmmakers," Robbie said. "It's so fun and interesting to see what characteristics of [Harley] each filmmaker gravitates towards and what version of Gotham they're trying to portray while trying to honor the source material."
After trying to get the character right, Robbie is proud of the influence she has created: "It is so wild to see how the comics are starting to reflect the version of Harley that I've played on screen before."
The party was topped with the actual Birds of Prey, introducing Charlotte Lawrence and Megan Thee Stallion to perform tracks from the upcoming soundtrack.
The party on the Dream Hotel rooftop may have ended, but you can still enjoy the Harleywood & Vine experience until 10 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25. It opens to the public on Friday, Jan. 24. Click here to RSVP on Facebook.
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Langkawi is undoubtedly renowned for its beaches and duty-free alcoholic drinks, but if you are in for a nature exploration, Seven Wells Waterfall is absolutely worthy to be listed in your itinerary. Touted as the island's most beautiful waterfall, the name "Seven Wells" was translated from "Telaga Tujuh", referring to seven wells from seven different falls in Mount Mat Cinchang. Seven Wells Waterfall even has its own folklore, as legend says that it used to be the home for fairies while the water itself contains healing properties as well.
If you are a self-proclaimed adventure geek, brace yourself and get your muscles worked out to climb around 600 steps to the top for a panoramic view of Pantai Kok and Burau Bay. Be rewarded with the sights of magnificent flora and fauna along the steep climb, including macaques monkeys and giant squirrels along the journey. If you are lucky enough, you might stand a chance to catch a glimpse of majestic hornbills resting themselves on tree branches. Rest assured as you may opt for a short walk up the service road to reach the bottom of the falls if you are not fond of climbing.
Reaching the peak of waterfall makes the journey worthwhile as visitors can opt to soak themselves in for a refreshing bath to cure themselves from all the sore climbing. You can see a plethora of lime plants or a type of climbing foliage named Sintuk that grow in abundance and encircled within the waterfall area. Feast on the sight of the captivating view of cascades streaming currents down the rocks as you swim around the gushing waters, or even take photos to preserve the fascinating waterfall sight while you are at it.
While venturing up the top of the waterfall is exhilarating, do take it slow in this 1 hour journey and take rests in between while immersing yourself in serene nature along the way. Be careful of the slippery rocks as well as macaques which are unlikely to be aggressive unless provoked, but it is advised to keep a tab of your belongings from them. Do keep in mind that the best time to see the waterfall is around monsoon season or approximately the end of the year as a means to avoid the dry season. If you are the type of person who just can't get enough of pristine natures, do make a visit to Seven Wells Waterfalls. With a driving distance of 20 minutes or 12.4 km from The Smith House, it is certainly worth a relaxing getaway.


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Die Bestände umfassen Bücher (Fachliteratur), Zeitschriften, eine umfangreiche Plakatsammlung, Noten, Textbücher, Tonträger und in großem Umfang Programmhefte sowie Pressematerial. Die Sammlung ist öffentlich nutzbar und steht der Wissenschaft wie der interessierten Öffentlichkeit zur Verfügung.

Eingebracht wurden die Sammlungen von Privatsammlern sowie von bedeutenden Theaterinstitutionen wie Verlag Felix Bloch Erben (Berlin), Gallissas Theaterverlag und Medienagentur (Berlin), Verlag Musik und Bühne (Wiesbaden) sowie dem Theater des Westens (Berlin) und des Komponisten Guido Masanetz.

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Capitol Police officer dies of apparent suicide; video shows assaults on police during riot
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Police keep a watch on demonstrators who tried to break through a police barrier, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. As Congress prepared to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory, thousands of people gathered to show their support ... more >
By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times - Monday, January 11, 2021
A longtime U.S. Capitol Police officer who responded to last week's violent riot at the Capitol died Saturday apparently after taking his own life.
The officer, Howard Liebengood, was 51.
Capitol Police confirmed Officer Liebengood died while off-duty but did not reveal a cause of death. Law enforcement sources confirmed to The Washington Times that his death was an apparent suicide.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends and colleagues," the Capitol Police said in a statement. "We ask that his family and other USCP officers' and their families' privacy be respected during this profoundly difficult time."
It's the second life lost in four days for the Capitol Police in the aftermath of a violent riot that occurred when pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol last week. Officer Brian Sicknick died late Thursday from injuries sustained during the violent insurrection.
"Every Capitol Police Officer puts the security of others before their own safety and Officer Liebengood was an example of the selfless service that is the hallmark of USCP," Capitol Police Union Chairman Gus Papathanasiou said in a statement. "This is a tragic day."
Four civilians, including a former Air Force veteran who was shot by Capitol Police, also died during the attack.
Officer Liebengood, who joined the force in 2005, was assigned to the Senate division.
Although Officer Liebengood responded to the assault on the Capitol, it is not known if that played a role in his apparent suicide.
Social media videos and unsealed criminal charges detail some of the vicious assaults on police officers during the riot.
In addition to the death of Officer Sicknick, more than 50 police officers were injured in the attack, with some requiring hospitalization.
A Capitol Police officer told BuzzFeed that he was assaulted with a "Back the Blue" flag. The flag has been waved at pro-Trump rallies to show their support for law enforcement.
Disturbing footage from the riot shows savage protesters dragging a cop down a staircase before trampling him and pelting him with objects, according to Storyful.com, a news agency.
The cop is seen lying face down on the ground, while protesters toss a leg crutch and water bottles at him.
"USA! USA!" the rioters can be heard chanting while beating the cop.
The officer has not been identified.
Another disturbing video shows a Capitol Police officer with blood on his face and screaming for help while being crushed by the mob of pro-Trump supporters.
The officer cries out for help as blood drips from his mouth. He is pinned between a metal door and a riot shield used by a rioter who stole the protective equipment from the police.
Of the dozens who have been hit with federal charges arising from their alleged activities during the insurrection, only one has been publicly accused of attacking an officer.
Prosecutors in Washington say, Mark Leffingwell, 51, has been charged with assaulting an officer.
Capitol Police Officer Daniel Amendola said Mr. Leffingwell punched him "repeatedly with a closed fist."
"I was struck in the helmet that I was wearing and in the chest," Officer Amendola said, according to court documents.


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A day of great food, auctions, games for the kids, tractor parade and more! The museum grounds are open to the public at no charge. A church service in the restored 1917 church kicks off the event. Lunch begins at 11:30. Live and silent auction. Games and tractor parade follow the lunch and auctions. Ribeye Steak dinner with all the fixings for $25. Kids meal $5.


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Multiple stories. Films reviewed: The Debt, Wiener-Dog
Posted in Animals, Clash of Cultures, comedy, Cultural Mining, Environmentalism, Indigenous, Morality, Peru, Resistance, Thriller, US by CulturalMining.com on July 8, 2016
https://danielgarber.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/garber-july-8-16-review.mp3Hi, this is Daniel Garber at the Movies for culturalmining.com and CIUT 89.5 FM.
Although every movie is different, most tell a single story. But there are exceptions. This week I'm looking at two new movies that tell a whole bunch of stories, stories that are somehow tied. There's a dark comedy with a dog-related plot, and a drama related to a plot of land.
Dir: Barney Elliot
This movie is made up of three or four linked stories all set in Peru.
Oliver (Stephen Dorff) is a successful financier who works for a multinational bank. He specializes in vulture funds with debt bonds from distressed economies. His current goal? To corner the market in Peruvian real estate debt. He works with his idealistic Peruvian friend Ricardo (Alberto Ammann) to snap up debt at deep discount. But will Ricardo agree to business that might hurt his country?
Maria (Elsa Olivero) is a nurse at a Lima hospital. She's trying to arrange an operation for her mother who suffers from painful rheumatoid arthritis. But no matter how hard she tries, she can't get surgery scheduled for her mom. Will she have to resort to illegal methods?
Meanwhile in a remote mountainous area, a slick real estate developer named Caravedo (Carlos Bardem) is promising the sky to gullible farmers. Health clinics, electricity, telephones… They are quick to sell, except one die-hard farmer named Florentino (Amiel Cayo). He is angry and will never give in.
And on Florentino's farm, his son, Diego (Marco Antonio Ramírez) is fascinated by the helicopters he sees. They carry wealthy investors from far away. But they also wreak havoc with his llamas, whom he depends on..
The Debt is a complex story, that brings the diverse plot together by the end. It's done in the style of movies like Paul Haggis's Crash – lots of interrelated characters who interact in unexpected ways. It deals with big issues – multinational economies, farmers driven from their land – but in a rather ponderous way. Lots of guilt, responsibility, betrayal, selfishness – things like that. Not my favourite type of movie, but it held my interest and I liked all the Peruvian actors.
Wiener-Dog
Wri/Dir: Todd Solondz
This movie also has four stories, but told in a linea way, and only peripherally connected. They are all set present day New York City and the suburbs and towns around it.
Remy (Keaton Nigel Cooke) is a young boy recovering from chemotherapy. He's a survivor. His rich but uptight parents (Tracy Letts and Julie Delpy) They buy him a short haired dachshund at a puppy mill. But they don't realize it will open a whole lot of hard-to answer questions. Like do dogs have feelings? What happens if they get sick? Why should she get spayed. — what if she wants to have kids? His mother is forced to concoct more and more outlandish stories to answer the boy's questions.
In the second story the depressed and friendless Dawn Wiener (Greta Gerwig) meets her old teenage crush, the bully Brandon (Kieren Culkin). Brandon is passing through town and sees the girl he used to call Wiener Dog with her very own Wiener dog. On a whim, she agrees to join him on a mysterious road trip to Ohio. What's in Ohio? She asks. Crystal meth. On the way they meet a band of mariachi hitchhikers and Brandon's Down syndrome brother.
The third story is about Schmertz (Danny Devito) an over-the-hill scriptwriter with only a wiener dog to keep him company. He is forced to teach self-centred rich kids at a Manhattan film school. His students all write plotless scripts based on their gender-studies relevance not their stories. Where's the What If? He always asks them. "You gotta have a what if." But if he doesn't come up with a what if for his life, he risks being fired.
In the final story, we see an angry depressed grandmother (Ellen Burstyne), cared for by another old woman. They never speak, except the occasional requests: Yvette — Kaopectate! Her new pet — wiener-dog of course – she names Cancer. It just seems appropriate. But she has to to come to terms with her own past and precarious future when a visiting granddaughter drops by.
I love Todd Solondz's movies, even the ones that don't quite work. They're all fascinating, funny and deeply depressing. He creates complex, reflexive stories often with repeated plotlines. The Wiener Family has also appeared in his first movie Welcome to the Dollhouse as well as Palindoromes, so if you follow his movies, it's gratifying to see what happens to those characters. I love his painfully sad comedies, including this one. The acting is fantastic, especially Ellen Burstyn.
Wiener-dog is great.
The Debt and Wiener-dog both open today in Toronto; check your local listings.
This is Daniel Garber at the Movies, each Friday morning, on CIUT 89.5 FM and on my website, culturalmining.com
Tagged with: Barney Elliot, The Debt, Todd Solondz, Wiener-Dog


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The Mild Seven href="../gpe/con-benet.html">Benetton Renault team unveiled its 1997 car in a rather chaotic fashion in London's chic - but rather too small - Planet Hollywood nightclub on January 23. The Benetton-Renault B197 will be driven by Gerhard Berger and Jean Alesi and tested by Austrian rising star Alexander Wurz.
The Benetton technical team has been restructured considerably in the last 12 months with technical director Ross Brawn moving to Ferrari and chief designer Rory Byrne retiring from the sport. Pat Symmonds has been promoted technical director and Nick Wirth is the new chief designer. In fact Wirth has been responsible for a lot of the design work on the new car, in addition to acting as Berger's race engineer in 1996. The 30-year-old prodigy joined Benetton at the end of 1995 after his own Simtek F1 operation ran out of money and had to close down.
Wirth and Byrne worked closely on the B197 with the team's experienced and highly-respected drawing office manager Graham Heard, who actually coordinates the work done by the various design sections. Under his control are the composite design team, headed by Andy Moss; the transmission department under vastly experienced F1 engineer Dave Wass (a former technical director of Arrows); the stress analysis department headed by Andy Wyman, and the mechanical design team under Martin Tolliday. The team is certainly not short of talented and experienced engineers and currently includes such wellknown names as Sergio Rinland and Frank Coppuck.
Team boss Flavio Briatore - who runs the team on a budget of around $50m a year - described the disastrous 1996 season, in which Benetton failed to win a single race, as being "a year of transition". He said that the team had changed too many things but added that he believes that "this winter we have worked very well and we now feel prepared and will be able to pose a serious challenge to our competitors".
To date the B197 has gone very well in testing, Berger and Alesi completed over 1000 miles or running before the launch in Silverstone and at Jerez without any major dramas, Gerhard setting a best lap at Jerez of 1m21.273s. The new Williams-Renault FW19 has yet to run at the Spanish circuit but Heinz-Harald Frentzen recorded a best lap of 1m21.90s in the old FW18B, which suggests that Benetton has made a big leap forward in comparison to last year. It remains to be seen whether it is enough to stay ahead of Williams when the team has its new FW19 car ready.
The Benetton B197 is fundamentally an evolution of last year's car, the philosophy being to eliminate the weaknesses and build on the strengths of the B196. The Benetton designers have also had to incorporate a completely new Renault V10 engine and the changes necessary mean that all the parts on the new car are new. There has been a major weight-saving programme and, in addition, changes have had to be made to allow for the alterations in the regulations.
The engine change has meant that the rear of the car has been substantially altered because the new Renault unit has a new v-angle and, as a result, a centre of gravity which is 15mm lower than last year.
"This engine is completely new," said Renault Sport technical director Bernard Dudot. "It is the first time we have changed the v-angle of our engine. It is a 71-degree V10 compared to the 67-degree engines we have used past. We have paid particular attention also to the weight."
The RS9 weighs in at 121kgs - which is 11kgs lighter than the RS8 used in 1996. The result, according to the drivers, is a very effective new engine.
"I have to say that Renault did a very good," said Gerhard Berger, "and I am very confident for this year."
The Austrian's confidence comes not only from the new engine but also because he feels much more confident in the B197 than he did in the B196, which was designed with Michael Schumacher's driving style in mind. The German's style of driving is, apparently, very different to other F1 stars and both Berger and Alesi complained last year that they found the B196 very nervous.
The change of engine gave Benetton's aerodynamic team, led by James Allison, the opportunity to revise the rear of the car. The work was done at the Defence Research Agency's 40% windtunnel at Farnborough. Benetton is in the process of building its own windtunnel at Enstone but the work is not likely to be finished until the late summer. The team currently also has a deal with Fondmetal Technologies in Italy - Jean-Claude Migeot overseeing advanced research and development projects for Benetton in the Casumaro windtunnel.
The team is also using advanced computational fluid dynamics programmes supplied by a company called Fluid Europe.
A great deal of attention has been focussed in the design of the B197 on development of a hydraulic differential and a power-steering system both of which will be raced all this season.
The team currently manufactures 90% of its cars on-site in its 85,000 square feet factory at Enstone. The team has 240 members of staff but is continuing to expand its technical department.
"Rory Byrne and I worked together on this project. We divided the car up into areas and, basically, I looked after the back end of the car. I had input on all areas really but basically we shared the work. Obviously Rory was in the drawing office all the time while I was out engineering Gerhard but when I was there I scurried around the drawing office.
"The rear is the area where the biggest changes were made but, basically, we did a lot of work in all areas. We knew that the 1996 car was not good enough. It was too heavy. It had some aerodynamic disadvantages which we could not cure, so we set out with a clean sheet of paper to do this car; to fix the areas which we felt were wrong and build on the areas which had been good. I think we all realized that there was a fundamental lack of performance in the car. That hampered us in qualifying particularly. There were other things which meant we were much closer to Williams in the races than our theoretical performance should have allowed us to be, so we tried to keep those aspects. I hope we have achieved that. I think we have.
"We worked on all areas of the car and all areas have improved. Traditionally aerodynamics is what makes a difference in the lap times so obviously we concentrated on that. The aerodynamic improvement has come, I think, from packaging rather than producing better wings and bodywork.
"We are still using the old windtunnel. We are building a new one and we are making enormous programme with computer technology as well. We are working very hard to cement a very solid engineering foundation in Benetton."


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Public hearing to consider proposed ordinance to amend County Code Chapter 15, Taxation, Article VII, Real Estate Exemptions for Certain Elderly and Disabled Persons.
The Real Estate Tax Exemption for Certain Elderly and Disabled Persons program provides a real estate tax exemption for eligible elderly or disabled persons who are subject to a real estate tax burden that is extraordinary in relation to their income and financial worth. At the Board of Supervisors meeting on November 2, 2005, information was presented concerning increasing the acreage excluded from the calculation of net worth for purposes of the real estate tax exemption program from 1.0 acres to 5.0 acres. A copy of the November 2, 2005 Executive Summary is attached (Attachment B).
4.2: Fund County services in a fair, efficient manner and provide needed public facilities and infrastructure.
The attached ordinance changes the acreage excluded from the calculation of net worth for purposes of the real estate tax exemption program from 1.0 acres to 5.0 acres.
As noted in the November 2, 2005 Executive Summary, the annual cost to Albemarle County of increasing the exempt acreage from 1.0 acres to 5.0 acres for existing program participants is estimated at $8,000.
After the public hearing, staff recommends the adoption of the attached ordinance to increase the acreage excluded from the calculation of net worth from 1.0 acres to 5.0 acres.


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Developing a Business Model for 6W2X: A startup accelerator for students, designed by students
Many students would love to be involved in a social enterprise startup but know that such an all-consuming passion would not be compatible with their first priority of obtaining a degree. 6W2X™ is a startup accelerator that will be designed with this in mind.
Description of 6W2X
6W2X is a social enterprise startup accelerator for students, designed by students.
An important feature is that an international ecosystem of startups will be created. Too often, students are well-meaning but create plans for businesses that they think Africans (for example) need but don't have the means to find out what Africans actually want. By having simultaneous accelerators in developing countries we will not only encourage entrepreneurship there, but also help other accelerators produce plans for sustainable social enterprises that satisfy a real need.
Another key feature of the accelerator is that it is that each startup will be designed to have an exit after only six weeks. We don't expect very many participants to be driving away in a Ferrari after a sale of their enterprise to Google. For one thing, you can't fit many people in a Ferrari. A more likely exit will be a tested business plan that will enable the enterprise to be replicated, a business in a box, a franchise model, or because the objectives have been achieved.
Six weeks may seem a short time but amazing results have been achieved by hack weekends lasting only 48 hours so we are hoping for some pretty impressive results after six weeks. Moreover, six weeks is enough time to get some real-world experience of working in teams and getting a startup underway. The best way of learning to be an entrepreneur is to be one - and this allows you to be one without losing the house!
More signifcantly, six weeks is short enough to fit inside a university vacation, or even be completed during a single term.
6W2X will itself be developed using lean startup principles. After a pivot or two it may start to look a little different, but here are some initial objectives:
Test the concept: discover the demand in various countries
Establish whether business schools and others would provide support and mentoring
Discover if sponsors will find it an attractive proposition
Develop the business model
Tweak the model
Interested? If you would like to take part in setting up 6W2X, then please join Dreamstake and apply to join the 6W2X team. We are looking for co-founders, team members and advisors. Alternatively, please contact doug [at] mardinet [dot] org.
The following pages illustrate the lean startup process that will be followed when setting up 6W2X.
Business Model Canvas, Initial Thoughts
Illustrating the concept using the business model canvas
Business Model Canvas for 6W2X, Focus on Key Partner
Focusing on one type of key partner
Business Model Canvas for 6W2X, Focus on Key Partner and the Relationships with Other Components
Seeing how that key partner relates to other components of the model
Business Model Grid for 6W2X
Getting to Plan B
6W2X Ltd is a limited company registered in England and Wales, Company No. 08764553.
dita powered™. Copyright © 2010-16 6W2X Ltd. All rights reserved.


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Bigg Boss 13 that concluded a few weeks back was one of the most talked-about reality television shows. The contestants of the show became popular and even amassed a huge number of followers on social media. Contestants Shehnaaz Gill and Paras Chhabra not only made it to the finals but also bagged the show Mujhse Shaadi Karoge, where they are supposed to find partners for themselves.
Even though both Shehnaaz and Paras became popular through Bigg Boss13, the show could not get enough TRP and hence there were reports of the show going off-air. In an interview with an entertainment portal, Paras Chhabra said that the show is not going off-air and the TRPs have just started pouring in. He further said that his mother told him that people have started recognising her as Paras' mother and they also remember her dialogue from Bigg Boss 13.
He said that the production is great as they keep coming with new ideas and concepts. He said that the show is not going off-air anytime soon. A confident Paras also said that he will take the show to the end.
On the other hand, in the recent promo of the upcoming episode, Shehnaaz Gill is seen breaking down and confesses her love for Sidharth Shukla. She said that her love for her Bigg Boss 13 co-contestants is the reason she is not being able to put in her 1000 per cent in the show.
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The amazing images and movies below were captured by NASA's latest and most advanced solar telescope, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). SDO is part of the Living with a Star (LWS) programme. Professor Lika Guhathakutta, NASA's lead Programme Scientist for LWS says, "The SDO mission evokes a sense of wonder when we see the fantastic solar images and movies. We can see new science unfolding in front of our eyes.".
For the latest news on SDO visit our iSun|trek website.
The Extreme UltraViolet (EUV) image of the Sun shown below was taken by SDO on 30th March 2010 and shows gas at different temperatures (red is 60,000 °C; blues and greens are about 1,000,000 °C).
Several active regions can be seen in the image above, with large loops of hot gas tracing out the Sun's magnetic field. On the solar limb (at the 10 o'clock position) is a huge explosion with gas and twisted magnetic fields reaching high above the solar surface.
Three instruments are carried by SDO.
The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) takes high resolution (very detailed) images of the solar atmosphere in different wavebands, characteristic of different temperatures.
The Heliospheric and Magnetic Imager (HMI) maps the Sun's magnetic field in detail, and also probes beneath the surface using sophisticated techniques of Helioseismology.
The Extreme UV Experiment (EVE) measures fluctuations in the Sun's radiation. These data will lead to a better understanding of how the Sun's UV radiation interacts with the Earth's atmosphere, affecting its chemistry and the Earth's climate.
SDO was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 11th February 2010 aboard an Atlas V rocket.
SDO will produce absolutely huge amounts of data. Over 1.5 terabytes of data will be sent back to Earth each day, which is equivalent to downloading half a million songs onto an MP3 player each day. It is a challenge for scientists to deal with so much data.
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