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Frances M. Dreymala
Frances M. Dreymala, known to most as "Frankie", went to be with the Lord Jan. 7, 2021 at the age of 85. She was born March 27, 1935 in Nortonville, Illinois to the late Floyd W. and Eleanor Dalton Kindred.
Frankie, or "Sis" as she was known to her family in Illinois, grew up a farmer's daughter, a nurturing soul whose love and kindness flourished wherever she was planted. In her life she nurtured, her family, friends, and her beloved garden, but her relationships with others who, perhaps, encountered her briefly through volunteer work or through repeated visits to the grocery store on the same day of each week.
After graduating from Routt Catholic High School in Jacksonville, IL, Frankie attended Central Technical Institute in Kansas City, training for the needs of the burgeoning commercial airline business in the 1950's. She immediately put her knowledge to work at Trans Texas Airways in Houston (now Continental Airlines) where she became one of the first female ticket agents in the U.S. More recently, she began actively participating in the Association of Retired Employees of Continental Airlines (ARECA-Houston) along with several of her former coworkers.
It was through a Trans Texas coworker that Frankie met the love of her life. After marrying, moving to Port Lavaca, and raising her children, she worked for many years at Coastal Teachers Federal Credit Union where she retired in 1998 and subsequently served on the Board of Directors.
Dedication and service in the church were innately important to Frankie. She cherished her work with the Altar Society at Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church, her interactions with the catholic school, and singing God's praises in the choir.
She was also a longtime volunteer with the Memorial Medical Center Auxiliary where she enjoyed providing basic, caring assistance to patients who, as in every small town, were oftentimes friends and neighbors.
She is survived by her husband of 64 years, Leonard E. Dreymala; daughters Linda (Bill) Dreymala Day and Diane K. Dreymala; son, Mark E. Dreymala; sister, Marilyn (Bob) Kindred Bergschneider; three grandchildren, Christopher William Day, Matthew "Carson" Day and Shelbie Marie Dreymala; and two great-grandchildren, Auvyana Faith and Aubryelle Renee Guardiola.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, Bernard Kindred and her sister Shirley Kindred Haerle.
Visitation will be held from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 13, at Grace Funeral Chapel in Port Lavaca. A funeral Mass is at 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 14, at Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church. Interment will follow at Six Mile Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic School, 301 S. San Antonio Street, Port Lavaca, Texas 77979.
Thoughts and memories may be shared online at www.gracefuneralhome.net.
Arrangements and services under the personal care of Grace Funeral Homes & Cemeteries.
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Coming August 20th, 2019 from Random House/Delacorte Press
Color Me In is a coming of age story about Nevaeh, a white passing, biracial, Jewish 15-year-old, who learns how to own her privilege as she searches for her place within her two very different worlds and prepares for a belated bat mitzvah.
Some nice things people said about Color Me In:
"A riveting testament to the power of knowing where you come from to figure out where you're going . . . an emotional roller coaster you won't want to get off of. Absolutely outstanding!" —Nic Stone, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin
"[A] beautifully told and compelling coming-of-age story about not just finding your voice, but learning the important lessons of when and how best to use it." —Julie Buxbaum, New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things
"[A] tender and brave story that challenged every simplistic idea I have ever had about race and identity. . . . It is impossible not to root for Nevaeh Levitz as she navigates two cultural communities to find a true home in her own heart." —Attica Locke, Edgar Award-winning author of Blue Bird, Blue Bird
"In Díaz' skillful hands, the many aspects of Nevaeh's intersectional identity are woven together so that they are, as in real life, inextricable from each other. Broadly appealing." —Kirkus Reviews
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Mar 19, 2019 2:50PM PT
Instagram Expands E-Commerce Push With New Shopping Tool
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Avid Instagram scrollers may no longer need to leave the photo-sharing app.
The social networking service has debuted a new checkout tool, allowing users to shop some of their favorite brands directly from Instagram itself. It comes as the company makes a bigger push into e-commerce and as fashion and luxury businesses continue to amplify their presence on the Facebook-owned platform, which has long attracted trend-conscious consumers.
Prior to the new mechanism, customers who chose to purchase a product on the app were redirected to the brand's website through the Instagram Shopping initiative launched in February 2018.
Now, upon tapping to view an item from a brand's shoppable post, users will be able to view the Checkout From Instagram button on the product page. They will then be given options to select the desired size, color and other filters, and ultimately proceed to payment with their contact, billing and shipping information. (Notifications on the product's delivery status will also be sent through Instagram.)
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"As Instagram is becoming a key player in product discovery, offering native checkout makes the mobile buying experience seamless," explained Laura Musa, director of channel solutions at digital marketing agency Adlucent. "[Previously] tracking was lost, so brands didn't know where that shopper discovered them, which made decisions to invest in channel content and advertising more difficult. In-app checkout solves these challenges and evolves the shopper-social connection even further."
Instagram is rolling out a closed beta version for businesses and consumers, with a limited roster of 20 brands including major sportswear names including Adidas and Nike, luxury houses like Burberry and Prada, as well as fast-fashion businesses such as H&M and Zara. According to social media management firm Hootsuite, the social network has more than a billion monthly users, with 60 percent — or more than 600 million people — actively seeking out and discovering new products on the site.
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Column: Paul Ryan is essential to voter choice
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Mitt Romney has finally revealed his pick for vice president to be Paul Ryan, Chairman of the House Budget Committee.
The fact that Romney chose Ryan for VP over other such notable contenders in the Republican Party such as Rob Portman and Marco Rubio, speaks volumes for what Romney's campaign strategy will be in the final months leading up to the election.
Before he selected Ryan, Romney campaigned on big ideas like his "59 bullet points" job plan that were relatively light on certain details compared to the 400+ page detail of Obama's American Jobs Act. Specifics for how he would cut income tax rates for all tax brackets, limit income tax deductions and exemptions for the wealthy, cut corporate taxes, and suffer no tax revenue loss while balancing the budget, have been vague.
Where there were previously question marks, Ryan gives us a much better picture with the budgetary plan he presented to congress earlier this year.
The budget plan, also known as "The Path to Prosperity," aimed to overhaul Medicare, Medicaid, and the tax code among other things with the ultimate goal of balancing the budget and ultimately drawing down the national debt. The plan passed in the house by a vote of 235 to 193, but died in the senate 57 to 40.
While I disagree with Ryan's policies, I cannot deny that Ryan is a man of ideas and action, especially since congress has not passed a yearly budget since 2009. The fact that there is even an alternative plan at all to Obama's American Jobs Act excites me.
Conservative and Independent voters should be excited too, after all, Ryan is not just a bona fide conservative figure in the Republican Party. He is also lauded among conservatives as a man on the cutting edge of conservative thinking in being head of the House Budget Committee. During his tenure, he provided an ambitious and highly contentious budget plan that congress voted on in early 2012.
With this single pick, Romney has drawn the definitive line between his previous moderate progressive incarnations from earlier in the 2000s and his new deeply conservative campaign. Compared to then and now, Mitt Romney is almost a different person, having flipped on numerous issues like the auto industry bailout, gay marriage, abortion, and Romney care.
But if there was any lingering doubt that Romney was conservative enough in his intent for the Republican Party and America, the addition of Ryan should eradicate it, since he too stands strong in opposition to all these things.
In other words, voters like me will finally have a legitimate, clear cut, reason to consider voting for or against Romney other than him not being a Democrat like Obama. This sort of clear political identity is something Romney needs sorely if he wants any shot at winning in November.
When I vote against Romney in the November, it won't be because I think he is disingenuous or too murky on his stances with various issues, but instead it will likely be because I fundamentally disagree with policies he would work to put into place while in office. And for me, the notion that I will have a choice between two candidates with compelling, detailed, contrasting plans for America is what matters most.
It's about time we had an honest choice between two very different solutions towards growing jobs, and fixing the government budget. I think the choice of Ryan as his VP adds some much needed conservative heft and credibility to Romney's campaign to do just that.
After all, this isn't just a choice between presidents so much as it is deciding the future shape and scope of our government. The stakes are high, and having a compelling choice as to how this occurs is important.
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The second week of Major League Soccer is arriving, and it's just in time. The first week, for me, basically consisted of an incredible tailgate in the dirt parking lot by the Wizard's stadium.
The wind blew, it poured down rain, but about 15 people chugged summer brew out of a cooler and roasted random food on my awesome little gas grill. I really don't remember a whole lot about the game other than that I saw Bruce from duNord before the game, the Wizard's won, my stupid blue felt cowboy hat turned out to have a practical function (rain defense), and Jimmy Neilson was eager to clap to the crowd.
It was odd to go back and watch the game afterward. Everyone claims the Wizard's totally dominated DC, but DC had some incredibly bad pretty much open net misses plus a super clear penalty waived aside. With two bits of luck, the game could have been incredibly different.
Of course, the same could be said about any game of soccer. "Should have", "could have". But they didn't the Wizards fan cries.
Beating a team with too many "should haves" and "could haves" can signal false hope. I'm not ready to say the Wizards are going to be awesome yet.
A lot of my attention for the first week was captured by the absolutely horrible release of Major League Soccer Soccer dot Com. It took me awhile to realize they had switched because they forgot to make the http://mlsnet.com url redirect to the new site.
Every designer and coder who follows MLS is living off the buzz of critiquing a major failure with their web designing twitter friends.
However, one man summed it all up with a beat down of epic proportions: Fake Sigi road his giant gut to the rescue with some incredible research.
You'd better read The MLS Website Disaster or Fake Sigi himself will beat you over the head with 404 errors.
In other blogging news, I'm back. This time I'll make no promises about how often I post. I will continue my favorite format of research, music, pictures, and humor.
If my blog posts make Adam Spangler shed a single tear, mission accomplished.


The headlines and the markets have been heavily focused this week on the rising risk that the United Kingdom will exit the European Union without any agreement. Prime Minister Theresa May just barely managed to hold onto her job after a vote of no confidence but has been politically battered, much like Germany's Angela Merkel, not to mention French President Macron's horrific weekend during which Paris dealt with violent and destructive riots protesting against his government. European leadership is increasingly weak which is not good for markets.
This week Lenore Hawkins, Chief Macro Strategist for Tematica Research speaks with Marco Caneva on how Brexit affects the economy of the UK and the European Union in ways in which many not realize, creating major headwinds to both economies and exacerbating the Middle Class Squeeze, one of Tematica Research's investing themes. They also discuss how the European Central Bank's zero and negative interest rate policies (ZIRP and NIRP) have affect investors, businesses and the economy.
Marco was born and raised in Italy, was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in London for over a decade and then served as the Chief Investment Officer for one of Italy's wealthiest families. He now specializes in debt restructuring and private equity placement in Europe, focusing on complex situations. His work has given him a front row seat to the impact of Brexit, European Central Bank policies and the challenges facing the European economy that investors need to understand. Marco and Lenore's discussion will give investors insight into what is happening and why it is happening in the European Union and what it means today and in the future for investors.


 Associate Prof. Xi Weng: Researchon the Optimal Income Tax and Commodity Tax in Urban and Rural Dual Economy -Beihang University School of Economics and Management!!
Associate Prof. Xi WENG gave a presentation in School of Economics and Management on 2nd Novemebr,2017. His talk is titled as Research on the Optimal Income Tax and CommodityTax in Urban and Rural Dual Economy. Associate Prof. Xi WENG now serves at Guanghua School of Management in Peking University, also as thedoctoral supervisor. His research areas include Application of Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory and Industrial Organization Theory.
During the lecture, more than 30 scholars and students of the SEM were involved in the discussion. They raised questions about methodological framework and empirical strategies,which provoke further thinking on the issues from both perspectives.


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Walt Kuhn (American, 1877-1949). 1 of a Set of 6 Postcards: Spring Has Came, May 1908. Pen, ink, and watercolor over graphite on cardstock, Sheet: 3 3/8 x 5 9/16 in. (8.6 x 14.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Brenda Kuhn, 62.32.4. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.62.32.4.jpg)
Walt Kuhn (American, 1877-1949). 1 of a Set of 6 Postcards: Spring Has Came, May 1908. Pen, ink, and watercolor over graphite on cardstock, Sheet: 3 3/8 x 5 9/16 in. (8.6 x 14.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Brenda Kuhn, 62.32.4. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.62.32.4_verso.jpg)
1 of a Set of 6 Postcards: Spring Has Came
Walt Kuhn
ARTIST Walt Kuhn, American, 1877-1949
MEDIUM Pen, ink, and watercolor over graphite on cardstock
DATES May 1908
DIMENSIONS Sheet: 3 3/8 x 5 9/16 in. (8.6 x 14.1 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE Unsigned
COLLECTIONS American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER 62.32.4
CREDIT LINE Gift of Brenda Kuhn
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Front of postcard depicts two birds on branch singing with legend, at lower right, "SPRING HAS CAME [sic]!"; reverse of postcard: addressed to "Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Woelfle / Coshocton / Ohio", 1 cent stamp, postmark from New York City, dated May 4, 1908
CAPTION Walt Kuhn (American, 1877-1949). 1 of a Set of 6 Postcards: Spring Has Came, May 1908. Pen, ink, and watercolor over graphite on cardstock, Sheet: 3 3/8 x 5 9/16 in. (8.6 x 14.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Brenda Kuhn, 62.32.4. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.62.32.4.jpg)
IMAGE overall, CUR.62.32.4.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 12/19/2008
RIGHTS STATEMENT © Estate of Walt Kuhn
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The Great Wold Valley is the largest and broadest of the valleys cutting into the Yorkshire Wolds in northern England. It carries the Gypsey Race, an intermittent stream, which runs from its source near Wharram-le-Street eastwards along and through the northern Yorkshire Wolds to reach the sea at Bridlington.

It is known that the Great Wold Valley was an important place of worship during Neolithic times and there are a number of scheduled monuments in the valley. There are two dramatic right angle bends in the course of the Gypsey Race, one turning to the south at Burton Fleming then another turning eastwards again at Rudston. This intermittent and irregular watercourse is believed to be affected by a siphoning action in underground reservoirs and can come into flood apparently regardless of recent rainfall in the local vicinity. This seemingly 'magical' property is thought to be responsible for the number of significant Neolithic sites along its course, including the Rudston Monolith and the ancient burial mounds at Willy Howe,  Duggleby Howe and Wold Newton. Howe, in this case a topographic name from Middle English, originated with the Old Norse word haugr meaning a small hill or a man-made mound or barrow.

Physical influences
The underlying bedrock of the valley is chalk which was laid down in the Cretaceous period. On the sides of the valley wind blown sand and loess overlie the chalk and in the valley bottom alluvium covers undifferentiated deposits of fragmented chalk which were eroded from the hillsides in the Ice Age. In pre-glacial times the Great Wold Valley was the seaward outlet of the River Ure from Wensleydale but the ice sheets in the Vale of York blocked and then permanently altered the course of the Ure.

Human influences

The historic landscape of the Great Wold Valley provides an important insight into the activities of prehistoric peoples in the Wolds. The valley was an important place of worship in prehistoric times and the valley houses a number of important scheduled monuments dating back to Neolithic times. Rudston is the centre of a prehistoric landscape and four Neolithic cursus converge on the village area. Argham Dyke, a prehistoric earthwork dating from the Bronze Age, crosses the area near Rudston. There is also evidence of Iron Age and Romano British occupation as revealed by aerial photographs showing traces of fields, trackways and farms. A Roman villa has been excavated to the south-west of Rudston.

The present day field pattern is the result of parliamentary enclosure in the 18th and 19th centuries when large areas of common land were enclosed and a new system of land management was introduced. Farmers moved out of the villages onto scattered farmsteads linked to units of land. Nucleated farmsteads usually built of brick with slate or pan tiled roofs were constructed often located on high ground in the rolling farmland. These exposed locations were protected by the planting of shelterbelts of trees. Recreation and tourism enterprises including camping and caravan sites, hotels and fishing lakes, are to be found in the area of the valley close to Bridlington.

Ecological influences
Watercourses that are intermittent and irregular are locally referred to as 'gypsey springs'. They are found all over the Yorkshire Wolds. The Gypsey Race which passes through the Great Wold Valley is the best known of these watercourses. It is a chalk stream which supports large stands of bur-reed. West of Boynton, Boynton Willow Garth SSSI is an example of fen carr with a mosaic of habitats consisting of fen, scrub, woodland and running water. In the more open areas of the lower valley vegetation includes meadowsweet and great willowherb. Under the woodland canopies wood avens and enchanters nightshade are present.

In the upper part of the valley the Gypsey Race begins at Duggleby Howe. This stretch of the valley is broad and flat bottomed with the valley bottom being around 50m above ordnance datum and the sides rising to 150m above ordnance datum. In places the stream disappears and land use is mainly arable farming with some areas of grassland. Hedgerows form field boundaries and provide wildlife corridors.

References

External links
Real time webcam view of the Great Wold Valley from Eddsfield airfield

Valleys of the East Riding of Yorkshire
Valleys of Yorkshire
Yorkshire Wolds

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Three dimensional paper craft displays with your logo all over them.
Yamaha's website offers layouts and assembly instructions to help you create realistic (and, of course, branded) papercraft motorcycle models. Also, see a similar post on BWM-themed papercraft in Taiwan. If that's your thing, see a collection at MAKE for even more stuff.
Implications - Despite the availability of many tools and materials, certain artists are going for more of a traditional approach to their craft. The use of paper has become popular due to its accessibility and delicate aesthetic. The DIY aspects of this material are also attractive for people who are looking to create personal works customized by their own hands.


Vitamin A has a number of roles in the horse's body. The main one, and most well-known one, is the role it plays in night vision.
One form of A combines with opsin to produce rhodopsin. Rhodopsin is the visual pigment that helps recognize the presence of light energy and transform it into a signal that travels the nervous system. This nervous system signal is then what allows the horse to see.
However, A also has other functions in the horse. It regulates gene expression during cell differentiation. Due to this regulation, it is very important in reproduction and the creation of the embryo.
Lastly, A is important to help maintain the innate and adaptive immune response to infection.
Traditional feedstuffs usually fed to horses, such as forages, cereal grains, and plant protein supplements, are relatively low in retinol. However, retinol is present in pro-vitamin A compounds, also known as carotenoids.
One of the most well-known carotenoids is beta-carotene, and it is found in most feed ingredients that are used for horses. It is highest in forages and lower in cereal grains.
Pasture is the forage that contains the highest level while mature grass hays contain the least of the forages.
Corn is the cereal grain that has the most beta-carotene, but it has significantly less than the forages.
Beta-carotene is broken down in the small intestine and liver of the horse to be converted into A.
According to the latest edition of the NRC's Nutrient Requirements for Horses, the maintenance level of A for horses is 30 IU/kg BW. For growth the requirement is 45 IU/kg BW, while for breeding, gestation, and lactation it is 60 IU/kg BW.
Vitamin A deficiency is characterized by night blindness, which has been reported in horses.
However, clinical signs of deficiency (mainly night blindness) are hard to induce in horses, and require very low levels of carotene intake over a long period of time (at least a year or more).
However, impaired growth has been reported in growing ponies deprived of carotene. As a result, it is thought that growth parameters are a more sensitive indicator of carotene deficiency than clinical signs.
It also appears, based on the results of a number of studies, that horses may have an ability to adapt to very low levels of carotene intake, making deficiency of A even less of a worry for horse owners.
Vitamin A toxicity is more of a worry in horses than deficiency. However, it should be noted that toxicity due to beta-carotene intake has never been reported. Toxicity results in fragile bones, hyperostosis (simply the overgrowth of bone), teratogenesis (production of a malformed fetus in a pregnant mare), and other disorders.
It has also been implicated in developmental orthopedic disease in growing horses.
The presumed upper safe limit for intakes of A is 16,000 IU per kg of dry matter (16,000 IU/kg DM).


Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease two 8x4 inch loaf pans.
Beat together 2 tablespoons of softened butter and cream cheese in a large bowl until fluffy.
Slowly beat in sugar until well incorporated. Add the egg and mix well.
Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a separate bowl. In a different bowl, mix together the bananas, milk, 2 tablespoons rum, lime zest, lime juice, and vanilla extract; stir well.
Pour 1/3 of the flour mixture into the butter and mix well. Mix in 1/2 of the mashed bananas. Continue with another 1/3 of the flour, followed by the remaining banana mixture, and finally the remaining flour. Fold in pecans and coconut flakes.
Pour the mixture into the loaf pans and bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean, about 45 minutes. When finished, cool for 10 minutes in the pan, remove, and finish cooling on a wire rack.
After taking the banana bread out of the oven, prepare the topping by stirring together the brown sugar, remaining butter, lime juice, and 2 teaspoons of rum in a small saucepan over medium-high heat.
Bring to a simmer stirring constantly. Cook until the sugar has dissolved and the mixture is smooth, about one minute.
Remove from heat, and stir in 2 tablespoons pecans, and 2 tablespoons coconut.
Use a chopstick to make holes in the top of the banana bread and then spoon the topping over the loaves while they are still warm.
Overripe bananas are crucial for moist banana bread. If your bananas are yellow, but not mushy, bake them in the oven for between 20 and 30 minutes at about 350 degrees F.
I'd definitely make it again. While I'm not a huge fan of coconut flakes, they were pretty good in this recipe. I used plain old Bacardi dark, but I'll probably try it with a spiced rum the next time around.
- says Zenzele Bell, a native New Yorker and JamaicanEats magazine reader who tested this recipe for our issue 1 (July), 2015 edition. She has been cooking since elementary school and enjoys trying out new recipes.


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Northern Lakes at Risk of Losing Ice Cover Permanently: Research
Joint Funding Announced for 13 Communities in Newfoundland and Labrador
Avalon Communities Receive Funding for Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Projects
Kingston, Ont. Receives Funding for Two Disaster Mitigation Initiatives
Mark Gerretsen, member of parliament for Kingston and the Islands, and Bryan Paterson, mayor of the City of Kingston, have announced funding for two disaster mitigation initiatives in Kingston, Ontario.
"By investing in these two important disaster mitigation projects, we are helping better protect Kingston residents against flooding and shoreline erosion while also greatly reducing the costs of recovery following extreme weather events," said Mark Gerretsen, member of parliament for Kingston and the Islands.
The first project involves separating the combined sanitary and storm sewers in the city's historic downtown core to help protect residents from the effects of significant weather events. The project will see the addition of stormwater drainage controls in established neighbourhoods and the redesign of drainage paths to help manage flooding. Once completed, this project will help protect over 31,000 Kingston residents against flooding, reducing the number of people directly affected by over 80 per cent and the number of residents without essential services by approximately 90 per cent. Ultimately, this project will strengthen Kingston's resilience to flooding while reducing the impact on the local environment and economy.
The second project will see the Lake Ontario/Cataraqui River shoreline better protected from erosion. This stretch of shoreline is of critical importance for the City of Kingston given its location within six river and stream watersheds. The project will build 2,140 linear metres of sloping rock structure and repair and enhance 1,052 linear metres of shore wall. Once completed, this project will improve and protect critical infrastructure and the community's quality of life along the waterfront.
"We are delighted that the Government of Canada is committing more than $20 million towards disaster mitigation projects in Kingston," said Bryan Paterson, mayor of the City of Kingston. "We are expected to see an increase in the severity of weather events as a result of climate change. As a city, we're proactively planning for these events and we have already been recognized as having the best municipal climate action plan in Canada. These funds will help us do even more to protect our shorelines and sewer infrastructure!"
For the sanitary and storm sewer separation project, the Government of Canada is investing $10.4 million through the Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund, and the City of Kingston is contributing $15.6 million. For the shoreline erosion protection project, the Government of Canada is investing over $9.8 million through the Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund, and the City of Kingston is contributing over $14.7 million.
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Good morning & Happy Thanksgiving!
I'm starting today in my favorite way — coffee and reading in bed. Gratitude comes quite easily in these circumstances!
It's also my 1,000 post here at georgianne! I didn't realize that until I hit post on my last entry, so I've held off writing more until I could celebrate by giving something away to you faithful folks who have stuck around. Some of you have followed me from blog to blog and have offered me encouragement and prayed for me through some dark times. I'm thankful for you! I'm also thankful for you lurkers and hope that you'll pipe up and enter this giveaway. Feel free to share it with others, too, because I'd love to get this blog thing going again, and new readers would be fun.
So that's the giveaway; now for the gratitude. I'm deeply thankful for so much. God has blessed me with blessings too numerous to count. Thank you, Father, for saving my soul and giving me eyes to see. Thank you for my sweet husband who encourages me daily to see all of those blessings. Thank you for my children, for my family, for health, and a good job, friends, freedom, clean water, plentiful food, all of my material blessings, that I live in this time and place in history, books to read, yarn to knit, and on and on and on.
And so many of the blessings and advantages we have, so many of the reasons why our civilization, our culture, has flourished aren't understood; they're not appreciated. And if you don't have any appreciation of what people went through to get, to achieve, to build what you are benefiting from, then these things don't mean very much to you. You just think, well, that's the way it is. That's our birthright. That just happened. [But] it didn't just happen. And at what price? What grief? What disappointment? What suffering went on? I mean this. I think that to be ignorant or indifferent to history isn't just to be uneducated or stupid. It's to be rude, ungrateful. And ingratitude is an ugly failing in human beings.
Let's overflow with gratitude today and beyond.
Happy Thanksgiving. Please don't enter me in the giveaway, as I am already enjoying the same calendar at home. But I wanted to wave ((hello!)). I've been following you since Hawaii, as we were once stationed at Pearl as my husband served in the submarine force long ago. Blessings to you and yours!
Thanks, Kelly! I "know" you! 🙂 Sure you don't want to enter? It would make a great gift for someone! Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
Anne, Congratulations on your 1,000 post. I've so enjoyed following you and staying in touch. May God continue to sustain you and provide you with all that you need. God Bless you and your family on this Thanksgiving Day.
Thanks, Milda! Happy Thanksgiving to y'all, too.
Thanks, Amy! Happy Thanksgiving to you, too! And War Eagle!
Thanks, Lisa! Happy Thanksgiving to you!
Happy Thanksgiving to you too Anne! I have enjoyed reading your blog and have learned much, bought more books, prayed for you, and lurked too. 😉 I am thankful that your life is good. Praise God from whom all blessings flow!
Anne, your blog has been an encouragement to me spiritually and emotionally . You guys are still missed at CCPC and the blog is a way I follow your happy married life!
Thanks Carol! Miss you all too!
I've been following your blog for a while and also your IG account. Congrats on 1000!!
What a cool event…1000!! Congrats big time!
I do love following your blog! Congratulations on 1000!


For those who didn't know that Anne Bannister was running for city council, she made it pretty clear when she addressed the council during its July 3 meeting. The lifelong resident spoke during the general comments portion of the meeting wearing a "Bannister for City Council" t-shirt.
But it's what she says and what she stands for that matters most – not what she is wearing. And what she is saying and stands for is exactly why she is running for the Ward 1 seat during the Aug. 8 primary.
Her "political experience" also includes eight years as a board member of the Ann Arbor Democratic Party. From 2009-2016, she served as the group's treasurer, co-chair, and immediate past co-chair.
"These are skills and experience I would bring with me to city council," she said.
A 1986 graduate from the University of Michigan, Bannister has spent the past 11 years as the director of personal finance education services, Inc., an Ann Arbor-based 501(c)(3) organization. In 2009, she also became director of the Jump$tart Clearinghouse for Personal Financial Literacy, an online database and virtual library of financial education resources for pre-K-12 through college-age students.


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ExchangeWire: When Ad Tech Arrived At Ad Week
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'Fragmentation Feeds The Need For Automation', that was pretty much the message here. The mobilisation of consumers, cross-device targeting, wearable tech, these are all key trends at Ad Week Europe currently being hosted in London.
Here the ad tech sector is pitching itself as the only viable means of taking advantage of both the pace of change and scale of opportunity.
As mentioned in the previous Ad Week Europe post, the programmatic sector is using the four-day event to sell itself to other branches of the industry on a scale as never before.
To put things into perspective, Matt Scheckner, the (clearly American) executive director of Advertising Week Europe, even declared: "Programmatic is the prettiest girl at this year's ball", when describing levels of interest in the sector. Take out of that what you will.
AppNexus, MediaMath and TubeMogul have thus far taken to the Ad Week Europe stage in a bid to firstly tame the wider advertising industry's fear of ad tech. And then secondly, pitch their wares as driving ROI for brands and organisations as a whole. Not just more ad tech that can engineer more problems.
AppNexus followed up on its earlier research announcement, sponsoring a panel session themed on programmatic and mobile. But if this blog is to be frankly honest, it descended into a generic debate around mobile in general, with little emphasis on programmatic.
It was panellist Stephen Jenkins, Millennial media, VP of marketing, EMEA, that made the most succinct of observations on how mobile media's emergence is requiring a shift in how advertisers formulate their attribution strategies. An issue raised here just last week.
"Attribution is a challenge, but what mobile does offer is the link of physical and digital, as it's in someone's pocket all day long. From there we can start to trace back [as to which media placements are driving value both on and offline]," he said.
Meanwhile, Erich Wasserman, Mediamath, chief revenue officer (pictured), took to the stage yesterday delivering a presentation entitled: "Gaining clarity in a fragmented landscape".
Here the message was how fragmentation of the media landscape was creating countless more media opportunities – 3.5 trillion a month according to Wasserman's presentation – with digital accounting for 57% of them.
This assessment stands up to scrutiny when you consider that wearable tech (check here for mobile agency Somo's April Fool's on wearables) and cross-device targeting were two of the other key themes at the conference.
Wasserman raised these themes and identified the burgeoning wealth of media opportunities that will come and this now demands brands to adopt an automated approach to their media strategies.
"It presents a large challenge, and at the same time it's difficult to gain access to audiences… we just can't do this by hand any more," he told attendees.
"The challenges is faced by many of the strongest organisations in the world. And they're all using automation to increase their access to consumers, and automation brings what otherwise would be an impossible manual task.
"This way the practice of marketing can evolve to focusing on strategy to achieve maximum ROI."
Sticking with AppNexus' message of ad tech providing value, as opposed to adding layers of needless complication, TubeMogul hosted an event on viewable ads. The term "viewability" has now entered the Ad Week Europe lexicon.
Here TubeMogul's UK managing director, Nick Reid told a packed room (most claimed they weren't in ad tech) the industry-wide initiative to provide a common technology standard, that will subsequently establish a common metric for what is and isn't a viewable video ad via Open Video Viewability.
As mentioned earlier, interest in the sector was palpable by the (needless) queuing outside the programmatic sessions down at BAFTA. But debate during said sessions was surface level at best.
Discussions brushed around the surface areas of how 'the industry needs to better articulate itself', 'what are the implications for the agency model', and the near obligatory 'WTF is RTB?!'
So while widespread interest in programmatic among advertisers is clear, there was little genuine widespread understanding of the sector in evidence.
To use Scheckner's analogy of comparing the conference to a "ball", ExchangeWire would describe the programmatic sector as more of a debutant, with execs from the likes of Rubicon Project and Vivaki, proving the same draw as other more glamorous attractions at the conference like Idris Elba, James Corden and Steve Coogan.


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Blair Witch sequel: fulfilling modern audiences' expectations?
Luke Shaw
The mantra that there's nothing new under the sun is… nothing new, considering Hollywood has been remaking its own films since the 1920s. The much loved Judy Garland's Wizard of Oz wasn't the first time L. Frank Baum's beloved story had been transferred to the silver screen to name one pertinent example. Let's set down torches for Blair Witch. The writer-director combo Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett are responsible for two of the best cult horrors in the past few years (You're Next and The Guest) so the reveal that their latest film, The Woods, was actually an ultra-secret sequel to 1999's landmark found footage film The Blair Witch Project, was met with tentative cheers.
With its achingly cool poster, Blair Witch stands out amongst the current crop of modern horror by both having some prior cult prestige, and the stylish curation of Wingard behind it. The decision to go back to such a paradigm shift of a film must have been a tortuous one, which explains the attachment of Roy Lee, the producer that helped usher horror into vogue in America with Verbinski's Ring and Raimi's Grudge remakes.
This remake is in incredibly safe hands, but poised in an interesting way. Some might say The Blair Witch Project is a terrible horror film, but an incredibly vital piece of experimental filmmaking that burst into the mainstream through a careful concoction of hype and intentional blurring of the lines between fact and fiction. Myrick and Sanchez's original film isn't without its moments of shock, and it has a brooding atmosphere that's as heady and oppressive as the forest air. This marks it out as unique, but also too placid and cool to survive in the world of modern horror, where every film succeeding Paranormal Activity treats The Blair Witch Project as palimpsest.
Wingard takes us back to the Black Hills Forest as James — brother of Heather from the original has organised to meet an amateur filmmaker that has supposedly recovered new footage from the first expedition. Spurred on by documentary film student Lisa, and joined by their mutual friends, they set off to find some trace of the erstwhile party. Since it's a contemporary film, the tech has improved: ear-mounted cameras, infra-red webcams and drones all feature giving Wingard a greater range of movement and novelty than was afforded to the crew in 1999.
A cast of relative unknowns (Callie Hernandez, James Allen McCune, Valorie Curry) fit the bill as boilerplate college kids, and the kooky pair of Confederate flag toting, death metal listening outcasts that accompany the group on the visit are realised well enough. Where the film truly diverges from the original is in its relentlessness and its awareness of itself and its legacy. Care is taken to slowly build up to the point where the film tips from tension to out and out horror, but when the highest peaks in tension are reached, the film explodes forwards without a pause.
The fiction of the Blair Witch is expanded on to give audiences something less ambiguous to grasp. Temporal fuckery, and actual factual witchcraft come into play to gruesome effect, interestingly building on the stone mounds and wooden figures of the original — one particular scene involving the little figures is a snappy highmark of the whole film. Unfortunately, the decision to veer into genuine paranormal activity is a pyrrhic victory. The vagueness of the original is scooped out and replaced with a very physical dread rather than the crushing sense of the unknown that fogged up the first film. Fans of the more reserved approach of the original will be disappointed by the new brutality, but it creates an effective thrill ride.
Unlike its predecessor, it's very clear there's something evil in the woods but exposure is minimal. The cracks and thuds of the sound design are the driving force of the terror, with splitting trees and far off howls ratcheting up tension even when the digital cameras artefact, blow-out and generally obscure vision. The knowing nature of the script helps too, and Barrett excels in peppering the film with call backs and witty retorts to audience expectation. After the third or fourth time a character jumps out to surprise another person, a weary Lisa exclaims "Could everybody stop doing that?". It acutely sums up both modern horror's reliance on traditional jump scares and acknowledges that they're an utterly vital and storied tool in the artifice of horror.
A storm heralds the final moments of the film, as the remaining cast uncover the very real constructions that acted as a nexus for the Blair Witch mythology. It's one of the most convincing transfers of the ruthlessness of nature to screen, with the sound design once again coming through as the true star of this show (no surprise given Wingard's pedigree) as the remorseless lashing of rain and booming thunderclaps become overbearing. After a gruelling ordeal in a tunnel, the film finishes as abruptly as the original.
Blair Witch comes with some amount of baggage. It became a franchise, and was mined for book sequels and even video games. One of the key elements of horror is forcing an audience to travel down roads they don't want to, making them brush up against the truly horrific. When the roads are already well worn, it's hard to convince your audience to hide behind their hands. Blair Witch may not succeed in being the revolution in horror as its early previews suggested, but it is lovingly crafted for a project so steeped in expectation. Its first half stays true to the isolation of the original, whereas its second half stands exclusively for a modern audience. It never quite manages to tie these together in way that elevates the experience, but it's proof that Wingard and Barrett are a duo qualified to handle the genre with ease.
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El cran en tipografía es una muesca que tiene cada letra de imprenta para que, al colocarla en el componedor, pueda el cajista conocer si ha quedado en la posición conveniente. Más técnicamente,
esta palabra se define como la hendidura que tienen las letras en el árbol, y sirve para que el cajista identificase al tacto la posición de la letra. Algunas letras tienen dos y tres cranes.

Comenzaron a usarse a mediados del siglo , y se realizaba colocando un alambre en el molde donde se fundía el tipo. En la tipografía digital, el cran ha desaparecido, pues carece de sentido.

Algunos tratadistas emplean cran como sinónimo del inglés kern o kerning, que hace referencia al proceso de ajustar el espaciado entre pares de letras. Con este valor tiene escaso uso, pues se prefiere dejar el término inglés o se emplean otras alternativas como interletraje o interletra. Esta equivalencia proviene del homónimo francés, con un significado parecido a orejeta, que denota el pequeño saliente que tenían que hacer los tipógrafos en las piezas de plomo debido a la morfología de algunos caracteres para que la siguiente letra no quedara muy separada visualmente (se trata, por tanto, de un falso amigo).

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So your standard collection of straight white male* honchos from across Orange County (Foy, Chilton, Jacobs, Moeser) and their friends are inviting community leaders to come on a trip with them to Madison, Wisconsin. The Inter-City Visit and Leadership Conference costs over $1,000 per person, but there are scholarships available.
Read more about Who's going to Madison?
We haven't had an open thread in a while. What's on your mind?
Every politically successful conservative position gets twisted. Now peace is patriotic and the phrase "God bless America" has been corrected to include a blessing for every nation on earth.
One bumper sticker proclaims that the real axis of evil is Bush, Cheney and Ashcroft, not the terrorists. This is blatantly anti-American.
The village in Texas that is missing its idiot, according to one bumper sticker, should admit that the Yale graduate, professional baseball team owner, Texas governor, and two-term president has gone a long way.
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Compare and contrast... Young black men with guns at After Chill vs. young white man with gun at East Chapel Hill High. What's the difference?
Many people have complained of Apple Chill's $100,000 price tag as a drain on the town. But no-one batted an eye at the $681,000 cost of the Council's acquiesence to the Dogwood Acres neighborhood at the same meeting on Monday night. When Southern Village was being built a decade ago, Dogwood Acres vehemently fought any physcial connection to their new neighbor. After it was done they had a change of heart.
Now that the town is building the Southern Community Park on their doorstep, again Dogwood Acres wants to innoculate itself from the change. It seems to me that these folks are pretty lucky getting access to so many amenities within walking distance of their lovely neighborhood, but they fight these improvements like they are a stinking landfill! That is, until they are built.


ISSAQUAH, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 4, 2005--Costco Wholesale Corporation (Nasdaq: COST) today reported net sales of $4.02 billion for the four weeks ended July 31, 2005, an increase of 8 percent from $3.71 billion in the same four-week period of the prior fiscal year. This year's four-week period included 27 days of sales compared to 28 days for the comparable four-week period last year, reflecting the timing of the Fourth of July holiday. This calendar shift negatively impacted reported net sales and comparable sales by approximately 3-4 percent.
For the first 48 weeks of its 2005 fiscal year ended July 31, 2005, the Company reported net sales of $47.78 billion, an increase of 10 percent from $43.51 billion during the similar 48-week period of the prior fiscal year.
Additional discussion of these sales results is available on a pre-recorded telephone message. You can access the recording by dialing 1-800-642-1687 (conference ID# 5076011). This recorded message will be available today through 7:00 PM (PDT) on Friday, August 5, 2005.
Costco currently operates 458 warehouses, including 337 in the United States and Puerto Rico, 65 in Canada, 16 in the United Kingdom, five in Korea, four in Taiwan, five in Japan and 26 in Mexico. The Company also operates Costco Online, an electronic commerce web site, at www.costco.com and at www.costco.ca in Canada. The Company plans to open two additional new warehouses prior to the end of its fiscal year 2005, on August 28, 2005.


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Jigsaw expands circular concept with repair service and pre-loved pop-up
Jigsaw has expanded its 'Jigsaw Forever' circular concept with the launch of its in-house REPAIR REWEAR service, as well as the opening of a pop-up shop for pre-loved fashion in partnership with resale and rental platform MyWardrobeHQ.
The REPAIR REWEAR service will be free of charge for one year from purchase of a garment, after which a small fee will be incurred for any repairs. Repairs will be carried out by mother and daughter duo, Karen and Tara, at the brand's Swindon warehouse.
Meanwhile a pop-up shop, in partnership with MYWARDROBEHQ, has been opened on Kensington High Street offering pre-loved and archive Jigsaw pieces and will remain open while stock lasts. Visitors to the shop will also have the chance to trade in old items in exchange for vouchers to spend in-store.
The moves follow on from the launch of Jigsaw Forever in partnership with MYWARDROBEHQ (MWHQ) in July 2022, which offers Jigsaw garments for resale and rental. As well as being able to rent individual items, the service also includes a subscription service allowing customers to refresh their wardrobes on a monthly basis with rented items. Customers can also use the platform to trade in pre-loved items in exchange for Jigsaw vouchers, the value of which is calculated depending on the category of item.
As well as offering resale and rental, Jigsaw says it is committed to prioritising the creation of "consciously crafted, long-lasting collections", using, where possible, fully traceable, responsibly source, natural materials.
CEO Beth Butterwick said of the latest expansion of the circular initiative: ''With the secondary market growing 11 times faster than the primary, sustainability is undoubtedly going to transform the fashion industry over the next 10 years. Our research tells us our customers value the beauty of our products, often keeping them in their wardrobes for years.
"Our partnership with MWHQ not only allows existing customers and new to enjoy standout pieces via rental and subscription, but as excitingly, discover unique pre-loved Jigsaw unicorn pieces. With style longevity enduring over disposable fashion, these options open us up to a much broader audience of age groups to falling in love with 50 years of Jigsaw ethos.''
Jigsaw is one of the best-known names in British fashion, having been founded in 1970 by John Robinson. It is known for collaborating with renowned architects, upcoming photographers and artisan mills, makers, and creators, bringing elevated design to the British high street.
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Lindsay Buchanan Burke
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Lindsay Burke co-chairs the firm's employment practice group and regularly advises U.S., international, and multinational employers on employee management issues and international HR compliance. Her U.S. practice includes advice pertaining to harassment, discrimination, leave, whistleblower, wage and hour, trade secret, and non-competition issues arising under federal and state laws, and she frequently partners with white collar colleagues to conduct internal workplace culture assessments and audits in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Her international practice focuses on drafting global employment policies and coordinating multi-country surveys to ensure that employment contracts and policies comply with employment laws across many jurisdictions.
Ms. Burke guides employers through the process of hiring and terminating employees and managing their performance, including the drafting and review of employment agreements, restrictive covenant agreements, separation agreements, performance plans, and key employee policies and handbooks. She provides practical advice against the backdrop of the web of state and federal employment laws, such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the False Claims Act, with the objective of minimizing the risk of employee litigation. When litigation looms, Ms. Burke relies on her experience as an employment litigator to offer employers strategic advice and assistance in responding to demand letters and agency charges.
Ms. Burke works frequently with the firm's privacy, employee benefits and executive compensation, corporate, government contracts, and cybersecurity practice groups to ensure that all potential employment issues are addressed in matters handled by these groups. She also regularly provides U.S. employment law training, support, and assistance to start-ups and foreign parent companies opening affiliates in the U.S.
Representative Matters
Led employment aspects of investigation of workplace culture at major technology company.
Revised key company-wide leave policies for Massachusetts-based digital technology company operating in five states.
Drafted settlement agreements on behalf of pharmaceutical company for relators in False Claims Act 3730(h) cases as part of global settlement with Department of Justice.
Drafted employment agreements for executives of new U.S. subsidiary of UK-based company.
Assisted in internal investigation of the CEO of a multinational technology company alleged to have engaged in misconduct with a contractor.
Coordinated Latin American local counsel in review of employment agreements for use by multinational staffing firm in 32 countries worldwide.
Successfully argued a whistleblower retaliation case arising under the False Claims Act in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on behalf of a pharmaceutical company after winning dismissal at summary judgment stage.
Advised media company concerning reduction of workforce in effort to streamline operations and reduce costs.
Achieved favorable settlement on behalf of telecommunications client filing claim against former employee accused of breaching post-employment restrictive covenants and confidentiality obligations as well as misappropriating trade secrets.
Won summary judgment in a sexual harassment case brought against a public university by a former professor.
Defended major financial services firm in putative class action race discrimination litigation.
Successfully defended not-for-profit mental health agency, a provider of community homes for homeless and mentally ill DC residents, in overtime action under the Fair Labor Standards Act brought by former employee.
Represented nonprofit animal shelter in complaint filed with the Department of Labor alleging violations of USERRA.
Represented several employees of a moving company in settling race discrimination and overtime wage claims.
Frequently advise nonprofit organizations on employment policies and handbooks.
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Achieving Compliance in Hiring Under U.S. Export Control and Anti-Discrimination Laws
April 3, 2019, Covington Alert
In February 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") announced a settlement with Honda Aircraft Company LLC regarding claims that Honda Aircraft violated the Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA") by discriminating against non-U.S. citizens in an attempt to comply with requirements of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations ("ITAR") and the Export ...
What to Keep in Mind For Cultural Reviews In The #MeToo Era
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Lindsay Burke Quoted in Variety Article Regarding Importance of Workplace Cultural Reviews
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Lindsay Burke is quoted in a Variety article regarding the importance of cultural risk assessments in the workplace. "If you're going to get into brand crisis level allegations, you need more resources," Burke says. "You need resources to review a larger set of documents. You need corporate governance expertise."
No Tax Deductions for Sexual Harassment Settlements with Non-Disclosure Agreements
March 16, 2018, Inside Compensation
Part of Our Series on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act of 2017 adds a new provision to the Code, section 162(q), that eliminates deductions for settlement payments related to sexual harassment or sexual abuse "if such settlement or payment is subject to a nondisclosure requirement." The...… Continue Reading
Department of Labor Scraps Prior Unpaid Intern Test and Adopts More Flexible Approach
January 11, 2018, Covington Alert
The U.S. Department of Labor recently announced that it will apply a new, more flexible test for determining whether interns working for "for-profit" companies are entitled to minimum wage and overtime protection under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. In this client alert, we discuss the new test and identify some important points for employers to consider ...
Workplace Culture and Harassment Red Flags and Lessons Learned
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This webinar discussed the importance of workplace culture and best practices to reduce the risk of a toxic work environment. Topics included the current landscape employers are facing, why culture in the workplace matters, warning signs of an unhealthy workplace culture, and the legislative response to the #MeToo movement.
DOL Publishes Proposal to Expand Overtime Protections
Following two years of anticipation, after a similar but more aggressive rule was proposed by President Obama's administration and then squashed by federal courts in Texas, the Department of Labor (DOL) has issued the long-awaited Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that, if enacted, would expand access to overtime pay for certain employees under the Fair Labor...… ...
International Employment Law Update
February 2019, Covington Alert
This International Employment Update summarises recent international employment law developments in China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
#MeToo Spurs New California Workplace Harassment Protections and Gender Equality on Corporate Boards
October 24, 2018, Covington Alert
California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed into law a number of landmark bills aimed at strengthening sexual harassment protections in the workplace and boosting gender equality in the boardroom. Here is an overview of the new statutes; unless otherwise specified, they take effect on January 1, 2019.
SCOTUS Upholds Employee Class Action Waivers in Epic Systems
May 23, 2018, Inside Compensation
The Supreme Court put to rest years of uncertainty regarding the enforceability of class action waivers for employees when it decided Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, 582 U.S. ___ (2018) on May 21. In a 5-4 decision, the majority held that employers do not violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) or the Federal Arbitration...… Continue Reading
UK Proposals To Fight Workplace Sexual Harassment
April 20, 2018, Covington Alert
On March 27 2018, the UK Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) published a report, Turning the tables: ending sexual harassment at work, in which it makes a number of recommendations for legal changes to better protect the victims of sexual harassment at work.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017: Employee Benefit and Fringe Benefit Provisions
February 14, 2018, Covington Alert
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the "Act") became Pub. Law 115-97 on December 22, 2017. Many of its more startling provisions have become well known since then. Of less dramatic impact are several provisions affecting qualified employer plans, fringe benefits, and certain kinds of compensation. These provisions are described in this client alert. This client ...
February 1, 2018, Covington Alert
This International Employment Update summarises recent international employment law developments in China, India, Italy, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Law360 Names Attys Who Moved Up The Firm Ranks In Q4
January 30, 2018, Law360
Law360 highlights the promotion of Covington's newest partners, including John Balzano, Lindsay Burke, Bradley Chernin, Christopher DeCresce, Guy Dingley, Matthew Dunn, Laura Flahive Wu, Pamela Forrest, Alexa Hansen, Megan Keane, Sam Pyun, Kyle Rabe, Ansgar Simon, Andrew Soukup, Emily Ullman, and Mark Young.
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced that it will apply a new, more flexible test for determining whether interns working for "for-profit" companies are entitled to minimum wage and overtime protection under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The new test is set forth in DOL Fact Sheet #71 (updated January 2018).
Cybersecurity Risks in the Workplace: Managing Insider Threats
January 2018, Pratt's Privacy & Cybersecurity Law Report
Reminder: NYC Ban on Salary History Inquiries Takes Effect at End of Month
Beginning October 31, 2017, New York City employers will no longer be permitted to ask job applicants about their salary history or rely on a job applicant's salary history in determining the potential salary or benefits for that applicant. The new legislation, which applies to all employees working in New York City and was signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio in May, ...
Cyber Risks in the Workplace: Managing Insider Threats
October 10, 2017, Inside Privacy
Today, one of the most critical risks a company can face is the cyber risks associated with its own employees or contractors. Companies are confronting an increasingly complex series of cybersecurity challenges with employees in the workplace, including employees failing to comply with established cybersecurity policies, accidentally downloading an attachment ...
Covington Promotes 16 New Partners
WASHINGTON—Covington has promoted 16 lawyers to its partnership. "It's a great tribute to the firm's vibrancy that we're continuing to build an exceptional pipeline of new partners from within our ranks," said Timothy Hester, Covington's chair. "We're confident that all 16 will add importantly to the firm's strengths and will drive further expansion of core ...
All Change: Top Five Global Mobility Hot Topics
September 27, 2017, Employment Webinar Series
Rescission of DACA Raises Employer Considerations and Legislative Options
September 7, 2017, Covington Alert
On Tuesday, the Trump Administration announced plans to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ("DACA") program, which allows qualifying, vetted undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children to remain in the country and obtain temporary work authorization. While some components of the DACA termination will begin to take effect ...
September 2017, Covington Alert
On March 5, 2017, the Belgian parliament enacted the Flexible and Workable Work Law, which seeks to increase flexibility for both employers and employees.
Supreme Court Narrows Nationwide Injunctions on Travel Ban Executive Order, Effectively Reinstating Key Provisions
June 30, 2017, Covington Alert
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court issued a ruling staying certain parts of the injunctions entered by the Fourth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal against Executive Order No. 13780, the so-called "travel ban" Executive Order (the "Order"), and the State Department issued clarifying guidance on June 28. The effect of the Supreme Court ruling is to allow ...
China's Labor Ministry Overhauls Regime for Resolving Labor and Personnel Disputes
June 7, 2017, Covington Alert
Pursuant to the State Council's directive to build harmonious labor relationships and to strengthen the system for resolving labor disputes, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS) recently revised two sets of arbitration rules. The revisions address new issues and provide clarification of existing regulations. The key objectives are to ...
Can your off-hours political activism get you in trouble at work?
May 31, 2017, The Washington Post
Lindsay Burke is quoted by The Washington Post in an article regarding employee rights when it comes to off-duty political activity. Commenting on whether freedom of speech protections offer job protections for nongovernment workers, Burke says, "[I]f it's a private employer, there's no particular freedom of speech." She adds, "There are no particular First ...
Challenges and Priorities for the New Secretary of Labor
April 28, 2017, Inside Government Contracts
Alex Acosta was confirmed by the Senate to be the next Secretary of Labor. He now takes responsibility for several high-profile issues with critical implications for government contractors. As we have previously written, the Labor Department was an exceptionally active regulator from 2013 through the end of the Obama Administration. Although few of us ...
President Issues Narrower Executive Order on Immigration
March 7, 2017, Covington Alert
Yesterday, President Trump issued a new Executive Order (the "Order") titled "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States." This new Order replaces the so-called "travel ban" Executive Order issued January 27 (the "Prior Order") which was subject to a nationwide temporary restraining order issued by the U.S. District Court for the ...
Too much information on chat can leave employers in legal lurch
March 6, 2017, Business Insurance
Lindsay Burke is quoted in a Business Insurance article regarding the risks associated with internal office chat applications. "People think of it as a casual form of communication," Burke says, "and they forget that it's business and usually the company is keeping a record of the communication. And if the company finds itself in litigation, then the discovery ...
Update for Employers on the Immigration-related Executive Order
Following last week's advisory concerning President Trump's Executive Order "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States (the "Order"), numerous lawsuits were filed challenging the Order. One such challenge, filed by the State of Washington and the State of Minnesota, culminated in yesterday's unanimous decision by the United States ...
This International Employment Update summarises recent international employment law developments in Austria, China, France, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Practical Considerations for Employers on the Immigration-related Executive Order
As has been widely reported, President Trump issued an Executive Order ("the Order") on Friday, January 27, 2017, entitled "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States," which, among other directives, bans individuals from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, and Somalia (the "Covered Countries") from entering the United States ...
Confidentiality Agreements Continue to Pose Potential Compliance Trap for Contractors
December 19, 2016, Westlaw Journal Government Contract
November 21, 2016, Inside Government Contracts
Federal contractors who require employees to sign confidentiality agreements—including those selling only commercial products or in small quantities—need to examine their agreements closely. For the last two years, the government has sought to prohibit confidentiality agreements that restrict employees' ability to report fraud, waste, or abuse to "designated ...
SEC Blasts Employee Confidentiality Agreements
November 7, 2016, Agenda
Barbara Hoffman and Lindsay Burke are quoted in an Agenda article regarding the SEC's continued interest in restrictive confidentiality agreements that could deter employees from reporting company violations to authorities. According to Hoffman, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration administers a number of whistle-blowing programs for federal ...
What your boss can and can't do when it comes to politics at work
October 21, 2016, The Washington Post
Lindsay Burke and Robert Lenhard are quoted in a Washington Post article regarding laws governing political communications in the workplace. According to Burke employees of private companies are often surprised they don't have the First Amendment rights they do outside the workplace. She adds that although companies can't prohibit workers from talking about ...
Paid Sick Leave Final Regulations Released
October 5, 2016, Inside Government Contracts
The Labor Department's Wage & Hour Division ("WHD") released final regulations implementing mandatory paid sick leave for employees working on federal service, construction, and concessions contracts. The Labor Department incorporated some changes to the proposed regulations, which we previewed earlier this year, but the final rule still imposes significant ...
October 5, 2016, Covington Alert
The International Employment Update summarises recent international employment law developments in the United Kingdom, France, Poland, China and the United States of America.
Any Agreements with Employees Might Implicate Whistleblower Rules
September 30, 2016, Covington Alert
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continues to aggressively pursue companies using severance and other employment agreements that could be perceived to discourage employees from reporting possible securities law violations. Three enforcement actions this past summer demonstrate the need for companies to proactively review and give consideration ...
"Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces" Final Rule and Guidance Released
August 29, 2016, Inside Government Contracts
Just in time for Labor Day, the Labor Department and FAR Council issued a final rule and accompanying "Guidance" to implement the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order. The new regulations will take effect on October 25, 2016. The regulations—which run to nearly 900 pages—contain a number of changes from the proposed regulations to...… Continue ...
Insider Threats to Cybersecurity—Prevent, Prepare, and React Webinar
June 21, 2016, Webinar
Los Angeles and San Diego Pass New Paid Sick Leave Ordinances
Not content with California's state law requiring employers to provide certain employees with paid sick leave, Los Angeles's Mayor recently signed into law a new ordinance that would provide eligible employees working in the City of Los Angeles with more generous paid sick leave benefits. Meanwhile, voters in San Diego also recently approved a local sick leave ...
U.S. Department of Labor Finalizes Changes to FLSA White Collar Exemption Rule
On May 18, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) finalized its much-anticipated update to the Fair Labor Standards Act's (FLSA) so-called white collar overtime exemption rule. Effective December 1, 2016, an employee must earn at least $913 per week—the equivalent of $47,476 per year, more than double the current rate—in order to qualify as exempt from overtime ...
Updating Agreements as Required by the Defend Trade Secrets Act
D.C. Circuit Declines to Extend Davis-Bacon Act
April 8, 2016, Inside Government Contracts
Some Washingtonians stroll through CityCenterDC on shopping sprees at "upscale retail stores such as Hermès, Boss, and Louis Vuitton," or meet for lunch at "high-end restaurants such as DBGB and Centrolina." Covington lawyers watch these scenes from our offices in the northwest corner of CityCenterDC, where we recently analyzed the D.C. Circuit's opinion ...
April 2016, Covington Alert
Europe Right to Private Life v. Right to Monitor On January 12, 2016, the European Court of Human Rights published its judgment in another case concerning an employee's use of company information systems, once again highlighting the challenge of balancing an employee's right to a private life against the right of an employer to monitor employees at work. In ...
Politics in the Workplace: A Primer for the 2016 Elections
March 18, 2016, Corporate Counsel
Minimizing The Risks Of Hiring Employees From A Competitor
March 17, 2016, Law360
DOL Issues Guidance on Its Broad View of Joint Employment
February 8, 2016, Inside Compensation
On January 20, the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued new guidance on joint employment under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The guidance marks the third time in recent years that WHD has stressed the broad definition of "employment" under the FLSA, following June 2014 guidance on joint employment in the...… Continue Reading
U.S. Department of Labor Issues Guidance on Misclassification of Workers
July 23, 2015, Covington Alert
Insider Threats to Cybersecurity—Prevent, Prepare, React
July 17, 2015, Webinar
International Employment Update
DOL Proposes to Expand Overtime Protection
July 8, 2015, Inside Compensation
The Department of Labor has proposed a rule (available here) that would significantly increase the minimum salary threshold required to qualify for the FLSA's so-called "white collar" exemptions for executive, administrative, and professional employees. The finalized rule is expected to take effect in 2016. The current salary threshold, set in 2004, is $455 per ...
Department Of Labor Proposes Changes to FLSA White Collar Exemption Rules
July 8, 2015, Covington Alert
May 12, 2015, Covington E-Alert
Update on Final Rule for the Family Medical Leave Act
April 20, 2015, Inside Compensation
On March 26, 2015—just one day before the Final Rule for the Family Medical Leave Act ("FMLA") was to take effect—a federal court in Texas blocked the Final Rule's application to the states of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Nebraska, pending a full determination of the issue on the merits in Texas v. United States. The...… Continue Reading
Supreme Court Makes New Rule in Analyzing Pregnancy Discrimination Act
The Supreme Court held on March 25, 2015 in Young v. UPS that a plaintiff alleging pregnancy discrimination based upon the denial of an accommodation may proceed under the familiar McDonnell Douglas framework generally applied to Title VII discrimination claims. The Court's decision, which resulted in a remand to the Fourth Circuit, surprised many observers...… ...
4/16/2015, Covington E-Alert
SEC Order May Impact Employee Confidentiality Obligations
April 1, 2015, Covington E-Alert
FMLA Protections for Same-Sex Spouses
Under a Final Rule recently adopted by the Department of Labor ("DOL"), legally married same-sex couples will be included in the definition of "spouse" under the Family and Medical Leave Act ("FMLA") and will be eligible to use FMLA leave to care for their spouse or family member, regardless of whether their marriage would be...… Continue Reading
Insider threats to cybersecurity — An HR legal perspective
March 12, 2015, Inside Counsel
Richard Shea, Lindsay Burke and Ashden Fein have authored this article on cybersecurity threats: "Cybersecurity threats can emanate not just from outside sources but from company insiders as well — including employees, executives, directors and contractors. According to NetDiligence's 2014 Cyber Insurance Claims Study, roughly one-third of the reported events ...
March 12, 2015, InsideCounsel
February 10, 2015, Covington E-Alert
December 8, 2014, Covington E-Alert
EEOC Issues Enforcement Guidance on Pregnancy Discrimination
November 10, 2014, Covington E-Alert
October 20, 2014, Covington E-Alert
April 22, 2014, Covington E-Alert
Supreme Court Extends SOX Whistleblower Protection to Employees of Private Contractors and Subcontractors of Public Companies
EEOC and FTC Issue Joint Guidance on Background Checks Performed by Employers
March 25, 2014, Covington E-Alert
March 13, 2014, Inside Privacy
By Lindsay Burke and Brian Fitzpatrick On March 10, 2014, the EEOC and the FTC issued joint guidance on how the anti-discrimination laws and the Fair Credit Reporting Act ("FCRA") apply to background checks performed by employers for employment application purposes. This guidance is published in two documents, one directed at employers and the other...… Continue ...
Social Media and Confidentiality: Gray Areas for Employers
September 10, 2013, Law360
Federal Court Finds Stored Communications Act Applies to Facebook Wall Posts
September 4, 2013, Inside Privacy
A New Jersey federal court recently held that an employee's Facebook wall posts were protected by the Stored Communications Act ("SCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq., in one of the first cases to analyze the SCA's application to the Facebook wall. Ehling v. Monmouth-Ocean Hospital Service Corp.., No. 2:11-cv-3305 (WMJ) (D.N.J. Aug. 20, 2013). An...… Continue ...
September 4, 2013, InsidePrivacy Blog
Individual Arbitration Agreements Held to Preclude Class Actions under FLSA
August 20, 2013, Inside Compensation
In two closely watched cases, the Second Circuit has ruled that the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") does not preclude the waiver of class action claims (known technically as "collective actions" under the FLSA). In decisions issued on August 9th and 12th, the Second Circuit reversed lower court rulings that had refused to enforce individual...… Continue Reading
DOL Moves Forward with Disability Hiring Rules for Government Contractors
On July 31st, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs ("OFCCP") of the Department of Labor submitted to the Office of Management and Budget ("OMB") a final rule revising federal regulations regarding affirmative action for individuals with disabilities by covered federal contractors and subcontractors. If adopted, the regulations would mark the first ...
The NLRB Strikes Down Employer Policies on Social Media and the Confidentiality of Complaint Investigation
August 15, 2013, Covington Advisory
The NLRB Strikes Down Employer Policies on Social Media and the Confidentiality of Complaint Investigations
August 13, 2013, Inside Privacy
Many employers have been surprised by recent rulings that two common employment policies run afoul of the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA") even if their employees are not union members. Based on a legitimate interest in preserving confidentiality and privacy, many employers have adopted social media policies limiting what employees may post on Facebook ...
Department of Labor Moves Forward on Affirmative Action Regarding Individuals with Disabilities
August 8, 2013, Covington Advisory
March 14, 2013, InsidePrivacy Blog
Federal Court Rejects Banking Group Challenge to DOL Position Change on Loan Officers' Exempt Status under FLSA
June 22, 2012, Covington E-Alert
Covington Secures Victory for George Mason University in Sexual Harassment Case
WASHINGTON, DC, May 24, 2010 — Covington & Burling LLP obtained summary judgment on all claims asserted by law professor Kyndra Rotunda against George Mason University. Ms. Rotunda had sued the University for sexual harassment, retaliation, pay discrimination, and constructive discharge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. After ...
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It's not every day that we cover extraordinary success stories against the recalcitrant (to put it mildly) auto industry, and it's all thanks to a few relentless safety advocates.
On average, two children die and about 50 are injured every week when someone accidentally backs over them in a vehicle, according to KidsAndCars.org, a nonprofit group that pushed the government to begin tracking such tragedies. And more than two-thirds of the time, a parent or other close relative is behind the wheel. … Backovers are the most common cause of off-road deaths involving children and vehicles, according to KidsAndCars.
[S]he was carjacked, robbed, and left in a trunk with her husband. They escaped and their infant son was unharmed but Fennell wondered why few others were so lucky. That led to a successful four-year campaign to get emergency trunk releases required in cars, a feat considered remarkable both for its speed and her tenacity. Since then, Fennell has taken on a variety of other hazards facing children in and around cars, ranging from deaths and injuries due to heat, backovers and power windows. She's become an unabashed critic of the auto industry, an ally of safety czars including Ralph Nader and Joan Claybrook and a singleminded, if unrealistic, spokesmom for kids everywhere.
But that's not the only safety advocate success story this week. We've covered the unimaginably tragic case of Jacqueline Houck and her sister, Raechel, who died in a 2004 car crash because Enterprise failed to carry out a safety recall of the car they rented. It's truly a disturbing state of affairs, i.e., federal law prohibits manufacturers and dealers from selling recalled vehicles before they are fixed, but this law doesn't apply to rental car companies. And the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has no authority to force rental car recalls. So of course, rental car companies have been renting cars subject to safety recalls without fixing them first.
But it wasn't all good news. Enterprise (now the largest auto-rental company after buying National and Alamo), and Avis Budget, the third-largest, resisted joining Hertz - something Cally Houck clearly would not stand for. So she immediately began an online petition drive directed at Enterprise.
Roll Call, the newspaper that covers lobbying and influence on Capitol Hill, reported Monday on Houck's online petition, attributing Enterprise's change of heart to pressure from consumers. Bryant told Roll Call Enterprise has "not endorsed any specific legislation or amendment to date."


Select a community that will allow you to best live your daily life. Many people choose communities to become first time home buyers in Virginia, based on schools. Do you want access to shopping and public transportation? Is access to local facilities like libraries and museums important to you? Or do you prefer the peace and quiet of a rural community? When you find places that you like, talk to people that live there. They know the most about the area and will be your future neighbors. More than anything, you want a neighborhood where you feel comfortable in.
If possible, take photographs of each house: the outside, the major rooms, the yard, and extra features that you like or ones you see as potential problems. And don't hesitate to return for a second look. Use the HUD Scorecard to organize your photos and notes for each house.


In the animal world, not everything is as it seems What appears to be a snake turns out to be a butterfly, and what looks like a fish is actually a sneaky octopus! Readers will enjoy turning the pages to reveal the animals' secret identities, all explained and illustrated with detailed photographs. Oxford Reading Tree inFact is a compelling non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully as fiction does. The series includes 36 titles which are all phonically decodable, with some high-interest topic words to develop vocabulary and impart knowledge. The imaginative approach and variety of intriguing topics mean there are books to interest every child. The books are carefully levelled, making it easy to match every reader to the right book.