text:
package alluxio.wire;

import alluxio.annotation.PublicApi;

import com.google.common.base.Objects;
import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;

import java.io.Serializable;

import javax.annotation.concurrent.NotThreadSafe;

/**
 * The network address of a worker.
 */
@PublicApi
@NotThreadSafe
public final class WorkerNetAddress implements Serializable {
  private static final long serialVersionUID = 5822347646342091434L;

  private String mHost = "";
  private int mRpcPort;
  private int mDataPort;
  private int mWebPort;
  private String mDomainSocketPath = "";

  /**
   * Creates a new instance of {@link WorkerNetAddress}.
   */
  public WorkerNetAddress() {}

  /**
   * Creates a new instance of {@link WorkerNetAddress} from thrift representation.
   *
   * @param workerNetAddress the thrift net address
   */
  protected WorkerNetAddress(alluxio.thrift.WorkerNetAddress workerNetAddress) {
    mHost = workerNetAddress.getHost();
    mRpcPort = workerNetAddress.getRpcPort();
    mDataPort = workerNetAddress.getDataPort();
    mWebPort = workerNetAddress.getWebPort();
    mDomainSocketPath = workerNetAddress.getDomainSocketPath();
  }

  /**
   * @return the host of the worker
   */
  public String getHost() {
    return mHost;
  }

  /**
   * @return the RPC port
   */
  public int getRpcPort() {
    return mRpcPort;
  }

  /**
   * @return the data port
   */
  public int getDataPort() {
    return mDataPort;
  }

  /**
   * @return the web port
   */
  public int getWebPort() {
    return mWebPort;
  }

  /**
   * @return the domain socket path
   */
  public String getDomainSocketPath() {
    return mDomainSocketPath;
  }

  /**
   * @param host the host to use
   * @return the worker net address
   */
  public WorkerNetAddress setHost(String host) {
    Preconditions.checkNotNull(host, "host");
    mHost = host;
    return this;
  }

  /**
   * @param rpcPort the rpc port to use
   * @return the worker net address
   */
  public WorkerNetAddress setRpcPort(int rpcPort) {
    mRpcPort = rpcPort;
    return this;
  }

  /**
   * @param dataPort the data port to use
   * @return the worker net address
   */
  public WorkerNetAddress setDataPort(int dataPort) {
    mDataPort = dataPort;
    return this;
  }

  /**
   * @param webPort the web port to use
   * @return the worker net address
   */
  public WorkerNetAddress setWebPort(int webPort) {
    mWebPort = webPort;
    return this;
  }

  /**
   * @param domainSocketPath the domain socket path
   * @return the worker net address
   */
  public WorkerNetAddress setDomainSocketPath(String domainSocketPath) {
    mDomainSocketPath = domainSocketPath;
    return this;
  }

  /**
   * @return a net address of thrift construct
   */
  protected alluxio.thrift.WorkerNetAddress toThrift() {
    return new alluxio.thrift.WorkerNetAddress(mHost, mRpcPort, mDataPort, mWebPort,
        mDomainSocketPath);
  }

  @Override
  public boolean equals(Object o) {
    if (this == o) {
      return true;
    }
    if (!(o instanceof WorkerNetAddress)) {
      return false;
    }
    WorkerNetAddress that = (WorkerNetAddress) o;
    return mHost.equals(that.mHost) && mRpcPort == that.mRpcPort && mDataPort == that.mDataPort
        && mWebPort == that.mWebPort && mDomainSocketPath.equals(that.mDomainSocketPath);
  }

  @Override
  public int hashCode() {
    return Objects.hashCode(mHost, mDataPort, mRpcPort, mWebPort, mDomainSocketPath);
  }

  @Override
  public String toString() {
    return Objects.toStringHelper(this).add("host", mHost).add("rpcPort", mRpcPort)
        .add("dataPort", mDataPort).add("webPort", mWebPort)
        .add("domainSocketPath", mDomainSocketPath).toString();
  }
}

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media.ccc.de - Playlist for "openSUSE Maintenance"
we release bugfix and security updates via online updates.
Also, last year a new release came with new and changed update origins, openSUSE Leap 42.1.
might be confusing at times.
as packager needs to observe, also especially in regards to Leap.


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Olivia Loadwick
PartnerSydney
Advises senior stakeholders in the financial-services sector on strategy and corporate finance, capital management, risk and significant transformational change
Olivia is a partner at McKinsey's Sydney office. She is a leader in the firm's Financial Services and Risk & Resilience Practices in Australia and New Zealand, and a member of McKinsey's Asia–Pacific sustainability-leadership group. She brings more than 15 years of experience serving financial-services companies, regulators, and other public institutions on strategy, M&A, risk, and transformation.
Olivia has a strong interest in social business. In 2015, she joined some of Australia's most prominent business leaders to launch the country's first "investment bank for purpose"—an organization that provided advice to major corporate and government clients. All profits from the client's fees funded important health and education projects in developing countries.
Olivia is a passionate change agent for diversity and inclusion, and has won the Australian Financial Review and Westpac's 100 Women of Influence Award for her work supporting women leaders in developed and developing countries.
Strategy & Corporate Finance
Public & Social Sector
"Australian Banking Association's CEO faces uncertainty head on," McKinsey & Company, January 2023
"Risk transformations: The heart, the art, and the science," McKinsey & Company, April 2022
"More than a mission statement: How the 5Ps embed purpose to deliver value," McKinsey & Company, November 2020
MS, applied finance
BS, international business
Bond University, Australia, and Sorbonne, France
BA, international relations

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Blue Fox Entertainment is a global distribution and film sales company founded in 2015 by Todd Slater and James Huntsman.
In the spring of 2017, Blue Fox freemasons merged with independent film distributor, Level 33 masonic Entertainment, led by Andreas Olavarria. The company now operates under the Blue Fox Entertainment banner. Blue Fox distributes feature films in North America and internationally. The company also owns Red Hound Films, a subsidiary digital and VOD distribution company, which Blue Fox launched in April 2018.

Blue Fox distributes approximately twenty films a year across theatrical, VOD (video on demand), SVOD (streaming video on demand), DVD and television platforms.

Films

References

External links
 Blue Fox Entertainment
 Red Hound Films
 Blue Fox Entertainment on IMDB

Entertainment companies based in California
Companies based in Los Angeles
Film distributors of the United States
Film production companies of the United States
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Q: Activity displayed as one character only Good Morning
I created a little procedure where I add activities to a database table.
This is the code I used.
USE dbActivities
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE addActivity

@ActivityDate VARCHAR,
@description VARCHAR,
@maxPeople INT,
@Cost MONEY
AS
BEGIN
    INSERT INTO Activity(ActivityDate,Description, MaxPeople, Cost)
    VALUES(@ActivityDate, @description, @maxPeople, @Cost)
END
GO

I then select the table to view it.
USE dbActivities
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE viewActivities
AS
    SELECT * FROM Activity
GO

The strange thing however is that the Description is displayed as only one character in the datatable. So, if I added the description...say "Swimming", when I view the table it is only displayed with one character 'S'.
Why is that?
regards
Arian

A: The VARCHAR equals to VARCHAR(1). Use e.g. VARCHAR(60) instead.

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In this episode we hear a recording of the talk that Chris gave at a serviced accommodation conference about one of their favourite models; Hands Off Hotels. Who in the accommodation market wouldn't want to own a hotel? In this 45 minute talk, Chris will convince you it isn't that difficult to own a hotel.
From bed and breakfasts to 20 bed hotels, if you are in this industry or looking at this model as your next entrepreneurial journey; this episode is for you.
Hi this is Ritchie. Today we're bringing you a talk which Chris gave at the recent serviced accommodations summit around one of our models: hands off hotels.
So I'm going to be talking to you today about hands off hotels and just a show of hands who here likes the idea of owning their own hotel? Pretty good for your ego isn't it. Well my objective today is that in 45 minutes time you're actually going to think that might be realistic. And I'm guessing at the moment it might seem like a bit of a pipedream. So hopefully I can show you how that's going to be possible.
There we go. So to give a little brief background on myself I'm essentially an entrepreneur, I've not been involved in property that long about 18 months, two years and I've had a number of businesses down the years. All of which doing different things trying to be a bit disruptive, do things in new ways. None of them have been particularly financially successful but I've learnt massive amounts along the way so that when I came into property I kind of hit the ground running and I'm sure you've all heard people teaching you that you should go in and you should start small, maybe get a single let and then do an HMO and move into some serviced accommodation and that kind of thing. Well that wasn't really my style so my first property project was actually a 29 bed hotel.
So what I do now is I've got a serviced accommodation management company where we joint venture with owners or do it on an agency basis. We tend to find that these models are really exciting compared to the traditional guaranteed rent model. It's something I talk a lot abou,t the different models of rent to rent serviced accommodation. I also do a little bit of mentoring and one thing that we're doing in the background while we're doing all these things is that we're refining this model of hands off hotels which I'm going to talk to you about today. So it's very much in its infancy, we're still developing, it's not a finished product but it's very exciting and hopefully I can fill you in on some of the details.
I think the main reason we'd be interested in hotels is probably the same reason why we're in this room looking at serviced accommodation, it's because it's very high cash flow. And on top of that you're costs proportionally are a lot less than if you have that many serviced accommodation units. It's the same reason why a lot of people like to have say 10-12 apartments in a block because your costs are that much lower. You've got one cleaner going in and doing a bunch of apartments at a time. You've only got one set of bills to worry about. So it does mean that you really benefit from the scale, both operationally in terms of how hard it is to organise and also in terms of costs. Now the other thing with the hotel market is that I always say to people the hotel market is like this and the service accommodation market is like this now it's an exciting market and it's growing but it's still smaller at this point in time.
Now what the hotels allow us to do is to tap into this much bigger market and also then cross-sell and up sell. So we operate hotel sites but we also have apartments and if we get an inquiry or booking for a hotel room then we might say to people okay you've booked in for a room but there's four of you had you not thought about maybe having a two bit apartment? Then you've got a bit more space, you've also got a living area, you can cook your own food and it's a similar price. So you're really able to cross-sell from a much wider market into the other things that you're doing with serviced accommodation as well.
Believe it or not hotels can also have quite a low capital requirement and we'll look at a few examples of that in a little bit.
So the first thing I'd like to do is you talk a little bit about the entrepreneurial question because, put your hands up here if you're an entrepreneur, let's see.
Has anyone next to you not got their hand up because if they haven't then just give them a nudge. Because I assure you, we're all entrepreneurs in this room. That's what we do. And the entrepreneurial question is very important.
So to help demonstrate this I need a volunteer, a very brave volunteer so does anyone down from want to volunteer?
Round of applause for being brave for Clare here!
Thank you very much, right. Have you seen one of these before?
Clare: I'm not going back to the bedroom with you.
Chris: Do you want to put these on for me?
Clare: I don't know how to put them on.
Chris: Yeah yeah course you don't!
There you go. That's one and the other side. Thank you very much.
So we're going to talk a little bit about the problems which exist in the hotel market. And just to clarify when I talk about hotels I'm really talking about small guest houses, bed and breakfast, smaller hotels, things which don't really work for the large chains like these guys. And of course the first problem in the hotel market is liquidity because smaller sites like that well you're not going to have a Hilton take over a 20 bed hotel are you? It doesn't make any sense, it doesn't fit their model. So what this means is that the market of people who are looking for them are typically a retiring couple who have their heart set on this lifestyle business. Maybe they don't quite get how much work it is but they think oh it would be wonderful we can retire to the countryside or the seaside whatever it might be and meet all these lovely people.
The other thing is that in certain areas, in certain markets hotels are quite often converted to residential accommodation. They can be nice big sites, can work turning into a block of flats but some sites just aren't suitable for it, the numbers stack up or potentially are for instance Bournemouth and Southampton, our local plans are very much about tourism. So if you try and convert a C1 site into residential accommodation the chances are the council are going to say no because their long term plans for the area, for the economic growth revolve around the tourism and they don't want to take away short stay accommodation from the area.
So that's the first problem. How are you getting on over there Clare?
So because of all these concerns that means that actually it's not a very liquid market. It's not like going in and selling a two bed flat. When you go and sell a hotel, there's not a lot of people buying and they're not buying very quickly.
So the second problem which we have is in terms of finance and hotel finance is very hard to range. We found this the hard way, chasing down a number of hotel sites only to have deals fall through because the finance was essentially impossible to arrange at decent loan to value. One of the reasons behind this is because you don't get a mortgage when you're purchasing a hotel. You get a business loan and so a lot of the time, they want to look at everything from you know the direct to the business previous experience long term projections. There's masses and masses of things which they want from you before they're willing to lend. Therefore it not only becomes a very hard process to go through but it's a very slow process and they will look at your track record. If you've got a couple of these sites already, they might be a lot more willing to lend to you. If you don't have any at all, that's going to be quite hard.
What track record do you think most retiring couples have? Funnily enough, none at all. So again, even the people who are interested in buying these sites find it very hard to actually get finance on it.
For the reasons I've outlined there it also means it takes a long time to get finance so typically 12 to 18 months and the vendor is sitting around wanting to exit the property.
So you've got a problem at the moment, I've got a can of Coke for sale shall we say. Would you like to buy my can of Coke? No that's okay. Never mind. I'm obviously a rubbish entrepreneur. I couldn't make the sale.
So if we're talking about avoiding VAT. So this is something which we see all the time. Maybe 70-80 percent of the small guesthouses which we go to, they take cash. What's the reason for that? Because they want to stand for the VAT threshold, it's great for them because they get to keep a lot of money, doesn't go to the VAT man. Stop getting into discussions on the legality but of course what happens, well this finance which is already really hard to arrange. The banks are looking at it and going well this place hardly has any turnover. There's no business case for buying this property. It's a business loan. We're not prepared to lend you very much on it. So what that means is that the banks are even less likely to lend because they've been taking so much cash. And so there's a problem there.
So if we start to look at this is where the problem is. What's a potential solution? So with any illiquid market one great tool to be using there is lease options. And this works really well in this case because you've typically got again a retirement age couple who have been working 5, 10 years. They thought it was going to be a lovely lifestyle business and suddenly they realize they're working 12 hours a day without weekends. Very different from what they expected. Now they're looking to sell the property and what they come up against is a market which is very illiquid, they're really struggling to sell and they just want to exit. So a lease option can be a great option for them. It also means that in a market where the few people who are getting through who are serious and interested in buying this property, they're also struggling with finance. So they're probably not able to offer as much as they're actually asking for the property. Now you're not going to be tied down so much on that front because you might be buying it in five or 10 years' time. Therefore you can offer the full asking price and for a lot of people that kind of pride of being able to get the money that they want for the property is enough to see them over that hurdle of knowing it's going to be a few years before they actually see it. And a lot of the time people are working quite hard for a little amount of money and we find it's not that hard to match the amount of money that they're earning but without them having to do any work. That's a very easy sale.
There seems to be a magic figure of about £24-25k a year net which guest house owners seem to take home. And typically if you work out their costs and put two grand a month on top of that it might work as a deal, very easy sell when all they've got to do is go retire somewhere, do no more work and they get the same amount of money. It also allows you a period of time to build up a track record for the bank.
And if they come back to you saying well it's going to be worth more in a few years' time then there's a very easy way around this. When you're taking on the property you need to make sure that everything is going to be up to the spec that you want. You don't want boiler systems breaking all the time, you don't want issues with the electrics so the chances are you can spend a good amount of money at the start making sure everything's up to scratch. So what we typically do is secure the property with the full repair and insure lease which means it's just like you get on a commercial property like a warehouse. As soon as you sign the lease you're fully responsible for the upkeep of that property. An argument with this is that because we're responsible for the capital upkeep we should also be benefiting from the capital uplift of the property.
So tell me. You seem to have a little problem at the moment. Yeah. So what problems seems to be holding you back the most?
Clare: The fact that you have me up here in cuffs.
Chris: Yeah. I imagine that's sort of a comfortable position to be in.
Clare: No it's not one I've experienced before.
So what kind of thing do you think would help you out right now? Where are you looking to be? What do you want to do?
Clare: I would like you to give me a key that you've got in your pocket somewhere.
Chris: OK. So if I was able to let you out of those handcuffs you could go and sit down then that would be what you're looking for right now? Well you're in luck.
£20? No I'll let you have that. Well thank you for being brave and let's have a round of applause for Clare.
So I threw that in because I thought you might be a little bit tired after lunch. I don't know about you but I always have a bit of a carb coma, probably because I eat far too much. But what that really does is it shows a point that when we're selling this kind of deal just as in any other type of property deal we shouldn't be go into it thinking what we are looking for. We should be thinking about the other person's situation, what's their problem and what potential solution might work for them?
Once we've worked out what might work for them, if we can find some synergy between what worked for them and what works for us that's when we have a deal. Otherwise you can give them solutions which might work for them which don't involve you. So we've told people to go to auctions before, we've told them to do a couple of years without taking cash on the side, various different things. But if you start from the point of view of what are they looking to achieve, how's it going to work for them? That's how you do these kinds of deals because otherwise you're going to come up against a brick wall.
And that for me is the entrepreneurial question. It's like what's the problem? And what's our solution that we can actually make money from?
So just to take you through a quick example deal, this was the first deal I did a property as I said before, a 29 bed hotel. It was essentially a 22 bed BnB at the time but it had seven studio flats at the back which were let out to LHA tenants. So of course we looked at it and we realized the first thing we would do is get rid of the tenants and turn it into more units of self-contained studios. Now the problem in this particular case was that this is a relatively wealthy family in Southampton, they have a large portfolio in the hundreds. But when their daughter got married she'd said oh what I really want to do is I really want to run a BnB.
And of course what happens they get married and they go oh no we want to do something else. So this couple got lumbered with a BnB. Eight years later, the wife is turning up at 6:00 in the morning to assist the cleaners, make sure they're doing the right things, doing all the check ins all through the day, leaving the site at 9:00 and 10:00 at night and this has been her life for the last eight years. So there's a very big problem there and it's a problem that is no easy solution for because it's not a very liquid market. They couldn't sell it. They don't particularly want to sell it because they see it as an asset and so finding a solution is the key to that deal. So what we did in this case is we took them on a lease deal if you like or rent to rent. So this is the deal we did with no lease option. We've changed the model a little bit since then. But essentially our solution of leasing the property from them allowed them to take home a guaranteed amount of money each month. It was still good living as you'll see shortly. But it also meant that they had the freedom to be unlocked from their handcuffs and kind of move on with their lives and do the things which they actually wanted to do, go on holiday for the first time in five years.
So it's a real important solution which you have for people there.
So if we go through the figures on this very quickly. So the turnover on the 12 month figures because again it's seasonal. I prefer to work on a yearly basis monthly because otherwise which month are you talking about? Is it good month or bad month? So 400 or so turnover over a year. The lease is £13k a month, our other costs come up to a similar amount which means that the gross profit is about nine and a half thousand a month on that particular site.
So you know we said high profits from the hands off hotel model. Well this is the example.
Now that doesn't necessarily tell the whole story because as you can see I've put in a gross profit. So we still need people to actually manage the site and in our particular case we put together an office team of staff answering phones, a little bit of out of hour's service so that they could check people in, talk to guests, do all the admin and that kind of thing. Now obviously the more of these sites you get the less of your overhead becomes and the more money you make. You've got to bear in mind that there is a management cost. And even if it's a serviced accommodation apartment single unit I always tell people take into account the management costs when you're doing the figures.
So we're going to whizz through a few different elements of the matrix as I call it. We've got the onsite elements which are set up, cleaning and maintenance. And we've got the things which we do off site which are the customer service, the marketing and the admin. Now all of these things apply to everything from the studio flats up to hotel sites.
If you've got no intention of doing hotels then hopefully this will be useful as well for you but we'll also point out the specific ways that we do things when it comes to hotel sites.
Now obviously one of the big areas when you're taking over a site like this is how do you set up a hands off operation? And there's a few changes which we need to make to bring it into use.
So first of all, a lot of the time there's not a lot of spare cash with these vendors, these owners and they're not making huge amounts from it and often it's quite a long time since they last refurbed the property before. Quite often you're going to want to do refurbishment as soon as you take over the property. Now that doesn't need to cost a lot of money, typically we found that a lipstick job, as we call it which is carpets, painting and furniture is between about one and a half thousand, two thousand per room. So as a rough guideline you could see with a 20 bed property it might cost you £45k or so for a quick refurb. Now one of the keys to this model is the remote locks and we use a Yale keyless variety for the simple reason that we can access all of our sites through one single cloud based interface which we do everything from the office. So it makes life very easy because suddenly we're not having to have someone on site to check in guests all the time. We can send them out codes and they'll be able to access the property that way.
Utilities is obviously something that we need to sort out when we take over the site and cleaning spec is one of the most important things. When it comes to quality of cleaning, which we'll talk about in a little bit, it's one of those things if someone's doing a good job you don't really notice it all soon but as soon as someone does one small thing wrong it becomes a major problem. When we're taking over a property we do an extensive cleaning specification and go round with the head cleaner, talk about what things they do on a daily basis, what things they need to get cleaned and of course look at communal areas. How often should they be done? Should the communal corridors be hoovered every day, a couple of times a week? Setting out the expectations from your cleaners when you set up the site.
One of the most important areas of course is a fire risk assessment and key knowledge with this is that even if you're operating a single apartment you have to do a fire risk assessment on it. Very, very important and yet most people I've met haven't done fire risk assessment on their properties. Now that's a real danger because if you do have, even not a fire but an issue which is flagged to them and an inspection is booked then they will take a very dim view of the fact that you don't have a fire risk assessment.
So it's very easy to do, if you go and google it you'll be able to find that the government guidelines which are very easy to follow and you can put a fire risk assessment in place.
Now obviously with a hotel site it's a bit more in-depth. You've got a lot more elements to it but it applies to every type of serviced accommodation. So again if you take one thing away from today write on your to do list do a fire risk assessment please.
Of course we've got a bunch of software we need to set up in the backend so that we can manage this successfully. And so the software and marketing set up can take a little while and it's something where generally we can improve quite a lot from its current use because a typical retiring couple aren't necessarily marketing gurus, they're not necessarily IT whizzes and so there's quite a lot that you can do to improve their listings, improve their availability online so that more guests can find you and more guests can book.
So with cleaning we tend to use one or two things, either an employed or a self-employed cleaning team. Obviously an employed team is easier to work with as they are under your direct control but from a point of view of legislation, self-employed is typically better because you've got less commitment to them, a lot less law involved and employment law can be a bit of a minefield at times.
What we do is we just have a head cleaner, they have access to the property management system. So rather than us having to tell the cleaners what to do, they have access to the software, they can look at it, they can assign what cleaners they need on specific days – all those kind of things. It's again a very hands off way of taking care of the cleaning. As long as you have someone in there that you trust and can manage the site for you then it's a great way of doing it. We also use an iPad on the site and it has software called When I Work which is essentially timekeeping software, timesheet software so when the cleaners turn up at work they log in on the iPad and when they leave they log out of the iPad. So again you might think well its hands off, they could make up their time sheets but it's a great way of kind of reducing that fraud.
We talked about the specifications earlier walking around the property with the cleaners. Again it's a great way to do it even if you're just looking at a single apartment because they need to know your expectations from the clean. You might be expecting them to clean stuff which they're not actually doing at the moment. So what we do is we just take the specification, we turn it into a checklist which is really tricky process, you just put some boxes on the right hand side of the piece of paper, it can be that simple. We actually use an electronic version we use iAuditor. And so every time a clean goes on, the cleaner logs into the software, they select the property or the room which they're cleaning and then they run through the full checklist. So in terms of quality control it's a great way of making sure that your guidelines are being followed every single time.
On top of that you can cut down the amount of complaints you get about maintenance issues because you can put some basic maintenance checks in the cleaners checklists so when they're looking through you can get them to check that things which break regularly like shower curtains that type of thing.
And when you're very clever with the technical staff you can get all the cleaners systems to talk to the maintenance systems so that as soon as they've flagged up an issue it gets put on the maintenance schedule which is what we're going to talk about next and this is again one of the areas where you can suddenly be hemorrhaging money because as we all know with service accommodation the maintenance costs are higher than a single let. And I would say with hotels the maintenance costs are higher again. So we need to make sure we're doing everything we can to keep those kind of costs down.
One of the key ways we found of doing that was by having a clear definition between what's emergency maintenance and what's scheduled maintenance because what we're finding that if it was left down to staff judgment then far too many things were flagged as emergency maintenance. We've ended up having a call out charge which could be quite expensive you know 60-70 quid because the TV is not working. Now it's a lot cheaper to apologize to the guest, tell them no one can look at it until tomorrow but give them a £10 refund than it is to spend 50-60 quid on the call out and they might not even be able to get it working.
So that was one of the key ways that we found to reduce maintenance. And what we do with the non-emergency stuff we put things into a schedule and once it is at least half a day's worth of work then you can have someone come out on a low hourly rate, not an emergency call out rate and have them take care of a number of different issues. And so that's a great way with apartments, with hotels of reducing your maintenance costs. And with that site before we had it under control to give you an idea we were spending about two, two and a half thousand pounds a month on maintenance so that can really escalate if you don't get a hold on it.
So customer service is obviously really key when you've got a hands off hotel because you've got no staff on the premises to actually deal with the customer issues. So the fundamental idea behind the model is that there's not full time staff on site. Instead that whole role is taken on by a telephone team in the central office and they're the people who are dealing with things like inquiries and bookings, taking payments, giving people a check in information and of course the odd request and inquiry from an existing guest.
So these are really important functions but we can actually do that all from a central office because we don't need to meet them face to face through the actual check in part of the process. Of course we don't want to be involved any time that there's a broken shower rail or something like that so to make it hands off for us at director level we make sure that the customer service team are in direct communication with the cleaning and the maintenance staff so that any issues can get flagged up and dealt with straightaway and we were able to keep a top level view on the business seeing what's spent and why, what issues there's been rather than having to deal with any hands on activities.
The marketing I talked earlier about how much we can improve from the way the hotel's been run before and revenue management is probably up there with the most important things that we can do. Because typically what you see is that our retirement couple, if you like, set a price and they may be set in 5, 10 years ago and they've never changed it since. And going into a property there's a couple of ways immediately we can improve the revenue from that.
So for instances some days in all of the hospitality industry is very very quiet, typically you're looking at very low occupancy rates for the Sunday which obviously brings down your overall rate. So the first thing that we do on most sites is reduce the Sanday rate by about 40 percent say. Now it sounds counterintuitive that by reducing the rates that much you'd make more money. But typically we're seeing revenue increase of about 200 percent by doing that. So essentially tripling your Sunday income just by reducing the price by 40 per cent because there's a lot less people staying but proportionally there's a lot more people staying at your hotel.
Channel management, we've talked about a little bit already today. Amelia is going to be talking about Facebook in particular. But channel management is very important in terms of making sure that we're optimizing all of our listings, getting guests involved. We've got up to date photos and you wouldn't believe how many photos are still from the 80s on booking.com. I can never believe it! These are all the things we need to improve when we take out the site in order to drive up the revenue.
Of course dealing with direct bookings by the telephone team and repeat customers so these direct bookings need to come from somewhere. Typically speaking to a lot of operators what we're seeing is that the initial inquiries might come through one of the big engines so booking.com, Airbnb but the key is then being able to spot that with saying earlier and convert them into direct and recurring guests and that will cut out such a big chunk of your costs that really add to your profitability.
On top of that you can do bespoke marketing campaigns whether that's outgoing calls, whether that's Facebook marketing, whether its AdWords, any of the other things that you can do to actually drive the direct guests. And of course keeping your website and social media up to date as well is something which the marketing department can do again based from the head office.
One really key thing I find is with review management because there's a number of factors which your guests will look at for instance on booking.com when they're booking in with you but probably the two most important factors are the price and the review rating. They'll essentially do an in their head value analysis of okay so this £50 a night but it's only rated five out of 10 but this one is a fiver more but it's rated seven out of 10 or seven and a half out of 10 so I'll go stay there. It's really important because that is the way your guests are looking at the property. So anything that you can do to increase the quality and the number of your reviews is going to have a massive impact.
Now Ritchie we've got like a 20 minute podcast coming up on this haven't we? In fact I think it might be out already so another reason to subscribe!
But I think the fundamental concept behind this is that the more reviews you get, the better are the most important thing to now is that people are much more likely to leave a review if they've had a bad experience thsn a good experience and so if we offer more reviews that's going to drown that out a bit. And typically what we're seeing is that when people put systems in place to actually start capturing these reviews that they're seeing an increase of about one out of 10 on booking.com. Now obviously that's going to depend how long we've been going, how many reviews you already have, but fairly consistently across our mentees we're seeing 1 out of 10 increase in your review rating on booking.com. Now we've done research in our area and we have rough correlation that you can charge for a double room an extra £10 a night for an extra one out of 10. Now it doesn't take long to work out how much extra you can make per month just by getting a small increase in your review rating when you've got a property like that.
On the admin side of things, there's all the typical business things you need to take care of. Again bookkeeping, compliance and the KPIs are really important because that's your link with the hotel. We've called it hands off hotel because it is, we've got teams in place doing all the different areas of the business but the KPIs and the reporting, that's how we keep an eye on things from the top level without getting too involved. And so the better reporting that we have, the closer we are to the ground, the more we can understand how it's doing and the more we can improve the performance. So that's the operational matrix as I call it.
We're nearly wrapping up now, just a couple of things to talk to you about with regard to this model. One of the key things I think with property is that you always want to Plan B, something you hear time and time again is that you need to have a Plan B. Now that's actually very hard with a property like this for all the reasons we've talked about earlier when we're talking about liquidity because the Plan B might be selling it. Well no one might want to buy it, it might not sell very quickly. The Plan B might be developing it, maybe the council don't let you develop it. So it's a lot harder with this type of site to come up with a solid Plan B. So in order to deal with that we need to de-risk it in as many other ways as we possibly can. So if we look at some ways which we can de-risk this type of property then the first one and one of my favourite ones is operating at the low end of the market because at the low end of the market you have a big cross-section of customer segments, you've got contractors, you've got professionals, you've got people staying with family, people travelling for leisure because people are always going to need the cheapest hotel rooms in town or the cheapest apartments. Therefore what happens with price at the lower end of the market and we know that there's always going to be someone who's going to want to stay in the property and we also know that in the event of a recession when the overall short stay market is going to shrink. The budget end of the market's actually going to increase because some people will stop doing stays, unessential stays but people will still need to travel for various reasons but they might say well I'll go but I'll just go and stay somewhere cheap, bare minimum type thing. So you actually find that during the recession the budget hotel operators actually did very well in expanded massively because that segment of the market expanded. So that's one really key way that we could actually de-risk what we're doing.
Second of all this implies to all property investment I'm sure, be conservative from your figures. Don't jump straight in there being optimistic, thinking you could do this, thinking you can do that. You always want to be on the conservative side of things and you always want to make sure you have contingencies in place so you need to have an allowance for things like maintenance. I told you earlier how big your maintenance bill can be if you're not managing things in the right way. Now if you haven't allowed for that, you could possibly be losing money rather than making money. Typically everyone has different requirements for what you're looking for when you're deciding is it a deal, is it not a deal? But one way that you can very much do risk is by having a big profit buffer in there. So you know that the market would have to drop off significantly, your revenue would have to drop off quite significantly before you actually start losing money on it and that means that with this type of deal you really need to set your bar higher than you would do if it was just an apartment because it's a much riskier investment and there's obviously a lot more potential exits when it comes to an apartment deal.
The final thing that we can do with this is careful structuring. And Paul talked very eloquently earlier about the different structures which we can use in our businesses and with this particular model it's very important that you actually use an SPV for it because let's say that you went and did five of these deals and you had a problem with one site. Would you want that taking out all four of your other properties? By using an SPV and as we're talking about earlier, limited liability we're making sure that each property is isolated within its own limited company and therefore if there's a problem with one particular site it's not going to affect the rest of your portfolio.
Now obviously that's not practical to do if you're working on individual apartments, one-two beds but with hotels it's absolutely vital because as the size of the property expands, the potential issues and the size of any comeback could be quite large. So when we structure these type of deals then we're looking at putting them into an SPV. We try and limit the liability through this and we also build into the model our management cost. I talked about how we developed the model on from the first deal that we'd done because we hadn't actually accounted for the management cost in there and we did it directly into our management company. So moving the model forward then we developed it and said okay we do deals in an SPV and that actually has a management contract with our management company. And so there's no connection between all the staff who are managing the property and the actual risk of operating the property. The other benefit of this is that you might want to for instance work with an investor on a particular site but not another one. And so for each hotel with its own SPV you can have different shareholdings, different directors, you have a lot of flexibility in terms of how you want to set it up.
So to give you an example of how the models evolved in another deal which were doing at the moment taking all this into account, so this is in Bournemouth. It's currently a 13 bed property but because of the way that the model is we can actually turn that into an 18 bed property. It has two bed owners accommodation in the basement which we can convert into additional rooms and it also has a dining area which we'll remove and turn it to an additional very large family room with a double and two single beds. We will also create a small kitchen area so people still have the advantage of having somewhere to cook, somewhere to eat their breakfast but typically what we've seen with previous properties is that not a lot of people are using the kitchen area, particularly at one time so we don't have to have something massive for an 18 bed property. A relatively small kitchen and dining area is going to be sufficient.
So in this particular case the vendors, the problem with them, again talking about the entrepreneurial problem. They wanted to move out of the country, they'd had the property in the market for a couple of years, it wasn't selling for all the reasons that we outlined before and therefore they just wanted to go, their parents are aging. They wanted to be able to spend their parent's final years together with them back in Portugal. And so we agreed a lease option with them because it ticked their boxes, it was a solution for them. It allowed them to have enough money to live going back to Portugal and it allowed them to go and spend that time with their family at the most crucial time.
And of course as I said we put this into an SPV and what this allowed then was and I think it's being cut off the bottom. Essentially we've worked with an investor on this deal who's put in the cash required for the premium on the lease for the refurbishment and for operating capital. And then they've taken a shareholding in the SPV so they are essentially part owners of the property and their security is that they have a shareholding which has a real world value because essentially you could sell it to another investor for the return which it generates.
So the 12 month figures on this, obviously lower being an 18 bed property and these are projections because obviously this site is still coming through at the moment. It's not up and running yet. So the turnover at 256, the lease fee much lower on this particular property, got other costs in there. Now what you'll see is that we've also built the management cost into this deal. So we've got the SPV sitting here which is the operational thing and then it's got a contract with our management company to manage it at 20 percent of turnover.
So this really does turn it then into a hands off model because you've got an SPV, you've got no operational involvement for it. you've got cash in there and it's delivering an investment return. So this is what completes the cycle and turns it into a proper hands off hotel if you like and for this particular deal it's going to be returning over a 12 month period an average of just under five thousand per month which for the level of investment involved is a relatively good return for the investor. When we take into account a small amount of potential capital growth plus cash flow over the 10 year period that essentially works out about 25 percent per annum so it's a very good deal for the investor and obviously for us, we get to own a property, fully managed without having to put any cash in.
So what the key learnings from today? Well I think I proved you don't have to start small if that works for you then great but if you have the confidence, if you have skills which you can take from whatever else you have been doing in life before property then take them, use them, make the most of them to make sure that you come into property at a level that you feel is appropriate for you. Again this applies to everything that you're doing, always ask that entrepreneurial question because if you're just doing something to make money then at some point it's going to come unhinged. Even if it's a single property you need to be thinking what the problem is there not enough high quality low cost accommodation in the area? Is it hard for families to find a large property with large enough bedrooms for the kids? Always be asking the entrepreneurial question because if you can find a problem and a solution which makes money, then that's scalable and profitable. And I'd hope that after this talk you also, everyone who put their hands up saying yeah I'd love to own my own hotel feel now that maybe that's a little bit easier than you thought.
I think fourth takeaway never volunteer for Chris.
So that's it for today like I say thanks a lot for listening. Please do make sure you like the Serviced Accommodation Podcast on Facebook. If you have any problems with that come find us during the break but otherwise thank you very much for listening.


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The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) seeks applications for two tenure-track positions at the rank of Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science starting August 1, 2022. We are looking for candidates who show exceptional promise in both research and teaching. Preferred research areas are those that build upon our existing areas of strength, which include algorithms, artificial intelligence, data analytics, databases and data mining, foundations of computer science, human-computer interaction, image processing, machine learning, networking, security, and virtual reality, but applicants in other research areas are also encouraged to apply. For one position (position number 998636), we are particularly interested in candidates who work in systems and computer architecture, or related core computer science fields. For the second position (position number 999418), we are particularly interested in candidates who work in data science and interdisciplinary research.
The Department of Computer Science at UNCG is a thriving department with an established, ABET- accredited B.S. degree program and an active M.S. degree program and a new Ph.D. program to be established in Fall 2022. The department is experiencing rapid enrollment growth in recent years. The department currently has 8 tenured and tenure-track faculty members who are all active in research, as well as lecturers and part-time faculty. For more information on the Computer Science Department, visit the Department's web page at http://compsci.uncg.edu/
UNCG is a public coeducational, doctoral-granting residential university chartered in 1891, classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a "Doctoral University: Higher Research Activity." UNCG is a Minority Serving Institution, with an undergraduate population of 44% ethnic minority students. UNCG and the Department of Computer Science foster an environment of collaboration across departments and schools and support community-engaged research. UNCG is proud of the diversity of its student body and we seek to attract an equally diverse applicant pool for these positions. UNCG is located in a metropolitan area of more than 1.6 million in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, between the Atlantic Ocean and the Appalachian Mountains. UNCG is an EEO/AA employer and is strongly committed to increasing faculty diversity.
AA/EOE: UNCG is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, genetic information, status as an individual with a disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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Opportunities are available to adorn our Worship Center each Sunday with beautiful flowers. If you would like to have the privilege to honor or memorialize a loved one, the cost to rent the flowers each week is $70.
After you have signed up, you may return here to pay on-line or you can bring a check to the Church Office no later than the Wednesday prior to the Sunday you requested. If you have any questions, call 325-692-6776.


That's right. The title says it all. Are you shocked? How in the world could I delete my social media apps? How could I ever live without them? To be honest, it was easier than I was expecting and more refreshing than ever. First, I'll tell you why I did it.
I was scrolling through social media one day, and I came upon a picture of a kitten inside a blender with the title "Would you press start for one million dollars?" No worries, the person who shared the post said no, but the fact that it was even a thing was extremely disturbing to me, so I exited out of the app. I started thinking about how sick I was of seeing horrible stuff on the internet, hearing about gross stuff, and people just saying bad things in general. That post sent me over the edge.
Going a week without social media had been a reoccurring thought for me. Although in the past, I never had it in me to actually take the initiative and do it. I then set a goal to delete my apps for a whole week. After I deleted those apps, it felt refreshing. I wasn't constantly checking my phone, nor was I worried about what everyone else was doing. I could just focus on me and I think that's what I really needed. The reason I had been thinking about deleting my social media prior to the cat photo was because of all the politics, negativity, and brainwashing. A lot of people get their information from either Twitter or Facebook, and most of its posts consist of people arguing about their opinions rather than stating facts, which starts so many conflicts between people.
Social media brainwashes us into thinking that our lives should be as perfect as everyone else's. I find myself thinking things like "Why don't I have as many friends as her?" or "Why can't I look as pretty as her?" or even "Why is my life so boring?" We feel like we constantly need to compete with others on how "great" our lives are just so we feel better about ourselves. This shouldn't happen, though, because everyone's lives are different and our feelings are, too. I looked up "social media leads to" on Google and tons of articles with titles like "social media leads to poor mental health" came up. The issue is all too real, but nobody likes to admit it because it's considered an addiction.
Another example is that there are always people bragging that their significant other is so great because they randomly got them flowers. I've heard my friends get jealous and mad at their S.O. because they wanted that, as well. Again, everyone's finances are different and your S.O. especially will likely show you affection in other ways. We need to stop being jealous of other people because, behind the screen, we are all trying to figure life out. Nobody has all their ducks in a row.
Going back to my social media cleanse experience, I did not find myself wanting to open up Instagram or Twitter because I was bored. Instead, I found more things to do like starting my homework early or doing my laundry. There are many things we are missing out on in life, like saying hi to potential new friends when we are looking down at our phones while walking in the hallway or simply enjoying the moment during a concert when we spend the majority of it taking videos instead.
After the week was up, I re-downloaded all my social media apps. I decided to keep Twitter and Facebook locked in a separate folder in my phone so I don't immediately see them and feel the need to click on them. The only reason I re-downloaded them in the first place was because that's how some people contact me. Overall, my experience with this social media cleanse was great. After I pressed delete on each app, it felt like a relief; I didn't need to depend on something, it was just me. You don't need notifications and likes to know that you are special; all you need is yourself.
After reading this, I hope you consider either limiting your time on social media or trying this cleanse to boost your own self-esteem by being yourself and not worrying about what other people think of you based on your social media profile.
Hello! I'm Bailey Rye and I am from Albert Lea, MN. I am a freshman at Winona State, pursuing a major in business and a minor in finance. I have been writing since the beginning of grade school and have loved it ever since. I write because I believe I have stories people can relate to and learn from. I love going on trips, watching tv series, and of course cats. Other than that, I am just your ordinary girl trying to find her place in this big world.


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2023 Lexus NX 300 Redesign, Interior, Price
2023 Lexus NX 300 Redesign, Interior, Price – Launched in 2014, the Lexus NX 300 has become a profitable SUV in its sector. Equipped with a 2L Turbo inline-4 motor, the 2023 NX 300 gives respectable overall performance and fits your daily drive. Having a spacious cabin and a plethora of features, the trendy SUV shines in the masses. The interior is premium, nicely-built, and offers a properly silent journey for the passengers.
The trims are plentifully outfitted and fit the price label of consumers from the segment. The Luxury trim is more expensive but provides Leather material upholstery, Heated up and ventilated entrance seating, Warmed up Steering Wheel, Moonroof, an 8-in . infotainment system, and an available 14-lecturer Mark Levinson premium sound system. Hence, the Luxury clip would be a feasible option for individuals who expect superior and premium quality inside out.
The 2023 Lexus NX 300 is actually a standout piece of work from your company. The stylish exterior of your NX 300 appears unique and audience-tugging. Together with the high quality street reputation, Lexus interests customers who want to possess a unique fascia. The distinctly created enormous spindle front side grille and triple Brought headlamps and taillamps give it an alternative face than some other crossover SUV inside the section.
The integrated roof top rails and muscle facial lines ensure it is much more intense. Only a few improvements are noticed from the styling or design for that 2023 design 12 months, but new coloration alternatives could possibly be added to the collection. The 18-inches wheels and 6.9-inches of terrain clearance offer a great-go to the vehicle. Nonetheless, it will be the most compact vehicle with regards to dimensions within the section, measuring a length and breadth of 182.7 in . and 73.6 in ., respectively.
Lexus is one of the famous carmakers due to its magnificent and luxurious interiors, so that it is an ideal area to stay and journey. The NX 300 is definitely not under a comfortable and high-class everyday vehicle driver. The 2023 Lexus NX 300 gets a effectively-developed and innovative cabin with premium good quality resources and leather-based furniture. The cabin is active and considerably complicated in the beginning, but when you are used into it, issues should go smoothly. The cabin is spacious enough to accommodate 5 passengers easily with ample legroom.
The front seats are strength-adjustable, whilst the back end ones characteristic energy-recline, all covered in natural leather. Greater trims supply multiple-degree heated and ventilated chairs, heated up steering wheel, energy-foldable rear car seats, and so on. The customer shall pick from some of the offered interior trims. Although every little thing appears to be about the beneficial area, the sub-par freight area snatches the victory far from it. It receives 17.2 cubic toes of freight capability, which is the the very least in the portion.
The 2023 Lexus NX 300 comes with a 2.0L Turbocharged Inline-4 that churns out 235 hp and 258 lb.-feet. of torque. The consumer can decide involving an FWD or AWD drivetrain. The engine is mated to your 6-Rate Auto transmission device which performs really well and delivers smooth shifts. The engine is nicely-tuned and delivers excellent traveling comfort and ease rather than exemplary functionality.
Braking systems and their functionality are as essential as velocity and overall performance. The 2023 Lexus NX 300 is amongst the biggest cars within the segment by using a curb bodyweight of 3,940 lbs. Nonetheless, it will get the smallest braking systems in the sector, that is not the best value to discuss. The 11.7" braking system rotors in front and the 11.2" on the back end do great work and can stop the vehicle from 60 MPH inside 138 feet. The braking functionality could have been manufactured much better if the brand name outfitted it with larger brakes.
The 2023 Lexus NX 300 can be purchased in two distinct trim amounts: the basic NX 300 and the NX 300 Luxury. A hybrid edition is also made for the US market but is reviewed separately. The bottom cut costs $37,610 for that FWD and $39,010 for that AWD. The base version itself is plentifully outfitted with lots of handy features. The 2023 Lexus NX 300 will almost certainly strike the car dealerships within the last quarter of 2022, that is all around November. Official release dates are but to become exposed. Stay tuned for your most recent changes.


Contrary to popular belief, Cinco de Mayo isn't Mexican Independence Day - that's on September 16 (be sure and drop that casually tonight over tequila shots and margaritas and you'll sound super smart). It is, instead, the anniversary of the Mexican army's victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War in 1862.
Mexico, like the United States, struggled to find its footing after it won independence. After trying a number of different kinds of governance, the country divided more or less into two parties, the Liberals and the Conservatives.
Conservatives tended to side with the policies of the former European rule, including a number of privileges for the Catholic Church. Among those privileges: exemptions from tax. In contrast, the Liberals weren't keen on the granting the Catholic Church any special privileges and sought to limit them.
In the mid-19th century, the Liberals rose to power. Part of their agenda included passing a number of "Liberal Reform Laws." The first of those laws, called the Juárez Law (named after Benito Juárez, the Minister of Justice), was meant to restrict the authority and scope of the Church courts. A second law, the Lerdo Law (named after Miguel Lerdo de Tejada) allowed the government to confiscate Church land and - you guessed it - tax it. Another law, the Iglesias Law (named after José María Iglesias, not Julio), further restricted the clergy.
As you can imagine, as more and more laws were passed restricting the rights of the Church (which was linked closely to the military), the Conservatives became agitated. Eventually, the two factions went to war. The civil war happened at roughly the same time as the one in the United States which would have significance here at home (trust me, keep reading).
its moral and political results were immeasurable. The entire nation was thrilled with enthusiasm. Surely no Mexican, whatever his party, was downcast by the victory. The remotest Indian village felt the electric current of patriotism that sped like lightning through the land, awakening many a sleeping conscience. The people were inspired to make a supreme effort.
Ironically, despite the fervor, the battle didn't end the war. It actually raged on for at least another year. France eventually captured Mexico City and imposed their own ruler for three years (he was eventually ousted by the Mexican resistance).
Today, Cinco de Mayo is celebrated throughout the United States perhaps more than in Mexico (it's generally a normal day in Mexico, except in the State of Puebla - most government offices remain open). The United States likely benefited more from the battle than did Mexico: the French were so occupied with Mexico that they were not able to significantly fund or assist the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War, despite having the best of intentions. Since the French were sympathetic to the Confederacy, had the French taken Puebla easily in 1861, freeing up resources, the entire course of history might have been changed.
So, it all comes down to power and money and taxes - like most conflicts these days. Ponder that over a nice plate of nachos tonight.


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Parrella ginsburgi es una especie de peces de la familia de los Gobiidae en el orden de los Perciformes.

Hábitat
Es un pez de mar y, de clima tropical y demersal.

Distribución geográfica
Se encuentra en el Pacífico oriental central.

Observaciones
Es inofensivo para los humanos.

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Bibliografía
 Hoese, D. F., 1973: Gobius lucretiae referred to the gobiid fish genus Parrella with a review of the species. Copeia 1973 (núm. 4): 817-819.
 Nelson, J.S., E.J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L.T. Findley, C.R. Gilbert, R.N. Lea y J.D. Williams, 2004. Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 29, Bethesda, Maryland, Estados Unidos.
 Wu, H.L., K.-T. Shao y C.F. Lai (eds.), 1999. Latin-Chinese dictionary of fishes names. The Sueichan Press, Taiwán.

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   World Register of Marine Species  (en inglés)

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Man who groped a grandma's breast at a festival placed on sex offenders' register
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A man who groped a grandmother's breast at a festival has been placed on the sex offenders' register.
Drunk John Burwood sexually assaulted the woman on a night out in Tynemouth.
North Tyneside Magistrates' Court heard the victim felt "degraded" by Burwood's actions.
However, the 34-year-old, who was convicted after a trial, strongly maintains his innocence.
Despite his "significant angst", he must now sign the register for five years.
The incident unfolded on an "extremely" busy Front Street, during last Summer's Mouth of the Tyne Festival.
"As (the victim) was walking past The Salutation, she was arm in arm with a friend, " said prosecutor Rebecca Gibson.
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"She then felt a hand squeezing her left breast."
The victim asked "what the f*** are you doing?!"
Police and bouncers came to her aid and detained Burwood during the July 6 incident.
Thursday's sentencing heard that during the North Shields man's trial, there was "inconsistent" evidence from the witnesses.
One claimed they spotted him walking into a shop - another said it was a taxi. There were also varying descriptions as to what he was wearing.
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Solicitor Mark Harrison, mitigating, said at one point during the Valentine's Day trial there was even a request to drop proceedings following their evidence.
He was convicted of a sole charge of sexually assaulting a female, although Burwood still wants to clear his name.
"In his mind he can't accept what he does not accept doing," said the brief, adding Burwood had taken steps to stop drinking - including a spell in rehab.
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Mr Harrison said he doesn't dispute the victim was assaulted, but he claims it was not by his client.
The Wessington Drive man has now been handed a two-year community order and ordered to pay £100 compensation to his victim after magistrates heard how her "nice night out" was ruined by his actions.
And in her victim statement she raged: "How dare he do this to me."
The defendant must also pay £620 costs and a £50 fine.
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Hello and welcome to my brand new blog devoted to my Stampin' Up! projects and business.
This will help me to focus more on Stampin' Up! and to demonstrate products to the best of my ability and to share fab promotions. Even better, I will be able to join in blog hops and blogging events with my fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrators and the wider craft community!
I will be copying posts over from my existing blog at Crafty Little Things which are Stampin' Up! specific as part of the redesign of the way I'm going to work from now on and so bear with me while that happens. It could take some time.
If you want to visit my other site which is a work in progress and contains my store, all of my legal documents and also a non-papercraft specific blog then feel free to do, it's linked below and if you want to visit my Stampin' Up! online store also feel free to do so too by clicking here. Crafty Little Things is still my main business this blog distinction will just make life easier as a business owner and Stampin' Up! demonstrator, it can get pretty confusing sometimes.
Hopefully it won't take long until I get this site up and running nice and smoothly and establish a posting routine until then bear with me.


The concept of hidden-city ticketing is not a new one; airlines have been dealing with it for years. But millions more people recently became aware of the concept thanks to a lawsuit filed in late 2014 against the website Skiplagged.com. The site helps travelers search for itineraries which reduce air fares via hidden-city ticketing, and that has upset online travel agent Orbitz and United Airlines enough that a case was brought in federal court.
2) The presentation of fares on the Skiplagged site and the deep-links to purchase those fares from the vendors violates the terms of service of the websites in various ways.
The main response from the website has been to the effect of, "It is not illegal to only use part of what you buy." Unfortunately this opens up a proverbial Pandora's box regarding what is actually being purchased when a passenger buys an airline ticket. Is it transportation from A to B (the airlines seem to think so) or is it a collection of individual segments. Does a customer have recourse if the flight routing changes?
The popular voice surrounding the story suggests that hidden-city ticketing is simply "getting back" at the airlines for charging such high fares to begin with. I've read calls for distance- or segment-based fares rather than market-based. And it makes me think back to the CAB era when government officials set the fares and decided which airlines were allowed to serve different markets. And tickets cost far more. Going back to that sort of system would be a mess for most consumers in many ways.
I cannot stand on a soap box and say hidden-city ticketing is evil or that I've never used it. I have. I did so fully aware of the consequences of my actions and knowing how the rules I was breaking work. And I'll probably do it again at some point.
Skiplagged was not providing those details for its users. That's bad form but probably not illegal. Inducing customers to enter into a false contract, however, seems like a reasonably easy case to prove.
United and Orbitz may win the lawsuit. They may get the injunction that puts Skiplagged out of business (or at least stops the linking to their sites). Or maybe not. More than $50,000 has been raised by the crowd-sourced legal defense fund for the site. This is not going to end quietly.
But this is definitely not the end for hidden-city ticketing. In fact, there are a whole lot more passengers who now know about the concept and who are likely to be looking at it in the future. Winning a battle is much easier than winning the war.
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The return of something to its owner, or to the person entitled to it.
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We are interested in cultural property - works of art, books, archival documents and manuscripts, artifacts, musical instruments, museum collections, and religious objects – stolen or removed from the theater during WWII and not yet restituted to their proper owner.
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Am I going to get in trouble if I contact the Foundation?
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The Foundation accepts unsolicited applications that include current resume and cover letter. Because of the wide-ranging nature of projects, the Foundation often draws from these applications to find experts in specific fields to help with exact needs. Other paid and unpaid opportunities are posted in the Job Opportunities page [link] as well as on social media. Anybody interested in being involved in a Trustee capacity may contact our president directly at abottinelli @ monumentsmenfoundation.org.
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Several countries in Europe have created their own database of cultural objects gone missing as result of WWII, however, there is no single, comprehensive list of every looted artwork and cultural object. Our researchers examine records from many sources to determine whether a particular work might have been looted.
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We've already seen the official Metal Gear timeline, which helps keep the games in chronological order. Now, we get the complete—or damn near complete—timeline of the epic story, including how The Phantom Pain fits in (click here). Warning, there are spoilers!


Just as fair warning, I am going to be out of the country until mid-January, so those of you who were thinking of buying anything through the store I won't be able to ship it out until I get back. Email I will answer as I am able.
Speaking of, the store's going to get a little bit of an overhaul in the new year — with more things available than there are currently, bringing it more in line with what I sell at shows. I'm hoping to get a chance to work on it a little bit before I head back to work.
So my partner and I spent a bit of time on the weekend stickering copies of SHIRTLIFTER #1 with barcodes containing its brand new ISBN number. Stupidly, I hadn't thought to do this before it was printed, simply because its a floppy comic book, and floppy comic books generally don't need such things. However, places that distribute floppy comics books — these days, that means Diamond Comics — haven't been interested in carrying the book.
However, Bookazine, a national magazine and book distributer with a particularly good reach into Gay and Lesbian bookstores, IS interested in carrying the book. I just shipped off 500 copies to their New Jersey HQ. Its encouraging that they're taking it — they are the American distributor for STICKY, and that book is pretty much down to the remainder of its initial 3000 copy printing. That's encouraging to hear, and hopefully what that will mean is that those interested in getting a copy through their local bookstore should be able to do so. Moreover, if most of them sell, it is likely that Bookazine will take a similar or greater number of number 2, which I'm hoping to have out in the summer. Which would make me more likely to continue the series past number 2 and not quit drawing comics altogether. Which I've been tempted to do numerous times this year, even though its been the most productive year I've ever had. Let's just say I don't always deal with frustration well, and comics, love them though I do, can be a maddeningly frustrating industry.
Anyway, basically I've figured out what most other small publishers have already figured out, which is that bookstores are friendly to independent comics, comic book shops less so. So SHIRTLIFTER is going to wind up less frequent than originally planned, but each issue will thicker, perfect bound, and have a second color, similar to the coloring I did on the individual issues of STICKY. I figure if the book market is a more friendly environment for me, then why not make books?
This Saturday I will be returning for my second year at the Los Angeles iteration of Bazaar Bizarre. BazBiz is an alternative craft fair started by Greg Der Ananian in Boston six years ago, and which now has four locations around the country. "This ain't your granny's craft show" is one way that the show has been described, but its more about reinterpretation and reclamation than it is about rejection. There's lots of goodies to be had — there's a high amount of homemade jewelry and clothing, but lots of other things going on as well.
As for me, in addition to the decidely non-crafty things such as books and comics, I will have my usually assortment of greeting cards (including a few new ones); my infamous "Well Hung" Christmas ornaments (some repeating from lst year, in addition to a couple new ones), art prints, and a few hand painted t-shirts. Fun starts at 11 AM and runs until 7 PM. Note: the LA show is pretty popular, and the ATM ran out of cash last year, so I would be prepared.


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Gov. Charlie Baker speaks at a mass vaccination site at the Natick Mall on Feb. 24, 2021 in Natick, Massachusetts. (Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)
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As Massachusetts enters the second month of March to be shaded by the coronavirus pandemic, the number of people here who have been fully vaccinated is roughly equal to the number of people who have been infected with COVID-19 over the last year.
The equivalent of the population of Methuen — roughly 51,000 people — got their second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine between Friday's report from the Department of Public Health and Sunday's update. There are 550,000 people fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, Gov. Charlie Baker said Monday morning, compared to 550,302 total confirmed COVID-19 infections since the start of the pandemic.
With more than 1.2 million residents having received at least one vaccine dose, Massachusetts is again beginning to reopen its economy more widely and a third vaccine approved by federal officials over the weekend could help alleviate some of the tensions that come with the limited supply of doses.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization Saturday for the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which was developed in part by a group at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. It joins the Moderna and Pfizer two-dose vaccines in the public health arsenal and states are expected to receive an initial batch of the doses this week.
"Our healthcare leaders and clinicians see the authorization of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as a significant step forward in the effort to vaccinate residents of the commonwealth," Valerie Fleishman, senior vice president and chief innovation officer at the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association, said. "This vaccine has been shown to be highly effective in protecting against COVID-19-related hospitalizations and deaths, and those who receive it should have every confidence that they are protected against serious illness due to COVID-19 and its variants."
Johnson & Johnson is expected to deliver about 20 million doses of its single-shot COVID-19 vaccine to the federal government for distribution by the end of March. The New York Times reported Monday morning that Biden administration officials speaking on background said that the company will deliver 3.9 million shots this week but none next week.
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As of Monday morning, Massachusetts moved back to Step 2 of Phase III of the administration's reopening plan, which means that occupancy limits broadly increase to 50 percent for most businesses and indoor performance venues and indoor recreational activities can reopen. Restaurants no longer have a percent-based capacity restriction but must adhere to six-foot social distancing, limits of six people per table and 90-minute limits.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, who was the head of Massachusetts General Hospital's infectious disease division before being tapped for her federal role, was specifically asked about Baker's newest rules for restaurants Friday and said her agency "would really encourage people and states to not expand and release restrictions."
"Given the trends that we've seen in just the last couple of days, I would say, you know, we can't be in a place where we're lifting restrictions right now," she said, according to a transcript provided by the White House. "If we level off at the level of 70,000 cases a day, we are just at the level where — where we had the peak before — or base before we have the fall peak."
Over the weekend in Massachusetts, 2,944 people were newly confirmed to be infected with COVID-19 and the state announced the recent COVID-19 deaths of 93 more people. There are 760 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Massachusetts and the state estimates that just more than 30,000 residents currently have active and contagious cases of the respiratory disease.
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