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"Even though buyers won’t be able to move into them for nearly three years, dozens of people have already lined up to buy condos that will host Vancouver’s Olympic athletes in 2010.
More than 30 people were lined up Wednesday outside of Millennium Water, a multi-million dollar housing project billed as one of the last new waterfront properties in Vancouver’s red-hot housing market.
The condos are set to go on sale Thursday, but potential buyers — or their agents — have been camped out and in line since last Saturday.
Suites in the condo complex will house 2,800 athletes from around the world, but once they’re gone the condos will go to buyers who are interested as much in the real estate as they are in the history they’ll share with potential medalists.
“It’s part of the charm. It is, in fact, the Olympic village,” said real estate agent Austin Gangur.
“All of the athletes that are going to be competing in the Olympics in 2010 are going to be in the suites before the people who are going to be buying the suites take possession. So, I guess it’s positive energy getting in there before the athletes do.”
VANOC made a one time, $30 million contribution to Vancouver for the development. It’s all part of the deal to ensure Olympic athletes get top quality accommodations.
The suites range in price from $600,000 to $3.4 million. The size also varies greatly. The smallest units are about 500 square feet and the largest go up to 2,500 square feet.
But Gangur says it’s not just about size or money for his clients.
“It’s more so getting the unit that they want. So, price is no option here, but we’re hoping to get a good two-bedroom unit,” says Gangur.
One hundred units have already been pre-sold. They’ve gone to insiders and consultants associated with the project. Two hundred condos are still available.
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There it is, my faithful friend - broken.
I can't quite bear the thought of replacing it yet, so it's a good thing I had Nocturnes sitting steadfast by my bedside.
Nocturnes is a collection of five short stories, all centered around the theme of music and the passing of time. I suppose it says as much on the cover, much more poetically than I ever could - "Five Stories of Music and Nightfall".
The "nightfall" part requires a bit of thinking. Certainly there are key events which happen at night or in the evening. But that's a bit too literal - nightfall refers to the setting of the sun on - the close, the end of - relationships in a world where too many things, from friendship to marriage, are transient. Ishiguro seeks to capture those fleeting moments in our lives when a connection is made with someone, but that connection is destined not to last, except in memory.
Ever since The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro has established himself, to my mind, as the master of the unspoken first person narrative. On the surface, the narrator speaks. But if you read between the lines, there is much more that remains unspoken, whether by choice or because he or she is unaware of it. In The Remains of the Day, the romantic tension between Stevens and Miss Kenton, so palpable but never once directly referred to, was heartbreaking. In Nocturnes, the moments of intimacy are even more subtle. This is no long drawn out interplay between two emotionally reticent characters; instead, we get chance encounters, conversations that are sometimes mismatched or misunderstood, but nevertheless mean something to someone even if only for a brief moment in time.
Incidentally, nightfall could also be referred to as the remains of the day.
Ishiguro uses the theme of music with much grace and ingenuity. If a connection between two characters is the subject matter, music is the vehicle by which that connection is achieved. Sometimes it's about a shared appreciation of someone's skill with a musical instrument, and sometimes the baggage that goes with talent. Other times, it's that special song, the one that brings back fond but ephemeral memories. Ishiguro makes us realize that music forms the backdrop to so much that is important. Music is a mood-changer. Music is a prelude to, and a reminder of, life's turning points. Music is that which remains constant, when everything else changes.
My favourite piece is probably Malvern Hills. It is narrated by an opinionated guitarist who doesn't quite realize his own arrogance and selfishness, which made the story rather amusing. But at the core of the story is an elderly couple, Tilo and Sonja, whose relationship is on a precipice. We do not know whether it eventually goes over. It is a common refrain, this: two people can love each other, but that does not guarantee that their relationship will last.
At the heart of this collection of stories is that feeling of desperately wanting time to stand still, but knowing that it can't:
For another moment, they remained standing there together, just beyond the pool of light cast by the front of the hotel, the bulky cello between them.
Everybody knows the feeling. Within a blink of an eye, the moment passes.
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For the last 5 years I have worked a lot in the REST area designing, creating and/or maintaining Web APIs. Mostly in .NET Core but also APIs built on .NET Framework. In my opinion, REST is a very solid architectural style, that proved its worth over a longer period and over differently sized projects. Working with REST for some years, however, did bring some frustrations to the surface, especially when it comes to designing and developing the consumers of a REST service (mostly using Angular in my case). That’s the reason why over the last few months I have started to learn more about “alternatives” like GraphQL. And I have to admit I am cautiously excited about what GraphQL brings to the table even in the .NET ecosystem.
This article will be a general overview, or summary, of different aspects of GraphQL that I’ve learned during the last couple of months by reading, attending conferences and trying some things out. Just to make it clear, I am not a GraphQL expert or guru, but I just like do document my learning points in articles, as they might be useful for others too.
Talking about GraphQL in the .NET ecosystem is not very easy since there is one common misconception that I encountered all over the places. In a funnier note, this misconception would sound something like “GraphQL is like OData, only different”. So let’s see why this is not really true.
GraphQL vs. OData
OData isn’t new at all. Besides the very technical definitions, OData is, from my point of view, a query language put on top of REST resources. This is nothing bad per se, since OData provides capabilities for sorting, filtering, querying and reducing fields in the output of REST APIs. This solves the problem of overfetching or underfetching data. There are, however, some potential problems OData might cause:
- By opening up an OData endpoint, you lose control of what your clients are able to do and you don’t have explicit queries or use cases tracked.
- It URI centric. What this means is that it essentially doesn’t resolve the frustrations I have with REST. It just makes them sweater 🙂
For more insights into OData from the trenches I recommend you Jeff Hendley’s article.
Developed internally at Facebook in 2012, before public release in 2015, GraphQL is a data query language that provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API, gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need, makes it easier to evolve APIs over time and enables powerful developer tools.
GraphQL implements resolvers that fulfill specific graph queries—the client cannot ask for anything the server does not explicitly handle (huge advantage over ODATA). The server returns only what the client asked for. No more, no less. No wasted bits over the wire. Furthermore, everything sits behind one single GraphQL endpoint, so we’re outside the REST model. Again, I don’t say that this is good or bad; I say it might be useful in some scenarios!
GraphQL in the .NET ecosystem
When it comes to GraphQL in the .NET ecosystem there are two libraries to chose from: GraphQL.NET and Hot Chocolate. As stated a few paragraphs above, it’s not really easy to chose, as both libraries implement the latest GraphQL spec (June 2018) and both are feature rich. Based documentation comparison and trying to get started with both of them, HotChoclate is the one I’d chose.
The main reason for that is that Hot Chocolate seems to provide the far better performance. In this case I think that performance does really matter. Why? Because with GraphQL you basically add a new layer between the UI and the domain and as we know each added layer comes with an increase of execution time. That’s why, if I chose to add this additional GraphQL layer to may system, I prefer to be confident that it is as fast as possible.
Another reason is that Hot Choclate provides some features that aren’t present in GraphQL.NET, like schema stitching. Schema stitching is the capability to merge multiple GraphQL schemas into one schema that can be queried. Why is this useful? Just imagine we have lots of specialized services that serve data for specific problem domains. Some of these services might be GraphQL services, others might be REST services and, sadly, some of them might be SOAP services. Hot Chocolate schema stitching provides a way to create a gateway that bundles all those services into one GraphQL schema. That’s a scenario I’m sure you’ll encounter a lot in services-oriented systems and therefore this feature might come in handy.
Let’s however focus a little bit on performance!
Hot Chocolate performance advantages
A fundamental part of both Hot Chocolate and GraphQL.NET is the lexer and the parser. And that’s where the performance boost comes in. The Hot Chocolate lexer does not allocate any extra memory to do its work. All allocations are done on the stack which means that we produce less work for the garbage collector. This, in turn, means that it will also have a lower execution time. Here are two screen shots that show the difference:
The parser is a little bit different. It still allocates some memory since it produces a syntax tree. This syntax tree is still needed for backwards compatibility. But the parser itself is a ref struct and lives on the stack. So, all the parser state is allocated also on the stack and is gone after the execution has finished. Here are some screenshots just to have an idea what a big difference this makes.
Plans going forward
I am working right now on a side project for which I’ll surely use Hot Chocolate since the entire project could benefit of all the advantages that GraphQL brings to the table. This means that I’ll play around a lot with GraphQL and Hot Chocolate in the coming months and therefore my plan is to keep documenting on my blog what I am doing with GraphQL, both with advatages and disadvantages, If you are interested, you might want to check back from time to time, as I’ll most probably encounter a lot of different challenges on the way.
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News in Hoi An Ancient Town
Hoi An has over 1,000 ancient houses, of which 107 are in need of urgent repair while 55 are seriously dilapidated.
Strong roots: Hoi An is still a unique ancient town with many features that the local authorities want to preserve.
The Director of the Hoi An Culture and Sports Centre, Vo Phung, said that the town is a living legacy and each house is a heritage waiting to be restored, which should be acted upon according to the Heritage Law.
With so many ancient houses, Hoi An is obliged to spend a huge part of its annual budget on restoration work.
"The city issued the guideline, "preservation for development," and not exploit to develop, as Hoi An appreciates the value of conservation, along with the economic benefits," he said.
The values that Hoi An promotes are incalculable, however, to preserve every street corner, every house and the lifestyles of generations of people during the current era of integration is a difficult problem that has concerned the local authorities for some time.
Le Van Giang, chairman of the City People's Committee, said it is essential to protect the old town, as doing this will encourage the local people and especially the owners of the old houses, to preserve and protect the value of their properties.
Therefore, the city has issued very strict regulations on management, conservation and the use of ancient houses, consistent with the needs of the local population, to ensure harmony amongst the residents.
On that basis, the city has also set up a profile for each of the old houses, and has prioritised financial support for restoration work and repairing old houses at risk of collapsing.
In such cases, if an owner wants to sell their old house, they must return the funding that the State spent on the restoration work.
Le Van Giang said that conserving and developing Hoi An ancient town, was not just an architectural issue, as any work has to be closely related to the intangible cultural space that has been created in the ancient town, which is extremely lively.
"This is seen as the soul of the old town, and it is at risk of fading over time," he said.
In fact, in recent times, some "new residents" have moved in and bought old houses, but having adopted modern lifestyles they have stopped worshiping, so the old houses have become empty in a spiritual sense.
Holding the fort: Most Hoi An residents are proud to maintain their traditional lifestyles.
This puts the local people's customs and religious activities at risk and folk art and cultural festivals are in danger of fading away.
This is a major challenge to the conservation and development of Hoi An.
"We are trying to change the ways new owners live, making them adapt to the customs and habits of the local population, who are gentle, humble and very simple. This will help to revive the traditional values that are typical of the ancient town," said Giang.
"The policy is to develop tourism in a way that safeguards our intangible culture and tangible heritage. This is also important for the environment but we will retain the benefits of development while helping to make Hoi An a "brand name," a modern day tourist destination of international stature."
Hoi An is an old traditional port and market town and the only one in Viet Nam to be built in the 17th century, when it was one of the main trading hubs in South East Asia.
It has more than a thousand remaining architectural constructions, including streets, assembly rooms, temples, pagodas and churches that highlight the depth of cultural integration that took place between East and the West.
Over the centuries, the customs, rituals, traditional recipes, cultural and religious activities have been preserved for generations by the people of the old town. These are important factors that UNESCO acknowledged when declaring the ancient town of Hoi An a World Cultural Heritage in 1999.
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Throughout the past few months, I have been having a blast trying out different MIRACLE WHIP recipes thanks to Kraft. Though I am receiving compensation for these posts, any expressed opinions are strictly my own! As you gear up for your Summer BBQs, think about putting this twist on a plain burger…
With this recipe you add MIRACLE WHIP into the burgers too for a juicy, awesome burger. No, I am not kidding – don’t knock it until you try it. Oh. My. Word! Psst.. you don’t just get the bold, tangy flavor of MIRACLE WHIP into the burger, but you load it up on top as well. Break the rules by taking coleslaw from the side of the plate to the top – the top of the burger,that is – don’t worry, be MIRACLE WHIP and Proud of It!
- The recipe twist on a summer favorite: http://bit.ly/1mWba5Z
- Additional recipe tips: http://bit.ly/1giVbfx
Here are a few more recipes to help you round out your next backyard BBQ!
Backyard BBQ Tips
We have backyard BBQs all the time in the South, but sometimes they don’t quite go off without a hitch. 🙂 Things happen, but with these tips the likelihood of “things happening” will be much less. LOL!
- Bugs and food go together like doughnuts and a juice cleanse – they just don’t! So serve up your potato salad, slaw and other sides in single serving size jars with lids – a stylish alternative to covering bowls with plastic wrap and, bonus, it keeps the bugs out!
- As you know, kids sure are proud of their mess AND their art. So why not combine the two? Have the kids’ table lined with butcher-block paper for them to showcase their art skills while the grown ups bore them with conversation – and it makes clean up a heck of a lot easier.
- When hosting an outdoor party, things can get heated, in the sun that is. So to keep guests cool and happy have a basket of outdoor must-haves on hand like handheld fans, baseball caps and sunglasses – and don’t forget the sun block!
- 2 lb. lean ground beef
- 2 tsp. garlic powder
- 3/4 cup MIRACLE WHIP Dressing divided
- 1 pkg. 14 oz. coleslaw blend (cabbage slaw mix)
- 1 can 8 oz. crushed pineapple in juice, drained
- 1/4 cup thinly sliced red onions
- 2 tsp. Sriracha sauce hot chili sauce
- 8 hamburger buns
HEAT grill to medium heat.
MIX meat, garlic powder and 1/4 cup dressing just until blended; shape into 8 (1/2-inch-thick) patties. Grill 5 to 6 min. on each side or until done (160ºF).
COMBINE remaining dressing with all remaining ingredients except buns.
FILL buns with burgers and coleslaw.
Nutrition Information:Yield: 8 Serving Size: 1
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Casino tips and tricks
My casino tips should help you get the best deals at any casinos.Some of the best casino tips can be found online, most casinos have a website loaded with promotions. The best thing to do in any casino is to ask guest services for any promotions.It always pays to ask the casino about any new or ongoing promotions.My goal is to share as many gaming tips as possible.Visiting your local casino should be fun and enjoyable.
Casino players card
Casino tips number 1 is to get your own casino players card.I always suggest everyone should get a casino players card even if you are only playing for one day.There are always benefits to using a players card at any casino.There are always promotions just for people using a players card in the casino.
I was doing a search of casinos on IE and found some great casino images.These images are not casino tips,but a great collection of casino images.When it comes to casinos and gambling there are some obvious dos and don’ts such as:
- don’t bring money you are not prepared to lose.
- don’t try to win back your loses
- don’t drink too much
- do try to enjoy your visit
- do try different games
- do limit your budget
- going as a group can be more fun and safe
Play table games
There are many people who say you should never play slot machines and only play table games.I used to play table games at the casino before,now I find them just too boring.Table games like blackjack are a better bet in terms of odds.The odds are always stacked against the player on slot machines.I have way more fun playing slots mind you.If making money was my only goal,I would stick to playing table games.
Other casino tips
There are all kinds of table games in casinos.Other casino tips such as playing only table games that offer odds close to 50% can be helpful.I play slots for fun and of course I do what I can to win more.There are other gambling tips on places like YouTube.I’m not trying to break the casino or offering a guaranteed win every time.My goal is more about extending my play time at the casino.
Playing slots longer
Most times when I go to the casino I like to play slots instead of table games.Another good casino tip is to simply bet less than you normally would.I look for slot machines where I can choose my lines and bet less to extend my play time.Most people that play slots just want to be able to play slots longer.I suggest looking for machines where you can vary your bets instead of playing all the lines.
I enjoy playing slots more than any other game in the casino.Most slot machines are hard to win on.I have always tried to find different ways of playing slots.I like playing slot machines like the buffalo.I also find if I play smaller bets on slots I seem to hit more often.There are all kinds of theories for playing slots and the are generally all false.I am not looking to get rich playing slot machines,that would be silly.I am just looking for ways to extend my play time and enjoy myself at the casino.
Some of my best gambling tips are below
- walk around the casino before playing
- talk to slot attendants about tips
- ask guest services about promotions
- start playing small bets first
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This short film of happenings on Bloody Sunday is shocking.
Soldiers referring to the innocent civilians they had shot as “stiffs”!
I knw the soldiers were being stoned – but you don’t react to protestors with live rounds.
I think it’s disgraceful that onle 1 of the 17 soldiers is being prosecuted.
I’m afraid the British have caused and left mayhem in every country they have been in.
They would be quite entitled to shoot armed paramilitaries – but not civilians on a civil rights protest.
I am neither a Republican on Nationalist – and I’m certainly not a Unionist.
I would like to see a “New Ireland” where people of all types could live together in peace.
Part of creating that is to address the injustices of the past – on all sides.
Terrorism is evil — whether the terrorism of paramilitaries or the terrorism of the state.
In fact state terrorism is worse – because we expect more of the state.
The Brits have left a nasty trail in Ireland.
But that does not mean we can kill British soldiers.
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Looking back 100 years from our smartphones and laptops, from the vast array of social media, it's hard to understand how much impact posters once had. But in 1917, before widespread use of radio, posters were a vital element of persuasion, information, and incentive. For us, a century later, they offer some insight into the global conflict of World War I.
artist Henry Raleigh
Our visit to the Ogunquit Museum of American Art coincides with the 100 year anniversary of the US participation in the First World War. The theme of the current special exhibit is Tradition and Excellence: Art and Ogunquit 1914-1918. I am especially drawn to these WWI posters. Even as I photograph them, I am struggling with powerful feelings they elicit.
Artist Howard Chandler Christy
Does my response to these have to do with world tensions of today? The photos, taken without flash, are just reproductions for this blog. Even as I am writing this, the images rouse feelings of patriotism and... a little anxiety.
Poster by Herbert Paus
Artist Ray Greenleaf
Only after I get home and do some additional research do I see that these posters are meant to connect the visitor with '... anxieties, resistance, helplessness and hopefulness of the time.' (from the museum web site: http://tinyurl.com/OMAA-WWI-postershttp://tinyurl.com/OMAA-WWI-posters). As far as I am concerned, the posters successfully accomplish their task.
Speaking of research... the other exhibit we enjoy is the 'Value of Thought', a gallery of paintings depicting libraries. As I start exploring the paintings, I remember the feeling I had in the library I used to visit as a youngster. I recall sitting on the floor in the children's room, poring through books planning what to borrow. I remember when research demanded a visit to a library, maybe a request from the archives; time at a table taking notes, double-checking references....
Artist Alison Rector visited eighteen Carnegie libraries in Maine, and her works recreate those feelings for me. Because the exhibit has ended, the next best place (on a computer) to view some of Rector's library paintings and other works is http://greenhutgalleries.me/gallery/alison-rector/ .
Like the WWI posters, this exhibit has evoked some powerful feelings for me--in this case, nostalgic, and also a little sentimental about the time when learning/investigating/researching might take me to a beautiful, book-lined room. | <urn:uuid:93c14317-dca6-407a-9b6f-4d3254a04dab> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://brookline.wickedlocal.com/blogs/20171113/ogunquit-museum-of-american-art--world-war-i-posters-value-of-thought | 2020-09-25T20:43:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228707.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925182046-20200925212046-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.937928 | 530 |
Chris will make himself available for limited consulting about topics related to Business Valuation.
Board/Shareholder Day Retreats
If you are thinking about management and ownership transitions in your business, you will want to set aside up to several hours to have a retreat with your board of directors and key owners to talk about key topics such as your buy-sell agreement, existing management and ownership transition plans, dividend or distribution policies, and the potential for using corporate finance tools to help you and other owners to diversify. At your invitation, a limited number of your company’s advisers are welcome to attend.
In order to see the highest benefit of this session, you will share historical financial statements with me in advance in confidence, as well as other pertinent background information about your business so that I can be familiar with your situation. Prior to the retreat, I will share with you summary information that we have put together to facilitate discussion. We will then have a conference call to tailor the nature of the retreat you desire to have. I will travel to the specified location and meet with your board and/or owners.
We can discuss the specific details and financial arrangements for this type of session when you call me (at 901-685-2120) or email me (at firstname.lastname@example.org).
Buy-Sell Agreement Review
You should review your buy-sell agreement and other important corporate documents and agreements every other year or so. I read and review buy-sell agreements from business and valuation perspectives for clients. My main focus is on the valuation mechanism, but I will share my thoughts about the entire document.
My review can help assure that the agreement will work to provide a reasonable valuation when triggered. I also focus on what happens with trigger events and any interaction between trigger events and the valuation mechanism.
I will read/review your buy-sell agreement (or the relevant portion of your operating agreement or partnership agreement) and provide short memorandum outlining my comments, observations and recommendations for your consideration. I will also have a conference call with you, your other owners, or advisers for up to an hour to talk about your buy-sell agreement situation. The cost of this service is $3,000, payable in advance.
I am not a lawyer and will make no legal recommendations. You might want to have your attorney involved with the review so that he or she can talk to you about any desirable drafting changes.
See my Buy-Sell Agreement Review Checklist if you need motivation to consider having your agreement reviewed.
If you are interested in this service, contact me (901-685-2120, email@example.com)
Annual or Recurring Valuations
I believe that most successful closely held and family businesses with minimum enterprise values of $3 to $5 million and more should obtain annual appraisals. Annual appraisals are advantageous for many reasons, including:
- Setting the price for your buy-sell agreement
- Providing valuation guidance for life insurance needs
- Assisting your advisers with gift and estate tax planning
- Managing the wealth in your business
- Establishing prices for other internal transactions
- Helping to enhance value by working on the factors noted in your appraisal that detract from value
Think about it. You would fire your financial adviser if you didn’t get quarterly results on the performance of your profit sharing plan or your other liquid assets. Your ownership stake in your closely held business likely makes up the majority of your wealth. Without annual appraisals, you cannot know with certainty how this investment is faring.
Call me if you or your advisers want to talk about obtaining an annual appraisal for your business. (901-685-2120 or firstname.lastname@example.org) | <urn:uuid:90b6d213-9320-4c2e-ad17-39898797b636> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://chrismercer.net/consulting/ | 2020-09-25T19:33:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228707.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925182046-20200925212046-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.947664 | 777 |
The Citizen of the Year organising team are delighted to add a new member to the judging panel for the 2014 awards. Jane Holdsworth from Warwickshire Community and Voluntary Action (WCAVA) adds a wealth of knowledge in community volunteering and activism to the team.
WCAVA exists to promote, develop and support a vibrant voluntary and community sector, to enable local people in Warwickshire to shape and influence their communities.
In the Warwick District office, WCAVA provides support and advice through one to one consultations and forums to assist organisations with funding and organisational development. We help organisations recruit volunteers and support people to find good quality volunteering opportunities. The South Warwickshire Volunteering Forum provides an opportunity for volunteer involving organisations to share expertise and information about volunteer management. It is estimated that the 35,000 volunteers that are represented through the Forum bring £35,280,000 of income into the area through their volunteering.
Jane Holdsworth: “We know the impact that individuals bring to their communities through their volunteering and we are extremely happy to be involved in the Brakes Trust’s ‘Citizen of the Year Award’ as a celebration of community activism and volunteering. Many of the people who are nominated make a huge difference to their community and are often unrecognised because they don’t tend to shout about what they do. The Award event provides an opportunity to recognise their worth to our community”.
The full judging panel is:
Adrian Barton – Chairman of organisers the Brakes Trust
Chris Lillington – Editor, The Courier
Cathy Wahlberg – Operations and Finance Member, Alsters Kelley LLP
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When you start using Salesforce, you will gain access to a dashboard where you can change your user preferences whenever you utilize the CRM. From here, you can access your reports, data summaries, schedules, and of course, your profile. On the platform, you will learn about the “Running User” component. Basically, what you have here is a feature wherein you can view your dashboard as different entities.
Choosing a Running User
Atop the dashboard interface, you will see several buttons and a field box where you can choose how to view your dashboard. If you’ve added several access points, you will have a dropdown button that will open a list to these user profiles. Each will have its own accessibility and security conditions.
Whichever you choose will become your “Running User.” There are two categories that you can select from when you create a user profile. You can set an access point as a specific user and you can also have an entity that will run as a logged-in user.
Specified Running User
When you run the program as a specified user, you can access more comprehensive internal data provided that the security settings of your chosen profile allows it. This is a great way to allow for private data access for upper management.
Logged-In Running User
You can also choose to run the program as a logged-in user. This is ideal if your dashboard has a more dynamic component. If you provide access to a number of people on the team, each will have his own credentials and must log into the system to access the company dashboard.
In doing so, Salesforce is able to provide them all of the information that is accessible via their programmed access level. For example, upper management may have access to all data while agents will only be granted access to select pieces of information. | <urn:uuid:20ca43c3-17b6-4381-ba49-7ded01f343c0> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://cloudworks.ae/running-user-salesforce/ | 2020-09-25T20:37:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228707.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925182046-20200925212046-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.935175 | 378 |
I successfully completed the task “Configure Local Yum repos” 3 times it showed as completed and got the 150% bonus points. First attempt i gave it on june 5th solved the task and received bonus pts as 150 as well, but when checking on june 6th it showed task in pending status and then again i attempted task and solved the task and received 150 bonus pts. Then yesterday june 7th when i opened to see any new task assigned but still the same task was shown as task pending then again i solved the task and received same bonus pts as 150.
Even after doing these many attempts without failing and finishing task successfully in time. This morning the task is showing up as expired and the points (task and bonus) have been deduced from my points total. Here are the screenshots.
Could you please look into this ? | <urn:uuid:3edab6cb-d9bf-4cee-a79b-39ff179c196c> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://community.kodekloud.com/t/completed-task-changed-to-expired-after-even-finishing-task-successfully-multiple-times/6588 | 2020-09-25T19:39:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228707.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925182046-20200925212046-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.986957 | 176 |
“Picture speaks a thousand words”
Sometimes a picture is enough to define an emotion, a feeling of love and happiness. Designyourown shows their empathetic side by brining customized photo cushion for you people. This photo cushion is blended with light soothing colors and a beautiful design that will make whatever picture you put into it, looks amazing. You can gift this cushion to your loved one- your mother, your father, your special friend or to anyone by having a favorite picture of your with them customized on this cushion. After this you don’t need to say much, this cushion will say it all about your feelings. Get this beautiful cushion from designyourown and make anyone feel special with it. The cushion is soft and easy to carry, and also in an affordable price. | <urn:uuid:c3bfcb95-e1a8-4b1e-8247-fda09a01c7f9> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://designyourown.pk/shop/cushions/custom-photo-cushion/ | 2020-09-25T18:51:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228707.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925182046-20200925212046-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.963961 | 162 |
I’m late for a meeting. Right now, he needs to know that you’re still his friend. Look, the reason Is it hot in here? You need to find out where she is. I swear, I didn’t know you guys would be here. I can’t stop thinking about her. I just came here to say that.
All I got is melon stuff that Rachel left. I do, so much. All he’s thinking about is how you’re taking this. And it doesn’t get said enough. How you can’t stop thinking about her? Look, the reason Is it hot in here?
“Friends” The One Where Joey Tells Rachel subtitles
She was with this other guy for a long time. Your food is fantastic! Sure, women never like Joey. Okay, stand up straight. I can’t have blue cheese in the house. I’m phasing out the wine importing xubtitles focusing more on the cheese.
“Friends” The One Where Joey Tells Rachel subtitles Arabic
Look, if it helps, I don’t want to feel this way, honest. I want to talk about your menu. I wouldn’t do anything friwnds jeopardize my friendship with you.
That gives you a couple of hours to prepare. What am I gonna say?
The office s08e16 subtitles – Google Docs
I’m not sure how to do that. I can’t You know what? It’s no big deal, all right?
Don’t start doing that. It’s like you and me going out, only weirder. But over the past few weeks, l Okay! Don’t worry, we’ll find you someone else. Let me ask you. Is it subtjtles of cheese? Seven, eight Eight years.
The guy is really cute! I’ll just be browsing through the personals. If she ends up with somebody else the truth is, she couldn’t find a better guy.
Jeez, what’s with you?
English subtitles for TV show Friends – S08E16
I had a date with this guy. He’d be the stepfather of my child. You don’t need to worry. Look, the reason Is it hot in here? I know this is a lot. Do you know how hard it’d be to clean? I’ve stopped looking for Russell Crowe.
A tall guy with hair similar to mine? He wants to move to Vermont. I thought you knew that.
I swear he’s her other half. So this guy she used to go out with, is he a good guy? It’s not a big deal? And you’re still married to him?
And he’s so centered, and mature and confident. I could never do that to the guy. | <urn:uuid:e41663d4-f111-41e6-bf59-c4dc319b8890> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://ericcantonablog.info/friends-s08e16-subtitles-41/ | 2020-09-25T20:37:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228707.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925182046-20200925212046-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.94003 | 636 |
|Dr Edward Omane Boamah|
The Minister for Communications, Dr Edward Omane Boamah is already having a bad day after poking his nose into the ongoing New Patriotic Party (NPP) manifesto launch at the Trade Fair Centre, Accra.
The minister today took to Facebook to chastise NPP supporters for choosing the manifesto launch over church. He wrote, “Just got to Nsawam and I am still seeing bus loads of NPP Supporters…..is there a church service in Accra????????????”
Meanwhile, some NPP supporters were on Facebook waiting for this to happen. So the shots firing game began.
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Slack App allows you to be aware of new comments and mentions on your boards and other changes related to your profile and respond to them instantly. Feel free to install the app to receive different types of notifications via Slack.
In this article:
- Enabling the app
- Configuring notifications
- Reacting to notifications right in Slack
- Sharing a board from Slack
- Disabling the app
- Frequently asked questions and possible issues
Enabling the App
Slack App integration is set up by a user for their own profile. To enable the integration, open your Profile Settings > Integrations, find Miro Feed (Slack App) and click Connect:
Connecting Slack App
Another option is to enable it right in the Notifications tab:
Enabling Slack App on the notification page
You will be redirected to authorize in Slack. Please enter your credentials and sign in to Slack.
Authorizing in Slack
Customize the feed that you receive by choosing the events you'd like to be notified about.
You can keep track of the following events:
- invitees sign up
- someone requests access to a team or a board
- a new board is created in one of your projects
- a board is shared with you
- there's a new comment on your board or a reply to your comment on a board
- someone @mentions you in a comment or reply
Open the Notifications page and set up your preferences:
Keep in mind that in some cases the notification will be sent to you only if the notifier decides to send it out.
Reacting to notifications right in Slack
When someone requests access to your board you can grant in right in Slack. Choose the option and click the button:
Granting access to a board in the Slack channel
Sharing a board from Slack
When posting a board link in Slack you will see a notification showing the users that don't have access to the board. You can easily invite them to the board right via Slack. Feel free to make the board public so that anyone with the link can view/comment it.
💡 If the option is not available for you, please re-install the app in settings or ask your admin to update the plugin in Slack Marketplace.
Creating a board from Slack
You can use the Miro shortcut to create a board from within Slack.
Creating a board from Slack
You will be asked to create a title for the board, select a Miro team, and add a short message to send along with the link to the newly created board within Slack.
Setting parameters for a new board in Slack
Once the board is created, the message will be sent to the channel/conversation along with the board link.
A message will be posted after creating a new board from within Slack
If some channel members do not have access to the newly created board, you'll be suggested to share the board with them from within Slack.
Disabling the App
To disable the integration, go to the Profile settings > Integrations and click Log out:
Disabling Miro Feed
To remove the app from Slack completely, open Miro Feed in Slack and click Settings.
Settings of the Miro App
You'll be redirected to the Miro Feed Settings page. Scroll down, find your name in the list of authorized users and click the trash icon.
Workspace Admins will also see the option to delete the App from the whole workspace.
Removing App from Slack
Frequently Asked Questions and Possible Issues
1. If a user adds Miro to Slack, will Miro be able to read their Slack channels?
- No, Miro will just view basic information about public channels in the workspace. It means that Miro will be able to read the list of channel names and won't be able to read the channel messages.
2. I am getting 'Something went wrong' message when trying to install the Miro Feed for Slack.
- Please check if your browser is allowing pop-ups from the miro.com domain. There may be an extra page asking for app permissions. | <urn:uuid:aea0cc31-361b-48f3-857b-5fbc5c5a7d51> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017572494-Slack-App | 2020-09-25T19:35:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228707.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925182046-20200925212046-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.915075 | 850 |
You’ve probably heard of customer experience. There is a growing trend among ambitious businesses to make sure their customer experience is first class.
It makes up a HUGE part of your brand experience, but brand experience is a broader whole-of-business strategy that includes other key stakeholders such as your staff, suppliers, media, and your social network followers.
Brand experience: what is it?
Brand experience is the overall perception someone has of your business based on their experiences and interactions; each time they see, hear, or interact with your company.
Through your brand experience you create a reputation for your business, communicate your story, values and mission, and bring people along for the journey.
Ultimately, it’s how you deliver on your brand promise and build TRUST in your brand.
Why is brand experience a game changer?
From a customer’s point of view, with so many businesses stuck in 90’s style marketing (sell, sell sell), it’s refreshing to find a brand that feels human, shares your values, understands the exact problem you’re having.
A brand that offers a solution to your problem in a non-salesy way. You create an emotional bond.
Then, when you’re ready to buy, you’re already sold on their offering because of your previous positive experiences.
That’s why a compelling brand experience is a hugely effective way to attract customers and followers to your company.
A brand experience strategy provides many benefits for your company. It helps you:
- Attract ‘warm’ leads.
- Convert leads without hard selling.
- Attract the right customers and keep them.
- Spend less on advertising.
- Avoid competing on price.
- Build a community of brand advocates and loyal followers.
- Reduce the number of refunds and lost sales.
- Attract the best talent for your team.
The key to an outstanding brand experience
You may need to revisit your entire business because to achieve an outstanding brand experience you need to align your entire business around your brand promise, be authentic, and be consistent.
So, no matter where or how someone engages with your company, each experience communicates the same message, same perception, and same feeling about your brand.
This creates an emotional connection, and research shows that people buy based on emotion.
Yes, even in a B2B environment because there are real people operating the company you’re trying to win over as your customer.
People who have the same emotive needs, whether they’re buying for themselves or on behalf of their company.
They want to feel a connection, to like you, and most importantly to TRUST you, before they’ll buy from you.
7 Steps to creating and maintaining a brand experience:
- Confirm your strategy. Identify your market niche, target customer, your mission and values.
- Develop your brand. Define your brand promise, brand style, and goal for your reputation. Who / what do you want to be known as?
- Develop your messaging. Identify what problems you’re solving. Create your story.
- Design your customer experience. Map your customer journey from end to end. Select strategic touch points and define your benchmark and ultimate experience for each touch point.
- Design your processes. Ensure they are focussed on delivering that ultimate experience and are true to your brand promise. Remove unnecessary steps. Invite your customers to help you design processes that better suit them.
- Choose your technology to support those processes. Integrate systems and automate data transfer where possible. Aim to have just one core database and run all other systems from that source.
- Review and adjust. Continuously get feedback on the experience your customers have so you know whether you’re on track to reach your ultimate experience. Do mini polls, ask questions on the phone, do an online survey.
Why your experience must be authentic and deliver on your brand promise
If you aren’t true to your brand promise, your customers and stakeholders will lose their trust in you. This kills loyalty and damages your reputation.
While you can repair it over time, your brand will never be quite the same.
Think about Samsung. They worked hard to be positioned as a premium, high quality brand with a great user experience. They were enjoying great success rivalling market leaders, Apple, in the mobile phone market. Then they made one mistake.
Samsung stopped being true to their brand promise. They cut corners with their battery manufacturing, resulting in phones and tablets catching fire, overheating and burning customers, and causing other damage to property.
This globally spread issue was widely reported and customers posted videos of their phones and burns on YouTube. Airlines banned Samsung Galaxy tablets. Then, the battery factory caught fire!
People were jumping ship to Apple or other Android makers as fast as they could because they lost faith in brand quality.
Now, Samsung has a long road ahead to win back that trust – I’m certain there are many who were once proud brand advocates who’ll never buy Samsung again.
Map out your brand experience to create a consistent experience across all your business interactions.
Read this blog for tips How to create an amazing brand experience that your customers will love to talk about
You’ll authentically and emotionally connect with your customers, future customers, and wider community so you can bring more people on the journey with you.
What do you think your ‘ultimate’ experience should be and can you achieve it? Comment below 🙂 | <urn:uuid:16ab4c28-aa44-41f8-9e95-736c99fc8e51> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://jessicaosborn.com/brand-experience-the-success-strategy-of-high-growth-companies-2/ | 2020-09-25T18:46:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228707.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925182046-20200925212046-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.935244 | 1,156 |
At least 90 percent of business owners* hire a graphic designer to create a logo, choose a font, some colours, and tick the box on branding. Done!
Right? Actually, no.
Some of the more savvy ones know that they need to be consistent in how they present their logo and do a great job of creating a strong visual identity.
Some of them also create a brand voice and consistent writing style, which is excellent!
However, it usually stops there.
Even the largest global companies I have worked at have brand teams almost solely focussed on controlling strict brand guidelines, to manage their visual identity with pedantic correctness.
This is where they’re missing the key to effective branding.
I’ve found very few companies that really understand brand strategy and (importantly) how to apply it.
The truth about branding
A brand is so much more than your visual identity.
My proof is that brands can change their logo fairly easily without having much effect on their actual brand.
You only have to Google the history of well known brands such as Nike, Adidas and IBM to see that they have changed their logo regularly over the years without many people realising.
It’s not a pretty logo and colours that make people feel connected with your company, that drives loyalty and trust.
What the logo does is help you identify the business, more than the name alone. We humans are visual and using shapes and colour helps us remember a name!
Your brand is the personality and energy of your business.
It’s your values and how you do business – the reputation you build and what you stand for.
Everything in your business should align with your brand. It’s how you create your customer experience, your employee experience and build an engaged audience.
If your business doesn’t align, your brand becomes a soul-less logo.
So when you create a brand strategy, you don’t start with the logo, in fact I always do the logo last.
You must start with your target ‘ideal’ customer, because the brand exists for them.
Everything about your brand should be designed to appeal to your target customer first and foremost. Select your colours, logo, brand voice and writing style for them.
Define your personality traits, how you want to be perceived and the values by which you’ll operate.
Only then are you ready to brief your graphic designer.
[If you’d like a simple template to create your brand strategy, download my free brand strategy worksheet here and you’ll have everything you need to DIY!]
A real life example of brand building
My last role in corporate marketing demonstrates the power of a real brand strategy.
I started with the tech start-up in their first year of establishment as Head of Marketing. Unfortunately they had already locked in their logo, using the same colours as their main competitor and a very similar design.
The visual identity being a disaster already, I was given a challenge to build a brand strong enough to win over the hearts of the industry.
I knew that to build a successful brand I needed to create distinction between it and the competitor, and this would largely be done with the rest of the brand strategy – values, messaging, personality. Luckily the competitor had a very impersonal stagnant brand and I could use this to my full advantage.
The vision was to be the most well recognised brand in our industry in Australia within 5 years.
How I created the brand
After understanding who our ideal customers were and what appealed to them, I started by defining the personality traits for our brand.
As a new entrant and also a challenger to the market leader, this meant selecting traits such as confident, friendly, forward-thinking, real, intelligent and cheeky.
A mix designed to build trust but also to catch the attention of the market by being different to what they were used to.
Where the industry typically talks in overly complicated, jargon-heavy hyperbole, I kept our messaging simple and clear. Talking in first person, directly to our audience and full of our personality.
My amazing graphic designer pushed new boundaries with the visual identity and used imagery to help portray our personality.
Our marketing campaigns also aligned to our personality, again keeping things simple but going for high impact and bold moves that maximised engagement with our target audience.
On the business side, our brand underpinned our company culture. All staff were inducted into the brand strategy so they understood our essence and could take it on themselves to uphold it.
I entrusted our staff to live and breathe our brand, in everyday communications as well as in our business processes. I gave them tools and made it easy to work with the brand, rather than controlling it.
It worked like a charm.
The brand evoked an emotive reaction with our target audience and this generated a lot of interest and therefore awareness grew quickly. People followed us in the press, tuned in to our blog and turned out to our events.
In less than 3 years my team and I had achieved the vision of being the most recognised brand in the Australian market.
However, I’d be lying if I said we didn’t have any challenges. As the company grew, staff joined us from within the industry, bringing with them a legacy of systems and rules that were in complete contrast to our brand and culture.
We had to work hard to keep everyone on track and true to our culture. There were lumps and bumps. But having a strong brand strategy helped us align and keep aligning as we grew.
Summing it up
If you’ve read this far, congratulations!
In summary, your brand sits at the core of your company. It’s your entire presence to the outside world – your culture, your approach to business and most importantly how you service your customers.
Getting the marketing right is the easy bit, the hard bit is aligning an entire business to deliver a consistent brand message.
If you fail to live and breathe your brand, you’re letting that 10% of businesses who ‘get it’ to have an unfair advantage.
Now you know the secret, you can be one of them. Good luck!
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This afternoon in his daily press conference, Governor DeWine indicated that “skills training for all sports may resume on May 26th – as long as safety protocols can be followed.” This is promising news for marching band! We will be anxiously awaiting additional guidance from the school district and state organizations on what that means for marching band and sports in Lancaster.
While it is still too early to say anything definitive about marching band for the summer and fall, let me offer some answers to some questions you’re probably having. Please remember that things are changing daily, so these are simply our best guesses at this time.
Will we have marching band this year for sure?
Yes! Marching band is something band members really look forward to. We are committed to doing whatever it takes to provide a great marching band experience this year. It may look a little different, but we are determined to make it something really memorable for our students.
What safety measures will be put in place?
We currently have a safety plan ready to go for marching band and are continuing to adjust it as we get new information. It will likely include using face masks when not playing, social distancing, staggered rehearsal times, outdoor practicing when possible, efficient use of in-person rehearsals, and no sharing of equipment.
What will happen first once things reopen for band?
Just like we usually do, we will likely start with small group rehearsals (sectionals). As soon as we can, we will allow the use of school-owned percussion equipment for individual practicing and percussion tryouts.
Will we have band camp this year?
As most of you suspected, an away band camp like we’re used to is out of the question for this year, but as long as we are permitted to meet together, we will still be having a band camp. Right now, we are planning a “home band camp” at the new Thomas Ewing Junior High School during the week of August 2. As much as we can, we will reproduce everything we love about band camp, but with some improvements! We’ll have better air conditioning, a much lower cost, and everyone will be able to get a good night’s sleep in their own bed.
How much will band cost this year?
Understanding that many families may be having financial challenges right now, we will keep band fees as low as possible. We do not want finances to prevent any students from being in marching band. While a band camp will still have some costs involved, not going away will really help our families who are struggling. Specifics on fees will be outlined soon.
How will we get updated information?
All updates will be posted on the band website and social media. Check back often! Please help us out by sharing any updates with other band families. It is important that we all stay informed. We really appreciate your flexibility and understanding.
How can we best prepare for marching band in the meantime?
Every band member should be practicing daily. This will be very important to our success this year. We’ve lost a lot of really valuable rehearsal time this spring and will need all band members to be ready to rehearse together once we can. We also need everyone to be physically in shape. Get off the couch and start getting active!
What can we expect next?
Once we have more information we will be sending out digital band forms, a calendar of rehearsals and events, and a description of band fees. In addition, we will send out music and videos digitally so that all band members can begin working on their own. Especially this summer, it will be extremely important that band members prepare to the best of their ability at home, and come to rehearsal ready to put things together. Now is the time to really step it up!
I would like to thank all of you for your patience as we all wait for the day that we can be safely be together again. Please remember that we are working hard behind the scenes to be ready to provide a great band experience to your students. We are looking forward to a great year!
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While the majority of people wish to sell their uninhabited land quickly, customers consistently turn to our business because we are able to provide cash for their land. Unlike traditional real estate sales, you do not need to deal with a bank or any loan contingencies. When the property sale has actually been completed, you win money and no stress.
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The whole sale process is simple. As soon as you request an offer, we instantly begin to research your property. We take a look at similar costs in the location and current sales information to determine our deal. Later, we will send you a deal in the mail. If you consent to the deal, just sign it and return it to us by means of the self addressed stamped envelope we provided. For faster service, you can fax it back to us.
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We purchase vacant residential Thomasville land as an investment. If you're visiting this page it is due to the fact that you have either got a letter from us describing our desire to buy your land or you are reacting to among of ads. In either case, you have vacant land that you want to sell for cash. We are a group of real estate investors that buy uninhabited land and we wish to purchase yours. Simply complete our online property evaluation worksheet and we will offer you with a composed deal for your property within 10 business days. If you accept our deal, we will setup the closing, deal with all of the documents, and pay all of the fees and we can typically close within 4-- 6 weeks of receiving a signed purchase agreement. It does not get a lot easier than that.
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That is not an issue either as we have title agents in Thomasville that will get most all of the records required for closing from the county straight (provided they were recorded correctly). Once again, this will not cost you anything since we cover all charges.
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That will depend upon many elements which is why we perform comprehensive research prior to making an offer. A few of the aspects that influence the offer we offer are size, shape, location, demand, zoning, access to energies and roads, examined value, and local real estate market conditions. Once we have actually thoroughly researched all of these products, we will present you with a fair offer and the ability to close quickly. And we pay all of the closing expenses and costs.
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We have experience purchasing all types of residential or commercial properties with many title scenarios. We have access to expert title representatives and lawyers that can discover a service for nearly any title issue and we offer the needed resources to fix title problems when essential.
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Selling your land for cash has actually never been easier! We provide hassle free transactions, fast cash, and pay all closing charges. While the majority of real estate investors focus on purchasing houses, Land Solutions Network concentrates on buying and holding parcels of uninhabited land across the county.
There are numerous factors people choose that their uninhabited land has actually ended up being a concern and they need to sell land quickly. For some, they no longer have a need for it, and they would rather cash out of the property. For others it is the cost connected with paying the real estate tax on the uninhabited land. Finally, some will offer since it wouldn't be cost efficient to keep it, and the value has dropped considerably when the bubble burst in 2008.
Vacant Land Problems
Land Solutions Network has helped Thomasville property owners with the following vacant land problems:
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The contemporary real estate market varies on a daily basis. While homes generally sell rapidly, most uninhabited land parcels are stagnant and can be tough to offer. Land owners can discover it almost difficult to offer their land. You will more than likely have ownership of your property for a long period of time and continue to pay the real estate taxes while you own it
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We follow a tried and true procedure of buying your property. We will research the uninhabited land parcel at the county office and will provide you with an offer. As soon as you finish the documentation and sign the offer, you can return it to us through e-mail, fax or snail mail via United States Postal Service.
Once we receive the signed purchase contract; we will open an escrow account, forward the purchase agreement to a title company or attorney focusing on real estate, and arrange a closing date. We take care of all closing costs and traveling so that you do not have to do anything but sign, return documents and collect your money.
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The Gold Coast Commonwealth Games 2018 are set to be the largest event the Gold Coast has ever hosted, and the largest event in Australia in the last decade. This is the fifth time Australia has hosted the Games and 70 nations will participate.
Fun facts about the Games:
- 11 days of competition
- One million ticketed spectators
- 6,600 athletes
- 50,000 working at the Games including 15,000 volunteers
- 5 billion TV viewers
The interactive games schedule gives you an idea of what’s on and when. There are 18 sports in total, with everything from athletics to wrestling. This will also be the first inclusive Commonwealth Games, offering the largest integrated para-sport program in Commonwealth Games history. With the exception of track cycling in Brisbane, basketball in Cairns/Townsville and shooting in Belmont, all other sports will take place in Gold Coast City.
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Road impacts and closures – You can find details of temporary road closures and security measures for your area here.
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Pop Quiz: Windows Server 2012: Global Catalog Servers
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Q: A company's administrator is needs to configure a series of Windows Server 2012 servers as Global Catalog servers.
Which of the following administrative tools is used to add a Global Catalog server in Windows Server 2012?
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Answer is D: Using the Active Directory Sites and Services console, click the server object which needs to be configured as a the new global catalog. In the details pane, right-click NTDS Settings of the selected server object, and then click Properties. Select the Global Catalog check box to add the global catalog, or clear the check box to remove the global catalog.
Quick Tip: The PowerShell command Get-ADForest Domain.com | FL GlobalCatalogs can be used to find Global Catalog servers in the Domain forest.
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WHAT THE WORKSHOP IS ABOUT
This workshop is all about ZN Qigong’s fundamental three Zhuang (form) series: Soaring Crane (He Xiang Zhuang 鹤翔庄), Body and Mind (Xing Shen Zhuang 形神庄), and Five HunYuan Form (Wu Yuan Zhuang 五元庄).
Teacher’s lectures will include the key points and essence in each and every Zhuang (form). They will help participants to grasp how to practice them well, by demonstrating as well as by leading the practice.
In Five HunYuan Form, to teach proper sound and how to adjust and control emotions, are the highlights in this workshop. Not like other Qigong teachers, Teacher Tan will teach it using a totally different approach: live Guqin (古琴) playing.
Teacher will use live Guqin playing to let participants experience strong connection between Guqin music with happiness, anger, sorrow, pensiveness and fear. And still use Guqin music to help neutralize different emotions.
Through this 2 days workshop you will be able to learn several highly effective Qigong practice methods for self healing, physical body strengthening, as well as emotional controlling.
Traditionally, ancient Chinese instruments (Guqin is one of them) playing was integrated with Qigong practice. Because the sound from different ancient Chinese instrument could mobilize different qi and emotion. That tradition was long gone. Nowadays very few practitioners know how to do it.
If you are very curious about this ancient instrument, you will find more info on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guqin
TEACHER TAN PENG
Tan began to learn Zhineng Qigong in 1989. In 1992, Nanning Qigong Station recommended Tan to the Zhineng Qigong Center located in Qinhuangdao to take part in build school. He worked and stayed there to serve the Department of Rehabilitation teaching team. In 1994, he went to Canada to settle down and teach qigong till now.
Tan Qigong teaching combined with Guqin, an old music instrument, practicing the application of Combine the Hunyan Whole Theory with Chinese traditional music. Tan studied Guqin under several masters. His teaching is to combine the art of Guqin with Qi Gong principles of health and wellness.
TEACHER CUI YAN
Yan started training in Zhi Neng Qi Gong (ZNQG) in 1989, and by 1991, she had become an instructor in the Healing and Rehabilitation Department of the HuaXia Zhineng Qigong Centre where she taught over a thousand students during the next three years.
In 1994, she went to the teachers class for two years to further study. After finishing her study, she stayed in the two-year teachers’ class to teach at grades 96 and 97. She came to Canada in 2001 and taught qigong till now.
Both Tan and Yan were not only direct students of Dr. Pang, but worked closely with Dr. Pang during those years in Huaxia healing centre (The Qi Hospital). They were two of the original staffs by Dr. Pang’s side all the time since that healing centre was built. We are blessed to have them in Vancouver this September!
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Date: Sep 1st and Sep 2nd
Time: 9am – 5pm
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Today we collect performance metrics using RUM. That is super and helps us keep track of performance trends. Running our own synthetic testing (automatically testing pages in browsers) will help us find performance problems related to specific browsers, giving us better instruments when analyzing (and talking about) performance: HAR files, SpeedIndex (that is the best way today to show the above the fold content is loaded) & videos.
What makes WebPageTest especially good is that it's open-source and can handle Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome & Safari.
Why our own instance?
There's a public instance of WebPageTest where the limit is 200 page views per day. If we test one page first view and repeat view nine times, we can test 10 pages once a day. That is too low. Running our own instance also removes the limit of 9 runs per URL.
Setup our own instance(s)
WebPageTest contains of one web server (the main entry point) that can run on Linux/Windows and test agent (that actually runs the browser tests) that only runs on Windows.
Setting up WebPageTest instances can be quite a lot of work (even though the list of what needs to be done is not too long https://sites.google.com/a/webpagetest.org/docs/private-instances). WebPageTest is known for the lack/outdated documentation.
However, there are ready made AMIs on Amazon that we could could use. That will save us a lot of time on setup and will also add automatically up/down scaling of agents. By default an agent that hasn't been used in one hour will be shut down. It will also add the ability to run agents from different locations, something we can use in the future.
What kind of data will WebPageTest collect?
All the metrics we collect can be public (there's no secrets there, whoever who wants can collect them). It would be great if the instance could be publicly accessible. I think we should aim for that in the future but lets first set it up so it works. We can run the instance headless = no GUI for running tests, then use the API with an API-key. That way we can run the tests automatically that we want and the result will be public (if you know the URL).
We will have a problem in a way of that we will not have everything exactly how we want it with SPDY for different browsers until we change to HTTP2.
It's like this: WebPageTest has SPDY support for Chrome, meaning it will use SPDY and all the metrics will be right, except for sizes of different objects in the HAR file. That doesn't matter so much for us right now, but if we also wanna pick assets sizes from the run, we need to have workaround (and don't worry there is).
Firefox is using SPDY but the HAR/Waterfall graphs aren't generated because there's no SPDY decoder implemented for Firefox. But it will be there when we support HTTP2.
Internet Explorer 11 isn't supporting SPDY on older version of Windows (and that's what WPT uses).
The Safari version running on WPT is 7:ish meaning not supporting SPDY.
What we need to do on a high level
- Setup our own instance of WebPageTest (security etc) and mount the logs dir to EBS (how do we do that?)
- Automate run/trigger tests on WebPageTest (we can use sitespeed.io or the WebPageTest nodejs API wrapper )
- Define a couple of URLs to start with. I think it good to keep the list small for the beginning. Talked with @ori and logged in/anonymous users and a couple pages should do as a start. I think it's important to keep it as simple as possible as a start just to get something up and running.
- Define browsers and connectivity. We should use latest Chrome/Firefox and discuss how we do with Internet Explorer/Safari until WPT versions use SPDY or we switch to HTTP2. We should also run a browser that not will support SPDY/HTTP2 so we also keep track of that
- Decide how many times we want to test each URL.
- Push the data to Graphite
- Find a easy way to map metrics in Graphite to runs in WebPageTest (so we from a specific run easy can look up the data in our WebPageTest instance). | <urn:uuid:e4de8ec1-5941-401d-b0f8-ed728f205e06> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109666 | 2020-09-25T20:59:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228707.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925182046-20200925212046-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.908062 | 938 |
Roblox inventory has become the greatest attraction for all avid players across the globe. Not only to customize your Roblox Avatar but also to make more Robux without playing, you will want to create your own funky shirts and crazy hats. If you also want to know how to How to Make a Shirt on Roblox an create a beautiful shirt, follow this simple guide for best results.
If you want to design and create a shirt for selling, be sure you read this guide:
How to trade in Roblox?
If you are creating a donation-shirt, please refer to this guide: How to give Robux to your friends?
So, before moving forward let us have a brief understanding of what Builders club is.
What is the Builders Club?
Well, there is much to Builders Club membership than just creating the shirt. Builders Club membership is an entry pass for the Roblox trading and selling the world. As your sales increase, you have more and more Robux in your wallet, and you can convert virtual money – The Robux into real money using the DevEx program. And, all of this through a single entry gate – “Builders club”. So, we suggest you to have a fundamental knowledge of the Builders Club, popularly known as “a BC” before proceeding further.
So, what is this Builders Club on Roblox? Think of the Prime membership on Amazon. Customers with Prime membership will always get additional benefits in terms of offers, delivery speed, etc. Similarly, Roblox users who are subscribed to Builders Club membership will always have some extra advantages over those who are not. These privileges are in the form of daily Robux, a power to design, create and sell Roblox Assets.
More About Builders Club
Look at the screenshot given above. It will provide you a fair idea of what Roblox Builders Club membership is. Builders Club membership is subdivided into 3 independent categories. Each category comes with its own perks. For example, Classic Builders Club Membership will give you daily Robux benefit of R$15 while the Turbo BC Membership will fetch you daily R$35 Robux.
The maximum daily incentive comes with the Outrageous BC Membership. It gives you a bonus of R$60 daily. However, you get nothing for nothing! The membership charges both monthly and annually increase as you move from free to Classic Membership, from Classic to Turbo and from Turbo to Outrageous Builders Club Membership.
For now, what we are interested in is the highlighted part – “Sell stuff”. This implies Roblox has given you a licence to sell shirts that you have created. It can be noticed easily that this feature is available only in the paid memberships and not available for the free users.
How to Make a Shirt on Roblox with the Builders Club Membership
Let’s move on to the actual shirt making process.
- First of all, go to Roblox.com and login to your account. After logging in, download a basic Roblox Avatar Shirt template. These templates are made available to all the Roblox account holders. So, one can create these assets as per his or her choice. OR
- There is an external source to download the Roblox shirt template. For this, you don’t have to log in to your Roblox account. Click on this link: https://static.rbxcdn.com/images/Template-Shirts-R15_04202017.png. This will open an image for you that you can use to create a shirt.
While this method also lets you download the template, we would highly recommend you to download the template from the official website.
- So, now you have the image file of the template. It is time to use your creativity and innovative thinking! Use some image editing software to edit the image.
Another Easy Way
You can directly download a shirt and edit it. Sounds untrue? But it is true for knowing How to Make a Shirt on Roblox. Please read this guide: Roblox Asset Downloader. Use Paint.NET. You can also use an advanced image editor so that its texture stays the way you want. There is also “GIMP 2” – a free photo editing software. The good thing about GIMP 2 is that it is available for both Mac as well as Windows users. Try not to use a basic image editor as the overall look of the image might get disturbed. And once editing is done, go to Roblox.com, upload it to your account and give your Avatar some make-over!
For reference, search for some Roblox shirt codes. Shirt codes are basically the samples of shirt designs created by other users that help you get an idea.
Okay, so now your shirt is ready and you have saved it in your PC. Let’s go ahead.
Now you know How to Make a Shirt on Roblox and that your shirt is ready, you would want to upload it to Roblox so that other users can purchase it.
Uploading a shirt is very simple and easy to follow the process:
- Go to Roblox.com and login to your account.
- Navigate to the Roblox home page.
- Click on “Develop”.
- Go to “My Creations”.
- Click on “Shirts”.
Give a nice name or ID to your shirt. Note that after uploading, Roblox will first verify your shirt. So, there shall be a time lapse before you can find your asset in the Roblox inventory.
Alternate Method to Know How to Make a Shirt on Roblox
This is an alternate method as given by Roblox wiki:
- First, search for a picture that you want to print on your Roblox Avatar’s shirt.
- Navigate to Roblox.com and Sign in to your account. Click on “My Roblox“. Click on “Change Character”. You will be able to notice a list of all your possessions under clothing. The default selection will be “T-shirts”. Click on “create”.
- Find “Upload Texture” and click on “browse“. Upload the photo you had selected. Click on “Create T-Shirt“.
- And, it is over!
Well, it is over from your side. Roblox will now check if the clothing you just created is appropriate for the age or not. Let Roblox take its time.
Once the verification is over, you can see your new cloth in your collection and is absolutely ready to wear.
So, now you know How to Make a Shirt on Roblox and employ your creativity for your Avatar. You can also earn Robux and ultimately real-world money if the asset created by you goes hit. Good luck! | <urn:uuid:e172b23c-cfe8-4e35-9df4-77abc99047c4> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://robloxfever.com/how-to-make-a-shirt-on-roblox/ | 2020-09-25T20:03:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228707.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925182046-20200925212046-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.931121 | 1,475 |
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September 12, 2020
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What does this symbol mean!! Planning for a cover up.
Back of the thigh bobcat and skull piece done by Max LaCroix at Akara Arts in Milwaukee, WI
Need some expertise from someone experienced with old fashion traditional / sailor jerry tattoos
Looking to get this, but not sure if it could work as a tattoo, is this doable?
my left arm (yes i’m really into random tats :p) Evoli, the third eye & Bojack Horseman done at Wild at Heart Studio in Vienna | <urn:uuid:ea747e1b-8f36-4981-87cc-0484d16ae79e> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://thekindredstyle.com/2020/09/12/wendigo/ | 2020-09-25T20:02:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228707.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925182046-20200925212046-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.869521 | 139 |
In 2007, Mayor Buddy Dyer initiated Green Works Orlando to transform the city into one of the most environmentally-friendly communities in the nation. As part of this program, TLC was awarded a contract to audit, identify and develop energy conservation measures (ECMs) for the 25-year old City Hall, following TLC’s successful audit and installation of ECMs for 27 city-owned buildings.
The City of Orlando is committed to sustainable building and energy efficient designs. TLC completed an ASHRAE Level II audit of the 11-story administrative office building, revealing several opportunities for improving energy performance including recommendations to reduce the lighting density from 1.9 watts/sf to .7 watts/square foot, with a projected annual savings of $133,165 and a 4.3 year payback. Additionally, implementing a new building automation systems (BAS) is projected annual savings of $77,160, based on a calibrated energy model. The energy model predicted annual operational cost savings of the identified Facility Improvement Measures at $167,413, and the estimated total annual operational cost savings of the ECMs at $154,405. | <urn:uuid:204baa45-5666-4172-89c3-01ffe64da0de> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://tlc-engineers.com/projects/city-of-orlando-city-hall-energy-efficiency-improvements/ | 2020-09-25T19:30:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228707.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925182046-20200925212046-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.940843 | 232 |
Ukiyo-e is entertainment for people who enjoy living and seeing the world positively in the Edo period
It is said that the beginning of Ukiyo-e was after Edo Great Fire, that occurred in January 1657 (Meireki 3).
The fire burnt out the entire town and nothing was left. After that, illustrating and depicting the rebirth trend with Edo city was the origin of Ukiyo-e.
“Ukiyo” is spelled out “gloomy world” in kanji, (Chinese characters), literally. As the kanji characters represent the original word, it means the gloomy world.
On the other hand, under the reconstruction atmosphere, because of such a difficult time, people started to think to enjoy life and have fun. In short, Ukiyo-e, whose meaning changed to mean “the illustration of the floating world,” was the entertainment for general people who enjoy living in the time and seeing the world positively. In that sense, Ukiyo-e depicted various genres, such as prostitutes in Yoshiwara, Kabuki actors, beautiful women in town, sumo wrestlers, firefighters, landscapes, and stories.
Ukiyo-e has two styles. One is woodblock print and the other is drawing (hand drawn). The drawing (hand drawn) was precious for its scarcity.
The woodblock prints were affordable for people because they were mass-produced. People had them like we buy magazines and favorite postcards now.
Shining with the activities of Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige, landscape established its existence from the sub-genre to a major genre. Landscapes played a role in guidebooks that we have now.
Katsushika Hokusai “Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji
“Nihonbashi Bridge Morning View”
“The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido”
“Maruko Famous Tea House”
Drawing of Actors
These are works depicting popular Kabuki actors. It is also an important genre of Ukiyo-e in addition to pictures of beautiful women. The numbers produced were more than half of the Ukiyo-e production.
“Ichimatsu Sanogawa III as Onayo
the prostitute at Gion cho”
Omezo Ichikawa as Yakko Ippei
Pictures of Beautiful Women
The prostitutes of Yoshiwara and Geisha, female entertainers, were drawn the most. Young girls in town and mothers were illustrated also. They became also the subjects gradually. They tell the people’s daily life.
Six Famous Beauties:
Eight Views of Famous Teahouse
Beauties: A Mirror
Impact outside of Japan
There is a story that Bracquemond, a French painter, was surprised with the pottery’s wrapping paper sent from Japan when he was looking at the paper unintentionally. “Hokusai manga” (Sketching) was there. Since then, Bracqemond was inspired by Hokusai’s drawing, and he passed them to his painter friends at every single occasion. It became a catalysis of the boom that was called “Japonism,” an art trend that started in Europe.
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On tonight’s “Marriage Boot Camp,” Kurupt demands to leave the boot camp house for his safety. This as Dr. Ish removed the alcohol from the house as a way to help Kurupt. Ultimately, Kurupt gets what he wants but is then faced with a decision to make; rehab or leave MBC.
Meanwhile, it’s day eight, one day before the dreaded lie-detector test. During this day, Shanda sees similarities in her relationship with her father and her relationship with Willie.
Phaedra and Medina also confront their past as De’Von being spoiled in his childhood continues to affect his relationship with Hazel.
Lastly, Vado’s allowed to return for the sessions and he apologizes to Tahiry, bringing her to tears.
Here’s the recap for, “Break the Cycle.”
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Shopping for furniture can be enjoyable if you are knowledgeable about what you are doing. So many options are out there, but many of them might be out of your price range. The article below will show you how to buy on a budget without any headaches.
When you are getting older furniture, check out its undercarriage to be sure it is stable. Sometimes, the furniture appears to exhibit quality and a great condition, but often this isn’t the case. Older furniture can be affected by dry rot and rust.
Tile top tables are popular today. These tables are simple to clean and they are able to be disinfected. Many options exist for these tables, like bench seating or separate chairs, that make them ideal for families that are busy.
When you search for new furniture, consider your color options carefully. Bolder colors will be harder to match with your decor. You can choose bold colors for smaller pieces, but stick to neutral, easily matched colors for larger items of furniture.
Measure the area for your new furniture before you buy. Whatever piece you are shopping for needs to fit in the space you intend to put it in. Taking a guess can lead to disaster. It’s very important to measure when you want pieces that expand, like sleeper sofas and recliners.
Bring a color swatch of your walls and room fabrics when you are out shopping for new furniture. You might fall for a piece on the showroom floor only to realize it clashes with everything in your home, once there. Try to avoid this problem. You can do this by taking a photo of the room the new piece will be placed in, or by using a color swatch to see if it matches.
If you are shopping for a recliner, test it at the store. A lot of shoppers do not test this, and are later disappointed at home when they find out that it doesn’t work. You may not be able to have this furniture replaced.
If you are purchasing a sofa with a pattern, make sure the fabric is well-aligned. Lower priced sofas may not have aligned fabric patterns. If you are purchasing a more expensive sofa, find one with a pattern that is perfectly aligned. Don’t hesitate to move on if you find tailoring errors on a pricey sofa.
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Final Decision Adopted March 3, 2015By: Richard Gillihan, Director
This matter was heard before Karla Broussard-Boyd, Administrative Law Judge (ALJ), Department of Human Resources (CalHR) at 9:00 a.m. on November 20, 2014 in Riverside, California.
Appellant was present and represented by Adam Stern, Attorney at Law, Of Counsel, The Myers Law Group. Amy Carmona, Office Chief of Classification and Hiring Services, represented the Department of Transportation (DOT), respondent.
On July 23, 2014, DOT, respondent, issued appellant a Denial of Merit Salary Adjustment. California Code of Regulations, title 2, section 599.684 provides an employee may appeal to CalHR after having exhausted the departmental remedy to determine if the denial of his merit salary adjustment is supported by substantial evidence. On September 5, 2014, appellant filed a timely appeal with CalHR.
The appeal complies with the procedural requirements of the California Code of Regulations, title 2, section 599.684. CalHR has jurisdiction over the appeal.
Appellant argues he was not provided proper notice of the merit salary adjustment denial and the denial of his merit salary adjustment was arbitrary.
Respondent contends it had substantial evidence for denying appellant's merit salary adjustment and the denial should be sustained.
1. Was the notification of appellant's denial of merit salary adjustment timely?
2. Is the denial of a merit salary adjustment supported by substantial evidence?
The evidence established the following facts by a preponderance of the evidence.
The appellant began his career with respondent on March 11, 1998. His current appointment is as an Equipment Operator II with respondent's Sign Crew in the Commerce Yard. He has been an Equipment Operator II for three years, and NAME REDACTED, Maintenance Supervisor, has been his supervisor for the last year. The appellant has never been denied a Merit Salary Adjustment (MSA) and received regular Performance Appraisals from his previous supervisors. NAME REDACTED never gave the appellant a Performance Appraisal.
The appellant claims unfair treatment by NAME REDACTED and reported these issues to the Manager. The Manager told him to put something in writing and they would further discuss the issues. The appellant told the Manager he feared retaliation from NAME REDACTED and the Manager told him to come to him if he felt any retaliation from NAME REDACTED. On July 23, 2014, two days after his meeting with the Manager, he was given a memo from NAME REDACTED denying his MSA because, "he is not putting on his vest fast enough." The appellant's MSA was to have become effective on July 31, 2014.
The Manager is NAME REDACTED second line supervisor. NAME REDACTED knew the appellant complained to the Manager about him, but does not recall the exact date, explaining it was either July 2014 or August 2014. Nothing was done about the appellant's unfair treatment complaints and when he returned to speak with the Manager, he was told to put his complaints in writing and give it directly to NAME REDACTED. NAME REDACTED claims appellant's complaint had no bearing on his denial of the appellant's MSA.
The July 23, 2014 MSA denial memo listed four allegations against the appellant.
The first allegation was he wore tennis shoes instead of the appropriate work boots on October 30, 2013. The appellant was never told of this allegation until he received the MSA denial, seven months later. There was credible evidence other employees, including his supervisor, wore shoes other than the appropriate work boots.
The second allegation involved a backing accident on January 15, 2014. The appellant does not deny the backing accident which caused approximately $1,500.00 in damage to one of respondent's vehicles. He was given a Letter of Warning and has not had an accident since. Also, on January 15, 2014, NAME REDACTED verbally counseled the appellant about, "working in a connector on the outside of a curve by himself." NAME REDACTED believes this to be an unsafe behavior and the appellant has not repeated the behavior.
The last allegation in the July 23, 2014 MSA denial memo was appellant's failure to wear the appropriate safety equipment on June 17, 2014. NAME REDACTED alleges the appellant was not wearing a hardhat, safety vest or gloves. The appellant does not deny this allegation, claiming it was extremely hot and there was little or no traffic in the area. He was not told of the problem until a few days later when NAME REDACTED showed him a picture of appellant without his orange coveralls for protection from trees and bushes and to make him more noticeable to on-coming traffic. He also understands the gloves are protection from splinters, and goggles from flying debris.
The appellant and his co-workers attend weekly Safety "Tailgate" Meetings. On August 14, 2013, August 19, 2013, October 14, 2013, December 16, 2013, December 30, 2013, February 3, 2014, March 24, 2014, May 19, 2014 and July 7, 2014, Personal Protective Equipment was discussed. The appellant does not have a specific recollection of receiving training on each specific topic, but admits he has a general understanding of the purpose of Personal Protective Equipment and has attended several respondent-sponsored training courses.
NAME REDACTED supervises approximately ten (10) employees and has supervised the appellant for one (1) year and two (2) months. The appellant is the only employee who was denied his MSA and all reasons for the denial are outlined in the July 23, 2014 MSA denial memo. NAME REDACTED admitted there are other employees, himself included, that wear tennis shoes in the Commerce Yard shop. None of those employees were denied their MSA. NAME REDACTED acknowledged he had corrective interviews with the other employee for the tennis shoe issue, and did not otherwise discipline the employee.
NAME REDACTED admits he wears tennis shoes in the office and the shop if he is just walking through even though work boots are required. He thinks there is a rule which says managerial employees can have tennis shoes on but does not cite to a rule. In another instance, the appellant and another employee were not wearing safety vests on June 17, 2014. NAME REDACTED had a corrective interview with the other employee, but did not have a corrective interview with the appellant.
NAME REDACTED explained safety is the number one topic at the weekly Safety "Tailgate" Meetings. He claimed that every four (4) years the appellant attended the Defensive Driver training, but could provide no proof the appellant took the class after 2009. NAME REDACTED claims the Maintenance Field Defensive Driver Training taken by the appellant in 2012 is the same course as Defensive Driver Training. NAME REDACTED provides an Independent Development Plan (IDP) to each of his employees on an annual basis. He could not explain why he had not yet provided an IDP to the appellant.
Respondent failed to timely notify appellant of his merit salary adjustment denial.
Appellant's argument respondent was inefficient is well-placed. Bargaining Unit 12, Craft and Maintenance states at section 2.4, "Merit Salary Adjustments - Employees shall receive annual merit salary adjustments in accordance with Government Code section 19832 and applicable CalHR rules. The employee shall be informed in writing of denial ten (10) working days prior to the proposed effective date of the merit salary adjustment." The appellant's MSA was due on July 31, 2014.
Respondent notified the appellant on July 23, 2014 his MSA was denied. In accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), the appellant should have been notified no later than July 17, 2014 his MSA was to be denied. He was not. The Labor Relations Division of the Department of Human Resources determined respondent's failure to timely notify the appellant of his MSA denial unproblematic.
However, the MOU is a contract which supersedes the statute and the respondent is duty-bound to comply with its terms. As noted in Government Code section 19832 (b), "If the provisions of this section are in conflict with the provisions of a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to Section 3517.5, the memorandum of understanding shall be controlling without further legislative action . . . ." Therefore, respondent's failure to timely notify the appellant of his MSA denial is clear error and should not be excused.
The merit salary adjustment denial is not supported by substantial evidence.
Government Code section 19832 provides, "[a]fter completion of the first year in a position, each employee shall receive a merit salary adjustment equivalent to one of the intermediate steps during each year when [he] meets the standard of efficiency as the department by rule shall prescribe." In other words, an employee who does not meet the standard of efficiency is inefficient and should not be awarded a merit salary adjustment. The denial of an MSA is therefore a form of discipline for those employees who demonstrate inefficiency.
"Inefficiency . . . generally connotes a continuous failure by an employee to meet a level of productivity set by other employees in the same or similar position. In some instances, an employee's failure to produce an intended result with a minimum of waste, expense or unnecessary effort may also constitute 'inefficiency' for purposes of discipline under subdivision (c)." (Boobar SPB Prec. Dec 93-21.) The appellant has never been denied his merit salary adjustment except under NAME REDACTED. Moreover, when given an opportunity to correct his behavior, the appellant never repeated the unwanted behavior. Therefore, the appellant was not inefficient as he never exhibited a continuous failure in performing his duties.
In evaluating an appeal for a denial of a merit salary adjustment, "the determination of the appointing power to withhold a merit salary adjustment shall be sustained if supported by substantial evidence." (Cal. Code Regs., tit 2, § 599.684.) Substantial evidence is evidence that a reasonable person "might accept as adequate to support a conclusion" (Estate of Teed (1952) 112 Cal.App.2d 638), or evidence "that is reasonable, credible and of solid value." (Roddenberry v. Roddenberry (1996) 44 Cal.App.4th 634.) Respondent's decision to withhold appellant's MSA is not reasonable or of solid value.
Appellant's supervisor appears to have treated him differently than other employees. This is seen when an employee who, like appellant, failed to wear protective safety gear on January 15, 2014, was not written up or denied his merit salary adjustment. In fact, NAME REDACTED testified that other employees had failed to wear protective safety gear on more than one occasion and were never written up. Similarly, other employees were verbally counseled and provided an opportunity to cure their workplace deficiencies, and did not lose their merit salary adjustment. The appellant was not allowed that opportunity.
The appellant was not notified of his alleged deficiency of not wearing the proper footwear for nearly nine (9) months. In other words, he was not given an opportunity to cure the alleged deficiency, and was only notified when his merit salary adjustment was denied. Incongruously, other employees were evaluated annually through an IDP, but the appellant was never provided an IDP. Simply stated, NAME REDACTED gave other employees a chance to cure any deficiencies but failed to provide the appellant the same opportunity to cure. NAME REDACTED denial of appellant's merit salary adjustment is not reasonable.
"Conduct which lacks any reasonable basis or is without any rational support whatsoever may be considered to be arbitrary and capricious." (Madonna v. County of San Luis Obispo (1974) 39 Cal.App.3d 57.) The appellant was denied his merit salary adjustment for wearing tennis shoes, even though NAME REDACTED admits wearing tennis shoes in the shop. NAME REDACTED testimony, 'it's okay for him to wear tennis shoes' is not believable as he could cite to no rule which exempts him from wearing protective safety shoes.
Moreover, at least one other employee was not written up for lacking the requisite protective safety gear. Applying a different set of standards for the same or similarly situated employees and making up separate rules for the supervisor is unfair conduct. "Conduct which is not supported by a fair or substantial reason is also arbitrary." (Evans v. Unemployment Ins. Appeals Bd. (1985) 39 Cal.3d. 398.)
Furthermore, NAME REDACTED testimony is suspect. When asked whether he knew the appellant had filed a complaint against him with his supervisor, the Manager, he conveniently cannot recall when he learned of appellant's complaint. Then he testified the complaint was not really about him – only his name was mentioned. This was successfully contradicted by the appellant who testified credibly he had lodged a complaint regarding NAME REDACTED with the Manager, and he feared retaliation. Not only is NAME REDACTED arbitrary in meting out discipline to his employees, his testimony lacks the solid value required to be substantial evidence.
If the appellant's behavior lacked the necessary efficiency during his entire year of working under NAME REDACTED, his behavior should have been documented. He should have been counseled and given an opportunity to cure his deficiencies. Therefore, the respondent's conduct in denying the appellant his MSA is not supported by substantial evidence.
The appellant proved by a preponderance of the evidence that notification of the denial of his merit salary adjustment was untimely. The appellant proved by a preponderance of the evidence the denial of his merit salary adjustment was not supported by substantial evidence.
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THEREFORE, IT IS DETERMINED, the appeal of denial of merit salary adjustment, issued to appellant, by the Department of Transportation, dated July 23, 2014, is granted. Respondent shall approve appellant's merit salary adjustment effective July 31, 2014 and pay him accordingly.
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Anne Lambert Tracht is President of ConsultArt. She holds a degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and, before joining ConsultArt, worked at Solomon Projects in Atlanta and Guggenheim Asher Associates in New York. Anne serves on the boards of numerous Atlanta art and civic organizations including Midtown Alliance, Atlanta Metropolitan Public Art Coalition (MPAC) and the Judith Alexander Foundation.
Jill Malino joined ConsultArt in 2010. Jill holds a degree in Art History from The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill as well as an Architectural History degree from Georgia Tech. In addition to her previous gallery experience in New York City, Jill has experience working with interior design, industrial design, and architectural firms in Atlanta. | <urn:uuid:f3bb57bb-cb2c-43a0-918f-bbbed8571ae3> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.consultartinc.com/team/ | 2020-09-25T20:17:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228707.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925182046-20200925212046-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.939237 | 146 |
At the May showcase, Jennifer Gallo-Fox, assistant professor of human development and household sciences, praised the designs for their educational content material. Engineering college students on the University of Delaware just lately pitched their own inventions to representatives from a significant toy company. Browse through examples from firms that celebrated their financial successes to get impressed on your personal deal toy. We’ll do every little thing we are able to to make your deal toy experience straightforward and exciting. We’ve been within the business for greater than 4 decades and in that time we’ve gone above and past for hundreds of clients.
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Chinese factories usually close in the course of the Lunar New Year and weren’t anticipated to be up and running until this week or next. Employees went residence for the closure, some of them venturing away from mainland China, and now there are necessary quarantines. famous that despite the fact that none of its facilities are in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, the dispersal of staff across the country has hit the production schedule exhausting. Based on my expertise and what I’m seeing, I’d suspect that when we obtain extra data on new G.I. Joe product, any convention unique action figures will run within the $50 range.
- But when you give them a prototype, you are going to get so much richer information on the expertise and the way they really use the thing.
- It’s not until you place something of their hands and you see how they really play with it, you need that info to make good design choices going ahead.
- Instead of going straight to CAD, we make these sequence of rough low fidelity prototypes, and, specific to toys, you’re not going to get actual data on kids if you simply show them a picture.
- We discuss with a design critic and a product design educator who each have an interest in toys – their history, and how they’re created and assessed in the real world.
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Arnaud Bourdoux: What happened at Tunguska in 1908?
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- Title Arnaud Bourdoux: What happened at Tunguska in 1908?
- Released: 30/06/2020
- Length 00:01:54
- Language English
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It was the inspiration for Asteroid Day, but what exactly happened at Tunguska in Siberia on 30 June 1908? Asteroid researcher Arnaud Bourdoux looks back to an eyewitness report of the largest asteroid impact in recorded history.
Asteroids can tell us about the origins of the Solar System and maybe even life itself, but they also pose a risk to Earth as many graze past our planet on a regular basis. Find out more about what ESA is doing to protect us through its Planetary Defence Office, part of the Space Safety programme. | <urn:uuid:b6791cff-7c9f-4f17-a0d1-e7636fcc163c> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.esa.int/esatv/Videos/2020/06/Arnaud_Bourdoux_What_happened_at_Tunguska_in_1908 | 2020-09-25T21:04:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228707.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925182046-20200925212046-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.919631 | 192 |
The €100,000 fine imposed on CommexFX and its owner by the Cyprus Securities and Exchanges Commission (CySEC) has stirred up some controversy across the industry. Clients claim that they haven’t received their withdrawals, and CySEC, not being able to take any additional action, decided to unveil a fine it imposed on the broker and the company’s owner a couple of years ago.
There is no reasonable explanation for CySEC’s withholding of this information for two years other than that the regulator is aiming to communicate to the investment community that some action was indeed taken against CommexFX.
Egyptian report says Alimari is detained by the local authorities
Finance Magnates has delved deeper into the unfolding of the troubled brokerage, culminating in the warning against it for endangering client’s interests.
After receiving the license suspension notice in mid-June, CommexFX was given a two weeks term by CySEC to repay pending withdrawal requests to its clients. When that term expired, the company was given an extension of two more weeks to handle the issue.
Former employees claim that CommexFX has not, and has never actually held any client funds. According to them, the reason for clients not being repaid has to do with the firm being “poisoned by operational issues.” However, they did not elaborate on the nature of these issues.
CommeFX’s website was registered in October 2011, and was launched shortly after in January 2012. According to a source close to the matter, in March 2015 the company had close to 40 employees and about 6,000 clients. Ever since, the brokerage’s clients have experienced substantial difficulties in withdrawing their funds, while the owner, Abdalrahman Alimari, was reported by Egyptian news portal youm7 to have been detained by Egyptian authorities pending another matter.
People close to Alimari say these reports are false, and that he is exploring the possibility of taking legal action against the Egyptian media for slander. They added that Mr Alimari is currently doing everything in his power to retrieve client funds and disburse them to the customers of CommexFX.
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Interestingly, Mr. Alimary is also tied to another ailing broker, Merex Markets. Catering mainly to Arab and Chinese clients, Merex Markets offers forex and precious metals trading and holds offices in Tbilisi and Cairo. Mr. Alimari’s social media profiles underscore his double affinity: His LinkedIn profile indicates that he is the CEO of CommexFX, while the Merex Markets official investors group on Facebook list his social media profile as an administrator.
Merex Markets’ website states that the company provides managed account services and claims to be using a “faultless system” that returns from 7 to 12 percent per month. The page portraying this information has since been removed from the current version of the firm’s website.
Instead, another message has been put up stating, “Did you know an investment with Merex Markets would have yielded an extraordinary return of over 114% in 2012? Some may say that this is nothing but luck. However to repeat the feat with a return over 96% in 2013 is an incredible performance that would turned most hedge fund managers green with envy. Especially when we tell you that over a 24 month period the fund managers at Merex Markets did not have one signal losing month.”
The above message sounds suspicious, not only because of the spelling mistakes, but also because the company claims to be on par with major investment banks, where few trading desks have indeed enjoyed periods of no monthly losses for a number of quarters.
“Administrative Errors” Lead to Liquidation
With Merex Markets asking for a $10,000 minimum investment from its prospective clients, the story doesn’t end well. According to an official message published on the board of the company’s Facebook group, the firm has been struggling financially.
The message continues with a statement that work is being done to find alternative solutions for the ongoing crisis, however the firm denies all rumors about fraudulent activity and the loss of investments with Merex Markets.
A statement about proper liquidation of the firm, a timetable for refunding client deposits and an appropriate methodology when compensating clients follows, with clients being promised to be refunded all amounts due to them – including their investment and profits.
The statement reads further, “The firm is calling on its customers to stand side by side with the company through the next phase until the completion of the review of all dues to the clients of the company.”
“We extend our apology for all the administrative errors that occurred on our part throughout our attempts to get out of the crisis and stress that the company has attempted to recover in various ways and tried hard not to reach this stage,” the message concludes. | <urn:uuid:de9af8e3-9ba1-42a4-9415-46c7daea7762> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.financemagnates.com/forex/brokers/exclusive-the-murky-unfoldings-behind-commexfx-e100000-fine/ | 2020-09-25T20:44:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228707.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925182046-20200925212046-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.968622 | 1,030 |
Rodon, Sanchez lead White Sox to sweep
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Carlos Rodon pitched shutout ball into the seventh inning and Carlos Sanchez homered for the second straight day, leading the Chicago White Sox to a four-game sweep with a 2-1 win over the Cleveland Indians on Sunday.
Rodon and Sanchez, both rookies, helped the White Sox finish off their first four-game sweep in Cleveland since July 14-17, 2005. Chicago outscored the Indians 26-5 and never trailed in the series.
Rodon (4-3) recorded the longest outing of his career and won for the first time since June 20. The left-hander allowed five hits in 6 2-3 innings, struck out nine and didn't walk a batter.
Sanchez, who hit his first major league home run in Saturday's 10-3 win, led off the third with a homer to center and was 3 for 3.
Melky Cabrera had run-scoring single in the seventh to make it 2-0. He was 9 for 17 with eight RBIs in the series.
David Robertson worked out of trouble in the ninth for his 21st save. Giovanny Urshela led off with a triple, but Carlos Santana struck out. Pinch-hitter David Murphy's groundout scored Urshela and Brandon Moss flied out to end the game.
Danny Salazar (8-6) allowed two runs in 6 2-3 innings for the Indians, who have lost six straight at home and are 19-30 at Progressive Field.
The White Sox came into the series with six losses in seven games, but moved out of last place in the AL Central and dropped Cleveland into the basement.
Shortstop Alexei Ramirez took a hit away from Jason Kipnis in the sixth with a leaping backhand grab while tumbling to the ground.
Rodon came into the game in his worst stretch of the season. The left-hander was 1-3 with a 6.98 ERA in his last six starts, allowing 23 earned runs in 29 2-3 innings.
Chicago's starting pitchers have gone five straight games without walking a batter.
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Moyes: Romance is not dead
Moyes has endured a frustrating summer of limited activity in the transfer market, with his chairman Bill Kenwright revealing that the Toffees' recruitment plans have been hampered by their inability to borrow from the bank. Moyes, who has guided Everton to consistent top-10 finishes in the Premier League over the last few years, admitted last week it could be a lot tougher for the team to reach those heights again this term. Nonetheless, the Scot retains great faith in his players and is optimistic they can still produce the goods. "In football at this moment in time, I think the league table will tell you that what you tend to pay in wages (is a major factor in) where you finish," Moyes said. "But I'd like to think that football wasn't always about spending money, and that there could still be a bit of romance - that people could take teams to finals and get high up the league without having too much to spend. "We have got good, international players in our squad from several countries who have been here for a while. "We have a good level of stability at the club and because of that, the group know what is expected. "We hope to keep it going and finish as well as we have done in recent seasons." Although Moyes may struggle to sign any new players before next week's transfer deadline, Everton were able to confirm at the weekend that captain Phil Neville had put pen to paper on a contract extension that will see him stay at Goodison Park until the summer of 2013. The club are also working to secure the future of Belgian midfielder Marouane Fellaini, whose current deal with the Toffees expires at the end of next season. Asked on Friday for an update on how talks with the 23-year-old were going, Moyes said: "I have heard that it is progressing well, so when we have some news we will give it to you." Having had their scheduled league opener at Tottenham postponed and then lost at home to QPR last weekend, Everton travel to Blackburn on Saturday eager to pick up their first points of the season. The same can be said of their hosts, who have suffered two league defeats so far. Both teams were boosted by midweek Carling Cup victories and Moyes is expecting a battle at Ewood Park. "Blackburn are one of the sides who have always had a good home record," Moyes said. "I know they lost their first game of the season (at home to Wolves), but if you look over the seasons, they tend to do quite well at Ewood Park. "It will be a tough encounter - they need the points as much as we do." | <urn:uuid:c9f4e5d4-848d-45b7-959e-06afd064c813> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.foxsports.com/stories/soccer/moyes-romance-is-not-dead | 2020-09-25T20:22:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228707.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925182046-20200925212046-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.989107 | 553 |
A Look Back at Federal School Safety Grants Awarded in 2019
Learn from past school safety grants to prepare your grant applications for the next round of funding.
“History can familiarize, and it can warn.” — Timothy Snyder, “On Tyranny“
On a recent road trip, I read Snyder’s great book aloud to my husband. I have since digested and analyzed the material. I sum up “On Tyranny” in five words: “We learn from our past.”
Since we learn experientially and from our past, let’s look back at 2019 and some Department of Justice (DOJ) awarded school safety grants. The DOJ awarded $85.3 million in grants to address school security, which includes funding to train and educate faculty, and support for first responders who help during school shootings.
These federal resources will help to prevent school violence and give our students the support they need to learn, grow and thrive,’ said Attorney General William P. Barr. “By training faculty, students and first responders, and by improving school security measures, we can make schools and their communities safer.”
In 2018, Congress passed the Student, Teachers, and Officers Preventing School Violence Act (STOP School Violence Act). STOP is the overarching act for school safety grants and funding. Under STOP, there were three funding opportunities for $53 million.
STOP School Violence Technology and Threat Assessment Solutions for Safer Schools Program ($29.5 million)
This grant funded 68 local education agencies. Funding provides school administrators, teachers, students and first responders the resources to conduct and publish threat assessments, create stand-up crisis intervention teams and implement anonymous reporting technology.
Pinellas County Schools (PCS) in Largo, Florida, was one of the grant awardees. PCS is “expanding Mental Health Awareness Training for all district staff, and increasing student access to Student Services staff and prevention efforts,” the school’s website explains. Additionally, the district is “refining threat assessment procedures to ensure concerns are addressed quickly and appropriately in support of students.”
STOP School Violence Prevention and Mental Health Training Program ($17.3 million)
This grant funded 43 state and local governments, federally recognizing Indian tribes and public agencies to provide multi-disciplinary training programs to school personnel and students. Funding addresses critical issues such as bullying, addiction and interpersonal violence through education sessions in consultation with school violence researchers, licensed mental health professionals, social workers, teachers, principals and other school personnel.
Delaware County Intermediate Unit (DCIU) in Pennsylvania was awarded $500,000.
“DCIU will expand on its strong partnerships with the Delaware County District Attorney’s office, county government, Delaware County’s Office of Behavioral Health, and school districts throughout the county to train school personnel on the philosophy of trauma-informed care in conjunction with the use of evidence-based mental health models, crisis and response planning curriculums, to mitigate violent attacks on school grounds, and improve the operations of school threat assessments and crisis interventions,” wrote the Delaware County Daily Times.
STOP School Violence Training and Technical Assistance Program ($6 million)
The beneficiary was the “Regents of the University of Michigan to provide training and technical assistance to existing and future STOP School Violence grantees … and the criminal justice community on the subject of school violence and school safety, while also serving as a resource and training center for information and research about national and statewide school safety initiatives,” the OJP explained in a press release.
Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) School Violence Prevention Program ($32.5 million)
The fourth prong of the STOP School Violence Act is the COPS School Violence Prevention Program. The COPS office is charged by the STOP School Violence Act to develop grant programs that provide funding to enhance school safety. Some items they fund include:
- Training for local law enforcement officers to prevent student violence against others and themselves
- Metal detectors, locks, lighting and other deterrent measures
- Technology for expedited notification of local law enforcement during an emergency
- Any other measure that the COPS Office determines may provide a significant
A recipient in Arizona, “Tucson Unified School District, received $525,000 that can go toward training for law enforcement officers, an expedited police notification system and deterrents, including metal detectors and locks,” KTAR News reported.
“The past is always tense, and the future, perfect.” — Zadie Smith
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Childhood Onset Asthma (COA) is the term used to describe cases of asthma that are diagnosed before the age of 20. While asthma may be diagnosed at any age, most children are diagnosed by the age of five. This is mainly due to the nature of childhood asthma, which usually tends to be allergic.
Here are some more facts to consider.
Statistics. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 7 million children under the age of 18 have asthma. That means that 9.3 percent of all children have it. Asthma is the most common chronic disease in childhood, and the most likely cause of days missed from school. It results in 14.2 million physician office visits and 1.8 million emergency room visits each year.
Allergic (Extrinsic) Asthma. Most children have asthma triggered by allergies.
This means their bodies develop an exaggerated response to substances in the air called allergens that are innocuous (harmless) to most people.
Examples of allergens are dust mites, cockroach urine, mold, pollen, and animal dander. While allergies can develop at any age, they are most likely to develop early in life, and this might explain why most cases of COA are diagnosed early.
It usually doesn't take long for susceptible children to be exposed to their allergens, particularly boys.
Boys. According to the American Lung Association, about 4 million boys and 3.2 million girls have it. This means boys are 16 percent more likely to have asthma than girls. Boys are also more likely to have an asthma attack, more likely to miss school days, more likely to visit an emergency room for asthma, and more likely to be admitted to the hospital for asthma. The reason for this remains a mystery, although one theory suggests that boys are simply more likely to participate in activities that expose them to their allergens, such as running around in pollen-filled forests, or hiding under dusty, moldy porches. This trend starts to reverse itself during teenage years, and in adulthood women are more likely to have it than men.
Non-Allergic (Intrinsic) Asthma. Some children have asthma triggered by something other than allergens. Examples include:
Severity. Allergic Asthma usually doesn't cause airway remodeling or scarring that sometimes occurs with intrinsic asthma. For this reason, childhood asthmatics generally have less severe asthma that responds well to corticosteroids.
Asthma Treatment. This makes it easier to control with asthma controller medicines such as Advair, Symbicort, Dulera, Breo, Flovent, Asmanex, and Pulmicort. Since every asthmatic is unique, finding out which medicine works best is often a matter of trial and error. Most asthma experts recommend all asthmatics have an asthma rescue inhaler like Albuterol nearby at all times for those inevitable asthma flare ups.
Allergy Treatment. Allergy testing may help a physician diagnose allergies. Treatment usually involves efforts to avoid allergens, or medicines such as Claritin, Zyrtec, Benadryl, and Singulair.
Preventing and controlling allergies is often the best way to prevent and control asthma.
Remission. Physicians used to tell asthmatics children that they would outgrow their asthma. Modern evidence suggests this is not true, that asthma never truly goes away. However, sometimes it does go into remission. One theory is that once children go through puberty their airways become larger and less sensitive. Another is that older children are less likely to expose themselves to their asthma triggers. For instance, older kids are less likely to crawl under dusty porches, or play in pollen-filled forests.
Conclusion. The good news is that, while there is no cure for asthma, it can be controlled by avoiding and controlling asthma triggers, and by taking asthma controller medicines on a daily basis, such as inhaled corticosteroids. By working with a physician and following a treatment plan, asthma may appear to go into remission. | <urn:uuid:e4f61134-3c10-44d5-90fc-295effe45959> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.healthcentral.com/article/what-is-childhood-onset-asthma | 2020-09-25T20:24:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228707.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925182046-20200925212046-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.965534 | 838 |
I Am...Grounded Natural Perfume
A rich, resinous and earthy scent. Grounded is like taking a walk through the forest after rain.A blend to bring you back to base and centre, connecting with the earth with a sense of peaceful strength. It supports you to hold your space and be your true self.
- Vetiver- Otherwise known as “the oil of tranquillity”, a very grounding and centring oil, helps one create a sense of stability.
Frankincense- Supports in calming and centring the mind, promoting clarity. Encourages ‘higher’ states of consciousness.
- Patchouli- Stabilizing, soothing, grounding and centring. Traditionally known for alleviating stress, anxiety and depression and balancing the emotions.
Gem and flower essences, crystal infused water, mantra and love.
- Spray over the crown of the head and liberally on and around your body, take a deep breath, and let go.
- Item usually ships within 24 hours
- Items ships with tracking & requires signature unless instructed otherwise
- Returns accepted within 21 days of receipt for exchange, credit or refund
- Returns only accepted on unused items, in new condition with original packaging and tags
- Credits and refunds do not include shipping costs
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Due to a recent move, I have not been baking nearly as much as I usually due. I am still trying to organize my kitchen (which is a lot smaller than my last one) and find extra space here and there. I cannot, and most times will not, bake in a cluttered and unorganized kitchen! I remember mom saying, “A place for everything and everything in its place?” Well, when it comes to my bake ware and baking equipment, I have a place for everything and everything is kept in its place.
Below you will find suggestions and tips to get you started baking. Hopefully, implementing these will help keep your kitchen clean and organized.
It is important to be prepared before you begin a recipe. Here are some steps to follow before you start a recipe. Make this your baking routine and soon it will be second nature! Read the recipe: I know you’ve heard it before but it is very important to read the recipe before you start.
Gather the ingredients: You don’t have to measure each individual item initially, just have all the ingredients grouped together. You can worry about measuring when you start combining and mixing. Make sure they have not exceeded their shelf life!
Prepare ingredients requiring special handling: When your recipe requires extra preparation for ingredients such as softening butter, toasting nuts, melting chocolate, etc.
Prepare your pan(s): Grease and flour your pans before you start to mix ingredients. By doing this you won’t start making balls of dough only to realize your pan’s not ready for them to be placed.
Preheat your oven to the specified temperature: It usually takes about 10 – 15 minutes for an oven to preheat.
Mix ingredients according to the recipe and in the order it states: If the recipe states to beat the eggs, butter and sugars before adding the flour mixture do so in that order, doing otherwise may very well change the outcome!
Clean work area: While your deliciousness is cooking in the oven, clean the kitchen, put away your ingredients and utensils except for your spatula and cooling racks, which you will need after the recipe has completed cooking.
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The Akyat Pinatubo day tour is pushing through! Just not on the original date of May 28, 2011 courtesy of typhoon ‘Chedeng‘
It has been 2 years now since I went to Mt. Pinatubo. Aside from the awesome site and experience of trekking, I heard some areas surrounding the crater-lake has now been landscaped.
This is not really a tour or anything near that. It’s a familial vacation. I usually spend Christmas in Batangas where some of my relatives are. | <urn:uuid:a38c0907-1ccf-41fe-8a99-69e82dd5b043> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.letsgosago.net/tag/shoemart/ | 2020-09-25T18:33:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228707.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925182046-20200925212046-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.957863 | 115 |
9 parcels total for sale; 5 premium lots and 4 common area (tracts) in a great Phoenix location! Bring your dreams and architect and get started today! In the process of being split into 3 single family lots. GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD YOUR OWN HOUSE OR FOR A BUILDER. FINISHED HOMES WILL SELL FOR HIGH 200S. SEE COMPS IMMEDIATELY WEST OF PROPERTY. See MLS 5873317 for individual lot.
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President Trump held a meeting last Thursday with journalists in Washington, which was dedicated almost entirely to an uninhibited attack on them.
He accused the press of working hard to create fake news about him and said that the media and “the bad courts” were jeopardizing national security. And in a tweet on Friday evening, the president added an exceptionally serious anti-democratic comment: “The fake news media is the enemy of the American people.”
During that press conference, in a harsh response to a simple question from an emotional Jewish ultra-Orthodox reporter about the rise in anti-Semitic incidents across America, president Trump defined himself as “the least anti-Semitic person”—a definition reeking of panic.
Several minutes later, he remembered what he had forgotten to say earlier, stopped what he was saying and added a new explanation to the phenomenon that the Haredi journalist had asked about. The recent racist incidents, president Trump said, were being committed by people from the other camp.
They, the provocateurs, he accused, were spreading the racist comments in order to hurt him, in order to hurt the Trump administration’s image and smear him. It’s their fault; my people are good, president Trump stated (his remarks were worded in such incoherent English that they slipped under the reporters and commentators’ radar).
Here’s a reminder from the distant past: In July 1946, polish people murdered 42 Jewish Holocaust survivors in the town of Kielce. Police officers, soldiers and members of the Communist-Polish security service took part in the pogrom. Immediately afterwards, the polish regime began spreading an official explanation of the incident, stating that the pogrom was a provocation by Western capitalism in order to smear the winning socialism in Poland and label it as anti-Semitic.
America of 2017 is not Poland of 1946, its Jewish citizens are—hopefully—not in danger of any pogroms, and Trump is not the leader of a tyrant regime.
But the attempt to purify himself of anti-Semitism by calling the recent incidents a provocation of “the other camp” is similar. It won’t be long before it is implied that the Jews themselves are stimulating anti-Semitism in the United States in order to undermine Trump’s presidency.
Trump and television: Trump’s presidency has created a problem for HBO, Netflix and other American TV giants which produce political thriller series. These series have a fixed structure. Just like my four-year-old grandson divides the world into “good” and “bad,” so do most of the series’ creators: The president is good, the secret services are bad.
An example of this pattern can be found in the new season of “Homeland.” The writers of the series put a liberal, Democratic female president in the White House, a white dove reaching out to the Arabs. She is faced by a conspiracy of intelligence agencies working to get America entangled in a conflict with the Muslim world. A similar situation, although not identical, appears in the new season of another popular action thriller series, “24.”
The result remarkably contradicts the new American reality, in which the president is “bad” and the intelligence services are “good.” Trump put a spoke in the wheels of another popular political series, “House of Cards,” which has zero relevance to the 2016 presidential election. No one played in the real election according to the transcript of the series.
What should they do? Should they urgently produce series about a president who was elected on a wave of nationalistic populism and is endangering America and the secret services (“a deep state,” “a state within a state”) that are conspiring to topple him in order to save the homeland? Will this be the new political correctness? HBO, Netflix, Amazon Prime and the major commercial networks will find it difficult to properly turn the tables.
Meanwhile, the ratings of the series and reality shows are dropping, and the ratings of the news and commentary programs are rising.
The political commentators have taken their gloves off and are beating Trump’s presidency with bare hands, mercilessly. They are openly mocking, ridiculing and despising him, as if he were not the person embodying the presidency but a junior insignificant politician.
President Trump is right in his complaints; the American television is “full of hatred” towards him, but he has earned it fairly and squarely. Or unfairly, to be more exact.
By Ynet News
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Orange-Scented Rice Pudding with Dates
This rice pudding is really easy to make and has a luscious, creamy flavor despite the fact that it contains no eggs. The rice is cooked in a combination of milk and orange juice and flavored with honey, vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg. Once cooked we stir in vanilla yogurt, chopped Medjool dates and some toasted almonds. Be sure to check the recipe notes for flavor variations.
- 1 cup basmati rice
- 1-3/4 cups whole milk
- 1 cup orange juice
- 1 cup water
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon (or more to taste)
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Pinch of salt
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/3 cup slivered almonds
- 1 container (8-ounce) vanilla yogurt
- 1/4 cup half-and-half or light cream (see variations below)
- Zest of 1 orange
- 1-1/2 cups dates, pitted and chopped (we used the Medjool variety - see notes)
- Place the milk, orange juice and water in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil. Stir in the vanilla extract, honey, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Reduce the heat to low and add the rice. Cover and continue cooking until the rice is tender and nearly all the liquid has been absorbed, about 30 minutes. Remove from the heat and allow to cool to room temperature.
- Melt the butter in a small pan, add the almonds and cook until barely toasted. Remove from the heat immediately and allow to cool.
- Stir the yogurt and half-and-half into the rice pudding. Add the orange zest, dates and toasted almonds. Transfer to serving dishes, garnish with extra orange zest and freshly grated nutmeg. Serve at room temperature or chilled.
Orange Liqueur: If you'd like to add a splash of liqueur for extra zing, substitute 2 tablespoons of triple sec for some of the half-and-half.
Almond-Apricot: Substitute vanilla-flavored almond milk for the orange juice, use 1/2 teaspoon of almond extract in place of one of the teaspoons of vanilla, omit the orange zest and use dried apricots instead of dates. You can add a splash of amaretto as well.
About Medjool Dates:
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Last year, our friend, DJ and tireless promoter of local music Gary lost his house in a fire. It was tragic, and I hoped something like this never happened again to anyone I knew.
Yesterday, it happened again, to another friend, DJ and tireless promoter of local music.
Mike Carlson, a guy who I’ve known as a DJ in Madison as long as I’ve lived here, watched his house burn down yesterday. Thankfully, nobody was hurt, but preliminary estimates put the damage at over a quarter of a million and the human damage is more – his family are now without a home, clothing, and belongings. Mike’s lost the records and CDs he uses to ply his DJ trade.
Mike, both as a DJ and as the owner of MCAudio, has been a fixture of the Madison music scene for decades. He’s also a genuinely nice guy. I don’t know a DJ or a band in town that he hasn’t helped. Certainly, he’s the guy who spun Null Device discs before anyone else would touch them, regularly throwing our poorly-recorded cover of “Wicked Game” into big night sets. Last time I saw Mike, it was sort of by accident – Wendy and I had wandered over to the Great Dane for a late snack and drink, and he happened to be DJing. He came over to our table, bought me a beer and an apple turnover (!) and talked excitedly about new dubstep records he was getting in the store. He’s always enthusiastic about music, and about the people who make music, and you can tell he’s a guy who loves what he does and loves sharing it with others.
Every few times I see him, he tells me “you know what I’m really digging these days? That acid jazz.” I usually joke that he has so much vinyl that he’s merely rediscovering stuff he’s owned for years and just forgotten about. I won’t be able to make that joke anymore.
If you’re in Madison, you can donate a nonperishable food item at MCAudio on University Ave.
And there’s already a Benefit tonight at The Inferno:
Tonight (1/27) at the Inferno (1718 Commerical Ave.), a benefit show for Mike Carlson. No cover at the door, taking donations of both non-perishable food items and money. Starts at 9:00 p.m. DJs Eurotic and Alan!, + more. | <urn:uuid:794d538e-ff33-4f0b-bef5-6c3d9dcb1d7e> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.nulldevice.com/2010/01/27/mike-carlson/ | 2020-09-25T19:03:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228707.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925182046-20200925212046-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.970475 | 538 |
Appeal of Shared National Credit (SNC) (Third Quarter 2015)
A participant bank appealed the 57 percent doubtful and 43 percent loss ratings assigned to a second lien term loan during the 2015 Shared National Credit (SNC) examination.
The appeal asserted that the facility should be rated 100 percent substandard. The appeal expressed concerns that no collateral values were applied for proved developed non-performing and proved undeveloped reserves or other assets in which the borrower had an interest.
An interagency appeals panel of three senior credit examiners adjusted the rating to 100 percent substandard. The appeals panel noted that cash flow (CF) was sufficient to support repayment according to contractual terms. CF was not, however, sufficient at existing commodity prices to support repayment of both the revolving credit and the second lien term debt within a reasonable time horizon. Comparison of the most recent year CF to debt service requirements based on contractual terms is a flawed approach because it does not include analysis of projections that are fundamental to understanding the plans and cost to develop oil and gas reserves into income producing assets.
The appeals panel concluded that all variations of the borrower’s projections reflect CF stress, increasing debt levels, and liquidity depletion over the projection periods. The bank projection period is two years and reflects the least degree of CF stress because the estimated capital expenditure (capex) is reduced by 40 percent in 2015 and 68 percent in 2016. There is no evidence that the borrower intends to reduce or postpone capex in the borrower or agent bank prepared projections for the term credit facility. Both projections have seven year time horizons and reflect higher levels of capex causing larger and more prolonged CF weaknesses.
The appeals panel concluded that none of the various forecasting approaches reflect planned capex and commodity prices consistent with current market conditions, but all forecasts indicate that it was not economically viable for the borrower to develop oil and gas reserves at existing commodity prices. | <urn:uuid:b7b317e0-a5f1-40de-96dc-69514e3f0e6e> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.occ.gov/topics/supervision-and-examination/dispute-resolution/bank-appeals/summaries/files/appeal-shared-national-credit-snc27-q3-2015.html | 2020-09-25T20:04:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228707.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925182046-20200925212046-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.950654 | 385 |
The answer is “yes.” Any settlement you make in connection with a workers’ compensation claim under the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (Longshore Act) must be approved by an authority at the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs, Division of Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation, which is under the Department of Labor.
A Settlement Needs Approval?
Why, you may ask, does a settlement to which you agreed need to be approved by a third party in the Department of Labor? Isn’t that just another layer of red tape and bureaucracy? Can’t you just rely on your attorney to make sure that the settlement is proper? Doesn’t that delay the payment of any settlement amount?
All those questions are valid. At first blush, it may seem like settlement approval is an annoying “red-tape”-type requirement. However, getting approval of a settlement you make is actually a helpful benefit to Longshore Act claimants. Having an experienced, yet neutral, third party review any settlement to which you agree will ensure your employer’s workers’ compensation carrier is not taking advantage of you.
So, what factors are considered by the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs to make sure that the settlement is fair and appropriate? That is the subject of this blog.
Following a recent workers’ compensation case, the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs has confirmed the rather rigorous set of requirements that Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs officials must review when passing on settlements that come before them.
Of course, if you are injured on the job, you are covered under the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, and you are making a Longshore Act claim that may settle, you would be wise to consult with an experienced Longshore Act attorney.
We welcome you call us at RITE law, Florida Longshore Act attorneys at 904-500-7483. We have decades of experience handling workers’ compensation claims under the Longshore Act, and we want to use our experience as Florida Longshore Act attorneys to benefit you. Call today.
The Richardson Case
A good way to begin this discussion is by looking at the case that prompted the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs to solidify their settlement review criteria.
A 52-year-old welder had worked for her employer for over 20 years. She, unfortunately, she suffered a shoulder injury at work, rendering her unable to do her job. She was initially allowed to return to her employer to do light-duty work, and it quickly became apparent that she would never be able to do the work she did before her injury.
The employer helped the employee find a suitable alternative job, but she was not making nearly as much as she was making as a welder before her shoulder injury. So, her employer made voluntary payments to her of approximately $540 per week. As her claim was moving through the system, the employer and employee arrived at a settlement of $140,000.
In accordance with the Longshore Act, the parties then had to seek approval of that settlement amount with the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs. The official reviewing the settlement rejected it as inadequate. It found that, given the appropriate formulae, a fair settlement amount would be closer to $306,000. The parties then appealed that decision to an Administrative Law Judge.
Once the employer added $500 per week to the proposed settlement amount, the ALJ approved the settlement. The ALJ made a distinction between claimants who are represented by a lawyer and those who are not.
With claimants who have a lawyer, the ALJ noted that he can look at the settlement with less scrutiny because he can assume that the lawyer is behaving conscientiously and ethically. Further, the ALJ can assume that the lawyer took into account the issues with the claim in arriving at a settlement amount.
However, with claimants who are pro se, meaning those who are representing themselves without a lawyer, the ALJ maintained that he should scrutinize the settlement closely to make sure that the claimant is not disadvantaged.
Ultimately, the Benefits Review Board affirmed the ALJ’s decision in the Richardson case.
The Important Considerations for a Settlement
In the wake of Richardson, the Department of Labor issued a bulletin, reminding adjudicating officials of what must be considered when reviewing a workers’ compensation settlement.
First, the reviewing official has 30 days to approve a settlement, unless it is found that the settlement is “inadequate or procured by duress.” In fact, if both parties are represented by counsel, then the reviewing official’s silence after 30 days means that the settlement is approved.
Second, the document applying for settlement approval must have the following information:
- A description of the terms, indicating the amounts to be paid for compensation, medical, and attorney fees;
- The reason for the settlement, and the issues that are in dispute;
- The claimant’s identifying information;
- Information on the claimant’s current work status;
- A medical report on the claimant’s condition and need for future treatment;
- A statement on why the settlement should be considered adequate;
- If the settlement covers medical benefits, an itemization of the amount paid for medical expenses by year for the three years prior to the date of the application and an estimate of the claimant’s need for future medical treatment as well as an estimate of the cost of such medical treatment; and
- Information on any collateral source available for the payment of medical expenses.
Moreover, there are four main factors that the reviewing official must look to in order to determine the adequacy of a settlement, they are as follows:
- The claimant’s age, education, and work history;
- The degree of the claimant’s disability or impairment;
- The availability of the type of work the claimant can do; and
- The cost and necessity of future medical treatment, if any.
Florida Longshore Act Attorneys Can Help Get Your Workers’ Compensation Settlement Approved
RITE law is a firm that focuses on Longshore Act cases. We care deeply about workers who are injured on the job, and about making sure that they receive all the benefits owed to them. Let us get you to where you need to go with your workers’ compensation settlement. Call us at RITE law, 904-500-7483. | <urn:uuid:0e5e4562-80b5-4736-88f6-898c6d3c1009> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.rite4justice.com/do-i-need-to-get-my-longshore-act-settlement-approved/ | 2020-09-25T21:13:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228707.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925182046-20200925212046-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.971136 | 1,335 |
How Washington Post, BuzzFeed and Business Insider Set Themselves Apart with Artificial Intelligence
By Mike O'Brien | February 25, 2019
The Washington Post employs more than 700 journalists, but of course they can only do so much. That’s why the publisher developed Heliograf, an in-house automated storytelling technology that specializes in short, multi-sentence updates. In other words, an artificially intelligent reporter.
One of the biggest, most exciting disruptions ever in technology, artificial intelligence is already a differentiator for winning brands. However, when it comes to publishers, The Washington Post is the exception, not the rule.
PricewaterhouseCoopers recently surveyed 1,000 business executives in the U.S. for their 2019 AI Predictions report. One big takeaway is that some verticals are embracing AI more wholeheartedly than others and media is not one of them. According to PwC, 20% of executives will deploy AI across their business this year. But only 7% of media executives are making substantial investments there.
Still, plenty of trailblazing publishers are using AI in innovative ways. Here are four of them:
The Washington Post unveiled Heliograf in 2016 during the Olympic Games. Perfect for sports reporting, Heliograf has also authored hundreds of articles about high school sports in the D.C. area. This innovation secured The Washington Post a Global BIGGIES Award in the “Excellence in Use of Bots” category.
Algorithms can provide real-time updates about scores and results far faster and more efficiently than a person, who would realistically spend hours logging these numbers. This frees up time for people to focus more on in-depth analyses, highlighting how AI can complement, rather than replace, human journalists.
Earlier this year, Guardian Australia also rolled out Reporter Mate, to write formulaic stories on straightforward, facts-based topics such as weather updates and political donations.
…And Augmenting Real Reporters
Much like Heliograf can report football scores at lightning speed, machine learning tools analyzes data far faster and more accurately than any human. That makes AI a perfect fit for financial publications.
An AI publishing pioneer, the Associated Press tasked technology with automating quarterly earnings reports. It increased output by tenfold and with far few errors to boot. Forbes, Bloomberg and Reuters use similar tools. Unlike Heliograf, they don’t write stories; instead, they make it infinitely easier for humans to do so.
Like the AP, these publishers have AI dissect companies’ earnings instantly. They also recap numbers to provide context, suggest relevant images and make recommendations for appropriate, compelling headlines.
According to PwC’s survey, media brands are largely lagging in AI adoption because of fear and uncertainty, both about deploying AI and measuring its results. One way AI has proven to be effective is personalization. Netflix’s highly sophisticated recommendation engine cuts down on choice paralysis, increasing engagement and ultimately saves the streaming giant an annual $1 billion.
Applying that to a traditional publisher, Business Insider has more content than anyone can, or wants to, read or watch. Based on the content readers engage with, Business Insider creates profiles on them, using that data to personalize content recommendations, both onsite and in emails.
That focus on personalization helped Business Insider achieve a 60% increase in click-through rates and a 150% boost in ad click rates within email newsletters. Additionally, recirculation traffic within the site jumped 52%. The New York Times also plans to invest heavily in talent with AI, machine learning and data science backgrounds, intending to boost engagement with personalized Facebook-style feeds.
AI helps Forbes journalists write content and Business Insider readers discover content. It can also help with distributing content, an area where BuzzFeed can certainly use help. Many BuzzFeed readers discover content on the publisher’s social media channels, of which there are more than 400.
BuzzFeed streamlined social publishing and took it further with AI. A joint effort between the product, social media, engineering and data science teams, BuzzFeed built a machine learning model that suggested which pieces of content to publish where, based on historic data around well-performing content.
One model helps social find trending evergreen content to repromote; another helps find similar content to repromote. A third scheduling model suggests the best publish times based on past performance.
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I love this documentary that is narrated by Eamonn Coghlan. It is a glimps into what the Kenyan way of life is, and their approach to running. The main man behind such of the success is an Irish man by the name of Br Colm O' Connell. His holistic approach to coaching is why I believe he is so successful.
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Romantic country cottage with modern amenities
- Living Space: 1,050 SF
- Sleeps: 4
- Bedrooms: 2
- Bathrooms: 2
- Minimum Stay: 2 Nights
Intimate, Quaint, and Cozy: With a Dutch red, door that greets you before entering, The Lily Cottage is all class and charm. You’ll enter the home through a bright, open concept living and kitchen area, complete with gas fireplace, dining table, beautiful hardwood flooring, and ample seating. In the back of the cottage are two master suites with king beds, and two baths- perfect for a couples getaway. The Lily Cottage is intimately private with lush landscaping and stately oak trees. On the covered porch is a swing, that is ideal for cozying with that special someone.
Nestled on 80 acres of property, there’s plenty to explore and experience while staying at The Lily Cottage:
- Games & Projector Screen/Bean Bags in The Farmhouse
- The Stable Spa
- Yoga & Meditation
- Stand-Up Paddle Boarding
- Hiking & Fishing
- Nearby microbreweries, wineries, bistros, and shopping
Enjoy a romantic getaway at The Lily Cottage!
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PGDip - Geography as a subject
Postgraduate diplomas provide the opportunity for continuing professional development in the same area as an original degree. A postgraduate diploma can often lead to a masters degree.
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They say sitting is the new smoking, how bad is it really to sit at a desk all day?
Sitting is definitely bad for you, although I don’t think it is nearly as bad as smoking. The health risks for sitting are both postural and stagnating circulation (the reason it is said to be worse than smoking). Turns out, leading research says that all you need to do is stand up for a few minutes every hour and to do light exercise. You don’t have to run a marathon or cross fit in order to stave off the heath risks of sitting, just get your water cooler on (Pilates is great too!).
Is having good posture enough to help combat the problems you can develop from sitting so much?
Good posture is essential for the health of your spine and hips. People usually think about posture as just “standing up straight”. It actually means maintaining your spine’s natural curves, which requires body awareness, strong trunk muscles (read: abs & back muscles) and a healthy amount of flexibility.
Do you think things like ball-chairs and walking desks really make a difference? They seem a little much.
I haven’t been impressed with ball chairs. The idea is that the ball chair is instable, which makes your abs work during the day. What I have found is that people still slouch, but then they are using muscles to hold a slouched position, which is ultimately worse for your body.
Standing desks are great, especially for someone with low back issues, it really helps resolve the psoas* tightness that pulls on the lower spine and assists with lower trunk strengthening, just by standing – so cool!
*The psoas is an important postural muscle that attaches your spine to your leg
We’ve also read about posture bras. Have you heard of them? If so, what do you think?
It is much more beneficial to work on shoulder and pec flexibility and strengthen your upper back. Then your body naturally does what the brace was doing for you. These are fundamental elements you will learn in any good Pilates class.
How is Pilates related to posture?
Pilates builds core strength (which is way more than just your global abdominals guys!) teaches body awareness and stretches inflexible muscles, all essential for great posture.
These kinds of stretches are most beneficial after a work out, to help maintain long term flexibility changes and lubricate joints in the spine and shoulders. Half of healthy posture is flexibility and the other half is strength of the back and abdominals, so this is the perfect follow up to a strength focused pilates class.
Begin facing the wall and extend arm on an upward diagonal placing hand onto the wall. Then rotate your body away from the wall until you feel a stretch through your pectoral muscles. It is great to do the pec stretch after the pec release since the release addresses the fascia and the stretch addresses the muscle.
Pec release with ball
Place pinky ball in the nook where your clavicle and your shoulder meet, then lean into the wall to apply pressure. You can gradually roll down towards the under arm to release the pec muscle. A tight pectoral muscle can pull the shoulders forward, so regular release work is a great addition to healthy posture.
Extension Stretch with Roller
Using an exhale press down through your hands and engage your low belly, lats and upper back (NOT NECK) muscles to roll yourself up as high as you feel comfortable. If you feel any discomfort in your low back roll down a little bit (decreasing your range of motion) and engage low abdominals more deeply. Take two breaths at the top, then roll back down. Repeat about 20 times. This stretch & strengthen exercise stretches the abdominals while engaging and strengthening the back extensor muscles (all the muscles you need to stand up straight). These guys really need to be strong!
This classic stretch is wonderful for decreasing overall tension in the back by increasing flexibility in the diagonal abdominal and back muscles as well as lubricating spinal vertebrae. All of which spell a healthy spine and postural system.
With both hands interlaced behind the back draw shoulder blades all the way together. This is another great chest opening stretch.
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North Star and Minmetal operate grain elevators and bulk commodity storage and warehousing as well as port services, stevedoring operations and a shipping agency at the mouth of the Danube River. ADM was previously a partner in both North Star and Minmetal.
The Port of Constanta sits on the Black Sea at the mouth of the Danube River and is one of the most strategically significant ports in the region. The Danube River outlet into the Black Sea makes the Port of Constanta the primary ingress and egress point for bulk commodities being traded into and out of Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary.
Among the assets included in the acquisition are:
• Ten vessel berths, including seven deep sea berths.
• Port terminals with annual throughput capacity of up to 6 million tonnes.
• On-site grain storage capacity of 330,000 tonnes.
• Two floating cranes for direct barge-oceangoing vessel transfer.
• Mobile shore cranes and equipment.
• A vacuum discharge and ship loader.
• An iron ore and coal terminal located on 21 hectares.
“This acquisition helps us to meet our goal of strategic expansion though diversification and expansion of our trade and origination territory,” said Joe Taets, president of ADM Europe Middle East and Africa, and of the company’s Agricultural Services business unit. “We’ve talked about the potential to double the volume of our grain business. Here, we’re taking a great step in that direction with this strategic expansion of our European network. By becoming full owners of these facilities on the Black Sea, we’re building on the investments we have made in our Danube River network since 2011, which enhances our origination, logistics and export capabilities in Eastern Europe, and allows us to reach more customers around the globe.”
In 2011, ADM announced a substantial expansion of its grain origination, storage, transportation and export operations along the Danube River. Today, the network includes eight elevators on the Danube, with two more under construction; two inland origination facilities; shallow water port facilities in Braila; and 50 barges and six tug boats.
The new Constanta Port assets add to those origination, logistics and processing capabilities in Romania and Eastern Europe.
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Concepts are our dreams, a wisp of an idea that float into our brain, whimsical yet exciting, something that dares you to give it a try, make something that is uniquely yours, and maybe, you’ll be the next Dyson with your line of products inspired by that dream you once saw. Before you get carried away though, let me introduce you to the designer whose conceptual sketches made us sit up and take notice, mainly for the elaborate detailing and the thought that goes behind every idea he fleshes out. Meet Adam Miklosi, whose Instagram Page holds many such sketches that he creates, each sketch explaining the multiple aspects of that design, readily answering the questions that usually pop into our mind when we see a concept design, almost making us see the product materialize in front of our eyes. And that is what you want from every concept!
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Our Exclusive wooden feeders are handcrafted in Michigan. Constructed of cedar and assembled with weather-resistant fasteners, these feeders are designed to withstand the extreme weather in your neck of the woods. Your cardinals will love the extra large perches and your chickadees will appreciate the built-in seed deflectors which helps move seed to the feeder tray. <p>17 in. length x 12 in. depth x 10 in. height. | <urn:uuid:24e3b12e-e84f-4f15-bb59-ad94ecd003b8> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://birdwatchers.com/stovalls-mackinaw-12-feeder/ | 2020-09-27T04:24:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400250241.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20200927023329-20200927053329-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.936266 | 94 |
Advanced Thermodynamic Solutions Inc is categorized under Dynamos, Electric (Except Automotive) in Campbell, California .
|Business Name:||Advanced Thermodynamic Solutions Inc|
|Contact Person:||Brian Andrew Claire Full Name Report|
|Address:||1033 Salerno Drive, Campbell, CA 95008|
|Phone Number:||(408) 323-2874 Full Phone Report|
Advanced Thermodynamic Solutions Inc has been offering Dynamos, Electric (Except Automotive) from its single location in California since their foundation in 2007. This company is registered under the SIC code 3621 and NAICS code 335312, which can be used to gain more understanding on the nature of its business.
It now employs 1 to 4 personnel and its B2B services by Dynamos, Electric (Except Automotive) in the greater California area contribute to the company’s annual revenue of $100.000 to $499.999. Visit the single location of Advanced Thermodynamic Solutions Inc at the coordinates , or at their street address of 1033 Salerno Drive in CA 95008, United States.
To speak to a representative, call (408) 323-2874 Full Phone Report and address inquiries to Brian Andrew Claire Full Name Report. Alternatively, this business can also be followed and interacted with through the social media platforms Twitter and Facebook . Advanced Thermodynamic Solutions Inc’s website can be found at .
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Monday, April 11, 2011
Rocky Bridges Quote
Sports Collectors Digest and, although it features our article about Sports Illustrated magazine, Dean found one article that he may have enjoyed even more. The Baseball Art column, by Ronnie Joyner, discussed Rocky Bridges' long playing career and included numerous quotes about playing in the major leagues. Dean's personal favorite Rocky Bridges quote, which he read aloud to the entire office today, is "There are three things the average man thinks he can do better than everybody else -- build a fire, run a hotel, and manage a baseball team." This is definitely one of our favorite baseball player quotes ever and we're hoping for more gems like this from SCD. | <urn:uuid:3d903623-ba36-46fa-a534-919357631212> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://blog.deanscards.com/2011/04/rocky-bridges-quote.html | 2020-09-27T05:20:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400250241.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20200927023329-20200927053329-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.970725 | 142 |
THE SIXTIES HAVE OVERCOME US ~ PART 9
“Life's a forge! Yes, and hammer and anvil, too! You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand boldly to it! Metal's worthless till it's shaped and tempered! More labour than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.”: from Lloyd Alexander’s 1967 novel, Taran Wander.
Throughout 1967 human beings in vast numbers, our brothers and sisters, would find themselves
experiencing immense horrors and pain: in the Russian gulag, [1967 year of the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution], Chinese and North Korean labour camps, in race riots, anti-war riots, civil wars, revolutions, outright wars resulting in tens of thousands wounded or killed in the US, throughout Asia, Latin America, Africa.
In January, in San Francisco, occurred an event called a “Human Be-In”, a gathering of militants and pacifists, many of the hippie culture, to solidify a determination to push forward an end to segregation, the Vietnam war, and anything perceived as limiting personal freedom, a counter-cultural attitude which was taking root in most Western countries, and would be further manifested later in the year through the so-called “Summer of Love”, when over 100,000 hippies/flower children, converged on the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, and a parallel event occurred in England. Again, the basic purpose, fueled by drugs and raucous music, was rejecting of everything deemed restrictive such as fundamental morality, but also government, consumerism, traditional Christianity.
The ‘be-in’ and ‘summer of love’ would be supplanted both by sheer numbers and cultural impact by Woodstock in 1969.
Started in 1985, by Pope John Paul II, World Youth Day[s] would offer, and continue to, a holy alternative.
Also coming out of the ‘be-in’ were so-called underground newspapers as an alternative to established media, but their influence would be minimal until the global spread of the internet which muddies the waters. Some ‘news’ found there is true, much of it not, plus the web has become a cesspool in which deeply disturbed people wallow with others of their ilk to spread scams, hatred, extreme nationalism, terrorism, pornography of all types.
Not just American society but most Western societies would experience the revolutionary upheavals spawned by a generation rejecting everything that had preceded them. The influence of the US culturally, religiously, philosophically, morally, as well as economically and militarily, was the catalyst influencing Western Europe, Great Britain, Canada, as they too headed ever more blindly down the rabbit-hole of the culture of death and darkness, prevalent globally in our own day.
Two major events occurred in 1967 that cost countless lives and, due to the paltry response of the rest of the world, set the stage for innumerable conflicts: for example the Rwandan genocide which began in 1994 and the ongoing civil war in Syria, the persistent, often violent, tensions between Israel, the Palestinians and the wider Arab world in the Middle East, the rise of Islamic terror groups, the displacement of millions of people who rush, from mainly the southern hemisphere to, Europe and North America seeking a more humane life.
In June it was the Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Thousands of combatants were killed and injured on both sides and the map of the area changed dramatically with the capture of Jerusalem, by Israel, home to the world’s three major monotheistic religions. The continued control by Israel of the so-called West Bank and the Golan heights remains a simmering cauldron that could boil over instantly and drag not just the region but perhaps the world’s major powers into the conflict. The best summation of those six days: “Employ hindsight but humbly, remembering that life and death decisions are made by leaders in real-time, and not by historians in retrospect.”
In July it was the Biafran War which dragged on until 1970. Fundamentally a dangerous mix of ethnic, tribal, religious animosities and outright hatreds led to the Nigerian area known as Biafra seeking to establish itself as its own nation. Some 100,000 military casualties are recorded but this pales in comparison to the 500,000 to 2,500,000 civilians who died from starvation in the two and a half year conflict which in the end would see Biafra as an independent country cease to exist. “There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.”
However, it would not be until well into 1968, with images of starving children on the nightly news shaming the West, that there would be any response to the plight of the Biafran people.
It would be a Canadian Broadcasting anchor of the nightly news, Stanley Burke, who would startle the world by resigning to devout himself to the plight of the starving children, an impact not unlike that Walter Cronkite of CBS news would have in the following year with his stance regarding the war in Vietnam.
Briefly, as it would take a series of books to outline the tragedy, ever since the League of Nations humiliated Haile Selassie, once Italy had invaded Ethiopia in 1935, through to the civil war and drought which triggered the 1983-1985 famine costing millions of lives, Ethiopia serves as a cautionary tale about half-hearted efforts of the West in particular when it comes to the plight of our brothers and sisters suffering famine, war, dictatorships etc., for while things like Geldof’s “Band Aid” [no irony there] raised awareness and money, much of which ended up in the hands of the dictatorship to be used against the Ethiopian people – Peter Gill noting: “No country in the world confronts the threat of famine more painfully and more frequently.” , we still fail to address the root causes of disorder or famine or epidemics in other countries as, much as we fail to address homelessness, drug epidemics in our own.
Post-Biafra to our own day, in Africa in particular, religious, tribal, ethnic violence continues to cost millions of lives, impedes attempts to deal with things like the Ebola outbreaks, allows for murderous dictatorships, while the rest of the world blithely saunters along scooping up the natural resources of Africa while barely lifting a finger to help the millions of innocents who suffer day in and day out.
For all the blather of the ‘be-in’ and leftist radicals of the sixties, many of whom, albeit elderly now, or their offspring fed on the pablum of the left, when they are in power, keep their backs turned on those who suffer and avoid taking on the murderous and repressive regimes which out number democracies across the globe.
In March of 1967: a year which from every angle was a Bacchanalian year of hedonist, selfish excess, and dystopian efforts which only revealed non-Gospel rooted arguments for an utopian life without fidelity to Christ, Pope Paul the VI published a critical teaching on how to address the real problems of humanity in his encyclical Populorum Progressio: On The Development Of Peoples: The progressive development of peoples is an object of deep interest and concern to the Church. This is particularly true in the case of those peoples who are trying to escape the ravages of hunger, poverty, endemic disease and ignorance; of those who are seeking a larger share in the benefits of civilization and a more active improvement of their human qualities; of those who are consciously striving for fuller growth……The injustice of certain situations cries out for God's attention. Lacking the bare necessities of life, whole nations are under the thumb of others; they cannot act on their own initiative; they cannot exercise personal responsibility; they cannot work toward a higher degree of cultural refinement or a greater participation in social and public life. They are sorely tempted to redress these insults to their human nature by violent means…… Every form of social action involves some doctrine; and the Christian rejects that which is based on a materialistic and atheistic philosophy, namely one which shows no respect for a religious outlook on life, for freedom or human dignity….It must be admitted that men very often find themselves in a sad state because they do not give enough thought and consideration to these things. So We call upon men of deep thought and wisdom—Catholics and Christians, believers in God and devotees of truth and justice, all men of good will—to take as their own Christ's injunction, "Seek and you shall find." Blaze the trails to mutual cooperation among men, to deeper knowledge and more widespread charity, to a way of life marked by true brotherhood, to a human society based on mutual harmony.
1967 was also the year Great Britain legalized abortion. Two years later Canada would follow suit and it would be 1973 when the US Supreme Court would find in favour of abortion in the Roe vs. Wade case. While 1967 may be remembered through rose coloured glasses by some, in fact it was high tide for the illusion drugs, sex, rock and roll, protests and rejection of Christianity and embracing unlimited secularism would assure the utopia dreamed of.
It is said about Abba Anthony, the friend of God, that when his monks came to him and asked about the future he told them: “The day is coming when they will come to us and tell us we must be mad because we are not like them.”
1967 was the year when there could no longer be any doubt that the anti-Christian tsunami of the culture of death was heading towards us.
4] all citations in italics are from: http://w2.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_26031967_populorum.html
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At only 25 years of age, guitarist, singer and songwriter Andrew Scotchie has a thriving music career. A prominent fixture of the Western North Carolina music scene, Scotchie and his blues-rocking band the River Rats started out in 2011 as buskers on the streets of Asheville; today the group has released three albums of original music.
What inspired you to get into music?
At the first couple of big concert festivals I went to – I was 10 or so – I was immediately taken by the energy and the atmosphere. Everyone was there for the same reason; they were all watching the same thing. When I saw how the front man and the guitar players could get people so excited and so happy, almost instantly I thought, “I want to do that.” It looked like a very fun job. So I took guitar lessons, and then from there I got obsessed with it. I started playing in bands when I was 13.
Once you started performing, did you find that you were a natural onstage in front of people?
In middle school, I was the one in the band that would be jumping around, and having a good time, head-banging and everything. But there was a time in my high school years when I would throw up at every single show. The nerves would get to me so bad, I’d lean behind my amp and pretend I was fixing something. But it got better; my music teacher once told me, “Take those nerves you have before a show and use them as momentum.”
You started the Asheville Barnaroo Festival nearly a decade ago. Back then, did you ever have a sense that it would be so successful and long-running?
No, I didn’t. Especially at that age, you can’t predict something like that. We were going kind of show by show, event by event. And all we really wanted when we started as a collective of young adults was just to have an outlet, an event where people could play, meet people and get better at what they do. And I saw a lot of people grow. I like watching the old videos from those days; some of it is cringe-worthy and some of it is like, “Hm … we all weren’t that bad.”
What’s the meaning behind the title of your band’s latest album, Family Dynamo?
My cousin used to call my dad “Family Dynamo,” and that always stuck with me. I thought it was a fun combination of words; it simply means a power that generates family and community. And the title is also a really good way to pay tribute to the people who have inspired and pushed the band, been there since the beginning and wanted to see us keep growing.
The band seems like a musical family of sorts; does it feel that way to you?
Yeah! Keith [Harry, bassist] and I met at the Orange Peel; we were friends before we were in a band together. And Eliza [Hill, drummer] and I first met on the streets of Asheville at Downtown After 5. Went back to my mother’s house and rocked out. Keith’s a brother to me, and Eliza’s one of my best friends. We’re family. | <urn:uuid:f4965df1-4b9e-4f7e-b96b-1f9e5f9adc0e> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://blog.musoscribe.com/index.php/2019/06/30/andrew-scotchie-all-in-the-family/ | 2020-09-27T04:23:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400250241.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20200927023329-20200927053329-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.98891 | 686 |
Dr. Ntozake Shange’s seminal work gets a gallery’s worth of consideration in new exhibit
Published October 14, 2017 | Andaiye Taylor
Amber Robles-Gordon, “My Rainbow is Enuf”, Fabric on chicken wire, 2014
Dr. Ntzoke Shange’s choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has bent genres, broken ground, won awards, and inspired legions of people who have seen or read the landmark work, which debuted on Broadway in 1976.
The play touches on themes of sexuality, race, sisterhood, violence and self-love, and in its universality has been taken up and reimagined by people bearing a cross-section of racial and gender identities.
This year at Open Doors, curator Peter “Souleo” Wright will bring a traveling exhibit commemorating for colored girls to City Without Walls (cWOW) gallery, which is located in Newark’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. i found god in myself: a celebration of Dr. Ntozake Shange’s, for colored girls opens Saturday, October 14th and runs through November 18th. (RSVP for the opening.)
The exhibit consists of 10 commissioned artworks, each of which illustrates, comments on or is inspired by one of the poems that constitute for colored girls. The artists whose work will be featured in the exhibit are Amber Robles-Gordon, Beau McCall, Dianne Smith, Kathleen Granados, Kimberly Mayhorn, Margaret Rose Vendryes, Melissa Calderón, Michael Paul Britto, Pamela Council and Uday K. Dhar. Dr. Shange will appear in person at the October 14th opening. (She will also be a panelist at A Conversation With…, another Open Doors event, at Gateway Project Spaces on Sunday, October 15th.)
Dr. Ntozake Shange will attend the October 14th opening reception for i found god in myself.
“This exhibition underscores the conversation Dr. Shange started, extending the legacy and impact of her work into the visual arts medium,” explained Souleo, according to a statement about the exhibit, which debuted in 2014 at the Schomburg Center and La Maison d’art in New York, and has since traveled to Philadelphia and Houston.
i found god in myself will also include material from the Barnard Archives that highlights the creation and evolution of the original text, from its 1974 debut in Berkeley, California at a bar named Bacchanal to its Broadway run, for which featured actress Trazana Beverley won a Tony Award. Dr. Shange and cast also won an Obie Award for the Off-Broadway incarnation of the play.
“It is not only gratifying, but joyous to share for colored girls with the Newark community,” Dr. Shange said.
While Dr. Shange’s work focuses on black women, the artists Souleo called on to contribute to the exhibit are women and men across cultures and generations–a nod to the work’s transcendent impact, and also “to demonstrate that the banner of feminism can and must be carried and waved by every ally who shares its tenets of social justice,” according to a curatorial statement about the exhibit.
That statement explained further that the exhibit is meant to “respect the origins of Dr. Shange’s work while bringing it forward into today’s expanded conversation on human rights.”
cWOW is the state’s oldest alternative art space. Executive director fayemi shakur said it is an “honor to share Dr. Shange’s work” at the gallery.
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You can stay with us from Monday, July 20 until Saturday, July 25, 2020. Booking a stay until Friday afternoon or Friday evening (including barbecue) is also possible. We serve the first meal on Monday evening.
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In each school, there are educators with whom students naturally form good relationships, go to for help, and feel comfortable talking to about their problems. Based on this observation, the “Go-to” Educator Professional Learning trains “go-to” educators in the early identification, support, triage and referral of students who may be exhibiting substantial mental health problems and/or mental disorders.
Go-To Educators are not trained to be counselors or work outside of their scope of practice. They learn how to complement and collaborate with student service providers in school settings, enhancing the development of a whole-school support network that can better meet student needs. Research has demonstrated that this approach can improve access to mental health care for those students with severe disorders or more complex needs, while concurrently decreasing total number of referrals to specific mental health services.
Go-To Educator Professional Learning is a companion program to the Guide Professional Learning, and can be implemented independently, or as part of a package that includes the Guide. “Go-to” educators can be subject or classroom teachers, student service providers (guidance counselors, psychologists, social workers, nurses, etc.), principals, or other staff members identified by the school.
The learning session can be delivered in one day by a Go-To Trainer or a Core Trainer. Trainers build capacity in their jurisdictions (e.g. regions, boards, districts) for ongoing professional learning. They are trained either over a two-day period as Go-To Trainers, or a three-day period as Core Trainers (see below for details).
Some of the many benefits of Go-To Educator Professional Learning include:
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Hartwell is a town filled with a lot of retirees. Their numbers probably rival some cities in Florida (after all the entire state is filled with nothing but senior citizens).
There’s nothing wrong with that, but sometimes senior citizens can be irksome.
Like when they’re driving. I am a speeder, so anything less than 60 is too slow.
Nothing like a little old lady creeping at 25 in a one lane road when the speed limit is 45. Sometimes I just want to shout a few choice words – like I do to other drivers – but I can’t.
I just say “Bless them Lord.”
I even said it to that 100 year old lady who was about to broadside my car. Had she been about 35, she would have gotten the beat down. But I digress.
Silver haired grandmothers. No haired grandfathers. Great-grand aunts and uncles playing bingo at the senior center. Older neighbors going to their lake houses at night. Hartwell is full of them
However, aside from the bad driving skills of some, most of them are incredible storytellers.
Have you ever just listened to their stories?
I’ve heard tales of international travelers, talked to war survivors and even met a few with stories so astounding you can hardly believe they’re real.
But real they are.
Life has a funny way of doing that.
One of my first profiles was about this phenomenal piano teacher. She tried other things, but her first love was music. Her student stories are as diverse as she is.
My new hairdresser, who at the very least is 60, shared her career tales with me. She was a nurse before becoming a hairdresser. There weren’t too many black nurses in her day, especially in Mississippi.
Just today, I interviewed a man who is swiftly approaching 91. He grew up in the days of the depression and moonshine. He’s been through a war, a job and even two marriages.
That’s barely even scraping the surface of what they told me. It would take me a packed lunch and then some.
My grandmother always used to tell me “Just keep on living.”
Now I understand why.
One of my favorite quotes, an AJR original, is “I chronicle life because it is my muse.”
I’m adding a new one in honor of seniors, “Your life is my muse.”
It’s tre-cooler to write about older people. I could just eat their stories up.
One of the objectives in SISTUHS is seek guidance from elder African-American women.
Well, I’m seeking stories from any and everyone. Plenty of their stories provide guidance.
I think a lot of the single senior citizens in Hartwell get lonely.
Spouses have passed away. Children are too busy with their own lives. Grandchildren live out of state.
Sometimes they just want someone to talk to. I can relate to that.
If they need an ear, I am more than glad to listen.
I love talking, but I don’t mind hearing an interesting tale or 10.
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Good news on the app front. As of today, there are 1,000 apps available in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. We certainly expected there to be 1,000 apps by the US launch and now they’ve hit that number with time to spare. More importantly, there appears to be a healthy selection of quality apps. It’s no where close to the 100,000 apps touted in the Android Market, but we’ll see if the current crop is sufficient enough to meet the needs of new buyers. Facebook, Twitter and a good selection of games isn’t a bad place to start.
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The Verses and Battles of Arturo Giovannitti
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute hosted a round table on Arturo Giovannitti on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of his arrival in America.
The event, moderated by Dean Anthony Tamburri, was strongly wanted by Silvana Mangione, vice-secretary of the General Council of Italians Abroad: “Remembering authors like Giovannitti is important on the 150th anniversary of the Italian Unification to attest the role of Italians abroad and understand their 'culture of the return', towards which Italy must open itself to embrace a larger view of culture”.
Enzo Amendola, secretary of Italy's Democratic Party (PD) for the Campania region added, “Giovannitti, as a poet and activist, was especially able to transmit the idea that working class emancipation would allow everyone to participate in the building of the American society respecting human dignity”. “It is by following such authors”, concluded Gianluca Galletto, representative of the PD in the North American constituency, “that Italy becomes an independent community from a specific geographical location”.
Talking about Giovannitti's works were Professors Joseph Tusiani, Fred Gardaphè, Robert Viscusi and Marcella Bencivenni. A controversial figure of early 20th century America, he led the Italian Socialist Federation and edited the radical weekly 'Il Proletario', in 1912 he was among the organizers of the Lawrence Textile Strike, in which protester Anna Lo Pizzo was shot and killed.
Giovannitti was accused, together with Joseph Ettor, of murder; they were released after 10 months of prison and a trial accompanied by a strong working-class mobilization in the name of solidarity towards the two leaders, that especially moved the American public opinion.
The first speaker was Prof. Marcella Bencivegni, who illustrated the different ways to read Giovannitti: as a political activist, as an idealist, a journalist, and a theologist in his early years.
The son of a pharmacist from Ripabottoni, in Molise, he had come to North America at age 17 and spoke Italian, English and French fluently. In New York he took part in weekly meetings of a cultural club on 5th Avenue with socialists, anarchists and intellectuals, to discuss philosophy, poetry and revolution. Giovannitti was a product and a producer of a similar radical culture.
The frequent mistake is dividing his activist spirit from his soul as a poet. On the contrary, the two natures feed on each other. For instance, in his play “Com'era nel principio di tenebre rosse” written in 1916 and performed in English on Broadway only once, is an anti-military work that describes the de-humanizing effect of war through the story of a young poet who becomes a ferocious beast to revenge the raping of his wife by a German soldier, which left her pregnant.
Fred Gardaphè explained that Giovannitti represented an important reference point for the different Italian-American authors that spoke to the public about the stories of the Italian-American working class. The use of the English language allowed them not only to show this new culture to America but especially to impress a new religious orientation in the English-speaking literary panorama. Christianity was the element the united Italian-American workers and which Giovannitti was able to speak about, influencing more recent authors such as Pietro Di Donato and Augusto Lentricchia.
Reading the verses of the poem “The Walker”, written by Giovannitti in prison, Robert Viscusi showed the details of his radical spirit, rhymes of a man who didn't believe in the traditional forms of government, such as the Italian monarchy, and had come to America open to modernity, seeking a better and freer land.
Giovannitti's personality emerged from Joseph Tusiani, pupil and friend of the poet, as well as David Giovannitti, Arturo's grandson. He was an untiring reader and a sensible writer, tied to his homeland and his pupils by a “paternal love”; the strong values transmitted to his family are still alive today, 50 years after his death.
Alternating critical analyses, readings and direct accounts, the speakers offered a complete frame of the author, each one pondering upon a certain aspect of his life and works. Sadly, in spite of his large number of works, Giovannitti remains unknown to many. In the opinion of the speakers, the motivations are multiple: Joseph Tusiani explains that Italy itself was the first to ignore him, if one thinks that “The Walker”, from 1914, was translated in Italian as “L'uomo che cammina” only in 1938. Marcella Bencivegni shows how in America he wasn't highly considered because of his radical ideals and, as adds professor Viscusi, with World War II he lost attention, since Americans stopped reading Italian works. But especially, concludes Fred Gardaphè, Italy's mistake lay in the inability to institutionalize its own culture. So, talents like Giovannitti are frequently abandoned to the fate of alternating currents. | <urn:uuid:cc4e277c-2551-42b3-aa42-7aeb6b84c8b4> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://www.iitaly.org/magazine/events/reports/article/verses-and-battles-arturo-giovannitti | 2020-09-27T03:40:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400250241.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20200927023329-20200927053329-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.968359 | 1,111 |
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Tonight, in an email, a friend asked, “I am curious if you eventually did sit out all the Holy Days. If so, how did that work for you? If not did you find worship satisfying?"
Here’s what I told him:
I sat out erev Rosh HaShanah and the first day. I did, however, attend the second day, the service at which I am honored each year with an opportunity to chant Torah. Usually my dad comes with me to that service, but with his imminent move (the packers are coming tomorrow, the movers on Tuesday) that wasn't feasible this year. However, he was able to watch the live stream, which he enjoyed quite a bit.In his response, my friend shared a perspective I had not previously considered: “What a great reflection on skipping what many Jews do, and what joyful anticipation of doing what many Jews don't!” Regarding my dad’s move from our childhood home, he wrote, “In memory, 12 Webster Road will always be yours. It continues to shape the you who you are!”
I did not attend any Yom Kippur services, but I did watch a bit of the live stream from Shaaray Tefila, including yesterday's sermon, as well as some of the Facebook live stream from my parents' congregation in New Jersey. I was OK not attending services and felt as though I was taking care of me, which is something I don't do very well or very often. Also, as a regular minyan-goer, I know that prayer is not easy and that it takes hard work. With everything else going on at the moment, I did not have the bandwidth necessary to make my worship truly meaningful.
I am looking forward to festival morning services on Sukkot and Simchat Torah, when it will be safe to go back into the sanctuary. I love Hallel -- and the switch to mashiv haruach umorid hagashem. After that, things will go back to "normal" in our weekly minyan -- and we'll start all over again with B'reishit in Torah study.
But first, our family will close the door for the last time at 12 Webster Road on Tuesday, after which I think I'll have a huge sense of relief that the stress, anxiety, and anticipation surrounding the move will finally be a thing of the past for all of us. I hope that we'll all enjoy wonderful new beginnings and many celebrations in 5778.
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Kinnoull Tennis Club
Kinnoull Tennis Club has a long history. The “Kinnoull Recreation Club” was founded in 1887 and encompassed Tennis, Bowling and Curling. Over the years, curling disappeared and the bowling and tennis sections separated to form their own respective clubs.
With opportunities from coaching and cardio to matches, fun days and just having a hit with friends new and old, Kinnoull is the perfect club to come and participate in tennis!
Weekly social sessions, run throughout the year and are a great way to stay active while meeting people. The courts are available to members throughout the year and so you can always book one for your own games.
Coaching runs all year round for all ages and abilities from tots to adults, beginner through to performance players. The main focus of the club’s coaching is in squads, according to ability and age. Also, one-to-one coaching is available.
The club’s competitive achievements have been numerous with teams in the Perth and District leagues and Tayside Scottish Cup. There are also a number of Club Championships for all ages as well as American style tournament.
As adult membership of Kinnoull Tennis Club costs just over £2 per week, the club provides great value for money. As well as adult membership, the club offers a total of 10 packages. Therefore whatever your age or requirement, the club caters to you. | <urn:uuid:ba19f97d-e410-4136-b31a-dbe8bda41ef1> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://www.mytennislife.co.uk/venue/kinnoull-tennis-club/ | 2020-09-27T04:55:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400250241.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20200927023329-20200927053329-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.960194 | 299 |
Grand Theft Auto IV: Special Edition
GTA 4: Special Edition pre-orders are currently being taken and stock is not expected to last of these unique versions of the PS3 Game.
Inside this Safe Deposit box will be:
Oh, and you also get the all important key for your safety deposit box!
This version is sure to sell out quickly and is available for £69.99 (or $86.99 in the US) – pre-orders are being taken by a number of suppliers now. The bog standard version of the game is expected to retail at £49.99 so we think the Special Edition represents excellent value for money.
You can pre-order your Special Edition copy of GTA 4
– for £69.99 in the UK
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A Good Friday?Well, just when I was getting ready to write off the entire concept of Fridays, along comes a Friday that I thoroughly enjoy! The weather's gorgeous, the work-load light, the office silent, the mood fairly chirpy. There's money in the bank, a weekend of fun ahead, and nothing hurts. I had a lovely lunch with Shiloh, they're playing good music on the radio, and my hair looks great! Plus, when I first tried to post this message at 4pm, Blogger was down and the windows went blank...but I had fortuitously already saved the text before I clicked "Post," so I lost nothing!! O Joy!!! O Rapture!!!!
I just don't quite know what to do with myself!
Oh, I know! I can do the Friday Five! Or, since I missed it last week and would like to remain current, the Friday Nine (omitting last week's fifth question, since I already answered it directly below).
(Last Week's Friday [Four]):
1. What's your favorite vacation spot? I'm torn between the entire state of Hawaii (O, those tropical breezes, those boy-strewn beaches, those vast and fabulous malls, the orchids sprouting out of the sidewalks, and again the boys...those sun-bronzed, tight-muscled boys with their surf-shorts riding low on their hips, hiking up from the beach with a board under their arms and a wild look of triumph in their eyes...mmmmm) and the city of Victoria, BC (miles of shopping, fabulous architecture, really great food, nice weather, that typical Canadian cleanliness all over...and, oddly enough, just truck-loads of really good-looking people, as if they import hot men from all over the country just to work in Victoria...even the girls were really something...and you just haven't lived until you've been pedalled all over town in a rickshaw pulled by something right off the pages of Abercrombie & Fitch, let me tell you!)
2. Where do you consider to be the biggest hell-hole on earth? The Midwest. All of it, from the Sierra/Cascades to the Mississippi. Yuck.
3. What would be your dream vacation? A European Museum Tour...I plotted it out once, visiting all the major museums in Europe and the Mediterranean, starting at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and ending at the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, staying at four- or five-star hotels all the way (the various Ritzes, the Hassler, the Mena House, etc.)
4. If you could go on a road-trip with anyone, who would it be and why? I can't think of any particular person I would especially want for a road-trip. But ideally, it would be someone with whom I can talk endlessly, who likes to sing, who likes to stop and look at roadside curiosities and tourist traps, and enjoys sleeping in motels...basically, me—but in a different body, good-looking, and with more money, and who finds me irresistable. If I could find such a man, I'd marry him on the spot!
The Current Friday Five:
1. What makes you homesick? I don't think I've ever really been homesick. But then, I've never been away from home for very long. I do feel a little deprived when I don't have certain home comforts with me, like my own bed, my entire wardrobe, my Nintendo64, my computer...or all the comforts of living in a city, like a Starbuck's on every corner and large gay communities to play in.
2. Where is "home" for you? Is it where you are living now, or somewhere else (ie: Mom & Dad's house, particular state/city)? All of the above: I live in the city I (mostly) grew up in; specifically, I live with my Grandmother (who is as much a parent to me as the traditional mothers and fathers and steps). I think of Oakland as my hometown, and am quite fond of it...warts and all.
3. What makes it home for you? People? Things? I'd have to say the "there-ness." Though Gertrude Stein once said that Oakland has no There, I have to disagree. To me, Oakland, and my Grandmother's house, have always been the only stable things in my life. My parents have gadded about all over California, and even Europe, sometimes living in three or four different apartments per town, and of course dragging us kids along with them, losing our toys and changing our schools...but my Grandmother's house has been in the family since 1934, with the same phone number, the same colors of paint, mostly the same furniture, on the same street in the same district of the same city...it's just so THERE.
4. Where is the furthest you've been from home, miles-wise? According to the link provided (Indo.com), the farthest afield my crow has flown was to Atlantic City, New Jersey, which is 2,559 miles from Oakland. The next farthest was Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii, which is 2,459 miles. I preferred the latter, incidentally, though it was almost intolerably humid (not uncomfortable, mind you...it felt quite like being hugged in a sauna...but physically hard to breathe in all that moisture...Kauai is the wettest place on Earth, and it takes a few hours to acclimate).
5. What are your plans for this weekend? This evening I'm getting together with some Galaxy Girls to go have a dekko at our new digs at New George's in San Rafael. Tomorrow I am going to the San Francisco Vintage Fashion Expo with Caroline, and I intend to spend every spare dime I have on fabulous accessories and jewels. Sunday is the Galaxy Girls' Tribute to Miss Gay Marin 2002 Ivy Drip. It's going to be one hell of a roller coaster ride, and hopefully I'll be too busy to be depressed.
So, there we are. I'm starting to run out of beefcake photos, but that isn't going to stop me from posting one...I just have to start going through my hard drive to find some more cuties, and upload them into my FTP space.
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The Helios is considered a Mid-century Modern masterpiece, with its circular bands of original Crittall windows and central golden statue.
The Courtyard Apartments are a collection of contemporary conversions with underfloor-heated polished screed, windows the full span of every apartment, and sections of ribbed ceiling.
The Garden Apartments are designed to take full advantage of the landscaped private grounds, while a palette of pale oak flooring and biscuit-coloured terrazzo embodies the clean lines of Television Centre’s original design.
The distinct bands of glazing and decorative tiling of the Helios Courtyard have been fully restored
The Courtyard Apartments feature sections of ribbed ceiling that expose the structure of the original building
With balconies and terraces, these apartments are designed to make the most of the new private gardens
Timber-lined walk-in wardrobes provide generous storage, while kitchens feature open display units for treasured items
Bathroom tile designs have been created by architects AHMM inspired by Mid-century Modern ceramicist Edith Heath
The Crescent is a collection of new apartments encircling The Helios, with individual balconies or terraces overlooking private grounds or Hammersmith Park.
Apartments with garden view balconies and terraces can enjoy the beautifully landscaped private grounds of wildflowers and winding paths
Apartments looking to the west also enjoy views over quiet Hammersmith Park and its Japanese garden, and the city beyond
Many apartments enjoy views over both the internal curving gardens and the new private boulevard and Hammersmith Park
Living accommodation has been designed to include separate dining space, while glass doors are flush to the floor and open out to individual balconies
Carpeting creates a comfortable and restful environment, while timber-lined walk-in wardrobes provide plenty of storage
Underfloor heating, heated towel rails, demisting mirrors on integrated vanity units, roof-mounted shower heads and cascade drains – all come as standard
Kitchens are designed with light terrazzo surfaces and the clean lines of modern cabinetry, as well as instant boiling water taps in all 3-bedroom apartments
Individual balconies and terraces ensure every resident has outdoor space to enjoy
White City is becoming a true West London destination, with excellent transport connections, unrivalled shopping at Westfield, innovation campus from Imperial College, cultural beacon BBC, creative hub White City Place, and thousands of quality new homes.
Television Centre is the reinvention of a London landmark into a working, living, thriving community.
Television Centre has been designed for modern living, with the convenience of 24-hour concierge services and on-site gym and spa, as well as the pleasure of well-tended gardens and residents’ lounge.
The residents’ main lobby has welcomed many familiar faces throughout Television Centre’s illustrious history, from heads of state to film stars and music legends.
This famous space has been restored to its former glory, including the original Grade II listed mosaic by British artist John Piper, and is the home of a 24-hour concierge service.
The residents’ lounge is a relaxing environment to enjoy a drink and meet friends or neighbours. With generous amounts of seating both inside and outside – in the private gardens – there’s quiet areas for meetings, sociable areas for visitors, and separate rooms for private dinners or functions.
A residents’ screening room shows the latest films and sporting events, and is also available to hire for private screenings.
The sweeping curve of private gardens between The Helios and The Crescent have been designed by landscape architects Gillespies with a distinctly English garden feel, stocked with native species from local nurseries and raised areas for shade and privacy.
The health club is a new concept called House Gym from Soho House with top range equipment, an 18.5m pool, steam room, sauna, fitness and yoga studios, and a spa offering residents and visitors a full range of beauty treatments.
Investing at Television Centre
«Television Centre has proven to be one of the most popular developments in London for renters. The host of amenities it offers has not been rivalled by any other development at a similar price point. The convenience of transport links has also made it hugely appealing to a broad range of tenants. Many investors have been very satisfied with the strong tenant demand and rental figures achieved.»
Key Rental Data:
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Content Store Just Got Better for inRiver Users
It has been over a year since inRiver released an update for their on-premise version (SP3). The new version, 6.3 SP4, is now available for download. It includes some exciting new features and a long list of bug fixes.
Here is a summary of the changes to get you up to speed:
Content Store: Improved Search
The star of this update is the Content Store.
Search capabilities in the Content Store have been enhanced, so that users can:
Filter the search results by choosing values from the CVL fields. This helps the user to see only the products that interest them.
Choose which fields act as filters when you configure the Content Store. Good candidates would be the brand field on the Product or the color field on the Item.
Search entities that have a specific field (defined in the Content Store configuration) that match a value from the inputted list. An example would be to configure the model number so a user could find multiple products with a model number list like: “A001;A214;B244;C643”
Content Store: New Tools for PDF Catalog Generation
A bunch of new tools were added to Content Store’s catalog PDF generation . These new tools will help you personalize the generated catalog.
Catalog personalization capability now includes:
The ability to include the name of the content store’s current user. This is nifty if you want to add the name of the sales rep who is creating a catalog for a prospect.
Input parameters that allow you to choose different titles for the catalog upon generation. Ex: if you want to include the name of a prospect in the title.
Get parent level entity data so that when generating the catalog, you can also add the information related to the parent entity being output in the catalog. This is useful if you are generating a catalog with Item entities and want to include some of the parent Product data.
Yes! Bug Fixes
As with all software releases, there are always some bug fixes. Most notable in this release is a memory leak fix in the Enrich app and an improvement to loading CVL with a large number of values in the Details tab of an entity.
These fixes, along with others, should make your experience with inRiver more enjoyable.
Is it time to migrate to iPMC?
Like all on-premise updates, this update needs to be installed by your partner agency. So reach out to them to plan the update. Or migrate to iPMC and get all these updates automatically when they are available!
To see inRiver’s full report on the new release: http://wiki.inriver.com/file/release-notes-63-sp4.pdf (heads up: you will need access to the inRiver wiki in order to view the release notes).
Not yet using a Cloud PIM solution? Here’s how we get PIM projects rolling: https://absolunet.com/en/getting-pim-project-off-right-start/
Absolunet knows PIM. We were just named inRiver’s North American Partner of the Year and PIM Dream team along with our client MillerCoors!
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I just got an email from McAllen Marathon team – apparently I came in 3rd! The listed 3rd place finisher didn’t actually finish the race, even though her chip triggered at the finish line. Kinda cool! Here’s the email. Text below.
After reviewing the final results from Sunday’s McAllen Marathon, we discovered an error. It seems the overall third place female finisher in the marathon did not complete the marathon. Her chip was somehow read by the sensors. She notified us of the error and we have removed her from the results.
You are now the overall third place finisher and winner of $250.00. Please complete the attached form so we can mail you a check.
Thank you for running the McAllen Marathon.
City of McAllen
Leslie A. Howland
Marketing & Events Coordinator
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IRS Robo Calls, How Much Is It Costing The USA
IRS phone scammers are relentless in the USA. With a complex tax system and a vulnerable ageing population, scammers have been targeting victims via phone, email and post.
Fraudsters are banking on fear and threats to work on the American public when it comes to conning them out of money. Treasury Inspector, Russel George, said that anytime a call comes in and they threat legal action and demand you pay up, it is definitely not the IRS making that call.
The IRS has posted guidelines to help people handle these scenarios If you receive a robo call claiming to be them:
If you owe federal taxes or think you might owe taxes, hang up and call theIRS at 800-829-1040. IRS workers can help you with your payment questions.
If you do not owe taxes, fill out the “IRS Impersonation scam” form on TIGTA’s website, www.tigta.gov, or call TIGTA at 800-366-4484.
You can also file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission at www.FTC.gov. Add “IRS Telephone Scam” to the comments in your complaint
The issue comes when scammers call multiple times and leave increasingly frequent and numerous messages. After you detect one, block that number. You can use a CPR call blocker V5000, it comes preloaded and the nuisance and potentially dangerous numbers come up on the screen so you can keep an eye on them. Hit the button and the number is blocked forever.
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CEO Moves this week include:
|Spruce Finance Inc.||Pandora||Millennium Energy Corporation|
|Foamix Pharmaceuticals Ltd.||William H. Sadlier, Inc.||Commercial Metals Company|
|Biodesy, Inc.||LMI||Kennametal Inc.|
|Lindora||Columbia Banking System, Inc.||NORTHFIELD BANCORP, INC.|
|Destiny Media Technologies Inc.||Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc.||WS Packaging Group, Inc.|
|Westinghouse Electric Company||Fishbowl||Quorum Health|
|IHA||Monro Muffler Brake, Inc.||Snyder’s-Lance, Inc.|
|The Alliance for Regenerative Medicine||The Energy Storage Association||Regenacy Pharmaceuticals, LLC|
|Valmont Industries, Inc.||Amtrak||Digital Fuel|
|Naranga, LLC||MedeAnalytics||ZorroSign, Inc.|
|Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center||OpenEBS||Gentherm|
|Citizen Relations||Textron Inc.||Community Health Accreditation Partner|
|ZeroStack, Inc.||FIS||Osiris Therapeutics, Inc.|
|Crystal Financial LLC||Northrim BanCorp Inc.||Cooledge Lighting Inc.|
|BlueRock Therapeutics||Lasko Holdings||Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC|
|Virtua||The Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) & Health Care Compliance Association||First Reserve|
|Partnership for Drug-Free Kids||Daily Burn||IT Authorities|
|The Wonderfund||HarbisonWalker International||Monetary LLC|
|School of Rock||Pacific City Financial Corporation||Solos Endoscopy, Inc.|
|National Association of Realtors|
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Spruce Finance Inc. [SAN FRANCISCO] has promoted Steve Olszewski, who previously served as chief operating officer, to CEO. Previously, Olszewski led the private student loan business at Discover Financial Services. Prior to Discover Financial Services, Olszewski led underwriting and servicing operations for GMAC’s auto insurance business and held operations strategy roles at Capital One.
Millennium Energy Corporation [NEW YORK] (OTC Pink: MENC) announced the appointment of Alexander Lightman as Chief Executive Officer. Lightman has also joined the Board of the Company as a director. Previously, Lightman worked for Mitchell Energy.
Foamix Pharmaceuticals Ltd. [BRIDGEWATER, New Jersey] (NASDAQ: FOMX), announced that it has named David Domzalski Chief Executive Officer of the company. Domzalski currently serves as President of Foamix’s U.S. subsidiary. He succeeds Dov Tamarkin as CEO.
William H. Sadlier Inc. [NEW YORK] (OTCPNK: SADL) announced the appointment of the Company’s current Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Raymond D. Fagan, as the Company’s new President and Chief Executive Officer. Fagan, who joined the Company in 2012, previously held senior executive positions with Dun & Bradstreet, Harcourt Education Group, Interpublic Group and The Thomson Corporation.
Commercial Metals Company [IRVING, Texas] (NYSE: CMC) announced that effective September 1, 2017, Barbara Smith will assume the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and become a member of the board of directors. Smith joined the Company in May 2011 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and was appointed Chief Operating Officer in January 2016 and President and Chief Operating Officer in January 2017. Prior to joining the Company, Smith served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Gerdau Ameristeel Corporation. Her experience also includes more than 20 years with Alcoa in various leadership roles across a variety of Alcoa’s businesses.
Biodesy, Inc. [SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.] announced that Dominique Bridon has been appointed Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors. Most recently, he was Chief Development Officer at Nuritas. Prior to that role, Bridon led the development of novel transporter-mediated oncology and CNS drugs at Optivia. He also held various leadership positions at Ipsen, Conjuchem, Redcell, and Abbott. Bridon has served as a Director for Enobia and Neuronax and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Syntaxin and Biosortia.
LMI [TYSONS, Va.] announced that David W. Zolet will become its president and chief executive officer. Zolet joins LMI after serving for more than 5 years as executive vice president of CSC. Before CSC, Zolet was at IBM, where he was vice president of systems integration. Previously, he spent more than 20 years with Northrop Grumman Corporation, where he progressed through a number of executive positions. Zolet succeeds Nelson M. Ford who announced his pending retirement earlier this year.
Kennametal Inc. [PITTSBURGH] (NYSE: KMT) announced that it has appointed Christopher (Chris) Rossi as president and chief executive officer and has named him a director. Rossi previously served as the chief executive officer of Dresser-Rand at Siemens. Prior to that, Rossi held numerous leadership positions at Dresser-Rand Group Inc., including executive vice president of global operations, vice president of technology and business development and executive vice president of global aftermarket sales. Chris succeeds Ron De Feo whom the board has appointed executive chairman of the board.
Lindora [COSTA MESA, Calif.] announced that it has named William J. Righeimer as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer. Previously, Righeimer spent nearly 6 years as a President and Global General Manager for Mars, Incorporated. More recently, Righeimer served as Chief Executive of Kuantum Brands. Righeimer’s career also includes senior management roles at PwC, IBM and several private equity and venture backed companies.
Columbia Banking System, Inc. [TACOMA, Wash.] (NASDAQ: COLB) announced that Hadley S. Robbins, Interim Chief Executive Officer, has been named President and Chief Executive Officer. Robbins will also join Columbia’s Board of Directors. Robbins has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Columbia since March 2014. His experience includes executive or senior management positions with West Coast Bancorp, Wells Fargo Bank, Pacific Northwest Bank, Bank of the Northwest and First Interstate Bank.
NORTHFIELD BANCORP, INC. [WOODBRIDGE, N.J.] (NASDAQ: NFBK) announced that John W. Alexander, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, has advised the Company’s Board of Directors that he intends to retire as Chief Executive Officer effective October 31, 2017. The company has selected Steven M. Klein, President and Chief Operating Officer, to succeed Alexander as CEO as of November 1, 2017.
Destiny Media Technologies Inc. [VANCOUVER] (TSXV: DSY, OTCQB: DSNY) has appointed Fred Vandenberg to the role of President and Chief Executive Officer to replace Steve Vestergaard. Vandenberg is currently Destiny’s Chief Financial Officer.
Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] (NASDAQ: SRPT) announced the appointment of Douglas S. Ingram as president and chief executive officer. He will also serve on the Company’s board of directors. Ingram was previously the president of Allergan, Inc. Most recently, Ingram served as president and chief executive officer of Chase Pharmaceuticals.
WS Packaging Group, Inc. [GREEN BAY, Wis.] announced that Dean Wimer has been named chief executive officer and current CEO Charlie Eitel will take over as the company’s chairman. Wimer has been chief operating officer since July 2016. Prior to joining WS Packaging in 2016, Wimer served as president and chief operating officer at Innovairre Communications.
Westinghouse Electric Company [CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa.] announced that José Emeterio Gutiérrez has been named president and chief executive officer. He had served as interim president and CEO since June 2016. Gutiérrez joined Westinghouse Electric Company in 2008, serving as Nuclear Services technical director and regional vice president of Spain. In 2010, Gutiérrez was named managing director and vice president for Southern Europe in Westinghouse’s Europe, Middle East and Africa region. In April 2012, he was named senior vice president of Westinghouse’s global Nuclear Fuel and Components Manufacturing.
Fishbowl [ALEXANDRIA, Va.] announced that it has named Jim Soss as the organization’s next Chief Executive Officer. Previous roles include Senior Vice President & General Manager for Responsys and Chief Executive Officer of Red Aril. Soss’ experience also includes leadership positions at digital marketing and data companies Acxiom, Infogroup and YuMe.
Quorum Health [BRENTWOOD, TENN.] announced that Robert A. Vento has been appointed as president and CEO. Vento has served as interim president of QHR since January 2017. Previously, Vento served as chief operating officer of QHR.
IHA [ANN ARBOR, Mich.] announced that Mark A. LePage will succeed the late Bill Fileti, to serve as the organization’s next CEO. Previously, LePage was at Marshfield, where he served as Medical Director of Marshfield Clinic Vascular Center and has continued to serve on the Marshfield Board since 2010. In January 2013, Mark accepted the Chief Medical Officer position at Security Health Plan.
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It might take you awhile to figure out what’s going on in “Milk Punch,” the first indie feature written, directed, and produced by Erik Gunneson. We start out with two twenty-something guys shooting down a black-top strip late one night. Boot and Curly are nervous about something, but we don’t exactly know what, though it seems to be related to the enormous black Oldsmobile Delta 88 that Boot is driving. Then we start cutting away. We see the same guys in what is clearly a different time and a different place, hanging out and making the scene around town. We see two older guys, brothers named Buddy and Carl, playfully picking at each other much as Boot and Curly do. We see a young woman named Verona working away at a telephone research job that she clearly loathes; gradually she stops asking the questions she is supposed to and just talks to the people she calls.
But soon enough, like the enigmatic title itself, the narrative makes sense, and pleasurably at that. Through a tangle of scenes involving fish bait stolen from a convenience store, borrowed lawn mowers, and leaking milk jugs, we realize that the Boot and Curly in the car exist somewhere in a future toward which all the other scenes are progressing. And, sure enough, the car Boot is driving was stolen from the older guys. Verona is a friend of Boot and Curly, one who provides some intelligence and charm to these flat-footed dudes who could have walked straight out of Two-Lane Blacktop. All this is revealed with delightful imagination, slightly absurd humor, and a precisely cluttered style.
But just as you’ve made narrative sense of the film, you begin to struggle to make moral sense of it, which is perhaps a more complicated challenge. How wrong were these guys to steal the car? Wouldn’t Buddy and Carl have done the same thing in their situation? Should they return the car? These issues arise most forcefully when Boot and Carl react against another crime they see being committed.
Gunneson is on the staff at the University Of Wisconsin-Madison, the school from which he graduated about a decade ago. The director of numerous short “experimental documentaries,” Milk Punch is the first feature fiction film that he has written and directed. Milk Punch premieres as the closing night film at the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 2, 2000.
[ Where did you find that car? ] ^ Bill Brehm, who was my assistant director, had some friends who lived in Appleton who owned that car. When I was writing, I owned a 1972 Chrysler Newport, which was a slightly bigger car than the Delta 88 that is in the film. It was painted canary yellow with a green interior. It was a real Green Bay Packers car. That was the inspiration for centering the story around the car – owning one like that, trying to park it, trying to drive it in an era when most cars were as long as this one was wide, and having everyone always looking at you. Eventually the Newport frame cracked, and I sold it to some people who wanted to weld it back together. I went to look at it again, thinking about trying to use it for the film. The people who bought the car were fishermen, and they used it to tow their boats, and had put massive fishhooks in the dashboard. When I had owned the car I kept it in very nice shape. They had really beat on it. I thought, oh no, I’ve written this film that is about a boatsize-car from the early 70s, and I don’t have access to one.
Then Bill remembered that his friends owned the Delta 88, so we went to take a look at it and fell in love with it. It looked so nice and black, with reflections you could see yourself in. Bill’s friends gave us permission to use it. But it didn’t run; it leaked fuel. We had to have it dragged back to Madison where we could have the fuel line fixed. John Sarris, who plays Boot in the film, now owns the Delta. It would be a great experience for people in Madison to see him drive this car in the film, and then see him driving it around town.
We wanted to emphasize its size and difference. We used the shots off the top of the hood to contrast it with what is out on the road today, because you see those little cars in the background and you see this massive black thing in the foreground. There are a few shots where the camera is as far back on the roof as it can go, with a wide angle, so you get this extremely long version of the car. Another characteristic we play up is the motor, which is a Rocket 350. I’m not a big car person, but after we got the car to the set, John opened the hood up, and said: “Oh, of course, it’s got the Rocket 350!” a scene that we reproduced for the film. I recognized the name, because it’s a motor that has been canonized in Rockabilly music. One of the first Rockabilly songs is called “Rocket 88.” It’s about an Oldsmobile 88 with a Rocket 350 in it, so they call the car a “Rocket 88.”
[ Did you use that song in the film? There is a lot of music. ] ^ No, we didn’t. But, yes, we did use a lot of music. I’m interested in a wide variety of music, and we tried to use as many different kinds as we could, from hard-core punk rock to dub reggæ to techno to old-time country. There’s a song recorded in 1930 that is a very old country song. So we ran the gamut, and that was there from the beginning.
[ It assists in the tapestry-effect of the film, which is something you also see in the places the characters go, and in the narrative style. ] ^ We started with that approach, with the music and throughout, laying things out in a tapestry or banquet that you pick and choose from as you put it together. While we were editing, Gretta Miller and I had a large tack board with cards for all the scenes in the film. They were color-coded according to who was in the scene and when it was taking place. And every few weeks, as we saw how things were going, we would sit down and rearrange those cards. That rearranging determined the ultimate structure of the film.
It’s not a plot-driven film, but most of the events in the film happened to people I know, and we stitched them together, kind of guiding it as a reaction against stuff like the television program Cops. In three minutes of Cops, you see someone on the street getting arrested, and all you see is that event. You don’t know who is getting arrested, you don’t know know where they’ve been, you don’t know who is arresting them. I was interested in everything else behind a crime like this. I tried to lay all that other stuff out through this intercutting that makes people gradually realize what these people did, but after you get to know about them and everyone else.
While I was brainstorming for the film, my father actually had his car stolen under somewhat similar circumstances, I called the police on some kids who were robbing a convenience store across the street from where I was living, and Cops was a very popular show. I had all these things to work with. And I was trying to think of ways for people to get involved. In the beginning, you see these guys who are nervous, and you don’t know why. By taking the last scene chronologically and spreading it through the film, I hoped to encourage people to think about how it fits together. On a purely narrative level, it provided an enigma that you have to figure out, which hopefully encourages you to think about larger issues about what crime is and how and why people commit crimes.
There is a sense in which the film is fun-loving, but I don’t mean to downplay serious crimes. This crime is serious to an extent, but we do play it somewhat comically. But hopefully people will still question how you judge crime and criminals. I think people make a lot of assumptions based on shows like Cops, which would play up these guys as hard-core carjacking freaks, but in fact these are just guys who couldn’t get a ride home, and they had an opportunity and they took it.
[ Within this larger scale crime, you have these petty crimes like stealing bait for fishing – which is a strange, terrific sequence – and kids stealing stuff from a convenience store. These crimes have both narrative and moral implications on how we perceive the larger crime. ] ^ With the scene with the kids robbing the store, again I tried to raise the issue of what a criminal is. Criminals have morals, too, and would turn other people in if they thought the situation warranted it. I was somewhat inspired in this by an Ice-T album called O.G. – Original Gangsta. There’s a lot of anti-cop stuff on it. But then there’s one point where he sings about his neighbors who are beating on their kids. Then he asks why someone doesn’t call a cop. This guy who says “f**k the police” also thinks there is a time when it is appropriate to call the police. That’s a contradiction I tried to work with.
In the first part of the film, we see these little character portraits that hopefully pile up, so that when we get to the more plot-driven parts you know who you are dealing with and are able to address what they are doing morally. I think this structure has a history, but it’s not all that common, just to let so much other stuff take up the first half of the film. There’s a dissolve from the car during the night to it during the day after which the car scenes become more pointed in terms of their relation to the flashbacks. Before that they are counting green lights and they get in an argument and you don’t know why, but after that hopefully you can understand this and everything else.
I’ve always been interested in films that play with temporal arrangement. To have the end of the story at the beginning and then interspersed throughout seemed very natural to me. From the beginning, somehow I knew that playing with narrative would be part of how the film works, and that’s part of my other filmmaking, too.
[ How have you worked with this in other films? ] ^ All the films I’ve completed before this, films that I produced, are experimental documentaries. They are generally shot outside during the day, and they’re usually about a sense of place. I was interested in documenting some natural spaces in an emotional sense. I made a film called Cherokee, which deals with a nature preserve in Madison that is surrounded by encroaching development on all sides. It was a sort of paranoid nature / fall film. The images start out as longer, still shots of nature: fall color, leaves, and things like that. Then the camera starts moving, and you go from moving images to superimpositions, optical printing, and matting. Eventually you get to a point that is completely abstract and there are no more images of the park. Meanwhile the sounds go from very natural sounds to things that are increasingly processed, so that by the end you are hearing sounds that seem completely abstract by the end. It is sort of apocalyptic. Everything just falls apart. By the end everything has completely deteriorated, and I thought of this as paralleling this sense of doom that I felt whenever I went there. It was this beautiful place, but it was being destroyed, and it was hard to see it existing into the future. It’s quite different than Milk Punch.
[ Why did you decide to move from these films to a feature film? ] ^ There were a couple of reasons. It has become increasingly difficult for me to imagine experimental / avant-garde cinema as a place that exists anymore. It seemed to be becoming a place about history, and so much about the past that it wasn’t part of something that I could imagine being involved in. That’s sort of harsh I guess, but I gave up on avant-garde film culture. There didn’t seem to be venues. There didn’t seem to be a culture of it. It seemed like what had so clearly been part of the avant-garde had been so thoroughly co-opted by television and all other forms that it seemed like it wasn’t happening in the way it once did. If I was a video artist I might have a different feeling about it. And there’s still great experimental film stuff going on, and I admire the people who do it. I support it however I can, but I left because it was very hard for me to imagine a future for it for myself. I wonder about my decision sometimes. I may go back. We’ll see.
[ Yet Milk Punch remains a sort of experimental film, in the traditional rather than the generic sense of the word. You are experimenting with narrative style, and with locations, and you do have some bizarre time-lapse shots. ] ^ I was interested in the difference between suburban and more urban neighborhoods, in the landscape of the Beltline around Madison, spaces like parking garages and convenience stores that just don’t seem to exist in most films. They seem to evaporate whenever Hollywood goes into these spaces. They take everything out and put their own back in. When you see it onscreen, it doesn’t seem right, it seems removed. A convenience store doesn’t seem like a convenience store. Well, sometimes they do, but more than not they don’t. You go to someone’s office and everyone has leather chairs, and everything is so nice – you think, wow, that’s a nice office. But go to my office, now that’s an office! A lot of offices are like that, with crap piled everywhere. We tried to show that in Milk Punch when you go to Verona’s office, and you go by all these ugly cubicles. So the issue of architecture and urban sprawl I guess is there in both of these films, and I tried to get that in a pictorial sense. One of my favorite shots in Milk Punch is the bus shot where you just look out the window of a bus and the bus pulls up and the doors open and you see that whole vista outside.
[ The contrast between the neighborhoods where the main characters live and where they go on the bus to the garage sale, which is around where the two older guys live, is pretty sharp. ] ^ We drove around a lot trying to find the intersection where the guys get off the bus. We were happy that the people who lived there were nice to work with, allowing us to set up fake garage sales in their driveways, and on one hot day even allowing us to come in and use the air-conditioning as we ate lunch. That juxtaposition was something I tried to draw out throughout, and it’s something you have in the two sets of characters as well.
Then there were other places like the ice cream shop and diner called MiltyWilty’s, and the skate park, which I thought it was important to show as unique American spaces. Places like MiltyWilty’s are vanishing. We drove extensively to get there, and in a small production, going out of town is a big deal. Twice we drove up to Wautoma, which is about an hour and a half from Madison, just for those scenes. But I thought it was important. This was a place that both sets of characters go to, so it had to be very identifiable, a place whose importance would stand out for both of them. When I first drove by it, I thought, wow, that’s very unique. It stuck out visually, and I though it was perfect.
[ It’s like the RR diner in Twin Peaks, and it also reminded me of spaces in films directed by Monte Hellman, with their mass-produced familiarity and grotesqueness. That, the underplayed acting by most of the performers, and the culture of cars especially reminded me of Two-Lane Black Top. ] ^ I had never seen any films directed by him until after this one was finished, but I would now say they are an influence.
The place also had a lot of shiny surfaces, and that was useful because we always kept going back to this idea of reflection, in there, and in the cars, and with the milk truck at the beginning. Throughout it was something we were playing with. I think that in terms of the cinematography, Eric Nelson brought a good degree of narrative sense to the film. If I had shot the film myself, it would be much more flat and less dynamic. He brought a sense of motivation to the cinematography that didn’t come to me naturally. He taught me a lot. I was lucky with him and with the other people I worked with on the film. Liz Avery, who plays Verona, also did art direction and worked as a grip. Jay Antani, who did the storyboards, also brought a lot, contributing scene ideas and so forth.
[ The title is unusual. It’s an enigma through much of the film, and then the moment comes when you get it. ] ^ I like that when you hear it, the title doesn’t make sense. There is a drink called milk punch, which is scotch and milk. But I used to tell people who weren’t from Wisconsin that people in Wisconsin make a drink called “milk punch” by mixing whole milk, skim milk, 1%, 2%, and creamer. And of course Wisconsin is “America’s Dairy Land,” so they figured people around so many cows might do something like that. So I like to leave it as an enigma. I like people seeing the film without knowing what the title means, and hopefully when the moment comes they smile.
[ Are you going to make another film here? ] ^ I’d like to. I’m working on two different ideas.
One is called Picker, Packer, Grower. It’s a three-part story. You assume it’s about three parts of the farming process, but that’s not what it would be. “Picker” is a slang term for people who go to Goodwill and buy clothes that they can resell to vintage clothing stores; it’s a sort of job. “Packer” would be a member of the Green Bay Packers. And “Grower” would be an indoor marijuana grower. Parts of the grower part would probably have to be shot in Europe. Somehow we’d work the three together, though how exactly I don’t know.
The other is a film about pornography. There have been a lot of films about pornography lately that aren’t pornographic, and I think that is completely wrong. The People vs. Larry Flynt isn’t willing to show what pornography is, and then holds up Larry Flynt as a model of free speech. That they’re not willing to show the free speech that gets Larry Flynt into court is completely ludicrous. Someone needs to make a film about pornography that is pornographic. And I think there needs to be a film about people who are in porn films, and what their lives are like beyond pornography.
[ You don’t think Boogie Nights succeeded at that? ] ^ No, I don’t. First of all it wasn’t pornographic. And I think it was very romanticized. It was all party and wildlife. He lives with his parents, and there is a scene where he has sex in his bed there. But it’s not like he’s helping his mom plant begonias or something, which people who work in porn films do. It’s more like a porn film in its support of the myth of pornography. What is it like when a porn star has to get new contacts? I think there has to be a film about that. I don’t know if I’m the person to make it or not, but maybe I am. It would be pornographic and pro-sex; I wouldn’t want it to be like Not A Love Story, which is a film I respect, but which I think is kind of puritanical.
To get more information on “Milk Punch” and writer, director, producer Erik Gunneson go to: http://www.milk-punch.com
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NetEnt announced its collaboration with the Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne, to add a branded slot machine. The future slot will have a music-themed title starring the living legend.
Ozzy Osbourne is known in the music industry to have sold over 100 million albums as a solo artist. He was also the lead vocalist of Black Sabbath. But this time he will be the star performer in the upcoming NetEnt licensed slot when it launches. Black Sabbath fans will surely look forward to this future online slot machine featuring the living legend. Even though you might not have heard of him because you are not into heavy metal, you would still want to get to know this game considering the fact that it features the greatest performer of all time.
The company has a variety of online gaming machines with music themes. The upcoming Osbourne slot will feature some vocals and images of the Prince of Darkness. NetEnt has Rocks family of games in its portfolio, including Jimi Hendrix, Guns n’ Roses, and Motorhead.
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In 2016, NetEnt introduced its Rocks Trilogy after collaborating with three amazing bands namely Guns n’ Roses, Motorhead and Jimi Hendrix.
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CHICAGO – Launching an effort to lower the cost of critical lifesaving health care, state Rep. Nick Smith, D-Chicago, recently backed legislation that would control the cost of insulin for Illinois diabetics.
“Lowering the cost of lifesaving insulin is important to help some of our more vulnerable residents get the resources and medical care they need,” said Smith. “Over 1 million Illinois residents depend on this critical resource, many of whom are rationing their insulin because they can’t continue to afford the increasing prices each month.”
The Smith-backed Senate Bill 667 aims to address the high cost of insulin by limiting patients’ co-pays. The bill would set a cost ceiling at $100 per month, and is in response to insulin prices tripling between 2002 and 2013 according to a recent analysis. High costs have forced one in four diabetes patients to ration their insulin, according to the Yale School of Medicine.
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The Legal Practice Council (“LPC”) as the regulatory body for all legal practitioners and candidate legal practitioners in South Africa is saddened by the passing of Advocate Addelaid Ann Ferreira -Watt who died after
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