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4 Benefits of UCaaS for Any Organization
Jea Yu
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Communication is central to any business, and these days, it's increasingly digital. Your teams use a variety of channels — from talk and text to video — to collaborate with each other and interact with customers, and unifying those channels can help you improve some of the most critical aspects of running your business. Unified communications benefits range from boosting employee productivity to improving customer service to expanding your bottom line.
So, how does unified communications as a service (UCaaS) work? How can a UCaaS platform keep your workforce connected and your company competitive? And what unified communications benefits can you expect?
Understanding UCaaS
Traditionally, managing an in-house communications infrastructure meant buying, maintaining, and upgrading hardware and software — costly and inefficient processes that often required retraining tech support personnel.
UCaaS takes the investment and legwork out of building, managing, and evolving your in-house communications platform. It gives you a communications infrastructure that can handle capacity on demand with integrated voice, SMS, chat, video, real-time analytics, and automation on a single platform that your team can access from any device.
Using customizable application programming interfaces (APIs), you can seamlessly integrate UCaaS with other popular business applications, such as Salesforce, G-Suite, Zendesk, Oracle Netsuite, and Microsoft Dynamics. You can leverage communications APIs to deploy chatbots, video-on-demand, and other customer-facing communications enhancements. You can even leverage UCaaS to power an omnichannel cloud contact center that provides your customers with round-the-clock accessibility and lets your team work from anywhere.
4 Benefits of UCaaS
What are the benefits of UCaaS for your organization? When you unify communications into one cloud-based platform, your organization can unlock the following four advantages.
1. Decrease Silos
The silo effect is a common phenomenon within organizations that have incompatible operating platforms and disconnected communications channels. The effort needed to sync and convert data can be overwhelming, and silos occur when teams use multiple disconnected tools to accomplish daily tasks. This can quickly turn into process bottlenecks that stifle work and communication flows.
When UCaaS consolidates communications, it also consolidates communications data and connects it to other important business data via application integrations. This way, employees can move from one communications channel to the next without interruption, whether they're working from their office desktops or their mobile devices, and feel confident they're always seeing the latest, most relevant customer information. These insights help them better navigate customer engagements, focus on strategic initiatives, and close sales.
2. Spot Trends and Opportunities
A sophisticated UCaaS platform supplies real-time analytics that let you spot trends in your communications data, like when contact center volumes tend to spike, what times customer complaints occur the most, or where bottlenecks form.
When communications channels are connected through a UCaaS platform, teams can identify bottlenecks and find solutions to alleviate friction points and improve inefficiencies. For example, consider a midsize retail company that finds that customer calls are being misdirected to agents who are unable to assist. After being transferred to multiple reps, customers are hanging up and taking their business elsewhere. With UCaaS, this company can find a solution, for example adding a virtual receptionist that can route calls directly to the specific department or individual and cut wait times. Or if wait times tend to be longest at noon, management can shift break times or deploy chatbots for additional coverage.
3. Mobilize Your Workforce
Whether your employees are working on the go or working from home (like most people in 2020), they can log in and access all the same communications tools they rely on in the office, including videoconferencing.
Unified communications benefits include a new level of connectivity with on-demand videoconferencing, so whether you're providing one-on-one training or a 300-person sales presentation, you can get face-to-face and make a personal connection from a social distance, from any mobile device. Sales reps visiting a client factory can connect directly with engineers through HD video to analyze parts and fittings on the spot. Home health caretakers can connect with medical staff to assess their clients' conditions and provide a live visual, rather than a written report after the fact.
In the uncertainty of the post-COVID-19 era, mobility is important for almost every business. When there's not a pandemic, mobility helps organizations attract talent with perks like telework opportunities that enhance work-life balance. In PricewaterhouseCoopers' June 2020 U.S. Remote Work Survey, 83% of office workers said they want to continue working from home at least one day a week, and 55% of employers said they'll offer that option even after the coronavirus threat has passed.
With UCaaS, remote workers can transfer calls or send and receive SMS messages from their mobile devices to their desk phones, to colleagues, or to contact centers. And through mobile videoconferencing, teams can collaborate from anywhere at any time. What's more, features like call transcription and integrated business apps like Bullhorn or Zendesk empower workers with the tools to stay connected, accountable, and productive.
4. Boost Revenue Growth
Unified communications benefits your bottom line. It makes your employees more productive and helps them deliver positive customer experiences that foster trust and loyalty, leading to revenue growth. It also frees up IT time and budgets: Rather than maintaining a communications infrastructure, they can focus their resources on operations and innovation.
It's often taken for granted, but communication is the backbone of any company, so the benefits of UCaaS can make a big impact on any company's bottom line. Ensuring smooth communications between employees and clients is essential for driving growth. And with a UCaaS platform, your organization will be well on its way toward the next level.
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Jea Yu is a co-founder of Undergroundtrader.com, the premiere virtual trading desk and trader education site that has served over 10,000 traders, fund managers and investors worldwide since 1998. His brainchild was voted Forbes Best of the Web for four consecutive years under the active trader category. Jea also produces The Morning Profit Maker service on Marketfy.com, which seeks to capture his proprietary Perfect Storm patterns within the first 90 minutes of the trading day to generate consistent morning income stream for members. Jea has published four best-selling books and has spoken at expos and seminars around the world. He specializes in finance and technology and always stays on the cutting edge of strategy development.
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With the Central and State government extending partial curfews to curb the spread of Covid-19, the Railways have no option but to follow suit. Due to the second wave of Covid-19 infection and poor patronization of special trains, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) headquartered at Vizag has decided to extend the cancellation of special trains passing through the Visakhapatnam route.
The following Special trains passing through Vizag are cancelled:
#1 Train No.08528 Visakhapatnam – Raipur daily special train leaving Visakhapatnam from 11 June 2021 to 20 June 2021.
#2 Train No. 08527 Raipur – Visakhapatnam daily special train leaving Raipur from 12 June 2021 to 21 June 2021
#3 Train No. 08445 Bhubaneswar – Jagdalpur special train leaving Bhubaneswar from 11 June 2021 to 20 June 2021
#4 Train No. 08446 Jagdalpur – Visakhapatnam special train leaving Jagdalpur 12 June 2021 to 21 June 2021
#5 Train No. 08516 Visakhapatnam – Kirandul special train leaving Visakhapatnam from 11 June 2021 to 20 June 2021
#6 Train No. 08515 Kirandul – Visakhapatnam special train leaving Kirandul from 12 June 2021 to 21 June 2021
#7 Train No. 08561 Visakhapatnam – Kacheguda special train leaving Visakhapatnam from 11 June 2021 to 20 June 2021
#8 Train No. 08562 Kacheguda-Visakhapatnam special train leaving Kacheguda from 12 June 2021 to 21 June 2021
#9 Train No. 07488 Visakhapatnam – Cuddapah special train leaving Visakhapatnam from 11 June 2021 to 20 June 2021
#10 Train No. 07487 Cuddapah – Visakhapatnam special train leaving Cuddapah from 12 June 2021 to 21 June 2021
#11 Train No. 02831 Visakhapatnam – Lingampalli special train leaving Visakhapatnam from 11 June 2021 to 20 June 2021
#12 Train No. 02832 Lingampalli – Visakhapatnam special train leaving Lingampalli from 12 June 2021 to 21 June 2021
#13 Train No. 08301 Sambalpur – Rayagada special train leaving Sambalpur on 12th 13th 19th & 20th of June
#14 Train No. 08302 Rayagada – Sambalpur special train leaving Rayagada on 12th 13th 19th & 20th of June
The following Special Trains via Vizag are short terminated:
#1 Train No. 08301 Sambalpur – Rayagada special train leaving Sambalpur on 11th and from 14th to 18th June will be short terminated at Titlagarh.
#2 Train No.08302 Rayagada – Sambalpur special train will leave from Titlagarh instead of Rayagada from 11th June and from 14th to 18th June. Hence there will be no service of this train between Rayagada – Titlagarh on the above dates.
#3 Train No. 02097 Bhubaneswar – Junagarh Road special train leaving Bhubaneswar from 11 June 2021 to 20 June 2021 will be short terminated at Rayagada.
#4 Train No.02098 Junagarh Road – Bhubaneswar special train will leave from Rayagada from 12 June 2021 to 21 June 2021 instead of Junagarh Road. Hence there will be no service of this train between Rayagada – Junagarh Road.
Passengers are requested to strictly follow all the safety protocols before and during the journey in the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic. All the passengers are advised to wear a mask, sanitize/wash hands frequently and maintain social distancing.
All the passengers are also advised to keep updated regarding the travel advisories of various states to avoid inconvenience while undertaking the journey.
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There are several ways to get an email list but only one works in the long term and what method is this?
Build your own list!!
Methods Of Building An Opt In E Mail List
List Building Method 1: Opt In Form Dedicated Webpage.
This is the best method of building an opt in email list.. It consists simply of having a webpage that is dedicated solely to building your opt in list.
Obviously there are a few things you need to do to make this work
Niche Specific. The content of your opt in page must be niche specific. Because your list should be niche specific. It does not do to have an opt in list that is too general, you just will not get the conversions from your emails. The same principles that apply in setting up an affiliate marketing website apply when it comes to setting up your opt in page.
The opt in form: There are certain things that have been shown to increase the opt in rate of your opt in form. The opt in form gives you details on how to get an opt in form for your page and the best format to use.
Keep It Simple: The email list building page should be kept as simple as possible. You do not want anything distracting your visitors attention from the main purpose [should be the only purpose] of the page which is getting the visitor's email address. That means No fancy graphics, no adsense ads, no banners, no nothing. Just the simple short message, the opt in incentive and the opt in form. Period!
Once you have built your opt in webpage, you simply drive traffic to it
List Building Method 2: Opt in form on your website.
In this scenario, the opt in form is a small component of a webpage. This may be your traditional website or a blog. This is a webpage that has content other than your opt in form and already has some traffic.
Some tips on getting the most out of an opt in form incorporated into an existing webpage are
Prominence: Place your opt in form somewhere prominent on your webpage. Preferably above the fold of the page. Some people put their opt in forms on pop ups but people are increasingly irritated by pop ups. I suppose it is something you have to try on your own sites and see what works best.
Niche specific opt in offer. You must know what type of people come to the particular webpage your opt in form is on. Make sure your opt in form inducement is something that the users of that page will be interested in.
List Building Method 3: Joint Ventures [JVs]
This is a quick method of rapidly increasing your opt in list. It involves providing a free product which could be a free report, software or video tutorials. This product should be of good quality and the better the product is the better it will perform in a JV. You then approach an affiliate marketer in your niche but with a big list and ask him if you could have a giveaway JV with him. The benefit for the big marketer is more products in his free giveaway drive, the benefit for you is wider exposure for your product and a rapid increase in your opt in list.
To get the most out of joint ventures in your list building campaign
High Quality product. Your product or opt in incentive must be of high quality. It must have a perceived value that is high.
Use Videos. In my experience, video tutorials have been more effective in generating opt ins than e books and reports. However if you cannot produce a video or pay someone to do it for you, a good e book will suffice
Put a dollar value on your product. A products value may not be perceived by your audience unless you clearly state it to them. Some people will sign up for your product simply because of the value tag you attach to it. Be aware though that if you put a value tag on your product, then it must be of comparative quality to products in that price range.
There are several giveaway events that are run by different super affiliates throughout the year.
Here are some list building methods that don't work
Buying an email list: This just does not work.
The emails are not people who opted in to your email list and no matter how compelling your head line is, most will end up in the spam folder
You do not know the source of the emails you are buying, the niches they opted in for, whether they are legitimate or made up.
Other marketers, thousands of them, have bought the same email list and are busy sending emails to these addresses. This just means the recipients are probably already irritated and are less likely to read your emails
List brokers tend to work on a commision basis. This could result in them trying to sell you as big a list as possible, even though the addresses are not relevant to your niche
Scraping Email Addresses From The Internet.
Called SPAM. Against the law
Scraping your personal mailbox:
This is just such a bad idea. I know it seems logical to include all your friends in your business opt in list. In real terms this does not work.
Your friends gave you their emails for social reasons. Do not abuse that.
Your friends are not necessarily interested in your niche so unless they show a specific interest and ask to be included in your opt in list, don't include them on your list.
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This website is dedicated to the history of - and insatiable interest in - Australia's most famous culinary icon: The humble Aussie lamington created by Lord Lamington, Governor of Queensland 1896 - 1901, following a kitchen mix-up. This is the official website of the Australian Lamington Appreciation Society (ALAS) which is committed to the preservation and promotion of Australia's national icon - our world-famous lamingtons.
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The Great Australian Lamington
Lord Lamington Governor of Queensland - creator of the world-famous Australian Lamington.
The Humble Australian Lamington - Created in Queensland in 1901
Australian Lamington
THE WORLD-FAMOUS AUSTRALIAN CULINARY ICON NAMED AFTER THE GOVERNOR OF QUEENSLAND - LORD LAMINGTON.
The world-famous Australian lamington is over a century old.
Despite some dubious claims from New Zealand, the lamington is as Australian as meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars, ranking alongside the other true Australian icons of the pavlova, peach melba and Vegemite.
This Australian culinary icon, which consists of sponge cake dipped in chocolate and liberally sprinkled with fine desiccated coconut, was created through an accident at work by a maid-servant to Lord Lamington, the thoroughly-British eighth Governor of Queensland.
The maid-servant was working at Government House in Brisbane when she accidentally dropped the Governor's favourite sponge cake into some melted chocolate.
Lord Lamington was not a person of wasteful habits and suggested that it be dipped in coconut to cover the chocolate to avoid messy fingers.
Paul Tully celebrates
the 100th anniversary
of the world renowned
Australian lamington
on 19 December 2001
Lord Lamington devoured this new taste sensation with great delight and the maid-servant's error was proclaimed a magnificent success by all! The Governor however is on the record as calling them "those bloody poofy woolly biscuits".
Lord Lamington was born in London, England on 29 July 1860 as Charles Wallace Alexander Napier COCHRANE-BAILLIE holding the aristocratic title of Baron Lamington.
He was Governor of Queensland from 9 April 1896 to 19 December 1901.
After leaving Queensland, he went on to become the Governor of Bombay in India for 4 years. He died at Lamington House, Lanarkshire, Scotland, in 1940.
According to Hansard page 728 at the Australian Constitutional Convention in Canberra on 11 February 1998, Cr Paul Tully, an elected delegate representing "Queenslanders for a Republic" suggested that his extensive research of the Governors of the 6 Australian colonies and states had produced evidence of only "one, single, solitary, positive achievement of any Governor since the First Fleet arrived in 1788" and that was Lord Lamington's contribution to the culinary delights of the Australian nation!
Lord Lamington served Queensland for 5 years but despite all of his colonial, aristocratic pomp and ceremony, the only thing which Charles Wallace Alexander Napier COCHRANE-BAILLIE will ever be remembered for in Australia is the creation of the world-famous lamington.
PAUL TULLY'S TRUE-BLUE DELICIOUS AUSSIE LAMINGTON RECIPE
INGREDIENTS
3 eggs
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup castor sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 cup self-raising flour 1/2 cup milk.
Beat the eggs well, gradually adding the sugar until dissolved. Add the milk and vanilla essence and then stir in the self raising flour and whip the butter into the mixture. Pour the mixture into a cake tin or lamington baking dish and bake in a moderate oven of 180 degrees Celsius for 35 minutes. Allow the cake to cool for at least 10 minutes and then stand for 24 hours preferably in the refrigerator, before applying the icing.
THE CHOCOLATE ICING
4 cups icing sugar
1/3 cup cocoa
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup milk
4 tablespoons boiling water
3 cups desiccated coconut.
Stir the cocoa and icing sugar vigorously in a large bowl, adding the milk, butter and boiling water, warming the chocolate mixture over a very low heat until it has a smooth creamy texture. Cut the sponge cake into equal squares about 5cm x 5cm and, using a fork or thin skewer, dip each piece into the chocolate mixture ensuring that the mixture is liberally and evenly applied. Dip each piece into the desiccated coconut, allowing the lamingtons to cool on a wire tray for several hours.
THEN SIT BACK, RELAX AND SAVOUR THE DELIGHTS OF YESTERYEAR COURTESY OF LORD LAMINGTON'S ABSENT-MINDED MAID-SERVANT!
THANK GOD, THE LAMINGTON WAS NOT CHRISTENED THE "COCHRANE-BAILLIE". IMAGINE ASKING FOR A "COCHRANE-BAILLIE" IN A CAKE SHOP!
© Paul Tully 2009
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Please email the Australian Lamington Official Website.
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NZ secret cake club enjoys Aussie Lamingtons
Secret cake club opens doors
Helen Cox, fourth from left, started a
Kiwi Clandestine Cake Club after
reading the UK club recipe book.
There's a new club in town and its members indulge in the secretive eating of cake.
Clandestine Cake Clubs are popular worldwide and Helen Cox has cooked one up in Auckland.
Nine people gathered for a slice of the action, and of the cake, at the first meeting in Cox's Browns Bay home.
The Clandestine Cake Club's first
meeting set a high standard.
Internationally, the clubs follow the same recipe and there are few rules.
No one knows the venue until just days before and as long as you've registered, you'll be sent an email with the location.
Bakers can bring a non-baking friend to help eat the cake but don't expect to be let in with rule-breaking cupcakes, cookies, brownies, pies or tarts.
Each meeting has a theme, Auckland's first is, "Sweet As – Quintessential Kiwi Cakes".
Ohakune carrot cake, a lamington and hokey pokey cake, and of course a buzzy bee are among the seven the theme draws to the table.
"That's the beauty and the magic. It's completely up to each person's interpretation of the theme," says Cox.
Although all cakes are welcome and taste buds are kind judges, presentation standards are high and some bakers spent hours on their edible projects.
Cox is on maternity leave from her personal assistant job and says there's no such thing as a bad cake.
"As long as it's made with love and with fun. Having fun is the most important thing."
After a slice of each cake it takes a while for everyone to move. When they do, it's back to the table to cut up and hand out leftovers to take home.
Cox hopes to whisk up more members before the next meeting but says it's hard spreading the word to people outside her personal network.
Discussions decide next month's theme, "A Slice of Cake".
The mission is to turn a slice, such as caramel or ginger, into cake form.
All the members know for now is it will be held somewhere in Takapuna.
The first Clandestine Cake Club was started in Britain in 2010. There are now more than 30 in 16 countries including one in Christchurch.
To find out more and join the Auckland club, go to the clubs tab at clandestinecakeclub.co.uk
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From the intelligence gathered thus far, the consensus opinion on the Mumbai terrorists is they are Islamist extremists who hail from Pakistan. File that revelation under “no surprise”. But information about the lone captured terrorist, Mohammad Ajmal Mohammad Amin Kasab, and how it ties into economic news, could be startling.
UK newspaper the Observer had the now fortunate (for a news organization) coincidence of traveling to the Pakistani cities of Multan and Bahawalpur last week. They describe Bahawalpur as “the biggest recruiting base of the militant groups currently being blamed by India for the Mumbai attack”; a center for the terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba. What is Kasab’s connection to this? He is from Faridkot, a town close to these two cities.
I haven’t seen the demographics on these cities, but I’m guessing that poverty exists and is rampant.
This is an educated guess, based on this paragraph from the Observer article:
For most militants in the region the story – and that of Azam Amir Kasab is unlikely to be very different – starts at school. The southern Punjab has one of the highest concentrations of religious schools or madrassas in south Asia. Most teach the ultra-conservative Deobandi strand of Islam that is also followed by the Afghan Taliban and, crucially in this desperately poor land, offers free classes, board and lodging to students.
If these schools offered free room and board to a population that didn’t need it, then their power would be diminished. But that’s not the kind of world Pakistanis live in. Pakistan is in economic trouble. As I pointed out a couple weeks ago (in a jab to the GM bailout package), Pakistan needs a $7.6 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to stay afloat this year. (Recently, I’ve seen some articles saying more IMF money is needed, and might have to amend that post in the future.) IMF money doesn’t come without a price, though — and I’m not talking about Pakistan simply having to pay off the loans in the future. Poverty is attached to the IMF price tag, too:
ISLAMABAD, Nov 28: Conditions attached to the $7.6 billion International Monetary Fund loan are expected to cause up to three million job cuts in different sectors and push another 5.6 million to 7.5 million Pakistanis into poverty over the next two years. […]
When asked about the immediate fallout of the conditions which was aimed at slowing down the import-led economic growth, Mr Shirani [Chief Economist of the Royal Bank of Scotland] said that two to three million people would lose their jobs in various sectors, including fertiliser, manufacturing and services.
He said the GDP growth was expected to slow down to 3.4 per cent this year. “Some 5.6 to 7.5 million people will be added to the existing number of poor”.
Quite the vicious circle we having going in Pakistan: Poverty causes terrorism, but poverty is caused by poor economic conditions and them coming to us for money. I know that statement can be argued on two fronts: 1) Pakistan’s economic doldrums is a fault of their domestic policy (like spending gobs of money to pursue a nuclear weapon, and constant coups and instability making international investors wary of investing there); and 2) the IMF is made up of many other countries besides the United States. I can’t argue number one — Pakistan has screwed themselves over. But we’re part of the problem. The US holds the most sway in the IMF, so we have the most power in deciding not only where the money goes but under what program and loan repayment structure.
IMF loans help exacerbate poverty in Pakistan, which feeds into the power of extremist religious schools. The teachers at these schools are not shy, either, as the Observer reports:
In Bahawalpur the Jaish-e-Mohammed group, believed responsible for a string of brutal attacks across south Asia, including the murder of Jewish American journalist Daniel Pearl, has been linked to two such madrassas. One is the headquarters of the group – a semi-fortified and forbidding complex in the centre of the town. The other is the Dar-ul-Uloom Medina, where the brother-in-law of Rashid Rauf, the Bahawalpur-based suspected British militant thought to have been killed in an American missile attack eight days ago, is a teacher. Surrounded by some of the 700 students, he told The Observer that ‘jihad’ was the duty of all his young charges. […]
‘To fight in Afghanistan or Kashmir and to struggle against the forces who are against Islam is our religious duty,’ Chugti, who oversees the education of 40,000 students, told The Observer.
Poverty in Pakistan has aided and emboldened the extremists, so decreasing the poverty must be seen as a key stepping stone to international security and heading off more terrorist attacks. In that respect, the IMF loans to Pakistan must be restructured. Or else when Pakistan is blamed for the Mumbai attacks, it’s only fair that we share that blame, too. And don’t know about you, but personally, I feel ashamed.
8 Responses to “Poverty in Pakistan, Terrorism, and the IMF”
Kathy says:
November 30, 2008 at 3:19 pm
[Crossposted at dKos as a diary, please recommend it.]
And how does one do that? I went over there and did not see any Recommend button.
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tas says:
November 30, 2008 at 3:50 pm
I see one but it’s because I have an account there… I think you have to be a registered user to recommend diaries.
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NoOneYouKnow says:
December 1, 2008 at 8:16 am
IMF and World Bank policies are largely controlled by the U.S. government and its client corporations. These policies create lots of money for the corporations while causing deep poverty in the victim countries. This poverty causes social unrest which leads to violence, political upheaval, and/or criminal behavior like illegal drug production. “Trying to control” (while aiding and abetting) this violence, unrest and illegal drug production also creates lots of money for U.S. corporations. See how that works?
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robert says:
December 10, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Let’s be clear here that pakistan is a “terrorist state” and never have any illusion that it is going to be any different.We have made a grave blunder by suggesting in the international fora that “Pakistan is also a victim of terror.” We should stop interviewing leaders from that country who mouth the same inanities that “you have not produced any proof.”Let us not fall into the trap of providing proof to the culprits. More than 100 acts/attempts of terror recorded in the world since 9/11 have had their roots in Pakistan. More than 40% of the prisoners in Guantanamo are Pakistanis.
We should categorically, unambiguously, unequivocally boycott Pakistan in all aspects for a decade or more. Pakistan is the only territory in the world where an army has a whole country under its control. The state policy of Pakistan is terrorism and their single-point programme is to destroy India.
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Sami says:
December 11, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Only way to stop islamic terror is to bring Pak on to its knees. Destroy the country, not with bombs but economically.
See the results for yourself. The world will be free of terrorism.
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imtiaz says:
December 30, 2008 at 2:21 am
terrorism in pakistan is delberately imposed on pakistan by three nations(USA, INDIA, Isarel) for achieving their own unfair objectives. if we look into the strategy of these nations to impose the war on pakistan, we shall come to know that they want to make pakistan waeker and weaker with reference to economics, politics and in similar reference fields so that pakistan can never think for using nuclear weapons in case of war with any of these nations.
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imran khan says:
February 12, 2009 at 11:50 am
Taliban r terrorists……..
I think world has reborn after the collapse of soviet.those americans and the westerns create n support the talibans r now against them, call them terrorists and threat to world,, how stupid
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Khwaja Aftab Ali, Florida, USA says:
March 7, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Five regional cities should be upgraded with in the provinces in Pakistan. Regional cities of Dera Ismail Khan in NWFP, Gawadar/ Qalat in Balouchistan, Sukkar/ Larkana in Upper Sind, Jehlam/ Rawalpindi and Multan in Punjab province. These regional cities have been ignored by the federal and provincial governments although these cities have their own history, culture and languages.Dera Ismail Khan in south of Pakhtun khwa is under seige, Multan/DG Khan in south of Punjab is next target of religious extremists,Sukkar/ Larkan is rule by criminals, Gawadar/ Qalat is trouble some. The people of these regions have to travel to provincial capitals for every small issue and requirement of the daily life which should be provided in nearby cities. A good number of population travel to big cities for their survival to earn livelihood as the local feudal own majority land and keep the common man as their slaves. Creation of regional government and upgrading of the regional cities will save a lot of money and time of the poor people of these regions. Circuit courts of the High Courts are already working in these areas and only requirement is the additional staff of different departments involved in additional work at the provincial capitals. The concern authorities should immediately consider to upgrade the regional cities. And immediate attention should be given upgrade the airports,TV station, civic center, libraries,hospitals, educational institutes and investment opportunities for Pakistanis living abroad and foreign firms to create jobs in the area as majority population in rural Pakistan do not have enough resources to survive.It’s remind me the condition of pre Islamic revolution of Iran in Shah time when the rural Iran was ignored and the capital Tehran was developed in a way to call it Paris of Middle East with modern life style. Couple of other big cities like Isfahan and Caspian sea was taken care of because of foreign tourists but rural area was ruled by cruel police and intelligence. Then what happen after revolution rural population moved to Tehran and other big cities. But the new government developed, built and upgraded the riral areas of the country.KHWAJA AFTAB ALI,( former secretary, Iranian embassy, Saudi Arabia) Advocate High Court & I.P. Attorney- first and only Pakistani lawyer earned scholarship to study Intellectual Property Rights in USA,presently residing in Florida, USA
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The Paleo Dairy-Free Diet
The Paleolithic food plan (abbreviated paleo weight loss plan) is suggested for people who require a dairy unfastened food regimen. The Paleo Diet is called the Stone Age weight loss plan and hunter-gatherer food plan. The Paleolithic duration ended with the development of agriculture approximately 10,000 years ago. The modern-day Paleo food regimen includes lean meat fish, culmination, vegetables, roots and nuts. Excluded from the eating regimen are grains, legumes, dairy products, salt, refined sugar, processed ingredients and preservatives.
Lactose Intolerance
Lactose is a sugar determined in milk and milk produces. Lactose intolerance is the incapacity to digest lactose. In the small intestines the enzyme, lactase is deficient in breaking down lactose into two less difficult sorts of sugar paperwork glucose and galactose. When lactose is damaged down into glucose and galactose it's miles allowed to absorb into the blood steam. Lactose intolerance develops over the years and many do now not display signs and symptoms till early adolescence or early maturity.
Lactose intolerance is less common in northern and western European. It is extra common in African, African-American, Native American and Mediterranean populations.
Milk Allergy
Lactose intolerance and cow milk allergy aren't the same. Milk allergic reaction is a reaction of the immune device to one or more milk proteins. Milk hypersensitive reactions can appear in the first 12 months of life.
Products containing lactose:
Processed meals have been altered to increase their shelf lifestyles. Not simplest do they have preservative however include degrees of lactose:
-Bread and baked items
-Processed breakfast ingredients: doughnuts, frozen waffles, pancakes, toaster pastries and candy rolls
-Processed cereals
-Instant potatoes, soups and breakfast drinks
-Corn chips, potato chips and different processed snacks
-Processed meats
-Margarine
-Salad dressing
-Liquid and powdered milk based totally meal replacements
-Protein powders and bars
-Candies
-Non dairy liquid and powdered espresso creamers
-Non dairy whipped toppings
The Paleo Diet is dairy-unfastened, wheat-unfastened and preservative-free. When lactose is eliminated from the food plan you could do away with or lessen symptoms. You can nevertheless experience your favourite dishes but you simply ought to put together them a bit in another way.
Gluten-Free Diet: GF Recipes: Stay Crisp Slaw
Ingredients
eight c cabbage, sliced great
1 green pepper, reduce in small portions
2 carrots, grated
half of c onion, chopped
1 envelope unflavored gelatin, softened in 1/4 c water.
2 t celery seed
2/3 c apple cider vinegar
1 t salt
2/3 c sugar
1/four t black pepper
2/three c corn oil
Directions
Mix together cabbage, inexperienced pepper, carrots, and onion. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup water, installed refrigerator to crisp.
Combine vinegar, sugar, salt, celery seed and pepper in 1-quart glass degree. Heat within the microwave for two - three half minutes or until it begins to boil. Add the softened gelatin and stir properly. Set aside to cool. When it starts offevolved to jell, beat inside the oil. Drain water off the veggies and add the dressing. Keeps within the fridge for several days
Provided with the aid of Celiac Sprue Association
Gluten-Free Diet: GF Recipes: Spicy Beef and Macaroni
Ingredients
1 pound floor beef
2 cup water
1 medium onion, diced
2 cup GF elbow macaroni
1 inexperienced pepper, diced
1 cup GF barbeque sauce
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese (optionally available)
Directions
In a deep skillet, brown the beef. Add the diced onion and inexperienced pepper; prepare dinner till gentle. Stir in water, macaroni and barbecue sauce.
Cover and simmer until macaroni is smooth
Provided through Celiac Sprue Association
A dairy loose diet does no longer imply which you cannot revel in your favored meals. Just put together your food a little differently with elements useful to your health.
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People wait in line at a mobile COVID-19 vaccination center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, Aug. 18, 2021. The United States will begin administrating COVID-19 booster shots next month as new data shows that vaccine protection wanes over time, top U.S. health officials announced Wednesday. According to the CDC, 72.2 percent of American adults have received one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, with 61.8 percent being fully vaccinated. (Xinhua/Michael Nagle)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- The United States will begin administrating COVID-19 booster shots next month as new data shows that vaccine protection wanes over time, top U.S. health officials announced Wednesday.
"We are prepared to offer booster shots for all Americans beginning the week of September 20 and starting 8 months after an individual's second dose," the officials said in a joint statement.
The statement was signed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, acting FDA Commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock, White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci and other U.S. health leaders.
The policy will apply to people who have received the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines, and is contingent on authorization from the FDA and a review by CDC's vaccine advisory committee.
"Based on our latest assessment, the current protection against severe disease, hospitalization and death could diminish in the months ahead, especially among those who are at higher risk or were vaccinated during the earlier phases of the vaccination rollout," said the officials.
The decision to recommend booster shots came as the United States is undergoing a surge of COVID-19 cases driven by the Delta variant. There was also a rise in breakthrough cases - infections in fully vaccinated individuals.
According to the CDC, 72.2 percent of American adults have received one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, with 61.8 percent being fully vaccinated. Enditem
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So, it turns out the "gold standard" biopsy isn't always so golden. Maybe we should rename it the "old standard"?
This is very good news for people that couldn't get a definitive diagnosis of celiac disease, but knew that gluten made them sick. Yes, back in the day you had to just trust your gut. [Sorry, but I couldn't resist.]
Also, this might make you think twice about cheating on the diet, even if you are "only" gluten sensitive.
Read the article:
MORTALITY IN CELIAC DISEASE, INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION, AND GLUTEN SENSITIVITY
Peter H. R. Green
JAMA. 2009;302(11):1225-1226 (doi:10.1001/jama.2009.1366)
Interesting that only an estimated 5% of cases of celiac disease have been diagnosed in the US.
My favorite part of this study was the last paragraph:
"Until recently, gluten sensitivity has received little attention in the traditional medical literature, although there is increasing evidence for its presence in patients with vari-
ous neurological disorders and psychiatric problems. The study by Ludvigsson and colleagues reinforces the importance of celiac disease as a diagnosis that should be sought by physicians. It also suggests that more attention should be given to the lesser degrees of intestinal inflammation and gluten sensitivity.
Another interesting point was that the incidence of celiac disease has increased 4 times in the last 50 years. This was concluded from stored serum samples, not from just the increase in current diagnosis.
I also liked this paragraph:
"Accompanying this increase in disease prevalence is a change in the clinical manifestations, so that the classic presentation of diarrhea and malabsorption syndrome is now less common than other presentations.The disease now manifests more often as a multisystem disorder. Anemia, osteoporosis, peripheral neuropathy or ataxia, irritable bowel syndrome, and dyspepsia are all possible presentations. Many patients are asymptomatic, with the disease detected by screening performed because of their presence in a high risk group such as being a family member or having an associated autoimmune disease, type 1 diabetes, or Down syndrome. Increasingly, those with autoimmune thyroid disease are also screened." [bold type added by me.]
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Erin Elberson says:
September 29, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Adding fuel to my fire for my mom to get tested. I’m sure many of us deal with family members who show symptoms of celiac or gluten sensitivity but for whatever reason choose to ignore it. Hopefully this will help us to raise awareness just a bit more….
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Theresa says:
September 30, 2009 at 12:01 am
Thanks so much for posting that!!!
I went for my biopsy a few months ago and was shocked to find out that I don’t have celiacs. I’ve got a sister with it and I also have an autoimmune thyroid disease. Ever since getting the biopsy results I’ve been wondering why I get sick when I eat gluten, I mean, could it be explained? No one has the answers and I find that really worrying.
This study is really encouraging, it’s so hard to explain that I’m ‘only’ [huh!] gluten sensitive. I’m living G-free though, Yay for health!!!
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Melanie says:
October 5, 2009 at 5:24 am
I have fructose malabsorption and recently finished a study involving people who follow a gluten free diet (for various reasons) but aren’t coeliac. I know that my illness means I can in fact eat gluten (it’s just wheat that’s the problem) but I met lots of people through the study who all seem to react to gluten and yet have a negative blood test. It’s definitely real, there’s just not much known about it. They’re continuing the study next year so maybe we’ll find something out!
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CeliacChick says:
October 7, 2009 at 10:10 am
Yes! My family is all in denial. “We are so proud of you Kelly, and think you are amazing, the way you have adapted to this diet…blah blah blah” and then when I mention my mom at the very least try a gluten-free diet for her myriad health problems she becomes silent. “I just CAN’T do it right now.” [tears]
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CeliacChick says:
October 7, 2009 at 10:14 am
Phew! Yes, this sensitivity proof will hopefully help a lot of people. I’m glad you listened to your gut! 😉 BTW, I’ve met several people now with testimonials about how the gluten-free diet helped their thyroid issues. Some (with their Dr. monitoring ) have been able to lower their meds and/or end of completely off of them! Again, this is just from personal experiences shared with me. I’m not a Dr. and wouldn’t want you to do anything against a Dr.’s wishes. Just an FYI interesting thing to ponder/research.
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CeliacChick says:
October 7, 2009 at 10:15 am
Melanie, were you one of the people studying this topic or were you being studied? I’d love more info or contact info for those studying this. Very interesting. Thx.
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Denise says:
October 8, 2009 at 9:01 pm
I love this article ! Some many people in my life have gluten sensitivity and are in deep denial !One can live without bread and processed food. Gluten is the devil in my mind and we should all be gluten free. Being gluten free has changed my life in so many ways.
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Diane Hewitt says:
October 15, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Is there still a group in NYC that meets for monthly
gluten free restaurant gatherings? Thank you.
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Teresa says:
November 4, 2009 at 11:56 am
Yes, my mom as well will not listen to me. I believe she has full blown Celiac disease, but of course I’m not sure as I’m not a health professional. That is exactly the problem, she won’t listen to me because I’m _not_ a physician. She is of a generation that only listens to doctors and her doctor most specifically.
It “kills” me to see her continue to suffer when she could get some relieve if she would just stop eating gluten. 🙁
I was diagnosed with gluten sensitivity and have told her how much better I feel since going gluten free.
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Beth says:
January 21, 2010 at 4:49 pm
thanks for bringing more awareness to the subject!
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[email protected] says:
April 6, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Dear Chick, Thanks for sending the article from the NY Times. And this was on the Science Page? Quite the ‘filler’. It truly doesn’t even scratch the surface.
I found out that I have Celiac (I’m 63) by having a follow up endoscopy after removal of a adenocarcinoma of the small bowel. A very rare cancer and mine was found at Stage II, with no other involvement. While I was researching this cancer, celiac kept popping up on data that I read, but no definite conclusions. I just past 6 months, cancer free and am committed to gluten free living.
Anyone else have any cancer connection?
Mary
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Alice Francis says:
December 16, 2010 at 1:14 pm
Kelly,
Gluten sensitivity is greatly under suspect as the cause of my auto-immune disease (limited scleroderma w/CREST syndrome . . . we think). You may want to read “Dangerous Grains” by James Braly, MD,and Ron Hoggan,MA. If I understand the book correctly, this is what occurs: Protein in gluten is destructive to human tissue and the upper intestine. it will cause a condition known as leaky gut syndrome. The undigested gluten protein will leak into the bloodstream where white blood cells will attack it as a foreign invader. Our amazing immune system then creates memory cells in case this invader returns so that it can quickly take action again. Evidently, protein molecules look very similar whether animal or vegetable. At this point auto-immune problems occur as our white blood cells mistakenly confuse the proteins in our body’s tissue with the gluten protein and begin to attack the tissues in our bodies.
I recommend the book.
Alice
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Jessie says:
March 25, 2011 at 1:25 pm
Wow, this article cleared up a lot of confusion for me. I was recently diagnosed with IBS and told I likely have gluten/dairy sensitivities, but the doctor’s weren’t too clear on the best ways to go about reforming my diet or why these foods (particularly gluten) could be the cause.
In the last few years I’ve suffered with anemic bouts, but never had any answers as to why. It always seemed to come and go and when I was tested, they always said I was “fine.” A little low, but everything was on the rise so I couldn’t be anemic.
Who knew the food I was eating could be what was making me sick? Thanks!
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Jacqueline says:
August 7, 2011 at 1:37 am
Had the blood test maybe 15 years ago, it came back negative. Still sick, IBS, fibromyalgia, osteoporosis, 87 pounds at my thinnest, gastroenterologist accused me of anorexia & bulimia. Four years ago had the genetic blood test. I have both markers. I believe if I had been diagnosed years earlier I would be healthier now. Listen to your gut!
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Mary Beth Wood says:
October 17, 2011 at 11:12 am
My husband has been very sick for YEARS. We finally found out he has celiac disease in July 2011. He has gained almost 20 lbs, looks and acts like a new man, more energy and is not a grouch. He is getting ready for a 3 day trip (I’m not going). This is the first since he was diagnosed. How does he handle eating out. I know there will not be gluten free menus. He will be able to take his own b-fast. Any suggestions on how to handle this first time experience. I also worry about cross contamination. Thanks
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Marcia Stickley says:
March 7, 2012 at 9:42 am
Hi How does one find walnuts and almonds that are not process with wheat. Really miss them.
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Tracey Abbott says:
March 31, 2012 at 12:15 am
Dear Mary,
We are just taking our first holiday since my 2 children aged 7 and 10 were diagnosed. (I also think I have it but the tests keep showing negative). I have contacted the hotels we are staying at and they will try to help, if we take the following: GF cereals, GF soya sauce, GF bread and GF pasta. They can then make up a sauce from vegetables to have with plain rice, rice noodles or our GF pasta. I am still nervous but if the restaurant doesn’t seem to understand, we will just survive off of our own bread and snacks for a week!
Good luck.
Tracey
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bobm
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Re: "Mutiny" on the train
« Reply #30 on: October 04, 2021, 07:53:30 pm »
SWR» (South Western Railway - about) wasn't really a viable option from Reading yesterday. Engineering work meant it was road transport as far as Virginia Water.
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Re: "Mutiny" on the train
« Reply #31 on: October 04, 2021, 09:04:56 pm »
Quote from: jamestheredengine on October 04, 2021, 07:01:47 pm
If they really have that few crew/trains as to end up with two-and-a-half-hour gaps in service, the least disruptive thing would be to plan to cancel the Reading-Paddington legs of some (or even most) Intercity trains and have London passengers transfer to the Relief Lines or the South Western at Reading.
Putting thousands of people on already busy suburban services doesn’t sound like a good idea to me. Not to mention the fact that a hefty percentage of crews working trains between Reading and Paddington are based at Paddington so they would still have to get to/from there anyway - they might as well do it working a train!
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Re: "Mutiny" on the train
« Reply #32 on: October 04, 2021, 09:19:49 pm »
Quote from: IndustryInsider on October 04, 2021, 09:04:56 pm
Quote from: jamestheredengine on October 04, 2021, 07:01:47 pm
If they really have that few crew/trains as to end up with two-and-a-half-hour gaps in service, the least disruptive thing would be to plan to cancel the Reading-Paddington legs of some (or even most) Intercity trains and have London passengers transfer to the Relief Lines or the South Western at Reading.
Putting thousands of people on already busy suburban services doesn’t sound like a good idea to me. Not to mention the fact that a hefty percentage of crews working trains between Reading and Paddington are based at Paddington so they would still have to get to/from there anyway - they might as well do it working a train!
But we're told that London suburban ridership has collapsed and that those trains are running around at about 20% of their pre-pandemic ridership – carrying vast amounts of air in massive long trains that used to be occupied by office workers for very small periods of time (and not at all on Sundays). That's where the slack is, as identified by the real-world version being running commuter units all the way out to Swindon. Using them as a Reading-London shuttle instead would be a much better use of resources that would result in most of the railway running as normal, apart from the extreme eastern end – much better than leaving massive gaps on the Bristol-Swindon segment where there is no corresponding local service (Corsham and Wootton Bassett being lower priorities in the Civil Service mindset than Iver and Hanwell). And that sort of thing would get better once the Elizabeth Line opens properly: Intercity destinations to central London destinations would still be a single change whether at Paddington or Reading.
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Re: "Mutiny" on the train
« Reply #33 on: October 04, 2021, 09:31:14 pm »
Someone who was on the train concerned (new member ‘Trainmiles’) has reported on the same thread stuving posted a link to earlier what happened:
https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/passenger-mutiny-due-to-missed-stop-at-swindon.223038/page-4
Towards the bottom of page.
Not sure I can quote from another forum.
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Re: "Mutiny" on the train
« Reply #34 on: October 04, 2021, 10:00:22 pm »
Quote from: Timmer on October 04, 2021, 09:31:14 pm
Not sure I can quote from another forum.
No problem I can see in doing so from the Coffee Shop viewpoint ... the other forum may have its rules and guidelines, as may the author there. Typically a good idea to quote only a very modest amount in critical review, provide a link, state the source ... you've got well along the way towards that anyway
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Re: "Mutiny" on the train
« Reply #35 on: October 05, 2021, 01:37:23 am »
Later on in that thread on RailUK the same new member states categorically that he heard no announcements on board regarding no longer stopping at Chippenham and Swindon.
Elsewhere it is suggested there was a PA▸ (Public Address) fault in some carriages. If this was known at Bath Spa then it should have been behoven of staff to board each carriage, gain attention and shout the message. Or indeed use a bullhorn if available. May have been prudent to do this regardless of the PA situation.
A few more minutes at Bath Spa doing this would have been infinitely preferable to what subsequently occurred.
Yeah, I know. Hindsight.
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Re: "Mutiny" on the train
« Reply #36 on: October 05, 2021, 02:00:13 am »
It would have been simpler still to make the extra stops that had been advertised earlier.
To avoid making the overcrowding worse, let passengers OFF at Swindon but at Swindon do not advertise the platform to be used or the destination of the train to deter more from boarding.
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A proper intercity train has a minimum of 8 coaches, gangwayed throughout, with first at one end, and a full sized buffet car between first and standard.
It has space for cycles, surfboards,luggage etc.
A 5 car DMU▸ (Diesel Multiple Unit) is not a proper inter-city train. The 5+5 and 9 car DMUs are almost as bad.
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Re: "Mutiny" on the train
« Reply #37 on: October 05, 2021, 06:28:57 am »
Quote from: bignosemac on October 05, 2021, 01:37:23 am
Later on in that thread on RailUK the same new member states categorically that he heard no announcements on board regarding no longer stopping at Chippenham and Swindon.
Elsewhere it is suggested there was a PA▸ (Public Address) fault in some carriages. If this was known at Bath Spa then it should have been behoven of staff to board each carriage, gain attention and shout the message. Or indeed use a bullhorn if available. May have been prudent to do this regardless of the PA situation.
A few more minutes at Bath Spa doing this would have been infinitely preferable to what subsequently occurred.
Yeah, I know. Hindsight.
For such a new train to already be experiencing dodgy PA isn’t very good.
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Re: "Mutiny" on the train
« Reply #38 on: October 05, 2021, 09:40:58 am »
Quote from: broadgage on October 05, 2021, 02:00:13 am
To avoid making the overcrowding worse, let passengers OFF at Swindon but at Swindon do not advertise the platform to be used or the destination of the train to deter more from boarding.
The only way that could have sensibly been done at Swindon would have been putting the train into the Down platform (Platform 4) without announcing the arrival. IETs▸ (Intercity Express Train) are programmed to show the next stop on the side of the carriage, so pax waiting on Platform 3 would attempt to get on. I doubt whether platform staff would want to prevent boarding.
Quote from: Timmer on October 05, 2021, 06:28:57 am
For such a new train to already be experiencing dodgy PA▸ (Public Address) isn’t very good.
The manual PA system on most units is very poor. I've been sat on a sparsely populated 159 and had to ask the guard when he walked through what his last announcement was as it was barely audible - yet the automated announcement was loud and clear (and incorrect!)
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Re: "Mutiny" on the train
« Reply #39 on: October 05, 2021, 10:37:26 am »
One to bring up with Mark Hopwood at our AGM▸ (Annual General Meeting) in 10 days? Get the actualities from the horse’s mouth
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Re: "Mutiny" on the train
« Reply #40 on: October 05, 2021, 04:51:19 pm »
Quote from: ChrisB on October 05, 2021, 10:37:26 am
One to bring up with Mark Hopwood at our AGM▸ (Annual General Meeting) in 10 days? Get the actualities from the horse’s mouth
Do you think MH will want to talk about it? Wasn’t exactly GWR▸ (Great Western Railway)’s finest hour.
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ChrisB
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Re: "Mutiny" on the train
« Reply #41 on: October 05, 2021, 04:53:29 pm »
Yes, he’s very open usually…
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TaplowGreen
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Re: "Mutiny" on the train
« Reply #42 on: October 05, 2021, 05:02:58 pm »
I would hope he will address the root cause (ie staff shortage) and not only at weekends now.....he is 100% accountable for resolving it and yet very little seems to be happening.
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ChrisB
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Re: "Mutiny" on the train
« Reply #43 on: October 05, 2021, 05:26:20 pm »
He did at the MMPA AGM▸ (Annual General Meeting) recently. A lot down to training requirements, they’re around a year short of where they should be in terms of driver training. But we can ask again
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broadgage
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Re: "Mutiny" on the train
« Reply #44 on: October 05, 2021, 05:37:21 pm »
Quote from: Timmer on October 05, 2021, 04:51:19 pm
Quote from: ChrisB on October 05, 2021, 10:37:26 am
One to bring up with Mark Hopwood at our AGM▸ (Annual General Meeting) in 10 days? Get the actualities from the horse’s mouth
Do you think MH will want to talk about it? Wasn’t exactly GWR▸ (Great Western Railway)’s finest hour.
I very much doubt that MH will want to talk about this particular incident in detail. It would be hard to say too much without opening other worm cans.
More likely IMHO▸ (in my humble opinion) to make a rather general statement about "lessons being learnt, and procedures being reviewed, and communications being improved"
Cant say too much about lack of staff, apart again from a generally re-assuring statement about "recruitment and training going well despite the challenges of the pandemic"
Cant say too much about the failed IET▸ (Intercity Express Train) project, again beyond generalities such as "We and our industry partners are all working very hard to overcome problems, but progress has been slowed by the pandemic"
I have more faith in Mr. Hopwood than in some railway managers, but criticising his company in any significant way is not on, and neither is any serious criticism of the new trains, nor of the government department that ordered them.
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A proper intercity train has a minimum of 8 coaches, gangwayed throughout, with first at one end, and a full sized buffet car between first and standard.
It has space for cycles, surfboards,luggage etc.
A 5 car DMU▸ (Diesel Multiple Unit) is not a proper inter-city train. The 5+5 and 9 car DMUs are almost as bad.
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Poverty: Although significant progress has been made to reduce global poverty rates, today more than 780 million people live below the international poverty line. Poverty encompasses more than a lack of income. Its manifestations include hunger, malnutrition, limited access to education and other basic services. Those who are marginalised and excluded are particularly susceptible to abuse.
Discrimination and marginalisation: Women, children, migrants and refugees, ethnic and religious minorities often face discrimination and are vulnerable to enslavement. At particular risk are those fleeing war and armed conflict.
Civil disruption and armed conflict: The instability caused by armed conflict can displace communities and expose communities to extreme harm and exploitation, including forced labour networks. Already marginalised groups are particularly at risk fleeing war and armed conflict.
Weak rule of law and impunity: Slavery thrives in contexts where there is the law enforcement system is weak or absent. In some cases, slavery is supported by the local authorities and police. Legal frameworks require enforcement to ensure that human traffickers do not operate with impunity.
Natural disasters: Natural disasters can displace communities and increase the desperation of marginalised groups. Traffickers prey upon displaced people. In dire situations, displaced people are often vulnerable to false offers and are forced to seek out perilous employment.
Slavery in Australia
Modern slavery happens here in Australia.
Over 1,900 people in Australia are victims of modern slavery
Only 1 in 5 victims are detected in Australia
Types of modern slavery offences referred to the Australian Federal Police
(2020-2021)
Some groups of people are also more vulnerable than others. For example, backpackers, international students, asylum seekers and migrants on limited working visas may not know their rights in Australia.
In 2020 alone, Anti-Slavery Australia helped over 380 people who had been trafficked to or from Australia, or had faced slavery-like conditions while in Australia, including forced marriage, servitude and forced labour.
But this is just the tip of the iceberg. In Australia, only 1 in 5 victims of slavery are identified. That means that 80% of victims do not get the support they need and remain in slavery in Australia. And this means that the cases we see are likely to be a small proportion of the scale of trafficking and slavery in Australia.
Faces of Modern Slavery in Australia
Case Studies
Here are real world examples, with names of individuals and businesses changed, to explain the different kinds of exploitation seen by Anti-Slavery Australia and considered in Australian courts.
Jai’s Story
Anti-Slavery Australia | Forced Labour, Human Trafficking, Survivors’ Stories
Maria’s Story
Anti-Slavery Australia | Human Trafficking, Forced Labour, Survivors’ Stories
Abdul’s Story
Anti-Slavery Australia | Forced Labour, Modern Slavery, Survivors’ Stories
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Who is at risk?
Women
Children
Refugees and People Seeking Asylum
Migrants
Occupations with Low Visibility or Legal Protection
What are the signs?
Controlled or restricted freedom of movement – monitored, guarded or confined
Intimidation and threats including threats of deportation
Threatened or actual physical and/or sexual violence
Travel or other important documents have been taken by employer or a third party
Abusive living and/or working conditions
Living at the workplace or another place owned/controlled by employer
Isolation – geographic, social and/or linguistic
Withholding, underpayment or no payment of wages
Excessive hours of work
Debt bondage (i.e. labour or services are provided as security or repayment of an inflated debt)
Deceived or lack of information about nature and conditions of work
No discretion over life decisions
Unable to end employment at any time
What to do if you suspect slavery
You should be careful that any actions you take do not harm a victim or survivor of modern slavery. Never publicly disclose personal information without informed consent.
In emergencies, where there is immediate danger, or where the situation involves a child, call Triple 0 (000).
Anti-Slavery Australia can provide access to free and confidential legal and migration advice to anyone in modern slavery. Call 02 9514 8115 or visit www.antislavery.org.au
To report modern slavery in Australia call the Australian Federal Police on 131 237 or report through their website www.afp.gov.au
Frequently Asked Questions
Does slavery happen more in some parts of Australia than in others?
Slavery occurs in every state of Australia, in rural and urban areas. It is important to be aware that slavery is just as likely to happen anywhere.
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Senior Lecturer, Business School, University of Technology Sydney
Dr Martijn Boersma is an academic who researches the intersection of business and society. Current projects focus on multistakeholder efforts to improve working conditions in the Australian commercial real estate cleaning supply chain, and strategies to improve labor conditions within the Australian cotton value chain. Together with Justine Nolan he published the book Addressing Modern Slavery (2019).
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Executive Director, Global Compact Network Australia
Kylie is a sustainability expert with over 18 years of experience in corporate affairs, sustainability and strategy roles across a broad range of industries. During her career, Kylie has helped numerous companies develop and implement responsible business strategies, managed reputation risk for environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues and wrote and managed policies across various thematic areas including climate change and human rights.
Kylie’s career includes working for ANZ Banking Group, National Australia Bank (NAB), Standard Chartered, KPMG and Save the Children and expatriate work in London, Singapore, Nigeria, Switzerland, France and South Africa. Before joining the Global Compact Network Australia, Kylie was the Stakeholder Engagement Manager for Corporate Responsibility at NAB where she held responsibility for internal and external engagement on NAB’s corporate responsibility strategy and management of reputation risk issues. Kylie also served on the Corporate Affairs team for the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Financial Services Industry where she held particular responsibility for NAB’s engagement and relationship with consumer advocacy groups.
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Chairman and Managing Director, Konica Minolta Australia
Dr David Cooke was appointed as the first non-Japanese Managing Director of Konica Minolta in Australia in 2013. The company is a global firm operating in the technology sector.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Managers & Leaders and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is also a non-executive director of UN Global Compact Network Australia and has served on the boards of several anti-human trafficking NGOs.
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Prof Jennifer Burn
Director, Anti-Slavery Australia
Jennifer has led the development of Australian best practice antislavery initiatives since 2003. Through her research, advocacy and practice she has pursued legislative amendments and policy developments to promote best practice responses for the prevention of modern slavery and to ensure survivors of modern slavery have access to the protection and support they need.
Jennifer is nationally renowned as a thought leader in the field of human trafficking, slavery and slavery-like practices, particularly for her work on the prevention of all forms of modern slavery and victim support.
Jennifer was appointed to the inaugural Australian Government National Roundtable on Human Trafficking in 2008 and continues to serve. Jennifer is currently serving as the Interim Anti-Slavery Commissioner for NSW.
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Forced labour
When a person does not consider themselves free to stop working or to leave their place of work because of coercion, threat or deception.
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Debt bondage
When a person has pledged their services as a security for a debt AND
that debt is manifestly excessive OR
the person’s services are not applied to liquidate the debt OR
the length and nature of the services is not limited or defined
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Deceptive recruitment for labour or services
When a person is deceived about their work and their work involves exploitation through a type of modern slavery.
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Forced marriage
When a person gets married without freely and fully consenting because of coercion, threat or deception or because they’re incapable of understanding the nature and effect of the marriage ceremony because of age or mental capacity.
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Worst forms of child labour
When children (under 18) are:
trafficked or in situations of modern slavery (servitude, debt bondage or forced labour) OR
sexually exploited through child prostitution, the production of pornography or pornographic performances OR
used to produce or traffic drugs OR
engaged in work that is likely to harm their health, safety or morals.
This will include children working in hazardous or dangerous environments, industries or sectors such as mining, quarrying and construction.
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Servitude
When a person does not consider themselves free to stop working or to leave their place of work because of coercion, threat or deception AND the person is significantly deprived of their personal freedom in aspects of their life outside of work (eg they’re told when they are allowed to eat, sleep or shower.
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Human trafficking
The recruitment, harbouring or movement of a person by means including coercion, threat, deception, fraud and abduction for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation being serious exploitation – that is at the end of the trafficking journey, the person finds themselves in a form of modern slavery (eg forced labour). The Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2018, produced by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes, found that 1 in 3 trafficked people finds themselves in forced labour at the end of their journey.
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When a person exercises powers of ownership over another. In essence, it’s when a person treats another like a commodity or object; able to be sold, purchased or traded.
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Allergies are very common. They're thought to affect more than 1 in 4 people in the UK at some point in their lives.
They're particularly common in children. Some allergies go away as a child gets older, although many are lifelong.
Adults can develop allergies to things they were not previously allergic to.
Having an allergy can be a nuisance and affect your everyday activities, but most allergic reactions are mild and can be largely kept under control.
Severe reactions can occasionally occur, but these are uncommon.
Substances that cause allergic reactions are called allergens.
The more common allergens include:
grass and tree pollen – an allergy to these is known as hay fever (allergic rhinitis)
dust mites
animal dander, tiny flakes of skin or hair
food – particularly nuts, fruit, shellfish, eggs and cows' milk
insect bites and stings
medicines – including ibuprofen, aspirin and certain antibiotics
latex – used to make some gloves and condoms
mould – these can release small particles into the air that you can breathe in
household chemicals – including those in detergents and hair dyes
Most of these allergens are generally harmless to people who are not allergic to them.
Allergic reactions usually happen quickly within a few minutes of exposure to an allergen.
They can cause:
sneezing
a runny or blocked nose
red, itchy, watery eyes
wheezing and coughing
a red, itchy rash
worsening of asthma or eczema symptoms
Most allergic reactions are mild, but occasionally a severe reaction called anaphylaxis or anaphylactic shock can occur.
This is a medical emergency and needs urgent treatment.
See a GP if you think you or your child might have had an allergic reaction to something.
The symptoms of an allergic reaction can also be caused by other conditions.
A GP can help determine whether it's likely you have an allergy.
If they think you might have a mild allergy, they can offer advice and treatment to help manage the condition.
If your allergy is particularly severe or it's not clear what you're allergic to, they may refer you to an allergy specialist for testing and advice about treatment.
Find out more about allergy testing
In many cases, the most effective way of managing an allergy is to avoid the allergen that causes the reaction whenever possible.
For example, if you have a food allergy, you should check a food's ingredients list for allergens before eating it.
There are also several medicines available to help control symptoms of allergic reactions, including:
antihistamines – these can be taken when you notice the symptoms of a reaction, or before being exposed to an allergen, to stop a reaction occurring
decongestants – tablets, capsules, nasal sprays or liquids that can be used as a short-term treatment for a blocked nose
lotions and creams, such as moisturising creams (emollients) – these can reduce skin redness and itchiness
steroid medicines – sprays, drops, creams, inhalers and tablets that can help reduce redness and swelling caused by an allergic reaction
For some people with very severe allergies, a treatment called immunotherapy may be recommended.
This involves being exposed to the allergen in a controlled way over a number of years so your body gets used to it and does not react to it so severely.
Allergies occur when the body's immune system reacts to a particular substance as though it's harmful.
It's not clear why this happens, but most people affected have a family history of allergies or have closely related conditions, such as asthma or eczema.
The number of people with allergies is increasing every year.
The reasons for this are not understood, but 1 of the main theories is it's the result of living in a cleaner, germ-free environment, which reduces the number of germs our immune system has to deal with.
It's thought this may cause it to overreact when it comes into contact with harmless substances.
Allergy
A reaction produced by the body's immune system when exposed to a normally harmless substance.
Sensitivity
The exaggeration of the normal effects of a substance. For example, the caffeine in a cup of coffee may cause extreme symptoms, such as palpitations and trembling.
Intolerance
Where a substance causes unpleasant symptoms, such as diarrhoea, but does not involve the immune system.
People with an intolerance to certain foods can typically eat a small amount without having any problems.
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Marlon Wayans lounges with bikini-clad pal a they escape the cold for a luxurious vacation to Mexico
June 21, 2021
Jonas Sprow
Marlon Wayans appeared to be enjoying his sun-soaked getaway to Tulum, Mexico as he chatted away with a few pals and two bikini-clad women on Tuesday.
As the 48-yr-outdated star lounged on a seaside situated on the Yucatan Peninsula in the Riviera Maya, he sported a laid-again white tank top, which showcased his muscular arms and biceps.
He completed his relaxed ensemble with a dishevelled pair of eco-friendly shorts, classic aviator shades and a silver chain around his necklace.
Enjoyable: Marlon Wayans appeared to be having fun with his sun-soaked getaway to Tulum, Mexico as he chatted absent with a few friends and two bikini-clad females on Tuesday
Though sporting a pair of AirPods, he could be witnessed talking to an unknown brunette, who wore a bright orange two-piece and displayed a range of her lots of tattoos.
Following getting a dip in the ocean, she covered her curvaceous figure with a fluffy towel, while Wayans sat upcoming to his pal, Juan Rodriguez, and an additional male on a phone simply call.
On Instagram, Wayans shared more than six envy-inducing snaps from his tropical journey, from sunset photographs to by the pool, amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
In good shape: As the 48-year-previous star lounged on a beach front positioned on the Yucatan Peninsula in the Riviera Maya, he sported a laid-again white tank best, which showcased his muscular arms and biceps
Bikini-clad pal: After getting a dip in the ocean, his pal lined her curvaceous figure with a beach towel, even though Wayans sat following to his buddy, Juan Rodriguez, and one more person on a telephone call
‘My mother employed to explain to me i labored as well substantially and to ‘relax’… so I am… soothing,’ he captioned a photo of himself in a hammock for his 5.2 million followers to take pleasure in.
On top of that, Wayans posed for a group shot with his friends, including Rodriguez, who shared the exact same picture with the caption: ‘Distance isn’t going to issue when friendship is true.’
His journey comes virtually 6 months following the death of his beloved mom Elvira, who passed away a couple of months before his 48th birthday.
Traveling: Wayans posed for a team shot with his buddies, like Rodriguez, who shared the similar picture with the caption: ‘Distance doesn’t issue when friendship is true’
Marlon shared the heartbreaking information that the matriarch of the gifted Wayans family died at the age of 81 on Instagram writing ‘losing you shattered me into 1000 parts.’
‘You will usually be my glue. Miss you. Today i rejoice for the the two of. In the midst of this hurt… i just enjoy you ma,’ the grieving son penned to his mom in the caption.
Together with the touching tribute, the comedy star posted a smiling selfie that he snapped of the pair.
Sights: On Instagram, Wayans shared a lot more than 6 envy-inducing snaps from his tropical excursion, from sunset photographs to by the pool, amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
In his next social media concept, the Wayans Bros. star took some time to create a lengthy essay about celebrating his possess birthday solo this calendar year, which he has always shared with his mom.
He questioned his decline in the publish wanting to ‘ask God “why me”‘ but made a decision to lean into his religion and ‘trust in God.’
‘On the other aspect of all this tragedy is victory. So I belief you. This is merely a journey to challenge me. You are not breaking me, you’re building me,’ he continued.
The lengthy post written by the star revealed that he was ‘shedding skin’ throughout this difficult time and was grateful to God, his relatives, his children and good friends and joked that he woke up 48 ‘looking 20 something.’
RIP: Over the summertime, Marlon shared the unhappy news that his mom Elvira, the matriarch of his famous family, handed absent in an emotional sequence of Instagram posts
‘I’m enthusiastic for all the good items ahead but I am grateful for the lessons. Which is lifestyle. We have to hear to you when you whisper if not we endure hard classes,’ he explained.
Marlon is the youngest of 10 siblings in the Wayans spouse and children. Elvira and her spouse Howell lifted their talented brood in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.
The Wayans’ developed several kids who’ve developed to turn out to be famed in enjoyment for acting, writing, movie generating, movie score composing and producing.
Dwyane Wayans, the eldest boy or girl in the household, is a film rating composer.
Great decline: Marlon shared 3 heartbreaking posts about his loving mom creating ‘losing you shattered me into 1000 pieces’ on Instagram on what would have been her 82nd birthday and was his 48th birthday
Keenan Ivory Wayans came to prominence as the creator and host of the critically acclaimed sketch comedy In Living Color, which starred brothers Damon, Shawn and Marlon as perfectly as sister Kim.
Shawn and Marlon Wayans starred with each other in The Wayans Bros. sitcom and once again in the film White Chicks, the latter directed by brother Keenan.
The expertise even passed via to the next generation as Damon’s son Damon Wayans Jr. adopted in the loved ones footsteps and grew to become a thriving actor starring in sitcoms like New Woman and Pleased Endings.
Iconic: Shawn and Marlon Wayans starred alongside one another in The Wayans Bros. sitcom and yet again in the film White Chicks (pictured)
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We're in the process of renovating and moving some things around so some things may look a little strange but the aim is to minimise disruption.
This website was designed in 2012 with a scope of covering present and past wrestling in Australia.
The scope will change to prioritise the older stuff and make that a bit more accessible.
Thank you for your patience.
I also have another website (with my good buddy Greg) The Wrestling Roadshow which has more of a global scope. We have a podcast by the same name too and discuss all sorts of wrestling.
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Name: - Butcher Vachon
Height: - 6'2� (188cm)
Weight: - 280lb (130kg)
Born: - 14 May, 1938
From: - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Trained by: - Mad Dog Vachon
Debut: - 1958
Retired: - 1984
Also known as: - Paul Vachon, Nikita Zolotoff
Toured Australia: - 1962
Longtime tag partner of brother Mad Dog Vachon. Toured as a team throughout US and Canada during the 50s and 60s, winning the AWA World Tag title. Also formed a successful team with Stan Vachon in the mid 60s in Georgia.
Wrestled in Australia in 1962, appearing in a programme with Murray Weideman and Salvatore Savoldi. Was a regular tag partner of Dale Lewis while here. Appeared in England during late 1964.
Wrestled in Los Angeles in the 70s, appearing solo as well as teaming with Chavo Guerrero. Signed with WWF in the early 80s, appearing mainly 'talent enhancement' on TV shows before retiring in 1984. Has been troubled by cancer and diabetes in his retirement years, and has also run for public office on several occasions.
Brother of Maurice �Mad Dog� Vachon and and Diane �Vivian� Vachon, as well as the adoptive father of Gertrude �Luna� Vachon.
Titles held: - ETWA Hwt, AWA World Tag (w/ Mad Dog Vachon), (Georgia) NWA World Tag (w/ Mad Dog Vachon), (Stampede) NWA International Tag (3, w/ Mad Dog Vachon), (Stampede) Canadian Tag (3, w/ Mad Dog Vachon), NWA Southern Tag (6, [3 w/ Stan Vachon, 2 w/ Louis Tillet, 1 w/ Mad Dog Vachon]), Texas Tag (2, w/ Mad Dog Vachon, w/ Ivan the Terrible), Americas Tag (w/ Chavo Guerrero), Georgia Tag (w/ Stan Vachon), Hawaiian Tag (w/ Hardboiled Haggarty), Midwest Tag (w/ Mad Dog Vachon)
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Email still ranks as the most effective inbound marketing channel, converting higher than both search and social. Monetate's infographic, featured below, depicts just how much more effective email is than its inbound brethren - ranking highest in both average add-to-cart-rates per session and average conversion rates per session.
Even though, email marketing is extremely effective, studies have shown that consumers open just 20% of email messages. So how do you get your emails to stand-out in your customers already-bombarded inboxes?
Here's some tips on how you can increase open rates and tap into email conversion power today:
1) Segment, Segment, Segment - As the infographic puts it "Don't Batch and Blast." Using email segmentation, allows you to make messages more relevant to the user and typically results in 30% more open rates and 50% more click-through rates.
One great example laid out in the infographic is segmenting active vs inactive customers and including a promotion code for the inactive customers. This example can be translated to ecommerce by segmenting abandoned carts vs customers - for customers include a 'loyalty coupon code' and for users who have abandoned their cart include a 'first purchase coupon code.'
2) Consistency -The infographic points out that your email campaigns should lead to a relavent landing page with wording, offers and images consistent with your email message. In addition, make sure your emails reflect your store's look and feel. Email is another way of presenting your brand to the consumer and thus the design should match up with all of your other channels.
3) Make it mobile friendly - Studies have shown that almost 27% of emails are opened on mobile devices and Monetate points out that there has been a 74% increase in email views on iPads and a 34% increase on smart phones just within the last few months. When you designing both your email campaign and your landing page, you need to keep your mobile audience in mind.
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Lockheed Khrunichev Energia International (LKEI) Proton launch vehicle erection on pad, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
Buran/Energiya on pad.
Assembly on orbit of the International Space Station began with the launch of the U.S.-owned, Zarya control module, built by the Russian company Khrunichev, on November 20, 1998, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakstan.
Energia and Khrunichev
After the breakup of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, two companies prevailed in the giant Soviet space industry, Energia and Khrunichev. With histories stretching back more than half a century, these two giants continue to dominate the Russian space program in the 21st century.
Energia (the Russian word for “Energy”) can lay claim as the founding organization of the Soviet space program. The company traces its history back to May 1946, when the Soviet government set up a small department in the design section of a new institute named NII-88 (or “Scientific-Research Institute No. 88). After the end of World War II, dozens of Soviet engineers, including the famous Sergey Korolev, spent over a year in Germany gathering information on the abandoned German V-2 rocket project. The group returned home to NII-88 to build, at Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's command, a Soviet version of the V-2. Korolev, then 39 years old, was appointed chief designer of Department No. 3 at NII-88, the unit in charge of the V-2 program. At the time, Korolev presided over about 60 engineers and 80 technicians.
In the late 1940s, Department No. 3 successfully produced a Soviet copy of the V-2 known as the R-1, launching the rockets from the barren desert at Kapustin Yar near the Aral Sea. By the early 1950s, Korolev's team had been restructured into a large design organization known as OKB-1 (or “Experimental Design Bureau No. 1”), which in 1956 separated from the NII-88 institute. Through the 1950s, OKB-1's influence grew as it designed the first Soviet nuclear-tipped missile, known as the R-5M (called the SS-3 by Americans), and the world's first submarine-launched ballistic missile, the R-11FM. In 1954, the Soviet government approved Korolev's ambitious plan to build an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) known as the R-7 (or SS-6). In August 1957, this missile successfully flew 6,500 kilometers from a new launch site in Kazakhstan (now called Baikonur) all the way to the eastern tip of the Soviet Union. It was the world's first successful ICBM launch.
Korolev, a spaceflight enthusiast since his youth, convinced the Soviet government that he could launch a satellite into orbit around the Earth using the same R-7 ICBM. With government approval in hand, on October 4, 1957, Korolev launched the world's first satellite—Sputnik1-into orbit around the Earth, thus inaugurating the era of spaceflight.
In the next ten years-OKB-1's “golden era”-the organization accumulated a series of spectacular achievements. Under Korolev's managerial genius, OKB-1 launched the first human in space (Yuri Gagarin in Vostok in 1961), the first woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova in Vostok 6 in 1963), the first multi-person spaceflight (Voskhod in 1964), and the first spacewalker (Alexei Leonov in Voskhod 2 in 1965). In deep space exploration, OKB-1 launched the first probe to reach the Moon (Luna 2 in 1959), the first to take pictures of the Moon's farside (Luna 3 in 1959), the first to soft-land on the Moon (Luna 9 in 1966), and the first to reach Venus (Venera 3 in 1966). OKB-1 also developed the first Soviet reconnaissance satellites (Zenit 2 and Zenit 4) and the first Soviet communications satellites (Molniya 1), in addition to developing new ICBMs.
OKB-1's great run came to an end with Korolev's untimely death in 1966. From 1966 to 1974, the organization was headed by Korolev's former deputy, Vasily Mishin, who presided over the failed Soviet program to reach the Moon using the giant N1 rocket. It was Mishin, however, who introduced a new generation of piloted spaceships named Soyuz (Russian for “Union”) that were eventually transformed into ferry vehicles for the world's first space stations-named Salyut-launched in the 1970s.
In 1974, OKB-1 merged with a rocket engine design team to form the giant Energia conglomerate. From 1974 to 1989, Energia was headed by Valentin Glushko, the Soviet chief designer for rocket engines. During this period, Energia developed a series of successful Salyut stations that led to the Mir space station, assembled in Earth orbit between 1986 and 1996. The Energia corporation also designed the giant Energia launch vehicle and the Buran Space Shuttle (a near copy of the U.S. Space Shuttle), both of which had to be abandoned in the early 1990s due to lack of money.
Since 1989, Energia has been headed by Yuri Semenov. Through the 1990s, Semenov sustained operations to Mir that culminated in a series of historic joint flights with the U.S. Space Shuttle. Mir was eventually abandoned in 2001 when the International Space Station (ISS) came on line. The Energia corporation supplied the core of the ISS, known as Zvezda (Russian for “Star”), and continues to provide the Soyuz and Progress supply ships for ISS. It also provided the Pirs docking module, and in cooperation with the U.S. company, Spacehab, is offering the Enterprise multi-purpose module for use on the Russian segment of ISS.
In recent years, Energia has tried to enter the commercial market with projects such as SeaLaunch-a cooperative project for launching the Ukrainian Zenit booster from sea-based platforms in which Boeing Commercial Space Company has a 40 percent stake and Energia has a 25 percent share. It has also provided seats to paying customers to fly on the Soyuz spacecraft. Two tourists, one from the United States and one from South Africa, flew to ISS in 2001 and 2002 respectively.
Energia, officially known as the Energia Rocket-Space Corporation Named After S. P. Korolev (“RKK Energia”), employed roughly 20,000 people in 1999. It has faced rough times recently, partly because of the poor Russian economy and partly because of stiff competition from its primary competitor, Khrunichev.
Khrunichev's history dates back to March 1951, when Stalin ordered the creation of an organization, OKB-23, to design a new generation of strategic bombers. The design firm was given a giant factory in the Moscow suburb of Fili to produce these new planes. This plant, later named the Khrunichev Plant, had originally been set up in 1916 to manufacture automobiles. OKB-23 designed a series of advanced bombers and cruise missiles through the 1950s. Some of its plans proved to be too ambitious, however, and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev closed down all of its projects in 1960. He turned OKB-23 into a branch (“Branch No. 1”) of another organization, OKB-52, headed by the famous Vladimir Chelomey, an ambitious scientist who wanted to compete with Korolev to dominate the new Soviet space program. Through the next 20 years, Chelomey assigned Branch No. 1 to design some of his most important products. These included the heavy Proton booster rocket, a number of advanced Soviet ICBMs such as the UR-100 (or SS-11) and UR-100N (or SS-19), and the Transport-Supply Ships for the Almaz military space stations.
By 1981, Chelomey had lost much of his former influence, and the Soviet government detached Branch No. 1 from him and transferred the organization to Chelomey's main competitor, Energia. Through the 1980s, the former Branch No. 1-now named the Salyut Design Bureau-helped Energia design and build the Mir space station and its various modules. Salyut became independent in 1988. Five years later, the new Russian government combined Salyut with the Khrunichev production plant in Fili to form a giant conglomerate with the tongue-twisting name of Khrunichev State Space Scientific-Production Center (GKNPTs Khrunichev).
Since 1993, Khrunichev has been aggressively marketing its assets. Some argue that it has been much more successful than Energia in earning revenues in cooperative projects with Western countries and companies. One of Khrunichev's most notable successes has been International Launch Services (ILS), a joint American-Russian company (the partners are Lockheed Martin, Khrunichev, and Energia) formed in June 1995 that markets the Proton launch vehicle for launching commercial satellites. Other projects include Eurockot, a joint project with the German Daimler Chrysler corporation to market the UR-100N (or SS-19) ICBM as a space launcher.
Khrunichev also provided Zarya (the Russian word for “Dawn”), the first module for the International Space Station, whose design was based on the old Transport-Supply Ships designed in the 1970s. Khrunichev appears poised to take over a significant portion of the Russian space launch market with the introduction of a new family of launch vehicles called the Angara, which uses a modular design for a wide variety of launch services.
Since 2001, Khrunichev has been headed by Alexander Medvedev. He manages about 21,000 employees at the company.
-Asif Siddiqi
References:
Godwin, Robert, ed. Rocket and Space Corporation Energia-The Legacy of S. P. Korolev Burlington, Ontario: Apogee Books, 2001.
Harford, James. Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997.
Siddiqi, Asif A. Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974. NASA SP-2000-4408. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2000.
On-Line References:
“S.P. Korolev Rocket & Space Corporation Energia,” at http://www.energia.ru/english/
“Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center,” at http://www.khrunichev.ru/internet.www/eng/i.htm
“Russian Space Industry-Energia Rocket and Space Corp.,” at http://www.fas.org/spp/civil/russia/energia.htm
“Russian Space Industry-Khrunichev,” http://www.fas.org/spp/civil/russia/khrunich.htm
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The U.S. is approaching its second Thanksgiving in the COVID-19 pandemic, and cases are rising again.
The CDC reported that, as of Thursday, the seven-day daily average of new infections was 88,482, a 16.1% jump over the prior week.
Public health experts say families that are fully vaccinated can enjoy a normal Thanksgiving together, and they’re urging those who have not yet gotten the shot to do so.
Here are some other coronavirus updates:
Disney pauses employee vaccine mandate after new Florida law
Disney has paused its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for workers at Walt Disney World in Orlando, the company confirmed to NPR on Sunday.
It comes after a new Florida law signed Thursday by Gov. Ron DeSantis that bars employers from imposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates and gives employees the ability to select an exemption or opt for periodic testing or the use of personal protective equipment.
“Nobody should lose their job due to heavy-handed COVID mandates and we had a responsibility to protect the livelihoods of the people of Florida,” DeSantis said.
In a statement to NPR, a Disney spokesperson said the company believes its “approach to mandatory vaccines has been the right one as we’ve continued to focus on the safety and well-being of our Cast Members and Guests.”
More than 90% of Disney’s Florida-based employees have verified that they’re fully vaccinated, the company said.
Fauci says it’s unclear how often boosters will be necessary
The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week endorsed COVID-19 booster shots for all adults who were fully vaccinated.
But as to whether we’ll need boosters of the coronavirus vaccine this frequently for the foreseeable future, experts say the jury is still out.
“We would hope — and this is something that we’re looking at very carefully — that that third shot with the mRNA [vaccines] not only boosts you way up but increases the durability so that you will not necessarily need it every six months or a year,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the president for COVID-19, said on ABC’s This Week Sunday morning.
“We’re hoping it pushes it out more,” he added. “If it doesn’t, and the data show we do need it more often, then we’ll do it.”
Fauci was also asked about the governors of Connecticut and New Mexico saying that people are no longer considered fully vaccinated until they’ve gotten booster shots. He said the federal definition of fully vaccinated remains unchanged: two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson shot.
Have COVID deaths in 2021 surpassed those in 2020?
Data from Johns Hopkins University appears to show that recorded deaths from COVID-19 in 2021 have surpassed those from 2020, even as the vaccine has been widely available for most of the year.
As of Sunday, the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 data dashboard reported that there have been 771,045 total coronavirus deaths in the U.S. throughout the course of the pandemic.
According to the CDC, 385,343 deaths occurred last year, which would mean that the remaining fatalities — 385,702 — happened in 2021.
But official CDC data has not yet caught up with the university’s tally. The agency said 382,861 people have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. so far this year.
Johns Hopkins gets its data directly from state and county health authorities.
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CRYPTO BLOCKCHAIN INDUSTRIES (CBI, Euronext Growth Paris: FR00140062P9, ALCBI) is announcing an exclusive NFT drop to support the charitable initiative United at Home, cofounded by David Guetta, the world-renowned French music producer and DJ, as well as the creation of Beat Alphaverse, a virtual music world linked to Alphaverse, and a new investment in a talent representation agency, Blockchain Artists Agency, operating in the blockchain sector.
First collection of dedicated NFTs launched for the charity program United at Home and able to be used within Beat AlphaVerse
In partnership with Blockchain Artists Agency and Beat AlphaVerse, the musical metaverse created by Alphaverse, United at Home and David Guetta are launching a disruptive charitable initiative that will turn the iconic United at Home concert series in Miami and New York City into exclusive and limited digital assets on the blockchain for fans to buy and collect online on Opensea.io from November 18, 2021.
Through the strong commitment made by each of the partners, more than half of the funds will be donated to United at Home, supporting a number of organizations, including UNICEF and Feeding America. United at Home is a series of livestream shows by David Guetta from iconic locations in Miami, NYC, Paris and Dubai which have attracted more than 120 million viewers worldwide and raised over $1.7m to support non-profit organizations.
The exclusive NFT collection comprises limited video highlights from David Guetta’s concerts, as well as badges, pieces of land, houses and apartments associated with the iconic cities hosting the United at Home virtual shows, with a range of specific benefits, including VIP tickets for certain concerts. Rights associated with the NFTs will enable their holders to vote on certain United at Home initiatives. Prices for the NFTs will range from $50 to over 4 ETH (approximately $20,000) for the rarest and most prestigious NFTs.
Sales for the first drop of NFTs will start on November 18, 2021 and end before Thanksgiving. Other collections will be offered over the following months. The full schedule is available on www.opensea.io and www.alphaverse.com. The NFTs can be purchased on OpenSea.io using a credit card or crypto wallet.
AlphaVerse, CBI’s metaverse project, unveils a new world
CBI is moving forward with its proprietary development of AlphaVerse, a virtual world or metaverse, which it exclusively owns. Based on the blockchain, it offers an interactive experience in several environments, including non-fungible tokens (NFTs). AlphaVerse will connect several worlds, developed by CBI or third-party partners. Thanks to the blockchain’s properties, AlphaVerse will be able to offer a wide variety of interactive experiences created directly by the metaverse, in addition to integrated tools enabling users to create their own content (games, environments). AlphaVerse is scheduled to be launched in summer 2022.
Alongside this first NFT sale with United at Home, CBI is unveiling Beat AlphaVerse, a dedicated music metaverse by AlphaVerse. The primary goal with this exclusive United at Home NFT collection is to raise funds to support charity programs. Other sales will follow over the coming months, with United at Home and other artists.
AlphaVerse retains a variable percentage from the NFT sales, depending on the royalties to be paid to the artists and talents associated with the NFTs. With the United at Home NFTs, virtually all of the proceeds from sales will be donated to United at Home, which will then allocate the funds to the various charitable programs.
Atari is also involved with AlphaVerse through a dedicated world, Atari AlphaVerse, which is covered by a long-term license. AlphaVerse plans to welcome other universes through its central hub. To discover AlphaVerse, visit www.alphaverse.com.
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The charitable NFT sales initiative is being developed with Blockchain Artists Agency (BAA), a talent agency that is 50% owned by CBI in partnership with Jean-Charles Carre and Michael Wiesenfeld. This talent representation agency, specialized in marketing and managing talents and brands within the world of the blockchain, NFTs and metaverses, aims to support its clients to maximize the value of their rights in the blockchain arena. These talents will come from various sectors, such as music, sport and cinema, as well as other celebrities from the worlds of business and gourmet food for instance. To discover Blockchain Artists Agency, visit www.baa.agency.
Frédéric Chesnais, CBI founder and CEO: “I am very proud to be launching our first NFT drop in partnership with United at Home. This event perfectly illustrates the potential of the AlphaVerse metaverse and more widely CBI’s blockchain strategy, highlighting the wide range of possibilities opened up with the blockchain, all in support of a great cause. This disruptive initiative is also an opportunity to unveil Beat AlphaVerse, a dedicated music world within our future virtual world, and Blockchain Artists Agency, a CBI joint venture, with an outstanding team, which aims to represent artists and talents to help them maximize the value of their rights within the world of the blockchain and NFTs”.
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CRYPTO BLOCKCHAIN INDUSTRIES (“CBI”) is a French company that develops, operates and invests in video games, business applications and selected projects relating to the blockchain, non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) and cryptocurrencies. Founded by Frédéric Chesnais, a renowned gaming industry entrepreneur and blockchain pioneer, CBI aims to develop and unlock value from a portfolio of blockchain activities across multiple industries (video games, finance, logistics, etc.) with a view to capitalizing on this technology, either directly or through partnerships. CBI has already made several investments and is currently developing AlphaVerse, a blockchain technology-based virtual world or metaverse that will be opening in summer 2022. CBI has been admitted to trading on the EI compartment (qualified investors) of the Euronext Growth Paris market since October 26, 2021. Learn more at www.cbicorp.io.
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There are three categories for the National Officer Safety and Officer Wellness Awards: General Officer Safety, Officer Traffic Safety, and Officer Wellness. Within each category, an award is given to the agency that has developed or implemented the most effective and measurable program. The Awards Committee considers programs in these three categories and evaluates their overall integration, effectiveness, and durability. A fourth award is presented to the agency that has the most comprehensive initiative and best overall approach to implementing its safety and wellness program. The goal is to identify successful programs that benefit every type and category of agency.
General Officer Safety
This award will be presented to the law enforcement agency that has implemented a program improving officer safety in the areas of personal protection or tactical training or has adopted measures that create a safer work environment. The program should definitively demonstrate the ability to increase an officer’s physical safety by reducing job-related injuries, enhancing personal safety, or providing life-saving training. Likewise, the agency has both developed and actively promoted its officer safety programs and, in doing so, has achieved employee buy-in and program acceptance. The agency has successfully achieved its goals to increase safety or reduce injuries or deaths as it continues to set new goals and further enhance officer safety.
The General Officer Safety category includes programs that have made advances in the area of personal protection, including increased wearing of body armor or distribution of life-saving tools, such as the Downed Officer Kits (DOKs). The General Officer Safety category also includes focus areas such as better tactical training, improving intelligence that is provided to responding officers, or the creation of a dedicated on-scene safety officer.
Officer Traffic Safety
This award will be presented to the law enforcement agency that has taken proactive measures to demonstrate definitively, a program’s success in improving officer traffic-related safety practices. The agency has developed and successfully promoted their officer traffic safety programs and, in doing so, has achieved employee buy-in and program acceptance. The program has successfully increased officer safety related to traffic and made strides towards reducing traffic-related injuries or deaths, while building a culture focused on traffic safety measures.
The Officer Traffic Safety category features programs that have increased officer seatbelt usage, increased the use of visibility gear, or provided enhanced driver’s training. The Officer Traffic Safety category also includes innovations to restrict Mobile Digital Computer (MDC) usages at higher speeds, modifications to interior patrol vehicle design or usage, or implementation of new safety technologies.
Officer Wellness
Officer Wellness is the most encompassing category of the four, focusing on topics such as physical fitness, mental health, stress-induced trauma. suicide prevention programs, nutrition, and stress reduction. The category includes both mandatory physical fitness programs and incentive-based initiatives. Wellness is a multi-faceted category that addresses an officer’s overall well-being. This award will be presented to the law enforcement agency that has taken innovative measures and definitively demonstrated its ability to increase officer wellness.
The agency has developed a program that has improved its officers’ well-being by reducing stress, increasing fitness, or actively promoting a healthier diet and lifestyle. The agency has institutionalized wellness practices that support physical and mental health amongst its employees. The program has become a component of employee development and is an integral part of managing the department’s Human Resources.
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This award recognizes a law enforcement agency that has successfully developed, implemented and promoted the most comprehensive and strategically implemented officer safety or wellness program.
The program employs an overarching marketing strategy that embraces voluntary participation and an enhanced departmental awareness, and has achieved a high degree of employee buy-in through its creative and innovative marketing strategies. The program is widely accepted by the employees, has high participation rates, and is considered a success by the agency. The manner in which this agency successfully introduced the program and implemented strategies to generate participation can be replicated by other agencies.
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Visas and permanent residency for property owners in Turkey According to the Turkish law, if you buy real estate in Turkey, you can get the residence permit. Up to your wish, you can get 1 year permanent residency which can be renewed annually. The property owners can relocate and have their second home in Turkey, not only have a holiday in this beautiful country. The Turkish government as well allows you to get the Turkish citizenship if you stay in Turkey for 5 years Likewise, owning a home does not automatically entitle residency because the property buying process and residency system are two different things, each with their own set of rules and regulations. Additionally, anyone who wants to buy a property over $250,000 and keep it for at least three years may apply for Turkish citizenship Do You Get Residency If You Buy Property in Turkey? When people dream of living overseas, they often wonder if they get residency when they buy property in Turkey. The answer is that you still must apply, and don't gain it automatically, but the good news is you don't have to buy property to live here. Besides, if you fulfil specific criteria when purchasing property, you are also eligible to apply for citizenship. So, to be clear, the residency system, property buying process.
Documents Required To Obtain Residency Permit Through The Acquisition Of Real Estate In Turkey Valid passport for at least 6 months. Tapu (title deed of property). Real estate insurance against natural disasters, such as earthquakes. Health insurance in Turkey for the entire family. Family statement. Why do I need a Turkish Residence Permit? A standard Turkish Tourist Permit now allows you to stay in Turkey for no longer than 90 days in any 180 day period. Most nationals obtain these entry visas upon arrival at Turkish airports (cost Euro 15). Please also refer to https://www.evisa.gov.tr/en/ for online Turkish visa applications. This means expats - or those who simply wish to stay for longer - should apply for a little blue Turkish Residency book rather than take a day's. Residence permit. If you wish to settle in Turkey and start your business or purchase a property, you may apply for a Residence Permit. There is no minimum investment amount required; you just have to prove that you own a property or you are running a business, and that you have sufficient financial means to live in the country Is there a minimum value of the property to be eligible for residence permit application? There is no minimum value of the property for residence permit application purposes. Foreigners, who purchase a property in Turkey in amount of at least 250.000 USD can acquire Turkish citizenship on basis of investment within short period of time. Owners of properties, value of which is less than 250.000 USD are eligible for residence permit for property owners and can be also eligible for.
To apply for a short-term residence permit, foreigners who own real estate in Turkey or intend to establish a business or business connections in Turkey must submit the following documents to the relevant Provincial Directorate of Immigration Administration (Göç İdaresi) once an application is submitted through the e-residence system. Short-term residence permits are issued for a maximum of two years as a principle. A residence permit is invalidated if it is not used within six months Family Residence Permit ID Card will allow by Turkish spouse marriage and Turkish citizenship after 3 year stay. Can be apartment / home renal contract for residency or Turkish Tapu own property in Turkey Buying a property in Turkey and living in it is not the only type of residence in Turkey, where Turkey is an attractive environment for energy and resources on several levels. Therefore, the types of residence permit in Turkey vary according to the purpose of his or her stay in Turkey according to the following types: Tourism Residence in Turkey The foreigners who will stay more than 90 days in Turkey must get a residence permit. WHAT KIND OF RESIDENCE PERMIT NEEDED FOR THE FOREIGNERS WHO BOUGHT A PROPERTY IN TURKEY? There are several kinds of residence permits in Turkey. The foreigners need to apply for a Long Term Residence Permit when they buy a property in Turkey The growth of property sales was also boosted by the government that lowered the property price limit (from $ 1,000,0000 to $ 250,0000) that allows foreigners to obtain a residence permit. According to real estate experts, luxury and low-budget properties in Turkey are the best solution for investment
The validity of a Residence Permit in Turkey depends on the type of permit that you hold, as follows: Short-term residence permits can be issued for a maximum of two years at a time. Long-term residence permits are issued with indefinite validity. The validity of a Student Residence Permit depends on the length of studies It's not necessary to be a resident when you buy property in Turkey. However, as a new property buyer you are automatically granted a year's Turkish residence permit. New buyers are also eligible for Turkish citizenship by investment when they buy a home valued at a minimum of $250,000. This opportunity has been snapped up by thousands of foreign buyers, but is expected to be a temporary. According to Turkish law, by buying a property in Turkey, you can get a residence permit. You can get up to 2-years permanent residency which can be renewed online through this link, or through any PTT post office branch. Requirements and Documents: Applicants must be over eighteen years. Passport copy notarized by a Turkish notary; passport will need to be translated by a sworn translator and.
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Visas and Permanent Residency for Property Owners in Turkey. Before buying real estate in Turkey foreigners buyers ask themselves if it is possible to get a residence permit in Turkey. The answer is yes, the owners of property in Turkey can apply. He can get 1 year permanent residency that can be renewed annually. This means that property owners can not only make a holiday in Turkey. They can.
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List of the Different Types of Residence Permits in Turkey Tourist stay in Turkey (short-term residence permit in Turkey). Residence in Turkey by buying a property (real estate residence permit in Turkey). Work permit in Turkey
Property buyers are flocking to buy Turkish property to obtain a Turkish residency permit. This will eventually lead to Turkish Citizenship by investment. As a result, real estate investors in Turkey are flocking to the country in large numbers. This is due to the growth of the Turkish government at all levels and regions. Investment in Turkey's real estate sector is one of the most.
Firstly the application process for a residence permit in Turkey is valid to anyone who wants to stay in the country for more than 90 days at a time. This application includes students, employees, foreigners married to Turkish nationals who are yet to obtain Turkish citizenship, anyone conducting scientific research, and foreign real estate buyers
Touristic Residence Permit (red) is permission to live in Turkey. The first time e-ikamet is permission to live in Turkey, and issued by the Ministry of Interior and Migration Management with 250 office locations by appointment at 81 provinces in Turkey Having a residence permit is not necessary for the foreigner who wishes to buy a property in Turkey. Likewise, buying a property does not grant the foreigner permission to obtain a residence or.. Residence and Work Permit. Foreigners who purchase property in Turkey can easily obtain a residence permit. Moreover, their spouse and children have a right to apply for a residence permit on this basis as well. Application for a residence permit can be made once the title deed is transferred to the applicant Turkey Property, Turkish Property for rent. Cheap Property Turkey Real Estate and Turkish citizenship. Rental Houses, Turkey Homes by owners and agents, sahibinde
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USD 400,000 property investment in Seychelles real estate (homes, villas, flats) Foreign investors qualify for 5 year permanent residence permit with family. Citizenship can be obtained after 10 years of living. Processing time 2 months. 25. Turkey. EUR 250,000 property investment in Turkey (will be launched soon
If a foreigner owns property in Turkey, he/she gets residence permit which is renewed every year if he/she keeps the ownership. Why Should I Buy Property for Residence Permit? Antalya Homes advises to families who have long term plans in Turkey, to buy a property for a long term residence permit. We give you full support on getting residence permits. - The title deed of the property is the key.
Residence permits have been the main hurdle for foreign buyers who plan to buy property in Turkey. According to previous regulations, foreigners can stay in the country for a maximum of three months on a tourist visa, after which time they must leave the country for another three months before returning. The process to obtain a residence permit can also be exhaustingly long
Foreigners who buy properties in Turkey are granted one year residency permit after buying a property. Website for the Application. The application is made online after receiving the title deed of the purchased property. Click here to apply. I lodge an application for residency permit for the first time will be choosen to start the application and next steps will be followed. The system.
Visas and permanent residency for property owners in Turkey According to Turkish law, if you buy real estate in Turkey, you can get a residence permit. Even his desire, you can get permanent residence one year which can be renewed annually. Owners can relocate and have their second home in Turkey, not only have a holiday in this beautiful country. The Turkish government, and allows you to get.
If one of your parents is Turkish, for example, and you turn 18, you can immediately re-apply for a short-term residency permit. The only requirement is that you must have lived in Turkey for at least three years. If you get divorced from a Turkish citizen and want to stay in Turkey, you can also apply for a short-term residence permit. You.
After the 5 year continued period of obtaining the residency, you are entitled to receive Turkish citizenship. There are thousand of foreigners in 2018 - 2019 who have started the process to buy property in Turkey for investment and Turkish citizenship while the new laws in favor are in effect, for fast and easy Turkish citizenship
After a residence permit expires it can be renewed four times. To renew, you must apply to your local police headquarters within 15 days of expiry. If you wish to stay in Turkey longer than 4 renewals (which in theory could be up to 14 years), then it is best to apply for permanent residency from the outset as opposed to renewing residency each. Many investors are racing to acquire a residency permit in Turkey and finally a citizenship permit by purchasing Turkish property. That is due to the Turkish Government's development and growth at all Continue Reading. Popular Posts. Where Is The Cheapest Place To Buy Property in Turkey? December 19, 2017. Is buying property in Turkey a good investment? December 21, 2017. How many Brits. FAMILY RESIDENCE PERMIT IN TURKEY FOR FOREIGNER. I own Turkish property and stayed 5 years; I require to Turkish court appeal an active ban on entry / removal decision; I am immigration lawyer / agent interested to partnership in services; I require other; Comment or Message * Email . Submit. Residence Permit ID Card. Government Appointments. Business Hours. WALK-IN APPLICATION TIMES. A Turkish residence permit allows you to remain in Turkey for longer than three months in a half-year period. You need it if you are planning to live permanently, work, or study in Turkey. Apart from this, the permit will let you get married, apply for a Turkish drivers' license, get a tax number, open a bank account, purchase property, make investments, and much more. If you have been.
Serbian residency is straightforward: buy a property, get a residence card. That said, getting your Serbian residence permit involves about 27 steps from buying health insurance to obtaining the right kind of title, but if you know what you're doing, the entire process is relatively quick. Technically, there is no minimum investment to obtain Serbian residency. You can invest as little as. Turkey's Properties is a very good investment option for tomorrow. Turkey is becoming a popular place for many foreigners to spend their holidays. In recent year's many people are investing in Turkey Property. Here are some features and reasons for it; The cost of buying real estate in Turkey is quite low, compared to many other countries. This.
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A title deed of ownership (Tapu) of a residential property or a house rent contract with a copy of the title deed certified by the Notary. The title deed number (Numarataj) with the title deed activation (Aktif Kaydı - Tapu devam belgesi). The Tax Number. Residence permit taxes payment receipt. The residence permit appointment paper, the appointment must be booked after entering Turkey.
Residence permit property Turkey is a type of short-term tourist residence that is renewable and it is granted for one year, and for this reason the steps necessary to obtain the residence permit property Turkey are similar to the steps for the tourist residence, except for some differences, which we will explain to you in the following lines in detail
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Non-Turkish nationals holding valid short term Touristic residence permit; may option to live in Turkey as individual or family, marry Turkish spouse, make contacts with Turkish people for future concerns, work at international company and jobs at above average salary and benefits, replace foreigner drivers license to Turkish drivers license, open a Turkish bank account, rent property in.
imum of €350,000. After one year of residency, you can apply for Maltese citizenship and obtain a European.
With buying a property in Turkey especially in Istanbul you are able to apply for the Residence permit in Turkey and live in happiness and enjoy services. Also, this unit has an American kitchen style and a great corridor to separate bedroom from other par
Property in Bodrum, a Turkish port on the Bodrum Peninsula, is a common choice for holiday homers looking for apartments in Turkey, as Bodrum is the centre for tourism and yachting and is a popular resort for Northern Europeans due to its attractive coastline and nightlife. Each summer the town is home to over 250,000 tourists with many having invested in their own holiday apartments in Bodrum.
imal fee while earn ROI on your property. About Turkey and its Real Estate Market: Eternally twisting and historical land of.
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The easiest and fastest option is to become a Turkish citizen by purchasing a property worth $250,000. Those who have purchased a minimum of $250,000 worth of housing, workplace, estate or similar properties can initiate their application process by proceeding to The General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre. The documents requested by the government institutions should be prepared in. Turkey offers a variety of residence permits depending on whether you are looking for short-term versus long-term, a family versus an individual, or if you're a student or a humanitarian. If you want to apply for a residence permit from within your home country or country of residence, you can do so at the nearest Turkish consulate. If you're already in Turkey, you can also apply with. Visas and residency. British Citizens travelling to Turkey for tourist or business purposes are able to travel without a visa for visits of up to 90 days in any 180-day period - see entry.
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Welcome to Maximos Real Estate Turkey . On our website you can find the best property in Turkey with the best price guarantee. Browse real estate for sale in Antalya, Istanbul, Belek, Bodrum, Yalova and Kusadasi. Apartments for sale in Istanbul, villas with sea view in Turkey, Antalya apartments for sale with installments payment- all kinds of Turkish properties for sale you can find with. To leave permanently in Turkey, first means that you should get a permanent residency in Turkey. There are several ways to get it, and owning a property is one of them. Once you own a property and have it registered to your name, you are good to apply for a residency permit. While the procedure to get a residency permit is pretty straightforward, it is strongly advised to get the help of. Property and Residence Permit Holders: Any property owner in Turkey who has lived in the country for a straight, uninterrupted period of 5 years can also apply on the condition that they have stayed for 5 years in Turkey. Article 11 of Act 5901 lists the requirements for an uninterrupted residence permit. There isn't a minimal amount for the property value
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4-Turkish Citizenship By Bank deposit in Turkey. 5-Turkish Citizenship by Real Estate investment for 3 years. 6-Turkish Citizenship Marriage in 3 Years. 7-Turkish Citizenship Labor/Employment for 5 years. 8-Turkish Citizenship Child Birth in Turkey İnstant. 9-Turkish Citizenship Buying Property in Turkey any Value in 5 year Foreigners who buy properties valuing 250.000 USD in Turkey can get Turkish citizenship. This amount was 1.000.000 USD before the year 2018. As a matter of course, applicants of this program have many questions and doubts. As this is one of our expertise areas, we can easily say that procedures and the steps of this program are not complicated however it requires due care and experience of. When you own a property in Turkey, yearly property tax should be paid also every year to the tax office. Cities are divided into two categories as big and small cities. Taxes are calculated depending on the category and property type. For residential properties for instance in Istanbul, %0,2 of the value of the apartment should be paid to the government for each year. Property Type: Big Cities. Aqua Residence Alanya, Kestel'de yemyeşil bir alanda yer almaktadır. Yeni gelişen bu alan Alanya şehir merkezine 5 km, Kestel kumsallarına sadece 750 All properties in Turkey are freehold properties and applicants are not required to declare worldwide income and assets in other countries. Investors can recover their investments after a must-hold period of three years and there is no inheritance tax unlike in many other developed countries. Turkish citizenship also offers a route to Britain and the United States under special visa categories.
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All Posts in Tag Student residence in turkey. Top Ranked Schools and Universities to Study in Turkey . By . istikrar property. Posted in Life in Turkey On Apr 08, 2021. Turkey is the home for technology and high education centers, therefore, many seek to continue their academic studies in Turkey due to the top notch public and private schools, as well as the top ranked universities. Read More. We complete Turkish Citizenship by Property Investment and Permanet Residency Permission proceedings superfast. read more - Istanbul (All Regions) Cheapest Apartment in Istanbul For Sale; ISTANBUL 1 1; KEY READY, Very affordable investment apartments in Istanbul for sale. Modern homes in central Esenyurt close to highways & public transport. Istanbul investment ; Kitchen- Open American Floors. You'll also need it (even if you're not resident in Turkey) if you want to buy a property or pay your local property taxes. Fortunately, it's a very simple process. To obtain your number, you will need to visit the closest tax office (Vergi Dairesi) for the area in which you live. You will need to take your passport with you, together with a photocopy of the page showing your photograph. Permanent residency is available for both EU and non-EU citizens who have lived in Italy for the prescribed periods under the country's Immigration Law. Non-EU nationals have the right to apply for permanent residence permits after 5 years of continuously living in Italy, while for EU citizens the requirements are less stringent.They can apply for permanent residence if they intend to live.
We would like to offer you new apartments in istanbul turkey for sale with flexible payment plans. These modern new residence apartments are a fine choice for buyers interested in Istanbul property the apartments offer comfortable living accommodation close to all amenities with on-site facilities. The location is Esenyurt on the European side of Istanbul near by shopping malls , hospitals. In the past, many foreign buyers of property in Turkey used to take a mortgage from a bank in Turkey to help with the cost of the purchase. As you will see, the position has now become more complicated, but it is still possible to obtain mortgage finance in Turkey. Can a foreigner take out a mortgage in Turkey? Legally speaking, there is no restriction on any foreigner, resident or non. Invest for residency in europe. There are several residency by investment programmes in Europe that grant residency, often through real estate investment but without the requirement to reside. These programmes are especially popular with investors not wishing to emigrate and move their family but require flexibility should the need ever reside Residence Permit in Turkey 2020; Properties; Blog; Contact; Compare. IN ISTANBUL MORE INFORMATION Real Estate Consultancy Services keyboard_arrow_down CONTACT US MORE INFORMATION TURKISH CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT . Who We Are ? Dyako Global Real Estate Consultancy. We are a young and energetic team that values the interests of our investors above all. We started our consulting business in. Buying Property for Citizenship in Turkey Turkish Government has recently launched a new law regarding residency visa for foreigners. According to the law, foreigners who buy property in Turkey will be granted citizenship in Turkey The law applies to all kind of properties starting from 250.000
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Sfera Residence consists of one 12-floor block and situated on a second coastline in a quiet region of cosy Mahmutlar town at the distance of 200m from the cen Turkish nationality law is based primarily on the principle of jus sanguinis.Children who are born to a Turkish mother or a Turkish father (in or out of marriage) are Turkish citizens from birth. The intention to renounce Turkish citizenship (or acquire citizenship from another state) is submitted in Turkey by a petition to the highest administrative official in the concerned person's place of. Turkish authorities do enforce the laws, including those stipulating fines, deportation, and bans on future travel to Turkey for people who overstay their visas or do not maintain valid residency permits. If you stay beyond the date your visa or residence permit expires, even if only for a few days, you will be fined at the port of exit and will be subject to a travel ban preventing you from. If you are a first time applicant for a residency permit you can now obtain one from the Turkish embassy in your country. If you have lived in Turkey for 8 years or more you can now apply for a long term residence permit. Naturally conditions apply and the cost of the permit will be told to you at time of application. If you want to buy property in Turkey contact us today we can help you make. See all Properties See all Properties Get Turkish Residency Permit By Buying This Apartment > Properties · for sale & rent · up to €20,000 7 photos. € 19,000 £16,284.90 $23,037.50 . Explore surroundings in Google maps. Loading... Get Turkish Residency Permit By Buying This Apartment. WITH 10 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN THE TURKISH REAL ESTATE MARKET, TEAM MARMARA REAL ESTATE IS YOUR EXPERIENCED.
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You can temporarily import your vehicle for private use as long as it is registered in the country of residence. The maximum time that the person can stay with his/her vehicle in Turkey is 730 days. These time limits are valid in case the person and vehicle stay abroad for 185 days before re-entering. If you hold a retirement visa, your vehicle. real estate investment is also allowed - the minimum value of the property is set at 500,000 euros; in case of real estate investment, the property must be bought 90 days before the application for the golden visa. The Golden Visa Scheme is one of the fastest routes to permanent residency in Spain, however, it is important to note that various conditions apart from the investment must be. Invest $250,000 in real estate and get your Turkish Passport in less than 2 months. We are one of the oldest, most established companies, processing residency applications for more than 20 years. Real estate investments with 8% rental guarantee. Re-sell property after 3 years. Offices across 80 countries to assist you
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According to law No. 6458 issued in the official Turkish newspapers on 11/04/2013, Foreigners can get one-year residence in Turkey, by purchasing property and extending it for up to eight years. After eight years, if they wish, and if they have been in Turkey for more than 4.5 years, they can apply for permanent residence Beylikduzu Residence Al Zad Properties have envisioned a home for your family with an environment friendly arena, thus we are commencing a magnificent construction of our 'Botanica' which itself has a treasure of high formulation standards coped with supreme ease of living. The finest part is the 'all green surroundings' with zero environmental hazards. We have conceived the idea from. Resident permit in Turkey. How to get resident permit in Turkey. Resident permit types in Turkey. Easy way to get resident permit in Turkey. Buy property and get a resident permit in Turkey. Rent an apartment and get a resident permit in Turkey. How to live in Turkey for long time Securing a Turkish passport by investment and buying property in Turkey for residency is a safe bet under his leadership. There are positive economic signals from industrial firms' investment demands despite the limiting impact of the pandemic, which began to recover in the second half of 2020 and strengthened in the first quarter of this year. Popular Posts. Zeytinburnu, Life by the Marmara. Buying a Property in Turkey; Residence Permit - Turkey; FAQ; Title Deed -TAPU; About Us ; Testimonials ; Blog ; News ; Contact Us . ONLINE VIEWING . Previous Next. Find Your Property In Turkey . POPULAR LOCATION. Property in Alanya Property in Antalya Property in Bodrum Property in Belek Property in Istanbul Property in Side Property in Cyprus / SEARCH . Buy Property in Turkey. CALL ME BACK.
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To obtain Turkish Citizenship by investment, you should purchase real estate in Turkey with a minimum total value of $250.000. You may choose to invest in one or multiple properties as long as the required amount is reached. Our clients typically choose to invest in multiple properties with guaranteed rental income Turkey Expert is a well established Turkish real estate agent and property developer. We've been guiding foreign property buyers purchasing real estate in Turkey since the year 2002. Our experts are at your service in Istanbul, Bursa, Izmir, Kusadasi, Bodrum, Antalya, and Alanya
With the new regulation which was declared on September 18t, Republic of Turkey grants citizenship to foreigners who make: 250,000 $ property investment. Found/buy a company with 500,000 $ capital. Deposit 500,000 $ in State investment instruments or state banks. Also, employing 50 personnel is determined as a criteria for applying for Turkish. In recent years, foreign investment has flooded the Turkish property market. This has led to increasingly developed infrastructure and greater numbers of golf courses and resorts. Property prices in Turkey remain low compared to other European countries, however, even with the high levels of foreign investment. This makes the Turkish property market an ideal investment opportunity. Legally. Buying a property of any value will get you residency in Turkey but you'd need to stump up $1 million (£753k) or more to qualify for instant citizenship, and will have to commit to living in the. So, let's assume I buy a property there, get the residence permit, the passport and decide to live there for 3-5 month's a year. Do I have to pay TAX then? And what about world-income? Wikipedia says Residents in Turkey are liable at tax on their worldwide income and they are considered as full tax liable () Residents are individuals with legal permanent residence and those who.
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2) For each of the following NEWLY DISCOVERED celestial bodies, below, the mean distance from the sun is given in
kilometers. Fill in the data table by expressing these distances in AU's, using three significant figures for each result.
Distance
Distance
Celestial Body
(kilometers)
(Astronomical Units)
Planet Z
0.58 x 108
Comet Y
1.08
Star X
2.27 x 108
Moon W
7.78 x 108
x 108
3) Green Fuzzy Aliens:
a) Find the length of one light year in kilometers.
b) Find the length of one light-year in AU's.
c) A fuzzy green alien travels for three light years to arrive on Earth. How far did it travel, as measured in kilometers?
d) A fuzzy green alien travels for 1/2 light years, after it leaves Earth again. How far did it travel, as measured in AU's?
e) Compared to our distance from the sun, how many times greater is the distance the alien traveled AWAY from
Earth?
f) If a light wave left Earth at the same moment, traveling in the same direction as the alien, where would it be relative
to the alien after each traveled 1/2 light year?
4) Convert 2.05 x 105 seconds into years.
The Earth rotates. The moon rotates. Have you ever wondered if the Sun rotates (i.e. does it spin on its axis?)
The Sun does indeed rotate. Galileo noted this nearly 400 years ago when he observed sunspots. The apparent motion
of sunspots can be used to determine the rotation speed of the Sun. As it turns out, the Sun's rotation is quite different
from that of most of the planets. A rigid body such as the Earth will clearly have a single rotation rate. But since the
Sun is made of gas, different parts of it rotate at different speeds. Near the Sun's equator, it completes one rotation
every 27 Earth days. But near the poles, it's about 31 Earth days. This is called "differential rotation".
5. Problem: When a solar flare occurs on the Sun, it can send out a blast wave that travels through interplanetary space
at a speed of 3 x 106 km/h.
a. How long would it take a blast wave to get to Earth where it could be detected by a satellite in orbit? The EarthSun distance is 1.5 x 108 km , and you can use the same number for the satellite-Sun distance. Express your
answer in hours.
b. When such a solar flare is detected, it is interesting to study the source. Since the Sun is rotating, we must
determine how far the source has turned between the emission and the detection of a solar flare. Because the
Sun is a dense gas rather than a solid body, it does not have uniform rotation rate; on the average the Sun makes
one complete revolution in 25.4 days. How many degrees would it rotate (on the average) during the time the
blast wave traveled from the sun to the orbiting satellite?
Pioneer 10 (also known as Pioneer F) is a 258-kilogram robotic space probe that completed the first interplanetary
mission to Jupiter, and became the first spacecraft to achieve escape velocity from our Solar System.
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6) Pioneer 10's radio signals left Pluto in April 1983. They traveled at the speed of light (3.00 x 10 km/s). How long did
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the radio signals take to reach Earth, a distance of 4.58 x 10 km ? Express your answer in hours.
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7) Pioneer 10 traveled about 4.58 x 10 km between March 3, 1972 and April 25, 1983. Use an approximation of 11
years to determine the average speed of Pioneer 10 in km/h?
8) Use your answer to Question #7 to determine the speed of Pioneer 10 in miles/hour.
9) Use the mass of the Sun and the mass of Pioneer 10 to determine the relative mass
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10) Pioneer 10 traveled to Pluto. The mass of Pluto is 1.3 × 10 kilograms. Determine the relative mass of Pluto.
11) In November, 1973, the spacecraft came within 132,252 km of the outer atmosphere of Jupiter, with a mass of
1.8987 × 1027 kilograms. Determine the relative mass of Jupiter.
Scientists Discover Star Hundreds of Times Heavier Than the Sun (07/22/2010)
Astronomers from Britain have discovered the heaviest star known in the universe, over 250 times more massive than
our Sun and shining 10 million times more brightly. The star, R136a1, was found in a galaxy next to our own. Other
astronomers caution not to get too excited by the find because, though the British team have a strong case, R136a1 may
actually be a pair of stars.
12) Assuming the British scientists are correct and the mass really does have a relative mass of 250 MSun, what is the
weight of R136a1 in kilograms?
13) What is the Luminosity of R136a1? Use the information in the data table at the top of this worksheet! Include units
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About CMS and what you need to support your web in general .... to my Resume Portal
A Content Management System (CMS) such as Joomla or Drupal¹ provides a backend for your web. C5 and Typo3 are also PHP CMSes but superior to both the other more popular two¹.
Tour the C5 sample site. (← login there as 'admin' with sent pw. Note: IE 6 and older Safari not supported³)
A strong point of C5 is the entire site is WYSIWYG editable. If possible please reverse any edits you make. If you need a guided tour call me
Hosting, Performance, Development, and Maintenance
Performance is largely a function of your hosting (more...). Monthly support provides a basis for development and maintenance (more...) .
The Look and Feel of Your Site
C5 has two simple themes installed. If you want a custom look and feel developed for your site, you can either hire or graphic artists to work with me for that purpose, give me your specifications, or find some theme or template from the many available and I will apply to create a new C5 theme for you however I am not a graphics artist.
E Commerce and other Extensions
You may want to either develop custom software or have a package such as Magneto, osCommerce, etc. integrated into site. This can be done and in such a manner that visitors to your site will see it as seamless. However the integration of these packages will be superficial and you will still have to maintain their backends seperately. VirtueMart is free but requires Joomla/Mambo. Volusion is not open source software but rather a priced service like PayPal, Amazon, etc. These can be integrated with any web software.
How long and How much?
As little as 2 biz days if you have your hosting and other arrangements complete. I'd prefer to keep these jobs to no more than 4 calendar weeks and no more than 80 hours of my time. I can supply ongoing support for the minimum hourly charge which is also the min initial development cost ($400). A month of support is included free!
Are there any sites using this?
This uses C5, this uses prior version (C4), this uses C3 .
Are you doing any development with this?
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² IMHO, order would be C5 or Typo3 > Drupal > Joomla/Mambo. Each, however, has its strengths and weaknesses. WordPress is more of a blogging package than a CMS but a blog is content. Joomla is good if you want just simple mostly static content management. Drupals strength and its weakness is its exterme modularity and the large number of contributed modules. If you want a high quality base PHP CMS to C5 is my current choice but can also work with yours.
³ Concrete5 has informed me they will not support IE6. I may do so however, I don't here in my domains but this is different. Safari 3 or better should be on any Mac, I was just late in upgrading.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., displays the signed article of impeachment against President Donald Trump in an engrossment ceremony before transmission to the Senate for trial on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. Image via AP.
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Trump is the only president to be twice impeached, and the first to be prosecuted as he leaves the White House.
President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is likely to start after Joe Biden’s inauguration, and the Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, is telling senators their decision on whether to convict the outgoing president over the Capitol riot will be a “vote of conscience.”
The timing for the trial, the first of a president no longer in office, has not yet been set. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it clear Friday that Democrats intend to move swiftly on President-elect Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID aid and economic recovery package to speed up vaccinations and send Americans relief. Biden is set to take the oath of office Wednesday.
Pelosi called the recovery package a “matter of complete urgency.”
The uncertainty of the scheduling, despite the House’s swift impeachment of Trump just a week after the deadly Jan. 6 siege, reflects the fact that Democrats do not want the Senate trial proceedings to dominate the opening days of the Biden administration.
With security on alert over the threat of more potential violence heading into the inauguration, the Senate is also moving quickly to prepare for confirming Biden’s nominee for National Intelligence Director, Avril Haines. A committee hearing is set for the day before the inauguration, signaling a confirmation vote to install her in the position could come swiftly once the new president is in office.
Many Democrats have pushed for an immediate impeachment trial to hold Trump accountable and prevent him from holding future office, and the proceedings could still begin by Inauguration Day. But others have urged a slower pace as the Senate considers Biden’s Cabinet nominees and the newly Democratic-led Congress considers priorities like the coronavirus plan.
Biden’s incoming White House press secretary, Jen Psaki said Friday the Senate can do both.
“The Senate can do its constitutional duty while continuing to conduct the business of the people,” she said.
Psaki noted that during Trump’s first impeachment trial last year, the Senate continued to hold hearings each day. “There is some precedent,” she said.
Trump is the only president to be twice impeached, and the first to be prosecuted as he leaves the White House, an ever-more-extraordinary end to the defeated president’s tenure. He was first impeached by the House in 2019 over his dealings with Ukraine, but the Senate voted in 2020 to acquit.
When his second trial does begin, House impeachment managers say they will be making the case that Trump’s incendiary rhetoric hours before the bloody attack on the Capitol was not isolated, but rather part of an escalating campaign to overturn the November election. It culminated, they will argue, in the Republican president’s rally cry to “fight like hell” as Congress was tallying the Electoral College votes to confirm he’d lost to Biden.
For Republican senators, the trial will be a perhaps final test of their loyalty to the defeated president and his legions of supporters in their states back home, and their own experiences sheltering at the Capitol as a pro-Trump mob ransacked the building and attempted to overturn Biden’s election. It will force a further re-evaluation of their relationship with the defeated president, who lost not only the White House but majority control of the Senate.
“These men weren’t drunks who got rowdy — they were terrorists attacking this country’s constitutionally-mandated transfer of power,” said Sen. Ben Sasse in a statement Friday.
“They failed, but they came dangerously close to starting a bloody constitutional crisis. They must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
McConnell, who has spent the past days talking to senators and donors, is telling them the decision on whether or not to convict Trump is theirs alone — meaning the leadership team will not work to hold senators in line one way or the other.
Last week’s assault angered lawmakers, stunned the nation and flashed unsettling imagery around the globe, the most serious breach of the Capitol since the War of 1812, and the worst by home-grown intruders.
Pelosi told reporters on Friday that the nine House impeachment managers, who act as the prosecutors for the House, are working on taking the case to trial.
“The only path to any reunification of this broken and divided country is by shining a light on the truth,” said Rep. Madeleine Dean, who will serve as an impeachment manager.
Trump was impeached Wednesday by the House on the single charge, incitement of insurrection, in lightning-quick proceedings just a week after after the siege. Ten Republicans joined all Democrats in the 232-197 vote to impeach, the most bipartisan modern presidential impeachment.
McConnell is open to considering impeachment, having told associates he is done with Trump, but he has not signaled how he would vote. McConnell continues to hold great sway in his party, even though convening the trial next week could be among his last acts as majority leader as Democrats prepare to take control of the Senate with the seating of two new Democratic senators from Georgia.
No president has ever been convicted in the Senate, and it would take a two-thirds vote against Trump, an extremely high hurdle. But conviction of Trump is not out of the realm of possibility, especially as corporations and wealthy political donors distance themselves from his brand of politics and the Republicans who stood by his attempt to overturn the election.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Thursday, “Such unlawful actions cannot go without consequence.” She said in a statement that the House responded “appropriately” with impeachment and she will consider the trial arguments.
At least four Republican senators have publicly expressed concerns about Trump’s actions, but others have signaled their preference to move on. Sen. Tom Cotton issued a statement saying he opposes impeachment against a president who has left office. Trump ally Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is building support for launching a commission to investigate the siege as an alternative to conviction.
The riot delayed the tally of Electoral College votes that was the last step in finalizing Biden’s victory as lawmakers fled for shelter and police, guns drawn, barricaded the doors to the House chamber.
A Capitol Police officer died from injuries suffered in the attack, and police shot and killed a woman. Three other people died in what authorities said were medical emergencies.
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Sonja Fitch
January 17, 2021 at 1:17 pm
Either the Republican Party is going to serve and protect all Americans or it is just going to be Moscow Mitch and the goptrump death cult sociopaths! Mitch you got a conscience? The past four years say you are just a privileged rich old white man! Vote Democrat for 2022!
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Quick Facts About Ciara
Celebrated Name
Ciara
Age
36 Years
Nick Name
The first Lady of Crunk, The Princess, Princess of Crunk & B, Ci Ci
Birth Name
Ciara Princess Harris
Birth Date
1985-10-25
Gender
Female
Profession
Singer
Place Of Birth
Austin, Texas, U.S.
Nationality
American
Birth Nation
USA
Home Town
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Famous For
Singer, Songwriter, Dancer, Model, Actress
Education
Riverdale High School
Horoscope
Scorpio
Marital Status
Married
Father
Carlton Harris
Mother
Jackie Harris
Spouse
Russell Wilson
Children
Two
Sexual Orientation
Straight
Religion
Christianity
Ethnicity
Mixed
Height
5 feet 8 inches
Weight
62 Kg
Bra Cup Size
34B
Chest Size
34 inches
Waist Size
24 inches
Hip Size
35 inches
Shoe Size
10 (US)
Eye Color
Dark Brown
Hair Color
Black (Naturally)
Dress Size
4 (US)
Net Worth
$25 Million
Salary
Under Review
Source of Wealth
Entertainment Industry
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Ciara is a Grammy award-winning American singer, record producer, songwriter, and actress. She started hogging the limelight after the release of her debut song and album, both titled Goodies. She became part of the girl group Hearsay during her teens and when the group disbanded, she embarked on a solo music career.
While working on different projects as a songwriter, she met music producer Jazze Pha who helped her sign a record contract with LaFace Records. Her debut single Goodies became a sensational hit commercially and critically, topping the US Billboard Hot 100 chart for seven weeks and reaching atop the UK Singles Chart. She then released her debut album bearing the same title. The album became a grand success, earning her two Grammy Award nominations. Let's know more about her through this article.
What is Ciara known for?
An American singer, songwriter, dancer, and model.
Source: @eonline
When was Ciara born?
Recalling her early life, Ciara was born in Austin, Texas, the USA to her parents; Jakie and Carlton Harris. She is the only child of her parents. As a child of army person, she spent most of her childhood on different the United States naval bases, including; New York, Utah, and Germany. Her family finally settled in Atlanta. She joined a girl group Hearsay for a short period in her teenage. After that, she wrote songs for different artists, and at that point, she decided to pursue her career in music.
Similarly, she is Ameican by nationality and belongs to mixed ethnicity. Her birth sign is Scorpio. Further, she completed her graduation from Riverdale High School in Riverdale, Georgia in the year 2003.
When did Ciara begin her singing career?
Following her graduation, she signed a record contract with LaFace Records with the help of Pha. On June 8th, 2004, LaFace Records released her debut single Goodies which served as the lead single of her first studio album. The song, which was co-written by Craig Love, Jefferson, LeMarquis, and Sean Garrett and produced by Lil Jon, featured American rapper, Petey Pablo.
The single received appreciation from the critics and topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for seven weeks. It was the first time since 1977 that a debut single by a female singer had achieved such a feat.
The song also topped US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, US Rhythmic Top 40 chart, and the UK Singles Chart. It also earned her the title First Lady or Princess of Crunk&B.
On September 28th, 2004, her debut studio album Goodies was released through Sho'nuff Records and LaFace Records. The concept of the album came from her debut song Goodies which was developed as a female crunk counterpart to Yeah!, a song by the popular American singer Usher.
The album was a commercial success, debuting at #3 on the US Billboard 200 chart. It also had a 71-week run on the chart. It climbed atop the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It received 3 x Platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Apart from the title track, Goodies spawned three other singles, namely 1, 2 Step, Oh, and And I.
1, 2 Step, which released on October 23rd, 2004, featured popular American rapper, Missy Elliott. It peaked at #5 on US Billboard Hot 100 and topped the US Billboard Pop 100 and US Billboard Mainstream Top 40 charts. It was certified platinum by RIAA and ARIA and gold by RMNZ.
1, 2 Step also earned a nomination for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards.
She was featured in Missy Elliott’s hit single Lose Control along with Fatman Scoop. The song, which released on May 27th, 2005, won her the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video and the Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul or Rap Dance Cut along with Elliott and Scoop in 2006.
She stepped into the world of acting with the May 23rd, 2006, released sport/drama film All You've Got, which was produced by MTV Studios. Her other big-screen endeavors include Mama, I Want to Sing! (2012) and That’s My Boy (2012).
Her second studio album Ciara: The Evolution released on December 5th, 2006, and became her first album to top the US Billboard 200 chart. It also topped the U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and received platinum certification from RIAA.
Singles from Ciara: The Evolution include Get Up, Promise, Like a Boy, and Can't Leave 'em Alone. Of these, Get Up, which released as the album's international lead single on July 25th, 2006, was used in the 2006 film Step Up.
Meanwhile, she embarked on The Evolution Tour to promote the album Ciara: The Evolution in October 2006 which marked her first headlining tour. Other headlining tours of Ciara include the Screamfest '07 with T.I. (2007), the Jay-Z & Ciara Live concert tour with Jay-Z (2009) and the Jackie Tour in 2015.
Her achievements as a recording artist earned her Woman of the Year award at the annual ‘Billboard Women in Music’ event held by Billboard in October 2008.
On May 3rd, 2009, she released her third studio album Fantasy Ride which debuted at #3 on US Billboard 200 and peaked at #9 on the UK Albums Chart. Although it became her first album to reach the top ten of the UK Albums Chart, it garnered less success than her first two albums.
The song Love Sex Magic from Fantasy Ride, featuring American recording artist Justin Timberlake, released as the album’s lead single internationally and earned her a Grammy Award nomination under the Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals category.
She embarked into television in 2009 with the American reality television series America's Next Top Model and then went on to appear in other series, including Idols South Africa (2012), The Game (2013), I Can Do That (2015), and Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn (2015).
She was featured in several magazine spreads following her multimillion-dollar deal with ‘Wilhelmina Models’ in 2009.
Her fourth studio album Basic Instinct released on December 10th, 2010, and met with little success. The following year, she signed a new record deal with Epic Records.
She released her eponymous fifth studio album on July 5th, 2013 through Epic Records. It debuted at #2 on the US Billboard 200 chart, becoming her fourth album to reach the top three positions of the chart.
On May 1st, 2015, she released her sixth studio album, Jackie, through Sony Music Entertainment. It debuted at #17 on the US Billboard 200 chart. However, it experienced the lowest first-week sales compared to her previous five albums, selling only 20,000 copies.
It was announced on May 12th, 2016, that IMG has signed a modeling contract with her. Later that year, she became a global brand ambassador for Revlon.
She co-hosted the Billboard Music Awards in 2016 along with American hip hop recording artist and actor Ludacris.
Her seventh studio album Beauty Marks released on May 10th, 2019, and debuted at number 87 on the US Billboard 200 chart, making it her lowest ranking album to date. The album received mixed reviews and includes singles, such as Level Up, Freak Me, Dose, Greatest Love, and Thinkin Bout You.
Russell Wilson Biography
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Who is Ciara married to?
Reflecting on her personal life, Ciara was married to Russell Wilson, an American football quarterback player in 2016. The pair welcome their child, a daughter in 2017. Currently, she lives a blissful life with her husband and children.
Previously, he was also engaged to the Future in 2013. But after a year, they have separated their ways. However, she has a son with the Future.
What is Ciara's net worth?
Being a singer and model, Ciara earns an impressive amount of money and fame through her profession in the field of the entertainment industry. Based on some online sites, her estimated net worth said to be $25 million at present. However, her salary and assets details are yet to be disclosed.
How tall is Ciara?
Observing her body physics, Ciara stands a height of 5 feet 8 inches and weighs around 62 Kg. Similarly, she has a pair of dark brown eyes and her hair color is naturally black. However, she changes her hair from time to time. Further, her body measures 34-24-35 inches. Her shoe size is 10 (US) and dress size is 4 (US).
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Ciara is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress.
4. She was named after the Revlon fragrance “Ciara” which was introduced in 1973 and is still sold today.
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The Co 0238 - Sugarcane variety, a progeny of the cross CoLk 8102 x Co 775 evolved at ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Regional Centre, Karnal, is an early maturing variety released and notified during 2009. The variety was recommended for Uttar Pradesh during 2012-13. The variety, being a rare combination of two major negatively correlated characters, that is, cane yield and sugar recovery, has been benefiting both farmers and sugar industry. As a result the area under this variety expanded at a faster rate throughout the subtropical India. The gain in area was maximum in Uttar Pradesh, the largest sugarcane producing state in India (Table - 1). With the increase in area under Co 0238 in the U.P., the average cane productivity increased from 61.6 t/ha during 2012-13 to 80.5 t/ha during 2018-19. Similarly, the sugar recovery improved from 9.18 per cent to 11.46 per cent in corresponding years. In other words, there have been a phenomenon increase in the cane yield (18.9 t/ha) and the sugar recovery percent (2.28 units).
Table 1. Impact of Co 0238 on productivity and sugar recovery in UP
Parameter
2012-13
2013-14
2014-15
2015-16
2016-17
2017-18
2018-19
Area in UP (in lakh ha)
24.24
23.60
21.32
20.52
20.54
22.99
27.94
Area under Co 0238 (in lakh ha)
Not available
0.73 (3.1)
1.77 (8.3)
4.02 (19.6)
7.29 (35.5)
12.08 (52.5)
19.28 (69.0)
Cane yield (t/ha)
61.6
62.7
65.1
66.5
72.4
79.2
80.5
Sugar recovery (%)
9.18
9.25
9.54
10.61
10.61
10.84
11.46
*Figures in parenthesis indicate values in percentage
The economic impact analysis revealed a gross value of Rs. 120.8 thousand crores during 2014-15 to 2017-18 accounting to Rs. 30,192 crores per year. The total additional benefit from sugar and by-products during the period was Rs. 28,795 Crores or Rs. 7,199 Crores per year. Due to the phenomenal performance of Co 0238, UP became the number one state in terms of sugarcane and sugar production in the country. Co 0238 has greatly contributed towards achieving the highest ever sugar production (33.2 million tonnes) in the country during 2018-19, that in turn led to a Governments’ Policy decision on permitting direct conversion of sugarcane juice and B – Heavy molasses into ethanol (Annon., 2018).
Co 0238 was in cultivation on an area of 25.88 lakh hectares in Punjab, Haryana, UP, Uttarakhand and Bihar, which is 79.2% of the sugarcane area in these 5 states during 2019-20 season. At all India level the percentage of area covered by Co 0238 is 53.2%, perhaps the highest percentage covered by a single variety. Apart from 5 subtropical states, Co 0238 is also covering a sizable area in Gujrat, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha.
As per the report entitled “Chini Utpadan me purane sabhi record tute” published in Amar Ujala Newspaper (Meerut Edition) on 4th April, 2020, Co 0238 has resulted in record cane productivity (80q/big ha or 400q/acre) and sugar recovery above 12 %. According to Dr. R.D. Diwedi, District Cane Officer, Muzaffarnagar, the average sugar recovery on 4th April, 2020 was 11.59% as against 11.33% recorded last year on the same day. The three sugar mills (Khaikheri -13.83%, Tikaula - 13.35% and Khatauli - 13.11%) in the district have recorded more than 13% sugar recovery, whereas, rest 5 sugar mills recorded above 12%.
The increase in both sugar recovery and cane yield has led to tremendous increase in sugar production by each mill in Uttar Pradesh.
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PRELIMINARY PROXY MATERIALS SUBJECT TO COMPLETION DATED APRIL , 2021
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CV SCIENCES, INC.
10070 Barnes Canyon Road
San Diego, California 92121
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
To Be Held on May 27, 2021
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the annual meeting of the stockholders (the “Meeting”) of CV Sciences, Inc. (the “Company”, “we” or “us”) will be held on May 27, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time. Given the extraordinary circumstances arising from the Novel CoronaVirus ("COVID-19") pandemic, we have adopted a completely virtual format for our Meeting to provide a healthy, consistent and convenient experience to all stockholders regardless of location. You may attend, vote and submit questions during the Meeting via the Internet at www.iproxydirect.com/CVSI. You may also attend the Meeting by proxy, and may submit questions ahead of the Meeting through the designated website. For further information about the virtual Meeting, please see the Questions and Answers about the Meeting beginning on page 2. We expect to resume stockholder meetings in person in the future. The Meeting will have the following purposes:
(1)To elect five directors to hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified, subject to prior death, resignation or removal;
(2)To approve an amendment to our Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock from 190,000,000 shares to 290,000,000 shares, and to correspondingly increase the number of authorized shares of all classes of our capital stock to 300,000,000 shares;
(3)To ratify Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021;
(4)To approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, named executive officer compensation;
(5)To consider and act upon such other business as may properly be brought before the Meeting or any adjournments or postponement thereof by or at the direction of our Board of Directors.
The close of business on March 29, 2021 has been fixed as the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Meeting or any adjournments or postponement thereof. For at least 10 days prior to the Meeting, a complete list of stockholders entitled to vote at the Meeting will be open to any stockholder’s examination during ordinary business hours at our principal executive offices located at 10070 Barnes Canyon Road, San Diego, California 92121, (866) 290-2157.
Our Board of Directors has carefully reviewed and considered the foregoing proposals and has concluded that each proposal is in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders. Therefore, our Board of Directors has approved each proposal and recommends that you vote FOR all of the foregoing proposals.
Your vote is important no matter how large or small your holdings may be. If you do not expect to be present at the Meeting virtually, you are urged to immediately complete, date, sign and return the proxy card. Please review the instructions on each of your voting options described in the enclosed Proxy Statement as well as in the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials you received in the mail. This will not limit your right to attend or vote at the Meeting. You may revoke your proxy at any time before it has been voted at the Meeting. Please note that dissenters' rights are not available with respect to the proposals to be voted upon at this Meeting.
The Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials also contains instructions on how to access the Proxy Statement and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020, both of which are available online at: https://www.iproxydirect.com/CVSI.
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/s/ Joseph Dowling
Joseph Dowling
Chief Executive Officer and Secretary
San Diego, California
April , 2021
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CV SCIENCES, INC.
10070 Barnes Canyon Road
San Diego, California 92121
(866) 290-2157
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For
ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
To Be Held on May 27, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time
GENERAL INFORMATION
This proxy statement (the “Proxy Statement”) is furnished in connection with the solicitation of proxies by the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of CV Sciences, Inc. (the “Company”, “CV Sciences”, “we” or “us”) for use at the annual meeting of the stockholders (the “Meeting” or the “2021 Annual Meeting”) of the Company, to be held on May 27, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time. Given the extraordinary circumstances arising from the Novel CoronaVirus ("COVID-19") pandemic, we have adopted a completely virtual format for our Meeting to provide a healthy, consistent and convenient experience to all stockholders regardless of location. You may attend, vote and submit questions during the Meeting via the Internet at www.iproxydirect.com/CVSI. You may also attend the Meeting by proxy, and may submit questions ahead of the Meeting through the designated website. For further information about the virtual Meeting, please see the Questions and Answers about the Meeting beginning on page 2. We expect to resume stockholder meetings in person in the future. This Proxy Statement and proxy will be made available to our stockholders on or about , 2021.
Only stockholders of record at the close of business on March 29, 2021 (the “Record Date”), are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Meeting. At the close of business on the Record Date, shares of the Company’s common stock were issued and outstanding, held by more than individual participants in securities positions listings of our common stock. Each share of common stock is entitled to one vote on each matter to be voted upon at the Meeting. Shares cannot be voted at the Meeting unless the holder thereof is present or represented by proxy. The presence, virtually or by proxy, of the holders of a majority in voting power of the outstanding shares of common stock on the Record Date will constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at the Meeting and any adjournment or postponement thereof.
Our Board has selected Joseph Dowling to serve as the holder of proxies for the Meeting. The shares of common stock represented by each executed and returned proxy will be voted by him in accordance with the directions indicated on the proxy. If you sign your proxy card without giving specific instructions, Mr. Dowling will vote your shares “FOR” the proposals being made at the Meeting. The proxy also confers discretionary authority to vote the shares authorized to be voted thereby on any matter that may be properly presented for action at the Meeting; we currently know of no other business to be presented.
Any proxy given may be revoked by the person giving it at any time before it is voted at the Meeting. If you have not voted through your broker, there are three ways for you to revoke your proxy and change your vote. First, you may send a written notice to the Company’s Secretary stating that you would like to revoke your proxy. Second, you may complete and submit a new proxy card, but it must bear a later date than the original proxy. Third, you may vote virtually at the Meeting. However, your attendance at the Meeting will not, by itself, revoke your proxy. If you have instructed a broker to vote your shares, you must follow the directions you receive from your broker to change your vote. Your last submitted proxy will be the proxy that is counted. Please note that dissenters' rights are not available with respect to any proposal to be voted upon at the Meeting.
We will provide copies of this Proxy Statement and accompanying materials to brokerage firms, fiduciaries and custodians for forwarding to beneficial owners and will reimburse these persons for their costs of forwarding these materials. Our directors, officers and employees may solicit proxies by telephone, facsimile, or personal solicitation. We will not pay additional compensation for any of these services.
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Q. When is the Meeting?
A. May 27, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.
Q. Where will the Meeting be held?
A. Given the extraordinary circumstances arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, we have adopted a completely virtual format for our Meeting to provide a healthy, consistent and convenient experience to all stockholders regardless of location. You may attend, vote and submit questions during the Meeting via the Internet at .
Q. Why am I receiving these proxy materials?
A. As permitted by rules adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), we are making this Proxy Statement and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020 (the “Annual Report”), available to our stockholders electronically via the Internet. On or about , 2021, we mailed to all stockholders of record entitled to vote at the 2021 Annual Meeting a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials containing instructions on how to access this Proxy Statement and our Annual Report and vote via the Internet, by phone, or by mail. If you received a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials by mail, you will not receive a printed copy of the proxy materials, unless specifically requested. If you received a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials by mail and would like to receive a printed copy of the proxy materials, you should follow the instructions for requesting such materials included in the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials. We sent you the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials because the Company’s Board is soliciting your proxy to vote at the 2021 Annual Meeting. You are invited to attend the 2021 Annual Meeting to vote on the proposals described in this Proxy Statement. However, you do not need to attend the Meeting to vote your shares. Instead, you may follow the instructions on the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials to vote by internet or by mail.
Q. Who is entitled to vote at the Meeting?
A. Only stockholders who owned shares of our common stock at the close of business on the Record Date are entitled to notice of the Meeting and to vote at the Meeting, and at any postponements or adjournments thereof. At the close of business on the Record Date, there were shares of our common stock outstanding held by over individual participants in securities positions listings of our common stock.
Q. How many shares must be present to conduct business?
A. The presence at the Meeting, virtually or by proxy, of the holders of a majority in voting power of the outstanding shares of our common stock at the close of business on the Record Date will constitute a quorum. A quorum is required to conduct business at the Meeting.
Q. What will be voted on at the Meeting?
A. The following chart sets forth the proposals scheduled for a vote at the 2021 Annual Meeting and the vote required for such proposals to be approved:
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Proposal 1: To elect five directors to hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified, subject to prior death, resignation or removal;
Each director must be elected by a plurality of the votes cast; meaning that the five nominees receiving the most “FOR” votes (among votes properly cast virtually or by proxy) will be elected. Only votes “FOR” will affect the outcome. Withheld votes or broker non-votes will not affect the outcome of the vote.
Proposal 2: To approve an amendment to our Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock from 190,000,000 shares to 290,000,000 shares, and to correspondingly increase the number of authorized shares of all classes of our capital stock to 300,000,000 shares;
To be approved by our stockholders, at least a majority of the shares of common stock outstanding as of close of business on the record date must vote “FOR” this proposal. Abstentions will be counted toward the tabulation of votes cast on this proposal and will have the same effect as negative votes. We believe that this proposal is considered a routine matter and, thus, we do not expect to receive any broker non-votes on this proposal.
Proposal 3: To ratify Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021;
To be approved by our stockholders, the holders of a majority of the shares casting votes at the annual meeting on this proposal must vote “FOR” this proposal. Any shares of common stock that are not voted (whether by abstention or otherwise) will have no impact on the outcome of the vote with respect to this proposal. We believe that this proposal is considered a routine matter and, thus, we do not expect to receive any broker non-votes on this proposal.
Proposal 4: To approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, named executive officer compensation;
To be approved by our stockholders, the holders of a majority of the shares casting votes at the annual meeting on this proposal must vote "FOR" this proposal. Any shares that are not voted (whether by abstention, broker non-vote or otherwise) will have no impact on the outcome of the vote with respect to this proposal. This is an advisory vote and, therefore, is not binding.
Q. What shares can I vote at the Meeting?
A. You may vote all shares of common stock owned by you as of the Record Date, including (1) shares held directly in your name as the stockholder of record, and (2) shares held for you as the beneficial owner through a broker, trustee or other nominee such as a bank.
Q. What is the difference between holding shares as a stockholder of record and as a beneficial owner?
A. Some of our stockholders may hold shares of our common stock in their own name rather than through a broker or other nominee. As summarized below, there are some distinctions between shares held of record and those owned beneficially.
Stockholders of Record. If your shares are registered directly in your name with our transfer agent, Issuer Direct Corporation, you are considered to be, with respect to those shares, the stockholder of record, and the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials was sent directly to you. As the stockholder of record, you have the right to vote virtually at the Meeting and vote by proxy. Whether or not you plan to attend the Meeting, we urge you vote by internet or by mail to ensure your vote is counted. You may still attend the Meeting and vote virtually if you have already voted by proxy.
Beneficial Owner. If your shares are held in a brokerage account or by another nominee, you are considered the beneficial owner of shares held in “street name,” and these proxy materials, together with a voting instruction card, are being forwarded to you from that organization. As the beneficial owner, you have the right to direct your broker, trustee or nominee how to vote on your behalf and are also invited to attend the Meeting. Please note that since a beneficial owner is not the stockholder of record, you may not vote these shares virtually at the Meeting unless you obtain a “legal proxy” from the broker, trustee or nominee that holds your shares, giving you the right to vote the shares at the Meeting. If this applies to you, your broker, trustee or nominee will have enclosed or provided voting instructions for you to use in directing the broker, trustee or nominee how to vote your shares.
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Q. How can I vote my shares without attending the Meeting?
A. Whether you hold shares directly as the stockholder of record or beneficially in street name, you may direct how your shares are voted without attending the Meeting. If you are a stockholder of record, you may vote by proxy by internet or by mail by following the instructions provided on the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials. To vote using the proxy card, you must request a paper copy of the proxy materials by following the instructions available on the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials and then simply complete, sign and date the proxy card and return it promptly in the envelope provided. If you return your signed proxy card to us before the 2021 Annual Meeting, we will vote your shares as you direct. Stockholders who hold shares beneficially in street name may cause their shares to be voted by proxy in accordance with the instructions provided by their broker, trustee or nominee, by using the proxy card provided by the broker, trustee or nominee and mailing them in the envelope provided by such person.
Q. How can I vote my shares virtually at the Meeting?
A. Stockholders who attend the virtual 2021 Annual Meeting should follow the instructions at www.iproxydirect.com/CVSI to vote or submit questions during the meeting. Voting online during the meeting will replace any previous votes, and the online polls will close at 10:10 a.m. Pacific Time on May 27, 2021. Record holders who received a copy of this Proxy Statement and accompanying proxy card in the mail can vote by filling out the proxy card, signing it and returning it in the postage paid return envelope. Record holders can also vote by telephone 1-866-752-VOTE (8683) or by Internet at www.iproxydirect.com/CVSI. Voting instructions are provided on the proxy card. If you hold shares in street name, you must vote by giving instructions to your bank or broker. You should follow the voting instructions on the form that you receive from your bank or broker.
Q. How do I attend the virtual 2021 Annual Meeting?
A. You may attend the 2021 Annual Meeting online, including to vote and/or submit questions during the Meeting by logging in at www.iproxydirect.com/CVSI. The 2021 Annual Meeting will begin at approximately 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, with log-in beginning at 9:45 a.m. on May 27, 2021.
Q. How do I gain admission to the virtual 2021 Annual Meeting?
A. You are entitled to participate in the virtual 2021 Annual Meeting only if you were a stockholder of record who owned shares of the Company's common stock at the close of business on March 29, 2021, the Record Date. Each holder of record is entitled to one vote per share of common stock. As of the Record Date, there were shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote. To attend online and participate in the 2021 Annual Meeting, stockholders of record will need to use the control number on their Notice or proxy card to log into www.iproxydirect.com/CVSI; beneficial owners who do not have a control number may gain access to the Meeting by logging into their brokerage firm's website and selecting the stockholder communication mailbox to link through to the virtual 2021 Annual Meeting. Instructions should also be provided on the voting instruction card provided by their broker, bank, or other nominee.
We encourage you to access the meeting prior to start time. Please allow time for online check-in, which will begin at 9.45 a.m. Pacific Time. If you have difficulties during the check-in time or during the 2021 Annual Meeting, please call technical support at 919-481-4000.
Stockholders have multiple opportunities to submit questions to the Company for the 2021 Annual Meeting. Stockholders who wish to submit a question in advance may do so in the question tab of the webcast online during the meeting at .
Q. How are votes counted?
A. If you provide specific instructions with regard to an item, your shares will be voted as you instruct on such item. If you sign your proxy card without giving specific instructions, your shares will be voted in accordance with the recommendations of the Board (“FOR” each proposal, “FOR” the nominees identified herein, and in the discretion of the proxy holder on any other matters that properly come before the Meeting).
Q. What is a “broker non-vote”?
A. A broker non-vote occurs when a beneficial owner of shares held in street name does not give instructions to the broker or nominee holding the shares as to how to vote on matters deemed “non-routine.” Generally, if shares are held in street name, the beneficial owner of the shares is entitled to give voting instructions to the broker or nominee holding the shares. If the beneficial owner does not provide voting instructions, the broker or nominee can still vote the shares with respect to matters that are considered to be “routine,” but not with respect to “non-routine” matters. Under the rules and interpretations of the New
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York Stock Exchange, “non-routine” matters are generally those involving a contest or a matter that may substantially affect the rights or privileges of stockholders, such as mergers, dissolutions or stockholder proposals. The shares that cannot be voted by brokers and other nominees on non-routine matters but are represented at the Meeting will be deemed present at our Meeting for purposes of determining whether the necessary quorum exists to proceed with the Meeting, but will not be considered entitled to vote on the non-routine proposals.
We believe that under applicable rules Proposals 2 and 3 are considered routine matters for which brokerage firms may vote shares that are held in the name of brokerage firms and which are not voted by the applicable beneficial owners.
We believe that Proposals 1 and 4 are considered non-routine matters under applicable rules. Accordingly, brokers or other nominees cannot vote on these proposals without instructions from beneficial owners.
Q. How are abstentions counted?
A. If you return a proxy card that indicates an abstention from voting on all matters, the shares represented will be counted for the purpose of determining both the presence of a quorum and the total number of votes with respect to a proposal, but they will not be voted on any matter at the Meeting.
With regard to Proposal 1, votes may be cast in favor of a director nominee or withheld. Because directors are elected by plurality, abstentions will be entirely excluded from the vote and will have no effect on its outcome.
With regard to Proposal 2, the affirmative vote from the holders of a majority of the shares entitled to vote on this proposal is required for approval. Accordingly, abstentions will not be voted in favor of such proposal and will have the same effect as a vote “AGAINST” the proposal.
With regard to Proposal 3 and Proposal 4, the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares casting votes at the Meeting on such proposal is required for approval. Accordingly, abstentions will have no effect on the outcome of the proposals.
Q. What should I do if I receive more than one Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials?
A. If you receive more than one Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, your shares are registered in more than one name or are registered in different accounts. Please follow the instructions on each Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials to ensure that all of your shares are voted.
Q. Can I change my mind after I return my proxy?
A. Yes. You may change your vote at any time before your proxy is voted at the Meeting. If you are a stockholder of record, you can do this by giving written notice to the Secretary, by submitting another proxy with a later date, or by attending the Meeting and voting virtually. If you are a stockholder in “street” or “nominee” name, you should consult with the bank, broker or other nominee regarding that entity’s procedures for revoking your voting instructions.
Q. Who is soliciting my vote and who is paying the costs?
A. Your vote is being solicited on behalf of the Board, and the Company will pay the costs associated with the solicitation of proxies, including preparation, assembly, printing and mailing of the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials and this Proxy Statement, as applicable.
Q. How can I find out the results of the voting?
A. We intend to announce preliminary voting results at the Meeting and publish final results in a Current Report on Form 8-K within four business days following the Meeting.
Q. Whom should I contact if I have questions?
A. If you have any additional questions about the Meeting or the proposals presented in this Proxy Statement, you should contact the following person at our principal executive office as follows:
Joseph Dowling, Secretary
10070 Barnes Canyon Road
San Diego, California 92121
(866) 290-2157
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PROPOSAL 1
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
The Board has nominated Ms. Beth Altman, Dr. Paul Blake, Mr. Joseph Dowling, Ms. Terri Funk Graham, and Dr. Joseph Maroon as directors to be elected to serve until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified, subject to prior death, resignation or removal. Each of the nominees is currently a director of CV Sciences. The size of the Board is currently fixed at five members. Accordingly, at the Meeting, five directors will be elected to the Board. Proxies cannot be voted for a greater number of persons than the number of nominees named. The five nominees with the greatest numbers of votes at the Meeting will be elected to the five director positions. Unless otherwise instructed, the proxy holders will vote the proxies received by them for the Board’s five nominees named below. If any nominee is unable or declines to serve as director at the time of the 2021 Annual Meeting, the proxies will be voted for any nominee who is designated by our present Board to fill the vacancy.
Name Age Position Audit Committee Compensation Committee Governance and Nominating Committee Director
Since
Beth Altman 50 Director C * 2019
Dr. Paul Blake 73 Director * * 2019
Joseph Dowling 63 Chief Executive Officer, Director 2018
Terri Funk Graham 55 Director * C 2019
Dr. Joseph Maroon 80 Director * C 2018
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C Chair
* Member
Each nominee, if elected at the Meeting, will serve as a director until the earlier of the 2022 annual meeting of the Company’s stockholders or until their successors are duly elected and qualified, subject to prior death, resignation or removal. There currently are no legal proceedings, and during the past ten years there have been no legal proceedings that are material to the evaluation of the ability or integrity of any of our directors or director nominees.
Beth Altman. Ms. Altman has served as a Director of CV Sciences, Inc. since October 24, 2019. Ms. Altman joined the Board and brings a proven track record of more than 25 years including achievements in accounting, finance, management, business development, strategic planning, and corporate governance. Ms. Altman worked at KPMG from 1993 to 2019, serving as office Managing Partner from 2014 to 2019, where she successfully led a team of over 260 professionals and 23 partners, providing an array of assurance, tax and advisory services to public and private companies across all industry sectors. Additionally, Ms. Altman served as the lead audit partner for numerous early-stage, middle market and large global clients in the private and public markets, predominately in the life sciences, consumer markets, and technology sectors. Since June 2020, Ms. Altman has served on the board of directors and on the audit committee of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: MDRX). Ms. Altman also served as a board member of the Corporate Directors Forum, a 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization focused on helping directors, and those who support them, build more effective boards through continuous learning and peer networking. She also held a leadership position in the Women Corporate Directors, San Diego Chapter, the world’s largest membership organization and community of today’s preeminent women leaders in business.
The Board has determined that Ms. Altman's substantial finance, management, business development and strategic planning experience, as well as her experience serving as a member of other boards, make her well-qualified to continue as a member of our Board.
Dr. Paul Blake. Dr. Blake has served as a Director of CV Sciences, Inc. since October 21, 2019. Dr. Blake brings with him deep expertise in clinical research, development, and medical affairs within the pharmaceutical industry. He is currently CEO of Papyrus Therapeutics Inc. He served as Chief Medical Officer at Heron Therapeutics Inc. ("Heron"), a commercial-stage biotechnology company focused on improving the lives of patients suffering from pain or cancer by developing best-in-class treatments, from December 2017 to March 2020. At Heron, Dr. Blake was responsible for clinical research, medical affairs and drug safety. Prior to joining Heron, he served as Chief Medical Officer of BioDelivery Sciences International, and before that he was the Chief Development Officer at Oxford BioMedica, a gene therapy company. His prior positions include Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Clinical Research and Development of Aeterna Zentaris, Inc., and Senior Vice President and then Executive Vice President of Worldwide Medical and Regulatory Operations at Cephalon, Inc. From 1992 to 1998, he held the position of Senior Vice President and Medical Director, Clinical Research and Development at SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals (now GlaxoSmithKline plc). Prior to that, he worked for ICI Pharmaceuticals (now Astra Zeneca) and G.D. Searle. Dr. Blake is qualified in medicine from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London University. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians. He
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is also a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology. Dr. Blake has been involved in the development of several pharmaceutical drugs including: Tenormin, Zestril, Kytril, Relafen, Paxil, Coreg, Havrix, Hycamtin, Famvir, Requip, Avandia, Provigil and Fentora. Dr. Blake served on the board of Memory Pharmaceutical, Inc., until it was purchased by Roche in 2009 and was a founding board member of Protez Pharmaceuticals, Inc., until it was purchased by Novartis in 2008.
The Board has determined that Dr. Blake's substantial experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including in the development of several pharmaceutical drugs, and prior leadership experience make him well-qualified to continue as a member of our Board.
Joseph Dowling. Mr. Dowling was appointed as our Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") on May 31, 2018 and Secretary on August 25, 2014. He was our Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) from June 16, 2014 to March 15, 2019. Before joining CV Sciences, Mr. Dowling held numerous senior positions including serving as President and CFO of MediVas, LLC, a biotechnology company focused on drug formulation and delivery, from 2005 to 2013 where he led day-to-day operations, drug research and development, product development and commercialization and strategic alliance building, including license agreements with Pfizer, Merck, Wyeth, DSM, Guidant and Boston Scientific. Mr. Dowling served as a Managing Director in the mergers and acquisitions group at Citigroup from 1998 to 2005. Earlier in his career, Mr. Dowling served in various finance and accounting roles in both public accounting and in the banking industry. Mr. Dowling graduated from University of California, Los Angeles in Economics and is a Certified Public Accountant. As the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and former Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Dowling is specially qualified to serve on the Board because of his detailed knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry including drug research and development and the Company’s global consumer product operations and his expertise in financial matters.
As the Company's Chief Executive Officer and former Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Dowling is specially qualified to serve on the Board because of his detailed knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry, including drug research and development and the Company's global consumer product operations and his experience in financial matters.
Terri Funk Graham. Ms. Graham has served as a Director of CV Sciences, Inc. since August 22, 2019. Ms. Graham joined the Board with vast experience serving on the Board of Fortune 1000 companies. She is currently an Independent Board Director for Sprouts Farmers Market Inc. (Nasdaq: SFM), a $6 billion specialty retailer of natural and organic food focusing on health and wellness, where she serves as the Chairperson of the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee and serves on the Compensation Committee. Ms. Graham is also an Independent Board Director for Lumber Liquidators Inc. (NYSE: LL), a $1 billion specialty retailer of hard-surface flooring, where she serves as the Chairperson of the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. She also served on the Hot Topic Inc. and 1-800 Contacts Inc. Boards before these companies were sold to private equity firms. In addition to her extensive Board experience, Ms. Graham is a senior marketing executive change agent who directly influenced the success, image and growth of the $3 billion Jack in the Box brand for more than 20 years. As the SVP & Chief Marketing Officer for Jack in the Box for 10 years, she was a pioneer in innovative branding, product development, advertising and digital media. Acknowledged for her strategic thinking, financial acumen, courage and proven results, her strategic vision and business expertise enabled her to effectively reinvent the Jack brand multiple times with franchise partners and executive management. While at Jack in the Box, Ms. Graham delivered one of the most successful national advertising campaigns achieving 10 Effie Awards and several Belding’s and Clio Awards.
The Board has determined that Ms. Graham's substantial branding and marketing experience, as well as extensive experience serving on public company boards of directors, make her well-qualified to continue as a member of our Board.
Dr. Joseph Maroon. Dr. Maroon is a clinical professor and vice chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery and the Heindl Scholar in Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). He is a world-renowned neurosurgeon, and brings his expertise in health, nutrition and wellness to expand the depth of medical and biotech leadership on the Board. Dr. Maroon was previously a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Scientific Committee of Mylan Laboratories from 2005 to 2017. Dr. Maroon has been a team neurosurgeon in the National Football League since 1981, and serves as medical director of other professional sports organizations. He has served on the editorial boards of eight medical and neurological journals. He also is past-president of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the largest society of neurosurgeons in the world. Dr. Maroon has conducted extensive research into neurotrauma, brain tumors and diseases of the spine, which has led to many innovative techniques for diagnosing and treating these disorders. His research efforts have garnered him numerous awards from various national and international neurological societies.
The Board has determined that Dr. Maroon's substantial medical experience and health expertise make him well-qualified to continue as a member of our Board.
Vote Required and Recommendation of the Board
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Directors are elected by plurality of the votes cast at the Meeting by the holders of shares present virtually or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the election of the directors. The five nominees receiving the highest number of "FOR" votes will be elected. Shares represented by executed proxies will be voted for which no contrary instruction is given, if authority to do so is not withheld, FOR the election of each of the nominee named above. If a nominee becomes unavailable for election as a result of an unexpected occurrence, your shares will be voted for the election of a substitute nominee by your Board.
The Board unanimously recommends that you vote “FOR” each of the nominees identified above.
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PROPOSAL 2
APPROVAL OF AMENDMENT TO CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION TO INCREASE AUTHORIZED SHARES OF COMMON STOCK
Overview
We are asking our stockholders to approve an amendment to our Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (the “Existing Charter”), to increase the number of authorized shares of our common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, from 190,000,000 shares of common stock, to 290,000,000 shares of common stock, and to correspondingly increase the number of authorized shares of all classes of our capital stock to 300,000,000 (the “Charter Amendment”).
If our stockholders approve this proposal at the Meeting, then Article IV of the Existing Charter would be amended and restated to read in its entirety as follows:
“The Corporation is authorized to issue two classes of shares of stock to be designated as “Common Stock” and “Preferred Stock.” The total number of shares that the Corporation shall have the authority to issue is Three Hundred Million (300,000,000). The total number of shares of Common Stock shall be Two Hundred Ninety Million (290,000,000), and each such share shall have a par value of $0.0001; and the total number of shares of Preferred Stock shall be Ten Million (10,000,000), and each such share shall have a par value of $0.0001.
(a) Common Stock. The Corporation is authorized to issue shares of Common Stock from time to time, which shall have all of the rights normally associated with shares of common stock under the DGCL.
(b) Preferred Stock. The Corporation is authorized to issue shares of Preferred Stock from time to time in one or more series or classes, each such share or class to have such distinctive designation or title as may be fixed by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “Board”), duly adopted prior to the issuance of any shares thereof. Each such series or class shall have such voting powers, if any, and such preferences and/or other special rights, with such qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights as shall be stated in the resolution or resolutions providing for the issuance of such series or class of shares of Preferred Stock.”
No change to the number of shares of our authorized preferred stock is being made or proposed.
A copy of the proposed Charter Amendment to our Existing Charter is attached hereto as Attachment A, and we urge you to read Attachment A in its entirety before casting your vote.
The Board has unanimously approved, and recommended that our stockholders approve, the Charter Amendment.
General
As of March 16, 2021, the Company is authorized to issue up to 190,000,000 shares of its common stock, of which, 106,605,784 shares were issued and outstanding, and 10,000,000 shares of its preferred stock, none of which were or are issued or outstanding. Additional shares of common stock were reserved for issuance under our equity incentive plan and other outstanding securities, including (collectively, the “Anticipated Share Reserves”):
•38,215,243 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding stock options with a weighted-average exercise price of $0.47 per share; and
•5,175,398 shares of common stock reserved for future issuance under the Company’s Amended and Restated 2013 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”)
The purpose of the proposed Charter Amendment is to provide the Company with a sufficient number of shares of common stock available (i) to issue in connection with raising equity capital, (ii) to give us sufficient authorized shares of common stock to generally support our growth and to provide flexibility for future corporate needs, and (iii) to issue in connection
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with the exercise of stock options and warrants, and (iv) for potential future increases in the number of shares of common stock reserved for issuance under the Plan.
Accordingly, the Board has declared the proposed Charter Amendment to be advisable and in the best interests of the Company and our stockholders and is submitting the Charter Amendment to a vote of our stockholders.
Reasons to Approve the Charter Amendment and Increase Our Authorized Common Stock
The Board believes that the proposed Charter Amendment and increase in the number of authorized shares of our common stock is desirable to enhance our flexibility in taking possible future actions, such as raising additional equity capital, exchanging equity for debt or other transactions that have a similar effect, financings, stock-based acquisitions, stock splits, equity incentive awards, potential strategic transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, and business combinations, as well as other general corporate transactions.
Additionally, by approving the increase to the Company’s authorized shares of common stock now, we will be able to act in a timely manner when such a need arises or when the Board believes it is in the best interests of the Company and our stockholders to take action, without the risk, delay, and expense that would be required at that time to obtain stockholder approval of such an increase at a special meeting of stockholders.
Other than the reserved shares of common stock described above, as of the date of this Proxy Statement, we do not currently have any definitive agreements or plans to issue the additional shares of common stock that would be authorized as a result of approving the proposed Charter Amendment; provided, however, that the Company may, in its discretion, continue to utilize the stock purchase facility currently in place with Tumim Stone Capital LLC. We review and evaluate potential capital raising activities, transactions and other corporate actions on an ongoing basis to determine if such actions would be in the Company’s best interest and the best interest of our stockholders.
Effect of the Charter Amendment and Increase in Authorized Shares of Common Stock
Increasing the number of authorized shares of common stock will not alter the number of shares of common stock presently issued and outstanding or reserved for issuance, and will not change the relative rights of holders of any shares. The additional authorized shares of common stock, if and when issued, would have the same rights and privileges as the shares of common stock previously authorized, issued and outstanding. Those rights do not include preemptive rights with respect to the future issuance of any additional shares.
If the proposed Charter Amendment is adopted, other than with respect to the shares of common stock subject to the Anticipated Share Reserves and the Plan, the newly authorized shares of common stock would be unreserved and available for issuance. No further stockholder authorization would be required prior to the issuance of such shares of common stock by the Company, except where stockholder approval is required by our Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws, as amended, or law.
The increase in our authorized shares of common stock would not have any immediate dilutive effect on the proportionate voting power or other rights of our existing stockholders. However, any subsequent issuance, or the possibility of such issuance, of shares of common stock (including the exercise of stock options and warrants, and the issuance of shares of our common stock under the Plan) would reduce each stockholder’s proportionate interest in the Company, and may depress the market price of our common stock.
Except as set forth in the Charter Amendment, all of the remaining provisions of the Existing Charter will remain in full force and effect without change.
Anti-takeover Effects
SEC rules and regulations require disclosure of the possible anti-takeover effects of an increase in authorized capital stock and other charter and bylaw provisions that could have an anti-takeover effect. Although the Board has not proposed the Charter Amendment and the increase in the number of authorized shares of common stock with the intent of using the additional shares to prevent or discourage any actual or threatened takeover of the Company, under certain circumstances, such shares could have an anti-takeover effect. The additional shares of common stock could be issued to dilute the stock ownership or voting rights of persons seeking to obtain control of the Company or could be issued to persons allied with the Board or management and, thereby, have the effect of making it more difficult to remove directors or members of management by diluting the stock
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ownership or voting rights of persons seeking to effect such a removal. Accordingly, if the proposed Charter Amendment and authorized common stock increase is approved, the additional shares of authorized common stock may render more difficult or discourage a merger, tender offer or proxy contest, the assumption of control by a holder of a large block of common stock, or the replacement or removal of the Board or management.
This proposal is not prompted by any specific effort or takeover threat currently perceived by the Board or management.
Timing of the Proposed Charter Amendment
If our stockholders approve Proposal 2 at the Meeting, we will file the Charter Amendment to our Existing Charter with the office of the Secretary of State of Delaware to implement the increase in the authorized number of shares of common stock as soon as practicable following the Meeting. Upon approval and following such filing with the Secretary of State of Delaware, the Charter Amendment will become effective on the date it is filed.
Recommendation of the Board
The Board unanimously recommends a vote “FOR” the approval of this Proposal 2.
Vote Required
The affirmative (“For”) votes from the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock entitled to vote at the Meeting is required to approve the increase in the authorized number of shares of common stock.
If you are a stockholder of record as of the Record Date and you fail to vote in person, by remote communication, by failing to return your proxy card or to vote using the telephone or Internet, it will have the same effect as an “Against” vote.
If you are a stockholder of record and return a signed and dated proxy card without providing specific voting instructions on Proposal 2, or do not specify your vote on Proposal 2 when voting using the telephone or internet, your shares will be voted “For” Proposal 2 in accordance with the recommendations of our Board. Abstentions will have the same effect as “Against” votes.
We believe that Proposal 2 will be deemed to be a “routine” matter. Therefore, if you are a beneficial owner of shares of common stock registered in the name of your broker or other nominee and you fail to provide instructions to your broker or nominee as to how to vote your shares of common stock on Proposal 2, your broker or nominee will have the discretion to vote your shares of common stock on Proposal 2. Accordingly, if you fail to provide voting instructions to your broker or nominee, your broker or nominee can vote your shares of common stock on Proposal 2 in a manner that is contrary to what you intend. For example, if you are against the approval of Proposal 2 but you do not provide any voting instructions to your broker, your broker can nonetheless vote your shares of common stock “For” Proposal 2. While we do not expect any broker non-votes on Proposal 2, if you do not provide voting instructions and your broker or nominee fails to vote your shares of common stock, this will have the same effect as an “Against” vote. If you are a beneficial owner of shares of common stock registered in the name of your broker or other nominee, we strongly encourage you to provide voting instructions to the broker or nominee that holds your shares of common stock to ensure that your shares of common stock are voted in the manner in which you want them to be voted.
We urge investors to vote “For” this Proposal 2, as failure to obtain a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock entitled to vote at the Meeting will limit the Company’s ability to operate and execute on current and future business plans.
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PROPOSAL 3
RATIFICATION OF SELECTION OF
INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
Our Audit Committee has selected Deloitte & Touche LLP ("Deloitte") as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021, and has further directed that we submit the selection of the independent registered accounting firm for ratification by our stockholders at the 2021 Annual Meeting.
The selection of our independent registered public accounting firm is not required to be submitted for stockholder approval. Nonetheless, the Board is seeking ratification of its selection of Deloitte as a matter of further involving our stockholders in our corporate affairs. If our stockholders do not ratify this selection, the Board will reconsider its selection of Deloitte and will either continue to retain the firm or appoint a new independent registered public accounting firm. Even if the selection is ratified, the Board may, in its sole discretion, determine to appoint a different independent registered public accounting firm at any time during the year if it determines that such a change would be in our and our stockholders’ best interests.
Representatives of Deloitte will be at the Meeting. The representatives of Deloitte will have an opportunity to make a statement at the Meeting, if they so desire, and will be available to respond to appropriate questions.
The Audit Committee reviews and must pre-approve all audit and non-audit services performed by our independent registered public accounting firm, as well as the fees charged by it for such services. In its review of non-audit service fees, the Audit Committee considers, among other things, the possible impact of the performance of such services on the accounting firm’s independence.
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm's Fees
The following table summarizes the fees billed to us by Deloitte for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019. All fees described below were pre-approved by the Audit Committee:
Fee Category 2020 2019
Audit Fees (1) $ 475,236 $ 495,788
Audit Related Fees (2) 29,973 —
Tax Fees — —
All Other Fees (3) 1,895 —
$ 507,104 $ 495,788
(1) Audit fees consist of fees billed for professional services for audit and quarterly reviews of our financial statements.
(2) Audit Related Fees associated with the procedures related to the Company's filing of a Registration Statement on Form S-3 with the SEC.
(3) All Other Fees incurred were for subscriptions to technical accounting resources.
Audit Committee's Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures
Our Audit Committee has adopted a procedure for pre-approval of all fees charged by our independent auditors. Under the procedure, the Audit Committee approves the engagement letter with respect to audit and review services. Other fees are subject to pre-approval by the Audit Committee, or, in the period between meetings, by a designated member of the Board or Audit Committee. Any such approval by the designated member is disclosed to the entire Board at the next meeting.
Vote Required and Recommendation of the Board
The affirmative ("For") vote of the holders of a majority of the shares casting votes at the Meeting on this proposal, at which a quorum is present, is required to approve this proposal.
The Board unanimously recommends that you vote “FOR” the ratification of Deloitte as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ended December 31, 2021.
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PROPOSAL 4
ADVISORY VOTE TO APPROVE NAMED EXECUTIVE OFFICER COMPENSATION
In accordance with Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act, the Company is providing stockholders with an advisory (non-binding) vote on compensation programs, which is sometimes referred to as "say on pay," for our named executive officers, Mr. Joseph Dowling, Mr. Joerg Grasser, and Dr. Duffy MacKay. Accordingly, you may vote on the following resolution at the 2021 Annual Meeting:
"RESOLVED, that the compensation paid to our named executive officers, as disclosed pursuant to Item 402 of Regulation S-K, including the compensation tables and narrative discussion is hereby APPROVED."
This vote is non-binding. The Board intends to consider the outcome of the vote when making future executive compensation decisions and, in particular, to consider any significant negative voting results to the extent they can determine the cause or causes for such votes. The Board has determined, consistent with the vote of the Company's stockholders, to submit a resolution on the compensation of the Company's named executive officers to the Company's stockholders for an advisory vote every year.
Stockholders are encouraged to read the accompanying compensation tables and the related narrative disclosures for more information about the Company's executive compensation program.
Vote Required and Recommendation of the Board
The affirmative vote of holders of a majority of the shares of the Company's common stock casting votes at the Meeting on this proposal will be required for the approval, on an advisory non-binding basis, of the named executive officer compensation.
The Board unanimously recommends that you vote “FOR” the approval of the named executive officer compensation as disclosed in the accompanying compensation tables and the related narrative disclosure.
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Board and Stockholder Meetings and Attendance
The Board has responsibility for establishing broad corporate policies and reviewing our overall performance rather than day-to-day operations. The primary responsibility of the Board is to oversee the management of the Company and, in doing so, serve the best interests of the Company and its stockholders. The entire Board selects, evaluates and provides for the succession of executive officers and, subject to stockholder election, directors. It reviews and approves corporate objectives and strategies, and evaluates significant policies and proposed major commitments of corporate resources. The Board also participates in decisions that have a potential major economic impact on the Company. Management keeps the directors informed of Company activity through regular communication, including written reports and presentations at Board and committee meetings.
Directors are elected annually and hold office until the next annual meeting and until their successors are duly elected and qualified, subject to prior death, resignation or removal. During fiscal year 2020, there were four formal Board meetings. None of our directors attended fewer than 75% of the total number of meetings of the Board and meetings of any committee of the Board on which such director served during the time each such individual director was serving as a director. The Company encourages, but does not require, directors to attend annual meetings of stockholders. All of the directors attended the virtual 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
Committees of the Board
The Company has formal standing compensation, audit and nominating committees. All other functions of the Board are being undertaken by the Board as a whole, or special committees.
Compensation Committee
The Company's compensation committee (the "Compensation Committee") consists of Terri Funk Graham, Dr. Paul Blake, and Beth Altman, and has established a charter that requires all members of the Compensation Committee to be “non-employee directors” for purposes of Rule 16b-3 of the Exchange Act, and satisfy the requirements of an “outside director” for purposes of Section 16(m) of the Internal Revenue Code.
The Compensation Committee is responsible for overseeing and, as appropriate, making recommendations to the Board regarding the annual salaries and other compensation of our executive officers, our general employee compensation and other policies and providing assistance and recommendations with respect to our compensation policies and practices. The Compensation Committee is authorized to carry out these activities and other actions reasonably related to the Compensation Committee's purposes or assigned by the Board from time to time. The Compensation Committee operates pursuant to a written charter that is available on our website at http://www.cvsciences.com under "Investor Relations - Corporate Governance - Governance Documents." During fiscal year 2020, the Compensation Committee did not engage a compensation consultant. During fiscal year 2019, the Compensation Committee retained Radford, a division of Aon Hewitt, to consult with the Company on a range of issues relating to executive and director compensation. Radford served at the discretion of the Compensation Committee and provided services only to the Compensation Committee. Services provided by Radford included a review of executive and director compensation, public peer group and compensation philosophy development, and executive compensation benchmarking. Working with Radford, the Compensation Committee considered a variety of factors when determining the Company’s executive compensation program and total compensation levels. These factors included analysis of peer companies and Radford’s Global Life Science Survey.
During fiscal year 2020, the Compensation Committee held two meetings.
Audit Committee
The Audit Committee consists of Beth Altman, Dr. Joseph Maroon, and Terri Funk Graham, and has established a charter that requires all members of the Audit Committee to be independent in accordance with applicable listing standards. Our securities are quoted on the OTC: QB, which does not have any director independence requirements. Further, companies with securities only listed on the OTC: QB are not required to comply with the independence standards set forth in Rule 10A-3(b)(1) of the Exchange Act. Our Board has also determined that Ms. Altman is “audit committee financial experts” as defined in Item
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407(d) of Regulation S-K. The Audit Committee operates pursuant to a written charter that is available on our website at www.cvsciences.com under “Investor Relations – Corporate Governance - Governance Documents.”
The Audit Committee's responsibilities include: a) selecting and evaluating the performance of our independent auditors; b) reviewing the scope of the audit to be conducted by our independent auditors, as well as the result of their audit, and approving audit and non-audit services to be provided; c) reviewing and assessing our financial reporting activities and disclosure, including our earnings press releases and periodic reports, and the accounting standards and principles followed; d) reviewing the scope, adequacy and effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; e) reviewing management’s assessment of our compliance with our disclosure controls and procedures; f) reviewing our public disclosure policies and procedures; g) reviewing our guidelines and policies regarding risk assessment and management, our tax strategy and our investment policy; h) reviewing and approving related-party transactions; and i) reviewing threatened or pending litigation matters and investigating matters brought to the committee's attention that are within the scope of its duties.
The Audit Committee also reviews and discusses with our management and independent registered public accounting firm the financial statements and disclosures in our quarterly financial press releases and SEC filings. In performing its responsibilities, the Audit Committee has reviewed and discussed with management and the Company’s independent auditors the audited financial statements in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020. The Audit Committee has also discussed with the independent registered public accounting firm matters required to be discussed by Auditing Standard No. 61, Professional Standards, as adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”). The Audit Committee has received the written disclosures and the letter from the Company’s independent accountant required by applicable requirements of the PCAOB regarding the independent accountant's communications with the Audit Committee concerning independence, and has discussed with our independent registered public accounting firm such firm’s independence. Based on the reviews and discussions referred to above, the Audit Committee unanimously recommended to the Board that the audited financial statements be included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020.
During fiscal year 2020, the Audit Committee held five meetings.
Nominating Committee
The Company's nominating and governance committee (the "Nominating Committee") consists of Dr. Paul Blake and Dr. Joseph Maroon, and is comprised solely of independent directors, as defined by Nasdaq. The Nominating Committee interviews, evaluates, nominates and recommends individuals for membership on the Board, evaluates the effectiveness of the Board and its serving members, and recommends the structure, responsibility and composition of the committees of the Board. The Nominating Committee is also responsible for recommending guidelines and policies for corporate governance for adoption by the Board. The charter of the Nominating Committee has been established and approved by the Board, and a copy of the charter has been posted on our website at www.cvsciences.com under “Investor Relations – Corporate Governance - Governance Documents.”
The Nominating Committee provides instructions in each annual proxy statement regarding how stockholders can make director nominations. The Nominating Committee does not have a formal policy for consideration of any director candidates recommended by shareholders, including the minimum qualifications for director candidates, as we have never received such a nomination; however, any such nomination, if received, would be considered on an equal basis with candidates identified by the Nominating Committee.
During fiscal year 2020, the Nominating Committee held one meeting.
Board Leadership Structure
The Company does not have a lead independent director, as the Company's Chief Executive Officer also serves as the Chairman of the Board. We believe our leadership structure is appropriate for the size and scope of operations of a company of our size.
Board’s Role in Risk Management
The Board is responsible for oversight of risks facing CV Sciences, while our management is responsible for day-to-day management of risk. The Board, as a whole, directly oversees our strategic and business risk, including financial reporting related risk and product development risk. We believe the Board, as a whole, supports its role in risk oversight, with our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer responsible for assessing and managing risks facing CV Sciences day-to-day and other members of the Board providing oversight of such risk management.
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Code of Ethics
We have adopted a corporate code of ethics that applies to all directors, officers and employees. A copy is available on the "Investors-Corporate Governance" section of our website at www.cvsciences.com.
Family Relationships
There are no family relationships between any directors or executive officers of CV Sciences.
Compensation of Directors
We adopted a non-employee director compensation program (the "Program"). The Program became effective for any existing non-employee directors on January 1, 2020. Our Program for non-employee directors consists of:
•an annual cash retainer of $40,000, payable in quarterly installments;
•an annual fee of $15,000 to the Chair of the Audit Committee and an annual fee of $7,500 to each member of the Audit Committee;
•an annual fee of $10,000 to the Chair of the Compensation Committee and an annual fee of $6,000 to each member of the Compensation Committee;
•an annual fee of $7,500 to the Chair of the Nominating Committee and an annual fee of $5,000 to each member of the Nominating Committee;
•an initial option grant with a grant date fair value of $200,000 computed in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718; and
•an annual option grant with a grant date fair value of $100,000 computed in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718.
Name of Directors Fees earned or paid in cash
($)(1) Stock Awards
($) Option Awards
($)(2) All other compensation
($) Total ($)
Beth Altman $ 56,500 $ — $ 95,567 $ — $ 152,067
Dr. Paul Blake $ 51,000 $ — $ 95,567 $ — $ 146,567
Terri Funk Graham $ 55,625 $ — $ 95,567 $ — $ 151,192
Dr. Joseph Maroon $ 55,000 $ — $ 121,052 $ — $ 176,052
James McNulty (3) $ 35,025 $ — $ 146,537 $ — $ 181,562
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(1) This column reflects the annual cash retainer for Board services during fiscal 2020.
(2) These amounts represent the grant date fair value of stock options granted in fiscal 2020 computed in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718. We do not include any impact of estimated forfeitures related to service-based vesting terms in these calculations. Assumptions used in calculating these values may be found in Note 9 of our financial statements in our 2020 Annual Report on Form 10-K.
(3) Mr. McNulty resigned as a director on July 27, 2020.
The aggregate number of shares of our common stock subject to outstanding options held by each non-employee director as of December 31, 2020 was as follows: Ms. Altman 259,000 shares, Dr. Blake 259,000 shares, Ms. Graham 212,000, and Dr. Maroon 440,000 shares. Mr. McNulty did not have any outstanding options as of December 31, 2020.
Conflicts of Interest
Our directors and officers are not obligated to commit their full time and attention to our business and, accordingly, they may encounter a conflict of interest in allocating their time between our operations and those of other businesses. In the course of their other business activities, they may become aware of investment and business opportunities which may be appropriate for presentation to us as well as other entities to which they owe a fiduciary duty. As a result, they may have conflicts of interest in determining to which entity a particular business opportunity should be presented. They may also in the future become affiliated with entities that are engaged in business activities similar to those we intend to conduct.
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In general, officers and directors of a corporation are required to present business opportunities to the corporation if:
•the corporation could financially undertake the opportunity;
•the opportunity is within the corporation’s line of business; and
•it would be unfair to the corporation and its stockholders not to bring the opportunity to the attention of the corporation.
We have adopted a code of ethics that obligates our directors, officers and employees to disclose potential conflicts of interest and prohibits those persons from engaging in such transactions without our consent.
Board Communications with Stockholders
Stockholders desiring to communicate with the Board or any individual member should do so by sending regular mail to the Board, or such director, c/o Secretary, 10070 Barnes Canyon Road, San Diego, California 92121. All communications will be compiled by the Secretary and forwarded to the Board or the appropriate director accordingly.
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
The following table provides information concerning our executive officers as of March 16, 2021:
Name Age Position
Joseph Dowling 63 Chief Executive Officer and Director
Joerg Grasser 46 Chief Financial Officer
Dr. Duffy MacKay 48 Senior VP Scientific and Regulatory Affairs
Joseph Dowling. See biographical information set forth above under "Proposal 1 - Election of Directors."
Joerg Grasser. On March 15, 2019, Mr. Grasser was appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr. Grasser previously served as the Company's Chief Accounting Officer since December 26, 2018. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Grasser, held the position of Controller at Ballast Point Brewing Company ("Ballast Point"), a subsidiary of Constellation Brands, Inc. from 2015 to 2018, where Mr. Grasser provided accounting, finance, financial reporting and operational expertise to the company. Prior to his role at Ballast Point, from 2014 to 2015. Mr. Grasser held the position of Senior Director of Accounting for Sequenom, Inc., and from 2010 to 2014, Mr. Grasser was at Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation advancing to Director Financial Planning and Reporting. Mr. Grasser began his career at KPMG LLP providing audit and IT advisory services, advancing to senior audit manager. He has an MBA from the Keller Graduate School of Management, a BA from University of Regensburg and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Douglas “Duffy" MacKay, ND. On March 18, 2019, Dr. MacKay was appointed as Senior Vice President of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs of the Company. Prior to his appointment, Dr. MacKay was a senior executive with The Council for Responsible Nutrition ("CRN"), a Washington, D.C. based trade association for dietary supplements and functional foods. At CRN, Dr. MacKay held the position of Senior Vice President of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs from February 2014 to March 2018, and Vice President of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs from September 2008 to February 2014. In these roles, Dr. MacKay oversaw CRN’s scientific and regulatory affairs department, ensuring that the association’s scientific, policy and legislative positions were based on credible scientific rationale. Prior to CRN, from 2004 to 2008, Dr. MacKay held the position of Research Advisor for Nordic Naturals and Vice President of Clinical Research, Nordic Pharma, a division of Nordic Naturals. During this time, Dr. MacKay managed the research and scientific affairs for the leading omega-3 fatty acid company’s consumer product and pharmaceutical division. Dr. MacKay began his career in the dietary supplements industry as Technical Advisor at Thorne Research, where he provided technical support for product development, safety and marketing from 1999 to 2004. In addition to his work with nutritional products, Dr. MacKay maintained an integrative medicine clinical practice from 2001 to 2019, and currently serves on several editorial and advisory boards, including the Journal of Dietary Supplements Editorial Board; Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine Editorial Board; American Botanical Council Advisory Board; Food, Drug and Law Institute Cannabis Derived Product Committee; and CRN Board of Directors. Dr. MacKay earned his N.D. in Naturopathic Medicine in 2001 from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon and is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor in Maryland. Dr. MacKay completed his undergraduate degree in Marine Biology at University of California, Santa Cruz in 1994.
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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
The following table summarizes all compensation recorded by us in each of the last two completed fiscal years for our principal executive officer, our two most highly compensated executive officers (other than our principal executive officer) who were serving as executive officers as of December 31, 2020, and up to two additional individuals for whom disclosure would have been made in this table but for the fact that the individual was not serving as an executive officer of our company at December 31, 2019. The value attributable to any option awards, if any, is computed in accordance with FASB ASC 718 Share-Based-Payment (“ASC 718”).
Summary Compensation Table
The following table provides information concerning the compensation paid during fiscal years 2020 and 2019 to our "principal executive officer," and our next two most highly compensated executive officers who were serving as executive officers as of December 31, 2020. We refer to these individuals as our "named executive officers."
Name and Principal Position Fiscal Year Salary
($) Stock Awards
($)(1) Option Awards
($)(2) Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation
($)(3) All Other Compensation
($)(4) Total
($)
Joseph Dowling 2020 $ 362,099 $ — $ 484,480 $ — $ 16,500 $ 863,079
Chief Executive Officer 2019 $ 480,769 $ — $ 2,057,702 $ 210,000 $ 18,000 $ 2,766,471
Joerg Grasser (5) 2020 $ 214,711 $ — $ 267,939 $ — $ — $ 482,650
Chief Financial Officer 2019 $ 269,231 $ — $ 993,219 $ 120,000 $ — $ 1,382,450
Dr. Douglas MacKay (6) 2020 $ 195,192 $ — $ 141,188 $ — $ — $ 336,380
Senior Vice President of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs 2019 $ 192,308 $ — $ 993,678 $ 60,000 $ — $ 1,245,986
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(1)These amounts reflect the full grant date fair value of restricted stock units calculated in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718. Assumptions used in calculating these values may be found in Note 9 of our financial statements in our 2020 Annual Report on Form 10-K.
(2)These amounts reflect the full grant date fair value of stock option awards calculated in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718. Assumptions used in calculating these values may be found in Note 9 of our financial statements in our 2020 Annual Report on Form 10-K. Stock option awards include time-based stock options. The amounts include incremental expense of repriced option awards in 2020 for Mr. Dowling of $51,399, Mr. Grasser of $51,399, and Dr. MacKay of $25,699.
(3)The amounts in this column reflect awards earned under our 2020 and 2019 cash incentive bonus program for performance in the respective fiscal year, and which were paid early in the following fiscal year.
(4)These amounts reflect an auto allowance provided to Mr. Dowling for 2020 and 2019.
(5)Mr. Grasser was appointed Chief Financial Officer on March 15, 2019 and was previously Chief Accounting Officer from December 26, 2018.
(6)Dr. Douglas MacKay was appointed Senior Vice President of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs of the Company on March 18, 2019.
Narrative Explanation of Certain Aspects of the Summary Compensation Table
The base salaries of all executive officers are reviewed annually and adjusted when our Board or its Compensation Committee determines an adjustment is appropriate. For fiscal year 2020, the annual base salaries for our named executive officers were as follows: Mr. Dowling - $525,000, Mr. Grasser - $325,000, and Dr. MacKay - $265,000. We have employment agreements with Mr. Dowling and Mr. Grasser, as described below.
Each year, we adopt a cash incentive bonus program that incorporates certain short-term performance objectives designed to further our long-term business objectives. These performance objectives, which can change from year to year, have included corporate as well as individual objectives. Due to the Company's financial performance for fiscal year 2020, no cash incentive was earned by or paid to our executive officers. In addition, due to the extraordinary circumstances arising from COVID-19, we have deferred a portion of our executive cash compensation.
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In June 2020, our Board approved a stock option modification that reduced certain employees’ and directors’ stock option exercise prices to $0.66, as further discussed below in the section entitled “Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year End.” No other terms of the stock options were modified. Stock options to purchase a total of 1,250,000 shares of common stock held by our named executive officers were modified, including stock options to purchase 500,000, 500,000 and 250,000 shares of common stock held by Mr. Dowling, Mr. Grasser and Dr. McKay, respectively. The modification to the existing stock options held by our named executive officers resulted in $128,497 in incremental value of the stock options, as more specifically discussed in the footnotes to the Summary Compensation Table above.
During fiscal year 2020, Mr. Dowling's total compensation was $863,079, which included his salary of $362,099, the issuance of 1,500,000 stock options, $51,399 of incremental expense related to the repricing of certain of his stock options in June 2020, and a $16,500 auto allowance. Mr. Dowling's target for his performance bonus was 50% of his annual salary; however, as noted above, due to the Company's financial performance for fiscal year 2020, no bonuses were paid for 2020. During fiscal year 2019, Mr. Dowling's total compensation was $2,766,471, which included his salary of $480,769, a performance bonus of $210,000, the issuance of 500,000 stock options, and a $18,000 auto allowance.
During fiscal year 2020, Mr. Grasser's total compensation was $482,650, which included his salary of $214,711, the issuance of 750,000 stock options, and $51,399 of incremental expense related to the repricing of certain of his stock options in June 2020. Mr Grasser's target for his performance bonus was 20% of his annual salary; however, as noted above, due to the Company's financial performance for fiscal year 2020, no bonuses were paid for 2020. During fiscal year 2019, Mr. Grasser's total compensation was $1,382,450, which included his salary of $269,231, a performance bonus of $120,000 and the issuance of 250,000 stock options.
During fiscal year 2020, Dr. MacKay's total compensation was $336,380, which included his salary of $195,192, the issuance of 400,000 stock options, and $25,699 of incremental expense related to the repricing of certain of his stock options in June 2020. During fiscal year 2019, Dr. MacKay's total compensation was $1,245,985, which included his salary of $192,308, a performance bonus of $60,000 and the issuance of 250,000 stock options.
Employment Agreements
We have entered into employment agreements with Mr. Dowling and Mr. Grasser (the “Executives”).
Executive Employment Agreement with Joseph Dowling
Mr. Dowling is entitled to a base salary of $525,000, and a target annual bonus in the amount of 50% of his base salary. The target annual bonus is based on Mr. Dowling’s performance, as determined by our Board in its sole discretion, against fundamental corporate and/or individual objectives to be determined by the Board. Mr. Dowling is eligible to participate in the 2013 Plan from time to time and as recommended by the Compensation Committee.
Under the terms of the employment agreement with Mr. Dowling, if we terminate his employment without cause (as defined below) or he resigns for good reason (as defined below), the Company shall continue to pay Mr. Dowling all salary, benefits, bonuses and other compensation that would be due thereunder through the end of the term of the agreement had the Company not terminated Mr. Dowling’s employment, but in any event not less than one-year after the date of such termination, with such amounts payable in accordance with the Company’s standard payroll.
In the event Mr. Dowling’s employment is terminated with cause (as defined below), the Company shall pay Mr. Dowling all salary then due and payable through the date of termination. Mr. Dowling would not be entitled to any severance compensation or any accrued vacation pay or bonuses in connection with termination for cause.
If Mr. Dowling’s employment is terminated as a result of his death or following his permanent disability, Mr. Dowling or his estate, as applicable, is entitled to the following payments and benefits: (1) all salary and other compensation under his agreement, then due and payable and all accrued vacation pay and bonuses, if any, in each case payable or accrued through the date of death or determination of permanent disability, and (2) all salary and accrued benefits that would have been payable under his agreement by the Company to Mr. Dowling during the one-year period immediately following his death or permanent disability, as applicable.
In addition, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained any agreement with respect thereto, (i) upon termination of Mr. Dowling’s employment pursuant to termination with cause or voluntary termination without good reason, all stock options, other equity options, restricted equity grants and similar rights held by Mr. Dowling with respect to securities of the Company not then fully vested shall immediately terminate and revert to the Company, (ii) upon termination of Mr. Dowling’s employment pursuant to termination without cause or voluntary termination with good reason, all stock options, other equity options, restricted equity grants and similar rights held by Mr. Dowling with respect to securities of the Company shall remain in full force and effect and shall not be affected by such termination, and shall continue to vest in accordance with their terms, and
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(iii) upon termination of Mr. Dowling’s employment pursuant to death or permanent disability, all stock options, other equity options, restricted equity grants and similar rights held by Mr. Dowling with respect to securities of the Company shall, to the extent not then fully vested, immediately become fully vested.
Executive Employment Agreement with Joerg Grasser
Mr. Grasser is entitled to a base salary of $325,000, and a target annual bonus in the amount of 20% of his base salary. The target annual bonus is based on Mr. Grasser’s performance, as determined by the Board in its sole discretion, against fundamental corporate and/or individual objectives to be determined by the Board. Mr. Grasser is eligible to participate in the Plan from time to time and as recommended by the Compensation Committee.
Under the terms of the employment agreement with Mr. Grasser, if we terminate his employment without cause (as defined below) or he resigns for good reason (as defined below), the Company shall continue to pay Mr. Grasser all salary and benefits, that would be due thereunder as follows (i) if terminated during the first year of employment, for eight weeks, (ii) if terminated during the second year of employment, for twelve weeks, and (iii) if terminated during the third year of employment, for sixteen weeks, with such amounts payable in accordance with the Company’s standard payroll.
In the event Mr. Grasser’s employment is terminated with cause (as defined below), the Company shall pay Mr. Grasser all salary then due and payable through the date of termination. Mr. Grasser would not be entitled to any severance compensation in connection with termination for cause.
Defined Terms Applicable to Executive Employment Agreements
For purposes of the Executives' Employment Agreements, "Cause" shall mean, upon delivery by the Board to Executive of a written notice terminating the Agreement for Cause (as such term is defined below), which notice shall be supported by a reasonably detailed statement of the relevant facts and reasons for termination:
(a) Executive shall have committed an act of fraud, embezzlement or theft with respect to the property or business of the Company;
(b) Executive shall have materially breached the Agreement, as determined by the Board, and such breach shall have continued for a period of twenty days after receipt of written notice from the Board specifying such breach;
(c) Executive shall have been grossly negligent in the performance of his duties under the Agreement, intentionally not performed or mis-performed any of such duties, or refused to abide by or comply with the reasonable and lawful directives of the Board of Directors, in each case as reasonably determined by the Board, which action shall have continued for a period of twenty days after receipt of written notice from the Board demanding such action cease or be cured; or
(d) Executive shall have been found guilty of, or has pled nolo contendere to, the commission of a felony offense or other crime involving moral turpitude.
For purposes of the Executive Employment Agreements, "Good Reason" shall mean:
(a) The assignment of Executive to any duties inconsistent with, or any adverse change in, Executive's positions, duties, responsibilities, functions or status with the Company, or the removal of Executive from, or failure to reelect Executive to, any of such positions; provided, however, that a change in Executive's positions, duties, responsibilities, functions or status that Executive shall agree to in writing shall not be an event of Good Reason or give rise to termination for Good Reason;
(b) A reduction by the Company of Executive's Base Salary without his written consent;
(c) The failure by the Company to continue in effect for Executive any material benefit provided herein or otherwise available to any of the management executives of the Company, including without limitation, any retirement, pension or incentive plans, life, accident, disability or health insurance plans, equity or cash bonus plans or savings and profit sharing plans, or any action by the Company which would adversely affect Executive's participation in or reduce Executive's benefits under any of such plans or deprive Executive of any fringe benefit enjoyed by Executive; or
(d) Any other material breach by the Company of the Agreement which is not cured within twenty days of delivery of written notice thereof by Executive to the Company.
Option Grants
On July 23, 2014, Company stockholders approved the Plan, which provides for the granting of stock options, restricted stock awards, restricted stock units, stock bonus awards and performance-based awards. On each of December 21, 2015, October 24, 2016, July 14, 2017, August 4, 2018, and June 11, 2019 the Company’s stockholders approved an amendment to the Plan to
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increase the number of shares that may be issued under the Plan. There are currently 38,976,000 shares of common stock authorized for issuance under the Plan. As of December 31, 2020, the Company had 6,165,000 of authorized unissued shares reserved and available for issuance under the Plan.
Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year End
The following table provides a summary of all outstanding option awards for named executive officers at the end of fiscal year 2020.
Option Awards
Name Award Grant and Commencement of Vesting Date Number of securities underlying unexercised option (#) exercisable Number of securities underlying unexercised option (#) unexercisable Option exercise price
($) Option Expiration Date
Joseph Dowling 10/1/2014 600,000 — $ 0.38 10/1/2024
Chief Executive Officer 5/21/2015 100,000 — $ 0.38 5/21/2025
9/23/2015 200,000 — $ 0.73 9/23/2025
12/28/2015 150,000 — $ 0.16 12/28/2025
10/5/2016 250,000 — $ 0.37 7/5/2026
3/15/2017 100,000 — $ 0.38 3/15/2027
7/14/2017 250,000 — $ 0.37 7/5/2026
7/14/2017 250,000 — $ 0.37 3/15/2027
3/20/2018 500,000 — $ 0.40 3/19/2028
2/20/2019 500,000 — $ 0.66 (3) 2/19/2029
3/20/2020 1,500,000 — $ 0.33 3/19/2030
Joerg Grasser (1) 12/26/2018 166,250 83,750 $ 0.66 (4) 12/25/2028
Chief Financial Officer 3/1/2019 166,250 83,750 $ 0.66 (5) 2/28/2029
3/20/2020 750,000 — $ 0.33 3/19/2030
Dr. Douglas MacKay (2) 3/18/2019 145,313 104,687 $ 0.66 (5) 3/17/2029
Senior Vice President Scientific and Regulatory Affairs 3/20/2020 400,000 — $ 0.33 3/19/2030
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(1) Mr. Grasser was appointed Chief Financial Officer on March 15, 2019. He was the Chief Accounting Officer of the Company from December 26, 2018.
(2) Dr. Douglas MacKay was appointed Senior Vice President Scientific and Regulatory Affairs on March 18, 2019.
(3) On June 18, 2020, the original option was repriced from its original exercise price of $4.72. No other terms of the option were modified.
(4) On June 18, 2020, the original option was repriced from its original exercise price of $3.99. No other terms of the option were modified.
(5) On June 18, 2020, the original option was repriced from its original exercise price of $4.67. No other terms of the option were modified.
Pension, Retirement or Similar Benefit Plans
During fiscal years 2020 and 2019 there were no arrangements or plans in which we provided pension, retirement or similar benefits to our directors or executive officers.
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
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Beneficial Ownership of Directors, Officers and 5% Stockholders
Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the SEC. In computing the number of shares beneficially owned by a person and the percentage of ownership of that person, shares of common stock subject to options and warrants held by that person that are currently exercisable or become exercisable within 60 days are deemed outstanding even if they have not actually been exercised. Those shares, however, are not deemed outstanding for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of any other person. The following table sets forth, as of March 16, 2021, certain information as to shares of our common stock owned by (i) each person known to beneficially own more than five percent of our outstanding common stock or preferred stock, (ii) each of our directors, and executive officers named in our summary compensation table, and (iii) all of our executive officers and directors as a group. Unless otherwise indicated, the address of each named beneficial owner is the same as that of our principal executive offices located at 10070 Barnes Canyon Road, San Diego, CA 92121.
Name and Address of Beneficial Owner (1) Number of Shares of
Common Stock Beneficially
Owned (2) Percent of Common Stock
Beneficially Owned
5% or greater stockholders:
Michael Mona, Jr. (3) 13,286,722 12.5%
Named Executive Officers and Directors:
Joseph Dowling (4) 4,415,000 4.2%
Joerg Grasser (5) 1,140,000 1.1%
Dr. Douglas MacKay (6) 573,611 *
Dr. Joseph Maroon (7) 1,031,116 *
Beth Altman (8) 37,514 *
Dr. Paul Blake (9) 36,333 *
Terri Funk Graham (10) 20,667 *
All executive officers and directors as a group (seven persons) 7,254,241 6.8%
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* Less than 1%
(1) Beneficial ownership has been determined in accordance with Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act. Pursuant to the rules of the SEC, shares of our common stock that each named person and group has the right to acquire within 60 days pursuant to options, warrants, or other rights, are deemed outstanding for purposes of computing shares beneficially owned by the percentage ownership of each such person and group. Applicable percentages are based on 106,049,422 shares of our common stock outstanding on March 16, 2021, and are calculated as required by rules promulgated by the SEC.
(2) Unless otherwise noted, all shares listed are owned of record and the record owner has sole voting and investment power, subject to community property laws where applicable.
(3) Beneficial ownership includes 1,812,060 shares of common stock owned by Mr. Mona, Jr. and 11,300,000 outstanding stock options. Mr. Mona Jr. is also the beneficial owner of Aegean Limited LLC.
(4) Beneficial ownership includes 15,000 shares of common stock owned by Mr. Dowling and 4,400,000 outstanding stock options.
(5) Beneficial ownership includes 15,000 shares of common stock owned by Mr. Grasser and 1,140,000 outstanding stock options.
(6) Beneficial ownership includes 573,611 outstanding stock options.
(7) Beneficial ownership includes 741,116 shares of common stock owned by Dr. Maroon and 290,000 outstanding stock options.
(8) Beneficial ownership includes 1,181 shares of common stock owned by Ms. Altman and 36,333 outstanding stock options.
(9) Beneficial ownership includes 36,333 outstanding stock options.
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(10) Beneficial ownership includes 20,667 outstanding stock options.
Equity Compensation Plan Information
On July 23, 2014, Company stockholders approved the Plan, which provides for the granting of stock options, restricted stock awards, restricted stock units, stock bonus awards and performance-based awards. On each of December 21, 2015, October 24, 2016, July 14, 2017, August 4, 2018, and June 11, 2019, the Company’s stockholders approved an amendment to the Plan to increase the number of shares that may be issued under the Plan. There are currently 38,976,000 shares of common stock authorized for issuance under the Plan. As of December 31, 2020, the Company had 6,165,000 of authorized unissued shares reserved and available for issuance under the Plan.
The information set forth in the table below is provided as of December 31, 2020. As previously discussed in the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on July 11, 2016, on July 6, 2016, the Compensation Committee approved the grant of 6,000,000 standalone stock options to Mr. Mona and 1,000,000 standalone stock options to Mr. Dowling, which were not granted under the Plan. As set forth in the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on May 11, 2017, the terms of the options were subsequently amended and each grant has a term of ten years and is performance-based, with the option shares vesting upon the completion of each of four defined option performance conditions. Additionally on March 15, 2017, the disinterested members of the Board approved the grant of 5,000,000 standalone stock options to Mr. Mona, Jr., which were not granted under the Plan. The grant has a term of ten years and is performance-based, with the option shares vesting upon the completion of each of three defined option performance conditions. As previously discussed in the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on April 12, 2017 (the "April 2017 8-K"), on April 7, 2017, the Compensation Committee approved the grant of 1,000,000 standalone stock options to Mr. Dowling which were not granted under the Plan. As set forth in the April 2017 8-K, the terms of the options were subsequently amended and the stock grant has a term of ten years and is performance-based, with the option shares vesting upon the completion of each of three defined option performance conditions.
Plan Category Number of securities to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options, warrants and rights Weighted-average exercise price of outstanding options, warrant and rights Number of securities remaining available for future issuance under equity compensation plans (excluding securities reflected in the first column)
Equity compensation plans approved by security holders 20,225,243 $ 0.51 6,165,398
Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders 13,000,000 0.37 —
33,225,243 $ 0.45 6,165,398
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CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
Except for the transactions described below, none of our directors, nominees for director, officers or principal stockholders, nor any associate or affiliate of the foregoing, have had any interest, direct or indirect, in any transaction or in any proposed transaction since January 1, 2020, which materially affects the Company or has affected the Company.
There have been no other transactions the last two completed fiscal years or any currently proposed transactions in which we are, or plan to be, a participant and the amount involved exceeds the lesser of $120,000 or one percent of the average of our total assets at year-end for the last two completed fiscal years, and in which any related person had or will have a direct or indirect material interest.
Review, Approval or Ratification of Transactions with Related Persons.
We adopted a formal policy for the review, approval or ratification of related-party transactions. All material related party transactions have been disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Interest of Certain Persons in Matters to be Acted Upon
Other than the election of directors, none of our directors, nominees for director, executive officers, any person who has served as a director or executive officer since the beginning of the last fiscal year, or their associates have any interest, direct or indirect, by security holdings or otherwise, in any of the matters to be acted upon at the Meeting as described in this Proxy Statement.
Director Independence
Our securities are quoted on the OTC: QB, which does not have any director independence requirements. However, the Board has determined that all of the members of our Board, other than Mr. Dowling, are independent as defined by Nasdaq rules and that all such members of our Board are independent as independence for audit committee members and compensation committee members are defined by Nasdaq rules.
Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports
Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires our executive officers and directors, and persons who beneficially own more than 10% of a registered class of our equity securities to file with the SEC initial statements of beneficial ownership, reports of changes in ownership and annual reports concerning their ownership of our common shares and other equity securities, on Forms 3, 4 and 5 respectively. Based on our review of the copies of such forms received by us or filed with the SEC, and to the best of our knowledge, all executive officers, directors and persons holding greater than 10% of our issued and outstanding stock have filed the required reports in a timely manner during fiscal year 2020 with the exception of delinquent Form 4 filings by Michael Mona, Jr. and Josef Dowling, as described below. The Company is aware that (i) Michael Mona, Jr., an individual who beneficially owns more than 10% of our common stock and our former Chief Executive Officer, filed four late Form 4's during the 2020 fiscal year, and (ii) Mr. Dowling, our Chief Executive Officer and a director of our Board, filed one late Form 4 during the 2020 fiscal year.
STOCKHOLDERS’ PROPOSALS
Stockholders may submit proposals on matters appropriate for stockholder action at our subsequent annual meetings consistent with Rule 14a-8 promulgated under the Exchange Act. For such proposals or nominations to be considered timely, they must be received in writing by our Secretary no later than 120 days before the date on which the Company first sent its proxy materials for the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders. For such proposals or nominations to be considered in the proxy statement and proxy relating to the 2021 Annual Meeting of stockholders they must have been received by us no later than December 31, 2020. Such proposals should be directed to CV Sciences, Inc., 10070 Barnes Canyon Road, San Diego, CA 92121, Attn: Secretary. Any proposal may be included in next year’s proxy materials only if such proposal complies with the rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require us to include in our proxy statement or our proxy relating to any meeting any stockholder proposal or nomination that does not meet all of the requirements for inclusion established by the SEC.
OTHER BUSINESS
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The Board knows of no matter other than those described herein that will be presented for consideration at the Meeting. However, should any other matters properly come before the Meeting or any adjournments or postponements thereof, it is the intention of the person(s) named in the accompanying proxy to vote in accordance with their best judgment in the interest of the Company.
MISCELLANEOUS
We will bear all costs incurred in the solicitation of proxies. In addition to solicitation by mail, our officers and employees may solicit proxies by telephone, the Internet or personally, without additional compensation. We may also make arrangements with brokerage houses and other custodians, nominees and fiduciaries for the forwarding of solicitation materials to the beneficial owners of shares of our common stock held of record by such persons, and we may reimburse such brokerage houses and other custodians, nominees and fiduciaries for their out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection therewith. We have not engaged a proxy solicitor.
The SEC has adopted rules that permit companies and intermediaries such as brokers to satisfy delivery requirements for proxy statements with respect to two or more stockholders sharing the same address by delivering a single proxy statement addressed to those stockholders. This process, which is commonly referred to as “householding,” potentially provides extra convenience for stockholders and cost savings for companies. The Company and some brokers household proxy materials, delivering a single proxy statement and/or Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials to multiple stockholders sharing an address unless contrary instructions have been received from the affected stockholders. Once you have received notice from your broker or the Company that they or the Company will be householding materials to your address, householding will continue until you are notified otherwise or until you revoke your consent. If, at any time, you no longer wish to participate in householding and would prefer to receive a separate Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, please notify your broker if your shares are held in a brokerage account or the Company if you hold registered shares. We will also deliver a separate copy of this Proxy Statement to any stockholder upon written request. Similarly, stockholders who have previously received multiple copies of disclosure documents may write to the address or call the phone number listed below to request delivery of a single copy of these materials in the future. You can notify the Company by sending a written request to Joseph Dowling, Secretary, 10070 Barnes Canyon Road, San Diego, CA 92121, by registered, certified or express mail or by calling the Company at (866) 290-2157.
AVAILABILITY OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
We file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements, and other information with the SEC. You may read and copy any materials we file with the SEC at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549-2521. You may obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-732-0330. The SEC maintains a website at http://www.sec.gov that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC.
San Diego, California
April , 2021 By Order of the Board of Directors
/s/ Joseph Dowling
Joseph Dowling,
Chief Executive Officer and Secretary
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Attachment A
PROPOSED CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
TO THE
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
CV SCIENCES, INC.
CV SCIENCES, INC. (the “Corporation”), a corporation organized and existing under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”), hereby certifies as follows:
1. The name of the Corporation is CV Sciences, Inc. The Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on July 26, 2013 and amended on January 4, 2016 (as amended, the “Certificate of Incorporation”).
2. This Certificate of Amendment amends and restates Article IV of the Certificate of Incorporation to read in its entirety as follows:
“The Corporation is authorized to issue two classes of shares of stock to be designated as “Common Stock” and “Preferred Stock.” The total number of shares that the Corporation shall have the authority to issue is Three Hundred Million (300,000,000). The total number of shares of Common Stock shall be Two Hundred Ninety Million (290,000,000), and each such share shall have a par value of $0.0001; and the total number of shares of Preferred Stock shall be Ten Million (10,000,000), and each such share shall have a par value of $0.0001.
(a) Common Stock. The Corporation is authorized to issue shares of Common Stock from time to time, which shall have all of the rights normally associated with shares of common stock under the DGCL.
(b) Preferred Stock. The Corporation is authorized to issue shares of Preferred Stock from time to time in one or more series or classes, each such share or class to have such distinctive designation or title as may be fixed by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “Board”), duly adopted prior to the issuance of any shares thereof. Each such series or class shall have such voting powers, if any, and such preferences and/or other special rights, with such qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights as shall be stated in the resolution or resolutions providing for the issuance of such series or class of shares of Preferred Stock.”
3. This Certificate of Amendment was duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Section 242 of the DGCL by the directors and stockholders of the Corporation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Certificate of Amendment this ___ day of ______, 2021.
CV SCIENCES, INC.
By:
Name:
Title:
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CV SCIENCES, INC.
THIS PROXY IS SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS - MAY 27, 2021 AT 10:00 AM PACIFIC TIME
CONTROL ID:
REQUEST ID:
The undersigned hereby appoints Joseph Dowling proxy of the undersigned, with power of substitution, to vote all shares of capital stock of CV Sciences, Inc. (the "Company") held by the undersigned which are entitled to be voted at, and to act for the undersigned at, the Meeting of the Stockholders of the Company to be held on May 27, 2021 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time, and any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) thereof, as effectively as the undersigned could do if personally present on the matters indicated on the reverse side of this proxy.
(CONTINUED AND TO BE SIGNED ON REVERSE SIDE.)
Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials
for the Stockholder Meeting To Be Held on May 27, 2021
The Notice of the Meeting, Proxy Statement, Proxy Card, Annual Report on Form 10-K
are available at https://www.iproxydirect.com/CVSI
VOTING INSTRUCTIONS
If you vote by phone, fax or internet, please DO NOT mail your proxy card.
MAIL: Please mark, sign, date, and return this Proxy Card promptly using the enclosed envelope.
FAX:
Complete the reverse portion of this Proxy Card and Fax to 202-521-3464.
INTERNET: https://www.iproxydirect.com/CVSI
PHONE: 1-866-752-VOTE (8683)
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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS OF
CV SCIENCES, INC.
PLEASE COMPLETE, DATE, SIGN AND RETURN PROMPTLY IN THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE.
PLEASE MARK YOUR VOTE IN BLUE OR BLACK INK AS SHOWN HERE: ý
PROXY SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Proposal 1 [ FOR
ALL WITHHOLD
ALL FOR ALL
EXCEPT
Election of Directors. o o
Beth Altman o CONTROL ID:
Dr. Paul Blake o REQUEST ID:
Joseph Dowling o
Dr. Joseph Maroon o
Terri Funk Graham o
Proposal 2 [ FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN
To approve an amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock from 190,000,000 shares to 290,000,000 shares, and to correspondingly increase the number of authorized shares of all classes of our capital stock to 300,000,000 shares. o o o
Proposal 3 [ FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN
Ratify Deloitte & Touche LLP, as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021. o o o
Proposal 4 [ FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN
Approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, named executive officer compensation. o o o
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE COMPANY RECOMMENDS A VOTE FOR ALL PERSONS LISTED IN PROPOSAL 1 AND A VOTE FOR PROPOSALS 2, 3, and 4.
THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY REVOKES ANY PROXY OR PROXIES HERETOFORE GIVEN TO VOTE OR ACT WITH RESPECT TO THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE COMPANY AND HEREBY RATIFIES AND CONFIRMS ALL THAT THE PROXY, OR HIS SUBSTITUTES, OR ANY OF THEM, MAY LAWFULLY DO BY VIRTUE HEREOF.
MARK “X” HERE IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND THE MEETING: o
MARK HERE FOR ADDRESS CHANGE o New Address (if applicable):
____________________________
____________________________
____________________________
IMPORTANT: Please sign exactly as your name or names appear on this Proxy. When shares are held jointly, each holder should sign. When signing as executor, administrator, attorney, trustee or guardian, please give full title as such. If the signer is a corporation, please sign full corporate name by duly authorized officer, giving full title as such. If signer is a partnership, please sign in partnership name by authorized person.
Dated: ________________________, 2021
(Print Name of Stockholder and/or Joint Tenant)
(Signature of Stockholder)
(Second Signature if held jointly)
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Despite its poor healthcare system, the conflict-torn country has far fewer infections than other states in the region
Commuters wearing face masks take a passenger ship in Yangon, Myanmar, Aug. 6, 2020. (Photo by Xinhua/U Aung/MaxPPP)
By John Zaw | Myanmar
When a health worker who tested thousands of returnees near the Chinese border was infected with COVID-19 on June 11, people in Kachin state in northern Myanmar were alarmed at the spread of the coronavirus.
The 24-year-old nurse was working at a healthcare department in Lweje township, where she reportedly tested more than 10,000 migrants who came back from China.
The news prompted panic and fear, especially in conflict-torn Kachin where thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) reside.
Health officials said the nurse had no travel history or reported contact with infected patients.
Health workers and local people realized it is very difficult to carry out tracing of people who made contact with the nurse as thousands of returnees from China went back to various places across the country.
Bishop Raymond Sumlut Gam of Banmaw in Kachin state said people were panicking over the news as they thought it might spread easily in the region as she came into contact with many people.
The panic caused local authorities to impose more strict measures and local people who had left the townships were placed in quarantine centers after they came back.
Church social workers who left Banmaw township to provide aid to people were also being quarantined, according to the bishop.
"One can imagine how it is easily it could spread among thousands of people but no more cases were found. How can we say whether it's a blessing in the Southeast Asian nation?" Bishop Gam told UCA News.
Vulnerable in Southeast Asia
Experts had predicted that the COVID-19 situation in Myanmar, which shares a porous border with China, could be worse since the disease broke out in Hubei province in China last December.
The United Nations recently raised concern over the COVID-19 situation in Myanmar due to its poor healthcare system and humanitarian problems.
Myanmar is considered vulnerable among the 11 countries in Southeast Asia along with Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, the Philippines and Timor-Leste.
The impoverished and conflict-torn nation has 8.6 physicians and 10 nurses and midwives per 10,000 people, falling short of the World Health Organization's recommended minimum, according to the UN report released in July.
The UN also said people in conflict-torn regions are particularly at risk amid the pandemic as fighting rages in Rakhine and Shan states.
Across Myanmar, there are more than 312,000 IDPs in Rakhine, Chin, Kachin, Shan and Karen states. However, not a single confirmed case has been reported so far among the IDP camps.
Myanmar's public health system has all but collapsed due to mismanagement by the military over the last six decades.
Invisible virus has become the invincible
While cases are surging in several Southeast Asian countries, Myanmar had reported only 359 confirmed cases including six deaths and 308 recoveries as of Aug. 7.
The first case was found on March 23 and most of the confirmed cases in recent months have been imported, including returnees from Malaysia, India and Thailand.
Singapore has 54,555 cases and 27 deaths, the Philippines has 119,460 cases and 2,150 deaths, while Indonesia has 118,753 cases and 5,521 deaths.
According to the latest data, almost 714,000 people have died out of more than 19 million people globally.
Despite concerns over Myanmar's situation, the government's effort to tackle the contagion has been praised by local people and health experts.
The government has extended preventive measures to Aug. 15 and banned international flights until Aug. 31 to control the spread of the virus.
A nighttime curfew from midnight to 4 am remains in place and the public are not allowed to gather in groups of more than 15 people, while religious gatherings are still banned.
The Ministry of Health and Sports has warned the public not to let their guard down against the virus and urged people to wash their hands, practice social distancing, wear masks when going outside and avoid crowded places.
Frontline healthcare workers, civil society groups and volunteers have played a vital role in the COVID-19 containment.
Catholic and Protestant churches in Myanmar have also joined the nation's battle against the contagion.
"The world has become the altar. Our breaking of the bread is done in our reaching out to suffering people through service and sharing," Cardinal Charles Bo of Yangon said in a homily on Aug. 2.
"The coronavirus came as a slap in the face of all superpowers — those who invested more on arms than on the health of the people," said the cardinal, adding that "the invisible virus has become the invincible virus, bringing the superpowers of the world to their knees."
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Citing "unusual voting activity," the film reference site says it's applying "alternate weighting calculation" to friendly portrait of polarizing COVID czar "to preserve the reliability of our rating system."
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A documentary film tracking Dr. Anthony Fauci's medical career from the AIDS crisis to COVID-19, is creating controversy away from the big screen.
"Fauci," from NatGeo and Magnolia Pictures, hit select theaters Sept. 10 before getting a Disney+ release earlier this month. The documentary lets disparate figures like President George W. Bush, U2's Bono and Bill Gates praise the
Infectious disease specialist.
The studios failed to make the documentary's box office figures available to film industry sites or JustTheNews.com. The vast majority of studios, large and small, routinely share that data, as NatGeo and Magnolia have done on previous releases.
Movie fans then noticed RottenTomatoes.com, arguably the biggest review aggregator site on the web, didn't initially feature any "audience" reviews of the film.
Mainstream film critics saluted "Fauci," although most admitted the film served up a hagiography of the 80-year-old bureaucrat. Once audiences started weighing in on the film at Rotten Tomatoes, though, the results were withering. Professional critics gave "Fauci" a 92% "fresh" score, while audiences gave it just a 2% — or "rotten" — rating.
A similar pattern emerged at IMDB.com, a major film and TV reference destination. "Fauci's" audience rating, on a scale from 1-10, hovered around 1.8. This week, however, the site altered its review algorithm. Now, the audience review tally is a more robust 5.8.
A quick glimpse at the review breakdown, provided by the site, shows the overwhelming number of audience critics gave the film a one-star rating.
The site now features this explanation:
"NOTE: Our rating mechanism has detected unusual voting activity on this title. To preserve the reliability of our rating system, an alternate weighting calculation has been applied."
JustTheNews.com reached out to IMDB.com, owned by Amazon, to explain what triggered the reappraisal and whether it similarly updated other titles, and why.
The site did not respond.
Review aggregator sites allow audiences to review product, but the unofficial critics aren't asked to prove they've seen the film in question. That leads to select users treating the function as a way to share a partisan or populist opinion without fairly assessing the film. Some call this trend "review bombing" a movie based on factors beyond its entertainment value or quality.
Netflix scrapped its ratings system four years ago shortly after users torched liberal comic Amy Schumer's stand-up release "The Leather Special." The company didn't officially tie the decision to that reaction.
Rotten Tomatoes stopped allowing audiences to weigh in on a film prior to its release date after users trashed the MCU film "Captain Marvel" in 2019, viewed by some as a feminist lecture.
Fauci isn't an entertainer, but over the past year-plus he's attracted both ardent fans and critics alike. The latter may be impacting some of the reviews.
The same, in theory, could lead to the doctor's admirers counterbalancing that effort, though.
Amazon, which acquired IMDB.com in 1998, is increasingly known for allowing partisanship to impact its decisions. The platform removed "Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words" from its service during Black History Month earlier this year without warning or explanation. The documentary allows the conservative justice to share his life story largely in his own words.
The company also threatened to block a right-leaning documentary, "What Killed Michael Brown?" before allowing it to stream on its platform. Amazon initially told the director, Eli Steele, the movie didn't meet the company's quality threshold initially before backing down.
Sasha Stone, editor of the long-running AwardsDaily.com film site, sees liberal bias in IMDB.com's review tweak.
Fauci's popularity is far greater on the left than the right, with key players like Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) routinely excoriating Dr. Fauci for his pandemic advice and alleged funding of controversial "gain-of-function" research at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, widely suspected to be the source of COVID-19.
Stone sees a reverse bias on Hollywood review platforms where conservative-friendly content, think 2020's "Hillbilly Elegy" or Dave Chappelle's Netflix special, "The Closer," are concerned.
"They have their verified critics, and they accept their ratings, even though to any objective observer they are not fair evaluations but are completely partisan," Stone says. "There aren't enough critics with different points of view from the right to balance things out. Thus, it's becoming more and more like a public vs. elite critics scenario."
Even critic Richard Roeper publicly said his fellow critics graded the 2016 "Ghostbusters," cheered as a feminist achievement due to its all-female leads, on a curve.
Stone says the audience reaction to "Fauci," whether users have seen it or not, is "an expression of the growing anger at the government's bungling of COVID," she says.
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If you have been involved in a vehicle collision, you might wonder whether it was legally considered a crash or an accident. While an accident is legally defined as an unfortunate event, usually the result of carelessness, a crash is defined as something breaking due to a collision. Where the law is concerned, most “accidents” are actually considered crashes, and are deemed the fault of one person.
Definition of a Car Crash
A car crash is any situation where a car literally crashes or collides into something. Typically something is damaged as a result, such as another car or other property.
Crash Examples
There are different types of crashes, or collisions, defined by where one vehicle impacted the other.
Rear end collision: An accident where one vehicle collides with the back of another.
T-bone or side impact collision: An accident where one vehicle crashes into the side of another, often referred to as a T-bone because of the T shape it creates.
Head-on collision: As the name suggests, an accident where one vehicle crashes into the head, or front, of another straight on.
Bicycle collision: An accident between a car and a bicycle. These accidents often occur in intersections, crosswalks, turning lanes, and parking lots.
Pedestrian collision: Similar to a bicycle collision, an accident when a car hits a pedestrian, typically in a crosswalk or under similar circumstances as a bicycle collision.
Motorcycle collision: This can take the same forms listed above, such as rear end or head on, but it involves a car and a motorcycle.
Definition of a Car Accident
A car accident is any situation involving a car crash that is not intentional.
Accident Examples
There are different types of accidents all of which can take the same form as any of the crash examples listed above:
Accidents with other cars
Accidents with motorcycles
Accidents with bicycles
Accidents with pedestrians
The Main Difference Between a Crash and an Accident
Legally, the main difference between a crash and accident is that in an accident, the collision was not done on purpose. Criminal charges relative to a crash are associated with situations where one person intentionally plans to hurt another or damage their property. In contrast, an accident occurs because of negligence–someone wasn’t paying attention or doing what they were supposed to maintain the safety of their vehicle or others around their vehicle.
In all car collisions, even if it was not on purpose and was an accident, it is still considered a crash and there is still someone deemed at fault.
What to Do After an Accident or Crash: A Step-by-Step Checklist
After a car accident or crash there are several key steps you must take:
Step 1: Call 911.
You must phone the police to document the collision, and have police and medical professionals attend the scene. This should occur whether there are other vehicles involved or the collision only involves your vehicle.
Step 2: Collect Evidence.
If possible, once you are capable you need to gather evidence. As soon as possible, you should take the time to get as much evidence as you can. This not only includes any other drivers or pedestrians involved, but their contact information as well as their insurance information. If you were involved in an accident with another car and there were passengers in that car, you should collect passenger information as well. If you have a working phone, and you are not immediately taken away from the scene due to injuries, you can use your phone to take pictures or videos of the scene. This will help you to gather information about:
your injuries,
damage to vehicles involved,
exactly where the accident took place,
what was going on around you when the collision took place,
any potential witnesses,
as well as potential sources of security camera footage.
Also read:How Long After a Hit and Run Accident Can You Be Charged?
A hit and run is where a driver is involved in a collision accident and leaves the scene without offering help or contact information....
Step 3: Contact Your Insurance.
Once you have spoken with the police and gathered evidence, you will need to speak with your insurance provider. Be sure to call them immediately and let them know that the accident took place. This will help start the process of receiving compensation, especially if, after the fact, you have to work with an attorney.
Step 4: Get Medical Help.
Be sure to seek medical attention as soon as the police give you the all clear to leave the scene. Do not put this off, or think about doing it a few days later. You need to visit a doctor immediately and have any or all injuries documented. With different types of accidents, some injuries you sustained may be more physically visible than others. Those that are not immediately visible can take weeks or months to manifest which is why you need to have a thorough examination immediately after the accident and then subsequent examinations at different intervals after the accident so that your doctor can monitor any progressive injuries.
Step 5: Consider an Attorney.
Finally, consider speaking with an attorney sooner rather than later. With any collisions like these, you may want an attorney to help you to immediately start gathering and organizing information, keeping records, and reaching out to all of the other parties involved on your behalf. There is a statute of limitations on car accident claims for compensation which is why getting organized immediately after the collision can be very useful down the line.
Compensation after a crash vs. accident
Even if it was an accident, every state has laws regarding which driver or person is at fault for the injury or car wreck from car collisions. Once a motor vehicle crash has occurred, legal relief can be sought, called compensation. Compensation usually comes from the careless drivers, as a form of legal punishment for their driving, to the other drivers or people involved, the victims.
Some states work with a percentage system, which seeks to determine the proportion “at fault” each driver was for the collision.
For example: In the state of Texas, there is a percentage system for determining fault. If Driver A was checking their texts casually, while going through a green light in an intersection, and Driver B was making a right on red without paying attention, the courts might find that Driver A is 10% at fault because had they not been checking their phone they would have been able to brake, but Driver B is 90% at fault for their inattentive right on a red light. This means Driver B has to pay for 90% of the damages to the car of Driver A and 90% of Driver A’s medical problems that stemmed from the collision.
Other states determine which party is “at fault” and make that driver pay for all compensation.
For example: In California, there is a fault based system. Using the example above, the courts might determine that Driver B is more at fault, and therefore entirely to blame for the accident. So, Driver B would have to pay for 100% of the damages to Driver A.
Do I need an attorney after a crash or accident?
It is highly recommended that you consider speaking with an attorney after a vehicle collision, even if it is deemed an accident. Just because you were involved in a crash or accident doesn’t mean that you should be awarded compensation. If no injuries were sustained and your insurance will cover the minor damages, there would be no reason to pursue further damages or court cases against the other party.
However, if the other party doesn’t have insurance, they may not be able to pay for all of the damages on their own or they may refuse to do so. If this is the case, an attorney can help you to follow through with compensation.
If you have already reached out to the insurance company for the other driver and they are refusing to give you the compensation you deserve for the injuries or damages sustained, you can work with an attorney who will try to negotiate on your behalf.
Do I go to court for a car accident?
You do not automatically go to court after an accident. Most of the time, an accident is the result of neglecting basic traffic laws, like running a stop sign or red light or speeding. These are considered traffic violations, not criminal charges. However, there are instances where the case might go to court. Court is where a collision case progresses IF the insurance won’t pay, IF the other driver won’t pay, or IF the accident involved criminal charges.
Criminal charges after a collision can take place in the following scenarios:
If the accident was a fatal accident and the other party died as a result of your actions, even if it was not intentional.
If the accident was the result of drinking and driving or being under the influence of drugs, something police would note in their report.
Statute of limitations: accidents and crashes
The statute of limitations for collision victims to work with a personal injury attorney and seek compensation for their damages depends on the state in which the injury occurred. In most cases, the statute of limitations for a vehicle collision is about 2 years. This means that collision victims, or the families of fatal collisions, have to gather evidence about the collisions and present it to the opposing insurance and/or courts within that time frame in order to receive compensation.
Conclusions
Overall, consider reaching out to an attorney after an accident or crash, even if you do not need to go to court. A lawyer will ensure that you have collected all the necessary information outlined in the steps above. Finally, check the statute of limitations in your state and determine if your state is one that uses a percentage system for fault.
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Growing a small business can seem like a daunting challenge. It requires a significant amount of hard work and dedication to help a small company in any industry reach its full potential, but it is a worthwhile endeavor.
Here are 4 aspects of your business you should prioritize if you want it to grow quickly and efficiently.
1. Customer Service
To encourage business growth, it is essential to have a comprehensive understanding of your target audience.
Not only does this enable you to determine which products and services will be most beneficial for your customers, but it also allows you to determine how to provide the best support possible.
Your clients want easy access to customer service so they can get the help they need quickly and efficiently.
One of the best ways to incorporate this is by having certain employees dedicated to providing customer service.
By having associates available to answer questions or comments, you make it easy for customers to get the support they want.
If you do not have enough employees to provide excellent customer service via phone, outsourcing support is a viable option.
2. Advertising
If you want to promote your business, allocating a significant portion of your budget to advertising is the best way to accomplish your goal.
While several forms of advertising, such as email and social media campaigns, are free, others can be extremely expensive. However, campaigns are usually more effective if they utilize multiple marketing strategies rather than focusing on one.
At first, you may not have money for more expensive marketing strategies such as television commercials and radio advertisements.
You may rely on printed marketing materials, internet advertisements and social media platforms to spread the word about your company’s products and services.
You may even use these platforms to advertise special deals for new customers to draw in business.
As your company grows, it will begin to generate a profit.
Re-invest most of the money your company earns in advertising to increase your budget and raise awareness for your business and brand values. Not only will this help you attract new customers, but it will also allow you to target former customers to encourage repeat business.
Read also: How Abby Turned Her Hobby into a 6-Figure Family Business
3. Networking
It is incredibly difficult to grow your business if you do not have any connections and the community around you does not know your company exists.
Networking is an easy way to avoid this business pitfall. Establish business connections with other businesses that hold similar values and network with individuals who have a significant amount of small business experience.
One incredibly effective avenue of networking is participating in community events. Whether your company hosts the event or is simply a participant, this practice allows your business to engage with the community so they know about your company.
If you emblazon small merchandise such as hats, pens and magnets with your company logo and hand them out to other event participants, potential customers will have a tangible reminder of your business’ presence within the community.
Another useful strategy for networking is to partner with another business that has the same brand values as your company. This is a great way for small businesses to earn the recognition they need to grow while benefiting both companies.
4. Automation
Automation and business growth are inextricably linked, and it’s time for business owners to get on board. Most businesses want to grow, but very few master the art of scaling effectively.
The answer might lie (at least partially) in automation.
Let’s examine what it actually means to scale a business, and how automation serves an important function in that process.
Scalability refers to an organization’s growth potential, as well as its ability to adapt to changes and marketplace conditions during the process.
Organizations that can’t meet changing demands in the marketplace, or those that are too inflexible in meeting customer demands often have a more difficult time scaling.
So where’s the sweet spot that allows business owners to meet marketplace demands, without sacrificing the customer experience? Automation.
Automation Encourages Scaling
Automation frequently tops the list of priorities for entrepreneurs intent on scaling their organization, and there’s a good reason why.
Automation can serve both small and large enterprises, for the simple reason that it frees up time and resources within the organization.
Automation helps lowers expenditures, which can improve an organization’s financial picture. The freed up funds can also be invested in other areas of the business, such as marketing, product innovation, and market research.
What to Automate
Automation is such a broad topic that many business owners don’t know where to start. When it comes to automation, the top three areas to address first are: bookkeeping, marketing, and communications.
Streamlining business bookkeeping through a platform like Botkeeper will ease the burden of time consuming bookkeeping tasks, so your accounting and finance team can focus their efforts elsewhere.
Likewise, marketing automation tools can be the secret weapon for your marketing team. By automating tasks like social media marketing and email marketing through programs like Hootsuite and Constant Contact, it frees up time for marketing strategy and public relations.
Similarly, constant management systems like Hubspot or Salesforce can be a huge asset to your sales team, and give them more ammunition for keeping in contact with potential customers and converting leads.
If scaling and business growth are among your business goals, it’s time to use automation to your advantage. Automation tools can help you avoid some of the common pitfalls associated with rapid growth.
To effectively grow a small business, you need to prioritize certain aspects. Your success depends directly upon your customers, so it is essential to keep your clients happy by offering superior customer service.
Drawing in new business in addition to retaining current customers is also vital, so networking and advertising are also important elements to focus on. When you prioritize these four aspects, you can help your business reach its full potential.
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The Australia-India-Indonesia (AII) trilateral is an example of how the power structure in Asia has become multipolar. Conceived formally in Bogor in 2017, the AII has gradually progressed through senior-level meetings held in Canberra in 2018 and New Delhi in 2019. The grouping adds to the existing trilaterals in the region, such as the Japan-U.S.-India, Australia-India-Japan, and recent Australia-France-India groupings. The AII also complements the Quad (comprising Australia, India, Japan, and the United States), which has become a pragmatic mode of multilateral cooperation in the Indo-Pacific.
Considering the myriad such groupings in the region, this essay examines what value the AII brings to the fold. Ultimately, how can this grouping of three important maritime democracies shape a credible middle-power coalition in the Indo-Pacific focused on strengthening regional resilience in an era of great-power politics?
Despite the definitional uncertainties of a middle power, Australia, India and Indonesia can capitalize on their increasing status as middle powers to strengthen the regional economic-security architecture. In the maritime domain, India forms a fulcrum within the AII framework, given its “Shared Vision for Maritime Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific” with both Australia and Indonesia.[1] The trilateral can thus build on common interests like a “rules-based maritime order,” “respect for sovereignty and international law,” “robust economic growth and prosperity,” and an “inclusive Indo-Pacific region” through a joint focus on strengthening maritime infrastructure and connectivity. Essentially, the development of the AII as a middle-power maritime coalition that cooperates on common strategic interests—like the shared concerns of the three states vis-à-vis rising Chinese belligerence—while acknowledging economic dependence on China and security expectations from the United States can allow Australia, India, and Indonesia to better balance great-power rivalry in the Indo-Pacific.
The AII trilateral developed from the outlook that Australia, India, and Indonesia share for maritime Asia. For instance, barring a technical issue involving a resource-rich part of Indonesia’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) that falls within China’s nine-dash line claim, all three states are nonclaimant countries in the South China Sea disputes and are primarily tertiary stakeholders to the conflict. India and Australia also have critical resource, energy, trade, and security interests that are threatened by the territorial disputes in the South China Sea. Their unique position with respect to the disputes—coupled with their regional prowess as strong maritime democracies that smaller states can look to for leadership—allows the AII countries to demand respect for the rule of law and freedom of navigation. In other words, the trilateral could essentially become a middle-power nexus for the South China Sea disputes, ensuring that any outcome is in keeping with the spirit of a maritime Asia, upholds international norms, and protects the commercial and security dependence of the Asian states on the sea amid Chinese maritime assertions.
Indonesia holds major geographic jurisdiction over maritime chokepoints such as the Malacca Strait, Sunda Strait, and the Six Degree Channel. The Malacca Strait is the main shipping lane connecting the Indian and Pacific Oceans and falls under Indonesian sovereignty (alongside Singaporean and Malaysian governance). The Sunda and Lombok Straits—alternative sea lanes to the Malacca Strait—are located completely within the Indonesian archipelago. In close proximity to Australia, the Lombok and Malacca Straits are invaluable waterways to international and especially Australian trade. Given such geographic proximity, the AII trilateral must encourage more dialogue on maritime cooperation, including fisheries and freedom of navigation. In addition, the Six Degree Channel could emerge as a priority for trilateral strategic collaboration among the three countries, with India taking on a leading role through its Act East policy. India has been working with Indonesia to develop a seaport in Sabang—close to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and northern part of the Malacca Strait.[2] The inclusion of other partner states like Australia and Japan could further increase the port’s strategic value.
Securing sea lines of communication and maintaining freedom of navigation are central to national security for all three countries, making them natural maritime partners. Maritime exercises have already progressed well bilaterally, with exercises between Australian and India, Australia and Indonesia, and India and Indonesia. The AII trilateral must further promote such bilateral cooperation, possibly through the initiation of a trilateral maritime annual exercise focused on chokepoints in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Such overtures would help build regional resilience and provide smaller littoral states with opportunities for economic and security collaboration via third-country cooperation, led by the trilateral.
Politically, too, the AII can find a crucial place in the key foreign policy ambits of the three states: India’s Act East policy, Australia’s Pacific Step-up, and Indonesia’s Global Maritime Fulcrum. At their core, these policies are all centered on economic, security, and diplomatic outreach with states in the Indo-Pacific—particularly those in Southeast Asia—and can, therefore, find synergy with each other.
In terms of economic development—an area that has emerged as a focal point for many minilateral and multilateral initiatives in the region—the AII trilateral can find opportunities to collaborate with other ventures on constructing new infrastructure. It could collaborate, for instance, with Japan’s Expanded Partnership for Quality Infrastructure. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga visited Jakarta during his first official tour abroad amid the pandemic, highlighting Indonesia’s growing importance in Japan’s Indo-Pacific strategy. Japan also shares close, comprehensive partnerships with India and Australia, bilaterally as well as trilaterally. Therefore, Japan could be a vital partner for the AII trilateral—potentially even opening doors for a new type of Quad grouping between the four middle powers. As Indonesia looks to modernize its supply chains, for example, it could emerge as a partner within the Supply Chain Resilience Initiative led by Australia, India, and Japan. Although Indonesia has maintained steady growth over the past decade, it could see accelerated growth under the initiative as value chains migrate southward from China. Conversely, Indonesia’s massive market would make the country a valuable addition.
Although Australia, India, and Indonesia all share deep-rooted economic links with China, they remain skeptical of Beijing’s growing political clout in the region and increasingly aggressive behavior. Even as they remain members of China-backed institutions, such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, their deteriorating ties with China and commitment to a rules-based regional order have made these countries seek alternatives to Chinese investment. The AII could be a means for balancing China’s influence in the region. For instance, the trilateral could consider a joint strategy for promoting regional infrastructure, connectivity, and capacity-building initiatives among the three countries or with other like-minded initiatives, such as the Blue Dot Network led by Australia, Japan, and the United States.
To this end, the AII must deepen its focus on India’s Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative, which formed a central point of discussion in the third dialogue in 2019. First introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the 14th East Asia Summit, the initiative aims to maintain the security and stability of the Indo-Pacific’s maritime domain. Successful implementation will require an integrated approach in collaboration with regional partners such as the United States, South Korea, and Australia; trilateral groupings; and the Quad. In other words, to achieve its objective of a secure maritime region, the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative must be based on international cooperation. Through such interaction with minilateral groupings, as well as states bilaterally, the initiative can become a cooperative and inclusive venture. In particular, the AII and Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative could come together under a plurilateral mode of engagement to jointly address traditional and nontraditional security concerns. The multilateral tone of the initiative could be further enhanced with Indonesia’s inclusion in the emerging Quad-Plus structure. This platform has enabled discussion surrounding domestic challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic, diplomatic maneuvering in the new regional and global dynamics, and economic policies for recovery.
In conclusion, the AII is perfectly positioned to emerge as a key regional trilateral mechanism in the post-pandemic order. It can stand as a middle-power initiative in the face of the great-power pressure and heightened Chinese aggression that threaten regional security and stability. Strategic convergence under the trilateral thus could be a pillar for protecting middle-power economic and security interests. In other words, a fully developed Australia-India-Indonesia trilateral could be an expedient mode of multilateral cooperation in the Indo-Pacific.
Jagannath Panda is a Research Fellow and Centre Coordinator for East Asia at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi. Dr. Panda is the Series Editor for Routledge Studies on Think Asia.
Download a PDF version of this Analysis here.
ENDNOTES
[1] See “Joint Declaration on a Shared Vision for Maritime Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific between the Republic of India and the Government of Australia,” available at https://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/india/Pages/joint-declaration-shared-vision-maritime-cooperation-indo-pacific-between-republic-india-and-government-australia; and “Shared Vision of India-Indonesia Maritime Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific,” available at https://www.mea.gov.in/bilateral-documents.htm?dtl/29933/Shared_Vision_of_IndiaIndonesia_Maritime_Cooperation_in_the_IndoPacific.
[2] Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury, “Eyeing Southeast Asia, India Builds Port in Indonesia,” Economic Times, March 20, 2019, https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/eyeing-southeast-asia-india-builds-port-in-indonesia/articleshow/68490478.cms.
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The witness who helped start the new investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has said he knows suspect Christian Brueckner is ‘guilty’.
Helge Busching, 48, was the first person to give Brueckner’s name to police in connection with the case back in 2017, a decade after the three-year-old’s abduction.
When asked by The Sun what he thought of his fellow German, the recycling worker said: ‘One word. Guilty.’
Brueckner, 43, is currently in prison for drugs offences and is appealing a seven-year sentence for raping a 73-year-old woman.
The two knew each other from their time together in the resort where Madeleine vanished, and Busching said: ‘He is in the right place at the moment and hopefully he will stay there a long time.’
He was tracked down to a village on the Greek island of Corsica three years after making a statement to police.
In it, he claims Brueckner told him he was involved in abducting Madeleine while they were at a kite festival in Orgiva, Spain, in 2008.
The newspaper reports that Busching described the suspect to them as a ‘German male person, whom I know by the name of Christian’, adding that he would ‘talk in detail of his knowledge’ of his connection with the three-year-old’s disappearance.
Madeleine vanished on May 3, 2007, while on holiday with her parents (Picture: PA)
The apartment hotel building where Madelaine disappeared in Praia da Luz, southern Portugal (Picture: AFP via Getty)
Madeleine was taken from the holiday apartment where she and her family had been staying in Praia da Luz while her parents had dinner at a nearby tapas bar on May 3, 2007.
Busching and another friend, Manfred Seyferth, knew Brueckner from when they all lived at the same resort.
He was reportedly put in touch with detectives from the Met’s Operation Grange, set up to investigate the case, in 2017 after himself being arrested for trying to smuggle migrants from Greece to Italy.
According to an internal report by Greek police, his information was ‘given voluntarily and without money or other consideration’.
Christian Brueckner has been named a suspect in the abduction of Madeleine McCann (Picture: Rex)
It is unclear why he waited almost 10 years to tell police of Brueckner’s alleged involvement.
Busching and Seyferth gave evidence against Brueckner before he was convicted of the rape of a 73-year-old woman in 2005.
The victim told police her assailant filmed the attack and appeared to get a thrill out of seeing her begging him to stop.
The two men are said to have stolen a video camera from Brueckner’s home while he was behind bars for theft. They contacted police after seeing the images and told them it was Brueckner.
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Brueckner denies the charge and is appealing his seven-year sentence.
His lawyer Friedrich Fulscher told The Sun his client is innocent of the rape claim and has nothing to do with the Madeleine case.
He said Brueckner ‘is being investigated on the claims of two very dubious and unbelievable witnesses who are convicted criminals themselves’.
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MONTREAL -- Pornhub owner MindGeek has settled a U.S. lawsuit involving 50 women, including four Canadians, who had alleged they were duped into a massive sex-trafficking operation.
Brian Holm, a California-based lawyer who represented the complainants in the lawsuit, confirmed to CTV News the lawsuit has been settled.
“The parties reached a mutual resolution to resolve the dispute and the terms are confidential,” Holm wrote in a statement, but declined to comment further.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in April 2021, alleged that porn provider GirlsDoPorn had lied about how sexually explicit videos of them would be used.
In several cases, women were told their videos would be sold on DVD in foreign countries, when, in fact, they were uploaded on the Internet without their consent, the lawsuit claimed.
MindGeek, whose headquarters are in Montreal, its flagship website Pornhub, and credit card processing firm Probiller.com are all listed as defendants in the suit.
MindGeek partnered with GirlsDoPorn until October 2019 when it was shut down after the Department of Justice charged its four principals with sex trafficking and other charges. One of the four, Michael James Pratt, is at large and remains on the FBI’s most wanted list with a $50,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.
The lawsuit alleged that MindGeek earned millions of dollars in revenue by partnering with GirlsDoPorn and by sharing their videos on Pornhub and its affiliate porn websites for years.
“MindGeek knew it was partnering with, distributing revenue to, and profiting from a sex trafficking venture for years. MindGeek also knew of the significant harassment and trauma GirlsDoPorn’s victims were enduring as a result of its continued publication of the victims’ videos,” the lawsuit alleged.
According to the lawsuit, “MindGeek simply did not care and continued to partner with GirlsDoPorn until it was no longer profitable.”
None of the allegations in the lawsuit were proven or tested in court.
A MindGeek spokesperson named Ian, whose full name and position were not disclosed, sent the following statement to CTV, and also indicated that the terms of the settlement are confidential.
“MindGeek has zero tolerance for the posting of illegal content on its platforms, and has instituted a comprehensive, industry-leading trust and safety policy to identify and eradicate any illegal material from its community. We are committed to remaining at the forefront of Internet safety, and taking every measure to prevent bad actors from posting illegal content online,” the company’s statement read.
'THIS COMPANY LIED TO ME,' PLAINTIFF ALLEGED
Several of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit requested Pornhub remove their videos after realizing they had been uploaded to the Internet.
One of the four Canadian plaintiffs, identified as Jane Doe No. 36, wrote to Pornhub in January 2016 begging them to remove her video.
“That’s what I am trying to explain is that I did not consent to being online!!! :(((( me and other girls are being brutally harassed,” she wrote, according to the lawsuit.
“Jane Doe No. 36 followed up with MindGeek a few days later advising the Defendants she and her boyfriend were in therapy because of the continued publication of the videos.”
In another case, a U.S. citizen identified as Jane Doe No. 11, sent at least three requests over a nine-month period for Pornhub to remove a video of her on an affiliate website, Tube8.com.
“I WAS SCAMMED. THIS COMPANY LIED TO ME ABOUT THIS BEING ON THE INTERNET! THEY TOLD ME IT WOULD ONLY BE AVAILIBLE (sic) ON DVD IN AUSTRALIA. MY WORK FRIENDS AND FAMILY ALL KNOW AND THIS VERY LINK IS BEING SENT AROUND. I WANT TO JUST DIE,” the woman wrote in her request on May 31, 2017.
MindGeek agreed to remove the video only after GirlsDoPorn’s principals were arrested in October 2019, according to the lawsuit.
LAWSUIT CLAIMED WOMEN RESPONDED TO MODELLING ADS
The lawsuit had sought millions of dollars in damages for each of the 50 plaintiffs.
GirlsDoPorn duped several young women into being a part of the sex trafficking operation by offering them large sums of money after they had replied to online ads for clothed modelling opportunities and used “fraud, coercion and intimidation” to coerce the women into performing pornographic acts, the lawsuit alleged.
MindGeek has been in the crosshairs of parliamentarians and advocates against sexual exploitation in recent years as calls grow for greater accountability for websites that host non-consensual explicit videos and photos.
MindGeek announced last December that it would ban user-uploaded content in an attempt to better control the content that gets onto its websites, including Pornhub — the eighth most popular website in the U.S.
The company has also been the subject of a House of Commons ethics committee study following a New York Times investigation into the Montreal-based enterprise. The committee recommended making online platforms liable for failing to ensure that material is deleted quickly, or else face financial penalties.
In July, the federal government also proposed the creation of new powers to block online platforms that repeatedly refuse to remove harmful content, including the sharing of non-consensual images and child exploitation.
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Hello blog friends! How are you? I hope your day is going well. Come on in to my blog space so we can share a coffee or tea and catch up on our news.
If we were having coffee, I would share my first week of summer 2020 in pictures and what I’ve been reading in the second quarter of 2020. How have your reading habits been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic? Did you find yourself unable to finish a book or did you read more than usual?
Summer Week 1
The first week of summer brought warm temperatures, mostly sunny, brief periods of rain, heat and humidity. I got all my exercises done (meditation, language lessons, strengthening workouts, yoga) and enjoyed my walks by the lake or in a park.
My sister met me for another coffee date on Friday. We sat outside chatting, sipping coffee, listening to bird songs, smelling the light fragrance of flowers in the air, and relaxing on a beautiful sunny day with some clouds and a light breeze.
Here’s a look at my Summer 2020 Week 1 in pictures:
Hello gull! It’s a beautiful day. Don’t let it get away.
Watching the sailboats in the harbour from under shades of maple trees.
Bright and showy daisy.
Mother duck and two young (teenager) ducks. Did the other 4 to 6 ducklings survive?
Beautiful green space, perfect for a picnic by the lake.
Fragrant rose bushes attract many bees. Watch out for the bees and the thorns.
Lake view with clouds and sailboats in the distance.
Bright red flower.
A patch of pretty white daisies.
Another beautiful day with white clouds and a light breeze.
These pretty peachy roses brighten up any day.
Library Curb-side Pickup
In my 2020 Reading First Update in March, I mentioned that Toronto library branches have been closed since March 13 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The library has been offering excellent digital services during the lockdown. Fast forward 12 weeks later, starting on June 8, Toronto Public Library re-opened for curb-side pickups by appointment.
My first curb-side pickup appointment went well. I was the only person there. The library staff wore a mask and asked me to place my library card on a table then step back to maintain a safe distance. He verified my account, delivered two brown bags of books to the table and stepped away. I picked up my library card and the book bags to go. All in less than one minute. Nice!
Books Read in 2nd Quarter of 2020
Here’s what I read from April to June 2020 by author’s last name:
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt.
Lucky Man a memoir by Michael J. Fox.
The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory.
An Autopsy of a Boring Wife by Marie-Renée Lavoie, translated by Arielle Aaronson.
Angela’s Ashes a memoir by Frank McCourt.
How To Be A Good Creature: A memoir in thirteen animals by Sy Montgomery, illustrated by Rebecca Green.
Dear Life by Alice Munro.
Say You Still Love Me by K. A. Tucker.
Embers One Ojibway’s Meditations by Richard Wagamese.
Number of books read: 9 books in the second quarter of 2020. This brings my Year-to-date total to 27 books from January to June 2020. My goal for 2020 is 36 books in various genres. I’m getting there.
A book by an Indigenous author: Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations by Richard Wagamese is an excellent book to celebrate June which marks National Indigenous History Month. The book is full of wisdom packed in 176 pages.
A book that made me laugh: An Autopsy of a Boring Wife by Marie-Renée Lavoie and The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt. Two totally different novels, each with brilliant comedic moments.
A book by a Canadian writer and Nobel Prize winner: Dear Life by Alice Munro who illumines the moment a life is shaped in this collection of short stories.
A book about a real person: Lucky Man a memoir by Michael J. Fox who has been living with Parkinson’s Disease since his diagnosis in 1991, and Angela’s Ashes a memoir by Frank McCourt, a Pulitzer Prize winner.
A book I picked because I liked the cover: How To Be A Good Creature: A memoir in thirteen animals by Sy Montgomery and nice illustrations by Rebecca Green.
A book about romance with strong-willed female lead character: Say You Still Love Me by K. A. Tucker and The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory. Both authors are new to me even though they’ve each written several novels.
Other readings
In addition to physical books, I also listened to actors’ readings of Chapters 1 to 11 of Harry Potter The Philosopher’s/ Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling on Wizarding World web site.
May was Short Story month so I switched gear and read the first ten of the 73 short stories available free online. I hope to find time to read more of these short stories. I like the variety of writing styles and the stories themselves.
Week 1 of summer 2020 was beautiful. The weather forecast for the coming week is sunny and warm. I look forward to spending more time outdoors and doing something fun to celebrate Canada Day on July 1st.
How did your week go? What book(s) are you reading? I’d love to hear your comments.
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Jill Weatherholt June 28, 2020 / 6:21 am
It sounds like your first week of summer was perfect, Natalie. I’m happy to hear your library pick up went smooth. Your photos are gorgeous! I love the daisies. They made me smile. Have a great week ahead!
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Natalie June 28, 2020 / 10:01 am
Jill, I’m glad you liked my photos. Those daisies made me smile, too. The local gardens are bursting with beautiful flowers that keep me and my camera busy. Thank you for stopping by. Have a wonderful week ahead!
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Joanne June 28, 2020 / 7:47 am
I had a hard time reading when the Shelter at Home orders first began but have picked up my pace considerably as I managed to read 9 books this month! Currently I am reading Valentine (Elizabeth Bisland) and Hideaway (Nora Roberts)
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Natalie June 28, 2020 / 10:05 am
That’s impressive, Joanne. I’m glad you’ve got your reading pace back, just in time for summer. Thank you for stopping by. Have a great week ahead!
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Liesbet @ Roaming About June 28, 2020 / 10:06 am
I’m glad to read that your life is pretty much going on as normal, Natalie – you manage to do all your workouts, language practices, walks, and reading. I’m sure you miss your travels and cultural events (visiting museums), but there’s no lack of things to do based on your posts. 🙂 I thought I’d be able to read more books during this pandemic, but unfortunately that doesn’t seem the case anymore as other projects and activities always creep up and trump the books…
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Natalie June 28, 2020 / 10:21 am
Hi Liesbet, I can relate to what you mean by having projects or activities that creep up. I hope you’ll have some time for leisure in the summer. Since COVID-19 arrived here, I’ve made adjustments to my activities and continue to enjoy life the best I can. Summer in the city is actually pretty good. For me, I always have more things I want to explore and enjoy than the available time. Thank you for stopping by. Have a great week ahead!
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dprastka June 28, 2020 / 10:07 am
Thank you for the coffee today and I enjoyed being outside and all the flowers are beautiful! You do so well reading so many books! I use to read a lot, but with all my animals I read less than I use too! Have a wonderful week ahead! ❤️
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Natalie June 28, 2020 / 10:34 am
Hi Diana, I’m glad to share my weekly news with you. Your horses are beautiful and sweet so I can see how you’d love to spend time with them instead of reading. Have a wonderful week ahead!
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Sagittarius Viking June 28, 2020 / 1:07 pm
Thank you for the coffee and conversation. Your beginning of summer sounds lovely, and I enjoyed the pictures.
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Natalie June 28, 2020 / 2:25 pm
Week 1 of summer was great. Week 2 is off to a good start so far. Thanks, Maria, for stopping by. Have a wonderful week!
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Sagittarius Viking June 29, 2020 / 11:02 am
Wonderful! Have a great week!
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Lydia C. Lee June 28, 2020 / 5:11 pm
Good tip on Alice Munro – might read it next.
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Natalie June 28, 2020 / 8:03 pm
A. Munro has written many books. I hope you enjoy Dear Life when you choose to read it.
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Lydia C. Lee June 30, 2020 / 5:04 pm
Back to say you’re the second person (well I guess you were the first) that talked about that Wedding Party book…might check that out too. #MLSTL
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Natalie June 30, 2020 / 5:47 pm
It was amusing to read about a romance between two people in their late 20’s early 30s and how they and their friends socialize.
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Retirement Reflections June 28, 2020 / 6:34 pm
Hi, Natalie – Your photos are gorgeous. I especially like the one of the “showy daisy”. Your book list looks interesting. I have a copy of Lucky Man, but have not begun to read it yet. So many books, so little time.
Wishing you a great continuation of your summer!
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Natalie June 28, 2020 / 8:07 pm
Hi Donna, The summer flowers sizzle with their warm colours just like the weather. I’m loving another week of sunshine and warm temperatures here. I agree with you about so many books so little time. Enjoy your next hike! You and Richard are doing great with your hiking challenge.
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Sammie @ The Annoyed Thyroid June 28, 2020 / 7:18 pm
Love the photos – summer has definitely arrived in Toronto! Angela’s Ashes is the only book I’ve read on that list although I have read a Jasmine Gulillory book, ‘The Proposal’ I wonder if it was a prequel or sequel to ‘The Wedding Party’? I’m currently reading Kevin Kwan’s ‘Rich People Problems’ which is hilarious and part of the ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ trilogy.
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Natalie June 28, 2020 / 8:12 pm
Summer is here for sure. I’m loving another week of sunshine and warm temperatures. I’ve seen Crazy Rich Asians movie and the book title “Rich People Problems” already crack me up. Thanks, Sammie, for stopping by. Have a wonderful week!
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Deborah June 28, 2020 / 8:06 pm
I’m with Sammie in that Angela’s Ashes is the only book in your list that I’ve read. And… the photos are stunning. The roses look unusual but I realise I don’t know much about them and am accustomed to traditional-looking ones!
It’s winter here but in my part of Australia it doesn’t get very cold at all.
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Natalie June 28, 2020 / 8:18 pm
Yes, your winter temperatures look like our spring or fall. Lucky you 🙂 I’m glad you liked my photos. The flowers are keeping the bees very busy here.
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msomerville2014 June 28, 2020 / 8:06 pm
Lovely pictures Natalie. I know that I have read some books and listened to some books, although the need to work online has meant increased work hours, finally getting to some normalcy and trying to take some days off each week. I used to keep a list of books I had both read and listened to with titles, authors and dates. I think I need to get back to that! blessings, Michele
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Natalie June 28, 2020 / 8:23 pm
Hi Michele, I hope you get some time off to relax. My library system has a feature that keeps track of books I borrow. I keep track of them on my blog, too 🙂 Thank you for stopping by. Have a wonderful week ahead!
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msomerville2014 June 29, 2020 / 9:13 am
You too Natalie, thanks. I stepped out in faith, a huge step considering COVID-19 and made some travel plans, reservations for a trip back to Onset, an after Christmas break with hubby and a few days get away in August. Wish I could get away sooner but sometimes all one needs is a carrot dangled on a long stick, lol. I especially love your pictures of the lake. Best and blessings, Michele
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Natalie June 29, 2020 / 1:59 pm
Good for you to make travel plans Michele. It’s nice to have a change of scenery and something pleasant to look forward to. I’m glad you liked my lake photos. I go to the lake often and never get tired of the views.
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Bella June 28, 2020 / 11:25 pm
I always love seeing photos of flowers! I hope you enjoy your summer and have a wonderful time celebrating Canada Day!
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Natalie June 29, 2020 / 7:26 am
Thank you, Bella, for your visit and comment. The first week of summer was a beautiful start. The second and current week is looking good, too. I hope your week is going well. Will visit your blog shortly.
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Alex June 29, 2020 / 3:13 am
Loved ‘lucky man’, a movie hero of mine as a youngster and an inspiration in life now.
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Natalie June 29, 2020 / 7:35 am
Thank you, Alex, for your comment. Michael J. Fox’s approach to life while living with Parkinson’s disease is certainly inspiring.
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Sanch @ Sanch Writes June 29, 2020 / 3:45 am
So jealous about summer right now as I sit typing wearing my puffer jacket and noticing it’s dark at 5 pm. Sounds like a lovely week and such gorgeous weather! Those are some great books. I need to read Michael J Fox’s memoir I think. Hope you have a fantastic week ahead!
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Natalie June 29, 2020 / 7:50 am
Hi Sanch, Michael J Fox’s memoir Lucky Man is candid and well written. I’d recommend it as I like to learn from people who have overcome adversity and continue living with gratitude and a positive attitude. Thank you for stopping by. Have a wonderful week ahead!
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Debbie June 29, 2020 / 6:04 am
Your summer weather sounds so gorgeous Natalie, and like Sanch I’m envious too! I’m reading an interesting book The End of October and it is so similar to what’s actually going on now I had to check when it was written! I like the way you have picked your books to read – a very different approach 🙂 Enjoy your warmth. #lifethisweek
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Natalie June 29, 2020 / 8:09 am
Hi Debbie, I think The End of October was released this year. Last year I started using the Toronto Public Library Reading Challenge proposed categories to read more widely. I enjoyed It a lot more than I thought so I continue this year. The reading challenge makes me read more genres, discover more authors and switch my reading gears and thinking. Thank you for stopping by. Have a wonderful week ahead!
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Debbie June 30, 2020 / 7:59 pm
Thanks Natalie! I am back sharing this for #mlstl
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Laurie June 29, 2020 / 7:22 am
Ahhhh….summer. My favorite time of year! Thanks for sharing your summer photos with us. I like the idea of reading books from different genres. I tend to get stuck in a rut sometimes. I loved “How to Be a Good Creature”. Hope you enjoyed it too.
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Natalie June 29, 2020 / 8:18 am
Hi Laurie, Yes I enjoyed ‘How To be A Good Creature’. I used to stay with a limited number of book genres until last year when I started using the Toronto Public Library Reading Challenge proposed categories to read more widely. I enjoyed It a lot more than I thought so I continue this year. The reading challenge makes me read more genres, discover more authors and switch my reading and thinking gears. I’d recommend all avid readers to give it a try. Thank you for stopping by. Have a wonderful week ahead!
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Annika Perry June 29, 2020 / 10:11 am
Natalie, a gem of a post! 😀 I love the beautiful photos and mixed in with books this is a treat! I liked the various book groupings and ‘An Autopsy of a Boring Wife’ by Marie-Renée Lavoie strikes me especially with such an unusual title. One I’ll have to look at closer. Great news that you can borrow physical books again and it all sounds sorted to be as safe as possible for all. Happy Reading!😀
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Natalie June 29, 2020 / 2:02 pm
Annika, I enjoyed reading “An Autopsy of a Boring Wife”. I wasn’t sure when I saw the title but gave it a go and it was a nice surprise. I’m quite happy with my book haul from the library, just in time for the summer. Thank you for stopping by. Have a wonderful week!
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Lisa Dorenfest ~ One Ocean At A Time June 29, 2020 / 12:20 pm
Your summer looks lovely and reminds me that I need to get out of the house and have a walk around. Daisies are my favorite flowers and they bring a smile to my face every time I see them. I have ready everything Alice Munro, and you’ve encouraged me to pick up Autopsy of a Boring Wife!
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Natalie June 29, 2020 / 2:08 pm
Hi Lisa, I hope you make time to go for a walk. It will relieve some stress and may give you new ideas for future adventures 🙂 I enjoyed reading “An Autopsy of a Boring Wife” more than I thought when I picked up the book. Thank you for stopping by. Have a wonderful week!
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3sistersabroad June 29, 2020 / 6:02 pm
I love your blog and photos and those flowers I could almost smell them. Its winter here down under but the days lately have been sunny so we have taken the dogs to the beach. a bit chilly but our kelpie says what cold mum lol. #SeniSal
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Natalie June 29, 2020 / 9:40 pm
Thank you, Bree, for your kind comment. Glad you liked my photos. Sunny days at the beach sound nice. The chill makes you move to keep warm and movements are good for us 🙂
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trentpmcd June 29, 2020 / 7:04 pm
Sounds and looks like a great first week of summer! I do enjoy life by a Great Lake. My family is all meeting in Ohio next to another Great Lake (my parents live 2 miles form Lake Erie) this coming weekend, but I can’t make it. Cool that your library is open. I am not sure if the library across the street from me is doing curbside yet, but they recently “opened” and have put a bin out for book returns any time anyone is in the library. Looks like a nice bit of reading. Hope Week 2 goes well!
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Natalie June 29, 2020 / 9:48 pm
Sorry to hear you can’t make it to your family meeting, so close to Lake Erie. My library started with accepting book returns then continued to curb-side pickup. I hope your library will allow pickup soon. Many readers enjoy summer reading and will borrow books from the library. Thanks, Trent, for stopping by. Have a good week ahead!
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Erica/Erika June 29, 2020 / 11:10 pm
I really enjoy reading your posts and your updates, Natalie. You are an inspiration and a breath of fresh air. Your photos are beautiful. I extra like the unique colours of the daisy and the rose.
“Embers” is one of the few books I have read a few times. Like you say, filled with wisdom. Alice Munro always gives me goosebumps. What was your opinion of “Lucky Man?” I have not read this book.
I read a great deal of non-fiction books throughout the night when I cannot sleep. A good way to pass the time and I learn a great deal.
Since I began blogging, I have started reading the books written by the bloggers I follow. I want to support their writing and I am often surprised by the gems I come across.
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Natalie June 30, 2020 / 8:18 am
Thank you, Erica/ Erika, for your compliment. Your kind words made me smile 🙂
Embers is a book that one can keep referring to for life advice. When I read it, Wagamese’s words generated many thoughts and I felt that we lost a special person when he died.
Lucky Man is a memoir that I’d recommend to my family and friends. It’s candid, well-written and Fox’s comedic talent is woven in the book. I don’t read many memoirs. When I do, I choose to read and learn from individuals who have overcome some heavy-weight life challenges and thrive or share their words of wisdom with us.
It’s very kind of you to support bloggers who write books by reading their books. There are many talented writers and gems to discover. For avid readers like us, the challenge is so many wonderful books, so little time.
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Erica/Erika June 30, 2020 / 10:30 am
Totally right, Natalie, so many wonderful books, so little time. 🙂
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Ally Bean June 30, 2020 / 12:59 pm
I love the bright and showy daisy. It has spunk. As do you to have read all the books you’ve read this quarter. I’m finding that I cannot stick with reading which surprises me considering I have the time to do it, and the inclination, but my follow-thru is not good. Sadly my focus is scattered lately. Can’t imagine why! 🙄
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Natalie June 30, 2020 / 2:26 pm
I hear you Ally. My focus faltered a little in May so I switched to read short stories. Coincidentally May was Short Story month. I’m back to my usual reading pace in June. You’ll get your reading groove back.
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csuhpat1 June 30, 2020 / 10:02 pm
Thanks for sharing this. Looks like a wonderful week. Hope week #2 is great for you.
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Natalie July 1, 2020 / 9:00 am
Thank you, Patrick, for your comment. Summer week 2 is going well so far. Have a great day!
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leannelc July 1, 2020 / 1:08 am
Hi Natalie – lovely flower and water pics – you can certainly tell that Summer is happening on your side of the world. Great that your library is offering a curbside service, our’s used their side window for pick up and drop off of books that we could order by email. They also extended the borrowing time to make things easier for returns. I love how the community services kept going through the difficulties of covid. #MLSTL
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Natalie July 1, 2020 / 9:04 am
Hi Leanne, Public library is such an important service. I’m glad to hear your library has made it convenient for the community to borrow and return books. Have a wonderful week ahead with much happy reading!
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Jo July 1, 2020 / 1:52 am
The weather looks great & I love those daisies. Of your books the one I’m off to google is How To Be A Good Creature.
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Natalie July 1, 2020 / 9:09 am
Hi Jo, How To Be A Good Creature is an easy read. You’ll finish the book in no time. Have a wonderful week!
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Denyse Whelan July 1, 2020 / 4:22 am
Writing this on Canada Day. I hope you enjoy all of what you celebrate on this day. I loved your photos. I am a sucker for individual daisies AND close ups.
I read Angela’s Ashes and I think saw it as a movie. A sad but true tale.
Thank you so much for linking up. We are more half way through the year now. Next week its’ time for: 27/51 Taking Stock #3 6.7.2020 so I look forward to seeing you then, on or off prompt. Denyse.
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Natalie July 1, 2020 / 9:13 am
Thank you, Denyse, for your comment. Glad you liked my photos. The flowers are keeping the pollinators very busy here. I look forward to joining you next week. Have a great day!
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endardoo July 1, 2020 / 4:54 am
Great reading!! Love your pictures too … must be lovely where you live, or you just have a good eye for finding the beauty! #MLSTL
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Natalie July 1, 2020 / 9:16 am
Thank you, Enda, for your comment. Summer is beautiful here. It’s easy to get good photos with blue skies. Have a wonderful week!
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Veronica @ The Burgeoning Bookshelf July 1, 2020 / 8:46 pm
I’m loving your summer photos. I can’t wait for summer here but I really can’t complain too much it is the middle of winter and the temp today is 22C. I haven’t read any of your books although I have had Angela’s Ashes on my shelf for years.
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Natalie July 1, 2020 / 9:33 pm
Veronica, 22C is like late spring for us. So many good books to read and so little time. Thank you for stopping by. Have a wonderful week ahead!
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Sue from Women Living Well After 50 July 2, 2020 / 3:17 am
Hi Natalie your photos are pure joy especially the daisy which just brightened my day. I’ve not read any of the books on your list so have a few more to add to mine! Thanks for sharing at #MLSTL and enjoy your Summer xx
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Natalie July 2, 2020 / 7:26 am
Hi Sue, I’m glad my photos brightened your day. Thank you for hosting MLSTL. I enjoyed your interview with Leanne. Have a wonderful week!
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OnceUponaTimeHappilyEverAfter.com July 3, 2020 / 10:35 am
Those daisies!! And I am always a bit envious that you can walk to water!! Not a puddle, but a real body of water. We can’t even walk to find a puddle.
Glad to see some new-to-me titles on your reading list. Add to Goodreads now. The Autopsy sounds like the kind of story my book club would enjoy…we need something with light, comedic moments. Angela’s Ashes has stayed with me for years. Heart-wrenching. The movie is very good, too.
I am reading The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Historical fiction. Very interesting.
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Natalie July 3, 2020 / 12:58 pm
Lake Ontario and the local parks and gardens are some of my favourite places. I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts on The Autopsy of a Boring Wife. Angela’s Ashes reminded me how fortunate we are even during the pandemic. Thank you, Leslie, for stopping by. Have a wonderful weekend!
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Leanne @ Deep Fried Fruit July 8, 2020 / 5:30 pm
That daisy!!! Love it. So summery. It actually looks like sunshine.
Thanks for visiting the #lovinlifelinky
Look forward to seeing you again this week 🙂
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Natalie July 8, 2020 / 7:03 pm
The flowers have been incredible this summer. Thanks, Leanne, for stopping by. I look forward to seeing you again this week.
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Dr Sock July 19, 2020 / 2:59 pm
Natalie, of the books on your list, I’ve read Dear Life, and Angela’s Ashes — both excellent. I love Richard Wagamese’s writing, but haven’t yet read Embers. I’ve actually been reading less than usual for two reasons. I’ve been stuck on a difficult book, Maybe Esther, which is interesting but I can only take it in small doses, and secondly, I’ve had a lot of headaches so have had to pare back my reading. Thanks for the link to the CBC shorts stories. I read a number of the Canada Writes short story finalists a few months ago, but I wasn’t aware of this collection.
Jude
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Natalie July 19, 2020 / 5:42 pm
Jude, Sorry to hear you’ve been having a lot of headaches. Hope you find out what causes them and the solution. Embers is a small book packed with so much wisdom. It’s a book that one can have bedside and read whenever one needs life guidance. I heard about Maybe Esther. I used to finish a book after I start no matter how difficult it is. These days, I move on to another book without hesitation. Life is too short and there are many good books to enjoy. The short stories are great reads. They introduced me to new authors and various writing styles.
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The former Democratic Party nominee reveals her feelings about the presidential campaign in a new memoir analysing her defeat.
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Hillary Clinton has said that Donald Trump's presence next to her during last year's presidential debates made her so uncomfortable her "skin crawled".
She writes in a forthcoming book that she became so uneasy at points during her TV appearances with the now US President she had to resist shouting out: "Back up you creep, get away from me."
The losing candidate in the 2017 presidential election said she struggled to stay composed during a crucial face-off in St Louis on 9 October.
Two days earlier, the campaign had been rocked by the release of footage of Mr Trump bragging aggressively about groping women.
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She writes: "This is not OK, I thought. It was the second presidential debate, and Donald Trump was looming behind me.
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"Two days before, the world heard him brag about groping women. Now we were on a small stage and no matter where I walked, he followed me closely, staring at me, making faces.
"It was incredibly uncomfortable he was literally breathing down my neck. My skin crawled."
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Mrs Clinton made history as the first women to be nominated to run for the presidency by the Democrats or the Republicans.
She says the only way she was able to stay calm was to draw on a lifetime of experience of dealing with "difficult men trying to throw me off".
The highly anticipated memoir, called What Happened, sees the former first lady analyse her doomed campaign.
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Mrs Clinton has previously said that she spent much of the year writing the book to pull back the curtain on the strategies and failures of her campaign following a period of reflection.
In the excerpts, she admits feeling as though she has let down the American people.
"Writing this wasn't easy. Every day that I was a candidate for president, I knew that millions of people were counting on me and I couldn't bear the idea of letting them down. But I did," she writes.
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The rapper, fashion designer and producer has been using the nickname for a number of years and has previously indicated his desire to legally change his name to Ye.
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Kanye West has legally changed his name to Ye after a Los Angeles court approved his application.
In August, the rapper formally requested to change his name to Ye (pronounced "yay") after filing legal documents - citing "personal reasons" for the name change.
He has now successfully dropped his full name - Kanye Omari West - in favour of this long-time two-letter moniker.
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The 44-year-old first alluded to his plans to change his name to Ye when he tweeted: "Formally known as Kanye West. I am YE."
His application has been officially approved by LA Superior Court Judge Michelle Williams, and he will no longer have a middle or last name.
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The South African gold Two Rand coin (abbreviated as R 2) is a bullion coin of the Rand currency. It was introduced when the currency was decimalised in 1961 and replaced the earlier pre-decimal pound coin, retaining its design, dimensions and metal content.
All the coins of the First Decimal Series initially had the same size and specifications as the former South African pre-decimal coins they replaced. Apart from the regular circulating coins, two bullion types with denominations of 1 Rand and 2 rand were also issued, replacing respectively the South Afircan gold half-pound and pound coins introduced in 1952. Both the pound and the rand gold coins matched the specifications of the British half-sovereign and sovereign - minted, among others, at the Royal Mint branch mint in Pretoria (now the South African Mint) until 1932. The gold alloy, known as "crown gold", with a fineness of 22 carat (91.67% gold, 8.33% copper) has remained unchanged since 1526; it is appreciably less prone to wear than the softer 23 kt gold of earlier gold sovereigns.
The reverse of the gold rand coins features the well-known springbok illustration designed by Coert Steynberg for the 5-shilling coin introduced in 1948, and also used on the silver 50 cents coins.
The gold Two Rand denomination was issued until 1983 and was then discontinued in favour of the Krugerrand bullion coin series. Regular circulating R2 coins were introduced in 1989, made of base metal.
The gold coins have not been demonetised and are still legal tender; however, their intrinsic bullion value is much higher than their face value.
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No mint mark
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21,000
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The obverse features the portrait of Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck, known as Jan van Riebeeck (1619-1677), Dutch colonial administrator and founder of Cape Town and considered by many people to be the founding father of the South African nation. The designer's initials WM (for Willie Myburg) are incuse on the shoulder truncation.
Around left, the motto EENDRAG MAAK MAG in Afrikaans; separated from that by two decorative rosettes, around right the same in English: UNITY IS STRENGTH.
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EENDRAG MAAK MAG * UNITY IS STRENGTH *
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The reverse shows at its centre a Springbok antelope, the national animal symbol of South Africa.
The designer's initials CLS (for Coert Laurens Steynberg) are in the right field between the letters IC of AFRICA and the ground under the Springbok.
Above, the date of issue: + 1967 +.
Around left and around right, respectively the legend SUID-AFRIKA in Afrikaans and SOUTH AFRICA in English.
Around below, flanked by two rosettes, the face value and denomination * 2 R * (Two Rand).
This design was initially used on the pre-decimal five shillings, half pound and one pound coins; it is now displayed on the iconic Krugerrand bullion coin series.
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With the closure of all non-essential activities as from Friday, March 20 2020 at 6 a.m. (THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACT Regulations made by the Minister under section 79 of the Public Health Act) and the introduction of a curfew as from Monday, March 23, 2020 at 8 p.m. until Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 8 p.m. (THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACT Curfew Order made by the Minister under regulation 14(1) of the Prevention and Mitigation of Infectious Disease (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020), Can the lessee suspend the payment of rents for its commercial premises as a result of the measures taken to combat COVID-19 by the Government of Mauritius?
Mauritian civil law is based on the Code Napoleon. According to French law, the concept of force majeure was of case-law, until the reform of the contract law of 2016, which introduced article 1218 of the French Civil Code. As Mauritian law has not been codified in this way, the implementation of force majeure relies mainly on case-law. It is clear from previous French case law that French judges do not, de facto, exclude epidemics from the list of cases of force majeure, but require that the epidemic at stake meets a set of criteria elaborated by case-law. The epidemics of Dengue fever, Japanese encephalitis or Chikungunya virus have notably been denied this qualification. In practice, the effects of force majeure regarding contractual relationships are generally provided in the contract, thus it is mandatory to check the contractual provisions on this matter.
Numerous decisions of the Supreme Court of Mauritius have put forward these criteria elaborated by French judges, namely that the debtor who wishes to avail himself of force majeure must demonstrate the following cumulative elements (see in particular SOCOVIA (BELLE VUE) LTEE v THE QUARANTINE AUTHORITY & ANOR 2006 SCJ 102, GENERAL CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD v IBRAHIM CASSAM & CO. LTD, 2011 SCJ 19; PICK N BUY & ANOR v STATE and IBL v STATE & ORS, 2014 SCJ 46):
That the event could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time the contract was entered into, to satisfy the test of unforeseeability; and
That the event could not have been avoided by taking appropriate measures, to satisfy the criterion of irresistibility.
The Mauritian judge admitted that the element of exteriority, which was abandoned in France by two judgments of the Plenary Assembly of 14 April 2006, was no longer required in Mauritius either (GENERAL CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD v IBRAHIM CASSAM & CO. LTD, 2011 SCJ 19, point 68).
In the context of COVID-19, the element of unpredictability does not raise too much difficulty, as such a global pandemic and especially the policies implemented by States to fight the spread of the virus, are very difficult to predict. The characterization of force majeure will therefore be mainly linked to the demonstration of the irresistibility condition. Indeed, the case of force majeure must “prevent performance” and not simply make it more complicated or more expensive.
For the assessment of the irresistibility character of COVID-19, two hypotheses must be distinguished:
(1)Prohibition of opening the leased premises
In this case, the lessor is not able to meet its obligation to deliver, so force majeure should be able to be invoked to suspend the execution of the contract. The suspension could also be based on the exception of non-performance. This concept, also codified in France by the reform of contracts law of 2016 (Article 1220 of the French Civil Code), is recognized by Mauritian case law (see for example MANSER SAXON CONTRACTING LTD v. GOUNDAN CO. LTD 2017 SCJ 409 or CENTRAL TYRES & PARTS CO LTD v THE BANK ONE LTD 2019 SCJ 183). The exception of non-performance arises from article 1184 of the Mauritian Civil Code and consists in allowing a party to a contract to refuse to execute its obligation until it has received the corresponding consideration from the other party. The default of the other party must be sufficiently serious to justify recourse to this mechanism.
In this case, due to the restriction on the movement of persons, the lessee is not able to dispose of the leased premises (which amounts to deprivation of use). Subject to specific provisions in the lease agreement, the lessee may therefore suspend the payment of rent during the period concerned, if it informs the lessor of same in advance.
Since only judges can examine the merits of implementing this suspension, the utmost prudence is called for and discussions with the lessor seems necessary.
(2) Decrease in revenues impeding the payment of rents
In this instance, the lessor respects his obligation to deliver the premises, but the lessee is no longer able the rent. These examples in French case-law show that the debtor of the payment obligation must prove that this performance is impossible and not that it is more difficult or excessively expensive.
“the debtor of an unfulfilled contractual obligation to pay a sum of money cannot be exonerated from this obligation by invoking a case of force majeure.” Com. 16 September 2014, n°13-20.306
“Considering nevertheless the proven nature of the epidemic that hit West Africa on December 2013, and to classify it as a case of force majeure is not sufficient to establish ipso facto the decline or lack of cash flow invoked by the appellant company, which would be attributable to it, while on one hand no balance sheet concerning the Holding Company and its subsidiaries is produced and on the other hand, the certificate of Mr Z A, Chief Executive Officer, for one of the companies listed as subsidiaries, which precisely states that royalties were paid in 2014 and 2015 to the appellant company for a total amount of 45,109 euros, a sum which largely covers the fees amount for the third quarter of 2014; It follows that the HOLDING SAVANA does not provide the proof which is incumbent on it, that the non-payment of the fees is the consequence of force majeure.” CA Paris, 17 mars 2016, n°15/04263.
The Mauritian judge is obviously not bound by French case law, but it can influence his decisions, to that extent that the text to be interpreted is the same. (This was recalled in the decision GENERAL CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD v IBRAHIM CASSAM & CO. LTD, 2011 SCJ 19, point 21)
Consequently, as soon as the premises are made available to the lessee, the only way to suspend the payment of the rent is to demonstrate that it is impossible for the lessee to pay the rent and to provide accounting proof of the causal relationship between the event of force majeure invoked and this impossibility.
Finally, unless expressly stated in the contract, the revision of the contract for unpredictability is not possible in Mauritius (although this is one of the novelties introduced in France by the 2016 contracts law reform).
The utmost care is thus required, as the suspension of the payment of rent by the lessee cannot be carried out with the promise that the Mauritian judge, if seized, will necessarily validate the approach. Everything will depend on the factual circumstances and it is therefore crucial for the lessee, if the suspension is to be implemented, to gather as much evidence as possible in advance to justify this action.
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Washington (CNN) - After a difficult and controversial two-week stretch for Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor's favorable rating has dipped to its lowest level since she joined the 2008 Republican presidential ticket and became a household name.
According to the new USA TODAY/Gallup survey, Palin's favorability rating has dipped to 38 percent while her unfavorable now stands at 53 percent. Gallup reports the 38 percent is a new low when it comes to the percentage of Americans who give the former Alaska governor a thumbs up. The 53 percent who dislike Palin is also a new high in Gallup polling. A similar poll in July found 44 percent of Americans viewed her favorably while 47 percent did not.
The poll surveyed 1,032 adults by telephone from Friday through Sunday and carries a sampling error of 4 percentage points.
The latest survey findings are no doubt unwelcome news for Palin as she considers whether to mount a presidential run. But in an appearance on Fox News Monday, Palin said the latest heat directed her way in the wake of the Arizona shootings has not deterred her desire to be a part of the public dialogue.
"I am not ready to make an announcement about what my political future is going to be. But I will tell you ... I am not going to sit down. I am not going to shut up," she said.
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Sam
The Village Idiot of Wasilla is probably laughing all the way to the bank, while the tinfoil hat wearing clowns who really think she'd make a good president continue to drink their purple koolaid and watch Glenn Beck.
January 18, 2011 02:23 pm at 2:23 pm |
Ray Jackson, MS
We are totally screwed if 38% of Americans can see Palin is nothing but a stupid, selfish, greedy, corrupt money worshiping piece of white trash.
January 18, 2011 02:25 pm at 2:25 pm |
rositaCA
Republicans advice to Palin should be...............please don't talk anymore, go home and raise your children, THEY NEED YOU! not the American people.
January 18, 2011 02:25 pm at 2:25 pm |
Claudia, Houston, Tx
Looks like those who Palin referenced as "not the real Americans" out polls those whom she called "the real Americans" and this is only one of Palin's use of words that not only count but they can hurt. OUCH.
January 18, 2011 02:25 pm at 2:25 pm |
Joe from CT, not Lieberman
WOW! Her and Michael Steel! Take a poll and watch your numbers drop more!
January 18, 2011 02:25 pm at 2:25 pm |
No more republican for the world
I can't believe some people still support her.
Did she do something good as a politician?
January 18, 2011 02:26 pm at 2:26 pm |
To "Fed Up"
Better look those polls again Sparky. President Obama's approval ratings are way up while Palin's are at the lowest they've ever been. You may be entitled to your own opinion, as the saying goes, but you are not entitled to your own facts.
January 18, 2011 02:26 pm at 2:26 pm |
Yugo
Palin hit a her lowest when she betrayed the citizens of Alaska as governor to become a celebrity, pimped her talentless daughter out to a reality show and became a professional propagandist for a foreign-owned media organization. Really, how much lower can you go?
January 18, 2011 02:27 pm at 2:27 pm |
GaryB
Let's put this another way. Palin wants to repeal the Democrat's healthcare reform because she claims that it's unpopular with most Americans, but according to the latest polling, she's far less popular than healthcare reform. Can we repeal her?
January 18, 2011 02:30 pm at 2:30 pm |
Bob in PA
The remarks read here in teh Ticker regarding Sarah Palin are the epitome of "mean spiritedness" and is always on the edge of being violent rhetoric.. You should all be ashamed of yourselves after the past week. I suggest to CNN Political Ticker that they stop running Sarah Palin related bits for 2 or 3 weeks.
January 18, 2011 02:30 pm at 2:30 pm |
CyndyP
Palin is one of the MOST polarizing figures in this country; she is not qualified to run for any office. Even people that have been in her inner circle say that she has no desire to educate herself on international or domestic affairs. I, too, wish the media would lay off her, but for the reason of letting her fade way to Faux News where her fans can get their fix!
January 18, 2011 02:31 pm at 2:31 pm |
Derek
I can certainly understand why fellow Democrats would so desperately want this woman gone. But despite the fact that she is selfish, vile and hateful, she serves a very useful purpose. Every time she opens her mouth to spew more hate-speech, she convinces more and more moderates that she represents the Republican brand of government – ignorant, vengeful and wrong-headed, just look at the direction of her favorability ratings. The reality is that few, if any, have a larger platform in the Republican party than Sarah Palin and she is slowly imploding and it's the 40% of Independents that elect presidents, not the 30% of Democrats or 30% of Republicans.
So my two cents to fellow Democrats is; let's not wish her to go away, let's wish that her 15 minutes lasts at least until the 2012 presidential election concludes, because, let's face it, no national figure will do more to reelect Obama than Sarah Palin, that may seem backwards, but I believe it to be so. Just look at the growing number of leading Republicans trying to silence her.
So, if we can overcome the justifiable gag reflex we feel when we see her and others like her (Rush, Cheney, et al), and continue to click on their daily news cycle stories, giving the media the impression we actually may believe any of the venom spilling from their mouths; the better chance we have of keeping the Oval Office and retaking the House, and in true second term fashion, getting some policy that drives social equality that can only come from a Democratic administration not worrying about a second term.
January 18, 2011 02:32 pm at 2:32 pm |
Devi
I don't know squat about politics. I don't follow polls. I don't have a side that I'm on. Sarah Palin presents herself in a manner that feels and sound fake. She's all about the American People and the charity groups, but she' s on a reality TV show? Is that what is going to fund her campaign when she runs for President? If I have to register to vote to vote against her, I will. She doesn't put her point across well, she makes herself seem ignorant in interviews.... If Palin gets office, it'll be Bush Jr all over again, and that's the last thing this country needs.
January 18, 2011 02:34 pm at 2:34 pm |
IGNORANT
For the ignorant person who asked if the poll was taken in the ghetto? No it was taken in a trailer park. You can best believe if it was taken in the ghetto, that money hungry, moose killing, quitter would not have gotten 38%. Now share that with the Texans.
January 18, 2011 02:34 pm at 2:34 pm |
gus
It means that 38% of Americans are idiots, just like Palin. Scary.
January 18, 2011 02:36 pm at 2:36 pm |
Richard T.
Why are conservatives now to protective of the 1st amendment but have always hated the long term and major defender of the 1st amendment rights, the ACLU? Will conservatives now join and support the ACLU?
No their continuous references to the Constitution is another lie. They never suggest it protects the rights of people and power of government with whom they disagree. They are idiots just like Sean and Sarah.
January 18, 2011 02:38 pm at 2:38 pm |
Annie, Atlanta
I'm really starting to feel sorry for Sarah Palin. The Republicans have used her, and will kick her to the curb when they're done with her. They've made her believe she's something she's not. This is very very sad. CNN and other media outlets need to stop the 24/7 coverage of Sarah Palin and let her fade away into the history books. They're just using her like the Republicans are.
January 18, 2011 02:39 pm at 2:39 pm |
darla
Sarah Palin will not and can't stop talking because there are people who still listen to her. Haters and lovers alike. The media is the one responsible for her message getting across. And because of this 10 people in Tucson Arizona died.Sarah Palin is not the only one to be blame for this tragedy the sender of that message and those whose willing to recieve that message are too.
January 18, 2011 02:39 pm at 2:39 pm |
Mary
Dear Sarah
Just a quick note to let you know how much we appreciate all that you are doing for us. Keep up the good work. Your media presence helps us in ways you can never imagine
All our love
MITT, Newt, and Tim
January 18, 2011 02:40 pm at 2:40 pm |
wgf
Sarah is not part of "the public dialog". In order to be so, one would have to interact with the public - not just make pronouncements via twitter, facebook and fox news.
January 18, 2011 02:42 pm at 2:42 pm |
SPLAT!~
You Liberals need to quit trying to make Sarah look bad. She's doing just fine on her own. If anybody can make Sarah Palin look the fool, it's Sarah Palin.
Keep up the good work Grizzly Mamma!~
January 18, 2011 02:43 pm at 2:43 pm |
Julia- Idaho Native American
She is ignorant and promotes violence everytime she opens her mouth. She is a danger to democracy
January 18, 2011 02:44 pm at 2:44 pm |
Sheila
People are wishy washy and swayed by the wind. People need to get back to God and common sense. Quit looking to humans to be "your savior". Humans cannot save humanity in and of themselves. However, humans who humble themselves in obedience before the Lord and follow the teachings of his son Jesus Christ, can in that be servants of God who bring miraculous changes to the world by the Lord's power and spirit.
January 18, 2011 02:44 pm at 2:44 pm |
Doug
38% of Americans have an intelligence problem.
January 18, 2011 02:44 pm at 2:44 pm |
wgf
She reminds me of that line in Saving Private Ryan: "You don't know when to shut-up. You don't know how to shut-up."
January 18, 2011 02:47 pm at 2:47 pm |
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Note: As of April 2021, CodeSignal's virtual whiteboard is powered by Miro, a tool we chose for its intuitive user experience and rich set of features well-suited to collaborative, live technical interviews (details below).
Summary: This article provides an overview of the CodeSignal virtual whiteboard and how it can be leveraged during system design interviews.
The CodeSignal virtual whiteboard is a feature available within CodeSignal Interview. This digital equivalent of a traditional whiteboard enabled candidates to effectively communicate their ideas, thought processes, and knowledge of system design visually.
Whiteboard sessions can take place in real-time over a video call, and you can toggle back and forth between our whiteboard and state-of-the-art IDE. No need to download additional software or switch between multiple applications! Interviewers can collaborate with candidates on designs, or guide and instruct candidates through various exercises.
The interface is simple and intuitive to use, offering a stellar candidate experience and allowing talent to demonstrate their full potential by worrying less about learning how to use a potentially new platform and focusing more on the content of their work.
Feature Highlights
During your live interview session, simply click the OPEN WHITEBOARD button at the bottom of the window to switch from our state-of-the-art IDE and unlock your candidates’ creative potential with our feature-rich whiteboard.
Responsive arrow tool for flowchart creation
Candidates can select from a variety of shapes to create flowcharts and more in the virtual whiteboard. In system design interviews, candidates or interviewers can easily move elements of the flowchart, and the connecting lines and arrows automatically adjust accordingly.
Wireframes and templates
To save time, interviewers or candidates may choose to use a wireframe or template instead of placing each element onto the whiteboard one at at time. Templates offered by Miro include: flowchart, app wireframe, UML diagram, and more.
The wireframe library includes a variety of elements useful for frontend design: phone, tablet, and browser frames; buttons; dropdown menus; image, video, and avatar placeholders; tabs, and more.
Write
Use the Comment, Pen, or Text feature to add comments or text elements to your design.
Review the whiteboarding session after the interview
Option 1: Your interviewing team can review the whiteboard after the interview via a read-only link to the Miro board.
Option 2: Export as a PDF. To export a candidate's board from Miro, you'll first need to create a Frame around the content you want to export. Then, you will Export as image and save as a Vector - PDF file.
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With the increased use of computers and the internet, the risk of identity theft and online fraud has also increased. Despite the internet technology providing several benefits, it has been increasingly susceptible to phishing attacks through fraudulent emails, computer viruses, and various other attacks. Rest assured no one is immune to such attacks. Therefore, it would be in your best interest to take the utmost precautions to protect yourself from various kinds of online fraud.
The world market offers seven pieces of advice to protect you online.
1. Setting Strong Passwords
When you are required to set a password, consider keeping a strong password. Do not keep a password mentioning your date of birth, anniversary, the name of your child or pet, or anything that could be easily guessed through your credentials. A strong password would be eight characters in length. It would be inclusive of upper and lower letters, special characters, and numbers.
2. Keeping your Device Updated
To keep yourself safe from online threats, malware, and various kinds of viruses, consider keeping your device updated with the latest operating system, security software, and web browser. It would be a great defense against various kinds of online threats.
3. Keep a Secure Internet Connection
It would be in your best interest to keep your home wireless network protected with a strong password. Moreover, when you connect to public Wi-Fi networks, do not be complacent with the sensitive information you send over it.
4. Look for Phishing Frauds
You may receive fraudulent emails and phishing scams looking forward to tricking you into providing personal or private information. You should not click on doubtful links or open attachments you do not trust to be genuine or unfamiliar with.
5. Protect your Personal Information
It would be worth mentioning not to share your personal information with anyone. Most people would give their password or personal identification number to anyone. Do not share your birthdays, mother’s maiden name, addresses, and anything that could disclose your personal information. Your social media profiles are an easy target for hackers to determine your passwords and answer security questions. Do not connect to requests from people you do not know.
6. Safe Shopping
Before you shop online, consider looking for a safe technology to make monetary transactions. It would be in your best interest to look for HTTP on a website. It ensures the website is genuine. Moreover, consider looking for a small padlock symbol in the browser bar. It would provide you with the requisite site information.
7. Go Through the Privacy Policy of the Website
Despite the long and complicated privacy policies of any website, go through them to understand how the website intends to protect the personal information it gathers. Carry on your business elsewhere if you do not understand the privacy policy of a website.
To Sum it Up
Adhere to the aforementioned advice to protect yourself from several kinds of online frauds and phishing attacks. It would be a grave risk to your identity if your personal information were hacked. Do not be complacent with your online security needs.
Sofia Peterson
Sofia is a contributor at The Hack Post who loves to write about Technology. She also enjoys reading books and swims during her free time.
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You may have heard about Thanksgiving in almost every American Television series, be it F.R.I.E.N.D.S or How I Met Your Mother or Brooklyn 9-9. And if you are not an American, you might have wondered what is all the fuss about Thanksgiving and why are the characters always looking forward to celebrating it. You might have also wondered if it is actually a rehearsal dinner for Christmas or not?!
We were pretty surprised when we learned that Thanksgiving is not merely any religious ritual and it is not all about food, but it is a deep and meaningful tradition that is simply heartwarming and lives up to its noble name.
Why do Americans celebrate Thanksgiving?
Americans and Canadians celebrate, Thanksgiving meaning their gratitude towards everyone who makes their lives better, especially to God. In North America, it is an annual tradition which is marked by religious observances, followed by a traditional meal. It is also a national holiday in North America which commemorates the festival of harvest of the previous year, celebrated by the Pilgrim Fathers of 1621.
Thanksgiving is celebrated in the United States of America on the fourth Thursday of November. In Canada, Thanksgiving is celebrated early, usually on the second Monday of October.
Thanksgiving: a brief cultural history
According to American legends, the Thanksgiving history that the Americans believe revolve around the happenings of the year 1620 and 1621, when in September, a small ship called the Mayflower left Plymouth, England, with 102 passengers.
These 102 passengers were an assortment of religious separatists who had been seeking a new home where they could freely practice their faith and other individuals lured by the promise of prosperity and land ownership in a New World.
After the voyage of 66 days, they dropped anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, way far north of their intended destination at the mouth of the Hudson.
A month later, the Mayflower crossed Massachusetts Bay, where the Pilgrims (as they were commonly called), began to determine a village at Plymouth. The Pilgrims spent their first winter on the board of the ship as they battled against the freezing fall and suffered from contagious diseases like scurvy outbreaks. By the beginning of spring, only half of the Pilgrims lived. In March, they received an astonishing visit from an English-speaking Native American.
Several days and months later, a few Native Americans helped them teaching how to grow corn, extract sap from maple trees, catch fish for a livelihood, and avoid poisonous plants. They also helped the Pilgrims to ally with a local tribe, the Wampanoag. The Wampanoag, to date, tragically remains one of the sole alliances between European colonists and Native Americans.
In November 1621, when the Pilgrims successfully harvested their first corn, Governor William Bradford organized a celebratory feast, which is now remembered as the “first Thanksgiving” of America. It was celebrated in the presence of the Native American allies and the Wampanoag. The celebrations and festivity continued for three days.
When is Thanksgiving this year (2020)?
Thanksgiving is usually celebrated on the fourth Thursday of every November. This year, Thanksgiving 2020 in the United States of America will be celebrated on Thursday, 26th November.
What does Thanksgiving convey?
Thanksgiving conveys gratitude: gratitude towards God, family, friends, and everybody who has had an impact on your life, no matter how big or small. Thanksgiving Day is also the perfect time to remind oneself and others of the many reasons there are to be grateful for.
It is especially necessary in 2020 when the world is shaken to its core by a year-long pandemic, but again at the same time, a nation has collectively risen against fascism and chose a woman of color alongside her male superior instead.
Now that it is not safe to hug your loved ones this year, here are a few Thanksgiving message ideas that you can send out to your loved ones and bring a smile to their faces:
Thanksgiving is quite food and festivity; it’s the time to ponder upon the teachings we learned and the way we will spread happiness around. It is the time of the year that gives us a moment to reminisce and remember the great memories and the good people who came into our lives and decided to hold on to us. Happy Thanksgiving Day, from mine to yours!
The last year has been a roller coaster ride, that has taken away hopes from us and reignited a few. It has been a year like no other; we, as people have stood up against racism, impeached a clown in the white-colored house, and eventually stood up for what is good for us and our countrymen. Thank you for doing what was necessary and we hope to continue what is right for the rest of our lives, Happy Thanksgiving!
We don’t credit The Almighty often, but this Thanksgiving, I’d like to express my gratitude towards God for blessing the universe with not only Timothée Chalamet but also you. Happy Thanksgiving Day, thank you for having my back always!
Thanksgiving food: A brief gastronomical affair
If you are an avid follower of American sitcoms, then you must remember Rachel’s famous ‘traditional’ English trifle for Thanksgiving or, the legen-wait for it-dary Turturkeykey that Ted cooked for his first Thanksgiving as a host.
Well, a traditional Thanksgiving meal isn’t that amateur but is a table of classic comfort, that is ought to bring back good memories from childhood and the days of the past.
Generally, members of a family gather together to prepare a Thanksgiving dinner, or friends host a potluck dinner to share loads of Thanksgiving amongst each other.
Here are 10 delicacies, without which a Thanksgiving dinner is incomplete:
A perfectly juicy roasted turkey
Stuffing (that should be roasted alongside/ inside the whole turkey)
A side of creamy, buttery, garlicky mashed potatoes
A thick flavourful gravy made from the roasted turkey drippings
Homemade cranberry sauce for the right amount of sweetness, sourness, and tang
Corn (serve it as cornbread or grilled corn on the cob)
Casserole (It can be a vegetable one or overloaded with meat. The choice is yours and the ones you are celebrating with!)
Candied Yams
A pumpkin pie to comfort the crowd on a chilly fall evening
A pecan pie (this one works its way through the crowd!)
How should you celebrate Thanksgiving in 2020?
Who said you will have to be together to celebrate Thanksgiving? In this world of fast internet and video calls, celebrate the evening with your loved ones without stepping out or if you are in the same city, have a distant potluck, where you and your folks each cook up a delicacy and share a serving amongst each other through delivery apps.
And, when the sun sets, you can turn up the heat of your respective homes and enjoy a virtual Thanksgiving together.
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Cassandra Clare shares two confusing ‘Lord of Shadows’ snippets
Posted on March 26, 2016 by Cathrin in Book News, Cassandra Clare, The Dark Artifices // 53 Comments
Source: Cassandra Clare’s Pinterest
Cassandra Clare is spoiling her fans these days. Lady Midnight, the first book in her The Dark Artifices trilogy, has been on shelves for 18 days now and we have already gotten a couple of snippets from book two, Lord of Shadows.
DO NOT GO ON READING IF YOU HAVEN’T FINISHED LADY MIDNIGHT YET!
There is a spoiler in the following paragraph.
Cassie has been answering fan questions about Lady Midnight for a while now and since there are a lot of characters in the first book, fans are divided in regards to shipping/new couples. One character that is stuck in a love triangle (or maybe even a love square?) is Mark Blackthorn. Some fans ship Mark with Cristina (myself included), others ship him with Kieran. Of course the shippers want to know whether their ship is endgame, but Cassie is “the Iron Man of no spoilers” so she is staying mum. To confuse her fans, she just shared two very opposite snippets on her tumblr.
“I know.” Mark brushed his lips across her forehead. Cristina could feel his heart pounding. “We’ll figure it out. We’ll fix it.”
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Kieran sat up rather reluctantly. The waves of his hair had lightened to blue; he turned around, and leaned back against Mark, rather as if they were on horseback and Mark was behind.
Who do you ship? Marktina or Kierak? If you mention spoilers in the comments please give a short spoiler warning for other readers.
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53 Comments on Cassandra Clare shares two confusing ‘Lord of Shadows’ snippets
Amanda // March 26, 2016 at 2:08 PM // Reply
Mark and Cristina.
Avala // March 26, 2016 at 2:10 PM // Reply
SPOILER-ISH – BE WARNED!!!
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Kierak though I hate to say it. I think Christina should be with Perfect Diego because I liked how they communicated with each other in Lady Midnight and it would be cute if they ended up together despite all that’s happened. It would be like true love finally realized!
Mark doesn’t seem to love Kieran as much as Kieran loves Mark. It’s almost like Mark only was with Kieran because there was no one else in the Hunt who was kind to him or would defend him. And now that he has his family, he might not want to go back to Kieran at all and Kieran knows that.
Kieran just seems broken and wants someone who will stay with him forever since everyone else has abandoned him or been mean. I don’t like what he did in Lady Midnight, but to some degree I can understand (that doesn’t mean it’s right though AT ALL). I still can’t get over what he did, but I’m not going to be very spoilery and I can’t say that I hate him either. The more Lord of Shadows snippets there are, the worse I feel for him and the more I hope he finds someone who’ll be with him forever if Mark won’t. He is definitely the most mysterious character and I hope he plays a big role in the series!
Toodles!
Rose // March 26, 2016 at 8:10 PM // Reply
I love Kieran and Mark, but I have to agree: Mark only loved him because he was the only person who was kind to him. I think it is more likely–and probably more happy ending-y–that we see Mark with Cristina. But I definitely agree: Kieran deserves to be with someone who will love him forever!
Rhea // April 15, 2016 at 11:18 PM //
*SPOILER ALERT*
But, guys, we are forgetting over here how heartbroken Mark was when Kieran betrayed him… He truly loves Kieran and wants to forgive him but he can’t because of what happened to Julian and Emma. But I think that towards the end of the series, the both are going to return to Faerie but at the same time will also not be bound by the laws of the Hunt.
Chris // March 26, 2016 at 2:50 PM // Reply
Kierak!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kieran // March 16, 2017 at 8:53 AM // Reply
KIERAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (my names kieran btw) (find me a mark and ship us lol) (i have a boyfriend, hes so my mark)
Casey // March 26, 2016 at 7:29 PM // Reply
He should be with Emma 😆 before the books come out, I wanted them together. Only because she couldn’t be with Jules.. But if they somehow find a way around the law, I would definitely want Emma and Julian to be together!!
Emily // March 26, 2016 at 9:37 PM // Reply
Kierak!!! So hard!!!!
EL // April 18, 2016 at 10:41 PM // Reply
“Remember that a blade made by Wayland the Smith can cut anything,” maybe this includes a parabatai bond? She could use it to sever their runes?
Hannah Butterworth // July 31, 2016 at 11:48 AM //
Yes! That would be so cool! My imagination has spouted several ways they could sever the bond, but that’s a really good one. Other ones I’ve thought of would be:
1. One of them dies + resurrects. Okay, unlikely, but still.
2.One of them becomes a silent brother. Probably not this one, as it’s what happens in TID.
3. Random spell/ magical event.
… I’ll see if anyone’s come up with anything else.
Shelby // August 26, 2016 at 1:42 AM //
Or Emma straight out disfigures the parabatai rune with the Wayland Smith blade
Audrey // August 2, 2018 at 11:40 AM //
True true
But they also have the Black book remember
darkangel // March 27, 2016 at 1:34 AM // Reply
Kierak! I love them together. After reading The Lady Midnight, i understand why Kieran did what he did, though i don’t agree. But sometimes one does stupid things when one is desperate. I also agree that Kieran loves Mark more than Mark loves him. Maybe Mark just wanted a friend when he had no one. And sometimes this is confused with love. I just hope there is a chance for the two of them to really be together. And if in the end it will not be them together, then i hope Kieran meets someone who will love and stay with him.
On Christina, i hope he and perfect Diego be together. They are for me a perfect couple.
For Emma and Jules, there must be a way out of this parabatai thingy. There is always a first for everything, just look at Malec. I being optimistic as i like them both.
Penny Hansford // March 27, 2016 at 6:24 AM // Reply
Mark and Cristina. She studied faerie so understands Mark and what he went through better than anyone.. It’s way too comfortable and easy for her and Perfect Diego to be together having been together previously and coming from the same country etc.
Alexis // March 27, 2016 at 1:39 PM // Reply
I think Kieran’s going end up feeling betrayed or end up like Yuno Gasai from Mirai Nikki! TBH I don’t think Christina and Mark would actually be that good together nor do I think Kieran and Mark would be. Mark doesn’t love Kieran in the way Kieran loves Mark, it almost seems like Mark likes Kieran as a best friend or maybe even family but Kieran loves Mark as if Mark was the only thing keeping Kieran alive. Mark can’t return Kieran’s love. I feel sorry for Kieran, he was really cute. The weird thing is they are really similar. Mark is likely the only person to ever show Kieran true loyalty even true love, I think until Mark came, Kieran was only love/respected for being the king’s son or at least felt that way and his father basically sold him like a pawn. As with Mark when he joined the Wild Hunt the only person their to love him or show loyalty to him was Kieran, Mark was only really respected because of being half shadowhunter. They weren’t made to be lovers. Kieran is going to shatter like glass if he isn;t careful.
Mariama // April 14, 2016 at 7:10 PM // Reply
I think that Emma and Mark would be a perfect match instead if struggling with Julien why not be with the brother his both handsome and definitely talks like a true poet. Mark seems to know what he wants and he speeks from the heart I like he doesn’t stand for people who try and hurt his family understandable. I think Mark should forgive Keiran so they can be friends.
Amanda // April 15, 2016 at 12:44 AM //
Hell no Emma and Julian are in love and they will find away to be together.Getting with Mark instead is wrong.Just no.
bookdragon394 // March 28, 2016 at 2:49 AM // Reply
The choice is so difficult!! I ship Kieran and Mark, but I ship Christina and Mark more. BUT I also ship Christina and Perfect Diego, and I ship them more than I ship Christina and Mark. My shipper heart is so divided right now!!!
I actually don’t think that Mark could have a lasting romantic relationship with Kieran or Christina, though I can see Christina and Perfect Diego possibly staying together for a while.
Despoina San // March 28, 2016 at 6:15 AM // Reply
Mark x Cristina. Their bond felt natural and genuine and it didn’t come from pain, loneliness and dept. While I enjoyed the Kierark chemistry, they didn’t click as much for me. I also have to admit that Kieran trying to take away his free will was the one thing that convinced me that I do not ship them.
Still the only ships I would not be ok with are Mark x Emma and Diego x Cristina.
Lily // April 24, 2017 at 2:28 AM // Reply
MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY. I hated the whole “You either choose me or your family who you’ve been separated from for years scene.” Completely un-sexy for me. I don’t care if you ARE a beautiful, tortured faerie boy. Plus, with Cristina, Mark got to feel more human and have natural conversations where he just opened up to her. (Sorry, I know i’m like super late).
Vale // March 30, 2016 at 3:44 PM // Reply
Mark and Cristina!
maddy // March 30, 2016 at 7:39 PM // Reply
Marktina!!!!!
darrikinzzbooks // March 31, 2016 at 9:50 PM // Reply
Ugh I feel so conflicted!!! The only ship I am for sure on board with is Julian x Emma! I don’t really know about Mark and Kieran, for I didn’t like what Kieran did to Mark. As for Mark and Christina, I’d have to read some more scenes between them to determine my feelings, and as for Christina and Diego, it’s clear that they really care for each other, but as others have mentioned, it would be a pretty easy relationship.
Anna // April 2, 2016 at 10:34 PM // Reply
Mark and Kieran for sure! I like Christina much more with Diego.
Clary Herondale // April 3, 2016 at 9:12 PM // Reply
I CAN’T CHOOSE! I really like Mark. Kieran likes him and he likes Kieran too. But Mark was jealous about Cristina and Diego’s kiss. AUGH! Um. I think I would choose Cristina tho. Cuz Im still a teeny bit mad at Kieran for telling Iarlath (ugh that rat) to whip Julian.
Ross // April 4, 2016 at 11:48 AM // Reply
I do hope for Mark and Kieran but i won´t put my hopes high. For more that Cassie is fair to LGBT character in her books, i don´t think she will go for Kieran and Mark. She spend too much time on Mark and Cristina – thou i cannot see for the life of me their chemistry.
And the whole Christina seeing Mark and Kieran and Mark jealous of cristina and diego makes me think that Cassie already have her end game there. 😦
At least, i can feel happy for Jemma! 🙂
helena // April 5, 2016 at 2:30 PM // Reply
Spoilers!
I truly hope Kierark, because I loved Kieran so much, and he seems like such a broken character. I’m headcanoning that Lord of Shadows is Kieran’s father, the Unseelie King, so hopefully we get more Kieran in this book. Cassie always treats her LGBT characters well, so I’m hoping Kieran won’t die, but I could see him sacrificing himself for Mark. I shipped Christina with so many people in this book, but I like where she ended up with Diego; they seem cute together!
Mew // April 7, 2016 at 3:45 AM // Reply
Tbh, I don’t really know anymore- throughout the book I loved all the Kierark moments and wasn’t the fondest of Christina, but I just can’t see Mark and Kieran working out, as much as I want them to. I think that Mark seems to be confusing love for Kieran with friendship, at one of the toughest points in his life. Despite this i do think Kieran really does love Mark, though I think he’s a bit controlling- with trying to get him punished to return to the hunt, I really don’t know anymore, I guess I’ll just have to wait and see what Cassie does!
CH // April 12, 2016 at 10:59 PM // Reply
Mark and Cristina!…?
Ugh
Jusse // April 21, 2016 at 8:06 PM // Reply
Marktina they had a great chemistry and I think Mark was lonely and Kieran was there when he needed him it’s more love out of necessity than actual true love
TDA // May 4, 2016 at 2:56 PM // Reply
Am I the only one who ship the Julian/emma/mark love triangle? I mean yeah at the end I want emma and julian together but while I would LOVE her to be with Mark
Layla // June 7, 2016 at 5:47 PM // Reply
I think that it would a crazy book to read if this happened but it is a Cassandra Clare book so that’s bound to happen anyway.
Jay // May 5, 2016 at 9:01 PM // Reply
I liked Christina with Diego, they have chemistry and friendship. A love triangle is good in a book some times but sometimes I like love to be easy and natural. As for Mark and Kieran I read someone comment he’s mistaking friendship with love, real love is friendship and they are both attracted to each other. But I don’t think either one is ready for a commitment yet. I’d like to see Mark be single for awhile and get closer to his family. Then down the road maybe Kieran or maybe some we haven’t met yet.
Mrs. Carstairs // June 8, 2016 at 3:03 PM // Reply
Kierark all the way! At first, I loved Markstina too much, but boom. Kieran came, and I love his character too much. I mean seriously Cassie? Ocean coloured hair? I so love him. My favourite ship in TDA so far is Cristiego. It’s really natural to me, and I feel bad for Diego (I also LOOOVE his character. “Perfect Diego.”) but I’m fairly sure Markstina and Drusilla & Diego will end up together. *cries for Kieran*
Cassie Clare Is A Genius // November 26, 2016 at 8:28 PM // Reply
I never even considered Drusilla & Diego. But isn’t Drusilla only 13? And Diego is, like, 17 or 18? I was thinking it might be Livvy + Diego? since Livvy is 15 and therefore closer to a serious age . . . Idk man. Every ship in TDA leaves me with a feelings headache. Can’t wait for Lord of Shadows!
Rose Smith // July 12, 2016 at 1:17 AM // Reply
Anyone else banging their head against a wall?
Madison // July 27, 2016 at 1:43 PM // Reply
I definitely ship Kieran and Mark over Mark and Cristina because, yeah I agree that it seemed like mark stuck with Kieran because of his kindness towards Mark, but remember *SPOILER* the whipping scene in the book! MEGA HEARTBREAK FOR BOTH KIERAN AND MARK RIGHT THERE! 😪😩💔 plus I just really love the general friendship and relationship between Kieran and Mark and would be absolutely ECSTATIC if they really did end up together ❤️💞
NotFunny ButFunny // August 2, 2016 at 12:52 AM // Reply
I’m not sure. Cristina and Perfect Diego have not done anything wrong to the other. So Mark and Cristina’s sparkling ship is postponed. I don’t necessarily like Kieran. He is too self-centered, and I haven’t truly forgiven him even though I see where he was coming from at the time. But the best option was to shut up, nothing he said was good. When Julian stepped up he should have said nothing. He should have considered how Mark felt emotionally not ‘Yay everyone but Mark!’ He could of at least hid his relief for Mark’s sake.
Needless to say Mark and Cristina.
Brin // August 4, 2016 at 9:44 PM // Reply
Is Kieran here the same one that Izzy Lightwood had as a boy friend?
Cathrin // August 5, 2016 at 3:13 AM // Reply
No, that was Meliorn. He was just a Faerie knight whereas Kieran is a Faerie prince.
Ana // September 1, 2016 at 4:00 PM // Reply
Kierark, obviously
Amanda // September 1, 2016 at 6:05 PM // Reply
Mark and Cristina.I think she would be good for him.I don’t trust Diego or Keiran.What happened in Fairy should stay there.
Emma10 // September 9, 2016 at 10:23 AM // Reply
I actually ship Mark and Emma… I know most of you probably wants to kill me, but guys don’t you think they would be a beautiful couple together? Of course, my OTP stays Emma and Julian, and I see Emma and Mark just as an “experience” for them, but honestly I’ve shipped them since the prologue of COHF. But if I had to choose from Kieran and Christina, I would probably choose Christina. I like Kieran,, but I think what he did to have Mark back with him (let Julian and Emma being whipped) is a truly selfish gesture, and so I don’t think he deserves Mark anymore.
nanyajima // September 15, 2016 at 10:40 PM // Reply
I only ship Jemma for now. Think I must “know” about Mark a little bit more and understand his feelings.
But, I must confess I didn’t like Kieran very much at first.
Genevieve // November 17, 2016 at 12:16 AM // Reply
Mark and Christina definitely! They’ve become my biggest ship for the Dark Artifices so far. After everything that Mark’s been through Christina comes in and it’s just this simple love and trust between them that I can see truly growing into something so beautiful. Mark had Kieran in the hunt and I think that that was very important and I’m glad that he did have someone, but I feel like their relationship is a bit unhealthy. I don’t totally hate Kieran, but some of the things he’s done are hard to forgive, and even then I could never be with someone who would do that to my family. Kieran is a broken man that I’m interested in learning more about, but I really didn’t like him with Mark. They have a bond, but the romance kind of made me uncomfortable. Whenever there was those little Marktina moments, I was squealing in delight. Those two really make me happy.
All that being said, I’m afraid that Mark and Kieran are probably going to end up together, just as Cristina with probably end up with perfect Diego. There was far more with Kieran and Mark together and the same with the other two. I like Diego, but with Cristina it just seems to obvious and boring. And as I’ve said, the Mark and Kieran romance just doesn’t feel right to me at all. I really hope I’m wrong and Cassie surprises us…MARKTINA FOR LIFE!!!
Cassie Clare Is A Genius // November 26, 2016 at 8:31 PM // Reply
Kieran + Mark.
Tree // December 31, 2016 at 4:49 PM // Reply
Christina and Mark! Would be perfect together as she helps Mark become Himself again. I think she’s who he truly ants and I thinks she wants him too!
nevena // February 8, 2017 at 6:10 AM // Reply
Kierak 🙂 and Jemma
Dajana Zečević // April 4, 2017 at 2:22 PM // Reply
I am going to choose Kierak – My reason for that is: Every love is complicated and somewhat confusing. Kieran, I can see, love Mark and cares so much for him that he would even stay around Nephilims and do whatever is been told. He did for sure very stupid thing, but Mark felt heartbroken when Kieran betrayed and I’m sure he is trying to think about his choices, Kieran however is willing to prove himself worthy. What I am trying to say is every love has problems even theirs, so my reason for shipping more Kierak is because I think Mark really loves him but because he is disappointed he wants to check if Kieran will do some same shit again.
Aethyl // May 23, 2017 at 7:55 PM // Reply
Have you guys read Lord of Shadows yet?
I am devastated, shattered, by the ending.
Reeling.
Only Game of Thrones can ease the pain I carry from this ending- Draw nearer, July!
First, it always astounds me how much better and better as a writer Cassandra Clare keeps becoming.
In LoS, she has broken my heart.
I had no idea how invested I was in some characters until they died.
At first, I was struck by this death that seemed so reckless, so, unnecessary.
Then the more I thought about it, the more it struck me how, still senseless and tragic it was, but how much it will change the characters in it.
The lengths they will go to to bring this person back.
The way they will re-shape the world because of this death.
Everything has changed.
Alice langlie // May 27, 2017 at 7:04 PM // Reply
This is the best book ever. I can not say enough good about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
louise combs // January 8, 2018 at 10:51 AM // Reply
is there going to be another book about the shadowhunters? the last book, lord of shadows seemed unfinished.
Cathrin // January 8, 2018 at 10:54 AM // Reply
Of course!! The last book in The Dark Artifices is called Queen of Air and Darkness and it’s going to be published on December 4, 2018!
You can read a first synopsis on our website – just have a look around to find it – but beware of spoilers!
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The Bird Scene is the second episode of the first season of Victorious. It aired on April 11, 2010 to 3.5 million viewers. It was advertised as the official series and season one premiere of Victorious, saying that the pilot was just a sneak peek of the series.
Contents
1 About "The Bird Scene"
2 Plot
3 Subplot
4 2nd Subplot
5 Trivia
6 Goofs
7 Running Gags
8 Quotes
9 Promo
10 Gallery
About "The Bird Scene"
Main article: The Bird Scene (play scene)
The Bird Scene is a monologue that all new students at Hollywood Arts must perform in front of their class and pass before they can take part in any school plays. Although Tori did well each time, she asked if she did well twice, which resulted in her failing twice. For a student to pass the Bird Scene, he/she must not question his/her performance and be confident that he/she did well no matter what other people say.
Plot
Tori's first attempt for her locker design.
Tori in her final attempt of the Bird Scene.
Tori and Trina go to school, excited to find the list of play roster for the new semester. André had suggested that Tori try out for the lead in Moonlight Magic, a play Tori had originally worked on with André. This left Trina in complete shock, as she thinks of herself as a brilliant actress.
The list of new plays for the semester.
While in acting class, Sikowitz throws a ball at Cat's face during a skit. When Cat complains that the throw really hurt, Sikowitz defends himself by saying that any good actor should be able to face any distractions and still focus on their scene. The bell rings, signaling lunchtime. Sikowitz throws a ball near Tori's face, requesting that she stay and mingle with him. Sikowitz tells her that she cannot audition for Moonlight Magic, as she had not passed 'The Bird Scene' (see above), which is a monologue all students must pass in order to try out for any plays at the school.
Tori goes throughout the week performing her lines well and inserting genuine emotion for The Bird Scene, yet she never gets it right. Every time Tori asks Sikowitz, he says that she did a fantastic job, but she didn't pass the test. Tori's friends are unable to help her, as all the students took a pledge that they would never help anyone with The Bird Scene. A frustrated Tori goes to drastic measures. First, she gives Cat several Red-Hot candies and handcuffs her to a railing, telling Cat that she will not give her water unless she tells her the secret to The Bird Scene. Tori then flirts with Robbie, as he has a massive crush on her, but he escapes by claiming that his puppet Rex has to go to the bathroom.
After her third attempt at the scene failed, Tori explodes with frustration, telling Sikowitz that her performance was great regardless of what anyone says, now beyond caring what he has to say. Sikowitz then applauds her, along with rest of the class. Sikowitz tells Tori that she has passed the Bird Scene and that the moral of the scene is to believe in her own choices as an artist.
Subplot
Meanwhile, André and Robbie sign up for a ballet class so that they can meet girls. However, many other boys had the same idea, as the class is filled with boys. They are unable to quit the class because if they do, they'll fail. When, for once, a girl actually comes in, all the boys in the class mob her. André and Robbie try to impress her by doing a difficult ballet dance, injuring both of them badly. They both ended up hitting each other in the groin area, and had to ice off afterward.
2nd Subplot
André, Beck, and Robbie tell Tori that she has to decorate her locker, as it is mandatory, as well as a Hollywood Arts tradition. With no ideas in mind, Tori asks the guys what they did to decorate their lockers. Robbie made a mosaic of all the baby bottle nipples from his childhood, representing his happier times, which creeps Tori out. André installed a customized keyboard. Beck has a "transparent" locker, to show that he has nothing to hide.
Sinjin later shows Tori his locker which is food he chewed but didn't swallow which grosses Tori out.
At the end of the episode, Tori's finished locker is finally revealed. On it, Tori put up a poster that says Make It Shine in big bubble letters. To everyone's surprise, Tori installed a button that can light up the whole locker. Everyone, except Jade, is enthusiastic about the design.
Trivia
The bird from the scene.
These are the locker customizations of the students we see in this episode:
Robbie: A mosaic of baby bottle nipples from childhood.
André: A working keyboard.
Sinjin: Regurgitated food pieces that was never digested.
Beck: Transparent.
Tori: A blue background with MAKE iT SHINE on it, with various lights capable of lighting it up.
Jade, Cat, and Trina's lockers were the only ones we didn't see, although Jade's locker is seen in Wok Star; it's covered with scissors. What might have been Cat and Trina's lockers were shown on Twitter but they were never confirmed as such in the series.
It took Tori three tries to pass the Bird Scene, and she did all of them in different ways.
How many tries the others needed to pass the scene was never seen though given Jade's glare after Tori passes, it is possible that she needed more than three tries.
The bird Tori used is a white umbrella cockatoo.
All students must pass this scene (which is Tradition Level 1) in order to take part in any school plays (Tradition Level 2) in the Hollywood Arts handbook.
This is the first time Cat and Trina are seen talking to each other.
The Wahoo Punch machine is the same machine that is seen in the iCarly episode "iTake on Dingo" and is seen throughout the rest of the series.
This is the first episode where the title is said in the episode.
This is the first time Tori is seen wearing glasses.
This episode was filmed one year after the Pilot.
This is the first of four episodes to air on Sunday.
This is the first time the opening credits with the song "Make It Shine" is seen.
This is the first episode not to feature a song.
This is the first episode where someone breaks the law, in this case Sikowitz throwing balls at Tori and Cat could be construed as a teacher attacking students.
It is unknown whether or not Tori got to star in Moonlight Magic.
Although from Tori's success at completing The Bird Scene, it is possible that she did it, just offscreen.
Ending Tagline: "This is gettin' weird." - Rex
Goofs
When Sikowitz throws a ball at Tori, but misses, the two are then seen together, and the ball is right next to Sikowitz. That ball was blue, the one he had thrown at Tori was green.
There is no way Sikowitz could have thrown the ball at Cat the second time because in the previous scene with Tori not only was there no ball near him but no way he could have found the ball in the limited amount of time between the scenes.
When Beck, Robbie, and André are talking at lunch, Beck is picking up his coffee. When the camera switches to a different angle, his coffee is back on the table and he is picking it up again.
The dancer who went into the dance studio should've reported the students, especially Robbie and Andre, for mobbing up on her.
At the beginning of this episode, when André and Robbie are going down the stairs, you can see André's belt was raised up, but the other scene it doesn't show. However, when they reach the bottom of the stairs, it's raised up again and shown.
When Sikowitz threw the ball at Cat at the beginning, Cat would've got a red ball mark but it doesn't appear. Or she would have got dizzy (pending by how hard the ball was or the pace).
There is a goof both in Pilot and this episode. When Tori has her locker done, the red locker beside it moves to the very end and the green-ish locker that was in the very end (to the right) isn't in that spot anymore when Tori makes her locker.
It was lunchtime after Sikowitz's class, which usually means that it was fourth period, but in Pilot, Sikowitz's class was first period. (Although it was a different day so they could have had Sikowitz at different times of the day)
Tori technically passed The Bird Scene on her second attempt, but she was interrupted as she started yelling at Sikowitz.
How the Bird Scene's rule of "no help" is enforced is something of a mystery as there doesn't appear to be any mechanism in place for discovering any help (i.e: Trina could easily have told Tori when they were at home).
After Tori's 2nd attempt at the bird scene, where she gets the backdrop and plastic bird, she goes to Cat for help. Before that, when it does the bit of music and the zoom of the school, you can clearly see that Tori's locker is decorated, though after her encounter with Cat, Beck comes to her locker, where Tori's Locker only has the stripe. In the Cat encounter it has the whole "Make it shine" decoration.
Running Gags
Sikowitz throwing balls at people.
Rex telling people that they don't know "what he's got".
Sikowitz telling everyone to do a drive-by-acting exercise.
Jade denying Tori's friendship; this is the first episode where Jade does this throughout the entire series.
Quotes
Trina: Tori, come on!
Tori: Did you not see me fall in the parking lot?!
Trina: It was very funny.
Jade: [Sees Tori struggling with her books] Need some help?
Tori: Yes!
Jade: Interesting... [Walks by]
[Sikowitz throws a ball at Tori; it hits the wall next to her. She screams]
Tori: What was that for?! I'm not acting right now!
Sikowitz: We need to chat.
Tori: And "Tori, can I see you?" wouldn't have worked?
André: [Walking out] Have fun.
Beck: [Following him] Protect your face.
Beck: Why do you need ballet slippers?
André: Cause I signed up for ballet.
Robbie: Isn't that kinda girly?
André: Yep, just one big room full of girls and me, you guys picking up what I'm putting down.
Rex: Yeah, pretty smoothhh...
Robbie: I don't understand.
Beck: A lot of girls who dance all in one room with him.
Robbie: Oh!!!
Robbie: I can't eat salsa.
André: Why, cause it hurts your stomach and gives you nightmares?
Robbie: No.
Rex: Yes.
Robbie: Maybe...
Sikowitz: Drive-by acting exercise! You're all angry Englishmen! GO!
Robbie: Ah! I insist you tell me who sat on me crumpet!
Jade: My grandmummy went to the loo while I snogged the Prime Minister!
André: This flock o' whippoorwills is botherin' my trousers!
Cat: Good heavens! There's a dead cockroach in my brassiere!
Rex: Blimey!
Beck: I told you not to put plum sauce on me banger!
Sikowitz: Tori, the stage is yours, though you can't take it home.
Cat: It's so gross how he's always hitting on every girl.
Rex: I never hit on you.
Cat: What's that supposed to mean?!
Robbie: What's the deal with Sikowitz and coconuts?
Jade: He says the milk gives him visions.
Tori: Before we begin, I'd like you to have these two large coconuts.
Sikowitz: Wonderful! You know their milk gives me visions.
Tori: I've heard.
Tori: Cat!
Cat: Hey!
Tori: You have to try something! [She pulls out handcuffs]
Cat: Handcuffs?
Tori: Uh-huh. Put them on one wrist. [She puts them on] Good! Now, we lock the other part here...
Cat: Fun!
Tori: 'Kay, now try this. [She holds out a piece of candy]
Cat: [Gasps] Oooh! Candy! [She eats it] Mmm...This is so...so hot! What are these?!
Tori: Choo-Choo Peppers.
Cat: Ch-Choo?! Ugh! They're burning my mouth!
Tori: I know! Want some water?
Cat: Yes!
Tori: Tell me the secret to the Bird Scene!
Cat: I can't, and I need water!
Tori: Oh, fine! [She throws her a bottle of water and leaves, but doesn't uncuff her]
Cat: Wait, Tori! [Drinks water] Tori! Mmm...water.
Tori: [While flirting with Robbie] You want to know what's making me feel stressed?
Robbie: [Not wanting it to stop] Tell me, I'll kill it!
[Talking about Tori's locker]
Beck: Why don't you do something creative and deep?
[Sees his locker]
Tori: Clear?
Beck: Transparent. I've got no secrets and neither does my locker.
Tori: You'll help me with the Bird Scene, won't you?
Robbie: I'm really not supposed to, and--
Tori: Ow! He bit my hand!
Robbie: Rex!
Rex: Take me to the bathroom! I gotta pee now! [Robbie runs off with him]
Tori: He's a puppet, he can't pee!
Rex: You don't know what I've got!
Sikowitz: Happy birthday!
Cat: Whose birthday is it?
Sikowitz: Somebody's, somewhere.
Cat: That's so true...
Sikowitz: Ladies and gentlemen, once again, the Bird Scene, starring Tori...
Tori: [Pops her head from behind the curtain] Vega.
Sikowitz: Vega!
Tori: [in a country accent] It was 1934 and my husband left me, alone. Living on the prairie was a dreary existence. No telephone, no radio. Only a large majestic bird with whom I shared my feelings. [whistles. Bird flies in]
Sikowitz: [leans over to Beck] You see the bird too right?
Beck: Yeah.
Sikowitz: Fantastic. [sips his coconut]
Tori: One day when I was feeling alone, I said to him, 'Oh bird, you can fly. You can fly miles form this place yet you stay. Why?' [shakes her head and the bird flies out] And my question rang true for that afternoon, the bird left, and so went my spirit. [puts her head down]
Sikowitz: That, was impressive.
Tori: So did I get it right?
Sikowitz: Nope!
Tori: But...but I just, I, I... I DID TOO GET IT RIGHT!
Sikowitz: Tori, listen...
Tori: [yelling] I'M NOT TRYING TO BE DISRESPECTFUL OR ANYTHING BUT DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD I WORKED ON THIS SCENE? I MADE THIS COSTUME, I DOWNLOADED SPECIAL PRAIRIE MUSIC! I EVEN TRAINED THAT CRAZY COCKATOO TO FLY IN AND OUT THAT WINDOW, ON COMMAND! [the bird flies inside] NOT NOW! [the bird flies back outside] Now I know you're a great acting teacher and all but I don't care what you say. The scene I just did was good. And I'm proud of it no matter what anybody thinks!
Sikowitz: A true artist need only please himself. [To Tori] Or herself. [To Robbie and Rex] Or...itself.
Rex: You don't know what I've got!
Tori: Ah! Uh, uh, uh! I believe in my own choices, and I don't need approval from others.
Beck: Ah, the young female has learned the ways of the Bird Scene.
Jade: I still think it's dull.
Tori: Yeah? Well, maybe I should...make it shine. [She presses a button and her locker lights up]
Promo
(HQ) Victorious World Premiere April 11th - "The Bird Scene" Promo
Gallery
Click here to see the photo gallery for The Bird Scene.
v • e • d Victorious Episodes
Season One
Pilot • The Bird Scene • Stage Fighting • The Birthweek Song • Jade Dumps Beck • Tori the Zombie • Robarazzi • Survival of the Hottest • Wi-Fi in the Sky • Beck's Big Break • The Great Ping Pong Scam • Cat's New Boyfriend • Freak the Freak Out • Rex Dies • The Diddly-Bops • Wok Star • The Wood • A Film by Dale Squires • Sleepover at Sikowitz's
Season Two
Beggin' on Your Knees • Beck Falls for Tori • Ice Cream for Ke$ha • Tori Gets Stuck • Prom Wrecker • Locked Up! • Helen Back Again • Who Did It to Trina? • Tori Tortures Teacher • Jade Gets Crushed • Terror on Cupcake Street • A Christmas Tori • Blooptorious
Season Three
The Breakfast Bunch • The Gorilla Club • The Worst Couple • André's Horrible Girl • Car, Rain & Fire • Tori & Jade's Play Date • April Fools' Blank • Driving Tori Crazy • How Trina Got In • Tori Goes Platinum • Crazy Ponnie • The Blonde Squad
Season Four
Wanko's Warehouse • The Hambone King • Opposite Date • Three Girls and a Moose • Cell Block • Tori Fixes Beck and Jade • One Thousand Berry Balls • Robbie Sells Rex • The Bad Roommate • Brain Squeezers • The Slap Fight • Star Spangled Tori • Victori-Yes
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Revision as of 11:47, 9 May 2013
Contents
1 Computer Simulation of Complex Systems (Stat 340 - Spring 2013)
2 Introduction
3 Applications
4 Course Information
5 Tentative Marking Scheme
6 Class 2 - Thursday, May 9
6.1 Sampling (Generating random numbers)
6.2 Multiplicative Congruential Algorithm
6.3 Inverse Transform Method
Computer Simulation of Complex Systems (Stat 340 - Spring 2013)
Introduction
Four Fundamental Problems:
1. Classification: Given an input object X, we have a function which will take in this input X and identity which 'class (Y)' it belongs to (Discrete Case)
2. Regression: Same as classification but in the continuous case
3. Clustering: Use common features of objects in same class or group to form clusters.
4. Dimensionality Reduction
Applications
Most useful when structure of the task is not well understood but can be characterized by a dataset with strong statistical regularity Examples Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Finance (fraud detection), Machine Learning Search and recommendation (eg. Google) Automatic speech recognition, speaker verification Text parsing Face identification Tracking objects in video Financial prediction, fraud detection
Course Information
No required textbook, recommended: "Simulation" by Sheldon M. Ross Computing parts of the course will be done in Matlab, but prior knowledge of Matlab is not essential (will have a tutorial on it) Learn for announcements, assignments, and emails. Other course material on: <<wikicoursenote.com>> Log on to both Learn and wikicoursenote frequently.
Must do bothAll primary contributions are now considered general contributions you must contribute to 50% of lectures for full marks
Primary contributor: Put a summary of the lecture up within 48 hours.
General contributor: Elaborate on concepts, add example, add code, add pictures, reference, corrections etc… withing 2 weeks
A general contribution can be correctinal (fixing mistakes) or technical (expanding content, adding examples, etc) but at least half of your contributions should be technical for full marks
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission, cite original sources. Each time you make a contribution, check mark the table. Marks are calculated on honour system, although there will be random verifications. If you are caught claiming to contribute but didn't, you will lose marks.
Tentative Marking Scheme
Item
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Assignments (~6) 30%
WikiCourseNote 10%
Midterm 20%
Final 40%
Class 2 - Thursday, May 9
Sampling (Generating random numbers)
Some people believe that activities such as rolling a dice and flipping a coin are not truly random but are deterministic – that is, the result can be reliably calculated using things such as physics and math.
A computer cannot generate truly random numbers since computers can only run algorithms, which are deterministic in nature. They can, however, generate Pseudo Random Numbers; numbers that seem random but are actually deterministic.
Multiplicative Congruential Algorithm
This is an algorithm used to generate uniform, pseudo random numbers.
It is also referred to as the Linear or Mixed Congruential Methods.
The Multiplicative Congruential Method may also refer to the special case where c=0.
Take a number x and divide it by m
The remainder is a number between 0 and m-1
We use the operator “mod”
X mod m
1 = 10 mod 3
x = x mod m – we take the remainder and go remainder mod m, but we will get x every time we do this
We can modify this:
Z = ax+b mod m
Example: a=2, b=1, m=3; if x=10
Step 1: 0 = 2(10)+1 mod 3
Step 2: 1 = 2(0) + 1 mod 3
Step 3: 0 = 2(1) + 1 mod 3
You will get a sequence of numbers
MatLab for Multiplicative Congruential Algorithm
Before your start:
Clear all
Close all
A=17
B=3
M=31
X=5
Mod(a*x+b,m)
Ans = 26
X=mod(a*x+b,m)
Keep repeating this command over and over again and you will seem to get random numbers – this is how the command rand works in a computer.
X=mod(ax+b,m)
For ii=2:1000
X(ii)=mod(a*x(ii-1)+b,m);
end
Note: This generates 1000 numbers.
Size(x)
Hist(x)
X(1)=5
For ii=2:5000
X(ii)=mod(a*x(ii-1)+b,m);
End
Hist(x)
(Note: The semicolon after the x(ii)=mod(a*x(ii-1)+b,m) ensures that Matlab will not show the entire vector that is x. It will instead calculate it internally and you will be able to work with it. Adding the semicolon to the end of this line reduces the run time significantly.)
This algorithm involves three integer parameters a, b, and m and an initial value, x_0 called seed. A sequence of numbers is defined by x(k+1) = a*x(k) + b mod m Mod m means take the remainder after division by m.
Example: a=13, b=0, m=31
The first 30 numbers in the sequence are a permutation of integers for 1 to 30 and then the sequence repeats itself.
Values are between 0 and m-1. If the values are normalized by dividing by m-1, then result is numbers uniformly distributed in the interval [0,1].
There are only a finite number of values (30 in this case).
For many years “rand” function in Matlab used this algorithm with these parameters A=7^5=16807, b=0, m=2^31 -1, 2147483647 – recommended in a 1993 paper by Park and Miller (Important part is that m should be large)
Inverse Transform Method
U ~ U[0,1]
Theorem: Take U ~ U[0,1] and let x=F^(-1)(U) Then x has distribution function F(.) Where F(x) = P(X<x) cdf; F^(-1)(U) denotes the function inverse of F(.)
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During the previous [[OWASP_EU_Summit_2008 | Summit]], OWASP was fortunate enough to be able to fund all OWASP leaders to attend the Summit. Unfortunately, the budget for the 2011 Summit is not as large as the previous budget. As a result, the Summit Committee is making the following compromise with our attendees: we will provide the venue meeting rooms, the A/V equipment, and the venue supporting staff in order to enable attendees to work effectively; attendees just have to pay for travel and accommodations for themselves.
During the previous [[OWASP_EU_Summit_2008 | Summit]], OWASP was fortunate enough to be able to fund all OWASP leaders to attend the Summit. Unfortunately, the budget for the 2011 Summit is not as large as the previous budget. As a result, the Summit Committee is making the following compromise with our attendees: we will provide the venue meeting rooms, the A/V equipment, and the venue supporting staff in order to enable attendees to work effectively; attendees just have to pay for travel and accommodations for themselves.
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The Summit '''Operational''' Budget is $50k. The venue costs currently account for 40% of the Summit budget, with the possibility of an additional 10% increase in order to procure another meeting room should it become necessary. Another 20% of the Summit budget is being held as a cash flow reserve to cover things like exchange/wire fees, unexpected venue expenses, incidentals, and other miscellaneous expenses. The final 20% of the Summit budget will be used for operational expenses.
The Summit '''Operational''' Budget is $50k. The venue costs currently account for 40% of the Summit budget, with the possibility of an additional 10% increase in order to procure another meeting room should it become necessary. Another 20% of the Summit budget is being held as a cash flow reserve to cover things like exchange/wire fees, unexpected venue expenses, incidentals, and other miscellaneous expenses. The final 20% of the Summit budget will be used for operational expenses.
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# Fill out [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TBj0BxBnzx8P7SegtEc8dSUNlQdLEZ5xXTbwfbdh6Bg/edit?hl=en&authkey=CNvixYEL this application] to ask for sponsorship by your local Chapter or a Project that you contribute to or lead and send it to [mailto:[email protected] Sarah Baso]
You '''''must''''' follow these directions to be considered for funding. Funding is '''''extremely''''' limited and preference will be given to people that ''follow instructions''.
You '''''must''''' follow these directions to be considered for funding. Funding is '''''extremely''''' limited and preference will be given to people that ''follow instructions''.
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== Logistical Guidelines and Expectations for OWASP-Sponsored Attendees==
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*For an attendee staying 4 nights, OWASP will sponsor the Participant Ticket + 4-Nights Shared Accommodation.
*Any remaining amount based on the chosen ticket combination, including costs of companions, will be charged to the attendee.
*Any remaining amount based on the chosen ticket combination, including costs of companions, will be charged to the attendee.
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===Friday Night Guidelines===
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Back to main Summit 2011 page
1 Background
2 Summit Operational Budget
3 Summit Sponsorship Fund
4 Funding Request Application Process
4.1 Logistical Guidelines and Expectations for OWASP-Sponsored Attendees
4.1.1 Ticket Combination Guidelines
4.1.2 Airfare Guidelines
4.1.3 Friday Night Guidelines
4.1.4 Saturday Night Guidelines
4.1.5 Early Arrival Guidelines
Background
During the previous Summit, OWASP was fortunate enough to be able to fund all OWASP leaders to attend the Summit. Unfortunately, the budget for the 2011 Summit is not as large as the previous budget. As a result, the Summit Committee is making the following compromise with our attendees: we will provide the venue meeting rooms, the A/V equipment, and the venue supporting staff in order to enable attendees to work effectively; attendees just have to pay for travel and accommodations for themselves.
We have aggressively negotiated with multiple venues in order to find the best possible pricing for attendee accommodations. As you know, the Summit is not a conference - it is an opportunity to bring together the community to "get stuff done". OWASP is not making any revenue from the Summit - we are charging essentially at cost prices for the accommodations and food. There is only a small deviation simply due to villa room configuration, as we expect to have some villas that are not filled to capacity.
Summit Operational Budget
The Summit Operational Budget is $50k. The venue costs currently account for 40% of the Summit budget, with the possibility of an additional 10% increase in order to procure another meeting room should it become necessary. Another 20% of the Summit budget is being held as a cash flow reserve to cover things like exchange/wire fees, unexpected venue expenses, incidentals, and other miscellaneous expenses. The final 20% of the Summit budget will be used for operational expenses.
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Summit Sponsorship Fund
The Summit Sponsorship Fund is estimated to have $50k of funding available. This fund is administered by the OWASP Board. As one of the primary goals of the Summit is for OWASP leadership to meet to set the agenda for 2011, the Board prioritized funding for the following parties:
OWASP Staff
Board Members
Active Global Committee Members (as determined by the Board in consultation with the respective elected Committee Chairs)
The remainder of the budget will be used by the Board to fund as many attendees as possible. The Board has decided to use a ranking system to select the individuals who will receive the funds currently available, as well as any funds that the Summit may receive through corporate sponsorships or other budget allocations. To learn more about the ranking system, see Dinis Cruz's email to Summit sponsorship applicants on 5 January 2011.
The first round of sponsorships using the ranking system was decided and awarded on 10 January 2011.
The second round of sponsorships using the ranking system was decided and awarded on 18 January 2011.
Unfortunately, the Board will not be able to fund everyone that wants to attend. If you are able to obtain funding through your employer, please do so. The Summit Committee has prepared a number of letters that you can give your employer - we can even mail signed copies of the letter directly to your employer on request!
Funding Request Application Process
Please remember that funding for attendees is extremely limited this year. If you are able to obtain funding through your employer, please do so. We have prepared a number of letters that you can give your employer - we can even mail signed copies of the letter directly to your employer on request!
If you need funding to support your attendance to the Summit, please take the following steps:
Add your name to the list of attendees that need funding support by entering your name on the Attendee page. To add your name to the Attendee page, go to the page and find the first blank line without a name. Click on the "Edit" link as show below and add your details. Make sure to include your email address in the Attendee form or we won't be able to contact you!
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Contact Sarah Baso or Dinis Cruz to find out the current status of funds available as well as if (and when) the Board will be selecting the next round of sponsorships for the Summit.
Fill out this application to ask for sponsorship by your local Chapter or a Project that you contribute to or lead and send it to Sarah Baso
You must follow these directions to be considered for funding. Funding is extremely limited and preference will be given to people that follow instructions.
*NOTE CHANGE* As of 18 January, 2011 we have maxed out all the funds we have available for attendees (from OWASP foundation funds and from the chapters themselves), if more funding is received via corporate or individual donations from now until the time of the Summit we will contact those listed on the Summit attendees seeking funds list.
Logistical Guidelines and Expectations for OWASP-Sponsored Attendees
OWASP funded attendees are assumed to be arriving either Monday, February 7th or Tuesday, February 8th and departing on Friday, February 11th. Note that based on availability of flights, this may result in the attendee missing part of the Summit on Tuesday or Friday.
OWASP funded attendees can expect to have the following items included in their sponsorship:
Flights to/from the Summit (see restrictions on ticketing below),
Transportation to/from the airport,
Shared Accommodations for 3 or 4 nights in Villa-style suites each containing two or three bedrooms. The bedrooms will contain multiple beds and attendees will be expected to share rooms with other attendees. One of the bedrooms may have one double bed, in which case one of the two people assigned to that room will be asked to sleep on the sofa. Each villa has a common area living room and kitchenette which can be used to socialize and collaborate.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Coffee Breaks during the days of the Summit (Tuesday, February 7th through Friday, February 11th)
OWASP's Expectations for Sponsored Attendees:
Will be asked to participate in OWASP outreach activities with JavaRanch
Will be expected to act as a leader or secretary of one or more working sessions
Since some of the villas will require an occupant to sleep on the sofa, we expect that sponsored attendees will volunteer for this "duty" so that no attendees that pay their own way have to sleep on the sofa.
Due to the limited funds we have available this year for sponsoring attendees, OWASP will only pay the amount of the cheapest flights to/from the Summit. Therefore, while it may be somewhat inconvenient to attendee to have a non-direct flight, fly on a non-preferred airline, or come a day early/stay a day late, we are asking you to be respectful of this guideline when booking your flight. If you prefer a different (more expensive flight), we ask that you cover the cost difference yourself. See details below.
Ticket Combination Guidelines
Depending on how long the sponsored attendee is staying, OWASP will pay for the appropriate ticket combination.
For an attendee staying 3 nights, OWASP will sponsor the Participant Ticket + 3-Nights Shared Accommodation.
For an attendee staying 4 nights, OWASP will sponsor the Participant Ticket + 4-Nights Shared Accommodation.
Any remaining amount based on the chosen ticket combination, including costs of companions, will be charged to the attendee.
Airfare Guidelines
*NOTE CHANGE*
As of 10 January, 2011 responsibility for booking flights to the Summit has migrated from Diplomata to Sarah Baso. All OWASP sponsored attendees need to contact Sarah Baso for flight arrangements.
Sarah will search for the cheapest flight from the attendee’s home airport to Lisbon arriving Monday (February 7th) or Tuesday (February 8th) and departing Friday (February 11th). The cheapest available flight serves as the baseline for the attendee’s airfare.
Sarah will then search for flights that depart on Saturday or Sunday. If flights available on Saturday or Sunday are significantly cheaper than the baseline airfare, the attendee may be asked to stay additional nights based on the Friday/Saturday Night Guidelines. If the attendee would like to choose a different flight, the attendee must pay the difference.
Friday Night Guidelines
If the difference in cost between the Saturday flight and the baseline flight is significantly greater than the cost of one night’s accommodation at Campo Real, then the attendee will be asked to depart on Saturday’s flight. In these instances, Friday night’s accommodations at Campo Real will be paid for by OWASP for the sponsored attendee. If the sponsored attendee has a companion, the extra charge for the companion will be €50 EUR (which the attendee or companion will have to pay for themselves). If the attendee would prefer to depart on Friday, the attendee must pay the difference in airfare.
Saturday Night Guidelines
If the difference in cost between the Sunday flight and the baseline flight is significantly greater than the cost of two night’s accommodation at Campo Real, then the attendee will be asked to depart on Sunday’s flight. In these instances, Friday and Saturday night’s accommodations at Campo Real will be paid for by OWASP for the sponsored attendee. If the sponsored attendee has a companion, the extra charge for the companion will be €100 EUR (which the attendee or companion will have to pay themselves). If the attendee would prefer to depart on Friday, the attendee must pay the difference in airfare.
Early Arrival Guidelines
The same rules/guidelines used for booking and paying for flights departing on Saturday or Sunday should be used for flights arriving a day or two early. If the cost difference to arrive on either Saturday or Sunday (instead of the baseline flight), is significantly greater than the cost of one or two nights accommodation at Campo Real, then the attendee will be asked to arrive on Saturday or Sunday. In these instances, Saturday and Sunday nights’ accommodations for the sponsored attendee will be paid for by OWASP. If the sponsored attendee has a companion, the extra charge for the companion will be €50 EUR per night (which the attendee or companion will have to pay themselves). If the attendee would prefer to depart on Friday, the attendee must pay the difference in airfare. If the attendee would prefer to arrive on a different day, the attendee must pay the difference in airfare.
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Consistency is a good thing, particularly in terms of managing one's "brand". I would be a better steward of my brand if I cranked out something in writing every week, month, or even every quarter, like clockwork. Unfortunately, consistency is not my strong suit. Alas, heavy sigh. I find it difficult to figure out which weaknesses to work on versus letting go.
To what extent is this true for you? Which weaknesses are you OK with just owning and ignoring, and which ones do you wish you could magically erase?
Imperfect, Inconsistent Coping is still Coping!
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A Place in the World
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I have been listening to a lot of music this year, mostly to keep me company while I do mundane tasks around the house. One of my favorite songs lately is Mary Chapin Carpenter's, A Place in the World.
Here are the lyrics:
What I'm looking for after all this time
Keeps me moving forward, trying to find it
Since I learned to walk, all I've done is run
Ready, on my mark, doesn't everyone
Need a place in the world?
Could be right before your very eyes
Just beyond a door that's open wide
Could be far away or in your own backyard
There are those who say you can look too hard
For your place in the world
Takes some of us a little longer
A few false starts gonna make you stronger
When I'm sure I've finally found it
Gonna wrap these arms all around it
Could be one more mile or just one step back
In a lover's smile, down a darkened path
Friends will take our side, enemies will curse us
But to be alive is to know your purpose
It's your place in the world
Your place in the world
Your place in the world
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Songwriters: Mary Carpenter
A Place in the World lyrics: Mary Chapin Carpenter, DBA Why Walk Music.
I hope you are doing OK or even better, in whatever place in the world you currently occupy. I hope you and your loved ones are well, staying safe, and finding ways to stay centered or grounded.
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When you are feeling overwhelmed, please consider the value of doing "Bare Minimum" as a way of coping, saving energy, staying sane, etc. This is something I feel compelled to bring up with certain clients, especially women who self-identify as perfectionistic and/or workaholic! Bare Minimum involves doing considerably less than what you would typically do for a work project, task, favor, etc.
How often do you go above and beyond what your boss, team, family, or other people in your work-life expect? What toll does keeping up that level of performance take on you -- physically, mentally, and socially? Might there be certain projects or tasks for which you can do less work? How would that feel? In what ways might that free you up? What impact would that have on your body, mind, and spirit? What would you do instead with the time you free up for yourself?
Independent of how long this pandemic lasts, we are (or can be) in control of how we approach our work and other life roles. What can you do to improve your overall well-being, in ways that only you will likely notice and that won't get you anywhere near fired?! Practice "Bare Minimum", tell a friend about it, and see how it goes!
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Even before COVID-19 hit, Australia was experiencing slow growth in GDP per capita and real wages. There has been a distinctly lower rate of both economic and real wages growth since the financial crisis of 2008-09.
Advanced economies around the world have, to varying degrees, witnessed the same trends. If anything, Australia has done slightly better than other countries. Why has growth slowed globally? That’s a real question.
What theory tells us
Basic economic theory tells us GDP per capita is driven by technological progress. The so-called “neoclassical growth model”, developed in the 1950s by American Robert Solow and Australian Trevor Swan, saw technological progress as exogenous – attributable to an external cause. In a sense, the idea was that innovations just drop from the sky at some fixed rate.
In the early 1990s Philippe Aghion, Peter Howitt, and Paul Romer pioneered “endogenous growth theory” – that the causes are internal to the economic system. In particular their theory emphasised the development of ideas as crucial to technological progress.
Romer’s contribution was to highlight that producing ideas has large set-up costs but potentially low marginal costs of replication. Think pharmaceutical development, where R&D is very expensive but producing extra pills is cheap.
Since wages are the returns to labour from economic value created economy-wide, technological progress is needed to drive real wage increases. Image: Shutterstock
To make the development of new pharmaceuticals viable, therefore, some degree of monopoly power is required, so others who didn’t invest in developing them can’t simply copy the product. This suggests a crucial role for government policy, such as intellectual property rights and subsidies for basic research.
Aghion and Howitt highlighted the role of “creative destruction”. Innovation can render old technologies obsolete. Thus innovations come with externalities – costs or benefits for other parties.
Romer’s research emphasised the positive externalities – namely that ideas are non-rivalrous. For example, we can all use Pythagoras’s Theorem now it has been discovered.
The Aghion-Howitt framework emphasised the negative externalities. New ideas can render old ideas obsolete, thereby deterring innovation in the first place – why invest in R&D now if future R&D will render it all obsolete? But market power protects the rents earned by innovators.
This means, as Aghion and Howitt put it, the average growth rate “depends on the size and likelihood of innovations resulting from research and also on the degree of market power available to an innovator”. What does this mean for wages? Since wages are the returns to labour from economic value created economy-wide, technological progress is needed to drive real wage increases.
Real wage growth (per cent) 2003-2021
Annual real wage growth = annual growth in total hourly rates of pay excluding bonuses minus annual growth in underlying consumer price index. Image: ABS
As Paul Krugman put it in 1994: "Productivity isn’t everything, but, in the long run, it is almost everything. A country’s ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise its output per worker."
Or, to paraphrase legendary American political strategist James Carville: “It’s the productivity, stupid!”
Enter the Productivity Commission
Australia’s Productivity Commission recently published its “second annual Productivity Insights” report. In the foreword, chairperson Michael Brennan writes: "The decade ending 2019-20 was the worst decade of growth in 60 years, and even if the last year of growth is excluded then this nine-year period still compares unfavourably to past decades. This mainly reflects a global productivity slowdown and the end of the mining investment boom, which has subdued investment and, through lower terms of trade, reduced the purchasing power of Australian incomes."
That’s a pretty good summary of the concerning trends documented in the rest of the report.
The end of the mining boom has seen the Australian dollar drop from about parity with the US dollar to the range of 75-80 US cents. Image: Shutterstock
Let’s take Brennan’s second observation first. The end of the mining boom – you have to squint a little to ignore the current iron-ore price – has seen the Australian dollar drop from about parity with the US dollar to the range of 75-80 US cents. This makes buying goods largely denominated in US dollars – from mining equipment to point-of-sale terminals to computers – more expensive for Australian businesses and households.
It is a good reminder that the oft-mentioned claim a lower Australian dollar is good for exports, while true, ignores the fact we buy lots of capital equipment and consumption goods from overseas. A weaker dollar is bad news for buyers of those goods.
Now to Brennan’s first observation – that the productivity slowdown is a global phenomenon. It has been clear for many years that we live in an age of “secular stagnation” – a term former US Treasury head Larry Summers popularised in 2013.
Read more: Strategic manufacturing: why Australia needs a different approach
Simply put, there is a huge volume of global savings chasing fewer big investment opportunities.
Desperately seeking investment opportunities
Once capital was quite scarce. Now there are now massive sovereign wealth and retirement savings funds all looking to put their money to work. There are also many more billionaires with money to invest.
But where? Once it required huge amounts of capital to build the US railroads, or big oil and steel companies. Now some of the most valuable companies in the world have been created by brilliant students with a laptop in a dorm room.
An even more pessimistic view is that modern technologies are just not that revolutionary.
To drive living standards upward we ideally need to harness technologies to relentlessly improve productivity. Image: Shutterstock
The leading proponent of this “techno-pessimism” is Robert Gordon of Northwestern University in Illinois. He argues in The Rise and Fall of American Growth (Princeton University Press, 2017) that the information technology revolution is a footnote compared to the prosaic inventions of the second industrial revolution, such as electricity, motor vehicles and aircraft.
There are, also, techno-optimists who point to the revolutionary potential of machine learning and other innovations. Wherever one lands on this spectrum, it’s hard to get away from the idea that to drive living standards upward we need to harness technologies to relentlessly improve productivity.
The Productivity Commission is on the case. Now we just need Australia’s policy makers to embrace the type of economic reforms pulled off in the 1980s and 1990s, under governments of both political stripes.
Richard Holden is a Professor of Economics at UNSW Business School, director of the Economics of Education Knowledge Hub @UNSWBusiness, co-director of the New Economic Policy Initiative, and President-elect of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. His research expertise includes contract theory, law and economics, and political economy. A version of this post first appeared on The Conversation.
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Even before COVID-19 hit, Australia was experiencing slow growth in GDP per capita and real wages. There has been a distinctly lower rate of both economic and real wages growth since the financial crisis of 2008-09.
Advanced economies around the world have, to varying degrees, witnessed the same trends. If anything, Australia has done slightly better than other countries. Why has growth slowed globally? That’s a real question.
What theory tells us
Basic economic theory tells us GDP per capita is driven by technological progress. The so-called “neoclassical growth model”, developed in the 1950s by American Robert Solow and Australian Trevor Swan, saw technological progress as exogenous – attributable to an external cause. In a sense, the idea was that innovations just drop from the sky at some fixed rate.
In the early 1990s Philippe Aghion, Peter Howitt, and Paul Romer pioneered “endogenous growth theory” – that the causes are internal to the economic system. In particular their theory emphasised the development of ideas as crucial to technological progress.
Romer’s contribution was to highlight that producing ideas has large set-up costs but potentially low marginal costs of replication. Think pharmaceutical development, where R&D is very expensive but producing extra pills is cheap.
Since wages are the returns to labour from economic value created economy-wide, technological progress is needed to drive real wage increases. Image: Shutterstock
To make the development of new pharmaceuticals viable, therefore, some degree of monopoly power is required, so others who didn’t invest in developing them can’t simply copy the product. This suggests a crucial role for government policy, such as intellectual property rights and subsidies for basic research.
Aghion and Howitt highlighted the role of “creative destruction”. Innovation can render old technologies obsolete. Thus innovations come with externalities – costs or benefits for other parties.
Romer’s research emphasised the positive externalities – namely that ideas are non-rivalrous. For example, we can all use Pythagoras’s Theorem now it has been discovered.
The Aghion-Howitt framework emphasised the negative externalities. New ideas can render old ideas obsolete, thereby deterring innovation in the first place – why invest in R&D now if future R&D will render it all obsolete? But market power protects the rents earned by innovators.
This means, as Aghion and Howitt put it, the average growth rate “depends on the size and likelihood of innovations resulting from research and also on the degree of market power available to an innovator”. What does this mean for wages? Since wages are the returns to labour from economic value created economy-wide, technological progress is needed to drive real wage increases.
Real wage growth (per cent) 2003-2021
Annual real wage growth = annual growth in total hourly rates of pay excluding bonuses minus annual growth in underlying consumer price index. Image: ABS
As Paul Krugman put it in 1994: "Productivity isn’t everything, but, in the long run, it is almost everything. A country’s ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise its output per worker."
Or, to paraphrase legendary American political strategist James Carville: “It’s the productivity, stupid!”
Enter the Productivity Commission
Australia’s Productivity Commission recently published its “second annual Productivity Insights” report. In the foreword, chairperson Michael Brennan writes: "The decade ending 2019-20 was the worst decade of growth in 60 years, and even if the last year of growth is excluded then this nine-year period still compares unfavourably to past decades. This mainly reflects a global productivity slowdown and the end of the mining investment boom, which has subdued investment and, through lower terms of trade, reduced the purchasing power of Australian incomes."
That’s a pretty good summary of the concerning trends documented in the rest of the report.
The end of the mining boom has seen the Australian dollar drop from about parity with the US dollar to the range of 75-80 US cents. Image: Shutterstock
Let’s take Brennan’s second observation first. The end of the mining boom – you have to squint a little to ignore the current iron-ore price – has seen the Australian dollar drop from about parity with the US dollar to the range of 75-80 US cents. This makes buying goods largely denominated in US dollars – from mining equipment to point-of-sale terminals to computers – more expensive for Australian businesses and households.
It is a good reminder that the oft-mentioned claim a lower Australian dollar is good for exports, while true, ignores the fact we buy lots of capital equipment and consumption goods from overseas. A weaker dollar is bad news for buyers of those goods.
Now to Brennan’s first observation – that the productivity slowdown is a global phenomenon. It has been clear for many years that we live in an age of “secular stagnation” – a term former US Treasury head Larry Summers popularised in 2013.
Read more: Strategic manufacturing: why Australia needs a different approach
Simply put, there is a huge volume of global savings chasing fewer big investment opportunities.
Desperately seeking investment opportunities
Once capital was quite scarce. Now there are now massive sovereign wealth and retirement savings funds all looking to put their money to work. There are also many more billionaires with money to invest.
But where? Once it required huge amounts of capital to build the US railroads, or big oil and steel companies. Now some of the most valuable companies in the world have been created by brilliant students with a laptop in a dorm room.
An even more pessimistic view is that modern technologies are just not that revolutionary.
To drive living standards upward we ideally need to harness technologies to relentlessly improve productivity. Image: Shutterstock
The leading proponent of this “techno-pessimism” is Robert Gordon of Northwestern University in Illinois. He argues in The Rise and Fall of American Growth (Princeton University Press, 2017) that the information technology revolution is a footnote compared to the prosaic inventions of the second industrial revolution, such as electricity, motor vehicles and aircraft.
There are, also, techno-optimists who point to the revolutionary potential of machine learning and other innovations. Wherever one lands on this spectrum, it’s hard to get away from the idea that to drive living standards upward we need to harness technologies to relentlessly improve productivity.
The Productivity Commission is on the case. Now we just need Australia’s policy makers to embrace the type of economic reforms pulled off in the 1980s and 1990s, under governments of both political stripes.
Richard Holden is a Professor of Economics at UNSW Business School, director of the Economics of Education Knowledge Hub @UNSWBusiness, co-director of the New Economic Policy Initiative, and President-elect of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. His research expertise includes contract theory, law and economics, and political economy. A version of this post first appeared on The Conversation.
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LOS ANGELES -- Former USC assistant coach Todd McNair filed suit against the NCAA on Friday, alleging that the collegiate athletics governing body wrongfully caused him to lose his job with the Trojans because of punishment handed down last June in the Reggie Bush case.
The suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by ESPNLosAngeles.com, seeks unspecified damages for libel, slander, breach of contract and four other alleged offenses. It also takes issue with the one-sided examination policy established by the NCAA, which doesn't allow those targeted by investigations to cross-examine witnesses used.
McNair, who spent six seasons as USC's running backs coach beginning in 2004, was hit with a one-year show-cause penalty as part of the NCAA sanctions the school received last year, meaning any school attempting to hire him during the year period would have to seek permission from the NCAA to do so.
He appealed the ruling last August, after his contract expired with USC on June 30 and was not renewed, but was denied by the NCAA's Infraction Appeals Committee in April in a separate case from the school's appeal.
The disputed issues in McNair's appeal centered on the believability of one of the NCAA's key witnesses in the case, Lloyd Lake, the would-be sports marketer who allegedly provided substantial amounts of money to Bush over a two-year period while the star running back played for the Trojans. McNair, the NCAA ruled last June, either knew or should have known about Bush's relationship with Lake and purposely misled investigators.
But McNair said that he did not know about the relationship between Lake and Bush, and that the NCAA itself committed misconduct in the process of its investigation, the basis for Friday's suit.
McNair, 45, also claims in the suit that USC intended to extend his contract past June 2010 but couldn't because of the show-cause penalty handed to him by the NCAA.
The NCAA released a statement Monday afternoon saying officials hadn't yet been served with the lawsuit.
"Nonetheless, we are confident actions by the NCAA enforcement staff and Committees were proper and we'll vigorously defend that position in court," the NCAA said in the statement.
Messages left for McNair's lawyers, Bruce Broillet and Scott Carr, at their Santa Monica offices Sunday were not immediately returned.
Pedro Moura covers USC for ESPNLosAngeles.com. Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
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Specimens can consist Light green beryl crystals to green beryl coloration, with minor dark biotite specks mica ,schist and purple fluorite inclusions.
The dark mica schists within the quartz veins and pegmatites contain gem quality emerald crystals and green beryl. As is typical of Western Australian emerald
Beryl Be3Al2(Si6O18) , Biotite K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2 or Simplified: K(Mg,Fe)3AlSi3O10(OH)2 , Quartz SiO2
Curlew Emerald Mine, Shaw River District, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Nearly all production of emerald in Western Australia has been from a deposit at Poona but there are beryl and emerald deposits at Menzies and in the Pilbara region, south of Port Hedland.
Australian emeralds
Emeralds have been commercially mined in Australia in three main deposits Poona and Menzies in Western Australia, and Emmaville in New South Wales. The emeralds are usually in rocks among layers of other minerals such as mica. Open pit mining or terrace mining are the most common methods.
discovered in Western Australia in 1912 at Poona, 500 km north-east of Perth. The main mine of the district was the Aga Khan which operated on and off for more than 70 years until 1980 and yielded an estimated 10,000 grams of mostly low value emerald. During the1980s another mine in WA was worked some 40kms west of Menzies.
In Australia, emerald is associated with granite pegmatites and metamorphosed rocks called schists. It is also sometimes associated with altered limestones or can be found embedded in calcite or quartz. A pegmatite forms when a magma cools, leaving some elements behind in the remaining fluid. Emerald crystals may grow when the remaining solution cools as long as the necessary elements are present, including beryllium. Emeralds can also form in veins in the crust from hot liquids that escape from a deeper magma.
Processing
Screens are used to sort the emeralds by size and then silt and clays are washed away to expose the emerald-bearing schist. No other chemicals are used in this process. Any schist or other rock still attached to the emerald is removed manually in a process called cobbing. Higher quality materials can be cleaned using high-pressure air.
Mining
Emeralds have been commercially mined in Australia in three main deposits Poona and Menzies in Western Australia, and Emmaville in New South Wales. The emeralds are usually in rocks among layers of other minerals such as mica. Open pit mining or terrace mining are the most common methods. Miners dig a pit with shovels, excavators or other earth moving equipment, depending on the scale of the mine. If the emerald-bearing ore is beneath a substantial cover of soil and rock, explosives might be used to remove this material. Sometimes high pressure water is used to blast the rock to reveal mineral bearing rocks. Tunnels are also used to extract emeralds from deeper rock layers.
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Base R has a function filter that can perform moving average (MA) or filters (AR). But it cannot do both at the same time; it cannot do an autoregresive ARMA filter. It also only works on real data. The filter function in the signal package can perform ARMA filters, but is is built on the filter function in the base package. So, it also cannot filter complex data. Below is an example of filtering some data with the filter from the signal package. We are using a 6 sample MA filter as specified by the b=rep(1/6,6).
N <- 64
x <- rnorm(N)
b <- rep(1/6,6)
a <- 1
y <- signal::filter(b,a,x)
The figure below has two plots. The blue circles are the Gaussian samples. The green circles are the filtered Gaussian samples. The filtered data has less variance.
Complex Data
In engineering the most common kind of complex data is the circularly symmetric gaussian noise. The circularly symmetric part means that the real and complex part are independent and identically distributed. I described the makeCG function in another post, but as you can see the real part and the imaginary part are made using separate calls to the rnorm function.
makeCG <- function(N,v=1) {(sqrt(v/2))*rnorm(N) + (sqrt(v/2))*1i*rnorm(N)}
The function filterComplex filters real or complex data. The function inputs the MA parameters b and the AR parameters a, and the data x. If the data is complex, it makes two filter calls: one with the real part and one with the imaginary part. If the data is real it make one call.
filterComplex <- function(b, a, x) {
if (is.complex(x)) {
y <- signal::filter(b,a,Re(x)) + 1i*signal::filter(b,a,Im(x))
} else y <- signal::filter(b,a,x)
return(y)
}
Here we simulate complex Gaussian data and use the function filterComplex to filter it.
N <- 64
x <- makeCG(N)
b <- rep(1/6,6)
a <- 1
y <- filterComplex(b,a,x)
The figure below has two plots. The blue circles are the real part of the complex Gaussian samples. The green circles are the real part of filtered complex Gaussian samples. As expected, the filtered data has less variance.
Now the imaginary part. The blue circles are the imaginary part of the complex Gaussian samples. The green circles are the imaginary part of filtered complex Gaussian samples.
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Residents across the east coast of Australia have been urged to be prepared for severe weather and flooding.
The weather Bureau have forecast heavy rain and thunderstorms throughout the remainder of the week, with potential flooding across parts of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.
Stay up-to-date on the latest news with The New South Wales Briefing - keeping you in the loop with breaking news as it hits.
Bureau of Meteorology Hazard Preparedness and Response East Manager Jane Golding said the main areas of concern ranged from Queensland down through to Victoria and included river catchments close to the NSW-Queensland border and along the western slopes in New South Wales.
"Heavy rain and thunderstorms are expected to set in from Wednesday and continue into the weekend, so we're urging people to prepare now," she said.
“Many areas in eastern Australia will see significant rainfall, and some locations in New South Wales and Queensland are likely to see daily rainfall totals of 150 millimetres or higher.
"This kind of heavy rainfall over a short period of time can cause dangerous flash flooding and combined with the fact that many river catchments down the east coast are already quite wet, there is a very real risk that we may see some rivers flood too,” Ms Golding warned.
"Please make sure you're staying up to date with current forecasts and warnings and be careful when you are out and about this week."
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While western Queensland is expected to see three times their November average rainfall in the coming days.
Some gusty south-easterly winds are also expected in Victoria, particularly across southern and mountain areas.
An unusual wind direction, combination with the wet ground, will likely see trees and powerlines bought down across the southern state, along with minor property damage.
"That's why we're warning people early to be prepared for this severe weather system. We want people to ‘know your weather, know your risk’, have the most up-to-date information, and be factoring our forecasts and warnings into their daily planning."
- Jane Golding
Current warnings can be found on the Bureau's website here, as well as on the BOM Weather App.
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The governor has once again extended his emergency powers, so the legislature is back in special session this week. Session began Monday and is anticipated to run at least a week, with negotiations taking place between the House and Senate on a handful of issues like bonding, tax cuts, police reform, and supplemental budget spending.
I will continue to advocate an end the Governor’s peacetime emergency powers and return the legislature back to regular order. It’s clear, now more than ever, that after over 120 days of peacetime emergency, we cannot have a single person continue making unilateral decisions. Governor Walz MUST work with the legislature as we continue to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak and get more businesses open safely.
To be clear, ending the peacetime emergency would not mean an end to the state’s response to COVID-19. Instead, it would move Minnesota away from the “emergency” phase of our response and into the “management” phase.
In addition to this, I’m focused on getting a tax bill done that includes full section 179 conformity and making sure local school districts are given full authority to make decisions on returning to school this fall.
Local school officials are the ones who know their districts, families, and students best, and they should be steering the ship going into the upcoming school year. We need to trust our local officials to do the job they were elected to do.
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The 33-year-old model recently revealed she's expecting another baby with husband Justin Ervin and she admitted it's been more difficult this time round because she's also having to "run after" 18-month-old son Isaac.
She said: "I always heard that number two you're a lot more tired, you show faster. It's happening, I popped really fast.
"I'm exhausted. I'm running after a toddler. So yes, all the stereotypical things."
Ashley thinks she "over prepared" when she was expecting Isaac, so she's taking a much more relaxed approach this time round.
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She told 'Entertainment Tonight': "I don't know if there is much preparation that can go into baby number two. I feel like I did so much preparation when it came to Isaac, almost to the degree that maybe I over prepared.
"So I'm just making sure that I have the supplies that I need, which is basically nothing. Like, I just look at my boobs and go, 'OK, check check. We got this.' Just need some newborn diapers. Check, check. I'm just not going to overthink it."
And because he is still so young, Ashley doesn't think Isaac fully understands yet that he's going to be a big brother.
Asked how he's handling becoming a big brother, she replied: "I don't know. I said, 'Do you know where the baby is?' and then he points to my stomach. So we got that far.
"And then sometimes he wants to kiss the baby so he goes like this, [kisses]. He curls his top lip in and bottom lip out, it's really sweet. So we got that far, but I don't think he understands the big brother aspect."
Ashley is careful to "watch her words" when speaking about herself in front of her son because she doesn't want to send any negative messages.
She explained: "I've really taken a cue from my mother. Your words have power and I think that it's so important for parents around their children, no matter how old their children are, because even Isaac he's a year and a half and he's picking up on literally everything I say, I do, my mannerisms
"And so if I'm gonna be just completely about myself all the time, he's gonna pick that up innately already at this age.
"So I make sure that I watch my words, I make sure I watch my body movements, or whatever it is. I think that that's the most important thing to do and then it will just continue to pile on.
"My mother never spoke poorly about herself in front of me or my sisters, and I've really taken that to heart. And that's how I wanna raise my kids."
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At IWMI, researching underlying economic and social trends helps us understand why people migrate. They also explain the impact of remittances and loss of agricultural labor, as well as consequences of migration on gender roles and food and water security. For instance, communities with higher levels of income inequality, or relative deprivation, may experience greater levels of out-migration compared to consistently low-income communities. In addition, migration changes intra-household gender-labor composition, which can change the access of smallholders to water resources, affecting the functioning of community-based institutions and consequently household and local food security. IWMI also focuses on circular economy, a strategy to recover and reuse waste, to boost food security and understand how interventions can encourage refugee and host communities to retain scarce resources.
This focus area contributes to the following One CGIAR impact areas:
Urban & rural transformation
As agricultural opportunities fluctuate in rural areas, migration, particularly to urban areas, is an adaptation technique to secure incomes and alternative livelihoods. Income generated by migrants is often sent back to family as remittances to support communities at home. At IWMI, we assess linkages between rural and urban areas, as well as the role of agricultural knowledge systems and food and water security. We recognize there are complex push and pull factors such as individual aspirations, economic opportunity, social norms, climate variability and government policies which drive migration and affect rural communities, particularly youth. Our work follows a ‘positive migration’ philosophy, framing migration as an adaptation technique and socio-economic choice (in many cases) rather than a problem to be solved, and focuses on establishing safer, more regular migration by supporting changes to migration governance in sending regions.
This focus area contributes to the following One CGIAR impact areas:
Covid-19 disruption & adaptation
Covid-19 has caused a rupture in migration logistics and exposed inequities in the migration system, yet drivers of movement remain. Government lockdowns and closed borders due to the pandemic curtailed movement for migrants, posing complex problems for migrant hosting and origin countries. There have been significant economic shocks, with a sharp decline in unemployment for migrants and an inability to send money home through remittances to support family. Some migrants face social stigma for returning home without an income, particularly if families relied on loans to support their journeys. Consequences have been severe for informal migrants who lack government protection in their host countries. Migrants, particularly those living in crowded, lower-income neighborhoods, have been experiencing stigmatization related to the spread of Covid-19. We look at the impacts of Covid-19 on migration governance and rural areas across seven countries, development planning in Ghana, migration challenges in Southeast Asia, and community-based disaster management and resilience building in South Africa.
This focus area contributes to the following One CGIAR impact areas:
Water, climate change and agrarian stress
Migration, water and climate stress are inextricably linked to rural development. Water stress and climate variability can act as a driver of fragility, intensifying pre-existing political, social, economic and environmental challenges. Initiatives designed to address migration-related challenges must tackle inequalities and the exclusion of women, youth and marginalized groups; governance opportunities to better manage water and natural resources and technology and innovations to help communities escape socio-ecological precarity and thrive despite climate challenges. IWMI intends to build climate resilience by implementing projects which tackle gender-power inequalities in the face of dynamic, economic-social-ecological challenges. Our work brings together affected communities, institutional stakeholders and social actors to manage water in response to climate variability and agrarian stress, striving to address complex physical and social variables.
This focus area contributes to the following One CGIAR impact areas:
Gender, intersectionality and social inclusion
It is critical to center gender and intersectional identities when unpacking migration phenomena. Gender as a social construct guides social norms and relations, including the decision-making processes and mechanisms leading to migration. We recognize that the intersections between race, age, class, sex, caste and region shape the migrant experience.
IWMI strives to offer transformative approaches and solutions for women, youth and marginalized groups, regarding them as equal partners in our work rather than passive end-users. For example, within communities that experience male out migration, socio-political systems are restructured to make women, youth and other groups active agents in their own agri-food transformation. Migration patterns contribute to the feminization of agriculture, and women may experience a greater burden of responsibility coupled with an increased ability to access and control resources and policies to build sustainable livelihoods. Acknowledging social complexities helps researchers and communities understand migration trends and address structural power imbalances to build a more equitable world.
This focus area contributes to the following One CGIAR impact areas:
Innovation bundles
Farmer-led irrigation development is about much more than installing a pump in a field. It requires access to financing, labor, energy, and input and output markets, so that investments in irrigation translate into sustainable returns. IWMI uses a systemic approach to understand the farming system as well as the factors in the enabling environment that prevent women, men and youth from engaging in and benefitting equitably from farmer-led irrigation. We partner with farmers and the public and private sectors to test contextually relevant innovation bundles that combine irrigation technology such as solar pumps with financing mechanisms like pay-as-you-own or pay-as-you-go, agricultural inputs and agronomic techniques. We also look at ways to improve on-farm water management and nutrient use efficiency and reduce evapotranspiration through digital advances and agricultural extension. We integrate the scaling of innovation bundles into agricultural value chains to enhance the impacts on farmers’ irrigation investments, incomes and livelihoods.
This focus area contributes to the following One CGIAR impact areas:
Gender and social inclusion
The barriers facing women and men in accessing irrigation technologies are not the same. Neither are the benefits. Social, cultural and religious norms influence inter- and intra-household power relations. These, in turn, affect access to resources such as land, credit, information and training. IWMI carries out cross-dimensional analysis of gender and social inclusion in policy, financing, livelihood assets and access, institutional approaches and interventions as well as gender-based technology preferences. For example, we work with farmers, financial institutions and the private sector to address gender-based constraints in credit scoring and enhance women’s purchasing power. But benefitting from farmer-led irrigation does not stop at accessing and adopting technologies; enabling women and resource-poor farmers to participate in input and output markets is equally important to ensure that investments in irrigation result in improved nutrition and economic empowerment. Other ways we enhance gender and social inclusion include tackling agency issues around financial management and literacy, livelihood diversity and social capital as well as access to infrastructure, extension services and market linkages.
This focus area contributes to the following One CGIAR impact areas:
Environmental sustainability
Population pressure and increasing water competition in a changing climate require us to take stock of the availability and use of water across scales. Water availability not only influences farmers’ commercial prospects but also irrigation-related enterprises and agri-businesses. Greater water scarcity could jeopardize irrigation and agricultural markets while excessive water use can lead to declining ecosystems, water quality and soil health. IWMI advises development partners and the public and private sectors on all aspects of water resource availability and use through a variety of advanced modeling and remote-sensing products and tools, including Water Accounting+, solar irrigation mapping and internet of things. These are complemented by multi-criteria analysis to evaluate the potential of irrigation expansion, taking into consideration environmental flows. With our private sector partners, we are leveraging converging technologies, such as sensors on solar pumps that capture usage data, to encourage better resource management and governance.
This focus area contributes to the following One CGIAR impact areas:
Adaptive scaling and partnerships
The ability of farmers to engage in or expand irrigation depends on the prevailing socioeconomic, ecological and political contexts, which are often complex, non-linear and changeable. Overcoming systemic barriers to farmer-led irrigation development while taking advantage of existing opportunities requires scaling processes to be adaptive. This means diverse actors feed off, adapt to, support, cooperate, compete and interact with each other, forming different multi-actor networks and engaging in collective action to undertake various functions in the scaling ecosystem. IWMI works with farmers and public and private sector partners to co-design and pilot contextually relevant innovation bundles and their scaling pathways or strategies, influence policies and accelerate the transition to scale of innovations with demonstrated early impact.
This focus area contributes to the following One CGIAR impact areas:
Financing ecosystem
A lack of affordable credit, particularly for women and resource-poor farmers, is one of the main barriers to expanding farmer-led irrigation in low- and middle-income countries. But credit alone is not enough. Financing for irrigation equipment must be embedded in a wider financing ecosystem that bundles credit with inputs and services, market information and access, and technology such as digital payment. In several countries, irrigation equipment suppliers are stepping in to provide financing directly to farmers. In doing so, they increase their own risk. To address this issue, IWMI works with farmers, private companies, finance institutions and development partners such as the World Bank Group to analyze whether credit-scoring tools are inclusive. We also help to identify gaps in the financing ecosystem and de-risk the private sector from testing innovative end-user financing mechanisms that take into account farming system typologies, financial and social capital and crop seasonality.
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Human capacity development and knowledge exchange
Scaling farmer-led irrigation requires strengthening human capacity and knowledge exchange among all actors and stakeholders involved. IWMI takes an action research approach, working with national and international research institutions, governments, extension agents and public and private organizations to co-develop the scaling ecosystem and strengthen capacity to drive scaling networks and collective action. We support the development of or reinforce national multi-stakeholder dialogues with the aim of sharing scaling experiences and realizing win-win collaboration, interactive learning and capacity development. Other modalities for capacity development include hackathons, innovation research grants for bachelor’s and master’s students, private sector scaling grants and innovation internships with private companies. These all serve to stimulate local and contextually relevant innovation, close the research-private sector divide and enhance job readiness among young professionals.
This focus area contributes to the following One CGIAR impact areas:
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NewsNews Based on facts, either observed and verified directly by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources.
2 fatal crashes reported in Bay Area Thanksgiving morning
Multi-vehicle collisions in Belmont, unincorporated Brentwood
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PUBLISHED: November 25, 2021 at 11:25 a.m. | UPDATED: November 25, 2021 at 1:36 p.m.
The early morning hours of Thanksgiving Day saw road collisions in the Bay Area that resulted in at least two deaths.
A four-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 101 in Belmont led to the death of a woman, while a three-car pileup in unincorporated Brentwood killed at least one person.
Authorities responded at about 3 a.m. to the northbound lane of Highway 101 near Ralston Avenue in Belmont, where they found a severely damaged green 1991 Honda Accord blocking a lane, as well as three other vehicles that had been involved in crashes.
California Highway Patrol officers suspect the Accord had been disabled by a previous hit-and-run crash that left it facing the wrong way in the left lane without its lights on.
A red 2019 Honda Clarity then crashed into the Accord, sending it spinning across the highway lanes to the right, where it collided with a 2019 Mercedes Benz.
Moments later, a 2013 Toyota Prius crashed into the red Honda, authorities said.
Responding officers found other motorists performing CPR on the driver of the Accord. She was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. Authorities are not releasing her name until next of kin is notified.
Other drivers in the crash were treated for minor injuries, CHP said.
The crash prompted officials to close the northbound lanes for several hours Thursday morning. The lanes were reopened around 11 a.m.
The crash near Brentwood was reported at about 5:51 a.m. at Vasco and Walnut boulevards, in an unincorporated area of Contra Costa County.
A Toyota Corolla was driving south and a Ford F-350 was headed north when one of the vehicles crossed into the opposite lane and the two collided head-on, California Highway Patrol said. A third vehicle was also reportedly involved in the crash.
The driver of the Toyota suffered fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, while another passenger in the car suffered minor injuries and was taken to a hospital. A medical helicopter was flown to the scene at one point.
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Batman: Arkham City Graphics Breakdown & Performance Guide
Previous Introduction & Graphics Option Comparisons Anti-Aliasing & DirectX 11 Effects Examined Performance Testing & Optimal Playable Settings Conclusion Next
Introduction & Graphics Option Comparisons
December 17th, 2011
By Andrew Burnes
Batman: Arkham City has been available on the consoles for some time, racking up awards left, right and center, and a 96% Metacritic rating too. Now, the PC version is available, and in this article we’ll examine the included enhancements, run benchmarks on the game using our 500-Series GPUs, recommend Optimal Playable Settings, and show how to enhance your frame rates by repurposing older NVIDIA video cards that may be gathering dust on a shelf somewhere.
Graphics Options
Like any good PC game, Batman: Arkham City allows you to enable and disable numerous graphical effects, so whether you’re looking to increase your frame rate, or simply to eliminate motion blur, you control how the game looks.
The Batman: Arkham City configuration panel where every in-game effect can be enabled and disabled.
General Graphics Options
In addition to the configurable PhysX, DirectX 11, 3D Vision and anti-aliasing options, a number of other settings can be enabled and disabled. Here’s a quick rundown of what you gain and lose when adjusting the ‘Detail Level’ preset:
Quality Preset
Very High
High
Medium
Low
Texture Quality
High Medium Medium Low
Dynamic Lights
Enabled Enabled Enabled Enabled
Dynamic Shadows
Enabled Enabled Enabled Disabled
Motion Blur
Enabled Enabled Disabled Disabled
Distortion
Enabled Enabled Disabled Disabled
Lens Flares
Enabled Enabled Disabled Disabled
Light Shafts
Enabled Enabled Disabled Disabled
Reflections
Enabled Enabled Disabled Disabled
Ambient Occlusion
Enabled Disabled Disabled Disabled
Max Shadow Resolution
512 512 512 256
And here’s a brief description of each setting:
Dynamic Shadows: Shadows that change based on the movement of characters and the lighting around them. Disabling this effect should be a last resort in search of performance.
Motion Blur: Helps accentuate exciting and fast-paced elements of the game and adds to the overall spectacle. Some users may prefer to disable it simply because they favor a ‘clean’ experience.
Distortion: Creates effects such as heat haze, as can be seen in real life.
Lens Flares: Responsible for the stylistic use of halos when looking at bright lights and the sun.
Light Shafts: Used to simulate bright light shining down into a dark room or area through a crack or gap.
Reflections: An explanation isn’t required, even for The Joker’s brain-dead goons!
Ambient Occlusion: A basic DirectX 9 and 10 version of the DirectX 11 HBAO ambient occlusion feature, this setting renders soft shadows created by reflected light sources.
Dynamic Lights: A hidden setting, Rocksteady leaves this enabled even on Low. Disabling it manually had no perceivable impact on frame rates, but did make the visuals reminiscent of last-gen games.
Max Shadow Resolution: Another hidden setting that determines the quality of all shadows in Arkham City. Can be manually raised to 2048 on high-end GPUs to sharpen shadows.
Texture Quality: Linked to the ‘Detail Level’ option, this hidden setting adjusts the quality of textures in the game. By manually disabling the options visible in the configuration panel, one can leave ‘Detail Level’ on Very High to benefit from improved textures without the performance hit of the visual effects.
Click to view an animated comparison showing each detail level. Note the loss of Ambient Occlusion’s richer, more accurate shadows around the pallet in the lower right of the image.
DirectX 11 Tessellation
Just about everything in the game is drawn using triangles. Tessellation is a technique that divides large triangles into many smaller triangles, and when used with displacement mapping, significantly improves the geometric detail of objects. Tessellation has many uses depending on the game genre. In Battlefield 3, for example, it improves the detail of mountains and terrain. In Batman: Arkham City, tessellation is used to add extra definition to organic, curved and bendy objects, such as trees and power cables.
As you can see in the example above from Poison Ivy’s lair, there is a significant fidelity improvement between Tessellation Off and Normal on the deformed tree, and a further improvement going from Normal to High.
To achieve this effect an artist examined the tree, deciding where extra detail would help enhance the scene, and then created a texture containing the bumps and their physical heights, as seen when tessellation is enabled. This texture, known as a displacement map, is loaded into the game and the extra detail created on top of the basic tree using the graphics card’s DirectX 11 features.
Click for an animated comparison highlighting the three levels of tessellation.
As mentioned, GPU-powered tessellation is also utilized on cables, pipes and trees untouched by Ivy’s poison. The common trait between these three examples is curvature, something that is ordinarily too ‘expensive’ to produce using standard polygons.
In this enhanced PC release, Arkham City also makes use of a second tessellation technique called Mesh Smoothing to add tessellated triangles to break up harsh angular outlines, adding curvature where previously the object was comprised of many straight surfaces in an attempt to create the appearance of curvature. It’s a subtle addition, but once you know it’s there and you’ve seen the improvement you won’t want to go back.
Hardware Accelerated PhysX Effects
In a dilapidated environment like the eponymous Arkham City you expect to see debris, be that discarded rubbish, tattered materials, or loose masonry fallen from a crumbling building. And though other games have presented this level of detail in cityscapes in the past, most render these objects as static items baked into the scenery’s textures, and as immovable items fixed in place by the world’s strongest superglue.
Enabling ‘Hardware Accelerated PhysX’ in the game’s launcher adds these details, all of which are rendered as physical objects, able to be manipulated realistically in real-time. Newspapers tumble along the streets in concert with the wind, bunting flutters, and ropes dangle. Each can be further manipulated by the actions of Batman, his enemies, and his numerous gadgets. And being physics-led objects they don’t clip through the terrain or other objects, so given the correct circumstances said newspapers may end up wrapped around a street lamp by the driving wind or in a corner with leaves and other simulated objects. This realistic collision detection is the most intensive element of PhysX, requiring the power of the graphics card’s CUDA cores to determine the outcome of thousands of calculations per second to ensure that the a piece of paper doesn’t ‘clip’ through a character, wrecking the immersion of the scene and effect.
Check out our Batman: Arkham City PC trailer for a look at several of the impressive hardware-accelerated PhysX effects.
Beyond enhancing the believability and dynamism of a scene, the hardware-accelerated PhysX engine powers particle and destruction enhancements too. Generating a great deal of interest and discussion when revealed in our first PhysX video , the technology renders particles that react to forces realistically. For example, as part of a fog cloud they are pushed forward and sideways as a guard runs through, the momentum of the particles at the fore interacting with those even further forward to continue pushing particles outwards even after the guard stops moving.
Other uses of the particle system result in smoke and sparks being emitted from damaged machinery, small pieces of interactive debris, and larger piece of debris from destructible objects. With Hardware PhysX disabled in the game's Smelting Chamber, only a few particles can be seen high up toward the ceiling, each appearing in a prescribed, noticeable pattern, and with Hardware PhysX enabled particles shower the scene as one would expect. As Batman fights his foes beneath the smelter the anti-aliased, motion-blurred particles rain down, bouncing off characters accurately, dramatically adding to the scene’s immersion and the game’s overall sense of believability - gone are the days of fighting enemies in a static world oblivious to the actions occurring around it.
A badly-beaten Batman eats a face-full of ice. In the pictured scene, each ice crystal emits hundreds of ice particles, curtains and ropes flutter, and discarded pieces of paper whip into the air as Batman desperately tries to avoid death.
Further enhancing the sense of connectivity between scene elements are the aforementioned destruction enhancements. In the same smelting stage there is breakable glass that shatters realistically as you throw one of Joker’s many goons through it, its shards littering the scene afterwards, parting and being kicked up as the fight continues. Upstairs, away from the smelter, entrances to rooms are partially covered by strips of heavy, rubbery material; it too being manipulated by characters either walking through the doorways, or by being unceremoniously launched through by Batman.
In this one level alone gamers utilizing High Hardware Accelerated PhysX effects can interact with the aforementioned rubbery material, breakable glass, glass shards, office papers, bunting, and coal debris, and in the surrounding environment there are smelter sparks, electrical sparks, and welder sparks.
One of the most impressive uses of hardware PhysX is in a bank vault, each note being whipped into the air, dancing around the scene as a fight unfolds.
These are just a few of the many applications of PhysX in Batman: Arkham City, which together form the most impressive and extensive use of hardware accelerated physics ever seen (check out a detailed list of all the effects here ). A true showcase of where the future lies.
Flip over to the next page to learn more about DirectX 11 effects, 3D Vision and fancy anti-aliasing modes.
Anti-Aliasing & DirectX 11 Effects Examined
Multi-View Soft Shadows (DirectX 11)
We often associate good in-game shadows as being crisp and accurately rendered, but in reality shadows are softer, non-uniform and the result of multiple light sources and their surroundings. In the real world our brains decode the lighter and darker segments of a shadow (penumbra and umbra, respectively), and the smooth transitions between them, allowing us to automatically determine a light source’s position and the size and orientation of objects being shadowed. And while no game can hope to account for every possible factor in determining the appearance of a real-world shadow for the foreseeable future, the latest titles offer ‘soft shadow’ approximations.
In Batman: Arkham City, DirectX 11 is leveraged to make these approximations more realistic using a technique known as Multi-View Soft Shadows (MVSS). To achieve this, MVSS generates the main character’s ‘hard shadow’ many times per light source, with these shadows then combined and averaged. With a new, averaged ‘shadow map,’ soft shadows are generated and displayed directly via a pixel shader. Through this process each pixel of each scene that is in shadow will have a stronger shadow intensity than a pixel that is in-shadow in only 50% of the scene’s shadow maps. In other words, every piece of each shadow can be hard or soft or any degree between based on the lighting and conditions in the scene.
Generated in real-time, every frame, every second, the effect can be demanding in the more complex scenes, hence why it is an optional, DirectX 11-powered effect.
Horizon-Based Ambient Occlusion (DirectX 11)
Also enabled by ‘DirectX 11 Features’ is Horizon-Based Ambient Occlusion (HBAO), a rendering technique developed by NVIDIA that dramatically improves the appearance of soft shadowing in relation to the player’s viewpoint, most evidently where two objects meet, such as a crate placed near a wall, with the shadow falling on the three surfaces.
Without HBAO, the small gap between the crate and wall wouldn’t be accurately shadowed as the engine would fail to account for light in the scene leaking between the two, which in reality would create a shadow. With HBAO, all such possibilities are calculated and the shadow generated, something that is best achieved in concert with the aforementioned MVSS. Furthermore, the finished result is then ever-so-slightly blurred to remove the unrealistic sharpness mentioned above.
Click for an animated example highlighting the loss of Multi View Soft Shadows and Horizon-Based Ambient Occlusion.
3D Vision
3D is hit and miss at the movies. Thankfully, this hit-miss ratio falls squarely in favor of the hits on the PC thanks to profiles that can be updated by NVIDIA, settings that can be tweaked by users, and bugs that can be fixed by developers, and you don’t have to pay extra for the implementation either. It should come as no surprise then, given the earlier info about PhysX, tessellation and general effects, that Batman: Arkham City is one of the most impressive 3D Vision titles to date.
For more 3D Vision screenshots head on over to 3DVisionLive.com .
Anti-Aliasing: FXAA, CSAA & MSAA
Anti-aliasing improves the visual fidelity of a scene by reducing the impact of unavoidable, unsightly jagged lines that go hand-in-hand with polygon-based game design. In Batman: Arkham City, developer Rocksteady allows gamers to choose between three techniques, each with their own quality settings, which we will now detail and compare.
First to appear in the configuration tool is Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing (FXAA), a NVIDIA-developed anti-aliasing technique rapidly gaining traction in the games industry due to its high quality, low-cost results. Particularly powerful in engines using deferred shading, such as the Unreal Engine used by Batman: Arkham City, FXAA produces superior results compared to standard anti-aliasing methods for a far lower performance cost.
FXAA produces fantastic results on the transparent chain-link object, regardless of the quality chosen.
The differences between the various levels of FXAA anti-aliasing are more apparent in this second example, focusing on a solid piece of world geometry.
Next up is Multisample Anti-Aliasing (MSAA), the de facto anti-aliasing method in recent years. Very expensive to use, MSAA hurts performance and increases VRAM usage by a significant degree, though those with top-end GPUs may find 8x MSAA superior to FXAA High, regardless of the performance impact, due to the lack of an additional blur filter that is applied by FXAA.
MSAA is unable to anti-alias transparent textures such as the chain-links, and therefore fails to enhance the object’s fidelity in any way whatsoever.
MSAA is effective on geometry, however, as can readily be seen.
The final option is Coverage Sample Antialiasing (CSAA), an NVIDIA-developed anti-aliasing method first introduced with our 8-Series GPUs. By storing pixel coverage information in a very compact way, CSAA produces anti-aliased images that should rival the quality of the above 8x MSAA method whilst introducing only a minimal performance hit compared to 4x MSAA. In other words, less aliasing with less of a performance hit, though users seeking ultimate image quality may wish to reinvest those savings in 16xQ CSAA or 32x CSAA.
As with MSAA, CSAA is unable to anti-alias the chain link object.
16x and 16xQ CSAA produce inferior results compared to 8x MSAA, although at 32x the difference is negligible.
Our final side-by-side comparison shows that FXAA High and 8x MSAA are on par with each other, and that 32x CSAA is a ever-so-slightly behind. During gameplay the differences between the three are only truly perceptible when you come across the aforementioned chain-linked objects, at which point FXAA really shines. Of course, you could forcibly enable Transparency Multisampling and Supersampling through the NVIDIA Control Panel, though this would further increase the performance impact of MSAA and CSAA in comparison to FXAA High, which as you will see later is extremely efficient.
Given the comparisons above and our in-game experiences, we personally recommend FXAA High - as shown, it is the only anti-aliasing method capable of tackling the many chain-linked objects featured in the game, and though it introduces a slight screen-wide blur, reducing the game’s sharpness ever so slightly, we feel this is an acceptable trade-off to eliminate those extra transparency-based jaggies that MSAA and CSAA cannot touch.
With everything examined and explained click on over to the next page to check out performance using Arkham City’s built-in benchmarker.
Performance Testing & Optimal Playable Settings
Featuring so much advanced tech we were eager to discover how well Batman: Arkham City performed, and thanks to the inclusion of a repeatable, configurable benchmarking application we were able to capture accurate information regarding the performance of each and every graphics card in NVIDIA’s line-up. Through this testing, we were able to ascertain how much of an impact the various anti-aliasing modes, graphics effects and advanced features have, allowing us to recommend the best settings for your particular graphics card and to help you configure your game for the best possible experience.
DirectX 9 Performance
The 8800 GT and 9800 GT: one and the same, and still the most popular graphics card amongst Steam’s many millions of users. Released several years ago, the two cards have hung onto the coat tails of newer GPUs, somehow producing playable results in the majority of recent releases.
Listed in Arkham City’s Minimum System Requirements sheet as the oldest graphics cards able to give you any kind of playable experience, let’s discover how they perform:
On our i7 2600K test system the venerable GPUs surprised us once more by breezing past 60 frames per second at 1920x1080 using the highest detail level. Not being DirectX 11 graphics cards, MVSS, HBAO and Tessellation are all off-limits, and lacking the number of CUDA cores of the latest GPUs, PhysX isn't a possibility either without sacrificing resolution, detail levels and the silky smooth frame rate.
DirectX 11 Performance
Batman: Arkham City on the PC is meant to be played with all the bells and whistles enabled. To do so requires a DirectX 11-compatible graphics card, such as the latest 500-Series NVIDIA GPUs.
In the following section we’ll test each of these cards with progressively better settings to determine what kind of GPU you’ll require for a given gameplay experience. Each test was conducted using a stock-clocked Intel i7-2600K, a P67 motherboard, and 8GB of DDR3 RAM. The Very High detail preset and DirectX 11 effects enabled were enabled, in addition to any configuration options listed on the charts.
Anti-Aliasing
At this baseline level the GeForce GTX 550 Ti comfortably handles 1920x1080 and the other cards are barely taxed. Let's up the ante by enabling Anti-Aliasing.
With 4xMSAA enabled the GTX 550 Ti is unable to replicate its impressive level of performance from the first test, though it does still produce a playable result at the lowest resolution. The GTX 560 is the first card to break 40 frames per second at 1920x1080, and the GTX 570 the first at 2560x1600.
8xMSAA has a massive impact on performance across the board - the GTX 550 Ti goes sub-30 FPS and is unable to complete the final test; the GTX 560 and GTX 560 Ti are only able to stay above 40 FPS at 1600x900; the GTX 570 stays just above 40 FPS at 1920x1080, where previously it was at 72 FPS; and the GTX 580 went as low as 29 FPS at 2560x1600. Only the GTX 590 remained playable at max res, producing a result of 43.6 FPS.
32xCSAA is even more demanding than 8xMSAA, lowering results by up to 9 frames per second across the board. This forces the GTX 560 below 40 FPS at any resolution, the GTX 570 below 40 FPS at 1920x1080, and the GTX 590 below 40 FPS at 2560x1600.
In stark contrast, FXAA High has a minimal impact on frame rates and produces in-game results similar to that of 8xMSAA, whilst also anti-aliasing transparencies. Using this AA technique the GTX 550 Ti and GTX 560 run well above 40 FPS at 1920x1080, and at 2560x1600 every other GPU is suitable for use. The slowest, the GTX 560 Ti, runs at a respectable 42.8 FPS.
Our first set of results reveal that a GeForce GTX 550 Ti can play Batman: Arkham City with a level of fidelity far superior to that of the console releases, and that FXAA High is a far more efficient anti-aliasing technique compared to MSAA and CSAA.
Normal Tessellation & PhysX
Due to MSAA and CSAA's severe impact on performance we removed the anti-aliasing techniques from our tests and continued only with FXAA High. The next batch of tests reveal the performance of the lowest level of tessellation, 'Normal,' and the impact of PhysX when enabled alongside it.
The enabling of 'Normal' tessellation has a nominal impact on frame rates across the board compared to our previous FXAA High, tessellation disabled results; the general impact being a few frames per second. This minute reduction has no impact on the overall result, meaning the GTX 550 Ti is still well and truly playable at 1920x1080.
With the lowest level of PhysX enabled the picture changes significantly, but not the overall result, meaning the GTX 560 and 560 Ti still run at 40 FPS and above at 1920x1080 and the GTX 570, 580 and 590 do the same at 2560x1600. The only exception is the GTX 550 Ti, which now falls below the 40 FPS sweet spot at 1600x900 and 1920x1080.
With PhysX High enabled frame rates dropped once more, and the overall result changed slightly - the GTX 560 fell below 40 FPS at 1920x1080 by 0.3 FPS, though that is well within accepted variance for benchmarks, and the GTX 570 fell below 40 FPS at 2560x1600, leaving only the GTX 580 and 590 above the sweet spot at the max resolution.
With our second set of tests we have discovered that Normal tessellation makes very little difference to performance, unlike PhysX, which dramatically reduces frame rates. However, the mid-range and high-end 500-Series GPUs had a significant enough performance margin to prevent these demanding effects from pushing frame rates below our 40 FPS sweet spot.
High Tessellation & PhysX
For our final set of tests we enabled 'High' tessellation and PhysX, pushing our graphics cards to the limit.
Going from Normal tessellation to High tessellation results in the loss of a few frames per second across the board.
Because the difference in performance between Normal and High tessellation is so slight, only the GTX 570 result changes, it now being incapable of 40 FPS at 2560x1600.
Our most demanding test changes the landscape slightly - the GTX 560 now clearly falls outside of the 40 FPS sweet spot at 1920x1080, and the GTX 560 Ti just inside; the GTX 570 becomes our clear 1920x1080 winner; and the GTX 580 falls just below 40 FPS at 2560x1080.
Our final set of tests show that the performance difference between Normal and High tessellation is only a few frames per second, and that the performance difference between PhysX Normal and High, when every other setting is enabled, is up to 13 frames per second extra.
To more clearly demonstrate the performance difference between the two PhysX options we've compiled one final chart:
All 500-Series graphics cards can max out every game setting in conjunction with FXAA High, but only a few can do so at over 40 frames per second.
Summary: Optimal Playable Settings
GPU
Resolution
Quality Preset
Anti-Aliasing
DX11 Effects
Tessellation
PhysX
Frame Rate
GTX 590
2560x1600 Very High FXAA High Enabled High High 44.9
GTX 580
1920x1080 Very High FXAA High Enabled High High 47.4
GTX 570
1920x1080 Very High FXAA High Enabled High High 46.0
GTX 560 Ti
1920x1080 Very High FXAA High Enabled High High 40.6
GTX 560
1920x1080 Very High FXAA High Enabled High Normal 44.2
GTX 550 Ti
1920x1080 Very High FXAA High Enabled High Off 44.3
GeForce GTX 580
The only card capable of running Batman: Arkham City at over 40 frames per second at our max resolution, using the max possible settings, High tessellation and High PhysX.
GeForce GTX 580
The GTX 580 is more than capable of playing Arkham City at 1920x1080 and was just 0.4 frames per second shy of 40 at 2560x1600, so with the tiniest of overclocks it would easily enter the sweet spot and give you a flawless gameplay experience at our maximum tested resolution.
GeForce GTX 570
The GTX 570 was the first card to comfortably handle Arkham City at 1920x1080 with PhysX and tessellation set to High. Recommended for users of ~23" monitors.
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
The GTX 560 Ti sits in the sweet spot at 1920x1080 by just 0.6 frames per second when using High tessellation and PhysX. Dropping down to Normal PhysX would give you an extra 5.8 frames per second.
GeForce GTX 560
At 1920x1080 we were only able to use Normal PhysX in conjunction with High tessellation to remain within the 40 frames per second sweet spot, though at 1600x900 we did record a result of 41.7 frames per second using both High PhysX and tessellation, so if desperately want the extra PhysX effects without sacrificing your frame rate, reducing the resolution is the way to go.
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
For a budget card the GTX 550 Ti performs amazingly well, hanging on in there with the costlier mid-range cards until we added PhysX, the most demanding feature in Batman: Arkham City. Paired with a similarly-priced processor you’ll receive a fantastic experience, superior to that offered by the consoles, albeit without realistic PhysX niceties.
Using A Second Graphics Card As A Dedicated PhysX Processor
Do you have an old CUDA-enabled graphics card lying around somewhere gathering dust? What if we told you that you can use that card to accelerate your frame rate in Batman: Arkham City when utilizing the PhysX effects?
All you have to do is plug a GeForce 8, 9, 200, 400 or 500 Series GPU into a spare PCI-Express slot on your motherboard, attach any required power cables, switch the PC back on, and then set up your NVIDIA Control Panel as shown below, ignoring the references to SLI that won’t appear unless you’re inserting a third card alongside an existing SLI configuration.
To ascertain the performance improvement from a second graphics card set as a dedicated PhysX processing unit, we tested a GeForce GTX 560 Ti at the more demanding 1920x1200 resolution, denoted as ‘None’ in the chart below, and then re-ran our benchmarks using a number of popular NVIDIA GeForce GPUs in the required configuration.
By repurposing a piece of five-year-old kit gathering dust on a shelf we’ve boosted our Batman: Arkham City frame rates by 11.56%, pushing the GTX 560 Ti into the forty frames per second sweet spot when using every single effect and enhancement (if you don’t already own a 8800 GT or 9800 GT, they’re cheap as chips on eBay). Another popular, ageing graphics card, the GeForce GTX 260, improved frame rates by 17.55%, and a second GTX 560 improved frame rates by 23.71%.
This performance improvement scales somewhat with your processor's power, so those with older CPUs will receive less of a benefit from the secondary card, though it should still make a noticeable impact on the overall frame rate. In the end, any improvement is an improvement worth having, so hold onto your old NVIDIA tech as it will come in handy in similar situations in the future.
Conclusion
Having sat in the company of Batman: Arkham City for many an hour we can confidently say that it is not only one of the year’s best games, but also an expertly optimized technical tour de force – even using older 200-Series GPUs, an experience superior to that seen on the consoles can be had using just the DirectX 9 effects.
Using affordable low-to-mid range components, DirectX 11 tessellation and effects can be enabled whilst maintaining a stable 40 frames per second. It is only PhysX’s accurately-simulated effects that truly tax video cards, and to enable them you will need a higher-end system, preferably utilizing a GeForce GTX 570 or higher.
We hope you’ve found this article informative, and if you have any questions please get in touch via Twitter or Facebook .
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Gilles Deleuze was one of the most important French philosophers of the second half of the 20th century. Born in 1925, he studied philosophy in Paris at the Lycée Carnot and the Sorbonne during the Second World War, passing the agrégation in 1949. He was trained in the history of philosophy by Ferdinand Alquié, Georges Canguilhem, and Jean Hippolyte, among others, and his early works were mostly monographs on individual philosophers, including Hume (Empiricism and Subjectivity, 1991 [1953]), Nietzsche (Nietzsche and Philosophy, 1983 [1962]), Kant (Kant’s Critical Philosophy, 1983 [1963]), and Bergson (Bergsonism, 1988 [1966]). He also published a book on Proust during this early period, which signaled a lifelong preoccupation with literature (Proust and Signs: The Complete Text, 2000 [1964]). He published essays on Sacher-Masoch (“Coldness and Cruelty,” in Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty by Gilles Deleuze and Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, 1991 [1967]), Beckett, T. E. Lawrence, Melville, and Whitman (collected in Essays Critical and Clinical, 1997 [1993]). The end of this early period saw the publication of Deleuze’s doctoral studies, Difference and Repetition (1994 [1968]) and Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza (1990 [1968]), followed by The Logic of Sense (1990 [1969]). Deleuze’s metaphysics of difference intersected at some points with Derrida’s philosophy, but also departed from it in that Deleuze saw his practice of philosophy as straightforwardly metaphysical and constructive rather than deconstructive. In the 1960s, Deleuze taught at the University of Clermont-Ferrand. In 1969, at Foucault’s invitation, he took up a post at the experimental University of Paris 8 at Vincennes (later St. Denis), where he taught until his retirement in 1987. His encounter with Félix Guattari in the aftermath of May 1968 led to their two coauthored volumes under the general title Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus (1983 [1972]), followed by A Thousand Plateaus (1987 [1980]). This work produced a number of concepts that have been taken up in diverse fields across the humanities and social sciences. They also coauthored Kafka: For a Minor Literature (1986 [1975]), and a decade later they produced a reflective account of their practice of philosophy: What Is Philosophy? (1994 [1991]). A final phase of Deleuze’s work began after the publication of A Thousand Plateaus, and continued until his death in 1995. During this period he published an essay on the painting of Francis Bacon (Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, 2003 [1981]) and two short monographs: Foucault (1988 [1986]) and The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (1993 [1988]). He also published a very influential two-volume study of the nature and history of cinema: Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (1986 [1983]) and Cinema 2: The Time-Image (1989 [1985]). As noted above, a collection of his literary philosophical essays, Essays Critical and Clinical, appeared in 1993 before being translated into English in 1997. After a long period of respiratory illness, Deleuze committed suicide in November 1995.
General Overviews
Dosse’s intellectual biography of Deleuze and Guattari is the best overall account of Deleuze’s life and work, while Smith and Somers-Hall provides state of the art essays on Deleuze’s philosophy and its relation to the history of philosophy (Dosse 2010, Smith and Somers-Hall 2012). Colebrook 2013, Hughes 2012, and May 2012 are helpful introductions to aspects of his work, while Parr 2010 and Stivale 2011 provide glossaries of key concepts and themes of his work, especially the coauthored work with Guattari. Zourabichvili 2012 is a strong French interpretation of Deleuze’s philosophy, and also includes a dictionary of key concepts.
Anonymous. Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995). In The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edited by James Fieser and Bradley Dowden, 2019.
This entry on Gilles Deleuze provides brief accounts of the content of his major works and lists primary and some secondary bibliographical sources.
Colebrook, Claire. Gilles Deleuze. 2d ed. London and New York: Routledge, 2013.
Accessible introduction to Deleuze’s philosophy from the perspective of his later work coauthored with Guattari, including What Is Philosophy? (cited under Coauthored Works). Colebrook discusses key concepts from these texts, along with Deleuze’s work on cinema, literature, and some aspects of his earlier work that led to the transcendental empiricism outlined in Difference and Repetition (cited under Early Works).
Dosse, François. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
This dual biography of Deleuze and Guattari focuses on their intellectual engagement and partnership. Based on Guattari’s papers, published works, and interviews with third parties, it remains the only biographical account that provides details of Deleuze’s life and career, along with brief discussions of his published works and the context in which they were written.
Hughes, Joe. Philosophy after Deleuze. London: Continuum, 2012.
Discusses Deleuze’s contribution to classical fields of philosophy, including ontology (focused on Difference and Repetition), aesthetics (focused on Cinema 1 and 2 and Kant) and political philosophy (focused on the theory of institutions in Deleuze’s early work). Includes an initial chapter on Deleuze’s philosophical style.
May, Todd. Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Introduction to Deleuze’s philosophy that begins with the ethical question of how we might live differently, before turning to his relationship to Spinoza, Bergson, and Nietzsche and the guiding concepts of his thought associated with these philosophers; namely, immanence, duration, and affirmation. Subsequent chapters explore Deleuze’s conception of science, his politics of difference, and applications of his thought to a variety of topics from everyday life.
Parr, Adrian. The Deleuze Dictionary. Rev. ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
Provides definitions and descriptions of more than 150 terms relating to Deleuze’s philosophy alone and in collaboration with Guattari. These include entries on specifically Deleuzian terms, as well as entries on other thinkers who influenced Deleuze or about whom he wrote, and entries on topics or fields in which his work has been influential. Taken together, these entries provide a guide to key themes in Deleuze’s philosophy, aspects of his intellectual lineage, and some of the ways in which his work has been taken up in areas across the humanities and social sciences.
Smith, Daniel, and John Protevi. “Gilles Deleuze.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edited by Edward N. Zalta, 2018.
Comprehensive survey of Deleuze’s life and work, including discussion of the reception of his work and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary literature.
Smith, Daniel W., and Henry Somers-Hall, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Chapters by leading scholars address Deleuze’s relationship to the history of philosophy and to particular philosophers, such as Plato, Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. Others address thematic dimensions of Deleuze’s work, including aesthetics, ethics, literature, mathematics, biology, and political philosophy. Other chapters address his relationship to major currents of 20th-century thought, such as phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism.
Stivale, Charles J., ed. Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts. 2d ed. London and New York: Routledge, 2011.
Seventeen chapters on key themes (force, expression, difference and repetition, desire), key concepts (sense, event, assemblage, micropolitics, style, cinema, etc.) and topics in Deleuze’s work (folds, critical and clinical philosophy, etc.), including work with Guattari as well as early and late solo works. The book has an introductory essay that reflects on Deleuze’s work and friendship.
Zourabichvili, François. Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Event, together with The Vocabulary of Deleuze. Edited by Gregg Lambert and Daniel W. Smith. Translated by Kieran Aarons. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
Includes translations of two short works on Deleuze by an important French interpreter of Deleuze’s work. The first of these, Deleuze: Une philosophie de l’évènement (Paris: Press Universitaires de France, 1996), offers a powerful exposition of Deleuze’s philosophy centered on his concepts of time and the event, while the second presents a distinctive account of Deleuze’s philosophy in the form of a dictionary of key concepts: Le vocabulaire de Deleuze (Paris: Ellipses, 2003).
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The Transformation of a Lutheran Church into a Multicultural Center & Multi-faith Worship Space | The Planning Report
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November 11, 2021 - From the November, 2021 issue
The Transformation of a Lutheran Church into a Multicultural Center & Multi-faith Worship Space
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Amanda Blaurock
Village Exchange Center
My Father's House
Adaptive Reuse
Community
In this TPR interview, Co-Founder/Executive Director of the Village Exchange Center, Amanda Blaurock, discusses the journey begun in 2017 to convert an existing Lutheran church in Aurora, Colorado, into a multicultural community center and multi-faith worship space to serve the region’s growing immigrant and refugee communities. (An award winning short documentary film, “My Father’s House” by Rob Shearer, documents this journey). Blaurock highlights the tools successfully used in creating the nonprofit Village Exchange Center and its rapid expansion as an essential needs provider through the COVID-19 pandemic: an abundance of social enterprise, collaboration with both public and foundation partners, robust community engagement and a congregation enthusiastic for social impact.
“The need for community centers is really high in my opinion. In the film, we talk about the Pew Report that found that 6,000 to 10,000 churches close annually in the United States. Even if it was 1,000 that could actually give the land over to nonprofits, it could be a nice structure and way to engage people in the community.”—Amanda Blaurock
Share the story behind the closing of your stepfather's church in Aurora Colorado and its transformation into a Multicultural Center?
My stepfather, Marcel Narucki, was a monk for 10 years, and then became a Lutheran minister about 15 years ago. He has had a church called St. Matthew Lutheran Church, which is an Evangelical Lutheran Church of America in an Aurora, Colorado neighborhood, which happens to be where 80 percent of the refugees in the State of Colorado were relocated over the years.
His church had shrunk from being several hundred people to only about 30 people in their 80s and 90s and they no longer were able to pay for basic operational costs. My stepfather was considering doing what's called Holy Closure, where you close the space and hand over the church or the land or the asset over to the Synod or whatever the relevant larger organization is.
I was visiting about 4.5 years ago—right when Trump was elected—and we were talking about the space and him moving. I've been a lawyer for 20 years, so I took a look at the bylaws and the constitution. It appeared that the congregation owned the land, which is four lots and the building, outright. We made a proposal to them to actually donate the four lots and the church to my stepfather and I, so that we could create a nonprofit that would bring in the actual community that's here.
Lutheranism is not a form of Christianity that is prominent amongst the refugees and immigrants in this area, so there was no opportunity to proselytize. We were looking at maybe a rebirth opportunity with the larger Denver region and doing something that would bring community members in. If they didn't rebirth, they would close the Lutheran church down, but now we would have created this nonprofit called the Village Exchange Center that has the mission of celebrating religious and cultural diversity.
Village Exchange Center
Elaborate on the historic transition of the Church into a multicultural worship space and center—its conception and rebirth?
We were considering what would be an appropriate way to handle the fact that this surrounding community is made up of so many different people. At first, we thought of interfaith. When we started talking to different refugees and immigrants, they said they don't like interfaith. They want to have space for their own religions and to be honored where they sit. Most of the people that we encounter here come from countries that were divided based on religion, so we didn't want to push anyone to go in any direction. So, we changed it to being a multifaith worship space that also has programming for refugees and immigrants.
At this point, we have eight congregations that worship here. Four Christian based: one is African American, another Kachin, Bhutanese Nepali, and a Congolese congregation. We hold services for Bhutanese Nepali Buddhist and Hindu groups. We started the month before COVID a program called Bread Together that includes a Muslim and Jewish prayer service along with a dinner for Shabbat on Friday evening, which is a holy day for both Muslims and Jews.
Share your stepfather's personal journey: from giving up the pulpit to agreeing to have his church morph into a multi-worship space and community center.
He's always been a religious person. Entrepreneurism wasn't really in his blood. At first, I think he was very nervous and wasn't sure what this would look like. For years, he tried to rebirth the congregation and bring people in.
The world was very interested. We did 11 language focus groups. We did town halls with our city council members and state officials. We brought everyone in and said, “Hey, we're going to be a community center. We don't know what you guys want: tell us.” Immediately, we started an after-school youth program for junior high kids. We invited different congregations to be part of the Sunday services, so that they had their time slots. Then, as we brought in different programs, it became very easy because we had people here to serve and we opened up the space with rentals of rooms and desks.
Before COVID, we had 21 organizations that were what we call resident partners. Those organizations were everything from the Ethiopian community of Colorado, the Oromo community of Colorado, South Sudanese, Bhutanese Nepali, and multiple other groups that could utilize the space and hold their celebrations of their religious and cultural diversity. I think for Marcel, originally, he couldn't quite see it. He really did try for that first year to still stay open and still have the services, but he found that it was hard to do both and that he was finding a lot of fulfillment and pleasure in working with these new communities who really loved our mission.
What is the governance structure that was created to support The Village Exchange Center and the many activities that you have just described? What supports this effort?
We have a board of directors. Marcel and I are both founding board members. Part of what we did is we created this nonprofit Village Exchange Center, Inc. Then, we got Colorado nonprofit status and federal status. Part of that is Marcel and I, in our articles of incorporation have committed that if the Village Exchange Center ceased to exist, we would have to donate the church to another nonprofit serving the same demographics of refugees and immigrants and community members here.
We did have a lot of struggles initially with the bishop and his attorneys who came in and said, “Is there any type of private ownership or is this being donated to the lawyer and this pastor?” His legal team met with the congregation to see whether or not we pushed them to do this. It was a little contentious in the beginning because he was confused at why they did not donate the space back to the to the Rocky Mountain Synod. It turned out that the congregation really loved the idea of this type of ministry and service.
What's the Village Exchange Center’s current budget? What sustains the mission?
The budget is an interesting conversation. The budget started at obviously zero and then 2019, was $550,000. We were at like $750,000 at the end of the year in our 990s. For 2020, the budget was $1.2 million and then we rapidly got to $13.6 million. This year, the budget is at $2.1 million from the beginning of the year, and we're at about $4.5 million already.
How did the budget grow so fast?
During COVID, because we are in the middle of a community that's the most underserved, we made the decision to stay open and to become an essential needs location. We took our food pantry from serving about 50 families to a total individual served of 6,000 people last year. Between 3,000 and 5,000 weekly come and get food. We also created a social enterprise at a local marketplace called Village Farm at Stanley, where we built out 24 50-foot farm beds. We have a state-certified earn-as-you-learn immersion program. They harvested 1,600 pounds of food that were distributed into our food pantries—locally grown by community members and distributed to community members. Our food pantry scaled because of the fact that we do culturally appropriate food. We shop for our community members and want to dignify them with actual foods that they eat and love.
We also started five funds. We became the payment partner on the Left Behind Workers Fund, which scaled across Colorado. In that process, we gave $1,000 grants to undocumented immigrants that lost their job due to COVID but were ineligible to receive unemployment insurance or CARES Act money. We also did grants for those same individuals to receive up to $7,500 in rental assistance.
Village Farm at Stanley
How has the idea of social impact investing inculcated itself in the work that you're doing with the Village Exchange Center?
Social impact investing is a very confusing term for a lot of people. It could mean lots of different things. When I think of social impact investing, I think of a financial plus a social return on investment. It could be more or less in either direction on a spectrum. We could have a little bit of a financial return or just a totally social investment where you have actual metrics where you're showing the social return that your money actually created. When you give in philanthropy, you have to report on your metrics, your impacts, your outputs, and your outcomes.
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How is social impact investment different? Oftentimes, in the world of social impact investing, you have social enterprises. Social enterprises are what I thought from the beginning could be very helpful. When you create social enterprises, you're creating jobs. You're doing workforce development and could potentially make money for your nonprofit. My idea is around having a space that you can consider the entire community center a social enterprise, and an investor when we really get it to where it needs to be and the building is completely done.
We received $1.7 million as an allocation from Congressman Crow to build out one half of our community center that would be a commissary and two restaurant storefronts. That commissary and two restaurant storefronts can help community members learn, with training and in workforce development, so that they can do the work that the community has asked us for. Then, when we do events here, they could be the caterers and provide all of the things that would be necessary to do events.
We are thinking of it as "how do we empower community members by giving them upskilling jobs that are meaningful and training them in ways that they can actually utilize the certifications to do wonderful things afterwards?"
Village Exchange Center
It appears grants and contributions have been the fuel for the enterprise’s rapid growth. Have banks and financial institutions been supportive?
When we decide to complete the total construction planned, we'll do a bridge loan. Because I'm a fiduciary and this is a nonprofit, we didn't necessarily have to encumber the space with any type of loan. We stayed lean for the first couple years. Because we do not have a mortgage and own the land outright, that made it very easy. Immediately, my vision was to have earned income, which is from the rentals, the events, and all the things that we do, be at 50 percent. In the first year because we had so many rentals, we were at around 30 percent.
There are a lot of nonprofits that 100 percent rely on philanthropic dollars with individuals, corporations, or big foundations. We looked at how can we do it ourselves because that's a sustainability plan. That's how the community gets to keep this place and not keep asking for money. I wanted to get the building up and running so that we could do that. The farm is the same thing. I think it's 50/50. In addition to the poundage of food that we distribute with our community members, we also sell at farmer's market. We are giving and selling our products to some of the restaurants at Stanley Marketplace, so they can have farm to table.
Of course, when you get donations, that makes it a lot easier. Our land at Stanley Marketplace is probably worth $2 million, but we pay $1 a year and have a lease for 20 years.
When people are thinking of taking the church and doing something wonderful with it, hopefully they don't have to have a mortgage, but if they have to buy it and then work through social enterprises, that's one way. Workforce development and the creation of different things that the community wants could pay that mortgage.
Is housing part of your vision for the Village Exchange Center?
For last year and a half, I've been on four different Adams County focus group committees that they've created, and one of them is housing stability. One of the things that I think very strongly about is that home ownership actually does change people's lives. How could we be engaged and involved in working public-private partnership to get land and incentives to bring developers in so that we can help with land and homeownership for our refugee and immigrant population? That's on my mind all the time, but in terms of our space, we could not do it here.
It is reported that scores of other churches and religious organizations and community groups have thought about replicating a like mission. Have any spoken to the Village Exchange Center?
We occasionally have conversations about it. People are interested and they ask questions, but I think it's something that you need a leader to do. I’ve thought about this the last 4 years; how do you even consult with them where you can help them and guide them through the process because it's not easy. There are different structures and different ways that people have ownership over land. There are also ways where it may not be a transfer of ownership of the deed, but maybe a transfer of a usage of the space. It does take people who are motivated to do it.
When we show the film that always becomes a very large interest of people. How do we keep that moving? How do we keep doing screenings where we can actually talk to different groups and have them be interested in this different way of ministry? Our demographics here are refugees and immigrants, but we could do a Village Exchange Center anywhere to create community anywhere because community is being lost generally right now. Community is different than it used to be. You could sit in a church or at any type of congregation and the person next to you could be a Democrat and the other one a Republican and Libertarian, and no one really cared. Now the divisiveness is so strong.
The need for community centers is really high in my opinion. In the film, we talk about that the Pew Report found that 6,000 to 10,000 churches close annually in United States. Even if it was 1,000 that could actually give the land over to nonprofits, it could be a nice structure and way to engage people in the community.
Your website notes that there is a documentary film My Father's House which captures the transformation of your father’s church into the Village Exchange Center. Where can someone interested watch the entire film?
We started filming the movie all the way back in 2017 and 2018. I met filmmaker Rob Shearer at the Cannes Film Festival. He was very interested in our story, and I thought it was a perfect time to start filming. The film started as a documentary, and we were going to do a full feature. Ultimately, David Holbrook came in, helped advise, and was an editor, and suggested doing a short. So, we decided to do that and it was about the inception and the transition of Village Exchange Center from being a church to what happened during COVID.
We were at the Denver Film Festival last year. We recently were at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Jury Award for the emerging filmmaker for the American Pavilion, which is a real honor. We're still trying to get in festivals. We just applied to Sundance, and I think we have multiple other festivals we're waiting to get into.
We want to look at really rolling out screenings, conversations, and Q&A's to spur this type of conversation we're having now. David Holbrook has taken us to different locations where we’ve screened. Those are very curated and wonderful places to do this.
Finally, If readers of this interview are curious and wish to contemplate partnership, how should they connect with you?
Reach out to me directly. My email is [email protected]. Our website is villageexchangecenter.org. We are always interested in partnerships and ways that we can scale. I truly believe that the ability to be where we're at is through collaborations and partnerships. It's not just the financial contributions, it’s also the inkind people who come in. We scaled our food pantry because we had a CEO of a tech company help us create the software that DoorDash is made from. People who didn't have COVID could bring food to people with COVID and have the technology and text messaging to do it. We do capacity building. The partnerships allow us to have 180 volunteers in the food pantry. We believe strongly in both the financial and the in-kind contributions.
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This week’s headlines on enfranchisement efforts, election law changes and the Trump administration’s attacks on mail voting.
by Rachel Glickhouse
Aug. 14, 2020, 7:30 a.m. EDT
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What’s Happening to the Postal Service?
On Friday, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy reassigned or displaced 23 executives, which analysts say centralized power around DeJoy. He claimed that his recent sweeping changes to the Postal Service aren’t at the president’s behest. (The Washington Post, The Guardian)
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Financial disclosures revealed that DeJoy still holds a multimillion-dollar stake in a USPS contractor; experts said the stake is likely a conflict of interest and were shocked that agency ethics officers approved it. (CNN)
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are calling on the Postal Service to reverse operational changes that have slowed down mail delivery. (Associated Press)
The president of the Iowa Postal Workers Union said mail sorting equipment is being removed from post offices, further slowing down delivery. (NPR)
A former top USPS official warned that changes at the postal service could disenfranchise voters in the fall. (The Guardian)
Maryland Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, on local delays: “I have heard from constituents in the Second District who have not gotten their mail — including vital medications and paychecks — for weeks and sometimes not at all.” (Baltimore Sun)
There’s been some confusion over whether the USPS plans to charge more for election mail; the agency claims it's merely recommending states use first-class mail. (The New York Times)
The Trump Administration’s Attacks on Voting
On Wednesday, Trump said he would not approve emergency USPS funding, and stated: “They don’t have the money to do the universal mail-in voting. So therefore, they can’t do it, I guess. Are they going to do it even if they don’t have the money?” (The Washington Post)
On Thursday, Trump made further remarks on USPS: “Now they need that money in order to make the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots ... But if they don’t get those two items that means you can’t have universal mail-in voting.” (Fox Business)
Trump’s aides are allegedly considering executive actions to curb mail voting, even though some Republicans are worried the president’s anti-mail voting rhetoric could harm the GOP in the upcoming election. (Politico)
Trump encouraged North Carolina voters to vote absentee, even as he continues to assail mail voting. (CNN)
Donald Trump Jr. made contradictory statements about mail voting in Maine, and Maine’s secretary of state pushed back. (WMTW)
Trump’s criticisms of absentee voting may be having an effect: an NBC News/Survey Monkey poll found that a majority of Republicans don’t think the election will be fair. (Newsweek)
In a TV appearance Thursday, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said: “So much of the Democratic asks are really liberal left wishlists we don’t want to have — voting rights, and aid to aliens, and so forth. That’s not our game.” (CNBC)
Cybersecurity News
Ransomware remains a serious threat to voting operations, experts say. (AP)
In July, the Department of Homeland Security held its annual election tabletop exercise with state and local officials; the event gamed out potential cyberattacks, civil unrest, and disinformation, among other things. (State Scoop)
The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published an infrastructure risk assessment on mail voting and on how cybersecurity could affect vote by mail. (MeriTalk)
At this month’s Black Hat hacker conference, voting tech company Election Systems & Software announced new policies that will allow cybersecurity researchers to test the company’s technology. Also at the conference, the director of CISA touted the government’s progress on cybersecurity since 2016, saying it was “like night and day.” (The Wall Street Journal, CyberScoop, NextGov)
Ohio published guidelines for security experts to identify flaws in the state’s election websites, the first state to do so. (CyberScoop)
A nonprofit government watchdog alleges there was a coverup of a Florida elections supervisor using tens of thousands of dollars meant for election security on personal shopping sprees. (Tallahassee Democrat)
The Center for Election Innovation released a new report on the security of voter registration databases, and found six states still don’t use multifactor authentication to restrict access to those databases. (Election Innovation)
Vote by Mail News
A Stanford University study of the July runoff election in Texas found that Democrats used absentee voting at a rate three times higher than Republicans, but there was no partisan impact on overall turnout. (Stanford University Democracy and Polarization Lab)
A watchdog group released a report on Florida’s ability to deal with expanded vote by mail, based on recent elections and policy changes. (Tallahassee Democrat)
Between 10,000 and 15,000 Connecticut voters typically request absentee ballots during primaries. This year, about 300,000 people asked for a mail ballot for the August primary. (The Wall Street Journal)
Ohio’s secretary of state announced that county board of elections can only offer one absentee ballot drop box per county. Counties are now barred from setting up more drop boxes. (Columbus Dispatch)
Tennessee updated its absentee ballot applications after a court ruled against expanding mail voting for the general election. (AP)
Georgia’s election board approved a measure to allow the state to create an online portal for voters to request absentee ballots. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
A nonprofit organization sent out more than half a million absentee ballot applications to Virginia voters with the wrong return address. The same organization caused confusion with unsolicited absentee ballot applications it sent in Ohio. (Virginia Mercury, ABC 6)
The New Hampshire GOP sent out mailers with the wrong return address for absentee ballot applications. (NHPR)
The D.C. Board of Elections mailer’s poor design and instructions on how to confirm their address confused some voters. (The Washington Post)
The New York State Board of Elections will change the design of the letter that comes with absentee ballots so voters know to sign it. (New York Post)
Hawaii’s shift to a mail voting state has brought challenges for homeless voters. (Honolulu Civil Beat)
San Diego County’s GOP chairman has complained about the unfounded dangers of mail voting, despite the fact that he’s voted by mail 22 times. (Voice of San Diego)
Voting in a Pandemic
Puerto Rico partially suspended voting during the primary last week due to a lack of ballots at polling places. Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court ordered voting to resume on Sunday. (AP, NBC News)
Connecticut held its primary this week in the wake of a tropical storm, and some polling places lacked electricity and Wi-Fi the night before the election. (WTNH)
Elections this week in Georgia, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Minnesota and Vermont saw low in-person turnout with relatively few problems and many mail ballots. (The Washington Post)
Some of Pennsylvania’s largest counties aim to set up satellite election offices to provide early voting. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
New Jersey’s July primary provided lessons in holding an election during a pandemic, both for mail voting and in-person voting. (Courier-Post)
States without expanded vote by mail may not be prepared to handle voters who get COVID-19 right before the election. (NPR)
Maryland’s governor approved an elections board plan to instate a voting center model for the November election. (Baltimore Sun)
The Brennan Center and the Infectious Diseases Society of America published guidelines to vote and hold elections safely during the pandemic. (Brennan Center)
Election Funding
Funding for the general election and USPS are on hold after coronavirus relief package talks collapsed. (Politico)
Florida election supervisors are still waiting for CARES Act funding; the money is supposed to arrive this week. (WFLA, Tallahassee Democrat)
Pennsylvania could spend $1 million on envelopes and postage for mail ballots this fall. (York Daily Record)
After a problematic primary, the New York state board of election says it needs $50 million to make the general election work. (Gothamist)
Voting rights expert and law professor Justin Levitt on election funding: “My usual election-cycle comment is that we’re trying to find enough duct tape to cover the holes in the bucket. This time, we’re trying to make the bucket out of duct tape.” (Rolling Stone)
Enfranchisement Efforts
Since 2016, 11 states and D.C. have enfranchised currently and formerly incarcerated Americans. (The Washington Post)
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Kentucky: The secretary of state submitted a plan to the governor for fall voting that excludes no-excuse absentee voting for all voters. They say they’re close to an agreement. (Kentucky.com, WFPL)
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On Wednesday, the queen canceled a scheduled trip to Northern Ireland. The palace said she had “reluctantly” accepted medical advice to rest for a few days. It did not elaborate.
The queen is now at Windsor Castle, west of London, where she has spent much of her time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year. The decision to cancel this week’s trip was understood to not be COVID related.
The decision came just days after Elizabeth was seen using a walking stick at a major public event when attending a Westminster Abbey service marking the centenary of the Royal British Legion, an armed forces charity.
She had previously been photographed using a cane in 2003, but that was after she underwent knee surgery.
Britain’s longest-lived and longest-reigning monarch, Elizabeth is due to celebrate her Platinum Jubilee — 70 years on the throne — next year.
The queen, who was widowed this year when Prince Philip died at age 99 in April, still keeps a busy schedule of royal duties. On Tuesday, she held audiences with diplomats and hosted a reception at Windsor Castle for global business leaders.
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Aug 24, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Visiongain has launched a new report on Aircraft Flight Control System 2021-2031: Market Segment by Component (Cockpit Controls, Primary Flight Control Computer, Secondary Flight Control Computer, Actuators, Standby Attitude and Air Data Reference Unit (SAARU), Other Components) Market Segment by System (Commercial Fixed Wing Flight Control System, Military Fixed Flight Control System, Military UAV Flight Control System, Rotary Wing Flight Control System, Other System) Market Segment by Technology (Fly by Wire, Power by Wire, Hydromechanical Systems, Digital Fly by Wire, Trim Hydraulic Stabilizers Actuators, Other Technology) Market Segment by Platform (Fixed Wing, Rotary Wing) Market Segment by End-User (Linefit Aircraft, Retrofit Aircraft) PLUS COVID-19 Impact Analysis and Recovery Pattern Analysis (V-shaped, W-shaped, U-shaped, L-shaped) Profiles of Leading Companies, Region and Country.
The global aircraft flight control system market was valued at US$9,087 million in 2020 and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 4.5% during the forecast period 2021-2031.
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Rapid technological advancements are allowing more capabilities to be packed into smaller airframes, resulting in a surge in the number of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) deployed on the battlefield. Because the employment of SUAS in combat is so new, no formal DoD-wide reporting protocols for SUAS flight hours have been established. As the capabilities of all types of UAS improve, countries continue to fund research and development, resulting in greater advancements and the ability to execute a wide range of tasks. Although intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions are still the most common, UAS now undertake a variety of other functions as well. Electronic attack, drone attacks, suppression or destruction of enemy air defense, network node or communications relay, combat search and rescue, and variations on these themes have all extended their responsibilities.
How has COVID-19 had a significant negative impact on the Aircraft Flight Control System Market?
Without any borders, the COVID-19 virus has spread worldwide. The result has been terrible economic and financial losses and serious uncertainties for all sectors, industries and parts of our life. Due to the COVID-19 epidemic and containment efforts, the huge fall in demand for air passenger transport (and freight to a lesser degree) threatens the survival of many enterprises, both for the air transport sector and the rest of the aviation industry, including many employment. In 2020, industry sales amounted to $328 billion, around 40% of last year. This is the same as in 2000 in nominal terms. It is anticipated that the industry will be smaller in the next few years and that traffic will not return to 2019 until 2024. The COVID 19 issue has generated a fresh set of loans, loan guarantees, wage subsidies, and equity injections which raises questions about competitiveness and effective use of public resources while the aviation industry has frequent targets of policy.
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Growing Demand for Fighter Aircraft in the Global Market
The global combat aircraft market is expected to be strong in the coming decade, with total revenue of $493.14 billion expected between 2017 and 2026. Modernization programmes, such as AESA radar, active protection systems, electronic countermeasure systems, and electronic warfare-oriented upgrades, will account for about 35% of future contract chances. The remainder will be procurement opportunities, primarily for 4.5+ and 5th generation aircraft.
Unmanned Aircraft Systems' Military Involvement Is Expanding At An Unprecedented Rate
Rapid technological advancements are allowing more capabilities to be packed into smaller airframes, resulting in a surge in the number of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) deployed on the battlefield. Because the employment of SUAS in combat is so new, no formal DoD-wide reporting protocols for SUAS flight hours have been established. As the capabilities of all types of UAS improve, countries continue to fund research and development, resulting in greater advancements and the ability to execute a wide range of tasks. Although intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions are still the most common, UAS now undertake a variety of other functions as well. Electronic attack, drone attacks, suppression or destruction of enemy air defense, network node or communications relay, combat search and rescue, and variations on these themes have all extended their responsibilities.
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The emergence of new aircraft manufacturers in the Asia Pacific and Latin America
One of the significant changes for the growth of the aircraft flight control system market is the emergence of new aircraft manufacturers in the Asia Pacific and Latin American regions. Some of the new aircraft manufacturing businesses include Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. (COMAC) (China), Embraer SA (Brazil), and Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation (Japan). COMAC makes commercial, business, and regional aircraft, while Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation manufactures regional aircraft. Due to rising air passenger traffic around the world, increased demand for commercial aircraft, business jets, and regional transport aircraft is predicted to generate growth prospects for new aircraft manufacturers, resulting in an increase in production. As a result, greater demand for aircraft flight control systems is projected over the forecast period, providing a potential opportunity for the aircraft flight control system market .
Advanced Air Mobility Market Outlook Charged with Opportunity
For decades, futurists have fantasised about "flying automobiles" that are easier and more manoeuvrable than helicopters and available to the general public. Many aeronautical technologies are combining to assist a number of companies in developing small passenger electric aircraft as early as 2023. It's no secret that Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) will be a strong competitive industry, with traditional aircraft builders, nimble startups, and OEM systems vendors all laying out their visions for the future. This new market aspires to transport passengers and cargo through urban, suburban, and regional settings at lower altitudes. More- or all-electric technology will be used in aircraft to address these needs.
Competitive Landscape
The major players operating in the aircraft flight control system market are Honeywell International Inc., Moog Inc., Safran SA, BAE Systems plc, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Raytheon Technologies Corp, Parker-Hannifin Corporation, Saab AB, Woodward, Inc., Nabtesco Corporation, Shimadzu Corporation, Thales SA, Liebherr Group, General Atomics, GE Aviation, Mecaer Aviation Group (MAG), Sitec Aerospace, LORD Corporation, These major players operating in this market have adopted various strategies comprising M&A, investment in R&D, collaborations, partnerships, regional business expansion, and new product launch.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the per capita heritage lottery funding was in (a) Doncaster and (b) England in the last year for which data are available.
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The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded £270,000 to projects in Doncaster in the last financial year (£0.88 per capita). Since the organisation’s inception, it has awarded nearly £17m of grants to Doncaster, which amounts to £54.87 per capita. The total grants awarded in England in the last financial year totalled £4.07 per capita.
HLF always looks to address issues around lower levels of funding, and Doncaster has been a priority development area for HLF since 2003. Under this approach, where HLF works closely with heritage and other organisations locally to increase capacity and levels of applications, it has supported 104 projects since 2003 and 129 projects since 1994. It also played a key role in the successful joint funding scheme in 2015 ‘Dosh for Donny’ alongside other National Lottery distributors, which resulted in £372,000 being awarded to the area in that financial year and an increase in small grant awards.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The remains of a U.S. Army private from Ohio killed in combat in Germany during World War II have been identified, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced today.
The agency said Emmet Schwartz, 24, of Dover, was killed in an artillery blast on Dec. 27, 1944, as his 8th Infantry Division unit attempted to capture Obermaubach, Germany. Active minefields in the area prevented the recovery of his body.
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The Calliope Hummingbird was named for one of the most famous muses in Greek mythology. The Genus name, Stellula, means "small star".
5. Physical Description
The calliope hummingbird is believed to be the smallest bird in North America. In terms of their size, an adult calliope hummingbird tends to measure between only around 2.8 and 4 inches (7 and 10 centimeters) in length, has a span of about 4.33 inches (11 centimeters) across the wings, and weighs under a tenth of an ounce (between 2 and 3 grams). When it comes to their appearance, these birds are glossy green on the crown, with dark bodies and white underparts. They have a relatively short bill and tail. Adult females and immatures have a pinkish wash over their flanks, a dark tail with white tips, and dark-colored streaks on their throats. On the other hand, the adult males have wine-red colored streaks on their throats, a dark tail, and green flanks.
4. Diet
In terms of their diet, the omnivorous calliope hummingbirds are both insectivores and nectarivores. The birds are known to prey and feed on insects. For this, they initially hawk the insects, and then zoom out from a perch to catch them in the air. The smaller insects that they eat are inclusive of ants, beetles, bees, flies, and wasps. Apart from that, observations of this bird’s behavior has shown that they also feed regularly at sap wells or holes in trees that are created by other sapsuckers. They basically lick out nectar from flowers by using their long tongues. It is believed that they regularly visit red tubular shaped flowers, although they feed on blue, yellow, white and purple flowers as well.
3. Habitat and Range
The breeding habitat of the calliope hummingbird is believed to vary greatly in terms of altitude, though they generally appear to prefer open shrub areas. It is normal for nesting to occur at higher altitudes, particularly in the mountains. Nest heights typically tend to vary from 2 to 65 feet above the ground. Open montane forests, alder thickets, willows and mountain meadows are used by the bird as breeding grounds. They may also be seen in deserts, semi-desert regions, chaparral and lowland brushy areas during winter and migration. From what is known, calliope hummingbirds nest in western North America from Southern British Columbia to southwestern Alberta, through Washington, Nevada, Oregon and California to northern Baja California and east to Wyoming, Utah and Colorado. During the winters, they can also be seen in northern to central Mexico. They move mainly through Arizona and New Mexico and northern Mexico during spring and summer.
2. Behavior
The overall behavior of calliope hummingbird resembles that of may other species of hummingbirds. These are solitary migratory birds that only interact with individuals of the same species during mating season. However, they normally share their range with the rufous hummingbirds. The calliope hummingbirds make long-distance migrations every year from their summer range to their winter range and back. As they make stops to refuel on nectar, there is a good chance that they may be sighted in a variety of locations along their routes.
1. Reproduction
When it comes to reproduction, it is normal for the adult males to arrive on the breeding ground before females, during mid-April and early May. The males are rather vigorous in defending their nesting territories where they continue to breed with many females, which means they are polygynous. The males pursue females during the breeding season to which the females reply by either fleeing or hiding. When catching a female, the adult male exhibits territorial displays such as buzzing, diving, hovering and vocalizing. By the time the young hatch from the eggs, the males vacate the breeding grounds and take no part in raising the young. On the other hand, the females build an open cup nest in a conifer tree under an overhanging branch. They may also use alder and apple trees depending on their habitats. These constructions are important, as the female may use the same nest repeatedly over the course of several years. The female then lays two eggs between late May and early July, which are then incubated for 15 to 16 days. The young typically start flying 20 days after hatching.
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Back in March, major cities like New York City and San Francisco saw an outflux of residents leaving the pandemic-riddled mega metropolises for more cozy and quiet places offered by smaller cities and the suburbs. Some temporarily moved in with families while others left and claimed they will never turn back. Regardless of where they ended up, there was a consistent reason why: living in a highly populated, dense city is not conducive to a world that revolves around social-distancing protocols and shelter-in-place mandates.
City living already features a cramped lifestyle filled with too-close-for-comfort subway rides, overpriced lofts, and underappreciated parks that are sparse and hard to visit. Residents are willing to put up with higher crime rates in exchange for more intriguing and exciting activities, like the spectacular nightlife, unbelievable restaurants, and diverse culture scene. Take those enterprises away and you create a stagnant claustrophobic environment that limits you to the entrance of your stairwell. All things considered, it’s not really surprising why people want out.
Note: When referring to “megacities,” “major metropolises,” or “high-tax cities” throughout this article, we are referring specifically to New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
Where Is Everyone Moving To?
Over the past ten years, major corporations have begun relocating to more affordable cities. This move isn’t just for the high-up executives looking for extra corporate savings but for their employees fed up with the daily nuances of living in high-tax cities. These businesses are looking to retain their employees and feel that the only way they can effectively do that is to increase their quality of living.
The other result of the coronavirus was the shift from in-office to remote work. Without the need to be at the office and with an increase in the unemployment rate, people saw a way out of these megacities to places where costs and taxes are low, while extra living space is in abundance.
Information provided by Bloomberg
Why Are People Moving?
While many consider COVID-19 to be many city dwellers’ last straw, the mass migration is actually due to a plethora of issues that are all summed up in one phrase: the search for a better quality of life. The hustle and bustle of megacities have become too much for residents looking to settle down or live a less-stressed lifestyle. These people are searching for freedom, something they feel is taken away when living in a major metropolitan area.
Low-Income Tax
The majority of inbound states feature significantly lower income taxes compared to most U.S. cities. Making the move to better tax states can save new residents thousands of dollars over the course of just a few years.
Sources: Tax-Bracket.org, New York Department of Taxation and Finance, California Franchise Tax Board, Illinois Department of Revenue, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Nevada Department of Taxation, Florida Department of Revenue, Oregon Department of Revenue, Washington Department of Revenue, North Carolina Department of Revenue, South Carolina Department of Revenue, Tennessee Department of Revenue, Pennsylvania Department of Revenue, Utah State Tax Commission, Idaho State Tax Commission, Wisconsin Department of Revenue, Missouri Department of Revenue, Indiana Department of Revenue, Georgia Department of Revenue, Virginia Department of Taxation
Homeless Issue
Cities are not doing enough to help the homeless problem of these big cities. The result is a decentralized population that becomes insurmountably harder to support and can harm the economy in the long term.
Traffic
When an Uber from Prospect Park to Williamsburg, Brooklyn – roughly a 1.5-mile journey – takes 45 minutes at $20/mile, it’s not pretty. Throw in a deteriorating public transportation system that doubles as a COVID-19 superspreader and you’ll understand why residents want out.
Cost of Living
Purchasing a $12 craft beer and then hustling up an eight-story building without AC to a $2400 loft no bigger than 450 square feet is just a small example of the daily upcharge expenses people experience while living in the city.
Information provided by Tax Foundation
More Living Space
Whether it’s the apartment sizes (see above) or the lack of public parks, it’s hard to imagine living through these conditions with “shelter-in-place” mandates. In the end, we’re human beings and we need open space to roam.
Violent Crime Has Increased In Cities
With the rate of violence, rising, people want to find safer homes for themselves and their families. However, it is very likely this increase in violence is only temporary and an indirect result of the pandemic.
People Are Leaving the Biggest Cities (But Not Every City)
A recent Zillow report found that “in all but a few cases, suburban markets and urban markets have seen similar changes in activity in recent months: about the same share of homes selling above their list price, similar changes in the typical time homes spend on the market before an offer is accepted, and recent improvements in newly pending sales have been about the same across each region type.”
This nationwide report indicates people are not leaving cities for suburbia. It’s very possible this is true but neglects to mention what is happening in these four major cities specifically: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
New York City: Manhattan broke a real estate record with over 15,000 empty apartments in August.
San Francisco: Saw almost a 100 percent increase in home inventory.
Los Angeles: Saw almost a 10 percent increase in home inventory.
Chicago: Known as the Illinois Exodus, the emigration from this city (and state) is more of a several years-long trend than a COVID-19 influence.
Graph provided by Zillow
Considering the entire nation is experiencing a nationwide housing shortage and historic-low mortgage rates, these data points are clear outliers and indicators that residents are leaving these cities in droves. But that doesn’t mean it will be forever.
With everything being said by TV pundits and keyboard warriors (oh the irony of creating this blog), this big city exodus may only be temporary. We don’t know though. There are so many uncertain variables in play that making a prediction would be borderline asinine thinking. Right now, the best thing to do is observe and keep tabs on the monthly changes happening in these cities. Here are some other items to consider as to why else people are leaving, where they are moving to, and if they will return.
There’s a growing consensus people don’t want to move to the suburbs but to smaller, more manageable cities.
People may be panic moving due to the uncertainty of the virus.
The wealthy make up a good percentage of those leaving and eerily reflect what happened during the Spanish Influenza in 1918.
This exodus may be temporary; more than half of ex-San Franciscans in a small survey said they’d return.
By a large margin, San Francisco is seeing the largest outflux of residents due to sky-high real estate prices and major tech companies going remote.
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Preceding Context: The City of Chicopee, bordering Springfield to the north, is home to Westover Air Reserve Base and
Succeeding Context: , Hampden County's largest airport. (Bradley International Airport, the Hartford-Springfield area's largest airport, sits 12 miles south of Springfield in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.) Chicopee hosts the Catholic Elms College, and features a mix of urban and suburban developments.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced that masks will be required inside temples to limit the spread of COVID-19
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Wednesday that masks will be required inside temples to limit the spread of COVID-19.
Church leaders said in a statement that masks will be required temporarily in an effort to keep temples open. The message was the latest in a series of statements from church leaders encouraging masking and vaccination efforts against COVID-19.
“As cases of COVID-19 increase in many areas, we want to do everything possible to allow temples to remain open,” the church said in a statement. “Therefore, effective immediately, all temple patrons and workers are asked to wear face masks at all times while in the temple.”
In Utah where the church is based, a summer surge of the virus among unvaccinated residents has continued to grow while vaccination rates have slightly increased.
Data from the Utah Health Department showed that in the last 28 days state residents who are unvaccinated are 5.9 times more likely to die from COVID-19 and 7.2 times more likely to be hospitalized than those who are vaccinated.
About 64% of Utah residents ages 12 and older were fully vaccinated as of Tuesday, state data shows. Utah reported 25 new deaths from COVID-19, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 2,829.
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Green chemistry is a branch of chemistry which focuses on preserving the environment using sustainable methods. Today many industries are focusing on carrying out manufacturing and other activities using products and processes which reduce both use and release of harmful substances. Green chemistry aims to reduce hazardous materials from the entire life cycle of a chemical product right from designing and manufacturing to distribution and disposal. The principles of green chemistry can be applied to every industry where chemicals are used.
Green chemistry aims at reducing the impact of various processes and methods on the environment by outlining certain principles. There are primary and secondary green chemistry principles that are formulated to minimize the effects of environmentally hazards substances.
The primary principle of green chemistry is reducing the production of toxic waste rather than to deal with waste produced.
Source Reduction
The basic principle of green chemistry is to prevent toxic waste formation than treating it once it is formed. This is also known as source reduction. The principles of green chemistry make essential concepts for the waste management industry, where the focus is on reducing waste creation altogether rather than dealing with waste disposal. Which means green chemistry helps source reduction. Source reduction is a way or reducing waste creation by limiting the toxicity of chemicals in the entire cycle of the product, which includes designing, manufacturing, packaging and usage.
The main aim of source reduction are; to reduce the overall matter of waste produced and to conserve natural sources by restricting the use of natural raw material. Hence source reduction helps in using pure raw materials for manufacturing products which are toxic free which results in the creation of less toxic free waste.
Atom Economy
Atom economy is nothing but the conversion efficiency of a chemical process at the atom level. It is one of the critical concepts of green chemistry and is used as a measurement unit for measuring the sustainability of a procedure or method. The principle aims at developing ways to maximize the use of pure material for making the final product.
Use of Less Hazardous Substances
The synthetic methods which aim to reduce toxicity in the final product should be able to use or generate material which is low in toxic substances and is environment friendly.
Use of Chemicals
The product that uses chemicals should be designed in a way that it should be able to deliver the desired outcome but at the same time, reduce the toxicity.
Use of Safer Solvents
The use of solvents should be minimized to reduce the toxicity in the end product. However, if it not possible to avoid solutions, it is recommended to use the ones that are safe or otherwise make them non-dangerous.
Energy Efficiency
One more important principle of Green energy is the less usage of energy as more and more energy generate can result in depletion of natural resources. Hence the principle states that minimum energy should be consumed for the process and use a combination of the right temperature and pressure to minimize the usage.
Renewable Raw material
The use of pure raw materials is required for manufacturing, designing, packaging and end-use of the products to reduce the chemical waste and to contribute to the green environment. But it is also necessary to use raw materials that are renewable wherever possible. The use of renewable raw material results in reduced wastage and enables to reuse of raw material waste during the process.
Reduce Dependency
Reduced derivatization is one of the principles that contribute to a green environment. Material or process dependency on other sources should be avoided as a dependency will require it obligatory to carry out a few different processes which may result in the release of more greenhouse gases. Hence derivatives should be avoided wherever not necessary.
Smart Catalysis
The processes which involve catalyst to speed up the rate of reaction are more effective when compared to responses which involve a quantitative relationship. Catalysis reactions use less quantity of reactants as it uses a catalyst to speed up the process, which contributes to the green environment.
Degradable Products
Chemical products should be designed in a way that the end the product should be a degradable or non-hazardous product and not an environmentally persistent product. The product, when disposed of, should be degradable.
Real-Time Monitoring
The process of chemical products should be monitored in real-time as any delay in the process may lead to the formation of dangerous substances. Real-time monitoring of the process will help to estimate the exact time for the process, which helps in taking necessary steps to ensure that no hazardous material is formed in due course.
Prevention of Accidents and Hazards
The chemical material used for the process should be chosen in a way to reduce the risk of hazards and accidents which include chemical reaction releases, fires and explosions.
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Megan Holmes Education,Green,Research
How to Increase the Energy Efficiency of Homes?
Energy efficiency is nothing but the use of less energy to carry out the same job resulting in reducing waste of energy. There are several benefits of energy benefits, but most prominent among them are reducing greenhouse emissions, lowering the demand for energy imports and lowering household energy costs.
You can increase energy efficiency and save money when you take specific effective measures that reduce the load on the energy systems in the building. These include installing heating and venting systems that perfectly fits your household requirements, right size appliances as oversized appliances and equipment can result in increased costs and low performance.
Walls, doors, ceiling, attic and windows are five critical parts of the house that need to be focused on increasing the energy efficiency of homes. Heating equipment, appliances and lighting are the things that need to be targeted next. Environmentally friendly energy generation is the third and final things that need focus.
We have discussed below how to improve the energy efficiency of homes by paying attention to certain factors.
Insulation of Attic and Walls
Trapping the heat or coolness inside the house in summers and winters helps the system in effectively heating or cooling the home using less energy. Absence of wall insulation or cavities in the wall will result in consuming more energy to heat or cool the house. An unfinished attic is another area to focus on increasing energy efficiency, but an insulated attic, on the contrary, helps increase energy efficiency.
The energy efficiency of the house also depends on the type of material used for insulation, often inferior material results in consuming more energy as such materials are inferior in conducting the heat. Foam insulation, fibreglass and cellulose are few superior materials that increase energy efficiency.
Replacement/ Repair of Windows
Old and leaky windows in the home should be replaced in time with the latest energy efficiency models to increase energy efficiency. There are cost-effective energy-efficient windows available on the market, but window replacement may not always be cheap. But one should consider windows replacement as an investment, as it results in cost savings in the long term. If you want to increase your savings, then single glazed windows are the best.
Boiler Upgrade
Upgrading your old and inefficient boilers is a great way to improve the energy efficiency of your home. Inefficient boilers may add up to your energy bills. Upgrading them with the advanced energy-efficient boilers can save you the right amount on energy bills in the long run. 60% of carbon emissions in a home with the gas heating system is emitted from boilers, so by having an energy-efficient boiler reduces the emissions significantly. The energy efficiency of boilers are rated from A to G; A is energy efficient G is the least energy efficient. If the boiler at your home is not energy efficient, then it will be wise to consider it is replacing it with the energy-efficient one to save on your energy bills. One way to do this is to install a gas tankless water heater in your house which is one of the most energy efficient water heater methods and is a much better way to heat water than a normal boiler.
Energy-Efficient Air Conditioners
Air conditioners at home are used for cooling indoors and retaining the required moisture in the room by removing the heat. The air conditioner is operated throughout the winters needs to be energy efficient if you want to save on energy bills. The unit needs to be selected based on the area that needs to be cooled and the outside temperature. Having an energy-efficient rated air conditioner unit installed can save you a considerable amount in the long term.
Water-Saving Showerhead
Bathtubs can use a lot of water and showerheads can cut down water consumption significantly. But more extended baths in electric shower heads can result in higher energy consumption which adds up to your energy bills. A water-saving showerhead will help you to cut down on the amount of water and energy consumption.
Touchless Kitchen Faucets
Investing in a touchless kitchen faucet is another way to save water and energy in your home. Having a touchless faucet that automatically turns the water off when you are no longer using it will save your home water in the long run. There are of course other benefits of touchless kitchen faucets but what sets them apart is the eco factor that we deem very important.
Invest In Eco-Kettles
Electric kettles are the most common household appliances that are used to boil the water for making hot beverages. If you are the one that boil kettle full of water o make a cup of coffee, then you probably are wasting a lot of energy. You can save on energy by heating only required water by investing in an eco-kettle which uses 30% energy compared to other kettles. Just like eco-kettles, choosing other household appliances such as washing machines, television sets, dishwashers, clothes dryers and refrigerators that are energy efficient increases the energy efficiency of homes.
Solar Panels
Finally generating green energy will prevent households from importing power. Solar panels are the best way to generate electricity to meet household requirements. Making green energy not only lowers the demand for energy imports but also saves you a lot on your energy bills. In most developed countries, solar panel installation for homes is supported the government funding. Energy generated from solar panels can be used for heating water in the tanks which accounts for the significant household power consumption. The advanced solar panels generate electricity even when it is cloudy outside.
Thick Curtain Insulators
Although energy efficiency can be increased by using double glazed doors and windows, using thick curtains for doors and windows can prevent heat or cooling from escaping your home. Thick door curtains are simple solutions to increase energy efficiency. Today thick insulation curtains are readily available on the market in standard sizes for you to buy and put them to use instantly. The thick insulating curtains help you to save the right amount on energy bills.
Smart Thermostats
Do you know how much energy each appliance and equipment consumes when you operate it? Probably not. When you know how much energy is consumed and what your energy bill is likely to be, then you will try to use it watchfully and try to cut down on the usage. Smart thermostats are the best way to increase energy efficiency. The meter displays energy consumption in your home as and when you are using the appliances, conditioning and heating units.
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Nov, 2019
Megan Holmes Energy Efficiency,Green,Research
Let’s Talk About the American Water Crisis
Water covers most of the earth surface, which is nearly 70%, but do you know only 3% of it is safe for human consumption. Water scarcity is a global concern and is affecting millions of people across the world, and North America is no exception. The water crisis is continuously rising in the US, and people below the poverty line are the most affected.
Future availability of the water depends on the current daily demand, and hence it is not just an environmental problem anymore. The effects of water shortage include lack of proper drinking water, Hunger resulting due to non-cultivation of food crops due to lack of water, Diseases and parasites and sanitation problems. So, what exactly are the causes of the water crisis and how can it be minimized.
Causes of Water Crisis
Significant causes of the water crisis in the US are Pollution, Overuse of water, Water wastage, Conflict over water bodies, distance from water bodies, greenhouse gases and destruction of water catchment areas. All the causes of water scarcity are due to human interference with the water cycle.
While natural calamities like floods and droughts play a major role, pollution is the major human-made cause of water shortage. Water is polluted and becomes unfit for human consumption when chemical wastes from industries are dumped into water bodies. Spillage of oil and fecal matter are also other reasons for contamination.
While the above are significant causes of water pollution, households are also contributing to the water shortage in their way. Wasteful flush toilets, generous showerheads and non-insulated pipes are the culprits causing water shortage. The water shortage already hits a few regions in the United States, and it won’t take too long to spread into other areas.
How to Save Water?
Saving small amounts of water at the home front can help in dealing with a nationwide water crisis. Using less water and preventing water wastage can become a significant contribution to fighting water crisis. Replacing generous shower heads with sleek ones can save water while cutting down on the shower time can help to a great extent.
Composting toilets are another great way of saving water. These toilets are yet to gain popularity as they have been just launched, aiming to save water in both households and commercial buildings. The composting toilets require very little or no water to function efficiently. The toilets can save more than 6600 gallons of water per person in a year. The compost toilets are ideal for places where water, sewage connection and water treatment facilities are not available. They also work great for situations where consumption water needs to reduce to a possible extent. There are other toilets that are effective when it comes to saving water and we need to be aware of the crisis at hand and what we can do to help reduce water consumption in America.
What are Composting Toilets and How do they work?
The composting toilets are dry toilets that treat excreta via composting or aerobic processing decomposition to turn into hummus which can be used as compost for growing plants. The toilets involve little or no water at all. Professionals appreciate these toilets for less water consumption resulting in saving water.
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Drivers of towing vehicles diligently serve the public. They are the road’s unsung heroes who have acquired the much-needed certifications, licensing, and training for their job. They offer a wide range of roadside services for motorists. But, we should be aware that their job isn’t a simple task. Similar to every occupation, this type of job has its own dangers, hence, to be a tow truck driver is hazardous work. Below are some of the most challenging aspects that all tow truck drivers encounter:
Other motorists
Every tow truck driver will need to work in the middle or on the side of the road. They do that together with all other cars that are driven at high speeds. In several cases, these vehicles come extremely close to the vehicle, the driver, the tow truck, and the car they’re towing. The chances of motorists to hit the tow truck or the car are very high, which could cause a fatal accident. The danger is even higher especially in dim places at night time. Even if tow truck drivers get particular safety precautions such as wearing bright colors or using flares, this risk is still prevalent.
Risky surroundings
Car breakdown is an emergency situation that happens most of the time where drivers are not allowed to take some time to reach a safer place. Areas that pose dangers for small cars are commonly riskier for tow trucks. From narrow lanes, difficult terrains, to assisting a stranded vehicle, there are plenty of dangerous situations that tow truck drivers encounter all the time.
Basic road navigation
Once an average motorist finds potholes, narrow lanes, and twisted roads to be challenging to navigate, for tow truck drivers, the difficulty is ten times greater than any usual driver can experience. Aside from the common road dangers, knowing how to quickly and safely reach their desired location is one of the trickiest parts for all tow truck drivers. In comparison to a usual motorist, the basic road navigation is way riskier for tow truck drivers.
Distractions
Another difficulty that tow truck drivers experience is a distraction as they drive. Such distraction can be internal due to fatigue or because of external factors like calls for work that comes in. Trained and professional drivers are less prone to distractions. However, they are just humans and they are times when they get distracted as well. In terms of distraction, it is really important to be self-aware since distractions are some of those challenging aspects that every towing driver gets while on the job.
Bad weather
Driving during severe weather is sufficiently hard to do and tow truck drivers need to do this together with another car that’s attached to their vehicle. They don’t only need to manage their own vehicle’s load, but they also need to pay attention to debris and those drivers who are having a hard time because of bad weather conditions. It would take proper training and skills to do it well. No, if you need expert tow truck drivers, never hesitate to contact St. George tow truck right now for roadside assistance.
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Buying a new floor can be a frustrating and confusing process. Here’s a list of things to keep in mind before heading out to purchase your new floor.
1. Take note of the room layout.
– Draw an outline of the room or rooms. Indicate where the entrances are placed.
– Measure the room carefully and accurately with a measuring tape. Write down the width and length of a room. Remember to include closets and other areas that need the new flooring. Smaller print patterns ca…
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Buying a new floor can be a frustrating and confusing process. Here’s a list of things to keep in mind before heading out to purchase your new floor.
1. Take note of the room layout.
– Draw an outline of the room or rooms. Indicate where the entrances are placed.
– Measure the room carefully and accurately with a measuring tape. Write down the width and length of a room. Remember to include closets and other areas that need the new flooring. Smaller print patterns can make the room seem a lot bigger.
– Take into account adjoining rooms and the flooring on those rooms.
– Make a note in which direction the room is facing and if there is a sliding door. Determine how much natural light enters the room. You might want to consider a laminated floor, ceramic tile or porcelain tile.
– Bring along swatches of fabrics from your furniture, curtains and wallpaper. These will help you decide on the color and style of your flooring.
2. Answer these questions to help you out in selecting the right floor for your room:
– How much foot traffic does the room get in any given day? The number of people passing or using the room would indicate the level of wear and tear the room would take. This would help you in deciding the type of flooring to get. A room with a high volume of traffic needs more durable flooring.
– What is the main function of the room? A room used mainly for leisurely activities will have less wear and tear. Delicate flooring materials can be chosen in this case.
– How many pets do you have? Pets tend to abuse the surroundings they are in, floorings maybe damage from scratching.
– How many kids do you have in the house? All the roughhousing and playing that the kids do tend to abuse the flooring. The more kids you have in the house, the more abuse your flooring will get.
– What color do you want? Remember that lighter colors make rooms seem bigger.
– How long do you want the flooring to last? We would of course like the flooring to last forever but wear and tear damages the flooring.
Eventually, it will need to be replaced or you may want to simply change the look of the room after a certain period of time.
3. How much is the flooring going to cost?
– Are the subfloor preparation part of the quoted price?
– Is the quoted price inclusive of the installation or is that a separate fee? This is a budgeting concern, you would want to know the actual amount you’re going to spend.
– Is the removal of pre-existing flooring included in the quoted price.
– Is the quoted price inclusive of the moving of all appliances and furniture in the room.
– Are all the necessary materials included in the quoted price? You wouldn’t want to find out during the installation that some materials are not included and that you still need to purchase more materials. That could be extremely annoying and frustrating.
4. Questions to ask the installers and the store:
– Are the installers independent, or are they store employees?
– Whose insurance will pay for installation errors?
– Are all of the materials recommended by the manufacturer so warranty will not be voided?
– Discuss with the salesperson the warranty information of the manufacturer. Keep a copy of the warranty.
– Discuss the maintenance procedure and keep a copy of the manual or brochure.
– Have everything documented including the diagram of the installation. Also, the amount of flooring needed in the room
– Ask who will be responsible for the removal of fixed features in the room, e.g. toilet.
– Always check the website of the store, if any, to give you an idea of the store. Take note of the affiliations to groups or other organizations.
It would be best to email the store in advance to have some questions answered before going there. It saves a lot of time.
– Have all the product information documented. The document should include the name of the manufacturer, product name, color, style and the installation procedure.
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Bright, cozy rooms come with free Wi-Fi, flat-screen TVs and minifridges, plus coffeemakers and laptop-size safes. Suites add sitting areas, pull-out sofas, and private balconies or rooftop terraces with city views; upgraded suites feature wet bars. In addition to rooftop event space, there's a diner-style restaurant/bar serving contemporary cuisine.
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Set in the Theater District, this hip Broadway lights–themed hotel is a minute's walk from the nearest subway station, a 7-minute walk from Times Square and a 13-minute walk from the Empire State Building.
Set in the Theater District, this hip Broadway lights–themed hotel is a minute's walk from the nearest subway station, a 7-minute walk from Times Square and a 13-minute walk from the Empire State Building.
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Set in the Theater District, this hip Broadway lights–themed hotel is a minute's walk from the nearest subway station, a 7-minute walk from Times Square and a 13-minute walk from the Empire State Building.
Set in the Theater District, this hip Broadway lights–themed hotel is a minute's walk from the nearest subway station, a 7-minute walk from Times Square and a 13-minute walk from the Empire State Building.
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New Zealand bank account numbers holding New Zealand Dollars (NZD) follow a standardised format of 15 or 16 digits:
a prefix representing the bank and branch (six digits), otherwise known as the National Clearing Code (NCC);
the body (seven digits); and
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While the New Zealand format is similar to Australia's Bank State Branch (BSB), the two systems are not interchangeable. New Zealand bank account numbers in foreign currencies vary by bank.
Bank codes are coordinated by Payments NZ who administer the Bulk Electronic Clearing System (BECS).
What is a National Clearing Code (NCC)?
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When it comes to discussing kava Vs kratom, it’s actually a bit of a comparison between Eastern and Western indigenous culture.
Kratom comes from Southeast Asia, while kava grows in the Western Pacific region. Both are used for different purposes as well historically, and now they’ve been adopted around the world, they are used slightly differently for modern purposes as well.
So what we’re going to do here is quickly talk you through everything you need to know about using kratom, or kava, and even using them at the same time so that you can make great decision on which is best for your needs.
What Is Kava?
Kava is actually a member of the pepper family (botanical name Piper Methysticum). It’s indigenous to the Western Pacific. Specifically, places like Fiji, Micronesia, Hawaii, and Papua New Guinea.
These close, tightly knit, communities have for millennia use kava as part of ritual ceremonies, and as a social icebreaker both formally and informally. It’s also been used for relaxation and pain relief.
Traditionally, kava is made into a drink. The ground kava root is mixed with water. It’s then steeped and strained to create a tea. It’s brown and muddy, and its taste takes a bit of getting used to.
What Is Kratom?
Kratom is a member of the coffee family (botanical name Mitragyna Speciosa). It grows in Southeast Asia, predominantly Malaysia, Thailand, Borneo, and Indonesia. A very similar tree grows in India, and is sometimes sold as kratom, but is not the same species.
In Southeast Asian culture it has been used to produce energy, cognitive performance boost, relaxation, and pain relief. It offers these different options because there are so many strains within the three main vein colors of green, white, and red, which all have slightly different effects.
Kratom historically was chewed by laborer’s to keep them calm and give them energy. It was also made into a muddy tea for social occasions by drying out the leaves and grinding into a muddy green powder. But nowadays the powder comes in many forms, including standard powder, ultra-enhanced, super kratom, and kratom extracts, mostly now mixed with things like fruit juice to potentiate the effects and minimize the bitter taste.
The Effects Of Kava Explained
The effects of kava are far more subtle than kratom. Generally, it helps to calm people down. It will reduce your levels of stress and anxiety significantly if you take decent dose.
It can also help to manage physical pain. It will chill you out, relax your muscles, and give you an overall sense of physical and emotional wellbeing.
Kava also reduces social anxiety, which is why it’s been used for social occasions in the Western Pacific for millennia. It’s used in ceremonies, and its used informally to make people basically chattier and reduce social inhibitions.
At high doses, kava can induce mild euphoria. That depends on the type though. Some types of kava can produce calm with emotional and cognitive clarity, and happiness at higher doses, while others can be slightly more sedative and pain relieving.
But generally, the effects of kava are pretty much the same however much you take: it’s the increasing dose that intensifies them.
Put together, the effects of Kava are:
Physical relaxation
Emotional relaxation
Cognitive sharpness
Pain relief
Reduction in anxiety
Improves social interaction
Can be sedating
Euphoric at high doses
Kava dosage is problematic to define clearly. It will depend on the quality of the Kava, how long ago is harvested, and how it stored. It will also depend on the type of Kava.
If you buy Kava that’s finely ground and doesn’t require straining or preparation, you can just stir around 1 tablespoon into about 12 fluid ounces of warm water.
Effects Of Kratom Explained
The effects of kratom are difficult to explain because they are not exactly the same, nor are they linear in line with an increasing dose.
Kratom consists of three different vein colors, green, white, and red. These have different general effects:
Red kratom tends to be more pain relieving and sedating. It will calm you down, it will chill you out. The higher the dose, the more overwhelming that sedation will be, and mental clarity goes out of the window.
White kratom is similar to red kratom at an increasing dose, but at a moderate dose it is energizing physically and mentally with very little pain relief or sedation.
Green kratom tends to be in the middle, having traits of white and red. It tends to be slightly energizing and can sharpen you up, but at a higher dose will chill you out and relieve pain.
But what’s different about kratom is as the dose increases so the effects change. At low doses green, white, and red kratom is all energizing because of the caffeine -like alkaloids that predominates.
As the dose increases, so the effects split into the green, white, and red traits. However, at very high doses those traits all start to converge back into sedation, pain relief, and detachment.
In terms of dosing, as with kava, it can be problematic. Kratom is available in standard powder, ultra-enhanced, and kratom extracts, which vary in potency massively.
To give you an idea, if you get good quality standard kratom powder, you should start to feel minor effects and energy level increases with just a couple of grams. When you get to about 5 g the full spectrum of effects kick-in at a moderate level. A high dose is around 7 g, and anything above 7-8 g of good quality kratom will start to converge back into that sedating and analgesic state that becomes increasingly overwhelming.
Kava Vs Kratom
Some people get confused about kava Vs kratom, and wonder which one they should take.
Let’s compare the now in each of the major areas for consideration in making a decision.
1. Effects and potency
Kava is definitely milder than kratom. Pharmacologically it is different, with the main chemicals that cause the effects being called kavalactones. These are unique to kava, which gives it a slightly unique range of effects.
Kratom contains two main alkaloids, which are unique to that species, the main one being Mitragynine. However, kratom has already been found to contain more than 40 different alkaloids at trace levels, with no real research into the effects these produce individually or as a group.
So kratom is more potent, and the effects are more varied depending on the strain, the dose, and the vein color. You will get a more consistent and mild experience with Kava then you will kratom, but the uses for kratom, and the effects and benefits are more varied and substantial.
2. Legality
Kava is legal in most countries. That’s slightly different in some countries which have blanket psychotropic laws, like the UK which bans anything that produces psychological change.
But kava’s legality is generally pretty good. In the USA, it’s been legal and easily available for more than 20 years. This is partly due to its mildness, but also because it’s been widely used in the state of Hawaii, which means it’s looked at more leniently.
Kratom is mostly legal in the USA, and many other countries. However, it’s legal status generally is quite complicated, and even in the USA there are moves to try and regulate it or ban it. Even in Thailand where kratom’s grown, it’s actually illegal to grow, sell, or buy. This is the same in Malaysia as well, and has been linked to addiction, poor social behavior, and crime syndicates.
However, at the individual level, kratom and kava are both mostly legal, and if used sensibly are not going to cause you any problems legally.
3. Safety
Kava has been linked to liver problems. This came about because of research done around a decade ago which suggested that prolonged heavy use could cause fatal liver damage. This led to a ban on kava in Germany, Switzerland, and several other countries. However, that ban was lifted in 2015 in Germany and Switzerland because it was found that those liver issues were not as serious as first thought, and may even have been related to other underlying health factors in study subjects.
Kratom is mostly safe to use if you are sensible. However, although the alkaloids are not classic opiates, kratom does interact with the opioid receptors in our body. It therefore mimics the actions of opium, heroin, and opioid medications. This does lead with heavy use to a higher chance of addiction in those receptors, and vicious withdrawal symptoms.
However, again, with moderate and sensible use, with breaks, and education about dosing and effects, both Kava and kratom can be safely used minimal side effects or problems, and the significant benefits around wellbeing, lowering of anxiety, and pain relief.
Mixing Kratom And Kava
So let’s finish with our comparison of kratom Vs Kava by talking about mixing kratom and kava.
There are two questions to answer here. Firstly, can you mix them together at the same time, and secondly can you take them at different times but basically using both together in a continuous fashion.
Kratom and kava can be mixed together and consumed as a tea. They can also be mixed with fruit juice or milkshake and consumed. They do mostly produce similar effects. However, most people do not do that because kratom is generally more potent, and the effects that people want can be achieved using kratom alone, or using kava alone.
In terms of using them alongside each other but not mixing them together, there is actually no reason why you can’t. As long as you look at the total dose as you are taking, monitor tolerance and whether you are starting to get reliant on them, or craving them, and you remain vigilant and sensible, remembering that combining the two can create a higher dose, then you can benefit from the effects of both without compromising on cutting one or the other out.
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The first room is very nice and well decorated. Within the room, you have the following things at your disposal: a double sized bed, a nightstand with a lamp next to the bed, a window with doors so that you can open them, a heater, a big wardrobe for you to store your clothes and a desk with its chair. With all these things, you should have a pretty comfortable stay here that surely won’t regret!
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This is a well-structured and isolated apartment for you to live in. The apartment includes a kitchen, a large living room, four bedrooms, and a bathroom. There are enough windows throughout the apartment, providing enough daylight and fresh air. In the kitchen, you will have everything you need—a fridge, freezer, microwave, and oven. There are also plenty drawers and closets. There even is a table with four chairs to accommodate everyone. In the living room, there is a relaxed area where the couch and TV are located. On the other side of the room is the dinner table. In the bathroom, there is a shower, a toilet, and a sink with a window above and a cabinet beneath it. There is also a small room for the washing machine.
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The third room is quite similar to the second room; it is just a tad bigger. For the rest, you get the exact same package: a twin sized bed, a nightstand with a lamp next to the bed, a window with doors so that you can open them, a heater, a big wardrobe for you to store your clothe, and a desk with its chair.
Apartment summary
This is a well-structured and isolated apartment for you to live in. The apartment includes a kitchen, a large living room, four bedrooms, and a bathroom. There are enough windows throughout the apartment, providing enough daylight and fresh air. In the kitchen, you will have everything you need—a fridge, freezer, microwave, and oven. There are also plenty drawers and closets. There even is a table with four chairs to accommodate everyone. In the living room, there is a relaxed area where the couch and TV are located. On the other side of the room is the dinner table. In the bathroom, there is a shower, a toilet, and a sink with a window above and a cabinet beneath it. There is also a small room for the washing machine.
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One of the underlying concepts of a team building activity is that it is designed to foster at team spirit among the participants, and help them focus on what they need to do in day to day work in order to function effectively as a team. So you’ve just taken your team out on a wild weekend of river rafting and wall climbing, and everyone’s returned to work energized and ready to tackle the latest project. How do you know if your team building event actually served its purpose? One important part of a team building weekend that is often overlooked is the evaluation process. It’s not enough to plan a fun weekend and hope that throwing your project team into the mix will bond them into a working team. A successful corporate team building event must take into account the goals and needs of the individual company and department in order to bring the group together. Before choosing a team building idea, your event planning team (and of course you’re using a team to plan the event, aren’t you?) should carefully evaluate each idea to see how it fits in with the company’s goals. How do you ensure that your team building event will actually do its job? Here are some tips to help you plan a corporate team building activity that will help your team pull together. – Have a clear purpose for the team building activity. Sit down with the project team leaders and brainstorm. Ask them to define areas that need work and skills that need polishing. Once you have a clear idea of what needs to be accomplished, you can choose events that fit the bill. – Balance work time with fun team building events. Skip the overworked touchy-feely trust building events and choose events that are fun for all. Choose activities where working as a team pays off ‘ perhaps a scavenger hunt or a spy mission. There are dozens of team building activities that will challenge your group to become a team without boring them to tears. – Make time to network. Building teams starts with building relationships. Make sure that you don’t pack so much activity into your team building time that your group has no time to kick back and relax. Schedule in some unstructured time when they can get to know each other outside work time. – Put together a follow-up action plan. Don’t let the team spirit die when the team building weekend is over. Make an action plan that will be followed to put all the great ideas and plans into effect once you return to work. Planning a Team Building Weekend
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Sales are the life force of any business. Here’s an outline of the key factors in getting them for your business. Persistence Business owners and decision makers are typically very busy people. Often, the difference between making a sale and not making a sale is catching the decision maker at the right time. One of the best ways to catch a decision maker at the right time is to catch him or her many times. Of course, you do not want to be contacting a prospect so often that you become an annoyance. Still, using a combination of phone calls, emails, faxes and snail mails you can ensure your prospect remembers your company when the time comes to purchase the product or service you sell. Organization One of the most important aspects of following up is being organized. There is a great variety of software to help you get your lead management in order, but all lead management software is not created equal. One feature to look for in lead management software is portability. Web based systems allow users to access their leads from any Internet connected computer. Another feature to look for is built in document management. Ideally, your lead management software will allow you to easily send emails, faxes and snail mails and document the contact automatically. A good scheduling tool is also a great asset to lead management software. Follow Up and Consistency Once you have contacted your lead, make sure to let them know when you will follow up again and follow through. Setting a time and day to follow up and then following through will build trust with your prospect. Just doing what you say you’ll do is a huge source of confidence to prospective clients. After following up several times at the same time and day of the week, your prospect will come to expect your contact. Use this to build rapport. Become involved in your prospect’s life and you are much more likely to make a sale. Use your lead management software to make notes about your conversations. Other wise, it is very difficult to remember the details of every conversation you may have. By following up and staying in front of your prospects, you will make more sales. The more familiar your prospects are with your company and products or services, the more likely they are to choose your company. Using the right lead management software can make the task of following up a breeze. Sales and the Importance of Following Up
Electronic Logistics – The Money Saving Solutions
The concept of conventional logistics covers all activities relating to the procurement, transport, transhipment and storage of goods. Logistics as generally understood is concerned particularly with material flow (raw materials, interim and final products), but also involves providing companies with services and information. Nowadays the development of electronic information and communication technologies affects all spheres of life. Naturally, it influences significantly economic life, including logistics. As a result, nowadays it is possible to speak about electronic logistics as extremely perspective field for further development. On researching the problem of electronic logistics, it is primarily necessary to dwell upon the methods that are traditionally used in the related researches. Basically, it is possible to use phone inquiry, face-to-face interviews with companies implementing electronic logistics in their business. Also it is possible to interview management consultants and IT suppliers. Obviously, nowadays electronic information and communication technologies are widely used in the field of logistics. As a rule, it is widely used in buying and selling transactions, as well as material follow transactions. It is necessary to point out that logistics services providers use electronic logistics wider than companies operating in the field of manufacturing and trade. In the current a situation, the advantages of electronic logistics are evident since it creates new operating models that provides a company with a competitive advantage compared to the companies using conventional logistics. It also permits to develop efficient management of larger entities and correct information in constantly changing market situation. Nonetheless, it is necessary to emphasize that electronic logistics is a relatively new field and it makes its first steps in the contemporary business. In such a situation, certain obstacles and challenges, the companies implementing electronic logistics face, are quite natural. Among these obstacles and challenges may be singled out the following: scarce financial resources for investments, lack of capabilities of network parties, lack of standards, challenges in integrating inter-company information systems. However, electronic logistics is still quite popular due to the perspective of business process re-engineering skills, since it provides the possibility to use technologies to support business processes. Thus, electronic logistics is a very perspective field that needs further research in order to provide better opportunities to its proper implementing and wide use. Electronic Logistics – The Money Saving Solutions
FREE Tips For Making Money with Your Business Opportunity.
You read about those in your upline who are making a really good income. You hear about others who are in different types of business opportunities who are millionaires. HOW DO THEY DO IT, and can you do the same thing? What’s they key to making the big bucks via a business opportunity? I interviewed three WAHM’s who have found success and are willing to share their secrets. Beth York, Independent Educational Consultant for Usborne books is in the top 50 consultants in the company for 3 months in a row. Last month her net sales landed her at 10th in the company for sales among consultants. Beth is nearing a goal of hers: to win a trip to London, England. If things keep going the way they are, Beth will be promoted to supervisor in the next couple of months. “This was a goal of mine from the beginning, but I didn’t think it would happen this fast,” says Beth. Beth’s Tips #1 – I believe I have been successful because I truly have a passion for Usborne Books. I saw how much my daughter, Hannah, loved them when she was only 20 months old and I knew there had to be something to these books. They [the books] draw you in, make you want to read the material and help you to retain it for life. My seven-year-old nephew never shows any sign of wanting to read a book unless there is an Usborne book around, then it’s, “Can we read it one more time?” #2 – I also believe I have had success because I have the right motives. I really want to help people find the right books for whatever their need is. When my music teacher/sister ordered the Piano Course Books 1 and 2 for her elementary school, I wasn’t thinking, “Yeah for me, I made a sale!” but rather, “Oh, I’m so glad Pam found exactly what she needed. I know her students will love these books and they will be more excited to play music.” Of course, the sale and the commission was also exciting, but that was truly not the first thing that came to my mind.” Bonnie Ansel is a stay at home mom of three children. She has tried everything to make ends meet, from cleaning apartments, ironing for 75 cents a shirt, and then day care for friends. One day a friend mentioned natural supplements for her son who was on Ritalin for ADHD. She scraped together the money and gave them a try, and in just 2 weeks saw a huge difference. “I told everyone, so I “accidentally” got started in my own home-based business just by referrals,” explains Bonnie. Bonnie’s Tips: #1 – Goals & Values: What is your why for your business? Write it down….do you believe it? Is it to stay at home with your children? Become debt free? Help others? As in anything in life, there will be times when you wonder, “Why am I doing this?” If you have it down on paper where you can see it, this will encourage you to pursue your goals. #2 – Become a “Listener”. Really listen, don’t try to convince others your product or service is the best. Listen to what they need. If you can’t offer it, make a suggestion. I have people contact me frequently about my opportunity. When I “listen”, I learn that sometimes they are looking to work for someone and get an hourly paycheck. Then I need to refer them to another person. #3 – Be Honest! I cannot stress this enough. Being honest about the opportunity you have to offer is a must. Don’t give a lot of hype. Go over start-up costs, etc. Treat others as you would want to be treated. #4 – Attitude is everything! If you don’t have a good attitude, stay off the phone. Don’t answer emails, call someone who will listen, and offer suggestions. #5 – “Be” When you are with your children, husband, family, or friends, “Be there”. Don’t be thinking about your business. Enjoy your times together. #6 – Are you having FUN? If you’re not having fun at the business you are doing, then it’s not for you. Julie Fritz is a sales director with Discovery Toys. Below you’ll be able to read her tips on success. She knows she has become successful because she has stayed focused on the ideas listed. She also keeps in close contact with her team to let them know what is going on and to keep them tracking. “I keep my team motto in mind at all times — When you succeed, I am successful!” This positive attitude about our products and our opportunity has allowed me to show people the true potential and has recruited many new consultants and developed a great customer base,” explains Julie. Julie’s Tips: #1 – Look really hard at what you want to get from your business. Write these things down. Then look through these goals and determine what you can do in 3 months, 6 months, a year, and long term. Write the goals in the appropriate month/year place. Then, take the 3 month goals and break them down to monthly, weekly, and daily goals. Then…the most important part…JUST DO IT!! #2 – Don’t give up on your goals. Some days things just won’t go your way…don’t stop working your “Goal Plan” because of one or two bad days. Getting through these calls, appointments, paperwork, etc., gets you one step closer to getting the sale, new consultant, or promotion you are shooting for. Some days it will take a few hours to reach your goal…some days it will take a few minutes…but if you stay focused on the ultimate goal, you will achieve it. #3 – Attitude is everything. I did put up a little sign in my office, on the fridge, and on the mirror in the bathroom that says “You make it happen!” This is right next to my goal sheet…posted in all of the above places. I wake up every morning and I read my goals while I brush my teeth, put on makeup, do my hair, etc. At the end…I always tell myself, “I make it happen!” Then I go down and get to work…with my brain working overtime to figure out how to make my goals happen. Your mind is amazing…much like a computer…you get out what you put in. So put in good stuff that makes you feel excited about your life, your business, and your future! FREE Tips For Making Money with Your Business Opportunity.
The Three Warning Signs of Not Doing Enough Prospecting
Almost any salesperson can improve their results by doing more prospecting. When an salesperson is brand new in the business, oftentimes prospecting takes up a large part of their time because they really have no active transactions they’re working on. But sometime thereafter salespersons can get out of the habit of prospecting regularly once they feel busy and working on activity. The problem here is that feeling busy doesn’t necessarily translate into making more money, oftentimes leaving salespersons feeling frustrated at why their results aren’t improving. Sometimes when asked how much their income would increase over the next 12 months if they made sure to prospect 10-12 hours during every week that they’re working, the majority of people feel that their income would at least double, some say triple, and nearly everyone feels that their income would increase by at least 25%. Sometimes salespersons have lulled themselves into believing they’re prospecting more hours than they really are in their business. Once these clients recognize that the number of hours per week they’re actually prospecting is abysmal, they recognize that it’s definitely time to get themselves moving. So in case you’re wondering if you’re prospecting enough in your business right now, consider these three warning signs to watch out for that may indicate that your level of prospecting needs to be improved. Warning Sign #1 After Years in the Business, You’re Still Doing a Lot of Cold Calling, Not Warm Calling If you find after years of being in the business that when you prospect people, they still don’t know who you are, you’re not prospecting these people enough to build the kinds of relationships that will easily lead to more business for you. salespersons who prospect a lot get to a point where many of their calls are “warm calls,” meaning that they’re calling and talking to people they’ve already talked with before. So if you’re not experiencing a lot of warm calls after having been in the business for a number of years, it may be because you’re not doing a lot of prospecting. Warning Sign #2 You’re Finding People and Companies Who Have Requirements, But After It’s Too Late to Begin Working with Them This is one of the biggest nightmares salesperson can experience. You’ve identified someone who’s ready to take action, but they’re already committed to working with someone else…your competitor. So why weren’t you in contact with these people months ago when they were just beginning to realize they needed to talk to a salesperson? It may be because you haven’t been doing much prospecting on an ongoing basis throughout the year. Warning Sign #3 You Hear About Transactions Closing in Your Area That You Never Even Knew Were Happening If you find out through others or through the media that someone has bought, sold, or leased in the territory you work in, and you didn’t even know that was available, or that the people or company were looking, this too is a sign that you may not be doing enough prospecting. So how did you measure up? Did you find that any of these three warning signs applied to you? Prospecting is one of the most difficult activities for many of us to continually do in sales. Who normally wants to put themselves out there in a situation where maybe nine times out of ten you’ll be rejected or end up talking with people who just aren’t interested in doing anything? The point is, though, that the one call out of ten where the people may be interested in doing something is the one that will make you huge amounts of money throughout the year, as long as you’re making these calls every single week (or canvassing in person if you prefer). So evaluate where you’re at in your level of prospecting right now. And if you feel your income could definitely be improved by prospecting 10-12 hours or more every single week, do what you must to make sure you get this prospecting done. The Three Warning Signs of Not Doing Enough Prospecting
Do You Like Your Job?
I don’t know if there are any concrete numbers on this topic but if I had to guess I would say that less than 25% of people like their jobs. Most people continue to go to work because they feel they have no other options. They are either lacking in the educational background to improve their situation or maybe they have overextended themselves financially and they have to keep working at a job they hate to support their lifestyle. Whatever the reason is that you continue to work at a job you hate I am here to tell you there are other options. The internet is continuing to become more and more a part of people’s lives. Older people, that are technologically challenged, are even finding their way on-line. It would make sense that the growing popularity of the internet would lead to career opportunities for people. After all, if someone is buying from the internet than someone has to give that person an avenue to make their purchase. This is where the article gets to the point if you haven’t already figured it out. You can begin your own internet business for much less than if you were to open a store selling the same products. You don’t need liability insurance for slip and fall accidents, no worker’s compensation insurance for employees needed to man the store, etc’ For an internet business you need a decent computer and preferably a quick internet connection, otherwise you’d go nuts waiting for the slow dial-up services. Because the internet is relatively new, meaning within the last 15 to 20 years or so, not many people grew up thinking they want an internet business when they grew up. At the same time, people do not even consider it now that they are old enough to work. If you really think about it you are being held down by your employer, if you don’t like your job that is. You dread going to work. You painfully make it through each day. By the time you get home you are too emotionally drained to even think about changing your career. When you finally do consider it, it is only because things have gotten so bad at work you just need to get out the door. The problem with this situation is that you end up going from one bad situation to another because you don’t think clearly when the offer comes. You are so desperate to get out the door of the current company anything looks good. I went to college and got my bachelor’s degree. I have completed half of an MBA program. While in the MBA program I questioned why I was doing this. The degree would only allow me to get a higher paying job I hate, where I still need to deal with corporate politics. As I write this article it is 70 degrees outside, which is good for April in Massachusetts. I spent the whole day playing outside with my 2 year old daughter. This kind of time spent with my daughter is possible because I made the change and now live off the internet. You can do it too! I was skeptical to make the leap to the internet too. One thing I read since I started my quest to live off the internet was, ‘If you continue to do what you have always done you will continue to get the results you have always gotten.’ It just made so much sense to me and I live by that saying now. I went to college because I wanted to build a good life for myself. At 18 years old I saw my father get laid off from the company he was with for 25 years. I didn’t want that to happen to me and I thought a degree would prevent it. Well, I was let go from my company after 4 ‘ years. I am tired of getting up everyday hating my job. I am tired of being controlled by a company that could care less about me. So, I am doing something different than I have always done, hoping for different results than I have always gotten. What is preventing you from doing the same thing? It is estimated that 500 million websites will be created between now and 2010. By getting your foot in the door now you are giving yourself the ability to become established before the levels of competition make it difficult to be successful. My article is not designed to trick you into an MLM program. (multi-level marketing) I am personally against those. I am talking about affiliate and reseller programs. I personally participate in both and have success with both. I would normally give a few examples in my articles but the rules of most sites prevent affiliate links in articles. If you want to learn more do a search on your favorite search engine or feel free to contact me directly using the email address in my profile below. I would be happy to spend the time to help you pick the program best for you. If you made it through this article there is a good chance you are looking for a way out of your current employment situation, or you need employment. The best part of this whole thing is you can do it part-time to start so you can keep your job until you establish a level of income you are comfortable with. I hope this article has given you the encouragement to take the chance and go for it. You deserve better, we all do. Do You Like Your Job?
Maintaining a Professional Image for Your Home-Based Business
Most of us can easily list off 5 professional, and consequently unprofessional, business experiences we’ve had recently. Our interaction with these businesses may have been in the form of an email, a retail shopping experience, or a telephone conversation. In several cases, the deciding factor between a professional and an unprofessional experience may have been something so small, so simple, yet so significant. Running a home-based business often means wearing the hat of everyone from order taker to customer service specialist. A stickler for a ‘professional’ image, I believe it is essential I constantly make myself aware of how clients, contractors and the public are viewing my business practices. As the sole owner of my Virtual Assistant business, I have to ‘ nobody else is going to do it for me! I’m a firm believer in the K.I.S.S. method of business relations ‘ Keep It Simple, Stupid. The following five points may seem clich’, and ever so simple, but it’s surprising how often home-based business owners forget to take notice of them. 1. Spell check. Whether you are writing an email, creating a brochure of your services, adding text to your website, or writing a thank-you card, double check your work! Just about every program you work in will have a ‘spell check’ function – use it! For projects such as text for my website or brochures featuring my services, I hire a professional editor to review what I’ve written. You may ask, ‘Isn’t a professional editor going to cost me a lot of money?’ No! There are hundreds of Virtual Assistants who, for a surprisingly low fee, will edit your correspondence. It will save you the embarrassment of spelling mistakes, an error which may very well cost you a future customer. 2. The telephone. Have you ever called your favourite retail shop or your local notary public to hear them answer, ‘Hello?’ No? Neither have I. Businesses answer their phone stating their business name, as should you! Unfair or not, some potential customers have a negative preconceived notion about home-based businesses, so let them know from the moment they call that you are a professional organization. Ensure your answering machine or voicemail clearly notes your business name, and directions for leaving a message or alternate contact information. If your business line is also your home line, instruct others in your home how you want calls answered during business hours. Also explore the option of getting a smart ring number or a voicemail system with multiple mailboxes. 3. Professional documentation. Business cards, brochures, emails, website content, faxes, written quotes and RFPs. Always give out typed, clean-looking, professional documentation with your company contact information. If budget allows, hire a graphic designer to create your company’s brand image so you keep a consistent branding with all of your correspondence. Lots of Virtual Assistants have a background in graphic design, and offer these services. Not in the budget just yet? There are easy-to-use software programs with template designs, which you can customize with your own information and flair. 4. Mind your manners. Smile when you are on the phone. Say please and thank you. Treat each and every phone call and email with this kind of care, and you will surely see repeat customers and referrals. Let customers know you appreciate their patronage. A sincere ‘thank you for your business’ will go a surprisingly long way. Dealing with a home-based business is often a new experience for customers. Show them your level of professionalism by keeping your manners in check. 5. Know your policies, your product, your business. It is most unprofessional when the owner of a company does not know the answer to a question about their business. When someone asks for a quote, they are expecting an answer of how much your business will charge to provide them with a service. Potential customers don’t want to hear how you’re just redoing your pricing and you’ve never done this before but think $40/hr sounds fair. They don’t want to hear that now you have people sign a contract because once upon a time you didn’t sign one and you were never paid for that assignment. You are the professional. Give clear answers to the inquiries you receive about your service offerings, pricing, policies, etc. Just be mindful. Operating a new or home-based business of any kind is certainly a lot of work, and a continuous battle to gain confidence from customers who may well be used to dealing with larger, potentially more established businesses/industries. Step up to the plate, be mindful of your professionalism, and others will be confident in hiring your services, or purchasing your products. Maintaining a Professional Image for Your Home-Based Business
Comparing Google’s Search Franchise To Mccormick’s Spice Franchise
Google has a competitive advantage. In fact, one might even say it has a franchise in web search. I wouldn’t say that. I mean, Google does have a franchise; but, it doesn’t have a monopoly on web search and never will. There are real problems with Google’s model that are often overlooked. It does a poor job of finding certain sites that are difficult to describe in keywords. For this reason, there may still be a market for web search in the form of specialized niche directories and in some of these ‘social search engines’ (e.g., Stumble Upon) for many years to come. I’m not suggesting any of these services will be as successful as Google; I’m sure they won’t be. I am simply pointing out that there is a difference between a need and the means by which that need is satisfied. Even as the dominant search player, Google will only have a franchise on the means (keyword search); it will not have a franchise on the need (finding stuff on the web). Also, Google can not, at present, rightly be called the dominant search player. There is no dominant player in search. Google is the leading search player. It is also the catalyst for many changes in search. But, it is not yet the dominant player in search the way McCormick (MKC) is the dominant U.S. spice producer. Looking at McCormick’s franchise is actually a pretty good way of evaluating Google’s. Why do I say McCormick is the dominant player (domestically) in spice, but Google is not yet the dominant player in search? There are a few reasons. McCormick has a 45% share of the U.S. retail spice market. Its closest competitor has a 12% market share. We may differ about exactly how the web search pie is carved up. But, I think we can agree that Google’s share of the market is less than 45%, and that at least two of its competitors have a share of the market greater than 12%. So, Google’s position differs from McCormick’s in two material respects (already). Google has a smaller slice of the pie, and the search market is less fragmented than the spice market. The spice market is an upside down funnel. The few producers are at the top. They feed their products through three distribution paths: retail, industry, and restaurants. In each case, the shape of the upside down funnel remains intact, because the widening happens at the very end. The ultimate consumer of McCormick’s product doesn’t get to choose from all available spices. His choice is always indirect. He picks a grocery store, a food product, or a restaurant. Then, must choose from the spices that particular supermarket chooses to carry, or the restaurant he frequents chooses to use (and/or make available). In search the story’s a little different. There is still something of an upside down funnel shape in search. Although, it is less pronounced than it was a few years ago. Search results are fed through dependent sites that searchers visit. But, it is the searcher who chooses the dependent sites. A few of these dependent sites account for a large part of all searches. That is very different from the spice market, where no supermarket or restaurant chain accounts for a large part of all spice consumption ‘ none even comes close. So, the searcher has a much bigger role in choosing his search provider than the spice consumer has in choosing his spice provider. Even though it is true you are sometimes searching without knowing Google is the search provider, the situation is nothing like it is at McCormick. When eating a meal you aren’t thinking about McCormick. Quite often, however, you are using a McCormick product. Whether it was in that package of spices you used to cook a meal at home, or in that manufactured food product, or in the dish you ordered at the restaurant, you are a consuming a McCormick product. What matters as far as the investor is concerned is that the ultimate consumer of McCormick’s product rarely makes an active, unfettered choice to consume that product over all other competing products (or even many competing products). The closest he comes to making such a choice is at the supermarket; though even there, the decision of how much shelf space to allocate to each company’s products was made for him. To use Google, the first time searcher must make an active, unfettered choice. Finally, there is the matter of infrastructure. This consists of two parts: production and distribution. McCormick has an existing production infrastructure which is helpful as far as costs are concerned, but isn’t especially valuable. It could be duplicated by a new entrant with deep pockets. McCormick’s distribution infrastructure is almost impossible to duplicate. It is worth far more than it cost McCormick to create it. Prying McCormick’s customers (situated at the narrow of that inverted funnel) away from the company’s products would not be easy. This distribution infrastructure gives solidity to McCormick’s spice franchise in the U.S. In some instances, it will also help McCormick aboard (as some of the company’s customers are expanding globally and will be inclined to stick with McCormick in their overseas operations). Google’s production infrastructure (the algorithm and the index) is easy to duplicate and will become even easier to duplicate in the future. There isn’t much of a barrier to entry here. Google may currently offer the best search service around, but there is no reason to believe this will always be the case. Distribution is very often the most valuable part of any franchise (it is usually the part that is hardest to duplicate). So, the natural question is: in the world of search, if you build it will they come? Will the best search engine always attract the most searchers? Probably not. That’s good for Google, because it won’t always be the best search engine. Google has a great brand. Whatever value is in Google comes from that brand. That brand is what will keep searchers from flocking to the inevitable newer, better search engine. All of Google’s revenues are ultimately dependant upon attracting searches. Getting those searches requires two things. First, millions of people must make the active, unfettered choice to search Google. Then, those millions of people must keep searching with Google. The brand is the key to step one. The service is the key to step two. Search customers are sticky. But, they probably aren’t as sticky as we think. It’s very easy to take immediate action on the web (just click a link). Switching away from Google isn’t like switching away from Windows. That leaves the brand. True, when you think search, you think Google. But, is that brand worth $120 billion? No ‘ and neither is Google. Comparing Google’s Search Franchise To Mccormick’s Spice Franchise
How to Recognize a gambling Problem
With more and more people gambling these days, there are more reported cases of gambling Addiction then ever before. Gambling problems can manifest themselves in many different ways. Some problem gamblers will have all of these signs of their gambling problem and some others may only have one. Gambling addiction affects players of all different forms of gambling like Blackjack, Poker and even Bingo The most important thing to remember is just because their life is not horrible because of their gambling does not mean there is not a problem, many people can have serious gambling addictions and still hold down a job and make it seem as if everything is fine. This just means that this person has not hit a bottom yet, but eventually it will catch up with them. Most addicts will stop socializing with anyone not into their addiction, so if suddenly someone you know cuts out all their friends from their life and starts to isolate themselves this can be a sign. A simple thing to look for is if they are overly interested in the sports scores, and if after reading them to they become ecstatic or depressed. No one likes it when their favorite team loses, but a gambler will have major mood swings depending on if they are winning or losing. A big sign of gambling addiction is someone who is constantly having money problems and asking to borrow money but never pays it back, but sometimes out of nowhere this person will seem to have large sums of cash. Lying and stealing is another good clue to a gambling addiction, they will make up all sorts of excuses for their odd behavior, and you may notice small, but expensive items missing from your home. If when visiting this person if you notice that some of their things are missing, or if they tell you they have had to sell some things, then there is a good chance that what they sold either went to pay of gambling debt or to make new bets. There are many other signs but these are the most common symptoms of gambling addiction according to addiction professionals. If you see 2 or more of these symptoms in someone you know you should immediately try to get this person to accept their problem and seek professional help. Without help gambling addiction leads to the same place as drug addiction or alcoholism, eventually they will be overcome by their addiction. At this point they will be fully cut off from friends and family. Most gamblers with bad addictions usually wind up jobless and in many cases homeless if their addiction is allowed to go unchecked for too long, and studies have shows that people with gambling addictions are more prone to illness because thy allow their health to lapse. For more information on gambling addiction talk to your family doctor or look on the internet for the gamblers anonymous web site, or from one of the many internet web sites dedicated to helping gambling addicts to locate professional help in their area. How to Recognize a gambling Problem
The Unbelievable Facts: You Can Beat The Competition By Raising Prices!
Hey, that got your attention! You’re probably sitting there with a raised eyebrow, and thinking… “Yeah, right!” Everybody knows that you have to have the best prices in town to be competitive… or do they? Think about this… when you go to a Ford dealership mechanic do you expect to pay more than if you take it to the repair shop on the corner? Of course you do. Why? Because the mechanics are specialists at the dealership. They specialize in the type of cars they sell, and know their stuff! When you become a specialist, people expect to pay more and feel like they are getting more value for their money. They trust the specialist to understand their needs. Now for the big question… How can you become a specialist? Here are 3 easy steps to becoming an expert in your field. 1. Divide your market. Take a good look at your market. How many pockets within your customer population can you find? You’ll be surprised at the number of niches you can target. You’ll find ethnic groups, different age groups, varied groups of income, singles, married couples, families, grandparents… the list could go on and on. Once you spot the pockets, decide which group or groups you want to target. 2. Learn Once you discover the pockets within your customer population, take the time to learn what their special needs and desires are. Dig deep, and really get to know them. Learn to speak their language, so to speak. The best place to start understanding them is simply by asking them why they buy your products. What do they like best about it? Why do they choose your place of business? You’ll get straight answers right from the source, and gain amazing insight as well. 3. Revise Your Advertising Campaign Once you’ve earned the right to speak to them on their level, redesign your advertising campaign to reach out to them. The changes don’t have to be drastic, but be sure to use the language of the group you are aiming for. Let them know you understand and desire to meet their special needs. Let’s face it… there will always be competitors and competition. There’s just no getting around it, but you really don’t have to lower your prices to compete with them. Not when you are the expert in your field and your customers are trusting you to have the answers. The Unbelievable Facts: You Can Beat The Competition By Raising Prices!
Tools For Success: Attitudes-Thoughts- Beliefs
To keep the title of this writing brief, I left out one very important word: ‘Positive’. Everyone has attitudes; we all have thoughts; we all have beliefs. But where do they land on the scale of negative to positive? In any realm, whether it is school or job or relationships, our attitudes, thoughts and beliefs will determine the level of satisfaction, happiness, or success in those areas. And to go a little deeper- sometimes negativity in one area can spread into all the other areas, making it difficult to succeed anywhere. We all come from different backgrounds and have different experiences. Some of us were really blessed and were given all the tools we would need for success from the time we were very young. Some of us were not so fortunate and have needed to work a little harder at it. When it comes to Making Money Online, or any life endeavor, where we come from and how we think can have tremendous impact on our measure of success. Our beliefs alone can steer the course of an entire lifetime. It is my opinion that beliefs are the hardest to turn around, because one first has to have an experience that opposes that belief before we will question it. Sometimes that happens by chance and sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes our negative beliefs can be so ingrained we miss the opportunity to choose a different thought. Perhaps this is not an issue everyone faces; but I know scores of people, myself included, that have really had to work hard at turning the negatives to positives. We really do create our own reality. We make statements to ourselves that can really limit our potential and thwart our success. Most of the time, we probably don’t even realize we do it. Some examples might be: ‘I can’t afford it’ ‘I am broke’ ‘I am never going to be able to retire’ ‘I am such a fool’ ‘I can’t do that’ ‘I am never going to get ahead’ ‘I’ll never get out of debt’ ‘I am stuck in this dead-end job’ ‘I can’t seem to do anything right today’ I suspect one reason we can be drawn to the flashy, ‘get rich quick’ ad that we see on the internet is because it screams ‘YES YOU CAN!!!’- when we may have been telling ourselves we ‘can’t’. If we are really honest with ourselves, each of us has a reason, a prime motivator, for being urged in the direction of making money online. We are unsatisfied, unfulfilled or even extremely unhappy in our present circumstance. So, what can we do? We can begin by turning our words around; take certain words out of our vocabulary; make positive statements out loud. If we can change the way we speak about a thing, we can change our thoughts about a thing. When we can change our thought patterns toward the positive, we begin to open ourselves to possibilities’ and a possibility is certainly more positive. Think about this: you are driving down the road at midnight and get thirsty for a coke and you pass a store but it is closed. You consider going a block out of your way to stop at another store, but the thought comes that this store is probably closed, too. Based on that one negative thought, you make a decision not to see if the store is open. You just tell yourself you can’t have a coke because the store is closed. You tell yourself ‘No” and that’s the end of it. You might even get resentful that the store was closed. So what happened here? One store was closed, so you THINK they are all closed, and now you have a resentful attitude about it. Without checking it out, you may form the belief that all stores are closed after midnight and be totally closed off from believing any store might be open. EVER. While it’s a silly example, it is sometimes true that one negative experience behind us can cause us to view scenarios in front of us as impossible situations. Taking a more serious approach- lets say the company you work for shuts down and you lose your job of 23 years. This is devastating at best, and even though it may have been no fault of your own, you feel like a complete failure. Stop HERE. Feelings are not facts. Start with a fact: You didn’t have 23 years at a job by being a complete failure. You were certainly a success for those 23 years. It is important to start with a fact and stay with it and when a negative thought creeps in- turn it around. Ex: ‘I excelled in my job for 23 years and now it’s time to do something different.’ So, you find yourself surfing the net and you start to notice all the opportunities to make money online that are being advertised out there. Some are legitimate; some are not. You choose a method that seems appropriate and you get started on your $10,000.00/month home business opportunity. But it gets confusing and nothing seems to be happening. Here comes that feeling again’ It’s time to bring some more facts into the situation or equation. For 23 years, you went to work everyday, you got good at your job, you got promoted and you got raises. When times got tough, you persevered and you didn’t give up. When something wasn’t working, you found another way to get the job done. It’s no different here in the realm of Internet Marketing. It will take work and sometimes it will take perseverance. (One of the differences with internet opportunities is the massive exposure to millions of people and why things can happen so much faster, including the thought of giving up.) So it will still take having a positive mindset and that will take maintenance. Developing and maintaining a positive attitude can be arduous at first, but by developing some good habits, it can be done. That’s all negativity is really; just a bad habit. One suggestion is to start each day in a quiet place and think of all you have to be grateful for. Make statements to yourself and to the universe that are positive affirmations. Ex: ‘I am a success and today I will take an action to promote my progress’. Continue throughout the day to speak positive words with your mouth and be careful with your thoughts. Make a conscious effort to turn negative thoughts around, immediately! Another thing we can do is: avoid negativity at all cost. If a friend needs to gossip, just walk away. Don’t take it in and don’t participate. If someone needs to criticize your choices in your life, whether it’s whom you decide to marry or how you choose to make a living, find someone else to talk to and don’t participate in their negativity. ‘I am”, ‘I will”, and ‘I can” statements are so powerful. We should be deliberate with them and use them to keep our thoughts, attitudes and beliefs in check. Even when we doubt, we can use them to affirm who we really are. We are all huge successes just waiting to be believed in, and that belief must come from within ourselves first. Tools For Success: Attitudes-Thoughts- Beliefs
3 Marketing Tactics That Will Send Your Sales Through The Roof
When the tide comes in, all boats in the harbor go up… the tough part is figuring out how to bring the tide in. Booming economies come and go and bring surges of profit increases, then ebb to leave behind shortages and tough times. Regardless, there are some business that just seem to weather the tough times with grace, not really affected by recessions. It’s almost as though they have a secret source… maybe they do… customers. Hey, customers always buy… in the good times and in the bad times. They still have needs and still make purchases. When you understand their needs and wants, you have the keys to keeping your business afloat when others are grounded. Implement these three tactics successful marketers use, and you’re set for success. 1. Just One Customers can be like a two year old in a candy store… they want it all. Yeah, sometimes it’s hard to make up your mind about what you really do want when everything looks so good. That’s why it pays to promote one product over the others. It spells out loud and clear… I’M THE BEST DEAL. That will be the deciding factor in most cases. 2. Make Them Feel Good Customers buy because they want to enjoy the benefits of the purchase. A lady might buy a dress because she wants to feel sexy, or a man will buy a saw because he finds pleasure in creating things. Emotions are the key element that drives purchases. Use word pictures to stir up the emotions that will instigate the sale. Let them “feel” the benefits, and they’ll be more apt to head for the cash register. Put them where you want them. Selling a riding mower? … the birds are singing, Easter lilies are blooming and kids are flying kites in the wind… spring has arrived. Yep, it’s time to get out that mower and fuel it up for the summer ahead. How many springs have come and gone since you promised yourself a riding mower? … It’s not hard to paint mental pictures that whet their appetite for the product you are advertising. 3. Make Contact Following up with a customer who didn’t buy can be the determining factor between and “almost sale” and a satisfied, loyal customer. Simply contact them afterwards and let them know the product is still available or offer them further information they may find valuable. Internet marketers can offer free newsletters or reports that consumers find useful and marketers find profitable. Not only do you keep your product in front of the customer on a regular basis, you get email information to stay in contact. Both parties win! 3 Marketing Tactics That Will Send Your Sales Through The Roof
Do I Need to be Computer Savvy to Use Google Adsense?
You don’t have to be a techno-geek to use Google Adsense. In fact, you don’t need any more technical knowledge than you do to surf the web. Google Adsense is very user-friendly with a comprehensive support site to answer any question you might have. You are first walked through the sign-up process where you are prompted for any and all information needed. You will then have a couple of days while you are waiting for your account to be approved. This would be a good time to familiarize yourself with the program policies, which of course you read before you signed up. But look again. Make sure the site you are registering doesn’t have any of the no-nos listed. For instance, some profanity is allowed, but nothing excessive. What is excessive? That could be a gray area, but if you’re in doubt, don’t register that site. There’s plenty of sites with little or no profanity. Look at the support site while you are waiting on Google Adsense and see what other’s are saying and doing. Most of all, have fun. Your Google Adsense dollars are just waiting to be counted. Does Google Adsense Offer Direct Deposit? Google adsense offers various payment options for publishers. Electronic Funds Transfer (ETF) is offered in 16 countries whereby your payments are deposited directly into your bank account in your local currency. Check Google Adsense support to see which countries participate in this option. You will need to sign up for this option after your application is approved by signing into your account. You then click the edit link adjacent to the payment header. After you fill out the bank information, Google Adsense will make a small test deposit into your account. This is for security purposes to assure the account is really your own. Watch your account for the test deposit to post, usually within just a few days. After you have received the deposit from Google, log back in to your account and in the Payment Details section, click Verify Account. You then will need to enter the amount of the test deposit. If you do not complete this step, your payments will be on hold. Once you enter the test deposit amount correctly, your bank will be approved and selected as your form of payment. Google Adsense: How to Explain the Google Adsense Program to Others We’re not talking about strangers here. For the strangers that visit your site, your content will have to do all the talking for you. But for the people in your daily life, the ones you want to click on your referral button, the ones you want to read and comment on your blog; these are the ones you want to be able to enlighten about the Google Adsense program. First, excitement breeds excitement. Get excited about your new venture and others will too. Learn everything you can about the Google Adsense program, not only will this increase your earnings, but you’ll be better equipped to explain the mechanics of the program to others. Show them the money. There’s nothing like a little proof to make a believer out of someone. You don’t have to wait until you’re making thousands per month, although that’s a healthy goal. But even a small deposit in your piggy bank is enough to intrigue most people. Can’t you just count those referrals now? Do I Need to be Computer Savvy to Use Google Adsense?
Online Business Tips – What Starter Would You Like?
Here’s another thought-provoking article: Written by Chris Cobb We experienced some excellent and yet incredibly subtle marketing this week – when out for a pre-Christmas dinner, which we combined with a leaving (the country) party for one of our friends. The restaurant in London is apparently quite well-known, although I’d never heard of it, and the service was absolutely superb. For example, wines were recommended according to food selections, and we were never left with an empty bottle! Anyway, what really stuck in my mind was the subtle difference in the way that questions were being asked by the waiters… We were asked ‘what vegetables would you like with that?’ and ‘what starter would you like?’ Subtle, but I watched as even my head dropped back down to the menu to choose my vegetables and my starter! It’s completely different to asking ‘would you like’.’ You’re being asked to choose, rather than given the option to say yes or no… Subtle, but very powerful… And you can use this method with your online business as well. You see, when people are in the buying mood (or hungry for a particular product, solution or service), you should offer them a similar product to compliment the product they’re in the process of buying. For example, we were hungry for food and were ordering food… The waiters simply pointed us to complimentary ‘vegetables’ and wines (which we then bought). If online, you could do this by adding something to your order confirmation screen, a pop-up box, or after the sale has been completed with a screen that simply says ‘Congratulations! You’ve just bought x, and we’d like to offer you an immediate discount if you buy y’. An offline business can do this verbally or, as I also experienced this week, with a leaflet within your boxed goods. Subtle, but very powerful forms of marketing… for both online and offline businesses. People buy what they WANT, so if you simply offer them more of what they WANT, there can only ever be one result… If you’re not making the money you thought you’d be making at this point, then it’s probably because you’re not following up with your customers or you’re not offering additional complimentary products to help them… And it’s important that the products you’re offering help people, or solve problems in some way for people. This is all I do – I find certain things, services, products, and sometimes just contact details to help people… and this is how I make my living… by simply helping people with their problems or needs. I do this mainly with online internet marketing and the use of e-mail, but you could implement this offline as well. And, importantly, everyone has some knowledge, interest, story or example of something they’ve done or achieved that people would not only like to know about, but would be more than willing to pay to hear, read or even be shown first-hand… In this information-age that we live in today, I urge you to make the best use of your knowledge – if not for monetary gain, but to help others in their quest for knowledge… Best wishes, Chris Cobb Online Business Tips – What Starter Would You Like?
Why It Seems So Hard to Get Hired for Your Services!
To answer this question lets first take a look at the difference between promoting products VS services. Products often have cool features that show results quickly. Talk about the benefits of a feature and how itll make your customers life easier and youll probably get a sale. Services on the other hand, are intangible. There are no buttons to push or before and after pictures to see. Services often get categorized as luxury items we can usually survive without. They are more challenging to sell because the results of a service can be difficult to quantify measure or prove. Many hard sell sales trainers shy away from working with service providers. It is easier to train someone to sell products with features you can see and results you can prove. After four years in the corporate world selling products (Electronic telephone systems), I transferred into yellow pages advertising. Many of the sales techniques we used to sell telephones wouldnt work at all in advertising! I quickly found out that I needed new sales techniques to promote the intangible results of advertising. Authors, Coaches, Consultants, etc. produce results that improve the human side of life and business and Alternative Healers deal with subtle energies that may take longer to produce quantifiable results. To the average consumer, these are luxuries that, although desirable and beneficial, can be done without if money is tight. Most of my clients havent got a clue how to tell people about the benefits and results of their good services. They feel frustrated and wonder why clients are so hard to get. Many are good at explaining how they work and what tools they use. The problem is that most consumers couldnt care less about how you work. We care more about the benefits well experience after hiring you. We want to be clear on what results you can deliver in exchange for our hard-earned money. Whats in it for me? your customers are asking. It is time to stop feature-dumping! Features only imply that a process is beneficial, or a technique is going to help. As service providers we must be able to describe clear results to potential clients. Success Story: One client arrived in despair. She had a great service as a professional organizer and sadly, few customers to show for it. I asked her to give me the top 10 benefits of her good servicealas she (like many others responding to this request) provided a list of top 10 features instead. She listed features that describe how she gets to a result. Features like: – Customized quotes – Office flow organization tweaking – Created new filing systems – Ergonomic layouts for offices, etc. Sound pretty good, dont they? Sure, and her customers seemed interested and keen, BUT they were not following through and hiring her. I helped her articulate a more effective sales list of the benefits and results of her good work. Results like: – Added value of charging only her clients specific needs – Improved and streamlined office procedures – To save time and decrease frustrations – Ability to provide better customer service – Increased efficiency with improved filing structure – Less time wasted due to poor office layout – Resulting in increased productivity all around. We created a list of 6 good questions she can ask to uncover if a client needs organizational help. Why waste time telling clients all about our services if they dont need them? Now, my client will always ask questions to find out first if someone seriously needs her service. If they do, she tells them with confidence about the results she can provide and is more secure asking for their business. By following these guidelines you too can get hired faster with more confidence practically every time! “Anna Kanary’s Sales class was exactly what I needed! As someone with very little sales background and who struggles to close the deal with potential clients, this class gave me the format, confidence, clarity and momentum I needed to get out there and get more clients! Anna’s expertise combined with her warmth makes this class not only exceptional but necessary…you will get more than you ever expected!” Sarah O. Bloomquist, Personal Life Coach, Innermost Coaching, Why It Seems So Hard to Get Hired for Your Services!
Merchant Accounts a Necessity for Both Traditional and Online Businesses
Merchant accounts that allow business owners to accept a variety of customer preferred payment methods have become commonplace in traditional business settings. Even small businesses, such as fast food providers, convenience stores and kiosk sized retailers have accepted the fact that allowing for multiple popular payment options is a wise decision. Far few consumers are carrying cash these days, and even those who are often prefer the safety and security of paying via credit card or check, if for no other reason than to have an accurate, detailed account of each purchase. Slowly but surely, online vendors are realizing this as well. The popularity of Paypal, a service which requires consumers to set up accounts similar to an online banking institution, kept many online businesses from opening merchant accounts for the benefit of their customers. Disadvantages to using the Paypal system were soon evident, however, as bad experiences with the system were publicized by both merchants and consumers. The stigma of a flawed system was not the only consideration for Internet shoppers and online businesses, however. Many consumers were unwilling to use a system that required setting up an account, memorizing yet another password and using a third party to transmit credit card or bank account information. The level of convenience available to consumers declined sharply as a result of having to navigate a completely new and often confusing separate web site in order to make a simple transaction. On the merchant side of the equation, the realization that Paypal offered no additional fraud protection and charged rates very similar to and often higher than merchant services providers has caused many to second guess it’s usefulness. Of particular concern is that there is simply no way to determine the amount of lost sales due to consumer hesitation aimed at opening a Paypal account. Consumers generally feel more comfortable using payment formats that mirror those used by their neighborhood retailers. When purchasing small items especially, many will not go through the trouble of spending an additional five to ten minutes online in order to purchase an item that only costs a few dollars. While the prices of these items may be small, the losses incurred by business owners who don’t offer a tried and true merchant account system can be substantial. Merchant Accounts a Necessity for Both Traditional and Online Businesses
Printing and Mailing Your Postcards
Every moment counts. The tick of the clock is somewhat synonymous to a cash flow. The same may lead to you or to your competitor. Moreover, to make it run on your advantage, you must develop efficient marketing systems or techniques. One of these marketing techniques can be the use of postcards. Postcards are effective marketing tools. They can give rise to a remarkable boost in sales. Its been a long time now however, postcards have never lost its influence. With a brush of effectivity in it, the same can drag a multitude to purchase your product or subscribe to your business. Here are some of the steps that you should consider in your postcards printing and mailing services needs: 1. Save time and effort. If you can have it in a quick and easy way, why complicate the situation. Plan a series of effective steps without sacrificing the quality of your postcards. The saved time and perhaps money is a huge contribution already. 2. Take advantage of ready-made templates. Online templates have invaded the Net. By this, designing will not be a trouble. You just have to download the most appropriate templates for your business or personal use. 3. Or opt for a good printer. For those businessmen who want their postcards to have a unique look, a reputable printing company can assist them to come up with a good project. 4. Do your Mailing List. If you are doing it online, upload your mailing list from different file formats. Never forget MS Word and Excel. A copy is also needed when you have chosen a postcard printing company to do the job. 5. Verify the names and addresses. You can do this by poring against post office records. Mailing online can do this automatically. If any of the addresses did not much, notification will be sent to you. The best thing to do is to get rid of these addresses. It will be a waste of money to send postcards to invalid addresses. 6. Mailing formats can also be specialized. Obviously, templates for postcards are the best choice. However, you can take into consideration other mailing pieces like brochures, letters and self-mailer flyers. 7. Send them out. When doing it online, select the date for your mailer to go out. When you are transacting with a commercial printer, stipulate on the dates. Choose a printer that gives a fast and accurate turnaround. 23 cents is the cost for postcards normal postage. On the other hand, if you do online mailing, the cost is 24 cents. Well, that is something to ponder about Printing and Mailing Your Postcards
How To Write A Startup Business Plan
Why Do I Need A Business Plan? Why do you need to write a business plan? There are a number of reasons. Writing a plan dramatically increases your chances of success as an entrepreneur. Here are just a few reasons why you would want to write a business plan. 1. Evaluating initial startup costs. 2. Determining what it will take to make a profit. 3. Analyzing your competition and it’s success and failures (which you can capitalize on) 4. Well defined rolls of all people involved in the company. 5. Investigating your market and developing a strategy. 6. Anticipating problems before they occur. 7. Defining a clear goal and exit strategy for your business. 8. Convincing investors to fund your business Some may scoff at all of the parts of a business plan, but remember that you are undertaking this endeavor to make money, not to just produce a product or service. Most businesses fail because they are hit by unforeseen expenses — or situations — that they should have anticipated ahead of times. To give yourself the best chance of success, do your homework ahead of time and you’ll be way ahead of most people. Plan Your Work, Work Your Plan A business plan is not a document set in stone and you will probably change it in the future as your business develops. When you are stuck on an issue refer back to your business plan and remember what your initial goals were and whether the situation has changed significantly enough that the plan needs to be reworked. Planning your work is when you write your plan, but you can’t just stop there. You must work the plan and stick to it as you move forward in order to meet your exit strategy or other goals for the company. Step 1: Defining Your Product Or Service The first step to writing your business plan is defining exactly what your product or service is. This is what you will approach a potential customer with. How would you explain your product or service to a potential client? What would you tell them about it? How would your product or service relate to other businesses? Describing your product or service should fit within 1 paragraph with supporting paragraphs underneath it. Most people, when dealing with something innovative or something that is identical to a competitor, try to cop out of this and say “it’s just too complex for my product to be described”. That’s hogwash. Every product or service can be defined. If your product or service is so innovative that it can’t be defined then the chance of it succeeding is very low. Here are a few examples. * Google was simply “a better search engine that works” * Apple was simply “a computer that can fit on a desk” * Microsoft was “an operating system that can be mass distributed” * Amazon.com was “a mail order bookstore with an online front end” Describing your product is not a hard thing to do. Implementing a strategy to sell, distribute or market your product in the long run has the most impact on whether your business will succeed. Step 2: Who Are Your Customers? Defining your target market may be a little difficult if you think your product can be used by anyone, but it can be done. Simply putting “everyone on Earth” is not a practical target market. Whether your product or service can be used by everyone is not the key, it’s who can afford and needs your product. Is it small businesses? Does it fit the consumer market that cooks a lot? Is it Internet users who are looking for dolls? Defining your exact target market is key to setting up a proper marketing strategy. Without knowing who your potential customers are you will be casting your line into a vast ocean rather than a stocked pond. Another part of this is determining if your target market can afford your product and will they purchase it from you. If your product can only be used by boys age 14-18 and the price of your product is $1000 your market will probably be very small. This is all part of the plan, don’t be discouraged if you find that upon doing research your product or service doesn’t make sense. It’s better to evaluate things now and scrap the whole thing than to accept money from investors and finding out later that your business doesn’t stand a chance. Step 3: Market Strategy Who is your competition? How will you reach your target customer or client? These are all questions that need to be defined. Find two or three competitors and evaluate them. Where are they successful? Where is their main revenue coming from? What things have they tried and failed? What things do they lack that you will provide? Analyzing the competitive landscape is an important part of determining if you can succeed. You may even realize other areas that your product or service needs to focus on to have a chance of succeeding. How are you going to reach your customer? Will it be through catalogs? Advertising in the local paper? Word of Mouth? Direct sales? Investigate the costs of implementing a strategy of reaching your customer and client base. If you are selling a product how much will it cost to get your products on shelves or to set up a e-commerce website? What are the costs involved to place advertisements? Simply having a product or service and not having people even knowing that it exists is a certain road to failure from the start. Step 4: Financing And Capital What are your initial expenses for starting your business? You need to analyze all costs for beginning your business and how much capital you will need to keep the business running. If there is payroll involved you will need to factor in payroll taxes as well as salaries. You need to know how much in legal costs you will incur incorporating and for lawyer and accounting services. If you are providing a product what is the cost of having it produced and an inventory for it? Letterheads, logo’s, business equipment, software and business cards all fit in this category. There is no hard and fast rule for how much capital you will initially need in terms of months in advance. Most businesses underestimate how much initial expenses and ongoing monthly expenses they have. How will you fulfill orders? If via mail you will need to factor in packaging and shipping expenses. If you are stocking a store with your item you will need to factor in delivery charges and expenses. Once you have determined both your ongoing monthly expenses and initial expenses then you can evaluate how much initial capital you will need and where you intend to get it. Will your financing come in the form of angel investors, venture capital, self financed or friends and family? Securing this financing could have expenses you have not counted on, be sure to include these expenses as well. Step 5: Operations You need to define the operations of your business and how your product or service will reach a customer from development all the way to end user. If you are providing a product you will need to define the whole flow. Here’s a few questions for a product based company. How will the product be produced? How will it be stored? How will it be delivered? How will customers place an order? How will an order be processed? How will a customer get a receipt? Where will fulfillment take place? How will money change hands? When will the customer receive their product? How will customer service be handled? For a service based company most of the above questions have their equivalent. These questions need to be answered. It shows that you have thought ahead on how your business will operate. Step 6: Putting It All Together Once you have analyzed your product, your customers, your competition, market strategy and financing it’s time to put it all together in a document known as a business plan. There is no single format for writing a business plan. The best way to write a business plan is to study business plans. You can find some business plans on the web to study. Here is a basic overview of the things you should provide in a business plan. 1. Cover Sheet 2. Statement of Purpose I. Part 1: Business Analysis a. Description of the Business b. Marketing Strategy c. Competitive Landscape d. Operating Flow e. Management and Personnel f. Exit Strategy g.Insurance Information II. Part 2: Financial Information a. Equipment, Supply List and Assets b. Balance Sheet c. Break-even Analysis d. Pro-forma Projections Including i. 3 year summary ii. Detailed projection by month of the first year iii.Detailed quarterly projects for year 2 and 3 iv.Assumptions or how you reached your projections e. Pro-forma Cash Flow III. Part 3: Supporting Documentation a. Tax returns of the principals involved in the business for the last 3 years b. Franchise contracts, proposed leases and purchase agreements c. Any licenses or legal documents the business needs d. Resumes of all the principals involved in the business e. Letters of intent from suppliers and other services Remember that not all of these things need to be included right off the bat. If you are not going to have proposed leases at this time while you are starting your plan, it can go on your task list of things to do. The most important part is getting started on your business plan so that you can spot the things you need to get done to complete it. Most investors are not going to just hand you money without a pretty solid business plan though, so if you’re not too good at doing the financials you better get to work on learning how to project pro-forma cash flow and projections. Once you have your business plan you are well on your way to creating a successful startup! How To Write A Startup Business Plan
Use This Simple Time Tested Process And Move Your Business Forward In 2006!
Another year is just about ready to finish and it is time to start thinking about next year. If you own your own business or you manage a business division, then you need to ask yourself if all of the expectations that were set forth at the beginning of the year were met. If not then maybe what stopped you was a lack of goals and objectives, or just a lack of a good process to use when planning them. The goal setting process is essential to the success or failure of the business, and many careers have derailed due to a lack of them. Goals and objectives apply to everyone involved. Being a business owner or a manager implies an inherent responsibility to insure plans are worked on, followed through on, and accomplished. The process that is used can and will determine whether or not you will finish the year with your hat in hand, or be congratulated for a job well done. If you are a business manager, you were given a mission statement by the organization. This mission statement is the overarching goal of the organization. It does not tell you how it will be done. It just implies that it ‘is’ done. It is your job to determine what resources you will need in order to make them come to fruition. If you are the owner of the business, then you either have a business plan and or a mission statement. You should have both. Take this information and begin to formulate the things that need to be accomplished, the time period in which they need to be accomplished and by whom they need to be accomplished by. This is goal setting. Understanding and expressing ‘what’ needs to be done, ‘why’ it needs to be done, ‘when’ it needs to be done, and finally, ‘how’ it will be done is the goal setting scenario. Goals should be just beyond your reach. Just past your fingertips. If they are too far out there, you will not reach them and will become disappointed. Too close, and they will not be worthwhile at advancing your company or your career. Start using the SMAC method in setting goals and objectives and always remember goals and objectives are not one in the same, though many people think they are. Goals are where you want to end up. Objectives are the steps to get there. S stands for Specific. Make the goal as specific as possible. Stating a goal that says you want more customers is not specific. How many more customers? More customers than when? If you state you want more customers, then getting one customer today is more customers. This is not a goal, it is a hope. To be more specific, simply state that you want to increase your customer base for the first quarter of next year by 20% over your first quarter in the previous year. If you know what that number needs to be, that is even better. M stands for Measurable. The goal must be measurable otherwise, how will you know if you are making progress? How will you know if you have accomplished the goal if it cannot be measured? Anything that is specific enough can be measured. The measurement method may take you some time to work up, but it can be measured if it is specific. In the example above, if we stated we want more customers. Can you measure that? Now look at the rewrite: increase customer base for the first quarter of next year by 20% over the first quarter of the previous year. Can this be measured? Of course it can. Your goals need to be fluid enough that you can tweak them, make small adjustments here and there as needed in order to insure they are accomplished. Again, if you are the manager or the owner, you need to have a method that you will be able to periodically check the goals to make sure you are on track. A stands for Achievable. Is the goal achievable by you or whoever needs to accomplish it? To say you want to triple your businesses income in the next 3 months is probably not achievable. Oh, you may hit the lottery or sell your business, but most likely, the goal of tripling your income over the next 3 months is more of a dream than it is a goal. If you were to state that you want to increase your businesses income by 10% over the next 3 months you have a more achievable goal. It is just beyond your reach, can be measured and is achievable by means that you have or knowledge you can go and get. Another words, the learning curve is not going to be straight up in order for you to accomplish this. C stands for Consistent. Is the goal consistent with the business plan and or the mission statement? If it is not, then achieving the goal will not move you, the business, or your career forward. And after all, isn’t moving forward what it’s all about? Make sure you set the goal consistent with the overall plans. To have a plan to have the best customer service response in your industry and then setting a goal to respond to customer inquiries in 7 business days or less, certainly does not seem to be consistent. A goal of responding to customer inquiries within 12 hours would be more consistent with the overarching plan. Set a timeframe that you will accomplish the goal. By setting a timeframe you instill a sense of urgency that it needs to be paid attention to and accomplished. If you don’t set a timeline, then there will be a tendency to put it off, or start it at a later date. The goal will not seem as important. Set goals with the people that work for you. In order for you to get more done as the owner or the manager, your people need to be advancing the organization as well. Teach them this process. Take the time and work with them to set 3 or 4 goals that will make them stretch their abilities. It will help improve them and the company at the same time. And don’t forget the most important part of working with your people: Following up. By having goals that you helped them to create and they participated in, you can step in at frequent intervals, measure the progress of the goals and discuss with them what challenges they are having and how to resolve them in order to successfully complete the goals. When 2006 is over, your business or career will have advanced and you will be proud of your accomplishments knowing that it didn’t just happen by chance, but by good planning and execution. Use This Simple Time Tested Process And Move Your Business Forward In 2006!
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At the moment, I’m spending a fair amount of time thinking about a new version of the C# API and codegen for Protocol Buffers, as well as other APIs for interacting with Google services. While that’s the context for this post, I want to make it very clear that this is still a personal post, and should in no way be taken to be “Google’s opinion” on anything. The underlying issue could apply in many other situations, but it’s easiest to describe a concrete scenario.
Context and current state: the builder pattern
The problem I’ve been trying to address is the relative pain of initializing a protobuf message. Protocol buffer messages are declared in a separate schema file (.proto) and then code is generated. The schema declares fields, each of which has a name, a type and a number associated with it. The generated message types are immutable, with builder classes associated with them. So for example, we might start off with a message like this:
message Person {
string first_name = 1;
string last_name = 3;
}
And construct a Person object in C# like this:
var person = new Person.Builder { FirstName = "Jon", LastName = "Skeet" }.Build();
// Now person.FirstName and person.LastName are readonly properties
That’s not awful, but it’s not the cleanest code in the world. We can make it slightly simpler using an implicit conversion from the builder type to the message type:
Person person = new Person.Builder { FirstName = "Jon", LastName = "Skeet" };
It’s still not really clean though. Let’s revisit why the builder pattern is useful:
We can specify just the properties we want.
By deferring the “build” step until after we’ve specified everything, we get mutability without building a lot of intermediate objects.
If only there were another language construct allowing that…
Optional parameters to the rescue!
If we provided a constructor with an optional parameter for each property, we can specify just what we want. So something like:
public Person(string firstName = null, string lastName = null)
...
var person = new Person(firstName: "Jon", lastName: "Skeet");
Hooray! That looks much nicer:
We can use var (if we want to) because there are no implicit conversions to confuse things.
We don’t need to mention a builder at all.
Every piece of text in the statement is something we want to express, and we only express it once.
That last point is a lovely place to be in terms of API design – while you still need to worry about naming, ordering and how the syntax fits into bigger expressions, you’ve achieved some sense of “as simple as possible, but no simpler”.
So, that’s all great – except for versioning.
Let’s just add a field at the end…
One of the aims of protocol buffers is to support an evolving schema. (The limitations are different for proto2 and proto3, but that’s a slightly different matter.) So what happens if we add a new field to the message?
message Person {
string first_name = 1;
string last_name = 3;
string title = 4; // Mr, Mrs etc
}
Now we end up with the following constructor:
public Person(string firstName = null, string lastName = null, string title = null)
The code still compiles – but if we try to use run our old client code against the new version of the library, it will fail – because the method it refers to no longer exists. So we have source compatibility, but not binary compatibility.
Let’s just add a field in the middle…
You may have noticed that I don’t have a field with tag 2 – this is not an accident. Suppose we now add it, for the obvious middle_name field:
message Person {
string first_name = 1;
string middle_name = 2;
string last_name = 3;
string title = 4; // Mr, Mrs etc
}
Regenerate the code, and we end up with a constructor with 4 parameters:
public Person(
string firstName = null,
string middleName = null,
string lastName = null,
string title = null)
Just to be clear, this change is entirely fine in protocol buffers – while normally fields are assigned incrementally, it shouldn’t be a breaking change to add a new field “between” existing ones.
Let’s take a look at our client code again:
var person = new Person(firstName: "Jon", lastName: "Skeet");
Yup, that still works – we need to recompile, but we still end up with a Person with the right properties. But that’s not the only code we could have started with. Suppose we’d actually had:
var person = new Person("Jon", "Skeet");
Until this last change that would have been fine – even after we’d added the optional title parameter, the two arguments would still have mapped to firstName and lastName respectively.
Having added the middle_name field, however, the code would still compile with no errors or warnings, but the meaning of the second argument would have changed – it would now map onto the middleName parameter instead of lastName.
Basically, we’d like to stop this code (using positional arguments) from compiling in the first place.
Feature requests and a workaround
The two features we really want from C# here are:
Some way of asking the generated code to perform dynamic overload resolution at execution time… not based on dynamic values, but on the basis that the code we’re compiling against may have changed since we compiled. This resolution only needs to be performed once, on first execution (or class load, or whatever) as by the time we’re executing, everything is fixed (the parameter names and types, and the argument names and types). It could be efficient.
Some way of forcing any call sites to use named arguments for any optional parameters. (Even though in our case all the parameters are optional, I can easily imagine a case where there are a few required parameters and then the optional ones. Using positional arguments for those required parameters is fine.)
It’s hard (without forking Roslyn :) to implement these feature requests ourselves, but for the second one we can at least have a workaround. Consider the following struct:
public struct DoNotCallThisMethodWithPositionalArguments {}
… and now imagine our generated constructor had been :
public Person(
DoNotCallThisMethodWithPositionalArguments ignoreMe =
default(DoNotCallThisMethodWithPositionalArguments),
string firstName = null,
string middleName = null,
string lastName = null,
string title = null)
Now our constructor call using positional arguments will fail, because there’s no conversion from string to the crazily-named struct. The only “nice” way you can call it is to use named arguments, which is what we wanted. You could call it using positional arguments like this:
var person = new Person(
new DoNotCallThisMethodWithPositionalArguments(),
"Jon",
"Skeet");
(or using default(...) like the constructor declaration) – but at this point the code looks broken, so it’s your own fault if you decide to use it.
The reason for making it a struct rather than a class is to avoid null being convertible to it. Annoyingly, it wouldn’t be hard to make a class that you could never create an actual instance of, but you can’t prevent anyone from creating a value of a struct. Basically, what we really want is a type such that there is no valid expression which is convertible to that type – but aside from static classes (which can’t be used as parameter types) I don’t know of any way of doing that. (I don’t know what would happen if you compiled the Person class using a non-static class as the first parameter, then made that class static and recompiled it. Confusion on the part of the C# compiler, I should think.)
Another option (as mentioned in the comments) is to have a “poor man’s” version of the compiler enforcement via a Roslyn Code Diagnostic – add an attribute to any method call where you want “All optional parameters must be specified with named arguments” to apply, and then make the code diagnostic complain if you disobey that. That diagnostic could ship with the Protocol Buffers NuGet package, which would make for a pretty nice experience. Not quite as good as a language feature though :)
Conclusion
Default parameters are a pain in terms of compatibility. For internal company code, it’s often reasonable to only care about source compatibility as you can recompile all calling code before deployment – but for open source projects, binary compatibility within the same major version is the norm.
How useful and common do I think these features would be? Probably not common enough to meet the bar – unless there’s encouragement within comments here, in which case I’m happy to file feature requests on GitHub, of course.
As it happens, I’m currently looking at radical changes to the C# implementation of Protocol Buffers, regretfully losing the immutability aspect due to it raising the barrier to entry. It’s not quite a done deal yet, but assuming that goes ahead, all of this will be mostly irrelevant – for Protocol Buffers. There are plenty of other places where code generation could be more robustly backward-compatible through judicious use of optional-but-please-use-named-arguments parameters though…
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Jude Melancon says:
June 3, 2015 at 7:53 pm
A hypothetical “type such that there is no valid expression which is convertible to that type” could have no default argument, since they cause the implicit use of a constant expression at compile time.
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markrendle says:
June 3, 2015 at 8:25 pm
Interesting post, and of course I couldn’t resist trying to solve the problem :)
How about a fluent API? Properties can still be immutable; the actual constructor stays private so the public API can change without breaking anything. The main ugly thing is naming, since the method to set a property obviously can’t have the same name as the property.
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namespace PersonApp
{
public class Person
{
public Person()
{
}
private Person(string firstName, string lastName)
{
FirstName = firstName;
LastName = lastName;
}
public string FirstName { get; }
public string LastName { get; }
// Be nice if C# could cope with Properties and Methods having the same name…
// Let's protest by violating naming conventions :)
public Person firstName(string firstName)
{
return new Person(firstName, LastName);
}
public Person lastName(string lastName)
{
return new Person(FirstName, lastName);
}
public override string ToString()
{
return $"{FirstName} {LastName}";
}
}
}
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namespace PersonApp
{
public class Program
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
var person = new Person().firstName("Jon").lastName("Skeet");
Console.WriteLine(person.ToString());
}
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jonskeet says:
June 3, 2015 at 9:11 pm
That’s the kind of pattern I use in Noda Time, yes. It does end up with a lot of objects being created though – and while normally I don’t like micro-optimizing this sort of thing, setting all the properties on a message with N fields ends up using O(N^2) memory… I know the GC’s good, but it feels a little flamboyant. I suppose with the builder as well, clients could always use that when they’re concerned about the cost. I doubt that we’ll end up going this way, but it’s a good thought.
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Jude Melancon says:
June 4, 2015 at 5:53 am
A fluent API returning a type that requires a finalizing call or an implicit conversion to the target type could be implemented via a builder to avoid creating an object for every property set. It would unfortunately create two objects when modifying a single property, though.
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jonskeet says:
June 4, 2015 at 6:16 am
That’s what we’ve got in the current implementation, other than the implicit conversion. It’s still ugly, and an implicit conversion would also cause confusion when using var I suspect.
It’s not so bad for more advanced developers who are used to the builder pattern, but it’s quite a burden to enforce on everyone wanting to use Protocol Buffers. It’s a matter of judging the right API for your target audience, and I’m hoping that GRPC will expand the target audience for Protocol Buffers a lot…
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Alex Godofsky says:
June 9, 2015 at 1:21 pm
Wouldn’t it be best to fix this through a compiler or CLR optimization that reuses the ‘immutable’ object (since it should be able to detect that there are no future references to that object after the dot).
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jonskeet says:
June 9, 2015 at 1:36 pm
Not sure which “this” you’re referring to, but if you’re basically saying “Trust the GC/CLR to deal with garbage quickly” I’m happy to do so to some extent – but not when there can be hundreds of allocations, each involving copying hundreds of fields.
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Alex Godofsky says:
June 9, 2015 at 6:49 pm
I mean the O(n^2) memory thing. And I’m not suggesting you just trust the GC/CLR – I’m suggesting that the .NET/C# devs add in an optimization for this specific use case.
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ViRuSTriNiTy says:
June 4, 2015 at 8:33 am
…why not using WithFirstName() and WithLastName()?
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markrendle says:
June 3, 2015 at 8:28 pm
Fluent APIs are a good pattern for building immutable objects without breaking binary compatibility between versions, although in this instance it’s made ugly by the fact that ideally the setter methods would have the same name as the properties.
Anyway, here’s a spike: https://gist.github.com/markrendle/13c84348970224975837
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Nzall (@realnzall) says:
June 3, 2015 at 9:39 pm
As requested by via Twitter, a more detailed explanation:
As far as I understand it, these feature requests are designed to improve backwards compatibility of APIs by improving how constructors handle optional parameters from client code consuming this API.
However, C# itself is ALSO an API of sorts. If we change how C# handles constructor calls in the way your second request does and no longer allow unnamed arguments for optional parameters, that’s going to break a lot of legacy code, even very recent code.
Suppose this was implemented in a future version of C# and you (Jon) decide to port the next major version of Nodatime over to it because of other new functionality being critical. Depending on the implementation of the C# change and how many optional parameters are called without a name, you could be looking at a long list of errors on the first attempt at building. You also then need to consider which constructors of the Nodatime API itself should be changed to make use of this new feature.
In turn, anyone upgrading to the next version of Nodatime later on (because their own product is updating to take advantage of the new features in C#) will also need to change their own API calls that make use of the updated constructors.
I realize that these changes likely make structural improvements to the readability and functionality of any code using these APIs, but many businesses also need to consider the implications for not just their own projects, but also for their clients and their users. If the necessary changes are too extreme, they might just not bother with this new feature, leading to a net result of C# being more complicated for no gain in code clarity and functionality.
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jonskeet says:
June 3, 2015 at 9:46 pm
I wasn’t suggesting changing the behaviour of any existing code. I was suggesting something like adding a modifier to a method which would enforce that calls specifying optional parameters do so by name. Adding that modifier to an existing method would indeed be an incompatible change, but then so do many other changes on existing code. That doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be useful for new code. (In the same way, if you have an existing API with many overloads to make up for the lack of optional parameters, converting those into a single method call with optional parameters breaks binary compatibility – but that doesn’t mean that optional parameters are useless, does it?)
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Nzall (@realnzall) says:
June 3, 2015 at 9:57 pm
I see. I was thinking more along the lines of a project-wide setting, but your solution indeed does make more sense. Something like a “named” modifier would indeed be useful. I also just realized that my example was inconsistent, with Nodatime itself having the project-wide setting configured, but the methods still requiring a flag. A modifier would be much more useful than a combination of the 2.
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bp says:
June 4, 2015 at 10:11 pm
So you’re basically wishing for Python 3’s * guard?
def foo(bar, *, baz): pass
foo(1,2) #error
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jonskeet says:
June 4, 2015 at 10:12 pm
Yes, something like that. (A friend made the same comparison this morning.)
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Paulo Morgado says:
June 3, 2015 at 11:52 pm
What we really need is for people stopping using optional arguments on public APIs!
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Stephan says:
June 4, 2015 at 7:43 am
Isn’t your second feature request already possible (and a nice example for) using a roslyn analyzer?
The analyzer could warn on or even prohibit using the API without named arguments.
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jonskeet says:
June 4, 2015 at 7:59 am
Funnily enough, I was thinking about that just on the train this morning. Yes, it could – it would only be useful for VS2015 users of course, but better than nothing. Will edit to mention that.
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Tommy Carlier says:
June 4, 2015 at 9:03 am
I actually like the mechanism StringBuilder uses: its Append-methods return the StringBuilder-instance itself, and the ToString-method creates the immutable string, like the current ProtoBuf builder implementation. I like the following kind of code for that:
var person = Person
.CreateBuilder()
.SetFirstName(“Jon”)
.SetLastName(“Skeet”)
.Build();
The advantage of the builder-pattern that the constructor-pattern does not have: it’s easy to build an instance gradually, like this:
var builder = Person
.CreateBuilder()
.SetFirstName(“Jon”)
.SetLastName(“Skeet”);
if (isDoctor) { builder.SetTitle(“Dr”); }
else if (gender == Gender.Male) { builder.SetTitle(“Mr”); }
else if (gender == Gender.Female)
{
if (isMarried) { builder.SetTitle(“Mrs”); }
else { builder.SetTitle(“Ms”); }
}
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jonskeet says:
June 4, 2015 at 9:08 am
Yes, it’s definitely useful to still have the builder – it’s just a pain to need it. Look at how much cruft is in your original code vs var person = new Person(firstName: "Jon", lastName: "Skeet"). Unless I am building something gradually, I don’t want to have to care about a builder – I just want to say what I want the end result to be.
It’s not huge, and not awful to get used to – but it’s a barrier to entry.
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Scott Brickey says:
June 5, 2015 at 1:49 pm
I would argue that the two code samples are pretty similar, other than some simple coding preferences…
I could just as easily write:
var person = Person.Builder.withFirstName(“Jon”).withLastName(“Skeet”).Build();
sure, the call to Build is an extra step (as mentioned first thing in your article), but I think it’s pretty minimal all said and done… but initializers/parameters on one line vs several is just preference (personally, I often place my named parameters in several lines for readability).
I would also argue that the example above includes extra logic (dr/mr/mrs/ms) which would be just as messy for your approaches (perhaps cleaned slightly with ternary’s, but still not “ideal”)… though for those cases, I would actually argue in favor of those being calculated (readonly) properties anyway… the need to pass them in a proto buffer would only depend on whether you’d need those values on the other side, or whether they can be re-calculated after deserialization.
Alternatively, what about a lambda style builder?
var person = Person.Build(p => p.withFirstName(“Jon”).withLastName(“Skeet”));
again, not entirely as intuitive as initializers, but addresses the issues.
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Patrick Huizinga says:
June 4, 2015 at 10:15 am
Marc Gravell had a similar problem (binary incompatibility when using optional arguments) last year. http://blog.marcgravell.com/2014/08/optional-parameters-considered-harmful.html
If you don’t add optional arguments in the middle, but only at the end, it is possible to remain binary compatible. Also this fix is only practical when you change the api by hand and not rely on code generation.
In that case what you do is go from one method:
Method(string firstName = null, string lastName = null)
to two methods:
Method(string firstName, string lastName)
Method(string firstName = null, string lastName = null, string title = null)
The first method will make the code binary compatible, the second method will be source compatible.
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jonskeet says:
June 4, 2015 at 10:18 am
Right – as you say, it’s only viable for non-generated code. Definitely a technique to remember though, so thanks for pointing it out.
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[email protected] says:
June 4, 2015 at 10:20 am
I think it is way worse to loose immutability than improve the construction of objects. There is nothing wrong with the builder pattern, in fact it is used for ImmutableCollections so is a known pattern used by Microsoft for key data structures, so please please do not make objects mutable, in fact please allow us to specify whether object can be value types as well. GC pressure is a big thing for apps that process a lot of data.
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[email protected] says:
June 4, 2015 at 10:23 am
Optional arguments are a much worse solution to the problem than a builder pattern. Its just plain awful. It would be good if one could specify whether “null” is allowed for certain ref fields so guarantees can be made about all ref fields having non-null values.
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jonskeet says:
June 4, 2015 at 10:28 am
I very much doubt that we’ll add an option to turn protobuf messages into structs instead of classes, especially as that would lead to a lot of boxing if we weren’t really careful.
While I’m a big fan of immutability in general, and was perfectly happy for protobufs to use the builder approach previously, I think there’s a justifiable concern about it being too “different” for many developers. Yes, it’s far from unheard of – but I suspect the proportion of developers using ImmutableCollections is small too.
I’ll take your feedback in mind, but I suspect we’ll still be going the mutable route – possibly with a “freeze” operation.
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Dwight Matthys says:
June 4, 2015 at 11:17 am
Ouch Jon, that freeze() operation really looks ugly to me.
We solved this problem a few weeks ago by indeed using a fluent builder pattern. So in the end we achieve an immutable object and the builder genlty forces you to fill in the parameters.
var person = Person.Create().WithFirstname(“Dwight”).WithLastname(“Matthys”).Build();
Doesn’t look so akward to us, since using a constructor with named parameters also introduces some cruft in your code. The new can be easely associated with Create(), the With methods speak for themselves opposed to the named parameters and yes, we have one extra thingy at the end. But the benefits are greater than the losses.
Just my 2 cents of course ;)
Kind regards,
Dwight
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jonskeet says:
June 4, 2015 at 12:00 pm
I think we’ll have to agree to disagree on this. In particular, I don’t see how “the with methods speak for themselves opposed to the named parameters” – while I agree that WithLastName(x) is clear, I’d say that lastName: x is at least as clear. What I like to do is look at a statement or expression and try to identify every identifier or value which is intrinsically part of what I’m trying to express – versus ones which are just formality. Additionally, using Person.Create() instead of new Person.Builder prevents the use of object initializers.
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Lucas Trzesniewski says:
June 4, 2015 at 11:24 am
Here’s an idea you could try: make a Fody waiver which would substitute DoNotCallThisMethodWithPositionalArguments with System.Void. It’s perfectly legal in IL but C# won’t let you write default(System.Void) no matter how hard you try :-)
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dotnetchris says:
June 4, 2015 at 3:49 pm
Crazy.
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Lucas Trzesniewski says:
June 4, 2015 at 11:27 am
Here’s an idea: Make a Fody waiver that substitutes DoNotCallThisMethodWithPositionalArguments with System.Void. It’s perfectly legal in IL, but C# won’t let you write default(System.Void) no matter how hard you try :)
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jonathanpbarker says:
June 17, 2015 at 4:52 pm
+1
Jon do you have an opinion on this?
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jonskeet says:
June 17, 2015 at 4:58 pm
It’s wonderfully nasty, but I don’t think it would be practical – way to confuse callers :) I don’t know whether it would actually work from a CLR perspective, either.
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biqas says:
June 4, 2015 at 12:59 pm
Maybe you can use bond (https://microsoft.github.io/bond/manual/bond_cs.html) instead of protocl buffer.s
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jonskeet says:
June 4, 2015 at 1:00 pm
I think you’ve missed the point of my post: a) it’s about limitations of optional parameters around compatibility; b) I’m implementing Protocol Buffers. I don’t think asking the GRPC project to switch to a Microsoft serialization format is going to fly…
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dotnetchris says:
June 4, 2015 at 3:48 pm
What post is really stating is that C# needs to support record types that can be duck typed to strong types.
Problem solved.
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Dwight Branscombe says:
June 4, 2015 at 7:49 pm
How about a language request for a read-only enabled Object Initializer or maybe a Set-Once property?
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Alois Kraus says:
June 4, 2015 at 10:10 pm
Not sure if this is better at all but you could define a wrapper for each field which encodes its field position. This way you always know where the data is stored in old and new messages. Old code will not be disturbed by new fields and new code can use new fields wherever it wants to.
class Person
{
public string First { get; private set; }
public string Middle { get; private set; }
public string Last { get; private set; }
public Person(FieldPos1<string> first, FieldPos3<string> last)
{
First = first.Value;
Last = last.Value;
}
public Person(FieldPos1<string> first, FieldPos2<string> middle, FieldPos3<string> last)
{
First = first.Value;
Middle = middle.Value;
Last = last.Value;
}
}
struct FieldPos1<T>
{
public T Value { get; private set; }
public FieldPos1(T value)
: this()
{
Value = value;
}
}
struct FieldPos2<T>
{
public T Value { get; private set; }
public FieldPos2(T value)
: this()
{
Value = value;
}
}
struct FieldPos3<T>
{
public T Value { get; private set; }
public FieldPos3(T value)
: this()
{
Value = value;
}
}
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var p = new Person(new FieldPos1<string>("Alois"), new FieldPos3<string>("Kraus"));
var pV2 = new Person(new FieldPos1<string>("Alois"), new FieldPos2<string>("Christian"), new FieldPos3<string>("Kraus"));
}
}
You “only” need to ensure that you generate all optional overloads which leave out one or more fields because the did not exist yet to make it truly binary compatible. I am not sure if this positional wrapper is worth it. It is not as easy as using the person ctor with the real values but the concept it is quite easy to follow even for beginners which try to make their code compile by using Intellisense.
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csells says:
June 5, 2015 at 8:42 am
Are protobufs only used with GRPC? And if so, what if you think about it from a procedure POV instead of from the message POV? That’s what the P in RPC stands for, after all. : )
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jonskeet says:
June 5, 2015 at 8:46 am
No, protobufs can certainly be used for scenarios other than GRPC. The “P” part is indicated in the service definitions, not in the message definitions…
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Eamon Nerbonne says:
June 6, 2015 at 11:01 am
I think your proposed optional parameter syntax is bad idea irrespective of the C# limitations you point out.
Most people interacting with your API won’t be experts; and even experts have better things to do than memorize a large API – and that means you want to avoid many “practical” but slightly different ways of achieving the same thing. The downside to the optional parameter approach is that it composes poorly. If you want to build a message with a few fields, you cannot delegate most of those fields to a helper method and then set the final field yourself – the construction call is indivisible; all fields must be set, or none.
At the end of the day, what’s wrong with the new Person { FirstName = ... }.Build() syntax, or, if you prefer, a fluent api?
If GC pressure is an issue with a fluent interface, you could always consider using value types.
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jonskeet says:
June 6, 2015 at 11:16 am
Well, the constructor would probably have been an option rather than the only way of doing it – I’d probably have a builder as well, for those scenarios. I think it’s entirely reasonable for there to be multiple ways of achieving the same thing when they’re useful in different scenarios. As for what’s wrong with new Person.Builder {... }.Build() – the builder-specific parts are ugly, particularly if you’re only specifying a field or two. The language feature I’d really like is to be able to specify a builder type alongside the immutable type, so that the compiler would allow object-initializers to work with the builder and build the immutable type automatically… but that’s another matter. There are various other issues with using the builder pattern here that I don’t want to go into too much detail on – that wasn’t the point of the post, after all.
As for the fluent interface with just an immutable type – O(n^2) space allocation and assignments (where n is the number of fields) is really nasty – and the places where it’s nasty are places where you don’t want a value type with all those fields, either. This is where the context is important – protocol buffers are defined by other people, and can have many, many fields… and the same codegen applies whether there are 2 fields or 100. In a tightly controlled API like Noda Time, the fluent syntax is absolutely fine, because I can make the right decision about what to do based on the context. For codegen of arbitrary protobufs, I don’t believe it’s the right answer.
I’m still torn between the mutable API and the builder approach – both are ugly in different ways :(
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OmerMor says:
June 6, 2015 at 7:17 pm
What about having 2 versions of of each message class: mutable and immutable? You could implicitly convert mutable messages to immutable ones, and explicitly convert the other way round (.ToMutable()).
You can then enable construction only for the mutable messages, which means they could serve as your builder, but could also be used as real messages. You can then nudge people toward preferring the immutable messages by naming the mutable messages MutablePerson and the immutable ones as Person which hint that they should be preferred.
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jonskeet says:
June 6, 2015 at 7:36 pm
Yes, that’s mostly what we’ve got now, but it’s annoying in various ways – basically there’s no clearly good option here :(
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alexandru1337 says:
June 19, 2015 at 1:26 pm
Have you considered using a Dictionary<String, String> as your one and only parameter? That’s a mapping of parameter names to serialized objects your method needs to use, and then, you can simply just use what you need in your method from whatever the contents of this dictionary are, and/or serialize and de-serialize whatever you wish, manually, using XElement parsing.
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jonskeet says:
June 19, 2015 at 1:48 pm
No, I’d really rather not do that. Complete lack of compile-time assistance, requirement to convert everything to strings and back… nope, not for me :)
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alexandru1337 says:
June 19, 2015 at 6:55 pm
For compile-time assistance, you could define your own class that returns a parameter name and serialized object for a particular set of inputs. Your problem revolves around changing parameters anyways, so everything should work okay since you’ll change this construction logic with each build.
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ChaseMedallion says:
July 20, 2015 at 4:48 pm
I sometimes use the following variant of the fluent pattern which, while more complex in some ways, helps eliminate some of the issues mentioned (e. g. excess copying):
public class Person
{
public Person(Action<Builder> builder)
{
if (builder == null) { throw ... }
var personBuilder = new Builder(this);
builder(personBuilder);
// ensures that even if someone captures a reference to the
// builder in the passed-in action they can't use it to further mutate this objkect
personBuilder.End();
}
// all "immutable" properties allow private set
public string FirstName { get; private set; }
public class Builder
{
private Person person;
// it's important that this isn't publicly accessible or else someone could use it to mutate a Person.
// If we have our own assembly, internal will do just fine. However, if this source code will
// go right in the consumer's assembly we're probably better off making our public Builder class
// abstract and then providing a private implementation to forbid external construction
internal Builder(Person person)
{
this.person = person;
}
public Builder FirstName(string firstName)
{
this.person.FirstName = firstName;
return this;
}
// other builder methods
// comments about internal on the Builder constructor apply here too. If we had a private implementation
// this could just be Dispose()
internal void End() { this.person = null; }
}
}
// we can then use this as
var person = new Person(p => p.FirstName("Jon"));
Not as nice as optional parameters, but has the benefit of being fully backwards compatible (both source and binary) and being discoverable (the Person class is constructed through its constructor). As far as performance, we do no copying of fields since we write straight to the person object. On the other hand, we allocate the builder object and (likely) a delegate and closure object.
Another thought I had when reading this is that I could see the library generating the optional parameters constructor as a nice-to-have on top of another more verbose pattern for any message types that have contiguously numbered fields from 0-N. That still leaves us with the binary backwards compatibility problem, but that can be easily solved by adding N constructor overloads.
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JT says:
June 12, 2016 at 3:07 pm
I’m not sure why immutability is such a must have. These generated objects are purely used to serialise data over the wire, it’s not like anyone is using the generated classes as domain objects (if you are… oh dear). What’s the benefit of immutability in this scenario? Sure, it’s a nice a to have but not at the expense of additional GC pressure. In fact the uglier these generated objects are the better(!) as it would discourage people to reuse them where they shouldn’t (leaking outside their data layer).
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Thomas Hansen says:
June 23, 2017 at 8:59 am
Thx for gr8 writeup.
PS!
I explicitly invented this design pattern to solve the problems you’re describing … ;)
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"... Stopped Working" error when opening product
Product(s): WaterGEMS, WaterCAD, StormCAD, SewerGEMS, SewerCAD, CivilStorm, FlowMaster, PondPack
Version(s): CONNECT Edition, V8i
Area: Installation
Problem
When opening the standalone version of an OpenFlows product or when trying to open or create a hydraulic model, a small window appears with an error like "WaterGEMS has stopped working" (with no other details and no option to submit a crash log) and the program does not open.
Solution
This is a generic crash that can occur in a number of different situations, mostly related to operating system components or other supporting prerequisites. Here are some cases that have come up before:
Case 1
The "Stopped working" error can occur starting with versions that include access to CONNECTION client.
First, make sure you have the most recent version of the CONNECTION Client installed. This can be found in the Windows system tray - you can typically right click and choose to update. Also, try logging into the CONNECTION Client after updating. In some cases you may need to exit the CONNECTION Client and the OpenFlows product, reopen the CONNECTION Client (check the Windows start menu to find it), log in, then open the OpenFlows product.
Also, if possible, try running the OpenFlows product as Administrator - right click on the shortcut and choose "Run as Administrator"
If that doesn't help, try reinstalling CONNECTION Client, then performing a clean reinstallation of the OpenFlows product.
Case 2
This can occur if there is a problem with the Microsoft Visual C++ prerequisite. To resolve this, uninstall all existing versions of Microsoft Visual C++ as seen in the Windows "Programs and Features", then reinstall. Different versions of the OpenFlows product require different versions of the C++ redistributable, as well as other software you may have installed. Reinstall the OpenFlows product after uninstalling the C++ redistributables, and it will reinstall the requires ones, which usually consist of the following versions: 2005, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2015 (both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions).
In at least one case, it was found that the Microsoft Visual C++ "2015-2019" (14.26.28619) component needed to be manually installed first.
Case 3
In one case, the problem was resolved by running the program in compatibility mode. Right click on the desktop or start menu shortcut, choose Properties, click the Compatibility tab, then select to run in compatibility mode. Try different options such as Windows 7.
Case 4
This issue can also occur if there is a problem with the Microsoft .NET Framework prerequisite.
In one case, the Windows Event Viewer Application log contained a separate entry corresponding to the time of the crash, indicating an issue with "CLR20r3". Running a scan on the system resulted in the following:
It appears the issue has to do with the .NET Framework component that is a part of the operating system. The user had a repair done on his operating system to resolve this issue.
In another case, a full reinstallation was necessary:
1) Uninstall the OpenFlows product (from Windows "Programs and Features"). Preferably, do a clean reinstallation (removing leftover components after uninstalling)
2) Uninstall all Microsoft .NET framework versions, which need to be uninstalled in descending order. This may require you to uninstall Windows Media Player.
3) Restart your computer
4) Perform a registry cleanup. (Perform this step if comfortable - if not, try proceeding to the next steps) This can be done with a number of registry cleanup utilities, such as "CCleaner". This may locate and repair missing entries related to .NET Framework.
5) Reinstall and check if the error no longer occurs. Reinstallation of .NET Frameworks may also require reinstallation of Windows Media Center.
6) If the problem still occurs, try checking for any new additional updates to the .NET framework that are available. You may also want to check for recent Windows Updates of ".NET security and quality rollup".
Possible related links: 1 | 2
Case 5
If using a 64-bit Operating System, try opening the 32-bit version of the program first, create a new model, then try opening the program normally (such as from the Desktop shortcut). For example the 32-bit version of WaterCAD is C:\Program Files (x86)\Bentley\WaterCAD\WaterCAD.exe
Case 6
Another option would be to run a Repair on the program through the Control Panel (Control Panel > Programs and Features). After doing this, right-click on the shortcut for the program and select Properties. In the Compatibility tab, place check mark for the item "Run this program as an administrator". Also click on "Change settings for all users" and make sure that "Run this program as an administrator" is set for there as well.
Case 7
Products: FlowMaster 08.11.01.03, PondPack 08.11.01.56
Note: This workaround will not apply to OpenFlows applications other than the ones listed above.
Try opening the following managed starter file.
For FlowMaster: C:\Program Files (x86)\Bentley\FlowMaster\FlowMaster.Starter.exe
For PondPack: C:\Program Files (x86)\Bentley\PondPack8\Haestad.PondPack.Starter.exe
Opening the application using this file should not have any adverse effects. If the program opens without the error, then do the following to create a desktop shortcut.
Right-click on the file listed above, which corresponds to the application having the issue > Create Shortcut > Yes (to place it on your desktop).
Right-click on the new desktop shortcut > Properties > Compatibility tab > Change settings for all users > Check "Run this program as an administrator" > Apply > OK > OK.
Case 8
If this issue occurs with a specific model, try the following:
First, try compacting the database. To do this, close the model but leave the product open. Go to Tools > Database Utilities > Compact Database. Select the database file and choose the option to purge the model to save space. Once completed, open the model and see if the issue still occurs.
This is an indication that the output files are too large or numerous. Try creating a new folder and moving just the starter file and the database file (.wtg and .wtg.sqlite for the water products, .stsw and .stsw.sqlite for the storm and sewer products) to the new folder. Once done, open the model from the new folder location.
If that doesn't help, try importing the database into a new drawing. This is done by going to File > Import > (product name) database.
Lastly, you can also try deleting the engineering library database. Go to c:\users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Bentley\EngineeringLibraries and delete EngineeringLibraries.mdb and EngineeringLibraries.sqlite. Make sure the program is closed when you do this. When you open the program again, the files will get re-created. Note: Custom items in the engineering library will be lost if you do this.
What if none of these help?
Generate a "dump" file and send it to technical support for investigation. To do this:
1. Start the OpenFlows product (such as WaterCAD)
2. Do not close the Application has stopped working window
3. Run Windows Task Manager (press Ctrl-Shift-Esc or right click in the bar at the bottom of the screen and select “Start Task Manager”)
4. In Task Manager, go to the Processes tab and right-click on the crashed process
5. Select Create Dump File
You can compress this into a zip file and upload it as an attachment to your forum post here or your service request here (log in to the CONNECTION Center then click the "New Service Request" link). If the file is too large, request an upload link from technical support.
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