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Introduction: Snakebites pose a significant public health challenge globally, with India hosting over 250 venomous snake species. This study focuses on four major venomous land snakes, including the saw-scaled viper, responsible for numerous incidents worldwide. Snakebites result in millions of cases annually, with India reporting a substantial number, though the actual incidence and mortality rates may be underestimated due to traditional treatments in rural areas. Objective: The research aims to evaluate clinical parameters in patients with poisonous snakebites, emphasizing clinical predictors of mortality. Methodology: Conducted at a Medical College and Hospital from January to November 2023, the study involved 432 snakebite patients, with 260 exhibiting envenomation signs. Clinical criteria and treatments were standardized, and patient outcomes were monitored. Statistical analysis utilized SPSS version 26.0. Results: Among 260 patients, 58 did not survive, resulting in a mortality rate of 22.3%. No significant age or gender differences were observed between survivors and non-survivors. Rural areas accounted for a higher incidence, and September had the peak admission of patients. Lower limbs were predominantly affected (75.8%). Local pain and swelling were common symptoms. Bleeding tendencies, respiratory failure, and shock were associated with higher mortality. Discussion: Mortality rates varied, and factors like delayed hospital arrival, respiratory failure, acute renal failure, severe coagulopathy, and shock were identified as contributors to death. The study highlighted the correlation between mortality and complications such as bleeding tendencies and respiratory failure.
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BCHSJS students participated on Sunday in “The Exodus Games,” a pre-Passover program. Included was a lesson and project on modern day slavery, a mitzvah art-activity to enhance the seders of the group-home residents of the Jewish Association for Developmental Disabilities (J-ADD), relay races based on the ten plagues, charoset food prep, and re-enacting scenes from Exodus. A fun-filled, educational experience was had by all!
Students at the Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies participated in a mitzvah program this past Sunday with the residents of the Jewish Association for Developmental Disabilities (J-ADD) in Teaneck. BCHSJS students and J-ADD residents spent time socializing and creating Passover crafts together. The visit to the J-ADD home had a significant impact on the BCHSJS students. Eden Hirsch, a 10th grader said “The trip really changed my perspective on how I view things. I didn’t realize that an hour of my busy schedule could make someone else’s day.” Abby Reicher, an 8th grade student at BCHSJS shared, “The smiles of the men and women we visited filled my heart with joy. I had a blast helping them and working with them. It was a great experience that I hope to do again!”
Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies is a supplementary Hebrew high school for grades 8-12 that meets on Sundays at The Moriah School in Englewood. Visit their website www.bchsjs.org for further details. |
There is no Hallmark card for a divorced husband when everyone is sitting shiva for his deceased former wife.
I was married for 45 years to a wonderful woman. We had wonderful times together and have wonderful children and eight beautiful grandchildren. We also had some rough times in the last few years and unfortunately went through a divorce. I gave her a get and we went on with our lives.
Unfortunately she got very sick, which took her life very quickly. She passed on the first day of November 2023.
Do I sit shiva? No, I wasn’t married anymore. Do I say Kaddish? No, I wasn’t married anymore.
So there I was sitting in the back of the room where my kids were sitting shiva. Did anyone come over to me and say sorry? Very few people. Even my so-called friends who knew us both absolutely ignored me.
Did anyone realize I was suffering also? Yes, things were difficult in the last years but there certainly were some strong feelings still inside. I felt terrible that she suffered so much at the end and I truly could not do anything that could help me get over the feelings I had.
Unfortunately, people take sides and ignore the other person who is hurting also. It was truly sad and gave me a true perspective on how people act.
I was told that people “didn’t know how to act toward me.” That is no excuse. I know that I would have acted differently if I ever was put into that situation. People should have realized that if I didn’t care, I would not have been there.
So yes, there were no Hallmark cards for me, which I truly felt sorry about. |
Englewood—The Moriah School recently honored its teachers at a BOLD appreciation night held at Mocha Bleu with representatives from the BOLD Day School Project: Rachel Abrahams of the Avi Chai Foundation and Jeff Kiderman of AJE. BOLD Day Schools is a cooperative project of the AJE Project, the AVI CHAI Foundation and the Kohelet Foundation. Having launched this transformational education program at Moriah this year in grades one and five, the leadership of the school honored the teachers that piloted the program with tremendous success. The teachers demonstrated academic excellence in their pursuit of this 21st-century adaptive learning platform and shared their enthusiasm with their students as they witnessed impressive growth in the program.
This is a three-year program launched in September, for which there is a substantial grant. Moriah Multi-Modal Learning has allowed the school to deploy new technology advancements and create opportunities to fashion an adaptive learning environment for each child. Data about student performance is continuously assessed and each child’s education is personalized to meet his/her specific needs. Moriah has designed customized strategies that integrate technology into the instructional model that has created a learning environment where students have daily opportunities for individualized learning, group collaboration and teacher-led instruction, while teachers have online real-time proficiency data to assist as they differentiate small group instruction within the classroom.
Moriah has named these teachers BOLD Ambassadors. These ambassadors will assume the responsibility of mentoring new BOLD teachers in the second year of the program. The BOLD teachers have begun an important paradigm shift toward creative personalized education and Moriah is committed to seeing its students continue to benefit through its focus on student inquiry and creativity.
The leadership expressed its appreciation hakarat hatov for the teachers by having this celebratory dinner for a job well done. Teachers participated by sharing the wonderful experiences they had this year. “I loved working with my students in small groups;
it was great to listen to the children when they exclaimed, I love when we BOLD!” |
The Orthodox Jewish Nurses Association held their first annual conference at the Teaneck Jewish Center on Thursday, May 19. The conference drew nurses primarily from the metropolitan area but others also joined from Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Florida and Indiana. Over a hundred people gathered in anticipation of what was expected to be an impressive lineup of speakers addressing various issues of shared interest.
Rivka Pomerantz, RN, founder and president of OJNA, started the association with a Facebook page so that Orthodox Jewish nurses like her could find support and answers to problematic issues. After a few years, along with her colleagues Goldie Burstein, RN, Linda Segel, RN, and L’via Weisinger, RN, they officially incorporated the organization a few months ago. While there have been conferences in the past geared toward Orthodox nurses, this was the first under the banner of OJNA.
Weisinger, a registered nurse for over 20 years and vice president of OJNA, explained some unique issues Orthodox nurses are confronted with and why this conference is helpful in supporting many of those conflicts. Many facilities are not accommodating to nurses who elect to wear head coverings and skirts in lieu of hospital scrubs. However, perhaps the largest obstacle Orthodox nurses encounter is the inability to work on Saturday (Shabbat), a requirement for almost every hospital-based nursing position. Certain units will refrain from hiring more than a few Orthodox nurses because they will not be available for work on Saturdays. Often, this forces Orthodox nurses to pursue job opportunities in other types of facilities such as schools, camps and clinics. Weisinger herself is a school nurse at Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls and Heichal HaTorah, as well as a lactation consultant and postpartum nurse at Holy Name Medical Center. However, she is affectionately known in Teaneck as “The Lice Lady,” thanks to her unparalleled skills in removing those unwanted critters from children’s scalps.
The mission of OJNA is to support Orthodox nurses and educate them on how to most effectively navigate the industry and deal with the discrimination and negativity sometimes asserted toward them. Additionally, because Orthodox nurses have a certain responsibility to the community, OJNA provides invaluable resources and information on situations they encounter in regard to Jewish law. “As an Orthodox nurse, it is important to successfully navigate professional requirements and halachic allowances,” Weisinger told The Jewish Link. “The Jewish population has unique needs and we want our nurses capable and competent to handle them on a day-to-day basis.”
A unifying factor of this group of nurses is the commonality of issues faced due to their identity and outward religious practices. They confront similar challenges because of time constraints, family factors and lifestyle choices. It is because of this familiar ground that they seek to offer speakers who can address specifically the issues that are relevant to their nursing careers. “While most of the participants are Orthodox, the conference is certainly open to anyone who wants to attend. But again, the reason for the weekday scheduling is because these nurses are unable to attend the other conferences typically held on Saturday, and most of them are at work on Sunday,” explained Weisinger.
Samara Gold, along with her mother and sister, traveled quite a distance from South Bend, Indiana, to participate in the conference. “I was excited to attend the OJNA conference with my mother (Julie Blatt) and sister (Chana Blatt), who are both nurses as well. I felt it was worth the travel to meet and spend time with other nurses who share our unique challenges and values. Living in a smaller Jewish community, Orthodox nurses and patients are a very small minority. I especially appreciated learning about community resources that haven’t yet made their way to my area, but could benefit so many people here.”
Holy Name Medical Center, CareOne of Teaneck and NechamaComfort sponsored this year’s conference. Representatives from each of the sponsors were on hand to speak with participants and field inquiries. Jessica Hoffman, assistant administrator of CareOne of Teaneck, said, “CareOne of Teaneck is a local nursing facility committed to serving Teaneck residents. We are so happy to support a homegrown initiation on a sponsorship level. We are always seeking qualified nurses and this conference is a wonderful opportunity to foster a connection between these professionals and our facility.”
Holy Name Medical Center’s Chief Nursing Officer, Sheryl Slonim, said the hospital agreed to sponsor the conference in keeping with its mission “to ensure that all patients coming through our door feel safe, welcome and confident that we will treat them within the context of their personal, cultural and religious needs.” Holy Name partners with many local Jewish organizations in support of Teaneck’s community.
Subjects discussed at the conferences included breast and ovarian cancer, care of the special needs population, teens at risk and caring for aging Holocaust survivors. Reva Judas, founder and director of NechamaComfort, also spoke about perinatal loss and bereavement. Her organization was founded in 2008 and is hosted by the Jewish Family Service of Bergen and North Hudson. It is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping all family members who have experienced infant or pregnancy loss at any time in their lives. All services are free to anyone in need. Judas had the following advice for nurses: “Be informed and know what resources are available to you,” she emphasized. “The nurse’s position is twofold—dealing with a patient as a nurse and as part of the Jewish community.”
Toby Weiss, Director of Cultural Sensitivity and Jewish Programming at MJHS (Metropolitan Jewish Health System), discussed end-of-life care of the Shoah (Holocaust) survivor. Caring for elderly people in general must always be done with care and compassion. When providing services to Holocaust survivors, it is important to be mindful of words and actions. “We have to approach Holocaust survivors in a way that is sensitive and respectful. The impact of trauma in survivors manifests in distrust of strangers and acting out. Caretakers must build trust through listening and caring,” Weiss explained.
Teaneck Councilman Alan Sohn shared a few brief thoughts with the audience. He recounted a situation when he was admitted to Holy Name Medical Center and realized that nurses are underappreciated. “I have an immense appreciation for nurses. I received amazing care and I thank them for what they do,” said Sohn.
While nurses must handle all patients in an exemplary manner, within the observant community the Orthodox nurses can be especially advantageous to many patients and families. In many cases, the Orthodox nurses are knowledgeable in halachic matters that patients encounter while in a hospital or clinic. Additionally, being part of the greater community, these nurses are often privy to organizations and services outside of the hospital that can be very helpful in certain circumstances.
What makes OJNA such an outstanding organization is the camaraderie it fosters. The comfort in knowing that there are other nurses who have experienced a similar situation and could possibly provide support is very reassuring. A nurse’s job is to extend the best care possible to each patient. These nurses strive to make that a reality despite the hurdles that sometimes exist.
By Andrea Nissel |
On Thanksgiving weekend, RPRY’s weekly S.O.S Mishmar on motzei Shabbat welcomed alumni back to the school! The weekly program has been tremendously popular, with crowds of over one hundred parents and students coming each week to study in chevruta together. There are Divrei Torah, raffle prizes and food in addition to the quality learning each week. In honor of the number of alumni visiting home for the holiday, S.O.S Mishmar opened its doors to welcome them back to our halls. The festive excitement in the air was palpable. We are proud of the lifelong learners nurtured at RPRY! |
TABC achieved an astounding victory at the third meet of the New Jersey Math League last week. Seven students received a perfect score of six: Shalom Gottesman, Moshe Davis, Eli Dickman, Andrew Haberman, Hillel Koslowe, Yehuda Koslowe and Daniel Zolty. With these perfect scores, TABC tied for first place in the state for the third meet. The cumulative score resulted in the team moving from third to second place of thirty five schools in Bergen County overall, only one point below the two first place schools. TABC continues to hold the position of first place of all Yeshivas in the metropolitan area.
The following students obtained impressive scores of five: Noam Annenberg, Netanel Arussy, Jared Benjamin, A. J. Book, Orrin Kigner, Yair Knoller, Matan Leff, Yosef Muller, David Rabinovich, Jeremy Rosenblatt, Eitan Schneier, Noam Weider and Yaakov Kagel.
The achievements of the members of the TABC Math League brought honor to TABC. |
The Teaneck Police Department led multiple law enforcement agencies in responding to a planned protest at an Israeli real estate fair on Sunday at a synagogue in Teaneck. Close to 1,000 pro-Palestinian protesters were seen waving flags as they marched west on New Bridge Road toward Congregation Keter Torah, chanting Free Palestine slogans, including “There is only one solution. Intifada revolution,” and “Long live the intifada.”
The police department reportedly arrested two protesters late in the day for spraying pedestrians with a red liquid. “They are currently in custody and will be processed and charged by the police department,” wrote Dean Kazinci, Teaneck’s town manager, in an email. Later it was announced that one protester was arrested while one was released. Multiple people leaving the event reported that red paintballs were shot at their cars but that they were encouraged to leave the area and file police reports.
Kazinci said that law enforcement was successful in preventing significant civil unrest. “As with any gathering of this size and magnitude, some minor skirmishes took place. The police exercised excellent judgment and restraint in not escalating a very volatile situation,” he wrote.
Thirty volunteers from CSS (Community Security Services) from many synagogues around Bergen County stepped up to assist in securing the event as well, which went on as expected and was well attended. In addition to the volunteer security detail, Teaneck Police Department also had assistance from the Bergen County Sheriff’s Department, the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, Hackensack Police Department, Bergenfield Police Department, New Milford Police Department, and many others who make up the rapid deployment force. It was later reported that the New Jersey State Police and the NJ Attorney General’s Office responded as well.
“Today we heard from 1,000 pro-Palestinian protesters. They expressed no desire for a ceasefire or for peace; just the sole hope to take over the entire land of Israel and expel, or do worse, to the Jewish occupants. This isn’t my opinion. This was their words. Their chants. For hours. For months. Here in Teaneck and across the whole world,” said Teaneck Councilman Mark Schwartz, who is also co-publisher of The Jewish Link.
Bergen County Jewish Action Committee (BCJAC) condemned the protest, saying that the informational program on real estate in Israel at Congregation Keter Torah was a “cynical attempt to target a religious institution under false pretenses as part of a coordinated and malicious campaign to harass Teaneck’s Jewish community,” said Yigal Gross, BCJAC’s spokesman.
Organizers of the protest misrepresented the event as a synagogue-sponsored illegal auction of stolen Palestinian land which excluded non-whites from attending. “All of these claims are categorically false,” he said. The synagogue was not sponsoring the event, there was no sale of any kind taking place; no ethnic groups were excluded from the event, and no laws were being violated in holding the fair.
“These claims are simply smokescreens for what this really is—a malicious attempt to target and harass a Jewish community,” said Gross.
Teaneck Town Council member Hillary Goldberg recounted the events of the day, describing a variety of assaults and destructive behavior.
“I watched our police get verbally abused. I watched water bottles get thrown on cars as they drove by. I watched people, from young children to old men, calling for our destruction and that of Israel,” Goldberg shared. “This was antisemitism. All of it. It was not a peaceful protest. This was a hateful protest.”
As they have elsewhere in the United States and abroad in the wake of Israel’s defensive war against the terrorist group Hamas following the October 7th massacre, pro-Hamas demonstrators have escalated their attempts to target Jewish communities. Teaneck, where Jewish residents number as much as 40% of population, has seen numerous protests over these past months.
“It is no coincidence that this quiet New Jersey town has become such a flashpoint for pro-Palestinian activism,” said Gross. “These protestors are here because we are here. They are seeking out and targeting Teaneck’s Jews.”
BCJAC supported a fundraiser for every protester who protested the real estate marketing event; A donation was made to American Friend of Magen David Adom (MDA), the Red Cross equivalent in Israel, which saves the lives of Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Israel every day. At press time almost $15,000 had been raised. Various Teaneck, Bergenfield and New Milford WhatsApp groups also collected donations to purchase coffee and doughnuts to thank local police departments for Monday morning. |
A few years ago, I wrote about how a Florida Condo Association had its first sukkah experience. Within the development, there was a mix of Jewish and non-Jewish residents who otherwise lived amicably. The association president, who was Jewish, was faced with a big dilemma one year as he received a petition from several owners in protest of the temporary huts (sukkah’s) that were being built within the community. After deliberating how to handle the matter delicately, he found in favor of the petitioners and required that all sukkahs had to be removed within 15 days. Everyone was happy.
A while back, I was working on a delicate transaction of my own. My clients were purchasing a new construction home, and the process took a lot longer than expected. They complied with all that was required, and we were ready with their mortgage well ahead of schedule. The problem was – the home wasn’t! I coordinated to have the appraisal done as late in the process as possible, while we simultaneously prepared everything for closing.
I visited the property a few times throughout the process to see if it was in acceptable condition to have an appraiser visit. Each time it wasn’t, and I didn’t want my client to endure extra costs for the appraiser to revisit the property. Slowly things were getting completed in the house, but time was running out to meet our closing deadline. Not only was their mortgage rate expiring and movers scheduled – entailing thousands of dollars in penalties – but they needed to be out of their current residence by month’s end.
It was a week before closing, and we became aware of a significant setback regarding the completion of the house. The entire ground exterior of the home was unfinished, and the landscaper informed the builder that they were weeks away from getting to the home. The news dealt a blow to our plans to complete the appraisal and get clearance for closing in time for the deadline. The buyer was anxious to maintain the move date and to avoid excess fees through no fault of their own. The builder was anxious to get paid and pay his contractors and vendors whose patience were waining. On top of it all, there was a pending snowstorm coming, that predicted considerable accumulations likely to delay completion of the outside work even further. Our chances of closing on time seemed to be slipping away.
That night I had an epiphany. I began searching for an appraiser who would inspect the property immediately after the snow concluded. I found someone willing to go out, and the appointment was set. As the snow fell, the home’s exterior was entirely covered in snow, concealing the unfinished grounds. The appraiser completed their report without issue, and the loan was cleared for closing on time. Of course, within a few weeks of the closing, I had the appraiser return to the house to take updated pictures of the beautifully completed exterior to make sure it was completed to satisfaction. Everyone was happy.
We are often faced with events within our life that require astute and creative solutions. The housing and mortgage industry is no exception – and can cause significant loss or hardship when faced with a setback. I love the opportunity to offer temporary and creative solutions to help my clients when they are in a bind. Only when working with a skilled, experienced, and veteran professional can you be assured that you will persevere without hardship and penalties.
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The Israeli military struck Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, December 29, following a cross-border shooting attack earlier in the day. An Israeli civilian working on the security fence near the northern Gaza Strip sustained minor injuries at noon, apparently due to Palestinian sniper fire, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said.
Palestinian media reported that the Israeli military responded to the shooting with artillery fire towards a number of Hamas sites in the Strip. The IDF confirmed the shellings. The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said three Palestinians have been wounded. Their identity was not immediately clear.
The incident comes amid a series of lone-wolf terrorist attacks in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem, as well as several security incidents involving Palestinian prisoners jailed in Israel, and threats of escalation by the Gaza-based
It also comes a day after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met Defense Minister Benny Gantz in the latter’s home in Rosh Ha’ayin for his first talks with a senior Israeli official inside Israel in over a decade. There have been ongoing efforts to reach a stable, long-term ceasefire following a major escalation of violence in May.
Hamas, the terrorist group controlling the Gaza Strip that openly seeks Israel’s destruction, and the Palestinian Islamic
Jihad are frustrated by the impasse in the ceasefire talks with Israel and have increased their threats of escalation over the past few days.
Hamas lambasted Abbas over the meeting and called it a “stab in the back.”
The terrorist groups in the coastal enclave staged a massive military drill on Monday, December 27, practicing attacks against Israeli security forces. It included Hamas, the PIJ, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Popular Resistance Committees—a coalition of a number of small Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza.
Palestinian media reported that the maneuvers “seek to convey political and military messages to Israel and the other mediators” that Hamas and the other groups in Gaza are growing impatient with the sluggish attempts to broker a long-term ceasefire between the Jewish state and the Islamist terrorist group.
The Defense Ministry said that the victim “is an employee of a civilian company contracted by the ministry, who carried out routine maintenance work on the security fence. He sustained minor injuries to his leg and was treated on-site before being evacuated to the Brazilian Medical Center in Ashkelon.”
According to the hospital, the 33-year-old was struck by shrapnel as he worked on an ATV near Kibbutz Nahal Oz.
The army ordered farmers to stay away from land near the Gaza border.
By Lilach Shoval and Ilya Yegorov/Israel Hayom via JNS and combined sources |
PABC Garage Sale – THANK YOU!
Thank you to Kari McLaren and Rosemary Stice for organizing this year’s PABC Garage Sale! Our families and community raised over $4400 for the Band, Vocal, and Drama Departments. We are extremely thankful for everyone’s generosity and support.
Monday, May 1st – 7:00 PM — Student Call Time: 6:20 PM
We look forward to seeing band families at our final home concert band performance of the season.
***Seniors – please make sure to send Mr. Dupuis a baby photo and senior photo by Monday, April 24th.
Wind Symphony and the Urbandale Vocal Department are excited to present the world premiere of a newly commissioned piece entitled Meant For This World by Dr. Michael Golemo. Through this commission sponsored by the Urbandale Schools and Alumni foundation, we hope to support, encourage, and inspire all people who struggle with mental health. We are proud to dedicate this piece to the Urbandale Music Community.
Live Stream: http://www.j-hawks.com/live
State Large Group Festival
Saturday, May 6th – Dallas Center Grimes High School
All three concert bands (Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble and Wind Symphony) will perform at the Iowa High School State Large Group Festival to be held at Dallas Center Grimes High School on Saturday, May 6th. A detailed itinerary can be found HERE.
Dallas Center Grimes High School
2555 W 1st Street
Grimes, Iowa 50111
Drumline Auditions Due April 24th
Percussionists interested in playing in the battery next fall will have the opportunity to submit a video audition no later than April 24th. Interested students should see a band staff member for details. Audition instructions can be found HERE.
On Tuesday, May 9th, the high school jazz bands and middle school jazz bands present the last concert of the year. The concert will take place at 7:00 p.m. in the high school PAC. Admission is $5
Live Stream: http://www.j-hawks.com/live
Wind Symphony Elementary Tour
On Wednesday, May 17th, the Urbandale Wind Symphony will tour elementary schools throughout UCSD in order to perform and demonstrate instruments for next year’s 5th grade class. The Wind Symphony will feature soloists to introduce each instrument and perform a short concert at each school. We are excited to perform and encourage band enrollment within UCSD!
Commencement – May 25, 2023
Commencement Band will consist of next year’s Wind Symphony members who are currently in a 1st period band. Concert attire will be concert black. The band will play from the floor of the Knapp Center in full view of a very large audience. The students’ usual professionalism in performance, appearance, and actions will be proudly on display.
An itinerary for the evening can be found HERE.
***2023-24 Calendar – NEW***
The band’s complete calendar for the 2023-24 school year is posted HERE. Thanks for adding these dates to your calendar.
As a reminder, you can subscribe to the J-Hawk Band Calendar electronically using this link:
Next year’s dates will be added to the electronic calendar soon.
The 4th of July Parade
The community has long enjoyed the UHS Band’s participation in the Independence Day Parade. Please mark your calendars so band students will be available to provide this great service to our community on Tuesday, July 4th. Students will be involved from approximately 8:00 a.m. to Noon.
We hope to see you along the route cheering on the band as they perform for you and the whole community of Urbandale!
ACT Test Dates 2023-2024
Students planning to take the ACT in the coming year should plan ahead to avoid performance conflicts.
June 10 Good day to take the ACT
July 15 Good day to take the ACT
Sept. 9 Good day to take the ACT
Oct. 28 Good day to take the ACT
Dec. 9 ACT TEST CONFLICT W/ Jazz Band; if this applies to you, do not register for ACT on this day
Feb. 10 Good day to take the ACT
April 13 Good day to take the ACT
June 8 Good day to take the ACT
Turn in Band Instruments / Inventory
All band department instruments need to be turned in for our annual inventory according to the following schedule:
Seniors: turn in: May 18th and 19th
Symphonic Band: turn in after rehearsal on Wednesday, May 24th.
Wind Ensemble: turn in after rehearsal on Thursday, May 25th
Wind Symphony: turn in upon returning from graduation ceremony.
This includes any and all school owned instruments, drums, drum stands and carriers, etc. Parents, thanks for your help in reminding students to check-in their instruments.
All students can check out their instruments for next year beginning on Tuesday, May 26th.
We encourage students who are in the Wind Symphony, or hope to be in the Wind Symphony someday, to audition for All-State. For students considering Instrumental All-State auditions next fall, here are the honest keys to success:
- Students study with a private teacher on their instrument starting ASAP and throughout the summer.
- Play on a professional quality instrument
- Practice Daily
- Scale and solo preparations.
- Build technique: tone quality, range, endurance, finger dexterity, and melodic interpretation
- Aim for the 100-day club; practicing for 100 consecutive days – then 125, etc.
- Focus on goals, overcome obstacles. |
moving to moveabletype
This is my first post to jill/txt using MoveableType.
I started blogging in October 2000. It was reading Caterina.net I realised what blogging was about. I can’t remember how I found Caterina, but once found I loved what I read: her beautiful flowing style of writing, the mixture of commentary and the personal, the links. I remember seeing the little icon “made with Blogger” and following the link to Blogger.com. I signed up as soon as I realised how easy blogging was, and never looked back.
A year later I started using Tinderbox instead. I love the power of Tinderbox: it lives on your personal computer instead of on an external server (Blogger was often down when I wanted to write). You can organise anything in Tinderbox, and you can use multiple views of your notes: spatial, colourful, hypertextual as well as conventional outlines. I kept notes for my thesis and for my blog together, marking some for publication in the blog and others as private, and had templates that controlled the HTML export so those notes I wanted public became entries in jill/txt. I’m not going to stop using Tinderbox.
I’ll be continuing to use Tinderbox for my personal notes, and for themed groups of notes where I expect to export some of the content to HTML. Tinderbox is much, much better than MoveableType for organising the connections between your own notes. MoveableType excels at connections between sites. |
Workshop at Serverless Architecture Conference held at The Hague, The Netherlands on 8 April 2019
Serverless functions give us the power to fail faster, and more often. Since there are no servers to manage, you can create isolated, production-like environments much quicker. Because of this, it will be easier to develop and run pipelines which will run faster and more stable. You will gain the needed feedback much faster.
However, giving the natural small size of functions, within no time we will have thousands of them running. Managing this will soon slow us down, and we can get lost in translation with our business. We will lose the fast feedback that was promised.
Join us in this workshop where we leverage the Bounded Context pattern from Domain-Driven Design. We will design the boundaries using EventStorming, leverage Test Driven Development to code our AWS Lambdas, and use GitLab with SAM and CloudFormation to continuous testing and continuous delivery of our application. So if you don’t want to make a mess of all your lambda’s, and want your models to stay connected with the way the business thinks about them, this is the perfect workshop for you! |
JO Art by Jadranka Orihovac
Where art meets fashion.
With these words the JO Art carefully and with love handcraftet pieces can be described. The fully handmade jewelry and interior ornaments are designed to accent the unique style not just of the recipient but the designer herself, Jadranka Orihovac.
Her talent for creating new and modern yet eternally classic with the vintage and eclectic spirit, and all of that from totally recyclable materials, makes her a pioneer of sustainability in the Croatian design circles.
The statement bracelets and necklaces are pure original kaleidoscope of glamorous accents like Swarowski crystals beads, Murano glass, feathers, fur, the velvety ribbons, classy pearls dashing the whispers of vintage romaticism and baroque lavish. Each piece individually is unique handmade and two identical items never get made. And yet these pieces are still captured eternally in a trend because they are dazzled with originality that never goes out of style, guided by guided by the principle of “Fashion fade, style is eternal”. Easy to incorpirate in every outfit, from urban and streestyle to high elegance, JO Art jewelry is here to accentuate your personality that everyone will notice spreding positive energy, exceptional beauty and happiness.
The unique candels and ornamented eggs are another level of infusing the authentic touch to your interior. They are fully handmade from again recycled materials, boosted with love and care and added aromathic oils. The tins are decorated with lace, shells from Adriatic sea, by nature produced gifts like dry fruit or chest nuts. For every occasion the candles, especially the sculpted ones, are here to be the perfect gift for a dear person just like the decorative eggs that transfer the known Easter occasions’ conotations and spread into the everlasting decor that enchants and produces the visual magic.
Step into the JO Art world and feel the power of high-defined design that corresponds to refined taste and desire! |
"For someone interested in joining, I’d simply say don’t hesitate, do it. It’s the best decision I’ve ever made. I am so glad I’ve joined the Hakim Group and I’ve never looked back. It’s been an amazing experience."
Our mission is to help you become the best version of yourself. Our support aims to to enrich your life as a whole, not just as an employee. Find the freedom to be exceptional. Join an independent practice today. |
Abiomed, a member of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, is currently recruiting for an Associate Clinical Consultant , to be in the Seattle, Washington North territory.
Abiomed, part of Johnson & Johnson MedTech, is a leading provider of medical devices that provide circulatory and respiratory support, with a mission of recovering hearts & saving lives. Abiomed’s “Patients First!” culture drives our skilled workforce and strong relationships with clinicians. Our innovative product portfolio and robust pipeline provide us the incredible opportunity to bring lifesaving technology to more patients around the world than ever before. Founded in 1981, Abiomed has a proven track record for growth, integrity and innovation.
ABIOMED is redefining team-driven success while reshaping heart recovery. Here, new ideas are welcomed and encouraged, learning is constant, and our dynamic setting enables positive people to do profoundly important work.
In this role as an Associate Clinical Consultant, you will be responsible for demonstrating the value and impact of our Impella® product portfolio to physicians and hospital staff. You will advise Interventional Cardiologists and Surgeons in patient selection, partner on training, and attend implants. As a key role on the Commercial team, you will acquire and demonstrate a working knowledge of our products/therapies and develop an extensive understanding of all their applications. You will provide comprehensive guidance on the appropriate use of the Impella® devices enabling physicians and staff to deliver positive patient outcomes.
- Improve patient outcomes through education and medical staff interaction, including clinical demos and ongoing training for new and existing accounts
- Collect clinically relevant data, document trip results, and communicate activities with other team members and sales counterparts.
- Acquire and demonstrate a working knowledge of our products/therapies and develop an extensive understanding of all their applications.
- Attend implants and consult physicians and medical staff on appropriate use and applications
- Collaborate with sales counterpart on awareness programs and activities in franchise.
- 2+ years as an RN in a Cath Lab or ICU; or a minimum of 2 years’ experience as a Tech patient support in an ICU
Experience and Skills:
- Availability for emergent patient care required
- Ability to travel 50% within territory required
- Conduct duties and responsibilities in accordance with all state and federal laws and regulations governing the medical device industry required
- Hands on Impella support experience
- Ability to work and thrive in a team environment
- Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to advocate with physicians
- Experience as an Abiomed per diem
- ECMO experience
- Experience delivering clinical training
- RN License strongly preferred
- Industry field based experience
- This position requires you to be on call
- This position requires the ability to travel up to 50% within the territory
The anticipated base pay range for this position is $100,000 - $125,000
.– The Company maintains a highly competitive sales incentive compensation program. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for participation in this program in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan.
Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.
Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
For more information on how we support the whole health of our employees throughout their wellness, career and life journey, please visit www.careers.jnj.com . |
The commercial contracts legal team of a large insurance broker is currently seeking a junior lawyer to come on board and deal with a broad variety of commercial matters. As well as contracts, the team cover change projects, corporate governance and some regulatory changes where they relate to agreements. You will look at all sorts of trading, insurance distribution and client facing agreements, escalated NDAs, broker letters, and delegated letters of authority, as well as non-insurance contracts such as marketing, sponsorship, and supplier related contracts. You will have access to senior management and get involved in committees even at a junior level as you also pick up work that doesn’t fit into a particular team. This is a great opportunity for someone aspiring to management and general counsel roles in the future due to the broad nature of the work.
For this position we are looking for a qualified lawyer with up to 3 years’ experience. You should have some financial services experience and some contracts experience will also be required. This is a particularly collaborative team and fit will be important in an environment where colleagues work to support each other.
For more information or a confidential discussion please contact Tracy Brown on 020 3743 0695 or email [email protected] |
We are a leader in the long-term care industry operating in 7 different states. It is our commitment to the care of our residents and our staff that sets us apart from the rest. From the development of our Scratch Kitchens to the Saber Foundation Employee Hardship program, we are committed to the care and attention of everyone we serve!
Come work for a growing company, who appreciates the value of its team members!
This is our Advantage:
• Weekly Pay!
• Set your own schedule!
• Set your own prices!!
• Licensed in the state as a beautician/barber/cosmetologist, as required.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and customer service skills.
• Performs hair style consultation on patients in order to decide what services the patient wants or needs.
• Provides services to patients such as shampooing, cutting, styling, coloring and highlighting as desired.
• Maintains safety standards and cleanliness.
Shift and Wage:
• Set your own schedule
Benefits and Perks:
• Employee Recognition Programs
• Culture of employees creating an IMPACT!
We comply with any federal and/or state mandates related to the COVID 19 vaccine
We are an equal Opportunity Employer/Minorities/Female/Disabled/Veteran and also promote a drug-free workplace. |
Remote, Remote, US
Marinus Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of innovative therapeutics committed to developing breakthrough therapies to improve the quality of lives of patients and their families as they battle rare and life-threatening diseases.
Based in Radnor, PA we are comprised of a team of dedicated and talented professionals, valued for their innovation and commitment to developing new therapies for CNS disorders and their passion to make a positive difference in the lives of our patients.
We are currently searching for an experienced professional to join our team as
Director, Cloud Operations & End-User Services
The Director, Cloud Operations & End-User Services plans, directs, and manages technology operations and end-user related services. These services broadly include compute/systems management (Cloud), network, cyber security, collaboration computing (e.g., M365) and service desk (end-user) support. Marinus is a cloud first technology organization that leverages enterprise SaaS applications and Microsoft Azure IaaS. This position will report to the Senior Director, Information Technology and ensure all technology services are operating securely, efficiently, and effectively to support Marinus business operations. This is a hands-on role that will manage technical teams of internal and external on/offshore technology professionals.
Key responsibilities include but not limited to the following:
At Marinus, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees; providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully
Marinus Pharmaceuticals does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Please, no phone calls or emails.
Please see job description |
Can I get an Amen?!? Everyone’s favorite image sharing app, Instagram, or in some cases, what I ate for breakfast app, now supports landscape and portrait images. But don’t worry, they didn’t take away your precious 1:1 ratio just yet.
“Square format has been and always will be part of who we are. That said, the visual story you’re trying to tell should always come first, and we want to make it simple and fun for you to share moments just the way you want to. It turns out that nearly one in five photos or videos people post aren’t in the square format, and we know that it hasn’t been easy to share this type of content on Instagram: friends get cut out of group shots, the subject of your video feels cramped and you can’t capture the Golden Gate Bridge from end to end. Now, when choosing a photo or video, you can tap the format icon to adjust the orientation to portrait or landscape instead of square. Once you share the photo, the full-sized version of it will appear to all of your followers in feed in a beautiful, natural way. To keep the clean feel of your profile grid, your post will appear there as a center-cropped square.”
This new change will be wonderful for photographers and videographers who likely hate cropping their content. If you’ve ever tried cropping a video you know exactly what I’m talking about.
For those who have already upgraded to Instagram version 7.5, and are scratching their heads wondering why their images are still square, it’s because you’re not seeing the tiny button Instagram added. If you look in the bottom left corner of your image you will see a tiny icon that has two arrows pointing away from each other. This is what you will need to press to activate landscape or portrait mode.
In addition to this huge upgrade to Instagram, they have also merged the filters into one. Instead of having a different set of filters for photos and videos, you can now use the same ones on either type of media. On video, they have also added the option to adjust how much of the filter you use. |
Going through divorce can be an overwhelming experience that impacts nearly every facet of your life, including estate planning. Yet, with so much to deal with during the divorce process, many people forget to update their plan or put it off until it’s too late.
Failing to update your plan for divorce can have a number of potentially tragic consequences, some of which you’ve likely not considered—and in most cases, you can’t rely on your divorce lawyer to bring them up. If you are in the midst of a divorce, and your divorce lawyer has not brought up estate planning, there are several things you need to know. First off, you need to update your estate plan, not only after your divorce is final, but as soon as you know a split is inevitable.
Here’s why: until your divorce is final, your marriage is legally in full effect. This means if you die or become incapacitated while your divorce is ongoing and haven’t updated your estate plan, your soon-to-be ex-spouse could end up with complete control over your life and assets. And that’s generally not a good idea, nor what you would want.
Given that you’re ending the relationship, you probably wouldn’t want him or her having that much power, and if that’s the case, you must take action. While state laws can limit your ability to make certain changes to your estate plan once your divorce has been filed, here are a few of the most important updates you should consider making as soon as divorce is on the horizon.
1. Update your power of attorney documents
If you were to become incapacitated by illness or injury during your divorce, the very person you are paying big money to legally remove from your life would be granted complete authority over all of your legal, financial, and medical decisions. Given this, it’s vital that you update your power of attorney documents as soon as you know divorce is coming.
Your estate plan should include both a durable financial power of attorney and a medical power of attorney. A durable financial power of attorney allows you to grant an individual of your choice the legal authority to make financial and legal decisions on your behalf should you become unable to make such decisions for yourself. Similarly, a medical power of attorney grants someone the legal authority to make your healthcare decisions in the event of your incapacity.
Without such planning documents in place, your spouse has priority to make financial and legal decisions for you. And since most people typically name their spouse as their decision maker in these documents, it’s critical to take action—even before you begin the divorce process—and grant this authority to someone else, especially if things are anything less than amicable between the two of you.
Once divorce is a sure thing, don’t wait—immediately contact us, as your Personal Family Lawyer®, to support you in getting these documents updated. We recommend you don’t rely on your divorce lawyer to update these documents for you, unless he or she is an expert in estate planning, as there can be many details in these documents that can be overlooked by a lawyer using a standard form, rather than the documents we will prepare for you.
2. Update your beneficiary designations
As soon as you know you are getting divorced, update beneficiary designations for assets that do not pass through a will or trust, such as bank accounts, life insurance policies, and retirement plans. Failing to change your beneficiaries can cause serious trouble down the road.
For example, if you get remarried following your divorce, but haven’t changed the beneficiary of your 401(k) plan to name your new spouse, the ex you divorced 15 years ago could end up with your retirement account upon your death. And due to restrictions on changing beneficiary designations after a divorce is filed, the timing of your beneficiary change is particularly critical.
In most states, once either spouse files divorce papers with the court, neither party can legally change their beneficiaries without the other’s permission until the divorce is final. With this in mind, if you’re anticipating a divorce, you may want to consider changing your beneficiaries prior to filing divorce papers, and then post-divorce you can always change them again to match whatever is determined in the divorce settlement.
If your divorce is already filed, consult with us and your divorce lawyer to see if changing beneficiaries is legal in your state—and also whether it’s in your best interest. Finally, if naming new beneficiaries is not an option for you now, once the divorce is finalized it should be your number-one priority. In fact, put it on your to-do list right now!
Next week, we’ll continue with part two in this series on the estate-planning updates you should make when getting divorced.
Proper estate planning can keep your family out of conflict, out of court, and out of the public eye. If you’re ready to create a comprehensive estate plan, contact us to schedule your Family Wealth Planning Session. Even if you already have a plan in place, we will review it and help you bring it up to date to avoid heartache for your family. Schedule online today. |
The new interior is a brand new concept. Besides aesthetic, Jomeco aimed to create cozy interiors that would prompt visitors to stay inside for a little longer than usual while on their daily bakery round, and it can be done with the use of the vital 5 materials, and a multitude of other details such as colors, furniture, and lighting.
In the new design, white bricks and cement walls reinforce the sense of — infinity.
The delectable bakery display is made of glass and aluminum extrusion, combined with a warmer palette of materials such as stone and American walnut and installed throughout the key merchandising area.
American walnut and black metal retail shelving add another visual layer and complete the ambience.
One cafe’s seating is positioned opposite the serving counter, and a few at the entrance.
Bespoke American Walnut solid staircase creates a quiet, neutral yet dynamic atmosphere.
A concrete look floor adds a subtle touch of modernity and industrial vibe.
To make the bakery stand out, Jomeco used both diverse lighting and natural lighting effect in this space. |
Microbes have demonstrated very complex social relations, between other microbes and other species. A previous post discussed elaborate chemical communication amongst microbes, including their collaboration in building biofilm cities. Another post mentions how individual cells are able to form larger structures that act as fruiting bodies, slugs, and other multi-cellular structures. A third previous post described the symbiotic relationship of plants and fungi whereby nutrients and signals are transferred from plant to plant and fungi to plant.
But the scientific community may not have been prepared for microbes’ communicating along their own advanced electrical ‘wires’ to send food and energy to each other.
Depending on Oxygen for Energy
It is known that atoms have a certain number of electrons that exist in different energy orbits. When combined in molecules with other atoms one of the atoms can take on more electrons or give up electrons changing the characteristics of that atom. (see diagram)
Oxygen is such a good acceptor of electrons that the process of a chemical taking on new electrons is called “oxidation”. The opposite process of giving up electrons is called reduction. The process of exchanging electrons releases energy to the cell that helps create the basic cellular food. Oxygen then takes these extra electrons and uses them in other reactions. So, in the human body, and most other creatures when electrons are set free by enzymes in chemical reactions oxygen is often there to accept them.
It is also important to note that large numbers of electrons can also be drawn from atoms and then directed to flow on a charge gradient along wires, which is the basis of electricity.
The movements of electrons to create energy in animal and plant cells are fundamental to life. The mechanisms of this electron transfer to create energy and food for cells are very complex, and not completely understood.
In the mitochondria of animal cells electron transport to supply energy involves a large number of immense protein molecules embedded in a membrane (see diagram below which shows how complex this process is in animal cells).
Other Food for Microbes
In the absence of oxygen, deep in the earth for example, other chemicals can take the place of oxygen in the oxidative process to make food for bacteria. These chemicals, like oxygen, must be able to accept electrons from molecules. Some bacteria use sulphates, nitrates, and iron for this purpose, instead of oxygen. Iron, nitrates and sulfates accept electrons in the same type of electron transfer process, which is still called “oxidation”. In such bacteria the metabolism is altered so that oxygen itself is toxic.
Bacteria often “breath”, therefore, without oxygen and instead hand off electrons to iron particles in dirt, where there is no oxygen. It was a surprise to learn that bacteria could breathe with a rock.
In experiments with bacteria, when they were not allowed to be near oxygen or iron, it was observed that hairs started growing from the bacteria. Later it was learned that these hairs conduct electricity. As the bacteria continued releasing electrons they needed to find an oxidizing agent to accept the electrons and these hairs were wires that were searching for an electron acceptor somewhere. In the lab these bacterial hair like nanowires conducted a billion electrons per second nanowires, which is enough energy to power the cell. When the wires found a piece of iron or other electron acceptor the respiration in the cell increased.
Electrical Conducting and Transport Wires
Recently, it was discovered that in the earth microbes produce these thin, incredibly efficient wires that conduct electricity. Deep underground or in the ocean, there is little oxygen. There, bacteria make wires that connect a cell to other cells. Then, they use oxygen or an oxygen-substitute to go through oxidative process. In the latter case, they make wires connecting to a rock. Bacteria shuttle electrons away and complete their respiration cycle via these wires.
These wires allow microbes to transport electrons a distance thousands of microbe-lengths away. The tiny wires, also called nanowires, are one of the holy grails of the new attempts in nanotechnology to build microscopic machines, robots, and medical instruments.
Even more strange is that the wires connect together with many bacteria forming a chain of wires looking for oxidation acceptors from which all can “breath” and eat.
When many microbe wires are embedded in biofilms (large cities of microbes – see picture) the wires develop electrical properties on par, or better, than our best conductors. However, unlike metal wires designed by human engineers, bacterial wires are made of only protein. Previously, it was thought that biological wires would need embedded proteins with minerals. These biofilm protein wires, though, neither have metals nor an apparent limit in their range. One group of microbes uses a long wire to consume iron as we breathe oxygen. In terms of scale this is equivalent to breathing through a tube miles long.
Remarkably, these cooperatively constructive wires are not limited to a single species. Different species of microbes can use the same wires to exchange electrons. To do this, one microbe produces hydrogen while the other consumes it. The direct-wired connection allows for the exchange of vital energy and food between species. A parallel to this was described in a previous post whereby plants exchange food and energy with other plants, even long distances away, through wires made of fungus, a different species.
In soil, where oxygen is rare but microbes thrive, microbes form wires from inches underground to find an electron source. In fact, there is an electric grid going from microbes far underground, who have no oxygen, to surface microbes, who have access to oxygen. This underground, biological grid powers the life of billions of microbes under every square inch of soil. Disparate types of microbes, like bacteria and archaea, cooperate in this way to survive.
Animal Cells Also Have Nanotubes
Similar nanotubes have also been recently found in animal cells. Very straight nanotubes have now been observed between mammalian cells. These channels have been shown to help blood cells kill cancer cells either by attaching to the cell to limit mobility or by sending chemicals to kill it. These animal cell tubes also conduct electricity and send signals during migration and healing of wounds. It has been suggested that this is the mechanism of the transfer of prions that have been noticed recently to travel between neurons, including the possible transmission of abnormal amyloid and tau molecules that spread the neuronal damage of Alzheimer’s disease.
Who would have guessed that such an elaborate electrical connection existed between microbes, and existed even between different microbe species? This discovery shows an unprecedented level of communication between microbes at a technical level significantly beyond the current capacity of human engineers. These extremely efficient protein wires which transfer electrons between different species operate at enormous distances, literally thousands of times the size of the microbes.
Just as human beings have been increasingly wired together for more than a hundred years, it appears that microbes have been wired together on a deeper level for millions of years. |
Somewhere in my intertoobs wanderings I came across CasaOS and, given I had an idle Pi 4 laying around, I decided to poke at it. After all, if it works worth a damn it could help consolidate all the disparate systems I have running locally.
CasaOS is basically a slick Docker manager that rides atop another OS. Getting it up and running on the Pi with a fresh Raspbian install was painless. Simple configs, like mounting network shares, is a breeze. So far I have the following running in it:
- PiHole – Installed without a hitch. If this runs well it’ll replace the standalone PiHole Pi 3 I have running.
- Calibre Web – Also installed without a hitch. Love this, because I hate running the Calibre thick client full time on my server simply for its web interface. Not a lot of instructions on this one – just make sure you have your library mounted and defined as a volume in the container settings.
- Jellyfin – Another painless install (make sure to mount your files volume as described in the above Calibre Web settings). I installed this as a replacement for my current Jellyfin music server, which runs standalone in a fully fledged VM, gobbling unnecessary resources. But I stopped it midway through indexing my gajillion files because I discovered:
- Navidrome – Will it be better than Jellyfin for audio? I don’t know, but I’m giving it a shot. Currently still indexing – on directory number 12406. Heh. Now, Navidrome wouldn’t run initially, and CasaOS kept screaming that it was unhealthy. Its log filled with “exec /app/navidrome: exec format.” I discovered that the image I was pulling isn’t the most recent. I exported the ComposeFile from within the settings of the failed install, uninstalled it, and updated the image source in the ComposeFile to point to “ghcr.io/navidrome/navidrome:develop.” I then imported the file (Custom Install > Import from within the App Store) and it installed fine
- Memos – Completely painless install. Came across this randomly and figured maybe it’d replace my TiddlyWiki instance running on my server. We’ll see.
- Mealie – I ran across this neat app via some Youtubers Apps of The Year vid and was intrigued. An app that’ll scrape a online recipe page, pull the pertinent details of the recipe and ditch all the ads and fluff? Yes please! However, Mealie wasn’t in the default app store for CasaOS. I found CoolStore for Casa and added it as a source. From there Mealie installed no problem, and now I have a slew of other apps to sift through as well. Perhaps Casa can even replace my standalone VPN Pi. We shall see. |
In today’s Web, being online seldom means being present. Browsing doesn’t mean reading. Following hardly means connecting. Posting certainly doesn’t mean articulating. Commenting rarely means conversing. Listening doesn’t mean comprehending. Watching never meant absorbing. And likes don’t mean anything anyway. We largely live an internet without intent.
We succumb to the attention economy because it has hijacked our ways of production and value exchange by tapping into deep-seated psychological, evolutionary behaviors, traits that were never meant to face the incessant floods of our digital lives. Some of us just let things be, and manage to do whatever it is they want to do next on their phones or laptops. I envy them. Many of us don’t even think about escaping because they enjoy the instant validation loops. I feel sorry for them. Some, like me, have an anxiety-driven desire to grasp the means and ways in which they live on the Web. So that we can craft it to our needs, hone it to our liking, and control it against our detriment.
I don’t know about you but I’ve had enough of all the digital nonsense that gradually degrade my focus and intellect with engineered dopamine hits. Even though my digital living has been fairly focused for years, most of these measures like not having social media apps on my phone and turning off most notifications increasingly felt like workarounds. You see, as an independent space writer, I still manually posted and browsed some things on social media, and played more such games, just so my articles reach some more people. But there’s the trap. Even when it works, it comes at costs to healths of the self.
Why can’t I just work hard to write an article, publish it on my (relevant) blog—which auto-distributes to my email and RSS subscribers—and call it a day? I can then sleep, walk, eat, rest, whatever. The law of diminishing returns must outweigh the FOMO. The solution thus is to double down on living the Web in ways that I already know are effective and mindful. And so a month ago I endeavored to sequentially simplify my entire Web presence to that end. Here’s what my active Internet footprint looks like now.
I don’t want to wake up to a social media timeline of any sort
No, not even the ethical ones like Mastodon or Micro.blog. Heck, I don’t want a separate timeline for videos (YouTube) or podcasts either. Or one for news or newsletters. Everything, and I mean everything, that I want to follow or subscribe to from anywhere on the Internet goes into my organized RSS reader because of its unmatched efficiency and control. Now I have a single feed to check, which I do when I want to or need to. It doesn’t notify or nag me, doesn’t screw up the order of posts, and doesn’t recommend things. It can be trusted to do nothing on its own.
No posting on social media, or even my microblog
Most people don’t blog, sadly, but tend to have three places to post: a Twitter-like network, an Instagram-like visual space, and LinkedIn. But microblogging is a terribly contextually deprived way to create and consume things, one hiding behind a gratification trap. It often felt like I’m sharing purposeful things there but had the interface not artificially limited me to 300 or 500 characters—and had I not been writing for (algorithmic) reader reactions—I often had more nuance and references to share. And so I’ll not post on any social media. I shall only blog now, a slower but more thoughtful way to communicate publicly. This way I also own the connection to my readers based on open technologies that have stood the test of time: Email and RSS.
Speaking of blogs, I have only two now
There’s my professional space blog, and there’s the general Journal J which you’re reading. I don’t want to waste time and mental effort thinking which post should go on which blog and which social networks. Now the question never comes up. For people who followed or subscribed to specific topics on my previously several blogs, I haven’t forgotten you! You can still opt-in and opt-out of specific categories via both email or RSS. Thanks to Manu, Kev, and Disha for helping me figure this out.
Oh, and I merged my website and professional blog too. The idea is one should be able to simply visit jatan.space, and within one click read my latest space posts, navigate to key topics, read about me, or contact me. You can now.
Stop basic automated blog sharing to socials
Okay, this is the part where I’ve been cheating a little bit but hear me out. I have long been using dlvr.it, a web service that shares links to your new blog posts on social networks using your RSS feed. As such, I’d waste no time posting, and people can still follow me on those places. It sounded perfect. And so I used to have my blog posts auto-shared to over a dozen social networks this way. But it also meant I had to keep checking these places for interactions, which is exactly the dumb ape trait I’m trying to avoid. So I’ve now reduced the auto-shares to one network. I might kill that too if I don’t like the vibe. Again, go email or RSS. It will even survive AI.
Just email me
We all know how useful social media comments are overall. Some networks start off great but the moment they’re popular it all goes downhill. Blog comments have gone the spam way in the last decade. Enough of pointless roller coaster rides. Throughout these years, email has remained the best medium on the Web to deeply connect and converse with people. It’s not going anywhere. Which is why both my blogs now more prominently feature links and buttons to email me. Write to me to say hi or share your thoughts:
Private messengers also remain a good option but if you need to have my contact, you likely already do. In some cases you don’t need to but do anyway.
Discover the Web via Kagi
I can write a whole article on why I use the paid but powerful search engine called Kagi but suffice to say for now that the level of control it offers for search coupled with its default penalizing of ad-riddled and SEO-spam sites makes my day-to-day work a whole lot easier than Google or other search engines ever did. Kagi also allows searching only conversations within forums and social networks, should I want to gauge people’s reactions on a topic. It can search for podcast episodes too, meaning I don’t need a podcast app for that occasional listen.
Moreover, Kagi makes for delightful digital treks by making it easier to find niche or themed websites. Using it is like going back to the early days of the Internet, where a string of inquisitive searches would land you on unique sites you could spend hours on. Yes, just browsing the Internet can feel fun again.
Wake up to my Kindle
Now that I have these carefully curated web experiences, what do I do with so much that I can be curious about? Send to my Kindle. Any article, webpage or PDF that I don’t need to read immediately but want to at some point, I typically send to my Kindle. Waking up to an e-reader not only spares your brain from the modern digital mess but it doesn’t strain your eyes either. It also makes for good breaks during a working day, and leisurely readings on holidays.
The core problem with achieving this state of reading zen was that Amazon’s default methods of sending stuff to the Kindle are awful. It often results in broken content and layouts. This is where the indie service KTool takes care of everything with its great web app, browser extension, and mobile app. I’ve been curating sets of articles, wikipedia pages, and ebooks to consume this way, and it’s just joyful.
So there it is, my digital detox. Thoughts? |
My study of history would be incomplete if, after having surveyed the process of history, I failed to ask myself what history is…
Among high school students in India one finds an extraordinary apathy towards History, a position which the subject shares along with other so-called ‘arts’ subjects. In fact one of the first questions I was faced with as a teacher of History at the higher secondary level was ‘Why should we study History?’ Being a person fascinated with History, I had never asked myself such a question. Finding an answer to this deceptively simple question was not as easy as one supposed. An attempt to answer the question would be in vain without an attempt to understand the very complexity of the subject.
History has been viewed over the centuries as a record or a systematic narrative of past events, dealing with the life of human beings. However in the latter half of the twentieth century the perception of History altered dramatically. Historians now talk of the historicism of History. Louis Montrose defines historicism as ‘a reciprocal concern with the historicity of texts and the textuality of History.’
This view of History is grounded in the concept that History itself is not a set of fixed objective facts but, like Literature with which it interacts, a text which needs to be interpreted. Historical texts too fall within the realm of discourses, and although they may appear to present or to reflect an external reality, they in fact consist of what are called ‘representations’, that is, narratives that are ‘ideological products’ or ‘cultural constructs’; a narrative determined by the view of the dominant class or race or gender to which the ‘author’ invariably belongs because of his accessibility to ‘scholarship’ and ‘modes of production’.
The ideological foundation of History was first brought into focus by Marx and Engels. One may define the Marxian position as one that questions the concept of History as a record of facts. This regards human consciousness as a product shaped and defined by ideology, that is, the beliefs, values, and ways of thinking and feeling through which human beings perceive, and by recourse to which they explain, what they take to be reality. An ideology is, in complex ways, the product of the position and interests of a particular class. In any historical era, the dominant ideology embodies and serves to legitimise and perpetuate the interest of the dominant economic and social class.
But Marx further perceived the domination of class as not constituting a continuity, but as a constant struggle. The dominant and subordinate classes cannot be located within one community or another, rather they are in fact determined by the changes in the fundamental modes of production, which in turn effects changes in the class structures. Seen in this context History then becomes not only a partial narrative but also a fractured one, in which there is a constant struggle for control of the logos. In the postcolonial era ‘race’ as a determinant of narrative has been widely recognised. The ‘mainstream’ voices consistently smother marginal voices. History’s absent voices are pointers to the power play of races. An ethnographic study of history exposes the rewriting and often the recreation of history. A postcolonial redefining of certain events could be stated as examples. If one asks why the Indian historians refer to an event as ‘The First War of Independence’ while the British refer to it as the ‘Sepoy Mutiny’, one may get an inkling as to how History is manipulated by language and how language itself is subordinated to ideology.
Today a teacher of History cannot but be aware of the absurdity of teaching children that Columbus ‘discovered’ America, and that Captain Cook ‘discovered’ Australia. The very word discovered strips the native of any power over the land she and her ancestors have been living in for generations, strips them of their humanity and in that process makes them invisible. Their rich history, which survived till the conquest (and later in rare cases), in the forms of legends, myths, rituals and songs, were destroyed along with their non-intrusive lifestyles, in the mad thrust of forcible assimilation. The belief that the only ‘civilized’ way of life was the Western way of life has resulted in genocide. Similarly, the destruction of the earth itself is caused by the acceptance of an anthropocentric way of existence.
Likewise, one cannot shut one’s eyes to the total absence of women from History, except in the role of a consort, a mistress or a queen. It cannot but be attributed to the ingenious and insidious working of patriarchy. The subordination of women through the ages, the various ways of exploiting the female, both economically and socially, is not the subject of History alone. But the intentionality of excluding women can be highlighted with an example. When a memorial stone was carved into the quay at Plymouth to commemorate the Founding Fathers who made the historic Mayflower voyage of 1620, there was no mention of the seventeen women who chose to undertake that perilous journey.
The possibility of the plurality of historical narratives, exploring and exposing the undermining ideological aspects is the most fascinating aspect of studying History. But I would consider even more valuable the message inbuilt in the very exercise. It warns us about one of the pitfalls of the absolutist position. It forces one to consider opposing positions and sensitises one to give adequate space to conflicting ideologies.
When a person is given the task of teaching History to young, impressionable minds, is there any way by which one can convey that narratives need not be absolute, that holding divergent opinions about an issue without conflict is desirable in civilized societies, and that violence often results from defending ideological positions? Is there a way of communicating this complexity without immediately setting up polarities in the mind of the student? More importantly, can she be taught that an opposing viewpoint deserves equal consideration, or that viewpoints alter, even within oneself? That they are just that—viewpoints, and that one should hold them lightly.
Even if one holds the position that all narratives are determined by ideology, can one also explore the relative legitimacy of different ideological positions? The intention here is not to replace one version of History with another, but to make informed choices. These questions become all the more crucial given the orchestrated and concerted effort to subvert certain historical narratives. The recent attack and attempt to discredit the so-called ‘Left Wing’ intellectuals is actually a warning of things to come. When a nation’s identity is faced with a crisis, when there is large-scale disillusionment with the current state of affairs, the tendency to fall back on a real or an imagined ‘golden age’ becomes a very real possibility.
Let us go back to the original question: Why learn History? I would say that History is valuable for these very reasons. The skills it demands and teaches are radically different from the ones typically demanded by Science or Mathematics. Its prime duty, as I perceive it, is not to make a student familiar with the happenings in the world, or to highlight the patterns of human development, but to bring about a change in her very way of thinking.
We study History, then, to enter into a dialogue that brings out the deep-seated prejudices that one invariably carries, being part of a political environment. We become aware of the insidious workings of ideology and confront our own prejudices. This creates space in the mind to hold diverse viewpoints without conflict. Rightly taught, History enlarges the mind. |
Citation: Villafuerte-Gálvez J, Curioso WH, Gayoso O (2007) Biomedical Journals and Global Poverty: Is HINARI a Step Backwards? PLoS Med 4(6): 220. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040220
Published: June 26, 2007
Copyright: © 2007 Villafuerte-Gálvez et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: Preparation of this article was supported in part by a grant from the Fogarty International Center, United States National Institutes of Health (5D43TW007551).
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Much has been written about how open access to biomedical journals is vital for researchers in developing countries , but so much more needs to be done.
Our experience in Peru with the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI), an initiative managed by the World Health Organization that helps promote access to scientific information by providing free (or low cost) online access to major science journals, is not as accessible as hoped for and, in fact, is getting worse. When HINARI launched in 2003, it provided access to more than 2,300 major journals in biomedical and related social sciences .
In April 2007, we conducted a review of the first 150 science journals available through HINARI with the highest impact factors on the Science Citation Index . We excluded open-access journals and journals that make online access free to low-income countries (e.g., The New England Journal of Medicine, British Medical Journal Publishing Group). We could not access any of the top five journals from major publishers such as Nature and Elsevier-Science Direct. In other words, from the Nature Publishing Group we had no access to Nature Reviews Cancer, Nature Reviews Immunology, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Nature, or Nature Medicine, and from Elsevier ScienceDirect we had no access to Cell, Cancer Cell, Current Opinion in Cell Biology, Immunity, or Molecular Cell. In addition, we could not access any of the first-level journals from Blackwell, Oxford Press University, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, or Wiley and Sons. In 2003, all these journals were available.
Our findings support comments received from users over the last 8–10 months at the main library at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Oscar Gayoso, personal communication). Students and faculty could not get access to biomedical journals from Nature, Elsevier-Science Direct, Blackwell, Oxford Press University, Springer Science, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, or Wiley and Sons through HINARI. The collections of journals from the above-mentioned publishers together represent approximately 57% (2,118 of 3,741) of journals that were supposed to be accessible through HINARI, while the remaining 43% accessible were largely composed of open-access journals or journals that make online access free to low-income countries.
Moreover, we have found a significant decrease in the number of users accessing HINARI at our institution. For example, the number of HINARI users has decreased from 12,144 in April 2005 to 5,655 in April 2007, which may reflect the loss of impact of the HINARI initiative at our institution. In contrast, the number of users accessing other databases such as ProQuest and EBSCO has increased over the last few months.
Our findings suggest that we not only have access to a reduced number of biomedical journals on HINARI, but we also have no access to the biomedical journals that have the highest impact factors. The HINARI Web site states that it is still incorporating new journal collections. However, we are afraid that any addition that will not provide access to major publishers (such as the Nature Publishing Group, Elsevier ScienceDirect, or Lippincott Williams and Wilkins) could lack real impact according to HINARI's goals.
Since 2003, Peruvian medical students and health professionals have substantially benefited from access to high-quality scientific information through HINARI. Few medical students and very few researchers in the developing world can pay the usual fee of US$20–US$45 to download one article. Not even some private universities in Peru can afford the minimum journal subscription rates, even though these subscriptions would help the universities to become less isolated from global medical research. Having to pay US$1,000 per year to HINARI has left many public universities in the provinces of Peru without access because they cannot afford it. Even for the Peruvian institutions that are currently paying US$1,000 per year to HINARI, what is the real benefit of their HINARI subscription now?
We fear that the loss of access to many key journals that are published by the major companies could be a major setback to the education of medical students in Peru and perhaps around the world. Furthermore, it could make biomedical research in developing countries like Peru, a key element in fighting poverty, even scarcer.
In conclusion, students and researchers in developing countries such as Peru, working at the frontlines of global health problems, need to access more biomedical journals in order to practice evidence-based health care and conduct high-quality research. The recent loss of access to many key biomedical journals in Peru could be a step backwards. We hope the situation described in this letter might help lend support to the proposal of Godlee et al., who suggested that the World Health Organization and its partners should take the lead in establishing an international collaborative group along the lines of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to achieve the goal of “Universal access to essential health-care information by 2015” or “Health information for all” .
- 1. The PLoS Medicine Editors (2006) How can biomedical journals help to tackle global poverty? PLoS Med 3: e380.
- 2. Aronson B (2002) WHO's Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI). Health Info Libr J 19: 164–165.
- 3. Warschawski DR (2005) Journal impact factors. Available: http://www.ibpc.fr/~dror/jif.html. Accessed 23 May 2007.
- 4. Godlee F, Pakenham-Walsh N, Ncayiyana D, Cohen B, Packer A (2004) Can we achieve health information for all by 2015? Lancet 364: 295–300. |
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Good afternoon guys! I hope everybody’s doing great today. I’m having a wonderful day. We’re making a lot of great progress. A lot of work getting done today, so I’m really happy. We got some new exciting programs with JRA. We’re about to be announcing soon. One of which is going to take pretty much all risks. Kind of doing AdWords. It is going to be a pay-as-you-go AdWords system. Very limited, we’re going to take very limited holders. There’s going to be a lot of specifications on what you have to do to be a partner with us in that. We’ll get to talking about that soon.
What I want to talk to you today about is where I came from. A lady out of Arizona sent me an email and she was saying “We all love your videos. We like seeing where we could potentially go with our junk removal business, but you seem so kind of high up there that we can’t hardly relate.” Let me go back and I did one video on this before. We put out one or two videos every day. I know it’s gotten buried back in the rankings. Let me just go back. I kind of explained myself. My name is Lee Godbold, you probably know that. I was born in North Carolina. I always have been very entrepreneurial. I’ve always known that I’d find something to be a success at entrepreneurial. I’d be my own boss and I would be successful. I always knew that. I tried multiple things from young age, fail at them for the most part as far as I did a cleaning service one time.
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There’s 6 months we were learning. We were working part time. Jobs are part time. I did that around my full-time schedule at the roller skating rink. If you’ve listened to all of my videos, that’s what I encourage a lot of you to do. It is maintaining another job. It is so much easier to hustle now. It’s almost easier to have a side hustle now than it was back then. Find you another job, deliver pizzas and do whatever you have to do to get that income up. That’s what I certainly did. We first started out in the pickup truck. Just a flat pickup truck. I had a regular long bed Chevy 2,508-foot bed. I think 50 bucks for a pickup truck loaded at the very start. I wasn’t expecting to really do a whole lot with it.
I always kind of thought about it because I’m very entrepreneurial. I got out there. I was racing cars. Actually, let’s back up a little bit. While I was at the roller skating rink, I was racing Nascar style race cars. I could drive the car, but everything kept breaking on it. Some of my own doing from wreaking. Some of it from having just operating a race team on a budget. That’s one of the reasons that I try and not operate a business on a constricting budget. We have a budget. We know kind of what we need to spend and not to go out there and be crazy on spending on stuff we don’t really need. At the same time, I focus a lot more on increasing income than I do on reducing expenses.
My Racing Hobby
That’s because almost kind of goes back to my racing days. That’s what held back a racing. It was the fact that I did not have the money to have a car that would withstand the stress that I was putting under. I’d run it fast and then it would break. From racing I learned a tremendous amount about sticking with it. We had all those disappointments. I’d always bounced back. We had rear end go out. We had engine trouble. I had crashes. Every time I turned around there was some sort of a setback. Racing, probably about $25,000 to $30,000 that was lost. Probably about $30,000 was lost on that. I was making $15,000 a year. I was living in my parents. Other than food everything literally was going into that race car. I enjoy doing it. I was going to be the next Dale Earnhardt Jr. I would like to probably eventually get back into racing. I don’t have the time. I have the money now. I can go out and have a kick-ass car now, but I don’t have the time to really put to it. I got some aerobatic ambitions and everything too. Just recently I purchased an actual aerobatic airplane. I’ll start to fly in the next couple of years, but I’d love to get back into racing at some point. I don’t know at this point I’m kind of starting to question if I ever will just because time reasons.
Do I want to focus in on racing because it’s going to hurt some my businesses? My answer to that is no. If I race, I’d probably be 50 years old before I race. That’d be another 20 years before I ever get back into it. I’ll probably do it just to say I did it. Back onto that, I was racing cars and eventually I just ran out of money. I had to sell the car, so I sold the car. I sold everything. I listed the pickup truck for sale, but it wouldn’t sell. I figured I got to have a ride anyway so I might as well just hold on to it. Went out and did about a week’s worth of jobs just with the trailer. I mean just with the pickup truck. $50 each until we got this massive yard waste job.
Looking Closely In Our Junk Removal Business
I’m trying to remember now; the pile was probably 6 feet tall and 20-foot long. It would be a big job now, but it wouldn’t be that big. It wouldn’t be a big deal because we have the equipment to do it. My boss made in the roller skating rink, he had a trailer that he used to haul ATVs. The thing was 6 by 12, but it had like 6-inch rails on the side. Basically, used just to contain the tires and head for tie down points. I took that trailer, we operated that business for probably 6 months from that trailer. Six-inch walls, I did not add extensions. We would stack stuff five feet high. Literally, we wouldn’t tarp anything. I will use the word ghetto. That’s the only thing I can think of right now. We were more ghetto in how we did stuff that you all could ever dream of being. There’s no way. I will say there’s almost no way, any of you all have been as ghetto as myself and my business partner when we started Junk Doctors. We’d have 10 ratchet straps going all different angles to contain the stuff. No tarp, we didn’t used tarp. We didn’t take the time to tarp. We want to be professional. We had uniforms and we had magnets that we put on the side of the pickup truck. What we would do is we want around here, there’s these convenience sites and centers. They’re called citizens convenience centers. Basically, it’s a dumpster. There’s a bunch of different dumpsters that you put wood or just a general MSW furniture into the crusher.
There’s a place for metal, place for cardboard. You take the stuff there and you separate it out. It goes into each individual stuff, but it’s not for commercial companies. It’s only for residential companies. We would stop at a gas station or something between the job and the dump. Take all the signs and switch our shirts. We had uniforms. So, we take our shirts off and we’d switch into some general t-shirts. Then we’d handle the dump. There’s multiple sites around, but the workers there get suspicious of what we were doing. They always say, “You know, we know your business.” They could ever prove it, but we got to be where most of those guys got to like us. We bring them stuff off the job. We bring them lunch every so often. We keep them happy.
We did that for probably 10 months dumping for free. I had to get started. Over time we were saving our money up, but we’re always saving our money up to invest. We knew at that point that we could get this thing had legs. It could definitely go somewhere. We were way cheaper. We were charging about $195 to fill up that six by 12 trailer. Five feet high, so we were cheap. We are a lot cheaper than probably any of you all or now. Maybe not cheaper than you’ve been before, but probably any of you all now. Remember, back then there was no Junk Removal Authority. There was no Junk Mob. There was no Junk MD out there in California. There was nobody giving advice on how to run a junk removal company.
You had the franchises that had all the proprietary information and then you just had to figure it out on your own from there. That’s all there was to it. There was a huge learning curve. It was always difficult for me to imagine. Remember, I was making 15,000 a year. It was always tough for me to imagine that it was possible that anybody would pay the 1-800-GOT-JUNK?. It was crazy to me. So, we were like at a fourth or fifth of the price that 1-800-GOT-JUNK?. I think at that time, the 1-800-GOT-JUNK? full load rate was like 390 bucks. Something like that, maybe 400. It’s about $515 in this area now and we were charging one $190. We’ll probably get almost as much stuff on that little trailer. Maybe we were half what 1-800-GOT-JUNK? was.
We knew we wanted to expand. There was one November the first year we operated, we were very slow. At the time we were getting all of our jobs off of Craigslist and just putting out some flyers. We take these postcards and we would learn everybody’s trash route. We thought, “Hey, how cool would it be to put an advertisement about junk removal company in the trash can? We’d go around and we know everybody’s trash day and when we weren’t doing jobs. We take these postcards to their trash cans. We got some jobs from that, tremendous amount. That’s one of the reasons, every single time we’ve done a lot of print advertising and it hasn’t worked very well. That’s one of the reasons we don’t. We do those advertisements and we do Craigslist. I think Craigslist was even more effective back then than it is now, but you still dealt with the same Craigslist customer that just worries that ever living hell out of you. Always wanting to negotiate on price. Just cancelling and rescheduling. It’s just the Craigslist customers that is hard to deal with. The Google customers are ideal. We’ll get to that in a minute because we thought we died and gone to heaven when we located Google. At this point we had a little bit of a website build up. Nothing too fancy, but we did have a little bit of a website build up.
Marketing The Business
Like I said, we’re doing the Craigslist ads and then we had one November that we were super slow. I mean, we might’ve done seven jobs the entire month. I can’t remember, I believe that was before. I had already quit my other job at that point and I’m like, “I’m about to run out of money.” We had a bunch of money saved. No, we weren’t going to run out. We had money saved so we can get through. After weeks and weeks of it being slow I’m starting to say, “Is this going to be this slow throughout the winter? Am I got to go back and get my other job back.” I left there on good terms so I easily could have, but I didn’t want to. I had that taste of entrepreneurial success. I had that taste of independence that we all love. You all are out there. Those of you who quit your other job and you’re working this job, or even if you’re still working another job. You’ve got this going on, you know what that feels like.
I can go out and I can make money for myself. That’s an awesome feeling. I had that taste. I didn’t want to go back. I was willing to if I had to, but I didn’t want to. What I did is I got on some fellows on an internet forum. I found some, I posted. I said, “I’ve started junk removal business. I’m 22 years old. This is how we’ve been working it. It’s been successful. We’re really slow now. I need to find out a way to reach more people and how do I advertise?” A guy out of Chicago that owned a successful junk removal business, I can’t tell you where or when because he sold it. He signed a non-compete which he might have been in violation for working with me, but he contacted me. He said, “I had a reasonably successful junk removal business.” He was out of a pickup truck and trailer, but he had a trailer with five-foot size. He was gracious enough to tell me how he ran his business. He told me, “Man, you got to raise your prices up. You’ve got to be in line with 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, close to them. You got to get on Google AdWords.” So, I set up an AdWords campaign. I think I set the daily limit to like 20 bucks a day to start with, and then raise it to 50, 100, 300, 400 and 500. First starting out with AdWords. We had a bunch of wasted clicks. Our cost per click, we’re getting top ranking. We were like $3.20 cost per click. Depending on your market, you’re going to average somewhere around $11. Some markets less. Some markets will be $9 or $14.
To be the top of page ranking, you’re going to be an $11 or $12 per click. You can get in a lot of trouble now on wasted ad spend. Back then you couldn’t. We wasted a bunch of spend, but it was cheap enough that still allowed us to be profitable in jobs. As that campaign progressed, he actually got to the point where he is losing money on every Google job. That’s when we hired somebody to come in and help us figure out our campaign which is now the same campaign that we make available to everybody. We’ll can elaborate more on that because we have an exciting thing with AdWords, but let’s get back to it. He got in. He got me on AdWords. He got us on AdWords
Just got super successful at that point. We were hoarding cash. We were keeping cash like crazy. It was all cash at that point. We had this huge $20,000. We built out of that. What we did is got to look for a dump. We got to get a dump truck. We’ve gone and bought a $1,500 trailer with three-foot sides on it. It was great. It was 6 by 12 three-foot sides. We thought again that we’d gone to heaven. We gone to heaven twice. We found AdWords went to heaven. We’ve got this trailer went to heaven. We got the money for the dump truck. I think it might’ve been $20,000. We had, it might’ve been $15,000 or $16,000. This was still a little bit of the during the recession. So, it was in July 29, 2013 is when we bought that old number one truck. Still running strong, trucks probably made us a $750,000 at this point. I would guess. Spent $11,500 on it. Now, you’re not going to find an $11,500 truck. $25,000 is about what you’re looking at for these dump trucks. You got to get to one just as soon as you can.
Handling The Money
One of the key things to my success is I’ve never been selfish as far as taking money out of the business. It’s always gone right back into it in investments. Always expanding, hiring, getting new equipment, doing new advertising, and whatever I can to grow the business. With the thought that eventually it’s going to pay off with long-term success. At that point, when we got that dump truck. We thought we’re going to run two trucks, but we were doing so much faster with that dump truck. Then we just ran that one truck until we bought a second truck. We’ve just kind of grown into there. A lot of mistakes along the way. After five years we did $2,000,000 in our fifth year of operation.
That’s a lot of what I talk about now because I want you to know it’s possible to achieve that level of success. Everybody is asking too little out of themselves. Too little out of their dreams. They’re not expecting what’s possible. They’re not striving. They’re not asking for massive levels of success in their junk removal business. That’s going to hold you back guys. 10 trucks now, $2,000,000 a year in revenue. We’ll probably do about $2,500,000 or $2,600,000 this year. That is what we’ll do in 6 years of operation. JRA already got to a guy in Denver. It’s going to be opening up an operation in Denver. We’re talking with people. One guy in Alaska, talking with somebody in a UPS. I think it’s in central New York, somewhere in there about business packages. Now, working with a company in California on AdWords. Just happy to be able to help everybody. One of the main things I want to do though is I want you to start thinking more of yourself. To start asking more of yourself. To raise your think. To eliminate the word expensive from your vocabulary. That’s something I just recently learned within the last year. Our business has blown up both JRA and Junk Doctors since I eliminated the word expensive for my category. I looked at stuff as investment in value and return. I’d go out and hire somebody. We hired a marketing director before JRA could pay for it. JRA is going to be able to pay for it now. I had always made those investments and I take that as a little bit of a risk. I take that as little bit of a risk for it to pay off. Knowing that if something failed and that if it didn’t pay off, I’m going to survive.
I’m going to makes it back. Those of you all that just think and you look at these videos and you think, that’s not possible. This guy has lost touch. Listen, I’ve been there. I’ve done that. I’ve been more ghetto than any of you all have ever been as far as carrying out jobs. I just always was determined to make it happen. I still have that same level determination now, but it’s focused on changing the entire junk removal industry. I want to take all the franchises. I want everybody we work with and who’s watching these videos. I want to start hurting the franchises. They laugh at haulers now. Franchises now laugh at the pickup truck guys. They do. I just want the entire market to be where the individual haulers are hurting the 1-800-GOT-JUNK? business. Hurting the Junkluggers business.
I want to show people how to do that. We’ve done that in our market. We’re number one in our market and I want to teach everybody else how to do that. I’ve been where you are. See where I’m at now. I’m willing to help you get to this point. Watch my videos. Do what you can as soon as you can afford us and before you can afford us. Before you can afford consulting calls with me. Before you can afford AdWords management with us. Go out, hire us, and we’re going to get you to that point. We’re going to do everything it takes to make you successful. I hope all of you understand where I’ve been. Where this company’s been. Where we’ve come from. I know you know where we we’re at now. I hope that you’re able to watch these videos and relate to it a bit more because you’ve seen that I didn’t come.
Making Healthy Business Connections
Nothing was given to me other than being able to be around with people with wealth and having some great people that gave me some great advice along the way. No money was given to me at all. I just made it work and happen. I want to be here now to offer advice. Great advice for the junk removal industry. Nobody on this YouTube. It’s a fact, nobody on YouTube has been successful in junk removal as Junk Doctors and myself. We’re here to help you with Junk Removal Authority. All this is a phone call away, +1 919-466-9322. Like and subscribe to the video. If you don’t like it, dislike it. I liked dislikes. Not as much as I like likes, but I like dislikes. Until you get some haters out there, you’re not really putting your point across. You’re not taking a stand until you got some haters. Everybody, I love each and every one of you. I love all of my viewers and we’ll talk to everybody real soon. Thanks guys! |
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Granger Smith, Wife Amber Take Fans on a Tour of Their Stunning New Farmhome [Watch]
Granger Smith and his family have moved into a new home they just finished building on their land, and they've delivered a fun tour of their beautiful rustic farmhouse in a new episode of their online series, The Smiths.
Two years after the tragic passing of their 3-year-old son River Kelly, who died in a drowning accident in the pool at the family's former home, Smith and wife Amber built a new ranch-style home in their native Texas, near Austin.
It's exactly what they wanted — and exactly what they needed — and nothing more.
The home tour begins with a stone path that leads you to the perfect front porch, complete with a bench swing and rain chain. The front French doors open up to a beautiful open concept kitchen and main room. There's no television — the family decided not to put a TV in the space, "so we just have to talk," Smith says with a laugh. In its place is a beautiful photo of the Texas Hill Country draped in wildflowers, with sunlight peering through trees. Amber shares that the photo depicts what the property looked like before they built the house — the scenery is what initially sold them on the property.
In the Smith family's dining area is a custom wood table and bench to match. They utilized supplies from around the country, including repurposed wood from a barn in Indiana, to make an archway in the main room, as well as rocks from Colorado, along with the big stones found on their property, to build the fireplace. "The windmill is the centerpiece of the house," Smith notes, pointing the camera toward a giant windmill in the yard that stands in front of a red barn.
Amber's office nook boasts a neon "Arise" sign — her YouTube show — and a photo of the three children, London, Lincoln and River, alongside a photo of the couple sharing their first kiss as husband and wife on their wedding day. Meanwhile, London's room is a girl's dream with soft pink features, a reading nook and trundle bed, and the nursery for baby Maverick, who will soon join the family, boasts forest green walls and his name written in wood lettering above the cradle, along with decals of rustic trees next to a rocking chair. Older brother Lincoln's adjoining room features two photos of Texas A&M's football field (Smith's alma mater) and a sweet picture of Lincoln and brother River.
The tour ends with a peek at the Smiths' cozy bedroom that features a tranquil view of the big oak tree, red barn and windmill, along with a sliding barn door that leads into a walk-in closet. Upstairs the country singer built a custom music studio with recording booth and podcast area that emits warm, comforting vibes. "I love this space up here. This has been such a good vibe," he notes of the place where he'll make new music.
"I love it. I think it's farmhouse but it's simplistic and clean," Amber says, reflecting on the house and the custom decisions they made during the building process. "I think it turned out really good."
The family is expecting a new baby — Granger and Amber's fourth child — a son they've named Maverick, in August 2021. They announced their pregnancy, which happened via IVF, in March. The couple decided to name the baby Maverick Beckham Smith in honor of River, as the letters "R-I-V" appear in Maverick. Beckham means "home by the river."
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Cashco president values growth for statewide economic development and success for students and young alumni
Clint Rogers realized his boyhood dream by joining his father’s company, Cashco, soon after graduating from the KU School of Business. As a rising sales and management executive, and now in his fifth year as president, he helped solidify and expand the Ellsworth-based company as a worldwide market leader in industrial controls—self-contained regulators and control valves relied upon by industries as diverse as food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, and semiconductor and electronic component manufacturing.
The company’s importance to central Kansas, where it currently employs a workforce of about 140, is so great that, when its then-parent company in 1984 agreed to an outside sale that would close the Ellsworth plant, Sen. Bob Dole, ’45, and other members of the congressional delegation pleaded with ownership to instead sell to a Kansas group led by company president Phillip Rogers, Clint’s father.
Cashco is a big deal locally, and an annual highlight for Rogers is hosting plant tours for area second-graders, most of whom are appropriately awestruck by a state-of-the-art design and manufacturing plant that turns out highly engineered, exceedingly precise control devices that help turn the wheels of industry.
Most, but not all: Hey, where do you make the bowling balls at?, bellowed one befuddled kid during his class tour.
“And I’m like, ‘We don’t make bowling balls,’” Rogers, b’98, g’20, recalls with a laugh. “He automatically lost all interest, because for some reason he thought we were making bowling balls here.” Cashco, which in recent years also opened a design branch near Berlin to diversify into a line of flame and detonation arresters, hardly relies on drive-up business, so a certain lack of familiarity with its product line and global reach might not hurt business. But, Rogers points out, the relatively anonymous presence of many Kansas firms can contribute to a statewide workforce exodus; that’s why he joined Jayhawks for Higher Education—a group of statewide volunteers, organized by the Alumni Association—to assist the University and Kansas Board of Regents in encouraging legislators to renew the University Engineering Initiative Act.
Originally passed in 2011, the legislation aimed to increase engineering graduates to bolster the state’s workforce and spur economic development. The 10-year plan delivered annual appropriations of $10.5 million, split equally among KU, Kansas State and Wichita State, with the requirement that each school match its $3.5million annual funding with non-state revenue sources.
The three engineering schools in 2019 reached their ambitious annual goal of graduating a combined 1,365 new engineers with bachelor’s degrees by 2021, but the act expires next year and much work remains, leading Chancellor Doug Girod and others to call for its renewal during the upcoming legislative session.
“I’m excited about how we may be able to grow this, not only as a state, but also at the university level and an employer level,” Rogers says. “Unless you know what Cashco or another manufacturer does, you just drive by it every day and you don’t get to see what that opportunity is, on a localized level.”
A member of the Association’s national Board of Directors since September 2019, Rogers last spring completed his online KU MBA and serves as a business mentor to students and young alumni with the Association’s Jayhawk Career Network. After visiting KU engineering’s Jayhawk Motorsports Formula SAE team during his first trip back to campus as an Association board member, Rogers offered Cashco’s design and manufacturing assistance, a partnership that delivered high-quality racing hubs to the students and renewed energy to the company.
“It got our manufacturing group out of the comfort zone. It pushed our machining capabilities, it pushed our manufacturing capabilities, and improved us as a company, just by helping at JMS.”
Asked what about his job allows him to relish a sense of pride as he’s grilling steaks when the work day is done, Rogers cited the joy in “putting the puzzle pieces together.” Whether an entry-level sales associate or executive-suite supervisor, employees should pull together to make the company “flow and function as clearly as possible” in a “dynamic and ever-evolving workplace and economy.”
“The fortunate thing is,” Rogers continues, “every day you wake up and that puzzle looks a little bit different. So how are you going to rise to the challenge and adapt to what today is bringing? Looking back and saying we were able to improve our daily operation, improve the community, trying to leave the day better than you found it, I think those are the most fulfilling things.
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Where have I been indeed? I have been to my son’s graduation. Yes, I am the proud Mama of a Johns Hopkins graduate this year. So, we went to Baltimore at the end of May for the ceremony and to meet some of his friends. It was a delightful trip and yes, we are glad not to be empty nesters and have him home for some time.
But, it seems to have helped in the derailment of me keeping up with my quilting, along with that part-time job that I mentioned. So, I need to restructure my days, but it is happening, so I can get to this once a week and celebrate quilting (and other things).
I did finish my #APQResolution UFO for the month. Fortunately it was a small one, a doll quilt from scraps from a twister quilt I did some time ago. Not much, but it is done. In some ways, this is what it is about, getting UFOs done and off the list.
I did finish another little quilt. It will go for auction in the fall at the Rising Star Quilt Guild show October 14 and 15th at St. Brigid’s Church in Lexington, MA. It was made with scraps from our spring fling challenge and were just too cute to abandon. It is about 12″ square and just right for the auction. |
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focusing on all the great things that make you unique, and let that confidence shine through!
Self-love and acceptance are some of the most important things we can ever learn. They teach us to be kind and gentle with ourselves and forgive ourselves for our mistakes. They help us appreciate our own unique beauty and understand that we are all worthy of love and respect.
When we learn to love and accept ourselves, we can start to embrace our true selves and appreciate all that we have to offer the world. As a result, we can become more confident, resilient, and compassionate towards ourselves and others. And by showing compassion and kindness towards ourselves, we can also help create a more inclusive and accepting society for everyone.
So if you are looking to feel more confident or improve your mental health and well-being, focus on learning to love and accept yourself just as you are. Surround yourself with positive people who support and encourage you, engage in activities that make you feel good about yourself, and always remember how truly special and amazing you are. With time, patience, and self-love, you can transform your life for the better.
One great way to cultivate a more positive outlook toward your body is by seeking out people who already live according to these values. Whether through social media platforms, books, or in real life, look for role models who have a healthy and empowering relationship with their bodies. Pay attention to their language to describe their bodies and start adopting some of those exact phrases yourself.
Additionally, try to avoid any media that perpetuates unrealistic or dangerous beauty standards, as these can contribute to negative body image. Instead, surround yourself with images and messages that reflect a more positive and healthy view of bodies.
Have you seen Dove’s campaign for Real Beauty? It is refreshing to see a company celebrate the beauty of “real” women instead of just models or celebrities. I think that this type of advertising can help to improve body image and self-esteem because it shows that everyone is beautiful.
I suggest you join the following Facebook groups – Go Love Yourself community, a private group connected to Laura Adlington and Lauren Smith’s new Go Love Yourself podcast. This group is a safe place for individuals to express themselves and learn from others on the same path.
Another excellent place to look is books like “Love Your Body: A Positive Affirmations Guide for Loving and Appreciating Your Body” by Louise Hay and websites such as www.bodyposipanda.com, which offers advice and inspiration for promoting body positivity in your own life.
You can begin learning how to appreciate yourself and accept all that your body offers by utilising these resources.
There is no time like the present to start working on developing a more positive relationship with your body. Here are some tips to get you started:
When it comes to body positivity, accepting your body the way it is, is key. You have to love yourself and your body no matter what size or shape you are. It can be hard to do, but it’s worth it. You have to be your own biggest advocate and be proud of yourself. There is no one else like you in the world, and you are beautiful just the way you are.
Focus on health, not weight
The number on the scale is not indicative of your worth as a person or how beautiful you are. It’s important to focus on being healthy, both mentally and physically. Eating nutritious foods and being active are great ways to be healthy, but it’s also important to focus on your mental health. Make sure you’re taking care of yourself emotionally and mentally as well as physically.
Don’t compare yourself to others.
Comparison is the thief of joy, as the saying goes. Unfortunately, comparing yourself to others can be detrimental when it comes to body positivity. Everyone is unique and beautiful in their own way, so comparing yourself to others is pointless. You are perfect just the way you are.
Focus on being the best version of yourself, not trying to be someone else.
Wear what you want to wear
There are no rules when it comes to fashion and body type or body shape. Wear what makes you feel good, regardless of what anyone else thinks of your body shape. If you want to wear a bikini, rock it with confidence. If you want to wear a dress, go for it. It’s your life, and you should dress however you want. Be confident and show the world that you love your body just the way it is.
Practice self-care and take time to do things that make you feel good
Self-care is important for body positivity. When you take time for yourself, you acknowledge that your health and well-being are important. It can be something as simple as taking a relaxing bath or going for a walk. These small moments of self-care can make a big difference in your day-to-day life.
Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love
Negative self-talk can be damaging, so it’s important to focus on speaking kindly to yourself. Be your own best friend and give yourself the same love and support you would give to someone else. You are worth it!
All bodies are good bodies.
When it comes to body positivity, it’s important to remember that all bodies are good bodies. You are beautiful and worthy of love and respect, no matter what size or shape you are. It can be hard to believe this at times, but it’s worth fighting for. It’s also important to challenge any negative beliefs you may have about your body, body size and shape that may be holding you back from loving yourself just as you are. Body positivity can become part of your everyday life with time and practice!
I’ve struggled with self-esteem and negative body image thoughts for many years of my life. I have always been the fat friend, and that label stuck with me for a long time. But unfortunately, it wasn’t doing my mental health any good, so I decided something needed to be done.
I started my body positivity journey, and I can say that it has been incredibly empowering. I am finally learning to love myself and my body, it is not always easy, but it has been worth it. I have noticed that the more positive feelings I have helped me with body acceptance, I now practice self-care regularly, and I love it!
I only follow social media accounts that provide a positive body image message, and I make sure to unfollow any that make me feel bad about myself. The most important thing that I have learned is to be kind to myself. I am worth the effort, and I deserve to love myself.
If you’re feeling down about your body and struggling with self-confidence, I encourage you to start your body positivity journey. Embrace the positive changes you see in yourself and focus on all of the amazing things your body can do! Trust me, and it will be worth it.
Remember it is important to find whatever works best for you in terms of body positivity and body confidence there is no one right way to feel good about yourself. Do what makes you happy and be proud of who you are!
You are worth the effort!
What are your thoughts on the power of body positivity? Let us know in the comments below! |
This listing is for a set of 20 BOOM Cards for reading sentences with short u words. In this activity, students will read a simple sentence that contains a short u word family word. They will then select the picture that matches the sentence.
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I’m very happy to be able to offer this mini watercolor workshop for your self-study!
This was my lesson in the collaborative class EVER AFTER 2017, so for those of you who missed my lesson there you can now enjoy it here! All the videos are downloadable and you have lifetime access!
In this workshop I will go through the process step-by-step of how I created the above painting of Mother Nature.
There are a total of five videos including the intro, plus a fifty minute + bonus video where I talk all about style development and what that means to me, and share with you all my tips and ideas on how to develop and cultivate yours! 🙂 |
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Decided to sleep a bit early and do some quick and dirty H as I get ready for work.
I am going to update the Astro for the HerbMail.com website to use the WASM md file that we created yesterday.
Let me go ahead and rename the
This will make the script more specific, definitely helpful for debugging.
Okay now we need to enhance the script, such that it will take the MD file from the integrity and create a new MDX file for displaying the WASM. The folder that we will place the MDX inside of will be
We would have to remove the existing file and then update it from that scope.
There was an issue with Astro v2 and the MDX parsing, thus we will migrate the script to build using basic markdown for now. Finally the bigger issue was getting the WASM to render within Astro and its tailwind, somehow I hacked my way into making it work for just a general use. |
I’m writing this a few days after white supremacists marched around Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting horrible things. Thankfully, I’ve seen many teachers post messages on Facebook saying they will help their students understand the importance of speaking up against white supremacists and the hate they stand for. One of my favorite posts was written by Love, Teach which said,
“#1 teaching objective in my class this year: Love is louder than hate, but only if we choose to open our mouths. Clearly, the rest of my curriculum can wait.”
I have also seen teachers post the importance of using specific vocabulary when describing the events of Charlottesville, like this, by Digital Divide & Conquer.
Teachers can talk about this every day in their classroom, but we all know students learn much better through engaging lessons. I love using books to teach students important lessons because kids can develop a strong connection to the characters of an awesome book. Once that connection is made, the lesson you’re trying to teach can be learned much more effectively.
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry is an excellent book you can use to teach your students about the hatred that white supremacists stand for and the importance of speaking up for people who are oppressed.
The book is set in Mississippi in the 1930s, but it’s important that students realize there are still many people who act like the hateful, racist people they read about in the book. Curriculum often implies that racism is something that happened a long time ago. Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry teaches students what it’s like for a black family to constantly be affected by hateful things racist people do. It’s up to teachers to ensure their students realize this sort of hatred still exists.
Brief Synopsis of the Book
The main character is a young girl named Cassie. She lives with her three brothers, mother, father, and grandmother. They are very proud of the fact that they own land. Cassie’s parents simply want to enjoy their land and take care of their children. Unfortunately, they constantly hear stories of white people doing horrible things to black people they know. This causes a lot of tension for the family throughout the book. By the end of the story, the violence hits close to home for Cassie, whose father is forced to make a drastic decision in order to keep people safe.
Several events in this book are powerful teaching tools to help students understand the importance of speaking out against racism.
Cassie’s family is amazing. Your students will develop a strong connection with them. Cassie experiences many things your students can relate to. She argues with her siblings, but will do anything to protect them. She has to help with lots of chores at home, but she loves her family deeply. She has some difficulties at school, but she wants to get a good education. It’s impossible for the reader to dislike Cassie’s family.
Since your students will develop a connection to Cassie and her family, your students will also feel the tension of the violence and racism that occurs in the book. (Sadly, you may have students who can relate to it.) While this may make students uncomfortable, it opens the door for many teachable moments. For example:
Event #1: Early in the book, when Cassie and her siblings are walking to school, a white bus driver swerves toward them and forces them to jump off the road into a muddy ditch to avoid being hit. Your students need to realize there are still white people who would like to do this to black children. Also, that bus was full of white students. Ask your students what they would do if they witnessed something similar today. Hopefully, they would tell their parents to call a school official and get that bus driver fired. Teach students that someone on that bus should have spoken up against the bus driver for what he did to Cassie and her siblings. Students must realize this is NOT Cassie’s responsibility.
Event #2: In chapter five, Cassie helps her grandmother sell milk and eggs at a town market. Cassie is angry because they have to set up their stand at the back of the market. Only white people can sell at the front. Even though Cassie is angry about this unfair rule, she knows she can’t say anything because someone would hurt her. Your students need to realize there are still ways that black people are not given the same chances as white people to succeed. Also, discuss with your students how amazing it would have been for some white people at the market to speak up and say that black people should not be forced to the back.
That’s a theme that keeps occurring throughout the book. Terrible things happen to black people, but Cassie’s parents feel like saying something will only put their family in danger. Emphasize the importance of speaking up for people who are the victims of racism. Be sure your students understand things like this happen today. Again, that won’t come as a shock to some of your students.
Event #3: A white girl yells at Cassie for accidentally bumping into her at the market. The white girl then says horrible things to Cassie. The girl’s dad grabs Cassie’s arm and starts yelling at her too. As a crowd starts to gather, Cassie’s grandmother is terrified that things could soon become violent, so she tells Cassie to apologize to the girl. Cassie is furious that her grandmother made her apologize. When Cassie gets home and tells her mother about it in chapter six, her mother says, “Baby, you had to grow up a little today. I wish…well, no matter what I wish. It happened and you have to accept the fact that in the world outside this house, things are not always as we would have them to be.” The conversation continues for several pages. Some of your students probably haven’t been forced to have conversations like this with their parents. It’s important these students realize that many kids today, including some of their classmates, are forced to have difficult conversations similar to this with their parents. Based on the Facebook posts I’ve read about conversations black parents must have with their children, too many kids today are forced to “grow up” far too soon.
There are several other events where racist white people do horrible things to the black characters in the story. Students need to understand that these kinds of things still happen. It’s also important for students to think about what they’d do if they witnessed something like that.
If you need more resources to teach Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, I have created writing prompts and quizzes that are available in my TpT store. Click here to learn more.
If you’re looking for more lesson ideas, here are some websites and blog posts that may help.
Their website states, “From film kits and lesson plans to the building blocks of a customized Learning Plan—texts, student tasks and teaching strategies—our resources will help you bring relevance, rigor and social emotional learning into your classroom—all for FREE.”
In addition to resources, this blog post offers helpful advice for teachers who are planning lessons about social justice.
This PDF gives short descriptions of numerous books sorted by early learning grades, elementary, middle school, and high school. You can definitely find an awesome book to read on this list.
Words can’t express how grateful I am for all that you do for your students. Teaching becomes a more important profession every day. I hope this blog post has given you a few ideas that will help your students understand the importance of speaking up against hateful people. |
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my next tattoo. Coincidentally, today is the 4th anniversary of my divorce, and I always said that when my marriage was over, I would get a new tattoo to cover up the one that I got just a few days after our wedding. I wanted to get this tattoo four years ago, but I was left with a house that couldn’t sell and he couldn’t pay for. Things are just now starting to look up in the market, and I’m anxiously waiting for the last tie to be severed.
That, of course, is the Reader’s Digest version, but it’s a story that is anything but uncommon. A physical change that represents a significant event or belief that someone has. Sure, there are plenty of people out there who get tattoos for no reason whatsoever (I’m looking at you, University of Texas hipster), but I think that for the most part, people get tattoos to commemorate something special.
That’s where you come in. I want to know the story behind your tattoo, whether it’s your first or your 20th, so you can be part of this collection of stories. If you’re game, e-mail me the Reader’s Digest version of your tattoo story (or more, depending on how many creative liberties you’ll allow me to take). |
The holidays are right around the corner and I am in full fall family photography session mode with sessions most every day now. What I love so much about this season though is seeing families come together and creating memories that will last a lifetime! Not to mention you can knock out a lot of your holiday shopping with framed prints and albums for grandparents and family members! Seriously, even the hardest person to shop for can’t help but love a picture or an album of their kiddos or grandkids!
Extended family sessions are so dear to my heart because like the Hamm family below, this was the one opportunity where they came from 3 corners of the U.S. to capture these memories. They are spread from North Carolina, Arizona to Indiana and met together in Indy for a fun filled weekend together. To cap off their weekend, we met at Cool Creek Park in Carmel, Indiana for their extended family photo session.
Interested in bringing together your extended family for a session? Extended family sessions are $400 and we spend 1-1.5 hours together capturing all the different shots… both posed and unposed. Inquire today! |
Goynuk Canyon is one of most popular sights and natural wonders of Kemer. Canyoning in Goynuk Canyon is a great attraction for nature and outdoor sports lovers in Kemer. Travelers can see great natural beauties in the region from magnificent waterfalls to pine forests, and make hiking, canyoning and camping at the Goynuk Canyon.
What to Expect?
Goynuk Canyon is a magnificent place and famous for its excellent nature, green forests, waterfalls and pools. The canyon is situated about 4 km. from Goynuk resort. You can enjoy the 4,5 km. canyoning track of the region and have a great day trip there during your Kemer holidays.
An important part of the Lycian road, which is considered as one of the top 10 trekking trails in the world, passes through the Göynük Canyon. You can find daily Goynuk canyon tours from Kemer and nearby resorts, and experience and enjoy the entertainment and adrenaline-laden activities such as trekking, paintball and zip wire.
There are natural pools and ponds to cool off for holidaymakers along the canyon road. At the end of the canyon, you’ll reach the main canyon where you can cool off by swimming in the icy waters, and walk upwards the canyon from the rocks and see the waterfalls.
You’ll also find several buffets, restaurants and various facilities, at the entrance of the canyon.
How to Get There?
Göynük Canyon can be reached by a 45-minute walk from Goynuk resort, or by jeep safari tours, car/bicycle rentals from Goynuk or Kemer.
There is also a municipal bus operating to Goynuk Canyon from Goynuk, in every hour. |
The house is located near the top of the prestigious Belmont Hill area, but just minutes from the shops and restaurants of Belmont Center. Fabulous single family home! This is a great home with 4 bedrooms and 3 full baths. First floor has a delightful eat in kitchen with access to large yard with mature plantings and trees. Wonderful screened in porch off formal living room with fireplace. Spacious dining room off front entry and kitchen. There is a full bath and library on this level as well. The second floor features 4 bedrooms including master suite and shared full bath off hallway. Access to un-finished third floor off hallway. The lower level which is at grade level has hardwood floors and two large rooms . There is also unfinished basement room for storage and laundry hookups with access to back yard.
A highly sought-after community and houses many large estates.Learn More |
What We Serve:
We proudly serve homemade Pizza (dough made from scratch!) with various toppings and well known Specials as well as a Gluten Free pizza crust option, Pasta Dinners (such as our Lagagna which is made on the premises) served with Garlic Bread & a side Salad as an appetizer. Salads (like our well known Greek Salad which is topped with Kalamata Olives & Feta Cheese), Hot Oven Grinders (such as our popular Steak & Cheese with Onions Peppers Mushrooms, Cheeseburger Grinder, and Chicken Parmigiana) or a Ham and Cheese Sub Cold always hits the spot! Wraps (consisting of Chicken Ceasar and Turkey Bacon to name a couple) which are always served with Fries, Onion Rings, or our FAMOUS Buffalo Chips. Kids Meals (with a choice of Chicken Tenders & Fries or Pasta & Meatballs with Marinera Sauce and Parmesan Cheese) are always a kid friendly choice, and can’t forget about A p p e t i z e r s (our popular Mild Battered Buffalo Wings are much recommended.. which also come tossed in Buffalo or BBQ Sauce on request), paired perfectly with friends and our rotating selection of Beers on Tap (Sam Adams, Yuengling, Blue Moon, Bud Light, and Goose Island, Blue Point, Elysian, and Two Roads for IPA’s) or try any of our 15 bottled Beers with a Frozen Glass !! |
‘Empire’ Star Jussie Smollett Breaks His Silence After Alleged Racist and Homophobic Attack
Jussie Smollett has broken his silence for the first time since being hospitalized.
The Empire star issued his first official statement after his suspected racist and homophobic attack in Chicago earlier this week. He thanked everyone for the outpouring of love and assured fans that he's fine.
“Let me start by saying that I’m OK,” Smollett said in a statement to Essence. “My body is strong but my soul is stronger. More importantly, I want to say thank you. The outpouring of love and support from my village has meant more than I will ever be able to truly put into words.”
He also revealed that he's working with the police to identify the men who assaulted him. “I am working with authorities and have been 100% factual and consistent on every level,” he said. “Despite my frustrations and deep concern with certain inaccuracies and misrepresentations that have been spread, I still believe that justice will be served.”
As previously reported, Chicago police say the actor was attacked by two individuals, wearing ski masks, who shouted "racial and homophobic slurs" and “this is MAGA country." They allegedly hit him in the face, beat him, placed a noose around his neck, and "poured an unknown chemical substance" on him.
His family believes his attack was a targeted hate crime, and Smollet thinks so too. “As my family stated, these types of cowardly attacks are happening to my sisters, brothers, and non-gender conforming siblings daily. I am not and should not be looked upon as an isolated incident," he continued.
“We will talk soon and I will address all details of this horrific incident, but I need a moment to process,” Smollett concluded. “Most importantly, during times of trauma, grief, and pain, there is still a responsibility to lead with love. It’s all I know. And that can’t be kicked out of me.” |
Country Music Artist Angie K To Perform At Univ. Of Wyoming
Join 7220 Entertainment in welcoming Country Music Artist Angie K to the University of Wyoming THIS WEDNESDAY!
She'll be performing at the Pokes Pub and Gameroom (Union Lower Level) at 7 PM. It's a free event and open to the public. What's more fun is that; Free Mocktails available to attendees!!! Spend your mid-week with good music and mocktails that won't affect your Thursday morning.
Who is Angie K?
Angie K is shaking up Nashville with her fresh blend of hard-hitting country with a nod to her El Salvador roots and currently has over 500K+ followers and over 40 million streams worldwide.
After competing on the famous show, NBC’s The Voice, and being on Team Blake, country artist Jake Owen and his team convinced Angie to move to Nashville. They helped fund her first single in town, ‘Real Talk’, written by Jesse Frasure, Nicolle Galyon, Hillary Lindsey, and Thomas Rhett. The bilingual smash catapulted her on the country scene by making her a ‘Highway Find’ on Sirius XM the Highway.
A year later, Angie was named one of three Artists for CMA’s artist development program led by Kix Brooks, Mary Hilliard Harrington, and Marion Kraft.
Her last three singles have each hit over a million streams since release and have been added to some of the biggest editorial playlists on both Spotify and Apple Music. Angie has shared the stage with artists like Big & Rich, Tanya Tucker, Sammy Kershaw, Trace Adkins, Melissa Etherige, Jake Owen, and more.
See you there!
What Brought YOU To Laramie?
We asked Laramie folks, what brought them to Laramie, Wyoming, and here are some of what they said! |
Forum Dans #7: Elizabeth Corbett
Forum Dans #7 is an artist talk with Elizabeth Corbett in conversation with Anne-Linn Akselsen.
Elizabeth Corbett is currently working to stage the performance “Vile Parody of Addess” by William Forsythe, and teaching Forsythe Improvisation Technologies to the students of BA Classical Ballet and BA Contemporary dance.
Elizabeth Corbett received her early training in Rochester NY. Corbett danced with the Joffrey Ballet and the Milwaukee Ballet before she moved to Europe. There, she became a soloist with William Forsythe's Frankfurt Ballet and danced for over a decade in works including Love Songs, Artifact, In the Middle Somewhat Elevated, Enemy in the Figure, Steptext, Behind the China Dogs and other Forsythe works. Ms. Corbett now teaches ballet, improvisation technologies, and Forsythe repertory internationally. She was Dance Coordinator for Anne Teresa DeKeersmaeker's school of contemporary dance, PARTS, in Brussels from 1999 - 2005 and danced in a work created for her by Ms. DeKeesmaeker in a Rosas/Impulstanz production called With/For/By. She has been choreographic assistant to William Forsythe, Ms. De Keersmaeker and for Robert Wilson in productions for the Paris Opera and Rosas. Ms. Corbett has taught classes and workshops for dance companies, festivals and schools around the world including PARTS/Rosas, Impulstanz Vienna, Cullberg Ballet, Paris Opera, Ballet, University of the Arts Philadelphia, Movement Research, Dance Platform Istanbul, Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts and Beijing Dance Academy where she received an honorary professorship. Ms Corbett has been choreographing since early 1990´s and recently premiered two new works. She received a Rosenbeng Distinguished Artist grant for her work at Towson University, and completed her Master of Fine Arts in Dance degree from Hollins University in 2019.
Forum Dans is arranged by the Academy of Dance at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). The forum seeks to open up and expand the space for debate and dialogue regarding relevant issues and topics within the field of dance. |
A mass of rock or soil moving down a slope is known as a landslide. A similar event involving snow is called an avalanche. Landslides differ in their type, speed, extent, and destructiveness. In some types, such as a rockfall, the material separates from the slope and falls rapidly. In a mudflow or debris flow, loose soil, rock fragments (known as debris), or volcanic ash becomes saturated with water and suddenly pours downslope like a fluid, often very fast. Such flows can rush down a mountainside at speeds as great as 200 miles (320 kilometers) per hour, but most flow at about 30–50 miles (50–80 kilometers) per hour. In some other kinds of landslides, the material shifts down at a moderate or slow speed, sometimes even creeping imperceptibly for years.
The volume of material moved in a landslide varies. The largest recorded landslide, which was caused by the eruption of Mount St. Helens in the U.S. state of Washington in 1980, displaced some 3.7 billion cubic yards (2.8 billion cubic meters) of material. Although some landslides can be relatively harmless, a single catastrophic landslide can kill thousands of people or cause millions of dollars in damage. A landslide can bury or sweep away everything in its path, destroying entire villages. A mudflow or debris flow can move trees, huge boulders, automobiles, and buildings, and it can suddenly block the flow of a river with soil or other material and cause extensive flooding.
Landslides occur when the rock, earth, or other material on a slope becomes too weak to resist the force of gravity. Often, this results from the slope’s having become too steep. Human modification of the landscape and erosion by water—such as from rain, melting snow, rivers, ocean waves, or rising groundwater—can steepen the slope. Intense rainfall and flooding can also loosen the surface material and overload the slope, initiating a landslide. Heavy or sustained rainfall or rapidly melting snow and ice can cause a mudflow. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and human activities such as excavation or changing water-drainage patterns can also cause a landslide. An underwater earthquake can trigger an underwater, or submarine, landslide, which in turn can set off a tsunami. Wildfires can create conditions favorable to landslides, in part by destroying the vegetation that had anchored the soil on a slope. |
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- KIMONO DRESSING
- Teaching Japanese language privately and at New York area schools for over10 years, including at Nippon Club, The New School, Hunter College and The City College of NY.
- Certified by the Naganuma Shizu Kimono School as a Master Kimono Teacher and in 2007, established the “Kimono Experience” initiative in New York City, presenting the rich tradition of Kimono at various public events.
- Has run various Japanese Cultural Workshops (Kimono, Japanese calligraphy and Japanese food) since 2005 in NYC public schools and privately.
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Please contact for availability and pricing of group lesson |
Monk Kenyan Comedian is lately trending for his sensational vines and naturally comic videos. A rapid uprising on YouTube is particularly outstanding.
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The biography of comedian Monk Kenya sparks admiration, especially among talented young people without a platform. Details about his life story, real names, and those of your favourite actress Mercy Wanjiru are underway.
How Monk Kenyan Comedian discovered talent & net worth
Monk Kenyan comedian aged about 25 years discovered his talent while ongoing with primary education.
At first, he could not understand why classmates laughed at his funny way of saying things.
“Sasa kwenye nilijulia niko na talent ilikuwa ni primary. Unajua tulikuwa daro, so tukiwa daro, kuna vile nilikuwa naongea vitu, mastudee wanacheka – wanafurahi. Mimi hiyo time sikua najua kunakua na macomedians, Juu nilikuwa na ushamba ingine!!! Sikuwa najua about comedy…that time nilikuwa nachapa na vernacular, sikuwa najua Kiswahili.”Monk Kenya Comedian.
Despite the odds, Monk could entertain schoolmates in class and during break time.
Attending a village school limited his jokes to the vernacular language for he could not express himself well in Swahili and English.
Laughter, excitement, and friendships prepared him for greater creativity.
In a recent interview with Joyce Mghoi Macharia of “TOUCH OF GRACE – KE” YouTube channel, Monk revealed he did not make sense of his comedy until mid-high school.
Monk Kenyan Comedian high school experiences
Upon clearing the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exams, Monk became a day scholar in a catholic sponsored secondary school nearby his ancestral home.
The institution had no entertainment and funkies as is the case in boarding schools.
In form one, Monk remained a silent comedian – mostly because of fear.
Monk Debut performance during the closing day school assembly
Comedian Monk told Joyce Mghoi about his memorable debut performance on closing day.
It all started with a staff member appealing to any student with a song to entertain n assembly of teachers and hundreds of students.
Monk immediately shot up, but instead of singing, dropped killer jokes. In the end, he was highly celebrated by both students and teachers. It is at this moment Monk realized he was a talented stand-up comedian.
In the second instance, Monk who was still a form two student outshined the rest in a large hall event graced by Citizen TV’s Guidance and Counselling tour.
In attendance were all students when a Citizen Television reporter called for learners with talents.
Monk and ten other comedians stood up for a steamy challenge seeking the best.
Unlike his competitors who borrowed material from Churchill Show, Monk stood out for his originality.
“Nikaingia, hao wasee hawakua wanataka nitoke stage. Maze, hiyo love nili-receive hapo…ile tu msee unataka kutoka jo…jokes zimeisha unataka kutoka, lakini msee anakushukilia usitoke maze…hapo ndio nikaanza kujua I got something”Monk Kenya Comedian.
Asked how he develops his jokes, Monk said it is all as a result of punch lines – they come to him when busy living his life.
All he does is document them and create a captivating storyline for his audience.
Caucasian Chalk Circle Monk character & YouTube journey
Acting the role of Monk in Caucasian Chalk Circle Play earned him the stage name Monk.
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On proceeding to Chuka University for higher learning, he adopted the name “Monk Kenya.”
His best show arrived in 2018 during fresher’s night. After that, he created the Channel “Monk Kenyan Comedian.” He has since garnered about 500,000 subscribers.
Speaking about challenges, he told Joyce Mghoi about his rough experience as a first-year back in 2017.
He recalls spending the entire first-year long holiday at a Mjengo site just to earn a living.
Monk Kenya credits his close friend Talagat for upgrading him from a low-quality smartphone Youtuber to a high-quality camera Youtuber at little to no pay.
Early on, Monk Kenya survived the death of his first and most passionate actress.
Luckily, he met and blended with another gorgeous looking actress Mercy Wanjiru.
A good work-relationship chemistry has seen many followers taking Mercy Shee for Monk’s girlfriend.
Monk Kenyan Comedian YouTube earnings
Comedian Monk Kenya who is pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Education says YouTube is well paying.
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After starting in the second year, he was able to clear third-year and fourth-year tuition fees by himself.
And now, Monk Kenya is the founder of KuchKuch Productions – artist management and music recording & distribution company.
On top of that, he has signed multi-million deals with Melbet Kenya and realestateskenya.com to name a few.
Further details about Monk Kenyan Comedian net worth are underway.
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TONY ALLEN – CHAIRMAN (Seat 1)
Commissioner Allen was elected to the Board in 2012,
and was re-elected in 2016 and 2020.
Tony was elected as Vice-Chairman in November 2014,
and has been serving as Chairman since November of 2015.
The #1 reason why Tony Allen ran for the District Board was to ensure tax dollars were spent properly and that the departments were not micro-managed.
Prior to Moving to the Keys
Tony lived in Pensacola, where he was involved in the funeral business. He worked for a large firm of funeral homes and cemeteries in Pensacola, FL for five years. Tony was actively involved in the Jaycees for over ten years and held various club offices, including President and Vice President. Tony served in the United States Marine Corps and was medically discharged. He is a lifetime member of American Legion and NRA.
Tony wanted to live in a small, close-knit community and operate a family-owned business.
Professional Life & Affiliations
He graduated from Bradford County High School in Starke, FL in 1998, and graduated from Gupton-Jones College of Funeral Service with an A. S. in 2003. He completed his National Board, served a one-year internship at Jones Funeral Home in Starke, FL, passed his State Examination Board and received his Florida Funeral Director and Embalmer license. He also received his Bachelor in Business Management from American International University in 2005.
Tony has become actively involved in our community. He is a member of the Key Largo Rotary; Past Treasurer and Membership Chair of Sons & Daughters of Italy (4 years); member and Past Vice President of the Friends of the Key Largo Cultural Center (2 years), he resigned when he was elected to the KLFR&EMS Board; a life member of American Legion Post #333. And is a life member of the Florida Keys Gator Club.
Tony is a Mariners Hospital Founder’s Society member, a member of the Young Philanthropists of Baptist Hospital, and Elks member. You can see him smiling when he talks about participating in the Sons & Daughters of Italy Guinness Book of World Records Bocce event, where they set a world record for 24 hours and 29 minutes of continuous Bocce tournament playing! |
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Winter 2020-2021 Busy Season For Duluth-Area Homeless Services
The Winter of 2020-2021 was a busy but productive season for the St. Louis County departments that provide services to people who are experiencing homelessness. While cold weather and a global pandemic provided a scenario for an increase in demand, collaborative efforts allowed the coverage that was needed.
With the cold season ending, officials with St. Louis County offered a snapshot look at the homeless situation in regards to aid and services. Their report details:
"[a] total of 566 individuals accessed emergency overnight shelter this winter at the Duluth Warming Center and Chum Drop-in Center. The usage level was much higher than anticipated when the doors opened in November. Meanwhile, in northern St. Louis County, AEOA provided warming center services through emergency hotel vouchers. AEOA saw 82 individuals use warming center beds this winter. St. Louis County saw an 18 percent increase in homelessness in 2020 compared to 2019, with most of that growth in unsheltered homelessness. Based on usage of the emergency warming shelters the last few months, it is anticipate the increase in homelessness will be even higher once 2021 data is gathered".
The Duluth Warming Center closed for the season on March 31. For the past winter, it was located at the Rainbow Center, with additional space - when needed - located at CHUM. Meanwhile, CHUM managed the operations of the Duluth Warming Center, in partnership with Duluth HRA and the Loaves & Fishes Community, with some additional support from the City of Duluth, St. Louis County, Duluth Transit Authority, and the Federal CARES Act.
In addition to the usual food and shelter needs, this past winter season saw the Duluth Warming Center expanding its outreach and services to accommodate the needs resulting from the global pandemic. The Duluth Warming Center partnered with the Lake Superior Community Health Center and St. Louis County for vaccination clinics and healthcare access - connecting homeless community members with key services that helped to keep them safe. The county details that "32 people [got]...fully vaccinated and 22 additional people [got]...their first vaccination at the Rainbow Center location. |
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Babies. They're so cute and so precious. Then they grow up and mouth off.
We're not saying that's going to happen to this precious little girl here, but the signs are trending in that direction.
She's dealing with a case of the hiccups and her dad, being a proud papa, feels her pain. And that's when she surprises her father by slowly giving him the finger.
Wow, flipping off your dad while still in diapers is good for a laugh, but it's going to cause problems when she gets older and learns her four-letter words and uses them to express her displeasure when he won't let her take the airplane car out or hologram over to her friend's house or whatever else kids in the future do for fun.
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Vigil Planned in Rochester For Fallen Burnsville Paramedic
Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News) - A public vigil is being planned next week in honor of Rochester native of Adam Finseth.
The Rochester Fire Department will be hosting the event at Soldiers Field Memorial Park on Tuesday evening beginning at 6:30 PM.
Finseth was a paramedic for the Burnsville Fire Department and lost his life last weekend while coming to the aid of several wounded Burnsville police officers after they were shot while responding to a domestic incident Sunday morning. Two of the Burnsville officers, Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge, also died.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says the man responsible for their deaths, 38-year-old Shannon Gooden, opened fire without warning after the officers had spent several hours talking with him in an effort to convince him to surrender peacefully. After firing more than 100 rounds at law enforcement officers and other first responders at the scene, Gooden took his own life.
His obituary says Finseth was 40 years old and is survived by his wife and two young children. He was born in Faribault but spent much of his childhood in Rochester where he graduated from John Marshall High School in 2001. He was also an Army veteran who served two tours in Iraq before beginning his career as a paramedic.
The Rochester Fire Department says the vigil will include a tribute from the fire department Honor Guard and will also feature a number of speakers, including local officials, firefighters, and friends of the Finseth family.
A public memorial service for all three of the slain first responders will take place on Wednesday at a church in Eden Prairie.
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Onyx Boox pays people to leave positive comments on social networks
You know that I’m a huge fan of the Onyx Boox Note Air. I love this device.
Maybe you noticed that it’s another story for the Nova 3 Color as I cannot bear the low contrast and low quality screen.
Many people have shared their opinion about the Nova 3 Color on social networks, including Reddit. Globally, it seems that most customers don’t like it and some have sent it back when possible. Some people genuinely like it.
However we can legitimately question some of the positive comments and user reviews on social networks about this new device.
Today I spotted another positive post about it, from the same member as many other posts of the same kind before. Isn‘t it strange this person committed to post positive messages on a quite regular basis since the launch of the Nova 3 Color, 2 months ago ? Posting but never really talking of his user experience or asking questions or anything that could make it more real…
Rather suspicious, I reviewed his previous posts and then I found a link to his instagram. To my great surprise it was there, written in clear words « partenariat rémunéré avec boox.global » I’m french so it’s translated in my language. That means « paid partnership with boox.global ».
|« Payed partnership with boox.global » it’s in french here
So this person is paid by Boox and regularly promotes the Nova 3 Color on Reddit without disclosing his partnership with the company.
Deleting posts feels like a confession
I can be a pain in the ass especially because I don’t like dishonesty. So I posted a message explaining the situation and luckily got enough upvotes to make it impossible to downvote my post to the point of making it disappear (that’s how it works on Reddit). Some hours later, all the recent messages of this account were gone, the newest remaining one is now from 50 days ago.
Not even a real user
What is funny is that if you check his Instagram (it’s public but I don’t want to expose him, I won’t post a link), you can quickly notice he doesn’t even work on an Onyx Boox device but on a PC and an iPad. He has even launched a ko-fi tip box to help him buy the new iPad Pro.
So sad. All of his positive comments were false, he doesn’t even really use the device. He is just paid to promote it, acting like a real satisfied user.
Not the only one, not a professional
There are other accounts on Reddit and probably most social networks with exactly the same kind of profile, just posting positive things, always here to defend a brand or a device. When somebody is systematic in this communication exercise, it’s probably a person with a specific interest : somebody payed to do this job.
This one was just not so clever. I feel sorry for him because he looks like a nice guy just trying to earn some money. I don’t blame him. Real professionals, e-reputation managers, content partners and any other name they give to their dirty job, are usually much more clever and difficult to spot and expose. They are must more problematic for the net neutrality and freedom of speech too as they can manage to make negative comments disappear and actually take over some social networks.
Brands on social networks
It’s good to have brands on social networks. It can make them easier to reach and it gives them an opportunity to present their work and share about it in a more humane way. However, paying people to promote their products undercover, acting as genuine customers is not right. This is a dirty trick and it doesn’t give a good image of the company.
Cheating doesn’t make a good reputation
This is nothing new. Brands have tried to take over social networks since years. Recently Amazon ditched Aukey for false user comments. They don’t sell Aukey products anymore. Why ? Because this is cheating and dishonest. So what is not acceptable in user comments on Amazon, is not more acceptable on social networks. Some brands need to understand what is a positive and open attitude. |
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In this review, we’re going to be taking a deeper look at the Eagle X-7050 Desktop Laser Machines CO2 Laser Engraver Cutter and all its amazing features. We’ll explore how the motorized working table and full pass through capabilities make it versatile for different materials and projects. We’ll also delve into its visible red dot pointer and automatic focusing for achieving detailed engravings and cuts. Additionally, we’ll discuss its reliable off-line operation and hot restart capabilities, as well as how the included EagleWorks software and compatibility with LightBurn enhance your design process. Get ready to discover the endless possibilities this laser engraver and cutter has to offer!
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The X-7050 comes with EagleWorks, a comprehensive software solution for creating, editing, optimizing, and processing patterns for laser engraving and cutting. This software allows you to import designs from popular CAD or illustration programs or create original designs directly within the EagleWorks platform. The Print Driver feature makes the laser machine appear as a regular printer to your computer, enabling printing from any application, including AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, CorelDRAW, and more.
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|27.5” x 19.7”
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|AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, etc.
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Who Is the Eagle X-7050 Desktop Laser Machines CO2 Laser Engraver Cutter For
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- Engineers, designers, and manufacturers who need a high-quality and efficient solution for prototyping and manufacturing intricate components, signage, or custom parts.
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- Motorized working table allows for easy adjustment and accommodation of various materials.
- Visible red dot pointer ensures precise positioning and accuracy.
- Automatic focusing guarantees the highest level of detail in engraving and cutting.
- Reliable off-line operation and hot restart feature prevent material wastage.
- The included EagleWorks software provides a complete solution for designing and processing patterns.
- Compatible with popular design software, making it convenient for users familiar with these programs.
- May be cost-prohibitive for some individuals or businesses.
- May require some learning curve to master the full capabilities of the machine and software.
Q: Is the X-7050 suitable for cutting metal? A: The X-7050 is primarily designed for laser engraving and cutting non-metallic materials such as wood, acrylic, paper, and fabric. For cutting metal, a machine specifically designed for metalworking is recommended.
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What Customers Say About the Eagle X-7050
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British broadcaster, Piers Morgan has hailed Cristiano Ronaldo after the Portuguese scored back-to-back hat-tricks in the Saudi Pro League.
DAILY POST reports that Ronaldo scored three goals in Al-Nassr’s 8-0 win over Abha on Tuesday.
The former Real Madrid and Manchester United forward had last Saturday scored a hat-trick against Al-Tai as Al-Nassr won 5-1.
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Ronaldo has scored 29 goals in 24 league games so far this season.
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- Trump’s attacks on the daughter of his hush-money judge sparked a volley of court filings Monday.
- Manhattan’s DA demanded the judge put a stop to Trump’s “reprehensible” and “dangerous” rhetoric.
- The defense, meanwhile, accused the judge’s daughter of having a financial stake in the case.
Donald Trump’s defense lawyers and his Manhattan hush-money prosecutors intensified their war over his gag order on Monday, with prosecutors calling the GOP frontrunner’s ongoing attacks on the judge’s daughter “reprehensible” and “dangerous.”
“Defendant’s dangerous, violent, and reprehensible rhetoric fundamentally threatens the integrity of these proceedings and is intended to intimidate witnesses and trial participants alike — including this Court,” prosecutors said in a fiery court filing.
Despite past warnings and last week’s gag order, Trump has “refused to refrain from his disruptive and terrifying speech,” prosecutors for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg complained to the trial judge, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan.
Instead, Trump has launched attacks “not only on this Court but also on a member of the Court’s family — including by posting a photo of the family member,” prosecutors said.
They are asking the judge to “clarify” that last Tuesday’s gag order bars Trump from making public statements about the judge’s family members.
Trump’s Truth Social attacks on the judge’s progressive, political-consultant daughter, Loren Merchan, included false claims that her “X” account had a profile picture that depicted Trump behind bars, prosecutors said.
Loren Merchan helps run the Chicago-based, progressive political consulting firm Authentic Campaigns, which has worked on campaigns for key Trump rivals, including Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
“There is no constitutional right to target the family of this Court, let alone on the blatant falsehoods that have served as the flimsiest pretexts for defendant’s attacks,” said Monday’s filing, which was signed on Bragg’s behalf by Matthew Colangelo, an assistant district attorney.
“Defendant knows what he is doing, and everyone else does too,” the DA filing continued.
“He has said for decades that he attacks his perceived opponents ‘viciously’ and ‘violently’ both ‘because it is a good feeling and because other people will see you doing it.’
“And he promised very recently that ‘IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!'” the filing added. “He is carrying out that promise right now.”
Minutes after the DA filing was made public, the defense returned fire.
“Contrary to the People’s argument, the gag order — which President Trump reserves all right to appeal — plainly does not apply to ‘family members of the Court [and] the District Attorney,” the defense said in a filing signed by attorneys Susan Necheles and Todd Blanche.
Last week’s gag order bars Trump from making statements about “court staff” and the family members of court staff, but does not specifically bar Trump from statements about the judge himself or the judge’s family members.
In seeking to expand the gag order, prosecutors are trying “to further restrict President Trump’s constitutionally protected speech,” the defense wrote.
“Your Honor’s daughter and her company, Authentic Campaigns, Inc., profited from offering strategic advice; preparing text for emails and social media posts, as well as other consulting services regarding campaign advocacy; and fundraising for President Trump’s political rivals — including advertisements that specifically referenced, and solicited funds based on, this case,” the defense wrote.
Monday’s defense filing went on to suggest Trump’s team will continue to seek to remove the judge from the case, a request the judge declined in August.
Because of her consultancy job, the judge’s daughter had “a financial interest in all ongoing attacks on President Trump, including this case, by virtue of her senior role at Authentic,” the defense wrote.
“President Trump’s comments concerning Your Honor’s daughter are, properly understood, a criticism of the Court’s prior decision not to recuse itself,” the defense filing said.
Merchan has yet to say if he will weigh revising or clarifying the gag order. The judge’s daughter did not immediately return a request for comment. |
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Lauren: Hi I am Lauren Cohen, Lawyer real estate expert and cross border specialist. I’m here today with my friend, Vladimir, Vladimir pronounce your last name, so I don’t mess it up, please.
Lauren: I should have gotten that, so I apologize. Vladimir and I met through a book that we both collaborated on. It’s called The Immigrant Hustle. It’s a story about 50 entrepreneurs who have built success stories in the US, that are from other countries. That’s the key, that’s why it’s called Immigrant Hustle. There was a chat that was created, when the book was finalized and Vladimir and I connected, I actually thought he lived in Florida, because when he wrote on the chat, he said I’m in Hollywood, Florida, so I thought that’s where he lived. And so, we started chatting and getting to know each other and you know he’s a fellow member of the tribe, and for those of you that don’t know what that means you can ask me after, but we connected, and we are both very entrepreneurial. And then on top of that, I made a connection. I made a connection between Vlad, and one of my dear friends, Jeff Greenberg, who’s also been on the show, and sure enough, they’re both in the same Promotional Products coaching program, which is kind of ironic. So here I am trying to do good and yet they’re already connected, but you can’t help yourself when you’re a connector. So, in any event, Vlad and I started chatting and I invited him to join my show to share a little bit about his story. Vlad is one of those lucky guys, that was airlifted, I assume airlifted out of the Ukraine, or brought into America from the Ukraine, through a Jewish Agency. Which was how long, 20 to 30 years ago right?
Vlad: 30 years.
Lauren: Yeah, 30. I’m aging myself. The Jewish agencies were airlifting people and families out of the Ukraine and other parts of Russia into Israel, into Canada and into the US like Vladimir’s family and like my good friend at Donna Klein, was brought into the US and Vladimir made his way to Michigan, Is that where you originally started Vlad?
Lauren: Wow. I mean, going from cold to cold just doesn’t make sense. I have a new colleague that just joined my real estate team, she’s Mexican. Listen to this. Okay, I met her in an Israeli based networking group about two weeks ago. She’s in Mexico and she went to my college in Toronto.
Lauren: Is that not a crazy story. Okay. It is a crazy story! She just joined my team and she’s going to be assisting me because I needed a Spanish speaker, so she’s going to be assisting me with all kinds of stuff so it’s extremely exciting. Vlad, please introduce yourself. You have such an amazing bio I’d love for you to share that with my guests.
Vlad: Well first of all, Lauren thank you for having me on your show. As you mentioned, my name is Vladimir Gendelman. I have started a company called Company Folders back in 2003. And we actually sell presentation folders, the actual paper presentation folders.
Lauren: Show us. I know it’s a podcast, I thought that it was one of those, you know, tabbed marketing pieces, but what it is, and it’s brilliant because it’s just the simplest of products, and it he’s focused on it and that’s the beauty. It’s a company folder. So, for those of you that are, he’s like Vanna White right now. For those of you that are listening to this podcast, it basically those folders if you are going into Office Depot to purchase, but it’s branded to the company. So, with EXP for example, you know, EXP realtors get, I think 50 presentation folders when they join, Vladimir would be the guy that would create those folders, hopefully.
Vlad: Yes, that’s right. Yeah. So, this right here is that dark blue linen, with a silver foil stamp on it. And when you open it in this particular folder, it happens to have two pockets. Yeah, and there is a back to it. And of course, if anybody’s interested, and would like to request a sample packet, you would get something like this in the mail, which is a folder that we created for our company that we send out to people to see. And the beauty of this folder is it has a soft touch lamination.
Lauren: Oh yeah, there’s like, it has a whole bunch of logos that are .
Vlad: It has UV coating applied to it, to show different logos. And then on the inside this particular folder has one vertical pocket.
Lauren: Oh, I love that. I need some samples with my logo on it.
Vlad: We can absolutely discuss that, of course.
Lauren: I would love that and also, I wanted to ask you a question, because I’ve been thinking, you know, business cards are kind of passe especially during COVID. How has business been impacted by COVID?
Has it not been negatively impacted, because people aren’t going and physically presenting, or now do they use this presentation folder and labels to send them by mail to separate themselves from the competition?
Vlad: Yeah, so that’s actually an interesting question because obviously there is a whole segment of businesses out there who not only not use folders right now, but they do also not use anything right now. I think of all the restaurants and venues, trade shows that they’re all shut down so obviously they’re not using anything. At the same time, a lot of other companies that usually have face to face sales meetings or they go for presentations, they’re not doing that, either. So, they’re not using printed products for that, but they change how they do things. So now those companies, as you mentioned, they would get a folder, but then they would get like I mentioned, a larger envelope to go with it, so they can mail it to you. So, we want some business from restaurants and stuff, but then on the other hand, we’re gaining more business because when you buy a folder, now you want to get an envelope that the folder goes in to. So, the folder matches and nice and beautiful, and on top of their promotional products. As important as they always are right now, they’re even more important, because people are, and this is how this plays out right, so every company has brand and marketing budget. They have budgets for lunches for the office right. They have budgets for taking customers out. This and that, now those budgets are not being used because people are not in the office. So, they still want to spend that money, they still want to engage employees, they still want to engage their clients. So, right. So, we get creative and we send packets out to people right on behalf of others, whether it’s to employees or customers or keep in touch, whatever else. Yeah. And you know, you win some you lose some and overall, it’s, it is what it is.
Lauren: So, tell me when you first came to America, obviously a long time ago. But you moved to Michigan, Were you already speaking English at the time?
Vlad: No, no, there was no English.
Lauren: So how did your parents survive, like look at how you thrive, you’ve built up a company, you’re in Forbes magazine, as one of the fastest growing companies, I mean there’s just so many amazing things that you’ve done a child of immigrants and an immigrant himself, you know, I think that these, like, the immigrant hustle and being an immigrant entrepreneur, it’s a drive that you can’t you can’t get from somewhere else and I’ll tell you what, and I’m sorry to mention this, but after the Holocaust, right, our people especially those that were completely debilitated their families were destroyed look at the difference the impact that these immigrants have made in this country. That’s part of what I do because I am an Immigration Concierge, Immigration Lawyer right, but at the end of the day, immigrants have this drive about them to succeed and, you know, your parents came with the Jewish Agency who helped, probably they struggled, especially without speaking English for a long time. How does that all look, do you remember, what is your most interesting story you can share with us about that time?
Oh boy, this is going to be good.
Vlad: So, it’s a simple overnight success. Just like with anybody else in this case, took 30 years of you know a lot of, I guess there was a lot of struggle, I just never looked at it that way. Right.
Lauren: It’s just what it was right you didn’t have any choice if you were here and you had to do it right.
Vlad: We had weekend here, we didn’t have money, other than, you know, we have friends here, who came …
Lauren: They put you in a place to stay, the agency.
Vlad: Not right away no. But we have friends here who were here. Two months, who came here two months before we did.
Lauren: Wow, so they only two months.
Vlad: Yeah, they had two-bedroom apartment. There was three of them. And we stayed with them. For the first week until they found their own two-bedroom apartment.
Lauren: There were three of them and how many of you?
Vlad: Three, so six.
Lauren: So, three of you, three children or three people, you were the only child.
Vlad: I’m the only child, and they only had one.
Lauren: Okay, so all right and was it a girl or a boy?
Vlad: It was a boy.
Lauren: Okay, so it’s a little easier because your sixteen you don’t want to be sharing a room with a girl, well you probably do but whatever, we won’t go down that road. So, the point is that you were in this tiny little, you know, typical immigrant story, much different than mine. And sometimes people don’t take mine seriously. Okay, I was speaking with a woman the other day. She’s Canadian and I insulted her because she was obviously from another country and I said to her I had just gotten off the phone with somebody that was one from a country, it so happens this lady’s home country, and I said hey are you from? She almost bit my head off. Because she said, “well I’m an immigrant and you’re insulting me”, and I said well I’m an immigrant too. She looks at me for whatever, like you know, I’m not interested in your story you’re not an immigrant, because I speak English, it’s my first language but I am an immigrant, I came from Canada, I went through the same crap. That’s what like you don’t know this Vlad I don’t think, but the reason that I started what I do, is because my ex-husband, then husband, was deported. February 2nd, 2007, on the way back from our honeymoon. So, coming on the way back from our honeymoon he was removed at the Chicago O’Hare Airport expeditiously removed, put in immigration jail and subsequently deported. So, I am an immigrant. I went through everything that everybody else goes through, maybe not the same I wasn’t brought from a war-torn country, I wasn’t a refugee, you know Canada is a good country and I kind of wish I were there, especially this week, but at the end of the day, you just do it. You know, I think, as a single mom and dad an immigrant, you got to do it, and you said it is what it is, you came here. You lived in this tiny little apartment, and then you made it. I mean, look what you’ve built for yourself, how did your parents do and when did this all start for you?
Vlad: So, our plane landed at night. And you know, our friends because they picked us up, brought us to their apartment where we can eat. I don’t remember if we can eat now but we can do our thing and then went to bed. All three of them left. Yeah, he went. He went to school, whatever it was.
Lauren: and he didn’t speak a word of English?
Vlad: We did not. Oh, and we needed to eat breakfast. And I guess the woman said, oh just have a cereal. And she left it on the table it was Froot Loops. So, in Soviet Union, we didn’t have cereal.
Vlad: Uh huh. And the only kind of cereal, like things we did here were the ones you have to cook like oatmeal, like, Oh, well, actually we didn’t have oatmeal itself, but we had this other cream of wheat, I think it’s called. Yeah, that you cook and so my mom assumed it’s similar thing, and she cooked Froot Loops. I mean she boiled the milk, and she put Froot Loops in it. And she boiled the Froot Loops. So, my first experience with American cereal was disgusting.
Lauren: It’s hysterical, what color was it, it must have been like purple or green or something?
Vlad: I don’t remember. We were laughing about it, because then after the people came back that night, they told us well you’re not supposed to do that you just put a cold milk over it. At first my mom couldn’t grasp that concept. And then once we understood it, tried the cold cereal which was tasty. We were laughing for a long, long time.
Lauren: I like that story, but you know it’s funny because it happens even when you’re traveling, in the normal world, and you go to another country and you don’t know their foods, and you don’t, you know, it’s like, I know going to Thailand, and, you know, I have a kosher home and when I was there was a lot of where people eating bugs and it was normal. I mean it’s normal. Now Froot Loops a little different, although I’ll tell you, it’s probably not that different because it’s full of sugar but it’s just interesting how cultural differences, define us so much. And that brings us to our discussion today about cultural differences across borders, and you have a specific targeted business, and you have clients coming to you because what you offer is, a range of promotional products but your main product is this one product that you have focused on and that has driven, your success. What made you start this, what was your brainchild around this and how do you think you started bringing in clients from other countries? So, let’s start with, when did it start, you went to college I assume right?
Vlad: No, there was no college, no college, I was working a lot, I have every kind of job you can think of. And then at some point, I started a Computer Repair Company. It was a nine to nine. I started with a friend and, you know, we had full time jobs but that was something we did on the weekend. Party money to go out. And a few years later, my friend he went. And so, he didn’t have time to do the computers and I was left by myself.
Lauren: And he also comes from the Ukraine or from another country, or was he American?
Vlad: Just from Ukraine.
Lauren: Okay. And then we naturally gravitate toward our own people.
Vlad: Right. Well, that’s how I started that I didn’t speak English, I could not be friends with anybody who was not Russian, because we couldn’t speak. So, he went to law school and I went all by myself and a little time later, probably four months later, one of my customers who I get computers for, he said, “hey you’re a computer guy. Can you help me get a really nice presentation folder”? However, he didn’t say presentation folder he said company folder. He said, “help me find company folders”. I said, “sure!”. How hard could that be right? Internet is booming and everything is there and so I walked out said yes, the problem is, I didn’t know what company folder was. So, I had to go friends they had to figure it out and I understood what it was. So, then I started looking for it and I noticed that there really are no good options for presentation folders. If you look online, your typical company they sell four to six to eight different folding styles, right, we got letter size, legal size, two packets, one pocket on the right, or one pocket on the left but that’s pretty much all you get. And then, of course, they are usually all white paper. And they print a four-color process and that’s it. But he was looking for something more interesting, right. Now I just said boring, very boring. And, you know, I found whatever the best option was at the time and I helped them do that, but then a light went off. Yeah. And this is what happened back in Soviet Union. We did not have options, because everything was government owned. It’s just it is what it is …
Lauren: Like you said the people did not own anything. Therefore, there was no reason to compete right, no?
Vlad: Right. Exactly right. If you don’t compete, then, you don’t innovate. If you have for example, silverware. The ones we had at home. all the people in Soviet Union have the same silverware. And the other half had the other type that was available. You talked about wallpaper, there would be three four different kinds of wallpaper, and some are not good at all, some are better. And everybody has, you know, give or take the same wallpaper. Same thing goes for furniture, for clothing, for this for that. And then when I came here, originally, and I see the variety of things that you go to the store and you have overwhelming dozens of cheeses, dozens of credit cards, you have yogurts, we didn’t even have yogurts, we had white bread in Russia, we have white bread, and black bread. Here you have all these different things I didn’t know what to do with myself. And that’s how I was living the American life right, like everything comes in options and varieties
Lauren: And too many options and variety and kinds.
Vlad: Here I am faced with a product that is similar. It’s the same. There is no variety and I’m like, that was not American to me. And it just those memories of, you know, communism and, and there’s no way
Lauren: I would never know. I mean, you came up with this idea for variety in a very boring product, an otherwise boring product because you saw that it’s wanted here.
Vlad: Right. And I remember thinking to myself you know somebody’s got to change this, like they got to come up and as I was doing that, I’m like well, am I going to wait for that, or am I going to make it happen? So, I set out and I started the company, and because I didn’t know anybody, and the guy referred to ‘company folders’ I called the Company Folders. The whole idea was to build out a brand that offers the largest variety of presentation folder styles, largest amount of paper. Print matters that we use, coatings and on and on and on. And that’s where we are today.
Lauren: Now you have 18, which is a great number. Employees.
Vlad: Great number. Exactly, so amazing. We do 67 different papers of all colors, textures, anything you want. We do four color process printing, we do PMS printing with the foil stamp, and all these different things. We do all sorts of coatings, such as gloss matte set, and we do soft edge coating, we do all sorts of lamination, we do spot UV, we do spot matte, whatever people require right, and we get fun. We do a lot of fun with it too because …
Lauren: Show me a fun one. Do you have a fun one there? Well, my guests on the podcasts won’t see it but like I would love to. I mean it’s a shame the one that that Vlad showed me. It’s, what do you call that when it’s under the light you can see all the logos? Yeah, yeah, that that is iridescent light, that purple light, its brilliant, I love it. Yeah. So, what do you call that that method?
Vlad: That’s called spot UV.
Lauren: So those are all your clients’, right?
Vlad: Yeah, those are some of the clients we would do Century 21, you should know that Nordstrom, or
Lauren: Coldwell Banker PG and, brilliant.
Vlad: Yeah, so, so there are all sorts of ways to, to make it more memorable, more fun, more anything really. And that was always the goal so that’s where we are and to take it a step further, we had a remarkably interesting situation where I can’t say that problems never come up right. We have a really good way of testing everything. We have a really good quality assurance outside of just printing and making stuff. And once in a while things slip through the cracks. And it happens everywhere right. That is not what’s really important, but I think what’s really important is what do you do with that. Yeah, so, some years back we had, just like anybody else, we offered people two weeks to inspect their products, right, because on the one side some other companies only offer you five days or seven days. When you claim whatever you got to claim and passed that you’re on your own. So, this one time we had a woman. It was some years ago, who got a folder, similar to this, in the sense that the logo was foil stamped, and out of 500 folders that she got 12 or 15 of them, the logo was slightly crooked. And the press when it goes through, this doesn’t get printed it gets stamped on. And apparently, few sheets of paper were at an angle. So, she contacts, us, it was probably three to four months since she bought them. And she’s like, well I know it’s outside of the time, but we had 13 or 15 of them crooked, is there something you can do to help me? So, of course, so we printed 100, maybe another 100 folders and sent it to her right, and she was extremely happy, but that’s when we started thinking, hold on a second. If there is one there must be another. And if we make people go through all the folders in the first week or two, I wouldn’t want to do that. So, we created a one-year warranty. You have a whole year to go through your folders. And then as we were doing that, we are like hold on a second what what’s one year, what if they don’t use the folders this fast right, what if it takes two years to go through the folders? And the whole point was to give people time as they use the folders, right, to have a plan, if there is something off, just put it to the side and then at some point, call me and tell me I had 10 or 11 faulty folders and we’ll figure it out. So, we decided to go lifetime.
Vlad: Yeah, that’s your folders and you have nothing to worry about. Because if you discovered, any kind of defect, six months from now, a year from now five years from now.
Lauren: Great, the truth is that it also engages them in future conversations and keeps them loyal.
Vlad: Yeah, absolutely.
Lauren: I wouldn’t mind, we could talk for hours and you have a brilliant business model. We have a hard stop in about five minutes and I just wanted to mention the fact that my company, because it’s so unique, has organically expanded into all of North America, Canada for obvious reasons, he’s in Michigan that’s an easy one, Mexico and South of the Border, probably not. If you do, I mean doesn’t really matter you can imprint Spanish easily because it’s no difference to change the direction.
Vlad: I mean, we do a lot of Spanish designs.
Lauren: Yeah, I mean it makes sense. So, I would love to give everybody an opportunity to reach out to you and perhaps get a sample of your work and see exactly what you’re offering that’s on the podcast and isn’t able to see it. How do they reach you; how do people reach you?
Vlad: Well, first of all our website is www.companyfolders.com.
Lauren: That’s pretty easy companyfolders.com. You can’t really miss that mess that up.
Vlad: And my email is [email protected].
Lauren: [email protected]. He is very proficient on LinkedIn and very much a go giver, a very amazing entrepreneur who has built and built a business, literally from nothing in America, just from an idea that came to him because he really has lived the American dream. And in a lot of ways has set the trajectory for others to follow.
Vlad: Another thing I do is, I offer people a free design consultation. And of course, you know it originally came up as an idea to help people feel more comfortable with what they’re thinking of getting right, and in the hopes that as they’re communicating with me, we would get an order out of inventory for future orders. But it turned into, I just had a consultation I think on Friday. The girl was from South Africa. She’s a designer, working for a company, and they asked her to redesign their logo. So when we started the conversation I asked her, I said, What’s your budget for this? She said well, I don’t have a budget because I’m the one doing it, but I don’t know where to go, I need ideas, I’m like, Great, let’s work on it, and I asked her questions that she needs to understand what they’re getting right, and navigated her through the whole process of how to think of the logo design, which direction to take it. She was super grateful. And she promised to actually send me whenever she comes up with one, since she actually said that she’ll be communicating with me through the whole process so that I can help guide her, and I’m happy to do those things because at the end of the day. I believe that the more I share my gift, the more everybody, other people will share their gifts with me .
Lauren: That is a go getter.
Vlad: and with each other. And as long as, as long as we can improve everybody then, by default we improve ourselves,
Lauren: 100%, I just, you just reminded me of something, a good friend of mine, Bob Berg, I’m going to reach out to him to be interviewed on this on this podcast.
Vlad: And I will also share a link to only where people can schedule a consultation with me. So, if you can include that link and people sign up and I’ll be happy to walk them through everything I know.
Lauren: Absolutely. It would be my pleasure. Vladimir Thank you. I look forward to working with you, I look forward to getting some company folders, myself, and I thank you for your time. It’s a pleasure to know you. It’s a pleasure to share the book with you. And we’ll be in touch very soon. Thanks everybody. This is Lauren Cohen, with Investing Across Borders, thanking you for learning a little bit about this wonderful immigrant story from the Ukraine, who has made a mark in the US and across borders as well. Thank you so much. Have a great day, happy reading. Bye for now. |
Anxiety in preschoolers is important for parents. Managing anxiety in under fives depends very much on their ability to verbalize. If their vocabulary isn’t large it’s important to attend to their body language. Here are some tips for managing anxiety in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
Infancy from birth to age one is a wonderful time for rapid growth. Only you know your baby’s ways of communicating as you get to know him or her. She communicates by crying, turning her body this way and that, facial expressions, wiggling her toes, turning her head away from you or towards you, and many more gestures that only you pick up so frequently.
Babies do get anxious from time to time depending on their temperaments. Some get jostled by loud noises, others crave the loud stimulation. Some get thrown by crowds of people, others love the array of people around them. Only you know the best atmospheres that they are comfortable in. If their pattern changes, you can suspect or at least wonder if they feel anxious or in distress.
Always begin with a physical assessment by your pediatrician. If everything is fine, then consider signs of anxiety like a quiet baby crying excessively for long periods of time or a good sleeper waking up frequently during the night and having restless naps. Or, the reverse, an active baby showing signs of lethargy for example. You’re looking to find out how well your baby can shut out disturbing stimuli such as loud noises, transitions to different locations, being held by people they do or do not know, being away from you for long periods of time.
The hypersensitive infant cannot shut out stimuli and must respond over and over. They will need a very protected environment similar to those needed for premature infants. Undress this baby gently, observing his reactions to being handled. Some easily irritable newborns are recovering from maternal medications, alcohol, or exposure to narcotics during pregnancy. With narcotics, they may experience a period of withdrawal.
A sleepy baby may not be able to coordinate his sucking if he is anxious and will need to be roused before he gets started. After the parent awakens him, the infant will need to be soothed into a calm and focused state. Sensitive babies in general get agitated more easily than resilient ones, so keep an eye on your baby’s pattern of reacting. Other recommendations for anxious babies include the following:
- If the baby awakens frequently when she’s been a good sleeper, rock her gently and sing quietly. She is accustomed to her mother’s voice from when she was in utero. This is comforting.
- If the mother is nervous, have the father speak in his lower voice tone which is often soothing.
- If a parent is anxious, the baby will absorb that anxiety. So, calm yourself before holding the baby and allow each other to soothe one another in a gentle, rocking motion.
- If your baby turns away from you when you are playing, do not chase him with your face or eyes. Let him have his space. If you do not, you may enter into an activity called chase and dodge, where the baby gets increasingly anxious by your over attention.
- Look for environmental triggers to anxiety such as unexpected noises or movements around the baby. Remove the baby from that area and slowly pat her gently until she is calm.
- If the baby is traumatized by the loss of her primary caretaker or the mother has postpartum depression and does not want to care for her infant, make sure one substitute person becomes the caretaker for the baby to get attached to.
- If early day care is needed, again make sure the baby is attached to one primary caretaker rather than random childminders who go on shifts.
Once your baby is walking, usually about at 1 year, they begin to toddle. Opening cabinets, searching all over the house, discovering what makes their world tick. It’s a fun time for most but some do bear anxiety. Look for changes in their patterns of eating, sleeping, and playing for changes from their usual routines to indicate they may be feeling some distress. Object permanence typically starts to develop between ages 4-7 months and involves the baby understanding that when things disappear, they aren’t gone forever. However, it may take your toddler longer to be convinced that when you are not around, you still can be found, or will return home. Some toddlers experience separation anxiety until they have this concept down pat. They may cling when you go out or even cry. Soothe them gently telling them when you will be home in a way they can understand because they can’t tell time. (“I’ll be home for the cartoon show. We’ll watch it together.”)
Toddlers with anxiety often are clingy and emotional. There may be environmental causes such as changes in day care, new activities to transition to, and losses that are traumatic. Always soothe your toddler; don’t let her wander aimlessly around sadly on her own. Explain what you can to help her shoulder and adjust to any changes. Explanations may go on deaf ears if they are over her head, but your warm tones will comfort her.
Typically, nine months is normal stranger anxiety, but it may last a bit longer. Monitor your toddlers reaction to strangers and don’t push the hypersensitive toddlers to go to people they don’t know during this transition.
Ages 3-4 are generally when kids start preschool. They may be excited to be part of school life, or they may feel afraid to meet this new adventure. Visit the school several times to help your child get acclimated to the building and the teachers. Tell her what she will be doing and offer to show her around the classroom. If she can form a warm attachment to at least one teacher who will greet her the first day this can go a long way in an easier adjustment.
If you’re child shows separation anxiety at 3 you might want to wait until 4 if it’s extreme. Playdates at age 3 can fulfill the socialization needs and you can provide craft materials and other play things to fill in the gap. Play at preschool is more important than just rote learning the A,B,C’s. Children need to learn to share, to sit in circle time, and begin to love to be read to (which hopefully has been going on at home for some time.) If separation anxiety seems manageable and the preschool allows it, stay in the room the first few days for a few minutes or so while your child becomes involved in playing. Do not disappear when you leave even if your child is tearful. It’s best to say when they will be picked up and by whom, so they know they aren’t forgotten. If they are crying, have the best attachment figure in the room be by their side and have the teacher call you after about an hour to tell you how things are going. Give your child time to adjust. For some it takes several weeks. School should be a happy time. If it’s not, find out why by consulting with the teacher and rethinking your routine so it’s not overwhelming but easy to manage. Your child will pick up on your anxiety, so learn to understand your worries as well and resolve them because your nervousness will be contagious to your child.
Children this age don’t generally say when they are worried, but they may say they are sad. Listen attentively to this expression and try to find out what they are concerned about. Take them seriously and give them your time and calm responses to their questions. Some children on the cusp of three, depending on their birthdays, are better off waiting 6 months or so before beginning preschool so it’s a positive experience.
Usually if the household is calm when they begin school, and routines are set for awakening, eating a good breakfast, and time to chat, going to school is a pleasurable experience. There will be some days your child needs a hang out at home time, consider this normal if it’s not prolonged. You are still their principal person that they trust. If they see you trust the teachers, they will, too. Also, have play dates with some of the kids in their class to build some relationships. |
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Azure Communication Services are cloud-based services with REST APIs and client library SDKs available to help you integrate communication into your applications. You can add communication to your applications without being an expert in underlying technologies such as media encoding or telephony. Azure Communication Service is available in multiple Azure geographies and Azure for government.
Azure Communication Services supports various communication formats:
You can connect custom client apps, custom services, and the publicly switched telephony network (PSTN) to your communications experience. You can acquire phone numbers directly through Azure Communication Services REST APIs, SDKs, or the Azure portal; and use these numbers for SMS or calling applications or you can integrate email capabilities to your applications using production-ready email SDKs. Azure Communication Services direct routing allows you to use SIP and session border controllers to connect your own PSTN carriers and bring your own phone numbers.
Scenarios for Azure Communication Services include:
- Business to Consumer (B2C). Employees and services engage external customers using voice, video, and text chat in browser and native apps. An organization can send and receive SMS messages, or operate an interactive voice response system (IVR) using Call Automation and a phone number you acquire through Azure. Integration with Microsoft Teams can be used to connect consumers to Teams meetings hosted by employees; ideal for remote healthcare, banking, and product support scenarios where employees might already be familiar with Teams.
- Consumer to Consumer (C2C). Build engaging consumer-to-consumer interaction with voice, video, and rich text chat. Any type of user interface can be built on Azure Communication Services SDKs, or use complete application samples and an open-source UI toolkit to help you get started quickly.
To learn more, check out our Microsoft Mechanics video or the resources linked next.
|Create a Communication Services resource
|Begin using Azure Communication Services by using the Azure portal or Communication Services SDK to provision your first Communication Services resource. Once you have your Communication Services resource connection string, you can provision your first user access tokens.
|Get a phone number
|Use Azure Communication Services to provision and release telephone numbers. These telephone numbers can be used to initiate or receive phone calls and build SMS solutions.
|Send an SMS from your app
|Azure Communication Services SMS REST APIs and SDKs are used to send and receive SMS messages from service applications.
|Send an Email from your app
|Azure Communication Services Email REST APIs and SDKs are used to send email messages from service applications.
After creating a Communication Services resource you can start building client scenarios, such as voice and video calling or text chat:
|Create your first user access token
|User access tokens authenticate clients against your Azure Communication Services resource. These tokens are provisioned and reissued using Communication Services Identity APIs and SDKs.
|Get started with voice and video calling
|Azure Communication Services allows you to add voice and video calling to your browser or native apps using the Calling SDK.
|Add telephony calling to your app
|With Azure Communication Services, you can add telephony calling capabilities to your application.
|Make an outbound call from your app
|Azure Communication Services Call Automation allows you to make an outbound call with an interactive voice response system using Call Automation SDKs and REST APIs.
|Join your calling app to a Teams meeting
|Azure Communication Services can be used to build custom meeting experiences that interact with Microsoft Teams. Users of your Communication Services solution(s) can interact with Teams participants over voice, video, chat, and screen sharing.
|Get started with chat
|The Azure Communication Services Chat SDK is used to add rich real-time text chat into your applications.
|Connect a Microsoft Bot to a phone number
|Telephony channel is a channel in Microsoft Bot Framework that enables the bot to interact with users over the phone. It uses the power of Microsoft Bot Framework combined with the Azure Communication Services and the Azure Speech Services.
|Add visual communication experiences
|The UI Library for Azure Communication Services enables you to easily add rich, visual communication experiences to your applications for both calling and chat.
The following samples demonstrate end-to-end usage of the Azure Communication Services. Use these samples to bootstrap your own Communication Services solutions.
|The Group Calling Hero Sample
|Download a designed application sample for group calling for browsers, iOS, and Android devices.
|The Group Chat Hero Sample
|Download a designed application sample for group text chat for browsers.
|The Web Calling Sample
|Download a designed web application sample for audio, video, and PSTN calling.
Platforms and SDK libraries
Learn more about the Azure Communication Services SDKs with the resources listed next. REST APIs are available for most functionality if you want to build your own clients or otherwise access the service over the Internet.
|SDK libraries and REST APIs
|Azure Communication Services capabilities are conceptually organized into six areas, each represented by an SDK. You can decide which SDK libraries to use based on your real-time communication needs.
|Calling SDK overview
|Review the Communication Services Calling SDK overview.
|Call Automation overview
|Review the Communication Services Call Automation SDK overview.
|Chat SDK overview
|Review the Communication Services Chat SDK overview.
|SMS SDK overview
|Review the Communication Services SMS SDK overview.
|Email SDK overview
|Review the Communication Services SMS SDK overview.
|UI Library overview
|Review the UI Library for the Communication Services
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Other Microsoft Communication Services
There are two other Microsoft communication products you may consider using, these products aren't directly interoperable with Communication Services at this time:
Microsoft Graph Cloud Communication APIs allow organizations to build communication experiences tied to Microsoft Entra users with Microsoft 365 licenses. This workflow is ideal for applications tied to Microsoft Entra ID or where you want to extend productivity experiences in Microsoft Teams. There are also APIs to build applications and customization within the Teams experience.
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Perhaps one of the most fundamental stages of working towards the MSc Technology Management is deciding on a subject area for investigation. At every stage of my academic career with the Open University, I have been exposed to many facets of the behind-the-scenes-working of the computing and IT sector, as well as the frontline services and technologies that are familiar at the user end of the production.
Whether it is, for example, the behind-the-scenes-working of standards agencies that govern the worldwide web, such as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) or the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) which are both international bodies responsible for assigning the protocols that govern internet address and other protocols such as developing the architecture that makes the whole internet run as smoothly as it does crossing many international boundaries and various operating systems. Or learning the intricacies networking as taught in Cisco’s CCNA or delving into the depths in intellectual property and privacy.
In my postgraduate studies, I continued to increase in my understanding of the management of technology innovation, and systems thinking, which are specialised areas of management, ideally suited to better able to survive in the evolving technological environment that businesses and governments alike have to deal with. An example of how this can affect an online enterprise would be the introduction of the new data laws under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)enforced by the European Union (EU) which at times prevents me from accessing some Caribbean websites.
Nevertheless, I am excited to have reached as far as I have, and in this diary entry, I will be looking at the context of the working title for my proposal synopsis. So read on.
Area of Practice (AOP)
One of the postures that I picked up from my study of TU811- Thinking strategically: systems tools for managing change, is to identify what is your chosen area of practice. This could mean, in what category is your profession, or what area of practice interests you. I see myself as as consultant with particular interest in disaster management and recovery. Like so many world leaders and humanitarian and research organisations have caught the vision of the commonwealth of Dominica’s Prime Minister, Hon Dr Roosevelt Skerrit, to rebuild his country after the ravages of Hurricane Maria last year, as the world’s first climate resilient nation. Dr Skerrit, has received two honorary doctorates for his advocacy against the effects of climate change, and persistently calls on the developed world to pay their dues towards small island states who stand to suffer the most as the world’s ocean warm and the hurricanes become more frequent and ferocious.
As a hurricane survivor myself, as a youth, I experienced hurricane David on August 29th, 1979, I am woefully cognisant what my fellow dominicans have had to endure this past year, as the country continues to rebuild, and rehabilitate. The quest is to build back better, and the government has created the Climate Resilience Execution Agency of Dominica (CREAD) to spearhead this effort.
I am of the opinion that based on my current studies, that I can lend some useful insights towards this effort. Consequently, my working title, of which I am awaiting feedback when my supervisor is appointed early next year is;
DIMINISHING UNCERTAINTY TO ACCELERATE THE EXECUTION OF CLIMATE-CHANGE ADAPTATION TECHNOLOGIES THROUGH A SYSTEMIC INTERVENTION TO STRENGTHEN THE INNOVATION STRATEGY, OF THE CLIMATE RESILIENCE EXECUTION AGENCY OF DOMINICA (CREAD).
Setting the pace; Setting the goal
As you are already aware, this Dissertation Research Diary, is analogous to workshop where I can pound the raw data and rough ideas into shape before submitting them officially as part of any assignment due on the course. In a sense, this is an opportunity to give my initially thoughts flesh and breath into them a life of their own as blogs in their own right.(Fig 1) A spray diagram depicting some potential subject areas that may make it into the T802 Research Project
In figure 1 above, I begun the process of identifying subject areas from the postgraduate modules studies. This gives me a good idea of some the ground I will cover as seek to explore my chosen topic.
This dissertation will research the history of climate change adaptation in the Caribbean region, with emphasis on Dominica, and how CREAD will effect the technology transfer of the technologies and processes that will transform Dominica’s infrastructure and landscape to achieve sustainability, and also give the island the resources to withstand severe natural disasters, which are common in this region, and to rebound quickly from their effects.
The methodology I propose to use to gather data for this project, will comprise of primary research utilizing telephone interviews, email and social media questionnaires in conjunction with secondary research which will comprise of collecting books, published academic papers and other dissertations on key words searches such as ‘Dominica and climate change’ and Caribbean and climate change adaptation.’
My preliminary findings suggest that there is a gap in academic research on Dominica’s vulnerability and climate change adaptation efforts in the past, and more recently after Tropical Storm Erica did so much damage to the Eastern part of the island in 2015, that whole villages had to be evacuated and relocated. Some of the rehabilitation work on the rebuilding of homes survived Hurricane Maria, but 90% of other structures did not.
I will seek to explain how technology management and systems thinking can work together to inform the work of the CREAD to assess and implement measures to protect sectors, that are vulnerable to shock and or failure from natural and man-made disasters, such as Housing, Agriculture, tourism, education, health, transportation, telecommunications, air and seaport and utilities.
As part of my Primary research, I will not only target the key players in Dominica and the region in regard to disaster management and recovery, but also of the key organizations here in the UK and Europe, that have played a major part in Dominica’s ongoing recovery.. |
Take a moment to reflect on your grand strategy for your team or organization.
Seriously, take just a moment to sit back and focus on what you plan to accomplish.
Arguably, that exercise has likely revealed that you are in one of three groups:
Group #1: You found this to be a fairly simple exercise as you have invested significant resources to create your plan. You have paid the price in time, energy, and intellectual bandwidth to create the plan. Congratulations. This is good news, but is likely destined for disappointment as you don’t have a process in place to execute the strategy.
Group #2: You’re thinking I have no idea what my grand strategy is, I’m just hoping to make it through the week. Unlike the first group, you too are destined for disappointment, but at least you may not understand what could have been accomplished. Thus, your disappoint will be muted compared to Group #1.
Group #3: You have invested to create a plan AND have a process in place to make it happen. You and your organization are the rarest of breeds.
A Framework to Get You Started
If you are looking for an approach to strategy and execution, consider this high-level framework. I created it and have used it with many clients to help them, Plan, Implement and Evaluate organizational strategy.
The approach, called the PIE Chart, is simple, but not simplistic. Watch this five minute video to get you started.
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In Spanish, the verb "probar" means to test or to prove. The English word "probation" is from the same stem. Probation describes a period of time after a criminal offense where the convicted person must prove that they are on the straight and narrow by following certain rules the judge lays out.
Probation after a conviction for driving under the influence (DUI) may include a condition that the probationer completely abstain from alcohol, and it will certainly include a condition that they do not drink and drive. A violation of a probation condition can result in serious consequences.
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Anyone who violates DUI probation by drinking and driving is likely to have their probation revoked, which may result in a jail term. Their parole officer can arrest them or cause them to be arrested and required to appear at a parole violation hearing before the court.
What Is DUI Probation?
Driving under the influence (DUI) or driving while intoxicated (DWI) is a crime in every state. Generally, drivers who are convicted of this crime are sentenced to a term of probation as part of their sentence. This may be after serving a jail term or instead of one. The judge determines the terms of probation depending on state law and the circumstances of the crime, but typically, probation lasts for at least one year.
Probation is a period when the driver must show that they can and will behave in a prudent, law-abiding manner. A probation officer supervises the convicted driver to see whether they abide by the conditions of probation as ordered by the court. These typically include limitations and restrictions on the use of alcohol. A violation of any condition will result in negative consequences to the driver.
Typical Probation Conditions
Each state determines the conditions that judges can impose on those convicted of crimes, but they usually give the courts discretion in crafting the terms. That means that there is no universal list of probation terms and conditions. However, some conditions are used quite regularly. They can include:
- Completing a substance abuse evaluation and recommended treatment program.
- Abstaining from alcohol and drug use.
- Attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
- Submitting to random controlled substance and alcohol testing.
- Installing and using an ignition interlock device (IID) in every vehicle driven.
- Submitting to a DUI breath or urine test if stopped for a DUI.
- Driving with any measurable blood alcohol concentration (BAC).
Abstaining From Alcohol
Must a driver on DUI probation stop drinking alcohol completely? Anyone on probation should review the terms and conditions with their own attorney to be sure they understand what they can and cannot do. While in some states, abstinence from alcohol is a condition of DUI probation, in others it is not. Drinking and driving is almost always a condition of probation.
For example, Georgia forbids alcohol use by those on DUI probation. Drivers convicted of a DUI in Georgia must abstain from all alcohol use or face probation revocation. This is also the case in Michigan, where a probation officer conducts random drug and alcohol tests and anyone testing positive for alcohol or drugs is taken into court.
In Florida, the driver is prohibited from using intoxicants "in excess." In other states, this issue is left for county courts to determine, and the answer varies depending on the county in which the driver was arrested.
Violation of Probation Conditions
If a driver is caught violating a condition of their probation, the consequences depend on how serious the court considers the error. A minor violation, like failing to complete a substance abuse program on time, may simply result in a new deadline to do so. A serious violation, like another instance of driving under the influence, can have much more serious consequences.
Any criminal defendant accused of a probation violation has a legal right to a hearing. Either the probation officer or a law enforcement officer can arrest the driver and bring them to the hearing. This kind of hearing is often held in the same way a trial is conducted, and both the driver and the prosecutor can present evidence.
The state must prove that the violation occurred, usually by a preponderance of the evidence standard, meaning more likely than not. The driver can present evidence that they did not violate probation. If the court finds that the driver did violate probation, any number of penalties can issue.
Potential Penalties for Parole Violation
When considering a serious parole violation, the court is likely to either revoke or extend the parole. But those are not the only options. Since probation is imposed as a less onerous alternative to jail time, revocation of probation can mean a renewed jail sentence.
Faced with a serious parole violation, a judge can:
- Revoke probation and re-impose the original jail sentence.
- Revoke probation and impose a longer jail sentence.
- Impose an extended period of probation.
- Keep the original probation period but add additional terms.
California Probation Rules
It is said that as California law goes, so goes the country. Whether or not this is completely true, it is useful to look at what alcohol restrictions are imposed by California and how DUI probation works in the state.
Generally, California does not condition probation on absolute abstinence. Rather, under Vehicle Code Section 23600, it is illegal for anyone on DUI probation to drive with any measurable amount of alcohol in their system. This is referred to as California’s zero tolerance law. A driver violates this law if their BAC test result is 0.01 percent or more.
Compare this to the limit for commercial drivers of 0.04 percent BAC and the limit for regular drivers of 0.08 percent. When a driver on probation violates this law, their probation can be revoked and they can be sent to jail. A new DUI charge during the probationary period can also result in new criminal charges in addition to the prior offense.
Violating the Terms of Probation in California
Anyone found to be violating a term of their DUI probation in California can be arrested by their probation officer and taken to court. Alternatively, the court can issue a bench warrant to have the driver brought into court to face the charges.
If the driver or their attorney convinces the judge that they did not violate the terms of probation, the entire issue disappears. The driver stays on probation as previously ordered. If the court finds that the driver did violate the probation, it has more options.
For a first time violation, the judge may simply issue a warning and reinstate the old terms and conditions of probation. However, the judge can make the terms stricter or can revoke the probation entirely and order the driver to jail.
Teo Spengler earned a JD from U.C. Berkeley Law School. As an Assistant Attorney General in Juneau, she practiced before the Alaska Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court before opening a plaintiff's personal injury practice in San Francisco. She holds both an MA and an MFA in English/writing and enjoys writing legal blogs and articles. Her work has appeared in numerous online publications including USA Today, Legal Zoom, eHow Business, Livestrong, SF Gate, Go Banking Rates, Arizona Central, Houston Chronicle, Navy Federal Credit Union, Pearson, Quicken.com, TurboTax.com, and numerous attorney websites. Spengler splits her time between the French Basque Country and Northern California. |
Let me show you the details about the most densely populated borough in New York City on Facts about Manhattan. The historical birthplace of New York City is located in Manhattan. Moreover, it also obtains the status as the administrative and economic center. Manhattan Island occupies most areas in the borough. Do you know that United Nations Headquarters are located in Manhattan? The borough also earns the status as the financial capital and cultural capital of the world.
Facts about Manhattan 1: finance and economy
The economy of Manhattan is superb. It becomes the global financial center. The most powerful city in term of economy is located in New York City.
Facts about Manhattan 2: stock exchange
The two major stock exchanges housed in Manhattan are NASDAQ and New York Stock Exchange.
Facts about Manhattan 3: the real estate business
The real estate business in Manhattan is super expensive due to its importance. In 2013, the real estate in Manhattan Island reached US$3 trillion.
Facts about Manhattan 4: the property sale
In 2017, the price of residential property reached US$1,400 per sq ft in Manhattan. The highest retail rents in the world are recorded in the Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. It is valued at US$3,000 per sq ft.
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Facts about Manhattan 5: population
According to estimation in 2015, Manhattan was a home for 1,644,518 people.
Facts about Manhattan 6: commuters
Manhattan is settled by more than 3.9 million people during the business days. Most of them are commuters to reach the city for business affairs or work.
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Facts about Manhattan 7: tourists
Tourism is also excellent in Manhattan. In 2015, it was visited by 60 million tourists due to its impressive landmarks and districts. The three major attractions in Manhattan include Grand Central Terminal, Central Park and Times Square.
Facts about Manhattan 8: the amazing landmarks and buildings
The people who come to Manhattan are impressive with amazing buildings and landmarks. You will spot one of the world’s tallest skyscrapers here such as Empire State Building. It is also a home of the Brooklyn Bridge. The famous park visited by the people is Central Park.
Facts about Manhattan 9: education
Manhattan is also a home to a number of educational institutions such as Rockefeller University, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York University, and Columbia University.
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Facts about Manhattan 10: climate
The humid subtropical condition defines the climate of Columbia University.
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Recently somebody told me that I barely post photos of myself.
They were surprised when they saw me because they didn’t know what to expect.
I am so guilty of not posting photos. I am seriously insecure. It’s ridiculous.
But my goal is to get over that. So here I am!
Both photos by Valerie Demo Photography 🙂 She did our Pre Deployment and Homecoming photos and I love them!
We only have one body, why waste our time in it hating it?
So here are 20 things about me:
- I am a bit of a geek. I spend my Saturdays playing Dungeons and Dragons. If I’m not editing or working, I am most likely playing video games (lately, a ton of Skyrim!)
- My dream is to be a sex and marriage therapist working with military families. I received my BA in Psychology from Hawaii Pacific University in 2010. I have taken the last couple of years off to do some soul searching.
- I work as an ABA therapist helping children with Autism. I love my job. I really love my job!
- I swear like a sailor. And I say inapprpriate things 85% of the time. I censor myself on facebook, but get with me outside of internet land and you will see the real me come out 🙂
- I have an obsession with Norway and Norwegian Black Metal. I love music that makes me think, which is why I cannot listen to what is playing on the radio. What can I say? I’m a music snob. On the subject of music, I also really love Baroque classical music. And lately, I have been listening to a lot of Trip Hop. It is the perfect music for boudoir 🙂
- I am extremely Type A and I am a major control freak (complete understatement). I am very particular about details, which is both a blessing and a curse.
- I am a sucker for rich and deep colors. I like sapphires, burgundies, and deep purples. If you visit my office, you will be enveloped in a world of purple.
- Much of my time on the internet is spent looking things up. I am usually looking up research studies. But history takes up a lot of my time as well.
- My husband insists that I am turning our home into a gothic house. I have to agree 🙂 I love old and intricate details. If I could have my way, my house would look like the coven home in the Underworld movie.
- I am filled with wanderlust, but I have never been out of the country.
- I am part Chamorro. My family is from the tiny island of Guam. I never thought of myself as an island girl until I moved to Hawaii.
- Most of my nights are spent at home watching movies. I love Sci Fi, Action, and Thrillers. I drool over Liam Neeson, Christan Bale, Jason Statham, Clive Owen, and of course, Gerard Butler. I love me a manly man 🙂
- I was born in Arkansas and my accent creeps out from time to time.
- We don’t have cable in our house. And I love it. Although I do miss watching Jon Stewart!
- When I edit I am usually playing shows from the BBC. Or listening to audio books. One of my favorite shows is Doctor Who 🙂
- I am a huge supporter of marriage equality and an advocate for human rights.
- Almost every night spent in Hawaii included a trip to the Coffee Gallery followed by time spent at the beach reflecting.
- I love tea. I don’t think I could live without it. And sushi. Don’t get me started on sushi. Seriously.
- When I was in middle and high school I spent a lot of time looking at photos of alternative models. At the time it was for makeup ideas. But it quickly changed into a love for alternative fashion photography.
- One of my favorite quotes is by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich “Well behaved women seldom make history.” I like to live by it.
I hope this helps you all to get to know me a bit better! I know, I know. I’m boring.
July 26, 2012 |
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