Video has become a crucial communication tool for both businesses teachers, students, as well as content producers. However, creating high-quality videos is time-consuming and expensive particularly when it comes to creating personal videos. Thanks to advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) have made it possible to automate this video production process, and Synthesia is among the leading companies in this field. In this paper we will look at how Synthesia operates and the benefits from video AI generators such as Synthesia.
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What is Synthesia?
Synthesia is an video AI generator which allows users to create customized videos using AI technology. It employs deep-learning algorithms to study video footage, and then creates the new video that mimics the original. Its video is then redesigned. The video can be customized by a variety of ways, such as altering the voiceover, text and even the person speaking in the video.
What is Synthesia? Synthesia work?
Synthesia is a system that uses deep learning algorithms that analyze video footage, and then create the new video that is a copy of the original. The first step is to provide the AI using a written script, which it then uses to create a voiceover for the video. The voiceover is customizable by adjusting the tone, pitch, and even the language. Once the voiceover is created, Synthesia uses computer vision to analyse the video footage and then create an entirely new video that matches the voiceover. The AI also can detect the expressions of the face and body language of the person in the video and mimic these when creating the latest video.
Benefits of Synthesia
Saves time and money
Creating customized videos can be time-consuming and expensive, especially when you have to employ an experienced video production firm. Synthesia allows users to create customized videos quickly and effortlessly, without the need for expensive equipment or a team of producers. It is a cost-effective solution for schools, businesses and content creators that need to produce high-quality videos on a budget.
Personalized videos can be more enjoyable than general-purpose videos due to the fact that they are tailored to the viewer’s interests and preferences. Synthesia allows users to create personalized videos that speak directly to their audience, increasing engagement and improving the overall experience of users. Personalized videos also have higher conversion rates, which can help companies increase sales and create more leads.
Synthesia is able to create videos that are multilingual which makes it a great tool for businesses and educators seeking to reach an international audience. It can also create videos that have closed captions as well as audio descriptions, which makes them accessible to people with disabilities. This enhances accessibility and makes it more inclusive and is vital to creating a diverse and inclusive media.
Synthesia allows users to make videos that are extremely creative and personal which allows them to distinguish themselves from others. Users can customize their voiceovers, the text, and even the person speaking in the video, giving them complete control over the final product. This can result in highly original and creative videos that draw the attention of viewers and leave an impression.
Synthesia’s AI technology allows users to make multiple customized videos in a matter of minutes which makes it a great tool for teachers and businesses who need to create a large volume of videos. Scalability helps businesses save time and money while still producing high-quality videos that speak directly to their target audience.
Use cases to protect Synthesia
Advertising and marketing
Synthesia is an excellent tool for creating personalized advertisements and marketing videos that directly appeal to your target audience. It can help businesses increase the number of people who engage and convert and still keep a tight budget.
Education and training
Synthesia is able to create customized instructional as well as training films that can be adapted to the user’s preferences and learning style. This will enhance the overall learning experience and help learners retain the information better.
Synthesia is able to help businesses selling online create personalized product videos that showcase the features and benefits of their products. This can increase sales and decrease the amount of returns by providing customers with a better knowledge about the item.
Synthesia has the ability to make personalized entertainment videos, including music videos or movie trailers, that speak directly to the viewers’ interests and preferences. This can increase engagement and improve the overall user experience increasing viewership and revenue.
Synthesia can create personalized customer service videos that address the most common issues and questions. This can improve the overall experience for customers and lessen the burden on staff members who handle customer service in providing the customer with simple-to-understand and informative videos.
Limitations of Synthesia
While Synthesia offers many advantages but it does have certain limitations that users need to be aware of. One of the main limitations is that the video produced by Synthesia are not as high quality as those made by professional video producers. The reason for this is that Synthesia’s AI technology is still in its early stages and is not yet able to match the expertise and experience of human video producers.
Another issue is that Synthesia’s AI technology is not flawless and is prone to make errors. For instance it is possible that the AI could miss the tone or message of the script, which could result in the creation of a video which does not accurately reflect the intended intent of the user. It is recommended that users review and edit the videos created by Synthesia to ensure that they are in line with their requirements for quality.
Synthesia is an exciting and unique tool that lets users make personalized videos with AI technology. The benefits of this tool, such as time and cost savings, increased engagement, improved accessibility, enhanced creativity, and scalability makes it a great tool for teachers, businesses and content creators. However, users should also be aware of its drawbacks, such as its lower quality compared with professional video production and the potential for AI mistakes. All in all, Synthesia is an excellent tool with the potential to change this video production industry and create an engaging and more personal user experience.
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Griffey's first batting practice attracts close to 2000 fans
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Ken Griffey Jr. was a hit at the turnstile if not in the batting cage.
Nearly 2,000 people pressed against the security fences Wednesday to watch Griffey go through his first full-squad workout with the Cincinnati Reds.
Fans grew hushed when he stepped into the portable batting cage for his first round of swings, then remained as silent as a gallery on the 18th green as he alternately fouled off or missed Pete Harnisch's pitches.
Finally, Griffey made solid contact on his ninth swing and the crowd burst into applause over a line drive to right-center. Griffey stepped away from the plate, raised his batting helmet in recognition and beamed.
"I was just trying to have some fun," Griffey later explained.
He was a singular sensation Wednesday. The turnstile counted 1,845 fans for Griffey's first public appearance as a Red, more than double the crowd for the last workout before he arrived.
The complex hadn't been so busy for a workout since Michael Jordan tried his hand at minor league baseball six years ago. Fans started arriving at 6:45 a.m. Wednesday — 15 minutes before the sun came up, 2? hours before Griffey took the field.
"This is the first time it's been this heavy since the Jordan era, absolutely," complex manager Pat Calhoon said. "On a typical day, we would have maybe 500 to 1,000 for a full-squad workout. We had passed 1,300 at 10 o'clock."
By that time, Griffey was still going through the early stages of the 3?-hour session — playing pepper, playing catch, getting baserunning instruction.
The crowd cheered Griffey's first appearance and followed him from field to field as the morning went on. Parents hoisted children on their shoulders for a better look when he put on a batting helmet and stepped into the cage for the first time.
It wasn't much of a show. Griffey got 19 swings against Harnisch and left-hander Denny Neagle, but hit only three balls out of the cage. He swung and missed four times and fouled off the other 12 pitches.
Griffey had a bemused look after his first few swings. He expected to be rusty the first time around.
"True to my history, I was happy to get one out of the cage in the first round," he said.
He got much better later in the session, when batters took their cuts at pitches merely lobbed over the plate. Griffey sprayed line drives into the outfield and over the fences.
When his group was finally done, Griffey grabbed his helmet and bat and headed for the clubhouse without signing autographs, drawing a few boos. He had a promotional photo shoot scheduled for right after practice, leaving him no time to mingle.
Griffey said it was the largest crowd that has ever turned out for one of his workouts and worried that all the attention would disrupt his teammates.
"It takes 25 guys to win a championship," he said. "I just don't want to be that one guy that everybody follows around."
Like it or not, he is that guy.
"I guess I'm here like the others to see Griffey," said John Miller, who lives in an Amish area of Millersburg, Ohio. "He's going to be a real fan grower for Cincinnati."
Miller, in Florida on vacation, rode his bicycle from an Amish area nearby and propped it against the outfield fence before passing through the turnstile. Dressed in typical Amish garb of blue shirt, dark hat, dark pants and suspenders, he stroked his graying beard as he stood in the front row behind the fence and watched practice.
A few feet away was Stephen Tylka, 75, who held a Griffey Mariners jersey that he hoped to get signed. Tylka is a transplanted New Jersey resident who has lived in the area for 11 years.
The turnout reminded Tylka of two things: Jordan's stay in Sarasota and the Big Red Machine's spring training camps in Tampa.
"We used to follow Pete Rose, George Foster, Joe Morgan and Tom Seaver," Tylka said.
Reluctantly, Griffey has joined the celebrity list.
"It's a little tough," Griffey said of the attention. "I hope things will become normal, to a certain extent. I don't want to disrupt the club at all."

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Dan Miller’s Country Music Revue
Browsing through TripAdvisor reviews about Dan Miller’s Country Music Revue, you’ll find a handful of one-liners that immediately catch your eye; “A wonderfully entertaining family western musical revue”, “Dan Miller’s show was a real find, a musical experience not to be missed”, “A gem in downtown Cody” and “Wild Bill only ‘wish’ he’d seen this show”. With review headlines like that, it’s hard not to look into the show that’s been entertaining thousands of people from around the world.
First and foremost, who is Dan Miller? Well, in a nutshell, Dan Miller, along with his band mates, plays authentic American West music while dabbing in some cowboy poetry and comedy for a little variety. Dan also has a very colourful background, filled with opportunities in producing television series, infomercials, commercials and T.V. specials.
Catch The Cowboy Music Revue with Dan and his “Empty Saddles Band” at the historic Cody Theater and enjoy an evening of poetry, comedy, and a variety of traditional western, bluegrass and gospel music. The live show takes place May through September, Monday through Saturday at the Cody Theater at 1171 Sheridan Avenue. The cost is $14 person and the box office opens at 7:30pm.
For more information on Dan Miller’s Cowboy Music Revue, visit https://www.cowboymusicrevue.com/

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Introduction to Affirmative Action
What Is Affirmative Action?
Affirmative action is an umbrella term which refers to a variety of narrowly tailored and highly regulated efforts used by employers and educational institutions to overcome past and continuing discrimination in order to allow qualified women and minorities to compete equally for jobs, education, and promotional opportunities.
History of Affirmative Action
The origins of affirmative action are intricately linked to discrimination in the United States. The following is a brief outline of this history:
1940s: President Roosevelt signed an order making discrimination illegal in defense
1954: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that "separate but equal" facilities on the basis of race were unconstitutionally discriminatory.
Act of 1964: Congress passed the Civil Rights Act prohibiting discrimination based on race, sex, national origin and religion in employment and education.
1965: President Lyndon Johnson signed an executive order requiring federal contractors to undertake affirmative action to increase the number of minorities they employ.
1969: Department of Labor hearings exposed continued widespread racial discrimination in the construction agency. In response, President Richard Nixon developed the concept of using "goals and timetables" to measure the progress federal construction companies were making in increasing the number of minorities on their payrolls.
1970: President Nixon extended the use of goals and timetables to all federal contractors.
1974: President Nixon declared that affirmative action programs should also include women.
1978: The U.S. Supreme Court held in Regents of California vs. Bakke that universities may take race into consideration as a factor in admissions when seeking to accomplish diversity in the student body. The court in Bakke also held that quotas cannot be used in voluntary affirmative action programs in admissions unless absolutely necessary.
1989: The U.S. Supreme Court held in City of Richmond vs. Croson that the standard to be used in evaluating affirmative action programs in contracting was one of "strict scrutiny."
1990: In 1990 Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act which prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in places of public accommodations.
1995: On June 12, 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena that the strict judicial scrutiny standard articulated in the Croson case also applied to affirmative action programs mandated by Congress as well as those undertaken by government agencies.
1995: On July 20, 1995, the University of California Regents voted to remove consideration of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, color or national origin in admissions, contracting and hiring.
1995: In August of 1995 Governor Pete Wilson filed suit against many state agencies and commissions which he oversees and against minority and women professional and civil rights groups challenging affirmative action programs in the state of California.
Note: This is not an official government document.

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National Employment Savings Trust – Final regulations presented to ParliamentWednesday, January 20th, 2010
A series of statutory Order and Regulations have been published that describe most of the final structure of the NEST scheme that will be introduced in 2012. In particular, they provide information about the operation of the new Corporation that will act as Trustee to the scheme, and the four-year implementation timetable so that every employer can now find out when the scheme will affect them.
On 12 January, eleven statutory Orders and sets of Regulations (some still in draft) were laid before Parliament to finalise important aspects of the new workplace pension schemes that are to be introduced in 2012. Formerly known as “pension personal accounts”, the optional statutory pension scheme that employers will be able to use to fulfil their new duties is now known as “NEST”, the National Employment Savings Trust.
We published a detailed description of the scheme last October, following the publication of the final Regulations in draft. (See www.paypershop.com/payrollblog/pension-personal-accounts001-7/) A number of changes have been made to the rules and procedures described in that article, particularly in connection with the staging period timetable and auto-enrolment of jobholders into the scheme. It is now possible for every employer to identify the date from which they will be required to comply with their duties under the new contributory pension arrangements. The following notes explain the changes that are set out in the new Regulations and Orders.
For any particular employer, automatic enrolment commences from the employer’s staging date.
- The staging period during which employers are first required to comply with their statutory duties runs from October 2012 for four years. The staging dates are the first day of each successive month throughout the period, with the exception of April 2016, July 2016, and each December.
- In the case of money purchase and personal pension schemes, the first three years are the first transitional period during which employer contributions must be at least 1% of qualifying earnings. The fourth year is the second transitional period during which employer contributions must be at least 2%. Employer contributions at the full 3% rate are required from October 2016.
- In the case of defined benefits and hybrid schemes, the transitional period is the four-year period.
- The number of employees in a PAYE scheme is the latest number available to the Pensions Regulator on 1 April 2012.
- Between October 2012 and July 2014, an employer’s staging date is determined by the number of employees in the PAYE scheme, with the exception of a single intake in March 2014 which will involve a limited number of employers with PAYE schemes with fewer than 50 employees and that have specified numbers or letters as the last two characters of the PAYE reference number.
- The intakes between August 2014 and February 2016 will involve only employers with PAYE schemes with fewer than 50 employees, and their staging date is determined by the last two characters of their PAYE reference number.
- The intakes between October 2012 and February 2016 will exclude new employers that first pay employees on or after 1 April 2012. The staging dates from those employees will run between March and September 2016.
- Where an employer first pays employees on or after 1 April 2016 and the employer does not already have a staging date, the staging date is the day on which PAYE payments are first paid.
- Where an employer has two or more PAYE schemes, the staging date is the staging date of the PAYE with the earliest staging date, and that same staging date applies to the other(s).
- An employer with a staging date specified in the Regulations may take up the automatic enrolment duty from a staging date that is earlier than the specified staging date if the employer has
- agreed with a qualifying pension scheme that automatic enrolment may start from the earlier staging date (which exceptionally includes 1 December 2012), and
- notified the Pensions Regulator in writing not less than one month before the earlier staging date.
The following detailed Table is based on that included in the Regulations. Where the first day of any month is not a working date, the staging date is the next following working day, ignoring Saturdays, Sundays, bank holidays and other public holidays.
|Employer (by PAYE scheme size or other description)||Staging date|
|120,000 or more||1 October 2012|
|50,000 – 119,999||1 November 2012|
|30,000 – 49,999||1 January 2013|
|20,000 – 29,999||1 February 2013|
|10,000 – 19,999||1 March 2013|
|6,000 – 9,999||1 April 2013|
|4,100 – 5,999||1 May 2013|
|4,000 – 4,099||1 June 2013|
|3,000 – 3,999||1 July 2013|
|2,000 – 2,999||1 August 2013|
|1,250 – 1,999||1 September 2013|
|800 – 1,249||1 October 2013|
|500 – 799||1 November 2013|
|350 – 499||1 January 2014|
|250 – 349||1 February 2014|
|Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 92, A1-A9, AA-AZ, B1-B9, BA-BY, M1-M9, MA-MZ, Z1-Z9 or ZA-ZZ||1 March 2014|
|240 – 249||1 April 2014|
|150 – 239||1 May 2014|
|90 – 149||1 June 2014|
|50 – 89||1 July 2014|
|Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers BZ||1 August 2014|
|Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 00-01||1 September 2014|
|Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 02-04||1 October 2014|
|Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 05-07, 0A-0Z, C1-C9, CA-CZ, D1-D9 or DA-DZ||1 November 2014|
|Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 08-11, 1A-1Z, E1-E9 or EA-EZ||1 January 2015|
|Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 12-15, 2A-2Z, F1-F9, FA-FZ, G1-G9 or GA-GZ||1 February 2015|
|Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 16-20, 3A-3Z, H1-H9 or HA-HZ||1 March 2015|
|Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers I1-I9, IA-IZ||1 April 2015|
|Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 21-25, 4A-4Z, J1-J9 or JA-JZ||1 May 2015|
|Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 26-31, 5A-5Z, K1-K9 or KA-KZ||1 June 2015|
|Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 32-38, 6A-6Z, L1-L9 or LA-LZ||1 July 2015|
|Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers N1-N9 or NA-NZ||1 August 2015|
|Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 39-47, 7A-7Z, O1-O9, OA-OZ, P1-P9 or PA-PZ||1 September 2015|
|Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 48-57, 8A-8Z, Q1-Q9, QA-QZ, R1-R9, RA-RZ, S1-S9, SA-SZ, T1-T9 or TA-TZ||1 October 2015|
|Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 58-69, 9A-9Z, U1-U9, UA-UZ, V1-V9, VA-VZ, W1-W9, WA-WZ||1 November 2015|
|Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 70-83, X1-X9, XA-XZ, Y1-Y9 or YA-YZ||1 January 2016|
|Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 84-91 or 93-99||1 February 2016|
|(a) Less than 50 unless otherwise described or (b) no PAYE scheme||1 February 2016|
|New employer (PAYE income first payable between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013)||1 March 2016|
|New employer (PAYE income first payable between 1 April 2013 and 31 December 2013)||1 May 2016|
|New employer (PAYE income first payable between 1 January 2014 and 30th September 2014)||1 June 2016|
|New employer (PAYE income first payable between 1 October 2014 and 30th June 2015)||1 August 2016|
|New employer (PAYE income first payable between 1 July 2015 and 31 March 2016)||1 September 2016|
Postponement of automatic enrolment
An employer with a large number of short-term workers may wish to postpone automatic enrolment to avoid having to enrol them unnecessarily. The last Regulations, still in draft form, allow postponement in this situation but only where,
- automatic enrolment occurs within three months of the postponement date, i.e. what would otherwise have been the enrolment date,
- in the case of money purchase and personal pension schemes, the ongoing employer contributions are at least 6% of qualifying earnings and total contributions from both employer and jobholder, including tax relief, are at least 11%,
- in the case of defined benefit schemes, contributions are made that maintain the same pension on retirement as would have applied if automatic enrolment had not been postponed, and
- automatic enrolment has not been previously postponed in employment with the same employment in the twelve months preceding the postponement date.
This revised provision allows automatic enrolment of short-term workers to be postponed but prevents employers from using serial short-term contracts to repeatedly postpone enrolment.
The Trustee Corporation that is set up by the Pensions Act 2008 to manage the statutory scheme is the “National Employment Savings Trust Corporation” and it has a financial year that ends on 31 March each year. The Corporation comes into existence on 5 July 2010. From the same date, the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA) is dissolved and all of its property, rights and liabilities are transferred to the Corporation. The transfer falls with the TUPE Regulations in respect of the transfer of PADA’s staff to the Corporation.
For the purposes of broader pensions legislation, the Corporation is the scheme Trustee and is required to meet the statutory obligations on pension scheme trustees, but with some modifications.
- The Corporation is not required to obtain an auditor’s statement about contributions made under an occupational pension scheme, due to the potential size of the scheme.
- The requirement for pension schemes to have member-nominated trustees does not apply as the NEST scheme has a members’ panel to represent the scheme members.
- The requirement for pension scheme trustees to consult with the sponsoring employer(s) before making changes to scheme rules is replaced with an obligation to consult the employers’ panel.
- The restriction on pension scheme investment in employer-related investments, i.e. products related to the sponsoring employer, to no more than 20% of the scheme’s current market value do not apply, due to the wide range of participating employers. However, government bonds are not considered to be employer-related investments.
- The requirement for pension schemes to pay a fraud compensation levy does not apply as the NEST scheme is not employer-sponsored.
The legislation obliges the Trustee to accept any employer as a participant in the NEST scheme who chooses to use it to fulfil the duties imposed on employers and agrees to the scheme terms and conditions. This mandatory acceptance does not apply, however, to employers who apply to take up their duties from a staging date earlier than that specified for their PAYE scheme in the legislation. In that situation, the Trustee may decline to accept an employer into participation at that time.
Similarly, once an employer has been admitted as a scheme participant, the Trustee must admit any jobholders and workers put forward for scheme membership, but not necessarily those put forward for membership before the employer’s statutory staging date. The Trustee must allocate a pension account to each member, accept contributions and, in specified circumstances, refund contributions.
The Trustee must also accept into scheme membership “self-employed” persons and “single person directors” between age 16 and 75 and working in the UK. Persons are
- “self-employed” if they are in employment but not employed by someone else.
- “single person directors” if they are directors of a company, employed by that company under a contract of employment and there are no other employees in the company.
Members’ and employers’ panels
The Trustee is required to set up a “members’ panel” and an “employers’ panel” in order to consult about the operation, development or amendment of the NEST scheme. They must be operational within 12 months of the first member contributions being made. As voluntary membership of the scheme may start during 2011, the panels should be in place by the time automatic enrolment starts in October 2012.
The panels must have between nine and fifteen members and some of the members must be members or participating employers of the NEST scheme as the case may be. The panel members may receive “reasonable payments”.
The members’ panel’s consultation role includes matters relating to the job descriptions and selection criteria for the members of the Corporation. One member of the panel has to be involved with the shortlisting and interviewing of candidates.
Annual contribution limit
As specified initially in legislation, the annual contribution limit is £3,600 in a tax year, but this is based on the average earnings index for December 2005. The limit must be adjusted in line with the average earnings index before the first contributions are paid into the scheme and thereafter from the start of each tax year. If the limit had been adjusted annually since 2005 based on the December index for each year, it would currently stand at around £4,050 and may be around £4,300 when the scheme commences.
Contributions, in the context of the contribution limit, are any contributions made by a participating employer, on behalf or in respect of a scheme member, i.e.
- the minimum permitted contributions required by the quality requirement for a money purchase scheme (8% of
- qualifying earnings from October 2016, but lower in the transitional periods), andany contributions above 8% of qualifying earnings in the relevant pay reference period.
Other payments and refunds may occur but they are not taken into consideration.
Contributions that count towards the annual limit are treated as being paid to the scheme when they are received by the Trustee.
Contributions received by the Trustee that exceed the annual limit may not be applied to the member’s account and must be refunded unless
- the amount to be refunded is disproportionate to the costs of making the refund, or
- the contributions have already been applied to the member’s account.
Where a person is employed by more than one participating employer, the Trustee may accept contributions from the employers but, if the combined contributions exceed the annual limit, only the amount up to the limit may be applied to the member’s account and the excess must be refunded to the member or participating employer.
The following is a brief summary of the procedures that each employer must follow to register and re-register with the Pensions Regulator and that the Pensions Regulator must follow where contributions are not paid over.
Employers are required to provide information to the Regulator regarding their compliance with their statutory duties in four specific situations:
- within two months following the employer’s staging date
- after the end of the staging period, within three months of the first time that any worker first receives PAYE income
- in relation to each PAYE scheme, within two months following the date of automatic re-registration
- in relation to each PAYE scheme, within three months after the end of the period of three years since the previous provision of information.
The regulations list in detail the information that must be provided in each of these situations, including, as appropriate, information about
- the employer
- the person providing the information
- the occupational or personal pension scheme
- the employer pension scheme reference
- number of jobholders subject to automatic enrolment
- number of jobholders subject to postponement of automatic enrolment, or in defined benefits or hybrid scheme
- number of workers who are members of an automatic enrolment scheme
- number of workers in each PAYE scheme not included in the figures above.
It is presumed that forms will be made available for the use of employers in each of these registration or re-registration situations.
Compliance and penalties
Employers, trustees or managers of occupational pension schemes and providers of personal pension schemes are required to keep specific records which must be made available to the Pensions Regulator on request. Records must be retained for six years, other than opt-out notices, which must be kept for four years. These periods are not tax year or pension years, but relate to the date of each document.
The Pensions Regulator may issue, as appropriate,
- a compliance notice, for a contravention of one or more of the employer duties
- a third party compliance notice, for a contravention of one or more of the employer duties because of a failure by a third party
- an unpaid contributions notice, for non-payment of contributions by the due date
- a fixed penalty notice, for failure to comply with another notice
- an escalating penalty notice, for failure to comply with another notice.
Where the Regulator issues a compliance notice or an unpaid contributions notice to an employer, the employer must pay over any unpaid contributions within three months. If they are not paid within that time, the employer also becomes liable to pay personally any unpaid employee contributions. Interest is also payable on unpaid contributions at a rate that is 4.2% above the retail price index at the time. The Regulator may estimate the amount of any unpaid contributions by multiplying together (1) the annual maximum contribution limit divided by 12, (2) 8%, (3) the estimated number of jobholders, and (4) the number of months involved.
Where the Regulator issues
- a fixed penalty notice for non-compliance with other notices, the penalty is £400
- an escalating penalty notice for employer non-compliance that resulted from the failure of a third person (e.g. the pension scheme), the penalty is £200 per day
- an escalating penalty notice for employer non-compliance is otherwise a penalty of between £50 and £10,000, depending on the number of persons in the employer’s PAYE scheme
- a penalty notice in respect of prohibited recruitment conduct (i.e. recruiting on the basis of whether or not a person might opt out of automatic recruitment), the penalty is between £1000 and £5000, depending on the number of persons in the employer’s PAYE scheme.
An employer or other person to whom the Regulator has issued a notice may ask in writing for the notice to be reviewed within 28 days of the date the notice was issued. The Regulator may choose to review a notice with 18 months of the date of issue. The Regulator may subsequently confirm, vary or revoke the notice, or substitute a different notice.
Where there is a complaint to the Regulator that the employer has induced a worker in some way to give up scheme membership or to opt out of membership, the Regulator may only issue a compliance notice if the contravention occurred within
- six months before the complaint was made, or
- four years before the date on which the Regulator informed the employer of an investigation into the complaint, if no previous complaint had been made.
Transfers from pension funds
The Pension Schemes Act 1993 contains provisions that permit transfers out of pension funds when employees leave their employment and for those funds to be put into another pension scheme. Those provisions do not apply to the NEST scheme until the member reaches minimum pension age (age 55 from 6 April 2010) or an earlier date in the case of an ill-health retirement.
The Employment Rights Act 1996 contains provisions that provide employees with the right not to suffer detriment treatment as a result of making a “protected disclosure”, otherwise known as “whistle-blowing”. These provisions also apply to disclosures to the Pensions Regulator in matters relating to employers’ duties under the Pensions Act 2008.
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In 2015, when Patricomp, a Finnish company manufacturing sheet metal components and assemblies for aircraft industry, became a part of Aernnova Group, the business took a brave step into the global territory. They had a need for a local financial partner. Patricomp chose Gylling Accounting.
Gylling Accounting’s methods have made them an integral part of the Patricomp team. The most important aspect for us is their professional, comprehensive, consistent and integral service. Their advisors have the ability to advise correctly and comprehensively in the accounting, tax and labor aspects, tells Mr. Diego Pèrez Castro, Corporate Finance Manager at Aernnova.
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15.10.2017 at 10:45 AM
The Association of Polish Professionals in Switzerland, together with the Kosciuszko Society, the Polish Museum in Rapperswil and the Polish Embassy in Bern, is pleased to invite all interested parties to take part in the celebrations of Zuchwil and Solur on Sunday, the 15th of October 2017, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the death of Tadeusz Kosciuszko
10:45 AM Short ceremony at the Kościuszko monument near the St. Martin’s Church in Zuchwil, Hauptstrasse 32
Noon: Mass. Tadeusz Kosciuszko’s intentions in the Cathedral of St. Ursus in Soluria
1:15 PM Meeting of the Swiss Poles at the Cultural Centre at the Besenval Palace in Solur, Kronengasse 1
4:00 PM Celebration in the Solothurn Concert Hall, Untere Steingrubenstrasse 1, attended by representatives of the Polish Parliament and the cantonal and municipal authorities of Solothurn
– Dances and marches from around the year 1800, Brassband Lommiswil
– Officials of the Swiss and Polish authorities
– The paper on Tadeusz Kosciuszko
– Frédéric Chopin, piano recital by Paweł Mazurkiewicz
– Meeting with a glass of wine
7:00 PM End of the ceremony.
We hope to see you there!
The Board of PPS

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Perth chief executive Gary Stevenson said it was premature to form a Local Implementation Committee (LIC) with a neighbouring council because the reform process conducted by the advisory board could yield different outcomes.
‘You create a LIC before you really know who your partners are,’ Mr Stevenson said.
‘We have our own proposal before the Local Government Advisory Board, we also have conflicting proposals by the City of Vincent and others, and even as recent as a few weeks ago a new conflicting proposal to merge the City of Subiaco with the City of Perth.’
Vincent Mayor John Carey said it was very disappointing Perth rejected the City’s offer because it was one of the few local governments to not form a LIC.
LICS formed so far include Mundaring/Swan, Bayswater/Bassendean, Gosnells/Canning, Victoria Park/South Perth, Kwinana /Melville/Fremantle, Arma-dale/Murray/Serpentine-Jarrahdale and Kalamunda/Belmont.
‘They’re effectively snubbing the minister,’ Mr Carey said. ‘The process is very difficult because we don’t know what’s happening with mergers, but at the same time the minister has made it very clear to all local governments to begin the process and begin the committees. For not a lot of energy and resources, it doesn’t hurt in case we do go down that path.’
Mr Stevenson advised Perth continue to communicate with its neighbours and form a LIC when boundary changes were known.


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CONCERT OF THE CYCLE
"CLASSICS At the CITY HALL"
Immortal Mozart, a unique Austrian horn and music therapy for the whole evening. Thousands of spectators gathered a festival of classical music near the Minsk City Hall.
The mood of the "Austrian Sabbath" - the so-called first concert of the festival - created the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Overture to the opera "The Wedding of Figaro", the 40th Symphony and "The Little Night Serenade" from the first notes filled the Upper City with the atmosphere of Austria of the 18th century. The staff of "MusicCom of the Orchestra" surprised the guests with a special sound in the open air, which included musicians of the highest level, well known in Belarus and abroad, and behind the conductor's panel - maestro Ivan Kostyakhin.
The concert program was designed so that it was interesting not only to connoisseurs and admirers of academic music.
Ivan Kostyakhin, conductor of the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater: "It is known that Mozart's music has a therapeutic effect, and we arranged here such a musical-therapeutic evening, the evening of purification, the renewal of the soul.
The joy and fullness of life is felt-such is the music of Mozart. "


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8 Little Ways to Help Your Child Be More Empathetic
Desperate to add some levity to toddler mealtimes, my 2-year-old daughter and I began to play what soon became a favorite family game: Feelings Faces.
We would each pantomime emotions—sadness, surprise, or sleepiness—while asking each other to guess what feeling the other was acting out. She loved to point to a pretend owie when she was "hurt" or make puppy dog eyes when "sad."
Turns out, teaching kids to recognize and name emotions is a fun way to build the foundation for empathy. While there are many ways to define empathy, it is often defined as the ability to understand another person's perspective or emotional experience and relate to it while staying in control of your own emotions, says Jessie Stern, Ph.D., a researcher at the University of Virginia.
"Empathy means I understand you are sad, and I feel a little bit sad myself. But I don't become so distressed that the situation becomes about me," she says.
An essential skill for kids and grown-ups alike, empathy is a component of social-emotional development curriculums in preschools and even universities. Research shows that kids who are able to consider the feelings of others generally engage in more prosocial behavior, or actions intended to help others. In this way, empathy can be a tool for starting to unpack the country's long-standing racial tensions and harm that has been done by minoritizing families and communities, says Dr. Stern.
- RELATED: 20 Books That Encourage Empathy
It's not until around 5 to 6 years old that kids can reliably take the perspective of others—a hallmark of empathy—notes Miller Shivers, Ph.D., a psychologist, and professor who works with young children and families at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago.
And there are ways parents can help kids begin to consider and care about the perspectives of others. Here are a few.
Chat About Favorites
Every time we're in the car for more than 15 minutes, my kids quiz me about my favorite sea creature. From their car seats, they discuss why I love sea turtles today when I loved otters yesterday. Then we chat about the merits of otters as opposed to whales—my 6-year-old's long-standing favorite animal.
Learning that Mama's favorite sea animal was different from hers initially perplexed my daughter. Is it OK for her to have a different favorite animal than Mama? How could Mama not also love the whale best of all?
Discussing favorites—foods, jungle animals, or songs—with kids as young as 2 or 3 helps them begin to realize and accept that other perspectives exist, says Chuck Kalish, Ph.D., a retired professor of educational psychology and senior advisor at the Society for Research in Child Development.
When kids begin to understand that other people have different preferences from theirs, they are further along the path to realizing that others have different feelings.
Practice—Don't Just Preach—Kindness
Modeling empathy is perhaps the most effective way to teach it to kids, says Dr. Stern. Caregivers who regularly respond to their children's distress with empathetic care give kids first-hand experience with empathy.
"It's really not so much about what parents say they value, but the values they actually embody," she says.
That's why having and displaying empathy toward small children—yep, even during a meltdown—is essential.
Kids are also famous for sensing parental hypocrisy. If young children are instructed to be kind, but aren't themselves spoken to or treated kindly, they will not internalize the value of kindness, says Dr. Stern.
Direct Empathy Inward
Susan Verde, author of The New York Times bestselling children's book, I Am Human says that a longtime mindfulness practice helped her cultivate the inner patience she needs to respond to her children's needs.
And mindfulness practice need not involve chic yoga gear or hours in lotus pose, she says. It can be as simple as pausing, taking deep breaths, and considering whether you're projecting your own baggage onto your children or truly responding to their needs.
"As parents and as moms, our self-talk is not always very nice. So it's about working to shift it to, 'I'm doing OK," she says.
She also notes aloud that she's not perfect. "I still mess it up, but I have some awareness of it. And when I mess it up, I say I messed it up," says Verde.
Allowing kids to hear this kind of forgiving, empathetic self-talk, normalizes it and gives them a script to follow themselves.
Practice Empathy in Other Areas of Your Life
Modeling empathy toward a co-parent, neighbor, or stranger adds up, Dr. Shivers says, as it demonstrates perspective-taking as well as responding with kindness.
"You could be walking along with your children and see someone lose her hat. You can say, 'Oh, that lady just dropped her hat. Now her head is probably cold. Let's quickly rescue her hat for her,'" Dr. Shivers explains.
This kind of modeling empowers children to act out of empathy and kindness themselves.
Let Your Kids Feel All the Feels
Fibbing to a toddler about the death of a family dog or avoiding talking about a sick grandparent might seem like ways to spare a child's feelings. But doing so can rob kids of the opportunity to experience universal emotions like sadness and loss, says Dr. Shivers.
And when kids don't experience negativity themselves—and then learn how to cope with these big feelings in healthy ways—they lack the basis for understanding the negative experiences of others, experts say.
Instead, acknowledge and normalize sad moments. Kids may need to hear that sadness is OK and that they're not alone in their feelings.
"There are certain basic human qualities and emotions that we all share. Because of that, there is this true connection between people," says Verde. "Recognizing humanity in somebody else can help us act from a place of connection and kindness."
Show Your True Colors
Kids can also benefit from seeing their parents express negative emotions in appropriate doses, Dr. Shivers says.
If you're feeling sad, for example, it's OK to be open with her child, says Dr. Shivers. After all, your child might even be able to sense your change in emotions. As long as tears don't become a daily occurrence and the anger is expressed appropriately, authentic emotional experiences are healthy ones to showcase. "It's not all roses and sunshine," says Dr. Shivers. "That's not real."
Use a Script
Providing a structure for talking through conflict situations can help your child approach conflict more independently and ultimately learn empathy. Parents can guide empathetic conversations without controlling them.
At Montessori Community School in Honolulu, guidance teacher Kylie Dunn uses the Peace Rose, a short script for kids to follow as they work through disagreements. The script begins with a mutual acknowledgment: "It looks like we are having a problem. Let's see if we can find a peaceful way to resolve it." This type of language gives a child a chance to say what happened and how it made them feel. The script then instructs children to make a suggestion for a peaceful resolution.
"Empathy requires practice," says Dunn. "We can't freak out if they have an opportunity and bungle it. If they do, we help them think through that mistake, not to feel shame or failure, and give another opportunity in the future."
Widen Your Circle
Many social scientists say that it's sometimes even tricky for adults to have empathy for those from extremely different cultural backgrounds without regular interactions. "It takes spending time with a person to imagine their experience and to know what would make them feel included or excluded," explains Dr. Kalish. "And it can be hard to take someone's perspective that's different from you without putting in that time."
During a global pandemic, spending time in different neighborhoods or visiting friends who have different cultural backgrounds is hard. But watching movies or reading books with a protagonist who looks different than you and your family or who comes from different places is a good alternative step, Dr. Kalish says.
Fictional stories, in particular, give kids a chance to consider the internal feelings, motivations, and worlds of people unlike themselves.

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Caribbean quick-casual restaurant Pollo Tropical plans to add two new Nashville area locations next year.
The additions will double the restaurant’s presence in Middle Tennessee, The Tennessean reports. Texas-based Fiesta Restaurant Group will build one new restaurant at 2001 Gallatin Pike. The other will open in the Nashville West shopping center on Charlotte Pike.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 20, 2013 (OTTAWA)—Chicken Farmers of Canada (CFC) is proud to announce the election of the 2013 Executive Committee. The elections followed the annual general meeting and the award ceremony yesterday morning where CFC was awarded with full federal, provincial and territorial government recognition for its On-Farm Food Safety Assurance Program (OFFSAP). The announcement was made by the Honourable Gerry Ritz, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-food Canada.
CFC is the first commodity organization in Canada to achieve this level of government recognition for the effective and consistent implementation of its OFFSAP that promotes the production of safe food at the farm level. A release was issued and is here.
The 15-member Board of Directors, made up of farmers and other stakeholders from the chicken industry, provides leadership on CFC’s strategic plan and mission and has chosen the following representatives for 2013:
Dave Janzen, re-elected as the Chair of CFC, has represented British Columbia at CFC meetings as an alternate since 2006 and has been their director since 2008. He joined the Executive committee three years ago and became the CFC Chair in 2012. His family farm in Abbotsford that he and wife Jeannie started from scratch in 1981 has been home to four Janzen kids, and is right next door to the Fraser Valley dairy farm where he grew up. Dave and his family produce nearly 1 million kg each year.
Adrian Rehorst, from Teeswater, Ontario, was re-elected as the 1st Vice-Chair for 2013. His family farm is about 20 km from Lake Huron and he represents the farmers of that area, Region 1, on the Ontario chicken board. Adrian has spent many years in the industry, over 30 in fact, and has previously been an alternate to the CFC Board and has served as a member of the CFC Food Safety Committee. Adrian and his wife Lisette raise over 400,000 kg of chicken each year; have 1,500 acres of cash crops and a 55 head cow-calf operation.
Martin Dufresne, representing the province of Quebec, was re-elected to the position of 2nd Vice-Chair. Martin and his family farm near St. Félix-de-Valois and they produce approximately 1.7 million kilograms of chicken per year on the farm started by his father in 1954. He has been farming for over 20 years and is a past Chair of the Québec provincial board, Les Éleveurs de volailles du Québec.
Yvon Cyr, re-elected as the Member at Large, has been a chicken farmer since 1987. He produces approximately 3.3 million kg of chicken each year on his farm near Saint-François-de-Madawaska in New Brunswick. He is part of the Westco Group, which produces 16.5 million kg of chicken per year, 1.5 million kg of turkey, 80,000 breeders, 70,000 commercial laying hens and operates one hatchery. Yvon and his wife Linda have four boys.
CFC’s main responsibility is to ensure that Canada’s 2,700 chicken farmers produce the right amount of fresh, safe, high quality chicken to meet consumer needs. CFC is proud of its role in a continuing agriculture success story and over 30 years of raising the quality chicken that Canadians trust.
For more information, please contact Marty Brett, Senior Communications Officer (613) 566-5926 or email@example.com.

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Falling In; Facing the Shadow
We can’t Namaste the shadow away.
The fall equinox is associated with harvest time and preparing for winter. Spiritually, we in the northern hemisphere can take advantage of this time of shorter days and longer nights as an opportunity to “fall in,” to take a deep dive into ourselves and explore the vast and, for the most part, uncharted territory within.
My friend Michael Lennox, an author and astrologer, points to the time between two eclipses—in this case, the partial solar eclipse on September 13 and the Super Blood Moon eclipse on September 27—as a wormhole. We enter it one way and emerge in another, often dramatically different, space. Eclipses are about shadows. This is a powerful time to shine light on whatever has been eclipsed from awareness.
What has been lurking in the shadow of our subconscious? That stuff we are avoiding—personally and collectively—as we look the other way or attempt to sweep it under the rug because we don’t want to rock the boat or face conflict? Guess what: it’s not going away. And the longer we ignore it, the worse it’s going to get.
We can only numb out or self-medicate for so long, as we try and turn a blind eye to #BlackLivesMatter, the Syrian refugee crisis, or our burgeoning environmental crisis: rising seas, super storms, drought and floods.
At the personal level, falling in and facing the shadow means that we are willing to look at aspects of ourselves that we have rejected because they don’t fit our ideas of how we should be. These ideas usually stem from misunderstandings and conditioning, from faulty conclusions we made about ourselves at a young age when we didn’t know any better. As long as we refuse to look at this stuff, healing and growth cannot happen. Facing the shadow of our wounded pasts does not mean we wallow in pain or get stuck in “poor me.” Often we are afraid that if we allow ourselves to really feel what’s inside, it would be like unleashing an endless, incapacitating avalanche of grief, or a terrifying geyser of rage. Instead, we stuff it.
The problem is that suppressed sadness turns into depression. Stuffed anger morphs into rage. Making matters worse, all that suppressed emotional energy has to come out somewhere, and starts showing up in bodily symptoms: ulcers, cancer, heart attacks.
There is an end to suffering.
I have experienced and witnessed that countless times throughout my 25 years of facilitating transformational work. And I have yet to come across a more effective healing practice than breathwork, which, among other things, intensifies and accelerates the process of clearing the shadow stuff. It works, and it works fast. I have witnessed many people heal a wide variety of past traumas—including sexual abuse and rape—as well as clear impediments to self-worth and happiness.
Being willing to face the shadow is not for the faint of heart. In fact, it is the stuff of heroes. To dive deep and deal with stuff we don’t want to feel and look at stuff that we don’t want to see, requires courage. It’s a lot easier to suppress, ignore, deny, self-medicate, act as if. The prize, however, is freedom, peace of mind, and an improved quality of life. With subconscious blocks removed we have an actual chance at relationships that work and rich, fulfilling lives of meaning and purpose.
In the ultimate sense, everything is “love and light.” But we cannot leap over the unpleasant stuff. We can’t Namaste the shadow away. Many on the spiritual path have a tendency to deny the shadow, by checking out in various ways or by focusing only on the light. Yet, as Adrienne Rich illuminates in her poem “Power,” recently featured in the film “Wild,” our wounds come from the same source as our power.
Going in is the way out.
What gifts and abilities have we been stuffing down into the closet of our subconscious? What old and tired limiting beliefs and self-defeating behavior patterns are we ready to release? It’s time to fall in.

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Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) now has a Republican primary challenger in his 2024 House race. The entry of businessman David Giglio comes less than a month after McCarthy was ousted from his leadership position by eight Republicans voting with House Democrats.
Giglio opened his campaign against McCarthy by praising the Republicans that ousted the former speaker. Giglio called the effort “courageous.”
“Kevin McCarthy has failed the American people. I am excited to announce my campaign to defeat Kevin McCarthy in California’s 20th Congressional District,” the candidate said.
🚨OFFICIAL: I’M RUNNING TO DEFEAT KEVIN MCCARTHY 🚨
— David Giglio (@DavidGiglioCA) October 30, 2023
“After years of being sold out to special interests, the people of the Central Valley deserve an America First Republican fighting for them in Washington and working alongside President Donald Trump to WAGE WAR against the corrupt uniparty!” Giglio said in his campaign launch announcement.
McCarthy’s opponent said that the former speaker was removed “for failing to keep to his promises and capitulating to Joe Biden and the radical Democrats. Kevin McCarthy must be defeated.”
The candidate hopes that his background running a business that buys and sells sports cards and memorabilia will be able to oust McCarthy.
McCarthy appears to have some strengths heading into next year’s primary. He was supported in his speakership by Trump and raised $78 million through the end of September.
The former speaker has served in his role representing the state’s 20th congressional district since his first election in 2006.
The former speaker appeared optimistic despite the primary challenge. His campaign has not released a formal statement on his opponent as of Monday.
“Now more than ever, it is imperative that we replace career politicians and elect America First Republicans who will secure the southern border, stop the weaponization of government, drain the corrupt swamp and annihilate permanent Washington,” wrote Giglio.
He also said in his statement that the “American people want and deserve radical change, and I intend to do whatever it takes to fight, win and deliver!”


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Nitrous oxide is otherwise known as laughing gas.
While the energy drink industry continues to grow at a rapid pace and purveyors of the product stand behind their products as safe, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) nonetheless has the products under its watchful eye following five deaths linked to the consumption of Monster drink contents between April 2009 and April 2012, a period spanning three years. Incident reports range from vomiting and convulsions to chest pains and abnormal heart rhythms.
It should be noted, according to an exhaustive report in the Orange County Register (6/18/13), that the FDA cautions that none of those fatalities have yet to be proven as the result of energy drink use. While energy drinks contain more caffeine than typical soft drinks, the caffeine content is less than a comparably sized cup of coffee.
What’s more, some experts on caffeine feel that rather than be maligned, the energy drink sector should be hailed for its innovation, and maintain that the risk over Monster Energy Drink injury and that of competing products has been overblown.
“The brouhaha over how much we’re being flooded with caffeine is so much nonsense,” says Bennett Alan Weinberg, who with Bonnie K. Bealer is co-author of The World of Caffeine: The Science and Culture of the World’s Most Popular Drug. “Coffee is an extremely popular drink and people are not dropping dead from drinking a cup of coffee. It’s hard to see them as some kind of overwhelming danger,” he says of energy drinks. “It seems almost silly.” Weinberg notes that caffeine is safe when not abused.
However, critics say that’s the point. Coffee, which reportedly contains more caffeine than Monster caffeine levels, is usually consumed by adults (as opposed to children), and as a hot beverage is designed to be sipped and consumed slowly, allowing for the caffeine to enter the body gradually. Manufacturers of energy drinks, on the other hand, have been known to encourage their young patrons to “chug it down” or “throw it back” quickly.
Does such a combination of rapid consumption of near-adult caffeine levels by a child or teen add up to a perfect storm of Monster Energy Drink Deaths and Hospitalizations?
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera thinks so. He filed a lawsuit back in May accusing Monster Beverage Corp. of illegally marketing an unsafe product to children as young as six, according to the Orange County Register report. Herrera says that the rise in popularity of the energy drink sector has been accompanied by “a parallel increase in the number of emergency-room visits related to energy-drink consumption,” he said.
READ MORE MONSTER ENERGY DRINK INJURY LEGAL NEWS
But the company fell on hard times and filed for bankruptcy in 1988. It was eventually sold to the ownership group now running Monster, which launched a search for new product lines to rejuvenate the decimated company and hit upon the idea for the Monster energy drink and the potential for marketing “lifestyle in a can.” The name of the company was subsequently changed to reflect its star product, and net sales were $2.06 billion last year, an all-time high.
But is the potential for Monster Energy Drink Deaths and Hospitalizations too high a price for the caffeine high that comes with chugging Monster drink contents? The debate continues.


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Grapefruit Mint Garden Herb Supersize XXL Plug Plants Pack x3
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Attractive to bees and butterflies. tastes like unsweetened grapefruit.
often used in iced tea and can serve as an edible garnish.
One of the prettier mints in garden and very easy to cultivate.
Grapefruit mint has a zesty citrus flavour and mid green slightly hairy leaves.
It produces long spikes of attractive purple flowers in mid to late summer.
This mint is worth growing for its flowers alone, as well as its culinary attributes.
Pack of three super-size plug plants (approx 70mm root base, A typical XXL size plug plant is shown for illustration only) large enough for direct planting into borders, tubs & pots.
Frost protection required until risk has passed.

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CAINTÉ jewelry is waterproof? How?
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But what is ''Stainless Steel''?
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“They say it lasted for eleven minutes, but it felt like so much more.” Debbi Tamietti is from California, and she went to Las Vegas last weekend with a group of friends – seven girlfriends and one young man — to celebrate two of their birthdays. They stayed at the Luxor, a hotel with a walkway to Mandalay Bay, and they were having a great weekend. Until the night of the concert.
Debbi and her friends migrated close to the stage, and they were singing and dancing amidst a crowd of probably thirty people deep from the center stage. All of a sudden, there was the sound we’ve all heard now on all of the news coverage: pop-pop-pop-pop-pop! She said they looked at each other and asked, “Why is someone throwing firecrackers?” Nobody really thought it was gunshots. They kept listening to the music, and then ten seconds later, there were more shots. That’s when people started dropping to the ground around her. Someone screamed, “This is real! Get down! Get down! Get down!”
She crouched down a bit, but she didn’t lie down yet. She couldn’t imagine what was going on. That’s when a young man, a big guy in his mid-thirties, whispered to her, “Ma’am, you have to get down. Get all the way down.”
Stricken with fear, she whispered back, “What’s going on?” He lay down over her, covering her with his body. He said, “I’ve got you covered. You’re safe.”
Debbi looked to the right and saw a dead body. She looked to the left, and there was a man whose hand was nearly blown off. That’s when she realized, this is real. We’re in trouble. The shooting seemed to go on forever. “That sound is what I can’t wait to get out of my head,” she said.
There were a lot of military officers, firemen, and policemen in the audience. The opening band, Big and Rich, had just honored them moments before in the concert, asking the officers to stand, and leading the audience in a sing-along of “God Bless America.” Moments later, these same men took over, guiding thousands of people through what was truly a war scene. Debbi said in all of the chaos, she kept hearing their voices and their instructions, always crisp, clear, and repeated three times. They are trained for battle, and they brought order to the chaos.
But then the shooting stopped. A group of men shouted, “Get up! Get up! Run! Run! Run!” Debbi was with eight friends, and they all scattered. They got to a nearby fence, and people were pushing and pushing, shouting, “Get over the fence!” A young man standing nearby helped people over the fence, one at a time. As she ran, she found one of her friends. Her friend grabbed her and said, “Please don’t leave me.” Right then, the shooting happened again.
They stayed together, and they huddled under the sound booth, where they were packed in like sardines. Debbi was right at the edge of the sound booth, when she heard more popping. The sound booth was being sprayed with bullets. Shrapnel grazed her back and a small piece lodged in her arm. She later needed to have that piece removed.
While they hid under the sound booth, Debbi looked out and saw a man in a wheelchair nearby, frozen and staring into the war zone. Four young men, in their twenties, raced in a panic to get out from under the cover of the sound booth. They scooted past everyone and grabbed the man’s wheelchair. The four young men ran with him, pushing his chair and shielding his body. Debbi said, “I remember thinking right then, ‘Wow. People say so much about our young people, but look at those young men. Those kids got out from under cover, and they ran with this guy.’”
Then the shooting stopped again and the instructions came again. “Run! Run! Run!” She asked aloud, “Why are we running? We’re safe here. Shouldn’t we stay here?” But someone nearby answered her, “We don’t know where the shooter is. We have to run.”
So they ran again, and the shooting started again. She said what she remembers most is these men directing everyone. There wasn’t a lot of screaming, but there were leaders taking control. Debbi said, “They were concert goers in the crowd, but they had to be military. Their commands were authoritative and precise. It made me feel like someone was in control. I never once thought I was going to die. They took control, and they made me feel calm. I felt supported, like somebody was in control of this chaotic mess. I just knew I needed to listen to them.”
Debbi remembers strangers hovering over injured people. She recalls men taking off their shirts to apply pressure to the bleeding wounds of people they didn’t know. She remembers running with the crowd, running as fast as they could. They didn’t know where they were going, but they were just running. Drivers were stopping on the street, running out to injured people, piling them into their backseats, and taking them to the hospital. There were so many people who risked their own safety to protect someone else. Debbi’s friend, a 72-year-old grandma, hit her head when she climbed over the fence. A medic saw her and wanted to take her to the hospital, but she gave up her seat in the ambulance. She knew somebody needed it more than she did.
Debbi and all of her friends scattered to different places, some spending the night in a conference center, some in a showroom at the Tropicana, one in an airplane hangar, and one of them in a hotel room with strangers who opened their door and let her in. The next morning, they were allowed back into their hotel to get their things and go home. As they hailed a taxi, the driver said, “I don’t need any money. Just tell me where you need to go.” Heroes and helpers wore every uniform, every color, every shade of humanity.
Her friends on the trip ranged broadly in age, including one 72-year-old grandmother and a young couple in their twenties. They all survived with only some cuts and bruises, which is a miracle in itself. So many around them were hurt, shot, and killed. In a sea of bodies everywhere, they all made it out alive. As the days go by, she finds that she remembers a little more with every day, another face, another memory, another hero.
“It was the most horrific scene. But I kept seeing all these people who were helping other people. There were a lot of heroes. There were so many heroes. They were unbelievably selfless.”
On the day after the shooting, Debbi received a text from Cameron Paul, the lone young man who had joined his girlfriend on their trip. Cameron reached out to each of the women. He wrote:
Hello all, I am glad you’re doing well. Prayers have been helping me a lot. Trying to stay positive and be taught a lesson. Taking all the good I can from the evil that happened. We all have a new skill, and that is how to protect and survive. We all know how to calculate each situation, knowing exits, reading people, etc. This evil man killed nearly sixty people, injured over 500, and put more than 20k in the middle of the scene. If he ruins any of the twenty thousand in there who weren’t physically hurt, he is just killing more lives. Don’t let him win. Stay strong. Take the good out of the bad. And remember we have a purpose.
He finished his text with a Bible verse: Romans 12:21. “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”
Debbi said, “On that day, we saw the people banding together and taking control. People were helping each other so much. We have such a strong spirit in our country. There is so much good. Everybody is so focused on the bad, but I saw so much good happening.”
Fred Rogers often told the story about when he was a boy and would see scary things on the news: “My mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, especially in times of disaster, I remember my mother’s words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers—so many caring people in this world.”


Creating a 3D logo in Photoshop can seem like a daunting task, but with the right techniques, it can be a fun and rewarding experience. A 3D logo can add depth and dimension to your brand, making it stand out in a crowded market. In this article, we will go over the steps to create a 3D logo in Photoshop, from designing the logo to adding the 3D effect.
The first step in creating a 3D logo is designing the logo itself. The logo should be simple, yet effective, with a clear message that represents your brand. Once you have a design in mind, you can start to bring it to life by adding color and texture.
Next, it’s time to add the 3D effect to your logo. This can be done using a variety of techniques, such as extruding, beveling, and shading. These techniques will give your logo depth and make it appear as if it’s popping off the page. With a little bit of practice, you’ll be able to create stunning 3D logos that will make your brand stand out.
Understanding 3D Logos
What is a 3D Logo?
A 3D logo is a logo design that appears to have three dimensions, giving it a more realistic and visually appealing appearance. It is created using graphic design software that allows for the manipulation of shapes, colors, and textures to create the illusion of depth.
Why Use a 3D Logo?
A 3D logo can make your brand stand out from the competition. It adds depth, texture, and dimension to your logo, making it more visually appealing and memorable. A 3D logo can also help your brand appear more modern and up-to-date, which can be particularly important for businesses in industries that are constantly evolving.
Types of 3D Logos
There are several types of 3D logos, including:
Extruded logos: These logos are created by taking a 2D design and adding depth to it, creating the illusion of a 3D object.
Shaded logos: These logos use light and shadow to create the illusion of depth, making them appear more realistic.
Reflection logos: These logos use reflections to create the illusion of depth and dimension, making them appear more dynamic and eye-catching.
In conclusion, a 3D logo can be a powerful tool for businesses looking to create a memorable and visually appealing brand. By understanding the basics of 3D logos and the different types available, businesses can create a logo that truly stands out from the crowd.
Preparing to Create a 3D Logo
Before you start creating a 3D logo in Photoshop, you need to gather some resources. These include:
- A high-resolution image of your company logo
- A computer with Photoshop installed
- A graphics tablet (optional but recommended)
- A good understanding of basic Photoshop tools and techniques
If you don’t have a high-resolution image of your company logo, you can create one by scanning a printed copy or redrawing it in a vector graphics program. It’s important to have a high-resolution image because it will make it easier to create a 3D effect.
Setting up Photoshop
Once you have gathered all the necessary resources, it’s time to set up Photoshop. Follow these steps:
- Open Photoshop and create a new document with the dimensions of your logo.
- Import your logo image into the document.
- Create a new layer and name it “3D Logo”.
- Select the “3D Logo” layer and go to 3D > New 3D Extrusion from Selected Layer.
- In the 3D panel, select the “Current View” tab and adjust the camera angle to your liking.
- In the Properties panel, adjust the extrusion depth and bevel settings to create the 3D effect you want.
- Use the Move tool to position the 3D logo in the document.
Now you’re ready to start creating your 3D logo!
Creating the 3D Logo
Creating the Base Shape
To create a 3D logo, the first step is to create a base shape. You can use the shape tools in Photoshop to create a basic shape or import a vector file of your logo. Once you have the shape, you can add depth to it.
Adding Depth and Shadows
To add depth to your logo, use the 3D tools in Photoshop. Go to 3D > New 3D Extrusion from Selected Layer. This will convert your shape into a 3D object. You can then use the 3D tools to manipulate the object and add shadows.
Adding Colors and Textures
Once you have the basic 3D shape, you can add colors and textures to it. You can use the materials options in the 3D panel to add textures to the object. You can also add colors to the object by selecting the object and using the color picker.
Adding Finishing Touches
Finally, you can add finishing touches to your 3D logo. You can add lighting effects and reflections to make it look more realistic. You can also add text to your logo using the text tool in Photoshop.
Creating a 3D logo in Photoshop can be a fun and rewarding experience. By following these steps, you can create a unique and professional-looking logo that will stand out from the rest.
Exporting and Using Your 3D Logo
Exporting Your 3D Logo
Once you have created your 3D logo in Photoshop, you will need to export it in a format that can be used in other applications. To export your 3D logo, follow these steps:
- Select the 3D layer in the Layers panel.
- Go to File > Export > Export 3D Layer.
- Choose a file format such as OBJ, Collada, or 3DS.
- Click Export and save the file to your desired location.
Using Your 3D Logo
Now that you have exported your 3D logo, you can use it in other applications such as video editing software, 3D modeling software, or game engines. Here are some tips for using your 3D logo:
- In video editing software, import the 3D logo file into your project and position it where you want it to appear in the video.
- In 3D modeling software, import the 3D logo file and use it as a reference for creating other 3D objects in the scene.
- In game engines, import the 3D logo file and use it as a texture for a 3D object in the game.
Keep in mind that the size and resolution of your 3D logo may need to be adjusted depending on the application you are using it in. Also, some applications may require specific file formats or settings, so be sure to check the documentation for the application you are using.


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With mental illness and drug overdoses common in the country, federal government officials are looking for ways of attacking the numbers, while increasing programs that provide help for those who need it.
U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood is sponsoring several bills that will provide some financial help for programs to help those who are struggling with mental illness or addictions.
LaHood has decided not to attend the Republican National Convention, instead opting to spend time in the district to talk with people about their needs and concerns.
Tuesday, LaHood spent time at Pathway Services in Jacksonville, where he talked with some of those who use the services at Pathway and talked with staff members about needs in the community.
Among those needs were mental health programs.
A bill recently passed by Congress will help consolidate the agencies that have authority over the mental health sector.
“It focuses on the 121 federal agencies that have some authority in the area and will consolidate that to make it more effective,” he said, adding that the bill will help people receive care that is needed and help provide funds for programs and health-care professionals.
LaHood said it is programs such as Pathway that the bill would support.
“When money is spent wisely, programs can help turn people around and help them be where they can be — productive members of society — and gives them the life they deserve,” LaHood said.
In Morgan County, mental health was deemed one of the top needs in the Community Health Needs Assessment done by Passavant Area Hospital and other health organizations.
That’s not the only bill that would supply funds for health-related issues.
Another would address laws about opiate and heroin addiction.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 10,500 people died from heroin overdose in 2014 in the country. In Illinois, there were 1,705 drug overdose deaths during the same year.
The bill will help provide support for addiction programs for heroin and opiate abusers, while also giving police officers resources to help save lives from overdoses.
The bill would also help provide funds for Narcan and similar medicines, that could help counteract opiate overdoses. According to LaHood, some departments have supplies of Narcan in squad cars to use in the case of an emergency, something that he said he would like to see expanded to every department.
It would also provide more restrictions on prescriptions.
“It will rein in doctors and help limit over-prescriptions of opioids,” LaHood said. “It holds (doctors) accountable.”
LaHood, who spent several years as a state prosecutor, said some of the bills will provide help that could keep people out of jail, and, he hopes, help the people improve their lives.
“Years ago, DUIs and car accidents were a big thing,” LaHood said. “We focused on it, we raised awareness about the issue and we created programs to help.”
Samantha McDaniel-Ogletree can be reached at 217-245-6121, ext. 1233, or on Twitter @JCNews_samantha.


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Twitter handle Halfway Post wrote in a satirical tweet that ‘breaking news, gay dating app Grindr has said that if Florida does not prevent the passage of homophobic and transphobic laws, they will make public the names of all Republican legislators who secretly use the Grindr.‘
BREAKING: The gay dating app Grindr says if Florida doesn’t stop passing homophobic and transphobic laws, they’ll reveal every Republican legislator and party official who secretly uses the app.Advertisement
Fact: Grindr has not issued any threats to disclose user data concerning public officials. Although this tweet is satirical, some readers might mistakenly perceive it as factual.
This tweet is viral on social media, some people even accepted it as true, but let us make it clear that this is just a funny tweet. Grindr has not released any such statement.
Although an attempt has been made to give a clear message in this satirical tweet. It has been seen on several occasions that Republican legislators have been supportive of homophobic and transphobic laws, but have been in same-sex relationships in real life. They even attend same-sex marriages of their children but when it comes to making laws for the country, they suddenly become anti-gay and homophobic.
After this tweet went viral, many people wrote on social media that ‘Grindr should really reveal the names of Republicans who secretly use the Grindr app, this will reveal to the world how hypocrites they are.’
Let us tell you that the Republican Party in America has been against same-sex relationships and is trying to take away the freedom enjoyed by the LGBTQ community in the country. However, the recently passed Gay Marriage Bill in America was supported by 12 Republicans moving away from the party line.
Grindr is a popular gay dating app that has grown in popularity worldwide over the past few years. As far as sharing the names of Republicans who use Grindr is concerned, Grindr takes full care of the privacy of the people, it will not do any work that would reveal the identity of its users without permission.

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Police investigate a shooting in Central Fresno
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno Police are investigating a shooting that left one woman critically injured. Police first arrived at a home at Thorne and Dudley just after 4 p.m. Monday afternoon, where they found the victim suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
The victim is described as a 39-year-old woman. "The victim and another friend of hers were inside the residence when the suspect arrived, entered the residence, and fired multiple rounds, striking the victim," said Lt. Anthony Martinez.
The victim was taken to Community Regional Medical Center, where police said she was listed in critical condition. The suspect was described as a white male with a shaved head. He was also described as clean shaven and about six feet tall.
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Lok Sabha Election 2024: BJP government at the Center Lok Sabha Elections Before the Lok Sabha elections, special security arrangements have been made for four BJP leaders of Bengal. These four BJP leaders are former Calcutta High Court judge and BJP candidate from Tamluk Abhijit Gangopadhyay, BJP candidate from Barrackpore Arjun Singh, BJP district general secretary Abhijit Barman and Cooch Behar BJP executive member Tapas Das.
4 leaders got central security in different categories
Former Calcutta High Court Justice Abhijit Ganguly has been given ‘Y’, Barrackpore candidate Arjun Singh has been given ‘Z’, Abhijit Burman and Tapas Das have been given ‘X’ category security. It is noteworthy that veteran leaders like Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh have got Z Plus category security and Prime Minister Narendra Modi gets the highest level SPG security. Normally the Z Plus category is guarded by 55 central force personnel and 10 NSG commandos. The RZ category includes 22 Central Army personnel and 4 to 6 CRPF or CISF commandos and policemen. Arjun will get this quality security. There will be a convoy of at least five vehicles with them in the security circle. One of which will be bullet proof. The Center will spend at least Rs 15 to 25 lakh per month on this security system.
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Whereas Abhijeet has been given Y category security. He will be accompanied by a convoy of two commandos, eight soldiers and at least two vehicles. For this the Center will spend at least Rs 12 to 15 lakh per month. The remaining two BJP leaders from Bengal will be given ‘X’ category security. According to sources, both Burman and Das were threatened. This security ring is based on that. In this arrangement, two soldiers will stay with the leaders. There will be a convoy of one to two cars.
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People experience leg pains in various ways. Some may have dull, aching pains, accompanied by heaviness, while others experience cramping, burning or numbing type of discomfort. There are many possible reasons for leg pain and these may involve the muscles, bones, nerve, blood vessels of the legs and even the lower back.
The muscles of the legs can cramp and cause severe pain, which may be due to muscle fatigue or overuse, dehydration, or intake of certain medicines like statins (anti-cholesterol drugs) and diuretics.
Torn muscles, torn ligaments, inflammation of a tendon (tendinitis), hairline fracture on the leg bone, and shin splints (due to overuse of the lower leg) can cause severe leg pains and must be given immediate treatment. These leg injuries are common and usually due to overuse from sports or work.
Degenerative Changes in the Spine
Degenerative changes naturally occur as people age and these may manifest in various ways. In some people the discs between the vertebrae of the spine (intervertebral discs) become dehydrated and lose their flexibility, causing low back pain. This pain may radiate towards the leg and foot (often called referred pain), causing dull, aching pain in the legs.
A herniated intervertebral disc can cause pinching of spinal nerves, leading to severe pain in the lower back and in the legs. This can sometimes cause disability until compression of the nerve roots is relieved.
Degeneration and inflammation can also cause spinal stenosis, which chokes the nerve roots and causes low back pains that radiate to the legs. Pain may worsen with sitting or standing and may be relieved by a change in position, such as bending over.
Another cause of nerve root compression is spondylolisthesis, where an unstable vertebra slips to the next vertebra, causing lower back and leg pains.
The nerves involved in these conditions form the sciatic nerve, which extends from the hip to the leg, causing a condition generally referred to as sciatica. The pain may be characterized as a constant burning pain or a shooting type of pain.
Other people who have low back pains also experience numbness or tingling in the legs, which may also be associated with nerve root compression. A few individuals may experience heaviness or weakness (foot drop), which significantly interferes with movement. One may have a feeling of having to drag the lower leg and the foot while walking and climbing stairs.
Problems in the Blood Vessels
Problems with either the veins or arteries in the legs can also cause leg pains. For example, people who have atherosclerosis (hardening and narrowing of the arteries) may experience claudication, or leg pain when walking, which is relieved by rest. Large and inflamed varicose veins can also cause leg pains, as well as blood clots from deep vein thrombosis. Peripheral arterial disease associated with diabetes, smoking, high cholesterol and high blood pressure may also lead to leg pains.
One complication of type 2 diabetes in diabetic neuropathy, or nerve damage due to uncontrolled blood sugar levels. This may affect the leg and foot nerve, causing both pain and numbness.
Inflammation of the knee and ankle joints may also be perceived as leg pains and these may be caused by osteoarthritis or gout.
Less common causes of leg pain include infection of the bone (osteomyelitis), infection of soft tissues (cellulitis), benign tumors (osteoma), and cancer (osteosarcoma).
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Looks like things are getting super serious between Justin Timberlake and girlfriend Jessica Biel. First she moved into his Hollywood Hills home, and now the couple is reportedly house hunting in New York City.
According to the NY Post, JT and Jess are "quite impressed" with a $2.9 million duplex in Manhattan's Chelsea district. The 2,224-square-foot unit boasts three bedrooms, two baths, 16-foot ceilings and a sauna. They're going all out!
They'll even have celebrity neighbors! Danny Devito also lives in the complex. Wonder how he'll feel about the paparazzi camping outside the building once JT and Jess move in?

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