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This article is scheduled for publication in LBE/FEC Management magazine
I am a guy. And, as your average male, I can do a great job designing the kind of entertainment center that I and my guy friends would go for. It'll be noisy, competitive, and nobody will try to make us talk about our feelings - in short, heaven. Problem is, when the family goes out for a good time, it's the females who decide where we go and what we do. Toss in a few kids, and us guys are hopelessly outvoted. Yet the people, mainly men, who own and design location-based leisure centers create them from the man's perspective, which makes it an uphill battle to delight the women and kids who control the leisure dollar.
I may be a guy, but I'm no dummy. I've found some smart researchers, mostly women, who have identified some of the differences between women and men that are pertinent to the location-based leisure [LBL] industry. While most of us have figured out that women and men differ in important ways, few of the men who own LBLs take those differences into account when designing and operating their businesses. It's an oversight that comes with a big price tag.
LBLs that succeed go beyond customer satisfaction. Consider that the community-based segment of the LBL industry depends on high repeat business rather than a market of tourists who constantly change, or on annual or less frequent visits by local residents. Community market, location-based leisure facilities include family entertainment centers, children's entertainment and edutainment centers, bowling centers, roller and ice rinks, and many eatertainment-oriented restaurants; most of which capture about 80 percent of their business from residents living within a 20-minute drive time who visit anywhere from four to 30 times a year.
Just about everyone knows that it costs five to seven times as much to get a new customer as to keep an existing one, and that a dissatisfied customer will tell 20 other people about the bad experience. Research also has found a five-to-one net revenue advantage to retaining loyal customers; the impact of increasing customer retention by 2 percent is equivalent to cutting operating costs by 10 percent. What most LBL owners DON'T know relates to customer loyalty and defections; our company's studies show that if they did, they would be shocked to learn how many of their customers never return. In fact, 20 to 40 percent of LBL customers defect each year, EVEN WHEN THOSE CUSTOMERS SAY THEY ARE SATISFIED.
What's going on? If you can't count on satisfied customers, can you really count on anything? Well, no, you can't. It's the LBL version of grade inflation. Like an A doesn't always mean what it used to, neither does "satisfied." People EXPECT to be satisfied. They expect to be treated courteously, they expect the person they're talking to be able and willing to solve their problems and meet their expectations. Since satisfaction now represents an acceptable minimum, a satisfied customer is as likely to defect as one that is dissatisfied.
Those who stick around are the customers who say they are completely satisfied or delighted. In one company's study, customers who rated the business as outstanding were four times less likely to defect than those who rated it satisfactory, neutral, or unsatisfactory. Other studies have shown that completely satisfied customers are 50 percent to six times as likely to repurchase/return as are just satisfied customers.
To win in today's competitive environment means moving beyond customer satisfaction toward customer loyalty. Think about it in terms of credibility. What would make an LBL so outstanding that a customer would be willing to risk his or her credibility by serving as an unpaid apostle for it? Figure that out, and you have loyal guests who provide repeat business, higher profits, and new customers gained through positive word-of-mouth marketing.
Delighting the right guests is what matters. Most community LBLs want to attract families. Sounds easy enough. We're guys, right, so we think in terms of attracting guys with wives and kids. But if we're honest, we'll agree with research that shows that about 80 percent of most family decisions of where and when to spend disposable leisure time and money is made by women. And children, well, they may not decide where the family goes, but they definitely have a voice in where the family does NOT go for entertainment. Then there are the men. In a family that includes a married couple and two children, the man can be outvoted three to one. The math isn't hard on this one - the people to delight, the ones you want as apostles for your business, are women and children.
You do this by understanding the unique wants and needs of women and children. This is difficult for most LBL owners and managers. Like I said, most are guys, and it is standard operating procedure for human beings to see the world from our own point of view. We don't think about needing a shelf in the bathroom so our purse doesn't get wet when we wash our hands. We don't imagine what it's like to try to find our way when we're lost, and all the signs are in a language we haven't yet learned to read. It's a different world to us.
The male bias in design and operations is not limited to LBL owners and managers. It extends to most of the professionals involved in the design of LBLs, including architects and landscape architects, as well as game, ride and event designers, all male- dominated industries. The majority of built environments, including most LBLs, are androcentric, and discriminate against both female and child users by design. More bad news - the same is true of how LBLs are managed and operated.
Women and children think, feel, process their senses, act and perceive the world and their experiences differently than each other and much differently than men. Their brains are wired differently, both by nature and nurture, and they have different skills. These differences are only starting to be understood and explained as genetically evolutionary in nature by evolutionary psychologists and biologists.
Trust us, women won't go for the Buckets O' Blood video game. To turn women into loyal repeat guests requires targeting their needs, wants and preferences. It requires creating a female-friendly facility design and operations that delights women and turns them into apostles for your business. And guys, it often requires forgetting what YOU want in order to lure a customer who is distinctly different from yourself.
Women, for example, are socially oriented. They are attracted to events and activities that promote social interaction. Women seek enjoyable and intrinsically motivating activities that include emotional involvement. Women have more developed sense of taste, smell, hearing, sight and touch than men, and they process the sensory input differently than men.
Let's look at how some of those differences play out inside an LBL.
You can't escape competition at most LBLs. Competitive video games, laser tag or motor sport activities like go-karts and ride simulators dominate LBL events. Males are motivated by a goal, with deadlines and punishment (up to and including virtual death), while women prefer rewards and the chance to share a moment with others. Men live for competition; women avoid it.
Female play tends to be orderly and not bound by rules. It is likely to focus on caregiving and nurturing and avoid aggressive physical contact or domination. Women don't like the time limits of competitive games, preferring to explore at their leisure, and they prefer nurturance instead of control and mastery. Women like collaborative activities and opportunities for social interaction; they prefer Win/Win scenarios while men prefer I Win scenarios. And pity the poor adolescent girl - if she loses a game to her boyfriend, she feels like a fool; if she wins, she fears losing the boyfriend by damaging his fragile ego.
Women are social animals. (They even go to the restroom in groups, something that wouldn't even occur to most guys.) While men like individual entertainment experiences, like standing alone in front of a video game, women don't like being isolated. They prefer cooperative activities, shared experiences, and communication - including gossip, which is one way of building a sense of community.
Women are extremely turned off by two elements that are found in most LBLs - violence and stereotyping. Most video and virtual reality games and laser tag deal with destruction and killing. While men find the threat of death to be highly motivating, women find it discouraging. Women and girls are nurturing and don't resolve conflict through violence, and mothers don't want to expose their children to games that promote violence as a means of problem-solving. In contrast to destructive activities, females prefer creative activities that result in the production of a material object. Women likewise find gender stereotyping and the exploitation of women, cultures, races and other ethnic groups extremely distasteful. If you have any doubts that these exist in most LBLs, just examine the video and pinball games to see how women and racial and ethnic minority groups are treated.
A ride or game that a male will find pleasantly harrowing will make a woman sick, literally. Females have wider peripheral vision than men, which may explain why females often feel ill and generally don't enjoy many rides, motion simulators and virtual reality games that males love.
Atmospherics deals with the psychological impact of the design environment on humans. Atmospherics can be very subtle, and most guests are not even consciously aware of the impact the physical environment has on their experience and feelings. Atmospherics, however, has a significant effect, and LBLs should be designed to create a space where guests want to stay and return.
The atmospherics of most LBLs appeal to men. They're cavernous, have hard and flashy interiors with high ceilings, are dark with no natural daylight and lack views of the outdoors and vegetation. Guys like this stuff. Males prefer hard, shiny, smooth surfaces, high contrasts and high-tech slick. They like 90-degree corners and boxy designs. Women, on the other hand, prefer textured and soft tactile surfaces and intimate, well-lighted spaces with natural daylight and outdoor views. They prefer curvilinear soft designs and shapes.
LBLs are noisy. Most FECs and game rooms have constant sound levels over 85 dB - equivalent to a jackhammer. The two genders vary greatly in their sensitivity to environmental noise. Males find loud sounds stimulating, or at least tolerate high decibel thresholds and can ignore such distractions when playing a game. Males prefer higher frequencies, while women prefer lower frequencies. Females are more sensitive to loud and repetitive noises, and are agitated and stressed by the overpowering racket of most LBLs. Furthermore, noisy environments are not conducive to conversation, a favorite activity of women.
Mothers are oriented towards caring for their children. As a result, family leisure may be experienced by women as work rather than leisure (a characteristic that is becoming increasingly true for fathers, too). Women's efforts at providing leisure for their children is often at the expense of their own leisure, and can be experienced as work- like and stressful.
LBLs rarely make this any easier for mothers. They lack changing tables with adjoining sinks, child-sized bathroom fixtures, family restrooms, areas for nursing, or spots where they can sit and monitor their children, ramps for strollers, parking lots that can be safely traversed, and places for the vast amounts of paraphernalia like car seats, strollers and diaper bags that parents must haul around with younger children. Without these things, women perceive a trip to the LBL as work, and therefore undesirable.
It doesn't have to be like this. It is possible to combine the work-related tasks of mothers with an environment where children can play while the mother can socialize with friends. This requires a different layout approach than most LBLs, where the parents have to walk around with the children while the children go from one event to another. And rarely is there even a place at each event for the parents to sit.
Does this approach work? Check out a Chuck E. Cheese mid-day during the work week and find out. A national independent consumer survey found that 20 percent of Chuck E. Cheese customers return more than 20 times a year. One reason is that groups of women can sit and socialize in booths while watching their children play.
Fear is a way of life for women. Females are extremely sensitive to and concerned about safety and security, not only for themselves but also for their children, who they fear may be kidnapped in public places. Men are generally not sensitive to such concerns, so do not consider them much when designing LBL facilities.
Well-lighted facilities and parking areas, open visibility, single monitored entrances and a high presence of staff are factors that make women more comfortable, but which are not often present in LBLs. Security guards dressed like police with guns alarm women. Rather than make them feel safe, the guards make them feel the LBL is unsafe. In addition, the typical target market of many LBLs, groups of teenagers, make women very nervous and uncomfortable.
Women and girls also evaluate risks differently than boys and men. Males generally don't consider an activity a risk unless they think an injury would be serious. Females tend to avoid a risk if they think there is any potential for injury.
Women are concerned about the cleanliness and sanitation of restrooms, food preparation and eating areas, and the play areas and equipment for their children. Sanitation is especially important to mothers of infant and toddlers, as those age children put just about everything they come in contact with in their mouths.
Men prefer to dominate nature, while women consider themselves to be a part of nature. Thus, women perceive the outdoors through their rhythms and styles, including the elements of nurturing, caring, community and sustenance. These differences probably explain why so many LBLs designed by men have no outdoor landscaped areas or views of the outdoors. In rare occasions where they do, the outdoor LBL areas are usually concrete deserts rather than lush natural areas.
It's not just how you design an LBL that matters to women, it's also in many of the details of how your staff and business interacts with them. And, again, there are major differences between males and females.
Men usually just want to get the transaction over with while women want to have a relationship with you. Women's desire to form a relationship is not limited to individual transactions. It extends as well to the marketing of the LBL, whether it is the advertising copy or developing a newsletter to strengthen the relationship.
So, to all you other guys, the moral should be clear. If you create an LBL that pleases you, you've missed the point. If, however, you create an LBL that surprises and delights women, you're well on your way to profitability.
Part two of this article, in a future issue, will discuss how LBLs can delight children.


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Tamar Dive Weekend
Date(s) - 13/May/2017 - 14/May/2017
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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|Cancellation Policy||A full refund will be given if the dive is cancelled by the club, e.g. due to bad weather or equipment unavailability. A 50% Refund will be given if a diver cancels between 1 week and 12 hours of the start of the dive unless a replacement diver is available in which case a full refund will be given. Before this time a full refund will be given except for trips where long lead times are involved (eg Interstate Trips/Long weekend trips etc) where refunds are at the discretion of the Dive Coordinator.|
The inaugural Northern Club weekend. Arrive at 1200hrs on Saturday the 13 at the Northern Dive Shed and head for a dive in the Tamar. Come back to the AMC campus were the bar will be open for us and a BBQ going. Wake up on Sunday morning with a pool session and games in the AMC pool from 9am-11am then head out for a second dive in the afternoon on Sunday. All diving should be completed by 3pm allowing those from down south plenty of time to return back home.
Members driving from down south there are couches to crash on up north along with a few pre pitched tents.
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Regional Expansion Directly Involves Indigenous Papuan Communities
Efforts to improve the prosperity of Papua Province continue to be carried out by the government under President Jokowi. This commitment is realized by expanding regions or New Autonomous Regions (DOB) to be able to compete with other provinces. So far, Papua Province is still too wide for regional governments to reach. People also have difficulty accessing health, education and administrative facilities. With this DOB, it is hoped that the community will find it easier to access public facilities. So, prosperity can soon be realized in Papua and reduce the gap with other regions.
Regional expansion is an aspiration and dream of the Papuan people. Because it is through this DOB that efforts can be made to accelerate the development and welfare of the Papuan people. The addition of a new new autonomous region in Papua will also open up access to development which will have a welfare impact on the Papuan people. Because, so far only the two provinces of Papua and West Papua have been the focus of development. Apart from that, the existence of a new province in Papua is expected to encourage faster and more massive access to services for the community.
Through the expansion of this region, it is hoped that it will open up access for indigenous Papuans to be involved in government, development and even the economy. Development in Papua must continue to be encouraged, because it can stimulate progress which also has an impact on improving the quality of everything. The acceleration of new autonomous development will of course provide new opportunities for local people to develop their potential.
Deputy Bishop of the Manokwari-Sorong Diocese, Father Lewi Ibori, said that a conducive and dignified atmosphere must be sought for the future of Southwest Papua. Therefore, the involvement of all Papuan people in all aspects of development is important in building peace and strengthening the sense of belonging to this country. Implementing the Papua Special Region is the most appropriate way to optimize services to the indigenous Papuan community, as well as realizing the government’s efforts to equalize development.
Progress after the construction of new autonomous regions is because people will be closer to public service centers, and of course this will be followed by the construction of other facilities such as health centers, terminals and various facilities that can be used by the community. The government’s main task is to serve the community, so that the development of new autonomous regions is an effort to speed up the service process in Papua.
The Head of the Maybrat Tribe, Yermias Naur, said that his party hopes that Papuan children can be directly involved in all development, including government, infrastructure and the economy. Because so far, most native Papuan children are unemployed even though they have graduated from school and college. Unemployment is caused by more immigrants finding work. Because they felt marginalized, only a spectator, and hurt, conflicts arose and incidents such as beatings and shootings occurred.
Meanwhile, Cendrawasih University Academician Marinus Yaung said on his occasion that when discussing the issue of accelerating development in Papua, there are two things that need to be considered. The first is “capital” and the second is human resources or human readiness. He explained that the qualifications of indigenous Papuan workers have a variety of reliable skills and knowledge to support company performance. So, the involvement of indigenous Papuans will have a very positive impact on the economic progress of the Province.
DOB will inspire new enthusiasm and hope in the community as well as a golden opportunity for generations in Papua to achieve better prosperity. It cannot be denied that now the public services provided by the Central Government can run very well and are distributed to indigenous Papuan communities to all corners of Bumi Cenderawasih because they are helped by the existence of the new autonomous region. With the improvement in public services, the people in Papua are very grateful.
Having a new autonomous region in Papua will give hope for equitable development in Papua. The Papua expansion policy is a mandate and implementation of Law (UU) Number 2 of 2021 concerning Special Autonomy (Otsus) for Papua, specifically Article 76. Thus, the main foundation of the three expansion bills must guarantee and provide space for indigenous Papuan people. It is hoped that the regulations created can become a concrete legal umbrella, especially in the implementation of governance in the early stages and in the following periods in the three provinces.
The implementation of the Papua Special Region is the result of political compromise efforts made between the indigenous Papuan people and the central government in resolving the multidimensional conflict which continues to occur, even for a long time, in Bumi Cenderawasih.
To support this program, the Government wants at least 80 percent of ASN in Papua to be native Papuans, so that improvements in community welfare can truly be realized. The Government’s strong desire, which includes developing natural resources, infrastructure development, and supporting fair development policies for the interests of the Papuan people, is the main capital for developing the prosperity of the Land of Papua.

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Kids are snubbing outdoor games because they don't want to get their clothes dirty, a survey has found.
Around a third of the children said they avoided playing outside to keep their clothes and trainers sparkling.
Nearly three quarters of them said they ducked out of messy games because they didn't want to get told off by parents.
The survey revealed that watching TV and playing video games were much more popular than mucking around in the garden, playing a sport or cycling.
Experts are concerned that the trend will lead to a generation "who have learnt about life through a TV screen rather than experiencing it".
A total of 1,275 kids and parents were quizzed in the survey.

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These three hens are pecking scraps in the flower garden. Are they supposed to be there? Who knows. Being hens they don't live by gardeners rules but by their own and they go where the food is. Who can blame them.
This artwork is drawn on good quality watercolour paper with my finest rapidograph pens. I really enjoyed all the detail in their feathers and I like the graphic quality that it has produced.
The paper is 11.75" x 8.25" (29.5cm x 21cm) - A4. The image is centralised and has a good border for framing purposes.
The artwork has been signed and dated discreetly at the bottom right hand. It will be shipped in a rigid mailer via Royal Mail Insured Post or internationally also by insured post. The copyright of the image remains with me.
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Susaki - Handsome view of the embankment along the water at Susaki, a favorite location for gathering shellfish at low tide. People pause at the tea stands along the road at lower right before or after visiting the shrine at left center. The setting sun spreads a rosy glow along the horizon and a few birds fly across the sky. Nicely detailed with fine bokashi shading int the water and sky.
Artist - Hiroshige II (1826 - 1869)
Image Size - 13 1/4" x 9"
Condition - This print with excellent detail as shown. Paper remnants on reverse at corners from previous mounting. Diagonal fold. Stitching holes at side, a few thinning spots at edges. Slight toning and soiling, a few creases and spots, slight rubbing at edges. Please see photos for details.
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Living Nutz is excited to release our first nut butter! It is an organic, Non-GMO, truly raw, Paleo-friendly and completely unpasteurized almond butter abounding with delicious wholesome flavor.
Why unpasteurized almonds?
In 2007 Living Nutz (along with all health consumers) hit a major roadblock when the USDA, in conjunction with the Almond Board of California announced to the world that all almonds grown on US soils were to be pasteurized from now on.
What was even more disturbing was the methods of pasteurization that were being suggested and implemented
[This most recent example concerns the new rules by the Almond Board of California (ABC) and backed by the USDA to mandate the pasteurization of all commercially grown almonds in California with substances that include highly toxic propylene oxide (PPO). As reported by the Health Freedom Foundation, propylene oxide is so toxic that it was "...banned by both the National Hot Rod and American Motorcycle Racing Associations, where it had been used as a fuel before being deemed too dangerous."]
(above excerpt from https://www.naturalnews.com/022146_raw_almonds.html)
Because of all this, Living Nutz was required to find other methods for acquiring truly Raw Almonds, and the only way we could do this was to import them from Italy and Spain. This is what we have been doing since 2007.
While the transportation of exporting almonds means they're coming from further away, the nutritional quality of our almonds increased as the organic almonds we have sourced are closer to the original heirloom varieties of almonds - compared to the California species that have been grafted from species further removed from these original heirloom varieties.
Why do we sprout almond butter?
When you eat raw nuts, it can be very difficult to digest because they are in a state of natural dormancy. There are tannins, phytic acid and other enzyme inhibitors present in the nut that keep them in a dormant state until the spring rains, and moisture of the ground ‘activate’ the nut, giving them an opportunity to grow after winter, and spring time has begun.
By sprouting nuts, we are micro-replicating the very same process that would occur if the nut were in the wild. By soaking nuts, the enzyme inhibitors that keep the nut in a dormant state dissolve, and a transformation process takes place. Suddenly the nut ‘comes to life’ through this sprouting process.
As the enzyme inhibitors dissolve, the phytic acid, tannins and other nutritional blockers also dissolve - allowing the nuts nutritional components to become more bioavailable for our bodies to assimilate and benefit from. This is why a sprouted nut tastes so much better to our palate, and feels much better through our digestive tract, than an un-sprouted or un-activated nut!
Our Living Nutz almond butter is made from one ingredient; sprouted, organic, unpasteurized European almonds. The end result of this process is:
An almond butter whose naturally occurring oils and fats have not become rancid (like traditional highly heated butters).
An almond butter that has its powerhouse superfood nutritional profile still intact (including massive amounts of Vitamin E, zinc, thiamin, niacin, folate, riboflavin, and vitamin b-6). When compared to all other nuts, almonds are richer in nutrients and beneficial components.
A crunchy, delicious and nutritious super food that is one of the healthiest snacks you can find anywhere. It’s also a perfect alternative to peanut butter and other highly processed and ultra-heated nut butters.
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Honda SUV e:prototype could preview new electric model for UK
The Honda SUV e:prototype will go on sale in China by early 2022 and could be Honda's next electric car in the UK
A second fully electric model will join the Honda e city car in the Japanese brand's UK line-up within the next two years, Honda UK boss Jean-Marc Streng has said. Speaking to DrivingElectric, Streng revealed: “We are going to bring a new model of BEV [battery electric vehicle] in 2023 – that's the next step, which will help us to have a wider offer.”
Streng didn't go into any further detail about the new electric car, beyond saying that “it’s going to be an offer in the right segment, which will achieve more sales.” That strongly suggests a larger and more practical model, in all likelihood an SUV similar to the e:prototype (pictured above( that the brand unveiled at the Shanghai Motor Show in April 2021.
This was a more conventional development of the three-door SUV e:concept (pictured below) seen at the Beijing show in 2020. That car had a far more rakish, three-door design, featured a sloping roofline and was generally more futuristic than the conventional styling of the design unveiled in Shanghai.
No official details on the SUV e:prototype’s powertrain have been released, but it'll almost certainly use a larger battery than the 35.5kWh unit in the Honda e city car, which has a maximum range of just 137 miles. Size-wise, it's expected to sit somewhere between the Jazz supermini and HR-V compact SUV – both hybrid-only models.
Honda says the SUV e:prototype is close to the design of a production model that'll go on sale in China by early 2022 – and could also be the model alluded to by Streng, which will go on sale in the UK in 2023.
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I am looking to start a website similar to Reddit with the up/down voting mechanism and other relevant features including, but not limited to, creating user accounts, having user profiles, posting comments, posting/sharing links, and creating subtopics (subreddits) within the site.
Basically, the core of the website will be similar to Reddit but with a different and unique interface.
I need someone who knows about Reddit, and is able to understand the algorithm behind its code. Aside from developing this site, I also need its design to have a simple, sleek, and attractive interface - we can communicate later on what this would be.
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It’s the red carpet ride to a state title that Manly sailor Dave O’Connor is not about to knock back.
The Manly Surf n Slide 16ft skiff skipper returns to the helm this weekend for the final two heats of the NSW Championships at Gosford, knowing only a major catastrophe can prevent the silverware heading his way.
With O’Connor on an overseas work/business trip, stand-in skipper Nathan Wilmot chalked up back-to-back wins in Newcastle a fortnight ago to give SnS a stranglehold on the title.
Solid results in the final two heats in Gosford will secure SnS the crown.
“I’ve been copping a bit of heat over walking back in after two wins but I am stoked,” O’Connor said.
“They have done all the hard work and set it up nicely and I’ve just got to go out there and get two half-decent results and we’ll be fine.
“Who wouldn’t take that? It’s certainly better than the alternative.”
SnS could wrap the championship up with a top three placing in Saturday’s heat three, rendering Sunday’s fourth race almost redundant.
Realistically, only Manly stablemate Cunninghams (Nick Connor) and defending champion Brydens (Lee Knapton) are in striking distance on the overall pointscore, but they would need a minor miracle to overhaul O’Connor.
“But we’re not looking at it like that,” the SnS skipper said.
“There is so much for us to focus on that I’m not really worried about the points.
“We want to put a whole race together, step by step, and the points will sort themselves out.”
But O’Connor admits combining with crew members Rob Napper and Trent Barnabas to win a state title in his first year as a 16ft skipper would be something special.
He said: “It would be awesome. Winning anything in this fleet is an achievement.”
Six Manly boats sit inside the top 10 heading into the final two heats.
Meanwhile, after two days of heavy winds, the breeze dropped to nothing and forced race officials to cancel heat two of the Manly club championship last Saturday.


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The marine and coastal areas are home to rich and varied environments. A territory of reproduction, nursery and migratory stages for many species such as, Posidonia meadows, rhodolith, canyons and many more, all taking advantage of the diversity of their habitats.
The diversity of these environments is the basis of many activities (artisanal fishing, leisure, maritime traffic, tourism) and contribute to forge a local maritime identity. Today, the balance is fragile and requires careful management of the environment.
In close collaboration with all the stakeholders of the territory, the Park ensures the balance between the environmental and economic stakes of its maritime territory. It meets three fundamental objectives:
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Capu Sagru in the east, Nonza/San Fiurenzu in the West
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Centuri north, Centuri south, San Fiurenzu and L’Isula
100 km2 Posidonia seagrass beds
One of the most important concentrations of ocean floor in the Mediterranean
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6 830 km2 the largest marine park in metropolitan France
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A former St. Paul Boy Scout filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging that he was abused by his Scout leader in the 1970s.
The lawsuit accuses the Boy Scouts of America and its local chapter, the Northern Star Council, of three counts of negligence and one count of fraud. It states that the plaintiff, identified as John Doe 156, was abused by then-scout leader Richard E. Carroll on camping trips and Boy Scout events from 1972 to 1974. Carroll died in 2004 at age 66.
Carroll, who received numerous honors during his 52 years in scouting, allegedly abused Doe 156 several times and in several locations in St. Paul and around the state.
Doe 156 was in his early teens when the abuse began in 1972, the suit alleges. At that time Doe 156’s parents had just divorced and his newly single mother was busy trying to keep the broken family afloat, said Patrick Noaker, Doe 156’s attorney.
“Dad left. Mom was struggling, and the Boy Scouts was a place he could go,” Noaker said. “The Boy Scouts let him down.”
According to his obituary notice in the Pioneer Press, Carroll was an active member of the organization — serving in troop, district and council positions — and was the executive director of the North Star Museum of Boy Scouting and Girl Scouting for 12 years.
Doe 156, now 56, went on to be a successful Twin Cities businessman, Noaker said. Doe 156 currently lives in Florida.
The lawsuit, which seeks more than $50,000 from the Boy Scouts and the Northern Star Council, is not about the money, Noaker said, adding that the suit is about child protection.
“We’re coming forward and identifying perpetrators because the Boy Scouts won’t,” he said.
John Doe 156 filed his suit under the Minnesota Child Victims Act, approved by the state Legislature in 2013, which suspended the statute of limitations for victims of sexual abuse who wish to file lawsuits, regardless of how long ago the alleged abuse took place. The window for filings closes in May.
Plaintiffs may file their lawsuits anonymously if they choose.
Since the 1920s, the Boy Scouts have kept files on scout leaders or volunteers accused of sexual misconduct with children, and a 2012 court order in an Oregon lawsuit forced the organization to publicly release more than 1,000 of them. At one point, the organization had more than 20,000 files, according to court records.
As part of the file disclosures, more than 30 Minnesota files were released. Attorneys filing local lawsuits believe more files exist.
Carroll is not mentioned in any of the available files, Noaker said.
Kent York, a spokesman for the Northern Star Council, said all the local files have been released.
York said he could not comment on active litigation, but he did release a statement.
“We are all profoundly saddened when any child is harmed by anyone, ever. Scouting is, and has been, one of the safest places for kids in our community and we work constantly to keep them safe, in concert with law enforcement and other youth serving agencies,” the statement said.
Barry Lytton can be reached at 651-228-5453.


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Program Alert-Hasheem Thabeet on ESPN, than Kevin Durant.
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Re: Program Alert-Hasheem Thabeet on ESPN, than Kevin Durant.
I need to watch more college ball, because I know nothing about these guys.
Maybe you should put together a short scouting report of the guys you think the Kings could land in the draft?
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text: Sure is nice to have a lightweight bike that is small enough to take with you when traveling. Whether set-up with knobbies and skid plate, or performance street tires, it's a snap to roll it on the back of my car and bring with. From California to Florida, from The Dragon to The Lost Coast, it's a joy to bring along so much fun, so easily. One reason why I chose the Hyperstrada over the many other options. Dirt bike size, and sport bike notions, and a capability to explore mountain forest backroads. Pint size bike that is still roomy for my 6'2" body. Low volume sales for Ducati indicate that many don't consider this bike. I think maybe it is a good alternative to the scrambler type bikes so popular now. Anyway, I take it along with me when I travel. Lots of great places to explore along the way.


Clean Paths and Pavements Effectively with Industrial Sweepers
Sweepers and the STIHL battery-powered sweeper guarantee quick and easy cleaning. This is because our high-quality machines make it particularly easy to work on pavements, car parks or driveways. There are three simple reasons for this:
- mechanical cleaning is much quicker – 6 times more than with a simple broom
- mechanical cleaning is ergonomic for your locomotor system
- mechanical cleaning is less harmful to health as less dust is lifted and inhaled
Whether you’re cleaning your land, public places or factory premises: With STIHL sweepers, coarse, fine, heavy and even wet dirt disappears in an instant.


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It's been a long time...
Ginny started her yarn along again.
I knitted a hat for my husband. The picture is taken shortly before I finished...
Two years I already knitted one for him, but somehow it was too big (or got bigger through wearing and I could not "shrink" it back...).
So I made a new one- perfectly timed for the stormy and colder weather we have these days.
I read "the barefoot queen" by Idelfonso Falcones- so far very much enjoying it.


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i´m Michele, a creative human being.
I've studied art, architecture and industrial design in Torino, Italy.
I had a great oportunity to work with Studio Formafantasma in Eindhoven.
I won some furniture competition on Formabilio.com, an italian Start up.
I'm 360° creative, i love music, art with a strong concept and the sentence "less is more" describe myself perfectly.
Most of my artworks are focused on enviromental issue like food production, consumerism and social behaviour.
I think that artists should be the spokesmen of our society.


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I'm trying to use Performance Reporter to get a Top 10 of the LDEV's with the highest I/O Response Times in a given period of time (recent past).
I created a new report with RAID 6.0, Logical Device Performance, Total response rate.
But that gives me rate per minute (or hour, it depends on the option selected) and of course LDEV can be repeated.
All I want is a list with LDEV's with the highest Response time rate in my custom period of time.
Anything would help.
Thanks a lot.


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The Bold And The Beautiful Video Promo: Beautiful Visualization
Do you expect me to just sit back…
On Wednesday’s episode of The Bold and the Beautiful, Taylor confronts Stephanie, Bill talks shop with Liam, and Oliver won’t give up. Check out the sneak peek video clip below.
What do you think of Brooke telling Taylor about Stephanie's cancer? Tell Soaps.com in the comment section. For more teasers check out The Bold and the Beautiful Spoilers! We invite you to join Soaps.com on Twitter @soapoperafan, "like" Soaps.com on Facebook to dish on The Bold and the Beautiful, all the other soap operas, Glee, Grey’s Anatomy and Vampire Diaries!

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Delmhorst Grain/Hay Temperature and Moisture Testers
The Delmhorst G7, distributed by Seedburo, is a rugged moisture meter for testing grain at harvest time or while in storage. It has built-in correction factors for Barley, Coffee, Corn, Flax, Hay, Oats, Rapeseed, Rough Rice, Rye, Sorghum, Soybeans, and Wheat.
The integral double-disc electrode cup holds 3–4 grams, allowing for more uniform sampling and providing accurate and repeatable readings. The G7 measures moisture content over the range of 9%–30%, depending upon the grain, and corrects for temperature over the range of 32°F–160°F (0°C–70°C). You can even attach optional accessories to check moisture in bulk material like hay or granular material like flour. The G7 also stores up to 150 readings in memory and provides useful statistics like the average or highest readings, as well as standard deviation and co-efficient of variance. Finally, the meter has a programmable offset in order to match other moisture testers and an adjustable audible alarm.
Proper use of a moisture meter provides fast, reliable results, and can help the grain producer determine if grain is at proper moisture levels in the field, in the bin, at the dryer and when selling. The newly designed G-7 Grain Moisture Meter features a powerful micro-controller circuit. It is rugged, easy to use, and provides important statistics about the meter readings. The G-7 is especially useful to test moisture content of grain at harvest time and while in storage. Or you can attach optional accessories to check moisture in hay.
- Microcontroller based circuit for greater accuracy and reliability
- Built-in correction factors for Barley, Coffee, Corn, Flax, Hay, Oats, Rapeseed, Rough rice, Sorghum, Soybeans, Wheat, and Rye.
- Built-in temperature correction over the range of 32°-160° F
- Stores up to 150 accumulated readings and displays the average and highest readings, and standard deviation and co-efficient of variance of stored readings
- Measures moisture content over the range of 6%-40% depending on grain
- Adjustable set point with buzzer to alert you when a pre-selected %MC has been reached.
- Connector for an external electrode
- Built-in calibration check
- One year warranty
- Uses 9V battery.
- Actual dims: 71/4" (L) x 6" (W) x 51/2" (H)
- Ship wt: 7 lbs, Ship dims: 15" (L) x 15" (W) x 9" (H).
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- G7: Grain & Hay Moisture Meter Without Case
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- 315ELE-0024: Optional Upper Electrode Assembly (Smooth Disc) for Testing Flour
- 1900: Replacement Heavy Duty Upper Electrode Assembly (Serrated Disc)
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Concerned that West Hollywood's public image has been harmed after a year of media attention, the city government is on the verge of doing some image-making of its own.
A committee of business leaders and city officials has been working in recent months with a private consultant to develop strategies to alter the city's image. Although their work is far from completed, committee members expect to recommend the creation of a nonprofit corporation, jointly run by the city and the business community, to emphasize the city's attractions.
"What we want to do is portray West Hollywood as an attractive, vital place," said City Manager Paul Brotzman. "We have to communicate to the world what's available here."
Brotzman, other city officials and business leaders said that message has not been getting out during the past year. Instead, they complain, the media has focused most of its coverage on the city's homosexual minority (estimated at 25% to 30% of the city's 37,000 residents) and its accompanying human rights issues, the AIDS crisis and the City Council's political and personality squabbles.
'Qualities Being Ignored'
"The special qualities that make this city unique are being ignored," said Ronald S. Kates, an influential real estate broker and member of the Council's Ad Hoc Promotional and Marketing Task Force, which has been looking at image-improvement programs.
Concern has been expressed by some business leaders that continuing media preoccupation with the city's highly visible homosexual population, at a time when public fears about AIDS have been heightened, could lead to losses in business.
Brotzman said that the city's revenues from sales and transiency taxes continued to increase last year, indicating that restaurants, hotels and shops in West Hollywood had not suffered appreciably because of AIDS fears. "Yet there were a number of reports that talked about isolated drops in business among some of our restaurants because of AIDS," he said. "How does a city defend itself in situations like that?"
City officials say the West Hollywood City Council has become a sounding board for any issue that involves homosexuals. One official told of a local television crew that showed up during a City Council meeting last year to interview Mayor John Heilman about gay bath houses in West Hollywood. "In fact, there weren't any bath houses in West Hollywood," the official said. "But they came to us anyway."
"I think the city has an image of an offbeat community," said Richard Rosenzweig, executive vice president of Playboy Enterprises, which maintains its western headquarters on Sunset Boulevard. "There are good elements of that, when people look at us as kind of a Left Bank of Los Angeles. But there have been times when that has been exploited to make us look like crazies."
Members of the city's promotional task force say the city has to take steps to protect its image. "What we want to do is to show this city's attributes to the world," Kates said.
Those attributes, according to committee members, include the city's thriving design industry, high-profile restaurants, art galleries, recording studios and nightclubs.
"The concern is that people only know a part of West Hollywood," Brotzman said. "Maybe they know about some of the controversies. But they don't know that we have as many as 200 restaurants in two square miles, including some of the finest of the world. Or that we are the heart of the music industry and the design industry."
To change those perceptions, a consultant hired to analyze the city's image problems has recommended that the city create a nonprofit "entity" to promote its strong points in "multi-year positive media campaigns," which could be reviewed and updated every few years.
"What we think is necessary is for the city and its business community to work together on the city's image," said David Wilcox, of Economic Research Associates, the consulting firm. "We think it needs to be done quickly."
Wilcox has recommended that the nonprofit corporation carry out a campaign emphasizing West Hollywood as a "creative city," emphasizing its design, music, entertainment and restaurant industries. The firm has also suggested that the city consider promoting four distinct districts within its boundaries.
In one district, the Sunset Strip area, the city would promote its nightclubs and music industry offices. In the eastern portion of Santa Monica Boulevard, the city would promote the Warner Hollywood film studios. A third district would focus on the commercial strip along the western portion of Santa Monica Boulevard. And a fourth district would feature the design shops of Melrose Avenue, Beverly Boulevard and Robertson Avenue.
"We still haven't come to full agreement on the district concept," Wilcox said. "But I think the committee's been receptive."
All of these plans, in the end, depend on the reception of the City Council. Viterbi, who chairs the council's economic development subcommittee, said the city's preoccupation with image is crucial to its financial health.
"At least 50% of our revenues come from the business community," he said. "We want to be sure they're doing well so that we do well."
In the coming year, city officials hope to obtain a high bond rating. Faced with the prospect of eventually having to build a new City Hall and off-site parking structures that could cost as much as $250 million, city officials have already begun discussions with financial analysts.
"Sooner or later, we're going to want to secure bonds to pay for municipal projects," Brotzman said. "A city's image and its bond rating are not completely tied. But I wouldn't be surprised if the better the general perception of the community, the better our bond rating turns out to be."


Emergency services are currently at the scene of an incident in Ramsgate.
The police helicopter is reported to be above Newington and an air ambulance has landed close to the school. Bush Avenue/ St John’s Avenue has been taped off.
Five police cars and two ambulances are at the scene and officers are reported to be stationed outside the Co-op. One witness says forensic tents have now been put up.
A Kent air ambulance spokesman confirmed two helicopters have been called to the scene.
At 5.13pm the Kent air ambulance was called out followed by the Redhill helicopter at 5.58pm.
Both were called out to an ‘assault’ but there are no further details as yet.
A Kent Police spokesman said: “Kent Police was called to reports of a serious altercation in Wentworth Drive, Ramsgate, at 4.50pm.
“Officers are at the scene along with the South East Coast Ambulance Service, no arrests have been made and enquiries into the incident are on-going.”


CNBC headline: Toyota hits electric-vehicle sales milestone, joins Tesla and GM in triggering phaseout of tax incentives for buyers
PUBLISHED WED, JUL 6 202210:43 AM EDTUPDATED 3 HOURS AGO
Toyota sold its 200,000th plug-in electric vehicle during the second quarter, initiating a phaseout of U.S. tax credits of up to $7,500 for its customers.
The wind-down of the credit for Toyota customers is expected to be complete in October 2023, the company said Wednesday. The phaseout will begin Oct. 1.
Tesla and General Motors have already triggered the phaseout for their future customers who purchase an all-electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle.
The Japanese automaker joins Tesla and General Motors in initiating a phaseout of the credit for future consumers who purchase an all-electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. The milestone comes at an inopportune time, with Toyota ramping up production of its new all-electric bZ4X.
In June, the CEOs of General Motors, Ford Motor, Chrysler parent Stellantis and Toyota Motor North America urged Congress to lift the cap on the number of EVs a manufacturer sells before the credits start phasing out. But Toyota and other automakers with nonunion workforces in the U.S. opposed a tax credit program last year by the Biden administration that included additional credits for EVs built by organized labor.
Opponents of the tax program say that the credits have largely benefited the wealthy and that the government shouldn’t subsidize the purchases. Supporters of the credits say they have spurred adoption of electric vehicles and assisted in lowering the cost of the pricy vehicles for consumers.


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IAC/InterActiveCorp, through its wholly owned unit Buzz Merger Sub Inc., commenced its offer to acquire all outstanding shares in Care.com Inc.
The cash tender offer will expire one minute after 11:59 p.m. ET on Feb. 10, unless extended or ended earlier, according to an SEC filing. Care.com's board recommended that its shareholders tender their shares.
The offer involves the acquisition of Care.com common shares at $15 per share, as well as the company's outstanding series A convertible preferred shares at a per-share price equal to 150% of the liquidation preference plus accrued and unpaid dividends, less interest and applicable withholding taxes.
Computershare Trust Co. NA is the depositary and paying agent for the tender offer.
IAC agreed in December 2019 to acquire Care.com, an online platform for finding and managing family caretaker arrangements, for an enterprise value of about $500 million.


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A cash-out refinance lets you refinance for more than you owe on the original mortgage and get cash in hand. That cash can be used to finance a remodeling project, college tuition, car purchase, a vacation or anything else you want to use it for.
the applicability of Texas Constitution Section 50(a)(6) regardless of Fannie Mae’s definitions of cash-out and limited cash-out refinance transactions; and if the loan should be delivered to Fannie Mae as a cash-out refinance or a limited cash-out refinance transaction, including the applicable special feature codes and payment of all.
Cash-Out Refinance Guidelines A conventional refinance takes out a new mortgage when interest rates drop and pays off the old mortgage, resulting in monthly savings. With a cash-out refinancing, a.
Conventional Cash Out Refinance Ltv This reserve cannot include any of the funds received from the cash-out refinance. If the new mortgage payment is $2,000, the borrower must have at least $12,000 in the bank just to qualify. Investment property cash-out refinances allow a maximum LTV of 75 percent and require a minimum 700 credit score.
If it’s available and will ease your pay-off pain, why not use it, right? While using a home equity line of credit (HELOC) or cash-out refinance (in which you refinance your mortgage, but tack on an.
Like all VA loans, the program requires no mortgage insurance, even though any other loan type on the market requires it for loans with less than 20 percent equity. The VA cash-out loan is the only.Cash-Out Refinance – Unlike the other two alternatives. Lenders use this number to calculate your loan-to-value ratio, or LTV, a factor used to determine whether you qualify for a loan. To get your.
Cash-out Refinance Rules. In Texas, refinance transactions where borrowers wish to receive cash are limited to 80 percent loan-to-value (LTV). This means a new loan amount cannot exceed 80 percent of the value of a home. A loan-to-value ratio is calculated by dividing the new loan amount by the value of the property.


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Petrainer No Bark Collar with Waterproof and Rechargable Battery and Auto Sleep Protection
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How to Handle Unhappy Patients in Your Dental Office
Ensuring that your dental patients are happy and satisfied is usually a guaranteed way to retain patients and grow your dental business. However, sometimes, you may have to handle unhappy dental patients. Here are some of the effective ways to handle unhappy dental patients.
Look Out for Warning Signs
Usually, it’s easy to detect patients’ anger before it intensifies. Patients often signal their resentment and frustration through grunting, clenched fists, heavy sighs, a raised voice, or rolling eyes. Once you notice these red flags, make sure to proactively attend to those patients to learn whatever problems they may have.
There will be occasions when you would have to deal with highly emotional patients. Such patients tend to make provocative or rash statements that you need to refrain from responding to. Since exchanging accusations would obviously make the situation worse, the key is to stay calm and allow the patient time to vent out their anger. This would help to carry out a more productive discussion.
Usually, feeling understood is enough to make an unhappy patient relax, which settles half the problem. Doctors need to realize that their goal is not to prove that they are right. Instead, it’s more about showing your concern and finding the exact solution. A simple statement like - ‘I understand how frustrating this must be for you’ may be sufficient to encourage the patient and forge trust between both parties.
Reiterate and Offer Solutions
A useful approach is to ask the patient for a resolution politely or suggest two choices for their consideration. Having an option or some say about the result may resolve the matter quickly and satisfactorily to the patient’s liking.
Make Use of Technology
If your patient’s annoyance has risen from missing their appointment and having been charged for the no-show, then consider switching from your current system to the latest technology. The automated communication system in place will efficiently manage appointment confirmations, and reminders and help everyone stay on the same page. This will also help eliminate unwanted frustrations in the future. Latest technological innovation lets you even perform two-way text right away with individual patients.
You can use reputation management software that utilizes an automated outreach process to get patients’ feedback about their visit so that you can reach out to unhappy ones for service recovery.
Empower Your Staff
It’s common knowledge that dissatisfied patients seldom complain to the doctor directly. Therefore, your staff must be trained to watch out for the first signs of dissatisfaction and immediately bring it to your notice. Also, provide proper guidelines to your staff on how to handle unhappy patients to help them make suitable decisions. Empowering your staff members with the right knowledge and tools will prompt them to do whatever they can to keep every patient content.
Involve a Supervisor
Sometimes a situation can deteriorate much further before the management steps in. Some patients don’t feel content unless they get a chance to speak to the management, and by the time this demand is fulfilled, things already reach a pinnacle. If a patient is getting irritated with a front desk employee, call in a supervisor or someone in a higher authority to listen to the concern, which may help the patients feel important.
Sometimes, patient complaints may be irrational or unjustified, but it’s essential to know how to recognize the genuine issues that require a long-term or permanent solution. The outlook of the unhappy patient may also offer an opportunity for doctors to learn and improve. Try to dig deeper without being defensive or self-protective, and honestly consider ways to improve and prevent similar problems in the future.

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Eight Things You Already Own You Can Make Money From
If you're in need of some extra cash, you may think you'll have to resort to selling your flat screen or laptop to be able to earn interest from shoppers online.
But, you'd probably be surprised to learn, plenty of the items lying around your home that you deem useless, could sell online for a pretty penny. As long as you know what you're looking for, that is. Check out our list of 8 things you may already have that you can sell online to earn some quick cash.
With apps like Mercari and Poshmark, selling clothes you don't wear anymore has never been easier. Got a pair of old boots you've only worn a few times? Simply snap a pic, post it, mail it, and earn money while making room in your closet for items you actually wear.
Rent Out Your Parking Space
If you live near a city and have a parking space you don't use, you can make a killing by renting it out. It takes almost no effort, and the returns can be pretty significant.
We know this isn't quite the same as selling old clothes, but if you're comfortable with the concept, this can be a pretty easy way to earn a lot of cash at once. You can also feel good that you're making a family's dream of a new baby come true. If you're interested in selling your eggs, you can make up to $10,000 with just one batch!
You can sell just about any old book, regardless of its condition (though of course the better the condition the higher the price) but textbooks are probably the most lucrative kind of book to sell. If you've attended college, chances are you have some expensive, lightly-used textbooks laying around that you could sell online for a decent amount of money.
As long as you're clear in the listing that the item doesn't work, it will probably sell to someone looking to refurbish it or use it for parts. Old cell phones, working or not, are also a great option for selling online.
Everyone's go to gift these days seems to be gift cards. But say you have a stash of unused Starbucks gift cards because you hate the taste of coffee, what do you do with them? Sell them before they expire! It's super easy to sell gift cards on websites like Zeek, or even on Ebay.
If you have an old ratty end table cluttering up your apartment, chances are there is someone out there who loves woodworking and would be happy to buy it from you in order to refurbish it! This is true of just about any decent quality wood furniture, no matter how bad its current condition.
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AMA Journal of Ethics’ podcast features interviews with experts on a wide range of cultural, legal, and social topics in health care ethics. We sort through difficult questions, talk about how to weigh competing values, and offer strategies for navigating real world cases.
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Court calls Titan Insurance’s excuses for not promptly paying auto No Fault benefits to a military veteran after a car crash ‘unreasonable’ and ‘untenable’
Where was Titan Insurance when military veteran William Batts needed auto No Fault medical benefits after being injured in a Wayne County hit-and-run car accident?
Nowhere to be found. Titan Insurance was AWOL.
Rather than “promptly paying” the auto No Fault benefits it owed to Batts, Titan – who had been assigned the claim by the Michigan Assigned Claims Plan – stubbornly refused.
Offering up weak, poorly-thought-out legal excuses and cockamamie rationalizations, the auto insurer insisted the Veterans Administration, not Titan, was responsible for taking care of Batts.
Never mind that military veteran Batts was injured in a scooter-car accident on the streets of Wayne County, not on the field of battle.
Importantly, the Michigan Court of Appeals wasted no time in shooting down Titan’s arguments as the “unreasonable” dodges they are.
In Batts v. Titan Insurance Company, a unanimous appellate panel concluded:
- Titan Insurance “as the assigned claims insurer was required under the no-fault act to promptly pay plaintiff’s PIP benefits …”
- Titan “has asserted three untenable excuses for failing to do so.”
- Titan’s “reasons for refusing to pay any benefits at all were unreasonable.”
A military veteran is not a Second-Class citizen after a car accident
This ruling is an important one as evidenced by the fact that the Court of Appeals published it, which means it serves as binding precedent (read: cannot be ignored) on the other judges on the appellate court and all of the trial judges throughout the state.
On the one hand, Batts establishes – although I should also emphasize that this was obvious to begin with – that military veterans will not be treated as second-class citizens under the Michigan No Fault system, with their claims for PIP benefits callously and improperly foisted on the Veterans Administration which is no more the payor in primary priority (or any priority) than the man on the moon.
Batts also casts light on the shamelessness that insurance companies often will go to avoid paying claims.
In Michigan, a state without a bad faith law or punitive damages, insurance companies can take advantage of anyone, and they often do. Even as here, a citizen like Williams Batts who generously gave of himself to serve his country.
Titan should be ashamed of itself, but, sadly, it’s just another example of an insurance company calculating its chances of getting away with denying a legitimate claim after a car accident.
So, why CAN a military veteran get No Fault benefits?
The big takeaway from Batts for Michigan car accident lawyers is that even though a military veteran may be eligible to receive health benefits through the Veterans Administration, that doesn’t preclude his eligibility to receive No Fault benefits for a car accident injury.
To each of the following absurd arguments advanced by Titan, the Court of Appeals responded with the following well-reasoned rejection:
- Coordination of No Fault benefits and health insurance coverage: Titan argued it wasn’t liable “for medical expenses incurred by [Batts] inside or outside the VA system” under the No Fault Law’s “coordination of benefits provision” in MCL 500.3109a). Fatal to Titan’s argument, the appellate judges pointed out, was the fact that Batts “did not purchase either a no-fault policy or a coordinated no-fault insurance policy; thus, MCL 500.3109a is not applicable.”
- Coordination of benefits through the assigned claims plan and from “other sources”: Titan claim Batts’s “eligibility to receive health care services through the VA constituted a ‘benefit source’ which relieved [Titan] of its obligation to pay for any medical care or services required by [Batts] for his motor vehicle accident injuries.” The Court of Appeals disagreed: “[B]ecause the VA system, like private hospitals and medical facilities, does not provide free medical services to veterans for nonservice-related injuries [“like those resulting from a motor vehicle accident”], entitlement to seek medical services from the VA cannot be deemed a ‘benefit source’ that relieved [Titan] of its obligation to pay PIP benefits to [Batts].”
- No Fault benefits are set-off against VA benefits: Under No Fault’s set-off provision – which allows that benefits provided by the Federal Government that duplicate No Fault benefits “shall be subtracted” from the No Fault benefits owed by an auto insurer – Titan insisted it was “entitled to a set-off against” Batts’ “health care benefits through the VA.” The Court of Appeals said “No”: Titan “is not entitled to a set-off for the medical services provided to plaintiff by the VA for his accident-related injuries” because the “VA was [not] liable … [nor] primarily responsible … to provide medical benefits to [Batts] for his nonservice related motor vehicle accident injuries” and, thus, “there was no duplication of governmental benefits related to [Batts’s] medical care.”

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In one of the less traditional three point attempts, Russ Westbrook showed that he will pretty do much whatever he wants on the court, whenever he wants. Check out the below video of Russ launching a shot from just inside of half-court, with 18 seconds left on the shot clock and 2:30 left in the 3rd. We understand what Russ was thinking, draw a quick three free throws, but unless you are sure it will happen it is ridiculous to shoot that. I’m sure Russ saw something on the game tape or first half which he thought he could exploit, but we are fairly sure that Scott Brooks will also have something to exploit when watching this game’s tape.
In the battle for the best record in the west, the San Antonio Spurs trumps the Oklahoma City Thunder for the second time this season. After being down 10 in the first quarter, the Spurs would surge back to outscore the Thunder 83 to 61 in the rest of the game. The final tally had the Spurs winning 105-93.


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Fueled by automation, the adoption of DevOps processes and more, the role of the developer has become increasingly important and widespread for enterprises going through digital transformation. Developers need access to privileged credentials in order to access key developer tools like Kubernetes or Jenkins admin console. These credentials can be saved locally, making developers’ workstations — whether they are Macs or PCs — high-value targets for hackers.
These workstations are often vulnerable to something as simple as a phishing email, which attackers can use as an entry point to get access to the developer’s credentials. Because of these vulnerabilities, developers’ workstations are extremely important to secure. However, developers are famous for prizing speed above all else — and seeing security as little more than a speed bump. So how to ensure that developers take security seriously?
Securing privileged access through the principle of least privilege needs to be a top security priority. It is no secret that no-one should have full-time admin rights. But, what does that mean for developers?
Security teams face a difficult dilemma. They need to better secure developer workstations while still providing them the elevated permissions and privileges—and freedom—they need to get their job done. And they need to do all that without impacting velocity.
I recently encountered this comment on the Stackoverflow forum:
“There is almost no legitimate operational reason for restricting admin access to local PCs for staff that need it to do their job.”
Is that true?
Developers, DevOps and other engineers all perform administrative tasks as part of their job responsibilities, so they also have “full control” of their environment. Furthermore, because of the work developers do, there are extra challenges involved in hardening and restraining their workstations regardless of whether they are using Windows or macOS.
Developers install and uninstall software, drivers and system updates. They change operating system internals and use debugging programs on a regular basis. Without full control, developers often can’t do their jobs.
However, developers have access to source code, API keys and other shared secrets – usually more access than the standard user. Compromising a developer is a quick way for attackers to gain immediate elevated access to the most essential, mission-critical information an organization has. Consequently, developers have the kind of access that attackers want, which makes them the type of user who needs the highest levels of protection – whether they like it or not.
Want to take over a company or cause reputational damage quickly? Compromise a developer endpoint.
There are even specific types of attacks designed to target developers. For instance, “watering hole” attacks where cyber attackers will compromise common, popular developer web sites known to be good places to share code and get help troubleshooting programming issues. For example, four of the largest software developer companies in the world were compromised during a single cyber attack campaign that placed a zero-day Java exploit on an iOS developer web site.
Rights and Responsibilities
One way to deal with developers’ requests for full admin rights would be to provide them with virtual machines dedicated to programming, which could be perfectly patched and thoroughly hardened. This is doable with the right amount of monitoring and alerting, antimalware and IPS.
However, a workaround like this has a huge management overhead. It requires more budget, additional machines and another user to manage those machines. It’s not a comfortable situation for the IT team or the developer – and let’s not forget the cost of such a solution.
Additionally, while using their development tools, developers consume a lot of computer resources (e.g. generating millions of temporary files during code compilation). This leaves the security team with the job of ensuring that no significant performance impact occurs while implementing endpoint security products – not an easy task.
Conventional attempts to counter this typically require system administrators or security staff to perform manual inspections and craft security policies in response. As application complexity and development velocity increase, it becomes impractical to determine least privilege ahead of time manually. Furthermore, a central policy gatekeeper won’t scale efficiently and is likely to negatively impact delivery velocity.
Cutting the Gordian Knot
There has to be a better way to balance the needs of the developer with security concerns. Organizations need to be able to remove administrative privileges from developers without preventing them from doing their jobs, reducing velocity or overburdening security teams.
CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager can overcome these obstacles, allowing organizations to remove privileged credential rights on Windows workstations, servers and MacOS. It provides privileged access management (PAM), allowing enterprises to easily remove local Admin users – including developers. For instance, CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager can elevate specific applications used by the developer on a day-to-day basis or provide just-in-time user elevation for a specified time while recording and logging all user activity.
In addition, since developers may save credentials to their development environments, Endpoint Privilege Manager protects those repositories from credential theft while allowing trusted applications to use the credential stores.
Another key feature for the developers use-case is the out-of-the-box predefined policies for different developer tools like visual studio, Eclipse, Git and others.
Final Thought – The Developer Resistance
Each new security-driven restriction impacts the developer productivity throughout the entire software development process. Consequently, developers may fight the rules and restrictions necessary to maintain a strong security posture. What makes Endpoint Privilege Manager any different?
Endpoint Privilege Manager minimizes interference in the developer workflow. Developers – and other users – don’t need to go through the extra step of involving an administrator when they need access to certain applications. For a predefined, approved set of applications, users can seamlessly gain access through an automated process.
Furthermore, Endpoint Privilege Manager allows users to elevate privileges to access these approved applications while continuing to access other, unapproved applications as non-privileged users. This means that developers can continue to access the majority of the applications they use on a daily basis without having to slow down – without losing out on the benefits of application security.
Developers are like builders constructing a house on an empty lot. They need to be armed with the best tools to do their best work. If you give them old equipment, they will spend more time working around it than actually building. Endpoint Privilege Manager lets developers do what they do best – without interrupting their workflow with compliance and security requirements – so that they can write code faster.
Developers don’t need to be the last hold out for administrator rights within an organization. Learn how this is possible today.
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Gaps in software systems are slowing down security teams who are estimated to spend 10 hours a week dealing with the inefficiencies.
More a third of IT decision-makers estimated that their security staff spent at least three hours daily on tasks that otherwise could have been handled by better software, revealed a study commissioned by LogRhythm. Conducted by Widmeyer, the study polled 751 respondents from Asia-Pacific, the US, and UK.
The majority believed a security administrator, on average, spent up to 10 hours a week dealing with the lack of software capabilities.
And yet, in Asia-Pacific, 56 percent of IT decision-makers said they depended on software to help them prioritise cybersecurity threats.
This reliance would be increasingly important since 88 percent across the global sample regarded insider threats as a growing concern in their ability to safeguard the organisation.
“The proliferation and innovation of business-enabling technology, combined with the speed of today’s advanced hackers to adopt and adapt to the latest technology, is making it increasingly difficult–if not impossible–for security teams to evolve their rapid threat detection and response capabilities as quickly as their adversaries,” said James Carder, LogRhythm Labs’ chief information security officer and vice president.
The security vendor touts the merits of artificial intelligence (AI) in dealing with this evolving landscape. It noted, however, that less than half of the survey respondents currently used AI to fight cyberthreats.
According to Gartner, AI would help businesses regain 6.2 billion hours in employee productivity by 2021, generating US$2.9 trillion in business value.
The research firm’s research vice president Mike Rollings said: “AI can take on repetitive and mundane tasks, freeing up humans for other activities, but the symbiosis of humans with AI will be more nuanced and will require reinvestment and reinvention instead of simply automating existing practices.
“Rather than have a machine replicating the steps that a human performs to reach a particular judgment, the entire decision process can be refactored to use the relative strengths and weaknesses of both machine and human to maximise value generation and redistribute decision making to increase agility,” Rollings said.
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Around the walls of the Georgia State Capitol are portraits of former state governors. One of the best known of all the governors of the state was number 76, Jimmy Carter, who was the democratic governor from 1971 until 1975. He was the 39th President of the United States, and the only governor from Georgia to go on to hold that role.
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We are on a helicopter tour that took us over the vent of the Kilauea Volcano System to view the volcanic activity. This is a view of the lava streaming directly into the ocean. The tour continues over the homes that were in the path of the latest lava flow from January. People are already building homes back in this area… Hilo, Hawaii USA
This is a photo of the steam as the lava flows into the ocean….
A long distance photo of the width of the path that the lava took….