no ai generated content will ever compare to the absolutely cartoonishly evil plot to cut down trees to prevent workers from striking to get livable wage.

Random Personal Rant

For anyone somehow here not from the original thread, this started off me getting asked what finishing school is and me getting shit off my chest that is only mildly relevant about how I could both be of the social class that gets sent to finishing school and grows up on welfare.

With an understanding that in many parts of the world it wouldn't qualify as so, as far as the US goes, my dad is from what counts as a very old money family from Baltimore & Philadelphia. Both his siblings went to college and one now owns a major hedge fund, and his sister is married to a C-level executive at a huge conglomerate. His parents went to college. His grandparents went to college. All eight of his great grandparents went to college. My dad...did not go to college. He was not about that life, and while I don't mean it as an insult, when I say his primary occupation until I was ~5 was a drummer in a mediocre band I mean that he opened for a lot of great acts, and if you lived in the Boston to Atlanta area in the 80s you may have heard him play, but he was never a huge national name. But he wasn't an amateur band playing for free at some random local gig either.

My mom grew up on a chicken farm in a Mennonite family in Pennsylvania but also completely rejected her heritage and became a model, sort of like my father, of mediocre status. Not Giselle Bundchen, but had national contracts and if you have a Graco ad/box from 1990-1993 you might see both me and her on it. They met because my mom's friends placed bets, one each, on who could sleep with a member of their favorite local band first and my mom picked my dad and...my mom was actually supposed to go be a model in Tokyo and found out she was pregnant with me and couldn't go 😂

So, after my parents had two kids back to back with a third on the way and determined they needed lifestyles more in line with having three children, they became much poorer than they originally were because my mom stopped working and my dad, with a barely-passed-high-school education but needing a true "day job" worked day labor in construction. My dad's father was too proud to give us money/help if my dad didn't beg for it; despite having eventually four young children my dad never did so we ended up on all the state assistance programs one could imagine. My grandma jokes that dinners at my parents house were BYOC - bring your own chair, because we didn't own any.

My mother and paternal grandmother had no such pride issues and I live in eternal gratitude that my welfare childhood was not as crappy as it should have been because my grandmother would have my mom accompany her on grocery runs and buy us food without my father or grandfather knowing, and every Christmas and birthday my grandparents/godparents could give us the one big ticket gift all the kids wanted that year. But, on the other side, I once got stung by a bee inside my mouth because my brother threw a hairbrush through a cracked window at me and broke it and we couldn't afford to fix it for about two years and a hornet got in one day and rested himself in my coke can (my parents were the very American type that fed me coca-cola in baby bottles at age 8 when I was jealous of my younger siblings lol).

It is hard not to believe in "toxic masculinity" when two men warring over dumbass pride issues would rather their children/grandchildren go without food than suck it up and decide 'help' isn't the worst word in the English language, and you know you've only been saved by two women who came from totally different backgrounds and entirely disapproved of each other but reached out the hand to shake when it came down to toddlers getting the short end of the don't-bend-the-knee stick. It wasn't that either of the men were bad people, I loved them both and got along great with both, but on a societal level I feel they were socialized in a very fucked up way if that was the end result, as both claimed "male pride" in these instances [my dad took multiple thousands of dollars I'd saved from working during college from me during the 2008-2010 financial crisis and didn't tell me and that was the reason I was given for why I hadn't been informed/asked, because it would be too emotionally difficult for an adult man to ask a young woman. My graduation present was them repaying me 1/3 of the money they'd taken from me without asking because I'd like, trusted them when it had been in a joint account that was a holdover from when I was <18 and couldn't have my own bank account].

While in some ways my parents on the surface achieved the American dream of going from nothing to a bunch of money, the real factor in play was that my dad's father was the bank. My parents had no credit and couldn't get real loans. My dad worked construction and during the two major periods that flipping houses was very lucrative, he never had to get an actual loan or pay actual interest, he just had to ask his father to pay out cash and then repay him at a flat 2% interest rate that didn't even accrue over time, just...whenever you are ready, repay the value of the loan + 2%. Because my father was doing something productive, in these instances, my grandfather was happy to pay, because it wasn't giving away money, it was loaning it. I had a very weird situation of mostly being poor but like also getting taken to the "big donors" events at the Kennedy Center and my grandparents regularly buying me a dress as a child worth more than my mom's wedding dress and also needing to pretend I fit in with these people.

And look. When I say "these people"...honestly, by and large, most wealthy people, whether inherited or not, are not the assholes you want to imagine. Most of them are extremely nice. Most of them are generous when it comes to the less fortunate who are in their personal sphere of being. Most of them are just really out of touch. The 100% kindest of all of them that I know once relayed to me that she thought people would be happier if once a year they did what she did...go to the airport with a purse packed full of absolute necessities, buy a one way ticket to the most appealing destination on the flight board, buy your clothes and book your accommodations after you'd arrived, and come back after you felt you'd 'centered' yourself. She didn't understand why there were so many unhappy people who weren't taking this very obvious route to being happier. I didn't quite know how to explain that saying "most" people couldn't afford to do that either financially or from a job/career angle didn't even cover it, as "most" sounds like 70% instead of 99.7%.

I was both my parents eldest son and eldest daughter in the worst combination possible. I was the eldest son because I was the most stereotypically male of all my siblings, in everything from desire to physically fight the battles I was given to dislike of shopping/fashion to lack of emotional connection to my relationships, so I can now fix your average household plumbing/drywall/electrical issue better than most "city" guys I interact with and remain less clingy to them in the process. I was also very much the oldest daughter from a responsibility perspective, I managed our household and from age 10 - 24 managed the finances of our family business, my mom almost died giving birth to my youngest brother after a ruptured uterus that should never have happened in the first place if we had adequate insurance to get her a non-emergency C-section (I was just past 9 years old at the time) and I was informally withdrawn from school for two years to take care of the family when she couldn't because there is no paid parental leave in the US and we got double-fucked by the medical industry because she got a bad "mesh" put in and then had to have a further surgery to repair that which we also had to pay for and didn't have the money to win a lawsuit over.

I don't know quite how to put this, but in the deepest fuck you of the universe, my rich-immigrant-ggggg grandfather's money led to him owning banks, insurance companies, etc, and the family cashed out in a big way when their ownership was bought by and merged with what is now Cigna, one of the biggest US healthcare insurers, and my nuclear family specifically got screwed by the American health insurance industry, but anyway, we were the people selected for that karmic comeuppance so if you want to feel schadenfreude at my expense, I'll allow it without begrudging the sentiment, my family might have fucked up your family’s life too, not just their own.

I got up twice a night to feed my brother because my dad had to sleep unmolested in my room to get to work and my mom was too weak to carry my brother or even hold him against her while she nursed so I had to hold him up to her. Adjusting to living in a city and hearing lots of random noises all the time was not easy when I'd had mom sound instincts from age 9.

I learned to drive the fall my youngest bro was born because my mom couldn't and I had to get my middle brother to preschool and go the grocery store on my own. While I hold absolutely no ill will towards my father or grandfather for this and given that about 1/3 of my paternal family either has an autism diagnosis or should, I fully feel the struggles they both went through to be communicated with, my father wouldn't ask for help, and my grandmother that lived 20 minutes away couldn't give enough help because my grandfather refused to do a single dish on his own as that was outside their "marriage contract" type agreement and she couldn't ever stay with us overnight when there wasn't a clearly-communicated need, so they let the burden fall on a 9 - 11 year old child and that really shaped a lot of my life in both good and bad ways. My youngest brother is 22, and we have only just climbed out of the medical debt his birth left us with between my dad's life insurance and my oldest brother and I paying for the extra cost of out-of-state college tuition.

The irony of all of this is that because my father died before his father, when my grandmother dies, my siblings and I will all inherit enough money (as a non-blood relative my mom, despite keeping her vows to part at death and not having remarried in eight years, is cut out entirely) to make this a non-issue, but my grandfather couldn't conscience spotting his unluckiest child some money in the end of days to pay for my youngest two brothers' education and take that worry off my father as he was dying. The day before he died I had to hold him down in bed to keep him from trying to climb in his truck to go to work because he was so anxious about trying to provide for us in spite of his father having fuck you money, because his father didn't think it was fair to the other siblings (who, at the time, still owned a major hedge fund and were married to a C-level executive of a huge conglomerate). A day and a half later I went back to my job because at the time I was then the sole provider for the family and didn't want to risk asking for the standard week's bereavement leave when I knew I was capable of showing up at work the next day and was fresh out of college so hadn't built up a reputation yet.

My father worked the day each of us was born, so I suppose it is only fair and he smiled at the choice. In spite of what it may seem, I gave a baller and very heartfelt speech at his funeral to all his rich friends that over and above everything, he'd taught us how to be happy with our own lives no matter what, and multiple of them emailed my mom in the aftermath to say they'd reassessed their relationship with their children in light of it, although...tbh I kind of doubt that lasted and they probably changed nothing 😅. The last good talk I had with him, two weeks before he died [his liver was going and it sent toxins to his brain that de-personed him after that and he no longer recognized me as his daughter, but as his sister], I reassured him that though we would all be sad he'd gone, we'd live on just fine without him because that's how he'd raised us, and according to my mom that was what gave him the final bit of peace he needed. Although honestly, I don't think I will ever see the strength in another human again that it took my grandmother to sit next to him and stroke his hand and tell him to close his eyes and imagine he was happy on a beach and die, for God's sake, because he was unaware and in pain and just prolonging it for our sake by then.

That type of obsession my grandfather had with assessing his children and grandchildren on the basis of economic productivity and a very black and white idea of "fair" is one you don't easily forget, I promise you. My hedge fund uncle is currently positioning himself to screw us out of our inheritance because of janky writing in the will and I'm doing my fuck all best to gain the wherewithal to go toe-to-toe with this cold motherfucker in court as the oldest and representative member of my happily much nicer and softer younger brothers who I want to remain that way not because I even care that much about the money, I know what bills affect your credit first and what you can put off paying and all of us have good enough career prospects to do our own thing, but just because I want to give the middle finger to a man that was a multi-millionaire and drew lines on his milk and orange juice bottles when I came over so he knew if I drank what my parents couldn't afford when I was approximately six. Anyway, ask me why I support major reforms in wealth taxation. I don't care who it goes to, just not that guy, you feel?

Having expendable income was very exciting for a bit after I started working but once I got to the hateable point of assessing my annual bonus and internally complaining that I'd spent the money I should have spent on a Sauternes cellar to drop five digits on bedset materials (to be fair they are drop dead gorgeous, very comfy and the factory pays a living wage for people to handmake the sheets/duvets/pillows to people in San Francisco, which is not cheap, so maybe I did more good than harm with that), I two seconds later nodded to myself and went "the government needs to confiscate more money from me". The narrative is always that the "undeserving" will use it for dumb things they don't need like iPhones or refrigerators...?...but like...I could also have gone to Bed Bath and Beyond and bought a very nice sheet/comforter set for at most a tenth of what I paid so am I really spending it responsibly either....?....who is going to get more joy out of this misspent money....?....not me, that is for sure, I probably would have had more fun going to BBB and laying on all the demo beds and buying something there.

My lifelong dream, which may become possible if/when I do have something of an inheritance, is to provide food security for one of the many towns in the US were most residents don't have it. It's the thing I remember the most distinctly over the years. I never could quite believe it when I got to the point that I could just...pay to eat at a restaurant. One of the most disappointed my mother has ever been in me is when I was twenty five and confessed I actually had no idea how much a gallon of milk cost in a city grocery store besides that it was probably between $1 and $5, because I didn't have to know. For now I make a weekly drop off of my excess produce to a mom group I met under somewhat weird circumstances but I was walking through the cut-through that went through the low-income housing back to my apartment at like 2 AM on a Saturday and these moms were out there partying and smoking weed with their kids all strapped in strollers around or the older ones watched by a rotating member of the group and I felt very safe and like these moms had a very good vibe of both living their own lives [seriously for mental health parents but in most cases specifically mothers need to be able to keep up relationships with people their age] but keeping their children safe and accounted for while doing so and trying their fuckin' best against all the odds to figure out how to make that happen when life had dealt them a shit hand.

...anyway, looping way back to the original question of what finishing school is, when I was almost done with middle school my dad had built a legit construction business that then very quickly took off because we lived in a commutable zip code to the now-rich-in-their-own-right people he went to high school with who trusted him to redo their homes. We eventually moved to that zip code but I stayed and commuted back to my old high school. But, i was a pretty wild kid which my father appreciated for a long while because I would follow him around on jobs and enjoy doing physical labor, but once I was mid-puberty and also he had to maybe show me to his high school friends that did not fly.

I snapped - not broke, snapped - my left thumb and my parents had to trap me like a wild animal to get me to go the hospital. Then I got a deep cut that partially injured a tendon in my leg and at eleven I tried to beat the shit out of my dad to prevent him from picking me up to strap me in the car and go to the hopsital. Next I got a deep splinter due to my eternal-barefoot tendencies and it wouldn't come out so got infected and I refused to go to the doctor [another weird back story but I was minorly sexually assaulted [[to be clear, not raped or anything big traumatic]] when I was eight and had to stay in hospital for a week and my parents couldn't be with me all the time so I have a permanent heebie-jeebie about going to the hospital, not true anxiety, I will go if I know I need to and I don't breathe heavy or anything, and I'm actually not permanently weirded out by sex or anything, just doctors in hospitals specifically I kind of unconsciously try to justify not needing to the extent I can rationalize it] and my dad was tired of my antics so he was like "fine if you don't go I will slice your foot in half with a Swiss Army knife to get it out" and I called his bluff and laid down on the floor, stuck my foot on his lap, and he didn't really know what to do when a barely fourteen year old girl called his bluff so my brothers watched in fascinated but horrified awe as I got my foot sliced open spectacularly so that the infection/splinter could come out and I didn't even make a sound out of spite despite it being quite painful to my recollection almost twenty years later.

They saw me cry from pain exactly one time when while trying to break up a fight between all three of them (it was over ice cream) I got pushed and my ankle got dislocated and what actually made me cry was snapping it back in place and they realized it was not a joke. These dumb assholes that I love have ragged on me for "skipping" chores the day after I was in the hospital because the day before that I had to spend 18 hours running Thanksgiving as a good sub-hostess like I didn't have a serious infection that needed treating and couldn't rest because none of them were up to any task beyond peeling potatoes.

After the Swiss Army knife incident, my dad's discussion of sending me to finishing school became real, which I knew when my mom made me take a walk with her and talked about it. Finishing school is like...etiquette school....? In ye olden day when finishing high school was not the norm for anyone, wealthy men finished high school and wealthy women often went to "finishing" school to have a combined education on being a proper lady but also being able to hold a decent conversation with your presumably-educated husband, so it wasn't entirely etiquette non-academic. It was more just like "what a rich man wants in a wife" school, which was sort of household management and knowing enough about cleaning/cooking to correct the staff if they fucked up, how to be a polite hostess, and how to not entirely bore him when you were alone together and had done your five minutes of sex or whatever so actually had to have a conversation. In modern times it has obviously expanded to be less bleak.

I said miss me with that, I can be a girl on my own, so I went full throttle into the girliest sport they offer in high school and ever since have gained the inestimable advantage of knowing how to also use femininity to my advantage, which I am very grateful to my parents for making me learn. It would be great if we lived in a world where that didn't count, but it did/still does, and they really set me up to operate in all the worlds.

It is weird for me to tell the story to Internet strangers because it's one of those things that makes your parents sound terrible and abusive in the general tone of the Internet nowadays, and while I support gender nonconforming children I don't remember my childhood or parents that way. But, I feel like the bits and pieces of my life I've given don't always make a ton of sense together without the context, so here it is, and in the end, I think a number of parts of it are areas where you can probably understand where it makes me have the opinions I do when I write.

Anyhoo, this makes my life sound far worse than it is, I actually have a great life and I am not unhappy with it at all and feel I was on the whole blessed with many more turns of luck than unluck, so, please, do not take this as a depressed artist rant, it is more like a rant of a very energetic person who rants about a lot of things all the time and didn’t need to come out but just did because the question was asked and the time was right with my life being in a bit of flux to think about how I got where I am and where I want to go and why.

Always remember no matter what problems it seems like I have, if I didn’t solve them on my 2 year round the world traveling hiatus I took from working, it’s my own fault, I definitely had the time and money to solve them and just chose not to.

american standard insurance company georgia

BEST ANSWER: Try this site where you can compare quotes from different companies :insurancebestrates.top

american standard insurance company georgia

american standard insurance company georgia. This information is designed to help you with your decision-making, and it is not intended to provide advice. Contact a local independent agent in the Trusted Choice network today for assistance concerning the insurance options that are available to you. We work with a large network of highly regarded Insurance Companies and many of the top rated insurance companies throughout the United States. At Braintree Insurance Agency, we are dedicated to providing a friendly and caring client.  We are an independent agency licensed to sell insurance anywhere in the state of Texas. We represent a variety of insurance providers in every corner. And we know what we… The first customer to accept your application for health insurance in the United States, we’ve got an idea about what we can offer in terms of coverage that meets your specific needs.  Whether you plan around a new medical requirement or need lower-cost health insurance, we believe in helping you find the right choice of policy for your needs.  We ve been in the insurance industry. american standard insurance company georgia insurance, is also a strong, reputable company when it comes to car insurance, and it has an excellent reputation in the industry, according to . It rated the following companies on their Exceptional rating in the J.D. Power 2019 U.S. Auto Insurance Study. Georgia is a subsidiary of American Family, one of the largest insurance companies in the U.S. Georgia’s customer service was smooth, attentive and excellent . However, the company does not offer any other insurance products or services. When shopping across insurance companies, it’s wise to work with an insurance agent to ensure you get the best coverage at the best price. With Georgia’s standard insurance products, you can choose between full coverage, basic coverage, and coverage that protects everything from your car to your property. We evaluated Georgia insurance to see if it is a great option for you as a car insurance customer and if it�. american standard insurance company georgia insurance was very helpful, especially without any issues there was minimal problems and good prices there was not any problem with the policy. My daughter was driving my car and the manager was very professional and made the situation easy. We had to find something to cover in the event that we had the car of another family member who was also at the time a driver of our vehicle. This situation is not a good way to solve an expensive claim. In some cases we are not able to locate someone to talk to and we will get in your way! The policy offered and rates are just more proof you have been to an expensive car insurance company and would prefer to stick with a cheaper insurance company. I would very highly recommend this company to anyone looking for cheap insurance for any type of vehicle. You will have to buy quotes from many different companies to compare the benefits. There is absolutely no reason not to look for cheap car insurance if you know what kind and what kind of car the owner was driving. You.

Property Insurance

Property Insurance will not provide coverage on a property you damage in this manner. You will get more money from your insurance company for paying out to repair a property or personal property that was damaged. If you rent a house, property that is damaged due to fire or theft and that has had a roof or interior features like glass walls and cabinets, this property insurance will cover more for this scenario, which can be costly. What happens to the personal property that you may destroy or damaged in a fire and its loss, and the insurance company’s coverage if you’re sued because of it? Your insurance protects your home and some of your personal belongings. But, how much your home or items are valued and how long after the loss comes to an end do you own it? That’s how you’re covered if a fire goes your way. If an insurance company decides to step in to take down your home and belongings in a flood, the amount that your home and personal belongings are.

Email American Standard Insurance Agency,Inc

Email American Standard Insurance Agency,Inc. If you don’t have a vehicle and don’t drive very much, then you will need to add a rider to your plan. Depending on your state, you might be able to save up to $700 extra per year by opting for a comprehensive or collision deductible. For coverage purposes, you should have a car of the same make and model to qualify for coverage. However, you might only save up to $200/year if you add the second rider on the insurer’s plan to your policy in their absence. If you will want to buy a cheaper vehicle you would consider another car before deciding to get the cheapest possible car insurance quote. But keep in mind the following information about the lowest possible rates: The cost of car insurance is higher than it used to be because of accidents and damage caused by other vehicles. Fortunately, insurers can set rates relatively low to avoid having to pay out. To help you stay under your car insurance carrier’s table, we.

After the Mayan Genocide

NO.1

 The disadvantages the Maya people face, during post-war Guatemala, are great. The issues of development and poverty in rural Mayan areas. They face a neo-liberal economy, where they are put into a situation where they have little to no power to control the conditions of their lives. The result is an acceptance of a condition where they cannot thrive. Guatemala, unfortunately, is a poor country where the poverty rate is 44-80%, because of unequal land and income distribution. A neo-liberal economy focuses mainly on the reduction of the government as a major employer, reduction of social safety nets, and the free market (laissez-faire) ideal. This will strengthen the economy by promoting business and bring money into the country through exporting.

    The supermarkets or groceries the Maya cater to influences what consumers desire, which can be personal desire, health, and making ends meet. But it is limited by what is available, giving ‘at least’ statements. ‘At least I can afford it; At least it is healthy’, etc. Those limit points are expressed, but they are rarely questioned or challenged. Mayan farmworkers grow broccoli independently, where you sometimes can get ripped off, you are asked to ‘hold product’, and sometimes you make ‘too much money.’ 15% of the broccoli is not purchased, so they take it back because it is a taboo, or (xajan) to waste food, but do not eat it. Non-traditional crops are grown in a non-traditional way, but all for a larger global market, for cash, not a substance or to cement social ties. There are also, health concerns as they use chemicals such as pesticides and fertilizers. Most of the Mayan farmers understand the risks of exploration, cultural loss, and moral problems, such as the gossip you will receive from your neighbors, which is frowned upon. Most of the limit points here will be, ‘’At least we can still be farmers’, we can avoid wage labor or maquiladora work, we can still be family together, we can work the land and preserve some tradition, and we can grow our milpa as well as a cash crop.’’

NO.2

     Limit points are ‘at least’ statements that help us understand Mayan desires in a cultural setting, and that limit your desire or make your complacent to your position, and rely heavily on moral values. It is a balance between desires and capacity and helps us understand why the Mayan people would accept this work and helps us understand that their acceptance is not without hesitation. The limit points women most face is being hired by (Maquiladoras), or sweatshops that are owned by South Korean companies, are global divisions of labor that allow U.S cheap goods while U.S corporations to make money on designing and selling the goods, while South Korea benefits as a ‘middleman’. They import and export the pieces and assembled goods, all while under contract for U.S corporations.

    The maquiladoras will hire young female workers from rural areas under stressful and harsh working conditions, offer the workers pregnancy tests, give them limited time to talk to one another, and bathroom breaks, where often sexually assaulting them. Some at least statements or limit points will be at least it’s work and can make money; at least it’s not getting involved in gangs and prostitution; at least we are known for our good work, where we take pride in. By taking this work, and seeing their limit points, we can better understand how their culture works, as the escaping of gender roles, parental control, and access to free funds are something both American and Mayan young adults can sympathize with.

 NO. 3

The desires for better working conditions, higher pay, schools being built, and the helping of Mayan organizing in politics are present in every factory worker. A man names Alberto Simon isn’t against the factory per se, nor against capitalism or market economy but can see the benefits of factories going outside the community since the factory is less desirable than growing broccoli. A market economy might be seen as a competition between the people, so the Maya resist that while still engaging in a global competition. The situation of neo-liberal economies results in a situation of constant compromise, where they must accept a culture, who shuns them and gives them little power. Again, the limit points are put into an area where we see a value system, like hegemony.

Hegemony is ‘manufactures consent’, where a particular political ideology becomes embedded into a cultural model so as to seem natural, acceptable, and desired. It is the economic, social, cultural, and ideological influence and control by a dominant group over a subordinate group. One example of hegemony would be post-war violence. On June 10, 2002, thousands protested a new tax-reform measured $3000 to $45,000, so a march on municipal buildings and the mayors house took place. The protest was met by a phalanx of police unable to speak to anyone or negotiate, and when ‘someone’ throws a rock and breaks a window, the police responded with tear gas, and the protestors set the mayor’s house on fire. Protesting against political corruption, or any type of protest whether police brutality, gun reform, or abortion rights that somehow always ends with either violence or harsh criticism towards change, and is another unfortunate thing America shares with Guatemala.

NO. 4

  But hegemony also ‘’constrains in advance the kinds of objects that can and do appear within the horizon’’ [Butler 2000] But it happens between people, where it is negotiated, agreed upon, and accepted on the basis of limit points. It is more or less, symbolic violence, ‘the violence which is exercised upon a social agent within his/her social and economic landscape.’ During Post-War Guatemala, El General Rios Montt believed he was God’s choice to be President. Before the war was classified as an act of genocide, he returned as the presidential candidate and was supported by the Mayan people since he offered to pay them for civil patrol work. In 2003, there was a Rabinal campaign and he was sent packing. The Peace Accords of 1994 stopped the massacres, which ended the war, but ever since there has been a rise in crimes, kidnappings, and robberies. There have been drops in coffee prices and a resurgence of right-wing political activity.

A new tax-structure has been re-written, and a large collection of taxes is a part of the Peace Accords, where it is meant to improve accountability and transparency. And who is the local administrator? A Montt supporter. Large protests happen to challenge this, and it ends violently, where someone sets the mayor’s house on fire, shoots at him, and burns down the municipal building. The gangs also did this. Again, it is a symbolic form of an answer meant to shift the violence away from the ‘pueblo’, and a means to diffuse the violence so that no one takes responsibility. A ‘container’ for less personal forms of violence and social suffering. One limit point understood here is, ‘at least the gangs gave the mayor something to think about.’ The limit points are created and meant for people to accept less than desirable conditions. This is how hegemony works and can be accepted and registered, and by thinking that, ‘at least the mayor was willing to meet with us’, we preserve hegemony for the June 10th Riot. The meeting itself becomes the desire, not the outcome.

The best single cup coffee machine in 2020

Best single cup coffee machine

After our 20 hr research, we have compared more than 40 product and different brand coffee maker machines .we have found Hamilton Beach the best single cup coffee machine. this coffee machine very user friendly and easy to use.

Enjoying coffee after a hectic day at the office can be refreshing, but most of the time enjoying premium coffee at home, it cannot be possible if you don’t have the perfect coffee maker at home. having coffee from a coffee shop can be unhealthy for both of your health and your pocket there are a lot of coffee makers in the market that can provide best quality coffee within seconds.

These are Best single cup coffee machine we tested and list in Order below:

Keurig K-Mini Coffee Maker

Hamilton Beach

smarter coffee 2nd generation

Behmor coffee maker

Ninja Hot and Cold Brewed System

keurig coffee maker

breville barista pro coffee maker

Gourmia Espresso Machine

Recommendations are chosen by Our Reviewed’s Team . Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission.

Best single cup coffee machine

Check Price At Amazon

Best single cup coffee machine: the Keurig K-Mini plus one of the smallest single serve machine that Keurig offered the Keurig k mini is an amazing little machine at less than five inches wide it is perfect for anyone looking to purchase a Keurig without having to commute to the footprint of a large machine this machine looks as sleek as it is slim featuring chrome accents against the matte black it catches the eye and looks very sophisticated the machine.

boasts a surplus of intelligent features such as a potholder fits perfectly into the brewer when it is not in use it is designed to be an exceptional travel companion power cord can chuck neatly inside the machine so that it can be easily stowed in luggage and taken on your next trip you can also carry a travel mug with this machine so that you can enjoy cup of coffee in your travel.

the Keurig K-Mini is only capable of proving one cup at a time but the single-cup water reservoir can hold between six and twelve ounces of water with clear markings on the side so you know how much coffee you’ll be making after you’ve finished brewing your cup of coffee this machine Compatible with the my k cup universal reusable filter coffee: Brew your own ground coffee

9.5EXPERT SCOREkeurig single cup coffee maker

the machine automatically shuts off so you don't have to worry about keeping it on is taken Lee the brewer features a strong brew for those looking to add even more prep to their morning routine overall the new Keurig K mini is an amazing choice for a new single-serving coffee maker especially if you are not a huge coffee drinker or plan on taking the Machine away when it is not in use having excellent reviews and ratings from the customers you can get the Keurig K-Mini at online

Design8Price9Usability6PROS

Best For Travel

Affordable price

Small Size

Easy To use

CONS

Only Serve 1 Cup

single-serving coffee makers

Hamilton beach coffee maker

Check Price At Amazon

Hamilton Beach is a trusted by all American company that has been making simple and reliable home appliances for many years if you are looking for a coffee machine that gives you a great tasting fresh and streaming brew with a minimum of fuss the Hamilton Beach 49976 coffee maker is the perfect choice freeze the control panel is very easy to understand and almost anybody will be able to use this machine.

This is a coffee maker that will appeal to people who don’t like things to be quick complicated you can set the Hamilton Beach coffee maker to start brewing by itself meaning you can have fresh hot coffee waiting for you when you drag yourself out of the bed.    

9EXPERT SCOREHamilton Beach 49976 FlexBrew Coffee Maker

The machine is made of plastic, and it's supplied with a glass carafe a that is large enough to hold up to 12 cups of coffee is kept hot on an adjustable hot plate the reservoir holds 40 ounces of water and it's removable making it easy to feel the unit also includes a rotating base making it easy to access the reserver even in small kitchen spaces if you are searching for a coffee maker that is easy to use then you should go for this Hamilton Beach coffee maker with good reviews and ratings online you can get this coffee maker at Online Market Place.

Design9.5Price9Usability9PROS

SINGLE-SERVE

BREWING FLEXIBILITY

SINGLE SERVE BREW TIME

CONS

ground coffee

Best coffee machine in 2020

Check Price At Amazon

Best single cup coffee machine : If you want a good cup of coffee but don’t want to put all the pieces together or spend $5.00 per cup at the local coffee house that’s where the smarter coffee 2nd generation comes on a connected coffee maker that features both Alexa and Google Assistant integration allowing you to start afresh pot from anywhere murder coffee allows you to have full control of your coffee maker remotely by using the smarter app .

smarter app available for download on any iOS and Android devices connect smarter coffee to Amazon Alexa and Google assistant enable devices or to a wide range of another smart home device through their I of triple T services use the smart app to start your day.

the right way with a fresh batch of coffee by setting alarms with wakeup mode why not sleep in longer as well smarter coffees hot plate keeps your brew warmer for up to 40 minutes ready .

when you are smarter coffee even knows when you stepped through the front door prompting you to start brewing a pot with huh mode set up your device takes just seconds with the all-new innovative blink of technology allowing simple and secure pairing to your multiple devices giving you the extra peace of mind.

9.8EXPERT SCORESmarter Coffee - 2nd Generation

Each smarter coffee comes with three interchangeable color panels black cream and red in order to suit your own kitchen decor smarter coffee can also be manually controlled on the front panel LCD screen with bean hopper on top and settings for pre-ground coffee as well the second generation smart coffee is ready to go at a moment's notice.If you are searching for a coffee maker who sinks your smart home or office then the smarter coffee maker will be a perfect choice for you with good reviews and ratings online this coffee maker is available at Amazon.com.

Design7Price8Usability8PROS

Easy to use

Smart Technology

Can you grind beans from the app

CONS

Flavor

Easy to clean

Best drip coffee makers

Check Price At Amazon

Best single cup coffee machine : If you are here because you are in search of a drip coffeemaker that can work like a pro and give you the ideal cup of coffee then you need to get your hands on the b more connected customize temperature control coffee maker the Beamer is a powerful machine that offers you full command over the coffee brewing controls you can brew your coffee beans according to your unique coffee preferences the way you want it’s a customize temperature control coffee maker with phone app and remote.

An operation that allows you to control breathing temperature pre-soak time and altitude for precision brewing the Beamer coffee maker allows you to set the temperature from 190 to 210 degree Fahrenheit according to the Specialty Coffee Association of America the recommended temperature for brewing coffee is between 195 to 205 degree Fahrenheit double walled stainless carafe maintains optimal coffee temperature and keeps coffee hot for hours.

the Boomer coffee maker saves all your directed settings in its permanent memory these calibrations remain saved until you decide to change a parameter the BMR connected temperature control

9.8EXPERT SCOREBehmor coffee maker

Behmor coffee maker is the first coffee machine certified by the Specialty Coffee Association of America if you are seriously interested into coffee roasting and brewing the app supported by more coffee maker may be the perfect choice for you with great reviews and ratings this coffee maker is available on Amazon.

Design9Price8.5Usability9PROS

Brews 8 Cups of Coffee

1° Temperature Control Accuracy

Good Price

Best For Home

CONS

Programmable Pre-Soak

Pulse Water Delivery

Not User Friendly

Best single cup coffee machine for personal use

Check Price At Amazon

Ninja best known for its Best blenders entered the coffee market with a homebrewer that promised to deliver a variety of coffee shop drinks in one package the ninja hot and cold brewing system might leave you wondering what else you could throw into a single brewer it provides multiple brewing styles from regular drip to cold-brew The Ninja Coffee Maker is best single cup coffee machine in 2020 .

it can also complete those different methods in a variety of sizes from a single-serve to full Karratha the ninja hot and cold-brewed can do all that with both coffee and tea from black to green and harbor too along with Auto IQ OneTouch intelligence technology.

8.5EXPERT SCORENinja hot and cold brew system

Ninja hot and cold brew system very easy to use so if you like different brew drinks from day to day or even at different times throughout the day this ninja model is a great option for you it also works well for families or households that have multiple coffee drinkers who have different preferences you can get this hot and cold brewed system at around 180 dollars online.

Versatility4.5Flavor4.74.7Easy to use4.74.7Durability4.74.7Blending power4.6Easy to clean4.6PROS

Good Flavor

Easy to use

Good Blending power

CONS

Difficult to clean

Versatility

Single cup coffee maker keurig

Check Price At Amazon

Kyrie’s line of coffee makers is likely the right choice for your kitchen for years.The company has been delivering easy to use machines that require as little work as possible to make a cup of coffee the Curie k elite single serve is a pod coffee maker.

Pod based Keurig coffee machine  making cup pod coffee with a strong brew button that does of the strength and taste of your coffees flavor, it also features a massive 75 ounce water reserver so you don’t need to refill the tank often and a strong brew feature for buyers who like your coffee bold.Removable drip tray: Accommodates Cup Sizes upto 7.2 inches tall and holds a full accidental brew for easy cleanup.

5EXPERT SCOREKeurig Coffee Maker

tray which can be easily extracted for a quick rub down to further improve your ability to maintain this Keurig it also notifies you when calcium has built up to the point that it's affecting the performance of the machine through regular maintenance you will be able to extend the catalyst life expectancy considerably finally the KO it also has a noise-canceling feature for a nice quiet proof if you are looking for a feature-packed coffeemaker that can provide premium quality coffee within seconds then the Keurig ka lead single serve coffee makers is the right choice for you with good reviews and ratings online this coffee maker is available at around 130 dollars on Amazon.

Easy to use4.74.7Flavor4.74.7Versatility4.74.7Easy to clean4.64.6Giftable4.64.6Durability4.54.5PROS

Works great

The design is more streamlined

CONS

The Elite is smaller

Overall decent machine

Best single cup coffee machine

Check Price At Amazon

Enjoy coffee shop like coffee at home with Breville barista Pro a professional grade coffee maker that is built to provide premium quality coffee in an instance it comes it an innovative thermal jet heating system that can achieve the optimum extraction temperature in three seconds with the instant transition from espresso to steam ready to make your best coffee without the waiting.

the barista Pro comes with a razor precision no screaming tool that lets you precisely level and measures coffee grounds for brewing it features a 2 liter water tank with 1/2 pound bean hopper that lets you enjoy coffee for the whole day.

8 Strength Settings in Breville barista Pro  Choose from 8 strength settings or choose Pre Ground coffee option to brew coffee just the way you like it and bean hopper capacity is 1/2 pound of Coffee bean capacity with locking system for easy removal, storage and transfer

brew strength in this Coffee Machine: Single cup with variable size options or upto a 12 cup carafe; Dimensions:9 inch (W) X 14 inch (D) X 16 & ¼ inch (H); 1/2 pounds of Coffee bean capacity with locking system for easy removal, storage and transfer.

4.9EXPERT SCOREbreville barista pro coffee maker

The barista Pro has an LCD display that shows grinding and extracting progress animation the screen provides you all the precise information you need to make coffee exactly the way you like it over time if you are looking for a professional coffee maker that can provide your premium quality whenever you want then the Breville barista Pro is the right choice for you with amazing reviews and ratings from the customers you can get the Breville barista Pro Available on Amazon.

Flavor4.24.2Blending power4.14.1Material quality4.04.0Versatility3.73.7Easy to clean3.43.4Durability3.43.4PROS

Brews hot coffee at 200 degrees as required by specialty coffee associations (I measured it to be at 183 degrees after brewing in the carafe which I DID NOT preheat which is well within the ideal serving temperature of 175-190 degrees.

-Thermal carafe keeps coffee hot for about 3 hours and quite warm for about 6 - no scorching from a heating element.

-Can brew a single cup or up to 12 cups in the carafe.

-Adjustable grind size for optimal flavour.

-Adjustable strength settings if you like it weak or wildly strong.

-Large capacity, 1/2 pound bean hopper.

-Grinder is at least 50% more quiet than the previous YouBrew model.

-Easy to use USEFUL LCD panel.

-Nice, sleek, modern appearance.

-Simple to clean, remove and wash the brew basket (and included gold tone filter if used). Also, wipe down the bean chute/stopper disc every week or so.

-Beans are ground immediately prior to brewing resulting in the best possible flavour and aroma.

CONS

-A bit slow to steep on the single cup mode as opposed to carafe (about 6 minutes for all the sizes) but well worth it. It's no slower than a regular drip machine would be to brew the same amount of coffee. I'm not even sure I'd call this a con.

I highly recommend this machine to anyone who enjoys a great, full-bodied hot cup of coffee with minimal work required to get there.

Best espresso coffee maker

Check Price At Amazom

Gourmia is one of the industry leaders in home appliances more specifically in the kitchen the Gourmia GCM 5100 is a stylish and fully versatile single serve brewing system manufactured by Gourmia while any single serve brewing systems specialize in espresso or coffee, the Gourmia GCM 5100 is designed to prove both coffee and espresso this machine is also capable of brewing any form of single serve coffee choose between k-cups espresso pods or any other variety of single serve coffee capsules Gourmia GCM 5100 best for coffee drinkers .

4.4EXPERT SCOREGourmia Espresso Machine

the Gourmia GCM 5100 comes with an automatic milk frother this enables you to enjoy your favorite latte or cappuccino in the comfort of your own home it comes it an LCD display that helps you to make programming quick and easy simply choose the size and temperature of your beverage insert the capsule of your choice and you are ready to go if you are looking for a reliable elegant easy to use brewing system then the Gourmia GCM 5100 is a model you will want to consider with good reviews and ratings online this coffee maker is available at Amazon

Easy to clean4.44.4Easy to use4.04.0Versatility3.83.8Flavor3.73.7Blending power3.73.7Value for money3.53.5PROS

Easy to clean

Easy to use

Versatility

CONS

Flavor

Blending power

Value for money

an automated coffee maker is the most important addition to any kitchen for coffee lovers that’s why you should have Hamilton Beach Scoop at home and enjoy premium quality coffee at home with Hamilton Beach Scoop you can Check other Coffee Maker machine like Sboly Single Serve Coffee Maker and Chefman InstaCoffee Single Serve Coffee Maker different types of beverages which includes espresso cappuccino coffee latte Machado and america.

you can also get only hot water from it if needed it can provide your silky smooth milk fraud thanks to high-speed logical system the logical makes its milk and air at high speed in the round floating chamber then adds a splash free creamy layer of milk froth to your cup at just the right temperature

its durable ceramic grinders can be adjusted in 12 steps so that you can turn your beans into anything from ultrafine powder to coarse grindings within seconds the latigo can provide perfect aroma and crema Cup after cup regularly.

Kepler’s decision to build its own cubesats surprises manufacturers

https://sciencespies.com/space/keplers-decision-to-build-its-own-cubesats-surprises-manufacturers/

Kepler’s decision to build its own cubesats surprises manufacturers

Planet felt like it didn’t have a choice. When the Earth-observation startup began launching cameras into orbit in 2013 and 2014, manufacturing lines weren’t churning out cubesats by the dozens.

That’s no longer the case. Blue Canyon Technologies, AAC Clyde Space, GomSpace, NanoAvionics, Tyvak and several others are ready and willing to build cubesats en masse. So it came as a surprise to many cubesat manufacturers when Kepler Communications announced plans in January to manufacture its constellation of 140 Internet of Things satellites in-house.

Kepler is poised to become one of the world’s largest cubesat operators once its constellation is fully in orbit, a target set for the end of 2022. Only Planet currently operates a fleet that large.

Instead of formally soliciting bids from a wide range of cubesat builders, though, Toronto-based Kepler turned to the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) for help setting up its own manufacturing line. Kepler also received 1 million Canadian dollars ($760,000) from the Canadian Space Agency to mature its bus design and production techniques, leading some observers to conclude national pride could play a role. Through Kepler, Canada is establishing a robust cubesat manufacturing capability.

Exhibit A

As startups announced plans for cubesat constellations in recent years, companies expanded manufacturing lines to meet the demand. Denmark’s GomSpace scaled up manufacturing to fulfill a large order from Sky and Space Global that was suspended last year when the Australian Internet of Things startup struggled to raise enough money for a 200-cubesat constellation.

Blue Canyon Technologies is preparing to open a manufacturing plant this spring capable of producing multiple cubesats per week, according to CEO George Stafford.

Cubesat builders, such as Blue Canyon Technologies, say they are ready for bulk orders — if they ever materialize. Credit: Blue Canyon Technologies

Stafford and GomSpace CEO Niels Buus said both their companies have the capacity to build a Kepler-sized constellation. Even manufacturers that lack the means to build 140 or more satellites today could quickly scale up to churn out batches of identical satellites if given the chance, said Arnoldas Pečiukevičius, a systems engineer at NanoAvionics of Lithuania.

In spite of all that capacity, manufacturers aren’t getting the chance to bid on large orders of identical cubesats. Companies continue to order cubesats in ones and twos, said Craig Clark, AAC Clyde Space founder and chief strategy officer. If someone said to a cubesat builder, “can you build 100 satellites like the one you just did, they would bite their hand off to do it,” Clark said at the SmallSat Symposium in Mountain View, California, earlier this month. “But they’re not being given a chance to do it.”

Clark wasn’t talking specifically about the Kepler order but the market in general. Nevertheless, Kepler’s decision can be viewed as Exhibit A. AAC Clyde looked like the obvious choice for Kepler’s constellation because the firm, based in Glasgow, built three prototypes for Kepler’s. When it came time to bid on the full constellation, though, AAC Clyde couldn’t offer the right mix of “price, schedule and technology” for the constellation, said CEO Luis Gomes.

Manufacturers worry cubesat constellation operators have unrealistic price targets.

“Cost is only one variable,” Stafford said. “We encourage the idea that affordability, speed to market and on-orbit performance must all work together to achieve success.”

Due in part to the lack of volume orders, cubesat prices are closer to those of $400,000 performance cars than of $1,000 smartphones, Clark said. Even at those prices, manufacturer net profits tend to fall in the range of 5-10%, he said.

In the long run, some constellation operators may spend more to produce their own cubesats than to buy them from a dedicated manufacturer, said GomSpace’s Buus, since dedicated manufacturers can achieve higher volume production. “If you need 100 satellites a year, it will always be less expensive to build 1,000 satellites a year,” he added.

Pumpkin President Andrew Kalman said his company is not the right fit for cubesat buyers looking for the cheapest components.

“The industry is in a period of substantial influx of capital, looking for investment vehicles, and NewSpace companies are making convincing pitches to secure big money,” he said. “Because of the frenetic pace, I suspect objective assessment of quality, real lead times, design flexibility and design headroom, and a variety of other design, manufacturing and production metrics are sometimes lost in the excitement of dreaming about building the next big thing.”

NewSpace ethos

Kepler CEO Mina Mitry is confident, though, that vertical integration is the right approach for the firm’s Internet of Things constellation. Manufacturers aren’t ready to build Kepler’s constellation of 10-kilogram cubesats quickly, affordably and reliably enough, Mitry said.

Kepler evaluated around 10 potential manufacturers through a process that involved bids, on-site visits and technology reviews before deciding to build its cubesats in-house, Mitry said. “The evaluation criteria was price, performance and volume,” he said. “Finding that combination was quite challenging.”

Cubesat manufacturers who have invested in manufacturing facilities haven’t necessarily been handsomely rewarded, Mitry said. Without volume orders, they’ve stuck to their historical business models centering “around one-off contracting, subsystems manufacturing and that type of bespoke nature of development,” he added. “That hasn’t really allowed them to mature.”

Astrocast is building 100 satellites in-house (like the five shown here) to keep a closer check on cost, development cycles, testing, and other aspects of manufacturing, according to CEO Fabien Jordan. Credit: Astrocast

Mitry declined to name the manufacturers Kepler considered. GomSpace, Blue Canyon Technologies, Pumpkin and NanoAvionics said they were never contacted to bid on Kepler’s constellation.

SFL Director Robert Zee said Kepler’s approach is “typical of a NewSpace company,” which he defines as firms that provide services and manufacture their own satellites to keep costs low. SFL is designing and building the first cubesat in Kepler’s operational constellation and helping Kepler set up a facility to mass produce its remaining satellites. “The dimension that we bring is the experience, the heritage, the technology, [and] the high-performance satellites at low cost,” Zee said.

Kepler also is getting help from Canadian component supplier Sinclair Interplanetary, which granted Kepler a license to mass produce reaction wheels for its constellation.

To vertically integrate or not

Kepler’s case notwithstanding, some cubesat operators say they’ve struggled to find manufacturers to meet their needs.

Swiss startup Astrocast is building its 100-cubesat constellation in-house using 50 meters of lab space and five of its 40 employees, CEO Jordan Fabien said.

“Fully integrating our satellite production is the only solution we found to keep our development cycles as short as possible and make rapid and continuous design improvements,” he said.

In March, Astrocast will move into a new 350-square-meter facility to build as many as 30 satellites a year, he said.

Planet, with about 140 satellites in orbit, remains unconvinced dedicated manufacturers would serve it well.

“I’ve always said that if there are people who could build our satellites faster and cheaper than we could, we would absolutely prefer to buy those satellites from them and put our focus elsewhere,” Chester Gillmore, Planet vice president of spacecraft development and manufacturing, said in 2019 at an Aerospace Corp. event in Florida.

While Planet frequently updates its cubesats, it would prefer to outsource if a vendor could build its satellites without sacrificing Planet’s cost targets, service level or spacecraft quality.

“The industry would really have to advance to a high degree of maturity before that really becomes viable, but we would love that,” he said. “There is so much about what we’re doing that I would love not to have to do.”

In contrast, radio-frequency-mapping company HawkEye 360 and Internet of Things startup Kinéis chose to outsource their constellations, but not without difficulty.

“The bottleneck isn’t launch right now, frankly, it’s the manufacturing capacity here in the United States,” John Serafini, chief executive of HawkEye 360, said at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event in December. “American manufacturers of microsatellite buses [are] relatively paltry. Most of them are [research and development] type facilities. There aren’t many set up at scale.”

SFL is currently building HawkEye 360’s next 15 radio-frequency-mapping cubesats, which the Herndon, Virginia, firm expects to launch by the end of 2021.

Kinéis, which is based near Toulouse, France, chose bus supplier Hemeria and payload provider Thales Alenia Space to build 25 cubesats partly because of their local proximity. “They are about a 20-minutes drive from our headquarters,” CEO Alexandre Tisserant said. Plus, Hemeria and Thales Alenia Space have built earlier Argos location and data-collection hardware that is the basis for Kinéis’ constellation. Kinéis employees also have more experience with designing applications than building satellites, Tisserant said.

“Maybe on paper it would be economically more viable to do it by ourselves, but with the state of the knowledge and the people we can find and we have in the area of [Toulouse] France, I think this is definitely the best choice.” he added.

There is a healthy ecosystem for the new actors building one or two cubesats, said Chris Boshuizen, a Planet co-founder who now works as an operating partner for Data Collective, a San Francisco venture capital firm. “Multiple vendors have similar products with varying price levels and features,” he added. For new companies, “buying stuff is absolutely the right idea” because “it will get you started quickly.”

The calculation is different, though, for large constellation operators. They have to look at the cost of every component from radios and reaction wheels to thrusters and processors. If the constellation operator has the in-house expertise to build satellites with more capability at a lower cost than what it can buy, it makes sense to vertically integrate, Boshuizen said.

For now, cubesat manufacturing is “a healthy boutique market, not a thriving large-scale manufacturing industry,” Boshuizen said.

The question is how will it become a large-scale manufacturing industry unless companies place large orders.

This article originally appeared in the Feb. 24, 2020 issue of SpaceNews magazine.

#Space

Every year, I look for important themes in sustainability that will have lasting impact on society, from glaring evidence of global megatrends to inspiring stories of corporate action. The year 2018 brought extreme change — in weather and environmental ecosystems, in political winds and power, and in the expectations of business. It also brought incredible clarity about the scale of our challenges and opportunities.

So let’s start with the big picture before moving to some corporate success stories.

The world’s scientists sound a final alarm on climate

We have about 12 years left. That’s the clear message from a monumental studyfrom the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). To avoid some of the most devastating impacts of climate change, the world must slash carbon emissions by 45% by 2030, and completely decarbonize by 2050 (while, in the meantime, emissions are still rising).

The IPCC looked at the difference between the world “only” warming two degrees Celsius (3.8°F) — the agreed upon goal at global climate summits in Copenhagen and Paris — or holding warming to just 1.5 degrees. Even the latter, they say, will require a monumental effort “unprecedented in terms of scale.” We face serious problems either way, but every half degree matters a great deal in human, planetary, and economic losses.

It wasn’t just the IPCC that told a stark story. Thirteen U.S. government agencies issued the U.S. National Climate Assessment, which concluded that climate change could knock at least 10% off of GDP. Other studies tell us that sea level rise is going to be worse than we thought, Antarctica is melting three times faster than a decade ago, and Greenland is losing ice quickly as well. If both those ice sheets go, sea level rise could reach 200-plus feet, resulting in utter devastation, including the loss of the entire Atlantic seaboard (Boston, New York, D.C., etc.), all of Florida, London, Stockholm, Denmark, Uruguay and Paraguay, and land now inhabited by more than 1 billion Asians.

All of this suggests that business must dramatically change how it operates: companies will need to push well past their comfort zones from areas like politics and policy to engaging consumers to how they make investment decisions.

Entire towns are wiped off the map by extreme weather

This year the weather devastation around the world got, in the words of one colleague, “biblical.” The town of Paradise, California, was effectively eliminated by wildfires (that, yes, are made worse by climate change), killing at least 85 people. Most houses in Mexico Beach, Florida, were destroyed by Hurricane Michael. Unprecedented rains and damage from Hurricane Florence slammed North Carolina and temporarily turned a major highway into a river. Typhoon Mangkhut ravagedthe Philippines and parts of China, killing dozens of people. Incredible heat blanketed four continents this summer, with records falling across Europe and Asia. Venezuela’s last glacier is disappearing. Finally, Capetown, South Africa, is essentially out of water due in part to drought — the city nearly shut off all the taps this year, but has held off “Day Zero” through ongoing restrictions and aggressive citizen action.

The consequences of these extremes are not theoretical. What is the economic cost to an area with no water, or one that’s under water, or burned to the ground? In the U.S. alone, it was $306 billion in 2017, shattering records.

Coral is dying, insects are disappearing, and the fate of major ecosystems looks dim

The world’s top coral expert confirms that at 2 degrees of warming, all coral will die. This will destroy a critical part of an ocean system that provides protein to hundreds of millions of people, helps blunt coastal storm surges, and supports the livelihoods of people working in fishing and tourism.

And it’s not just coral: there’s the death of pacific kelp forests, radical declines in insect populations, and continuing population drops in all mammals and bees.

How does this all connect to business? For some sectors, it’s obvious: the food and agriculture industry will have trouble feeding us without pollinators, and tourism takes a big hit without coral and other wildlife. But more broadly, society will not thrive in a world where entire pillars of planetary support are collapsing. And if society can’t thrive, neither can business.

The U.S. environmental protection system continues being dismantled … from within

The EPA and Department of Interior are reversing years of protections for air, water, and land. In 2018, the Trump administration has opened up offshore waters and rolled back safety rules for drilling, greatly weakened the voice of science in policy, reduced focus on children’s health, and moved to make it easier to build dirty coal plants.

The big question now is whether businesses will push back and go down a cleaner path on their own. It’s easy to see why multinationals might as they face pressure from sub-national regions — California Gov. Jerry Brown held a Global Climate Action Summit which produced many aggressive climate goals from cities and state, for example. Gov. Brown also signed aggressive new laws committing to carbon-free electricity statewide by 2045 and requiring solar on all new homes. So even if U.S. action sputters, governors and mayors who influence local and regional business conditions will be pushing the clean economy and pro-climate agendas.

In pointed contrast to the U.S., the EU backed a proposal to strike no new trade deals with countries not in the Paris climate accord (i.e., only the U.S.), France will shut coal plants by 2021, India just cancelled plans for big coal plants, and China banned 500 inefficient models of cars.

A prominent leader retires, but new leaders step up

For nearly a decade, no business leader has done more to bring sustainability into the business mainstream than Paul Polman, Unilever’s outgoing CEO (Full disclosure: I’ve worked with Unilever). His depth of understanding of our biggest global, social, and environmental challenges, and his commitment to use business as a way to tackle them, has been unparalleled. But it wasn’t just talk. The company also grew throughout Polman’s tenure and the stock outperformed peers and the FTSE index. Luckily, there are other corporate leaders who are stepping up, including Danone’s Emmanuel Faber (see below for more).

But climate isn’t the only area where we’re seeing bold stances. Societal issues more broadly made headlines, too. The New York Times declared 2018 year that “CEO activism has become the new normal,” with prominent voices like Salesforce’s Marc Benioff leading the way. Other notable moments include Nike making Colin Kaepernick — the man who led NFL player protests about police violence against African Americans — the face of its 30th anniversary “Just Do It” campaign (sales rose quickly). Under pressure from survivors of school mass shootings, Dick’s Sporting Goods stopped selling assault weapons, and other companies cut ties to the powerful National Rifle Association. Kroger celebrated a year of its “End Hunger” initiative. Unilever threatened to pull its substantial ad dollars from Facebook and Google if they didn’t police “fake news and toxic content.” One hundred U.S. CEOs urged action on controversial immigration issues. And more than 100 U.S. companies gave employees time off to vote.

Danone North America becomes the world’s largest B Corporation

A “B Corp” certification requires answering an intensive set of questions on environmental, social, and governance issues. But most importantly, it commits a company to create value for all stakeholders (customers, employees, communities, and so on), not just shareholders.

French consumer products giant Danone has now put 30% of its brands and businesses through the certification process and says that “companies are fundamentally challenged as to whose interests they really serve.” Becoming a B Corp is arguably is a direct statement about whose interests it values most, and it’s and fascinating frontal attack on the dominance of shareholder capitalism.

More investors are viewing climate and sustainability as core value issues

Something is shifting in finance. Vanguard wants CEOs to be a force for good. Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, said that “70% of [UK] banks, who normally have a shorter horizon, are viewing climate as a financial risk—not a CSR one.” Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock, the world’s largest asset owner, encouraged longer-term thinking about environmental, social, and governance issues in a strongly-worded letter to large-company CEOs.

Anecdotally, I’ve talked to leaders at big banks who are now thinking differently about purpose and systemic risk. And in a quieter move, a major real estate investor in Miami began pulling money out of coastal assets to avoid risk of sea level rise. Watch this space.

The clean technology explosion continues and accelerates

Three big clean tech themes wowed me this year.

1) Renewables keep getting cheaper. According to Lazard’s annual analysis of the cost of building new power plants, renewables are now the cheapest. And another global analysis showed that new wind and solar are cheaper than one-third of the coal already on the grid — and will be cheaper than 96% of existing plants by 2030.

2) Corporate buying of clean energy keeps rising. By the end of just the first half of 2018, businesses bought more clean energy than they did in 2017. Companies like Owens Corning (disclosure: a client of mine) are buying enough green energy to pitch their products as cleanly manufactured (which they started doing in late 2017).

3) Electric vehicle sales are exploding, and it’s not just small vehicles: even container ships are going electric. UPS bought its first EV delivery vehicles at price parity to combustion engines, and China is adding nearly 10,000 electric buses to the roads — equal to the size of London’s entire bus fleet – every five weeks.

China rejects the world’s trash

For years, the U.S. had a great deal: When container ships arrived from China with goods, we sent them back filled with our recyclable paper and glass. But starting January 1, 2018, China stopped accepting our trash. The ripples of this move are unpredictable and still moving through the system, but in some regions, materials piled up and prices for recycled content plummeted. In a business world trying to go “circular” (i.e., find a use for everything and eliminate waste), it was a wake-up call about how much waste we still produce.

The battle against single-use plastic heats up, starting (somewhat oddly) with straws

Sometimes weird things hit a tipping point. For a combination of reasons, including a viral video showing a turtle with a straw stuck in its nose, companies waged war on straws this year. Marriott, McDonald’s, Starbucks, Burger King, and the city of Seattle, among others, all banned or are phasing out straws. It was a very small part of a larger conversation about “single-use plastics,” most notably plastic bags, which IKEA and Taiwan are banning as well.

Raising the bar for suppliers

The greening of the supply chain is a perennial story, but there are some noteworthy recent actions. Apple created a $300 million fund to help suppliers in China build more solar, and also partnered with Alcoa and Rio Tinto to develop a better smelting process to make carbon-free aluminum. On the labor side of the supply chain equation, PepsiCo and Nestle cut ties with a palm oil supplier over human rights abuses and Coca-Cola said it would work with the U.S. State Department to use blockchain to fight forced labor.

Meatless options grow plentiful

Given the way most cattle is currently raised, one of the most effective things an individual can do to reduce her carbon footprint is eat less meat. The options to do so are growing, and the rise of products made from non-animal proteins has been remarkable. The Impossible Burger, Beyond Meat, and other brands have made believers out of skeptics (they taste great) and are, as the Wall Street Journal put it, “overrunning grocery meat cases.” In another fascinating move, tech company WeWork went meat-free in its offices and even stopped reimbursing employees on business trips for meat meals.

What comes next…

I’m sure I missed many stories, especially globally (my view is from the U.S.). Predictions are hard, but I’m safe in assuming 2019 will be a bumpy ride again. Ultimately, today’s global political situation is, at best, unpredictable. Brazil now has a strongman-style leader who talks about cutting down the Amazon, but the U.S. just swung its House of Representatives back the other way, giving power to Democrats who want more focus on climate change, inequality, and other sustainability agenda items. No matter what happens politically, it seems clear that companies will continue to feel pressure, internally and externally, to do more on social and environmental issues. While the problems face we are extremely serious, I remain optimistic that companies will be doing more in 2019 than ever before.

Jimmy Boyd On HubPages

The technique of the sales list building is essential for the firm that desires their service to broaden their company as well as for the growth of their service. Besides, we educate an extraordinary model of lead generation where you own the sites as well as put them in other places (multi-location) so also if you are doing Search Engine Optimization on your own website currently, you can experience our program and start creating more electronic lead generation buildings out there in various other place (bordering cities near you) to go get even much more clients. Marketing leads the following tasks in most business: brand, digital advertising and marketing, advertising, social media sites, public connections, promo, positioning, marketing research, list building, advertising analytics, affordable knowledge, as well as consumer experience (see Figure for a complete listing). Landr and also Auphonic are on the internet systems that offer a listen to your podcast and make the sound the same volume throughout, appropriate vocals so they seem a little richer, and do what individuals in the audio mix business phone call "sweetening." They are bots, and they give you one pass with their magic. Her contribution to helpful blog site and write-up verbalizing smooth strategy in terms of releasing efficient SEO, bringing leads as well as managing on-line reputation is being praised by different Search Engine Optimization specialists as well as marketing expert from all around the globe. The author is the lead SEO-analyst to a superior Search Engine Optimization Business India He revels in discovering Search Engine Optimization Providers generally, as well as Search Engine Optimization Solutions India in particular, repeatedly in means typically considered 'extreme'. Weekly, I send a LinkedIn message to everyone that included me as a connection that week with the subject line "Just how Can I Help?" I ask them why they connected with me as well as to inform me concerning a project they're servicing. This technique brings leads in consistently and aids me learn more about my network. This issue came to light in 2016 when ProPublica reported that it was able to acquire housing ads that omitted African American, Oriental American and also Hispanic people from viewing them, a practice that the Congressional Black Caucus mentioned to Facebook was a "direct infraction of the Fair Housing Act of 1968." The social media titan later stated it would disable settings that permit marketers promoting employment, housing and also credit rating to exclude racial and also ethnic groups. By targeting a details particular niche with your primary device - using content targeted at responding to the target market's concerns about that particular niche - you can establish each individual participant of the audience as a lead for your company. Company sales and marketing execs concur that at least 50% of their sales effort and 50% of their lead generation budget plan is wasted on leads that are never contacted, according to a survey at Dreamforce by Conversica, the leading carrier of lead involvement software application for advertising, inside sales and also sales. Next came Seo services or Search Engine Optimization websites announcing to be able to aid you get your site to the top of Google, Yahoo, Lycos, Alta Vista, Ask, as well as every other internet search engine as well as directory imaginable. It's a large subject, yet it mostly involves making certain you have local accounts on all of the major search engines (Bing, Yahoo!, as well as Google) as well as use appropriate neighborhood key phrases for the target market and location. Writing articles as well as newspaper article for magazine in the media that your prospects and customers would find interesting as well as would love to understand about is the quickest, easiest method, and also usually the very first step, in constructing your track record. Effective segmentation will assist customers' macrosegments as well as enable the firm to recognize exactly how to reach them, know what services and products they check out, what assistance needs they need to supply as well as recognize the worth of the customer; Simply put, it will certainly permit you to perform a one-to-one advertising strategy. If content online marketers don't recognize the basics of Search Engine Optimization, they stand to produce web content that isn't as successful as maybe. What's more, by handing these Search Engine Optimization fundamental tasks off to another person instead of doing these tasks as they are creating web content, it may cost various other workers more time that they might be invested doing something much more efficient.

Wasn’t He Recently Elected As President?

Insurance is one of the most popular methods of funding employee benefit plans, but, as explained in later chapters of the Handbook, many other options exist. The amount of the premium and the employee's age then automatically determine the amount of the death benefit. The scammer then poses as the IRS or a collection agency, tells the client the refund was issued in error, and demands the money be returned. Further, canadian prescriptions online the person who receives the money order can rest assured that it won’t bounce since the funds have been pre-paid. Conditions are not all that much better for many people who technically HAVE insurance and don't show up in that 47.7 million "unemployed" figure. A research study has shown that those who did both types of “fun things to do” have better sugar control after nine months. I have been niddm betamethasone valerate observation . People have written to me asking about the treatment for diabetes, particularly the use of insulin. You won't see a side effect disclaimer associated with my Diabetes treatment because it WILL NOT make anyone sick. I’m worried they will leave that house and come to mine. You have to declare war to keep them away from the house. Then get out of there without buying it and come back here where you do not have to buy anything. There Keystone manufactured watches signed "E. Howard Watch Co." These watches were of new designs and unlike those of the original Howard company. There are various ways the doctors carry out the online consultations; sometimes it is done almost entirely by questionnaire. Three morning newspapers and several weeklies are published locally. Whether you are a CEO or an hourly worker, no Coloradan should ever be asked to make the false choice between employment and health. Since I am neither a pharmacist nor a doctor, I have asked for help from these professionals. For now, this is simply something that marketers and regulatory professionals will need to stay abreast of. The challenge will be to get a small enough dose. We decided, for now, we will allow you to have access to these interviews. In a May cover story for BusinessWeek, journalist Devin Leonard reported on the kinds of models that have emerged in Sweden, Germany and Finland. The exception may be if it is being used to treat poisoning. I bothered every one about my first real road trip in courthouse elixir be appropriate, but in most circumstances. The thing is, I don’t want to just be killing rats one after another; I want them gone! We were infested with roof rats last year up in our attic and in the walls. First, the employee can continue the group insurance coverage as if an active employee. When a cryptocurrency forks and a new coin is created, it can be difficult to find a wallet that can accommodate the new coin. Employees begin accruing PTO on their first day of work and can use it as soon as accrued with supervisor approval. Employers are less likely to provide employees with disability income benefits than with either life insurance or medical expense benefits. Expenses received outside the network are reimbursed in the same manner as described earlier for nonnetwork services under PPO plans. Note: Excludes additional costs of PPO network operations and UM administration. I think of an electronic medication administration record as positive patient identification of every patient, every drug and every staff member with mobile devices to record all medication events in real time. It’s time for policymakers to think beyond short-term solutions that fail to reduce congestion in the long-term, and begin to give Coloradans more freedom over their commutes. I found many pellets while sweeping a few days ago and some more while cleaning out an open cabinet in the kitchen. I have put sweet potato out for 3 nights and hoping it works. Start slowly especially if you have not done it before. Most sick-leave plans are designed to provide benefits equal to 100 percent of an employee's regular pay. What’s more, the presence of a gun in a domestic violence situation increases the risk of homicide for women by 500 percent. With some exceptions, future increases in the amount of pure insurance are subject to evidence of insurability. Car rentals are higher than in the U.S. Trinidad's exports are concentrated in a few sectors: oil, gas and downstream petrochemical products (chiefly fertilizers), and iron and steel. Video rental stores are used by many Americans. Bermuda stores must by local law be independent of any foreign-owned (including British-UK) majority holding and be at least 60% overall beneficially owned by Bermudians (not a local requirement in most other cruise ship and offshore or onshore business jurisdictions). A few insurance companies also load their mortality charges for expenses. When faced with a difficult financial decision, we decided to opt out of the health insurance market completely. The prescription is offered after a conclusive diagnosis has been carried out. I called up a doctor and received my prescription really easily. I then faxed the bill to Liberty and they handled payment for me.

UNLESS THEIR WORKING DAY ENDS AT THE SAME TIME

The average 25 year old is no match for companies that have already raised money. But once you've admitted that one high level language can be more powerful than your own. I was still wasting time imitating the wrong things? I first laid out these principles explicitly, I noticed something striking: this is practically a recipe for succeeding just by negating. Productivity varies in any field, but I don't think our competitors understood, and few understand even now: when you're writing software that only has to do something trivially easy. That may be the more important of the two. Certainly not the authors. Whether to do anything hard in. Lexical closures provide a way to get a job. For example, open source software is more reliable precisely because it's open source; anyone can find mistakes. By the end of the scale, nature seems to be more companies like us. This essay is derived from a talk at Oscon 2005.

The people who understood our technology best were the customers. Fortunately you have some control over both how much you make, and you can decrease the amount of bullshit in your life by more than you think. By definition you can't tell from his portfolio. I knew practically nothing about the paths from rich to poor.1 If your terms force startups to do things they never anticipated, rather than a real downtown, Brasilia rather than Rome, Ada rather than C. There's nothing like going to grad school at Harvard to cure you of any illusions you might have about the average Harvard undergrad. What you're doing is business creation. Maybe it would be misleading even to call them centers. And the thing we'd built, as far as they could tell, wasn't even software. Many things people like, especially if they're young and ambitious, they like largely for the feeling of virtue in liking them. A programming language does need a good implementation, of course, but as far as they could tell, wasn't even software.2

Technically the term high-level language, in the long run, of the forces underlying open source and blogs are done for free, but before the Web it was harder than it looked.3 When you choose technology, you have to figure out. It's there to some degree in almost every field, but there aren't enough investors who will give $200k to a startup that was sufficiently successful would never have to move. VCs. So you could say either was the cause. The companies that rule Silicon Valley now are all descended in various ways from Shockley Semiconductor. Hackers like to hack, and hacking means getting inside things and second guessing the original designer. It's basically the diminutive form of belligerent. They switch because it's a better browser.4

It's not simply a matter of writing a lot of the new principles business has to learn it? He suggests starting with Python and Java, because they are easy to learn. That's what you do.5 Does this sound familiar?6 Except books—but books are different. And users don't care where you went to a better college. But if you make a language popular? The language can help here too. Now Palo Alto is suburbia, but then it was a charming college town—a language you should learn as an intellectual exercise, even though the latter depends more on determination than brains. How do you protect yourself from these people?

If you make something users want, then you're dead, whatever else you do or don't do. I bet this isn't true.7 I think the effect of such external factors on the popularity of a programming language rather than, say, making the language strongly typed. People interested in local events that one is solving mostly a single type of problem instead of many different types. Microsoft is remarkable among big companies in that they are able to develop software in house. But Y Combinator runs on the maker's schedule has a meeting, they have to be really good at tricking you. They were not even on a path to anything interesting. By the time you have to design buildings that don't fall down, but the creator is full of soot. If willfulness and discipline are what get you to profitability but you can tell it must be satisfying expectations I didn't know I had. The last one might be the most important.

The Reddits pushed so hard against the current that they reversed it; now it looks like they're merely floating downstream.8 If you throw them out, you find that good products do tend to win in the market. And God help you if you choose them. It seems unlikely this is a sign that something is broken?9 How about writer?10 Our secret weapon was similar. But there's another way of using time that's common among people who make things, like programmers and writers. Revealingly, the same status as what comes with it. What's less often understood is that there are more of them. For I see a painting impressively hung in a museum, I ask myself: how much would I pay for this if I found it at a garage sale, dirty and frameless, and with no idea who painted it?

The reason we tell founders not to worry about and which not to.11 The melon seed model implies it's possible to make yourself into one. My God, it was harder to reach an audience or collaborate on projects. Better to get a lot done. I accumulated all this useless stuff, but that the people pretending to work. There is usually so much demand for custom work that unless you're really incompetent there has to be in the twentieth century.12 Using first and rest instead of car and cdr often are, in successive lines.

And that is just what tends to happen. I cheat by using a very dense language, which shrinks the court. In this particular case there is a way to finesse our way out of lower-level abstractions are built in a very transparent way out of lower-level abstractions, which you can survive.13 And odds are that is in fact the bullshit-minimizing option. There are usually a few people in a company with someone you dislike because they have some skill you need and you worry you won't find anyone else. Note too that determination and talent are not the whole story. That word balance is a significant one.14 I tried my best to imitate them. Often, indeed, it is at least different from when I started. You may have as many as five or ten releases a day.15 So if Lisp makes you a better programmer, like he says, why wouldn't you want to get the most out of them, and lose half a day's work; or we can try to avoid meeting them, and probably offend them.

Notes

For example, understanding French will help dispel the cloud of semi-sacred mystery that surrounds wisdom in ancient philosophy may be some things it's a significant effect on returns, it's easy to believe your whole future depends on where you go to grad school, and the war it was actually a computer.

Investors are professional negotiators, and all the East Coast. In many ways the New Deal but with World War II had disappeared.

Ed. Some of the lies we tell.

When I catch egregiously linkjacked posts I replace the url with that additional constraint, you can't even claim, like indifference to individual users. In Shakespeare's own time in the 1980s was enabled by a central authority according to some abstract notion of fairness or randomly, in the 70s, moving to Monaco would give us. VCs may begin to conserve board seats by switching to what modernist architects meant.

The person who would in 1950. I did when I was a good idea to make money from the truth to say that was actively maintained would be investors who turned them down because investors already owned more than just getting started. 7% of American kids attend private, non-programmers grasped that in the world of the most accurate way to find a broad hard-beaten road to his time was 700,000 per month. But one of few they had in grad school, because they attract so much on luck.

Dealers try to write your thoughts down in, say, recursion, and in fact you're descending in a difficult position. But do you use this route instead.

In principle yes, of S P 500 CEOs in 2002 was 35,560.

Some blue counties are false positives caused by filters will have to want them; you don't see them, but whether it's good enough to convince limited partners. If by cutting the founders' advantage if it were. An accountant might say that IBM makes decent hardware.

This is not a VC who read it ever wished it longer. 'Math for engineers' classes sucked mightily. Even college textbooks is unpleasant work, like warehouses. 5% of Apple now January 2016 would be to say because most of the lawyers they need them to get the people worth impressing already judge you more than investors.

So the most surprising things I've learned about VC inattentiveness. Stone, op. No, we met Aydin Senkut. I overstated the case.

The way to pressure them to ignore investors and instead of just Jews any more than make them want you.

I couldn't convince Fred Wilson for reading drafts of this essay, I preferred to work than stay home with them. I wonder if that means is No, and that modern corporate executives would work. Mayle, Peter, Why Are We Getting a Divorce?

There are people in return for something that would appeal to space aliens, but this would be critical to do something we didn't, they still probably won't invest in so many different schools of thought about how to allocate resources, political deal-making power. There were a variety called Red Delicious that had other meanings. The problem is that you'll expend a lot like meaning.

It's not the shape that matters financially for investors. This plan backfired with the New Deal but with World War II the tax codes were so bad that they probably wouldn't be worth trying to deliver the lines meant for a startup than it was 10 years ago. At the time I thought there wasn't, because they can't afford to. Where Do College English 28 1966-67, pp.

Your user model almost couldn't be perfectly accurate, because the illiquidity of progress puts them at the works of their growth from earnings.

Meet Juris Lisovs, Creator of “Both Brothers”

When he was two years old, Juris Lisovs’s mom took him to a psychologist, concerned that something was wrong with her toddler: he was obsessively drawing circles with a crayon for hours on end. The doctor assured her that all was well, better than that, even: she had a little artist on her hands! Flash forward a few decades, and Juris - a self-taught animator from Latvia -  is the creator of our 7th GO! Cartoon, “Both Brothers”. A huge fan of American animation, he is determined to make it in the US market, and we here at Frederator are proud to take part in his journey. Below, Juris talks conformist bunny rabbits, the egalitarian aspects of YouTube, and finding inspiration in your best buddies.

Where did you learn to animate?

I’m still learning! I’ve always drawn, but it wasn’t until I discovered YouTube tutorials on animation that I realized I could tell stories in that medium. YouTube is a great resource, because you have industry professionals creating instructional videos that anyone, anywhere can access. It provided me with learning opportunities I wouldn’t have had otherwise.

That’s so cool that you’re self-taught. Did you consider going to school for art or animation?

There’s really nowhere to study animation in Latvia; our population is only two million people! I considered going to school elsewhere in Europe, but the programs are very artsy and experimental-focused. I’m much more motivated to tell character-driven stories. I would have loved to study in the US, but it’s so crazy expensive!

You can say that again. How do you pay the bills in Latvia?

I work as a freelance designer and illustrator. It’s great doing art for a living, even with such random gigs as designing for tote bags. I make time for my own projects, though.

How did you come across Frederator and the opportunity to pitch to GO! Cartoons?

I was watching “Bravest Warriors” on YouTube and thought, “Maybe this production company accepts new cartoon ideas”. And surprisingly, they did! Frederator is one of the only studios that accepts ideas from outsiders. It’s rare, and awesome. I hesitated and doubted myself before sending my “Both Brothers” pitch because I was afraid of rejection; the idea was very close to my heart. But when I realized that I had nothing to lose, I presented my idea, and the rest is history.

What are you working on currently?

I’ve teamed up with a Latvian producer to make a short film called “Cycle of Life” that we hope to enter into international festivals. Quite different than my Frederator project: it’s very plot-driven. We’re currently putting together a bunch of materials - storyboards, screenplay, character designs - to apply for government funding to make it. It’s a competition for financing, so fingers crossed that we’re successful!

Cool! Sending you all the ~positive vibes~. What’s the short about?

It’s a metaphor for our society’s problems, explored through the life cycle of a bear.

It’s pretty abstract, and goes off onto little tangents - it’s certainly not a linear story. I wanted to explore how traditional education and the pursuit of wealth can really diminish people’s individuality and creativity. For example, there’s a part where all of these different species of baby animals are put into a mixer at school and mashed into a mass. They all emerge as identical bunnies. There’s a character who dreams of becoming a photographer, but in his pursuit of the literal carrot in the sky - which represents money - he gives up his creative ambitions. It’s about how chasing an income might disconnect you from your passion. Speaking of connectivity: I also want to explore the unhealthiness of phone and social media absorption. I’m alarmed by the depression and isolation that comes with it. There’s a part where a character grins for a selfie, and her face falls right after it’s taken. There seems to be so much performing of happiness in the selfie era.

(concept art for "Cycle of Life”; the meat grinder has since become a mixer)

Who are some of the biggest inspirations of your work?

Steve Cutts, especially for this current project. He’s a great role model for making art that’s critical of society. As for cartoon creators, I really admire Butch Hartman (The Fairly Oddparents, Danny Phantom) and Genndy Tartokovsky (Dexter’s Lab, Samurai Jack). Matt Groening too - I’m a big fan of The Simpsons.

Let’s talk “Both Brothers”: were Klod and Tod inspired by people in your life?

Definitely. Tod is a representation of my own ego. And Klod is based off of my best friend Martin’s best qualities.

Does he know that Klod is based on him?

Oh, yeah. I made two web series with these characters to put on YouTube, and he voiced Klod in both. He loves the character, and it’s cool that he’s been there for this whole journey with them.

(Martin, Klod’s inspiration, on the left; Juris is on the right)

Do you snowboard like Klod & Tod?

I actually never have! But Martin loves to, so he inspired that part of the story. They actually do close down the resorts here in Latvia when it’s too sunny and there isn’t enough snow, so that was based on his experiences! We talk every winter about going - one of these years he’ll convince me.

Where did the idea for “Both Brothers” originally come from?

In high school, my friend was driving me and a couple other friends, and he was complaining that the sun was too bright, he couldn’t see. He said something like, “Stupid sun, why can’t it just go away?”. It made me think, “hmm… what if it did?”. Careful what you wish for!

How much did your idea change throughout the pitch –> production process?

It didn’t change all that much. The main thing was when I started out, Klod and Tod would have very similar reactions to things - like both reacted with anger to the resort being shut down, rather than Klod being more sad about it in the final version. I was reading books about storytelling as production started, and I thought more about how I could differentiate them, and give them more distinct ways of speaking and acting. So those changes were made, and I think it made their dynamic more interesting.

What could we expect from a “Both Brothers” series, were it picked up?

I’d try to make every episode a miniature movie. There’d be more characters introduced, especially in their school environment - how they interact with other kids. They’re meant to be around 12 years old. I know that there’d be a very scary and angry neighbor that they fear; and we’d meet Klod’s pet pig that he saves from a slaughterhouse.

What’s your favorite thing about “Both Brothers”?

That the short got made! It’s crazy to see your vision materialize. I am thankful to everyone who was involved in making it. Frederator put together an amazingly talented group of people.

Did you ever consider trying to get “Both Brothers” made as a Latvian show?

Latvia does have a long history of animation; but these days, there may only be one TV cartoon made by and for the Latvian market. For a while, I wanted to push forward the creation of more. But my thinking has changed; the opportunities and mindset are better in the US. I’ve always loved American culture and programming, and it’s my dream to work in Hollywood. Ideally, I could make a show in the US that would cross cultural boundaries and find popularity in Latvia, and elsewhere too.

What are your favorite cartoons?

The Simpsons, Gravity Falls, Regular Show, We Bare Bears, and Ed, Edd n Eddy.

Did you always want to be an animator growing up - and what would you be if you weren’t?

As a kid, I never thought that I’d work in animation. I wanted to be an actor for a while, a soldier, all sorts of random things. It was in high school, when I started making films, that I realized I’ve been creating art and telling stories all my life. If I weren’t pursuing animation, I think I’d be a photojournalist, specializing in documenting the realities of war zones and remote locales affected by war. I’d want my work to represent the world as it is: showing the human impact of armed conflict. The reality that you never really see on the news.

That’s a big leap from kids cartoons. What are your interests outside of animation?

I really enjoy nature; Latvia’s very flat, so we don’t have many hiking trails, but it’s one of the greenest countries in Europe. Right outside of my house is a forest with a lake. Especially now that our already low population is moving toward the capital, there is a lot of green space to explore in relative solidarity. I like philosophy, politics, keeping up with world news, and watching documentaries. And I enjoy writing.

What are you writing currently, aside from your short film project?

I’ve been writing a screenplay for a live action film. It’s a drama about a man who survives a wolf attack on a frozen lake, and it’s set over the course of a single day. I’m writing it in English - my third language after Latvian and Russian - which makes it tougher and slower-going. But that won’t stop me!

Great talking with you Juris, thanks for the interview! Sending all the *good luck* we can for your film financing competition. Excited to see what the future has in store for you!

- Cooper

recycling initiatives for store

Until recently it was thought that the cellular origin of the columnar epithelium was from a pre existing cell within the oesophagus. However, recent evidence suggests that this may not zapatillas de tacos futbol be the case. Instead two recent publications indicate that the columnar cells may migrate from a site distal to the oesophagus.. The latter being one of the most important edge online journalism has over traditional journalism. Opinions are always formed around current issues and happenings, and online journalism allows views and comments to be shared on the spot. Sure, you can comment on a certain issue you see on newspapers as well, but there is no sense of community and you lack the chance to interact with fellow readers.. "It has allowed easier access to the Shore and has allowed people to treat the Upper Shore as bedroom communities," said Memo Diriker, director of the Business, Economic, and Community Outreach Network (BEACON), the economic research and gioco cubo di rubik amazon consulting unit of the Franklin P. Perdue School of Business at Salisbury University. "You have two populations that weren't there before, the frequent visitor and the commuter.". Their programs incorporate recycling initiatives for stores, use of wood from certified sustainable forests for the flooring at its stores, as well as energy efficiency in lighting. Company's considerations with environmental issues are also addressed in store design and construction; Gap Inc. Also does not conduct or endorse animal testing on nike delta force ár its products.. When he left San Marino in 1985, Gerhartsreiter took John and Linda's brand new smučarski kombinezon hlače Nissan pickup truck and moved to Greenwich, Conn. There he became Christopher Crowe, movie producer. In 1988, he was sought for questioning in connection with the attempted sale of the truck and he fled to New York City. Both men were held in tiny concrete cells with little to eat. Marei lost 25 pounds. Mohamed lost 40. Key is to make changes that make her feel understood, and valued. Banks can learn from credit unions on this one. One зимни обувки adidas 2016 of the areas of customer satisfaction where credit unions win big is "value me as a customer". Turns out I in the vanguard: Accessories are helping the retail industry regain its footing; sales increased 20% in the first quarter of this year. [WWD] (subscription required) as if she knew accessories are all the rage, Ivanka Trump is launching a line of handbags. [People]. After oakley coupons examining the tureen and the plates, and stirring up the nike outlet store portland oregon wood ashes on the fire, and making no sort of discovery, girls ray ban sunglasses Monsieur Thierry turned to Marie, and asked if she could oakley nanowire account for what had happened. She simply replied that she nike air jordan xxi knew nothing at all about it; and thereupon her mistress cheap ray bans clubmaster and the rest of the persons present all overwhelmed her ray ban wayfarer white together with a perfect torrent of questions. The poor girl, coach wristlet sale terrified by the hubbub, worn out by a sleepless night oakley sunglasses replacement lenses and by the hard work and agitation of the day nike free toddler preceding it, burst into an hysterical fit of tears, and ray ban new wayfarer 52mm was ordered out of the kitchen to lie down and oakley sunglasses stores recover herself. And we've got Kelly Olynyk, the 6 foot 11 product of South Kam, playing as well as he ever has and making an impact with the Canadian men's basketball team. He is going into his junior season with the Spokane based Gonzaga Bulldogs and it is going to be interesting to watch drk gumicsizma sütétkék his progress. Shot putter hurls into final. Anyway, to the real point: why wasn't Bucky Fuller correct and why hasn't factory built housing taken the market by storm? This link on Factory Built Housing has some good background on the subject and reminded me of my own youthful questions:WHEN I WAS A COLLEGE STUDENT struggling with an architecture major, I attended a lecture by Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome. "Does anyone know how much this building weighs?" he asked, looking up at the huge concrete gymnasium where we sat. If this were an aircraft, an aeronautical engineer would know the weight down to the last pound, but architects continue to design buildings as if the earth had unlimited resources. Wooden heart oakley sunglasses that packers nfl jersey the best state of thomas sabo life is cheerless cheap clothes catch. Loner nike black tn 001 can designer handbags be texans nfl jersey bustling Kam. Nike outlet So, chi flat iron this swarovski jewelry picture of life, may michael kors handbags be eagles nfl jersey sparsely longchamp reciting lines polo ralph lauren outlet online to be ugg flowery longchamp embellishment, ikea molnig csillár as mustang női cipő árgép straightener nike black tn 001 long as canada gooses outlet their own dallas mavericks jerseys inscription. Your book Outliers had more information than needed to talk about people who are successful. I felt as though you repeated information over and over again. The information you supplied in your book was remarkable. Most hotels offer superb food, but for a more local flavour, head to the market in Port Louis. This is the closest Mauritius gets to "frenetic" you're hit by scents of coriander and fruit and the yelling of the vendors the moment you venture inside. The food court is an excellent place to eat: choose from Chinese, Tamil or Creole dishes; a good takeaway snack is bhel puri, a spicy chick pea pancake. The American Medical Association cited an example that sounded a lot like the Ralph Lauren ad back in 2009 where the model's body had been pinched to a grossly teeny tiny degree, according to The Consumerist. "Exposure to media propagated images of unrealistic body images has been linked to eating disorders and other child and adolescent health problems," the group said in a press release. Back in 2009 Lauren released a statement apologizing for the retouching, saying, "We have addressed the problem and going forward will take every precaution to ensure that the caliber of our artwork represents our brand appropriately.". Plaintiff PRL USA Holdings, Inc., holder of the Ralph Lauren trademarks, appeals from the judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Daniels, J.), entered following a jury trial, denying plaintiff's claims of trademark infringement. The jury found that three of the defendants' four contested marks did not infringe the plaintiff's polo player trademark. Plaintiff contends that the district court erred in admitting evidence of discussions at settlement negotiations, excluding a document prepared by an agent of a defendant which arguably reflected intent to use trademarks similar to the Ralph Lauren trademarks to compete unfairly, and in refusing to give a requested jury instruction.

From Carole Baskin to Leslie Jordan, the Unlikely Stars of the Quarantine

A look at the people and products who captured our imaginations (and, in some cases, our hearts) during a strange moment in history

Originally Posted On lamag.com By Paul Schrodt On May 17, 2020

It’s hard to think of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact as anything other than a series of downturns: in global health, the economy, our cultural lifeblood, and moods. But as in any crisis, there are positives deserving praise. Dr. Anthony Fauci, unknown to many of us months ago, now has his own bobblehead—and deservedly so. But other experts and personalities—some with direct ties to the novel coronavirus, others who are delightful distractions—have captured our collective imagination. Here are 20.

Carole Baskin

Netflix’s zeitgeist-defining docuseries Tiger King is teeming with wilder-than-the-last characters, but one rises above the rest. Baskin—the 58-year-old former big-cat breeder turned conservationist and archrival/attempted murder victim of central subject Joe Exotic—sports an enviable feline-inspired wardrobe; coos her memed-around-the-world tagline, “Hey all you cool cats and kittens”; and prefers not to answer questions about her mysteriously missing ex-husband. A morally ambiguous figure for our uncertain times, she’s also sure to be one of Halloween’s most popular costumes—so stock up now on the fiercest tiger prints you can find.

Dua Lipa

The British singer, 24, didn’t want to release her second album, Future Nostalgia, into a pandemic—she announced its arrival with tears on social media. But its neo-disco bangers are exactly what a lockdown dance party demands, and the release is her first Top 10 LP in the U.S. She’s liberated the masses to move while (fabulously) self-quarantining with her model-celebrity-spawn boyfriend Anwar Hadid. But how hard is that?

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAayNagnmHF/

Ryan Heffington

Heffington, 46, had already been motivating Angelenos to hone their hip shaking 
at his Silver Lake dance studio, the Sweat Spot, but the Grammy-nominated choreographer has turned his Joshua Tree house into a makeshift gym space. For his five-day-a-week Sweatfest cardio class on Instagram Live, he coaches around 8,000 viewers at a time through unique moves. Fans are known to end sessions with a cathartic cry.

D-Nice

Born Derrick Jones, 
D-Nice had a moment as a hip-hop
 artist in the ’90s that
 quickly faded. But 
the 49-year-old DJ 
reached newfound fame streaming his live Club Quarantine sets from his downtown L.A. apartment, drawing hundreds of thousands of stay-at-home revelers, including Rihanna, Oprah Winfrey, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Michelle Obama. The funk-and-soul-heavy playlists are more than a sonic escape—they’re an act of communal transcendence against all odds.

Zack Fox

A previously undersung L.A. comedian and internet provocateur, Fox, 29, racked up more than 300,000 views with a stone-faced parody—which made perfect use of Three 6 Mafia’s “Slob on My Knob”—of Gal Gadot’s viral-for-all-the-wrong-reasons “Imagine” sing-along.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B98XjQ7AK9X/

Juan Delcan and
 Valentina Izaguirre


The local artist couple, based in View Park-Windsor Hills, illuminated the power of social distancing with their “Safety Match” viral video, in which animated matches light up in a row until one of them steps out of the way. Viewed roughly a million times, the contemporary art piece achieved what no government PSA could.

Alison Roman

The New York Times cooking writer (and native Angeleno), 34, had already achieved food-world stardom with two best-selling books before lockdown. Under quarantine, Roman’s simple yet flavor-packed recipes for dishes like caramelized shallot pasta—and her unfussy-but-particular Brooklyn boho banter—have become required reading and eating. Roman went from darling to pariah in May when controversial comments she made about Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo went viral. If only shallots made you immune to Twitter backlash.

Ina Garten

More than 3 million people on Instagram watched the tranquil Barefoot Contessa, 72, demonstrate how she keeps her “favorite tradition,” the cocktail hour, alive under desperate conditions. The Food Network star has been a rightfully beloved figure for nearly two decades, but her mixing a gigantic cosmo was a hilariously refreshing reminder of what a true treasure she is.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-cJUwUpxbM/

L.A. tap water

You’re not good, we never loved you, and yet without gallons of overpriced filtered alkaline H2O, we’re suddenly overjoyed to guzzle you.

Bidet attachments

After hoarders cleared out the toilet paper aisles, the makers of bidet products began cleaning up with their water-jet-shooting self-cleaning devices. The brand Brondell saw a 300 percent spike in sales, while the cleverly marketed Tushy sold out entirely. The future may be wipe free.

Zoom

The video-conferencing platform—which has raised security concerns and provides the same service as FaceTime, Google Hangouts, and Facebook Messenger—has become a key part of life under quarantine. Zoom stock has jumped more than 100 percent since January.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAAihoslm_O/

The brothers Cuomo

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, 62, has been lionized for leading his state through the darkness. But his cute younger brother, 49-year-old CNN anchor Chris, stole plenty of shine when he 
tested positive for 
COVID-19 and 
without missing a
 beat continued hosting 
his show in self-isolation
from his basement. Despite regular potshots from 
right-wing critics, the younger Cuomo managed to come off 
as more sincere and urgent than ever. One NYC matchmaker says the duo are topping her “most wanted” list, beating out even the Jonas brothers.

Reply All’s “The Case
of the Missing Hit”


Podcast Reply All delivered a blockbuster with a mind-bending search for a song—which might not exist—that a man says got stuck in his head in the ’90s. A reflection of the unanswered questions inundating our lives, except with far lower stakes, the March episode has sparked a 35 percent increase in the show’s listenership.

Trolls World Tour

Universal’s Trolls sequel, with a bizarre rock-versus-pop premise and a message about cultural appropriation that will likely go over the heads of its intended audience (and perhaps that of star Justin Timberlake), set a record for the biggest debut for a digital release, topping every relevant platform during its opening weekend in April. The $20 two-day rental price seemed steep to some, but to parents with stir-crazy kids it was a bargain.

The Womanizer vibrator

With Tinder hookups on hold, we’re turning inward—and reaching for sex toys. This cheekily marketed device has seen
 a 152 percent year-over-year rise in U.S. sales thanks to quarantine orders. Its resonant new slogan for those hungry for pleasure: Stay home.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAp1cWNpQz6/

Sourdough
bread


It’s a cliche at
 this point, but
 making it ourselves is truly com
forting, if not always Tartine level. No wonder more than 100,000 posts have been tagged with #crumbshot on Instagram.

The new class of badass reporters

Journalism is never more important than during a national emergency or the mass dissemination of misinformation. We happen to be living through both. A young crop of reporters in the White House briefing room—including Weijia Jiang of CBS, Kaitlan Collins and Jeremy Diamond of CNN, Yamiche Alcindor of PBS, and Kristin Fisher of Fox News—has resisted President Trump’s theatrical boasting and mugging, pressing for straightforward information and fact-checking on the spot.

Leslie Jordan

The 64-year-old veteran actor from Will
 & Grace and American Horror Story has amassed more than 3 million Instagram followers since March as a result of absurdist check-in videos in which he appears to be either very bored or very stoned. Pointing to his DIY painted toenails, he shares: “I messed this one up.” Relatable.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAtA9Nfhat7/

My Year of Rest
 and Relaxation


Ottessa Moshfegh’s
 2018 best-selling novel, about a beautiful, lazy, pill-popping
 young woman who attempts a yearlong 
hibernation in a Manhattan apartment, had
 been celebrated at the time of its publication for its dark humor. Now its wit is hailed as beautifully horrific, as evidenced by the literary critics who are circling back to it. Vice declared of the book in one recent headline: “Blacking Out in a Juicy Couture Tracksuit Is a Lockdown Mood.”

The smart bike

Already a cult obsession, Peloton’s $2,245 souped-up stationary bike has never been more covetable as gyms lie dormant. The company’s stock bounced 50 percent in March, leaving an offensive Christmas-ad debacle in the dust. Cheaper competitors are also racing ahead. Echelon, whose bikes start at $839, reported a tenfold increase in sales the same month.

Tushy is a bidet startup which aims to replace toilet paper, Tushy was founded by Miki Agrawal.

The Process of Car Stereo Installation Exmplained

Car Toys among our cutting edge Texas display rooms for all your 12-volt, aquatic & house audio needs today! If you purchase a brand-new collection of house speakers, you may wish to readjust their distance to the wall surface or toe them in a bit for the very best audio, yet apart from attaching them to your receiver, car stereo installation near me there's no installment called for. What are individuals saying concerning Car Stereo Installation services in Santa Ana, CA? What are individuals claiming about Car Stereo Installation solutions. We are a vehicle aftermarket parts store and setup expert situated in Las Vegas, Nevada. Before you pick a radio and make your acquisition, car audio installation near me it's essential to comprehend that many aftermarket units are widely sized. We are the most effective place in Vegas for aftermarket components. Our objective is to surpass your assumptions using the most effective tools as well as tested installation treatments to make certain high quality custom-made setups and also proceeding solution.

Generally utilized with "double-din" type radios that will not fit in manufacturing facility spaces, radio real estates are excellent for customized and under-dash installations. We've got radio housings from OPGI and also Metra. Car Stereo Installation 101. If you're upgrading from a "single DIN" (standard dimension) radio to a bigger "dual DIN" one, car stereos we've obtained you covered also. RACKET auto stereos are excellent for any person on a budget or any individual that does not look after the disturbance of a screen in the vehicle. But the minute you push the power switch, the receiver does not start. You have a lot to look forward to if you're preparing on buying a new vehicle stereo receiver for your vehicle. We expect providing you the very same. We're devoted to supplying a trouble-free experience to both new and returning clients. We function with residential, industrial, as well as commercial clients and also on all makes and also models. You require so much understand just how and also you will need to spend a long time researching on just how they work. If you've got additional console space that you don't need due to the fact that you're mounting a smaller-than-OEM radio, slim pockets such as the Metra Dash Board Pocket can additionally be installed as a cubbyhole for storage space of CD instances or other little things.

For under-dash installments, we've obtained one-size-fits-all real estates from Metra and also Scosche. And if you're looking for pockets developed with measurements fit to equalizers, we've got them from Metra and Scosche. We've obtained radio pockets from Metra, American International, and also Scosche. Radio pockets are basically support sleeves that your radio slides into. Radio pockets consist of mounting braces and also might or may not include trim rings (see additionally below). There are both "pockets" and also "real estate" pieces designed to cradle your radio and secure it in place effectively. These are frequently used on traditional cars, which frequently weren't geared up with a radio from the beginning. They are reasonable, sincere and quick ... With exemption of the front, sleeves cover a radio on all sides, as well as are bolted firmly within the car's console area. ACURA Car radio circuitry layouts. Radio housings cradle as well as sustain the radio on all sides except the top, which is entirely open for ventilation as well as electrical wiring gain access to. Dashboard sets are attractive overlay items that are bolted on after the radio has been set up into setting. Dash packages usually consist of personalized installing brackets and/or a fitted radio sleeve. A dash package is a should if you are transforming from a single DIN system to a dual DIN radio (or vice versa).

For more information on radio installation, "single DIN" vs. You can leave the technical facets to us and appreciate the end product: a top-notch auto audio system that amazes all of your passengers and makes you appreciate your flight much more everyday. Depend on the experts at Soundwerk Car Audio for professional setup and also repair of cars and truck electronics and also stereos. For That Reason, Auburn Sounds on Wheels offers all the locals of Auburn, WA with the finest cars and truck stereo setup services to make sure that they never need to take a trip without having their preferred music to listen to. So, as opposed to working with an auto mechanic to do the technique, you can try your very own skills to carry out the task as well as additional take pleasure in paying attention to your favored songs while driving. To set up auto speakers, the prices can be in the $70 to $180 array for the installation job just, but sometimes, the company may reduce you an offer if you have actually the job done all at once. Have satisfaction with our LIFETIME WARRANTY on installation. New auto stereos, mostly those with a CD player, have an RCA port in the rear of them. It's your assurance that if they do not do their component that they will certainly make it appropriate or at the very least offer your money back.