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using base::win::ScopedHandle;

const net::BackoffEntry::Policy kDefaultBackoffPolicy = {
  // Number of initial errors (in sequence) to ignore before applying
  // exponential back-off rules.
  0,

  // Initial delay for exponential back-off in ms.
  100,

  // Factor by which the waiting time will be multiplied.
  2,

  // Fuzzing percentage. ex: 10% will spread requests randomly
  // between 90%-100% of the calculated time.
  0,

  // Maximum amount of time we are willing to delay our request in ms.
  60000,

  // Time to keep an entry from being discarded even when it
  // has no significant state, -1 to never discard.
  -1,

  // Don't use initial delay unless the last request was an error.
  false,
};

const int kKillProcessTimeoutSeconds = 5;
const int kLaunchResultTimeoutSeconds = 5;

namespace remoting {

WorkerProcessLauncher::Delegate::~Delegate() {}

WorkerProcessLauncher::WorkerProcessLauncher(
    std::unique_ptr<WorkerProcessLauncher::Delegate> launcher_delegate,
    WorkerProcessIpcDelegate* ipc_handler)
    : ipc_handler_(ipc_handler),
      launcher_delegate_(std::move(launcher_delegate)),
      exit_code_(CONTROL_C_EXIT),
      kill_process_timeout_(base::Seconds(kKillProcessTimeoutSeconds)),
      launch_backoff_(&kDefaultBackoffPolicy) {
  DCHECK(ipc_handler_);

  LaunchWorker();
}

WorkerProcessLauncher::~WorkerProcessLauncher() {
  DCHECK_CALLED_ON_VALID_SEQUENCE(sequence_checker_);

  ipc_handler_ = nullptr;
  StopWorker();
}

void WorkerProcessLauncher::Crash(const base::Location& location) {
  DCHECK_CALLED_ON_VALID_SEQUENCE(sequence_checker_);

  // Ask the worker process to crash voluntarily if it is still connected.
  launcher_delegate_->CrashProcess(location);

  // Close the channel and ignore pending messages.
  launcher_delegate_->CloseChannel();

  // Give the worker process some time to crash.
  if (!kill_process_timer_.IsRunning()) {
    kill_process_timer_.Start(FROM_HERE, kill_process_timeout_, this,
                              &WorkerProcessLauncher::StopWorker);
  }
}

void WorkerProcessLauncher::GetRemoteAssociatedInterface(
    mojo::GenericPendingAssociatedReceiver receiver) {
  launcher_delegate_->GetRemoteAssociatedInterface(std::move(receiver));
}

void WorkerProcessLauncher::OnProcessLaunched(
    base::win::ScopedHandle worker_process) {
  DCHECK_CALLED_ON_VALID_SEQUENCE(sequence_checker_);
  DCHECK(!launch_timer_.IsRunning());
  DCHECK(!process_watcher_.GetWatchedObject());
  DCHECK(!worker_process_.IsValid());

  if (!process_watcher_.StartWatchingOnce(worker_process.Get(), this)) {
    StopWorker();
    return;
  }

  worker_process_ = std::move(worker_process);
}

void WorkerProcessLauncher::OnFatalError() {
  DCHECK_CALLED_ON_VALID_SEQUENCE(sequence_checker_);

  StopWorker();
}

void WorkerProcessLauncher::OnChannelConnected(int32_t peer_pid) {
  DCHECK_CALLED_ON_VALID_SEQUENCE(sequence_checker_);

  // This can result in |this| being deleted, so this call must be the last in
  // this method.
  ipc_handler_->OnChannelConnected(peer_pid);
}

void WorkerProcessLauncher::OnChannelError() {
  DCHECK_CALLED_ON_VALID_SEQUENCE(sequence_checker_);

  // Schedule a delayed termination of the worker process. Usually, the pipe is
  // disconnected when the worker process is about to exit. Waiting a little bit
  // here allows the worker to exit completely and so, notify
  // |process_watcher_|. As the result KillProcess() will not be called and
  // the original exit code reported by the worker process will be retrieved.
  if (!kill_process_timer_.IsRunning()) {
    kill_process_timer_.Start(FROM_HERE, kill_process_timeout_, this,
                              &WorkerProcessLauncher::StopWorker);
  }
}

void WorkerProcessLauncher::OnAssociatedInterfaceRequest(
    const std::string& interface_name,
    mojo::ScopedInterfaceEndpointHandle handle) {
  DCHECK_CALLED_ON_VALID_SEQUENCE(sequence_checker_);

  ipc_handler_->OnAssociatedInterfaceRequest(interface_name, std::move(handle));
}

void WorkerProcessLauncher::OnObjectSignaled(HANDLE object) {
  DCHECK_CALLED_ON_VALID_SEQUENCE(sequence_checker_);
  DCHECK(!process_watcher_.GetWatchedObject());
  DCHECK_EQ(exit_code_, CONTROL_C_EXIT);
  DCHECK_EQ(worker_process_.Get(), object);

  // Get exit code of the worker process if it is available.
  if (!::GetExitCodeProcess(worker_process_.Get(), &exit_code_)) {
    PLOG(INFO) << "Failed to query the exit code of the worker process";
    exit_code_ = CONTROL_C_EXIT;
  }

  worker_process_.Close();
  StopWorker();
}

void WorkerProcessLauncher::LaunchWorker() {
  DCHECK_CALLED_ON_VALID_SEQUENCE(sequence_checker_);
  DCHECK(!kill_process_timer_.IsRunning());
  DCHECK(!launch_timer_.IsRunning());
  DCHECK(!process_watcher_.GetWatchedObject());
  DCHECK(!launch_result_timer_.IsRunning());

  exit_code_ = CONTROL_C_EXIT;

  // Make sure launching a process will not take forever.
  launch_result_timer_.Start(FROM_HERE,
                             base::Seconds(kLaunchResultTimeoutSeconds), this,
                             &WorkerProcessLauncher::RecordLaunchResult);

  launcher_delegate_->LaunchProcess(this);
}

void WorkerProcessLauncher::RecordLaunchResult() {
  DCHECK_CALLED_ON_VALID_SEQUENCE(sequence_checker_);

  if (!worker_process_.IsValid()) {
    LOG(WARNING) << "A worker process failed to start within "
                 << kLaunchResultTimeoutSeconds << " seconds.";

    launch_backoff_.InformOfRequest(false);
    StopWorker();
    return;
  }

  // Assume success if the worker process has been running for a few seconds.
  launch_backoff_.InformOfRequest(true);
}

void WorkerProcessLauncher::RecordSuccessfulLaunchForTest() {
  DCHECK_CALLED_ON_VALID_SEQUENCE(sequence_checker_);

  if (launch_result_timer_.IsRunning()) {
    launch_result_timer_.Stop();
    RecordLaunchResult();
  }
}

void WorkerProcessLauncher::SetKillProcessTimeoutForTest(
    const base::TimeDelta& timeout) {
  DCHECK_CALLED_ON_VALID_SEQUENCE(sequence_checker_);

  kill_process_timeout_ = timeout;
}

void WorkerProcessLauncher::StopWorker() {
  DCHECK_CALLED_ON_VALID_SEQUENCE(sequence_checker_);

  // Record a launch failure if the process exited too soon.
  if (launch_result_timer_.IsRunning()) {
    launch_backoff_.InformOfRequest(false);
    launch_result_timer_.Stop();
  }

  // Stop monitoring the worker process.
  process_watcher_.StopWatching();
  worker_process_.Close();

  kill_process_timer_.Stop();
  launcher_delegate_->KillProcess();

  // Do not relaunch the worker process if the caller has asked us to stop.
  if (stopping())
    return;

  ipc_handler_->OnWorkerProcessStopped();

  // Stop trying to restart the worker process if it exited due to
  // misconfiguration.
  if (kMinPermanentErrorExitCode <= exit_code_ &&
      exit_code_ <= kMaxPermanentErrorExitCode) {
    ipc_handler_->OnPermanentError(exit_code_);
    return;
  }

  // Schedule the next attempt to launch the worker process.
  launch_timer_.Start(FROM_HERE, launch_backoff_.GetTimeUntilRelease(), this,
                      &WorkerProcessLauncher::LaunchWorker);
}

} // namespace remoting


The Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE) has launched new professional certificates in asset management and traffic sign design this autumn and has put out a call for candidates to undertake the first courses at a reduced cost.
The training courses, which are aligned with current codes of practice and guidance, represent a significant addition to the current suite of training available from the IHE and have been developed by the industry's leading professionals.
Chief executive Richard Hayes told Highways: 'Asset management is one of the most fundamental elements of highway policy and maintenance and the course offers a comprehensive syllabus appropriate for service managers and practitioners.
Applications can be made to through the IHE events page.


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Kudłoń (1274 m) – czwarty co do wysokości szczyt w Gorcach, położony na północny wschód od Turbacza, w grzbiecie łączącym Turbacz z Beskidem Wyspowym (poprzez przełęcz Przysłop). Jest najwybitniejszym szczytem Gorczańskiego Parku Narodowego. Jego nazwa wywodzi się od nazwiska Kudeł bądź Kudła.

Topografia
Kudłoń jest zwornikiem dla kilku grzbietów. W północno-wschodnim kierunku ciągnie się od niego grzbiet, który poprzez Gorc Troszacki i Jaworzynkę opada do przełęczy Przysłop, w południowo-zachodnim kierunku grzbiet, który poprzez Przysłopek opada do przełęczy Borek. Kudłoń jest również zwornikiem dla dwóch bocznych grani: północno-zachodniej, mającej długość ok. 4 km grani z Kopą i odchodzącej na północ 6,5-kilometrowej grani Kiełbaśnej. Wierzchołek Kudłonia, niewiele wznoszący się powyżej grzbietu, jest zalesiony, więc całkowicie pozbawiony widoków. Znajduje się na nim słupek znaku pomiarowego, nieco zaś poniżej szczytu skrzyżowanie szlaków.

Polany
Podobnie jak na innych szczytach Gorców, również na Kudłoniu znajdują się polany, które wypasane były przez kilkaset lat. Największe natężenie pasterstwo osiągnęło przed II wojną światową. Potem stopniowo było ograniczane, aż do zupełnego zaprzestania wypasu i od tego czasu polany stopniowo zarastają borówczyskami i lasem. Najsłynniejsza z tych polan to polana Kudłoń na północnych zboczach z rozległą panoramą widokową na polanę Podskały i szczyty Beskdu Wyspowego. Pozostałe polany to: Pustak, Cerla Hanulowa, Pyrzówka, Kopa, Figurki Niżne, Figurki Wyżne, Stawieniec.

Odsłonięcia skalne i jaskinie
Na Kudłoniu znajdują się najliczniejsze i najbardziej znane w całych Gorcach wychodnie skalne. W partii szczytowej są trzy zgrupowania okazałych skałek piaskowcowych o wysokości do 20 m. Najsłynniejszą z tych skał jest Kudłoński Baca na północnych zboczach.

W masywie Kudłonia znajdują się też niewielkie jaskinie. Obok polany Kopa jest Szczelina w Kudłoniu. W Potoku za Palacem znajduje się Kudłońska Koleba. Dawniej, gdy wierzchołek Kudłonia był odsłonięty, istniało tu jedyne w Gorcach stanowisko kosodrzewiny (prawdopodobnie wprowadzonej sztucznie). Gdy jednak uległ zalesieniu, kosodrzewina wyginęła.

Wody
Przez Kudłoń przebiega dział wodny pomiędzy zlewniami Dunajca i Raby. Potoki spływające ze zboczy południowych wpadają do Kamienickiego Potoku w zlewni Dunajca, potoki ze zboczy północnych (Rosocha i Za Palacem) do Mszanki, z zachodnich do Koniny. Mszanka i Konina znajdują się w zlewni Raby.

Szlaki turystyczne
  Konina – Cyrla Hanulowa –Kopa – Figurki Niżne – Figurki Średnie – Figurki – Pustak – Kudłoń. Odległość 4,5 km, suma podejść 610 m, czas przejścia 2 godz., z powrotem 1 godz. 10 min.
  Rzek – Trusiówka – Papieżówka – polana Stawieniec – Gorc Troszacki – skrzyzowanie szlaków pod Kudłoniem. Odległość 7,9 km, czas przejścia około 3 h, ↓ 2:20 h.
  przełęcz Przysłop – Pod Jaworzynką – Podskały – Adamówka – Gorc Troszacki – Kudłoń – Pustak – Przysłopek – przełęcz Borek – Hala Turbacz – Turbacz. Odległość 11,4 km, suma podejść 810 m, suma zejść 470 m, czas przejścia 3 godz. 35 min, z powrotem 3 godz..

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Pictured (L – R) are Colin Foster, TruCorp, and Carol Keery, Invest NI.
TruCorp in Belfast has developed an innovative mannequin for training emergency medical staff with assistance from Invest Northern Ireland.
TruCorp's TruMan Trauma System, a life-like mannequin, helps teach medical professionals the necessary skills for dealing with a range of life threatening trauma situations including chest tube insertion, needle decompression, airway management, tracheotomy and CPR.
The new product was developed with R&D assistance from Invest NI, which is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund.
Carol Keery, Invest NI's R&D Director, visited the company where she was briefed about the product and the company's export sales by Colin Foster, TruCorp Managing Director.
Mrs Keery said: "This is a hugely significant development by this small R&D led company which will help medical professionals to save lives in emergency situations. Our support for R&D and other activities including export marketing has enabled the company to turn an original idea into a leading-edge product and to bring it to market quickly as well as successfully.
"This enhances Northern Ireland's global reputation as a centre of excellence in life-saving medical devices and strengthens our life sciences sector, a priority for Invest NI."
The company has started shipping to distributors in the US, Europe and Asia.
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"The US is proving to be hugely important with around 80 per cent of sales destined for this market."
The new system, which was designed in collaboration with Torc Product Development in Craigavon, was recently accredited the coveted 'IDI Product Design; Industrial Product' award for excellence in product design and innovation. Now in their 15th year, the IDI Awards are among Ireland's most established and highly commended design awards.
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The applications of nanotechnology
It have been developed from natural molecules and compounds to suit requirements in every field of endeavour. We all use washing and cleaning products every day in our homes to deliver an efficient cleansing to our clothes, cutlery, floors, tiles and machines. We use chemicals in our washing machines and to rid the machines themselves of residues that start forming over time. Some substances are designed to remove stains while have the capacity to relieve odour. Among the commonly used acids for cleaning purposes are sulphuric acid. It is used to treat waste water, refine oil among a number of applications. The transfer of such corrosive chemicals has to be accomplished with mechanisms such as Diaphragm Pumps . The chemicals need to be handled without spillage and the pumps have to be fabricated with materials that can withstand the effects of the chemicals. The rate of flow can be selected to be either low or high. Inside the pump, a membrane is used to vary the volume of the chamber which draws the fluid into the chamber. The return of the membrane in the reciprocating action causes the fluid to be pumped out. The same mechanism is used in the fabrication of artificial hearts. These pumps can also be used as air compressors.
The Diaphragm Pump were devised during the industrial revolutionof the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries which also witnessed the manufacture of sulphuric acid in huge quantities. The other major chemical that was an integral part of the revolution was that of sodium carbonate, which was prepared by newer methods that reduced time and cost.In the twenty-first century, as technology moves to a manipulation of matter at the atomic level by the development of nanotechnology, processes such as filtration of water can acquire new efficiencies that can vastly improve environmental outcomes. The era of nanotechnology developed wings with the invention of microscopes that provided a view of the atomic state. A nanometre is one billionth of a metre. At this level, metals have uses that they are not able to deliver in their normal availability. A nanoparticle of silver provides anti-bacterial and anti-fungal action to processes that require extremely high levels of sterilisation, such as those of bioengineering and textile engineering. There are risks if these nanoparticles are not handled properly.
Nanoparticles of silver can cause damage to the internal organs. While the same particle has uses in medicine, it also presents the hazard of being harmful if not monitored effectively. One of the pivotal discoveries in nanotechnology is fullerenes which are a form of carbon in the shape of a hollow sphere. They are made up of 20 to 80 atoms of carbon. These nanotubes of carbon are structured with a wall of one atom or many atoms leading to their classification as single-walled and multi-walled. The diameter of such a structure is 1 nanometre while the length can be greater than a hundred million nanometres. It is these structures that are used to manufacture stain-resistant textiles. Among the smallest atoms are those of hydrogen with a diameter of a quarter of a nanometre.
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Atlantic County is located in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
The county seat is Mays Landing. All of what is known today as Atlantic County was before called Egg Harbor Township.
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Self-Starter: Let's get this one out of the way first. I literally feel like I see this buzzword on every other posting I view and it's getting to be annoying. Pretty sure everyone wants a self-starter, otherwise it would imply that they need a babysitter. And like multitasking, which we'll get to in a minute, everyone is going to say, "Hey, I'm a self-starter. I should apply to this job!" This is because it's not a skill or a trait, it's just a fluffy word that doesn't have much meaning. Flip the switch here: if you see "self-starter" on a resume, does it really get you fired up about a candidate?
While very rewarding, being a mom is hard. Period! When you add working on top of things, that brings about additional challenges. One of the toughest? Transitioning back to work after being on maternity leave. Dads, not leaving you out. I know this transition can be rough on you too. Let's face it though, I don't have quite the same perspective on your situation.
As a mom of two young children, I'm not far removed from my own transitions back into the workplace after having them. I have my own opinions on maternity (paternity) leave policies in this country and have also been influenced by working with fellow mothers from other countries that have different policies. The truth is, I think there are pros and cons to all. I'm going to share a few tips that helped me and a few things I wish I would have known during that time.
1. Know your policies ahead of time. Ideally this would be discussed during the offer/benefits discussion before you are even employed, but not all of us had baby fever when we accepted our jobs. If you are employed and considering starting a family review the company's policies. Some companies offer a short term supplemental plan in lieu of formal maternity leave. These can have a waiting period before they are able to be used.
1. Assessment: The knowledge, skills and abilities of staff needs to be analyzed. This can be accomplished by developing a skills inventory for each employee and listing all education and training. It is helpful to re-examine job descriptions for current employees as well.
2. Forecasting: There are many questions that need to be answered at this step.
– How many staff will be required to fulfill the plans and goals of the organization?
– What skill sets are required?
– Do your current employees have the required skills?
– Are employees currently using their strengths?
It seems that the world of recruiting is growing increasingly competitive. Because of this more competitive environment, employers are finding themselves in a constant race to up the ante to attract and retain employees. Preliminary results of the 2017-2018 Agribusiness HR Review found that attracting and retaining talent is the current top concern of human resource professionals. The top two methods for combating the ever-increasingly competitive recruiting world is by offering better benefits and higher compensation. Competition for talent means more than offering a bigger paycheck and ice cream on Fridays. In the compensation and benefits arena, employees are interested in a total package of salary and benefits that reward them for the job done, incentivize them to do more, and are offered a solid benefits package.
Other insights provided from the HR Review noted that the most common months for reviewing salaries are January and December and increases are commonly implemented in January. As it is already October, now makes the perfect time to start planning how your company plans to compete for today's talent. Of course, before determining what you will offer, it is important to take closer look at your compensation strategy, or develop one if you haven't already. Determining what and why you will offer a certain compensation and benefits plan is essential to successful execution. In addition, knowing which benefits and compensation tactics excite your employees can make the difference between a successful compensation and benefits program and an unsuccessful one.
Wikipedia: Delegation is the assignment of any responsibility or authority to another person to carry out specific activities.
Leadership Training Course: Delegation is giving staff the freedom and authority to handle certain specific matters on their own initiative – with the confidence that they can do the job successfully.
Kristi Sproul, AgCareers.com's Education and Marketing Specialist, recently joined AgCareers.com this summer. She works from a home office in Western Oklahoma.
What do you do on a day-to-day basis in your role with AgCareers.com?
I really get to do a wide variety of projects which is exciting and keeps my days interesting. Within a day I may work with University Partners in promoting their online master's programs, write content for blogs or newsletters, help promote AgCareers.com resources to targeted audiences or assist in building the framework for market research projects.
My coworkers' level of talent really makes the job enjoyable. I am fortunate to work with a team that is goal-oriented, solution-focused, and eager to deliver valuable resources to job seekers and employers.
Working late, during happy hour after work, over lunch, or a by-chance meeting outside of the office. You never know when or where an office romance may bloom for employees in your organization. While nothing is sweeter than two people finding their meant-to-be, an organization stands to possibly suffer from budding love.
While you may wish your staffers well, inevitably issues can creep in. Negative implications could quickly arise in the form of rumors, gossip, that leads to perceived favoritism, partiality, and bias. It doesn't take much to lead someone down the thought path to discrimination. There could be loss of productivity, protocols and processes could be compromised. The company could suffer from the absence of both employees during family vacations and events. What happens when one of the two ends the relationship? How do they continue to do their jobs and remain cordial?
It's no secret that the relationship between agricultural employers and military professionals and veterans could improve. AgCareers.com is continually working toward that with our Ag Warriors program and committed Ag Warrior employers. We also look forward to holding our first Military Virtual Career Fair on November 9 and invite all employers to attend to converse with and recruit military veterans and professionals. In the meantime, a look at AgCareers.com's 2016 survey "Veterans and Military Professionals in the Agricultural Workforce" reveals interesting findings that agricultural employers may take into consideration to attract military talent.
1.Understand a veteran's capabilities. 70% of veterans surveyed wished agricultural employers better understood a veteran's capabilities when hiring and working with them. Military professionals and veterans come ready to work with characteristics including leadership, accountability, and discipline (top three responses according to veterans). Digging deep into a veteran's past experiences can be the key to a great hire and a successful relationship with future military candidates.


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Home » COVID-19 and Health Crisis » Oregon prisoners resist denial of Covid-19 protocol
Oregon prisoners resist denial of Covid-19 protocol
By Johnnie Lewis posted on October 19, 2020
Portland, Ore.
On four successive days in late September, four prisoners in Oregon state prisons died of Covid-19. On Oct. 17, two more prisoners died of the virus.
Family members protest Covid conditions in Oregon prisons, Pendleton, July. Credit: Bob Lonergan
In mid-September more than 3,000 prisoners, including over 1,000 women, were evacuated under the most horrific conditions from several Oregon prisons due to historic forest fires and smoke. These evacuations — so-called "super-spreader events" — are a probable cause for the current spike in Covid-19 deaths.
Evacuated prisoners were handcuffed in pairs and packed in buses with little or no personal protective equipment — in flagrant disregard of public health protocols.
Women prisoners evacuated to Deer Ridge, a men's prison, were kept on buses for more than seven hours straight with no toilet facilities. They were callously told by guards to "go in your pants." There was no food and little or no water.
Demonstrations against horrid conditions
The women protested vehemently against the unacceptable conditions, and demonstrated loudly and defiantly on each bus. When they arrived at Deer Ridge, all prisoners, men and women, were forced to sleep only six inches apart in cells, hallways, a recreation center, and other spaces.
Over 200 male prisoners rioted, sitting down in the yard, after being told they would be housed in a building that had been closed for four years. Upon entering, they found the space overrun with mice, littered with mice feces and smelling of urine – which is not only grossly unpleasant but can carry the potentially lethal hantavirus, especially in dry climates like eastern Oregon.
In addition, the space reeked of mildew and the walls were covered with green and black mold. On top of this, the prisoners were not provided with sleeping gear and were expected to sleep in the trash and filth.
Of approximately 15,000 people incarcerated in Oregon's state prisons, 1,403 have contracted the novel coronavirus. Of 72 "workplaces" in the state known to have high concentrations of Covid-19, three of the top four are state prisons. Oregon calls prisons "workplaces" because guards and staff work in them. While no staff members employed in any prison have died of the virus, 17 prisoners have.
But Oregon prisons, like all U.S. prisons, are workplaces. In 2019, prisoners in the state produced $29 million in value. Nevertheless, they were paid only a maximum hourly wage of 5 cents to 47 cents. Additionally, 345 Oregon prisoners are firefighters who risk their lives for a maximum pay of $9.80 per day.
Of the 1,403 virus cases among prisoners, 498 are in Snake River prison. There, guards and staff notoriously and flagrantly refuse to use PPE or adhere to public health protocols for either themselves or for prisoners. Snake River has the highest death count among prisoners; seven have died there.
Sources: perilouschronicle.com; prisonpolicy.com; oregonlive.com
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No (Actual) Injury, No Problem: Second Circuit Recognizes an "Increased-Risk" Theory of Standing for Plaintiffs in Data Breach Cases
In McMorris v. Carlos Lopez & Associates, LLC, a data breach case, the Second Circuit held that plaintiffs may demonstrate standing based on a theory of "increased risk" of future identity theft or fraud following an unauthorized disclosure of their data. With this holding, the Second Circuit joins the Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, and D.C. Circuits in recognizing that a plaintiff can establish an Article III injury based solely on an increased risk of identity theft or fraud.1 While the Third, Fourth, Eighth, and Eleventh Circuits2 have declined to find standing on the facts of a case alleging an increased risk of future injury, they have not altogether foreclosed the viability of the increased-risk theory.3 This means that, in the event of a data breach, companies may be sued by alleged victims who have not yet suffered any actual harm.
Articulating Injury in Data Breach Cases
The first Article III standing requirement — injury in fact — tends to be the most contested standing issue in data breach cases. In the aftermath of a data breach, the extent of harm done is often unknown. Plaintiffs in data breach cases are thus more likely to allege a future injury, such as an increased risk of identity theft or fraud, rather than a tangible, present injury. This situation has forced federal courts to grapple with the question of when allegations of future injury are no longer "too speculative" to constitute an injury in fact.4
A Likely Scenario: An Errant Email Results in an Unauthorized Disclosure of Employees' Personal Data
The McMorris case arose out of an accidental disclosure of personally identifiable information ("PII") at Carlos Lopez & Associates ("CLA"), which provides mental and behavioral health services to veterans, service members, and their families. In June 2018, a CLA employee accidentally sent an email to all of the approximately 65 employees at the company, attaching a spreadsheet containing current and former employees' PII, including Social Security numbers, home addresses, dates of birth, telephone numbers, educational degrees, and dates of hire. There was no allegation that the information was shared outside of CLA.
Following the unauthorized disclosure, three CLA employees filed a class action complaint against CLA and its principal for negligence, negligence per se, and statutory consumer protection violations on behalf of classes in California, Florida, Texas, Maine, New Jersey, and New York. The plaintiffs alleged that CLA breached its duty to protect their personal information and to take reasonable steps to contain the damage caused where such information was compromised. While none of the plaintiffs had been victims of fraud or identity theft as a result of the data breach, they claimed injury based on an alleged imminent risk of identity theft and the fact that they had been forced to cancel credit cards, purchase identity theft protection services, and spend time assessing whether they should apply for new Social Security numbers.
After the defendants moved to dismiss, the parties reached a proposed settlement and sought approval from the district court. The court, however, declined to approve the settlement and dismissed the case for lack of standing, finding that the plaintiffs had failed to allege an actual or imminent injury.5 In doing so, the court observed that it was a "misnomer to even call this case a 'data breach' case," since "[a]t best, the data was 'misplaced'" by a CLA employee.6
The Second Circuit Opens the Door to Plaintiffs Who Can Show a Risk of Future Identity Theft or Fraud
On appeal, the Second Circuit held that plaintiffs in data breach cases may establish Article III standing based on an "increased-risk" theory.7 According to the court, "requiring plaintiffs to allege that they have already suffered identity theft or fraud as the result of a data breach would seem to run afoul of the Supreme Court's recognition that '[a]n allegation of future injury may suffice to establish Article III standing.'"8
Next, the court endorsed a non-dispositive, non-exhaustive list of factors that bear on whether the risk of identity theft or fraud is sufficiently "concrete, particularized, and … imminent."9 Those factors are as follows:
Whether the plaintiffs' data has been exposed as the result of a targeted attempt to obtain that data. While none of the factors is dispositive, the court emphasized that this factor is the most important.10 When a data breach is the result of a targeted attack, the likelihood of future identity theft or fraud is generally sufficient to confer standing because "[p]resumably, the purpose of the hack is … to make fraudulent charges or assume those consumers' identities."11
Whether any portion of the compromised dataset has already been misused, even if the plaintiffs themselves have not yet experienced identity theft or fraud. This factor includes evidence that other individuals whose data was compromised in the same data breach experienced fraudulent activity, as well as "evidence that plaintiffs' data is already being misused, even if that misuse has not yet resulted in an actual or attempted identity theft."12
Whether the type of data that has been exposed is sensitive, such that there is a high risk of identity theft or fraud. A data breach involving high-risk information such as Social Security numbers and dates of birth makes it more likely that the victims will be subject to future identity theft or fraud. Less sensitive data (i.e., "publicly available information, or data that can be rendered useless to cybercriminals"13) does not pose the same risk of future identity theft or fraud.
Applying these factors, the Second Circuit held that plaintiffs failed to show they were at a substantial risk of future identity theft or fraud. The first factor weighed against plaintiffs because their data was never obtained deliberately or otherwise by anyone outside CLA. As such, any risk of future identity theft was too attenuated, especially in light of the fact that CLA's employees regularly dealt with highly sensitive personal information. The second factor also weighed against plaintiffs because none of the data was misused as a result of the inadvertent disclosure. While the third factor cut in plaintiffs' favor, the sensitive nature of the data alone did not, by itself, establish that plaintiffs were at a substantial risk of future identity theft or fraud. Absent a showing of a substantial risk of future injury, the court was unwilling to find that the time and money plaintiffs spent protecting themselves against a "speculative threat" qualified as a cognizable injury14 and the court affirmed the dismissal of the complaint for lack of Article III standing.
Takeaways and What this Means for You
McMorris will be cited by both plaintiffs and defendants
Given the lack of guidance from the Supreme Court on standing in data breach cases, McMorris will likely be cited by courts both within and outside the Second Circuit. The Second Circuit's attempt to synthesize prior federal data breach cases also makes McMorris a good starting point for both plaintiffs and defendants in these cases. McMorris is pro-plaintiff insofar as it opens the door to plaintiffs who can show they are at a substantial risk of some future misuse of their data. However, McMorris can also be cited by defendants, particularly those who have experienced a data breach as the result of an all too common accidental disclosure because, without more to establish the likelihood of identity theft or fraud, such a fact pattern would fail to establish standing based on these factors. Defendants generally will also be able to rely on the Second Circuit's rejection of mitigation costs (i.e., time spent cancelling credit cards) as independent grounds for establishing a cognizable injury.
While McMorris opens the door to plaintiffs who can allege a substantial risk of future injury, defendants likely cannot be held liable for such injuries
Following the Second Circuit's decision in McMorris, the question of damages in cases where plaintiffs have not suffered actual injury is likely going to be on the minds of many companies' in-house counsel. While this issue has not been addressed by the Second Circuit, companies may look to the D.C. Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for guidance. In Attias v. CareFirst, Inc., the D.C. Circuit held that insureds whose personal information was stolen during a data breach plausibly alleged a substantial risk of future injury and thus had standing to sue CareFirst, a health insurance provider, for breach of contract, negligence, and violations of various state consumer-protection statutes.15 On remand, the district court addressed whether plaintiffs' causes of action should be dismissed for failure to plead actual damages. Siding with CareFirst, the court concluded that "the mere threat of misuse of personal information would not be sufficient to state a claim for actual damages."16 According to the court, only the plaintiffs that "alleged actual misuse" were able to recover damages.
McMorris highlights the potentially important role of encryption in a company's information security program
Encryption can play a key role in limiting companies' exposure in the event of an accidental loss or disclosure of data. Ensuring that personal information, especially "high-risk" personal information such as Social Security numbers and dates of birth, is encrypted at rest and in transit can protect against human error. Accidental emails and the loss or theft of company phones, laptops, and other devices are common. Strong encryption, with a separately stored key, can provide a backstop to compliance programs because it further decreases any risk that the lost or disclosed personal information can be misused by unintended third-party recipients.
McMorris leaves at least two key questions unanswered
In McMorris, the Second Circuit noted that it was "express[ing] no view on the separate but related question of whether plaintiffs may allege a present injury in fact stemming from the violation of a statute designed to protect individuals' privacy, which primarily involves the application of the Supreme Court's decision in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins …."17 In Spokeo, the Supreme Court held that even an "intangible harm" will be sufficient to establish a present injury if it either "has a close relationship to a harm that has traditionally been regarded as providing a basis for a lawsuit in English or American courts," or is one that Congress has otherwise "elevat[ed] to the status of legally cognizable injuries."18 While some federal courts have interpreted Spokeo to mean that the violation of a privacy statute is sufficient to establish an Article III injury,19 this privacy-based theory of standing remains uncertain in the Second Circuit.
Standing issues in data breach cases may also be impacted by the Supreme Court's forthcoming decision in TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez.20 In Ramirez, the Court is considering whether Article III or Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 permits a damages class action when the vast majority of the class suffered no actual injury. The Court heard oral argument on March 30, 2021 and is expected to issue a decision in June 2021. Vinson & Elkins will continue to monitor and provide updates on these issues.
1 Galaria v. Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co., 663 F. App'x 384, 387–89 (6th Cir. 2016); Remijas v. Neiman Marcus Grp., LLC, 794 F.3d 688, 692, 694–95 (7th Cir. 2015); Krottner v. Starbucks Corp., 628 F.3d 1139, 1142–43 (9th Cir. 2010); Attias v. Carefirst, Inc., 865 F.3d 620, 629 (D.C. Cir. 2017).
2 See Reilly v. Ceridian Corp., 664 F.3d 38, 44 (3d Cir. 2011) (distinguishing analogous cases from the Ninth and Seventh Circuits on their facts instead of rejecting the "increased-risk" theory altogether); Beck v. McDonald, 848 F.3d 262, 275 (4th Cir. 2017) ("[W]e may … find standing based on a 'substantial risk' that the harm will occur …."); In re SuperValu, Inc., 870 F.3d 763, 773 (8th Cir. 2017) (declining to hold that "evidence of misuse following a data breach is necessary for a plaintiff to establish standing"); Tsao v. Captiva MVP Rest. Partners, LLC, 986 F.3d 1332, 1343 (11th Cir. 2021) ("[A]s our sister Circuits have recognized, evidence of actual misuse is not necessary for a plaintiff to establish standing following a data breach.").
3 McMorris v. Carlos Lopez & Assocs., LLC, No. 19-4310, 2021 WL 1603808, at *3 (2d Cir. Apr. 26, 2021), available at https://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/443c2085-6c11-4fce-b3b4-12a3f2a7a0f9/1/doc/19-4310_opn.pdf#xml=https://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/443c2085-6c11-4fce-b3b4-12a3f2a7a0f9/1/hilite/.
4 Clapper v. Amnesty Int'l USA, 568 U.S. 398, 410 (2013).
5 Steven v. Carlos Lopez & Assocs., LLC, 422 F. Supp. 3d 801, 804 (S.D.N.Y. 2019).
6 Id. at 806 n.3.
7 See McMorris, 2021 WL 1603808, at *3 ("We therefore join all of our sister circuits that have addressed the issue in holding that plaintiffs may establish standing based on an increased risk of identity theft or fraud following the unauthorized disclosure of their data.").
8 Id. (quoting Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus, 573 U.S. 149, 158 (2014)).
9 Id. at *4 (quoting Thole v. U.S. Bank, N.A., 140 S. Ct. 1615, 1618 (2020)).
10 See id. ("First, and most importantly, our sister circuits have consistently considered whether the data at issue has been compromised as the result of a targeted attack intended to obtain the plaintiffs' data.").
11 Id. (quoting Remijas, 794 F.3d at 693).
12 Id.
13 Id. at *5.
14 See id. ("[W]here plaintiffs 'have not alleged a substantial risk of future identity theft, the time they spent protecting themselves against this speculative threat cannot create an injury.'") (quoting In re SuperValu, Inc., 870 F.3d at 771).
15 Attias, 865 F.3d at 629.
16 Attias v. CareFirst, Inc., 365 F. Supp. 3d 1, 12 (D.D.C. 2019), appeal dismissed, 969 F.3d 412 (D.C. Cir. 2020), and on reconsideration in part, No. 15-CV-00882, 2021 WL 311000 (D.D.C. Jan. 29, 2021).
17 Id. at *3 n.3.
18 Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, 136 S. Ct. 1540, 1549 (2016).
19 See, e.g., In re Horizon Healthcare Servs. Inc. Data Breach Litig., 846 F.3d 625, 634–35 (3d Cir. 2017) (violation of customers' statutory rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act in connection with two laptops containing unencrypted personal information that were allegedly stolen from health insurer's headquarters was a de facto injury that satisfied the Article III standing requirement).
20 TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez (No. 20-273), Oyez, https://www.oyez.org/cases/2020/20-297.
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A debt-ridden handyman from Romford who bludgeoned an 85-year-old widow to death with a hammer and stole her £7,000 diamond ring has been jailed for life.
Convicted burglar Paul Prause, 65, pleaded guilty to murdering former seamstress Rosina Coleman at her Romford home in May.
Judge Philip Katz QC jailed him for life with a minimum term of 22 years.
He described the wounds inflicted on the vulnerable victim as "sickening".
He told Prause: "Your attack with a hammer was brutal and sustained long enough for her to have defensive wounds. Her terror can only be imagined. There were at least 11 blows with severe force."
The Old Bailey heard how Prause had worked for Mrs Coleman as a gardener for about six years.
On May 15, he donned latex gloves and battered her with a hammer in her bedroom before calling police, claiming he found the body when he arrived to mow the lawn.
He later admitted killing Mrs Coleman, claiming he acted out of anger at something she said.
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The blood splattered bedroom was ransacked with drawers pulled out.
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That being said, before even covering NPV, I would have first talked about the time value of money. To me, time value of money is one of the top 3 concepts that blew my mind in business school and that should be common knowledge. When you think about it, all of finance, but also much of business, is underpinned by that. Once you understand time value of money, you understand opportunity costs, you understand sunk costs, you just view the world in a whole different light.
PEG is right. We have to talk about the Time Value Of Money and it was a mistake to dive into concepts like Present Value and Discount Rates before doing that. So we'll hit the rewind button and go back to the start. Here it goes.
Money today is generally worth more than money tomorrow. As another commenter to last week's post put it "you can't buy beer tonight with next year's earnings". Money in your pocket, cash in hand, is worth more than cash that you don't actually have in hand. If you think about it that simply, everyone can agree that they'd rather have the cash in hand than the promise of the same amount at some later day.
2) I then divided the discount by the amount you'd take today. That is $100/$900, which is 11.1%.
This transaction could be modeled out the other way. Let's say you are willing to loan a friend $900 and you agree that he'll pay you an interest rate of 11.1%. You multiply $900 times 11.1%, you get $100 of total interest, and add that to the $900 and calculate that he'll pay you back $1000 a year from now.
As you can tell from the way I talked about them, interest rates and discount rates are generally the same thing. There are technical differences, but both represent a rate of increase in the time value of money.
So if the interest rate describes the time value of money, then the higher it is, the more valuable money is in your hands and the less valuable money is down the road.
There are multiple reasons that money can be more valuable today than tomorrow. Let's talk about two of them.
1) Inflation – This is a complicated topic that we are not going to get into in detail here. But I need to at least mention it. When prices of things rise faster than they should, we call that inflation. It can be caused by a number of things, most often when the supply of money is rising faster than is sustainable. But the important thing to note is that if a house that costs $100,000 today is going to cost $120,000 next year, that represents 20% inflation and you'd want to earn 20% on your money every year to compensate you for that inflation. You'd want a 20% interest rate on your cash to be compensated for that inflation.
2) Risk – If your money is in a federally guaranteed bank deposit for a year, you might accept 2% interest on it. If it is invested in your friend's startup, you might want a double on your money in a year. Why the difference between a 2% interest rate and a 100% interest rate? Risk. You know you are getting the money in the bank back. You are pretty sure you aren't getting the money back that you invested in your friend's startup and want to get a lot back if it works out.
So let's deconstruct interest rates a bit to parse these different reasons out of them.
Let's say the current rate of interest on a one year treasury bill (a note sold by the US Gov't that is federally guaranteed) is paying a rate of interest of 3%. That is an important rate to pay attention to. Because it is a one year interest rate on a risk free instrument (assuming that the US Gov't is solvent and always will be). We will assume for now that is true. So the "risk free rate" is 3%. That is the rate that the "market" says we should be accepting for a one year instrument with no risk.
Now let's take inflation into account. If the Consumer Price Index (the CPI) says that costs are rising 2.5% year over year, then we can say that the one year inflation rate is 2.5%. It can get a lot more complicated than this, but many real estate leases use the CPI so we can use it too. If you subtract the inflation rate from the risk free rate, you get something called the "real interest rate". In our example, that would be 0.5% (3% minus 2.5%). And we call the 3% rate, the "nominal rate".
Now let's take risk into account. Let's say you can find a corporate bond in the bond market that is coming due next year and will pay $1000 and it is trading for $900 right now. We know from the example that we started with that it is "paying" a discount rate of 11.1% for the next year. If we subtract the 3% risk free rate of interest from the 11.1%, we can determine that market is demanding a "risk premium" of 8.1% over the risk free rate for this bond. That means that not everyone thinks that this company is going to be able to pay back the bond in full, but most people do.
Ok, so hopefully you'll see that interest rates and discount rates have components to them. In its simplest form, and interest rate is composed of the risk free rate plus an inflation premium plus a risk premium. In our examples, the risk free "real" interest rate is 0.5%, the inflation premium is 2.5%, and the risk premium on the corporate bond is 8.1%. Add all of those together, and you get the 11.1% rate that is the discount rate the corporate bond trades at in the markets.
Which leads me to my final point. Markets set rates. Banks don't and governments don't. Banks and governments certainly impact rates and governments can do a lot to impact rates and they do all the time. But at the end of the day it is you and me and it is the traders, both speculators and hedgers, who determine how much of a discount we'll accept to get our money now and how much interest we'll want to wait another year. It is the sum total of all of these transactions that create the market and the market sets rates and they change every second and always will (at least in a capitalist system).
That was tough to do in a blog post. It's a very simple concept but very powerful and as Pascal-Emmanuel said, it is fundamental to all of finance. I hope I explained it well. It's important to understand this one.
Regarding the time value of the money, not always $1 today is worth more than a $1 tomorrow. Deflation makes today's dollars worth more as the prices of goods, services and assets decline. This is why the yield curve is inverted just before a recession – investors are discounting the expected negative economic growth.
Then you say that "you can't buy beer today with tomorrow's money". Well, this is exactly what most people are doing by taking credit = they are borrowing from their future income in order to consume today.
yes, and if you use a negative inflation rate then you can get to a negative interest rate and then you have money today worth less than money tomorrow.
that's why i added the word "generally" to my first statement on this topic.
This post was originally written by Fred Wilson on February 8, 2010 here.


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You just need to make a slight adjustment. I would also recommend that you assign custom anchorX and Y to the text so that it functions like in those other games you mentioned.
I want the text to show in self-writing, like in Pokemon, Undertale, or any other game, but I have no idea of how to use the string functions to make it.


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UAlbany-Siena rivalry on the back burner | The Daily Gazette
UAlbany-Siena rivalry on the back burner
With the Albany Cup discontinued, veteran Great Danes coach Will Brown and new Saints coach Jamion Christian focused on upcoming season
By Mike MacAdam | September 17, 2018
PHOTOGRAPHER: Erica Miller
UAlbany men's basketball coach Will Brown, left, talks with Siena's Jamion Christian before a charitable event Monday.
ALBANY — Will Brown has been here for coming up on 18 seasons, while Jamion Christian is the new guy in town.
Other than a text here and there between them, Monday's Coaches vs. Cancer fundraiser at the Albany Capital Center offered the UAlbany men's basketball head coach and his Siena counterpart a chance to rub elbows, do some schmoozing for a worthy cause and get to know each other a little better.
There's so much that goes into being a Division I basketball coach, and in this market, where the Great Danes and Saints are separated by just eight miles, it extends a little further by way of public functions like this and the Real Men Wear Pink event at which Brown and Christian had time for a conversation.
Where they won't be interacting — for the first time in 18 years — is on the basketball court.
Christian arrives in Loudonville just in time for the (perhaps temporary) demise of the Albany Cup series between the schools that Siena dominated for the first half and UAlbany dominated for the second.
Although the programs have pretty consistently exhibited mutual respect for each other — the public verbal feud between Brown and Jimmy Patsos in 2016 notwithstanding — there was also always some delicious tension in the air for the Albany Cup, especially among the respective fan bases.
For the foreseeable future, Christian won't get to experience that, but the rivalry isn't dead yet, and the 36-year-old Christian said he has a profound appreciation for it. There certainly was a standard message when he talked to former Siena coaches about the job and the basketball landscape here.
"It was 'Beat Albany,'" Christian said with a laugh.
"I just think it's other people around both programs that want both programs to go oh-and-30," Brown said. "I think when both teams are good, it's good for the area. I think it's more enjoyable for the media. Where else can two programs get so much attention, especially non-Power-5 and non-BCS programs? I try to explain to our players every year how fortunate they are."
Both teams are in a state of flux, Siena by virtue of the coaching change from Patsos to Christian, and Albany because of roster turnover, most notably the transfer of its two stars, Joe Cremo and David Nichols.
The two schools couldn't manage to keep the Albany Cup going, over the issue of whether the game would rotate to UAlbany's much smaller SEFCU Arena, but some of the components of a traditional rivalry remain.
"We played them once out in Dayton in the NCAA Tournament [when Christian was at Mount St. Mary's], but other than that, I really didn't know him very well," Brown said. "I've had a chance to spend some time with him. He's a good guy. He brings a lot of energy to that program over there, and as I've said for the longest time, every year I root for them but one game, when they play us. So now I guess I get to root for them every game."
"The rivalry with Albany is huge," Christian said. "The Capital District deserves that game, and we'll keep trying to work towards it and try to build it in, and I know we'll continue to have conversations about how to work that in. It's a great game, Will Brown does a great job with his program and we're going to do a great job with our program at Siena. It's a worthy conversation every year.
So, in absence of the Albany Cup, the rivalry will be relegated to social media among the fans.
The coaches, meanwhile, have enough to concern themselves with just getting their teams ready for the season, which opens for both on Nov. 6.
"I wish them nothing but the best, and I hope they do well," Brown said. "The majority of my focus and energy will be for me to find a way for this team to continue to win 20-plus games and put us in a good position late in the year to have a chance to win the America East. I'm probably more energized than I have been in a long time because of the unknown and all of the youth in our program right now. I'd be worried if the talent wasn't there."
"He hasn't offered me an awful lot of advice. And I respect his gamesmanship," Christian said. "I did have a chance to speak with all the former Siena coaches, and they gave me a great level of advice on things to consider and to work on, and people to know. The history doesn't always tell you what your future is, but it can give you a snapshot of how good things can be and also how bad things can be.
"We're looking forward to the challenge of getting our program back to the top."
Second-year Washington head coach Mike Hopkins, a former Syracuse player and long-time assistant to Jim Boeheim, served as the Coaches vs. Cancer special guest and was given the annual Inspiration Award.
One of the sophomores on his Huskies team is former Albany Academy star Hameir Wright, who apparently has added 25 pounds of muscle to his frame.
Hopkins said he expects Wright to see increased playing time after averaging 14.9 minutes in 33 games as a freshman.
"He's a guy — Nahziah Carter, another guy from New York — who learned a lot," Hopkins said. "They now know our defense. Offensively, they understand what's a good shot and what's a bad shot.
"But Hameir has really improved his open jump shooting, he's a great passer, he makes others around him better, and when you have a veteran team coming back, that's what you need. He rebounds, blocks shots, makes shots … he's going to play a lot of minutes."
Wright and Carter, from Bishop Kearney High in Rochester, were also Albany City Rocks teammates.
Reach Gazette Sportswriter Mike MacAdam at 518-395-3146 or [email protected]. Follow on Twitter @Mike_MacAdam.


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Tiffany Haddish's Hilarious Groupon Story Lands Her Spokesperson Gig and Super Bowl Ad
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Tiffany Haddish's love for Groupon is sending her to the Super Bowl. The Girls Trip actress went viral last summer, when she told Jimmy Kimmel a story about taking co-star Jada Pinkett-Smith and husband Will Smith on a Groupon swamp tour while filming in New Orleans (watch below).
The hilarious re-telling, which included the revelation that the Smiths had no idea what Groupon was, apparently spread quickly through the ranks of the discount e-commerce site. The company decided that they wanted to work with the actress and offered her a role as spokesperson. Now, she'll be featured in a series of ads for the company, including its first Super Bowl commercial in seven years, which will air during the fourth quarter of the game.
According to Groupon's head of marketing for North America, Jon Wild, when the company looked into Haddish, they not only found that the actress is a bonafide fan of its service, but that she is actually in the top 1% of most frequent purchasers. "She knows our product better than a lot of Groupon employees," Wild said. "She could name what she'd done, the experience she had and how much she'd saved."
That expertise not only landed Haddish the spokesperson gig, but also effectively made her an honorary employee. Groupon has also given Haddish her own section of the site, given her access to the employee app, and "put some Groupon bucks in her account."
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Donor Profile: Essence of Ryan
For the parents of Ryan Tucker, September will always hold special meaning. Ryan was born on September 27. This year, he would have turned 25. Ryan was a student at Metropolitan State University when he took his own life in 2012, at the age of 19.
For the past six years, Ryan's two sets of parents—Floyd and Rhonda Dickerson and Art and Celeste Tucker—have paid tribute to his memory through the Essence of Ryan event, which brings friends, family, and community together to celebrate Ryan's life and legacy. In the first five years, Essence of Ryan benefited Family Tree, Denver Rescue Mission, the Delores Project, Aurora Warms the Night, and Aurora Interfaith Community Services. Through a donor-advised fund at The Denver Foundation, the family also made a financial contribution to each organization.
At this year's Essence of Ryan event, nearly 80 volunteers spent the day making more than 300 fleece, no-sew blankets, which were then delivered to Comitis Crisis Center in Aurora. Comitis helps men, women, families, and veterans who are experiencing homelessness. On the day the blankets were delivered, staff reported it was a true blessing, as the center had nearly run out.
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Ryan's stepfather, Floyd Dickerson, shared some thoughts on the event and Ryan's spirit of generosity.
Why did you decide to place homelessness at the center of your tribute to Ryan?
Volunteering was something Ryan grew up with, whether feeding seniors Thanksgiving dinner at The Retirement Enlisted Association with me and his mom or going along to watch his father donate blood at Bonfils Blood Center. While Ryan attended Metro State, we noticed he was spending an enormous amount of money on food each month in addition to his campus meal plan. It wasn't until his Metro State student memorial service that we learned he'd been using the extra money to feed several people he'd befriended who were homeless. It was something he inspired his other friends to do as well. Ryan also volunteered at a nearby homeless shelter.
As you know, vulnerable families and individuals in our community go without proper food, shelter, and essential medical care every day due to a variety of factors. Giving them blankets is a practical way to help them and also to let them feel that someone cares about them. Each blanket has a label sewn into it, identifying it as an Essence of Ryan blanket.
In addition to honoring Ryan, what are your goals for the Essence of Ryan event?
Essence of Ryan is a true community event. In the first year or two it was mainly friends and family. Now we see people from across the community showing up to help. In addition to supporting the particular nonprofits that receive the blankets, and helping the individuals who receive those blankets, we hope the event will encourage volunteerism in young people and create an awareness of homelessness within our community.
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Northwest Assistance Ministries Delivered School Supplies to More Than 1,500 Students in the Houston Area
The summer is almost over, but excitement over school supplies is just around the corner!
Northwest Assistance Ministries (NAM) distributed its annual Back to School supplies to more than 1,500 children from kindergarten through 12th grade on August 13, 2016. The Back to School program helps local children in need from the Spring, Klein parts of Aldine and Cy-Fair Independent School Districts with the school supplies needed to start the school year.
"We are excited to see new and familiar faces that will benefit from our Back to School program," explained Debbie Peterson, Director of Emergency Basic Needs at NAM. "We know how important it is for children to have school supplies and for families to have one less financial burden to worry about," Peterson said.
One of those familiar faces is Cynthia Ross, who came back for a second time after receiving Back to School supplies last year for her family. "Shopping for school supplies for my family is so much easier thanks to NAM," said Ross. "I have three kids and I'm excited they'll get to experience education on a different level. NAM has been of tremendous help for me and my family."
According to Peterson, support from our local community has been instrumental to the success of this program. "We couldn't do what we do without all the help we receive from our corporate and community partners, congregations, supporters and NAM staff," Peterson said. "Thanks to their continued support, NAM is able to help many children and families in need and we're excited about being able to make a difference in their lives."
In addition to receiving school supplies, 200 children received a $20 Payless gift card for shoes and 300 other received a $30 Academy gift card to purchase uniforms. This year's Back to School donation goal was $31,000 and currently NAM has raised $16,995. NAM will be accepting donations until the goal is met.
To donate to NAM's Back to School program, please visit www.namonline.org to learn how to help children in need start the school year with confidence. You may also send a check payable to Northwest Assistance Ministries at 15555 Kuykendahl Road, Houston, TX 77090.
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Your World Series Matchup Is Set
By Joe DeLessio
The Cardinals celebrate their National League championship last night.
Last night's 12-6 Cardinals win in Milwaukee means that the 2011 World Series matchup is now set: On Wednesday night, the National League champion Cards will host the American League champion Rangers in Game One. Will is going to be writing about the World Series beginning Wednesday, but right now he's still putting the finishing touches on his David Freese scrapbook. So for now, we'll make just two points about the series.
One is that we're reminded again today how silly it is that baseball uses the All-Star game to determine home-field advantage in the World Series. Because the National League won this year's game, the Cardinals (a Wild Card team that won 90 games) will have home field over the Rangers (a division winner that won 96 games). And please don't tell us that knowing which league will host the game matters for logistical purposes, since the site of Game One wasn't determined until last night anyway, and wouldn't have been determined until tonight if Milwaukee had won Game Six.
The other is that the Cardinals are going to the World Series not because of their starting pitching — none of their starters lasted more than five innings in this series — but on the strength of their bullpen and bats. Which, if you'll recall, is how the Yankees had hoped to get back to the World Series this year. The difference, of course, is that the Cardinals' big hitters actually hit: Albert Pujols had an OPS of 1.469 in the NLCS, and Matt Holliday had an OPS of 1.152. Meanwhile, there was no shortage of Yankees who didn't hit in the ALDS against Detroit, most notably Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira.
Of course, there's one other key difference between the Cardinals and Yankees: The Cardinals had a lucky squirrel on their side, while it's been years since the Yankees had one of those.
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The Harness Racing Industry Training Centre Board Of Management (HRITC) was established in 1990 to provide a point of entry for anyone wishing to participate in the harness racing industry.
The Centre was established in Bendigo in 1990, as a section of the Bendigo TAFE. Bendigo was chosen because of the strength of the harness racing industry in the area and the willingness of the local trainers to assist with the development of the students.
The Centre has a state of the art stable complex and maintains a team of horses for students to develop their practical skills. The horses are regularly raced providing valuable experience for the student group.
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The Centre was accredited as a Registered Training Organisation (RTO 22215) in 2010.
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The dramatic spread of the so called diseases of civilization have occurred in the last decade worldwide. Deaths caused by them have long been of the highest rate among all causes of deaths. In parallel with the spread of the diseases of civilization, population of developed countries is increasingly ageing that increases the number of inactives and those who rely on health treatment. The outlined factors pose new challenges to the food industry: it requires the development new foods that slow down the spread of the diseases of civilization that hit the humankind through their health care effect, and at the same time provide longer life in health for the ageing societies. In the decade after decoding the human genome an extremely rapid development occurred in the techniques of genomics, and in the disciplines applying genomics methods. Researches in genomics focus on how the human genome interacts with the environmental factors for determining the gene expression. Nutrition as one of the most important environmental factors has an obvious impact on the health but we have not known yet exactly what this impact is and what its mechanism is. The so called nutrigenomics – that is a new discipline – aims to reveal the relationships that are not yet known. The personalized nutrition is a conception that adapts the diet, the foods, and the nutrients to the unique needs of the specific person.
The authors examined the relationships between the functional foods, consumer attitudes and personalized nutrition in the framework of a nation-wide representative consumer survey of 500 people. According to the results majority of the consumers (73.8%) believes that her/him nutrition (diet) follows a normal structure and all that she/he needs enters her/his body automatically. Knowing the critical health state of the population it can be stated that the high agreement portion is based on misbelieves. This is also indicated by the fact that 57.4% of consumers only eats foods that tastes good, even when it is supposedly less healthy. In the next half year almost 50% of the Hungarian population do not intend to switch to a nutrition considered healthier by themselves. Further 22% of the respondents already feel some urge to change their behavior, they compare the costs and the potential benefits of change. Only 5.0% of the interviewees switched to a nutrition considered healthier by themselves in the last six months, and the rate of those who maintain the positive change is 17.4%.
In the current situation there is no other option than raising awareness of the population for foods that provide excess nutrition benefits. These are the functional foods that hold important position in the education to healthy nutrition of the population. However, it is does matter in which strategy they are used by the enterprises. This applies for the development of both new technologies and new functional foods where involvement of consumers is inevitable today.
The so called perception screening theory answers the solution of the anomalies between the scientific objectivity and the consumer perception. We tried to apply the perception screening theory in a new discipline, entirely unknown to the consumers. The nutrition genomics and its major application area, the personalized nutrition are novel concepts to the population to such an extent that preferences and attitudes related to them have not occurred yet. This is why it could be interesting which most important psychological processes are the ones that can lead to the adoption of the new technology, and the development of the positive consumer attitudes. According to the results Hungarian consumers are mistrustful against the new technology and they are uncertain – despite its obvious advantages. The not so positive attitude is likely caused by more factors together. Traditional thinking, reluctance to the new play a role in it as well as the lack of information and misbelieves related to the genetic tests. The technology is novel to the consumers to such an extent that we found significant differences between the consumer segments only in some cases, i.e. consumer preferences cannot be classified, they are highly scattered. Finally, the authors developed an optimized practical model by which the successful launch of a new functional food and its hindering factors can be securely forecasted.
The Hungarian Journal of Nutrition Marketing. 2014. 1 (1-2) 3-17.
The interest which is shown about food and meals nowadays is high. More and more new magazines, blogs, restaurant reviews and ratings, TV channels, contests and festivals appear in connection with this topic. In this study the new phenomena of food topic is analysed through several megatrend buzzwords. The study tries to draw up a system for the connections of food and meal topic and also tries to present research results about it. Some research results are presented in the study in order to illustrate the behaviour of Hungarian consumer.
The Hungarian Journal of Nutrition Marketing. 2014. 1 (1-2) 19-27.
3. Analysis of the Food Consumer Behavior in the Online Environment: Does Digital Food Consumer Exist in Hungary?
In recent years one of the major players in the market have changed radically, the consumer. They have been titled as "digitally enlightened" citizens by various researches. The main characteristics of "traditional" consumer's behavior have been discussed previously by numerous researchers. However research on digital consumers, especially in domestic circles, is still in initial stage.
The main objective of this article is to determine the online consumer behavior trends in our country, in relation to information and shopping in particular of food. At the end of this publication we intent to answer the question asked in the title, i.e. does digital food consumer exist in this country.
In our study we used the online consumer buying behavior process as base. Each step was mapped out by using relevant and current literature analysis. Using national representative survey (N=1000) we examined in detail the food-related online information searches and the shopping opportunities in online shops.
The convenience factor – similar to the description of the literature- is the most advantageous aspect of online shopping. At online shops the other factors examined convergence occurring in the median values show the uncertainty of customers' purchasing behavior, which results in a lack of trust in food purchases.
Overall, we can conclude that the majority of literature and research on food consumption behavior doesn't separate properly the online consumer' roles and most of the emphasis is on the final purchase. Based on literature research, we have attempted to differentiate the digital food consumers based on online behavior in which the basis for the subsequent researches hypothetical fives categories were distinguished.
The Hungarian Journal of Nutrition Marketing. 2014. 1 (1-2) 29-38.
In our study, the information search behavior of sustainability committed consumer group is analyzed. Furthermore, consumer opinions about nutrition labels on food packaging are highlighted. According to the international literature, LOHAS (Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability) group is the most committed consumer segment to sustainability.
Exploration of Hungarian sustainability committed consumer groups' opinion about food labels is supported by the closing part of a research chain which was started in 2010. This, last research was carried out in 2012, where, with the aid of quota sampling, Trend followers' and Unconcerned's judgment on food labels was investigated. The quota and the two mentioned groups were formed on the basis of a national representative research, which was performed in 2011. Information search behavior was evaluated according to the structure of Grunert-Wills' information search model. In this study we focus on our research results, which connect to the last two steps (understanding, interferences and use) of the mentioned model.
H1: Among health information on food packaging, labels stating energy value, are getting a higher influencing role in food purchasing process, where conscious consumer groups have a deeper knowledge about the objective meaning of food labels.
H2: Consumer knowledge about objective meaning of food labels is getting a highlighted role in formation of brand loyalty.
H3: Trust has an essential role in consumer acceptation of food labels, where common qualifier activity of different organizations (state, profit and nonprofit area) come into the front.
H4: Correct understanding of food labels has a positive influencing effect on acceptation of higher prices and on real use of food labels during food purchasing.
One- and multivariate analysis and cross table analysis were calculated to investigate our assumptions. In the closing part of our study, three practical recommendations are defined, which relate to follows: optimization of communication strategy of food industries, way of introduction of new food labels and need of objective guidance of consumers about food information.
The Hungarian Journal of Nutrition Marketing. 2014. 1 (1-2) 39-46.
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Major aim of the examination is to reveal relationships between personal values, the switch to the health conscious nutrition method, and the food consumer behaviour based on the value list by Kahle (LOV). In order to attain this goal a nationwide representative survey was conducted in Hungary with the participation of 1000 persons. According to the results the most important value for the population is safety that is followed by the need for fun and enjoyment in life. During the analysis of the value list a factor structure – different from the standard – was revealed that formed the base of the segmentation. Four consumer segments were identified, the Value oriented, the Moderately value driven, the Safety seeker, and the Disappointed segments.
The Value oriented segment can be considered as the primary target group of health protecting foods as members of this group moved to the direction of more health conscious consumption and in parallel of more health conscious food purchase to the greatest extent (18.5%). The second group showing significant changes is the Safety seekers that suggests that the extent of the value orientation significantly affects the behavior, i.e. food purchase and food consumption independently of its content. The value content provides information to the development of the content elements of the marketing strategy and the marketing message for the producers of health protecting foods.
The Hungarian Journal of Nutrition Marketing. 2014. 1 (1-2) 57-71.
Globalization and its effects can be found almost everywhere. Among the effects of globalization the improvement of international trade, the technological progress, the increasing influence of multinational companies, the strengthening power and influence of international institutions such as the WTO, IMF, and World Bank, greater mobility of human resources across countries, greater outsourcing of business processes to other countries have to be pointed out. As one of the results of globalisation we can buy even such products that have been produced somewhere on the other side of the world. It is not always clear for the consumers where, how and by whom the product has been produced. For conscious consumers the information provided on the packaging of the product, labels, trademarks can help a lot when making their purchasing decision. Of course there are several other ways to collect the necessary information. For these consumers the origin of the product, the producer, the production process, the ingredients, the environmental and social impacts of the production, as well as ethical concerns are really important questions.
The Hungarian Journal of Nutrition Marketing. 2014. 1 (1-2) 73-80.


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