With many hotel chains, you can achieve a meaningful level of hotel elite status simply by signing up for a credit card. For details, please read "How to fast track to meaningful hotel elite status". Marriott is a bit tougher. In my opinion, Marriott's Silver status is almost worthless. Gold status, though, is pretty good. Top tier Platinum status is even better, but not dramatically so.
In this post I'll detail how to get Marriott Gold and Platinum status through credit card spend.
This photo shows my room at the Renaissance Bangkok Ratchaprasong Hotel. I was upgraded to a suite thanks to having Marriott Platinum status.
Silver: Priority late checkout; 20% points bonus for stays.
Gold: Silver benefits plus guaranteed lounge access/breakfast for members plus one guest (excludes resorts and Ritz Carlton properties); room upgrade; free internet; 25% points bonus for stays.
Platinum: Gold benefits plus guaranteed Platinum arrival gift; 50% points bonus for stays.
One way to earn Marriott elite status through spend is with the Marriott Rewards Premier card. This card offers 15 nights elite credit each year plus an additional elite credit for each $3K of spend put on the card. The automatic 15 nights credit is enough for Silver status, but still short 35 nights for much more desirable Gold status.
If you're close to earning the next level of elite status through stays, then this card is a no brainer. For its $85 annual fee you'll get at least 15 nights closer to that next level of status plus a certificate for a free category 1 through 5 night each year. To be clear, this annual free night gives you a free one night stay at a hotel, but does not give you a 1 night credit towards status. And, conversely, the 15 nights of elite credit are just that, you do not get 15 free nights to stay in a hotel.
If you want to manufacture Gold or Platinum status from scratch, I do not recommend this card for that purpose. To get the required 35 additional elite nights for Gold status (without any real paid stays), you would have to spend $105,000 in a calendar year. If your goal is Platinum status, you would have to spend an eye popping $180,000 in a calendar year. You can do better.
A better option for manufacturing Marriott Gold or Platinum status is the Ritz Carlton Rewards Visa card. Ritz and Marriott share the same rewards program, but confusingly keep separate names for their programs. They are interchangeable though. So, if you get Ritz Gold status, that is equivalent to Marriott Gold status. Same for Platinum status. Points earned are interchangeable too.
When you sign up for a Ritz card, you can put in your Marriott Rewards number in the space asking for your Ritz Carlton rewards number. That way, all points and benefits will go to your Marriott account.
In your first year of card membership, the Ritz card gives you automatic Gold status. You can keep Gold status after the first year by spending $10K per account year on the card.
The Ritz card conveys Platinum status when you spend $75,000 or more in one account year.
The card has a $395 annual fee (not usually waived first year), which is partially offset by up to $300 per calendar year in travel credits.
Point earnings: 5X at Marriott and Ritz properties; 2X for airline, car rental, and dining charges; 1X everywhere else. Plus, you'll get a 10% annual points bonus based on points earned from the card through the end of December each year.
With the Ritz card, this is easy. You'll get Gold status right away and you can keep it year after year simply by spending $10K per account year.
Getting Platinum status with the Ritz card is harder, but not impossible. It requires $75K spend per account year. That amounts to $6250 in spend per month. For those who master the art of manufacturing spend, this shouldn't be too big of a hurdle. One does need to be conscious, though, of the opportunity cost. How much cash back or other rewards could have been earned had you spend $6250 per month on a card that offers better rewards per dollar of spend?
By timing things just right, it may be possible to buy two years of status for $10K or $75K spend rather than just one year.
Each Account Year you make Net Purchases totaling $10,000 or more, including during your first Account Year, you will qualify for Gold Elite Status through December 31 of the following year.
Each Account Year you make Net Purchases totaling $75,000 or more you will qualify for Platinum Elite Status through December 31 of the following year.
Please allow 6 to 8 weeks after qualifying for the Platinum Elite Status award to be applied to your Ritz-Carlton Rewards account.
Assuming my interpretation is true, the key would be to meet the spend threshold just before your first closing date in a calendar year. For example, complete the spend requirement in late December, in preparation for an early January closing date. Then, within the next 8 weeks, or less, you should be upgraded to the appropriate elite level. And, if I'm reading the terms and conditions correctly, that elite status should last throughout that year and all of the next year.
Marriott has been known to renew elite member's elite status levels even when they haven't re-qualified. When the time comes for your status to end, I recommend waiting to see what happens. There's a chance that it will continue.
Assuming this offer continues, the amount of manufactured spend required to maintain Platinum status past the first year drops significantly!
Marriott card: Spend $40,000 on 1X categories.
Ritz card: Spend $36,400 on 1X categories. With the 10% annual bonus, you'll earn 40,000 points.
Chase Ink Plus card: Spend $8,000 on 5X categories such as office supplies and telecom (keep in mind that office supply stores often have a good selection of gift cards). Then transfer 40,000 Ultimate Rewards points to Marriott.
If you don't mind the high annual fee, the Ritz Carlton Rewards Visa card offers an easy path to obtain and keep Marriott Gold status: simply spend $10,000 per year. Platinum status is more difficult, in that it requires $75,000 of spend. That said, it is possible to keep Platinum status in ongoing years with as little as $8,000 annual spend (see "Buy it Back", above).
In this post I've detailed how to earn meaningful Marriott elite status through spend, but I didn't address whether or not it's a good idea. Status is very nice to have, especially if you stay in Marriott or Ritz Carlton hotels often. That said, depending upon your travel habits, dedicating your spend (and annual fees) to other cards may make more sense.
Looks good! And you will also get United Premier Silver with Marriott Platinum as well.
Shhh, that's material for a follow up post!
Will Marriott continue the program of giving United elites gold status?
As far as I know they will.
Great info, thanks. I do want to point out something that annoys me about the Marriott free night certificates. For some silly reason, they are only good for 6 months. Unfortunately, I usually plan much further in advance than that, and with when I signed up for the CC, it makes my annual certificate hard to use. My wife gets one, too. I'm currently sitting on 2 that I have to work for figure out how to use. Why not a full year like IHG?
Yeah, I hate that too. I've been told though that Marriott is very nice about extending the dates of the certificates if you call and ask. Its worth a try anyway.
NICE! My free night actually expired few weeks ago. Had no idea. Called in and got it back and they extended 6 months. Thanks Guys.
Manufacturing your way to Gold Status is better when Amex cards can be bought at 3X miles. It greatly defrays the point cost and opportunity cost of manufacturing your way to Gold.
Definitely! Let's hope Amex gift card portal rebates go back up to the 3X range.
I think it's important to point out that while Marriott Platinum elites receive Platinum benefits at Ritz Carltons, the benefits are different for each program. No free breakfast or lounge access for Platinums of the Ritz Carlton program.
Good point! I added the Ritz exclusion where I listed Gold benefits.
So to clarify your points: Ritz Gold members get lounge access & breakfast in Marriott hotels, but not in Ritz hotels or in resorts. Correct?
Hey FM, great post! I have a question.. I signed up for the RC card with the 140k promo. This should give me automatic gold status at RC, but does that transfer over to Marriott properties? Would I just put in my RC number or do I have to convert my account to Marriott? And, as the other poster pointed out, no breakfast/lounge for RC gold members. Would it just make more sense to convert to Marriott for that reason anyway?
Phil, yes simply use your RC number when staying at Marriott properties. Your RC Gold status will give you the same benefits at Marriott properties as a Marriott Gold member.
what about spending 2.2 million for lifetime platinum status?
2.2 million spend gets 2.2 million points 735 nights, having the card gives 15 nights.
Wait would this actually work?
Would you have lifetime with SPG, Marriott, and RC?
I don't know if it would really work. I do know that you could earn far more valuable rewards with other credit cards though.
I have questions about the travel credits that come with the RC Rewards Visa.
1). The conditions for the $100 credit for hotel dining etc. require a 2 night minimum stay. Can that stay be in a Marriott and paid either with points or cash?
2). For the $200 airline incidentals credit, would an airline gift card qualify? Otherwise if it's only limited to in-flight dining and such, it'd be much less useful.
2) Probably. I'm waiting for my friend Stefan (Rapid Travel Chai) to give it a try and let me know.
1: only on paid stays at RC.
2: No, unlike some other cards Ritz does not allow gift cards or tickets to count, but everything else does. If you have a round number like $100 or $200 it will be questioned, and some airlines now code giftcard purchases to show giftcard to the CC company.
Re: the RC card…does \account year\ refer to the 12 months from getting your card as opposed to a calendar year? So if I want to requalify for Gold, and got the card in October, as long as I spend 10K from October to October, I should get Gold for the rest of 2015 and 2016? Even if I cancel the card?
Great advice. I have both Marriott and ritz cards. I have been platinum 6 years, 2 were the hard way so it seams they "good faith" people who are loyal. Also just hit silver for life but not sure that sets it off. Had to wait 2 weeks and was about to call for the challange when I saw it.
You will be charged $395 right away. It's possible to get back up to $300 in airline fee credits though.
Any datapoints on how long it takes to get the Gold status updated after spending 10k? I have a stay coming up in May and would really like to have Gold status by then..
Do you already have the Ritz card? If the card is new to you, you should get Gold status right away after signing up. No spend is required for the first year status.
I currently have had the Marriott Rewards card for several years, where you get 15 nights automatic each year. But with the Ritz Carlton card, if you can make Gold after spending $10K each year, that's worth 50 nights. Am I understanding this correctly?
>>You will be charged $395 right away. It's possible to get back up to $300 in airline fee credits though.<<.
I'm about ready to pull the trigger on the RC card deal after reading this but need clarification. I stay at ~ 10 Marriott properties worldwide on business travel. I get 'stay' credits but no because the company pays for the room. NOTHING shows up on the account however so honestly I think they're feeding me a bunch of blarney. A peer I was traveling with recently extolled the value of Gold status with an invite to a Marriott lounge breakfast. My travel is frequent but inconsistent however so $395 to access that benefit would be really pushing it in some years. If I could somehow reduce that fee through credits elsewhere the elasticity of the economic curves churning in my head with undefinable values would make me pull the trigger on this deal.
The only card I have now that I regularly use is my Delta SkyMiles AMEX but I recently moved to an American Airlines hub city and racking up Delta points isn't really advantageous. I've yet to find a comparable AA partner card so adding this Marriott Gold status is the best quality of life card move I can make for my life on the road….. would there be travel credits on those legacy carriers? Lots of info …. there are questions in there :).
Yes, if you use the Ritz card to pay for checked bags, comfort plus upgrades, etc., you can get reimbursed for up to $300 per year.
For 2017-2018, how do these strategies compare to obtaining SPG Gold via holding Amex Platinum (possibly Business for lower yearly fee than Personal, though $20k spend required to max out its sign-up bonus), matched to MR/RC via account linking, possibly only after leveraging the free 1st year of MR Gold from the RC card?


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From the 15th of November 1889 the flag of Brazil is green, with a big central rhombus, in which there is a blue circle with some white stars of different sizes and a white stripe which crosses it, with the motto "ordem e progresso", "order and progress".
The inventors were Raimundo Texeira Mendes, Miguel Lemos y Manuel Pereira. The designer was Décio Vilares.
The green field and the yellow lozenge were part of the flag which was adopted in 1822, when the country achieved the independence from Portugal and the Empire was proclaimed.
In 1889 the imperial crest was substituted from the view of the nocturnal sky of Rio de Janeiro, when it was proclaimed the Republic. Every star of the constellation represents a federal country. The last change comes from 1992, when the stars became 27.
The flag's constellations are reallistically represented, even though the size of the stars does not reflect their importance.
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With its legs out fully, it was bigger than a quarter. And those fangs! He was so cool. I had to kill him though. Funnel Webs here have bites that mimick a brown recluse's. This guy broke the treaty. What a shame.


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Panel backs off-licence in Middlesbrough
AN off-licence will help ensure the survival of a small business, a licensing panel heard.
Sandy McKenzie
Middlesbrough Council's licensing panel approved the licence for a sub-post office at 271A Acklam Road.
Conditions on the consent include that drink off-sales can be made from the premises from 8am to 11pm Mondays to Saturdays and from 9am to 10.30pm on Sundays. The application had sought the licence to run from 8am to 11pm seven days a week.
Objections against the licence being granted were submitted by three residents and the Lodore Residents Association.
They feared there would be an increase in nuisance and they said there were enough licensed premises in the area.
Andrea Forrest, solicitor for the applicant, Prem Kumar, said Mr Kumar had been running the business for 11 years. It was a sub-post office which also sold confectionery, stationery and cards.
"There is no evidence these premises will cause problems. It has had no issues of people hanging around the premises or people causing a nuisance.
"Mr Kumar has nine staff and if the off-licence is granted three more staff may be employed," said Miss Forrest.
Mr Kumar said: "The off licence is to give a long-term future for the post office. I do not have a good retail trade at the moment and if I try to run the post office on its own I am not sure it will be there in a few years."
Joan Olley, secretary of the Lodore Residents Association, said she had lived in the area for more than 50 years. She said residents did value the post office.
She said, however, there were walkways from Acklam Road and problems were caused such as gardens being used as urinals, broken glass on the road and damage to vehicles. The Bluebell Beck area was also used as a drinking venue.

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Kurt Myers is a renewable electric and grid integration market area lead, project manager and staff electrical engineer at Idaho National Laboratory. He works on many types of power transmission, distribution and generation technologies including wind, solar, fuel cells/storage, diesel and gas, and many aspects of power control, protection and integration. Other specialties include wind data analysis, wind and solar power feasibility studies, wind and solar farm design and construction projects, micro/island grids, battery/storage systems testing and integration, and research in dynamic transmission rating. He earned his a bachelor's degree in physics in 1992 from the University of Washington and his master's in electrical engineering in 1997 from Washington State University. He is also a licensed professional engineer in the State of Idaho. Kurt has co-authored many technical papers, reports, articles and presentations on wind and solar power, electrical engineering, and power systems.
"A Comparison of Real Time Thermal Rating Systems in the USA and the UK," D. Greenwood, J. Gentle, K. Myers et al., IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Volume PP, Issue 99, 13 February 2014, IEEE Power & Energy Society.
"Dynamic Line Rating Systems: Research and Policy Evaluation," J. Gentle, K. Myers et al., IEEE PES-2014 General Meeting, 28 July 2014.
"Investigation of a Dynamic Line Rating Concept Over Complex Terrain for Improved Wind Energy Integration," J. Gentle, K. Myers et al., ASME 2014 4th Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting and 11th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, August 2014, Chicago, IL, FEDSM2014-21377.
"Overvoltage Mitigation Using Coordinated Control of Demand Response and Grid-tied Photovoltaics," B. Bhattarai, B. Bak-Jensen, J. Pillai, J. Gentle, K. Myers, in submission review, IEEE SusTech, March 2015.
"Field Test Results on INL Test of ZBB Battery for US Navy Hybrid Power System Applications,"
K. Myers, INL report to NAVFAC EXWC and ONR, 2014.
Myers, Kurt S., Reed, Teddy R., 2007, "Electrically Powered Hand Tool", Patent 7,164,252, January 16, 2007.


Though corruption was prevalent in India since the 1970s, it climbed unbelievable heights after 1992 when the Indian government adopted a neoliberal economic policy, noted Gurumurthy speaking on the topic 'Stashing Away of Black Money in Foreign Countries' at a function organised here by 'We The People of India'."The judiciary or selfless individuals can fight only to a certain extent against injustice. But only people's power, if synchronised with proactive media, can eradicate corruption," he said.
"Earlier, people who indulged in corruption had a sense of fear, but nowadays, instead of fear they show off in public. To bring back this fear, people should unite to fight against corruption," he said. Tracing the black money trail abroad chronologically, Gurumurthy said when V P Singh was the finance minister in 1986, he announced that 25 per cent of the black money stashed abroad would be given as reward to any organisation that gave details of Indians who involved in this sort of corruption. He was removed from the post three months after the announcement. But selfless individuals like Ramnath Goenka, founder of The Indian Express, and a few others did not give up, their fight against corruption.
The shocking revelation on Indian black money hoarded abroad came to light when an organisation called the 'Global Financial Integrity' announced that between 1948 and 2008, black money amounting to $462 billion from India had been stashed abroad, he said. Incidentally, he said, it was only after 1992 that 80 per cent of black money from India was being stashed abroad. He asked people not to presume that industrialists and politicians were doing to it to evade tax. "We have a friendly tax system. But, most of the money hoarded abroad was due to corruption and criminal activities" Besides, the issue of black money had affected several Western countries due to the market economy.
They, however, woke up only after the financial crisis in 2008. Although leading G20 countries like France and Germany were campaigning to put an end to the issue, the US was not showing any interest because of its habit on borrowing money from other countries, he explained. Gurumurthy said that the world has woken up to the danger of black money and it was time people's power in India put a decisive end to corruption.
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In a rare turn of events the joint session of two houses, the House of Peoples' Representatives (HPR) and the House of the Federation (HOF), is scheduled to convene on Monday April 30, 2018 to pass the decision to postpone the National Census, The Reporter has learnt.
The decision to convene the two Houses is taken in pursuant to a constitutional amendment made in 2005 to give power to the joint session of the two Houses to decide if there is adequate ground to do so.
The 2005 constitutional amendment was forced up on the legislative bodies due to a clash in program between the National census and the national election which happened to coincide that year. After approval by both houses and the regional councils of the members of Ethiopian Federation, the amendment was passed noting that the joint session will take responsibility to make changes to schedule of the national census.
Usually Ethiopian national census is due to take place every ten years but the budget toll and other logistical considerations were believed to be too great to handle for state structure if the census is to coincide with other national programs including the election.
Nevertheless, both procedure and content of the constitutional amendment is criticized by legal experts like Ali Abdu Hijra. According to him, the notion of allowing the legislative to postpone such a consequential decision like census at its discretion is dangerous. "And certainly not for reasons like financial capacity or convenience," he says.
Furthermore, Abdu also takes issue with the fact that this so-called amendment is not published in Negarit gazette, the official publication of legal proclamations in Ethiopia.
In a separate meeting, the House of the Federation will elect a new speaker in place of its outgoing speaker Yalew Abate.


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Luka Doncic's Weight Loss Amazes His Fans; The 23-Year-Old Athlete's Weight, Height and Wingspan Analyzed!
By Chloe Sanchez On August 9, 2022
The fans of 23-year-old Luka Doncic are expecting even better performance this season following his weight loss since he has reportedly lost 15 pounds of weight in fat and is in the best shape. The recent photos that the 6'7″ tall athlete shared on Instagram have shocked his fans and critics. Doncic who has a wingspan of 7 feet 2 inches is very confident and hopeful for this season along with the launch of his new shoes The Jordan Luka 1.
Slovenian professional basketball player Luka Doncic, who was born on February 28, 1999, plays for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He additionally represents Slovenia's national team. Doncic, who was born in Ljubljana, starred as a junior player for Union Olimpija.
At age 16, he made history by being the club's youngest player to make his senior squad debut for the academy. He guided Madrid to the 2018 EuroLeague championship two years later, taking home both the MVP awards for the Final Four and the EuroLeague.
Along with receiving back-to-back honors for EuroLeague Rising Star and ACB Best Young Player, Doni has also been voted the ACB Most Valuable Player. He was chosen for the 2010–20 EuroLeague All-Decade Team.
Doncic entered the NBA draft in 2018 and signed with the Dallas Mavericks. He won Rookie of the Year for the 2018–19 season and was chosen unanimously for the NBA All-Rookie First Team. He was chosen to play in his first NBA All-Star game and was named to the All-NBA First Team during his sophomore campaign. He has the most triple-doubles in Maverick's history.
Luka Doncic was playing for his home country of Slovenia when he was spotted. Fans also noticed the emerging star has already shed a sizable amount of weight since the team's playoff defeat. Read this article to find out more about his weight loss journey.
Previously, we touched on the weight loss efforts of Zion Williamson and Tom Arnold.
The 6'3" Tall Luka Doncic's Weight Loss Has Excited Many Fans This Season; The 23-Year-Old Athlete Is Expected to Perform Better Than Last Season!
Luka Doncic (@lukadoncic) made news online recently after he appeared slimmer and more muscular both on the training field and on Instagram. In response to rumors that Doncic would weigh 260 pounds when he reported to training camp, ESPN's Tim MacMahon recently wrote that Doncic has lost 15 pounds since October. He seems to be serious about his training and weight loss this season.
The 2022–23 season should see 6 feet 7 inches tall Luka Doncic in the best physical shape of his professional career. Recent social media posts from European supporters showing Luka in a more relaxed setting where he looks amazing to have made this much evident. This season seems to be his to rule with the release of his new shoes The Jordan Luka 1.
Anze Macek, Slovenia's strength and conditioning coach, spoke with SportKlub on Luka Doncic's program as Slovenia gets ready for Eurobasket. It appears that the notion of a leaner, sleeker Luka Doncic has gained traction in Slovenian media. Macek stated:
Shortly after the end of the season, he contacted me and said that he wanted to start conditioning immediately, Together with Goran Dragić, they worked for three weeks. The national team action followed. When he went on vacation, he asked me for a work plan. He remains active. I am in contact with him almost on a daily basis. He keeps his shape. He will upgrade everything in the national team trainings, where he will prepare for maximum efforts.
After receiving criticism for his allegedly erratic devotion to maintaining peak fitness throughout the summer for a number of years, Luka Doncic who has a wingspan of 7 feet 2 inches appears to be driven to disprove his critics. Doncic, whose trim figure is already generating buzz on social media, claimed that the insults have kept the Dallas Mavericks star working this offseason.
According to Sports Illustrated, the 23-year-old Dallas Mavericks player reportedly weighed over 260 lbs in December, which is 30 lbs more than his recorded playing weight of 230 lbs. In a press conference following a loss to the Brooklyn Nets that month, Doncic stated that he needed to undergo weight loss and improve his conditioning.
Luka Doncic told The Dallas Morning News that he began doing more cardio and weight training to increase endurance and strength, as well as making dietary changes.
Throughout the offseason, Doncic has been training with Goran Dragic, a fellow Slovenian who plays guard for the Chicago Bulls, as they get ready to represent their nation at the 2022 EuroBasket competition. Doncic's coach Macek further stated that:
He remains active, I am in contact with him almost on a daily basis. He keeps his shape. He will improve everything during the national team practices where he will prepare with maximum effort.
Luka Doncic acknowledged taking too much time off in the previous offseason, which caused him to be out of shape when he reported to Mavericks camp and gradually get back into shape and lose weight as the season progressed. He was at his best in the postseason, averaging 31.7 points per game and leading the Mavs' unexpected run to the Western Conference Finals.
Especially considering that he has been participating in the EuroLeague competition, Doncic has undoubtedly been working very hard. This upcoming season will be crucial for Luka Doncic given what he accomplished last season, and he already seems prepared. Fans appear to be very thrilled with the star's level of fitness and there are many tweets online appreciating his appearance now.
Many people believe that Doncic will end up winning MVP and might even average in the 30s this season. The Dallas Mavericks and Luka Doncic agreed to a five-year, $215,159,700 contract, with a guaranteed sum of $215,159,700 and an average salary of $43,031,940 each year.
Luka Doncic will have a base salary of $37,096,500 in 2022–2023. Many people online were wondering if he is married. No, he isn't married but he has a girlfriend Anamaria Goltes.


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Security Negligence? Michael Arrington Identified as Victim in Fatal Portland, OR Convenience Store Shooting.
Michael Arrington Identified as victim in Fatal Portland, OR Convenience Store Shooting. (KATU.com)
Did negligent security contribute to this shooting and are justice and compensation available to the victim's family? Read Our Legal Take below to find out what legal options are available.
Update: According to OregonLive.com, officers "found Michael Arrington wounded from gunfire. Medics tried to help Arrington, but he died shortly after being taken to a hospital."
Gunfire erupted early Wednesday morning, March 31, 2021 at a Portland, Oregon convenience store leaving one man dead.
As reported by KATU.com, "[a] man was killed in a shooting while at a 7-Eleven in North Portland's Kenton neighborhood Wednesday morning, according to police." Per the report, "officers were called out at about 4:30 a.m. on reports of a person being shot at the convenience store in the 1900 block of North Lombard Street."
According to the report, "[a]rriving officers say they found a man with apparent gunshot wounds. They say he was likely a customer at the store. The man was transported to the hospital where he died."
Convenience store patrons have a right to feel safe and secure while on the premises they are visiting. The level of security provided at the property is of significance, and is a relevant consideration when analyzing whether this shooting may have been prevented. The following questions are also important in assessing whether this incident may have been avoided:
Property owners are generally required to protect against foreseeable harm to anyone and everyone legally on the premises. Should the investigation into this incident reveal facts that establish that the property owner or management lacked adequate security to protect its visitors, the family of Michael Arrington may seek justice and elect to pursue legal claims and substantial compensation for their loss.
The Murray Law Firm has extensive and successful experience in handling security negligence claims on behalf of victims and their families, and suggests that an immediate, unbiased inspection of the property will need to be performed so as to limit evidence from being altered, damaged or destroyed. The complexities of pursuing a negligent security case are well understood by the legal team at The Murray Law Firm, and it is imperative that the family of Michael Arrington retain a capable law firm who will work without delay to protect their interests.
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West Hollywood's Laugh Factory on Sunset Boulevard was taken over by CBS' "Superior Donuts" Thursday night, as many members of the cast took the stage to perform. With more than half of the main cast already established as stand-up comedians, the historic comedy club was a packed house with its regulars, who just so happened to also be there in celebration of the comedy's Season 2 order from the network.
Headlined by co-exec producer and star Jermaine Fowler (listed in Variety's 10 Comics to Watch 2016), stars Maz Jobrani, David Koechner, Darien Sills-Evans, Rell Battle and others from the show went up in front of the crowd, which included co-stars Judd Hirsch and Anna Baryshnikov.
"'Superior Donuts' is a family show; this is not," quipped Battle, who hosted the evening filled with humorous commentaries that ranged from sexual experiences to funerals to marches under the Trump administration.
The show, however, was more sentimental to some. Fowler, who has had experience working with Whoopi Goldberg on an ABC pilot, titled "Delores & Jermaine," and two seasons of TruTV's sketch comedy series "Friends of the People," expressed his enormous gratitude to CBS for giving the show a second season.
"This is honestly the best show I've been on," he said to the audience. "A lot of pilots don't happen."
The series, based on the Broadway play of the same name, follows the owner of a rundown donut shop in Chicago (Hirsch), who recently hires an effervescent young employee (Fowler).
Following his stand-up appearance, Fowler, 28, told Variety what more he'd like to explore in the second season of "Superior Donuts," how millennials (like him) add to the television landscape, and much more:
How does "Superior Donuts" fit within the CBS comedy family?
This is different from a lot of CBS comedies, and for that reason it sort of fits. It's not your normal family sitcom, but at the same time these characters are slowly turning into a family. We aren't the most loving people at times. You're watching them grow, and for that reason I think people find the show very refreshing and easy to watch.
We see many artists from your age group making waves in television today. As someone from that generation, how would you best describe the millennial voice and their contribution to the medium?
The millennial generation is very vocal. They have their pulse on what's happening. So a lot of the shows that we're doing reflect that: Jerrod [Carmichael]'s show; Issa [Rae]'s show; Donald [Glover]'s show; our show. We talk about a lot of issues that are, to most people, taboo but in our generation this is normal. You've grown up in this time where everything we read on social media is about a kid getting shot, about sexism, gentrification. We've grown up in this generation and so the material that we want to display is going to reflect that. So that's why shows have become in a way very, very, very, just … woke.
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For example 'Superior Donuts' is about a black kid growing up in North Side Chicago. It'd be weird if we didn't do any jokes or anything about police brutality or anything about sexism or racism or gentrification. To me it'd be like we are trying to hide something. No, I'm not proud that police brutality exists in areas that I grew up. No, I'm not about racism, but I'm proud that we get to talk about it and that we have these avenues to do so because it's a reality for a lot of people.
What can fans expect from the show's second season?
The first season was awesome. It was a great introduction to the characters and I'd like for the second season to expand on that. There are so many characters on the show. For the second season, I'd like to build on all that. I want the audience and fans to look forward to something when they watch the show, and I think the only way you can do that is really opening everybody up. I want to slowly build Franco and Arthur's story up. Will Franco takeover the shop or pursue his dreams of becoming an artist? Those are real things that people deal with everyday.
As someone who is a huge fan of television, what key elements do you think make for a successful sitcom?
Number one thing key in an American sitcom is make it real. Keep it grounded. You've got to make the situation and characters probable and you can get the comedy from those places. My favorite shows have been "Martin," "The Fresh Prince (of Bel-Air)" and "Titus." They've done the craziest things, but all of their situations come from a real place.
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April 9 Zodiac Sign, Love Compatibility
So many texts have been written on the topic of Astrology and Zodiac signs in general, and in each and every one of them, we find some part that we could relate to; we can find some positive affirmation that can serve as a reminder that we could change some things in our lives. We could change the way we see ourselves, we see others, or just it can give us some hope that there is something in the future for us.
And even more, it is like we read that this month is amazing for the realisation of business achievements, it can maybe inspire us to do something about our careers that we would not think to do otherwise. Things could be as simple as this in the realm of the Astrology and the system of the Zodiac signs if we only at least partially believe in the prognosis of the horoscope.
We will not speak of how many Zodiac signs there is, those are the facts that we all know; but maybe you didn't know that using the information from your ruling Zodiac sign and the data from your birthdate, you can have the complete picture about yourself, or about someone else who interest us. Who is he, what are his flaws and virtues; what are his potentials and what kind of difficulties he has to overcome so that he could realise his life in full magnitude.
Yes, all of these you can read in the sections below, in this particular case we are talking about the people who are born on the April 9. They belong to the Zodiac sign Aries, and so they have some of its traits, but not all of course.
People born on April 9 are truly personal and self-possessing people, they have those ego-centric traits that all Aries people have; they are the ones that are focused on themselves, their personal agendas and plans, everything else falls down the list of the priorities. The word "compromise" for these people does not exist in the dictionary, they do thing their own ways, and in any interpersonal relationship there cannot be any agreement, it is just not possible.
People of the April 9 are the bosses in-house, at work, everywhere else; they are direct and open people who can be in certain situations very rough and unpleasant. This unpleasant behaviour comes from their directness and inner feeling that everyone should listen to the true, and they are the ones that will tell it, in the face. Each conflict with their ideas and attitudes ends with excess – they can be overdramatic and aggressive even. They are able to ensure others that they are right even if everything is against them; this process can go for days and can be exhausting for all people who are in that particular situations, even for those who belong to the April 9, but they will never give up.
The business plan can be very successful because they succeed in translating their fantasies into works in the most practical way, which is amazing, they have very luscious imagination and can dream like no one else; it is fascinating to listen to these people and to work with them in some way, they can be inspiring. Thanks to the fact that their ideas are the most common social nature by their actions, they work for the better and more practical life of others. With their violent energy they have a powerful influence on others, but people from their surroundings, families, friends, associates should accept that influence and ideas with a dose of reservation and their desire not to fulfil literally.
However, for most of their surroundings, these individuals can be an example of good work because their approach is free and discipline at work is perfect. These people are very interested in the limits of physical power and are constantly trying to move these boundaries, and are often involved in some sport, even as a hobby.
The world of people born on April 9th is very individual and lonely, and they have a great desire to share their discoveries with their loved ones, and from this you can conclude that they are, no matter how irritating they may be, are not bad people. They need to be understood and accepted, only then people, like lovers and partners could enjoy their company. Otherwise, they will be misunderstood and rejected as loners.
Sober, calm, steady and benevolent – these are words with which the environment most often describes people who are born on April 9 in love relationships.
When they realise what they want from love, and what kind of partner they want they are patient, persistent and determined to win that person's heart, and have it forever and ever. In these and similar situations people of this date are ready to wait for the right moment to be in a great relationship, rather than being in something that will never be good enough for them. But nothing is perfect, and these people can be, at times, be prone to turbulent and hasty reactions if things are not going in the desired direction.
When in love, people of this date are thoughtful and want to indulge their partners, but sometimes they need too much time to start and take action, since they are focused on their own goals and needs. They are incredibly charming, attractive and cute, and people like them, but sometimes they can be challenging to deal with because they are self-focused and like to indulge themselves in the first place.
They like food, drink, music, art and know how to enjoy life –this is the thing that makes them desirable lovers, but partners or future partners should wait for their true and amazing personality to shine. And their partners should accept that they will never be in first place, but never the less they will enjoy.
We spoke in the first section how people of the April 9 could be extreme individualists in their work, can be self-centred and egoistic people who put their own ideas and agendas in the first place, and then everything else. In a job, whatever that might be, they are incredibly imaginative, and that can be pretty inspiring for all people who work with them. People of this date are dreamers and are, unlike some other creative people, realise those ideas in the most practical way, and even then they can make some profit out of it, which is amazing.
People of the April 9 have incredible work discipline, and they expect the same from their co-workers, but in some stressful situations this discipline can turn into the tyranny, and they don't shy away from entering conflicts with all of their co-workers, and even bosses. They are those who have to tell people when they are wrong, and they believe that being honest is the best policy and they are never apologetic about hurting someone's feelings, by saying to them that their business idea is terrible, for example.
Persons born on 9 April are ruled by the number 9 and planet Mars, and omg the double influence of the fighting planet Mars.
If we try to symbolically and numerologically observe this person, we could say that number 9, and they are under its influence, is the number master of all the other numbers, since each number adds nine numbers to that number. This effect is also felt by people born this day on all the rest of their surroundings.
Since Mars also rules and is a sign of Aries, these people are under the great influence of strong Martian energy –strong, powerful, competitive, warlike, and indeed they have this energy in them. This can be manifested as extreme forms of impulsivity, aggression and anger, but also passion and strong emotionality, sometimes even through the self-centrism. The success of these people is only possible if they succeed in diverting their belligerent energy away from constructive things.
Their number is 13, one of the most controversial numbers, but for them, it is a lucky number, and their colour is red-bronze.
Historical events on April 9
These are selected events that we gathered for you, and that are related to the date April 9.
193 – Septimius Severus was declared a Roman guard.
1683 – French explorer Rene Robert Cavelier announced a part of the territory in the United States as a part of France, and he named Louisiana in honour of King Louis XIV.
1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Confederation Robert Edward Lee was handed over to Commander of the Union Army, Ulysses S. Grant.
1906 – Great Britain and France signed a convention on the independence of Siam (Thailand).
1928 – In Turkey, after Kemal Ataturk's reform, Islam ceased to be a state religion.
1940 – World War II: German troops attacked Denmark and Norway.
1942 – US forces began Bataan Death March.
1948 – The Jewish militia attacked the Arab city of Deir Yassin in the area of today's Israel.
1959 – NASA has announced the selection of astronauts for the Mercury program.
1967 – Test flight of the first Boeing 737 was conducted.
1969 – French-British supersonic passenger plane "Concord" made its first flight, from Bristol to Ferford in England.
1974 – India, Pakistan and Bangladesh signed an agreement on the repatriation of prisoners of war.
1977 – The Communist Party of Spain has been legalised after 38 years of prohibition of operations during the Franco regime.
1988 – Li Peng was appointed Prime Minister of China after the event at Tjen An Menu.
1990 – After 40 years of communist rule, the Hungarian Democratic Forum won the elections in Hungary.
1991 – Georgia declared independence from the USSR.
1991 – The UN Security Council has decided to send 1,440 peacekeepers to monitor the Iraqi-Kuwaiti borders and withdraw US forces from southern Iraq.
1995 – Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori won the second five-year term in the first peaceful presidential election in Peru since 1980.
1999 – Rebel soldiers killed President of Niger Ibrahim Bare Mainassara at the airport.
2002 – Under the pressure from the United States, Israel withdrew from two Palestinian cities, and the conflicts continued in a refugee camp in Genoa, in the West Bank.
2003 – US forces entered the centre of Baghdad and took control of the capital city of Iraq.
Famous people born on April 9
Famous French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, and an America actor Dennis Quaid share birthdays. In the section below read about other celebrities and historical figures who are also born on April 9.
1821 – Charles Pierre Baudelaire, a French poet and critic.
1830 – Eadweard Muybridge, an American photographer.
1905 – James W. Fulbright, an American politician.
1908 – Victor Vasarely, a French painter and graphic artist of Hungarian descent.
1926 – Hugh Hefner, an American publisher of the Playboy magazine.
1933 – Jean-Paul Belmondo, a French actor.
1936 – Valeria Solanas, an American feminist, known for an attempt to kill Andy Warhol.
1954 – Dennis Quaid, an American actor.
1965 – Paulina Porizkova, an American-Swedish-Czech actress and photo model.
1966 – Cynthia Nixon, an American actress.
1971 – Jacques Villeneuve, a Canadian Formula One driver.
1974 – Jennifer Marie Massoli, also known as Jenna Jameson, an American porn actress.
1975 – Fabricio Moro, an Italian pop singer and musician.
1977 – Gerard Way, an American musician.
1979 – Mario Matt, an Austrian alpine skier.
1986 –Leighton Meester, an American actress and singer.
1990 – Kristen Stewart, an American actress.
These people should pay particular attention to calming and directing their energy that is so strong that it can totally destroy them. The overwhelming influence of the Mars on people born on April 9 on persons in their surroundings can awaken intolerance, violent behaviour and aggression, and these people often find themselves in unpleasant and very awkward situations.
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How Much is our Risk Appetite?
In Information Assurance/Security management we often feel that organizations are not as receptive as we the consultants feel they should to emerging threats. For those of us who follow the incidence of Cyber Threats around the world, there appears to a minefield of risks in everything we do. If we are recruiting a key employee, we worry if he is a mole from the competitor. If we receive an email, we suspect it to contain a virus. If somebody offer freebies, we think it must have some embedded risk. ..In fact we live in a state of constant fear.
On the other hand when as consultants we approach a corporate which we think should jump at our offer of consultancy for risk assessment and mitigation, we are surprised at the cold reception we may recieve. Some managements think that a consultant speaks of risk because of his own benefit and fail to see any counter benefit which the company may have. Some times this doubt stops the very consulting proposal itself and some times it goes beyond into assessment of the pricing of the consultancy service.
While the consultant feels that he is providing a high value service which should reasonably be priced at say Rs x, the corporate intending to buy the risk is not so sure about the value of the service and therefore rejects the offer or provide a counter offer which the consultant decides to pass off.
In the bargain the Company continues to bask in the feeling "All is Well" until disaster hits one day to consume the organization in full.
I was recently reading a literature on a research in psychology where a researcher was testing when will a house fly stop eating. He found that the food which the fly consumes passes through the gullet where there is a nerve which recognizes how much food has passed through. The desire to consume itself is triggered by another nerve in its legs so that when these sensors sense food it will start eating and when the gullet nerve indicates enough is enough, it will stop eating. The researcher continued his experiment by surgically removing the gullet nerve and found that the fly went on consuming food though it bloated the fly to a level where it could burst. This tendency is also found in ants who serve as store houses of food and keep bloating unmindful of its consequences.
Are Our Corporates bursting with risks?
This example is very relevant for the Indian Companies when we talk of Information Security risks or ITA 2008 compliance requirements. It appears that the corporates have no means of measuring how much of risk they are consuming and maintain an infinite risk appetite. In the field of financial investments the market is more mature and corporates have some measure of their risk appetite and a sense of how far they can go before they say "Enough is enough" and pull out their risky investments. Unfortunately in the field of "Information Risk" managements donot have the same understanding of the risk environment, the threats and vulnerabilities and therefore fail to take appropriate risk mitigation measures. Even those who have crossed this threshold for various reasons and instituted some kind of risk management measures also may fail to understand the efficacy of "Controls" and be satisfied with "Controls for the sake of audits" rather than "Controls for the sake of security".
CISOs in every organization therefore have the biggest task of trying to get the attention of the top management to their field of work and often find it the more challenging aspect of their job. The problem with many CISOs is that they are good in their security related knowledge but are weak in public relations or communication capabilities.
I therefore suggest that CISO s should consider "Communication Skills" as part of their required skill sets and keep enhancing their skills through appropriate training on this facet of management from time to time. This could result in a better communication of risk to the top management and ensure that the risk appetite of an organization does not cross the limit of danger.
I invite CISOs to share their views on "What is the risk appetite of my organization?" and share what risk appetite measurement strategies they adopt in their organization.
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4 Responses to How Much is our Risk Appetite?
EXCELLENT article, Sir. Hats off.
you have here mentioned a very realistic situation of corporates who are acting like flies/ants with their sensory nerve removed for risks related to information security, compliance and awareness.
as a security pro, we are concerned about the risks that an organization faces, but the management do not have that 'eye' and hence this happens and they live in a false security shell.
this difference of views from management and security consultants / pros will remain, unless and until some sensible and technically sound individual from management takes up initiative and work for a cyber secure organization. But the fact remains somewhat far, and the customers whose sensitive data which remains with organizations remains vulnerable to theft and misuse.!
Radical changes must be brought and with that, a huge change of mentality of management is too needed.
How many of us go for a routine medical checkup which is designed to detect at an early stage possible health risks and how many of those who go for annual checkup take this tests because they are well packaged under a simple framework 'Executive Health Checkup'.
I feel that the current security risk assessment frameworks are designed for comprehensive or detailed risk assessments.
A simple risk assessment framework similar to 'Executive Health Checkup' is required in the industry to help organizations to subject themselves for a test and get sensitized with risk and then decide on the appetite.
Fine way of describing, and good post to obtain facts about my presentation subject matter, which i am going to present in university.


U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador. R-Idaho is lauding a House committee's passage of a bill Thursday to add 52 new federal district judgeships, including one in Idaho.
Labrador, who introduced a bill to add a new Idaho federal district judge in February of 2017 — one month after Idaho's 2nd District Rep. Mike Simpson introduced an identical bill, and two weeks after U.S. Sens. Jim Risch and Mike Crapo of Idaho introduced an identical measure in the Senate — claimed credit for Thursday's committee vote.
Simpson has introduced his bill every two years for more than a decade.
Idaho's congressional delegation has long pushed to add a third U.S. District judge to the state; Idaho is one of only three states with just two authorized federal district judges. The other two are North Dakota and Vermont.
The bill that cleared the committee on Thursday, sponsored by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., is co-sponsored by Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and Rep. George Holding, R-N.C. To become law, it still would need approval from the full House and Senate and the president's signature.
Issa's bill, in addition to adding 52 new permanent district court judgeships to address rising caseloads, would also convert eight existing temporary district court judgeships to permanent status; upgrade technology for the federal court system's electronic records system; require Internet video streaming of appellate arguments for circuit courts; require same-day Internet audio streaming for arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, something the high court long has resisted; and require public disclosure of the reasons for a recusal by a justice of the Supreme Court.
That measure would authorize the 52 new federal judgeships as of Jan. 22, 2021.
Idaho got its second federal judgeship in 1954 when its population hit 600,000; the state's population is now just over 1.7 million, according to the U.S. Census.


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How To Close A Sale - 5 Reasons People Don't Buy
Hey! Alex Berman here from Experiment 27 and this is what to do in the first 90 days after starting an agency.
So really there's two goals that you need to cover in your first 90 days.
Really in your first 30 days as an agency owner.
The first is get your first clients and then the second one is hire a team to deliver.
So let's jump in.
Day 1-30: get your first 3 clients.
You can do this a number of ways.
I broke it down as a video - four steps to get your first four clients.
I also did a video that broke down the actual email scripts I used when I went out to go get clients which are both very good videos to watch if you want to do this, for real.
But at a high level, you want to go out ask around your network.
So look at your former bosses or look at your friends that work for bigger companies and once you figure out the service you're gonna offer.
So let's say you want to do UX, UI design, asking around should get you at least a client or two.
Once you have those three clients you want to make sure you get money from them.
Maybe I'll do another video on how to get paid or the most effective ways to get paid.
I'll do that in a few weeks.
But, high-level, get your first 3 clients and get money from them.
Now, what do you do with that money? Most people that I've seen going to the agency business.
Let's say they have a UX background, you have a design background.
They're going to start doing the work and then they're gonna look up 30 days later when the work is delivered and then they're gonna have to go out and go get clients again.
That is not the way that I did at x27 and it's not the way that you should do it in your first 90 days.
The next step is hiring a team to deliver.
So when I got my first client for Experiment 27 it was a start-up founder out in New York City, it was a two-person team that were bootstrapping their startup and they needed more leads for their company.
So I could have.
So I sold the contract and it was like $2,000 for ten meetings or something like that.
Two thousand dollars for a month and I went out to upwork and I hired a guy to sales train.
And I hired another guy, he was from the Philippines as a cold caller to knock this out.
So from the beginning what you want to do in your first 90 days is you don't want to do the work.
You want to focus on sales.
Because sales is what actually drives the company.
And then you want to hire other people to do the work for you.
That's pretty key and that will separate you immediately from other freelancers.
So as soon as you start hiring other people you immediately become an agency and not a freelancer and it let's you have more time to focus.
Then what you basically want to do is try to shove as many projects onto these guys as you possibly can.
Let's say you close like five to six projects.
They can be low-cost because you're really just building up your portfolio, but you want to stay on top of the production team as much as you possibly can.
At Experiment 27 I hired Robert who ended up becoming my co-founder, but his job now is just to watch production and make sure that they actually deliver on time and deliver what they say they're going to deliver.
So finding somebody for that role is important, but you don't have to hire for that role immediately.
It can start as one of those designers that you hired to do the work and then scale and then evolve from there.
So those are the first 90 days.
Basically, hustle your ass off to get those first three clients.
Then use that revenue to hire somebody to do the work for you.
Do not do the work yourself or else you're freelancer and then stay on top of that team for the next 30 days and then after you've proven that process works, let's say you delivered a couple projects, then you go out and you sell more.
From there, the next step is to hire a sales team and you can watch my video on how to build a sales team as well to help you there.
So hopefully you found that valuable.
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Clients Say, "Let Me Think About It." And You Say, "..."
- [Gary] Staphon.
Got these for four dollars.
- Get the hell outta here.
- [Gary] Garage sales, baby.
Trying to tell people.
- Four dollars?- [Gary] Four dollars.
What? - In Jersey?- [Gary] In Jersey.
My size too.
It was funny I saw them, I wasgonna buy them just to give to like somebody to flip.
- [Tyler] Yep.
- [Gary] 'Cause I saw a 10 andI knew I was gonna kill 'em and then I looked atthem I'm like, "Oh, a 10.
5," I'm like eh.
("Unstoppable" by This Is Wolff) ("Beauty In The Struggle" by Justin Stone) Monday morning, feelin' pretty good.
Lot of stuff going in the world of business but especially on my mind is very massive decline of retail.
Retailers, retail locations.
We've had more bankruptcy inthe retail sector in the first quarter of 2017 than we didin the entire year of 2016.
I think that's just the beginning.
I think we're seeing thatthe, not the collapse but the recalibration of retail in our society.
Rents are overpriced for thereality of the traffic that is being deployed as we continue togo more and more e-commerce and as brands get marginalized and more and more players coming to death of a thousand cuts and so I think it's a really interesting time and I thinkit's an absolute preview to what's gonna happen to thetelevision commercial industry.
You know with every OTT player, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and I can't imagine the Facebooks and the Googles of the world not getting more serious about it.
Apple, obviously, Planet ofthe Apps, like original program, supply and demand, fragmentation.
Bottom line is the moneythat brand spent on television commercials and on banner ads is going to collapse over next five years.
VaynerMedia is going to be in anincredible position to pick up those opportunities and I continue to be on the aggressive offense to structure my company, hire the talent.
Couple people I met withrecently that I'm about to hire that are just straight ninjas for 2021 but 94% of the agencies in the market wouldn't know what to do with them in 2017.
So excited about that.
Got a lot of stuff going, just the way we're rolling on our side.
You know, really good on this Monday morning.
Cool, right? Bought 'em at a garage sale.
- [Other Tyler] This weekend?- [Gary] Yeah.
- [Other Tyler] How much you pay for 'em? - They wanted 10 but I got 'em for 4.
When they want 10, you offer 2 to set the tone.
Too many people are like, "What about 8?" Settle on 9.
I go 2 to startle them and see what happens.
("Beauty In The Struggle" by Justin Stone) I genuinely believe that our SMB VaynerBeta P&L can be in the ballpark of (censored) dollars next year.
So, just from all directions.
On the flip side, just lookingat the feedback and things of that nature, it's real.
It's very real.
I think the answer for somethingthat big is we have to have it integrated but we have tothink about how to integrate it without it slowing us down or creating too many, what we're trying to do here, get faster.
Anyway, it's big.
It's real, real big.
'Bout to change the small business world.
Small business 'cause I knowthere's a lot of entrepreneurs by definition companies that can afford $25-30,000 a month to change their business but that could change it big.
About to crush it.
Taylor.
- [Taylor] This is insane.
- How are you?- Amazing.
- Real pleasure.
- [Tyler] Two hours of shadowing with you.
- I love it.
Taylor, it's a pleasure, man.
- [Taylor] Kind of like what can he call you in for? It's like so much that you come here for.
That I need to pick up.
- [Gary] Yeah.
- [Taylor] Business is going really well.
- [Gary] I think it comes, as long as you're executing on your ambition.
- [Taylor] Yeah.
- [Gary] You know, like to me,I don't think I can call people out so easily if, I think I can call people out all the time because my ambition for what I want to accomplish is so great.
- But I think my ambition's crazy.
- Where I'm at right now, 99% of people won't get to.
So, I'm always scared to makesure that people know, here's what I don't like.
Don't tell me that you're gonna buy the Raptors and work like that.
- Tell me that you want to have a good living.
Spend time with your daughter, travel the world.
Well then all of a suddenyou can get into hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
- [Talyor] Yeah, exactly.
- So I think that's the thingthat I want to spend more time clarifying for people.
Which is like, and I've been saying it, right? Don't let your mouth outpace your actions.
I think that when I meet people, we jam, I want to make sure they'rereminded that I'm not gonna, you know.
People are like,"GaryVee, call me out.
" I'm like, "Well, first of all,"-- - [Taylor] I know, yes.
- You've seen it.
Like but first help me like what you want to happen.
Because for $70,000 a year youcould live like a ridiculously happy life and do a lot of stuff.
Like people don't get it.
Like price list, and where's the beef, and just do it, that's what matters.
Creative is the variable of success.
The problem is you need to make$50-200,000 videos for Facebook where the media the amplification of a million is worth like 5-6 million on television.
And you need to make four ofthem because Doritos means something different to a45-year-old African American woman with four kids in Manhattan than it does to 17-year-old Ricky inTexas, in San Antonio.
People don't get it.
Let me rephrase, people get it.
The world is, the corporateworld and agency world isn't built to do the work that'sactually driving business today.
("I Just" by Justin Stone) I'm not kidding, I don't want to hurt feelings.
I'm trying to be kind here.
When the market's good, everybody's a hero.
You know, what you're gonna hear for the next 40 minutes is I don't know when your economy gets soft, if ever, but if it does, you'velived through ups and downs.
- [Man] Yeah.
- I want to give you toolsthat will allow you to navigate.
I think of myself as a wartime general.
I like being a businessman when it's bad.
Wine Library, my first business, VaynerMedia, this business,--- [Man] Yeah.
- both in the first two years of me operating, the economy collapsed.
- [Man] So Gary, the reason why you like operating in shit, tough markets is why? - 'Cause A-players win more.
- [Gary] When times are good,--- [Man] Yeah.
- [Gary] B's and C's and D's get too much.
- [Man] Got you.
- [Gary] Got it? Because there's a lot of peoplewho are watching right now that are taking the money they're learning, they're getting and they'reover-leveraging themselves.
They're buying homes and carsand watches instead of investing in their business, saving moneyso when things hit the trash, you know, if you saved a milliondollars in cash if you're really good at what you do and the market collapses, well all of a sudden, property that was $3 million, might be $1.
5 and $1.
5 might be $480,000.
You then take that million dollars and you deploy it.
And when things go back up you've made real wealth.
Instead when times are good,people out here are buying vacations to Maui and buying better cars and buying a bigger home.
Over-leveraging themselves,getting too many mortgages and then they get caught.
- I love that winners win and that losers lose.
I love the meritocracy of business.
And in real estate over the last, forever, and through my 20, 30years professionally that I've paid attention to, and I say 30 because as a kid I started studying stuff.
You clearly see the pattern recognition.
Notice the stories of allthe people that you respect.
It's when the Great Depression and during collapses, that's where all the wealth is made.
- [Gary] So how do you position yourself? How do you build your brand? How do you build a marketingengine for your organization or your agents or whatever you're trying to do.
I'm a businessman, anything yousay I'm comfortable in answering because that's what I do.
Alright, Passover which means it's time to go home and do the family thing.
So, hope you got some good stuff today.
Maybe that last interview gave you some good stuff, right? And that's it.
Holiday time.
("I Just" by Justin Stone).


Place crostini on sheet tray and brush each one with olive oil, season with salt and pepper. Bake until lightly browned, remove from oven, let cool.
In a large skillet sauté onions in olive oil until cooked through and lightly browned.
Add diced eggplant and sauté for 3-4 minutes.
Deglaze with red wine vinegar.
Add marinara sauce and water, bring to a simmer.
Season with salt and pepper. Cook until thickened and not watery. Remove from heat and let cool.
Once cool, top each crostini with 1 Tbsp. ricotta and a heaping Tbsp. of caponata mixture.


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Akeredolu collects N750m monthly as security vote ― Ajayi
lt's fabrication, he should produce evidence – Akeredolu
Dayo Johnson – Akure
CANDIDATE of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in the Ondo governorship election, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu and his estranged deputy governor Hon Agboola Ajayi have disagreed on running grants and security votes they collect on a monthly basis.
Akeredolu had said that his deputy who is now the governorship candidate of the Zenith Labour Party receives the highest running grant of N13m monthly which is the highest in the country by any deputy governor and yet betrayed him.
He said that "Agboola (Ajayi) does not want to wait for his time. I made him comfortable, I asked him to represent me in so many places but some people were warning me, I said they should leave him alone.
"No deputy governor has collected what he was collecting in the history of the state. I gave him N13 million monthly, his predecessors did not collect as much as that.
"No deputy governor collects as much as that in Nigeria. I gave him enough room to operate yet he betrayed me.
But Ajayi in his response through his Media Adviser, Allen Sowore, said that Governor Akeredolu collects N750m monthly as security votes.
Allen said that the governor lied that he collects N13m noting that he only collects only N12m.
According to him "The Deputy Governor is surprised that the Governor could go to the press announcing the sum of N13m as what the Deputy Governor gets as if it was a gift for the personal use and not for the use of his office.
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"The Deputy Governor states that what came to his office until Akeredolu refused to release the same was 12 million naira per month.
"This includes the imprest of his office, allowances of staff, fuelling of vehicles, care of his residence, and welfare of his aides.
"Huge as the amount may appear, it amounts to not so much when the heads and number of individuals it caters for are considered.
"The governor gets a security vote of 750million naira every month. He, Akeredolu, also gets an imprest of about N150million
But the governor in his response through his chief Press Secretary Segun Ajiboye described Ajayi as a liar.
Ajiboye in a statement said that "the disclosure by Mr Governor that the governorship candidate of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) receives a monthly running grant of N13 million appears to have further emitted the entrenched character of the man in question, Agboola Ajayi.
"True to type, Ajayi has resorted to lies and fabrications that Mr Governor gets a monthly payment of N750m as security vote. This brazen misinformation is not a surprise but a true reflection of the unstable and treacherous content in Ajayi.
"The general public is urged to take advantage of the Freedom of Information Act to interrogate both statements by Mr Governor and Ajayi.
"For the avoidance of doubt, the State Bureaucracy which process such payments is very available to confirm the veracity or frivolity of either of the statements.
"The October 10 governorship election is between integrity and the absence of it.
"The patent greed which has provided motivation for the treachery and perfidy of Ajayi appears to have created further paths of dishonesty to oil his political misadventure. Succinctly, he is misled my his mind of greed.
The statement said that "By his antecedents, Agboola Ajayi would have wittingly provided evidence of the payment of such huge amount even before now if it was true.
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Le Placard
I hear it's that time of year again when woke capital takes time out of its busy schedule to celebrate sexual deviancy and the courage of the gays. As has become customary, I will now use this time to reflect on the past — specifically, the 2001 French comedy Le Placard (The Closet).
François Pignon is a middle-aged button-pusher at a plastics manufacturing concern. He is divorced, but still in love with his ex-wife. His son ignores him and considers him a bore. To top it all off, he overhears rumors that he's about to be fired from his job, foreshadowed by there literally being no room for him in the company photograph. So, he goes home and tries to commit suicide. His neighbor talks him out of it and convinces him to try and retain his job by pretending to be a homosexual. The neighbor photoshops (advanced technology at the time) pictures of François engaging in homosexual acts and forwards them to the office. All of a sudden, François cannot be fired due to political correctness considerations. Overnight, this gray, introverted little corporate bureaucrat is suddenly exotic and interesting to the surrounding characters. Turns out that all his life really needed was a little gay magic.
Le Placard is one of those films that could have only been made during its time. Twenty years earlier, Pignon would have been an effeminate grotesquerie prancing around the sets (which would have probably made for an entertaining film itself). Twenty years later, the notion of a heterosexual white male pretending to be gay scandalizes our puritanical overlords. Indeed, the very idea of a white male profaning gayness with his whiteness and toxic masculinity is unthinkable. Smelling salts would have to be administered.
The idea of a company having its hand forced by political correctness concerns and the gay lobby is also part of that period. Pignon's company manufactures condoms, among other things, and is worried that a possible boycott by gays for firing a gay employee might hurt their bottom line, with the very un-PC and likely true claim that gays use more condoms than the general public. How refreshing to only have to worry about a boycott and not the state itself coming down like a ton of bricks on a company for daring to fire a minority. Of course, it would be a moot point, since the company's staff — especially in the HR department, where the hiring and firing decisions get made — would all be fags and their hags. It's doubtful Pignon would get hired in the first place in this day and age.
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But even for a production of its time, the film is remarkably illustrative. It sends the message to white males, such as François Pignon, that the only way to redeem yourself is to embrace one of those fun, colorful LGBT identities. Otherwise, you're just a nobody. It's entirely natural for your son to reject you as boring if you're just his dad, just a white, male, heterosexual, working stiff. It's entirely natural for you to be a non-entity to your coworkers and an object of contempt for your ex-wife. Such is the lot of the straight white male, especially if he's unassuming and introverted, like François Pignon.
But what of the Chad, the extroverted, assertive, masculine white male? A supporting character, played by Gerard Depardieu (who should need no introduction) is Félix Santini, a rugby-playing macho man who cracks a few gay jokes at Pignon's expense, but is soon tripping over himself to make friends with Pignon, lest he be suspected of homophobia. Initially, Santini's attempts to ingratiate himself to Pignon are comical, but soon his marriage falls apart and he is institutionalized after a nervous breakdown, all because he was afraid to be deemed a homophobe. Santini is also a user of racial slurs, so you're supposed to feel no sympathy for him, but here's the supposedly all-powerful white male, running around like a scared rabbit, buying gifts for the homosexual and ignoring his wife to placate the gay, suffering a nervous breakdown after Pignon turns down an offer to cohabitate. Even back in 2001, in France, which as I understand is somewhat behind the curve on the globohomo agenda, we see the immense power of the homosexual over the heterosexual, especially the heterosexual white male.
While we're on the subject of gay power over the heterosexual, we cannot ignore the presence of the two main female characters of the film. The first is the former Mrs. Pignon, who is best described as a complete bitch. Pignon is still completely devoted to her and comes running at her beckoning, while she holds him in utter contempt. Only after he is outed as a homosexual — specifically after he takes part in a pride parade, sitting on a parade float throne with a giant condom on his head — does he gain the confidence to chew her out, name her for the horrible person she is, and proclaim that she doesn't deserve him. Only as a homosexual can he take control over his life from this horrible woman.
His outing as a homosexual also makes him very interesting to the very sexual and attractive Mademoiselle Bertrand, his boss at the office who previously treated him as a piece of furniture. Whereas previously he was invisible to her or indeed any women outside his horrible ex-wife, Pignon is suddenly an object of attention, pursued by the voracious and vivacious Bertrand, culminating in a session of intense . . . heterosexuality in the condom assembly line, right in front of the company director and the prospective Japanese investors.
Message sent and received: the homo gets the girl.
Of course, what's left unspoken during the whole film, or indeed in any of the reviews, is that Pignon was probably gonna get sacked for economic reasons. The film makes it out that his firing comes as a result of him "not fitting in" or because the bosses are just meanies, but in reality, people usually get fired for good reasons. Assuming that companies have an infinite surplus of money to give out to people for make-work is a very Leftist assumption to make, and so is the assumption that refusal to hire — or firing — can only be a result of people being mean. Le Placard is a relic of a time where being mean to a white heterosexual male was still considered somewhat unfair, so Pignon's deception is still considered morally good. But the bigger picture is that under conditions of infinite or at least vast company wealth, the overriding factor of whether someone will be fired or retained is loyalty. Whether they can do the job or not is secondary, since the bottom line is not likely to be affected.
In the year 2001, especially before 9/11, even a high-tech French plastics manufacturer still lived more or less in economic reality. In the year 2021, vast gigacorps defy economic laws and are so intertwined with governments that the public-private distinction is more or less meaningless, even outside of France. Without the bottom line as a moderating influence, companies are completely free to hire and fire based entirely on loyalty, and as we know from previous articles, bioleninism is the best loyalty-generating system known to intersectional man, and that's without even considering the gigacorp managerial staff's free option. Only gigacapital can be woke capital, and gigacapital isn't merely immune from economic reality — it can actively create demand by guiding its consumer base's moral and aesthetic predilections.
Le Placard is one of those films which could be considered the swansong of white males, of humor irreverent of political correctness before such sentiments were cast out into the outer darkness. It is still a film that promotes the globohomo agenda — it probably would never have been approved otherwise. But it's a good enough comedy for a rainy day that carries with it the nostalgia of the early 2001s, just before 9/11, when it looked like we were for yet another carefree decade free of big-H history.
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Jeffrey A Freeman says:
That's fine.
Because July is White History Month.
July just feels white.
Lord Shang says:
Excellent review. Hit all the major, depressing points without let up. The end was particularly suggestive. One thing which has stayed with me from my libertarian days is the propensity to search out some bit of statist coercion whenever you have entities seemingly defying normal economic laws. In the longer run, gigacapital is only "immune from economic reality" if it has used the state to rig the rules of competition in its favor. I think they have done so today, but how, exactly, remains at least a partial mystery to me.


Next meditation will be about re-coding DNA. I could say that this meditation will be more successful when you have been fasting for one day, and didn't eat sugar for one week or drink alcohol, coffee or black tea and didn't eat living god creatures like animals.
But I know that you won't listen. So give this meditation a try without these preparations and give it a try with these preparations.
It is also preferable that you have finished a lot in your cleaning work and you are a bit fear and stress free. Forgiveness is a working option for you. And you know for sure that you don't curse, you aren't impatient and you are balanced enough not to lose your temper easily. Some of you are able to do this meditation with these prerequisites, others in time to come.
Sit relaxed on a chair, or lie relaxed on a bed, make sure that you have tempered the light close by and that you have meditational music on your stereo. Also you have unplugged the telephone, asked for a quiet time without interruptions by your family members.
Connect with your heart. After this, be fully aware of your body, make sure you feel every inch, every part. With the cleaning already done, you are acquainted to the energy system of your body, the blockades in your energy system and the places where you store hurts, history and so on.
Go and visit all these places. See if there are important things that need to be addressed, cleared and cleaned. If not, go on with the next stage. Otherwise it is better to start the cleaning work and give yourself time to heal, time to practice new behavior and time to relax with playing.
Next, feel the life flowing through your body. Feel how it reaches every part of you. Feel how every part is reacting towards this energetic life energy. Feel how this life-energy is nurturing your body. See how the connection between outside and inside your body is generated by your chakra's. When you are completely aware of your body, rest a little while in this feeling/knowing/being.
Ask your body to take you along with your awareness to the cellular processes of your body. Feel and see these processes operating your body. Be aware of it, feel a particular process from beginning to end, the answer in return on the information, see the questions and the answers, the free exchange of information. Be grateful that you haven't to be aware of these processes all by yourself, that you needn't think of them before they are operating. Your body is a perfectly balanced self operating system in service of your soul.
Ask your body to take you along with your awareness to the atomic processes of your body. Feel and see these processes operating your body. Be aware of it, feel a particular process from beginning to end, the answer in return on the information, see the questions and the answers, the free exchange of information. See the atomic process within a cell and see how this cell communicates with the rest of your body to get the nutritions needed for operating at its highest potential (that is when you live a healthy life-style). Again, be grateful that you haven't to be aware of these processes all by yourself, that you needn't think of them before they are operating. Your body is a perfectly balanced self operating system in service of your soul.
Ask your body to take you along with your awareness to the level of storage of information in your body, your genetics or DNA. See the library, the twisting intermingling spiraling and the magnitude of this information. Ask to see how your body adds information to the DNA with the recording system. See how your body is getting information how to run the processes in your body. Again, be grateful that you haven't to be aware of these processes all by yourself, that you don't have to think them before they are operating. Your body is a perfectly balanced self operating system in service of your soul.
Ask your body to show you the information in the DNA that doesn't work smoothly, what causes sickness in your system. Ask if your body needs a new programming in the DNA or another switch so other information will become available. Ask your body what kind of programming influences you based on genetic information acquired by your family heritage and which one is hindering you to be the fullest of what is possible.
With this information ask your Soul to send you the help you need. Programming DNA is part of the job of the elementals. It is elementary that the ones with the right knowledge help you to change the DNA with the good of all concerned. Ask for help and see if your soul is willing to help you out on this topic. It might be wishing that you first change some habits, some actions, some nutritions intake before these adjustments in DNA can be made. This information is also part of the knowledge of the elementals.
What is always possible to do, is to erase the history of your life that doesn't serve the good of all concerned with the help of the elementals. For the information and the history loaded in the DNA of this life is yours to change. It isn't fixed yet.
Thank the elementals for the help they offer you. Learn of their work so in time you will be able to govern your history recording yourself. Thank them and ask them if they are willing to help you out the next time.
Go back with your awareness to your body, on atomic, cellular and body energetic level. Feel how you changed it. Acknowledge your job, see if your body is happy with it or not, or that it needs some time to adjust, or that a few adjustments need to be made. Work with your body and your guardian healing angels for this case. Thank all of them. Ask your body how much rest it needs or what kind of feeding, drinking it needs to get along with the changes and the integration of these changes.
Sincerely thank your body, the helpers in this meditation.
Make sure that you stay at rest for at least half an hour. It is also advisable to drink lots of water for cleaning and refreshing your body. Make sure that you start eating easy digestible products. A day after this meditation a walk in the forest for fresh oxygen, connecting with nature is also advisable. It is also very advisable to stop eating animals of all kinds, not to drink coffee, beverages with alcohol, sodas and so on for a week. This advise is also for sugar, milk, yogurt, eggs and cheese.
Enjoy the changes you made.
And thank all for the help you have received.


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I studied a degree in Philosophy and Politics at the University of Leeds and graduated in 2014. I had decided that I wanted to be a lawyer after 2 weeks spent working at the Sheffield Combined Courts when I was 16 but had studied Philosophy and Politics to gain different experiences and develop broader skills beyond law.
During my third year, my eyes were opened to the competitive nature of Training Contracts. I graduated at a time where there was a backlog of students and a shortage of training contracts. I attended law fairs, law for non-law society events and careers lectures' on law but what held me back was a lack of legal experience. The brief time I had spent at court, an additional period at the Worksop County Court and subsequent holidays spent at a small local law firm were insufficient to ensure that my CV was competitive.
Following Graduation, I enrolled on a GDL course at the University of Sheffield; it was during this year, that I was successful in obtaining my current position as a trainee at Gateley Plc. This was the second year I had applied to the firm after previously being turned down following a half day assessment. The assessment involved spending a day at the head office in Birmingham completing "apprentice-style" activities, including: a written assessment, interview and negotiation exercise.
The vacation scheme enabled me to experience two weeks at Gateley, primarily within the Residential Development Department. During the scheme, I reported on the IP rights of an insolvent company, drafted a legal report for a housebuilder, assisted with a ground rent sale and completed legal research tasks. I was also invited to attend a site visit with a house builder client and enjoyed both social and CSR events within the office. A vacation placement is invaluable to both you and the firm as it provides you with an insight to the people, work, ethos and values of the firm whilst simultaneously allowing them to see who you are and how you work. Even if you are unsuccessful in obtaining a training contract from that particular firm, it will be an asset to your CV and provides opportunity for the development of transferrable skills.
I was fortunate to become the firms second "Leeds-trainee" and was supported through the LPC at the University of Law. During the LPC, I attended the firm's office in Birmingham once a week to meet with other trainees to complete the mergers and acquisitions module.
September 2016 soon came round and I began life as a trainee. After a two week induction completing PSC modules, I joined the Residential Development Team to work on the Ground Rent Project. After 2 months, I moved to Real Estate to finish my "Property seat" and I experienced the sale, purchase and leasing of commercial property. My second seat was Corporate which afforded me experience of sales, purchases and investments in companies both in the UK and internationally. Currently I am in Litigation where I am experiencing a mix of CDR, construction and regulatory. Right from the start, I have been given great experience and exposure to legal work and clients. In addition to work, I have also worked on the CSR committee, organised office socials and seen the governance of the firm first hand. As I now begin to reach the final stretch of my training contract I hope to remain at Gateley as an NQ because I feel the firm has truly invested in me and I am thoroughly enjoying the training contract, thanks to the people, work, clients and ethos of the firm. I would wholeheartedly recommend applying to Gateley for 2020 training contracts and beyond.
If at first you don't succeed, try again. Don't give up!


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Other than MAME, what would be the most important emulators you think people should have installed on their cabs?
Re: Must Have Emulators for Your Cab (Other than MAME of course)..
We have a lot of topics like this already in the Software forum.
Its correct there is many topic about this one, but not a pol, but there exists many emulators out here, which can been quite large for a poll. The emulators I my self choices was these I got to work into my frontend MultiFE, which can seen in the help section (for some systems I choices to support more than one emulator on that profile).
Please Note, Visual Pinball and Future Pinball is NOT a emulator, but itsjust a simulator. PinMame is a emulator which can been connected to Visual Pinall by a script, but its another history.
I'm still a newbie to the emulation scene. I've used Mame for years but not tried much of anything else. However this weekend I tried Nebula for the Sega Model 2 boards just for Daytona USA. Awesome game!!! I played it so much this weekend with my joypad my thumb hurts. Had to stop playing for a while. Sadly it won't run properly on my CP laptop, so just played it on my desktop. The game is listed in Mame but I couldn't get it working.