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Chris Carson, Dallas Goedert and everything you need to know about Week 3's biggest injuries
By Virginia Zakas, Inside Injuries Sep 29, 2020 16
As we sort out waiver wire, FAAB bids, and the general, "is this guy going to be okay?" vagueness, Virginia Zakas of Inside Injuries is here to help, with analysis on Chris Carson's knee, Dallas Goedert's ankle, Chris Godwin's hamstring, and more!
And if you have a specific injury questions, drop it here for possible inclusion in Virginia's weekly injury mailbag (which runs on Fridays).
1. The Chris Carson knee injury was a weird one, with another player basically twisting it for him. What happened to his knee there and what can we expect in the next few weeks?
This was such a dirty play, but the good news is Carson didn't suffer a serious injury. He already underwent an MRI as of Monday morning, and it confirmed that all knee ligaments are intact. The injury is being called a mild knee sprain, which is in line with what we initially speculated. This type of twisting motion could have also caused a meniscus tear, but he avoided any damage. While this was likely very painful, it's better than getting hit or having the leg twisted when it is firmly planted. Carson was able to turn his entire body a bit to avoid completely twisting his upper and lower leg, which could have caused significant ligament damage.
Our algorithm is showing a grade 1 (mild) knee sprain for Carson, and his Optimal Recovery Time (ORT) is 2 weeks. The Seahawks have even said that he has a shot at suiting up in Week 4.


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Democratizing Invoice Discounting Like Never Before
By Sandeep Soni February 19, 2017
While Anurag Jain was working for his family run real estate company, he often felt his business crippled because of delayed payments from large companies, hence stressing its working capital. Burning a hole in the business's cash flow, Jain along with his IIT Kanpur batchmate Manish Kumar, launched KredX - India's first marketplace for invoice discounting connecting SMEs and investors to unlock the value of blue chip invoices.
The duo got so obsessed with the idea that Jain left his family business in Kolkata and relocated to Bengaluru and Kumar, former HSBC executive, ditched his corporate cushion to start from the scratch. "I was settled in Kolkata with my family for 10 years before feeling uprooted from that place. But I understand what it takes to build a business. So I knew that it will be a temporary thing," says Jain.
KredX wherein Kred signifies credibility and credit availability and X represents the marketplace connecting two parties was launched in early 2015. Kumar too shared the same feeling except the fact the he was already based in Bengaluru. But even during all this enthusiasm of starting up, Kumar had an extra baggage of bad health to carry. The slipped disc problem for Kumar from last six years restricted his travel, which Jain mostly takes care of.
"During the initial three months of starting up, I wasn't quite able to walk and sit. We were in the process of raising our seed round, so I had to be in all the meetings with investors, customers, etc., while bearing the back pain, often acute. So, I used to stand up after a while," recalls Kumar. The duo operated from their respective homes in the beginning but switched to a vacant flat that Jain owned in the city as their start-up office. They even pulled out some furniture from their homes and later bought few tables, bean bags and chairs from their own pocket.
For IITians it's Tough to Swallow Failure
Currently, KredX has no hierarchy structure. As a company culture, Kumar and Jain want everybody treated as an individual contributor and with no reporting mechanism. Everybody just have to update their work in the weekly team meeting. In fact there are employee stock ownership plans (ESOP) given to all the members to instill a sense of ownership in the company, including its office boy. "Even our office boy has ESOP, though I had to explain him what it is for half-an-hour," smiles Jain.
Though KredX has a tier one investor like Sequoia on board but funding wasn't on the radar for Kumar and Jain. "We never intended to raise funds neither we created any pitch decks for investors. Few venture funds showed interest in us but we are lucky to have Sequoia wanting to invest in us," adds Jain. Despite early success, Kumar and Jain have stood their ground instead of being swayed away or being aggressive in any manner, particularly when you are doing a start-up.
"Start-up teaches you to accept failures and move ahead with learnings. So you cannot be aggressive but I believe that when you graduate from prestigious institutes, like IITs, is that you get used to success and it becomes very tough to swallow the failure," asserts Kumar. Nonetheless, KredX has a clear goal in sight. "We want to be a billion dollar company for which persistence is required because there is already lot of negativity in the ecosystem because of high start-up failure rate," claims Jain who has a very unique way of unwinding himself from work – real estate.
Jain love learning about new properties, investments, talking to industry people, doing industry research, and honestly sounding little weird, hanging out with brokers on weekends. KredX is amongst the
very few start-ups in India that raised funding amidst the severe funding drought.
(This article was first published in the February issue of Entrepreneur Magazine. To subscribe, click here)
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from the creator of Hannibal Lecter
A NEW NOVEL FROM THOMAS HARRIS – CREATOR OF HANNIBAL LECTER – HIS FIRST IN 13 YEARS
From the creator of Hannibal Lecter and The Silence of the Lambs comes a story of evil, greed and the consequences of dark obsession.
Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men.
Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to the iron whim of ICE. She works at many jobs to survive. Beautiful, marked by war, Cari catches the eye of Hans-Peter as he closes in on the treasure. But Cari Mora has surprising skills, and her will to survive has been tested before.
Monsters lurk in the crevices between male desire and female survival. No other writer in the last century has conjured those monsters with more terrifying brilliance than Thomas Harris. Cari Mora, his sixth novel, is the long-awaited return of an American master.
'As good as ever. Reading his prose is like running a slow hand down cold silk.' STEPHEN KING
'The last two decades of 19th century popular fiction were dominated by Conan Doyle and Sherlock Homes. A century on, suspense literature has achieved their equals in Thomas Harris.' GUARDIAN
'Harris's writing bears the hallmarks of honed perfection.' THE TIMES
'The good news for readers of Cari Mora is that Hannibal is here in spirit if not in person ... What his fans look for is here – turned up to 11.' SPECTATOR
'A tense heist thriller ... Harris's best since The Silence of the Lambs' NEW STATESMAN
'Cari Mora reinforces the brilliance of an author who can carve a piece of art from the placement of words on a page to form a narrative that scorches the mind, and makes one think.' SHOTS MAGAZINE
'A literary event ... Thomas Harris is a supreme thriller writer – for not only does he create memorable and monstrous villains, but he also gives us formidable female protagonists … Violent, brutal and action-packed, yet told with Harris's typical wry wit, it crackles from first page to last.'DAILY MAIL
'A cavalcade of the grotesque, with murderous figures that make Hannibal the Cannibal, the Tooth Fairy and Buffalo Bill appear like upright citizens from small-town America … Hollywood directors will be dreaming of a golden windfall by putting this page-clawing thriller on to the big screen. Harris is a superlative storyteller with an eye for the director's cut.' DAILY EXPRESS
'Thomas Harris, the creator of Hannibal Lecter, is the greatest thriller writer of our time … An expertly delivered and fast-paced thriller, full of distinctively Harrisian inflections' EVENING STANDARD
'A gripping tale of lost cartel gold … No shortage of physical action … Harris delivers a narrative that is absolutely cut to the bone' FINANCIAL TIMES
'Pulse-boosting suspense …Harris's flavourful prose: laconic, tough-guy Hemingway one moment … then veering off into imagery of a Baroque luxuriance … Harris evokes the poetry of everyday life – especially the natural world.' i NEWS
Thomas Harris is the author of five novels and may be best known for his character Hannibal Lecter. All of his books have been made into films, including most notably the multiple Oscar winner, The Silence of the Lambs. Harris began his writing career covering crime in the United States and Mexico, and was a reporter and editor at the Associated Press in New York.
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Praise for Cari Mora
"As good as ever. Reading his prose is like running a slow hand down cold silk."
"The good news for readers of Cari Mora is that Hannibal is here in spirit if not in person. This is a very peculiar book, lavishly ridiculous in almost every respect and fully committed to the gothic extremes of human cruelty ... Sounds like fun, right? Well, it is … There are decapitations, multiple dismemberments and brains dripping off ceilings. Also, a certain amount of lyrical stuff about manatees and seabirds, and some comic business with a foul-mouthed cockatoo … What his fans look for is here – turned up to 11."
Sam Leith, Spectator
"With Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris set the bar for modern suspense writing, drawing on developments in criminal-personality profiling to explore the type that had only recently been designated the "serial" killer … [Cari Mora is] a tense heist thriller, plausibly grounded in coastal Florida and urban Colombia, and told through half-a-dozen points of view … [It] still manages to provide some of the thrills and types desired from this long-awaited return. And it's a novel that deserves a higher accolade – praise less inaudibly faint – than "Harris's best since The Silence of the Lambs" … The character of Hans-Peter Schneider is crucial to the book's nihilist undertone and its appeal to existing fans … Hans-Peter Schneider and Cari Mora have more in common with Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling, the heroine of The Silence of the Lambs, than the syllabic make-up of their names. Cari Mora, for all its other accents, is also the story of an erudite European monster (German as opposed to Lithuanian) with a taste for human flesh (more a sadistic necrophile than a connoisseur) who meets his match in a 25-year-old orphan fond of animals and good with guns … The novel carries a new note of hope or consolation. Cari Mora's history of damage doesn't simply make her good at relating to killers. It furnishes her with a strong positive vision, based on principles of nurture. And there's even a sensory dimension that isn't geared solely towards provoking disgust. Along with the spilling innards and disembodied heads – this is still Thomas Harris – is an emphasis on the splendours of the Florida coast … Brimstone is jostled by jasmine, melodrama by pastoral, and the "dark angels" of Hans-Peter Schneider's nature offset by the coming of "daylight" with which the novel ends."
Leo Robson, New Statesman
"Cari Mora reinforces the brilliance of an author who can carve a piece of art from the placement of words on a page to form a narrative that scorches the mind, and makes one think."
"A literary event ... Thomas Harris is a supreme thriller writer – for not only does he create memorable and monstrous villains, but he also gives us formidable female protagonists … Violent, brutal and action-packed, yet told with Harris's typical wry wit, it crackles from first page to last."
"A cavalcade of the grotesque, with murderous figures that make Hannibal the Cannibal, the Tooth Fairy and Buffalo Bill appear like upright citizens from small-town America. In Cari Mora, Harris has plumbed the depths of Dante's Inferno to craft characters who see violent death as a lucrative career … Harris turns up the heat … Hollywood directors will be dreaming of a golden windfall by putting this page-clawing thriller on to the big screen. Harris is a superlative storyteller with an eye for the director's cut."
"As you would expect from the author this is violent, gruesome and terrifyingly tense."
"Thomas Harris, the creator of Hannibal Lecter, is the greatest thriller writer of our time … An expertly delivered and fast-paced thriller, full of distinctively Harrisian inflections … So here is that utterly distinctive imaginative world again … A fierce read."
"A gripping tale of lost cartel gold … No shortage of physical action … Harris delivers a narrative that is absolutely cut to the bone"
"Pulse-boosting suspense …Harris's flavourful prose: laconic, tough-guy Hemingway one moment … then veering off into imagery of a Baroque luxuriance … Harris evokes the poetry of everyday life – especially the natural world."
i News
"A supreme thriller with a great female protagonist, this is Harris at his wry best."
"Written with gusto […] the pleasure in this one is watching Harris unwind."
Cari Mora by Thomas Harris
Announcing a New Novel from Thomas Harris
From the creator of Hannibal Lecter and The Silence of the Lambs comes a new story of evil, greed and the consequences of dark obsession.
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Heart's Invisible Furies
The Thirst
Dragonfly In Amber
Joan London
Maybe the Horse Will Talk
Elliot Perlman


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Wärtsilä to supply gold mine extension to Guinea
Wärtsilä Corporation, Press release, 14 June 2017 at 14:00 UTC+2
The technology group Wärtsilä today announced it would supply a power plant extension to AngloGold Ashanti's gold mine in Siguiri, Guinea. This turnkey project consists of three 20-cylinder Wärtsilä 32TS engines running on heavy fuel oil. They will be connected to the existing power plant at site, also supplied by Wärtsilä. The extension is expected to be operational during the second half of 2018 and the total power output at site will be 30.4 MW. The order is booked for the second quarter of 2017.
Siguiri, a multiple open-pit oxide gold mine and the largest gold mine in Guinea, is AngloGold Ashanti's sole operation in the country. AngloGold Ashanti holds an 85% interest in Siguiri with the balance of 15% being held by the Government of Guinea. After two difficult years, the Guinean economy is recovering, with an average projected growth of 5% over the period of 2017-2020, thanks to mining investments, increased food production and electricity service.
"This is a significant proof of confidence for Wärtsilä in West Africa," comments Arnaud Gouet, Regional Director, West Africa, Wärtsilä Energy Solutions. "Wärtsilä is a trusted partner to AngloGold Ashanti at Siguiri Gold mine where we operate the power generation enabling them to focus on their mining operation."
"We selected Wärtsilä for the new power plant at our Geita Mine in Tanzania in 2016 and have again selected Wärtsilä for our Siguiri Project as we have full trust in Wärtsilä's technology and in their understanding of the criticality of power generation in the operation of such a gold mine," says Dale Bates, Project Manager, CAR Projects, AngloGold Ashanti.
With this project, Wärtsilä will have over 6800 MW of installed capacity on the African continent. Globally, Wärtsilä's installed base is over 63 GW in 176 countries.
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Arnaud Gouet
Regional Director, West Africa
Wärtsilä Energy Solutions
Tel: +33 1 47768938
arnaud.gouet@wartsila.com
Kristian Mäkelä
Director, Sales & Marketing
kristian.makela@wartsila.com
Wärtsilä Energy Solutions in brief
Wärtsilä Energy Solutions is a leading global system integrator offering a broad range of environmentally sound solutions. The company supplies ultra-flexible internal combustion engine based power plants and utility-scale solar PV power plants, as well as LNG terminals and distribution systems. The flexible and efficient Wärtsilä solutions provide customers with superior value and enable a transition to a more sustainable and modern energy system. As of 2017, Wärtsilä has 63 GW of installed power plant capacity in 176 countries around the world.
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Wärtsilä in brief
Wärtsilä is a global leader in advanced technologies and complete lifecycle solutions for the marine and energy markets. By emphasising sustainable innovation and total efficiency, Wärtsilä maximises the environmental and economic performance of the vessels and power plants of its customers. In 2016, Wärtsilä's net sales totalled EUR 4.8 billion with approximately 18,000 employees. The company has operations in over 200 locations in more than 70 countries around the world. Wärtsilä is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki.


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We have put together some case studies from seafarers - who share insights on what was helpful to them in transitioning to different roles during their maritime careers.
To help members get the information they need to progress in their maritime careers, Nautilus has put together some case studies from seafarers who share insights on what was helpful to them in transitioning to different roles within the industry.
The Union's transition work reinforces its support for this year's Seafarers' Awareness week theme to promote awareness of the wider work opportunities available in the maritime sector, and a recognition of the challenges many cadets are facing in finding jobs.
Using audio and video interview recordings, seafarers at various stages of their careers share their experiences – talking about what was helpful to them in making decisions about their future at work, and making suggestions for the sort of support they would like to see in place.
The transitions work stems from the Nautilus 2015 General Meeting, which agreed a resolution to help members get the information they need to progress in their careers, from when they first go to college, go to sea, attempt to rise through the ranks and – as many do – move to a shoreside job in the shipping industry.
The Union is also supporting research into shipping industry mentoring schemes, to examine 'best practice' methods for providing career advice and support for seafarers.