Automate all the things!! Automation is crucial for increasing the quality and productivity. In this lesson we will learn how to automate the deployment of our Angular app to Firebase Hosting, by using GitHub and Travis. By the end of the lesson we will be able to automatically deploy our app with a simple git push to our repository's master branch.
00:01 I have here a very simple Angular application, which I generated with the Angular CLI. As you can see, the application's already also setup for being deployed on Firebase. You can see here the different files that specify Firebase project. We see here the database rules as well as the Firebase JSON, which basically defines where our application is hosted on Firebase itself.
00:26 I configure this by using the Firebase tools, which you can install via the npm install manage -g Firebase tools. You have to go and do a Firebase init and answer a couple of questions which then setup your project and create the files which you have just seen.
00:46 I have also created here a Git repository where it hosts my projects. Basically, the source code of my project. Obviously, there is also here the Firebase project. If you go to the hosting area, which is our main interest, we also see here a deployment which has been done already previously. If I click on this, we see our application being served by Firebase.
01:09 What we would like to do now is to basically automate the whole deployment story. Whenever someone pushes a new change onto master, that should be automatically deployed onto the Firebase hosting website here.
01:23 For the period, we will use Travis. Travis CI is continuous integration server which is quite powerful for opensource projects. We would like to call for your Travis coding D to pick up our project and deploy the Firebase.
01:37 To get started, the first step is to create a so-called Travis YML file -- which is named travis.yml. Inside here, we have to specify the configuration of our project so that Travis can pick it up and deploy accordingly.
01:55 Here, first of all, we say the language is node_js as we're building a java script application. We also specify node_js version, which in this case let's say it's 8.12. Then we can tell Travis which branch is to deploy.
02:14 In this case, we say only changes that come to master should be taken up and should be watched, and processed accordingly. Next, the order scripts that have to be executed. The before script should basically install our Firebase tools which we will need to deploy our application to Firebase.
02:37 Next, there is the main script. The main script is responsible for building our application. Therefore, we run the npm run build up prot command. If we take a look in our package JSON, we see that prot command which is specified here in the script section of our package JSON -- and which basically invokes a command underneath after Angular CLI.
03:02 The next step here is to specify what should happen after success. Whenever the steps have been successful, we would like obviously to deploy our application to Firebase. Here, we have to basically use the Firebase CLI. We use the deploy command, which will deploy our application to Firebase.
03:24 Now, there is an important thing however. When we deploy our application to Firebase, we normally have to log in onto the console. You do that usually by doing a Firebase log in command, which will then check your credentials and automatically log in to Firebase.
03:40 In this scenario obviously, the script would be executed by Travis itself -- in continuous integration pipeline where there is no human interaction. If we have to provide a so-called token, which will be used for authentication purposes, we will see in a minute how to basically create such a token.
03:59 Let's, for now, just use a Firebase token variable, which will then be provided by Travis. We should also add here the non-interactive to tell the Firebase CLI tool that we are running in a non-interactive environment such as in continuous integration environment.
04:18 Finally, let's add some modifications. We would like to get an email whenever failure state changes. If something fails or it's a success, changes. Basically, when we have a failure, we will get an email, and whenever we again have successful builds, we will get another email to get alerted.
04:42 Let's save this one here. Next, let's go to Travis itself. On Travis, you go to the Your Account section. Inside there, you see a series of projects which are your GitHub projects. Now, if you shouldn't find your project, you can here click Sync Account which will then synchronize your GitHub account projects with Travis.
05:07 Let's search our project here which is ACAT deploy Firebase. Let's switch that on. If we remember, we talked about that Firebase token which we have to provide as an environment variable. For that, we go to Settings here. Down here, we can specify our environment variables. Let's add here a Firebase token. Now, we have to generate one.
05:33 For the purpose, we return to our project here, and we can use a Firebase command which is login:ci to generate a new Firebase token. This will open up the Google sign in page where we can sign in on our account.
05:56 Once the procedure is successful, we can return to our CLI. Here, we see the token -- it gets generated. Let's copy that token and return to Firebase, and we copy it in there, and add it to our configuration. Great! We should all be set up.
06:13 Let's clear here our application. Let's open map quickly, the app compound here. In the 'html' part, let's add here, Welcome to Deployed with Firebase and Travis. Let's save this. Let's commit this. Change application title. Now, we push these changes to our server. This will now land on GitHub.
06:47 Now, if we switch over to Travis, we see that the build job has been triggered. If we click this button here, we will follow the log off our build. Here in this log, you can see how Travis sets up node.js version we specified, and gets our source code from our Get Up repository.
07:09 You can see here how the Firebase token is being injected as an environment variable. Here, we're done and npm is being installed. Now, all our package is full. Our application will be installed and built as we specified in the Travis script.
07:29 We can now see how the deployment command is being invoked passing in our Firebase token. Here, we get the confirmation that the deployment has been completed. If we take our URL here, and open it up on our browser, we can see our newly deployed application with the changed title.


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Phil Treadwell: All right. Welcome to the Mortgage Marketing Expert podcast. I'm your host Phil Treadwell. Mortgage Marketing Expert is a proud founding member of Industry Syndicate podcast network. Our mortgage marketing expert today is Michael Athens. Michael spent the last 10 years helping realtors and lenders, increase reviews, referrals and create raving fans through intentional client appreciation and retention gifts. He owns a company Gifts With An Edge. Michael, I'm super excited to have you on the podcast.
Michael Athens: Thank you so much for having me Phil.
Phil Treadwell: Yeah, man. I'm glad you could make it. I think this is going to be a cool topic today for people because it's something that's not talked about as much as it should. My industry syndicate partner, Dustin Brohm, and I talked about a similar topic on his podcast last Christmas because it was the gift giving time. So I think middle of the year is a good time to be talking about this. But before we get too far into that, take a second and talk about your background, how you got in the business and what you're up to these days.
Michael Athens: Yeah, so we'll get into it later. But I actually am an independent contractor with Cutco. And that's actually the only thing I've ever really done in my life. I came out of high school back in '09. So I'm a young one for those of you who are listening, but I it was kind of a crazy time where no one was hiring and one day I got a letter in the mail that was like, "Hey, you want to come sell knives?" And I was like, "Well, no one else is hiring. Let me do this." I didn't think I would do well at it. I was the person that was scared to call the pizza company to order pizza or anything like that, did not think of myself as a salesperson at all. And fell in love with it really because it kind of has that entrepreneurial style behind it.
And I should have known, since I was a kid that was starting lawn mowing services in my neighborhood and trying to sell stuff to my friends at lunchtime at school and all this stuff. And that's something that I did not expect to do at all, ended up being a really good fit and gave me some really awesome kind of sales tools. Taught me how to go out and create referrals out of nowhere, how to create a business out of nowhere, how to present products and things like that. And I was expecting to just do something that I would do during college, earn some money, earn some scholarships, things like that.
And one day, I went to a conference and one of the higher ups was talking about this thing called the "Realtor program", where instead of me going into someone's home and going, "Hey, Mrs. Jones, you want to spend $1000 on knives?" It's, "Hey, Mr. Realtor, you're already spending $100 per gift on clients. What if we did something to personalize a really awesome gift that they could use forever?" And instead of having to find a budget with someone in their home, I was able to just take someone else's budget and optimize it to something that was, did some pretty cool things, but we'll talk about that later. But ever since then, all I've done is work with Realtors, lenders, other businesses to help them find ways to really create a raving fan experience, to make them stand out amongst the other. And, really create fans for life.
Phil Treadwell: That's awesome and I love it. I think everybody in the mortgage real estate industry has had experienced or has had some conversations with someone that works at Cutco. It's a great company. I've got Cutco knives. I had several friends in high school and college that also sold the product. But I think that the bigger conversation here that I want to make sure people understand is, whenever you're giving gifts, you want to give people gifts that they're going to remember you or that you can stay top of mind and this for me, was very apparent about 5 or 6 years ago. My wife and I were opening a bottle of wine and the fancy one we bought from Bed Bath & Beyond or whatever had busted.
I was digging through the drawer and I found a wine opener and used it and realized it was from a mortgage company, a lender that I had brokered loans through and I thought, these are the type of gifts that people put in their drawer that are functional, that are useful, that you don't just throw in the garbage, right? There's lots of gifts that, the little stress balls and random pins and pads and things. People might use them a little bit, but a lot of times they just end up in the garbage. And so, that's kind of the direction I want to take this conversation, is what the trend of trying to offer value. We do that a lot through content through social media, but now this is through gift giving and creating raving fans and creating intentionality around how you build those relationships. So from your experience, kind of talk for a second, what have you seen as far as trends of Realtors, lenders that are having success, giving gifts of any kind? What types of things are they doing? What are some things that other professionals can pay attention to really kind of piggyback on this and get some lift in their business?
Michael Athens: Yeah, well, I think the biggest thing is just for one, having a plan. There's so many people out there that unfortunately, they're literally not even contacting their clients after closing at all. Maybe they have them on an email drip or a campaign or something like that, but they're not actually fostering that relationship after. So the really big thing is, for one, if you just start with the minimum, just doing small little things, calling your clients, writing them handwritten notes, cost you nothing, but those little touches will do things to create an experience for the client where they go, oh, they do actually care for me now that they've already received their check. It's not they weren't just here for that.
And it's that bare minimum, that 99% of people in the industry aren't doing, like, they're not even doing that. And so if you can start there. That's huge. Some of the crazy statistics, 70% of people leave their salesperson just because they feel like their salesperson doesn't care about them. They're indifferent. And that really gets proved when the conversation ends at closing, as opposed to that's the beginning of the relationship. Before that, it was about helping them achieve that first goal, but now it's we're together and it's we're a family no. How do I show my clients that I care about them, that I'm still here to support them? It wasn't just, hey, we got you in the home or hey, we got you that funding. and now it's done.
How can I show them that I honestly care about them as a human being, and just that alone, takes it to another level, like specific tactics and things, with gifts to take it to another level? One of the biggest things that most people probably wouldn't have thought about is we see huge success by not giving a gift at the closing table. And there are a couple reasons behind this. For one, there's just so much going on. This is such a huge emotional point in the relationship with the client. If all this paperwork to sign, they're dealing with so much fear and buyer's remorse, all these issues, emotions while having to sign hundreds of papers.
So when you give them a gift, no matter how good it is, no matter how personal it is, whatever it is, they're going to go, "Okay, cool." And they're going to continue thinking about all the things that are going on in their head, because that's what's going on. If there's too much going on, it gets lost in the noise.
So just simply by bringing it, by three days later, bringing it by a week later, we do where things are drop-shipped to clients to make it easy. Things like that, where it's a separate event. Just gives the client space to relax and really go, oh, wow. Okay, they thought about this a lot. It wasn't just they grabbed something and they wanted to appease me because I got my $5,000 commission or whatever.
It's something that they have time to breathe and to relax and to really go, "Okay, wow, this is really cool." And I think that's one of the big things, just giving the client a little bit of space for them.
And the same thing like you were talking about holiday gifts. I definitely don't recommend giving your gifts in the month of December if you're doing holiday gifts, because, for one, everyone else is already giving them gifts. There's just so many things going on. So what if we gave them a Valentine's Day gift, it's out of the blue, something that's unexpected. That way you can stand out amongst everybody else, especially if you give them something that's either really personalized, really valuable, or something that really creates an emotional impact for them.
And then that would be the other thing, nobody likes getting gift cards, even if they're going to use it. They're not excited about it. It's not like I hear so many times you're like, well, I know they needed to redo that bathroom. So I got them Home Depot gift card. They needed to redo the bathroom. They're gonna do it no matter what. And they may appreciate it. I mean, who doesn't like it, give me a gift. If you want to give me a gift, they'll totally accept it. But in terms of creating a powerful moment for your client and creating a real emotional connection with them, it just doesn't do it. Same thing with bottles of wine or the gift baskets, they feel like a token gift.
Phil Treadwell: Right.
Michael Athens: And how can we go to something that feels like you thought about it and you cared about them and it's something that is going to create a long-lasting impression on the client. I think those are kind of the two easiest simple things, is how can you make it something impactful, and the timing of it and the messaging of it, how can we change that to make it more impactful as well.
Phil Treadwell: Yeah, I think you're exactly right. Especially at closing that's a very unique thing. I want to make sure to point out for people not giving them a gift right at closing. I think that there's some merit to that, and I'm sure there'll be a descent view of, hey, that's the time you do it. But if you can do it after then that's another opportunity to touch them after the fact. Right? There is a lot going on. A lot of people have workflows where they're asking for reviews, they're asking for referrals. There is a lot going on last minute at closing and sometimes it does lose some of its luster if you will, and so that's a great opportunity to find a reason to follow up back with the client. And like you said, in the mortgage industry, the client retention historically over the last 10 or 15 years has been very, very low.
And so there are lots of opportunities. And we talk a lot on this podcast and there's a lot of content out there around how do you add value with technology systems, say for Homebot, for example, or Mortgage Coach and MBS Highway, things that you're adding value financially and helping people build financial health and create wealth through real estate and home ownership.
But I think there's two people that you want to create a relationship between being, or it could be multiple people, between the lender, the Realtor, and the buyers but you're wanting to create relationships with those people. And on a human level, sometimes a very nice thoughtful gift goes as much or more than any of the shiny object technology that we have, which is why a handwritten card still gets so much weight, a phone call gets so much weight in an age of instant messaging, direct messaging, text messaging, email messaging.
Sending a card, picking up the phone really creates impact. Well, that's why this conversation around retention gifts for the transaction or and I'll take it to another direction for those of us out there that are recruiting or trying to hire new talent, whether that's other Realtors, other loan officers, even support staff, operations staff, sometimes those gifts or anniversary gifts or welcome to the company gifts, gifts can be a very, very important part of how you attract and wow people.
What are your thoughts just kind of on some of the other spaces, the other ways that people can create excitement and create attention and engagement through gifts outside of just closing gift or holiday gifts or you have clients that are doing them for recruiting purposes or thank you gifts or things of that nature.
Michael Athens: Yeah, so we're recording this now and in June, and it was amazing to see over the last couple months how many companies came and ordered gifts for their employees while they were stuck at home with COVID. And they're saying, "Hey, everyone's at home, they're all cooking right now. Let's give them something, personalized for them." Thanks for being such an amazing team member, handcrafted especially for you Jim and Cindy, whatever it is, and they give them just that little touch. Like it's not something they needed to do, but it was something that goes and says, "Hey, we know things are weird right now. We want to give you something just to say, Hey, we appreciate you. We thank you for sticking through us with this process."
I definitely love the idea of the anniversary gift. I love ideas of just kind of having things come sporadically throughout the year. One of my favorites is having something come just as a surprise within that first hundred days. I don't know if you've ever read the book, Never Lose a Customer Again. It's an absolute must read by Joey Coleman. It talks about how 20 to 70% of people essentially decide, but it's usually mostly subconsciously decide, that they're not going to do business with someone within those first hundred days. 20 to 70%, it's crazy. And it's actually I don't know what the stats are for lenders, but for Realtors, it's ridiculous that people within a couple months, or at closing, where they say, yes, I 100% will use that Realtor again. I'm going to send them to all my friends. It's 80% of people say that.
And then the stats are that less than 12% actually do. And usually it's because they just feel abandoned after that point.
So like you're talking about the one of the best, ROI tools you can use is a handwritten thank you note. As you said, it's, it's simple. It's not copy and pasted. You can do all that, like, print your handwriting and stuff like that. But people can tell me just take the time to write a handwritten note, especially if it's, "Hey, what I love about you..." is my favorite phrase in the world. If you can put what I love about you, what I see in you is this, what I appreciate is this, and you can put that in a thank you note, that is powerful. It costs a buck for the card and 40 cents to send it. And that is huge.
I'm a big fan of that, especially throughout the process. So it's not just what do we do after but it's that whole process of how do we create a client experience at every point during the journey. So you say, you have that first consultation with them, and they say, yep, I want to work together. Let's do this, and you got the next time frame before they find the house and need the lending and all that stuff. A handwritten note that gets dropped in the mail the day after you have that first conversation with them is huge, and then, another one after closing.
But just finding those little ways to surprise and delight because people expect a gift at closing in these types of spaces. So for one, to add a caveat to that don't give them that at closing, make sure you say, "Hey, by the way, I have something coming for you either keep an eye out, or I'm gonna bring it by" so just something that it's like, "Hey, I know things are stressful right now. So I didn't want to add any more to this. Here's a thank you note. By the way, I'm going to be swinging by next week and bring the gift" or, "hey, something's coming in the mail, keep an eye out, you're going to love it." So something like that. But just creating those surprise and delight moments when it's unexpected, when it's something that's powerful. Like it just takes it to a whole another level.
Phil Treadwell: Yeah, that's a great tip. And I think that's the whole point of this conversation, is follow up, communication, opportunities to touch the customer, opportunities to create engagement with the customer, both before and after the transaction.
All of us, I think, probably have some type of a CRM that has a long term drip or they get three to four to five touches a year, but it's an automated email and they know that, that there's not a lot of intentionality with that. And so that's why these types of conversations are important. Another part of this is that I want to kind of segue into the type of gifts, not only that you promote, and that a lot of your clients used, is you've also whenever people, we talk a lot about a brand, both the company brand and a personal brand and people understand that brand is typically about reputation.
And our reputation is something all of us hold dear. And we want to protect it and we want to hold it to a high standard. I think a lot of people when they think about promotional items and gifts, all of a sudden go for cheap, or they go for whatever is easiest. And they forget that if you're wanting to have a high quality brand, if you're wanting to hold that reputation high, what your gifts and promo items and things that you're giving away to your clients, customers, referral partners, all those types of things, they say a lot about the quality of the type of business that you do and the standard at which you hold yourself to.
So with that being said, talk for a second about the types of gifts that you're getting a lot of success with clients or that the clients are having a lot of success with, some of your most popular ones and just kind of talk through, well, give people some ideas of some things that they could go out and do or some things that they should add to their retention gift arsenal.
Michael Athens: Yeah, well, I think that to boil this down to the biggest problem is how do you take the idea of having a system and how do you also make something feel personalized and feel important? Because that's the problem, scaling it. It's really easy if you got one client to go, okay, I'm going to scour through their Facebook. I'm gonna find what they love. I'm going to find what their family loves them and all that stuff. And I'm going to go get them that perfect thing. And that works perfectly until you hit that break point where you get to... I don't have time for this, and my assistant doesn't care enough to be able to do this perfectly or I have to add an assistant just to do this.
That what ends up costing. Especially since, I'm actually, I've been a certified The ONE Thing instructor, the Gary Keller, ONE Thing seminars, and it's not most people's one thing to go out and spend an hour buying and finding these gifts. So how can we create a system that feels right, that feels good, is creating those emotions, and it's scalable? And I think that's the hard part.
So, the biggest things would be, like you said, have it systematize in your database, where it's at these certain key points, whether it's through the transaction or post transaction? What are the key times that I need to touch my people?
How can I create value for them in either content, or introductions, or just talking and creating the relationship and for those gifts, that how do we create something that's scalable without feeling cheap and easy, because that's the reason most people go out and get the gift cards and gift baskets. But one is because they don't have the time to put in to do something awesome. So it's, "oh crap, my clothes in an hour. Well, I'm going to just go to Home Depot, or I'm just going to go grab this." And, that's really where the thing is. It's because it's no one wants to give something that's not gonna feel great and not going to create that relationship, but it's the time of it.
So I would say the biggest thing is, find a way to systematize it, whether it's bringing someone on your team that just they're spending an hour, a week that's maintaining it.So hey schedule out those times. I want to touch them two times, with something fun in the first hundred days and I want to touch them on the anniversary and I want to touch them on their birthday. What are the different things I can do?
So maybe it's a gift that comes sometime throughout that year or on the anniversary. Thank you notes, videos, calls, all those things. One of my favorites, a way to take that handwritten thank you note to another level is a metal thank you card. Have you ever seen any of those?
Phil Treadwell: I think so, Yeah
Michael Athens:Where it's a simple oh, yeah, like a pretty piece of sheet metal that's usually kind of engraved. But then you take a sharpie and you hand write on it. Right? And that's just a cool way to like, what the heck is this?
Phil Treadwell: Yeah, it's about differentiation. It's about doing something that people aren't doing. So let's talk about Gifts With An Edge. Let's talk about some of the actual gifts that your clients are getting with their business, kind of give some examples of some things that people may want to look at investing in or using as part of their retention gift program and gift giving promotional item, whatever.
Michael Athens: Yeah, so there's kind of a couple different ways we've done things. So for the past decade or so, how most people got started with our program is they bought like a 6-month or 12-month supply gifts, and it's mostly Cutco products.
So for those of you who don't know, it's the Rolex or the Tiffany's of the kitchen. They're super high quality. They're made in America. And actually, they've been made in America since 1949, so over 70 years, and they're actually guaranteed forever. Meaning, if your client fills it, it's sharpened for free. If they drop it and the tip breaks, melt the handle, whatever happens to it, is replaced for free forever.
So that's kind of the first thing, is how can we give them something that they'll use and love daily for the rest of their life. So how we've done is people would buy this small supply, we would engrave it with their logo, name, number, maybe a tagline and we would send it to them upfront that at closing or shortly after they can hand it.
Now, in the last year has been really transformational for us where we've done some really cool things. What has been really popular right now especially for my loan officers, is they'll set up either a single drop-ship gift or actually a full campaign of gifts where at the click of a button, they're done. They give us the clients information, we engrave it with "Handcrafted Especially for the Jones Family" on it. We can either put your info on the back or we can leave it blank if you just want to leave it for your clients and just focus on them, either way works for us.
Most my Realtors engrave their info on it, because otherwise they're only allowed to deduct $25. When we put their info on it, it makes it 100% tax deductible, which really adds up over the year. Since my lenders are W2s, it's kind of up to them, because most of them, they're not itemizing their receipts.
So whether you want to have your info on there for them to call you or not. It's totally up to you. I'm a fan of doing it really nice and small on the backs that it's still there because I've heard so many stories of someone going, oh yeah, you got to call my lender, they're awesome. Or people buying it at a state sales and now they're getting, they're selling someone's home off of that and things like that.
But that's up to you. But essentially what we do is if you're doing a single gift, we schedule it to arrive 30 days after closing, got the clients name on it. It comes in a box with a handwritten thank you note that says, "Hey, Susie, thank you so much for the opportunity to work with us. It was our pleasure to be part of your home buying process." I don't know if you're familiar with Cutco, but it's guaranteed forever and I want you to know that I will be forever at your fingertips for all your lending needs. Hey, "PS, give me a call so that I know you've got this."
Phil Treadwell: Yes, that's awesome.
Michael Athens: So now rather than you chasing down your clients, calling them to get those reviews and get those referrals and get these things they're calling in to you at this high state of gratitude. Where it's super easy to first just build a relationship because that's the number one goal. But then it's oh, "hey, by the way, I'm really trying to grow my online presence. I've texted you a real quick review form. Would you mind filling it out for me? Or hey, I'm sure over the past 30 days you've been showing your home off to everyone both mentioned that they're trying to make a move."
So it creates space for the conversation where you're not calling them to ask. They're calling you to thank you and then you have a small ask on the end if you want. So that's been powerful.
The largest version of it, the most popular for my lenders right now is that [Knife] shows up 30 days later, a veteran made cutting board also handcrafted for them shows up six months after closing. And then we have an engraved wine opener that says "Time to Celebrate" on it, that shows up on the one year anniversary.
And the cool thing because we're doing these personalized for every client is we can also personalize them where most, a lot of my letters are starting to co-brand gifts. So not only does it say, "With Gratitude, Your Realtor for Life" and your name and number.
But you can also say "With Gratitude, Your Realtor and Lender for Life", and have both your information. And this has been really popular because not only are they now giving a better gift, because they're cutting their price in half (because they're splitting it with a Realtor), but in addition, they could say "Hey Realtor, got the gift taken care of, they're going to get three gifts over the next year, it's gonna be branded with your info, you don't have to think about it. Done!
And, that's really been kind of the most powerful right now. It's so unexpected to get those things and to have them with the messaging on it that ties it to, "hey, this is why I wanted to give you this. This is something I want it to be a legacy item for you because I'm gonna be here for you forever." And so it's been pretty impactful.
Phil Treadwell: So that's awesome. And there's a couple important whys behind this stuff that I want to make sure people caught. The products themselves are extremely high quality. Right? I personally have some Cutco knives. My parents have bought them for me and some of my friends when I was in high school in college. I'm familiar with the product. So I know it's high quality and that's kind of the messaging behind, do you want to give someone a high quality gift that took some thought, that maybe has some custom messaging? Or do you want to give them something cheap that you could have picked up at $1 store or, big box retailer.
And then the other part of this is that there's some personality to it. You put their name on it. You make them tied to their home. That's one of the first things people do when they buy a home is they get rugs that say, welcome to the Jones family or they get one of the signs that says, XYZ family established on this date. People really like to personalize it. And so I know that there's a lot of personal preference on the professional side of it of whether you want to put your logo on it, whether you want to put your lender information on it or things of that nature. I'm not here to preach to people one way or another. I think the point is, you can decide what fits your business, which fits your client base, your referral partner base. You can also use it as a way to partner with other referral partners and things of that nature.
And so, that's why I like gifts in general. I personally do really high quality beer and wine openers for the reasons that you talk about. You throw it in a drawer, you keep it has some messaging on it maybe has a logo on it. I personally, if I'm going to throw a recommendation out there wouldn't put a name and phone number on there just specifically because if you've done your job in creating a relationship with someone, they're going to look at that gift and think of you and know how to get a hold of you. And if they don't know how to get a hold of you, then you've missed the boat anyway, you've given a really expensive gift without doing some of the other intangibles, but I do like, I have heard some of the stories of people have been gifted a knife or bought it at an estate sale or something and got calls from it. So that is kind of cool.
So there are arguments to be made both ways, but I want to make sure people understand, in this conversation, we're talking about an extension of yo,u an extension of your brand, and something that's representative of the relationship that you're trying to build with the client and customer. And I love that, having a six-month veteran made and then a time to celebrate wine opener. Those are really cool additions that I think sometimes people don't think about.
So what are some other popular things that lenders, realtors, anybody is doing or gifts that they're giving, some other things that we can throw out to advise everybody.
Michael Athens: Yeah. So I mean, there's a lot out there. You see other companies that do, the branded type things, and they have some value behind them. When I think of the gifts, the five things I think about, and I actually have this guide, I'll give you my website at the end. But the five things that really turn a gift from just a token to something that is going to really create an impact on the client.
First, something memorable, so something that stands out. It doesn't feel run of the mill. And so this is gonna weed out your gift cards and your bottles of wine unless it's a very specific bottle of wine for that client or something like that. So it's got to be memorable.
It's got to make them think of you, and part of the thing that goes along with that is tied in with it being memorable and also being long lasting, which is the next one. So I try to stay away from the things that are consumable, because even if it creates a big impact now, within weeks it's not in their memory, and that's not something we want.
So whether it's something for the home, I like it to be useful. There's a lot of people going out and doing the pictures on the wall or the mats or things like that. And they're getting halfway there. My problem with that is now you're forcing the client to make a decision of do I want to display this, like it's almost forcing them into an imposition, versus something that they're just naturally going to fall in love with.
It should provide real value. And I think that's part of the useful thing, or if it's personalized, so can they either use it all the time and it's going to create value for them through that or did you go find about their favorite sports team and husband got this because it's his favorite sports team and wife got this because it's something that she cares about. She's super into gardening. So you got her, _______, I don't know what it is, but something that provides value to them.
And then just something exciting. And some of you may be thinking, "I don't know if these knives would be exciting", but that's something you got to take our word for it or ask your friends that have it because it is one of those things where it may not seem exciting at the beginning, but when they've had it for a year, and they've had it for two years, and they've had it 20 years, and it's still sharp, or they've gotten that free replacement, free sharping, stuff like that.
It's like oh, wow, because just most people have never had the best of the best in their kitchen or in their home. Not everyone is walking around with Rolexs, not everyone's driving Rolls Royce's, any of that stuff so they don't know it upfront, but once they really experience it, it has a lot of wow behind it.
Phil Treadwell: That's awesome. Well, Michael, you've been a great guest, I want to be a good steward of your time. I want to ask one last question, we asked this of all of our guests. If you could just give one tip to mortgage professionals today to go out to use to build their business, what would it be?
Michael Athens: So what I would say is take a look at your process from the second you've come in contact with a client, no actual contact, not your marketing, they call you, they email you, they text you, whatever it is, from that point onwards to maybe a year, two years, three years out, and just maybe go one thing per month. And what is the process that happens in the first week, what is the process that happens in the second week, third week, and then it starts getting longer. What happens in the first month after closing? What happens in the next 5 months after closing? What happens in the next year?
And just one thing per month, just take a look at [one of these time frames] and go, what can I do to create an amazing experience?
What is the thing that my client wishes I was doing, or hates that I'm doing that I need to stop, or something that I'm doing really good of and I just need to keep it and build on.
What's one thing I can do to take me from having satisfied clients to raving fan clients? Because unfortunately, those satisfied clients, they're happy with you. They're in that 80%. And maybe they'll do business with you in the future. Maybe if someone asked them, hey, who's your lender? They'll say, hey, it's Phil.
But if you can take them into that raving fan clients. The people that will be walking down the street, they'll hear someone walk in the opposite direction, say lending and they'll go, "you need to call Phil. He is the best. He had the best process. I felt safe. I felt comfortable. I knew what was going on. He gave me these awesome gifts. He's written me these handwritten notes. Anytime I had a question, he sent me this video that explained everything."
When you can provide that level of customer experience where people are just so happy that they chose you, you'll never have to fight for new clients again.
Phil Treadwell: That's exactly right. And that's how you create super fans and those super fans become your advocates. And then that's how you create more deals. Michael, that's a great tip. We appreciate you sharing all that. If you would throw out websites, social media handles, anything you want to share with our audience so they can get to know you and get in contact, learn more about what you do.
Michael Athens: Yeah, so the website is www.RetentionGifts.com. And it has everything online there so you can take a look. If this is something you want to do, or just learn more about, it's a lot of times easier for us to have a 10-minute conversation rather than kind of looking on the site because everything is 100% customizable.
How we deliver it, what it's delivered with, whether it has your information, the clients information, all of that is totally up to you. We will customize it for your business. So it's a lot of times easier to chat on the phone. You can kind of get ideas on the site. If you just want to have a conversation, you can set up time in my schedule on the site, or Facebook me, Michael Athens like the city in Greece and I'm wearing a Cutco shirt. So it's super easy to find me.
But yeah, I would love to have a conversation with you whether it's about gifts or whether it's just about creating ideas to wow your clients because there's so much you can do. And there's so few people doing any of it. That those small little steps, just one little thing, 1% better every time will make you leaps and bounds ahead of your competitors. And it'll make it more fun while you're doing it.
Phil Treadwell: Totally agree. Michael, I appreciate you being a great guest. We'll make sure and put all your information in the show notes. Great information on gifts, a lot of value for everybody. And I look forward to catching up again really soon.
Michael Athens: Sounds good. Thank you so much!
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Q: See if a list contains a specific type Please see the class structures below:
public interface ISport { ... }

public class Football: ISport { … }

public class Running : ISport { … }

and the client code below:
List<ISport> sports = new List<ISport>();
sports.Add(new Football());
sports.Add(new Running());

bool containsFootball = sports.Contains(typeof(Running));

The error I get is:

"Cannot convert from system.type to ISport".

How to resolve?

A: use OfType<T>() such as var contains = sports.OfType<Running>().Any()

A: Just use Any and compare the type:
bool containsRunning = sports.Any(sport => sport is Running);

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Is is typically true that casinos contribute significantly to the destruction of urban and social fabric?
What are the long-term economic effects of permitting a casino in a city? Namely, after a decade or so of permitting a casino does a city typically realize a significant economic benefit or contraction?
Alternatively, does the GINI coefficient (income disparity) change significantly when one permits casinos in a city?
Is a significant increase in crime caused by permitting casinos in cities? Does crime increase significantly particularly where the casino is located? If so, can the crime increase be offset by increased revenue for policing and social services?
Are there significant knock-on effects, e.g. health/sick care costs, mental illness, single or adoptive parents?
It is reasonable I believe to expect that the above are the factors the author making the claim had been taken into account. Although I have focused on an economic proxy, there may be valid arguments that another proxy is preferable.
For further clarity, I would exclude from the analysis those cities whose predominant export is gambling-related tourism (e.g. Las Vegas). The crux of the question is the effect of a casino on cities whose economic foundations are not casino-related e.g. Toronto.
Casinos have financially benefitted native American tribes, but may have led to greater conflict as a result.
Gambling in general, specifically lottery gambling, can be a form of implicit regressive tax associated with increased income inequality - although Casinos appear to be less regressive than lotteries.
Increased income inequality is strongly negatively associated with all kinds of societal well-being indicators.
There is little doubt that casinos can be very good at generating wealth for their owners. This can be a powerful tool for societal change. For example, the Shakopee Mdewakanton tribe have benefited hugely from owning a casino. This could be seen as a big benefit to society through providing status/power to an oppressed minority.
On the flip-side, this has led to greater inequality within and between tribes and increased tribal conflict. So from this perspective, not so good.
A regressive tax is one that applies to poorer members of society at least as much as richer members, thereby increasing income inequality. Income tax is not regressive as people with higher incomes pay more tax. The most obvious example of a state-levied regressive tax is sales tax, because everyone, regardless of their income, pays the same amount of tax for the same product. In fact, this can disadvantage the poor even more because tax on many good that are consumed in greater quantities by the poor have higher sales tax - e.g. cigarettes and alcohol. implicit taxes can be similarly regressive.
It is absolutely conceivable that gambling could be an implicit regressive tax. This would mean that all forms of gambling would increase inequality, and therefore exacerbate all the negative effects of high income inequality.
nonlottery gambling has little impact on state-level income inequality. Lotteries, however, clearly foster income inequality--even when accounting for the effects of other forms of gambling.
While one might reasonably argue that state lotteries have broad geographical effects, casinos (of all types) are likely to have far more restricted areas of impact. To the extent that is the case, casino gambling may well influence local income distributions without producing a discernible state-level effect.
casinos generate more or their revenue from relatively wealthy gamblers than they do from lower-income gamblers. However, it still may be true that lower-income gamblers bear a greater financial burden from casino gambling than do higher-income gamblers (p. 6).
However it is important to also note that casino gambling may well become similarly regressive on a state level to lottery gambling if it grows in coverage and popularity. And that this is only one study.
the MPI's research, which is peer-reviewed in contrast to the unverified numbers the casino advocates throw around, show that depending on the size of the gambling facility (and the proposed GTA one would be huge), costs to cities in policing and other taxpayer-funded services run between two to seven times the casino advocates' claimed civic benefits.
The MPI paper which they talk about is available here: The Economic "Impact" of a Downtown Casino in Toronto.
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I don't blame you for babying it. Hopefully it's just some inflammation/tendonitis and some rest will take care of it. If you have the means to go to the doctor, though, it wouldn't hurt to have it checked out to be on the safe side. I've never heard of BPC-157, but it looks amazing. I'm gonna mention it to an old coworker of mine that has arthritis in his shoulders. I noticed one website has a patch version as well. Probably not as effective as injection though.
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Training: None. Still trying to get my knee back in working order. I'll be doing some GVT to close off the week just because. I'll be back on the regular PPL split Monday.
Supplementation: Working on the Hero Pack review. Bought a few more ancillaries for the upcoming LGD run. Blood work scheduled for next Friday. Also decided to "make" my own GDA from Gymnema Sylvestre, Banaba Leaf Extract, Agmatine, and Berberine HCL. Going all out for the SARM run.
Calories: closer to 1,900-2,000. Protein: 180g Carbohydrate: 150g Fat: 50g. Splurged just a bit since I got off work early.
Training: Did a GVT arms workout. Hopped on a stationary bike to see if my knee could take it and it felt fine. Until I got off after an hour then it felt a little sore. Starting to think this may just be tendonitis. Hopefully I can keep up a 20-30 min bike session until Monday.
Supplementation: Working on some reviews that should be live by the end of the week. Started on some glucosamine sulphate I forgot I had. Thinking about ordering some Invictus from Iron Legion to take advantage of their Labor Day sale for cortisol control post LGD.
Calories: 1,700 Protein: 190 Carbohydrate: 130g Fat: 45g. Cannot wait to break this diet. 4 more days.
Training: Did a randomly selected GVT workout. Got a really nice pump. After a day of walking around and all that cardio yesterday, my knee is a little sore so I'm calling it quits on cardio for the rest of this cut (3 days). Coming to the realization that I may only have a 4 pack to cut down to at the moment and the glorious 6 pack will have to wait until next cut cycle.
Supplementation: Starting some heavy doses of detox teas for these last few days. No, I don't think they'll actually do much but they do dry me out like a diuretic and I'm trying to take some nice photos at the end of this journey. Most of my ancillaries have come in. Hopefully my knee allows me to start this SARM cycle in about 2-3 weeks.
Calories: Estimating around 1,800. Work catered some BBQ for lunch and I had 1.5 plates. The calories mostly came from pulled pork and a small serving of mac and cheese. Not even counting the roasted brussel sprouts - filled tf up on those. Breakfast and dinner combined was 3.5 scoops of protein powder. Assuming that was within 1,800 calories or so.
4pack? Hmm, what is that?
I think today or tomorrow may be the final day of the cut. Then again, I'm only scheduled for two more days so its not like that's impossible either. Decisions decisions.
Training: Random GVT workout. No cardio. Knee is feeling eh.
Supplementation: Hero's Pack Review should be up soon.
Calories: Same as yesterday so assuming around 1,800.


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Q: Using links (link_rss field) as the source for fetch_feed I am trying to display feeds from a couple of my blogs using the build in function fetch_feed() however I stumbled across a few problems.
I am storing the rss urls in the links section and will be calling the link_rss as the input for fetch_feed(). I know that I would have to deal with an array, perhaps nested arrays??
Can someone be kind enough to give me a way of pulling all the link_rss fields into one single variable which can be use for fetch_feed()??
Having the variable in the form of an array would be great so I can just plug it in to the function like so fetch_feed($variable).
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!

A: Possible, only I am not entirely sure about specifics of looping through multi-feed SimplePie object. Customize get_bookmarks() call to query for links you need.
$bookmarks = get_bookmarks();
$feeds = array();

foreach($bookmarks as $bookmark)
    if($bookmark->link_rss)
        $feeds[] = $bookmark->link_rss;

$items = fetch_feed($feeds);

A: Short answer: No.
fetch_feed() expects an URL, so you basically need to create a URL that will return link_rss data in form of RSS-Feed while being requested via HTTP. That looks too complicated in my eyes.
Filtering the fetch_feed() function is too complicated as well. Probably injecting the feed using the data: url scheme might do some magic, but I assume that SimplePie might not deal with that.


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Diego Corrales Died Exactly Two Years After Winning the Best Boxing Match Ever
by J.L. Seto on May 13, 2020
Sometimes, the best fights in boxing come from the drama that's been built up around it. Other times though, the best fights come from non-stop and unrelenting action. That's exactly what happened with Diego Corrales' first fight with Jose Luis Castillo, which some call the best fight of all time.
Before the great fight
While neither men were undefeated, both men were at their prime and both men were champions at the time, just for different boxing organizations. Corrales had a record of 39-2, and he was the WBO lightweight champion. Castillo was 52-6, and he was the WBC lightweight champion. The winner of this fight would unify the two belts from the two organizations.
Compared to the other fighters who were fighting at the time, such as Floyd Mayweather, both Corrales and Castillo, despite being champions, were largely unremarkable. In fact, Mayweather had actually beaten both men a few years earlier. Mayweather beat Corrales in 2001, and then Mayweather beat Castillo twice in 2002.
As a result, when the two men fought each other in 2005, the fight was hosted in a modestly sized arena in the Mandalay Bay casino in Las Vegas. The organizers were expecting about 6,000 attendees, but it wasn't sold out by the time the fight started, according to CBS Sports.
Why this fight was so great
In short, as CBS Sports said, it was simply an action-packed fight. Neither man had a defensive fighting style. Instead, both men fought aggressively and wanted to get close to the other man to land the harder shots.
They weren't just headhunting, either. Castillo in particular mixed things up and landed many hard shots to Corrales' body. But Corrales fought back and landed heavy shots of his own.
The two men just kept trading heavy punches, round after round, but neither man went down. It immediately became clear to the spectators that this was going to be a great fight, but few knew just how great it'd be.
Early in the 10th round, Castillo landed a clean punch that knocked Corrales down. The referee gave him a 10-count, and Corrales was back in action after the referee counted to eight. Then, Castillo immediately landed another clean shot that knocked Corrales down again. Things were looking grim for Corrales, and after counting to nine, Corrales was ready to fight again.
Corrales needed a Hail Mary, and he got one. Corrales tried to finish the fight, but then Corrales landed a picture-perfect punch that rocked Castillo. Sensing the opportunity, Corrales swarmed Castillo and knocked him out for good. This back-and-forth, comeback win ultimately made this fight the best fight of the century, according to CBS Sports.
The tragic end of Diego Corrales' life
Jose Luis Castillo lands a left on Diego Corrales during their World Lightweight Unification bout | Nick Laham/Getty Images
A fight that good deserved a rematch, and a few months later, they got one. The two men fought the same way in the rematch, according to CBS Sports, but Castillo got the better of Corrales and knocked him out in the fourth round. That said, this wasn't a really fair fight as Castillo had missed weight. In fact, the two men were scheduled to fight again for a third time, but Castillo missed weight again.
Corrales didn't want to fight Castillo with a weight disadvantage, so the trilogy fight was canceled. Still, since Castillo missed weight, he didn't win the title after knocking Corrales out. But that didn't stop Corrales from fighting and losing to other boxers. Corrales fought two more times after his second fight with Castillo, and he lost both times.
Then, tragically, during the two-year anniversary of this great bout, Corrales was involved in an accident while riding his motorcycle. This accident took his life. He was only 29 years old.
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Ио́сиф Влади́мирович Ге́ссен (до крещения Иосиф Саулович Гессен; , Одесса — 22 марта 1943, Нью-Йорк) — русский государственный и политический деятель, юрист и публицист.

Биография

Родился а в Одессе, в еврейской купеческой семье, занимавшейся хлеботорговлей. Его дед, Юда Мунишевич Гессен (1808—1873), был купцом 2-й гильдии, попечителем одесской талмудторы; дядя, Исидор Юльевич (Израиль Юделевич) Гессен, был управляющим Днестровской линией Русского общества пароходства и торговли. Двоюродный брат — историк и писатель Юлий Исидорович Гессен. Отец — Шоель Юделевич (Шевель Иделевич, Саул, Савелий Юльевич) Гессен (1833—1894), также был занят в хлеботорговле, но разорился в 1880-х годах (жил в Одессе в доме № 69 по Малой Арнаутской улице); впоследствии взял подряд на управление винокуренным заводом в Екатеринославе, в чём тоже успеха не имел. Мать, Шева Гессен, происходила из зажиточной семьи из Екатеринослава.

В июне 1883 года закончил 3-ю одесскую гимназию. С 1883 года учился на естественном факультете, с 1884 года на юридическом факультете Новороссийского университета в Одессе, из которого был исключен в 1885 году «за словесное оскорбление студента А. Петрикова». Продолжил учёбу в Петербургском университете на первом курсе.

29 декабря 1885 года Гессен был арестован и за близость к народовольцам подвергся административной ссылке на три года в Вологодскую губернию, в Усть-Сысольск, после того как его арестовали во время облавы. По возвращении в Одессу сдал экзамены за полный курс юридического факультета Петербургского университета (1889), но из-за «политической неблагонадежности» не был допущен властями ни к подготовке при университете к профессорскому званию (1892), ни к адвокатской деятельности. В 1892 году переехал в Кишинёв, где его старший брат владел аптекой; работал в Бессарабском коммерческом суде и здесь же женился на внучке казённого раввина Кишинёва.

В 1894 году ради усыновления сына, рождённого от православной женщины Анны Ивановны Макаровой (в будущем философа Сергея Иосифовича Гессена) — дочери хозяина квартиры, в которой он проживал, отбывая ссылку в Усть-Сысольске, вместе с женой принял православие. В следующем году с него был снят негласный надзор. Работал секретарём Тульского окружного суда, юридическим консультантом в Министерстве юстиции в Петербурге. В 1896 году был назначен делопроизводителем IX класса во 2-й департамент Министерства юстиции, входил в редакцию «Журнала министерства юстиции» (куда был принят по рекомендации троюродного брата Я. М. Гессена, также сотрудника редакции). В 1899 году назначен делопроизводителем 1-го (консультантского) департамента Министерства юстиции.

Присяжный поверенный (1904), главный редактор газеты «Право». Озабоченность Гессена положением евреев в Российской империи проявилась в его работе «Закон 3 мая 1882 года и его применение» (1903), в составлении «Сборника законов о евреях» (1904) и сборника «Накануне пробуждения» (1906). Был одним из организаторов и членом совета «Союза освобождения».

В 1905 году участвовал в создании Конституционно-демократической партии (партии кадетов), в которой стал товарищем (заместителем) председателя Петербургского комитета. В 1906 году Гессен стал членом Центрального комитета партии. В 1905 году совместно с П. Н. Милюковым Гессен редактировал газету «Народная свобода», сотрудничал в журнале «Вестник партии народной свободы». С февраля 1906 году он был соредактором (с П. Н. Милюковым) газеты «Речь».

В октябре 1905 года Гессен участвовал в секретных безрезультатных переговорах между Центральным комитетом Конституционно-демократической партии и премьер-министром С. Ю. Витте о создании правительства с участием кадетов. В период избирательной кампании в I Государственную думу Гессен был исключён из списка избирателей в связи с привлечением к суду за «антиправительственную деятельность».

В 1907 году был избран депутатом II Государственной Думы от Санкт-Петербургской губернии. Во время выборов выступал за соглашение с октябристами и имел контакты с П. А. Столыпиным. После избрания демонстративно записался как православный, но еврей по национальности.

Печатался в «Жизни», «Русских ведомостях», «Сыне отечества», «Наших днях» и других изданиях. В 1909 году присоединился к критике сборника «Вехи»

В 1917 году был избран членом Временного совета Российской республики. После Октябрьского переворота Гессен выступил против Советской власти. Он входил в Политический центр при штабе генерала Н. Н. Юденича, а в январе 1919 года (по другим данным — в 1920 году) эмигрировал в Финляндию. Там он выступил в скандинавских и германских органах печати с серией резких статей против большевиков. Известно его «Открытое письмо к социал-демократам», в котором он уговаривал европейских социал-демократов отгородиться от большевиков, утверждая, что Россия стоит перед опасностью страшной реакции, которая «разольется далеко за пределы русского государства», и что «реакция тем больнее ударит по социалистам, чем теснее они свяжут себя с судьбой большевистского режима».

Вскоре Гессен переехал из Финляндии в Германию. Вместе с В. Д. Набоковым и А. И. Каминкой Гессен основал 5 ноября 1920 года русскоязычную газету «Руль». В 1921—37 годах он издал 22-томный документальный сборник «Архив русской революции». Гессен написал две книги воспоминаний: «В двух веках» и «Годы изгнания».

В 1936 году Гессен переехал в Париж. После оккупации Франции немцами в 1941 году, он уехал в США, поселившись в Нью-Йорке, где и умер.

Семья

 Жена — Анна Исааковна Штейн (урождённая Грубер, 1866—1930), внучка казённого раввина Кишинёва Иосифа Гершковича Блюменфельда (1807, Люблин — ?, Кишинёв).
 Сын — философ Сергей Иосифович Гессен (1887—1950).
 Внуки — Евгений Сергеевич Гессен (1910—1945), русский поэт, член содружества молодых поэтов «Скит», погиб в Освенциме; Дмитрий Сергеевич Гессен (1916—2001), польский славист, участник Второй мировой войны, составитель «Большого польско-русского словаря» (М.: Русский язык, 1979) и посмертного собрания литературного наследия Соломона Барта (совместно с Лазарем Флейшманом, М.: Водолей, 2008).
 Сын — Владимир Иосифович (Осипович) Гессен (1901—1982), журналист и публицист, сотрудник редакции газеты «Новое русское слово», по образованию экономист;
 Сын — Георгий Иосифович (Осипович) Гессен (1902—1971), переводчик.
 Приёмные сыновья — Роман (1884—1942), Эрнест (1886—1911) и Семён (1887—1949).
 Братья — Михаил Савельевич (Муниш Саулович) Гессен (старший), был владельцем аптек в Одессе и Москве, затем провизором; Юлий Савельевич (Юда Саулович) Гессен (младший, ?—1934), до 1918 года работал в Русском для внешней торговли банке (его сын — электротехник Виктор Юльевич Гессен); Григорий Савельевич (Герш Саулович) Гессен (1883—?), выпускник Одесского коммерческого училища, инженер. У него также были три сестры, из которых Сабина Сауловна Гессен была замужем за своим троюродным братом, юристом Яковом Мавеевичем Гессеном (1869—1942), директором издательства «Право» и издателем газеты «Право» (их сын — пушкинист Сергей Гессен, 1903—1937).

Примечания

Сочинения

  (том 1), (том 2), (том 3), (том 4), (том 5), (том 6), (том 7), (том 8), (том 9), (том 10), (том 11), (том 12)
 Юридическая литература для народа. — 1904.
 Артели : Закон 1 июня (с разъяснениями по представлению М-ва финансов, проекту Комис. по сост. гражд. уложения и др.) и действующие образцовые уставы. — СПб.: тип. АО «Слово», 1902.
 Узаконение, усыновление и внебрачные дети. — СПб.: тип. АО «Слово», 1902.

 Юридическая помощь населению. — СПб.: Юрид. кн. скл. «Право», 1904.
 Реформа местного суда. — СПб.: Юрид. кн. маг. Н. К. Мартынова, 1910.
 Раздельное жительство супругов. — СПб.: Юрид. кн. скл. «Право», 1912.
 Раздельное жительство супругов : Закон 12 марта 1914 г. о некоторых изм. и доп. действующих узаконений о личн. и имуществ. правах замуж. женщин и об отношениях супругов между собою и к детям и др. законоположения с законодат. мотивами и разъяснениями, извлеч. из Проекта Ред. комис. … со вступ. очерком и алф. предм. указ. — СПб.: Юрид. кн. скл. «Право», 1914.
 Сборник законов о евреях с разъяснениями по определениям Правительствующаго Сената и циркулярам министерств : издание неофициальное / сост. И. В. Гессен и В. Фридштейн. — СПб.: издание Юридическаго книжнаго магазин Н. К. Мартынова, 1904.
 Конституционное государство (сборник статей). СПб.: тип. о-ва «Общественная польза», при участии газеты «Право», 1905.
 Искания общественного идеала. — Берлин: Слово, 1922.
 История русской адвокатуры. — М., 1914.
 Домашняя библиотека опыт составления систематического указателя книг для самообразования
 Адвокатура, общество и государство. — М.: Сов. присяжных поверенных, 1914.
 Великие реформы 60-х годов в их прошлом и настоящем. — СПб., 1905.

Литература
 Гессен В. Ю. Жизнь и деятельность И. В. Гессена — юриста, публициста и политика. — , 2000.

Ссылки

 [mirslovarei.com/content_beo/Gessen-Iosif-Vladimirovich-3731.html Гессен Иосиф Владимирович]. // Биографический словарь
 Гессен Иосиф Владимирович. // Новый исторический вестник
 Гессен Иосиф Саулович. // РЕЭ
 Гессен Иосиф Владимирович. // Антибольшевистская Россия. Энциклопедический словарь
 Анкета И. В. Гессена. Сведения о членах Государственной думы 1907

Адвокаты Российской империи
Кадеты
Мемуаристы Российской империи
Русские эмигранты первой волны в Германии
Русские эмигранты первой волны во Франции
Русские эмигранты первой волны в США
Публицисты Российской империи
Члены Государственной думы Российской империи II созыва
Адвокаты по алфавиту
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Harmeet Dhillon lands endorsements from major GOP supporters in a bid to depose McDaniel for the position of RNC chair
In a public letter towards the Republican National Committee, the donors expressed their support for Harmeet Dhillon, a civil rights lawyer and national committeewoman for the RNC who will succeed the current chairperson, Ronna McDaniel.
The donors stated that the party will not be able to continue on its current course when it is experiencing these kinds of losses, as it did during the last three cycles of elections.
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It is difficult, perhaps impossible, to acknowledge the humanity in others if we do not acknowledge it in ourselves. This Sunday, Matthew Hyde and Tina Modde Villalobos will share about their experiences of how, in their own professional and educational paths, they both lost sight of, and then later re-embraced, their humanity. Their stories are ones in which it becomes evident that to acknowledge the pain and hurt in someone else is to simultaneously acknowledge it in ourselves. They are also about getting lost, and then finding one's way back home. While their stories are unique, they will both be discussing how they clumsily but also courageously committed to living a life that felt congruent with their belief in the human.
Matthew is a graduate nursing student at SLU, former medical device engineer with bioMérieux. He has a Bachelor degree in Biomedical Engineering from SLU, Master degree in Engineering Management from WashU, and is a licensed professional massage therapist trained at the Healing Arts Center. Matthew will be sharing about his journey through jobs and experiences to find passion and meaning, while navigating through distraction, disconnection and dehumanization both inside and outside.
Tina is a clinical therapist at McCallum Place for Eating Disorders who also has a small private practice. She received a Master's in Social Work from Washington University and her Bachelor's in Theology from SLU. She will be sharing about how her own self-image as well as the career goals she held for herself became thwarted when she began to recognize troubling signs of fatigue, resentment, and disconnection, and how after many months of wandering through these unsettling feelings, she opted to reform her inner attitudes as well as change her professional path.
Join us Sunday 20 December for a potluck (starting at 6 p.m.) and Matthew and Tina's sharing (commencing at 6:45). We gather at the home of Fatima Rhodes, 4406 A Laclede, Central West End, 63108.
A wonderful and illuminating sharing last evening by Sharifa Barakat and Imman Musa before a packed house at Marty and Jerry's. Thanks to the many students from Maryville and SLU who came as well as new and old friends.
She's found that greatest spiritual treasures are often found beyond any buildings or institutions, but in daily practices as ordinary as washing the dishes, laughing with a friend, or a trip to the farmer's market.
Through stories, discussion and a guided exercise, Lindsay will share about how she embraces her Christian identity as a student of yoga, Buddhism, Native American spirituality, and her own body and breath.
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Heaven and earth are full of breath.
When a dragon chants, a cloud rises.
I grew miserable with breathing.
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I read Whitman to lessen the grounds for Simone's scowling about my alienation from nature.
I read Whitman to rejuvenate a vision of what is possible for These States.
I recommend Whitman to friends as as a kindred spirit.
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We would like to talk to you about our Palestinian heritage and some of the unique experiences we have had as Muslim Palestinian-American women living in the Midwest.
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Sharifa and Imman were both active in the Muslim Student Association and SLU Solidarity with Palestine during their time at Saint Louis University.
Join us Sunday 6 December: Potluck begins at 6:00 p.m., and Imman and Sharifa begin sharing at 6:45. We gather at the home of Marty and Jerry King, 830 DeMun Avenue in Clayton (63105), third floor. Text me if you need anything–314-807-8769.


Ever since Tori Dittmer was little, she would have said she was a Christian.
But that entire time, Tori was keeping God in a box – a box she only opened on Sundays or when she needed something from Him. But still, she never really thought she needed God.
The first few weeks of her freshman year at Washington State University, Tori spent her time indulging in the world.
After continuing to try to fill the hole in her heart with the average college lifestyle, Tori realized that the world would never satisfy her. She started to get fed up with the activities on Greek row and therefore stopped attending them.
Her parents had said things like that before, but this time Tori listened. That day she cried out to God from the midst of her sorrow.
God used that passage to grab Tori's heart in a way that she had never experienced before. This time, she felt confident that she could commit to God and never look back.
Following the Lord isn't always an easy road, however.
In all of this, the Lord has shown Tori the strength of His love.
During recent months, the Lord has has been teaching Tori patience, faithfulness, and joy. She now knows that everything happens a certain way for a reason.


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Fine distinctions: careering, fearing, recollecting
Last week at You Don't Say, John McIntyre responded to one of those true believers who think that so long as they still distinguish between overlapping words -- career and careen were the pair at issue -- everyone else should too. "Why on earth would we dispose of such a useful distinction?" asked the commenter.
This rhetorical challenge is a perfect example of begging the question, in the old sense. Who says it's "useful"? If I found it useful, wouldn't I be using it?* In any case, Gabe Doyle gave this issue the full treatment way back in 2009, so I won't dwell on it.
As John kindly mentioned, my annotated edition of Ambrose Bierce's "Write It Right" includes abundant examples of similar alleged distinctions. In the case of remember vs. recollect, for instance, Bierce says the difficulty governs the verb choice: "We remember automatically; in recollecting we make a conscious effort."
This seems to be an uncritical borrowing from Richard Grant White, whose 1870 "Words and Their Uses, Past and Present" is the earliest source of the "rule" I've found. There are few later sources, presumably because the rule is so pointless. Why would a listener care if you were recalling something with effort or not? And wouldn't the rule make it incorrect ever to say "I can't remember X"? At any rate, the distinction never took hold, even among sticklers.
Another Bierce bugbear was discussed at Arnold Zwicky's blog the other day: "I'm afraid" vs. "I fear." Bierce says "I fear that it will rain" is correct, though he gives no reason. He may have swiped this one from an 1855 handbook by one Walton Burgess, grandly titled "500 Mistakes of Daily Occurrence, in Speaking, Writing, and Pronouncing the English Language, Corrected." Burgess uses the same "rain" example, and he does give a reason: that "afraid expresses terror; fear may mean only anxiety."
But as Arnold noted, there's no historical support for banning "I'm afraid" in the polite/apologetic sense. And even if Burgess's distinction once held, today we hear "I fear" as quite formal, and freely use "I'm afraid" to express both fear and mere regret or anxiety.
I leave for another day Bierce's attempts to differentiate between necessities and necessaries, coat and coating (of paint), trifling and trivial, custom and habit. Suffice it to say that a century later, we're doing very well without them.
*Of course there are always distinctions that remain "meaningful" for some of us even when Those Kids have dropped them; I still think "he may have survived" and "he might have survived" mean different things, but lots of people no longer read the verb as I do.
cucaracha said...
It reminds me of my father who was very pedantic - he hated people using 'surprised' when they meant 'astonished'. But i got him over 'mend' and 'repair' saying that they actually meant the same thing but their roots were different OE v/s OF!
Sue Dunham said...
I had 2 alternate meanings in mind, and couldn't understand the confusion between tilting a ship to clean the barnacles, and one's job path in life.
Gregory Lee said...
And if remember doesn't take effort, it should have been:
Try to recollect the kind of September
When life was slow and oh, so mellow.
"Who says it's 'useful'? If I found it useful, wouldn't I be using it?"
Exactly. The distinction is being lost precisely because it isn't useful, or at least the majority of users don't find it useful. In the free market of language, speakers invest in the meanings that are useful and abandon the ones that aren't.
Duct tape/duck tape, one more time
Riddle me this: a "bullet-ridden" corpse?
Incent dissents
Further proof that "lay/laid" is a lost cause
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Татьяна Львовна Калугина (урождённая — Шевелёва) (родилась 15 ноября 1942 года в Москве) — советская писательница, журналистка. Специалист в биографии, творческом наследии Рерихов.

Биография
Окончила школу № 329 г. Москвы (1950—1960), Московский энергетический институт (1969), получила музыкальное образование. Работала инженером.

С 1978 года начала выступать в печати, преимущественно по проблемам культурного строительства (газеты «Советская культура», «Советская Россия», «Правда», «Москва», «Неман», «Семья и школа», «Сельская молодёжь», «Клуб» и др.).

В предисловии к книге «Пути восхождения» (1984), куда вошли интервью, очерки, статьи Т. Калугиной, посвященные культурному наследию Рерихов, а также «тому, как претворяются в нашей сегодняшней жизни заветы выдающегося деятеля культуры XX века, великого русского художника Николая Константиновича Рериха», сказано:

«На протяжении многих лет Т. Калугина изучает творческое наследие семьи Рерихов, долгое время сотрудничала с биографом Рерихов Павлом Федоровичем Беликовым (1911—1982), неоднократно встречалась с известным современным художником Святославом Николаевичем Рерихом. В качестве журналистки она побывала во многих местах нашей страны, связанных с жизнью и деятельностью Рерихов, в том числе совершила несколько путешествий по Горному Алтаю, где проходила их знаменитая Центрально-Азиатская экспедиция».

Семья
Мать: Екатерина Шевёлева. Отец: Соловейчик Лев

Дети: Юрий, Анастасия, Сергей

Сочинения
Калугина, Татьяна Львовна. Пути восхождения [Текст] : [О Н. К., С. Н. и Ю. Н. Рерихах]. — М. : Правда, 1984. — 63 с. — (Библиотека «Огонёк» № 44)
 в СМИ
 Братство / Т. Л. Калугина // Огонёк. 1983. № 7. С. 29. Медицинское направление работы Института Гималайских исследований «Урусвати» в долине Кулу. Встречи С. Н. Рериха и Н. К. Рериха с Дж. Неру в Индии в 1942 г. То же: // Святослав Рерих: лекции, интервью, беседы, письма. Одесса, 2013. С. 357—361.
 Интервью у трапа: снова в Москве / Т. Л. Калугина // Советская культура. 1987. 7 мая, № 55. То же: // Святослав Рерих: лекции, интервью, беседы, письма. Одесса, 2013. С. 256—257. Участие С. Н. Рериха в XV выставке произведений членов АХ СССР в Москве. Культурная деятельность С. Н. Рериха в Бангалоре.
 «Красота — это стремление к совершенствованию»: [беседа с С. Н. Рерихом 1 июня 1978 г.] / Т. Л. Калугина // Неман. 1979. № 8. То же: // Святослав Рерих: лекции, интервью, беседы, письма. Одесса, 2013. С. 337—345. Понятие красоты. Проблемы воспитания детей. Воспоминания о детстве. Автор интервью — об особенностях портретного жанра С. Н. Рериха.
 Святослав Рерих: «Прекрасное — действенно» / Т. Л. Калугина. // Советская культура. 1978. 9 июня. То же: // «Будите в себе Прекрасное…»: к 110-летию со дня рождения С. Н. Рериха: сборник. В 2 т. М., 2015. Т. 1: 1938—1988. С. 329—331. Понятие Красоты. Необходимость этического и эстетического воспитания детей.

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By News-Register staff • May 21, 2021
Outbreak at Delphian School includes 40 students, 6 staff
An outbreak of COVID-19 at the Delphian School in Sheridan has sickened 40 students and six staff members, according to the Oregon Health Authority.
It's one of 389 current school outbreaks in Oregon, according to the OHA, including several smaller outbreaks in the county, most of them previously reported. They consist of five students infected at Willamina Middle and High School in Willamina, three at Duniway Middle School in McMinnville, one at Patton Middle School in McMinnville and one at Grandhaven Elementary School in McMinnville.
The OHA reported there are also active current outbreaks at Fircrest Senior Living in McMinnville, with six people infected, the federal prison in Sheridan, where 83 people have been infected since last October, and the Allison Inn & Spa in Newberg, with five people infected.
Yamhill County reported 17 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the county to a total to date of 4,552. There have been 76 deaths in the county. According to county health, 53.6% of the eligible population 16 and older has now received at least one dose of the vaccine.
Statewide last week, new cases decreased by 16%, but the rate of positive tests increased slightly, from 6.1% to 6.4%, despite a decrease in overall testing. The OHA said that 57 Oregonians died, making it the highest death toll in 10 weeks, and hospitalizations also increased.
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• County health director: If you have symptoms, assume COVID
• Dayton schools take a break; some Sheridan classes online
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• New COVID-19 cases up 140% last week in Oregon
Makes me wonder if Scientologists believe in the vaccination, or are they boycotting it and now have an outbreak?
08:46 pm - Fri, May 21 2021
Hibb
Really Leo?! That's your takeaway? This is just one (1) of 389 outbreaks in Oregon schools. Why are we subjecting our children to what could be a lethal proposition instead of protecting them. Scientologists or not, this is an issue affecting all people's, no matter what their belief system. Let's stop bashing and start seeking responsible solutions.
01:18 am - Sun, May 23 2021
The Delphian school has historically had the lowest vaccination rates in the county. Sadly, I'm not surprised one bit.
10:03 pm - Thu, May 27 2021
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In the 1980's I saw YC play Delphian in girls' softball. A Delphian runner was hit by a line drive. The coach ran out, demanded the ball be handed to him, and then rubbed the girls arm with the ball and chanted something indiscernible.
My guess is they're anti-vax at the Delphian School.