"It's better to give that to receive" a simple saying that might sound a bit old and common but very relevant not only in our personal social interactions but also in the corporate world. To start this off, let me identify what is a corporate gift just in case some people didn't know. Here in Singapore, we consider promotional corporate gifts as anything from a simple notebook and plain canvas tote bags to some custom made drawstring bags and coffee mugs that has your company's or brand's identity in it. But why is it so important nowadays in the business world? To cut the story short, here I have listed the 3 main importance of giving customized corporate gifts that I, myself had actually witnessed in Singapore.
Well, it is a common knowledge that everybody really loves receiving gifts. It makes them feel special and makes them feel that we constantly think about them. Gifts also make people feel valued especially if the gifts are tailored to their liking. By doing this, it helps your business become more favorable to customer and also to your employees if you would give them too. They would like to work more with you because people works more with the person they want and that is our human nature. So if you'll work your way on making your customers like you, then you are already one step ahead on the business game.
Giving your customer an item that has your identity in it, will obviously sky rocket you chance of being noticed. Some even say that 87% of people keep the corporate gifts that they found useful for more than 12 months. Imagine how much exposure you can get without spending too much money from just giving your client a simple personalized item. So now, I suggest that you should start thinking about getting a customized corporate gift in Singapore that sits on your clients' table or anything that could be visible to them each day for a maximum exposure.
Imagine someone giving you a gift. When you receive a gift, your mind immediately creates a positive impression towards that person. Same thing happens in the corporate world. This is because the idea of giving is associated with goodwill. But to be more subtle about your business intentions, it would help if you focus more on the recipient and not in your industry. Consider giving gifts that are unique, personal or practical. Example is if your business is an automotive company, you should not send them car parts as a gift just because it has your company's identity in it. Instead do a bit of research about what they like to help you have an idea about what kind of gift would fit them. If you discovered that they are a triathlon athlete in Singapore, then, it would be nice to give them a customized water bottle that they can surely use in their activities. This will addto making them feel more special and wouldn't look like you are pushing yourself to them.
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Road to Miss Universe : Puerto Rico, Gabriela Berrios
Gabriela Berrios was crowned Miss Universe Puerto Rico on october 3, 2013. She will represent Puerto Rico at Miss Universe 2014 where she will compete to succeed the current titleholder, Gabriela Isler of Venezuela. Gabriela is majoring in Business Administration and Production at Kaplan University, located in Orlando, Florida, where she resides. Before, she joined Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2012 she was only good enough for 2nd Runner-Up to then winner Bodine Koehler Pena. However, she was afforded the chance to participate in Miss Supranational 2012 where she finished among the Top 10.
With her beautiful green eyes, Gabriela Berrios reminds me of Miss World 1st Runner Up, Miss France 2013 Marine Lorphelin.
Gabriela Berrios about her title of Miss Universe Puerto Rico : "It has changed my life, my world, who I am and who is truly sincere! Faith, commitment, desire, strength, compromise, determination and disciple! Words that describe who I have become! "
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In addition to the traditional option of becoming a bank, across Europe, including Lithuania, a more favourable option exists for Lithuanian and foreign startups seeking to begin providing various financial services in the European Economic Area. The key feature of a specialised bank in Lithuania is the minimum capital requirement of EUR 1 million, while for a traditional bank it is EUR 5 million. A specialised bank in Lithuania is a credit institution, which has the right to receive deposits, lend funds, provide transfer of funds and other usual banking services.
If you wish to become a bank in Lithuania and take advantage of the EUR1 million initial capital requirement we can help you apply to the Bank of Lithuania and become a specialised bank. Below you will find key information and requirements to become a specialised bank in Lithuania.
Services a Specialised bank in Lithuania can provide:
A specialised bank can provide the following services:
1. Acceptance of deposits and other repayable funds;
2. Lending (including mortgage loans);
3. Financial leasing;
4. Payment services;
5. Issue and administration of travel vouchers, bills of exchange and other payment instruments.
6. Provision of financial guarantees and financial guarantees;
7. Financial intermediation (agent activities);
8. Money management;
9. Creditworthiness assessment services;
10. Rental of safes;
11. Currency exchange (in cash);
12. Issuance of electronic money.
Specialised bank licensing process
The approach of the Bank of Lithuania to the authorisation process for banks, as well as for other institutions, is, as far as possible, an open one and normally begins well before an application for an authorisation is submitted.
There are 4 stages in the authorisation process:
1. The pre-application stage: we make a formal introduction to the regulator on your behalf.
2. Submission of an application to the Supervision Service of the Bank of Lithuania: the Supervision Service, within 5 business days, accepts the application for consideration.
3. Assessment of an application and attached documents: the Supervision Service, after starting the assessment procedure for the application and submitted documents, transfers all data to the European Central Bank (ECB). Since that moment, the Supervision Service and the ECB together in parallel assess the submitted documents. Where the documents submitted have no deficiencies, the licence is issued within the shortest possible 6 month-term. From experience, however, considering the scope and seriousness of this licence, the Supervision Service usually requests additional information or documents.
4. Issuance of a licence or refusal of authorisation: after assessment of submitted documents is completed, the Bank of Lithuania formulates its conclusions and submits them to the ECB, which takes the final decision regarding granting of an authorisation.
The key requirement for a Lithuanian bank license
As part of its assessment of the authorisation application, the regulator will pay particular to the following key areas:
- completeness of the submitted documents;
- compliance with the minimum capital requirement for banks: according to the provisions of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, the equity capital of a bank must be not less than EUR 5 million, of a small specialist bank – EUR 1 million;
- fitness and suitability of the shareholder(s).
- fitness and suitability of the management team.
- The operating plan must correspond to the possibilities of the bank's founders (shareholders or holders of voting rights) to implement it, while the prospective bank must, at the time of authorisation, be prepared to provide financial services in a safe and sound manner.
The articles of association, operating plan, management and organisational structure, risk management system, remuneration policy and practice, accounting system, internal control system, technical, information and technological security means, premises, insurance of property of a bank applying for a licence must ensure safe and sound activities of the bank and comply with the relevant legal acts. The bank must also meet other requirements set by the Law on Banks, including the requirements for a legal form, minimum capital, and registered office.
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Q: Why is Document.html() so slow? I was under the impression that the most costly method in Jsoup's API is parse().
But I just discovered that Document.html() could be even slower.
Given that the Document is the output of parse() (i.e. this is after parsing), I find this surprising.
Why is Document.html() so slow?

A: Answering myself. The Element.html() method is implemented as:
public String html() {
  StringBuilder accum = new StringBuilder();
  html(accum);
  return accum.toString().trim();
}

Using StringBuilder instead of String is already a good thing, and the use of StringBuilder.toString() and String.trim() may not explain the slowness of Document.html(), even for a relatively large document.
But in the middle, our method calls an overloaded version, Element.html(StringBuilder) which loops through all child nodes in the document:
private void html(StringBuilder accum) {
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Thus if the document contains lots of child nodes, it will be slow.
It would be interesting to see whether there could be a faster implementation of this.
For example, if Jsoup stores a cached version of the raw html that was provided to it via Jsoup.parse(). As an option of course, to maintain backward compatibility and small footprint in memory.

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The Original Birth Certificate is essential for admission to Std I. No student is deemed admitted without fulfilling this norm.
Pupils cannot be admitted to Std II and upward without Leaving Certificate from the last school attended and if from a State other than Maharashtra, the Leaving Certificate should be duly signed by the Education Office of the Division in which that school is situated.
Any pupil who desires to join the school fresh from home or from an unrecognized school must produce the official Birth Certificate in support of the date of birth entered in the admission form. Such pupils are subjected to an entrance examination held at the beginning of the academic year and admitted, subject to the approval of the Dept. Of Education.
Application for Nursery, KG, Std I and above are accepted from January 1st onwards. Parents / Guardians must accompany the child / ward at the time of admission. (Pupils applying for admission to higher classes are, as a rule, subjected to a competitive entrance test).
Incase seeking admission to Std II and onwards, your child will have to appear at a written test and interview.
Admission will be granted on your child's satisfactory performance at the written test and interview.
Parents seeking admission to Nursery, Jr. K.G. Sr. K.G and Std I must produce a true copy of the birth certificate only after the admission is granted.
Parents seeking admission to Std II to Std X must produce true copies of the mark sheets. They should produce L.C. only if the admission is granted.
A merit list based on the percentage of marks will be put up on the College Notice Board, interested students will promptly pay the requisite amount and get their admission confirmed. If a student fails to avail himself / herself of the chance within three days from the date of display of the merit list, the claim of admission will be forfeited and the seat will be given to the next candidate. Admission forms incomplete in any respect will not be entertained. No admission will deemed secured until all the prescribed dues are paid up. Fees once paid will, on no account, be refunded. Admission to the First Year is valid, only till the end of the academic session. The admission will have to be renewed the next year. Renewal of admission will be subject to the passing of the First Year Exams and the decent and disciplined BEHAVIOUR of the student.
Students who have passed the S.S.C (STD X) examination of the Maharashtra Board with the requisite subjects are eligible to apply for admission to Std XI in the Faculty of Arts, Commerce and Science, depending on the stream selected by them. If he / she has secured a minimum cut off percentage of marks prescribed by Mahatma Junior College, for a particular stream, admission will be granted on merit. However, being a Linguistic Minority Institution, the college has a right to use its discretionary power within the jurisdiction of law. The students who have passed equivalent exams from the Boards outside the state of Maharashtra will be required to obtain eligibility certificate from Mumbai Division Board.
Students seeking admission to the college will be required to collect the Application forms available in the college office, just on the day following the declaration of the S.S.C result and submit the same, duly filled in all details, within three days of the college office.
Students who have passed the S.S.C (STD X) examination of the Maharashtra Board with the requisite subjects are eligible to apply for admission to Std XI in the Faculty of Arts, Commerce and Science, depending on the stream selected by them.
Mahatma School of Academics & Sports and Junior College of Arts, Commerce and Science impart instruction in the following subjects in Standards XI and XII.
No student can opt for I.T. unless he / she has secured 85% ( Minimum), subject to availability of the seat. I.T. can be opted only in lieu of Hindi / Marathi.
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        $types->clientSurname    = "Brutus";
        $types->clientMobile     = "01234567890";
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        $types->supplierForename = "Leslie";
        $types->supplierSurname  = "Lamport";
        $types->supplierMobile   = "01987654321";
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The Hesh Inc.
Blessing of Hope (Coda)
Heard It on the Highway - Radio Edit
Beach Town In The Off Season
Bruce!
THE HESH INC. performs songs about exile, redemption, beach towns in the off season, and finding one's place in the world.
THE HESH INC.'s journey reads like a long, strange trip commencing in the late 1970s on the South Shore of Long Island and threading over the ensuing decades through places like the Borscht Belt, Jerusalem, the Sinai Peninsula, Judea & Samaria, the Golan Heights, Boston, Philadelphia, the Jersey Shore, and Southern California. Hesh played keyboards in jam and blues bands in Israel, rock and reggae cover bands in New Jersey and Philadelphia, Jewish music in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, and original tunes in every location he has found himself in. Bringing his various experiences and influences with him from each place, his journey has circled back to the greater New York/New Jersey area, where he is currently based.
THE HESH INC. has released four albums: Soul In Exile (1999), Soul In Exile 2: Jersey Shore Baby (2007), Boardwalk Mystic (2015), and most recently Soul In Exile 3: Love Runs Aground (2017). The next installment of the Soul In Exile saga is in the works, with release projected for sometime in in the early 2020s.
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Success Story:
Don Macdonald
"I knew what I could do on a practical level. Hiro's Become Your Own Business Advisor helped me finally define the work I was being CALLED to create."
Don Macdonald is a master mosaicist. His work is extraordinary and the installations he's created will bring tears to your eyes.
The interesting thing about his story is that he never wanted to be a mosaicist. In fact, he resisted it for years.
Thirty years ago Don returned from his service as a naval officer ready to start a new career, but unsure of what his next step was going to be. After spending years traveling the world, "regular" jobs didn't hold much appeal. One job in particular sounded especially unappealing — laying tile.
His brother was doing it and suggested Don give it a try. Don really resisted his brother's idea, but eventually took the job because he needed to pay the bills. He recalls the work as "tiring, uncomfortable, dirty, and not at all what I had in mind."
Earlier this year, Don created this.
Don's story is the classic Hero's Journey.
He came back from service and needed to get a job. He started to lay tile and eventually worked his way onto big construction projects where he decided the last thing he wanted to be was a bathroom builder and mosaicist. However, he kept getting pulled into that direction. He eventually met an art dealer named Keith Murphy who represented two up-and-coming Aboriginal artists.
Together they formed a partnership that changed the trajectory of Don's life.
Through this collaboration he felt and responded to the call of his soul.
Mosaics on their own didn't hold meaning for him. However, if he could bring Australia's First Nations art into large-scale public art, he felt he could make a worthy contribution. Which is exactly what he did.
The project seen here consists of 1,000,000 15mmx15mm glass mosaic tiles that represent indigenous art from three family members from the local Yarrabah community. The installation was commissioned by the Cairns Regional Council as part of a $22 million dollar upgrade to the main mall of the Cairns CBD. It took one year, $700,000 and over 4,000 site hours to complete.
How did Become Your Own Business Adviser help Don with this project?
When Don took Become Your Own Business Adviser he remembers having this clear feeling that things were going to move fast because of the energy Hiro holds. His wife had worked with Hiro previously so he know what could happen if he was fortunate enough for her to hold space for him at that point in his life. He said, "The space Hiro holds for people is so discernible and powerful. I just did the work week after week, knowing that when it was ready, my soul was going to respond."
And it did in a big way. Don's art is not just about beauty. There are a lot of people who produce artwork that is lovely to look at. But Don wants more. He has a burning desire to create pieces that are beautiful but that also carry a message for a community and culture to whom he feels deeply connected.
He says,
"Our country has never done a great job of honoring our Aboriginal people. I've been called to be a translator of their culture in a way that can be appreciated by everyone. I can teach people through my art because art is so disarming. Art allows you to get into someone's psyche very subtly and change their perception of things.
That's what I get to do through my mosaics. What I learned during BYOBA is that I'd been trying my whole life to express myself artistically, but always felt like I was falling short of the mark; however, once I had a clear mission and answered the call of my soul, my art was able to come to the forefront. I'm now owning my role as an artist and leading with it. I'm so grateful to Hiro for creating the space for all of this and my future work to come to life."
Don and his business partner Keith have big projects on the horizon.
What's so inspiring about these two is that they are both so keenly aware of how important their chance meeting was. They believe they were both given a gift and an opportunity to collaborate and they better do something important with it.
I'm blown away by the richness, complexity, scale and sheer gorgeousness of Don's installation, and by the ways in which he blended traditional indigenous art into a thoroughly modern, intimately useable public artwork!
A deep, deep bow of love and appreciation for you, Don — your work will inspire and delight so many for generations to come.
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Game of Thrones Challenges You to Find These Actual Iron Thrones
Charles Pulliam-Moore
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The Iron Throne.
As a follow-up to its strange call for blood donations in celebration of Game of Thrones' final season, HBO has now launched the third phase of its "For the Throne" campaign with a treasure hunt of sorts. Six Iron Thrones have been hidden across the globe, and should you be clever enough to figure out where they are, you win the honor of saying...that you found a throne.
Along with a cryptic Instagram post instructing fans to "Seek the Weirwood in this Kingdom on Earth," HBO also launched a series of videos shot around the first throne's location, meant to act as the only clues as to where the thing actually is. Each hour-long video—Dawn, Day, Dusk—is set in a nondescript forest and, because they were shot with a 360 degree camera, you can look around the location for what little information there is to be had.
While it doesn't seem like all that much is going on in any of the videos, you can see the course of the sun's movement over time—which might help you figure out where the throne is, perhaps, though honestly, just happening to know this particular patch of forest is probably your best bet. Alternatively, this could just be a stunt to see if Game of Thrones' fanbase is so rabid that it can be convinced to watch three hours of nature footage. (Remember that earlier HBO publicity stunt involving a certain very slowly melting block of ice?) It's also worth noting that there's a countdown clock associated with the contest that ends on...April 1st. So, you know, maybe reconsider setting off on this particular quest.
Game of Thrones' final season begins April 14.
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Home Culture Q&A: Cincinnati's Famous Female Gamer
Q&A: Cincinnati's Famous Female Gamer
Grace Dearing
Photograph by Annette Navarro
ONE_shot_GURL streams live on YouTube every evening. Nearly half a million subscribers watch as she completes level after level of popular video games such as Fortnite and Battlegrounds. But unlike most YouTubers who make a business live-streaming content, Julie Loock has established her following here in Cincinnati. And as a 28-year-old woman, she's also carved out a space for female gamers in a male-dominated industry. —as told to Grace Dearing
I started my channel three years ago doing gaming uploads. I would sit and play through a section of the game. Then I'd record another section the next day and slowly play through the whole game. I started streaming six months into my channel. I found that streaming is more fun and I could interact with my viewers in real time.
A lot of people compare it to watching sports on TV. You watch athletes who are good at the sport compete, and I think it can be the same with gaming: You can watch someone who is—usually—good at the game and sometimes you can learn tips and tricks.
I've definitely thought about moving to Los Angeles. A lot of the companies that I talk to, they've offered to fly me out for something for like a day, but an afternoon in L.A. turns out to be a three-day trip for me from Cincinnati.
I choose to live in Cincinnati because I'm very close to my family. That's the whole reason I didn't move to L.A.—because I love my family and they're my best friends, and it's really corny but it's true. They mean everything to me.
I feel like, as a female, I get a lot of mean comments directed toward me that my male colleagues don't necessarily deal with. I also think that, for females, we're kind of a minority, so we can maybe draw some people to us [because of that].
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Surrounding yourself with a more positive environment and most importantly disciplining yourself of allowing only good thoughts and words to come in and out of your system from a given situation, is what would really help.
Tip: Try and think of one thing to be grateful for each day. If you can, write it down or place it in your phone notes, it builds retainership.
We all have the habit of more is better. Well over eating and overthink are the WORST things to do to yourself. Being an x-overthinker, I use to drive myself so crazy to a point where I could believe bad or scary things were going to happen even if they weren't. And of course, we know the law of attraction just works when you put all your energies to it. Good energies/bad both get attracted!
Tip: The proverb- cross the bridge when it comes dosen't apply to all of us. Some of us have a smooth road and we don't really have to anticipate that a bridge is coming. It's the idea of someone else fear that makes us overthink our life. Learning from history is one but becoming mysterious with thoughts is foolish. Don't. Just live and love and happiness will happen!
We allow ourselves to be judgmental judges just cause we have the freedom to do so. We need to start filtering the information we receive from people about things or other people. From movie reviews to surgeries we take second opinions and even after that we still have a critical point to make. Why not just be silent for a moment take a breath and feel your gut? I am personally a very chatty person and I love to share ideas with people, but when I need to make decisions in regard to relationships, working with people or even ordering food sometimes I take a moment, step back, breath and ask myself just one question – is this love? If the answer is yes, I sign up for it and then I never give up. Say no to junk ideas, people, things, opportunities if you feel you HAVE to do it. If it's love, no matter how hard/tiring/ expensive the task, person, food is you will stick though it. I promise. That's your tip!
You might say hmmm all what you said above is true Benaisha,but…well the question isn't about me being right/not it's about YOU being proactive with your life. Exercise all the above thoughts and tips and start losing that emotional weight you've clogged up there in your head and heart.
You've got to go for this workout every day!
It doesn't matter how able you are, if you let how unable you can be dictate your level of performance.
While chatting up recently with Mr Dinesh Shringapure (a dynamic trainer!) he brought to my notice, that from 22nd September 2017 till 31st December 2017 it's 100 days exact!
– I found one reason to be grateful for and wrote it and smiled.
-I acknowledged and accepted my flaws and worked towards it.
It helped me in a way to understand and focus on my 9 well ripped apples (ref. to my 1st article) and not that one rotten one. Take this 100-day challenge to lose your emotional weight!
Old methods do not lead to new ways!
Very well said benaisha!!!!!…..the new n clear concept on loosing weight emotionally thus automatically reducing physical weight….enjoyed n understood ..
Eating right keeps you healthy and smart…. Health and smartness give you extra confidence….which always keeps you one step ahead from others.
Very nice write up. Good views and thoughts.
Oh so motivating and so right!
This is so good to read! And may be just in time when I needed something like this. Sometimes we know what is right but we need to hear it from others to digest things well.
Very good use of metaphors Benaisha. It suits regular diet regime !
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Está amenazada de extinción por la pérdida de su hábitat natural.

Referencias
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War on Syria: Military Intervention Is the Problem, Not the Solution
The Islamic State's latest atrocities are a calculated effort to bring the war in Syria home to the countries participating in it.
By Peter Certo
November 19, 2015 - OtherWords
A caf�. A stadium. A concert hall. One of the most horrifying things about the murderous attacks in Paris was the terrorists' choice of targets.
They chose gathering places where people's minds wander furthest from unhappy thoughts like war. And they struck on a Friday night, when many westerners take psychic refuge from the troubles of the working week.
The message was simple: Wherever you are, this war will find you.
The same could be said for the 43 Lebanese civilians murdered only the day before, when a bomb exploded in a crowded marketplace in Beirut. Or for the 224 vacationers who died when their Russian airliner blew up over Egypt a few weeks earlier.
The Islamic State, or ISIS, claimed responsibility for each of these atrocities. But that's not the only thing they have in common. In fact, all of them occurred in countries whose governments — or, in Lebanon's case, a powerful militia — have gotten involved in Syria.
Russia started bombing ISIS targets and other Syrian rebels last month. Hundreds of Lebanese Hezbollah fighters have fought and died defending the Syrian regime. And France was the first country to join the Obama administration's war on ISIS last year.
Indeed, scarcely a month before ISIS attacked the French capital, French planes were bombing the Islamic State's capital in Raqqa, Syria — dropping bombs that "did not help them at all in the streets of Paris," as a grim communiqu� from the terrorist group gloated afterward.
These horrific attacks on civilians are part of a calculated effort to bring the war in Syria home to the other countries participating in it. And our bill could come due next.
Washington's funneling millions of dollars' worth of weapons to its proxies in Syria. It's dispatching special forces to "advise" an array of the Islamic State's enemies. And in an air war totally unauthorized by Congress, U.S. warplanes have launched thousands of strikes on alleged ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria since 2014.
But you can't simply bomb extremism out of existence. And as governments from Moscow to Paris to Beirut are learning, you put your own people's lives on the line when you try.
Military intervention has succeeded mightily in breaking things and killing people, but it's done nothing to wind down the greatest factor fueling the rise of ISIS: Syria's wider civil war. An international arms embargo and a deal between the Syrian regime and other rebel groups — jobs for diplomats, not drones — would go much further toward curtailing the threat of ISIS.
Yet France has responded to the carnage in Paris by pounding Raqqa with yet more air strikes — reportedly bombing medical clinics, a museum, and a stadium of its own, among other targets.
Leading U.S. presidential candidates aren't proposing anything smarter.
Hillary Clinton declared that ISIS "must be destroyed" with "all of the tools at our disposal." Ted Cruz called for "overwhelming air power" and condemned the Obama administration for having insufficient "tolerance for civilian casualties." Ben Carson called for "boots on the ground," while Donald Trump swore he'd "bomb the s— out of" ISIS-controlled oil fields and hand them over to ExxonMobil.
Virtually all GOP contenders, along with a gaggle of Republican governors, agreed that they'd close the door to Syrian refugees, too — as though they can evade the consequences of war by making life more miserable for the innocent people fleeing it.
None of this bravado makes me feel safer here in Washington, where ISIS threatened more Paris-style bloodshed in a recent video. When I imagine those cold-blooded killers running roughshod through the bars, restaurants, and concert halls my neighbors and I frequent, my stomach drops.
But that's the lesson, isn't it: When your government answers every problem in the world with military force, war begets war. And eventually there's nowhere left to hide from it.
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The Year in Livestreams 2020: YouTube's Bocelli at the Duomo, Miley at the Whisky & Beyond
Phoebe Bridgers performs an exclusive live set for Save Our Stages Fest from Troubadour in Los Angeles, CA.
As previously reported, Elton John topped Billboard's year-end Top Tours ranking, while Radio City Music Hall and Live Nation crowned the annual Top Venues and Top Promoters lists. But in 2020, traditional touring did not account for the full landscape of the live music industry.
Amidst an indefinite COVID-19 shutdown, artists took to the internet, broadcasting live from empty theaters, outdoor landmarks and their own living rooms.
This week, Billboard is looking back at the year in livestreams, with highlights from some of the major digital platforms that connected fans to their favorite artists. Here, we dive into some notable events from YouTube.
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For more than 15 years, YouTube has been something of a playground for content creators. Musicians, comedians, make-up artists, fitness gurus, and many more have found an open-ended portal for their creativity. And as much of the world closed down in 2020, creators and fans alike found even more space to play within that sandbox.
The platform boasts more than 2 billion monthly users and counts more than 1 billion hours of video watched every day. And while it has been ubiquitous for more than a decade, 2020 saw a sharp spike in activity. Watch time in March 2020 was up 80% from the same period in 2019 and watch time of live content via television screens was up by 250% year-over-year for the pivotal period of March 11-April 10.
Content on YouTube is global, and Brazil was a particular hub for live music performances during the early COVID months. Marília Mendonça has over 20 million subscribers on the platform and went live on April 8 with #LiveLocalMaríliaMendonça. The three-hour-plus event, live from the singer's living room, set a worldwide record for YouTube with over three million peak concurrent viewers (55.4 million total views as of Dec. 4).
The Year in Livestreams 2020: Bandsintown Data Shows Promise for Growth in 2021
Brazilian duo Jorge & Mateus caught the bug as well, streaming SUNSET LIVE, which courted 14.8 million viewers since its May 2 premiere.
Artists around the world created unique content for YouTube, fashioning themed setlists at iconic venues. Andrea Bocelli hosted an Easter Sunday performance from Duomo di Milano in Italy that became the biggest classical livestream in the platform's history with 28 million views in its first 24 hours. A bonus clip of Bocelli singing "Amazing Grace" drew an addition 3.4 million views.
Conversely, straight from his stateside living room, Post Malone performed a Nirvana tribute set with an assist from Travis Barker. The performance helped raise more than $1 million (including a match by Google.org) that contributed to the total $7 million raised for the World Health Organization's COVID-19 Solidarity Response. Since the April 24 broadcast, it has hit 14.8 million views.
The Year in Livestreams 2020: Twitch Brings Artists Together to Maximize Impact
And for those still reeling for the full-band sound, lighting effects, and stage production of live concerts, many of the world's biggest rock acts produced classic video content, 'classic' being the operative word. The Rolling Stones, Radiohead, The National, and more unearthed archived concert footage, distributing sets from iconic venues and festivals for free for the first time.
One of the first to do so was Metallica. The heavy metal legends began #MetallicaMondays, releasing a different full concert film every Monday from March through August. The series was massively successful, drawing more than 21 million views to sets at recent as a Sept. 3, 2017 show in Paris to a Chicago performance from Aug. 12, 1983.
The series doubled as a fundraiser for All Within My Hands, raising more than $60,000 for Metallica's nonprofit foundation that works in tandem with Feeding America and the American Association of Community Colleges, and COVID-19 and disaster relief efforts.
The Year in Livestreams 2020: Veeps Puts the 'V' in VIP for Artists and Fans Alike
Elton John and Grateful Dead did the same, with the latter raising funds for different charities each week, also joined by a range of guest stars from Bob Weir to John Mayer to David Crosby. Total donations hit $303,000, split among the ACLU Solidarity Fund, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, MusicCares COVID-19 Relief Fund, and more.
And it wasn't just individual artists getting in on the action. Over the last 10 years, music festivals have grown to dominate the summer season and looked to YouTube to create and host new content.
Goldenvoice's flagship Coachella was originally scheduled for mid-April, then moved to the Fall, and now is eyeing a 2021 return. In the meantime, they produced the YouTube original documentary Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert, garnering 2.6 million views since its premiere on April 10, the festival's originally scheduled date.
The Year in Livestreams 2020: Driift Took British Stars Around the World
Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, and Roots Picnic followed, airing Q+A conversations with past performers, archival footage, and some new performances by artists who were supposed to take the stage this year.
In addition to these long-running festivals generating new content, YouTube hosted Save Our Stages Fest. From Oct. 16-18, the event aimed to raise donations and spread awareness for the National Independent Venue Association's Emergency Relief Fund, benefiting independent music venues across the U.S. The festival boasted a genre-blurring roster of 34 acts performing from different clubs and theaters around the country, including The Roots, Phoebe Bridgers, and YG.
The Year in Livestreams 2020: Instagram Live Blurs the Lines of Genre & Generation, From Justin Bieber to Verzuz
Miley Cyrus had the festival's most viewed set, with her performance from Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles generating more than 1.2 million views. Further, a clip of her rendition of The Cranberries' "Zombie" drew nearly 7.5 million additional views. Ultimately, the festival garnered over 4.5 million views (not inclusive of 'clip' views, like Cyrus's "Zombie").
More vitally, raised over $2 million for the NIVA fund. It is perhaps an early sign of live-streaming not acting as a replacement or stop-gap for in-person concerts, but as a value-add to the overall landscape of live performance.


Pictured are Charlie Henry (left) and James Logan, pupils from St Louis Grammar with Invest NI Chief Executive, Alastair Hamilton.
St Louis Grammar School in Ballymena has won Invest Northern Ireland's 2013 Step 'N' Zones Competition, with a business idea for football boots with deployable studs.
The competition was held during Global Entrepreneurship Week (18-22 November 2013) and attracted over 1,300 pupils from 40 schools across Northern Ireland.
Alastair Hamilton, Invest NI's Chief Executive said: "This is the third year we have run this competition as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week and yet again we have been very impressed by the enthusiasm and creativity of the pupils that took part.
The competition challenged the pupils to develop a business idea with support around idea generation, market research, branding, finance and planning. The winning team, James and Charlie, developed an idea for football boots that can be worn on any surface due to their deployable studs. The judges were particularly impressed with the team's presentation skills, attention to detail and sales strategy.
The school will receive the top prize of £1,000 and £100 high street vouchers for each member of the winning team.
Rathfriland High School won second prize with their idea LOCK – a home security system that can be connected to an app and used on any smart phone. Lumen Christi College, Londonderry, were runners-up in the competition with their idea Ye Olde Cafe – a mobile high end cafe van selling luxury products at major public events.


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Justia › US Law › Case Law › Federal Courts › District Courts › Kansas › District of Kansas › 2017 › Torgerson et al v. LCC International et al › Filing 69
Torgerson et al v. LCC International et al, No. 2:2016cv02495 - Document 69 (D. Kan. 2017)
Court Description: MEMORANDUM AND ORDER denying 63 Motion for Reconsideration. Signed by District Judge Daniel D. Crabtree on 1/3/2017. (ht)
Torgerson et al v. LCC International et al Doc. 69 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS RICHARD TORGERSON, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Case No. 16-cv-2495-DDC-TJJ LCC INTERNATIONAL, INC., et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM AND ORDER Plaintiffs bring this action alleging that defendants LCC International, Inc. ("LCC"), Kenny Young, Brian Dunn, Rebecca Stahl, and Dan Moss violated the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq. Specifically, plaintiffs claim that defendants improperly classified all LCC employees working in a Migration Analyst position as employees exempt from the FLSA's overtime requirements. Plaintiffs, on behalf of themselves and other, similarly situated Migration Analysts, seek to recover unpaid overtime compensation under the FLSA. On August 10, 2016, the court granted in part and denied in part defendants' Cross Motion to Dismiss or, in the Alternative, to Stay Proceedings and Compel Arbitration ("August 10, 2016 Order"). Doc. 62. In its August 10, 2016 Order, the court concluded that each plaintiff signed an employment agreement that requires them to arbitrate their FLSA claims. Id. at 5. The court granted defendants' request to stay the case and compelled the parties to proceed to arbitration. Id. at 6. Also, the court denied the portion of defendants' motion asking the court to decide whether the employment agreement permits class arbitration because it determined that the arbitrator must decide that issue. Id. at 8. And, for the same reasons, the court declined to Dockets.Justia.com decide plaintiffs' Motion for Conditional Certification of Class Claims Under § 216(b) of the FLSA without prejudice to their right to present this request to an arbitrator. Id. Plaintiffs have filed a Motion for Reconsideration of the court's August 10, 2016 Order. Doc. 63. Plaintiffs seek reconsideration on two bases. First, plaintiffs ask the court to reconsider its decision to compel arbitration because, plaintiffs contend, a recent Tenth Circuit case presents a change in the controlling law that renders the parties' arbitration agreement unenforceable. Second, even if the court declines to reconsider its decision to compel arbitration, plaintiffs ask the court to grant conditional certification of a collective action because, plaintiffs contend, the court must decide this issue—not the arbitrator—and, if the court refrains from deciding this issue, plaintiffs and the putative plaintiffs will suffer manifest injustice. Defendants have filed a Brief in Opposition to Plaintiff's Motion for Reconsideration. Doc. 65. Plaintiffs have filed a Reply. Doc. 68. After considering the parties' arguments, the court denies plaintiffs' Motion for Reconsideration. Doc. 63. I. Background Plaintiffs each signed an Employee Agreement on Ideas, Inventions and Confidential Information ("Employee Agreement") as a condition of their employment. Doc. 27-2. In it, they agreed to: (1) protect LCC's confidential information; (2) disclose and assign to LCC any invention plaintiffs created during their employment; and (3) refrain from competing with LCC or soliciting LCC employees for 12 months after plaintiffs' employment with LCC concluded. Id. at 1–4. The Employee Agreement also provides that plaintiffs' employment at LCC is on an at-will basis. Id. at 4. Also, each plaintiff agreed to arbitrate certain disputes under Section 5.4 of the Agreement. It provides: 5.4 Arbitration: Any controversy or claim arising ou[t] of or relating to this Agreement, the breach or interpretation thereof or Employee's employment 2 with LCC shall be settled by arbitration in Arlington, Virginia in accordance with the then prevailing rules of the American Arbitration Association, and judgment upon the award shall be final, conclusive and binding. All costs of arbitration shall be borne by the losing party, unless the arbitrators decide such costs should be allocated between the parties in particular proportions. Notwithstanding the foregoing, LCC shall be entitled to seek injunctive or other equitable relief pursuant to the provisions of Section 5.1 hereof in any federal or state court having jurisdiction. Id. at 5. The Employment Agreement also includes a governing law and attorney's fees provision. It provides: 5.5 Governing Law; Attorney's Fees. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, without regard to principles of conflicts of law. In the event it is necessary to retain the services of legal counsel in connection with any controversy or claim arising hereunder, the prevailing party shall be entitled to reimbursement of its reasonable attorney's fees and cost of suit. Id. II. Legal Standard D. Kan. Rule 7.3(b) requires that a motion to reconsider "must be based on: (1) an intervening change in controlling law; (2) the availability of new evidence; or (3) the need to correct clear error or prevent manifest injustice." "A motion to reconsider is appropriate where the court has obviously misapprehended a party's position or the facts or applicable law, or where the party produces new evidence that could not have been obtained through the exercise of due diligence." Comeau v. Rupp, 810 F. Supp. 1172, 1174–75 (D. Kan. 1992). A party seeking reconsideration may not revisit issues already addressed or assert new arguments or supporting facts that otherwise were available when the party filed the original motion. Id. A court has discretion when deciding to grant or deny a motion to reconsider. Hancock v. Okla. City, 857 F.2d 1394, 1395 (10th Cir. 1988); Shannon v. Pac. Rail Servs., 70 F. Supp. 2d 1243, 1251 (D. Kan. 1999). 3 III. Analysis Plaintiffs' motion asks the court to reconsider two rulings in its August 10, 2016 Order. First, plaintiffs ask the court to reconsider its decision to compel arbitration. Second, even if the court declines to reconsider its decision to compel arbitration, plaintiffs ask the court to reconsider its decision declining to decide the class certification question. The court addresses each request, in turn, below. A. Should the Court Reconsider Its Decision to Compel Arbitration? Plaintiffs assert that a Tenth Circuit case, Nesbitt v. FCNH, Inc., 811 F.3d 371 (10th Cir. 2016), presents a change in controlling law that requires the court to reconsider its decision to compel the parties to arbitrate this dispute. In Nesbitt, the Tenth Circuit applied the "effective vindication exception" to the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA") to invalidate an arbitration agreement. Id. at 377. The effective vindication exception "originated as dictum in Mitsubishi Motors [Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc., 473 U.S. 614, 105 S. Ct. 3346, 87 L.Ed.2d 444 (1985)], where [the Supreme Court] expressed a willingness to invalidate, on 'public policy' grounds, arbitration agreements that operat[e] . . . as a prospective waiver of a party's right to pursue statutory remedies." Id. (quoting Am. Express Co. v. Italian Colors Rest., 133 S. Ct. 2304, 2310 (2013) (further quotation omitted)). The Tenth Circuit explained in Nesbitt that the effective vindication exception "would certainly cover a provision in an arbitration agreement forbidding the assertion of certain statutory rights," and "would perhaps cover filing and administrative fees attached to arbitration that are so high as to make access to the forum impracticable." Id. (quoting Am. Express Co., 133 S. Ct. at 2310–11). Plaintiffs assert that the Employment Agreement's fee-shifting and cost-shifting provisions (contained in sections 5.4. and 5.5) expose them to a substantial risk that they would 4 have to bear the costs and fees of arbitration if their claims fail. Plaintiffs assert that these provisions of the parties' arbitration agreement prevent them from effectively vindicating their statutory rights under the FLSA. And, thus, plaintiffs assert, the court should reconsider its decision compelling the parties to arbitration. Plaintiffs' request for reconsideration fails for multiple reasons, as described below. 1. Nesbitt is not a change in the controlling law. The Tenth Circuit decided Nesbitt on January 5, 2016, several months before the parties submitted their briefing and the court issued its August 10, 2016 Order. Given this timing, defendants argue that Nesbitt is not a change in the controlling law and thus provides no basis for reconsideration. Plaintiffs respond, explaining that Eighth Circuit law governed this case when defendants filed their Motion requesting the court to compel arbitration. Indeed, plaintiffs filed this case in the Western District of Missouri. Doc. 1. The parties briefed the arbitrability issue while the case was pending in the Western District of Missouri. Docs. 28, 44, 46, 49, 50. On July 12, 2016, the Western District of Missouri transferred the case to our court. Doc. 55. The parties did not raise the issue that Nesbitt presents in their earlier briefing on defendants' Motion to Compel Arbitration. Plaintiffs contend that they could not assert an argument based on Nesbitt because controlling Eighth Circuit law does not support it. See Doc. 68 at 3 ("Nesbitt . . . is counter to the controlling authority in the Eighth Circuit on the issue of effective vindication."). Plaintiffs cite Torres v. Simpatico, Inc., 781 F.3d 963 (8th Cir. 2015), to "highlight[ ] the difference and difficulty in raising the same [issue] in that circuit." Doc. 64 at 7. But, contrary to plaintiffs' description of the case, Torres specifically acknowledged the effective vindication exception, citing two Supreme Court cases that had recognized its existence. Torres, 781 F.3d at 970 (first citing Am. Express Co., 133 S. Ct. at 2310–11; then 5 citing Green Tree Fin. Corp.-Ala. v. Randolph, 531 U.S. 79, 91 (2000)). The Eighth Circuit refused to apply the exception, however, because plaintiffs "failed to carry their burden to show that the costs of individual arbitration 'are so high as to make access to the forum impracticable' or to prevent them from effectively vindicating their rights in the arbitral forum." Id. (first quoting Am. Express Co., 133 S. Ct. at 2310–11; then citing Randolph, 531 U.S. at 91). Torres demonstrates that plaintiffs could have raised the effective vindication exception earlier. Plaintiffs could have relied on Torres' recognition of the exception. And, they could have presented information sufficient to meet their burden to show that the Employment Agreement's fee-shifting and cost-shifting provisions prevent them from vindicating their rights under the FLSA. They failed to make either showing. Also, the parties did not submit any additional briefing or other submissions on the arbitrability issue before August 10, 2016. Nor did the parties ask the court to establish another briefing schedule for the arbitrability issue so that the parties could revise their submissions to cite appropriate Tenth Circuit case law. Under these facts, the court cannot find that Nesbitt amounts to a change in the controlling law1 sufficient to support a motion for reconsideration. 1 In their reply brief, plaintiffs cite to other, recent cases involving the enforceability of arbitration agreements that include a waiver of the right to bring class or collective actions involving employmentrelated claims in any forum whatsoever, whether arbitral or judicial. Doc. 68 at 4 (collecting cases and describing the Circuit split on the issue). The court does not address arguments raised for the first time in a Reply. Guang Dong Light Headgear Factory Co. v. ACI Int'l, Inc., 521 F. Supp. 2d 1153, 1173 n.70 (D. Kan. 2007) (citing Hutton Contracting Co. v. City of Coffeyville, 487 F.3d 772, 788 (10th Cir. 2007)). Even so, the court notes that the Employment Agreement here contains no express waiver of the right to bring collective or class action claims in any forum. And, even if the Employment Agreement specifically included such waiver language, our court has addressed this issue, concluding that such provisions do not render an arbitration agreement unenforceable. See Bell v. Ryan Transp. Serv., Inc., 176 F. Supp. 3d 1251, 1263 (D. Kan. 2016) (Lungstrum, J.) (holding that "the Tenth Circuit, if faced with this issue" would follow "those Circuit Court of Appeals . . . [that] have permitted the use of class action waivers in arbitration agreements"); see also Pollard v. ETS PC, Inc., __ F. Supp. 3d __, 2016 WL 2983530, at *10 (D. Colo. May 12, 2016) (agreeing with the majority view that collective or class action waivers in arbitration agreements are enforceable). 6 2. Even if Nesbitt represents a change in the controlling law, it does not require the court to reconsider its decision because the arbitrator must decide the issue Nesbitt presents. Even if Nesbitt qualified as a change in the controlling law, defendants assert that the court cannot decide whether the fee-shifting and cost-shifting provisions are unenforceable under Nesbitt. Defendants argue that the arbitrator must make that decision. Because the court already determined that the arbitrator must decide whether this matter may proceed on a class or collective basis (doc. 62 at 8), defendants contend that the court also must hold that it is the arbitrator who must decide whether the effective vindication exception applies to invalidate the arbitration agreement. Plaintiffs never respond to this argument in their Reply. Doc. 68. Arguably, their failure to do so amounts to a waiver of this issue. See In re FCC 11-161, 753 F.3d 1015, 1100–01 (10th Cir. 2014) (rejecting petitioners' argument because their reply brief was silent on an issue and made no attempt to rebut the respondents' argument); see also Cayetano-Castillo v. Lynch, 630 F. App'x 788, 794 (10th Cir. 2015) (holding that an appellant, who does not respond to an argument in its reply brief, "'waives, as a practical matter anyway, any objections not obvious to the court to specific points urged by the appellee'" because the court is not "required to do his work for him and dissect [the appellee's] plausible argument" (quoting Hardy v. City Optical, Inc., 39 F.3d 765, 771 (7th Cir. 1994)). But beyond that, the court agrees with defendants' argument. In its August 10, 2016 Order, the court held that the parties' arbitration agreement "clearly and unmistakably requires the arbitrator to decide questions of arbitrability." Doc. 62 at 8. The court thus determined that the arbitrator must decide whether plaintiffs can arbitrate this dispute as a class. Id. For the same reasons, the court must permit the arbitrator to decide 7 whether the fee-shifting and cost-shifting provisions of the Employment Agreement render it unenforceable under the effective vindication exception. As the court explained in its August 10, 2016 Order, when deciding whether an issue is one for the court or the arbitrator to decide, the court first must determine whether the issue is substantive or procedural. Hedrick v. BNC Nat'l Bank, ___ F. Supp. 3d ___, 2016 WL 2848920, at *3 (D. Kan. May 16, 2016) (citing Soc'y of Prof'l Eng'g Emps. in Aerospace v. Spirit Aerosystems, Inc., 541 F. App'x 817, 819 (10th Cir. 2013)). Substantive issues include questions of arbitrability, or "certain gateway matters, such as whether parties have a valid arbitration agreement at all or whether a concededly binding arbitration clause applies to a certain type of controversy." Id. (quoting Oxford Health Plans LLC v. Sutter, 133 S. Ct. 2064, 2068 n.2 (2013)). Typically, it is the court's responsibility to decide substantive issues unless the parties "clearly and unmistakably provide otherwise." Id. (quoting Spahr v. Secco, 330 F.3d 1266, 1269 (10th Cir. 2003)). In contrast, a procedural issue encompasses "whether parties have satisfied conditions that allow them to arbitrate." Spirit Aerosystems, Inc., 541 F. App'x at 819 (citing Howsam v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., 537 U.S. 79, 85 (2002)). The arbitrator decides procedural issues. Id. The Supreme Court has amplified this distinction, explaining: Linguistically speaking, one might call any potentially dispositive gateway question a "question of arbitrability," for its answer will determine whether the underlying controversy will proceed to arbitration on the merits. The Court's case law, however, makes clear that, for purposes of applying the interpretive rule, the phrase "question of arbitrability" has a far more limited scope. The Court has found the phrase applicable in the kind of narrow circumstance where contracting parties would likely have expected a court to have decided the gateway matter, where they are not likely to have thought that they had agreed that an arbitrator would do so, and, consequently, where reference of the gateway dispute to the court avoids the risk of forcing parties to arbitrate a matter that they may well not have agreed to arbitrate. 8 Howsam, 537 U.S. at 83–84 (citing First Options of Chicago, Inc. v. Kaplan, 514 U.S. 938, 942 (1995)). "And if there is doubt [whether the arbitrator should decide a certain issue, the court] should resolve that doubt 'in favor of arbitration.'" Green Tree Fin. Corp. v. Bazzle, 539 U.S. 444, 452 (2003) (quoting Mitsubishi Motors Corp., 473 U.S. at 626). The court already has determined that the parties' arbitration agreement confers broad authority on the arbitrator to decide not only procedural issues, but also substantive ones. Doc. 62 at 8. The Employment Agreement calls for binding arbitration performed "in accordance with the then prevailing rules of the American Arbitration Association." Doc 27-2 at 5. Those rules state: "The Arbitrator shall have the power to rule on his or her own jurisdiction, including any objections with respect to the existence, scope or validity of the arbitration agreement." Rule 7(a), AAA Employment Arbitration Rules and Mediation Procedures, https://www.adr.org/aaa/faces/rules (last visited January 3, 2017); see also Rule 7(a), AAA Commercial Arbitration Rules and Mediation Procedures, https://www.adr.org/aaa/faces/rules (last visited January 3, 2017). Following established precedent, the court concluded that incorporation of the AAA Rules provides clear and unmistakable evidence that the parties intended to delegate substantive questions of arbitrability to the arbitrator. Doc. 62 at 8 (citing Contec Corp. v. Remote Sol., Co., 398 F.3d 205, 208 (2d Cir. 2005); Hedrick, 2016 WL 2848920, at *5; Seahorn v. JC Penney Corp., No. 12-CV-2617-CM, 2013 WL 452793, at *1 (D. Kan. Feb. 6, 2013)). So, the court concluded that the arbitrator must decide whether plaintiffs can assert their claims on a class basis. Likewise, even if the effective vindication issue qualifies as a substantive one, the arbitrator must decide this issue because the parties "clearly and unmistakably" agreed that the arbitrator would decide questions of arbitrability. Howsam, 537 U.S. at 83; see also Harling v. 9 Ado Staffing, Inc., No. 3:13-cv-1113-J-34JRK, 2014 WL 1410519, at *3–5 (M.D. Fla. Feb. 21, 2014) (concluding that an arbitration agreement, incorporating the AAA's Employment Arbitration Rules, provided clear and unmistakable evidence that the parties intended the arbitrator to decide questions about the validity and scope of the agreement, including whether the agreement forces plaintiff to incur prohibitive costs in arbitration or impermissibly takes away her right to attorney's fees if she prevailed). The court thus cannot decide this issue. 3. Even if the court could reconsider its decision based on Nesbitt, plaintiffs fall well short of their burden to satisfy Nesbitt. Finally, even if the court properly could decide the issue, plaintiffs fail to meet their burden to show that Nesbitt provides a basis for the court to reconsider its August 10, 2016 Order compelling the parties to arbitrate this dispute. Nesbitt considered whether an employment agreement containing an arbitration clause required the plaintiff to arbitrate her FLSA claims against the defendants. 811 F.3d at 373. The plaintiff asserted that two provisions in the arbitration agreement effectively deprived her of her rights under the FLSA, and thus was enforceable. Id. at 375. The employment agreement required that: (1) the Commercial Rules of the American Arbitration Association, which include fee splitting provisions, applied to the parties' arbitration; and (2) the plaintiff had to bear her own expenses in the arbitration. Id. The plaintiff estimated that she likely would incur between $2,320.50 and $12,487.50 in costs simply paying for the arbitrator's time. Id. The plaintiff also established by affidavit that she could not afford these costs. Id. In addition, the plaintiff asserted that the employment agreement's provision requiring her to bear her own attorney's fees, even if she prevailed, amounted to a waiver of her FLSA rights because the FLSA mandates an award of attorney's fees and costs to a prevailing plaintiff. Id.; see also 29 U.S.C. § 216(b) (requiring courts to award a prevailing 10 FLSA plaintiff "a reasonable attorney's fee to be paid by the defendants, and costs of the action"). The Nesbitt defendants asserted that the agreement did not preclude the arbitrator from awarding attorney's fees to the plaintiff if she prevailed. Id. at 380. The defendants recognized that the agreement required the plaintiff to bear her own counsel's expenses, initially. Id. But, the defendants argued, the agreement authorized an award of attorney's fees if the plaintiff prevailed because it required the arbitrator to apply federal law "to the fullest extent possible" and incorporated the AAA Commercial Rules—rules that expressly permit post-award fee shifting. Id. The Tenth Circuit disagreed. Id. It concluded that the agreement was internally inconsistent and, thus, ambiguous about the availability of a fee award. Id. The Circuit explained: "On the one hand, the [employment agreement] expressly states that each party shall bear its own fees and that remedies and forms of relief available in court may be limited by the [employment agreement[,]" but, "[o]n the other hand, the [employment agreement] . . . appear[s] to authorize the arbitrator . . . to include fees in the award" if the plaintiff prevailed. Id. Given this ambiguity, the Tenth Circuit concluded: "It is unlikely that an employee in [the plaintiff's] position, faced with the mere possibility of being reimbursed for . . . fees in the future, would risk advancing those fees in order to access the arbitral forum." Id. at 380–81 (quoting Shankle v. B-G Maint. Mgmt. of Colo., Inc., 163 F.3d 1230, 1234 n.4 (10th Cir. 1999)). The Tenth Circuit also found that the plaintiff had met her burden to show that the costs of arbitration were prohibitively expensive to render the agreement unenforceable under the effective vindication exception. Id. at 379. As stated above, the plaintiff had asserted by affidavit that she could not afford the arbitrator's fees and costs. Id. at 375. The Circuit noted 11 that the plaintiff would not incur similar expenses in a judicial forum. Id. at 379 n.2. Instead, the plaintiff would bear no litigation costs if she prevailed in federal court because of the FLSA's mandatory fee-shifting provisions. Id. Here, plaintiffs assert that the fee-shifting and cost-shifting provisions in the Employment Agreement are similar to those at issue in Nesbitt because they prevent plaintiffs from effectively vindicating their statutory rights under the FSLA. So, plaintiffs contend, the Employment Agreement here also is unenforceable for the same reason that the Tenth Circuit held Nesbitt's provisions invalid. Even if the court could decide this issue, the Nesbitt facts significantly differ from the record here. Unlike Nesbitt, plaintiffs have provided no information about their inability to pay the costs and fees associated with arbitration. Without this information, the court cannot decide whether arbitration is prohibitively expensive. The Supreme Court has not determined "[h]ow detailed the showing of prohibitive expense must be before the party seeking arbitration must come forward with contrary evidence." Randolph, 531 U.S. at 92. But, the Court has made it clear that the party "seek[ing] to invalidate an arbitration agreement on the ground that arbitration would be prohibitively expensive . . . bears the burden of showing the likelihood of incurring such costs." Id. And, the mere risk that a plaintiff "will be saddled with prohibitive costs is too speculative to justify invalidating an arbitration clause." Id. at 91. Here, plaintiffs have failed to provide the requisite information to support a determination that the fees and costs associated with arbitration "are so high as to make access to the forum impracticable." Nesbitt, 811 F.3d at 377 (quoting Am. Express Co., 133 S. Ct. at 2310–11). The only information plaintiffs provide on this topic is a citation to the $3,250 filing fee that arbitration requires. Doc. 64 at 8. Plaintiffs also state that they will have to pay the arbitrator's 12 fees, but they provide no estimate about other costs that they may incur. And, importantly, plaintiffs provide no information about their inability to pay the fees associated with arbitration. Without sufficient evidence to support their assertion that the arbitration costs prevent them from vindicating their statutory rights, plaintiffs fail their burden. See In Re Universal Serv. Fund Tel. Billing Practices Litig., 300 F. Supp. 2d 1107, 1138 (D. Kan. 2003) (holding that plaintiff failed to meet his burden of proof because he "offered absolutely no evidence to support his claim that the costs of arbitration will deny him an effective forum to vindicate his statutory rights"). E.g., Zambrano v. Strategic Delivery Sols., LLC, No. 15 Civ. 8410 (ER), 2016 WL 5339552, at *8–9 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 22, 2016) (holding that plaintiffs had not satisfied their burden to show that the arbitration agreement was unenforceable because plaintiff's claims of prohibitive costs were too speculative); Leonard v. Del. N. Cos. Sport Serv., Inc., No. 4:15 CV 1356 CDP, 2016 WL 3667979, at *4 (E.D. Mo. July 11, 2016) (holding that plaintiff failed to carry his burden to show that arbitration was cost prohibitive because "he has provided no evidence of the specific costs or arbitration fees or his financial inability to afford [ ] them"); Monteverde v. W. Palm Beach Food & Beverage, LLC, No. 9:15-CV-81203, 2016 WL 1161224, at *6 (S.D. Fla. Mar. 24, 2016) (distinguishing Nesbitt because it was "decided in the context of evidence that the individual plaintiff was prohibited—on the basis of costs and the plaintiff's means—from arbitration" but plaintiffs "failed to provide any notable or credible evidence of the same in this case"). Also unlike Nesbitt, the Employment Agreement here creates no ambiguity about plaintiff's ability to recover attorney's fees. The Employment Agreement specifically provides that plaintiffs are entitled to reasonable attorney's fees and cost of suit if they prevail. This provision is consistent with the fee-shifting provisions of the FLSA. See Bell v. Ryan Transp. 13 Serv., Inc., 176 F. Supp. 3d 1251, 1260 (D. Kan. 2016) (Lungstrum, J.) (explaining that an agreement was unlike the one at issue in Nesbitt because "nothing in the agreement . . . expressly limits the remedies or relief available in arbitration" of FLSA claims). The fee-shifting provision is inconsistent with the FLSA, however, because it requires plaintiffs to reimburse defendants for their attorney's fees if defendants prevail. Other courts have held similar fee-shifting provisions unenforceable, but, in those cases, one of two scenarios existed: (1) the plaintiffs presented evidence that they could not afford to pay the defendants' fees if the defendants prevailed in arbitration; or (2) the defendants conceded that the fee-shifting provision made arbitration prohibitively expensive. See, e.g., Pollard v. ETS PC, Inc., __ F. Supp. 3d __, 2016 WL 2983530, at *7 (D. Colo. May 12, 2016) (explaining that "[d]efendants laudably concede[d]" that the fee-shifting provisions interfered with plaintiff's effective vindication of their FLSA rights); Sanchez v. Nitro Lift Techs. LLC, 91 F. Supp. 3d 1218, 1222 (E.D. Okla. 2015) (concluding that plaintiffs met their burden to submit evidence that was not merely speculative but, instead, established the costs and plaintiffs' inability to pay them if they did not prevail at arbitration); Daugherty v. Encana Oil & Gas (USA), Inc., No. 10-cv-02272-WJM-KLM, 2011 WL 2791338, at *11 (D. Colo. July 15, 2011) ("Plaintiffs' affidavits make plain they have no financial ability to pay [defendant's] attorneys' fees were Defendant to prevail before the arbitrator."). In contrast here, defendants have not conceded that the fees and costs associated with arbitration prevent plaintiffs from vindicating their rights, and plaintiffs have provided no evidence for the court to make that finding. Without this information, plaintiffs have not satisfied their burden to show that the fee-shifting provision renders the arbitration agreement prohibitively expensive. See Marzano v. Proficio Mortg. Ventures, LLC, 942 F. Supp. 2d 781, 795 (N.D. Ill. 2013) (holding that plaintiffs failed to meet their burden to show that the 14 arbitration agreement prevented them from vindicating their statutory rights because they did not file affidavits or assert in their briefs that the costs were prohibitively expensive; instead, plaintiffs "provide[d] only the barest assertions that the fees and costs clause . . . makes the arbitration provision unconscionable"); see also Perkins v. Rent-A-Center, Inc., No. 04-2019GTV, 2004 WL 1047919, at *4 (D. Kan. May 5, 2004) (refusing to find an arbitration agreement's cost-splitting and fee-splitting provisions invalid in a 42 U.S.C. § 1981 action because plaintiffs "presented no evidence indicating that the costs of arbitration are likely to be prohibitively expensive"). In sum, plaintiffs have failed altogether to satisfy their burden to show that the effective vindication exception applies here. So, even if the court could decide the issue that Nesbitt presents, the court still would reach the same conclusion that it reached in the August 10, 2016 Order. Under the facts here, the parties must submit their dispute to arbitration. B. Should the Court Reconsider Its Decision to Decline To Decide the Class Certification Issue? Plaintiffs assert that the need to avoid manifest injustice requires the court to reconsider its decision denying without prejudice plaintiffs' Motion for Conditional Class Certification. In its August 10, 2016 Order, the court declined to decide the conditional class certification issue because it determined that the arbitrator must decide whether plaintiffs can proceed collectively under the arbitration agreement. Doc. 62 at 8. Plaintiffs argue that this decision "runs counter to [the court's] own precedent which states that the first stage of certification is the 'exclusive procedural mechanism for class certification in actions under the FLSA.'" Doc. 68 at 5 (quoting Renfro v. Spartan Comp. Servs., Inc., 243 F.R.D. 431, 432 (D. Kan. 2007)). Plaintiffs take this quoted language out of context. In Renfro, Judge Vratil explained that 29 U.S.C. § 216(b) provides the exclusive procedural 15 mechanism for FLSA class certifications. 243 F.R.D. at 432. The court's case law does not hold that the court—exclusively—must make the certification decision. Also, unlike the Employment Agreement here, Renfro did not involve an arbitration agreement that governed the parties' dispute, much less one that required the arbitrator to decide the class question. Plaintiffs also contend that "[i]t is not unprecedented for a Court to allow conditional certification of a collective class despite the assertion that putative class members have executed arbitration agreements." Doc. 64 at 10 (citing Davis v. NovaStar Mortg., Inc., 408 F. Supp. 2d 811, 818 (W.D. Mo. 2005)). But, in Davis, "defendants [had] not moved to compel arbitration at all, although the case [had] been pending for over a year." Id. In contrast, defendants here have moved to compel arbitration, and the court has granted that motion. Plaintiffs cite no case law as support for their request that the court should decide the certification issue after it has compelled the parties to arbitration. The court also disagrees that the August 10, 2016 Order produced manifest injustice. Plaintiffs assert that putative plaintiffs may lose their right to assert FLSA claims if they do not receive notice and an opportunity to join this lawsuit before the statute of limitations runs on their claims. But, putative plaintiffs can stop the statute of limitations from running by filing individual claims. Opting-in to this lawsuit is not the only mechanism for preserving a putative plaintiff's claims. Also, defendants assert that all putative plaintiffs are parties to an arbitration agreement—a fact that plaintiffs do not dispute. Arbitration is thus the appropriate forum to present the conditional certification issue. Finally, plaintiffs argue that the court should decide this issue to promote judicial economy. The court reaches the opposite conclusion. The court finds it inefficient to grant conditional certification before the arbitrator even has decided if plaintiffs can proceed on a 16 collective basis. As defendants assert correctly, granting conditional certification and facilitating the notice and opt-in period would impose additional delays. The most efficient approach is to send the matter to arbitration where, the parties agreed, it belongs. Plaintiffs provide no basis for the court to reconsider its decision denying without prejudice plaintiffs' Motion for Conditional Class Certification. The court defers this issue to the arbitrator. IV. Conclusion The court rejects plaintiffs' arguments that an intervening change in the controlling law or the need to prevent manifest injustice require the court to reconsider its August 10, 2016 Order. The court thus denies plaintiffs' Motion for Reconsideration (Doc. 63). IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED THAT plaintiffs' Motion for Reconsideration (Doc. 63) is denied. IT IS SO ORDERED. Dated this 3rd day of January, 2017, at Topeka, Kansas. s/ Daniel D. Crabtree Daniel D. Crabtree United States District Judge 17


The Moto G5S Plus is one of the most balanced phones Motorola has on offer and it's selling at a really attractive price. Now that we finally got round to reviewing it, that is. Oh well, our timing isn't spot on but the package and the price are.
On the other hand, compared to the prior Moto G5 Plus of six or so months back, the G5S Plus brings a larger screen and a whole lot of cameras. It's now a dual 13MP setup at the back, though the Special edition has lost the dual pixel AF of the older, single 12MP shooter. There's a new 8MP selfie cam in place of the old model's 5MP unit.
The Moto G5S Plus's screen makes it one of the best budget candidates for gamers and mobile media fans. Lenovo has not added any apps for this, though, leaving Google's apps suite to the task.
Movies come in the form of outright purchases or rentals, but the music side is a little closer to Spotify, letting you stream 40 million tracks for a $9.99/£9.99/AU$11.99 a month subscription. You can buy albums too.
For the old-schoolers out there, the Moto G5S Plus also has an FM radio. We can't imagine many people will use it at this point, though.
Like its predecessor, the Moto G5S Plus has a Snapdragon 625 CPU. This is a mid-range chipset, and one of the best options for a lower-price 1080p phone.
It has eight Cortex-A53 cores, and is paired with 3GB of LPDDR3 RAM rather than the faster LPDDR4/LPDDR4X kind. This is typical for a more affordable phone.
In Geekbench 4 the Moto G5S Plus scores 4,312 points. This is, confusingly, much better than the 3,824 points the Moto G5 Plus scored, despite having the same core hardware. However, it's within the normal bounds for phones with the Snapdragon 625 chip.
A Snapdragon 625 chipset is nothing to get too excited about at this point, but it's the right pairing for this phone. And doesn't struggle with games as some MediaTek chipsets at this level do.
The Moto G5S Plus has a 3,000mAh battery, one you don't have any access to. This is a head-scratching spec when the smaller Moto G5S has the same capacity cell.
However, in real use we're perfectly happy with the phone's stamina. One day, for example, we streamed a couple of hours of podcasts, took it out for a day in London shooting some photos and still ended up with almost 40% charge by bed time.
A 90-minute video played at maximum brightness takes 16% off the battery level. That's more than the 12% of the Moto G5 Plus, but that's no great surprise when this phone has a larger screen.
The Moto G5S Plus also has fast charging, using Lenovo's TurboPower technology. It ramps-up the voltage to up to 12V, to get you six hours' use in 15 minutes.
As ever, the fastest charging happens when replenishing the first 60% of the battery, but it's quick after that too. You'll see the percentage creep up by just over a point each minute until the very end.
The Moto G5S Plus is the first of the Moto G phones to have two cameras on the back. Phones like the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and iPhone 7 Plus have a second camera to let you zoom in with less quality loss than normal digital zoom. However, this dual 13MP array is more conventional.
You can simply take depth of field photos with the Moto G5S Plus. This is where the background is blurred for an arty effect, emulating the look of a wide-aperture DSLR lens.
It's not as good as the Huawei or Apple versions of this idea, though. It can't deal with complicated subjects well and there's often 'outlining' of even simple ones. However, it's still worth using and can produce some good results. Some of our best photos were taken using it.
The one problem with the Lenovo Moto G5S Plus camera is that it suffers from significant shutter lag. We used the phone alongside the Moto G4, and it is much faster to shoot than this new phone. We're talking around a 0.5 second lag per photo, even after focus has been achieved.
That's bad. However, it's so uncharacteristic for the series we're almost convinced Lenovo will fix it with a software update.
This aside, the Moto G5S Plus has a very satisfying camera for a lower-mid-range phone. You'll get more detail out of the Sony Xperia XA1 though and you need to be careful about the exposure level to get a good shot.
Good for the people who love brand "Moto". For a regular base use it is good , but if you are looking for Gaming its is not as much as good like other phone else its better , afterall its "Moto".


Turn your week-end to a stoRy!™ – Discover Swedish fauna!
When cold and windy outside, you may be looking for some interesting indoor activities. Today's recommendation goes to one of less known museums of Stockholm: Biologiska Museet on the Djurgården island. What is so special about this museum?
It is a diorama – two dimensional setting of the exhibition. Whereby Bruno Liljefors paintings of the Swedish landscape offer a perfect background for the examples of the Swedish fauna, you will find in foreground stuffed animals, at a hand reach.
The architecture of the museum is amazing, too. The exhibition halls are cylindrical, which adds an extra attraction to the museum's visit.


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The Mount Sinai School is a historic Rosenwald School in rural Autauga County, Alabama, northwest of Prattville.  The one-story frame building was built in 1919 to the designs of W.A. Hazel to serve the local African American community.  The money to build it was provided by the Julius Rosenwald Fund.  The school was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on February 2, 2001.  It was subsequently listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 2001, as a part of The Rosenwald School Building Fund and Associated Buildings Multiple Property Submission.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Autauga County, Alabama
Properties on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in Autauga County, Alabama

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National Register of Historic Places in Autauga County, Alabama
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama
Defunct schools in Alabama
School buildings completed in 1919
Properties on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage
Rosenwald schools in Alabama
1919 establishments in Alabama
Historically segregated African-American schools in Alabama


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The Blanket Buddies club was formed in 2001 as a service group whose mission is to make quilts for children and people in need. Over the years Blanket Buddies has donated quilts to an orphanage in Tennessee, a Veterans' home in Indiana, the Free Clinic of Manassas, and many newborn babies.
Students use five inch squares, which are sewn together in a pattern with polyester fiberfill and backing fabric. Each corner is tied and the perimeter of the quilt is hand sewn. Quilts are signed "Blanket Buddies" with the year.
Participating students are able to socialize while participating in these Corporal Works of Mercy. Each year a group of students begins the process of serving others in this ministry.


Campania waiting to be discovered: it starts from Castelvolturno!
Be surprised pleasantly by a land famous throughout the world for its mild climate, breathtaking views of the coastline, the historical and artistic heritage, and last but not least, the delicious culinary tradition.
Live the experience of a truly memorable stay in Campania!
Thanks to Campania Tour you can immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the traditional area and take advantage of the many benefits and discounts exclusively for you.
Start your Tour in Campania from Hotel La Perla in Castelvolturno, it has an excellent position, close to the main roads to Naples and Caserta and just 500 metres from the beach.
Entrance to the Reggia di Caserta and 20% discount at our restaurant "L'Ostricaro"
The rate is prepaid , non-refundable and non- changeable .
You can not book the next stay in the same hotel or in the same destination.