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Holi Gift for Corporate

The festival of colors – Holi, is one of the most celebrated festivals across India. A special ‘Happy Holi’ gift from your organisation is sure to leave a good impression on clients as well as employees .

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The festival of colors – Holi, is one of the most celebrated festivals across India. Holi brings with it the feeling of joy and brotherhood. But why is Holi an important celebration in India? More than just happiness, Holi brings with it the opportunity to understand our culture and our society and appreciate these facets of our lives hence being of immense significance.

Whether its the rich or the poor, Holi is a festival celebrated by all. Holi signifies the triumph of good over evil. In some parts of the country, it is also a celebration of love between Radha and Krishna. Holi announces the grand arrival of the spring season and the end of the cold winters.

Socially speaking, Holi plays a great role in mending broken relationships among friends and family members. It is this day when people come together to forget and forgive past mistakes and start a new journey of brotherhood and friendship. They forget their sorrows and look forward to a great year.

Corporate Gifts for Holi

Apart from these social, cultural and biological significances, Holi is also a great time for businesses to shower some holi corporate gifts on their employees and current/future clients. Holi gifts are a great way for businesses and organisations to build trust with their employees and clients and keep them happy and work with them for a long time for mutual benefit.

Holi gift hampers are a great way to attract new clients as well. A special ‘Happy Holi’ gift from your organisation is sure to leave a good impression on prospective clients.  These gifts can be thought of as an investment for future growth. With new clients and happy employees, the sales and revenues of the business are sure to sky rocket to new highs. And these Holi special gifts for the existing customers and clients helps build a long-term relationship with them.

Holi Gift for Employees

Holi has a great cultural significance as well. The many legends associated with the festival of colors show people that the correct path to follow in life is that of truth and honesty. They showcase how honesty is actually the best policy and one can never succeed in life if they resort to evil practices and dishonesty.

And contrary to popular belief, Holi does have some biological significance as well. To celebrate Holi, people start cleaning up their homes days before the festival. This apart from creating a great environment for celebrating the festival also helps in promoting a healthy lifestyle and keeps people away from many diseases.

It's an important occasion to give out gifts to employees as well.

Holi Gifts with Corporate Branding

Another key aspect to being the biggest breakthrough and stand out among the competitors is building an impeccable brand image. And holi hampers are definitely the step towards the right direction. These gifts usually have a wide reach and incorporating the brand logo and orgaanisation motto in these gifts helps build a great brand image. It delivers a message to everyone that the organisation respects its employees and clients and recognises their contribution to its success

Now when it comes to Holi gift ideas, chocolates are the number one option. Not just any  chocolates, but beautiful personalised chocolates. It is a tradition to give sweets as gifts for holi festival but chocolates are becoming more and more popular not just with the urban and younger crowds but with the older generation as well. Chocolates are something that everyone likes regardless of age and gender.

Chocolate Gifts for Holi

At Chococraft, all your Holi 2020 gifts are taken care of. Whether it is holi gifts for employees and clients or for your loved ones, Chococraft has something special and unique in store for everyone. Chococraft helps you customise your holi gifts online.

Businesses have the option of getting their company logo printed on the chocolates thus providing a great way for brand promotion along with a delicious holi gift. These act as a great holi return gift as well for the Holi parties or picnics organised by the company. Such personalised gifts are especially very good for company clients as this leaves a special impression on them and helps the brand stand out from the rest.

These delicious chocolates can also be personalised for each receiver. This is great touch to make your bests holi gifts even more special. With an impressive premium packaging and an all over India delivery service, Chococraft handles all your Holi gift worries. All you have to do is go online and book your design of personalised chocolates and Chococraft takes care of the rest.

Gift Ideas for Holi

And if you are looking for some additional Holi hamper ideas to go along with your Chococraft special chocolates, here are some options for you.

Gulaal Box is an amazing addon with your chocolate gift this Holi. Holi is the festival of colors and who wouldnt like to add some more gulaal to their arsenal to play with their family and friends. A box with different gulaal colors is definitely a Holi special gift.

Books as Holi gifts is a great idea. It is always a good option to gift something which will help spread knowledge and wisdom on such auspicious occasions. From novels and biographies to history and self help books, one has a plethora of options to choose from here to gift to their dear ones.

Idols of Gods are an option one can consider as a Holi gift. Keeping these idols in our homes is considered a way to pay respect to our Gods and seek their blessings. The receiver is sure to love this gift and will happily accept this without any hesitation.

Home Decor items like lamps, photo frames, vases and attractive show pieces are great Holi gifts. With the wide options available in this category, one can definitely find a gift within their budget.

Gold or silver coins are a little expensive option as your Holi gifts. But if you have the budget to go for these then nothing better. Gifting gold and silver is considered auspicious in our culture hence making for a great Holi gift.

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261 New COVID-19 Cases in Manitoba on Thursday; 1 Death

April 22, 2021 12:32 PM | News

WINNIPEG — Manitoba reported 261 new cases of COVID-19 (coronavirus) on Thursday, bringing the provincial total to 36,890.

One additional death was also reported:

•  A man in his 70s from the Prairie Mountain Health region, linked to the Russell Health Centre

Health officials say there are 1,682 active cases, 34,246 people have recovered, and 76 people are in the hospital with active COVID-19 cases, including 21 in the intensive care unit. The death toll in the province is 962.

Thursday’s cases include:

•    25 cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region
•    36 cases in the Northern health region
•    10 cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
•    31 cases in the Southern Health region
•    159 cases in the Winnipeg health region

3,427 laboratory tests were completed yesterday, bringing the total number of lab tests completed since early February 2020 to 633,974.

Anyone with COVID-19 symptoms is encouraged to use the online screening tool to determine whether they meet the necessary criteria to attend a community testing site.

Further information on COVID-19 can be found at Manitoba.ca/covid19.


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Protecting the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya

the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya Which Liberates Upon Seeing

We have received a matching funds pledge of $30,000!

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Our campaign ends at midnight tonight. We're almost there. Thank you for your support!

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This past summer, a devastating forest fire in the Poudre Canyon near Fort Collins destroyed tens of thousands of acres of forest and many homes in the area. Mercifully, the fire did not reach Shambhala Mountain Center, but it came within a few miles. The Center was evacuated and many programs were cancelled. This event pointed out the vulnerability of the Center and the land, and the need to be prepared for any future disasters. One of the issues that came to light was that the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya was potentially at great risk.

John Perkins, former director of the Shambhala Archives and an expert in preservation of cultural heritage, expressed concern about the Stupa and volunteered to travel from his home in Mexico to SMC to prepare the structure to withstand the fire. The Chögyam Trungpa Legacy Project, of which I’m the director, got involved. We were able to contribute a modest sum to help with John’s expenses. He traveled to the Stupa, where he worked with SMC staff, Bob and Lindy King (who directed the original construction), and others to protect the building and its precious contents. You can find a summary of John’s efforts on the news section of the Chögyam Trungpa Legacy Project website here.

An outcome of all this effort was the strong sentiment that now is the time to use what we’ve learned and do the work to protect the Stupa and the nearby Visitor Center from future problems. Bob and Lindy King and John Perkins, working closely with SMC, are hosting a workweek at the Great Stupa from September 28 to October 4. There is no charge for this program, and SMC is providing housing and meals.

You can help! Bob, Lindy and John have put together an exhaustive proposal and budget for the workweek. When they added up the figures, it came out to $10,108  an auspicious number indeed. So far, we have raised $6,000  including a generous donation from the Shambhala Mountain Center itself. Contributions can be made via Pay Pal on the Legacy Project website.

The Legacy Project will maintain a fund to be used solely for this project. If Pay Pal is not for you but you wish to send a check or donate in another manner, please contact me at Carolyn[at] If you are interested in volunteering for this project, you can also write to me.

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From BBC to BIO: turning offices into laboratories

The growing life sciences sector is leading to more office space being repurposed as research laboratories for cutting-edge firms, including a former BBC building in West London. Andy Pearson reports

The labs and office space circle a central courtyard at the former BBC building

Last Autumn, the first scientists working for pioneering biotech company Engitix Therapeutics moved into their new laboratory in The WestWorks building, part of the White City Place development in West London.

The drug-discovery company’s new 800m2 headquarters includes tissue-culture rooms, decellularisation rooms (where cells are removed from organs), a fridge-freezer room, and an autoclave/utility room, plus write-up spaces and offices. ‘Engitix is at the cutting edge of scientific endeavour; we’re carrying out world-class science, so we need world-class facilities,’ says Stephen Brindle, chief operating officer at Engitix.

Engitix joins other leading life-sciences businesses – including Synthace, GammaDelta and Mapletree – on the fourth floor of The WestWorks building. What makes this arrangement unusual is that this scientific endeavour is taking place in an office building that previously housed the BBC. More surprising still is that the other floors are occupied by more conventional office-based businesses.

Synthace is one of several lifesciences firms at The WestWorks

‘It looks like a grade A office when you enter on the ground floor but, if you go up to the fourth floor, you are entering a proper laboratory environment,’ says Richard Beer, executive engineer at Sweco.

Sweco designed the building services for Engitix’s new facilities. It was also the engineer responsible for The WestWorks base-build services design, following an extensive refurbishment in 2017 after the building was purchased from the BBC by developer Stanhope. In addition, Sweco designed the subsequent Cat A fit-out of the six floors of offices that circle the building’s central courtyard.

Fit-out of the floors included removal of the suspended ceilings to reveal concrete soffits, and installation of an underfloor displacement ventilation system, with perimeter trench heating and cooling. The system is served by roof-mounted boilers, air handling units (AHUs) and air-cooled chillers.

‘The displacement system is designed to provide cooling to the office floors, while the perimeter units temper conditions at the edge of the floors on both the outer and inner courtyard elevations,’ explains Beer.

The tenant’s perspective

‘Synthace is an interdisciplinary team of computer scientists, biologists and mathematicians pioneering new ways of working in biology,’ says Adam Tozer, head of marketing at the company. ‘It develops software to enable scientists to run powerful, automated experiments, generating datasets that are appropriate for sophisticated analysis.

‘The office and lab space on offer at The WestWorks were a big draw, and we were excited to become neighbours with other pioneering bioscience companies in White City, such as Novartis, Autolus and GammaDelta Therapeutics.

‘Despite being a software company, we also have a wet lab, where our team of scientists use our software platform, Antha, to automate sophisticated liquid-handling robots. Our lab contains everything you might see in the lab of a biotech fi rm, including a cell culture facility.

This requires us to run a lot of scientific equipment and specialist installations, such as fume hoods and ultra-low temperature freezers, as well as to have the capability to handle scientific material and waste.

‘Our labs are designed with total flexibility in mind, allowing us to draw on power and gas supplied from the ceiling, so we can create automation islands and recreate our clients’ workstations. In specifying the lab, we needed to include three-phase power, a reinforced floor area for heavy equipment, and greatly enhanced air handling.

‘Safety systems are built into the lab, and we worked with the landlord to build in safe gas handling and storage and waste disposal routes.

Stanhope anticipates growing demand for space from biotech firms eager to be part of the flourishing cluster of life-sciences businesses at White City. So it tasked Sweco with devising a scheme to enable the top two floors of The WestWorks to be adapted from conventional offices into Containment Level 2 laboratory spaces, making them suitable for biotech experiments. The engineer was helped by the floor-to-soffit height of 3.8m, which were high enough to allow ductwork and fume cupboard extracts to be routed at high level.

The solution involved stripping out the Cat A, and the tenants installed a new cleanroom-standard suspended ceiling. Sweco added a small, on-floor plantroom in each tenancy, to house the air handling plant required to keep the laboratories supplied with fresh air and fume-cupboard make-up air. The plantroom is connected to the outside by louvres set into the courtyard façade.

We developed a means of adapting the base-build scheme for life-sciences tenants, but the adaptations were not applied until a tenant was on board, which meant we were able to incorporate their specific requirements

‘We developed a means of adapting the base-build scheme for life-sciences tenants, but the adaptations were not applied until a tenant was on board, which meant we were able to incorporate their specific requirements,’ says Beer.

The on-floor AHUs are sized to deliver an air change rate of between six and 10 air changes per hour in the labs. They are supplied with heating and cooling from the landlord’s system, with any additional cooling provision from tenant-installed cooling coils connected to a direct expansion system. This arrangement gives tenants the option of close control over their laboratory conditions, while the additional cooling provision ensures cooling is always available – including overnight, when the base-build chillers do not run.

Some laboratories also need specialist gases, such as carbon dioxide and liquid nitrogen. ‘The tenants’ gas requirements differ, so it didn’t make sense to pipe gases to the fourth floor,’ says Beer. Instead, a secure bottle store has been created outside the building, along with modified controls to the goods lifts to enable it to run unmanned when delivering gas bottles to the fourth floor.

Other modifications include the addition of a dedicated Vulcathene chemical-resistant drainage system. This is linked to the mains drainage in the basement via a sampling hatch and dilution unit.

The drinking water supply has also had to be separated via a Category 5 separation tank, to eliminate the possibility of contamination. ‘We did not want to mix drinking water and hand-washing sinks in a laboratory environment, so there is a break tank and booster pumps to provide a physical disconnect between the laboratories and other spaces in the building,’ says Beer.

Write-up and office spaces within Synthace’s facility

The electrical supply has been enhanced to serve the laboratories. ‘Generally, we allow 25W.m-2 for office small power but, in the lab space, we’ve allowed for 100W.m-2 because of the amount and types of equipment used,’ says Conor O’Donoghue, operations director at Sweco.

The WestWorks was an existing building with an existing electrical supply, so an additional power supply now serves the laboratory spaces.

‘The existing energy centre serving the other White City Place buildings had spare capacity, so we took an HV [high-voltage] feed from that and used a separate transformer and feed to each tenancy,’ says O’Donoghue, adding: ‘As we had spare available power capacity in the energy centre that was supplied from an alternate UKPN primary substation, we used some of this spare capacity to meet the increased power demands of the lab spaces while providing diversity of supply for their critical operations.’

This additional feed has the benefit of adding electrical resilience by supplying each laboratory with power from two primary substations. It is a solution that will ensure the fridges and freezers in Engitix’s new laboratory will operate come what may, so its scientists can continue with their pioneering drug-discovery work.

The landlord's perspective

When developer Stanhope purchased the BBC’s Media Village in west London it set out to redevelop the site as a new business district. It rebranded the site White City Place and quickly refurbished two former BBC buildings – now renamed The WestWorks and The Media Works – to lease as office space.

At the same time, London’s Imperial College was creating a new west London campus for its biomedical research and medical sciences facilities. This incorporated a new ‘innovation district’ and business start-up facilities to help foster the commercialisation of the innovative biotech developments being discovered at the university (see panel,

‘How Hoare Lea turned an office building into the Molecular Sciences Research Hub’). These fledgling biotech businesses need space to grow. At the same time, other dynamic bio-tech business were being drawn to the area. ‘We realised that there was a pent-up demand for space in London for life sciences that was not being provided,’ says Charles Walford, property director at Stanhope.

Stanhope set about commercialising this demand by adapting unlet office floors in The WestWorks and The Media Works, to lease to startup and established biotech businesses as ‘lab-enabled office space’. There are currently five established life-sciences companies at White City Place, in addition to several start-ups.

‘We were able to accommodate them primarily because we inherited some pretty robust buildings from the BBC, with an enhanced floor-to-ceiling height,’ says Walford.

In addition to converting existing buildings, Stanhope is looking to develop lab-enabled new-build offices. Walford says there is currently no speculatively built space in central London suitable to lease to life-sciences businesses, although there are schemes in the pipeline ‘because this sector is growing like mad’, he says.

Such new developments, however, are not without risk: ‘There is no transaction evidence at the moment, so the risk for investors is that they have to spend 30% more on an office building to make it lab-enabled that might end up with office occupiers – so you will have spent 30% more on your project, but without commanding the higher rent’

How Hoare Lea turned an office into the molecular sciences research hub

The Molecular Sciences Research Hub was fundamental to the creation of Imperial College’s White City Campus. It was developed in 2018 to bring researchers and businesses together to turn scientific discoveries into commercial products, with the wider ambition that the area becomes a destination for bio-tech and digital industries.

The multi-storey building chosen to house the facility started life as a general office. Hoare Lea’s task was to turn it into a world leading science facility, complete with specialist laboratories for the college.

One of the biggest challenges with the transformation was in delivering outside air to the various laboratories to replace the air extracted by the building’s 330 fume hoods. Their energy efficient solution was to install a variable air volume system to supply the air needed, based on diversified loads, and then direct the supply to the laboratories based on demand.

Dedicated local cooling is provided in areas of high heat gain, while LED lighting helps reduce energy use, which contributed to the building achieving a Breeam Excellent rating


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Transonics unveils new QUICK TURN PCB Service

Transonics plc. a supplier of electronic components and logistics solutions, has announced the introduction of its QUICK TURN PCB service offering a combination of Asian pricing and delivery direct to UK customers in as little as 8 working days. In addition unit prices are fixed at the time of order with a guarantee that there will be no additional costs.

Transonics’ Quick Turn PCBs quotations are provided in 24 hours and are provided on a fully inclusive basis. The price will include UL, cUL and TS16949 approvals, tool costs, carriage costs and cross section reports. Two layer PCBs can be delivered in 8 working days and 4 layers in 11 working days all shipped via courier.

Transonics’ Quick Turn PCBs are manufactured in the same factories that supply leading tablet OEMs and currently ship in excess of 1.2 billion PCB boards per annum. Boards can be manufactured with up to 16 layers and a maximum length of 1.5 meters.  Raw materials are all from major high quality suppliers and all are SGS and UL approved. Finished copper can be up to 6oz and finished board thickness maximum is 6.0mm.

Transonics manufacturing partners are certified to TS16949, UL(E315391) CUL, ISO9001, and hold 36 patents for PCB design and manufacturing technologies. They have over 2500 employees and an in-house engineering team which provides fast response times, excellent support and creates all layers in-house.

Commenting Daniel French, Managing Director of Transonics, said: “Five years ago at the request of our customers we entered the PCB market and until now we have been supplying mass volumes on lead times for our UK and European customers. There was a gap for Quick Turn Asia direct deliveries and working with our partners we are now able to offer this service. We’ve made this easy with one inclusive price delivered direct to the customer’s door.”

To support its PCB customers Transonics has a dedicated UK based PCB Product Manager, CAM350 software, depaneling machinery and provides UK warehousing for buffer stock holding and scheduled deliveries.

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Halloween Comes Early As Kim Kardashian Rolls Up To New York Fashion Week In Leather And A Mask

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Kim Kardashian is the master of marketing herself, and I will not be moved from this position. She so frequently wears and does outlandish things that our heads aren't so much turned as completely flipped upside down, making us all look like possessed characters in a horror film. Kardashian has in fact brought the spirit of Halloween early this year via her latest outfit for New York Fashion Week. (And the mask and all the leather kind of scares me.)

Technically, the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star left her home in Calabasas for New York Fashion Week, but she might as well be in Haddonfield, Illinois. (Otherwise known as the birthplace of Michael Myers in the Halloween franchise.) Yet surprisingly, Kim Kardashian seems to want to play the role of the slasher, not the slashed, in this new version. See her sickening head-to-toe leather ensemble, including fetish mask, below:

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I have absolutely no shame in admitting that Kim Kardashian's eerie New York Fashion Week outfit is slightly intimidating. The reality star seems to be moving into her next style evolution, which may or may not be Kanye West’s doing, depending on who you ask. At the Donda album listening parties, Kardashian wore first an all-red, full leather body jumpsuit, then another one but black with a mask similar to what we're seeing today, and finally a fully veiled Bride of Divorce gown. Perhaps Kardashian’s new Halloween-inspired fashion is trying to tell us something?

It would certainly be refreshing if Kim Kardashian was taking up leather and masks a way to deny access to her personhood as a celebrity. Similarly, Paris Hilton shared during a Hot Ones interview that she bought a special kind of material to wear that actually deflects paparazzi’s flashes and ruins photos taken of her. To be fair, though, Kardashian was the one to create the massive interest in her body and person in the first place, and actively takes time to fuel it. (She did take these pics of her new outfit, not some paparazzi, so maybe there’s no deeper meaning than Kardashian wanting to step on our necks in stilettos and leather.)

Kim Kardashian’s slightly S&M outfit might have been initially inspired by Kanye West (and his creative team), but the two are still heading for divorce. Reports indicated that the “Hurricane” song on the Donda album was West admitting to cheating during their marriage, to the shock of many. But apparently, Kardashian had a heads up about the lyrics before the album's release. Meanwhile, West has been in an all-out feud with rapper Drake, who has seemingly used Kardashian as ammunition.

Either way, Kim Kardashian can still turn some heads, with or without Kanye West. Move over Halloween Kills, there’s a new villain in town, and she’ll cut you with her knife emoji.

Lauren Vanderveen

I am a vegan feminist. I'm fascinated by all things space/stars. I love film history, reality television, and my cat Bubbe.


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Citco expands strategic partnership program with the integration of Financial Recovery Technologies

New York, 13 May 2020 – The Citco Group Limited and its affiliates (“Citco”), a leading provider of asset servicing solutions to the global alternative investment industry, today announces it has partnered with securities class action recovery service provider, Financial Recovery Technologies (“FRT”). FRT becomes the fourth solutions provider to be added to Citco’s strategic partnership program, focused on creating an integrated ecosystem of leading third-party buyside technology solutions, which was launched last year.

FRT works with over 800 firms to help institutional investors monitor litigations, identify eligibility, file claims and collect funds made available in shareholder class action, global and antitrust settlements. Through this new partnership, Citco can now offer its clients seamless access via its platform, to best-in-industry class action monitoring and recovery solutions. Partnerships such as this allow Citco to further its offering by finding new avenues of utility for the client portfolio data it already collects and processes, instead of isolating it for single-use.

In 2019, over 400 shareholder class actions were filed globally which will result in billions of dollars in settlements. Being able to identify eligibility, and collect funds made available in shareholder class actions allow investors to exercise proper fund governance, while also increasing performance by several basis points per year.

“Continued development of our strategic partnership program by seamlessly integrating complementary services to our existing offering, is allowing Citco to create a one-stop-shop for clients. By doing so we are ultimately reducing costs for our clients and making their lives easier. We are delighted to partner with FRT, the leading provider of securities class action recovery to offer additional value add solutions to our current and future clients” said Albert Bauer, Managing Director of Citco Technology Management, Inc.

“The world of class actions has evolved dramatically over the last five years, requiring investors to evaluate their existing governance, controls, and protocols. FRT has been investing in our relationships with partners to help them provide their clients with access to FRT’s comprehensive suite of services geared at addressing the growing complexities of the global securities and non-securities class action landscape,” said Rob Adler, President of FRT. “We are excited to be a part of Citco’s strategic partnership program to offer a comprehensive, automated class action solution designed to quickly adapt as industry complexity grows.”

Citco is committed to providing holistic solutions that meet the increasingly complex operational needs of the alternative investment industry. Citco’s strategy of partnering with and investing in leading third-party financial technology companies enables it to provide complementary solutions to the firm’s current proprietary technology stack.

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Rob Rynd  | Paula Morrison
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Founded in 2008, Financial Recovery Technologies (FRT) is the leading technology-based services firm that helps the investment community identify eligibility, file claims and collect funds made available in securities and other class action settlements. Offering the most comprehensive range of claim filing and monitoring services available, we provide best-in-class eligibility analysis, disbursement auditing and client reporting, and deliver the highest level of accuracy, accountability and transparency available. For more information, go to


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Citizens Connected, located in New Auburn, WI, is the area’s leading Information Technology Solutions (internet, video, voice) provider for home and business. New Auburn offers a quality of life characterized by small-town living, access to larger cities, and numerous lakes.

Engineering Technician

Job Description

Citizens Connected is seeking a highly motivated individual to join our team to fill the position of an Engineering Technician.

General Summary
Under supervision, plan and prepare maps for construction of new and removal of existing underground cable. Assist with existing and future service demand, available and existing lines, and economic factors to determine new construction or replacements as required. Select construction routes and determine equipment requirements. Prepare detailed construction and installation drawings and estimates equipment, labor, and material quantities.

Essential Job Functions

  • Plan and prepare drawings and staking sheets for new construction and replacement of existing underground cable.
  • Ensure compliance with industry specifications by staking all lines to be built.
  • Organize and file necessary paperwork and staking sheets.
  • Select routing of path creation and determine equipment requirements as appropriate.
  • Prepare detailed construction and installation drawings. Estimate equipment, labor, and material quantities.
  • Prepare necessary jurisdictional permits (DOT, county, town, railroad crossing).
  • Responsible for maintaining accurate and up-to-date facility record changes in Innovative MapKit Software.
  • Require the ability to work outside at time and meet with customer on location.
  • Able to work with other departments in the course of workorder construction and completion.
  • Promote a positive and professional image of the company to customers, co-workers, contractors, management, and others.
  • Maintain a current and valid drivers's license to perform the duties of this position.

Minimun Qualifications

  • Highschool Diploma
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, & PowerPoint).
  • Knowledge of Mapping software is a plus

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Citizens Connected offers competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package as well as a challenging work environment. If you are interested in joining our team, please submit resume to

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PO Box 127, New Auburn, WI 54757

328 W Main St, New Auburn, WI 54757

Phone Number: (715) 237-2605

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Revised Underwriting Manuals

March 29, 2017

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has approved revisions to Citizens’ personal lines underwriting manuals, effective April 1, 2017. Citizens revised the manuals to achieve a more consistent format and to consolidate and reorder rules and rating tables for ease of use.

Each underwriting manual now will be separated into two segments: Underwriting Guidelines and Rating Steps and Factors. The most significant changes in these two segments are outlined below.

There are no rule changes associated with the revised underwriting manuals.

Underwriting Guidelines

All underwriting rules and guidelines now will be included in the smaller, more consolidated Underwriting Guidelines segment of the manual.

Newly Combined Rules

Newly combined rules include:

  • Applications, Quotes, & Policy Period
  • Premium & Payment Options
  • Loss History & Credit Reports
  • Construction Definitions & Single Building Definition
  • Optional and Additional Coverages

References to default limits for Coverage B and C have been removed.

Rating Steps and Factors

All premium calculation steps and rating factor tables now will be included in the Rating Steps and Factors segment of the manual.

  • All rating steps and factor tables are reordered to follow the steps of the premium calculation worksheets.
  • New Business Capping Ratio has been renamed to New Business Capping Factor
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What Is Ford SYNC?

What Is Ford SYNC?

Last Updated October 13, 2021 | Meghan Drummond

SYNC is the name of the factory communication and infotainment system installed in Ford vehicles. Like all infotainment systems, SYNC offers a blend of safety, information, and entertainment. SYNC is able to offer these features by pairing with your phone via Bluetooth.

What Does Ford SYNC Do?

The capabilities of Ford SYNC depend on which version you have. The first version of SYNC came out in 2007, and the fourth generation launched in 2021. Each version has added a few new features to distinguish it from the previous one.

What all SYNC generations have in common is that they use your phone to enhance your driving experience. Every version includes hands-free calling, text-reading capability, and voice-activated music and volume controls. They also have some safety features, like 911 assist, which calls 911 automatically if you’re in an accident.

Most SYNC versions also have some form of navigation software, or allow access to navigation apps from your phone.

Four side-by-side images showing four generations of Ford SYNC

Hands-Free Calling and Texting

Using your phone while driving is incredibly dangerous and illegal in most states. With hands-free calling, you can tell someone you’re on your way without taking your hands off the wheel.

SYNC can also read and respond to your text messages for you. In older SYNC versions, you can choose from a preset list of responses. Later versions that support Android Auto and Apple CarPlay allow you to dictate your response using your phone’s hands-free text option.

Navigation has been available for all but the very first version of SYNC. At first, you needed to use voice commands for navigation, but that has since been expanded. The newest SYNC systems have touchscreens that allow you to pinch, swipe, and perform all the actions you’d expect from your phone.

Navigation screen pulled up in SYNC 3

Despite native navigation software, many drivers opt to use navigation apps from their phone. With SYNC AppLink, this is possible.

Ford does charge for map updates, which in many peoples’ eyes makes them less desirable than phone apps. The major difference is that the Ford navigation system will continue to work if you’re in an area without cell service. This makes it more desirable for some.

Using Waze with SYNC

There are a couple of ways to use Waze, a popular third-party navigation app, with Sync. You can either use Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, or the SYNC 3 and SYNC 4 AppLink function. SYNC 4 even allows you to use Waze through the built-in navigation. While standard map apps provide directions, Waze also provides updates on traffic jams, construction zones, and other obstacles.

Music and Podcasts

One of the top reasons people use infotainment systems is providing on-the-road entertainment. Whether you like catching up on the latest audiobook, podcast, or grooving to music, SYNC lets you pair your phone via Bluetooth or USB to listen to anything on your phone. You can also use any USB media player.

If you’ve got SYNC 3 or SYNC 4, you also have the option of using Apple CarPlay or Android Auto to stream music. Using AppLink gives you access to a few more apps, like Pandora and iHeartRadio.

Interior view of a Mustang equipped with SYNC 3

Apple CarPlay and Android Auto

In vehicles with SYNC 3 and SYNC 4, you can use Apple CarPlay or Android Auto to alter the SYNC display and control your phone.

The SYNC system doesn’t become an exact mirror of your phone. To discourage distracted driving, only some apps are available, and a lot of pop-up notifications are disabled. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto make using navigation and music-streaming apps with the SYNC system even easier.

Unfortunately, you cannot use Sync AppLink with Apple CarPlay or Android Auto enabled. Depending on the apps you routinely use, one system will likely suit your needs better.

How to Use SYNC

SYNC is designed to be easy to use, but the exact user instructions will vary depending on which version you have.

The first step is pairing your phone via Bluetooth. How the system is controlled from there has slowly gravitated from buttons to touchscreens over the years. What started as a simple display, almost indistinguishable from a standard stereo, now sports screen sizes that rival a laptop’s.

Models Equipped with SYNC

All newer Ford vehicles have some version of SYNC, but that hasn’t always been the case. When SYNC debuted it was very much a “premium” feature. Now that backup cameras are legally required and everyone has a phone, infotainment is a given.

Most Ford vehicles come standard with basic SYNC and have SYNC 3 as a premium option. In 2021, select vehicles also started arriving with SYNC 4.

If you’re trying to find out if an older vehicle you’re considering buying has SYNC, you can switch your radio to aux. When you do, you’ll see a SYNC logo if the vehicle has it equipped. Unfortunately, there’s no easy way to upgrade to SYNC if it doesn’t. But with an aftermarket head unit that pairs with your phone, you can replicate many of the features.

Other Ford Programs

SYNC gets confused with a few other Ford systems that also operate through the infotainment center. While SYNC is integrated and functional with these systems, it’s a separate thing.

Sometimes written as SYNC Connect or FordPass Connect, the “Connect” part refers to the ability to turn your vehicle into a Wi-Fi hotspot. Considering how many SYNC and FordPass features rely on the internet, this is pretty convenient.

You get a complimentary trial period when you buy a new Ford vehicle. Afterward, Connect requires a monthly subscription.

Co-Pilot360 is the name for Ford’s suite of safety technology. Some of it does operate through your car’s infotainment system. There are many levels to Co-Pilot360, making it a quagmire of complex terminology on its own.

FordPass is a subscription service, but many of its best features are free. While SYNC lets you use your car to control your smartphone, FordPass lets you use your smartphone to control your car. Remote-start, remote unlock, and maintenance scheduling are all free services.

Is Ford SYNC Good?

Close-up image of SYNC 3 screen

Probably the number one question people have about SYNC is whether or not it’s a good system. Like all infotainment systems, Ford SYNC has some pros and cons. We can all agree that it's best to drive with both hands on the wheel, and SYNC makes that possible.

On the other hand, when your car’s computer system crashes it can make for a rough morning.

Most people agree the original SYNC was good if dated. The SYNC’s second generation, MyFord Touch, gets less rave reviews. Most users found it clunky and cumbersome. Fortunately, the second generation wasn’t installed on many vehicles. Ford moved pretty quickly to SYNC 3, which most people agree is a solid system.

SYNC 4 is still very new. While it has an attractive display, new over-the-air updates and the lack of tactile controls make some people nervous. If you’re unsure about which version of SYNC you have, check out our guide.

While you can’t easily upgrade from one SYNC version to another, you can always uninstall your head unit in favor of an aftermarket one.

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Glasgow Kiss Illustration, a fun vibrant print with a fun spin on a classic Glasgow saying!

This is a reproduction of an original illustration by Claire Barclay.

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Jeff State a true community college

Jefferson State is living up to its name as a “community college.”

Beginning Feb. 9, Clanton’s Jeff State campus will offer a non-credit community photography class that meets Tuesday nights at 6.

Also, Jeff State will hold a career fair on Feb. 9 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. There, local residents can apply for the iCADEMY Prep program, which is a free, non-credit, 12-week training program for dislocated workers in Chilton County.

We encourage readers to take advantage of the photography class and iCADEMY, if eligible, because a show of interest from Chilton County would likely lead to more community courses in the future.

The campus will already offer classes in photography, pharmacy technician certification preparation, paralegal professional, professional medical billing and coding, anger management, ACT preparation, Lego education and Microsoft Excel basics.

These classes are great opportunities for county residents to better themselves —and opportunities we didn’t have before the college was built here.

We would do well to show Jeff State officials there is a need for these kinds of offerings in Chilton County.


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C'mon Please Some layout drawings, or CAD renditions, or prototype photos - even the basic dimentions would be nice. Now that we know about it, we can't wait till the spring newsletter!

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    We had a great day aboard the sailing catamaran. We leave from the port of Cala Ratjada where, passing the Capdepera Lighthouse. Later, we saw some of the famous beaches of Mallorca, Cala Aguila, Cala Mesquida, Cala Torta, S´Arenalet d´Aubarca and Es Calò de Ferrutx where we could swim or snorkel. The duration was just right. Social distancing was adhered to as much as was possible.

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    Fabulous fun thanks very much 👍👍

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    Really great half day cruise with lots of swimming and a great bbq! The sea was a little choppy so all the drinks were free - very professional!

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    It was great. Nice staff. Good trip.

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    The day was spoilt by a large very noisy group who thought it acceptable to shout loudly during the whole trip. Awful loud music that wasn’t even recognisable. Worst of all the Catamaran broke down after only 45 minutes! We then just stayed at sea for 2.5 hours in one spot. When an engineer was transported out to us to fix the problem we finally returned back to Cala Ratjada. No other swim stops. On a positive the staff were very welcoming and the lunch was very good.

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    Ein unvergessliches Erlebnis, top Crew und mega tollen spots zum schwimmen. Wir empfehlen euch mit Sicherheit weiter.

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    Excursion with very attractive catamaran route around the Bay and Cala Ratjada. Staff put a lot of attention to the details. Food was really nice and prepared during the tour! This day in Cala Ratjada was a highlight on our holidays on the island. Thank you for making this happen! We will recommended for sure!

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    An amazing experience if you´re staying in the area of Cala Ratjada. We had a great time with the children and friends. The food for lunch was more than excellent. The specialised crew of catamaran is taking care of everybody more than even expected, answering all questions and giving really interesting informations about the island. The landscapes of the coast are pure beauty. Time for swimming is enough to enjoy spectacular waters of Mallorca. Thank you for a great day and see you on ours next holidays!

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    Beautiful and enjoyable catamaran trip along the amazing coast of Cala Ratjada. Bays are breath taking as whole Mallorca ;) During few stops you can swim, enjoy the sunbath on deck. The lunch was delicious and enough for everybody on board. Totally recommended for whole families and also as a perfect day out with friends when you´re staying on this part of the island.

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Be certain to offer a Russian lady a cocktail because they like when a self-assured guy can court effectively. She is going to certainly see your initiatives because you are the only immigrant around and also you understand exactly how to approachher without any uncertainties that several Western males possess.

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Six-year-old Yusuf has just begun attending primary school where he is learning how to read and write. His father, Yakup, is a beekeeper. He goes about his trade deep inside the woods where he hangs up his bee hives in the treetops of the highest trees. The mountain forest is a place of deep mystery to Yusuf and he derives great pleasure from accompanying his father there.

One morning Yusuf tells his father about a dream he had the night before. Yakup turns on him curtly telling him never to share his dreams with others. This sets off a chain of events leading to the disappearance of both his father and the bees.

Yusuf and his mother set off on a fruitless search for signs of his father’s whereabouts after which Yusuf decides to continue the search for his father on his own. His is a journey into the unknown. Will the dream he had become reality?

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Recap: 2018 Irrigation Season (or lack thereof?)

Recap:  2018 Irrigation Season (or lack thereof?)

Harvest is upon us and another irrigation season – such as it was in our neck of the woods – is over, so a recap of the recently concluded water year from Central’s perspective is in order.  (Note: A “water year” runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30 of the following year.)

It was somewhat of an unusual summer, at least in south-central Nebraska.  Conditions and experiences in other parts of Nebraska, being a state of much variability, may have differed considerably.  But by most accounts, irrigation demand was relatively low this summer, whether the water was delivered from a canal system or pumped from a well.

The post-season data shows that deliveries from Central’s system were well below normal.  That’s probably a good thing because, after three consecutive years in which inflows to Lake McConaughy exceeded 1 million acre-feet (a-f), the 2017-18 water year failed to reach that level, amounting to just under 900,000 a-f.  This comes on the heels of two consecutive years of below average snowmelt runoff that feeds the North Platte River.

Under different circumstances this might be cause for concern about the reservoir’s storage conditions, but not so much this year.  While there are many factors in play, reduced irrigation demand across much of the Platte Valley helped keep water in Lake McConaughy.

As a reminder to readers, water from Lake McConaughy is released not only for Central’s irrigation customers, but for diversion by many other canals in the Platte Valley.

At first glance, reduced irrigation demand could be attributed to abundant rainfall and temperatures that, by and large, stayed below scorching levels.  While temperatures rarely climbed above the low 90s, precipitation – at least in Central’s area – didn’t depart that much from normal this summer, although seldom a week went by without some precipitation.  Perhaps more so than the amount, the timeliness and effectiveness of rainfall helped reduce irrigation demand.

Rain gauges in the area accumulated various amounts of precipitation during the growing season (April-September), with average for that period in parentheses:  21.81” north of Elwood (17.28”); 23.26” in the Bertrand area (17.55”); 20.14” inches north of Holdrege (20.36”); and 17.67” inches north of Minden 19.81”).  Keep in mind that these totals include rainfall in September – which was fairly wet — when crop water use was low.

While it might have seemed wet, we didn’t see a dramatic departure from the norm this year.

Lake McConaughy reached its peak elevation on June 11 at 3257.0 feet above mean sea level.  It’s low elevation for the year was reached on Sept. 9 at 3252.4 feet.  That decline – 4.6 feet – is among the lowest irrigation-season declines on record.

While that small of a decline is unusual – the reservoir typically drops between 10 and 15 feet during a “normal” irrigation season – there have been summers when the lake actually gained elevation due to a variety of factors (high inflows, plentiful rainfall, high South Platte River flows which reduced the need for releases from Lake McConaughy, and the summer of ’93 when widespread hail storms and late crop freezes and 40 inches of rain significantly impacted demand for irrigation water in south-central Nebraska).

In fact, perusal of the data revealed that Lake McConaughy gained elevation during irrigation season on seven occasions:  1947, 1962, 1965, 1993, 1999, 2010 and 2015.  And in 1958 the lake was at the same elevation at the end of September as it was on the first of May.

In summary, Lake McConaughy weathered the summer of 2018 quite well and storage conditions are good.  Upstream reservoirs in Wyoming are also in fairly good shape entering the fall and winter.  But it sure would be nice to see some snowfall on those mountains by next April.


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Ex-Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont detained in Sardinia

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FILE – In this Tuesday, March 9, 2021, file photo, member of European Parliament Carles Puigdemont prepares for an interview at the European Parliament in Brussels. The lawyer for Puigdemont says the former Catalan leader has been detained in Sardinia, Italy. Gonzalo Boye confirmed to the Associated Press that Puigdemont was detained on Thursday, Sept. 23. Boye wrote on Twitter that the former Catalan president, wanted by Spain for his role in an unauthorized referendum for independence, was being held under a European arrest warrant issued by Spain in 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, who fled Spain after a failed secession bid for the northeastern region in 2017, was detained Thursday in Sardinia, Italy, his lawyer said.

Puigdemont, who lives in Belgium and now holds a seat in the European Parliament, has been fighting extradition to Spain, which accused him and other Catalan independence leaders of sedition.

Lawyer Gonzalo Boye said Puigdemont was detained when he arrived in Sardinia, where he was due to attend an event this weekend.

The circumstances under which Puigdemont was taken into custody were not immediately clear. Boye wrote on Twitter the ex-regional president was detained under a 2019 European arrest warrant, even though it had been suspended.

Police at the airport in northern Sardinia didn’t answer phone calls Thursday night, while police in the city of Alghero said they weren’t aware of his detention.

The European Parliament voted in March to lift the immunity of Puigdemont and two of his associates. In July the three EU lawmakers failed to have their immunity restored after the European Union’s general court said that they did not demonstrate they were at risk of being arrested.

Sardinian media reported earlier in the week he was due to attend an event in Alghero on Sunday, so his presence on the Mediterranean island had been expected. Sardinian media had also reported that Puigdemont was invited by a Sardinian pro-separatist group.

Puigdemont’s office said in a statement that he had traveled to Alghero from Brussels to attend a folklore festival where he was detained upon arrival by Italian police. On Friday Puigdemont will appear in front of a judge in the city of Sassari who would rule on whether he should be freed, the statement said.

Puigdemont and a number of his separatist colleagues fled to Belgium in October 2017, fearing arrest after holding an independence referendum for Catalonia that the Spanish courts and government said was illegal.

Nine Catalan separatists received prison sentences for their role in the 2017 referendum ranging from nine to 13 years. They were pardoned in July.

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Bankruptcy Myths and Misinformation

The majority of anxiety clients face in deciding whether to file bankruptcy is often from lack of information or incorrect information from other people who do not understand Colorado bankruptcy. These people perpetuate stereotypes which put you in a worse position and create a barrier to your fresh start and financial freedom.

A quick initial consultation with a Colorado bankruptcy attorney can resolve most of your questions and allow you to make an informed decision. The attorney can explain Colorado’s local procedures and bankruptcy rules. In addition, they can help you explore alternatives to bankruptcy including debt settlement.

To help educate our clients on common bankruptcy myths, we have created this web page.

Bankruptcy Myth #1: I Will Lose My Assets If I File Bankruptcy

Most cases do not result in losing assets. One of your attorney’s responsibilities in your bankruptcy case is to review your assets and determine whether they are protected under Colorado exemption laws.

Protected assets cannot be taken by creditors or the bankruptcy trustee. The majority of assets, such as your car, home, and furniture are protected. Certain assets are not protected, such as firearms or tax refunds.

If you have unprotected assets your bankruptcy attorney can help you protect the value of these assets using bankruptcy exemption planning. Bankruptcy exemption planning allows you to legally move assets around, so they are protected.

Bankruptcy planning with your assets should not be done without the aid of a Colorado bankruptcy attorney. If done without proper legal advice you could end up losing assets needlessly.

Bankruptcy Myth #2: I Will Not Be Able to Purchase or Refinance a Home If I File Bankruptcy

This is one of the greatest concerns of our clients. The irony is that by the time you meet with an attorney you are likely so deep in debt that you generally would not be approved for a mortgage or refinance anyway. Furthermore, it would take years to get the debt under control so that you would qualify for a new loan.

It is even worse if you have fallen behind and you are not paying your debts. Missing payments result in negative credit marks being added to your credit report each month. Each negative mark becomes its own piece of credit history and generally takes 2 – 10 years before it drops off your credit report.

The more negative marks you create the harder it is to rebuild your credit. Filing bankruptcy stops further negative marks on your credit report. It wipes out dischargeable debts and gives you a fresh start. From the moment you file bankruptcy you can begin rebuilding credit and will receive offers in the mail from creditors that primarily lend to people who recently filed.

Additionally, the lending requirements for FHA, VA, HUD, and others generally allow the purchase of a new home or refinance of an existing residence within 2-3 years of filing bankruptcy. This is as long as you have no further issues with repaying debt after your case is filed.

Waiting 2-3 years is significantly faster for most people than trying to pay off debt or recuperate from the continually negative credit information hitting their credit report each month.

Bankruptcy Myth #3: I Will Not Be Able to Modify my Mortgage If I File for Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy reduces your expenses often making mortgage modification possible and more appealing to the bank. By filing bankruptcy you will have eliminated your dischargeable debts, given yourself the option to replace expensive cars with new cheaper ones, and allowed yourself to reorganize finances so you can afford a mortgage modification.

In addition, by filing bankruptcy you may eliminate your obligation to pay the mortgage and can walk away from your home without repercussion. It is in the banks best interest to work with you when your finances are in a better place and you are no longer obligated to pay them.

Bankruptcy Myth #4: I Will Lose My Job If I File Bankruptcy

It is illegal for an employer to fire you for filing bankruptcy. In addition, you may be at greater risk of losing employment due to debt problems including collectors constantly calling you at work and lawsuits being filed against you that may result in garnishment by your employer.

This is especially true if you are required to have a security clearance. For example, military clients may be advised by their superior officer to file bankruptcy in order to keep their clearance. By having too much debt they are susceptible to bribes and are in a compromised position. Bankruptcy resolves this.

Also, in certain fields you would not be able to get a job with debt problems, such as banking or securities, and the bankruptcy eliminates debts and may place you in a better position for this type of employment.

Although a bankruptcy may need to be explained to future employers, you must take into account the alternative, which is ongoing poor credit and a history that shows a continuing poor financial situation.

Bankruptcy Myth #5: I Cannot Discharge my IRS Tax Debt

There is a common myth that you cannot get rid of tax debt in bankruptcy. This is not true. However, there are very specific rules that must be met in order to eliminate your tax debts in bankruptcy.

The general rules are as follows:

  • The tax debt must be more than 3 years old,
  • The tax return must have been filed at least 2 years prior to the bankruptcy filing; and
  • You cannot have been found guilty of fraud or tax evasion for the dischargeable tax years.

Tax situations can be more complicated than the basic rules mentioned above. It is advisable to seek the counsel of an experienced bankruptcy tax attorney to make sure you do not lose out on the advantages bankruptcy may provide in eliminating taxes.

Bankruptcy Myth #6: I Cannot Discharge My Student Loan Debts

Similar to the myth that you cannot discharge your taxes is the myth that you cannot discharge your student loans. Unlike discharging taxes, when you try to discharge student loans you also must file a Motion with the bankruptcy court and prove your case.

To prove your case you generally must show that you are too physically or mentally impaired to payback your student loans. Alternatively, you may also be able to argue that the loans are burdensome and such a hardship that it would be impossible for you to pay them back.

Recent cases where people are suffering from depression or disability, as substantiated by a doctor, have resulted in all or a portion of a person’s student loan debt being discharged.

Bankruptcy Myth #7: I Make Too Much Money to File Bankruptcy

Anyone can file a bankruptcy at any income level. However, the Chapter of bankruptcy may be determined by your income.

This does not mean people with high incomes do not qualify for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. There are people who qualify for Chapter 7 bankruptcy that make well over a $100,000 a year or even more.

For example, a business owner with significant business debts may qualify for an exception from the income tests applied in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy. This exception along with proper review and advice on your expenses can result in receiving a Chapter 7 bankruptcy instead of a payment plan bankruptcy.

Work with an experienced bankruptcy attorney to determine what exceptions may apply in your case. Otherwise, you risk having to needlessly repay debts because your attorney does not know the rules. Experience counts and saves you money and further hardship.

Bankruptcy Myth #8: Any Attorney Can Help Me File a Bankruptcy

Not just any attorney can capably handle a bankruptcy. Bankruptcy law is generally an elective class in law school and attorneys are not formally trained on anything but the theory of bankruptcy in their studies.

To truly understand how to handle a Colorado bankruptcy your attorney should be experienced in Colorado bankruptcy law and procedure or have an experienced senior attorney available to help on your case as needed.

Without an experienced attorney prepared to handle the nuances of Colorado bankruptcy law, you could lose assets or end up in a payment plan bankruptcy when you could have filed a Chapter 7.

An experienced attorney will make the process easier, reduce your stress with their knowledge, and help make your experience as efficient and effective as possible.

Taking the Next Step Towards Bankruptcy

Are you ready to find out how bankruptcy may affect your life and get an accurate and personalized bankruptcy review? Then the next step is to meet with a Colorado bankruptcy attorney at Cohen & Cohen to review your matter and protect your interests.

Our bankruptcy attorneys provide professional bankruptcy representation and have the experience to handle your matter.

Speak to the Colorado bankruptcy attorneys at Cohen & Cohen to see how our experience helping individuals and business owners file for bankruptcy can help you.

To schedule your initial consultation at our convenient central Denver location call 303-933-4529.

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WSJ: Bots Manipulate Crypto Prices Causing Concerns Amongst Key Financial Regulators

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WSJ: Bots Manipulate Crypto Prices Causing Concerns Amongst Key Financial Regulators
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According to the report published by the Wall Street Journal, the current major problem of the crypto market is using bots, which manipulate prices of digital cryptocurrencies.

Yesterday, Wall Street Journal published a report claiming that automated trading programs, or bots, are manipulating cryptocurrencies’ prices, which is due to the lack of regulation within the industry.

Last month, New York Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood stated that crypto exchanges were vulnerable to manipulation. Barbara D. Underwood said that “when any venue tolerates manipulative or abusive conduct, the integrity of the entire market is at risk.” This issue is currently actual as there are no rules to prevent them from conducting illegal trading and taking advantage of abusive trading strategies.

A bot (or automated trading software) is a program that does a task automatically, sometimes to simulate or replace a human. Bots allow traders to set specific rules for trade entries and exits, submit orders to an exchange, and then automatically perform them with computer at a very high speed. These bots are legal and can be found in traditional stocks and bonds markets.

As the WSJ explained, bots use the following strategy:

“The bot’s strategy was similar to ‘spoofing,’ a practice in which traders enter fake orders only to cancel them. The tactic, aimed at tricking other investors to buy or sell an asset by falsely signaling there is more supply or demand, was outlawed in U.S. stock and futures markets in 2010.”

Earlier this year, cryptocurrency hedge fund Virgil Capital suffered a “harassing bot” that targeted some ether trades and led to losses. Virgil was checking prices every minute looking for arbitrage opportunities with cryptocurrency prices. The hostile bot ordered to sell ethereum at a price lower than those offered by other sellers, prompting Virgil to buy the currency. Right before Virgil completed the purchase, the sell order was cancelled. As a result, Virgil posted buy orders that never got executed, which increased the price on other exchanges.

Such a practice of fake orders is called “spoofing.” And it is currently one of the major problems in the crypto industry. As co-founder of CoinList Andy Bromberg said, “this sort of activity is rampant in the market right now.”

The WSJ mentioned another example of crypto price manipulation. Bitcoin trader Kjetil Eilertsen developed Quatloo Trader program which turned out to be “the best market-manipulation tool in the world of crypto.” Using built-in “whale tools,” the progran performs some illegal strategies and facilitates market manipulation. Eilertsen explained it as follows:

“If everybody can manipulate, then nobody is manipulating. You can’t ban anything from people who are dedicated to doing something.”

According to the WSJ, nearly $90 million in illicit funds had been funneled through different crypto exchanges last week. Spoofing, or practice of using bots, is not the only manipulative trading strategy, but the most popular one. Another example is wash-trading, market manipulation in which an investor simultaneously sells and buys the same financial instruments to create misleading, artificial activity in the marketplace.

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The Bytecoin mining difficulty increase average in the last 24 hours is 0.00% at block 1,177,377 on the Bytecoin blockchain network. In the last 7 days the Bytecoin difficulty increase was 0.00%, with the increase in the last 30 days being 0.00%, and the last 90 days is 0.00%.

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Bytecoin difficulty is a measure of how many hashes (statistically) must be generated to find a valid solution to solve the next Bytecoin block and earn the mining reward.

As you can see in the Bytecoin difficulty chart above, the Bytecoin Difficulty makes adjustments often.

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What could be more festive than a beautiful, shimmering ruby cranberry tart for the holidays? Each time we make one of Amelia Simmons’ cranberry tarts, visitors to the kitchen inevitably ask for the recipe.  Though simple and delicious, the directions are not as clear as most modern cooks would like them. Our Foodways staff worked out the recipe for you so that you can try this new take on cranberry sauce at home.

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“Stewed, stained and sweetened, put into paste no. 9 and baked gently.”

-Amelia Simmons’ American Cookery (1796)

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  • 1 12 oz bag of whole cranberries
  • Sugar
  • Pastry crust of your choice
  • Tart pan*
  • Butter

*We used a 9 x 2 inch tart pan. A slightly bigger pan is fine, but it is not recommended that you use a pan much bigger than this.  The filling is quite tart and sweet, so a little goes a long way!

  1. Place cranberries in a pot and just cover berries with water. Cook on medium-high until berries ‘pop’ and become soft. This should only take about 10-15 minutes. Make sure the water does not boil completely away.
  2. Cut a 12 x 12 section of cheese cloth and place inside a small colander or strainer. Pour the contents of the pot into the cheese cloth. Let the berries and water drain for 10 minutes. When cool enough to handle, pick up the corners of the cheesecloth and squeeze berries to extract the juice and jelly. Discard contents of cheesecloth.
  3. While the juice is draining, butter a tart pan. Roll out your pastry and place into the tart pan. Trim sides so that crust is flush with the sides of the pan. Place parchment paper in shell and fill with dry beans/rice to weigh it down. Blind bake crust at 350 degrees until lightly browned and fully cooked.
  4. Measure juice. Add an equal amount of sugar. For example, if you have 2 cups of juice, add 2 cups of white granulated sugar.
  5. Place sugar and juice in a pot and cook until thickened. Let cool until lukewarm.
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Published: Oct. 3, 2019

CU Boulder and NOAA scientists to join panel discussion following the film

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Leila Conners and Leonardo DiCaprio arrive for the LA Premiere Of HBO's Ice On Fire. Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images. At the top of the page, cinemetographer Harun Mehmedinovic surveys an Arctic sky. Photo by Harun Mehmedinovic.

(Note: Due to a family emergency, Leila Connors, the film's director, will not attend the screening as originally reported. This story has been amended accordingly.)

Have humans past the tipping point with the climate, or can we act, even now, to reduce the damage the planet’s inhabitants will suffer? That’s a question posed in the HBO documentary Ice on Fire, which features three University of Colorado Boulder scientists.

The university will host a screening of the film on Thursday, Oct. 17, at 6:30 p.m. in the CASE Auditorium on campus. The event is free, but registration is required; follow this link

Produced by Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio, George DiCaprio and Mathew Schmid, Ice on Fire focuses on solutions designed to slow the accelerating environmental crisis. It argues that renewable energy is necessary but insufficient to meet the challenge.

Ice on Fire emphasizes the importance of an immediate, two-pronged approach to reversing the crisis: reducing carbon emissions through traditional renewable energy sources and new ones, like tidal energy, and implementing “drawdown” measures, focusing on methods for drawing down and sequestering carbon, including direct air capture, sea farms, urban farms, biochar, marine snow, bionic leaves and others.

“It’s an intelligently structured series of arguments which repeatedly takes the audience to the brink of despair, before pulling back with a glimmer of optimism,” a Screen Daily review said. The film premiered to a standing ovation at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

The post-screening panel discussion will be moderated by Waleed Abdalati, director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at CU Boulder. The panelists will include four local scientists who appear in the film. They are:

  • Jennifer Morse, Climate Technician, Mountain Research Station, CU Boulder Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR).
  • Gabrielle Petron, research scientist at CIRES/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
  • Pieter Tans, chief, Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases Group, NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory Global Monitoring Division.
  • Jim White, interim dean, CU Boulder College of Arts and Sciences, professor of geological sciences and former INSTAAR director.

The event is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, with support from the CU Boulder Research & Innovation Office, INSTAAR and CIRES.


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#040d14 color description : Very dark (mostly black) blue.

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The hexadecimal color #040d14 has RGB values of R:4, G:13, B:20 and CMYK values of C:0.8, M:0.35, Y:0, K:0.92. Its decimal value is 265492.

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