Paul Crouch, Esq.

07/01/2019

Happy Half Way Day!

[Every July 1st] July 1st (the 182nd Day of the Year) marks Second Second Half of the Year Day - a chance to step back, evaluate your year so far with your goals...

07/01/2019

https://www.wfaa.com/mobile/article/news/nation-world/a-bill-would-make-it-illegal-to-punish-employees-for-not-responding-to-calls-after-work/75-532709836

A bill being debated in New York City would make it illegal to force employees to answer work communications outside of work hours.

07/01/2019

Excellent design

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Edit (04-07-2019): please review the comment section for a discussion on the limitations and barriers posed by this design! While we love the concept of accessibility focussed spaces, this example unfortunately misses the mark on functionality, as many have pointed out. Thank you to those who took the time to bring these issues up! 📣

Here is an article summarizing the issues with this particular staircase design (located in Robson Square, Vancouver BC), courtesy of Tabitha Manners:
https://incl.ca/the-problems-with-ramps-blended-into-stairs/

[Image Description (original post): An image of the combined staircases/ramp design located in Robson Square, Vancouver, reblogged by 3 Tumblr accounts.
-space: I really admire the design for these stairs and how they incorporate a wheelchair access ramp. In a world where barrier free design is essential to living a full and happy life, it's amazing to see landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander has taken literal steps to design stairs AROUND a ramp, instead of the other way around.
-of-weeds: This is beautiful.
: Form AND function excuse me while I die]

07/01/2019

Renew, reuse, recycle

A North Carolina animal rescue group is appealing to women not to throw out their old bras, but instead to send them to their agency to help turtles with broken shells. News outlets report Carolina Waterfowl...

06/29/2019

RIP Mr Alvarez

A former NYPD detective who saved people from the rubble on 9/11 is suffering from colon cancer in hospice care, but he is still speaking out with one final plea: Permanently extend the 9/11 Victims Compensation...

06/29/2019

https://www.avma.org/public/PetCare/Pages/July-4-Safety.aspx

Fireworks, picnics and other 4th of July traditions can be great fun for people, but frightening and dangerous for animals. Know how to keep your animals safe.

06/28/2019

When a marketing idea goes awry

A Miami bar that offered customers "free shots" for every goal scored ...

06/27/2019

Data breaches happen, more often than most of us know. Who is liable?

Understand how data breaches affect law firms and legal areas and how liability involving a cyber attack is determined.

06/27/2019

Love the vision and passion in this story

Specialisterne aims to ensure that every autistic and other neurodiverse person who wants a meaningful career, gets a meaningful career.

06/27/2019

The arduous process of presidential candidate selection in the USA

The process of electing a president every four years has evolved over time. This evolution has resulted from attempts to correct the cumbersome procedures first offered by the framers of the Constitution and as a result of political parties’ rising power to act as gatekeepers to the presidency. Ov...

06/27/2019

06/26/2019

Tried to find a mid-range opinion article on this but Google literally buried this story. Microsoft Edge and Bing each had different sequences but the story, regardless of your politics, is disturbing. "Google it" has become the eponym for looking stuff up. For the behemoth company that owns that name, there should be some responsibility to be balanced in the results presented. It used to be, and still is for some searches, "weighted" by traffic, trust and a host of other algorithmic components. With some of these political searches, you are being manipulated. That is an unfair situation.

Project Veritas unmasked Google's efforts to suppress conservative content creators across its platforms to prevent the next "Trump situation."