![]() Another customer claimed that he shot his phone with a rifle because it wasn't working - that phone wasn't replaced. According to Tony, who worked with Apple as a Family Room Specialist for five years, one customer tried to convince him that liquid damage was some alien fluid, from when he was abducted by aliens. That said, it's pretty clear when people are lying. "It is always worth looking up issues like this ahead of time," Lucas said. If they walked in with a cracked screen and said, "I dropped my phone and it's cracked," then they'd have no luck getting a replacement, but if they were to say, "I know this film is a defect," then Apple would replace even a broken phone because of a known issue. Now that's a problem that users could get a replacement for. "The iPhone 6 had an issue where the camera had a film that would slowly slide over the lens," he explained. All it takes is a little bit of research and knowing the right way to ask. Lucas also talked about a loophole that allow people to get a free replacement iPhone from Apple. The replacement is $199," instead of saying "no, you'll have to get a replacement." According to one of the sources, Lucas, the employees would have to find workarounds, so they would have to say something like, "Yes, I absolutely can help you and I'd love to. One interesting thing - and you might have noticed this - the article (which has inputs from three Apple Store veterans with about five years of work experience each) reveals that the Apple Store employees are not allowed to say "no", directly. Like any business though, things are a little different behind the scenes, and if you're ever wondered what life is like for the people working in these jobs, then you're in for some fun.Ī recent article by Thrillist parts the curtain and gives people a look backstage. ![]() In India, the official Apple stores aren't here yet, but the affiliates work hard to maintain the same levels of customer satisfaction. The same is true for the in-store experience in Apple Stores around the world. Whether you're an iPhone user or not, you've probably heard about how good Apple's customer care is when compared to other brands.
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![]() Only here do the state biologists have a real shot at implementing their various plans to some degree.īut game managers have no control of what hunters do not shoot. State and county lands and forests fall under an "open" policy and follow the management goals of the state. Often, the state whitetail management plan is overridden by the landowner’s or manager’s deer hunting plan, no matter how "half-baked" it appears to the other side. Other user groups including anti-hunters (PETA, etc.), insurance companies, commercial agriculture and even local politicians all contribute their two-cents on how deer should be managed.Īnd in urban areas where deer hunting has been all but been banned, folks become shocked at their wit's end by being overrun by whitetails chewing their shrubbery. More: A warm winter is not all good for wildlife 'Anything with horns' In response to the perception of a lower local population of deer, other hunting properties have instituted "No doe hunting" in an effort to rebuild the herd numbers so they will have more deer to hunt. It is up to the management philosophy of the landowner, or manager, as to the number of doe taken. Often too, in restrictive management plans, doe are trimmed down to achieve an optimal one-to-one sex ratio, buck to doe. Antler restrictions usually means counting points, typically six or eight points, or a spread requirement (beyond the ears). Usually the mandatory antler restriction in place has penalties for breaking the rules. Many properties these days are being tied up with rigorous management philosophies such as MAR (Mandatory Antler Restrictions), where the goal is to have a local whitetail herd with a “balanced” age structure. 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Moreover, Bažant’s critics have had difficulty in getting ASCE to publish their significant criticisms. In this important instance, the peer review process allowed publication of a theoretical paper purporting to explain an event with serious and ongoing consequences for society, but which ignored the major physical observations that disproved the paper’s theory. The acceptance of Bažant’s and Zhou’s paper by ASCE and its use by NIST is therefore highly questionable. However, Bažant’s and Zhou’s paper never attempted to explain the many different physical observations, such as lateral high-velocity ejections of materials for hundreds of meters, and the fact that there was no pile driver to crush each tower, since all materials were blown outside the buildings’ footprints. Later, NIST cited this paper as support for its own conclusions. ![]() It argued that, “if prolonged heating caused the majority of columns of a single floor to lose their load carrying capacity, the whole tower was doomed.” The paper was submitted to the ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) Journal of Engineering Mechanics and was, after peer review and some modifications, published in 2002. The paper was a theoretical analysis of the WTC Towers’ collapses. Bažant of Northwestern University submitted to peer review a paper with one of his students, Yong Zhou, as co-author. Two days after 9/11, on 13 September 2001, Professor Zdeněk P. here was structural resistance in this particular case.” Later, NIST simply incorporated a value of 2.25 s of free fall, based on its own measurement, into its final report without comment and quietly removed the statement about its analysis being “consistent with physical principles.” By failing to address the implications of freefall, NIST’s final report, in this context, has all the earmarks of attempted scientific fraud. As Shyam Sunder had previously stated: “ free fall time would be an object that has no structural components below it. However, NIST did not acknowledge this fact. Chandler’s measurements indicated free fall for the first 2.5 s, equivalent to a distance of 8 floors or about 30 m. NIST had stated previously that this is “consistent with physical principles.” In his comment, David Chandler, a high school physics teacher, pointed out that a variety of methods showed from the motion of the top NE corner of the building that there was in fact free fall. In responding to a comment by David Chandler, Shyam Sunder, the lead NIST investigator, claimed that in NIST’s structural model the visible portion of WTC7 fell for a distance equivalent to 17 floors in 5.4 s, which is 1.5 s or 40% longer than a time of 3.9 s that would be the case for free fall. NIST had invited public comments on its preliminary findings on why WTC7 collapsed. Such an open process occurred during one of the public input sessions held by NIST in 2008, with startling results. The independent findings show the great value of the peer review process and point to the need for a more advanced and open form of peer review. Geological Survey) and others in the powder indicated the use of thermite, a substance that can have both incendiary and explosive properties. For example, a very high percentage of iron-rich micro-spheres found by R.J. Independent analysis of the physical evidence, including the WTC debris powder or dust, points to the controlled demolition of the three buildings cited above. ![]() For example, as stated previously, the NIST investigation never examined the actual fall of the Twin Towers, nor did it examine the building remains for explosives, as required by the NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) guidelines in case of catastrophic collapse. At the present time, over 2800 highly qualified scientists, engineers, and architects, as well as many other scholars, have examined the official account including the NIST reports and have found it to be in violation of the scientific method and the norms of genuine scientific research. Ironically, the very seriousness of NIST’s ethical failure in omitting meaningful peer review has resulted in a thorough, but non-official, independent peer review of the NIST reports. This is especially true as far as Italian speakers who aim at learning German are concerned. Moreover, this segregation condition affects people’s linguistic perception of the linguistic “other”, making it difficult for them to learn the other group’s language. The analysis run on the speakers’ language attitudes (the first analysis of this sort ever taken up on Bozen) seems to endorse the hypothesis that a dynamic of segregation between these two linguistic groups is still present in some districts of the town. A corpus consisting of more or less 50 interviews was collected, relating to the aforementioned dynamics, by using both sociolinguistic and folk linguistic methodological frameworks. This study aims at investigating the sociolinguistic dynamics existing in Bozen, taking into special consideration the relationships between these two linguistic groups. A process of unification between German people and Italian people living in Bozen has been starting for a few years however dynamics of exclusion and even segregation are still going on. Although German is the official language spoken in Bozen, Italian turns out to be the main spoken language. Today Bozen is the most important town in the South Tyrol Italian region. Due to the immigration of many Italian speakers from different regions of Italy, Bozen has changed its traditional German facie. This study deals with the linguistic situation existing in the multilingual town of Bozen (South Tyrol). ![]() I have traced discourses across disparate discursive genres, to reveal the complex interrelationships between language and other social semiotic data in discourses on bilingualism in Bolzano-Bozen through time, and across space. In the complex multilingual context of this study, this approach has revealed how such ideologies are mobilized to contest ownership of geographic place and to make social space. This has led to an investigation of the historical past, and how this is represented, understood and indexed in the present by those who align (or not) to ideologies of language and nation. ![]() ![]() Nexus Analysis focuses on social action and Geosemiotics pays meticulous attention to fundamental aspects of signs, including where they are in the material world, and how social actors interact with them. These approaches have revealed how and why place names, their public placement, Fascist-era monuments and bilingual education maintained a constant presence, under broader discourses on bilingualism, during the research period. The theoretical and methodological framework I use is Nexus Analysis and Geosemiotics: approaches developed by Scollon and Wong Scollon (20, respectively). This study is about discourses of bilingualism in Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, and what they reveal about language, identity, hegemony and the production of social space. ![]() These numbers declined over the course of the summer. Three-quarters of Americans supported the protests in June, and large majorities - including 60 percent of whites - supported the Black Lives Matter movement. An estimated 15 million to 26 million Americans took to the streets, and protests extended into small-town and rural America. The killing set off what may be the biggest wave of protest in United States history. And according to Pew, the percentage of voters who believe that “newcomers strengthen American society” rose from 46 percent in 2016 to 60 percent in 2020.Īmerica’s emerging multiracial democratic majority was visible this summer in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Last year, about two-thirds of Americans agreed with the statement that immigrants “strengthen the country,” up from 31 percent in 1994. Polls also show that Americans overwhelmingly reject President Trump’s positions on race and that they increasingly embrace diversity. Likewise, a Pew Research Center survey found that the percentage of Americans who believe that the country needs to “continue making changes to give Blacks equal rights with whites” rose from 46 percent in 2014 to 61 percent in 2017. Public opinion has shifted in important ways, especially among white Americans.Īccording to the political scientist Michael Tesler, the percentage of Americans who agree that “there’s a lot of discrimination against African-Americans” increased from 19 percent in 2013 to 50 percent in 2020, driven in the main by changes in the attitudes of white voters. ![]() Opposition to Trumpism has engendered a growing multiracial majority that could lay a foundation for a more democratic future. Yet if American democracy is nearing a breaking point, the crisis generated by the Trump presidency could also be a prelude to a democratic breakthrough. As a result, Americans today confront the prospect of a crisis-ridden election, in which they are unsure whether they will be able to cast a ballot fairly, whether their ballots will be counted, whether the candidate favored by voters will emerge victorious and whether the vote will throw the country into violence. The Republican base and its white Christian core, facing a loss of its dominant status in society, has radicalized, encouraging party leaders to engage in voter suppression, steal a Supreme Court seat in 2016 and tolerate the president’s lawless behavior. In this, he has been aided and abetted by a Republican Party that has fallen into the grips of white nationalism. The president has encouraged violent extremists deployed law enforcement and other public institutions as weapons against rivals and undermined the integrity of elections through false claims of fraud, attacks on mail-in voting and an apparent unwillingness to accept defeat. The Trump presidency has brought American democracy to the breaking point. Road Rash: Jailbreak is a bit light in tracks, and the racing's over after two runs through six different locations.so don't expect to get a whole lot out of Road Rash: Jailbreak's main mode. Which means far less competition.and far fewer opponents to bash during the race. In Road Rash: Jailbreak for the Game Boy Advance, there are only three other racers. Which is probably why the team scaled back the amount of opponents during a race most Road Rash games feature races against more than a dozen bikers. The developers might've gotten a little too ambitious, though, since there's a few patches of choppiness when the screen gets a little cluttered with obstacles and enemies. Road Rash is no longer the chunky, chuggy game that came out on the 's now incredibly fast and intense thanks to the GBA game's impressive engine. What drives this game is Magic Pocket's ambitious pseudo-3D engine that pushes a fast speed and a smooth framerate, even as it draws detailed flowing hills with a lot of on-screen objects like traffic, cones, and innocent bystanders along the side of the road. Nothing's as satisfying as clobbering a highway patrolman with a gigantic shovel, watching the poor guy fly off the bike onto the pavement below. But they're a bit more aggressive, and tend to focus on one particular rider regardless of who's in first. These guys are just as vulnerable as the actual racers.so players are encouraged to wail on them to knock 'em out of the picture. To make gameplay a little more challenging, there's also a bunch of motorcycle cops set out to put a premature end to the brutal racing if these guys manage to knock the player off their saddle, regardless if they've still got the strength to get back on to continue, the race ends. Money icons are scattered in rows across the road, and collecting them builds up the player's bank account, making bike upgrades much quicker than just using the earnings after coming in first. These rear attacks are actually well-implemented because the developers put to use an icon arrow that grows and shrinks behind the player, the size and location showing just how close the opponent is. Players can also pick up scattered, random power-ups, such as invincibility, oil slicks, and a napalm-like substance that sets the road behind them on fire. The only way to move onto the next track is to cross the finish line first, and the only way players will be able to do that is to be both aggressive in their racing and combat ying to unseat the opposition to gain that extra distance while avoiding on-street and trackside obstacles, as well as aggressive attacks from their weaponry. Luckily, the character the player chooses is also armed with his or her own weapon that can do equal damage. This combat racer puts players in charge of their choice of four distinctly different racers in an all-out race from start to finish, trying to stay upright on a bike while getting whaled on by the opposition. Road Rash: Jailbreak builds its game design upon the formula established in past Road Rash games, but constructs its own creation with the speed, intensity and gameplay elements expected in today's gaming day and age. ![]() Development on the game was handled by European developer Magic Pockets, who obviously used its knowledge and technology acquired the visually impressive F1 2003 GBA title for Electronic Arts and DSI Games. Road Rash: Jailbreak borrows its namesake from the last game released on the PSOne system a couple years ago, but other than lifting a few assets from that development, the GBA game is really its own design.
The real selling point of Total Security is that it allows multi-platform coverage. With Bitdefender Total Security, you get the flagship security suite and it carries all of the features mentioned in the above two packages, plus it adds some PC maintenance tools - these are basic but it’s handy to have them integrated. There are some neat additions here, then, and Bitdefender Internet Security is not that much more expensive than Antivirus Plus (at least not with some subscriptions, given the current deals Bitdefender is offering). The spam filter is a strong effort and definite highlight, and the parental controls are similarly thorough, with those useful privacy extras including webcam and mic protection, and the ability to utilize secure (encrypted) file vaults. Namely a firewall, email spam filter and parental controls, along with some privacy tools. The mid-range Bitdefender plan is an internet security suite which has all the features of the above Antivirus Plus, but adds a few more into the mix. Anti-theft: features its own web dashboard that allows you to send SMS commands, lock, track and wipe your Android from any internet-connected device.(Image credit: Bitdefender) Bitdefender Internet Security.Web security: protects you in real time when browsing websites using Chrome and Android’s default browsers.Privacy advisor- shows you how installed apps use and possibly abuse, your personal information.Malware scanner: independently tested to detect 100% of bad stuff.Visit the Google Play store for more information, mm Features At A Glance Unfortunately, we need to take mobile security seriously, which is a sorry state of affairs really, so what better then to install an all-encompassing security suite from the people who create protection suites for a living? It’s quite a well- featured part of the protection suite and is an impressive selling point in itself, regardless of the other advantages this app offers. It also allows you to listen in on your phone, alerts you if the SIM card has been changed and allows you to password protect your settings. It uses a web-based dashboard that will allow you to send SMS commands, lock, geo-locate, sound an alarm and wipe your Android from any internet-connected device, should you ever misplace it or have it taken from you. ![]() The anti-theft function is very a cool feature. As you browse the internet on your Android device, it actively monitors the site you’re accessing and keeps away the nasties, as well as helping you to avoid those sites that are designed to foul up your phone. Web Security works in much the same way as a traditional online protection tool works on your PC. This means it’s constantly up to date and works in the background to keep you protected.īitdefender monitors your apps, connection and everything else It automatically scans the apps as you install them to locate anything untoward, and issues a warning should something come up that’s in line with the latest signatures as released through the Bitdefender cloud. The Malware Scanner has been independently tested to detect, as Bitdefender put it, “100% of the bad stuff”. And there’s an extra element that connects to a smartwatch. Within the app, you’ll get four main areas of protection: a Malware Scanner, a Privacy Advisor, Web Security and an Anti-Theft element. The security experts at Bitdefender have been busy updating the company’s first line of defence for mobile users: Bitdefender Mobile Security and Antivirus. A recent study has shown that of over 800,000 free Android apps analysed, 35% can access a user’s location, while almost 3% can leak email addresses, 5% can locate and open photos on users’ phones and 10% can read contact lists. ![]() But once you start installing all manner of apps, games and so on, the security levels drop significantly. Most of the time, an Android device, used for just calls or texts, is relatively secure. Gone are the days when viruses, digital theft and privacy were exclusive only to the PC these days, the mobile criminal is well and truly active. Therefore, a number this large isn’t going to be overlooked by those who relish in exploiting the security vulnerabilities that will inevitably be present, no matter how updated the system appears to be. In terms of OS coverage, Android accounts for 82.8% of the global market, which is pretty significant. Most are either smartphones or tablets, with a smaller percentage being things like Android TV devices or some other console- esque items of technology. There are now several billion active Android devices around the world. We look at some mobile protection this week ![]() We all met the CP and did a question and answer session. I was one of four people interviewing that day. Flew to Vegas at my own expense for a interview at Headquarters. ![]() Made you feel at ease the second you walk through the door, no interview gouge necassary just be yourself.thats what the want to see.ĪTP 5000 hours, 2000 PIC turbine/jet 5 typesĪllegiant is expanding and getting 6 more MD80's by March with no slowing down. The common theme here is thet they get to know you and it is in a very relaxed atmosphere. They have a ton of questions they can ask, so all the interviews vary. Typical questions, TMAAT.you made an unpopular decision.had a disagreement with your boss.best aviation experience.worst aviation experience.best/worst job.why Allegiant.etc. The second was with 2 reps from HR, and a training Captain. The first panel was with the Chief Pilot and Director of Training. Same interview as previously mentioned, but with one change. Operations? All the other posts are good.Ħ500 TT, 2000 Turbine PIC, Part 121 experience Name as many of our core values as you can. Pay closeĪttention to the slide show, they will ask questions about it. Then, one on one with CP and logīook, medical ATP screen. All five are given a slide show of company and then you wait inīreak room for two part individual interview sessions. Showed up with 4 others for 1pm interview (110 degrees Very laid back interview, they do a great job of I hope this helps.ĥ,000 Turbine, ATP, Part 135/91K, Retired Military. Maybe they didn't like me or my personality. I don't know if I didn't sell them enough on making Allegiant my final airline or because I said yes she can take a vote just to shut the guy up. I wasn't offered the job they told me the day of. They are wanting to hear you plan on staying at allegiant and making it your final career. They asked if a nav light is out and your FO during the walk around tells you about it at the out station and says we can still make it back to Las Vegas before it gets dark what would you do? Have you had any check ride failures? Tell us about the company you are working for and why you want to leave? Why Allegiant? They are getting more airplanes and the company is growing. I guess they really don't want you to say yes take a vote. (He said no you shouldn't let her take a vote). I said she can take a vote but we are still going to fly the airplane and go. ![]() He kept asking me would you allow her to take a vote? He wanted to know if I would let her take a vote. The panel questions were tell me about a time you flew with a bad captain and how did you handle that? If your the captain and during the preflight a flight attendant says she doesn't want to fly in the plane because she is concerned about one of the lav's being inopt how will you handle it? I told him what I would do to try and get her to feel better about the situation. You climb to a altitude and descend while banking and descend while maintain a certain descent rate. They want to see you have a good instrument scan. The instructor talks you through everything. You are split up and you either go fly the MD 80 FTD and go talk with a panel. While watching the slide show the chief pilot will look over everyone log books. First you start out with a company presentation slide show. Me and 3 other guys were there interviewing for the job. I had to come the night before the interview starts in the morning. It is up to you to get to Las Vegas and their office. |