#Compensation 💵

[lockamylawyers]

🔹 Navigating the Aftermath of a Pedestrian Accident: Legal Steps and Compensation 🔹

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[currymanganese]

Anyone compared Nat asking Donna if she was okay, to Syd asking Carmy if he was okay, and Donna and Carmy's contrasting responses yet?

Nat asking Donna if she was okay preceded her complete unravelling at the dinner table in Fishes, despite her insistence that she was okay....However, when Syd asked Carmy if he was okay in the finale, he answered no, before proceeding to have a meltdown when she could not be there to reassure him, because she had to step away to handle service....

*Nat asks Donna if she's okay*

Donna: 😡🤬🤬🤬🤬👹 🏡+🚗 = 🏚

*Syd asks Carmy if he's okay*

Carmy: No! 😡

*Syd goes to pick up his slack*

Carmy: 🤢 Marcus get me the fuck outta here! Syd! Marcus, get me Syd! Get Syd! 🤬 Get fucking Syd, get fucking Syd! 😱

[xtruss]

Tina Cordova and her mother, Rosalie, relax at Bonito Lake, New Mexico, in 1960. Cordova says the lake—which lies within the estimated radioactive fallout zone—was a water source for area towns, including Carrizozo, Alamogordo, and Ruidoso. Courtesy of Anastacio and Rosalie Cordova

U.S. Lawmakers Move Urgently to Recognize Survivors of the First Atomic Bomb Test

The 1945 Trinity test produced heat 10,000 times greater than the surface of the sun and spread fallout across the country.

— By Lesley M.M. Blume | Published September 21, 2021 | July 29th, 2023

Barbara Kent joined Carmadean’s dance camp in the desert near Ruidoso, New Mexico, in the summer of 1945. During the day, she and nine other girls learned tap and ballet. At night, they slept in a cabin by a river. Early in the morning on July 16, 1945, Kent says that she —then 13—and the other campers were jolted out of their bunk beds by what felt like an enormous explosion nearby. Their dance instructor rushed the girls outside, worried that a heater on the premises might have burst.

“We were all just shocked … and then, all of a sudden, there was this big cloud overhead, and lights in the sky,” Kent recalls. “It even hurt our eyes when we looked up. The whole sky turned strange. It was as if the sun came out tremendous.”

A few hours later, she says, white flakes began to fall from above. Excited, the girls put on their bathing suits and, amid the flurries, began playing in the river. “We were grabbing all of this white, which we thought was snow, and we were putting it all over our faces,” Kent says. “But the strange thing, instead of being cold like snow, it was hot. And we all thought, ‘Well, the reason it’s hot is because it’s summer.’ We were just 13 years old.”

Thirteen-year-old Barbara Kent (center) and her fellow campers play in a river near Ruidoso, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, in the hours after the bomb’s detonation. Fallout flakes drifted down that day and for days afterward. “We thought [it] was snow," Kent says. “But the strange thing, instead of being cold like snow, it was hot." Courtesy of Barbara Kent

The flakes were fallout from the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, the world’s first atomic bomb detonation. It took place at 5:29 a.m. local time atop a hundred-foot steel tower 40 miles away at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, in Jornada del Muerto valley.

The site had been selected in part for its supposed isolation. In reality, thousands of people were within a 40-mile radius, some as close as 12 miles away. Yet all those living near the bomb site weren't warned that the test would take place. Nor were they evacuated beforehand or afterward, even as radioactive fallout continued to drop for days.

The Trinity test took place at 5:29 a.m. local time on July 16, 1945. It was three to five times more powerful than its creators had anticipated, producing heat 10,000 times greater than the surface of the sun. The explosion cloud may have reached a height of 70,000 feet. Photograph By Science History Images/ Alamy

In 1990, the U.S. Congress passed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), which has since dispensed over two billion dollars to more than 45,000 nuclear workers and “downwinders”—a term describing people who have lived near nuclear test sites conducted since World War II and may have been exposed to deadly radioactive fallout.

But those exposed during the Trinity test and its aftermath have never been eligible.

For years, Senator Ben Ray Lujan, a Democrat from New Mexico, and other members of Congress have attempted to amend RECA, due to expire on July 11, 2022. In light of this looming deadline, on September 22, Lujan, along with Senator Mike Crapo, Republican of Idaho, and eight co-sponsors introduced Senate bill S. 2798 to extend RECA and expand it to make those in the estimated Trinity fallout zone eligible, as well as other downwinder communities in Colorado, Idaho, and Montana. The proposed legislation also would expand eligibility for people who have worked in uranium mines and mills or transported uranium ore. Also on September 22, Representative Teresa Leger Fernandez and 15 co-sponsors introduced a similar bill, H.R. 5338, in the House.

The plutonium bomb—nicknamed the Gadget—was set atop this hundred-foot steel tower, which vaporized in the explosion. "From the Trinity test,” a 2010 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report noted, “it was learned that detonating a nuclear explosive device [that] close to the ground increases the radioactive fallout from the event." Photograph Via CORBIS/Getty

Manhattan Project leaders—including General Leslie Groves (center) and, to his right, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer—scrutinize the remnants of the tower at ground zero. Upon seeing the detonation, Oppenheimer thought of a line from the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Photograph Via CORBIS/Getty

“The fact that there had not been a recognition of the impact of the very first atomic detonation in New Mexico was really simply wrong,” says Representative Teresa Leger Fernandez, a Democrat from New Mexico and co-sponsor of the House bill. “We hear their voices, we see their pain, and we must act.”

This is an especially urgent and consequential moment for those living in Trinity’s estimated fallout zone—some of whom have been waiting 76 years to be acknowledged. “We have been denied justice long enough,” says Bernice Gutierrez, who was a newborn when the bomb exploded. Her family lived in Carrizozo, about 50 miles from the blast site. “It’s not like we haven’t given our all to our country. What more can you give?”

‘A Very Serious Hazard’

The blast from the plutonium implosion device, nicknamed the Gadget, produced heat 10,000 times greater than the surface of the sun and was significantly more powerful than its creators had expected. It carried aloft hundreds of tons of irradiated soil and sent a mushroom cloud up to 70,000 feet in the sky. In this experimental atomic detonation, only three of the 13 pounds of plutonium at the bomb’s center underwent fission. The rest dispersed in the fallout cloud.

A tiny fraction of that three pounds of plutonium—about the weight of a raisin—was enough to release “three times the destructive force of the largest conventional bomb used in World War II,” says Robert Alvarez, associate fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies and former senior policy advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Energy. (The Gadget released an explosive force equivalent to about 21,000 tons of TNT.)

Right after detonation, the cloud divided into three parts. One part drifted east, another to the west and northwest, and the rest to the northeast, across a region a hundred miles long and 30 miles wide, “dropping its trail of fission products” the entire way, according to a 2010 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The fallout eventually spread over thousands of square miles and was detected as far away as Rochester, New York.

Nineteen counties in New Mexico were in the downwind area, including 78 towns and cities, and dozens of ranches and pueblos. Radiation levels near homes in some “hot spots” reached levels “almost 10,000 times what is currently allowed in public areas,” according to the CDC.

“There is still a tremendous quantity of radioactive dust floating in the air,” wrote Stafford Warren to U.S. Army General Leslie R. Groves, head of the Manhattan Project, five days after the blast. Warren, the project’s chief medical officer, added that “a very serious [radiation] hazard” existed within a 2,700-square-mile area downwind of the test.

He also advised that future atomic tests be done only where there were no people within a radius of 150 miles. (Nearly half a million people in New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico lived within a 150-mile radius of the Trinity test.)

“We didn’t know what the hell we were doing,” Louis Hempelmann—the director of the Los Alamos Health Group, a team tasked with managing radiation within the Manhattan Project—reflected in a 1986 interview uncovered by sociologist James L. Nolan, Jr., in his book Atomic Doctors. “Nobody had had any experience like this before, and we were just hoping that the situation wouldn’t get terribly sticky.”

The leaders of the Manhattan Project knew that civilians had been “probably overexposed,” Hempelmann said. “But they couldn’t prove it and we couldn’t prove it. So we just assumed that we got away with it.”

Many civilians living within the estimated fallout zone were unwittingly exposed and sickened. According to Alvarez, even minute quantities of plutonium can inflict disease. “Particles of plutonium less than a few microns in diameter can penetrate deep in the lungs and lymph nodes and can also be deposited via the bloodstream in the liver, on bone surfaces, and in other organs,” he says. “If inhaled, extremely small amounts can lead to cancer.”

How is it, asks Senator Lujan, that RECA covered people living downwind of the Nevada Test Site but left out “the community where the first nuclear bomb was tested on American soil? There’s not been a good answer given to me nor to the downwinders in New Mexico. There’s no question of the exposure that resulted from the Trinity test.”

The explosion seared the desert sand surrounding the tower into a green, glass-like substance, named Trinitite. Photograph Via Bettmann/Getty

Something Felt Terribly Awry

Several people living near the test site later reported that they thought they were experiencing the end of the world. The strange, snowlike substance that fell from the sky for days coated everything: orchards, gardens, livestock, as well as cisterns, ponds, and rivers—the main sources of drinking water because local groundwater was “unsuitable for human consumption,” according to the 2010 CDC report.

One family in Oscuro, New Mexico, about 45 miles from the site, hung wet bedsheets in their windows against the fallout. They felt that something was terribly awry when their chickens and their dog died. Thirty miles away from ground zero, along Chupadera Mesa, burns appeared on the hides of cattle, whose fur eventually grew back gray and white in the burned patches.

A health care provider in Roswell, a hundred miles away, noted a surge in infant deaths there—35 in August 1945 alone. When she wrote to Warren, stating her concerns, his medical assistant replied that there were no “pertinent data” and assured her that “the safety and health of the people at large is not in any way endangered.”

“They Lied To Us. I Didn’t Learn The Truth Until Years Later.” — BatbaraKent, Trinity Test Survivor

For General Groves, getting the bomb ready—in secrecy—for wartime use had trumped all other considerations, including public safety.

Yet he realized that a blast whose flash was seen in at least three states and two countries could not be wholly concealed. He ordered the commanding officer of the Alamogordo Air Base to feed a cover story to the Associated Press that “a remotely located ammunition magazine containing a considerable amount of high explosives and pyrotechnics exploded.” There had been, the report went on, “no loss of life or injury.” Local newspapers reprinted the announcement without challenge.

Barbara Kent recalls that the day after the explosion, her camp’s dance instructor took the girls into Ruidoso, where government officials were to make an announcement about the source of the blast.

“It was so crowded downtown—everyone was shoulder to shoulder,” Kent says. “What they told us—there was an explosion at a dump. They said, ‘No one worry about anything, everything’s fine, just go along with your own business.’ Everyone was confused. Some people believed it, but some people thought they couldn’t imagine that a dump explosion would do this." She continues: "They lied to us. I didn’t learn the truth until years later.”

As time passed, Kent says she began to hear disturbing reports that her fellow campers were falling ill. By the time she turned 30, she says, ��I was the only survivor of all the girls at that camp.” She adds that she has suffered from lifelong illnesses: She had to have her thyroid removed and has survived several forms of cancer, including endometrial cancer and “all kinds of skin cancers.”

In this photograph from 1962, three-year-old Tina Cordova (bottom right) is pictured with her father, Anastacio (holding her baby brother, Matthew), and mother Rosalie. The young family lived in Tularosa, about 40 miles from the blast site. Everything they ate, Tina recalls, “was raised or grown or hunted," adding that the bomb’s “ash got everywhere, in the soil, in the water—everything was contaminated." She says her mother and father developed cancers, and she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer when she was 39. Courtesy of Anastacio and Rosalie Cordova

Tina Cordova is a fifth-generation resident of Tularosa, about 40 miles from the blast site. Thanks to an extensive ditch system in the area, the town was an oasis in the desert, and Cordova’s family’s home, like many others, had an orchard and garden.

“You could literally go out into your yard in the summer and eat peaches, apricots, cherries, figs, dates, pecans, walnuts—everything you could think of,” she says. Local people harvested and canned their fruit and collected rainwater for drinking from rooftop cisterns. Milk came from local dairies. People made their own butter and butchered farmyard animals or hunted wild animals for meat, including deer, quail, rabbit, and pheasant.

“Everything that people were consuming in 1945 was contaminated,” Cordova says. “But they didn’t know [the fallout was] dangerous. They went about their lives.”

After the test, she says, health problems began to plague her family, all of whom lived in and around Tularosa. According to Cordova, two of her great-grandfathers died of stomach cancer, and both of her grandmothers developed cancer. Two aunts had breast cancer, and one died from it. A cousin developed a brain tumor. Her mother had mouth cancer, and her sister has skin cancer. Her father, who was four at the time of the blast, suffered from various cancers, including prostate cancer and tongue cancer. Doctors had to remove part of his tongue and his lymph nodes. The cancer eventually spread to his neck and became inoperable. Cordova says he weighed about 125 pounds at his death in 2013 at the age of 71. She says that she herself was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 1997, when she was 39.

‘When Are They Going To Hold Our Government Accountable?’

After the U.S. leveled Hiroshima with a uranium bomb on August 6, 1945, the secret history of the creation of atomic weapons was released and widely publicized. Many New Mexicans now realized that the blast that had shattered their windows and blanketed their homes in warm ash was not, after all, an ammunition dump explosion. Although they still hadn't been informed by the government about the nature of that ash or monitored for adverse health effects, they were encouraged to be proud of the part they’d unknowingly played in bringing about the dramatic new atomic age.

“When I was a child, the government fed us propaganda about how much pride we should take in the part we played in ending World War Two,” Cordova says. “We still did not know what that meant from a health consequence perspective. Our mom actually took us to the [Trinity] site for a picnic. We brought home as much Trinitite as we could and played with it.” (The Trinity Site is now a National Historic Landmark, open to visitors twice a year, and anyone can go online and buy radioactive fragments of Trinitite—a green glass created from sand and other materials that melted in the immediate blast zone.)

The U.S. Army erected this monument at ground zero in 1965. Ten years later, the National Park Service designated Trinity Site as a National Historic Landmark. It’s open to visitors twice a year, on the first Saturdays in April and October. Photograph By Tony Korody, SYGMA Via Getty

In 2004, Cordova read a letter from another Tularosa resident, Fred Tyler, to the editor of a local newspaper. She says that the letter changed her life. “He said, ‘When are they going to hold our government accountable for the damage they did to us?’ ” Cordova says. “I called him and said, ‘I feel the same way you do. It’s time to start an organization to more fully push the government about this issue.’ ”

In 2005, Cordova and Tyler founded the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium (TBDC) as an advocacy organization for Trinity test downwinders.

At that time, she recalls, they weren’t aware that the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act had been in place for 15 years and already had provided onetime, $50,000 compensation to other downwinders who “may have developed cancer or other specified diseases after being exposed to radiation from atomic weapons testing or uranium mining, milling, or transporting.” Downwinder eligibility initially was limited to those within specified areas around the Nevada Test Site, 65 miles north of Las Vegas, where a hundred aboveground tests were conducted before a moratorium on atomic testing took effect in 1992.

In 2000, an amendment to RECA expanded eligibility to include some uranium miners and millers in New Mexico. Military and government workers who were “on-site participants” in the Trinity test were also eligible for compensation, but civilian downwinders remained ineligible.

Cordova, like Senator Lujan, says she has “never been able to get a straight answer” about why civilian downwinders were excluded from the legislation: “Even from people who were serving in Congress at the time, I’ve been told, ‘Well, no one was connecting the dots that anybody was harmed.’ ”

Bill Richardson—a Democrat who served as New Mexico’s governor from 2003 to 2011 and was a representative for the state’s Third Congressional District in 1990 when RECA was enacted—says, “I don’t think there was opposition [to their inclusion], just perhaps a lack of awareness. I didn’t know about their claims until I started reading about it when I was governor, and I was sympathetic.”

To raise awareness, Cordova and her colleagues at the consortium began to gather testimonies from and distribute health surveys to downwinders who were alive at the time of the Trinity test, along with their descendants who have lived in areas surrounding the test site. To date, the consortium has collected more than 1,000 surveys, and Cordova says that 100 percent of those questioned describe adverse health conditions—from thyroid disease to brain cancer—that can result from radiation exposure. Often participants describe similar cancers that have ravaged many family members over several generations.

‘A Now-or-Never Moment’

Cordova describes this effort to extend and expand RECA as a “now-or-never moment.” Senator Mike Crapo, an Idaho Republican and co-sponsor of the Senate bill, says there’s a “dire need for Congress to extend RECA … [and] to include victims in states across the West.”

“It is beyond time for the federal government to right a past wrong that caused harm to countless innocent Americans,” he wrote in a letter on March 24, 2021, to the chairman and members of the House Judiciary Committee.

“We Hear Their Voices, We See Their Pain, and We Must Act.” — TeresaLeger Fernandez, Representative to Congress, New Mexico

“When [RECA] was first introduced, no one considered the impact on the first downwinders,” Representative Fernandez says. “But we are in a place now where we recognize an injustice when we see it.” Her family lived in San Miguel and Guadalupe Counties in New Mexico, areas of potential exposure. She says her mother and sister—both nonsmokers—died of lung cancer. Her father died of esophageal cancer, she says, and her grandmother, who grew up near the Trinity site, died of leukemia.

Fernandez and Lujan say they’re also going to push for new epidemiological and environmental studies of the Trinity test’s aftermath and possible long-term effects.

Assessing Trinity’s exact “fingerprint” based on current fallout levels is “complicated and subject to large uncertainties,” says health physicist Joseph Shonka, co-author of the 2010 CDC report. He notes that residents of New Mexico have higher positive plutonium levels in their tissues than residents of any other state but says that tracing those levels back specifically to Trinity fallout might be difficult.

New Mexicans also may have internalized plutonium from various additional sources, he says, including general global fallout, releases from New Mexico’s Los Alamos plutonium operations, and fallout that drifted down from Nevada’s Test Site. The CDC recommended prioritizing Trinity’s aftermath for future studies.

Last year, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) released its findings from a nearly seven-year study of the Trinity nuclear test. The study’s lead investigator, Steven Simon, calls it the “most comprehensive study conducted on the Trinity test and its possible ramifications for cancer risks in the estimated fallout area.”

The researchers concluded that up to a thousand people may have developed cancer from the Trinity test fallout and that “only small geographic areas immediately downwind to the northeast received exposures of any significance.” They also said that the “plutonium deposited as a result of the Trinity test was unlikely to have resulted in significant health risks to the downwind population.”

The researchers also acknowledged their study’s limitations. Calculating exposure for those alive at the time of the detonation is “complex and is subject to uncertainties,” Simon explains, “because all of the needed data is not available."

Shonka says the new NCI study “failed to address early fallout adequately.” He says he questions some of the methodology and is preparing a counter-article addressing what he says are inconsistencies with previous findings. Other critics of the NCI study say it doesn’t address ongoing family cancer clusters and the reported 1945 spike in infant deaths in the region, documented in a 2019 paper in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, co-authored by Robert Alvarez.

The NCI responds that its researchers focused on exposures received among “New Mexico residents alive at the time of the test,” and that they didn’t investigate the infant mortality because it was “not a cancer effect.”

Senator Lujan calls the NCI study “limited” and says that he wants to “make sure that there’s accurate data that truly is looking at the exposure that families face.”

“How can someone say that families in proximity to a nuclear blast were not exposed?” he asks. “It goes against everything that I’ve learned and data sets that I’ve seen from different parts of the world where this has happened, whether it’s been from meltdown of nuclear energy generation facilities or where weapons were deployed.”

Lujan continues, “People died as a result of the Trinity test—that’s a fact. People are still suffering—that’s a fact. The U.S. needs to come forward to address this liability, this wrong.”

Cordova says she and her community will be closely watching the RECA bills’ progress. The new legislation asks to expand compensation for individuals from $50,000 to $150,000. But beyond financial restitution, Cordova says, they’re also hoping simply for a government apology.

“We’ve never had an opportunity to live normal lives,” she says. “They can never say that they didn’t know ahead of time that radiation was harmful or that there was going to be fallout. We don’t ask if we’re going to get cancer; we ask when it’s going to be our turn. We are the forgotten collateral damage.”

— Lesley M. M. Blume is a New York Times best-selling historian, journalist, and author of Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World.

[teddywesworl]

😜🗑💵

hi jules

😜 Describe a current WIP without using character names.

you know that bog standard popular-fan-theory fic where one of them is a scary undead creature that fandom really likes to make The Dom in monsterfucking or vampire bitey scenarios? that, but also not that

(no shade to the trope it's popular for a reason i simply enjoy playing the uno reverse card)

2. 🗑What is one fic idea that you loved at first but then scrapped?

listen i keep trashing the touch telepathy soulmates au but then it pulls me back in so idk. i don't like saying never about anything that i really liked at any point

3. 💵 What's one trope that you wouldn't write, except for money?

a year ago i'd have said omegaverse, but. christ. idk it's a non zero now, and that's your fault. UHH bad ending or hurt/no comfort probably. i'd have to be well compensated

[weird-dere]

*poke poke* Hi lovely!! How are you?? Been a hot minute since I said anything to you, and for that I apologize!

Please accept my basket of goodies as an apology. As well, I hope you are willing to sit with me and tell me all about what is new within your life 💛

Oh my, what a delectable assortment of sweets 🥺. How kind of you, my dear 🫶🏾.

Please! Let us sit and enjoy them together? 🩷

I can make us some cocoa (or coffee or tea if you prefer :3) to have along with them uwu.

I am doing okay. Just recently getting over a cold. Feeling better owo. Also have been pretty busy as work has called me in a lot lately (retail position during the holidays, go figure 🎄).

But I mean at least I am compensated with money 💵✨️.

Aside from that, not much has really been happening. Haven't been as active on here in recent times. Idk it's just been that kind vibe lately? Not that it's dead here, but it just kinda feels like it y'know? Maybe it's because I've just been tired. Have felt a little bad cus I haven't been interacting as much with mooties myself.

Something fun tho, I modded my 3ds recently and I feel so cool about it 😎 🎮. And I'm really excited :3. Because of it, I've got more storage on it, I can put custom themes on it, download a whole bunch of games I never got to play on it for free!

(The official eshop you could get digital games from closed down in March of this year and no one is trying to pay scalpers for games that have a physical version).

It's cool cus I get to give my device a new life and can in a way return to a simpler time, have some new experiences and try new things along the way, y'know? Nice little Christmas present for myself I think 😊.

Have gotten gifts for my parents and a couple friends. Looking forward to having them all open their stuff up ☺️. Wanna see them smile ówò.

But yeah. I have been existing and generally trying to rest; hoping for good changes to come forth n such. Always thinking about Ichidere too ofc lol.

(have been more indulgent with that lately as well; it's been lovely 🥰).

How has life been treating you beloved? What is happening in your life, if you don't mind sharing? My ears are open and I am holding your hand UwU 💛💛💛

😘💋💋💋

[rachi-roo]

I'm suing SOMEONE for making me fall in love with this man- You know who you are XD

I'll settle for 10000000$ compensation. 🫴💵

Warning, thirst rant 🤣

Like?! LIKE?! He's been on my mind all damn night 🥹❣️

Look at those fingers 👀 He's got me feeling so Lee and that doesn't happen very often 😭

At the same time, I want to absolutely wreck his shit 😈 I want him begging, crying, sweating

Look at him. Pathetic. The man facking BARKED.

I want him whimpering on my knee 👀..........

I swear the things I'd do to this man 🫠 Respectfully on god on god

[edsbacktattoo]

what I would like to know about this blogger is when are you going to pay the financial and emotional compensation you owe me after losing it over ‘chasing storms’ hmmm????? RIDDLE ME THIS JAMS!!!! THAT FIC HAS ME IN HYSTERICS.

also what’s your favorite color teehee✨

i am but a man of little wealth and i cannot afford to pay my debt. take this in the meantime: 💵💵💵

legit in love with you thank you so much for being in hysterics over it. like it makes me so unbelievably happy. we should have a beach wedding (just like ed and stede lol) ❤️‍🔥💖💕❣️

also I cycle through my favourite colour all the time!! but these are the ones i always circle back to

thank you Kaitlin!!! ♥️

[tinogiehd]

Girl why are all my asks to u hits I need some financial compensation -🌻

i have a dollar 💵 <- here

[claviussolutions]

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[lockamylawyers]

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Veterinary Production Pay. Attorney Robert Chelle discusses the topic. #shorts Dive into the world of production pay in veterinary medicine with our informative video, 'Veterinary Production Pay.' This is a must-watch for veterinarians, veterinary associates, and practice managers seeking a thorough understanding of production-based compensation models. Learn how production pay works, its benefits and challenges, and how it can impact your earnings and career growth in the veterinary field. 🔍 Key Highlights: Detailed explanation of what production pay means in a veterinary context. Analysis of how production pay affects a veterinarian's income and work incentives. Tips for effectively managing and maximizing earnings under a production pay model. 💵 Why Understanding Production Pay Matters: For veterinarians, comprehending production pay is crucial for career planning and financial management. This compensation model offers opportunities for growth and success, but it's important to navigate it with full awareness of its implications. 👉 Enhance Your Veterinary Career: Subscribe to our channel for more insights into veterinary compensation models and practice management. If you find this video insightful, please like, share, and engage with us in the comments section. 🔗 Stay Connected: Chelle Law 480-716-9030 https://veterinarian-contract-attorney.com/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/veterinarycontractattorney/ info@veterinarian-contract-attorney.com #VeterinaryProductionPay #VetCompensation #VeterinaryCareer #VetPracticeManagement The information contained in this video is provided for informational purposes only and should not be construed as legal advice on any subject matter. You should not act or refrain from acting based on any content included in this video without seeking legal or other professional advice. The contents of this video contain general information and may not reflect current legal developments or address your situation. We disclaim all liability for actions you take or fail to take based on any content on this site. The operation of this site does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and Chelle Law. INCREDIBLE Tips on Understanding Veterinary Production Pay published first on https://www.youtube.com/@chellelaw/

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NAR Settlement - For Buyers And Sellers

The NAR settlement is in the final stages of approval and will likely go into effect in the middle of July 2024.

It is not an understatement when I say that this change to how buyers agents are being compensated will introduce chaos into the real estate world until the systems in place adapt to this new reality.

BUYERS HIT HARDEST

These changes will leave Buyers having to directly pay their agents themselves. However, none of the current systems in place, including lending, are ready for this change. While it will lead to many more options for buyers in terms of representation, it also introduces risks to Buyers that they are likely not going to be aware of.

SELLERS MAY NOT BE OFF THE HOOK

While the new rules prevent Sellers from openly offering compensation to Buyers agents, there are methods that can be used for Sellers to contribute to "Closing Costs", which would then be used to compensate Buyers agents. Why would Sellers do this? The bottom line is that it will get their property more attention and also insure that their Buyer has representation that can protect the Seller for future litigation.

  FASTEN YOUR SEATBELT

The bottom line is that we are about to see a complete upending of how the real estate market works and it will take at least a year for this work out. In the meantime, an already difficult market for buyers will become even more difficult to navigate.

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[evolvacademy]

One Billion Euro Release Clause💰 💵: Can this be True? On 2 October, Barcelona included a 1 Billion Euro 💵 release clause in the new contract with a young talented played named Lamine Yamal. 

Lamine shall now stay at the club until 2026. 

Who is Lamine Yamal?

Lamine Yamal Nasraoui Ebana was born on 10 July, 2007. He is currently only 16 years old. He was born in Barcelona, Spain to a Moroccan father, and a mother from Equatorial Guinea.

He spent his early years training at La Masia. This is  Barcelona's famous youth academy. 

A Young Player Breaking Records 

He was given the opportunity to train with the first team in September, 2022, and made his first team appearance on 29 April, 2023, after replacing Gavi in the 83rd minute in a game against Real Betis. 

Barcelona won the game 4 - 0.

He also made his first start for Barcelona in August, 2023, in 2 - 0 win against Cádiz, becoming Barca's youngest ever starter in the process. 

He became the youngest player to receive a call-up for Spain's senior men's team 🇪🇸 in a game against Georgia 🇬🇪. 

He was also the youngest player to score in a 7 - 1 victory in the EURO 2024 qualifier.

On 4th October, Lamine was the youngest player to start a Champions League game in a match between Barcelona v Porto. Barca won the game 1 - 0.Image: Lamine Yamal playing in Champions League game against Porto

At 16 years and 63 days, he beats the previous record held by Celestine Babayaro of 16 years and 86 days, who was playing for Belgium club R. S. C. Anderlecht. 

The One Billion Euro Release Clause 

When taking into consideration what this Lamine has achieved at such an early age, it may not come as surprise that Barcelona wanted to protect this player from being lured to another club.  

On 2nd October, Lamine and Barcelona reached an agreement to extend his contract until 2026. In order to ensure that the player remains at the club, Barca inserted a 1 Billion Euro Release Clause in his contract. 

What Does This Mean for Barca?

Following the inclusion of the release clause, any club interested in signing Lamine (during the contract period) must first obtain the consent of Barcelona to approach the player. If the consent is provided, the club interested in signing him would have to persuade Lamine (through his Representative) to join their club. If Lamine agreed, the buying club would active the Release Clause by paying Barcelona handsomely for the player. 

This would ensure that Barcelona are adequately compensated for the time and resources spent training the player.

Is this the first 1 Billion Euro 💵 Release Clause?

In fact, Lamine is the tenth Barcelona player with a €1 Billion release clause inserted in the player - club contract to protect their players from being approached or even poached. The other players are:

📝 Alejandro Balde (contract until 2028), 

📝 Ferran Torres (2027), 

📝 Raphinha (2027), 

📝 Jules Kounde (2027), 

📝 Pedri (2026), 

📝 Ronald Araujo (2026), 

📝 Gavi (2026), 

📝 Darvich (in the reserve team and under contract until 2027)

📝Ansu Fati (currently on loan with Brighton).

Maybe we'll see the first €1 Billion Euros paid for a player soon. What do you think?

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🤔Should CEOs of any sized company in the US be paid millions, when the President makes only $400K?

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[geeknik]

The Nostr Decentralized Social Media Protocol: Changing the Social Media Game Forever!

Introduction:

Hey, fellow Tumblr enthusiasts! 👋🏻 We live in a world where social media has become our second home, connecting us all in the most awesome ways. But let's be real, traditional social media platforms have their fair share of problems. Privacy? Psshhh, that's a myth! Censorship? Ugh, it's like they're trying to control our minds. But fear not, dear Tumblrians, because the Nostr Decentralized Social Media Protocol is here to give us the freedom and power we've been longing for! 🤙🏻

What's the Scoop on the Nostr Decentralized Social Media Protocol?

Picture this: a social media platform that's not owned by some big shot corporation, where we aren't the product being sold, and where we can truly own and control our own data. 🤯That's where the Nostr Protocol swoops in to save the day like a superhero with a Tumblr blog!

How Does it Work?

Nostr operates using this magical thing called blockchain. It's like a fancy spider web of information, spread across tons of computers instead of being locked away in some secret lair. This means our data is super secure and can't be tampered with. No more shady data breaches, friends! 🥳

What's even cooler is that we get rewarded with cryptocurrency 🪙 tokens called sats, or satoshis, for doing what we love most on social media - creating, sharing, and engaging with content. Cha-ching! We finally get to monetize our Tumblr-worthy skills and make some dough while we're at it!

Why Should We Jump on the Nostr Bandwagon?

1. Privacy and Ownership - Nostr believes in our right to privacy. Say goodbye to those creepy targeted ads and hello to owning and controlling your own data like the Tumblr royalty you are! 😎

2. Stick it to Censorship - Remember when Tumblr underwent that whole debacle with NSFW content? Yeah, not cool. With Nostr, there's no central authority telling us what we can or cannot post. We can be as wild and free as the rebellious spirit of Tumblr itself! 🔥

3. Transparency and Trust - We've had enough of shady algorithms and secret manipulations. Nostr uses none of that wizardry to provide transparency and to ensure that what you see is what you get. You can trust the Nostr Protocol more than you trust your favorite Tumblr aesthetic. 🤳

4. Cash in on Your Awesomeness - Did someone say money? Yup! Nostr empowers creators like us to earn cryptocurrency for our mad skills. Finally, the time has come for the GIF-making, fanfic-writing, meme-loving Tumblr community to get the recognition and compensation we deserve! 💵

5. Power to the People - No more feeling like a voice in the wilderness. With Nostr, we get a say in the platform's evolution! We can shape the future of Nostr and make it our own little slice of Tumblr heaven. 🦄

Conclusion

Hey, Tumblr fam, it's time to break free from the chains of traditional social media! The Nostr Decentralized Social Media Protocol is here, flaunting its blockchain prowess and promising us a world where privacy reigns, censorship bows down, and we get paid for being our awesome, creative selves. So, grab your GIFs, sharpen your wit, and let's jump on the Nostr bandwagon together. The revolution is here, and we're leading the charge! ⚡️

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