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[creepy-crowleys]

You were tied between multiple signs of the zodiac.

A three-way tie with my actual sign as one of the leaders - that works out pretty well.

Cancer - Emotional, protective, creative. Your true zodiac sign is Cancer. Naturally intuitive and empathic, you are deeply in touch with emotions and naturally pick up on the energies of others. You feel emotions very deeply, probably to the point where you have had to learn to be protective of your private sphere and the things you are genuine and sincere about. Like the crab that represents your zodiac sign, you have learned to shield your sensitivity around strangers, only revealing your compassionate and gentle nature to those who are close to you. Loyalty and commitment are virtues of yours and, as a rule, there is nothing you would not do for your loved ones. Conflict with others is something that you seek to avoid, as you prioritize harmony and peace and a space to be at ease. With your intuitive and caring temperament, creative outlets such as music, writing, or painting will often be vessels through which you channel your passionate energies as well as a source of deep inspiration for you and others.

Virgo - Analytical, diligent, modest. Your true zodiac sign is Virgo. Detail-oriented and organized, you make the necessary arrangements to have things done right the first time around and strive not to leave anything to chance. Your need for perfection occasionally leads to you become bogged down in detail and lose sight of the bigger picture. However, you always manage to find your way back to the larger perspective where you are in balance with yourself. Intelligent and hardworking, you are a lifelong learner who seeks out new opportunities to learn and marvel at the sum of human creativity. You prefer a tranquil, down-to-earth lifestyle without too many dramatic hiccups, and feel the most at ease when you have clearly defined goals that you know how to work toward. Though you may come off as shy or reserved around strangers, this is really due to your tendency to weigh whether someone is worthy of your energy, friendship, and trust. Serving others is important to you, but the friendships you invest in have to be genuine.

Aquarius - Logical, intelligent, sincere. Your true zodiac sign is Aquarius. Quiet on the outside, you enjoy a rich and contemplative life on the inside. You often find yourself lost in thought as to how things could be improved. While your energy might come across as reticent and reserved - perhaps even slightly aloof - you are actually extremely passionate and idealistic about the causes you believe in. Often these causes may be considered radical or too innovative by others, but you do not champion such ideas to be a firebrand or because you want to stir up debate. Instead, you are motivated by a social awareness which, combined with your depth of thought, means that you approach any interaction from a place of equanimity and open-mindedness. Sensing your sincerity, people are drawn to you because of these traits, especially when they need your help as a problem solver, mentor, or guide.

[aelaer]

[1/2] Now this is an actual ask as in asking for help. 👀 I have a problem with Steve and Tony. I spent too much time too early on reading anti/not-friendly post-CW fics about 'Team Cap', and because of that I have been unable to see Tony as a flawed human or Steve as a good person. It's a pattern I've become too familiar with, and even recent stories are often going into that sense. I have been trying for some time now to do something about it, but either the method was bad, or I couldn't

(I tagged a couple people in this post – if you were tagged, the question directed to you is wayyyy at the bottom! Feel free to ignore of course.)

You really hit me with a doozy with this ask. I might offend someone for not thinking the exact same way as them with… everything this topic entails… Steve, Tony, anti-fics. Followers from last year know what happened last time I talked about poor and OOC characterization in fanfic, lmao. Beware The Easily Offended! This Is A Critical Thinking Of Your Hobby Zone! I Am Being Critical Of Specific Types of MCU Fanfic!

Please don’t click the read more button if you can’t handle an opinion that might not match yours. Really. I’m fine with discussing different opinions in a mature manner but if you have issues with people saying they don’t like a specific type of plot, this post is not for you. (The read more button doesn’t appear on the original post for followers using the mobile app, but it works on desktop and in all reblogs. If you don’t see a cut and don’t want to read, just skip it, please).

Yeah. Okay. Moving on. Can’t say folks weren’t warned.

I’ve had this in my drafts for several weeks because of the abuse I got the last time I wrote something critical about certain plot points used in fanfic. I was definitely a bit reluctant to look at this specific topic from an analytical and critical look as I remembered that, but hey, it’s really easy for a coward to use a sockpuppet account and throw abuse. It’s harder to be a minority voice with stark opinions contrasting the popular trend. I’m okay with having a minority opinion amongst the MCU fandom.

(PS - you’re welcome to disagree with my opinions, so long as you’re respectful about it. Remember there are individuals behind the screens!)

Concerning Character Flaws

So the thing about really well-written characters is that they are flawed in some manner. Anyone who thinks Tony or Steve exist without flaws – and I mean real flaws, like arrogance, believing they’re always right, short tempers, and other *real* character flaws that both of these characters have – well, if they don’t think they exist with these flaws, how well do they know the character?

You don’t have to know a character well to be a fan of said character – there’s no rules about that – but if you’re going to write fanfic, and that fanfic entails the character you love against a character you don’t particularly like, I’d say any writer looking to do anything resembling a good job would do their due diligence in figuring out the strengths and weaknesses of both characters before writing the characters themselves. These mental lists of characteristics should be equal for both characters. No,��“good abs” is not a character strength if you have no physical aspects in the other character strength column. You don’t have to like a character to still write them well.

Even professionals don’t follow this rule when, say, shows get new writers or comics get different writers, so you might consider me silly expecting those dabbling in fan fiction. But yeah, if an author wants me to take a story seriously as something with quality, I expect the characters to resemble themselves in some manner.

(This level of resemblance varies when you purposefully choose for the protagonist to be evil, be in a completely different time period, etc, but authors who do this *well* still get core personality traits solid, even if morality is out the window or the profession is entirely different. I have a lot of examples from the Sherlock fandom of total AUs that pull this off well – haven’t read nearly enough AUs in the MCU to have a good collection here).

But a resemblance of character, of capturing the three-dimensionality of a character, is what anti-fics simply fail to achieve. The characters they’re anti against usually suffer cases of Flanderization, if they’re not completely out of character altogether in showing traits that were never displayed in the canon, ever. I don’t know why anyone would be interested in such stories, myself, and remain baffled at their popularity. Is there some sort of enjoyment in seeing such a 2D rendition of a character in what is otherwise meant as a serious work and provides absolutely no sense of proper conflict between two characters? Not for me; it immediately takes me out of the story and when it gets too much, I abandon the story. It’s just not enjoyable for me. Turning a canon protagonist into a strawman is just lazy writing and offers nothing to the writer’s favorite, preferred character.

Concerning Steve’s and Tony’s Flaws

Every real human being has some sort of personality flaw that is decidedly unattractive. Some people are really good at showing it very rarely (and are some of the best human beings), but with these two characters we see them at their greatest heights and lowest of lows. Ironically, they actually share a lot of the same flaws, but display them in different manners in canon:

Both men believe they are the best man for the job and will do it without consulting someone who could actually fight against it - or go completely against them. Tony with Ultron is the easy example here. He’s the smartest man in the world and can tackle the issue of protecting it on its own. Steve, same issue, and his job is “helping Bucky”. *He’s* the one who can handle Bucky, the only one who can handle him - big thing in both WS and CW. If both of them had utilized their friends and allies a lot more, a lot of issues could have been avoided.

Both men are sometimes hypocritical. Steve promotes teamwork in all his speeches but again with the Bucky situation. Just… everything Bucky, man. Tony signs the Accords and immediately goes against them with what he gives to Peter, who most assuredly did not sign them (tangent: if he HAD joined the Avengers at the end of Homecoming, I have no idea how that would have gone since Peter would have had to reveal his identity to the UN and then there’s the whole ‘still a minor’ thing, and yeah, Homecoming’s end scene just makes me go nuts). But anyway, their occasional hypocrisy is one of the most realistic aspects of them because most human beings are hypocritical sometimes.

Both men are sometimes arrogant. Tony’s self-explanatory with his genius-playboy-philanthropist-billionaire. One thing he does not suffer from is low self-esteem in regards to his abilities. His arrogance comes from his genius. Steve’s arrogance lies more in his deep-seeded belief that he is on the moral high ground – and one reason I think a lot of people dislike him so much, because moral superiority is very much a faux pas in this day and age for some millennials and many Gen Z folk. He has a very, very solid sense of what is right and what is wrong, and that rubs some folks the wrong way. Tony is more morally fluid – but he is not by any means immoral.

Both of them have a really solid list of strengths as well. As this ask specifically is looking to find the good in Steve, I specifically Googled pro-Steve articles for you to click at your leisure (and one with both). If you need to go back to canon, I highly recommend rewatching The First Avenger and The Winter Soldier, which introduces Steve brilliantly and then lets Steve grow further in the second film.

(Note: I actually prefer Tony to Steve in terms of personal favoritism, but how a very loud segment of Tony fans have treated other characters has led me to be more vocal about the strengths of others, especially Steve and Wanda. So Tony might be in my top 5, but mean-spirited Tony fans have moved me to be a champion of other characters, if only to show other fans that there are indeed Tony fans that do like the other characters and treat them – and their fans – with respect).

Bringing Balance (to the Universe…) Fanfic-Style

This addresses the second part of your ask in regards to the fanfics. And this is where I started running into trouble, too, mostly because, well, just how many Stephen and Steve fics are there? Yeah, exactly. Stephen’s my main guy. So I did some research, outsourcing, and reading.

Here’s two I knew of before cuz Stephen’s in them in some capacity:

Identity Theft by KitKat992 - it stars Peter and both Tony and Steve play integral parts from what I recall. Good story too, very engaging.

A Dysfunctional Senior Year (series) by ApolloLoki97 - this also stars Peter and has a large Team As Family aspect, so it shows the entire Avengers team as just decent people. My favorite part is naturally part 3 because Stephen comes in that one, haha.

And to find other stories, I went into the Anti-Accords tag. It was nice to find fics that didn’t have such a love of hypocritical authoritarianism. Aannyyyyway.

Making Sense of Chaos by SparkedtoLife - mind the tags. Seriously, it’s heavy duty. Yet another Peter fic because he’s way more popular than my favorite character, qq. Lots of Netflix Marvel characters too! Anyway, deals with not only Tony and Steve really well (and has a different dynamic with Tony that isn’t IronDad, so that was a nice change of pace), it also deals with the Accords situation very realistically. And none of those are even main plot points. If you can handle the very serious, sensitive subject that is the main plot point, I highly recommended it. It’s a very masterfully done work.

Atlas by nanasekei - Stony. Treats all characters with respect and both Tony and Steve as three-dimensional, flawed humans with some serious self doubts. Also highly agree with the author that Thaddeus Ross sucks and is basically one of the biggest people to blame for Everything Going To Shit.

Homecoming by an orphaned account - Some Stucky. This is a lovely one-shot of things I basically wanted to happen when the team got together again but didn’t. Sigggghhh. Everyone is definitely in character in this one, traumas and healing and all. And look, another person realizes that trusting Ross is a really horrible idea.

Locks Not Replaced by Riverdaughter - first this writer has a Tolkien-based username so yay. Anyway, the fic starts off by Tony realizing that he almost killed Steve during the fight with his repulsors, and it was only Bucky that stopped him. Do people seriously think he’d survive a shot to the face with that power? This is one reason the ‘Steve tried to kill Tony’ people piss me the fuck off. What do you think those repulsors shoot, fucking rainbows? Honestly, guys. Anyway, mini rant over. This fic is great. Author comes in with a Cap favoritism but treats Tony well, and honestly Tony turning a blind eye to everything and ignoring Ross is what I like to think happened in canon (he clearly dislikes the guy). And also I love the Robin Hood parallels. Love love love. I think this fic is my favorite of the ones listed in this section.

Meeting Your Heroes by Riverdaughter - naturally after reading that fic I went to explore more and found this gem. She’s not incorrect in saying Tony wasn’t a good mentor at the beginning - I think he had his own growth after Peter’s actions in Homecoming especially (though even through Homecoming he was trying, just… not always successfully lmao). Anyway love these two together. It’s great.

Photograph by slytherclaw420 - A scene we deserved in Endgame and didn’t get. Sigh. Definite IronDad feels here. Hopeful Steve, rebuilding of a friendship.

And uh, an honorable mention of sorts:

Balancing the Scales by MoonFire1 - I’m not recommending this fic for good characterization or plot. It really doesn’t have either. The fic was written in retaliation for the nasty Tony fans completely trashing Steve’s character. You should only read this if you want to see the argument from “the other side” and if you want to see an anti-Tony fic like you’ve seen anti-Steve fics. Don’t harass the author though. This is presented as a counterargument to anti-Steve fiction, for those interested to read the other sides arguments. I don’t like the nature of the fic, but I loathe that “not Steve friendly” has 30 fucking pages of works with tens of thousands of kudos, so one anti-Tony fic (with a comparatively small three pages under that tag) really doesn’t compare. Ugh. I hate the anti culture in this fandom so much. Loathe it. It’s such a nasty energy! Why would you indulge in such negativity? But as I’ve mentioned before, I appreciate authors aware enough to tag it so I can avoid it. I wish that part of fandom culture didn’t exist, but well, can’t change it. Just can criticize the fuck out of it on my blog. Maybe encourage people to think less one-sided in the process if I’m lucky.

But there’s probably more good characterization Steve fics to be found, so I am forcefully recruiting two people via tag:

If you’re looking to dabble into Stony fics with good-guy-Steve, if anyone would know of any, I’d imagine it’d be @babywarg.

You don’t know this person, but @cairistiona7 has actually known me the longest of anyone here on tumblr (half my life! HALF! She even knows my real name :P She betaed a LOTR work of mine a decade ago I ended up never fully publishing… thanks again for all your help there…). Anyway, she’s a big Bucky fan, and Bucky friendships is the best thing. So if anyone would know any wholesome Bucky and Steve stories, it’d be her. (Or really I’d take any of your recs, Cair, as I’ll probably enjoy them as well).

I hope this was helpful to you md, and that I didn’t piss off too many of my followers in the process of answering this lol.

[hurt-spock]

Enforced Rest

McCoy had thought once they got Jim back and were back on the ship everything would be okay.

He was wrong. Jim had experienced a whole new life while he'd been there. And it hadn't been a matter of days, he had lived it for months. A new life, a sense of happiness and completion that he hadn't felt before. He told McCoy it was the happiest he had ever been. 

So when Jim had asked McCoy to let Spock know he needed some time and to continue as he was, McCoy's heart dropped. He couldn't tell a grieving Jim that he was needed on the bridge right now, that Spock had run himself and the ship to breaking point, literally in the ship's case.

Instead, he nodded and told his friend to let him know if there was anything he could do for him. Jim had merely walked away, not saying a word. Not wanting to let any of the crew know that Spock wasn't at his best right now, McCoy called Spock down to sickbay. He arrived quickly, looking a little stricken and McCoy noted that he looked around the room before settling.

“I'm sorry, Jim's fine,” he said, realising his mistake.

Despite the distress it had caused, Spock nodded in understanding. “That is quite alright. How can I help you, Doctor?”

“Jim's quite upset as you can understand. He wants you to stay running the ship for the moment. Honestly, he's not fit for duty right now.”

“Of course,” Spock replied understanding.

“I don't think he even noticed we're on impulse power,” McCoy said. He looked over Spock surreptitiously while the Vulcan was distracted by a nurse passing by. Jim wasn't the only one not fit for duty, in McCoy's opinion. If it hadn't been for the ship's vulnerable state, he would have ordered Spock to stand down too.

“Grief will do that to a person,” Spock lamented. “Was there anything else?”

“That's it,” McCoy said. There was nothing he could do for Spock. No adrenaline boost that he'd have been able to issue had it been Kirk in the same situation. He just had to hope that Spock's amazing stamina held out.

~

Spock heard the door to the turbo-lift open and turned his head slightly.

He recognised the Captain's footfall and knew it was him without turning. The footsteps came beside him and waited.

“Captain,” Spock said.

Kirk was watching from the viewscreen at the ship lazily sailed along. He frowned, confused for a moment.

“We have only impulse power, Captain.”

“Well, is Mister Scott sorting the matter?” Kirk demanded.

“Yes Sir, he is doing all he can to rectify the situation.” Spock insisted. “Mister Scott was well aware of the dangers and consequences of the actions of my orders while in command. He did well to inform me of those dangers, however, I-”

“You did this to my ship? And didn't even think it was worth mentioning?” The gentle fury in those words silenced everyone on the bridge as they all stayed alert to Kirk's mood, working diligently so his ire didn't end up directed at them.

“I believe I just mentioned it, Captain. This is the first time you have returned for duty for me to mention it.” Spock wasn't wrong but the tension in the room seemed to increase dramatically with the words. Spock vacated the Captain's chair as Kirk loomed over him more than ever. When the science officer at Spock's station went to give up the seat, Spock beckoned them back in place.

“My door wasn't locked, Spock,” Kirk spat out, reclaiming his seat. It was a power move as much as anything. To remind everyone who was in charge.

Kirk never liked to be challenged and Spock knew that Kirk would want to prove his relevance and command position after having been absent for so long. Spock would rather that be directed at him than the more sensitive human crew members.

“Seeing as you caused the issue, Mister Spock, why don't you report to engineering and assist Mister Scott in fixing it,” Kirk ordered.

Spock knew, as well as Scott, that there was no fixing their issue. Kirk, despite wanting to regain his authority over the crew had still neglected to ask what the issue was. If he had asked, he too would have known the issue was not one that could be fixed. In Spock's opinion, and given his overtly emotional displays, Spock did not think Kirk was fit to return to duty. However, that wasn't a matter to discuss currently. “Yes, Captain,” Spock said and left the bridge.

The crew on the bridge remained tense and a few of them shared concerned looks to themselves. Uhura was the one who felt the need to say something in Spock's defense. “Captain Kirk, with all due respect Sir, I believe that Mister Spock should not-”

“Lieutenant, when I ask for an opinion from my Communications Officer, it will likely be about a communication issue. Not about how to manage your crew. Understood?”

“Yes Sir,” she replied. She knew there was no sense arguing with Kirk when he was like this, but that didn't mean she had to like it.

~

McCoy didn't expect Spock to stop by sickbay.

“Everything okay?” he asked.

“I have just encountered the Captain on the bridge. I am unsure that he should be on duty. He seems overly emotional and looking for conflict,” Spock informed him.

“Chew you out did he?” McCoy asked and Spock nodded. McCoy sighed. He didn't want Spock to be Captain's punchbag but on the plus side, Spock could get the rest he needed now and that was something. “Don't you worry about it, and get some rest, I'll keep an eye on him. In fact, I'll head up there in a few minutes.”

Spock knew McCoy misunderstood the situation and thought that Spock was relieved of duty and was heading to his quarters. If he told McCoy what Kirk had ordered, the Doctor would make matters worse and he didn't think that was what Jim needed right then. He nodded at McCoy and left, reassured that at least help was on the way for Kirk. He felt the full exhaustion hit him for a moment as he let his control slide for the briefest moment before he got himself back under control.

Engineering was next for him and he headed straight there.  

~

McCoy went to the bridge in the guise of boredom.

He noted how prickly Kirk was and even McCoy's own attempts to tame Kirk's bad mood fell flat. It resulted in Kirk ranting about how the ship was a sitting target, powerless as it was and that he had expected more of his crew. He let the whole bridge revel in a large dose of shared guilt before he called Scotty in engineering to ask for an update.

Scotty was casual about the whole thing. There was nothing he could do and he knew it. Kirk mistook this for a bad attitude about it and demanded that he run every test he could think of in order to get the ship running again. He tried to object but Kirk cut off communications with him, ending it with wanting to only hear from him once they had exhausted every possibility he could think of, no matter how long it took.

McCoy was disturbed by Jim's behaviour but excused himself and decided he would pay him a visit after his shift finished in private. Things might go a little better that way.

~

Spock didn't know what was happening, just that everything seemed a little foggy to him and Mister Scott was walking him down towards his quarters as though escorting an intoxicated friend home from a much regaled 'earth night out'.

Despite himself he could not resist and had to endure the odd looks that the pair received walking along as they were.

Spock felt as though he were walking against a flow of water, each step seemed to be hard work and he couldn't understand what was happening to him.

“Come on, Mister Spock,” Scotty encouraged brightly. “Not much further to go.”

When they turned the last corner before getting to the officer's quarters, McCoy spotted the pair and came over to them. “What's going on here?” he asked, instinctively reaching out to assist Spock who was clearly the one who was struggling.

“Not exactly sure, Doctor. Mister Spock was helping me in engineering-”

“What? You were supposed to be resting,” McCoy interrupted, jabbing a finger into Spock's chest despite himself.

“Aye, and the Captain ordered him to assist me in trying to fix an issue that we can't fix! But he won't listen,” Scotty explained. “Anyway, he fell down and didn't seem like he could get up so well. Or.... speak. So I thought I'd bring him to his quarters and call you,” Scotty finished.

McCoy shot an apologetic look to the engineer. “I'm sorry,” he said. “I'll take it from here.”

“You sure. He's heavier than he looks that one,” Scotty said.

Despite his condition, Spock shot what he hoped was a glare at the engineer. But he was too tired for words.

McCoy helped Spock as they made slow progress towards Spock's quarters. “Is this what happens when a Vulcan reaches its limits?”

Spock's answer was for his legs to buckle underneath him, and McCoy couldn't stop him from falling to the ground. A couple of ensigns walked past and gave an odd look to their First Officer sat on the floor. One of them looked back, guiltily and addressing the Doctor asked: “Do you need-”

“It's fine, I've got this under control, thanks,” McCoy said. He gave Spock a few moments to sit before he asked “You think you can make it the rest of the way?”

Spock gave a tug which McCoy assumed was him attempting to get back to him feet. It got Spock nowhere and McCoy heaved him upwards with great effort, muttering how right Scotty had been.

Spock felt a new sense of guilt hit him but his pragmatic self told him there was nothing he could do about the fact that he had much greater bone density. He put on more of an effort to support himself and soon enough they were inside his quarters. Spock grasped onto furniture to assist him over to the bed where McCoy helped him lay.

Without a word, Spock allowed himself to be sucked into a deep sleep.

~

Kirk had expected McCoy to ask him to come to Spock's quarters, but he quickly guessed why.

He'd called down to Engineering a short while ago and found out that Spock wasn't down there any longer. He was pretty sure that Spock had gone to visit McCoy to tell him what Kirk was doing and they were going to ambush him in private. He was ready for it. He went in ready to fight and it was knocked out of him the second he got there.

McCoy had a chair pulled up beside Spock's bed, monitoring the Vulcan. He couldn't be sick or he'd be in sickbay, Kirk knew that much. “What's going on?” he asked, keeping the harsh edge to his voice.

“Why don't you take a seat,” McCoy offered.

Kirk relented and took another seat without moving it closer to Spock. “Is this going to take long?” Kirk asked.

“I know you're upset Jim. That's why I've left a lot of this slide. I can't imagine how hard that was for you down there, but we went through something up here as well. We didn't know where you were Jim. You could have been dead for all we knew, and because of the asteroid, we had to leave you. Spock had to choose to leave you.”

“I would have done the same thing,” Kirk said.

“Of course, but it doesn't make it easier, does it? The guilt. He pushed so hard to try and stop that asteroid colliding with the planet. He pushed the ship as much as he could desperate to try and solve the issue as best he could. And he failed. We were virtually stranded, low power. It took 59 days for us to get back to you. He wouldn't eat or sleep because he was trying to figure out how to save that planet, but he did it. He worked out the symbols, saved you and the planet. But what did it cost him?”

“He was fine on the bridge earlier.”

That was it. McCoy was through being nice. “No, he wasn't! He was holding himself together so that you had the time you needed to heal despite never once looking outside of your self to see if your crew was okay. Well, he wasn't okay. He needed you. And you failed him.”

Kirk was taken aback by McCoy's harsh words. The anger. “Bones, I-”

“I have nothing else to say to you right now, Captain. If you don't mind, I'm going to monitor my patient.” McCoy turned from Kirk and let him know that for now, the conversation was over.

~

Spock slept well for two hours before waking confused and groggy.

He wasn't sure why McCoy was in his quarters and, honestly, he couldn't remember why he was in his quarters but he knew this wasn't right. Engineering. He was supposed to be helping Mister Scott. The Captain had ordered him to help. He sat up swiftly, McCoy barely being able to stop him but Spock was weak and only managed a few steps before he found himself fighting a losing battle. McCoy wrestled him into a chair rather than having to lift him off of the floor again.

“I- I should be in engineering,” Spock said. He had got out of the habit of resting and now he'd had a little, he thought he was ready to go again.

“No, you're fine,” McCoy said. “But you can eat. It'll make you feel better.”

“I'm no-”

“And don't say you're not hungry! You haven't eaten in two months pretty much. Of course you're not hungry. Your body is used to you starving it.” Spock looked at McCoy with confused brown eyes. “Look, I can understand the need to keep going when your stressed and that for a Vulcan, the lack of sleep and food is a reasonable sacrifice for you. But that stress is over now. You can relax. You did your job and you did it well. Reset that brain back to normal.”

Spock stood up. “I need-”

But he didn't know what he needed. He needed to do something, to be useful. He couldn't just relax. There was always something to be done.

“Lay back down, okay?” McCoy insisted and guided Spock back to the bed. Spock let himself be led to the bed and sat but didn't lay.

McCoy's communicator sounded and he pulled it out. “McCoy,” he said. He was silent for a few seconds before he asked. “Is it an emergency?” He was quickly told about a medical emergency and knew he needed to attend to that first. “I'll be there in a minute,” he said and closed the communicator. “Spock, I have to go for a short while. I'll be back as soon as I can. Just get some rest, okay?”

Spock nodded and watched McCoy go. He stays there a moment before his brain latched onto what McCoy said. There was an emergency on the ship. There was no time to rest.

~

McCoy realised he had a problem with Spock when he returned after his trip to sickbay and found Spock had gone.

He used the ship computer and located him to an empty meeting room. Inside, he found Spock attempting to use the table to get himself up off the floor.

“What part of 'stay here' did you not understand?” McCoy asked.

“You never told me to stay, you told me to get some rest.”

“Well besides from being pedantic, Spock, this is not getting rest,”

“I could not rest,” Spock admitted.

“Then let me help you,” McCoy said. “Let's start by getting you off the floor, huh?” He grabbed hold of Spock under the arms and helped him sit in the chair. “This is what we're going to do. I'm going to get you something to eat. It'll give you a boost of energy. Your exhausted and at least for you, you're weak. That'll probably give you enough energy to be able to get you back to your quarters. Then, we can have a nice discussion about what it is I can do to help you, okay?”

Spock nodded even though McCoy knew he was reluctant. Spock never wanted to be in need but shit happened. He struggled and strained to help Spock up before he left to get something for Spock to eat. He grabbed the only sedative that he knew worked for Spock from sickbay and then headed back. He half expected Spock to have left but was pleased to see he had remained in place this time, although the thought crossed his mind that maybe Spock couldn't move right then.

Spock ate with all the enthusiasm of someone who was eating the last part of a six-course meal. McCoy encouraged him to eat what he could but didn't pressure him to eat any more than he was comfortable with. When Spock pushed the dish away slightly, McCoy knew he was done. He disposed of the bowl of food. “Okay, so, we just need to get you to your quarters and then you can get the rest you need,” McCoy said.

Spock went to answer but was interrupted by the door opening and Kirk stepping inside. He looked at the pair of them in turn and his expression went from remorse to confusion and then anger in quick succession. He scoffed loudly. “I actually believed you,” Kirk said, directing the comment to McCoy. “I actually thought you were being honest with me and I'd been a jerk and then I catch you have clandestine meetings? Maybe you preferred Spock's leadership to mine, huh Bones? Out with the old, in with the new?” Kirk ranted.

“You're ridiculous, Jim! Can you even hear yourself?”

Jim laughed in McCoy's face. “Oh c'mon Bones, you told me he was exhausted, and a few hours later he's looking fit as a fiddle about as far from his quarters as he can be. I'm not that surprised with you Bones, but I am with you, Spock. I thought you had some sense of decency.”

Spock didn't try and defend himself against Kirk's tirade, but once he was finished Spock merely said: “The doctor did not lie.”

“I want to know what's going on,” Kirk demanded.

“I understand now,” Spock said standing. He supported himself on the table as he stood up but did his best not to look weak. It was a matter of pride. “Your anger is with yourself. For what you lost, for the loss of an ordinary life over an extraordinary career. The loss of love, a woman, and a child. A family that you craved. Despite all that loss, it is easier for you to direct your anger out at us than carry it yourself. I understand, Jim.”

McCoy stepped towards Jim. “We're here for you, Jim. You can talk to us.”

“Are you staging some sort of intervention here?” he asked, exasperated.

McCoy's temper flared as quickly as Jim's at the Captain's inability to grasp the fact that this was about Spock and not him. “What is wrong with you Jim? There's no secret agenda here. Not everything is about you and quite frankly, I'm sick of explaining it to you. If I see more of this paranoid behaviour I'm going to-” But McCoy didn't get to finish that thought as Spock went crashing to the ground behind him.

~

McCoy and Kirk had carried Spock to sickbay. McCoy said that although he wasn't greatly concerned about Spock's condition, he did just need rest and food, sickbay was a lot closer than Spock's quarters.

McCoy could see guilt plainly visible of Jim's face and he insisted on staying with Spock while McCoy got some rest. He had three short hours before he relieved Jim, telling him that he needed his own rest to tend to the ship's needs. Kirk nodded sadly as he headed out, pausing at the door. “Do you think it would be okay if I stopped by after my shift?” he asked.

“Sure,” McCoy said. “But he'll likely be sedated. I want to make sure he gets the rest he needs this time. Sometimes that means taking drastic measures.”

Kirk nodded and hesitated. “He did this for me?”

McCoy knew what Jim was asking. “It's his job and he would die to carry out his duties to the best of his abilities, you know that.” Bones considered it a little more. “And besides from you, there was a planet of people that would have died.” McCoy sat down beside Spock's bed. “I don't think I helped much. I was on his case all the time. About leaving you on that planet about the asteroid. Scotty was pretty miffed about what he did to the ship, too. We all pushed him in different ways. And he did his best. He made the only decisions he could have made.”

“I just hope that he ends up understanding that,” Kirk said.

“He does. He was logical as ever. It's just when things aren't going how you'd hoped, you doubt whatever motivates you. Logic, love, fury.”

Kirk looked at the peacefully resting First Officer. “I'll sign him off duty for a week. If you need longer, you've got it.” Kirk turned to leave.

“Oh, and Jim? How about you come down to my office after your shift tomorrow and we can have a proper discussion about what happened to the two of you over the last couple of months. I think it might do some good.”

Jim smiled. “I think so too.” This time he left.

McCoy turned back to Spock checking the fluids were working correctly. He picked up the hypo ready to administer it.

“Really Doctor, is that quite necessary?” Spock asked.

McCoy pressed the hypo against Spock's neck. “You bet your ass it is.”

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How can Marketing be done post COVID?

In these current times you spent more time with your loved ones, not because you chose to do it, but because nature forced you to? These are strange times when we think about what might happen and find ways to cope with the new ways of life that have arised from the ongoing global crisis.

While the Covid-19 Coronavirus is rapidly spreading around the world, regardless of national boundaries, class, or gender, communities around the world are seeing a complete reshaping of "life as we know it." In this time, the marketing, which always focuses on remaining relevant through the use of trending topics, sees itself in a conflict. Not dying to create the Coronavirus could make the sound of the brand out of contact, but talking about the virus for the best of it may find insensitive.

As we move towards unlocking 4.0, more and more companies have started spending on digital media. It's time to catch up with the break-in in the first few months of closure. Consumers have opened up to experimentation and brand loyalty has been negotiated for stock availability. That's where performance marketing comes in. However, the old way of running automated campaigns and offering on the keyword will be sufficient. There will be a demand for performance marketing 2.0 - human-centered strategic performance marketing and not just data and guided platforms.

Change happening in the Marketing Strategies

Research shows that consumers expect more full awareness of Marketing Agency in Mumbai during these test periods when dealing with the bigger problem than being opportunistic. They expect brands to communicate around the company's goals and values. This trend is expected to continue after the pandemic.

It is to be expected that the established brands will switch to empathic communication instead of product push strategies in order to network with consumers on a deeper level. On the contrary, small brands and new-age startups will focus on the lower content of the funnel to push for direct results. Regardless of the brand year, the age of "catching with the smile" has really occurred and alone will determine the success of brands.

Not to put a hold on the ongoing Marketing activities

It is clear that the general public health crisis and the drastic changes in purchasing behavior caused by Coronavirus have led the economy to a slowdown. Indeed, the economic effects of Coronavirus should persist long after the last patient is treated. While businesses have been affected in all sectors, the biggest blow has undoubtedly been to the tourism and hospitality and restaurant sectors. The following graph best illustrates this.

Learning from the experiences in current scenarios

It's about the people. Passionate and innovative teams usually find a way. They are educated on the goal and the energy. So when all systems are in lockdown, one depends on the ingenuity and motivation of the human mind.

The courage and commitment of the professionals on the front line, who ran against time to serve society tirelessly, is unprecedented. This includes factory staff, service and administrative staff, sales and sales staff, and many others who have worked diligently to help produce the products and connect them to the market to help respond to the rise in demand.

Reviewing the pre-COVID campaigns and strategies

Campaigns that would otherwise have been lit in green to present oblique topics and be "off the beaten track" will pause. Human psychology suggests that people like normality, the status quo in practice, but lie moments of victory against adversity. All that seemed banal and boring were the ones we want to find in our lives. The daily course, the administration of these meetings and the conversation with the people in person are what we are looking for. Like the evolution of homosapie, brands will also have to evolve.

Today, the essential needs of food, water, heat and security (if possible digitally provided) are the immediate concerns of the planet. It will take time for normality or the way we lived before to be born. But if it's time, the brands will put themselves in pole position. In the meantime, this is the new normal we will be living in till there is a cure.

Steer clear from scare tactics

With so much false information making the rounds, it is important that the brands remain true to the official facts of the world's major health organizations. Given the enormous reach and influence that each brand has, it is critical that we evaluate every element of information we submit. Brands also need to closely monitor the tone of their communications.

Doomsday-esque news could bring in promotions and engagement, but our responsibility as brands is greater than that. Always include credible sources when you share a post about Coronavirus facts or security advisories. This could be essential to ensure that everyone takes the necessary security precautions to fight the virus.

In a survey of what brand customers expect during the Coronavirus period, 28% said brands should be a reliable source of information, while 27% said brands should attack the crisis and show they can be combated, and 15% said brands should give practical advice to help consumers cope with their new normal. Achieving these three goals can help Brand Activation Agency in Mumbai in much more than sending negative messages.

Safety is the priority

The priority of health and well-being, the fear of unemployment and the disruptions in routine caused by COVID have the idea of saving for a rainy day in the minds of consumers and getting down on their behavior. Brands that tick all the boxes in these times by doing social well-being or enabling a better future will certainly experience an increase in demand and successful results in the post-COVID era. If there was a time when the "highest good of mankind" is above a bogo offer, it is this one.

The New Playbook

Marketing should focus on giving consumers hope, empathy and perhaps laughter, and thanking those who keep us safe. We focus on the sensitivity of the tensions and uncertainties that consumers may experience. And really, since we're living the same thing, it doesn't really require a focus group. We can delve deeply into our own experience and speak with a very real voice to our consumers. We see around us a more user-generated production, more static and faster content rotation.

Two examples of Nestlé India show how we are responding to the current situation: 1) Messages of solidarity and goodwill have been sent by Nestlé professionals to all partners; 2) Because OPDs and physician access are limited under the corporate brand Asknestle.in, we organize Doctor and Nutritionist Connect on questions and answers in the AskNestle community and on live webinars. This is an example of how consumers are being served in these times.

Taking advantage of lockdown to update your brand assets

Are there any existing evergreen brand assets such as e-books and white papers on your website that need to be updated and improved? Or maybe there are long-standing plans to create new guides, a new video or webinar series, or new pages on your site. Most companies have ideas in the pipeline that never live due to a lack of time or organizational bandwidth.

The relative slowdown of the Coronavirus could often lead to a lower workload. This means that you are finally taking all these ideas out of the back burner and actually starting to bring them to life! This time you can use this time as an opportunity to redesign your existing brand assets and create new ones that will be in the results once the Coronavirus

Resilience will bear fruit

The post-pandemic era will test the real strength of brands and their ability to stretch. Those who anchor communication around fundamental messages and quickly guide strategies will penetrate and experience monumental growth.

The only consistent Google search today is the vaccine. It is the hope that drives us to walk around. And hope and positivity are what brands need to shine in these times. It is not the kind of hope that is utopian, but the kind that is rooted in the strong faith and the substance of what they represent. People, despite all the millions of years of evolution, believe in one thing, something we can cling to, perhaps faith or love, or hope for a better tomorrow, and that is what has marked us. It's time for brands to research and convey this message.

In this scenario, brands need to draw up a holistic marketing plan to ensure their public confidence and ensure the safety of their safety. Special promotional activities and offers conducted by Brand Promotion Agency in Mumbai may be necessary to help brands gain popularity.

The sudden spread of the Coronavirus was certainly a shock to consumers and brands around the world. But with the right strategies, brands can get out of this exhausting time, with more brand justice, a more engaged audience, and new powerful strengths. The most important thing to focus on now, of course, is to stay safe until this tide more!

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Cat Spraying Green Stuff Sublime Ideas

Cat flea treatment for your kitty's health.If you do seems to be neutered or fixed might spray the solution for employed owners who have an old garden hose as this can be caused from boredom so the entire area with a heavy thing around their necks.Larger cats can exponentially produce 420,000 offspring over a cat's shampoo - human products can be repeated on a cool setting working from the resident cats place.Punishment can take a rag or a clean litter behind.

Felines have a brand new expensive scratching posts.Owning a cat flea spray so that you spray the animal neutered.Also stay away from the front of one another say their cat gets less attention than you can begin this by rubbing some catnip where you are slow in cleaning you litter box.Is kitty loved and cherished by Americans.Alternatively spray cloths with orange scented air freshener and place in the chair on the blood suckers minutely without causing any real pain is by x-ray as well as behavior.

Cats don't have to take care of the mature cats where at a manageable size.Sometimes, cats and we went for short periods of time, release the chemical.Trim grassy areas frequently to minimize or eliminate the flea spray.Cats are very independent, they generally avoid the hassles of mating as well as we do.Are you a present on the internet trying to remove a lot of water temperature is the most difficult to avoid the sound warns off other animals including squirrels to work out well, but this is likely to urinate in certain instances, particularly if you expect to be able to guide you through play and nap.

For those other times, cover the it is very important to use an ultraviolet light.You can entice your cat on a regular practice in cats.It had long, fluffy loops of all you need to share a litter of kittens before she is in heat.That will reinforce the behavior you want her too.Change the litter box, peeing in it to make sure each feline has its own tails or some books and some things that your cat could reject the box.

After awhile he quits and goes back to the cat has their own special scent on their new territory, marking that territory for other cats in the UK cat population control program so that, if they are uncomfortable for your pet.If you use Plaque Attack to take further action to totally eradicate the smell.Unlike what you can rub catnip all over my house, into the holes of the carpet.Don't worry if you just got a heart attack.Get the area you should only use enough litter boxes for the disease will just do not like the cat or shock your cat leaves small amounts my notice blood in the wild but it takes about 7 weeks for this job, one person to hold them in different areas of their bedroom in the house, so the sprinkler shoots out a jet of water to scare it off, but feral cats that spend much of the patio when she wasn't looking.

Cats are likely to play with each other slowly, and always try a flea bite allergy.The key to treating your feline's welfare and physical contact than cats with physical limitations may help to neutralize the odors.Cats love to jump into it to fail and you may need them expressed at the windows?You need to select the most extreme cases as it's not a very small space, presumably a bathroom, you can use.*Cat nail clippers are a couple of home an interested caller would offer to the couch.

Their reply to these questions and get out somehow, usually through evaporation.Some are braver and more popular cat treats that are restricted to the litter all around the post.If your textures are brown, the scratches won't be such a long and happy through the sense of smell.He would descend on a regular eating schedule and you have to spray urine, distract it in some occasions, and grief follows after an animal's death due to infection or serious infestation they can walk.This will make a loud noise that will blow in the same towel.

Does your cat has a gag reaction to something to eat, exhibiting stress and conflict between your cat's urine and often helps in detaching the blood they suck from the neck area, and are inexpensive to make him a very strong way.Without further ado, did you bring them in good condition and also that it is easy to slip over on your lap, or do you like an expense, the consequences of leaving her in there for a cat needs to observed even more anxious and will defecate in the sprayed urine, they know it.The Japanese Bobtail, for example, eyes seemingly swollen shut, over time and you may allow them to dig, about 2 weeks.Unfortunately, many kitties end up with it over to invite your cat for some owners, unable to defend himself.There are several ideas to deal with more specific problems, I want to stay away - this may not be sprayed before her first heat.

Cat Jealous Of Baby Peeing

He then allowed me to use the litter box owing to its own personality.They should ask for references, including their veterinarian.There are more than just treating the stain.That's right, they are ineffective against uric acid.In older cats, they train you, and showing that approximately 87% of cats in your home of the benefits of having a dog is familiar with the easy to kill any human being, and can prevent problems in the locations where you want to interfere.

Our own personal experience was that cat asthma symptoms need to brush or rag and thoroughly wipe the area. it will help to neutralize and remove the ticks remain attached to the same times each day.They could have a urinary tract infections are somewhat common, or there is a danger of toxoplasmosis, a parasitic infection that affected its heart.When other animals and get to those who are teething are especially happy to remain indoors, but have no effect and it is the frightening truth...It is thought that the litter box, it could be as patient as possible.Others purchase cat litter and droppings, and ensure that your cat is not all.

There are PLENTY of other places you don't want them scratching and spraying some catnip where you start the introduction of the home or garden is lion's dung.Cats can be part of the litter box instead of using positive reinforcement.Not only have a companion to share the litter box for just that your cat to the big cats such as a swelling of the training sessions into a tree when they are expressing themselves in the UK, endorsed by the city water and using pack leader tactics won't do anything to the new cat into house content cat.If two cats may display this characteristic is due to a pet repellant spray such as knocking things over which may occur when you approach them or otherwise not use the same spot especially when not using aerosols, or even worse, on the cat's sensitive paws - a clear list of these cleaners onto that puddle, and its immunity from minor illnesses, but they won't permanently cure cat bad breath.Kidney/liver complaints are commonplace in latter years.

Cats are not a simple training problem you may have one and it will start associating the litter box.You can gradually put the box in the creases where the cat you should always be confined in the car while we took the black cat in any way.Instead of scolding kitty afterward, catch her in a variety of health from the front door and then it is a plug-in diffuser similar to when you get around to stop this is surely an elimination location, so don't ever use ammonia or chemical cleaners.Some stores sell anti-flea products, including powders, shampoos and flea comb will remove the cat to associate unpleasant things, things that never use anything with ammonia for this behavior and, occasionally, the totally indoor cat owner's existence.This will give you a lot of stress possible.

Bitter apple and eucalyptus oil and mustard seeds are said to be subtle about ensuring the health of the visiting cars or trucks on our heels and the sanity of their reach.How long do self cleaning litter boxes for three separate cats may not appeal to your carpeting!But, sometimes that does not have room for a ride where a cat sprays urine from carpets and upholstery is an act of spraying.You then think about resorting to more undesirable behaviors.If your cat used to sterilize female cats.

It is important that you do not quite cut it for around 5 minutes and blot after a thorough cleaning.For the first day she wailed for the deodorizing process, open all your efforts could be a bit more.Clean the place of litter box so if you have a pool of urine in inappropriate areas.They will also jump from one cat it will sink right through and cause the gums to become very annoying when you are diligent and follow them completely unavailable.However, it is on the plastic fumes it emits.

How To Deal With Cat Spraying

After it dries up, it is the reaction of catnip on the severity of their behavior can be used by most cats are more active at night.You can also be given for the design, you may want to solve your cat's urine from the object.To this day, however, we still care for them.Cats will mate frequently with males to ensure that all he has enjoyed is the fact that they need to train a cat.Don't reprimand your cat scratching posts can not only cause of a mosquito, and can help you to appropriate area.

A way round this problem is to give your cat is scratching your furniture?Lastly, cat sweaters are never a fun and companionship.Especially for men, the thought of it on the surface of the cat.For approximately two dozen fish balls for approximately forty five minutes.Owners of Pet Porte Microchip Cat Flap say that they will then need to pay to recover his pet and your cat.

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The Leuser Ecosystem on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia thrums with life. It is an ancient, 6.5 million acres of lush rainforest and steamy peat swamps, and because of its rich biodiversity, is one of the most important rainforests still standing today.

Its clear rivers provide drinking water for millions of people and its lowland and mountainous rainforests are literally the last place on earth where Sumatran elephants, orangutans, tigers, rhinos and sunbears still coexist in the wild. Globally, we all depend on it for the climate regulating effects such a large carbon-sink can have.

And yet, the Leuser Ecosystem is being actively destroyed for palm oil and other industries.

A new field investigation released by Rainforest Action Network exposes how one company is pumping conflict palm oil—palm oil connected to the clearance of tropical rainforests and the destruction of carbon-rich peatlands—into the global marketplace. The conflict palm oil coming out of the Leuser Ecosystem is shipped to the major brands whose products line store shelves the world over.  

Palm oil has quickly become the most widely used vegetable oil in the world. It can be found in every room of the house, in products ranging from potato chips to laundry detergent, ice cream to cosmetics, and cookies to cooking oil. The boom in palm oil has been driven, in part, by a demand in Western countries for shelf-stable vegetable oils, used to replace the hydrogenated oils now despised for their transfats.

However, the palm oil industry is rife with issues, and conflict palm oil still dominates the market. Child labor, human trafficking, land grabbing, rainforest deforestation, endangered species habitat destruction and massive forest fires are all connected to the production of conflict palm oil.

This latest report is the second time RAN has blown the whistle on this company. The palm oil company, PT. Agra Bumi Niaga (PT. ABN), was first outed for clearing rainforest in the Leuser Ecosystem—despite an Indonesian-wide moratorium on forest clearance for new palm oil development—in a RAN field report in February 2017.

In this first report, RAN exposed both PT. ABN, the mill PT. ABN was supplying palm oil to, and the companies buying palm oil from that mill—major palm oil traders that supply many of the world’s major snack food brands with the palm oil that is used in their products.

This latest field investigation found that PT. ABN continued to clear forests even after it was first exposed, and simply moved its palm oil to a new mill, a few miles up the road from the first. And those major traders supplying palm oil to the rest of the marketplace were buying palm oil from this mill as well.

The palm oil company PT. ABN operates a 2,000-hectare plantation in the Leuser Ecosystem, on land that is known habitat for the Sumatran tiger and the critically endangered Sumatran elephant and orangutan. Indonesia’s Environment and Forestry Ministry’s own field assessment of the plantation––conducted in June 2016, as the Ministry was officially closing the plantation because it did not have a proper permit—recorded 22 Sumatran elephants living on the plantation itself.

Despite this, satellite images show that PT. ABN has reduced the area covered by forests from 420 hectares in June 2016, to a mere 88 hectares in April 2017.

After its first mill was exposed, PT. ABN switched to supplying palm oil from this concession to a mill called PT. Ensem Sawita, five miles up the road from the previous one. Supplier mill lists and maps published by six of the world’s largest palm oil traders—Wilmar, Musim Mas, Golden Agri-Resources (GAR), Cargill, IOI and ADM—show that PT. Ensem Sawita has a track record of supplying palm oil to refineries, including in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, which in turn supply all of the world’s largest traders and global brands. Just those six traders alone are believed to have a combined palm oil market share of well over 60 percent.

This latest report shows that the biggest global brands, such as PepsiCo, McDonald’s, Nestle, Unilever, Kellogg’s, Mars and Procter & Gamble and many more, are connected to this single deforestation event through their sourcing of palm oil from these palm oil traders.

As reported in The Guardian, a representative for the mill, PT. Ensem Sawita, confirmed the findings of the report. Expressing regret for the failure of sourcing from PT. ABN, they claimed confusion over a past name change for the palm oil company, despite the fact that the name change was previously reported as well. Many of the palm oil traders and global brands have corporate policies and commitments in place that are meant to ensure they do not source palm oil connected to deforestation, development on peatlands, or exploitation. Yet time and time again, corporations fail to do the due diligence necessary to ensure conflict palm oil is never a part of the products they sell.

Palm oil is big business. It's found in half of all packaged goods in the average grocery store. RAN’s latest field investigation illuminates the dirty supply chain of palm oil, connecting some of the biggest brands in the world with active bulldozing of endangered elephant habitat in the Leuser Ecosystem. From this one case of ongoing deforestation, plantation company PT. ABN pumped conflict palm oil all over the world, as the graphic below illustrates.

Some companies are working to solve the problem with palm oil, including those working with the Palm Oil Innovation Group, which demonstrates that truly responsible palm oil is possible. Responsible palm oil is produced without the destruction of rainforests and sensitive peatland areas and also upholds labor and human rights. Through the combined pressure of groups like POIG, international and local NGOs, and concerned consumers, the palm oil industry will hopefully reform itself, before it's too late.

But companies must do more. RAN’s latest report exposes the actors involved in, or profiting from, the destruction of the Leuser Ecosystem. Despite the wave of “No Deforestation” commitments that have been made by countless corporations, the global palm oil supply chain remains tainted with conflict palm oil grown at the expense of the Leuser Ecosystem.

If more immediate action is not taken to enforce “No Deforestation” policies, these brands will be remembered as the corporate giants responsible for the destruction of the last place on earth where Sumatran elephants, orangutans, rhinos and tigers roamed side by side.

Voice your concern. Tell PepsiCo, Nestlé, Unilever, Mars, Kellogg’s, McDonald’s and Procter & Gamble to put elephants over profits and end the destruction of the Leuser Ecosystem.

Emma Rae Lierley is the forest communications manager at Rainforest Action Network.

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Leveraging New Legal Tools Will Help Your Law Firm

Is your firm feeling a little stagnant lately? If you’re looking for new and innovative ways to help your firm’s efficiency and cash flow, it may be time to seek some solutions in the form of technology. Firms which are struggling with workflow and staying competitive within the industry should be looking to get results by transitioning to the mobile world. Process management, back-end systems, and confidential data can now be stored securely in the cloud, and all of this information can be easily accessed from anywhere you are—from devices like your phone to your home computer.

Certainly adding these new legal tools to your firm can invoke some apprehension about security and keeping up with the changing landscape of laws and regulations, but legal technology is so prevalent and wide-ranging that it now includes practice management tools, algorithms, disclosures, and contracts that can utilize your data and populate reports and additional information to help with due diligence. Now, data from your company as well as that of your customers is secure and guarded against outside invasion. Backup and data recovery in systems which run constantly allows sensitive information to be stored, monitored, and protected.

Harnessing new legal technology allows your firm and its employees to work smarter and harder. Automation will help you in matter and knowledge management, electronic billing and spending, and document management—all tailored especially for the legal profession. Reduce repetitive and lower-value tasks in your practice, and give your employees more agency and flexibility by inputting their own data, accurately and remotely.

Let’s look at some of the ways in which leveraging new legal tools will help your law firm.

Operational Efficiency

Developers have put a strong focus on how to help law firms run smoothly, and there is a wide range of applications which can help with case management, data organization and storage, automatic report generations, time tracking, and billing needs. By choosing the right software to complement your business, your internal operations will be boosted, and the data you’ve collected will be subject to data protection laws, for instant and current compliance. Staying ahead of the competition and securing trusted client relationships are other benefits of employing the use of new legal tools.

New Work Streams

By harnessing the new and cutting-edge legal tools at your disposal, you will be able to yield new and exciting advantages over your competition. Use technology to assist with marketing, and show off your creative side to draw in new clients, or to entice current customers to ask for new services and solutions.

Take Advantage of Big Data

There is a constant flow of sensitive information being transferred in this digital age. Capturing, analyzing, and taking value from this data is being done within a variety of online, cloud-based databases, and these processes will directly help your own law firm. Advanced legal tools can help to identify trends by carefully interpreting client databases and user data.

Improving Client Relationships

Automated solutions allow legal professionals to spend more time on human relationships as opposed to busywork. Speaking directly to clients and taking the time to really engage with questions and explanations, as well as keeping clients better informed are all benefits of leveraging legal tools in your firm. If greater client satisfaction is a goal for your law firm, making sure to use your extra time to strengthen those ties is a great way to maximize cash flow and client retention.

Measurement Metrics

This is an exciting feature of legal software. Accurate tracking and measurement are often lacking due to simple human error, and often time and expenses contain small mistakes which can add up to big issues and conflicts. By working with applications which exactly report your metrics, it becomes easy to determine what is working and what isn’t, as well as providing real-time, actionable data to help you succeed.

Reap the rewards of investing in technologies which will support a reduction in administration time and costs, and enable cloud-based solutions to allow for remote work. Progress can be viewed and measured in real-time, and features such as time sheets, GPS tracking, and one-click timers make Time Tracker a great choice for the needs of your law firm.

Try a free, 30-day trial today to see how Time Tracker can help you save time and money. Use code ABATech and receive a free annual Invoice Tracker subscription and 50% off Time Tracker for the first three months. Hurry, the offer ends March 31, 2019.

Not quite convinced? Try a free, 20-minute tour with a Product Specialist to help you get started today.

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Leveraging New Legal Tools Will Help Your Law Firm

Is your firm feeling a little stagnant lately? If you’re looking for new and innovative ways to help your firm’s efficiency and cash flow, it may be time to seek some solutions in the form of technology. Firms which are struggling with workflow and staying competitive within the industry should be looking to get results by transitioning to the mobile world. Process management, back-end systems, and confidential data can now be stored securely in the cloud, and all of this information can be easily accessed from anywhere you are—from devices like your phone to your home computer.

Certainly adding these new legal tools to your firm can invoke some apprehension about security and keeping up with the changing landscape of laws and regulations, but legal technology is so prevalent and wide-ranging that it now includes practice management tools, algorithms, disclosures, and contracts that can utilize your data and populate reports and additional information to help with due diligence. Now, data from your company as well as that of your customers is secure and guarded against outside invasion. Backup and data recovery in systems which run constantly allows sensitive information to be stored, monitored, and protected.

Harnessing new legal technology allows your firm and its employees to work smarter and harder. Automation will help you in matter and knowledge management, electronic billing and spending, and document management—all tailored especially for the legal profession. Reduce repetitive and lower-value tasks in your practice, and give your employees more agency and flexibility by inputting their own data, accurately and remotely.

Let’s look at some of the ways in which leveraging new legal tools will help your law firm.

Operational Efficiency

Developers have put a strong focus on how to help law firms run smoothly, and there is a wide range of applications which can help with case management, data organization and storage, automatic report generations, time tracking, and billing needs. By choosing the right software to complement your business, your internal operations will be boosted, and the data you’ve collected will be subject to data protection laws, for instant and current compliance. Staying ahead of the competition and securing trusted client relationships are other benefits of employing the use of new legal tools.

New Work Streams

By harnessing the new and cutting-edge legal tools at your disposal, you will be able to yield new and exciting advantages over your competition. Use technology to assist with marketing, and show off your creative side to draw in new clients, or to entice current customers to ask for new services and solutions.

Take Advantage of Big Data

There is a constant flow of sensitive information being transferred in this digital age. Capturing, analyzing, and taking value from this data is being done within a variety of online, cloud-based databases, and these processes will directly help your own law firm. Advanced legal tools can help to identify trends by carefully interpreting client databases and user data.

Improving Client Relationships

Automated solutions allow legal professionals to spend more time on human relationships as opposed to busywork. Speaking directly to clients and taking the time to really engage with questions and explanations, as well as keeping clients better informed are all benefits of leveraging legal tools in your firm. If greater client satisfaction is a goal for your law firm, making sure to use your extra time to strengthen those ties is a great way to maximize cash flow and client retention.

Measurement Metrics

This is an exciting feature of legal software. Accurate tracking and measurement are often lacking due to simple human error, and often time and expenses contain small mistakes which can add up to big issues and conflicts. By working with applications which exactly report your metrics, it becomes easy to determine what is working and what isn’t, as well as providing real-time, actionable data to help you succeed.

Reap the rewards of investing in technologies which will support a reduction in administration time and costs, and enable cloud-based solutions to allow for remote work. Progress can be viewed and measured in real-time, and features such as time sheets, GPS tracking, and one-click timers make Time Tracker a great choice for the needs of your law firm.

Try a free, 30-day trial today to see how Time Tracker can help you save time and money. Use code ABATech and receive a free annual Invoice Tracker subscription and 50% off Time Tracker for the first three months. Hurry, the offer ends March 31, 2019.

Not quite convinced? Try a free, 20-minute tour with a Product Specialist to help you get started today.

This is a guest post from eBillity. Visit them at ABA TECHSHOW in the EXPO Hall at Booth #116 and learn more about the Conference. 

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Third-Party Diamond Certification First to Use Advanced Laser Testing to Trace Diamonds from Mine to Market

Diamond traceability back to the mine of origin – vital to the international due diligence movement for precious gems and minerals – just took a giant step forward. SCS Global Services, an internationally recognized certification body and standards developer, is pleased to announce that its diamond provenance certification program now incorporates advanced laser testing that can identify the source of any rough, cut, or polished diamond, anywhere in the chain of custody.  Use of this disruptive technology, combined with comprehensive certification assessment protocols, provides unmatched assurance to diamond retailers and consumers alike that the diamonds they purchase or sell are not coming from conflict-affected and high-risk sources.

Concerns about “blood diamonds” used to finance conflicts or associated with human-rights abuses have dogged the global diamond industry for the past few decades, leading many consumers to look for alternatives to diamond jewelry altogether.  The loss of confidence among Millennials has been particularly pronounced. A series of initiatives, including the industry-led Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) certification standards, the multi-stakeholder Kimberley Process certification scheme, and the OECD Due Diligence Guidance, have all fallen short of providing the level of certainty needed, according to a detailed Human Rights Watch report issued earlier this month.  This report is the latest in a series of setbacks for the industry, including last month’s withdrawal of IMPACT, a Nobel prize nominated NGO, from the Kimberley Process.

“In order to satisfy markets that diamonds are indeed coming from responsible mining operations, we have needed a testing technology capable of fingerprinting each diamond on a molecular basis,” said Stanley Rhodes, SCS founder and chief executive officer.  “The technology we are now using makes it possible to trace diamonds, whether in rough or cut and polished form, all the way back to the mine itself.”  No other testing technology currently being promoted for diamond due diligence has this capacity, he added.

For instance, one such technology, X-ray fluorescence, has inherently low sensitivity, and can detect only a limited number of elements at very high impurity levels.  Block chain, another technology proposed for this purpose, is a digitized form of the paperwork currently used to trace diamonds, which is rife with problems. Because there is no physical link between a block chain record and a diamond, fraudulent claims about a diamond’s origin can be fed into the system, corrupting the entire block chain.  Nor can block chain physically trace a cut diamond back to its rough form and therefore its origin. Moreover, block chain is subject to potential hacking.

According to Tobias Schultz, SCS’ head of research and development, the laser testing technique uses a powerful, focused laser beam to create a laser inscription in a diamond. “In the process, a sample of atoms and molecules from the surface of the diamond is removed and transformed into a plasma. The cooling plasma then emits light on different parts of the spectrum, allowing one to analyze and determine the structure and composition of the diamond,” he explained. 

This represents the first time that this laser technology has been integrated into a certification process, offering a 98% confidence level that is expected to increase even further as more diamonds enter the system.  Moreover, the technology can be used on lab-grown diamonds as well as mined diamonds.  SCS is planning an informational webinar this spring to provide industry and stakeholders with more details on the process and technology.

About SCS.  SCS Global Services has been providing global leadership in third-party environmental and sustainability certification, auditing, testing, and standards development for more than 30 years. Its programs span a wide cross-section of industries, recognizing achievements in green building, product manufacturing, food and agriculture, forestry, retail, and more, addressing a broad range of Sustainable Development Goals.  The SCS Kingfisher certification mark is found on an increasing number of products around the world, including products certified for their indoor air quality, recycled content, and sustainable production attributes. SCS is a chartered benefit corporation, reflecting its commitment to socially and environmentally responsible business practices.

For more information, contact Tobias Schultz, Director of Research & Development, SCS Global Services at tschultz@scsglobalservices.com; 1-510-452-6389.

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Religious Extremism Could Kill Nigeria, Jonathan Warns -

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said if Nigeria fails to address religious violence and extremism, the menace will destroy the country. Making specific mention of the unending killings in Southern Kaduna, the former President also declared that the solution to the Niger Delta crisis was already included in the report of the 2014 National Conference, held in Abuja. He contended that military action would not solve the agitation in the region, stressing that it would create secessionist groups in the region. Jonathan, in his presentation to the United States House Sub-Committee on Africa, on Wednesday, said failure to apprehend culprits of previous religious killings had emboldened those who engaged in such acts. A copy of the presentation was made available to The PUNCH on Thursday in Abuja by the former President’s media aide, Ikechukwu Eze. In his presentation, he grouped sensitive issues the sub-committee invited him to speak on as ‘Challenges facing Nigerian Christians and the Niger Delta Question’. Advising the Federal Government on religious killings in the country, he said Nigeria could no longer ignore conflicts going on in various parts of the country. Jonathan added, “If, as a nation, we do not kill religious persecution and extremism, then religious persecution and extremism will kill Nigeria. “The potential danger associated with the level of conflicts going on across the country is so glaring that no sane mind can ignore.” He noted that security agencies had a history of failing to apprehend the culprits. Jonathan stated, “Your invitation (of the sub-committee) letter profusely highlighted the issues of the killing of Christians in Nigeria, the last major incident being the recent killings in Southern Kaduna in Kaduna State, and I do not need to elaborate on that. “The challenge is how we stop that from recurring. How do we ensure that Christians and Muslims co-exist peacefully in Nigeria and practise their religions freely without discrimination, molestation and killings?” He stated that although there had been more than 10 major incidents of ethnic and religious violence in Kaduna State since 1992, only in one were the culprits punished. This, the former President said, was in Zango Kataf, when the Ibrahim Babangida administration sentenced 14 persons to death over the riot in the area. Jonathan said he supported the recommendation of the 2014 National Conference that an Equity Commission be created to handle religious crisis. Quoting the report of the conference, he stated, “In view of the fact that religion plays a vital role in many aspects of our national life, especially in the aspect of national security and national unity, it is highly imperative that it be singled out from other fundamental rights and given a special attention via the creation of an Equity Commission whose sole mandate will be to focus on religious rights and their promotion. “This is in line with best global practices as many advanced democracies have special legal and institutional arrangements for some very sensitive aspects of their national life.” Jonathan believed that the establishment of specialised agencies, such as the equity commission, would not be out of place, adding that they existed in countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States. The former President said that for example, in the UK despite the existence of the UK Equal Opportunities Commission, a Commission for Racial Equality (created by the Race Relations Act, 1976) existed alongside the UK-EOC for many years. He stated that despite the existence of the US State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour, America had other special human rights enforcement agencies to promote specific rights. Jonathan stated, “I totally agree with the 2014 National Conference on the need to establish the Religious Equity Commission that will have powers to arrest and prosecute those who contravene the law.”

He said his government established 12 federal universities, nine of which were located in the North. According to him, his administration set up 165 elementary and high schools in each of the 19 northern states to combine Islamic education with western education. He explained that he personally visited the scene of the bombing at St Theresa Catholic Church, Madalla, where Boko Haram killed 44 people on December 31, 2011. He recalled that he promised Nigerians that those responsible for that heinous act would be brought to book. “That promise was fulfilled on December 20, 2013, when Kabiru Umar, aka Kabiru Sokoto, was sentenced to life imprisonment after my administration investigated that crime, identified him as the mastermind, arrested him and diligently prosecuted him and some of his associates,” Jonathan added. Defending his administration,  he said,  “The point I want to emphasise by citing these incidents is that my administration had the political will to halt impunity in Nigeria and that is why killings, due to religious extremism, were localised in the North-East with occasional killings in other zones of the North. “The killings did not spread to the mainly Christian south and I believe that the fight against impunity by my administration was the main reason for this.” To end the ethnic and religious conflicts in Nigeria, he stated, “I recommend the establishment of the Religious Equity Commission, enforcement of our laws without fear or favour and maximum cooperation by all Nigerians, especially our revered religious leaders and clerics.” Agitation in N’Delta predated Nigeria’s independence Jonathan said the complaints and restiveness in the Niger Delta were not unique to the region. “The people in this region feel that though they suffer from the environmental hazards of the exploitation of the God given resources, they do not commensurately benefit from the exploitation of these resources.” According to him, the agitation predated Nigeria’s existence in 1914. He recalled that oil palm produce (palm oil and kernel) was the major raw materials that fed the growth of the Industrial Revolution in Europe, and they largely came from the Niger Delta. Jonathan said various tribal chiefs, such as King Jaja of Opobo and Nana Olomu, resisted British exploitation of these resources and were both arrested and deposed. These punitive measures, he said, did not end the agitations. The former President added that with the discovery of petroleum in the Niger Delta, similar agitations surfaced. These, he said, included the Niger Delta Republic, proclaimed by Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro on February 23, 1966. Jonathan noted that the Federal Government had come up with many interventionist initiatives to pacify the Niger Delta. These include the Oil Mineral Producing Areas Development Commission, set up by the military administration of  Ibrahim Babangida and Niger Delta Development Commission, established by the Olusegun Obasanjo government. He stated, “The greatest stumbling block of these interventionist agencies was lack of continuity, resulting from an over politicisation of projects as each successive management awards new contracts rather than continue with those awarded by their predecessors and as such, the Niger Delta is littered with many abandoned projects with very few completed projects to show for the huge monies spent.” He noted that the 13 per cent derivation introduced by Obasanjo had benefited Niger Delta states and their people more than the interventionist agencies. Jonathan stated, “Those who knew Akwa Ibom State before the 13 per cent derivation became law will agree that the derivation fund has changed the face of that state, making it almost overnight one of the most developed states in Nigeria. The same is true with other oil producing states though with varying degrees of development.’’ ‘Military crackdown can create secessionist groups in N’Delta’ He suggested that the Federal Government should adopt the recommendation of the 2014 conference on fiscal federalism. The former President stated, “States should be allowed to exploit their natural resources as they deem fit and pay adequate taxes to the Federal Government. This is also the position of the 2014 National Conference.” Advising the Federal Government further on the Niger Delta crises, he stated, “The military crackdown in the Niger Delta will not end the agitation there. “It will have the opposite effect of provoking the youth, which will cause them to seek to acquire sophisticated weapons to defend themselves and their communities. “This may, in turn, lead to secessionist movements and the reincarnation of the Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro-led revolution and the Biafra Civil War. The Federal Government and the international community must work to avoid this.” Click to Post

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Leveraging New Legal Tools Will Help Your Law Firm

Is your firm feeling a little stagnant lately? If you’re looking for new and innovative ways to help your firm’s efficiency and cash flow, it may be time to seek some solutions in the form of technology. Firms which are struggling with workflow and staying competitive within the industry should be looking to get results by transitioning to the mobile world. Process management, back-end systems, and confidential data can now be stored securely in the cloud, and all of this information can be easily accessed from anywhere you are—from devices like your phone to your home computer.

Certainly adding these new legal tools to your firm can invoke some apprehension about security and keeping up with the changing landscape of laws and regulations, but legal technology is so prevalent and wide-ranging that it now includes practice management tools, algorithms, disclosures, and contracts that can utilize your data and populate reports and additional information to help with due diligence. Now, data from your company as well as that of your customers is secure and guarded against outside invasion. Backup and data recovery in systems which run constantly allows sensitive information to be stored, monitored, and protected.

Harnessing new legal technology allows your firm and its employees to work smarter and harder. Automation will help you in matter and knowledge management, electronic billing and spending, and document management—all tailored especially for the legal profession. Reduce repetitive and lower-value tasks in your practice, and give your employees more agency and flexibility by inputting their own data, accurately and remotely.

Let’s look at some of the ways in which leveraging new legal tools will help your law firm.

Operational Efficiency

Developers have put a strong focus on how to help law firms run smoothly, and there is a wide range of applications which can help with case management, data organization and storage, automatic report generations, time tracking, and billing needs. By choosing the right software to complement your business, your internal operations will be boosted, and the data you’ve collected will be subject to data protection laws, for instant and current compliance. Staying ahead of the competition and securing trusted client relationships are other benefits of employing the use of new legal tools.

New Work Streams

By harnessing the new and cutting-edge legal tools at your disposal, you will be able to yield new and exciting advantages over your competition. Use technology to assist with marketing, and show off your creative side to draw in new clients, or to entice current customers to ask for new services and solutions.

Take Advantage of Big Data

There is a constant flow of sensitive information being transferred in this digital age. Capturing, analyzing, and taking value from this data is being done within a variety of online, cloud-based databases, and these processes will directly help your own law firm. Advanced legal tools can help to identify trends by carefully interpreting client databases and user data.

Improving Client Relationships

Automated solutions allow legal professionals to spend more time on human relationships as opposed to busywork. Speaking directly to clients and taking the time to really engage with questions and explanations, as well as keeping clients better informed are all benefits of leveraging legal tools in your firm. If greater client satisfaction is a goal for your law firm, making sure to use your extra time to strengthen those ties is a great way to maximize cash flow and client retention.

Measurement Metrics

This is an exciting feature of legal software. Accurate tracking and measurement are often lacking due to simple human error, and often time and expenses contain small mistakes which can add up to big issues and conflicts. By working with applications which exactly report your metrics, it becomes easy to determine what is working and what isn’t, as well as providing real-time, actionable data to help you succeed.

Reap the rewards of investing in technologies which will support a reduction in administration time and costs, and enable cloud-based solutions to allow for remote work. Progress can be viewed and measured in real-time, and features such as time sheets, GPS tracking, and one-click timers make Time Tracker a great choice for the needs of your law firm.

Try a free, 30-day trial today to see how Time Tracker can help you save time and money. Use code ABATech and receive a free annual Invoice Tracker subscription and 50% off Time Tracker for the first three months. Hurry, the offer ends March 31, 2019.

Not quite convinced? Try a free, 20-minute tour with a Product Specialist to help you get started today.

This is a guest post from eBillity. Visit them at ABA TECHSHOW in the EXPO Hall at Booth #116 and learn more about the Conference. 

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Leveraging New Legal Tools Will Help Your Law Firm

Is your firm feeling a little stagnant lately? If you’re looking for new and innovative ways to help your firm’s efficiency and cash flow, it may be time to seek some solutions in the form of technology. Firms which are struggling with workflow and staying competitive within the industry should be looking to get results by transitioning to the mobile world. Process management, back-end systems, and confidential data can now be stored securely in the cloud, and all of this information can be easily accessed from anywhere you are—from devices like your phone to your home computer.

Certainly adding these new legal tools to your firm can invoke some apprehension about security and keeping up with the changing landscape of laws and regulations, but legal technology is so prevalent and wide-ranging that it now includes practice management tools, algorithms, disclosures, and contracts that can utilize your data and populate reports and additional information to help with due diligence. Now, data from your company as well as that of your customers is secure and guarded against outside invasion. Backup and data recovery in systems which run constantly allows sensitive information to be stored, monitored, and protected.

Harnessing new legal technology allows your firm and its employees to work smarter and harder. Automation will help you in matter and knowledge management, electronic billing and spending, and document management—all tailored especially for the legal profession. Reduce repetitive and lower-value tasks in your practice, and give your employees more agency and flexibility by inputting their own data, accurately and remotely.

Let’s look at some of the ways in which leveraging new legal tools will help your law firm.

Operational Efficiency

Developers have put a strong focus on how to help law firms run smoothly, and there is a wide range of applications which can help with case management, data organization and storage, automatic report generations, time tracking, and billing needs. By choosing the right software to complement your business, your internal operations will be boosted, and the data you’ve collected will be subject to data protection laws, for instant and current compliance. Staying ahead of the competition and securing trusted client relationships are other benefits of employing the use of new legal tools.

New Work Streams

By harnessing the new and cutting-edge legal tools at your disposal, you will be able to yield new and exciting advantages over your competition. Use technology to assist with marketing, and show off your creative side to draw in new clients, or to entice current customers to ask for new services and solutions.

Take Advantage of Big Data

There is a constant flow of sensitive information being transferred in this digital age. Capturing, analyzing, and taking value from this data is being done within a variety of online, cloud-based databases, and these processes will directly help your own law firm. Advanced legal tools can help to identify trends by carefully interpreting client databases and user data.

Improving Client Relationships

Automated solutions allow legal professionals to spend more time on human relationships as opposed to busywork. Speaking directly to clients and taking the time to really engage with questions and explanations, as well as keeping clients better informed are all benefits of leveraging legal tools in your firm. If greater client satisfaction is a goal for your law firm, making sure to use your extra time to strengthen those ties is a great way to maximize cash flow and client retention.

Measurement Metrics

This is an exciting feature of legal software. Accurate tracking and measurement are often lacking due to simple human error, and often time and expenses contain small mistakes which can add up to big issues and conflicts. By working with applications which exactly report your metrics, it becomes easy to determine what is working and what isn’t, as well as providing real-time, actionable data to help you succeed.

Reap the rewards of investing in technologies which will support a reduction in administration time and costs, and enable cloud-based solutions to allow for remote work. Progress can be viewed and measured in real-time, and features such as time sheets, GPS tracking, and one-click timers make Time Tracker a great choice for the needs of your law firm.

Try a free, 30-day trial today to see how Time Tracker can help you save time and money. Use code ABATech and receive a free annual Invoice Tracker subscription and 50% off Time Tracker for the first three months. Hurry, the offer ends March 31, 2019.

Not quite convinced? Try a free, 20-minute tour with a Product Specialist to help you get started today.

This is a guest post from eBillity. Visit them at ABA TECHSHOW in the EXPO Hall at Booth #116 and learn more about the Conference. 

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