![]() Tipsters can remain anonymous by contacting Crime Stoppers Atlanta at 40, texting information to 274637 or visiting the Crime Stoppers website. went to the home of her father and had to deliver this news that her daughter was dead - that’s very terrible news to have to give to anybody, especially if it’s one of your children and grandchild,” Woodruff said.Īnyone with information is asked to call the Troup County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division at 70. None of Ware’s other children belong to Dargan, Ellington added. They had been in a long-distance relationship at some point while he was at Fort Bragg, Ellington confirmed.Įllington said Dargan is married and has other children. The two were in a relationship at some point, but Ellington could not confirm if they were together at the time of the incident. “(We worked) tirelessly through the night, each night, each day until an arrest was made,” Woodruff said.ĭargan grew up in Troup County and met Ware while in school, Ellington said. ![]() He is being held at the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office until he is extradited to Troup County. On Thursday, Criminal Investigation Command at Fort Bragg was able to locate Dargan’s car and he was taken into custody around 3:30 p.m. Two days later, police finally arrested a suspect in the case, in North Carolina. ![]() Ware was reportedly hit by gunfire along Highway 18 in Troup County, causing her car to crash into a tree. On Wednesday, the sheriff’s office received information that Dargan was on active duty at Fort Bragg, that he owned a 2000 silver Nissan Altima and was in Troup County at the time of the incident, Ellington said. Akeila Ware and her unborn son died after being shot on a Georgia highway on October 5. Authorities could not provide a motive.ĭuring the investigation, it was determined that evidence at the scene came from a silver Nissan. Ware was eventually run off the road and wrecked about three miles south, Ellington said. Kelli Ellington confirmed that Ware was 33 weeks pregnant with a boy and that Dargan was the father.Īuthorities said shots were fired by Dargan, who was driving a 2020 Nissan Altima, near the intersection of Ga. She and her unborn child were pronounced dead there, Smith said. Ware was extricated from the car and taken to a Columbus-area hospital in critical condition. “We got a call for what we thought was a simple automobile accident,” Woodruff said. Authorities found Ware shot and unresponsive inside a Honda Accord, the GSP said. about a single-car crash, Troup sheriff’s office spokesman Sgt. Neither Vinny, 34, nor Akielia, 28, have spoken publicly about their current relationship status since the MTV series wrapped on Thursday, December 9. 18 near East Drummond Road around 12:50 p.m. Inside the hospital, Ware and her unborn child died as a result of injuries sustained in the shooting.ĭagan is charged with murder, feticide and possessing a firearm during the commission of a crime, according to his jail records.On Tuesday, deputies and Georgia State Patrol troopers were called to Ga. On October 5th at 12:49 PM, deputies with the Troup County Sheriff’s Office and other first responders were dispatched. Officers said that Dargan allegedly fired several shots at Ware’s vehicle. Akeila Ware Death Obituary: 29-year-old Akeila Ware, of LaGrange has been identified as the pregnant woman who was fatally shot to dead and her body found in a car riddled with bullet holes. Officials say their investigation has revealed that Ware and Fort Bragg soldier Alonzo Dargan were both in the car together when the shooting occurred. “On top of that, killed her and she had a baby inside of her that resulted in the death of the baby.” “I went to the scene and could not believe that somebody has shot and killed a young other of five children,” Woodruff told reporters. ![]() Ware, who was 33 weeks pregnant, learned when they took her to the hospital that she had been shot, according to roup County Sheriff James Woodruff. Ware was found by the officers in critical condition. Troupe County sheriff deputies responded to the incident thinking it was a mundane accident. On Tuesday, October 5, 2021, Ware was driving down the highway when her car suddenly ran off the road. “She was looking to buy a new home for her family.” He said the baby was a boy.” “ was happy about the baby,” Ware’s father told People. Ware, 29, was a pregnant mother in Troupe County, Georgia waiting for her due date. She worked her way through school to become a RN nurse. Akeila Ware was a loving daughter, mother and co-worker,” William Ware Jr., her father, told People magazine.
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![]() "And then as we talked," says Randy, "we started talking about a CD project and maybe getting some other artists involved." "We've all done enjoyable projects separately in the years since our last tour, but we all realize we're stronger as a unit." "We kicked off the tour in Myrtle Beach and took our music back to our fans," adds Jeff. "We got to talking and said, 'Let's do some shows and play some of the places we haven't played before, like the Ryman and the Fox Theatre in Atlanta,’" says Teddy. The project came about as the trio realized their 40th anniversary was at hand. He calls "That's How I Was Raised" "right down the heart of the plate simple country song that showcases our harmonies," and "All American" "a song that says a lot of things that need to be said about our country." "I always worry about putting out anything new at this point," Teddy says with a laugh, "knowing it has to stand up to a pretty strong track record," but agrees the new material does just that. "We hadn't worked together in years," adds Shedd, "but within a couple of hours we had some things that sounded like ALABAMA did in 1980. It's a story-book episode in my life and in the career of ALABAMA to have Harold being on board and to see him as excited as we were after all these years." "I suggested to Jeff and Teddy that Harold work with us on the new stuff," says Randy, "and they agreed. They worked with legendary producer Harold Shedd, who worked with them in those golden early days and went on to discover Shania Twain, Toby Keith and many others. Included are "My Home's In Alabama," the band's first major hit and the song that introduced them to the world "Tennessee River," their very first #1 "Old Flame" and "Love in the First Degree," from their second RCA album "Lady Down On Love," a harmony-laden example of Randy's songwriting prowess "The Closer You Get," released halfway through their streak of 21 chart-toppers "She And I," from the mid-'80s and "Forever's As Far As I'll Go" and "I'm In A Hurry (And Don't Know Why)," which helped kick off the '90s, in which the boys earned 29 more chart hits, including 22 #1 or Top 5 singles.Ĭapping the project are two new tracks by ALABAMA, songs that find the band making music that sounds both classic and relevant. The songs here are, of course, among the most memorable in country history. ![]() ![]() "More than anything," he says, "our longevity is a tribute to the hard work we did in selecting songs, because it's the songs that people remember." The songs chosen for the project represent just the tip of the iceberg that is the band's catalog, but they speak, to hear Teddy tell it, to the key to the band's legacy. We had a lot of fun working with them, and I think the finished product testifies to both the fun and the quality that went into it." "It's very much an honor," adds Jeff, "that they'd take part in an ALABAMA tribute. "I thank God I'm here to see these great artists see fit to sing some of the songs we did," says Randy, with the Everyman sincerity that has helped so many identify with the humbly born superstars. Contributing their own versions of Alabama classics are Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Eli Young Band, Florida Georgia Line, Jamey Johnson, Toby Keith, Rascal Flatts, and Trisha Yearwood. The diversity and star power of the artists speaks volumes about the breadth and depth of ALABAMA's legacy. It brings together some of Country's biggest stars, each bringing a unique musical approach to classic ALABAMA songs that have influenced them. They brought youthful energy, sex appeal and a rocking edge that broadened country's audience and opened the door to self-contained bands from then on, and they undertook a journey that led, 73 million albums later, to the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Hollywood Walk of Fame.ĪLABAMA & Friends commemorates that summer at The Bowery and catalogues the lasting influence the group has had on generations of Country stars who draw inspiration from the sparkling harmonies, irresistible stage presence and world-class songwriting and song selection that made them superstars. ![]() They reeled off 21 straight #1 singles, a record that will probably never be equaled in any genre. It took Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry and Jeff Cook six long years of tip jars and word of mouth to earn the major label deal they'd been dreaming of, but then seemingly no time at all to change the face of country music.ĪLABAMA is the band that changed everything. It's been over 50 years since a trio of young cousins left Fort Payne, Alabama, to spend the summer playing in a Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, bar called The Bowery. In the rocket.chat community call on October 13th 202 1 CEO Gabriel assured, that they do not plan to move any other feature to EE. Sorry, but we can't guarantee to remain always that friendly as we did until now in the rocket.chat forum or issue tracker, especially if any other feature would leave the open core. We are still hesitating to sign as it includes clauses like that no negative remarks may be published during and five years after ending the sales partner agreement. We've been asked to join the rocket.chat partner program to resell pro and enterprise packages. The investors'ultimate goal usually is to sell the company in 4-7 years (that's when investors and founders become very rich). Their strategy seem to be to convert any deployment beyond a few hundred mobile users into a seat count package (see table above). Investors now want to see additional income streams. They decided to take the fast lane with venture capital and raised 13 Million USD in February 2021. We've met the founder Gabriel Engel in person in Munich and are in contact with several team members. They created a great messenger, and we commeneted issues and contributed code. We really honour the effort of the rocket.chat team. ![]() We will definetely follow and support Pierre's activities! Being part of the rocket.chat community That would allow to pre-populate rocket.chat with users who have not yet signed in without running an LDAP server. Another path suggested by our french friend Pierre is to extend Keycloak to talk directly with the rocket.chat API to sync groups. As some users in the forum fear, that more features might be locked out from the community version in future, a community maintained version would ensure that the current, already quite rich feature set will stay. The focus of the work would be security fixes, but also cherry picking bug fixes. We have been suggesting in the forum, that the community may be joining forces and continues to maintain that version for those who need it and can not afford to switch to the EE version. Many rocket.chat deployments won't care about loosing LDAP/OAuth/ SAML group sync support after March 2022, when LTS support ends for rocket.chat 3.18. BTW, at fairkom, our statutes force us to invest any surplus into open source or commons related activities, we don't serve any shareholders or investors. Often we offer our push gateway in combination with hosting, customization and support as our strength is consulting and integration. Prices are indicative, please contact sales for NGO or education discounts. Our pricing scheme is only counting push messages. Now we start offering those components to any rocket.chat hoster. This step was necessary to us to be able to afford running our own large community server. That way we can configure any rocket.chat instance to make use of our own HA push gateway with our own set of app keys. Using rocket.chat with fairchat push gateway and appĪt fairkom we have forked the rocket.chat app end of 2019 and publish a rebased version regularly as fairchat Android and fairchat iOS apps. recommendedĭisclaimer: Prices may vary or are subject to discounting schemes, see the published rocket.chat price list, price for EE has been estimated to $ 5 per seat (volume discounting may apply). Even if all versions support unlimited users, we assume here that every user receives 5-10 messages per day via the rocket.chat push gateway at their rocket.chat app, which in fact limits the number of recommended users that can be hosted per instance. Let's have a look at suitable packages for typical self hosted deployments. Using the rocket.chat push gateway and app After that date all administrators need to upgrade to a 4.x version and are faced with the announced restrictions. The rocket.chat community server edition version 3.18 will be supported until March 2022. After refactoring, it goes closed source. We had contributed code to exactly that feature as we needed it for a few customers. Most importantly, role and group mapping with identity management systems will no longer be available in the community version (see c omparison table). ![]() Rocket.chat's announcement to move some features into their enterprise edition in version 4.0 triggered a controversial discussion on their forum. We had developed a Qt based app, contributed code, gave a lot of feedback and helped to specify and test the team feature, which finally got available in the rocket.chat March 2021 release. At fairkom we deploy rocket.chat servers since 2016 for NGOs, public administration and enterprises and we run a large community server at. ![]() That’s…not great, even for an industry where “encouraging” people to pay for microtransactions by having a long grind otherwise is standard. Someone did some calculations, and apparently it would take about 22 years to “max out” your collection in Clash Royale, playing for free, something which Pat has done by spending $12K. He thinks that Supercell is aware of this, and will make some changes. ![]() ![]() the game experience for those who don’t want to spend money, is problematic in Clash Royale in particular. Pat also has some insights into the plight of the average players, saying that he agrees that the “free player” grind, ie. Considering his entire channel is focused on these games, a $30,000 investment to help ensure he’s a top player is certainly worthwhile (though you obviously need some strategy to stay on top, not just good cards). Thanks to some idiotic April Fool’s joke, they’ve made these numbers impossible to read as I write this, but estimates likely put Pat at making anywhere from $25-40K a month with those kinds of numbers, for a mid-six figure yearly salary. Chief Pat has 1.74 million subscribers on his channel, and has seen dramatic growth recently with the release of Clash Royale in particular, according to SocialBlade, a site that tracks this sort of thing, and also measures potential income, based on analytics. ![]() Do Clorox chlorine tablets have stabilizer?Ĭlorox Pool & Spa XtraBlue 3-inch Chlorinating Tablets are a multi-functional swimming pool chlorine tablets that kill harmfulbacteria and unsightlyalgae. There are several types of chlorine treatments that can be used in a swimming pool or spa. Are there different types of chlorine tablets? The chlorine inside the pool will break down if it is exposed to sunlight. Unstabilized chlorine doesn’t have the common addition in it, cyanuric acid. How do I know if my chlorine is stabilized?Ĭhemical chlorine with no add-ons is called unstabilized chlorine. Adding a stabilizer ensures that the chlorine can stay in the water for longer. Stabiliser is used to protect the chlorine in your pool water from the sun. Do chlorine pucks have stabilizer in them? You’ll be adding a lot of chlorine if you don’t have a CYA. The chlorine will be broken down by the sun’s UV rays if the Stabilized chlorine tablets are not put in place. Do you need stabilizer for chlorine tablets? Stabilized chlorine tablets are the way to go if you want to make water maintenance easier on your own while spending less money. Unstabilized chlorine is a better choice if you have an indoor pool or need to shock it frequently. Does chlorine stabilizer lower chlorine levels?.How often should I add chlorine stabilizer?.What happens if you put too much stabilizer in a pool?.Why are pool chlorine tablets hard to find?.Does baking soda raise stabilizer in pool?.Is cyanuric acid the same as stabilizer?.What kind of chlorine tablets do I need?.Why are 3 chlorine tablets so expensive?.Does granular chlorine have stabilizer?.Should I add stabilizer before chlorine?.Is chlorine stabilizer the same as chlorine?.Is chlorine stabilizer the same as chlorine tablets?.Is there a difference in quality of chlorine tablets?.Do HTH chlorine tablets have stabilizer?.Is there a substitute for pool stabilizer?.Do Clorox chlorine tablets have stabilizer?.Are there different types of chlorine tablets?. ![]() ![]() How do I know if my chlorine is stabilized?.Do chlorine pucks have stabilizer in them?.Do you need stabilizer for chlorine tablets?. ![]() Use as a border, hedge or screen or as a specimen. Will grow in many soil types including damp clay, medium moisture to well-drained soil. Is tolerant of a wide range of pH from 5.0 to 8.0. This deciduous shrub or multi-trunked small tree has a mature height of 15 to 25 feet tall and 15- to 20-foot wide. Berries also attract birds and other wildlife. Can make a sauce similar to cranberry sauce when berries are pitted and boiled, and then ground with sugar and orange peel. Berries have an acidic tart flavor, best described as a mixture of cranberry and sour cherry. Eaten fresh or dried, need to be fully ripe to lose their tartness. This is one of the earliest shrubs to bloom, with berries which resemblance coffee berries that can be used for preserves, jams, sauces and juice that are used for syrup, drinks, and to make alcoholic beverages. Try one on your acreage for something different and to have the plant that heralds spring, to end our cold winter.Yellow flowers bloom in late winter / early spring before leaves develop and have an appearance similar to forsythia, but earlier. The flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) is the species most people think of when the word dogwood is mentioned.Although it is considered one of the favorite trees in the south, there are two other species, kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa) and Cornelian cherry dogwood (Cornus mas), which will grow in all areas of South Carolina except along the coast from Charleston to Savannah, Ga. This is a plant that can tolerate some tough growing conditions, so it should grow very well in most any landscaping setting. Cornus mas prefers to grow in well drained soils with high organic matter but will tolerate the less desirable clay soils found in much of southeastern Nebraska. Cornelian cherry dogwood will do well in our environment because it seems to have very little insect or disease problems and it can handle our cold winters. This small tree or large shrub does best if planted in full sun but will tolerate some shade. There are also many different varieties to choose from, including: 'Golden Glory', 'Spring Glow', and 'Variegata'. They can be used in your landscape as a specimen tree or in a grouping to make a hedge row. The overall size of Cornelian cherry dogwood is up to 20 feet tall and wide it can be trimmed from the ground level to make it look more like a tree. If you beat the birds to the fruits, they can be used to make tart jams and jellies. This dogwood variety, also known as Cornelian cherry, makes beautiful smaller ornamental trees with soft, foamy yellow flowers in late winter, attractive summer foliage and pretty fall leaf color - in addition to the hearty, cherry-like fruit. Cornus mas is relished by birds and other wildlife as a great food, which may make it hard to find the fruits. This dogwood produces small, red, olive-shaped fruit in July and August that are not often noticed because they are hidden by the leaves. The pattern of their leaves is distinct for the dogwood family.Ĭornus mas has interesting bark that exfoliates from the tree. The leaves are a deep green with a slight point on the tip and veins that curve upward with the shape of the leaf. The flowers are usually held on to the shrub for a few weeks before they drop and leaves appear. Cornus mas is a plant that flowers before it has any leaves on it. These small flowers are formed in clusters all over the branches. People always love the plants that are first to bloom in the spring because they show us that winter is coming to an end.Ĭornelian cherry dogwood is a small tree or large shrub that blooms with tiny, beautiful, yellow flowers in late February or early March. In summer, its uncrinkled, bright green variegated foliage with prominent golden yellow margins. In spring, a profusion of creamy-white flowers, or bracts, smother the tree, creating a striking floral show. As with other dogwoods, there is also opposite branching. The green foliage is 2 to 4 inches long, presenting in an opposite leaf arrangement. ![]() ![]() The growth habit is usually round or oval in shape. It brings a little color to an otherwise drab winter environment. Suitable for small gardens, Cornus kousa Summer Gold (Dogwood) is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub or small tree of upright spreading habit. The Cornelian cherry dogwood (Cornus mas) is a large multi-stemed deciduous shrub that is sometimes trained as a small tree. This dogwood blooms in the late winter or very early in the spring, making this plant favored by many. This particular dogwood is a plant that can be used as an indicator for the arrival of spring. Cornelian Cherry dogwood, Cornus mas, is the plant I have chosen for February's plant of the month. ![]() If you’re using the app, you’ll see a plus sign in the bottom right hand corner-click it, and then click “images” to access your phone’s photos. Once clicked, you’ll be able to upload the photo from your computer or just like you would with any other program. So, one spot down from “templates” you’ll see “uploads.” Once you click “uploads” you’ll see a button to “upload media.” ![]() The next step is getting the photo you want to use into Canva. Once you click, you’ll be taken to your new design canvas, where you see a blank white space to work from, along with a number of template options on the left (on Desktop). On the Canva app, you’ll see the “Instagram Post” option front and center, and when clicked, you’ll see the option to start with a “blank” design.” Your dimensions of the new design are going to be anything square shaped, or, you can simply type in “instagram” and then select the 1080x1080px “Instagram Post” option. Since you are going to be uploading a photo as the primary element in the next step, I’d suggest starting blank, or finding a template with a background you’d like to utilize. ![]() If you’re new to Canva, the first thing you’re going to do is create a design You can easily do so by clicking the “create a design” button at the top right of the screen, or, by searching for an already-built template to work from. From there, you can choose whether or not to fill in the new white blank space and background with other design elements or not. To make a photo square without cropping, all you need to do is upload the photo to a square canvas. (If you’d rather watch a video, here you go!) Music: How to Make a Photo Square Without Cropping My preferred tool is Canva, which is what I’ll use with the instructions below, but there are a number of different apps and options that might help you accomplish the same. So, we are going to go through how to make a rectangle photo into a square without cropping, and then as a bonus, I’ll show you an option for making the most out of the leftover white space. One popular need and use case comes with Instagram, where you want to be able to post, say, a physical photo in its entirety without having it cropped to fit the Instagram feed size. Affiliate Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links within the content, sidebar ads, and in other areas, which means if you click those links and make a purchase, I will receive a commission.Ĭropping is an easy and amazing capability at your design fingertips, but sometimes you want to be able to have your photo take on a different shape and size without having to crop and remove any bits and pieces. It's sexually a bit violent for me, but I find it very difficult to apply moral criteria in discussing art. It's extremely well acted, it's very beautifully produced, it has everything - personal relationships, the fighting scenes are interesting, the diplomacy scenes are interesting. I love "Game of Thrones." I also read the books. ![]() Elsewhere." Any time you have 144 hours, I'll give you the discs. But as we get farther from them and we no longer see them as direct representations of the world, we realize that there is art in what they have to offer us. When the novel came about in the 18th century, it was hugely criticized. The same thing happened with photography, to cinema, to jazz - all those things started out as popular arts that were looked down upon by the higher establishment. It's the mother of all arguments against popular culture - which is what Greek tragedy was, in many respects, at the time. Plato outlaws dramatic and epic poetry from his ideal city for three reasons: it conflates the authentic and the fake it's only good for representing sex and violence and it perverts and destroys the life of those who are exposed to it. The first thing I did was connect the criticisms of TV with Plato's criticism of poetry in "The Republic" because they are very similar. I said to myself, "If I don't make anything out of all this watching that I've done, I will have wasted a large part of my life." I was writing a book, and by the evening I was usually exhausted, so I started watching a serious amount of TV. In 1983, I sublet a place that had a big color TV. ![]() When I first came to America I thought that only stupid people watched television. Then I ended up liking it. When my son was very young, he asked me, "What do you do when you do philosophy?" I said, "Well, you think about the most important things in the world." And he said, "Like soccer?" I didn't like economics very much, but even more, economics didn't like me. At Swarthmore, I majored in economics and philosophy. When I was growing up in the 1960s, Greece became famous for shipowning - Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos and all those big names. I went to college with the idea that I was going to join many Greeks by becoming a shipowner and then retire early and do philosophy. I said: "Something that I don't understand completely must be very deep. I couldn't understand the Latin or the Greek. My interest in philosophy started in high school with a copy of Spinoza's "Ethics," which is written in Latin with a Greek translation on facing pages. I would give the same advice to students. You will always find more in it if you keep at it." I still practice it. When I was 14, he said: "Never trust your first impression of a text. If I ever wrote a memoir, I'd mention the advice of a teacher of Greek. I was brought up in the center of Athens but my parents sent me to boarding school only five miles away when I was 8 until age 18. ![]() ![]() Sampson III and his wife had 16 children and were known to have entertained James Boswell and Dr. Little is known of his son and partner Sampson III, who was the last Lloyd to be a partner in both the Birmingham and London houses. He was married twice and had six children. Sampson Lloyd II had apprenticed to a Quaker businessman in Bristol before joining his father ’s iron firm. In 1775 the Birmingham bank had 277 customers. This bank then served as the Birmingham house ’s agent. Just five years later, the bank ’s two junior partners set up their own banking house in London with two other businessmen, forming Hanbury, Taylor, Lloyd and Bowman. Taylors and Lloyds opened its accounts in June 1765. Each man ’s eldest son was also a partner in the bank, and two of Lloyd ’s other sons eventually joined it as well. ![]() Taylor was a wealthy Unitarian who was a maker of buttons and snuff boxes Lloyd was a prominent Quaker whose father had settled in Birmingham in 1698. Sampson Lloyd II worked for 40 years in the family iron trade in Birmingham before founding Taylors and Lloyds in partnership with John Taylor in 1765. The present company arose from a merger of Lloyds and the TSB Group, a deal that catapulted the company into its present position as the second largest bank in Britain. Long considered a conservative banking house, Lloyds has grown increasingly innovative since the early 1970s, often taking the lead among the Big Four clearing banks in offering new financial services and products and in developing an international presence. It has almost 3,000 branches throughout the United Kingdom, and its international business is conducted through approximately 500 offices in 47 countries, including the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Brazil, and Egypt. Through the bank and its subsidiary and associated companies, Lloyds offers a wide variety of international banking and financial services. Lloyds TSB Group plc is one of the Big Four British clearing banks in the United Kingdom. NAIC: 522110 Commercial Banking (pt) 522210 Credit Card Issuing (pt) 522120 Savings Institutions (pt) 523991 Trust, Fiduciary, and Custody Activities (pt) 522320 Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities (pt) 522390 Other Activities Related to Credit Intermediation (pt) 522220 Sales Financing (pt) 522291 Consumer Lending 522292 Real Estate Credit (pt) 522310 Mortgage and Nonmortgage Loan Brokers 524113 Direct Life Insurance Carriers 525110 Pension Funds Ticker Symbol: LLOY (London) LYG ( New York) Its Insurance and Wealth segment offers insurance, investment and wealth management products and services.Incorporated: 1865 as Lloyds Banking Company Limited Its Commercial Banking segment provides a range of products and services, such as lending, transactional banking, working capital management, risk management and debt capital markets services to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), corporates and financial institutions. Its Retail segment offers a range of financial service products, including current accounts, savings, mortgages, motor finance and unsecured consumer lending to personal and small business customers. It operates through three segments: Retail, Commercial Banking, and Insurance and Wealth. Its services are offered through brands, including Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bank of Scotland and Scottish Widows. The Company provides a range of banking and financial services in the United Kingdom and in certain locations overseas. Lloyds Banking Group plc is a United Kingdom-based retail and commercial financial services provider. ![]()
![]() It provides suppliers and their third-party labour brokers with clarity on these requirements. ![]() Our FMW Standard sets forth minimum requirements for the appropriate and ethical recruitment and management of foreign migrant workers, a group vulnerable to forced labour practices. They outline our Vendor Code of Ethics requirements in detail and provide practical explanations for how suppliers will be assessed on each standard. Our VCoE Benchmarks align with the Fair Labor Association's (FLA) Workplace Standards and Compliance Benchmarks. ![]() Any form of forced labour, including but not limited to indentured and bonded labour, involuntary overtime, and prison labor is a zero-tolerance VCoE violation. The VCoE applies to all suppliers, including their owned facilities as well as subcontractors and upstream suppliers. Based on industry and international standards, it sets out our commitment to respecting human and labour rights and promoting safe and fair working conditions for workers in our supply chain. Our VCoE is the cornerstone of our approach to a responsible supply chain. The CoC applies to all directors, officers and employees. Sections relevant to supply chain human rights include ‘non-discrimination and non-harassment’, ‘labour practices’ and ‘respect for our Guests and Others’. Our CoC is our highest ethical policy and sets out our zero tolerance approach to practices of forced or involuntary labour, child labour, and human trafficking of any kind within our operations and supply chain. Foreign Migrant Worker Standard (FMW Standard).GLOBAL CODE OF CONDUCT AND BUSINESS ETHICS (CoC).Key policies that are intended to prohibit and prevent modern slavery and human trafficking in our business include: We are committed to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business dealings and to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to prevent modern slavery and human trafficking in all parts of our business, including our supply chains. OUR POLICIES ON MODERN SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING A responsible supply chain starts with us and the decisions we make in selecting suppliers, as well as our ongoing procurement practices. We consider the greatest risk of modern slavery and human trafficking to exist in our supply chain, as we do not manufacture our own products. We do not manufacture our own products instead, we work with 62 finished-goods facilities in 14 countries and 65 raw material suppliers in 18 countries. We have our global headquarters in Vancouver, Canada, and operate 521 company stores in 17 countries, from the United States to Singapore and from Germany to Australia. We offer a comprehensive line of apparel and accessories under the lululemon brand.Įmploying over 23,000 people globally, we are geographically diverse. We have developed a distinctive corporate culture, and we have a vision to be the experiential brand that ignites a community of people living the sweatlife through sweat, grow and connect. is a designer, distributor and retailer of healthy lifestyle inspired athletic apparel and accessories. is the parent company of lululemon athletica UK ltd., lululemon usa inc., lululemon athletica australia holding Pty Ltd., and lululemon athletica australia Pty Ltd, amongst others. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND SUPPLY CHAINSĮstablished in 1998, lululemon athletica inc. However, not all of these subsidiaries are subject to the UK Modern Slavery Act, the Australia Commonwealth Modern Slavery Act and the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act. This statement sets out our global practices and policies to address human trafficking and forced labor and provides insight into our supply chain and business processes. We take a global approach to addressing modern slavery and forced labor. We will continuously work to prevent modern slavery and human trafficking in our operations and to eradicate modern slavery and human trafficking in our supply chain. is committed to respecting human rights, and we recognize our role in upholding these rights. 2020-2021 INTRODUCTION FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS |
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