So we’re in a very good position because we invested in the downturn. We’ve still spent a lot of time on the optimization of operational excellence, because we also moved a lot of people around at the same time, what’s the most efficient footprint for our personnel to serve our customers in these new large expanded hubs. So as we mentioned in our remarks, the $1.2 million revenue per employee is a high mark for us back to the 2014 peak. So I think we’re in very good position to take advantage of the market.

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The facts of the case read like a law school issue-spotter, implicating numerous civil procedure concepts, including: proximate causation, statutes of limitations, relation back, tolling, standing, the distinction between federal and state statutes adjudicated in federal court, as well as the merits of a good old-fashioned price-fixing antitrust case. The takeaways from this decision are that courts will continue to give appropriate scrutiny both to amended pleadings and new parties after the statute of limitations has run. Amendments will not automatically relate back, particularly when the nature of the underlying claim has changed. Further, at least in the Seventh Circuit, indirect purchaser claims will face skepticism when they do not draw a clear line of traceable causation between their alleged injury and the underlying violation. More generally, the decision shows the difficulty in expanding claims – especially a full decade after an original complaint is filed. Courts will often view this expansion with skepticism, often finding that it appears strategic or unfair.

Created by renowned contemporary artist Nathan Sawaya and named one of CNN’s Top Ten ‘Global Must-See Exhibitions,’ THE ART OF THE BRICK, presented by M&T Bank, features original pieces, as well as re-imagined versions of some of the world’s most famous art masterpieces, like Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” and Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” made exclusively from LEGO bricks. Visitors will have the opportunity to get up-close with the fan favorite, “Yellow,” a life-size sculpture of a man ripping his chest open with thousands of yellow LEGO bricks cascading from the cavity.

Wu, the Xiamen taxi driver, was typical for his generation on the mainland, one that a contemporary of his in Chongqing had told me was the “most unlucky.” (“When we were young and growing, in the early 1960s, we met with famine. When we wanted to go to school, we met with the Cultural Revolution. When we wanted to have children, we were allowed only one,” he had said.) Wu remembered, without any apparent bitterness, the destruction of his family’s ancestral hall in Jiangxi. He remembered reporting aloud to Mao’s portrait as soon as he got home, lest people watching report him. “Your family might not report you if you didn’t do it, but other people would,” he said. “Trust between people was destroyed.” His ancestral hall has since been rebuilt, as have those of other families. But some things that were lost are harder to rebuild. Trust between people. Faith in politics. For Wu, lessons imparted by the Cultural Revolution still hold true. “Politics is really no different,” he told me. “This anti-corruption drive: it is Xi Jinping aiming at rival cliques.” One of the last things he said to me, with a resigned, wise, and weary smile: “It’s very hard for ordinary folk to tell the future.”

In its original complaint, the sole IPP plaintiff sought to define the following class

‘It’s not that it wouldn’t bring any benefit to the town, but it won’t bring much,’ she said.”

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Aquatherm pipe was able to be heat fused and installed in tight quarters without welding or open flame, which was extremely important in an occupied building.

We look back at actors, musicians writers and other stars from the world of arts and entertainment who died in 2018.

Couldn’t agree with you more, Adele. Catalyst has become nothing more than pop, superficial, one-sided story-telling, even when it’s not on a fear-mongering mission. Not a ‘science program’ at all.

Aquatherm pipe in place at Windsor Over Peachtree. Its virtually leak-free performance impressed the installing contractor.