Lifelong Lamar County resident Brian Brumley was appointed chair of the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners by Gov. Greg Abbott in December 2020, and despite wearing many hats as a father, educator, rancher, property owner and mentor, heâs taken the role head-on.
âIt is a busy life, but I donât like being still,â Brumley said.
Brumley currently works as the director of field education for the School of Social Work at Texas A&M University-Commerce, setting up internships and practicums for around 150 students each semester within a 500-mile radius. While heâs now integral in helping social work students start out their careers, he said he didnât always know that was the field he wanted to pursue. The opportunity just presented itself when he was offered a job with Child Protective Services.
Have patent term adjustments arrived in Mexico?
10-02-2021
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In a significant ruling, Mexico’s Supreme Court overturned decades of resistance and allowed a patent term adjustment, Marina Hurtado-Cruz of Baker McKenzie reports.
A new Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property (LFPPI) came into force in Mexico last year. The new law will affect industrial property rights including patents. For the first time in Mexico, the possibility of adjusting the validity of patents is allowed when there have been unjustified delays during its examination. All patents filed as of November 5, 2020, may benefit from this right if the requirements established in the LFPPI are met.
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Specs , one of San Francisco s oddest and most loved bars, is hanging on for dear life
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Specs Twelve Adler Museum Cafe, San Francisco.Google Street View
One of San Francisco’s most eccentric and loved dive bars is hanging on for dear life.
“It’s been a nightmare,” Specs co-owner Maralisa Simmons-Cook told SFGATE. “It’s pretty bleak.”
Specs has been a favorite North Beach watering hole of artists, poets and musicians for more than 50 years and was a bar for years before that, marking the site of a speakeasy and one of San Francisco’s first lesbian establishments.
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The story behind what s hidden beneath the Ben Franklin Statue in SF s Washington Square Park
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A statue of Benjamin Franklin is seen in the center of Washington Square Park in San Francisco on Feb. 5, 2021. In the pedestal of the statue is a time capsule that was place inside in 1979 and will be opened in 2079.Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE
It’s unclear what Dr. Henry Cogswell was trying to say about the life of San Franciscans in 1879 when he placed a string of buttons in his time capsule in Washington Square Park.
Perhaps it went just as he planned, playing a joke 100 years in the making, as Supervisor John Molinari immediately broke the string during the 1979 unveiling, scattering buttons everywhere during the ceremony.
Second man charged in fatal beating on New Year’s Day in Emmonak
Print article A second man is facing murder charges for his role in the fatal beating of a 39-year-old man on New Year’s Day in the Western Alaska village of Emmonak, according to Alaska State Troopers. Darren Hootch, 34, was arrested Sunday and 27-year-old Rudolf Waska was arrested last week in the death of 39-year-old Brian Agwiak. Hootch and Waska had gone to Agwiak’s house on the night of Jan. 1 to find alcohol, according to charging documents. In a later interview with investigators, Hootch said he threatened Agwiak with a copper pipe before Waska beat him, troopers said.