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Nearlyone week in, Taco Bell's journey to liberate the phrase 'Taco Tuesday' from its trademarked status continues so that small businesses, independent restaurants, mom-and-pop taco joints, food trucks and taco lovers alike can freely use the common term for the benefit of all. Today, global icon and long-time 'Taco Tuesday' enthusiast, LeBron James, shares his support for Taco Bell's effort to cancel the registered trademark, which has threatened companies, large and small, that use the phrase since 1989. Taco Bell filed its legal petitions to cancel the federal trademark registrations for 'Taco Tuesday' via the USPTO Trademark Trial and Appeal Board on May 16th, 2023.

"Our passion for liberating 'Taco Tuesday' is fuelled by the community of taco enthusiasts that turned two simple words into a cultural phenomenon," says Taco Bell's chief marketing officer, Taylor Montgomery. "To see the support and excitement in response to our efforts to free 'Taco Tuesday' for everyone is not something we take lightly. And, much like Taco Tuesday itself, it's better when shared."

Airing beginning May 22nd, LeBron James will star in an ad titled 'Taco Bleep,' highlighting the absurdity of 'Taco Tuesday' being 'trademarked' and encouraging the taco community to join together in support of the liberation movement.

There is still time to support Taco Bell's liberation efforts in the name of taco culture by signing the Freeing Taco Tuesday petition here. For additional information and upcoming ways to participate in the liberation journey, visit here and follow along on Taco Bell social channels.

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We all agree that engaged and motivated employees are important to organisations. Business leaders and HR professionals have debated extensively about the subject. Over time, they agree, it leads to lower turnover, more loyal customers, higher productivity, and of equal importance, a more fulfilling experience for managers and team members alike (Read more: Understanding Employee Engagement).

When the same participants were asked if they felt management showed appreciation for their good work and extra effort, a staggering 54% of all sampled employees did not express favourable views on this matter. Participants did not feel appreciated for their professional accomplishments. They perceived management did not demonstrate thanks to all those who delivered quality work and performed above what was expected of them. Managers need to remember that showing gratitude is one of the simplest, yet most powerful things that they can do for employees.

Every single manager-employee interaction is an opportunity to develop higher levels of engagement and trust. Unfortunately, these can also become occasions to damage, and in a worst-case scenario, completely and irreparably destroy trust for good (Read more: Eight Essential People Management Skills).

The objectives of this investigation were: to examine the relationship between achievement motive and classroom achievement task performance within a sample of low economic status black and Hispanic students, and to enhance the classroom performance of a group of such students through stimulation to have them attribute their achievement task outcomes to self-effort. The achievement motives of 150 low economic status black and Hispanic New York City junior high school students were measured through in-class administrations of an objective test of achievement motive, and these scores were compared with grades attained by the students on a classroom note copying task. A low but significant Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient was calculated between the two sets of scores (r = .303, p DEUTSCH, HOWARD JAY, "ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVE AND PERFORMANCE AND STIMULATION OF EFFORT ATTRIBUTION IN LOW ECONOMIC STATUS BLACK AND HISPANIC YOUTH" (1982). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI8213601.

Forced labor played a crucial role in the wartime German economy. German military, SS, and civilian authorities brutally exploited Jews, Poles, Soviet civilians, and concentration camp prisoners for the war effort. Many forced laborers died as the result of ill-treatment, disease, and starvation.

Even before the war began, the Nazis imposed forced labor on Jewish civilians, both inside and outside concentration camps. As early as 1937, the Nazis increasingly exploited the forced labor of so-called "enemies of the state" for economic gain and to meet desperate labor shortages. By the end of that year, most Jewish males residing in Germany were required to perform forced labor for various government agencies.

When Germany conquered Poland in the autumn of 1939 and established the Generalgouvernement, the German occupation authorities required all Jewish and Polish males to perform unpaid forced labor. The German authorities required Polish Jews to live in ghettos and deployed them at forced labor, much of it manual. For example, in the Lodz ghetto, German state and private entrepreneurs established 96 plants and factories that produced goods for the German war effort. Forced-labor practices escalated in the spring of 1942, following changes in the administration of concentration camps.

For Jews, the ability to work often meant the potential to survive after the Nazis began to implement the "Final Solution," the plan to murder all of European Jewry. Jews deemed physically unable to work were often the first to be shot or deported.

The Nazis also pursued a conscious policy of "annihilation through work," under which certain categories of prisoners were literally worked to death; in this policy, camp prisoners were forced to work under conditions that would directly and deliberately lead to illness, injury, and death. For example, at the Mauthausen concentration camp, emaciated prisoners were forced to run up 186 steps out of a stone quarry while carrying heavy boulders.

At the end of the war, millions of non-German displaced persons were left in Germany, including some tens of thousands of Jews who had survived the "Final Solution," victims of Nazi policies of deportation for forced labor.

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Nazi Germany undertook several research programs relating to nuclear technology, including nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors, before and during World War II. These were variously called Uranverein (Uranium Club) or Uranprojekt (Uranium Project). The first effort started in April 1939, just months after the discovery of nuclear fission in Berlin in December 1938, but ended only a few months later, shortly ahead of the September 1939 German invasion of Poland, for which many notable German physicists were drafted into the Wehrmacht. A second effort under the administrative purview of the Wehrmacht's Heereswaffenamt began on September 1, 1939, the day of the invasion of Poland. The program eventually expanded into three main efforts: Uranmaschine (nuclear reactor) development, uranium and heavy water production, and uranium isotope separation. Eventually, the German military determined that nuclear fission would not contribute significantly to the war, and in January 1942 the Heereswaffenamt turned the program over to the Reich Research Council (Reichsforschungsrat) while continuing to fund the activity.

The program was split up among nine major institutes where the directors dominated research and set their own objectives. Subsequently, the number of scientists working on applied nuclear fission began to diminish as many researchers applied their talents to more pressing wartime demands. The most influential people in the Uranverein included Kurt Diebner, Abraham Esau, Walther Gerlach, and Erich Schumann. Schumann was one of the most powerful and influential physicists in Germany. Diebner, throughout the life of the nuclear weapon project, had more control over nuclear-fission research than did Walther Bothe, Klaus Clusius, Otto Hahn, Paul Harteck, or Werner Heisenberg. Esau was appointed as Reichsmarschall Hermann Gring's plenipotentiary for nuclear-physics research in December 1942, and was succeeded by Walther Gerlach after he resigned in December 1943.

Developments took place in several phases, but in the words of historian Mark Walker, it ultimately became "frozen at the laboratory level" with the "modest goal" to "build a nuclear reactor which could sustain a nuclear fission chain reaction for a significant amount of time and to achieve the complete separation of at least tiny amount of the uranium isotopes". The scholarly consensus is that it failed to achieve these goals, and that despite fears at the time, the Germans had never been close to producing nuclear weapons.[2][3] With the war in Europe ending in the spring of 1945, various Allied powers competed with each other to obtain surviving components of the German nuclear industry (personnel, facilities, and materiel), as they did with the pioneering V-2 SRBM program.

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