Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Dems guaranteed income Coronavirus recovery = Yang's universal income?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Says 'Guaranteed Income' Is Worth Considering For Coronavirus Recovery (cbsnews.com)256

DevNull127 shares a report from CBS News:House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday that Congress might want to consider a guaranteed minimum income for Americans as part of the economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis. Her comments are the latest sign that Democratic lawmakers are seriously considering an idea that gained traction during the party's primary, thanks to the candidacy of Andrew Yang. Yang, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, promoted a universal basic income of $1,000 a month for every American during his presidential campaign. He ended his campaign in February, more than a month before the coronavirus crisis sent unemployment soaring. After President Trump signed the bill allowing direct payment to Americans, Yang said in a statement, "I'm pleased to see the White House adopt our vision of putting money directly into the hands of hard-working Americans. It's unfortunate to see this development take place under the current circumstances, but this is exactly what universal basic income is designed to do -- offer a way to ensure that Americans can make ends meet when they need it most.""We may have to think in terms of some different ways to put money in people's pockets," Pelosi said in an interview with MSNBC. "Let's see what works, what is operational, and what needs other attention. Others have suggested a minimum income, a guaranteed income for people. Is that worthy of attention now? Perhaps so."

In a letter to House Democrats earlier this month, Pelosi said she wanted "additional direct payments" to families in future bills. However, she did not provide any specifics on a plan or the amount of money Americans would receive.

Monday, April 27, 2020

Rand Paul COVID speech

KISS COVID ALL OVER


Here's what happens when I go to the grocery store and I'm the only one not wearing a mask.
I made this after imagining Kiss in concert wearing a mask and Gene's tongue hanging out the front.


Saturday, April 25, 2020

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

ML drawing


https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/

https://experiments.withgoogle.com/autodraw

https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2018/03/machine-learning-can-help-you-draw/

https://www.autodraw.com/

China digital currency

China Rolls Out Pilot Test of Digital Currency (wsj.com)40

China's central bank has introduced a homegrown digital currency across four cities as part of a pilot program, marking a milestone on the path toward the first electronic payment system by a major central bank. The Wall Street Journal reports:Internal tests of the digital currency are being conducted in four large cities around China -- Shenzhen, Suzhou, Chengdu and Xiong'an, a satellite city of Beijing -- to improve the currency's functionality, the digital currency research institute under the People's Bank of China confirmed Monday, in response to a request for comment. Chinese domestic and state-run media outlets reported on the trials over the weekend. The trials followed years of research by the central bank dating back to 2014.

The new currency, which doesn't have an official name but is known by its internal shorthand "DC/EP," or "digital currency/electronic payment," will share some features with cryptocurrencies including bitcoin and Facebook Inc.'s Libra, PBOC officials have said. While it won't boast the anonymity that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies tout, China's central bankers have vowed to protect users' privacy. The intention, China's central bankers have said, is to replace some of China's monetary base, or cash in circulation. It won't replace other parts of the country's money supply, such as bank deposits and balances held by privately-run payment platforms, Yi Gang, the governor of China's central bank, said last year.

In Xiangcheng, a district in the eastern city of Suzhou, the government will start paying civil servants half of their transport subsidy in the digital currency next month as part of the city's test run, according to a government worker with direct knowledge of the matter. Government workers were told to begin installing an app on their smartphones this month into which the digital currency would be transferred, the worker said. Civil servants were told that the new currency could be transferred into their existing bank accounts, or used directly for transactions at some designated merchants, the person said.

whole foods union risk tracker

Whole Foods Is Reportedly Using a Heat Map To Track Stores At Risk of Unionization (businessinsider.com)88

According to Business Insider, Amazon-owned Whole Foods is tracking and scoring stores it deems at risk of unionizing through an interactive heat map. From the report:The heat map is powered by an elaborate scoring system, which assigns a rating to each of Whole Foods' 510 stores based on the likelihood that their employees might form or join a union. The stores' individual risk scores are calculated from more than two dozen metrics, including employee "loyalty," turnover, and racial diversity; "tipline" calls to human resources; proximity to a union office; and violations recorded by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The map also tracks local economic and demographic factors such as the unemployment rate in a store's location and the percentage of families in the area living below the poverty line.

The stores' scores on each metric are fed into the heat map, which is a geographic illustration of the United States peppered with red spots to indicate high-risk Whole Foods stores. The heat map reveals how Whole Foods is using technology and data to help manage its vast workforce of more than 95,000 employees. It also provides a rare look into corporate labor-tracking activities, a common practice among large companies but one rarely discussed publicly.
In a statement provided to Business Insider, the company said an "overwhelming majority" of its employees prefer a "direct relationship" with the company over union representation. "Whole Foods Market recognizes the rights of our Team Members to decide whether union representation is right for them," the company said. "We agree with the overwhelming majority of our Team Members that a direct relationship with Whole Foods Market and its leadership, where Team Members have open lines of communication and every individual is empowered to share feedback directly with their team leaders, is best."

"Our open-door communication policy allows us to understand and quickly respond to the needs of our workforce, while recognizing, rewarding, and supporting the goals of every member of our team," the statement continued. "At Whole Foods Market, we're committed to treating all of our Team Members fairly, creating a safe, inclusive, and empowering working environment, and providing our Team Members with career advancement opportunities, great benefits, and competitive compensation, including an industry-leading starting minimum wage of $15/hour."

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Diet & exercise


Finally cancelled my gym membership, first time since I was age 12. Expires 6/5/2020.

At this point, I'm actually wanting to stretch more, reduce size and ease joint strain, and I'm actually getting in good shape doing these exercises, exercising more frequently, and saving a lot of time and a little money. For now, I can also use the treadmill for cardio at my apartment if I want to but I don't want to rely on it.

Obviously there's a social presence factor at the gym, but i think i might look for that elsewhere which is probably better for actually being social.  

I've thought about cancelling before but with this covid, I've been doing the following at home:


STRENGHTH / FLEXIBILITY EXERCISES
  • Stretch
  • Chest: pushups with 'perfect pushups', dumbbell fly
  • Stomach (leg raises, core motions): Medicine ball
  • Shoulder/biceps/triceps/back: kettle bell, dumbbells
  • Legs: squats/lunges with clubs and kettle bell
  • Back: kettle bell rows
CARDIO - biking/hiking


DIET

As for diet, I'm currently doing the following (and occasionally eating garbage, but not much):

Fruit/vegetables: Squash, steamed
Fruit/vegetables: Blender with spinach/water/juice/frozen pineapple/banana
Secondary: Broccoli slaw + tomatoes, northern beans, beets, black olives, italian dressing

Carbs: Soba noodles, real butter
Secondary: Purple rice (steamer)

Protein: Boiled salmon
Secondary: seafood/beef/chicken - no eggs*
Tertiary: Cocoa flavored whey protein + bottled water

Fat: Avocado

Gut health: probiotic, Miralax, occasional digestive enzyme (Digest Gold)

* I cut out eggs because of overwhelming evidence that choline in egg whites contributes significantly to prostate cancer.


Perfect pushups


Kettle bells, 15 & 45 lb.

Medicine balls, 4 & 5 kg.




25 lb. dumbbells



25 and 45 lb. steel clubs.
Because of their shape, I use these more as weights for lunges or other movements than how they are intended to be used.




Reference for how clubs are supposed to be used.


STEEL CLUBS AND MACE:

I recently ran across exercises featuring steel clubs and maces which is interesting variation and useful for the kinds of exercises I'm wanting to consider.

I recall seeing indian clubs at the exercise room of Biltmore Estate and wondering what they were for, so the design is an old concept.

I now have 10 lb. ($76.20)& 25 lb ($130) pairs.

Amazing, the blending of stretching, breathing and contraction into a flowing movement, using many parts of the body simultaneously.

Other source:
https://www.onnit.com/onnit-steel-clubs/?pid=2004
https://www.onnit.com/onnit-steel-clubs/?pid=2004
https://www.onnit.com/onnit-steel-clubs/?pid=747

Starter club reference
https://www.setforset.com/blogs/news/what-size-steel-clubs-indian-clubs-should-i-buy

Here is one source:
https://www.onnit.com/clubs-and-maces/

Indian club - light - example video
https://youtu.be/hMPvSO2Rb_A

Club - heavy - example videos
https://www.onnit.com/onnit-steel-clubs/

Mace - example videos
https://www.onnit.com/onnit-steel-mace/?pid=635

List of exercises - kettle bell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettlebell

History - Indian clubs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_club

Wooden clubs source - these are lighter for flow movement, not less expensive
https://www.revolutionclubs.net/default.asp

30 lb. Slam Ball - $40-ish
https://www.titan.fitness/endurance/30lb-titan-fitness-slam-ball-rubber/424330.html


Secondary: home motion for cardio 

HIIT (high-intensity interval training):

  • jump squats
  • jumping jack
  • burpees
  • high knees
  • mountain climbers


Monday, April 6, 2020

synthetic life - xenobots - virtual creatures


Scientists Create 'Xenobots' -- Virtual Creatures Brought to Life (nytimes.com)28

"If the last few decades of progress in artificial intelligence and in molecular biology hooked up, their love child — a class of life unlike anything that has ever lived — might resemble the dark specks doing lazy laps around a petri dish in a laboratory at Tufts University."

The New York Times reports on a mind-boggling living machine that's programmable -- and biodegradable.Strictly speaking, these life-forms do not have sex organs — or stomachs, brains or nervous systems. The one under the microscope consisted of about 2,000 living skin cells taken from a frog embryo. Bigger specimens, albeit still smaller than a millimeter-wide poppy seed, have skin cells and heart muscle cells that will begin pulsating by the end of the day. These are all programmable organisms called xenobots, the creation of which was revealed in a scientific paper in January...

A xenobot lives for only about a week, feeding on the small platelets of yolk that fill each of its cells and would normally fuel embryonic development. Because its building blocks are living cells, the entity can heal from injury, even after being torn almost in half. But what it does during its short life is decreed not by the ineffable frogginess etched into its DNA — which has not been genetically modified — but by its physical shape. And xenobots come in many shapes, all designed by roboticists in computer simulations, using physics engines similar to those in video games like Fortnite and Minecraft...

All of which makes xenobots amazing and maybe slightly unsettling — golems dreamed in silicon and then written into flesh. The implications of their existence could spill from artificial-intelligence research to fundamental questions in biology and ethics. "We are witnessing almost the birth of a new discipline of synthetic organisms," said Hod Lipson, a roboticist at the Columbia University who was not part of the research team. "I don't know if that's robotics, or zoology or something else."

An algorithm running for about 24 hours iterated through possible body shapes, after which the the two researchers tried "to sculpt cellular figurines that resembled those designs." They're now considering how the process might be automated with 3-D cell printers, and the Times ponders other future possibilities the researchers have hinted at for their Xenobots. ("Sweep up ocean microplastics into a larger, collectible ball? Deliver drugs to a specific tumor? Scrape plaque from the walls of our arteries?")

Sharing the Times' story on Twitter, Vint Cerf summed it up with just three words> .

"This is weird."

Saturday, April 4, 2020

Vegan Atlanta


https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=vegan+store&find_loc=Atlanta%2C+GA

https://www.thrillist.com/eat/atlanta/best-vegetarian-vegan-restaurants-in-atlanta-georgia

https://www.happycow.net/north_america/usa/georgia/atlanta/

https://www.sevananda.coop/

https://www.yellowpages.com/atlanta-ga/vegan-grocery-stores

Hispanic jobs and professional networking, Atlanta, GA

Clases de ingles gratis
https://cpacs.org/esl/
4405 International Blvd NW
Correo electrónico: cpacsesl20@gmail.com
Dirección: 4405 International Blvd Nw C-101, Norcross GA, 30093
Teléfono: 770-878-8854

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Salud pública de Gwinnett

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Empresa de limpieza comercial
https://www.angelcleaningcompany.com
https://www.facebook.com/angelcleaningcompanyllc/
    4560 Atwater Court Suite 107, Buford, GA, United States, Georgia
    (770) 614-3996

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Página de Facebook para trabajar en Atlanta
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1938213223071546/?ref=share

Trabajo de almacén

470-430-0999, llame a Víctor, 678.374.2500

Empleos hispanos y redes profesionales, Atlanta, GA

Búsqueda de empleo





busca trabajos usando la ubicación y cualquier palabra de búsqueda que puedas imaginar. 


Es posible que necesite buscar en inglés.


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Ingenieros y trabajos médicos: los CDC están abiertos a la colocación de este tipo de trabajos:

https://jobs.cdc.gov

https://www.usajobs.gov


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Próximas conferencias de redes hispanas



Conferencia de Mujeres Latinas - Noviembre 2020



Business Expo 2020 - Fecha y lugar por determinar
https://ghcc.org/regional-hispanic-business-summit-expo/

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Dotación de personal, colocación laboral


Personal hispano propiedad de mujeres
https://atlsearchgroup.com/

Atlanta Search Group - Contacto del propietario
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisaknowsdni/
lisa @ atlsearchgroup.com

Empresas de dotación de personal, cámara de comercio de atlanta

http://cca.ghcc.org/STAFFING-FIRM-EMPLOYEE-BENEFITS-TRAINING-__5005113_category.aspx

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Cámara de Comercio Hispana de Georgia

Cámara de Comercio Hispana de Georgia
404.929.9998

Búsqueda de negocios

Negocios propiedad de hispanos

Empresas propiedad de mujeres

Calendario de redes de la Cámara de Comercio Hispana de Georgia

Búsqueda de empleo: sin resultados de búsqueda, respuesta pendiente

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Cámara de Comercio Latino Americana, Georgia

Directorio de negocios

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Mundo hispánico
Revista hispana de Atlanta, anuncios clasificados, empleos

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Agencias hispanas de mercadeo y publicidad

(404) 870 - 0099

404.328.6283

Quickly Media
404.553.3392

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Servicios Legales


(404) 292-7731
2305 Parklake Dr
Suite 100
Atlanta, GA 30345


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ENGLISH


Free English classes



Job search

https://www.jopwell.com

http://www.hispanic-jobs.com

https://www.adeccousa.com/

Search for jobs using location and any search word you can think of.
https://www.indeed.com/q-Hispanic-jobs.html

https://www.randstadusa.com/

You may need to search in English.

https://indeed.com

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Engineers and medical jobs - CDC is open to placement for these kinds of jobs. 

https://jobs.cdc.gov

https://www.usajobs.gov

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Upcoming Hispanic networking conferences

Latin Women's Conference - November 2020

Business Expo 2020 - Date and location to be determined
https://ghcc.org/regional-hispanic-business-summit-expo/

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Staffing, job placement

Woman-owned Hispanic staffing
https://atlsearchgroup.com/

Atlanta Search Group - Owner contact
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisaknowsdni/
lisa @ atlsearchgroup.com


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Financial services company
http://www.primerica.com/michaelburke


Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
404.929.9998

Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce networking calendar


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Latin American Chamber of Commerce, Georgia

Business directory

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Mundo Hispanico
Atlanta Hispanic magazine, classified ads, jobs

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Hispanic marketing and advertising agencies


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Legal services

immigration@rescue.org
atlanta@rescue.org
(404) 292-7731 
2305 Parklake Dr
Suite 100
AtlantaGA 30345


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Latino Prosperity and Policy Conference - October 2020


Thursday, April 2, 2020

Horror: COVID-19 spreading via sound, text, images


If you've heard about the latest and most insidious pathway by which COVID-19 has been spreading, let's hope it wasn't through a Huawei phone.

The Chinese-manufactured device, banned by President Trump and the EU for containing malware, has been found to be transmitting the COVID-19 virus though proprietary sound waves which replicate a fluid pathway of the antigen's most conducive host receptor site. It is thought to be infiltrating and working its way across the electromagnetic spectrum, and is apparently capable of making a parallel jump to a digital form through an algorithmic replication of itself.

The virus has been found festering in microphones where users are sending and receiving audio signals, whereby it translates to a visual contagion by highjacking the built in NLU systems and is then transmittable via voice-to-text, thereby allowing the virus to also spread visually to anyone reading messages via light waves. 

The phone-born virus appears to have originated in the Chinese community via voice-to-text in WeChat users, later spreading to WhatsApp and iOS / Siri communities, and has been found to be infecting households that host Alexa.

Concerns that the virus is also using cameras to produce visually contagious images have been raised due to the vulnerability of compression algorithms. FaceTime users have already been stricken as friends and families overcompensate for limitations of social distancing, and Twitter, Facebook and IG communities are expected to become major carriers due to the short, impulse-driven nature of both text-based messaging and image uploads. YouTube is now on high alert, and naturally those consuming porn are totally fucked, those filthy bastards.

Although the virus has been found to mutate slowly, it seems to be enjoying new outlet in digital form.

The virus seems to be bypassing email due to low usage, preferring a more media-savvy host base. The virus appears to be virtually collaborating with the AI and ML communities to generate new media conducive for reaching a wider audience, and is thought to be capable of writing news, making videos and even imitating popular media personas via deep fakes who act as host ambassadors, including Don Lemon and Suzanne Somers, as well as dead celebrities including a striking impression of Jimmy Durante saying "Hah chah chah chah chaaaaaah" to strike fear and confusion into the public. The virus started with concocted selfies posing as Justin Beiber and John Mayer before ultimately assuming an identity as an unfortunate dick pic of Donnie Most aka "Ralph Malph" of Happy Daze fame, but fans knew something was awry because the GIFY version of the dick wore a leather jacket with meme text 'Heyyyyyy', indicating the virus was mixing up the characters.

COVID-19, previously thought to target the elderly, obese, diabetic and immune-compromised communities, is now understood to be far more capable of terrorizing any idiot who believes what they read online or hear from any asshole with an opinion wearing gloves and a mask and walking their dumb dog because the weather is nice, aside from the pollen.

The virus has been spotted galavanting on SnapChat, continuing to appear as Donnie Most's dick but now wearing a mustache and a silly hat. More recently the virus is diligently working on creating it's own YouTube channel where it compiles reaction videos of horrified people reading news about Corona Virus.

COVID-19 is rumored to have signed on with America's Got Talent where it will judge other up and coming viruses out of China and India, and is expected to make the cover of Time Magazine as Virus of the Year.

COVID-19 has also enlisted Cake and Elon Musk to help cowrite a new EDM single remix of "The Distance" expected to be released not surprisingly in early November of 2020. Coincidentally, the virus is said to be on retainer with the DNC to stand in for Joe Biden should he fall ill.

The virus has also begun following late night host and sniveling cunt Jimmie Kimmel on Twitter and requested an appearance in the form of a deep fake Guillermo sketch. Kimmel has declined to respond but was since spotted hacking and wheezing, bumping into walls and hopefully walking into oncoming traffic.

After infiltrating Audible's popular and classic fiction titles and replacing the names of main characters with 'COVID-19', the virus made an unexpected pivot and counter-replaced it's given scientific moniker with 'The Virus Who Cannot Be Named' after completing the Harry Potter series and leaving glowing reviews.

It then astounded scientists by changing it's name yet again after blowing through Amazon Prime's music inventory, swapping out all of Prince's album covers and related merchandise with the notorious Ralph Malph dick pic wearing a frilly neck wrap, small, round purple-tinted glasses and a chintzy mustache, and referring to itself as 'The Virus Formerly Known as COVID-19', and yet again only an hour later updating all references with simply 'The Virus', and images were replaced with clipart of a ladybug from MS Paint.

Not to be outdone, Madonna, 61, has proposed a photoshoot reminiscent of her days with Marky Mark, whereby she seeks to strike a racy pose with the reluctant and bewildered Don Most, now age 66.

Should COVID-19 aka 'The Virus' conquer the electromagnetic spectrum it may ultimately be capable of permeating our brainwaves whereby, pathologists fear, it would begin compulsively drawing mustaches across the faces of our most precious memories while megalomaniacaly referring to itself as 'The Virus Who Cannot Be Thought About'.

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Inspired by this article on CNN:
May spread through talking or breathing

And later thrilled to find this one, not surprisingly, on Star:
May cause brain damage

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Chattahoochee River trails, waterfalls


See also 

https://pathfoundation.org/

https://www.atlantatrails.com/


Top 10 GA waterfalls
https://www.atlantatrails.com/north-georgia-waterfalls/

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Chastain Park Trail

https://www.atlantatrails.com/atlanta-running-walking-trails/chastain-park-running-trail/


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Chattahoochee Trails


https://www.nps.gov/chat/planyourvisit/maps.htm

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https://www.crnra.vip/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Palisades-East-Indaian-Trail.pdf

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SANDY SPRINGS

East Palisades - EP 28 

1425 Indian Trail NW Sandy Springs, GA 30327

Powers Island

5450 Interstate North Parkway Sandy Springs, GA 30328

Main office

1978 Island Ford Parkway Sandy Springs, GA 30350

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Chastain Park - EP 19 - Whitewater Creek Parking Lot

Whitewater Creek RoadAtlanta, GA 30327

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ROSWELL

400 Riverside Road Roswell, GA 30075

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MARIETTA

Cochran Shoals

1615 Interstate Parkway

OR

Columns Drive Marietta, GA 30067

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90 Lower Roswell Road NE Marietta, GA 30068

301 Johnson Ferry Road SE Marietta, GA 30068

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Gwinnett:

Abbotts Bridge Road Duluth, GA 30096

Medlock Bridge Road Duluth, GA 30097

8615 Barnwell Road Johns Creek, GA 30022