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Brian Casella Highlights a Simple “Pre-Flight” Standard for Better Decisions

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  • Brian Casella of Brookfield, Connecticut, applies a lighting engineer’s discipline to a practical personal standard that helps reduce mistakes and improve outcomes.

Connecticut, US, 25th February 2026, ZEX PR WIRE, Brian Casella, an award-winning lighting engineer and the founder of Fox Haus Event Production, works in an industry where deadlines do not move and small oversights can ripple into bigger problems. Across weddings, corporate events, concerts, and large-scale productions throughout the Northeast, his work centres on making complex builds feel smooth, safe, and finished.

That same discipline translates well outside event production. Casella’s professional pattern is straightforward: do the basics first, do them the same way every time, and build in a back-up before it is needed. It is a personal standard that can fit trust, safety, privacy, finances, health habits, learning, and career choices.

The standard is simple enough to remember and strict enough to work.

Brian Casella’s “Pre-Flight Standard”

Before any meaningful decision or commitment, run a short checklist that covers:

  • Safety: what could go wrong, and what reduces risk

  • Trust: what is verified, what is assumed, and what needs confirmation

  • Privacy: what data is shared, stored, or exposed

  • Money: total cost, ongoing cost, and a realistic buffer

  • Follow-through: the next step, the deadline, and the back-up plan

In event production, pre-flight checks protect the work. In day-to-day life, they protect time, money, and reputation.

Selected lines that capture the work discipline

  • “In event production, the outcome is experienced in a single day or night.”

  • “Lighting may be the visible output, but process is the asset.”

  • “Reliability is not abstract. It is operational memory.”

  • “The entrepreneurial trick is to make the behind-the-scenes system invisible to the client while keeping it rigid enough to deliver.”

The cost of ignoring basics

Basics can feel boring right up until they fail. Across personal finances, online safety, and home safety, the numbers show how expensive small lapses can become.

  • Consumers reported losing more than $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, a 25% increase from the prior year. (Federal Trade Commission)

  • The FBI’s IC3 report summarised 859,532 complaints and reported losses exceeding $16 billion in 2024, a 33% increase in losses from 2023. (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

  • In the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking, 63% of adults said they would cover a $400 emergency expense using cash or the equivalent, meaning 37% would not. (Federal Reserve)

  • NFPA research estimates local fire departments responded to an average of 32,620 home fires per year involving electrical distribution and lighting equipment (2015–2019), with an average of 430 civilian deaths and $1.3 billion in direct property damage each year. (NFPA)

A 30-day implementation plan

Week 1: Build the habit and the baseline

  • Choose one decision type to practise first (money, online trust, home safety, or learning).

  • Print or save the checklist below where you will see it daily.

  • Run the checklist on three small choices to learn the rhythm.

Milestone: Complete three Pre-Flight checks in writing.

Week 2: Apply it to money and time

  • Use the checklist on one purchase or subscription decision.

  • Add a buffer line to every estimate: money buffer and time buffer.

  • Write one rule you will follow for the next two weeks (example: no same-day purchases over a set amount).

Milestone: One decision documented with cost, ongoing cost, and buffer.

Week 3: Apply it to trust, privacy, and verification

  • Use the checklist before sharing personal data or clicking a high-stakes link.

  • Create one verification step you always do (example: open a site by typing the address, not from an email link).

  • Review permissions on one device or account.

Milestone: One privacy clean-up completed and one verification rule written.

Week 4: Apply it to health habits, learning, or career choices

  • Pick one habit (sleep, movement, learning block, or a professional development step).

  • Use Pre-Flight to set a realistic schedule, triggers, and a back-up plan.

  • Document what “done” looks like for the next 30 days.

Milestone: One habit plan set with triggers, schedule, and back-up.

One-page personal checklist

Use this before decisions that affect money, safety, trust, privacy, or your long-term direction.

1) Define the decision in one sentence

  • What am I deciding?

  • What outcome do I want?

2) Safety check

  • What is the worst realistic downside?

  • What reduces risk the most with the least effort?

  • Is there a safer alternative?

3) Trust and verification check

  • What facts are verified?

  • What am I assuming?

  • What would I need to confirm to feel confident?

4) Privacy check

  • What personal data is involved?

  • Who will store it, share it, or see it?

  • Is there a lower-exposure option?

5) Money check

  • What is the total cost?

  • What is the ongoing cost?

  • What is the buffer amount?

  • What is the exit cost if I change my mind?

6) Time and logistics check

  • What is the true time cost, including setup and follow-through?

  • What has to happen before this works?

  • What is the deadline?

7) Back-up plan

  • If the first plan fails, what is plan B?

  • What is the smallest step that still moves me forward?

8) Final go or no-go

  • What is the next step?

  • When will I review the outcome?

Adopt the Pre-Flight Standard for the next 30 days. Use the checklist before your next high-stakes click, purchase, commitment, or schedule change. Share the checklist with someone who makes fast decisions and could benefit from a stronger baseline.

About Brian Casella

Brian Casella is an award-winning lighting engineer and the founder of Fox Haus Event Production. Based in Brookfield, Connecticut, he designs immersive environments for weddings, corporate events, concerts, and large-scale productions throughout the Northeast, with industry recognition including Excellence in Event Lighting Design, Top Event Production Professional of the Year, and Outstanding Achievement in Architectural & Ambient Lighting.

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Just Keepers Announces a Price Reduction of Up to 40 per cent on a Popular Goalkeeper Gloves Brand

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Hinckley, Leicestershire, United Kingdom, 25th Feb 2026 – Just Keepers has announced a new pricing update on goalkeeper gloves from a leading brand, with reductions of up to 40 per cent across several widely used models. The change forms part of the retailer’s broader effort to improve access to high-quality goalkeeping equipment through its online platform.

The updated range includes adult gloves designed for competitive and training use, featuring performance-focused materials intended to support grip, comfort, and durability. Many of the models included in the adjustment are known for their lightweight construction, responsive palm latex, and structured wrist support — elements that are commonly sought after by goalkeepers at various playing levels.

By offering reduced pricing on selected goalkeeper gloves, the company aims to make professional-grade gear more attainable for a wider audience.

The changes apply to multiple glove styles and cuts, allowing keepers to choose options that suit different playing surfaces, weather conditions, and personal preferences.

For more information
https://www.just-keepers.com/goalkeeper-gloves/goalie-gloves/one-adult-gloves/ 

About Just Keepers Ltd

Just Keepers is a specialist retailer focused solely on goalkeepers, providing a carefully selected range of equipment tailored to the unique demands of the position. The collection includes goalkeeper gloves, performance apparel, and goalkeeping accessories designed for both training and match use. Supporting players from grassroots football through to the professional level, the company emphasises role-specific design, durability, and reliable performance across all its products.

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Xepeng Addresses Challenges of Direct Digital Asset Acceptance in Indonesia

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The platform details why a conversion-first structure offers a practical, compliant path for using digital assets in an economy built on Rupiah

Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, 25th Feb 2026 — As digital assets gain traction globally, businesses and visitors alike are asking whether merchants in Indonesia can simply accept those instruments directly. The short answer: while demand exists, direct acceptance creates practical, operational and regulatory problems for many Indonesian businesses, and those problems are exactly what Xepeng’s model is designed to avoid.

Direct digital-asset acceptance shifts custody, volatility and reporting burdens onto merchants. To accept value denominated in tokens, a business would typically need to operate wallets, manage private keys, track asset prices, and maintain separate accounting and tax treatments. Those requirements run counter to how Indonesian commerce is structured: pricing, invoicing, tax filings and bank reconciliation are all Rupiah-centric. The mismatch creates legal ambiguity and operational friction for merchants, and it introduces uncertainty for customers who expect clear receipts and predictable settlements.

Rather than asking merchants to become custodians or accountants for unfamiliar asset classes, Xepeng treats digital instruments as the input to a structured conversion workflow. The instrument a buyer uses to send value is decoupled from what the merchant receives: a Rupiah settlement, delivered through domestic banking rails and documented for standard accounting and audit processes.

Key elements of the structured alternative:

  • Identity & onboarding first. Merchants and payout recipients are verified through electronic KYC checks before they can request conversions. That initial verification creates an auditable trust anchor for later activity.
  • Structured entry point. Transactions begin with a generated conversion link tied to an invoice or booking reference. That link anchors the commercial purpose before any conversion activity proceeds.
  • Layered screening. Counterparty screening, risk indicators and contextual reviews are applied to incoming conversion requests so suspicious or high-risk flows can be paused or escalated.
  • Backend conversion & Rupiah settlement. Any digital instruments used by buyers are handled through monitored backend channels; merchants receive cleared IDR to their registered bank accounts.
  • Auditability & cooperation. Records are retained to support lawful requests, disputes and reconciliation without requiring merchants to maintain parallel crypto records.

Xepeng’s framework is intentionally conservative: it does not position digital instruments as replacements for Rupiah in domestic commerce. Instead, it offers a practical bridge that respects Indonesia’s monetary framework while enabling cross-border interaction. That stance reduces exposure for merchants, increases transparency for authorities, and creates a predictable user experience for international customers.

As global digital value usage grows, structured approaches that centralize verification, screening and conversion will likely become an essential option for markets that prioritize a single legal tender. Xepeng’s model demonstrates how thoughtful design can balance innovation with local financial stability and merchant protection.

For more information about Xepeng’s structured processing framework and how it applies to tourism and cross-border commerce, visit https://www.xepeng.com or contact hello@xepeng.com.

About Xepeng

Xepeng is a conversion platform that connects international digital instruments to Indonesia’s Rupiah-based financial system. The platform combines secure onboarding, compliance screening, backend conversion and domestic settlement to enable predictable, audit-ready outcomes for local businesses.

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Gregory Mikolay Shares a 12-Month Outlook for Oracle Database Work, Performance Tuning, and Enterprise Systems

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  • Gregory Mikolay, a Senior Oracle Developer based in Salt Lake City, Utah, outlines what individuals should expect over the next year across Oracle PL/SQL development, SQL performance tuning, and enterprise database operations.

Utah, US, 25th February 2026, ZEX PR WIRE, Gregory Mikolay, Senior Oracle Developer and Oracle database consultant focused on PL/SQL development and performance tuning, is sharing a practical one-year outlook for individuals working in Oracle database development, application tuning, and enterprise reporting environments.

Gregory Mikolay’s outlook is shaped by more than two decades in IT and a career spent inside high-demand transactional systems, data warehouse environments, and reporting stacks that span Oracle EBS tooling and related enterprise workflows. Over the next year, he expects the work to keep moving toward higher urgency, higher scrutiny on performance, and faster cycles of change inside organizations.

I have embarked on several Career Paths throughout my life.
Looking to become an integral part of a team of individuals involved in all areas of development, from designing applications to troubleshooting database applications and software.

What changed recently

Across enterprise environments, the day-to-day expectations around database work have tightened. The technical bar remains high, but the bigger shift is operational: data sets are larger, systems are pushed harder, teams are more distributed, and the tolerance for slowdowns is lower.

Gregory Mikolay’s recent consulting work at Elite Data Partners has centered on PL/SQL development and database and application performance tuning for clients, often in hybrid settings. His prior role at Young Living Essential Oils combined Agile development with an on-call support model for promotions, requiring rapid context switching between planned work and urgent delivery support.

Position required one’s ability to switch between a market/customer ad hoc/on call support model for promotions and agile for development tasks.

What people are getting wrong

Gregory Mikolay sees individuals underestimate how much performance work is now a full-time mindset, not a periodic cleanup. Many treat tuning as something you do only when a system is already strained. In practice, tuning starts earlier: with table designs, table relationships, application interactions with database objects, query design, indexing optimization strategies, package design, and an ongoing habit of validating how changes behave under load.

He also sees individuals over-focus on tools and under-focus on fundamentals: clean SQL, readable PL/SQL, careful use of triggers, and clear documentation that survives team handoffs. In environments where business needs and technical constraints collide, long-term reliability often depends on consistency and communication, not clever shortcuts.

Known for precision and persistence, Gregory brings deep technical fluency to every project, often serving as a critical link between engineering teams and business units.

What is likely to get harder next year

Gregory Mikolay expects pressure to increase in four areas:

  1. Faster turnaround demands for production support and ad hoc needs

  2. Higher expectations for cross-team coordination across remote and offshore structures

  3. More attention to performance and data integrity alignment with business requirements

  4. Less tolerance for fragile fixes that do not scale

The strongest contributors will be those who can move between building and stabilizing. That includes the ability to tune SQL and PL/SQL, partner effectively with DBAs, and balance performance gains against real constraints like load, memory, and disk parameters.

Additional tasks required performance tuning of PL/SQL programs, SQL queries, creating indexes and working with DBA’s on database performance tuning measures balancing performance with resources/load/memory/disk parameters.

What will work

Mikolay expects the most durable approach to be practical, repeatable habits:

  • Treat performance as a design requirement, not a rescue task

  • Build change discipline around packages, procedures, functions, and triggers

  • Invest in collaboration habits that hold up in hybrid and distributed teams

  • Keep documentation and technical design artifacts current

  • Stay fluent across the stack you support, including reporting and ETL where relevant

His experience spans transactional systems support, data warehouse ETL development on Oracle 19c, 12g, 11g, Oracle Reports and Discoverer environments, and enterprise support structures that connect IT delivery to business needs.

Data points from Gregory Mikolay’s background

These figures reflect the operating realities that shape Gregory Mikolay’s outlook:

  • 20+ years in the IT industry

  • Consulting at Elite Data Partners since June 2022 (3 years 9 months)

  • Young Living Essential Oils role: Feb 2018 to May 2022 (4 years 4 months)

  • Crown Point Ecology contract: Jan 2016 to Feb 2018 (2 years 2 months)

  • Signet Jewelers role: Jan 2013 to Jan 2016 (3 years 1 month)

  • Fox Chapel Area High School graduation: 1986

  • Associate’s Degree completion: 1999, summa cum laude, with a 4.0 grade

Three scenarios for the next 12 months and the best individual actions

Optimistic scenario

Workflows stabilize. Teams get clearer on ownership. Performance work is planned earlier and executed more consistently.

Best individual actions:

  • Standardize a personal checklist for SQL and PL/SQL review before deployment

  • Build a repeatable approach to indexing strategy and query validation

  • Maintain a living library of patterns for packages, procedures, and common tuning fixes

Realistic scenario

Demand remains high. Priorities shift often. Support work and development work keep colliding, especially around promotions, reporting, and peak operational windows.

Best individual actions:

  • Practice fast context switching with a tight note-taking and handoff routine

  • Keep tuning skills sharp by regularly reviewing execution plans and query behavior

  • Strengthen working relationships with DBAs and adjacent teams to shorten diagnosis time

Cautious scenario

More unplanned work lands in production. Systems run closer to the edge. Teams are stretched, and small inefficiencies create outsized disruption.

Best individual actions:

  • Focus on stability first: simplify brittle SQL, use effective PL/SQL code, reduce unnecessary complexity

  • Create rollback-aware deployment habits and clear validation steps

  • Push for documentation discipline so fixes do not disappear with team changes

Readers can choose a scenario, optimistic, realistic, or cautious, and commit to the matching steps for the next 12 months. Start with the checklist and habits that fit your environment, then make them routine. The work compounds over time, especially in performance tuning and enterprise database support.

About Gregory Mikolay

Gregory Mikolay is a Senior Oracle Developer and Oracle database consultant based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He focuses on Oracle PL/SQL development, SQL performance tuning, and enterprise database support and optimization, with experience across transactional systems, data warehouse ETL work, and reporting environments.

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