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1 Lancaster County Best Kept Secrets Tour | October 6-22
Experience a unique shopping adventure featuring 41 off-the-beaten path businesses. Travel place to place in your own vehicle at your own pace. Participating businesses offer a range of refreshments, games, gifts, farm tours, demonstrations, workshop tours, make & take projects and more. Tickets are $11 each ($1 per ticket is donated to Lancaster Early Education Center) and are valid until October 22. Information: 717-721-9409 or bestkeptsecretstour.com/lancaster-county.
2 Legacy of Sleepy Hollow | October 6-November 6
Strasburg Rail Road
A professional cast of actors brings a new perspective to the classic tale, Legacy of Sleepy Hollow, with the help of grand special effects, live horses and the scariest train ride of the season. Join Isabel Crane, the great-great-granddaughter of the legendary Ichabod Crane, as she takes you on a frightful journey filled with sword fights, ghosts and a centuries-old curse surrounding her family. 301 Gap Road, Ronks. Information: 1-866-725-9666 or strasburgrailroad.com/special-events/legacy-of-sleepy-hollow.
3 Maize & Snitz Market Faire | October 7-8
Discover what life was like in Pennsylvania during the 1700s. Learn about Indigenous life in the area, engage with artisans demonstrating early American trades and tour the 1719 Herr House. Also, shop for hand-crafted items such as redware pottery, hand-dyed wool yarn, hand-turned wooden implements, wrought iron, bobbin lace and 18th-century paper goods. Tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for children. Tickets can be pre-purchased online or at the event. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. 1849 Hans Herr Drive, Willow Street. Information: 717-464-4438 or mennonitelife.org/event/maize-snitz-market-fair.
4 Apple Dumpling Sale | October 7-8
Nothing says fall like a warm, juicy apple wrapped in pastry and covered in sweet cinnamon syrup. Enjoy the delicious Pennsylvania Dutch treat (made by Achenbach’s Pastries) while supporting the Ephrata Cloister. All proceeds benefit the Back to the Cloister Fund, which is used to return original items to the historic site. Apple dumplings can be purchased for $5 each at the Museum Store. The sale will run from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on October 7 and 9 a.m. until sold out on October 8. 632 West Main Street, Ephrata. Information: 717-733-3733 or ephratacloister.org/events/apple-dumpling-sales.
5 Fallfest | October 8
Bright Side Opportunities Center
Celebrate fall with the community at this free family-centered event. Enjoy bouncy houses, vendors, raffles, face painting, crafts and more. Kids ages 9-17 can participate in a basketball skills contest to win cash prizes in three categories: three-point shooting, dribbling skills and a knock-out tournament. Bright Side Soul Food dinners will be available, including fried fish, chicken or pulled pork. 12-5 p.m. 515 Hershey Avenue, Lancaster. Information: 717-509-1342 or brightsideopportunities.org.
6 Blues & Brews Street Festival | October 8
Front Street, Marietta
From 1-6 p.m., Marietta will be shutting down Front Street from McCleary’s Pub to River Trail Brewing for an afternoon of beer and music. Between those two venues, attendees will be able to freely enjoy their brews, listen to music and visit various food trucks and vendors. At McCleary’s Pub, hear music by Moe Blues from 1-3 p.m. and Six Whiskey Revival from 4-6 p.m. Octavia Blues Band will perform at River Trail Brewing throughout the afternoon. Admission is free. Information: 717-426-2225 or marietta-pa.com/events/pub-crawl.
7 Harvest Days | October 8-9
Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum
Join Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum for their oldest and largest event of the year. Explore demonstrations, exhibits, live music, a children’s discovery tent and other activities. Visitors can also taste heirloom varieties of apples, pick a pumpkin and experience horse-drawn wagon rides. Food will be available for purchase on site. Free parking. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 2451 Kissel Hill Road, Lancaster. Information: 717-569-9312 or landisvalleymuseum.org.
8 Past, Present, Pumpkins! | October 15
Learn all about the autumnal icon at this family-friendly event. Discover the historical origins of the pumpkin and why we decorate our front porches with them each year. Plus, decorate a small jack-o’-lantern. Tickets are $5 per child and free for adults. Advanced registration is required to guarantee supplies for everyone. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. 230 North President Avenue, Lancaster. Information: 717-392-4633 or lancasterhistory.org.
9 Fall Artwalk | October 15-16
Lancaster Artwalk is a self-guided tour of the downtown galleries in Lancaster City. Stroll around at your own pace and enjoy special exhibitions, live demonstrations, meet-the-artist events, children’s activities and more. Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, 12-4 p.m. Information: lancastercityartgalleries.com/lancaster-artwalk.
10 Yummie’s Boo Bash | October 29
Kitchen Kettle Village
Take the family to Kitchen Kettle Village for a fun day of Halloween festivities. Kids can get their picture with the Kitchen Kettle Village mascot, Yummie, participate in a costume contest, make a whoopie pie and go on a scavenger hunt for exclusive surprises and treats. Tickets are $12.95 for children and $19.95 for adults. Tickets also include a lunch voucher for use at the Harvest Café. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. 3529 Old Philadelphia Pike, Intercourse. Information: 717-768-8261 or kitchenkettle.com.
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Take your summertime style to the next level with this Lands' End collection of pink swimwear for men. No matter what you have planned this season, our stylish swimsuits have what it takes. Your warm-weather fun gets a serious upgrade once you have our swimwear in your rotation.
With an assortment of designs available, this collection makes it easy to find the perfect swimsuit for your style sense. Looking for solid-color men's pink bathing suits? You're in the right place. How about pink bathing suits with patterns like floral prints or colorblock designs? You'll find those here, too. Stock up on a few different styles so you always have a comfy, vibrant swimsuit ready for anything you have planned, then pack those travel backpacks for a weekend at the beach house.
We offer pink bathing suits for men in a range of inseams, so you're sure to find your new go-to swimsuit here. These bathing suits also feature thoughtful design details that take your comfort to the next level. Soft fabrics that dry quickly and protect you from the sun (for covered areas only) are just the start. Elastic waistbands, functional pockets, and more make these the ideal swimsuits for any activity.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (Feb. 5, 2014) – The Kentucky State Senate approved a measure, 23-15, today that would abolish the state office of Treasurer.
Senate Bill 58, sponsored by Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Latonia, would amend the state constitution to dissolve the State Treasurer’s office at the end of the current term.
McDaniel told lawmakers the office has become obsolete. “Today, the office performs very few functions that are not also performed by the Governor’s Finance Administration Cabinet,” he said.
McDaniel said the duties would be transferred to the Finance Cabinet and state Auditor’s Office.
Those opposing the bill included Senate Democratic Floor Leader Sen. R.J. Palmer, D-Winchester, who said the Treasurer’s Office provides a needed check and balance for the state’s finances.
If the measure becomes law, the question will be posed to voters for final ratification in the 2014 general election in November.
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New England School of English is a leading language school in Utrera. Students living in our city and other towns in the area choose our school every year.
Specialists in teaching English since 1999
Nearly 20 years of experience preparing students to take part in official exams
Modern and comfortable facilities
New England is a leading English school located in Utrera. Founded in 1999, our center has a solid reputation in the teaching of English as a point of reference in the south and southwest area of the province of Seville. Thousands of students have learned English with us and hundreds of them have obtained their official English certificates in these years. Today, we pride ourselves on becoming a LanguageCert Approved Test Centre, offering the benefits of the next generation of English language qualifications, LanguageCert International ESOL, to our students. | <urn:uuid:676d275f-4c14-416a-9536-a3980bea85cf> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.languagecert.org/en/exam-types/test-centre-exams/europe/spain/new-england-school | 2023-09-25T00:40:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.962121 | 164 |
Preventing mold growth prevents foul-smelling odors from spreading while helping you and your family avoid potential health problems. Recently, we published part one of how to prevent mold growth in your basement. There is so much valuable information to share that part two was necessary. Here are more tips on preventing mold growth in your basement.
Keep Your Basement Clutter-Free
Preventing mold growth is as simple as maintaining a clutter-free space. Too many items in your basement can cause congestion and block air from flowing freely throughout your basement. If you store objects in this area of your home, ensure that they don’t make direct contact with the floors or walls.
Insulate Your Basement
You must insulate it if you use your basement as a living space. Insulating your basement’s pipes, walls, and windows actively prevents condensation and reduce humidity levels. Also, the proper insulation keeps your basement warm without adding extra moisture to the air.
Keep Plants Out of the Basement
Plants can make any room look cozy. However, it’s best not to house them in the basement. Plants are a food source for mold, and plants should only be in locations with more than enough air and sun. However, if you insist on putting foliage in the basement for decorative purposes, you should limit the number of plants you use. Additionally, you never want to overwater plants. Also, check the leaves and soil and change the soil if you notice mold or mildew. Anti-fungal treatments are excellent for plants as well.
Refrain from Storing Wood in the Basement
Wood floors and furniture are breeding grounds for mold and mildew. Like carpeting, mold can also live on organic materials such as wood. It’s better to store wood in an airy, open environment and away from your home’s foundation.
Vent Appliances Properly
Many homeowners keep appliances in the basement. However, it would be best to vented machines such as washers and dryers. Otherwise, the steam these machines produce will have no place to go, resulting in ceilings and walls being trapped with moisture. If you can’t vent your appliances, the best thing to do is open your basement windows or use a fan.
Keep the Air Fresh
Basements have high humidity. You can make any space in your home less humid by replacing the humid air with fresh air. We also suggest hanging wet clothes upstairs instead of in your basement. You can also invest in an exhaust fan to keep your home dry and prevent standing surface water.
Invest in a Humidifier
A poorly-ventilated basement leads to mold growth. However, a humidifier can help prevent this. Fans are effective. However, humidifiers remove excess moisture from areas that are hard to reach, like beneath your floors.
Reach Out to Lanham Construction for Our Waterproofing Services
We want to help keep your basement protected from flooding and mold-free. Fortunately, your basement never has to be moldy. These tips on preventing mold growth will help as well as Lanham Construction’s waterproofing services.
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Classic Costa Rica
Priced from £2840 per person
The itinerary below takes in the most popular regions of Costa Rica and as such it is a diverse trip. It includes wildlife, adventure, active volcanoes and some time on the beach at the end.
As a guideline, the itinerary outlined below would cost approximately £2,840 per person based on two people travelling and includes all activities on a private basis unless stated, private transfers, internal flights in Costa Rica, entrance fees, accommodation and taxes and meals where mentioned.
Please note that the itinerary does not include any international flights
|Day 1||Fly to San Jose. Met on arrival and transferred to the Grano de Oro hotel for the night in a standard room on a b&b basis.
|Day 2||Met in the morning and transferred by bus and boat – shared transfer, into Tortuguero National Park. 2 nights in the Aninga lodge in a standard room on a full board basis including all activities.
|Day 3||A full day in the Tortuguero National Park. There is an included programme of guided excursions, which include; boat trips along the inland waterways, short walks on trails, watching turtle nesting and hatching on the beaches (seasonal), the village of Tortuguero and the turtle museum – shared basis.|
|Day 4||Met and transferred to the airport for your flight to San Jose, depart on Nature Air 211 At 07:00 arrive 07:30. Met on arrival and transferred to Monteverde and the El Sapo Dorado Lodge for 3 nights in a classic mountain suite on a b&b basis. Afternoon free for personal exploration.
|Day 5-6||2 full days in Monteverde Cloudforest Reserve. There are a number of excursions that can be arranged and paid for locally, such as: guided day and night walks in the cloud forest, butterfly garden, orchid garden, sky trek and canopy tour, horse riding or mountain biking.|
|Day 7||Met in the morning and transferred to Arenal and the Arenal observatory lodge for 2 nights in a standard room on a b&b basis. Afternoon free for personal exploration. The resort has great views of the volcano especially by night.
|Day 8||The day is free for personal exploration. There are several excursions to choose from including: Arenal volcano hike, la Fortuna waterfall, white water rafting on the Sarapiqui river or a canopy tour.|
|Day 9||Met and transferred to the Nosara Peninsula and the L’Acqua Viva hotel for 3 nights in a deluxe room on a b&b basis.
|Day 10-11||On the Nicoya Peninsula, free for personal exploration.|
|Day 12||Met and transferred to the airport for your internal flight to San Jose, depart on Nature Air 337 at 16:05 arrive 16:25. Met on arrival and transferred to Hotel Grano de Oro for the night in a standard room on a b&b basis.|
|Day 13||Met and transferred to the airport for your return international flight.|
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In order to assist the Broadcasting Board of Governors in carrying out the provisions of this subchapter, any agency or instrumentality of the United States may sell, loan, lease, or grant property (including interests therein) and may perform administrative and technical support and services at the request of the Board.
22 U.S. Code § 1465dd - Assistance from other Government agencies
Section was enacted as part of the Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act which comprises this subchapter, and not as part of the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 which comprises this chapter.
1998—Pub. L. 105–277 substituted “Broadcasting Board of Governors” for “United States Information Agency” and “the Board” for “the Agency”.
Broadcasting Board of Governors renamed United States Agency for Global Media pursuant to section 6204(a)(21) of this title. The renaming was effectuated by notice to congressional appropriations committees dated May 24, 2018, and became effective Aug. 22, 2018. | <urn:uuid:30999f47-d27c-446e-8403-de791fb62305> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/1465dd | 2023-09-25T01:21:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.94178 | 213 |
Big-Rig Collision near Highway 44 Resulted in Fatality
SHASTA COUNTY, CA (October 13, 2022) – Thursday morning, one person died in a two-vehicle collision on Highway 89.
The fatal incident happened around 11:00 a.m., four miles north of Old Station, north of Highway 44.
According to the investigators, a logging truck collided with another vehicle for reasons under investigation.
As a result, the big rig became engulfed in flames, killing one person inside. Although, their identity has not yet been released, pending notification of next of kin.
Currently, the total number of parties involved and the circumstances surrounding the crash remains unclear. The surrounding area of the road was closed for a brief time to allow for cleanup and preliminary duties.
No further details regarding the Highway 89 head-on crash have been released to the public; however, Shasta County officials will provide more information once available. An active investigation into the two-vehicle collision on Highway 89 is currently underway.
Sweet James sends out their warm and sincerest sympathies to the friends and family of the victim. May the memories of your loved one give you strength in the days ahead.
It is important to have strong legal representation on your side when losing a loved one in a head-on crash. Reach out to the wrongful death lawyers at Sweet James today. With 20 years of experience in the field, they know what it takes to help you win your case. Their team understands that nothing can alleviate the emotional pain of a death of a loved one, but they can help you seek justice and compensation. Call them at (800) 975-3435 for a free and confidential case evaluation. You can reach them 24 hours a day and 7 days a week through email, text, and online chat. For more accident news, click here.
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The Honorable Andrew J. Peck served for 23 years as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of New York, including a term as Chief Magistrate Judge from 2004 to 2005. Before his appointment to the bench, Judge Peck was in private practice for 17 years, focusing on commercial and entertainment litigation, including copyright and trademark matters, with extensive trial experience.
At DLA Piper, Judge Peck advises on innovative and efficient solutions to the challenges of information management, both within and outside the litigation context. He frequently speaks at conferences concerning eDiscovery issues. Since joining DLA Piper, Judge Peck has been retained to serve as special discovery counsel to clients and law firms, and to submit expert reports in state court cases. Judge Peck is ranked by Chambers as "Recognized Practitioner" for "Litigation: E-Discovery in USA- Nationwide." | <urn:uuid:01b4d728-7ebe-4628-90ae-97d13b7a35dd> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.lawinstitute.org/the-faculty/personal?id=175 | 2023-09-25T00:36:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.969156 | 177 |
On April 14, 2022, Law Clerk James LaValle was sworn into the New York State Bar. The event was broadcast live through a virtual ceremony.
James has been with the Law Offices of Pullano & Farrow as a Law Clerk in the Corporate Department since February 2022. Under guidance and supervision from attorneys in the Firm, James has worked with members of the department in researching legal questions, drafting memorandum, and assisting in various matters.
The Firm is pleased to announce that James will be taking on a new role as an Associate Attorney within the Corporate Department, where he will advise businesses on the intricacies of corporate law including entity formation, licensing, contracts, mergers and acquisitions, and financing.
James received his Bachelor of Arts from Siena College and his Juris Doctorate from Albany Law School.
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|§ 2||Standards for disposal of records containing personal information; disposal by third party; enforcement|
Terms Used In Massachusetts General Laws > Chapter 93I - Dispositions and Destruction of Records
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
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Online Privacy Protection
Author: Zhao Yun
In Zhao, Y & Ng, M (Eds.), Chinese Legal Reform and the Global Legal Order: Adoption and Adaptation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 156-178, 2018.
About the book: This volume critically evaluates the latest legal reform of China, covering major areas such as trade and securities law, online privacy law, criminal law, human rights and international law. It represents a bold departure from the most recent works on Chinese legal reform by engaging the ideas of experts in contemporary Chinese law with the archival scholarship of Chinese legal historians. This unique interdisciplinary feature affords readers a more nuanced view of the complexities and specificities of how China has problematised legal reforms in various historical contexts when building a progressive yet sustainable legal system. This volume appraises the most current reform in Chinese law by considering China’s engagement with globalisation, increasingly complicated domestic situation and historical legal transplantation experiences. It will be of huge interest to students, researchers and practitioners interested in Chinese law and policy, China and Asian studies and Chinese legal history. | <urn:uuid:6b021533-b9a4-4676-8144-3c51b3bff503> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.lawtech.hk/online-privacy-protection/ | 2023-09-25T00:21:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.879748 | 224 |
Did you hear the big NEWS? TpT is hosting a cyber Monday and Tuesday sale!
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09 Sep 2021
Nantucket Photo Contest – Fresh Catch
Filed under Island Times
With Labor Day Weekend in our rearview, we are so excited for a slower pace, a few more beach days, and fall fishing! Which leads us to the theme for the photo contest for September – Fresh Catch! We want to see what you have to offer on the fishing front, or maybe you specialize in the eating of the catch and not so much the actual catching? However you want to interpret it, we are excited to see what you can come up with. We have been blown away by all the excellent entries we have received this summer and are looking forward to a fall full of great photos!
Here’s a reminder on how to play:
- Tag @leerealestatenantucket in your social post
- Use #ACKPhotoContest
- Email photos to email@example.com
We will announce a winner at the end of the month!
- 05 Jun 2021 Nantucket Photo Contest – Fog Happens New month new photo contest theme Everyone who knows and loves Nantucket knows that it is not bright and sunny every day of the year and sometimes the fog rolls in when you least expect it. A plus side to the foggy days – is that it makes for some spectacular photos So the... Continue Reading
- 13 Aug 2021 Nantucket Photo Contest – Seas The Day New month new photo contest theme Being surrounded by water means that there is no shortage of inspiration for this months theme. So the theme for the month of August is Seas the Day. And we want to see your BEST photos. Here’s how to play Use hashtag #ACKPhotoChallenge Tag leerealestatenantucket in your social posts... Continue Reading | <urn:uuid:2d4d638f-2162-474a-922b-990552c00f63> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.leerealestate.com/blog-post/nantucket-photo-contest-fresh-catch/ | 2023-09-25T00:32:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.915759 | 371 |
Clifford Chance’s Arnav Joshi discusses his busy day-to-day in the firm’s Tech//Digital team and how those seeking to enter the profession should embrace the changes ahead
Arnav Joshi, a senior lawyer in the firm’s Tech//Digital team, says the Magic Circle firm has afforded him the opportunity to “grow twice as quickly as a lawyer compared to elsewhere”.
Reflecting on his work, Joshi first clarifies what Tech//Digital entails. “While most other firms continue to use the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) terminology, at Clifford Chance, we rebranded this practice under the more new-age tech and digital umbrella”, he explains. This means they look at the practice of technology law at “a higher level of abstraction”.
He works on a wide variety of matters including data privacy, cybersecurity, emerging technology laws, content moderation, AI, quantum computing, data transfers and children’s online safety. On an advisory level, Joshi explains, “it’s about telling clients what they need to think through before getting new products and services to the market and how to deal with consumers and regulatory expectations”.
As well as his day-to-day work as a lawyer, Joshi leads Clifford Chance’s Digital Ethics Working Group. “It’s not my first AI rodeo”, he says. “My interest goes back considerably to personal influences growing up, with a technologist and a human rights lawyer as parents. I got into thinking quite deeply and carefully about the issues that come with emerging technology very early on”.
“Historically, when we thought of concepts like bias, fairness, accuracy and transparency, these were largely philosophical arguments, but they’re now quickly finding their way into the law around the world”, Joshi says. “These concepts are not just seen as ‘good to have’, but are evolving into non-negotiables, for consumers and regulators alike. In line with these shifts, the Digital Ethics Working Group collaborates with trade bodies, research organisations, governments and regulators, helping to inform their view on what the future looks like in this space”, Joshi explains.
Ahead of Legal Cheek’s in-person and virtual event in partnership with Clifford Chance this week, I asked Joshi about the challenges and opportunities that come with a practice area that occupies a space so new and uncertain. “Being an early adopter is critical”, he stresses. He predicts that ChatGPT and other forms of generative AI are going to continue to develop and strengthen their foothold within the legal profession. “Like when we switched from using physical libraries to legal research databases, what we are seeing across industries is a similar, but probably more high-impact, change”, Joshi says.
While he notes that there hasn’t been “a tectonic shift” in client demand for using generative AI in day-to-day work just yet, he sees such change being a certainty on the three-year horizon, with clients likely wanting law firms to become leaner, faster and smarter going forward.
“Client focus is efficiency and pragmatism. Lawyers need to keep in mind that everyone is asking more difficult and more strategic questions, and solutions like generative AI can help us keep up, and push the envelope in terms of what the practice of law can look like. It will take some trial and error, which is why these systems are being tested rigorously before any firms adopt them at scale”, he notes.
So, what does this mean for students looking to enter the legal industry? Rethink your approach to what the practice of law means, he advises. “Be excited about the fact that your value-add during your first few years is no longer likely to come from poring over due diligence documents.” Rather, Joshi foresees that future trainees, with a strong theoretical foundation, will get to think about real strategic issues that matter to clients and be able to apply themselves as legal specialists early on.
Joshi recognises that the adoption of AI and any new technology is not without its risks, so advising clients on how best to balance risk and innovation is the name of the game. “Regulation is always playing catch-up in this space”, he notes. Keeping up-to-date with technological progress so that its risks to society, clients and regulators can be pre-empted quicker is where the future generation of lawyers will come into their own, Joshi predicts.
As he completed an MSc in data and society from LSE, which he found an “incredibly fulfilling experience”, I asked Joshi whether he thought a master’s degree in this space was essential for future lawyers aspiring to enter the tech world. “When I did my masters in 2017-18, there weren’t a lot of opportunities for lawyers to get involved in the tech space as directly. While a master’s remains highly valuable, there are now other ways for lawyers to up-skill, at any stage of their career — Clifford Chance, for instance, supports lawyers to do courses in machine learning, AI and emerging tech, so there’s a lot more support to learn on the job”, he notes. An additional avenue for growth can be client secondments to some of the leading technology companies in the world, adds Joshi.
For those on the hunt for vac schemes and training contracts, Joshi advises dismantling preconceptions about entering into set practice areas like litigation, antitrust or finance. “It’s very important that you stay connected to the huge leaps technology is going to be making, regardless of what you’re interested in qualifying into – emerging technologies will impact all businesses, and all practice areas”, he says.
To understand AI, it’s crucial to look beyond the hype, and explore what the core underpinnings of the technology are — understand what the system is telling you. “Start adopting these systems as early as you can, in a safe and balanced way – don’t take everything they tell you at face value just yet!”, he advises.
Arnav Joshi will be speaking at ‘Generative AI, business and the law — with Clifford Chance’, a virtual and in-person student event taking place this Thursday (7 September). This event is now fully booked but why not check out our upcoming events.
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A contemporary oasis surrounded by lush Mediterranean gardens, Aquabella Hotel & Spa is a short stroll from the heart of Aix-en-Provence Old Town. With 108 pristine and individually-designed rooms and access to two spas, offering every wellness experience imaginable, this hotel is the perfect place to rest and reconnect. A chic sanctuary to return to after a day exploring the charming streets Cezanne called home, the hotels’ two celebrated restaurants and cocktail bar ensure you’ll never want to leave.
Aix-en-Provence’s most famous son, the painter Paul Cezanne said of his birthplace, “When you’re born there, it’s hopeless, nothing else is good enough”. Leave the hotel’s serene garden surroundings and stroll back in time to Aix-en-Provence’s 15th-century capital, replete with historic treasures like stunning Saint-Sauveur Cathedral, the fountain of Cours Mirabeau and Atelier Cezanne.
The town has an aristocratic vibe, its mansions, leafy boulevards, and annual Opera festival ooze class but a wealth of student-filled bars and restaurants ensure there’s plenty to keep you occupied after hours. Aquabella Hotel & Spa is only forty minute’s drive from Marseille.
However long your stay, you can taste all of Aix-en-Provence’s four seasons with a refined Mediterranean menu crafted by two of the region’s top chefs at L’Orangerie restaurant. L’instant Lounge Bar’s jazz bar vibes and professional mixologists make it a chic spot for a pre or post-dinner cocktail.
And in summer, La Terrasse de la Tour invites you to dine en plein air on sun-ripened regional produce and the local daily catch grilled “à la plancha”. Breakfast is simplicity made extraordinary with exquisite locally-sourced cold meats, freshly baked bread and pastries, and delicious cereal and fruit.
Channelling the ambience of Aix-en-Provence’s light-dappled streets and gardens, the hotel’s outdoor areas are a vision of rough-cut stone and shimmering water. The hotel’s simple exterior and sleek, contemporary rooms allow the verdant cornucopia of the surrounding gardens to take centre stage. Two sumptuous spas, featuring Finnish sauna and Turkish hammams, and a luxe outdoor pool offer lessons in idle glamour.
Each of the 108 rooms has its own design scheme that complements the hotel’s overall theme of chic simplicity. 84 spacious comfort rooms have state-of-the-art amenities and views of either the sun-warmed stone buildings of Aix-en-Provence’s Old Town or the lush greenery of Mediterranean gardens. 23 privilege rooms come with the added luxury of a private outdoor terrace and a single suite with separate lounge and bedroom offers a home away from home.
6 comfort rooms are reserved for the use of guests with reduced mobility and feature a joint accessible shower room and WC. All common areas in the hotel have access for disabled guests, including wheelchair users.
Families are welcome at Aquabella Hotel & Spa but a focus on wellness, relaxation and refined gastronomy makes this hotel perfect for business travellers or couples looking to unwind.
Not one but two spa facilities offer a huge range of mind and body-boosting treatments from gifted massage and beauty therapists. The Sensory Spa feeds from natural spring waters known for their healing mineral content and an outdoor heated pool, sauna, hammam, Kneipp shower, ice fountain, jacuzzi, and fitness centre ensure there’s something to please every guest.
Fully-clothed and fully re-energised, guests can see and be seen at L’Instant Lounge bar, which hosts a weekly Jazz night or dine at one of two restaurants before wandering into town.
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Noodler's Baystate Concord Grape in a 4.5 oz bottle with free pen!
- Archival and fade resistant
- Forgery resistant, impervious to lasers, alcohols, and solvents
The vibrant colors from Noodler's Baystate lineup comes with a caveat: Its unique pH levels can stain parts of your pen and/or anything it comes in contact with (porous surfaces like sinks). Feed sections, converters, demonstrator pens, and plastic pen parts are susceptible to permanent staining. Although the internet has much to say on Baystate inks, feel free to experiment with it (including diluting it) - but exercise caution and practice good pen hygiene when using this ink. We do not recommend using Baystate ink in any demonstrator or expensive pens.
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For B2B enterprises that choose a Value-based Pricing strategy, perhaps their biggest organizational challenge is embedding best practices into the actions, decisions and behaviors of their cross-functional teams. Consistent execution is where the “rubber meets the road.” Otherwise, the significant financial rewards of a successful Value-based Strategy are missed. Yet companies are often deterred from pursuing a Value-based Strategy because of the perception that it is a costly, multi-year change management process.
Our experience implementing a cloud/SaaS value management application suggests that this does not necessarily need to be the case. We have found that each successful customer implementation had five common success factors in place. Many business people will recognize these as just good change management discipline, but they take on a really important role in deploying a Value-based Strategy.
1. Commitment to Value
At a high executive level the enterprise must be committed to value. Most B2B enterprises have some mission statement related to value; it’s either in their shareholder reports or on their website. These are usually the companies that invest in R&D and are looking for a return on their investment. So usually the leaders and the companies that are innovating in their markets do have a commitment to value, they may not call it a Value-based Strategy, but they certainly have the mindset for it.
2. Pro-Active Program Management
Someone has to be the driver, share successes and generate interest for Value-based Pricing initiatives. Our best program managers are relentless in terms of communication — they communicate up, down, and laterally. They’re always nudging the team: making sure they stay on task, and providing the resources they need. Program managers have to be the spokesperson — communicate the work that the teams are doing and the wins they have accomplished. Internal promotions, such as “Value Day,” are a good way for program managers to get the entire company behind this initiative.
3. Core Multi-functional Group Focused on Value
The program leader is not trying to become the internal expert — everybody needs to have some level of expertise. By that, you’ll be able to cover a lot more ground quickly. A core multi-functional group focused on value will be able to train and support others in the enterprise and help reinforce best practices.
4. Embedded into the Workflow
A lot of times when there are new initiatives there’s this tendency to think that we have to stop work, learn something, and then go back to work. This cannot be the case when deploying a Value-based Strategy. It must be part of the workflow. So, if you are developing new products that have value, you better have a value-based approach embedded in that stage gate process. If you’re responding to competitive threats, you also need to have an embedded value-based approach. The goal isn’t to lay on something new. The purpose is to integrate Value-based Strategies into what’s already existing.
5. Focused Phase Deployment
Much like a development cycle’s sprint, deployment cannot all happen at once — it should be adapted in phases, such as by region, product-line, business unit, etc. This can be referred to as “Choiceful Phase Deployment” — different groups will come on board and you have to decide who goes first. Everything can’t just be turned on at the same time.
Enterprises that possess all five of these factors can expect steady adoption of a Value-based Strategy. The collaboration that will arise from the execution of this strategy can lead to better decision making in the areas of product, customer and pricing strategy along with improved profit and margins. | <urn:uuid:7aadd4ae-6117-4952-b596-a21daf7bc04f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.leveragepoint.com/blog/quantify-customer-value/five-key-factors-deploying-successful-value-based-pricing-strategy/ | 2023-09-25T00:44:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.965491 | 771 |
You’re being charged with a crime in Texas, and you’re fearful of what could happen. Be proactive and safeguard your future by partnering with a Frisco criminal defense attorney at Chris Lewis & Associates, P.C..
It doesn’t matter what type of criminal offense you’ve been charged with in Frisco: You are going to be scared. Even the most minor offense can leave a mark on your criminal record, and it could affect your life. You have options when charged with a crime, and you have the right to be represented by a criminal defense attorney.
Take advantage of your rights and reach out to a Frisco criminal defense lawyer at our firm. Your attorney can immediately begin advising you on the correct moves to make. They can help protect your rights and can assist you with any court hearings and other legal matters should you decide to fight against your criminal charges.
It’s not always easy to know who to call when you’re faced with criminal charges in Frisco. Not everyone has a family lawyer programmed into their phone’s contacts. If you’re looking for an attorney, you might not know which one to choose. It’s important to choose one who is familiar with your type of case.
For instance, if you are being charged with a drug crime, you want to know that your Frisco criminal attorney has handled drug cases before. You’re always welcome to call our Frisco law firm to find out what types of cases we’ve handled in the past. For your convenience, we’ve listed a few common examples below.
If you have been arrested for a crime, then the possible consequences are likely running through your head. You could be facing jail, prison, fines, or probation. Depending on your criminal history and the specifics of your case, your penalties could be serious. You might want to talk to a Frisco defense attorney about your case before it’s too late.
Your attorney might be able to help you avoid some or all of the legal and non-legal penalties associated with your Frisco crime.
When you’ve been accused of a crime, you are likely to be terrified of what will happen to you. Yes, you can go to jail or prison if convicted of a crime. Even misdemeanor crimes can have a negative impact on your present and your future. Don’t make the mistake of letting fear prevent you from fighting for what’s right.
Every Texas citizen has the right to due process under the law. Contact a Frisco criminal defense lawyer at Chris Lewis & Associates, P.C. to discuss your criminal case and the options that might be available to you. Dial 214-665-6930 or complete the internet contact form on this page to reach our office. | <urn:uuid:b885d723-d675-4e0a-9e51-3d400fc2523b> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.lewisdefense.com/frisco-criminal-defense-lawyer/ | 2023-09-24T22:51:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.953144 | 580 |
When discussing Talkspace The Read Promo with our clients we found….Prioritizing your psychological health has actually never ever been more critical– with the COVID-19 pandemic and whatever else going on on the planet, lots of people are experiencing signs of mental health conditions.
In fact, surveys report that 53 percent of U.S. grownups state concern and stress in the middle of the pandemic has had an unfavorable effect on their psychological health.
Thankfully, virtual support systems make it simpler than ever to look after your psychological health.
is an online therapy service that permits you to text chat with a certified, certified therapist 24/7. Keep reading to see how it works, what to think about, and if it’s right for you.
How does work?
Depending upon what you’re trying to find, offers counseling for people, couples, or households. You produce an account and submit a questionnaire to discover the best match.
Throughout the questionnaire, you’re able to note out your therapist preferences, including their gender, faith, age, sexual preference, language, as well as what problems you’re wanting to take on, and how essential it is that your therapist be well versed in those topics.
It can take anywhere from a couple of hours to a number of days to be matched to an in-state counselor.
According to, counselors are accredited, trained, experienced, and certified psychologists, marital relationship and family therapists, scientific social workers, or certified expert counselors.
All the business’s therapists have a master’s or doctorate degree and have a minimum of 3 years and 2,000 hours of experience as psychological health specialists.
You can just email to be reassigned if you don’t like who you’re paired with.
” Therapy can be frightening, specifically for a lot of novice clients. Text-based communication (texting and live-chat sessions) are a fantastic way to take some of the anxiety out of beginning therapy and aid clients dive into the procedure,” states James Imrie, themake you unfortunate, upset, or puzzled? Your therapist has no chance of understanding how you felt in a situation unless you tell them.|That indicates if you’re only sharing the facts of a scenario or story with your therapist, they aren’t getting the full image. It will help your therapist comprehend what you’re talking about if you also share with them your sensations around the topic. Your therapist has no way of understanding how you felt in a situation unless you tell them.}
Is there a way to get therapy anonymously?
That’s normal too if you’re not sharing how you felt in a circumstance because you aren’t clear on it yourself. It’s all right to share an experience with your therapist and let them know that you’re not sure how to feel about it. This opens the door for them to talk to you about it and for you to explore your feelings around it. It’s also fine for you to ask your therapist to prevent checking out a topic for a certain amount of time. Recovery needs to occur at a rate you are comfortable with.
Before entering more detail, it’s important to keep in mind that building a trusting relationship with your therapist is valuable. Small talk and general discussion are an essential part of this process. Nevertheless, some people may utilize small talk to avoid discussing the problems that brought them to treatment. Often, when somebody goes into oversharing about their life, it’s due to the fact that they are avoiding getting to the root cause of why they are seeing the therapist in the first place.
Now, it is essential to point out that in some cases a question that your therapist asks may get you talking about something that seems off subject but truly does connect mentally for you. If you feel that what you’re talking about seems unassociated but was triggered by the therapist, continue checking out that opportunity.
How does BetterHelp pay their counselors? Talkspace The Read Promo
i love being a talks based therapist because it provides me the opportunity to connect with individuals who may not otherwise have the ability to access therapy i goal to have an extremely safe environment with my client for some clients that aren’t used to therapy it’s a good segue you don’t need to wait a whole week to come see your therapist the goal of therapy is to assist a customer work on coping abilities so that later on they can make it by themselves
our objective is to bring the 10 best choices for you each time let’s discuss talk area talk area needs no introduction greatly endorsed on television social networks and all across the web talkspace has actually produced a solid track record for itself it’s known to be trusted private and effective in helping individuals work through major and small concerns this is all from the convenience of online treatment sessions get assist 24 7 enjoy versatile scheduling and talk with skilled therapists about real-life issues to get real-life solutions talkspace therapists are trained to aid with all types of disorders and issues from minor to major problems you can get aid with things like anger management anxiety and consuming disorders clients can likewise get counseling for health management sorrow counseling social habits issues sleeping conditions and a lot more a hipaa compliance service talkspace has a network of 5 000 plus therapists each holding a recognized degree in their field therapists are evaluated background checked and all have a minimum of three years hands-on counseling under their belts they’re all certified in their states with the greatest clinical license available and are insured talkspace uses an algorithm to match you up with a therapist most matched to work with your problems and assist you meet your goals if you’re not delighted with their therapist of option you can ask to be reassigned and talkspace will offer you someone new talkspace has every type of interaction technique outside of smoke signals you can reach out to your therapist by means of sms chatting in a private chat room this is good for keeping track or looking back at old sessions alternatively you can get video phone or live chat sessions to arrange ongoing sessions you’ll talk about convenient time slots for you straight with your therapist talkspace therapists work 5 days a week for prolonged company hours which means that you can typically find a time slot that works for both of you then you’ll visit to your account to start the session talkspace has an excellent mobile app that makes the whole treatment process a lot smoother texting is just like you would with any other messaging app the talkspace app likewise has helpful ideas a development tracker and exercises you can utilize to supplement your therapy sessions talkspace has numerous tiers of monthly membership plans and you can sign up for quarterly and bi-annual plans too month-to-month services start at 260 dollars and get less expensive with longer subscriptions you can likewise sign up for one-off video sessions for 65 dollars a pop talk space partners with many insurance coverage plans too Talkspace The Read Promo
talkspace assists individuals work with today’s daily life concerns the platform is online and app based making it simple and accessible to utilize additionally talkspace has experts for teenagers couples lgbtqia plus and other niche counseling the service is hipaa certified and provides consistent training for its therapists talkspace has a lot of assistance options you can reach out to consumer support via email and you can likewise go through the help center which has a ton of info and valuable answers to the typically asked questions about the services i’m incredibly grateful for getting the best aid right now thank you a lot talkspace thank god for talkspace treatment sending my therapist messages at 2 in the early morning feels less unusual when that’s how most of your communication happens talkspace tops the charts for appeal and favorable recommendations which’s not unexpected to hear the service has thousands of talented therapists lots of extra resources and a fabulous mobile app talkspace also has sensible and versatile payment plans ongoing training for its therapists and insurance protection i hope this video helped you decide whether talkspace is the ideal online therapy service for your requirements for a thorough take a look at numerous other services and products make sure to
Talkspace vs Betterhelp
The truth you can edit messages prior to sending them suggests you’re unlikely to blurt out something revealing and unguarded in the heat of the moment. So profound minutes of realisation may be tough to come by if you can’t get a relaxed flow going.
Who do I believe it might it be good for?
Anybody with a low-end psychological health concern who’s cool with getting counselled in a very internet-y, 2016-y method. If you’re living under the blackest, bleakest cloud imaginable and require major attention (and perhaps some medications), probably isn’t for you Talkspace The Read Promo | <urn:uuid:8ae0bd12-00bc-43f3-8fe9-3b5de1c6efd4> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.lfmchurch.org/talkspace-the-read-promo/ | 2023-09-24T23:59:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.947371 | 1,820 |
This is the capstone course for the RN–BSN program. The student engages in academic endeavors that reflect application, synthesis and evaluation of concepts and nursing issues studied throughout the completion program. Application of educational experience to professional growth and contribution to the nursing profession is emphasized.
The completion of BSN coursework serves as a milestone in the student’s professional life. The capstone course provides the student with an opportunity to reflect on knowledge and experience gained during the educational process. The course will provide the student with practical knowledge of how to improve oneself professionally, as well as the profession as a whole.
Assigned readings and lecture presentations
Course Requirements Checklist
After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.
Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student is required to provide a thread in response to the provided prompt for each discussion. Each thread must be at least 500 words and demonstrate course-related knowledge. Each thread must be supported with at least 2 scholarly citations published within the last 5 years in current APA format. In addition to the thread, the student is required to reply to 2 other classmates’ threads. Each reply must be at least 250 words, must incorporate at least 2 scholarly citations published within the last 5 years in current APA format, and no direct quotes are permitted. Inclusion of a biblical worldview is required for both the thread and replies.
Capstone Project: Impact of Nursing Theory
Impacting the Profession Assignment: Nursing Practice must be guided by Nursing Theory, evidence-based practice research, and nursing leaders who understand the external forces that impact the profession and patient care. This assignment allows the student to learn nursing theories, reflect on the impact of his/her worldview, assess external factors impacting professional practice and to create a document for possible publication with the Journal of Christian Nursing or other such professional journal. This information must be compiled in a minimum 1300 word Microsoft Word document in current APA format. The student must use a minimum of 5 scholarly sources published within the last 5 years and include a reference page. The title page and reference page do not count toward the required length.
Impacting my Practice Assignment: The key to improving the Nursing Profession is through the improvement of each individual nurse’s practice through the use of theory and research. This assignment will allow the student to apply Nursing Theory to his/her personal practice as well as consider how theory and research impact patient outcomes. The student will also create a plan of action to improve his/her practice with insight from a chosen Nursing Theory and the literature the student reviews. This presentation must be at least 15 minute audio-recorded presentation using PowerPoint, SmartCast, or YouTube, include 5 scholarly journal articles published within the last 5 years, and be submitted with a reference page in current APA format.
Spiritual Care for All Patients
The patient population is as diverse as the community. And in a world that is growing smaller and more mobile, the diversity in the communities continues to alter. As professional nurses, it is necessary to learn about the community so the nurse can better care for the patients. As discovered, nurses must offer holistic care, which includes Spiritual Care. This paper allows the student to consider the art of Spiritual Caring and how nurses, especially Christian Nurses, are required to offer spiritual care to all patients. The student will have the opportunity to apply his/her knowledge and experience as it relates to patients of diverse beliefs, cultures, and backgrounds as they face life crises.
The student will write a minimum 1300 word Word Document. The student must use a minimum of 5 scholarly sources published within the last 5 years and include a reference page. The reference page does not count toward the required length. No more than one direct quote is permitted in this assignment.
Christian Leadership in Nursing Presentation
Understanding the role as a leader is important to personal and professional success. As a nurse, one is a leader, but how the nurse leads is up to him/her. This assignment will allow the student to consider the role of the Christian Nurse Leader as well as his/her personal leadership traits/styles.
The student will create a 15 minute audio-recorded presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint, SmartCast, or YouTube. There must be at least 15 slides with notes provided for each slide, and the presentation must be supported by 5 scholarly sources published within the last 5 years, with a current APA reference page.
The student will reflect on his/her past nursing experience at Liberty University and begin looking to the future. The paper must be at least 3 pages and supported by 3 citations in current APA format. No more than one direct quote is permitted in this assignment.
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LIFE WEEE at the presentation of the 2017 CDC RAEE report - Lifeweee
LIFE WEEE at the presentation of the 2017 CDC RAEE report
Milan, March 27, 2018 - The 2017 report of the CDC RAEE was presented in the breathtaking setting of the 39th floor of the Palazzo Lombardia. The good performances of the Tuscan system - which is almost two percentage points above the national average per capita - have been confirmed. In general there is an increase of 4.66% compared to the 2016 collection data: also in this case, therefore, a positive trend shows up that requires further efforts if the annual collection target established by the Directive is to be achieved. | <urn:uuid:d8d864b9-a43a-40c9-b9bb-f523325ae009> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.lifeweee.eu/en/-/life-weee-alla-presentazione-del-rapporto-2017-cdc-raee | 2023-09-24T23:31:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.944646 | 145 |
20/05/23 | 15:00 – 16:30 | Plateforme
The DiscoverBox provides a platform to engage people, exchanges and a stage to discover new artists.
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Women in Manufacturing – Changing the Perception of the Industry
Changing the perception of the Industry
Women all over the world are stepping up to close the gender gap in manufacturing, a traditionally male-dominated industry. Still less than 30% of the manufacturing industry is made up of women.1 What was once considered to be blue-collar, is now being called pink-collar. Pink is the new blue!
Women in Manufacturing - Then and Now
During the turn of the century an African-American woman named C.J. Walker, formerly Sara Breedlove who started out as a laundress making less than one dollar a day, became the world’s first female self-made millionaire. In 1906, after working on commission for a woman named Annie Malon selling haircare, she took the trick of the trade and created her own haircare line. Thus, starting her own company called Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing.
In 1941, the United States entered World War II. Aside from a world war, the US also faced a very serious issue. Men aged 18 – 64 were required to register for the military draft. This left needed positions for jobs in manufacturing empty. The United States needed women to step up and help with jobs like, manufacturing uniforms, vehicles, and even munitions. More than 310,000 women worked in the U.S. aircraft industry in 1943, making up 65 percent of the industry’s total workforce (compared to just 1 percent in the pre-war years). Rosie the Riveter was an iconic recruiting image for women during World War II. With her red bandana and her “We can do it!” attitude, Rosie sparked a revolution for women all over the U.S. and led them to work in manufacturing to support the soldiers in their defeat against the Nazis2.
Fast forward to 2022. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, while women make up about 47% of the total workforce, they only make up about 30% percent of the 15.8 million people employed in manufacturing industries, and only 1 in 4 manufacturing leaders are women. Women like Barbara Humpton give other women in manufacturing the courage to pursue their dreams. She started out as a software programmer for IBM, and was told to choose: have a baby or have a career. She decided to choose both. After perseverance and hard work, at the age of 57, Humpton became the CEO of Siemens (USA), a multi-billion-dollar, industrial manufacturing company, that produces power plants and other technologies3.
Jobs in Manufacturing
Employment in manufacturing increased from 11.4 million (April 2022) and has increased to 13 million jobs in January 2023.4 That could mean that occupations that were once male-dominated have the possibility to be gender neutral, as women forge ahead into these positions.
There is a vast array of manufacturing jobs that women can train for, including Collision Repair and Refinishing, Machining and Manufacturing, and Welding Technology. Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree, which up until the last century made it tough for women who want to have or already have children. Women have struggled for centuries with being in the workforce, due to maternity and the stigma that surrounds it: Would women be able to continue to do their duties after giving birth or would they have to relinquish them to raising a child?
What most people didn’t believe is that women could do both. Another woman that proved society wrong about having a career and raising a child was Solveig Erikstad. Although she was not the first female in welding, she was recruited in 1976 as the first female welder for Ulstein, a multimillion-dollar ship design and manufacturer. The ad they published was targeted for housewives and piqued her interest when it mentioned free kindergarten. Erikstad worked for Ulstein until she retired in 2003.5
Women all over the world are becoming more and more interested in male-dominated jobs. The industry that has great growth is Machine and Manufacturing, with career opportunities like CNC Machinists. A Computer Numerical Control (CNC) Machinist operates computer-controlled tools, machines, and robots to machine or process parts, tools, and other workpieces made of metal, plastic, wood, stone, or other materials. With the ability to use technology over manual labor, CNC machines can perform the same tasks without the “heavy lifting” per se.
Lincoln Tech, female CNC graduate, Taylor Hamer wants women to know they should, “Go for it!” She also said, “You will never know until you try. Worst case scenario, you decide you don’t want to do it anymore but you have learned a new skill. There is a place for everyone in the manufacturing field and the more diversity of knowledge and experience there is, the better the field can become. If you are artistic, you can design. If you are great with numbers, you can program. I was a dance major before I joined this field and thought I was going to have to start from scratch and that nothing would carry over and that was terrifying. Once I started, I realized that my sense of special awareness and 3D visualization was a major help in machining.” Women in manufacturing are more empowered than ever!
1 https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=industry%20by%20sex&tid=ACSST1Y2019.S2403&hidePreview=false – Retrieved on 3/8/2023.
2 https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/rosie-the-riveter - Retrieved on 3/8/2023.
3 https://time.com/5345865/barbara-humpton-siemens-ceo/ Published 7/25/2018, and Retrieved on 3/8/2023.
4 https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/ceshighlights.pdf Release date 2/3/2023, Retrieved on 3/8/2023.
5 https://ulstein.com/people/people-in-ulstein/first-female-welder Retrieved on 3/8/2023.
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The Liphook community has rallied around a selfless villager who has supported countless local families, after she and her husband were hit by a car while walking through The Square last Friday.
An appeal has been launched to raise funds for Gerry Sole, who runs the Liphook Clothing Bank, and her husband Maurice Smith after they were both seriously injured in the collision at around 11pm on May 19.
Gerry has undergone an operation to repair a badly-damaged knee and also suffered a broken nose and cuts, while Maurice suffered a broken leg, arm and nose, as well as cuts.
An air ambulance landed on Liphook Recreation Ground, but the couple were taken by road to Southampton General Hospital. Both are now facing lengthy recovery periods.
After news of the crash began to spread through the village, friend Karen Bawden quickly launched a GoFundMe fundraising webpage, and raised more than £600 in just three days.
Karen said: “The sad news that Gerry and her new husband Maurice have been involved in an accident has saddened many people in our lovely community. They have sustained many injuries and are awaiting surgery with prolonged recovery.
“Gerry volunteers and works tirelessly for our Liphook community to provide clothing and equipment for families in need and also provides an excellent way of recycling, stopping landfill bulk and enabling many, many families to cut back on buying new.
“Any donations we could collect for the newlyweds would be received gratefully please. I think we can all agree Gerry is deserving of a little financial treat!”
Responding to the well-wishers, Gerry confirmed she and Maurice were recovering at Southampton General Hospital, and thanked everyone for their “lovely messages”.
She said the crash and her subsequent stay in hospital was “like a bad dream” but added she is “trying to keep laughing”.
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3. Complete one push up, then raise your right foot up onto that 3rd step, plant your weight into that foot and step back down to the ground
4. Repeat the push up again, then step with your left foot to complete the next lunge
5. Alternate sides doing a pushup in between each lunge.
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Recent Turkish airstrikes on the Kurdish-held Afrin region of northern Syria have damaged an ancient temple, with 3,000-year-old stone carvings "blasted into fragments," a watchdog group says.
The American Schools of Oriental Research's (ASOR) Cultural Heritage Initiatives collaboration has been monitoring the destruction of monuments during the war in Syria. According to the group's latest update, the temple of Ain Dara just south of Afrin suffered "heavy damage" after it was hit, sometime between Jan. 20 and Jan. 22.
The temple was built by a group of people known as the Aramaeans in the early first millennium B.C., after the collapse of the Hittite Empire, at a time when civilizations in the region were emerging from the Bronze Age and entering the Iron Age. [See Images of Ain Dara Temple Before and After Airstrikes]
Ain Dara's walls are made up of basalt orthostats — massive, slab-like architectural blocks — that are elaborately carved on the interior and exterior with geometric designs, floral patterns, mythical creatures and animals like lions. The limestone pavings in the doorways between the temple's chambers (the antecella and cella) were decorated with gigantic footprints, each 3 feet (0.9 meters) in length. Some biblical scholars have argued that the temple's layout and decorations resemble descriptions of King Solomon's fabled temple in scripture.
Photos taken after the airstrike show that a large portion of Ain Dara is now covered in rubble.
"The airstrike hit in the area of the doorway between the antecella and cella, causing heavy damage to the central and southeastern portions of the building," ASOR representatives wrote in the update. "Many of the orthostats, which were already fragile due to decades of exposure to weathering, have been blasted into fragments.
"The limestone pavings of the antecella and cella have also been badly damaged," the ASOR report added. "Metal fragments, including a piece that may be a stabilizing fin from the bomb or missile used in the attack, were recovered in the area. The satellite imagery reveals that the rest of the mound was unharmed by the airstrike." [In Photos: Destruction of Iconic Monuments at Ancient City of Palmyra]
The independent Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is monitoring the war, also posted pictures of the site on Sunday (Jan. 28), saying the ruins were "destroyed by shelling of the Turkish warplanes."
The Syrian government's antiquities department issued a call for international pressure on Turkey "to prevent the targeting of archaeological and cultural sites" in Afrin.
Since Jan. 20, Turkey has led an assault on the Syrian Kurdish enclave Afrin, according to the Associated Press. The city is held by the People's Protection Units, a Kurdish militia known as the YPG, which Turkey considers a terrorist group and a threat to its security; the United States has considered the YPG an ally in the fight against ISIS, Reuters reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 55 civilians had been killed since the offensive, dubbed operation "Olive Branch," began, Agence France-Presse reported.
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Then, I was a little bit embarrassed about things like puberty. I was already kind of a shorter kid. I turned 12, and I was already starting to look at girls, wanting to hang out with them and start dating and stuff, but I knew that there was no way -- having no hair, being and looking so sick--that that was going to happen.
In hindsight, I would have asked my doctors and nurses a lot of specific questions. "Is this eventually going to go away? Am I going to look better so that the girls will like me? Will I start puberty when everybody else will?" These were embarrassing questions that I wish I would have asked anyway, just to ease my mind. I realize now that the nurses and the doctors were people that I could trust with these questions, and I really would encourage you to ask the most personal, intimate questions if you really trust your doctors and nurses.
As a young person with cancer nowadays, your chances of having a life after chemo are great. But in your quest to finish and move on, remember to prepare. Start asking your doctors and nurses specific questions about what effects the chemo can have right after treatment and many years after. Not so you can be a hypochondriac or worry, but just so you can be prepared and do what you need to do to have as normal a life as possible.
The main physical issue that I've had to deal with is cardiotoxicity. The class of medication that can cause it is called anthracyclines which, in very high doses, can affect the heart muscle, causing it to eventually get brittle or tear, especially if I do certain activities like weight lifting or other weight-bearing activities. It's not an active problem at the moment, but it has restricted what I can do in terms of physical activity, and it's kind of a looming threat. So even though I'm supposed to exercise and live a healthy lifestyle, I have to make sure I don't do certain things. Outside of that, the biggest thing that I struggle with is fatigue\u2014fatigue that up until a few years ago I thought was due to laziness or lack of motivation. To my relief and frustration, I found out it's because of the chemo and the cranial radiation that I received. That really has had a bigger impact in my life than I had appreciated until recently. I know that, intellectually and spiritually and otherwise, there are so many things I could do, but your body has to do it and I don't always have the energy to do what I'd like to do.
I wish I would have known about these effects sooner, because that would have been very helpful for me, for my morale, and even for my motivation. I found out ten years after treatment. In those ten years I had gone to college, joined a gym, lifted tons of weights -- basically done all kinds of things that I found out later I shouldn't have done.
I wasn't able to get back into things socially until a good five, six years after treatment. I finished my sophomore year at a regular high school and then went to an all-boys boarding school. It was another form of isolated living, very religious. A teen program that came about one year after I finished treatment helped me make it through high school. It brought together teens that have or had cancer to share their stories and develop social skills by interacting with other teens in an environment that's safe -- where people won't judge you for not having hair, not having a limb, for maybe not having the best social skills, because they all understand. That helped a little bit, but it wasn't around long enough to really prepare me for college.
College was more like trial by fire, where I had to catch up with my peers in order to survive and graduate. College is an environment where independence, resourcefulness and social skills are vital. I didn't have any of them because of the treatment and the isolation. Academically, it wasn't too hard to catch up in college. Socially it was really, really difficult.
Your parents are probably going to want to, out of instinct, overprotect and take care of everything for you. Understand them and appreciate why they're doing that, but also resist it, because that's not good for you either. It's really easy to allow yourself to just be put in the hands of others and let everybody take care of everything for you, even worrying. That's a very dangerous pitfall that I fell into. You need to be allowed to worry about things. You might not want to know anything but, take it from me, it's really important for you to know the details of your treatment. Take control over your life.
As a survivor, you need to really be honest with yourself and ask, "What is my support system like?" If you don't feel you have a strong family or a strong friend support system, get one. Don't make your whole support system your doctors and your nurses because, as wonderful as it is to have great doctors and nurses -- and you need that, too -- they are only the cancer side of your life, and you don't want the cancer side of your life to be the only side of your life.
I think for me, the fear of recurrence was pretty strong right after chemo but tends to diminish over time. In the 20 years since I was diagnosed, I've gone to school, had my heart broken and broken some hearts, worked in different jobs. Heaven forbid I walk into the doctor's office and I'm told tomorrow, "You've got acute lymphoblastic leukemia." But that would be a completely new diagnosis, because I'm a completely different person. My fear of recurring has become like my fear of being hit by a car. It's not the only way to go, and it's healthier for me not to dwell on the different ways I might die.
I feel that I have dealt with it in as healthy a way as possible. You come full circle, and you incorporate your cancer experience into the rest of your life. What that means is you don't ignore it, you don't deny it, but it's not the center of your life. It's just something that has become a healthy component of your life and of your history.
Having had cancer definitely influenced the nature of the work I've been in. It's kept me in either an advocacy or volunteer role in cancer, so that's been definitely a positive effect. But finding a job with insurance was a bigger worry for me than for my peers, even before I knew about these late effects. I looked harder for jobs that might insure me as opposed to just looking at whether I am naturally interested in that job or whether it would be fulfilling to my career or just to my life.
I think my philosophy about life is I really love and value life. I really fear death, too. I worry about not appreciating life more, not living life more, not doing the whole carpe diem more and about missed opportunities. The bad times are really opportunities if you can be healthy going into them. I need to stop worrying so much about not enjoying life and just enjoy it, if that makes any sense.
Survivorship to me means a lot of different things. One of the most important things is transitioning out of the patient-survivor role and into the healthy, productive survivor who has properly incorporated his cancer experience into his life. My experience is a medal of honor that I wear. It's a little bit of a source of worry, and it's something that I can pass on to my family and to my friends and that I can advocate for.
Cancer, even though you didn't choose to get it, can be a rewarding and life-enhancing experience. It should not go away when treatment is done because, first, you need to make sure that you're aware of any health concerns you might have after treatment. Number two, it's not healthy to deny and repress anything you've been through. And number three, I think you can eventually see it as a gift, as something that was given to you to give you resilience, to give you strength, and to be able to weather almost anything else that is thrown at you in life.
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Gaming has been evolving rapidly over the past five years. The development of head-gear’s such as ‘Morpheus’ and motion-sensing software have given gamers plenty to be excited about. Although gameplay is the one facet most developers seem to be most focused on, the storylines in games have also gotten progressively richer and deeper. Most games have turned to the concept of open-ended story telling, where players are forced to constantly make tough decisions during the course of the game and face the repercussions of their actions in the end. This allows every players to experience a unique narrative on each run of the game while also substantially raising the replay value of the game. Here is a list of 20 games that deliver on compelling story lines while simultaneously creating a rich gameplay experience.
The Bioshock series has managed to deliver on a dystopian series of epic proportions. From the seas to the skies, the setting for these games have always been unique and highly detailed. Bioshock Infinite was definitely the best game in the series and that in itself is an accomplishment considering how well scripted the first Bioshock was.
Red Dead Redemption
This open-world Western classic has been widely recognized as one of the most enjoyable games ever created. The storyline is quite intense and takes you through every imaginable scenario you would expect from the wild west. From gunfights to wild coyote’s in the desert, Red Dead Redemption is undoubtedly the best western story ever told within the context of a video game.
Silent Hill 2
The Silent Hill franchise has steadily deteriorated in terms of quality as the series progressed. The second instalment of the franchise however, was an unbelievably good game with an intriguing story line to keep you hooked till the end. The story of James Sunderland exploring the mystery of his murdered wife has become an urban legend of sorts and it is completely justified considering the mind-blowing final act awaiting the gamers.
Metal Gear Solid 5
The Metal Gear Solid franchise is an iconic part of gaming culture and has contributed in creating some of the best gaming moments of all time. Solid Snake is a widely recognized character who has taken us through some amazing storylines over the course of five games. The themes in the games have been very strong, ranging from government surveillance to the after-effects of being involved in combat.
The Last Of Us
The Last Of Us is considered one of the greatest games ever created on the PlayStation 3. The gameplay is stellar from start to finish but what makes the game truly stand out is its realistic take on an apocalyptic world and the budding relationship between its two lead characters. Add to that some stunning visuals and a satisfying reward system and you have yourself an ‘all-time great’.
The Walking Dead
Most adaptations from film or television do not translate effectively into the realm of video games. The Walking Dead series is the exception that proves the rule. The gameplay is fairly intense but the game stands out purely based on the intense story line that does justice to the brilliant source material it borrows from. The characters and setting are completely new but you always have the sense that you are within the world of ‘The Walking Dead’.
Elder Scroll Skyrim
This game is widely considered to be one of the greatest open-world games ever created. The intense modification system in place allows you to morph your gaming experience to your liking but that is not the reason Elder Scrolls is as popular as it is right now. With over 200 hours of gameplay on offer and a world that is almost as realized as our own, players can easily lose themselves in the world of Skyrim, and that is the true potential of a great game.
Portal 2 does an excellent job playing off the success of the first game and taking the gimmick to the next level. The unique puzzle-based system makes the game engaging through and through but the game shines brightly mostly because of its humor and tight plotlines. Playing Portal can be a distinguished experience as you are made to laugh and think almost simultaneously.
Mass Effect 3
The world of Mass Effect is probably richer and better developed than our own. The scale and magnitude of the series is of epic proportions, waging wars between solar systems and intergalactic species. Your character is highly customizable but Mass Effect takes things to the next level by allowing you to decide your character’s back story as well. This includes deciding where your character was born, his/her experiences in battle and even the depth of the mental scars they carry from their battles. All these decisions affect your broader story making you feel more in control of this marvelous game.
No game lets you see the immediate effects of your decisions the way Dishonored does. You play the role of the royal guard in a kingdom where the queen you protect has been assassinated. Those conspiring the death of the queen make sure that the blame lands solely on your head. You have to make several decisions in Dishonored that determine the growth of your powers but also the fate of the kingdom. Take a brutal approach, and you will see a rat and plague infested empire falling apart because of the political unrest. Take the way of the silent assassin and the people will be unaware of the new era you help usher in.
Far Cry 3
Although Far Cry 4 was released recently and it was a top notch game in all, it is not nearly as good as its predecessor, Far Cry 3. This game had nearly everything going for it, from a well-developed antagonist to a budding protagonist with everything to lose. The psychedelic experiences in the story make for entertaining bits within a highly engrossing game. You know a game has done its job right if you are squatting in the middle of a jungle hoping to attack a gazelle in order to create utilities, only to be taken down by a crouching tiger.
The Crysis franchise is as big as big can get. It got there on the back of creating a long and engaging storyline that would spawn across numerous installments, constantly getting more engaging and adaptive in the process. The dialogue in the series is some of the best of all time, trying hard to get the players into the mind of a mortal who gives up everything, including his own humanity, to become ‘The Prophet’ and save his species.
The Assassins Creed Series
The Assassins Creed series is probably one of the most thoughtfully designed open-world games ever created. It masters the balance between taking the characters to historically significant era’s and highlighting the importance of that journey in the real world. Playing a masterful assassin becomes an absolute thrill when you also get to relive some of the greatest events in the world, retold in a brilliant way to fit within the context of this game.
The iconic and fittingly named Max Payne is widely considered as one of the greatest and probably saddest story told in a video game. Although the adaptation featuring Mark Wahlberg failed to capture the angst and desperation of the character, the video game created a much-awaited and thoroughly engrossing third installment to satisfy long time fans of the series.
Final Fantasy Series
The Final Fantasy series has been dissected and studied around the world in highly reputed universities. The game is considered less of a video game and more of a work of art by those who understand what the series has managed to accomplish. If you think of the fantasy genre, there can be only one name that takes top honors thanks to some insane consistency over the years.
The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a lesser known name in the gaming community but it deserves a lot more accolades than it actually receives. The game takes a bold step in moving away from traditional narrative styles to unfold its story. Instead, players are simply dropped into an incredible open world and left to uncover the point and purpose of the game on their own. As the game mentions clearly during the opening credit, it does not hold your hand and take you forward. It is up to you to do it yourself.
The Uncharted series is less of a game and more of a high-value, full-fledged, Hollywood Blockbuster. Except, unlike most Hollywood blockbusters, this series has gotten even more engaging and entertaining as it progressed from one installment to another.
The Grand Theft Auto series has a lot of fans and a lot of detractors around the world. All of them, however, have to bow down and admit that the fifth installment of the series is a fantastic game overall and managed to single-handedly raise the bar on video games in general. The story allows you to control three distinctly different characters with their own set of unique motivations and quirks. Apart from that, the world in GTA 5 is so enormous and well-realized, that you can practically do anything your heart desires in this game. Go ahead and test it out, it will not disappoint you.
The Witcher series is quickly gaining traction as one of the most intriguing games in the world. Players have a massive open-world on their hands and it is filled with realistic consequences that can take time to fully absorb for new players. This political, medieval-fantasy RPG has nearly everything going in its favor. It is greatly boosted by engaging dialogues that feel like they belong on the pages of a novel.
Arkham City allows you to do one thing that no other Batman game has managed to do so far, and that is come very close to being ‘Batman’, warts and all. The series is excellent overall, but the second installment is truly spectacular. The story is very well-scripted and lets you fight your way through an entire super-prison called ‘Arkham City’ while engaging some of the most famous Batman villains in the process. | <urn:uuid:1ae6cf58-57b5-4ba6-8a9e-d9435743fe66> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.lolwot.com/20-great-storylines-in-video-games/ | 2023-09-25T00:07:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.964423 | 2,038 |
PANTHERS SECURE CBL 12U DIVISION 1 CHAMPIONSHIP WITH CONVINCING WIN OVER SOUTHWARK LEGENDS
In a clash that kicked off a historic CBL Finals Day in the opulent surroundings of the UEL Arena, the Brent Panthers clinched the CBL 12U Division 1 Playoff Championship with a convincing 45-36 victory over the Southwark Legends. The game was a testament to the rapidly rising talent throughout the CBL ranks, with both teams coming in ‘locked and loaded’ and ready to compete for the 12U top-tier crown.
From the opening tip-off, the Panthers put the Legends on notice with an offensive outburst from the dynamic duo of Milan Krstic and Jayden Chan. Their precision shooting from beyond the arc propelled the Panthers to a commanding 12-2 lead by the end of the first quarter, setting an early tone that echoed throughout the contest.
The Legends, however, refused to be sidelined. Prince Israel Dombo, a towering presence even in the 12U division, showcased his dominance in the paint, spearheading the Legends’ resurgence. His tenacity on the boards and ability to convert second-chance points injected newfound energy into the Legends’ campaign, narrowing the gap as the game progressed.
Coach Swift’s Panthers maintained their composure, displaying a well-coordinated offensive effort that kept the Legends at bay. The scoring contributions of Josiah Bosire-Dixon further solidified the Panthers’ advantage, establishing a comfortable 23-10 lead at halftime.
As the game wore on, the Panthers continued to demonstrate their depth, with players like Ryan Udofia, Albie Wardell, and Daniel Oronsaye stepping up to the occasion. The Legends, led by Storm Allen and Darson Weston, staged a spirited fightback knocking down a series of mid-range jump shots and timely three-pointers, injecting a competitive edge into the proceedings.
The Legends made a late-game surge in the fourth quarter, highlighted by Chibueze Ulachukwu’s impressive long-range shooting. Zephaniah Newman and Dombo also contributed to the Legends’ final push. Despite the commendable effort, the Panthers remained steadfast, buoyed by the steady hand of Udofia and Krstic’s well-timed three-point shooting that sealed the deal.
In the end, the Brent Panthers emerged victorious as the 12U Division 1 CBL Champions, securing a well-earned title for their efforts. Milan Krstic was hailed as the game’s MVP for his his ‘sniper-like’ shooting which played such a pivotal role in the victory.
Coach ‘Swift’ acknowledged the foundation of success, highlighting the team’s defensive prowess and unity on the court in the well-deserved win: “The boys all played well today, it was definitely a total team effort on both ends of the floor. Our defence is what won us this game, with Daniel being the defensive stopper he has been all year and Joey coming in to apply even more pressure on their ball handlers, which we were able to convert into points on the board. Jayden has been putting in alot of extra work this year and I think that showed today, while Milan is becoming the shooter his work ethic should allow him to be. I’m proud of them all. They deserve all the praise for a consistent season of good practice habits and playing team basketball”.
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Curry had a game-high 38 points when he was hurt attempting a steal in the third quarter.
Curry will have a scan on the injury on Thursday, said coach Steve Kerr.
"Maybe it's going to get tougher if Steph is out for a little while," added Kerr after a 15th defeat in 29 games.
The Warriors, who are seeking a fifth title in nine season, lie 10th in the Western Conference.
"My message to the group was it's about competing, it's about weathering the storm," Kerr added. "This has been a tough start to the season. We're in a tough stretch."
The Warriors were trailing 93-80 when Curry, who has averaged 30 points this season, departed the court.
A pair of Donte DiVincenzo three-pointers pulled them back to within 122-119 with a little over a minute to play.
But ultimately the Pacers, for whom Tyrese Haliburton top-scored with 29 points, held on.
Elsewhere, two-time reigning NBA Most Valuable Player Nikola Jokic scored 43 points to lead the Denver Nuggets to a 141-128 win over the Washington Wizards.
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Do I Need a Mask on Frontier Airlines
If you are flying post covid and preparing to leave home to arrive at the airport, then you might want to know do I need a mask on Frontier Airlines or not. It is not compulsory to wear a mask at the airport for boarding your flight, but you can consider wearing one for your safety. Some international destinations have still made it mandatory to wear masks, so check about the particular destination's covid regulation.
Covid Policy of Frontier Airlines
Read the Frontier Covid Policy to learn about the safety measures before boarding your flight. The policies are as follows:
- Passengers flying to a domestic destination are not required to show covid test reports.
- For some international destinations, covid reports are mandatory for boarding the flight.
- Covid tests are available at the airports of Frontier Airlines for passengers.
- If a passenger took the covid test and their result came as positive, then the passenger will be isolated without wasting time and denied boarding.
- Passengers should be fully vaccinated to travel with Frontier Airlines.
- For safety purposes, going through with a temperature check at the airport is mandatory for all passengers.
- If representatives find a high temperature of a passenger, then they will be sent for the covid test instantly, and without a negative test result, the passenger will not be allowed to board.
If you have checked the policies of covid and want to do a covid-19 test to be on the safe side, then you can take advantage of the rapid covid testing at the airport. For this, you must check out the Frontier Airlines COVID-19 test requirements to avail of the service.
Requirements for Covid-19 test at Frontier Airlines:
- Passengers needed to book their slot before arriving at the covid test desk.
- The appointments should be made at least 24 hours before the scheduled time of the flight.
- The appointment can be made online via Frontier Airlines' official website.
- The covid test is available at the airport from 9 am to 7 pm.
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How Can I Talk to An Emirates Agent
Emirates has exceptional hospitality with a multilingual crew and entertainment services for its passengers. You get what you ask for from them. They have provided customers with all the necessary services and information, so they feel safe. If you want to learn how can I talk to an Emirates agent and how to approach them, you can get your answer as you read this article till the end. They try to provide every Help as you come to them.
Different modes to talk with the Emirates agent are as follows:
Via phone number:
Passengers can get the phone number of Emirates to talk with them in the following steps:
- Navigate through the Emirates website, www.emirates.com.
- Look for the Help section.
- Click on the Help and contacts option.
- Call Emirates Airlines Phone Number 1 (800) 777-3999 or 1-802-341-3409,in the General queries section.
- Please look forward to hearing the IVR instruction. If you follow these instructions, you will hear from the person at Emirates at the end.
- The IVR system is as follows:
- Press 1 to choose the language.
- Press 2 for the lost and found.
- Press 3 for the bookings.
- Press 4 for the lost and found complaint.
- Press 5 to get deals and offers.
- Press 6 to repeat the menu.
- Press 9 to talk to the Emirates agent in customer service.
- When you follow these instructions, as the IVR states, you will get to talk to an Emirates agent soon.
Sometimes Emirates customer service has to face large volumes of calls due to many people trying to reach out to them via Emirates Airlines Contact Number, which makes people experience busy lines. Consider the steps given below to live chat with Emirates:
- Go to the website of Emirates, www.emirates.com.
- Click on Help and contacts lying beneath the Help section.
- Look for the Live chat option.
- You will get a chat box for the live chat with their agent.
- Please enter your first name, last name, and email address. All this information is required to log in for the chat service so that Emirates can send you the chat conversation copy via email.
- Chat with them live to get your solution on the spot.
Via social media:
Customers have social media channels to connect with Emirates agents. You have Emirates Airlines Customer Service made available via social media to talk to an Emirates agent. You can look at the Connect with us section on their website. You will get LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram, where Emirates agents respond generously to every message and comment. All you need is a social media account to communicate with them.
You can choose to email Emirates for a particular query in the following way:
- If your query is related to security, email firstname.lastname@example.org.
- For media-related queries, please get in touch with email@example.com.
- If you get a suspicious email, contact firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Mark Zuckerberg accepts(?) Elon Musk's challenge to a cage match and this Big Tech Brawl needs to happen
Not since Chris Weidman and Aljamain Sterling finally got their title shots have I so wanted to see a cage match. Mark Zuckerberg has accepted Elon Musk's challenge to scrap. Until Twitter's Community Notes tells me otherwise, I have but no reason to not believe this is a legit challenge and the two camps are working out the details as we speak.
On behalf of We the Content, Big Tech Brawl aka ThrottleMania needs to happen.
This all started with the announcement of Meta/Facebook creating an "alternative" to Twitter called "Threads." Development started three months after Elon bought Twitter and announced that, unlike every other Big Tech platform, he was turning it into a safe space for free speech. Facebook is most known for throttling the lab leak theory, the Hunter Biden laptop, and anything we post from the Louder with Crowder Dot Com website. They aren't known for sharing Elon's vision.
Musk got chirpy about it.
I’m sure Earth can’t wait to be exclusively under Zuck’s thumb with no other options.
At least it will be “sane”. Was worried there for a moment 😅.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 21, 2023
A Twitter user attempted to warn Elon about writing a check his butt can't cash. After all, Zuck has been rolling. He is a certified badass now or something.
I’m up for a cage match if he is lol
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 21, 2023
Zuck accepts via Instagram stories.
This is Zuck’s story on insta right now.
Simulation confirmed ✅
— Penny2x (@imPenny2x) June 22, 2023
A reporter for The Verge confirms that Zuckerberg is serious about fighting Musk. A spokesman for Meta says the IG story speaks for itself.
Elon has a location in mind.
I have this great move that I call “The Walrus”, where I just lie on top of my opponent & do nothing
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 22, 2023
Paging Uncle Dana White, MAKE. THIS. HAPPEN. Dana always brags that the UFC gives fans the fights they want to see. On behalf of the fans, we don't want to see this fight. We NEED to see this fight. I'd even be willing to make it winner take all. Facebook vs Twitter.
Zuckerburg is the guy who takes selfies in the mirror and brags about all the fighting he's doing to create a fake reality for himself on Instagram. You know, like every other social media influencer. The training montage would be Zuckerberg rolling and doing push-ups, while Elon drinks chocolate milk and watches TV. Then when the fight comes, Musk drops Zuck with one punch. Or makes him submit by giving him a wedgie.
Elon owns Facebook. Facebook stops throttling content. Everyone is happy except for leftists who control Meta and demand content they don't like be throttled. They can step into the cage next.
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“Are you having fun, too”? Why yes .. yes, I am! That’s a little joke that Nick used to make when he first began visiting me at my apartment. There was another tenant in the house whose cooking always smelled like they were having fondue! (Is that a case of ‘you had to be there’?)
For this week’s food post is about the little fondue party for two we had last Sunday, something we’d never done together before.
The idea first came up with Nick telling me about how when growing up he and his family would have beef fondue for special occasions and how he loved it. I just happened to have a vintage fondue pot and some forks, which were unused and still in their original boxes. I had been given these as a gift from an ex’s lovely mother. She knew I liked vintage things and nabbed these for me at a church jumble sale she was helping with. This was years ago and I held onto those fondue things, packing and moving them from apartment to apartment and finally to my home here. But they stayed in the packing box for years, until they were unveiled last week-end. Nick was quite surprised I had them and impressed with my fine fondue pot! After almost 13 years of marriage it’s good to still have a few surprises.
Part of the reason we had never used these things is that we’re not big meat eaters. As an aside, unlike most people who are not frequent eaters of meat, who eat chicken but not beef, we are the other way around and do occasionally eat beef steak but not chicken. We’re not overly fussy about the whole thing though, and eat whatever is being served when we are invited out to eat. But another reason I had never used this fondue pot I had was that I was afraid of the dangers associated with hot pots of boiling oil. Particularly being combined with a party of drinking people, which seemed to be the whole premise behind a fondue. It seemed like a party thing .. and the image on the box reinforced this thinking.
I have had beef fondue twice before though .. once when I was little and my mother served it to us children for fun, because she had recently bought her pots for an adult party she and my father hosted. And another time, prepared by Nick’s mother when we were visiting his parents, once as a special treat for Nick’s birthday (they live far away so visits and birthday fondues are, unfortunately, not frequent).
My conclusions on the subject of beef fondue after our little party … it was a really enjoyable thing to do and the meal tasted good. I was surprised by how ‘un-fatty’ it was. In order to avoid spattering hot oil, the beef you use has to be very very lean (we used round steak), but I had assumed that cooking in oil meant for lots of fat clinging to the meat, but this didn’t happen at all. The pieces of cooked meat were nicely browned but not greasy at all. There was barely any oil in my plate. Would I ever serve it at a party? No way … I think it’s too risky for that. But would I do it again with maybe 4 people next time? Yes I would … that kind of good time is worth pursuing!
We didn’t end up using the extra forks that are in that groovy stand, nor did we use the fire extinguisher!
And how about you … have you ever had beef fondue?
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Air traffic controllers and other aviation unions are planning strikes on Friday, 25 October.
The length of the strikes varies by union from four to 24 hours; air traffic controllers will
walkout from 13:00-17:00 (local time).
Alitalia has canceled two late flights on Thursday, 24 October, and one early morning flight
on Saturday, 26 October, due to the work stoppages. The airline announced that service
scheduled during peak hours (07:00-10:00 and 18:00-21:00) on Friday will operate as
normal, but several flights have been canceled. A full list of impacted flight can be found on
the Alitalia website here
Further flight disruptions, including delays, modified timetables, and last-minute
cancellations, are possible in the coming days.
• Delayed or cancelled flights
• Possible protests or demonstrations at airports
• Traffic delays due to strikes, demonstrations, etc.
• Blocked roads due to demonstrations
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Micromobility Research Project Brings E-scooters to LSU’s Flagship Campus
April 12, 2023
Data will help inform future transportation initiatives
BATON ROUGE – LSU is partnering with Spin, a San Francisco-based company working with over 70 North American cities and campuses on micromobility solutions, to provide electric scooter transportation for students, faculty, staff and visitors on the Baton Rouge campus. The initiative is part of an LSU micromobility research project on transportation sustainability and efficiency.
The research, led by the LSU Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, aims to study the economic, environmental and social characteristics of e-scooters and inform current and future micromobility initiatives. The project uses Spin e-scooter data to develop a cross-campus life-cycle analysis and is part of the research portfolio of the Transportation Consortium of South-Central States or Tran-SET, an LSU-led U.S. Department of Transportation collaborative partnership between 11 institutions across five states.
“Many campuses across the U.S. are relying on micromobility solutions to help with campus infrastructure improvements and student experiences,” said Mostafa A. Elseifi, professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and lead on the research project. “The Spin platform’s safety and data features made them an ideal partner for our life-cycle analysis and helped us view campus as a test lab for changing transportation demands. We look forward to sharing our findings to inform a better campus transportation experience.”
In addition to providing data on preferred campus pathways and transportation density, the Spin scooters offer a zero-emission option for traversing campus and incorporate safety features such as “no-ride zones” and “slow ride zones” at various locations. The zones are visible within the Spin mobile app used to reserve and pay for the use of the scooters. The initial research deployment includes 250 e-scooters and designates specific locations where the devices will be parked on campus. Spin support personnel are currently operating across campus daily to replace batteries, repair equipment and relocate scooters to designated areas.
The Spin scooters cost $1 to unlock plus 30 cents per minute of use, with daily and monthly programs available. The scooters’ top speed is 15 mph unless in a slow or no-ride zone, which are viewable in the Spin app. The research project includes campus and surrounding areas, so Spin equipment offers a potential transportation solution for both short and medium distances.
“The urban campus footprint of LSU offers an excellent use case for micromobility,” said John Lankford, manager of campus and government partnerships at Spin. “We’re excited about the opportunity to work with LSU on a safe, equitable and sustainable transportation solution for the campus community, and to serve as a strong partner in transportation research.”
Spin is working with LSU Parking & Transportation to designate specific locations where the devices should be parked on campus, LSU Student Government to understand student needs and the Office of Research & Economic Development on additional transportation research opportunities. Spin has a local team to assist in ensuring scooters are maintained and relocated for safety and use. A tag with a link to the LSU research project can be found on every scooter.
LSU Parking & Transportation underscored the following important considerations for users of the Spin scooters:
- When ending a trip, scooters must be returned to the nearest bike rack or designated zone. Scooters cannot block sidewalks, building entrances or roadways.
- Safety is the highest priority. When operating scooters, stay alert and follow the rules of the road. Be mindful of pedestrians and vehicles.
- Scooters should not be ridden on grassy areas or in buildings, including residence halls.
- The scooters are a convenient and fun way to traverse campus and an opportunity to work on important research, but participants must be responsible and respectful of students, faculty, staff and visitors.
- Spin personnel are available daily for repairs and operations, but riders must also follow best practices for safety and convenience, including returning scooters to designated locations. Failure to observe these best practices may result in limited riding privileges.
- Any scooter improperly parked or otherwise impacting any campus access can be reported to Spin at email@example.com.
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Vintage Wakmann Panda Triple Date Calendar Chronograph Ref. 71.1307.70 - SOLD
The Wakmann triple date chronograph is one of the best bang-for-your-buck pieces in the watch world, rolling sporty, classy, and functional into one handsome Panda-dial wearing package. While that combination typically screams big bucks, especially among vintage pieces, the Wakmann has remained a more affordable hidden gem. The watch is powered by the Valjoux 730 movement, which uses a column wheel for ultra-smooth chronograph engagement and offers an easily legible (as well as easily adjustable) triple calendar complication.
The watch offered here remains in great condition, still with its original components and functioning perfectly with a fresh service.
Take a look at the photos and our condition description below:
Case: 36mm stainless steel case in excellent condition. There are sharp lines throughout with only minor surface wear as pictured, and the watch has its original signed crown and original "fat neck" pushers.
Dial/Hands: Excellent original dial and handset as pictured. The hour markers are applied steel with tritium inserts. The hands are also original with matching tritium.
Caseback: Original sailboat engraved signed caseback with all engravings present. Signed Charles Gigandet Swiss inside.
Crystal: Excellent condition acrylic crystal free from any major scratching, scuffs, chips, or cracks.
Movement: Valjoux 730 manual wound triple calendar chronograph movement. All functions work as they should, including chronograph start, stop, and reset to zero, as well as the month and date correctors. The movement was serviced in December 2021.
Bracelet/Strap: Like new leather strap as pictured.
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Have you given up, in Colorado, hope of finding a career that not only pays you a decent salary but leaves you feeling satisfied at the end of the day as well? If so, you will be glad to know that there is a career waiting for you! A career as a licensed vocational nurse (LVN) is extremely satisfying, and LVNs who choose to work in Colorado enjoy a mean wage of $54,310 per year!
Just as with any other professional career, to become an LVN in Colorado, you must acquire the appropriate training. There are many different types of educational facilities that offer LVN programs, and you can even study online if you wish! Typically, your training will take about a year or a bit longer and will consist of a variety of career-related courses designed to teach you all about vocational nursing. Completion of an LVN program will qualify you for the NCLEX-PN.
The NCLEX-PN is a nationally recognized licensing exam that you must pass before you can obtain your nursing license. If you receive an acceptable score on this exam, you will be licensed as an LVN by the Colorado Board of Nursing.
The Best LVN Programs in Colorado
These are some of the best LVN programs in the state of Colorado:
Colorado Mesa University1100 North Ave, Grand Junction, CO 81501 (970) 248-1020
Concorde Career College111 Havana St, Aurora, CO 80010 (303) 861-1151
Emily Griffith Technical College1860 Lincoln St, Denver, CO 80203 (720) 423-4700
Pickens Technical College500 N Airport Blvd, Aurora, CO 80011 (303) 344-4910
Pima Medical Institute13750 E Mississippi Ave, Aurora, CO 80012 (800) 477-7462
Pueblo Community College Southwest33057 US-160, Mancos, CO 81328 (719) 549-3200
Technical College of the Rockies1765 US-50, Delta, CO 81416 (970) 874-7671
Colorado Board of Nursing
If you have any questions regarding LVN/LPN licenses in Alabama, you should contact the Colorado Board of Nursing. Here is their contact information:Colorado Board of Nursing
1560 Broadway #1350, Denver, CO 80202
Phone: (303) 894-2430
Fax: (303) 894-2821
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Cook County Board Finance Committee - July 24, 2018
Midyear Budget Hearing - Day 2 - afternoon session
Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas had the shortest meeting of all:
Cook County Inspector General's Office:
Recorder of Deeds, Karen Yarborough, presented her budget at 2pm.
Clerk of the Circuit Court, Dorothy Brown, relied most of the time on the comptroller to discuss the details of her budget and whether she would be within it.
Chief Judge Tim Evans is running at 2% over budget.
Budget hearings were adjourned at 4pm. Commissioners Garcia, Sims, Daley, Silvestri, Tobolski, Deer, Boykin, Moore, Moody, and Suffredin were present for most of the budget hearings.
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When we choose to ignore forgiveness and hold on to anger and grudges, we end up living in the past. Our everyday life, how we feel, and what we think is colored by what happened weeks, months, or even years ago, and that’s no way to live. It can be part of what makes you feel so trapped. It’s time to stop being stuck in the past and learn to live in the present.
Once you embrace that idea of living in the here and now, it becomes much easier to forgive and move on. Here’s how that’s going to happen. When you learn to live in the present, you aren’t all that worried about the past. The past, in fact, is simply how you got to be in the present. It’s what has shaped you into the person you are right now. It’s shaped the people and events around you to where they are today. When you learn to not only live in, but appreciate the present, it’s hard to feel negatively about any part in your past. If the things you are angry or hurt by didn’t happen, you wouldn’t be who you are today.
Of course embracing the present and both the joy and challenges it brings with it isn’t always easy. Start by being present. Notice the people and things around you. Pay attention to what’s happening and try to see the best in everything. Find joy in the small things. Appreciate everything you have. Slow down and don’t be afraid to stop and smell the roses.
Being stuck in the past is one danger. Being too worried about the future is another. When our eyes and our mind are constantly on what’s to come, it creates a lot of anxiety. The problem is that we don’t have control over our future. Learning to live in the present instead of agonizing about the future can do a lot to relieve anxiety and stress.
Does this mean you shouldn’t prepare for the future by starting a savings account, for example? Of course not. You want to prepare and do what you can to ensure a happy and secure future for yourself and your loved ones. You simply should worry about and get stuck on things you have no control over and thus miss the beautiful present you’re living in.
Does this mean you should ignore the lessons taught by the past, and possibly repeat the same mistakes again and again? Of course not. Our past shapes us and makes us who we are today.
Living in the present simply means that we no longer allow ourselves to be trapped by it. Living in the present with forgiveness allows us to let go and move on with our present life.
ACTION FOR TODAY:
Take a day to reconnect with your present self by taking yourself out on a date. Do something you love that you don’t often get to do. The last three weeks was all about reconciling with the past.
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Taking vacation? It's a breeze to update your appointment availability before you go
You’re thinking about what to pack for your cruise…even though it’s still a few weeks away. You like to be prepared. You have a checklist:
- Book the pet sitter.
- Set up out-of-office response on your email and outgoing voicemail.
- Update appointment availability with Magellan. (Maybe that last item wasn’t on your list, but now it is!).
Updating your appointment availability is easy. You can do it well in advance, just as soon as you know the dates for your vacation:
Why it matters
Magellan understands that schedules are always changing and that it may not feel like it is worth the effort to update your status unless you’re going to be unavailable for a significant period.
- In a recent provider survey,* many providers indicated that the only way a member would know they (the provider) are not accepting new patients is by contacting them directly or through a notification on their voicemail.
- According to the survey, the top three reasons a provider would not notify a managed care organization/health plan when they are not accepting patients are:
- Because a provider’s schedule is constantly changing.
- They do not have time to complete the update process.
- They don’t think it is necessary unless they’re unavailable for 30 days or more.
One of the most frequent complaints Magellan receives from members involves providers’ appointment availability not being updated. Some real – and very concerning – member comments include:
- “Yet another mental health therapist listed within a 10-mile radius of my zip code is not accepting new patients!”
- “None of the providers I have been given here are actually available. Updated providers would be less stressful while looking for help.”
- “My daughter was matched to a therapist that still has not responded. This is just making everything more stressful.”
As you can see from these comments from our member satisfaction survey, out-of-date provider information can lead to frustration and inconvenience for members seeking timely care. For this reason, Magellan encourages you to take the step of updating your appointment availability regularly (instructions above).
Regular updates to your practice information help meet NCQA, federal, and CMS regulations and ensure your listing continues to appear in Magellan’s provider directory so our members can find the valuable services you offer.
For more information
See the Magellan National Provider Handbook (PDF), Section 2 for policies about updating practice information.
For questions about updating your practice information via the provider website, contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org or chat with us at MagellanProvider.com.
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In this online, interactive lecture, author-journalist Dyke Hendrickson presents on his book, New England Coast Guard Stories: Remarkable Mariners. A former editor and reporter with the Portland Press Herald and the Central Maine Morning Sentinel of Waterville, Mr. Hendrickson is the recipient of several writing awards. He has resided in several Maine seaside communities and although he now lives in Newburyport, MA, he is a historian with the Merrimack River Watershed Council and continues to speak, via Zoom, to clubs, associations, and historical gatherings on the history of the Coast Guard and the Merrimack River. In addition to his work in Maine, he has been a writer for the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the Boston Herald and as a contributor to USA Today, the Boston Globe and Tennis magazine.
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Quality Assurance Technician
Are you an experienced Quality Assurance Technician? Are you looking for a role within Food Manufacturing that offers support & progression? Do you pride yourself on your attention to detail?
Due to increasing growth, our client based in Hortonwood, Telford have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Quality Assurance Technician to join their Quality team.
The role will be based within the Abattoir, Boning Hall and Despatch Departments, working to the quality sample plan.
Please note: This job role is directly working in production and is production floor based.
The working hours of a Quality Assurance Technician are rotating;
Monday to Friday 7am to 4pm and Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm.
Total of 42.5hrs per week
Responsibilities for a Quality Assurance Technician include:
- Ensure quality checks are carried out to agreed procedures and schedules this also includes trailers and finished product checks
- Ensure all products are labelled to specification
- Compile non-conformance logs and take appropriate action
- Check product and steriliser temperatures
- Collect microbiological samples and label as appropriate
- Monitor general product quality and advise department supervisors/managers of any issues
- Ensure procedural checks are carried out to agreed procedures and schedules, product quality checks, temperature checks, metal detection verification, environmental swabbing, equipment calibration, products weight checks, tare checks, labels checks,
- Check all information required on sheets is filled in and filed as appropriate
- Operate to best Company policy
- To monitor staff personal hygiene practices
- To ensure that product meets individual customer requirements
- Check for contamination
- Daily G&P checks
- Internal audit checks
- Attend meetings as and when required
Skills for a Quality Assurance Technician include:
- Understanding of HACCP
- To adhere to current legislation with regards to safe food production
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent organisational and planning
- Be able to work exceptionally well in a team environment
Our client offers great benefits that help make this a great place to work, these include :
- Holiday Pay – 20 days + 8 bank holidays
- Retirement Saving Plan
- Exclusive Deal on Meat Sales
- Full PPE Supplied
- Free Access to the Employee Assistance Programme offering expert advice.
- Wellbeing Plan
- Refer a Friend Scheme
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In this episode of With Flying Colors Mark Treichel interviews LoanStreet's Founder Ian Lampl on both sides (buying and selling of loans) and why this type of lending is likely going to continue to grow. LoanStreet is an innovative platform for the syndication of loans. Through automation and standardization, LoanStreet enables institutions to efficiently and cost-effectively syndicate their loans to interested investors. LoanStreet saves you time and money while diversifying your balance sheet and increasing your non-interest income.
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LoanStreet's Ian Lampl Discusses Loan Participations Growth & Future
I've got an opportunity to interview Ian Lampl. How are you doing, Ian?
I'm doing well, Mark. Thank you so much for having me.
I’m glad to hear it. I was on your LinkedIn, as I mentioned before we started. I've got a bio here that I wanted to share with people. You are the Cofounder of LoanStreet, which was founded in 2013 with the mission to create a more efficient, transparent and robust way to connect lenders and investors, as well as administer their loans. Hundreds of financial institutions, which includes a lot of credit unions, rely on LoanStreet's turnkey automated platform to gain access to a nationwide network of lenders and investors.
It also improves the performance of their loan portfolio so that they can more profitably grow and diversify their balance sheets. From our previous conversations, I remember you saying you were involved in the Troubled Asset Relief Program or TARP. When we chatted about it, I didn't realize you were the Deputy Chief Counsel of that office. I'm sure there are some things you’ve learned from that that helped you build out what you've done at LoanStreet.
Maybe we can get into that. I knew you were a lawyer. I didn't know that you started as an electrical engineer with a degree in that. Maybe we can touch upon that.
You went pretty far back. Thank you for that kind introduction. Before starting LoanStreet, I served as Deputy Chief Counsel for what was called the Office of Financial Stability, which implemented the Troubled Asset Relief Program or TARP for the Treasury Department. That covered all sorts of programs, from the big bank programs to a program called the Community Development Capital Initiative, a full program that credit unions could participate in.
You're correct. The genesis of LoanStreet came out of my time at the Treasury Department, where I had the benefit of meeting with financial institutions of all sizes. That could have been the large ones like JPMorgan Chase, small credit unions, and everything in between. One of the things that I found quite striking was how difficult it was for financial institutions to manage the lending side of their balance sheet. Fundamentally, what I mean by that is shared credits, when there are multiple lenders in a loan.
Large institutions oftentimes call that syndicated lending. Credit unions commonly call that participation lending. Whatever you call it, the friction of getting into and then managing those transactions over time is quite hard. That resulted in those institutions doing it less than what otherwise be optimal. When people looked at this problem, historically, they tended to view the problem as a matching problem. It's just hard to find the right partner at the right time. Our view was that puts the cart in front of the horse. It wasn't so much a matching problem but a scaling problem. Once you have the infrastructure in place to help financial institutions to share loans at any time in any amount with any partner, matching becomes easy.
What we focus on is how you build infrastructure. In many ways, we take for granted this type of infrastructure in the bond market to allow for a more liquid market because liquidity provides for better execution and better diversification. It allows lenders to focus on what they're good at, lending in the local market to their members without fear of hitting concentration limits and be able to manage their balance sheet more effectively.
One of the things is oftentimes, credit unions can face greater concentration issues and even a similar situation to community banks due to the membership requirements. In my mind, we shouldn't throw up our hands and say, "That means that we're forever going to be subject to these more difficult pathways.” Rather, we should look for other ways of mitigating those risks. Our view is that shared credit is one of the most effective ways of doing so.
That's a great point. Membership can create more concentrations. As simple as it is a farming credit union and we are farmers in a town, that's all we do. You're going to have that. NCUA, in the past, had challenges with the medallion credit unions. There were participations there. Obviously, some seismic things happened in that arena. It's good to see that all that has been resolved. The statistics on participation loans show how well they're performing, especially now that those medallion loans are no longer in those statistics and that they have rolled off.
You mentioned one thing and it reminded me of an author, James Clear, who wrote the book Atomic Habits, which speaks to friction. His concept is that you can improve your habits by creating friction for bad habits and removing friction for good habits. I never looked at what LoanStreet does relative to that, but that's what you've done. If I'm interpreting this right, you've created a structure that removes a lot of the friction that allows me, if I'm a seller or person B, if they're a buyer, to acquire or initiate some loans that allows me to improve my overall balance sheet.
That's right. If you think about the traditional process of the way credit unions would share loans in the past, there were a few things there that were incredibly manual in nature. One was that they would always look for a single counterparty. That single counterparty had to buy the full amount available for sale. That immediately means that all institutions are generally only going to operate with other like-sized institutions.
For example, if I'm a billion-dollar institution and I need to move $50 million to $100 million of loans, I can't sell $100 million of loans to a hundred-million-dollar institution. I can only sell it to other billion-dollar institutions. On the other side of the coin, if you're in a high friction environment, if you are a hundred-million-dollar institution and you need a couple of million dollars worth of capital relief, you can't sell a couple of million dollars to a multibillion-dollar institution. It doesn't work. Therefore, you are limited to like-sized institutions.
When you're selling a one-to-one transaction, people tend to renegotiate the contract every time and that takes time. Not that it’s necessarily expensive, but it's the effort to renegotiate that contract every time. Let's face it, the relationship among lenders for participations doesn't change that much. The rights to workouts, voting, and rights to proceeds are things that are fairly well agreed to even if people negotiate in the margins. It's unnecessary.
If you can strip out those negotiations and have one agreement that many people use, all of a sudden, you can go from a world of having to have a single buyer to a world where you can have many buyers. Once you're in a world with many buyers, if you think about an IPO, can you imagine trying to get an IPO done if you had to find that single equity holder for the entire multibillion-dollar equity offering?
That will never happen. You couldn't get an IPO off. What do they do? They line up 1,000 insurance companies and immediately, you get your IPO off. In the loan market, of course, you're going to find a single counterparty. Why would you ever find more than one when in every other market, whether it's debt or equity, when it comes to selling bonds or selling equity, you have many holders. It was only in the loan market where you'd say, “The right way to do this is to find one counterparty.” It's bizarre. In order to have many partners, you have to have one agreement.
If you think about it, in the bond market, there's something called qualified indentured debt. The rights of bondholders are always the same even if the covenants move. Equity holders have fiduciary rights as common holders. These things are standardized and allow you to have many holders, but also, the bond market and the equity market have a lot of infrastructures that people take for granted.
Your ownership percentage is managed by trustees and transfer agents and paying agents. We're not concerned about getting your dividend and interest payment on time and in the right account. All of this is managed by these quasi-public utilities. Yet, in the loan market, none of that exists. You're dependent on the back office or the financial institution that sold it to you to manage that process of tracking ownership, reporting, remitting and reconciling. It’s not what they do every day. It's a thing that they do once in a while and they have good tools to do it.
If you can automate those processes of what the bond market and the equities market take for granted and you can standardize that arrangement, now you can go one-to-many. You removed all that friction of transacting in the first place. You removed the friction of having many counterparties. All of a sudden, you can manage your balance sheet in a much more active way. You don't have to be worried about, “I need to build up a big block of loans to sell them at high friction transaction to a single counterparty.”
I can dollar cost average my way and I can sell all the time. I can dollar cost average my way in as a buyer. I can buy lots of amounts from lots of different parties because the effort it takes to transact goes down and the effort to manage goes down. I now have a much more liquid secondary market and I can manage my balance sheet as a buyer or seller or both much more effectively.
When you're selling a one-to-one transaction, people tend to renegotiate the contract every time, and that takes time. Not that it’s necessarily expensive, but it's the effort to renegotiate that contract every time.
It’s creating diversification for the buyer and the seller at the same time because they're not keeping it all on their books.
Also, the diversification of their buyer base. If you think about it, if you want to say to your ALCO committee, to your board or your examination authorities, "I have a liquidity source. I can sell loans." If your liquidity source is two partners, what happens if they're out of the market for one month? If you got hundreds of institutions that are buying from you historically, that's a real liquidity source. You're able to execute efficiently and without concern whether 1 or 2 of them are out in the market when you get the bond.
You mentioned the regulatory authorities. One thing that credit unions have to deal with every year is a priority letter to credit unions. In 2022, NCUA had eleven topics. One of which was they added loan participations as a priority. I've done an episode on that. I have some statistics from that. In my opinion, it's not that NCUA views participation loans as a problem. They're creating it as a priority because it has been growing and taking off. At the end of the year, about 4.7% of total loans were in loan participations. Also, another type of loan purchase, the eligible obligations, has grown from about 1.7% to 3% of eligible obligations.
I'm sure that LoanStreet has played a role in some of this growth relative to both sides of the balance sheet. Let me throw one other thing out there. When I was a regional director, when I would go out and speak, I would say, “You could put 5% of your money into just about anything.” When I see that you got 4.7% in participation loans as a percentage of loans that credit unions now have on their books and they're performing extremely well, that's a good thing for the industry to see that that's what's happening at this juncture. Do you have any thoughts relative to that?
There are a number of secular trends that are only going to see participations grow. Several years ago, the participation marketplace was under $20 billion. Now it's over $60 billion. It has been growing at an annual compound growth rate of over 15%. Our view is it's going to even start growing faster. It's right for the NCUA to be paying attention. It's going to be a significant part of every credit union's balance sheet for the foreseeable future. It needs to be done well and in transparently because it's such an important tool that people need to be paying attention to. It needs to be in an effective marketplace because otherwise, the industry is going to struggle.
The reason why I believe so strongly in that is the days of individual consumers walking into a credit union branch to take out loans are either disappearing altogether or disappearing quickly. More and more consumers and small businesses are taking out loans on their phones or online. Credit unions may not always be well positioned to have the best and most engaging mobile app. That said, that loan should still probably be on a credit union balance sheet. It's just getting there differently.
In order for that loan to get to a credit union balance sheet, most likely, credit unions are going to have to partner with technology providers. People sometimes call them FinTechs. They are origination channels. They're sourcing deal flow for credit unions with savvy apps and origination channels. They're going to capture some portion of that market. The super-prime portion of what they're capturing should end up in a credit union balance sheet. It's not going to go to a hedge fund or asset management. Their cost of capital won't enable it if they can be good credit union partners.
On the other side of the coin though, not every single one of those technology partners can then partner with thousands of credit unions. It’s more likely that they're going to partner with a handful. Those handfuls are going to need to do a few things. They're going to need to enter into reasonably complex forward flow arrangements. They're going to have to have a decent sized balance sheet in order to support some of that lending upfront. We're going to need to monitor that FinTech or technology origination channel to make sure that they're performing as agreed.
Once it's in that regulatory box and on a credit union balance sheet, that institution can then participate down to thousands of other credit unions. They can take advantage of the fact that one potentially larger credit union is specialized in terms of understanding how to partner with FinTech, understanding those forward flow arrangements, and understanding that monitoring the role that they play.
They're going to earn some income for that. They might get some additional gain on sale, some servicing spread, and then they're going to participate down to thousands of credit unions that probably can't partner with that FinTech directly. If I'm right that that's the direction in which origination is going, more and more of credit unions’ balance sheets are going to be in participations, not less.
I think you’re right. From the number of potential clients and client calls I have, I could see that their credit unions are doing more of this and how I've acquired some loans that I got personally from conversations I have with my kids, who are in their early 30s. That generation doesn't get loans like my dad and mom did or like I am right now.
When the smaller credit unions have liquidity and want to maintain their local autonomy, whether that's Aberdeen, South Dakota or somewhere in the middle of a small town in Texas, and you've got this excess liquidity and this large credit union that does have the economies of scale to make a sound loan, but also to attract people who want to invite them in to make that volume of loans. As you said, the originators of these opportunities are only going to go to a handful of organizations.
It's good for credit unions that large credit unions can do this. Obviously, you have to do it in a safe and sound manner. That goes to the guidance that NCUA has out relative to the priority rules. The long-standing guidance came out in 2007 or 2008 relative to doing third-party due diligence. From our previous conversations, I know that the systems you put in place create ways for the credit unions to comply with what NCUA is expecting. Do you want to speak to that a little bit?
This has to be done correctly. We don't have the opportunity to get this wrong. Credit unions need to be able to partner with FinTechs. They need to do it in a safe and sound manner and actively manage their balance sheet and allow for credit unions to purchase in a safe and sound manner. Our view is transparency is a critical feature and being able to track loans and payments individually not just at the time of purchase but also subsequently. How are these loans performing at a micro level?
Loans are also going to repay and be charged off in non-uniform ways. Even if it meets expectations, it's going to have this lifetime behavior that can be surprising, especially as you make multiple purchases at different times from different institutions for different asset classes and being able to understand what your balance sheet looks like today. Not what it was when you bought into these loans six months ago or a year ago or two years ago. What does your balance sheet look like today? That helps you to manage your balance sheet for your next purchase actively.
It’s the same thing as a seller. What does your balance sheet look like today? It’s not what it used to look like. Having that real-time transparency into payment level information allows you to make better-informed decisions, both in terms of what has happened and what you need to do moving forward. Reverting back to your point about the supervisory priority, what was interesting to us was also that the NCUA highlighted the ongoing reporting aspects, tracking loans independently and understanding what's going on.
In our view, that is a critical need. If you're not paying attention to the payment level and the individual loans and if you're trying to do things a little loose at the pool level, you're going to miss things that matter. That's where things can go sideways because things are going to go wrong. Not every loan is going to repay perfectly, but if you have the information, you put yourself in a position to mitigate problems, as well as to take action to improve your balance sheet.
If a credit union is looking to add loans to their pool and they don't currently have a relationship with LoanStreet and don't currently do either any eligible obligations or purchase of loan participations, what are the first steps that a credit union like that would go into relative to reaching out to your organization to see if it's something that does fit for them?
I'm going to circle back to one of the original points you made. We talked about this idea of membership and how a field of membership can result in surprising concentrations. It's fascinating because if you think about the original purpose of field membership, it was supposed to be credit enhancing where we all know each other and therefore, it's a credit enhancement. Now, we would argue that it is not credit enhancement but can hamper a credit union.
Not every loan is going to repay perfectly, but if you have the information, you put yourself in a position to mitigate problems, as well as to take action to improve your balance sheet.
In my mind, that is an interesting point to start with on a board. If you are not currently in participations, the regulation itself requires that there should be a policy. A part of that policy by the board has to come into a conversation about what is the purpose of a participation policy and what am I trying to achieve as a seller or a buyer. Recognizing that the field membership requirement in and of itself can be credit hampering. It’s not an enhancement anymore.
Why are we putting together this policy? Let's take a step back and understand as a board how we're going to navigate managing the balance sheet of a credit union, either selling, buying or both, to get diversification, get different assets, or leverage expertise and scale of another institution as long as I understand that credit risk. In my mind, that is a starting point. Once we understand what we're doing there, perhaps we have a strong indirect auto program in our own local community, and we're constantly scaling it up and down because we're running out of balance sheet space with all the concentration. If we start participating out, then we can keep our foot on the gas.
We keep lending successfully, amortize those marketing costs of those loan officers and the servicing and collection people and distribute. It will allow another credit union to get the benefit of your expertise in your local community. You first have to start off speaking to the board and educating the board of the value of what we're trying to achieve. You have to put a policy in place. From there, you need to think about what is their criteria in terms of what type of loans am I looking for and what are the different ways I can access those loans?
Some credit unions rely on calling each other. There are other platforms like LoanStreet and others where you can log in and see different types of opportunities. Most of them don't charge for you to register and log in and see the deal flow. Some of them do. It's totally worthwhile to look at a number of different types of opportunities to source deal flow. You have to understand how you are going to perform the ongoing management and reporting functions either as a seller yourself or as a buyer.
We highly encourage people to understand the nature of the reporting they're going to receive before they transact. If they don't understand the reporting they're going to receive before they transact, it's going to be difficult for them to manage their portfolio moving forward. You want to make sure not just that you are able to understand the risk-return profile of the opportunity you're looking at but also, “How am I going to track this over time? What are the tools that I have? What are the tools that the platform I'm working with gives me access to and understand how did it perform? I thought it would be a prepayment speed of X. We ended up with Y. We thought charge offs would be A, they ended up with B.”
Maybe they're better. Maybe they're worse. Maybe it's a mix. Trying to track that manually month over month in Excel spreadsheets is functionally impossible. You need to have specialized software that you're working with to understand these variations over time. I highly encouraged credit units both in terms of what they're getting into, and then how they're going to manage it, and not view these things as separate concepts but as a whole together.
A real sweet spot of the product that you offer is the ability to have detailed reports relative to what it is you own, which reminds me of some other conversations I've had with some of the experts that assist me. We get into conversations with clients talking about what's going into a report to the board. What is it that the board should know? What is it that they need to know? What is it that they want to know?
If you don't have the ability to put that together easily, it gets harder for them to understand what their risks are. That’s the official’s side of it. The other side of it is if NCUA is going to be coming in and looking to say, “What level of due diligence did you have relative to purchasing these loans?” Having good reporting can go a long way towards NCUA being comfortable with the fact that you understand what it is you bought and the fact that you have a policy that puts appropriate guard rails on it.
In some ways, it’s equally fascinating. We’re talking to a large credit union. They have a five-person analyst team dedicated to reviewing their participation program. They were looking at those monthly reports and those Excel spreadsheets and trying to track things. They produce a report and it’s superficial. It looks very professional. If anyone will look at it, they will be like, “They are on top of this.”
They have the charts and the numbers but then when you dug in, their prepayment speeds were wildly off. This is the difference between humans trying to track Excel spreadsheets versus specialized software. What they were reporting to the board, the ALCO committee and their management was wrong. It was inaccurate.
Doing this at scale, when you're buying into an auto pool, you'll be dealing with thousands upon thousands of loans. The idea that you're manually tracking these things off core is functionally impossible. You have to have a system that you're using because you can produce pretty reports that purport to have everything you need but if the underlying data is flawed, you've got a real problem. That is one of the fascinating things too. It's not just being able to present something like, “Here are our charge off numbers.” What's your confidence that it is correct?
Manual systems can work in super small situations. I think of Lucille Ball and the chocolates coming off the system where things start coming so much quicker that Lucy had to start eating half the chocolates. A third of the chocolates were eaten, a third hit the floor, and a third of them went into the box. That's not the kind of reporting that anybody wants to have, whether it's loan participations or chocolates. That's a great point.
I'm assuming as we see this growth happen every year from 2013, you've seen more buyers and sellers coming in. I've heard from clients that do purchase some loans either at LoanStreet or elsewhere that there is a lot of demand, that there's oversubscription sometimes, and that their goal is to get a certain amount and they're not able to do it. It's great to have buyers and sellers. I'm presuming that both of those things are going quite well at LoanStreet but that's a balancing act as well that you have to try and achieve.
Not to talk too much about LoanStreet itself but LoanStreet has about 1,300 financial institutions on our platform. We do have some community banks on the platform as well. It’s around 25% of the industry by number. We're adding about a credit union a day. We're in a large percentage of credit unions at this point. This goes back to another point we’ve raised which was we tend to facilitate a one-to-many transaction versus a one-to-one. The traditional way of doing it is you got to buy the full amount available for sale because you individually negotiated that transaction. That has some benefits, but that means you were the absolute highest bidder on the bid. You don't get it at all.
The one thing you know when you're using the traditional process is that you are willing to pay more than anybody else. It is funny because if you think again about the IPO and bond world, when you buy a bond, when you're into an original issue bond or original issue IPO, they build a book, but everyone pays the same price. You know with confidence that the amount you paid was a market-clearing price. When you win something doing the old-fashioned way, you win it and you win all of it, but then it also means you're willing to pay more than anybody. You get that bit of what they call buyer's remorse.
If you do a one-to-many trade, you know that there might be 20, 30 or 40 other institutions that have agreed that that's a fair market price for that opportunity. Lots of people are buying in at the same price regardless of size or if they know the CEO. Everyone is paying the same amount. It gives you a lot of confidence, but it also means you may not get the full allocation that you were hoping for. In order to successfully build a book, you have to try to oversubscribe it a little bit. In the equities market, they call it a green sheet. A perfect IPO is 20% oversold, but you're trying to get that perfect level and then everyone gets cut back a little bit.
If a credit union is consistently selling, then you've done your due diligence. You know a lot about that product and the faster you do your due diligence for the next transaction. It is hard. It is a bit of an art to try to keep the two sides balanced. Sometimes you can't help it. There are going to be more sellers or more buyers. Things are going to be tighter or more liquid. If you do a one-to-many trade, you may not get your full as a buyer, but at least you've got something, and you have the confidence that other people are paying the same price for it, as opposed to knowing that if you want it, that means that you paid more than anybody else was willing to pay.
You talked about the importance of educating your board and your staff when they're thinking about doing this. That reminded me of a quote which is, “The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second-best time is now.” If someone is thinking that maybe this is something they either want to do on one side or the other, the time is now because rates have gone up and things have changed. There were people who probably should have bought hedges six months ago that didn't. Now, if they buy one, it costs a lot more.
Getting up and running and educating yourself take some time. It's always why I presume to do that and to do your education, if I want to start doing it in a year from now or six months from now, I should be reaching out to someone like LoanStreet or one of the other providers to start learning about it, get the board educated, figure out what makes sense, work on the policy, etc.
If a credit union is consistently selling, then you've done your due diligence. You know a lot about that product and the faster you do your due diligence for the next transaction.
I will use a different phrase. We like the phrase, “Crawl, walk, run.” Our view is you need to do the education at the board level, at the management level, and understand what the process is and the different roles people play in the process. You don't have to move your entire balance sheet as a buyer or seller. You can make an initial transaction either as a sale or as a purchase that doesn't need to change the entire look and feel of your entire balance sheet.
Get used to the process and understand what you're doing. Make a small purchase, understand and look at a few monthly reports. Practice integrating that into your call report, and then start jogging from there. You don't need to move to a different world and do some hundred-million-dollar transaction right off the bat.
Even if you are a large institution, you can start small. We're big believers in starting small and growing the program over time. We also think it's important even for sophisticated large institutions that have been doing this a long time that doing things in smaller amounts more frequently allows them to manage their program on both sides of the tray more closely. You're not having to take bets about timing the market.
If you're doing small amounts every quarter or every month, even if it's the same amount you would have moved over the course of the year, you're unlikely to make a massive mistake in terms of timing. If you're doing it consistently and if this is a program that you're entering into where I'm always buying, I'm always selling, and I'm always managing my balance sheet, you're unlikely to be put in a position where you missed time to market. Your balance sheets can be better for it.
Any other last thoughts? Any question I should have asked you that I didn't that you want to speak to here?
There are a couple of things to pay attention to if you haven't spent a lot of time in this market. One would be prepayment speeds. This is true of all financial institutions. They tend to focus on the credit risk where most of the transactions in a participation market happen at a premium, some happen at a discount, but prepayment speeds are a critical factor in the performance of a participation.
Understanding what the expectations are there and how they changed over time can drive returns for both the buyer and seller even more so than credit risks. A lot of people think about the charge off first and the prepayment speeds second. Prepayment speeds are a critical thing for people to understand. It's important for people to understand, especially in this interest rate environment, that there are a lot of floating-rate opportunities and adjustable-rate mortgages and understand the difference between weighted average life and duration.
These are important concepts. People sometimes misunderstand how to judge risk in terms of what a comparable asset may be. These are also important. Another concept that a lot of people forget is what's called delayed days. Let's take the most basic example. Let's say you're buying loans like auto loans that people are paying and prepaying all throughout the course of the month. On average, the payment comes in on the fifteenth. If you get your participation report on the first of the month and let's say it all works perfectly and you get your money on the second day of the month, that means you have about seventeen days of delayed days on average from your payments.
There's nothing inherently wrong with that. That is a completely normal process. Understanding delayed days is important because you need to take that into account when you're calculating the yield on the purchase that you're making. It's not enough just to include the prepayment expected charge off and how that affects returns, but you have this small amount of drag depending on when you get that report and payment. Is it on the second? Whatever it is, you should understand what the expectation is, and then include delayed days in your calculations because it will affect the ultimate return that you get.
All this is built-in for people when they do securitization. Oftentimes, securitizations have 45 days' worth of delayed days. Material delayed days are relative to what you see. A participation marketplace is much tighter than a securitization marketplace. A lot of times, people forget about that. They forget that there are going to be 15, 17 and 20 days' worth of delayed days that they should build in, but it's okay.
On the other side of the coin, they don't need to do operationally difficult things like remit every day or remit every week. You can save all that operation pain, remit once a month, and add the delayed days in the beginning. It works on both sides. You can make things operationally efficient. We build delayed days in the front end. There are these nuances that a lot of people don't pay attention to.
If I can put a plug in, if you go to our website under our knowledge base, you can read lots of articles about prepayment speed, duration and delayed days. We have a lot of white papers out there educating people about all these nuances that oftentimes they don't think about when they're starting a program, but it's important to get your arms around them. Not because these things are terribly complex, but they’re easy to forget about if you haven't spent a lot of time in this market.
A seller who comes to your organization and wants to start looking at all these things and getting that standardized agreement out there that they're going to put out there for anybody who's considering buying, this would be part of the education your staff would do with them relative to the different levers that play into it.
We're big believers in education first. Allow them to make their own decisions, understand the risks and returns of selling and purchasing, and how to structure a transaction to result in the most operational efficiencies for both sides.
Going back to something we said earlier, I believe that you're right that this is going to continue to be a growth area in financial institutions and particularly credit unions. It was great chatting with you. If a credit union from either side wants to reach out, what would be the best way for them to reach you or who should they try and reach out to?
Thank you for that, Mark. It’s very kind of you. They can go to our website, which is www.Loan-Street.com. They can go to the Contact Us page or email@example.com. It's easy to go to our website and the Contact Us page, and then a LoanStreet representative will reach out to you in response to any questions you may have.
Thank you for your time. For our audience out there, I appreciate your time. We look forward to seeing you or hearing you on the show for our next episode. Thanks so much for your time.
About Ian Lampl
Ian Lampl is CEO & Co-Founder of LoanStreet Inc., an innovative online platform that helps financial institutions share, manage, and originate loans.
Prior to launching LoanStreet, Ian served as Deputy Chief Counsel for the Office of Financial Stability which implemented the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) for the United States Department of the Treasury. While at Treasury, Ian developed and managed a number of the Treasury programs to stem the financial crisis. For his work, he received the Treasury Secretary's honor award for exemplary public service.
Ian is recognized as an industry leader in loan participations and is a frequent speaker at banking, credit union, and financial technology conferences. Before joining Treasury, Ian was an attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, where he focused on commercial lending and securities offerings. He graduated with honors from both University of Chicago Law School and Princeton University, where he received a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering. | <urn:uuid:de5ef3b8-d546-4063-83f1-697a4b003ba5> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.marktreichel.com/post/loanstreets-ian-lampl-discusses-loan-participations-growth-future | 2023-09-25T00:55:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.980264 | 7,985 |
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Pierre Claver Mbonimpa is a Burundian human rights defender known for his defense of prisoners’ rights and relentless condemnation of torture.
In December 1994, while working as police officer in Burundi, Mbonimpa was arrested and sentenced to two years imprisonment on false accusations.
Two years of torture and ill-treatment left its mark on Mbonimpa, so much so that following his release, he created the Burundian Association for the Protection of Human Rights and Detained Persons (APRODH).
The APRODH works on monitoring and denouncing human rights violations, mainly torture, sexual violence, and gender-based violence.
The APRODH has for years campaigned on-behalf of prisoners awaiting trial in Burundi’s overcrowded jails. According Mbonimpa, there is a 300% rate of overpopulation in Burundian jails, a figure which he describes as “deplorable”.
The APRODH has a strong community presence and provides legal and social assistance to victims of human rights abuses.
Mbonimpa’s and the APRODH’s chief work has been against the practice of torture.
Over the years, the APRODH has systematically filed complaints on behalf of the victims against known torturers. Subsequently, by 2010 the use of torture in Burundi has decreased by 90% since the APRODH began its work in 1994.
Several former high-ranking Burundian military and police officers are now in jail for having practiced torture.
Mbonimpa, says that “it is the first time in the history of Burundi that a colonel has been imprisoned for practicing torture.”
During his prison visits, Mbonimpa documents first-hand, cases of torture by prison guards. The APRODH has gained such respect that they now have open access to all of Burundi’s prisons.
Despite having received death threats over the years, Mbonimpa continues to criticise the government and denouncement of public officials involved in human rights abuses.
“If an evil befalls you, that you do not want, don’t do it to others.”
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Parliamentary Question: Tie-ups Between Banks and Insurance Companies
Issues Raised in Parliament
ANSWER TO PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION ON: Tie-ups Between Banks and Insurance Companies
For Parliamentary Sitting on 23 Nov 1999
Question: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister whether insurance companies should be encouraged to compete with each other in terms of lower premiums and better service instead of allowing banks and finance companies to force their mortgagors to take insurance coverage from their own related insurance companies.
Answer: 1. To protect their interests as lenders, banks and finance companies require that properties financed by their loans be properly insured. Some banks and finance companies which have related insurance companies package their mortgage loans with a built-in fire insurance component provided by these related insurers. As a marketing incentive, these packages often include free insurance coverage for the first one or two years of the loan period. The banks find that using the same related insurance company is a convenient way for them to monitor the adequacy and continuity of the insurance coverage.
2. The market for mortgage loans is a competitive one, with many participants. Consumers can choose which bank or finance company to borrow from, based on the overall terms of the mortgage loans on offer, and the quality of the service. If they are not satisfied with the insurance coverage bundled with the loan, they can instead borrow from other lenders, including those with no related insurance companies.
3. It is desirable for consumers to have the flexibility to choose an alternative insurer when they contract a loan, and forego the benefits offered had they chosen a bank's related insurer. They should also be able to switch insurers for subsequent renewals of their policies. Most banks require customers to seek their approval for this, to ensure that the terms and standing of the alternative insurer are satisfactory. However, approvals are not always granted readily, and the terms and conditions under which consumers can switch insurers are often not clear.
4. MAS will ask the relevant industry bodies (i.e. the Association of Banks in Singapore, the Finance Houses Association of Singapore, and the General Insurance Association of Singapore) to review the present arrangements, and if necessary, develop practice guidelines. The aim should be to preserve consumers' freedom to choose insurers, and set out fair and transparent terms under which consumers can switch to alternative insurers. At the same time, the guidelines should enable banks to cross-sell insurance products efficiently, and ensure that their mortgage loans have adequate insurance coverage. | <urn:uuid:5c3b28f4-65ff-4547-9276-45d0afa48f69> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.mas.gov.sg/news/parliamentary-replies/1999/parliamentary-question--tie-ups-between-banks-and-insurance-companies--23-nov-1999 | 2023-09-25T00:54:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.955234 | 499 |
MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 105, 2017International Workshop on Transportation and Supply Chain Engineering (IWTSCE’16)
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An inventory location routing model with environmental considerations
1 LGI2A, Université d’Artois, France
2 LASH, Ecole Mohammadia d’ingénieurs Université Mohammed V de Rabat. Morocco
3 SYSCOM, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Rabat, Morocco
* Corresponding author: email@example.com
In this work we consider an integrated Inventory Location Routing problem ILRP. The objective is to select depots to open, the routes to perform distribution from the capacitated depots to the clients by a homogeneous fleet of vehicles and over a multi-period planning horizon. To solve the problem, an exact model is designed in order to minimize the total cost (location, routing and inventory) and the routing CO2 emissions, while respecting transport and storage constraints for a hazardous material. We have also studied an industrial real case to illustrate the problem.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2017
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|11. Motion Leap|
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This app can be downloaded and used for free on both Android and iOS platforms, although its paid version is also available, which can be purchased by paying some money, in which you get more types of filters, templates, and stickers. If Picsart is compared with other Photo Editor Apps, then Picsart is heavy on all the apps because here you get almost all the photo editing features in a single app.
- You can cut the shape and size of the photo as per your wish.
- Using the PicsArt photo editing app, you will be able to manually cut and separate the background of the photo and change the entire background.
- Picsart has unique and amazing features like Lens Flare and Mask, Lighting and Brush Effect and Drawing etc.
- You can apply different types of filters or effects like HDR, Sketch, Blur, Artistic, Magic, Shadow, Rainy to any photo you want.
- In the photo itself, you can apply the sticker present in the photo, text and PicsArt
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This Snapseed app is for serious photographers who want to give detail and fine-tuning to their photos. Offering the most powerful editing features, this app lets you do everything from light correction to applying filters to your photos. In this, many options are available to give a realistic and dramatic look to the photo. Here users get many cool features like top editing tools, edit brush and lens blur, retrolux and double exposure. Stack option is available for layer editing on Snapseed.
Snapseed is a complete and professional photo editor developed by Google. It gives you many options to edit photos easily with user-friendly interface. In which you get more than 29 Editing Tools and many Filters (Healing, Brush, Structure, JPEG, TTFT, PNG, etc. Which both Android and Best Photo Editing apps For iPhone users can download and use for free on their phones.
- You can convert photos from normal to HDR and vintage look photos.
- You can increase or decrease the Brightness, Shadows, Saturation, Ambiance, Highlight, Warmth of the photo according to you.
- With the help of Snapseed, you will be able to remove unwanted things and facial stains, spots and pimples.
- With the help of its Healing feature, anyone from the group picture can be removed. And the size of the canvas can also be expanded.
- The interface of this app is designed keeping in mind the user, you can easily edit your photo here.
Pixlr, also known as Pixlr Express, is a free app that is available on both Best Photo Editing apps For Android and iOS platforms. Pixlr can be the best choice for casual photographers. In this app users get easy-to-use photo adjustment tools. Users can take advantage of the special effects filters, overlays, stickers, templates etc. present in its library. Quick collages can also be made here.
Pixlr is made by AutoDesk and it is a very powerful photo editing app. The special thing about Pixlr is that it is a very user friendly and smooth app to use, in this also you will get basic photo editing features along with amazing features like blemish removers and teeth whiteners See you.
- Make your photo more creative with stylish effects (sketch, pencil, watercolor, poster and more).
- Bring out color with the color splash effect or add a DSLR-like look to your images with Focal Blur.
- Instantly fix the color of your photo automatically in 1 click.
- Make a collage of photos by changing the grid style and background.
- Remove blemishes and red-eye with the help of simple tools, and leave skin smooth and teeth white.
4. Adobe Photoshop Express
Adobe Photoshop Express is a very popular mobile application for photo editing. Which is made by Adobe. Which is available for both Android and iOS. Due to its interface being user-friendly, the user does not have any problem in using it. In this, you get many types of tools for photo editing, using which you can make your worst photo very beautiful and attractive.
In this app from Adobe, you can import raw images and also access preset correction tools. In this, users get the option of applying filters to frames, and with the help of light correction, a great final output is obtained. Apart from this, you can also use this app in iOS, Android and Windows phones and tablets. Along with this, you can also use it in desktop Windows etc.
- In this app you get to see amazing features like filters, red-eye correction, borders, cropping, brightness, contrast.
- Customize your photo with stickers. Create memes and captions. Customize photo with stylish text.
- Upload the edited photo in a variety of formats like PNG, TTFT, JPEG, etc. Also share your photo with social media platforms like Facebook, whatsapp, telegram, signal and line.
- Easily remove blemishes from your photos.
- Make your photo attractive with over 100 stylish effective filters.
5. Adobe Lightroom
Although almost all software of Adobe are paid, but this Photoshop Lightroom App is a completely free photo editing tool. Here you also get photo editing tutorial videos. Seeing which you can easily learn photo editing. With this app, you can do photo clicking, editing and sharing as well. It has a lot of free effects but it also comes with some premium effects which have to be purchased.
But you can give a very good look to your photo with the free one. With the help of this editing app, you can take the best picture even in HDR mode.
- You can apply effedt on someone else’s photo to your photo in just one click, this effect is called presets effect, which is much more spectacular, if I like a photo, then I can put its effect in my photo. I am
- Through this app you can blur small parts of your photo.
- In this app you can change skin tone or brightness, color like this a lot.
- Use folders, albums, star ratings and flags to highlight your best photos.
- Use one-tap miracles to change the look and feel of your photo edits.
AirBrush is also a good and popular photo editing app that is available on both Android and iOS platforms. If you want to edit a person’s photo well, then this application can prove to be the best for you because in this app, more attention has been paid to the features of editing people’s photos, in this you will get pimple removal, skin smoothing, red eye. Useful features like removal are available. In this app, you can also blur the background very well and basic photo editing features like filters, effects, text, cropping, cutting are also available in AirBrush. It is available on both Android and iOS platforms.
But AirBrush is such an app, through which we can apply effect on any particular part of the photo and according to our requirement, we can apply the Portion Effect of the photo frame.
- If there is any pimples on the face which is making your photo useless, then if you know about AirBrush App. So through this you can remove all the stains of the face from the photo.
- With AirBrush App, we can add Effect on Teeth and Eye and make use more effective.
- Nowadays it is time for Real-time Photo Editing and no one wants to edit after capturing the photo. Now all add Effects & Filters at the same time while taking the photo. Real-Time Photo Editing Feature has been given in AirBrush.
- You can also blur the background very well.
- Basic photo editing features like filters, effects, text, cropping, cutting are also available in AirBrush.
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7. Photo Lab
Photo Lab is like all other apps. In this you can Crop, Adjust and Rotate the photos according to your choice. This App has more than 1000 Effects Collection. With the help of this app, you can create Unique Photos, Montages, Lightly Edit Photos and through this app you can make your photo effective without professional editing. Also, you can set it as your Contact Icon in your social media profile. Apart from this, you can make your photo creative and share it on your social media platform.
If you want to make your social media profile attractive, then you can include this app in your Best Social Media Photo Editing.
- Give your photo a new look using Airbrush.
- Easily change your face into Pirate, Astronaut, Horrible Monster.
- You don’t need a professional photo editor to add some style to your photos with different photo filters like black white, neon glow, oil painting and many more.
- Easily convert your and your friend’s photos into collages.
- You Can Create Unique Photos, Montages, Lightly Edit Photos
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Fotor is a very famous Windows, iOS & Android Photo Editing Application. With Fotor, we can do photo editing in a professional way. Fotor is one of the best photo editing apps that gives you a comprehensive set of editing as well as amateur and professional photo editing that enables you to create high quality digital photographs.
In this you can create better photos by using photo editing, different filters, creative effects and designs. This powerful editing tools is used for fast and intuitive design of photos.
- Fotor Photo Editor has many editing features
- It also has the features of One-Touch Enhancement for your convenience.
- Apart from this, it also has features like Brightness, Contrast, Crop, Rotate, Saturation, Exposure.
- In this app you get Editing Tools like Highlights, Vignetting, Shadow, Tint.
- You will find more than 100 filters in Fotor and can also do some manual editing in it.
Lightx is a very good photo editing app in which you can edit your photo in different ways. In this, along with the option to change photo crop, color effect, hair color, add new photos, filters and effects are also available which help in editing your photos better. Apart from this, the feature of adjust the contrast, brightness or saturation is also seen.
- You can also adjust Levels, Color Balance, and Curve through the range of sliders.
- Lightx also gives you a one-two punch with photo merging and photo collages.
- Lightx like Background Changer Tool, Shape Manipulation, Blur and Color Splash are included.
- In this, along with the option of changing the photo crop, color effect, hair color, adding new photos, filters and effects are also available.
- The feature of adjust the contrast, brightness or saturation is also seen.
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The Polarr Editor app is just like Adobe Lightroom, it is a little advanced from all the other apps, if you are already an expert in editing then this app can be best for you. In this app you get many features, using which you can edit your photo according to you and you will get to see many effects like cloud effect, rainy effect, light effect etc, if you want to edit photo.
- Like the Adobe Light Room app, you will be able to change the color, skin tone of the photo in detail.
- The most different and unique filters are found.
- You can also adjust the Details, Vintage, Grain, Noise, Fringing, Toning, HSL of the photo.
- You will get to see many effects like cloud effect, rainy effect, light effect etc.
- It also has some basic photo editing tools like crop, frames, hue and saturation adjustment, black and white, collages, and brightness and contrast settings.
11. Motion Leap
Motion Leap App is a type of intuitive 3D picture editor app, with which you also get to see filters and many types of unique and different types of amazing features. With the help of these features, you are able to edit your photo very well. Apart from this, you can also do photo animation in it and it is also easy to use. Through this app you can also use motion effect, stylish picture frame, saturation and brightness effect.
- You can animate any photo by moving it.
- If the sky is visible in the photo, then the sky can also be changed in different ways and you can also get that sky to move.
- Live can add any object to the photo.
- Live effect filters like rain, thunderstorm, butterfly are available, which can be added to the photo to make even better photos.
- You can move the photo live, if there is a lake canal in a photo, then it can be made live, it will look like water is really falling from the lake in the photo.
I hope you liked today’s post. You can use any of the apps mentioned by me to edit photos, all these apps are very great, which will give a professional look to your photo, so you can install and use any of these apps. If you like this post then do share it with your friends also. So that they also know about this app. | <urn:uuid:dea1524f-03c5-4bf9-a3ce-a9395dd1d6b1> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.mayankblog.com/best-photo-editing-apps/ | 2023-09-25T00:40:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.928942 | 3,204 |
Board of Education
Our school system is governed by a nine-member board of education whose members are elected from separate districts in the county and serve staggered four-year terms. The board sets policy, and the superintendent and administrative staff manage the system's day-to-day operation. The board has budget review authority, but it is not a taxing body and must submit its annual budget requests to the McDowell County Board of Commissioners which controls allocation of funds to the schools. In North Carolina the basic public education program is funded by the state and is augmented with local funds.
The schedule for regular board meetings will be established annually by the board. Meetings are held in the boardroom at the system's Administration Building, 334 South Main Street, Marion. Regular meetings, can and usually do, include a consent agenda as well as action, information items, and an opportunity for public comments.
Each Board of Education Member is committed to working toward setting and achieving goals that will improve and strengthen our instructional program.
Our goals are:
- High Student Performance
- State of the Art Buildings and Equipment
- Safe, Orderly and Caring Schools
- Quality Teachers and Administrators
- Strong Family, Community, and Business Support
Board Members may be contacted by phone or via email using the following links:
|TERRY ENGLISH, CHAIR||
|AMY MOOMAW, VICE CHAIR||828-925-0062|
Citizens desiring an item to be placed on the agenda for a specific board meeting should direct written requests (in accordance with Policy 2310, Public Participation at Board Meetings) to the superintendent at least two working days prior to the meeting. Email Request to Superintendent
Opportunities for public comment are provided at the beginning of each regular board meeting. A "Public Request to Address the Board" form may be submitted in advance to Mrs. Charlie Mae Mace (Central Office, 334 South Main Street, Marion) or a sign-up sheet will be available for any individual or group to indicate their desire to address the board prior to the start of the board meeting.
Board policy 2310, Public Participation at Board Meetings, states that board members will not respond to individuals who address the board except to request clarification of points made by the presenter and that the board attorney will keep comments to a three-minute time limit. | <urn:uuid:8d6d1b10-4d64-4d7e-b0a1-e8df6c2a1980> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.mcdowell.k12.nc.us/boe | 2023-09-24T23:15:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.932247 | 576 |
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In 2017, MED Alliance Group, Inc. reached 100% in customer satisfaction and on-time delivery with over 86,000 units sold. We specialize in the sales and distribution of medical devices. For every medical procedure, it’s essential to have high-quality medical devices which is why we offer the Inscope Direct integrated suction laryngoscope that allows for a continuously clear view of the vocal cords. We are an authorized dealer of this laryngoscope which has two controlled suction ports. This suction laryngoscope, Inscope Direct, allows your right hand to remain free for endotracheal tube placement. The Inscope laryngoscope comes at a cost-effective laryngoscope price. MED Alliance Group invites Philadelphia clinicians to call and speak with one of our specialty-trained representatives.
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Philadelphia is Pennsylvania’s largest city and is rich in history that can be seen at Independence Hall and the display of the Liberty Bell. Philadelphia is also known as, “The City of Brotherly Love.” If you are looking for a laryngoscope device that is reliable and durable, call MED Alliance Group. During intubation procedures it’s important to remove secretions quickly. You need a suction laryngoscope able to keep the area clear. The Inscope Direct laryngoscope provides continuous clear views by removing secretions rapidly. In addition to reasonable laryngoscope prices, you get the added benefits of the individualized service provided by MED Alliance Group sales representatives.
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MED Alliance Group is ready to serve you with the high-quality, innovative laryngoscope that will help aid in procedure success. The cutting-edge laryngoscope device we offer is exceptionally durable and easy to use. An Inscope laryngoscope is a suction laryngoscope that has two controllable suction ports and is the first of its kind. You can expect removal of existing and re-accumulating secretions. You will find that we offer affordable laryngoscope prices at MED Alliance Group Inc. along with helpful representatives who educate you on the benefits of the clinical application of the Inscope laryngoscope. Call (888) 891-1200 if you have any questions regarding laryngoscope prices or to request a representative. | <urn:uuid:1a90d01f-34f2-43b6-baa5-5407cd89ef78> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.medalliancegroup.com/philadelphia-laryngoscope/ | 2023-09-25T00:42:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.925889 | 495 |
The stepping stones, Pictures of English landscape, by Myles Birket Foster, illustration from the magazine The Illustrated London News, volume XLI, December 20, 1862.
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If the Britons are agonizing over the horrid death of 17-month-old child P, punched to death by the boyfriend of the child's mother, the New Zealanders are aghast by the case of a three-year-old viciously spun to death in a dryer.
In the latter instance too, the child's mother and her boyfriend have been found guilty, along with a brother of the boyfriend.
Nia Glassie died on August 3, 2007, from massive bleeding between her skull and brain, 12 days after being taken to hospital.
The catalogue of the tortures inflicted on the helpless child makes a sickening reading:
* Kicked in the face, causing her nose to bleed;
* Hit, slapped, punched and jumped on;
* Objects such as shoes thrown at her;
* Verbal insults, for example continually being told she was ugly;
* Forced into a television cabinet drawer;
* Dragged through the sandpit half-naked;
* Shoved into piles of rubbish;
* Made to bathe in cold water in mid-winter;
* Folded into a sofa and sat on;
* Flung against the wall;
* Held high in the air and dropped to the floor;
* Used for adult wrestling moves copied from a Playstation game;
* Whirled rapidly on a rotary clothesline until flung off;
* Put into a tumble dryer and spun on high temperature;
* Had her head and feet dangled into the fireplace when the fire was lit;
* Kicked repeatedly in the head because she was crying;
* Left lying in a coma for 36 hours without medical attention.
Wiremu Curtis, 19, and Michael Curtis, 22, were found guilty in Rotorua High Court this afternoon. Wiremu Curtis was the boyfriend of Nia's mother, Lisa Kuka, 35, who was found guilty on two manslaughter charges relating to a lack of protection and failure to seek medical help for her critically injured daughter.
Nia's cousin Michael Pearson, 20, and Michael Curtis' partner Oriwa Kemp, 18, were found not guilty of manslaughter in relation to the death.
They were, however, found guilty along with the Curtis brothers on various other charges.
The Curtis brothers and Kemp were found guilty on ill-treatment charges, specifically relating to swinging Nia on a clothesline, and also on general ill-treatment charges.
Pearson escaped a conviction on the general charge.
The brothers and Pearson were also found guilty of charges relating to putting Nia in a tumble drier.
Media reported the Curtis brothers were visibly upset when their guilty verdicts were returned and needed to be restrained by prison guards.
The five had been on trial for four weeks and the jury had over 20 charges to consider before returning the verdicts.
The case surrounding Nia's death caused a national outcry when information about it emerged last year, and feelings were inflamed as finer details of the abuse emerged throughout the trial.
Lawyers for Pearson and Kemp distanced their clients from the worst of the abuse, saying they were either not directly involved or not present at all when the worst of it occurred.
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The demand for mental health practice management software is increasing gradually. Currently poised at $2,014.10, the mental health software market is expected to reach a whopping $5,576.88 by 2028 at a CAGR of 18.50%. And why not?
Such software can simplify the treatment process, from booking appointments to billing and insurance. But with so many options available, how do you choose the right software?
There are a few things to consider when looking for mental health practice management software. These include ease of use, security level, software features, how helpful it can be for your patients, and cost. You can also arrange a demo and try the software before purchasing one.
Ease of Use
You need more time to figure out how to use the software, so finding an intuitive and easy solution is crucial. Ease of use is a significant factor in choosing a mental health practice management software. Are staff members able to get started with the program quickly? Do they find it easy to navigate around the system? How long did it take them to feel comfortable navigating through all its features?
The most important thing here is that everyone on your team feels confident using the software, regardless of their tech experience or familiarity with certain cloud-based technologies.
In fact, you must also find out how often the developers are doing usability testing on the software. According to a study, 31% of businesses conduct usability testing quarterly, 20% do so monthly, 11% do so weekly, and 11% do it biweekly.
If the developers run frequent tests, they will continue to ensure ease of use. Hence, you can use such developers’ mental health practice management software.
The security of your data is a significant concern for mental health practices. According to the HIPAA journal, there were 4,419 healthcare data breaches, with more than 500 records breached between 2001 and 2021. These branches resulted in leaking over 314 million data records of patients.
Hence, you want to ensure that your information is safe and secure, especially since it can include sensitive personal information about patients. That’s why you should research the different levels of protection offered by each practice management software program you’re considering.
There are many different levels of security available in practice management software packages, basic, standard, advanced, and premier. The more advanced levels may offer encryption, two-factor authentication, or multi-level user access controls. The most basic level generally provides little more than password protection.
To ensure the highest level of protection possible for your client’s sensitive information, consider using cloud-based systems that employ advanced encryption technologies. These technologies can be Triple DES or AES 256 with SSL/TLS encryption certificates and password-protected logins through one or more servers located in separate geographic locations.
Features of the Software
You want to choose software that has features that will benefit your practice. The software’s features should be easy to use and intuitive so that you can spend less time learning and more time getting work done. It’s also important to consider whether or not they are included with your subscription or if they will cost extra money each month.
You would want many features in the mental health practice management software. To begin with, you would want an automated appointment booking feature. This will allow the patients to use self-service to book appointments with you from the available slots. Once an appointment is booked, you will receive an alert.
Another great feature worth mentioning is electronic health records (EHR). Most people expect healthcare professionals like psychologists or psychiatrists to have a streamlined way to input information about themselves into an electronic database rather than having paper copies. Hence, EHR becomes vital.
Some other notable features to look for include:
- Document management
- Billing and Insurance
- Third-party integrations
- Telehealth capabilities
How Helpful Can It Be for Your Patients
Your patients will be able to benefit from the software in several ways. For example, if they’re lucky enough to book an appointment online, they can do so easily on your website or mobile app. This is convenient because it saves them time and effort by allowing them to book their appointments at their convenience.
It also helps increase productivity by ensuring all records are up-to-date, whether automatically updating patient profiles after each visit or sending reminders about upcoming visits via text message. This way, there won’t be any mistakes when new information comes across regarding insurance coverage changes, due diligence requirements, etcetera.
Customers seek good experiences when getting treatment from you. Hence, researching the benefits that the software can offer them is crucial. For example, a recent study states that video calling is essential for a good customer experience. According to the study, 60% of healthcare professionals cited that video calling is effective in meeting customer expectations.
While the initial investment for your software will be a one-time payment, you’ll also have to consider ongoing costs. For example, if you can’t hire someone who knows how to use the program and train them yourself, you’ll be looking at hiring new employees or contracting out the needed training.
Suppose your practice uses its software and has no need for an outside company’s support. In that case, there will still be costs associated with using the program in terms of additional features or upgrades that only exist within a certain software version that may not be available as part of an older version.
Software costs can vary widely. However, most mental health practice management software price starts at $40 a month. This is the base subscription price. Then there are other additional costs, such as maintenance, training, etc.
Ensure that support is available 24/7 in multiple languages, including English, Spanish and Chinese. When you buy a practice management software program, you want to know that someone can help you with questions and problems as they arise. You don’t want to be left in the dark, mainly if there are issues with your staff or patients during business hours.
Vendors and partners should provide support via phone, email, and live chat options. They also offer training services for users new to the platform. Suppose you prefer face-to-face assistance over other channels. In that case, many vendors also provide on-site support at an additional cost (though this is usually only available through specific third parties). Free training resources can also be found online, simply search “[name of software] tutorial videos” on YouTube.
There are many factors to consider when choosing a mental health practice management software, and if you’re starting or don’t have a lot of experience with these systems, it can be tricky to know where to start. That’s why it’s important to think about your needs and what type of software will best serve them and then go ahead and arrange a demo. | <urn:uuid:fbfd7463-2e75-4291-83a5-c4f85bcb58de> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.medsnews.com/health/choosing-mental-health-practice-management-software/ | 2023-09-25T00:41:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.944585 | 1,426 |
How to Make Someone's Day
One of the best skills my mom taught me was how to write a letter.
Even though I did not always feel like writing notes, my mom encouraged me to write "thank you" cards for any type of gift I received. Now, giving and receiving cards are two special events I look forward to.
Even as a teen, one of my favorite things to receive is a handwritten note in the mail.
I believe seeing someone's handwriting allows me to catch a glimpse of their personality. Reading their words on paper gives me time to really understand what they are expressing.
Giving or receiving a card adds such a personal touch in our digital age. It has brought me joy to see mail addressed specifically to me and I hope our cards give that type of excitement to each person who receives one.
While posting this adorable photo of my sister on my Instagram Story, it reminded me of how wonderful cards are, & how they are one of my favorite ways to correspond with someone.
When you send a card to a person you care about, they will appreciate the thought of you taking the time to personally write a handwritten note to them, & when you receive a card from someone else, you can think of the act as a timeless intention.
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How did the Stamp Act go against the rights of the colonists?
The American colonists were angered by the Stamp Act and quickly acted to oppose it. Because of the colonies’ sheer distance from London, the epicenter of British politics, a direct appeal to Parliament was almost impossible. Instead, the colonists made clear their opposition by simply refusing to pay the tax.
What was the worst intolerable act?
On December 16, 1773, a group of Patriot colonists associated with the Sons of Liberty destroyed 342 chests of tea in Boston, Massachusetts, an act that came to be known as the Boston Tea Party.
How did Britain rule America?
The first great crisis of British rule in North America came in the 1770s. The result of this view was the American Revolution, which began in 1776 and resulted in the defeat of the British in 1783. The Thirteen Colonies became the United States of America.
Why did the British soldiers fire on the colonists?
The incident was the climax of growing unrest in Boston, fueled by colonists’ opposition to a series of acts passed by the British Parliament. As the mob insulted and threatened them, the soldiers fired their muskets, killing five colonists.
Why did England feel justified in taxing the colonists?
The Stamp Act of 1765 was a tax to help the British pay for the French and Indian War. The British felt they were well justified in charging this tax because the colonies were receiving the benefit of the British troops and needed to help pay for the expense. The colonists didn’t feel the same.
Why were taxes unfair to the colonists?
The English felt that the colonists should pay taxes because the English government was providing services that the colonists would otherwise have had to do without. The Americans felt the taxes were unfair because they were being imposed by a government in which the colonists had no “voice.”
Why did the Patriots hate the British?
The Patriots wanted freedom from British rule because they didn’t think they were treated well. The British kept introducing new taxes and laws, and the colonists had no representatives on the government – which lead to unrest and calls for “liberty”. Patriots did not want to be ruled by the British any longer.
What are three things the British did that made the colonists angry?
Terms in this set (13)
- Proclamation of 1763. Colonists can’t move west of the Appalachians.
- Sugar Act of 1764. taxes on sugar, textiles, coffee, and wine.
- Currency Act of 1764. Colonists couldn’t make paper money.
- Stamp Act of 1765.
- Quartering Act of 1765.
- Townshend Acts of 1767.
- Boston Massacre of 1770.
- Boston Tea Party of 1773.
Why did the Sugar Act make the colonists angry?
Americans protested the Sugar Act primarily because of its economic impact, but for some “no taxation without representation” became a rallying cry against Parliament’s right to tax the colonies.
How did the British respond to the colonists complaints?
Britain also needed money to pay for its war debts. The King and Parliament believed they had the right to tax the colonies. They protested, saying that these taxes violated their rights as British citizens. The colonists started to resist by boycotting, or not buying, British goods.
How did Great Britain respond to the colonial boycott that followed the Stamp Act?
How did Great Britain respond to the colonial boycott that followed the Stamp Act? By sending soldiers and occupying Boston and New York City. The language of the Declaration of Independence was greatly influenced by the writings of which Enlightenment philosopher?
Why did the Boston Massacre increase the colonists anger toward Great Britain?
The Boston massacre increased the anger toward Great Britain because the British soldiers shot without orders and killed five people for just harassing them. Paul Revere produced an engraving of the massacre, which was widely circulated.
How did England respond to the Boston Tea Party?
The British response to the Boston Tea Party was to impose even more stringent policies on the Massachusetts colony. The Coercive Acts levied fines for the destroyed tea, sent British troops to Boston, and rewrote the colonial charter of Massachusetts, giving broadly expanded powers to the royally appointed governor.
What rights did the Sugar Act violate?
The colonies disputed the legality of this act since it seemed to violate the Bill of Rights of 1689, which forbade taxation without representation and the raising and/or keeping of a standing army without the consent of Parliament.
How much money was the tea worth that was dumped in Boston Harbor?
It’s estimated that the protestors tossed more than 92,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. That’s enough to fill 18.5 million teabags. The present-day value of the destroyed tea has been estimated at around $1 million.
Which act angered the colonists the most?
How did the British government react to those protests Proclamation of 1763?
how did the british government react to the protests of the proclamation of 1763? the government ignored them and sent more troops over. what did the stamp act (1765) require colonists to do? colonists had to buy a stamp for any paper they used, including newspaper and cards.
Why did the Stamp Act so anger the colonists?
All of the colonists were mad because they thought the British Parliament shouldn’t have the right to tax them. The colonists believed that the only people that should tax them should be their own legislature. And the taxes of the Stamps were only allowed to be paid in silver.
What angered the colonists?
The Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Townshend Acts, and Intolerable Acts are four acts that contributed to the tension and unrest among colonists that ultimately led to The American Revolution. The first act was The Sugar Act passed in 1764. The act placed a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies.
What did the British do when the colonists boycott?
All of the colonies organized boycott committees. With the encouragement of the Sons of Liberty colonial merchants began boycotting British goods. This effectively cut the American purchases from England by half, seriously effecting British merchants.
How did the British treat the colonists unfairly?
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How do I use Google keep with Google Docs?
Fire up your browser and head to Google Docs. Open a new or existing document and then click the Google Keep icon located in the pane to the right side of the page. From the pane that opens, hover over the note you want to add to your document. Click the three-dot button and then select “Add to Document.”
Is there a program that converts handwriting to text?
Microsoft OneNote is a digital note-taking program that doubles up as a pretty good handwriting OCR app. Right-click on an imported picture and you’ll see the option to Copy Text From Picture. Use this command to extract letters from the image and convert them to text you can edit.
Can I use my Apple pencil on a Word document?
In a document, tap Apple Pencil in the body of a word-processing document where you want to write. Or tap in a text box, shape, or in a table cell in a word-processing or page layout document. Tap the Scribble tool in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen, then start writing.
Can I draw on Google Docs iPad?
You can create, insert and edit drawings with Google Drawings. To view drawings, open the Google Drive app.
How do I connect to Google Docs?
To connect to Google Docs, go to Settings > Integrations > scroll down until you see Google Docs > click Connect.
How do I use Apple pencil notes?
Simply use the built-in Notes app on your iPad. Open the “Notes” app on your iPad and create a new note. From there, tap on the Expand button to make the note full-screen. Now, you can tap the tip of your Apple Pencil on the screen to enter the handwritten notes mode.
Can Google Docs convert handwriting to text?
Google has added a new feature to Google Lens that allows users to copy and paste handwritten notes from phones to computers as digital text. The copied text can be pasted to any document in Google Docs.
How do I draw with Apple pencil in Google Docs?
Click Insert -> Drawing then choose the scribble option. So possible on a Mac and iPad Pro with Pen. Good to know!
Is there an iPad app that turns handwriting to text?
WritePad for iPad ($4.99) When you’re done with a word, the app automatically converts your scrawl to text. The app learns your writing style to reduce mistakes. Gestures let you select, cut, copy, paste and insert special characters.
Is there a way to draw on Google Docs?
Currently, writing and drawing on work is available only on Android and iOS mobile devices. On the Classroom mobile app, you can draw and write on your assignments….You can draw and write notes on these types of files:
- Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
- Microsoft Office documents.
- JPEG or GIF.
How can I convert handwriting to text online?
- Click “Choose File” button to select a file on your computer. You can also click the dropdown button to choose online file from URL, Google Drive or Dropbox.
- Select an OCR conversion engine.
- Select language and output format.
- Click “Convert Now!” button to start conversion.
How do I turn my handwriting into a font?
How to Turn Your Handwriting into a Font: Quick Steps
- Go to MyScriptFont.com.
- Download the printable template.
- Print the template.
- Complete the template.
- Scan the now filled-in template into your computer.
- Upload your file, name your font, and choose format.
- Download your font.
- Install it on your computer.
How do you annotate in Google Docs?
Highlight text in your Google Doc – just as you always would to insert a comment:
- Step 2: Insert a Google Doc Comment.
- Step 3: Right-click IN the Comment to access the Annotate PRO menu.
- Step 4: Browse to the Comment Label You Want to Use.
- Step 5: Click!
- Step 6: Done…
- Step 2: Open Annotate PRO.
How do you use handwrite on Google Docs?
Open any text box or app that you can type in, like Docs or Gmail. Tap into the text box. The handwriting pad should appear. If you don’t see Handwrite: At the top of the virtual keyboard, tap the Right arrow , then Handwrite .
Can you draw in Google Slides?
Thankfully, Google Slides and Drawings have added these “tool lines” and they’re called guides. If you have your rulers showing, click and drag on a ruler onto the slide/drawing.
Is there a pen tool in Google Docs?
You can draw in Google Docs by using the built-in Drawing tool. The Drawing tool allows you to create and manipulate lines, shapes, colors, text, and more to add an artistic touch to your documents.
Can I use Apple pencil on Google Slides?
You can use Apple Pencil with built-in apps and apps from the App Store. As long as the app you are using for your slides and books supports using the Apple Pencil, then you should be able to use it for what you need it for.
What is the best handwriting to text app?
Best Handwriting to Text Apps
- Evernote. ( Android, iPhone, iPad )
- GoodNotes 5. ( iPhone, iPad )
- Notes Plus. ( iPhone, iPad )
- Text Scanner (OCR) ( Android, iPhone, iPad )
- Notability. ( iPhone, iPad )
- Microsoft OneNote for iPad. ( iPhone, iPad )
- WritePad for iPad. ( Android, iPhone, iPad )
Is there an iPad app that converts handwriting to text?
Nebo is the ONLY note-taking app that makes handwriting as powerful and versatile as typed text. Turn handwritten notes into professional documents thanks to the world’s best handwriting recognition and write-to-text conversion.
How do I keep tables together in Google Docs?
Docs doesn’t currently have a “keep together” feature for cells in a table. However, as long as there is room on your page for the full table, it shouldn’t break across pages when printing.
How do I convert handwriting to text on iPad?
Convert your handwritten notes to text
- Double-tap or touch and hold a word you want to select. Select more words by sweeping your finger over them.
- Tap the selected words.
- In the menu that appears, tap Copy as Text.
- Paste the text elsewhere in the same document or in another app.
How do you annotate in Google Docs on iPad?
Annotate Google Docs Via The Google Classroom iPad App
- Typing tool “A”
- Highlighter (different color options)
- Marker (different widths and color options)
- Pen (different widths and color options)
- Select tool that lets you grab what you annotate to move it around the document.
Can you free draw in Google Slides?
Google Slides, like most good programs, has a number of features that often go overlooked even though they’re in plain view. One of those features is the drawing tool that can be used to create freehand drawings on a slide in Google Slides.
How do you add lines to Google Docs?
To do this, go to the Insert tab and select the line Drawing. Then select Line or Scribble from the dropdown list. Adjust the window that appears in size and position, and then click the save button. The line will be added to the location you specified in the Google Docs document.
What does keep with next mean in Google Docs?
To keep paragraph headings and text on the same page, click Keep with next. To keep all lines of text in the same paragraph on the same page, click Keep lines together. To prevent single lines at the beginning or end of paragraphs, click Prevent single lines.
Can you make collapsible lists in Google Docs?
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Cuteness overload! These bow print stockings will have your little toddler giggling with delight. From playdates to nap times, this pair will make sure she stays cozy and cute all day long. Get ready for the "awwws" because she'll be looking like an adorable angel!
Offers premium comfort with its buttery-soft and breathable fabric. Chilly days won't stop her from looking oh-so-fab.
Pair with her favorite dresses for a style upgrade. Gives extra coverage when she’s wearing skirts and shorts so she can twirl and play all she wants!
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Mesh stockings with bow print design
Available in sizes 6MON - 8Y
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Hiring a furniture assembly company saves you money in many ways. The main cost is the labor fee, but you can also save money by not having to buy tools and supplies.
Some companies have discounts or specials for groups such as military members, seniors, and students. It is a good idea to find out about these discounts before you hire an assembly service.
You can also negotiate a flat rate for each item, which can save you money in the long run. This can be particularly beneficial for IKEA furniture, which can take hours to assemble.
The best furniture assemblers have experience with all kinds of materials, so they can get the job done quickly and safely. They will follow the instructions carefully and ensure that all of your items are assembled correctly.
Several companies also offer technician liability insurance and labor guarantees. This helps you avoid any unexpected issues with your furniture.
It is also a good idea to research a company’s cancellation policy. It is important to check this before committing to an appointment because life can change suddenly.
Another benefit of hiring a furniture assembly service is that they can help you move heavy or complex pieces through tight spaces. This can be a difficult task for someone who is not used to moving large objects.
If you are looking to start a furniture assembly business, the first thing that you need to do is create a detailed business plan. This will help you determine how much to charge and how to market your business. It will also help you determine whether your business is profitable. | <urn:uuid:daccf15a-1e02-4379-9415-ae90e170f280> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.michaelsmovers.com/bristol-county-ma-storage-and-moving/ | 2023-09-24T22:41:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.950139 | 897 |
Released in 2012 the Earthworks WL40V is relatively the new kid on the block in regards to wireless capsules but Earthworks is definitely a proven microphone manufacturer. This is the capsuled version of the SPR40V wired handheld condenser microphone. Like the wired version the capsule has a frequency range spanning from 30Hz – 40kHz and utilizes a hyper cardioid pickup pattern for max gain before feedback. This capsule is compatible with Shure, Sony, Lectrosonic and Line 6 wireless mic systems. What sets this mic apart is its ability to deliver detailed and realistic sound that requires little to no EQ along with benchmark levels of clarity and detail. Some of the notable converts to this capsule include James Taylor and Steely Dan.
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Let us know in the comment section of your order if you need adapters for Sennheiser, Lectrosonics or another wireless system.
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|Frequency Range||30Hz - 40kHz|
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This is a pre configured system for Shure's QLX-D line of wireless. For each quantity added to your cart you receive a stand alone receiver, a body pack transmitter, an instrument cable, 2 antenna and a power supply.
Renting this configuration has some unique purposes. The more popular uses are for small live events, churches, etc ... where the pack is going to be used 50-75 ft from the receiver.
The QLX-D line of wireless is Shure’s high end wireless in a more affordable package. In short it’s pretty sick and setting them up is a synch!
Add Ons to the Body Pack
Add ons to the pack include headset mics, lavs and other instrument mics.
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James "Pop" LaFontaine, 80, of Elsmere, passed away Friday, July 27, 2018, at his home.
He was born on February 19, 1938, in Elsmere, Kentucky, to the late John and Zoe Ella Callendar LaFontaine. He was a retired meat cutter with IGA for many years and a member of St. Henry Catholic Church in Elsmere.
Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Nancy Heideman LaFontaine of Elsmere, Kentucky; sons, Paul (Pam) LaFontaine of Elsmere and Eric LaFontaine, of Elsmere, who was also his lunch buddy and devoted caregiver during his final illness; sisters, Margaret Ramler of Elsmere and Glenna Brosey of Florence, Kentucky; two adoring grandchildren, Megan LaFontaine and Matthew LaFontaine; three nieces; and two nephews.
Mass of Christian Burial is Monday, July 30, 2018, at 10:00 a.m. at St. Henry Catholic Church, 3813 Dixie Highway, Elsmere, KY 41018.
In lieu of flowers, please donate to the charity of your choice.
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As we move farther and farther from the sun, there are fewer signs of life and a stillness in the air. For many, this is a difficult season, filled with long dark hours and barely lit days. Nevertheless, it's a very important season.
Most Chinese medicine therapists know of the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon," written around 250 B.C. The text is treated as the basis for Chinese medicine and Daoist theory. In the emperor's words, winter is a time, "to stop for a moment and meditate on the passage of time, to feel time moving inside you, it is to practice the value of the winter season…this cold and dark time is exactly when love between people passes most freely, with family visits, gift giving and acts of charity to the less advantaged."
These words highlight the reflective mood of the winter and remind us to appreciate every season in all its beauty.
Light exercise and deep breathing
While the organs of winter are the kidney and bladder, the element is water. Yin in winter is at its maximum, which is cold, dark, and dense, while the yang, chi energy, is at its lowest. In winter our chi is stored more internally. Our wei chi, or immune energy, is also concentrated internally, so we should try not to deplete it with excessive sweating.
In doing so, we would also deplete our kidney chi, which is the root of all our energies, including that of development, growth, structure, and reproduction. This energy supplies strength to our bones, teeth, and hair, as well as fertility.
It's important to breathe deep into your belly, sending chi down to the kidneys. Do this while taking long, slow walks in nature, especially if the sun is out, or while meditating or doing yoga.
Sleep long, eat warm
As the days of light are short, winter is a time to go to bed early and get up later. For most of us, our working hours don't change with the seasons, so the best we can do is try to go to bed earlier and therefore eat dinner earlier.
Foods should always be cooked in winter. Braising and slow-cooked stews are recommended, as well as soups. Fortunately, these can all be prepared in advance, making food preparation easier in the evening.
Soups are especially good at night as they are easier to digest. Important vegetables to eat in winter include dark leafy greens like kale, chard, and collards, as well as potatoes, pumpkin, cabbage, brussels sprouts, turnips, beets, and parsnips, to name a few.
As foods in winter need to reinforce the kidney energy, slow-cooked beef and lamb can also be beneficial. Spices are especially helpful, such as ginger, chili, cardamom, and cinnamon as they give warmth and help to stimulate digestion. These can be added to a tea, too, in addition to main meals.
Although salt is the flavor of the kidneys, it should be used with care. Other options, used in small amounts, are miso, tamari, and seaweed. Black beans, black sesame, and beluga lentils nourish the kidneys as black is the color of the kidneys.
Keep warm and drink warm
Make sure you are dressed for the season. A strong wei (immune) chi can protect you when you are forced to face the elements, but warm clothing is also essential.
The area most important is the neck, as this is where pathogens, viruses, and bacteria can easily enter the body, as well as the feet, as this is where the first point of the kidney meridian begins.
If cold enters through the feet, it has direct access to the bladder and kidney. The kidneys filter waste from the blood and regulate the body's pH level.
This can be a beneficial time to do a water fast or a kidney cleanse. Don't forget to drink water, preferably warm or at least room temperature, making sure you're getting 1 to 2 liters per day.
The Festive Season
How do you survive the festive season without coming out 10 pounds heavier, bloated, and uncomfortable? My lifesaver is enzymes and probiotics.
They will save you from digestive discomfort, but don't expect them to bring you a Christmas miracle; remember to be conscious and aware of everything you eat and drink.
Remember, this is a time to be with friends and family, not a food and drink frenzy. Enjoy your festive meal and an occasional drink, but try to avoid heavy sauces and constant snacking.
While winter can be tough, use this time to treat yourself! Nourish your body and mind, doing so mindfully.
Dolores Baretta is a licensed acupuncturist, nutritional therapist, and digestive specialist based in Zurich, Switzerland. She helps people achieve mind-body balance through acupuncture, micronutrients, and digestive support.
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Long-time major league relief pitcher Rafael Soriano retired during spring training. He was a fixture in the majors for a decade and had a five-year run as a top-flight closer. A reader requested a Prospect Retrospective for Soriano. His path as a prospect was unusual and worth exploring, so let's examine his career in context.
Soriano was signed by the Seattle Mariners as a free agent from the Dominican Republic in 1996. Originally an outfielder/first baseman, he hit just .167/.250/.204 in 108 at-bats in the Arizona Rookie League in 1998. It was evident that his throwing arm was much better than his bat, so the Mariners moved him to the mound in 1999. The results were immediate: he made 14 starts for Everett in the Northwest League in 1999, posting a 3.11 ERA with an 83/49 K/BB in 75 innings, allowing just 56 hits. His control needed work but his excellent K/IP ratio, low hit rates, and 90+ radar readings pointed to significant upside.
Promoted to Wisconsin in the Low-A Midwest League for 2000, Soriano made 21 starts, throwing 122 innings with a 2.87 ERA and a 90/50 K/BB with 97 hits allowed. League observers were impressed with a fastball up to 93-94 MPH and an improving slider, but noted problems with command and shaky off-speed pitches. He was rated as a high-ceiling Grade C arm in my 2001 book, with the notation that he might be best-off in relief.
Soriano opened '01 with San Bernadino in the High-A California League, making 15 starts with a 2.53 ERA and 98/39 K/BB in 89 innings with a mere 49 hits allowed. Promoted in late July to Double-A San Antonio, he remained effective with a 3.35 ERA and a 53/14 K/BB in 48 innings with just 34 hits. By this point his fastball was up to 95 consistently, his slider was rated as excellent, and he'd shown progress with the change-up. One glitch was a sore shoulder late in the season, but overall this campaign moved him into elite prospect status, earning a Grade B+ in my 2002 book.
After a late start in the spring due to visa issues, Soriano made his big league debut in May, collecting a save in his first game. He then moved into the starting rotation and threw 47.1 innings with a 4.56 ERA and a 32/16 K/BB. He was inconsistent in the majors but this was not unexpected from a young pitcher. A shoulder injury sidelined him in July, then he was sent down to Double-A to finish the season. I gave him a Grade A- entering 2003 and had him rated as the Number Six pitching prospect in baseball.
Soriano was very effective in 2003 as a full-time reliever (1.53 ERA in 53 innings, 68/12 K/BB) and was viewed as a future closer. Alas, he blew out his elbow, needed Tommy John surgery, and did not get back to full strength until 2006. He later got that closer job with the Braves in 2009, then collected 45 saves with the Rays in 2010, leading the league and earning his only All-Star nod. He was the set-up man for Mariano Rivera after signing as a free agent with the Yankees in 2011, then took over as their closer in '12. The 2013 and 2014 seasons were spent closing for the Washington Nationals.
All told, Soriano posted a 2.89 ERA in 636 career innings, collecting 207 saves with an ERA+ of 144. WAR has issues with valuing relievers but his 10.6 career fWAR is respectable and gives him a career valuation in the neighborhood of closers like Brad Lidge (11.6 fWAR in 603 innings, 225 saves), Ugueth Urbina (10.9 fWAR in 697 innings, 237 saves) and Gregg Olson (9.8 fWAR in 672, 217 saves) among closers with a similar number of innings pitched. Soriano ranks 44th on the all-time saves list.
As a prospect, Soriano showed the ability to dominate hitters but had some issues with command, off-speed stuff, and health. He took well to relief work and was an effective pitcher for many years. That's a lot better than being a first baseman who can't hit rookie ball pitching. | <urn:uuid:5bd0ca87-9c7d-4dcd-9ff7-9f4e6bdede46> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.minorleagueball.com/2016/3/31/11298350/prospect-retrospective-the-career-of-rafael-soriano | 2023-09-25T00:37:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.986141 | 918 |
Following the success of Nit dels Museus, Mirador torre Glòries will participate in Estiu als Museus to offer the Cloud Cities Barcelona experience at a reduced price. When? Every Tuesday during July and August. In other words, access to the last part of your visit will be included in your general admission ticket. We’re giving you a reason not to flee the city this summer. Come and climb among the clouds! Enjoy a different activity with your family and friends and live a unique experience in Barcelona.
If you have already visited Mirador torre Glòries but haven’t climbed to the very top of the Torre Glòries dome, now is the time to visit us again. You will be able to discover the immersive artwork by Argentinian sculptor Tomás Saraceno for free. Don’t miss this opportunity!
What is the Cloud Cities Barcelona experience?
Cloud Cities Barcelona is a walk-in artwork that can be found at the highest point of the Torre Glòries dome. You can enjoy a moment of fun and games while observing the city from a height of 130 m. A path formed by 113 cloud spaces suspended in the air, along which you can stop and contemplate the views and reflect on the future of cities.
This is the only permanent interactive sculpture by Tomás Saraceno in southern Europe. The Argentinian artist’s projects converse with forms of life, always searching for a fairer balance between human, technological and biological diversities. Tomás Saraceno has permanent exhibitions and installations in some of the most important cultural institutions around the world, such as the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires or the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
It is now possible to walk through the clouds of Barcelona’s sky but only at Mirador torre Glòries. A new generation of urban vantage points, which opens up the possibility of living new experiences. Come and discover it for yourself, you won’t be disappointed! | <urn:uuid:f0133587-060c-4bc7-9ef4-6dbcfd9909f8> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.miradortorreglories.com/en/blog/estiu-als-museus/ | 2023-09-25T00:15:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.889853 | 423 |
If you have valuables in your home, you may have considered investing in a safe. But while a safe can keep precious possessions locked uptight, it can also draw attention to the location of that treasure. Sometimes, a good hiding spot is just as effective as a heavy, intimidating safe -- and a lot cheaper.
When you need to hide away a small amount of cash, coins, jewelry or other pocket-sized possessions, one of the most clever locations may be inside an unconnected electrical outlet.
What You’ll Need
To create your own electrical outlet wall safe, you just need a few inexpensive supplies. You’ll need an electrical gang box, which is the housing that separates electrical outlet hardware from the insulation inside your walls, and an outlet plate.
The type of plate is up to you -- you can choose a standard electrical outlet plate, but keep in mind that the outlets won’t be operable and the outlet hardware will take up a little space. For maximum storage space, choose a solid outlet plate.
You’ll also need a stud finder, a drywall knife, a pencil, and a small screwdriver to complete the installation.
Build Your Safe
- Choose a location to install your safe. To make it blend into its surroundings, you should choose a spot where you might naturally install an electrical outlet and ensure it’s level with other outlets in the room.
- Use the stud finder to locate studs near your chosen area. You must be careful to choose a spot between the studs. When you find the right spot, press the junction box against the wall facing backward and use a pencil to trace around the edges.
- Carefully cut a hole in the drywall with a drywall knife, following the lines you traced. Use shallow strokes when cutting so as to avoid damaging any wiring hidden in the wall.
- Push the gang box into the hole. Use a screwdriver to turn the corner tabs that hold it in place.
- Screw the outlet plate into place. Voila! Your discreet mini-safe is installed.
- Whenever you need to add or remove your valuables, just use a screwdriver to remove and replace the outlet plate. Your possessions won’t be locked up, but if burglars are rummaging through your home, they’ll never find what you’ve hidden.
If you don’t want to cut a new hole in your wall for this project, there are a couple of ways you can create a safe hiding space with an existing outlet.
You can convert an unused wired outlet into a secret wall safe, but it’s important to have an electrician completely disconnect and secure the wiring first. You don’t want your valuables increasing the risk of an electrical fire, especially if it’s something combustible like cash.
Another alternative is to use an existing cable outlet. Unlike electrical outlets, your cable outlet’s gang box only contains a short length of coaxial cable that is fully covered with a heavy sheath. That means there’s plenty of room in the gang box and no fire risk. Just unscrew the outlet plate, insert your valuables and replace the plate.
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With a frenzied Winter Meetings in the rear-view mirror, here are some things we’ll be watching around baseball throughout the day:
1. After Bogaerts stunner, what’s next for the shortstop market?
Late last night, the Padres and Xander Bogaerts agreed to a massive 11-year, $280MM deal. While things seemed to be progressing toward a reunion between Bogaerts and the Red Sox as recently as yesterday afternoon, the Padres managed to pry away Boston’s longtime shortstop with a huge offer that runs through Bogaerts’ age-40 season, wildly surpassing even optimistic predictions; MLBTR predicted Bogaerts would receive a seven-year, $189MM deal. Such an expectation-shattering deal could certainly come with implications for the top remaining shortstops on the market, Carlos Correa and Dansby Swanson. With Bogaerts approaching the $300MM mark, and fellow top shortstop Trea Turner reaching it, it seems reasonable to expect that Correa will surpass that benchmark. Swanson isn’t likely to push into that stratosphere, but he could also benefit and beat expectations — particularly given the wide breadth of teams still looking for a shortstop. The Cubs and Twins are both known to be in on both remaining shortstops, but they’re far from the only suitors, even with the Dodgers reportedly bowing out of the Correa market. The Giants are pursuing Correa after missing on Aaron Judge, while both the Red Sox and Cardinals have been linked to Swanson. However, both Boston and St. Louis made significant signings yesterday that could theoretically take them out of the inflated shortstop market: a deal with Willson Contreras for the Cardinals, and deals for both NPB star Masataka Yoshida and closer Kenley Jansen for the Red Sox.
2. Where will the Astros turn at catcher?
The aforementioned five-year, $87.5MM deal between Contreras and St. Louis leaves Houston in a difficult position, as they were the other main suitor for Contreras. The reigning World Series champs have a clear need at catcher, where Martin Maldonado and Korey Lee are the current tandem. The next-best free agent on the market, Christian Vazquez, has been clear about his desire to receive more playing time than he did following an August trade to Houston, where Maldonado remained the starter behind the plate even after Vazquez was accquired. This could leave the Astros pursuing cheaper options behind the plate, such as Tucker Barnhart, to whom they were recently connected. It’s also possible the Astros could dive into the trade market, where each of Sean Murphy, Danny Jansen, Alejandro Kirk, and Gabriel Moreno have been discussed in trade scenarios by their respective teams. The Astros have already been connected to Murphy in recent days, though the acquisition cost could be exorbitant for a division rival. Whether the Astros pursue a lower-tier free agent or a trade for a younger catcher, they won’t be spending anything close to the $87.5MM guarantee Contreras landed with the Cardinals. Given that, it’s possible the Astros could reallocate any money they had set aside for Contreras to other parts of the roster, whether that means signing a pitcher after reigning AL Cy Young winner Justin Verlander departed for the Mets, or bolstering their outfield corps with an outfielder like Brandon Nimmo or Andrew Benintendi, as they have been rumored to have interest in doing.
3. MLBTR Chat with Anthony Franco today at 1pm CT
After the whirlwind of the Winter Meetings, do you have any burning questions about your favorite team’s offseason? If so, tune in at 1pm CT for a live chat MLBTR’s Anthony Franco, where he will be taking questions from readers. With so much having happened in the past few days and a few of the biggest free agents on the market yet to sign, there’s plenty to talk about! You can submit a question in advance, and use that same link to check back and participate live. | <urn:uuid:9cf76449-1a96-42b4-babc-ab8fe7cde6a6> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/12/the-opener-shortstops-astros-mlbtr-chat.html/ | 2023-09-24T23:38:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.954896 | 863 |
This family guest house will take you to the best places of the wonderful Mataiva Island
Located in a gorgeous green atoll, on a long beach side, the guesthouse Mataiva Village is facing a wonderful blue lagoon.
Mataiva village offers an opportunity to discover a small atoll with 260 people only that preserved an atmosphere of yesteryear Polynesia where fishing and coconut leaves weaving were still the main activities.
This guest house is owned by local people who will be happy to share with you their love of Mataiva island and their traditional skills. You will learn how to make hats, plates and bags with coconut leaves, how to open a coconut and to make coconut milk.
Mataiva village’s hosts always organize a number of tours included in the rate of your stay. Watch people fishing, discover different species and its tender tastes and textures. Learn how to make a plate out of coconut leaves, taste fresh and simple local meals.
Just enjoy the life in the Tuamotu archipelago...
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Good morning / afternoon / evening! We have already reached 2022, it is crazy how quickly time passes, I hope that 2021 has been an excellent year for all of you, despite the difficulties.
I bring several things to tell, starting with the main thing, Upsilon Project...
As many will have noticed, the news about Upsilon Project and its future has been quite small during these times, much of the content that I am currently developing is vital within the game and will possibly be shown in the future. For now, the news of the game will be few, there will not be much news for now, but in the future there will be many things to show!
I really appreciate the support I have been receiving this year, it has really been an interesting experience ... I would not say that it was the best year for me, due to other more personal issues, but it was definitely a year full of learning and new things.
I wish you all a happy new year and may this year be a better one for all of you and may we be able to spend time with everyone around us.
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Be competitive with your kids. This is my secret to parenting. That sounds terrible doesn’t it? Trust me, it’s not as bad as it sounds. I am a silently competitive person. I like to win, but I don’t like other people to know that I’m trying to win. I like people to believe that it’s a happy accident if I win at something. This way, I come off as a very laid back (which I am) easy going person but deep down I hate to lose.
Being competitive can actually be very useful in parenting, so long as it is applied in an appropriate manner. Forget about being competitive with the Joneses, that is so lame and you’ll never be happy. Forget about being competitive with your spouse about who is a better parent, that will be self destructive to your marriage and totally obvious to your kids when they get older, which again will make you appear lame.
But when it comes to having my kids respect and listen to what we need to get done, making it into a competitive game for myself gives me the extra boost I need to stick with it and yield the results that I want. For example, we ran out of child safety locks in our kitchen and the only thing not locked down is our spice drawer, which let me tell you, is so awesome. I can’t say we haven’t had a pile of chili powder on our kitchen floor which almost spelled disaster for the kids and the dog. However, it has become a good lesson in what not to touch and working at self control for my kids. My son has the hang of it, it’s my daughter that we’re working on now. She LOVES that spice drawer. I forget which parenting book it was, but one of them said that provided a child isn’t in immediate danger, the best way to get them to listen is to not run over to them and physically get them to stop doing whatever it is they shouldn’t be doing but instead, ask them to stop.
Well here is where a little competitiveness helps (some might call it patience). No child (okay, well, not mine anyway) will ever immediately stop the first time you ask them and maybe not even the 5th time you ask them. But if you are persistent and keep asking them to put it back and close the spice drawer you’ll start to notice a pause in their activity and you can see them process what you’re asking. Repeat it again always watching them, as soon as you take your eyes off they feel like they’re free to mess around again, and you have to start all over. Soon they’ll start to look at you as they start the activity they know they’re not supposed to be doing, which is a big win because you know that you’re getting through and then repeat again, “put the spices back and close the drawer please”. Eventually, they will catch on that they shouldn’t be playing with spices and will forget about the drawer entirely. So you’re thinking to yourself, seriously, who has time for this? But honestly, how many times do you find yourself wasting time chasing down your kids? This really does work and each subsequent time the standoff is shorter and shorter.
There are certainly days where I just don’t have it in me to fight the battle and those are the days when I actually have to talk myself into bringing out my competitive side – telling myself that I will win the standoff. And if I can muster up the energy and find the patience, then I have won. My competitiveness and feeling like I’d really like to win this battle today because I know it will make tomorrow easier, helps me get through our day.
So go ahead, bring out your competitive side and help your little kids know their limits and improve their self control. Don’t forget to take deep breaths.
As a side note: This is not to be misconstrued as actually being competitive WITH my kids – i.e. I can run faster than you … well obviously, I have 33 years experience on you little guy. Although I do think a little healthy competition among family members can be fun. | <urn:uuid:bfe7b04b-5b37-440a-8310-afa33a0ec3a3> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.modernmom.com/910c7010-3b35-11e3-be8a-bc764e04a41e.html | 2023-09-24T22:54:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.975256 | 887 |
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This is a Moms Clean Air Force exclusive interview with Senator Lamar Alexander from Tennessee:
What is unique about protecting Tennessee’s resources?
Italy has its art, Egypt has its pyramids, and we have our Great American Outdoors. With more than nine million people visiting each year, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most-visited national park in the country. I grew up hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains, and preserving places like the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Cherokee National Forest is important to making sure future generations will have the chance to do the same.
As a parent and grandparent, are you worried about the effects of climate change and air pollution on your children and the children of Tennessee?
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences and its counterparts in 12 other industrialized countries have warned that human activity has contributed significantly to climate change. The issue is what to do about it. Deliberately raising the price of energy and constructing a complicated cap-and-trade system is a wrongheaded approach. Instead, we should double government-sponsored research and liberate our free enterprise system to find new sources of clean, cheap, reliable energy. For example, 99 nuclear reactors provide 60 percent of all of our country’s carbon-free electricity, which is why I’ve proposed building 100 new nuclear reactors and accelerating research on smaller reactors.
Why is a bipartisan effort so important to solve the problem of air pollution, and how can these efforts be achieved in our politically polarizing culture?
Air pollution is a serious problem that affects all Americans. It is important that all of us work together to get things done and help unleash the abundance of clean, cheap, reliable energy we need to power our 21st-century economy.
Senator Lamar Alexander was born in Maryville, the son of a kindergarten teacher and an elementary school principal. He is a seventh-generation Tennessean. He is the only Tennessean ever popularly elected both governor and U.S. Senator. He has been U.S. Education Secretary and University of Tennessee president. He chaired the National Governors Association and President Reagan’s Commission on Americans Outdoors. Lamar Alexander and Honey Buhler were married in 1969. They have four children and eight grandchildren, and a dog named Rufus. He is a Presbyterian elder. | <urn:uuid:b806fc8b-6528-4a2c-b21a-ce3f99623618> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.momscleanairforce.org/interview-senator-lamar-alexander/ | 2023-09-25T00:07:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.949657 | 480 |
Grand Jury Stenographer, prov.
Attention: Effective February 2023 - December 2024, Monroe County full-time employees will receive a $1,000 quarterly retention payment. Apply today. Another great reason to join the Monroe County workforce!
Description of Duties
This is a legal stenographic position responsible for taking and transcribing verbatim testimony before the Grand Jury. Duties involve taking shorthand notes verbatim on a shorthand machine at two-hundred (200) plus words per minute of proceedings, and transcribing confidential testimony and statements from defendants using computer-aided transcription software. The Grand Jury Stenographer is responsible for timely transcript production which may occasionally involve working extra hours to meet tight deadlines. The employee reports directly to, and works under the general supervision of the Director of Attorney Training and Grand Jury or other higher-level staff member and performs work in accordance with well-established procedures. Does related work as required.
Graduation from high school or possession of an equivalency diploma plus EITHER:
(A) Two (2) years paid full-time or its part-time equivalent verbatim reporting experience; OR,
(B) One (1) year paid full-time or its part-time equivalent verbatim reporting experience PLUS either graduation from a formal program in court reporting (ex. Registered Professional Reporter [RPR], Registered Merit Reporter [RMR], Certified Realtime Reporter [CRR] certificates) OR graduation from a regionally accredited or New York State registered college or university with an Associate’s degree or Certificate in Court Reporting**
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Many of the shortfalls within the health care system have been in the news for months now. I am writing this in an attempt to give one perspective on the “health of the health care system."
Both the federal and provincial governments (at least most of them) function with a capitalistic view. There are definitely some positive initiatives that come from capitalism, but the list of shortfalls is much larger. Markets can be manipulated and it allows (through that manipulation) for some corruption within the system.
As it pertains to the health care system, there is no guarantee that a person's basic needs will be met. Health care may become available only to those who are willing to pay for it and skip the waiting lists.
The capitalistic approach is already embedded within the Saskatchewan health care system. Because our government pays for our health care with our tax dollars, many of us don't even question where the money is going. Money that was spent to sustain our hospitals with adequate staff and equipment is now going into the profit of private clinics.
Let's take a closer look at the slow progression of transfer to a for-profit system. This is not a criticism of those who took part in developing and opening labs and other clinics outside of the hospital setting, mainly I'm referring to the ones that do offer a two-tier system (if you pay, you'll get treated sooner). Rather it is a criticism of the capitalistic government's approach to health care.
I am concerned about my recurring thought that the ultimate goal is to close all hospitals across Saskatchewan except those in the cities with a population larger than 50,000 people. We have already seen this occur across rural Saskatchewan. Even the New Democratic government closed hospitals. This, however, was directly related to the declining rural population and the fiscal disaster left by the Devine Conservative government.
We also see that acute care beds are available in communities but that is only a band aide solution.
The emotional and financial expense for any family who must travel miles to get essential medical care can be overwhelming. If you think I'm wrong, then first take a look at Moose Jaw. We used to have two hospitals here. Now we only have one (albeit a new one) with less than half the beds that once were available. Even at half the size, our hospital is not fully staffed, and retaining nurses / doctors / diagnostic / technical and support staff has become difficult.
The pandemic has exposed a lot of weakness in our health care systems right across Canada. This is where my beef with the media comes in. News reports are filled with stories about staff becoming overwhelmed by the workload caused by the pandemic.
The burn out of both doctors and nurses is always highlighted. There is very little coverage given to the long hours due to shortage of staff prior to the pandemic. We are bombarded day and night with stories of emergency rooms closing due to lack of staff. This constant bombardment of the facts overwhelms the population.
When governments come up with new “for profit” proposal they want us to “just go along with it”.
Look at the new private “for profit” surgery clinic in Regina that the Sask. Party has now proposed to alleviate surgical back log.
BUT!!! ... The shortage of staff and availability of beds has been created by the funnelling of money into the private “for profit” industry.
What we have to do is follow the money. What do I mean? If you go to the hospital for lab work, to the ER or for and MRI (which is under-used at the hospital), CT scan, etc., then the money follows you there. If you choose a private clinic the money follows you to the private clinics.
Money that can be used for hospital improvements and hiring staff is simply funnelled into profit for the private clinics.
We need to stop the bleeding from our hospitals. The agenda of the Sask. Party has been exposed through the pandemic. There is another solution out there, and that is we insist on investing in our hospitals now!
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By JEFF LAZERSON / CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST
Talk about working fast.
And, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz recently introduced a bill to abolish the CFPB.
Biggest losers will be home buying mortgage shoppers and eventually entire communities due to the cascading effect.
Timing could not be worse. High home prices being boosted further by sub-prime financing and minimal down payments. Didn’t this type of stuff bring us to our housing knees just nine short years ago?
Now, consumers are facing a separate challenge to successful homeownership. It involves illegal kickbacks (that sometimes are part of marketing servicing agreements) to realty companies for the referral of mortgage shoppers to mortgage lenders, a practice that’s widespread, according to syndicated Washington Post Writers Group columnist Kenneth Harney.
The kickback practice has received the attention of the CFPB that it desperately deserves. If the CFPB disappears, this growing trend may be our next Great Recession tipping point.
In January, the CFPB took action against Southern California-based Prospect Mortgage, citing its involvement of improper arrangements with over 100 real estate brokers.
Prospect agreed to pay a $3.5 million civil penalty, and two brokers – ReMax Gold Coast and Keller Williams Mid-Willamette – and a mortgage servicer were ordered to pay a combined $495,000.
One example was compensation for each mortgage borrower referral. Another practice was paying brokers to require buyers already prequalified with other lenders to prequalify again with Prospect. This is also known as cross-qualification.
The ReMax and Keller Williams announcement was the first CFPB enforcement action against real estate firms for kickbacks related to a marketing service agreement, according to Samuel Gilford, CFPB spokesman.
In my own experience, more than half of the large real estate offices that I’ve called over the past few years demanded that I agree to some type of marketing servicing agreement to get access to its agents and office meetings, or they refused access because they already had some type of exclusive affiliation or marketing servicing agreement.
In addition, about 20 percent of individual agents require that the loan officers pay for their marketing materials, continuing education, golf and the like to get exposure to their buyers.
The reason why this is harmful is that the unsuspecting borrower always ends up paying more for his or her home loan in rates and costs.
One other rarely mentioned point is collusion when it comes to affiliated companies or marketing service agreements. For example, a lender affiliated with a listing agent will send the loan file to an investor who denies the loan prior to closing. Buyer is in jeopardy of losing his good faith deposit. So, buyer agrees to another loan offer at a higher priced lender to both save the transaction and save his deposit.
America can’t afford the consequences if the CFPB is eliminated.
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Autumn 1 Unit - Story with a character Focus
This half term in Year 2, we will be focusing on the story 'Troll Swap' and using this as our stimulus for our writing sessions. The final outcome is for the children to write a story based on the model text but using their own ideas for characters.
We will look at the features and the common structure of a story, with a beginning, middle and an end. Also within this unit the children will look at using full stops and capital letters correctly to form their sentences and use expanded noun phrases (2A sentences) to describe settings and characters. They will also learn how to use subordinating (because) and coordinating (and) conjunctions to extend their setences.
Some useful resources for this unit can be found attached to this page and on the links below:
Full stops & Capital Letters - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8x6cj6/articles/zv78jhv
coordinating conjuctions - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkxxsbk/articles/zjdxhbk
subordinating conjunctions - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkxxsbk/articles/zsm9g7h
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MOUNT WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE THE ARRIVAL OF OUR NEW SUMMIT CAT, NIMBUS
North Conway, NH – May 6, 2021 - The staff of Mount Washington Observatory (MWO) have adopted a new
cat, Nimbus, who will be living on the summit of Mount Washington.
Cats have been a part of the observatory
family since its founding in 1932. Prior to the New Year, our summit weather
station lost its longtime resident cat Marty, who was beloved by MWO staff,
Mount Washington State Park employees, and thousands of visitors from around the
world. Earlier this spring, MWO Summit Operations Manager Rebecca
Scholand began the search for a new cat, working closely with the Conway Area
Humane Society (CAHS).
“With the passing of Marty in late 2020,
we started the search for a new cat knowing it would have big paws to fill,”
Scholand said. “The summit cat is such a special part of our living environment
on the summit, making it feel much more like a home on our week-long
After meeting with four cat candidates
from CAHS, our observers all agreed on a Gray Shorthair, and with staff input,
the name Nimbus was chosen. Our new gray summit cat will share his name with
large gray clouds that bring precipitation. The prefix “nimbo” or suffix
"nimbus" can be attached to a cloud type, such as nimbostratus or
cumulonimbus, signifying that the cloud is precipitating.
Nimbus’ journey began in Oklahoma with
the Skiatook Paws and Claws Animal Rescue before he was transferred to CAHS.
After quite a winding road, he was officially welcomed to the summit of
Mount Washington on April 14, 2021. Our observers tell us Nimbus is a very
sociable cat who uses a wide variety of meows, chatters and purrs to keep their
attention and express happiness with his new home.
About Mount Washington Observatory:
Mount Washington Observatory is a
private, nonprofit, member-supported institution with a mission to advance
understanding of the natural systems that create Earth's weather and climate.
Since 1932, the Observatory has been monitoring the elements from its weather
station on the summit of Mount Washington, using this unique site for
scientific research and educational outreach. For more information, call (800)
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