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HandyMan and I are off to New York City in two weeks for our 1st Anniversary and I can barely contain my excitement. We’re staying with my sister in Brooklyn (ok, maybe not so romantic for an anniversary) and plan on doing a lot of shopping. What are your favourite home décor stores in NYC? Any places you recommend I must must visit?

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  1. Coney Island! My brother works at the sideshow there as the Emcee!

  2. ABC Carpet and Home, the Conran Shop @ 59th/1st Ave and Simon Pearce in Soho

  3. I've never been to NYC, so no recs here, but congrats on your anniversary! Enjoy yourself!

  4. Have a great time. Look forward to hearing about your shopping picks when you return.

  5. I've never been to Coney Island there jeremyandkathleen! Hmmm...

  6. Thanks modernemama...lovely things on the ABC Carpet website... will have to add those shops to the list!

  7. Im a bit biased but Brooklyn is a fabulous place to spend your anniversary.

    In Brooklyn there are some great antique shops on Atlantic Avenue. They seem to be going extinct as the years go by so they may not be here on your next trip.

    We also have some fabulous restaurants if you are looking for a romantic night out.

    And don't miss the view and the yummy homemade ice cream at the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory.

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    I've got diddly on the home decor in NYC front, but I recognize the bridge!

    You may not be aware of this, but we have the prototype for the Brooklyn Bridge here in Covington.

    Designed by John Roebling.

    It's just a couple blocks from us.

  9. mrs.l - thanks for the suggestions. I'll have to check those out. I should have remembered to ask you about Brooklyn!

    Any particular romantic restaurants you'd recommend?

  10. You can't beat the view at River Cafe. Its a very popular & expensive restaurant but Ive only had good experiences there.

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Trends and Inequalities in Late-Life Health and Functioning in England

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BACKGROUND: Recently, late-life disability rates have declined in several countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation, but no national-level trend analysis for England has been available. The authors provide such analysis, including measures both early and late in the disablement process, and the authors investigate the extent to which temporal trends are associated with population changes in socioeconomic position (SEP). METHODS: The authors fit logistic models of trends in self-reports and nurse measures of 16 health indicators, based on cross-sectional data from those aged 65 years and older from the 1992 to 2007 Health Survey for England. RESULTS: Overall, prevalence rates of limitations in seeing, hearing and usual activities declined (p<0.05); ever smoking, measured high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and high C reactive protein decreased (p<0.05); and the proportion with limitations in self-care activities remained stable. But obesity and limitations in walking 200 yards and climbing stairs increased (p<0.05). Increases over time in education and non-manual social class membership were associated with declines in smoking, C reactive protein and problems with usual activities. Had the changes in SEP not occurred, the increases in problems walking and climbing would have been greater. People with less education or of manual social classes experienced relatively worse trends for hearing, mobility functions and usual activities. The opposite was true for seeing. CONCLUSIONS: Recent trends in late-life health and functioning in England have been mixed. A better understanding of which specific activities pose challenges, how the environment in which activities are conducted influences functioning and the causes of relatively worse trends for some SEP groups is needed.

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Milwaukee woman saved by new stroke technology

Menlo Park, Calif. — December 17, 2019 – RAPID, the worldwide leader in advanced imaging for stroke, is now available and installed in Vietnam. The RAPID artificial intelligence framework helps to quantify brain lesions and extend the window of potential stroke intervention from six hours after onset to up to 24 hours, for patients with salvageable brain tissue. RAPID provides physicians with fast, fully automated, and easy-to-interpret imaging that facilitates clinical decision-making around stroke.

According to the Vietnam Stroke Association, there are approximately 200,000 new stroke cases every year, 90% of which have long term consequnces and complications. Hospitals and clinics that treat stroke in Vietnam will now have access to the RAPID automated CTP, MRI, CTA, ASPECTS and ICH solutions, as well as their unique mobile app that accelerates the provision of information to support treatment decisionmaking. RAPID’s expansion into Vietnam represents continued market growth across Asia, and is further confirmation that RAPID has become the de facto standard for stoke imaging around the world.

"Strokes are a medical emergency, and urgent treatment is essential. However, only about 19% of patients arrive at our hospitals within 4-6 hours after experiencing stroke symptoms,” commented Dr. Thang Huy Nguyen, Senior Stroke Consultant, Head of Department of Cerebrovascular Disease, 115 People's Hospital. “The RAPID technology provides physicians and stroke teams the ability to diagnose more stroke patients by extending the treatment window up to 24 hours. Moving forward our teams will be able to utilize this advanced technology via the RAPID platform to promptly address more cases with the highest efficiency.”

Developed by leading stroke experts, RAPID technology has been selected for use in several ground-breaking trials that have changed stroke treatment guidelines issued by both the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association. The RAPID Artificial Intelligence framework combines deep learning, machine learning and expert feature extraction. It is the only clinically validated imaging solution for stroke diagnostic support worldwide. In 2019, this proven platform is being used for more than 400,000 scans by thousands of healthcare professionals in over 45 countries.

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I'm not sure if you have already checked the Dubai Municipality website, however they have a number of links that you may find useful.

If you go to - you can search and contact them directly. Alternatively search 'green building dubai' and you will a find a number of links through the Municipality which will hopefully assist you.

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Petersburg’s Trinity Bridge becomes a movie screen

Trinity Bridge was linked to Merge Brug in Amsterdam, so people from both cities could see each other. Source: ITAR-TASS

Trinity Bridge was linked to Merge Brug in Amsterdam, so people from both cities could see each other. Source: ITAR-TASS

Last Friday, thousands of people in St. Petersburg watched cartoons on Trinity Bridge. The event took place amidst the graFFFest festival and united people from Russia and the Netherlands.

On the night July 19-20, the famous Trinity Bridge in St. Petersburg was turned into a huge movie theatre. On the wing of the open drawbridge, a giant screen (roughly 4,305 square feet) was set up; the same thing happened to Merge Brug, or Skinny Bridge, in Amsterdam.

These transformations were undertaken in order to present a huge show featuring the best cartoon films from all over the world.

The idea for the multi-bridge festival belongs to Svetlana Petrova, director of the Multividenie, or Multivision, festival.

GraFFFest 2013: A virtual bridge from Amsterdam to St Petersburg. Source: YouTube / RBTH

“The first time I came up with the idea of showing cartoons on the bridge was in 2005. I was so surprised to discover that the bridge is actually a huge and very suitable platform for the screen. It took me two years to find money for the project. Luckily, the Committee on Culture decided to support my enterprise, so we launched it in 2007 and continued in 2008. Then, due to the crisis, we had to give up the idea for some time. The project was re-launched in 2011, under a new name — graFFFest. We started using the new technologies of digital and street art,” says Petrova.

This year was declared the year of Netherlands-Russia cross-cultural exchange. As soon as Petrova found out about this, she contacted Yvonne van Ulden, who is the creative director of the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival.

“I was very enthusiastic when I received the proposal from Svetlana Petrova,” says van Ulden. “When I visited St. Petersburg a couple years ago with our KLIK! Russian tour, we were introduced and I saw the pictures of the Multivision bridge event. It immediately got me thinking that it would be nice to do the similar thing in Amsterdam, since we have drawbridges too. I never executed the idea, but it lingered in my head. So it took me not too long to make a decision when Svetlana contacted me.”

Both sides — Russian and Dutch — noticed that there were plenty of difficulties in the process of organization. “Complicated, very complicated,” says Petrova. “During the last two months, every morning, we were woken up at 9:00 by calls from different committees with so many questions. But I am stubborn, you know.”

“It was not easy to organize something outdoors on the old little bridge that was never used for something like this before. It was also difficult because we were so far apart, and everything had to be done by email. This sometimes takes a little longer then when you work face-to-face. And it was a bit sad to see that a couple of Dutch films that were proposed could not be shown due to the strict Russian laws,” van Ulden says.

Still, the brick walls were broken and thousands of people in St. Petersburg and Amsterdam were able to see the show.

Suvorovskaya Square was full of young people: The most practical spectators brought folding chairs and hot coffee; some were sitting on the blankets, some just on the ground. It took a bit too long for organizers to start the show, but there was no hurry and people seemed to be quite relaxed — playing, singing, drinking coffee, or smoking.

“I like the idea of the festival,” said Andrei Rozov, one of the spectators. “The city is fantastic in the summer, and we don’t have to sit in the frowzy cinema. It is a good night, and I did enjoy the new video of the rock musician Boris Grebenschikov. It is really cool.”

There were almost no children on the square: It was too late for them, and the featured cartoons were more about adult life and adult problems. The general theme for the festival was life in the big city.

In the middle of the festival, Trinity Bridge was linked to Merge Brug in Amsterdam, so people from both cities could see each other. There were some technical problems, and it was, perhaps, too dark to recognize faces; still, the connection was set up, and organizers could greet people of two cities on the big screen.

The bridge event was the culmination of St. Petersburg’s graFFFest festival, which started on the July 9 to unite digital and street art.

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Our Invisible Addicts (2nd edition, CR211 Mar 2018)

For too long, the topic of substance misuse in older people has been ignored.

A new approach, that is non-discriminatory, comprehensive and needs-led, is now essential.

We recommend that a national strategy outlining cohesive integrated policies devised by stakeholders, with financial support and direction by government, and driven at local, regional and national levels be developed and implemented.

  • The older substance misuser is poorly represented in the range of policy initiatives, though this may be very gradually changing.
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  • Diverse approaches are required to minimise the health, social and economic consequences for a population of “baby boomers” who have the fastest increase in rates of substance misuse in the population.
  • Campaigning is needed to reduce the stigma associated with alcohol and substance misuse among the public and professionals.
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  • Share best practice in existing care pathways for substance misuse within mental health services for older people and mental health treatment for older people within substance misuse services across NHS and third sector providers.
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Sixteen-year-old Ben Howard is smart as a whip and a swim champ to boot and would make any parent proud. However, all is not as it seems in the Howard household. Ben’s father is an abusive drunk and, one fateful night, life as Ben knows it comes to screeching halt when he and his drunk father are involved in a tragic car accident that leaves his father dead – and only Ben knows what really happened. Reeling from being dumped by his girlfriend, Wendy, and his father’s violent death, Ben slashes his wrists but his older brother, a cop, finds him and saves his life. In Ben’s mind, his life isn’t one that’s worth living anymore and he falls into a deep depression to the point where his mother and brother, Gavin, check him into a sanitarium called White Waves. Shortly after arriving, and in the midst of utter despair, Ben falls into a coma and enters a parallel universe which he calls “Grey World” due to its lack of color. Grey World is a jumble of various famous landmarks from around the world and it’s during Ben’s exploration of his surreal surroundings that he meets Alice.

As Ben and Alice explore Grey World together, he slowly learns bits and pieces of information about Alice and becomes smitten with her. Just when things begin to look up for Ben, he’s pulled from the Grey World back into the real one where he learns that he’s still at White Waves and that he’s been in a coma for the last six months. Ben scours the Internet, hoping to find something on Grey World and finally finds a book written by Mary, an old woman with MS who had landed in a coma some years back which she vividly remembered. Her descriptions of Coma World are very similar to that of Ben’s Grey World and he soon contacts her, eager to go back to Grey World to get Alice.

Crazy for Alice by Alex Dunn is an angst-ridden YA novel that deals with some heavy subject matter. It’s also one of the best-written novels – in any genre – that I’ve read in quite some time. Aptly titled, the story demands, and extracts, every last ounce of emotion from its readers and simply put, the story is crazy good. Without a doubt, Crazy for Alice is depressing. However, the book is also thought-provoking as it has the courage to explore that no man’s land between life and death that few of us have ever experienced. The author doesn’t force us to buy into this alternate world he writes about, but merely puts it out there for our consideration. Dunn’s prose is casual and his portrayal of Ben and his so-called mental deterioration as he becomes more obsessed with finding Alice is extremely well done. We cannot help but sympathize with Ben’s plight and his growing desperation to find Alice, but at the same time, it’s hard not to feel for his family and their utter helplessness and despair as they watch Ben’s mental stability erode before their eyes. An excellent book from start to finish and one that fans of John Green should definitely read.

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Crazy for Alice is a young adult contemporary novel dealing with depression written by Alex Dunn. White Waves Asylum was the last place that Ben Howard wanted to be, but his mother and brother were convinced that the doctors there could help him. The sixteen-year-old's suicide attempt had been unsuccessful, and he was still not interested in living any longer. While his mother was convinced that he had slashed his wrists because his girlfriend had broken up with him, his depression was due to a far more serious issue than that. Life with his mother had become increasingly more difficult after the death of his abusive, drunken father in an auto accident. Ben had been trying to get the man home for a surprise 50th birthday party Ben had arranged for his mother, but his father was angry about leaving his tavern and was predictably violent and bullying. Ben still couldn't face the fact that he had killed his father, and he couldn't let his family know it wasn't just an accident. Witnessing his mother's grief and knowing he was to blame had become unbearable.

Alex Dunn's contemporary young adult novel, Crazy for Alice, is taut, terrifying and suspenseful. Ben's stay in White Waves Asylum and the doctor's misdiagnosis of his mental state leads to massive amounts of medications that dull his senses, and nothing he can say or do will get him back out into the real world except to go along with the regime. Then, when he finally is released, his room and bathroom have no locks, his razor is gone, and he doesn't even have a belt for his pants. His every movement is monitored by his mother as he's kept a virtual prisoner in a room decorated to have a soothing, cheerful effect. No one stops to talk to him and find out what his issues are or what actually happened the night of the accident, and once he was committed, everything he says or does is dismissed as the actions of a mental patient. Ben's coma and the time he spends in the Grey World is considered the result of his mental illness. Any attempts he makes to resolve the whereabouts of Alice, the girl in the Grey World who's given him a reason to live, are thwarted by well-meaning relatives who don't have a clue what is going on, and who've decided he's not to be trusted. This is a powerful story that reveals the struggles and societal judgments people with depression often have to deal with in addition to struggling with their own condition. I found myself fully immersed in the tale. Alex Dunn made me feel Ben's frustration, feelings of impotence and anger, and this book helped me understand a lot more about depression and its impact. Crazy for Alice is a stunningly eloquent tale, and it's most highly recommended.

Heather Osborne

Crazy for Alice by Alex Dunn is certainly one of the more interesting psychological novels I’ve read lately. Ben’s mother, worried after he attempts suicide, has him committed to White Waves Asylum. While there, he slips into a coma and enters what he calls the Grey World. There, he meets some strange people, including a young girl named Alice. Each person is tethered to an object or building. Ben is baffled at first, but the more time he spends there, the more he comes to love Alice. Then, he wakes up. He quickly realizes his experiences are not unique. Thus begins his desperate search for Alice in the real world. However, his family and friends are skeptical of his experiences, and think he’s still suffering from mental illness. Will Ben manage to find Alice in time, or will there be too many obstacles in their way to happiness?

When I began Crazy for Alice by Alex Dunn, I certainly was not expecting the story that unfolded before me. I finished the book rather quickly, instantly absorbed in the plot, and wanting to know what happened in the end to Ben and Alice. If I were to have one criticism, it would be how Ben was treated in the mental health facility. Again though, I’m not sure if what happened to him is standard practice. I’d have liked maybe a note at the end explaining that portion of the novel, maybe discussing how people with mental illness are treated in modern society. Other than that, the novel was complete, with clear character development and plot line. I would certainly pick up other books by Alex Dunn.

Chris Fischer

In a great new read by author Alex Dunn, Crazy for Alice is a story that will stay with readers for a long time after they've turned the last page. Follow the story of sixteen-year-old genius Ben Howard after he has accidentally killed his father and tried to kill himself. He's placed in a psychiatric facility, and enters The Grey World, a place hidden deep within his own mind, and a place where he can hide from any feelings. It's in the Grey World that he meets Alice. Alice helps him to heal, and he falls deeply in love with her. When he returns from The Grey World, no one will believe him and, in fact, they think that he's still suffering from a terrible mental illness. Will Ben be able to prove the reality of Alice, or will he find that everyone who surrounds him is right? You'll have to read the book to find out.

I so enjoyed Crazy for Alice. It's unusual for me to find a book that is as unique as this one, and I am so glad that I did find it. Author Alex Dunn has done a fantastic job in creating characters, especially protagonist Ben, that readers will truly care about, connect with and be able to relate to. If that's not a hallmark of an excellent author, I'm not sure what is. His world creation abilities while exploring The Grey World, are simply second to none. I am so pleased to give Crazy for Alice the highest recommendation I possibly can, and I look forward to reading more from Alex Dunn as soon as possible.


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What Is Electronic Invoicing, Why Should Suppliers Care and Who Are the Major Players?

When the topic of electronic invoicing – or e-Invoicing – comes up, there are several misnomers in certain circles regarding what it actually is. The simple fact is that it can mean different things to different people. First, let’s take a look at many of the possible terms and descriptions used when referring to e-Invoicing.

  • Electronic Data Exchange (EDI): A computer-to-computer exchange of electronic business data using a standardized format between two partners. This transmission is typically done through a value added network, or VAN. For example, a supplier may transmit their invoice data via a particular VAN where that data is automatically inserted into the customer’s accounting system. This is typically a one-to-one connection.
  • Invoice Automation: Data is captured from a submitted invoice, either through scanning by the customer or a third party, and automatically matched to the specific fields required by the customer. That data is then automatically inserted into the customer’s accounting system. The invoice originally submitted by the supplier is not necessarily electronic in nature.
  • Invoicing via PDF sent via email: Invoice data sent via email from the supplier to the customer, where the customer or a third party must extract the data from the delivered document through scanning or keying in of data, requires no special network or transmission method.
  • Third-party e-Invoicing Network: Electronic exchange of business data across a secure, online network. The supplier sends invoice data to the customer through the network, the network then validates the data against specific customer rules, and the data is inserted automatically into the customer’s accounting system. There is usually no paper or PDF involved, the type of accounting system on the customer side does not limit invoice submission, and the connection between supplier and customer is typically one-to-many or many-to-many.
  • Small business billing solution (such as QuickBooks or FreshBooks): Creation and delivery of invoices via email from the supplier to the customer via software connected to the Internet and sent via email. The system is not necessarily automated, but it can help streamline the invoice creation process on the supplier side and may sometimes be easier to insert into the customer’s accounting system – though not always automatically.
  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Invoicing System: An ERP system may be an end-to-end financial management tool utilized by suppliers, customers or both. This solution allows for automation of invoice creation and submission. What the supplier submits must then be compatible with the ERP system on the customer end.
  • Optical Character Recognition (OCR): Often used as part of an invoice automation solution on the customer side, OCR usually requires no specific change to invoice submission on the part of the supplier. The customer (or a third party on behalf of the customer) takes the submitted invoice, scans the invoice data and submits that invoice data electronically to the customer.

Now that we’ve identified terms that are often used when referring to e-Invoicing, let’s focus on a true definition of the term.

A true definition of e-Invoicing

While some may agree and others may disagree with this definition, Receivable Savvy believes a true definition of e-Invoicing invoicing is:

The electronic exchange of invoice and related business information (purchase orders, credit notes, debit notes, etc.) between a supplier and their customer where no paper or paper-related invoice is created, no manual intervention is necessary once the invoice leaves the possession of the supplier, and insertion of the invoice data into the customer’s accounting system is automatic.

With this definition, some of the descriptions above (such as EDI, third-party e-Invoicing Network and ERP) can be used when describing e-Invoicing while the others cannot.

There are reasons why leveraging an e-Invoicing solution makes perfect sense for a number of organizations, whether on the supplier or customer side. That does not mean that other methods of invoice submission should be dismissed, as many of those solutions offer great benefit as well.

For the purposes of this article, we will focus on third-party e-Invoicing networks and some of the major players in that space.

What exactly is a third-party e-Invoicing network?

A third-party e-Invoicing network is an organization or company whose primary purpose is to help customers streamline invoices delivered into their Accounts Payable department. The customer does not own the network nor does the supplier. The network is a third-party player, similar to the United States Postal Service, where they facilitate the exchange of a piece of correspondence between the sender and the receiver.

For example, a Fortune 1000 company may have thousands of suppliers located in many countries around the world. This often results in thousands or millions of invoices being submitted to the Accounts Payable department. If left unchecked, those invoices may be delivered in a variety of formats with no standardization. With multiple formats from different suppliers operating in different countries, it’s a tremendous task for any Accounts Payable department to get a handle on the incoming invoices in a way that minimizes error and ensures suppliers are paid on time. This is where the third-party e-Invoicing solutions play a role.

The solution provider works with the customer, enrolling suppliers onto the network on behalf of the customer. Once enrolled, the supplier is then able to submit invoices to that customer – or any other customer on that particular network – where invoices are validated and automatically submitted into the customer’s accounting system.

The customer must establish specific business rules and the supplier must ensure their invoice submissions adhere to these rule. Once this is established, the process of creating and submitting invoices can become much easier for suppliers and customers are able to streamline invoice acceptance.

Why suppliers should care

Suppliers should care about third-party e-Invoicing networks because more customers are asking their suppliers to submit invoices this way. Initially, some suppliers may be resistant to joining a third-party network at the request of their customer (which is, by the way, the only way a supplier can be enrolled in such a network in order to submit invoices). Most suppliers, once enrolled, begin to see the value of submitting invoices electronically – especially if they were submitting paper invoices or had a very high volume of invoices.

Suppliers can benefit from submitting invoices via a third-party network in the following ways:

  • Invoices can be submitted to multiple customers on the same network with a single connection
  • Suppliers may realize a reduction in DSO, usually by several days
  • Submitting invoices via a third-party network significantly reduces errors and exceptions – usually resulting in faster processing and payment
  • Most suppliers can begin submitting invoices at no charge
  • Customer support is handled by the third-party provider, not by the customer
  • Suppliers can reduce or eliminate inquiries into their customer regarding the status of their invoice or payment
  • Suppliers have more options available for invoice financing.

Now that we’ve tackled what third-party e-Invoicing actually is and why suppliers should care, let’s take a look at some of the major players in this space.

Established in 1985, Basware is the largest open business network in the world. As the global leader in providing purchase-to-pay and e-Invoicing solutions in the world of commerce, Basware empowers companies to unlock value across their financial operations.

Businesses are looking for new ways to increase financial performance, improve processes and gain competitive advantage — a challenging task in today’s volatile economies. We understand these challenges. With Basware, organizations of all sizes from any industry can simplify and streamline key financial processes to strengthen control, reduce costs and gain proactive insight into cash flow, as well as improve buyer- supplier relationships.

We enable companies not only to align and streamline internal purchasing and invoicing processes, but also to accelerate commerce via Basware Connected Commerce — by connecting with trading partners over the world’s largest open commerce network for e-Invoicing. As a result, companies are able to reduce the cost of buying and selling goods and services and increase control and visibility over the entire cash flow cycle.

Key Differentiators

Basware is consistently acknowledged as a market leader by independent industry analysts; and particularly recognized for its world-class solutions, high degree of innovation, superior service and the world’s largest open business network.

  • January 2016 – Basware selected as the best provider of treasury management systems and services by Global Finance magazine within two key categories: Best Provider of AP Solutions, and Best Provider of Integrated Working Capital Management Solutions.
  • May 2014 – Basware recognized as a leader in the “The Forrester WaveTM: eProcurement Q2 2014” report by Forrester Research Inc.
  • February 2014 – Basware honored for the fifth year as the Best Provider of Treasury Management Systems & Services for Accounts Payable Services by Global Finance magazine.

About our customers

Basware is trusted by the world’s leading organizations, connecting 1 million companies across 100 countries.

What Our Customers are Saying

“With purchasing and invoice handling processes flowing better, it’s easier for our suppliers and customers to do business with us.”

  • Mike Tweedie, IT Applications Manager, TH Real Estate

“No one wants to do manual processing here anymore – they are used to the Basware solution taking care of it automatically.”

  • Kyösti Bergdahl, Development Manager, DNA

Taulia, founded in 2009, offers free and flexible electronic invoicing to meet the needs of the entire supply chain, finally making 100% electronic invoicing adoption achievable. Taulia’s e-Invoicing solution, Inbox by Taulia, provides suppliers with a variety of e-Invoicing submission methods through one integrated platform – regardless of their current invoicing capabilities or requirements – and it’s completely free to suppliers.

Taulia delivers comprehensive onboarding for suppliers, the ability to immediately access suppliers that are already on the network, and proven interoperability with many ERPs. The platform provides compliant archiving and can meet country-specific VAT requirements. Taulia has integrated with nearly all the major OCR providers in different customer implementations.

Key Differentiators

Taulia’s e-Invoicing solution is completely and 100% free for suppliers. There are no crazy network fees, hidden transaction costs, setup fees, annual supplier subscription, taxes – nothing. Without fees, suppliers adopt the solution much more willingly and use it more often.

“No matter where suppliers are located, their technological know-how of which method of invoicing they use (we offer free-form submission, eFile, flipping POs, uploading, email or PDF processing), they can utilize and reap the benefits of our solution. We designed the Taulia platform with both usability and user experience in mind and set out to make a solution that not only was simple and intuitive, but also attractive in look and feel.”

  • Maex Ament, chief product officer of Taulia

About Our Customers

Taulia has 100 Global 2000 customers and works with more than 700,000 suppliers.

Our e-Invoicing customers are looking to convert a manual, paper-based process to an efficient, electronic solution, eliminating costs and providing transparency into business transactions. This allows for faster invoice processing and approval, while giving suppliers of any size visibility into the status of their invoice 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

What Our Customers are Saying

“We quickly learned how flexible and intuitive Taulia’s solution was after submitting our first invoice in just a few minutes — it was a huge step forward in giving us more control over our invoices and payments.”

  • Joseph K., Plastics supplier

“We have 76% of our suppliers currently enrolled and using Taulia’s e-Invoicing offering, which is great for our AP Department because it comes in through the portal and everything happens automatically. When there are no issues, it automatically posts with no manual intervention needed whatsoever.”

  • Mary Helms, Global Process Partner for P2P, Sealed Air Corp.

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Once buyers have implemented Taulia’s e-Invoicing platform, they have the option of turning every invoice into a revenue opportunity by offering suppliers early payments on approved invoices. For e-Invoicing customers, turning on Taulia’s award-winning supplier financing is just a few clicks away – the technology is already in place.

Founded in 2005, Transcepta connects Procurement and Accounts Payable professionals with their suppliers, enabling everyone to achieve greater profitability. Every day, thousands of companies access the Transcepta Network to improve e-Invoicing and procure-to-pay processes, drive financial value across the supply chain, and communicate dynamically.

Transcepta customers connect electronically with their suppliers over the Transcepta Network. Transcepta procure-to-pay transactions include e-Invoicing, Payment Status, PO Delivery, Purchase Order Acknowledgements, and Advanced Shipment Notices.

Transcepta provides true e-Invoicing. There is no OCR or scanning involved. Businesses interested in a straight-through invoice process or implementing a scalable early pay or dynamic discount program will find Transcepta an ideal fit. Ultimately any organization that wants to remove paper from their AP invoicing process will find Transcepta of great value.

“For over ten years the world’s leading businesses have been delighted to use Transcepta. The Transcepta Network is the only solution that combines scalable supplier connectivity, the highest levels of straight-through invoice processing, and supplier finance solutions that work for all stakeholders.”

  • Shan Haq, Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development

Key Differentiators

Straight-Through Invoice Processing:

To eliminate invoice exceptions, you must choose a supplier network that provides true e-Invoicing and validates invoices using multiple techniques. The Transcepta Network includes four invoice validation products (Invoice Inspect, Invoice Analyze, PO Flip, and PO CloudMatchTM), each optimized for the unique supplier proﬁles across your supply chain.

Of course, to achieve 100% straight through invoice processing you need to connect your suppliers electronically without scanning or OCR. Transcepta connects your suppliers more quickly than any other network – resulting in a fast ROI. The Transcepta Network combines free service to all suppliers, the broadest choice of connectivity options, and the world’s leading supplier enablement program.

About Our Customers

Transcepta customers are leading organizations across every industry. Customers include, FIS Global, FleetPride, Harris Corporation, Manheim, Raytheon, University of Virginia, Tim Hortons, and 7-Eleven. The Transcepta Network processes tens of millions of transactions every year bringing reduced costs and efficiency to our customers and their suppliers.

What Our Customers are Saying

“A key part in our decision to choose Transcepta was their PO CloudMatch feature. We needed to eliminate paper but we also were very excited to move to a touchless process.”

  • Angela Boyd, FleetPride VP and Chief Accounting Officer.

“We wanted all of our suppliers to connect electronically, and we knew to accomplish that we had to have a solution that worked for all suppliers regardless of size and invoice volume.”

  • Alex Benanti, Raytheon Company

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This video shows how Transcepta revolutionized the procure-to-pay process at three different companies:

Tungsten Network is a global leader in e-Invoicing, enabling businesses to send and track invoices, automate accounts payable and analyze spend. Originally founded in 2000 as the OB10 network, Tungsten Network Tungsten Network e-invoicing also creates a tax compliant invoice that’s used by both the buyer and supplier for workflow and tax reclaim purposes.

Tungsten has the only truly global e-Invoicing network. It’s used by thousands of companies to streamline the invoice process, saving time and money. Through Tungsten Network you send invoices directly to your customers in your chosen format. This removes the hassle of processing paper invoices, chasing the status of your invoice and re-issuing lost invoices.

Invoice data is processed, translated, enriched, validated and digitally signed in the Tungsten Network. Submit your invoices via the Portal or direct from your accounting system. The Tungsten Network validates your invoice against your customer’s business rules. If anything is wrong, you’re informed immediately so it can be updated and delivered quickly. Once accepted, your invoice data is translated into the preferred data format and delivered to your customer. A legally compliant invoice is created and enriched with all information required for tax reclaim purposes. A copy is then sent to you, your customer and the invoice archive.

“At Tungsten we believe in the potential for technology to enhance the way everyone does business, and as co-chair of EESPA I see that passion for innovation played out across Europe.

“With e-invoicing technology in place, businesses can not only adopt faster, smoother business practices, saving valuable time and resource, they can also hugely reduce the risk of being caught out by fraud.”

  • Charles Bryant, European Affairs Advisor

Key Differentiators

Tungsten Network is the world’s largest compliant electronic invoicing network, and can reduce invoice-processing costs by 60%. Compliance is a key focus for Tungsten, and as a mark of the highest possible standards Tungsten adheres to, the business has been awarded the first ever TrustWeaver-Verified Trust Mark.

About Our Customers

  • Number of buyers: 175
  • Number of suppliers worldwide: 188,000

One More Thing

Tungsten also offers Tungsten Analytics, which has been shown to identify average savings on analyzed spend of 1.6%.

About Receivable Savvy

Receivable Savvy helps supplier organizations master the complex Order-to-Cash process and maximize revenue through proprietary research, best practice content and insight from subject matter experts.

Founded in 2015, Receivable Savvy desires to cultivate knowledge and understanding among suppliers while also delving into their habits and practices. Comprised of industry veterans, Receivable Savvy strives to be the primary source of financial supply chain information for Accounts Receivable professionals focused on key elements of the Order-to-Cash process.

We help our members understand issues around customer master data, order management, credit management, invoicing, accounts receivable, payment, collections management, cash application, compliance and internal controls.

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    Pour the cake mixture over the syrup in the ovenproof tin.

    Bake the cake at 180C for about 40 minutes.

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Dangers of Alcohol: Taste & Fun vs Reality

Despite the fact that alcohol is legally available and socially acceptable, at the end of the day it is a drug –and a dangerous one at that. Many people believe that alcohol is harmless because of the fact that it is available and, because of this, binge drinking is common, especially among teenagers and young adults.  However, the dangers of alcohol cannot be underestimated. New research has found strong links between alcohol and seven different forms of cancer. There are also many other health issues related to excessive alcohol consumption including high blood pressure, dementia, depression, heart disease, liver disease, and kidney disease.

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Although much has been written and reported about the dangers of alcohol, it would appear that many people still cannot comprehend this fact. Alcohol has been socially acceptable for many years, and it is present at many different events. Most individuals socialise with alcohol either at home with family, or friends or in pubs and clubs, where the business model revolves around the sale of alcohol.

It is only in recent years that health officials have emphasised the dangers of alcohol. In fact, a review of the recommended alcohol guidelines was carried out by Public Health England in 2015, with the results published in January 2016.

This review saw a reduction in the recommended weekly guidelines for men from twenty-one units per week to fourteen. The current guidelines for men and women now both stand at fourteen units per week.

Professor Dame Sally Davies was keen to point out at the time the report was published that there is actually no safe level of alcohol consumption that can prevent against a number of diseases. She said that while it was safer to stick to the new guidelines, it would by no means help in the prevention of illnesses such as liver disease and some cancers.

Dangers of Alcohol to Health

The majority drink moderately and never drink to get drunk. Nevertheless, some individuals regularly drink more than the recommended amount, with some drinking the recommended weekly amount in just one drinking session. This is extremely dangerous to health and can cause a host of mental and physical health problems.

Alcohol consumption can have short- and long-term effect on the body. Short-term effects include poor coordination, lowered inhibitions, slow reflexes, poor concentration, slurred speech, sleep problems, problems with vision, vomiting, nausea, breathing difficulties, and passing out. The extent to which alcohol can affect a person will depend on the amount of alcohol he or she drinks in one session as well as other factors such as age, gender, weight and other health issues.

While short-term alcohol abuse can be dangerous to health, long-term abuse can lead to even greater problems. Continuous abuse of alcohol over an extended period of time can result in issues with brain development, liver disease, stomach ulcers, damaged internal organs, increased blood pressure, heart disease, strokes, problems with reproduction system, anaemia, addiction, and death. Those who abuse alcohol while pregnant are also risking the health of their unborn child, with many babies born with foetal alcohol syndrome, which can affect their future development.

The Effects of Alcohol Addiction

Those who abuse alcohol are at risk of developing an increased tolerance and becoming physically dependent on it. Alcohol addiction can cause many harmful consequences for the individual concerned and the people closest to this person.

Living with an alcoholic can be unpredictable and upsetting. Those who have become compelled to drink may be unable to stop even if they want to. No matter what the consequences, they will be unable to control their drinking. It can lead to financial problems and strained relationships.

While some alcoholics are able to function and can hold down a job, others are affected more deeply. Their dependence on alcohol may prevent them from performing well at work, and they could be forced to take days off because they are either intoxicated or are recovering from a particularly heavy drinking session. This can lead to reduced take-home pay and financial hardship domestically.

Children are particularly affected by addiction. Living with an alcoholic parent can result in emotional problems including loneliness, fear, shame, embarrassment, confusion, and guilt. Many children blame themselves for the way an addicted parent behaves. They think that they must have done something to cause their parent to get angry or aggressive. They do not understand that it is an illness that causes their parent to act in this way, and they could struggle emotionally as a result.

Many children suffer neglect, which can make them the target for bullies at school. Even those who do not get bullied might become isolated and withdrawn as they try to avoid getting too close to their peers due to embarrassment about their parent’s addiction.

How Alcohol Abuse Affects the Wider Community

Excessive alcohol consumption is dangerous for the individual in terms of health and wellbeing, but it can also pose dangers to the wider community. Alcohol abuse is often linked to accidents and crime, which can affect entire communities.

Those who drive under the influence of alcohol are in danger of injuring or killing not only themselves but other drivers and pedestrians.

Alcohol abuse and addiction also affects innocent victims of crime. Some individuals become aggressive and violent when under the influence of alcohol and may attack innocent people. There is a strong link between violent crime and alcohol abuse.

Addressing Problem Drinking

The dangers of alcohol may be clearer these days, but there are still many people who do not see the harm in this chemical substance. In fact, some people are still of the opinion that moderate drinking is beneficial to health, which is certainly not the case.

The reality is that alcohol is something that can cause a host of problems if abused. Most health experts believe more needs to be done to educate people about the dangers of alcohol as too many are still developing devastating addictions that are destroying their lives and the lives of those around them.

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As quality regulations tighten, robotics and artificial intelligence can help MRFs to create cleaner streams of recyclables.

July 31, 2017

BHS says it is challenging itself to integrate Max-AI beyond quality control to create a completely automated MRF. Rich Reardon, managing director of Max-AI, says this vision, the Max-AI Autonomous MRF, would control the entire MRF.

On July 18, 2017, the Washington-based Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) said China had notified the World Trade Organization of its intent to ban the import of mixed paper, “most scrap plastics” and metal slags and drosses by year-end. ISRI said the plastic scrap grades covered by the proposed ban include “polymers of ethylene, styrene, vinyl chloride and PET [polyethylene terephthalate].”

ISRI President Robin Wiener said a ban on imports would be “catastrophic” and have a “devastating impact” on the global recycling industry. While she said the import ban “appears to be more of a market issue rather than anything else”—with China’s government trying to boost its own scrap collection infrastructure—that country’s current National Sword campaign is concerned with quality and smuggling.

China’s National Sword campaign to crack down on contaminants in incoming loads of recyclables launched in early February 2017. This followed China’s Operation Green Fence, which ran through most of 2013, which put pressure on recyclers outside of China to boost the quality of materials exported to that country.

Most recyclers in the U.S. agree that these campaigns have helped to clean up quality in baled recyclables produced at material recovery facilities (MRFs). Yet, a complete ban on specific commodities is startling. China has made it clear that it will not continue accepting contaminated loads; recyclers must clean up their acts.

As U.S. recyclers continue to work toward producing cleaner bales more efficiently, the advent of robotics and artificial intelligence in sorting applications is gaining interest. Some say robotics offer reliable, consistent quality on the back end while also providing additional data and sorting multiple material types effectively.

Vision systems see clearly

Quality has been a concern for many MRFs since they first started up their conveyor belts. Tightening regulations affect recyclers every day. In light of contaminated streams from residential curbside recycling programs, MRFs daily sort through many nonrecyclables, from dirty diapers to garden hoses, in their efforts to sort and bale materials of value.

Matanya Horowitz of AMP Robotics, Denver, says the recycling industry’s support of robotic sortation has been encouraging. “I thought there would be more skepticism in the industry, but it’s extremely encouraging that the industry is so ready to embrace the new technology,” he says. Photo: AMP Robotics

Workers in quality control stations, together with sorting equipment that includes optical sorters, ballistic separators, screens and eddy current separators, sort commingled materials.

One highlight of robotic systems is their ability to recognize and sort multiple types of materials—at one time.

“Robots are actually quite good at seeing the material differences,” says Timo Taalas, CEO of ZenRobotics Ltd., Helsinki.

He adds, “With robotic sorting, you can create very pure material streams.”

Matanya Horowitz, founder of Denver-based AMP Robotics, says there are two pieces to the company’s robotic system: the robot itself and a vision system, which is installed over a conveyor belt and is capable of understanding and learning all materials that pass through a MRF. Once material is recognized by the vision system, the robot uses suction cups at the end of a gripper to grab on to the item before releasing it into a bunker.

Horowitz says AMP’s robots can do more than differentiate between plastics Nos. 1 and 2, as one example. “The kind of vision system we’ve created can be more advanced—just like a person can tell the difference between a Coke bottle and a Pepsi bottle, it can too,” Horowitz explains. “It can identify and separate out very specific materials. A more pertinent example is separating out the same plastic resin but [in] different colors.”

The rules related to quality have changed, and if the new reality calls for strict quality requirements, then “the market is unprepared,” says Rich Reardon, managing director of Max-AI for Bulk Handling Systems (BHS), Eugene, Oregon. Reardon describes Max-AI technology as a “material identification platform” that is so far made up of two components, much like AMP Robotics’ technology: the Max-AI Vision System, which provides information, and the Max-AI Autonomous Quality Control (AQC) unit, which adds a robotic sorter to pick up as many as six different materials from the conveyor belt and place them in designated bunkers.

The first commercial AQC unit is already in operation at Athens Services’ MRF in Sun Valley, California. Integrating with the company’s existing NRT optical sorters, Max provides a fully autonomous PET sorting solution, says BHS.

Reardon says the unpredictable nature of the material stream is and will remain the biggest challenge for MRFs to overcome. Investing in these emerging technologies will prove to be worthwhile.

“MRFs will be able to run longer with lower operational expenses, produce more products with increased purity, capture accurate data for reporting and dynamic optimization and adapt over time to the changing material mix without major capital expenses,” Reardon says.

Every manufacturer interviewed for this story says its technology features machine learning capabilities, where the artificial intelligence collects information in real time as materials move along a conveyor belt. This trainable part collects data that recyclers have not had access to before, they say.

Reardon echoes Matanya’s point about the recent advancements of this technology and its sorting capabilities. The flexibility of this equipment, Reardon says, makes it possible to create new grades.

In addition, this technology provides flexibility in limited spaces, Taalas says.

As an example, Max-AI is no longer constrained to sorting PET versus high-density polyethylene (HDPE), Reardon says, “but can pick out PET trays from PET bottles while also grabbing aluminum, residue and mixed paper in the same location. Instead of being constrained by color analysis, Max can be trained to leave brown paper while removing cardboard.”

He continues, “Max can pick six items in one location. This would be extremely difficult for a person to keep track of with limited reach and time to make decisions.”

Structural changes

Robotic systems with artificial intelligence can multitask where humans cannot. When it comes to the topic of replacing workers with robotic sorters to improve consistency, recyclers and equipment suppliers are on both sides of the fence.

Horowitz sees potential in helping to staff positions in MRFs that are typically shorthanded. By incorporating structural changes within a MRF, “facilities can get more value out of people and include robots,” he says.

Horowitz adds, “When I talk to facility owners and operators, they say, ‘This won’t replace a person, but I will have a baseline capacity that I can count on even with all of the turnover I have.’”

Robotic sorters can help to address staffing issues at MRFs, according to sources. Photo: AMP Robotics

Robotics also can help MRFs do more with the same number of employees. This was the case for AMP Robotics’ first installation. The Carton Council of North America is conducting a pilot program that uses artificial intelligence to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of carton recycling at Denver-based Alpine Waste & Recycling. (Read the cover story, “Forward focus,” beginning on page 32.) AMP Robotics and Alpine have used a robotic system, the AMP Cortex, nicknamed “Clarke,” to identify food and beverage cartons and separate them from the recycling stream.

Brent Hildebrand, vice president of recycling at Alpine, says the company moved the worker who was sorting cartons to a different area of its MRF, and now two material streams are cleaner than they were prior to Clarke’s installation.

Yet, Hildebrand recognizes the benefits of using robotics in MRFs in regard to workers. “As the labor market does get harder and harder to find the right employees in the MRF environment, it is a nice technology that’s reliably sorting, and it’s nice to be able to fall back on it.”

Kerry Getter, CEO of Austin, Texas-based Balcones Resources, says he is very much interested in robotics sorting. His intentions are to reduce operating costs and address staffing issues. With two shifts at its MRF, Balcones always has had problems staffing its second shift, Getter says. Robotics could help to alleviate this issue.

Getter explains, “If you run two shifts, the robot doesn’t care if it’s working a second shift, and we run two shifts at our facility. Staffing for a second shift has always been problematic; we don’t use temps in our company for a variety of reasons, so it was important to us in that regard.”

MRFs have fixed costs “and labor costs have gone up and will continue to do so,” Getter says. He adds that Balcones is working to mechanize as much as possible.

A fully automated MRF is the future in BHS’ eyes, Reardon says. Moving forward, he says BHS is challenging itself to integrate Max beyond quality control to create a completely automated MRF.

“We’ve already integrated Max into our controls, but eventually Max will control the entire process, a vision we call the Max-AI Autonomous MRF,” Reardon says.

In the Industry Leaders Q&A, beginning on page 50, James C. Fish Jr., president and CEO of Houston-based Waste Management, says he continues to press equipment manufacturers to come up with improved recycling equipment, such as robotics. While automation “gives us a higher yield on recycling,” he says he does not “expect that you’ll see labor being eliminated from the recycling business.”

Wait and see

Getter says he and other recyclers he has talked to like robotic sortation. However, they want to ensure it is proven before investing. Balcones, like most operators, performs return on investment (ROI) analyses on every piece of equipment considered for installation, and the technology is still so new that concrete information is not available from many manufacturers.

“As soon as the performance can meet the ROI criteria, we’re all over it,” Getter says. “I hope we’re buying machines in another year or so.”

Horowitz says he has been encouraged by how supportive the recycling industry has been of robotic sortation.

When the Closed Loop Fund (CLF), an investment fund that finances recycling infrastructure and sustainable manufacturing technologies to advance the circular economy, announced in March 2017 its request for proposals (RFPs) for projects that collect, sort and/or process postconsumer polypropylene (PP) plastic, it cited robotics as one field it would consider supporting.

Horowitz says, “The Closed Loop Fund has expressed a great deal of interest in helping facilities to get our equipment, so this is another place where the industry itself is helping us in ways I never would have dreamed of.”

Reardon says BHS plans to prove its artificial intelligence technology to some of the “wait-and-see owners and operators.”

Ultimately, robotic sortation with artificial intelligence could help to keep recyclers in the game, especially when it comes to bale quality. As Hildebrand says, “As more of the regulations on quality become a regular practice as far as what’s allowed and what’s not allowed in certain commodities, I think robotics will reliably sort the right materials. The quality specs will be much greater in the long run.”

The author is associate editor of Recycling Today and can be contacted by email at mworkman@gie.net.


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The US EPA Announces Latest Version of TSCA Inventory Includes Unique Identifier Information

On September 19, 2019, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it posted the first public Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Inventory to include unique identifier (UID) information. The purpose of UIDs is to enable the public to connect specific chemical identities previously listed on the confidential portion of the TSCA Inventory with other relevant information in the Agency’s holdings.

EPA recently added two new fields to the public Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Inventory: UI (for the unique identifier or UID) and EX (indicating the expiration date of the confidential business information (CBI) claim). A UID is a numerical identifier assigned to a chemical substance when EPA approves a CBI claim for specific chemical identity. When EPA approves such a claim, it assigns a UID to that chemical identity; applies the UID to other information or submissions concerning the same substance; and ensures that any non-confidential information received by EPA identifies the chemical substance using the UID while the specific chemical identity of the chemical substance is protected from disclosure. Then, if ever a CBI claim is denied or withdrawn, the unique identifier will remain associated to the now non-CBI entry in the TSCA inventory connecting the specific chemical identity to the information on the chemical substance.

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How To Make 2018 A Successful Year For Your Projects

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Would you like to make 2018 a successful year for your projects? I’m sure you do.

But what does it take to get there?

I asked people two questions:

What should people managing projects be aware of as we go into 2018 to make 2018 their most successful year ever?

What will you be doing in 2018 to have your most successful year ever?

Some amazing, talented people responded: people whom you may know as experts in their field and others, equally as insightful, who will be new to you. Amongst them I count my virtual mentors and project delivery professionals who inspire me.

The collected wisdom in their answers is incredibly valuable. I’m sure you take away tips and ideas for making this your best year yet managing projects at work.

There is one small thing, though. Many of the authors, trainers and experts I contacted wrote back to me with A LOT of information. Even once I’d edited the contributions, they were still over 9,000 words. I couldn’t fit it all in this blog post.

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Project managers should pay specific attention to their team’s composition in 2018. Not only in skills, but also in experience and emotional intelligence. Learn what makes the people on your team “tick”. Obviously sometimes the job just has to get done, but working together and knowing your team will help you as a project manager align your resources appropriately.

Ray McKenzie, CSM, is Founder and Principal of Red Beach Advisors, a management and business consultant group. Find him on Twitter.

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Pope Francis changes Catholic Church teaching on death penalty, declares it 'inadmissible'

Pope Francis meets a group of children who traveled on a special train from Milan and arrived at St. Peter's station at the Vatican, on June 9, 2018.

Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church's stance on the death penalty in a new policy published Thursday, saying it is “inadmissible” because it “attacks” the inherent dignity of all humans.

The Vatican said the pontiff approved a change to the catechism, which gives worshippers a go-to guide for official Catholic Church teachings on subjects ranging from the sacraments to sex. Previously, the catechism said the church didn’t exclude capital punishment “if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives against the unjust aggressor.”

Francis announced his intention to change church teaching on capital punishment in October. The new text was approved in May and published Thursday.

The new text, contained in Catechism No. 2267, says the previous policy is outdated and that there are other ways to protect the common good.

It says: "Recourse to the death penalty on the part of legitimate authority, following a fair trial, was long considered an appropriate response to the gravity of certain crimes and an acceptable, albeit extreme, means of safeguarding the common good.

"Today, however, there is an increasing awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost even after the commission of very serious crimes. In addition, a new understanding has emerged of the significance of penal sanctions imposed by the state. Lastly, more effective systems of detention have been developed, which ensure the due protection of citizens but, at the same time, do not definitively deprive the guilty of the possibility of redemption.

"Consequently, the Church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person”, and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide."

The text is taken from Francis’ address to a meeting organized by the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization that took place on October 11 last year, the Catholic Herald reports.

In an accompanying letter explaining the change, the head of the Vatican’s doctrine office said the development of Catholic doctrine on capital punishment didn’t contradict prior teaching, but rather was an evolution of it.

“If, in fact the political and social situation of the past made the death penalty an acceptable means for the protection of the common good, today the increasing understanding that the dignity of a person is not lost even after committing the most serious crimes,” said Cardinal Luis Ladaria, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

According to a 2016 Pew Research poll, U.S. Catholics are more opposed to the death penalty than most major religious groups. Only 43 percent of Catholics supported capital punishment, compared with a majority of white mainline Protestants (60 percent) and white evangelical Protestants (69 percent).

The same poll showed that 49 percent of Americans overall support the death penalty, the lowest in more than four decades.

Francis has long railed against the death penalty, insisting it can never be justified, no matter how heinous the crime. He has also long made prison ministry a mainstay of his vocation. On nearly every foreign trip, Francis has visited with inmates to offer words of solidarity and hope, and he still stays in touch with a group of Argentine inmates he ministered to during his years as archbishop of Buenos Aires.

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12 small round shallots
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25 g rosemary, for toppin
Pour the warm water in to a bowl and add the yeast. Whisk this together then add half the flour to form a very wet dough. Put in a warm area to prove.
Whilst the dough is proving, peel the shallots and sauté in olive oil in a non-stick pan for about 10 minutes until almost cooked through.
After 40 minutes the dough should have risen. Add the remaining flour, salt, sugar and one tablespoon of olive oil and mix together thoroughly.
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What Are Some Traditions of El Salvador?

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Some traditions of El Salvador include displaying fireworks during Christmas, devoting nine nights of prayer for the souls of the dead and using traditional medicine for folk illnesses. These customs are deeply rooted in most Salvadorans.

El Salvador is a society that holds onto a traditional machismo attitude, in which females stay home and tend to household chores, while men go to work and support the family. However, those roles are challenged by women who seek employment.

Many marriages are informal, meaning a couple starts a household and bypasses a church service. This is a legally-recognized union. Unions that involve a religious ceremony are also legally-recognized; however, they are typically considered permanent bonds. Roughly 75 percent of Salvadorans consider themselves Roman Catholic, and the Church traditionally frowns upon divorce.

While modern medicine has a place in El Salvador, traditional healers also maintain a role in society, along with folk illnesses. For example, traditional Salvadoran beliefs imply that babies suffering from a fever might also be suffering from "evil eye," a condition that is only resolved when the person responsible for passing on the evil eye chews herbs and applies the resulting liquid on the baby.


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