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I recently grabbed lunch with a long-time friend. We haven’t been able to catch-up lately because we’ve both been swamped. However, while I’ve been working non-stop on growing my business, he’s been filling his schedule with other people’s priorities.

For example, his boss has asked him to work a ton of overtime as of late, which he always accepts. He also told me that he’s had to help a friend move recently as well. There were some other minor examples, but I think you get the point. Whenever someone asks for his time, he doesn’t say “no.”

I don’t think anyone enjoys saying “no” to others. I know that I was guilty of this for years. I would delay my own work or interests if someone asked me to help them out on a project or join them for a meal. Eventually, I felt that some people were taking advantage of this. And, more importantly, I was addressing my needs, like staying on top of work or pursuing hobbies.

What changed was coming across this quote from Derek Sivers, “If you’re not saying “HELL YEAH!” about something, say ‘no.’” Sivers goes on to say, “When deciding whether to do something if you feel anything less than ‘Wow! That would be amazing! Absolutely! Hell yeah!’ — then say ‘no.’”

Since then, I’ve been more selective on saying “yes.” It’s taken some time. But, I now feel confident enough to turn down requests for my time if it’s something that isn’t interesting, helping me grow, or that I have the time for.

If this is an area that you need to improve upon, then let’s explain why you should say “no” more often. And, more importantly, how you can do so without ticking anyone off.

Why You Need to Say “No” More Often

The method of saying no can vary from person to person. But, saying “no” will actually make you more successful and productive. Warren Buffett has famously said, “The difference between successful people and successful people, is that successful people say “no” to almost everything.” And it’s easy to see why.

When you accept time requests, you’re getting taken away from more important things. For example, you would love to help a friend launch their new business or attend their party on Friday night. But, if you haven’t tackled all of your priorities, then we’re putting them ahead of yourself.

I know that sounds selfish. But it’s not. If you’re now filling-up your calendar with other people’s priorities, then you’re aren’t able to say “yes” to the essential things, such as spending time with your family, learning a new skill, or improving a business idea. What’s more, this adds more stress to your life. And, it prevents you from getting the proper amount of rest and recovery you need.

Still not convinced? Here’s another reason, saying “yes” to everything can make you unreliable. You may begin to disappoint others. The reason is pretty apparent. When you stretch yourself too thin, you’ll end-up missing deadlines or not being able to follow through with your promises. Some have said that saying “no” is the new “yes” for entrepreneurs.

Finally, when say “no” more often we have more focus. That’s because we’re not getting distracted or interrupted by other people’s priorities or requests for your time.

How to Say No to Others Without Offending Them

Even though saying “no” is beneficial, it can still be awkward to decline a request from someone else. After all, you don’t want to upset a friend, family member, or business partner. But, as explained in The New York Times, research from Columbia University found that our perceptions of our own assertiveness are often unreliable. In mock negotiations, people who thought they were adequately assertive or even over-assertive were seen by others as under-assertive.”

What does that mean? Even “if you feel confrontational, there’s a good chance the other party doesn’t see you that way,” explains Wong.

Of course, that doesn’t make it any easier. But, you can use the following techniques to finally decline any request without feeling guilty and making others angry.

Start small.

As Kristen Wong writes in The New York Times article cited above, you can start by practicing “being more aggressive when the stakes are low. For example, when a cashier asks you to sign up for a store credit card you don’t want,” say “‘I don’t use store credit cards’ instead of a passive ‘Not today, but thank you,’ which implies your decision is up for debate.”

“It’s a lot easier to be assertive with a stranger selling you something than it is when, say, your pleading co-worker asks for a ride to the airport,” adds Wong. “Get comfortable with your assertiveness when it’s easy so you’ll be prepared when there’s more pressure.”

Just say it.

Merely being straightforward may take some getting used to. But, there’s no need to beat around the bush. Remember, if you weren’t saying, “Hell yeah,” then just say “no.” It doesn’t have to be any more complicated than that. Here are seven more ways to say “no” without sounding like a jerk.

Explain why– briefly.

“Depending on the nature of your relationship, you may want to explain why you’re saying no,” writes Alexandra Franzen on The Muse. “But don’t over-explain or give your entire life story. That’s not necessary.”

Let’s say that a client or friend asks you to meet for dinner on Thursday night, but you already have plans. Just be honest and tell them that.

“In some instances, no explanation is required,” continues Franzen. “But for close friends, it can often be a nice touch. If you’re concise and honest, friends will (almost) always understand.”

Offer an alternative.

Sometimes turning down a request isn’t finite. For example, an employee would like your assistance on a task that they can’t wrap their heads around. You’re swamped today. But, you’re free on Friday afternoon. Can they wait until then? If so, the problem is resolved.

Another example would be recommending that they turn to another source. For instance, could your business partner or another employee help out the team member with the problem? If they can, then that person is still getting help without you directly getting involved.

Have a “policy.”

Take a moment and establish boundaries by implementing a “policy.” Clearly understanding your limits makes your decision to reject a request much more straightforward.

Standing by what you know to be your limits is a tactic suggested by Patti Breitman in How to Say No Without Feeling Guilty. For example, “suppose a friend asks for a loan you don’t want to extend. Utter the phrase ‘Sorry, I have a policy about not lending money,’ and your refusal immediately sounds less personal.”

According to Breitman, by “invoking a policy adds weight and seriousness when you need to say no. It implies that you’ve given the matter considerable thought on a previous occasion and learned from experience that what the person is requesting is unwise.”

“It can also convey that you’ve got a prior commitment you can’t break,” says Breitman. “When you turn down an invitation by saying, ‘Sorry, I can’t come—it’s our policy to have dinner together as a family every Friday night,’ it lets the other person know that your family ritual is carved in stone.”

“Let me think about it.”

“This is a polite and professional way of asking for more time to consider the request, writes Stephanie Gonzaga on Team Gantt. “As a busy leader, you often need to think things through before making any decisions.”

Make it clear you’re saying “no” to the request, not to the person.

Here’s a script from Karen Young over on Hey Sigmund, “I’d really love to help you but I can’t. I’m strapped this week. Let me know next time you need a hand though, and I’ll help out if I can.”

Another option could be “I’d love to help you out, but I’ve already committed to … Let me know next time you need a hand.” Again, be transparent, but don’t overexplain it. “You don’t owe anybody an explanation but for the person asking, hearing something after ‘no’ tends to feel less jarring than a straight-out ‘no’”

Begin to understand the power of saying, “no.” You are made by the people you say, “no” to.

Improve your self-esteem.

“If you don’t value yourself, then you won’t value your time very much either,” explains Henrik Edberg in The Positivity Blog.

“The most powerful thing I have found – besides keeping my attention consistently on what truly matters to me – to make it easier to say no was to improve my own self-esteem,” adds Edberg. “With better self-esteem, the time and the energy I have has become a lot more valuable to me, and I do not want to waste it.”


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Corporate Law and Intellectual Property Law

Calleja Law Office provides a resilient and comprehensive practice in corporate and commercial transactions and relations. We actively provide legal assistance covering numerous business dealings ranging from conventional undertakings such as corporate housekeeping to multifarious business engagements vis-à-vis foreign and local corporate organizations. Our firm provides expert legal advice on disputes and discussions with respect to its clients’ business strategies and operations.

Offers legal assistance in corporate and commercial transactions and expert legal advice on disputes and discussions with respect to its clients’ business strategies and operations.

The firm deals with the full spectrum of IP cases, which includes filing, enforcement, litigation, and prosecution of patents, trademarks and copyrights, domain names, licensing, electronic commerce, cyberspace, and software issues.

Labor Law and Employment

We counsel clients in all the domains of Labor and Employment. Utilizing our extensive experience, we provide services with regard to labor and employment compliance, occupational health and safety, union relations and collective bargaining, overseas employment with its immigration requirements, employment documentation including non-compete/non-disclosure agreements, sexual harassment in the workplace, and social security including workmen’s compensation.

Litigation, Dispute Resolution, and Election Law

The firm handles a broad range of civil, commercial, criminal, tax, and administrative issues, as well as specialized litigation before quasi-judicial and judicial bodies, both for defense and prosecution. We also provide extensive experience in dispute resolutions.

Assistance to clients involves advice and representation at the pre-litigation, trial and appellate stages, including applications for attachments, injunctions and other provisional remedies.

The firm plans and handles successful election strategies for running elective officials during the campaign period and elections. Our services include conducting seminars for watchers and campaign staff, pre-election, counting of ballots, canvassing, representation in pre-proclamation controversies and election protests.

Family Law and Estate Planning

The firm provides legal advice on proper legal remedies for married couples confronted with serious marital problems. Our services include, but not limited to, Petition for Annulment of Marriage, Declaration of Nullity, and Legal Separation. We also provide assistance in matters dealing with Child Custody and Support, Local and Inter-country Adoption, Guardianship, Estate Planning, Wills, Probate and Succession.

We also handle cases concerning the Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children Law

The firm provides services both in tax planning and tax litigation and provides clients with practical guidance on their equity and debt transactions, royalty arrangements, corporate reorganizations, asset dispositions, mergers and acquisitions, and the possibility of tax incentives. The Firm advises on and develops innovative solutions to efficiently manage the tax burden of our clients. Our lawyers constantly monitor developments in tax laws and regulations to provide our clients with up-to-date and comprehensive legal advice.

Energy, Gas Retailing Industry

We provide to the different legal and regulatory needs of various oil and gas industry players by providing the necessary legal assistance and advice on various regulatory requirements, pricing matters, energy project development, tax-related issues, as well as securing government permits, approvals and endorsements.

Environmental Law, and Telecommunications Law

The Firm engages in providing services regarding environmental management and regulations, securing permits, clearances and licenses; special liaisons with state regulatory agencies and local government units, and exploration of natural resources.

We provide assistance on legal aspects concerning the telecommunications. We advise our clients on different legal and regulatory issues, securing and keeping franchises and permit to operate public and private communications facilities, and issuance of relevant legal opinion.

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Accountant, Financial Control
£50,000 - £60,000 + bonus + benefits

Highly established global investment management group with over $300 billion AUM with offices in 3 global financial centres.

  • Aqualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent), ideally with some post-qualification experience, within financial control;
  • Proficient user of Microsoft Office, with strong Excel skills;
  • Willing to take ownership of tasks, good attention to detail;
  • Able to work autonomously and follow through
  • Any industry area will be considered. Do not need financial services industry experience;
  • Personality is key, needs to be a team player and able to manage stakeholders if required.
  • Ability to meet deadlines, for example at month end;
  • Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively and work with the team;
  • Ability to analyse data and provide relevant financial insight.

Reporting to the Comp & Expense Manager, you will join the London Compensation team. This is a good opportunity to take on more responsibility and improve processes. You will be responsible for the accurate posting and control of payroll, variable compensation and other compensation items. In addition, you will provide variance analysis of the results on a monthly basis and therefore be required to understand the underlying transactions. You will liaise with other teams and offices to gather the information required. You will maintain a robust control environment and deal with auditor queries as necessary. You will also be involved in account preparation for the group's subsidiaries. The responsibilities include:

  • Payroll postings for UK and European offices;
  • Variable compensation calculations and accruals;
  • Pension accounting
  • Non-executive directors fee accruals
  • Other monthly compensation scheme calculations and accruals
  • Monthly reconciliations for all the above areas including monthly end balance sheet reconciliations to ensure completeness and accuracy of month end positions
  • Monthly, quarterly and annual variance analysis
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Fund Accountant / Fund Controller
£70000 - £80000 + Bonus + Benefits
Central London

They are a fast expanding alternative specialist investment manager focusing on the clean energy sector. It has a number of existing funds and is growing rapidly in the areas of renewable energy, storage, e-mobility and other areas of the energy transition. It has offices in London and Italy. Due to further expansion, a new role has been created in London which will be broad and will give exposure to many aspects of a private equity type business. There will also be the opportunity to take on full ownership over certain areas as experience is gained.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Fund Accountant/Controller to work in the London based Finance team where they will be reporting directly to the CFO. The funds are domiciled and administered in Luxembourg. Whilst the majority of fund administration, reporting and other fund matters is conducted by the funds' administrators locally in Luxembourg, there is the need for a member of the finance team to oversee all such matters to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of reporting in combination with good ongoing communications with the administrators and other Luxembourg based service providers. The role will initially involve the creation of processes and procedures to allow effective ongoing monitoring of the funds and the Luxembourg administrators. The Finance team is fully integrated with the rest of the business, liaising daily with the Investment and Asset Management functions. There will also be good exposure to senior management. Given the dynamic environment there will be numerous ad hoc projects, some large, some small, that the candidate will be involved in. However, the key attributes of the role will be:

  • Oversight of the half-yearly valuation process;
  • Monitoring of the bi-annual NAV calculation;
  • Review of the fund half-yearly and annual reports;
  • Coordination of year end reporting process and liaison with the auditors;
  • Review of distribution and drawdown notices;
  • Responding to investor queries;
  • Production of annual budgets and projections;
  • Rolling cashflow forecasts and general cash planning for the GP, the funds and the holdcos;
  • Review of fund and holdco VAT returns and review of annual corporate tax returns;
  • Involvement in regulatory matters in both Luxembourg (CSSF) and UK (FCA);
  • Involvement in production of quarterly board papers;
  • Overseeing transactions from a finance perspective and involvement in transaction structuring;
  • Production of technical board minutes to formalise corporate matters (eg issue of loan notes, payment of interest etc);
  • Oversight of payment process;
  • Updating and maintaining the funds' investment records and structure chart;
  • Development of investment monitoring;
  • Ad hoc projects and other work;

There may also be some involvement with the SPVs managed by the company

  • Qualified Accountant with 2 to 6 years PQE and strong academics;
  • Prior fund experience in terms of financial accounting and reporting as well as general fund activities such as drawdowns and distributions;
  • Understanding of LP accounting
  • Excellent inter-personal skills and team player with a desire to work in a small team in a dynamic environment;
  • Proactive attitude;
  • Deadline orientated and able to produce work to the highest standards;
  • Demonstrable Excel modelling skills.


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Bringing a performance mindset to brand-building

Campaign's latest breakfast briefing, held in Manchester, brought brands together to discuss how they are changing the marketing mix to strike the best balance between performance and brand while keeping the boardroom onside.

Campaign’s Manchester breakfast: White, Matthews and Beesley
Campaign’s Manchester breakfast: White, Matthews and Beesley

Investing in long-term brand-building is vital for companies to grow and forge an emotional connection with consumers, but marketers must do a better job of talking the language of short-term performance and measurement to get support in the boardroom.

That was a key message from three leading UK brands, the Co-operative Group, Ice Lolly and Hillarys, which spoke at Campaign’s breakfast briefing, "Brand v performance: what’s driving Manchester’s ‘new economy’ boom?", in association with Teads, at the Science & Industry Museum.

Manchester’s media industry has a reputation for using direct response TV to drive immediate sales, and the rise of digital performance marketing has increased the focus on short-term metrics that can be easily measured.

"New economy" businesses in sectors such as ecommerce have been champions of performance marketing techniques such as search and pay-per-click to fuel rapid growth.

But there is a growing recognition that, as Susan White, marketing director of Hillarys, told the audience: "There’s only so far you can grow your business through performance marketing. For significant growth, we’ve got to make people feel differently about our brand and the only way to do that is through brand activity."

More than 130 people attended the breakfast – the first held by Campaign in Manchester and the third in a series, after previous "brand v performance" events in London and New York.

Never lose sight of the bigger picture

Caroline Beesley, head of digital marketing at the Co-operative Group, which was founded in Manchester in 1844 and has a portfolio that ranges from groceries to financial services, explained how the organisation has tried to get closer to customers by speeding up online deliveries and offering "value" price deals to improve convenience.

However, Beesley added that the Co-operative Group also realised that it needed a deeper, emotional connection with consumers because too many people felt "neutral" about the brand and regarded it as "vanilla", as she put it.

Beesley warned marketers must "never lose sight of the bigger picture", despite the pressure to deliver for the short term. "It would be easy to get hooked on performance but there are longer-term gains that need to be had," she said. "Brand is what people care about."

Investing in brand has also become important for travel price-comparison website Ice Lolly for different reasons, because its roots are in digital. As Ross Matthews, its chief marketing officer, said: "Ice Lolly as a brand was founded on performance marketing."

He recounted how Ice Lolly launched in Leeds in 2005 and used organic search and PPC – "anything you could measure effectively and turn on and off on a daily basis" – at a time when "you didn’t really have to work that hard" to drive online growth.

But, as the travel site increased its share, the marketing team realised it "needed to do something a little bit more" to stand out, which is why it started experimenting with sponsorship on ITV in 2017.

"All of our numbers went through the roof. For the first time, without having to spend [extra] money on search or do any of that other great performance stuff, we turned the dial," Matthews said. He explained how brand-building increased not only sales but also softer measures such as perceptions of quality and trust.

"We were able to prove that the performance had probably reached a plateau, a ceiling, and without that brand [investment], we weren’t able to move those metrics," he added.

Matthews’ team went on to sign a bigger sponsorship deal with ITV2 and, significantly, other brands such as Visit Florida and Etihad Airways have now partnered Ice Lolly on marketing campaigns.

"The combination of this type of [brand-building] media on top of a digital base of performance has worked very well for us," he said.

Hillarys, which was founded in Nottingham in 1971, has moved into TV sponsorship for similar reasons. The curtains and blinds manufacturer decided it needed to move beyond its traditional focus on direct response.

"People knew about us but didn’t necessarily think we were the right brand for them," White said. "We knew we were not going to improve that through more leaflets or PPC or digital channels. We knew we had to do something different."

Just a few years ago, 95% of Hillarys’ spend went on performance. Now, it is closer to 65% as White’s team increased investment in brand to about 35%, culminating in an £8m sponsorship of Channel 4’s Homes on 4 strand of programming.

Ice Lolly has swung even further towards brand, which represents about 60% of its spend – a significant figure, with Les Binet and Peter Field, authors of an acclaimed study, The Long and the Short of It, having suggested the optimum split should be 60:40 between brand and short-term activation. Indeed, Beesley said the Co-operative Group is striving to get to 60:40.

Talk the language of the boardroom

The marketers said convincing their boards about the financial benefits of long-term brand building is challenging. "It can be a very difficult conversation," Beesley admitted. "But if you’re talking their language" with statistics to support brand investment, the management team and the board "can easily buy into that", she said.

In the case of the Co-operative Group, tracking net promoter score and measuring "joyful sentiment" on social media have helped to show the impact on "customers’ hearts as well as minds", according to Beesley.

Matthews said: "I almost feel like an accountant sometimes when I present within our board meetings. It’s not that they don’t care [about brand] but it doesn’t convert to cash as easily in their minds."

He explained that his shareholders are "comfortable" with PPC "because they can turn it off on Wednesday if Tuesday’s been a poor trading day – you can’t necessarily do that with above-the-line media".

Hence Matthews’ primary focus has been on "business results" to show how brand activity has increased the number of site visits and holiday bookings. Importantly, Ice Lolly has also recorded improvements in NPS, prompted awareness and Trust Pilot scores, all of which have resonated in the boardroom.

"What we are able to do is make them feel differently about the business" and appreciate
the "quality" of the brand, Matthews said. The strategy has been vindicated as operating profit has risen 51% in the first nine months of 2019.

White has faced a similar challenge to prove TV sponsorship’s value, because Hillarys was used to seeing its marketing spend result in increased customer leads and appointments that day.

Her team has "had to work quite hard" to develop different metrics.

Brand consideration, which the company had found "difficult to shift" previously, rose seven percentage points in a year and its monthly brand tracker has become "a really important measure for us", White said. "We know it’s moving our business in the right direction."

Blurred lines

All of the speakers agreed that the line between brand and performance is blurred, rather than the two operating as silos albeit there might be some tension. "It’s merging in the middle," Guy Jackson, regional director of Teads UK, said.

The picture is nuanced because a strong brand can "feed" performance and there is a case for saying brand activity works in a similar way to performance – just "with a measurement over a different period of time", Jackson suggested.

The marketers said TV remains crucial for brand-building, despite the decline in linear audiences. Partnerships with other brands and influencer activity are growing in importance to attract younger audiences. The Co-operative Group has opened pop-up shops at festivals including Glastonbury and Reading, while Ice Lolly has staged Blog at the Beach, an event for travel and fashion influencers.

If there has been a swing too far in favour of digital performance in recent years, it’s because "there are too many people talking about the plumbing and not enough people talking about higher-order purpose", Jon Kershaw, managing director of PHD Manchester, said.

For Matthews, as a representative of a "new economy" disruptor company, the answer is simple: "Performance with brand. What works, you do more of."

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‘Forest Defenders’ occupy road to prevent logging company from reaching Port Renfrew-area watershed

With peaceful protests, sit-ins and a blockade, the battle to save old-growth forests has intensified near Port Renfrew.

Calling Fairy Creek the last intact unlogged watershed of southern Vancouver Island’s San Juan River system, “forest defenders” are adamant they will not allow logging in that area.

On Aug. 10, the group of 20-30 protesters from several communities across Vancouver Island annunced a blockade of the road leading to Fairy Creek. Members say they will continue to block forestry company Teal Jones’ road crews from any further constructions until the provincial government intervenes, or Team Jones Group abandons plans to log the area around the creek.

READ ALSO: What exactly is ‘old growth’ B.C. forest, and how much is protected?

Surrey-based Teal Jones is the license holder of Tree Farm Licence (TFL) 46 and protesters maintain the company has “felled and graded several hectares of old-growth forest” on a road network that will soon breach the ridegline and enter the watershed. Black Press Media has reached out to Teal Jones for a comment.

Protesters called on B.C. Premier John Horgan’s office to establish an “immediate and permanent protection of the entire Fairy Creek Valley, thereby nullifying all cut blocks and road construction approvals in the watershed and contiguous old growth forests.”

Arbess said that when he contacted the premier’s office Aug. 6, the deputy called back to assure him that it was an urgent matter and asked him to submit a written letter.

“I haven’t heard back since,” he said.

Protesters want the provincial government to release the recommendations of the Old Growth Forest Review Panel submitted to the Forest Minister, Doug Donaldson’s office.

The report prepared by an independent panel of Garry Merkel and Al Gorley was received by Donaldson’s office on April 30 and a public response was announced within six months of receiving the report.

“The report has been sitting on the minister’s desk for months now and we want to know what is the direction they are planning to move forward in,” said protester Saul Arbess. He said that while the ministry delays the report, logging companies continue to wipe out old-growth.

Protesters are also asking for an immediate end to old-growth logging on Vancouver Island.

“It is unconscionable for the government to approve continued industrial destruction of the last old-growth temperate rainforest and new road developments into unlogged watersheds within the premier’s own electoral riding while it sits on the recommendations made by the Old Growth Review Panel,” stated Bobby Arbess, another protester at Fairy Creek.

Donaldson said in an email that the ministry will release the report well in advance of the said six months.

“The panelists (Merkel and Gorley) asked government to release the report within six months of its receipt on April 30. We expect to release it well in advance of that, likely later this summer or in the early fall,” said Donaldson.

However, last week, in a reply to MLA John Rustad’s questions about his ministry’s $489 million budget at B.C. legislature, Donaldson said that the ministry isn’t considering a moratorium on old-growth logging for an industry that has seen steady increase in protected areas and restrictions on the Crown land base.

READ MORE: Big old trees almost gone forever in B.C., scientists warn

READ MORE: Nanaimo men holding hunger strike to protest logging of old-growth forests

Over the past few weeks protests have been erupting on Vancouver Island to save old-growths. On August 8, James Darling and Robert Fuller completed a 14-day hunger strike in Nanaimo to protest against old-growth logging.

Earlier in June, an independent study undertaken by Nelson based research firm showed that there’s only three per cent of old-growth trees left in B.C. The report calls on the government to update forest management strategy for the current mix of forests, and to place a moratorium on old-growth logging in any area with less than 10 per cent old-growth remaining.


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Beswick Tree Service started in 1950 and has been an owner-operated business for over 71 years. We’re a medium-sized enterprise with a friendly, knowledgeable crew and office staff.

Our Values

I – Integrity – We are committed to operating in a manner that is open and honest. We take our relationships seriously and go to great lengths to ensure that trust is maintained. We believe that there is never a wrong time to do what is right.

C – Customers – We are dedicated to providing outstanding service to our customers. We recognize that if we do not care for our customers, someone else will. We are constantly focused on exceeding our customers’ expectations.

A – Associates – We take pride in our qualified, experienced, and capable associates and recognize them as our most valuable assets. Our associates are the backbone of the organization, and we promote a work environment based on leadership, teamwork, training, and a standard of excellence.

R – Responsibility & Safety – Our work practices include operating in a manner that is responsible and safe. We strive to protect the health and well-being of the individual and the environment. Safety is recognized as a necessity in our daily work activities.

E – Excellence – We strive to operate with excellence in every area of our business. We take pride in our work and desire to be recognized as a leader in the tree care industry. Both outstanding teamwork and individual effort are required in order for the company to perform with excellence in all areas.

ICARE value system for Carolina Tree Care that ensures we provide superior tree care services


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No. 42: Two studies demonstrate the effect of co-payments on medication adherence

Sinnott S, Buckley C, O’Riordan D, Bradley C, Whelton H. The effect of co-payments for prescriptions on adherence to prescription medicines in publicly insured populations; a systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS One. 28 May 2013;8 (5):e64914.

Lesen E, Sundell KA, Carlsten A, Mardby A, Jonsson AK. Is the level of patient co-payment for medicines associated with refill adherence in Sweden? Eur J Public Health. Published online 23 Jun 2013.

According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, spending on prescription drugs in Canada grew from $8.0 billion to $19.0 billion between 1998 and 2007, more than doubling in under a decade, with an average annual growth rate of 10%[1]. Other developed countries have experienced similar spending growth.

To contain expenditures, public and private insurers often resort to consumer cost-sharing, frequently in the form the form of co-payments.

Some patients are likely to find co-payments onerous, such as those on public assistance, pensions, or other fixed incomes, threatening their ability to pay for prescribed medications. Non-adherence to medication for chronic diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes, and mental disorders, results in morbidity, mortality, and additional health-care costs.

In this e-round, we review two studies on co-payments, one in the US, and another in Sweden.

Sinnot et al undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine how medication adherence is affected by a new or increased co-payment among patients covered by public insurance. The studies generally used one of four methods to measure adherence (i.e. proportion of days covered; medication possession ratio; daily defined dose; ReComp algorithm).

Lesen et al examined the effect of co-payments on adherence to medications for 2210 Swedish patients with epilepsy. In the jurisdiction studied, patients had a tiered co-payment based on the price of medication, but with an annual limit; once the maximum accumulated co-payment was reached, the co-payment was eliminated. The researchers used a continuous measure of medication acquisition (CMA) based on the supply of medication units obtained per unit of time relative to the prescribed amount. Non-adherence was defined as a CMA less than 80%. Covariates included demographics, family income, and other personal health-care expenditures.

Of 22 included studies in the Sinnot et al study meta-analysis, 7 studies, representing 199,996 Veterans Administration or Medicare patients, were eligible for the meta-analysis. They typically examined adherence to treatments for chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, depression and hyperlipidemia. The odds ratio for non-adherence was 1.11 (95% CI, 1.09-1.14) indicating an 11% increased risk of non-adherence when co-payments ranged from $5 to $70. All studies in Sinnot et al were of weak to moderate quality, and typically suffered from significant differences between the study and comparison groups, and limited follow-up data. Some studies failed to control for possible confounders. The funnel plot for included studies was asymmetrical suggesting publication bias (i.e. the possibility that studies showing no effect of co-payments remain unpublished, thus overestimating the true effect).

In the Lesen et al study, associations between patients’ co-payment for all medicines and refill adherence were assessed with multilevel mixed-effects linear regression, accounting for clustering within patients. Exemption from co-payment, compared to co-payments of 25% or more, was associated with greater adherence. In a mixed-model analysis of covariance (ANCOVA), a co-payment of 50% or less was associated with 2-4% greater adherence than a 100% co-payment. Non-adherence was also associated with younger age, and being on social or unemployment benefits, or in the lowest income quintile. Non-adherence may have been underestimated because data on patients who never obtained the first prescription were not captured.

Qualitative reviews of the evidence on co-payments have previously shown that they decrease access to care, and adherence to interventions. The Sinnot et al systematic review and meta-analysis is the first quantitative analysis providing a summary odds ratio. The Lesen et al study reports on a Swedish population with generous health care coverage and an overall high level of adherence, but still shows that even in this context, adherence to medications is sensitive to co-payment.

As Canada wrestles with how best to finance health care, these two studies provide evidence that individual co-payments do not provide a health risk-free or equitable solution. These studies also provide evidence that as we explore financing options for a universal Pharmacare program, we should consider the health consequences of drug co-payments, especially for the increasing number of Canadians reliant on pharmaceutical interventions.

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Mesothelioma research funding receives $600,000 boost

Updated 4 Jul 2019.

Cancer Researcher of the Year, Professor Gary Lee, Cancer Council WA CEO, Ashley Reid, and Cancer Council WA President, Professor George Yeoh.

Vital research into the treatment for those living with mesothelioma has emerged as the big winner at our annual research awards announced on 14 June 2019 at a special event in Perth.

Thanks to the support of our incredible donors and supporters, we have been able to fund $3 million worth of local cancer research this year. More than $600,000 of which has been directed towards research into mesothelioma, a fatal cancer of the lining of the lung caused by exposure to asbestos.

Our CEO, Ashley Reid, said the successful research projects were based on merit, so it was exciting to see almost 20 per cent of funding being directed into the early detection, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of mesothelioma.

"This is the 56th year of our donor-funded grants program that focuses on fostering a strong cancer research community in Western Australia," Mr Reid.

"Ninety-five cancer researchers have been selected for 48 projects and of those research projects, 11 will focus on mesothelioma.

"WA has the highest recorded incidence rate of mesothelioma of any Australian state, with the rate much higher in males.

"We've seen a steady increase in the number of reported new cases in Australian from 157 in 1982 to 710 in 2017. In 2015 there were 4152 deaths due to all asbestos-related diseases.

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Also announced at the research awards lunch was the 2019 Cancer Researcher of the Year Award, received by Professor Gary Lee, who is also involved in mesothelioma research.

"Professor Lee successfully initiated and led two trials, both of which have brought major advancements in pleural medicine and which are contributing to greatly improved outcomes for patients," said Mr Reid.

Another Cancer Council WA research funding recipient, Professor Anna Nowak from the University of Western Australia, has received close to $100,000 to undertake laboratory tests to understand why some patients with mesothelioma respond better to a combination of chemotherapy and immunotherapy.

"We have completed a national clinical trial of combination chemotherapy with immunotherapy as first-line treatment in people living with mesothelioma," Professor Nowak said.

"The results of this study show exciting benefits.

"This new study will use existing and new laboratory techniques to look at a person's blood and tumour to predict who could benefit the most from the combined treatment and how we might enhance that benefit."

Event sponsor, Kott Gunning Lawyers, have contributed $20,000 towards a Research Fellowship for mesothelioma research.

Other areas of cancer research we're funding this year include:

• New therapies for liver cancer
• Investigating new ways to get the immune system to fight brain cancer
• Identifying the interaction between bone cells and leukaemia cells
• A blood test to measure disease in melanoma patients
• Examining if targeted exercise can slow tumour growth in breast and prostate cancer
• Investigating the correlation of fat and sugar in brain cancer

You can view all the exciting research projects here.

Our CEO Ashley Reid said that thanks to the generosity of the WA community, many local cancer researchers are on the cusp of breakthroughs that have the potential to dramatically improve the way we prevent, detect and treat cancer.

"It's vital that WA has a robust cancer research sector to ensure the best possible outcomes for local cancer patients and to make our contribution to the global effort to defeat cancer," Mr Reid said.

"A strong local cancer research community means more opportunities for West Australians to participate in potentially life-saving clinical trials and have access to prevention, detection and treatment options they may not otherwise have.

"Our robust peer-review structure ensures we direct funding to the highest calibre research conducted across a range of local institutes and universities.

"Thousands of West Australians are alive today because of research - but there's still a long way to go to make sure patients with less common, poor prognosis cancers have better outcomes.

"We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the WA community, which has enabled us to make this substantial investment into world-class local research."

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There are lots of dogs walking around towns, shops, markets and busy places looking much like they would rather be anywhere else in the world. Their tails are dropped or drooping. Their ears pulled back and their body language low. At best these dogs are fed-up and at worst they are quite distressed. The only thing a dog can do when they are taken somewhere they can’t cope with is tell us that they can’t cope. It’s the only option they have.

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Can you imagine if you were taken somewhere that you found intimidating, scary, worrying or threatening, and you were tied to someone but told you were supposed to show no emotions at all. You were told to put up and shut up. That’s cruel isn’t it? Your fight or flight reaction would be bypassing your brain and telling your limbs to move, to run. How would you feel?

Often these dogs protest initially and try so hard to communicate, that their human decides, not as they should that the dog needs their help, but that they need to get more control over their dog so buy a headcollar, or even a prong collar. (It’s not always a choice they make alone – there are is a lot of bad dog training advice out there).

Can you imagine being taken somewhere that you believed put you at serious risk of being hurt but having your face strapped up and/or spikes pushed into your delicate throat area every time you tried to behave in the best possible way to stay safe. How long would it take you to just give up? When dogs have the choice between showing their feelings or being hurt, that’s not really a choice at all – that leads to learned helplessness, and that’s one of the cruellest and saddest things to instil into any vulnerable animal.

The dogs who we see in the cities with a variety of low to high threat walking attire on, looking depressed and worried, probably are depressed and worried. The ones who are loose and wagging, happy and smiling – they are enjoying themselves. There does seem to be few in the happy and relaxed dogs though and plenty who look depressed. Interestingly the dogs who look happy are being heartily interacted with by their people whilst the sad ones are usually being ignored.

How did we get to the point where we think it’s OK to strap a living creature up and expect them to walk around like a robot, through unnatural crowds and scary smells, sounds and visual stress triggers? How did we get to the point where we think it’s OK to squash any signs of distress back down into their precious bodies?

I do believe that most of these dogs are truly loved. They are cared for and look well looked after. I think it’s just a gap in communication and understanding. The gap is fuelled by ridiculous ideas such as naughtiness, dominance and that a dog is choosing to be awkward. They are not, they are always simply trying to communicate something important to them.

More of us need to know what the dog is saying and respect them as an individual with rights, feelings and emotions. Because then, when they tell us they are struggling with something, we see it through enlightened eyes and instead of blaming them we can help them.

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Canada is at the forefront of the cryptocurrency revolution and, in stark contrast to China’s approach, it’s our progressive regulatory environment that we have to thank, says Elliot Johnson, chief investment officer of Evolve ETF, which is launching another crypto-based ETF fund to give investors more access to the hot sector.

Bitcoin’s price has been sliding this month, coming off a rally over July and August that saw the coin hit close to the $80,000 mark earlier this summer. Interest in digital currencies has been high over the full year and a half-plus of the pandemic, as investors look to names like bitcoin and Ethereum as alternative places to sock away their money and potentially benefit from rising momentum in the space.

And while access to coins themselves can be had through various crypto-exchanges — Canada has a number of options running from retail investor platform Wealthsimple to fintech companies Mogo and Binance — investors looking for broader access to the space have options as well, including a new ETF to hit the market on Wednesday from ETF company Evolve, which launched Bitcoin ETF (Bitcoin ETF Stock Quote, Charts, News, Analysts, Financials TSX:EBIT) on the Toronto Stock Exchange earlier this year and is now putting out a multi-cryptocurrency ETF under the ticker ETC, said to be the first of its kind in Canada.

“We’ve been working on this product since April when we launched the ether ETF,” said Johnson of Evolve, speaking on BNN Bloomberg on Tuesday. “Back in April, it was an interesting month for the crypto markets. Ether itself was up 50 per cent by the end of the month and bitcoin was down about 4.2 per cent.”

“We had advisors and investors calling us saying, I want to buy the basket, how do I buy a diversified portfolio of cryptos and how do I make sure I have the right exposure to the overall category the overall market? That’s really what [ETC] is all about,” he said.

So far, EBIT has broadly followed the rise and fall in the price of bitcoin over the past eight months since its debut in February. To date, the stock is down about 26 per cent, while the price of bitcoin is down 20 per cent over that span.

Johnson said the ETC fund will hold both EBIT and ETHR, the company’s ether-based ETF, in weightings relative to their respective market caps.

“Bitcoin and ether together are about 65 per cent of the overall crypto market, so you’re getting really good exposure, and we’re not charging a fee for this new fund because it’s really just a way to help investors get allocation broadly to the crypto market,” he said.

Cryptocurrencies have been in the spotlight recently not just for their soaring valuations but due to China’s decision to crack down on the mining of cryptos and, as of last week, crypto trading as well, moves which have caused companies to shift their businesses offshore.

So far, the latest from China, which held the majority of the world’s mining operations up until earlier this year, hasn’t appeared to have done much damage to bitcoin’s price, with the coin down slightly since last week’s announcement by China’s central bank.

But Johnson says the situation in China effectively highlights the benefits of Canada’s position on cryptocurrencies, where regulators have been more embracing, as evidenced by the number of cryptocurrency related equities available for purchase.

“The whole premise behind the blockchain is about giving sovereignty over asset ownership to the individual, and it can’t be controlled by a country,” he said. “We are excited to be watching this space because on the one hand you have the news out of China and on the other hand you have El Salvador making Bitcoin legal tender.”

“I think there is room for everybody to participate. China has been unsuccessful in their efforts so far to stop cryptocurrencies when they banned miners back in the beginning of the summer, those miners just shipped their computers to other countries and kept going,” he said.

Johnson says that difference in regulatory approach has put Canada in the lead as far as cryptocurrency investing goes.

“We’ve never had more conversations outside of Canada than we’ve had since we launched EBIT back in February. The whole world is looking at Canada and I think we should be really proud of what we’ve got here,” Johnson said.

“Our progressive regulator has allowed ETF products to come to market ahead of everybody else, which is what we did with ETFs to begin with — the first ETF was launched in Canada in 1990. Obviously, everybody’s looking to the US and wondering if and when they will get a Bitcoin ETF down there. They have a very different process and different approach, so people are looking at Canada,” he said.

“We are really in the driver’s seat on this trend right now,” Johnson said. “I think it’s something we should really be proud of and the rest of the world will catch up. But in the meantime we’re ahead.”

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Bow Windows Ottawa: Features & Advantages of Bow Windows

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Bow windows have been popular for hundreds of years, and with good reason. They are not only a stunning addition or design feature to your home, but they also create space by expanding beyond the external wall, allowing you to have a cozy corner to curl up in, and installing one can help give your room a sense of loftiness. They also allow for a better view of your yard or the street outside, as well as more light to enter your home. It can be used as a breakfast nook or for plants that require a lot of light. They’re made up of four to eight casement windows that are connected to form an arch. They’re similar to bay windows, except they’re curved and semi-circular instead.

When you’re ready to create your bow window, consider adding a roof to give it a dramatic flair while also keeping water out. You can also go with architecturally carved mouldings and full-sized ventilation screens. Other features that can make your life easier are tilt-in sashes for simple cleaning from the inside, triple-sealed sashes, and neoprene bulb seals at the ends for a tight seal. All possible security elements are locking hardware for sash tilting, snap-in glass inside the home, and extra security cam lock and keepers that resist forced entry.

Windows that save energy

It’s difficult to argue against energy-efficient windows when it comes to the windows themselves. They will improve your comfort by minimizing cold drafts and making your home feel warmer during the seasons when it is necessary to heat it. They also prevent condensation by keeping the relative humidity at a greater level. You can relax about condensation, but if the humidity levels within your home are too high, no window will completely prevent condensation. The most significant advantage they have is a financial one. They reduce air leakage and increase thermal window performance. Storm windows alone can increase the energy efficiency of your windows by up to 50%, resulting in significant savings in your energy expenditure.

When used to paint your bow window, water-based finishes will not only enhance the particular beauty of your home but will also prevent early ageing and will not leave your windows brittle, as specific processes are prone to doing. Recent advancements have significantly increased this paint’s capacity to work in all types of conditions for many years. A good provider will have hundreds of colours to pick from, as well as colour-matching specific features to help you find the perfect hue for your home.

Bow windows are a great choice to consider if you’re seeking to make a little addition to one of your rooms to help open it up and give you a little more space and light, or if you just want more light and a peaceful area to read at the end of the day.

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When it comes to choosing the right look for your bow window coverings, you have many options. You have the option of purchasing individual window treatments that will be placed to match the arch, and the possibilities are virtually endless. Alternatively, you can have a track and draperies made just for your window arch.

If you choose different treatments, you’ll need four or more panels to cover the window completely. They might be light and airy or massive and opulent. Because many bow windows are on the ground floor and in the front of the house, you might want to consider privacy drapes. You can use sheers throughout the day to provide some privacy and then draw heavier curtains in the evening.

Your options, however, do not end at the panels. Vertical or horizontal roller shades or blinds can be used. Pleated blinds or shutters are two options. As you become more aware of the different options available to you, your imagination will take over.

You can choose shades that appear gorgeous on the inside and outside of the house because you will want privacy and the glorious bow window adding further beauty to the room.

If you choose a custom-made track for your bow window, you’ll have a lot of options in this department as well. There are several benefits as well. They’ll perfectly suit your window’s dimensions. This is especially useful if the size isn’t conventional. They will be customized to your preferences, including not just the colour scheme but also the fabric. There will only be one drawstring to open and close them, with two at most if you want different sheers. If you pick the different curtain option for your large window, this is in contrast to the separate four or more panels.

If your bow windows are in your living room, you’ll undoubtedly want them to have a completely different look and feel than if they’re in your bedroom. Because the living room is intended to be used for living, it can be more daring. You can use reds and golds, as well as darker colours. And you’ll want to stick with the motif, whether it’s Victorian or modern, or whatever furniture is already there. Treatments in your bedroom would be more modest, comfy, and peaceful. It’s a chamber for peace and quiet, possibly romance, and sleep.

So, when it comes to choosing curtains for your bow window treatments, you have a few options. Horizontal wooden slats or shutters can be used, or long, flowing sheers can be used to the floor. Whatever you choose to do with these windows, make sure the textiles and colours you choose contribute to their grandeur and capture, if not become, the room’s beauty.

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Awning Windows Ottawa: An Introduction to Aluminum Awning Windows

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Awnings are well-known for shielding homes and patios from direct sunshine. And most of the time, the design that comes to mind for customers is a fabric sun cover. Aluminum awning windows, on the other hand, were invented by home remodeling professionals today.

When it comes to home design, aluminum awning windows are becoming increasingly fashionable. They aren’t already available in fabric, but they come in standard windows with tints or glazes. This implies that you’ll get some sun protection even if you don’t have an awning or fabric on your window area.

You may be perplexed if you haven’t seen these aluminum awning windows before because they look like any other window except for the colours. Because they will keep excessive sunlight from reflecting inside your home, they will be darker in colour. These windows also include hinges that allow them to be opened at the correct angle to allow air circulation and a little sun inside while maintaining control of overexposure to the weather.

One of the advantages of these aluminum awning windows is that they are available in various styles to complement your home. The ones that appear like jalousie windows are available. This indicates that there are multiple layers of rectangular glass panes. For your home design, you can also choose to have little square windows that make up one entire window.

Aside from the design, these awning windows will allow you to choose whether each has a hinge that allows it to be opened or if you only want a portion of the window to have this function. The advantage of this option is that it will provide you with the greatest design for your house.

The main advantage of these aluminum awning windows is that they may provide you with a clear view from the inside, even if the outer half of the window has a dark tint. This indicates that the sun is obscured, but the idea is still clear and accessible.

A good advantage is that you can keep the open when its  raining and no water will get into the house. Recommended for kitchens and bathroom especially.

The qualities of these awning windows are as follows. So, if you want something practical while also meeting your design requirements, you just need to choose these windows, as the home design has become increasingly significant in recent years. This will make your home stand out and attract the attention of everyone who comes to see it.

A Brief Discussion of Awning Windows

Here we will explore the awning window and its cousin, the hopper window, so that you may make informedawning-window decisions about which windows would work best in each room of your house based on the needs and desires of that space.

An awning window is simply a window with a hinge at the top (header) of the window. The sash (moving component of a window) can be pushed out 3 to 4 inches with this hinge. Let’s take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of each window separately.

Balance between ventilation and view preservation

The attention is pulled to the center of an opening, picture, or landscape in any frameset. As a result, your gaze is generally directed to the opening’s center when you look out a window. With a center mullion running directly down the middle of your line of sight, single hung windows and horizontal sliders impede the view. As a result of this disadvantage, many individuals choose “fixed windows” or picture windows. The issue with this sort of window is that it loses its ability to ventilate.

Depending on which part of your view you want to keep, you can put an awning window at the bottom of a fixed window or the top of a fixed window. This draws your gaze to the center of the fixed glass area of the frame, preserving your vision but still allowing you to ventilate adequately.

Awning windows only open a few inches, making it nearly impossible to enter through them without smashing the glass, even if they are unlocked or left open. Awning windows are often broad in width but narrow in height. This makes it a difficult point of entry for would-be intruders.

Awning windows have a unique appearance that will set your home distinct from the thousands of other identical houses in your community. Although they have been around for a long time, they have a contemporary appeal and will complement any environment. You can combine them with the previously mentioned “hopper window,” which is a window with a bottom hinge that allows the top of the window to be slanted in. If you have awnings on one side of the room to pull the breeze in and hopper windows on the other side to push the breeze out, you’ll have a very efficient ventilation system.

Cost is a disadvantage

Awning windows are, regrettably, more expensive than their sliding counterparts. The hardware for an awning window is frequently too expensive. Fortunately, you don’t have to utilize them everywhere, but keeping them in mind while choosing your windows may help you solve a few issues.

Restrictive is the second disadvantage

The size options available for awning windows given by window manufacturers may be limited. Most manufacturers limit them to a width of 3 feet and a height of no more than 2 feet. If you need a wider aperture, you can put two side by side, but you’ll have to be a little more creative with the sizes if you go that approach.

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WATCH: Ed Sheeran Makes His Feature Film Debut In The Beatles Inspired 'Yesterday'

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Ed Sheeran joined the likes of James Corden and Lily James in the new trailer for Danny Boyle's comedy-drama, Yesterday.

After making a cameo in Game of Thrones, Ed Sheeran has taking his acting credits to the next level - starring in Academy Award winner's, Danny Boyle's, latest film, Yesterday.

Appearing as himself, the 'Shape of You' singer helps the lead character (played by EastEnders' Himesh Patel) to perfect songs originally written by The Beatles.

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Directed by the man behind Slumdog Millionaire, Yesterday sees one man reach dizzying levels of fame when he finds out he's the only one who can remember The Beatles, and pretends to have written and recorded their iconic hits.

Ed Sheeran appears as a close friend to the main character, as he is managed by Saturday Night Live's Kate McKinnon and even appears on The Late Late Show with James Corden.

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This isn't Ed's first acting role - he recently sang in Game of Thrones, and appeared in The Simpsons as Brendan, a jazz pianist of whom Lisa falls for.

Yesterday is set for release on 28 June 2019.


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Pay as much attention to the teachers as well as completing given assignments.
Academic Rigor
ASCC, is the best i ever had. Subjects learned here is no different from what is learned at the states.
Dorm Life
This school don't provide dorms for student. Since its on our island so apparently, we get to sleep tight at home. But i wonder when we have a dorm kids would be partying every night long.
Food and Dining
ASCC, provides a cafeteria and it charges food. So lucky if someone has money to buy them lunch. I don't like eating that much since I'm skinny so i just like keeping my appetite.
What to do for fun
I play games with my friends or my youngsters. And sometimes read books whenever i get bored.
Bang for the buck
I am always confused on money to pay for my tuition and fees. But i actually work myself in factories that is close to my place such as a store to get little money for whatever needed to be done in school.
I was on financial aid suspension, however I'm trying to work my way up to pay this whole amount and get back to college at ASCC. Right now i am schooling online at Everest college, Arizona.
Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus
Most likely the island is full of religious somehow people enrolled are the most spiritual ones. They know how to be love and gentle to oneself.
Great for these types of students
The type of students i had seen here are the most talented people ever. It is full of academic and athletic support. We run school work and at the same time we do for games too.
Clubs and Activities
I was gonna say this school out of the whole World has a lot of clubs and are the most interesting ones. It instill clubs such as christian, dance related, and science, math, every single subject they considered club.
Greek Life
I am quiet but is cool when alone with a friend. I don't really like talking offensive language but would like to get to know people friendly.
Campus Safety
I have no doubt to this school since it already had tons of security guards surrounding the campus. This i said nothing bad will happen because its over protected.
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Take care of your hearing with these simple lifestyle changes.

These lifestyle choices that help your hearing can help your overall physical and mental health as well.Building good habits for your overall wellness has the happy side effect of helping your hearing too.

Here are some of the lifestyle choices that can help your overall health and your hearing:

  1. Exercising regularly
  2. Eating a balanced diet
  3. Getting quality sleep
  4. Avoiding excessive noise

Learn more about these lifestyle choices that help your hearing below.

Exercising regularly
Getting plenty of exercise is the closest thing humans have to a cure-all (or perhaps more like a “prevent-all”). It’s good for our brains, bones, muscles, immune systems, and, you guessed it, our hearing! Cardiovascular exercise promotes good blood flow, which your ears need to stay healthy. Exercise is especially important as we age. As little as 20-30 minutes of physical activity is enough to make a difference. Aim for five days a week and mix it up! Try brisk walking, bicycling, swimming, hiking, jogging, a video or app workout, or anything that gets your heart pumping. See our exercise tips for people with hearing loss.

Eating a balanced diet
A car without the right fuel will stall, and a body without the right foods won’t thrive. Different kinds of foods offer different benefits for us, like these foods that promote hearing health. Base your diet around fresh whole foods like fruits (e.g., bananas, oranges, avocados), vegetables (leafy greens, mushrooms), nuts and seeds, etc. Taking a multivitamin can help keep up your levels of other vital nutrients like B and D vitamins (but be sure to talk to your doctor before taking anything new). Read our tips for eating more fruits and veggies.

Getting quality sleep
Catch those z’s to help you hear the dBs! Sleep acts as a refresher for your brain. Specifically, people who get a healthy amount of sleep have higher temporal lobe activity—the area of the brain responsible for processing sound. Also, sleep deprivation can make your blood flow more sluggish, which can harm your inner ear. Getting enough sleep comes with other health benefits like a more robust immune system and increased energy and helps you keep your hearing in good shape. Learn tips for getting better sleep here!

Avoiding excessive noise
Loud noises are the most dangerous thing for your hearing. Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) and tinnitus are two of the issues triggered by exposure to loud sounds. In turn, these conditions can trigger feelings of isolation, anxiety, and depression, as physical and mental health are often intimately connected. See our article here on safe vs. dangerous decibel levels to help you determine what situations you should avoid (or at least when to wear proper hearing protection).

These four lifestyle choices can help your overall health as well as your hearing. For more tips on how to keep your physical and mental health in great shape, visit our blog. For people with hearing loss, CapTel’s line of captioned telephones can help your social life stay just as healthy!

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We surveyed 147 artist & repertoire administrators to learn what personality traits and interests make them unique. Here are the results.

Holland Codes

Artist & repertoire administrators are artistic and investigative

Artist & repertoire administrators tend to be predominantly artistic individuals, meaning that they are creative and original and work well in a setting that allows for self-expression. They also tend to be investigative, which means that they are quite inquisitive and curious people that often like to spend time alone with their thoughts.

If you are one or both of these archetypes, you may be well suited to be an artist & repertoire administrator. However, if you are realistic, this is probably not a good career for you. Unsure of where you fit in? Take the career test now.

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Knowledge and Information Manager

FCDO Services
Hanslope Park, Milton Keynes
£29,527 - £34,500 plus £1,750 location allowance
31 Aug 2021
19 Sep 2021
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Full Time

You are interested in the organisation and governance structures that are used to ensure the right information is available at the right time to the right people, so that they can make informed decisions.

At FCDO Services we would like you to bring your experience in Knowledge and Information Management to help us keep our data organised and ensure it is available to our staff who are making those important decisions.

Help our Knowledge and Information Management Team go from strength to strength, you will be implementing  policies, processes and guidance to ensure our staff understand and use the tools that are available to them in-line with the Government and corporate strategy. Identify any issues and gaps in understanding within the business areas and address these deficits.

As you’d expect, your focus will be on maintaining our digital and paper records. You’ll also maintain a proportionate audit function that measures compliance to legal and regulatory requirements. And you’ll be responsible for the data governance and information architecture upon our corporate IT Systems.

Apply your expertise to our role

We’re looking for someone with strong IT skills, especially around content management and databases. You will be familiar with the general principles and specific applications of the organisation of information. You will have knowledge of taxonomies, metadata and standards.  You will have an understanding of the principles of data analysis. And you’re able to analyse problems and information systematically, and present to your findings to people with no or limited understanding of subject matter.  You can easily put yourself in the shoes of our colleagues. You are organised and capable of helping others to follow naming conventions and guidance to ensure that they organise data correctly.   What’s more, your communication skills are excellent, and you take initiative and responsibility in your work.  The vital work the team do is across the organisation at all levels, both in the UK and overseas.

What FCDO Services can offer in return is support to further your knowledge using both on the job training and formal training courses.  We want to help you grow your expertise and progress to even bigger things. We’ll encourage you to keep developing, stay up to date with best practice and engage with new technologies. By doing this, you’ll help us to protect our information and assets.

All our employees have to be security cleared before being appointed, so you will need to undergo a vetting process as part of your application. This role requires you to go through Developed Vetting (DV). You can find out more about vetting on our website.

To find out more about this role, our benefits and our organisation, please click the 'Apply' button.

Closing date: 19th September 2021.

We support every individual.  It’s what makes us a Disability Confident employer. And a Stonewall Diversity Champion. And Employers for Carers. And it’s how you know you’re joining an inspiring, inclusive organisation.

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Dental Veneers: Improve Your Oral Health & Self-Esteem

If you’re thinking of seeking out a dentist in Coral Springs to get some dental veneers, this article is for you. Dental veneers can be a wonderful way to enhance your smile. So in this article, I’ll discuss what dental veneers are and why someone might want to get them.

Believe it or not dental veneers have been around since the 1920’s. They were invented by a dentist named Charles Pincus. Initially, they were used in the film industry to temporarily change the appearance of an actor’s teeth. But year later, the process of permanently bonding veneers to teeth was improved enough so that they could be installed on a more permanent basis.

Why Someone Might Want Veneers

There are a number of reasons why an individual might want to get veneers. If your teeth have become discolored and attempts at teeth whitening in Coral Springs have not made a difference, this could be an option. Teeth can become discolored for a variety of reasons including drinking lots of red wine, eating lots of spicy foods that use tomatoes as a base, smoking, and consuming certain medications.

In addition, veneers can be used to cover over gaps between teeth and even shorten or lengthen teeth.

So if you think that all of your favorite celebrities were born with perfect teeth, you’d be wrong. In more instances than you’d expect, they owe their existing pearly whites to dental veneers.

What Are Dental Veneers?

The quick answer is that dental veneers are thin shells. That’s right, if you took an impression of the surface of each of your teeth and then had the impressions turned into copies using porcelain or a composite resin material, you’d have veneers.

Creating the veneers or shells is not something that your dentist does in the back room of his dental office. Instead, the impressions of your teeth are sent to a lab that specializes in making veneers. It could take up to a couple of weeks to get them made. Then, they are sent back to your dentist who must then apply them to the surface of your existing teeth.

How Are Dental Veneers Applied?

So just to be clear, you can’t simply call into a dentist and order a set of veneers. In order to fitted for them, the dentist will have first had you in his office to x-ray your teeth, examine them, and have a discussion with you about expectations and the look you want to achieve.

The dentist will have also laid out the options as far as pricing, insurance, and payment. In all likelihood, he or should would have told you that porcelain veneers are more expensive than those made of composite resin. However, porcelain veneers will be more resistant to staining going forward.

Once you’re happy with the discussion, only then will the dentist take measurements of the surface of your teeth and and impression of them.

When the veneers are returned, the dentist will shave down the enamel of your teeth by a millimeter or two that equates to the same thickness of the veneer shells.

He will apply one of the veneers to make sure that the fit and color are exactly what you specified. If all is well, he will proceed with cementing or bonding all of the veneer shells to the surface of your existing teeth.

He can further fine tune the look of them by trimming and shaving the veneers themselves to make them appear as natural as possible.

When the final adjustments are done, you can be on your way. Just keep in mind that you will have continue with your regular oral hygiene regimen. The dentist may also instruct you to cut back on certain food and drinks to limit the risk of tooth discoloration.

If you live in the Coral Springs area and would like to be evaluated for veneers, teeth whitening, or other cosmetic ways to brighten your smile, then visit to learn more.


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Whitehaven, My Home Town

This evening we were treated to an extremely interesting talk by Carnforth Rotarian, Ken McGrath, entitled Whitehaven – “My Home Town”. He began by telling us a little about his childhood there, before he moved to London at the age of 23 “to make his fortune”. He reminisced about playing football on the Pit Fields and ‘making sure he washed his feet’ before going to bed. He attended Whitehaven Grammar School, where he was, at times, on the receiving end of some strong discipline, but during school holidays he used to cycle to the beach at St Bees.
He then showed an old map of Cumberland, as it used to be known, and a couple of old photos of Whitehaven Harbour as an introduction to its history.
Whitehaven was a small fishing village until it was acquired by the Lowther family who exploited the extensive coal deposits. This in turn led to building harbours, piers, lighthouses and ultimately to a shipbuilding yard which opened in 1782 and closed in 1865.
Many different types of cargo passed through Whitehaven Harbour, including sugar, tobacco, rum, timber, coal, limestone and iron ore.
Coal mining continued until 1986, Marchon Products manufactured detergents, a chemical plant made fire lighters and there was even a silk mill.
The town layout was planned on a grid pattern by Sir John Wren, which is still seen today.
All in all, a very interesting town and much more can be discovered including famous people from Whitehaven by paying a visit to the local museums


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Robert Mitchell

Technical Assistant

Rob joined the Engineering and Tech teams at Carpmaels & Ransford in 2019, after graduating from Worcester College, University of Oxford, with a first class Master’s degree in Computer Science. He specialised in theoretical Computer Science, including topics in category theory, categorical logic and categorical representation of quantum processes.

As part of his Master’s degree, Rob completed a third-year computational linguistics research project studying probabilistic inference of regular grammars, and in the following year a security-oriented project using bigraphical reactive systems for the modelling and verification of properties relating to fair-exchange protocols. He has also worked briefly in industry, implementing convolutional neural networks and other machine learning solutions for natural language processing, as a summer analyst in the financial services sector. For his work on a programming team developing procedurally-generated music, and for outstanding performance in examinations, Rob was awarded, respectively, the G-Research Prize for Most Innovative Project and an academic scholarship.

In his spare time Rob enjoys skiing holidays, light opera, and playing (highly) amateur darts.

  • MCompSci (University of Oxford)
  • CertIP Certificate in Intellectual Property Law


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Reflexology theoretically explains the nerve connections of many specific points of the body in the feet. These are known as reflex zones.

The purpose of this massage, as it stands, is to obtain a healthy response from the organs and systems, from the adequate stimulation applied to their corresponding reflexes, thus establishing the natural balance of the energy and functionality of the whole organism.

Our current knowledge of reflexology stems from the work of Eunice Ingham, who developed zone therapy in the 1930s. Dedicated to the professional practice of therapeutic massage, she discovered that she could treat the whole body by applying pressure to different areas of the feet. He harvested a long series of successes and drew a map of the feet indicating the location of the reflex points corresponding to the different parts of the body; This map is the practical basis of reflexology.

Foot reflexology

It consists of stimulating certain puntons of reflexes in the feet in order to maintain a good state of health. It is based on the theory that each part of the body corresponds to a perfectly located point in the feet, and on the principle that, by pressing these points of reflexes, it is possible to calm and restore the entire body balance, which is achieved Remedy many disorders. Most reflex points are located on the soles of the feet.

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Catholic Activity: Oplatek, Old Polish Custom

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This Polish custom of the breaking and passing of the thin wafery Oplatek bread at the Christmas Eve meal reminds us of our daily bread and the Bread of Life who came into the world.

We have adopted a custom from the Polish for Christmas Eve. At their Christmas Eve meal, after spreading hay under the cloth and (in times past) on the floor of the room, the Polish family stands together and the father breaks off a piece of the Oplatek (pronounced opwatek), the blessed Christmas wafer, and passes it on. This is a thin bread pressed in oblong irons in the convents, and on it in relief is the Nativity scene. Made like the host, it is a reminder of our daily bread and the Bread of Life who was born a man tonight. The father passes it to the next member of the family, who breaks a piece and passes it, until all the family has shared it. It is to remind them what this night is, who comes to us, why, and what it makes us, one to another. An extra place at table tells the little Christ and His Mother that they would be welcome in this "inn" should they knock at our door.

In the past the Oplatek was given us by our Polish friends. Now we use this holy symbolism with bread we bake ourselves — and mixing it is a beautiful meditation for a mother. It is baked as rolls in a round tin, round like the circle of eternity and like the everlastingness of God. After the Blessing of Bread, the father or an older member of the family sprinkles the bread with holy water, breaks off a roll and passes it to the person on his right, who breaks a roll from it for himself and passes it. It is our own custom, in terms significant to us. The father or ranking member of the family reads the Blessing of Bread.

A story was told us by a woman whose family is still in Poland. Every Christmas their family had Oplatek. When some migrated to America, those in Poland sent Oplatek to America and those in America sent Oplatek to Poland. Came the Russians with their persecution and espionage, and the family in Poland learned to conform, withdraw, carry their religion in their hearts and write between the lines of their letters.

When it was time to send the Oplatek, they determined to find a way. That year the family in America received a conventional card on which was pasted a red paper-like disk with a conventional greeting. The censor never suspected it was Oplatek, properly blessed, cut in a circle like a host, painted red for Divine Love not for Communism, and sent as a salute from one part of the Mystical Body to another half a world away. They were reminding each other that they share the same Body, eat the same Flesh.

Activity Source: Year and Our Children, The by Mary Reed Newland, P.J. Kenedy & Sons, New York, 1956


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Free Chilly Gonzales Minimix!

You’d think that after breaking the world record for the longest solo live performance, Canadian pianist Gonzales might take it easy the following year or something. Far from it, after adding ‘Chilly’ to his name he dropped the Daft Punk and Beyonce covering ‘Pianist Envy‘ mixtape in February, released one of our albums of the yearIvory Tower‘ and is now concluding another amazing year with this 5 minute minimix.

In the minimix, Gonzales effortlessly plays 30 songs (including Prince, The Clash, Dr. Dre, Nirvana, Michael Jackson) on the piano in the average amount of time it takes to make a cup of tea. So press play and make a brew now, then skip back and listen to it again while you drink it.

Chilly Gonzales – Five Minute Jukebox by bangonpr