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Silky Agarwal: Keeping your dream alive
Silky is a yoga teacher and entrepreneur from Mumbai. She started The Yoga Mile about a year ago.
I interviewed Silky to get some insights into her yoga journey so far, why she started teaching yoga, why she opened up her own yoga center, why its called "The Yoga Mile", the challenges she faces and how she overcomes them.
After the interview, I was thrilled to have made a new friend. Someone who I believe cares deeply about the craft of yoga and wants to spread it far and wide.
[Disclaimer: The Yoga Mile is a customer of our CRM product.]
Early life
Silky hails from Calcutta. While growing up there, she watched her family members practicing yoga regularly. So she got her initial lessons from them and started her own practice while still very young.
As with most early stage practitioners and certainly as a child, it was the various asanas & shatkriyas that lured her into yoga.
Did her parents push her to practice? "Not at all!", was her response.
So, when did the practice start to go from being fun to something more serious? When did the meditation sessions begin?
She wasn't sure what meditation was. But somehow found herself increasingly attracted to it. And then started experimenting with it.
Everyone at home was still fast asleep - so she had enough time to practice in complete silence.
[When she told me this, I briefly asked myself what I was doing in the 11th grade. Suffice it to say, that it was better to focus on what Silky was saying ;-)]
We fast forwarded a few years to her post-graduation college days - when she was pursuing a masters in business.
Did she feel tempted to pause/postpone her practice during her MBA days?
She continued - "When you enjoy something so deeply, you automatically make that a priority. And that was the case with me as well."
Yoga as a career
Here's one of the standard assignments given to an MBA student:
"Write the business plan for a venture that you might like to start someday."
While Silky could have chosen any type business for this assignment, she opted for this: "A yoga centre where people from various backgrounds could come in to learn & practice yoga."
She had already seen yoga centers coming up all over the place by this time. So it didn't seem that risky or "altogether crazy either".
And that was the seed for The Yoga Mile. The idea that she would one day venture out on her own to set up her business in a space that she was already in love with - that idea started to grow in her mind.
Corporate life
So..what was the very next step? She had now graduated, the business plan was now ready and she knew exactly what she needed to do to set up her business.
But..she needed money to get started. And then, there was the MBA student loan to pay off. She decided to park her dream for a while - until she had made some money first and paid off her loans.
So, soon after her masters, she started her career at a software company to lead their marketing department.
Reviving the dream
That was when her husband asked her some tough questions: "Why are you not moving forward with your dream? When are you going to start paying off your student loan?"
That was the push Silky needed to get back on track. She started to cut down on eating out and buying things she didn't need. And the loan eventually got paid off in 16 months after that.
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The Yoga Institute
So, what was the next step? To deepen her academic and functional knowledge of yoga. She began researching various teacher's training courses.
She could have chosen the RYT 200 or RYT 500 - offered by a number of teacher's training centres in Mumbai. But Silky wanted to go further and signed up for a 900 hours course at the 100 year old Yoga Institute in Mumbai.
The course was on weekends - and thus started a her 7 day weeks for the next 2 years. 5 days at the office and the weekends at the institute.
She also got a lot of "functional knowledge", that gave her the confidence that she could instruct "yoga in a safe way" to her students.
The Yoga Mile
4.5 years after her masters in business: With the student loans out of the way, some starting capital in hand and a graduation certificate from a well known teacher's training institute - Silky was finally ready to launch her business.
She continued:
"I realize that not everyone is spiritually inclined initially. We welcome everyone - whether you're starting yoga because of a back pain issue or hormonal imbalance or want to lose weight. When they continue to practice yoga, at some point our customers forget why they came to us in the first place - because they're present and happy both on and off the mat."
"And you know what's amazing? The original problems that they come to me with? Those start to disappear as well."
Does all this mean that there are no challenges? And that every customer who enquires or signs up at the Yoga Mile endures through the process to see results.
"Not at all. Many of our customers have deeply conditioned old habits - that they have gained over many years. And as a result, some of them have severe health problems as well. Including in one case, a very bad kidney disorder resulting in the need for a kidney transplant."
"But the sad fact is that they continue to be guided by old harmful habits. There's only so much we can do. We can only act as a helping hand, the actual steps have to be taken by the practitioners themselves."
Looking ahead
Silky's own Yoga Mile started when she was very young. I was inspired by the fact that she's now keen on helping everyone else start on their own Yoga Miles.
The Yoga Mile is now located at 3 centers in Mumbai.
After my interview with Silky, I felt she was definitely one of the more "present" people I have met. From all of us here at Good Karma, we wish her and The Yoga Mile all success.
How to contact Silky
Bonus link: The Yoga Institute [Where Silky did her 2 year TTC]
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Kennedy: Hospital billboards tout speedy service
I marveled last week at the billboards along Florida highways touting quick service at hospital emergency rooms.
"6 minutes," said one digital readout of the real-time ER wait; "8 minutes," said another.
The billboards are nothing new, I discovered, and the Sunshine State isn't alone in having them.
In fact, they began popping up in enough states over the past decade that the American College of Emergency Physicians published an "information paper" in 2012 that sought to evaluate their pros and cons. (Pro: They're an effective marketing tool. Con: They may unintentionally increase emergency room visits.)
We haven't seen the billboards here, but Albany-based St. Peter's Health Partners dipped a toe in the water by introducing "Skip the Wait" at its five regional urgent-care centers.
Such centers offer a level a care a step removed from emergency rooms. You sprained an ankle on a weekend hike? An urgent-care center could treat it. You fell while painting the eaves and slammed your head on the walkway? You'd better go to the hospital ER.
St. Peter's centers, affiliated with the regional hospital network, offer illness and injury care seven days a week on a walk-in basis.
With "Skip the Wait," real-time estimates of the next available appointment are provided for each of the centers. Prospective patients can choose the time and location that fits their needs, and book the appointment online, shortening their time in the waiting room.
People "hate the idea of walk-in and not knowing how long the wait is," says Pam Williams, CEO of St. Peter's Health Partners Medical Associates, the affiliated multi-specialty physician group.
The initiative first surfaced 18 months ago, but has been actively promoted for the last five or six months. Williams said about 20 percent of urgent-care patients now use the option, indicating it is "pretty popular."
Times are continually updated, feeding directly off patient-scheduling software.
"Skip the Wait" isn't unique — a Missouri health-care system advertises a similar service as "Save My Spot" — and start-ups and established companies alike have developed software products to serve as the backbone. One even is working with Alexa devices to have the virtual assistant do the booking.
Williams sees "Skip the Wait" as a sign of the times. "It's the way people want to interact," she said.
Indeed, consultant Accenture says that just about every consumer is a digital one today — different only in adoption "intensity."
But it says the health-care industry "still lags in digital sophistication," opining in a 2016 report that "providers need to raise their game — and fast."
According to company, health-care consumers in outpatient settings "behave more like retail shoppers," valuing choice, convenience and customer experience.
But if they can be satisfied, "digitally intense patients are not only more loyal; they're also more valuable," boosting hospital margins by as much as 50 percent, Accenture says.
Marlene Kennedy is a freelance columnist. Opinions expressed in her column are her own and not necessarily the newspaper's. Reach her at [email protected]


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TV Musts for Christmas Updated 2012
Let's face it, we hate spending any time with our families at Christmas but we love spending time with OTHER families for Christmas; that is to say TV families. There are just some programs I have to watch for Christmas. Since the Red Room Podcast is all about lists this time of year, I thought I would unwrap a present for all of you and tell you what you need to watch between now and Christmas. 1. David Letterman's Christmas Show. The last show before Christmas (this year that should be December 21st at 11:35 CBS) Dave does his Christmas show. Before we get started, let me be totally up front with you. I love Dave; he has been my TV friend since the 80's. I have watched him every night since then and I love him and I hate Leno. This is my only hard and fast rule in life. I am a Dave man and there is no room for Leno. Anyway back to the Christmas cheer. Dave has turned his Christmas show into the best hour of the year. He always has Paul do his impression of Cher. He has Darlene Love sing Christmas (please come home) and most importantly, he has Jay Thomas come on to knock the meatball off the top of the tree.
If that last sentence doesn't make sense to you, then you really need to DVR Dave. But my favorite part of the show is to hear Jay Thomas tell, what Dave calls, the best show business story ever. I am sure his story about the Lone Ranger is on Youtube. If you have not heard it, just wait till the show and listen. Jay has told this story for 10 years in a row and I have laughed every year. It truly is the best story in show business history. If Dave ever retires (and he never will, he is going to live forever and do the show forever), I truly don't know how I will get ready for Christmas without Darlene, Paul, the Lone Ranger and my TV friend Dave.
2. The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. I freaking love Dr. Seuss. I love the rhyming and the morals and the made up words. He is the first successful rap artist. Except he uses Dah who dor-aze every other word. I know there is A Charlie Brown Christmas, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and Frosty but this show gets me. Cindy Lou Who smiling up at that Grinch. And then they all sing instead of spraying each other with pepper spray when there aren't any X-Box games under the tree. It is just a really nice fairy tale. Seriously though, I am totally on the Grinch's side. Those Who's would annoy the crap out of me. He isn't bothering anyone up there and they are bombarding him with all that cheer. Its like that person at work who says "happy Monday" to you before your coffee. I wish I could steal all their toys and throw them off a cliff.
3. A Christmas Story. I have no idea how this movie was ever made. It is simple, sweet and dead on true. Most of you probably identify with the main character, Ralphie, but I always related to Randy. I was the younger brother bundled up like a snowman. I love the fact that it shows the holiday from both the parent's and kid's point of view. I would guess that kids today wouldn't be able to relate to being afraid of 'The Old Man' because today every parent is a kid's best friend. But I remember my brother being petrified every time he broke his glasses. A Christmas Story was stolen from my childhood and I guess its popularity means it was stolen from everyone else's childhood too.
4. "Mary, Joseph and Larry" from Curb Your Enthusiasm. From Season 3, the strongest season of Curb, comes a Christmas classic. Its the only Christmas episode ever that has the line, "Larry, did you eat the baby Jesus?" To which Larry responds, "I thought it was a monkey." Watching Larry give Christmas tips to everyone at the club truly brings out the best of holiday giving. How much do we give? Who gets what? To me its exactly what we want from a Christmas Curb. And I admit that most holiday themed ideas don't have a subplot with a certain something stuck in someone's throat but it does have a live Nativity scene and of course, a Christmas cookie that looks like a monkey.
5. The Ref. I think Ted Demme's early death is a real tragedy. He directed two of my favorite movies with such a gift for character and story telling. One is Beautiful Girls and the other is the Denis Leary comedy, The Ref. Both are movies you can watch over and over because of the characters. My guess is not many of you have seen The Ref but it has two great lines. One was in the trailer where Denis Leary tells a mean old woman that her husband isn't dead, he's hiding. The other is when Kevin Spacey tells his mother what he is going to get her for Christmas next year. I won't tell it here because you really need Kevin's delivery. If your mom ever tried to make you feel even a little guilty, I think you will enjoy it.
6. Downton Abbey Christmas Special. Season 2 of Downton Abbey was just as good as Season 1. That is a hard thing to accomplish. At the end of Season 2, I was getting a little sick of the back and forth with Mary and Matthew. In the Christmas Episode, they solved this issue with a snow filled marriage proposal. This episode also has the wonderful dance scene where the servants get to dance with the family. Watching all of our favorite characters interact can get you ready for a nice family Christmas eve with your family. how I wish the Dowager would come to just one of my family functions. (You can listen to our podcast about this episode here. Also starting in January, I will be blogging about each episode of season 3.)
7. It's A Wonderful Life. I have never been able to decide if this movie is supposed to make us feel better because all of his friends come to help him or because it shows us that our life isn't as awful as his life. Were they making ironic movies back in 1946? I mean his life sucks. All he ever wanted to do was get out of that crap town. That is it. He didn't want to take on Potter. He didn't want all those kids and banks and uncles to watch over. He picked up that rock and threw it at the house and wished to go see the world. And what happens next? Mary picks up a rock and wishes that all his wishes don't come true. A major lesson boys, women just wish our wishes away and they win. I love this movie. Nothing spells Christmas more than watching 2 hours of George Bailey suffering. (Check out the song It's a Wonderful Life by The Tories.)
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I hope you all have a fabulous holiday!!
I'm just informing you I will be going on holidays for 2 weeks. I'll be back for a few days and then I'm going away for 10 days. I'll be back on my birthday and I will probably post then ;)
So bye everyone and I'll be back next year!!!
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Stay (Zedd and Alessia Cara song)
" Stay" is a song by Russian-German electronic music producer Zedd and Canadian singer Alessia Cara. The single was released on 23 February 2017 through Interscope Records. The official music video was released on 18 April 2017, on YouTube.[citation needed ]
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Well, the short answer is no.
I'll start by saying that I fully expect a lot of people to disagree with this sentiment, and that's okay. Let me also make the distinction that I am not saying you should never post final photos to your Instagram, I am just saying portfolio images should not be the main content on your feed. There are benefits to using Instagram as a portfolio, but I personally find those benefits to be outweighed by the negatives that come with that method.
Let me delve deeper into this topic and discuss why I think this is true, and help give you some ideas of what you should be using Instagram for to further your business as a photographer.
Instagram is a wonderful thing for photographers. It gives your audience a beautiful, easy to use home base to follow you and your work. It allows people to take a look into your life, your process, and who you are as an artist via the photos you post. This is the core of why I think it is detrimental to use Instagram as your portfolio. It limits you from showing your audience what they really want to see, which is you. Your Instagram profile should be used as a launching pad for your audience to see the rest of your work. By posting behind the scenes photos, location scouts, photos of your gear, lighting setups, and miscellaneous lifestyle shots, you are not only giving your audience an opportunity to see who you are as a person but also teasing them into wanting to see more and more of you. When you post nothing but portfolio images, you are essentially giving your viewers the end product, and providing no incentive to dive deeper into you and your work.
Real life application time: I recently started a new personal work series where I cover models in wet clay before shooting them. I was doing a trial of this series and used myself as the model before I tried it on anyone else. I posted this behind the scenes photo on Instagram, and a day later posted a finished and edited photo from the shoot.
The behind the scenes photo got considerably more interaction than the final "real" photo. It had more comments, more questions, more likes, everything.
I believe this is because people find the process behind your images more interesting than the images themselves. People want to know HOW you do what you do.
So my method for using Instagram, and all social media has become this: Use Instagram as a launch pad. Post interesting and even provocative content that will engage your audience and encourage them to pursue you and your work further. Provide them all the resources they need to find your portfolio online. When you post anything related to your photography, provide your website URL in the caption. This drives more hits to your real website, which will eventually rank you higher in web searches.
Allow Instagram to paint a picture of who you are as an artist, and allow people to see all the facets of your personality that make you who you are.
The last thing I want to talk about is the dangers of being TOO good at Instagram. Now that sounds pretty weird, but hear me out. I have a lot of friends who are so unbelievably good at iPhonography on top of being great photographers in their own right, that people sometimes think their iPhone photos ARE their portfolio images. Herein lies the importance of educating your audience. Instagram viewers have very short attention spans. Most of them want to see pretty images, double click that like button, and move on. So you have to do everything you can to very quickly and concisely discuss what is going on in your posts. In every photography related post I make, especially if I do post a portfolio image, I make sure to clearly state what's going on in the photo, and where they can find more of my work. If I post a BTS photo that could be mistaken for a portfolio image, I briefly make the distinction and link my website so they can find the real photos.
Instagram has become more than a social media outlet for photographers. It is a full fledge business tool we can use to drive traffic to our websites, gain a larger following, and even get direct work from our followers. I book several shoots a year solely based on people who have seen my Instagram feed. So it's more important than ever to utilize this tool efficiently.
If you'd like to get to know me better, be sure to follow me on Instagram ;) @matthewsimmonsphoto


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Team Quinobi - Walk for Breast Cancer Sunday October 16, 2016 at Orchard Beach
Hello Everyone,
I would like to say thank you in advance to anyone who has or will donate to this cause. As the manager of the Bronx Martial Arts Academy, I have had the pleasure of meeting and befriending many people over the years. Mr. Luis Quintana definitely stands out among the many. Mr. Quintana and his kids have been members of BMAA since 2014 and in this relatively short time have ingrained themselves into our martial arts family. Unfortunately, Mr. Quintana was diagnosed with cancer less than a year ago and has been undergoing treatment over the past couple of months.
Mr. Quintana, a dedicated father and faithful martial artist himself was at first devastated by his diagnosis but being the true warrior he is, he picked himself up and pushed forward through his various chemo treatments, and just recently returned to the mats. There is no doubt this his journey so far has been a rough one. But Mr. Quintana has been a true inspiration to my staff and all of our members. Now, I am asking for your help. As a martial arts team, as a school, as a family who fight and train our hardest every time we are on the mat, I am asking you to donate to this cause in Mr. Quintana's name.
In short, some live to fight, while others fight to live. Let's show him and every cancer fighter that we can help them in their individual fight and that we will be there for them in their time of need. Please donate if you can, and if you can't donate, please come walk with us on Sunday October 16th at Orchard Beach and be a part of something big, bigger than any one person. Let's do this for Mr. Quintana, come be a part of TEAM QUINOBI.
Thank you,
Cristina (Tina)
Bronx Martial Arts Academy
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A parish bands together
St. John youth come to rescue of two elderly women
By DAVID MYERS
Southwest Kansas Register
ST. JOHN -- "There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends," but helping them move comes a close second.
Young parishioners of St. John Parish were not only up to the task, but offered their services freely and willingly to two women whom they had never met.
"When our mission is to grow in service to our community and beyond, a solution is not far away," said Sister Catherine Therese Paulie, CSJ, parish life coordinator for St. John.
It all happened very quickly. Sister Catherine learned of two women who needed help moving from St. John to Stafford, and made an announcement at the end of Mass. The youth and several adults went from Mass, to lunch in the parish center served by the Knights of Columbus, and then directly to the home of the women to begin moving.
"It was not only a great opportunity for a community service project for our [confirmation class], but for our parish as well," said Jarrod Taylor, whose wife, Michelle, and four children, ranging in age from 7 to 14, also volunteered. "We had several adults from the parish who chipped in trailers, trucks, and their manpower. We went out at 1 p.m. and finished by 3. After that we all went and had ice creams sodas. It was a great day of community service and fellowship. It was a very worthwhile project."
Julia Taylor, 14, is studying for her confirmation.
"It felt really good," she said. "I knew that without our help, they wouldn't have been able to move. I helped carry boxes to the truck, and then we drove to Stafford and helped unload it."
She didn't know either of the women that they helped that day.
"They were grateful," Julia said. When asked if she would like to be of service to others in the future, the St. John High School student replied, "Of course. It's such a great feeling."
Among the youth who volunteered were (photo on Page 1): Itzel Garcia, Miranda Garner, Torre Fisher, Paige Doran, Julia Taylor, Damian Rios, Jordan Taylor, Rogelio Loya, Eddy Ibarra, Luke Mercer, (front row) Joslyn Taylor and Jace Taylor.
"The Knights of Columbus provided a hearty brunch," Sister Catherine said. "Additional adult volunteers from the parish came to give support and muscle power: Chris and Amanda Staub, Tom, Sabrena and Bryce Garner, Jarrod and Michelle Taylor, Todd Meyer. and Kevin Davis."
"Sister Catherine did a beautiful job," Jarrod said. "She got up after church and tied the project into the Gospel that Sunday. She did a great job rallying the troops. Hats off to Sister."


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Trustees of Reservations 125th Anniversary Celebration
The Trustees of Reservations is an organization that everyone in Massachusetts should know about. Their purpose is to preserve beautiful properties and keep them over for the public. This is for the enjoyment of today and future generations. They own and manage over 100 special places and counting. Many of which most people already know about such as Crane's Beach, Castle Hill, World's End, Appleton and Powisett Farms.
This year marks their 125th anniversary and what better way to celebrate than to do a recap video using some of the footage we've previously taken from the properties mixed with interviews of their amazing and talented staff.


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New York Metro
Shake-ups are supposed to happen in the big bad world of corporations, not in the highly specialized universe of mastering. But in a town like New York City, there's a sizable enough infrastructure to ensure that, every once in a while, a large-scale reshuffling will take place.
As the latest example, get a load of the game of musical chairs that went down in February 2005 right after the Hit Factory announced the end of its New York City operations to their staff, including mastering engineers Tony Gillis, Scott Hull, Herbie Powers and Joe Yannece. "They got everyone from mastering in a conference room and they said, 'We're closing the facility,'" Yannece (Chemical Brothers, Missy Elliot, Lou Reed) recalls from his and Gillis' new professional New York City digs, Classic Sound (www.classicsound.com). "You could see everybody checking their watch and thinking, 'We gotta get on the phone and find a place to work.' I started making calls that afternoon. All of us did — and you don't want to tell any of your loyal clients of the last five years that, no, you don't have a room.
"To be frank," he continues, "initially it was every man for himself. We're a brotherhood, we all know each other and check each other's work. But you've gotta pay the rent, and it's a tight community with a finite amount of positioning. Fortunately, the New York City scene is large enough that it was able to absorb us. Classic Sound is beautifully equipped with great rooms. When I got here at Tom Lazarus' invitation and saw the place, I was sold. I got familiar with the room in a week."
Gillis' (Destiny's Child, Moby, Prince) initial strategy was slightly different. "I was going to try and do something on my own, so I bought every single piece of gear in the room at the Hit Factory. At the same time, there was a room here at Classic Sound that they were thinking of building. I came by, saw the space, talked with Tom and very quickly we decided that I would come here, bring my equipment and set up. Having my own gear really paved the way — it's a very attractive package to offer somebody."
Now ensconced in Studio A, Yannece does his listening through Egglestonworks Savoys and B&W DM604 S3 monitors, with an M&K MX5000-MKII subwoofer and a Krell 300cx power amplifier. Meanwhile, Gillis is in Studio B with his B&W Nautilus monitors, B&W AS400 sub and Aragon Monoblock Amps. "It's nice to go to a place where there are familiar faces; the manager here, Tara Wood, is also an ex-Hit Factory employee," Gillis notes. "It's a little disturbing the first day when you get the announcement that you're out of a job, but when the dust does settle, it's good to have that familiarity and still work with people you worked with in the past."
But wait, the plot thickens! Shortly before the Hit Factory dropped its big news, another New York City mastering veteran, Joe Lambert (Ted Nugent, Electric Six, Martha Reeves), was contemplating a move from his five-year residence at — you guessed it — Classic Sound. "I had a good time at Classic Sound, but it got stagnant, as far as where I wanted to go," Lambert recalls. "Tom Lazarus and I were always in open discussions about where I wanted the studio and my career to go. So I started thinking about what I could do that would be better for me; that's what you do in life."
Instead of the flurry of phone calls that Yannece and Gillis were about to have to make, Lambert only had to make one: reaching out to a friend (name withheld) with feelers in every corner of the New York City mastering scene. The result was a connection to Carl Rowatti, who had just moved Trutone Mastering (www.trutonemastering.com) into the legendary location of the former Record Plant and wanted to man one of his spacious new suites with an established pro.
Lambert and Rowatti met, saw that they were a great match for each other and agreed to terms. Now, all Lambert had to do was inform his employer that he was moving on — never an easy task, but one made simpler for him by a strange twist of fate. "It was weird how it all happened," Lambert admits. "I went home, said, 'I'm going to do this' and went into work the next day at Classic with the intention of telling them that I was going to leave. They told me that day that the Hit Factory had closed! I knew Classic would be talking to their engineers and it would help them fill the rooms."
Listening through Master Reference KEF 207 monitors with McIntosh amps, Lambert has settled right in at his new suite. "I'm working faster here and my clients have been very happy," he reports. "This room and my old room were both built by John Storyk and they're both excellent. We also have a lathe in my room, and I've been working on getting my vinyl-cutting skills up since Trutone has a big client base for that."
The fact that his replacement in Classic Sound's Studio A, Yannece, once held a suite at Trutone's former New Jersey location re-illustrates the incestuous web that New York City's mastering scene can sometimes be. "We all know each other," Lambert says. "We're all in the same club and there's always been a little bit of competition, but I feel it's always been healthy.
"The closing of the Hit Factory definitely made things interesting: You had a handful of mastering engineers who in 24 hours needed either a different career or a different place to work. I think what's important is that we have a quality room to work in and our clients will follow us. That's how we can keep doing what we're doing."
Herbie Powers (LL Cool J, James Brown, Mary J. Blige) has set up his practice in his Staten Island residence (www.pmmastering.com) and expects to announce a relationship with a major New York City mastering facility shortly. At the same time, another of the Hit Factory alums, Scott Hull (The Corrs, Garbage, John Mayer), was angling for his own position. Previously, Hull had also been in residence at Classic Sound, preceded by a long stint at Masterdisk, and the way he saw it, he had three job-search options. "Picking a new place, I could contact a major established facility or go solo and build my one- or two-room facility, but then I found out through word of mouth about the opportunity here at Jigsaw Sound."
A one-room SoHo facility founded by engineer/designers Phil Klum, Michael Iurato and David Ares in 2001, Jigsaw (www.jigsawsound.com) is a relatively new player on the scene that moved boldly to make well-known Hull their chief mastering engineer when he became available. "It was a single room owned by artists and engineers who knew what this business was about," Hull explains of his surprising decision. "They had set up a room not unlike what I had at Classic Sound and even set up the same speakers, so it all sounded familiar. With my personal gear and setting up the room to my taste, it has turned out to be a good fit. I'm working with my assistant, Nathan James, who's been with me since Classic Sound and is now building his own clientele as he transitions to a full-fledged mastering engineer."
Relying on Duntech Sovereigns 2001 monitors and McIntosh 352 power amps motivating his listening experience at Jigsaw, Hull admits that the final effect of many of the same mastering engineers basically trading rooms around New York City has some humor. "We thought it was comical," he says. "It's simply about the people. The clients follow the people — the engineers, in this case — and as long as the facility is able to keep up both economically and logistically with the activity, then it works. In the last year or so, with the Hit Factory falling apart, many times we all looked at each other and said, 'If we could just find a facility with a little bit of support, we would all be doing great.'
"At Masterdisk, I learned from Bob Ludwig and how he interacted with the other mastering engineers in New York City and out West that there was a friendly rivalry. We all knew that we were in competition, but when one of us had a problem or question, we usually took it seriously. Especially today, it's not about proprietary technology or techniques, it's really about personal service. If people like the way you handle all aspects of the project, you'll get the call back."
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Feds reverse decision ending immigrant medical relief
University of Michigan to build $920 million hospital it calls 'most advanced' in Michigan
Trump signs exec order to spur flu vaccine improvement
How best to confront monopoly pricing power
What's driving healthcare prices higher? It's not a greedy cabal of hospital execs. The industry has multiple cartels that are supposed to keep each other in check, but in fact engage in pseudo-negotiations that lead to higher prices on everything.
Dialysis centers claim patients lose with new mandatory payments
Dialysis centers and patient advocacy groups urged the CMS to reconsider several key areas of its end-stage renal disease pay model, claiming it limits patient choice and discourages care.
Ballad Health sued thousands of patients in poor, rural area
Ballad Health sued 5,700 patients in its first full year of operation, according to the system. Executives said they win 99% of cases, but a circuit court clerk said that may be because many patients can't afford attorneys.
Medicare Advantage plans are slow to offer social needs benefits
Medicare Advantage health plans are wary of investing heavily into addressing social health determinants, even though the federal government has given them the flexibility to offer related benefits, new research found.
House passes temporary DSH cut delays, health center funding
The next step in healthcare evolution
All people need to feel safe, valued and able to freely express concerns without stigma or shame. Yet, time and time again, we see that some of our neighbors do not seek care because they feel they will be judged and that their needs will not be understood.
AI voice assistants 'listen in' on patient visits to ease the EHR burden
Swedish Medical Group is piloting a virtual assistant that listens in to patient visits and automatically inputs notes in the EHR—cutting down on documentation time and opening up possibilities for increased patient volume.
Ballad Health at odds with community over controversial changes
To hear some community members tell it, Ballad Health's local healthcare monopoly is in a near-catastrophic state of dysfunction, claims that Ballad officials fervently deny.
Pelosi drug-pricing plan links negotiation to international price index
Pa. not-for-profit, university make joint bid for Philly children's hospital
Tenn. system Erlanger appoints new CEO
More providers outsourcing all of their revenue cycle
Revenue-cycle management firms are increasingly seeing providers choose to fully outsource revenue-cycle services to specialists rather than handle in-house.
Will combo pill catch on in U.S. to prevent heart attacks?
Most providers don't screen for social determinants of health
Catholic hospitals dealt blow in transgender discrimination case
Catholic hospitals have faced lawsuits and controversy over application of their Ethical and Religious Directives that prohibit services such as gender transition surgery.
Ochsner Health System and Rush Health Systems solidify partnership
Use opioid settlement money to strengthen the social safety net
Today we are dealing with opioids; tomorrow, if we don't take a strategic approach, we will be dealing with something else. To recover from this crisis and prevent the next one, we must invest in creating resilient communities.
Court win may not solve hospitals' site-neutral pay problem
Humana co-founder David Jones Sr. dies
Industry tries to set an approach to population health management
A burgeoning market of operators offering population health management solutions is viewed by some as essential to help the healthcare industry move toward bigger investments in addressing social needs.
Patient-centered care becoming 'person-centered care'
A growing focus on patient-centered care—sometimes being called person-centered care—at health systems is putting a spotlight on access, experience and the possibility of "hospital at home."
New nursing home payment model kicks in next month
Changes coming to the way skilled-nursing homes are paid will pinch SNFs that have boosted investment in therapy as well as those treating a smaller share of medically complex patients.
Ex-CEO of Athenahealth joins Firefly Health
Jonathan Bush has joined Firefly Health as executive chairman. He left Athenahealth last year in the wake of several allegations, including court documents that detailed "numerous physical altercations" with his now ex-wife.


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In an academic setting, we will be looking at the facts of conspiracy and the forces at work in the death of three of the most important figures of our time and how it drastically shaped the future of our democracy.
Many of the nation's experts in all three cases will be presenting. Click here for a full list of our speakers, including full bios.
Olney, Illinois, is located in Southeastern Illinois. It is centrally located in terms of driving distance, from several major cities:
Indianapolis- 2 hours & 20 minutes
St. Louis- 2.5 hours
Chicago-4 hours
Memphis-3.5 hours
Nashville-4 hours
Kansas City-6 hours
The best option as far as flying will be St. Louis and Indianapolis. We will be shuttling in our speakers from the St. Louis airport. There may be some limited space for guests as well. Contact us about that if you're interested.
Directions can be located via Google Maps, linked on the left hand side of this page. Check back for other details as they become available.


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Patience Pays to Find Perfect Home
Don spent several months helping us to find our starter home! Thank you so much Don for working with us for so long and answering any questions we had to make sure we found the one we loved! We highly recommend Don!— Hannah L., Buyer


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Happy Birthday, Imelda Staunton!
Jan 09, 2018
Actor Birthdays, Birthdays, Staunton
Few of us would want to wish Dolores Umbridge a Happy Birthday (26 August, in case you're one of the few) but that sentiment should not carry over to the talented British actress who brought the witch we love to hate to life. Imelda Staunton, whose full name is akin to Dumbledore's lengthy moniker: Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton, turns 62 on 9 January.
Like many of her Potter colleagues, Staunton studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and has starred in plays, musicals, televisions shows, and films. She has won numerous awards, and received many nominations, including nominations for her role as Dolores Umbridge (London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actress of the Year and Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress).
Please join Leaky in wishing this very good actress who played a very bad witch the happiest of birthdays.


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Dr. Alan Wolfelt: The Value of Funeral Home Education/
The Value of Funeral Home Education in Conveying the WHY of the Funeral
Dr. Alan Wolfelt is the Director of the Center for Loss which serves "to compassionately support both mourners, by walking with them in their unique life journeys, and professional and lay caregivers, by serving as an educational resource and professional forum."
In a phone interview with Director On Call, Dr. Wolfelt explains what he teaches participants at funeral home education conventions, the value of this education, and why it's important.
About Dr. Wolfelt
Dr. Wolfelt provides public education sponsored by funeral homes across North America. He explains: "Very frequently, one of my involvements with the funeral service is they'll bring me into their community and they'll sponsor me to do grief education or death education if you will."
He provides this education to 60 cities a year. He speaks at State and National Conventions about different topics related to creating meaningful funeral services, aspects relating to meaningful funerals, and aspects of customer service issues. He writes a 'Customer Care' column for The Director Magazine which is published by the National Funeral Directors Association in the United States.
"I do a lot of speaking and teaching about various topics primarily related to creating meaningful ceremonies, death education, customer service related to funeral homes and then I do some teaching about self-care for funeral directors – how do you take care of yourself? How do you care for the families you serve?"
"I do a lot of teaching about the WHY of funerals right now [which] is my most popular speaking engagement for associations."
He will be a keynote speaker for the Australian Funeral Directors Association next March [2015] on that topic.
Training in the WHY of the Funeral
Dr. Wolfelt provides training to funeral directors that relates to the WHY of the funeral.
"[I'm] teaching them how to better convey the value of elements of ceremony - i.e., what's the function of things like visitation, symbols, and music because many funeral directors - through no fault of their own – just never got trained to clearly help families better understand why they should consider the use of an element of ceremony and yet it's a combination of the elements of ceremony that creates what I call in my writing: 'the sweet spot of a meaningful funeral'."
Dr. Wolfelt points out a famous quote by T.S. Eliot that says: "You can have an experience but miss the meaning". He explains: "as I was attending funerals I was noticing people come and leave and at times didn't even know who died so I do this training to help Funeral Directors change their model for an arrangement conference so that they use education. I help them educate families as to the WHY of the elements and the overall functional value of the funeral."
On his website there are posters that Dr. Wolfelt uses as part of that educational process that teach two things. "One teaches 6 major functions of the funeral and the other one teaches them the value of elements of ceremony. Then they have a brochure they also provide to the family but they have to come and learn how to convey that information. It's one thing to have it, it's another thing to learn how to convey it to the families."
His manual titled: 'Educating the Families You Serve About the "Why" of the Funeral A Guide for Funeral Home Staff' is the training manual that he uses. "We first explore the trends: people having more and more questions about the funeral, they don't understand why they should have a funeral, they eliminate elements of service. Things like: visitation - what used to be called the calling hours, the use of symbols, the use of actions like procession, the use of committal ceremonies, there's various elements that go into a funeral."
'De ritualization of North America Surrounding Death'
"The trend we're facing in North America is more and more people are chipping away at elements of ceremony. An example being: 'I don't need the visitation, don't play music I might cry, or we don't need a procession'."
Dr. Wolfelt explains that more and more families are not understanding the WHY of the use of the elements. "They're chipping away at the use of those elements. It's okay to change them in some way to more contemporary times but to do away with them all together is what we're facing. More and more people don't understand the value of the body, they get rid of the body."
To do away with an element like music simply because it might make you cry is exactly why it's important, says Dr. Wolfelt. "One of the reasons we use music is to facilitate emotion from knowing something in your head to your heart. When people don't know why they're doing what they're doing, they tend to eliminate it. So, the big theme of the educational process is educating them [the family] about why to consider using the elements of ceremony and then honouring the choices that they make."
"I don't think we've done a good enough job in funeral service to help families potentially make decisions that are good for them." Dr. Wolfelt explains that families don't know the value of elements because "we live in the world's first death-free generation meaning that many people are 40 and they may never have even been to a funeral. 100 years ago by the time you were 10 you'd been to 100 funerals maybe or 50 at least and you learned the value of them. Now people come naked to the experience, they don't know the value of it so it puts the obligation on the Funeral Director to teach the value and then let people make their choices as to what they're going to do."
Dr. Wolfelt explains that the trend we're currently facing is called the 'De-ritualization of North America Surrounding Death'. Meaning, that "we don't use ceremony or that we decide to throw a party instead of having a funeral. I think the funeral service is played into the hands of some families not understanding why we're having funerals. Funeral Directors shouldn't be party planners they should be Funeral Directors and they've gotten caught up in thinking that that's what families want but families don't know what they want so we have to teach them the value and let them choose."
Bridging the "Performance Gap"
According to Dr. Wolfelt: Funeral Directors need to assume more of an educator's role. "Instead of thinking we're just helping [families] make decisions, we're helping them make informed choices. If I just sit there as a Funeral Director and say: 'Do you want to have a visitation or not? Do you want to go to the grave? Do you want to spend time with the body?' that's what we call the 'Order Taker-Under Taker' and my writings and my customer service body are calling a 'Functionary Funeral Director' – the one who gets through the job and then goes on to the next family."
Dr. Wolfelt is teaching Funeral Directors is help families make a 'transformation': "decisions that are good for them."
"In my experience, many Funeral Directors – through no fault of their own – have never been taught how to better convey the value of a meaningful funeral experience." Dr. Wolfelt explains that many (not all) Funeral Directors through no fault of their own, have never been taught how to convey both the overall value of why we have funerals and the value of various individual elements that make up a funeral.
Here's an example he provided: "If I'm just sitting there asking a family a series of closed-ended questions, I'm not doing my job effectively because the family comes naked to the experience. They don't know why they need to receive friends, they instead say things like: 'a lot of Mom's friends died so we don't need to have a visitation or receive friends'."
Dr. Wolfelt uses a model in his training of information combined with education and that very respectably honours the families choices. "Never shaming a family for the choices they make but instead doing my job of stepping up and educating the family about why funerals are helpful."
Funeral Directors: The Gate Keepers of Ceremony
Dr. Wolfelt explains that Funeral Directors are "gate keepers of ceremony in a culture that lacks an understanding of ceremony."
"If a Funeral Director says: 'As a gate-keeper I've got to step up into my responsibility to better convey the why of the funeral, then I'm doing my job in a way that helps families potentially make transformations and transformations are decisions that are good for them. So then [families] come back and thank you because you taught them the value of things like receiving friends or making sure they personalize the elements of the ceremony that families tell us they do want, they just don't know how to do it so they need [a funeral director] to give them various choices in how to do that."
"I'm passionate about making meaningful funerals and to me Funeral Directors as well as Clergy are gate-keepers to what's happening in our culture related to ceremony. They need tools to know how to affectively be advocates for the value of funerals that have been with us since the beginning of time so that we stop this trend toward people going: "well just get rid of me". They're just deciding not to have meaningful funerals."
Why It's Important
"I'm helping Funeral Directors gain knowledge, learn skills, and close performance gaps as it relates to helping them understand how to convey the why of the funeral."
Why is it important? "[Because] we as a culture are continuing to move away from having funeral ceremonies. Hopefully in teaching the value of funerals [I'm] helping maintain something that's been part of our culture since the beginning of time that is now at risk of going away and so to do that I've got to help those representing funeral service have the skill base and the knowledge base to convey the value and then carry out meaningful funerals."
More Information
Dr. Wolfelt will be the keynote speaker for the Alabama Funeral Directors Association. The title of his talk is: 'The WHY of Meaningful Funerals: Helping Families Make Transformations'. 2-hour keynote address to their membership laying out how to convey the value of funerals.
His training has become quite popular, he currently has a waiting list for his next training in Colorado coming up in 2 weeks (June 24-26 2014) where he has 35 funeral directors going to Colorado where he teaches and it will be offered again next February 2015 in Scottsdale, AZ. The training will be held every June in Colorado and every February in Scottsdale.
He's written a number of books that relate to funeral service that you can find on his website www.centerforloss.com by navigating to the Book Store.
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Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a method of confirming a user's claimed identity in which a user is granted access only after successfully presenting 2 or more pieces of evidence (or factors) to an authentication mechanism.
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We need to use any one of the API which get the secret key and returns us back the MFA code
We are going to make use of Aerogear–otp-java API to generate MFA token https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-otp-java
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Articles > Names
Collected Name Resources from LoARs (2010-present)
Articles from Juliana de Luna, Lillia de Vaux, and Alys Mackyntoich
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September 2013 - Juliana de Luna Link to LoAR Cover Letter
In recent months, we have discussed Eastern European naming practices. This month, I am discussing Polish names. Polish is most closely related to Czech and Slovak; we label those three and related languages the North Slavic regional naming group in Appendix C of SENA.
Poland has a complicated history, and has over time included many areas that are not part of modern Poland. From the 14th century until well after 1600, Poland was part of a union with Lithuania (see the Cover Letter from July 2013 for more information about Lithuania). But the area in which Polish was dominant historically is mostly covered by modern Poland.
The simplest and most typical structure for a Polish name is to a given name followed by a relationship byname formed from a relative's given name, usually the father's name. For women, it could also be constructed from a husband's name. Luckily, our most readily available sources are all lists of given names, making it relatively simple to construct a full name.
First, we have "Polish Given Names in Nazwiska Polak{o'}w" by Walraven van Nijmegen and Arval Benicoeur (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/walraven/polish/). This article provides an undated list of given names "reverse engineered" from relationship bynames. For dated lists of given names, we have "Polish Feminine Given Names, 1600-1650" by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/polish/polishfem.html), and Lillia de Vaux, "A Preliminary Survey of Names from the Historical Dictionary of Personal Names in Bia{l/}ystok" from the 2011 KWHSS Proceedings (http://st-walburga.aspiringluddite.com/docs/Bialystok.pdf). The latter includes male and female given names mostly dating from c1450 to 1650, and discusses basic construction of relationship bynames.
Patronyms can be marked or--for men only--unmarked. Marking in Polish is accomplished in several ways. For men, the suffix -wic(z)/-wicc can be added to the father's given name (e.g., Andrzeiewicz), or syn "son" can be added before the father's full name (Jeromin syn Wojciecha Klepacskiego). In addition, a diminutive suffix, -ik/-yk can be added to the father's given name (Krystoncyk "Little Krystyn"). Women in period always bear feminized bynames formed by adding a suffix to their father or husband's given name or surname. Married women generally use the suffix -owa or -ina/-yna (Jakubowa and Czayczyna), and unmarried women -owna or -anka (Falkowna and Kisczanka). Which suffix is used depends on the relationship and the ending of the name being modified. Widows are often identified with wdowa before the patronymic byname. Unfortunately in many cases, the woman's own given name is not known, as only the feminized bynames are recorded. Such a name would not be registerable in the SCA, as our standards require a given name.
Locative surnames are either formed by using a genitive (possessive) form of the place name with the preposition z, or by using an adjectival form (ending in -ski for men or -ska for women). Descriptive, toponymic, and occupational bynames are also attested, and can be feminized just as the other types of bynames. In addition, Latinized given names and locative bynames, and particles like filius are appropriate for our period, even when combined with Polish surnames. Name patterns include double given names (for men), and double and triple bynames. However, it is not always clear if the second given name is a true given name or an unmarked patronym. Women with multiple bynames generally bear their maiden name and married name, with or without a locative.Back to Collected Name Resources from LoARs
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A Special Tribute to Valley Veteran and President of the VMLC Sam Young
What led you to enlist in the U.S. Air Force?
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BA (Hons), MSc
Rebecca is an international consultant, working across a diverse portfolio of industry sectors and continents. Over the past decade, as a millennial, her commitment to transform old systems and initiate new thinking and approaches has enabled her to develop experience working with organisations in leadership development and transformational programmes.
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2009 – MSc International Development, University of Bath, U.K. Subjects included Politics and Governance, Sociology, Economics of Development, Conflict and Humanitarian Relief, Research Skills and a Regional Specialization on Latin America. My dissertation was on the relevance of a particular wellbeing framework to working with street children in Brazil.
2008 – BA (Hons) Business Studies, University of Plymouth, U.K. This included a 1 year industrial work placement.
2016 Level 1 Equine Guided Education, Skyhorse Casari Ranch, California
2015 Accredited InnerAction workshop facilitator, Rising Women, Rising World
2013 Graduated Yoga Teacher Training – Vinyasa Flow, Yoga London
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2015 Facilitator Training, Rising Women, Rising World
Completing the facilitator training with Rising Women, Rising World was a truly transformational experience. Much more than a training, it was an opportunity for deep inner work and a new pathway to "creating a world that works for all".
2010 – 2015, Ujamaa Children's Trust, UK
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1994 – 2002 The Hunger Project, Australia
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1995 1 month travelling through India
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