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Several bank executives told Caixin that senior officials and lending-department managers from the 17 banks, including the state-owned "Big Five," attended the meeting, where the PBOC demanded that the banks adjust their respective lending structures, keep a tight rein on granting home loans and better manage their risks.And in July, more than 100 percent of new lending went to mortgages. In other words, if banks don't offset a cut in mortgage lending with other lending, credit creation will crater and the Chinese economy with it. Back in August I covered the situation in Depression: Residential Mortgages Account for 102pc of Lending Growth, Rate Cut Coming quoting a Chinese article:
China's big five banks are the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Construction Bank, the Bank of China, the Agricultural Bank of China and the Bank of Communications.
Sources told Caixin that regulatory authorities will take measures to keep commercial bank lending from going to the housing market, and the government will conduct more supervision and inspections of financial institutions over their issuance of home loans.
New loans in August reached 948 billion yuan ($141 billion), more than double the figure a month before, data from the People's Bank of China showed. Over 71 percent of the loans went to households.
I recently had a chat with the president of a grassroots bank, they saw the collapse of a large number of small and medium enterprises, manufacturing enterprises reluctant to borrow, demand is very weak, very worried about the outbreak of bad loans, now the only source of relief is government projects, the platform loans, he said that because in his 30 years of lending experience, the government loans never go bad, at worst they are extended, so we are all seeking to lend to government projects, and this is the reason the lending platforms have too much money, also a reason for the jump in M1.Chinese banks want to lend to the government or for residential mortgages because these are seen as low risk. The government is telling banks to make what they see as high risk loans.
The crackdown on down payment loans isn't working:
SCMP: Underground down payment loans cast a shadow over government's efforts to curb property lending
Chinese home buyers can still easily borrow down payments on properties, despite the government's efforts to crackdown on the practise.So the State Council is trying to crackdown on the practice:
Various types of financial platforms continue to be used to allow down payment loans, which experts say is making it increasingly difficult to measure just how large a problem property debt has become.
..."There are a lot of loopholes in China's credit system. Even though there are rules, people will break them or find ways around them," Yi said.
iFeng: 房地产金融继续收紧 国务院要求严打首付贷
October 13, the State Council issued the "Internet financial risk special work plan", requiring real estate development companies, real estate agencies and Internet practitioners financial institutions have not obtained the relevant financial qualifications, shall not use P2P network lending and equity crowdfunding platform platform in the real estate finance business; obtain the relevant financial qualification shall not be illegal in real estate finance-related businesses. Engaged in real estate finance business enterprises should comply with the relevant provisions of the macro-control policies and real estate finance management. Regulate the Internet "crowdfunding buy" and other acts prohibited various agencies to carry out " down payment loans," the nature of the business.


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Google is opening a new front in its battle with Microsoft by launching a free web browser today in 100 countries.
Google Chrome will take on Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which accounts for 72% of installed browsers after shoving aside rival programme Netscape in the 1990s' "browser wars".
It will also compete with the second strongest player, Mozilla Firefox, which has 20% of the market and grew out of Netscape.
Google is a key partner of Mozilla and last week the two groups extended their partnership agreement until 2011, which includes a provision for Google to be the default search engine in Firefox.
Some observers believe Google has abandoned its stance that it did not need a browser because of its growing concern not only over Explorer's default setting to Microsoft's Live Search but also the direction that Microsoft is taking with Explorer.
Last week Microsoft introduced an Explorer update that can block access to users' browsing habits from third-party sites.
Google's strategy of launching its own internet-based applications such as email, spreadsheets and word processing means the company is more reliant on browser technology.
This was acknowledged by a Google vice-president of product management, Sundar Pichai, in Google's explanation of Chrome.
Pichai said: "We realised that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser.
"What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that's what we set out to build."
In true Google style, the news about Chrome emerged in the form of a digital comic.
Google has said Chrome will be available for download later today and will post a link to it from its official blog site.
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Sol Gabetta will perform Elgar's Cello Concerto at the First Night of the Proms on July 15 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Sakari Oramo. To mark the occasion, the BBC and 59 Productions have collaborated on an enchanting new film in which images that reflect Elgar's music are projected on to the body of Gabetta's cello as she plays the concerto.
A 'making of' film has also been produced in which the technology behind this beautiful film is explored:
Gabetta's recording of Elgar's Cello Concerto for RCA Red Seal was an Editor's Choice in the October 2010 issue of Gramophone, with Rob Cowan noting that 'Beauty and talent can go hand-in-hand and Sol Gabetta's Elgar Concerto is one of the best around, a heartfelt, tonally rounded performance, intimate and wholly at one with Mario Venzago's generally subtle handling of the orchestral score.' (Read the review)


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My son is a soldier. He was recently out on a training run with his unit when for no apparent reason he was set upon by a soldier from a different unit, who used a wooden stick he was holding to hit my son and one of the other soldiers. It all happened very quickly, and luckily, although this boy hit my son so hard the stick broke on his back, my son and his friend were not injured. The attacking soldier was taken away to be charged and presumably punished. When they returned to the base, my son's comrades-in-arms, and, indeed, his commanding officer, mocked him for not beating the other guy up. They used pejorative terms casting doubt on their manhood. When my son called that evening, he told me that it had never even occurred to him. He had never beaten anyone up in his life and he wasn't going to start now. I told him I was proud of him and disgusted at his officer's attitude on any number of levels.
Later I reflected on the situation. We, like many other parents, brought our children up not to fight, but to 'use words' to resolve conflicts. I remember the day our oldest daughter came home from her first grade classroom, upset by the fact that her teacher had told a boy to hit back when another boy hit him. My friends all have similar stories to share. The culture of hitting back is unfortunately only too common in the Israeli ethos. And perhaps this should not surprise me – after all, hasn't the Israeli army, like many other armies in the world, adopted the principle of hitting back as part of its defence strategy? Although by name a defence force, retaliation (for example, in response to missile attacks from Gaza) is a central part of the army's functioning.
"Use words" we tell our children as they grow up. Why do we not believe in the same principle when it comes to conflicts between states? I can already hear the cries of those who will tell me I am naïve. Indeed, perhaps I am. But I will also tell you that our policy of 'hitting back' doesn't seem to be getting us very far. Rather than using words now to prevent the next (almost inevitable) outbreak of violence, we are waiting for the next occasion when we will be horrified by an unprovoked attack and will have no other option but to hit back. Whether it's Lebanon or Gaza, in Egypt or Syria, if we don't use words to resolve this conflict, then indeed we will have to hit back.
Our government has a tendency to suggest that the Palestinians only understand violence. "We won't talk under fire," they say. But when the Palestinians aren't firing at us we won't talk either. It seems that we simply won't talk at all. As the mother of an Israeli soldier, I feel compelled to voice my plea for our government to talk now in order to prevent armed conflict later. I, for one, am not prepared to see my son go into battle in an entirely avoidable war. Now's the time to take action to prevent the next war. It's time we learned to use words rather than always hitting back.


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Hello. It seems that this forum is a little slow. Where can a woman go to get more advice on hunting and fishing? What do you like to see/read? Eager for more information.
There already is one and this thread is in itI feel of all the hunting forums I frequent, HuntTalk is the most friendly, helpful and open (except for a very few topics) forum available. Maybe I am wrong and just looking though a male's lens, but I feel any questions you posed here would be replied to honestly and openly without the "stupid comments". Maybe it is time for a women's hunting subtopic for HuntTalk?
Oops! I just click on the new posts link and peruse them all at once.There already is one and this thread is in it
To the OP....I think the issue is this site and many like it are male dominated. I personally would suggest google if you are not finding what you want here after the 2 weeks you have been a member. There are hundreds of thousands of posts here and I'm not sure how many are women related, but tons of info.
Ok, I get what you mean now.Maybe a key component was looking for women based web sites or forums or fb pages.
Ha! I think this to myself all the time! Those damn big feet step on every pine cone within a 4 foot swath, I swear! I am SO much quieter....... how the men make so much noise, ...
This has been my experience as well. I like the entire process - research, scouting, all the little things that make up the hunt itself, processing and all the culinary wonders to be had. The only people I have met who share the same level of interest in hunting that I do have been men thus far, so that's who I talk/hang out/sometimes hunt with. Most of the other female hunters I've interacted with seem to have a more superficial interest, and it's hard to have really meaningful discussions specifically about hunting with them - certainly not the same level of discussion that I can share with the guys. I know there are a few other women out there more like me, but I'm not aware of any within a proximity to me that would allow us to gather over drinks for stories and lies.I would love to have regular roundtable beers with women who also hunt mostly solo. I just don't think there are that many of us. Take the number of ladies with hunting tags, subtract the ones who don't really hunt but their guy has them put in for tags anyways, subtract the women who have to have to be catered to in order to get persuaded to even come to hunting camp, subtract the wives and girlfriends that only go with their husbands or boyfriends, subtract the women who just walk around the woods taking selfies with their perfect hair, and you really don't have very many women left who are hungry enough to scout new areas, do hours of research, spend long days scouting and glassing, and are unafraid to hunt solo without anyone leading them around.
This is the second time I have seen you mention the Colorado BHA event. Backcountry Hunters and Anglers group. I found the web site. I will look into it. I don't think I have taken the steps to actually joining any actual groups and this may help me. Thank you for the suggestion.You may run into us sometime if you ever attend Colorado BHA events, as we're fairly active members.


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Breaking: Kansas City Chief's Player Kills Girlfriend, Commits Suicide at Team Facility
They haven't released any names yet, but a player for the Kansas City Chief's has reportedly shot and killed his girlfriend. He then drove to Arrowhead Stadium where he shot and killed himself at about 8 am this morning.
Via KCTV News:
Police are investigating two deadly shootings Saturday morning that they said are related.
The shootings involve a Chiefs player and his girlfriend.
The first shooting was reported about 8 a.m. at a home near East 54th Terrace and Crysler Avenue. The second shooting was reported a short time later at a Chiefs practice facility located on the Arrowhead facility.
Officials said the Chiefs player shot and killed his girlfriend and then drove to the practice facility where he shot and killed himself.
It's unknown if people were at Arrowhead or any of its surrounding facilities at the time. The Chiefs confirmed the shooting in a written statement saying, "We can confirm that there was an incident at Arrowhead earlier this morning. We are cooperating with authorities in their investigation."
This is stunning…
UPDATE: Reports indicate the player is 25 years of age. A quick scan of the roster shows these players matching that age description:
Javier Arenas
Jovan Belcher
Jalil Brown
Jamaal Charles
Tony Moeaki
Jamar Newsome
Jerrell Powe
Ricky Stanzi
Alex Tanney
UPDATE: The Viking Age is reporting that the player was indeed one of those on the above list – Jovan Belcher.
Claire McCaskill: The Recession Isn't All Bad Because It Means Less Emissions … Or Something
Face, meet palm.
According to the very warped mind of a cap and trade zealot like Claire McCaskill (h/t Gateway Pundit), less jobs = less manufacturing = less emissions … and that's a good thing!
What is that saying … you can't fix stupid?
"Well, the good news is our emissions are way down because of the recession. [Laughter] We are…I mean you know really if you want to find a silver lining in the cloud, the number that we were looking for we are well, well above where the emissions would have been assuming for purposes of discussion that cap and trade was passed a few years ago because we have had such a real drop in manufacturing output. Now I didn't mean really good news, I meant that it was… [Laughter] I was being sarcastic again in the context, but emissions are way down because of unfortunately the lack of economic activity that we have had in the last couple of years."
The Todd Akin campaign team responded:
"It is never good news when twenty-three million Americas are looking for work," said Rick Tyler, senior advisor to the Akin campaign. "This is the real Claire McCaskill–one who puts the liberal agenda ahead of the jobs and prosperity of millions of Americans. McCaskill's own businesses are getting millions in taxpayer dollars while one in six Missourians is living under the poverty line. Missouri cannot afford another six years with liberal Claire McCaskill making herself rich while celebrating the fact that others are out of work."
Think CNN Will Get Around to Covering That Dem Lawmaker Who Had Sex With a 17-Year-Old Boy at a Rest Stop?
Minnesota Democratic State Rep. Kerry Gauthier has had a rough go of it lately. Embroiled in a sex scandal that has attracted the attention of national media outlets, Gauthier has gone from waging a promising reelection bid for his seat, to being caught engaged in oral sex acts at a rest stop with a teenage boy, to pulling out of the race and facing possible expulsion from the Minnesota legislature.
Gauthier does have one place in which he can reliably look for cover on this story however – CNN.
ABC has the latest:
Disgraced Minnesota Democratic State Rep. Kerry Gauthier decided late Wednesday night that he will not seek reelection after he was caught having sexual contact with a 17-year-old. But that hasn't appeased some at the Minnesota State House — they want to expel Gauthier from the legislature now.
The move to expel Gauthier, so that he cannot serve out the rest of his term, will be started tomorrow, sources tell ABC News.
Last week it was revealed that Rep. Gauthier had engaged in oral sex with a 17-year-old boy at a rest stop in Duluth in July. He has since apologized for the incident, but the political outcry in Minnesota has been swift and strong, some accusing him of being a "child-molester."
Seems newsworthy, but not so for the so-called worldwide leader in news.
To be fair, CNN has been incredibly busy covering the controversial remarks of Rep. Todd Akin – to the tune of 117 entries on the website as of this post.
Execute the same kind of search for Kerry Gauthier on the site, and you'll find a lone hit from 2007 that has absolutely nothing to do with the Minnesota lawmaker.
The question has to be asked – What is the more newsworthy event here, the asinine comments of Akin speaking about "legitimate rape", or the fact that a lawmaker engaged in a sex act with a boy nearly four decades his junior; an act that would have been considered legitimate statutory rape in about 12 other states?
We're guessing CNN's defense would be that Gauthier is not a national politician, in contrast to Akin. And yet every other major network has covered the story in some manner, including Fox News, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, the Huffington Post, etc.
So why has CNN avoided the scandal and instead had a laser-like focus on the Akin story? Is it nothing more than the placement of a 'D' in front of Gauthier's name that has the network burying the story?
Breaking: Santorum Scores Big With Three State Sweep
Rick Santorum has slowed the Mitt Romney streak in GOP primaries with a surge of his own tonight, scoring victories in both Minnesota and Missouri. He also leads in Colorado, but the contest is currently too close to call.
Is this a game-changer, or simply a bump in the road for Romney?
Fox News is reporting that Rick Santorum has also won in Colorado. From their breaking news ticker:
"Colorado Republican Party Says Rick Santorum Wins Colorado Caucuses"
From MSNBC (updated):
Rick Santorum scored victories in the Minnesota, Missouri, and Colorado nominating contests Tuesday night, winning him no actual delegates, but nonetheless blocking Mitt Romney's bid to keep alive a streak of victories in the Republican presidential primary.
NBC News declared Santorum the projected winner of the Missouri primary, the Minnesota caucus, and the Colorado caucus. NBC will not be allocating any delegates from Missouri, Minnesota, or Colorado to Santorum in its projected count.
Romney finished third in Minnesota, a state where he won its 2008 caucuses, and where a key campaign surrogate, Tim Pawlenty, served two terms as governor.
CNN adds:
Rick Santorum won the Missouri primary and Minnesota caucuses Tuesday in results that reshaped the Republican presidential race by raising questions about frontrunner Mitt Romney's ability to attract broad conservative support.
The former Pennsylvania senator was also leading in the Colorado caucuses, and would score a major upset over the front-running Romney if the trend held.
The victory in a state Romney won in his unsuccessful 2008 presidential bid was a strong statement by Santorum that he represents a major conservative challenge to the former Massachusetts governor and Gingrich, the former House speaker.
And from Fox News:
Romney is still ahead in the delegate count, despite Santorum's big night. But Santorum's victories disrupt the narrative that the GOP presidential contest had become a two-person race between Gingrich and Romney.
In his victory speech, Santorum said "Conservatism is alive and well in Missouri and Minnesota."
Question is, is it alive and well in the rest of the country?
"I don't stand here and claim to be the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney," Santorum declared. "I stand here to be the conservative alternative to Barack Obama."
Michelle Malkin makes two great points:
If Santorum sweeps these critical battleground states tonight, he will have won more states than "frontrunner" Mitt Romney (he has snagged three states).Nothing is inevitable in politics.Also noteworthy: Santorum is doing this with just a fraction of Mitt Romney's money.
Money can take you far, but just like Mitt Romney learned in 2008 and is learning again, it can't seal the deal


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Summary of passage: If God's people turn back to Him, He will bless them and gather them together and prosper them and curse their enemies. God only desires love and obedience.
10a) "Take his commands to heart" that is obey Him and love Him.
b) Circumcise them.
c) Personal Question. My answer: That God is always just one step away, one prayer away, one repentance away. He is waiting to pick us up when we fall and He never tires of this no matter how many times we sin. It is a great comfort because I sin all the time so knowing God loves me anyways gives me the faith to keep pursuing Him.
11a) A choice of life or death
b) Personal Question. My answer: Life. Through believe in Jesus Christ, you will have eternal life.
12) If you read all of Galatians 3, you will see the whole answer here. Paul's argument is this: Abraham who lived before the law was given merely believed in God and was considered righteous. Then the law was given (and Paul says the reason the law was given was to lead the people to Christ. Verse 19 has the answer: The purpose of the law was added because of transgressions until the Seed (Jesus) had come.) The law's purpose was to show people that it is impossible to gain God's acceptance and be with Him on our own–that we need a Savior to do it for us. But once Jesus stepped foot on this planet, God required faith in Jesus who took our transgressions upon himself.
Therefore, the law was to show us our inadequacies and just how much we truly need God and a Savior.
The people needed the Law because Jesus hadn't come yet. They needed a way to be with God and the Old Covenant was it. The problem: as we've seen this year, the people were never cleansed enough to be with God. The system of blood sacrifice was not enough. The people needed to see that and to live that out. It was to prepare people for the Truth and make them desperate for a Savior.
Conclusions: LOVED the last question. Perfect! Sums up our whole study.
End Notes: The modern state of Israel is the fulfillment of God's promise here to regather His people that have been scattered for centuries all over the world. Scholars say this promise was not fulfilled after their Babylonian exile because the Israelites were still being ruled over. Now, the modern state of Israel is larger, stronger, and richer than any other time in history. Israel needs our prayers.
However, Israel today is a secular society despite its Jewish heritage. Only the ancient Israelites had a true theocracy. Hence, this prophecy is only partially filled. Furthermore, most Jews do not accept Jesus, which in essence is a rejection of God. But God is faithful and He will keep His promise in these verses.
Ezekiel 37 says that first the Jews will gather together and then God will put His spirit in them. God is not done with His people yet.
Under the Old Covenant, the Israelites had to obey the law, offer sacrifices, and believe in its power to atone and to understand another would come. Under the New Covenant, we only have to believe in Jesus as the Savior; we don't have to do anything. How full of grace is our God!
We see God pleading with His people through Moses to choose Him. We can see God pleading with His people through Jesus to believe in him. We see God telling His people to love Him, listen to Him, and hold on to Him. He is our life.
God makes it simple: understand (mouth), believe (heart), and obey His word. Paul says the same thing when he quotes this passage in Romans 10:6-10: Confess Jesus is your Lord and believe in your heart he is the Savior. And you will be saved. Period.


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Years: 1982, six half-hour episodes
Creators: Jim Abrahams and David and Jerry Zucker
Stars: Leslie Nielson and Alan North
The Concept: An absolutely absurd goof on cop TV shows like "Dragnet", and storytelling conventions in general.
How it Came to be Underrated: The creators had sold it based on nothing but the opening credit sequence, but ABC got cold feet when they realized how bizarre the actual show was going to be. (ABC complained that you actually had to watch the TV set to get the visual jokes.) It was cancelled after six unheralded episodes, only to be reborn five years later as the "Naked Gun" movie series.
Writer: Abrahams, Zucker and Zucker
The Story: Nielson and North investigate a stenographer who killed her boss and framed another man for the murder. They get their gal (but first they kill off half the city.)
Why It's Great:
- The creators made this between making Airplane and Top Secret for the big screen and they brought over their trademark lightning-fast pun-heavy wordplay. "We think we know how he did it." "Oh Howie couldn't have done it, he hasn't been in for weeks."
- Every episode, Frank would get stumped and bribe a shoeshine-guy-turned-stoolie who always had an inside line on every case.
After Frank paid him off and left, someone from another profession would discover that the stoolie was equally knowledgeable about other topics… In the first episode, a priest slips him a twenty and asks "What do you know about life after death?" Here's a visit from a later episode:
- I hadn't seen this show since I fell in love with early "Dragnet", which just makes it funnier. As always, Nielson's trademark deadpan delivery is flawless: "We're sorry to bother you at a time like this, Ma'am. We would have come earlier but your husband wasn't dead yet."
- Every episode respected the cop-show tradition at the time of ending the episode with a laugh and a freeze frame, but the actors just faked the freeze frame, even if it meant having to endure scalding coffee cascading down their hands:
How Available Is It?: It's got a nice DVD with lively commentaries on half the episodes
What the Remake Did Wrong: All of the other examples of "The Original was Better" Week have been foreign shows that were unwisely adapted for US TV. This one is an American show that lost a lot of its charm when it made the jump to the movies. The movies were mildly funny but they don't prepare you for the absurd pleasures of this show. It didn't help that they replaced the very funny North with America's sweetheart, O. J. Simpson.
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Gorgeous bay views and latin ambiance.
Craft-brewery on the 33rd floor.
Long Bar
A former haunt of Ernest Hemingway.
Post Bar
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Tanjong Beach Club
Drink in ocean views.
The Auld Alliance
Whiskey bar with an old-school feel.
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Why do you want to share your story?
I wanted to share our story because going through fertility struggles and treatment can be such a lonely process. When your friends are getting pregnant by accident and you've been trying for years, you don't know where to turn for comfort. Nobody talks about it! There's strength in numbers, so I have never been shy about sharing our experience to let others know that they are not alone.
What made you decide to get a Fertility Awareness Checkup? What did you learn?
I went to my regular OB/GYN because I knew something wasn't right. We hadn't used any form of birth control in over two years and all we had to show for it was a miscarriage. My doctor recommended that we go for the Fertility Awareness Checkup to see if that would tell us what was going on. It was a simple process that revealed that the problem was with my ovaries.
What was your infertility diagnosis?
After years of insisting to my doctors that I had Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and being told that they could find nothing wrong, I was relieved to finally have what I had known all along confirmed by the Fertility Awareness Checkup. The ultrasound and bloodwork done as part of the checkup diagnosed me with PCOS. It's hard to get pregnant when you don't ovulate!
What fertility treatment did you undergo?
We were very lucky in that our process was as "simple" as ovarian stimulation and timed intercourse. I was put on a couple medications to help regulate my hormones and stimulate ovulation. I was monitored with bloodwork and ultrasounds by Dr. Uhler and her team so we knew when we were in our prime baby-making window. We were given the option of IUI but decided to try a cycle on our own first. Success!
What helped you get through treatment?
We had fantastic support from our families! Our parents were so excited to have a grandchild and, as parents, would do anything to help their babies feel better. They were our constant cheerleaders. We also got tremendous support from the staff at our FCI office. I actually looked forward to my appointments because the nurses, techs, etc. were so caring and encouraging. Being able to rely on each other for support also was huge for us. My husband and I were in it together every step of the way. I was the one physically undergoing treatment, but he was every bit as emotionally invested as I was. We really became an incredible team during this process. Our struggles actually made us a stronger couple and better parents.
Can you tell us about your little miracle?
When I was going through treatment, I initially did not respond to the oral medication I was given first. I ended up needing injections to stimulate a follicle (immature egg) that was big enough to trigger for ovulation, and I was ecstatic when I was told my follicle measured 21. (FCI was hoping for 17) I told Dr. Uhler that I was going to go home and turn my big fat follicle into a big fat healthy baby. That was on St. Patrick's Day weekend and on April 1st, I learned that I was pregnant. I had been so nervous since it was April Fool's Day, but it was true! I had an easy pregnancy and wonderful labor/delivery experience! I was measuring big throughout my pregnancy and when our son was born, he set the hospital record as the largest baby ever born in that hospital, weighing in at 12lb 10oz. He's beautiful, funny, charming, smart – even better than I could have imagined! We love our big little boy!
That was on St. Patrick's Day weekend and on April 1st, I learned that I was pregnant. I had been so nervous since it was April Fool's Day, but it was true!
Why did you trust Fertility Centers of Illinois?
Initially, I trusted that my OB/GYN would point us in a good direction. Once we met with Dr. Uhler, we knew we were in the best possible hands. We knew she, and her staff, cared about helping us achieve our dream and that they had the expertise to make it happen.
Which physician did you work with to get pregnant? What was your experience?
We worked with Dr. Uhler and the staff at the Oak Brook office. Debbie was my nurse and she was wonderful! I knew I could come to anyone on our FCI team with any questions or concerns I had and they would take the time to really listen and help. I thought of her and Dr. Uhler so often during my pregnancy and right after my son was born. I could not wait to share our success with them! We're currently in the process of working with Dr. Uhler to get pregnant with Baby #2!
What words of advice and hope do you have for others?
When you think about all of the things that have to happen for a healthy baby to be created and born, you realize just what a miracle human life is. We're all a one-in-a-million shot! Even healthy people can struggle to get (and stay!) pregnant. You have no way of knowing how fertile you are or are not unless you go through a process like FCI's Fertility Awareness Checkup. If having a family is something that is important to you, you should do something about it. The Fertility Awareness Checkup is a quick and simple appointment, but it could be incredibly valuable in helping you plan your family. We could have saved ourselves so much time if we had only gone in sooner! I have recommended FCI and the checkup to friends and relatives who are planning on having a family. And if you're in the middle of your journey to parenthood, keep your chin up and know that you can do this. You are much more resilient than you give yourself credit for. The reward in the end is more than worth it!


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A group of children from Belarus affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster last week visited the Proact and were given a special guided tour of the home of CFC.
The Chernobyl tragedy happened 30 years ago in northern Ukraine, but the affects and devastation brought by the disaster live on and as a result thousands of children in Belarus, which received 70% of the explosion's radioactive fallout, are born every year with, or go on to develop, diseases such as thyroid cancer, bone cancer and leukaemia.
As part of their trip to the UK, the group visited the Crooked Spire in town and the football club, where they met Spireites player Tommy Lee who was able to talk to the children and pose for photos.
Pete Whiteley from the CFC Community Trust spoke about the visit: "The actual organisation has been bringing chrildren over for 20 years or so now, but it's only since we've been at the Proact that they've also been coming to see us.
"This is the sixth time they've been along and we think it's fantastic that we can support these youngsters in this way because the area where they come from in Belarus has never recovered from the disaster 30 years ago.
"It's brilliant that they can come over here for a month and the football club and the Trust can support them by bringing them here for a day, along with our partners from the Co-op who make it possible.
"They were very excited, I don't know what kind of scale of football they have near them in Belarus but they were very impressed by what they found here.
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by Cindy
Submission date : 2007-04-05
Last edit : 2007-05-23
Sweet lig ( F P C D )
at 2007-11-09
Wow i was captivated... the whole stanza are truly expressed the great emotion. specially i was enjoyed the last lines....... very impressive and fabulous work 5/5
LandiCordier ( P C D )
at 2009-01-08
Hey Cindy, how have you been? i hope you remember me, i used to narcissa?!? your writing just keeps getting better, its as if your poems swallow me! i get lost in them!
you really are a truely great writer! thanks for all the inpiration you have given me!
all my love
narc xxx
Italian Stallion ( F P C D )
at 2009-03-05
Wow Cindy, what a heartfelt write. When I read your work on here I am always amazed by the pure beauty you portray with your vivid imagery. I loved your choice of words and the overall flow as well.
However; I would've liked to see some punctuation within this piece. Punctuation is very important in poetry, it lets the reader know when to pause or stop as well as adding to the overall flow of the piece.
Overall an emotion filled piece which was well written. Keep up the fantastic work!
Peace, Joe
[ Praised by Cindy | Approved by Sherry Lynn ]
NightFlyer ( F P C D )
at 2009-07-31
Very moving to read this, Cindy!!!! Can sense the emotional devastation that the subject of this poem feels, being left by the wayside. This vulnerability and emotion expressed here is sadly beautiful.
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Felt like you were speaking from my heart- I totally relate to this poem. Good job!


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Thanks to republican gerrymandering, voter suppression, and Citizens United, the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate is controlled by representatives of Tea Party States. States that have been openly defying and disrespecting the African American President of the United States of America, hoping he fails. Imagine the progress we could have made if our government weren't controlled by people who pander to and support the point of view of the people in the video below?
Bigotry was on full display in South Carolina yesterday as more than 50 protesters and KKK members brandished Confederate flags and yelled racial slurs at a rally that overlapped with black activists' protests at the statehouse. For many in attendence, the scene displayed that that America is "still a racist nation":So much for post racial America.


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A NEW ERA: Scappoose will join St. Helens in Class 5A Northwest Oregon Conference in fall 2018
In a move anticipated through months of review and one that will give Scappoose and St. Helens fans a lot to talk about, the Oregon School Activities Association Executive Board and Delegate Assembly announced approval of its new six-classification plan for all sports from fall 2018 through spring 2022 Tuesday.
Scappoose High School, with an adjusted 2016-17 average daily membership (enrollment) of 730 students -- above the updated Class 4A threshold -- will join La Salle Prep, Hillsboro, Milwaukie, Parkrose, Putnam, St. Helens and Wilsonville as Sandy jumps up to the Class 6A Mt. Hood Conference.
The Cowapa League will remain Astoria, Banks, Seaside, Tillamook and Valley Catholic.
"We're going to miss all the people we've worked with in the Cowapa League, but we're excited to see what Class 5A has to offer," Indians athletic director Robert Medley said.
The Tribe has won eight Class 4A team state championships (boys' golf in 2017, baseball in 2015 and 2010, boys' basketball in 2015, girls' soccer in 2015 and 2013, girls' cross country in 2011 and wrestling in 2010) since it came up from Class 3A in 2007, and will welcome its new challengers.
Scappoose also collected 17 individual titles (Linnaea Kavulich's girls' 3,000-meter run (2017); Mychal Hortert, Matt Shoun, Nick Rust and Justice Oman's boys' 1,600 relay (2014); Charlie Davidson's girls' 1,500 run (2014); Isaiah Goodrich at 182 pounds in wrestling (2014); Hortert, Shoun, Oman and Stephen Bowe's boys' 1,600 relay (2012); Adonis Siscoe's boys' 100 and 200 dashes (2011); Jadyn Harris, Bowe, Jason Amick and Siscoe's boys' 400 relay (2011); Charlie Davidson's girls' 1,500 run (2011); Travis Hill at 171 pounds (2011); Aaron Aguilera at 171 pounds (2010); Gabe Goodrich at 119 pounds (2010); Kevin Carpenter's boys' 200 dash (2008); Seth Honl at 130 pounds (2008); Ryland Geiger at 189 pounds (2008 and 2007) and Seth Honl at 125 pounds (2007)).
The Lions, in the meantime, have celebrated a pair of Class 5A championships (volleyball in 2014 and boys' track and field in 2007) and seven individual crowns (Jacob Opdahl's javelin (2017); Dakotah Camberg's high jump (2017); Miguel Olmedo at heavyweight (2017); Myles Terry at 182 pounds (2015); Ryan Byrd's boys' 1,500 run (2012); Carson Bartlett's long jump and triple jump (2007)) since moving up from Class 4A in 2006.
"The changes in the 5A league compositions in the next cycle of the OSAA classification and districting, I think, ultimately benefits the schools involved," first-year St. Helens athletic director Aaron Longo said. "Sandy High School will get to return to the Mt. Hood Conference and their traditional matchups. Scappoose will get to move into the Northwest Oregon Conference and see their historical contests and rivalries return as well. I think that the moves that are being made at 5A are ultimately beneficial to schools involved in all capacities."
The Tribe and Lions will reunite after going head-to-head in Class 3A through 1999.


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Join Diane Burns for an in-depth discussion in this video Choosing fonts and examining other design considerations, part of InDesign: Multilingual Publishing Strategies.
When it comes to designing multilingual documents, there are a couple of things you need to keep in mind. These are issues separate from marketing considerations, such as cultural sensitivity and so forth, which is outside the scope of this course. Rather, we're just going to talk about what you need to consider when designing a document that will contain languages other than English. First and foremost is your choice of typeface. With multilingual publishing, you want to choose a typeface, when possible, that has a character sets for all the languages you'll be working in. If you're targeting audiences for Western European languages such as Spanish or French, just about any font you choose will be fine.
But if you need to produce documents in any other language group, do your homework first. Don't choose a typeface and find out later you can't use it for, say, the Turkish version of your brochure or document. Font vendor websites are a great resource in this regard. One that's done a lot of work to make your research easier is FontShop. You can filter almost anything by languages. For example, let's go to the Category section of their website, and say we want a Slab-style typeface to typeset Russian.
If we go to the Slab category, we can actually filter these fonts by language. So, I'll just type in Russian, update the filter, and now I have a list of all the fonts that have Cyrillic characters, and in which I can typeset Russian. Notice, by the way, too, that if you get outside the Latin character set with Cyrillic or certainly Arabic or Chinese or Japanese characters, the primary font may not contain the characters you need. For example, Bookman Old Style doesn't contain Cyrillic characters.
You need instead to get Bookman Old Style Cyrillic to get that language coverage. This is especially true with Middle Eastern languages, and typically, Asian fonts are not in the same families as the fonts we're accustomed to. There is no Bookman Chinese Font, nor Myriad Chinese font. And in that case, you really want to try to match the style as closely as you can. The other thing to consider when you're designing multilingual documents is language length. I thought it might be interesting to compare the text from our Roux brochure which we've been using throughout this course and which we had translated into seven other languages.
Here, you see a couple of paragraphs as they were set in the original brochure. Myriad 10/14. Spanish was set with exactly the same type specs and you can see that it runs a little bit longer. In the case of Russian, in order to fit in the space we had, we actually had to decrease the leading, because of Russian runs longer still than even Spanish does. In the case of our Hindi text, the fonts run a little bit smaller, so we actually increased the font size, and the leading, and the language still took up less space than our English.
In Arabic, we increase the leading even more to fill out the space. For Asian languages, you'll generally find that Asian fonts run larger than their same-size counterpart in Latin characters. And we typically decrease the point size for these languages. But if we zoom back out, you start to get a sense of the different lengths of languages, even with different type specifications. On the next page, we've actually set the languages all with the same type specs.
They're all 10 on 14. And you start to get a sense of the variety in language length, as well as the difference in font sizes. You can see that these characters tend to run much larger than English. And finally, the last page of our document compares certain fonts with their English counterpart. And in the case of Chinese, for example, we had to reduce the point size a full point size to match the English text.
So, the general rule of thumb is to leave a little whitespace and adjust type specs for different languages as needed. There is a great example of this sort of thing that you can download for yourself. This is a EU report, and I recommend you download the highlights. The primary link here is for English, but if you click on this little box, you can download this report in any one of the 22 official languages of the European Union. In this report, the same content needed to appear on the same pages within the document.
On the left, we have the English page and on the right the German page. A couple of things I'd like to point out. First of all, you can easily see the white space that's on the English page. And if you look closely, the German text not only takes up more space, but it was even made a size smaller. You can see that the sidebar for German is a bit longer than the one for English. So, the overall design had to take that into consideration. Same thing on this page. Here, we needed to leave room--or the designer had to leave room, rather--for a much longer sidebar.
You can really see the difference in a language like Finnish, where we have a much longer sidebar here and the type set at a small spec. So, as with any design project, you always need to plan ahead, but with multilingual publishing, keep your fonts and language length clearly in mind.
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- Exploring fonts and character sets
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- Changing language direction
- Typesetting different languages
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picture from Armorcast
...needless to say, I thought that was pretty cool. Around this time I had also picked up the Karchev the Terrible warcaster model from Privateer Press, and was excited about painting it - I decided that I'd pick up some of the cinematic effects and give them a try with the Karchev model. Before leaving Adepticon I stopped by the Armorcast booth and picked up a couple of the Large Smoke Plumes.
Here's the smoke plumes right out of the package:
...and here's the built Karchev model:
Hmmm. Most of the warjacks have a single exhaust stack at the top, but Karchev has six, three on each side- the smoke plumes aren't going to work as-is. To solve this, I took my hobby saw and cut the smoke plumes down to the approximate width of the row of smokestacks:
Then I sunk some pins into the smokestacks, and drilled out the smoke plumes:
I mixed up some Green Stuff and sculpted the area where the plumes joined the smokestacks:
After the model was primed, I painted the reds with my airbrush, as seen in my zenital airbrushing tutorial:
I used the airbrush with some oranges & yellows to fade the appropriate colors into the recesses of the smoke plumes:
To do the "outermost" part of the smoke plumes, where they would be the darkest, I turned to Forge World's "Black Soot" weathering powder:
I mixed it with some water and applied it to the spots where I didn't want any color to show through at all:
Then, I applied the dry powder with a brush where I wanted it to be somewhat transparent:
I had had problems before with the weathering powders getting where I didn't want them, so I decided to fix them before moving on to the rest of the model. I masked the rest of the model off with an old shopping bag and applied some Krylon matte varnish:
Oh no, what's this?!?!
I had the dreaded "white fuzz" appear on the smoke plumes immediately. It actually happened right before my eyes - I think the weathering powder was absorbing all the propellant/medium in the varnish almost instantly, making the varnish dry too fast. (I was spraying indoors, and I've never had a problem with this matte varnish before). I tried re-coating it, with similar results - after looking around online and talking to some people via Twitter, I used a paintbrush dipped in mineral spirits to remove the fuzz:
Then I gave the smoke plumes a coat of Testor's Dull Kote, which I usually abhor:
Okay, crisis averted. Unfortunately I lost some of the color on the smoke plumes during that little fiasco, and I had to spend some time touching them up with some more orange & some yellow ink. Now at least I could move on to painting the rest of the model.
I started by giving the whole model a wash of 50/50 Baal Red/Devlan Mud:
Then I started adding the colors, mostly the black & metallics:
...about this time the freakin' model broke on me AGAIN, in a spot that had already been pinned AND epoxied (those annoying fringe "skirts" around the back). This time I resorted to JB Weld and a clamp to repair it:
...the pictures of the painting process get kinda sparse around here, since the clearcoat fiasco & the breakage cost me a couple of days, and I was rushing to get done. Mostly it consisted of finishing the weapons, face, and painting a billion brass rivets.
Since I'm doing a winter theme for the bases on my Khador models, I bought these cool little icicles from Dragon Forge Designs:
I cut a small section and glued them to the side of the base:
(I realized later that I actually glued these on backwards, since there was a big nasty vent mark on the section I chose - oh well). I wasn't concerned about cleaning up the top edge of the icicles, since I was planning on covering it with snow effects from Secret Weapon Miniatures:
...another cool item I picked up from Dragon Forge with this model in mind was this cool large resin display plinth:
After giving it a scrub, I gave it a couple coats of GW Chaos Black Spray:
Then a quick spray with some Dull Kote:
After everything was done, I pulled out the light box & good camera for a photo shoot:
Finished pics:
Overall I'm fairly pleased with how he came out, although I didn't get to do everything I wanted - my original plan was to do his weapons with non-metallic metals, and I would have liked to have tried some OSL effects from the fire like in the Armorcast product photo, but I just ran out of time. Building the model was an exercise in frustration (there are more pins in that model than in Evel Kinevel's spine) and it broke on me multiple times when I was handling it during painting. That, plus the complications with the varnish, plus the fact that it's become pretty obvious that Karchev is not going to be my warcaster of choice for my Khador force (The Butcher & Sorscha are both too good) meant that I was ready to be done with this model...


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This book has some wonderful and tasty recipe's
Three pork chops in the brine for 3-hrs. 2-bone in 1 thick with out
On a raised grid for 3-min. a side @450*
The recipe calls for 8-min. a side these were to small so I did
them for 6-min. and they were a little over done me and Jackie
With the glaze in the meantime Jackie made Garlic Fries she
found at Trader Joe's and fresh zucchini from our garden
The Pork Chops had wonderful flavor, Garlic Fries as well, the
Zucchini was tasty too. We are going have this again soon.
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BBVA, exclusive financial advisor to Grupo Carvajal in the sale of its publishing business to SantillanaMarch 8, 2016
BBVA Corporate Finance has acted as exclusive financial advisor to Carvajal in the sale of its publishing business, Carvajal Soluciones Educativas, to Grupo Santillana. This is the largest deal ever completed in the education publishing industry in Colombia.
BBVA has offered Grupo Carvajal a wide range of advisory services, including the design of the process, the preparation of marketing materials, asset valuation, due diligence coordination, and structuring and strategic advice during the deal.
The bank organized a sales process designed to maximize the value and the certainty of closing with over 20 potential investors contacted, including relevant strategic and financial players at international level.
BBVA Corporate Finance's capabilities and experience have been key to the closing of this complex cross-border transaction involving Colombia, Spain and another seven Latin American countries.
The sale of Carvajal Soluciones Educativas is part of Carvajal's strategy to focus its activity on those business lines where it has a larger scale and a better competitive position. It also enables it to monetize assets for investment and expansion in its core assets.
For Santillana, this acquisition offers the chance to become the undisputed leader of the education publishing sector in Latin America, strengthening its market share in the region. The company achieves greater negotiating power with the different distribution channels and suppliers, improving its sales force and optimizing its front and back office structures.
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Case Studies
Boyer Greene consultants have been assisting small to mid-size law firms for over 20 years. When hired by a client, we focus on the issues facing that firm, how we can best help them improve efforts and what process would work best in their firm culture. These case studies are just a few examples of how we assist our clients.
Delegation Program
Firm Retreat
Governance Restructuring
Marketing Analysis & Planning
We were contacted by a 20 lawyer firm that was considering as laterals 3 lawyers who had been practicing together in the same community. The firm had experienced the departure of two of its most productive partners and needed to rebuild firm revenue to support its overhead and fill vacant offices. We agreed to compare financial information from both firms, interview all lawyers and report back with an opinion about the compatibility of the three lawyers with the firm.
First, we acquired in confidence financial reports from both firms. We studied those reports to determine if they had similar billable hours, similar per lawyer revenue and similar billing and collection results. We compared expenses to see if the lawyers in each firm had similar needs in terms of support and related resources. Finally, we had an opportunity to compare both their profit levels and their approaches to sharing profits. This gave us the ability to advise our client as to any issues that might arise from a financial standpoint.
Armed with this basic information, we started the interview process with the lawyers in the firm that had engaged our services. Having been immersed in the numbers, our goal for the interviews was to determine the firm's culture and the tolerance of the individual lawyers for brining in a group of lawyers who had been practicing together in a different firm for many years. We explored with the partners their attitudes about dividing profits, sharing work, being held accountable, and other aspects of their relationship with each other. These interviews gave us a good sense of the firm's culture and how the partners got along with each other.
The next thing we did was to interview the three lawyers that were being considered as lateral additions. We had the opportunity to explore all of the same issues, some of which delved into delicate areas that would have been more difficult to broach in direct discussions between firms. For example, we were able to explore individually with each lawyer issues of expected compensation, partnership status and whether the three lawyers needed to be considered as a block or individually.
As a result of this process, we provided our client with our observations about the three lawyers, which included compatibility considerations from a financial, cultural and personal basis. While this appeared to be a good "fit," we were able to highlight for our client potential issues and areas that deserved special attention in the negotiation process. We recommended that if the three lawyers were to join the firm that they are offered non-equity partners status for the first year, with an opportunity to become equity partners one year later if everything worked out as expected.
Following our work, the firms entered into direct discussions and scheduled several social events for everyone to get to know each other better. Within three months, the arrangement was finalized and the three lawyers joined the firm. Now, over a year later, our client's report that the new lawyers have fit in well, everyone is pleased with the results and that the firm is financially stronger. back to top
A mid-size law firm based in the Western United States received notification that their Legal Administrator was retiring at the end of the year. The firm had an effective management structure and a positive culture, but realized that it was time to review its administrative structure to ensure that it would be able to support the firm's continued growth and position as a leading law firm in the area. The firm called Boyer Greene to assist them with the review and to make recommendations.
We interviewed all administrative personal, selected partners and the human resources partner to learn about the firm's operation and its vision of the future. It was obvious that the firm had outgrown its current bookkeeper and other key administrative personnel. Boyer Greene recommended that the firm upgrade its position description for certain administrative personnel including the Legal Administrator. Boyer Greene drafted the position descriptions for each position as well as the skills and qualifications needed to succeed within the firm. Boyer Greene suggested that the firm provide individual training and coaching to upgrade current employee skills to meet the newly developed positions descriptions. We also created a process by which to review the progress of each individual.
In our written report, we created goals, objectives and expectations to be met by the administrative team. We also included the process by which the administrative team should interact with the management group of the firm. We provided a timetable for actions to ensure implementation of the program.
The firm has implemented the plan and is currently in the process of upgrading administrative personnel with the ultimate goal being for the firm to continue providing high quality legal services to its clients while maintaining a strong administration allowing the lawyers to practice law rather than manage day to day functions of the firm. back to top
We were contacted by a mid-sized law firm that was experiencing a financial crisis. It had maxed out its line of credit, it had utilized its firm credit card and was carrying a high balance, and three of the partners had just made $10,000 loans to the firm in order to meet payroll. Monthly billings were down, receivables were up and the current workload seemed soft.
We reviewed the firm's financial status and immediately made the recommendation that there be no further borrowing to fund partner draws. Funding partner draws is a mistake that is all too common. Next, we looked at the expenses and helped the firm cut what was unnecessary, while protecting staff members who were valuable to the long term future of the firm. There were layoffs of two staff members whose work ethic and productivity had been lacking for years. Other staff members agreed to a four day work week for six month, with a 10% cut in pay, in order to avoid further staff layoffs. Two small branch offices were closed with the lawyers retuning to the home office to better focus on more productive work.
We made specific recommendations concerning fee deposits, billings, and collections. The firm had failed to get clients to replenish fee deposits, billings were handled on an ad hoc basis, and there was no firm wide collection policy.
We examined the financial reports that were routinely circulated to all lawyers and determined that they were confusing and didn't provide a clear message. We assisted the administrator in creating reports that provided better information that was necessary to keep each lawyer accountable. We also helped the firm make some changes to its compensation system, after determining that the system promoted unwanted behaviors, rather than desired behaviors.
As a result of our work, the firm got back on course and started paying down its debt. The partners are got to a point where they reinstated a portion of their monthly draws, however, adopting a policy that the firm will never again borrow money to pay partners. The firm is on course to pay down its remaining debt within a year and will then be able to focus all its energies on building a more profitable firm. back to top
Delegation Program
A mid-size mid west law firm was having trouble hiring and keeping good associates. Once associates were hired, they were having trouble keeping them busy. The firm determined that their work delegation process was ineffective and negatively affecting firm profits.
They called Boyer Greene to help them determine an effective strategy to address these issues. Boyer Greene conducted a written survey of all lawyers within the firm. Boyer Greene conducted a one day retreat focusing on hiring, retaining and delegating meaningful work to qualified associates. Both partners and associates attended and participated in the retreat. The results of the survey, helped Boyer Greene to create a report and recommendations including survey results, strategies for enhancing associate hiring, retention and senior lawyer work delegation.
The specific responses to the written survey were confidential to Boyer Greene, however we were able to use the information during the development of the report and recommendations without putting anybody on the "hot seat" for specific comments and thoughts. During the retreat discussion, we were able to raise concerns and share strategies learned from the survey responses. We also used our skill and experience to make significant recommendations for success.
The firm now has a greater understanding of lawyer hiring and retention strategies and processes. The firm has implemented the work delegation plan adopted during the retreat.
Administrative personnel with the ultimate goal being for the firm to continue providing high quality legal services to its clients while maintaining a strong administration allowing the lawyers to practice law rather than manage day to day functions of the firm. back to top
Firm Retreat
A law firm of over 100 lawyers in the south was struggling with several internal governance and administrative issues. The firm formed a strategic planning committee to focus on developing strategies to address firm issues. The strategic planning committee turned to Boyer Greene for assistance.
In preparation for the retreat, Boyer Greene conducted individual lawyer and staff interviews to help gain information and assistance in identifying all issues facing the firm. Armed with a comprehensive perspective regarding firm issues, we facilitated a full day retreat of the Strategic Planning Committee. The retreat included a candid and objective discussion focusing on developing solutions for success.
During the retreat, we assisted the Strategic Planning Committee to identify issues facing the firm. We then prioritized those issues so as to address the most pressing issues first. Throughout the retreat discussion, goals, objectives and strategies were developed to address the identified issues. At the conclusion of the retreat, the Strategic Planning Committee had developed an extremely focused strategic plan, complete with not only goals, objectives and strategies, but deadline dates and people responsible for specific tasks during the implementation of the strategic plan.
Since the retreat, the firm has effectively implemented the goals, objectives and strategies included in the strategic plan. The lawyers within the firm have noticed a significant difference in lawyer and staff morale as they work together to meet the goals, objectives and strategies. According to one source within the firm, "the firm has developed a new attitude and motivation for success". The firm has also updated the plan regularly using it as a management tool and not a paper weight. back to top
Governance Restructuring
A law firm still in its first generation management structure, was experiencing difficulties in attempting to transition leadership from the first generation to the second generation and beyond. The firm has a three tier partnership structure and could not determine the best mechanism to develop new leaders while using the experience and knowledge of current leadership.
Boyer Greene worked with the firm to identify leadership skills needed to succeed in management within the firm culture. We then developed criteria that lawyers must meet to be considered for leadership positions within the firm. Boyer Greene developed and recommended changes to the current management structure to enhance the structure allowing for additional lawyers to be trained in firm management. Our recommendations included very specific strategies to create the transition while ensuring firm management remained effective.
The firm has developed and implemented a new management structure that incorporated senior management with younger less experienced, but skilled leaders. The less experienced lawyers have gained confidence in their ability to become senior leaders as well as continue to train and develop younger lawyers to ensure consistent leadership and management for the future. back to top
We were contacted by a 12 lawyer firm for help establishing a marketing initiative. The firm had practiced successfully for over 70 years based on doing good work and getting referrals from clients and former clients. However, the firm recognized times have changed and that it needed to spend more time, money and energy on marketing if it was to continue to be successful.
In a retreat setting, we presented a two hour marketing presentation to all lawyers to give them an understanding of basic concepts and some of the options to be considered by the firm. We then met with each lawyer individually and explored where their work came from, what community activities they have been involved in and how they spend their spare time. Many lawyers are not good at marketing, but our philosophy is that each lawyer has the ability to market successfully by developing a plan that focuses on their own skills, interests, and personality. We helped each lawyer create a personalized marketing plan; some were quite novel, and that was a good thing.
We guided the lawyers in developing a firm marketing plan designed to promote its brand and serve as a focal point for the individual marketing plans. In order to help the firm stay focused, we recommended that marketing be on the agenda for the lawyers' luncheon meeting every Monday. A senior associate was responsible for leading the weekly marketing discussion during which lawyers reported on their activities and brought forward new ideas. The firm and its lawyers have stayed focused on marketing and the result has been a good flow of new business. back to top
Marketing & Analysis Planning
An eastern mid-size law firm with an outstanding reputation for quality client service in its community decided it was time to develop a strategic marketing plan that would guide the firm for the next three to five years. The firm contacted Boyer Greene to help them develop a plan to gain important client feedback, to analyze its reputation in its service areas and to ensure the firm was, and continues, to meet client expectations.
We individually interviewed every lawyer in the firm to learn about the firm's operations, clients, legal staff and service areas. We then developed a process that included the development and implementation of a client satisfaction survey, a non-client visibility community survey and a strategic marketing plan.
Boyer Greene conducted a written client satisfaction survey, received the responses to the survey, summarized the responses and created a written report including recommendations as to how to address issues raised by clients. We also conducted telephone interviews of selected clients, summarized that responses and created a written report including recommendations as to how to address issues raised by clients during the personal interviews.
Boyer Greene conducted a written survey of local businesses that were not clients of the firm to gain information as to the visibility the firm had in its geographic service areas. We received the responses, summarized the responses and created a written report. We also conducted telephone interviews of selected businesses in the local area asking questions regarding the firm's visibility in its geographic services areas. We create a written report including recommendations as to how the firm might enhance its visibility in its services areas.
Boyer Greene developed a Final Report regarding the information gained during the written and oral surveys. Based on the information gathered, we developed a detailed written strategic marketing plan and presented it to the firm. The written marketing plan served as the agenda for the firm wide retreat. During the retreat the lawyers and Boyer Greene finalized the strategic marketing plan.
The firm continues to implement and update the strategic marketing plan to ensure the firm continues to meets its client's needs and expectations while remaining profitable.
We were contacted by a midsized firm with concern that their paralegals were not being used effectively or profitably. We agreed to evaluate the utilization of their paralegals and make recommendations on how to utilize them more effectively and profitably. back to top
We reviewed the financial data and individually interviewed the lawyers and the paralegals. We determined that the paralegals were not profitable because they were not fully integrated into the process and were performing a limited amount of billable work. We found in many situations the paralegals were asked to perform isolated tasks or clerical projects. We examined their billing rates and how much of their billable time was written of in the billing process.
As a result of our work, we concluded that the many of the lawyers underutilized their paralegals and needed to better understand how to expand the role the paralegal in the delivery of services. We also determined that the paralegals had no billable hour goals and did not have a good understanding of what was billable and what was not. As a result, the paralegals failed to record time appropriately and, in fact, did not recognize its importance to the financial health of the firm.
We conducted a session with the lawyers dealing with how to effectively utilize paralegals and expand their role on files to allow the lawyer to handle more files. We emphasized the need to include paralegals in client meetings in order for the client to understand their importance in the process and develop a working relationship with them. We conducted a session with the paralegals on the topics of time recording and their role as a revenue producer in the firm.
We recommended the firm set billable hour goals for paralegals (increasing over three years) and provide for some clerical support for the paralegals, in order to permit them to achieve their increased billable hour goals. As a result of these activities, the paralegals became more integrated into the process, they developed a better rapport with the clients, and over the course of a couple of years they began to produce significant profits to the firm. The improved working relationship between the lawyer and paralegal also caused the lawyer to be better organized and less stressed. back to top
A small law firm located in Canada was facing a crossroads. The firm was a boutique law firm with decreasing business as the needs of their clients were shifting due to changes in their industry. The firm felt that in order to be successful in the future, it needed to diversify its practice mix. This firm wanted a review of its current position, the development a vision for the future and a plan for implementation of that vision.
Boyer Greene was called to assist the firm with the process. We met individually with the Managing Partner, the firm partners, the associates and administrative staff. We wanted to learn as much as possible about the firm's practice, its clients, its lawyers, and its ability to diversify into other practice areas.
After the interviews and a review of relevant firm information, we created a retreat agenda and then took the firm on retreat to enable the lawyers (both associates and partners) to share views about a vision for the firm, with frank and practical discussion what the firm can be expected to achieve.
During the retreat we were able to develop an interactive discussion which allowed the group to share ideas, suggestions and strategies before reaching agreement on a vision for the firm and the plan. This planning process allowed all lawyers to participate in their developing their personal future in the context of a firm vision. The retreat facilitator kept the group focused in developing the vision as well as a rational road map for implementation of the vision.
At the conclusion of the retreat, the firm had created a strategic plan including goals, objectives and strategies with task assignments and a timeline by which to implement the plan.
Boyer Greene worked with the client as they progressed through the implementation process. The firm has remained focused and continues to implement the strategic plan.
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We were contacted by a firm of 15 lawyers that had been struggling with profitability. Expenses had been increasing at a greater rate than revenue and the partners believed they were making less money than other similarly situated firms. We were asked to conduct a profitability study to determine on an objective basis how they were doing and to identify opportunities for improving profits.
We started by receiving three years of the standard financial reports used to manage the firm. After reviewing and analyzing those reports, we met with the managing partner to discuss other factors that were not revealed by the financial reports. We discussed whether or not there was advantage to meeting with each of the partners individually and decided that in this assignment additional lawyer interviews were not necessary to accomplish our mission.
While we were at the law office, we did meet with the bookkeeper to ask whether she could produce some additional financial reports that we felt were critical, but that had not been previously used to manage the firm. The bookkeeper was able to develop the needed reports from the existing financial software.
Back at our office, we continued our financial analysis. We determined that the firm's revenue was only 61% of its revenue capacity based on existing personnel and the resources in place. Taking the results of our analysis, we were able to determine why the firm was losing 39% of its potential revenue and identify opportunities for improvement. To complete our report, we combined the results from the financial analysis with what we had learned from our interviews with the managing partner and bookkeeper.
We presented a written report to the managing partner that provided our objective opinion of the firm's profitability, identified the best opportunities for improvement, and included our recommendations, which provided a practical step-by-step plan for implementation. Following a discussion of our findings and recommendations with the managing partner, a decision was made to present our report and recommendations to the partners in a Saturday morning retreat session.
We presented our conclusions and recommendations at the retread and guided the partners through to process of planning to implement our recommendations. The firm was able to increase its profits by 10% in the first year and continued to see further improvement in the following year. back to top