This L.P. "Help" by the Beatles was released in the U.K.on August 6th 1965, I can honestly say this is my favourite all time album ever, I adore the film as well.
Fifty years has almost passed, and the construction of some of these tracks is brilliant, and as far as im concerned cannot be beaten.
Enjoy …… and as Cher once said, "follow that you biatches" !


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Renae talks of an inspiring journey of change. Changing the way a large hospital and health service look at where consumables go. This journey has seen Renae move from a clinical radiographer, to recycling champion, to developer of therapy and sustainable gardens in healthcare spaces around Brisbane. This is a 'flipping on the head' way to look at our procurement supply chain.
Renae McBrien
Renae McBrien has worked as a Radiographer over the past 20 years and has since taken on a role as the Community, Horticulture and Environmental Consultant for the Queensland Children's Hospital. She is passionate about connecting the health community with nature and has created over 11 Therapy and Sustainable Gardens in Brisbane that deliver meaningful care to our patients. Renae's work to reduce hospital waste, increase recycling and deliver sustainable procurement showcases the simple approach to lower the carbon footprint of our health service. Her work has been captured by the ABC War on Waste and has reached a global audience of 4 million people. Renae has recently been awarded the Brisbane City Council Waste Innovation 2019 award, International Woman of the Year, Metro South Health Interprofessional of the Year and a 2019 Planetree Kindness Award.
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Simon Finfer is a Pom who emigrated to Australia in 1993 to practice full time intensive care medicine. Despite being qualified 37 years and receiving an NHS pension he still works as a bedside clinician and takes night call. He loves his job because he works with fantastic people. He also designs and runs large clinical trials, writes paper, edits books and rides a 2017 Triumph Bonneville T120. He supports West Ham United and the English Cricket, Football and Rugby teams. He lives in Sydney with his wife, sons, two horses, four chickens, 3 ducks and one dog. Twitter handle is @icuresearch.
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He is the former state-wide education officer for the Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section). He is a dedicated supporter of and a contributor to the "#FOAMed" movement. FOAMed stands for Free Open Access Medical Education.
He has recorded hundreds of educational podcasts and has recently started The Institute of Enquiring Minds with Dr Andrew Jacobs in Melbourne, Australia.
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Citace: 1 Galie N, Hoeper MM, Humbert M, et al: Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension. The task force for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS), endorsed by the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT). Eur Heart J 2009;30:2493–537. 2 Vatter H, Zimmermann M, Jung H, et al. Effect of the novel endothelin(A) receptor antagonist LU 208075 on contraction and relaxation of isolated rat basilar artery. Clin Sci 2002; 103(Suppl 48):408S–13S. 3 Schiffrin EL, Touyz RM. Vascular biology of endothelin. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 1998;32(Suppl 3):S2–13. 4 Galie N, Badesch D, Oudiz R, et al. Ambrisentan therapy for pulmonary arterial hypertension. J Am Coll Cardiol 2005; 46:529–35. 5 Galie N, Olschewski H, Oudiz RJ et al. Ambrisentan for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension: Results of the ambrisentan in pulmonary arterial hypertension, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter, efficacy (ARIES) study 1 and 2. Circulation 2008;117:3010–9. 6 Oudiz RJ, Galie N, Olschewski H, et al. Long-term ambrisentan therapy for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension. JACC 2009;54:1971–81. 7 McGoon M, Frost A, Oudiz R at al. Ambrisentan rescue therapy in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension who discontinued bosentan or sitaxsentan due to liver function abnormalities. Chest 2006;130:254S. 8 Gerber MJ, Dufton C, Pentikis H, et al. Ambrisentan has no clinically relevant effect on the pharmacokinetics or pharmacodynamics of warfarin. Chest 2000;130(Suppl 4):s 256S. 9 Dufton C, Gerber M, Yin O, et al. No clinically relevant pharmacokinetic interaction between ambrisentan and sildenafil. Chest 2000;130(Suppl 4):254S. 10 Spence R, Mandagere A, Walker G, et al. Effect of steady-state ambrisentan on the pharmacokinetics of a single dose of the oral contraceptive norethindrone (Norethisterone) 1mg/Ethinylestradiol 35 mg in healthy subjects. An open-label, single-sequence, single-centre study. Clin Drug Investig 2010;30:313–24.
Plicní arteriální hypertenze (PAH) je primární onemocnění plicních arteriol, které vzniká buď z neznámé příčiny (idiopatická, popřípadě hereditární PAH), nebo je jeho vznik spojen se známou vyvolávající příčinou (systémová onemocnění pojiva, jaterní onemocnění, vrozené zkratové srdeční vady, infekce HIV, abúzus některých anorektik). Hemodynamicky je PAH charakterizována jako progredující prekapilární plicní hypertenze. Nebývalý zájem o problematiku PAH v posledních dvou desetiletích je dán zejména významným posunem v oblasti farmakoterapie. Při specifické léčbě PAH se používají léky ze skupiny prostanoidů, inhibitorů fosfodiesterázy 5 a antagonistů endotelinových receptorů. Ambrisentan je vysoce selektivní antagonista endotelinového receptoru ETA s dlouhým biologickým poločasem, který umožňuje podání 1x denně. Ambrisentan prokazatelně zlepšuje vzdálenost při testu šestiminutovou chůzí, hemodynamiku a prodlužuje dobu do klinického zhoršení. Elevace transamináz nad trojnásobek normy se vyskytuje u léčených nemocných do 3 %. Ambrisentan neovlivňuje významněji metabolismus warfarinu ani sildenafilu. Ambrisentan je indikován u nemocných s plicní arteriální hypertenzí ve funkční třídě NYHA II a III ke zlepšení zátěžové kapacity.
1 Galie N, Hoeper MM, Humbert M, et al: Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension. The task force for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS), endorsed by the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT). Eur Heart J 2009;30:2493–537. 2 Vatter H, Zimmermann M, Jung H, et al. Effect of the novel endothelin(A) receptor antagonist LU 208075 on contraction and relaxation of isolated rat basilar artery. Clin Sci 2002; 103(Suppl 48):408S–13S. 3 Schiffrin EL, Touyz RM. Vascular biology of endothelin. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 1998;32(Suppl 3):S2–13. 4 Galie N, Badesch D, Oudiz R, et al. Ambrisentan therapy for pulmonary arterial hypertension. J Am Coll Cardiol 2005; 46:529–35. 5 Galie N, Olschewski H, Oudiz RJ et al. Ambrisentan for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension: Results of the ambrisentan in pulmonary arterial hypertension, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter, efficacy (ARIES) study 1 and 2. Circulation 2008;117:3010–9. 6 Oudiz RJ, Galie N, Olschewski H, et al. Long-term ambrisentan therapy for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension. JACC 2009;54:1971–81. 7 McGoon M, Frost A, Oudiz R at al. Ambrisentan rescue therapy in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension who discontinued bosentan or sitaxsentan due to liver function abnormalities. Chest 2006;130:254S. 8 Gerber MJ, Dufton C, Pentikis H, et al. Ambrisentan has no clinically relevant effect on the pharmacokinetics or pharmacodynamics of warfarin. Chest 2000;130(Suppl 4):s 256S. 9 Dufton C, Gerber M, Yin O, et al. No clinically relevant pharmacokinetic interaction between ambrisentan and sildenafil. Chest 2000;130(Suppl 4):254S. 10 Spence R, Mandagere A, Walker G, et al. Effect of steady-state ambrisentan on the pharmacokinetics of a single dose of the oral contraceptive norethindrone (Norethisterone) 1mg/Ethinylestradiol 35 mg in healthy subjects. An open-label, single-sequence, single-centre study. Clin Drug Investig 2010;30:313–24.


1 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman. 2 And they said, "Has the Lord indeed only spoken through MOses? Has he not spoken through us also?" And the Lord heard it. 3 Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth. 4 And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam, "Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting." And the three of them came out. 5 And the Lord came down in a pillar of could and stood at the entrance of the tent and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward. 6 And he said, "Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream. 7 Not so with my servant Moses. He is faithful in all my house. 8 With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?" 9 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them, and he departed. 10 When the cloud removed from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, like snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and behold, she was leprous. 11 And Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, do not punish us because we have done foolishly and have sinned. 12 Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother's womb." 13 And Moses cried to the Lord, "O God, please heal her-please." 14 But the Lord said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be shamed seven days? Let her be shut outside the camp seven days, and after that she may be brought in again." 15 So Miriam was shut outside the camp seven days, and the people did not set out on the march till Miriam was brought in again. 16 After that the people set out from Hazeroth, and camped in the wilderness of Paran.
So the first thing we see is Miriam and Aaron speaking out against Moses. Miriam is listed first here because she was most likely doing the most grumbling. That is why we see her punished with the leprousy. At first reading, I was put off towards Miriam. I mean, here's Moses working to get this nation to their promised land and his 2 closest people are griping about him. But then, I started thinking about myself. Listen again to what Miriam said, "Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?" Maybe I'm the only one, although I really don't think so, that has seen someone doing something and thought, "I could do that. Why won't the Lord use me to do that?" We might even go so far as to think we could do it better. Probably not, though, right? I mean, what kind of person would do that? 😉 Our egos get in the way so many times, don't they? We want to be important. If you're made like me, and not all of us are I know…you really enjoy being in the spotlight. For me, I have to fight the urge when it comes to my music, especially now that I've moved to doing worship instead of just performing. I want it to be all about the Lord and glorifying Him, but so often…my ego moves into the picture. I listen to some amazing worship leader and think, "Why not me Lord? When's it my turn?" All of a sudden, my purpose has moved to elevating myself instead of elevating the Lord and what He wants. It's my heart attitude. A battle playing out inside me.
Where is your heart attitude? Where and what are you focused on? Do you ever let your ego get in the way? We don't normally speak out about these vulnerable things. We keep them quiet and let them stir inside us. I'm so glad we have a gracious God, aren't you? Yes, the more I pondered Miriam, I realized I couldn't be put out with her. I am her at times. We all are. We just aren't covered with leprousy, white as snow. No…my white as snow came from being covered by the blood of Jesus. And that's the kind of white as snow I want.
So, I told you before that I'm in a new Bible study here in Tyler. We study a book of the Bible each week, going in order from the beginning to end. It's a 3 year study to go through the whole Bible. I started 2 weeks into it, so I missed Genesis and Exodus. I will be going back to do them though eventually. A couple weeks ago was Leviticus. A book on holiness. You know, Leviticus gets a bad wrap. I think it's because it repeats itself quite a bit and is all "you are clean" this and "you are unclean" that. 🙂 It's a little tedious to read at times, so I completely understand those that decide they are going to read through the whole Bible and start in Genesis and then quit halfway through Leviticus. I mean, who of us hasn't done that?!? Am I the only one?? I felt a great accomplishment the other day when I was able to say I had finally read ALL of Leviticus! Haha But I will tell you there were a few things that totally struck me while I was reading. Actually, quite a few things (you know me!) but I wanted to point out a couple of them.
First, the theme to Leviticus is holiness. The Israelites had soo many rules and things they had to do in order to keep themselves clean. It makes me completely grateful that I don't have to remember so many details or have to kill animals for a pleasing sacrifice to the Lord. It does make me ponder what sacrifices I do make to the Lord, and if they are pleasing to Him. Sacrifices were a part of their life. Are they a part of our's? I don't mean animal sacrifices of course. Jesus has taken that place. The ultimate Sacrifice-Praise Him! But what kind of sacrifices do we give to the Lord?
Second, I was struck with how quickly the Israelites forgot what the Lord had done for them. Here they were with these amazing signs and miracles and they praise Him one moment for them and then forget them and grumble the next! I think we do that too. I know I do anyway. I've been guilty of doing it for the past few weeks actually. I've seen the Lord working in my life and in my family's life as He brought us here to Tyler. I see Him working on our behalf in Michael's job and in starting to bless us with friendships and us finding a church home. And yet, I am just as guilty as the Israelites with grumbling. Grumbling about missing my husband due to him working long hours, grumbling about everything I miss in Phoenix/Scottsdale, both the big and the small, grumbling about the day to day things that I have to do here at the house. But one of the things I learned going through Numbers (yes, I just switched books on you) was that grumbling is an attack on God's character. Wow, right??? I am fully aware that having that knowledge should have totally made me turn from the grumbling. I'm just being real here. I am not going to tell you that I heard that and then turned away from the grumbling. This is something the Lord has been working in me on and is continuing to work on me. I miss Phoenix. I miss my friends, the mountains, my church and leading worship, my Element community, and restaurants and everything else I left behind. But I have been so busy focusing on what I am missing that I think I am missing what the Lord is doing in my life right now. Just being honest here. But one of the things I am learning from the Israelites and their journey is that they grumbled. A lot. And the grumbling was just the beginning of their unbelief. It was the start, and it was the outward expression of their heart attitude. Their unbelief. I don't want a heart attitude of unbelief. I'm trying to find the balance of missing those that I love, and being content in my present situation, even if it does feel like a wilderness at times. Are you in a wilderness situation in your life right now? Ever been in one? How was/is your reaction? Are you grumbling, or are you continually praising the Lord for His provision, His signs and wonders (no matter how big or small they are), and where He has you right now in your life? I'm not telling you it's easy. I'm the first one to tell you just how hard it is, but I am coming to the realization that it all starts with my heart attitude. What's your's?


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Roisin est un toponyme belge et un patronyme francophone.

Róisín, également anglicisé en Roisin et Rosheen est un prénom féminin irlandais.

Ces noms propres peuvent faire référence à :

Étymologie
Le nom propre francophone Roisin et le prénom irlandais ont deux étymologies très différentes :

Roisin, patronyme et toponyme francophone
Selon Marie-Thérèse Morlet, Roisin est une variante de resin signifiant « raisin », « fruit de la vigne ». Le Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) de l'ATILF atteste en effet des formes anciennes de raisin : résin et roisin.

Elle explique également dans son dictionnaire étymologique des noms de famille que Roisin est un nom de lieu en Belgique, qui s'est appelé Resin en 965, Racemeus au  et Roisin en 1056. Jean Tosti, spécialiste de l'étymologie de Geneanet, avance cette théorie également, Roisin désignant . L'existence de la famille noble médiévale « De Roisin » confirme cette théorie.

Les formes anciennes resin et racemeus du toponyme Roisin confirment son étymologie liée au mot raisin dont les formes médiévales sontrésin et racemus).

Róisín ou Roisin, prénom irlandais
Róisín ou Roisin (prononcé  ou () est un prénom féminin irlandais qui signifie little rose (« petite rose »). En cela, il est une traduction de , diminutif de .

Prénom
Róisín est un prénom féminin irlandais notamment porté par :
 Róisín Heneghan, architecte et designer irlandaise ;
 Róisín Murphy (1973-), chanteuse irlandaise, notamment du groupe Moloko ;
 Róisín Shortall (1954-), femme politique irlandaise.

Toponyme

 Roisin, une section de la commune de Honnelles située en région wallonne, dans la province de Hainaut en Belgique.

Patronyme francophone

Noblesse
 La maison de Roisin, une des baronnies du Hainaut en Belgique qui avait son fief au Château de Rongy déjà depuis la première croisade au  ;

 Henri de Roisin (Baron Baudry-Ghislain-Adrien-Henri de Roisin, 1787-1848), militaire et homme politique néerlandais, et bourgmestre de Rongy, commune de l'actuelle Belgique ;

Autres personnalités
 Arsène Roisin (1920-1952), dessinateur de presse français ;
 Jean Roisin, clerc français du  de la ville de à Lille, qui a écrit le livre Roisin ;
 Laurène Roisin (née en 2001), céiste française ;
 Lucien Roisin Besnard (1876-1943), photographe et éditeur français établi à Barcelone en Espagne, spécialiste des cartes postales espagnoles ;
 Thierry Roisin, metteur en scène de théâtre du Centre dramatique national des Alpes.

Prénom irlandais
  (1979-), actrice anglaise ;
  (1965-), musicienne irlandaise, guitariste du groupe 7 Year Bitch ;
  (1977-), gagnante du festival irlandais La Rose de Tralee en 2000 ;
 Róisín Heneghan, architecte et designer irlandaise ;
  (1971-), activiste politique irlandaise, membre supposée de l'Armée républicaine irlandaise provisoire ;
 , reporter de télévision et écrivaine irlandaise ;
  (1980-), athlète irlandaise, spécialiste de la course de  et  ;
 Róisín Murphy (1973-), chanteuse et compositrice irlandaise de musique electronica ;
  (1988-), chanteuse et compositrice irlandaise de musique folk ;
 Róisín Shortall (1954-), femme politique et ministre irlandaise.
  (1963-), athlète d'Irlande du NORD, spécialiste du demi-fond.

Musique irlandaise
  (, Little Dark Rose, « Petite Rose Sombre »), chanson politique irlandaise du  ;
 , album studio de Róisín Murphy sorti en 2020 ;
 , salle de concert à Galway en Irlande.

Marine irlandaise
 Le Róisín ou LÉ Róisín (P51), navire de tête de la marine irlandaise.

Littérature
 Le Livre Roisin, coutumier et cartulaire lillois du , écrit par Jean Roisin, clerc de ville à Lille.

Références

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Romania is Preparing to Conquer Europe at Eurovision 2010
ciocip / 16th January 2010 at 12:18 / National Selection / Romania
Romanian Eurovision heart
In the last few days, we have heard a lot of rumours about the National Selection for Eurovision in Romania. During this time the EuroVisionary team kept in touch with the organizers of this year Selection, who have sent us the latest news.
This year, the format of the National Selection of Romania has undergone major changes. The most important change is the giving up of the two semi-finals in return for a final with a total of 12 (or a maximum 15) participants selected through the evaluation of the specialist preselection jury. Judging will take place on 25th, 26th and 27th of January. Following that, on 6th February, all the songs to be made public on TVR website, http://www2.tvr.ro/eurovision . On the same day the selected songs will be presented in a special edition of the TV program, Ne vedem la TVR. The final, which will take place on 6th March, will be broadcast on a specially arranged stage.
A few days ago, the organisers of the 2010 National Selection brought something new this year in their selection, something that directly affects all Eurovision fans from Romania. They can demonstrate their creativity this year by helping the Romanian team to find their mascot of Eurovision Romania 2010. The Eurovision fans from Romania can participate in the competition for creating the 2010 Romanian Eurovision mascot. The most original creation will be rewarded with 500 euros, and will have an important role in the Eurovision 2010 National Selection. In addition, the mascot will accompany the Romanian delegation in Oslo.
In the last couple of days, our team has followed discussions on the Eurovision official forum in Romania and we noted how active the Romanian Eurovision fans have become. It seems that the contest has become more popular in Romania and has begun attracting more and more fans. Here we found some rumours on the Mihai Traistariu (the 2006 Romanian contestant) and Luminita Anghel (2005 Romania contestant) participation at the 2010 Romanian National Selection, rumours which were later confirmed.
The period of registration ended on 14th January and now we know that the organisers received a total of 104 songs to which they will add numerous entries received by post. This year's competition has received entries from such artists and composers as Luminita Anghel (2005 Eurovision), Cornel Ilie (2009 National Selection), Dalma (2009 National Selection), Nico (2008 Romanian contestant) Andrei Tudor (composer 2008 Romanian song), Eduard Carcota (Eurovision 2006 composer of the song Tornero), Lora (ex Wassabi band), Paula Seling & Ovi (2008 National Final), Anda Adam & Conect-r, Andreea Crepcia & Sweet Lemon, Marius Moga (composer), Catalin Josan (2009 National Final), Simona Nae, Costi Ionita, Mircea Romcescu and Kamara (Eurovision 2007)
16th January 2010 in National Selection. Tags: Anda Adam, Andrei Tudor, Dalma, Eduard Carcota, Luminita Anghel, Marius Moga, Mihai Traistariu, Romania Eurovision 2010, Romania National Selection Eurovision, tornero, tvr Countries: Romania
Source: TVR
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I wasn't sure Id get a chance to craft this week as I have an exam next Wednesday for my day job arrgh! My poor ol brain is having a hard time trying to keep up! But I managed to squeeze in a bit of crafty therapy ..gotta have those priorities, right?
So…Just Add Ink challenge this week is a sketch challenge …here's the sketch..super easy one this week!
I love the mini stapler which is in our Occasions catalogue.. super cute mini staples. These can be coloured with our Blendibility pens too!
Of course I had to decorate the inside.
Check out what the other Design Team members have done here and hope you can all come and play along with our challenge this week.


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Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) and Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT) are two modern hair transplant methods that have become very popular in the United States. There is less of a difference between the two as one might think. Both take hair from the "donor area" of a person's scalp and implant it to areas where balding has occurred. The difference between both methods occurs where the donor hair is extracted: With FUE, the smallest possible units of hair, also called grafts and consisting of 1-4 individual hairs, are extracted from the donor area. With FUT, the hair is harvested in a strip (hence, the "strip method") that is then separated into the follicular units slated for implantation. In both cases the implantation process is very similar. The main difference is that with FUT a linear scar is left behind in the donor area.
The modern era of hair transplants began in the late 1950s, but since then the techniques have vastly improved with the advancement of new technologies. This has made hair restoration procedures much less invasive and less painful than they used to be. But hair transplants are still surgical procedures, even though they are minimally-invasive. You should therefore expect some minor discomfort after the procedure as your scalp heals. During the procedure, a local anesthetic is applied to your scalp so that you won't feel any pain throughout the procedure. You may feel the sensation of slight tugging and pulling as the technician extracts and implants your hair grafts, but it won't be painful. Most patients are pleasantly surprised how easy and pain-free hair transplant procedures are.
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No. While small areas need to be shaved to extract your hair during an FUE transplant, these can be covered up with your existing hair if you wear it longer. However, results are better when your head is shaved, yielding the most harvested follicles. Also, your hair will look more natural if it all comes in together.
The cost of your hair transplant will depend on the number of grafts you receive. One NeoGraft session can produce up to 2,500 hair grafts. Each graft can contain several hairs, which is an important distinction you need to consider when comparing prices.
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We also encourage you to check our website for specials and to explore our interest-free financing options.
Is it Normal for Hair to Fall Out After a Hair Transplant?
It is important to know that transplanted hair follicles act just like normal hair, meaning that cyclical shedding will occur, much like it does to the rest of your hair. The grafted hair will stay in place for about 2-3 weeks after transplantation, and then it will fall out, making room for new hair to grow in. Don't be alarmed when you experience shedding up to a month after your procedure. This is a perfectly normal occurrence, and new natural hair growth will resume within 3-4 months.
Follicular Unit Extraction can be performed on any hair, male or female. However, for women considering a hair transplant it is important to first be evaluated to determine what causes their hair loss. Male pattern baldness is by far the most common cause of hair loss in men, and it leaves in place healthy hair at the back of the head that is resistant to hair loss. This is the area from where the donor hair is harvested. Women, on the other hand, much more often experience thinning hair that is equally distributed all over the head. Without an obvious donor area of thick growth, it is difficult to get good hair transplant results. However, there are cases where women can benefit from a hair transplant, whether it is to cover up incisions from plastic surgery, restore hair after trauma, or combat pattern baldness similar to that found in men.
How is NeoGraft Different from Traditional Hair Transplant Surgery?
The main difference of NeoGraft vs. traditional strip hair transplant surgery is the method by which the hair is harvested. Rather than cutting out a strip of scalp that is then broken up into thousands of grafts, NeoGraft uses what's essentially vacuum technology to extract individual follicles of hair. This ensures that the follicles remain intact until transplantation, and it avoids the problem of the linear scar left behind with the strip method. It also makes the procedure less invasive, minimizes discomfort, and allows patients to recovery quickly so that they can return to their day to day activities.
To see these differences in action, see the video clip below.
When can I wash my hair after a hair transplant?
We recommend waiting at least 48 hours before washing your hair after a hair transplant. We have put together some specific tips and techniques for Nashville Hair Doctor patients in this blog post.
How should I care for my scalp after a hair transplant?
For the convenience of our patients, we have put together a specific list of DOs and DONTs after a hair transplant.


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Thursday , 16 January 2020
The Ghana university Gandhi statue, a focus for claims that the Indian leader was racist towards black South Africans. Photograph: Christian Thompson/AP
'Racist' Gandhi Statue To Be Removed
Ghana university has succumbed to the demands of academics and students who have lobbied for the removal of the controversial statue of Gandhi from campus. This after university professors launched a petition claiming the revered Indian independence leader and thinker was racist.
South Africans have lobbied for a similar call to have statues removed which spurred the campaign in Ghana, now activists will once again look to Ghana for them setting the example in a failed campaign which saw no statues removed in the Republic.
The Ghana university Gandhi statue, a focus for claims that the Indian leader was racist towards black South Africans.
Photograph: Christian Thompson/AP
The statue of the Indian struggle hero was unveiled in June at the University of Ghana campus in Accra by Pranab Mukherjee, the president of India, as a symbol of close ties between the two countries.
But in September a group of professors started a petition calling for the removal of the statue, saying Gandhi was racist and that the university should put African heroes and heroines "first and foremost".
The petition states "it is better to stand up for our dignity than to kowtow to the wishes of a burgeoning Eurasian super power", and quotes passages written by Gandhi which say Indians are "infinitely superior" to black Africans.
More than 1,000 people signed the petition, which claimed that not only was Gandhi racist towards black South Africans when he lived in South Africa as a young man, but that he campaigned for the maintenance of India's caste system, an ancient social hierarchy that still defines the status in that country of hundreds of millions of people.
Ghana's foreign ministry said it had followed the controversy with "deep concern" and wanted to relocate the statue.
"The government would therefore want to relocate the statue from the University of Ghana to ensure its safety and to avoid the controversy." it said. "While acknowledging that, human as he was, Mahatma Gandhi may have had his flaws, we must remember that people evolve."
Statues on university campuses have recently prompted bitter arguments in Africa as students wrestle with the legacy of colonialism and history of racism on the continent. Last year students in South Africa successfully campaigned for the removal, from the University of Cape Town campus, of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, a notoriously racist mining magnate who died in 1902.
Gandhi, who lived in South Africa for 21 years, has long been a more controversial figure, both in his homeland and elsewhere, than many admirers around the world are aware. A hero for his role in the movement that won independence for India from Britain, Gandhi's vision of non-violent protest inspired rebels and revolutionaries around the world. His thinking was a key influence on leaders of the African National Congress and others engaged in the struggle against apartheid, and his tolerance for all faiths in his homeland led to his assassination by a Hindu fanatic in 1948. But his more conservative views, and early apparent racism, still anger some.
Opponents of the statue in Ghana quoted several of Gandhi's early writings in which he referred to black South Africans as "kaffirs" – a highly offensive racist slur – and complained that the South African government wanted to "drag down" Indians to the same level as people he called "half-heathen natives".
One Gandhi quote was: "Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness."
A statue of Gandhi in the centre of Johannesburg not far from the office where he worked as a lawyer, triggered a similar row in 2003.
Gandhi has also been frequently criticised in his homeland. In 2014 the novelist Arundhati Roy accused him of perpetuating a discriminatory caste system.
Prof Mridula Mukherjee, an expert in modern Indian history at Jawaharlal University, in Delhi, said at the time that Roy's criticism was misplaced. "Gandhi devoted much of his life to fighting caste prejudice. He was a reformer not a revivalist within the Hindu religion. His effort was in keeping with his philosophy of nonviolence and bringing social transformation without creating hatred."
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As 2022 draws to its inevitable close, senior marketers and business leaders have once again been sharing their thoughts about the year ahead.
And it is little surprise that the improved optimisation of consumer data is the number one marketing trend, given the upcoming loss of third-party cookies from Google.
Other notable marketing movements included the continued rise of artificial intelligence, TikTok's short-form video saturation, companies dealing with budgets amid a global recession and 'workday consumers'.
'Data is a precious thing'
SirTim Berners-Lee knew a bit about the significance of digital data, once predicting it will last longer than the systems themselves, and it continues to represent the most important commodity in modern marketing and advertising.
Bango's CMO, Anil Malhotra, certainly agrees. "The imminent death of cookies, coupled with the already witnessed end of Apple's IDFA last year, is changing the world of mobile marketing forever. This also comes while governments and consumers are becoming increasingly wary of how their data is used.
"The resulting situation is so cataclysmic, that many have dubbed it 'The App-ocalypse', with app marketers lacking the data to provide relevant promotions or boost user acquisition. In fact, research suggests almost two thirds (59%) of app marketers now struggle to expand their user base."
This, in turn, will result in more brands focusing on their owned data rather than third-party journeys. Global chief strategy officer at TMS, Gareth Kane, says: "Across the last year, we have seen an acceleration of clients investing in owned and earned media to drive sales and build their brands.
"As the cost and fragmentation of media continues to rise, we will see brands a lot more focused on their holistic customer experience to sustain engagement. It's more important than ever to ensure that not only are brands omnipresent across all touchpoints but, more specifically, ensuring consumers feel connected and ultimately invested in the brands product and what they stand for."
In this age of third-party data depreciation, Rachel Thornton, CMO at MessageBird, forecasts that, "brands will shift marketing efforts that use tracking data to efforts that put the customer front and centre of dialogue with the brand across any channel. This form of conversational marketing will help bridge the gap between the loss of third-party data and the personalised experiences customers expect".
This data trend affects both B2B and B2C marketing. Steve Martin, VP data partnerships, EMEA & APAC at The Trade Desk puts particular focus in retail. "Growing numbers of retailers are putting their data into the game. This is a trend we've seen building over the past few years, and it's only going to get bigger in 2023. Retail data allows advertisers to connect the dots from the top of the funnel to that final in-store purchase, fundamentally changing the way brands can understand and attribute their marketing activity."
Guy Hanson, VP of customer engagement at Validity, meanwhile, emphasises the benefit of this supposed data regression. "In 2023, we can expect brands to further adopt technology-led marketing strategies to better connect with their target market. An example of this can be seen with the email channel, where global revenue is forecast to double by 2027. This will also create broader marketing challenges because of greater focus on data privacy, and the imminent deprecation of third-party cookies, which will mean a redirection of ad spend. Email stands to benefit, and while this is good news in its own right, it also provides a solid business case for investment in technology that will maximise the effectiveness of this channel."
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The ultimate cost of living
It is tough to ignore the cumulative effects of the war in Ukraine, global energy prices and the aftershocks of Covid-19, and marketers – like most sectors – are having to cut their collective cloths appropriately.
Annika Bizon, marketing and omnichannel director at Samsung expands: "Looking ahead, we cannot think about marketing trends for next year without considering the wider economic backdrop. Campaigns in the coming year will have to work harder than ever before, with clear metrics underpinning a strategy for delivering a return on investment. Critical to delivering on these will be making genuine connections with customers so that they get a more authentic understanding of what a business stands for. This year alone, we've seen a stronger sense of community forming around, and inspired by, brands, which in turn is altering their behaviour and deepening interactions with their customers."
Claire Foster, co-author of The Williams Nicolson Trend Index, points to a bigger paradigm shift. "The pandemic put pressure on supply chains; logistic disruptions, and soaring energy prices have contributed to shortages and spiralling transport costs. Against this backdrop, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has exacerbated the situation adding additional pressure to the already unpredictable global trade landscape.
"Globalisation, as we know it, is over. The frequency and severity of climate events persist and demand a survival strategy focused on autonomy, resiliency, and risk management.
"Consider how your business can sustain success amidst a turbulent economy. Social impact encompasses long-term solutions and the overall longevity of your business. It's not necessary to reinvent the wheel, but a reassessment in production is needed as inflation and supply chain disruptions are expected to continue to rise."
AI is the smartest tech
Artificial intelligence – together with machine learning – has always put marketers in a spin. The notion of computers being able to fulfil the energy- and time-consuming human tasks with 100% accuracy and in a nanosecond of the time sounds very good indeed. The idea that these computers will improve and evolve that process with minimal human impact is a little more scary.
That said, as more and more brands adopt and adapt the technology, 2023 could be a breakthrough year.
Managing partner at Contagious, Alex Jenkins, sees the creative nature of AI above all else. "The year will see any number of opinions and chin-stroking thought leadership teams on the possibilities of AI creativity, with people touting the near-magical capabilities of text, image and video generators. The industry will debate whether it's an existential threat or a boondoggle distracting from the real business of selling stuff. (FWIW – little bit of column A, little bit of column B).
"We have previously only interacted with AI with large corporations such as Google and Apple due to the significant investment required in machine learning and R&D. Now, AI and smart features are becoming more widely available outside of tech giants, with many more providers and smaller businesses on the market," comments Nadia Alramli, VP of engineering and Scott Brinker, VP, platform ecosystem at HubSpot.
"AI vs connectedness does not have to be a tension. For example, bot refunds can be even more straightforward than dealing with a person. AI can be an important tool for all, starting in the most basic ways.
"Recently, there have been some interesting advances in content generation technology, such as GBT 3, that are not only easily accessible but also reasonably priced, and the results are of very high quality. However, this raises an intriguing ethical question about Intellectual Property and who owns the right to AI-generated art, as well as whether it is art at all. Consider this: who owns a novel written by an AI machine? Especially since AI-generated content is nearly identical to human-generated content. We have no idea how much of the content we consume on a daily basis is generated by AI.
"Businesses should ask questions as with any new technology, but this is one to be embraced. However, it is critical to understand that AI should serve as a supplement to humans rather than as a replacement. And it should be checked by a human."
TikTok won't stop
Social media rising star TikTok has pretty much cornered the short-form video marketing and will continue its dominance into 2023 according to Pace, Mediaocean and Studiospace; MD Anita Pace, VP Megan Gall and CEO Pete Sayburn respectively.
"People want to be entertained before being sold to so 'advertainment', via short form video, is only going to grow in popularity in 2023, especially as Meta is pushing this form of content across their social platforms. We saw reach and engagement on a number of our client accounts rise on reels and decline on grid posts towards the end of 2022. Similarly, UGC, in the form of Tiktok videos and Instagram Reels, will also continue to rise in popularity as the trend in authentic and organic posts can really help brands reach new audiences and build trust."
"In 2023 and beyond, we can expect to see marketers continue to utilise the established social platforms in their campaigns but also increase focus on TikTok and BeReal driving creative flex and the attention of the hard-to-reach Gen Z. One thing to watch out for will be BeReal's next step to maturity and what monetisation model it lands on."
"We're going to see TikTok explode in the corporate world in the next 12 months as more brands recognise this platform isn't just about cute cats and bad dancing! For example, we're seeing fitness content moving into mainstream wellbeing and insurance and cooking being heavily targeted by retail brands."
And finally from a marketing heavyweight…
Been there, done that software and hardware giants Microsoft probably deserve the last 2023 trend, and it is the rise of the 'Workday Consumer'.
Regional vice president and general manager at Microsoft Advertising, Mark Richardson, does the explaining. "In 2022, the world saw the emergence of the Workday Consumer – an individual who unapologetically switches between employee, personal, and consumer modes throughout the day. This new mindset is set to cement a permanent behavioural change as we move into 2023 and more and more individuals continue with their hybrid way of work and life.
"Businesses will continue to see consumers raising their expectations for their online engagement with brands. Rather than wanting purely transactional experiences, we also expect consumers will seek conversational encounters with the brands they interact with – but alongside this demand greater data transparency and control. To cater to this new wave of personas born out of the Workday Consumer mindset, empowered marketeers must understand the motives behind their target audiences' purchasing patterns. Ultimately, those who are prepared to give back control to their customers and reward their engagement and loyalty will no doubt set themselves up for a more efficient return on their marketing budget amid the current economic slowdown."
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Legal operations: everything you need to know
Legal teams are swamped with work. The 2021 EY Law Survey states that 76% of law departments find it challenging to manage current workloads.
That's where legal operations comes in handy, helping the legal department to do more with less, by optimising and making legal more efficient.
A lot of businesses have recently jumped on the bandwagon and established a legal ops function. Numbers speak for themselves:
More than six out of ten legal departments hired at least one legal operations professional in 2021
Corporate Legal Operations Consortium's 2021 State of the Industry report says that 40% of respondents have increased the number of full-time legal operations professionals
80% of legal departments asked indicated that they have at least one legal operations professional in Reuters' Legal Department Operations Index
Whether you are looking to establish a legal ops function or planning to scale one, this guide is your go-to source. In this piece, you'll find everything you need to know about the topic today.
What is legal operations?
Legal operations roles and responsibilities
Why you must digitalise your legal department
Legal operations technology
How to build the legal function in a scaleup
Legal operations is a function that supports, enables, and optimises the in-house legal department. They plan legal functions, boost tech innovation, and bring value to the entire organisation.
This is how our CEO, Nils-Erik Jansson defines legal ops 👇🏼
If you boil down legal operations in one word, I would say it's efficiency.
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Our Legal Engineer & Compliance Manager, Jenny Hall, adds 👇🏼
To me, legal operations is everything that is not "standard" legal work like the actual contracting or negotiating.
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Legal operations roles & responsibilities
No two legal operations teams are alike. Depending on the industry, company growth rate and many other factors, legal ops roles can be defined differently.
Yet, a common way to structure your legal ops team is according to the following breakdown.
Legal counsel function:
Reviewing & negotiating contracts
Creating contract templates
Conducting legal research
Providing any kind of legal advice
Legal operations function:
Responsible for contract management
Enabling legal & compliance reporting
In charge of legal & compliance project management
Providing any kind of legal & compliance training
The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC®) surveyed more than 200 organisations and revealed some of the most common titles a legal ops leader may have. These include Legal Operations Director (27%), Legal Operations Manager (23%), and Head of Legal Operations (9%).
When it comes to the responsibilities of a legal operations professional, there's no one-size-fits-all approach. After the first year in legal ops, our Legal Engineer & Compliance Manager Jenny shared her reflections:
Legal operations responsibilities will vary depending on the company. Every legal operations role is different, and may focus on different areas, like financial management, or the use of technology. For me, legal ops starts and ends with finding where legal is inefficient and handing over the solution or new process to the legal team. Those inefficiencies depend on their context.
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Lessons from my first year in legal operations
How to be successful in legal operations management
Why you must digitalise your legal department – and how legal ops makes it less impossible than it seems
As our customer Damien Boutigny, General Counsel at NA-KD puts it,
"Legal departments must definitely embrace new technologies for gaining efficiency and increasing transparency. Having the right technology is key to supporting growth."
Damien Boutigny
General Counsel of NA-KD
Status quo for legal departments: do more with less (you're welcome!)
Regardless of which legal news outlet or legal research you follow, legal teams and legal leadership inside organisations are under lots of pressure to cut costs. Thomson Reuters' recent report shows that managing costs is legal departments' top priority.
And let us not forget, the aim is to achieve those savings in parallel to legal teams actually experiencing an increase in their workload. Thomson Reuters 2021 State of Corporate Law Departments reports that 58% of law departments saw their workload surging since 2020.
In essence, legal teams are being asked to do a lot more with less, which means efficiency and automation is the only solution to this equation.
Legal operations technology: the only way forward
Although the covid years have taken a toll on many companies' profitability they also planted a seed that more output can be achieved with less effort using the right technology. In the 2021 Law Departments Operations (LDO) Survey, 72% of respondents say that covid accelerated the automation/digital transformation within their organisation and more than a quarter say it sped it up substantially.
Technology plays a natural leading role here as it is the cornerstone of digital transformation but also imperative to saving costs.
"59% of General Counsel believe technology offers significant or very significant potential for cost savings, far ahead of any other opportunities" – EY General Counsel Imperative Series.
This can also be seen in the recent increase in legal tech budgets, initiatives and spend.
Gartner reports that legal tech spend will increase 3x from 2020 to 2025 and Thomson Reuters 2021 State of Legal Departments survey states that there is both a 52% increase in the use of legal technology as well as a 34% increase in technology spend 2021 vs 2020.
increase in legal tech spend from 2020 to 2025
increase in the use of legal tech
increase in tech spend 2021 vs 2020
According to the survey results by CLOC mentioned earlier, eSignature, eBilling, Contract Management Solution, and Document Management remain the top four technology areas more widely used in legal departments.
The benefits of digitalising and legal technology
Why is everyone convinced about technology and digitalisation being so imperative? Well, there are many benefits, probably some that you may not even have considered. The most common is actually a misconception; that technology "will take our jobs". Now, this is typically the first sceptical answer and one that is not unique to legal in any way.
Manufacturing, Marketing, Sales, IT, HR etc. have all gone before and embraced technology, so let's just kill that argument. Technology is here to stay and here to help and you may need to acquire a few new skills to embrace it, but when you do, you are in for a treat.
Gartner surveyed close to 300 Legal leaders in 2021 and the consensus there was that between 50-60% of legal work within areas such as drafting, negotiation, and review could be automated and that organisations are less than halfway there.
Their prediction was that by 2024 "legal departments will have automated 50% of legal work related to major corporate transactions."
The most commonly quoted benefit is therefore time and resources. If we look at legal technology more specifically it will be things like:
Less time spent drafting contracts
Faster turnaround / execution time for contracts
Fewer / less senior people involved in the process
Less need for outside resources
The WCC's excellent Contracting benchmarking study shares some great data relating to this as they see that the top performers who have embraced digitalisation and are using technology to improve processes are 80% faster than the slowest cohort in relation to contracting.
And that gap is widening and widening fast. Between 2019 and 2021 there was almost a 20% increase in the gap between fastest and slowest performers, and even larger gap looking at the most complex cases.
But there are many other benefits too with technology and digitalisation:
Reduction of errors
Integrations with other systems
In ACC's 2022 Chief Legal Officers Survey, 56% of CLOs had actually implemented technology to successfully comply with data privacy regulations. And in perhaps more specific terms, EY and Harvard's 2021 Contracting reports shares two sobering numbers that almost on their own merit the investment in technology:
of contracts are not monitored for deviations from standard terms
of contract professionals struggle to locate contracts in the first place
And maybe to come full circle here, in favour of technology, it is very important to note two more things technology brings. Firstly that technology is not deployed for high-value or unique tasks but for low-value repetitive tasks. EY's 2021 General Counsel report describes this very well:
"Law department leaders report that one out of every five in-house counsel hours is currently spent on low-value, repetitive or routine tasks, with 87% confirming that their department spends too much time on these tasks. As a result, 47% report that increasing volumes of low-value work have adversely impacted employee morale."
So albeit lawyers may be adverse to change, they really do not like the status quo of increasing workloads and increasing mundane tasks.
Secondly, technology is also an enabler. Let us exemplify with contract management, which is a pain point not only for legal departments and legal may not have sole decision-making authority. Frankly, they may only be required to play a small role in the hundreds or thousands of sales-, lease-, supply chain and other agreements and negotiations in an organisation. And as Deloitte noted in their 2021 State of Legal Operations Survey "technology can add value to managing this process".
Contracting – the catalyst for change
So then the challenge appears to be clear, and benefits aplenty. But let us be a bit more pragmatic here and look at where and how this change is likely to take place. There are certain things that always end up in the crosshairs of cost-cutting exercises. Usually, the third party spend or in the case of legal; outside counsel and advisors.
That may well be straightforward from a cost-cutting point of view, but your outside resources perform tasks that would then need to be performed in-house.
The other angle of this, which is echoed by all the research and numbers highlighted above, is to improve processes already mastered by the legal team. Naturally, you should start with the task that takes up the most time and is only done in-house; contracting!
This is why investment in contracting technology is number one on the list of technologies legal departments want to invest in. The 2021 ACC Law Department report has contract management as both the first priority as well as the area receiving the most investment.
The 2022 ACC Chief Legal Officer Survey says that 70% of CLOs investing in tech are looking to invest in contract management and the 2021 Law Department Operations Survey from Blickstein Group says that 35% of legal departments are looking to invest in contracting technology in the next 12 months.
So any Chief Legal Officer or General Counsel would be hard-pressed to find a better technology investment opportunity than a contracting platform;
Automate work that is repetitive
Automate the type of work that takes up the majority of the legal team's time
Automate work done mainly in-house so hard to outsource
Reduce costly errors by minimising human mistakes
The contracting problem
The Global Legal Department Benchmarking Survey – KMPG International (2021) confirms that the contracting struggle is real.
"A central finding from the survey is that we still have a problem with contracts; we have a problem with creating them and we have a problem with managing them. Looking at where legal teams spend their time, 'contracting' and 'contract law' (including general terms and conditions) is by far the largest drain at a whopping 22.3 per cent of resource."
If the problem sounds relatable, watch this video podcast episode to find out how the legal team at Adverity structured their contract management and why 52% of customer & partner contracts at Adverity need no legal input. The recording will shed some light on how automating contract management can help legal teams focus on meaningful tasks instead of only dealing with the neverending routine contracts.
In this episode, Dani Manfreda, Deputy Head of Legal & Compliance at Adverity walks through:
A typical contract automation workflow of a fast-growing SaaS
The biggest benefits the legal department at Adverity gets from automation
The difference in how legal collaborates with other teams after introducing contract automation
Having a contract lifecycle management (CLM) solution is imperative for legal teams today: it centralises contracting and manages the workflow between the legal department and the rest of the corporation. It's never been easier to handle requests, drafting, negotiation, review, tracking, and reminders–everything in one place.
A contracting platform, such as Precisely, replaces time-consuming legacy solutions with a consolidated, automated workflow. Anyone can create and manage compliant contracts – and they don't need to be legal experts or techies to do it.
Have legal departments been given an impossible task?
Although the picture painted above is clear; deploy technology to cut costs and increase efficiency, real life rarely is as straightforward. Frankly what is being asked of legal departments is very tough:
Excel in a skill (technology / digitalisation / automation) you have not mastered before
Spend less net money
Do it quickly
Very few legal leaders feel confident that they can create a cohesive, long-term plan for digitalising the legal department, according to Gartner's The Future of Legal.
EY has a couple of equally sobering observations as they report that 99% of organisations don't have the data and technology needed to improve their contracting process and that 97% of GC's struggle to secure investment from the C-Suite.
So before everyone assumes (and god forbid some desperate GC:s commit) that this is a quick fix, it really is not and it is very much about execution and "the how" and as well that little issue of securing budget. KPMG reports that albeit budgets are growing, many organisations still have no legal tech budget. In fact, their average budget (based on the 2021 survey) is below $250k and the same survey says that 61% of organisations still do not have a legal technology budget.
Technology maturity: let's walk before we can run
Further on KPMG label technology adoption in legal as "remarkably low" in their 2021 Legal Benchmarking report. Highlighting that the only tools currently with over 50% adoption are communication tools and legal research tools. So the reality is that most organisations start from a basic level.
One of the main challenges is the lack of an overall technology strategy. Many follow market hype rather than focusing on their own needs and organisational structure. Remember that the technological vision has to be yours – it must apply to your context and needs.
Legal Operations: The knight(s) in shining armour
There is no need for the entire legal team to be tech-savvy. But the person leading the digitalisation of the legal department needs to understand the opportunities that technology offers. This person should be able to navigate the tech landscape – identifying and evaluating the available legal software best suited for your needs.
The most typical appointment here is the legal operations person and / or departments. It is one of the most fast-growing legal professions and departments out there and one that almost every organisation is looking to build or expand. Thomson Reuters reports that 81% of their respondents in their 2021 survey are hiring legal ops.
Although historically a more typical "big company" department, it is now no longer the case. In the 2022 ACC CLO report, 60% of legal departments say that they have at least one dedicated Legal Ops professional, with the average number being more than 4. This is also a 3X increase compared to 2015. For large corporates (3+ B$) the same number is 75%.
With legal ops in place, it is easier to drive digitalisation – and to do it properly from the start. A legal operations professional optimises the in-house legal department and implements new technology to improve processes.
Excellent statistics from the ACC 2022 study show that the first legal ops professionals are hired when the legal department reaches 7 people. And the legal ops professionals can really work wonders without being that many as the same study shows that only after the legal departments headcount is over 100 does the legal ops team grow above 5.
By having a function that is responsible for digitalisation, your legal team will be prepared to keep pace with the most significant trends that will impact the imminent future. It also ensures appropriate solutions for your needs, since legal ops knows both your business and the legal tech market.
And in addition to digitalisation, legal operations are also excellent stewards of cost management and budgets. Deloitte's 2021 State of Legal Operations study even has the three most common legal ops Success KPIs being tied to spend. So you can see why in the ACC 2022 CLO report 70% of Chief Legal Officers listed legal operations as their department's top strategic initiative.
How to get started on your digitalisation journey
Our checklist is a great starting point for creating legal ops and digitalising your legal department. In essence, it is about a three-step process: Audit, Plan, and Act.
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Creating a digital roadmap
The legal ops function will highly likely be transformational, so here are a few pointers regarding what to look for in hiring legal ops professionals.
Although every company has different needs, typically keep an eye out for a person who has:
Engineering mindset
Project management and leadership skills
Legal understanding
UX mindset
Visions for a more digital, streamlined, and business-oriented legal team
The scaleup phase is the most transformative stage of a company; it grows, moves, and changes quickly. As a legal professional, your duty is to ensure that legal keeps up with the pace of change while simultaneously building a solid foundation for the needs of tomorrow. So, how do you pull this off?
Working for a scaleup means you will get presented with lots of opportunities to learn new things and solve diverse challenges. It also often means that things are uncertain and that the pace is rapid. If you are among the first legal professionals to join the team, you will most likely be in charge of building up all legal operations from scratch.
To help you succeed, we will cover:
Structuring the legal team in a scaleup
Using digital tools to automate key legal processes
Preparing for due diligence
Securing external budget
Understanding the business, building relationships, and structuring a legal team takes time, but getting the basics in shape and keeping focus on the things that matter will pay off in the long term and ensure you have an excellent foundation to build on when your company continues to grow.
Being the only legal professional in the organisation will result in a variety of tasks; everything that looks, tastes or smells like legal will be for you to handle. Be ready to become involved in a broad variety of things – it will be a thrilling experience where you can make a huge difference!
Before long, you will hopefully have the chance to build up and welcome new colleagues to the legal team. Scoping out the different roles and responsibilities today – already thinking six months, one year and three years ahead – will help shorten the process when you get the budget approved to hire.
As a part of this scoping, take a proper look at how processes are set up today; who does what and when, where you foresee bottlenecks, and what risks are involved in each step – dare to be critical and rethink the processes.
Questions to ask:
Which stakeholders are involved in the contracting process today, and in what stages?
Where do communication and collaboration take place (Word comments, phone, email, chat etc.)?
What are the main bottlenecks, today and those that you foresee in the future as the company expands?
Which areas of improvement would have the most impact, according to you but also to other stakeholders?
In the next step, pull up a blank page and draw out the process evaluating who would *actually* need to be involved, and when. This exercise gives you an opportunity to rethink the legal processes that might already exist at the same time as evaluating which roles you would want to fill and what expertise to look for.
As the person deciding what the legal team will look like and with the power to shape the workflows, you also have to ensure your work environment is sustainable and scalable. This means you need to quickly identify the right tools that will support your work, and the workflows you just put down on paper will pinpoint the functionality you need from a tool.
Looking for a benchmark for scaling legal operations and creating new–and oftentimes innovative–roles within the department? Take a look at the case of Adverity.
When Fiona Greiner, currently VP Legal & Compliance at Adverity, joined the company she was the first legal person onboard. The legal team had to scale fast to serve the hypergrowth phase. Today, Adverity is a fast-growing B2B SaaS that recently closed $120M in Series D funding.
Curious to learn how Fiona created Adverty's legal operations team from scratch and what roles the team came up with? Watch the recap of our chat with Fiona below. We touched upon:
How Fiona approached creating roles and recruiting
What KPIs Adverity's Legal ops team has
What value the team brings to the business
One thing is certain: the processes, the team, and the workload are bound to stretch and expand. What will not change is the need to ensure compliance. That is why it is crucial to set a robust ground with scalable processes.
In a way you should be looking for ways to scale yourself: with the right tools and processes in place, you should be able to ensure legal never becomes a bottleneck for the organisation. In essence, this means you need to ensure that you can delegate while still keeping control.
Choosing the right tools for your legal tech ecosystem will facilitate your company's continued growth. It also supports your colleagues in other teams in achieving their objectives faster. Reliable and efficient processes built around how the tools are used will become as crucial as the tools themselves in scaling the legal function, and in turn the whole business, sustainably.
Let's take one of the most common bottlenecks as an example: contracts. Being efficient in your contract management is an essential part, and it highly benefits the overall business.
For instance, at a time in the company's life where every signed contract matters, how can you ensure the sales team can close deals without you holding up a process? How much time would you save if you didn't have to double check that discounts are within reason and that no costly commas have been added to calculations or clauses?
To not drown in repetitive and administrative tasks tied to contracts, automating your contract workflows is one example of being involved only when your competence is actually needed. That's why more and more companies are thinking about legal operations and introducing legal technology to reduce bottlenecks and allow legal professionals to focus on what they do best.
Example workflow: managing employment contracts digitally
A scaleup hires frequently and employment contracts can easily become a bottleneck. With a CLM platform in place, you will have an automated template with pre-set approval workflows and logic behind it to make the contracting fast and smooth.
The hiring manager simply answers a prebuilt questionnaire – everything from start date and length of probation period, to salary, and other benefits – and is able to generate a fully compliant contract in a minute.
A sophisticated CML platform can automatically calculate and populate the fields showing for instance the combined compensation or the exact dates when the probation period is over. Depending on the rules you have defined in the contract template, the platform can route the contract to the appropriate person for review. An example of this could be a compensation level above a certain number going to the CEO for approval vs below said number going to the Head of the recruiting team.
The approver can then choose to suggest edits or, if all is well, simply approve. Once approved, the hiring manager can send the contract straight to the candidate for negotiation or, if terms are pre-negotiated, for signing.
The signed contract is then stored in the right folder in an AI-assisted archive that only the right people have access to. To not have to keep important events such as expirations or renewal dates in your head, on a post-it note or in a calendar invite, a CLM platform will also automatically remind you in advance of important milestones.
To sum up, the process can be depicted as this:
1. Create
3. Sign
4. Archive
5. Monitor
One thing that you can count on during an expansive phase is the topic of due diligence. It will occur as the company does funding rounds or enters into new business transactions with other parties.
Regardless of the size of the company and its legal needs, order and compliance are vital, and the right digital tools are an essential part of creating said order. Having your legal technology stack integrated to your enterprise software, you can rest assured that all data is gathered in one place and the information is always accurate and up to date, even if not all related tasks are executed inside the legal tools themselves.
Precisely allows integrating your contract workflow with HubSpot
The easier it is to find your contracts, the better off you are. With all contracts assembled and organised in the centralised archive inside your CLM platform, you don't need to spend time gathering information for investors. Thanks to metadata, reminders, and versioning, you can show that you know where your contracts are, what your vendors are doing, and what the costs are within those agreements.
With the right choices for digital tools made, and with a robust CLM platform in place, there is no need to fret when a DD comes into focus – you are already in control and have all things in place by default!
During the scaleup phase, the company might focus more on expanding functions such as sales or development. The legal team might not always be the most prioritised when allocating resources.
In their 2021 Survey, EY concludes that 97% of General Counsels face challenges securing their budget as they fail to convince CEOs. Creating stakeholder buy-in is challenging, as it requires an investment case supported by data – an area which historically has been challenging for many legal functions.
To ensure you get the budget and signoff you require for your investments, it is important to build a strong business case for your stakeholders based on financial data and clear calculations. Showing a clear return on investment for every post that you put forward helps you get wider buy-in from your organisation.
Calculating the ROI for your investments can at times be tricky. When it comes to a CLM platform, we built an ROI calculator to help you get started. It gives you an overview of the value a CLM platform like Precisely provides long term, both quantitatively and qualitatively.
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When presenting your calculations, one thing worth noting is that most investments do not only benefit the legal team, as the results and increased efficiency trickles down to the whole organisation. Investing in legal often means investing in the company.
How to find your scaleup's perfect CLM fit?
With the right CLM in place, you will have vital backing and the best time to procure and implement one is right now. Your workload will not lessen, so your best bet is to find time for this project today.
You can rest assured that it is likely the perfect CLM solution for you if it;
Makes business operations and decision-making faster
Enables easier collaboration across the organisation and with external parties
Harnesses your entire company in compliant contracting
Scales your legal function
Turns compliance duties easier and faster
Becomes your single source of truth for your contract
Standardises your contracting processes
Eliminates manual work from contracting
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Jacqueline du Pré caught the public imagination when she was still in her teens, partly because she had a very unusual and elevated relationship with the Elgar Cello Concerto. For critics and public alike, her performances focused new attention on the inherent pathos in Elgar's melancholy masterpiece and had an emotional quality that has never been matched by anyone else.
She played it first at the Royal Festival Hall in London on 21 March 1962 when she was just seventeen years old. On the following morning, Neville Cardus, one of England's most distinguished writers on music, described the work in The Guardian as, "A swan-song of rare and vanishing beauty," and he reviewed her performance of it in such strong and poetic terms as any seventeen year old has ever received from a senior critic. He concluded his review with these words: "Those actually present were witness, on the first day of spring, to an early blossoming in Miss du Pré's playing, and such a beautiful blossoming as this year, or any other year, is likely to know for a long time to come."
In the next few years, Jacqueline du Pré won an enthusiastic audience for the concerto, not only in the United Kingdom but in the rest of Europe, in the United States and in the Soviet Union. She played the work for the last time in 1973, when her brilliant career as one of the finest musicians that Britain has ever produced, was cut short by multiple sclerosis. After 1973, she could no longer play the cello, but she remained a brave and adventurous spirit, her passion for music undimmed and her attitude in coming to terms with her illness as touching as it was courageous.
"This film begins with an account of her activities after the onset of her illness. It ends, at Jacqueline du Pré's request, with a re-edited version of the film which we made with her in 1967, a film which sketches her childhood and the development of her musical talent, her meeting with Daniel Barenboim and their marriage in 1967, her relationship with the Elgar Concerto and, finally, a complete performance of the work with the New Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim – a performance that is remarkable by any standards and, for many, quite unforgettable."
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Graham Withey, 73, recovering from cancer, makes leap of faith abseiling down Broadgate Tower. Picture: Pure Light Photography
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A 73-year-old man recovering from cancer has abseiled 540ft down Broadgate Tower near Liverpool Street Station, one of the City's tallest buildings, raising funds for east London's children's hospice.
Richard House Hospice care director Libby Basson abseils down Broadgate Tower for the charity. Picture: Pure Light Photography
Graham Withey, who is in remission after completing his treatment, made the adventurous leap in aid of Richard House Hospice in Becton—where he also volunteers his spare time.
"The abseil was out of this world," he said after landing safely on terra firma.
"I love what Richard House does for children with life-limiting conditions and their families and the number of different ways they help."
Another adventurous hospice supporter taking the plunge was Sanjay Arora, from Denton's law firm in the City.
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The Broadgate Tower abseil is a 'high point' in the Richard House calendar, with the money raised going towards the £3.5 million a year needed to keep the hospice running. The charity's care director Libby Basson also took part in the abseil to help reach this year's £50,000 target.


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Get to Know Your Neighborhood: Downtown Knoxville
Gabriela Szymanowska, Campus News Editor
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The downtown area is the heart of a thriving city, where the hustle and bustle of life awakens during the morning commute and crowds gather after work making the center of the city a hub of activity for the community.
Knoxville's own downtown has recently expanded the last few decades, bringing a new life to the area. Sitting on the edge of the Tennessee River, the area encompasses key landmarks like Market Square, Gay Street and the Sunsphere at World's Fair Park.
Kim Bumpas, president of Visit Knoxville, made Knoxville her home after graduating from UT and has seen Knoxville's downtown area expand the last few years.
"You know, probably two ways, because I see it from a Knoxvillan standpoint and from a visitor standpoint, but I think the cool part about that is it's kind of the same for both, because downtown Knoxville has evolved over the last 20 years, coming into its real mecca, probably the last five to 10 years," Bumpas said. "It's just this really cool, unique vibe that you don't really find in the rest of the country as you travel around."
Visit Knoxville is the official convention and visitor bureau of Knoxville and are charged with maintaining Knoxville's image, according to the Visit Knoxville website.
Today, new shops and restaurants are opening their doors, festivals and markets line Market Square during weekends and the nightlife has sprung into action as Knoxville residents walk along Gay Street passing by the Tennessee Theatre, Knoxville Art Emporium and public art displays.
Noah Farmer, Knoxville native and employee at Knoxville Chocolate Co., reminisced on how when he was younger he barely came to downtown, but has seen the area grow into itself over the last few years.
"So, when I was younger, when I was like super young, I never came up to downtown too much. There wasn't too much going on, it wasn't the place it is today," Farmer said. "But, the past few years, it feels like there have been so many small businesses popping up … I think it's one of the main reasons why we got called the "maker city" is just the small businesses that have been popping up."
Knoxville Chocolate Co., a shop selling locally-made chocolates, recently celebrated its one year anniversary in December at its Market Square location.
Along with the chocolate shop, visitors have an array of bars, restaurants, cafés and food shops they can visit including Bistro at the Bijou, Cafe 4, French Market Crepe and Babalu Tacos and Tapas.
Displays of art are visible throughout the area, both indoors and out. First Friday Walks are where the community can walk around all the open galleries during First Friday to look at the different art on display. In addition to First Fridays, there are plenty of graffiti alleyways that are great as an Instagram background and as public art displayed throughout Market Square.
"I think for the downtown area, I think one of the big things is the cultural aspect of it," Farmer said. "We've got the Emporium on Gay Street and then also the First Friday art walk, there's a lot more creativity flowing around downtown ... It feels like more of a spot of inspiration, like when you're down here you can always find something kind of to inspire yourself."
The Art Emporium on Gay Street showcases several art galleries of local and regional artwork and also houses several studio artists in the building.
Downtown further offers outdoor activities like share-biking through the city and paddle boarding on the Tennessee River.
Bumpas said that another great aspect to downtown is the friendly atmosphere that the community creates.
"So, the visitor feedback that we get and I think this is what students would experience too when they start to gain the confidence to venture off campus and come downtown ... it's the friendliness," Bumpas said. "So, walking in, it's like everybody is your best friend and then you match that welcome, open, good attitude energy."
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