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BP free to move for former Shell Executive Paul Skinner
Profile: Rio wedding off so BP free to move for Paul Skinner
Well grounded: Friends say Paul Skinner doesn't take himself too seriously and he regards 'a little humility' as vital to running a large business
Chris Blackhurst, Evening Standard
26 November 2008, 12:20pmWith the Rio wedding off, BP is free to hire its new chairman After four decades at Shell, Paul Skinner swapped refining for mining. Now his sharp brain and calmness under fire could put him right at the top of the oil business.
'Peter will be a tough act to follow: he has extraordinary political connections and insight,' said Tony Hayward. 'Our principal contracts are with governments, and Peter has been immensely valuable there.'
The BP chief executive went on to say that whoever succeeded Peter Sutherland as BP chairman had to be someone who had worked in the energy business, who had experience at the top of a big multinational, and who was comfortable dealing with governments at the highest level. 'So the list is quite short,' he said.
The City thinks it knows the identity of the next chairman: Paul Skinner, currently chairing mining giant Rio Tinto. Yesterday, that possibility moved a step nearer with the news that Australian rival BHP Billiton was calling off its proposed union, worth £170bn at the time, with Rio Tinto.
Skinner, 63, was due to leave Rio Tinto after two successful terms at the Anglo-Australian corporation but had postponed his departure until the BHP Billiton situation was resolved. Now it has been, resulting in victory for Rio Tinto, he is free to go as planned at the end of the year.
Sir Ian Prosser, the BP deputy chairman, who is heading the search for the new boss, is thought to want him. Skinner is also understood to be keen but no discussions about personal terms have taken place.
With BHP Billiton pulling out, the process should quicken. For Skinner, the BP chair would represent a double coup. Not only is it regarded as one of the plum jobs in British and world business, but he spent nearly four decades working for its arch-competitor, Shell and was disappointed not to be made its chairman in 2000.
Such is fate, however, that being passed over in favour of Sir Philip Watts could well turn out to be the best thing that has ever happened to him. While Watts subsequently became engulfed in the scandal over Shell's misreporting of its reserves, Skinner went on to Rio Tinto.
Skinner grew up in Essex and went to Palmers School in Grays. He's very tall and was a keen footballer, gaining a blue from Cambridge. Today, if he has a team, it's West Ham. Even now he keeps himself fit, going jogging with his wife, Rita. They have two sons and live in West London – they have other houses in Hampshire and France.
At parties, they make a contrasting couple. He is courteous and quiet – which, with his height, can make him seem imposing to those who don't know him. She is much shorter and talks nineteen to the dozen, often about her love of theatre (she is heavily involved with the National). He is also keen on the arts, especially opera.
'Rita is a good foil to Paul,' said a friend of them both. 'She's a very bright lady. Even if he wanted to, she wouldn't allow him to take himself too seriously. They don't do airs and graces – they're both very grounded.'
Once he lets go of his customary reserve, Skinner can be warm, with a good sense of humour. He is also sharp – a fellow board director said that he cuts an impressive figure in meetings and can usually be relied upon to ask challenging, incisive questions.
Skinner likes to say that he joined Shell on his very first day at university. The oil company paid for him to read natural sciences, although he later switched to law.
He stayed with Shell after he graduated, taking his wife and young family to postings across the world, in New Zealand, Greece, Nigeria and Norway, fulfilling a childhood ambition to 'live and work in as many countries as I could'. His last job was running the oil major's 'downstream' business, an operation that covered 80,000 employees in 140 countries.
There are those who wonder whether, if he'd become chairman and not Watts, Skinner would have been caught up in the reserves affair. In Skinner's defence, though, are that his primary concern was refining and distribution, not 'upstream' exploration and production, and he is an absolute stickler for correct governance. More probable is that if he had been in charge, the whole sorry saga might not have occurred in the first place.
Skinner prefers not to talk about it – he's far too diplomatic to accuse anyone, preferring to dwell on the positive aspects of Shell, a company he was with nearly all his working life.
Not that he's had it easy at Rio Tinto. He joined the mining company's board in December 1991 and was made chairman in November 2003. Under Sir Robert Wilson, the long-time chairman and chief executive, Rio Tinto had acquired a reputation for being conservative and inward-looking.
It was gaining too, a patchy environmental history. Other mining operators were more modern and faster-growing – and reaping the benefits of soaring world demand for commodities. Against them, Rio Tinto was in danger of exuding a tired, clapped-out, air.
Rather than taking on a sinecure to last him out his days, to the surprise of many, not least at Rio Tinto, Skinner threw himself into the new post with gusto. He put a marker down at the outset by declaring he didn't want to be non-executive or part-time chairman but 'chairman', believing that was a more suitable title for the demands of chairing a modern global company.
He set about controlling costs, which had been rising. Rio Tinto has grown through acquisition and there was a feeling of the component parts of the company not being knitted together, of the whole place not being run as efficiently as it could be.
Underperforming sections of the empire were brought up to scratch or disposed of altogether.
He fostered links with Russia and China (he also sits on the board of Standard Chartered bank, which has close ties to China), displaying a rare patience and understanding. 'Think global, act local is a hackneyed phrase, but it does reflect our aim,' he said.
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Categories of Data
INFOnline GmbH gathers the following Data that is deemed personal data according to the EU GDPR:
IP address: On the internet, every device needs a unique address, the so-called IP address, to transmit data. The at least temporary storage of the IP address is technically required because of how the internet works. The IP addresses are truncated by 1 byte before any processing and processed only in anonymised form. IP addresses that are not truncated are not stored or processed further.
Randomly generated client identifier: For the purpose of recognising returning computer systems, the processing to measure reach uses alternatively either a cookie with the identifier "ioam.de", a "local storage object" or a signature that is generated from various bits of information of your browser that are transmitted automatically. This identifier is unique for a browser for as long as the cookie or local storage object is not deleted. A measurement of the data and subsequent attribution to the respective client identifier is therefore also possible if you call up other websites that also user the measurement procedure ("SZMnG") of INFOnline GmbH. The validity of the cookie is limited to at most 1 year.
Use of the Data
The measurement procedure of INFOline GmbH, which is used on this website, assesses usage data. This is done to survey the performance indicators of page impressions, visits and clients and form further key indicators from these (e.g. qualified clients). In addition, the measured Data is used as follows:
So-called geo-localisation, meaning the attribution of a webpage retrieval to the location from where it was accessed, is done exclusively on the basis of the anonymised IP address and only up to the geographic level of federal states/regions. Conclusions as to the concrete location of a User can never be drawn based on the geographical information gained this way.
The usage data of a technical client (e.g. a browser on a device) is combined across webpages and stored in a database. This information is used for a technical estimate of demographic information as to age and gender and transferred to the service providers of AGOF for the further processing to measure reach. By means of random sampling within the scope of the AGOF study, social attributes are estimated in a technical process, which can be classified into the following categories: age, gender, nationality, occupation, marital status, general information about the household, household income, place of residence, internet use, online interests, place of use, user type.
Storage period for the Data
The complete IP address will not be stored by INFOnline GmbH. The truncated IP address will be stored at most for 60 days. The usage data in combination with the unique identifier is stored for at most 6 months.
Transfer of the Data
Neither the IP address nor the truncated IP address is transferred. For the preparation of the AGOF study, the Data with client identifiers is passed on to the following service providers of AGOF:
Kantar Deutschland GmbH (https://www.tns-infratest.com/)
You can find more information about data privacy on the website of INFOnline GmbH (https://www.infonline.de)/, which operates the measuring procedure and on the data privacy page of AGOF (http://www.agof.de/datenschutz), and the data privacy page of IVW (http://www.ivw.eu)/.
Facebook Pixel, Custom Audiences and Facebook conversion
Within our Online Offer the so-called "Facebook Pixel" of the social network Facebook is used based on and for the purposes of our justified interests in analysis, optimization and efficient operation of our Online Offer, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, or if you are located in the EU, by Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland ("Facebook").
Facebook is certified, among other, under the Privacy Shield Agreement and it thereby offers a guarantee that the European Data protection laws are observed (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active).
For one thing, Facebook Pixel enables Facebook to identify visitors of our Online Offer as a target group for the display of ads (so-called "Facebook Ads"). Accordingly, we use Facebook Pixel to display the Facebook Ads placed by us only to such Facebook users, who have actually shown an interest in our Online Offer or who have certain attributes (e.g. interests in certain topics or products as identified based on the visited webpages) that we transmit to Facebook (so-called "Custom Audiences"). By means of the Facebook Pixel, we would also like to ensure that our Facebook Ads match the Users' potential interests and do not bother them. We can furthermore track the effectiveness of the Facebook Ads by means of Facebook Pixel for purposes of statistics and market research because we can thereby see whether Users have been redirected to our website after clicking on a Facebook Ad (so-called "conversion").
The Data is processed by Facebook within the scope of Facebook's data policy. Accordingly, general information on the display of Facebook Ads can be found in Facebook's Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php. Special information and details about Facebook Pixel and its mode of functioning can be found in Facebook's help section: https://www.facebook.com/business/help/651294705016616.
You can object to the gathering and use of your Data by Facebook Pixel for the display of Facebook Ads. To configure which types of ads can be displayed to you on Facebook, you can call up the page set up by Facebook and follow the instructions there to adjust the settings for advertising based on your activity: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads. The settings are made independent of the platform, i.e. they are adopted for all devices, such as desktop computers or mobile devices.
You can object to the use of cookies that serve to measure reach and that are used for advertising purposes also via the deactivation page and the network advertising initiative (http://optout.networkadvertising.org/) and, additionally, via the U.S. webpage (http://www.aboutads.info/choices) or the European webpage (http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/).
Online profile at Facebook
Our company has set up its own profile page on Facebook ("Fan Page") to communicate there as well with our customers, prospective customers and other Facebook users, and to be able to inform them about our offers and services.
In this context, we point out that Data can also be processed in this connection outside of the EU, in particular in the USA. However, Facebook is actively certified under the Privacy Shield (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active) so that Facebook is obligated to observe the EU data privacy standards in the processing of the Users' Data. Nonetheless, we point out explicitly that it might complicate the enforcement of your rights as a User when the processing takes place in the USA.
The Data of the visitors to our online profile at Facebook is normally processed for purposes of market research and advertising, and user profiles are created from this Data. These user profiles are used to place ads both on as well as outside of Facebook that match the presumed interests of the User. For this purpose, cookies are stored on the User's computer in the normal case, which contain information about the User's activity and the respective User's interests. If the User him/herself is also logged into Facebook, it can happen moreover that additional Data is saved in the user profiles at Facebook.
The Users' personal data is processed on the basis of our legitimate interests in providing effective information to the Users and communication with the Users according to Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. In case the User is asked by Facebook, e.g. by setting a checkmark in a control box or clicking on a button to consent to the data processing, the legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 (1) lit. a), Art. 7 GDPR.
For a detailed description of the respective processing and the options for objection (opt-out), we refer to Facebook (Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland). You can find Facebook's data privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. You can declare an objection in the form of an opt-out here: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads and http://www.youronlinechoices.com.
In this context, you can request information and claim your user rights most effectively at Facebook directly. Only Facebook has access to the Data of its Users and can take corresponding measures directly and provide information. Of course, you can also contact us if you need help.
The provider of Sizmek is Sizmek Inc., 500 West 5th Street, Suite 900, Austin, TX 78701, United States. Sizmek uses technologies to deliver ads that are relevant to you. Sizmek operates digital advertising campaigns for advertisers and agencies around the world using state-of-the-art technology to reach the audience on every screen. Sizmek has proudly performed pioneering work in the field of digital advertising including rich media, video and online advertising across all channels. Sizmek open ad management stack delivers the most creative and impressive digital campaigns on multiple screens, via mobile phones, displays, rich media, videos and social networks, all of which are supported by an unrivalled data engine. Data privacy policies: https://www.sizmek.com/privacy-policy/ Link to the opt-out: https://www.sizmek.com/privacy-policy/optedout/ - options
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We use Media Innovation Group on our website, which is a service of the company Media Innovation Group, LLC, 132 West 31st Street, 12th floor, New York, NY 10001, USA. Media Innovation Group (MIG) develops innovative technological products and services, which improve the process of acquisition, optimisation and measurement of consumer touch points via digital channels for agency and advertising customers. Media Innovation Group also uses cookies. In the course of the usage, the Users' Data can be transmitted to a server of the company Media Innovation Group, LLC and be stored there. It cannot be ruled out that Media Innovation Group, LLC might transfer this information to third parties as the case may be. In particular, this is done if it is mandated by law or to the extent, as third parties process this Data. You can prevent that the gathering and transfer of your personal data and its processing by deactivating the execution of Java Script in your browser. You can find more information about data privacy in the use of Media Innovation Group in their data privacy policy at http://www.themig.com/en-us/privacy.html, where it is also possible to set an opt-out cookie.
Adition
The provider of Adition is Adition technologies AG, Am Gatherhof 44, 40472 Düsseldorf, Germany. Adition uses technologies to deliver ads that are relevant to you. ADITION technologies are the leading European provider of high-quality technology solutions for an automated, databased digital marketing across all channels from one centralised enterprise platform. The modular expandable platform delivers all market participants – advertisers, agencies and publishers/marketers – equally personalised, customised solutions to achieve the maximum marketing or promotional efficiency and to design the respective key assets in online marketing in a way that makes them viable for the future. Data privacy policies: http://de.adition.com/privacy/ Link to the opt-out: http://de.adition.com/privacy/
Status of the Data Privacy Policy: 08/06/2018.

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A little further north of Snowdonia, lies Holyhead Mountain, the highest point in Anglesey, though in actual fact it isn't on Anglesey at all; as its actually situated on Holy Island which is separated from the larger Isle of Anglesey.
Despite being named mountain, at just 720ft Holyhead Mountain is actually only a big hill, however the view from the summit could convince anybody that they were standing on a much larger peak. Due to relative flatness of the island(s) from the top of Holyhead Mountain you can see practically the entirety of the county of Anglesey and even as far away as the Snowdonia mountains.
Holyhead Mountain and its nearby town have a long history of habitation, evidence of an Iron Age settlement has been found on the hillside and the summit was once home to old Roman Watchtower, known as Caer y Twr. At that time, the site around modern Holyhead town, consisted of a small Roman Fort (Caer Gybi) and it is reckoned that the watchtower was designed to warn the fort of the arrival of any potential Irish raiders.
Speaking of Irish Raiders, today Holyhead is the main crossing point between Great Britain and Ireland, with ferries from Holyhead taking passengers to a variety of ports including Dublin. As such its perfectly normal to witness dozens of enormous ferries from the top of Holyhead Mountain, making the ever busy route to and from Ireland.


The first season of The Real Housewives Of Strathfieldsaye began filming today. It focuses on the personal and professional lives of several women residing in and around Strathfieldsaye.
Felesity Harkwise: A former child star who once auditioned to be on Ready Steady Cook.
Sheridan Plumridge: Husband used to play football in the Bendigo Football League but retired with a groin injury that has never properly healed properly.
Alize Crabs: A professional water taster. Her partner is a plastic surgeon.
Kiranda Shrubs: Works casual at a local pub. Enjoy's making hats for cats.
Camile Kelsay: Two-time burnout champion. Husband is a real estate agent.
Rachael Frankston: Works in a mobile salon. Won Miss Bendigo at the Bendigo Cup 5 times.
The best thing about The Real Housewives Of Strathfieldsaye is that it takes place in Strathfieldsaye. If Strathfieldsaye was a person it would be a Hemsworth.
Last year Strathfieldsaye was voted Bendigo's most elegant city. Just this week it lost that title to Huntly after the Huntly Hotel opened its doors.
Producers promise that the TV show will be unabashedly manufactured.
Real Housewives of Strathfieldsaye will air in late 2019.


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Q: Helm secrets plugin unable to decrypt secrets.yaml encrypted before with GPG key I have got a problem with decryption of my secrets.yaml file. The process freez like on pic. below:
helm secrets dec
Based on the example from official documentation: https://github.com/futuresimple/helm-secrets
1) I have my gpg key fingerprint added in the .sops.yaml
2) I make custom secrets.yaml file to encrypt:
replicaCount:
image:
    repository: git/repo
    tag:   v1
    pullPolicy: always
service:
    type: nodeport
    port:   3456
    targetPort: 4665
ingress:
    enabled: true

Then I successfully encrypted this file with my key:
helm secrets enc
File is properly encrypted but unfortunetly I am not able to decrypt it back.
The command is suspended indefinitely as on the pic

A: Im not sure that helps me to solve this problem, but I made new GPG key WITHOUT PASS PHRASE. Propably SOPS was able to encrypt file, but can't obtain it to decryption. Hope it helps someone !

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He Said, She Said – Scores and Highlights for 6/6/19
June 7, 2019 June 7, 2019 Author by professormaddog31Posted in Baseball
Prof: Usually, on Fridays we like to celebrate female artists, but today I have a specific theme in mind. I'll return to Girl Power Friday next week. Let's start with a song from one of my favorite movies of all time. Yes. Seriously.
Twins 5, Spiders 4 – Scouts: Hey everybody! It's the Max Kepler super duper blast-off hour starring Max Kepler! On tonight's episode Max Kepler visited the right field bleachers twice, and made one additional visit to center, for three visits total!
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Yankees 6, Blue Jays 2 – Scouts: The Yankees just keep on raking. Aaron Hicks and Gio Urshela both homered while J.A. Happ shut down the Jays over 7 strong innings. The Yankees currently hold a 1.5 game lead in the East, 6.5 games over Boston. The Orioles in case you were wondering are just a skip and jump away at 20.5 games back.
Orioles 3, Rangers 4 – Scouts: The Rangers bullpen's a bit taxed at the moment, so they called up Ariel Jurado and he gave them 6 strong innings. Trey Mancini who continues to be too damn good to be on a team this damn bad went 3-4 with his 13th homer.
Giants 3, Mets 7 – Prof: I forgot Mark Melancon was still in the majors. And with four earned runs in one inning, I think he'd probably like to forget about this game versus New York. Jeff McNeil went 2-2 with 2 RBI; Todd Frazier had a two run homer.
Braves 1, Pirates 6 – Prof: Yuck. The Braves have been in a bit of a slump lately. Not necessarily offensively (Freddie Freeman hit yet another homer), but the pitching has been off. Mike Foltznewicz did not fare well – and if I'm being honest, I really believe that he's still not 100% from his injury. folty gave up back to back homers to the Pirates. All that is going to be changing, as sources claim free agent hurler Dallas Keuchel has come to an agreement with Atlanta. Couldn't come at a better time!
Rays 6, Tigers 1 – Scouts: Tampa continues to hang in the division race, and they are doing it by finding help in all sorts of different places. Today it was Travis d'Arnaud who homered twice, his first two on the season.
Red Sox 7, Royals 5 – Prof: Did you know that the Red Sox hasn't swept a team in nearly a month? Well, it's true…or it was, but no longer, as Boston had a three game sweep of Kansas City thanks to this win. Mookie Betts hit a two run homer in the third inning, while Christian Vazquez scored on a wild pitch in the seventh.
Reds 1, Cardinals 3 – Prof: The NL Central is such a wild place these days. Even the bad teams (Cincinnati) aren't really that bad. St. Louis had the upper hand, though, as Paul DeJong hit a homer and the Redbirds stole four bases!
Marlins 1, Brewers 5 – Prof: Christian Yelich now leads the majors for home runs. In this game, he hit his 23rd. Mike Moustakas was the Milwaukee Masher, though, with two home runs, and the Brewers were able to keep from being swept by Miami.
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Rockies 3, Cubs 1 – Prof: It was the major league debut of Colorado's pitcher, one Peter Lambert. Lambert did a heck of a job for his first time out: four hits over seven innings and struck out nine, and did it at Wrigley. The Rockies rode the rookie to victory, with help from David Dahl and Ian Desmond at the plate.
Astros 8, Mariners 7 F/14 – Scouts: 14 long innings it took to decide a winner in this one. Seattle had a ton of fight in them, doing some work while down late multiple times, scoring runs in the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th, but finally in the 14th, Houston was able to get ahead and stay ahead.
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Athletics 7, Angels 4 – Scouts: After blowing 7 pitchers in 9 innings the night before, Oakland really needed Mike Fiers to step up, and he did a pretty good job holding back LA for 6 strong innings. Mike Trout picked up his 16th homer on the year in the loss.
Nationals 4, Padres 5 – Scouts: A crucial Trea Turner to Anthony Rendon error with the bases loaded in the 5th opened the flood gates allowing San Diego to take a 1 run lead they would hold onto for the rest of the game. Fernando Tatis Jr., making his return after a 6 week absence scored the key run that helped spark the come back.
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Nats scored all their runs in the top of the first last night, and had bases loaded and two outs in the second, but couldn't really break the game open, and it gradually slipped away from them from there.
Patrick Corbin struggled for the second straight start. He makes his money by getting batters to chase sliders out of the zone, but that's all predicated on his getting ahead in the first place with his fastball. The Reds pounced on the fastball in his last start, and he couldn't locate it well enough to succeed last night, and so the Nats lost.
Six years, $140 million; he better figure it out.
The Feesh returned to sea level last night as the Brooze were waiting for them in the weeds, pounding Caleb Smith for four in the first and then throttling the order the rest of the way. Still, it was a 4-2 road trip, not bad for a team everyone (including me) predicted would lose over 100 games.
They return tonight to Macondo Banana Massacre Field to play the Barves just as da wife and I finish packing for London. We're outta here tomorrow until June 23rd. I'll check in from time to time but I expect to be so far behind the curve with the time zone thang I will prolly be even less relevant than usual.
Bear with me.
Cheerio ol' chap, safe travels.
Mad Chef says:
Bring back a culinary marvel from jolly old England….
Dear Buddha. Better you should have asked me for a moon rock.
Okay, on second thought: how about a Flake?
historiophiliac says:
Make sure you always know where the exits are!
nbjays says:
Mind the gap!


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Ottawa County Health Department: Success with Immunization Registry Integration
Ottawa County, KS is situated in northcentral Kansas, right above the junction of interstates 70 and 135.
The Ottawa County Health Department was founded in the early 1980s to serve the small county and today, the population it serves consists of about 5,975 people.
Amazingly, the Ottawa County Health Department administered nearly 1,750 immunizations to that small population in 2016.
Trisha Smith, RN, Deputy Director, and Nursing Director shared, "We do quite a few immunizations for our size. Some health departments would probably laugh at me when I say, 'we do a lot,' and then follow that with how many we do. But per capita, for our actual visits, a lot of them are immunizations."
Immunization services can vary from health department to health department, but they can be especially varied between different states.
"Immunizations are so different state to state. We see kids come in with completely different immunizations than what we send them out with," Trisha agreed.
Describing the immunization services that Ottawa County offers, Trisha shared, "We do all the childhood immunizations and we provide adult immunizations as well, like travel vaccines and general vaccines such as tetanus and influenza.
"We provide the VFC (Vaccines for Children) program which is for people who are uninsured or underinsured or part of the Medicaid program.
"The immunization is paid for by state and federal funds, [but] we can charge a fee for the administration [of the vaccine].
"The [VFC] program ensures people who couldn't otherwise afford to be vaccinated are covered… We [also] do private pay for adults, which is private pay or private insurance.
"We also, of course, accept private insurance for kids as well."
It's easy to see why the health department would search out means to make that immunization process as efficient as possible, but the journey to an efficient process was a long one.
Trisha Smith, RN, Deputy Director & Nursing Director
The health department moved away from paper records many years ago, opting to graduate to an electronic health record (EHR) in 2002, when a coalition of the Kansas Association of Local Health Departments (KALHD) began researching EHRs.
However, by 2007 the department began searching for an alternative solution to the EHR they had chosen.
Their EHR was not evolving with the department's needs, as it:
Was cumbersome
Lacked needed features,
Did not offer point of care charting
Ottawa County wanted something better, but was dealing with the challenges many health departments' face:
A host of EHR options
Reluctance to spend the department's limited dollars
This led to a long decision making process.
Finally, through a series of events a couple years in the making, Ottawa County Health Department ended up choosing Nightingale Notes as their new EHR.
Around 2012, Trisha had bumped into Champ Software's Senior Accounting Executive, David Smith. He continued pursuing Ottawa County, but they weren't ready to make a decision yet.
A couple years later, in 2014, the Kansas Immunization Program award for the CDC grant was offered.
Framed as the "Implementation of Strategic Plans for Immunization Services in Health Department Clinics," the grant included a pilot program to help local health departments obtain an EHR.
"What it was looking at was, does the use of an EHR increase revenue for the local health departments for immunization purposes," Trisha explained.
A health department had to fit certain criteria to participate, including having greater than 40% of their total billed revenue coming from immunization services or being the sole immunizer in the county for adults and/or children.
Ottawa County, of course, fit the bill. In July, 2015 the department chose Nightingale Notes and by October, 2015 they were live.
Not long after, Nightingale Notes built an integration with KS WebIZ, the Kansas immunization registry, which went live in 2016. What affect did this have on Ottawa County's immunization process? "It made it a lot easier!" Trisha said emphatically.
Nightingale Notes Integration with KS WebIZ
In the early days with their old EHR, Trisha shared that the department's immunization process was quite cumbersome.
Each month, the department's Vaccines for Children (VFC) coordinator, who also served as the department's biller and front office clerk, would create a file download of all the immunizations performed that month; the file would then have to be uploaded to another link and put into the registry.
Because the process was so involved, it wasn't feasible to complete it for each immunization.
"A lot of times we would have done the shots, then the doctor's office might check and think, 'they haven't done this immunization or that one,' when really we had, but the upload wasn't done yet and [the immunization] hadn't shown up."
There were other frustrations with the process as well. "The nurses were doing everything on paper… I'm left-handed – it's chicken scratch, a mess—then that chart would go to [the VFC Coordinator] who would have to decipher whatever it was that I wrote and enter it into the registry."
Trisha explained, "As you can imagine, that process in itself was not smooth."
At times the chart might sit on the desk until the VFC Coordinator could catch the nurse she needed and ask them a question to clarify what they had done or what they had charted.
"[Nightingale Notes] eliminated that process. It was a blessing," said Trisha, "When we go out to flu clinics and stuff, now we're able to just do it… Now it's real-time. What I do out in the public is the same process I follow here in the clinic. It's a lot more accurate. It flows more easily."
Describing the increased accuracy and efficiency Nightingale Notes' immunization integration with KS WebIZ has wrought, Trisha continued, "I think the traveling clinics are a big example.
"We don't have to create a new form every time. Before we'd have to update the form every year and make changes. Now… it's all either part of the pathway or our check-in process. It just flows easier.
"The more people we do and the more we tweak and make Nightingale Notes reflect what we want it to, the more accurate and the more efficient the process becomes."
When asked to expand on the ability to "tweak" or customize Nightingale Notes to reflect what they want it to, Trisha said, "I've re-written pathways more than a couple times since we started. The immunization pathway is exactly what we want it to be and it's very easy to use…
"A typical run-of-the-mill patient, we can just get in, document what we need to document, and get out. Now we have reports developed that show us what we want to see… That flow is really coming to fruition."
What do the health department staff like most about the immunization integration feature?
"Probably two things," Trisha answered, "the first is that it's point-of-care… What I'm doing for the patient, when I'm doing it, is recorded and captured. I'm not doing something on paper and, when I get back, having to upload it.
Secondly, it's real-time. If I have a person walk in off the street that wants to know whether they're current on their immunizations, we can find that out… in less than five minutes, even if they're not a current patient."
Those aren't the only things they appreciate about the integration,
"It's user-friendly. It wouldn't take much training at all to understand this feature. If I had a new secretary and needed her to check immunizations, it would be simple. It's straight-forward," said Trisha.
The big question however, is whether Nightingale Notes' integration with the KS WebIZ has answered the goal of the CDC immunization grant in the affirmative.
Is Ottawa County experiencing increased efficiency and revenue?
"A couple months ago we reported back to the CDC. We have another report coming up in September," Trisha answered.
Although they haven't seen their revenue increase yet, "we foresee that it will be," Trisha stated confidently.
"We have decreased denials. Efficiency is up."
Trisha's confidence is due in part to an upcoming upgrade to Availity, a clearinghouse.
"Some of our issues have been with the electronic interchange we use… We're using an [electronic data interchange] that doesn't serve some of our insurance companies.
"So we had some claims that were just floating and hadn't gotten billed… [We are] extremely confident when we switch to Availity and are able to streamline the billing process, we will see revenue increase, probably immediately."
Overall, Trisha could not be more pleased with Ottawa County's switch to Nightingale Notes and the integration with KS WebIZ.
Asked if there was anything she'd change, she said no.
Trisha was effusive with her approval, "It's a good value. It's made the process so much easier… It's met every expectation we've had!"
That sort of praise is exactly why Champ Software does what it does, striving to give public health departments the:
they need to do the incredibly important work they are doing.
Trisha described her experience seeing Champ Software's tagline, "We believe in public health," in action.
"It's not just talk. Every single thing we've brought up as an issue has been immediately addressed or worked on and fixed and figured out.
"That's one of the things I found awesome from the get-go with Champ. You know you aren't just talking into thin air… I hope the compliments are taken to heart. I know when we bring up concerns or we talk about things, it's heard."
Trisha looks forward to what the coming months using the immunization integration will bring.
If you want to know more of the Benefits and Features of Nightingale Notes, and how else we can help you, then why not Contact Us at (507) 388-4141 today.
By Nicole Sowers|2017-11-13T10:37:09-06:00April 6th, 2017|Customer Success Story|0 Comments
About the Author: Nicole Sowers
Nicole has worked at Champ for over a decade, and is the Chief Operations Officer, and oversees all the day to day operations here. When she's not spending time at work with her Champ family, Nicole and her husband Jake, and their 3 kids, Allison, Isaac, and Jacob, enjoy camping, hiking, biking, swimming, as well as running to volleyball, basketball, and football camps and games.


While it's certainly a big deal across the bulk of our country, here in south Georgia, as summer creeps to a close, few things are as cherished as gathering under the Friday night lights, congregating on the campuses of alma maters or joining friends and family to cheer that favorite team on to gridiron glory.
Quite honestly, the annual rite of passage that is football season is part of the very fabric of our culture, which is why for the better part of the next four months rabid fans, casual observers and proud moms and dads will be wrapped up in football fervor.
It would be folly for me to try and dissect the multitude of reasons why football reigns supreme in south Georgia, but for many lovers of the game, like Albany native Foy Shemwell, part of the allure is the way youth football helps transform kids into young men—ready to take on the many challenges life will present them as they grow to adulthood.
The notion that football helps mold young minds and bodies is one of the driving reasons why Foy, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, has spent the last 13 years working as a part time official for the All Star Football Officials Association, which provides officials for midget, middle school and high school football games across the state.
Although Foy acknowledges coaches and parents certainly play a significant role in helping to develop young players, he and the other officials who spend many of their late summer and fall nights on football fields across the state also believe they too have an important part to play in making sure the kids are being taken care of and learning how to play the game the right way—something that is inherently challenging given the importance people place on the outcome of games.
In order to get that sense of comfort and know that as officials they did their jobs the right way and maintained order so that playing and coaching determined the outcome, Foy said the officiating crews spend a lot of time paying attention to details.
The officiating team does everything from reviewing the rules, meeting with coaches before and after games and then breaking down game film to make sure they didn't miss a call, all to make sure that when the game is over they can hold their heads high and hopefully none of the players, coaches or fans can even remember they were there.
"Coaches have never probably called a perfect game, players have never played a perfect game and never one I've been a part of has been officiated perfectly," Foy said. "There's always something you can get from it.
"We're very conscientious and that's because it's such a bad feeling if you walk away from something and you thought you screwed up.
Part of making sure the officials can affect that positive outcome is making sure that in addition to paying close attention to detail they are communicating with each other to make sure things run smoothly. In fact, Foy said team communication is imperative to success.
"People that are at the game, they're looking at their son Johnny and whatever happens to Johnny," Foy explained. "Well we've got 22 players out there that 6 of us, if it's a varsity game, (have to watch). If it's JV we've got four, if it's a middle school game it's four and sometimes with a bunch of little 9 year-olds running around it's only three, so there's an awful lot to watch.
"With basketball and baseball you tend to be on that island and football is more of this deal where it's more of a team concept. And some of those others sports are to a degree as well, but if you're behind the plate calling balls and strikes, it's on you. (In football) if there's a sweep coming your way you've got the referee, line of scrimmage, play side and deep looking at that, not to mention an umpire in the middle, so it's multiple sets of eyes. We've (each) got eight or 10 bodies to watch to make sure they're doing alright, but everybody's combined getting keys and if somebody sees something that didn't need to happen it's kind of a team deal.
Communication with coaches is also vitally important during the course of the game to make sure that officials, coaches and players are all on the same page and have a clear understanding of how they need to be playing and behaving despite emotions always running high.
"It comes down to managing the situation," said Foy. "We get in trouble if we don't communicate with the players and coaches—especially with the coaches. You're their eyes and ears on the field, even though they're on the sideline just a few feet behind you.
While making sure the rules of the game are enforced so that the competition on the field is fair and balanced, Foy also spoke to me at length about the importance officials put on making sure the game is safe and continues to thrive for future generations to enjoy. The health of the game is always on the minds of officials.
"The last 10 or 15 years in football with concussions and everything else and CTE—the concussion syndrome—safety's been huge," said Foy. "Moms and daddies are not going to let their kids play if we're not making it safe by the rules of the game.
"And it took me a while to get there. I was born in 77, but I probably should have been born in 37—that's what my wife tells me regular. I grew up with that hard-nosed, just hit somebody, get up, help them up and let's play again (mentality). However you get them to the ground, use your head, whatever, that's how I played.
"But then they started coming out with information on the bad hits and the targeting and it was kind of a tough pill to swallow. But when you look at the research and you see how much bigger and faster these players are and you see the ramifications from all this trauma, train wrecks really, if we're not doing our job we're not doing the sport justice. And doing our job is making sure it's safe.
Even with that emphasis on safety and making sure things are done the right way, Foy said it's a constant challenge simply due to the intense nature of football. Because there is so much emotion involved in playing and coaching the game, Foy said he feels it's important for the officials to be the ones who remain calm and level-headed no matter what's going on.
"There's just so much emotion," he said. "These kids have desire. They might not be the strongest or the fastest, but if they have the desire to be in the right place and make a play on defense or catch a pass or make a throw, they've got to be emotionally attached. And when they are that emotion's going to come out.
In fact, that notion of the official as the voice of reason and the ultimate authority is something that goes back to Foy's youth, when he was a standout athlete playing multiple sports.
And remaining calm and keeping that even keel, speaks to one of the aspects that Foy thinks is crucial for anyone who wants to be involved officiating youth sports.
While his humble nature made him reluctant to talk about it at length, there seems to be little doubt that Foy has maintained his integrity on the field and is doing his job the right way as he was recently presented with the Georgia Athletic Officials Association's Earl Etheridge Award as the state's top football official.
When asked to talk about earning that distinction Foy deflected attention and talked instead of how being a part-time official is about being a part of a team and helping to maintain the integrity of the game that brings so much joy to so many people.
As nice as it was to win the award however, Foy said he gets greater joy out of knowing that he's not only a part of a team that's committed to preserving the game, but also part of a family legacy of officiating youth football.
"My grandfather Bud Shemwell was one of the founding members of the Albany Football Officials Association in 1940-something," Foy said. "My dad (Chip Shemwell) actually worked for about 10 or 12 years. When I was 8, 9 years old I was actually going to high school football games with them. I was spoiled in the fact that I just thought that's what you did on Friday night.
Another thing that Foy is proud of is that by following in that tradition of giving back to the game and ultimately earning the Earl Etheridge Award he is able to draw attention to the other officials who give up nights and time with their families during the season to help keep the game of football alive.
They're also doing it, Foy said, to be part of a team, which is something that's very important to those officials who were once players.
"I've always liked team sports, like you and a lot of us, but once you get out of it there's kind of like a longing for, 'hey I want to be a member of a team' kind of thing," Foy explained. "I mean there's work teams, there's being members of civic organizations, that kind of stuff, but it's a little bit different when you're talking about a sports team. And (with officiating) you're the third team on the field.
Although Foy made every effort to keep me from making a big deal out of the time he spends officiating youth football, as a fan of the game and a believer that sports are important to the development of young boys and girls, I was honored to get the chance to shine a light on Foy and the other officials who are out there trying to preserve the integrity of something that's such an integral part of our lives.


Drexler Guinand Jauslin is a young international office for architecture which works in Frankfurt, Rotterdam and Zurich. Besides collaborating on projects since five years Hans Drexler, Marc Guinand and Daniel Jauslin wrote several articles on architectural theory and taught Landscaping and Architecture.
Since 1999 the office Drexler Guinand Jauslin exists as a permanent institution. It was growing out of a versatile collaboration that has lasted for several years. The main focus of our recent work lies on the application of new architectural concepts and an innovative design method on contemporary building tasks. The office has developed a set of conceptual tools in dealing with questions of architecture, movement and landscape. Meanwhile they collected practical experience as project leaders and design architects in various offices of partially international reputation. We emerged from the need to create a working platform to test our tools on our own, real building sites.
Drexler Guinand Jauslin Architects is a young international office for architecture, that works in Frankfurt, Rotterdam and Zurich. Beside collaborating on projects for years we wrote several articles on architectural theory and taught landscaping and architecture.
Hans Drexler, Marc Guinand, and Daniel Jauslin met during their studies at the Federal Swiss Institute of Technology ETH in Zurich. In 1996 we did our first design project together in the design class of Marc Angelil. Ever since we enjoy working, designing, thinking, and discussing together about architecture.
After working in international offices like West8, OMA, HolzerKobler, and Atelier Markgraph the joint participation in two competitions led to two successes and the founding of DGJ in its current form.
Since 1999 the office Drexler Guinand Jauslin Architects exists as a permanent institution. It was growing out of a versatile collaboration that has lasted for several years. The main focus of our recent work lies on the application of new architectural concepts and an innovative design method on contemporary building tasks. The office has developed a set of conceptual tools in dealing with questions of architecture, movement and landscape.


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Charlotte Hug - Neuland
Artist: Charlotte Hug
Album: Neuland
Label: Emanem
Dark, Powerful Solo Improv
Much of Neuland was inspired by Charlotte Hug's trip to what used to be a prison, built around a system of damp tunnels underneath London. If anyone ever makes a movie that's set there—ceilings dripping, doors creaking, inmates screaming and banging their fists against the bars—Neuland would be the perfect soundtrack.
Developments in electronics have already allowed musicians like Joritt Dijkstra, Sylvia Hallett and Tyondai Braxton to make improvisation-based solo music that as rich and complete as most recordings featuring full bands. Incredibly, Hug does the same thing without any overdubs or processing. Unlike many improvisers making solo albums, Hug doesn't sound like she's performing the same way she would in a trio or a quartet. In fact, Neuland sounds so finished, so cinematic and colorful, that it's hard to imagine what anyone else could possibly add to it. Whereas many solo improv albums ask the listener to accept them as solo recordings, Neuland asks the listener only to accept it as a recording. Neuland isn't simply a showcase for Hug's technique or her phrasing, but a rich, powerful record that screams and cries and evokes.
Hug plays the viola, an instrument that's usually best suited to single note lines and simple chords. Here, though, Hug often creates a variety of effects at once. She often uses a special bow with which she can play all four strings simultaneously, allowing her to fill more space than would usually be possible using only one viola. She also uses a number of preparations and extended technique effects, often playing several different kinds of sounds at the same time. When Hug is playing noises that resemble those typically made by string instruments, Neuland often sounds like a string orchestra.
Elsewhere, Hug scrapes, knocks and wheezes away, inspired by not only the textural possibilities of electronic music, but also the avant garde's attempts (like Krzysztof Penderecki's Threnody To The Victims Of Hiroshima or Helmut Lachenmann's Gran Torso) to stretch the boundaries of string instruments. Whereas Penderecki's and Lachenmann's experiments were closely controlled, however, Hug's are more open-ended and loose, guided mostly by her graphic notations (she calls them "sonicons") and the spur of the moment. Which returns us to the fact that Neuland was mostly improvised, and there isn't much solo improvised music that sounds like this. Its dark textures and creative performances make Neuland one of the best improv albums released so far this year.
By Charlie Wilmoth
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RPW Exclusive Columnist: Marty Czekala
RPW Column: Successful ARCA Superspeedway Races Lead To First Intermediate For Jankowiak
Column By: MARTY CZEKALA / RPW – TONAWANDA, NY – If you told Andy Jankowiak before making his first ARCA starts that he would have two top tens in two starts, he would've thought it was impossible.
It's been a tremendous start for the driver of the #73 AJ Racing Ford Fusion. In two races in a 2018 race car, he took home an 8th place finish at Daytona and 7th place finish at Talladega.
"It was probably the high end of our expectations. Everything has gone wonderfully so far. I've gotten a lot of great help," Jankowiak said in an interview with RSN Trackside. "We started out in one place and we keep improving. It's exciting to see all the work going somewhere. We've had good luck in both races. The car has been fast and it's exciting to be relevant."
Jankowiak even had major TV time during the FOX Sports 1 telecast at Daytona. Under a yellow, Andy was featured and brought up how he got to race. As a pizza delivery driver for his day job, Jankowiak has used his tips from driving that was supposed to be a down payment on a house, to fund his racing career.
"It's been humbling. It's been overwhelming. I've done my best to catch up. I've gotten fan mail which has just been crazy. It's exciting to be in a position where I can give back to the motorsports community."
On if he saw the video, Jankowiak said people posted it to his Facebook wall about "600 times."
"I knew they were going to do a little piece on me. I didn't know exactly how they were going to do it. That was cool to see a picture of my dad on TV…to get my dad and my uncle's story out there and the family…and racing in WNY is what's important to me. Getting all our sponsors OneRail, V1 Fiber, Thermal Foams, Pinnacle Travel Staffing, getting everyone up on TV. Doing my part to help our partners and get them exposure…the more we can do that the easier it is to continue what we're doing," Jankowiak reacted.
The story even got defending NASCAR Cup Series champion Chase Elliott, who was calling the race for FS1, impressed and showed his support for Jankowiak.
The results have been good enough for Jankowiak and his team to purchase a show car from Our Motorsports to run at intermediate tracks. Jankowiak will be making his ARCA Intermediate debut this Saturday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Andy J took part in a recent ARCA test session, scored as the ninth fastest in a car that took the team ten days to work on.
"I was pleased with how well the car ran. It was good," Jankowiak said. "We had more mechanical issues than anything. It was probably ill-advised trying to go quick with it. Some of the guys sort of recommended we probably aim for Pocono. I don't know where any of this is going… I have every reason to think this is going to keep going. I've really wanted to experience Charlotte on Memorial Day."
Jankowiak was under a second behind ARCA and NASCAR phenom Ty Gibbs, for which Jankowiak calls a success.
"They (his crew) said if I can get within a second and a half of Gibbs, who was gonna be on stickers, taping up and cooling down, we'd be pretty close and we got within a second with 12 laps on track. I'm very encouraged for being a small team about where we are. I don't think we're ready to beat Gibbs yet obviously. Everyone is going to come out of that test and be faster when we come back. I think we've proved that the car can be competitive."
Earlier this week, Jankowiak announced in a press release that the team will be honoring fallen soldiers from Western New York with names on driver and crew helmets, in addition to the racecar at Charlotte, on this Memorial Day weekend. Fuel carrier First Sergeant Adam Brown, USMC (ret), is a crew member on the team, and showed how to honor the brave men and women.
Names on all the team helmets will include Marine Lieutenant Corporal Tamario Burkett of Erie, Marine Lance Cpl. Zachary D. Smith of Hornell, Army Sergeant First Class Peter P. Tycz II of Cheektowaga, Army Specialist Alan N. Dikcis of Niagara Falls, Army Staff Sergeant Michael S. Lammerts of Tonawanda, Army Sergeant Cari Anne Gasiewicz of Depew, and Army Staff Sergeant Christopher W. Dill of Tonawanda. On the car will feature Marine Lance Corporal Nicholas S. O'Brien of Stanley, NC.
"It is an honor for us to be able to do this," Jankowiak said in the press release of the tributes. "It has been an emotional experience for me, and it's difficult to put words to how much it means to our team that we will be able to recognize all of these men and women."
On the ARCA schedule, one of the stops includes a home state race to Watkins Glen International in August. Previously, that race was been on the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East side (Now ARCA Menards Series East). Could Andy J add that to his schedule?
"That is a dream. I certainly need a car to do that. We keep coming out of these things in good shape. Our partners are happy," Jankowiak said. "We got to come out of Charlotte very good. Watkins Glen is really going to be dictated by the ability of parts because I can't buy all of the parts. I just need to see where we are after Charlotte and make an assessment on that."
Jankowiak races in the General Tire 150 this Saturday night at 7pm ET on FS1.
For the full interview with Andy, head to the RSN Trackside Facebook page.
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I've spent the past week organizing & clearing out the clutter in my studio. Yahoo!
I started out with the intention of just doing a couple of drawers for now. Once I got into it, the project just kept getting bigger and bigger until it was the entire room. Haha! If you know me, you know that is SO me.
My videography still needs work for sure; but hopefully it's still enjoyable for you to watch, & inspires you in your own creative space.
I'll be back with another coloring video soon. So, be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel if you'd like to see more.
What an inspiration you are, Cindy! Thanks for all of the great ideas! Your room is beautiful!
Wow! I am so impressed with you "tidying up!" Marie would be so proud! Now, I have to do this to my own space. You've inspired me to take the leap!
A very clean and well organized space Cindy, well done!
Love your organize space. So many pretty things. Thanks for the inspiration.
Carol, I'll bet your room is looking feeling so much better! Slow & steady wins the race, right?! You are awesome! How wonderful of you to raise your granddaughter. 💙Congratulations on your precious baby great granddaughter! So exciting!!!
That was an awesome tour! It's so sweet that you have so much for your gd. If you decide to get rid of the doilies (in the drawer you said you'd ditch in 6 months) please let me know! I'd also love to see what stamps you cull when you go through them as I'd love to buy some!
Wow! that's quite the room. Guess i need to start getting cupboards for storage and start a major overhaul of my stuff. I did a lot of stamp culling recently and it went to the Boys and Girls Club of Manchester. Next load goes to the club in Nashua. Love your bins for storage. Think i might get a bunch of those. Thanks so much for sharing.
Well done Cindy. I've been reorganizing too. My DreamBox arrived on January 8. Still fine tuning it. I'll be doing a video for it later. I've got before pictures but no after ones yet. A cluttered environment does hinder creativity – like a lot. Even makes you not want to go into your space. I've been a lot more productive since reorganizing my space. Have a wonderful day!
Loved your room, could you tell me where you got that card rack from, I am so in love with it.
Really enjoyed your video Cindy! I did the same thing after Christmas and it feels so good! However, I think I need to pretty up the space now that I saw yours! If I could only color like you…life would be grand! Thanks for sharing!


Pursuant to Section 5.84(1) of Wisconsin State Statutes, electronic voting equipment to be used at the Partisan Primary Election on August 14th, 2018 will be tested by the Town Clerk at the following time and location: Tuesday, August 7th, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. at the Bayfield Town Hall, 85450 County HWY J, Bayfield, WI 54814. The public is welcome to attend. Questions regarding this test should be directed to the Clerk at (715)779-5671.
Posted: Tuesday, July 31st, 2018.


New Life Detoxification is based on L. Ron Hubbard's breakthrough discovery that LSD residues appeared to remain trapped in the body, mainly in the fatty tissues, long after a person had stopped taking the drug. This explained why someone who had used LSD in the past could suddenly reactivate a "trip" even years later. Further research revealed that many other toxic substances could also remain in the body, producing negative effects for years to come.
The answer? The New Life Detoxification is a combination of exercise, sweating in a dry-heat sauna and a carefully monitored regimen of hydration and nutrition. The procedures break up and flush out the toxic residues that remain in the body—even after the person has stopped taking drugs.
Ask any Narconon graduate about the New Life Detox. They'll tell you they sweated out the drugs locked up in their system and gained a new energy, a new vitality—a new life, free from drug cravings.
Ridding the Body of Drug Residues. The New Life Detox involves an exact regimen of nutrition, exercise and sauna.
Drug residues released from the cells and tissues are eliminated by sweating, leaving the body through the pores.
Vitamins and supplements in exact doses are taken daily to replace the nutrients lost during drug use. These dosages change and are continually monitored as detoxification progresses.
Exercise, in the form of running, gets the circulation pumping and helps flush out the drug residues broken up by niacin.
Time in the sauna allows the individual to actually sweat out the harmful toxins naturally.