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How To Rebound From The Hidden Costs Of A Bad Hire
What do you do when you hire a person that does not fit your needs? Don't fret - it happens! Let's figure out how to fix it and review actions you can take to avoid this pitfall in the future.
In this episode we discuss:
Getting the right people on your team.
Transforming your business through the people you hire.
Having the right mind frame around what to do when you have made a poor choice.
3-Key Strategies for rebounding from a bad hire.
Elevating your leadership as you hire.
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Allison Williams: [00:00:05] Hi, everybody, it's Allison Williams here, your host of The Crushing Chaos with Law Firm Mentor podcast. Law Firm Mentor is a business coaching service for solo and small law firm attorneys. We help you to grow your revenues, crush chaos in business and make more money.
Allison Williams: [00:00:28] I have talked a lot about hiring, and I've talked a lot about getting the right people on your team because it is such a vitally important part of growing and scaling a law firm, even for those of you that have just gotten to your first part-time hire. Maybe you're at that place where you're kind of crossing over from deciding whether you need to extend the hours of your virtual or maybe add your first full-time employee. Some of you have lots of team members already, and you're at the place of saying, How do I transform my business through the people that I hire? So hiring is something that all law firm owners, if they are truly going to have a business, will have to encounter and have to optimize at some point in the ownership of the business. But one of the things that I have seen a lot lately, a lot in these social media streets is people talking about hiring the wrong person and how it has shut them down, right, how it has stopped them from having the excitement and the energy for the law firm. Stop them from moving forward with aggressive growth goals, stop them from taking a new work or just the retraction that we've seen in the marketplace that a lot of people are saying, Oh my God, it's so hard to hire right now. I'm just, I'm having to turn away work or I'm having to, I'm having to make do and I'm having to work harder than I want to. So I wanted to give you some thoughts around rebounding from bad hires, because if you don't get yourself into the right mind frame around what to do when you have made a poor choice or where someone who was the right choice at the right time for the business that you had, but is no longer right for the business that you are creating. When you don't recover from that fast enough, it tends to linger in the air, right? And I'm going to use somewhat of a crass reference now because I think a lot of us have heard it before. If you're an adult, so if your kids are in the room, you might want to tell them, listen away for a minute kids and send them out for a second, right? It's kind of, it's kind of the statement of like, how do you rebound from a bad relationship, right? The best way to get over and a bad guy is to get under a new one, right or to get over.
Allison Williams: [00:02:52] The best way to get over the last guy is to get under a new guy, right? And there is some truth to that right? And I don't mean that in the, in the literal sense of what that statement implies. I mean it more in the sense of like whenever we are moving ourselves into action and we start shifting into action, meaning we start assembling the resources that are necessary in order for us to create the goal law firm, you're going to encounter the inevitable problems of hiring poorly, right? And I say that because there's a, there's a few things at play, right?
Allison Williams: [00:03:31] So the first thing is that we can only hire if we, if we are for most of us, if we are really thinking about what we need right now, probably always going to hire the wrong person. Right. And I say that knowing that I have done this before, I have hired some amazing people that were very much, I need this right now hires. And then ultimately, they've been with me for a long time, right? I have, I have one. One of my attorneys, she'll hit eight years next month, so I know that there is times where you can happen upon a good hire, even when you're not hiring well. But we don't want to take a chance on all of those poor hires that will likely result from this process. When you were very much thinking about today and not thinking about the future, not thinking about what you are creating, not thinking about the goal law firm you're thinking about the law firm of today. And when you think about the law firm of today and you solve today's problems, tomorrow's problems are oftentimes a misfit for the hires that you made of today. So we want to be thinking about what we are creating. We want to be very intentional about that and we want to make sure that we stay in the energy of moving forward.
Allison Williams: [00:04:49] One of the things that we've experienced in Law Firm Mentor this year is that we've had some of our folks cross over the seven-figure mark for the first time, so we're really excited that we have several clients that became seven figure business owners this year. And we had almost 20 percent. A total of 17 percent of our clients actually doubled their revenue this year. So when you think about close to 100 law firms that we service across the country right now, that number is not insignificant. And whenever people are having conversations with me or other members of our team about what it is to be a client of Law Firm Mentor and they ask the question, Well, how do you, how do you get people to double like, you know, I want to do that? Or how do you get people to that seven-figure mark? And there's a lot that goes into it, but the thing that consistently comes up is that these people, the people that are growing and doubling. These are the people that consistently show up and keep going, even when shit goes wrong. Ok? When things go wrong, it's very, very easy, very easy for us to kind of need a moment to like, go within ourselves and lick our wounds and feel bad about it. And then we start overthinking the process. And then the next time that it's time to step out on faith and make that next bold move to replace whatever problematic person or problematic entity or problematic process did not work out for us before, what we will often do is we will justify stopping by virtue of saying either I'm tired and I'm entitled to stop, or we will say to ourselves, I need to figure this out before I make the same mistake again. And the figure it out first and then take action mindset is problematic for a whole host of reasons, right? It's great for you as a lawyer when you are litigating and or transacting and or negotiating and or servicing a client when you are in that mode and you are trying to get to a great result for a client, it's great for you to think about how to solve the problems.
Allison Williams: [00:06:53] But I want you to ask yourself this question, right? I want you to ask yourself, Do you stop practicing law until you are the best lawyer you can ever be before you take on another client so that you can give the most exceptional lawyer to the next client? Or do you say the practice of law is just that? It's a practice. We have malpractice insurance for the very reason that we protect the public from certain problems that may come from just being human and not having it all figured out, or even if we do have it all figured out. Sometimes stuff goes wrong, right? Because human beings make mistakes. We want to have protection for the public for that reason. But we don't say to lawyers, you have to be your best one hundred percent perfect lawyer that you could ever be before you can serve a client or else none of us would be serving clients because we're always growing. Right? So I want to give you today three key strategies for rebounding from bad hires, and I want you to take these to heart as you are growing and scaling your law firm so that as you are in the hiring process, as you are in that growth and developing process of growing and creating more in your business, you don't get stuck in the stop and think about it. Try to perfect myself first mindset before you add people, which ultimately adds profits and helps you to grow your business. All right.
Allison Williams: [00:08:17] So the first strategy I want to talk about is that you have to refuse to personalize the experience. Now I know this one can be tough, right? We talk a lot about different resources here at Law Firm Mentor that I give over to you guys to think about one of my favorite books, The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. You know, not don't take things personally is one of those agreements, but. I think a lot of us, even when we intellectually understand the value of that, we still struggle with it because when you think about it, especially in a smaller law firm, when you're bringing someone into your law firm, you are really bringing someone into your space, right? It's and this is true and when I say your "space", I'm using air quotes here when I say the word space. You know, this is true, whether you have a virtual law firm, you have a traditional brick and mortar law firm or maybe even have a hybrid, right? When you bring someone into your, your law firm, your business, your business is your baby. For most small law firm owners, right, this is the thing you have created. It's your space, you own it and you feel very protective of it. So a lot of times when we don't feel that we are at the place where we would like to be. A lot of us have image issues associated with that and we don't want people from the outside of our space coming in and then seeing us in a less than perfect state, right? We don't want them to see that we don't have all the answers, and we don't have all the systems drafted, that we don't have the 40 page or one hundred page or five hundred page, detailed, keynoted, indexed employee manual bound leather with gold engraving on the front, right? We think about all this perfection that we are requiring of ourselves as par for the course of being a quote, good business owner. But the reality is, you know, a person can come to you at any time on your journey. And if they are the right person for where you are in your journey, they're going to fit with where you are in your journey, right? And I remember this so poignantly the very first time that I hired. I hired a lawyer, and I'm still friendly with this lawyer to this day, even though his time in my law firm was short-lived, but I remember thinking this lawyer is such a great lawyer, if I could just be better for him, right? If I could just give him more resources, more structure, more guidance, more of my personal time, more of the systems and the structure in the forms that are in my head about how to handle certain cases. If I could just hand that over to him. He would be exceptional, right? He was already a very, very good lawyer. But there was a disconnect, right? Because I didn't have the type of law firm that he required in order to be his best self. And the challenge that I felt was that I had done him a grave disservice by not being quote good enough for him to want to work in my law firm. And I remember very distinctly having a conversation about this and, and having this conversation actually with him many, many years after the fact. And you know, we had we kind of had a very personal conversation. I won't share it all in great detail, but I'll just say that there wasn't a there were there was a point of awareness where I said, you know, I was at a certain point on the journey and you came to me at that time on the journey. And sometimes no matter how exceptional a person is, they're just not right for where you are on the journey. But there will be other people that come in when you are similarly not structured, not organized, not systematized, not highly developed, and you don't have it all figured out and they will come and they will be perfect for where you are on the journey based on where they are on the journey, right? And so I just, I think about that because I remember having this great sense of guilt and responsibility to be America's next top business owner when I hired people.
Allison Williams: [00:12:24] And it's just not true. Right? And the more personalized I made it, the more I made it about me as an individual when I was hiring people, when I was deciding to let people go. All of that energy, that was then. Held in my body that depressed me, that made me not sleep well, that made me not eat well, that made me kind of internally self-abuse about whether I should ultimately move down the line. It made me less effective in the things that were already in my zone of genius, right? It took away from what was good by virtue of spending so much energy debriefing and kind of kicking around in my head all the things that were wrong. So I had to ultimately grow out of that, and I had to learn that there is a part of this process of growing a business that is not having it all figured out when you are on the journey and you have to accept where you are on the journey and to, to a certain degree, forgive yourself for not being where you are to be in the future yet.
Allison Williams: [00:13:33] And the sooner you can do that and release it and say, OK, this is where I am in the journey, this person can't work here. This person can't work for where we are in the journey. But that's OK. That doesn't make them a bad person. It doesn't make them a bad paralegal, lawyer, marketing assistant, file clerk, whatever they are. It just means that they're no longer a fit or they're not a fit for the company that I have right now. And that's OK because as soon as you go through that experience, what you start to learn, what starts to become institutionalized in you is all the ways that hiring for where you are today is not going to work. Because when you hire for where you're going and you bring in a person who's not a fit for where you are because they're further advanced down the line, there's a friction that's created that helps you to start solving the problems of where you're not today, so you can get to where they are right now. And if they are the right person for you, that friction is going to cause them to help you to create all of that system, all those systems, all that structure, that you're going to ultimately need in order to get where you are.
Allison Williams: [00:14:45] So the other thing I want to say about not personalizing the experience before we move on to strategy number two is that you have to debrief what went wrong with this person. Ok. Debriefing is not from a place of beating yourself up. It's not about making you wrong or making them wrong. It's simply asking the question Why did this person work well here? Why did this person not work well here? And sometimes those answers are going to be self-evident, right? Sometimes there were some huge red flags that you saw that you just chose to ignore because you were desperate. But a lot of times there are things that you didn't even know that you needed until that person came into your company and you saw, Oh yes, we absolutely have to have someone who has X. And when a person does not have X, that person is not going to be effective for us in the business.
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Allison Williams: [00:17:03] All right, and we're back now strategy number two for rebounding from bad hires in your law firm where we've already talked about strategy number one, which is refuse to personalize the experience, strategy number two is to elevate your leadership as you hire. Ok, now this goes back to something that I said is we were introducing today's topic, which is that a lot of lawyers decide that they're going to press, pause and go get, get themselves right before they hire the next person. It's almost like they feel like there's a kind of, you know, kind of like a punishment phase, like a, you know, when you're a kid, you did something wrong. Your parents would say, go sit in your room and think about what you've done. A lot of lawyers will do that, right? It's like there's this mindset of, Well, before I hire the next person, I got to like, make sure I get everything like all cleaned up so that I don't make the mistake of hiring and, you know, hiring the wrong person again. And a lot of times we can intellectualize that as looking at what was the, what was the lost income that I had.
Allison Williams: [00:18:10] Now the beautiful thing about hiring is if you do it correctly, your hires are going to produce more money. Ok? If you just hire somebody and say, I got to have six months in the bank in case this person doesn't work out and the salary of the person for the first three months is going to be paid to them before I realize that they're not going to work. And then I let them go. And then I say, Oh, I just lost three months of salary. If that's what's going on in your business, you are hiring incorrectly. Ok? Every time you hire a person, what they produce should be a part of what you compensate them with. Ok? In other words, you shouldn't be taking out of what's already in the business and bringing a person in every person from file clerk to paralegal to secretary, to lawyer, to marketing assistant, to office manager. Every person that you hire produces more economic value, or it's not the right hire, OK? Or rather, I could say it's not the right hire. It also could be that you're not structuring the role correctly. Now, if you need help with structuring your roles in a way that is going to produce for you more profit, I invite you to have a call with us. We can certainly talk you through some strategies on how to do that.
Allison Williams: [00:19:20] But the one thing that we will often see lawyers do is they will come and they will say, Oh, I can't, I can't invest in coaching right now. I got to go hire somebody, right? The hire is going to cost some money, so I'm going to have to take money to pay for that person first before I divert my funds to something else. And when I have that personal conversation with them, my answer is always if you are thinking of the person that you're hiring as an expense, meaning they're going to cost you something, not an investment where there's going to be a return in excess of what you cost, what it costs you to get that person. Then you are hiring wrong all the more reason why you need coaching now, and you don't need to wait for coaching because if you're going to structure the role in a way that it's going to cost you money first, then you ultimately are making more mistakes that have to be cleaned up later. You're going to make it worse for yourself, not better for yourself. But the reason why people have that mindset is this, this idea that there's kind of like a definitive cost, right? The cost is dollars and cents going out to hire the person. And then there's the potential return on investment, but they can't quantify it, right? So it doesn't become real. It becomes kind of a well, I may make more money from this person or I may not.
Allison Williams: [00:20:35] I can tell you every single time I hire someone, I know they're going to make more money than I pay them, right? Because that's how we design the role. That's how you hire a person in a law firm in particular. But that's really how you hire a person generally. So you have to be thinking about the idea that when you're bringing in people to your business, you're always going to be in a state of growing right? If you wait to get yourself to the leadership metrics that you desire to be at in order for you to attract and hire the right people, you're never going to be able to hire because you're never going to be done growing as a leader, right? One of the, one of the greatest responsibilities that you will ever have as the leader of a small business is to be the leader, right? It's a greater calling than management. It's a greater calling than the actual legal work you will do because it touches upon so many things. You are not just creating a billable hour or a dollar collected or, or a roll configured. When you are a leader in a business, you are actually creating little ripple effects that are going to run through every single person that encounters you. That means every employee that encounters you and how they show up in the world and every person that they are married to, every person that they parent, every person in their community. You are at the top of a tributary or a series of tributaries that run out and through your community.
Allison Williams: [00:22:03] So the leadership aspect is something that you are always going to be refining in yourself. But you have to recognize something right? As a divorce lawyer, I say it all the time attend does not marry a Jew. So if you are finding that the people that you have hired in the past were bad hires or they seemed perfect, but they didn't work out, I want you to ask yourself, would you want to work for you? Seriously contemplate that, right? Are you the leader that your ideal employee wants to work for? And if you're not, then I want you to think about the ways in which you can shift that immediately. Now, some of the, some of the things that come to mind are probably pretty easy to change, right? It could be anything from I'm a recluse who goes into my office and doesn't talk to people, and my team feels disconnected from me. Or it could be. I don't give enough compliments or attaboys or added roles, right? That can be something very simple, literally. I have a calendar in my office now. I don't use it anymore because my role in the company has shifted to the point where I now manage my managers and I oversee my manager, so I don't have direct points of contact with everyone in the team the way I used to.
Allison Williams: [00:23:22] But we do have a process for using a calendar to give praise, right? To make sure that people are getting those atta boys and atta girls as they need it, because that was an area where I knew I needed to grow. That was something that's not instinctual for me, and I don't know that it's ever going to be instinctual because even though I'm filled with gratitude all the time for the team that I have, my mindset, my orientation, the way that I was raised was you get an atta boy or atta girl when you do something miraculous, all the daily stuff that you might want out of the boys and girls for. We're not giving those to you. You know, you're not getting those until you do something really big. You know, you don't get the A for effort, you don't get the trophy for participation. So because of that, my mindset is, well, I don't need those things. So I keep myself going internally, but everybody doesn't have that mindset. A whole lot of people grew up with those atta boys and atta girls, and if they don't have them, they're not going to be their best selves, right? So that was an area where I had to be very intentional to say I will rise to the occasion of leadership to make sure that I'm giving people the emotional needs that they that, you know, I'm fulfilling their emotional need for support and praise in a way that is going to make them their best selves or contribute to their being their best selves, right? But that was a choice, right? It wasn't something that I said, OK, I can't hire people until I rewire my brain so that I am giving praise on a regular, consistent schedule for all the people that report to me. If I had waited until that became instinctual, I would never have grown my law firm because it's still not instinctual, right? There are times where you're going to have to say there are areas where I am always going to be a work in progress. And here's how much better it can be. But until it's there, we're going to create a process. We're going to create a workaround. Right? And that workaround gives you the opportunity to always be growing right again, it's that friction that comes it's that disconnect of where I need to be is 10 steps ahead, but I'm back here. There's a huge chasm between where I want to be and where I am. And as a result of that chasm, I am going to hire a person because that's going to create that inner friction in me that I have to grow.
Allison Williams: [00:25:40] Right? It becomes a necessity. It's a sloppy and frankly a lazy way out to say I won't add a person because I don't want the pressure of having to evolve and to a better person. I'll just stay back here in my own mediocrity, and I won't add team members because I'm not good enough and I don't want to be. Right? And when I say it is sloppy and lazy, I mean that with all due respect, and I say that really thinking about myself in the process, I used to have a very myopic mindset and my, my mindset was very much around, you know, I can't change these people and they add too much frustration and too much stress. And what I realized was what I was doing was I was stymieing all that was within me in terms of creating and growing. I was not giving over to the world the gifts that God gave me because I was saying, I'll just stay small because I don't want the headache. And here's the thing it stopped being a headache when I stopped defining it as a headache, right? When I started looking at it as an opportunity to grow instead of a requirement to grow, that friction stopped being painful. The friction was still there, right? Because there was still a problem to be solved. And by the way, if you are in a business, that's what you're doing. You're solving problems all day, every day. Ok? Even when you have a happy, well-functioning, well-run business, a highly systematized, highly profitable business that runs without you, right? Even when you arrive. Your business is an ecosystem that generates problems. You solve problems for a living, OK? Whether you solve big problems or small problems is up to you, but you're always going to be in a state of solving problems. And here's the problem with solving problems that are small problems. When you solve small problems, you don't make progress, right? All that you do is wear yourself out down in the weeds of those small problems. When you start solving seven-figure problems because you have a multiple seven-figure business. That is where the fun starts, right? That's where those creative faculties are ignited as a result of you having to think differently and be more strategic and evolve as a person. And that's where life gets to be a lot more fun.
Allison Williams: [00:27:56] Ok, now we're going to end today with our third and final strategy. We've talked about strategies for rebounding from your bad hires. We've talked about refusing to personalize the experience and elevating your leadership as you hire. This third one is one of my personal favorites. Ok? Is that you got to keep hiring as you evolve? Ok, now this again is consistent with our theme for the day that you have to keep going, but it's something very particular, right? Remember earlier I talked about the practice of law and how when we are practicing law, we see it as a practice because we know we're always going to get better right with every case, with every nuance, with every new issue, with every new adversary, with every new conglomerate of facts, with every new emotional issue, with every new judge, right? There's always going to be some little tweak on the last variation of that the area of law that you handle, where you're going to say, Ah, this is a little bit different than last time, and here's what I'm learning from this, right? And I want you to think about the fact that we don't stop practicing in order to get perfect before we serve the next client. You should also think about your business that way you don't get to perfect before you hire the next employee. Right? You don't get the perfect before you market the next activity. Right. One of the things that I'm in a process of doing right now is changing both of the websites in both of my businesses. So you have to love. There's never like, say, Oh, we're going to change one thing over here and this business over the other business is going to be like hanging out, doing fine. Yeah, we don't. We don't do that to change a lot of stuff all at once in both businesses.
Allison Williams: [00:29:42] But the beautiful thing is that I have great teams in both businesses, so we can do that, right? But right now we're changing both of our websites. And so one of the things that have been coming up as we have been evolving the websites, both of them is I have had the very uncomfortable reality of right now we're hiring somebody pretty high up the food chain in Law Firm Mentor, we're hiring a COO. And so I'm meeting with COO candidates and you know, of course, they're doing the research. So they are going onto our website and, you know, every time somebody sends me an email that says, Hey, there's this typo on the website or, Oh, this, this, this sentence right here doesn't quite make sense or, Oh, this link is broken on the website. It's like nails on a chalkboard. I absolutely hate it. I love, that I'm, that I'm interviewing people of such caliber that they're doing the research to actually read the website so they can become familiar with the company so that they can say, Yeah, this is a place where I see myself fitting or not, right? I definitely want people to be doing the research, but there's a little bit of pain, a little twinge that I feel when people point out what's wrong in the website, not because I feel triggered by the fact that there's problems on the website, but because it points out to me areas where we need to grow, right, things that we need to change, areas where we need to improve.
Allison Williams: [00:31:03] And when I think about those areas that I need to improve in the website, right? And the website, by the way, is just in this instance, I want you to think of it as a metaphor for your law firm in general, right? When I think about here's this, here's this disconnect, right? Here's this problem that a person is seeing, right? They're seeing the imperfection, right? And I guess I think of it as if my website is just out there and people are going to it, but they're not pointing it out. I don't know that they're seeing it. I don't feel that the same. But in this instance, people are pointing it out to me. So I see it and I feel it. It's like, Oh, nails on a chalkboard. I wish it was perfect, right? I wish it was where it needs to be. But the beautiful thing is that as that moment hits right, as that feeling comes in, as that awareness. Comes in then I say, Oh crap, you know, I got this, this problem on my website. I am also equally aware at the same time that here's a human being who would be coming into my ecosphere to help me solve the problem, right? And so I want you to think about your business that way when you think about the idea that your business is in a constant state of evolution. It's never going to be solved. It's never going to be fixed. It is always going to be available for consumption by people who can be available to make it better. Ok? Again, it is always available for consumption by people who can come in and make it better. When you see it that way, hiring the next person becomes an imperative. Right? So if you hired a secretary who didn't work out the next thing that you do as soon as that person is gone is you clear the energy and by clearing the energy, I don't mean you start burning some sage. Some of you, some of you might be some sage burners out there. If you're a sage burner, that's great. That might be how you technically clear the energy. But when I say clear the energy, I mean, I want you to get right in your head. I want you to go into your thoughts and I want you to say, All right, that person is now gone. The next person is my next opportunity to solve the problem of fill in the blank. Right. Whatever that person's job was, whatever they did, the next person is an opportunity for you to step into a next opportunity. Right? There, person. The person is a placeholder in your world in this moment, right? They are not here yet.
Allison Williams: [00:33:33] But when you go out and you seek that person, you get the opportunity to better your best over the last, over the last person. Even if you thought the last person was phenomenal, let's say it's your, it's your, your tried and trusted paralegal of 10 years and you love her more than life itself. And she's not happy and fulfilled in the law anymore and decides to do something else with her life, right? Even if you're not happy that the person who is, is leaving, is leaving, sometimes we're happy people are leaving because, you know, you're firing them for malfeasance. But whether you're happy or you're not happy with them leaving, they're gone right? And now there is a hole there. But that hole creates space for you to grow and not just grow quantitatively wise, but to grow into the business that you are creating. So we referenced earlier the need to do a debrief, I want you to think about the debrief process is looking for the opportunity for your business to up level, OK, the opportunity for your business to go where you desire it, to go through that next person. But that requires that you continue to hire as people leave your business. If you wait, then what tends to happen is the problem of whoever is no longer there anymore. Oftentimes busters. Right? And you then either duct tape a solution by taking another employee and plugging the hole with that person, or maybe even you.
Allison Williams: [00:35:00] You might default into doing some things that you didn't have to do when that person is no longer here. And now you have two problems, right? You have the problem of solving whatever that person's leaving left for your business and you have the problem of all of the depression, anxiety, frustration, anger, resentment that has built up in you. If you're doing that work or that's built up in another employee, if you've shifted it onto them. So we want to get out of the energy of looking for duct tapes for solutions, and we want to actually go for the solution that you require for your business. All right.
Allison Williams: [00:35:39] Today, we have been talking about how to rebound from our bad hires. We have covered that you need to refuse to personalize the experience. You need to elevate your leadership as you hire and you need to keep hiring as you evolve.
Allison Williams: [00:35:54] And if you are someone who wants to create more for your law firm, if you're struggling with how to get to that ultimate dream law firm on the other side of the, of the identified goal that you have for yourself, then we're here to help just reach out. You can schedule a call with a growth strategist in our team here at Law Firm Mentor. And we're happy to help you walk through that. All right, everyone. I'm Allison Williams and I'll see you next time.
Allison Williams: [00:36:26] Thank you for tuning in to The Crushing Chaos with Law Firm Mentor podcast to learn more about today's show and take advantage of the resources mentioned. Check out our show notes. And if you enjoyed today's episode, take a moment to follow the podcast wherever you get your podcast and leave us a rating and review. This helps us to reach even more law firm owners from around the country who want to crush chaos in business and make more money. I'm Allison Williams your Law Firm Mentor, everyone. Have a great day!
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Allison C. Williams, Esq., is Founder and Owner of the Williams Law Group, LLC, with offices in Short Hills and Freehold, New Jersey. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, is Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Matrimonial Law Attorney and is the first attorney in New Jersey to become Board-Certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy in the field of Family Law.
Ms. Williams is an accomplished businesswoman. In 2017, the Williams Law Group won the LawFirm500 award, ranking 14th of the fastest growing law firms in the nation, as Ms. Williams grew the firm 581% in three years. Ms. Williams won the Silver Stevie Award for Female Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017. In 2018, Ms. Williams was voted as NJBIZ's Top 50 Women in Business and was designated one of the Top 25 Leading Women Entrepreneurs and Business Owners. In 2019, Ms. Williams won the Seminole 100 Award for founding one of the fastest growing companies among graduates of Florida State University.
In 2018, Ms. Williams created Law Firm Mentor, a business coaching service for lawyers. She helps solo and small law firm attorneys grow their business revenues, crush chaos in business and make more money. Through multi-day intensive business retreats, group and one-to-one coaching, and strategic planning sessions, Ms. Williams advises lawyers on all aspects of creating, sustaining and scaling a law firm business – and specifically, she teaches them the core foundational principles of marketing, sales, personnel management, communications and money management in law firms.
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Debriefing is not from a place of beating yourself up. It's not about making you wrong or making them wrong. It's simply asking the question Why did this person work well here? Why did this person not work well here? And sometimes those answers are going to be self-evident, right? Sometimes there were some huge red flags that you saw that you just chose to ignore because you were desperate. But a lot of times there are things that you didn't even know that you needed until that person came into your company and you saw, Oh yes, we absolutely have to have someone who has X. And when a person does not have X, that person is not going to be effective for us in the business.
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Stillbirth, Miscarriage & Infant Loss....Gods Decision.
I have had 10 pregnancy losses and nine of them were early on and I figured, ok we will just try again. It was not until I lost my 7th, Tyler at 16 weeks that it all came flooding in all the losses I had endured and had not grieved for them like I needed to. Having to give birth to Tyler and hold his tiny body in my hands was a turning point for me spiritually (An unborn child is not only a fetus or a "piece of tissue" to God, but is one of His children. Jeremiah 1:5 says that God knows us while we are still in the womb). God now holds my 10 children in his hands and they are waiting in heaven for me. God does work in miraculous ways, after Tyler's death the Doctors felt they needed to run further tests on me since I had so many losses. I guess this was never done before as I had had 6 other live births. Well it turns out I have Factor 5 Leiden a blood clot disorder, which they feel is what contributed to the losses. I now take a baby aspirin a day and am monitored closer when I am pregnant. Some of my sisters have been tested for the disorder and are also positive for the disorder. It's like Tyler is my guardian Angel if it was not for his death I would not have been tested unless I developed symptoms of a clot. While I grieve for my children God has other plans and they will be waiting for me. I now have 8 children on this earth. and pray that it will be gods will in having more.


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Expropriation is the taking of private land without the consent of the owner by the government or by one of its agencies in the exercise of statutory powers. Various provincial enactments authorize expropriation, including the Municipal Government Act, Hydro and Electric Energy Act, Post-secondary Learning Act, Education Act, Irrigation Districts Act, Forest Reserves Act, and others. Every expropriation authorized by the laws of Alberta is subject to the provincial Expropriation Act. The Expropriation Act sets out the process that must be followed strictly by any expropriating authority and prescribes how the owner must be compensated. The Act applies to the compulsory acquisition of not only the entire ("fee simple") title, but also leases, rights of way, or other lesser estates or interests short of full ownership. A similar federal Act governs expropriation by the federal government.


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Q: rotating/orbit multiple items on canvas api using JSON i am working on a script that i want to rotate a bunch of items from JSON on my canvas
here is my loop:
    var upQuarksCount = uNACG.quark.up.count;//number of entities - uNACG.anything is the JSON lookup in my localStorage

    var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
        ctx.clearRect(0,0,cW,cH);

    for(var i = 0; i < upQuarksCount; i++) {//making a bunch of circles based on the number in localStorage
        if(uNACG.quark.up.entities[i]){//check if it actually exists
            var centerWidth = cW / 2,//half the window width
                centerHeight = cH / 2,//half the window height
                posX = uNACG.quark.up.entities[i].posX,//x position of entity
                posY = uNACG.quark.up.entities[i].posY;//y position of entity

            ctx.beginPath();
            ctx.strokeStyle = "gold";
            ctx.arc(posX, posY, 2, 0, 2 * Math.PI);//the actual circles
            ctx.stroke();

        }else{
            console.log("no entities");
        }
    }

As it is, all the elements in my local storage are called and they appear where I want them to.  Now, I need them to rotate. What would be the best way to accomplish this with no rendering issues? When i tried to use translate and rotate, the whole canvas when bonkers.  It was unpleasant to watch.
Please help
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Extra Note: The code above occurs inside a game loop.  So it repeats and refreshes each time.  This makes it so that any changes in the JSON is updated with the canvas.
inside the loop i can do things like this:
if(uNACG.quark.up.entities[i].posX < centerWidth) {
    uNACG.quark.up.entities[i].posX++;
}

Result: The entity would move to the right by a set amount each time the canvas refreshes until it reaches the center of the users window.
With conditionals, i can do some tricky stuff.  But making the entities rotate independently is proving to be difficult.  do i have to make a new animation frame for each one?

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Google have just released an excellent research paper on the impact and effect of mobile searching. They have identified the key 'what happens next' moments after someone searches on their mobile.
One of the key take-aways from this is that 55% of sales (whether online, in store or on the phone) happen within an hour of a mobile search occurring. Google, naturally, will use that statistic to justify investment in super-targeted mobile advertising.
The research also reveals that mobile searches are most often done at home or work in the afternoon and evening, mainly because it's "more convenient than firing up the home computer". I wonder if, in the future, we will even identify our personal devices as mobiles as all the capabilities of tablets and smart-phones morph into one, compact super-computer.
The full study is below and well worth a read.


Payers typically use tools such as prior authorization and utilization review to manage cystic fibrosis treatments, but PBM experts say they are on the cusp of implementing more innovative strategies that might help to improve adherence while addressing the cost of cystic fibrosis drugs, AIS Health reported.
Cystic fibrosis, an inherited chronic disease that attacks the lungs and digestive organs, is caused by mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene. CFTR modulators and other therapies carry a high price tag, typically costing $250,000 to $368,000 per year. Other drugs, most of which do not have generic equivalents, can add tens of thousands of dollars to that total.
The majority of payers use traditional strategies, including pipeline monitoring, pharmacy and therapeutics committee drug review for formulary positioning, and prior authorization to confirm both the diagnosis and the presence of the specific genetic mutation targeted by the cystic fibrosis drugs, says Lynn Nishida, vice president of clinical product at Boston-based WithMe Health.
Still, "a growing number of payers are looking for out-of-the-box solutions for additional strategies in managing these drugs," Nishida says. Cystic fibrosis drugs typically receive orphan drug status, which means payers cover them because they're the only option for patients, but it can also mean they're associated with higher costs, she says.
Managing infections in cystic fibrosis patients is a priority, says Mesfin Tegenu, R.Ph., president of PerformRx. However, effective antibiotics are also a main driver of cost.
Adherence to cystic fibrosis medications can be a challenge to manage, with studies showing a total reported mean adherence rate of 48% and a large drop-off in adherence in the adolescent years.


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'Epicentre', the23rd album from Lars Eric Mattsson's career plays out something like a call to arms of all the styles he's explored over his long career. 18 new tracks is a lot to digest but Lars' had made the task a little easier thanks to streamlining his compositions over previous epic length excursions. Another notable change is Mattsson handling all lead vocals himself, his vocal style whilst not amongst the best you will hear is acceptable enough and it does help stamp more personality to the album than having a hired gun.
Musically we have a gamut of styles, from the progressive metal attack of opener "Wait For The Sunrise", "Freedom Fighters" , a modern take on blues metal with "A New Devil" (home to a great main riff) and "No Way No Surrender", almost 60's psychedelia meets metal for "Land Of Dreams", "No One Else" has a Queen like pomp to its rock attack and also harks back in some ways to Lars' more standard rock past, there is also a strong Hendrix-ian influence to many of the tracks to these ears.
Personal favourites are the dark haunting and marauding qualities of "Cinnamon", a tale of lost love this amalgamation of sitar, dobro guitar and bass in a 5/4 time signature is very different but also rather brilliant. Lars' vocals also work well here, and the instrumental "Andalucia" which is home to some great melodies.
Overall "Epicentre" is a good album from Lars Eric Mattsson. Not his best of recent years (Mattsson – Tango get's that award) but if you like the Mattsson style which really is unlike anything else out there then this is sure to represent value for money.
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Third strike from Book of Reflections, the on/off project of the ever busy guitarist Lars Eric Mattsson.
Relentless Fighter sees Mattsson joined by vocalists Carsten Schulz (Evidence One) and Markku Kuikka (Status Minor), both strong voices and a nice foil to Mattsson's technical guitar style.
With a more straightforward sound than heard before under the BOR banner, the album is more on a par with the self titled debut offering in some much as its more about neo-classical tinted metal and less prog and weird stuff as heard on the second album.
Delving deeper there's some strong tracks here like 'Angel Shed A Tear', 'Bleeding Dry', 'Rise Up' all kicked off in fine form by opener 'Until The Day' which blazes along in a glorious fashion not too dissimilar to Europe's 'Scream Of Anger'.
Relentless Fighter is certainly the most accessible of recent new releases by Mattsson, yet also perhaps his most pissed off for there is an angry slant to many of the rhythm's and solos where you can almost see the steam coming off the fretboard, nice indeed.
Downsides? The mix isn't the strongest with vocals sometimes getting a little lost in the mix and the drums do sound overly digital too (toms and crash/splash cymbals), but fortunately it doesn't detract too much from the music on offer. That said it would be great to hear Mattsson team up someone like Mike Terrana and get a more savvy mix.
Overall though it's a strong third effort from Book Of Reflections if not entirely stylistically inline with what's been before. That said this ranks as my favourite of the three so far. Great artwork by Carl-Andre Beckston once again as well.
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Vargton Projekt are an amalgamation of some of Sweden's finest musical talent in guitarist Mats Hedberg, drummer Morgan Agren (Frank Zappa)and vocalist Bjorn Jansson (Ride The Sky / Tears Of Anger).
The debut album 'ProgXpriMetal' is an eclectic collection of material that was originally based around instrumental only origins, yet the thought to have Jansson's distinctive vocals came as an afterthought. As the vocal tracks don't follow a normal set song structure, but serve up something free of restraint, and more about musical expression, something the album is brimming with.
Pretty much on every track there is something to absorb on repeated spins, and this isn't a track that will win over the casual listener right away. But, there is an element of discovery that is often more rewarding with each passing listen and fans of progressive music from across the genres many styles will find much to enjoy.
Highlights to these ears come in 'Jaipur', the 3 part 'Birka Trilogy' (with part 3 seeing a fast fret melting solo battle between Hedberg and lion label head Lars Eric Mattsson) and the slower tempo 'Lvorna' which it shades of fusion and classical prog sound.
Amongst the trio of musicians there are numerous other musicians that make the whole package an earthly experience, yet it's the core performances of Hedberg and Agren that deserve the plaudits for their work is quite phenomenal.
If you want an album to see you entertained through the coming dark Autumn and Winter months 'ProgXpriMetal' may just be the ticket. Unique and gifted sums up this release – don't let the rather bland album cover put you off.
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Swedish guitarist Lars Eric Mattsson has over the course of 3 decades in the music industry carved out his own niche of progressive fused neo-classically tinted metal. Now under his own name Lars returns to the instrumental genre for what is arguably his biggest undertaking to date. "Aurora Borealis" is a 12 movement 'concerto for electric guitar and orchestra' which sees a classical approach infused with rock idioms. For whilst this is a 'scored' orchestral release we have quite traditional rock drumming and bass playing. As a result this is quite an accessible release and actually less challenging on the listener than some of Mattsson's more "expected" instrumental offerings such as "Earthbound" and vocal releases like 'War'.
Whilst the narrative of the release is without doubt complex, the overall sonic presentation is relatively easy on the ear and makes for an enjoyable journey from start to finish. There are moments of light and shade (as you would expect) but also a deft use of melody and counter melody.
Mattsson's guitar work is also amongst the most unique in the rock and metal field. Never one to play the expected Lars challenges us the listener with unorthodox phrases and note rests. His fluidity when playing extended quick picked lines suggests "pick monster" yet the light touch produces a bounce to the notes. That said one element that the like of Uli Jon Roth seem to favour heavily in their works of this nature are heavily inflected bent notes and a variety of vibratos on sustained notes. These are not always in Mattsson's 'book of licks' and on one hand do lend Mattsson a distinct sound but on the other do leave some licks feeling a little sterile. That said for the most part the guitar work serves to compliment the orchestration and is very good indeed.
Highlights come in the guise of the uplifting "Bounce" with its dancing melody, the dark haunting vibe of "Cold Water Spirit", the more neo-classical rock tinted "Eternal Cycles" and the most progressive "Planetary Strength".
Performed almost in its entirety by Mattsson himself "Aurora Borealis" can be considered one of the most complex of Mattsson's career but also one of the most enjoyable. This along with last years "Tango" sees Lars Eric Mattsson in the form of his career.
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Stansted saw 98.8% fewer passengers in June compared to last year
Piers MeylerLocal Democracy Reporter
EasyJet has been criticised for pulling out of Stansted as the airport continues to see massive drops in passengers.
The airport passenger numbers doubled in June from May, but were still down by 97.8% year on year.
The dreadful aviation figures have led to easyJet confirming it is pulling out of Stansted as a base along with Southend – a decision the Unite union has described as "a kick in the teeth" for employees, passengers and vital regional airports.
EasyJet has seven aircraft based at Stansted, with 335 crew.
At Southend, there are 183 crew and four aircraft. And there are three aircraft based in Newcastle, with 157 crew.
It has blamed the cuts on lower demand.
But Unite says that the airline's decision will threaten the viability of the affected airports and is likely to lead to further job losses.
Unite says the long term future of Southend is particularly unclear as the airport has already seen the closure of the Aer Lingus base, which was operated by Stobart Air.
Unite national officer for civil aviation, Oliver Richardson, said: "This is a kick in the teeth for easyJet employees, workers at the affected airports, their passengers and the communities these bases support.
"Unite has tried everything to persuade easyJet to reverse its decision to close the three bases and to consider other options but the company has remained adamant that they are financially unviable.
"Since the beginning of the pandemic, easyJet's priorities have been wrong; they have sought to pay shareholders dividends, secure a multi-million pound government loan to buy new aircraft, but not to use its cash reserves to defend its own employees' jobs.
"The decision by the company is heartless and wrong-headed, but these closures demonstrate once again why it is absolutely critical that the government comes forward with a bespoke package of support for the aviation sector which will protect jobs, airports and regional connectivity.
"A continuing failure by the government to provide such assistance will inevitably result in thousands of entirely unnecessary job losses and a much-diminished UK aviation sector in a world where competitor countries are moving to protect theirs."
Stansted saw 59,176 passengers in June – up from 20,607 in May.
But overall it means the airport saw 98.8 per cent fewer passengers than it did in June 2019.
MAG, which owns Stansted, said at the end of last month that the Government's new restrictions on travel to Spain was ill thought out.
Commenting on the Government introducing new restrictions on travel to Spain, Charlie Cornish, MAG CEO, said: "The Government is right to respond when infection rates spike in particular regions, as they are in Catalonia. But applying these changes to the whole of Spain is unnecessary and will cause huge disruption for passengers.
"Thousands of British holidaymakers are now faced with quarantine on their return from Spain and its islands, even if they have been in areas with much lower risk levels than the UK.
"For example, the Balearic and Canary Islands have similar infection rates to many other holiday islands, but travel to and from these popular Spanish islands is unnecessarily being restricted because of rates being experienced in parts of its mainland.
"The Government must work quickly to develop a system that is properly risk-based which enables people to continue enjoying holidays in regions with low infections rates, while retaining the flexibility to temporarily restrict travel to areas with rising rates, regardless of the country they are in.
"This will give British holidaymakers, airlines and tour operators the ability to plan their travel with confidence and give the aviation and tourism sectors the best chance of a strong recovery, which in turn will boost the economy and protect jobs."
A spokesman for Easyjet said: "The collective consultation process is still ongoing and no decisions on the proposals to close the bases have yet been made. We have made good progress with Unite on the collective consultation process, having reached an agreement in principle on redundancy terms and selection criteria in the event the proposals are confirmed and we move towards individual consultation with our cabin crew. We also continue to work constructively with BALPA."
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Hi everyone! To my U.S. peeps, hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! With the holidays underway, I've been doing some decorating in addition to new writing. What I love: Wreaths and garland that come pre-lit and cordless. Why I love it: Because I'm lazy and I hate stringing lights through that stuff, not to mention my new puppy still has a chewing issue. He's already eaten through the cord on a heated throw blanket and an ethernet cable (the throw blanket was unplugged, which was why he's still here to be mischievous). We've sprayed down everything electrical with Bitter Apple but I still worry about him electrocuting himself when we're out, so anything cordless is high on my Like list this season.
Teddy Brunswick knows about the immortals among us. He's worked with them, called them friend—but he never counted on being snowed in with one over Christmas. Katricia Argeneau is a tasty little bundle and she seems to feel the same way about him. Problem is, he's not sure she feels quite the same way. After all, the snowstorm has derailed her blood delivery, which leaves him the only available meal on the menu. . . .
To read the first three chapters from Home for the Holidays, go here.
In addition to this deal, I just found out that Eternal Kiss of Darkness will be included as one of Amazon's Kindle Holiday "Big Deal" ebooks. So from December 2nd through December 22nd, you can buy the ebook for only $1.99. This deal is exclusive to Amazon Kindle because they're the retailer so they're the one running their holiday promotions. Remember, the discount doesn't kick in until December 2nd so wait until then to get the savings!
But with danger closing in, Mencheres must choose between the woman he craves, or embracing the darkest magic to defeat an enemy bent on his eternal destruction. Read the first 20% here.
And finally, many of you know that I'm a fan of author Ilona Andrews' books. She has a new release out this week, STEEL'S EDGE.
You are both in my top ten list so thanks for the early Christmas/Birthday presents! Double whammy of goodness! Hope you have a wonderful holiday season!
Hey Jeaniene! Do you know if the first book in Ilona Andrews series 'On The Edge' is ever going to be available on the Amazon UK Kindle store? I'd like to read it but all we have is a small bookstore nearby that doesn't stock it.
Aaaand! I cant wait for Vlad's second book 😀 he has always always been my favorite character, closely followed by Bones.
just wanted to tell you i love cat and bones and your writing just wonderful and was wondering when you would have another cat and bones book coming out thanks and keep wrinting.


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Q: Function creating 2 identical instances of class instead of only 1 I am relatively new to iOS development, any help will be greatly appreciated!
I'm trying to create a new instance of a class 'Event'.
class Event  {

var EventName: String
var EventPhoto: UIImage?

init?(EventName: String, EventPhoto: UIImage?) {

guard !EventName.isEmpty else {
        return nil
    }

// Initial initilization of the values
self.EventName = EventName
    self.EventPhoto = EventPhoto

    // If some of the values are left blank, this will return nil to signal the problem

}
}

Below is the override function, which from my understanding is responsible for creating the instance:
override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {

    super.prepare(for: segue, sender: sender)

    guard let button = sender as? UIBarButtonItem, button === saveButton else {
        os_log("Cancelling Action, The Save Button Was not Pressed", log: OSLog.default,type: .debug)
    return
    }

let EventName = NewEventNameField.text ?? ""
let EventPhoto = NewEventImage.image

event = Event(EventName: EventName, EventPhoto: EventPhoto)

}

From my understanding, the override function should create a new instance of the class, which would then be displayed in a table view controller displaying a table of 'events'. My problem here is; when the function is called by the "create instance" button, it creates 2 identical instances with the same EventName and EventPhoto extracted from a textfield and an image in the view controller. In the tableview, there are basically 2 events that are exactly the same being displayed, which is what I am having trouble with since I don't see the code calling init twice anywhere, and can't figure out why the instances was created twice. After being created the 2 instances act independently and function like 2 separate instances would.
Thanks!

A: Thank You for the help, I found the issue in TableViewController's code file:
@IBAction func unwindToEventList(sender: UIStoryboardSegue){

    if let sourceViewController = sender.source as?
        NewEventViewController, let event = sourceViewController.event{

        if let selectedIndexPath = tableView.indexPathForSelectedRow {
        events[selectedIndexPath.row] = event
            tableView.reloadRows(at: [selectedIndexPath], with: .none)
        }  else  {
       //Adding a new event instead of editing it.
            let newIndexPath = IndexPath(row: events.count, section: 0)

            events.append(event)
            tableView.insertRows(at: [newIndexPath], with: .automatic)

        }
        //let newIndexPath = IndexPath(row: events.count, section: 0)

    //events.append(event)
        //tableView.insertRows(at: [newIndexPath], with: .automatic)
    }
    }

Turns out that I accidentally appended the instance to the list events and inserted it into the table an extra time outside the if statement.


Genesis 28:16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
Isaiah 44:21 Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.
Ezekiel 37:25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Ewk.BandWebsite.Domain.BandModel;
using Ewk.BandWebsite.Web.Common.Models;
using Ewk.BandWebsite.Web.Common.Models.Blog;

namespace Ewk.BandWebsite.Web.Common.ModelMappers
{
    public interface IBlogArticleMapper
    {
        BlogArticle Map(AddBlogArticleModel model, Guid userId);
        BlogArticle Map(UpdateBlogArticleModel model, Guid blogArticleId);
        UpdateBlogArticleModel MapToUpdate(BlogArticle blogArticle);
        BlogArticleDetailsModel MapToDetail(BlogArticle blogArticle, User author);
        ItemListModel<BlogArticleDetailsModel> Map(IEnumerable<BlogArticle> blogArticle, IEnumerable<User> authors);
    }
}

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Detroit Fire: When the bell tolls, they answer
By Charlie LeDuff
DETROIT - The firefighters of this metropolis are buckling under the workload and it shows.
The Fourth of July weekend was an orgy of flame and mayhem: 140 fires, innumerable medical runs, the obese invalid needing extraction from a stale back bedroom.
Sunrise to sunset to sunrise again, the alarm bells in the firehouses across this city bray like a beaten mule. Always, the goddamned bell.
There is no good sleep in the early morning hours for the men here at Engine 41, located deep in the heart of the city's East Side. The bell won't allow it. They wear the fatigue like a mask of mud.
"When you have poverty, you have fire," says Firefighter Wes Rawls, 41, a lean, 17-year-veteran as he scans the evening horizon for smoke. "And here, there's a lot of poverty."
This firehouse - known as "Fort Rohn" - is located in the neighborhood where a mad man, or mad men, or mad women lost the lightening one recent evening, setting fire to 18 houses.
The building across the street from the firehouse is abandoned. The house next door was destroyed by an arsonist as was the one next to that and the one next to that and so on, to the expressway a mile up the road.
"People jumping power lines to get electricity. The wiring in the houses is shoddy. They don't have smoke detectors," Rawls says. "There's that, and then there's the arsonists trying to outdo each other."
For all the talk about the miracle comeback of downtown Detroit, there is little mentioned about the struggles of the city's neighborhoods where 600,000 people go all but unnoticed. The skeletal city services, the bankruptcy balanced on the backs of the people who serve them: the police and firefighters, many of whom are retiring or relocating to distant cities with higher pay and better benefits and far fewer fires.
Fires are slightly down in Detroit this year, but the workload has increased for the Detroit firefighter thanks to a new directive that requires them to respond to medical emergencies. In total, firefighters have responded to 16,000 emergency calls this year.
That being said, things are slowly, but perceptibly changing for the better, many firefighters say. Response times for medical emergencies and fires are down in Detroit, near the national standard of eight minutes. New bunker gear is on order. Boots no longer have holes and there is of plenty toilet paper and soap in the bathrooms. Older trucks and engines are being repaired when they used to rot in the shop.
New rigs have been budgeted. The mayor has promised to hire 90 new men. The commissioner and the union are working together with a sense of common purpose. A deal for a small boost in pay and a pension sweetener is on the table. Arsonists are being arrested, and abandoned houses are being demolished. Money is going into the field instead of contractors' pockets.
"We've got a long way to go, but things are starting to turn around," Rawls says. "No matter what, no matter how beat down we are, we're still coming. We're coming with everything we've got."
And with that, the bell goes off and so do the men of Engine 41.


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Canton Charge announce 2016-17 schedule
By Josh Weir Repository sports writer
Aug 22, 2016 at 4:59 PM Aug 22, 2016 at 6:16 PM
The Canton Charge will open their sixth season on Nov. 11 with a 7 p.m. game at the Grand Rapids Drive. Their home opener will come the next night at 7 at Memorial Civic Center against the Long Island Nets.
The Charge, the NBA Development League affiliate of the NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers, are looking for their sixth straight postseason berth. They tied the franchise record for single-season wins (31) last year.
Their schedule includes 24 home games, 24 away games and two neutral site games. The neutral site games will be announced at a later date as part of the D-League Showcase. The Charge will face three new additions to the D-League this season — the Nets, the Greensboro Swarm and the Windy City Bulls. The Bulls are in the Central Division with the Charge, Drive, Fort Wayne Mad Ants and Raptors 905.
The Charge's promotional schedule will be announced at a later date.
2016-17 Canton Charge schedule
(home games in ALL CAPS)
Nov. 11, at Grand Rapids Drive, 7 p.m.
Nov. 12, vs. LONG ISLAND NETS, 7 p.m.
Nov. 18, vs. GRAND RAPIDS DRIVE, 7 p.m.
Nov. 20, at Westchester Knicks, 5 p.m.
Nov. 23, at Long Island Nets, 1:30 p.m.
Nov. 25, vs. IOWA ENERGY, 7 p.m.
Nov. 26, vs. OKLAHOMA CITY BLUE, 7 p.m.
Dec. 2, vs. RAPTORS 905, 7 p.m.
Dec. 3, vs. LONG ISLAND NETS, 7 p.m.
Dec. 7, vs. TEXAS LEGENDS, 7 p.m.
Dec. 9, at Windy City Bulls, 8 p.m.
Dec. 10, vs. ERIE BAYHAWKS, 7 p.m.
Dec. 13, at Greensboro Swarm, 7 p.m.
Dec. 16, vs. DELAWARE 87ERS, 7 p.m.
Dec. 23, vs. WINDY CITY BULLS, 7 p.m.
Dec. 28, vs. GREENSBORO SWARM, 7 p.m.
Dec. 30, at Erie BayHawks, 7 p.m.
Jan. 4, at Raptors 905, 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 6, at Northern Arizona Suns, 9 p.m.
Jan. 7, at Salt Lake City Stars, 9 p.m.
Jan. 11, at Santa Cruz Warriors, 10 p.m.
Jan. 13, at Reno Bighorns, 10 p.m.
Jan. 14, at Los Angeles D-Fenders, 9:30 p.m.
TBD at D-League Showcase
Jan. 25, vs. MAINE RED CLAWS, 11 a.m.
Jan. 28, vs. FORT WAYNE MAD ANTS, 7 p.m.
Jan. 31, vs. RAPTORS 905, 7 p.m.
Feb. 3, vs. GRAND RAPIDS DRIVE, 7 p.m.
Feb. 4, at Erie BayHawks, 7 p.m.
Feb. 8, at Long Island Nets, 1:30 p.m.
Feb. 10, at Delaware 87ers, 7 p.m.
Feb. 11, at Raptors 905, 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 14, at Fort Wayne Mad Ants, 7 p.m.
Feb. 24, vs. DELAWARE 87ERS, 7 p.m.
Feb. 26, vs. MAINE RED CLAWS, 3 p.m.
Feb. 28, vs. GREENSBORO SWARM, 7 p.m.
Mar. 4, vs. FORT WAYNE MAD ANTS, 7 p.m.
Mar. 5, vs. WESTCHESTER KNICKS, 3 p.m.
Mar. 8, at Windy City Bulls, 11 a.m.
Mar. 11, vs. AUSTIN SPURS, 1 p.m.
Mar. 12, vs. RIO GRANDE VALLEY VIPERS, 3 p.m.
Mar. 14, vs. ERIE BAYHAWKS, 7 p.m.
Mar. 16, at Greensboro Swarm, 7 p.m.
Mar. 18, vs. WINDY CITY BULLS, 7 p.m.
Mar. 23, at Maine Red Claws, 7 p.m.
Mar. 28, at Westchester Knicks, 7 p.m.
Mar. 31, at Grand Rapids Drive, 7 p.m.
Apr. 1, at Fort Wayne Mad Ants, 7 p.m.


Created in 1972, the federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program provides monthly cash assistance to people who are disabled or elderly and have little income and few assets. Like the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program, commonly known as Social Security, SSI is administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA). In June 2018, 8.2 million people collected SSI benefits.
Who Qualifies for SSI and What Benefits Do They Receive?
The vast majority of SSI recipients — 86 percent — are eligible due to a severe disability (including blindness). In June 2018, 1.2 million recipients were children. Since SSI is available only to those who are disabled (or elderly) and have very low incomes and assets, more disabled children become eligible for SSI when poverty rates rise.
SSI recipients are limited to $2,000 in assets for individuals and $3,000 in assets for couples, with certain exceptions. Because recipients typically have no other source of income, more than half receive the basic monthly SSI benefit, which in 2018 is $750 for an individual and $1,125 for a couple.
SSA reduces these benefit amounts for recipients who have other sources of income or live in a Medicaid facility or with someone who provides support. For example, while SSA exempts (or "disregards") the first $20 per month of unearned income when determining a person's SSI eligibility and benefit levels, any income above that amount from sources such as Social Security benefits, pensions, interest, and child support is subtracted from SSI benefits. Similarly, SSA disregards the first $65 per month of earnings, but each dollar of earnings above that level typically reduces SSI benefits by 50 cents. Such reductions dropped the average SSI monthly benefit to $553 in June 2018.
Many states supplement the federal SSI benefit, though some have cut those additional payments over the years. In most states, SSI recipients are automatically eligible for Medicaid. Over 60 percent of SSI recipients also get SNAP (food stamps) and about one-quarter receive housing assistance.
How Has SSI Changed Over Time?
Since SSI began in 1974, the share of the elderly receiving benefits has fallen steadily, mostly because fewer seniors qualify under SSI's increasingly stringent income limits. The share of children and adults with disabilities receiving SSI grew, partly due to policy changes in 1984 that expanded eligibility based on mental impairments and a 1990 Supreme Court ruling that expanded the SSI disability criteria for children. Following those changes, the 1996 welfare law restricted eligibility for children and immigrants.
The share of Americans receiving SSI has remained steady at around 2.5 percent over the past decade and is projected to fall slightly over the long term. The share of people from each age group receiving SSI is expected to stay steady or (in the case of the elderly) to continue declining.
Unlike Social Security, which is financed by dedicated payroll taxes, SSI is funded from general revenues. SSI expenditures, at $59 billion in fiscal year 2017, were 0.31 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) that year. More than $9 of every $10 pay for benefits; the rest covers administrative costs.
Basic SSI benefits are about three-fourths of the poverty line for a single person. Thus, while SSI alone is not enough to lift someone living independently out of poverty, it reduces the number of people in extreme poverty and greatly lessens the burden on other family members. In 2013, the poverty rate among recipients would have been 63 percent without SSI payments; the actual rate, including SSI, was 42 percent, an SSA study found.
Still, that means over two-fifths of SSI recipients live below the poverty line even after taking their benefits into account. Many other needy elderly or disabled persons, including legal immigrants affected by the 1996 eligibility restrictions, don't get benefits.
Congress can strengthen SSI by updating the asset limits and income disregards and indexing them to inflation. The asset limits have been frozen since 1989 and the income disregards have remained the same since SSI's launch in 1974; their low levels prevent many needy elderly and disabled people from qualifying for the program.
Congress can also improve SSI by increasing the basic SSI benefit, partially exempting retirement savings from the asset limits, and easing eligibility restrictions for legal immigrants.


Need a generic API for reading and writing resource contents so that we can, for example, copy one DAV resource to another without having to know anything about the underlying implementation.
We have such a mechanism for properties, but not for the resource content.
The API (at least the read side) may be appropriate for non-DAV resources.
GET could (should?) be implemented on top of the read API.
I'm sure there are good reasons IConsumer/IProducer is insufficient. Could you include them on this ticket? They may help inform the design of a superior replacement.
Well, having never claimed that IConsumer/IProducer is insufficient (or heard of them); no, I can't. Perhaps you could, since you are sure that there are good reasons.
My goal in this ticket is to add methods to DAVResource, which are presently lacking, which provide a read/write API. I'll look at IConsumer/IProducer and see if they fit (or why they don't).
I'm not really seeing how IProducer and IConsumer will help me here. IStream is more in line with what web2 does, and probably fits well.


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Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. – Small Talk Vineyards set out to create a light drink ideal for toasting the end of summer. The result? Shiny Apple Cider.
This new beverage from the Niagara winery is gluten-free and vegan friendly and features a full apple complexity with notes of pear and caramelized toffee apple.
The winery uses 100 per cent natural apple juice made with fresh, hand-picked Ontario apples.
Shiny Apple Cider is available for purchase at Small Talk Vineyards and will be available at LCBO locations.


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A Memorial Service for Mr. Miller will be held Wednesday, December 29, 2021 at 1:00pm on the lawn of S.L. Barno Funeral Directors, 704 Washington St. Darlington, SC. 29532.
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We're PJ (blue shirt) & Thomas (plaid shirt) and we're a southern couple living in our small hometown in Tennessee. We have a passion for interior design and restoring old houses, and we even filmed a TV show about it for HGTV called Down to the Studs.
We were both born and raised in Cleveland, TN, a city of about 40,000 people where everyone knows everyone and you can't go to the grocery store without running into your mother's hairdresser's nephew. It's small, but we wouldn't have it any other way.
We started our Instagram account @PJandThomas (formerly @ThePropertyLovers) back in 2015 to document our journey of fixing up our 1950's house and now have decided to start this website as an extension of that channel. Here you will find DIY tips, home renovation posts, recipes, and snippets of our daily life together as two husbands living in the south.
We love anything to do with old houses, pizza and movie nights, coffee, pups, Saturday mornings, traveling, wine, demo-days, and family, but most of all, each other. Glad y'all stopped by!
We first met at a mutual friend's get together back in 2009, though Thomas had pretty much been in love with PJ since 2007 when he saw his picture on MySpace. At the time, PJ was in a relationship and Thomas wasn't out yet, so we didn't think much of it.
About 8 months later PJ's relationship ended and he sent Thomas a friend request on Facebook. We started messaging the whole day, and then texting all day the next. On day three, Thomas came over to PJ's house and we stayed up all night talking about our pasts, our futures, and everything in between. Thomas slept in the guest bedroom that night and in the morning PJ rushed off to work before Thomas was awake, but left a scribbled note on a torn envelope saying "I had fun last night, we should do it again some time. P.S.- you made it into my dream last night, pretty scary huh?" Thomas still has the envelope.
From there, we enjoyed spending every day together, though Thomas still wasn't out yet. About a month and a half into dating, Thomas came out to his family and friends and so nothing was holding us back anymore and we became official that fall. Thomas proposed to PJ on Christmas Day in 2014, and PJ returned the favor on Thomas' birthday the following March. We were married in October of 2015, another reason we love Fall more than any other season! Over the course of 8 years, we've been through 8 cars, 6 houses, 5 dogs, 1 cat, 2 different marriage proposals, 1 TV show, and endless amounts of laughter, tears, and joy.
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We're PJ and Thomas, husbands living in a small town in Tennessee. We have a passion for restoring old houses and interior design, and in our free time you'll find us eating pizza and watching movies, drinking wine, and saying "y'all" like it's our job. Here on the blog, we post the stuff you won't see on our Instagram, as well as topics covering what it's like navigating life as two guys who grew up together and decided to grow old together. Thanks for stopping by!
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