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By Stacey Epstein June 21, 2021
Stacey Epstein
About 15 years ago I read an FT opinion piece with the headline, The hippies were right all along about happiness. It was written by a professor of economics and concluded that happiness, not economic growth, ought to be a more sensible target for national economies, particularly for the next generation. He spelled out some strong arguments backed by solid research. I remember thinking at the time that it was dead on, but unlikely to translate to little more than lip service in the corporate world of 2006.
A lot has happened since then. Attitudes about the workplace and indeed the employee and customer experience are vastly different now. In fact, they've been steadily changing over time. Although the pandemic forced every organization to push their reset button globally, there's been a quiet and noticeable shift happening in the background for years. COVID has been a timely tipping point in the acceleration of that transformation. It prompted many of us, myself included, to resign from thriving roles seeking something more. My friends and I refer to it as 'the great resignation'.
For Girish Mathrubootham, co-founder and CEO of Freshworks, the recipe for building a great company was simple: happiness. And it was codified in the company culture: creating a happy work environment, building amazing products, and ultimately delighting customers. In my 30- year career in Silicon Valley, I've never worked for company that has had happiness as a primary objective. And I must tell you, it's refreshing (pun intended). And when I look around – particularly in the throes of this people-first corporate shift – it's clear that happiness is finally being considered a form of corporate currency by forward-thinking companies.
Happy organization, happy customers
Research shows companies with happy employees out-perform competitors by 20%, are 12% more productive, 65% more energetic and take 10 times fewer sick days. Likewise, happy salespeople drive 37% more sales.
According to Deloitte, happy employees typically care more about your company, are driven to help you succeed and feel more invested. Happiness also leads to higher engagement so happy employees are also more present, pay more attention to customer needs, and are more aware of your organization's processes and systems. Happy employees are also more loyal, innovative and healthier. Many of these same benefits extend to happy customers.
For a long time, work and happiness weren't strongly associated with each other. Work was a place where you were meant to come in, get the job done and leave. Happiness was for your free time. Yet none of the findings I've mentioned above are new. The difference is that we've now reached the point where we are formally recognizing the currency of happiness in commercial terms. Lockdown helped of course, triggering a global rethink – from happiness to hybrid working to simplifying systems and processes. It's clear that happiness begins and ends with strong internal relationships and genuine communication, which is exactly what Freshworks set out to address.
Of course, we are not the only company embracing values such as happiness, empathy and well-being. There's plenty of evidence that shows what most of us have known all along - that these values are now essential for building long-lasting customer and employee relationships. The difference is that we've acted upon it and built an entire cloud-based product portfolio around it so organizations can benefit from better CRM, customer experience, HR, Sales and Marketing and IT management.
We take happiness very seriously. Everybody wins and it's something we want everyone to know more about. That's why we've created a European-wide online and face-to-face event dedicated to helping you learn and apply practical insights around the currency of happiness.
Our ON Festival, includes keynotes from experts, such as Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar, who taught Harvard University's ground-breaking course on how to be happy, the most popular course in the history of Harvard University; Netflix Founder and start-up CEO Marc Randolph, who shares the unlikely story of how a handful of dreamers with no money and a bad idea, eventually brought down Blockbuster. We've got insights from the former Global Marketing Director of Airbnb, CEO of Tony's Chocolonely, who set up his business with the stated goal of eradicating slavery from cocoa farms; and, of course, our very own CEO Girish Mathrubootham, who'll be talking about how culture built a great company thanks to happy employees and happy customers. There are also a slew of other speakers giving gems of insight.
I'd strongly urge you to logon and listen to learn more about the people-first approach to business strategy. A true people-first culture requires a shift in attitude, behaviour and actions at a fundamental level.
The faster companies embrace and embody these new values, the easier they will find building authentic human connections. Happy employees lead to happy customers, which leads to company growth. Even the performance driven culture of 2006 should appreciate that.
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Will Smith: "My Marriage Had Died"
For the past nearly 21 years, Will & Jada Smith have built a reputation as being one of Hollywood's most unshakable couples. The two met in 1994 on the set of Smith's television series, "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," began dating in 1995, and tied the knot in Pinkett-Smith's Baltimore, Maryland hometown in 1997.
In a radio interview, Jada Pinkett Smith responded to rumors about her and Will's marriage and put it all out on the table. "You know, you've gotta trust who you're with, and at the end of the day, right, I'm not here to be anybody's watcher. I'm not his watcher. He's a grown man," Jada said. "And here's what I trust: I trust that the man that Will is. He's a man of integrity. So, he's got all the freedom in the world. He's got all the freedom in the world, and as long as Will can look himself in the mirror and be okay, I'm good."
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Many people mistakenly took that quote that explains an "open marriage" or a "hall pass" for him to cheat. But, the couple says that is far from the truth. But Will did admit that within their highly talked about marriage, there have been times so rocky that their relationship has pretty much died at points. However, instead of calling it quits, these two just find a new way to make things work.
Will went off script and spoke from the heart at one of the BET Awards, recalling a story about lying in bed with his wife when he got a Google Alert saying TMZ reported that she'd filed for divorce from him. The re-telling garnered several laughs before Smith got serious.
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"In that brief moment my heart jumped for a second," the Bad Boys actor said. "And I started to imagine what my life would've been like without that woman, you know? And we've been together for 20 years and I started to think about all of the things that I watched this woman do."
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"As I thought what my life would be like and what the world would be like without her it made me sad, and I'm just standing here today happy that TMZ had it wrong," the actor said.
Will also revealed what he considers to be the secret to maintaining a good marriage.
"We've been married 20 years and we've been asking ourselves [what's the secret to marriage] and really at the end of the day it's just not quitting."
"You can't expect it to be easy. It's like our marriage was the most difficult, grueling, excruciating thing that we have ever taken on in our lives. And you know we're just not quitters."
The actor told Entertainment Tonight: "I would say is that we never went into working on our relationship. We only ever worked on ourselves individually, and then presented ourselves to one another better than we were previously."
In early 2015, he told The Sun newspaper: "Whatever you have is gonna die and you are gonna have to rebirth something new. You have to be willing to ride the waves. There's gonna be some flat days and some stormy days, and that has to be OK."
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University of Iowa police K-9 retiring after three years of service
University of Iowa Police Department Officer Jackie Anderson and K-9 Falo (Justin Torner / University of Iowa).
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After nearly four years of service, the University of Iowa Department of Public Safety announced that it is retiring one of its K-9s at the end of the month.
K-9 Falo, a 5-year-old Belgian Malinois, joined the UI Police Division in March 2015, and is set to retire due to a medical condition called spinal stenosis.
Spinal stenosis refers to a narrowing of the spinal canal, which puts pressure on the spinal cord and can cause pain, numbness, muscle weakness and impaired bladder or bowel control — symptoms that do not bode well for a working dog.
"We consulted with specialists and experts to see if there was something we could do to treat him, but in the end it was apparent he would not be able to work anymore," said K-9 Officer Jackie Anderson, Falo's handler.
"Our job is not sedentary," she added. "Often we're tracking over timber, we're climbing fences, running up and down stairs and Malinois don't have a slow speed — he's either on all the time or asleep, he doesn't know how to slow down and take it easy."
Additionally, Anderson said working could aggravate or worsen Falo's condition.
Falo is trained as a dual-purpose K-9, specializing in explosive detection and patrol, which includes tracking, apprehension, handler protection and evidence recovery.
During his career, Anderson said Falo has been deployed 187 times, with eight successful tracks that led to apprehensions of a suspect. Falo also is the only K-9 in Johnson County to have a physical apprehension under his belt, meaning he is the only dog that has had to actually administer a bite.
Additionally, Falo has also seen a number of successful searches that led to evidence recovery.
On June 12, 2015, Falo located the firearm used in the Coral Ridge Mall homicide, and on June 15, 2017, he located a bullet and shell casings related to a shooting in Iowa City. On Dece. 16, 2017, Falo located the gun used in an armed robbery in Iowa City and on Aug. 4 os this year, Falo located evidence used in an Ottumwa home invasion.
The Coralville and Ottumwa cases are two that Anderson said she is particularly proud of.
"In the Coralville case, we were able to locate and recover the murder weapon that day," she said. "And in the Ottumwa incident, our track led us through a 60-acre bean field and another 30 or 40 acres of timber, and we were able to locate and recover several crucial pieces of evidence, including a firearm and a knife."
Additionally, Falo has worked four years of Hawkeye sports seasons, keeping fans, players, and our community safe before, during and after games. This includes every home football game, as well as large events like the National Invitation Tournament and the Wrestling World Championships held at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in 2018.
"Being a K-9 handler, and working with Falo, has afforded me a lot of opportunities that I wouldn't have otherwise had," Anderson said. "Just in the past few years, we've gotten to work with the Secret Service and traveled all over the state clearing venues and transport for various politicians."
During the last presidential election, Anderson said she and Falo "worked probably 60 campaign events."
"I'm really proud of him and the work we've done together," she said. "I'm sad that he has to retire. I am going to miss working with him and I'm going to miss working and training with our other K-9 team, Officer Jess Bernhard and K-9 Jago. They've been a huge part of my life and have been great to work with. "
Though Anderson will not be retiring with Falo, for now she is a K-9 handler without a K-9, but she said when the department decides to purchase a new dog, she will apply to be its handler.
"It really is my passion," she said. "I've learned in the past four years that this is what I love to do, and it's important work. I'm not ready to not work a police dog and I'd hate to leave that at this point."
In the meantime, Anderson said she and Falo will be adjusting to his new life as a house and family dog with his canine siblings Izzy and Roscoe, both pit bulls that were rescued from abusive situations.
The UI Department of Public Safety said it intends to purchase another K-9 in the future, but has not specified a timeline. In the meantime, the department said K-9 Jago and his handler Officer Jess Bernhard will continue to serve the University of Iowa community as well as area law enforcement.
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Is Your SmartPhone Habit Tempting You To Drive While Distracted?
Massachusetts and 41 other states have banned texting and driving, and our Boston car accident lawyers know that as many as 94 percent of respondents to a federal survey have said that they support laws prohibiting texting. Yet, even as police issue citations and drivers express concern that cell phone use is dangerous, motorists continue to use their cell phones in the car every day.
The Boston Globe has recently taken a close look at why so many drivers continue to text even when they know it is risky. The answer that many experts have come up with: checking your phone is a powerful habit for many and checking the phone has become almost automatic.
Habits are powerful shortcuts that allow for increased productivity, and the ability of the brain to form habits is a major strength for humans. Many of the things that you do each day you do by habit without having to think about them, such as brushing your teeth in the morning or locking the door when you leave for work. These habits form when you do something over and over, and using a SmartPhone definitely falls within this category.
Triggers are fundamental to habit formation and since people use SmartPhones to do so many different things, researchers believe that many different triggers develop that people associate with looking at their phones. A phone buzzing or ringing, for example, is a trigger that causes an automatic desire to answer the phone or read the message that was sent.
Motorists who have these triggers and who use their phone so often it has become an ingrained habit, will have a hard time stopping themselves from reacting to triggers even when they are driving. In fact, driving may actually make it more likely that motorists will respond to a trigger in an automatic habitual way by reaching for the phone.
Driving makes it harder to resist the temptation to respond to the phone because the driver's prefrontal cortex is engaged in the task of driving. The prefrontal cortex is the part of the brain that controls inhibition, and since the brain is focused on driving, you're brain is too busy to tell you not to pick up the ringing phone or look at the beeping text message.
One suggestion to reduce this temptation is to remove it by simply keeping the phone out of reach and turned off or on silent while driving. Other experts suggest fighting the bad habit of automatically picking up the phone with good habits of stowing the phone away where you won't use it as you drive. Whatever option you choose, it is important to ensure that you don't let your smartphone habit endanger you or others on the road.


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New Golf Sheds for Virginia Golf Club
The Virginia Golf Club has recently opened a new golf shed on their premises which will allow members to securely store golf carts on-site.
State Member for Nudgee, Leanne Linard MP, officially opened the new shed last week which takes pride of place behind the 16th green.
Ms Linard said the shed provides 40 individually-keyed secure parking bays for members' golf carts.
"As well as providing security for members' carts, the new shed will also provide an important funding stream for the not-for-profit club", Ms Linard said.
"Members can take out a 12-month lease on a parking bay, and will be able to access their cart 24 hours a day, 7 days a week".
"The club are very proud to have introduced this service for their members, and it was a pleasure to officially open the sheds amongst the brightly coloured buggies".
"Congratulation to the Virginia Golf Club Board Members who worked tirelessly in making this important facility a reality".
The Virginia Golf Club, located in Elliot Road, Banyo, is a family friendly facility open to all members of the public. For more information, visit www.virginiagolf.com.au.
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The Assault on Mary
"Those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." – John F. Kennedy
THERE HAS been an assault on Mary Magdalene since the second century. It remains why women have fallen short on equality into the second decade of the twenty-first century.
It's the most important story of womankind. One of faith, politics, and misogyny.
It's the central reason men remain in power.
It's also why the Republican Party has so few women leaders. The most virulent faction inside this political party remains terrified of women in power.
"Evangelical audiences do not look kindly on efforts to twist the story of Jesus to fit a political narrative in service of today's agenda of feminism." – Jerry A. Johnson, National Religious Broadcasters (TIME Magazine)
It is tied to the story of Mary Magdalene and the vision she had which patriarchal religious leaders refuse to acknowledge for obvious reasons.
The rigid religious class in America, represented by numerous denominations that freeze women out of leadership, represent millions of people. They are led by men who won't consider and can't tolerate a woman as leader of a church.
This cycle is defended by men who prefer to rewrite history in their own image.
Taking them on is a risk, but if women want equality it must be done and liberated men must participate.
It is no coincidence that the rise of women running for president on the Democratic side came after the 2002 global pedophile priest scandal inside the Catholic Church. It was followed by many more. The evangelical Willow Creek Christians scandal. This year's reports of Southern Baptist and United Methodist church scandals.
The reason we haven't seen Republican women running for president is the most enthusiastic group of voters on the right believe women aren't meant to lead.
It's past time to reclaim Mary Magdalene, whose story was tainted and twisted. Perhaps by jealous men of faith who refused to accept the Lord would tell a woman something — in a vision, no less — He didn't tell them first.
The world I explore revolves around the power of intuitive visions which we tap through our instincts via meditation. It's a hop, skip and an effortless leap to imagine and embrace Mary's "visions." To consider they weren't physical, as seen, but metaphysical as in channeled or received.
Karen L. King, whose writing on the Gospel of Mary is where the miracle of reclamation starts.
"Peter himself had readily acknowledged that Mary was Jesus' favorite among women and that there were occasions when Jesus had spoken with her when the other disciples weren't present… He had asked Mary only to tell them what the Savior had said to her that the other disciples hadn't heard, but the distinctive teaching she recounted didn't come simply from conversation with Jesus during his life; she had had a vision of the Lord and received advanced teaching from him." – The Gospel of Mary of Magdala, by Karen L. King
These intuitive visions are not automatic or consistent, and rely on intense discipline.
But women with vision are dangerous.
The fear and loathing of a woman who had a vision of the Lord and received "advanced teaching from him" is rooted in ego-driven masculine narcissism that has swallowed religious institutions whole.
This disease has spread to other institutions.
Engulfed the United States presidency, the federal government and the departments women and children depend upon for safety.
The confusion of Mary Magdalene's identity, one woman or three, and the claim she was a prostitute, not the first disciple of Jesus comes from teachings of men who built the patriarchy we have suffocated under since the second century.
Men who have tried to champion women have faced pressure beyond what they could withstand.
The societal sickness of viscious attacks directed at women who yearn to lead our country can be traced to Mary Magdalene's character assassination and the successful efforts of misogynist church leaders and their political followers' efforts to amass power.
The efforts to control women have often overwhelmed what advocates can achieve on their behalf. The power used to force women into subservience has strangled progress.
This could not have happened without the acquiescence of women. For centuries, after church leaders cemented their power, women were made second-class citizens and controlled. They were property and couldn't obtain wealth on their own. Less advanced nations than America perpetrate horrific crimes against women every day. Women of color have had to bear ten-fold the burden of white women.
Man's battle to crush women's independence revolves around his fear of power loss. An idea that cripples his ego.
Peter could not fathom, let alone accept, Mary Magdalene's vision from the Lord and the message delivered to His "first disciple" because of the implications it had on society and man's place as ordained leader.
Woman as inferior, a prostitute, a sinner… Follower meant to uphold man's laws.
Peter's betrayal of Mary is at the heart of the deepest wound of womankind.
It took twisted narrators to shred Mary Magdalene's vision of the Lord and the message she received.
Meditation is a portal.
When humbled in prayer, we can receive messages.
The energies involved are mystical, transformational and appear like magic through your mind's eye. Surprised, unnerved, and disoriented from the miracle, our faith confirms our truth.
As Mary's story teaches, there will be a price for women who dare.
Her story means there is more to spirituality and faith than rigid misogynistic dogma passed down from one male to another.
Men rewrote Mary's story to subjugate her so they could claim what the Lord gave first to a woman as their own.
Mary Magdalene's miracle vision required no go-between.
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Channel 4 is set to become the first major UK broadcaster to offer their entire archive of television programs online completely for free.
Channel4.com relaunched on 1st April 2009 with their 4oD TV Catch-up service as its primary selling point. From July however, all this will change and PC, Mac and Linux users will be able to watch Channel 4's complete programming history on Channel4.com.
Frankly, I'm not only impressed Channel4 has decided to make the move but I'm genuinely excited. Shows like Queer as Folk, Trigger Happy TV, Drop the Dead Donkey and more will be a couple of mouse clicks away – a danger to productivity levels but a convenience all the same.
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Jon Gisby, who was made Channel 4's Director of Future Media & Technology in 2007, said:
"We were the first broadcaster to launch a comprehensive video-on-demand service in 2006 and since that time 4oD has become one of the UK's most popular VOD brands. The addition of archived content to 4oD on channel4.com means we will be the only UK broadcaster to have all of our content available online. We are extremely proud of the new and improved service and think the combination of fantastic content that's easy to find and view will prove a compelling service for all users."
Similar to Joost, Channel 4 has taken the decision to close its 4oD desktop application once all the archived content is available via Channel4.com.
For you non-Brits out there, unfortunately there aren't any plans to offer the service internationally just yet.
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Ovidiu este un oraș în județul Constanța, Dobrogea, România, format din localitatea componentă Ovidiu (reședința), și din satele Culmea și Poiana. Are o populație de  locuitori. Vechea denumire a localității este Canara, de la cuvântul turcesc kanará care are mai multe sensuri: "stâncă", "altar", "abator", "târg de vite". Denumirea actuală i-a fost dată în omagiu către poetul roman Ovidiu.

Orașul este o suburbie a Constanței, cu zone comerciale și industriale, și cartiere de reședință din care majoritatea populației lucrează în orașul Constanța, distanța față de centrul acesteia fiind de .

Printre realizările urbanistice din orașul Ovidiu, se pot menționa Centrul Cultural, inaugurat în anul 2003, biserica nouă a orașului situată, ca și Centrul Cultural, de-a lungul șoselei internaționale ce străbate orașul (E60), baza sportivă și stadionul - construcții noi, precum și cartierul rezidențial de pe malul lacului Siutghiol.

În perioada 2008 - 2012, primarul orașului a fost Dumitru Bocai.

Demografie

Conform recensământului efectuat în 2011, populația orașului Ovidiu se ridica la  de locuitori, în creștere față de recensământul anterior din 2002, când se înregistraseră  de locuitori. Majoritatea locuitorilor sunt români (81,01%). Principalele minorități sunt cele de tătari (3,02%), turci (2,51%) și romi (1,83%). Pentru 11,37% din populație, apartenența etnică nu este cunoscută.
Din punct de vedere confesional, majoritatea locuitorilor sunt ortodocși (81,66%), cu o minoritate de musulmani (5,93%). Pentru 11,38% din populație, nu este cunoscută apartenența confesională.

Comunitatea musulmană
Există două geamii musulmane în Ovidiu, cea mai nouă fiind construită începând cu anul 2005.

Politică și administrație
Orașul Ovidiu este administrat de un primar și un consiliu local compus din 17 consilieri. Primarul, , de la , este în funcție din . Începând cu alegerile locale din 2020, consiliul local are următoarea componență pe partide politice:

Sport
În Ovidiu își are sediul Academia de Fotbal a lui Gheorghe Hagi. De asemenea, Farul Constanța își dispută meciurile pe teren propriu pe Stadionul Central din Ovidiu.

Personalități
Elena Roizen (n. 1 februarie 1945, Ovidiu — d. 25 septembrie 2007, Constanța) – cântăreață de muzică populară dobrogeană

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City Council Hears Recommendations to Repair 'Brokenness' in SPD, Former Employees Say Review 'Superficial'
Jon Hess spoke to Saline City Council Thursday about his review of the Saline Police Department.
City of Saline
Though staffed by employees who valued their jobs and their community, the Saline Police Department suffers from "brokenness." That's one of the findings of a report by a consultant who reviewed operations and offered a series of recommendations for repairing the department.
Jon Hess, who was Kent County Undersheriff before retiring after 36 years with the department, gave his report to Saline City Council Thursday. Council seemed eager to move on many of Hess's recommendations. Several former employees of the department said they were disappointed that nobody seemed to be addressing the issue of why the department was "broken" in the first place.
Hess was paid $5,000 for the revoew. While focusing on the problems faced by the department, he stressed it was an impressive organization staffed by employees who demonstrated a high degree of professionalism and dedication.
"I hope Saline takes this report and spends time talking to people about it, and immerses themselves in the issues to fix some of these things people feel. If you can do it, it's important," Hess said. "Some people are sick and tired and don't want to come to work and deal with it anymore. It's something I heard loud and clear. There is no individual to blame, though there's a lot of finger pointing going on."
Hess said the majority of people he interviewed, in and out of the department, felt positive about the department. He said if the city works on the issues he outlined and considers his recommendations, morale will improve.
Hess interviewed past and present members of the department. He also interviewed other city officials and people in the community. He offered confidentiality to those with whom he spoke.
The department has been plagued by controversy in the last two years. Former Detective Don Lupi sued the city and then dropped his lawsuit. Former Sgt. Chris Boulter took the city to the Michigan Employment Relations Committee to regain his stripes. At a public meeting on outsourcing Saline's dispatch desk, officers showed hostility toward Police Chief Larry Hrinik. Several employees have expressed dissatisfaction with the state of things in the department when leaving in the last few years.
Hess offered a series of recommendations:
Improving policies and procedures. Making sure officers are trained in policies and procedures. Keeping policies and procedures up to date.
Consider the consolidation/outsourcing of the dispatch desk.
Consider eliminating the department's jail/lockup.
Regular audits on the department, evidence and equipment.
Focus on better communications. More meetings and face-to-face dealings.
If the city maintains four sergeants, delegate some middle management duties to the sergeant positions. Considering making one of the sergeants a "community police officer" who has a prominent role as "face of the department." Rotate officers into specialized positions, like detective.
A couple of the recommendations didn't get much support from council. Both Mayor Brian Marl and Councilor-Elect Jack Ceo, the former deputy chief, expressed a level of resistance to the idea of outsourcing the police dispatch desk. That issue has been visited twice and met with strong public resistance. The issue of eliminating local lockup to save on training and liability costs was also not favored by Ceo, who said he'd rather have local lockup so officers don't spend too much time driving people to the county jail.
One recommendation council supported was redrafting policies and procedures and ensuring officers were well trained to follow them. Chief Hrinik discussed using a consultant firm called Lexipol for the work.
Coincidentally, Hess announced that he worked for Lexipol.
Council also appeared in support of having Hess check back with the department to see if things are improving. But council was split on when another review should happen. Council is also expecting progress reports from the police chief every three months.
Councilor Linda TerHaar asked Hess if he was able to conduct interviews without interference. Hess replied that he was.
"One of the things I take from the report is that you've identified brokenness in the department. The focus should now be on fixing the brokenness, not on finger-pointing," TerHaar said.
Councilor Dean Girbach noted that there are several outstanding personnel matters that could present challenges to a department on the mend.
"Do you feel the individuals in the department can move forward with some concerns about leadership and some trust issues in the department? Can they move forward with unresolved issues hanging over us?" Girbach asked Hess.
Hess said it was difficult to answer while maintaining confidentiality, but allowed that the majority of employees feel confident in the department.
"Overall, the confidence level is more to the plus side. If you use this report and the recommendations as an opportunity to improve things, the plus side will grow," Hess said.
Girbach also asked if council needed to strike a citizens' advisory committee to oversee the department. Hess said those committees are usually used to deal with force complaints or discipline matters. He said if council sets benchmarks and guidelines than council should be able to monitor progress in the department.
Marl said he was intrigued by the recommendation of a new "community police officer" position and asked Hess for examples of communities where that position has been beneficial.
The review and the resulting discussion disappointed two former SPD dispatchers. Jean Bondie and John Heller both spoke during public comment.
Bondie said she was sorry she didn't have the chance to speak with Hess. In her view, the focus on policy and procedures is a distraction.
"Policy and procedure aren't what's broken here. We've continually updated it. That's an easy fix," Bondie said. "Everyone who worked for and currently works for the Saline Police Department loves the SPD and loves Saline. What's broken lies in the mass exodus of dedicated people from the Saline Police Department in the last two years. I don't see how that being addressed or looked at in a really in depth way."
Bondie said the report felt superficial because it didn't speak about the cause of the "brokenness."
She also spoke out against the idea of outsourcing the dispatch desk.
Heller, also a lifelong Saline resident and former dispatcher, echoed Bondie's comments.
"This doesn't address the problem. This was all brought about by Lupi's lawsuit and Boulter's issue. That's not being talked about. Lupi's lawsuit disappeared and nobody knows why. Nobody is talking about why Boulter's case was being appealed," Heller said. "To me, this was a whitewash. (Hess) was brought in to cover this up."
Larry Wiedmeyer also expressed displeasure. He's been with the department for 44 years, serving as sergeant of the reserves. He said he was upset to learn two years ago that he and the reserves were considered volunteers instead of employees of the city.
He also said he was disappointed that he was not notified of Thursday's meeting.
Marl said he was unaware of the reserves' status change. He took issue with the idea that council wasn't addressing the serious issues.
"I don't think updating policies and procedures is insignificant. I don't think improving communication is insignificant. I don't think quarter reports from the chief are insignificant. We take morale issues seriously and brokenness of the Saline Police Department very seriously," Marl said.
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'More than 150 militants killed' in US drone strike against al-Shabaab in Somalia
Soldiers conducting a security patrol against al-Shabaab militants last year. Credit: Reuters
More than 150 militants are believed to have been killed by US drone strikes in Somalia.
The large crowd of al-Shabaab fighters appeared to be "in formation" conducting "some kind of ceremony", an official told NBC News.
It's not clear if any al-Shabaab chiefs were killed in the strike.
Al-Shabaab has been responsible for terrorist attacks throughout East Africa.
It is thought the group was behind the bombing of a plane last month.
The plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Mogadishu after the explosion. The suspected bomber died but not other passengers were killed.
The group also claimed responsibility for the massacre of 67 civilians during a deadly siege at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya in September 2013.
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Gostilje – The "Waterfall" Village
Gostilje is one of the most interesting locations within the Zlatibor mountain. Nestled along the slopes of Cigota and Borkovac and reaching 900 meters in altitude, it is a true challenge for all admirers of untamed nature. Its name means "a hospitable place", and indeed this village was named Gostilje, for no other reason but to describe the warm nature of its people. These are the people whose traditional cuisine strictly includes healthy products. Juicy fruits and veggies, ham and bacon, dairy products, corn bread and corn meal, home-made plum brandy will make you feel right at home.
Aside from its wholesome food, Gostilje is famous for its crystal clear and healthy waters. A lively stream runs through the village, and its source is being used for production of the "Zlatibor" water, one of the healthiest bottled waters in Serbia. The most special feature of Gostilje is its waterfall, actually a whole formation of waterfalls, elevating to the altitude of about 20 meters.
As far as its cultural and natural heritage is concerned, the "must-sees" are: Birth house and memorial room of Dimitrije Tucovic, the Gostilje library, various workshops dedicated to old trade and crafting skills, trout fish ponds, numerous watermills and of course, the waterfall of Gostilje.
Immerged into the silence of Zlatibor forests, the village is filled with many gems of nature. The river Katusnica is a genuine fishermen's paradise, with whirlpools that are more than suitable for bathing. The Rakovicka cave, one of many caves within the river Katusnica's canyon. In fact, the whole village of Gostilje is surrounded by mountains, pastures, pine woods and waterfalls, and as such, it has outstanding camping sites, with many rest and leisure opportunities. It is a place where many medicinal herbs can be found. Nearby, there is a big football terrain, but also the old village of Sirogojno, the Stopica cave, art studios of Trnava and Borova Glava and the Zlatibor tourist center, which all together and combined with Gostilje create a remarkable travel destination.
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Diah Manning House circa 1750
85 Town St Norwich, CT
Please note, this is a private residence and is in the process of being rehabilitated
The c. 1750 Diah Manning House located at 85 Town Street is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The home is located in the Norwichtown Local Historic District and the house is in the Colonial and Georgian architectural style with a center chimney and is a 1 ½ story gambrel.
The home was built c. 1750 by Samuel Manning. After Manning's death in 1783, the house passed to his widow Anne, daughter Eunice, and his son Diah Manning. The shop and garden were left to his other son, Roger Manning. The home's most prominent occupant was Diah Manning who served in the Revolutionary War as a Drum Major. Diah Manning and his brother, Roger, were the handpicked bodyguards of George Washington at Valley Forge in 1778. Roger Manning served in Colonel Israel Putnam's regiment and Diah Manning served in Norwich's Colonel Jedediah Huntington's regiment. Reputedly, Diah Manning was said to have brought Major John Andre his last meal on the morning of October 2, 1780, the day he was executed as a spy.
After the war, Diah served for many years as the bell ringer for Norwichtown and sexton for the First Congregational Church. During the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, the Manning family housed Haitian prisoner and refugee, Jean Pierre Boyer, in their home from 1800-1801. According to local historian Mary Perkins, "the Diah Manning Family were extremely kind in their attentions to a young Haytien… Jean Pierre Boyer." Years later, Boyer went on to serve as President of the Republic of Haiti from 1818–1843. While president of Haiti, Boyer successfully reunited the north and south section of Haiti and annexed Santo Domingo which brought all of Hispaniola under one government. Local Historian Frances Caulkins said that nearly twenty years after Boyer left Norwich, "President Boyer…made inquiries of his…former friends and send a handsome gratuity to the two families in which he had been treated with special kindness." He gave $400 to the widows of Consider Sterry and Diah Manning. Unfortunately, the Haitian economy failed to thrive under Boyer's presidency. The poor economic conditions and the corruption within his government forced Boyer to leave Haiti and live out the remainder of his life in exile in France.
In addition to the rich colonial era history, the Diah Manning House was the residence of the local Figarsky family for four generations and has incredible sentimental value to the family. The structure does retain some elements from the eighteenth century, most notably, the paneling in the living space, doors, hinges, and beams. The home was added onto in the late nineteenth century and has an early twentieth century garage on the property.
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The Reformation Page 34: "Lock Him Up!"
Back in a November post on this stream I summarized Luther's radical insights into the nature of Scripture, conscience and the Church, an enlightenment focused in time with his famous posting of 95 theses or contentions in 1517. The language of his contentions—provoked by the selling of indulgences as "guarantees of salvation" was brusque, notably thesis 86, "Why does not the pope, whose wealth today is greater than the wealth of the richest Crassus, build the basilica of St. Peter with his own money rather than with the money of poor believers?" And, his theological views were radical in multiple senses. Not only did he question absolute Church authority, as in the matter of indulgences, but he placed ultimate determination of salvation in the disposition of the heart, above the claims of canonical jurisprudence. As Eric Metaxas [see home page] puts it well, for Luther "the Christian faith was an affair of the heart and the whole person." [p. 78] So it is not a ridiculous question to ask why the Church did not "lock him up?"
For all of that, Luther set forth his ideas as matters for academic and ecclesiastical debate, not marching orders to rebel bands. He was not the first to call for radical renewal; the famous monk Hildebrand—later to become Pope [St.] Gregory VII, led a wholesale reform against church ills, including clerical concubinage, in the eleventh century. Around 1200 Francis of Assisi experienced a vision from God in which he is told "Go, Francis, and repair my house which, as you see, is well-nigh in ruins." Francis' movement of reform, based upon his rule drawn from the evangelical counsels of Jesus, was never threatened by Rome because Francis cultivated close relationships with cardinals and popes, including the mighty Innocent III.
Even in his own day there were other Catholic thinkers who agreed with the general ideas of Luther's writing and preaching. Probably the most noted of these was the Dutch humanist theologian Desiderius Erasmus [1469-1536]. Erasmus may have been best mind produced by the humanist Renaissance. His scholarship in Church history, particularly the Patristic era or the age of the early Church Fathers, convinced him that Church reform rested upon a return to its ancient wisdom, practice, and spirituality [a method today called Ressourcement, employed by the fathers of Vatican II.] Erasmus was also an unequalled philologer and translator; he discovered errors in the 1100-year-old Latin Vulgate Bible then in use, which Luther would have found very useful as a biblical scholar. Erasmus saw himself in later years as a unifier in the growing divisions of Protestant and Roman Catholic adherents, a position which brought suspicion upon him from both sides, though he always professed loyalty to the Catholic Church and died in the Church.
What Luther was calling for was a local academic and community discussion of the issues raised by the sale of indulgences in his region, a discussion we might compare to "peer evaluation." Universities throughout Europe were Catholic to varying degrees of intensity, and the places where such discussions were normally conducted. Nor would it be unusual to invite the local bishop and even the local prince of the region. The famous Halloween posting on the cathedral door in Wittenberg is a later embellishment of Luther's presentation of the 95 theses to Bishop Albrecht of Mainz, who had authorized the sale of indulgences in Luther's region in the first place. Luther explained to the archbishop that the trafficking in indulgences was causing scandal to the faithful, and that Albrecht had the influence to protect the faithful.
As Metaxas observes, "…what Luther had no idea about when he wrote and sent this letter—and what his correspondent [Albrecht] had no idea about either—was that Luther had now put his finger on an issue that was but the uppermost excrescence of something else, something that was at least enormous, something with a root system so very deep and exceedingly vast that it stretched to the nethermost blind crevasses of hell itself." [p. 110] That Luther's theses would divide all of Christendom was something no one could see in 1517, and certainly not an outcome Luther would have joyfully longed for.
Albrecht, unfortunately, had ugly secrets far beyond the indulgence scandal that touched upon the legitimacy of Church governance and authority itself. Albrecht, a very ambitious churchman, much desired the see of Mainz, and after considerable wrangling, Pope Leo offered the title to Albrecht for a price, 23,000 ducats, a "staggering sum" per Metaxas. [For an overview of Pope Leo in this affair, see the Encyclopedia Britannica entry on Leo X, particularly the "Conflict with Luther" section.] Albrecht had no significant funds at this time, and thus turned to the wealthy bank, The House of Fugger, for a massive loan request with virtually no collateral. It was Pope Leo himself who provided a solution: Albrecht would authorize an aggressive campaign of the sale of indulgences in his own region, of which he would retain 50% of the proceeds to repay the House of Fugger.
Luther, ironically, was taking on greater corruption than he knew. He was incensed that Catholic faithful were being charged for a guarantee of salvation that only God could grant. But worse, and unknown to Luther and the purchasers, 50% of their offering was being siphoned off to pay for the political ambitions of their own episcopal shepherd.
One would think that, all things considered, Luther would have been at the very least silenced, or arrested and delivered to the Inquisition. But this did not happen because the governing prince [elector] of Saxony, Frederick, interjected his own agenda and in the process prolonged and gave wider exposure to Luther's concerns. Luther would not suffer the fate of reformers before him such as Jan Huss and John Wycliffe, for he would have civil protection.


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Tariffs Boost Business for Warehouse Cos.
Driven by e-commerce demand, firms get trade war jump-start
By Rachel Uranga
Going with Flow: Flowspace founders Ben Eachus, CEO, and Jason Harbert, CTO.
Tariffs on Chinese goods may create discomfort for most businesses whose supply chain reaches across the Pacific, but the trade war has been good news for a handful of local startups in the business of finding warehouse space.
Culver City-based Flowspace Inc. and West Los Angeles-based Warehouse Exchange saw demand rise over the past year as distributors ramped up orders in anticipation of more than $200 billion in planned tariffs levied by the federal government on certain products and commodities from China.
"It was the first month of positive cash flow," said Jonathan Rosenthal, the founder of Warehouse Exchange, which bills itself as the Airbnb Inc. of warehouse space. "We are certainly seeing people bringing inventory into the United States to beat the tariffs."
Warehouse Exchange and Flowspace offer on-demand space for companies looking to house products quickly. As companies push to get their wares to and from China before tariffs hit, the nimble startups are well positioned.
The National Retail Federation reported imports at the nation's major retail container ports set a new record in November as retailers and distributors rushed to stock up their warehouse ahead of a levy on Chinese goods. The tariffs were postponed after U.S.-China talks progressed and a 90-day pause went into effect, creating some breathing room.
"Normally, by now, you would see (inventory) levels going down," Rosenthal said. That's not the case as warehouse space, usually already packed ahead of Chinese New Year, became scarcer for new entrants into the market.
Tight market
Kurt Strasmann, who heads the Orange County and Inland Empire operations for CBRE Group Inc. and specializes in Southern California industrial real estate, said some areas of Los Angeles are posting vacancy rates as low as 1.5 percent.
"It's the tightest I have seen in my 30 years," he said.
In the Inland Empire, the region's distribution hub, vacancy rates are hovering around 3 percent, said Mark Zorn, executive managing director at Colliers International.
But the tariffs are only part of the reason.
"E-commerce has been a substantial driver over the years," Zorn said.
The growing demand for next-day delivery services, which can often make or break customers' order decision has pushed up the need for more locations closer to consumers, so inventory can get on the doorstep quicker. A quarterly survey by the National Retail Federation on shoppers' taste estimates nearly 40 percent of consumers expect brands to offer free two-day shipping.
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Shows like Saturday Night Live and popular TV hosts such as Jimmy Fallon and Steven Colbert have a history of bringing to light the political climate and happenings, as well as hosting those politicians who are in the limelight.
As the primaries continue to heat up in the race to get party nominations, candidates are relying on these platforms to connect to the public.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, specifically, are using shows of this nature to meet their targetted agendas. Both have years of being in the public eye and subsequent public opinion to combat as they attempt to create a fresh image to win their party's nomination.
Most recently, Clinton, playing an everyday bartender named Val, appeared in a light-hearted SNL skit alongside actress Kate McKinnon, who played Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Strategic Political Communication professor Jennifer Glover Konfrst has a sharp, analytical view of the recent trend for candidates to appear on sit-down talk shows like Jimmy Fallon and on SNL.
Trump has been all over the news for his brash comments and the major waves he is making in the political world.
His high polls may be a result of his appearances on Colbert and Fallon, where a different side of Trump comes out. These two versions of Trump may not seem to add up, but according to Konfrst, they are a strategic part of his campaign.
"Debate stages by design are confrontation, while a Colbert interview is conversational," Konfrst said.
She argues that if Trump were to approach an intimate sit-down interview with the same tactic as he would a debate setting, he would not get the desired reaction.
"He's introducing himself to a whole new audience," Konfrst said.
While Trump is a celebrity who is battling to distinguish himself as a legitimate politician, Hillary holds a much different set of established public opinion to overcome.
"She is trying to appear as human as possible, as celebrity as possible," Konfrst said.
SNL has parodied Clinton for years, notably including the 2008 opener with Tiny Fey as Sarah Palin and Amy Poehler as Hillary. Comparing the two reveals a major shift from this recent portrayal on SNL and her accompanying appearance.
"They skirted around the issues that people tease her about but they didn't hit them," Konfrst said.
In the Poehler/Fey parody, Poehler's Clinton is all but frothing at the mouth with desire for the presidency and rage against all those who stand in her way. While in the recent one, McKinnon's Clinton is much more toned down, stating that she is first and foremost a grandmother and entrusted to protect the Earth.
Views on why Clinton appeared on SNL are split.
"I think that (Clinton) is doing things to appeal to a younger demographic," said Sands.
Konfrst believes that this move is significant for Clinton's attempt to rework the public's opinion of her.
"Its definitely a big part of America's political socialization about her. Who is she? It adds to her story. Because it's people who might not pay a lot of attention to anything else but are watching Saturday night," Konfrst said.
If this was Clinton's goal, it was achieved as far as Aaron Menick is concerned.
"It does remind me that she is a human being," Menick said.
Whether it is appearing on Jimmy Fallon or on SNL, it seems this season's political candidates are using these shows to gain traction in their campaigns, and in Trump and Clinton's case, to rework their public image.


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Veteran Nollywood Actor, Jimoh Aliu, Is Dead
Veteran actor, Jimoh Aliu aka Aworo, has passed away after a brief illness at 86. According to multiple reports, Aliu died at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital on Thursday, September 17, 2020. It was reported his remains would be moved to his residence at Adebayo area in Ado-Ekiti before being taken…"
Veteran actor, Jimoh Aliu aka Aworo, has passed away after a brief illness at 86.
According to multiple reports, Aliu died at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital on Thursday, September 17, 2020.
It was reported his remains would be moved to his residence at Adebayo area in Ado-Ekiti before being taken to his hometown in Okemesi Ekiti in Ekiti West Local Government Area.
Popular for his role as Aworo in an epic TV shows, Arelu, Fapomaoyo, and Yanpon Yanrin, Aliu is expected to be buried on Friday, September 18.
He was a former President of the Association of Nigeria Theatre Practitioners (ANTP).
Aliu was producing the first of his five-movie project, Olowo Ite, before his demise.
Aliu was born in Okemesi-Ekiti and began acting in 1959 after joining Akin Ogungbe Theatre Group.
He left the group in 1966 to form his own troupe, Jimoh Aliu Concert Party, in Ikare, Ondo State.
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Nice post, Edmund! I've also read that consumers are confused by the pricing: when is an item on sale? How long is it on sale? As you mentioned before: consumers are too smart to pay full price, so I like the fact that JCPenney decided to eliminate some of deep discounting and promotional tactics However, psychologically, there's a huge portion of JCPenney's target market that love to brag about the great deal they got with a coupon/promotion. Consumers love to tell others how much money they saved and how they worked the system to save X-amount of money. It should be interesting to see how the new pricing strategy works for JCPenney.
The negative impact of consumer psychological expectations are what I believe will really hurt JCP's year-end results. However, I think Mr. Johnson is trying to aiming to more than just change the performance of JCP. Like his former boss, Steve Jobs, he is trying to make a dent in the universe by changing the way the retail business works – especially the retail experience.


As temperatures go up, snow piles go down. Breakup can cause many dangers for Alaskans. Driving conditions in particular can get worse as the evidence of winter goes away.
Here are a few things to watch out for on your commute in the coming weeks.
All the melted water on the roads must go somewhere, and a lot ends up in the soil underneath the pavement. Wet ground is weaker than dry ground, leading to cracks and holes in the road. When driven over, these can cause tires to pop and damage the underside of the car.
Look out for new and old potholes as the roads start to clear up. They can increase in size even if they have been there for years.
The water that doesn't get absorbed or go down a storm drain makes the road slippery. In such conditions, it can take longer to brake— just like when it rains or snows—and skidding is easier.
Despite the warmer temperature, it's still a good idea to drive cautiously. The water on the road can refreeze and restart the dangerous cycle, if the temperature dips back down below freezing. Keep an eye out for icy patches, even if you've seen some melt already.
Driving on wet or snowy roads can increase your chances of losing control of your vehicle. Even if you don't encounter any difficulties, other drivers are also at risk. Watch out for your fellow commuters who could be struggling with the conditions.
You may want to maintain a longer than usual following distance, so that you have time to react. Stopping quickly could be dangerous for you and other cars.
Continue to drive cautiously until the transition to spring is complete. You don't want to become one of the many people injured due to slick road conditions each year.


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Can you trust your organization's data?
Data health research conducted in 2021 shows that 60% of business executives don't always trust their company's data. More than a third still don't base most of their decisions on data. This is a crisis for organizations across industries worldwide. How can a decision-maker who doesn't trust the data trust their own decisions?
Let's start by looking at what that data is. In recent years, the world has become increasingly data-driven, leaving organizations' networks saturated with information. Some of the data comes in through SaaS and web applications. Other data comes from direct data entry — think web forms. Some data is unstructured, like social media posts. And more and more data comes from machines, such as smartphones and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Estimates put the amount of data created annually in the zettabytes. A zettabyte is more than a billion terabytes. That is a ridiculous amount of data.
Manual data quality management simply can't scale to those volumes. People make mistakes. Machines aren't foolproof. Additionally, the data often passes through complex information systems coded by multiple developers. That raises the risk of buggy code introducing errors.
But what does it mean to trust your data?
Data trust definition
Data trust means having confidence that your organization's data is healthy and ready to act on.
Trust is one of the keys to making successful use of your data. Combined with culture and agility, it leads organization to achieve data health. By ensuring trust in data across the organization and across departments, an organization provides its teams the ability to design exceptional customer experiences, improve operations, streamline decision-making, ensure compliance, and drive innovation. But data trust must be earned and quantified. It can't be taken on faith. Before trusting your organization's data, you should prove that it can produce reliable analytics to support well-informed business decisions.
Dimensions of data quality
How do you measure data trust? The Data Management Association of the UK defines six dimensions of data quality:
Accuracy — The degree to which data correctly describes the real-world object or event in question
Example: Say an accounting record uses the US date format MM/DD/YYYY. Data entered using the European DD/MM/YYYY format could lead to an invoice due May 8 not being paid until August 5.
Completeness — The proportion of data stored against the potential for being 100% complete
Example: Blank values indicate that certain data has not been populated. An address record with 300 rows and 12 missing postal codes would have usable data for 288 addresses, and a completeness rate of 288/300, or 96%.
Consistency — The absence of difference when comparing two or more representations of an item against a definition
Example: Do an organization's HR, legal, and finance teams all use one date format, or would the same date appear as 11/12/2022, 12/11/22, and 22-NOV-12 in reports generated by different departments?
Timeliness — The degree to which data is current enough to represent reality as needed to support business functions
Example: In a field that represents company earnings, it's vital to have access to the latest data. What is the delay in providing that data — is it on the order of minutes, days, or weeks?
Uniqueness — No item or entity instance is recorded more than once based upon how that item is identified
Example: Duplication of a single customer's record based on multiple entries, such as A. Lee, Alan R. Lee, and Alan Lee appearing as three individuals with the same address and contact information.
Validity or conformity — The degree to which data conforms to the syntax (format, type, or range) of its definition
Example: A street address of 1000 Integration Drive is valid, though not necessarily accurate. A street address of H/*27 Integration Drive is not valid.
The more highly you can rate the data across each of these dimensions for all tables, records, and fields, the more you can trust it — and the more decision-ready your data will be. But just because certain records or datasets perform well in one dimension, that doesn't necessarily mean they can be 100% trusted. As shown above, you might have information that's valid but not accurate, or accurate but incomplete.
What matters most will vary depending on the business need. For example, finance teams require a particularly high level of accuracy, while other departments may place a premium on timeliness instead. Data teams must make their own assessments of the metrics that data should meet. They should also quantify that certification of data quality to data users. A combination of trust and transparency gives decision-makers confidence to use the data.
But bear in mind that data quality is only one aspect of data trust. Talend's vision for trusted data also include factors such as tools to make data easy to find, improve, verify, and use, as well as self-service apps that put line-of-business data users in control of their own data. For example, is data is of high quality, but the people who need it don't have access, is that data really contributing to data trust? Whatever factors you include in your measure of trusted data, the point is to quantify how usable your data is across the enterprise: Is it decision-ready?
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Data trust framework
To achieve data trust in a world drowning in so much data, organizations must implement and automate processes for auditing, assessing, and cleaning their data. But data trust can't be accomplished through technology alone. Complete data trust solutions require data infrastructure that considers human processes along with software. It's necessary to create a data-centric culture that works in concert with data quality automation.
Infrastructure for data health will leverage the knowledge of line-of-business stakeholders to clean data as well as sophisticated tools and artificial intelligence that let data engineers perform complex operations without the need for coding expertise. In short, technology solutions that are chosen with people in mind. The right solution is one that will make it easier for everyone in the organization to work with data, share data, understand data, and trust the data.
Talend's modular self-service apps and Trust Score remove skills-based barriers to trusting data across departments by involving lines of business in the preparation and quality control of their own data. Our cloud-native platform brings together data integration, data integrity, data stewardship, and data governance capabilities in a single, user-friendly environment. This platform is uniquely able to simplify every aspect of working with data across your entire data environment.
To provide a framework for data trust in any organization, Talend Data Fabric features the Talend Trust Score™, an industry-first innovation that assesses the reliability of any dataset. It makes trust tangible with standards that provide instant insight into how much you can trust your data. This data trust metric shows at a glance the extent to which your data meets the criteria of healthy data:
Thorough — is the data clean, complete, and consistent across your systems?
Transparent — is the data accessible and understandable?
Timely — is the data up-to-date and readily available to the people who need it?
Traceable — does the data tell you where it came from and how it has been used?
Tested — has the data been rated and certified by other users?
With open access to complete, clean, trusted data, data end-users can make better, bolder decisions with confidence. Data science and analytics teams and citizen analysts get a complete picture of the business and can trust and verify the data they're using for better insights, responsive strategic recommendations, and confident decisions. Among these other benefits, data trust even improves the relationship between business and IT departments.
Data trust case studies
To understand the importance of data trust, it helps to see it in action. The following case studies demonstrate use cases that are common across a range of organizations, from private companies to public institutions:
Beneva – Achieving data trust to better serve and retain three million customers
Canada's largest mutual insurance company, Beneva (formerly SSQ Insurance) serves three million customers with a full range of insurance and investment products. As can happen after 75 years in business, the company found its data systems had grown too complex and siloed to use customer data effectively.
While financial and insurance clients expect a high level of personalization, employees could not see customer data across lines of business. "If you called about another product, it was as if we didn't know you at all," says Simon Latouche, Director of Data Engineering at Beneva.
To put healthy data at the heart of its business and improve data sharing, Beneva created a unified customer portal. It automatically registers customers' operations, and Talend Data Quality and Data Stewardship make sure the data is trustworthy. Now employees have access to comprehensive, trusted customer data. As a result, call centers can help customers more efficiently and marketers can customize campaigns with predictive models. In fact, Beneva was able to increase customer win-back conversions by threefold.
Aeroporti Di Roma — Analyzing Data for 48.8 Million Travelers in Compliance with GDPR
Aeroporti Di Roma (ADR) manages and develops Roma Fiumicino (Leonardo da Vinci) and Ciampino airports. Nearly 100 airlines operate from these airports, carrying passengers to more than 230 destinations worldwide.
ADR knows how critical trusted data is to understanding and anticipating customer behaviors at speed. They also understand their responsibility to protect personal data for their customers. To improve data sharing while still ensuring safeguards for personal data, ADR and its partners built a Big Data Analytics platform using Cloudera for the data lake and Talend Big Data for the ingestion engine. Pietro Caminiti, Head of IT Solutions for Aeroporti Di Roma SpA, reports excellent results: "With Talend, we can analyze large data volumes in order to extract strategic information through advanced statistical algorithms while also complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) standards."
"We have improved our 48.8 million passengers' experience and operation's efficiency," says Pietro Caminiti. "And we have been recognized as Europe's number one airport with over 40 million passengers, according to ACI World's globally-established Airport Service Quality programme."
Wolters Kluwer Health — Paving the way for healthier business decisions
Wolters Kluwer Health provides professional information, services, and solutions for the healthcare industry. When the company's appetite for trusted data threatened to overwhelm the capacity of the business intelligence (BI) staff, they launched an innovative "Citizen Analyst" initiative to democratize the use of data.
Talend had the combination of modularity, scalability, simplicity, cost efficiency, and support for extremely high data quality that Wolters Kluwer Health needed to achieve its immediate goals and long-term vision for the initiative. The shift to Talend has saved millions of dollars and also allowed the BI team to use advanced, predictive analytics and AI to find new patterns in data that facilitate better decision making.
The Citizen Analyst initiative has helped non-technical staff do their own data analysis using simple interfaces, easy-to-use tools and high-quality data — all integrated by Talend — to drive better patient care and healthier business decisions.
"We're creating a culture of curiosity," explains Kevin Ryan, Director of Business Intelligence at Wolters Kluwer Health. "That's a cultural shift, but it's a change that people are embracing because everyone wins. Product teams get insights sooner, they are less dependent on the BI team, they can share results with business leaders and get buy-in faster, and ultimately the outcome is better products and services that benefit doctors and patients."
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With trustworthy data, everyone in the organization benefits. They gain the confidence of basing decisions on a complete, accurate, and timely picture of the real world. When you make decisions using trusted data, you're likely making decisions that will lead to better outcomes, higher revenues, and more growth.
Do you have confidence in the quality of your organization's data? Do you wonder how accurate, complete, and timely it is? Talend can help. Export a subset of your data and run it through the Talend Trust Assessor. This free tool gives you access to our Trust Score™ technology. You'll get a rapid report with feedback on the validity, completeness, and uniqueness of your data. You can also try it with our sample dataset just to see how it works. Think of it as the first step on your data health journey.
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