A professional call handling service is pretty straightforward. Once a company hires the firm, their live operators will take any designated incoming calls. After answering in the manner that the company expects, they will note down any information and deliver it to the allocated business contact. Although simple, these services can be used to improve your organisation in three different ways.
For sole traders, partnerships or SMEs, a phone answering service can be used as a substitute for a permanent business enquiry line. Instead of paying a fulltime receptionist to take these calls, smaller corporate entities can simply hire one of these call bureaus as they are cheaper and much more flexible. They also avoid the need for expensive commercial phone systems. In this way, the SME can still rely on their mobile without seeming unprofessional or unreliable.
In times of crisis, call volumes can surge making it difficult for your fulltime staff to handle all incoming messages. Hiring an overflow call handling service can help you maintain the same level of customer service even during these hectic occasions. Since these call bureaus are equipped with the latest technology, they can quickly divert a call through to an available operator before that person is on hold for too long.
These days, people expect to get through to a business around the clock. Instead of having to hire someone to work overtime though, a telephone answering service can be used to take calls in the evenings, night times and on weekends. This means that your incoming calls will always be answered without the need for you to pay someone higher penalty rates. These call bureaus are a cost effective way for you to stay competitive and ensure guaranteed customer satisfaction no matter what the time is.


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ERSA Manifesto blogs: Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP on Labour's vision for employment support
This piece of writing is part of a series of blogs designed to stimulate discussion around the five key elements of the ERSA Manifesto: commissioning, complex needs, skills, employer needs, youth employment. Any opinions represented within this blog are the authors and do not represent the views of ERSA.
Far too many people in Britain could be in work, but aren't. Young people, over 50s, people with health problems, people already out of work for some time are being left behind. We need to open up the chance of work to many who have been out of work long term.
Much more still needs to be done for the hardest to help; particularly for those who are out of work on health grounds and also for older jobseekers. We need to do much better, and in a cost effective way.
Labour's plans for reform – Localism and the Compulsory Job Guarantee
Labour will take a localised approach to employment support. Effective employment support requires a wide range of services to be available too – in particular, skills support; in many cases, health or housing support too. The current Work Programme, with its big regional contracts, does not have access to those services. The kind of integration that is needed cannot be delivered in Whitehall.
Partly because of huge regional contracts, the Work Programme has squeezed out really good, local voluntary sector organisations with specialist expertise. Local authorities barely get a look in.
We want the replacement for the Work Programme to be contracted at city or county region / LEP level. And, in time, we want actual commissioning to be carried out at the local level too. We want local authorities, colleges, local employers – and the NHS – to be round the table. That kind of integration is feasible in a city region not in Whitehall.
The key integration is between employment support and skills support. Furthermore, the case for localisation is particularly compelling for people out of work on health grounds. Localisation will allow integration with the health service.
Greater Manchester's Working Well project is for people claiming ESA who have been through the Work Programme. Commissioned by the Greater Manchester combined local authorities it expects to work with 5000 people claiming ESA who leave the Work Programme between April 2014 and March 2016. The project board is chaired by one of the local authority chief executives, and includes Jobcentre Plus, NHS England, the local Drug and Alcohol Team, the mental health trust, Greater Manchester Housing, Manchester College and the Adult Education Service.
For effective employment support for the hard to help, we need other services in the area to be on hand too. Being able to deliver that is a very powerful argument for the localised commissioning in Working Well – and that we want to see replacing centralised commissioning, on big regional boundaries, which has characterised the Work Programme and – in our view – been at the root of its weaknesses.
The second major change we want to make is to introduce our Compulsory Job Guarantee. Our proposal is that people under 25 who have been claiming Jobseekers Allowance for a year, and also people over 25 who have been claiming Jobseekers Allowance for two years, should be guaranteed the offer of a job – six months in duration, at least 25 hours per week, paid at least at the level of the National Minimum Wage. Where necessary, the Government will pay the wage costs for six months and ensure that a job is available.
We are calling it a Compulsory Job Guarantee. We will accept in Government the responsibility to make sure jobseekers have the chance of work. But we will equally expect jobseekers, responsibly, to take up the opportunity of work once it has been offered. Once the offer has been made, and hopefully usually a choice of positions will be offered, the payment of jobseekers allowance will cease.
There is now a historically large number of people who have been out of work for a long time. The current expansion in employment, and the growing challenge to employers in finding enough staff, presents us with an opportunity to change that – to bring those people back in to the workforce, to enable them to make a positive contribution. The Job Guarantee is the way to do it. The cost of delivering it is falling as unemployment comes down. We are determined to realise the opportunity.
We think we have a model now – with localised commissioning and the Job Guarantee – which can do much better. Labour is will ensure we invest the resources to deliver it – in a period when budgets will be very tight – reflecting how important we see this as being. The human cost of leaving people behind is too high a price to pay.

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Recommended Uses: Can be used as a medium-level groundcover or border plant.
Attracts many pollinators, especially bees.
Native Habitats: Scrub, scrubby sandhill. In open areas and along cleared roadsides.
This is a rare species and it should only be acquired from reputable plant nurseries. Some botanists have declared this endemic species to be a synonym for false rosemary (C. canescens), but since the populations are widely separated, we are treating them separately.


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Thinking of Building a New Home? Here's How to Save $2,042 Per Year.
Written by Rafal Olan
Thinking of building a new home?
Today we are fortunate to build and live in the Arkansas' Entergy territory. As of this year, the New Homes Program was rolled out that offers generous incentives for builders and homeowners to build energy-efficient homes. The program is structured around its electrical savings for building better than the current Arkansas state building code but the savings for the new homeowner come from both the electrical and gas usage. The rebate is calculated for every kWh of savings compared to a code built house. The homebuilder / owner will get a rebate of $0.40 / kWh saved plus bonuses for achieving a certain percentage of savings ($200 for 10{2e537dc160f52cffa61474df167a5f85f9d18261513837a380b0d37216fb9262}, $250 for 15{2e537dc160f52cffa61474df167a5f85f9d18261513837a380b0d37216fb9262}, and so on), as well as an additional $100 for certifying the home as Energy Star. All this translates to a free Energy rating during the construction, consultation, third party verification, and money in the pocket to the home-builder. The future homeowner will benefit by having a more comfortable house and yearly energy savings on the home's day to day costs of living.
To give you some examples here's a rundown of some numbers from recent Energy ratings completed on newly build homes throughout Arkansas: ( a HERS rating score is the national standard for comparing similar sized homes. This is like the MPG sticker for residential homes. HERS 100 is the national average, code built new home. HERS 130 is the average existing, resale home. The 100 compares to the {2e537dc160f52cffa61474df167a5f85f9d18261513837a380b0d37216fb9262} of energy use. HERS 130 will use 130{2e537dc160f52cffa61474df167a5f85f9d18261513837a380b0d37216fb9262} of energy compared to a similar home and HERS 60 will use 60{2e537dc160f52cffa61474df167a5f85f9d18261513837a380b0d37216fb9262} of energy, or in another words, it will be 40{2e537dc160f52cffa61474df167a5f85f9d18261513837a380b0d37216fb9262} more efficient. )
City Size of Home(sq. ft.) HERS score Percent better Cost of living (home's yearly energy expanses) Savings per year (compared to an average home on the market, HERS 130) Entergy Incentive (maximum rebate caps at $1,500)
North Little Rock 900 67 33{2e537dc160f52cffa61474df167a5f85f9d18261513837a380b0d37216fb9262} $ 1,028 $ 647 $ 771
Harrison ( ES ) 1300 73 27{2e537dc160f52cffa61474df167a5f85f9d18261513837a380b0d37216fb9262} $ 1,253 $ 699 $ 1,289
Benton / Bryant 1700 70 30{2e537dc160f52cffa61474df167a5f85f9d18261513837a380b0d37216fb9262} $ 1,554 $ 996 $ 1,488
Sheridan 2800 52 48{2e537dc160f52cffa61474df167a5f85f9d18261513837a380b0d37216fb9262} $ 1,792 $ 1,675 $ 1,500
Little Rock ( ES ) 3600 59 41{2e537dc160f52cffa61474df167a5f85f9d18261513837a380b0d37216fb9262} $ 2,289 $ 2,042 $ 1,500
Two of these homes, Harrison and Little Rock, were also certified as Energy Star Homes. The North Little Rock was built according to an older version of the Energy Star program requirements. All of these rated homes received pre-construction energy modeling, analysis of best use of energy-efficient construction detailing, on-site inspections and consultation, final third-party testing and verification, complete detailed reports and the final rating certifications. All of the costs associated with the Energy Rating are paid by the Entergy's Incentive Program while the builder and/or homeowner gets assurances of quality built construction and energy-efficient new homes. The Arkansas Entergy New Homes Program is the best way to provide savings to the homebuilders and especially to all new homeowners.
By homeenergyrx|2014-08-21T09:58:35-06:00August 21st, 2014|HERS, New Homes, Utility Incentives|0 Comments


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Q: Vagrant to Docker communication via Docker IP address Here's my situation. We are slowly migrating our VMs from Vagrant to Docker but we are mostly still Docker newbs. Some of our newer system's development environments have already been moved to Docker. We have test code that runs on an older Vagrant VM and used to communicate with a Vagrant running a Django Restful API application in order to run integration tests. This Django API is now in a Docker container. So now we need the test code that runs in a vagrant to be able to make requests to the API running in docker. Both the docker container and the vagrant are running side by side on a host machine (MacOS). We are using Docker compose to initialize the docker container the main compose yaml file is shown below.
services:
  django-api:
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    build:
        context: ..
        dockerfile: docker/Dockerfile.bapi
    extends:
      file: docker-compose-base.yml
      service: django-api
    depends_on:
      - db
    volumes:
      - ../:/workspace
    command: ["tail", "-f", "/dev/null"]
    env_file:
      - ${HOME}/.pam_environment
    environment:
      - DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:password@db
      - PGHOST=db
      - PGPORT=5432
      - PGUSER=postgres
      - PGPASSWORD=password
      - CLOUDAMQP_URL=amqp://rabbitmq

  db:
    ports:
      - "5432"
    extends:
      file: docker-compose-base.yml
      service: db
    volumes:
      - ./docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/init-postgress-db.sh:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/init-postgress-db.sh
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: postgres
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: password
      POSTGRES_DB: django-api-dev

I would like the tests that are running on the vagrant to still be able to communicate with the django application that's now running on docker, similar to the way it could communicate with the api when it was running in a vagrant. I have tried several different types of network configurations within the docker compose file but alas networking is not my strong suit and I'm really just shooting in the dark here.
Is there a way to configure my docker container and/or my vagrant so that they can talk to each other? I need to expose my docker container's IP address so that my vagrant can access it.
Any help/tips/guidance here would be greatly appreciated!

A: In your Vagrantfile, make sure you have a private host only network. I usually use them with a fixed IP
config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.33.100"

Now both the VMs will get a static IP in the host only network. When you run docker-compose up -d in your Django VM. Your VM will map port 8080 to the container 8080. So you can use 192.168.33.100:8080 in the other VM for testing the APIs

A:
I would like the tests that are running on the vagrant to still be
  able to communicate with the django application that's now running on
  docker, similar to the way it could communicate with the api when it
  was running in a vagrant.

As you say, you are using docker-compose, so exposing ports would do the purpose you are looking for. In the yml file, where django application is defined, create a port mapping which would bind the port on host to the port in container. You can do this by including this:
ports:
  "<host_port_where_you_want_to_access>:<container_port_where_application_is_running>"

Is there a way to configure my docker container and/or my vagrant so
  that they can talk to each other? I need to expose my docker
  container's IP address so that my vagrant can access it.

It is. If both the containers are in the same network (when services are declared in same compose file, all services are in same network by default), then one container can talk to other container by calling to their service name.
Example: In the yml file specified in question, django-api can access db at http://db:xxxx/ where xxxx can be any port inside container. xxxx need not be mapped to host or need not be exposed.

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The McNeil family settled in Port Talbot in 1843, and they still farm the same land.
In 1936, Murray McNeil bought Dan Black's insurance business and established McNeil Insurance in Dutton. Sixteen years later, John McNeil (Murray's nephew) started in the insurance business with his father, selling life insurance, general insurance and real estate while running the family farm.
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Today John and his wife, Phyllis, continue to operate their Hereford Cattle farm while Bonnie manages the insurance office on Dutton's Main Street. The McNeils even received the prestigious gold pin for 100 years of continuous membership in the Hereford Cattle Association.
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Students will make up the day on April 21.
A major winter storm is expected to spread across North Carolina on Wednesday and early Thursday.
Current models suggest the Piedmont could see anywhere from six to 12 inches of snow fall across the area.
WS/FCS will be closed on Wednesday, Feb. 12.
In that picture, is that young girl being pulled on a sled behind a car! or some other ATV? Because THAT'S not the least bit dangerous!


Gordon Pengilly has written more than fifty plays for television, film, radio and stage. His work, including Seeds, Swipe, Metastasis, Contraption, Tom Form And The Speed Of Love and They Don't Call Them Farmers Anymore, has been produced across Canada and abroad. His screenplay Drumheller Or Dangerous Times won the Writer's Guild of Canada Jim Burt Prize for screenwriting. Gordon has been resident playwright or dramaturg for theatres and institutions in Edmonton, Calgary, Banff, Red Deer, Toronto, Fredericton, Dublin and Texas. His first collection of plays Metastasis And Other Plays published by NeWest Press was awarded the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize.


Have you ever listened to song and gotten so lost in the lyrics that for a moment you take a step away from reality and just think? Think about it. There has to be that one song that brings back feelings from a past relationship, a family member, and things about yourself that you never really wanted to think about again. It is like you hate it but you cannot stop thinking about it because it is so captivating in itself, but it also is a reminder of what had once been such a big or important part of your life.
Music has always been a huge part of my life, so I may be a little bit biased about this one post, but I believe that a good song, or a good piece of music, can always hit you a certain way. It can make you happy, sad, confused, liberated, determined, and scared. Music can be taken so many different ways, and that decision is truly in the hands of the audience.
Picture this. You are in a crowded room and everyone is talking about unimportant things like the "he said, she said" dramatic tangents that have so easily taken control of almost all conversations. You cannot stand the thought of being interested in these conversations, but you aren't really sure how to get away from them. You walk away but somehow these conversations seem to be stuck in your mind, and you feel like the walls are caving in on you. As you start getting aggravated and slightly paranoid, you realize that you have your earphones in your pocket of your jacket that in a way seems to be suffocating you. You take them out and you put on your favorite song. This song helps you to get away from what is making you feel so disgusted. It takes you away from the reality of the situation and you can finally just think.
Music, as silly as this may sound, is the saving grace in many peoples lives. How can one not fully appreciate music. It has so many different emotions in just 3 minutes and a couple verses. It tells a story, whether it be about love, triumph, sadness, and loss. A song is equivalent to a 500 page book, in my eyes. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end, and somewhere in all that mix you get lost in something so much bigger.
Music is a dance party, a cry session, and everything in between. It is about love, heartbreak, and some points…drinking a beer and riding that big green tractor.
Music is a message sent out to masses, and I think that's beautiful.
Growing up, every little kid has their ultimate dream job of being a police officer and saving lives or in my case, being a princess and living in a castle. Every time my family ordered out from the local chinese food restaurant we each would open our fortune cookies together. My dad would always read mine because I had yet to learn how to read. Each time he read my fortune, it was always the same.
I mean really…come on. That is the ultimate buzz kill. Here I was walking around school like the ultimate diva because my fortune cookie said I was going to be a princess, and little did I know my dad was joshing me the whole entire time!
Kidding, I was not that bad…maybe.
But back to the point. Everyone has this dream job and some of those dream jobs, like man, are not as accessible as most. Now, my dream is to do PR for a non profit dealing with children, and somehow, make someones life a little brighter. I have always had this idea that if I can help other people, then I truly have lived my life to the fullest. Now that I am 21, I can finally pursue this dream, and I am just freaking out.
A good freaking out, obviously, but seriously..growing up is insane! Sometimes I wish I could go back to being 5 and wearing my tiara and bossing my family around because I was the princess of the house. Now, I have responsibilities and school and the thought of graduation is crazy to me. It all has become so surreal, and I cannot believe how the time did fly. Can't we just slow it all down and be a little more carefree? I wish.
Keep that dream alive, and always strive to pursue what you want so that in the end you are happy.
On a day like today, all I want to do it cuddle up, drink hot chocolate, and watch movies all day. Unfortunately, the weekend is over, and it is back to the real world.
It is always hard getting up on Monday morning, and I of all people complain about it..but what we all need to realize is that we are all lucky to have another day worth living.
Here is a list of ten things we should all be thankful for, even on the worst of days.
1. It is such a wonderful blessing to wake up another day, and take that first breath of fresh air. To look outside and see life everywhere is a true reward and we always seem to forget that.
2. We always seem to "hate our ex's" but in reality, they have only made us the people we are today. Instead of bashing them and regretting the life you had with them, thank them for helping you grow and better understand who you would like to be with in the future.
3. Those annoying parents that you always seem to complain about? Those people brought you into this world, and understandably, at times they might be rough around the edges, but they love you. Just remember, it could be worse. I always find myself making snarky comments to my parents, and feeling awful about it later. Life is too short to hurt the people that you love, so never take them for granted.
4. The mistakes you cannot seem to get past. Certain mistakes that you have made in the past might have brought out certain characteristics that you might dislike or like about yourself. Those mistakes have molded you into the person that you are, regardless of how much you hate the sound of that. Mistakes have to happen or else you would never grow up or mature.
5. The silly fights that always get under your skin. As annoying as it may be, a little fighting every once in a while shows that you do have feelings, and that you do care. If nobody ever fought, we would live in a world of lies. People need to disagree. People need to have differences. Because from those disagreements and differences comes resolution, and resolution rocks!
Life is far better than I, and many others, deserve. Keeping track of what I am thankful for helps me put a lot of things into perspective. Hopefully from this, you too, can reminisce on what and who you are thankful for.
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Whole Foods defends prohibiting employees from wearing masks with slogans including 'Black Lives Matter'
The NLRB is trying to force Whole Foods to allow workers to wear BLM masks, which violate the company's dress code
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Will Eric Adams surrender to Black Lives Matter?
'Fox & Friends Weekend' co-host Pete Hegseth reacts to the war of words between the incoming mayor and BLM leader Hawk Newsome on FOX Business Tonight.
Whole Foods is defending itself amid an effort from National Labor Relations Board prosecutors to force the Amazon-owned grocery chain to allow its employees to wear "Black Lives Matter" attire while they are at work, despite the company's longstanding policy forbidding all slogans in its dress code.
NLRB prosecutors accused Whole Foods last month of violating U.S. labor law by allegedly punishing workers who wore BLM masks in 2020. The prosecutors are pursuing labor charges on the basis that workers have the right under federal labor laws to engage in collective action related to workplace issues.
Jennifer Abruzzo, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (Al Drago/Bloomberg / Getty Images)
In its response obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request from Bloomberg, Whole Foods fired back, arguing that BLM has nothing to do with collective action in the workplace, and that NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo is actually trying to violate the retailer's own constitutional rights under the First Amendment by trying to "compel employer speech."
"Our dress code policy does not single out any one message or slogan," a Whole Foods spokesperson told FOX Business. "It is designed to create a workplace and shopping experience focused entirely on excellent service and high quality food."
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The spokesperson added, "We do not believe we should compromise that experience by introducing any messages on uniforms, regardless of the content, that shift the focus away from our mission."
Like many companies, Whole Foods has had a longstanding dress code policy that prohibits employees from wearing attire with any logos, slogans or other advertising images that are not company-related while on the clock.
The National Retail Federation is warning that the NLRB's actions against Whole Foods are "dangerous" for employers nationwide.
Savannah Kinzer reads employee demands during a protest in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on June 30, 2020. She and over 20 other Whole Foods employees were dismissed after wearing Black Lives Matter face masks to work. (Erin Clark/The Boston Globe / Getty Images)
"This determination by the National Labor Relations Board's General Counsel establishes a dangerous and inconsistent precedent for employers," the NRF told FOX Business in a statement. "In effect, this policy places front-line managers in the role of monitoring and adjudicating conflicts involving social or political speech based on variable standards."
The NRF added that it "supports the notion that employers should be able to maintain content-neutral dress codes that prohibit social or political advocacy speech in the workplace and allow employees to focus on serving their customers."


Popcorn has earned a place in my daily food pyramid.
I have gone to the Arclight Hollywood FOUR times this week.
Once, on Monday to see "The Best Man Holiday," which I went through every possible emotion you could fathom…Such a fabulous movie.
My co-workers and I had a reservation at Alma Downtown for two months before we could get in.
Saturday day, I went to go see "Philoemena" with the family.
The Arclight is such a happy place despite the fact the tickets are a little pricey, but it redeems itself by having a convenient bar with $7.00 chardonnay.


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Olympic Handball Day 10: Angola, South Korea women tie high-scoring shootout, Hungary shocks Sweden to move on
By: NBC Olympics
Sixty-two goals in thrilling Group A deadlock
Angola and South Korea are unlikely to scale the podium when the women's handball medals are awarded at the Tokyo Olympics, but the two teams languishing at the bottom of the Group A standings sure entertained their respective audiences Monday at Yoyogi National Stadium, where a thrilling 31-31 tie left both teams with a record of 1-1-3.
Angola led at the half, 17-16, and it was back and forth the rest of the way, with South Korea salvaging the tie by scoring with 11 seconds left on the clock.
France beats Brazil to boost chances
Mired in the middle of the Group B standings, France's women picked up a huge win over Brazil, 29-22
Hoping to upgrade from the silver medal they won at Rio 2016, the Frenchwomen improved to 2-1-2 in the group, which allows them to advance.
The top four teams in each group earn a spot in the quarterfinals. Brazil fell to 1-1-3 and will not be moving on.
Spain's loss to ROC proves costly
Spain needed a win to assure itself of a spot in the quarters, but despite falling to the Russian Olympic Committee's team, 34-31, the Spaniards looked likely to move on, anyway.
If, that is, unbeaten Sweden got past one-win Hungary in the Group B finale.
It did not. Spain is out.
Hungary scores shocking upset, moves on
Sweden didn't have much to lose, and it lost. That wasn't he story.
The story was Hungary, which entered the match almost certain to be leaving Tokyo before the quarters. Instead the Hungarian women played with a passion not seen prior, and they turned away every comeback the Swedes tried to mount.
The result? A postmatch celebration to remember, and a precious spot in those quarters.


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LinkedIn's new 'career explorer' tool helps find best job to transition into
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The LinkedIn logo is displayed during a product announcement Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
If you're in an industry hit hard by the pandemic, you may be considering making a career change.
However, it can be hard to know where to begin and you may not feel like you're qualified.
LinkedIn has a new tool called "career explorer" that could help you figure out the best career to transition into.
You put in the job that you have or had most recently and it shows you in demand jobs that are a strong match for those same skills.
"When it comes to retail positions, soft skills, there's a lot of soft skills that are acquired being in retail and we know from hiring managers that soft skills are highly in demand right now, especially in a COVID world," said Blair Heitmann, a LinkedIn career expert. "Those are skills like communication, thought leadership, management and we know that those are just as important to those hard skills."
You want to make sure you're listing those skills. LinkedIn found people who have five or more skills on their profile are discovered by recruiters 27 times more.
"You could have been on a team of servers that was a part of the restaurant that was the fastest growing restaurant in the area," said Heitmann. "That demonstrates the quality of the service, so you want to make sure that you really word about the impact that you had on the role."
If you were a food server, the career experts at LinkedIn say you have three quarters of the skills you need to be a customer service specialist, which is one of the most in demand jobs. The similar skills include customer service and time management.


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Cousin of John Nienstedt Reports That He Told Nienstedt of Abuse by Nienstedt's Priest-Friend, and Nienstedt Did Nothing: The Unholy Trinity of Lies, Secrets, and Silence
The story told in the video above is one to which a valued reader of this blog alerted me yesterday. The report is from KMSP (Fox News) in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. As you'll see when you watch the video, a reporter from this news outlet, Tom Lyden, interviews a cousin of deposed Twin Cities archbishop John Nienstedt — Mike Hinske — who maintains that a priest-friend of Nienstedt's, Samuel Ritchey, sexually abused him when he was 16 years old. Lyden also interviews an unwilling Nienstedt.
According to Hinske, Ritchey told him at the time that he had other "special friends," who were, it was clear to Hinske, also minors. Ritchey went on to teach at Catholic schools in the diocese of Columbus, Ohio, where he was eventually removed from the priesthood due to his abuse of teenaged boys.
As you'll also learn when you watch the video, Mike Hinske reports that he told his mother, a former Dominican nun who was Nienstedt's cousin (and who is now dead), and his sister Mary Beth that Ritchey had molested him, and they informed Nienstedt of what had happened to Hinske. Nienstedt did nothing — and now claims that it was not clear to him that Hinske was actually molested, or that Hinske wanted him to do something.
As Hinske points out, how could Nienstedt have known what he wanted to have done in response to the molestation, when Nienstedt — who had his stellar church-climbing career to think about — never even spoke to him about this? Hinske's sister Mary Beth also flatly contradicts Nienstedt's claim not to have been told in blunt terms that her brother was sexually molested by Samuel Ritchey.
As I told the Bilgrimage reader who sent me a link to this video, I'm strongly inclined to hear this story in association with the story I told you yesterday about allegations that the Vatican's "expert on homosexuality," Monsignor Tony Anatrella, sexually abused a minor (and perhaps more than one) sent to him to be "cured" of homosexuality, and also in association with the recently revealed allegations that Joseph Paterno was told of Jerry Sandusky's abuse of minors as early as 1976 — and did nothing in response.
Nothing except to cover up, that is to say . . . .
These three stories all strike me as revelatory glimpses into the way in which powerful circles dominated by powerful men, like the Catholic hierarchy and the world of professional sports, keep secrets inside their male-dominated circles. As I said yesterday, lesbian poet-essayist Adrienne Rich speaks of the unholy trinity formed by lies, secrets, and silence.
Powerful, closed circles dominated by powerful men who resist the intrusion of others into their closed circles have long seemed to me circles which worship that unholy trinity: lies. Secrets. Silence. All used to keep others at bay, scapegoat targeted others, and protect abusive insiders.
It's time for that trinity to stop being worshipped, it seems to me. The bloody sacrifices it demands have piled up to an ungodly degree — and were already too much when the first bloody corpse of a sexually abused minor started the pile.
(At her blog site, Jennifer Haselberger has posted a redacted copy of a letter Nienstedt sent to Mike Hinske nine years ago, and Michael Sean Winters posted a link to the Fox News story in his links column yesterday.)
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(British, 1969)
Nick Walker is a world renowned street artist. He emerged from the infamous and groundbreaking Bristol graffiti scene of the early 1980s. As a forerunner of the British graffiti phenomenon, Nick's work has become a blueprint for hundreds of emerging artists. His work is constantly evolving and remains innovative, modern and thought-provoking. Nick draws on the energy and imagery of graffiti, but he succeeds in combining the freedom the spray can brings with very controlled and intricate stencilling. The results are highly sophisticated and infinitely desirable. The methods he uses retain their forcefulness and integrity through the traditional medium of canvas.
Nick Walker's instantly recognisable style and humour have gained him a worldwide following. Nick had sell-out shows in LA and London, where collectors queued for over 24 hours to be among the first to get his latest print edition. In 2008, his iconic Moona Lisa sold over ten times its estimated value at auction at Bonhams.
Over the years, Nick's work has been praised by the media and has attracted headlines worldwide. His work has also been embraced by the record, fashion and film industries. He was commissioned by Stanley Kubrick to recreate the heavily hit graffiti'd areas of New York for Eyes Wide Shut.
Nick's infamous and recognisable Vandal character – the artist who disguises himself as a quintessential English gentleman in order to get away with artistic vandalism, was featured in the Black Eyed Peas 'I Gotta Feeling' video. Nick continues to explore mediums and was recently featured in the Street Art Edition of one of the world's recognised fantasy comics, Heavy Metal Magazine.
As a street artist he has paid his dues and has created murals all around the world, including cities like New York, Bristol, Dubai and Tokyo to name a few. His most recent mural, Love Goes On, measuring 140 feet brightens up the city of Indianapolis.
Nick continues to explore and find limitless avenues to create. Nick resides in New York and is currently working on several projects, including the exploration of old printing techniques from Japan.
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"How we spend our day is, of course, how we spend our lives."
"Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back."
"I hate to be in this condition where i am being treated like this after i gave up everything for you. how stupid of me."
"I need you, like a heart needs a beat.."
"Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts."
"To improve is to change, to aim for perfection is to change often."
"You cannot give away kindness, it will always come back to you."
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That is love."
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"Love is not what we become but who we already are."
"The aim of love is love: no more no less."
"A women can hide her love for 40 years, but her disgust and anger not for one day."
"Destiny by itself cannot grant anything to anyone if no efforts have been made."
"Care but for friendship, and took away love."
"The return makes one love the farewell."
"Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell."
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FC Cincinnati wins 3-1 over Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC, advances in U.S Open Cup
FC Cincinnati was the first team to score a goal at Pittsburgh in 2018.
FC Cincinnati wins 3-1 over Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC, advances in U.S Open Cup FC Cincinnati was the first team to score a goal at Pittsburgh in 2018. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: https://cin.ci/2LlIQK1
chatch@enquirer.com Published 7:00 p.m. ET May 23, 2018 | Updated 10:33 p.m. ET May 23, 2018
FC Cincinnati defender Pat McMahon (15), left, and FC Cincinnati midfielder Kenney Walker (6) come together on a tackle in the first half during the USL soccer game between the Pittsburgh Riverhounds and FC Cincinnati, Saturday, May 14, 2016, at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati.(Photo: Kareem Elgazzar)
PITTSBURGH – Entering Wednesday night, Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC was unbeaten in 2018 and hadn't conceded a goal at Highmark Stadium.
Futbol Club Cincinnati arrived and left with a 3-1 win in the third round of the 2018 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup.
With the win, FC Cincinnati advances to the fourth round of the tournament for the second time in as many years. A fourth round matchup offers the possibility of hosting a Major League Soccer franchise at Nippert Stadium again this summer. In 2017, Cincinnati beat Columbus Crew SC 1-0 in the fourth round.
More: FC Cincinnati beats Pittsburgh Riverhounds 3-1 in showcase of the club's roster strength
As for Wednesday, the two-goal win tied the largest winning margin on the road in club history. To achieve that against a provenly defensive side with a rotated squad with a handful of regular starters is a serious achievement.
Jimmy McLaughlin opened the scoring in the 39th minute in a quick passing sequence that left Pittsburgh flat-footed. Lance Laing played a cross to Emery Welshman at the top of the box. Welshman then one-timed a through ball to a running McLaughlin, who slotted the ball to the bottom right corner. The Pennsylvania-native sprinted with his arms extended to the traveling away supporters.
REPLAY: A defense-splitting ball from @Esawelsh feeds @J_McLaughlinIII in behind, and he tucks it away to give us a 1-0 @opencup lead!#JoinTheMarch | #USOC2018pic.twitter.com/i959wYrMEf
— FC Cincinnati (@fccincinnati) May 23, 2018
Laing doubled Cincinnati's lead in the 61st minute when he tucked a 30-yard free kick past diving Pittsburgh goalkeeper Daniel Lynd. The visitors scored again three minutes later when McLaughlin played a cross to Welshman inside the box. This time, Welshman shot it weakly, but the Riverhounds didn't clear the ball and Daniel Haber blasted an eight-yard strike into the net.
The goals were the first time that Laing and Haber have scored at Cincinnati.
Pittsburgh scored in the 88th minute when Dennis Chin finished from short range. Originally, Cincinnati goalkeeper Spencer Richey parried the ball off the back post, but it rebounded right to the Pittsburgh substitute.
The win was FC Cincinnati's second in five days. The club's next match arrives Saturday night when it hosts rival and reigning United Soccer League champion Louisville City FC.
The matchup is a rematch from FC Cincinnati's home opener on April 7, when travelled back south on I-71 with a 1-0 result. That was the first time Cincinnati had lost to Louisville at home since the clubs' first meeting in 2016.
As for Saturday, Cincinnati sits atop the USL Eastern Conference standings with 20 points from 10 league matches. Louisville is second with 19 points from nine matches. If Cincinnati is able to win, it'll provide a slight cushion in the standings before a two-game road trip to New York Red Bulls II and North Carolina FC to start June.
Cincinnati's next opponent in the U.S. Open Cup is unknown.
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- a) Wetland Type - total of 12 categories derived mainly from the UNESCO classification scheme; - b) Vegetation Type of wetland areas from the UNESCO classification scheme (178 classes); - c) Soil Type of the wetland areas from the FAO Soil Map of the World as modified by Zobler (1986) in 107 classes; - d) Fractional Inundation, or the percentage of each one degree (lat./long.) grid cell covered by wetlands from 0 to 100%; and - e) Data Sources used to compile the above, including three possible sources (FAO, UNESCO and ONC - the Operational Navigation Charts), and their various combinations in seven groups.
The five were developed to evaluate the role of wetlands in the annual emission of methane from terrestrial sources, and have been used as such.
The reference for these data sets is "Matthews, E. and I. Fung, 1987. Methane emission from natural wetlands: global distribution, area, and environmental characteristics of sources. Global Biochemical Cycles, volume one, pp. 61-86". Another recent article which is also useful is "Matthews, E. 1993. Global geographical databases for modelling trace gas fluxes. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, volume seven, number two, pp. 125-142."
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Now in terms of the business language, it looks like the $payer should be a user, who pays an order. But it is not true. Here we have just a service class, which is used mostly for the design purposes. But there is now such entity in the domain. The code now is very so explicit. The idea is to create an explicit code, $order->pay() with no dependencies, but at the same time it should be testable.
It ends up with a lot of getters. We try to get private data from the order, which is inside the scope of this order. No matter how Order stores its total, it is still it's private data to it.
But what about SRP? Order shouldn't know how to pay itself! Should it have method pay?
array shouldn't be able to map itself Sometimes the method doesn't mean that an object will do it itself. It means that you can do something with this object. With Order example, we treat it as a data structure only, when passing it to the OrderPaymentService. It is not very object-oriented approach.
We also may be scared that our code will become unmaintainable. But in reality there will be simple pay method in Order class and Order will know how to collaborate with a PaymentGateway. Order will simply call charge method of the PaymentGateway and pass the needed private data.
Imagine that we want to create a remind method in Order class. It will be responsible for sending mail to a customer. At the point of SRP it looks terrible: an Order is going to process payments, send emails, and save data to the database. Of course, we can create all these different classes, each with its own job: process payment, send an email and persist data. But then we again break encapsulation principle. All these other classes need to know how to get all the information out of the Order data structure to do some stuff with them.
This design allows Order to interact with more things. It is something different than violating SRP. Order still can't parse email headers and doesn't know your payment system API.


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PITTSBURGH (AP) Shatori Walker-Kimbrough's kept telling herself it was just a business trip, one that took the Maryland senior guard and the rest of her teammates a bit longer than expected to finish off.
Playing in front of a throng of fans from her hometown in nearby Aliquippa, Walker-Kimbrough finished with 17 points, including four free throws down the stretch to as part of a clinching run to lift the fourth-ranked Terrapins to a 77-57 victory over Duquesne on Wednesday night.
Walker-Kimbrough grew up about 30 miles away Duquesne's campus in downtown Pittsburgh and took the Terrapins for a visit to her aunt's daycare and a brief tour of the small town just up the Allegheny River on Tuesday. A day later she and her teammates shut down the Dukes early then held on late to improve to 12-0 and set up a showdown with No. 1 Connecticut on Dec. 29.
"I can't even put words together to describe this," Walker-Kimbrough said.
A little tougher than anticipated might suffice. Though Maryland took command during the second quarter while holding the Dukes to just two baskets, Duquesne trimmed a 26-point deficit to 10 with just 4:11 to go before Walker-Kimbrough helped the Terrapins close it out.
"We tried to extend some minutes with our bench but obviously there was no quit in Duquesne and I thought they did a tremendous job of playing hard for 40 minutes," Maryland coach Brenda Freese said.
Playing for the first time in nine days after taking a break for finals, the Terrapins needed time to get going. Maryland switched to a zone in the second quarter and completely shut down the Dukes - coming off the program's first-ever NCAA tournament appearance a year ago - by holding Duquesne without a basket for 8:49.
"I thought our communication got a lot better," Freese said. "On the defensive end we were having some problems getting through their screens and they run a lot of great action. I thought our zone kind of threw them a little bit."
Amadea Szamosi led the Dukes with 21 points but Duquesne shot just 31 percent (16 of 52) from the field and was outscored 38-14 in the paint by the bigger, deeper Terrapins.
FAMILIAR FACES: Chassidy Omogrosso, a longtime rival of Walker-Kimbrough when the two were in high school, was held to just seven points on 2 of 9 shooting.
"Last time I played her, I'm pretty sure it was in this building and we lost," Walker-Kimbrough said. "She got a lot of wins on my in high school. I'm kind of glad I got this one."
The Dukes kept coming and got within 64-54 on a 3-pointer by Juliana Vojinovic with 4:11 to go. Walker-Kimbrough then knocked down four straight free throws to start a 13-3 surge to close it out.
"If you look at every other quarter, take the second quarter away, we hung with them," Omogrosso said. "The second quarter is what killed us."
Maryland: The Terrapins have a week off before hosting No. 1 UConn on Dec. 29.
Duquesne: Hosts rival Pittsburgh on Dec. 29.
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"I really love that phrase, 'A conspiracy of hope', and I really hope it could be applied to U2 and its organisation. It's whatever you can do if you can just do it with a bit of dignity." - Bono
The song 'New Year's Day' is about the solidarity movement going on in Poland in the early 1980's. The government had promised changes and reforms, which would take effect on Jan. 1 of the following year, but the promises were empty.


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20 Intense Pics of Hurricane Harvey's Houston Flood [VIDEO]
27 Aug, 2017 by	Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Hurricane Harvey is making a mess in Texas and that's an understatement. I believe it is the first major hurricane to hit the US since 2005. It landed on the Texan coast as a category 4 hurricane and then quickly wound down to a tropical storm. The problem is that it is stalled and is dumping biblical amounts of water around Houston and other areas. Already, five are dead and there have been thousands of rescue calls. The pictures of the devastation are incredibly sobering. I want to share a tweet that was sent to me this morning of a business… they didn't prep are take the warning seriously and this is what happened:
https://twitter.com/KHOUBlake11/status/901824265523212289/video/1
I fear for the guy in that video. The building only has two stories and this could go on for another five days. It doesn't look good for this guy. The hurricane is still pounding Houston and they are in trouble there. I saw tornadoes that had ripped through neighborhoods as well. More than 1,000 people were rescued overnight Sunday, with more than 2,000 calls to 911 for rescues pouring in, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said in a news conference Sunday. Turner assured priority has been given to life-threatening calls and defended his previous decision not to ask residents to evacuate before the heavy rain swamped roads.
From the Daily Mail:
Five people were reported dead on Sunday as the Hurricane Harvey death toll climbed.
Three people are feared dead in Aransas County and another two are thought to have died in Houston as 130mph winds and thrashing rain lashed the region.
The Category 4 hurricane, dubbed the worst in 12 years, made landfall late on Friday, battering the coast.
It has since been downgraded to a tropical storm and is making its way inland, bringing with it a torrent of heavy rain and further concern for emergency authorities who fear it will trigger some of the worst flooding on record in the state.
With another 40in of downpours on the way on Sunday, the true scale of the damage is yet to reveal itself.
Thousands have been rescued from boats, homes and vehicles after becoming trapped in flood water.
As local mayors and weather experts lamented the state's worst flooding on record and warned that the agony had 'just begun', President Trump took a more upbeat tone in a string of early morning tweets, saying that the 'good news' was there was 'talent on the ground' to help cope with the disaster.
The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Brock Long, said the government is expected to conduct a "mass care mission" and predicted that the aftermath of the storm would require FEMA's involvement for years. It's far worse than they even imagined and another round of heavy rain is inbound. We are talking 3 to 5 feet of rain here. People evacuated the coast for the most part, but Houston did not think they would get nailed like this. It's going to get bad… much worse than it already has. Texas will recover because Texans are tough and self-sufficient, but God help them. This is a nightmare.
Rainfall expected for today is a staggering 40 inches. I can't even comprehend that. People are crawling with their families into their attics to escape the flood waters. If they don't have an ax to cut through the roof, they'll drown. President Trump is on his way to the state as soon as he can get there. Analysts are calling Harvey a once in 500 years flood. Making matters even worse is that Harvey could spin back out into the gulf, re-energize and come back to hit them all over again. Keep Texas in your prayers and thoughts today. They need it.
Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
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