Providing Care in the Shadows of HIV
In southwest Nigeria, Project HOPE is helping mitigate the threat of HIV for the country’s most vulnerable populations: women, children, and adolescents.
Kemi spent her life savings on her son, who is HIV positive. Now, she’s raising his children on her own, in the Shomolu area of Lagos, Nigeria.
The children’s mother died of HIV, and their father left shortly after. Kemi doesn’t have a job but sometimes takes on work as a cleaner to be able to provide for her grandchildren.
“Their mother, who was also HIV positive, eventually died of the illness,” Kemi says. “So I am left alone to care for their children.”
Putting food on the table has been Kemi’s biggest challenge. So when she heard from neighbors that the local government was giving out food, she went to see for herself. But by the time she got there, she was too late.
“The HIV epidemic has a multi-factorial effect on children…They often must deal with psychological stress, reduced parenting capacity, stigma, discrimination, poor school performance, and malnutrition.”
“That day we had no food to cook for the children, but as I got there, there were too many people so I was not able to get any food,” she says. “I went home dejected.”
Days later, she got a call to go collect food — staples like rice, beans, and garri (cassava flour) — distributions that were supported by Project HOPE assessments as part of the Integrated Child Health and Social Services Award (ICHSSA), a USAID and PEPFAR-funded project.
“I was very happy because the food really came in good time,” Kemi says.
Kemi’s grandchildren are just two of hundreds of thousands of children in Nigeria whose lives have been upended by HIV/AIDS. Nigeria has one of the world’s highest populations living with HIV: An estimated 1.9 million people are living with the virus, most of them women. The country also has the highest number of annual HIV infections among children. In 2020, almost 1 in 3 AIDS-related deaths occurred in children.
In December 2019, Project HOPE began supporting ICHSSA, a five-year project created to help mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS on vulnerable children and their households in Edo, Kwara, and Lagos states.
“The HIV epidemic has a multi-factorial effect on children as it increases the vulnerability of children who are living with ill adults,” says Dr. Uche Ralph-Opara, Deputy Regional Director and Africa/Country Representative for Project HOPE Nigeria. “They often must deal with psychological stress, reduced parenting capacity, stigma, discrimination, poor school performance, and malnutrition.”
One of several ICHSSA consortium partners, Project HOPE’s focus has been on strengthening the abilities of local and state governments to detect and respond to child rights violations and deliver basic services. This includes the provision of necessities like the food given to Kemi.
“The food lasted me and my two grandchildren for three weeks,” Kemi shares. “I pray God will continue to help those who provided this food to us.”
Over the past five years, Project HOPE has helped governments support hundreds of caregivers in providing for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) by assisting community leaders in planning for, financing, and delivering high-quality services and then collecting and analyzing the data needed to continually improve those services.
“As a result of ICHSSA, there’s greater advocacy for capacity building for caregivers,” says Adeola Seweje-Chimunda, a senior program officer for Project HOPE. “There’s a new budget line for OVC in Lagos, caregivers are registering for government social insurance, there’s better retention in schools, and there’s greater recognition of OVC programs by local governments and civil society organizations.”
“The dedication and passion of our team led to great achievements. Strengthening the system and collaborating with the government and private sectors enabled a lot of opportunities and support for the project and its beneficiaries.”
Major achievements include the development of assessment tools for capacity strengthening, improved monitoring and evaluation procedures, the formulation of policy documents, support for birth certification, and trained social workers.
“The dedication and passion of our team led to great achievements,” says Oluwatosin Badmos, a program officer for Project HOPE. “Strengthening the system and collaborating with the government and private sectors enabled a lot of opportunities and support for the project and its beneficiaries.”
The rate of HIV infections in Nigeria is steadily declining, thanks to community outreach efforts, but critical gaps remain. Even though 90% of people living with HIV are receiving treatment, only about 3.5% of them are children, despite the fact that children make up about 30% of AIDS-related deaths in Nigeria. Less than half of pregnant women who are HIV positive are being treated, risking mother-to-child transmission. Gender inequality and stigma are some of the top barriers to HIV services. Despite the prevalence of the virus, around 60% of Nigerians have discriminatory attitudes toward people with HIV, underlining a need for continued support and advocacy.
“The impact of system strengthening cannot be understated in the provision of quality and collaborative OVC care and support in Nigeria,” Seweje-Chimunda says. “The sustainability of OVC programs depends on building and strengthening adequate structures in the communities and state.”
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Police searching for missing 23-year-old man from Mississauga
Investigators with the 12 Division Criminal Investigation Bureau are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a missing man from Mississauga.
Twenty-three-year-old Derick Freeman was last seen on June 7 in the area of Darcel Avenue and Etude Drive.
He’s described as Black, approximately 5'8" tall, roughly 150 lbs, with a thin build and short black hair. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt with "OTD " on the front, black jogging pants with white and gold stripes down the sides, and white Air Jordan running shoes.
Police believe Freeman may be in Toronto, and both police and his family are concerned for his wellbeing.
Anyone with information regarding Freeman’s whereabouts is urged to contact 12 Division Criminal Investigation Bureau at 905-453-2121, extension 1233.
Additionally, information may be provided anonymously by calling Peel Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or visiting their website.
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22nd February 2016
New homes in Lincoln to be named after Barons
We are celebrating our involvement in last summer’s Barons’ Charter Trail in Lincoln by naming a collection of new homes after the Barons.
We sponsored the Construction Baron, one of 25 Barons which stood in pride of place in Lincoln city centre from June to September to mark the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta.
We are marking this by naming the homes at our new LN6 development in Lincoln after the Barons.
LN6 is being built on land off Westbrooke Road, alongside Tritton Road to the south west of the city centre. The development will comprise a total of 52 new homes.
David Newton, Managing Director of Chestnut Homes, said: “We are pleased to have started work on site at LN6.
“This is our first development in Lincoln, and we were proud to sponsor a Baron on the trail last summer, so we thought it was only fitting to mark this by naming the housetypes at LN6 after the Barons.
“At LN6, we are building a variety of homes – from apartments and houses to bungalows – to suit the needs of a range of buyers.
“Work is progressing well and the first homes are already starting to take shape.”
LN6 will include two and three-bedroom houses, two-bedroom apartments and two-bedroom bungalows. The first homes are set to be released for sale in March this year.
Each of the housetypes has been named after one of the group of 25 Barons who forced King John to sign the Magna Carta in the 13th Century.
The apartments will be named De Vere and two-bedroom houses will be named De Ros.
Three different designs of three-bedroom homes will be released for sale – the De Lacy, De Vesci and De Bohun – while the design of the bungalows will be named the De Clare.
In total, 11 homes at LN6 will be made available as affordable housing. The development will include open spaces and new pedestrian and cycle routes through the site, linking existing homes to Tritton Road.
We will make various financial contributions through the Section 106 planning agreement for LN6, including a payment of £30,000 to go towards education provision.

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The field recordings of « F.Guyana » have been realized in the forests and the costal regions of French Guiana between the dry season and the « little rainy season » (November/December 2014, 2015 and 2016).
Plage des Hattes, Awala-Yalimapo. Softness of the setting sun with a greenbrown sea tainted with red as a backdrop. Waves hemmed with foam and a hot breeze blurring the sound of palm trees and crickets make a répétitive music.
2. Crique Popote, Rhinella marina
Crique Popote, east of Saül. Beginning of the night. Cane toads (Rhinella marina) come out of the forest and cautiously step into the world of a creek which is still sleepy at the end of the dry season. Their powerful sonorous trills intermittently punctuate the silky humming of nocturnal insects.
3. Crique Popote, Cacicus cela
Same location, at daybreak. The first rays of the sun spray gold dust on emerging treetops. A colony of Yellow-rumped Caciques caw their wacky repertoire in the crystalline air. Guianan Red Howler Monkeys and cicadas – among other early risers – also make their way through thèse dream-like surroundings.
4. Pics et Colibris, Woodpeckers and hummingbirds
On the dirt road to Saint-Élie, near Sinnamary. On either side of the road, a confused, impenetrable forest edge where even the whirring sound of hummingbirds and high-pitched droning of cicadas appear to be held back. Yet, here also, the forest offers a remarkable sensation to ears who like to listen, where each call, song or drummed sound seems like a cleverly written note on a timeless musical score. Above our heads, a woodpecker hammers at a piece of bark, tears it away and abandons it before flying away.
5. Boeuf Mort, Dark night
On a path called ‘Boeuf Mort’, near Saül. The dark night shivers. In the foreground, a tiny tree frog, Pristimantis inguinalis, pulses its brief resounding note, alternating with the trisyllabic call of Vitreorana oyampiensis, a Small glass frog. A Variegated Tinamou (Crypturellus variegatus) finally betrays its presence with its characteristic whistling.
6. Kaw Mountain, Manucus manucus
Kaw mountain, late morning, in the jumble of a secondary forest. Several White-bearded Manakins (Manacus manacus) have gathered in a courtship display area and fly about at prodigious speed, disseminating sparks of sound produced by their vibrating wings. Several doves (probably Leptotila rufaxilla) as well as a Northern Slaty Antshrike (Thamnophilus punctatus) can be heard in the background.
7. Petit Saut, Ara chlroropterus
Late afternoon, south of lake Petit Saut. A magical moment after a short but generous shower. In just a few minutes, and as the forest has finished shaking off the rain, a composite whisper builds up. Voices appear, rise, multiply themselves and at times whirl around. Perched on tall candle-like dead trees, Red-and-green Macaw (Ara chloropterus) converse and enjoy the sound of their vocal explosions propagating over the vast space.
8. Forest drones
Hypnotic summary of the throbbing sound of the primary forest early in the morning with Black Spider Monkeys (Ateles paniscus), Guianan Red Howler Monkeys (Alouatta maconelli), Stingless bees (Melipona sp.), cicadas and crickets taking the lead roles.
9. Kaw Mountain, Post-explosive breeding
Kaw mountain, late December. Close to a temporary forest pool. The intense downpours of the previous days have triggered the first mass amphibian breedings, accompanied by a cumulative chorus so powerful it represents a real danger for the unprotected human ear. Today, early in the night, the activity is moderately intense and enables us to appreciate the phenomenon. Two species of Leptodactylus (Leptodactylus cf. knudseni, Leptodactylus aff. mystaceus), displaying varying degrees of depth and quaver, and Dendropsophus (Dendropsophus leucophyllatus, Dendropsophus aff. minutus), with sharp high-pitched sounds, take the lead role in this hallucinogenic soundscape heralding the beginning of the rainy season.
10. Crique Douille, Arada
Chemin gros arbres, south of Saül. Typical soundscape, near a small creek, transmuted by the steady and hesitant arrival of a Musician Wren (Cyphorhinus arada).
11. Caribbean inspiration
Back to the ocean, near Cayenne, at dusk. Wanderings amongst fireflies, between a stretch of fallow land illuminated by a choir of Johnstone’s Robber Frogs (Eleutherodactylus johnstonei) – a small amphibian originally from the Caribbean – and the edge of a marshy forest, alive with groups of Snouted Treefrogs (Scinax boesemanni, Scinax ruber) and Crested Forest Toads (probably Rhinella cf. margaritifera). Accompanied by the muffled and haunting rhythm of waves crashing on the beach and beating the reefs…

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July 22, 2014
Marshall Frederick created Cleveland landmark 50 years ago
A Cleveland landmark created by CIA graduate Marshall Fredericks ’30 will be rededicated at noon on July 25 in honor of its fiftieth anniversary.
The iconic Greater Cleveland Veterans Memorial is on Veterans' Memorial Plaza in downtown Cleveland. When the piece was dedicated in 1964, Fredericks said the 46-foot tall human figure surrounded by fountains represents the "spirit of mankind rising out of the encircling flames of war, pestilence and the destructive elements of life, and reaching out for new elements of life. Man rising above death, reaching upward to his God and toward Peace."
A prolific sculptor, Fredericks was also a generous supporter of CIA until his death in 1998.
Read The Plain Dealer article about the rededication and the new names of war dead to be added to the memorial here.
Read more about Fredericks on the website for the Saginaw, Michigan museum named for him, here.
Image above by Marvin Fong, The Plain Dealer.
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Barney is a beautiful, gentle, calm five-year-old Border Collie with a lovely nature who would make a great family companion dog. If you can find room in your home and hearts for this beautiful dog, he’ll give you his unconditional love and devotion.
Barney’s familiar with basic obedience commands and enjoys lots of positive family interaction. He especially enjoys walks and he’s good with other dogs, but is not suitable for a home with cats.
Barney fancies himself a high-jump champion though, so secure fencing is a must.
He’ll also need regular brushing to maintain his magnificent coat.
It will cost $230 to adopt Barney – that includes micro-chipping, de-sexing, registration, worm and flea treatment. He will also have had his first vaccination and a vet check.
If you think you can offer Barney the forever kind of love, please contact the Manukau Animal Shelter (09) 261 8033 or visit 33 McLaughlin’s Road, Wiri.
Kennels are open for viewing during weekdays from 10.15am to 4.15pm and weekends/public holidays from 11am to 3pm.
A fully fenced section or suitable containment area is needed to adopt a dog from an Auckland Council Animal Shelter – especially Barney, the high-jump champion!

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The PMAG 5 AC L, Standard is a reliable and durable polymer magazine for .30-06 based family of cartridges and is compatible with long action AICS-spec bottom metal, to include the Bolt Action Magazine Well 700Lfor the Hunter 700L Stock.
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Made in the USA
- Compatible with long action AICS (Accuracy International Chassis Systems) pattern bottom metal and cartridges built on a 0.470″ case head such as .30-06 Springfield, .25-06 Remington, .270 Winchester, .280 Remington, 8mm-06, and others*
- Accepts a cartridge overall length of up to 3.50″
- True 5-round capacity
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- Self-lubricating follower for increased reliability
- Long life stainless steel spring
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*NOTE: Not recommended for use with short action cartridges such as the 7.62×51/.308 Winchester
PMAG 5 AC L, Standard
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An ‘investigation’ into the people, power and the future of blockchain and cryptocurrencies will be the focus of a major new feature-length documentary funded by the Australian Government.
Titled ‘Cryptopia – Bitcoin, Blockchain and the Future of the Internet’ – the production will feature the world’s most influential figures in blockchain and cryptocurrencies including; Da Hongfei (NEO founder), Charlie Lee (Litecoin creator), Wences Casares (Xapo CEO), Samson Mow (Blockstream CSO) and Andreas M. Antonopoulos (Author).
‘Cryptopia’ will be the second Bitcoin documentary directed by Torsten Hoffmann and Michael Watchulonis.
The filmmakers were the creative team behind 2015 documentary, ‘Bitcoin: The End of Money as We know It.’
“Four years ago, I made a film about Bitcoin, we showed how the bankers crashed the world economy and walked away with bonuses, since then we have seen Bitcoin sky-rocket in value,” says Torsten Hoffmann in a documentary teaser.
“Now we’re back, back because the general audience still doesn’t understand Bitcoin and the potential of the blockchain.”
But there’s a twist, Hoffmann and Watchulonis will now shine the spotlight on what they describe as a ‘divided crypto community’.
“Welcome to ground zero in the battle for the future of the internet… Web 3.0,” says Hoffmann.
“This is the story of former allies now at war, of staggering wealth… And right on queue the bankers are back!”
The Bitcoin documentary is one of 14 projects to share in AU$2.7m from Screen Australia, the Australian Government’s movie funding arm.
The funding accounts for 45% of Cryptopia’s total budget.
A kickstarter campaign has also raised more than AU$20,000 for the production.
The documentary is expected to premiere in early 2019.


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Hillary Clinton, with her focus group-tested moderation, may have failed to break the glass ceiling. But Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with her fearlessness, outspokenness, and mastery of social media has broken another piece of metaphorical glass – The Overton Window -and transformed the terms of acceptable political debate more than any Democratic political figure in recent history.
Regardless of whether or not AOC moves on to a higher office, or is even reelected to her House seat in 2020, she may already be one of the most impactful Democratic office holders in recent memory.
Defining the Overton Window
What, many of you may ask, is the Overton Window? The Overton Window reflects the range of policies on a particular issue that are acceptable to discuss in “polite company,” are taken seriously by the mainstream media, and that mainstream politicians believe they are able to advocate.
At any given moment, policies which are inside the Overton Window get widespread political discussion and have a chance of being enacted into law. Policies outside a given moment’s Overton Window are considered too radical or unthinkable to be taken seriously in mainstream political discourse, and those advocating them are often marginalized.
The policy positions that are possible, in and around the Overton Window, range something like this:
For example, on health care, following are a range of possible policy views:
- –Let the market handle it. Get the government out of health care by winding down Medicare and Medicaid.
- -Abolish Obamacare and replace it with a market-based system. Cut eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid because the country can’t afford them long-term.
- –Maintain Obamacare, a hybrid system of private and government health insurance.
- –Expand Obamacare with a public option or individual buy-in to Medicare.
The first option is probably outside the Overton Window of current public discourse and a bridge too far, even for most Republicans. Until recently, the last option, Medicare-For-All, was also generally considered outside the Overton Window. “Acceptable” political debate has been between abolishing Obamacare, maintaining Obamacare, and tweaking Obamacare.
AOC Breaks The Overton Window
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has managed, other newly elected Democratic women like Ayanna Pressley, Katie Porter and Rashida Tlaib and the grassroots movements backing them, to blow the pre-existing Overton Window wide open in a few short months since the 2018 elections.
Using a combination of Big and Bold thinking, an instinct for the political moment, personal charisma, grassroots activism, and social media savvy, they have moved issues like The Green New Deal, Medicare For All, and large tax hikes for corporations and the wealthy from the political margins to policies being widely debated at kitchen tables, political campaigns, and in the mass media.
Make The Rich Pay Their Fair Share
During the Obama administration, there were massive fights between Republicans and Democrats over whether top marginal income taxes on the wealthiest Americans would be approximately 35 percent or approximately 39 percent. The idea that the rich should pay 40 percent or more was simply outside The Overton Window.
There’s something deeply ironic about this artificial political rate cap: In the 1950s under Republican President Eisenhower, top rates exceeded 90 percent, and when Reagan took office, they were still at 70%. Reagan cut the rates to 50 percent and under George H. W. Bush, they went as low as 28 percent until Bush was forced to break his “no new taxes” pledge and agreed to an increase to 31 percent. Clinton raised the top rate to 39.6 percent, the highest in the past two decades.
Starting with Reagan in 1980, relentless and single-minded Republican propaganda in favor of “supply-side” economics, which hold that the solution to every problem is cutting taxes, has successfully moved the Overton Window to the right, so that no mainstream politician, Democratic or Republican, would dare propose a rate on the richest Americans higher than 40 percent.
Then, in her first 60 Minutes interview, AOC captured headlines by calling for a top marginal tax rate of 70 percent on incomes over $10 million. Shortly thereafter, Sen. Elizabeth Warren proposed a “wealth tax” of 2 percent a year on the accumulated assets of the 75,000 wealthiest American families worth more that $50 million and 3 percent over $1 billion. Since then, several other Democratic Presidential hopefuls have put forward their own proposals for taxing the wealthy more.
The Overton Window exploded in the wake of this, and moved sharply to the left. Suddenly higher taxes on the rich are being discussed on TV talk shows and being debated in the Presidential contest. Even fairly centrist Democrats no longer feel constrained by an Overton Window which cast tax rates over 40 percent outside the range of “legitimate” debate. Even if top marginal tax rates only increased to 50 percent (where they were after Reagan’s tax cut), they would be substantially higher than in decades. Kudos to AOC and her allies in smashing this Overton Window on taxes.
The Green New Deal
The Green New Deal is the quintessential example of smashing The Overton Window. Until now, acceptable debate on climate change was limited to a range from Republican climate-change denial, to relatively timid proposals from Democrats which are likely too small to solve the problem before catastropic damage is done to the planet.
When Obama took office, his main legislative initiative on climate change was to propose a market-based “cap and trade” system, rather than government regulation, designed in Republican think tanks in the naïve hope that enough Republicans would sign on to at least pass something. The bill did squeak through the House, but died in the Senate. Obama essentially gave up on climate change legislation for the rest of his tenure.
The Green New Deal explodes the prior Overton Window limitations that the most that can be done about climate change is too little, too late. Instead, it’s big and bold. It holds that the threat of climate change to human civilization requires a response as massive as FDR’s New Deal in response to the Great Depression, and the massive mobilization to fight World War II after the Japanese invaded Pearl Harbor.
The core goal of the Green New Deal is to transition to 100 percent clean energy by 2030. It would require a massive investment in clean energy jobs and infrastructure meant to transform the entire economy into one based on clean energy, while making society more fair and just.
The idea of a “Green New Deal” as a broad, societal response to climate change has been around since around 2006, but has been politically marginalized. AOC changed all that, again breaking the Overton Window, and has thrust Green New Deal into the center of political debate.
AOC and Rep. Ed Markey have introduced a bill in Congress setting out the goals of The Green New Deal. Between now and 2020, more specific policies to achieve The Green New Deal will be developed. In the meantime, grassroots organizations like People’s Action and the millennial-led Sunshine Movement, have begun to engage in direct action in support, forcing politicians to take notice.
The success of AOC and her allies in smashing the boundaries of the prior Overton Window has engendered a furious backlash—both from Republicans and corporate Democrats—to marginalize proposals for a Green New Deal, higher taxes on the wealthy, and Medicare-For-All and squash the Overton Window back into its former narrow limits. Fox News and other right-wing media have launched daily attacks on AOC, which may backfire by making her even more prominent.
Centrist Democrats have tended to be patronizing and dismissive. Sen. Diane Feinstein essentially told a group of high school and middle school students visiting her office to lobby for the Green New Deal that they were ignorant and naïve and should wait until they’ve been in politics as long as the 85-year old Senator before lobbying for their views.
When asked about The Green New Deal by Politico, Nancy Pelosi dismissed it as “the green dream, or whatever they call it.” She refused to form a House Committee to study detailed proposals for implementing a massive response to climate change.
But once The Overton Window has essentially been broken, or more accurately, expanded, it’s not likely to return to the prior status quo anytime soon. Support for proposals like The Green New Deal, Medicare-For-All, and the wealthy paying their fair share of taxes is likely to expand in the next few years.
While most members of Congress, with their fat checks from rich donors, don’t currently support these proposals, they are surprisingly popular in the country. In a recent Harris poll, 59 percent of registered voters (including 45 percent of Republicans and 60 percent of Independents) supported a 70 percent tax on incomes over $10 million. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that 56 percent support the concept of Medicare-For-All. A George Washington University poll found that 80percent of voters support the concept of a Green New Deal, although in other polls support was substantial, but lower, when costs were factored in.
Support for big and bold proposals like The Green New Deal, Medicare-For-All, and higher taxes on the wealthy has expanded at astounding speed, breaking the Overton Window. That doesn’t mean they will all be enacted as rapidly. But the potential for major social and economic change over the next few years has grown exponentially. In 2020, the debate will be about how big to go in combatting climate change, how high taxes on the wealthy should go, and whether Obamacare should transform into Medicare-For-All.
AOC and her allies have succeeded in vastly expanding the terms of the political debate for the foreseeable future, blowing open the Overton Window, and putting big, bold ideas squarely on the table.


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J. Crew is getting closer to a more workable financial position.
The retailer said early results of a recently launched tender offer to relax its debt load through an exchange of $566.5 million of payment-in-kind notes due May 2019 have seen 93.6 percent of old notes already exchanged, representing at least $530.5 million of notes in total.
The still-outstanding notes include 6 percent allowed to be withheld from the exchange offer under the restructuring support agreement J. Crew struck with the PIK note holders, so should those be tendered, J. Crew will have reached 95 percent minimum tender condition.
Nevertheless, J. Crew has extended the tender deadline for the exchange to July 10. While an additional extension is possible, it’s likely that the minimum will be met by the new deadline, if not before, and the exchange will be successful.
Under the exchange offer, note holders agreed to a 2021 maturity date for 13 percent of J. Crew’s senior secured notes worth up to $250 million, while gaining 7 percent of preferred stock and 15 percent of its common stock.
But all of J. Crew’s backers did not sign off on the consent deal reached with a majority of its term loan lenders. The deal not only allowed the exchange offer to take place, but put an end to litigation in New York over J. Crew’s move of valuable intellectual property into a new subsidiary to secure the new notes.
Eaton Vance Management and Highland Capital Management, two investors in J. Crew’s $1.5 billion term loan, on Thursday sued the retailer, arguing the IP move clearly violated the parameters of the term loan and put it in default.
The investors also argued that J. Crew created the IP subsidiary for the “improper purpose” of securing bonds with a longer maturity date and with the intention of putting their losses “onto the backs of their secured lenders.”
J. Crew said at the time it sees the lawsuit as “wholly without merit.”
While Eaton and Highland are asking the court to deem J. Crew in default and the IP transfer invalid, the retailer’s move is the only way it has to make a clearer path for its new chief executive officer James Brett, who takes over next month from longtime leader Millard “Mickey” Drexler.
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Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed budget doesn’t do enough to address the city’s fiscal woes and will cost New Yorkers dearly in the future, a leading fiscal-watchdog group warned yesterday.
A “fiscal brief” issued by the Independent Budget Office accuses the mayor of mistakenly abandoning stopgap measures he employed during last year’s budget crisis, even while the city faces multibillion-dollar deficits over the next three years.
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car accidents or sexual assault. Symptoms of PTSD include flashbacks, depression, anxiety,
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When certain things discussed in court are beyond the comprehension of
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Q&A with Bradford Moose LeukoLifeDx
Heart Disease and its end-stage Heart Failure is the number 1 cause of death, affecting 92 million people and killing 600,000 patients per year in the US. 20% of patients who undergo Heart Failure surgery, some 240,000 annually, die within one year of such procedures, receiving no survival benefit.
LeukoLifeDx is a medical diagnostic company using gene expression profiling to guide the treatment of Heart Failure by providing quantitative survival outcome data. By identifying these high-risk patients, our new genomic assay will allow cardiologists to direct predicted survivors to surgery and predicted non-survivors to medical therapy, saving 80,000 patients and $3 billion in healthcare costs per year.
LeukoLifeDx was founded 3 years ago by 1) a family with medical and business expertise who was deeply affected by Heart Failure and would have lost a family member except for the heart transplant that saved her life, and 2) the scientific and medical team that guided her care.
With proof-of-concept data showing 96% accuracy, an issued US patent, and enthusiastic endorsement from cardiologists, we are ready to conduct a 500-patient clinical study to validate the assay for launch in 2023.
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Why is this problem of high mortality following Heart Failure surgery so important?
We tend to underestimate the impact of common widespread risks as compared to sudden, unexpected risks that may impact fewer people. COVID-19 for instance has killed more than 130,000 people in the US in the last 6 months and is appropriately a worldwide and national priority public health crisis that deserves our full attention. But we also need to remember that Heart Disease / Heart Failure routinely kills 600,000 every year, and cancer kills nearly as many.
It is both the magnitude of the impact that Heart Failure has year-after-year on our society and the cost that make it a huge problem. It is also tragic that while we have developed incredible technology for treating the disease, we still lose 240,000 patients each year because they are not well enough to survive one of these surgical / interventional therapies, and we cannot identify these high-risk patients who should stay on medical therapy in advance.
Most importantly, the wide view of the impact of Heart Failure on society, does not adequately represent the devastating loss that families feel when the statistic that raises the death toll from Heart Disease is the loss of a loved-one. For a family that has experienced the life-threatening impact of this disease, an innovation that promises to save more patients, and may save your family member, is the most compelling goal that a company and its founders could have.
Why has no one explored the innovative use of genomics in treating Heart Failure before LeukoLifeDx?
We believe that like many other disruptive innovations, the timing is right for our use of genomics in Heart Failure because the need is obvious and the technology is proven, but no one has yet applied it to the problem we are addressing.
Genomic assays to guide medical therapy have been used for more than a decade in cancer therapy and organ transplant rejection with such success that they are now considered standard-of-care and reimbursed by CMS and private insurance.
We believe that gene expression profiling is a stepping-stone to the advancement of personalized medicine, where the treatment selected by the physician is the one that diagnostic assays indicate will be most effective and most likely to extend the patient’s life. Our prediction is that in the future a great many therapeutic options for a variety of medical conditions will be selected based on the gene expression of the patient, at the time treatment options are being considered, used as a guide to individual response and the predicted success of the treatment.
What could go wrong that would undermine the company’s projected growth and success?
Several key risks remain for our business and the success of our first product. First, while we have excellent proof-of-concept data in a small patient population, it is possible that the larger study we need to conduct prior to launching the product may not yield data showing the same accurate predictive value as the shown by the current studies.
Second, while cardiologists have confirmed the need for more accurate quantitative survival outcome prediction, even with positive data from a larger clinical trial, these physicians may be reluctant to order the assay in the routine treatment decisions related to their Heart Failure patients.
Third, even if physicians order the test, insurers may not provide reimbursement coverage as soon as we predict, by considering the assay to be experimental rather than standard-of-care.
Based on the data we have on each of these issues, we consider these risks to be small, with the potential benefit to patients, physicians, hospitals, insurers, and investors greater than the risks and obvious to those knowledgeable in the field.
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“Chess is actually harmful to the mind, body and soul. It leads to bad habits like alcoholism, anti-semitism, extreme arrogance, vindictiveness and encourages the development of mental illnesses.”
Now, the story behind the outrageousness of this claim. I was googling the benefits of certain sports over another. Simultaneously, I encountered some negatives along the way, and so I did the same with other topics of interest. At this point, the few negatives that could arise from these activities/interests made sense, but then I went further: how could anyone say that an innocent hobby such as chess caused damage? And then I found this quote from a forum on chess.com.
It might seem difficult to relate this story to politics, but in fact, it is oddly similar. With social media at American’s fingertips and a polemical Presidential election not entirely in our rearview mirror, misconceptions and radical beliefs can appear in almost all cases. Sometimes, there are negatives and/or disadvantages of a subject, yet it is critical to research and fact check information before assuming its validity.
Take, for example, the presidential approval ratings. Abraham Lincoln created the Emancipation Proclamation, which paved the way toward abolishing slavery in the U.S. However, nearly half of America despised him at this time, while today, he is remembered in a positive manner by historians. More recently, Lyndon B. Johnson passed legislation known as the Great Society, and as part of this plan, he proposed initiatives aimed at curbing unemployment and poverty. Still, critics asserted that he was hurting taxpayers and using governmental authority to interfere with livelihoods. Again, it might be difficult to think of limiting slavery and reducing poverty as negatives, but there is always another viewpoint to consider or not to consider when remaining active in politics.
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'Just because the situation is ugly, and the wars are ugly, it's not our fault.'
Einstein notes that Israel is an interesting, intellectual creature, but has limited opportunities.
GOP Rep. Bill Sutton: "Any company openly boycotting Israel and its products is perpetuating an act of economic warfare against a Kansas trade partner and ally."
One of the group was detained after he became aggressive with police officers. Others were simply charged.
The Shomrim volunteer neighborhood watch group handed out more than 300 slices of pizza to the emergency crews on the scene.
City Councilman Abdoe Khoulani called the teens “future Zionist terrorists, occupiers and those who murder children.”
No one was in any of the buildings at the time the threats were made.
During her visit, Haley went carefully through the exhibits, asking questions and viewing the information displayed.
NGOs whose budgets come mostly from foreign government sources are already required to declare it to the NGOs Registrar, and note it in all their official publications, as well as in their correspondence with public officials.
'The absence of children – particularly children being raised in the Jewish religion – represents yet one more missing incentive to Jewish communal engagement.'
The Ministry of Religious Services will pay the municipal taxes, carrying charges and electricity of religious families who clock 15 weekly hours hosting secular guests and teaching Jewish family values.
The granddaughter, Golda Nehama Rokach, is the Rebbe's fourth from his only son, Rabbi Aharon Mordechai Rokeach.
"I want the world to remember how the global community behaved during those days of uncertainty... to always remember the power we have when we choose unity over division.”
The fire destroyed the JS restaurant's ground floor. Local firefighters took an hour and a quarter to put out the blaze.
NYPD made quick work of the agitators who were attempting to block both mayors from continuing their march.
'The lead character supports the killing of children and we should boycott the movie.'
"We are pleased Kent Police are working to identify suspects, but it should never have been necessary to pressure them to do so."
Tens of thousands marched and hundreds of thousands cheered them on all the way up Fifth Avenue.
“London Bridge will not fall,” PM Netanyahu declared. “Together we will vanquish terror.”
'There was an exciting battle for it during the auction, with a bidder in the room competing against a telephone bidder in the final stages.'
The victims were popular in the Jewish community; murdered by their gardener, who dismembered and also robbed them.
Someone at the news agency apparently had second thoughts and quickly deleted the tweet, but not quick enough.
President Rivlin: 'Hebron is not an obstacle to peace, Hebron is a test of our abilities to live together, side by side.'
Only 43 Auschwitz staff members have been sentenced in German courts.
The EJC applauded European Parliament's decision to endorse International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism.


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SHREWSBURY, Massachusetts – I’m saddened to report that we’ve had our second fatal accident of the month, on Route 20. On Saturday, at approximately 8:30 pm the Shrewsbury Police responded to the intersection of Route 20 and Grafton St. for a report of a two car motor vehicle accident with injuries. Shrewsbury Police determined that a 2004 Audi A-4 was traveling East on Route 20 when it collided with a 2007 Honda Civic which was traveling North on Grafton St. crossing Route 20. Operating the Audi was a Steven Cabral of Hudson, Ma., 25 years old. The Honda was operated by Elaine Barber of North Grafton, Ma. 60 years old.
Shrewsbury Police, Shrewsbury Fire and U-Mass paramedics were at the scene and both operators were transported U-Mass University Campus Hospital. Operator Elaine Barber was pronounced dead a short time later at the Hospital as a result of her injuries. Operator Steven Cabral was treated for non-life threatening injuries.
As a result of the accident and investigation Route 20 traffic was detoured for approximately three hours. The accident remains under investigation by Central Mass. Law Enforcement Council (CMLEC) crash reconstruction and Shrewsbury Officers Ryan Chartrand and Daniel Cronin.


U.S. Stock Markets Rally On Election Eve
Shain Vernier • 2 min read
With the 3 November 2020 Election Day bearing down on us, the U.S. markets are showing signs of life. At the midway point of the Wall Street trading session, the DJIA DOW (+360), S&P 500 SPX (+31), and NASDAQ (+1) are all green. Given the current degree of political uncertainty, it is a surprise to see such robust participation in risk assets.
Right now, Election 2020 is the primary underpinning of U.S. commodities, stocks, and currency valuations. As of press time (12:45 PM EST), here’s what we know:
- Real Clear Politics (RCP) has Joe Biden ahead of Trump by 6.5 points nationally.
- RCP battleground polling data has tightened dramatically over the past week. However, except for a slight Trump advantage in North Carolina (+0.6), Biden leads in Florida (+1.0), Pennsylvania (+4.2), Michigan (+5.1), Wisconsin (+6.6), and Arizona (+1.0).
- Offshore betting odds have held relatively firm, with Biden (-200) a solid favorite over Trump (+175). The implied probability of winning sits at 65% for Biden and 35% for Trump.
- 92 million ballots have already been cast in early voting.
It’s important to remember that in the 2016 election, RCP polling data and oddsmakers missed the boat badly. However, one pollster that called 2016 correctly was the Trafalgar Group. This year, Trafalgar has Trump ahead in most battleground states and nationally. If you look at today’s early bullish action on Wall Street, traders agree that four more years of Trump is likely.
DJIA Spikes Ahead Of Election Day
The bidding toward U.S. stocks has been hot this morning. Accordingly, December DOW futures are off session highs, having tested topside daily Fibonacci resistance (26,885).
Overview: If you’re going to be active over the next 48 hours, it will pay to be wary of enhanced volatility. Late polls, exit polls, and blockbuster news items can all sway the markets instantly. In fact, anything that foreshadows the election’s outcome can bring immediate and serious volatility to asset pricing. For anyone preparing to trade the days surrounding the U.S. election, be sure to have your stop losses down and leverage in check!


text: Humanities › History & Culture American Settler Colonialism 101 Share Flipboard Email Print Fotosearch / Getty Images History & Culture American History Native American History Basics Important Historical Figures Key Events U.S. Presidents American Revolution America Moves Westward The Gilded Age Crimes & Disasters The Most Important Inventions of the Industrial Revolution African American History African History Ancient History and Culture Asian History European History Genealogy Inventions Latin American History Medieval & Renaissance History Military History The 20th Century Women's History View More By Dina Gilio-Whitaker Updated December 05, 2020 The term "colonialism" is possibly one of the most confusing, if not contested, concepts in American history and international relations theory. Most Americans would likely be hard-pressed to define it beyond the "colonial period" of U.S. history when early European immigrants established their colonies in the New World. The assumption is that since the founding of the United States everybody who is born within the national boundaries is considered American citizens with equal rights, whether or not they consent to such citizenship. In this regard, the United States is normalized as the dominant power to which all its citizens, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, are subject. Although a democracy is "of the people, by the people, and for the people" in theory, the nation's actual history of imperialism betrays its democratic principles. This is the history of American colonialism. Two Kinds of Colonialism Colonialism as a concept has its roots in European expansionism and the founding of the so-called New World. The British, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, and other European powers established colonies in new places they "discovered" from which to facilitate trade and extract resources, in what can be thought of as the earliest stages of what we now call globalization. The mother country (known as the metropole) would come to dominate Indigenous populations through their colonial governments, even when the Indigenous population remained in the majority for the duration of colonial control. The most obvious examples are in Africa, such as the Dutch control over South Africa and French control over Algeria, and in Asia and the Pacific Rim, such as British control over India and Fiji and French domination over Tahiti. Beginning in the 1940s the world saw a wave of decolonization in many of Europe's colonies as Indigenous populations fought wars of resistance against colonial domination. Mahatma Gandhi would come to be recognized as one of the world's greatest heroes for leading India's fight against the British. Likewise, Nelson Mandela is today celebrated as a freedom fighter for South Africa, where he was once considered a terrorist. In these instances European governments were forced to pack up and go home, relinquishing control to the indigenous population. But there were some places where colonial invasion decimated Indigenous populations through foreign disease and military domination to the point where if the Indigenous population survived at all, it became the minority while the settler population became the majority. The best examples of this are in North and South America, the Caribbean islands, New Zealand, Australia, and even Israel. In these cases, scholars have recently applied the term "settler colonialism." Settler Colonialism Defined Settler colonialism has best been defined as more of an imposed structure than a historical event. This structure is characterized by relationships of domination and subjugation that become woven throughout the fabric of society and even becomes disguised as paternalistic benevolence. The objective of settler colonialism is always the acquisition of Indigenous territories and resources, which means the Indigenous inhabitants must be eliminated. This can be accomplished in overt ways including biological warfare and military domination but also in more subtle ways; for example, through national policies of assimilation. As scholar Patrick Wolfe has argued, the logic of settler colonialism is that it destroys in order to replace. Assimilation involves the systematic stripping away of Indigenous culture and replacing it with that of the dominant culture. One of the ways it does this in the United States is through racialization. Racialization is the process of measuring Indigenous ethnicity in terms of blood degree; when Indigenous people intermarry with non-Indigenous people they are said to lower their Indigenous blood quantum. According to this logic, when enough intermarriage has occurred there will be no more natives within a given lineage. It does not take into account personal identity based on cultural affiliation or other markers of cultural competence or involvement. Other ways the United States carried out its assimilation policy included the allotment of Indigenous lands, forced enrollment in Indigenous boarding schools, termination and relocation programs, the bestowal of American citizenship, and Christianization. Narratives of Benevolence It can be said that a narrative based on the benevolence of the nation guides policy decisions once domination has been established in the settler colonial state. This is evident in many of the legal doctrines at the foundation of federal Indigenous law in the U.S. Primary among those doctrines is the doctrine of Christian discovery. The doctrine of discovery (a good example of benevolent paternalism) was first articulated by Supreme Court Justice John Marshall in Johnson v. McIntosh (1823), in which he opined that Indigenous peoples had no right to title on their own lands in part because the new European immigrants "bestow[ed] on them civilization and Christianity." Likewise, the trust doctrine presumes that the U.S., as the trustee over Indigenous lands and resources, will always act with the best interests of Indigenous peoples in mind. Two centuries of massive Indigenous land expropriations by the U.S. and other abuses, however, betrays this idea. References Getches, David H., Charles F. Wilkinson and Robert A. Williams, Jr. Cases and Materials on Federal Indian Law, Fifth Edition. St. Paul: Thompson West Publishers, 2005.Wilkins, David and K. Tsianina Lomawaima. Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Indian Law. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.Wolfe, Patrick. Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native. Journal of Genocide Research, December 2006, pp. 387-409.

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In a move described as ‘irresponsible’, 14 National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) senior managers have been sacked, regions amalgamated and officers required to reapply for the new positions under a state government reshuffle in the middle of the fire season.
As a result, the northern rivers region is currently without the most senior manager who would normally oversee hazard reduction burns and NPWS fire-fighting crews.
Meanwhile crews are continuing to battle a fire at South Ballina, which is under control but continuing to burn after destroying 114 hectares, much of it public bushland.
Stewart Little, general secretary of the Public Service Association in NSW, told SMH this week that the move was ‘just irresponsible’.
‘Every populated area adjacent to a national park will be placed at risk in the coming fire season,’ he said.
Mr Little predicts there is worse to come, with more redundancies in the pipeline in the new year.
But an Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) spokesperson told SMH the changes were ‘about strengthening our ability to manage the state’s parks and reserves’.
‘These changes will not affect the delivery of emergency response, fire management, visitor services and important conservation work,’ she told the paper, adding that there would be no reduction in the number of fire-trained staff available to undertake hazard reduction burns and fight bushfires.
Labor’s Penny Sharpe, however, said it was all about cost cutting.
‘Decades of specialised experience are being dumped as NPWS tries to deal with the cuts handed to them by the Baird government,’ Ms Sharpe told the paper, adding that 210 permanent staff positions had been cuts since June 2014.
‘With the potential for a horror fire season, the loss of these staff could not come at a worse time,’ Ms Sharpe said.


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The causal linkages among money growth, inflaion and interest rates in Ghana
Ernest Amankwah () and
Prince Atta Sarfo
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This study instigates the causal linkages among money growth, inflation and interest rate in Ghana. The essence of ensuring price stability, a considerable increase in money growth that enhances economic growth and development and favorable rate of interest that encourage domestic business and foreign direct investment cannot be over emphasized. The data was extracted from two main sources. The main variable under study were money supply, interest rate and inflation rate. Other variables that affect inflation rate such as exchange rate, real gross domestic product were controlled for. Data on money supply, interest rate and exchange rate Twere extracted from world development indicator (WDI) whereas data on inflation and the GDP growth were extracted from annual report of the Central Bank. The data comprises of of missed order of cointegration. That is I (0) and I(1). So bounds test of cointegration proposed by Pesaran, Shin and Smith (2001) was used. It was found out that money growth has both short run and long run relationship with inflation and all the other variables are insignificant in influencing inflation. The Granger causality test was conducted to help find the causality among the variables of interest. The null hypothesis that inflation rate does not does not Granger cause money growth was rejected at 5% which implies that there is a uni-directional causality between inflation and money growth. It was recommended that, in an attempt of reducing inflation both in the long run and short run, increase in money supply should be reasonable.
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Michael Owen states his prediction for Tottenham v Watford
Michael Owen looks ahead to Tottenham's Premier League clash against Watford on Saturday lunchtime
Michael Owen is backing Tottenham to keep the pressure on Chelsea at the top of the Premier League table by beating Watford on Saturday lunchtime.
The Lilywhites head into the game fresh from their dramatic comeback win over Swansea City at the Liberty Stadium in midweek.
That result left Spurs second in the table and seven points behind leaders Chelsea as the race for the Premier League title hots up.
The north London side have the chance to close the gap to Chelsea down to just four points with victory against Watford before the Blues travel to Bournemouth on Saturday evening.
And former Liverpool striker Owen is backing Spurs to take all three points against the Hornets on Saturday lunchtime.
Writing in his column for BetVictor, Owen said: “Watford have never beaten Spurs in the Premier League and I don’t expect them to buck that trend in the early kick off on Saturday.
“Deli Alli scored twice in the reverse fixture at Vicarage Road in January and he has been outstanding in recent weeks and it was no surprise to see him change the game at the Liberty Stadium midweek.
“Spurs are unbeaten at White Hart Lane this term. Chelsea in 2013-14 were the last of 13 previous teams to have gone a whole Premier League season unbeaten at home – I don’t expect the Hornets to break Spurs’ proud home record.”
Tottenham are looking to build on their third-placed finish in the Premier League last season as they look to qualify for the Champions League for the second campaign running under Mauricio Pochettino.


The Theory of Constraints was developed in 1984 by business management guru Eliyahu Goldratt in his book The Goal. The Theory of Constraints argues that every system has at least one constraint that hinders high-level performance or profit generation. Fundamentally, the theory advocates identifying constraints and then eliminating them or at the very least, reducing their impact.
Understanding the Theory of Constraints
In the book, Goldratt uses the chain metaphor to argue that every business system is only as strong as its weakest link. Here, the weakest link is a constraint that limits the extent of profitability. Since there can only be one weakest link, Goldratt suggests that this is where businesses should focus their efforts to institute significant change.
This change is achieved via throughput accounting, which emphasizes selling more of something to generate higher profits. This approach differs from traditional accounting methods that focus on reducing expenses to generate profit.
However, the capacity to reduce expenses is limited once an expense reaches zero. That is, the ability to increase profits is constrained.
Conversely, the emphasis on increasing sales revenue via throughput accounting has no such constraint. This is because – at least in theory – there is no limit to the amount of sales revenue a business can generate.
Throughput accounting is comprised of three parts:
- Throughput – or the rate of sales revenue generated by a product or service.
- Inventory – or money that is tied up in physical things such as raw materials, equipment, distribution facilities, and goods awaiting sale.
- Operating expense – or the money a business spends creating throughput to maintain a desired level of capacity. This may include payroll, depreciation, and utility expenses.
The five steps of the Theory of Constraints
1. Identify the constraint
Which part of the system constitutes the weakest link? Remember, there can only be one.
2. Exploit the constraint
Use available resources to make rapid improvements to the constraint. Reduce or eliminate where possible to avoid expensive wholesale upgrades or process changes.
The unconstrained (strong) links in a process must be altered so they maximize the output of the weakest link. At this point, the process should be evaluated to determine if the constraint has simply shifted to another location on the chain.
If the constraint has been eliminated, the business can move to step five. Otherwise, they should proceed to step four.
4. Elevate the constraint
If the second and third steps have not been successful, take whatever action necessary to eliminate the constraint. This includes a major overall of an existing system.
5. Beware of inertia
Once a constraint has been removed, avoid becoming complacent.
Understand that the Theory of Constraints is a cyclical process that stresses the importance of improving one constraint and then moving on to the next. Complacency, which Goldratt calls “inertia”, is a significant barrier to profit generation through increased production.
- The Theory of Constraints is a management philosophy stating that any system is prevented from achieving its full potential by one or more key constraints.
- The Theory of Constraints focuses on constraints in the context of their ability to reduce profits. As a result, the theory focuses on throughput accounting and its core principle of increasing production capacity to generate revenue.
- The Theory of Constraints is a five-step, cyclical process that businesses must consistently use to avoid becoming complacent.
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This charming apartment is part of an original ancestral palace near the cathedral in the old town. You can reach this well-maintained property through a wonderful courtyard. A small staircase leads to the first floor. The house is centrally located in a town with a lot of history and narrow streets. Cafes, tapas bars, restaurants and shops are available nearby. Even the town beach is located within walking distance of the house and can be reached in just 15 minutes.
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