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A Day in the Life of a Rehab SLP
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In May, we celebrate the work of speech-language professionals. SLPs work in many different settings with people of all ages, treating disorders of speech, language, pragmatics, swallowing, and cognition. No two SLP's days will look the same, and it's this variety that makes our career so interesting. I'd like to share with you what one of my days working in an inpatient rehab unit looks like, so you can get a sense of what goes into being a "speechie" and why I love my work so much.
8:00 a.m. Mini-Rounds
My day begins with a meeting with the therapy team for a quick run-down of any notable changes in the 20 neurologically-impaired patients on the rehab unit. We share tips about what's working in our individual therapy sessions and how to integrate these techniques throughout the day. Open and frequent communication among the speech, occupational, physical, and recreational therapy staff allows us to be an interdisciplinary team working together, rather than a multidisciplinary team with each member working in isolation.
8:30 a.m. Preparations
The SLP from the acute stroke unit called yesterday to let me know one of her patients, Mr. Jones, was headed to rehab. To prepare to assess this new patient, I pop into the nursing station to do a quick chart review. The reports from doctors, nurses, and other therapists, along with the radiology reports, give me a good idea of what I'll see.
9:00 a.m. Aphasia Assessment
For my first session with Mr. Jones, I have a few goals: build trust and rapport, get some baseline data, and figure out where to start therapy. To do this, I minimize the use of tests and instead start with a diagnostic interview and therapy. Mr. Jones has trouble speaking a single word, so I show him how he can be successful by watching my mouth and speaking slowly in unison with me. He's thrilled to hear himself speak, and I've won him over. I've also gathered what I need – Mr. Jones has severe expressive aphasia and verbal apraxia, but he's an insightful man who has a lot of potential for recovery. I leave a note in his room for his wife to come to therapy tomorrow, so she can learn the strategies too.
10:00 a.m. Cognitive-Communication Therapy
I get back to my office to find my next patient, Ms. Chen, waiting in the hallway. This is huge! Ms. Chen has never arrived on time to therapy since a car accident left her with a traumatic brain injury, resulting in trouble with attention and memory. I have been teaching Ms. Chen to enter her appointments into her smartphone, and it seems to be working! We talk about this success and how it feels, building insight into her problems and the strategies she's using to overcome them. We review the process of entering an appointment with a reminder alert from start to finish again, with me preventing her from making any errors along the way.
11:00 a.m. Dysarthria Treatment
Mr. Sandhu comes to me directly from the gym where he's been practicing climbing stairs with the physical therapist. He had a stroke about a month ago that left him weak on the left side of his body and face, which has also affected the clarity of his speech. He's able to tell me the strategies we've been using – speaking more slowly, loudly, and articulating clearly – and then uses those strategies while reading aloud and conversing about his upcoming discharge from the hospital. Toward the end of the session, Mr. Sandhu is recognizing his own errors and stating the strategy he forgot to use. This ability to self-correct is a great sign that he's ready for discharge from speech therapy.
12:00 p.m. Mealtime Observation
All the patients are in the dining room eating lunch, and I'm there to see if Mrs. Pirelli is ready for an upgrade from the minced texture diet she was prescribed by the SLP in acute care. While over half of survivors have swallowing problems after a stroke, most dysphagia resolves in the first 1-2 weeks. I give Mrs. Pirelli the same deli sandwich the other patients are eating, looking for signs of food entering her lungs or getting stuck in her mouth as she eats. The good news is that she's ready for a regular diet, and she's thrilled. No more oatmeal for breakfast! I put through the new diet order to the kitchen and chart my intervention.
12:35 p.m. Lunch Break
Now it's my turn to eat, and also to check email, return phone calls, fax reports, finish up some progress notes…
1:00 p.m. Family Conference
The whole team assembles in the conference room to meet with Mr. Sandhu and his family to go over the plan for sending him home tomorrow. We review his progress in therapy, referrals for outpatient therapy, and other recommendations. When families don't feel prepared to cope at home, these meetings can be contentious. In this case, Mrs. Sandhu has equipped the home as recommended and has frequently attended therapy with her husband, so she is prepared for a smooth transition.
1:45 p.m. Rehab Assistant
The conference ends earlier than scheduled, so I check in on Carol in my office doing aphasia therapy on the iPad with Mr. Horton. Carol is the speech therapy assistant I supervise who comes onto the unit in the afternoons. Speech assistants increase the intensity of therapy for patients, a critical factor in their recovery.
2:00 p.m. Group Therapy
Carol and I meet with four other patients in the conference room. They have a variety of speech, language, and cognitive impairments, but we work together as a group with each patient using their own strategies. Today we're playing a game that requires asking relevant questions, understanding categories, providing clues, remembering what has been asked, using logic to solve problems, and not blurting out the answer. Everyone is having so much fun they almost forget they're doing therapy.
3:00 p.m. Paperwork
While Carol teaches another patient how to use a communication book, I spend the last hour of my day typing up my assessment and treatment plan for Mr. Jones, as well as a discharge summary for Mr. Sandhu. Before leaving for the day, I set my schedule for tomorrow and log statistics about how I spent my time.
Some days are filled with more challenges than triumphs, but today was a good day. There are days when patients break down in tears, when families take out their grief as anger, when management enforces some unreasonable new policy, or when patients don't get better. However, the days when you get to be there for a patient's first words, to give the all-clear for the much-desired cheeseburger, or to receive the gratitude of a family who cannot thank you enough for helping them in a difficult time – those are the days that keep you coming back.
Megan brings her passion for helping people with acquired communication disorders to her work creating the Tactus Therapy apps.
Blogger Bio
Megan Sutton, MS, CCC-SLP is a certified and registered speech-language pathologist and a co-founder of Tactus Therapy Solutions, living and working in Vancouver, BC, Canada. She has over 10 years of clinical experience in inpatient rehab, intensive aphasia programs, acute, outpatient, subacute, long-term, and home-based care. Megan covers shifts at the local rehab centers whenever she can. Find her on Twitter at @TactusMegan or email megan@tactustherapy.com.
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By Megan Sutton|2017-06-01T11:03:17+00:00May 13th, 2015|News & Reviews, Speech-Language Professional Resource Center, Stroke|1 Comment
cheryl robinson May 25, 2015 at 8:36 am
my daughter is a young speechie at foothills in calgary, thus was very interesting!

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ELEX Review – Just Another Post-Apocalyptic Game
By May Alturason October 17, 2017
Developer Piranha Bytes, famous for releasing the Gothic and Risen series, announced on Gamescom 2015 that they will be releasing an "edgy, dark, uncompromising and complex" type of video game. Two years later, with heavy teasers and an acceptable trailer. The game is officially out! I don't really have a lot of expectations for this game since i haven't had any experience with either Gothic or Risen series. But little can be said about this game, unfortunately.
Platform Reviewed: PS4
Platforms Available: Xbox One, PC, PS4
Developer: Piranha Bytes
Publisher: THQ Nordic
This review is based on a review code provided by THQ Nordic.
Just like any other post apocalyptic type of video games right now – this happened after Earth, in game calls it Magalan, was struck by a comet. Resulting in catastrophic conditions thereafter, cities burned, megastructures destroyed, food sources being scarce rising death tolls in humans which brought about the ugly side of human nature – fighting for survival. After the comet has struck about its destruction, it left a precious and limited alien resource on the planet called Elex and this shall be the center of the upcoming events on the game. Megalan is now governed by four factions, which has their own strong opinion about Elex. Faction Alb, who consumes Elex to get rid of their emotions and gain special abilities and strengths. They decide on cold logic and believes that the weakling need to be sacrificed as a means to an end.
Faction Berserkers who looks like Vikings has found a way to convert Elex into mana and believes in cleansing Magalan by means of planting more trees to cleanse it from Elex and being close to nature. They call out anyone who is using any technology because they prefer using Magic. Faction Cleric believes it a grave sin to consume Elex. Instead uses this to power their machines and weapons – maybe even robots? Last faction is the Outlaws who lives on the wastelands who ravages and scavenges ruins for weapons and equipments to either sell or use it for themselves . They do not have laws like Berserkers or let their emotions get in their decisions. They just live their lives and believes that everything is up for the taking.
The story starts with the protagonist going on a mission which failed miserably and led to his utter execution. He was from an Alb faction and due to this failure, the consequence is death. I wanted to feel a lot of emotion; maybe sympathy for the character since the decision was uncalled for like it just came out of nowhere – no backstory or anything. Even feelings of retribution since as a faction where everyone should work together to achieve their goals, they didn't really give importance to a fellow comrade and just decided to kill him at the end. I also would like some flexibility on the games that I play, meaning Piranha Bytes should've given players a choice between female and male characters to add more connection to the game.
You couldn't even customize the face of the Protagonist! Cutscenes weren't as great as it should be, bugs were so consistent all throughout the gameplay that it got me thinking if I should continue playing. This happened when the Protagonist's spaceship landed in a terrain where it was just bare and pixelated and it made me think if I was playing a minecraft movie! Then suddenly after a few secs, trees, plants and grasses started popping out. While exploring this open world map, you meet this future Companion character named Duras. He will guide you to his world Edan, where Berserkers thrive and in need of extra hands. Conversations were a drag, good thing you can skip on those and still bugs were present! When either the Protagonist or Duras talk, voices are heard while the mouth stops moving.
It was both hilarious and frustrating to see. Combat system involves the Protagonist the ability to carry guns, bows and melee weapons such as swords, knives, axes and the such. The character battles with evolved dinosaurs or mutated rats as big as a dog to gather resources and to increase their experience that would give them experience points to spend on attributes that helps them survive in this unforgiving map. Still, battle mode is very clunky and I don't particularly appreciate it that every swing of a melee weapon whether normal or a heavy one and a quick dodge roll requires stamina.
It is challenging at first but it gets frustrating in the long run, especially beginning of the game where you really don't have the proper gear to protect your life. When you reach Edan, you are greeted with characters that will give you missions that will eventually help you with their in-game money to start buying the gear you need to survive but then again, you are given long useless conversation which drags the gameplay paired with a sticky mouth.
At any rate, with the downside given primarily it doesn't mean that this piece doesn't have it's hidden gems. Just like Bethesda's Fallout where your decisions has an impact on the game, your conversations will also have their own effect on a potential Companion, indicators will tell you if you have selected the correct response or correct action where your relationship either increases or decreases as a result. I haven't really played long enough to see the overall game play being affected by the decisions that I have made but still quite interesting to see that you can't just make any decisions impulsively. Collection of resources is also uncommon as I compare it with other RPGs since they actually blend on the background, they are not highlighted or anything similar to that. You don't even have a scanning device nor ability to see if you have resources nearby.
I think this is interesting since you will never know what you will get. Once when I was exploring this ruin, I thought a bottle located on top of the shelves is just nothing but actually it was a health potion and you wouldn't know this until you are close to the object and the same could be said with their plant resources where albeit you can brew after you have learned some alchemy. Choosing a faction is also interesting since deciding one will now lock the other factions since they despise each other. So you will never know what are the pros and cons in joining. Well, unless of course if you want to go through all of them in all five different walkthroughs! I think it's a nice addition to the game play since it would be interesting to know what you miss out if you didn't choose this faction.
To wrap up, the game feels under developed where clearly it needs more time. Graphics wise isn't something to be happy with it. It has a lot of bugs – clearly unfinished and combat system is something you don't want to look forward to. Trailer looked really nice but the game just failed to deliver what they mentioned in Gamescon. ELEX being acronyms of Eclectic, Lavish, Exhilarating and Xenial, flashy words but unfortunately it fell short on my expectations and I want to give it another chance but I feel like I will be wasting my time.
ELEX - Review
Score Definition
You better have to choose if it's worth spending your spare cash, because it might not be the game for you and it might be for others.
Decisions play a role in the gameplay
Clever resource gathering technique
Clunky/Limited Combat mode
Frequent bugs
Unrelatable characters


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EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) Protests continued on Wednesday in downtown Evansville as crowds gathered at the Civic Center.
Many protests have taken place in Evansville this week, including the largest over the weekend. Additional protests are also scheduled, including one scheduled on Saturday.
Mayor Winnecke says Governor Eric Holcomb has been in contact with him and says the city will be allowed additional resources if needed. But for now. EPD has the support of the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office and the Indiana State Police.
Miranda Meister will have more on this story.
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Michael Vincent Hayden, född 17 mars 1945 i Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, är en amerikansk militär och ämbetsman.

Michael Hayden var general i USA:s flygvapen, Han var också chef för CIA 2006-2009. Innan dess var han chef för National Security Agency 1999-2005.

Han nominerades av George W Bush som Director of the Central Intelligence Agency efter att Porter Goss avgått.

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One more plaintiff has signed on to the Abbott map deal.
The Mexican American Legislative Caucus is now joining the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in saying that the state-backed Congressional District 35, a proposed new district that runs from Austin to San Antonio, is "constitutionally permissible," according to the caucus's chairman, state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio.
The proposed District 35 does not have the backing of other plaintiff groups that have sued the state over its three redistricting maps, nor has it been sanctioned by the federal court in San Antonio that is hearing one of the redistricting cases. The court had asked the groups to work together to create a set of compromise maps.
The Mexican American Legislative Caucus on Friday also agreed on the constitutionality of a proposed congressional district in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, District 33.
BOR clarifies what this means.
[I]t is not true that MALC endorsed the version of CD-35 that MALDEF supports — rather, MALC's lawyers asserted that the MALDEF-supported version of CD-35 is not unconstitutional. They are not officially endorsing this version of the map at this time, merely stating that legally, they do not view CD-35 in the Abbott/MALDEF incarnation to be unconstitutional. That's a big difference than what was widely reported earlier today — that MALC is endorsing this version of CD-35.
The Travis County Plaintiffs and NAACP understandably still oppose this version of CD-35 given its impact on CD-25. Their argument is that the coalition of minority voters and white voters who also choose the minority voters' candidate form a legally protected cross-over district, and can't be split apart. This is the the same argument that led to a settlement over SD-10, so ideally any Congressional settlement should in turn restore CD-25 to an Austin cross-over district.
I'm not sure how much difference that makes in practice, but there it is. In the meantime, there are more briefs on those contested Congressional districts, and another Congressional map proposal from the Quesada plaintiffs. CDs 23 and 27 are also still in dispute.
The State House map remains in complete disarray. MALC said that the state is no longer negotiating with them as of Wednesday. BOR has a comprehensive look at the many points of contention, along with a plaintiffs' exhibit that lays out where minority communities were fractured and spread among Anglo-dominated districts, mostly in urban counties like Harris and Dallas but also in Fort Bend and Bell. The Perez plaintiffs have further objections as well. Harold Cook sums it all up.
Pretty much out of lame map-related puns at this time
[Wednesday] a couple of the (probably exhausted and flabbergasted) judges wondered aloud if the bulk of the courtroom squabbling regarding the map for the state House of Representatives is only about a couple of districts.
Well, no. It's not about whether there are 50 or 52 solidly minority districts. It's about minority Texans continuing to have a voice in the districts beyond the hard core 50. It's about the state's efforts to silence those voices in many more than two chunks of geography. And that, in turn, is about whether legislators who represent those minorities are able to participate in meaningful dialog on legislation, or whether those legislators, like in the most recent legislative session, merely look on as witnesses, as an artificially-inflated majority assaults their constituents by cutting public education by billions, harassing them with voter photo I.D. laws, or ignoring attempts to make health care affordable to folks in their neighborhoods.
Texas has a majority minority population. There are 150 seats in the state House. The squabbling in court should not be about whether 52(ish) of those 150 districts should be the geography in which minority voices are heard.
If you're the "quantify it" type, in addition to those 52(ish) seats, minority citizens were also decisive in electing their candidates of choice in House districts 57, 93, 96, 101, 102, 107, and 133. Minority citizens are also naturally emerging as effective deciders of their own fate in districts 26, 105, 132, and 138.
So if the remaining argument is about "just a couple of state House districts," it's only because lawyers cleverly, or foolishly, narrowed the focus. It's not because minority voters in many, many other areas of Texas evaporated, were raptured, or suddenly moved to Detroit after Clint Eastwood inspired them during the Superbowl. And while the priorities of those Texans are just as real as the priorities of those living in Wendy Davis' district, or the proposed new metroplex Congressional district, their communities are being fragmented in the exact same way, and for the same purpose: to silence their voices.
Late Friday, the San Antonio court ordered briefings on the Abbott plan (Plan H303) for the State House, due on Tuesday.
The court's order said that it wanted briefing on any district that was different from the plan enacted by the Texas Legislature (H283).
There's still a lot of work to be done. The Senate map agreement felt like progress, but we're still miles away from the finish line.
State agrees to leave SD10 unchanged
The numbers in the "deal"
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Q: jQuery MegaMenu hover setTime out/hoverIntent problem I am trying to put a jQ MegaMenu on a my web page.
I used Geek Tantra's plugin (http://www.geektantra.com/2009/09/jquery-mega-menu/) and did some minor changes from there.
Problems - the menu is in the middle of the screen - so I need to users to be able to pass the mouse thru the nav menu wihtout activating the menus.
I tried to use jq hoverIntent plug-in - but this broke the ability to use the megamenu window that opens it. Now it closes too soon and the menus don't really behave properly.
Sample of this here...http://jdshipengrover.com/megamenutest/megamenu-intent.html
I also tried the setTimeout jq function - but now the menu opens up whenever the trigger is pass over - it doesn't know to not open the menu...
Example here...http://jdshipengrover.com/megamenutest/megamenu-timeout.html.
I'm so close to having what I need - I just don't know how to get there.
Any help would be appreciated.
If you need me to post the actual js here - let me know.
Thanks for any help.

A: Well - no response on this, but that's OK.
I went back and rebuilt it from scratch using the hoverIntent JQ addon and seem to be behaving properly across browser.
I have no idea how I fixed it, but I did.
Sometimes you just have to start over.

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John Shepherd Wiki: Facts about the Subject of Netflix's "John Was Trying to Contact Aliens"
By: Caroline John - Published: August 17, 2020 at 9:38 am
John Shepherd in John Was Trying to Contact Aliens. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix/2020
About John Shepherd
Birth September 9, 1951
Address Kewadin, Michigan
Owns Shepherd & Associates
Hometown Bellaire, Michigan
Shows John Was Trying to Contact Aliens
John Was Trying to Contact Aliens is Netflix's most gripping documentary that premieres on August 20. The special is a biography of John Shepherd, a Michigan man who built a device that transmitted earth music to the stars with the hopes of communicating with alien life. Shepherd is perhaps the most interesting subject of a documentary. This John Shepherd wiki introduces this man who will probably go down in pop culture history.
John Shepherd's Education
John Shepherd was born on September 9, 1951 and is a native of Michigan. He is from Bellaire, but now resides in Kewadin since moving there in 2011.
Shepherd said he grew up on TV shows like The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, and One Step Beyond. "Shows like these left me with a sense of awe and wonder about the universe we live within. I spend time contemplating," he writes on his personal Facebook page.
According to his LinkedIn, he earned his high school diploma from the American School in Illinois. He specialized in industrial electronics technology and learned technician skills.
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John Shepherd's Career
Although Shepherd is famous for his attempt at communicating with aliens, he does have a day job. His broadcasting device proves he's a skilled self-taught electronics engineer.
He is the owner and CEO of Shepherd And Associates, which he operates from Kewadin. His company offers website designing, building, and hosting services as well as R&D.
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Shepherd collaborated with John Litrenta, Al Werth, Mark Hershoren, and Oak, to create Vinyl Nights. The group of vinyl records enthusiasts organizes events where others could gather to enjoy a night of listening to vinyl records.
Shepherd designed the website for Vinyl Nights. On it, he describes himself as a "music enthusiast, photographer, artist, electronics system and set builder."
John Shepherd's Appearances and Features on Shows
Shepherd claims to have spotted a UFO once when he was young. Inspired by that sighting and his love for the related sci-fi television shows, Shepherd used his electronic knowledge to design and build a contraption that could communicate with the extra-terrestrials.
With his grandparents' encouragement, he started Project S.T.R.A.T (Special Telemetry Research and Tracking). He began designing and building the device in 1972, when he was 21, in his grandparents' old home.
Shepherd converted the house into a home-built lab that he describes as "a mix between a high-voltage accelerator laboratory and a radio station." The heart of the device was a 60,000-volt deep space radio transmitter about two stories high.
He spent 30 years transmitting music and cultural programs on a low-frequency band through his device to the stars. The lab had the means to monitor any possible responses from extra-terrestrial intelligence.
The lack of response from aliens led to Shepherd halting the broadcasts in 1998. Because of the lack of funding, his equipment was dismantled and Project S.T.R.A.T was moved to another location where it slowly wound down.
Although John's search for little green people didn't work out, it made him famous. Shepherd's story made him the subject of documentaries, TV shows, news features, and other outlets.
He has been interviewed on Searching For UFOs (Turner Broadcasting, June 29, 1997), Joan Rivers (1989), PM Magazine (1980), and Look At Us with Richard Crenna (1980). He was also interviewed for several publications.
Netflix filmed him for his biographical documentary, wrapping up in 2018. John Was Trying to Contact Aliens premiered in August 2020 after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.
By Shepherd's own admission, his search for extra-terrestrial life made him very lonely in his personal life. But his alien radio station has ended and Netflix teases Shepherd "makes a different connection here on Earth."
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What is the agenda of the Bennett-Lapid government? – analysis
in Mobile Home, International Press
How does one select a director-general, cabinet secretary, national security adviser and top foreign policy and economic advisers not knowing if one will indeed become the prime minister?
https://www.jpost.com/-By HERB KEINON
Presumptive Incoming Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid are photographed together in the Kfar Maccabiah Hotel in Ramat Gan after announcing the formation of a new coalition, on June 3, 2021.
(photo credit: COURTESY YESH ATID)
When US President Joe Biden took office on January 20, he hit the ground running. The man whom his predecessor, Donald Trump, nicknamed "sleepy," proved anything but, and in his first 100 days in office, he pushed forward and unveiled several highly significant programs.
These included the passing of a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill into law, succeeding in getting 200 million coronavirus shots into people's arms, and unveiling a multitrillion-dollar infrastructure plan that will rival Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
The 78-year-old president, who many pigeonholed as someone who would suffice with being a transitional president, gave notice in his first 100 days that he hoped to be a transformative one.
Biden was able to push forward with his agenda for two main reasons. First, he had an agenda.
Second, he had a staff in place for months, getting ready for the day when he would move into the Oval Office, and they would begin to implement plans and projects they had been imagining for months.
And then there is Israel in 2021.
The political uncertainty here, which will extend to the very last moment a government needs to be sworn in by, precludes much strategic planning.
Consider this: On May 13, sources close to Yamina head Naftali Bennett were quoted as saying that as a result of the fighting with Hamas, the rioting of Arab Israelis, and the reaction – or lack of reaction – from Arab-Israeli politicians, he was not going to join the anti-Netanyahu coalition backed by United Arab Party (Ra'am) head Mansour Abbas.
Three weeks later, Bennett signed a coalition agreement with Abbas and Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid, and as early as Wednesday, the new government may win a Knesset vote of confidence.
In other words, from one day to the next, Bennett went from someone who said he would not join the anti-Netanyahu government, to being the man who will lead it for the first two years.
It is highly unlikely, because of that very uncertainty, that he had teams working around the clock drawing up plans for what he wants to accomplish during his first three months in office – not knowing until very recently that he would have a first three months in office at all. The way Israel's system works precludes that type of thorough planning.
It also precludes much of an agenda for the first 100 days, because how can you draw up an agenda if you don't know until the last minute which parties will be in the coalition?
But forget the big-idea issues for a minute. How about those smaller, more mundane ones?
How does one select a director-general, cabinet secretary, national security adviser and top foreign-policy and economic advisers not knowing if one will indeed become the prime minister?
The prime ministerial role is being thrust upon Bennett relatively last-minute – so those decisions will have to made swiftly, on the run.
So much energy and effort in this country goes into just trying to establish a government, that questions such as how the prime minister will actually run the government and what it hopes to accomplish right off the bat are skirted to the side.
In statements over recent weeks, neither Lapid nor Bennett have spoken of grandiose visions or strategies for when they come into office, partly because the wide ideological differences among the eight component pirates of their coalition preclude them from trying to pursue grand goals.
Rather, the emphasis in their statements has been on simply giving the country industrial quiet, having ministers go to work and deal with the issues they are mandated with – transportation, education, tourism, housing, social welfare – without all the political infighting, drama, and machinations that have characterized the state of affairs here since the last stable government fell in December 2018.
This government's first line of business needs to be restoring the public's faith in the government and its ability to deal with the issues that prop up on a day-to-day basis in a meaningful and responsible way.
The first place to start in doing that is to pass the budget, a basic prerequisite for a well-functioning government. This step would go far in giving the citizens a sense that the ministries are working for them.
The second key line of business will be to manage ties with the US. It is likely that within weeks of being sworn in, Bennett will fly to the US for his first meeting in the White House.
While the Prime Minister's Office traditionally runs and manages the relationship with the US, Netanyahu took that to a whole different level, effectively sidelining the Foreign Ministry as a salient player in dealing with Washington.
Because of the unique structure of the Bennett-Lapid government, with Lapid to serve for the next two years as foreign minister and then replace him in the Prime Minister's Office, the way relations with the US were managed through the Prime Minister's Office under Netanyahu may change, with Lapid likely to take on a greater role.
And there could be a benefit in this.
Netanyahu has rhetorically asked the public repeatedly over the last few weeks if Bennett or Lapid could be trusted to stand up to Biden when it comes to Iran and building in the settlements and in Jerusalem.
The very question, however, reveals a confrontational mindset; a presumption of a need to clash. Maybe there are other ways to finesse the issues. Netanyahu does have a 40-year relationship with the president, which is something that has redounded in Israel's favor. But he also carries with him a lot of baggage.
Bennett and Lapid might not have the same history with Biden, but they also don't carry the same baggage.
Granted, Bennett is laden with the tag of being pro-settlement and a hard-line right-winger, something that will not endear him to the Bernie Sanders-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wing of the party.
But Lapid does not have that baggage, and he might be able to find an attentive ear among Democrats who are viscerally opposed to Netanyahu because of his public confrontation with president Barack Obama over the Iranian nuclear deal.
Those representatives who were allergic to Netanyahu are likely negatively predisposed to Bennett already because of pro-annexation and pro-settlement positions he has articulated in the past. They may, however, be more receptive to Lapid.
But for that to work, the paradigm of how Israel-US relations have been run over the last 12 years will have to change, and Bennett and Lapid will need to work in harmony – the key prerequisite, after all, for this government even making it to its first 100 days.
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'It's an Ugly Number:' CEO Michael Corbat on Why Citi Revealed the Pay Gap Data Few Banks Want to Share
Claire Zillman
Fortune January 23, 2019
Citigroup last week made a blunt admission that's rare among U.S. corporations. It revealed that, on the whole, women at the firm globally earn 29% less than men. In the U.S., Citi said minority employees earned 7% less than non-minorities.
The U.K. recently mandated that large employers reveal gender pay gap data, but U.S. companies are not required to do so, so Citi's report was an instance of radical transparency.
In going public with the figures, of course, Citi introduced itself to criticism that tighter-lipped companies shield themselves from. So why make the disclosure?
Perhaps most importantly, there was shareholder pressure to do so.
Last year, Arjuna Capital convinced Citi—along with Bank of America and Wells Fargo—to reveal pay gap data after arguing for more information on compensation. When Citi released an "adjusted" pay gap that revealed that men and women with the same job title, education, and experience earned roughly the same pay, Arjuna filed a shareholder proposal that Citi report its a median firm-wide gender pay gap in a more straightforward fashion.
The resulting 29% figure is "an ugly number on the surface," Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat admitted in a Bloomberg interview on the outskirts of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday.
"But you really have to get below it; you can't fix it until you get below it and until you acknowledge what it is," he said.
What the median gap revealed, Corbat said, is not an imbalance at the firm in terms of female representation. In fact, the bank is more than 50% female overall. What gap did show, however, was an "imbalance at the senior job and leadership level," Corbat said. Men populate high-paid roles; women are concentrated lower on the corporate ladder, where pay is less.
"You're not going to fix that overnight; you're not going to fix that by hiring externally, and you're not going to simply fix it organically," he said. Instead, the bank has set a goal of upping representation at its assistant vice president to managing director tiers to 40% female and 8% African American in the U.S. by the end of 2021.
The bank has also committed that new classes of hires who are "balanced" in terms of representation. A bigger challenge now is "creat[ing] the right environment so we're not simply—through attrition—becoming imbalanced again," Corbat said. "Can we create the right work leave programs? Can we create the right benefits? Can we create the right atmosphere where we've got the ability not just to attract but retain those people over time."
Crunching the data was a start.
"You…build those metrics into how people are evaluate. We have a saying that you are what you measure," he said. "If you're held accountable against the right things, you'll get the right outcomes."
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Q: Is JOIN less efficient than two sql queries? I have two tables
Table A (Primary Key is ID)
id \ firstname \ lastname \ zip \ state
Table B
some_field\ business name \ zip \ id
I need to get the first name and last name associated with the id using the id from Table B (note this is the same id as in Table A)
I did a JOIN on Table A and Table B so that I could get the first name and last name
A friend of mine said I should not use JOIN this way and that I should of just done two separate queries. Does that make any sense?
Does JOIN do anything that makes the process slower than two seperate queries? How could two seperate queries ever be faster than one query?

A: Q: Does this make sense?
A: No, without some valid reasons, it doesn't make sense.
Q: Does JOIN do anything that makes the process slower than two separate queries?
A: Yes, there are some things that can make a join slower, so we can't rule out that possibility. We can't make a blanket statement that "two separate queries will be faster" or that a "join will be slower".
An equijoin of two tables that are properly indexed is likely to be more efficient. But performance is best gauged by actually executing the statements, at expected production volumes of data, and observing and measuring performance.
Some of the things that could potentially make a join slower... complicated join predicate (involving columns wrapped in functions, inequality comparisons, compound predicates combined with OR, multiple tables involved where the optimizer has more join paths and operations to consider to come up with an execution plan. Or, a join that produces a hugh jass intermediate result that is later collapsed with a GROUP BY. (In short, it is possible to write a horrendously inefficient statement that uses a join operation. But it is usually not the join operation that is the culprit. This list of things is just a sampling, it's not an exhaustive list.)

A JOIN is the normative pattern for the use case you describe. It's not clear why your friend recommended that you avoid a JOIN operation. what reason your friend gives.
If your main query is primarily against (the unfortunately named) Table_B, and you are wanting to do a lookup of first_name and last_name from Table_A, the JOIN is suited to that.
If you are only returning a one row (or a few rows) from Table_B, then an extra roundtrip for another query to get first_name and last_name won't be a problem.  But if you are returning thousands for rows from Table_B, then executing thousands of separate, singleton queries against Table_A is going to kill performance and scalability.
If your friend is concerned that a value in the foreign key column in Table_B won't match a value in the id column of Table_A, or there is a NULL value in the foreign key column, your friend would be right to point out that an inner join would prevent the row from Table_B from being returned.
In that case, we'd use an outer join, so we can return the row from Table_B even when a matching row from Table_A is not found.
Your friend might also be concerned about performance of the JOIN operation, possibly because your friend has been burned by not having suitable indexes defined.
Assuming that a suitable index exists on Table_A (with a leading column id). and that id is UNIQUE in Table_A... then performance of a single query with a simple equijoin between a single column foreign key and single column primary key will likely be more efficient than running a bloatload of separate statements.
Or, perhaps your friend is concerned with issue with an immature ORM framework, one that doesn't efficiently handle the results returned from a join query.
If the database is being implemented in way that the two tables could be on separate database servers, then using a JOIN would fly in the face of that design. And if that was the design intent, a separation of the tables, then the application should also be using a separate connection for each of the two  tables.
Unless your friend can provide some specific reason for avoiding a JOIN operation, my recommendation is that you ignore his advice.
(There has to be a good reason to avoid a JOIN operation. I suspect that maybe your friend doesn't understand how relational databases work.)

A: In your case it doesn't make any big difference because you just have an id as a foreign key on it which anyways has an index. Since it's indexed, it will be efficient and having a join on that is the best thing.
It becomes more complicated based on what you want, what are the fields and what you want to accomplish etc.
So, yes, no big difference in your case.


If you could spend a day at a camp for families displaced by the battle to liberate Mosul, you probably would be drawn to the children. There are thousands of them—beautiful children made in God's image.
Samaritan's Purse has staff in multiple camps comforting the children, distributing food to them, praying for them, and generally looking out for their good.
WASIM* WAS REQUIRED TO GROW A BEARD UNDER ISIS IN ORDER TO GET HIS DRIVER'S LICENSE. HE SHAVED IT OFF AFTER FLEEING TO ESCAPE THE FIGHTING. HE'S NOW AT A CAMP WITH HIS WIFE AND FOUR CHILDREN.
If you were there, you might want to ask the kids some questions, and curiosity would probably dictate that you ask them about the past two years of terror—29 months under the tyrannical rule of a few thousand ISIS militants.
When ISIS first came into town, the group killed Wasim's two brothers. ISIS suspected ties to the Iraqi military. The four children—two boys and two girls—lost their uncles.
Under ISIS, Wasim had to grow a beard. No beard meant no driver's licence or maybe 18 lashes and a fine. ISIS took his car anyway. They also took 40,000 Iraqi dinars, a kilogram of gold, and two cars from a surgeon in their neighbourhood.
Hamal also pointed out that the foreign ISIS fighters—from Chechnya, for example—lived the high life. They had good food and air conditioning, he said. They planned to become suicide bombers. It is difficult to imagine the perversity of a society—and its chilling effect on young children— where the idea of blowing one's self up in a mass murder is rewarded.
Noorah* is Wasim's eldest daughter, a little younger than Hamal. She was unimpressed with the enforced dress code of ISIS. 'They forced the girls to wear the veil,' she said. 'I didn't like the veil, so I didn't go outside.' There were also rules about wearing gloves and the kind of trousers that could be worn. Noorah also didn't like when ISIS banged on the door monthly and demanded money for utilities from her parents.
Because there were so many rules, people didn't actually do much. You couldn't watch TV, except ISIS TV—best to not turn the set on. If you were caught watching forbidden shows, Hamal said you would be fined 1 million Iraqi dinars and your satellite would be broken. The children were frightened to go out and play, and the parents were too scared to let them. They just stayed inside most of the time—all of them.
There was little work to do—people lost their government jobs—and many didn't have money to spend. They started going through their savings for basic necessities. Wasim was a herbal doctor, but ISIS restricted what plants he could use, so he just stopped. His family secured enough to eat by draining money they'd put away, but he said his neighbours did not fare as well. Some went hungry.
There were some things they were encouraged to do. Every evening, they could go watch the glories of ISIS on big-screen TV in the centre of Gogjali: beheadings, war, etc. Kids could go to school to learn to shoot guns and use other weapons and get brainwashed with ISIS ideology. 'What's the point of that?' Wasim said. His children have not been in school for two years. This family is just one of thousands who have suffered years under ISIS's reign of terror. They will never get that time back. And they need time to heal and to recover from the rule of fear. But they are alive, and Samaritan's Purse staff members are working in their camps every day. Our God is one who knows every hair on our head (and on our faces)—and He doesn't just know things. He cares about us. Jesus' interaction with the little children in Matthew 19:14 ('Let the little children come to Me') should confirm beyond all doubt that He dearly loves the small ones in our midst. Take a moment right now to pray for the children of this camp. God has made youngsters quite resilient—already many, but not all, can laugh and play. Pray for their safety and physical well-being, for their emotional recovery, and for our staff to demonstrate just how great the Father's love is for them.*Names changed to protect the security of these individuals and their relatives.
Read up to date news of how Samaritan's Purse are helping.Read more about our Mosul relief efforts in a Q&A with one of our team on the ground.


Indian weddings are kind of on two extremes when it comes to booking windows. The larger weddings with 300+ guests range from 10-12 months and smaller weddings with 150-250 guests range from 2-5 months. More about smaller Indian weddings below. Right now let's talk in more detail about booking windows.
The other aspect to know about the booking window is the sales cycle. Couples are booking their wedding anywhere from 10-12 months out but the sales cycle with the venue can last anywhere from 2 to 8 weeks.
Summer through Labor Day are definitely the peak Indian wedding season. As couples like to take advantage of outdoor ceremonies. Venues prefer that too because for Hindu and Jain weddings that include the ceremonial fire, it's just better to be outdoors, even though most venues can do it indoors as well.
But the fact is Indian weddings are happening year round. The only slower period is from Christmas through January.
Since Indian weddings are multi-day affairs, all of the 3 day weekends are very popular – President's Day, Memorial Day, July 4th (if it falls on a 3 day weekend), Labor Day, Thanksgiving.
A year ago, if you'd asked me about Indian weddings with 150 guests, I would have responded with, "there's no such thing". But this year, in 2018, I've seen a shift. ShaadiShop has received at least 2 inquiries every month, thus far, for 150ish person Indian weddings.
The great thing about smaller Indian weddings is that they usually have a shorter booking window which for any venue is like icing on the cake in terms of top-line revenue. And because they're smaller even if a venue has another event that day, they might still be able to accommodate another.
Smaller Indian weddings are correlated to shorter booking windows. And it's useful for you to know that the consumer's mentality changes in this scenario too. Because the event is coming up soon, they're focused on securing a venue vs. spending a lot of time shopping around. Last month we booked a 100-person wedding in 14 days. That's light speed for an Indian wedding!
same setup – banquet rounds, bar, buffet tables, dance floor etc.
Pay attention to your competition – it's increasing.
Run short term promotions. Fill up open dates by running short term ads.
Work with sister properties to cross promote each other.
Run promotions for three day weekends – maybe don't lower price but differentiate by adding value.
Don't just focus on booking weddings – but engagements too.
Each of these segments has unique needs and above we've described these so you can create your offerings accordingly. Contact us about marketing your venue direct to the Indian community.
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