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copy of Pochette bunny
Price €18.00
Petite Mila is above all a human story. That of Caroline, graphic designer and follower of a healthier, more "slow" lifestyle.
Evolving with her time, Caroline's creations are essentially inspired by her travels and nature.
Tous nos textiles ont la certification GOTS. Cette norme est gage de qualité quant aux procédés de production et de transformation du coton biologique.
Give priority to know-how rather than to do it quickly.
Produce less, but better by creating small series. Choose natural and sustainable materials.
Simplicity and authenticity. Minimalist graphic forms inspired by plants

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Hello readers,
It's again that time of the month to share with you what I have read this past April. On April I read 6 books, 5 of them were physical books and one was an audiobook. I enjoyed all of the books that I read, most of them I gave them a four or five rating:
'By your side' by Kasie West. I listened to the audiobook of this one and it took me a while to get used to the voice of the actress playing Autumn, I didn't like it too much. As for the story is was okay though I was expecting something more. I gave this book
'The conspiracy of Us' by Maggie Hall. This book was freaking amazing. I loved everything about it. I have a full review on it that you can read here it gave me a reading slump that I hope to get over this month. I gave this book
'All fall down' by Ally Carter. Another book that didn't know much when Istarted reading it and ended up loving it. I did have a problem with the writing as the author tended to repeat (a lot) some phrases, that's why I didn't give it a 5. I gave this book
'PS I liked you' by Kasie West. I received this book in my owlcrate box back in August and it was my first Kasie West book to read. It was an addictive and engaging read. I gave this book
' The antique house murder' by Leslie Nagel. This is the second book in the Oakwood mystery series and it was as good as the first one. It was action packed and the mystery itself was complex and totally unexpected. I gave this book
As for my TBR for May I am expecting to receive such amazing books this month, hopefully they will come in the mail this week. I don't know if I'm going to have time to read them all, but as I'm participating in the read-a-thon Bout of Books who knows? These are some of the books I would probably read this month:
Have you read any of these? In that case, which one should I start with?


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You are invited to the Annual General Meetings of both the Greater Edmonton Library Association (GELA) and the Library and Information Studies Alumni Association (LISAA) on Wednesday, May 1, 2019 from 6-7:30pm
A short information panel about the GELA Prison Committee will follow the formal program and light refreshments will be served.
LOCATION: Edmonton Public Library Strathcona Branch
6:00-6:15pm LISAA and GELA Member Sign-in
6:15-7:00pm GELA AGM
7:00-7:15pm Refreshment Break
GELA Prison Committee Panel to Follow
The 2019 GELA AGM Package can be found here: 2019 GELA AGM Meeting Package
Looking to get more involved and passionate about the library and Information community? Nominate yourself for a GELA executive position! We will be accepting nominations from the floor for the following positions:
- Vice-President/President Elect/Past President (3 year commitment)
- Publicity Councillor (2 year commitment)
- Program Councillor (2 year commitment) (2 positions)
- Student Representative from University of Alberta SLIS (1 year commitment) (2 positions)
- Student Representative from MacEwan University LIT program (1 year commitment) (2 positions)
We are looking forward to seeing you there!


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Reasons Why You Should Hire Professional Cleaning Services
You should consider hiring the professional cleaning companies if you want to escape the task of cleaning your workplace. You should hire the experts to help in dealing with the complicated tasks that are involved in the cleaning process. The need for the cleaning services has led to the establishment of companies that render professional cleaning services. The companies usually offer the services at a fee but be sure that you will realize value for your money. Therefore, you should identify a suitable cleaner and avoid the tedious task. Here are some of the advantages of hiring the professional cleaners.
One of the reasons why you should hire the cleaners is the expertise. The professional cleaning companies usually render their services using a large team of cleaners. The competition of the industry has forced the companies to invest in improving the quality of services to be rendered. Therefore, a majority of the companies have invested in training their workforce to acquire the needed cleaning skills and knowledge. You will thus be sure of the high degree of cleanliness if you hire the cleaners.
The other reason to hire the cleaners is that of the existence of the needed cleaning tools and pieces of equipment. You should know that the market is flooded with a wide variety of cleaning tools which might be expensive to purchase. Hence, you should avoid the budget of the buying the tools that you will not utilize maximally. The key to achieving high standards of cleanliness is hiring a company that has excellent and advanced cleaning tools. With the professional cleaners you will also get to avoid hiring the needed tools for the job.
The other benefit that comes with hiring professional cleaning services is that you will get services that are tailored. Before you hire the companies, you will be required to communicate regarding the nature of services that you will need. The communication will help in ensuring satisfaction regarding the quality of services that you get. The cleaning can be done in the morning before the employees' arrival so that you are not inconvenienced in any way.
The other advantages that you will enjoy are time and cost saving. The speedy work is possible because of the knowledgeability and experience of the workforce. However, if you choose to do it yourself, you might take several hours. Hence, if you want to enjoy the above-discussed benefits, then you should hire a professional cleaning company.
How I Became An Expert on Cleaners


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WPG Proposed to Invest WT through Tender Offer
WPG Proposed to Invest WT through Tender Offer
Date of Announcement: November 12th, 2019
A decision has been made by the board of WPG Holdings ("WPG", TWSE: 3702) today (i.e., November 12th, 2019) to acquire a maximum number of 177,110,000 ordinary shares of WT Microelectronics Co., Ltd. ("WT", TWSE: 3036), representing approximately thirty percent (30.0%) of the issued and outstanding shares thereof ("Max Quantity of Shares"), at a price of 45.8 New Taiwan Dollars per share through a tender offer (the "Tender Offer"), the offer period of which will commence from nine o'clock (9:00am) in the morning of November 13th, 2019 to three-thirty in the afternoon (3:30pm) of December 12th, 2019.
The minimum number of shares to be acquired in the Tender Offer is 29,516,800 shares, representing approximately five percent (5.0%) of the issued and outstanding shares of WT. The condition of the Tender Offer will be deemed fulfilled once the number of shares held by shareholders accepting the offer exceeds such minimum number. WPG will then proceed with the Tender Offer to the extent not exceeding the Max Quantity of Shares. In case the number of shares held by shareholders accepting the offer exceeds the Max Quantity of Shares, WPG will acquire the shares from all accepting shareholders pro rata according to the formula specified in the Tender Offer Prospectus.
The Tender Offer is basically financial purpose oriented. WPG has long acquired in-depth knowledge in the industry of electronic parts and components distribution, which WT is a part of. In the past few years, WT has demonstrated steady performance and has been making stable profit. With its average return on equity of around 13.5% and average dividend yield of around 6% during the preceding 2 years, WT is considered a viable investment target and can lead to reasonable financial return in the long run. WPG expects WT to continue its stable business performance as it has demonstrated to its investors, so as to receive steady financial returns and launch opportunities for friendly dialogue with WT. WPG has no intention to influence the operations of WT except for the protection of shareholder rights and interests.
With the trade war between US and China, all industries (including electronic parts and components distributors in Taiwan) face severe challenges both internally and externally. In view of this, WPG has been planning on how it could utilize new technology and new methodology to create new value in the next 10-30 years, from smart business logistics to smart manufacturing logistics, focusing on client needs and building a collaborative environment to face the challenges in the new era.
There are a wide variety of innovative measures for WPG to adopt in response to the changes of the environment - whether to integrate resources, to promote digital transformation, to strengthen the financial strength, or to invest in good targets, all of which can serve to build a collaborative environment and promote the stable growth of WPG.
As a leading distributor of semiconductor parts and components with in-depth knowledge and strength in supply chain management for the semiconductor industry, to smoothly ride through this wave of global industrial and economic turmoil, WPG looks forward to, through the contemplated equity investment, receiving steady financial returns and launching opportunities for friendly dialogue with WT.
WPG press contact: Cliff Yuan / Zoe Peng
Contact number (direct line): 886-2-7712-5268 / 886-2-7712-5262
(for relevant information of WPG, please visit www.WPGholdings.com)


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The Clee Hill bird group was established in February 2012 by Leo Smith with the initial aim of surveying the local area for lapwing, curlew and other target bird species. Such surveys have been completed each year since (see reports below), and the group will be repeating the same survey again each year in the foreseeable future. The bird group will also develop other activities and events as members wish.
Meetings/Activities 2020
The current situation has meant that we have had to cancel any planned meetings.
The Bird survey for 2020 will go ahead. Government guidance is that people still need exercise, and outdoor activities provide it, as long as social contact with other people is minimised. You can't get much more self – isolated than on Clee Hill!!! However, it's obviously up to you whether you wish to participate or not. See the Bird Group Report 2019 for details on what is involved.
Anyone who wishes to take part should contact Leo Smith. We need more helpers so please get involved if you can.
Meetings/Activities 2019
Bird Group Planning Meeting Monday 25th March 2019 at 7.30pm
Recreation Rooms, 22a High Street, Clee Hill Village (next to the Village Post Office and Stores)
Results of the Curlews, Lapwings and Other Birds Survey 2012 – 18
Arrangements for the 2019 Survey (including who does which square)
Curlew nest protection and chick monitoring project
Barn Owl Nest Box Scheme
Monitoring Swift nest sites
Other events in 2019
Bird Walk Probably weekend of 6 – 7 April 2019 at 9.30am (date to be agreed at Planning Meeting)
If you're interested, but can't get to the meeting, contact Chris for details after 25th March. (Leader: Leo Smith). Meet at Cleeton St Mary Church. (OS Grid ref. SO611786).
A walk around the local pasture fields (good chance of seeing and / or hearing Curlew), and then onto the common (good chance of Kestrel, Red Kite, Stonechat, and Other Target Species).
This walk will also provide practical training for people who want to help with the Curlew, Lapwing and Other Birds Survey. Finish around 1.00pm.
Bird Walk for Bird Song – 12th May 2019
(Leader: Gareth Thomas) Meet at The Novers car park (on the right on the way downhill on the B4214 south from Clee Hill village at OS Grid ref. SO597738).
See, listen to, and identify the birds singing in the Novers Limeworks Wood.
Finish around 9.15am.
All welcome
Curlew and Lapwing Surveying
Lapwing and Curlew are declining rapidly, in the Clee Hill area and elsewhere. The Bird Group set out to find out how many are left here. We also looked for another 19 target species. Most of these birds are easy to recognise, so volunteers needed interest and enthusiasm rather than expertise. They were asked to visit an Ordnance Survey map square three times between the end of March and mid June, for around three hours each visit. Survey maps and instructions were provided, and some joined us on an outdoor practical training session before the start.
Lapwing and Curlew survey 2012-2018
We have been looking for local Curlews since 2012, when we found around 13 pairs.
- Full detailed reports on the 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 surveys compiled by Leo Smith are available here:
2012 Report 2013 Report 2014 Report 2015 Report 2016 Report
2017 Report – Full 2017 Report – Summary Bird Group Report 2018
Everyone interested in birds is welcome at all meetings and events.
Anyone who wishes to take part should contact Leo Smith. We need more helpers so please get involved if you can.
Barn Owls
For more information on helping local barn owls and getting involved in a nest box scheme please view this document. Please let us know about any confirmed local sightings of barn owls; contact Chris, email: email@example.com.
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The Florida Gators fell to the Florida State Seminoles 66-55 Tuesday night in the Sunshine Showdown. The Gators now sit at 4-2 on the season.
Highlights from tonight's game vs. FSU! 🐊🏀⤵ pic.twitter.com/FlU788bljN
— Gators Women's Basketball (@GatorsWBK) November 27, 2019
Gators Show Fight
At one point in the first quarter, Florida trailed the Seminoles 21-8. Throughout the whole contest, the Noles led the way. However, the Gators continued to fight to keep themselves within arm's reach.
FSU exploded for 25 points in the first quarter. They shot the ball 12-21 (57.1 percent). However, in the second and third quarters, the guests struggled to score the ball, allowing the Gators a chance to come back. In those two quarters, the Seminoles scored 21 total points on 9-28 (32.1 percent) from the field.
Meanwhile, Florida wasn't shooting the ball particularly well either. Despite shooting 31.6 percent from the floor in both the second and third quarters, the Gators managed to cut what was once a 13-point deficit to just two points at several stages of the third quarter.
Heading into the fourth quarter, the score was 46-44 in FSU's favor. However, much like in the opening quarter, Florida State found its shooting touch again. They outscored the Gators 20-11 to take the game.
Individual Stats
Kiki Smith scored 14 points to lead the team. After putting away 12 in the first half, she landed awkwardly early on in the second and missed most of the third quarter.
Zada Williams and Ariel Johnson both scored 12 points each. Williams secured a double-double with 11 total boards; five offensive and six defensive.
No one scored from the bench.
Although it wasn't a great shooting display from the Gators, there are some positives that Coach Cam Newbauer can take from the game.
Florida only turned the ball over eight times. Heading into the game, the Gators averaged 17.4 turnovers per game.
In addition, the Gators kept it within two points for much of the game against a top-15 opponent while shooting just under 33 percent from the floor.
Hung tough. Fought hard.
Looking ahead to Sunday👀 pic.twitter.com/FzCfdiGwqV
— Gators Women's Basketball (@GatorsWBK) November 27, 2019
What's Next?
Florida's next game is against Florida A&M on Sunday at 2 p.m. in Exactech Arena.
For more of the latest, follow @ChompTalkand @JEricksonReport on Twitter.


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The first time I ran across growth marketing in San Francisco, I was a little confused. Doesn't every marketer want growth? The term felt faddish and like a new name for something marketers already were doing.
The more I kept seeing the term, however, the more I realized that it was less about a new spin on an old concept and more about harnessing tech and cultural trends today in the service of marketing.
Growth marketing — also known as growth hacking — is an approach to marketing where tiny, often unconventional marketing experiments are tried on an ongoing basis and expanded when they help drive growth for a business. It is a form or real-time marketing that borrows from the hacker and startup ethos, and relies on the precise metrics now available to marketers via online tech.
It also happens to be part of the marketing mix that helped get firms such as Dropbox and Airbnb off the ground.
Whether growth marketing is a fad or not, it is a marketing philosophy for our present moment in history — and a great way to approach marketing on a budget. If you want to give growth marketing a try, here are some of the foundational practices that make it possible.
Try the Untraditional
Best practices are good, but they don't lead to breakthrough innovation and experimentation, keys to growth marketing.
One of the first elements of growth marketing is experimenting with untraditional tactics and testing conventional wisdom. Fail fast is the mantra (sound familiar?), so ignore everything you've been taught about marketing and go see if something drives growth instead of assuming you know what works and what doesn't.
Experiment and Adjust
The reason you want to think outside of the box and try the untraditional is because growth marketing recognizes that successful marketing tactics are changing all the time, and there's the need to iterate and constantly adjust. New opportunities you can dominate for growth are emerging and disappearing all the time.
"Tactics are always changing, so a good growth marketer needs to constantly be on the lookout for what's new," says Nicholas Scalice, founder of growth marketing agency Earnworthy. "For instance, right now Facebook Messenger bots are all the rage. But give it a few months or years and we'll certainly be onto something else. Getting in early and then quickly scaling the tactics and channels that work for your audience is the best way to keep growing."
This is real-time marketing, points out marketing expert David Meerman Scott.
"Scale and media buying power are no longer a decisive advantage," he says. "What counts today is speed and agility. While your competitors scramble to adjust, you can seize the initiative, open new channels and grow your brand."
Track Everything
Key to uncovering new marketing methods and adjusting to what works is tracking. Growth marketing leans heavily on quantifying each aspect of a marketing test and seeing how it performed. This is a world where A/B testing and analyzing tracking logs is critical, because data is the key to figuring out what works and might be the next test.
Make sure that you have a good marketing automation platform in place, and that everything is being tracked. Then pay attention to this data.
For many, conversion optimization is the gateway to growth marketing, says Scalice.
"If you can double your conversion rate, for instance, you can essentially get more leads or sales without spending more on the frontend," he says. That's growth marketing.
Know Your Customer and Solve Their Problems
Buyers want their problems solved. Products and services are built to solve problems. The growth marketer uses this basic understanding as a focusing point when developing marketing tactics and initiatives to try. Growth comes to those who solve problems the best and let people know about it.
"Targeting your work to buyer personas prevents you from sitting on your butt in your comfortable office just making stuff up about your products, which is the cause of most ineffective marketing," says Scott. "Instead of creating jargon-filled, hype-based advertising, you can create the kind of online content that your buyers naturally gravitate to — if you take the time to listen to them discuss the problems that you can help them solve."
Scale What Works
The "growth" part of growth marketing then happens when your unconventional tests at solving customer problems yield positive, verifiable results. The final piece of the growth marketing puzzle is taking the experiments that work and pushing them hard for all the growth they can deliver.
"The essential components of any growth strategy center around one simple concept: finding things that work and scaling them," says Scalice. "I know this sounds vague, but in essence that's how some of the best growth marketing campaigns were built."
You want to scale these successful experiments fast and for all they are worth because in many cases there is a first-mover advantage. In other cases, the tactics you've uncovered will work for a time but then dry up as consumers move onto new technology and new habits.
Growth marketing is all about trying unusual things, measuring them and then scaling the successful tests. This is the growth marketing way — and this is the way of those in Silicon Valley.


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Men's fashion do's and don'ts
1. Own at least one bespoke item of clothing
Suits, Shirts, Bandhgalas or trousers, any garment tailored to your measurements fits like a glove and there is nothing more satisfying than having that perfect fall of the garment especially made for you. Here at RR, we offer wardrobe solutions designed specifically for you. See here – https://www.rathore.com/wardrobe-solution/
2. Invest in accessories
Dressing up today is more than just about the clothing. Accents like pocket squares, belts, handcrafted shoes et al add value to the look and exude a confident sartorial choice.
3. Know your shoes
It has always been said that a man is known by his shoes. Invest in footwear that would elevate your style quotient. Know which pair looks good with what silhouette and never be afraid to experiment!
4. Dress for the occasion
Personalize your style but dress according to the occasion. Know your audience! If you are dressing for a Sunday brunch include a quirky shirt in your look that may otherwise not be the perfect pick for a formal set up. Here are a few options for you for summer style- https://www.rathore.com/shop/kurtas
5. Get inspired
Dressing up is about knowing your roots and yet getting inspired from around the world, be it with art, movie or an image! Even here at RR, we bring the traditional clothing alive with a contemporary touch to craft collections that are individualistic and innovative.
6. Avoid mass-produced goods
Big retail chains are often sought after as the brands but if you are looking to truly find your style then go for bespoke wear or one of a kind pieces. Shopping from retail chains may lead to twinning with friends, relative or even strangers! Be unique.
7. Do not worry about trends
A lot of urban wear today is crafted as per trend reports. Do not add something to your wardrobe just because it is trending. Find what resonates with you.
8. Not everything has to be color coordinated
Do not fuss about color coordinating everything, from your shoes to your belt to your shirt.
9. Black shoes DO NOT go with everything
We have all grown up with the idea that black shoes go with everything but it's not true! Pick a pair that would complement your look. Soft browns, tans, and even casual dock shoes can work great depending on what look you are going for.


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Here is the last of the 'he said/she said' reviews from my son and his girlfriend who just got back home from a European holiday that they ended with a stay-over in New York City. There were a few thousand things they wanted to do while they were in the Big Apple, though time would only permit a few, all of which turned out to be favorites; strolling Central Park, eating NYC's pizza (it's so good!) and seeing STOMP! the live show where artists invigorate and inspire by creating music out of every day things.


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Eden area beach life
Twofold Bay is the third deepest natural harbour in the world, and it's surrounded by National Parks too. Beach Life here is easy...
Trail Map
To view an individual point of interest, click on a marker below and select 'more info'. From there you can step through the trail one point at a time. Download links for GPS devices and Google Earth can be found below.
If your GPS requires a specific format for map data, download the GPX file above and use an online converter such as GPS Visualiser to convert to a format appropriate for your GPS. Select 'Waypoints' as the type of GPS data you would like to convert.


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Video Coding
2004 Processing of Video ImageOur patented solution for processing video signals can be utilized to minimize the data size of an image sequence to 1/10 of the original without deteriorating the image quality.
This technique is especially useful in video surveillance and video conferencing, where the image information is stored and transferred via the Internet.
The technique, used since 2004, has been proven to be effective, particularly over slow transmission links and in low end microprocessors.
Our own codecs are based on this technique.
Granted Patents:
2012-05 Processing of ImageOur patented image generator can be used over the internet to transfer video images that are partially constructed from an existing or self-constructing image database. The image generator can be combined with video processing, which further compresses the size, yet prevents image quality deterioration.
The image generator is extremely fast, which makes it possible to encode/decode a real time video image without a specialized microprocessor.
Our own codecs are based on this technique.
Granted Patents:
2013-06 Processing and reproduction of framesThe invention provides a server node arrangement usable for example in TV/video broadcasting / multicasting, i.e. applications that include simultaneous source cameras and/or video sources. The system is operable to provide a simple and effective method of outputting various kinds of graphical content or audio content in one or more output devices, wherein the content is derived from multiple sources of input data on demand, for example for live monitoring or playback purposes. The invention is especially useful when implementing video surveillance systems, wherein video capture is stored in the server node arrangement, and where the video output supplied from the server node arrangement to rendering devices can simultaneously be watched in real-time or playback modes.
The video can be stored in full resolution at the server node arrangement and supplied to the rendering devices in a format which is efficient and suitable for them. This makes it possible to transmit real-time live content to several rendering devices, even when some of them are slower in their ability to perform data processing in comparison to others, because the server node arrangement constructs encoded images in a customized manner for each rendering device as soon as it is requested by the rendering device.


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Linus Torvalds on Sunday, 2 July 2017 announced the arrival of the Linux 4.12 kernel. It adds more than one million new lines of code to the kernel.
"Things were quite calm this week, so I really didn't have any real reason to delay the 4.12 release"
– wrote Torvalds.
Main Features Of Linux Kernel 4.12
- One of the biggest changes in Linux kernel 4.12 comes in the form of AMD's new Radeon RX Vega graphics card.
- The next big thing is it brings initial GTX 1000 Pascal accelerated support.
- POWER architecture now supports up to 512TB of virtual address space with this updated Linux kernel.
- Hardware Support for Broadcom BCM2835 thermal driver (Raspberry Pi)
- On the security side, The Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization is now on by default for x86 systems.
- Kernel-based Virtual Machine changes – KVM on ARM includes improved PMU support and virtual interrupt controller improvements.
- Introduced two new I/O schedulers – The BFQ (Budget Fair Queueing) I/O scheduler for a more responsive desktop and the Facebook-developed Kyber I/O scheduler.
- RAID Optimizations.
Please read the complete list of new features on Phoronix and KernelNewbies.
Can't wait to try the New Kernel 4.12?? You can download the source tarball from Kernel.org.


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Third baseman Mike Moustakas re-signed with the Kansas City Royals for one season during the offseason. He is 29 years old and the Royals are in last place in the American League Central with a 22-49 record. Kansas City has already started the rebuilding stage.
The Royals feel like Moustakas is good enough to help another team. He has a .259 batting average with 13 homeruns and 46 RBI's, along with two stolen bases. His on-base percentage is .314. What teams could trade for Moustakas?
The first team that comes to mind is the New York Yankees. Even though Miguel Andujar (.298 batting average eight homeruns 28 RBI's, one stolen base and .326 on-base percentage) is having an excellent season at third base, the Yankees need a veteran inside the club house that has won a World Series title. I know this sounds ironic because the New York Yankees have won the World Series title 27 times in franchise history, but they haven't won since 2009.
The second team that comes to mind is the Atlanta Braves. They have young studs like Ronald Acuna Jr., Ozzie Albies, and Freddie Freeman, The Braves currently have Ryan Flaherty at the starting third baseman third base and John Camargo sometimes plays third base as well. Moustakas would be a major upgrade at that position and they would become a serious threat to win the World Series. The Braves would have a plethora of prospects to give to the Royals.
The third team that comes to mind is the Washington Nationals. The Nationals have struggled to get past the divisional round. They have the talent to make a playoff run. Moustakas would be a perfect player to help out the Nationals get over the hump. Washington seems to be injury prone this season and having depth never hurts.
The fourth team that comes to mind is the Arizona Diamondbacks. Other than Paul Goldschmidt and A.J. Pollock, what other threat does Arizona have in their lineup? The answer is no one really. Jake Lamb is Arizona's current third baseman. Moustakas would push Lamb to the bench. Lamb only has a .208 batting average with five homeruns and 20 RBI's.
If I were a betting man, the team that Mike Moustakas will get traded to is the Atlanta Braves.


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5 Of The Most Important Considerations To Have When Restructuring An Organization
Restructuring is defined by Investopedia as a "type of corporate action taken when significantly modifying the debt, operations or structure of a company as a means of potentially eliminating financial harm and improving the business". This word is something that can strike fear in the hearts of those involved directly or indirectly with the organization because most of them associate the term with something negative. However, restructuring is part of the process of evolution that a company sometimes has to go through in order to adapt to changes brought about by the ever-changing corporate environment.
Restructuring is a difficult procedure that takes up a good amount of time and energy to plan properly because introducing significant changes to an organization that is well established will be complex and most likely emotional. Restructuring goes way beyond simply doing away with the olden embracing the new. The way a business goes about the changes can be just as crucial to the restructuring as the changes themselves and is why it is so important to do things right from the beginning.
One of the most difficult things about restructuring is knowing which factors you have to consider so the negative impact can be minimized and the company can take full advantage of the positive side of the equation. Having experience with restructuring is also something that is not usual at all, as restructurings are not common occurrences and they do not happen regularly.
Today in Suzzanne Uhland's Blog we want to talk about some of the most significant considerations you should make a priority when going through a restructuring process in order to make the most out of it and so it has the most positive impact possible.
Proper Planning
Planning your move properly should always be your first consideration. Remember this strategy of looking ahead needs to be focused not only thinking about the way it impacts your business in the long run but also how external groups are impacted by the changes. How about the financial structure and the way your customers and your employees are affected? It happens more often than not that new leaders only think about the business as a concept and how it will be modified by the restructuring but forget about the human component and the set of external factors and how they are directly affected by the restructuring.
Rushing to the implementation stage without having sufficient impact assessments can be a huge mistake and it will leave you defenseless when unavoidable issues arise. Being prepared allows you to make changes as smoothly as possible, to prepare for any eventuality and to show professionalism and leadership when the process goes exactly as you planned it.
Open Channels of Communication
Change is difficult and it will always be met with resistance. The fear and uncertainty that employees feel when managers are upfront about changes is something that can turn into trouble down the line. If your organization gives communication its proper importance, then you understand why this step is a no-brainer. Employees feel they are important when they are informed of what is happening, no matter how small the restructure is. Announcements should be made regularly and clearly. Remember the organization is made out of its members, and as members, they should all be made aware of what is happening and they should also be given and participative role in the process.
Being Flexible
Remember that is not just about changing the business without any regard for what goes on with the human component. Be prepared to make compromises and understand that you should balance things out properly in order to have a successful restructure. Sometimes as a leader, you can be disconnected with what it is like to work where the rubber meets the road. Communication and flexibility go hand to hand and both aspects should be carefully considered into the decision making process.
Successful Team Building
Once you give your company the opportunity to restructure, make sure the changes address all the issues that led you there in the first place. Teams need to be built determinedly and with the long-term goals of the organization always in mind. Address the issues at all time and work around the answers you want to give to those issues. Is customer satisfaction something that your company struggles with? Then create a solution for that particular problem and make sure you include it in your restructuring plan.
Retraining and Re-Engagement
Changes will not take effect and will not be lasting if you do not set in place plans to retrain and restructure the way your team thinks. Remember that you are changing things and that means having a different mindset and perhaps a whole new approach to doing business. Employees need to be given the necessary tools to be successful in their new environment. If you fail to do this, then you will be back where you started.
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Here we are again.
This week I eat well and did smoothies. They help a lot. Drank my green drink and drank water better than last week. By the way, if you are trying to grow your hair and nails, do smoothies with healthy stuff in them. My hair is growing like never before and I keep having to cut my nails.
On exercise, I did my Zumba, some dancing on my own and a lot of walking.
Spiritually I read my scriptures every morning and found some amazing stuff. Exercising faith every day and seeing things change inside and out.
I am liking this program. I think I am sticking to it. My shorts are looser than before and I am more comfortable. I like that feeling.
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In today's hyper-competitive consumer markets there has been an explosion of new customer touchpoints and channels. You might be amazed to hear that the average business has more than 20 direct and indirect customer touch points across various channels.
Touchpoint definition: A touchpoint is any time a potential customer or customer interacts with a business before, during, or after their purchase.
Channel definition: A channel is the medium of interaction between a customer and a business.
Typical direct customer touch points for most businesses include an element of bricks and mortar, a website, a call centre, post, email, customer service/support and sales.These touch points can then be multiplied by the number of in-direct touch points such as social media, aggregators, marketing, indirect partner channels, third party review sites, market research, 3rd party industry regulators, the list goes on.
Your customers are talking. But who's listening?
This complexity of today's multi-touchpoint, multi-channel business environment makes it almost impossible to provide a consistent service and experience across every touchpoint leading to low customer satisfaction. To improve customer satisfaction, you need to make sure each touchpoint leads to a good customer experience.
If you can't measure it, you can't improve it.
To keep customer satisfaction metrics high across the business you will need to measure customer feedback at various touchpoints. The more direct and in-direct touch points that you have, the more complex your customer feedback and satisfaction metrics will need to be. Measuring feedback at individual touchpoints can lead to the risk of losing sight of what the customer wants due to the siloed nature of feedback collected.
For your customers what matters is an end-to-end experience
In order to understand how to meaningfully improve the experience from start to finish, you need to look at customer's experience from his or her perspective. For a customer it's a journey, hence it can be a very short-sighted approach to measure individual interactions in a siloed manner.
Amazing insights lie hidden in every customer touchpoint, which can only be uncovered when events are mapped to customer journeys. The goal for all businesses needs to be a single source of customer truth. This will be the place where all customer feedback from all channels, direct and indirect can be connected to provide a dynamic and real-time customer journey satisfaction view.
" Journeys are 30-40% more predictive of customer satisfaction and churn." - McKinsey & Company
SentiSum provides a customer journey insights platform where all the customer feedback across multiple touchpoints and channels can be analysed automatically to provide a single view of customer truth.


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FREE Wireless Web Everywhere
One of the fantastic happiness for visitors that explore Seoul is the prevalent accessibility to FREE Wi-fi, almost everywhere you go. From trains as well as buses to coffee shops and restaurants, almost all facilities give patrons with FREE access to Wi-fi. This is great for tourists due to the fact that data roaming could obtain quite costly and FREE Wifi permits visitors to remain linked.
Affordable Mass Transit
The most effective part for those who go to Seoul will definitely be the affordable mass transit. This will certainly allow for a budget-friendly Seoul traveling and also will liberate your budget for various other fun-driven costs. Trains and also buses are federally funded so riders do not sustain additional expenses when transferring in between the two. On top of that, the base rate for taxicabs is one of the least expensive in Asia.
Personal Errand Jogger
Seoul's customer support is excellent, there's no question about that. Yet a smart business owner in Seoul took customer care one step better when he decided to bring anything you desired, to wherever you are, whenever you desired. Called "hae-joo-sayo," the solution will certainly run duties on behalf of the consumer. Anything from picking up as well as dropping off flowers, to supplying food or coffee, to getting parcels at the message office, this service takes customer support to the following degree.
No Tipping (Plus Great Service!).
Those taking a trip from Western nations will recognize the experiences of tipping. Well, in Seoul, tipping is NOT called for neither is it also anticipated! On top of that, the customer support in Seoul is unequaled, with personnel functioning carefully to satisfy client demands.
BIG Coffee Shop Culture.
Seoul has a huge cafe culture, with cafes on virtually every block. Seeing a preferred cafe is surely one of the things to do in Seoul. From large-scale franchise business operations to store coffee shops to hole-in-the-walls, Seoul is a wonderful location to experience a large selection of numerous cafes, Seoul tourist attractions.
Final thought.
Seoul is an intriguing city with a wide variety of activities for a broad range of preferences. This is all enabled via the cultural norms and the modernization of a country that strives on advancement and development. Technical developments and cultural renovation has actually played a massive function in the advancement of Seoul. As the globe remains to expand more open and as the sharing economic climate ends up being evermore prevalent, we could expect to see fantastic patterns being established by Seoul and also its people.


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Resources created by the American Library Association/Children's Book Council Joint Committee for use by educators, librarians, and parents.
Use these resources in conjunction with the Building a Home Library booklists to bring more books into your home!
Each year, the ALA-CBC Committee creates quality programming for librarians. These programs connect librarians with book creators and offer specific programming suggestions for librarians to implement with their patrons. See all program handouts from these conferences below!
Library Program handouts from the 2018 YALSA Symposium program, Disability in YA: Representing All Teens
Library Program handouts from the 2018 ALSC National Institute program, Identity in Children's Literature: Representing all kids through library programming
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Dear Readers
I was motivated to re-post(with a tad of fine tuning) this in response to http://talkaboutequality.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/another-suicide-not-just-a-number/
'Practice Random Acts of Kindness' stickers give me the serious poops. Why is kindness a random act? Random?
Kindness. "caring about others; gentle, friendly and generous."
Random. "done, chosen etc. without thinking or deciding in advance what is going to happen" (Oxford, 6th Edition, 2000)
Okay, so I get it. Acting kindly is not a goal people consciously aim towards. Personally, I reckon that explains a lot.
More than two years ago one of my clients committed suicide. I sat after forty-six years of personal, academic and professional pursuit with the most simplistic truth before me; a truth I had known as a child.
If Kindness…and yes I intentionally give it a capital to indicate its importance…if Kindness would become, not a random act, but a constant goal for each of us as we interact in our communities, so much of that which leads people to antidepressants, suicide, addictions and anxieties would simply not occur.
And I challenge each reader, particularly my fellow Aussies given the comfort we live in, to implement Kindness in your world.
For kindness is a conscious act.
But first we'd better define what kindness means and what it absolutely does not mean. I think sometimes people shy from the word because of some misconceptions.
Let's start with the most important point. Kindness is not dishonest! As such it is not always nice.
Kindness doesn't blind its eyes to weaknesses and as such 'nice' does not always apply. This time I won't check the dictionary for 'nice' because here, I am speaking less of the true definition and more of the common way niceness is practiced in our society.
Niceness seems to accept dishonesty and hypocrisy as foundational conditions for its practice. Women particularly struggle with this one, a consequence of western conditioning perhaps that labels us bitches or butches if we speak up.
Indeed I have met many a 'nice' woman in a florid psychosis directly due to their psyche stressing out at the suppression required in achieving 'niceness'.
Kindness is not this. Kindness must speak the truth, because it is absolutely true in an emotional sense, that the truth will set you free.
For kindness then, lies are cruel. Lies waste your time hence devaluing you and degrading the relationship between us. Kindness speaks its truth and continues to love anyway because weakness is, and has always been, universal.
What is Kindness?
Well a great example of real Kindness is when you've had a really crappy day and you get home and your toddler throws a balmy or your teen has chosen that night to disagree and challenge your very right to air (I have a fourteen year old :)). Kindness starts when you don't slap them down like your first instinct wants to!
And it continues when instead you breathe deeply and with gentleness, friendliness and generosity you seek a better communication line with your child, oh by the way, at the same time role-modeling to your child that communicating kindly is far preferably to tantrum throwing! You can see that Kindness is a conscious choice.
Or it's when you give smiles to total strangers as you walk in town just because you know smiling makes folk feel good.
Kindness is when you don't lose you temper at that idiot driver because, lets face it, we all screw up in the car sometimes.
And Kindness is not choosy.
Kindness is inclusive of all life, of all our interactions.
To the people we love, but aren't often kind to in the way we communicate with them, to people who challenge our prejudices and class issues. Children, adults, the vulnerable, the ugly pretty smart dumb, the family member complete stranger, the gay the straight, the religious the atheist….everyone!
Oh one more thing that Kindness is not and that is stupid! Be kind and you'll get ripped off my friends would say. Only if you're stupid would be my reply. Being Kind does not mean you leave you observational skills, your common sense, your assessment skills at home!
But practicing Kindness is difficult. It requires immense patience, a constantly thinking mind, constantly evolving communication skills, and mature self-discipline. And it requires self-forgiveness. For all the times we bugger it!
So why try? Its simple isn't it? Would you prefer people acted with friendliness, gentleness and generosity towards you dear reader, or with hostility, with cruelty and with contempt?
Now not one single person I've met, and its been a lot, have ever chosen the latter and I bet dear reader you didn't either. From the very moment of birth we respond to kindness and recoil from cruelty. A kind voice we run towards an angry one we shrink inside.
So whether you follow the biological/psychological model where kindness promotes growth and the opposite deforms, of whether you like the Jesus one of treating others as you wish to be treated, or Gandhi's one that to create community change the individual must first change I ask you…
Isn't acting in kindness a worthy goal for your life personally? Wouldn't it be seriously cool if you were able to pull this off…at least as much as possible. Let's face it if you want kindness you have to give it.
Kindness helps, cruelty harms. Seems simple to me.


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The operation, which began Monday, Apr. 16, is conducted each year around prom season, focusing on education and enforcement. Across the nation, motor vehicle collisions are the leading cause of death of teens each year.
In 2017, SHP investigated over 58,529 motor vehicle collisions involving drivers and passengers who were between the ages of 15 – 19. Of those collisions, 10,905 injuries were reported and 119 resulted in one or more fatalities.
"Simply talking to teenagers about the perils of driving recklessly is the first step", said First Sergeant Michael Baker, SHP spokesperson. "Working together, we can reduce the number of teenage collisions one conversation at a time."
Although the campaign has ended, troopers will continue to monitor teenage drivers throughout the year.


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More Tree Lightings!
Posted by Ashley Pope, CLHMS on Wednesday, December 4th, 2013 at 12:42pm.
So you missed the lighting of the Zilker Tree last Sunday? Well wipe away those tears because tonight is the lighting ceremony of the Driskill Hotel tree! Lightings will continue thought Dec. 31. Head over tonight between 4 - 6PM!


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welcome to the generation justice blog
the goal of GJ is to compile transformative, inspiring left/radical material that is accessible and entertaining to you. GJ operates from an anti-oppression framework, meaning that we fight for equality and affirmation of all people, including people of color, women, poor and working class people, queer and trans folk, immigrants and refugees, religious minorities, and youth, amongst other oppressed groups.
GJ tries to bring commentary on current events while also featuring visionary models of social organization towards which i hope we can aspire. in particular, i believe that capitalism as we know it is fundamentally flawed and unsustainable, and see the task of our generation (youth and young adults) to envision and institute a new social order that prioritizes people over profits, and democracy over hierarchy.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will – Antonio Gramsci
generation justice also features music reviews, mostly hip hop (its what i like). not only are culture and politics co-produced, but art can instigate change.
The role of the revolutionary artist is to make revolution irresistible – Toni Cade Bambara
finally, there are moments of random musing, whatever-whatever non sequitur and anything else that comes through seeming notably funny, raw, cute, moving, awkward, truthful etc etc.
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hip hop saved my life (2/14/10)
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participatory budgeting (3/1/10)
oscar grant (7/8/10)
understanding capital (7/14/10)
roots (8/11/10)
citibanks gender fail (9/13/10)
dream deferred (but far from lost) (9/22/10)
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The European Commission is promoting various initiatives, all centered around a common goal: to increase digital skills and competences in the workforce. These initiatives cover several areas such as the enhancement and /or development of digital platforms for the recognition and validation of skills.
Europe is increasingly aware that a knowledge-based society requires new skills and competences, and that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and social media are core to this shift. In 2006, in a study conducted by the European Commission Institute for Prospective Technological Studies together with DG Education and Culture, the trends of ICT technology were then labeled 'learning spaces' (Punie, 2007; Punie & Cabrera, 2006). But since then, how are social media further impacting these spaces in our knowledge-based society? Recent trends in Education point to the personalization of learning spaces (organizing knowledge according to one's personal preferences), and networking with others as two dimensions that will drastically expand such spaces. In sum, the development of personal and social digital skills are core for the full participating in learning in the context of a knowledge-base society.
In 2016 the European Commission published a new Skills Agenda for Europe, presenting a number of actions and initiatives with the ambition to tackle the digital skills' deficit in Europe.
The Agenda has at ultimate goal to "trigger a change of mindsets in both individuals and organizations". It is focused on three key work strands:
1.Improving the quality and relevance of skills formation
2.Making skills and qualifications more visible and comparable
3.Improving skills intelligence and information for better career choices
Given what is described above, we are proposing a series of workshops with the purpose of training participants in a number of strategic tools that can benefit their Higher Education Institutions.


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Porsche has finally come to Raceroom in the form of 3 different race ready beasts.
Porsche GT3 CUP
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TP needs some updating. It is not very intuitive for new users. Instructions are hard to follow at times. Support response is in need of someone's dedication. Having individual paints is a real attraction within iRacing. This needs to be done better or replaced! Interesting that without member support there would be no answers or help. It's a shame, the program is so popular not to have good management.
Billy Stanley
I plan on taking this advice. Great page!
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"Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect."
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I was hoping to participate in the next race and on Simracing System it says it's at Fuji. Which version of Fuji should I download.
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I am all signed up and ready to race in the Carrera Cup, except for one thing. How do I obtain Road America? I do not have it in AC as one of my tracks. Where is it?


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Covered Bridges
Bucks County is home to 13 beautiful, historic covered bridges. These picturesque, structures are in danger from time, the elements, arson and careless drivers. We are in danger of losing a beautiful part of our history.
Most of these bridges are slightly off the beaten track. If you are out for a drive you might want to take a slight detour to visit one or more of them.
Covered bridges originally served to protect the structure and to keep horses from panicking as they crossed.
The Schofield Covered Bridge in Tyler State Park, just outside of Newtown, was lost to a fire. The businesses and community joined together to reconstruct it.
Erwinna Covered Bridge
The Erwinna Covered Bridge crosses Swamp Creek on Geigel Hill Road in Erwinna. The bridge had been hit by oversized trucks at least twice but appears to be open to traffic.Continue reading
Perkasie Covered Bridge
The South Perkasie Covered Bridge is now landlocked. It was moved from its original position in Lenape Park in 1958.Continue reading
The Schofield Covered Bridge in Tyler Park
Tyler State Park has miles of paved trails. The Schofield Covered Bridge crosses the Neshaminy Creek on one of these trails. The bridge was a victim of arson in 1991 and rebuilt in 1997. The bridge carries the Tyler Park bridle/hiking path over the Neshaminy Creek. Since it is not open to vehicles, you can park in the nearby parking lot and walk about 500 yards to the bridge.Continue reading
Uhlerstown Covered Bridge
The Uhlerstown Covered Bridge is a single span town lattice truss bridge located in Tinicum Township. It was build in 1865 and rebuilt in 1985.Continue reading
Pine Valley Covered Bridge
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Set of 2 Square Newbury Trunks
A set of two large different sized square trunks in a luxurious dark blue grey colour in a matt finish with contrasting silver handles and clasps.
Our Newbury set of two trunks are such versatile pieces that you will be sure to find excellent uses for each one throughout the home.
Absolutely stunning, heavy and sturdy they can be used as...
Storage seats in the hallway for shoes, bags hats, scarves and gloves.
Lamp and coffe tables in the living room with masses of storage
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The Royal Opera House and award-winning performing arts charity Streetwise Opera are delighted to announce a lunchtime performance at the in the Paul Hamlyn Hall Friday 2 August 2019.
The free lunchtime performance entitled Carmen: Frailty, fire and freedom is the result of a seven-week residency currently taking place at the Royal Opera House. Since June 2019, the two organizations have been delivering weekly workshops at the Royal Opera House's Linbury Theatre for 20 people aged 40–75 who have experience homelessness.
The workshops have explored Barrie Kosky's all-singing, all-dancing production of Bizet's masterpiece Carmen, which originally opened at the Royal Opera House in February 2018 and is currently being revived for the second time.
Streetwise Opera's relationship with the Royal Opera House began in 2000 before the homeless charity was formally established. Matt Peacock, a former homeless support worker, joined forces with residents from The Passage (a homeless night shelter in Victoria) and the Royal Opera House to run a 12-week pilot project. The result was a performance of The Little Prince in the then-newly-opened Linbury Studio Theatre (now the Linbury Theatre).
The pilot project saw many of the participants gain confidence, proving that there was an identified need for work of this kind. Following its success, Matt Peacock founded Streetwise Opera in 2002. Since then, both organizations have collaborated on numerous occasions, most notably With One Voice, which saw 300 people with experience of homelessness come together from around the UK to showcase their talents as part of the London 2012 Festival. This was the first time that an event involving homeless people was part of the official Olympic celebrations.


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Testing is Good. Pyramids are Bad. Ice Cream Cones are the Worst
Monday's Fullstack meeting at Manheim was about Testing mindsets. All across the board. Stephen Fishman, Sr Director, Application Architecture spoke passionately about WHY Testing is Good. Pyramids are Bad. Ice Cream Cones are the Worst
Many engineering and QA professionals are familiar with and lean on the Testing Pyramid made popular by Martin Fowler. Too bad it doesn't work for in-transformation teams and doesn't offer hope to teams looking to create change in an organizations' commitment to drive towards "continuous testing" (especially when everyone wants to fight about tracking coverage levels). This talk will focus on showing what has gone wrong with the testing pyramid and what new model might work better for in-transformation teams.
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Here are some sample articles Stephen wrote on the topic:
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NBFC-MFIs have been making efforts to create awareness towards digital transactions and increasing their acceptance among them.
The cash-heavy microfinance industry is back on growth track after the infamous demonetisation that was announced by the government in November 2016. The microfinance industry was among the worst affected as drastically reduced repayment rates hurt collections.
Udaya Kumar, President, Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN), says the industry is now on steady growth path, cost of funds has reduced and the repayments by clients have also returned to the normal levels for all the disbursements made by the industry after February 2017.
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In an interview with Anuradha Choudhary of FE Online, Udaya Kumar talks about the industry's performance in the recent past, challenges it is facing, growth potential going forward and its role in financial inclusion, among other things. Here are the edited excerpts:
Take us through how microfinance industry in India has developed, its key contributions in the last five years and present state?
Microfinance industry has grown significantly and steadily in the past five years. After 2010, the sector registered a turn around and since then has exhibited evolved growth. Introduction of microfinance regulations by RBI and self- awareness among the microfinance institutions to lend responsibly by adopting an industry-wide code of conduct has brought in stability and maturity in the sector while increasing its credibility.
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Other key factors of the growth have been the increased client discipline and continued confidence by the stakeholders like lenders and Investors. Further, there has also been tremendous improvement in the risk management by the sector which is evident from the fact that the sector was able to tide over the impact of demonetisation. This was despite having a greater share of cash-dependent transactions since MFIs cater to low income households with large number of them are in rural hinterland.
According to a recent report by MFIN, NBFC-MFIs witnessed a growth of 40% in equity investments on year-on-year basis in FY18 compared with FY17. How do you analyse this growth?
The investors' confidence on the industry has been very positive which is evident from the 40% YoY growth in FY 2017-18, being relatively difficult year for the Industry. This has been largely due to robust and stable growth of the sector including consistent maintenance of NPAs at under 1% level. The industry has been able to maintain client repayment rate of 99% which to a great extent allays the fear of risk involved considering the unsecured nature of the loans.
Microfinance sector is highly cash oriented – both on disbursements and repayment. Is that a barrier? What all are the current challenges/crucial barriers for the industry?
MFIs cater to the low income households and provides financial services to the unbanked and under-banked individuals. This segment largely exhibits lower literacy rates and low orientation towards technology apart from lack of infrastructure and ecosystem for digital money. Therefore the transactions are largely cash based. However, NBFC-MFIs have been making efforts to create awareness towards digital transactions and increasing their acceptance among them.
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How does the industry tackle with lack of awareness of financial services, given the low literacy rate in rural areas?
MFIs feet on street model has been instrumental in building an extensive reach at the grassroots level, enabling them to cater to financial services needs of the unbanked clients. MFIs normally provides extensive training of financial literacy, money management, interest rates, insurance etc., before providing them micro-credit. This model has also helped in building a strong connect with the clients who are otherwise hesitant in approaching banks and other financial institutions due to their lack of awareness and low literacy level. In fact, many NBFC-MFIs at their individual levels organise various financial and digital literacy programs to help their clients in understanding the basic as well as evolved aspects of financial services. Such initiatives have been helpful in increasing financial awareness among them.
What are your views on high rates of interest by microfinance institutions as compared to mainstream banks? Also, if you could throw some light on the current position of NPAs in the sector.
NBFC-MFIs follow RBI regulations to fix interest rates. Since NBFC-MFIs are non-deposit taking entities they borrow funds from external sources to cater to the micro-credit requirements of their clients. The interest rates offered by an NBFC-MFI are heavily dependent on the cost of funds that it borrows and RBI stipulations have taken this factor into account as well. However, recently we have observed that there has been a reduction in average cost of funds for the industry and many MFIs have actually passed on the benefit of this reduction to their clients through cutting down interest rates. There has been significant awareness on the MFI industry today as several mainstream banks are into microfinance either directly, through Banking Correspondent route or by acquiring the MFIs the interest rates in general are very acceptable level.
In general, the industry has always maintained NPAs at sub-1% level. However, we had experienced an increase in NPAs during demonetisation but the industry has shed off its after effects now. The PAR figures have been continuously lowering and PAR>30 has improved considerably. It has reduced to 4.41% as of March 31st 2018 from 5.98% a year ago. PAR>180 has also reduced to 2.83% from 3.49%. The repayment discipline of the clients have also returned to the normal levels of pre-demonetisation for all the disbursements made by the industry after February 2017.
What do you think about regulatory issues in the sector as well as expectations from the government with regards to regulations or policy change, if there is any?
The MFIs are the best placed institutions to support the government's agenda on financial inclusion. For this they would require ease of access to finance for various categories of MFIs (small, large and medium). The financial services that MFIs provide are to low income households and levying GST on the fee, makes it expensive for these households to access the financial services, if the GST could be removed on the processing fee it would have good benefits to the customers. Govt has been supportive and any incentive for small MFIs till they reach a size of sustainability for working backward areas would help more and more institutions will work on this financial inclusion agenda.
Growth potential of the industry in the country going forward.
The industry is set on a steady growth path and even the small NBFC-MFIs have witnessed significant growth in the past years. Looking at the recent past performance, we expect the growth to be positive in the coming quarters too. Potential for Microfinance, particularly in Semi-Urban and Rural geography is quite large in India and with NBFC-MFIs are stepping up to integrate best practices and technology which would help them provide better customer service as well as achieve operational efficiencies. It would definitely have a net positive impact on the performance of the companies.
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