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Different businesses have different needs. That much is clear to anybody, especially company managers or owners. But there's one type of need that drives every single business in the world: efficiency.
Higher levels of efficiency mean cutting costs, improving productivity, and ultimately serving more customers. Every company wants to be more efficient.
Implementing better queue lines is how customer-facing businesses improve their efficiency. You should understand the best way to queue your customers, average queue times at your company, and the metrics your employees are performing well or poorly at.
If this sounds like a lot to keep track of, that's because it is. Staying on top of your queueing through manual labor alone feels like defeating the purpose of improving organizational efficiency in the first place because you'll be spending hours just logging and analyzing data. At the end of the day, most organizations relying on traditional queueing just don't think about improving their queues at all.
But there are ways to improve the queue experience for your customers and implement a more effective queue line.
What is a Queue?
To address the issues of queues, first, let's take a look at what they mean and answer some commonly asked questions about queues at large.
What exactly is a "queue"?
A queue line is a line of people or objects sequenced in an order to wait their turn for service.
The following are all examples of queues:
- People standing in order at the desk of a car dealership, waiting for their turn to get serviced by the dealership agents.
- Government service agency where people receive tickets from a kiosk machine informing them of their spot in the line. They can wait there or leave for a break provided they return when their turn is called.
- Lines at a bank tracked by an online queue management system. The people are numbered by virtual ticketing and step up when it's their turn. They are free to track their progress from anywhere, including home.
With modern queue technology, you should no longer be allowing customers to spend boring hours in line doing nothing. Your clients want a fruitful queueing experience, and you need to be prepared to bring this to them.
So, how do you actually spell it? Is it "queue" or "queu" or "qeue"? And is it "queuing or queueing"?
"Queue" is the correct spelling. Neither "queu" nor "qeue" are correct under any situation.
As for whether it's queuing or queueing? Queueing is the correct spelling. While your clients will probably understand what you're saying no matter whether you say queuing or queueing, the latter is the actual correct spelling.
"Queue" can be used as a noun or verb. For example, you can say that someone queued or queued up for food in a food court. If you're scheduling social media posts through a posting tool and have your most recent Instagram post prepared, you could queue it up.
What is a circular queue?
Despite what it sounds like, a circular queue has nothing to do with a queue line of people who end up forming a circle.
A circular queue is a linear data structure with a fixed size buffer. It operates on the "first-in, first-out" (FIFO) principle where the first position is connected to the last, linking the whole queue together end to end (hence the name of "circular queue"). It's effective at buffering data streams due to its circular structure.
While a circular queue is an interesting concept, it has nothing to do with queueing up your customers.
What is an invisible queue?
An invisible queue is actually a type of customer queue, although it specifically refers to queues where customers don't know where their place in the line is.
The "invisible queue" practice is not recommended for in-person queueing or ticketing systems, since not knowing their place in the line will only lead to discontent among customers. It more often refers to call center queueing where customers are on hold.
The logic behind an invisible queue is that when you don't tell customers how long they've been waiting, they're less likely to complain about queue times. It's more applicable to phone queues since customers have greater freedom to wander around at home and have no need to physically show up to their appointments.
After defining these terms, let's move on to take a look at how you can implement a better queue line.
Top 4 Ways to Implement A More Efficient Queue Line
Here's the deal. You can't implement a great queueing system without understanding the best way to queue it up in general. Here are recommendations for top ways to streamline your queueing experience.
- Timeliness
- Deliver on Expectations
- Listen to Customer Feedback
- Review Your Queueing
1. Timeliness
Time is money. This saying doesn't just apply to you, but to your customers as well. They want to get through your queue lines as quickly as possible. In retail, people get frustrated after two minutes of no apparent movement through a line. While acceptable wait times may vary per business, customers want to know that they're making progress and that the end is in sight.
Obviously, when it comes to queue times, there are some factors outside of your immediate control. You can't deliver what every customer wants perfectly, but you can work on the timeliness of the overall process.
Here are a few tips for improving the queue times in your business:
- Reflect on how long each part of your queueing experience takes. Are customers spending too long on check-in? Do they stand in line for 30 minutes with nothing happening? You need to take time to consider each component of your client's waiting experience and reflect on whether or not it's necessary for your company. For example, ticketing may slow down a retailer queue but improve progress in an airline company.
- Show progress. This is less about picking up the speed and more about demonstrating to your customer that their queue time isn't spent in vain. Make sure they are moving forward in the line every few minutes. This is why organizations employ multiple service windows. Show their approximate wait time, or update the ticketing number being served to give them a feeling of moving forward.
- Check-in during idle times. Why do airlines distribute forms right before the queue for customs? When people are filling out forms while they queue, they're completing the check-in process while they queue, saving overall time. This can also be done by allowing customers to fill out check-in forms ahead of time or through an online appointment booking and registration system.
- Allow online payment. Same logic as the above guideline. When your customers can pay from home, they'll no longer waste time fumbling with credit cards at the head of the line. This will reduce not just individual wait time, but also the wait time for everyone else in the same queue.
- Implement online queueing. The easiest way to clear out physical queue times is to move most queueing online. Letting customers check-in and receive updates through their phones will make the physical queues far less crowded, ensuring a faster wait for customers who do wait in-person.
Granted, these are only a few general tips to help you improve your waiting time. You may have to figure out what works for your company's business model through trial and error. Maybe your problem is not enough personnel, or too much crowding. Either way, the most important thing is to think critically about the queueing process and eliminate every inefficiency that's causing a queue blockage.
2. Deliver on Expectations
Business is predicated on expectations. Your customers have expectations for how you can help them, whether consciously or not, and they'll get irritated when these expectations are broken. It's your job to keep things moving smoothly to prevent customer dissatisfaction.
How do you deliver on expectations in the first place?
- Research the norm. Industry expectations will be the biggest factor in shaping what your customers expect from you. If you're running an auto services company, for example, you might find that customers are willing to wait for an hour on-site during repairs. Use that information to update your service.
- Tell customers the waiting time. Despite the way an invisible queue may work for phone queues, it's recommended to tell customers what they should expect in terms of wait time or service procedure. Experiencing uncertainty during waiting can lead to feelings of stress and powerlessness, which will only result in a worse overall waiting experience. Updating your customers on how long they have to keep waiting will keep them happy.
- Be clear and fair. Transparency in waiting reduces uncertainty as well. Don't offer preferential treatments without justifying them. For example, people are fine with gold pass holders jumping ahead in amusement park lines because they know those customers paid more, and the fact that they're waiting in a separate line makes it easier not to think of them as "cheating ahead".
Doing justice to customer expectations will require you to step into the shoes of your clients. Think about waiting from their perspective. What will they deem unfair? Do they want to know about the internal logic of waiting in line for your business? What are their prior expectations? Can you do anything to stand out in terms of queueing experience compared to competitors?
Of course, whether or not you want to be transparent about everything when it comes to waiting is your choice. There are advantages to withholding queueing information sometimes. Check out this chart comparing the pros and cons of being transparent about queue times.
Queue Times Transparency: Pros and Cons
Removing uncertainty will help customers feel empowered
Displaying wait time may result in increased impatience
Having a destination gives customers something to look forward to
Long wait times can lead to complaints
Business can appear proactive in resolving issues and moving the line forward
Knowing the wait time will make it feel shorter (known as Appointment Syndrome)
Whatever you decide, thinking things out fully is how you'll be able to implement a better queue line and an improved queue experience as well.
3. Listen to Customer Feedback
Customers want to know that their opinion matters. The best way to cater to your clients is to listen to them and discover what they want. Only one out of 26 clients will actually bring up complaints. Ignoring that complaint translates to 26 customers lost.
Of course, it isn't just as simple as letting them write an essay on their waiting experience. You'll need to guide them through answering pertinent questions about what it was like to stand in your queues. Ask them questions like:
- What was your least favorite part of the waiting experience?
- Are you satisfied with the length of the line?
- Did the customer service representatives satisfy your needs?
- What's missing from this queueing experience?
Your line might be too boring, too long, not have enough customer service attendance, or require more online options. Who knows? You certainly won't know unless you take the initiative to ask.
Be proactive about collecting customer feedback, but also about implementing it. For return customers, seeing their feedback taken into account is gratifying and will lead to more repeat business. Plus, it will just improve your business all around.
4. Review Your Queueing
It bears reminding that just because you've improved your service by reviewing it once or twice doesn't mean you should stop there. Set a periodic reminder to review your queueing experience. Periodic reviews mean you'll be able to stay up-to-date on:
- Integrating customer feedback
- Keeping up with industry norms
- Removing inefficiencies
- Implementing new queueing technology
- Analyzing worker performance
- Reviewing profitability
Stagnation is the enemy of progress. You won't see truly impressive returns unless you keep working at improving your queueing. Your business isn't rigid, and you shouldn't be either.
Why Implement a Queue Management System?
Believe it or not, a queue management system can help you with everything mentioned above. The right queue management system:
- Saves employee time. No more spending hours on scheduling appointments. An automated queueing solution will do it all for you.
- Reduces customer queue times. 74% of customers will switch to your competitor if they perceive them to have a shorter wait time. Reducing queue times is about retaining your customers. For them, queueing on their phone probably won't feel like queueing at all. They don't have to be onsite until it's their turn. You're giving them the freedom to do what they want with their time, which is the best customer experience of all.
- Improved customer satisfaction. Queueing online, automated reminders, online check-in, and more. Queue management systems are bound to make your customers happy.
- Delivers relevant data. With a solid queue management solution, you'll be able to collect data on customers and agent performance that will help you make better business decisions over time.
Each individual queueing tool has its own abilities. These are just the basics that it can help you with.
How to Evaluate a Queue Management Software
Let's say you're interested in procuring a queue management solution for your business, without experience in purchasing queue management tools. How should you judge your queueing solution?
Here are the top criteria you should be evaluating your queue management software by.
- Industry Relevance
- Flexibility
- Look and Feel
- Reporting: Data Visibility
- Integration Capabilities
- Implementation
- Price
Criteria 1: Industry Relevance
Queue management tools are not the same. There are as many types of tools as there are industries out there.
You have two options here: either go with an industry-specific solution or pick something that's general.
Here's the general recommendation: if you're operating from a highly specialized industry, it might be best to pick a tool designed for your industry. A hospital will likely require scheduling software that's designed for use at a medical institution, since it might come with capabilities for queueing, doctor-patient communications, and lab integration, just to name a few.
On the other hand, a car accessories store might just need the basics in terms of queue management.
Ultimately it's your decision. If you want to try out a solution without the commitment, scheduling software like Skiplino offers a free trial so you can see what feels right.
Criteria 2: Flexibility
Your company needs flexibility. Whether it's scaling, expanding online, or just trying to implement 24/7 booking, appointment booking software can help you expand to accommodate all those needs.
Let's compare how traditional queueing compares to scheduling software in terms of flexibility.
Traditional Queueing
Appointment Booking Software
More customers = larger location, more customer service representatives
Scales with the business
Customer service representatives work more hours, resulting in higher business costs
24/7 availability due to automated scheduling
Remote Customer Service
Needs to integrate phone queueing or booking
Schedules remote and in-person appointments at the same speed
The right queue management software should support your business when it's time to expand, and scale alongside you without holding you back.
Criteria 3: Look and Feel
Design is a major aspect of how well your customers will be able to use your scheduling software to book an appointment.
You don't want your software to be
- Cluttered
- Confusing
- Complicated
- Distracting
- Difficult
Ideally, you'll also be able to customize the look and feel of your booking software to fit your branding.
Criteria 4: Reporting: Data Visibility
As mentioned above, collecting customer feedback is how you improve your business. The right booking software should be able to help you do that and organize information in an intuitive format that's easy to act upon.
Proper reporting should document:
- Queue times
- Customer satisfaction
- Agent performance
- Peak and low business hours
Make sure your software can deliver the right kind of feedback for your business.
Criteria 5: Integration Capabilities
Every business has its own software tool suite. Your queueing software should integrate seamlessly into the technology you're already using. This may include:
- Online calendar
- Communications platform
- Payment processing
If your scheduling tool is industry-specific, it should also integrate into the industry tool suite you use for your company.
Criteria 6: Implementation
Implementing appointment booking software can be challenging. What matters is making sure you have sufficient support to integrate it into daily use for your business.
Does the software have:
- Great customer support? Solid customer support means timely responses to product queries and a rich database of responses to commonly asked questions so customers have options for answering their own questions.
- Employee training/guidelines? Your employees will need to gain hands-on experience with the software. Do they provide resources to support this kind of training?
- Localization? Can the software match your language and local systems? What's more, will it work on your devices?
- Compatibility for users? Your return customers are probably accustomed to whatever solution you're using now. Does your new software have a simple implementation and integration plan for the customer end?
On your end, you'll need to think about internal best practices for scheduling software. How much of your scheduling do you want to automate? Will you integrate it with current technology? What's your plan for integrating it into your systems?
Criteria 7: Pricing
You can't just queue it--this is a consideration that needs to be addressed upfront. Pricing should be a top consideration for your booking software.
The best course of action here is to decide on an acceptable price range upfront. Use it to guide your search. Know whether you're more willing to compromise on functionality or price.
Don't forget to check in with your organization on budget flexibility.
Hopefully, you've learned plenty about implementing an efficient queue line now. From changing the way you approach queueing to integrating a queueing solution, you'll need to commit to investing effort into transforming the way you treat queueing.
Are you interested in finding a smart appointment booking software that's flexible for any kind of business? Try out Skiplino, the intelligent cloud-based scheduling platform that will ramp up your queue line efficiency today.


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Health authorities in Australia are desperately trying to quash the "explosive potential" of a Covid-19 outbreak across nine public housing towers in Melbourne from escalating into a city-wide lockdown, as rents are waived and hardship allowances are introduced for the 3,000 residents who have been banned from leaving their apartments.
Australia's acting chief medical officer Paul Kelly labelled the towers at the centre of the outbreaks "vertical cruise ships", as residents of the nine towers, many of whom are migrants, complained of a lack of food supplies and the size of the police force – 500 on rotating shifts – enforcing the "hard lockdown".
The heightened restrictions for the buildings were first announced on Saturday, when authorities recorded 108 new cases of Covid-19 in a city which had already placed several postcodes on a softer lockdown days earlier. On Sunday, a further 74 cases were diagnosed in Melbourne, compared with 14 in the state of New South Wales and two in Western Australia.
The source of the majority of Victoria's new cases is being investigated, as authorities work with epidemiologists and scientists on a genomic sequencing program to aid contact-tracing efforts.
With 543 active coronavirus cases in his state, Victoria's premier Daniel Andrews acknowledged the hard lockdowns were ""not going to be a pleasant experience for those residents", many of whom are in "pretty poor health", but warned if the outbreaks weren't contained, a city-wide lockdown for Melbourne could be required.
Andrews also prepared the public for greater infection numbers in the coming days, as the results of a testing blitz on the towers' 3,000 residents are returned.
"It is far more likely that we are going to find what we're looking for (than finding no infections in the towers)," Andrews said.
"I don't want people dying in these towers ... We will all feel the impact if this gets away from us comprehensively, because I won't be looking down 12 postcodes, I will have no choice but to lockdown all postcodes," he said.
Andrews acknowledged the residents of the towers were particularly vulnerable, saying public health workers, nurses and others had been working "right throughout the night" to provide food, essentials, drug and alcohol support, mental health support, family violence support, physical healthcare.
The state's chief health officer, Brett Sutton, said the confined nature of the public housing buildings presented a "genuinely explosive potential" for Covid-19 spread, and said authorities had not yet "turned the corner" in containing the cases that they believe have spread between the towers as a result of "a lot of exchange of individuals".
Writing in the Guardian, resident Hiba Shanino explained most families, with up to five children, live in two or three bedroom flats, with many confused by the information that she said was only distributed in English. Awatif Taha, another resident, has written about the difficulties for residents in obtaining medications and perishable food including milk.
Idris Hassan, 35, lives with his wife and three young children in one of the public housing towers that has been locked down in North Melbourne.
As of 3pm on Sunday, he said he was yet to receive any care packages or food deliveries. No one had visited the family to provide information about what to expect.
"It feels unfair that particular buildings are being locked down while across the street, people are just allowed to go to work and do their other necessities," he told the Guardian.
Hassan works at Melbourne airport in the export industry and is frustrated he will not be able to go to work tomorrow. He was unimpressed by the $1,500 hardship payments announced by the government, saying he will still be disadvantaged by missing at least a week of work.
"You can't throw me peanuts and then say, 'We're going to take your liberties and freedom and even the right to buy food,'" he said.
"Having said that, I do understand [the importance of] containing the virus ... But I don't think we're being dealt a good hand here. It just feels like we're really being squeezed."
"As a minority group, it feels like we are soft targets," added Hassan, whose background is Somali.
"Right now, as we're speaking, we don't have milk for the kids," he said.


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Scarecrows are rapidly appearing in Spaldwick as the start of the online voting (6pm on Sunday 6th July) nears. You will be able to vote by clicking on the following link:
Vote for your favourite scarecrow
You can view all the scarecrow entries by clicking on the following link:
Photos of 2014 Spaldwick Scarecrows
Here are photos of the most recent scarecrow additions. The first scarecrow is of Norman Edwards, who ran Edwards Brothers – a garage based in the current George pub! This was situated next to a cycle shop owned by James William Church. View an old photo by clicking on the link below:
Photo of Edwards Bros – Motor Engineers of Spaldwick
Do you know who you are going to vote for yet? Also, don't forget to get friends and family to vote! Let's see how many votes we can get.


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Watch out Sir Keir: SNP notch one up in Highgate's window poster war
STURGEY-MANIA has spread from Scotland to the Holborn and St Pancras follow, it seems. There is no Scottish National Party candidate on the card in Camden – obviously. But canvassers totting up the scores in Highgate's window poster war have been given a hint that one or two voters might just think that's a great shame. In a street dotted with Labour and Green posters, this SNP alternative sticks out of one bay window.
Maybe it is meant as a message to Labour leader Ed Miliband, who lives about 100-200 yards and must occasionally pass by on his way to the shops, that he shouldn't be too quick to rule out a coalition with the nationalists.


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Pitching one of the best sets at EZF this year, Sander van Doorn sent the crowd into a frenzy when he dropped one of his biggest hits this year,'Koko.' Taking the #7 spot on the countdown, 'Koko' is one of brightest stars of Dutchman's latest album Elevell. It is virtually impossible to avoid the signature whistle and violin melodies embedding themselves in your mind before the commanding drop.
This year has been one of Sander's best as he was featured on main stages at multiple festivals and had great success with his other releases, 'Love is Darkness'and 'Drink to get Drunk.' With this momentum, there is no doubt 2012 will be just as strong and maybe his best yet.
Notable remixes came from the talents of R3hab and Bingo Players.
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Friday, Dec 09, 2022 | Last Update : 12:31 PM IST
Fans of Korean boy band BTS are in for continuous celebrations.
The band, which recently completed 3,000 days in the industry, will soon celebrate the birthday of its youngest member, JungKook. The fans, referred to as BTS ARMY, have already started sending early wishes, making him trend on Twitter.
BTS is globally one of most popular boy bands, whose members are RM (Kim Namjoon), Jin (Kim Seokjin), Suga (Min Yoongi), J-Hope (Jung Hoseok), Jimin (Park Jimin), V (Kim Taehyung) and JungKook (Jeon Jungkook).
JungKook, 23, who will celebrate his birthday on Wednesday, is already trending on Twitter.
Fans are sharing pictures, messages and fan-made videos of the young artiste.
Putting up a picture of JungKook, one fan wrote: "This person is so precious. Hope you have a happy birthday and all your heart's desire. #HappyBirthdayJungkook."
While another one tweeted a video clip from his interview and tweeted: "Happy birthday to the most talented, cutest, funniest, most loving and amazing boy in the world, Jeon JungKook. #HappyJKDay #JungkookDay".
One of the thousands of tweets also read: "Advance happy birthday to you our golden maknae jungkook."
BTS debuted on June 12, 2013 with their album '2 Cool 4 Skool'. On the completion of 3,000 days, fans had made the hashtag 'Love You 3000' trend, a reference to the famous 'Avengers Endgame' dialogue.
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Food waste is a significant problem all across the world that is severely damaging the earth. It is plausible to state that almost everyone out there has contributed to the immense amount of food waste being exposed. Recent statistics have shown that 1.3 billion tons of waste is produced only from food every year all around of world, and the consequences are disastrous. Poor environmental conditions stem from such causes resulting in high amounts of methane gas being emitted in the air, increase in landfills that tend to rot, rising pollution on the local environment and health conditions such as asthma, lung damage, bronchitis etc. being visible in adults and children as young as two years old.
If the waste produced from food cannot be emitted fully due to the rising world populations, we feel there are a number of steps you can take to reduce the waste produced from your own home:
One of the best ways to reduce food waste is by planning your meals ahead of time. This means trying to prepare all the meals for the week, which includes planning all the meals that you will cook in the upcoming week. By noting all the ingredients needed to cook the meals beforehand, you will be able to track down the exact quantities needed so far less food is wasted. Hence, next time you go for a grocery run, remember to plan all your meals for the week so you can save yourself from polluting the environment.
If you're not sure how to meal prep, here is the simple guide to help you with just that!
70% of food waste comes from thrown out leftovers. People around the world are guilty of throwing their leftovers in the garbage after they remain sitting in the fridge for the longest time. Instead of keeping your leftovers in the refrigerator without eating them, store them in the freezer so they can come in handy later for stocks or stews. Try to label each item so you can keep track of what is needed when. This way you can save a lot of money and time, and it will also cause low food wastage.
Shopping smartly is an essential step to reduce food waste. Try not to overbuy items that will not come in your use. You can do this by taking pictures of your cupboards and fridge before your next grocery shopping trip so you can keep track of what you already have and what you need to buy.
We urge you to use the best-before or expiration dates on perishable goods while going grocery shopping, so you don't end up buying something with a close date and wasting it at the end. Checking these dates will help to reduce wastage and decrease the amount of eatables that go in the bin.
This is the most constructive way of reducing food waste. Composting is exceptionally beneficial and helpful for our environment. It reduces the amount of food you waste and is also reduces the need for fertilizers and pesticides. It is known for producing micro-organisms that will break pollutants into less toxic and harsh chemicals.
Try to incorporate these five steps in your everyday life to reduce food waste to its maximum. You never know how the smallest gestures may contribute to climate change and a clean, healthy environment.


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Pull Up to Your Next Zoom Date in One of These Lipsticks—Trust Us
Possibly the only great thing to come out of nine months of quarantine is the time I've been able to allocate to experimenting with makeup, re-creating cute makeup looks, trying new products, and searching for the perfect lipstick shade. And while everyone's approach to makeup is different, no one can deny the transformative power of lipstick (much less a lipstick gift set).
Maybe I'm out on a limb saying this, but there's nothing better than gifting and getting lipstick. No matter their age, their shade, or your budget, lipstick sets make for the perfect gift for anyone on your list. They give you the chance to experiment with new colors, look fresher than ever on your Zoom calls, and, dare I say, find one strong enough to withstand daily face masks. But if you're not convinced yet that this is the best gift for them, keep reading. That's right: We've rounded up the best lipstick gift sets that anyone would want to unwrap (and wear).
Lipstick Gift Sets Under $25
It doesn't get better for the fashion and lipstick enthusiast than this limited-edition lip set from Moschino.
As a nude-lip enthusiast, I bought this Pat McGrath Mini Lip Trio for myself as a gift, and I wasn't disappointed—the lucky beauty lover on your list won't be either.
Every lipstick lover needs a good red lipstick and nude one. Nars's lipstick gift set has both.
If you're looking for an affordable gift set that includes the best lipstick and eye makeup, look no further than this set from Stila.
Lipstick lovers know that the key to a perfect lip comes way before finding the perfect shade. (It's all about keeping your lips hydrated.) Give the gift of hydration with this lip balm set.
Prefer lip gloss to lipstick? You'll want to scoop up these vegan, cruelty-free lip glosses from Tower 28.
Music and makeup lovers will be elated to unwrap this mini lipstick set from Selena Gomez's beauty line Rare Beauty.
Achieving Jennifer Lopez's perfectly nude lip is no easy feat, but you can try to get there with this matte lip set from Revolution Beauty.
Were you the kid who always asked for makeup from Santa? Gift yourself the nostalgic lip sets of your past that made you feel like you were wearing lipstick (even though you weren't).
Whoever said lipstick and a glass of wine don't go well together never saw this lipstick gift set.
Lipstick Gift Sets Under $50
Don't want to gift lipsticks solely? This E.L.F. set has a little bit of everything, so all your bases will be covered this holiday season.
Shopping small and Black-owned businesses is essential this year; Mented is one brand you're going to want to support for sure.
The girlfriend on your list who's always ahead of the hype? They'll respect unwrapping this Glossier set that includes some of the brand's most beloved products.
Finding the perfect foundation for your skin tone is just as hard as finding the perfect nude lip color. Luckily, you can start exploring with Lancôme's lipstick gift set.
You can't go wrong with gifting KVD's best-selling eyeliner, mascara, and lipstick.
We all have days when we can't be bothered to deal with dry lipsticks or sticky lip glosses. Fresh's Sugar lip treatment set is the answer to those woes. When you want a little tint without the fuss, this set is your godsend.
As someone who used to consider herself a makeup novice, I know that picking lipsticks can feel daunting. If you're feeling the same way, I recommend going with this lip and highlighter set from Fenty Beauty—it's a no-fail gift for beauty experts and newbies alike.
Clinique's gift set is the perfect present for the friend on your list with a minimal approach to makeup. Of course, it includes essentials like lipstick and mascara, but it has more of an emphasis on skincare, with cleanser, moisturizer, makeup remover, serum, and a gel eye cream.
Looking for another Black-owned beauty brand to shop this season? Add Uoma to the top of your list, and start with this lipstick kit that comes with a lip liner and the perfect matte shade.
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As we reported in a companion piece here on CJR.org-- "Medicare uncovered: What's not on the table" (and Op Ed News) --the president's budget proposal contains a provision that takes a baby step toward discounted drugs for some poor people on Medicare. It would allow the government to obtain rebates from pharmaceutical makers for drugs covered under Medicare, for the benefit of seniors enrolled in its low-income subsidy program.
Mandating these discounts begins to use Medicare's purchasing leverage to help both beneficiaries and taxpayers. How do the drug makers respond? By trying to stomp it out, of course. And just how they are trying to block the measure is interesting: disease advocacy groups, which tend to have ties to drug makers, along with others who may be ideologically allied, are signing on to a letter campaign by two of the industry's allies.
Since the middle of March, those two allies have enlisted hundreds of organizations to sign on to letters to Congress arguing against the requirement that drug companies give the rebates. The two are the Council for Affordable Health Coverage , a group that's been around since the 1990s to push conservative and market-oriented views on healthcare, and another organization, called RetireSafe , which The Hill reports is funded in part by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
The drug companies fear that these discounts, in the form of rebates for some Medicare beneficiaries, could open the door for more serious negotiations later on--the kind of negotiations other countries engage in that allows them to pay much less for medicines. Such a step, involving a more robust use of government marketing power, could affect their bottom lines. Drug companies are some of the most profitable enterprises around, and are not about to accept change lightly.
The letters from the Council for Affordable Health Coverage and RetireSafe are similar. The Council's letter argues that the rebate "is a poorly informed, ill-conceived policy that poses serious risks to the health and well-being of millions of seniors." It predicts dire consequences, like increasing premiums, jeopardizing patient adherence to drugs, and shifting costs to employers. Too bad most signers of the letters probably won't see the rebuttal to these arguments posted late last year on a blog on Health Affairs, the respected peer-reviewed journal about health policy. "Rebutting an unfair critique" was the headline.
The RetireSafe letter makes some of the same arguments, which apparently have come from a study by Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office and now president of the American Action Forum , a policy institute that supports limited government. The RetireSafe letter disingenuously notes that while supporters of drug price negotiations "assume that because HHS (Health and Human Services) is precluded from negotiations, no negotiations to lower drug costs take place. The opposite is true." Drug plan sellers, it says, "already negotiate discounts and rebates with manufacturers as a condition of participation in Medicare."
Well, yes they do. But drug companies dealing with their friends in the insurance industry is hardly the same as engaging in tough negotiations with the government. Whether signatories to the letter wil take the time to understand the difference is another matter.
So who has signed on to these letters to help out the drug makers? Many of the organizations--more than 300 signers on each letter--are disease advocacy groups. It's not uncommon for such groups to have close ties to drug makers, either as direct funders or consultants or both. Take for instance, the Society for Women's Health Research . According to its website, it formed a corporate advisory council in 1991 whose 22 members are mostly makers of drugs and medical devices. The mission of the advisory council, according to the site, is "to engage the resources of the health care industry and its suppliers in collaboration with SWHR to spearhead changes to improve womens' health and research."
Other signers include lots of groups representing older adults--ironically the group who face income declines as they age and would benefit the most from lower prices for their medicines. Letter-writing campaigns can be effective, as the health insurers have just shown, when they got the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to change a proposed rate cut for Medicare Advantage Plan--to an increase. This campaign may also pay off for the drug companies.
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Peter Jackson's film success celebrates its 20th anniversary as a live concert with a large orchestra, the Tolkien family as well as the world hits of Oscar winner Howard Shore, Annie Lennox, Enya and Ed Sheeran.
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My Name is Why (2019) Lemn Sissay
Posted by celticman on Thu, 18 Nov 2021
Lemn Sissay writes his memoir from a position of power. On the back cover, he lists some of his awards: BAFTA nominated, honorary doctorates, an MBE for services to literature, Chancellor of the University of Manchester. The last line is the killer. 'He is British and Ethiopian.'
In other words, he's a black man. He was the illegitimate son of twenty-one-year-old Yemarshet Sissy, a student at a Baptist Bible College in England, and he was born in Wigan. He was taken into care when he was seven weeks old, and placed with foster parents, Mr and Mrs Greenwood. His mother had to return to Ethiopia to care for her dying father. Her attempts to contact Social Services and bring her son home were rebuffed.
Classified as one of 'the shit countries', by the moron's moron and former US President Donald Trump The Conservative Government's current attempts to redraft what it means to be a British citizen, a stepwise projection in creating a hostile environment, with, ironically, Asian heritage, Priti Patel as cheerleader, which resulted in the Windrush Scandal. In another, less successful life, Lemn Sissay would have deported to Ethiopia as an illegal immigrant. His mother, if she was still alive, would fifty-two years after his birth, finally have had her wish, her son being sent home to the Amhara people. Lemn in the Amharic dialect, the author tells the reader, means 'Why?'
There's lots of whys that need answered in this short book. A hero's journey doesn't usually begin when they are seven-months old. Mrs Greenwood sung to him, 'you are my sunshine, my only sunshine'. And it was to this paradise he always wanted to return.
The Greenwoods were childless and Baptist Christians. They were doing the right thing. Lemn was given a new identity, Norman and he was their sunshine. But then they had three other children. Christopher born when Lemn was one-year old. Lemn was no longer their sunshine, his radiance was short-lived.
Child cruelty, or abuse, takes many forms. January 1980. Lemn was around twelve-and-a-half, and his foster parents—the only patients he knew—contacted Wigan Social Services and demanded he be removed from their home. Their cruelties compounded by making Lemn say he didn't love them, and he wanted to leave. He'd entered the system.
'At fourteen I tattooed the initials of what I thought was my name into my hand. The tattoo is still there but it wasn't my name. It's a reminder that I've been somewhere I should never have been. I was not who I thought I was.
The Authority knew it but I didn't. The Authority had been writing reports about me from the day I was born. My first footsteps were followed by the click clack clack of a typewriter: 'The boy is walking.' My first words were recorded, click clack clack: 'The boy has learned to talk.' Fingers were poised above a typewriter waiting for whatever happened next: 'The boy is adapting.' '
His memoir is leavened by extracts from Wigan Social Service Reports. Grim reading. But try living it. Woodfield Children's Home. Gregory Avenue. And the daddy of them all, Wood End. Wood End was notorious among those in the know, children in care. It was the end of the road, where the bad boys went. It was where Lemn was sent at fifteen when his placement at Gregory Avenue had broken down. Like others he'd committed no criminal offence to morally or legally justify his incarceration. A Dickensian prison run by sadists and child abusers. Many of the residents would graduate to the larger prison system and a life thwarted by drugs and drink.
Miracles do happen. Lemn Sissay escaped from a total institution and flourished. An exception to the rule does not create the rule. Local Authority Care in Crisis, now where have I read that before?
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The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives on Thursday passed its version of a $768 billion defense policy bill for the 2022 fiscal year.
The vote was 316 to 113 in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, which sets policy for the Pentagon on a number of areas including from how many rifles and ships it should purchase to soldiers' salaries to how best to approach geopolitical threats.
The annual defense authorization bill, which still needs to be negotiated with the Senate, directs the Pentagon to outline how it will continue to evacuate American citizens and Afghan allied personnel left behind in Kabul following the Taliban takeover last month.
The legislation also directs defense and intelligence officials to detail how to protect the country against potential terrorist threats, now that the United States no longer has a presence in the country.
President Joe Biden withdrew all remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan before a self-imposed Aug. 31 deadline. The Biden administration has received widespread criticism for how it handled the pullout.
The Senate's version of the defense policy bill for fiscal year 2022 was introduced by Sens. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking Republican committee member, on Wednesday.
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"While President Biden is embroiled in countless national security crises, House Republicans are committed to supporting our troops and keeping America safe and secure through the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022," it said in a statement. "This is one of the most important bills we will pass in Congress as our military faces unprecedented challenges."
"Everybody here will find something that they do not like," House Armed Services Chair Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said on the House floor this week. "But it is also the nature of the legislative process, in this case, that we have produced a product that everybody in this House can be proud of."
The legislation is "laser-focused on preparing our military to prevail in a conflict with China," added House Armed Service Committee's (HASC) ranking member Mike Rogers (R-Ala.).
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SARTOR is a family business trading in fashion design and tailoring for over 30 years. Some months ago, the business was passed down to the second generation. Their main aim is the brand's renovation preserving SARTOR's core values, while embedding their fresh and vivid style. As follows, SARTOR sets out to be introduced again regenerating the beauty of the well dressed and dandy gentlemen.
Some weeks ago, I presented you the selection and creation process of a burgundy made to measure slim fit with peak lapels 2-buttoned suit, made of a 94% wool 6% silk fabric and a contrast pied-de-poule double breasted waistcoat with notch lapels. We had an afternoon walk with Thodoris Argyropoulos at Psirri (where SARTOR is based) and talked about the brand. So, today, we will get to know better SARTOR and present you the final result, as well!
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This is Sue's rug that she started in Betsy Reed's class the day before the hook-in. Really cute rug and she got a lot done!!
Friday, May 3, 2013
This is Sue's rug that she started in Betsy Reed's class the day before the hook-in. Really cute rug and she got a lot done!!
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- jennifer768 said...
The pics were awesome!It looks like everyone was having a grand time.The rugs are looking beautiful as well.I am really interested in your chunky horse.Hugs,Jen
- May 3, 2013 at 6:16 PM
- Saundra said...
Enjoyed the post. Goodness, 1" hooking. This November I will take a class with Betsy Reed and plan to hook WIDE but Not sure it will be 1". It looked good an can't wait to see the finish.
- May 3, 2013 at 6:40 PM
- Julia said...
I think that you must have had a great time with these girls. Thanks for the pictures.
I hook in narrow strips from #3 #4 # 5 #6. A one inch strip is incredibly wide to me but it must go real fast.
I hope that you are having a great weekend.
- May 3, 2013 at 7:04 PM
- Saundra said...
Me again. I'm wondering what you did to put the Pinterest logo and link on your blog.
- May 3, 2013 at 7:06 PM
- acorn hollow said...
sounds like so much fun. the rugs look great. It is always so wonderful to get together for other rug hookers.
- May 3, 2013 at 7:26 PM
- newburyarts said...
*****thankyou, alice, for posting these pictures. betsy was in a wide cut workshop that i taught this past february. from the looks of it, she did listen to my spacing
on the wide cuts, although we sometimes differed in the look. what a treat to have worked with her and although the word "nice" is not adequate enough to describe her, i think "lovely" is more appropriate. please tell her hello the next time that you communicate with her. most sincerely,
tom mcnerney
- May 6, 2013 at 1:47 AM
- Wendie Scott Davis said...
Such fun to get together with "old" friends!! We never tire of it, and I identify with the social butterfly. For my upcoming Primitive class, I was thinking of trying hand-torn. You have convinced me. Love your horsey!!!
Am looking forward to more background pics.
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For a generation, conservative culture warriors have raged at liberals for orchestrating the dumbing-down of America. From the new math to whole language to even affirmative action, they argue, progressives have emasculated our educational standards. Through a morally and ethically dangerous relativism, the left has destroyed the conventions of our culture on every level.
Meanwhile, it is the right who has been identified with a rear-guard action to defend an America where people speak and reason properly, where language doesn't devolve into the lowest common denominator, where phrases born in rap culture, like "shout out" don't find their way into a vice-presidential debate.
So let's play a thought game. Imagine if a folksy, inexperienced black woman was nominated to be vice president on the Democratic ticket. And imagine that instead of coming from Alaska she came from Alabama, and instead of dropping white aw-shucksisms like "Doggone" and "You betcha" into her conversation, she used the equivalent black vernacular.
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Were she black, Sarah Palin's performance would have been skewered by the right as undignified and demeaning to the office she seeks. But because she is a culture warrior in heels, she is hailed by the right as a breath of populist fresh air, and her use of what conservatives once sniffed at as "substandard English" is celebrated as a signifier of her glorious everydayness.
There was a time when you could be a progressive and still respect American conservatives, at least from a Burkean perspective. On one hand, intellectual champions like Buckley offered a worthy opposition and admirable erudition. And on the other hand, the left's willingness to become identified with an ideology that sought to warehouse spelling, long division, and Tolstoy, was dumb.
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With Senator Bernie Sanders out of the race, former Vice President Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee charged with taking on President Donald Trump.
Only a few months ago, the Democratic field was overcrowded with 28 contenders each with vastly different ideologies, platforms and bases. A long, drawn-out race seemed certain, but Biden rallied the center and now Sanders' withdrawal from the race provides Biden with additional time to unite the party, expand his base and announce a running mate.
Over the last few weeks, the teams backing Biden and Sanders respectively have worked together to develop "task forces" to address key issues and find common ground between them. Sanders unveiled this news as he endorsed Biden for president. Through these task forces, Sanders will pressure the former vice president to lean left toward the stances Sanders' campaigned on and that are most important to his die-hard supporters. If Biden wants the support of Sanders' base on November 3, something Hillary Clinton lacked in 2016, he will need to make concessions.
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Biden will tout his experience in the White House and Senate as a reason to vote for him in November. Given the global coronavirus pandemic, people are looking for a candidate that can provide leadership and actionable solutions. Biden will use the failing economy against Trump and paint his response to the coronavirus pandemic as an example of the president's "incompetence" and inability to lead the nation through crises. Biden has been on the front lines of many crises and will sell himself as the leader America needs to emerge from its latest crisis.
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We – The Study Gurus – are a kiwi 'professional student' duo based in Melbourne, Australia.
We became friends at the University of Auckland in 2006 when we were just starting off our degrees in Biomedical Science. After finishing our post-grad courses at the beginning of 2010, we decided it was no good us hanging on to all we had learnt about studying without sharing it! And so The Study Gurus was born.
But the story doesn't end there. After launching The Study Gurus, and in classic gen-Y fashion, we were both in the position where we still weren't sure what we wanted to do. Biomedical Science was fascinating, but it wasn't the field we wanted to work in long-term.
Luckily, and to our families' great relief, we got there in the end. After completing his Biomedical Science degree with first class honours and then working in the field for a couple of years, Chris went on to study medicine at Deakin University in Melbourne. He is now about to launch in to his medical career whilst moonlighting as both tech-support and co-editor for The Study Gurus.
Clare took an even bigger u-turn than Chris after finishing her Biomedical Science degree, and after completing a post-grad diploma and tutoring high school teens for a couple of years, is now a lawyer practising in Melbourne.
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how to optimize elements individually?
Mon, 05/18/2020 - 18:44
I really love balancer, but when I open an OBJ file consisting of several elements, how can I reduce the elements individually? You can select them individually, but all elements are reduced at once (e.g. sofa and pillows).
How can I just reduce the pillows? Is it possible?
Many thanks in advanced.
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Hi Sandra,
You can adjust triangle simplification ratio of different groups, material subgroups, meshes or sub-meshes and also lock them to prevent simplification.
Please take a look at this user guide page:
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We are upgrading our 6-year old server and I need the instructions for doing so. We are running PW V 10.1.1.44 and Pervasive V 11.3
Hi Joe and carestream
would you mind sharing the server migration considerations?
we have bounced against the issue with server later than 2019!
I guess this is mainly pervasive? or is it PW too?
but will now use 2019 VM
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I would urge that you work with PW support and setup time in advance.
Otherwise, the entire experience is dependent on the IT company. I had hoped that the new server would allow faster workstation performance for PW but that has not been the case. You'd think a brand new high power server would make a difference but it hasn't. If I had to do it over again, I would definitely NOT splurge on a high powered server.
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Former Barclays Executive Jerry del Missier Not Doing Bob Diamond Any Favors
Barclays ex-chief operating officer, Jerry del Missier, contradicted Robert Diamond, saying his former boss told him to submit artificially low Libor rates, and blamed compliance managers for failing to act. Del Missier, 50, told Parliament's Treasury Committee today that he received an instruction from Diamond, then chief executive officer, that he took to have come from the Bank of England. He said he then "passed the instruction along" to Mark Dearlove, head of the bank's money-markets desk, to lower its contributions for the London interbank offered rate... [Bloomberg, related]


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- Graduated from Wayne State School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan in 1991.
- Completed a transitional year at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan in 1992.
- Completed his anesthesiology training at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan in 1995.
- Board Certified Anesthesiology
Dr. Kidd comes from Michigan but has made Florida his home. He treats osteoarthritis, CRPS, neck and low back pain, and a variety of other chronic pain conditions using a variety of modalities and interventional procedures.
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Collision Course: Rising College Costs Threaten America's Future and Require Shared Solutions--A Policy Brief from Lumina Foundation for Education
Dickeson, Robert C.
Lumina Foundation for Education
One of the most critical issues affecting higher education access today is the rising cost of going to college. Symptoms of the trend include dramatic increases in tuition and fees, reduced state higher education budgets, declines in the purchasing power of student grant aid, increasing student debt burdens and heightened demand for institutional accountability. Left unchecked, the real and perceived cost spiral can have serious consequences. It can limit access and lifetime opportunity for aspiring college students, particularly low-income students, thereby threatening America's future in the global, knowledge-based economy. Unfortunately, dialogue about the issue has become counterproductive. Harsh proposals and counterproposals and arguments about who's to blame add to the divisive nature of this topic. To raise the dialogue to a more constructive level, Lumina Foundation for Education proposes an initiative to improve discourse and find shared solutions. It turns out that practical, low-cost solutions to this problem exist and are available for shared implementation. Additional creative solutions are sure to be found when people come together for the common good. This policy brief proposes to be a first step in that process. It provides essential background, and then identifies potential strategies that stakeholder groups might consider in addressing the issue. (Contains 2 tables and 33 endnotes.)
Descriptors: Paying for College, Higher Education, Educational Finance, Funding Formulas, Financial Problems, Family Role, Government Role, Role Perception, School Role, Student Role, Community Role, College Role, Partnerships in Education, Cooperative Planning
Lumina Foundation for Education. P.O. Box 1806, Indianapolis, IN 46206-1806. Tel: 800-834-5756; Fax: 317-951-5063; Web site: http://www.luminafoundation.org/publications/index.html
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Thu, 11 March 2010
My guest on this episode of the Spirit of Magic podcast is legendary close-up and bar magician JC Wagner. We cover everything from his days working the Disney Magic shop with Steve Martin to his time working the bar with Bob Sheets and Doc Eason. JC also share some of history with Dai Vernon, Eddie Fecter and other legends of the west coast magic scene. If you wanna work magic in the bar, there is no better teacher to learn from than the amazing JC Wagner.
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Oculus has announced its first entirely game focused showcase for next week (opens in new tab), with Lone Echo 2, Pistol Whip and Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge all confirmed to be in attendance. In addition to those titles there will apparently be some "surprises in store".
Lone Echo 2 is a long-awaited sequel to the 2017 space adventure developed by Ready at Dawn, which was acquired by Oculus last year. Pistol Whip is a first-person shooter that actually released back in 2019, though it received a substantial update in the form of '2089' back in November. What this new showing entails is anyone's guess.
"This is our first event wholly dedicated to the stellar games across the Oculus Platform," so reads Oculus' announcement post. "You can expect new updates to fan-favorite titles, never-before-seen footage from some unreleased games, and a few surprises in store."
The showcase takes place on April 21 at 3pm PT (6pm ET / 11pm BST / 8am AEST on April 22) on Twitch (opens in new tab)and YouTube (opens in new tab).


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Ryan Wins Battle for Data that Kept Lebanon County Closed in Pandemic
– Rep. Frank Ryan (R-Lebanon) won a major victory this week when the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) finally surrendered data he requested more than a year ago. At issue is the data the Wolf administration used to prevent Lebanon County businesses from reopening following the statewide shutdown.
Last year, after several weeks of arbitrary and confusing executive orders that were largely unexplained and forced the shutdown of businesses and put people out of work, Ryan and several of his Republican colleagues moved to pass
Act 77 of 2020
. The bill strengthened Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know Law by clarifying what information would be considered a public record during a disaster declaration and requiring disclosure of the process used to collect data and any models produced to establish rules and policies in a disaster declaration. It was this legislation that ultimately gave Ryan the data he was seeking.
"Business owners and residents were disenfranchised by the administration's prolonged shutdown orders and Lebanon County was the last to emerge," said Ryan. "I filed a Right-to-Know (RTK) request with the Department of Health to obtain the data it used to justify keeping Lebanon County closed when the rest of the state was open.
"After the DOH denied my request, I appealed to the Office of Open Records, which ordered the DOH to comply. Instead, the department took the matter to court and I have waited nearly a year for my case to be heard. This week, just days before the case was to be heard, the department handed over the data I had requested.
"My colleagues and I have been frustrated by the administration's general lack of transparency during this pandemic and its decisions have caused great harm to businesses, workers and our economy," said Ryan. "I am pleased my appeal was successful and the DOH finally complied. It is unfortunate it had to take this long. I am hopeful the administration will be more cooperative and forthcoming as we work to move our Commonwealth past this pandemic."
"This was a huge win for the residents of Pennsylvania and ensures the open and transparent government they deserve," said Rep. Seth Grove (R-York), the prime sponsor of Act 77. "While the Wolf administration attempted to shield critical information from the public using an archaic law from the 1950s, the sunshine of transparency and good government won the day."
Representative Frank Ryan
101st Legislative District
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
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