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Start Building Your Options Now to Sell Your Countertop Fabrication Shop
Fabricator How-to Do not wait until you are ready to leave. A strong transition usually starts 12 to 24 months ahead of time — and sometimes longer. The work you do now can make your company easier to run, more valuable and far easier to transfer later. You have spent years building the shop. Equipment, people, customer relationships, processes and reputation all took time. But many owners put off one of the biggest questions until the end: How will I eventually step away?
Ed Young
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How Banks Can Weather the Storm of Uncertainty With Confidence
In today’s volatile financial environment, financial institutions have become weather vanes, potentially spinning with each economic gust. High interest rates with an uncertain outlook, evolving regulatory pressures, geopolitical shocks and shifts in customer behavior have created a climate of constant flux. For financial executives, particularly chief financial officers and treasurers, the challenge is no longer simply to plan for the future; it’s to plan amid uncertainty.
The Future of Risk Management: Adapt or Fall Behind
By Ed Young, Managing Director, Empyrean Solutions The past 18 months have been a wake-up call for the banking industry. Market instability, sharp interest rate fluctuations, and economic uncertainty have forced financial institutions to rethink risk and performance management strategies. While some banks have made significant strides in adapting to this new environment, others are still lagging behind, hindered by outdated tools, rigid processes, and cultural resistance to change.
Build Confidence in Your Business by Evaluating Your Market Segments
By Ed Young, Fabricator’s Business Coach I get a lot of questions from shop owners about how to price their products. They see advertisements from competitors touting incredibly low price-per-square-foot numbers and wonder if they have priced their products incorrectly. “How are their prices so low?” “Should my prices be that low?” “How do I make a profit at that price?” I also run across a lot of shop owners who want to close every quote opportunity regardless of the work.
Do You Schedule Your Maintenance Time or Does Your Machinery Do It for You?
By Ed Young, Fabricator’s Business Coach The stone industry has come a long way in the use of technology since I worked with my first fabrication shop client over 20 years ago. Almost every shop I visit today has some or all of the following: CNC saws. Water jet cutting. Digital templating. Robotic sawjets. Unfortunately, the most common form of maintenance I see for this expensive equipment is a break-fix approach — we fix it after it breaks.
Strengthening Your Business To Weather the Coming Storm
By Ed Young, Fabricator’s Business Coach Imagine you are in a 50-foot sailboat, 100 miles from shore, experiencing gale-force winds and 40-foot seas. You haven’t eaten or slept in a few days, and the only other person on the boat with you is seriously injured. How do you prepare to survive in those circumstances? Obviously, that is a dire situation that few of us will ever face.
Thanks to Galapagos Books for an unforgettable legacy
For 25 years, I have witnessed this one-room enterprise, Galapagos Books, honed by its proprietor. Amada’s gracious hands, and those thousands of patrons and authors who visited her, shaped it into a legacy not to be easily forgotten. I am certain its influences will continue to flourish in mysterious ways beyond what is immediately noticeable. I wish to say how privileged I have been to be a part of its life. Thank you, Amada. The writer is an award-winning author and illustrator of children’s books
The Coronavirus Funding Collapse Is a Disaster
All epidemics trigger the same Sisyphean cycle of panic and neglect. Even so, that cycle isn't meant to spin this quickly.
Going the Extra Mile for New York City Magic
I need to travel to Brooklyn more. Not gonna lie, it’s a bitch to get to from Manhattan sometimes, but once I arrive, it’s a breath of fresh air. The buildings are lower so the world looks a lot brighter. The streets are quieter, a reminder of home. There are more Black people there. I keep telling myself that if I wasn’t so tired throughout the week, perhaps I would explore the borough more often.
How Public Health Took Part in Its Own Downfall
How Public Health Took Part in Its Own Downfall The field's future lies in reclaiming parts of its past that it willingly abandoned.
Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us
Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us As vaccines roll out, the U.S. will face a choice about what to learn and what to forget. The influenza pandemic that began in 1918 killed as many as 100 million people over two years. It was one of the deadliest disasters in history, and the one all subsequent pandemics are now compared with. Read Full Article »
Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us
Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us As vaccines roll out, the U.S. will face a choice about what to learn and what to forget.
Fauci: ‘Bizarre’ White House Behavior Hurts the President
NIAID director Anthony Fauci with American President Donald Trump Fauci: ‘Bizarre’ White House Behavior Only Hurts the President by Peter Nicholas and Ed Young/The Atlantic Anthony Fauci isn’t about to quit, despite the White House’s clumsy attempts to stain his public image. More so now than at any other point in their uneasy partnership, it seems that if President Donald Trump wants to be rid of Fauci, he’ll need to fire him.
South Africa: Messaging During COVID-19 - What Can We Learn From Previous Crises of Infectious Disease
The Covid-19 crisis has reinforced the global consequences of fragmented, inadequate and inequitable healthcare systems and the damage caused by hesitant and poorly communicated responses. The discourse around the Covid-19 pandemic has rightly placed heavy emphasis on understanding (and limiting) the spread of infection, and the steps taken via the national lockdown to prepare our health systems for the expected spike in serious cases.
Maverick Citizen Op-Ed: Messaging during Covid-19: What can we learn from previous crises of infectious disease
Posters detailing coronavirus guidance are displayed outside the entrance to Netcare Pretoria East Hospital. (Photo: Waldo Swiegers / Bloomberg via Getty Images) The Covid-19 crisis has reinforced the global consequences of fragmented, inadequate and inequitable healthcare systems and the damage caused by hesitant and poorly communicated responses.
THE WEATHER'S BET
Three heavenly powers look down upon a shepherd girl and bet which one can knock her cap off. Young’s atmospheric, textured artwork conjures the natural forces vying to mess with a mortal’s cap in this loose retelling of an old Aesop’s fable. Photographs, fabric, and paper (sometimes torn, sometimes cut) cohere in evocative collages that capture both the expansive powers of Wind, Rain, and Sun as well as the young girl’s brown skin, cheekbones, eyelashes, and strands of ebony hair.
Some Fish Are Still Full of Mercury, for a Worrying Reason
Environmental success stories are seemingly in short supply, but the fall of mercury is one of them. Released by coal-burning power plants and other industries, mercury—a toxic metal—circulates in the atmosphere, enters the ocean, worms up the food web and, via the seafood we eat, ends up in our bodies. For decades mercury in seafood has been a health scourge, because it inflicts long-term harm on the brain and increases the risk of heart disease.
The Undertaker Reveals What Could Have Extended His Full-Time Pro Wrestling Career
As previously noted, pro wrestling great The Undertaker recently spoke with Fellowship Church's Senior Pastor Ed Young for the first installment of Wrastlin': A Series By Ed Young. Among many other things, The Undertaker talked about his extensive injuries, the grueling WWE schedule, and how having a tour bus earlier on in his pro wrestling odyssey could have extended his career in the squared circle.
Undertaker Opens Up About Fan Interactions & Staying Relevant His Entire Career
In a continuing series of out-of-character interviews, The Undertaker opened up about some topics he’s kept close to the vest during his career. Undertaker began his run in the WWE (then-WWF) with a call from the boss himself… “I got the call from Vince. The call was something like this. The phone rings. I pick it up. ‘Hello?’ ‘Is this The Undertaker?’ ‘Undertaker? Yeah, this is The Undertaker.’ ‘Haha! Alright then. Can you be up here tomorrow?’ And the next day I was on a plane.
The Undertaker Details Vince McMahon's Phone Call About Working For WWE
As previously noted, WWE Legend The Undertaker, also known as Mark Calaway, recently caught up with Fellowship Church's Senior Pastor Ed Young for an out of character interview on a number of interesting topics including getting the call from WWE Chairman Vince McMahon about The Undertaker gig, evolving his character over his long and storied pro wrestling career, and how he deals with attention from fans.
Undertaker Reveals The Strongest Pro Wrestlers He's Faced, What Andre The Giant Would Tell Him
As previously noted pro wrestling icon The Undertaker recently participated in an out of character interview with Fellowship Church Senior Pastor Ed Young. Among many other things, The Undertaker talked about the strongest WWE Superstars he has every wrestled and his relationship with WWE Hall Of Famer André The Giant. During the interview, The Undertaker shared that the strongest WWE Superstars he has ever wrestled were former WWE world champions Brock Lesnar, Kane, and Mark Henry.
Rev. Ed Young on Billy Graham: He spent a lifetime reaching out, opening doors
A case could be made that Billy Graham was the most influential person in the 20th century. In all probability, he spoke to more people in the flesh than anyone who has ever lived. He and his team travelled the world with one message: God has revealed Himself in the person of Jesus Christ, and that fact is the central point of all history. His clear presentation of what God has done for man through Jesus Christ was used by the Almighty to radically change the lives of millions.
Why You Shouldn't Give A Damn About Massive Rejection
Rejection is an ugly word and none of us – if we’re being truthful – likes to hear it. It’s here where the whole issue starts in the first place.
9 Successful Characteristics of Olympic Athletes That You Need to Replicate
Successful athletes, just like any successful entrepreneur, have common characteristics that have helped them on their path in becoming the best version of themselves within their chosen discipline. Through my experience coaching talented athletes across the world in a range of sports, I have put together the top personal characteristics which we can learn from the most successful athletes. Here are 9 of the most successful characteristics of olympic athletes: 1.
Children’s Picture Books
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Children’s Picture Books
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Children’s Picture Books
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Children’s Picture Books
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Children’s Picture Books
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Children’s Picture Books
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