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2023.06.10 20:49 IamParked Open Letter to Myatt's Fields Park Project (discrimination against volunteers)
![]() | To Myatt's Fields Park Project - Chair, Executives, Staff and Trustees, submitted by IamParked to u/IamParked [link] [comments] when I was brought along to Myatt's by a neighbour in the summer 2022, I thought this might be a place where I can continue to heal while learning to deal with workplace related issues in a SAFE environment to re-learn getting back into work. I spent years isolated in traumatic grief and having had to look after my parents one-by-one until they deteriorated each with dementia and their own trauma and grief. Burying my dad next to my brother, never imagined I would not be able to bury my mum a few years later during the pandemic lockdown. I thought I could get out of isolation, back into working with people in a safe place until I'm ready to get back into “proper” employment” again. I was wrong. I have lost my family one by one over the last 8 years. My brother's death was extremely traumatic. And as this didn't seem enough for the universe, the pandemic had to hinder me burying my mum. Lost my job, am still unable to work without getting triggered of workplace bullying and anxiety attacks. Losing my mental health. Losing hope. Getting up with the end of my life on my mind and going to bed with the end of my life on my mind. Like in Ricky Gervais Netflix series “Afterlife” where he plays a widow who always keeps his “Superpower”, that if everything fails, he just skips out of life. I have nothing to lose anymore and live with my Superpower. I made mistakes, tried to rectify it, but failed again. I understand that people everywhere are overwhelmed. Anybody's story of loss, trauma, sickness is uncomfortable for society and for people who are either healthy, in the middle of life, or successfully overcame trauma, loss and illness. And anyone who feels they dealt better with loss and trauma makes the mistake to compare themselves to other sufferers. Don't cross that line! But the more grief and trauma one has, the more society wants them silent. I am not silent, I CAN'T be silent because of HOW everything unfolded and how I was left alone in the worst time of my life. No initial support, no help and the deep blackness of trauma. A Stern Rebuke to a charity enlisting volunteers for “Well-being” Are you Myatt's not embarrassed and ashamed of yourselves in how you treat, not only free labour (volunteers), but volunteers with mental and physical health issues? Are you not ashamed of yourselves? NOT inducting volunteers. NOT doing health and needs checks. And then quickly fixing things after it was called out by the very volunteer who is fncked up mentally, whoom you try to get rid of, and seems to care more about safety then all of you combined! We current and former volunteers have NO rights like paid employees have. And the Myatt's Fields Park Project has been THE WORST volunteer experience in my life. Yes, you are THE MOST generous (trips, Sunday lunch, vegetables, teaching on plants etc.) which I mentioned in my other blog. But what is that if as a volunteer I feel my dignity stepped upon and for staff to not want me to be there as it's inconvenient for them? I have volunteered most of my life since my late teens in different countries and many different projects: working with the homeless, with the elderly in art/painting sessions in nursing homes, helping support free services (free haircuts, manicures, meals) with dignity to sex workers and their children, free clean-ups after hurricane debris and fallen trees in people's yards etc. etc. etc. The Myatt's Fields Park Project had me so hurt at times that my mental health took a nose-dive again. And for that I suffer further discrimination as if it was my fault feeling distressed! It has led me to the decision to never ever give my free time, skill, experience ever again to any charity or general project. I've had enough after years of volunteering and the last experience with Myatt's. Are you not ashamed of yourselves to take advantage of volunteers while your staff sit for hours every week in the office in winter or the cool depot space in summer while volunteers outside labour away in the sun, cold and rain? Some who are a little older outside, unsupervised and in danger to suffer health issues. A stroke, heart attack etc. at an higher age can happen any time! Are you paid staff members not ashamed?! Are you not ashamed of yourselves for bad-mouthing a paid colleague and even worse some volunteers, and also bad-mouthing volunteer to other volunteers? Are you not ashamed to rush an elderly volunteer with walking difficulties on the day-trips to the point the volunteer couldn't sleep at night for fear they'd be late for the next trip, and then tell me as a volunteer who was concerned for the person that I should relax and not take control. Or as you all knew from the beginning that I have PTSD and triggers, that if I'm triggered that I should not come to trips. Are you not ashamed? Have you read the Equality Act on dignity? The amount of times I was hurt in my dignity and another volunteer being stressed about Fab. talking for hours with most of us sitting there bored, in silence and getting headaches from the one-man show. Are you not ashamed? Apathy on Safety Issues When I pointed out serious health and safety concerns between summer 2022 and spring 2023: Nails/screws sticking out of a shelf on eye-level, almost poking my eye when I put blue paper into the dispenser underneath the shelf, as we never had anything to dry our hands with and no staff member acting on these issues. Your 2 staff members (volunteer coordinator and greenhouse manager) just seeming clueless (or careless?), not even knowing where a tool box is upon request to pull the nails and screws out. Both staff who work at Myatt's one for 4 years, the other for 10 years and they tell me the don't know if Myatt's have a tool box! Me having to raise this with Tori again and bring my OWN hammer from home with the “fork” to pull out all the nails/screws in the presence of Tori. I really did and do care that NO-ONE gets injured by things that can be avoided! You Myatt's fields executives can afford private health care, WE volunteers rely on the broken NHS if we get injured! I am currently not even climbing a 4 step-ladder to avoid any unnecessary accidents to not have to wait 5 hours to be seen in A&E. I REALLY care that people and myself don't get hurt! Do you? Or is all this just for show to look good with the government and sponsors? For me to raise for WEEKS that there's poo smeared on the public lady's toilet wall. Raising this with Ra. as the volunteer coordinator and my direct “line manager”, who as usual just guessed that this might be under Lambeth Council, but didn't action on it whatsoever. Me not being inducted for a year, not knowing who's who and who to report things to! Four weeks later the poo still being there and yet AGAIN going to Ra's line manager Tori to find out how this can be removed as this is not only a health risk, but plainly disgusting! Only then I was informed to pass this on to the Park Manager El. who's now also the Health and Safety Manager / interim Director. Then it got fixed. And only then I learnt who to go to for safety issues. I could of just ignored everything like you all do! What an inconvenience I am for Myatt's. Are you not ashamed that a volunteer cared more about safety issues than staff do? Pointing out to Tori several safety issues like blocked/hidden fire extinguishers. Tori didn't seem bothered too much either and asked me what could happen fire-wise there. As I was standing next to the fridges and freezers I pointed to those and reminded Tori that Grenfell Tower fire happened from a refrigerator. Her facial expression then showed that the penny finally dropped. To have to explain to upper leadership of Myatt's that ANYTHING can happen to ANYONE at ANYTIME for ANY reason is beyond me! And the absolute MINIMUM we can do is eliminate these safety issues I mention above and below. The kitchen oven that started the fire alarm. The following week a person from the community cooked and approached Ra. that the oven needs cleaning as it could cause a fire. Ra. just with a “shrugging-shoulder” attitude as usual saying that a professional cleaner might have to come in, and that was that. No further action or passing it on to whoever responsible to fix things. So, I passed it on again having been there the previous week when the fire alarm went off thinking they just overcooked the chicken, but now I leanrt it was due to the oven not being cleaned and covered in burnt debris. I raised this with Tori AGAIN, who to my shock then told me I shouldn't listen to the lady who cooked and raised this SERIOUS safety issue. I was shocked yet again on Myatt's apathetic attitude towards serious health and safety issues. But as Tori saw my urgency in this, pointing out that if an EHO would visit, Myatt's would not be doing well, the Park Manager then went to work and things got fixed within short time. ONLY mentioning the government checks got the message across, NOT health and safety issues, not people potentially getting hurt. No, only government gets the message across. After everything got fixed, Myatt's then contacted Lambeth Council to do a check, and received 5 stars. Bravo! But as Fab. continued to cook despite being told not to due to poor hygiene, and me being so stupid again to raise this again, the procedure got started to get rid of me. Let a volunteer help you put things in place that YOU Myatt's neglected, then look good in the public, and Tori leaving with a clean slate, and then get rid of me who helped you raise the standard and create a safer space for all. Are you not ashamed of yourselves?! Ra. lying across the dining room table to get a free massage from a person who occasionally volunteers but has their partner going through cancer treatment caring for family. Are you not ashamed of yourself? Tori's words to me when I raised issues being rebuked, talked bad about, sent out as Fab. Was angry, “As long as the results come out”. In other words, as long as the mission to get vegetables and seedlings etc. to the community, you close your eyes to what your staff, especially the greenhouse manager do, no matter how upset volunteers get. I always wondered why Fab. kept some vegetables, especially large ones out on the depot floor for weeks and weeks until they started rotting, instead of giving those to the community and/or volunteers in this cost-of-living crisis. It took me almost a year of observance that this might be because he might want to portray to Myatt's that he is “producing” vegetables, while in reality the garden outside often looked very meek. For staff and trustees to vote to give me a letter of warning, jumping over stage 1 straight int stage 2 going against your own policy and using an “expired” (forgiven) incidence to start the procedings to get rid of me because the Health & Safety Manager was upset when I mentioned the Food Gov should I get food poisoning again. Are you not ashamed? And then I raised a grievance on this as you went against your own policy while trying to penalise me for going agsint your policy which I didn't even know. And grievance hearing held by your new Development Manager Pat. In such a dodgy and flawed way, bombarding me with questions, some questions irrelevant to throw me off course and not get to the grievance against Myatt's itself. This was a TYPICAL toxic corporate HR hearing to protect the organisation, no matter how much the volunteer suffers. This leading me to a breakdown in the hearing as I was triggered from the workplace bullying and HR meetings I went through. The way Pat. handled the hearing was BRUTAL, cold, careless, gaslighting and flawed. No compassion from Pat. and El. the note taker who should have never been present in the meeting as she was part of the grievance. Not allowed to read and sign the hearing notes at the end of the hearing, as is usual in grievance hearings. Later that evening me contemplating to end my life and falling back into mental health problems I thought I overcame. Are you not ashamed of yourselves?! Finally Maybe you paid staff, executives and trustees should humble yourselves and come down from your high horse and stop pretending to have integrity and honesty “as best as possible”. You have shown no honesty and no integrity! Maybe you should reflect on HOW any volunteer might feel and what bad treatment could do to and with them mentally and physically. I don't pretend to have integrity and honesty “as best as I can”. I HAVE integrity and honesty! I don't need to write it down anywhere because I LIVE it! You didn't and don't deserve volunteers like me who truly CARE about safety issues and making people feel welcome. You don't deserve volunteers in general. You don't deserve free labour in your systemic attitude towards safety issues as well as volunteers with mental and/or physical health issues. You don't deserve any of us. And I and other volunteers deserve better. We already have no rights, no or little money, often no health. We scrap by financially and with health issues and hope that the little bit we give in our free time could help us heal somewhat. You should be ashamed! I updated the ADHD vs Narcissism blog as this was a thorn in your eye even though I never mentioned Myatt's. I mention you now! The grievance hearing had me over the edge and gave me the final pain in my dignity and mental health struggles, and I will now speak openly. I do again sincerely apologize for any mistakes and text/email I did. But I will also not continue apologizing. I have lost everything dear and important to me. But I have not lost my voice, and will always use my voice after trying EVERYTHING internally. I am a free person as best as I can be in my anxieties, hopelessness, triggers, mental boundaries with PTSD … and I use whatever freedoms I have been granted under the law. And I will express myself, I will explain my struggles, I will share my traumas, my losses, my experiences until the last day. https://value-people.weebly.com/open-letter-to-myatts-fields-park-project.html < https://preview.redd.it/2vfkcq79l85b1.jpg?width=694&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=846bc0229c1f3566c05bfda4741f542995b94e23 |
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2023.06.10 20:42 CBarkleysGolfSwing APRN - Post FreshRealm Closing (An Update)
![]() | First off, congrats to the OGs who stuck around and have been following closely despite the shitty price action. I was fortunate enough to have plenty of dry powder and I averaged down hard last week prior and post s. The price action was terrible and when we dumped to ~$30m MC, I definitely questioned my resolve/confidence, but I'm glad I stuck with my thesis. submitted by CBarkleysGolfSwing to Aprnstock [link] [comments] With that said, I also want to say if you're a salty bagholder who is here just to shit on aprn, you can fuck off. Every play should be dealt with given *current* info and data points. I don't care what transpired in the past. So where are we now? Let's take a look at why I'm bullish AF heading into net week.
FreshRealm ClosingThe deal does a few things for APRN that were much needed, and frankly, should have happened a while ago.First, APRN disposes/sells the largest source of opex cash burn: their facilities. On paper, APRN was positioned for success because their facilities were equipped to scale to LOTS of volume and the higher the volume, the better the economies of scale. Unfortunately, they were not able to realize those economies of scale so it hurt profitability hard. Additionally, APRN gets $25m cash, $3.5m as a note payable to ARPN, $4m in milestone payments and $17.5m in rebates + a 10 year licensing agreement that nets APRN royalty payments on whatever FreshRealm sells with the Blue Apron branding. All of this is great, as it provides APRN with a cash injection and ongoing revenue in addition to reduced cash burn. "Asset light model" https://preview.redd.it/1ip1odlka85b1.jpg?width=1239&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4449bc4283c5175f18f41169bf59fe4d78115bb6 APRN also paid off their debt. Yes, they have zero debt. The paid off debt had strict liquidity covenants, and APRN was in violation of those. As a result, they were at risk of technical default. They were able to avoid that by pledging Sanberg's "collateral" against the debt. With the debt paid off, APRN now possesses Sanberg's collateral free and clear. Which brings us to another bullish datapoint: the collateral and missing PIPE investment. Potential Upcoming CatalystsSo what is the collateral? No one knows, but a 3rd party validated the value and estimated it to be "well in excess of the obligated amount (from Sanberg)". https://preview.redd.it/z5ik9anib85b1.jpg?width=977&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dd3cc16715323def62ce78ea4689a595d7c66f20 So what's the obligated amount? It's $76.5m. It's ridiculous. That means APRN has $30m in cash from FreshRealm and the potential to get another $75m or so from the PIPE or the collateral. https://preview.redd.it/n0zasxilc85b1.jpg?width=1248&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a3b79c9b38ad26884cabc935c8bf6f68d81a48f2 https://preview.redd.it/gvgxawcmc85b1.jpg?width=582&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e79ececa00d22e3ae0cb9ffae4ba432a64281a1 The wrinkle here is that the public isn't aware WHAT the collateral is and it's illiquid. The prevailing theory is that it's Sanberg's stake in Aspiration, which is planning to go public via SPAC $IPVF. Unfortunately, it's been dragging on forever. BUT, given APRN now possesses the collateral free and clear, they can do what they want with it. Selling it outright would be foolish, but monetizing it in some other fashion is definitely possible. Mitch (interim CFO) has had months to line something up, and I fully expect to hear some PR next week on how APRN plans to monetize the collateral. Bullish. Moreso, if by some miracle the PIPE funds actually show up, a large portion of it will be used for buybacks. Yes, the thing we were promised last year at $6 price per share (pre-split, or $72 per share post s), is still slated to happen. https://preview.redd.it/c5jvqe7dd85b1.jpg?width=1004&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=285fd048fd021acb7a6d914f6c41f65d109b28f9 Note that $25m buying back shares at these levels has a materially higher impact than at $72 per share. Yes, I also realize there has been lots of dilution (30m to now 72m pre split), but again, let's deal with the stats we have in front of us now. Dilution is also another thing I know folks are scared of. APRN has a $70m ATM that is out there. However, I'm am confident this will not be used and it was most likely a safety net in case things went south with FR deal. Why wouldn't they use it? Because they haven't, and they made a point on the last earnings to say they haven't touched it at all. https://preview.redd.it/9mdnsn6xd85b1.jpg?width=1205&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b86cccaac5b36ae9593b957c4d2613e19543f820 The FreshRealm deal included 20% outstanding shares via warrants (which can't be exercised for 18 months, so no immediate dilution). It would be a HUGE misstep/fuck up for APRN to sign a deal with a (now) strategic partner, issue them 20% share via warrants, and THEN dilute them RIGHT after. It's not happening. So another potential catalyst: withdrawing the $70m ATM offering. Squeeze MechanicsSo let's take a look at the current trading mechanics. We had a piss ripper all day Friday, touched north of $10 and then had a bit of a light volume AH dump.But taking a closer look, what's important to note is that:
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2023.06.10 20:41 Current_Run8773 Can someone help explain this to me?
![]() | Pictures of me at the last ER visit I had to make, I was up for almost 26 hours so sorry for the disgusting look 😂 submitted by Current_Run8773 to TMJ [link] [comments] So a bit of background before I ask the big question, 4 months ago I dislocated my jaw. It slipped back into place very quickly but was very painful. A month later it dislocated but this time stayed dislocated. Went to the ER and had it reduced. Since then it feels like it pops out every day. This past week on Wednesday my right side dislocated laterally and was so stuck I had two fully grown doctors trying to reduce it but it didn’t budge. I was then sedated and my jaw was successfully reduced until 15 minutes passed and it popped back out. An MRI was ordered and the results I’ll put here: RIGHT TMJ: 1. Abnormal appearance of the right temporomandibular joint with a shallow mandibular fossa of the temporal eminence and diminutive head of the mandibular condyle. To what degree this is related to a component of developmental dysplasia of the TMJ or related to chronic/remote erosive changes is uncertain. Subsequently there is an attenuated and likely degenerative grade TMJ disc with suboptimal characterization of function. 2. Follow-up consultation with maxillofacial surgery is recommended. LEFT TMJ: 1. Anterior displacement of the left TMJ disc with partial recapture with mouth opening with diminished anterior translation. 2. Possible degeneration/tearing of the central portion of the TMJ disc. What does this really mean going forward? I’ve already called some surgeons (including the one they referred me to) and all of the ones in my region are booked out till January. I haven’t been able to chew food for almost 3 months now and I’m tired of liquid diets. Does it sound like I’ll have to have open joint surgery? Obviously I still am going to try and get into a surgeons office for a consultation but not knowing what could potentially happen makes me go crazy. As a bit of more background, I have Ankylosing Spondylitis. Was diagnosed at 10 so I’m not unfamiliar with treatments. Honestly the thing that scares me the most is the lack of knowing what could happen. |
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![]() | It’s a difficult time for a number of different retailers and brands at the minute as Joules has recently found out. This crisis-hit retailer finds itself in a period of financial turmoil and, is currently on the lookout for different insolvency procedures that they might be able to rely on in order to cut back on some of their overheads and avoid complete collapse in the process. submitted by leadinguknorwich to u/leadinguknorwich [link] [comments] It has been revealed that Joules are currently working with an advisor to put together a Company Voluntary Arrangement (otherwise referred to as a CVA) that would help to prevent store closure, cut back on rent and hopefully save jobs in the process. Joules haven’t decided to formally launch their CVA as of yet but it is looking more likely that they will in the weeks to come depending on how the business’s situation evolves. So, what actually is a CVA? A CVA is a legally binding agreement which is usually set out between a creditor and a company which allows for a certain proportion of debts to be paid off over time. In order for a CVA to be formally put in place, 75% of the creditors need to support the proposal that has been put forward. https://preview.redd.it/zgf35x2nd85b1.jpg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=13db03b29d6c8115ff669586c23614c40f204439 If the CVA is agreed then it means that unsecured creditors are bound by the arrangement. The organisation is then able to carry on trading as per usual and the directors of the business will remain in control of it. A supervisor will be appointed to who is responsible for the monitoring of the CVA. This supervisor needs to be a licensed insolvency practitioner and they are usually appointed by the company. Arrangements vary in terms and length; however, the majority usually last for about 3-5 years. Read Retailer Joules CVA Case Study |
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