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How Can Lawyers Use Professional Legal Transcription Services?
Professional legal transcription services make life so much easier for lawyers, paralegals, law firms, and the whole office. That’s for many reasons, which we’ll cover here. But essentially it breaks down to this: professional legal transcription services provide fast, accurate documentation services so that law offices can focus on their cases – and their clients.
Quality transcription faster
A specialized professional to lighten your workload
Useable documents for better case building
Outstanding customer service
A great addition to your legal team to take care of document management
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Four Ways Professional Legal Transcription Services Help Your Case
Preparing cases, gathering information, and even simple day-to-day tasks associated with managing your cases and clients require a certain amount of documentation. It’s one of those necessities that can quickly pile up. Professional legal transcription services can make your well-oiled machine run even more efficiently. These specialists take care of the “invisible” documentation tasks that you don’t think twice about, yet take up so much of your day.
Most lawyers don’t realize how much time they and their team are spending transcribing meetings and interviews, gathering handwritten notes, and pulling together various other pieces of documentation. But consider these stats. According to MetaJure, lawyers spend about 11.2 hours per week dealing with challenges related to document creation and management. Further, lawyers and paralegals waste about 2.3 hours per week searching for documents that they never even find. This all adds up to over $9,000 in wasted time per year. For large law firms, that could mean upwards of $1 million in time costs. And that doesn’t include any dollar figures on lost productivity.
There are at least four ways that professional legal transcription services can help you reduce wasted time and costs associated with document management.
1. Time is Money
It’s an old saying, but it’s so true – especially for lawyers. Time is money, and you can either be spending it or making it. Professional legal transcription services help by taking a large portion of that documentation creation and management hours off your plate. These include transcribing:
Summaries and depositions
Conference calls and recorded phone conversations
Recorded Zoom calls or other videoconferencing calls and meetings
Client-recorded audio such as phone conversations and meetings
Handwritten and printed materials that need to be converted to digital documents
Court recordings
Mediation meetings
Legal briefs
Personal notes, both audio and handwritten (more on this below)
Delegating to your team may seem like the best option to save you time, but you won’t necessarily be saving money. Further, your team will be pulled away from other important tasks that require their expertise.
Contracting your documentation needs out to professional legal transcription services solves all these problems, providing outstanding documentation while freeing up your time and saving you and/or your firm money. Plus, they create documents faster and more accurately. This leads us to…
2. Accuracy is Everything…
Not only are time and money important, but accuracy is also vital. You’ve no doubt heard of cases that have failed or gone further than they should because of inaccuracies. That’s something you want to avoid at all costs. Working with experienced legal transcription professionals improves accuracy.
…and Latine Loquimur
Along those lines, it’s important to find professional legal transcription services that truly specialize in legal transcription.  Working with experienced legal transcriptionists means fewer blanks and corrections later including for legal and Latin terms. (At iMedat for example, latine loquimur – we speak Latin! Legal Latin, at least…)
3. Organization is King
Documentation is one thing. Organized documentation is quite another. Professional legal transcription services can help you manage your documentation as well as help you create it.
For example, iMedat’s legal transcriptionists can use a system of tags so that each completed document can easily be filed in the right folder. We can even provide finalized documents on your letterhead and in other templates on request. That saves one more step – just review and your document is ready to print, send, or file. We can work on your system or help you create a logical and efficient organizational system if you need it.
4. Ctrl+F is a Godsend
One of the huge advantages of digitizing audio files, handwritten notes, and other physical documents is that they are so easy to search. Remember the 2.3 hours spent per week mentioned above searching for – and not finding – documents? Converting all your materials to searchable text means that you can find that information and find it faster. Just hit Ctrl+F (or Cmd+F if you’re using a Mac) and you can find any keyword you’re looking for in seconds within documents or file folders.
How Do You Use Legal Transcriptions?
People keep talking about “digital disruption” like it’s a bad thing. That hardly seems fair since digitization brings so many advantages! For lawyers, time and costs go down while speed and accuracy go up. Sure, there are those of us who love the feel of physical paper in our hands. But this is one of those times when change is good. Digitization ultimately makes building and organizing a case faster and easier.
Here are a few ways it does that. Instead of transcribing your own audio, simply upload your audio files and receive the final transcription usually within 24 hours (depending on the number of audio hours submitted). Digitizing written or printed notes works in a similar way: scan to a PDF file, upload to iMedat’s servers, and we’ll send you back the document in Word format (or whatever – file type you like).
You can even use iMedat’s legal transcriptionists as your personal dictation/transcription service. Recording notes using a digital recorder or your cellphone is much faster than writing down notes and typing them later. We create a whole compendium of your thoughts and ideas that you can refer back to later through a simple keyword search.
Use professional legal transcription services for:
Digitizing printed and handwritten materials including notes, photocopies, letters, old documents, and more
Dictation and transcription: dictate your notes instead, which is much faster than writing or typing, and upload the audio files
Creating searchable, archivable documents from meetings, interviews, and any audio source (and most video sources, too)
Organizing your documentation
Developing your case
In fact, there are as many ways to use professional legal transcription services as there are lawyers. We can tailor a system that best meets your needs for streamlined documentation.
Contact iMedat for Professional Legal Transcription Services
Why not find out for yourself how professional legal transcription services can help? Contact us using our email form or call 888-779-5888 right now to find out how we can help. Save time, save money, and improve your productivity. We have a legal transcription solution that fits you.
Blog is originally published at: https://imedat.com/how-can-lawyers-use-professional-legal-transcription-services/
It is republished with the permission from the author.
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Focus Group Transcription Services: Why Professionals Need Them
Market research is vitally important to your day-to-day business. It allows you to collect valuable information so you can make more informed decisions. But the way you collect that research – and how you can access it – can make a huge difference in the perceived quality of the research. Focus group transcription services help improve the quality of your data in a couple of key ways.
Let’s explore how.
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Convert Audio and Video to Text for Better Documentation – and More Accurate Research
Information is usually collected in two ways:
Recorded audio or video
A note-taker writing down notes
Both seem straightforward, but both collection methods have drawbacks which we’ll describe in the next two sections. Then, we’ll explain how focus group transcription services can help compensate for these drawbacks.
Information in Recorded Sessions is Hard to Access
This sounds counterintuitive. But the reality is, many people actually do not play back focus group sessions – at least in their entirety. If they do play back any of it, they usually go to specific places in the audio or video to clarify a point. So while accessing the audio and video is as easy as hitting the play button, accessing the information contained within them is time-consuming. It often takes jumping around the recording to find the exact spot where something is said. Perhaps you’ve experienced this frustration yourself!
Note-taking is Subjective
You may say, well, that’s what the note-taker is for, to summarize information in the recordings. And absolutely, they can jot down observations and underline key points in the focus group conversation. In theory, this is a great way to get the highlights of the conversations. However, note-taking is subjective and, therefore, can be affected by a form of survey bias. In other words, you may be getting information back about the moderator’s impressions of the conversation rather than hard data on what’s actually being said.
How Focus Group Transcription Services Solve Both Problems
Focus group transcription services reduce note-taker bias by:
Allowing all the principles in the research to draw their own conclusions based on the transcription
Generating written reports directly from the transcripts rather than from notes and recollections after the fact
Delving deeper for more objective answers. For example, with a written transcript, you can calculate how many times a specific word was used in each session, such as “delicious” or “uncomfortable,” making the data much more quantitative (e.g., “the word ‘delicious’ appeared in the conversation 37 times” vs. “the group said the product was delicious”)
This third point overlaps with the next way focus group transcription services helps: they improve ease of use. Converting the audio and video sources to text will give you a verbatim copy of the session. This written transcript allows you to:
Skim quickly to get a sense of the focus group session and its results
Jump around easily to different points in the transcript to read particular exchanges
Search the transcript by keyword so that you can instantly go to any point in the conversation
Anything worth recording is worth keeping. Focus group transcription services help you preserve – and use – the market research information you glean from those sessions more effectively for better results.
Contact Preferred Transcriptions today to find out how our professional focus group transcription services can help you improve the quality and usability of your market research. Call 610-539-9208 or email us using our contact form.
Convert audio and video to text, Focus Group Transcription Services, Reduce Note-taker Bias
Blog is originally published at: https://www.preferredtranscriptions.com/focus-group-transcription-services/
It is republished with the permission from the author.
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[source (Senior Reporter at Kotaku), linked Kotaku article, two, 'FC 24's performance link', three, four, @/N7SeveranceDay (source of the last two images, "Account supporting BioWare employees laid off in 2023."), five, six, Polygon tweet, Polygon article]
"BioWare Continues to Refuse to Pay Severance" statement transcript:
“BioWare Continues to Refuse to Pay Severance On August 23 of this year, BioWare eliminated “approximately 50 roles at BioWare”. Following the layoffs, seven ex-BioWare employees engaged the services of R. Alex Kennedy to represent their interests, stating that the amount of severance offered was insufficient under Alberta common law. Counsel for the employees has attempted to reach a compromise that would avoid requiring lengthy court proceedings, but BioWare’s lawyers refused any offers to negotiate and settle out of court. The basis of Kennedy’s claim is that according to Alberta precedents and under Canadian law, these employees should be receiving approximately 1.7 months of severance per year of service they gave to BioWare. BioWare has now filed a Statement of Defence, which argues that the seven terminated employees are only entitled to two weeks of severance per year spent in service to BioWare, because of a contract provision that Kennedy says is not enforceable. The filing means BioWare will be taking these former employees to court rather than working towards finding an out of court resolution. The developers involved in the suit have expressed their disappointment: - “We are disappointed that BioWare prefers stalling and intimidation tactics to fair dealing with people who have given years, and in some cases decades, of dedication and hard work to the company.” - “We believe they are using intimidation and stalling tactics to try and get us to drop out. A lot of the more junior employees and those with families, who had more monetary pressure on them, could not risk waiting on a court case that may take many months more to resolve, and have already had to drop out.” - “At the time of the layoffs, BioWare offered us professional assistance in finding new employment, and an additional payment, but ONLY on the condition that we signed an agreement saying we cannot talk about any details of the settlement, and that we would completely waive any right to legal action or even to complain in any way about anyone associated with BioWare now or ever in the future. Tactics like that sure make me think that BioWare knows it is in the wrong.” - “Despite what they publicly announced when they laid us off, this process has been anything but empathetic, respectful, and communicative.” The latest BioWare layoffs were the third round so far this year, and many of the developers affected even in earlier rounds are still searching for work, though some have started to find new positions. Regardless of employment status, the members of the current lawsuit state they remain determined to pursue BioWare in court, regardless of their employment status: - “We strongly believe that if Dragon Age: Dreadwolf does not do as well as BioWare or EA wants at launch, there will be more, even larger layoffs. Therefore, regardless of our own well-being, we believe it is important to hold BioWare responsible and get a clear decision on what settlement amount is legal. We’re no longer part of the development team, so the best way we can help our former teammates now is to hold BioWare accountable and ensure that the next group who is laid off are not treated as poorly as we were.” November 7th marks “N7 Day”, which is a fan celebration of BioWare’s Mass Effect games featuring Commander Shepard and the crew of the Normandy. The developers involved in the lawsuit are hoping N7 Day this year will be a reminder to BioWare of the importance of loyalty to your crew, and hope fans can have a little fun and help express their support with memes and images using an #N7SeveranceDay hashtag. The ex-employees involved in the suit are all based in Canada and have an average of 14 years at BioWare.”
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You can express your support using the hashtag #N7SeveranceDay.
Edit: [Part 2/update] [more on the Keywords topic]
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A writer’s guide to the historical method: how historians work with sources
In this post, I provide a brief overview of how historians engage with different types of sources, with a focus on the mindset of a historian. This insight could be valuable for anyone crafting a character whose profession revolves around history research. It may also prove useful for authors conducting research for their book.
Concept of historical source
The concept of historical source evolves over time. 
Initially, the focus was mainly on written sources due to their obvious availability. However, as time has progressed, historians now consider a wide range of sources beyond just written records. These include material artifacts, intangible cultural elements, and even virtual data.
While "armchair historians" may rely on existing studies and secondary sources, true professional historians distinguish themselves by delving directly into primary sources. They engage in a nuanced examination of various sources, weaving together diverse perspectives. It's crucial to recognize the distinction between personal recollection or memory and the rigorous discipline of historical inquiry. A historical source provides information, but the truth must be carefully discerned through critical analysis and corroboration.
Here's a concise list of the types of sources historians utilize:
Notarial source
Epistolary source
Accountancy source
Epigraphic source
Chronicle source
Oratory and oral source
Iconographic source
Diary source
Electronic source
Example: a notarial source
These are documents drafted by a notary, a public official entrusted with providing legal certainty to facts and legal transactions. These documents can take various forms, such as deeds, lawsuits, wills, contracts, powers of attorney, inventories, and many others.
Here we are specifically discussing a lawsuit document from 1211 in Italy.
A medieval lawsuit document is highly valuable for understanding various aspects of daily life because in a dispute, one must argue a position. From lawsuits, we also understand how institutions truly operated.
Furthermore, in the Middle Ages, lawsuits mostly relied on witnesses as evidence, so we can access a direct and popular source of certain specific social situations.
Some insight into the methodology of analysis:
Formal examination: historians scrutinize the document's form, verifying its authenticity and integrity. Elements such as structure, writing style, language, signatures, and seals are analyzed. Indeed, a professional historian will rarely conduct research on a source published in a volume but will instead go directly to the archive to study its origin, to avoid transcription errors.
Content analysis: historians proceed to analyze the document's content, extracting useful information for their research. This may include data on individuals, places, events, economic activities, social relations, and much more. It's crucial to compile a list of witnesses in a case and identify them to understand why they speak or why they speak in a certain manner.
Cross-referencing with other sources: information derived from the notarial source is compared with that of other historical sources to obtain a more comprehensive and accurate view of the period under examination.
Documents of the episcopal archive of Ivrea
Let's take the example of a specific legal case, stemming from the documents of the episcopal archive of Ivrea. It's a case from 1211 in Italy involving the bishop of Ivrea in dispute with Bongiovanni d'Albiano over feudal obligations.
This case is significant because it allows us to understand how feudal society operated and how social status was determined.
The bishop's representative argues that Bongiovanni should provide a horse as a feudal service. Bongiovanni denies it, claiming to be a noble, not a serf. Both parties present witnesses and documents supporting their arguments.
Witnesses are asked whether the serf obligations had been endured for a long time. This helps us understand that in a society where "law" was based on customs, it was important to ascertain if an obligation had been endured for a long time because at that point it would no longer be contestable (it would have become customary).
The responses are confused and inconsistent, so witnesses are directly asked whether they consider Bongiovanni a serf or a noble. This is because (and it allows us to understand that) the division into "social classes" wasn't definable within concrete boundaries; it was more about the appearance of one's way of life. If a serf refused to fulfill his serf duties, he would easily be considered a noble by bystanders because he lived like one.
Ultimately, the analysis of the case leads us to determine that medieval justice wasn't conceived with the logic of our modern system, but was measured in oaths and witnesses as evidentiary means. And emerging from it with honor was much more important than fairly distributing blame and reason.
Other sources
Accounting source: it is very useful for measuring consumption and its variety in a particular historical period. To reconstruct past consumption, inventories post mortem are often used, which are lists of goods found in households, described and valued by notaries to facilitate distribution among heirs. Alternatively, the recording of daily expenses, which in modern times were often very detailed, can lead to insights into complex family histories and their internal inequalities - for example, more money might be spent on one child than another corresponding to their planned future role in society.
Oral source: in relation to the political sphere, it is useful for representing that part of politics composed of direct sources, that is, where politics speaks of itself and how it presents itself to the public, such as a politician's public speech. However, working with this type of source, a historian cannot avoid hermeneutic work, as through the speech, the politician aims to present himself to a certain audience, justify, persuade, construct his own image, and achieve results. This is the hidden agenda that also exists in the most obvious part of politics.
Iconographic source: it concerns art or other forms of "artistic" expression, such as in the case of an advertising poster. They become historical sources when it is the historian who, through analysis, confers upon them the status of a historical source. Essentially, the historian uses the source to understand aspects of the past otherwise inaccessible. The first step in this direction is to recontextualize the source, returning it to its original context. Examining the history of the source represents the fundamental first step for historical analysis.
Diary source: diaries are a "subjective" source, a representation of one's self, often influenced by the thoughts of "others," who can be close or distant readers, interested or distracted, visible or invisible, whom every diary author can imagine and hope to see, sooner or later, reflected on the pages of their writing. Furthermore, they are often subject to subsequent manipulations, and therefore should be treated by historians only in their critical edition; all other versions, whether old or new, foreign or not, are useful only as evidence of the changes and manipulations undergone over time by the original manuscripts.
Electronic source: historians use Wikipedia even if they often don't admit it out loud.
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Dr. Alan L. Hart’s Unpublished Autobiography
Dr. Alan Hart, celebrated physician and pioneer of the x-ray photography in the detection of tuberculosis, was one of the first transgender men to receive gender confirmation surgery in the United States. Although his will stipulated that his personal papers and photographs be destroyed, earlier in his life he expressed a serious desire to publish an autobiography describing his experience as a trans man and doctor, to the point of writing out a manuscript which he sent, along with letters detailing his experience, to Mary Roberts Rinehart, renowned mystery writer[1]. The manuscript was never published and was probably destroyed, making his account of his experience in the letters the closest thing we have to his autobiography.  You can find the digitized copy of the letters in the note below, but I’ve also included a transcription under the cut for accessibility purposes.
[1] A. L. Hart to Mary Roberts Rinehart, 3 August 1921. SC.1958.03, box 21, folder 8, Mary Roberts Rinehart Papers, ULS Archives and Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt:31735037971201/viewer#page/19/mode/2up
Thermopolis, Wyoming.
August 3, 1921.
 Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart,
c/o Eaton’s Ranch,
Sheridan, Wyoming.
 My dear Mrs. Rinehart:
              I should not have the temerity to approach you as I am doing were it not for two things: First, the fact that both you and Dr. Rinehart belong to the medical world – of which I, too, am a part – and second, my conviction that you are as big and liberal-minded as your stories would indicate. So I venture to ask that you will read my letter and consider it.
              I was graduated from the Medical School of the University of Oregon (in Portland) in 1917 at the age of 27. Until that time – thru common school, High School. University and professional school – I lived as a woman. Shortly before my graduation I consulted a psychiatrist in Portland, Dr. Gilbert, a physician of established reputation; and with him made a complete study of my case, my individual history and that of my family. This was followed by a complete, careful physical examination. The diagnosis arrived at may be summarized as follows: Complete, congenital and incurable Homosexuality together with a marked modification of the physical organization from the feminine type.
              At this stage in my career, life had become so unbearable that I felt myself confronted by only two alternative courses – either to kill myself or refuse to live longer in my misfit role of a woman. I chose the latter, and submitted myself for an exploratory laperotomy for the purpose of establishing definitely and indisputably my proper role, with the result that I left the hospital as a man.
              To say the least, the situation in which I now found myself, bristled with difficulties. My family did not know of my operation nor of my transformation; neither did my most intimate friends. I was faced with the problem of making a living and my way in the world alone. It was in war time and my eligibility for the military service was an open question. The legality of the whole procedure was uncertain. The legal phase of the matter was taken up and attended to for me by Judge John B. Cleland of Portland, Oregon. Since I dreaded ridicule and publicity, and feared my friends might feel themselves embarrassed by what I had done, I resolved simply to drop out of their ken, and with that in view, secured an interneship in the City and County Hospital in San Fransisco and went there to take up my duties as soon as I was able to do so.
              My work went smoothly and well and things seemed in a fair way to adjust themselves, when by chance I was recognized at a public clinic by a young woman physician who had attended university at the same time I did. She spread the story among her acquaintances in the hospitals of the city, that I had once dressed as a woman and was now posing as a man. This coming to my ears, I went to the Superintendent of our hospital – told him the truth of the case – showed him my documentary proofs and voluntarily resigned. He gave me assurance that he would squelch any further notoriety about the hospital. Imagine my feelings, therefore, only a few days later, to open the Examiner one morning and find a garbled account of the whole thing smeared in broad head-lines across the page. The story was carefully written to convey the impression that I was a rank imposter and had fled before the righteous indignation of the authorities; it had been inspired by the young woman who had recognized me and the heads of the hospital I had just left.
              I took my letters and statements and went with them to the editor of the Examiner. He realized, at once, that his paper was being used as an instrument of spite and killed the story in the city and stopped further stuff from going out over the Associated Press.
              I was more or less stunned by what had happened. I had been prepared for criticism and ridicule – I was accustomed to them. But it had never occurred to me that people might want to hound and persecute me for my change in role. I had lived as a woman because that was my social standing, and had been made fun of and called ‘half-man, and now when I had faced the situation and righted the grotesquely false position in which I had lived so long, it seemed that the public would damn me because I had once, perforce, worn skirts. I tried to get other hospital work. I went to the men who had been my chiefs and told them the truth and asked their aid in securing another position; to a man they turned me down. I tried to get other sorts of work and failed for the same reason as soon as I gave my name. Then my family employed counsel and instituted proceedings to have my name legally changed; and the medical school from which I had been graduated served notice on us that if we persisted they would rescind my diploma and have me disbarred from practice.
              Finally, I made up my mind to ‘face the music’ without any attempt at concealment, so I went back home to the little town where I had been raised and gone to school. That was the hardest thing I ever did. This over, I went down into the woods in Southern Oregon and ran a hospital for the lumbermen and spruce boys until the Influenza had passed and the war was over. In the early Spring of 1918, I came to Montana and located at Huntley, a few miles east of Billings where I practiced until last February. Crops have been very poor in Montana for several years and that made collections very slow; the work was hard and trying, covering as it did a territory seventy miles long. I was anxious to work into X-Ray and diagnosis instead of general country practise, so I came last Spring to Thermopolis to be Roentgenologist and Pathologise in Dr. Hamilton’s hospital here. So far as I know my history is not known to anyone in this part of the country.
              To establish the authenticity of my story and give you some side-lights upon it, I am enclosing a number of letters from Dr. Gilbert and others, relative to my predicament. Dr. Gilbert is a man well known in his specialty. He published a detailed medical account of the whole affair in The Jounral of Nervous and Mental Diseases for October, 1920. I should be glad to furnish you with a reprint of this article, at a future time, should you care to see it.
              As you will observe in these letters, Dr. Gilbert has always urged me to write and publish my own story. In the height of my trouble in 1918, I wrote a first-draft of an auto-biography – or rather it boiled out from me without let or hindrance. This Spring I have gone over it and re-written it with a view to publication. The manuscript is now in the hands of the copyist. I want to ask you to read it and give me your opinion of it and advise me as to its publication.
              I do not wish to sail under false colors, and so I will admit at once that my motives are not altogether altruistic in this. My purpose in writing the book has been serious – and my hope that it might accomplish some good for my fellow-unfortunates, very strong – but there is another side to the matter: It is a grave undertaking to bare one’s whole heart before the world; and it is too much to expect a man to do so without reward. I had neither money nor backing when I embarked upon my career as a man four years ago this month; I have had every inch of the way to fight; I have asked no favors from anyone. But it has been mighty hard work and nerve-racking and I am tired. I have never asked for sympathy nor do I want it; I am still capable of standing on my two legs that have held me up for thirty-one years. But if I can make something out of this book, it will relieve the financial pressure and make life much easier and pleasanter for me. So I admit that my motives are mixed; but whose are not?
              I have read many of your stories – you are the only writer I know who can get the right atmosphere for things medical. I have also read your accounts of your trips thru the West and your husband’s articles in the Post. Will you pardon the slang, if I say that these have given me a hunch that you are ‘regular fellows’? And because of this, I have dared to intrude myself upon you. I shall be more than grateful, if you will allow me to send you the manuscript and give me a personal interview before you return East. I want your criticism and advice.
              I have made some notations on the letters enclosed to orient them properly in the current of events. These papers I should like to have returned as I value them highly. I have had to throw overboard almost all the associations and friendships and foundations of the first twenty-seven years of my life; the little that is left, I prize.
              I shall await a reply from you with eagerness.
              Very sincerely yours,
A. L. Hart
 THE HOPEWELL HOSPITAL Thermopolis, Wyoming.
A. G. HAMILTON, M. D. CHIEF SURGEON
August 12, 1921.
My dear Mrs. Rinehart:
              It is hard for me to tell you what my feelings were when I had read your letter. I had hoped but hardly dared expect courtesy and understanding of this type. I appreciate it with my whole heart.
              I understand your hesitation in expressing an opinion as to the feasibility of publication, especially in view of the character of the subject-matter. It will mean a good deal to me to have you read the manuscript. It will go forward to you tomorrow.
              As much as I shall value an opinion of yours on this manuscript, I am even more interested to know whether you will think I have any gift for writing. When I was younger I was interested in literature, and wrote a little while I was in college. Then for ten years the writing instinct was entirely submerged. During the past year it has cropped out again. My time is pretty well taken up, but I have been writing in spare hours a sort of journal of a doctor’s life. It seems to me that a physician’s life is richer than most men’s in the elements of both tragedy and comedy; but more than that I want to picture his own individuality – the graduation with high ideals of service in his profession and bounding ambition, the struggle to make a living and pay the bills, the fight to keep his idealism in the face of ungrateful patients and fee-splitting, cut-rate competitors, the flickering down of his desire to serve as he sees the quack’s commercial success, the waning of youth and its enthusiasms and courage under the burden of the mid-day, the occasional flarings of the old ambitions and hopes and the slowly-dawning realization that the heights are for only the few among whose number he is not, the final determination to play out the game as it has been given him and go out of the world a ‘good sport’ if nothing else. The whole thing a sort of resume of the flickering and blazing and dying of the torch of life. Is the idea worth anything, or am I wasting my time trying to write it down?
              I shall be obliged to go to Billings in a very short time to attend to some business connected with my property in Montana. If it would not be asking too much, I should like above all things to go down and meet you and Doctor Rinehart, as much as anything else to express my appreciation of your good sportsmanship more fittingly.
                                            I am
                                                           Very sincerely yours,
                                                                                                 A. L. Hart
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Job Title: Accounts And Administration Assistant – NFA Uganda Jobs 2022 Organization: National Forestry Authority (NFA) Reports to: Range Manager/Plantation Manager Duty Station: Field based and ready to work in hard to reach areas Salary Scale: NFA 6 Employment: Three (3) year contract (Renewable)     National Forestry Authority (NFA) Profile: Government of Uganda, in 1998 adopted a policy to restructure many government departments including the Forestry Department. It recognized an urgent need for a change in the policy, legal framework and institutions controlling forestry in the country. There was a sense of crisis about the state of the country’s forests and a particular outcry at the state of the forest reserves, in the hands of the Forestry Department. The sensitization Forestry Department was no longer appropriate for the task and therefore a need for it to be divested. It was decided that a new institutional arrangement was needed hence the Forestry Inspection Division, the National Forestry Authority and the District Forestry Services were set up. Government of Uganda worked with DFID, Norway, GTZ, UNDP, FAO and the EU towards this institutional change since 1999. Having made the decision to close the Forestry Department, the Ministry pushed for a quick development and transition to, an NFA. So, the NFA became in 2003 under section 52 of The National Forestry and Tree Planting Act and was launched on the 26th April 2004. Establishment of the National Forestry Authority was preceded by the development of the new Forestry Policy (2001) and the National Forest Plan (2002). These were to provide for a framework for distribution of roles and responsibilities amongst sector stakeholders and not just the Forestry Department. NFA has a mandate of managing 506 Central Forest Reserves (CFR’s) totaling to 1,262,090 ha of the land cover, with objectives of improving management of the CFRs, expanding partnership arrangements, supplying forest and non-forest products and services and ensuring organizational stability.     Job Summary: Provides day-to-day financial management and administrative services.     Roles and responsibilities: - Prepare and submit payment vouchers for processing. - Receipt, bank and facilitate clients with payment registration. - Participate in updating licensees’ register in Central Forest Reserves. - Maintain books of accounts, payables and receivable ledgers. - Ensure compliance with internal control. - Prepare and submit revenue and expenditure returns as per the stipulated timelines. - Maintain and update the fixed asset register. - Prepare and maintain stores records. - Prepare work plans and budgets. - Compile and submit monthly fuel utilization report timely. - Supervise and manage activities and payments of casual workers. - Support Human Resource, procurement and disposal functions. - Contribute to the revenue generating and sustainability initiative of NFA. - Perform any other duties as assigned by the supervisor.     Minimum Qualifications: - A Bachelor’s Degree (Honors) in Commerce, Business Studies/Administration with a bias in accounts/finance or full professional qualification in accounting. - Minimum of two (2) years working experience performing accounting or auditing functions in a reputable organization - Minimum of twenty five (25) years of age. - Good decision making and leadership skill. - Critical thinking and attention to detail - Analytical and good communication skills - High level of integrity, resilience and reliability. - Management, team building and organizational skills. - Computer proficiency     How To Apply for NFA Uganda Jobs 2022 Criteria for application Interested candidates who meet the above requirements, should submit their applications, certified copies of academic certificates, transcripts and curriculum vitae giving full details of applicants’ education, qualifications, experience (with evidence), present salary, and three referees with their full postal, e-mail addresses and telephone contacts as well as the candidate’s full address and e-mail to the address below not later than close of business on 31st August 2022 or send soft copies to [email protected]. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Any form of lobbying will lead to automatic disqualification. NFA is an equal opportunity employer and women are encouraged to apply. Applications should be addressed to: The Executive Director National Forestry Authority Plot 10/20 Spring Road, Bugolobi P. O. Box 70863, Kampala-Uganda Tel: 0312 – 264035/6; 0414-360400 Deadline: 31st August 2022     For similar Jobs in Uganda today and great Uganda jobs, please remember to subscribe using the form below: NOTE: No employer should ask you for money in return for advancement in the recruitment process or for being offered a position. Please contact Fresher Jobs Uganda if it ever happens with any of the jobs that we advertise. Read the full article
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