Profitable Business Model and no one has really done it for financing so we set off with affirm to try and do that. What we did that and started with was pointofsale lending. When you go to the Department Store the person will say come apply for the instore credit card and you know it will be a painful process and you probably when i get approved and it is based on your fico score some magical scored no one understands and the fees will be bad and the Interest Rate horrible but it is a great boon to retailers. It increases sales and improves conversion. So they say what if we provided a great alternative. But affirm is for consumers to make purchases at pointofsale . Thats what it is today. Youre taking a one interest load, slightly high and then fairly low. Compared your credit card, if will pay 700 several hundred dollars. What would you charge me on an affirm loan . Somewhere between 60 and 17 and the average credit card, the millennial someone who is fresh of college with a psycho
Do we see these guys have value in their kids lives than did so issue dictating visiting time which we dont do today. Not for men who are unmarried. We should be insisting dads comment see their sons. We should ask her dads name on the parental contact form at schools. We should reform Child Support so that it is an incorporated activity. Right now we fixed pics the pockets but we dont give them rights to see their child. But fathers want to do is bring over the panthers and the reason they want to bring over the panthers is because this gives them a chance to feel like a provider. If they bring them over, they are providing the three most important things arguably a baby needs in terms of material provision. This fills men with pride. The principle of treating men as if they matter and fathers as if their parents do not pay checks and have a valuable contribution to make in their childrens lives were transformed thinking about a whole host of policies that treat them as if theyre unem
Today we know that these three writers are gifts to the english language. This morning, the first author that i will be introducing nonother than dave barry. Lets give him a round of applause before he comes out. [applause] we all know that you cannot do justice to his talents and there he is. [applause] you just cant do justice by reading has lengthy biography or saying that his new work, insane city, his first adult novel in more than a decade. He is an individual for over 25 years have appeared in 25 newspapers, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and its pretty cool. Like every other kid in the 305, i grew up relishing reading him and today we are hearing from a hometown favorite in dave barry. In our next author is roy blount. Come on out and lets give him a round of applause. [applause] a master of language and the humorist to boot. He has authored 22 books in a wide range from robert ely to the Pittsburgh Steelers if you are an npr nerd, and you may also know him as a regular panelist
Care doctor at memorial. He was there for the five days . He certainly was. And he felt it was the right thing to do but there were others who didnt. Can you say that the doctors at memorial were euthanizing patients . Well, the book, five days at memorial life and death in a stormravaged hospital, takes you into debt by euthanasia they hasten the death by euthanasia or medicines, order can be called death by murder. He arrested several because a yearlong investigation took place and some of the staff who felt like, according to medical ethics and the laws of the land, according to the will of the family members who are present in some cases, that we dont do this. That there is a tradition in medicine the goes back to the time of hippocrates the doctors should not be in the role of hastening death and that is something that our medical codes in the United States are very against and they say they are not allowed. There are few places where euthanasia is allowed, but only with the conse
Members and even checked an extra patient in who might not be safe at home. This was a place everybody thought was safe in a storm. They would ride out hurricanes like the 1965 hurricane. Yes. What happened was this at several vulnerabilities that i learned Many American hospitals do in flood zones and one of the was elements of the electrical power system were below flood level so when the water started approaching the hospital they knew they had to evacuate, city power was gone. They were relying on backup generators and they knew within hours how power would fail. When helicopters started landing on the roof to take people there were 250 patients, thousand people, doctors, nurses, staff, Family Members including rescue first when you know you have hours left of power so that was the first dilemma. It started getting hot inside the hospital. Another vulnerability, american hospitals have, i am sorry to say is they are not required for their backup Power Systems to be able to keep the