Chris Rose
Since 1979, Popovich and his team have repossessed 1,986 planes and helicopters.
This is what his job is like, as told to freelance writer Jenny Powers.
Growing up in Northwest Indiana, I never took my father s advice except once. I was 16 years old when he told me to get my pilot s license because it might come in handy one day. I did.
After graduating from high school, I went to Indiana University for a semester, but school wasn t for me. Instead, I started flying for Braniff International Airways. It turned out that wasn t for me either. I hated wearing a jacket and tie, and I felt more like a bus driver than a commercial pilot. When I got the chance to become a partner in a small Caribbean charter operation in St. Kitts, I jumped on it.
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Jen Glantz is an entrepreneur and founder of the company Bridesmaid for Hire.
She says having a short, strong elevator pitch is key to networking your small business successfully.
Start your pitch with what you do, detail who you do it for, and close with what makes you stand out.
When most people hear the term elevator pitch, they think they have at least 30 seconds, maybe more, to showcase who they are and what they do. But they re wrong.
When I first started my business, Bridesmaid for Hire, I d find myself gushing about what I do and all the services I offer. I even tossed in a few big accomplishments and business wins. But although what I do is unique and odd to some, even I couldn t hold people s attention after the first few sentences.
It was already sold out. It couldn t have been more than 1 second.
The clock was ticking on the Open Editions and my sense of FOMO started to build. I had to decide if I really wanted this. $969 was a lot of money, but I d spent more than that on trips to Vegas. I figured this might be a better bet.
I clicked to purchase the Pikachu. The purchase didn t go through. I tried again and once again the transaction errored. The five-minute period was almost up. I clicked purchase a third time, and a spinning icon rotated for what seemed like more than a minute and the clock continued clicking down. Finally, the site confirmed the purchase and the screen filled with digital confetti and a congratulations message. I got #100/123.
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Current isolation policies will negatively impact young children s immune systems ability to self-regulate.
When people are less exposed to the natural environment, there s potential for an increase in allergic diseases.
Children in lockdown for over a year now are at risk for developing allergies, asthma, and autoimmune issues. Eat dirt! is a phrase I remember well. It was in the title of an article published by Harvard University environmental health professor, Dr. Scott T. Weiss, and it captured my attention while I was learning about an immunological concept known as the hygiene hypothesis.
The core of the idea is that we live in a microbial world: an environment full of bacteria, parasites, viruses, and fungi. And that our interactions with these microbes after birth are extremely important to educate our immune systems to function properly. When we are born, our immune systems are still maturing.