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Staglin Family Vineyard asked to quadruple visitation, a group of rural neighbors pleaded for far less and the Napa County Planning Commission came up with a number somewhere in-between.
Whether commissioners satisfied anyone with their Wednesday decision remains to be seen. Neither the attorneys representing the Staglins nor the neighborhood group could be reached afterward for comment. Once again, the issue involved a winery along a narrow, rural, dead-end road that also has homes, in this case, Bella Oaks Lane.
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Garen Staglin during the meeting talked about why his Napa Valley winery near Rutherford needs more visitors. He talked of the Staglinsâ commitment to the environment, to making estate wine, to the community, to keeping the winery within the family for future generations.
Vast improvements; but still cause for concern
Additionally, data comparing December 2020 to January 2021 revealed a notable decline in risk of depression (down 30%) and PTSD (down 25%); and a considerable increase in sustained attention (up 21%). These statistics, while encouraging, belie the mental health crisis that remains. Risk of depression and PTSD and sustained attention levels remain alarmingly worse than before COVID-19.
Risk of depression is 71% higher than before COVID-19.
Risk of PTSD is 33% higher than before COVID-19.
Sustained attention is 27% worse than before COVID-19. Perhaps it is the hope and optimism that a new year brings, but at last this month s Mental Health Index offers us some good news, noted Louis Gagnon, CEO, Total Brain. Unfortunately, employers and employees are not out of the woods yet. While the numbers are very encouraging, the data tells us that there is still a workplace mental health epidemic that cannot be ignored.
Mental Health Index Finds 62% Drop in Employee Focus; 48% Increase in Risk of Depression
Data shows dangerous decline and all-time low in Americans mental health; likely due to holidays, political uncertainties and continuing COVID-19 stressors
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SAN FRANCISCO and WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The state of mind of the U.S. workforce does not reflect the optimism and mental health relief hoped for with the availability of the COVID-19 vaccines. Quite the opposite. According to the Mental Health Index: U.S. Worker Edition, between November and December there was a 48% increase in the risk of depression – a perilous risk level not seen since the height of the pandemic this past spring. Further, employees focus dropped 62% – a record low since the inception of the research in February 2020.
EXL Announces David Kelso to Retire from Board of Directors
EXL Announces David Kelso to Retire from Board of Directors
NEW YORK, Jan. 21, 2021 ExlService Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXLS), a leading operations management and analytics company, today announced that David Kelso will be retiring from the Board of Directors of EXL in June 2021 and will not stand for re-election at EXL’s 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
“EXL will greatly miss David, and we thank him for the wisdom and guidance he has contributed to the Company since joining the Board in 2006,” said Garen Staglin, Chairman of the Board of EXL. “His leadership and stewardship as Chairman of the Audit Committee from 2006 and later as the Chairman of the Nominating and Governance Committees from 2012 have been important to EXL’s success.”