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This article with 12 Christmas sweet gift comes to mind because it has been years since I took a little bit of mania to the waste we make during these holidays. It bothers me to have to spend by obligation (because it is dictated by the department stores) an amount that is deemed appropriate in my circle just to be good or to correspond. And above all, it started to bother me more when the crisis began. So I adopted the habit of preparing some homemade sweet to give to the whole family. A detail that for me is a little more than simply spend an agreed amount, at least I see it that way. So I compile in this article 12 sweets to give away that I have in the blog, so you do not say that I do not give you good, nice and cheap ideas. I hope you are inspired. And be assured that all are indecently fattening, but they will make you happier. At least until the next time you get on the scale.
Christmas sweet gift
1) ALFAJORES OF ALMERIA HOMEMADE
Christmas sweet gift by Miriam Garcia. A paste of almond and sugar flavored with lemon between wafers very easy and resultón.
2) NGERBREAD COOKIE HOUSE, Christmas sweet gift
A classic Central European and North American that is not as complicated as it seems. The children in the house will have their eyes out of their sockets.
3) GINGER COOKIE FIGURES
It’s not a bad idea as a centerpiece, do not you think? With a template that you can do wonders.
4) HOMEMADE GRANOLA, Christmas sweet gift
To give to those who are already thinking about improving their intestinal transit the new year, ahem, which never hurts.
5) WHITE MANTECADOS
Despite not carrying butter, this shortbread remains with a superb puffed consistency. They can also be done in advance.
6) HOMEMADE POLVORONES
Everything a discovery. The homemade polvorones are absolutely perfect and who the test repeats.
7) HOMEMADE TOFFEE CANDIES
I think I bought the first batch myself. They are conserved very well in a metal box.
8) CHRISTMAS COMPOTE WITHOUT SUGAR, Christmas sweet gift
Many people hate this compote so traditional, but well made is great. And packed in a beautiful jar is a spectacular gift.
9) SPIRAL GREEN AND RED COOKIES
Hallucinogenic and cute. With all the flavor of a butter cookie, but very Christmas colors.
10) MONJILES HOJALDRINAS, Christmas sweet gift
In my family they are addicted, they eat them by arrobas on the 25th. And they are kept in a metal box.
11) HOMEMADE MARZIPAN
The taste of homemade marzipan is wonderful. Of course, this cannot be prepared in advance because it is very delicate and dries a lot. But something bad had to have.
12) SPICED WINE, Christmas sweet gift
Packaged in small bottles is a precious gift. Just open the bottle, heat in the microwave and drink alcohol. What has been said, although they are not new recipes, it is sometimes good to remember them, because many of them have been Christmas sweet gift in my house or part of the Christmas menus, with great success. I hope you have ideas to make edible gifts this Christmas. | <urn:uuid:e7ef6ca6-5816-4849-aff8-991e1c6d053a> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://bitsofdays.com/food-and-drink/12-special-traditional-christmas-sweet-gift-ideas/ | 2023-09-27T12:29:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.942856 | 730 |
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You know you’re in the Andes, when anything and everything can be llama customized!
The good people at the Sunday Market in Pisac were selling Llamasutra t-shirts that show these cute animals performing inventive sexual positions!
A turn on? Probably not in the traditional sensual sense, but it’s definetly a turn on for the good mood!
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By Bessie Liu / August 15, 2022, 1:01 pm EDT
- Jump Crypto led a $40 million funding round for blockchain network Injective Labs
- CreatorDAO received $20 million to help grow the creator economy, with a16z leading the raise
Over $100 million poured into cryptocurrency startups this past week as a handful of cryptocurrency startups secured funding from prominent venture capitalists in the space.
Topping the list — Cosmos-based interoperable smart contracts network, Injective Labs, secured $40 million from its latest round of funding, led by Jump Crypto. Brevan Howard’s BH Digital, the digital asset division of the hedge fund, also participated in the round.
Eric Chen, Injective Labs’ CEO, told Blockworks the company wants to build the best possible environment for decentralized finance (DeFi) applications.
“We’re evolving towards a general purpose [layer-1] blockchain that has a sector-specific focus within decentralized finance applications,” Chen said. “Injective exists for developers who want to build something that only the core modules or core stack of Injective can provide.”
Service companies that are bridging the gap between Web3 and Web2 have also gained venture capital interest in the past week.
Software-as-a-service startup Heirloom raised an $8 million seed round led by Ripple Labs and Forte Labs. The company allows organizations to mint a variety of Web3 assets such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), decentralized identities (DIDs) and verifiable credentials.
Nick Daze, CEO of Heirloom, told Blockworks that the company was built with the intention of helping the crypto industry to reach a mainstream audience.
“Our focus right now is three things: business development, staffing, and rolling out our first products,” Daze said. “Our first product coming to market is a no-code tool that lets stakeholders at enterprise scale companies tokenize, distribute and measure their assets without needing a computer science background.”
Money has also been funneled into Web3 companies building tools for the creator economy.
CreatorDAO, a community that invests in creators in exchange for a percentage of their future earnings, announced today that it raised a $20 million seed funding round led by prominent crypto investor Andreessen Horowitz and Initialized Capital.
Up-and-coming creators apply to the DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) and selected participants receive access to capital, mentorship and technology that may help grow their audience. Celebrities such as Paris Hilton, The Chain Smokers and Andrew East have signed up to be a member of the DAO’s larger community.
“Creators today are businesses, but no one’s figured out how to help them realize their growth potential,” Michael Ma, CEO and co-founder at CreatorDAO said in a statement. “[Creators are an] investment vacuum similar to the one that Y Combinator and angel investors filled for tech entrepreneurs 17 years ago.”
Other notable funding rounds this week:
- Web3 accelerator LongHash Ventures launches a $100 million fund to grow the Asian crypto landscape.
- NFT media distribution platform Pinata raised a $21.5 million Series A co-led by Greylock and Pantrea.
- Zero-knowledge proof startup RISC Zero raised a $12 million seed round led by Bain Capital Crypto.
- Jito labs — a Web3 company building tools to improve MEV transparency and efficiency — secured $10 million from Multicoin Capital and Framework Ventures.
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Bessie is a New York based crypto reporter who previously worked as a tech journalist for The Org. She completed her master’s degree in journalism at New York University after working as a management consultant for over two years. Bessie is originally from Melbourne, Australia. You can contact Bessie at [email protected] | <urn:uuid:82a0968f-6bf3-48a7-897d-49687496988a> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://black-coin.com/2022/08/15/funding-wrap-the-web3-startups-funded-this-past-week-blockworks/ | 2023-09-27T10:43:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.934725 | 866 |
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Che Durena was born and raised in British Columbia, He decided to make to jump to Toronto when he discovered his love for stand up comedy. Since then he’s been hustling the GTA comedy scene to become one of the city’s best up and comers. He came runner up in Sirius XM’S Next Top Comic, he headlined a show at JFL42 and has appeared on JFL All Access on Comedy Central.
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Mike Payne is a rising star hailing from the Toronto comedy scene. His style can be described as self-deprecating virtue signaling, or, simply as fat and loud. Mike is the winner of the 2018 Etobicoke’s Top Comic competition, was selected to participate in 2018 Brantford Comedy Festival, and has routinely appeared at comedy venues including Yuk Yuks, Absolute Comedy and Comedy Bar. Mike has opened for Martha Chaves, Sandra Battaglini, Arthur Simeon and other prominent Canadian comedians. Mike hosts a long-running weekly show in Leslieville, called Comedy Appetizer. Keep up to date by following him on Instagram and Twitter @mikepaynecomedy.
Emily Ferrier is a Canadian Comedian, Actor and Writer who has been performing in the UK the past three, years before they found her, chucked her out and now she lives in Toronto.
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Recently, she recorded an album with the SheDot Festival & Sirius XM that will be released soon.
At first glance, Kyle Bergstresser seems like just another dumb, loud white guy. But he’s also tall.
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Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton apologized to the gay community for uttering the terrible gay version of the “F-word” during an altercation with members of the Black Eyed Peas in Toronto.
And he did it in a way only he can — on his blog, long-winded, and spiteful.
“I am sorry. And I mean it. No one is forcing me to write this. I am not feeling pressured to say this. I am speaking out because I realize that the last few days have been more hurtful to me – and many others – than the repeated blows I suffered to my head in Toronto this past weekend,” Perez blogged.
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Posted on Monday, April 24th, 2017 by Will Hagle
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If you’ve spent any time on social media lately, you’ve probably come across a recipe video. These videos are made by tons of different companies — Tasty, Tastemade, Food Network, etc. — but they all follow a similar formula. There’s a bird’s eye view of some sort of food being made, along with a jingle and a recipe displayed in text on the screen. Usually you only see the chef’s hands making the dish — a departure from the Food Network-style chef personalities who dominate their onscreen time. In food recipe videos, the food is the focus. Chowii is a site that has compiled tons of these types of videos, organizing them into searchable form.
I’ve never fully understood the appeal of video recipes. It seems like most people just watch them as a way to ogle at food that they’ll never actually make or eat. But the enormous popularity of food recipe videos proves that I am in the minority. And, I must admit, Chowii is a well put-together site. There’s a search engine that lets you search for recipes based on ingredients, as well as trending videos from the week and the day. The site pulls from several different content creators, so there’s a wide variety of recipe videos available to be watched on the site. If you want to watch more food recipe videos than just the ones that appear on your Facebook feed, Chowii is the site for you. | <urn:uuid:5712bf49-dd29-452c-a11e-352e387f1191> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://blog.allmyfaves.com/video/chowii-a-search-engine-for-video-recipes/ | 2023-09-27T13:05:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.958536 | 339 |
With over 1 billion monthly active users and counting, Instagram is definitely a force to be reckoned with. What started as a photo-sharing app, has transformed into a business platform today with millions of entrepreneurs taking advantage of its selling power (read, your influence!), from service providers to small & big business owners.
That said, the question is how do you get started on your Instagram money making journey? The answer is quite straightforward – acquire a huge following and market your product to them, or simply get brands to pay you for promoting their products.
Need a quick guide to get you started on your journey? Read on to learn more.
How Many Followers Do You Need On Instagram?
A decent influencer account can have anywhere from 1,000 to a million or more followers. While follower count is a plus point, engagement rate plays a significant role as it determines your true worth.
When looking for collaboration, brands for engagement rate. They want to know if influencers can leave the impact that they need for their business or not. After all, what’s the point of posting content if followers don’t interact or notice it? Simply a wasted effort!
The engagement rate is the key that unlocks brands, and forms the basis of their decision to collaborate with you. While the average engagement rate on Instagram is observed at 2-3 percent, Instagram accounts that show 4-6 percent of engagement are considered high value, and the accounts with double-digit engagement percentages are considered legit viral.
Top 3 Strategies To Make Money On Instagram
Strategy 1: Post sponsored content
Want to know an effective and popular way to make money on Instagram? Yes? Then start posting sponsored content. But before we delve deeper, let’s first understand what sponsored content is. A sponsored post is content that you create and publish to promote a brand either through brand or product mentions in exchange for remuneration.
However, there are some strings attached to land such brand collaborations. The first and foremost being that you need to have a considerable follower base and the other is having a natural talent to influence their purchase decision. Here are a few tips to get started with creating sponsored content:
Step-1: Pick a niche
The first thing that you need to do before you move forward with your influencer journey is to identify your niche. For instance, if you’re a makeup enthusiast, you can become a beauty influencer; if you’re a fashion lover, you can become a fashion influencer; or if you’re a free-spirited person with wanderlust cravings, you can become a travel influencer! Whatever niche you pick, the possibilities are endless.
Step-2: Build trust, grow your following
Creating authentic content becomes easy when you stick to a niche. Plus, it helps you resonate with your audience without having to sound commercial. Not only will this help you engage with your followers better, but also build trust. Keep it going and you will notice a rise in the numbers of your followers.
Step-3: Connect with brands
One way of finding brands that you want to work with is by identifying the ones you feel an affinity with, and sending across emails promoting your influencer brand. Ensure that you mention the number of followers you have, and other key engagement metrics that will help them understand your impact on your followers.
As an influencer, you need to know your worth before you negotiate with brands. Insights into what’s the ongoing rate for posting a story that reaches 10,000 or 50,000 followers or what’s the price that other influencers are charging to run a product giveaway with a 5 percent engagement rate, and more are your non-negotiables. Knowing this information gives you the confidence to strike a deal with brands and lets them know you’re serious about this business.
And if you want to know what goes on the other side of the business, read Your Guide to Building Your Brand on Instagram.
Step-4: Post transparently, responsibly
After you sign up with the brand, you have to create and publish regular posts on your Instagram account and ensure that you mention those brands in some way or the other. This can be in the form of brand mention, link, or branded hashtag.
Do you know how to go about it? Worry not, we have you covered! Just read Hashtag Your Way To Success As An Insta Influencer!
Generally, when you post sponsored content, you will need to ensure that you comply with Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) guidelines. All sponsored posts on Instagram are flagged with ‘Paid partnership with (brand name)’, which also gives the brand visibility they need when they collaborate with you.
Strategy 2: Become an affiliate marketer
It takes quite a while to attract the attention of the right brands and build partnerships with them. Becoming an affiliate marketer is an easier way to earn those bucks on Instagram. All you need to do is sign up with a company and get started with promoting and selling their products. As a part of your compensation, you will get paid for every sale you make. Follow these steps to kick off your affiliate Instagram marketing.
Step-1: Pick a niche
We’ve already emphasized enough on picking the right niche and sticking to it no matter what. An affiliate marketer’s niche is quite different from a sponsored influencer’s niche and more product-focused. You need to remember that you cannot promote products that don’t align with your influencer brand. The key to success with this strategy is to promote only those products that you would buy yourself.
Step-2: Find merchants to affiliate with
Once you’ve decided on your niche, it’s time to identify companies or brands that offer affiliate marketing. Some companies that offer affiliate products include: Amazon, Ebates, ClickBank, Shareasale, Stylinity, RewardStyle, among others.
Next, identify products that have good customer reviews. You want to promote high-quality products so that your followers can rely on your recommendations. Following this golden rule will strengthen your credibility and reward you in ways you can’t imagine.
Step-3: Post about the product
Now that you’ve finalized the products, you need to create captivating promotional posts to promote them. Although in Instagram you cannot place clickable links in your post content, you can place links only in your bio. This means you can promote only one product at a time. Affiliate links can be long, you can condense those links by using link shortener tools to make your post more visually pleasing.
Speaking of bios, always remember to Make a Good First Impression With Your Insta Bio when looking to partner with brands!
Strategy 3: Sell your own products
Why wait for brands to notice you when you can create and market your own products? Yes, you heard us right! Building and selling your own products is another great way to make money through Instagram! This platform is the ideal place to market your brand and increase your brand awareness. Follow these steps to get started with selling your products on Instagram:
Step-1: Imagine your product
Programming experts sell courses, models sell clothes, jewelry, and accessories. Brainstorm product ideas that resonate with your niche. Then, identify the pros and cons of every product, and decide on the products you want to create and promote.
Step-2: Build your product
Whether you want to build the product right from scratch or if you want to purchase white label products, finding a supplier is key. Next, don’t forget to work on your product’s branding all along to make it appealing to your followers.
Step-3: Make your account shoppable
Instagram rolled out different features including shoppable stories, explore tab, shoppable posts, product tags, and Instagram checkout to help influencers market products better. Follow these instructions to take advantage of these features.
- To set up your Instagram shop, you will have to confirm if you’re eligible for it in the first place.
- Next, convert your Instagram account into a Business or Creator account, adding all your relevant contact info, and link it to your Facebook Page. If you don’t have a Facebook page for your business, you need to set it up first.
- You then have to create your product catalog and connect it to your account either through Facebook Business Manager’s Catalogue Manager or eCommerce platform partner integration.
- After integrating your product catalog, submit your account for review that may take a few days or longer to get approved by Instagram.
- Once it is approved, you can turn on the shopping feature and get started with product promotion.
Want to know more? Go on and click on 10 Reasons Your Marketing Needs Instagram Shoppable Posts!
Step-4: Build out your e-commerce infrastructure
Take your Insta game up to another level by setting up a website for your products, run ads to reach people, build awareness, and stay on top of your audience’s mind.
Step-5: Post your products
Post your product picture like you would post any other content on Instagram and then tag those products in the photo. Tagging products allows your followers to find and purchase your products easily.
Step-6: Fulfill your orders
Once you’ve received the orders, fulfill by delivering those to your followers turned customers either by doing it yourself or hiring a third-party logistics vendor.
Bonus Tips & Tricks To Earn Money On Instagram
- Know your worth by updating yourself with your current engagement metrics and deciding on non-negotiables. This will help you know where you stand and what you can expect from your brand collaborations.
- Keep an eye out for your competitors to learn their moves, identify hidden growth opportunities, and discover impending threats.
- Respond to customer queries swiftly. This will make you come across as a responsive influencer and will go a long way in building your credibility.
- Always be professional to stay in the good books of your followers and brands by not missing out on business deliverables, and not reacting to negativity.
- Don’t buy fake followers. Not only does it degrade your value as an influencer, but also fails to help with the business growth on the platform.
- Use Instagram tools to create better content and analyze your performance consistently. Practicing this not only helps you to identify loopholes in your strategy and correct them, but also helps you save time.
- Don’t limit your presence to Instagram alone. Promote yourself on other social platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok.
Adding on to your bonus, know How To Monetize Your Influence!
Making money as an Instagram influencer requires the right mix of strategy, creativity, vigor, and patience. With the right plan in place, it won’t take long to achieve your goals.
An easier way to connect with brands and earn money is to register with atisfyre, our AI-based influencer platform. atisfyre matches you to brands that have similar audiences as yours, gives the brands a gist of your profile and engagement metrics, all without you having to take the pain of tedious sifting through thousands of profiles to identify the right influencer for your brand.
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I hear it from HubSpot customers all the time: “INBOUND is my favorite week of the year!” (For the record, it’s my second favorite, following closely behind the week of straight hibernation that follows INBOUND). We actually plan INBOUND with all marketers and salespeople in mind, regardless of whether or not they use HubSpot, but there’s still good reason that HubSpot customers return year after year.
Here are the top five reasons that thousands of customers will be joining us in Boston from November 8-11th (and why you should too!)
Get as Nerdy as Your Heart Desires
We just announced our first 100 breakout sessions, among them some great topics about the finer points of all things HubSpot? Want to learn to wrangle your messy contacts database? (I do). We’ve got a session for that. Want to become a lead scoring master? Got you covered there too. No matter what aspect of HubSpot stokes your fire, we’ll have a session on it.
Meet Your HubSpotters
You probably have a small army of HubSpotters who’ve been by your side since you signed on, but chances are you’ve never been able to get a high five from them in person. That’s a crying shame. At INBOUND you can meet your sales person, consultant, customer success manager, and everyone else who’s helped you out along the way. High fives will abound.
Get Trained In-Depth
Breakout sessions are great for deep dives into a specific topic, but when you want a really thorough training on a broader topic (say, lead nurturing or sales and marketing collaboration), INBOUND Training Day on Tuesday the 8th is your answer. You can attend optional half-day trainings on a variety of topics, including some in-depth looks at advanced features of the HubSpot product.
Hit the Ground Running
New to HubSpot? Or have a new marketer or salesperson starting? INBOUND is the perfect crash course in HubSpot and the inbound way of doing business. We’ll have sessions on getting started with HubSpot, and even Tuesday trainings on the inbound methodology.
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We’re thrilled to announce that Port3 Network, the Gateway to Web3 Social Graph, partners with Meson Network — the bottom-up paradigm in building a bandwidth marketplace, to facilitate both projects and the communities with greater web3 experiences.
Meson Network’s decentralized CDN is now supporting Port3 Network to accelerate statics files on their portal much faster and safer, also in the near future Meson will work with Port3 to store all their raw data in the decentralized storages with acceleration support. On the other side, Port3 Network’s SoGraph Dao Tool Bot is providing Meson Network community with more practical functions including in-community smart airdrops, market sentiment & trend watch and gateway to Web3 social plugins.
“In the Web3 age we believe it is all about interconnectivity and IoT, thus we believe our collaboration with Meson Network will be one great partnership. We are looking forward to augmenting our Port3 ecosystem with improved speed and security.”
— Max, Co-Founder of Port3.
“Community has always been a great component and treasure of Meson Network since its founding, and their social footprints are valuable in Web3, We are excited to adopt Port3 social graph gateway to better service the community and bring more value into it.”
— Sherlock, Co-Founder & CEO of Meson Network.
About Meson Network
Meson Network is building the decentralized bandwidth marketplace for Web3, using a blockchain protocol model to replace the traditional labor-based sales models, consolidating and monetizing idle bandwidth from long-tail users at a low cost. Meson Network is the foundation of data transmission for decentralized storage, computation, and the emerging Web3 Dapp ecosystem.
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“It takes a community to help save babies, and we are honored to be selected as a MFLCares charity this month,” stated Kimberly Isburg, Communications Specialist for Healthy Birth Day, Inc. “The support of local businesses like Midwest Family Lending Corp and supporters like Emily Barber make a powerful impact on our mission to improve birth outcomes and save babies through the Count the Kicks campaign.”
Through MFLCares, Midwest Family Lending teammates have the opportunity to nominate a charity they’d like to support. Emily Barber , Licensed Home Loan Originator with Midwest Family Lending, nominated Count the Kicks.
“I chose Count the Kicks because in my previous career as an ultrasound tech, I saw the unfortunate side that not every pregnancy ends with a happy, healthy baby,” says Emily. “Seeing what Count the Kicks is doing to help expecting mothers become empowered in advocating for their baby confidently is such a game changer. They are not only saving the lives of babies, but impacting all of the lives that touch that baby.”
Healthy Birth Day, Inc.
Healthy Birth Day, Inc. was founded by five Central Iowa moms who all lost daughters to stillbirth or infant death in the early 2000s. “After losing their daughters, our founders decided to channel their grief into stillbirth prevention efforts to keep other families from facing the pain of losing a baby,” stated Kimberly Isburg, Communications Specialist for Healthy Birth Day, Inc. “Their efforts created the evidence-based Count the Kicks public health campaign, which launched in Iowa in 2008. In the first 10 years of Count the Kicks in Iowa, the state’s stillbirth rate has gone down 32% while rates in the rest of the country remained relatively stagnant.”
Stillbirth, which is defined as the loss of a pregnancy at 20 weeks or greater gestation, is a public health crisis that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Every year in the U.S. approximately 22,300 babies are born still, and 1 in every 173 pregnancies ends in stillbirth according to the CDC. A disproportionate number of babies are born still to Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Black, and American Indian or Alaska Native families.
Starting in their third trimester, pregnant moms can track daily movement of their baby. The free ‘Count the Kicks’ app provides an easy way to count kicks, jabs, or rolls and times how long it takes to get to 10. This creates a data set and shows normal prenatal activity. Moms can quickly see their baby’s normal movement pattern helping them identify if the movement pattern has changed. Moms should contact their health provider if they notice a change. This simple method of tracking movement has made a difference between life or death of many babies. There are many touching stories of babies who have been saved by this app! Baby Saves Archive – Count the Kicks
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Being in the spotlight for OSGi has many good sides but it always pains when you get heavily criticized for a presentation about OSGi & Java Modularity that you gave. However, you usually learn more from criticism than from praise. Lets see if we can digest the criticism in William's blog and learn something from it.
From the first part I can see the criticism that OSGi is old technology and we keep (re)inventing component models. I guess there is a fine line between old and mature but it seems a tad unfair to hold age, without any further qualifications, against us. On the contrary, for stability, robustness, and usability a proven technology seems hard to beat. Then again, a promise is always more luring than hard reality I guess.
With the criticism that OSGi has many component models I cannot but disagree. OSGi has a single component model, since day one, and nothing has changed since then. True, on top of the OSGi component models we have different programming models because the needs in that area are quite diverse. However, all these programming models work seamlessly together through the single and only OSGi bundle and service model.
So what's left. In the end, William Louth makes a valid and interesting point: I said in my presentation that going modular is not without pain, class loaders are the major culprits in Java. However, I do not think this is a problem with OSGi, it is a fundamental problem when you modularize applications. Modules cannot see every class in the application, this global view is the antithesis of modularity. However, almost all class loader tricks I see that cause problems require this global view of the class path. Without addressing this problem, I do not think we can reap the fruits of going modular. How can Jigsaw will be able to solve these problems without destroying the benefits of modularity? Moving us from class path hell into module path hell.
The problem we're facing is that class loaders have become a very successful way to extend applications, something they were never designed for. In OSGi, we started with an extension model that makes the coupling between the modules very explicit: services. The class loading architecture was designed to support these services. The OSGi service model allows modules (bundles) to be very self contained and, ideally, only to export packages that are used to define the service.
So the big problem the OSGi faces is how to handle legacy code that heavily depends on class loaders for what OSGi does with services.
I spent considerable time thinking about this. Together with others, we created an RFP investigating all problems we could lay our hands on. My personal conclusion is that an application that requires a global unrestricted view of the class path cannot be modular. Yes, there are hacks that allow you to find the class your class loader need, but these hacks revert to class searching which implies that valuable properties like version constraints and class space constraints are no longer taken into account. My fear is that providing easy "solutions" to these practices will destroy the modular value that OSGi provides. I have found that these visibility problems are very fundamental. Time will tell if Sun is able to solve this problem with their "... much improved replacement." | <urn:uuid:a156c15b-60df-4c2f-a5bf-4664c925a28e> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://blog.osgi.org/2009/07/no-pain-no-gain.html?m=1 | 2023-09-27T11:26:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.96076 | 670 |
January 12, 2018 * Archana at 11:04 am
SapphireOne Project Initiation Document (PID) and High Level Project Plan
In order to define the scope of a project, it is necessary to first determine the project objectives. The objective of a project may be to produce a new product, create a new service to provide within the organisation, or develop new software. There are any number of objectives that could be central to a given project. It is helpful to formulate and define the scope statement before undertaking a project. We suggest you look at some examples and find out what works and what doesn’t work when creating your own scope document.
SapphireOne Project Initiation Document and High Level Project Plan below :-
Project Initiation Document
The Project Initiation Document (PID) is one of the most important objects in project management because it provides a base for the project. It specifies why the project is important, what will be delivered, when it will be delivered and how. It’s the contract between the project management team and the navigating committee, or sponsor, if you like. A comprehensive project plan is a key document that binds you, your project team, the project sponsor and the beneficiary. It is an agreement that defines the work of the project and the beneficiary’s project/programme purpose objectives. A comprehensive plan can help you identify changes in scope after the project has started and help you plan for any modifications or adjustments that might be needed during the life cycle of the project.
Clear cut document control procedures ensure a better flow of information, which in turn ensures smoother operations and timely work. Document control procedures are an integral part of project management.
SapphireOne Project Document Control is the most comprehensive system available for creating, managing and tracking documents across all your projects. In the absence of clearly established policies and procedures for document control, several problems can arise ranging from ordinary confusion to serious financial losses. SapphireOne will provide you with some tips on how to introduce the best document control procedures for a project that do not obstruct the flow of information, and yet ensure the flow of documents are well measured. It is important to understand these procedures should not be complex, since complexity will cause people to avoid using documents.
Roles and responsibilities of the Project team
Project team organisation is one of the basic and most essential activities within the project management process. The SapphireOne Team performs the tasks that have been allocated, keeping the project manager informed of progress as well as any issues that may arise. The project team are responsible for completing the project. The role often requires team members to work on their own initiative in areas where they are the ‘professionals’. Successful projects are usually the result of careful planning and the talent and collaboration of a project’s team members. Projects can not move forward without each of its key team members, but it’s not always clear who those members are, or what roles they play. The Project Team, under the direction of the Project Manager, is responsible for carrying out the work detailed in the project plan.
This plan provides a statement of how and when the Project’s time, cost, scope and quality performance targets will be achieved by identifying the major products, activities and resources required for the project. It will provide a baseline against which to monitor the project’s progress stage by stage. Behind every successful project is a firm, thorough project plan. The SapphireOne plan defines every aspect of your project. The final product is utilised as a clear direction on the project for all the project investors. The scope statement is arguably the most important document in the project plan.
The scope statement includes an understanding of the business needs, current limitations, what is expected from SapphireOne and the project objectives. Key milestones and dates state at which point deliverables will be included and excluded, the approach taken, and includes other components dictated by the size and nature of the project.
All projects are exposed to risks that may affect either the project’s estimated time frame, scope or cost. To reduce the possibility of risk occurrence, SapphireOne have developed a Risk Management Plan which identifies potential risks that may affect the project’s outcomes and risk responses, at the project planning stage.
A Risk Register will be maintained throughout the project, SapphireOne continuously monitors risks and will inform all project stakeholders of any risks or issues as they arise and advise on the best course of action. Conducting a risk audit is an essential component of developing an SapphireOne application.
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Bonsai is the art of creating miniature plants in pots. The art of bonsai started to become popular in the 18th century. While many people may not know it, the actual mechanism behind keeping them diminutive lies in the soil.
You can’t gather garden soil, put it in a container, and plant the tree in it. There’s quite a bit of labor and expertise goes into it so lets take a look at how to make bonsai soil at home.
While there isn’t any clear-cut soil “recipe” for bonsai soil each bonsai tree has specific needs and techniques for its soil preparation. Typically this involves a mixture of pumice, lava rock, and akadama at the correct proportions. Sometimes though organic compost is used as well as a mixing material.
Before your first attempt to make a bonsai, you must know how to make bonsai soil at home, the components of the soil, the criteria of each, which does what, and some basic instructions.
Here in this article, I am going to discuss every one of those points in depth. By the time you have finished this article, you will be nothing less than a bona fide bonsai artist.
Criteria of Proper Bonsai Soil
The main reason that normal garden soil cannot be used is that for growing bonsai the soil needs to work a bit differently. Bonsai soil is granular and less organic, leaving air pockets in between particles.
There are three main criteria two of which sound the complete opposite of each other. But both of them are strictly required.
What the criteria are and why they are essential should be known by any bonsai enthusiast? Below, I am going to explain each of the criteria’s:
Bonsai requires a consistent water supply. So, the soil needs to retain enough water to stay hydrated between watering. But there’s a downside to it.
The soil needs to retain just enough water to stay hydrated. Any excess water shall result in damaging the tree. This is the reason why garden soil can’t be used because they retain too much water.
Without adequate the water is drained quickly and the soil becomes dry. The bonsai will be deprived of moisture in between watering.
Too much water retention is harmful to almost anything. Natural garden soil retains too much water before draining it through the holes in the pot. Also, if the water is retained in the air pockets, the tree will not be able to get enough oxygen.
Plus, the root will rot and the tree will die. So along with water retention, proper drainage is also required. If there is no proper drainage then excess water will rot the root and kill the bonsai.
Air Incorporation Into the Soil (Proper Aeration)
Just like any other living being, the bonsai needs oxygen too. Especially the roots require oxygen to grow. As bonsai are kept inside the house, there isn’t enough natural oxygen.
If the soils are tightly packed, air won’t be able to enter and deliver oxygen. That’s why gravel like substances are used in the soil. This ensures aeration for the roots which ensure optimal growth.
What Do You Need for Making Bonsai Soil?
Bonsai soil isn’t just plain old soil. Rather than natural soil, they are actually a mixture of a few organic and inorganic components. In the mix, mostly inorganic substances are used because organic components have less drainage capability. Also, they have a high deterioration rate.
Water drainage, retention, and aeration can be easily achieved by selective use of inorganic components. Organic components are used as well. This is required for nutrients and an essential microbe for the roots. So, we will divide the components into two categories and discuss them accordingly.
Various organic components can be used for the same purposes. Peat moss, berk of conifer trees, and some regular potting soil.
The main purpose of using organic materials is holding the inorganic components together and moss does an excellent job at that.
If the inorganic materials are not held together, they can hamper the growth of the root.
But beware that moss is really good at water retention. It can damage your tree in the long term.
Conifer berk is also really good at mixing the soil together. It makes the soil bulky and allows water retention. The best part is that it is also great at water draining. So, you won’t have to worry about the roots getting rot.
Garden potting soil and decomposing component
Potting soil is mainly used to bond the other organic components together as well as inorganic materials. But potting soil has high water retention properties.
It can displace the oxygen and inhibit the activities of Mycorrhiza, a bacterium essential for processing foods and nutrients for photosynthesis.
Decomposing materials are mainly used as a source of nutrients. As they are organic, they are full of nutrients and act as feed to the roots.
Inorganic materials are bread and butters of bonsai. They possess all the properties of ideal bonsai soil and facilitate healthy growth.
Here I am going to mention and explain each of the components so that you know what you are supposed to do, and what you are not.
Akadama is the most widely used and most popular component of bonsai soil. It is of Japanese origin, the same as bonsai. It is a clay-like substance that is fired or hard-baked till it becomes strong enough.
The components of bonsai soil need to be large granular, so after purchasing akadama, it is recommended by many bonsai specialists to strain it so that there are no small particles.
Akadama is used for the sole purpose of water retention. Remember that it has no draining capability. So, using a good draining material along with it is always advised.
Also, after a few years of use, akadama tends to break down into smaller particles. Thus, blocking drainage completely. So periodic repotting is advised.
Pumice is a volcanic component. It is ejected from the volcano at high temperature and pressure and then rapidly cooled and decompressed due to the outside environment. It is a highly porous structure. So, it can hold large quantities of water. Pumice is used for water retention purposes as well.
Another purpose of pumice is the growth of the roots. Although pumice is highly porous, the pores are too small for the roots to penetrate. Roots grow their branches around the pores and later the pumice particles break down into smaller pieces.
Pumice also holds the components together and has some draining properties. It has less retention capacity and more draining capability than akadama. So, it is used for both purposes, but mainly as a catalyst for akadama.
Lava rock, as you have already assumed, derives from the lava of volcanic eruptions. It is one of those components that serve all three purposes.
It is porous and has good water retention properties, but also drains water quickly. It leaves a gap between two particles so aeration is also good.
It has two major advantages over akadama and pumice; it doesn’t break down easily and can be reused. However, it is mostly used for water retention, and secondly for aeration.
Turface is high fired clay and it has great aeration and drainage properties. It is used in cricket fields, golf courses, football fields, etc. due to its excellent draining.
When used as a bonsai substrate, they provide good aeration and drainage.
Grit or gravel, whatever you call it; these are just small stones. They are mainly used for aeration and drainage as they have little water retention properties.
In the early days, grits were invariably used for aeration and drainage purposes. But nowadays, materials like lava rock, pumice, etc. fulfill all the criteria so grits are hardly used.
Also known as diatomaceous earth or oil sorb, it is an alternative. It is not considered a key component of bonsai soil. Diatomite is good at soaking up water so it can be used as water retention material.
How Can You Make Bonsai Soil at Home?
Now that you know what you need and why you need, it’s time to get your hands dirty, literally! There are individual recipes for specific bonsai but here I am going to mention two main types of bonsai and a basic bonsai mix for the third. I will mention the ratios for each and the overall procedures of mixing.
Back in the day, various materials were used. But now mostly akadama, pumice, and lava rock are used as they serve all the purposes when mixed correctly at the right ratio.
The two tree types I’m going to mention are conifers and deciduous trees.
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To make it easy to remember, for conifer trees use 1:1:1 ratio, for other trees including deciduous use 1:2:1.
And now for the mixing procedure:
First, prepare the akadama. Medium-sized granules are recommended because they are easy to screen. Akadama can be extremely pricey so be sure to check your sources. If someone is offering you dirt cheap akadama, know that something is wrong.
Other than pumice or similar components, everything must be screened properly. It is recommended to use a different strainer of the varying mesh size. First, screen the akadama and separate the material that remains. Next screen all the materials that fell through and keep what remains.
This will make sure the soil is free from any small particles that might hamper proper aeration.
Next, we take lava rock. They tend to be dusty, so screen them as well. Screening it only once will do.
If the ratios are correct, you can just mix all of them together. I recommend adding pumice to akadama first, then lava rock. Remember some organic components I talked about above? Now it’s time to use them. If the bonsai requires more water retention, you can add some organic soil. But make sure to add it last.
After adding the bonsai, don’t forget to water it. That’s it!
Organic vs. Inorganic Soil: The ‘Must Know’ Fact
Organic means having any living component in it. Normal garden soil is organic as it has materials from dead animals, plants, fossils from thousands of years ago.
Organic soil is best for any plants but bonsais are exceptional. Using inorganic materials is highly recommended for bonsai plants and there are good reasons.
Organic materials are full of nutrients and plants grow fast. But in case of bonsai, we want the opposite. We are limiting its growth so we want the growth to be slow and steady up to a certain point.
This goal cannot be achieved by using organic soils. They contain all sorts of living materials that work the exact opposite of what we want.
The main reason that organic components are ill-advised is that they are brittle. They break down easily over time. As they break down into smaller particles, the drainage also reduces.
Proper drainage is very important for bonsai trees because retained water will cause the root to rot, thus killing the plant.
No organic matter decays at the same rate. Various matter decay at different times so it’s hard to determine at which point the plant has started to suffer due to decaying.
Also, you cannot readily change soil components as some repotting is harmful to some bonsai.
The worst part about organic materials is that even if you somehow manage to drain the excess water, once the soil becomes too dry, it’s hard to wet them again. They start to repel water once they are dried too much.
The reason why inorganic materials are recommended for bonsais is that they possess all the criteria for growing bonsai. They retain just enough water and drain the rest.
Also, they allow the incorporation of air and oxygen for root growth. That’s the reason that initially organic soils were used as substrate but not anymore.
Common Mistakes When Growing Bonsai
There are a few mistakes that you must avoid when preparing the substrate for bonsai. These mistakes are fatal for bonsai and kill them quickly. Here are some of those:
Using Too Much Water-Retentive Materials
Water is both essential and deadly for bonsai. As we have discussed above, bonsai soils must have the ability to drain excess waters. You may not be able to water your bonsai at the same time every day.
That’s why it needs to retain water to get moisture in the meantime. Water is super important for photosynthesis and other vital functions.
If the material you are using retains too much water, more than the required amount, it has the opposite effect. It can even kill the plant in a short time.
The excess water in the root area will cause the roots to rot. Furthermore, the water will displace the oxygen surrounding the roots.
Oxygen is very important for root growth and without it, the bonsai is likely to die.
Using Too Much Water Draining Materials
Water drainage is equally important. As we have discussed above, the excess water harms the root.
But if the substrate is draining the water too quickly, or too much water at a time, the bonsai will not get enough water for photosynthesis.
As it’s a houseplant, it won’t be able to get water from the soil. Excessive drainage can kill bonsai without you even knowing it.
Using Faulty Soils
Proper substrates must be used for growing bonsai properly. Regular garden soil won’t do any good because they are organic and densely packed, excess water can’t be drained.
So, you must find soils that have both retaining and draining property. Also, a symbiotic relation between fungi mycorrhiza and bonsai is important for its growth.
Proper soil substrate is needed to maintain that symbiotic relation. So, make sure you know your soil.
Not Using Artificial Feeding
Bonsai soil is confined in the pot and the roots have nowhere to go. So, it’s your job to water them regularly as well as giving artificial food. Nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium are necessary for proper growth.
Nitrogen helps to grow the branches while phosphorus facilitates root growth. Potassium is required for other functions.
The soil you are using does not have these elements in enough amounts. So, to ensure their proper growth, these three elements need to be given at the correct ratio.
Note that the ratio varies according to species and time of the year. Do not use artificial food for repotted or sick bonsai.
Not Enough Aeration
We all learned from our biology class that trees use carbon dioxide from the air for photosynthesis and produce oxygen that we breathe. Many may not know that oxygen is also important for bonsai.
The root portion especially needs oxygen for its growth. Optimum root health is necessary for the growth of any trees.
Soils used in bonsai pots lack oxygen as they are confined. So, make sure the materials that are used have air pockets in between them.
Oxygen in the air will be used by the roots for growth. Some materials break down easily and prevent aeration. Make sure you keep an eye on these things.
Final Thoughts on How to Make Bonsai Soil at Home
Hopefully you are now more prepared to make your Bonsai healthy by creating your own soil mixture to help your tree grow its best.
Make sure to not over and under water and if you keep this mix on point you will get an amazingly healthy tree that can span generations being passed down to family.
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To provide against a repetition of such cases the Pennsylvania School of Social and Health Work and the Graduate School of Social Administration of the University of Chicago have this year offered courses in legal aid law. These courses have been well attended. They are not designed to turn out lawyers, but to show the social workers how important are these contacts with the law. The other phase of development has been along the lines of theory. We have set out to discover the limits of the legal social field and to see to it that no case arising therein calling for help shall fail to receive adequate attention. In a way we are setting limits to the field of social work. The importance of the matter is set out in the preface to the record of the proceedings at the Philadelphia conference in these words:
The relationship between social service work and legal aid work and the relative significance of the different concepts which underlie these two branches of public welfare work present what is perhaps the most important, and what is certainly the most interesting, question that now confronts us.
It is reasonably clear that sooner or later the legal aid societies will be forced to find the correct answer to these questions. The issues are perhaps the most dangerous they have ever faced. A decision, if proved by time to be wrong, may destroy public confidence in their work, or, on the other hand, deter the poor from freely consulting them. It is obviously of vital importance that every effort be made to discover the true answers to this difficulty.
We began with the theory that legal aid work was obtaining legal justice and that social work was obtaining social justice, and that there was no contact between them. Then facts forced us out of that position and we came to the conclusion that certain types of cases handled by legal aid organizations were purely legal problems, involving no social element whatever. These we listed as cases presumably not needing more than legal justice: estate of deceased persons, employment agencies, insurance, landlord and tenant, lawyer's misconduct, personal property, seaman's cases, torts in general, personal injuries, workmen's compensation, contract, debt, and money claims. Another group we said were of a social nature, and these we listed as cases presumably needing more than legal justice: bastardy, children's cases, criminal cases, insanity. A third group which we said was doubtful and might or might not contain social problems consisted of cases of bankruptcy, domestic relations, loan sharks, advice, miscellaneous.
Facts again drove us from that position and we came to the conclusion that not the case but the client should be the basis of our study. It became clear that any person coming to our office might have a legal problem. In addition, he might have a social problem, which, in turn, might be related or unrelated to the legal problem. We had admitted all along our duty to handle the legal problem. We now began to realize that particularly where the social problem was related to the legal problem we should try to take steps to set the whole matter right. Our own part we can usually handle, but the social problem we believe should be placed on the doorstep of the proper social agency.
Having convinced ourselves of this we went further to discover how many
of our clients presented actual social problems as well as legal problems. We found by a careful study of a large number of cases that an average of 50 per cent of the cases which came to us were cases of people also known to social agencies; that the other 50 per cent apparently were not so known. So we came to the conclusion that half of our work, at least, was with the same group of people in the community who form the raw material of social work. The other 50 per cent may come from a group on the next step higher up, economically speaking.
Our next inquiry was as to whether we were securing from social agencies all the cases involving legal matters which come to them. A preliminary study on this point causes us to believe that the social worker in many cases did not recognize a legal problem when she saw it. In return, some courageous mortal suggested that legal aid workers did not recognize social problems when they saw them. It was to work out a solution at least to a part of this problem that we determined, in conjunction with the schools of social work, to give courses in legal aid law. We believe that we can instruct the student social workers in certain elements of the law so that they will recognize a legal problem when they see one and will turn it over to a legal aid society to be handled. A correlative proposition is already an established practice in the law schools of Harvard, Northwestern, and Minnesota universities, where legal clinics are regularly held.
But at last we have passed into a further stage. We know that the future holds much in the greater exploration of this whole legal-social field. We are turning our eyes toward a final comprehensive attack upon the problem.
On the one hand are ranged the legal profession with its background of legalistic thinking, the law with its precedents and established methods of development, the courts with their procedure for handling cases. On the other hand is the group of social workers with a very different point of view, trying perhaps to readjust the socially inadequate, perhaps to readjust social organization and procedure in the interest of human welfare according to scientific standards. In between come the legal aid groups, in a field partially but not entirely covered by either the bar or social worker. Our contacts with the bar are well established and are growing year by year. Our contacts with social agencies are necessary to a complete mastery of this field. The nature of those contacts in the past and present we have discussed. There remains to say a word about the lines along which our contacts should proceed in the future. We have three major problems: first, to determine what is our mutual goal in relation both to law and to social work; second, to remove any stumbling-blocks of misunderstanding as to our work; third, to take up and consider in detail the specific tasks which confront us both.
We believe that the mutual goal for us both is to "examine the limits of the legal-social field and to see to it that safeguards are provided, so that no case arising anywhere within the jurisdiction of either group fails to receive an ade
quate remedy. We believe that the stumbling-blocks of misunderstanding, professional bias, and certain innate provincialisms on both sides must be removed. We believe that the specific tasks that confront us may be listed under the following headings: first, the problem of establishing legal aid machinery wherever it is needed; second, the problem of coordinating it with existing legal and social institutions, so that it may function completely yet without overlapping; third, the problem of a constantly growing personnel to handle the work, which must be drawn from lawyers, social workers, and other groups in the community, and trained adequately.
All this means a fascinating study of the philosophy of the law, of social work, and of legal aid work in relation to each other. The prospect of working in such a field is fascinating indeed. If one will but start without prejudices and work honestly and earnestly toward a full understanding of the facts and the deductions to be drawn therefrom there is nothing in it impossible of achievement. But we must pave the way. We may make this study only with adequate machinery for the purpose. If we have not the vision to establish such machinery we can go but a little way along the road.
In conclusion, let me urge upon you the value of providing a means of study of this problem. May I suggest a round table discussion each year at the meeting of the National Conference. Then those of us who are engaged in making studies may bring these studies, with our hopes and fears, an to open forum. Before a critical, intelligent group we may discuss and weigh the merits of each of our propositions. We may rub off the corners and polish up our points of view. May I urge that this meeting refer to the proper officers of the National Conference its conviction that a study of legal-social relations be made, and that it may be made through such a round table meeting. The ultimate consequences we may only guess at. But it is inspiring to think that we can thus jointly inaugurate an investigation into a field which is so closely related to the work that both of us do.
THE DELINQUENT ADOLESCENT: WHAT THE
Calvin Derrick, Dean, National Training School for Institution
I think it has been conclusively demonstrated many times over that the most difficult and perplexing problem concerning human society is the proper training, education, and assimilation of the adolescent. Through centuries of practice society has learned a great deal about the process, and so far as that great middle group known as "average" is concerned, society has quite a body of pretty accurate information and is fairly well-defined technique for accomplishing with average success satisfactory training. The majority of people do
manage to acquire a fairly adequate preperation for life. They succeed in making self-adjustments, taking up their chosen spheres of activity, usually becoming helpful to others to a greater or less degree, assuming their proportioned amount of community and civic responsibility, and, in turn, rearing their own children in a fairly acceptable manner. The problem is not with this successful two-thirds, but with the unadjusted, and in too many cases unadjustable, onethird which is scattered at either side of the big group. It is out of this latter group that our institution population is, in the main, drawn, and it is to the manner in which the institutions attempt to meet the problem of adjustment that this paper means to direct attention. Let us first consider how society has progressed in its understanding of the problem.
Institutional care for people is a relatively modern idea. The juvenile institutions are the outgrowths of the prisons; the prison system in this country is only a little over a century old. Our first juvenile institutions were created primarily to prevent the youth under twenty-one going to prison. The juvenile institutions were closely modeled after the prisons, both in type of construction and in methods of discipline and control; they developed many of the same errors and created for themselves the same problems which had grown up in the prison field, namely, that of housing in the same institution youth of all ages, so that the very young boys were subjected to just as much contamination as were the older adolescents in the prison population. A repressive, unintelligent plan of discipline and labor killed initiative and fostered slyness, deceit, and laziness. The application of the prison types of punishments to the adolescent offender developed defiance, sullenness, and a contempt for authority. We did not understand in those days the significance that emotional and mental instability play in the behavior problems presented by individuals. We had not grasped the fact that the mind may reach its full development some years before the body ceases to grow. The adolescent of eighteen or twenty looked like a man, and we demanded a corresponding degree of conduct, and placed upon him the full responsibility of measuring up to our imposed ideal. Rules and regulations were exacting and rigid, and still are, demanding a higher standard of conduct and a type of response rarely attained by the best of people at large. We still seek to force, rather than to persuade, the delinquent adolescent to adopt these desirable standards.
However, we do progress. Now we have the conception that the older and J younger adolescents should be separated, that the methods of discipline should be ameliorated and made more constructive; that trades should be taught, not merely followed; that training, as well as discipline and punishment, is desirable. But practically all of our improvement has been on the physical side, the plant. Yes, we have improved instruction, both in kind and quantity; we have improved personnel; but we do not seem to have quite grasped the idea that the thing we need to understand is the individual himself, and generally speaking, little advancement has been made in this direction.
As a rule we have not made a study of the problems to be met before planning and constructing our institution. The legislature and a board or commission decide that a reformatory for adolescent offenders is needed; that it shall be large enough to care for a certain population; that it shall be built after a certain plan, representing a school of thought or opinion; whether it shall consist of cells, with workshops and agricultural facilities; whether it shall be on the cottage plan; whether there shall be dormitories or single rooms; or whether it shall be a combination of these plans. It is decided that there shall be a certain type of service for the physical care of the population, that is, a central kitchen and dining-room, or a central kitchen with several dining-rooms, and in a very general way these major problems of caring for the population are decided and the institution built and equipped accordingly. This kind of procedure has kept us from emerging into a better and broader field of endeavor, because the management of the institution and the traditions which it shall establish are almost certain to be fixed beyond alteration by the conceptions represented in the construction of the plant.
The proper way to approach the building and equipment of an institution is just the reverse of the process usually followed. In place of first appointing a committee to visit existing institutions for ideas, there should be appointed a very carefully selected committee to study the type of individuals it is intended to care for, and the whole process of reception, classification, training, control, and release should be broadly and scientifically conceived and planned before any move is made to build and equip a plant. It will be contended by many that the former process may result in just as good after-care as the latter; it may be pointed out that, having all of equipment, its use and the general program of training will go forward. This is an error. The creation of a big public building is always regarded as a monument by the people concerned with the construction. Great personal pride is developed on the part of those immediately concerned. The psychological influence of this factor is not to be discounted. A deep interest and pride in plant and equipment which has been built up by the activities of the group of promoters over a period, possibly, of several years is not easily dispelled. It almost universally follows that the people selected to carry out the building and equipment plans carry over into the administration. They become members of the board; possibly, quite unconsciously, their major interest and pride is in the institution as a plant rather than in the refinement that may be later worked out in the program of care.
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Eddy Maloka is the Chief Executive Officer of the Africa Institute of South Africa, and an associate member of the History Department of the University of South Africa (UNISA). He has also worked in the History Department at the University of Cape Town, before joining government as an advisor to the Premiers of Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces. He holds a doctorate in History, and has published widely on development issues in Africa, and the history of the liberation struggle in Southern Africa. His recent publications include The South African Communist Party in Exile, 1965-1990. He has also published literary pieces, including a poetry anthology. He is currently the Deputy President of the African Association of Political Science (AAPS), and the President of the South African Association of Political Science (SAAPS).
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Voter ID a regrettably predictable disaster, Unlock Democracy says
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on democracy and the constitution has released a new report on the impact of mandatory voter ID in elections. The report found that the introduction of voter ID in this year’s elections led to discrimination on the grounds of race and disability.
Democratic reform campaign group Unlock Democracy have since responded to the report’s findings, saying that voter ID is a ‘costly failure that’s damaging UK democracy’.
Shaun Roberts, Director of Campaigns at Unlock Democracy, said: “The evidence is stacking up that Voter ID is a costly failure that’s damaging UK democracy. It should be abandoned before significantly greater damage is done at a UK General Election.
“The chaos inflicted by the government’s reckless introduction of photo voter ID for the 2023 local elections was predictable and predicted. We made it clear to the government on numerous occasions – both before the policy was enacted and in the lead-up to the local elections – that it would do more harm than good.
“As the report identifies, the current Voter ID system is a “poisoned cure”. Initial analysis by the Electoral Commission showed that at least 14,000 people were robbed of their right to vote for not having the right ID, and we expect the final figure to be much, much higher.
“The government’s free Voter ID card own figures stated that 2 million people did not have an accepted form of photo ID, but only a tiny fraction of those applied for the Government’s free ID card scheme.
“Poll watchers at the time of the local elections suggested that those being turned away were disproportionately from minority communities. Today’s report adds weight to those findings and reveals that voter ID meant disabled people were also subject to discrimination.
“Voter ID is a solution to a non-existent problem. Out of 58 million votes cast across three elections in 2019 elections, one person was convicted of voter impersonation.
“The government knew the risks long in advance, and despite multiple warnings did nowhere enough to ensure the system worked effectively or fairly. We’re calling on the government to scrap this expensive, unnecessary policy before it robs thousands more voters of their rights at the next general election.”
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Bristol Games Hub has moved into its lovely new office, events and meeting space on the top floor of 77 Stokes Croft. If you haven’t yet visited us, please feel free to come along to our monthly social on the last Thursday of every month from 7:30pm. So the next one is this Thursday, 26th.
Many thanks to Unity for kindly funding 60 brand new chairs for our events space, which is now up and running. If you have any ideas for events to support Bristol and the South West’s games development community, please get in touch.
Bristol Games Hub Events
The next Unity meet-up is Wednesday 9th October with Unity’s trainer, Ben Pitt attending to chat to the group about the community’s needs and we’re hoping to address the recent issue of too many jobs, not enough Unity devs at that so please sign up here; https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/8451301069
Anti-Social Talk: Chris Roberts of Survivalist Games on ‘Shelter’
At this weeks anti-social we’re happy to welcome Chris Roberts, creator of the excellent indie zombie survival game ‘Shelter’ who will be coming along to talk about his work. Check it out at: http://www.survivalistgames.co.uk/
Bristol Games Hub Life Drawing Classes
We are looking at running a regular life drawing class for the South West games development community so we’d like to gauge interest. The class would run one evening per week from 6:30 to 8:30 at the Bristol Games Hub Event Space. Each session would cost £5, with 2 models doing an hour each and we’d be looking for you to sign up to 4 weeks at a time. If you’re interested in attending these sessions, please send Chris Raadjes an email asap with your details to chris.raadjes at gmail.com. The sooner we know numbers, the sooner we can start.
Auroch Digital Launches Chainsaw Warrior on iOS Today (more platforms in the next couple of weeks)
Auroch Digital is pleased to announce the Games Workshop boardgame we’ve been converting into digital is now out on iOS http://bit.ly/CW00NYios and will be coming to more platforms very soon. We’d really appreciate any reviews, tweets and postings about it. Here’s a tweet you can chainsaw-n-paste if you want:
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This year’s TEDxBristol is centred around the theme of ‘Failure’. Local speakers with a wide variety of experiences and backgrounds will share their tales of all manner of failures, and how failure has shaped their ideas, outlooks and businesses. Our very own Tomas Rawlings at Auroch Digital will be speaking about failing to get a game into the App Store (Endgame:Syria), and Opposable Games’ Nat Al-Tahhan is this year’s curator & host.
Lunchtime Talk: Richard Adams – The illiterate of the 21st century
Friday, 27 September 2013 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Pervasive Media Studio, FREE
Digital polymath and senior academic program manager at Microsoft Studios Richard Adams tells us that “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” Come and find out why he thinks that education needs to radically change to have a chance of being relevant in the 21st Century.
Lunchtime Talk: Magicians in residence
Friday, 4 October 2013 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Pervasive Media Studio, FREE
From finding connections between magicians and makers, to mind-reading robot pets, Kieron Kirkland and Stuart Nolan will share with us some of their ideas and inspiration for their impending residency.
Lunchtime Talk: Designing for touchy subjects
Friday, 11 October 2013 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Pervasive Media Studio
For 18 years Aerian has made some of the biggest and best web products in the world. Managing Director Paul Goodenough and S’unya Dickman Head of Client Side Technology will be telling us all about their adventures and sharing what is involved from a creative and technical perspective when designing for touchable interfaces.
Exploring Human-Experiences Within the Internet of Things
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As ABBA Voyage prepares to celebrate its first anniversary new production images of the concert have been released.
Take a look at these new production photos of the concert released to celebrate the first anniversary of this extraordinary celebration of the music of ABBA. On 27thMay, ABBA fans from around the world will come together to mark the occassion.
One year ago, all four members of ABBA were in attendance for the opening night of ABBA Voyage, their revolutionary concert which sees them perform their greatest hits as digital avatars, in their very own purpose built at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.
Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad were joined by the producers Svana Gisla and Ludvig Andersson, along with director Baillie Walsh, and an invited audience of VIPs, including the King and Queen of Sweden and the Mayor of London, friends and family, media and fans.
Celebrating the creation of the concert, Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA said, “If you build the right machine, and you build it well, then it exceeds the sum of its parts. The soul of the songs comes alive. And that soul isn’t just down to what you see on stage. It’s the stories and memories that come with it. Both yours and ours.”
Anni-Frid Lyngstad went on to talk about her astonishment of seeing her digital self on stage, “It’s hard to fully grasp that it isn’t me,” says Frida, “and yet it is me. I can certainly see myself in the digital figure, the gestures, the facial expressions, the eyes that express all sorts of feelings. It’s absurd but it’s real!”. Agnetha Fältskog added, “For a whole month, we got into our ‘space suits’ and helmets to perform our songs. A fantastic team behind hundreds of monitors, following it all, from tip to toe, to capture our movements and facial expressions. Sometimes all four of us wondered what we had got ourselves into, but we had many wonderful laughs, looking at one another.”
To summarise the whole project Benny Andersson said, “Did we expect the response to be so intense? No. We didn’t know at all. And, do you know what? It’s always been that way. From day one. You start with a song and beyond that you have no control. Will people like it as much as we do? Will people ignore it? People will tell you that they know – people in the business. But no one ever knows. And it was the same with this”
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Debt is a widespread issue that affects millions of individuals and households around the world. It can be overwhelming and suffocating, creating a financial burden that hampers personal growth and restricts opportunities. Juggling multiple loans, credit card bills, and overdue payments can be daunting, leading many to seek innovative solutions that can help them regain control of their finances and pave the way towards a debt-free future.
The Rise of Debt Management Apps
In recent years, the digital era has brought forth a plethora of technological advancements that aim to simplify and streamline various aspects of our lives. The realm of personal finance is no exception, as debt management apps have emerged as a game-changer for individuals looking to tackle their debt head-on. These innovative apps offer an all-in-one platform where users can track their expenses, set budget goals, and monitor their debt repayment progress. Interested in learning Find more insights in this comprehensive study about the topic covered in this article? how to get a debt lawsuit dismissed, filled with useful supplementary details to enhance your reading.
One notable feature of these apps is their ability to provide personalized recommendations and strategies based on individual spending habits and financial goals. By utilizing machine learning algorithms, these apps can analyze user data and offer tailored advice on how to optimize debt repayment plans. This level of personalization has proven to be highly effective in helping users develop effective strategies to eliminate debt.
Debt Consolidation: A Pathway to Financial Freedom
Another innovative solution to resolving debt issues is debt consolidation. For individuals burdened with multiple loans and high-interest rates, debt consolidation offers a way to simplify their financial obligations while potentially lowering the overall interest they pay.
The concept of debt consolidation involves taking out a single loan to pay off existing debts. By doing so, individuals can combine all their outstanding debts into one manageable monthly payment. This streamlined approach not only reduces the stress of juggling multiple payments but can also provide significant cost savings by securing a lower interest rate on the consolidated loan.
Furthermore, debt consolidation can also improve credit scores by eliminating the risk of missed or late payments. With a single payment to manage and a clear repayment plan in place, individuals can regain control of their financial situation and steadily work towards becoming debt-free.
Embracing the Power of Financial Education
While innovative tools and strategies can certainly aid individuals in their journey towards debt resolution, the importance of financial education cannot be understated. As the saying goes, “knowledge is power,” and arming oneself with the necessary financial literacy skills can pave the way for long-term financial stability.
Many organizations and institutions now offer comprehensive financial education programs that aim to equip individuals with the knowledge and skills needed to make sound financial decisions. These programs cover topics such as budgeting, debt management, and credit literacy, empowering individuals to make informed choices and steer clear of debt traps.
By investing time and effort into financial education, individuals can develop a solid foundation of financial literacy. Armed with this knowledge, they can navigate the complex world of personal finance with confidence and take proactive steps to resolve their debt issues.
The Future of Debt Resolution
As the world continues to evolve, so too do the solutions available for resolving debt issues. The rise of financial technology (fintech) has opened up new avenues for innovation and disruption within the realm of personal finance.
One emerging trend is the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning in debt resolution tools. These advanced technologies have the potential to revolutionize the way individuals tackle debt by offering real-time, data-driven insights and personalized recommendations.
Additionally, blockchain technology has the potential to transform debt resolution by providing secure and transparent platforms for debt negotiations and repayment agreements. By leveraging the immutable nature of blockchain, individuals can have increased trust and confidence in debt resolution processes, reducing the risk of fraudulent activities and ensuring fair and equitable solutions.
Resolving debt issues requires a multifaceted approach that combines innovative tools, strategies, and financial education. The advent of debt management apps, debt consolidation, and enhanced financial literacy programs have provided individuals with powerful tools to tackle their debt head-on and pave the way towards a debt-free future. As technology continues to advance, the future of debt resolution holds even more promise, with AI, machine learning, and blockchain poised to revolutionize the way we navigate the complex terrain of personal finance.
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A customer database is a record of the customers you do business with, as well as information about them. This data can be used to better market to existing customers and build relationships with new ones.
It’s also important for keeping track of all the people who have purchased your products or services. This can help you plan out future product releases and keep track of which customers have paid their bills on time.
What is a customer database?
A customer database is just what it sounds like: a collection of records that contain information about the people or businesses that buy your products or services. A customer database can include information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, emails and other contact information; credit card numbers; purchase history; demographic information (like age or gender); and more.
Why should I build a customer database?
It helps you grow your business by:
Building trust – Customers trust companies that treat them well and that have their best interests at heart. When customers know you’re interested in them, they’ll return the favor by buying from you again and again.
Strengthening relationships – A customer database makes it easy for you to reach out to each customer individually with relevant offers based on their needs and wants. Building strong relationships with your customers builds loyalty, which means repeat business!
Increasing conversions – By sending targeted emails, newsletters and other marketing materials directly to people who already know who you are and like what you do, you can increase conversions while lowering costs because they don’t have to create new ads or spend money on advertising.
How Should I Build A Customer Database
Building a marketing database is a great way to keep track of your customers and their buying habits. It’s also an essential part of any ecommerce business, so you can send out targeted marketing campaigns or special offers.
There are many ways to build a customer database and here are just a few:
Sign up forms – You can have a sign up form on your website or blog that encourages visitors to subscribe to your newsletter. Use these emails for future marketing initiatives, like newsletters and special offers.
SEO tools – There are many SEO tools available that will help you build your mailing list without having to ask for emails directly from your visitors. These tools gather information about the website visitor (through cookies) and then use that data to create a list of possible leads. This can be very effective because it targets people who are already interested in what you offer.
Social media platforms – Social media platforms such as Facebook allow you to create custom audiences based on their interests or demographic information provided by the user when they sign up with their email address. This means you can target specific groups of people who have already shown interest in your products or services through these sites and encourage them to sign up for newsletters or special offers through social media platforms themselves
The importance of a customer database
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Ansley Wilcox Mansion / Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site - Table of Contents
Ansley Wilcox Mansion / Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site
641 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, NY
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site -
Official Home Page (online October 2019)
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In response to the outbreak of the 1837 Patriots' War in Canada, the citizens of Buffalo asked that the US government provide for their protection in the event of an attack. Many people vividly remembered when their village had been nearly burned to the ground by the British during the War of 1812.
The federal government leased the highest ground within the city limits from Ebenezer Walden and established an Army post,
The new post, erected in 1838, was called the Buffalo or Poinsett Barracks (Joel Poinsett was the Secretary of War from 1837 to 1841 and is perhaps better known for giving his name to a popular holiday plant, the poinsettia). Built between 1838-40, the Buffalo Barracks was the largest US military installation at the time. At its height, the barracks housed over 600 men as well as several wives and children. The house was originally built as officers' quarters.
Poinsett Barracks was designed and constructed by the U. S. Army Engineers under the direction of General Winfield Scott.
The Barracks were dedicated by President Martin Van Buren.
General Bennett Riley served as commander of the Buffalo Barracks from 1842 to 1845.
The 1863 oil on canvas portrait was painted by Lars Sellstedt
The army barracks were moved to Fort Porter.
The Barracks was abandoned and many of the buildings dismantled. The officers' quarters became a private home.
Ebenezer Walden sold a portion of "Walden Hill" to Joseph Masten, Mayor of Buffalo and judge of the Superior Court. This portion included the Ansley Wilcox House.
Masten resided here from 1847 to 1863. At this time the house still faced west, toward what had been the old parade ground. Sometime in the 1850s or 1860s, the front portico of the house was either moved or rebuilt on he much more fashionable Delaware Avenue side and the front portico of the house was either moved or rebuilt.
D. Appleton & Co., print captures Delaware Avenue as it looked in
The Wilcox mansion is visible on the left side of the picture.
Dexter Rumsey purchased the house at 675 Delaware Avenue, as a wedding present to his daughter, Cornelia, who married Wilcox in 1878.
After Cornelia died (1880), Wilcox married her younger sister, Mary Grace
Dexter Rumsey purchased the house and gave the the use of the house as a wedding gift for his daughter, Mary Grace, upon her marriage to Ansley Wilcox. The interior of the house was remodeled by the Wilcoxes.
The Rumsey Family of Buffalo, NY
Rumsey Monuments in Forest Lawn Cemetery
Ansley Wilcox was born near Augusta, Georgia on January 27, 1856 (d. 1930). Like Theodore Roosevelt, his mother was from the South and his father from the North. His family moved to Connecticut during the Civil War and he later studied law at Yale. He also attended Oxford University and while in England met Cornelia Rumsey, a young woman from Buffalo on holiday with her family.
After leaving Oxford, Wilcox moved to Buffalo, joined a law firm and married Cornelia in 1878.
Her father, Dexter Rumsey, gave them a house at 675 Delaware Avenue as a wedding present. She died in childbirth in 1880, leaving a daughter, Nina.
(After his wife's death three years later, he married Cornelia's younger sister, Mary Grace.)
Wilcox was a founder of the Fitch Creche.
Rumsey Monuments in Forest Lawn Cemetery
Ansley Wilcox married Cornelia’s younger sister, Mary Grace Rumsey. Once again, Dexter Rumsey gave his daughter and son-in-law a house as a wedding present, this one at 641 Delaware Avenue. Their only child, a daughter Frances, was born there in 1884.
The Wilcoxes lived in the house from 1884 to their deaths in the 1930s. Upon Mary Grace's death in 1933, the house reverted to the Rumsey estate.
Ansley and Mary Grace are buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in the Rumsey family plot.
Top illustration: Mary Grace Rumsey Wilcox (1855-1933) - Ansley Wilcox's second wife
Middle illustration: Mary Grace Rumsey Wilcox and Cornelia "Nina" Wilcox.
Nina was the daughter of Mary Grace's older sister, Cornelia, who died in childbirth in 1880.
Lower illustration: Nina at age 16
A large addition was built by the Wilcoxes at the back of the house more than doubling the size of the residence.
Wilcox had further improved the property. A Buffalo architect, George Cary, rebuilt the addition and remodeled the interior. The remodeling did not affect the interior of the original part, except for the two first-floor parlors, which were made into a large library
|1901, September 6
President McKinley was shot in the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition He died on Sept. 14 in John Milburn's home. Later that day, Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt took the oath of office in the library of the Wilcox House
|1901, September 14
Theodore Roosevelt took the oath of office in the library in the Ansley Wilcox home in a ceremony at 3:30 PM.
Ansley Wilcox's portrait by Ansley's brother Urquhart, a well-known painter. Now hanging in the morning room.
Oliver and Kathryn Lawrence moved into the house as tenants of the Rumsey estate
The house was opened as the Kathryn Lawrence Tea Room. When a liquor license was obtained, the name was changed to the Kathryn Lawrence Restaurant.
Oliver and Kathryn Lawrence purchased the property from the Rumsey estate for $62,000
House declared a National Historic Site.
3 thirty-three-year leases were given to Nathan Benderson. The agreement allowed Benderson the right to demolish the house at will with the consent of the owner, 641 Delaware Corporation. Benderson intended to raze the house in order to build a parking lot.
The U. S. Government purchased the property for $250,000
The museum was opened to the public
The building is operated by the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society and the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Foundation, Inc., on behalf of the National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior.
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My recent trip to southern California in late May yielded some fine additions to my image database of wasps. One of the most photogenic species I encountered was a “weevil wasp,” Cerceris sextoides. These members of the family Crabronidae are known to hunt weevils and other beetles as food for their larval offspring. I didn’t find any females this time, though, only the territorial males.
Male solitary wasps tend to emerge before the females, the better to establish territories or seek out burrows where virgin females are likely to pop out. The male C. sextoides that I observed repeatedly perched on vegetation and maintained a vigilant eye for potential competitors. They would frequently fly out in pursuit of similarly-colored eumenid wasps, eventually resuming a perch, usually in a different spot. Some members of the genus are known to scent-mark stems and other objects to reinforce their territorial boundaries, but I am unaware if that applies to the males of this species.
Cerceris sextoides is a common wasp in the Pacific coast states, and extreme south-central British Columbia. It ranges inland through Idaho, northwest Utah, and northern Nevada. Look for it from May to October in a variety of life zones, from Lower Sonoran desert to high elevation Canadian.
The weevils Sitona californius and Trigonoscuta pilosa are recorded as prey for this wasp. Females ferret out their prey, paralyze it with their sting, and ferry it back to their burrow. Nests are typically excavated in sandy clay or gravelly clay. The horn-like process on the clypeus (“upper lip”) of the female probably assists her in digging.
Sources: Bohart, R. M. and A. S. Menke. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 695 pp.
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Burke & Redford Orthodontists Advanced Appliance Approach
Ever wondered about devices other than braces that are used in orthodontics? At Burke & Redford Orthodontists, it’s not just about straightening teeth, but making sure the whole mouth is happy and healthy. Think of it like a puzzle; every piece (or tooth) has its place. With tools like braces, Invisalign, and other orthodontic devices, they make sure every piece fits just right.
Burke & Redford Orthodontists has locations in both Temecula and Lake Elsinore, where patients experience excellent orthodontic care. With three decades of impeccable service in Southern California, the practice offers more than just braces and Invisalign.
This article explores how orthodontic appliances work in conjunction with braces or Invisalign treatment for patients who can benefit from them to achieve a better overall result.
- In Conjunction with Braces: Sometimes used before the installation of braces, these devices correct back tooth crossbites and make room in the upper jaw, allowing for an improved outcome.
- Benefits: Treatment with expanders can correct bites in ways that braces alone cannot and help to avoid extraction of permanent teeth in crowded cases.
By gradually expanding the upper jaw, palatal expanders make room for a more harmonious tooth and bite alignment.
Advanced Orthodontic Treatment Options: With 30 years of combined experience, Dr. Ryan Redford and Dr. Michael Burke have honed these techniques to ensure maximum comfort and efficacy for their patients.
Retainers (Hawley, Essix, and Permanent)
- Post-Treatment: After the removal of braces or completion of an Invisalign regimen, retainers help ensure that teeth remain in their new position.
- Benefits: Using retainers ensures the long-term stability of both braces and Invisalign treatments.
Ensuring Longevity: Retainers are essential in maintaining that newly achieved perfect alignment post-braces.
Several Choices: Whether it’s a permanent fixture, a clear Essix, or the classic Hawley, Burke & Redford Orthodontists offer tailored options to meet each individual patient’s needs.
Patient Education: Patients receive the proper education on how to wear, eat and care for their retainers.
- Complementary to Braces: Often used in tandem with expanders, headgear helps address significant bite problems.
- Benefits: When used at the right time (in developing children when young), they contribute to achieving a balanced development of the face and jaws.
Tailored Solutions: Orthodontic headgear offers a solution for patients needing significant bite correction.
Experienced Hands: Given the complexity of headgear, trust in Burke & Redford Orthodontists 30 years of expertise, which ensures safe and effective treatment.
Face Centered Approach: Beyond just bite correction, their headgear treatments aim at improving facial aesthetics and jaw function.
- Pre-Braces Treatment: Primarily used before or at the beginning of braces treatment, the Herbst appliance helps correct large overbite discrepancies.
- Benefits: The Herbst can correct large overbites as an alternative to elastics which rely on excellent patient compliance.
Harmonizing Jaws: Ideal for correcting overbites and improving retrusive lower jaw lines.
Dedicated Follow-up: This private orthodontic practice ensures regular check-ups and appliance adjustments for optimal results.
Comfort Meets Efficiency: Their vast experience helps the Herbst appliance process to be as comfortable as possible and highly effective.
Carriere Distalizer Appliance
- In Conjunction with Braces or Invisalign: The Carriere Distalizer is often used alongside braces or Invisalign to improve the bite.
- Benefits: With good patient cooperation, this relatively small device can make dramatic improvements to excess horizontal overbites.
Bite Correction: An innovative solution to address misaligned bites especially when Invisalign is the preferred material for straightening the teeth.
Patient-Centered: Burke & Redford Orthodontists always focus on patient comfort, offering devices for optimal comfort.
Education: Patients and parents are educated on maintenance and care of the Carriere Distalizer appliance to achieve maximized treatment results.
- Bite Enhancers: Bite Plates are particularly beneficial at the beginning of a braces treatment, especially for deep overbites.
- Benefits: They establish an ideal amount of vertical overlap between the front teeth and help prevent a patient from biting on their lower braces when they are still malaligned.
Guarding the Smile: Essential for patients with deep overbites, ensuring the front teeth and brackets are protected.
Custom to Each Patient: Each bite plate is tailored and small compared to bite plates of the past, thanks to the experienced doctors at Burke & Redford Orthodontists.
Comprehensive Care: Along with treatment, patients are educated on cleaning and maintaining their bite plates.
- A Precursor to Braces: The lingual arch is used to preserve space in the lower jaw when baby teeth are still present.
- Benefits: It helps prevent back teeth from shifting forward into undesired positions before braces treatment. A lingual arch can also help to limit excessive crowding which may lead to extraction of permanent teeth.
Space Managers: These are essential in maintaining space for erupting permanent teeth.
Invisible Care: Positioned behind the teeth, they are discreet and are essentially invisible when smiling.
Durability and Comfort: With their expertise, each lingual arch is designed for durability without compromising comfort.
- Support for Braces: The Pendulum appliance is used to move upper molars backward, often before or during a braces regimen.
- Benefits: Ensures molars are in a good position to allow for optimal alignment with braces. It can also create space to address overcrowding. Additionally, with an expander device built in, it can correct back tooth crossbites.
Back Tooth Bite Correction: An advanced solution for moving upper molars backward.
Precision Care: Given the complexity, Dr. Redford and Dr. Burke’s expertise ensures precise adjustments for optimal outcomes.
Personalized Treatment: Each appliance is tailored, and the experienced orthodontic assistants provide comprehensive guidance on care and maintenance.
- Before Braces: Used when there is a need to hold upper molars in their position as other teeth erupt.
- Benefits: By stabilizing molars, helps to maintain upper space and aids in achieving an ideal bite.
Upper Arch Stabilization: Anchored using bands around the upper molars, it prevents them from moving forward.
Custom-made: Burke & Redford Orthodontists emphasis on individual care ensures each Nance appliance is fit to the patient’s unique dental structure.
Years of Excellence: Their 30 years in the field ensure patients receive the most efficient treatment using the Nance appliance.
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Technology in fitness has been around for some time now with consumer fitness apps being the fastest-growing category in the app store over the last few years. However, most gyms and clubs are still attempting to ride the tech wave.
But with the COVID-19 crisis, the digitization of the fitness industry has been accelerated. Everyone has been forced to find a way to provide coaching services and maintain customer contact without physical interaction.
In the FitNation panel discussion titled Big Tech & the Fitness Industry, our speakers Hugo Braam, Avrum Elmakis, Andrew Kolman, and Stefan Wild dive deep into the effect of technology in the fitness industry.
Meet our experienced speakers and watch the recording of the panel discussion below!
Meet the Speakers
CEO of CLMBR
CLMBR Co-founder and CEO Avrum Elmakis is no stranger to innovation. This serial entrepreneur won the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2013. At CLMBR, he is responsible for leading a team of design, fitness, and tech visionaries in creating the world’s most advanced climbing machine. CLMBR boasts celebrity investors such as Jay-Z, Ryan Seacrest, Pitbull, and more.
Co-founder & CEO of Virtuagym
Hugo Braam is the Co-founder and CEO of Virtuagym. After an initial career as a lawyer in intellectual property law, he founded Virtuagym with the mission to make the world a healthier, happier place through innovative technology for coaching and engagement. Virtuagym is now a leading mobile technology provider in fitness, supporting 7,500+ fitness businesses and 20+ million end-users in 80 countries.
Digital Experience Manager at Life Fitness
For over 50 years, Life Fitness has been dedicated to creating innovative fitness solutions that benefit both facilities and exercisers. Stefan Wild is a former 110m hurdler turned personal trainer and fitness manager at top-notch clubs. He is notable for facilitating and expanding the use of tech as a solution within the DACH fitness industry.
Senior Director of Technology & Business Development at Matrix
Andrew Kolman is the Senior Director of Technology & Business Development for Johnson Health Tech, headquartered in Taiwan. He oversees product development, strategic partner management, and product strategy for technology products at Matrix.
Watch the recording below:
Here are the key highlights from the conversation:
Technology in Fitness: The Gift That Keeps Giving
Without question, technology has hugely disrupted the fitness industry. And although many fitness gyms and clubs have been caught off-guard, there’s a lot of benefits that come with digitization.
“What happened with COVID, it was actually the gym industry who had been really behind who needed to catch up with consumer demand… Now we have been forced as an industry to make technology an integral part of our services. Moving forward, consumers will expect this to remain part of the experience.” – Hugo Braam
With physical fitness gyms, you are bound by opening and closing times. But with technology, customers can access your services 24/7 from their living rooms, basements, or outside. That means more interaction, more sales, and scalability.
Technology also creates a wider funnel and increases reach. Technology is not limited by regional or physical boundaries. You can now reach clients all over the globe and that translates to more sign-ups, more revenue. What’s more, technology will help reach consumers who are not “gym-goers” previously.
Thirdly, technology will help solve the persistent membership churn problem that a lot of gyms deal with. Technology will help improve retention by providing convenience, increased touchpoints, and personalization — all key factors in building loyalty and increasing retention.
The Changing Needs Fitness Consumers: Content and Connectivity
Going forward, consumers are going to demand more connectivity and more content delivered 24/7and tailored to their specific needs. Most fitness consumers are tech-savvy and a large percentage of them use wearable fitness tech or apps to track their fitness progress.
“I think where we’ll see this go is the consumer deciding who they like based on their own avatar and they might want somebody that’s hyper-focused on what they (consumers) do versus what I’m (operator) attempting to push out.” – Avrum Elmakis
They’ll want around-the-clock interaction and up-to-date content at all times. They also want personalization and value from their fitness providers. Fitness providers will therefore need to rethink how content is created and how it is distributed to reach consumers and meet their dynamic needs and demands. Consistency and quality are going to be key in content creation.
The Move to Omnichannel Marketing
To be able to thrive in the future, fitness clubs and gyms will need to utilize the vast digital landscape and marketing techniques to meet their consumers’ needs and demands. They will need to be available 24/7 on multiple platforms and in different formats and to do so seamlessly.
“What fitness technology is doing to operators, I think, it’s opening up and creating a wide funnel. And what I mean by that is it’s bringing, potentially, fitness and what they (operators) can offer to a larger audience.” – Andrew Kolman
Gyms will need to maintain the physical brick-and-mortar locations while at the same time creating tons of digital content and services to reach the different consumers in their living rooms or wherever they are at any time of the day.
With Technology Comes Increased Competition
There are a lot of new entrants and competitors now in the fitness industry. Tech companies are now competing with personal trainers and fitness clubs for the same consumers.
This means that consumers will have more choices and variety to choose from. Now, this might lead to lower prices to attract and retain customers. However, it’s also an opportunity for fitness gyms to differentiate themselves and provide value to their target market at favorable price points.
“Be very consistent even for free content you share. At the current stage, it’s the best and only way to be in touch with your customers.” – Stefan Wild
Whether that’s providing cheap, value-for-money products and creating high-priced, exclusive services, fitness providers will need to differentiate and segment the market to achieve their growth and revenue goals.
For more insights on the current trends in the fitness industry, you can follow Hugo Braam on LinkedIn or visit Virtuagym to learn more about fitness software. You can also follow Andrew Kolman on LinkedIn or visit the Matrix Fitness website, and you can find Stefan Wild on LinkedIn or on Life Fitness . Visit CLMBR to learn more about the CLMBR workout machine by Avrum Elmakis. | <urn:uuid:deedac65-790c-4d8e-8e14-7271cf4346d9> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://business.virtuagym.com/blog/four-experts-discuss-how-tech-changed-the-fitness-game-forever/ | 2023-09-27T12:02:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.948401 | 1,413 |
Easyfitness – On track for growth with digital
Even a global pandemic doesn‘t get Easyfitness down
Wolf-Patrick Schuwirth is the partner manager of Easyfitness Management GmbH and has already achieved a number of successes in his career. The Easyfitness franchise has been one of the most successful companies in the German fitness sector - for over 10 years! With international locations, in countries such as Austria, Spain and Poland, as well as more than 380,000 clients, the company has fought its way to the top over the last few years. But of course, Easyfitness was not spared from the global pandemic and its effects. Here, Wolf-Patrick Schuwirth tells us how the company dealt with it and how they kept their head above water during this difficult time with the help of Virtuagym.
At Easyfitness, clients benefit from the Virtuagym All-In-One app solution
Customer loyalty is important for most companies - for fitness studios it is essential. In order to keep clients happy and engaged, the integration of digital offers has become one effective way of achieving it. This was the approach taken by Easyfitness, who wanted to provide user-friendly and demand-oriented offers to their members. In Virtuagym, they found the ideal partner for this about two years ago.. Since then, Virtuagym has proven itself as a central building block of the growth strategy at Easyfitness and contributed towards helping them to overcome the ongoing challenges caused by the pandemic.
“One of the big advantages is the white-label solution at Virtuagym,” emphasises Wolf-Patrick Schuwirth. The franchise company now has around 160 studios in Germany and Europe. “We can offer the app under our logo and as part of our brand and present a uniform image to our customers.” The international experience at Virtuagym and a concept that covers all their clients were also decisive factors. “Every user is free to write and configure his or her own training plans and - if desired - to share them with the user community. “Other offers only provided such possibilities for trainers. However, many of our regular customers have been creating their own programs for a long time. The offer and menu navigation are very user-friendly,” Schuwirth adds.
Push for more sustainability
The cooperation with Virtuagym fits in with the increasingly digital orientation at Easyfitness. Incidentally, this also contributes towards the commitment to sustainability at Easyfitness and to make an active contribution to protecting the environment. For example, via a significant reduction in paper consumption. “We want to use our resources sparingly and consciously,” Schuwirth stresses. With Virtuagym, we need significantly less paper, for example for training plans. That’s the right way to go.”
Favorite courses via app
The app solution also plays a role in their planned growth. After all, in just three years’ time, around 600,000 Easyfitness clients will be exercising in 250 studios. “For this, we require easy access to our offers. This is what the Virtuagym app delivers with online course planning, where everyone can choose their favorite courses without any effort,” explains Schuwirth happily. This digital offer fits perfectly with the company philosophy at Easyfitness, which combines “lifestyle & sport”.
The turnaround - giving up is not an option
Shortly before the outbreak of the global Covid-19 pandemic, Easyfitness invested in a large headquarters - but no one could have guessed then what hard times they would face. But it was clear to the company: none of the 35 employees would be put on short-time work. The fitness studios of the franchise company had to remain closed for 2.5 months. But thanks to Virtuagym, they managed to grant their clients a comprehensive fitness experience from home.
How could Virtuagym help during the closure?
The home workout integration via the personalized app was a particularly huge success for Easyfitness. Wolf-Patrick reports about the hard-working club managers who got to work immediately after the closures were announced and created several workout plans that were already available in the Virtuagym app. This meant that no new videos had to be shot, the time required was very low and, with the help of the avatars from the app, everything was already included so that the exercise sequences were also well described and presented. He adds enthusiastically: “There were many good possibilities to keep people happy via the app, to generate training plans and assign them to them. Such a programme for fitness and health naturally becomes more important when other sports and leisure options are eliminated and helped us through the crisis.”
You could still support your clients in their daily workout. They could still keep fit, that gave us a huge advantage over other studios through Virtuagym's app.
How else have they used the app?
The company just implemented the course scheduling feature a few months ago, as it seemed particularly helpful with the new capacity limits and minimum spacing regulations. According to Wolf-Patrick, “The courses are now online and people can easily sign up for them. Since only different numbers of clients are allowed for different sized course rooms, this tool benefits us. It’s a good way to regulate that - it’s really popular.”
The future of the fitness industry
Of course, EasyFitness also had other goals and plans in mind for 2020 and 2021 - but everything turned out differently than expected. The fitness industry has been enormously affected, but Wolf-Patrick adds: “We are still doing relatively well compared to other industries, which may not even survive the crisis. In Germany, we were lucky that the studios only had to be closed for a short period of time compared to other countries, and we were also lucky that our managers reacted quickly.” However, he is also sure that things would not have gone so smoothly without the Virtuagym app and says: “With the Virtuagym app, we were able to keep the clients happy.”
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Good morning, readers. In this article we will discuss the tragic death of the American politician’s daughter. Dear readers, are you familiar with Kacey bowers Cause of death? Surrounded by her family, she died January 28, 2021 from a rare disease.
The beautiful, deceased woman had a son aged 20 years. Rusty Bowers was her father and House Speaker in Arizona, United States.
Rusty is the father of seven children. Kacey was sensitive and most helpful.
A brief description Kacey bowers_
She was 42 years old. She began her career as a counselor after receiving her Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling at Grand Canyon University. Because of her caring nature, she was also a social worker.
Kacey R. Bowers Obituary –
Rusty’s beautiful daughter left the world as he was waging his political battles. He was also stressed. She was sick. The internet does not have the right information.
The Arizona funeral was held. Other events to give peace to the spirit of the deceased were performed at Salt River Stake Center in Mesa on Saturday, February 13, 2021 at 10 AM. At 9 AM, her close family and friends were invited to the same location.
Rusty Bowers Daughter Infirmity
In 2021, Mr. Bowers’ daughter died. People are still talking about it, because the Bipartisan Committee is gathering evidence on the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Mr. Rusty told the committee that he felt threatened by the politics while his daughter was seriously ill.
Things outside disturbed her. Her condition was made worse by the disturbing atmosphere in the city. Due to his daughter’s poor state of health, the politician was already stressed and external pressure was increasing his tension.
Her father said that his daughter had a rare disease. However, the exact name of the disease is still unknown. Her family has not disclosed anything about the true Kacey bowers Cause of Death.
Q.1 What is the mother of Kacey bowers?
Kacey Bowers’ mother is A.1 Donetta Russell.
Q.2 What makes Kacey’s father so famous?
Q.2 He is an American politician who was awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile In The Courage Award in 2022 because he refused to accept the overturning of the 2020 reflection results.
Kacey, a kind-hearted woman, left the world after her father tried to force her into politics and overturn the results of the 2022 elections.
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Looking for non-toy gifts? Check out these AWESOME ideas.
There’s nothing I love more than a good toy. I love filling my home with amazing, open-ended, educational toys to spark my kids’ imaginations… but sometimes, I want to give them other things – non-toy gifts that I know they’ll love just as much.
RELATED: Looking for gift ideas? Check out my full list of favorite toys from Lakeshore Learning.
Why give a non-toy gift?
When I’m looking at gifts for birthdays and holidays, I know it’s not just about giving them more stuff, but rather, gifting things they need as well.
I like to give them items that I know will make an impact in their day-to-day lives.
What will they use often?
What solves a problem or fulfills a need?
What will they keep using for years to come?
3 non-toy gifts you need to see!
Lakeshore Learning released their Gifts for Growing Minds catalogue, and I knew right about what would be perfect for my oldest kids (ages 3.5 and 5):
With three kids, we don’t have space in our house for dedicated desks or kid tables, or special kid-sized chairs for them to use, but these flexible seating items give us so many options that we didn’t have before.
First up: What is flexible seating?
Flexible seating is a buzz word in the school system right now, but we can adapt it into the home setting with the same success.
Flexible seating gives kids the chance to move and change their seating/workspace, to be flexible with it, and to make it work for them. They have the ability to move it around the classroom, or for us – around the home.
These non-toy gifts are anything but ordinary.
These Flex-Space Comfy Floor Seats, Flex-Space Student Lap Desks, and Color Me Creative! Supply Caddy – whoa, what unbelievable non-toy gifts that kids will treasure. This is NOT the same as giving a pair of socks as a non-toy gift.
These gifts are something to be excited about.
These floor seats are everything.
The Flex-Space Comfy Floor Seats have been a game changer. For the first time, my kids have little seats they can move around the house and use in different situations… I even caught my five-year-old napping in his.
When they’re done using them, they can put them away. You can’t do that with those big puffy toddler chairs.
We can fit our seats under the couch, behind the couch, and under beds – depending on which room they want to store their Flex-Space Comfy Floor Seats in.
I love the independence my 3.5-year-old has with her chair and I see her carrying it all over our house. Raising kids to be independent and capable is huge – and this is something she can choose to use, choose how to use it, and do it all without needing help.
The back of the Flex-Space Comfy Floor Seats can be positioned in different angles, and both my big kids can change the angle on their own.
Wait until you see these lap desks!
I don’t have space for a little kid table or traditional desks for each of my kids – but I wish I did! The Flex-Space Student Lap Desks have solved that dilemma.
Just like with the floor seats, the lap desks are light weight and something my kids can carry with them around our house – they can have a desk wherever they need a desk, a table wherever they need a table.
Sometimes my kids use them alone, sometimes side by side, and sometimes they push them together to make a makeshift table. So flexible – just like they were designed to be.
Check out this awesome way to store supplies!
This gives my kids an easy place to store some of their art supplies – a perfect amount to have accessible for them when they decide to do some art.
My kids love having this on their lap desk or sharing it in the middle when they push their desks together.
The design is perfect for storing supplies, it’s adorable, and it’s easy for the kids to keep everything in one spot.
The Color Me Creative! Supply Caddy is such a good non-toy gift. It’s simple, it’s something they’ll use, and it’s something they’ll be excited to receive.
You don’t always have to give toys!
It’s easy to get stuck in the toy rut, trying to buy what you think kids might want, and you can end up just buying extra “stuff”.
Sometimes, the better option is to give them something they can use, that’ll help inspire creativity in their lives, and that they’ll enjoy for years to come.
That’s one of my favorite parts of Lakeshore Learning, and why I get so many of our toys from there. I’m giving gifts that I know my kids will enjoy for years to come.
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Galaxy Buds Plus
Discover all the new features and advances in the SM-R175 , even some that aren’t normally accessible.
We can tailor a great audio ad for your use.
Galaxy Buds plus are the ideal earbuds for you to block out distracting sounds so that you can focus on what you really want.
Ambient Aware can be turned on if you want to reduce the noises from outside, so you are more in tune with your surroundings.
Samsung also improved charging times. After a 3-minute charge, these buds can provide 60 minutes of playback. Each earbud is equipped with an 85mAh rechargeable battery, and the case contains a 270mAh charge. | <urn:uuid:9953e080-4712-48cb-8c03-dd017c179331> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://buy.ae/product/samsung-galaxy-buds-plus-white | 2023-09-27T12:39:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.93615 | 146 |
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Elegant villa with breathtaking sea view in Augusta (SR)
Via Eschilo 14 Augusta, SR 96011
AUGUSTA, SIRACUSA: Buy in Sicily Real Estate offers the exclusive sale of an elegant villa located in a hilly position with a breathtaking sea view. The villa, built in the mid-90s, is now in perfect condition and is immediately habitable with countless comforts. The villa is spread over two elevations above ground plus a very large basement floor of 300 square meters ready to be used as a tavern or other apartment. On the mezzanine floor of the villa we find the main body with two different accesses, one for service and the other for representation. From the representative entrance we find a large and elegant living room, a dining area with kitchen with access to a veranda overlooking the garden and a wonderful sea view, laundry room, two bathrooms, one of which is very large, two bedrooms and a comfortable study. On the second elevation instead there is a totally independent penthouse apartment with a large living area with kitchen. This floor is completed by a spectacular terrace overlooking the sea. On the basement floor we find a further 300 square meters all paved and partly intended for garages as they are located close to the driveway of the villa. The property benefits from solar thermal, solar panels,drill and there is the possibility to build a swimming pool.
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Mapping Historical New York, through web-based, interactive maps, reconstructs the demographic and structural shifts of Manhattan and Brooklyn between 1850 and 1920. During this period, the city grew and diversified through the arrival of large groups of immigrants. Furthermore, the city boundaries expanded in the late 1890s to include a major section of Long Island specifically Brooklyn and Queens. Through a three year collaboration between the Center for Spatial Research and the Department of History, Historical New York City uses historical GIS and spatial history to develop new understanding of the magnitude of the changes that took place across this time.
The project team is digitizing maps of Manhattan and Brooklyn and integrating individual-level records from historical US Censuses to build a comprehensive web-based resource for researchers and students interested in New York City’s history. In addition to producing maps and analysis for the city as a whole, the project plans to develop detailed case studies designed to deepen engagement with the digitized historical maps and demographic datasets at the neighborhood level. The resulting maps, tools, and information will be accessible to the public. In addition to the public-facing, interactive webmap, the project aims to train faculty and students in digital research and teaching methods.
Courses on historical New York, immigration, urban history, and spatial history, offered in conjunction with project responsibilities, promote faculty and student involvement in the project’s design, development, and production.
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Doing Business with the Temecula Valley Unified School District
Whether you are current or prospective vendor or contractor, Temecula Valley Unified School District desires to make doing business with the District seamless and transparent. The District is now using an online system to register all contractors in order to perform work within the District.
Temecula Valley Unified School District has contracted with Colbi Technologies, Inc. to provide a web-based process for registering and prequalifying contractors called QualityBidders.
To submit an application to be a District Registered Contractor, please click on the following link:
https://www.qualitybidders.com and sign-up for free.
Please click on the department tabs to the left for open bids.
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- Signage should always be handled carefully and gently, and should be kept in its packaging until it's time for use.
- When opening and removing the signage from its packaging, avoid using blades to open package as a precaution to not cut or scratch the signage.
- Your sign will be wrapped in protective cushioning and nestled in cardboard packing. After opening, remove plastic wrap and gently remove the sign from cardboard.
- If there is a protective film on the signage, gently remove it.
- Avoid placing any items on top of your signs to prevent and scratches, cracks, etc.
- Now your sign is ready for hanging/ mounting
- All backdrop signs come with small holes large enough to use fishing wire to hang.
- For backdrop signs that will be applied directly to the wall, we recommend using command strips of the appropriate size to hold the weight of the signage as command can be removed from the walls and the signage without damage.
- Ensure that the signage is properly and securely hanging to prevent the signage from falling.
- After use, if string used to hang the signage must be cut, please carefully cut from the backside to avoid scratching the signage.
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- When removing signage from backdrop, carefully remove or cut and attached strings without scratching the items (acrylic can scratch easily).
- Now is a good time check your items for any scratches, damage, etc. and record or photograph your rentals for proof of its condition for return.
- Place the signage back inside of the cardboard it matches. The the shape of the sign is specifically cut to fit the rental sign
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- Repeat this step for all signs a part of the rental.
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Today is the grand opening of the Sacramento Children’s Museum. My wife, Kathleen, is the founder of this museum. I still remember the day in late 2004 or early 2005 that we were driving home from the Bay Area, having enjoyed our visit to Berkelely’s Habitot, we were around Dixon or Davis, and she said, “I want to open a children’s museum in Sacramento….” That day she called a couple of friends, within a month she had incorporated with the state of California, and filed for 501c3 status with the IRS. Today, 6+ years later, is a very sweet day for our family. It’s the culmination of years of hard work, ups and downs, good connections, good connections gone bad, people moving, people joining, etc…. However, watching it on the local news this morning was pretty incredible for me and my kids. Shoot, my 8 year old son Michael was ok to change it off cartoons and watch the news for an hour to wait and see the museum on TV… “the museum that mommy owns.”
As an estate planning attorney I help clients do similar things sometimes. Maybe it’s setting up family foundations during life or to take effect after death. For others it’s helping to coordinate charitable gifts during life or after death to charities that are near and dear to their heart. For still others it’s more complex charitable planning with charitable remainder trusts. For all of these tools it’s important to have a licensed estate planning attorney helping. It also doesn’t hurt for that attorney to be a Certified Specialist in Estate Planning Law as I am by the California Bar State Board of Legal Specialization.
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Introducing Flex – The Origins of Flex
Flex is Afterburner's label for a way of thinking and a framework for action. Though the term is not used in the military, its DNA stems from the disciplines and mindsets of special military teams: U.S. Navy SEALs, Australian SAS, U.S. Army Rangers and, of course, jet fighter pilots in Navy, Marine, and Air Force Squadrons.
These teams are geared to act as tight, effective units in hostile, complex, and dynamic environments, where the conseqence of their performance is…..obvious. All of these teams would recognize and use the principles outlined in the book On Time On Target, though they may have their own terms for them. These are the principles that we learned as fighter pilots, and they are common to all air forces. Any fighter pilot on the planet would recognize these principles and be able to work together using them. They are how fighter pilots think, act and make an impact. They are the techniques that deliver deep performance.
Flex in the U.S.
These common principles were developed first in the U.S. Air Force. Granted its independence from the U.S. Army in 1947, the air force flew into a decade of new technology and experimentation. Jets replaced piston engines and, with better radar and airframes, pilots were flying faster and higher than anyone ever thought possible. They just weren’t doing it safely. In 1952, accidental deaths in the U.S. Air Force peaked at 1214—between three and four airmen killed every day. It was a disaster.
The U.S. Air Force started on a journey to limit that damage. They began to focus as much on human capabilities as on the aircraft. How many G-forces1 could a pilot stand before he blacks out, or worse, ‘G-LOCs’ a phenomenon where the pilot loses consciousness? What could prevent that from happening? How much data could a single pilot handle from scanning instruments and radio? How much did he need? How could a pilot, wingman, co-pilot, navigator or WSO (Weapons system Officer) share and absorb that information to track and complete a mission? How rational were those mission plans given all these human factors? Gradually, these questions were answered. Slowly, in U.S.-based maneuvers and through the Korean War, accident rates fell.
Yet when it came to the crucible of the Vietnam War, it seemed the learning didn’t count for much. If the answers were known, they weren’t being taught to young pilots. Against the North Vietnamese, the U.S. Navy and Air Force were losing one aircraft for every 2.5 enemy planes shot down. That ratio may sound good but, given the superiority in technology and training, it was another disaster. In World War II and Korea, with more evenly matched technology, the ratio had been closer to one lost for every 10 shot down. Now they were losing two state-of-the-art multimillion-dollar F-4 Phantoms for five cheap old MiG-17 and MiG-21 Soviet planes.
Yet if a pilot survived their first few flights—a big if—they would survive for a very long time. Whatever they learned through experiencing those first flights made all the difference. So the challenge was clear: how could they transfer that learning to new pilots before they went into combat? The U.S. Air Force Fighter Weapons School, founded in 1949, was rapidly upgrading everything it could to meet that challenge, but more was needed for the Navy. In 1968, the Ault Report called for an institution that would intensively drill its pilots in everything they needed for aerial combat. It came in the form of the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School, dubbed ‘Top Gun’, and it rigorously taught mission planning and execution, briefing and debriefing, strategy and tactics. By the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, the combat kill ratio had been restored to 13 to 1.
Over the next 50 years, the U.S. fighter pilot schools drummed the principles of mission planning into their training, to improve their training, and to make flying in training and in combat safer. Eventually, the pilots of the U.S. Air Force could do what others could not, no matter the technical abilities of their planes. In 2002, the air force lost just nine airmen in accidents: 1214 down to just nine deaths, despite the variance in the types of plane, types of mission, and types of pilot.
These fighter pilot principles had no universally-accepted name, but they worked. These are the principles that Murph learned when first stationed at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, and were taught at the U.S. Air Force Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. They are the principles that the U.S. Marine Corps Weapons and Tactics Instructor course teaches at Yuma, Arizona, and that the U.S. Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program teaches its TOPGUN aspirants and graduates.
Murph hadn’t planned to be a fighter pilot. Like many young kids he was aiming to be a professional athlete and, like most, just missed making the grade. His dad was a salesman, based in rural Kentucky selling IBM typewriters and then sets of World Book encyclopedias the old way, door-to-door. Every night, Murph listened to the day’s personalities, conversations, and sales over the dinner table. So when professional baseball didn’t make its long-awaited call after college, Murph started selling too, selling photocopiers with his dad. But two years later, he met a fighter pilot, and couldn’t believe how keen that guy was to be what he was. That was a new course in life well worth charting.
Murph went all in too, for eight and a half years flying F-15s with the USAF, learning to think, to prepare, to fly, and then to teach other fighter pilots at Dobbins Air Force Base, Georgia, and later with the Florida Air National Guard. The whole time, he kept turning his mind to how those principles would translate to his old world, in sales and business. Four years in, he was asked to take business executives up in the air on incentives flights. One particularly rainy day the flight was called off and a group of executives were given a tour of the grounded F-15, a run in a flight simulator, and a talk from Murph on how his squadron pushed for flawless execution in their missions.
That was the first time Murph gave such a talk, and it made quite an impression. The CEO of the Conco Paint Company said he could use that sort of thinking, and would call in a year. A year later to the week the CEO called, and interviewed Murph to help run his sales division using the principles of flawless execution. To that time, the division’s annual record was just over U.S.$5 million in sales. Two years later, they hit U.S.$52 million. Murph confirmed that everything he’d learned as a fighter pilot could be applied equally to his everyday business missions, and as much to his long-term plans. And Murph realized that his greatest asset was not what he was selling, nor even who he was. It was the way that he worked: the only way he knew how—using principles he began to call Flex.
Murph set up the consulting firm Afterburner Inc. in 1996 to share Flex with the business world. He used Flex every step of the journey, and continues to do so in ways that we’ll discover in this book. Since then, Afterburner and its 70 fighter pilots and other elite military professionals have worked with over a thousand corporations and over 1.5 million people. Many of those pilots have launched their own businesses, and many more of Afterburner’s clients have done the same. Flex works.
Flex in Australia
Just as Murph was entering civilian life, the RAAF began to take a more serious interest in the principles that underpinned his training with the U.S. Air Force. There was much in common between the cultures of the two air forces—the openness, honesty, and accountability—but they were quite different in the way pilots operated and learned. The Australians were more like their UK Royal Air Force (RAF) colleagues. Yes, there were procedures, but they were more guidelines than orders. Yes, there was training, but that was more the school of hard knocks than rigorous, systematic induction.
The early 1990s changed all that. Put simply, too many pilots were losing their lives unnecessarily. Five Australian F/A-18A Hornet pilots died in the five years to 1992, the first years of the new plane’s operation. For six years in a row the top-of-class U.S. fighter pilot who was selected to fly with the RAF on exchange, died by flying into low British hills. Both tragic and embarrassing, that record highlighted unacceptable training and combat safety in a period of higher than usual risks, including the use of Harrier jump jets that were four times more accident-prone than the Hornet.
Though forced now to look harder at the U.S. Air Force methods, the Royal Air Force still resisted. They looked at the USAF Fighter Weapons School approach, and were sceptical. It was too structured, with too much reliance on strict protocols and procedures for weapons engagement and communication which, the RAF believed, were too rigid and restrictive.
The Australians were less sceptical, more willing to learn from the best overseas. They understood that the standards and protocols just calmed down the pilots, took the pressure off thinking about the simple things, so that they could concentrate on the more dangerous things, their immediate mission, and risks. So the RAAF took on what they learned. Having to do better with their new Hornets, the RAAF’s Fighter Combat Instructor (FCI) course adopted the principles of the U.S. Fighter Weapons School. Only they took them further. While the U.S. training was for nine weeks, the RAAF’s spanned six months. It piled individual awareness and decision-making on top of regimented standards. Each week both of these schools pushed the pilots harder: more rapid planning, under more stressful conditions, on more complex missions, with more resources, and more threats. Each stage of planning and execution was ramped up until the FCI pilots could lead fighter squadrons with any air force, in any circumstances.
It also helped that these fighter pilot operational principles were consistent with those being used throughout the Australian military. The Joint Military Appreciation Process (JMAP) is used for joint campaign and operational planning within and across the Australian Defence Force. What is true for JMAP is true for Flex: ‘Foremost in the minds of commanders should be that JMAP simply assists and promotes critical thinking rather than being an end in itself. It is not supposed to be used as a formulaic checklist that, once completed, will automatically provide the best solution to a problem. Creativity and flexibility of thought lie at the center, with the JMAP framework providing guidance and a measure of structure.’2
By the turn of the century, fighter pilots trained in the RAAF took on the operational cycle of plan–brief–execute–debrief, and all of the mission alignment, awareness, and execution principles that went with it. By that time also, the RAF was thinking the same way. So that in 2001, when Christian ‘Boo’ Boucousis became one of the few RAAF pilots accepted into an RAF Tornado fighter squadron, he found the operational approach as common as it could be to what he had learned in the RAAF.
In 2005 Boo returned from a relatively uneventful mission, and was unable to move his head. At all. His neck had frozen, and took over a month to slowly remobilize. A series of tests revealed he had a rare degenerative medical condition: ankylosing spondylitis and osteoporosis. Stiff and softening bones weren’t what the air force wanted in the front seat of a combat aircraft. Boo’s fighter pilot career was over.
With that grim news, Boo spent months in a deep, dark space. It wasn’t until he met a South African in similar circumstances in Britain, someone who knew what he was going through, that the first lights were turned on again. Boo was badly disillusioned by the fate of a non-combat injury dealing him out of the cockpit. Tom Naude was disillusioned with the British Army after a very challenging, heavy-combat tour in Iraq as a parachute regiment officer. They got to talking, and the talk led them to explore what they’d do next, and the decision to do whatever it was together. But what?3
Over the next eighteen months, Tom and Boo did little else but use their Flex-ability to plan the next phase in their lives. True to form, their initial thinking was simple and focussed: what business opportunities were they familiar with from their air force experience, and for which demand always outstripped supply? Anything, they reasoned, that supported military and humanitarian missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. And one of those two countries was too dangerous even for them.
To have a closer look at the options in Afghanistan, Tom took a position as security adviser to the United Nations for the 2004 national and provincial elections in Afghanistan. Western aid was pouring into the country, targeting essential infrastructure and services. Every piece of road, telecommunications, water, or energy works needed security. Tom and Boo decided that was the start they needed, and set up CTG Global. An American civil engineering firm needed protection for the headline Kabul to Kandahar road project, United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) number one Afghan project. Boo and Tom found twenty Gurkhas for the job. Gurkhas are the fearless Nepalese soldiers who have served with distinction in the Nepalese, British, Indian, and Singapore armies for centuries. Why Gurkhas? Because they understood military processes and character and the operating environment, and were willing, disciplined, and intelligent. It proved a great choice.
Soon after, CTG Global secured contracts with the UN donor program to protect school and medical clinic sites and manage their construction. The company began supplying people to other contractors—demand truly did outstrip supply in war-torn Afghanistan. It was dangerous work, and so the safety of their employees was paramount. CTG’s safety record was second to none, and their reputation for it grew.
Nonetheless, eventually and perhaps inevitably, one of their Gurkhas was killed on duty. For young entrepreneurs in a foreign land, this was a critical test of who they were. They had seen how other contractors handled this situation, a lead they didn’t want to follow. Rather, they wanted to demonstrate their respect for Sahi and his family to military standards, but without military or diplomatic support.
When Sahi died, Boo went to Kathmandu to personally visit the sixteen households who had lost a father, a brother, or a friend. As he did, Tom set about repatriating Sahi’s body to Nepal so that he could be cremated by his family on the banks of the holy Bagmati River. But the custom in Afghanistan was and is burial the day after death, so there was no call or resources for preserving and transporting bodies. Tom had to track down formaldehyde in a Kabul pharmacy, teach himself the undertaker’s crafts of embalmment and grooming, and make arrangements for preserving Sahi’s body for its return to Nepal.
Doing the right thing is its own reward, but often brings unexpectedly positive effects. Word spread of Tom’s efforts. Other contracting firms called on CTG to provide the same repatriation services for the many more workers who died on Afghan worksites. And many more Gurkhas sought out CTG Global for employment. Within a year of their first commission, CTG had 200 employees. Within three years, they had 1600 men and women supporting humanitarian and infrastructure projects in the Middle East.
By any measure, this was an extraordinary achievement for two young men in their late twenties with no prior business experience. Yet for Boo and Tom, it was just Flex as usual, with a little extra grit and determination. Every step of the way, they applied what they knew from their military experience. That they had never worked together before, and had been in two different forces, mattered not one jot. Both the Royal Australian Air Force and the UK’s Royal Air Force spoke the same language and operated in the same way—the same way as Murph’s U.S. Air Force. They didn’t call it Flex, but that’s what it was and is.
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(PLO)- The Prime Minister’s direction is to resolutely abolish cumbersome regulations. What the law does not prohibit, let people and businesses do and encourage innovation for the common good…
There is always a divergence between state management and the subjects being managed, which are people and businesses, in social operations, especially in matters related to business freedom and the State’s responsibility through administrative procedures.
The state often tends to issue many regulations to fully and strictly manage; people and businesses (DN) want to have few regulations to open their doors to do business.
These two seemingly contradictory tendencies and desires have their own reasons. The rule of law state needs a legal system to ensure social order and safety and community interests. Even though people and businesses are recognized by the constitution and respect their freedoms, they also need to comply with regulations and administrative procedures so that their needs do not affect other people or subjects.
The social context each time sets new requirements for the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, social order and safety, and the interests of the community. Laws must be enacted to adjust social behavior in the new context. Therefore, administrative reform is a regular and continuous process. However, it still has to follow a general rule.
That rule was concretized in the Official Dispatch 644 dated July 13 by the Prime Minister and directly directed by the Prime Minister during the fifth meeting of the Steering Committee for Administrative Reform on July 19.
The most remarkable point in the Prime Minister’s direction is: “Resolutely abolish cumbersome regulations. What the law does not prohibit, let people and businesses do and encourage innovation for the common good, do not issue more documents to hinder and increase compliance costs as well as the possibility of negative arising … “.
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I had set out to write post on the way analytics had made baseball boring. And, I wanted to do that without sounding like an old timer railing against change for not other reason that he railed against change. Instead, it is boring because each team follows nearly exactly the same strategies. MLB is fighting against those strategies (expanding the bases, introducing pitch clocks and rules about pitcher disengagement). This is not because analytics failed. It is because it succeeded. Analytics worked, or at least seemed to. One could use massive amounts of data to position defenders, organize the pitching staff, and change the "launch angle" on swings to gain an edge on other teams. Tampa Bay might be the new poster child for this approach to baseball and it is hard to argue with success. The Rays are almost always in contention and almost always with a team that is among the least expensive (in terms of overall salary) in the majors. They have worked ideas such as the now outlawed shift, the starter+bulk pitcher, multiple substitutions, and pitch limits harder than just about any other team.
The very problem is their success. Every team now has an analytics department and every team is using the same data. The result is that there is precious little variation in baseball strategy between teams. For instance, no one lets starters pitch deep into games any more. In fact, deep into games has been virtually redefined as getting through the fifth inning, the minimum number of innings a pitcher can pitch to record a win. The Jays have four starters who have been basically uninjured this year (I know Gausman has missed a couple of starts) and it is not clear any of them will get to 200 IP. The point is not that the Jays are doing anything different or unusual. They are doing exactly what everyone else is doing. The only starter in the AL who looks like he will make it to 200 IP is Cole (as always data from Baseball Reference). In the NL, three or four might make it.
The addition of the universal DH has also created a a higher degree of homogeneity in baseball strategy across MLB. The absence of a DH forced NL teams in the past to adopt different strategies than AL teams (greater pinch hitting and using more small-ball, one base strategies). I know we need to guard against nostalgia, but there were appreciable divisions of strategy between the baseball teams of my youth. Some were based on speed (KC, Oakland, the Expos, St. L). Some were based on power (Milwaukee). Some where based on platooning (the Jays, Orioles, and Tigers under Sparky). Some managers were quick hooks (Alou). Others expected their starters to work for their living (Vernon). Said differently, when different teams played each other it was often a conflict of strategies as it was a conflict of players and teams.
This is no longer the case. I was watching a Jays/Reds game a week or so ago and each team managed its pitching staff in exactly the same way. The only difference was that the Jays starter (Berrios) pitched 5.2 innings. The Reds (Kennedy), 5. There then followed a stream of pitchers pitching one inning (or, in the case of the Jays, the final out of the 6th). The next game was as close to a repeat as you could get. The Jays needed to yank Richards faster than they wanted to because he was a bit off his mark, but that was it. What minor differences there are, are a product of talent (Cleveland has to run because it lacks home run power) or taking advantage of particular situations (the Rockies were running on us because our catching is weak at throwing out runnings). Other coaches take advantage of situation but the overall strategies aren't varying. The result is that baseball fans basically know what is going to happen before it does and that does not make for a particularly exciting game, at least from a strategy perspective.
Analytics have created two effects on the way baseball teams are organized. First, there has been an expansion of the bullpen. Most teams carry eight bullpen pitchers and five starters, taking up 13 roster spots, or half the team. Because there is almost no such thing as a complete game anymore (Lyles looks like he will lead the AL with 3; the Jays have a total of one complete game -- Bassitt -- this year), and because no one uses a reliever for more than an inning, more pitchers are needed. This leads to point two: because roster sports are needed for pitchers, no one carries a dedicated DH any more (there are no Edgar Martinez, of Big Papi's, or Hal McRae's ... with the notable exceptions of the Dodgers but is anyone surprised Roberts is doing things differently? And, Phil as they try to get Harper into games). And, players are prized by the degree to which they can play more than one defensive position.
For the Jays, the effect is periodically shaky outfield defence because we play infielders in the outfield (our backup or platoon outfielders are Biggio and Merrifeld, both infielders). Throughout much of the year, our backup third basement and shortstop was Santiago Espinal, a player who was so not reliable as a short stop that the Jays traded (we really traded nothing so I am not all that concerned) for Paul DeJong. I actually think Merrifield has done the job the Jays asked him to do this year and it has not an easy job. He makes the odd really good catch as an outfielder if he is moving forward but he has problems with balls over his head and tends -- as we would expect of an infielder -- to misjudge them. There were plays I've watched where Biggio, likewise, seemed completely miscast for the role he was asked to play.
Is this a management issue? I'm argue that the heavy use of analytics creates this problem. Because the Jays are using up so many roster sports on pitchers, they can't carry a real back up outfielder.
Likewise, the Jays have to suffer with Vladdy at first. I'll grant him Vladdy due. He did not come up playing first base, defence is not his primary value, and he does make some good plays. But, overall, his defence is hurting the team (it even hurt the team last year in his Gold Glove winning year, its just that all other first basement were worse). The Jay would improve if they had even a break-even defensive first baseman and moved Vladdy F/T to DH. But, they can't because no one -- exceptions noted above -- carries an F/T DH anymore. Instead, it is used as place holder to give a player a rest. Because benches are so thin, there are just not a lot of backup players to fill in and so the DH spot is used to spell a player from fielding for a game. Or, for the same reason, to keep a player with a minor injury in the game.
Not only does this homogenize strategies but, with regard to the Jays, it has made them a worse team. I am not saying Vladdy could be the Jays Big Papi, but I actually don't see any reason why he could't be.
And, I have not even mentioned what "max effort" is doing to pitchers arms.
In short, it is hard to complain about the Jays. I have and will. But, we also need to see that the problems with which the Jays grapple are inherent to this era of baseball (for instance, I know Hernandez had horrible defence. I said it. But, the response to that does not need to be to trade him, even while I think the trade worked out. Another alternative, would have been to teach him how to be an outfielder but, for whatever reason, that die not happen).
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The subscription plan features unlimited swaps from a list of select models from the entire lineup. The multi-vehicle subscription membership will include access to the 718, Macan, Cayenne, Panamera, and the all-electric Taycan in a single monthly payment of $4,500, plus taxes and fees.
Also included will be the iconic 911, with the exception of 911 GTS and 911 Targa models, both of which are currently offered exclusively in the single-vehicle subscription.
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Candy Crush Level 6252 Tips
- Clear all 81 jellies and reach 81,000 points to complete the level.
- You have only 23 Moves.
Level 6252 guide and cheats:
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The next time you visit www.tcomtraining.com, it might look a little different – the CANS-NY training website has moved to a new platform. The refreshed training website includes changes to navigation, appearance, and enhanced reporting abilities. We’ve also improved the structure of our content, to help you learn more effectively. There are a lot of smaller but dynamic changes, all to make your learning experience more effective.
For the first time logging in on the new platform (still accessed via www.tcomtraining.com):
- Username: email from LearnerNation
- Temporary Password: password
- You will then be prompted to reset your password after completing steps 1 and 2
- You will then be asked to select your agency.
- The naming convention is: Agency – ACS or Non-ACS Provider – Program. An example of this would be: Astor – Non-ACS NYC Provider – Health Homes.
- If you do not see your agency, please contact email@example.com
- Use the How-To Guide (viewable here) for accessing courses and becoming certified.
Once you’ve logged on and reset your password, you’ll need to select and enroll in New York’s Bundle to see your CANS-NY courses (see slides 5-6 of the How-To). A major change from the old platform to new platform: certification is now tied to completion of ALL steps in a course and not just to passing a final exam. So, for the FIRST time certifying on the new platform, you must:
- View the domain summary videos and review each section of the manual
- Take each domain’s summary practice quiz (a great time to test out your understanding of the content and get immediate feedback with the preferred rating’s rationale!)
- Take a practice test
- Take the certification exam
- After completing all the steps and passing your exam, retrieve your certificate (see page 21 of the How-To)
Another new feature of the new platform: you will no longer be locked out after unsuccessful attempts at a final exam. However, we will still be providing coaching and feedback. For CANS-NY users, this means access to certified regional coaches! Check out our Regional Coaches page for the current list of coaches and their contact information.
If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to:
- Lauren Schmidt at firstname.lastname@example.org
- The CANS-NY Institute at 1-833-802-2267, Dr. Suzanne Button, or Angela Pollard
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Flying the flag on Labor Day. (Photo: Deborah Kolb, via Shutterstock))
OPINION: We all could use a day off this Labor Day. The past six months have felt like six years, as Americans endure an intersection of crises that threaten our health, endanger our safety, injure our collective soul and tear at the very fabric of our democracy. We are all very tired.
A water pathway in California's Central Valley. (Photo: Straight 8 Photography)
OPINION: Many Californians know of the lead poisoning in the public water system in Detroit. Very few know of the contaminated water crisis impacting more than 1 million Californians. After years of trying to resolve the failure of the State of California to address this public health challenge, advocates have reached a historic negotiated agreement.
Students at a graduation ceremony at Santa Monica City College. (Photo: American Spirit, via Shutterstock)
In an effort to reassure thousands of worried young people, leaders of California’s enormous system of public and private higher education are setting it on a potential collision course with the incoming Trump administration. The California defiance has intensified and become more formalized since Donald Trump indicated he will appoint Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, an avowed hard-liner on immigration, as his attorney general.
A statue of Father Junipero Serra. (Photo: stjunipero.org)
OPINION: Father Junipero Serra was one of California’s first immigrants in 1769. Nearly 250 years later, Californians – whose state is now home to more than 10 million immigrants – watched closely as Pope Francis addressed a joint session of Congress the following day the canonization.
Voter Ben Rich casts his ballot at the Venice Beach lifeguard headquarters. (Photo: AP/Jae C. Hong)
Though the final chapter is still unwritten on Election 2014, we know this much: Republicans took advantage of a traditional dip in midterm turnout and some big spending in targeted races to pick up enough legislative seats to end Democrats’ supermajorities in both houses. The GOP picked off two Democratic Assembly incumbents – Steve Fox, D-Palmdale, and Sharon Quirk-Silva, D-Fullerton — and were headed to unseat a third – Freshman Assemblyman Al Marutsuchi, D-Torrance.
Saying California was “back” and “on the move,” a chipper Gov. Jerry Brown urged lawmakers in his annual State of the State speech to streamline funding for schools, focus on implementing federal health care reform and keep a tight rein on spending so the budget stays balanced.
The Democratic governor said Thursday that he
Promised Land Directed by Gus Van Sant
(Ed’s Note: Contains vague plot spoilers)
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So it 2022 Model is a financial and judge help guide to new ins and outs of the only real government system that can spend into the longterm nursing home care of your loved one: MEDICAID.
It�s tragic but genuine. A sudden fall . a coronary arrest . a coronary attack . an urgent issues . or the older parent’s frailty and you will impairment brought about by complex decades . results in financial destroy for you plus relatives. Medical household expenditures you will definitely broke all but the most wealthy household!
Any family’s property come in contact with medical household will set you back. The us government will afford the medical domestic statement for folks who are generally broke. Medicare simply safeguards you having all in all, a hundred weeks, when they cover you after all — and you can Social Safeguards won’t cover these costs either. Only Medicaid you certainly will protection you.
Medicaid Treasures 2022 Version – Author: Gabriel Heiser, J.D., Lawyer
I’ve seen it occurs many times with my customers who seek Medicaid advice. It just be sure to meet the requirements the old father or mother getting Medicaid — however up until just after they will have currently squandered numerous the parent’s lifestyle offers make payment on breastfeeding domestic on «personal pay» rates, or offered the household house as they thought they had zero options, convinced that government entities do push these to offer our home in any event.
There are ways to program the situations such that will allow you to construct good fortress out of safeguards doing your family’s assets and have Medicaid buy most, if not all, of breastfeeding family expenditures.
If you are a person who was facing reality away from an elderly mother otherwise friend heading on the a medical domestic — therefore must qualify for Medicaid instead first purchasing off your own parent’s lifetime coupons (otherwise your) paying the medical household really, otherwise heading bankrupt, then it the very first article you can easily actually understand.
In the next five full minutes, as you check this out in its totality, you will learn just how to learn treasures that may be considered your own more mature mother or father or relative getting nursing home Medicaid. I am going to also inform you an initial-of-its-type financial support one will set you back fewer than half of just one day of stay-in a nursing home — but may help you save plus members of the family several thousand dollars within the nursing family will cost you and permit one manage and you will manage your family members’ property.
I’m K. Gabriel Heiser, J.D., a legal professional concentrating on elder care and you can home thought. For the last 23 age, You will find assisted a huge selection of some body purchase breastfeeding home-care — and left him or her off supposed broke along the way. I’ve advised him or her on the best way to cover their houses and other nearest and dearest property out of devastating nursing household expenditures to enable them to has something you should pass on on their students, members of the family otherwise charitable establishments.
I’ve discovered a great many reasons for the new Medicaid system one scarcely individuals understands. As an example, did you know that you will find that wonders techniques that will twice the level of assets all your family members can protect — but really hardly any attorneys is also conscious of the way it operates?
There are many more demonstrated actions I understand, which are in comparison to any alternative attorneys and you can house think advisors could possibly get show. Within the more than 20 years of being «from the trenches» every day, I have satisfied most people who have found guidance out of smaller educated advisers — and who have repaid dearly as they were given crappy guidance.
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It pays to be careful in terms of federal apps eg Medicaid. I have seen some body check out jail or pay huge fees and penalties and you may punishment having performing illegal anything or becoming unwell-informed.
When you’re which may sound like jdate log in a good thing, look at the most other fifty% of nursing household owners whoever costs commonly reduced by the Medicaid. Why is one thus? Better, aside from the small group who happen to be also rich so you’re able to meet the requirements for Medicaid, you will find step three major reasons why medical domestic customers don�t has Medicaid coverage:
- they feel they must be poor, destitute, otherwise for the appeal so you can qualify for nursing house Medicaid — or wade broke paying for breastfeeding family can cost you very first prior to they will get Medicaid publicity;
- they usually have tried and you can failed to qualify for Medicaid; or
- they won’t understand how to go-about qualifying for Medicaid — otherwise believe that looking to qualify is too complicated to try.
I assure your that you don’t need to be poor, destitute otherwise broke in order to qualify for Medicaid coverage. I’m also able to direct you just how to be eligible for Medicaid even though you never consider you could potentially.
Regarding 23 age you to We have aided a huge selection of some one be considered getting Medicaid, the absolute most frequent comment I experienced from my customers are this:
«If only I got their recommendations sooner therefore i possess safe more of my personal property, and you may obtained the whole breastfeeding house prices taken care of from the Medicaid rather than just certain.»
I can not overemphasize the point that the sooner you will do their browsing qualify for Medicaid, the greater — also weeks or years before getting your own mother otherwise relative during the a nursing house, when possible. However, whatever the situation you’re in — and even if you’ve already begun buying medical home can cost you out of your own pouch (or their parent’s savings), it’s rarely far too late to guard and you can save your valuable family members’ possessions.
The fresh new Medicaid system is very state-of-the-art and generally difficult towards layperson to learn. Nonetheless, it isn’t hard to qualify for Medicaid — when you know precisely how-to go about it — incase you’ve got the correct legal direction.
For this reason I have amassed all of the Medicaid close-guarded strategies one to I have collected over 23 age towards the a primary-of-its-kind funding called Tips Include Your own Family members’ Possessions out of Devastating Nursing House Costs: Medicaid Treasures.
In this 256-web page compendium of Medicaid «to the guidance,» I explore most of the Medicaid regulations when you look at the higher detail, and have you how to use them to the state. I’ve incorporated of many situation knowledge, and then have customized it you might say that it could be realize and knew by laypersons.
This is actually the greatest degree you can find toward Medicaid program whilst relates to anybody residing a medical domestic — plus it even includes complex investment protection processes too.
It is the decisive help guide to nursing house Medicaid certification and ‘s the just capital that’s entirely upwards-to-go out. It gives every substantial changes brought about by this new government Shortage Reduction Act which was finalized towards legislation toward . You to definitely legislation changed many «statutes of the online game» — for instance the rules affecting qualification toward Medicaid system.
It is critical to keep in mind that the method and you may solution shown from inside the the publication are one hundred% courtroom — in place of a lot of the information you might get someplace else. It gives believe solutions that will enable one lead without making the types of transmits otherwise issues that can get you in big trouble down the road. | <urn:uuid:d06bc26b-53e4-4282-9c7b-c86536630bf4> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://capsa.com.do/2022/06/01/medicaid-treasures-2022-model-author-gabriel-2/ | 2023-09-27T12:02:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.952749 | 1,609 |
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The Wheel Of Fortune is your destiny card. Fate has rooted itself in your current position and is bringing with it financial fulfilment and fortune is coming your way. This moment in time was always meant to be. This is a YES card.
Upright Wheel Of Fortune – Yes or No?
The Wheel Of Fortune has the most interesting images depicted within its card. What draws me in is the spelling of ‘Taro’ and ‘Rota’ within the orange wheel itself, with taro being the old name for Tarot and Rota meaning wheel. The four elements (air, fire, water and earth) are drawn into the image as are the four animals in each corner, as if to guard the corners of our beautiful world.
The Wheel Of Fortune has revealed itself to you as a sign of destiny. It’s like everything you want is lining up for you to grab a hold of. These could be brand new opportunities or offers that you least expect, but whatever comes your way, expect a faster pace of life. Life is pointing you towards a fearless expedition that you would benefit from. A most likely YES here.
Wheel Of Fortune Reversed – Yes or No?
Sometimes we can spin our own wheel and everything misaligns. Things break, plans don’t go the way they ought to, or jobs may become difficult. Little warning for these types of events can throw us off balance and leave us feeling frazzled and fraught. This, in a nutshell, is what happens when you pull the Wheel Of Fortune in reverse.
This is also a major time to look at the cards around you in a reading, because there will lie how your struggle ends. What you know, is that things are not going the way they should, and how to fix that, circles it. You initially need to grab that wheel, now spinning uncontrollably, and take charge. Put your hands on your own fate, and guide yourself into a calmer light. I offer a MAYBE here, with the rest of your reading to play for.
Wheel Of Fortune Meaning for Love – Yes or No?
The Wheel Of Fortune is all about fate. In a love context fate can be described as karma. What challenges have you faces in your house of love lately? If there are none, then all the better. If you have been dealt a blow, be sure to know that soon things will reach boiling point. If you have been true to your soul, then expect great adventure and good fortune.
The type of energy you wish to receive is only going to come to you if you give it out in the first place. We all know that we treat each other how we ourselves wish to be treated, and for this card that is exactly the case. Be loving, and love will come right for you. A YES is probable here, but is encouraged if surround by cards such as the Two of Cups.
Wheel Of Fortune Love Reversed – Yes or No?
With the Wheel Of Fortune in reverse, it is hard to see a meaningful light shining from this situation. It is most likely going to end in ways where if you are unhappy, will please you. If however you are in a loving relationship, be prepared for a potential spanner in the works. Sometimes, things happen which are fully out of out control, but the hope lies in how we respond. This not the time to expect things to go your way, so you are going to have to make peace with that. A NO is most likely here I am afraid.
Wheel Of Fortune Meaning For Advice – Yes or No?
Life for you at the moment is like a huge 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle that all fits together perfectly without a single piece out of place or missing. These pieces together form a beautiful picture to be admired, and what luck to finish it with such patience. You are there, you have excelled lately in personal development and wise decisions and the time has come where you should be taking chances and making things happen. If you do, you will be the recipient of fantastic karma as you reap your rewards. I predict a huge and very likely YES here, although try to focus these goals mainly around the manifestation of a new moon.
Wheel Of Fortune Meaning For Advice Reversed – Yes or No?
Put the plans down, put your credit card away, stop looking for new jobs and please, I beg you, if you think what you are doing is a good idea, you are in for a likely shock. The Wheel Of Fortune in reverse is perceived by many including myself, as the ‘bad luck’ card. You are walking on a path towards missed appointments, or late showings as you try to sidestep them, another will appear. It is a little like Mercury being in retrograde: absolutely nothing is likely to go right during this time, so if you can, please avoid any huge decisions and hold out for a better and more stable period of your life. A likely NO.
Wheel Of Fortune Marriage – Yes or No?
I feel as if this marriage were fated. You both met, and immediately the outcome was clear; marriage was your path and forever more. You need to know this most certainly because we all have times where we can love somebody so much, that it’s almost scary to imagine a life without them in it loving you back. I am here to assure you that this is highly unlikely to happen because your soul holds you just as dear and for marriage, there is a strong chance you are going to have your happy ending. A probable YES is written in the stars for you.
Wheel Of Fortune Health – Yes or No?
What is it about a wheel that you notice? For me, I see it representative of a cycle, with constant beginnings and ends. When life is hard, it is there to remind you that it won’t be that way forever and when life is great and all things are rosy, it reminds me that there are bound to be stumbling blocks along the way. With regards to your health, dear soul, this is where you fall. Do not take one extreme over the other when it comes to your well being, life is all about finding a balance and doing what makes you happy. We all need downtime, and we all need moments where we get up and show up. Find your happy medium for the best health outcome possible. A likely YES here, just live accordingly and not extremely.
Wheel Of Fortune Interpretation In A Practical Reading – Yes or No?
I love how the Wheel Of Fortune grounds us and reminds us to look at he bigger picture sometimes. Here are some popular questions I get asked when this card reveals itself.
“I feel like I am hitting one hurdle after another and falling each time. Will my life become easier soon?”
These slower, more seemingly punishing moments in life where nothing goes our way can be so frustrating, can’t they? What energy are you giving out? I sense you may be starting these projects or goals with a slightly negative energy of, ‘Well I don’t seem to have much luck lately so here goes another attempt.’ I understand life can be an uphill climb sometimes but if you turn your approach around, you might find that your luck turns with it. I firmly believe we are in control of how we respond to these challenges.
“I want to study to become a teacher. Will I manage financially?”
You seem to be a person who has a sensible approach towards anything she tries. You know the risks involved and you like to weigh up your options before you jump head first into areas of life that are new. Being a student doesn’t mean having to drop all income entirely. There are part time options and grants available to help you through this major ad impressive decision. You want to ensure that you can study with ease as well as live a life that doesn’t keep you awake at night worrying how your next bill will be paid. Time to get list writing and looking at your bank account – if it seems likely that you can manage, then go ahead!
“I need to really start taking care of my mental health. What are ways to do this that suit me?”
The four elements on this card are there to show us what we need to bring the table when it matters. Sometimes we need a little fire, to get us going. Other times we need air to give us that space we need. For you, it is important to think about earth and water. Water is a connection to our emotions and the earth is there for us to charge ourselves. Walk freely amongst nature and all its wonder. I feel drawn to this aspect of the card and wish to guide you to the outdoors for fresh and fruitful thinking time.
Majesty of the Rivers and Mists
I am Lady Avalon of The Night
A blessed being in disguise
My hair flows freely in the breeze
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If you are interested in contributing to our Steering Group we’re holding an open meeting on Friday 25 October at 1-2pm in the National Museum of Wales.
We’ll introduce briefly our current local priorities and City of Sanctuary principles, but the time will mainly involve informal discussion of issues you’d like to raise and how you’d like to be involved in future.
Location: Dylan Thomas room, National Museum of Wales, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NP. Enter via the Porter’s Lodge round the back of the Museum (down a ramp/stairs from Museum Avenue).
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If you or your loved-one is no longer comfortable living alone and would like someone to stay with them 24/7, we are ready to step in. Based on our assessment of your needs, we’ll hand-pick caregivers and medical professionals to take care of all your needs around the clock. This may include a combination of the following coverage depending on your needs:
Multiple Shifts: A combination of staffing shifts ranging from three eight-hour shifts per day to any other variation to ensure qualified staff are on hand to care for you.
Live-In Service: One staff member (HCA or nurse depending on your needs) present in your home for 20 hours per day available to assist and provide care for up to 10 hour per day. Your caregiver will sleep and eat at your home (requires a private bedroom in your home). BC Live-In labour standards and regulations require that a live-in caregiver have four consecutive hours free in every 24 hours of work. To provide full 24-hour coverage, we can supplement our Live-In Service care with four-hours of service from a second caregiver. | <urn:uuid:73ec3f4f-268d-4984-81b7-a5716a4302e3> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://careathomeservices.ca/ar/frequently-asked-questions-arabic/ | 2023-09-27T12:08:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.948441 | 229 |
11333 About our client
We are working with an exciting and innovative VC investor operating in the software, SaaS, and data & technology infrastructure space. The firm is looking for an Investor Relations Director to work across the business, coordinating the investor relations and capital formation activities of the firm. The role calls for someone who can lead the investor outreach and engagement activities and help professionalise and scale the investor relationship building.
The firm is looking for an experienced professional to work in the London office with the same level of energy and dynamism as the team. What the job involves
Who we are looking for
- Play a key role in organising the firm's fundraising activities including the organisation of investor roadshows and due diligence sessions
- Reach out to potential LPs and secure meetings with them, helping to grow the LP network
- Assist in the creation of documents related to launching a new fund
- Manage the process of responding to LP data inquiries/information requests, coordinating with various internal constituencies including investment teams, finance, legal and compliance
- Own and manage the investor due diligence process
- Build a strategically designed and flawlessly executed experience across every touchpoint for the firm's Limited Partners
- Coordinate the firm's quarterly and annual LP events, including drafting key messages/materials and overseeing event-related details (live and virtual) to enable takeaways, connections, and networking opportunities
- Connect and facilitate co-investment activities and also lead engagement with the firm's investor and advisory network
- Collect market intelligence and perform ongoing research of the venture capital industry, including industry best practices and relevant venture market data
- Leverage data to enable practical insights of the portfolio and the industry
- Develop strong fluency with the firm's portfolio company information database and be able to analyse data from the system to draw insights
- You have a sense of urgency, desire to find and close deals (a hunter), you are excellent in project management, and execution is your top priority.
- You are a strong team player
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We’re recruiting 100 Immigration Officers to work in our National Asylum Intake Unit (NAIU) in Kent.
The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports. Asylum & Human Rights Operations is a major operational arm of the Home Office, and we play a vital role in supporting the economy and cultural life of the UK.
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The National Asylum Intake Unit is made up of over 800 officers and it registers around 80 per cent of asylum claims nationally, the remainder being registered through Immigration Enforcement and Border Force.
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We are recruiting Immigration Officers to join our Kent Intake Unit and Manston Initial Processing and Triage Centre.
Kent Intake Unit
The Kent Intake Unit is based at Dover, and we will be opening a new site in Folkestone. The Intake Unit primarily deals with new arrivals detected either near the port, in the surrounding Kent area and small boat arrivals, with a particular focus on processing unaccompanied children. The work involves the identification of those children and working closely with Kent Children’s Services to ensure they are processed and placed into appropriate care as quickly as possible.
Manston Initial Processing and Triage Centre
Manston (near Ramsgate) is a new Home Office location with a focus on ‘small boat’ arrivals. The Initial Processing and Triage Centre is focussed on adults and families arriving via small boats across the English Channel.
Please note successful candidates posted to either team will be required to wear uniform during every shift.
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We offer competitive starting salaries, along with a Civil Service Pension with employer contribution rates of at least 26.6 per cent, and a range of other brilliant benefits including 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service.
You will also have access to learning and development tailored to your role, an environment with flexible working options and a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
More about the roles
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- £25,750 – £27,650
Plus allowances currently averaging 45.67%. The Annualised Hours Allowance is to compensate for working shift patterns which can include night shifts, early morning starts, late night finishes, as well as weekend and public holidays. This allowance is subject to regular review.
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- Will be robust at enforcing UK immigration law whilst maintaining professionalism and sensitivity
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- Communicating clearly with enthusiasm, treating others with respect, compassion and valuing inclusion and diversity
- Ability to make effective and difficult decisions under pressure, applying legislation and policy guidance correctly to ensure compliance
- The ability to confidently work closely with a range of internal and external partners to achieve a shared goal
- Be prepared to complete Personal Safety Training to the required level
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We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
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- Working Together
You will submit your application through the online civil service recruitment portal: Civil Service Jobs.
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You will be asked to complete a personal statement of no more than 500 words explaining concisely how your skills and experience meet the key responsibilities and essential criteria outlined in this advert.
The sift will be conducted against the personal statement only.
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The closing date for applications is 23:55 on 31st July, 2023.
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Break out the fireworks for the northwest’s independent state of mind.
THIS SPRING, Adidas unveiled a nationwide TV spot selling a spiffy new device that allows soccer players to track how far and how fast they run. Between shots of players in soulful pregame mode, jump cuts bring a spine-tingling vision to the screen: a flag slowly waving in murky light, its blue, white, and green stripes united by the black silhouette of a Douglas fir.
“Revolutions,” a narrator growls, “are born from simple ideas.”
The “Doug Flag,” as it’s known, is real (at least for a small subculture), and it waves for Cascadia, a proposed nation combining Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, even distant reaches of Idaho and Montana. Political dreamers, environmentalists with a poetic bent, and tongue-in-cheek commentators have touted this concept for years. Portland artist Alexander Baretich designed the banner back in 1995; a satirical “Republic of Cascadia” website went up in 1998, promising to “liberate our nation from … Amero-Canadian despots!” On a less jocular note, the Cascadia Green Building Council has linked sustainable architecture and construction industries across the “bioregion” since 1999.
The idea seems whimsical, certainly—especially given some advocates’ declaration of a “Cascadia Summer” replete with events organized by the Rainbow Family and Earth First. On the other hand, with the US hurtling into another divisive election year, maybe Portlanders can find solace in this backyard shadow-state. As the hot dogs char on the barbecue this Fourth of July, savor the fact that, in 1813, Thomas Jefferson wrote to Astoria’s founder that the new Pacific settlement would be “the germ of a great, free, and independent empire.” Cascadia!
Lately, the Cascadian dream appears to be fermenting. Time magazine recently hailed Cascadia—alongside Tibet, Scotland, and the Basque Country of Spain and France—as one of the world’s “Top 10 Aspiring Nations.” The tricolor that waves in a multinational sports company’s ad has also boldly risen at Occupy protests. This spring, thousands of fans circulated among Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver as the three cities’ soccer teams battled for the Cascadia Cup. That other local “country,” Beervana, even dubs a microbrew style “Cascadian dark ale.”
“Cascadia is happening now, person by person. It’s like a virus in the system.” — Alexander Baretich
Our proposed homeland looks good on paper: this 500,000-square-mile chunk of resource-rich country, stretching from sea to Rockies and from the Yukon to northern California, would have 15 million people, making it the world’s 20th-most-populous nation. International dynamos like Intel, Amazon, Nike, Microsoft, and Boeing would pump $675 billion into Cascadia’s GDP, creating an economy bigger than that of prosperous Switzerland.
In the 1970s, environmental scientists began to see the region as a distinct geological area, with its own biological and environmental signature. Ernest Callenbach’s 1975 sci-fi novel Ecotopia portrayed a sovereign haven of free love and groovy alternative medicine (and, on a less groovy note, separate city-states for African Americans). Over the past 40 years, political groups of all stripes—from gay activists to white nationalists—have espoused different visions of a breakaway Northwest.
What defines this fantasy realm? Geologists say plate tectonics and common watersheds. Economists say high-tech industry and natural resources. Progressives say medical marijuana and gay marriage. “Everyone projects their own desires onto Cascadia,” says David McCloskey, the Eugene-based sociologist who was the first to use “Cascadia” in its modern sense back in the ’70s. “It’s become a brand. You can buy a Cascadian sink and toilet—with eco-flush.”
For a “nation” with only one large military base, even fewer military aspirations, and no Rick Perry–like political figures musing about going it alone, Cascadia seems destined to remain a dreamland, albeit a handsome one. “Seventy percent of the population lives within view of a white-coned peak,” notes McCloskey. “Cascadia is not just an idea. It’s a place, and it generates an experience we love.”
Yet culturally, Cascadia’s ragtag forces are on the march. The soccer rivalry has minted flags, stickers, and arm patches. Cascadia Matters, a group of artists in Bend, is producing a documentary to emphasize the region’s environmental unity. Cascadia Now, a Seattle-based outfit that began in 2005, organizes groups in Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, BC, to work for “integration and increased autonomy.” (“We stay away from the word ‘secession,’” says Brandon Letsinger, a cofounder. “We use ‘community independence.’”)
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Reading the Region: Aggressive Regionalism (A History)
For the great majority of people in the Pacific Northwest during the nineteenth century, the basic cultural impulse was to imitate what were perceived to be eastern ways. That is, writers, educators, artists, and other cultural leaders tended to take their cues from recognized individuals and achievements in the northeastern states. After all, most residents of the region had emigrated from back East and assumed that their task was to transplant the culture they had left behind to the new territory. Yet there was a handful of Northwesterners, such as Abigail Scott Duniway, who saw things differently. Their idea was that the social and physical environment of the region offered a chance for new kinds of political and cultural forms. Partly they felt that the Pacific Northwest need not feel constrained by what had been done elsewhere; partly they perceived that a place’s distinctive conditions ought to be capable of generating distinctive expression. Author Needed
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For the great majority of people in the Pacific Northwest during the nineteenth century, the basic cultural impulse was to imitate what were perceived to be eastern ways. That is, writers, educators, artists, and other cultural leaders tended to take their cues from recognized individuals and achievements in the northeastern states. After all, most residents of the region had emigrated from back East and assumed that their task was to transplant the culture they had left behind to the new territory. Yet there was a handful of Northwesterners, such as Abigail Scott Duniway, who saw things differently. Their idea was that the social and physical environment of the region offered a chance for new kinds of political and cultural forms. Partly they felt that the Pacific Northwest need not feel constrained by what had been done elsewhere; partly they perceived that a place’s distinctive conditions ought to be capable of generating distinctive expression.
Thus at a ground-breaking ceremony on a new Seattle campus for the University of Washington in 1894, the president of the alumni association, Adell M. Parker, urged that the expanding institution devote itself to striving to build a new regional culture:
That the West should unfalteringly follow the East in fashions and ideals would be as false and fatal as that America should obey the standards of Europe. Let the West, daring and unprejudiced, discover its own ideals and follow them. The American standard in literature and philosophy has long been fixed by the remote East. Something wild and free, something robust and full will come out of the West and be recognized in the final American type. Under the shadow of those great mountains a distinct personality shall arise, it shall adopt other fashions, create new ideals, and generations shall justify them (“With Due Formality” 1894).
In the nineteenth century, it is doubtful whether most Northwesterners felt confident that their region could live up to Parker’s prediction. Over the course of the twentieth century, however, more people came to support the notion that the Pacific Northwest was in fact capable of generating distinctive cultural achievements. Indeed, for some the pursuit of regional culture became so aggressive that it turned into a kind of Northwest chauvinism. The publication in 1927 of Status Rerum by James Stevens and H. L. Davis stood out as one of the early peaks of this assertiveness in the course of the twentieth century. The co-authors were certain that the region could produce—indeed should produce—its own distinctive literature. Yet Stevens and Davis also seemed embarrassed that the Northwest had so far generated so little good literature to speak of. Thus their regionalism combined assertiveness with feelings of inadequacy.
With Status Rerum, Stevens and Davis raised the matter of literary quality. Could the Pacific Northwest produce not just regional writings but a regionally distinctive belles-lettres that would earn the respect of eastern cultural authorities? The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th edition) defines “belles-lettres” as “literature regarded for its aesthetic value rather than its didactic or informative content.” The great majority of non-Native writing about the region prior to Status Rerum—by explorers, pioneers, and boosters, for instance—had in fact been didactic or informational rather than aesthetic in orientation. Status Rerum condemned commercially motivated writing as well. Stevens and Davis asked whether Northwest authors were capable of meeting higher artistic standards. In short, they demanded not just regional writing but regional literature, i.e., poetry, fiction, and non-fiction that proved aesthetically satisfying. They conceded that the Northwest had generated a very small amount of such work, but it had been “lost in the general and seemingly interminable avalanche of tripe.” In sum, Stevens and Davis brought concerted attention—perhaps for the first time—to the matter of whether a distinct body of aesthetically pleasing Northwest writing existed, or could exist.
Although almost all scholars of regional writing regard the publication of Status Rerum as a turning point in how Northwestern writers viewed themselves and their work, and while the manifesto provoked considerable retrospective discussion of the matter of a regional literature by calling attention to its poverty, it is not clear how much contemporary influence the diatribe itself possessed. Two things are apparent, however. First, Stevens and Davis themselves were key figures in the emergence of a Northwest literature, not only by creating such a furor about the subject but also through their extensive contributions to regional writing. Second, Status Rerum surely criticized conditions in the region, but perhaps the more important characteristic is how much the manifesto reflected a particular time and place—the Northwest of the 1920s. Yearning for improvement in regional literature, Stevens and Davis echoed a broader-based sense that, first, the Pacific Northwest remained a backward part of the United States, indeed a colony, and second, backward as it was, the region was on the verge of asserting a distinctive identity. Writings by Stevens, Davis, and others between 1920 and 1945 helped the Northwest begin to overcome its reputation as a laggard part of the country. Much more important than literature to the region’s emergence, of course, was a host of other events on a national and international scale. By the end of World War Two conditions were in place for both the Northwest as a whole as well as its literary scene—a considerably more diverse milieu than Status Rerum allowed—to start moving beyond their colonial status.
James Stevens and H. L. Davis may best be seen as transitional figures who both advanced the cause of literary development and reflected the region’s limitations. Stevens and Davis were very good writers themselves—likely the best native-born authors of fiction and poetry that the region had yet seen. (Ezra Pound was born in Idaho in 1885, but the Northwest barely got a glimpse of him before he left the region, then the country.) Davis’s poetry won the Helen Haire Levinson Prize in 1919, and his novel Honey in the Horn (1935) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1936. His poem “The Rain Crow” captured the natural world of the Northwest in ways that early writers—including those attacked in Status Rerum—simply had not been able to match. Much of James Stevens’s fiction became popular; in particular, his recasting of the Paul Bunyan legends helped to create lasting impressions of the Northwest world of timber. Both men published in eastern magazines and received encouragement and validation from such luminaries as Carl Sandburg and H. L. Mencken. Their work suggested that in certain regards the Northwest was on the verge of arriving on the national scene.
Yet in some ways, one may speculate, the literary horizons of these two men were foreshortened by their regional identification. Their anxiety about the Northwest in the wider literary worlds bespoke a kind of insecurity about place—about the two men’s place in the world of literature, and about the status of the Northwest in relation to other cultural regions. Glen Love comments that these authors conveyed an “aggressive regionalism” (Love 1993: xviii-xix). As a result, while Stevens and Davis may well have been more “at home” in the Northwest than most of their predecessors, they appear to have been so self-conscious about expressing a regional vision that they lost sight of universal themes that would have given their writings broader and more lasting appeal. For instance, Honey in the Horn is an impressive achievement, but the fact that later generations have found it so hard to enjoy validates the quip that its plot reads like a road map of Oregon. Harold Simonson (1980:148) puts the matter differently, saying that writings by Stevens and Davis “emphasize the adjective in the term ‘regional literature,’ whereas” in subsequent work “the accent falls upon the noun.” Still another measure of the limitations of the regionalism of Davis and Stevens is the extent to which, in making their call for an authentic regional literary voice, the two actually imitated fairly closely the style of H. L. Mencken and regarded him almost as their patron (Love 1986:331-35). The two authors attacked less talented writers for their slavish dependence on eastern forms, but their own subservience to Mencken suggests that they were not themselves fully liberated from the grasp of the East. Even their outburst in Status Rerum, as William Bevis (1990:xii) reminds us, reflected the deference of Stevens and Davis to the East: “Unfortunately, rebellion, like imitation, keeps you subservient to someone else; their expectations are defining your behavior, whether through imitation or reaction.” Love (1986:330-31) even suggests that one of Status Rerum’s implications was that only cosmopolitan Easterners could appreciate authentic Northwest literature.
While some aggressive regionalists felt that they would not be understood within the Northwest, another common complaint—and additional evidence of sectional insecurity—was that the eastern establishment was responsible for the Northwest’s literary problems. Because the Northeast was the headquarters for publishing, it seemed natural for some Westerners to attribute their failures to the prejudices and ignorance of eastern editors. In 1966 the Idahoan writer Vardis Fisher took this argument to an extreme when he argued that “the emotionally immature, intellectually sterile, and morally bankrupt literary establishment in the Northeast” was set on “burying” western American literature. Moreover, he felt that a chasm existed between the “country” minds of the West and the “city minds” of New York: “Those people back there, choking on their poisons, bathing in stinking water, and listening day and night to the infernal din of what Wolfe called their ant-swarms, can no more be expected to like our country and our books about it than I, to speak only for myself, can like the proliferating lunacies of their cities, the robotized togetherness of their feverish lives, and their dull, inbred, and overpraised books” (Fisher 1966:244-45,252-53). (For another, considerably more elegant, outburst of insecurity vis-à-vis the East, see Richard Hugo’s “Overlooking Yale.”) In Fisher, as in Stevens and Davis, one can see how regionalism sometimes gave way to provincialism. But whereas Fisher blamed the East for the region’s literary troubles, Stevens and Davis blamed the region itself.
While Stevens and Davis offered the splashiest and sharpest criticism of Northwest writers, other contemporary publications shared their aspiration to raise the level of regional work. Status Rerum absolutely lambasted The Lariat: A Monthly Roundup of Western Discussion and Criticism Devoted to Higher Standards of Literature on Broad Cultural Lines of Expression, a literary magazine founded by a “Col. E. Hofer” in Oregon in 1923, yet Ernest Hofer also assumed a kind of aggressive regionalism with his editing. In a flier issued to recruit subscriptions, he asked, in words that echoed Adell M. Parker’s comments, “Are we to be mere shadows and reflections of Europe and the Eastern half of our country, or are we capable of striking out on new and higher lines and of demonstrating healthy Western individuality?” Hofer declared that The Lariat “stands for western qualities [and] stands for a new school of writers who have outgrown eastern dictation and commercialized standards.” Besides promoting a regional voice, Hofer denounced the influence of modernism on writing. In part because he favored poets who clung to Victorian aesthetic and moral standards, later readers have—with good cause—regarded the majority of the contributors to The Lariat as third-rate at best. Yet over its six-year life the magazine did help to promote a regional voice and published many Northwest poets (including a small number of respectable ones) for the first time (Swensen 1998: 16-17, 19).
On a different aesthetic level, The Frontier: A Magazine of the Northwest, a literary journal published by the University of Montana, represented another self-conscious effort to encourage regional writing. For its first seven years The Frontier served college students, but in November 1927 the editor, Harold G. (H. G.) Merriam, a literature professor at the University, refocused the journal to reach a wider audience, attract more authors, and serve a more explicitly regional mission. In an editorial called “Endlessly the Covered Wagon,” Merriam explained the new purpose of The Frontier:
The Northwest is industrially alive and agriculturally alive; it needs to show itself spiritually alive. Culturally it has too long either turned for nourishment toward the East or accepted uncourageous, unindigenous “literary” expression of writers too spiritually imitative and too uninspired. We in this territory need to realize that literature, and all art, is, if it is worth anything at all, sincere expression of real life. And the roots for literature among us should be in our own rocky ground, not Greenwich Village dirt or Mid-west loam or European mold or, least of all, in the hothouse sifted, fertilized soil of anywhere. Out of our soil we grow, and out of our soil should come expression of ourselves . . . (Merriam 1927:1).
Using politer language, Merriam said the same thing, in the same year, that Stevens and Davis were saying in Status Rerum. And whereas Col. Hofer had aimed to commemorate the old West of cowboys and pioneers by naming his monthly The Lariat, the title of Merriam’s editorial—“Endlessly the Covered Wagon”—suggested that he did not wish to devote The Frontier to the same dated regional myths.
H. G. Merriam wanted The Frontier to create a stronger sense of common regional identity. His 1927 editorial spoke of the region “from Colorado to Washington” as the journal’s place, and later he recalled trying to unify a more constricted region: “I was conscious of the necessity…of getting the Pacific Northwest states…to realize their common culture. When teaching at Reed College, I was well aware of the competition between Oregon and Washington, between Portland and Seattle, and when I came to Montana, between Idaho and Montana. It seemed as if the region had no sense of being a unit. If possible I hoped that The Frontier might help to establish some such unity in literary matters” (Merriam 1964:3). Merriam, Stevens, and Davis may have been certain that a “Northwest literature” was emerging, but they were not convinced that residents of Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington viewed themselves as belonging to a place that transcended specific states.
During the 1920s, Merriam and Hofer, Stevens and Davis all sensed that the Northwest needed to recognize and expand upon a distinctive, distinguished, regional literature. Although they had reason to feel that they belonged to a small minority, they might have taken encouragement from cultural stirrings throughout the region. For instance, in his literary memoir Oregon poet Howard McKinley Corning recalled that at the time Status Rerum appeared, while most Northwest authors wrote for financial rather than aesthetic reasons, the “ferment” of cultural awakening “was even then underway and some of us were in the midst of it….A handful of us were placing poems in The Nation, the New Republic, the Saturday Review, and Books of the New York Herald Tribune” (Corning 1972:302-303, 311). As another example, in How I Grew (1986) Mary McCarthy, recollecting coming of age in Seattle during the 1920s, offered the cultural historian Vernon Parrington, the young artists Mark Tobey and Kenneth Callahan, the dramatists Burton and Florence James, the faculty of the Cornish School, and a sort of bohemia atop Queen Anne Hill as evidence of the region’s increasing cultural achievement. While the modernism and politics of such figures would hardly have pleased Col. Hofer, their presence in Seattle, and their eventual fame, did suggest the region’s increasing linkages to a vibrant national culture. Of course, the fact that McCarthy herself and many others felt that they had to go east to make their mark on that culture indicates the predicament of Northwest arts and literature in the period.
In grouping Hofer and Merriam, Stevens and Davis together as “aggressive regionalists,” one needs to be careful to point out the differences between them. Unlike the others, Merriam taught at the region’s colleges, and as editor of The Frontier he solicited material from university students. By contrast with Merriam and Hofer, Stevens and Davis injected a strong class dimension into their thinking in Status Rerum. Love (1993:xix) explains that Stevens and Davis attacked both “the genteel tradition” and what was perceived as “the increasing over-refinement of Northwest literature.” They located authenticity instead in the experiences of those who labored in extractive industry—in logging, farming, ranching, fishing, and so on. They also vilified the urban dandies who taught creative writing at universities and attended poetry clubs. Merriam talked about the Northwest’s “own rocky ground”; Davis and Stevens seemed to believe that authentic regional literature could only arise from those who had dirtied their hands in the region’s soils and waters. Their regionalist sentiment marked the rise of a kind of environmental determinism that later scholars refined. According to this interpretation, authentic regional content came from “soaking” up the natural surroundings (Bingham 1983:163, 168).
As an explanation of how people became “Northwest” writers, this account holds two traits as essential to regional identity. One is direct exposure to the natural setting; the other is a sustained amount of time in place. For native-born authors, the formula presents no apparent real problem. But it leaves little room for newcomers or for people who worked, for example, in the urban indoors rather than in the rural outdoors. As will be discussed in the next section, it cannot explain how recently arrived university professors such as Theodore Roethke and David Wagoner became vital Northwestern writers so quickly in the years after 1945. Moreover, the notion that an author “absorbs” his or her environs like a sponge, and then squeezes them out as ink on to paper, surely masks as much as it reveals about the creative process. Such an explanation of regionalism tends to overlook complexities in the influence of place. Yet it is true that, by focusing more closely on writers’ relationship with environs, people such as Stevens and Davis and Merriam succeeded at bringing greater realism to regional writing, and at undermining the romance that characterized earlier efforts.
“Aggressive regionalists” such as Stevens and Davis correctly saw themselves as less sentimental about place. But their efforts to identify a distinct brand of Northwest writing made them somewhat chauvinistic about the region, and in that respect they did not differ sharply from a wide range of promoters, including Col. E. Hofer. Both regionalist writers and certain types of boosters championed the Northwest as an exceptional or special place—one worthy not only of having its own literature but also of receiving greater favor within the national economy and among migrants around the country. Roughly contemporaneous with Status Rerum, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce in 1924 published In the Zone of Filtered Sunshine, a booster tract that explained in quite racialist terms just why the Northwest was destined to prevail over California and other, warmer sections of the United States. Once again, the regional environment was evoked as a source of distinction. Indeed, it supposedly set Northwest society not only apart from, but also above, the national average. All too easily, regionalism became exceptionalism. The Northwest might be a colony in economic and political terms, but in other respects it seemed to many inhabitants a kind of God’s country. This theme of a promised land, like the related theme of loss that was detectable early on in the literature of discovery, runs through much writing about the Northwest.
While many Northwesterners before World War Two expressed confidence about the region’s prospects, a greater preoccupation was the region’s relative lack of development. Boosters spoke about the region as a promised land in order to attract immigrants and investors who would help it overcome its backward economic and political status within North America. In a parallel fashion, the focus of Stevens and Davis and Merriam on the limitations of regional literature reiterated for the realm of culture that the Northwest remained a colony of the rest of the United States, that its development was retarded compared to the rest of the nation. This self-image was an important concern for much of the period 1890-1945—but of course it was also a consequence of the very thing Northwesterners had sought so earnestly from the East. Large-scale investment from San Francisco or back East, in the form of railroads and capitalization of extractive industry, had cemented the Northwest’s subservient status within the national economy. The region skimped by, producing and exporting raw materials, while other parts of the country flourished, comparatively speaking, on the basis of more manufacturing and by selling relatively expensive finished products to the Northwest. The region was also colonial in political terms. It enjoyed less clout in the national capital than did other parts of the Union, and therefore was generally unable to get assistance from Uncle Sam for projects that might help liberate it from the grasp of distant powers.
Yet, between 1890 and 1945, while complaining all the while of its backward status, the Northwest found ways to reduce its political and economic and literary subservience. One method was to do to other places what San Francisco and the East had done for so long to the Northwest—colonize them as extractive hinterlands. The advent of a transcontinental railroad in Seattle in 1893 put it in a position to compete effectively for the trade generated by the gold rushes to the Klondike and Alaska between 1896 and 1900. These events enabled one portion of the Northwest to become more a metropolis in its own right and less the hinterland of distant capital. By hosting a world’s fair in 1909 called the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle announced its urban maturity as well as its commercial capture of Alaska. The city’s cultural attainments hardly lived up to the rhetoric of the international exposition, but at least its sights had been lifted.
Many in the Northwest believed that heightened development of the region’s rivers offered another way to liberate the region from its economic straitjacket. Local and state interests began advocating for a system of dams and irrigation in the Columbia Basin in the 1910s and continued their campaign during the 1920s, but without outside support the Northwest did not have the resources to implement a sizeable plan. With prodding from the region’s U.S. Senators and Representatives, however, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Dealers launched federal programs during the Great Depression of the 1930s to build enormous dams and related public works along the Columbia River and to encourage regional planning for the multi-state area (Dietrich 1995; Ficken 1995; Pitzer 1994; White 1995). The resulting projects, of epic proportions, transformed the Northwest profoundly. Charles F. Thomas, a member of the engineering staff at Grand Coulee Dam, tried to memorialize the changes in a poem called “Transmutation: Grand Coulee Dam and the Columbia River Basin”:
What fierce unrest, what inner, seething urge
Has torn the earth in Nature’s changing plan?
Bright lands are raised above the ocean’s surge
Or slowly to sink from sight in Time’s long span.
In cataclysmic fury lavas sweep
In molten blankets over lake and sand.
Chill glaciers form in frigid mass and creep
To cool and build anew a fertile land.
Cold rivers rush from high peaks crowned with snow,
Returning to the seas from whence they came.
Great mountains grind to dust and prairies grow
For tree and vine; new Edens to reframe.
Weak humans in their hurried days of life,
Strive not to conquer Nature but to calm
Her raging moods. To use her vagrant strife
For good. Perhaps to earn some vict’ry palm.
Man leads wild waters peacefully to fields
Athirst; to flower, fruit and growing grain.
Rules so to gain the bounty good earth yields
to those who toil within their small demesne.
Rich is the man; proud may he be who dreams
And from his dreams sees empires rise. Today
Sees deserts waste; tomorrow brightly gleams
The order brought from earth’s strange disarray.
Much more famous were the songs written by Woody Guthrie, who the federal government hired in 1941 to dramatize the Columbia Basin Project and give voice to its futuristic and populist ambitions for the Northwest (Dick 1989).
That the U.S. government hired a left-leaning folksinger to promote the dams and the changes they brought to the region indicated just how much of a new day was afoot. Through investing, planning, publicizing, and other actions, federal agencies helped the Northwest overcome its economic and political backwardness. In some ways one might conclude that Uncle Sam had become a new colonial master—albeit a kinder and gentler one. In certain respects, that is, the New Deal agencies followed the example of railroad companies, acting as outside entities that exerted great power over relatively underpopulated and underdeveloped states. Like the railroads, for instance, New Deal planners insisted on the region thinking of itself more as a unit, and less as individual towns and states. Yet federal ties strengthened the region’s economic and political standing and tightened its connections to other places. The creation of the Bonneville Power Administration (B.P.A.), chartered to market hydroelectricity generated by the dams on the Columbia, made the Pacific Northwest as concrete an entity as possible in the modern world by giving the region special bureaucratic standing. Called into existence only to serve the Pacific Northwest, the B.P.A. hired Guthrie, promoted the dams, and further unified the Northwest by building a region-wide power grid. In many ways, the B.P.A. and the dams gave the region more prominence and coherence than ever before, and in so doing accomplished some of the very things that Hofer, Merriam, Stevens and Davis, had set out to do (White 1995: 64-65, 71, 75; Findlay 1997:55-56).
By the end of the 1930s, two major dams (Bonneville and Grand Coulee) had been completed on the Columbia River and begun to generate hydroelectric power. Yet in 1940 there was almost no demand for the kilowatts that they generated. Then the United States entered World War Two, and suddenly the demand for Northwest power skyrocketed. In light of global conflict, the harnessing of the Columbia River took on new meaning (Ficken 1995; Ficken 1998). The contributions by the region to the nation’s mobilization for World War Two and the Cold War served as another means by which the region was able to overcome its colonial status. Both wars ushered in huge federal investments in the regional economy, investments that supported modern manufacturing (of airplanes, nuclear weapons, aluminum, ships) and services, so that the region’s economy became considerably less dependent on extractive industry than before.
The modernizing and militarizing impact of federal defense spending, over the long term, was not distributed equally around the Northwest. Washington acquired far more than its share of military bases and defense-related industry, compared to Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, a fact that affected that state’s population, environment, economy, and politics in profound ways. The post-1940 growth of The Boeing Company stands as one example of Washington’s transformation (Kirkendall 1994; Kirkendall 1997-98). Another example of modernization and militarization was the development of the Hanford Site, near the confluence of the Columbia, Snake, and Yakima Rivers in eastern Washington. Roughly four decades of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons stimulated the development of writings about Hanford that gave voice to important aspects of a mobilized Pacific Northwest.
World War Two and the Cold War brought demographic, political, and social change on a par with what had occurred with the advent of railroads in the later nineteenth century. The liberalism and radicalism that had characterized Northwest politics during the 1930s were met with a reaction in the later 1940s. Even before much of the rest of the nation experienced what became known as “McCarthyism” (also called the Second Red Scare or anticommunist crusade), the state of Washington went through a dramatic purge orchestrated by the Joint Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities—a creature of the state legislature that was also called the Canwell Committee after its chairman, Representative Albert Canwell. (The Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest has created a curriculum packet, The Cold War and Red Scare in Washington State, on this phenomenon.) A professor of philosophy at the University of Washington, Melvin Rader, left a personal account called False Witness (1969) that depicts his mistreatment at the hands of the Canwell Committee. In terms of works of literature, the effects of Washington’s anticommunist crusade have been dramatized in a play by Mark Jenkins, All Powers Necessary and Convenient (2000). After 1950, radicalism exerted substantially less influence in the Northwest than it once had.
Another consequence of wartime changes was greatly increased demographic diversity. During the early 1940s, Latinos and African Americans arrived in much greater numbers than ever before. They were recruited as labor in the rapidly expanding, industrial economy. Not all stayed after World War Two ended, but enough did to create substantial communities where relatively small clusters of minorities had existed before. As a consequence, African American and Latino contributions to regional culture increased. Seattle became home to a vital jazz scene (De Barros 1993), for example, and Chicano communities began to develop cultural institutions in the Yakima Valley (Gamboa 1990; Gamboa 1992; Gamboa 1995). Neil Henry’s memoir Pearl’s Secret (2001) recalls an African American childhood in post-war Seattle, while Chicano poetry from the 1970s conveyed Hispanic outlooks on the post-war Northwest.
World War Two produced a transformative experience for another racial minority. Acting under President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, in February of 1942, and other laws, the federal government incarcerated most people of Japanese descent for the duration of the war and relocated others away from the mainland Pacific coast. The internees produced a considerable amount of writing while incarcerated and relocated, such as the poetry written by Iwao Matsushita at the Fort Missoula Detention Station, operated by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Then after the war, at first very slowly and then with growing speed, a body of literature came to describe the experience of Nikkei in compelling terms. Monica Sone’s memoir Nisei Daughter (1953) offered one woman’s recollections of growing up in Seattle and being interned at Camp Harmony, Washington, and Minidoka, Idaho. Four years later John Okada’s No-No Boy (1957) appeared, giving a fictional account of a Nisei man returning home to Seattle after incarceration. In 1981 Joy Kogawa treated the Canadian version of “internment” with her finely crafted novel Obasan. Then, in 1994 David Guterson published Snow Falling on Cedars. Guterson’s story, which was based on considerable historical research, tried to incorporate the perspectives of people of Japanese as well as German descent (as well as those of other groups), of men as well as women. The book drew criticism for not presenting non-white and female views in as complicated or sympathetic a fashion as possible. Yet Laurie Ricou (2002:14) suspects, “from its long stay on bestseller lists on both sides of the [U.S.-Canada] border, that…Snow Falling on Cedars. . . is the most widely read Pacific Northwest novel of all time.” (That the book also became a movie doubtless only increased its popularity further.)
Guterson’s account of the Nikkei experience, like Sone’s and Okada’s and Kogawa’s, reminds us of the many voices that James Stevens and H. L. Davis overlooked when writing their manifesto about a “Pacific Northwest literature.” The aggressive regionalism of Status Rerum assumed a certain cultural relationship between region and nation. Davis and Stevens possessed strong ideas of what “the East” was about and how the Pacific Northwest related to the remainder of the United States. But it seems doubtful that their concerns or interests loomed large in the minds of people of Japanese descent. Members of Monica Sone’s family, or the characters in No-No Boy—or indeed the leading figures in Christine Quintasket’s Cogewea—can perhaps be viewed as colonial subjects, too, but their marginalization surely differed from that cultural variety experienced by Stevens and Davis. The increasingly diverse population of the Pacific Northwest was generating a much more varied body of Northwest literary work.
The years after World War II witnessed a tremendous growth in regional literature by an increasingly heterogeneous and talented body of writers. As texts in the next section illustrate, the horizons of the Pacific Northwest expanded, and the kind of narrowness that characterized the regional thinking of Stevens and Davis and others diminished. Yet the aggressive regionalism that had emerged in the 1920s hardly ceased. Many in the expanding population of the region during the later twentieth century became convinced that they did indeed dwell in a promised land. Feelings of colonial subservience to the East (and to California) gave way for some to a sense of Northwest superiority. Reflecting on the changes from the viewpoint of Oregon in 1981, journalist and historian David Sarasohn (1983:224) noted that “an attitude that may once have been regionalism…is now more accurately described as sectionalism.”
Sectionalist—even exceptionalist—perceptions of the region, long a minor theme in much writing about the Northwest, became quite influential after the 1970s, as a new kind of aggressive regionalism emerged. In 1975 Ernest Callenbach, a writer from Berkeley, California, published the novel Ecotopia. Set in the year 1999, Callenbach’s story looked back on the development of a fictional new nation—an Ecological Utopia—that had appeared when Washington, Oregon, and California north of the Tehachapi Mountains supposedly seceded from the United States in 1980 to form a new country. By contrast to inhabitants in the rest of the United States, Ecotopians lived mostly in harmony with the environment. They reduced the work week to 20 hours, outlawed the internal combustion engine, embraced solar power, and recycled virtually all wastes. People wanting to build with lumber had to work a prescribed time in forests so that they knew intimately the natural resource they would be consuming.
Almost all of the action in Ecotopia takes place in California, yet people in the Northwest became convinced that the story was about them. In the late 1970s, when the book was still selling a thousand copies per month, the author claimed that at least half of those were purchased in the Pacific Northwest—a region that was becoming increasingly identified with environmental activism. When journalist Joel Garreau published his bestseller The Nine Nations of North America (1981), he reiterated Callenbach’s idea by labeling as “Ecotopia” the coastal strip along western North America from Monterey to Anchorage. Later thinkers modified the content of this transnational region and renamed it “Cascadia,” but continued to define it in terms of both its natural setting and its environmentalist politics. In a 1996 interview, Gary Snyder reiterated the Ecotopian idea when defining the coastal region for himself:
My sense of the West Coast is that it runs from somewhere about the Big Sur River—the southern-most river that salmon run in—from there north to the Straits of Georgia and beyond, to Glacier Bay in southern Alaska. It is one territory in my mind. People all relate to each other across it; we share a lot of the same concerns and texts and a lot of the same trees and birds (Carolan 1996).
Like some other advocates of Cascadia, Snyder preferred to define the Northwest in terms of watersheds, flora, and fauna, as a bioregion (see also Bunting 1997). The idea grew increasingly popular, at least on the U.S. side of the border. (Canadians were generally not so eager to diminish the importance of the international boundary. In their minds, the idea of “aggressive regionalism” implied a nation, the United States, that had over time all too often looked aggressively northward.)
Ideas such as Ecotopia and Cascadia were as aggressively regionalist as Status Rerum had been, although they tended to look at the environment differently. Stevens and Davis came from a society in which extractive industry was the economic norm; Callenbach and Snyder wrote in an era that viewed extraction of natural resources with growing alarm. The differences between the two generations of authors reflected in part tremendous changes to the Northwest after 1945. Those changes affected not only the economy and environment but also the region’s literature. | <urn:uuid:0705faab-a668-470f-b7a3-743130ea6813> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://cascadiaunderground.org/about-cascadia-in-the-press-reading-the-region-aggressive-regionalism-a-history/ | 2023-09-27T10:54:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.962098 | 8,095 |
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Lack of funding is one of the biggest reasons businesses fail. Without enough capital, a company will struggle to maintain operations and cash flow. As a result, many businesses seek out financing to meet their capital needs. In fact, an estimated 56% of small businesses seek business funding at some point in time.
Let’s take a look at some of the top reasons businesses need financing and strategies you can use to acquire the capital you need.
Companies may seek business funding for a variety of reasons, including:
Some companies seek business capital for the purpose of debt restructuring. Debt consolidation can help a business reduce its costs and make its payments more manageable.
Obtaining a debt restructuring loan can also make financial planning easier, as you have fewer monthly payments to keep track of. Lower monthly payments and/or interest rates can free up valuable cash that the business can invest in growth or use as working capital.
One of the primary reasons businesses seek financing is for working capital purposes. A business must have sufficient working capital to maintain operations and reach its goals.
A loan can provide the funds needed in the short-term for operations and growth. These funds can also be used to bridge the gap between supplier payments and customer orders.
Working capital is one of the most common reasons businesses apply for financing because it provides more freedom and flexibility to invest in growth opportunities or to stay afloat during slow periods.
For example, if you run a seasonal business, seeking a loan for working capital can help your business maintain positive cash flow and keep your doors open during slow periods.
Companies may also seek financing for funding business asset purchases. To make money, you have to spend money. Growth often requires an investment in new equipment, machinery, technology or vehicles.
Seeking financing for asset purchases can be a smart decision because it allows you to obtain the assets you need without compromising your working capital. Often, loans used for this purpose have terms ranging from 6 months to 5 years, so businesses can plan their cash flow in advance and maximize their growth opportunities.
Not having to make a large upfront investment in new assets allows businesses to maintain cash flow and continue with operations as usual.
Companies will also get funding for business growth. Every business has goals and plans for the future. Financing can help them reach those growth goals, which may be:
If your business has positive cash flow, seeking external funding may allow you to expand and grow without a hefty upfront cost.
Often, loans used to fund growth plans will have terms of 1-5 years or more, which allows businesses to plan for the future carefully.
One of the top reasons businesses seek financing is to get their operations up and running. Depending on the industry, a business may cost tens of thousands of dollars to launch.
Founders may have some cash to invest, but often need additional funding. They may also seek external funding to reduce their own personal risk.
Businesses can seek capital for their new business from a variety of sources, including:
Startup funding is notoriously challenging to secure due to the high risk. Businesses must have a detailed and convincing business plan if they hope to secure the funding they need.
Seeking information capital can help you acquire the knowledge you need to unlock your business’s potential. So, how can you secure business funding?
Have a Solid Business Plan
The first and most important thing is to make sure that you have a solid business plan, especially if you’re a startup. Lending to a business is risky. Lenders or investors will want to know that you have a solid plan and that your business idea is viable.
A detailed and convincing business plan will help you secure funding so that you can unlock your company's potential.
Work on Your Credit
Maintaining a good credit score can help you secure better rates when seeking financing. The higher your credit score, the more favorable the rate and the higher the chances of approval.
If you are a new business, lenders may look at your personal credit score. If you are seeking funding for an established business, lenders will look at the business’s credit score.
Taking the time to improve your score will go a long way in helping you acquire the funds you need with favorable terms.
In this guide for “how to funding for business,” we also want to briefly cover the strategies businesses can use to acquire the funds they need.
Finding the right source of funds for business growth or operations can be challenging. Businesses have several options, but not all of these options are right for every business.
Some of the most common sources of business funding include:
Many businesses seek financing through traditional banks. While it takes longer to get approved for a bank loan compared to other funding options, these loans offer lower interest rates and longer payment terms.
Banks will want to see:
Banks want some kind of surety that the loan will be repaid, so they often require collateral. There are many financial organizations that fund small businesses, and they usually offer favorable terms.
Another popular way to fund a business, particularly a startup or new product launch, is with crowdfunding.
With crowdfunding, everyday people contribute money to a business idea. In exchange, they may receive some perk, like being the first person to receive the product or exclusive merchandise.
To succeed with crowdfunding, businesses must create compelling landing pages with detailed photos and videos of their product. Some crowdfunding platforms also take a percentage of earnings or require businesses to meet fundraising goals in order to access their cash.
An angel investor is a high-net-worth individual looking to make an investment in a great business idea. In exchange for their financing, angel investors receive an equity stake in the company.
These investors will expect a profit from the company. Often, they are experienced entrepreneurs who can offer advice and constructive criticism.
The simplest and quickest way to get the funding you need is with a credit card. Credit cards provide fast access to cash, but there are some drawbacks to consider.
That said, credit cards can be a practical option if you have small-scale needs or just need a little capital to keep your business afloat during a slow period.
Businesses may need funding for a variety of reasons, from growth to asset acquisition and more. Having a solid business plan and good credit will make it easier to acquire the funding you need, whether you apply for a loan, use credit cards or seek out investors.
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21 Oct Wes Buckley and Beth Liebowitz join CATA in new staff and faculty positions
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October 21, 2022
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CATA HIRES WES BUCKLEY AND BETH LIEBOWITZ IN NEW STAFF AND FACULTY POSITIONS—New staff positions will allow CATA to grow programs and performance opportunities for artists with disabilities
GREAT BARRINGTON, MA— Community Access to the Arts (CATA) announces the appointment of Wes Buckley and Beth Liebowitz in new roles as staff members and faculty artists. Wes Buckley joins CATA as Music Specialist and Faculty Artist, and Beth Liebowitz as Dance Faculty and Performance Projects Manager.
In recent years, CATA has dramatically expanded the breadth and impact of its programs serving people with disabilities. In their new roles, Wes and Beth will bring their teaching skills to arts workshops in the CATA studio and throughout Berkshire and Columbia Counties. They will also support CATA Program Directors Jeff Gagnon, Kelly Galvin, and Kara Smith in working to grow programs and performance opportunities for artists with disabilities.
“We are excited to welcome Wes and Beth in these new, expanded roles at CATA,” says Margaret Keller, CATA Executive Director. “These new positions will make it possible for us to pilot new programs and art forms for CATA artists, to produce new performances of all scopes and sizes, and reach more artists with disabilities across our community.”
Wes Buckley is a musician, songwriter, instrument builder, and educator. Since joining CATA as a Faculty Artist in 2018, Wes has taught music and songwriting workshops in every area of CATA’s programming—including middle schools, high schools, day-habilitation programs, community spaces, and elder care settings. In his new role, Wes will explore creative new approaches to music-making and create opportunities for artists with disabilities to collaborate across artforms.
Beth Liebowitz is a dancer, choreographer, and movement therapist who has newly relocated to the Berkshires after seven years as the Program Director at The Greens at Greenwich in Connecticut. In her work with elders and artists with disabilities, Beth is focused on supporting artistry through the incorporation of embodied social justice and the intentional integration of socially just practices. In addition to bringing this work to schools and day programs throughout CATA’s service area, Beth will also help produce CATA performances and sharings.
CATA is at an especially exciting stage, with a beautiful new building, robust community partnerships, and expanding programs. CATA has cultivated strong partnerships with 50 community-based organizations, including disability agencies, residences, and schools to serve over 800 people with disabilities through 1,800 annual arts workshops. The nonprofit successfully navigated the challenges of the pandemic financially and artistically, deepening its commitment to artists with disabilities by piloting new art forms, dramatically growing programs for students with disabilities in local schools, and strengthening equity and inclusion initiatives.
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Recruiting advice from a photographer
In the June issue of Equipment World we ran an article about what the country’s top fleet managers are doing to recruit and retain mechanics and service technicians. One suggestion that arose in my interviews is that you may just have to work harder at developing your own people – finding young men with a good work ethic and teaching them what they need to know.
Years ago I worked with a professional photographer, Perry Struse, who had this process down to a science. (I know, photography and diesel equipment maintenance are far afield of each other, but hang with me here. The principle is the same.)
Most professional photographers use an assistant who does all the grunt work while the photographer schmoozes the client, chats up the models or tries to figure out if the editor or the art director is calling the shots.
When evaluating prospective employees, look for curiosity and enthusiasm.
When the photographer extends a hand out, open palm, the assistant better put a camera in it and have the lights and tripod and every technical detail perfect and ready to go. If you’ve ever seen a good one in action, you’d be amazed. Hustle doesn’t even begin to describe it.
Perry hired a new assistant every year and required only one qualification:
“If they have a naturally curious mind and they like to burrow into the details of something, I can teach them everything they need to know,” he said. No prior knowledge of photography was necessary.
I also asked Perry how he knew when somebody has the level of curiosity he’s looking for. “Just ask them what they’re interested in and see what they can tell you about it,” he said.
According to Perry it didn’t matter if their passion was comic books, cooking or motorcycles. If they love the subject, relish the details and can communicate that with enthusiasm, he says, they’re going to be successful. If they’re dull people with a dull life, no amount of pay or training, even four years of college, is going to help.
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NAME: Kate Reinders
DOB: 10 December 1980
BIRTHPLACE: Seattle, Washington, United States
BIRTH SIGN: Sagittarius
HEIGHT: 5 ft 4 in
FATHER: André Eglevsky
MOTHER: Phyllis Newman
YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ_WVniv2EI9KhwhlHtlRtQ
Who is Kate Reinders?
Kate Reinders is an American actress and vocalist, who has acted as lead and understudy in various Broadway productions. Reinders was born in Seattle, Washington, but reared in Spring Lake, Michigan. She attended Western Michigan Christian High School, graduating in 1998. Reinders’ Broadway debut was in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as a swing and understudy for roles Amy Lawrence and Becky Thatcher.
She next joined the 2002 Broadway version of Into the Woods as an understudy for Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Milky White, and Rapunzel. Her first lead role was in the 2003 production of Gypsy as June; she went on to portray Caroline in the 2005 jukebox musical Good Vibrations. Reinders has been on Broadway in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Into the Woods, Gypsy, Wicked, Good Vibrations, Beautiful The Carole King Musical, Something Rotten! and Meteor Shower.
She has starred onscreen in Work It, Sherri, Modern Family, Ugly Betty and more. The show’s explosive group and individual performances will be assessed by a prominent panel. Tim Fderle, Montego Glover, Brian Moreland, Alecia Parker, Tara Rubin and Bernie Telsey will decide the evening’s winners.
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Reinders played Glinda in the 2005 Chicago production of Wicked, alongside Ana Gasteyer as Elphaba; for this role, she received a Joseph Jefferson Award nomination for Best Actress in a Principal Role. She and Gasteyer finished their runs in the Chicago company on January 22, 2006. On May 30, 2006 Reinders replaced Megan Hilty as Glinda in the Broadway production.
While playing this role she performed “Popular” in a Daily Double about Wicked on an all-celebrity episode of Jeopardy!. TV personality Nancy Grace gave the correct question. Reinders ended her run on January 7, 2007, along with former Chicago co-star Ana Gasteyer.
Reinders performed in the show Party Come Here, which ran as part of the Williamstown Theatre Festival from July 25 through August 5, 2007. She appeared in the play The Fabulous Life of a Size Zero at the Off-Broadway DR2 Theater in 2007. Reinders was also a member of the band Tastiskank, along with Sarah Litzsinger.
Reinders and Litzsinger co-starred opposite Constantine Maroulis in an independent TV pilot called Teachers. She also had a recurring role as Ginger on the third season of the television series Ugly Betty. Reinders starred as a regular character, “Paula Morgan”, on the Lifetime series Sherri starring former The View co-host Sherri Shepherd. The show premiered on October 5, 2009.
Reinders returned to the Gershwin Theatre on October 27, 2008, and took part in The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken, a selection of scenes and songs cut from early draughts of the musical Wicked.Reinders appears in the Mohegan Sun commercial “Everyone’s Invited”, singing to the tune of the Rick James song “Super Freak” alongside former Wicked co-star Saycon Sengbloh.
She appears in the concert revue For The Record: Baz Luhrmann in Los Angeles, presented by ROCKLA for Show at Barre. It opened February 12, 2011, and closed June 30, 2011, with Jenna Leigh Green, Arielle Jacobs, and Tracie Thoms. Reinders voices the character Jezebel in the video game Saints Row: Gat out of Hell.Reinders originated the role of Portia in the Broadway musical comedy Something Rotten!, which opened April 22, 2015, at the St. James Theatre.Her last performance was on July 16, 2016. Reinders was seen recently on Broadway as the standby for Corky in Meteor Shower.
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Back in 2005, the Newscripts gang wrote about Methuselah, a date tree seedling coaxed to life from a 2,000-year-old Judean date seed. At the time, Methuselah had only six leaves, and scientists wondered whether it would grow into a female date tree that could bear fruit or a fruitless male tree. Now they know.
But before getting to the big reveal, we should bring readers up to speed on the seed from which Methuselah sprang: It was part of a cache of date seeds found during the early 1960s when archaeologists excavated King Herod’s palace on Mount Masada, near the Dead Sea. The Masada site was the last stand for a small band of Jewish rebels who spent years fighting off legions of Roman soldiers before committing mass suicide in A.D. 73.
In those days, forests of Judean date palms flourished in the region. The wealth of date pits unearthed at Masada suggests the site’s defenders probably snacked on the fruits, which were legendary for their succulence and medicinal properties.
The seeds sat in a drawer at Bar-Ilan University for decades. But in 2004, three were given to the green-fingered botanist Elaine Solowey, head of the Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, in the southern Negev.
The seeds came from a protected area, Solowey tells Newscripts. “They were 38 levels down in the dig under a collapsed building, which protected them from radiation, moisture, infection, heat, and cold.” Radiocarbon dating pegged the seeds’ age at roughly two millennia.
Solowey soaked the seeds in warm water and treated them with the growth hormone gibberellic acid to induce germination. She added a rooting hormone and an enzyme-rich fertilizer. By some miracle, Solowey says, one of the three was still alive. She named it Methuselah, after the biblical figure who is supposed to have lived 969 years.
Methuselah spent many years growing in a pot, in a sort of quarantine. But, Solowey points out, you can’t grow a date tree to sexual maturity in a flowerpot, so four years ago Methuselah was planted in the ground near Arava Institute’s main offices. After rooting there for a while, the tree produced flowers—male flowers.
Methuselah would never bear the legendary Judean dates, but Solowey and colleagues were curious whether it could still participate in reproduction. They brought the tree’s pollen to an isolated wild female date tree. Sure enough, that tree did bear fruit—albeit modern dates because the maternal genetic material determines what kind of fruit grows. But the seeds of that fruit have half of Methuselah’s DNA.
Solowey wonders whether, after breeding several generations of date trees with Methuselah, she could produce date seeds that carry most of the ancient date tree’s DNA. She’s also looking at other ancient date seeds with the hopes of finding a female. “Nothing would make me happier than producing the dates they ate in biblical times and sharing them with the world,” she says.
Should Solowey ever revive the ancient Judean date, the folks at Jerusalem’s Herzl Brewery may have the perfect beverage pairing—at least in terms of era. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that Herzl recently brewed beer from a strain of heritage wheat that Tel Aviv University geneticists believe dates back about 2,000 years.
Using old-fashioned techniques, the Herzl team brewed 20 L of the beer, which turned out to be flat and had an alcohol content around 3%. Itai Gutman, one of Herzl’s owners, told Haaretz, “It’s unlike anything I have ever tasted. It has a very dry taste, but it also has a strong aroma and suggestion of red fruit—almost like a syrup.”
Reuters reports that Gutman and his friends have drunk all but one bottle of the biblical brew, and they have no plans to whip up another batch anytime soon. “It’s really not the kind of flavor that has a market,” Gutman told the news agency. | <urn:uuid:ad37fc43-e68f-422b-bcb3-d167d0566f02> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i22/Reviving-Holy-Lands-ancient-snacks.html | 2023-09-27T12:49:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.960712 | 905 |
Class of 2018
Scott Flory was a force on the offensive line during his university football days, helping the Saskatchewan Huskies win two Vanier Cup titles, and his dominance continued through a remarkable 15-year CFL career.
Flory, a Regina native, played a key role in helping the Huskies capture Vanier Cups in 1996 and 1998, twice earning CIS All-Canadian honours during his university career. Sportsnet ranked him at No. 38 on its list of the 50 all-time greatest Canadian university players.
After being drafted by the Montreal Alouettes in 1998, Flory thrived for 15 CFL seasons at right guard, helping the Alouettes win three Grey Cup titles while piling up nine CFL All-Star selections in his illustrious career.
Flory played in 241 regular-season games and 17 more in the playoffs during his tenure in Montreal, helping the Alouettes develop a record-setting offence as they became a perennial Grey Cup contender. The team reached the Grey Cup eight times in his 15 seasons and he celebrated Grey Cup championships in 2002, 2009 and 2010 with Montreal.
Flory was named an East All-Star in 11 straight seasons from 2002 to 2012 and was selected as a CFL All Star in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 2010 and 2012. He was named to the CFLPA All-Star team six times (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2012).
He twice received the CFL’s Most Outstanding Lineman Award, in 2008 and 2009.
In 2010, he was the Alouettes’ nominee for the Tom Pate Memorial Award for outstanding community service.
Upon retiring as a player, Flory became the president of the CFL Players Association before eventually returning to the University of Saskatchewan to work as the team’s offensive coordinator. In 2017, he was named head coach for the Huskies.
1998 - 2013
CFL Eastern All-Star
2002-2003, 2005-2010, 2012
CFL Most Outstanding Lineman
Grey Cup Game Participation
2000, 2002-2003,2005-2006, 2008-2010
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