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Roasted Corn & Heirloom Tomato Salad
There is something wonderfully nostalgic about roasted corn. Whether you grew up going to barbecues on the beach, or picked yourself those fresh ears right from the farm — corn on the cob is a sweet and filling treat, especially in the height of summer.
In this recipe, the kernels are shaved fresh from the cob and into a delicious summertime salad. Sweet, fresh goodness — it’s so good to eat clean.
Roasted Corn and Heirloom Tomato Salad
- 2 1/2 Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil, divided
- 1/4 tsp. sea salt
- 2 ears corn, roasted and shaved
- 1 cup grape or cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1/4 cup fresh basil leaves
- 1/4 red onion, thinly sliced
- 2-3 Tbsp. lemon juice
To roast the corn, drizzle a small amount of extra-virgin olive oil and sea salt on to each ear of corn. Place over a medium open flame for 1–2 minutes on each side, turning using tongs.
Roast all sides evenly until slightly charred. Cool the corn. On a clean cutting board, shave off the kernels using a sharp knife.
In a medium mixing bowl, add the roasted corn kernels, sliced tomatoes, basil, and red onion. Toss gently to combine. Add in the lemon juice and remaining olive oil and gently toss until well combined. Serve immediately.
Candice Kumai, quoted by Elle Magazine as “the golden girl of the wellness world”, is a classically trained chef, wellness journalist and best-selling author of Clean Green Eats, Clean Green Drinks, Pretty Delicious, Cook Yourself Sexy and Cook Yourself Thin. She is a regular contributor on E! News and The Dr. Oz Show and has appeared as a regular judge on Iron Chef America and Beat Bobby Flay. She contributes to lifestyle publications such as Cosmopolitan, Shape, Yoga Journal, Men’s Health, Clean Eating and Prevention and volunteers at dozens of charitable organizations. She is a Top Chef alumni, and is obsessed with avocados, yoga, bar method, coconut and her cat, Sisi. She lives in New York City. | <urn:uuid:38a28772-31f1-4293-9a15-e74fe2f2bc1d> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/roasted-corn-heirloom-tomato-salad | 2023-09-27T10:49:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.89747 | 475 |
Dino Soar | Rounding to the Nearest 10 Game
Dino Soar - This prehistoric-themed dinosoar race game helps kids practice rounding numbers to the nearest 10. To help your dinosaur soar to victory, select the correct answer on one of three dino eggs for each question. Get ready to round up and fly high!
Common Core Standards
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- Prepare a meat sauce: mixture of chopped onion, carrot, celery and parsely and put all the lot in oil. As soon as the mixture gets golden add the meat; leave the meat to flavour until it comes brown colour, then add 1/2 glass of red wine; when the wine has evaporated, cover the meat with tomato sauce and water, add salt and pepper and leave to cook on a low flame for three hours at least;
- Wash and divide the zucchini in two halves; take off the inside part with a spoon, taking care of not breaking the external part; cook the inside in oil and garlic to get a cream;
- Boil the external part of the zucchini for few minutes in salted water;
- Join the meat sauce with cream realized from the inside part of zucchini, two eggs and parmesan cheese;
- Stuff the boiled zucchini with n.4, add some oil on the bottom of the baking pan and on the top of zucchini and cook in a medium oven until they get brown.
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New for our 2019 calendar is the JD Competition Tyres Bob Shaw Memorial Brawdy Stages Rally, covering eight miles of smooth, yet erosive, surfaces for each run, our crews had six stages to complete, writes Cara Jackson of MiniSport.
With only seven of our Mini teams registered, many of our crews tried to get a run on the rally, but left it until after Down Ampney to enter, and it was full with 14 reserves. Well received by those who competed, Brawdy Stages gave our crews nearly 60 Stage miles for just the £200 entry fee, which may be why it filled so quickly!
The warm and dry weather caused brake overheating issues for many of our crews, despite being overcast!
Regrettably, Roy Jarvis & Luke Greaves were the first crew forced to retire from the event in Stage 2, when absolutely flying at 100mph, they braked – causing the front hub assembly to part company with the Mini!
It was also a truly tragic end to the rally for Ken Pryce & Don James, who had been on to a winner, despite having a damper pin break – by chance, Clive had a spare, which got the crew back out. Leading the Minis, right up until the very last stage, when a mere three corners in, they were struck down with complete transmission failure, halting their impressive run!
Tormented from the 1st Stage with boiled brake fluid, this set the tone of the rally for Craig King and Adrian Lloyd – with this occurring on every stage! Things went from bad to worse on the penultimate stage, where the crew completely lost the brakes whilst flat out in 4th gear on the approach to a very tight chicane.
Knowing that they had absolutely no chance of making it through & thinking fast, Craig decided to risk sliding it on the hand brake, unfortunately, they were going too fast which resulted in hitting the tyres – breaching the Mini in a field!
Peter Ellerby & Colin Tombs had a strong run, with the Mini never missing a beat, the service crew didn’t have to put a spanner to it all day! The only issue the team faced was that Colin was unwell, suffering with whooping cough, it made it extremely difficult for him to read the pace notes for Peter, due to his constant coughing.
Credit where credit is due though, having made the lengthy journey down from the North East to compete, Peter & Colin finished 2nd in Class and 2nd Mini overall.
Clive King & Anton Bird were plagued with braking issues from the off, being forced to bleed the brakes in first service and finding that they had been so hot that even the rubber covers on the ball joints had burnt!
Brake issues eventually over, there was the opportunity for Clive and Anton to get on the attack but, although still 26 seconds behind their rivals, going in to the final stage, they went on to take 1st Mini overall.
Clive and Anton are now joint leaders of the 2019 Championship, tying with Jack Hartley and Gary Dawes on 105 points each (equivalent to 3 maximum scores).
1st Category 1 Clive King / Anton Bird
1st Category 2 Craig King / Adrian Lloyd
1st Category 3 Harvey Stevens / Lawrence Selly
Thank you to the generous sponsors of the HRCR Mini Sport Cup – Mini Sport, Mintex, Yokohama and Penrite & Questmead, without whom there wouldn’t be a Championship.
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Attorneys are busy professionals who can be hard to reach. Getting appointments with these decision makers can be difficult, if not close to impossible. Sponsoring or exhibiting at a Minnesota Continuing Legal Education conference opens the door and gives you the opportunity for face to-face contact with attorneys.
Have general sponsor/exhibitor questions?
If you would like to request additional information or have general questions about sponsoring or exhibiting at any Minnesota CLE event, please contact Katie Ward and firstname.lastname@example.org. | <urn:uuid:bf561667-f42f-4ac9-b40e-7eed0ab8fd1d> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.minncle.org/sponsor | 2023-09-27T10:50:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.931206 | 103 |
Minneapolis/St. Paul – May 1, 2019 – Team USA Minnesota’s Kevin Lewis will be on the track at the Payton Jordan Invitational on May 2, while Katy and Tyler Jermann along with Meghan Peyton will compete in the USATF Half Marathon Championships which will be held in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Marathon and Half Marathon on May 5.
Lewis is entered in the men’s 10,000 meter race that will be held at Stanford University’s Cobb Track and Angell Field in Palo Alto, California. The race starts at 10:40 p.m. (Pacific time). Lewis has a best of 28:32.06 in the 10,000m, a time he set last summer.
In Pittsburgh, the 2019 USATF Half Marathon Championships start at 6:55 a.m. (Eastern time), 10 minutes before the elite and mass start of the Pittsburgh Marathon/Half Marathon. The championships are part of the USA Running Circuit. This is the second year Pittsburgh has hosted the half marathon championships.
Katy Jermann has a best in the half marathon of 1:12:58, with Peyton covering the distance in a best of 1:13:43. Tyler Jermann has run 1:05:13 in the half marathon.
About Team USA Minnesota
Team USA Minnesota is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul. Founded in 2001, the purpose of the training group is to improve the competitiveness of post-collegiate American distance runners and to develop Olympians. The athletes are coached by Chris Lundstrom. Team USA Minnesota’s sponsors include Twin Cities Orthopedics, Twin Cities In Motion, and the Houston Marathon Foundation. For more information visit the team’s web site at www.teamusaminnesota.org. | <urn:uuid:9bb645cc-993a-4f4f-8cfc-414926fd08ae> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.minnesotadistanceelite.com/post/kevin-to-compete-at-payton-jordan-5-2-katy-tyler-meghan-at-usa-1-2-marathon-champs-in-pa-5-5 | 2023-09-27T11:38:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.890678 | 401 |
Founded in 1935 by former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, the Minnesota Young Republicans are the premier networking group for young professionals and political activists in Minnesota from ages 18 to 40.
Nationally, the Young Republicans (YRs) are the oldest political youth organization in the United States.
Important to the growth of the Republican Party, the YRs reach out to young voters and provide them with better political knowledge and understanding of the issues of the day.
Through community involvement in politics and charity, the MNYRs are enthusiastically committed to improving the lives of Minnesotans.
Please feel free to contact us anytime, we would love to hear from you. | <urn:uuid:1ec08887-ee36-4d4a-9015-385f077a3707> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.minnesotayrs.org/contact | 2023-09-27T11:47:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.949434 | 135 |
WILBURY VILLAS, HOVE, BN3 6GD
£1,750 pcm No fees apply
- Recently Furbished Throughout
- Two Double Bedrooms
- East/West Aspect
- 12 Month Tenancy To Begin With Potential To Extend
- Close To Hove Station
- Available Now
- Parking Permit Zone O
- EPC Rating D
- Council Tax Band B
Stunning split level, two double bedroom, apartment located in a popular tree lined road in Hove. Offered to let un-furnished. Available now!
Wilbury Villas is located in a popular residential location in Hove, ideal for the commuters out there with both Hove and Preston Park train stations located within a mile of the property.
This two double bedroom, split floor apartment is on the western side of the road with fantastic sun sets of an evening and morning sun to the front of the property.
The property has recently undergone major refurbishment throughout and has an open plan living/kitchen area at the rear. The main bedroom is a good size, has a large mirrored wardrobe and a lovely double glazed window to front, looking out onto Wilbury Villas. The second bedroom has additional storage into the eves.
The shower room has a nice slick finish, a double shower with thermostatic control settings unit, wash hand basin with high gloss finish vanity unit below. Low level coupled WC, ladder style heated towel rail and partly tiled walls.
Finally to finish off the inside, our landlords have created a useful separate cloak room.
This lovely property is offered to let un-furnished and If you are looking to move quickly is available to move into now.
The landlord wants a 12 month tenancy with the possibility of renewing it.
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Convicted child killer Alyssa Bustamante just turned 20 years old Jan. 28 and is now nearly four years into a life sentence with the possibility of parole. She is appealing her sentence.
Bustamante was sentenced in 2012 for what prosecutors called the thrill kill of a 9-year-old neighbor girl, Elizabeth Olten in October 2009.
She testified in Cole Co. Court today that when she accepted the plea agreement, she did not fully understand the current state of the law on sentencing juveniles as an adult, and would have possibly put her fate in the hands of a jury instead.
“The threat of (life without parole) as a mandatory sentence was allowed to intimidate Alyssa into accepting a guilty plea she would not have otherwise accepted,” Attorney Gary Brotherton wrote in documents filed with the Cole County Circuit Court claiming Bustamante had ineffective counsel at the time she pleaded guilty.
Brotherton told the court that two cases could have had an effect on Bustamante’s options.
Miller v. Alabama was decided in 2012 — after Bustamante was sentenced — in which the United States Supreme Court held that mandatory sentences of life without the possibility of parole are unconstitutional for juvenile offenders. A previous case in 2010, Graham v. Florida, ruled that life without parole sentences for juvenile offenders is unconstitutional, barring murder.
Bustamante was charged as an adult with first-degree murder, which carries a mandatory sentence of life without the possibility of parole. She accepted an agreement with the prosecution that she would plead guilty to a reduced charge of murder in the second degree and armed criminal action. She was sentenced to 30 years with the possibility of parole for the murder charge, and 30 years for using a knife to kill her victim, which is ordered to run at the conclusion of her life sentence.
Brotherton asked Bustamante on the stand if she had spoken with her attorneys about legal issues.
“Yes,” she answered, “but I didn’t really understand legal issues.”
“At that time you had barely started the 10th grade?” he asked.
Bustamante’s state-appointed attorneys, Don Catlett and Charles Moreland, had each testified that she had accepted the plea agreement less than an hour after it was offered. She told the court she felt pressured to make a decision, and that she just wanted to get it over with.
“I didn’t really, couldn’t wrap my mind around it,” she said. “It was just … hopelessness.”
She confirmed that she was being treated with medication for depression and anxiety at the time, and said while being held by the county, she slept a lot and continued cutting herself.
Judge Pat Joyce has given Brotherton 30 days to send her proposed orders. She’ll make a decision after that whether to declaire Bustamante’s counsel was ineffective and order a new trial or let the current sentence stand.
Olten’s mother, Patty Preiss, was in the courtroom but declined to comment. Also present was Bustamante’s grandmother, Karen Brooke, who had custody of Alyssa when Olten was killed.
Bustamante admitted prior to her sentencing that she killed Olten by strangling her and slashing her throat. She then buried her in a shallow grave in a heavily wooded area near the girls’ homes. She had written in her diary that the experience was “ahmazing,” and later told investigators she had done it because she wanted to see what it was like to kill someone.
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One of my other tutorials on the basics of bead embroidery will be very helpful here! When you’re going to embroider a piece of fabric and then glue it onto a structure, use either ultra-suede or buckram as the foundation, depending upon how heavy the beads and bits are going to be. Here’s how I made this little piece:
1. Create a cabochon by pouring resin over an image inside a bottle cap.
2. Trace around a wood disc onto a piece of ultra-suede.
3. When the cabochon is set, glue it to ultra-suede and bead around it until you’ve reached the borderline. Clip the foundation close to the stitching and add an edging row or two.
4. Drill a hole the same size as your dowel into a print block. Make it about 3/4 inch deep. Drill a groove into the back of the disc on the flat side to cradle the dowel.
5. Use wood glue to glue all pieces together. Glue the beadwork onto the front (dome) side of the disc.
Copyright 2008 Cyndi Lavin. Not to be reprinted, resold, or redistributed for profit. May be printed out for personal use or distributed electronically provided that entire file, including this notice, remains intact.
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Parents and carers are the primary educators in the faith of their children. Parishes have the responsibility of partnering parents in the role. The Children's Ministries team supports parishes, parents and children in the important ministry of faith formation. This support is expressed through research, policy development, resourcing and practical advice.
Faith formation of children and young people is the primary task of the Children's Ministry team.
This work takes the following four forms:
Evangelisation and Catechesis of children is of vital importance at a time when many families are not connecting regularly with the church. When there is a point of contact, the church has an even greater responsibility to mission to the faith formation of families.
In the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle these points of contact for most families are during sacramental programs and religious education in schools and during Children's Liturgy of the Word on Sundays. | <urn:uuid:cefe33bd-8ce5-45b9-9866-2eea68d76733> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.mn.catholic.org.au/church-mission/childrens-ministries/ | 2023-09-27T12:26:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.968745 | 192 |
By: Darcey Drullinger
Quickly after the start of the new year, my three best friends and I decided to hop across the pond and start a new semester in London. We packed our bags and bought our books, ready to soak in all of what London College of Fashion had to offer.
During our first week of orientation, one of our tutors said, “Get lost in London because that is the best way to explore.” This quote has stayed in the back of my mind, especially during the midst of the hustle and bustle in one of the busiest cities in the world. If I want to explore, I must not only get lost in the British culture, or my neighborhood, but also in the mindset and creativity that lies within the people of this city.
I craved for this place to become a home away from home this semester, but I think if you want that to truly happen you must find those hidden treasures of a place that make you feel most like yourself.
Here is a list of our top five places to explore in London:
For the shopaholic… Covent Gardens.
Covent Gardens is blocks of unique and haute couture stores along cobblestone roads that give this area a modern twist. It has live street performers, and old theaters for musicals that make you feel like you are in a romantic movie. If you want a good bite to eat before a show, or you want to shop until you drop this is the place to go.
For the foodie… Fortnum and Masons.
Fortnum and Masons is one of the most well-known classic tea and sweet shops in London. It’s easy to get lost on their first floor picking out a box of custom truffles or buying a basket of tea and homemade jams, but it doesn’t stop there. The next four floors are filled with an ice cream parlor, high tea room, jewelry shop and grocery store. This past year, British Vogue voted Fortnum and Masons to have “Better tea than the Ritz Hotel.” If you want to treat yourself to an afternoon tea and scones, this is your place.
For the historian… The Tower of London and The Kenwood House.
If you are in the mood to get the past/present tea on the royals go to the Tower of London. You can join a free walking tour throughout the grounds in the tower’s walls, or see the Crown Jewels. The treasure and beauty of these artifacts is truly an unexplainable experience. After you are done, you can walk across the famous Tower Bridge and grab a bite to eat along the river market.
The Kenwood House is my personal favorite spot in London. It is an old manner built for a commander. The house sits on a massive property with running trails, a pond, and they even have their own dairy. The house itself is stunning and brings you back in time. The paintings are priceless that cover the walls, and the rooms make you feel like you are in a day-dream with their printed curtains, and bubble gum pink and baby blue walls. The best view of the London’s skyline is on these grounds.
For the dancing queen… Ballie Ballerson.
This dancing club is full of pink, neon lights and adult ball pits. If you packed your dancing shoes this place is a must. There is a live DJ each night and different ball pits that you and your friends can feel like a kid at an arcade all over again.
For the hostess… Columbia Road Flower Market.
To the girl who claims flowers are her love language, this street will make your heart skip a beat. On Sunday morning through the afternoon, this street is closed for flower venders to sell their unsold surplus bundles of flowers from the week. You can become your own florist and take home your own bouquet wrapped in brown paper. The Oak is a local pub next to the market that is the perfect place for the English classic, Sunday roast dinner.
London is a city that holds so much diversity, history, and culture. If you take away anything from this, explore where you are, and find the places and people that make you feel most at home away from home. As the British say, “Cheers.” | <urn:uuid:c12ee41e-184b-49c0-8b63-22a90d483528> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.modmuzemag.com/post/get-lost-in-london | 2023-09-27T11:18:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.948166 | 899 |
As an owner, your farm is an important part of your life, and it may have been in your family for generations. It is never too soon to put a plan together to address what happens to the family farm after your death. One of your fears may be that once you are gone, the family will no longer be able to keep the farm, and generations of tireless work will be lost forever. One way to ensure that your farm remains in the family is with a trust.
What is a Trust?
A trust is a legal vehicle that you can use to distribute assets before or after death. A living trust is utilized during the owner’s lifetime, while a testamentary trust is used following death. The trust is a way to provide for the distribution and management of assets and is useful for large estates such as family farms. There are several main objectives of a farm trust. These include avoiding probate, limiting tax liability, and providing for control of the farm following the owner or grantor’s death. The property owner or person who creates the trust is called the grantor.
Benefits of a Trust
A trust can be useful as a way to transfer a farm after the owner’s death. A farm is a complex business, and a trust will help keep it running properly following the owner’s death. The trust carries out the wishes of the owner. The trust handles the management of the farm in accordance with your desires and in the best interest of the beneficiaries. A trust protects the farm and makes sure that it will continue to be properly managed in the future. A trust is also helpful when a farm owner has several beneficiaries, some of whom do not live or work on the farm. A trust can help families because it defines how to handle the many complex issues that can arise.
Trusts can be useful in various situations, but when you utilize them for the family farm, there are some special considerations you must make. Farms are unlike many other types of assets because the land itself is considered very valuable. Farm equipment must also be made part of the estate plan. There may be water, wind, or mineral rights that you need to include in a trust. If the farm has livestock, there may need to be livestock branding that must be transferred. You will also need to address the needs of any lienholders. You will also need to decide how to distribute the farm’s assets when there are multiple beneficiaries, including some who may not work on the farm.
Transferring farm ownership can be extremely complex. There are many issues that you need to address, but you can make certain that the farm remains intact when you take the time to create a trust. To learn more about farm trusts, contact our experienced attorneys at Moen Sheehan Meyer, Ltd at (608) 784-8310 or online. | <urn:uuid:2832408c-4ae2-4f7c-a851-a77a9c4ce0e3> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.moensheehanmeyer.com/blog/should-i-put-my-farm-in-a-trust/ | 2023-09-27T13:00:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.968387 | 587 |
There’s a very distinct ebb and flow in the job market. Sometimes the market is saturated with qualified candidates. Then other times, you’re lucky to receive even one suitable resume.
Even in times of plenty, searching for a candidate who’s the right fit for your company can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack.
Employees who demonstrate a solid work ethic and fit in with the company culture keep your business thriving. They bolster morale, delight customers, and help you cut down on costs associated with high turnover rates and training.
If you’re feeling the pressure to find that ideal candidate, then this article is for you. We will share 6 creative strategies to help you recruit the right talent for your company.
6 Creative Strategies to Recruit Employees
If the beaten path of employee recruitment is failing to yield the kinds of candidates you’re seeking, it may be time to start thinking outside the box. Change your perspective on posting jobs and tweak your approach. These changes may just end up being some of the best professional moves you ever make.
If you’re ready to shift gears, here are 6 creative strategies you can explore for recruitment!
Utilize Social Media to Find Candidates
If you are looking for candidates that are young and hungry to sink their teeth into a position, there’s no greater platform than social media. Digital natives look to these sites for entertainment, news, and yes — even jobs.
Even if you aren’t specifically after fresh, young, talent, social media is still a great way to get your job posting in front of as many eyes as possible. Post the job on your company’s page and encourage employees to share the post as well.
Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are great places to start, but don’t let some of the more up-and-coming social media apps fall by the wayside. Snapchat and Instagram can get your job on many, many screens without costing you much at all.
Make sure to keep your job posting dynamic and engaging, just like all of your other social media posts. Try to include an image, speak to the benefits, list the requirements, and talk a bit about company culture.
Set Up a Booth at Job Fairs
Though they may feel like an unnecessary waste of your already limited time, job fairs offer you the unique opportunity of meeting many candidates at one time.
Think of career fairs like professional speed dating. Having a booth at a job fair allows you to vet candidates quickly before scheduling a longer interview. You will be able to make some initial assessments about a candidate’s energy and personality instead of judging them solely based on their resume.
Job fairs also allow potential candidates to get a feel for your company. You’ll have a chance to talk about the work environment and some of the perks that aren’t standardly listed on a job posting.
Host an Event
Unlike at a job fair where you are one in a sea of companies, your business will be the focal point when you host a recruitment event. You will still have the chance to speak with each candidate as a sort of pre-interview, but they won’t be in a rush to move on to other prospective employers.
Get creative with your event, and cater it to the kind of employees you’re interested in hiring. The event should reflect the kind of company you run, and you will need to make a point to interact with all the candidates who attend.
Once you’ve settled on a date for your event, be sure to publicize it on social media and other job boards. If space comes at a premium, ask candidates to RSVP, and be sure to detail the open positions so you aren’t inundated with unqualified attendees.
Encourage Employee Referrals
Who knows what it takes to be a successful member of your team better than the people who are already successful members of your team? Encouraging employee referrals can be one of the easiest ways to meet candidates who are not only qualified but who also personally align with the company culture.
If you really want to lean into this method, institute a referral incentive program. Clearly outline the parameters.
- Should candidates reference the employees on their applications?
- Will employees receive the incentive as soon as their referral is hired, or after an introductory period?
- What exactly is the incentive?
Try to generate some excitement around referrals, and use the mindhive already present in your company to source some great new employees.
Build a Creative Benefits Package
Benefits and perks have become almost as important to employees as their monetary compensation. Try to get creative with some of the benefits you offer, like company retreats or vacation incentives.
It is also a good idea to throw your weight behind making some of the more practical benefits, like parental leave, as competitive as possible. With a healthy job market to wade through, potential employees are more likely to gravitate toward your position if you demonstrate concern over their happiness.
Work with a Professional Recruiting Agency
As a business owner, you may simply not have the time to dig through the haystack of candidates to find your shining needle of an employee. If that is the case, why not outsource the work to an expert?
Professional recruiting firms like Mogel RPO know how to recruit candidates so you don’t have to. They do the hard work of sifting through resumes to cherry-pick the best possible recruits for you.
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Gold Stars Table Runner
This sweet gold stars table runner makes a perfect table decoration. Great for a twinkle twinkle little star themed party, a baby shower, or any everyday celebration!
- Size: 16 inches x 10 ft
- Paper Table Runner
From captivating balloons and whimsically themed table setups to ghostly centerpieces and haunting garlands, we've got your decorating needs covered. These ideas are not only simple to put together...Read more | <urn:uuid:4f587316-98de-4111-a62e-62057a379d59> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.momoparty.com/products/gold-stars-table-runner | 2023-09-27T11:06:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.796825 | 100 |
Here we are in month six of COVID-19. Life as we knew is forever changed. Both parents and children have been greatly affected by the pandemic in a multitude of ways. One place in particular is how coronavirus is impacting children’s educational learning. Teachers, parents, and students have had to adapt rapidly. So let’s take some of the power away from COVID-19. You can use this extended time at home to teach your children about money.
Coronavirus is here and there is no quick fix or magic solution in the known future. We must pivot and make it work for our families and our children the best we can. A top reason of stress during this time is lack of financial security. In June 2019, a Bankrate article stated: “Nearly three in 10 U.S. adults have no emergency savings. One in four have a rainy day fund, but not enough money to cover three months’ worth of living expenses.” https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/financial-security-june-2019/
Teaching Kids Core Money Skills
The earlier children understand how money works, the better. Also, teaching children money skills and good money habits at a young age, gives them a jump start on a secure financial future. These skills can be expanded upon and put into practice as your children go through childhood, the teenage years, into early adulthood, and beyond. Teach children about savings, investing, and the magic of compound interest. Educate your children about money in a way that money becomes a source of fun, excitement, and freedom instead of stress, fear, and worry.
Go to http://www.moneychimp.com/calculator/compound_interest_calculator.htm a compound interest calculator, and show your kids the magic of how money grows over time. You can teach your children how to grow money while they sleep! Saving and investing is a necessary component of creating wealth. The younger children start saving and investing the more time they have for their money to grow. You can start with small amounts of money but start, as time is on your side.
When you teach your children core money skills and good money habits, you are giving both your children and yourself a gift. Financial Literacy and Financial Responsibility are largely not taught in our schools. I think this is a travesty. I hope that money matters and money mindset will be mandatory teaching in our school systems in the future but currently for the most part it is not. When children learn to be financially competent they begin to form a positive, healthy relationship with money instead of fearing money because they do not understand it.
Get Creative, Have Fun
You can instruct your children about money in enjoyable, clever ways. Get creative, think out of the box, and educate your children about money matters while having fun. A good example is KiddieKredit https://www.kiddiekredit.com/ -teaching children about Financial Literacy through doing chores- now that is a win/win! KiddieKredit has an app to make it easy, engaging, and interactive. You can also teach and lead by example. Children watch what we say and do in regards to money, so be mindful of this and how you relate to money.
And Budget Like a Boss
Budgeting is always important and is one of the keys to financial freedom. Budgeting is imperative during COVID-19. Families need to track the money that comes in and the money that goes out. If you don’t track it, somehow that money seems to run away from you. You can Budget Like a Boss. You can also teach your kids to do the same. We control our money not the other way around, even in these circumstances. You can change your money mindset no matter what amount of money you currently have in your wallet. So take back the power from COVID-19. Teach your kids about money. When the clouds part and coronavirus passes you will be thankful you did.
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Do you know how much you spend a month on groceries? Food is a basic necessity- we all have to eat! Food is also the fuel for our bodies and brains- so we want to eat consciously and healthy. That being said, your food cost is one of the areas in your monthly budget where there is great flexibility. I allocate a specific amount of money each month for my grocery budget but this is often one of the budget categories I reduce if an unexpected expense arises or I need to shift my monies for another reason.
In April 2020, The United State Department of Agriculture Official Monthly Food Plan for Cost of Food at Home reported the following:
- Family of Four (two adults & two children): $585.40-$1,332.90
- Adult Couples: $380.30-$793.20
- Adult Female: $165.50-$339.10
- Adult Male: $175.90-382.00
The USDA monthly range is based on various food plans they call, Thrifty, Low-Cost, Moderate Cost, and Liberal Food Plans. These numbers are for actual food and all the food, including snacks, is prepared at home. Now, if I look at the numbers for an adult female, I have significantly more money allocated monthly in my grocery budget. Part of the difference is that I include pet food, minor personal hygiene items (toothpaste, soap, etc.), and cleaning maintenance products in my grocery budget. If I have to spend additional monies on a personal care item, such as a higher cost skin care product; I give that a separate personal care/drug store category in my budget. The point is you need to know what you spend and where you spend it.
I know that depending on where I shop affects my food prices. I am a big fan of sales and making the most of my money. I also like to eat good food- so as always, there is a balance. The three main stores near me that I frequent are Aldi, Publix, and Whole Foods- their overall pricing is (Aldi) lowest to (Whole Foods) highest. Aldi has organic produce at excellent prices (among other great food deals) but it is not quite as convenient for me as Publix. So I have to make a concerted effort to go there but when I do, I am always glad I did. I also, look for the BOGOs (Buy One Get One Free) at Publix- they are frequent and also for many of the items I regularly consume. So, I watch for these, and BOGOs are one way to reduce my monthly food budget. The key is not to buy a BOGO just because it is a BOGO but buy it because you need it. A sale item is never a bargain if you are buying it just because the item is on sale. Remember; don’t buy because of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out). I save Whole Foods for a few special items I like to buy there, when I can afford it, and for special occasions.
There is also another trick to saving money while you grocery shop. There may be a relatively low priced item, (for me one of those items is coffee), that is much better if you buy your favorite brand. I may spend an extra $5 a bag on coffee, by buying Seattle’s Best instead of the store brand, but because I enjoy coffee so much every morning, the enjoyment I receive is more than the extra $5 I spend. Now, you can’t do this on all your food items or it defeats the purpose. I give myself the luxury of the coffee brand I so enjoy (which if it is on sale I buy an extra one) and then I buy Publix brand bread because for me, the Publix brand tastes just as good as the more expensive Nature’s Own brand. So the lesson is to give yourself choices and feel the freedom in grocery shopping while also staying within budget. Now, I’ll give you one more personal example. I take that Publix brand bread and I put on the so delicious Bonne Maman Apricot Preserves (another one of my upgrade items) and I have a budget balanced breakfast item! The idea is to get creative and make your food money go further.
In my Budgeting 201 online class I taught last night, someone asked me if a regular weekly fresh flowers purchase is part of a grocery budget, as it is purchased at a grocery store. What a great question! I infrequently purchase fresh flowers, so if on a rare occasion I bought a bouquet of flowers at Publix or Whole Foods, I would put that in my grocery budget. If fresh flowers were a purchase I made regularly, I would put it in a separate flowers category in my monthly budget. I do buy plants for my butterfly garden regularly, so I have plants as its own category in my monthly budget. I don’t buy plants every month but I do buy them frequently enough, that plants need their own line item. By accounting for my plant purchases monthly I can also lower or eliminate them depending on the status of my budget. This is just being honest and clear with myself at the start of each month and adjusting my budget as needed throughout the month. Budgeting, whether it is your food category or your entertainment category, is flexible if you are aware of what you have incoming each month and what you are spending each month.
So to finish up this blog post, I want to offer another good old-fashioned way to save money on your food bill. I live in Miami and right now it is mango season and papayas are growing too. My friends and neighbors with mango and papaya trees share their bounty with me. When my star fruit tree has fruit, I share it with my friends and neighbors. I am also open to sharing cooking herbs from my garden. My friends and I also share seeds and plant cuttings. When you are operating in the frame of mind of abundance and creativity, there are so many positive ways to make budgeting fun!
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We are looking for a new pearl for the Montenidoli necklace.
Montenidoli is a star that shines in the heart of the Mediterranean, a link between East and West.
Montenidoli, the mountain of little nests, is an estate of 200 hectares of woods, vineyards and olive groves. It is situated in a land rich in history; all its inhabitants have left their heritage here:
• Oysters, sea urchins and many, many shellfish enriched the soil.
• The Etruscans brought vines from Asia Minor.
• The Romans buried their coins under the olive trees.
• The Templars were here, too. They followed St Bernard’ rule: “everyone has the right to drink according to his own need to drive away the cold of the mind, the cold of the heart,
the cold of the body”.
• In 1404 – Finuccia de’ Barbi, owner of the estate, donated her property of “woods, vineyards, olive trees” to the Hospital of Santa Fina to “save souls”.
• Hard-working peasants following the rhythm of days and nights, seasons and years filled the land with harmony and peace.
• This land, so rich in fruit, was asleep during the first part of the last century, abandoned and
deserted through two world wars.
• In 1965 life returned! Nine happy children, in search of freedom and care, woke up the wood
by climbing its most beautiful trees, adults freed the bramble-covered vines and pruned
the olive trees that had gone wild.
• In 1968 Sergio, the schoolmaster, arrived to refresh souls and open a way for lost minds.
• Many young people and adults went up the hill in Montenidoli to have Sergio’s help in finding themselves. Sergio was called the Patriarch by everyone.
At his death the foundation “Sergio the Patriarch NPO” was established.
Now in 2023 life in Montenidoli continues: gentle and timeless, following the dictates of our land.
The wines of Montenidoli are well known and sought after all over the world.
Since 1971 the year has begun with the Winegrowers’ Day, celebrating our Patron Saint Vincent.
The Sergio the Patriarch NPO Foundation is located at the heart of the Montenidoli estate: two groups of houses halfway up the high plateau of the hill.
We call it “the big family of the little planet”. The Foundation wants to bring together races, traditions, cultures with the aim of finding a common language and discovering our shared roots.
The Foundation wants to welcome old and young people from all over the world to transmit the human wealth of our past to the future and to prevent such wealth being buried by the unbridled race of ‘progress’. We need roots if we want to build a stable future.
To achieve its work the Foundation wants to held seminars, organise studies, offer apprenticeships, run laboratories, and make web-based transmissions.
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According to the latest reports, the popular social media platform 9GAG has secured patents for different digital tokens and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). These patents cover a variety of goods and services that are related to social media, fandom, digital arts, virtual environments, NFTs, crypto collectibles, application tokens, and digital currencies.
Let us take an in-depth analysis of these trademarks to understand what to expect from 9GAG.
What Does 9Gag Plant To Do In Web3?
Earlier in the week, trademark & copyright attorney @NeerMcD (NeerMcD.eth) went on Twitter to reveal 9Gag’s near-term plans. In a gist, she said that 9GAG has filed patents for many use cases surrounding NFTs.
The first of these patents is the word ‘PFP’ itself. This word is used across the NFT space as an acronym for Profile Picture” projects, featuring many avatar-based projects. It is the most common kind of NFT collection/drop to date.
Moonbirds is a PFP project.
Other patents include some downloadable software that supports the creation and distribution of digital tokens. Moreover, the digital tokens are used as ‘fan tokens.’ the ‘fan tokens’ will enable holders to prove loyalty to a specific community or fandom. The software can be customized, and users can choose distribution strategies.
More patents include the administration of a client loyalty program that rewards the users with digital tokens, digital assets, NFTs, utility tokens, crypto-collectibles, digital collectibles, digital currencies, cryptos, and virtual currencies.
It also provides online retail store services which consist of digital content, virtual goods, and nonfungible tokens (NFTs). Although there is no mention of any ‘phygital’ trademarks hinted at yet from this brand. The firm’s trademark includes the provision of an online marketplace for the buyers and sellers of services and goods.
This also features digital goods validated by NFTs. Will this result in a “9GAG Wallet”?
More Plans And Patents
Under IC 036, 9GAG patents issuance of tokens of value, virtual currency dealing trading services, and financial transaction services that involve crypto, blockchain technology, and NFTs. The services offer secure commercial transactions and payment strategies for digital assets. 9GAG also patents an online non-downloadable computer software platform.
The platform is also for developing and distributing digital tokens to prove loyalty to a specific fandom or community mentioned above. It also provides a platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS). The services support software access to digital marketplaces, auctions, and virtual environments.
9GAG is currently at the forefront of meme culture. It continues to be, for many, a voice of internet culture and meme media since decades ago. To see the brand pivot into NFTs and web3 is a refreshing take. As PUNK 6529 says “we must seize the memes of production.” Who better to do it, than 9GAG? | <urn:uuid:5bba883e-fa89-4030-a88e-5a167c0dab90> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.moonstats.com/news/9gag-wants-to-trademark-the-word-pfp/ | 2023-09-27T12:13:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.900745 | 661 |
On the third day of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) released previously confidential emails from Kavanaugh’s time working in the George W. Bush White House. One email chain shows that Kavanaugh was involved in helping craft a Supreme Court brief in which the Bush administration supported a government affirmative action program. But it also makes clear that Kavanaugh took a dim view of the government’s efforts to support minority businesses in federal contracting.
Adarand Constructors v. Pena was a landmark 1995 Supreme Court decision. In it, the court took a big swipe at the federal government’s programs to give preferences in contracting to minority companies. The case was brought by a white-owned Colorado Springs company that had been denied a Department of Transportation subcontract, despite coming in with the lowest bid, because the government gave preference to a minority-owned company.
Adarand sued, arguing that it had been unconstitutionally discriminated against. It lost in the lower courts and then appealed to Supreme Court, which overturned the lower courts and required the government to set strict limits on its use of race-based affirmative action programs in contracting. The case went back to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider in light of the new guidelines from the Supreme Court. The 10th Circuit ruled in favor of the Department of Transportation, and in 2001, Adarand asked the high court to revisit the issue, even though by then, the government had radically changed the way it handled minority business contracting to comply with the Supreme Court decision.
Kavanaugh elaborated on his personal views about the affirmative action program in a March 2001 email in which he ran through various options for the administration and the solicitor general’s office to approach the case. He suggested that the solicitor general refuse to defend the program altogether—a move that would have been highly unusual at the time. He recognized that White House pressure on the solicitor general to take a particular position would have been considered unseemly, and he encouraged the White House to defer to the judgement of the Justice Department and the solicitor general on the assumption that they’d be hostile to affirmative action anyway.
Much to the surprise of civil rights leaders—and to the dismay of many of the administration’s conservative allies—the Bush administration took the same position the Clinton administration had and asked the Supreme Court to uphold the Department of Transportation’s minority contracting regulations. In a 2001 email chain with former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, his deputy Timothy Flanigan, and Noel Francisco (then an associate White House counsel and now President Donald Trump’s solicitor general), Kavanaugh weighed in on the government’s brief in the case. While he made a few suggestions for improving the government’s arguments, it was clear he was skeptical of the government’s affirmative action program, which he predicted the court would strike down. He wrote:
The fundamental problem in this case is that these DOT regulations use a lot of legalisms and disguises to mask what in reality is a naked racial set-aside. I have no doubt that Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, and Kennedy will realize as much in short order and rule accordingly…I assume O’Connor will so rule as well, although that is less certain. | <urn:uuid:0fa68d81-fb97-4228-8e26-560e537d6381> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/newly-released-emails-show-kavanaugh-had-a-dim-view-of-a-government-affirmative-action-program/ | 2023-09-27T12:38:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.967474 | 675 |
No one expected the 2015 Motocross World Championship to be a walk on the track for Ryan Villopoto, OK maybe some did, but landing in fourth-place twice on Sunday for MXGP of Patagonia keeps him in the Top 5 and well within reach of first place.
Villopoto never led any of the races but hunkered near the front of the pack applying pressure to the riders he trailed.
In Race 1, Shaun Simpson of Great Britian took the holeshot as Villopoto rounded the first turn in fourth but shortly after got pushed back a couple of positions. Simpson ran wide which gave Clement Desalle of Belgium an advantage and he took it. As the race wore on Villopoto managed to crawl into third and started to chase the Italian MXGP star Antonio Cairoli but Max Nagl of Germany emerged from eighth, passed Villopoto and left it for Desalle and Cairoli to battle it out for first, the victor being Desalle after Cairoli crashed on the last lap. Cairoli managed to quickly remount and hold off Nagl to take second.
In Race 2, Nagl, who swept Round 1, grabbed the holeshot but Desalle led the first five laps and went bar-to-bar with Nagl for a good portion of the race. A few mistakes by the Race 1 winner gave Nagl the edge and the lead for good. Cairoli later added pressure and passed Desalle and then Villopoto tried to round out the podium but ran out of time and ended in fourth.
Nagl, who followed his dominating performance in Round 1 with a fourth and 11th place effort in Thailand that dropped him to third-place, moved up a spot into second. His (3-1) day in Argentina gave him the overall though he tied in points with Desalle who went (1-3). Desalle opened the year finishing in second-place for the first two rounds including in all four races. He remains in first place with a 10 point lead over Desalle and Cairoli, who took second-place twice for third-place overall, just a point less than Nagl and Desalle.
Ryan Villopoto went (4-4) for fourth overall in MXGP Round 3 - All Photos MXGP
Villopoto missed the podium for the second round this year. Last time out, he dazzled with a (1-3) effort for first overall which came just a week after a somewhat disastrous start to his MXGP career when he went (9-8) for seventh overall. Villopoto is in fourth-place in the standings 17 points back from Cairoli.
It's not foreign territory for Villopoto, well maybe the country he's racing in, but not the point standings. In his 2011 Motocross Championship season, Villopoto started the year with one victory in six Motos, tallying three third-places, a second and fifth place in the first three rounds. Last year for his fourth-straight Supercross Championship, Villopoto started the year in fourth, won Round 2 and rolled up in fifth place for Round 3. And how can the 2013 Supercross season be forgotten when Villopoto finished in 16th for Round 1 before winning his third-straight Supercross Championship.
The MXGPs head to Cairoli's home country for MXGP of Trentino on April 19 in Pietramurata, Italy.
2015 MXGP Patagonia Argentina Overall Results
- Maximilian Nagl (3-1)
- Clement Desalle (1-3)
- Antonio Cairoli (2-2)
- Ryan Villopoto (4-4)
- Gautier Paulin (6-7)
- Jeremy Van Horebeek (9-5)
- Romain Febvre (8-6)
- Evgeny Bobryshev (5-10)
- Todd Waters (11-9)
- Glenn Coldenhoff (14-8)
2015 MXGP Season Standings
- Clement Desalle - BEL (133)
- Maximilian Nagl - GER (123)
- Antonio Cairoli - ITA (123)
- Ryan Villopoto - USA (106)
- Gautier Paulin - FRA (96)
- Romain Febvre - FRA (95)
- Evgeny Bobryshev - RUS (72)
- Todd Waters - AUS (62)
- Jeremy Van Horebeek - BEL (60)
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If you have ever watched speed runners struggle with any game, you know how precise and difficult these attempts can be. Just like in the Olympics, records are measured even in milliseconds, which are often crucial. This was also the case here.
Nevitsky He’s a live creator and YouTuber who, as he says in his channel description, “plays games twice his age and does it really fast.” This is a funny understatement because The boy currently holds the world record for the fastest achievement of the original Super Mario Bros. From 1985. He managed to break through last weekend Best approach so farwhich was also written by him.
An outstanding player again took the Any% challenge, which means that he can use all the tricks that allow you to skip certain parts of the game and thus save valuable time. Thanks to this, he was able to finish Super Mario Bros. Its an impressive timing of 4:54798.
A score of less than five minutes is in itself amazing for casual players, but the biggest surprise is the fact that The speedrunner broke the previous record with this approach (4: 54.881) By only 5 frames of animation, or 0.1 seconds. This is the level of accuracy required of fans of the unique style of the game.
Interestingly, all this was achieved on the emulator with the help of the keyboard. Niftski’s description video Explain:
The emulator that supports this game is 100% compatible with the original, which means that everything that can be done on the NES is also possible on the emulator. There is no point in using the keyboard, and one might say it is a worse option for the quick launch of this game.
With this achievement, we are getting closer to experiencing the ideal approach. Using technology designed to facilitate speed, fans Super Mario Bros. Discover The minimum amount of time that can be achieved by passing the game flawlessly and improving each click. With the latest record, Niftski is only 0.533 seconds away from this impressive result.
History is written before our eyes. Perhaps in the fifty years of existence of this famous game, we will be able to note which player will perfectly defeat it.
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While many online dating sites feature identical features, only some of them are built to cater to the LGBTQ community. OKCupid, for instance , targets the homosexual community while offering a large number of connections every year. Another app, Bumble, focuses on the trans community and is also designed to treat the sexuality imbalance inside dating applications. Users have the ability to search for potential partners depending on their position using GPS.
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When a parent cannot perform as an adequate provider for their children any longer, and the child is in danger of being submitted to the foster care system, it is often the child’s grandparent or grandparents that step up and assume the role of a guardian for their grandchild. This is not an idle undertaking and should not be trivialized. If you are considering becoming a guardian for your grandchild, or for any child, really, then the following questions and answers may be of use to you.
Do guardianships ever lead to adoption?
Yes. A guardian-grandparent has the right to seek partial or full custody if it’s in the best interests of the child. Of course, this simplifies it quite a bit; there are factors that go into considering the best interests of the child, and in this case that includes such things as the child’s health, safety and welfare.
Is the court required to conduct an investigation of the parent’s fitness before granting a guardianship?
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This is a 1-day intensive ultrasound workshop offered to anesthesiologists who wish to learn the BASIC skills of ultrasound guided nerve blocks.
At the end of this introductory course, participants would have acquired a thorough knowledge of the imaging and needling techniques for nerve blocks in the following regions of the body:
Supervised hands on scanning on live models
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Power BI Enterprise Content Packs
What are Power BI Content Packs and how do I use them? How can I access the Power BI Content Packs? Are there any security options with the Power BI Content Packs? Check out the examples in this tip to learn more.
As part of the Power BI tool set available at http://powerbi.microsoft.com, we have the ability to create content packs. Content packs provide a way to share Power BI objects, such as reports, datasets, or dashboards with individuals within your organization. The sharing takes places on the Power BI website and can be shared with just one individual or with multiple groups. The content packs provide a central location for organizations to create and maintain a standard report that can be shared among users.
One of the first items to note about content packs is you need to be using Power BI Pro in order to be able to deploy and share content packs. Also content packs can include:
- Excel Workbooks
Furthermore, content packs are made available only on your organization's Power BI website and any member who has access to the content pack has read only access to the data deployed in the pack (except for SSAS connections which use the user id of the person running the datasets / report to determine access). Once the content pack is deployed, future changes require a "republish" to be pushed out to anyone using that content pack unless the user has copied the content pack objects to a new dashboard except for security changes. If a user does copy and personalize the content pack's objects, then these items switch from read only to customizable.
Creating and Using Content Packs with Power BI
Let's get started on creating a new content pack in Power BI. In order to create a content pack, the dataset, workbook, or report must have already been deployed to the Power BI site, http://powerbi.microsoft.com. Once the object is on the site, you will then click on the gears button in the upper right corner of the screen to open up the settings. Next, you select Create content pack as show below.
As illustrated below, we next specify which users / groups will have access to the content pack, title it, and give it a detailed description.
Finally, we can upload or assign the content pack an image logo and most important, we select which dashboards, reports, and datasets are included in the content pack (this is why we must upload the items to the Power BI site first). You will notice that if you select a specific dashboard, then the related reports and datasets are automatically selected (see the grayed check boxes). Our last step is to click the Publish button.
If successful, we will get the below noted message.
Now, in order for a Power BI user within our organization to use the Content Pack, we use the Get Data option at the bottom of the Power BI navigation pane.
On the Get Data screen we use the left most option, My organization "Get" which is allows us to select content packs which have been published by Power BI designers within our organization.
After clicking the Get button, we can now select available content packs from our organization, The Great Murray Content Pack in the below example.
Power BI Content Pack Security
Now that our content pack is published, it would be a good time to discuss some of the security features of a published content pack. When you deploy a content pack via the publish function, you own that content pack and can make changes to the content pack including: 1) deleting 2) republishing 3) adjusting permissions 4) resetting refresh rates. We can also "view" the content pack, which is a bit of a misnomer as View option actually gives us the ability to edit or delete the content pack. Of course, once you create a content pack, you may want to maintain or edit it as the owner.
The good and bad of editing a content pack is once the pack has been published, any changes will require a content pack to be republished. The process of republishing a content pack pushes the changes to any and all Power BI users who have added the pack to their own dashboards. If you, as the content pack owner delete any objects from a content pack, the deleted object will be automatically removed from any related content packs that others have incorporated into their dashboard. As shown below, you are warned of this issue when deleting a content pack.
To the contrary, editing, though, gives you the ability to adjust: 1) the users and groups who have access to the content pack, 2) the title, the description, 3) the related images, 4) finally which dashboards, reports, and datasets are available for this content pack. The same rules that applied to deleting also apply to updating. If you remove or change an object from a content back in the update mode, these changes will be pushed out to all users using that content pack when the content pack is republished. Even if a user has copied and then customized a content pack, that user will receive notification that an updated version of the content pack is available. If a user is removed from the permissions to a content pack, then they will lose all related content pack objects the next time they open up that content pack (even if they added other customized objects to a copied dashboard).
Thus, as shown in the below example, we changed the Customer Profitability Report to add a new visualization. Upon saving the report we will be told that the report is attached to a content pack and changes will need to published to those report designers and viewers who are using this content pack
If we click on the View content packs button shown above, we are again at the edit screen. However, we now see a warning message that changes have been made to the content pack, and these changes need to be published.
We simply click Update on the Update content pack screen to push out the changes to content pack users.
Users of the content pack will see the following message about a new version being available; they will need to "Get" the content pack again in order to retrieve the updated version.
This tip covered the full circle process of creating, maintaining, using, and deleting content packs within the Power BI website. Content packs allow us to create templates based on datasets, reports, and dashboards that can be published to a central library. This library allows others in our organization to select and use these dashboards, reports, and datasets, or copy the objects to their own dashboard and then customize it. The whole process allows one person to design a report or dashboard and then easily share the content with an entire organization. Furthermore, permissions can easily be set for the content pack based on individual users or larger groups.
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Keeping dust and debris from damaging your test equipment when testing polymer matrix composites, fiber reinforced plastics and ceramic matrix composites can be challenging. Follow these simple suggestions to help protect valuable testing equipment and achieve better results.
Use Physical Barriers
- Wear latex gloves to protect your hands and the specimen.
- Shield yourself and the equipment from debris and dust with a Test Area Enclosure or an environmental chamber.
- Protect the grips by using a piece of latex rubber sheeting with the appropriate temperature rating to make a barrier between the base of the specimen and the top of the lower grip. The sheeting needs to have a hole that is slightly smaller than the specimen, so that it can be stretched over the specimen and then laid flat across the top of the lower grip.
- In an excessively dusty environment, place the standalone controller in an industrial cabinet that includes additional dust protection to prevent contamination.
Start with a Clean Specimen
- Make sure the specimen is dust-free before the test.
- Remove loose fibers so they do not fall into the grips during loading.
Vacuum Early & Often
- Remove fibers and specimen dust after each test with an industrial-rated vacuum cleaner designed for use with these materials.
- If possible, the vacuum cleaner should automatically start just before the specimen breaks so that most of the dust and debris can be collected before it compromises the test equipment.
- In servohydraulic systems, fibers or dust can enter the low-pressure seal area and cause leaking and damage as well as contaminate the system’s hydraulic fluid supply. Since composite testing debris like carbon fibers, glass fibers and ceramic dust function as abrasives, even smaller particles can be particularly damaging to hydraulic components. The best way to protect against this damage is to regularly use an industrial vacuum cleaner to remove the debris and dust.
- For grips, only use a minimal amount of grease to ensure that the wedges move easily in the grip body during closing and opening of the grips. Excessive use of grease will collect more fibers and specimen dust, instead of protecting the grips.
- For electromechanical systems, only lubricate the lead screw and ball screws slightly once a year. Inspect from time to time, and if contamination is noticed, clean the system.
Address Leaking Components Immediately
- If a significant leak exists in any of the system components, there is a high chance that fibers, dust or particles will get into the hydraulic fluid supply system, which can cause major problems in all test systems and hydraulic components that are a part of the hydraulic distribution system.
- Do not start a fatigue test with a leaking grip! At the first sign that some of the fibers are working into the grip bore or as soon as a noticeable oil leak occurs, the grips should be torn down, cleaned and re-sealed. Ensure that the working area is clean, to prevent contamination during the grip rebuilding. This cleaning is an inconvenience that may delay testing, but it is a preferable alternative to costly repairs.
- If the system actuator starts leaking, replace the actuator seals or at least check them for contamination. Using an environmental chamber and keeping the system clean will also help protect the actuator seals and minimize premature actuator wear and damage.
Keep Grips & Accessories Clean
- Clean the grips and fixtures with a vacuum cleaner after each test.
- At the end of the day, remove the wedges if applicable and carefully clean all components and surfaces of the grips.
- For fixtures that have bearings that are not able to move freely, clean and lubricate the bearings according to their type. Stainless steel bearings should be soaked in a strong solvent and vigorously rotated in the solvent until the grease and debris is removed. The bearing must be completely dry after the cleaning before it is lubricated again with white lithium grease. If the bearing still does not move freely after cleaning, it should be replaced.
- For environmental chambers, use a vacuum system to clean the dust from the inside of the chamber, and finish by cleaning the surfaces with a soft cloth.
- Keep extensometers clean and inspect them regularly for contamination. When not in use, remove them from the test area.
Protect Hydraulic System & Components
- If hydraulic hoses need to be disconnected, the environment must be completely dust free to prevent contamination of the hydraulic fluid. Contaminated fluid will damage the entire hydraulic system.
- Before removing a servovalve, everything should be cleaned very carefully. Use an appropriate solvent to wipe everything off before disconnecting the valve.
- Change oil filters as recommended in the maintenance manual for the hydraulic systems.
- If the hydraulic power unit is located in the test lab, and physical barriers are not present, then a hydraulic isolator could be used to minimize the risk of dust entering the oil reservoir through the breather and contaminating the hydraulic fluid.
- Check hydraulic fluid cleanliness at least once a year, or when the grips or actuator seals have been exchanged.
Additional Considerations for Servohydraulic Load Frames
- Using an actuator bellow will help protect the system. Connect the bellow below the grip and then it can rest on the base of the frame or be kept in place by magnetic forces.
- A crosshead-mounted actuator can minimize the risk of contamination, but there are other issues that come in play. For example, the alignment fixture and the load cell need to be mounted to the base. The load cell could be mounted to the moving actuator, but this might require acceleration compensation measures.
- Both a base-mounted and crosshead-mounted actuator will drop down when the system’s oil supply is shut off, but the crosshead-mounted actuator could damage the surfaces of the broken specimen, if the broken parts are not removed after the test. A base-mounted actuator is easier to service and as with a crosshead-mounted actuator, it is critical to keep the system and actuator clean.
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Steve Boom, VP, Amazon Music has spoken about the impact of the new HD streaming tier.
In the latest issue of Music Week, Boom opens up about the growth of Amazon Music, which recently reported 55 million users globally.
Amazon Music rolled out the HD service in September 2019, offering 50 million songs in premium quality. It launched in the UK, US, Germany, Austria and Japan.
“Besides the obvious reasons that we think it matters, one of the reasons we launched HD was that there are certain audiences who have been slower to come on [to streaming] for whom [sound quality] is more relevant than others,” said Boom.
In the UK, Amazon Music HD is £14.99, or £12.99 for Prime members. So what’s the take-up been for the HD option? Boom declined to give numbers but he did discuss what is performing well on the tier.
“It's doing really well,” said Boom “It's exceeding our plan, so we're really happy with it. It's continuing to grow. When we read the feedback from consumers, it’s really, really positive. And we're seeing some things that maybe we weren't anticipating.”
It’s changing the conversation when we meet with labels and managers
While Boom suggested that Amazon Music HD might have expected to perform well in typical ‘audiophile’ genres such as jazz and classical music, in the US hip-hop is over indexing on the hi-res audio service.
“The number two genre [on HD] is hip-hop and in our regular service, hip-hop's our number three genre,” said Boom. “So it's actually more important in the HD service than it is in our regular service. And if you look at just the Top 10 artists [in HD], they're really big, mainstream artists. So we're seeing that it matters to people across the listening spectrum. I've actually been really pleased to see that. It's quite a broad variety.”
For the individual user, the Amazon Music HD experience actually varies depending on the audio equipment and the repertoire. As well as HD (CD quality) and Ultra HD, the service works with 3D Audio (360 Reality Audio and Dolby Atmos) on the new Echo Studio devices. Sam Smith’s latest single To Die For is among the new releases in 3D Audio, while recent albums from Stormzy, Halsey and Billie Eilish have been made available in Ultra HD.
“When we first launched the service, Neil Young was singing our praises,” said Boom. “We hear that time and time again, people are so happy that one of the big services really is putting music first and really cares about the quality of the audio that they're giving to the consumer.”
Amazon Music is already growing in significance in the UK. With the HD service, it remains to be seen if they have stolen a march on their big rivals.
“It’s changing the conversation when we meet with labels and managers and we’re talking about new albums coming out,” said Boom. “They're excited to tell us the quality of the audio that an album is coming out in, and people are changing their plans because Amazon is doing this now. People that weren't considering doing that stuff before are now saying, ‘This is important’. It's great for the listener.”
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Building another 100-day habit:
- Review 1 Storytelling With Data challenge gallery per week.
- Pick 1 submission per weekday and tweet its link. Identify:
- 1 effective / theft-worthy feature
- 1 idea for improvement
- A takeaway title
- Stick to time budget of 15–30 minutes per day, before 10:30 PM Eastern
- Critiquing models—for both strengths and weaknesses—is one of my most effective learning habits: in writing, teaching writing, UI design… so why not also dataviz unto data stories?
- I will learn more by practicing this habit frequently.
- Continuing this habit over 20 weeks will build a nice collection of 100+ models that I can revisit in future.
- Building this collection on Twitter will force me to be pithy while turning that account to good use (given that I prefer personal communication but see the value of making work visible online).
- Sticking to clear time limits will help me prioritize (get to the point faster!).
Each Saturday, write a mini-recap in my wrex (30–45 minutes). Flexible week to week:
- Pick 5 ahead of time or as I go?
- Include 0, 1, or 2 additional selections in my mini-recap?
- Read recap by SWD team before, during, after, or not at all?
- Take an extra 1–3 hours and try the challenge myself?
SWD currently has 39 challenges online, 1 per month from January 2018 onward. The next 20 weeks will add another 5, for April through August. Here are my top 5+5 of current interest:
# refers to total submissions (minus recap)
|mobile||adapt a chart or dashboard created for monitor||20||2019 Aug|
|tables||design a table that fits its purpose & content well||57||2020 Sep|
|maps||identify data that lends itself well to a map||58||2021 Mar|
|b&w||make an effective monochromatic communication||40||2020 Jun|
|bars & lines||plot both together in a way that makes sense||48||2019 Nov|
Grouped in 4 clusters of 5 weeks.
Pick a small reward for each 25-day milestone! Worked well with my CollectUI-browsing habit in 2019/2020 (e.g. buy an ebook I’ve wanted).
1st milestone: May 1st
2nd milestone: June 5th
3rd milestone: July 10th
4th & final milestone: August 14th
Updated 2021 April, May, June, July 2 … Current total: 43 challenges.
Grouped by prompt category (my headings): message type (5), viz type (16), remake (8), other constraint (10), and expand horizons (4).
In reverse chronological order per category. Counts per gallery (#) are hyperlinked to recap by SWD team. Asterisks mark my initial top 10.
MESSAGE TYPE (5 challenges)
VIZ TYPE (16 challenges)
REMAKE (8 challenges)
OTHER CONSTRAINT (10 challenges)
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You wouldn't think it's the brightest of ideas to spray paint police cars.
Doing it outside a police station? That's just plain stupid.
Hounslow Police say officers caught the woman "red handed" after she was seen graffitiing three police cars outside the station, on Montague Road.
The force confirmed she has been arrested.
The MPS Hounslow Twitter account tweeted an image of the graffitied police cars on Wednesday morning (July 24). One of the cars has the word 'puta' spray painted onto it.
Puta is a Spanish word which means prostitute or wh***. Depending on the context, it can also mean fu***** or bi***.
MPS Hounslow tweeted: "Female arrested for criminal damage after being caught literally red handed by ResponseTeamA after three police cars were graffitied outside Hounslow police station over the past two nights.
"Luckily the vehicles are all now back in service and able to respond to your calls."
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[caption id="attachment_2066" align="alignnone" width="576"] My Easter Egger hen, and friends, foraging in the yard[/caption] Chicken watching... There is something magical about it. Like watching the ocean or the ever changing colors at sunset on canyon walls or clouds as they roll across the vast skies of prairie states. Perhaps it’s the movement in all of it that enthralls us. We are linked to nature’s rhythm at our deepest levels and chickens do it for us, just as oceans, canyon colors and prairie skies. So in the evening I sit down with a book and a glass of wine, intent on reading under the oak tree. I don’t get past the first page because there is so much activity that I start to watch chickens. It is mesmerizing, beyond belief. They chortle to each other, the roosters dance, and strut sideways trying to impress and entice, the hens run not wishing to be impressed. Lenore is chasing a bug, zigging and zagging. Grey Lady is fixing her feathers, there are two Easter Eggers, Gracie and Sally, facing head on preening each other’s beards. [caption id="attachment_2067" align="alignleft" width="356"] The girls, preening[/caption] Maxine, Laverne and Shirley, the three Faverolles, come and sit down to watch me and I admire their always gentle closeness. From inside the coop I can hear the loud cackling of an egg layer so proud of her seemingly supreme effort. Then a wild bird has the audacity to land on the edge of the feed dish and is promptly and zealously chased off by the Red Star, Elizabeth. There is so much pecking and scratching going on. Everywhere someone is in motion and the communication in chuckling, chirps, chipping, and chortling, if you listen closely, all has meaning. It amazes me, and causes me to question my sanity because I am beginning to understand exactly what they are saying. It is a society with its rules, habits, special friends, enemies, and systems for survival. They are so busy and so happy. Smart too. They know my truck and come running from the four corners as I drive home. [caption id="attachment_2068" align="alignright" width="300"] Buff Orpington pullet, perching[/caption] Sometimes when I hold a silkie-feathered, warm, fluffy bird in my arms I know I am blessed by the opportunity to experience such a peaceful, comforting moment in life. It is a special time for both of us and with two hearts beating so close together the loving exchange is all encompassing and I am compelled to pray and thank God for such wondrous creatures in my life. Who would have thought that a simple chicken would have had so much to offer. The egg is an awesome thing, but that is the least this marvelous creature has brought to my life. | <urn:uuid:b0f4f118-3d46-4a41-ac9a-b3570ac4ff41> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.mypetchicken.com/blogs/our-blog/chicken-watching | 2023-09-27T12:39:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.952494 | 641 |
Amidst the bustling digital landscape of Malaysia, one marketing strategy has claimed the spotlight: influencer marketing. As brands increasingly turn to influencers to amplify their products and services, a pertinent question arises – is influencer marketing Malaysia truly living up to the hype? In this comprehensive exploration, we will dissect common misconceptions and unveil the truths surrounding this dynamic marketing strategy, empowering you to discern whether it holds the key to unlocking your brand’s success.
Misconception 1: Influencer Marketing is Just a Trend
Longevity in the Digital Space
Influencer marketing often faces the unfounded accusation of being a fleeting trend. However, this narrative couldn’t be further from the truth. Rather than a transient phenomenon, influencer marketing has showcased its remarkable staying power over the years. It has seamlessly adapted to new platforms and evolving digital technologies, proving its ability to integrate with changing consumer behaviors and preferences.
Evolving with Consumer Behavior
In the era of ad-blocking and skepticism toward traditional advertising, influencer marketing has positioned itself as an adaptive strategy. The shift in consumer behavior towards trusting peer reviews and personal recommendations has propelled influencer marketing Malaysia to even greater relevance. Far from a mere trend, it’s a strategy that aligns with the contemporary consumer’s preference for authentic endorsements.
Beyond the Hype
While the sheen of trendiness might obscure its essence, the true effectiveness of influencer marketing is rooted in the authentic connections formed between influencers and their followers. These connections, fostered through relatable content and genuine engagement, have the potential to cultivate long-term brand loyalty – a testament to the enduring impact of this strategy.
Misconception 2: Influencer Marketing Doesn't Offer Real ROI
Among the most persistent myths is the notion that influencer marketing fails to provide tangible and measurable results. Yet, with the right set of key performance indicators (KPIs), the efficacy of influencer marketing can be quantified. Metrics ranging from engagement rates and click-through rates to conversion rates provide insightful data that informs your campaign’s impact.
Compared to traditional advertising channels, influencer marketing has gained recognition for its potential cost-effectiveness. The crux of unlocking this cost-efficiency lies in selecting influencers who align seamlessly with your brand’s values and resonate with your target audience. By optimizing this alignment, influencer marketing Malaysia can deliver substantial returns on your investment.
Quality Over Quantity
Influencer marketing transcends numerical metrics; it’s about precision in audience targeting. The focus isn’t solely on reaching a large audience; rather, it’s about reaching the right audience. A meticulously executed influencer marketing campaign in Malaysia can yield high-quality leads that exhibit a higher likelihood of conversion, making every engagement count.
The Role of Authenticity
In the realm of influencer marketing Malaysia is embracing, authenticity is not merely a buzzword – it’s the linchpin that can make or break a campaign. The modern consumer is armed with a finely tuned radar for detecting insincere endorsements. They seek relatable content that aligns with their values, and this is where authenticity emerges as the ultimate currency.
An influencer marketing agency in Malaysia recognizes that authenticity is not a veneer but a foundational element of successful campaigns. It’s about pairing your brand with influencers who genuinely resonate with its ethos. When an influencer’s endorsement feels natural and aligned, it establishes an emotional connection that resonates deeply with their audience.
Gone are the days of conspicuous product placements and rehearsed endorsements. Authenticity has given rise to influencers who engage in transparent conversations with their followers, sharing personal experiences and candid opinions. An influencer marketing campaign in Malaysia thrives when influencers can organically integrate your brand into their content, seamlessly blending it with their own narrative.
Consumers no longer want to be talked at; they want to be engaged in meaningful conversations. This shift demands that influencers mirror real-life interactions, translating to genuine recommendations that mirror word-of-mouth referrals from friends. As brands seek to penetrate the hearts and minds of their target audience, authenticity acts as the bridge that fosters trust, credibility, and lasting customer loyalty. In essence, authenticity transforms influencer marketing from a transactional endeavor into an immersive storytelling experience that ignites genuine connections between brands and their audience.
To identify the perfect influencer, seek those whose values align with your brand’s ethos, whose following reflects your target audience, and whose engagement rates indicate a genuine connection with their followers.
While particularly effective for B2C businesses, influencer marketing can also be harnessed by B2B companies targeting industry leaders and decision-makers.
Campaign costs are variable, contingent upon factors like influencer reach and campaign scope. Budgets in Malaysia may range from a few hundred Ringgit to several thousands.
While a DIY approach is possible, an agency brings expertise and resources, ensuring a campaign’s comprehensive success through strategic planning and execution.
Success can be gauged through metrics such as engagement rates, click-through rates, and overall ROI. Establish these KPIs before initiating your campaign to effectively track progress.
Far from being an overrated phenomenon, influencer marketing in Malaysia stands as a dynamic and impactful strategy. Its true potential emerges when wielded with understanding and finesse. At MYSense, we specialize in crafting influencer marketing campaigns that resonate with your brand’s essence, connecting you with your target audience and driving tangible results.
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1939 Playball #26 Joe DiMaggio Yankees SGC 4
You are purchasing a 1939 Playball Joe Dimaggio #26 SGC 4. You will receive the exact card in the photographs. Thank you for looking. Just Collect is always aggressively buying vintage baseball cards and collections from 1879-1979. Please contact us for more information about how to sell your baseball cards and/or Memorabilia. Listed With Mascot. | <urn:uuid:2e57877c-89a1-4404-b2e4-0f59b04708e0> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.myslabs.com/slab/view/1199183/ | 2023-09-27T11:10:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.869766 | 93 |
Antique Map Print of Victoria & Esquimalt
Beautiful old antique map print of Victoria & Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada.
Made with thick & creamy eco-friendly, archival, acid-free, fine art bamboo paper.
Ships flat with 100% recycled backboard, and package insert made with FSC-certified paper. Made in Canada!
11" x 17" print. Larger sizes available: please contact us for details.
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Planning for Inventory Returns
Retailers are in the midst of the holiday peak. While the sales peak ends at Christmas for most, the inventory returns peak is yet to come. This annual phenomenon invariably creates waves, especially if you sell products with typically high return rates (e.g., footwear and apparel).
Consider that a return rate of 20 percent for a retailer with top-line demand of $50 million means $10 million in returned sales. Then take the reduction in gross margin dollars and add the cost of processing the returns. It’s clear that returns can strongly impact a retailer's bottom line.
Thus it’s incumbent upon merchants and inventory planners to try to reduce returns … or at least plan around them as best they can. Here are four areas to key on:
1. Understand the causes of returns and fix them wherever possible. To reduce returns you must understand the reasons behind them. If you’re not already doing so, put processes in place to record the reason for every return. With analysis you can take corrective action, such as improving marketing communications so both art and copy clearly communicate the product to consumers. Make sure your sizing is rigorously consistent across all product lines and communicated clearly and often.
2. Factor returns into your product assortment planning. While you can’t eliminate returns, you can at least compensate for them. If you’re able to shift your product mix to increase demand in those categories with lower return rates, you'll achieve higher total net sales. It’s that simple.
3. Consider returns in your inventory planning to optimize fulfillment and cash flow. Returned inventory lowers sales and reduces profits. The timing and management of returns can also impact fiscal sales and profit as they relate to order fulfillment and inventory turnover. To optimize inventory and maximize fulfillment and cash flow, inventory planners need to apply the following best practices:
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The one time Microsoft staple, Windows XP, saw quite a lot of success. It was easy to load and easy to use and users took to it very fast. Then Microsoft introduced the Windows Vista, which was relatively less popular and people continued to be happy with their Win XP OS. The introduction of Windows 7, thus, came as a shock for most users because it had improved vastly certain factors that made it convenient to use and increased its usefulness thereby enhancing the overall computing experience.
Some of the features that were unique to Windows 7 or were in a much improved state when compared to the older versions of Windows operating system are:
- Outlook express, which was the trusted mailing option for many, was done away with.
- Was available in both 32bit and 64bit versions with users getting a choice between the two depending on the computer hardware they possessed.
- The Aero desktop made Windows 7 the prettiest Operating system version till date.
- A completely reworked Start menu which used a conservative folder system.
- It also came with the Ribbon interface.
- Libraries, introduced in Windows 7, actually had the capability of grouping similar files together thereby making it easier for the user to find them.
- Online games were perhaps the biggest gainers with the DirectX 11 becoming an integral part of the Windows 7.
- The HomeGroup enabled simple, easy to setup and much more stable connections thereby doing away with guesswork or troubleshooting.
- Windows 7 too came with Touch support wherein this facility was introduced for the first time on a computer interface.
Windows 7 Product Key
While these characteristics made Windows 7 an operating system of interest, upgradation to this wonderful offering from Microsoft needed to be protected too. Thus this too had the concept of a product key or a 25character code comprising of characters grouped uniquely in sets of 5. Each genuine Windows 7 purchase had a product key either:
- On the sticker of a preloaded computer,
- As an email when Windows 7 was purchased online,
- On the box when purchased in its CD or DVD form etc.
Thus irrespective of the form this operating was obtained in, every legally purchased version needed a Windows 7 product key to activate and run the OS installed. Thus the functioning of the computer itself was not possible without the presence of the product key; such was its importance. Today too, the states of things remain the same.
Activation of the Windows 7 product key
The term activation using a product key refers to the process of registering the operating system, Windows 7 in this case, with Microsoft thereby legalising it. Microsoft normally gives a period of 30days for the activation of any new operating system purchased and installed. The same too is applicable with Windows 7.
In fact the seriousness of this activation lies in the fact that if no activation is done within the 30day period provided, some important features of Windows 7 gets disabled till such time as the activation is not done. This feature has been added so as to prevent piracy of the Windows 7 operating system. Thus it is always better and easier to get the activation done with the help of the product key provided during installation.
But in instances wherein automatic activation of the Windows 7 does not happen during the installation process, the same can be done by using any of the processes given below:
By using the internet:
The sequence of steps involved are:
- Clicking the Start button and selecting Properties helps to open a window displaying the System Properties,
- Selecting the Activate Windows option present at the bottom.
- The Windows 7 product key needs to be entered at the prompt and
- Clicking on the Next tab starts the process of activation of Windows 7 over the internet.
Over the telephone:
In this process too, the start button has to be clicked, the properties tab selected so as to open the System Properties Window. Then:
- The activate now link present at the bottom of the windows screen needs to be selected,
- From the Activation menu which gets opened, the option which prompts the user to use other ways of activation needs to be selected,
- The Windows 7 product key should now be entered at the prompt,
- The option for automated phone system use has to be selected then and, if prompted, the admin password needs to be provided,
- From the list of phone numbers and its corresponding installation ID, the phone numbers pertaining to locations nearest to the user needs to be called, the installation ID provided when prompted on connection and the confirmation number provided for the activation needs to be jotted down.
- This confirmation number needs to be input into the already opened activation window and the Next button clicked to complete the rest of the steps of the process.
By using the modem:
Using the process similar to getting the activation done over the phone, the other ways to activate option has to be selected. The Windows 7 product key then needs to be entered at the prompt. Then the activation using the modem option selected from the next window that opens after clicking on Next. This might also need an admin password and hence the same needs to be entered, if asked for.
Selecting the nearest location from the list and clicking on the Next tab again will try to connect and complete the activation process. A confirmation message is provided once the activation is successfully done. In order to check if the activation has been properly done, the System Properties Windows needs to be opened again. A short message stating that Windows 7 has been activated can be seen at the bottom of the screen. In this way the user can be doubly sure that the Windows 7 operating system has been actually activated. The product key used for the installation needs to be stored properly and securely so that it can be used again if Windows 7 needs to be reinstalled. | <urn:uuid:c127cc25-2795-4a7b-9049-7c17e7bd69a0> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.namasteui.com/windows-7-product-key-need-and-activation/ | 2023-09-27T11:49:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.93618 | 1,176 |
1,000 drops = 50 ml
50 ml high-dose vitamin B12. With both the active forms of B12: methylcobalamin & adenosylcobalamin in a ratio of 2:1.
100 % VEGAN AND WITHOUT UNDESIRABLE ADDITIVES
This vitamin B12 is free of flavouring, colouring, stabilisers and magnesium stearate. It is not genetically modified and is free of lactose, gluten, and gelatine.
SPECTRUM OF ACTION
Vitamin B12 plays a role in many body functions such as:
Normal energy metabolism
Normal immune system function
Normal formation of red blood cells
Note: The stated recommended daily dose must not be exceeded! Nutritional supplements are no replacement for a balanced and varied diet. Keep nutritional supplements out of the reach of young children.
Storage: keep well closed and in a cool place.
Free from artificial flavors
Free from artificial colors
Free from preservatives
Without genetic technology
Vegetable glycerin, distilled water, vitamin B12* (methylcobalamin, 5-deoxyadenosylcobalamin).
* from a non-EU country
Important Notes: Food supplements should not be used as a substitute for a balanced, varied diet and a healthy lifestyle. Do not exceed the recommended daily intake stated. Not suitable for pregnant women and nursing mothers.
Characteristics Ohne Alkohol
Take 2 drops daily. 1 drop contains 250 µg vitamin B12.
Storage:Keep closed, cool, dry and protected from light. Store out of reach of small children.
|Vitamins||per daily dose||NRV**|
|Vitamin B12||500 ||20000 |
NRV*:* (2 drops)
** Percentage of the nutrient reference values according to Regulation VO (EU) 1169/2011 (LMIV)
*** No nutrient reference values known
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New Fortress finalises agreements for Lakach development
US floating LNG developer New Fortress Energy said November 22 it had finalised agreements with Mexico’s state-owned oil company Pemex underpinning the development of the Lakach natural gas field in the Gulf of Mexico.
The agreements comprise a long-term strategic partnership, with the full support of Mexican president Andres Manual Lopez Obrador, to complete an integrated upstream and gas liquefaction development of Lakach, at 937bn ft3of reserves one of the largest non-associated gas fields in the Gulf. Lakach is located in deep Gulf waters some 90 km off the coast of Veracruz.
The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NGC) NGC’s HSSE strategy is reflective and supportive of the organisational vision to become a leader in the global energy business.
NFE will invest in the Lakach development by drilling seven offshore wells over the next two years and deploying its 1.4mn metric tons/year floating LNG (FLNG) unit Sevan Driller to liquefy most of the produced gas. Sevan Driller is currently undergoing conversion at a shipyard in Singapore.
In a separate statement, Pemex said the 10-year development plan at Lakach would see production of about 300mn ft3/day, with 190mn ft3/day going to NFE for liquefaction and the remaining 110bn ft3/day piped ashore to meet domestic Mexican demand. Production could begin as early as the first quarter of 2024.
Pemex and NFE will also examine the possibility of extending the life of the Lakach development considerably by developing the nearby Kunak and Piklis fields, which would increase the region’s resource potential to about 3.3 trillion ft3.
“We are pleased to finalise our strategic partnership with Pemex, which strengthens our commitment to long-term operations in Mexico and we believe demonstrates the substantial value of our integrated natural gas infrastructure business model,” NFE CEO Wes Edens said. “This arrangement represents the first of what we consider to be an ideal formula for the deployment of NFE’s FLNG units to stranded gas plays around the world – one that combines gas for domestic use with low-cost supply for LNG export into global markets.”
Under the agreements, NFE will provide upstream services to Pemex for the production of natural gas and condensate in return for a fixed fee on each unit of production. The fee is expected to resemble industry-standard gross profit-sharing agreements between a service provider and the owner of the resource.
NFE will have the right to purchase sufficient natural gas for its FLNG unit, while Pemex will market the remaining natural gas and all of the produced condensate.
Lakach was discovered by Pemex in 2007 but its future development was put on hold in 2014 amidst declining world oil prices. By then, Pemex had already invested $1.4bn in the field, and NFE expects to supplement this initial investment with $1bn of its own, the Pemex statement said.
“Pemex is pleased to finalise this strategic partnership with NFE, a leading energy infrastructure company,” Pemex CEO Octavio Romero Oropeza said. “We believe this partnership will enable Pemex to efficiently leverage our domestic natural gas resources, fulfill Mexico’s security of supply targets, and facilitate gas-fired power infrastructure development in the region.” | <urn:uuid:95760bfb-4d9e-41b8-aed0-84630d013ae2> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.naturalgasworld.com/new-fortress-finalises-agreements-for-lakach-development-102233 | 2023-09-27T12:24:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.930773 | 747 |
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A tourist who came from overseas with the alleged intent to enslave a child for sexual abuse is among 238 suspects arrested in the Los Angeles area during the past two months by the the Internet Crimes Against Children task force, officials said Monday.
The man had engaged in online communications "to buy" a 6-year-old boy, according to John Reynolds, acting special agent in charge of the Los Angeles field office of Homeland Security Investigations.
Others arrested during the crackdown operation included a monk allegedly in possession of child pornography at a Riverside monastery, Reynolds said. At Monday's news conference, he did not name the monk or the man from overseas.
In another child pornography case that dates to last December, a federal grand jury returned a two count indictment of Mark Salling, an actor known for his work in the TV program "Glee." Earlier this month, Salling pleaded not guilty and was scheduled for trial next month.
Across the nation, all 61 regional task forces of the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) law enforcement network participated in "Operation Broken Heart III" during April and May.
The largest percentage of the cases involve possession and distribution of child pornography.
At Monday's briefing in Los Angeles, the task force allowed news media a look inside an RV that has been outfitted to serve as a mobile forensics lab.
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Installed computer equipment enables investigators conducting search warrants to bring with them the tools required to search digital device for evidence of child pornography, said Brian Arnett, an LAPD officer and digital forensics expert assigned to the task force. The RV also affords room to conduct interviews with suspects and others.
It's believed the majority of child pornography is created in Eastern Europe, and initially distributed from there, Arnett said.
Of even greater concern to the task force are predators who attempt to contact or enslave children, engaging in crimes that include sexual exploitation, child prostitution, and sex tourism.
In publicizing the arrests, the task force hopes to raise awareness and encourage parents to speak with their children about avoiding dangers when they go online, said Reynolds.
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As a white person, I was raised to be racially illiterate. On the rare occasion in which race came up in school or professional development, we typically studied “them,” not “us.” I learned about their histories, struggles and triumphs. But consistently left off the table was the question: “Histories, struggles and triumphs in relation to whom?”
Take the Jackie Robinson story. Robinson is celebrated as the first African-American to break the so-called color line and play in Major League Baseball. While Robinson was certainly an exceptional baseball player, framing the story this way depicts him as racially special. The subtext is that Robinson was the first black athlete strong enough to overcome the barriers preventing blacks from competing with whites; no black athletes before him were skilled enough to do so. While this tagline elevates Robinson as an individual, it implicitly positions African-Americans overall as inferior. It also falsely propagates the belief that racism in sports ended with Robinson, implying that current struggles against racism in sports are unnecessary.
Narratives of racial exceptionality obscure the reality of ongoing institutional white control while reinforcing individualism and the illusion of meritocracy.
Such narratives of racial exceptionality obscure the reality of ongoing institutional white control while reinforcing individualism and the illusion of meritocracy. Importantly, these narratives do whites a disservice by promoting racial illiteracy, leaving us with simplistic explanations for racial inequality. By not naming what those barriers were, who put them there, and how they were removed, we are also denied much needed anti-racist role models. In Robinson’s case, these role models are the white people who actually changed the rules and opened professional sports leagues to African-American players.
Historical narratives of racial exceptionality also leave us unprepared to address current conditions. For example, they hide the role of race in the response to the opioid crisis versus the crack epidemic, the Parkland shooting versus the Black Lives Matter movement, gentrification versus Flint, Michigan, the Bundy Standoff versus Standing Rock. We are left without the analysis needed to engage with these deeply complex social dynamics.
Imagine instead, if the story of Jackie Robinson went something like this: “Jackie Robinson was the first black man whites allowed to play major-league baseball.” This telling acknowledges the role of white control. It simply wasn’t up to Robinson. Had he walked onto the field before being granted permission by white owners and policy makers, the police would have removed him. Critically, the real Jackie Robinson story is a story of the relationship between blacks and whites in this country, between this individual black man and a white institution. Reframing race in the Jackie Robinson story reveals white structures of power and the strategies used by those who contested that power, strategies that we can build upon today as we work for racial justice.
As a product of my culture, my racial illiteracy has rested on a simplistic definition of a racist: an individual who consciously does not like people based on race and is intentionally hurtful to them. Based on this definition, racists are purposely mean. It follows that nice people with good intentions who are friendly to people of a different race cannot be racist. Not only does this definition hide the structural nature of racism, it also enables self-delusion: If I am a nice person with good intentions I am free of all racial bias and cannot participate in racism. Within this limited paradigm, to simply suggest that as a white person, my race has meaning and grants unearned advantage, much less to suggest that I have absorbed racist messages which may cause me to behave in racist ways — consciously or not — will be deeply disconcerting. The mainstream definition of a racist set me up beautifully to not only deny any impact of racial socialization, but also to receive any suggestion of racially problematic behavior as a personal blow — a questioning of my very moral character. Of course I would take umbrage, feel hurt, attacked and misunderstood; this is what I term white fragility.
Yet regardless of my intentions, these defensive reactions only protect the racist status quo. Those of us who profess to believe in racial equality have to challenge our understanding of racism in ways that don’t uphold it. We also need to build our skills and stamina for the racial discomfort engendered by a new paradigm.
The mainstream definition of a racist set me up beautifully to not only deny any impact of racial socialization, but also to receive any suggestion of racially problematic behavior as a personal blow... this is what I term white fragility.
While I was raised to see myself as somehow “innocent” of race, a lifetime of socialization as a white person does provide me insight into the ways my race shapes my frameworks, assumptions and responses, which in turn shape my identity, community and politics. I can speak as an “insider” to my socialization into whiteness: the messages of superiority I have received, patterns I have developed, advantages I enjoy and the personal and institutional challenges I face when seeking to counter racism. I am not, in fact, innocent of race.
Further, people of color have been providing us with the feedback we need for centuries, but our biases have prevented us from granting legitimacy to their voices. Those same biases make us more receptive to the information when we hear it from other white people. This makes it all the more critical that white people use our positions to break with white solidarity and hold one another accountable.
There are of course, inherent dilemmas when white people step up to address racism. Mainstream society has not prepared most of us to engage across race in an informed and thoughtful way. Given this, even those of us who have worked long and hard to develop racial literacy are all too often clumsy and hurtful. We tend to center ourselves instead of stepping back, listening more, and proceeding with humility. Still, we don’t gain literacy by studying alone, we gain fluency through practice.
All of us have a part to play, but the ultimate responsibility for addressing racism lies with those who control the institutions — white people. Jackie Robinson could not have broken the color barrier on his own. If I don’t understand racism as a deeply embedded system that I have been shaped by and participate in, my inaction will uphold it. In other words, as long as whiteness remains unnamed it will continue to reproduce racial inequality. To de-center whiteness it must be centered differently — in ways that expose its strategies so that we can challenge them. Because the question of whether I have been shaped by and participate in the forces of racism is not a question of if, but of how. | <urn:uuid:46cce782-01fd-4da4-ad36-c3277d28c776> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/white-people-are-still-raised-be-racially-illiterate-if-we-ncna906646 | 2023-09-27T13:05:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.961332 | 1,367 |
Our roster of talented artists grows every day, including four up-and-coming music acts that you can book for the upcoming semester; including Fall Orientation, Family Weekend, Homecoming Events, and Fall Fest Activities.
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With an audience of over 1.2M across YouTube & Facebook and over 160M views, Andie Case is a loud & unforgiving talent whose music showcases the heart and life of a not so ordinary girl. Her fun-loving pop song “Bubblegum and Cigarettes,” which was supported by pride.com and Flaunt Magazine and “Mysterious” which is the first time the singer steps out to write a song about a female love interest after coming out as bi-sexual earlier in the year.
In 2017, Sabrina Carpenter presented Andie Case and Mike Tompkins MTV’s Cover of the Year award for their cover of Zedd’s hit song “Stay.” Andie has won the online talent competition Megastar and took home a grand prize of $1M presented by Usher.
Meg+Tyler is a pop-country duo comprised of the powerhouse couple Meghan Linsey and Tyler Cain. The two met in a Nashville recording studio 7 years ago and just announced their engagement this past week.
Meghan is a #1Billboard Recording Artist and NBC’s The Voice runner-up, while Tyler is a music producer with songwriting credit on a Grammy-nominated “Country Album of the Year”. Tyler has over 2 million plays on Spotify
The pair records songs for major tv shows and movies, including Netflix’s hit show Queer Eye, the NASCAR Awards and the title track of “Life On The Line” a major motion picture starring JohnTravolta.
Tiphanie Doucet is a French artist based in New York. Her emotionally disarming performances deceive in their simplicity, often times consisting of nothing more than her voice and a guitar, occasionally accompanied by a violinist. Yet, they nevertheless arrest audiences through their quiet, brooding intensity, holding a vulnerability that’s offset by a wintry, gallic allure.
Tiphanie Doucet got her start early on in the music and entertainment world. A starring role in the film Le bébé d’Elsa, and later in the Glee-like TV series “Chante”, gave her popularity in her native France, and the unlikely foundations for what would be a very eclectic musical trajectory. After leaving France, Doucet decided to gamble it all and start fresh in America. She released her first single “Lucky guy” with Grammy-nominated producer Jason Agel, whose work can be heard in productions by everyone from Kanye West to Björk to Beyonce.
A year later, she released her debut album “Under My Sun”, a collection of rustic, yet polished folk numbers produced by David Baron and Simone Felice, who have worked with the likes of Lumineers and Jade Bird.
Iris is a singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist specializing in catchy indie/pop music. Iris partnered with Stephen Estrada and together co-wrote their album, Blue Sky by He & She. It became the #1 most downloaded album in the Warner/Chappell’s music library. Those songs have played in various television shows around the world including House Hunters and Dr. Phil and can be heard in viral videos, some with over 30 million views. | <urn:uuid:6910c24e-8f26-43c4-8601-39eb071c47b6> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.neon-entertainment.com/blog/2019/06/24/new-music-acts-for-fall-2019/ | 2023-09-27T12:08:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.962606 | 770 |
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As soon as your final destination is reached, your household goods will be professionally unloaded with the same care and attention to detail with which they were loaded. Our expert crews know that shipments going through international moving require extra care due to the more rigorous transport. Neptune International Movers' crew has plenty of experience in the appropriate unloading and unpacking methods.
When working with our experts, you can expect:
• English-speaking crew leaders will be available to assist you at delivery.
• All items will be carefully unloaded and crosschecked with your inventory list and will be placed in the correct rooms.
• Fragile items, such as glass and china, will be unpacked on flat surfaces.
• All packing materials and debris will be quickly removed from your home.
• In the unlikely event that any item in your shipment is damaged, Neptune International Movers can settle claims quickly and easily through our in-house claims department. Our online claim settlement process enables you to submit a claim at the click of a button, allowing you to focus on your new life. We don't expect that anything should happen to your belongings while in our care. But should an issue arise, Neptune International Movers' claims department can handle it quickly and professionally.
Once we are finished, you will be asked to sign and date a packing list as the last step in your international moving process. This is confirmation that all items have been delivered. You will also be asked to sign a delivery report or 'Out turn Report.' This report will clearly state the condition of your consignment when unpacked. Your crew will return your delivery report and packing list to your Coordinator to confirm that your consignment has been delivered completely to your satisfaction.
When you trust Neptune for your international moving, you can rest assured knowing you will be met with quality service every step of the way. From the packing of your belongings to the unloading and unpacking of your shipment, Neptune handles your international moving from beginning to end. You can depend on Neptune to be your consummate international moving company. | <urn:uuid:ad0aa1ee-8102-4575-a5a4-c07577a07a4b> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.neptunemovers.com/guides/delivery-unpacking.html | 2023-09-27T11:22:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.935659 | 493 |
Loot Crate vs. Nerd Block – April 2014
Loot Crate and Nerd Block are two very big subscription box companies. They both have a large fan base and they both consistently give out awesome product in their boxes. Loot Crate costs $13.37 a month plus shipping which comes out to be around $20 a month. Meanwhile, Nerd Block costs $20 a month but, since it ships from Canada, costs close to $30 after shipping. Regardless of which one you get, each box’s content always adds up to be more than what you initially paid for. Another perk is that you get to collect nerdy t-shirts. Loot Crate will have a few t-shirts throughout the year in their boxes, while Nerd Block has a shirt in every box (this could be the reason for the more expensive price).
Again, this month I got both of them to compare.
Loot Crate’s theme this month is Dragon. They included an exclusive Elder Scrolls Online The Nord figurine, Game of Thrones Mystery Funko Mini, dragon jerky, a 20-sided die stress ball, a 20-sided die, a dragon slayer dog tag, a dragon shield screen cleaner, and a commemorative Loot Crate Dragon button . Overall, another solid box with cool items. I was sad I didn’t get the wolf from the GoT box, oh well. The Nord is cute, you can take his helmet off and interchange his weapons. The stress ball is nice, I’ll probably use it at work; the actual die will be used in games. I won’te be wearing the dog tags, most likely will give it to someone. I might stick the dragon shield onto the back of my phone case, but I’ll definitely use it to clean the screen. As for the jerky, I’m not too impressed with it. It looks great, like dragon hide, but it has an off-taste.
Retail Value: $34.00
Loot Crate Cost: $19.99
This month’s Nerd Block was filled with figurines and a t-shirt. The t-shirt was blue with a Spider-Man graphic eating his Spidey cereal with villainly marshmallows. The other items in the box were 4 different figurines (Gremlins, Bravest Warriors, Rabbids, and Kre-O Transformers). All the figures are pretty nifty, especially the Gremlins one because you can have a cord go through its hands so he’s just dangling. The Kre-O Transformers are awesome because now I can build my Transformers. I got a ninja Rabbid and it looks like it could kick ass. The last item in the box was an Avengers Grab Bag pack, in which I got a plastic Captain America skateboard, it’s nice. Overall, this box was better than last’s months and I’ll be wearing the t-shirt tomorrow.
Retail Value: $54.00
Loot Crate Cost: $29.49
As to which one is better? I think it’s a tie this month. I like both of them the same, Nerd Block a little better. Loot Crate always has a central theme around their boxes so I think that’s nice because it keeps everything together. They also have a lot more items that they create personally from their Loot Crate Labs. Nerd Block on the other hand will always have a t-shirt and really cool collectible figurines. To each their own.
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Join us for a Sneak Peek at cARTie.
Come for a drink and a bite; stay for a conversation with cARTie’s Board members, advisors, volunteer educators, student artists, school partners, donors, and other key community members.
You won’t want to miss out on this opportunity to engage with our 2021-2022 traveling exhibition of high school student art engaging more than 1,000 PreK-2 students across Connecticut with limited access to the arts in education this school year!
cARTie is Connecticut's newest (and only!) non-profit mobile art museum featuring art by a diverse representation of high school artists from across the state for interactive and participatory engagement by PreK-2 students with limited access to the arts in education. Bridging inequities in education and arts access, cARTie is poised to make a unique contribution to the educational landscape in Connecticut.
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If you withdraw after the census date due to special circumstances – circumstances beyond your control, the full impacts of which were not apparent until after the census date – you can apply for:
- HECS-HELP debt remitted
- FEE-HELP balance re-credited
- full fee tuition costs refunded (for full fee paying and non award students)
- upfront payment of a student contribution refunded
- continued Commonwealth Support for Enabling students due to special circumstances
This does not include the Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF).
You need to apply within 12 months of the date you withdrew, or if you have not withdrawn, within 12 months of the end of the period of study in which the course was taken.
All applications for fee remission in special circumstances are assessed based on criteria set under Higher Education Support Act 2003
If you would like assistance in putting together your application and statement, please contact the Student Advocates.
If your application for a remission of debt or refund is declined, you have the right to appeal.
Appeals need to be lodged within 28 days from when you receive notice of the decision not to re-credit or remit.
To appeal, send a written statement outlining the reasons for your appeal to:
c/- Student Processes
ATC-220 Advanced Technology Centre
The University of Newcastle
Callaghan NSW 2308
International student refunds
Given international students face added issues, such as applying for visas, your refund process is slightly different.
Full and partial refunds are available, depending on your circumstances, and if you are not satisfied with the outcome of your application, you can make a complaint or lodge an appeal.
- Application for a Refund of International Fees (PDF, 415KB)
- International students refund procedure
- Complaints process page
Withdrawal on or before census date
If you withdraw from a course on or before the census date, you will not incur tuition fees or student contribution charges for that course.
- Commonwealth supported students receive an automatic refund of student contributions paid upfront.
- Domestic full fee paying students – your payments will be applied to any outstanding debt on your account. Email our Treasury office to apply for a refund of the balance.
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THIS week I had the pleasure to lead a team of researchers as we gathered data for a narrative research on unpaid care and domestic work with a very strong focus on informal work.
We were in a place called Nzvimbo, Chiweshe. As I finished my last key informant interview and was about to board our vehicle to come back home, I was told that there were two traditional leaders left who needed to be interviewed.
I made the sensible decision to go and interview as key informants of the research process. I had one of the best experiences of my life with these two men. They brought such a balance to the conversation that made me realize that although we struggle to achieve change in this world, there are so many glimpses of hope if we choose to look beyond what we perceive with our everyday stereotypes. This got me thinking about Zimbabwe as usual and what we possibilities await us with each day and choice.
One of the things I have seen to be constant as I travel around Zimbabwe with this narrative research team is that many of us are guided by our traditions. This is such a great thing because we ought to embrace our history to inform both the past, present and future.
A people are informed by what they experience, it shapes how they are somewhat. What I struggle with is people who still define themselves with just their history. Culture is dynamic and is constantly changing at such a rapid speed. So yes, we are a people with a history but our culture is constantly being redefined.
Having said that, we appreciate the war of liberation; the gallant sons and daughters of the soil’s Lila was not in vain and we are very much grateful for their sacrifice, always and forever!
What we refuse to do is stay in the past and let that be our defining point of reference. There is more to life dearest reader. This, however, is not a history lesson, having interviewed those two traditional leaders, I was encouraged that being progressive is a matter of rethinking our thinking and then defining how we can do exactly the same thing but in a better way that is all inclusive and considerate of each member of the society. These leaders brought that to the fore for me.
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This newly appreciated affirmation came at a time when the media was awash with the divorce of a high-ranking member of society. It is very sad to note that society tends to promote marital unions based on noting that more than two humans are together.
We have slowly lost the plot with the mujolo (toxic love) pandemic. More and more,
there seems to be a lack of appreciation that love binds a marital union and when that is no longer being served as part of the union then there is a major challenge.
In the absence of intimacy, it is very difficult to sustain a marital union. Having said that, it is very painful to see that many in our Zimbabwean society support the opus for marriage but lack the safety net that comes with robust social systems to support the married.
The two elders I interviewed gave a very insightful notion that it is very important for society to come together and begin to rethink the way marriage is viewed and that different members of society could step up and show up as role models, coaches, counsellors and generally speak well of what love is truly all about.
I thought that as great wisdom that could best support each and every one of us dear reader. It is not just the marital issues. It is about exploring best ways to live life outside what we deem as the norm.
How can we begin to redefine what works for the greater good of the members of society? Is there a way to ensure that lithium benefits the greater good of society and not just a handful of the Zimbabweans?
Well, just a girl thinking out loud, inspired by two amazing traditional leaders!
In our households, we have domestic work, that is where it starts. The way we perceive the work done by all of us in the home determines how we create safety for each family member to show up.
The trauma that we face in our homes spills over into the general society. Each one of us has the ability to make a difference by ensuring that we unlearn toxic ways of socialisation and employ healthy ways of becoming. As the two elders shared their stories and thoughts around recreating society collectively, I knew that we too can make a difference and ensure we are a people of integrity, change and development.
If the people of Nzvimbo in Chiweshe are led by a tribe of elders giving it their all to make a difference for their people, may we be challenged to do the same. We may not achieve it today but one day, we shall live to tell the tale. Now is the time we redefine how we want to transform society and make a difference. There is indeed a hope in the future as we live now with a dash of hope and inspiration. We believe and trust in a better Zimbabwe, somehow. It shall come to be for all of us. Until then, we live, laugh and love louder in a bid to show the world that we were here, becoming better, making our mark, and leaving our footprint as we make the world a better place!
Chirenje writes in her personal capacity as a citizen of Zimbabwe. Twitter: @graceruvimbo; Facebook: Grace Chirenje; Instagram: @graceruvimbo | <urn:uuid:a13b8a60-d418-4617-ac8f-f8cf10c89717> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.newsday.co.zw/thestandard/opinion/article/200008935/rethinking-our-thinking-collectively | 2023-09-27T12:42:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.975719 | 1,164 |
Pakistani Police and their Rangers attacked the peaceful convoy of Sindh Sabha Long March on Tuesday morning while they were entering the Punjab province of Pakistan from Sindh. The leaders and participants of the Long March had received threats and were attacked on Monday night also but the fresh attacks on Tuesday morning was more violent that has grievously injured several people. Attempts are also being made to arrest the leaders of this protest march, who are constantly being threatened to call off this 1,412 km Long March.
The 1,412 km Long March from Karachi to the headquarters of Pakistan Army at GHQ, Rawalpindi started on November 10 from Karachi, the capital of Sindh. Women, children and elderly have been walking towards the headquarters of Pakistan Army to press for their demand to release the “Missing Persons”, who have been abducted from Balochistan and Sindh. The Sindhi and Baloch people had been protesting for the release of their “Missing” family members but none of the Pakistani authorities listened to them. Family members and friends of these “Missing Persons” were left with no other option but to walk from Karachi to Rawalpindi to plead for the release of their loved ones.
As the women, children and elderly marched on foot braving extreme cold and harsh weather conditions they garnered enormous support from Sindhi, Baloch and Pashtuns. This has worried the Pakistani generals who then resorted to threats and attacks on the Sindh Sabha Long March convoy.
However, Sindh Sabha leaders said that if their Long March towards Rawalpindi would further be attacked then people will come out in large numbers to block the national highways.
Inam Abbasi, Sindh Sabha leader urged all the district presidents of Sindh Sabha to peacefully protest against the attack on Long March convoy by Pakistani state institutions from Wednesday morning. He added that there appeared to be no court or justice in this Pakistani federation. He also questioned the role of Pakistani parliament in standing for the rights of common people.
“Big meetings are taking place. No one has a problem there, yet some people are needlessly talking about about the spread of Coronavirus due to this Long March. As the oppression grows, so will the reaction. The secret services considers themselves masters and above the law. We will not stop, we will continue our work. The Sindhi nation will answer them itself,” said Inam Abbasi.
Hani Gul Baloch, leader of the Long March, said that several of their comrades had been injured. “They are preventing us from peaceful protest against Pakistani forces and not allowing us to enter Punjab. We should make it clear that in any case, we will continue the Long March till our loved ones are released,” she said. | <urn:uuid:ec84de38-c900-4e79-89b4-6bd813c1fccc> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.newsintervention.com/pak-forces-attack-peaceful-long-march-protesters-at-punjab-sindh-border/ | 2023-09-27T12:49:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.978953 | 571 |
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Outdoor Drop in @ Farmer’s Market
September 29, 2022 @ 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDTFree
It’s back by popular demand! We are once again offering outdoor drop-ins for parents/caregivers and your little ones rain or shine! Our Farmer’s Market drop in will happen each Thursday at Tipperary Park. Find us next to the registration table at the entrance off of Queens Avenue: we’ll have our big yellow Family Place flag!
Masks are not required for our outdoor drop in sessions, but please remember that everyone’s comfort level is different in this time of adjustment and be kind to fellow families, regardless of their choice. | <urn:uuid:6294cc20-4b8f-4882-91b9-83cab74158d3> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.newwestfamilies.ca/event/outdoor-drop-in-farmers-market/2022-09-29/ | 2023-09-27T11:24:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.918094 | 155 |
|The Scream (Norwegian: Skrik) a painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch|
|Symptoms||Worrying, fast heart rate, shakiness|
|Complications||Depression, insomnia, substance misuse, suicide|
|Usual onset||15–35 years old|
|Duration||> 6 months|
|Causes||Genetic, environmental, and psychological factors|
|Risk factors||Child abuse, family history, poverty|
|Diagnostic method||Psychological assessment|
|Differential diagnosis||Hyperthyroidism; heart disease; caffeine, alcohol, cannabis use; withdrawal from certain drugs|
|Treatment||Lifestyle changes, counselling, medications|
|Medication||Antidepressants, anxiolytics, beta blockers, Pregabalin|
Anxiety disorders are a cluster of mental disorders characterized by severe and uncontrollable feelings of anxiety that significantly impact a person's social, occupational, and personal functioning. Anxiety may cause physical and cognitive symptoms, such as restlessness, irritability, difficulty concentrating, increased heart rate, abdominal pain, and a variety of other symptoms that vary based on the individual.
There are several types of anxiety disorders, the major ones being generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Also included within the anxiety disorders are specific phobias, fear of a particular situation or object. It is possible for an individual to have more than one anxiety disorder during their life or at the same time.
Anxiety disorders are common mental disorders. However, they are treatable and most people suffering from them are able to lead normal productive lives.
Anxiety disorders are a cluster of mental disorders characterized by severe and uncontrollable feelings of anxiety and fear such that a person's social, occupational, and personal function are significantly impaired. The anxiety may cause physical and cognitive symptoms, such as restlessness, irritability, easy fatiguability, difficulty concentrating, increased heart rate, chest pain, abdominal pain, and a variety of other symptoms that may vary based on the individual.
In casual discourse, the words anxiety and fear are often used interchangeably. In clinical usage, they have distinct meanings: anxiety is defined as an unpleasant emotional state for which the cause is either not readily identified or perceived to be uncontrollable or unavoidable, whereas fear is an emotional and physiological response to a recognized external threat.
Anxiety is linked to fear and manifests as a future-oriented mood state that consists of a complex cognitive, affective, physiological, and behavioral response system associated with preparation for the anticipated events or circumstances perceived as threatening.
Anxiety is an emotion which is characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and includes feelings of dread over anticipated events. It is a feeling of uneasiness and worry, usually generalized and unfocused as an overreaction to a situation that is only subjectively seen as menacing. Anxiety is often accompanied by nervous behavior such as pacing back and forth, somatic anxiety, and rumination, People facing anxiety may withdraw from situations which have provoked anxiety in the past.
Experiencing occasional anxiety is a normal part of life: "Anxiety is an adaptive response that promotes harm avoidance, but at the same time excessive anxiety constitutes the most common psychiatric complaint." However, people with anxiety disorders frequently have intense, excessive, and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations. Anxiety disorders often involve repeated episodes of sudden feelings of intense anxiety and fear or terror, constituting panic attacks.
There are multiple forms of anxiety disorders, the main types being generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The individual disorder can be diagnosed using the specific and unique symptoms, triggering events, and timing, and a person may experience more than one type during their life or even at the same time. To be diagnosed as having an anxiety disorder, a medical professional must have evaluated the person to ensure that their anxiety cannot be attributed to another medical illness or mental disorder.
In addition to these disorders manifesting as severe chronic anxiety, there are also phobias, which manifest as strong, persistent, and irrational fear or anxiety related to certain situations, objects, activities, or persons.
Generalized anxiety disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a common disorder, characterized by long-lasting anxiety which is not focused on any one object or situation. It is "characterized by chronic excessive worry accompanied by three or more of the following symptoms: restlessness, fatigue, concentration problems, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep disturbance." Those with generalized anxiety disorder experience non-specific persistent fear and worry, and become overly concerned with everyday matters.
A diagnosis of GAD is made when a person has been excessively worried about an everyday problem for six months or more. These stresses can include family life, work, social life, or their own health. A person may find that they have problems making daily decisions and remembering commitments as a result of lack of concentration and/or preoccupation with worry. Before a diagnosis of anxiety disorder is made, physicians must rule out drug-induced anxiety and other medical causes.
Generalized anxiety disorder is the most common anxiety disorder to affect older adults. In children, GAD may be associated with headaches, restlessness, abdominal pain, and heart palpitations. Typically it begins around 8 to 9 years of age.
With panic disorder, a person has brief attacks of intense terror and apprehension, often marked by trembling, shaking, confusion, dizziness, nausea, and/or difficulty breathing. These panic attacks begin suddenly and usually peak quickly, within 10 minutes or less of starting. Attacks can be triggered by stress, irrational thoughts, general fear or fear of the unknown, or even exercise. However, sometimes the trigger is unclear and the attacks can arise without warning. To help prevent an attack, one can avoid the trigger, namely places, people, types of behaviors, or certain situations that have been known to cause a panic attack. However, not all attacks can be prevented.
In addition to recurrent unexpected panic attacks, a diagnosis of panic disorder requires that said attacks have chronic consequences: either worry over the attacks' potential implications, persistent fear of future attacks, or significant changes in behavior related to the attacks. As such, those with panic disorder experience symptoms even outside specific panic episodes. Often, normal changes in heartbeat are noticed, leading them to think something is wrong with their heart or they are about to have another panic attack. In some cases, a heightened awareness (hypervigilance) of body functioning occurs during panic attacks, wherein any perceived physiological change is interpreted as a possible life-threatening illness (extreme hypochondriasis).
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), known as “shell shock” during the years of World War I and “combat fatigue” after World War II, results from having "experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, or rape or who have been threatened with death, sexual violence or serious injury."
Common symptoms include hypervigilance, flashbacks, avoidant behaviors, anxiety, anger, and depression. People who have PTSD often try to detach themselves from their friends and family, and have difficulty maintaining these close relationships.
There are a number of treatments that form the basis of the care plan for those with PTSD. Such treatments include cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), prolonged exposure therapy, stress inoculation therapy, medication, and psychotherapy and support from family and friends.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research began with Vietnam veterans, as well as natural and non-natural disaster victims. Studies have found the degree of exposure to a disaster has been found to be the best predictor of PTSD.
Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a condition where the person has obsessions (distressing, persistent, and intrusive thoughts or images) and compulsions (urges to repeatedly perform specific acts or rituals), that are not caused by drugs or physical disorder, and which cause distress or social dysfunction.
As indicated by the disorder's name, the primary symptoms of OCD are obsessions and compulsions. Obsessions are persistent unwanted thoughts, mental images, or urges that generate feelings of anxiety, disgust, or discomfort. An obsession is an unwanted and unpleasant thought, image or urge that repeatedly enters your mind, causing feelings of anxiety, disgust or unease. A compulsion is a repetitive behavior or mental act that you feel you need to do to temporarily relieve the unpleasant feelings brought on by the obsessive thought.
Common obsessions include fear of contamination, obsession with symmetry, and intrusive thoughts about religion, sex, and harm. Compulsions are repeated actions or routines that occur in response to obsessions. Common compulsions include excessive hand washing, cleaning, counting, ordering, hoarding, neutralizing, seeking assurance, and checking things. Washing is in response to the fear of contamination. Ordering is the preference for tasks to be completed a specific way (such as organizing clothes a specific way). Hoarding is the collecting of unnecessary objects (like collecting food wrappers). Neutralizing is the act of engaging in a ritual to make up for supposedly "bad behavior." Checking is the compulsion to check particular objects/places to ensure they are a certain way (for example, checking to ensure the water is turned off). Many adults with OCD are aware that their compulsions do not make sense, but they perform them anyway to relieve the distress caused by obsessions.
Compulsions occur so often, typically taking up at least one hour per day, that they impair one's quality of life. The compulsive rituals are personal rules followed to relieve the feeling of discomfort. A person with OCD knows that the symptoms are unreasonable and struggles against both the thoughts and the behavior. OCD affects roughly 1–2 percent of adults (somewhat more women than men), and under 3 percent of children and adolescents.
It is not certain why some people have OCD, but behavioral, cognitive, genetic, and neurobiological factors may be involved. Of those with OCD, about 20 percent of people will overcome it, and symptoms will at least reduce over time for most people (a further 50 percent).
Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is classified as "Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders " in the American Psychiatric Association (APA)'s DSM-5, although it was previously classified as an anxiety disorder in the DSM-IV. Similarly, it was classified as an anxiety disorder in the World Health Organization (WHO)'s International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10), but not in ICD-11.
Social anxiety disorder
Social anxiety disorder (SAD; also known as social phobia) describes an intense fear and avoidance of negative public scrutiny, public embarrassment, humiliation, or social interaction. This fear can be specific to particular social situations (such as public speaking) or, more typically, is experienced in most (or all) social interactions. Roughly 7 percent of American adults suffer from social anxiety disorder, and more than 75 percent of them experience their first symptoms in their childhood or early teenage years. Social anxiety often manifests specific physical symptoms, including blushing, sweating, rapid heart rate, and difficulty speaking. As with all phobic disorders, those with social anxiety often will attempt to avoid the source of their anxiety; in the case of social anxiety this is particularly problematic, and in severe cases can lead to complete social isolation.
Children are also affected by social anxiety disorder, although their associated symptoms are different than that of teenagers and adults. They may experience difficulty processing or retrieving information, sleep deprivation, disruptive behaviors in class, and irregular class participation.
The specific phobias are a category of anxiety disorders which includes all cases in which fear and anxiety are triggered by a specific stimulus or situation. Between 5 and 12 percent of the population worldwide have specific phobias. Individuals with a phobia typically anticipate terrifying consequences from encountering the object of their fear, which can be anything from an animal to a location to a bodily fluid to a particular situation. Common phobias are flying, blood, water, highway driving, and tunnels. When people are exposed to their phobia, they may experience trembling, shortness of breath, or rapid heartbeat.
People with specific phobias often go out of their way to avoid encountering their phobia. They understand that their fear is not proportional to the actual potential danger but still are overwhelmed by it.
Anxiety disorders differ from normal fear or anxiety by being excessive or persisting beyond developmentally appropriate periods. They differ from transient fear or anxiety, often stress-induced, by being persistent (typically lasting 6 months or more), although the criterion for duration is intended as a general guide with allowance for some degree of flexibility and is sometimes of shorter duration in children.
The diagnosis of an anxiety disorder requires first ruling out an underlying medical cause; there are many diseases that include similar symptoms. Several drugs can also cause or worsen anxiety, whether in intoxication, withdrawal, or from chronic use. These include alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, sedatives (including prescription benzodiazepines), opioids (including prescription painkillers and illicit drugs like heroin), stimulants (such as caffeine, cocaine, and amphetamines), hallucinogens, and inhalants.
The diagnosis of anxiety disorders is made by symptoms, triggers, and a person's personal and family histories. There are no objective biomarkers or laboratory tests that can diagnose anxiety. Numerous questionnaires have been developed for clinical use and can be used for an objective scoring system. Symptoms may be vary between each subtype of generalized anxiety disorder. Generally, symptoms must be present for at least six months, occur more days than not, and significantly impair a person's ability to function in daily life. Symptoms may include: feeling nervous, anxious, or on edge; worrying excessively; difficulty concentrating; restlessness; irritability.
Treatment options include lifestyle changes, therapy, and medications. There is no clear evidence as to whether therapy or medication is most effective; the specific medication decision can be made by a doctor and patient with consideration to the patient's specific circumstances and symptoms. Specific treatments will vary by subtype of anxiety disorder, a person's other medical conditions, and medications.
Lifestyle and diet
Lifestyle changes include exercise, for which there is moderate evidence for some improvement, regularizing sleep patterns, reducing caffeine intake, and stopping smoking.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has been found to be effective for anxiety disorders and is a first-line treatment.
Mindfulness-based programs also appear to be effective for managing anxiety disorders.
Adventure-based counseling can be an effective way to anxiety. Using rock-climbing as an example, climbing can often bring on fear or frustration, and tackling these negative feelings in a nurturing environment can help people develop coping mechanisms necessary to deal with these negative feelings.
First-line choices for medications include SSRIs or SNRIs to treat generalized anxiety disorder.
Buspirone and pregabalin are second-line treatments for people who do not respond to SSRIs or SNRIs; there is also evidence that benzodiazepines, including diazepam and clonazepam, are effective.
Medications need to be used with care among older adults, who are more likely to have side effects because of coexisting physical disorders. Adherence problems are more likely among older people, who may have difficulty understanding, seeing, or remembering instructions.
Globally, anxiety disorders are one of the most common mental disorders, second only to substance abuse disorder in the United States. Data from 2010 show that in Europe, Africa, and Asia, lifetime rates of anxiety disorders are between 9 and 16 percent, and yearly rates are between 4 and 7 percent. In the United States, the lifetime prevalence of anxiety disorders is higher, over 20 percent, and between 11 and 18 percent of adults have the condition in a given year. The differences in rates affected by the range of ways in which different cultures interpret anxiety symptoms and what they consider to be normative behavior. In general, anxiety disorders represent the most prevalent psychiatric condition in the United States, outside of substance use disorder.
Like adults, children can experience anxiety disorders; between 10 and 20 percent of all children will develop a full-fledged anxiety disorder prior to the age of 18, making anxiety the most common mental health issue in young people. Anxiety disorders in children are often more challenging to identify than their adult counterparts, owing to the difficulty many parents face in discerning them from normal childhood fears. Likewise, anxiety in children is sometimes misdiagnosed as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or, due to the tendency of children to interpret their emotions physically (as stomachaches, headaches, and so forth), anxiety disorders may initially be confused with physical ailments.
Anxiety in children has a variety of causes; sometimes anxiety is rooted in biology, and may be a product of another existing condition, such as autism spectrum disorder or ADHD. Other cases of anxiety arise from the child having experienced a traumatic event of some kind.
Anxiety in children tends to manifest along age-appropriate themes, such as fear of going to school (not related to bullying) or not performing well enough at school, fear of social rejection, fear of something happening to loved ones, and so forth. What separates disordered anxiety from normal childhood anxiety is the duration and intensity of the fears involved.
People with an anxiety disorder may be challenged by prejudices and stereotypes that the world believes, most likely as a result of misconception around anxiety and anxiety disorders and mental illness in general. Misconceptions found in a data analysis from the National Survey of Mental Health Literacy and Stigma include (1) many people believe anxiety is not a real medical illness; and (2) many people believe that people with anxiety could turn it off if they wanted to.
For people experiencing the physical and mental symptoms of an anxiety disorder, stigma and negative social perception can make an individual less likely to seek treatment.
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Another gorgeous weekend to explore, bbq, enjoy a patio or relax on the beach. What is your favourite thing to do on a beautiful summer day? Check out our weekend guide below:
Street Eats – Outdoor Food Festival – Filipino Street Market
Special series of Street Eats Market events at Scarborough Town Centre.
Scarborough Town Centre
SAT & SUN 11AM to 7PM
100 Years of Fashion en Plein Air
Enjoy a summer afternoon of couture, cookies, and pink lemonade in the Campbell House Museum gardens. Step back in time and engage with models strolling the garden wearing fashions from the 1820s to 1920s.
Campbell House Museum
SAT 1 - 3 pm
Toronto Outdoor Picture Show
TOPS presents a special 10-night programme at Fort York to celebrate our tenth summer season of communal outdoor cinema programming across the city of Toronto for 100 safely distanced onsite audience members to the grounds of Fort York each evening, with free tickets obtained in advance.
August 21 to 30, 2020
Gates open @ 6:30pm / Showtime @ sundown
Back On the Stage
Guild Festival Theatre is returning to the Greek Theatre at Guild Park & Gardens on Aug 21 & 22.
A mix of song, dance and puppetry inspired by “Alice in Wonderland” and “Salt-Water Moon”, Back On the Stage is a show the entire family can enjoy!
Guild Park & Gardens
FRI & SAT 6 pm & 7:30 pm
Kensington Market ‘Taste the World’ Food Tour
Find out what makes Kensington so special, and let’s support them together! (in a COVID-safe manner) We may not be able to travel internationally, but still we’ll travel around the world, locally – we’ll sample a variety of ethnic eats in the multi-cultural enclave of Kensington Market, including a stop in Chinatown. Come with an appetite, as you’ll have enough samples for lunch!
Stop by a Farmers’ or Flea Market
St. Lawrence Summer Market
SAT 5 AM - 3 PM
Saturday Farmers Market at Evergreen Brick Works
SAT 8AM- 1PM
Kensington Flea & Artisan Market
SAT 11AM- 6PM
Leslieville Farmers’ Market
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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The $1 billion Minnesota Vikings stadium bill narrowly survived a skewering late Friday in the Senate Taxes Committee, which moved the bill to the full Senate as the team's decade-long push for a new home drew closer to a resolution.
It was the toughest test yet for the proposed stadium subsidy, which is expected to now face marathon debates and close votes in the House and Senate. Lawmakers hope to adjourn their session for the year by midnight Monday, and the stadium saga is likely to fill those closing hours with plenty of drama.
The bill to build a new stadium on the Metrodome site in downtown Minneapolis needs 68 votes in the House and 34 votes in the Senate to pass. All the committee votes that took the bill to both the House and Senate floors were "without recommendation," a sign that many lawmakers have strong qualms about a $400 million stadium subsidy. Team officials call the 30-year-old Metrodome outdated and unprofitable.
The current proposal calls for an expansion of gambling in bars and clubs, with the newly generated tax revenue going to cover yearly costs of paying off construction bonds.
Foes of that funding source criticized it as unreliable and immoral, and moved to replace the gambling revenue with sales taxes on all transactions in the new stadium.
"It's about making it market-based rather than taking revenue from everyone," said Sen. John Howe, a Republican who put forward the plan. "The people who use the stadium the most are the ones who should pay for it the most."
But the Vikings and their legislative allies strenuously objected to that approach. Vikings vice president Lester Bagley said it would cost the NFL team money -- which, he said, would mean functionally abandoning the negotiated deal between Vikings executives, members of Gov. Mark Dayton's administration and the city of Minneapolis. That deal calls for the Vikings to cover $427 million of the $1 billion cost, and the city of Minneapolis to put up $150 million.
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Will Fuller has never played 16 games in his four-year career. Can he break that streak in season five?
The speedy wideout said Tuesday that he's healthy after the latest offseason surgery.
"As far as my health, I'm feeling good. The surgery I had at the beginning of the offseason, it's not bothering me anymore at all," he said, via the team's official transcript. "If I can play 16 games, which I believe I will this year, the sky is the limit. I say the same thing all the time, when I'm out there, I just try to do my best to help the team win and wherever that lands me, stat wise or whatever, at the send of the season, we'll see when we get there."
Fuller's talent is undeniable, owning the speed to strike fear in defensive backs. In 42 career games, he's averaged 14.3 yards per reception for his career and generated 16 touchdowns. The Texans offense has averaged 5.6 more points per game in tilts Fuller's played.
Being on the field, however, has been his biggest weakness. The 26-year-old missed five games last year and has averaged just a shade over 10 games played per season. The wideout, however, doesn't let the injuries suck the joy from the game.
"Being injured sucks, but I'm confident," Fuller said. "Every time I go back out on the field, I don't think about what happened last week or if I was injured last week. I always feel like I'm going to have a big game or whatever. I don't really dwell on injuries. I know they happen, but I always stay confident and just try to do my best to help the team win."
One big question is how much the presence of DeAndre Hopkins played in allowing Fuller to dominate when healthy. The eye test suggests it played a big part. Fuller, however, believes that with Hopkins gone, there will be more targets to gobble up.
"Obviously with Hop not being here anymore, that's going to open up things for everybody," he said. "He had a lot of targets, so those targets have to be filled up with other guys. We all are going to be able to get it done and I feel like it's going to be a great season this year."
With Nuk gone, the Texans receiver corps looks vastly different, with Fuller, Brandin Cooks, Kenny Stills, Randall Cobb and Keke Coutee. It's a group that brings a lot of speed to the table, even if it lacks a dominant go-to target.
"I think DBs, they're always going to fear speed, so having all that speed on the field at one time, I don't know what they're going to be able to do," Fuller noted. "We'll see when we start playing all together."
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Journey Through the Chumash, Tuesdays at 12:00 pm
We are very excited to announce a new class, beginning this Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. Rabbi Chaim Bogopulsky will guide us on a journey through the Chumash!
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When I was a teenager, like a lot of boys that age, I was assembling plastic kit models -- getting airplane glue everywhere and learning just how sharp an Xacto knife was (four stitches!). I was, of course, already a drag racing fan and there were plenty of drag models to build, especially from our friends at Revell. Most of the ones I built were the traditional 1/25th scale, but I splurged once on one of the 1/16th-scale models, emptying my meager paper-route piggybank for the giant Kuhl & Olson “Da Revell Fast Guys” Top Fueler.
The model measured more than 16 inches long and came with a bonus figure of driver Carl Olson. In retrospect, the kit should have included one of partner and tuner Mike Kuhl, too. You probably could have one without the other –- they started their racing careers that way –- but why would you? Together they formed not only one of the great Top Fuel teams of the early 1970s but one of the great friendships that endured long long after the racing ended, and right up until June 23, the day we lost Kuhl at age 82.
I wrote extensively about their partnership in a column here seven years ago and, like I said, while each had a great career before their partnership –- Kuhl, a St. Louis transplant who worked his way from blown gassers into Top Fuel, where he hired drivers like Steve Carbone, Bill Tidwell, and Dick Rosberg, and launched a very successful engine-building business, and C.O. in nitro cars in varying levels of partnerships with guys like Bill Stecker, Jack Ewell, and Don Bowman -– but when they joined forces in March ’71, the chemistry of a talented engine maestro and a studious pilot yielded magic. Within a year, they’d won the NHRA Winternationals and were runners-up at the fabled Bakersfield March Meet, won several IHRA national events and the IHRA world championship, and won The Last Drag Race at Lions Drag Strip --- all in 1972. They were runners-up at the ’73 U.S. Nationals and went on to win the March Meet together in 1974 –- running the table with low e.t., top speed, the No. 1 qualifier spot, and a spot in the exclusive Cragar Five-Second Club -– before Olson pulled the ‘chute on his driving career at season's end.
While Olson remained active with the car and Kuhl with a slew of hired drivers, Olson went on to have a long career at the NHRA and SEMA. Kuhl kept busy, expanding his engine-building business to also include superchargers before getting into the nostalgia racing business in a big way in 2001, doing restorations and recreations of famous drag cars and becoming heavily involved in the Cacklefest exhibitions. The duo was honored by NHRA in 2007 with a Lifetime Achievement Award and enshrined –- together -- in the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame in 2012.
Kuhl’s last few years of life were tough ones, his memory ravaged by Alzheimer’s Disease and his body by kidney issues, and a recent fall left him in severe pain that finally ended with his passing.
“The last few weeks were very difficult for him and, in my mind, he's in a much better place now,” said Olson.
“There's simply no way that I can truly express what our partnership has meant over the past 51 years, but I'm sure you can understand what a huge loss his passing is for me. During our last time together a couple of weeks ago, we pored through a couple of dozen photos that I brought along with me, and I'll never forget the big smiles they brought to his face. I'm so glad that those smiles will be my enduring memory of him.
“Mike was a man with a great heart, and a willingness to help anyone anytime. The time that we spent together in his shop and racing around North America will remain among my fondest memories for as long as I live. Aside from his mechanical prowess, his most enduring quality was his honesty. We never had even one misunderstanding, because we were always 100 percent honest with each other. I don't know what more one could possibly ask for in a partner and a friend.”
Few knew Kuhl better than Olson, but one who probably did was Lynn Rose, his love and companion for more than 40 years. She was with him through all the good times and was there to comfort him through the bad ones right to the end.
A lot of people know Lynn as the get-it-done right hand of dragstrip owner/promoters like Bill Doner and Charlie Allen, but she first met Kuhl through boat racing in the late 1970s.
“I was working at Speed Marine in Orange, Calif., and Mike used to build the engines for our marathon boats,” she remembered. “We went to a lot of boat races and drag races together all over the country and had a lot of fun, and once Orange County [Int’l Raceway] closed, everything settled down for us. Mike was behind me in everything I did after that, from working for Charlie [Allen] at Firebird [Int’l Raceway], for Doner even when he didn’t have racetracks, and especially when I started my travel agency. Whatever I did, he backed me. He was a good man. He would do anything for anybody.
“The Cackle cars were so good for him, to still be around nitro cars and to be with all of his old buddies and hanging out with what we called ‘the Geezer crowd.’ He’d do anything for those guys and could never say no to anyone. He’d work long hours at his shop for the Cackle guys. I’d call him and ask him when he was coming home for dinner and it was, ‘I have to get this done; I’ll be home late.’ Even when his health started to fade, being around those guys was the best medicine he could have.
“I threw him a big 80th birthday party and there must have been 250 people there, and it was a good time for him because he still knew and recognized everyone. He lived a good life and he loved life and had so many friends, even outside of drag racing. We had a place on the Colorado River where we’d go almost every weekend to boat or water ski, and he made new friends that way, and had golfing buddies, too, who he’d go spend two or three days with a couple of times a year.
“He really struggled at the end -- Alzheimer’s really sucks – but, for some reason, he never lost the drag racing part of him,” she remembered. “When Carl came over to see him and show him those photos, he could tell you who they were racing and where it was. He could remember people’s names but if I asked what we had for dinner last night, he wouldn’t know. And it was heartbreaking to see how much pain he was in. [His passing] was truly a blessing for him, but I’m thankful I was there with him and he was comfortable.”
And we’re all thankful that Mike Kuhl was a part of our lives and our sport. He truly was a “Kuhl” guy in so many ways.
Here are some bonus photos from the ND archive, from Lynn, and from Steve Reyes.
Famed chassis builder Woody Gilmore, left, sizes up Olson for the team's first rear-engined dragster as Kuhl looks on.
Kuhl and Olson tasted their first major of fruits of victory at the 1972 NHRA Winternationals, where NHRA president and founder Wally Parks congratulated them.
Kuhl & Olson, far lane, defeated Jeb Allen at Lions Dragstrip's Last Drag Race in December 1972.
1973 PDA Championships at OCIR, Kuhl & Olson, near lane, vs. Frank Bradley.
Olson called their victory at the 1974 March Meet one of his biggest wins, and he had quite a few with Kuhl.
Kuhl had friends in high places including (left) Miss Hurst Linda Vaughn, and (right) fabled SoCal chief starter Larry Sutton, who sent many of Kuhl's cars down tracks like Lions, Irwindale, and OCIR.
How's this for a group of famous friends? Kuhl, in the white shirt, joined, clockwise, by Roland Leong, Marvin Graham, Herm Petersen, Steve Gibbs, Ed McCulloch, and Don Hampton.
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Our Tripoli street tour started at Akra, a renowned foul and hummus place known as ‘the cave’. In the heart of the old souk, a few meters away from the clock, Akra is a wonderful place and I'm happy we came here.
An army of women worked hard to satisfy all the guests while two men, one handling the cash and kitchen and the other touring around the tables, make sure the quality remains as high as possible. What struck me here was the cleanliness and calm. Come through the door and you'll feel like you’re sitting somewhere away from the chaos of Tripoli and the busy streets outside.
We chose a table and waiting until two plates of vegetables landed in front of us: bell peppers, onions, tomatoes, pickles, beetroot and olives.
- I started with the Malaysian plate, a mix of fried nuts, pepper on a bed of a fine hummus mix. What a plate! A soft hummus mixed with olive oil, spicy seasoning and those nuts that made all the difference. Amazing to say the least.
- The normal hummus is again, excellent. The work and effort put into it is clear. A beautiful flavor of chickpeas is followed by an aftertaste of lemon. Yum! Another plate has the same core but covered with minced meat and fried nuts... I knew I’d eaten something great that day.
- Fatteh is one of my favorite breakfasts: in a bowl filled to top, a mix of overcooked chickpeas mixed with a cocktail of nuts and topped with laban and pine nuts. The mix just melted while I felt every spice used and every premium ingredient used to create a masterpiece.
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If you consider yourself a foodie and are planning a trip to Illinois, you have probably been looking through food blogs to find out which restaurants you should not miss when you go there. For this reason, we have compiled a definitive list of those restaurants. Whether you are planning a trip or have recently moved there and are looking for exciting dining experiences, this list is sure to help you get started on the right foot.
Smyth + The Loyalist - the dual-concept Chicago restaurant you should not miss
Of course, our list has to start with a Chicago restaurant. This city offers the most variety of restaurants with many places to pay a visit to. However, if you have a limited amount of time, the choice for your first stop is obvious - the modern restaurant Smyth + The Loyalist.
This dual-concept Chicago restaurant was first opened in 2016. Even though it is now six years old, the refreshing feel of such an innovative dining experience makes it feel brand new. The space is divided into two portions. Smyth presents you with a fine-dining experience and a set menu upstairs. On the other hand, The Loyalist offers a casual meal and great cocktails found on the very flavorful menu. The focus on hospitality is big in this restaurant, seeing as it delivers fantastic service to every visitor.
Abreo - a restaurant you should not miss in a historic town
Abreo is a wine bar and small-plate patio which is sure to surprise you with its inventiveness. Chef Paul Sletten is the head of this restaurant. It is found right in the historic part of Downtown Rockford. While the menu is generally seasonally driven, some meals are staples. These include:
• Duck nachos
• Asian noodles
• White chocolate-blueberry bread pudding.
The fact that you can follow up this fabulous food with a stroll through the beautiful Downtown Rockford makes it an unskippable addition to this list of restaurants you should not miss.
Montarra Grill is a restaurant sure to give off a look and feel of a swanky Chicago hotspot, even though it is actually located in Algonquin, IL. This modern-American restaurant decorated with an authentic Chihuly chandelier is one you should not miss. If you are not sure what to order, you definitely can't go wrong with one of these:
• wet-aged steaks
• seared lamb lollipops
• bacon-wrapped dates
• triple-cream brie and black truffle fondue
Zenwich - a twist Korean restaurant you should not miss
With a different take on Korean BBQ and Asian cuisine, Zenwich is one of the top restaurants you should not miss in Illinois. It offers made-to-order Asian sandwiches filled with Korean BBQ beef, chicken satay, and Panko-crusted crab cakes. This unique experience is sure to make a trip to the Western suburbs worthwhile. However, the Famous Remus sandwich is made with Thai-style marinated grilled pork tenderloin, pickled daikon & carrot relish, and sweet & sour mayo, all on a freshly toasted ciabatta roll is what makes it an unmissable restaurant.
Basil’s Greek Dining
While visiting Greece is a beautiful and exciting opportunity, if you find yourself in Illinois, you will not have to travel to Greece to experience the joys of Greek cuisine. Aurora, IL, might not have the beaches and historical sights of Greece, but it does have one of Illinois's top Greek restaurants you should not miss. The foods you can not skip are the grilled octopus and the gyros. Both of these are considered the staple of Basil's.
Gene and Jude’s - even a hot dog stand can be an exciting culinary stop
What any lover of the hot dog will tell you about Gene and Jude's is that it is fast food that is worthy of a spot on our list. This is a suburban hot dog stand that claims to have the best hot dogs in the United States. The most iconic dog they have to offer is the "Double Dog," which is topped with mustard, relish, onions, sport peppers, and even fries.
Black Dog Smoke & Ale House
You will want to visit the Black Dog Smoke & Ale House if you're craving meat. Their burnt ends with red Carolina BBQ sauce make them a restaurant you cannot miss. And you will benefit from getting them fast because they sell out quickly. Of course, if you are of legal drinking age, you can wash all of that down with a beer from the rotating craft beer selection. Or you can even opt for some whiskey from Prichard's Distillery.
D’Arcy’s Pint - an Irish tavern you should not miss in Illinois
This is a restaurant you should not miss because of its unique signature dish. D'Arcy's is an Irish tavern-style restaurant that prides itself on a dish called "Horseshoes." This signature meal is a unique, regional specialty. They make it from your choice of meat (ham, corned beef, turkey, bacon, Buffalo chicken) served over Texas toast, piled with fries, and topped with homemade cheese sauce. It might sound crazy, but you should not let it scare you since people from all over come to taste the Horseshoes.
Going back to Chicago, the restaurant Avec offers modernism paired with Mediterranean-inspired dishes. Avec has been marked as a restaurant you should not miss while in Chicago. It is one of the favorite restaurants among both locals and visitors. The communal seating and a contemporary, wood-paneled room make the dining experience fun and eventful.
Although Chicago has many fine restaurants, you will miss out on many exquisite eateries if you restrict yourself to eating only in your local neighborhood. If you are moving here, experts from moving companies such as Golans Moving and Storage strongly urge you to venture outside of Chicago and visit other culinary landmarks such as this tiny Mexican dining room. Even if the ambiance is not the one of a big fine-dining Chicago establishment, Bien Trucha has some of the best tacos West of the city. You should not miss this restaurant if you find yourself near Fox River Valley. Our advice is to get some guacamole del dia, fresh watermelon or blueberries, and adobo-marinated pork tacos.
One World Cafe - the one cafe you’ll ever need
Visiting this popular spot found across the street from Bradley University is the perfect idea for getting sustenance in the shape of coffee and decadent desserts. Do not for a second, however, think that you will only find sweets here. The One World Cafe also offers fantastic food for all times of the day.
Restaurants you should not miss when in Illinois
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It all starts from the minute you pick up the phone to reserve your table at Le Sushi Bat. You are warmly welcomed and advised that it is a non smoking restaurant before coming. I think this is one of the details that Le Sushi Bar is appreciated for. It's no wonder that this restaurant has won two Consumer Trophy's as the number one sushi places in Lebanon. And I for one totally give my vote.
If this trophy counts, I have already expressed my appreciation for Le Sushi Bar and have positioned it as the number one Japanese restaurant in Lebanon. Rumors? This is what Lebanese are best at; gossiping about this fine place trying to say that it goes through ups and downs. Does it? This was the reason for my recent visit. My verdict: No change. I can safely say that Le Sushi Bar's perfection has been perfected further!
Everything at the Sushi Bar is amazingly mastered:
- A professional welcome
- A choice of Pepsi or Coca-Cola
- A choice between local or international mineral water (glass or plastic bottle)
- Nice texture of the menu papers and leather cover with a classy carved wooden side
- The best wine glasses you can drink with in any restaurant in the country; light and well rounded crystals
- The bamboo glazed blue chopsticks, beautiful blue napkins with white floral drawings decorating them
- A dimmed and relaxing ambiance.
- A check paper distributed for the host to take the order making things quicker and simpler
- Smiley and gentle female waiters dressed in traditional Kimonos
... And much much more...
The wine list: Imported and local wines are divided into sections to include fruity, dry, exotic, full bodied, grand cru and spicy:
- 21 imported white wines
- 5 imported rose wines
- 15 imported red wines
- 6 Lebanese white wines
- 6 Lebanese rose wines
- 7 Lebanese red wines
We chose the same as last time:
White wine: from the exotic selection: Tierra Luna Blanco, Domaine Lurton, Argentina, 2010. A very tasty wine, even though it doesn't have a cork. It opens like a Perrier bottle. To start with, we were each offered an individual portion of pickled cucumbers like they do in French restaurants where customers are presented with the chef's special. We were then offered and another individual portion of white ginger (white FINGE is rare around town).
The culinary experience:
- Temakis are excellent: fresh, cold and full of seafood not only rice like most do.
- I like the appetizing presentation of all the dishes especially their variety of "On Ice" series like their marinated salmon in an ice bowl shaped dish keeping every bite fresh and cold.
- Most of the dishes are served warm melting softly under the palate.
- The best in my opinion is their Fresh crab maki.
Some minor fixes to reach the stars:
- Install an additional air conditioning unit next to the glass facade as it is really too hot in this area.
- Green onions are everywhere. They use it like we use salt: you see tiny green pieces sprinkled on almost all pieces. Please use this ingredient with moderation! For customers with anallergy to onions, an enjoyable night is ahead.
- Choosing between Lebanese or imported water was not a choice. The waiter decided that night to serve us local water. This is not a bad thing but for a place like Le Sushi Bar our choice should be asked, especially that they do have both.
- A bigger list of Lebanese wine must be included on their extensive wine list: 6 red wine and 6 white wine choices is not sufficient considering that we have lots of new boutique wineries producing wonders.
The details that count:
- Two times the manager came to check on our experience.
- Hot towels to end and refresh before ordering desserts.
- Desserts deserveclosing your eyes after every bite. They have an extraordinary taste.
- More than 15 staff members moving around gracefully like swans.
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Budget execution is the process of implementing, monitoring, and reporting on the current year’s budget. Each fiscal year, for instance, Congress provides an appropriation after reviewing and adjusting the FAA’s budget submission. Once the President signs the Appropriation Bill, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) apportions any facilities and equipment appropriation, and Air Traffic Organization (ATO) Finance provides the authority to obligate and expend funds. This begins the execution of the approved budget. Every organization manages to a budget, whether or not it’s the size of the FAA’s or on a much smaller scale. The principles and practices involved are much the same.
Budgets, however, are rarely implemented exactly as approved due to changes in economic conditions. Therefore, there may be some adjusting or reprogramming of funds because of changes in projects or contracts that could lead to overspending or under-spending. During the budget process, spend plans are developed based on requirements and implemented during budget execution. The spend plan is the sole source for approved planned program activities to be funded within a certain timeframe. It is an ongoing role for management in analyzing and assessing how funds are actually spent to implement the policies, programs, and projects outlined in the budget. Actual spending is compared to these plans throughout the year and is used for projections and future adjustments. The execution phase of any budget should include the following activities:
Allocation of funds – the processing of procurement request (PR) and project authorizations (PA) to fund projects and contracts based on the approved spend plans.
Obligating and expending of funds – the monitoring of funding using a company’s mandated financial systems to make sure funds are awarded on contracts and expended in a timely manner, and to make sure facilities and equipment (F&E) funding is being obligated within the appropriate timeframe for your organization or industry.
Financial documentation and tracking/monitoring – for good accounting practices, the use of cuff records (manual Excel spreadsheets) as a key financial tool to document all financial transactions against a programs budget. Track all program appropriations, commitments, obligations (contract award), and expenditures.
Reconciliation – the use of a company’s mandated financial reporting systems to generate reports that are compared to program cuff records in order to maintain accuracy as well as assist with resolving discrepancies.
Reporting – the use of a company’s mandated financial systems to generate reports used to provide management with the current program funding status, also know as “detailed obligation reports.”
In order to implement these activities, one has to have extensive knowledge of a company’s policies, procedures, and the concepts and principles of funding, including appropriation types, apportionment and allotment to an agency, with internal processes of funds commitment, obligation, and expenditures.
No matter the exact method you use to execute your budget, it is my belief that the key to successfully executing a budget is good bookkeeping and funds reconciliation.
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MUUUCE—the Most Ultimate, Unbelievable, Urban Camping Experience—celebrated its 37th anniversary Aug. 10-12, with 402 middle school students and leaders from 22 Northwest Conference churches.
MUUUCE began in 1986 when the youth pastors at Faith Covenant Church in Burnsville, MN, created an event to reach middle schoolers. It quickly grew to serve all of the churches in the Northwest Conference. Faith Covenant hosted it until 2011. Crossroads Church in Woodbury, MN, then hosted until 2022. Buffalo Covenant Church in Buffalo, MN, became the host church for the first time this year.
The MUUUCE fun was spread out over three days—starting with a massive MUUUCE Blitz Thursday night that included nine giant inflatables, a field full of games like 9 Square in the Air and Gaga ball, indoor arts and crafts, and ice cream from a local ice creamery.
Friday’s excursion was the annual trip to Valley Fair, where after a great day in the park, as they were loading the busses to go home, a large hailstorm missed the group by a few miles. Friday night after worship was another party with something for everyone—a movie in the sanctuary, Capture the Flag under the lights, and a huge game show in the Youth Room. Those who wanted a quieter experience could do crafts like making buttons and bracelets or hanging out at the fire pit with guitars and s’mores.
The worship sessions started with games to get the group connected and energized. Then the youth worship team from Crossroads Church did a fantastic job of pivoting the energy in the room toward worship.
One youth leader observed, “It was really cool to quietly witness my students’ comfort level with large group contemporary youth worship grow as the weekend went on. It started with clapping along/following along with some actions that went along with certain songs. It turned into tentative opened palms, then bolder opened hands, and by the end of the weekend some students had their arms fully raised in praise to God!”
Speakers Craig and Molly Sanborn fleshed out the theme of “Extraordinary” (based on John 10:10) for this rapt audience of 6-9th graders. Craig was formerly the high school pastor at Plymouth Covenant Church in Plymouth, MN, and Molly is a frequent speaker at youth conferences, where she’s known as the Cheese Ball Chick. Together, they travel all over the country, speaking to students and adults.
Their heart for middle schoolers was evident as their ministry at MUUUCE continued off-stage. They talked with long lines of students after the worship sessions and again while they hung out with them at Valley Fair. Their speaking created some memorable moments of life change.
A youth pastor captured it well: “One of our boys in the Friday night small group said, ‘It felt like the Holy Spirit was present and moving.’ … We had a boy and a girl accept Christ for the first time that night.”
MUUUCE couldn’t happen without over 150 Buffalo Covenant Church volunteers who worked long hours doing everything from serving 1,200 hot dogs, popping popcorn, and manning the inflatables at the Blitz, to arriving at 6 a.m. to make 15 bags of sausage and 400 eggs, cutting up dozens of muffins and bagels, cleaning bathrooms, or serving all night in security shifts to provide a safe place for students and leaders to sleep.
The MUUUCE 2023 planning team comprised pastors and youth pastors from several churches and the staff of Buffalo Covenant Church. The group met several times in the months leading up to MUUUCE to determine how to create an atmosphere that contained elements of fun, surprise and worship. The team was made up of James Brown (Real Life Church, Waseca, MN), Rocky Hovda (First Covenant Church, Willmar, MN), Zach Klein (Community Covenant Church, Upsala, MN), Christian Krohg (Prairie Hills Covenant Church, Sioux Falls, SD), Kara Larson (Buffalo Covenant Church, Buffalo, MN), Taavi Larson (Buffalo), Dave Macalena (Buffalo), Darren Olson (Buffalo), Kelly Totushek (Buffalo), Karina Winkleman (Roseville Covenant Church, Roseville, MN), Brian Zahasky (Hope Covenant Church, St. Cloud, MN) and the NWC staff.
One youth worker summed the event up well: “MUUUCE is my favorite event that is put on each year. I hope we can keep it going strong. These students are being impacted for the kingdom through everything we do at this event!”
Embarking on Adventures in Leadership is not just about paddling through serene waters and exploring the beautiful Boundary Waters Canoe Area—it is an adventure that shapes teenagers into servant leaders.
Eleven students from all over the Northwest Conference learned to navigate through big waves and rough portages. They discovered the essence of servant leadership, teamwork, communication and resilience. The journey is not only about conquering nature’s forces—it’s also about conquering their inner fears and doubts.
One student put it this way, “It was overall an amazing experience! It truly pushed me out of my comfort zone, helped me to lean on Jesus when the portages got rough. [It] also taught me patience, love and control.”
Experiential learning is the framework of AIL, and it’s a powerful tool for developing leadership skills. Students develop problem-solving skills by facing real-life challenges, making real-time decisions and learning to think strategically.
Through AIL, students gain a deeper understanding of their strengths and weaknesses, allowing them to grow and improve as leaders. They understand that each team member brings unique strengths and perspectives, and the leader must leverage these strengths effectively. The lessons learned during AIL stay with students long after the adventure ends, shaping their approach to leadership in all aspects of their lives.
In the words of one of the participants, “It definitely was not what I was expecting, but [it] built my character and helped me get a better perspective.”
AIL is designed to build Christ-based confidence and resilience and allow students to lead in an emotionally encouraging but physically challenging environment.
One participant said, “It was one of the most intense, enjoyable experiences of my life so far.”
Besides learning crucial wilderness skills, participants also spent time in creative learning sessions, putting servant leadership into action, and in worship and reflection. Students are encouraged on their journey of faith, self-discovery and leadership development. Through facing challenges, working as a team and honing their communication and decision-making skills, they gain invaluable experiences that will shape their future as leaders, whether at their home church, at school or in the community.
The AIL team was made up of Brian Zahasky (Hope Covenant, St. Cloud), Shawn Brown (Oxboro Free Church), Dave Cairns (Covenant Pines Ministries), and Ginny Olson (Northwest Conference), along with two trained guides from Adventurous Christians—Trisha and Gus—who are AIL alumni. The Adventurous Christians base team: Matt, Lina and Dana (also an AIL alumni), played critical roles in the success of Adventures in Leadership.
Information for AIL 2024 will be available in January.
After a two-year COVID hiatus, youth pastor Nathan Nelson said it well, “It feels so good to be back.”
From Aug. 4-6, 417 middle school students and leaders from 23 Northwest Conference churches gathered at Crossroads Church in Woodbury, MN. For three days they played, worshiped, laughed and learned about following Jesus.
The staff at Crossroads Church leads MUUUCE, and starts planning in the depths of winter to design an event that meets the needs of middle schoolers. Joey King, one of the youth pastors at Crossroads, said his vision for the event was for students to have “altar moments.”
That vision came to fruition when Eric Samuel Timm, who is both a speaker and an artist, presented the gospel in a way that immediately connected with the middle schoolers. He painted an umbrella and talked about how life may be hard, but you’re under the cover of God’s umbrella. He went on to challenge them to make a public declaration of their faith.
Over 100 middle schoolers said “yes” to Jesus for the first time, and over 200 recommitted their lives. One youth pastor said it was a holy moment watching the students stand in groups and lock arms as they prayed for each other.
The three days included a massive Welcome Party with inflatable games, food trucks, as well as trips to The Fun Lab and Valley Fair. The Silent Disco was a huge hit. Students danced, only able to hear the music through their headphones. Students rushed to the stage during worship designed with middle schoolers in mind.
The small group times were vital. One pastor said, “The conversations that came out of the small groups were the start of some new beginnings.”
MUUUCE wouldn’t happen without over 100 Crossroads volunteers who served long hours doing everything from chaperoning the Welcome Party to cleaning bathrooms and vacuuming confetti. Sandra Florin is the administrator who coordinates the details of MUUUCE along with Joey King and the whole Crossroads team. They work for months to create an affordable and memorable event for our Northwest Conference churches.
MUUUCE is one of the few events in a middle schooler’s life where the church designs an event specifically for them. An event where fun and Jesus go hand in hand, where their questions about faith and life are taken seriously, and where they can know they are deeply loved by God and their youth leaders.
The UNITE North high school conference drew over 750 students and leaders from across the upper Midwest and Canada to Bethel University in Arden Hills, MN, July 14-17, to hear about the life-changing message of God.
“After the last four days of observation, and conversations and worship with students, I have so much hope for the future and the Church,” said Chris Kelly, Youth Pastor at Linwood Covenant in Wyoming, MN. “Students love Jesus!”
With dynamic speakers, worship music and engaging workshops, these teenagers grew in their faith and learned how they can impact the world for Jesus.
“There is hope! There is hope!” The cries of Bob Lenz rang through the auditorium on Sunday morning as hundreds of students and leaders stood to their feet in response to a call to discipleship. While we are besieged by news of teenagers walking away from God and the Church, this group was committing to let Jesus be in charge of their lives, to be held accountable and to get into the Bible daily.
This followed on the heels of Saturday night, where Terrence Talley challenged students to respond to the Gospel and 200 stood to commit to following Jesus, some for the very first time.
UNITE North kicked off on Thursday with a massive Welcome Party. As music filled the air, students and leaders were greeted with a rock-climbing wall, inflatables, a community art wall where students used spray paint to create and express themselves, a tent where they could paint their own T-Shirt, lawn games and mini-golf, as well as hamburgers, sno-cones, cotton candy and popcorn.
MainStage was a huge part of UNITE North. These morning and evening sessions were held in Bethel’s Benson Great Hall and marked by worship, speakers and artists. The UNITE North worship team created a holy space as students worshiped with perhaps the largest group they had been with in almost two-and-a-half years.
Cortland Pickens and the KNOWN choir, Candice Wynn and the Skit Guys were the featured artists the first night. The rest of the week, students heard from Laurel Bunker, Brannon Shortt, Terrence Lee Talley and Bob Lenz.
“God doesn’t want us to disqualify ourselves when God has already prequalified us for the next leg of the journey,” Wynn shared in her MainStage talk.
On Friday night, there was an incredible concert with Colton Dixon, from American Idol fame. As authentic off-stage as he was on, he stayed late into the night signing autographs and taking pictures with students.
After MainStage, youth groups gathered all over campus to talk about what they had learned and experienced throughout the day.
Melinda Fisher, Youth Director at New Day Covenant in Rochester, MN, said, “The conversations that we had during our small group time will likely stay with me forever. They were these beautifully sacred moments where I could see God actively forming hearts right in front of me.”
During the day at UNITE North, there were lots of opportunities for experiential learning. There were breakout seminars in the morning where students packed rooms to find out about their own or their friend’s mental health issues, reimagined Scripture with Theater for the Thirsty, explored the connections between the Old and New Testament in “Battle Royale,” learned how to share their faith in the Bless seminar, heard God’s call to live out the multiethnic kingdom, were challenged to listen and notice God’s movement, or practiced to be part of the UNITE North Worship Choir that performed Saturday night.
In the afternoons, students could head to Learning Labs where they heard about immigration stories and visited the Hmong market, or served by painting a house or weeding a garden. Some went to the world-renowned restaurant Owamni by The Sioux Chef and learned about native food practices and had a chance to eat buffalo tacos.
Others spent the afternoon on Excursions to Wild Mountain’s water park and alpine slides, or hiked at Afton State Park, or tried their hand at indoor sky diving or paintball.
Some students stayed on campus and competed in tournaments, played disc golf or watched the Family Camp movie, while others explored Sacred Space—a huge room filled with all sorts of creative spiritual practices designed to help people slow down and reflect on God’s work in their lives and the world.
“UNITE North was one of the best experiences I have ever had. I had fun, met lots of great people, and furthered my relationship with God in new and creative ways,” said a student named Aquiliana. “UNITE North was a wonderful adventure and I am so thankful that I was able to attend.”
UNITE North Team
UNITE North was created to fill the need for a large gathering event for high school students. This was after the Evangelical Covenant Church decided to postpone and then cancel the national UNITE (previously CHIC) due to COVID concerns. The ECC had been pondering whether it was time for regional high school events and it was clear, now was the time to test out that idea. Thus was born UNITE North (for churches in the upper Midwest and Canada), UNITE West (for churches from Alaska to California), UNITE East, Engage (Midwest Conference), and Serve Together (Central Conference).
“Our singular prayer was that UNITE North would be a catalyst for Christ-like transformation in the lives of students. Over four days, students heard from amazing communicators and participated in numerous faith forming activities,” said Brian Zahasky, Chair of the planning team and Lead Pastor at Hope Covenant Church, St. Cloud, MN. “All of this culminated with over 200 students standing up on Saturday evening as an act of response to Jesus and a commitment to live for Jesus. To God be the glory.”
The planning team of UNITE North, with the exception of Ginny Olson and Bryan Malley (NWC staff members), was made up of people from local Covenant churches, many of whom had served on CHIC councils. As previously mentioned, Zahasky chaired the planning team. Erik Anderson was the producer. Also serving were Jessa Anderson, Michelle Beilby, Josh Danielson, Kevin Farmer, Mary Kate Fretheim, Katie Friesen-Smith, Sarah Hazledine, Rachel Jacobs and Paulita Todhunter.
Scores of people volunteered which was critical in an event of this magnitude. People put in long hours, serving in areas like medical services, the sensory room, security, prayer, photography, helping at the Welcome Party and much, much more.
“The gift of being able to gather for an event like UNITE North was an answer to prayers. Our students and leaders left this conference feeling filled and encouraged,” said Rick Penner, Student Ministries Pastor at Nelson Covenant Church (Canada). “The planning team did an outstanding job in building an intentional experience of encounter with Christ.”
In the words of one student, when they were asked what their favorite part of the week was: “Everything. I just don’t want this to end.”
Once again, we are celebrating the completion of our Adventures In Leadership (AIL) Program by 13 NWC high school students. The week-long event took place June 11-18 and its impact was recognized by the students.
How does it work? Through an intentional partnership between the Northwest Conference and Adventurous Christians. Together we facilitate an eight-day experiential learning adventure in Christian leadership with a defining tagline of: “Servanthood is the beginning and end of Christian leadership!”
We frame the experience in three sections. The first two-and-a-half days involve a base camp training pathway to sharpen both leadership insights, competencies and potentials for each student, along with the necessary skills to negotiate a wilderness canoeing/camping adventure.
The next four days are dedicated to a student-led canoe trip in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of northern Minnesota. The canoe trip serves as a wilderness learning laboratory for the students by leveraging the required team dynamics, physical effort and unpredictable elements of wilderness canoeing/camping to maximize leadership growth opportunities from the experience.
By design we provide each student with the chance to lead their group for a portion of the trip in order to personally practice, test and evaluate with their peers what they have been learning about leadership.
The final 24 hours of AIL is dedicated to debriefing the experience and exploring what God may be preparing each student for in the coming weeks and months as leaders.
And speaking of impact, here’s what some of the students had to say:
“I so appreciated all the lessons on leadership provided through AIL. Growth and learning don’t just stop. I need to learn and apply new things daily.” – Dana
“AIL far exceeded my expectations. It was a lot more fun, exciting and meaningful than I expected. I gained greater confidence and a deeper relationship with God through it.” – Noah
“I learned that I am so much stronger than I think I am. I also learned that leadership isn’t all about being the loud, outgoing one. You can be an introvert and be a leader, too.” – Grace
“This program has one purpose: to make Christ-centered leaders. And the program accomplishes its purpose wonderfully.” – Dan
“AIL reinforced how the Bible should be a part of our everyday life and leadership.” – Rosemond
“This experience was great! The leadership training was very good and helped me get a better understanding of myself as a leader. I thought the daily journaling was really beneficial as well.” – Carter
We praise God for His continued hand of protection and blessing upon this unique journey we provide student leaders in our Conference. Congratulations again to our AIL Class of 22!
In this video, Lilly Lewin teaches a group of youth pastors how to create participatory Advent experiences. These activities can be used with students or the whole church, online or in person. Lilly is the worship curator at Free Range Worship https://freerangeworship.com.
On Saturday, Aug. 7, around 280 middle schoolers, leaders and volunteers from all over the Northwest Conference converged on Minnehaha Academy for One Big Day. It was a day packed with fun and faith, all designed with middle schoolers in mind.
The day began with a massive Welcome Party. There were giant inflatable games, a mini-golf course built by a member of Dassel Covenant Church in Dassel, MN, 9-square in the air and corn hole, arts and crafts, colored hair spray, and sno-cones and gigantic donuts. One student exclaimed as he walked in and surveyed the scene, “You mean all this is for us?”
After a Chick-Fil-A lunch, students headed to different stations to learn about four of Jesus’ miracles through hands-on, interactive lessons. For the blind man who was healed, for the paralyzed man whose friends put him on a cot and ripped apart a roof to get him before Jesus, for the 5,000 who were fed, and for the fishermen whose nets were almost broken by the weight of the fish they caught … the day those miracles happened was their One Big Day.
At the different stations, students heard from the former owners of the Rustic Inn about what it would take to actually feed 5,000 people. They heard from a fisherman about what it would be like to catch that many fish. They learned about the miraculous creation of an eye. They built cots out of wood and rope and had to carry a teammate across the gym floor, experiencing a taste of what those friends might have experienced 2,000 years ago.
From the miracle stations, students headed out to the Minnehaha football field for an epic tournament. Through screams of laughter and cheers, four teams battled to win crazy, creative camp games.
Pausing to catch their breath and eating giant ice cream sandwiches, students headed to the final session. There they experienced C.H.A.O.S. (Crazy Humans Attempting Outrageous Stunts). There were reverse charades, competitive cheese ball tossing, and more.
In a way that only middle schoolers can pivot, they turned to dynamic worship led by Emmanuel Covenant. When Greg Speck got up on stage, he had the room laughing and groaning as he talked about his One Worst Day. And then had them leaning forward in anticipation as he told them about meeting Jesus and how that was his One Big Day.
Youth pastors lined the chapel, praying with and for students, some who came to know Christ for the first time, others who were renewing their commitments and yet others who just needed prayer.
One Big Day was led by a team of youth pastors from across the Northwest Conference who met for months planning and designing the event: Mike Bechtold (First Covenant Church, Red Wing, MN), Rocky Hovda (First Covenant Church, Willmar, MN), Evan Kolding (Lakeview Covenant Church, Duluth, MN), Chris Kelly (Linwood Covenant Church, Wyoming, MN), Zach Klein (United Covenant Church, Clear Lake, WI), Luke Korthuis (Salem Covenant Church, New Brighton, MN), Annie Larson (Plymouth Covenant Church, Plymouth, MN), Dan Swartz (Emmanuel Covenant Church, Shoreview, MN).
Our NWC youth workers shined as they shepherded their students. The backbone of the day was a team of amazing volunteers who made it all possible: they set up and swept up, stood in the rain, greeted and cheered. They fed hungry kids, bandaged bumps, took photos, led games, picked up garbage, refilled water jugs, handed out masks, and, most importantly, prayed.
It was a day overflowing with fun and with moments of joy and connection with each other and Jesus. It was One Big Day.
As we peruse the biblical narrative, something we observe is how God has used the wilderness as a dynamic molder of leaders. For example, consider the stories of Elijah, David, John the Baptist and Jesus. Through God’s sovereignty, each of these leaders experienced the wilderness as a profound encounter with God and formational place in their lives.
So what is it about the wilderness that uniquely stages the potential transformation of a person? This space that is primarily uninhabited, uncontrollable, unpredictable, desolate, wild, removed from the “normal,” and yet remains under the steady care and presence of God.
David Collins suggests the following: “The wilderness is spiritually formative because it creates a setting where the comforts of life are stripped away, and you are placed in a more discomforting space. And it is in this disorientated space where the individual is more sensitized to new revelations and personal growth opportunities. Because in God’s creation you can slow down and reflect. You have time to let go of, disconnect from the worries of life and to rest. It’s also where, coupled with the wilderness vulnerability and discomfort, one finds it difficult to not let go of control and place God at the center of their life again.”
Since 1991, the Northwest Conference has tapped into this same wilderness potential in the forming of young emerging leaders from our churches. Yes, it was 30 years ago that Adventures In Leadership (AIL) was born. And this past month, we took this journey again with 13 NWC high school students and once again saw God do His transforming work. Truly, through our partnership with Adventures Christians over the years, this eight-day journey in Christian leadership continues to be a testimony of God at work in our students and a privileged space that we are humbled and honored to share in.
So what did the students have to say?
“I spent a little over a week learning about who I am, who I can be and who God wants me to be. Then I was challenged in all of this by being thrown into the wilderness, and it was a perfect way for me to try out everything I had learned and find out actually what it is to lead.” – Lydia
“I would say that this experience completely blew my expectations away and I was very amazed! On the canoe trip I learned that through the ‘rapids of life’ we can stand together as a team.” – Corbin
“AIL is an awesome experience. I made great connections, furthered my relationship with God, and grew as a leader. This was a great space to disconnect from the outside world and truly grow.” – Lily
“AIL is a unique experience. I didn’t expect to connect with God as much as I did, and it was amazing. I built unbelievable relationships with my peers as well. I learned leadership skills and discovered talents that will help me in the future. It’s an eye-opening experience.” – Audrey
Praise God and may He bless this Adventure In Leadership for 30 more years!
There is a huge increase in mental health issues with teenagers during the pandemic. Our youth pastors have been ministering on the front lines of this rise, which is getting worse in these dark days of winter.
In light of that, we hosted a pop-up training on mental health and students on Friday, Dec. 18. Tim Cryer helped us learn what questions to ask and how to do a support group with students to delve beneath the surface. We’ll actually ran a beta support group and you can see what it looks like and how to do it yourself.
Tim Cryer has a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy and has worked at TreeHouse for over 10 years working with teens, parents, and communities throughout Minnesota. He, like many of you, is struggling as a spouse, dad, employee, and person during this time.
If you look at a typical youth ministry summer calendar, it’s packed with events and experiences: mission trips, camps, Vacation Bible School, bon fires and backyard grilling. These events create opportunities to build relationships as well as opportunities for discipleship. But this summer, youth ministry leaders have been scrambling to figure out what ministry looks like when summer programming is anything but typical.
We asked our youth pastors on Facebook about how their youth ministries have changed—or perhaps, have stayed the same—this summer. Here is what we heard:
“Our youth ministry looks incredibly relational. Running programming has gone closer to the bottom of our list of priorities, and spending time with students has moved to number one,” said Sophie Arland, Youth Pastor at Crossroads Church in Woodbury. “There has been no planning of services, events, and such. Rather, the question has been: How do we maintain and grow relationships during this season? Relationships with students and students’ relationships with God. The difficulty has been how to invest in those relationships and grow them while staying safe and keeping the engagement of students.”
The students at First Covenant in Red Wing gather outside at a weekly bonfire as they follow maximum size and social distancing recommendations. Knowing that youth ministry isn’t just about students, Mike Bechtold, Associate Pastor for Youth, also started a podcast for parents, talking about developing faith at home (www.redwingfirstcov.org/faithathome).
“Our group has been gathering every week for the last five weeks at our normal times and such, but we are doing more of a Bible study/group discussion format as opposed to our ‘traditional’ setup. We just started doing a game again last week,” said Jake King, Youth Pastor at Braham Covenant. “We’ve met outside until last week around the fire where we have tackled some of the deeper issues that are in our culture now. Being so far north there is a disconnect from many of the issues among students, but it has been very beneficial as it’s led to other biblical discussions. I plan to take the time to grow relationships deeper both with students and me and leaders and the students amongst themselves.”
He went on to say, “We also did a Q&A night which we haven’t done in a while, even before COVID. It really seems to help newer students click and feel like part of the group. Events are at a minimum for now, but I am planning some small group things like meeting at other leaders’ homes throughout the rest of the summer and fall.”
At United Covenant in Clear Lake, WI, Youth Pastor Zach Klein said, “We are meeting weekly all summer, which is actually a change.”
In order to keep socially distant, they’ve worked hard to create games that can be played spread out. They also split their group into two smaller groups to keep numbers down, but Zach noted, “Our numbers have grown since we started doing this!”
First Covenant in River Falls is still meeting weekly. Youth director Neil Vance said that rather than leadership team students hosting at their homes, “We are requiring that we meet at one of the parks in town where we are outdoors and there is enough room for everyone to spread out better.”
Linwood Covenant’s summer youth ministry is called “Summer Set” and has been meeting the last four Thursday nights in the backyard of the church. Chris Kelley, Associate Pastor of Youth & Families, observed, “We’ve had a smaller group (less than 20) each week, but it’s been wonderful to open the Word together, eat ice cream and play some volleyball together. Our current series is called, ‘Can I Ask That?’ It’s a series about questions students are often hesitant to ask. It’s been really good!”
No matter how youth ministry has changed this summer, it’s clear that two priorities are at the forefront: keeping students healthy and keeping them connected to Jesus and each other.
Rites of passage are critical in an adolescent’s life. They help students and their families mark the transition from childhood into adulthood. In our culture, the high school graduation ceremony is one of the most important rites of passage.
Here’s how several Northwest Conference churches are honoring this big moment in the lives of their high school seniors.
Bemidji Covenant has 20 students graduating from high school this spring.
“I’ve made lawn signs with their senior photo and name, plus a gift bag containing ‘Starting Now’ (a devotional for the first six weeks of college), an 18+ phase guide for their parents, blessings written by me and their small group leaders, and lots of fun stuff like confetti, silly string and Swedish fish candy that is attached to memories of youth group,” said Youth Pastor Sarah Holt. “We also have a senior video we’ll show on our YouTube channel and for Sunday church online.”
Alexandria Covenant has 32 students graduating from seven different schools. Brian Farka, Pastor of Student Ministry, explained the church will be hosting its celebration right before the high school’s online graduation so students can get home to watch the live stream later that evening.
“We are planning to have people in cars in the parking lot to cheer and honk. They will get a grad brochure with pictures and grad info. The graduates will drive up, get out of their cars for a gift and to wave,” Farka said. “I’ll announce each grad over loudspeaker and possibly FM broadcast. They will then drive away and we’ll repeat for the next one.”
Amy DuFrene, the Christian Formation pastor at Oak Heights Covenant in Hutchinson, MN, is also utilizing the church parking lot to gather.
“We are going to do a drive-in/drive-by tailgate type graduation Sunday,” she explained. “We’ll have each graduate decorate their car, hand out cake from the kitchen and have families drive to each station.”
Smaller groups allow for a different kind of celebration.
“With four students we will have them show up for Friday night worship taping. And, with safe distancing under 10, present our fun/crazy gift baskets and this year’s grad parade pictures,” explained Pastor Craig Johnson of Mahtowa Covenant. “We are trying to go the extra mile this year with our amazing seniors.”
Some ministries are creating videos featuring the seniors. Nathan Nelson, Associate Pastor of Youth at Mission Covenant in Poplar, WI, created a senior slideshow as part of their Sunday worship service. He included a bio of each student and a flier for everyone to have.
Matt Christiansen, the Youth Director at New London Covenant Church, is combining video with a small, live gathering.
“I recorded Zoom interviews with our seniors and am having a student compile them into a video that we’ll put up on our church website and social media for the church family to see,” he said. “It’s taking the place of them getting up in front of church and sharing their future plans. And we’ll have a small in-person Senior Night around a fire with affirmations pre-submitted by underclassmen.”
Alicia Vela Anderson, Pastor of Youth and Young Adults at Roseville Covenant, adds a personal touch to the celebration.
“Every year I buy books for the graduating seniors based off where they are at spiritually, and I present them and interview them in a service,” she said. “So, this year I’m delivering their books along with letters from their leaders/Sunday School teachers and we’ll record a Zoom call to add to our Sunday Worship service.”
Whether you are graduating from high school, or perhaps college or graduate school, or maybe eighth grade or kindergarten, the Northwest Conference staff celebrates this rite of passage with you and prays for God’s blessing on your future.
“Semper Gumby, Always Flexible.” It’s an old phrase used by youth pastors and Marines alike. It’s based on the rubbery, super-bendable, green claymation character from the ’60s. The flexibility that Gumby was famous for is a necessity in youth ministry. In youth ministry, youth workers know that circumstances change quickly and that they must be nimble and agile with their ministry plans. Never has that been truer than now.
In a few short weeks, youth ministry leaders have had to figure out how to go from leading in person to leading from a distance. While the methods might have changed, the basic premise is still the same—connecting relationally with students and their families and helping them pursue their relationship with Jesus.
In the Northwest Conference, our youth ministry leaders have been incredibly creative as they’ve flexed to minister in these changing times. Some approaches are high tech, while others are low tech. Some meet weekly in groups while others are meeting one-on-one. It all depends on what their context, and their students, need. Here are some examples of how our people are reaching students:
Joey King (Crossroads Church campuses – Woodbury, MN) and his team are doing a full service with teaching and worship on YouTube and then doing Zoom small groups. They are also doing daily devos through Instagram live to help get students engaged in scripture daily.
David Strelow (Lewis Lake Covenant, Ogilvie, MN) is doing a daily verse that he texts students and then it’s open to discussion.
Jake King (Braham Covenant, Braham, MN) is utilizing Instagram posts, a daily verse with discussion and one-on-one texts. He suggests using the “Remind” app for texting because it allows for more than 20 people in a conversation.
Alicia Vela Anderson (Roseville Covenant, Roseville, MN) is trying Zoom youth group this Wednesday with worship, a talk and small groups. They’re also creating a youth directory to connect students and leaders. She suggests trying the Marco Polo app for the high school group to stay connected. Sunday School and confirmation will both be held online.
Her insight during this season, “I’m trying to find a balance between resourcing them and not over programming. I want to try and find a way to do a few things really well with high engagement rather than over saturating our students.”
Michele Thompson Arndt, church planter at The Crossing Covenant Church, Houlton, WI, is hosting a Tuesday Talk Show for their students. This week, she posed the following questions: a) What has been the hardest for you personally about the past 2 weeks? b) What are you learning? c) What questions are you asking about Jesus/your faith as a result?
Mikey Bechtold (First Covenant Church, Red Wing, MN) is providing several different touchpoints: Wednesdays evening he’ll be sending out a link to a pre-recorded youth lesson with some reflection questions. Thursdays he’s sending out a pre-recorded confirmation lesson with some sort of online form for students to reflect on what they learned. Fridays he’s sending out a link to a pre-recorded Zoom call with a student he interviewed to share their faith story and talk about how they are navigating this season of life.
He’s hoping to coordinate a few projects like a team of students to write cards to those in our congregation who are shut-ins, widowed, or live alone. He’s also planning on starting a young adult Zoom gathering on Friday or Sunday night.
Neil Vance (First Covenant Church, River Falls, WI) is doing a youth group Zoom call during youth group time Wednesday nights to do games, a short lesson and small groups. They also started a Bible study plan on the YouVersion app where students can leave comments and do a Zoom study Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays to discuss the readings.
Neil added, “I’m also reaching out to students individually over text/phone calls to check in. More to come I’m sure, but that is where we are started now.”
Geo Linna (Riverwood Covenant, Greenfield, MN) is meeting via Live YouTube Wednesday evenings and using the comment section to interact with students. They are encouraging whole families to watch, not just students. On Sunday nights, they host their Zoom high school Bible study. She’s also connecting with parents through weekly parent e-mails with links to things like Spotify and YouTube worship playlists, games and other things to engage the family.
In her words, “I feel like it’s a great time to help the families get faith in the home.”
Rocky Hovda (First Covenant Church, Willmar, MN) began making YouTube videos last week. He said, “Monday and Friday are called DISC: Dive Into Scripture Challenge and are short tools used to give you a verse to memorize and a short story on it. Wednesday night I have one called revolution2020 which is a full lesson and some discussion questions that hopefully either parents will do with their student or my leaders follow up with. Sundays is a scripture reading video to get kids in the word and then a batch of discussion questions and a game. We also have many kids and leaders engaging on Houseparty! I purposefully put the launch times of Wednesday night and Sunday mornings there to keep some regularity in their schedule if they chose to do so!”
Layne Johnson (Moose Lake Covenant, Moose Lake, MN) met via Zoom with their senior high youth. He shared, “We just talked about our week and shared prayer requests. Now with a better idea going forward we’ll have a lesson time and small groups if enough teens are able to join us.”
Eric Kuehner (HOPE Church, Grand Forks, ND) said, “We’re doing a lot of similar things that other groups are doing at HOPE Church. We have a prerecorded service that premieres at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday nights with worship and a short message. From there our leaders are engaging their small group students and having their small group sessions after the service—whichever platform works best for their group. We do a Survival Kit giveaway during service and deliver it the next day. We have a daily SOAP devo (SOAP stands for Scripture, Observe, Application, Prayer) on our Facebook and Instagram page.”
Sarah Holt (Bemidji Covenant, Bemidji, MN) has students giving daily devotionals on Instagram. Their youth ministry is a recorded teaching video and then small groups meet in Zoom for an hour. In addition, she’s making personal phone calls to small group leaders and coaches, and they in turn are calling parents. Confirmation is meeting via Zoom.
She stated, “We’ll add more later, but for now keeping them in their normal rhythms has been good.”
This is just a small glimpse at how youth ministry in the NWC has quickly and nimbly changed in just over a week. Please pray for our youth ministry leaders as they figure out how to do Semper Gumby ministry in rapidly changing circumstances
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Imagine 614 middle schoolers learning about what it means to be unleashed for Jesus. That was the theme of this year’s MUUUCE (the Most Unbelievable, Ultimate, Urban Camping Experience). From Aug. 1-3, 614 students and youth leaders from 40 Northwest Conference Covenant churches gathered at Crossroads Church in Woodbury for this awesome middle school event.
The three days included a massive Welcome Party with inflatable games and food trucks, a trip to the Big Thrill Factory and Valley Fair, lots of pizza and Chick-fil-A, as well as worship, teaching and small group discussions that are designed specifically for them.
During the worship sessions, Karl Romeus, the student pastor at Bayside Church in Sacramento, CA, confronted students to think about what it means to be unleashed for Christ as young adolescents. They leaned in to hear his stories and his challenges. The Crossroads worship team created a powerful worship experience designed to help middle schoolers connect with God.
Chad Melton, pastor of middle school ministry at Alexandria Covenant said that a highlight for him was witnessing God soften a student’s heart.
“That this student encountered Jesus after a year of praying for that breakthrough… it’s beyond words,” Melton said.
MUUUCE is led by a team of a few paid but mostly volunteer leaders at Crossroads and a few other Covenant churches. This team meets all year to create and implement this crucial large-scale event for our Conference. They work hard to keep the cost affordable and still give students a memorable experience.
As you can imagine, feeding that many teenagers gets expensive. With that in mind, one of the 210 Crossroads attenders who volunteered for MUUUCE is Wendy Rhein. She spearheaded an effort to get local businesses to contribute to help defray the cost. For example, Chick-fil-A in West St. Paul donated chips and gave a huge discount on sandwiches and delivered them free of charge. Kwik Trip in Woodbury donated 120 pounds of bananas as well as pop. Dairy Queen in Woodbury gave MUUUCE a huge discount on Dilly Bars. Green Mill in Maplewood gave a discount on burritos and pizzas, and Cub Foods in Cottage Grove cut their price on donuts, watermelons and carrots for MUUUCE.
In a world that thinks middle schoolers are too young to think about the things of God, too squirrely to make a decision to follow Christ, too immature to handle spiritual questions, MUUUCE is a rare event that is designed to help these students understand that they are deeply loved by God, and that church is a place where you can have fun.
Rachel Lassen, the youth pastor at Hope St. Cloud, summed these amazing three days up well: “What was especially meaningful for our crew was that many of our students got to conquer ‘firsts’ together … first time on a rollercoaster, first time hearing the good news, first big-time retreat and first major encounter with God.”
Twelve high school students were chosen to participate in this year’s Adventures in Leadership [AIL] from June 15-22. AIL is an intense week of leadership development at Adventurous Christians on the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
Students spend the first part of the week at AC learning crucial camping skills as well as what it means to be a leader who follows Christ. They spend time exploring how they’re wired to lead and what it means to be a servant leader, then put that knowledge into action out on the trail in the Boundary Waters.
Throughout the week, they are leading and reflecting on their experience with guides and their peers. For example, Jasmine from Brookdale Covenant, wrote in her reflection, “I learned that there are different kinds of leaders and you don’t have to try and be like everyone else. I also learned about my own strengths and weaknesses.”
Christian from the Covenant Church in Bemidji offered this perspective: “I like how AIL not only teaches us about leadership but lets us put what we learn into practice.”
This year students had a front-row experience of observing leadership in the midst of a crisis. They had just arrived back at camp from their trip and were cleaning their gear when a fire broke out in the AC sauna. They watched as the Gunflint Trail Volunteer Fire Department swarmed in from the surrounding area to deal with the fire and kept it to just a loss of the building and nothing more.
Jon Kramka, NWC Director of Congregational Vitality, observed, “It could have been so much worse, and I was so proud of how our AIL students responded during this crisis. This brought the ‘adventure’ element of this years’ experience to a whole new level.”
As a follow-up to the AIL experience, there is a leadership challenge extended to student’s home church: partner with the student to make sure they are growing in their leadership abilities over the next year. Each student’s home church receives an evaluation of the student’s experience from the AIL staff, as well as ways for the church to engage each student further in leadership learning and experiences. They are also given support materials to assist them with this process.
Precious, an AIL student from Community Covenant, summed it up well, saying, “AIL went beyond my expectations because it really mapped out what it means to be a leader.”
Applications for next year’s Adventures in Leadership will be available in early February 2020.
“True evangelical faith cannot lie dormant. It clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute, it serves those that harm it, it binds up that which is wounded, it has become all things to all people.”
These words were written in 1539 by Menno Simons, the founder of the Mennonite movement. They could’ve easily been written in April 2019.
April 5 and 6 to be exact. Over those two days, 132 high school students and their leaders from 17 NWC churches gathered at Hope Covenant Church in St. Cloud to focus on living out Jesus’ words in Matthew 22:37-39, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” (NIV). No excuses.
MOVE is like other high school retreats in that there’s worship. Lawrence Miles and his band did an amazing job of leading the students. And there’s teaching. Stephanie O’Brien challenged MOVE participants to wrestle with their excuses and to get creative in living out Jesus’ commands.There’s sleeping on church floors. Hope Covenant was an incredible host. And there’s lots of pizza and donuts. HUGE donuts. Donuts the size of pies.
What makes MOVE different is that it’s focused on putting faith into action. Right here. Right now.
Early Saturday morning, students and leaders put their faith into action by spreading throughout St. Cloud and serving with ministries and organizations that are addressing tough issues and situations in their communities. Groups assisted newly arrived refugees to the United States, learned about those who are being forced into sex trafficking, and heard stories about the needs of those who are in the foster care system. They walked the neighborhood and learned about those who call St. Cloud State home. They picked up trash and cleaned up boulevards.
What also makes MOVE different is that it’s focused on putting faith into action in the future. At home—in students’ own towns and cities and suburbs.
Saturday afternoon, students investigated their own community’s issues and then brainstormed solutions, ala Shark Tank. After presenting their ideas to the Shark Tank judges (Stephanie Williams O’Brien – pastor and author, Kirsten Wagenius – InterVarsity staff at St. Cloud State, and Josh Svendsen – K-YES Radio), First Covenant River Falls was awarded the Judges’ Choice Grant. They received $250 to implement their idea of creating tied fleece blankets to bring comfort to those in the mental health system in the River Falls area.
Hope Covenant (St. Cloud) won the People’s Choice Grant of $100 for their idea of raising concern about sex trafficking in St. Cloud. The last time MOVE did Shark Tank, Bemidji Covenant received the Judges’ Choice Grant and started a color run to bring awareness to addiction issues in their community. That color run is still going on to this day.
MOVE is a unique retreat. It’s filled with eye-opening experiences, hard and dirty work, challenging topics and uncomfortable lodging. It’s not for every student. But for those who come, they walk away with a clear sense of Menno Simmons exhortation, “True evangelical faith cannot lie dormant.”
Can we talk about background checks? It’s 2018, and we’re officially past the point of making excuses for why churches would not do proper screening on their volunteers. Claiming “we all know each other” doesn’t cut it anymore.
Parents expect adults who work with their children to be trained and screened, and the safety of our kids demands it. Background checks are an important step to weed out obvious predators and are one part of a robust screening process.
This, along with abuse prevention training and careful oversight, are the critical steps that contribute toward a comprehensive safety system for our kids and vulnerable populations.
On Nov. 8, the Northwest Conference, along with Covenant camps in MN, offered a one-day Ministry Safe training on abuse prevention. Over 200 people learned about the sobering reality of child abuse and were equipped with the tools needed to implement a safety system in their ministries.
If your church already has a safety system in place, great. If you’d like to know about how to get started, please contact the Conference office.
Finally, know that the vast majority of adults desire children to be healthy and safe. Unfortunately, our culture believes churches are willing to sweep abuse accusations under the rug. Let’s change the narrative and let the Church lead the way in making sure the next generations can hear the good news of Jesus in a loving and safe environment.
How many pizzas do you need to feed 644 middle schoolers and their leaders? One hundred sixty, which were devoured in less than five minutes. It also takes 689 Chick-fil-A sandwiches, 4,320 bottles of water, 32 watermelons and 180 volunteers.
From Aug. 2-4, middle school students and leaders from 43 NWC churches gathered at Crossroads Church in Woodbury for MUUUCE: the Most Unbelievable, Ultimate, Urban Camping Experience. MUUUCE has been going on not just for years, but for decades. For a few days, middle schoolers learn more about Jesus at an event that’s designed specifically for them.
On Thursday afternoon, students unpacked their gear in one of two huge school gyms where they would camp for the next few days (there was no air conditioning, hence the “camping” part of the event). They then headed out to a massive field where they were greeted by a Welcome Party that was a middle schooler’s dream. It included lots of giant inflatable games, hair painting, a huge video game where students were actively part of the on-screen action, mini-donuts, ice cream bars, Mountain Dew, tacos, sno-cones and popcorn.
After the worship session that evening, students headed to the Big Thrill Factory where they could ride go karts, climb high ropes, spend time in the arcade, jump on trampolines or let loose with laser tag.
Friday morning kicked off with another great worship session featuring Leonard Davis from Young Life in Kansas City talking about the theme, “Trusting Jesus.” Worship was led by James Howard and the worship team from Crossroads. That afternoon, everyone loaded on the bus and headed to Valley Fair. The day finished up with another worship gathering and then the final service took place Saturday morning before they headed home.
Sydney Zenk was a student at MUUUCE just a few years ago. Now, she was participating for the first time as a leader with Countryside Covenant. She reflected, “Coming here [as a student] was my first big step into the faith. It’s cool to be able to come back and help other kids take that first, second or third step in their faith.”
MUUUCE is led by a team of a few paid but mostly volunteer leaders at Crossroads and a few other Covenant churches. Tim Stanley, pastor of the Crossroads Hastings Campus was the MUUUCE director and Sandra Florin and her team provided the creative and administrative backbone to the event.
Luke Korthuis (Salem Covenant, New Brighton, MN) and Alica Vela (Roseville Covenant) were active on the leadership team as well. This group meets all year to design an event that will help middle schoolers understand that they are deeply loved by God and that church is a place where you can have fun.
CHIC 2018 was an amazing week full of powerful preaching, incredible worship, unbelievable concerts, great teaching and a whole lot of fun! With 1,105 students and leaders from 69 of our churches, the Northwest Conference was the largest group at CHIC.
During morning Basecamps (experiential education sessions), students had a chance to interact with four of the priorities of the Covenant: make and deepen disciples, serve globally, develop leaders, and love justice and do mercy. In the afternoons, participants had a chance to head off campus on excursions like white water rafting, horseback riding and exploring caves. Some stayed on campus where they could swim or hang out at the Nest where they had crafts, conversations, and a chance to connect with others in the denomination.
The evenings were marked by powerful gatherings called “MainStage,” at the University of Tennessee’s basketball arena. Five thousand people worshiped together, led by the CHIC band. They heard from world-class speakers like Megan Fate Marshman and Eugene Cho. Included in the evening sessions were artists like For King and Country and Andy Mineo. On Tuesday night, students and leaders alike participated in communion. Those who were sensing a call to ministry or missions had the chance to be anointed with oil.
The Northwest Conference had leaders woven throughout CHIC. They put in long hours serving on the Counseling, Excursion, Security, Production and the Prayer teams. Yet others served the NWC participants as Resident Supervisors and Dorm Pastors.
There’s a post-CHIC curriculum available for the whole church to use. This all-church initiative rallies around the “I Am” statements used during MainStage at CHIC. It is written by several Covenant pastors and leaders and the hope is that the momentum of #CHIC2018 can carry over in to your entire congregation.
Again this summer, like over the past 30+ years, the Northwest Conference made an investment in a select group of emerging high school leaders through our Adventures In Leadership (AIL) camp. Like with the example of the Apostle Paul affirming young Timothy for his leadership calling and gifts, and then pouring further knowledge and insight into Timothy as he grew as a leader, AIL continues to do so with our students each year.
AIL is an intentional partnership between the Northwest Conference and Adventurous Christians. It is an eight day experiential learning adventure in Christian leadership with a defining tagline of: “Servanthood is the beginning and end of Christian leadership!”
The experience is framed in three sections. The first two-and-a-half days provide a base camp training environment to sharpen both Christian leadership insights and potentials for each student, along with providing each student the necessary base skills to negotiate a wilderness canoeing/camping adventure.
The next four days are dedicated to a student-led canoe trip in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of northern Minnesota. In essence, the canoe trip becomes the learning laboratory whereby each student provides leadership for their group during a portion of the trip, and in the process practices, tests and evaluates what they have been learning about leadership. Following their time as group leader each student is then provided feedback from the group on their leadership as a source for their continued growth and learning.
So in summary, over the first seven days students experience:
- Exploration/practice of the spiritual disciplines; taking a personality inventory; participating in group leadership simulations; investigating biblical leadership models of the shepherd and the servant; engaging in acclimatization, navigation and orienteering activities, and giving & receiving feedback for the purposes of personal/group growth & learning.
- Serving as the group leader for ½ of a day on their canoe trip.
- Discover and develop positive team dynamics where each person’s gifts and abilities are uniquely supported, utilized and valued by the group.
The final 24 hours of AIL is dedicated to debriefing and processing the experience and pondering what God may be preparing each student for in the coming weeks/months as leaders. In addition, as the students return home we encourage their church to take an active role in building upon AIL and walking alongside their student over the next year as they assume new or greater leadership roles within their church, school or community at large.
Following are a few brief reflections offered by some of our students this year:
- “The whole thing was one of the greatest things I have ever been a part of.” – E.
- “This experience helped me grow in so many ways and go deep.” – A.
- “This was amazing! I didn’t think it would impact me this much. I learned that I can be a strong leader.” – M.
- “I will never forget AIL.” – A.
- “I went into this not really knowing what to expect. I learned and grew so much!” – O.
- “AIL has changed me forever and I have built life-long friendships.” – B.
- “I was super scared going into it, and it turned out to really be a life-changing experience.” – T.
We praise God for His continued hand of blessing upon this unique journey that we have taken with student leaders over all these years. And we look forward to our next leadership adventure with students in 2019.
In its fifth year, Go:Serve was held Thursday, June 21, in partnership with the ECC Annual Meeting, called Gather. Sixty+ participants, ages 5 and up, met at Sanctuary Covenant Church in North Minneapolis, for a crash course on culture and ministry in the Twin Cities.
From there, participants loaded onto a bright yellow coach bus (courtesy of Richfield Bus, who transports our high schoolers to CHIC) for a short ride to South Minneapolis, where we learned about Bethlehem Covenant Church’s partnership with Ace in the City. Launched in one of the most diverse neighborhoods on the planet, Ace in the City builds community through relationships. Go:Serve participants learned about their ministry, then helped create backpack tags for children who will benefit from Ace’s back-to-school backpack drive, held later in the summer.
From Bethlehem, participants walked four blocks down the road to observe and to pray for Minnehaha Academy, a PreK-12 school that is a ministry of the Northwest Conference. Minnehaha’s Upper School was devastated by an explosion last summer that destroyed much of the building, injured many, and two employees lost their lives. You can read more about Minnehaha here: http://www.minnehahaacademy.net.
After the prayer walk, participants hopped back on the bus to head to Hmong Village for lunch. Hmong Village is the largest Hmong-owned and operated indoor shopping mall/market in the cities, and possibly the world. Participants enjoyed a variety of foods, including pho, tri-color drink (nab vam), stuffed chicken wings, papaya salad, Hmong sausage and purple sticky rice.
With full bellies and many stories to tell, participants rode the bus 5 minutes down the road to First Covenant Church in St. Paul to learn about the refugee experience in Minnesota, hosted by Arrive Ministries. In the midst of a difficult time in our country, Arrive is committed to providing top-notch resettlement services and compassionate care for displaced refugees, immigrants and asylees who now call Minnesota home. We were grateful for the chance to dialogue about practical ways to partner with those who are trying to build a new life for themselves and their children after fleeing difficult circumstances.
Overall, it was a good day! Children and adults left with much to ponder about how Christians can engage with the world around them, starting with learning about the needs of others, and then dreaming about how to serve those in our communities in Jesus’ name. Maybe your church could envision hosting a Go:Serve-type event in your community?
While many are still scratching their heads over what to do with Millennials, Generation Z (kids born between 1997-2015) have snuck up on us and now represent nearly 25 percent of the population. This unique generation invites the Church to pay attention so that effective ministry can take place.
When the Millennials came of age, we made the shift from digital immigrants to digital natives. The next generation, GenZ, had a digital footprint from before they were born, thanks to parents posting their sonograms on Facebook.
Whereas generations before GenZ had most of their friendships located in their communities with maybe one or two long-distance pen pals, these digital natives were born into global citizenship. It’s a generation that can have more in common with kids their age around the globe than they do with adults in their own country.
Being a global citizen makes young people more aware of the scale of problems around us. Terrorism, war and climate change rank high as legitimate fears for our kids.
Thankfully, young people deeply desire to be part of the solution. According to a survey by the Brookings Institute, “Two-thirds said they crave the opportunity to make a ‘contribution to society beyond themselves and their family.’”
Setting politics aside, you can’t help but be amazed at the ability of young people to organize a national movement to advocate for reform with our nation’s gun laws after the Parkland, FL, shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. This generation sees themselves as leaders, able to organize a national movement through social media. Having been tech-savvy since their nursery days, they are already experienced in knowing how to get a message out in a way that attracts others’ attention.
Previous generations of teenagers have advocated for change, whether here in the U.S. with the Greensboro sit-ins in the 1960s, in South Africa with the anti-apartheid movement, or via the pro-democracy protest in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. The difference is that this current generation knows how to organize more quickly and more broadly than ever before.
What can we do?
It’s urgent that the Church learn how to engage this generation that is globally connected and yearning to make a difference. Here are some ideas:
1. Give children and young people an opportunity to engage in compassion, mercy and justice-minded issues.
Show them the Church cares about things that matter to them and to the world. Teach and model biblical justice, not in a way that only caves to the pressures of society, but in a way that keeps the incarnate Christ who walked this earth at the center of all we do.
2. Invest in children and youth ministries.
We know families are busy and don’t prioritize church. So, take the Church to families. Partner with local schools and community centers, send your kids to CHIC and Go:Serve so they can hear God’s invitation to mission and can connect with other like-minded young people.
3. Engage the home.
Eighty-nine percent of young people still say parents are the greatest source of influence when it comes to values. Equip parents and grandparents, fight for healthy marriages, and advocate for robust intergenerational mentoring so that older generations can love and mentor and learn from the young ones.
Generation Z is our future. They are also our present. The Church needs to take this generation seriously. Believe in them, teach them well, and equip them to bring Christ to the world in both word and deed.
Top Ten Reasons to Ride the NWC CHIC Bus
- You get to play endless rounds of Bloody Knuckles without having to pay attention to the GPS.
- That one kid who drinks 12 cans of Mountain Dew? There’s a bathroom on the bus.
- You don’t have to worry about an exhausted leader falling asleep behind the wheel. Seriously important.
- There’s a spare bus that rides with the caravan in case something happens (vs. being stuck in the middle of a cornfield with that broken-down beast of a church van).
- Flight from MSP to Knoxville: $400. Bus trip: $230. Haven’t you done enough fund-raising?
- The volunteer with the smelly feet? You can move to another part of the bus.
- Every bus rider gets a highly collectable T-shirt, included in the price!
- You don’t have to worry about herding cats, … er… kids, through the airport, and wonder if that one kid will start joking with TSA.
- No need to worry about getting extra insurance for the church van to cover the volunteer drivers or buying new tires to make sure you make it to Knoxville and back.
- You get a chance to hang out with other youth workers from all over the Northwest Conference!
$230 per person (students and adults)
Cost includes transportation to and from the University of Tennessee in an air-conditioned coach bus. Individuals will be responsible for the cost of meals (2-3 fast food meals each way plus snacks) during the trip. There is not a reduced transportation cost option for one-way riders.
- March 1 – Registration form and $100 per person non-refundable deposit due
- June 1 – Final payment due ($130 balance per person)
Please note: CHIC and Northwest Conference payment deadlines are different. The NWC has extended our deadlines to accommodate and encourage your fundraising efforts.
Download and fill out the PDF registration form, with names of students and adults riding the bus. Be sure to indicate which bus stop you are requesting. Send one church check payable to the Northwest Conference for the transferrable, but non-refundable, deposit due for all the students and adults in your group by March 1. Changes (additions or substitutions) can be made by e-mailing the NWC office (firstname.lastname@example.org).
For more information, including registration forms, scholarships and tentative bus stops, go to: https://www.northwestconference.org/event/chic-2018/
Ginny Olson, Northwest Conference Director of Youth Ministry, was presented with the first Rev. Dr. Gary Downing Leadership Award by Youth Leadership (YL) at its 50th Anniversary dinner on Thursday, Oct. 5.
Olson is currently serving as the interim director of Youth Specialties as well. She’s been involved in youth ministry for several decades on a variety of levels: youth pastor, professor, speaker, consultant and writer.
She taught in the North Park University Youth Ministry Department from 1995 to 2011, and was co-director and assistant professor at the NPU and North Park Theological Seminary Center for Youth Ministry Studies from 2001 to 2011.
Olson said the award was extra special to her because it is named in honor of a Covenant colleague who taught her first youth ministry class, adolescent counseling.
Downing had been pursuing a nuclear physics degree at the U.S. Naval Academy, but while driving a bus of high school students to a Young Life camp, he suddenly developed a desire to go into youth ministry.
He went on to work for Young Life and then served as pastor at several churches, including two Covenant congregations in Minnesota—Faith Covenant Church in Burnsville and Rochester Covenant Church.
The award was presented by longtime friend and mentor Tiger McLuen. Downing’s widow, Kathy Downing and their children participated in the presentation as well.
The event also celebrated McLuen, who recently retired as YL Executive Director, and Eric Iverson, the new Executive Director.
By Stan Friedman | This article originally appeared in the Covenant Newswire and is reused with permission.
The Most Unbelievable, Ultimate, Urban Camping Experience is the Northwest Conference’s annual middle school summer blow out. From Aug. 3-5, 625 middle school students and their leaders from 42 Covenant churches gathered at Crossroads Church in Woodbury, MN, for fun, worship, middle-school-focused teaching and small group discussions.
When students arrived on Thursday afternoon, they were greeted by a massive Welcome Party that was a middle schooler’s dream. It included lots of giant inflatable games, a GAGA ball pit, hair painting, mini-donuts, sno-cones and popcorn. After the worship session that evening, students headed to the Big Thrill Factory where they could ride go karts, climb high ropes, spend time in the arcade, jump on trampolines or let loose with laser tag.
Friday morning kicked off with another great worship session featuring Ben Kerns talking about the theme, “Jesus Is.” Ben is a long-time Covenant youth pastor from Marin, CA. He’s a speaker, author and blogger at www.averageyouthministry.com. Worship was led by James Howard and the worship team from Crossroads. That afternoon, after downing 152 pizzas, the students loaded on the bus and headed to Valley Fair. The day finished up with another worship gathering where the students raised $1,882 for Covenant Kids Congo. A final service took place Saturday morning before they headed home.
Lauren from River Falls observed about the three days, “It’s fun and exciting. You get to connect with people and learn about Jesus.”
Hannah from Vista Covenant Church, said, “My favorite part was the church. The music was powerful. I learned that God loves us just the way we are.”
One middle schooler exclaimed, “I haven’t been on my phone all day!” And another mused, “You don’t sleep; you eat.”
Phil Tolbert, Director of Children, Youth and Family Ministry at Dawson Covenant Church, said, “It’s a great experience for our middle school kids to break away from their normal lives and to meet God where they’re at.”
Anna Cornell, Pastor of Student & Family Ministries at Bloomington Covenant, remarked, “This is the first time our kids have been part of a larger church experience. It’s like a mini-CHIC. They get to experience the Covenant as a whole.”
MUUUCE is led by a team of paid and volunteer leaders at Crossroads Church. This group meets all year to design an event that will help middle schoolers understand that they are deeply loved by God, and that church is a place where you can have fun. The Crossroads team again did a fantastic job designing and hosting the event, with a team of 198 volunteers working different shifts to make it run seamlessly.
Thirty-one families from 16 different churches converged on Redeemer Covenant Church in Brooklyn Park, MN, on June 28 for NWC Family Go:Serve, a day of service and experiential learning for families.
This is the fourth year for Go:Serve, an event designed for families with children in PreK-upper elementary school. The day was an opportunity for families to learn and grow together in a family-friendly, yet stretching environment suitable for younger children.
The event kicked off with activities for kids, including a prayer wall and a binocular-making craft as a visual reminder to be careful observers of the world around us. After worship, Covenant missionary Sue Peterson led the kids in an activity where attendees learned about sharing the love of Christ with others as the paralytic’s friends did when they brought him to Jesus on a mat. Sue reminded kids that God calls people at all ages to serve God as missionaries—whether overseas or in our own communities.
Kids were given an official Go:Serve passport to carry with them throughout the day and received a sticker in their passport after completing each ministry project. Kids were also in charge of the family debriefing throughout the day, using the questions provided in their passport books.
Families participated in three ministry projects—assembling birthday bags for homeless kids, creating joke-themed care packages for staff at our five Northwest Conference camps, and creating encouraging and hopeful placemats for kids at the children’s hospital. The planned free community-based car wash was rained out, but families rallied around the indoor projects. Kids expressed interest in learning about the different ministries, and participating in these projects showed that even young kids can make a difference.
Volunteers from Linwood Covenant Church donated the supplies to assemble the birthday bags. Each child received a homemade, reusable bag, a few small toys and a boxed cake mix with frosting so they could celebrate their birthday with a small party.
After a delicious taco lunch, families got in their vehicles and drove down the street to Dragon Star Foods, where they each had $5 to spend on dessert. Families purchased all kinds of interesting candy and food, and experienced new cultures, foods and smells. One participant shared that the supermarket was the most stretching experience of the day.
Another parent summarized the most meaningful part of the day this way: “Seeing children find joy in serving Jesus by caring for others,” while others appreciated that the event “exposed needs of people in our communities.” All enjoyed being able to serve alongside kids and families from other Covenant churches.
Families gathered back at Redeemer Covenant for a chance to share highlights and stories from the day. Kids and families were sent out with a blessing to go and look for ways to serve their communities back home. We hope families from your church can join us for Go:Serve next year, or dream about hosting a similar event in your own community!
On Friday, March 31, 185 students and youth workers from throughout the Northwest Conference converged on Minnehaha Academy’s south campus in Minneapolis for MOVE 2017—a 2-day experience of teaching, worship, service and experiential learning.
This year’s theme was “Illuminate,” focusing on God’s calling for His people to be bold in sharing the light of Christ through what they are doing and who they are. During MOVE, students had the opportunity to seek out what it means to illuminate the world around them through service and learning experiences.
The weekend started with a special concert from TRU-SERVA, a Twin Cities based hip-hop artist who uses music as a way to preach the gospel and encourage positive change.
“The walls of the church need to fall down,” says TRU, “and people need to get out of their seats and go out.”
The evening continued with a worship service that featured the Covenant Worship Team. This multi-generational, multi-ethnic group is made up of members of New Covenant and Bethlehem Covenant churches in Minneapolis, and Maple Grove Covenant Church in Maple Grove, MN. Between the three churches, they have people from the USA, Mexico and 14 other Latin American countries.
“I really felt a connection to God through worship this weekend!” said one student, who was deeply impacted by the genuine and passionate worship experience brought by the team this year.
Edrin Williams, Pastor of Equipping and Formation at Sanctuary Covenant Church in Minneapolis, delivered a message on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. He spent the weekend challenging students to “Light it Up” for the Lord. Using Matthew 5:14-16, as a scripture reference, Williams encouraged students to not be held back by the things in their lives that trip them up, but rather to change the world with their light.
After the message on Friday, churches were given time to talk and pray as a group and prepare themselves for the following day of service and learning experiences. Before the night ended, all of the churches joined in Minnehaha’s hockey arena (sans ice) playing games like Nine Square and Gaga Ball, taking pictures in the photo booth, and enjoying late night Taco Bell tacos and burritos.
On Saturday morning, youth groups spread out across the Twin Cities to serve at 11 different organizations. They played with children at a domestic abuse shelter, sorted donations at a thrift store, painted rooms at a respite care facility, and helped with spring cleaning at several churches. Each of these ministry sites is deeply grateful for the servant-hearted work that is put in by these students and leaders. The impact is long-lasting.
After a morning of service, students headed out to locations throughout the Twin Cities for an “Urban Plunge” challenge. Each person received one dollar for lunch, the objective being to allow students to experience a little of what it might be like to struggle with poverty. Students were faced with the reality of limited opportunities and resources as they sought to provide lunch for their group with the money they were given.
“It was so great for our students to walk the neighborhood and be engaged in the culture,” said Amy Dufrene, Youth Pastor at Oak Heights Covenant Church in Hutchinson, MN. “I will be doing this at other times throughout our year as well!”
Students also used this time to explore the neighborhood, tasked with being aware of who might be considered “invisible,” and what resources may be lacking or harder to access as a person who lives in poverty.
At the completion of the challenge, groups headed back to Minnehaha Academy for a time of worship and another powerful message from Williams.
“This event was awesome,” said Josh Hodgson of Community Covenant Church in Upsala, MN. “Our students definitely left thinking hard and being changed by their experiences!”
Of our 140+ Covenant churches in the Northwest Conference, less than 20 have staff devoted full-time to children’s ministry. Forty have part-time staff and nearly 90 of our Conferences churches have children’s ministries that are led by volunteers.
When your church is staffed at less than capacity, building a thriving ministry with children and families will require more intentionality, and a mentality that views leadership for children’s ministry as more than simply “covering the bases.”
Here are five things to consider with your volunteer-led children’s ministry.
1. Are expectations clear and appropriate?
We all like to know what we’re being asked to do. Even volunteers will benefit from having a job description. Those who work in children’s ministry are generally resourceful, passionate and dedicated to the task. Without clear and reasonable expectations, children’s ministry can become a hamster wheel of details that leads to burnout.
2. Are priorities clear?
In ministry, there will always be work that doesn’t get done. Make peace with the fact that your church won’t be able to offer all the programs of the church down the street. Discern what you will be about, and do that well.
3. Is there a clear chain of command?
To whom is the children’s ministry leader accountable? Is it clear how decisions are made, budget is managed, facilities are maintained, supplies and curriculum are determined, and what safety policies are implemented? Clearly articulating all of this up front helps to avoid the difficult situation of giving someone responsibility over something without authority to make it happen.
4. Does the ministry leader have a seat at the table?
In other words, who will advocate for this ministry area when broad leadership decisions are made? For example, a leadership team may decide to have multiple Christmas Eve services, then inform the children’s ministry team that childcare is needed. How would the conversation change if children’s ministry leaders were invited to give voice on the front end about how to creatively meet the needs of families during Advent?
5. What is the plan for training?
God has a long history of equipping those God calls, and children’s ministry is no exception. Intentional training and connections helps our volunteer leadership move from a place of “filling holes,” to strategic investment in the lives of kids and families. Help your volunteer leaders be successful by encouraging a learning mentality that allows your leaders to grow into the role to which God has called them.
Thank you to all of the children’s ministry leaders and volunteers for your work with kids and families. Praying along with you that your ministry impacts lives and kids, and families will know the love of God.
From Aug. 6-8, 605 middle schools students and their leaders from 45 churches gathered together for creative craziness, on-their-feet worship, formative teaching and incredible fun at Crossroads Church in Woodbury, MN. There were several NWC churches that have been coming all 30 years of MUUUCE (Most Unbelievable, Ultimate, Urban Camping Experience), dating back to the event’s creation at Faith Covenant Church in Burnsville by youth pastors Tony Deach and John Skelly.
This year, the speakers had all spoken at previous MUUUCEs: Cesar Castillejos (2015), Kara Stromberg (2011), and Erik Anderson and Eric Bemowski (2014). They focused their talks on the theme of Pixels: “When we come together, we make a beautiful picture.” The house band at Crossroads led worship that had this crowd on their feet. One youth leader choked up as she shared, “It’s amazing to see jr. highers freely raising their arms as they worship Jesus.”
A massive Welcome Party greeted students when they arrived. Giant inflatable games, a fair hair booth where students and leaders could get spray painted or crazy extensions put in, a gaga pit, spike ball, quad carts and a low-tech bean bag toss game greeted students, along with tons of middle school-approved snacks like sno-cones, mini doughnuts, popcorn, pizza as well as kiddie pools stocked with water and soda. That evening they had the choice to go to Grand Slam, Vertical Endeavors or Sky Zone. On Friday, attendees spent much of the day at Valley Fair. All together, they went through 1,100 hot dogs, 153 pizzas, 30 gallons of milk, 3,520 bottles of water, and 1,215 cans of pop.
It takes a massive amount of volunteers to pull off an event of this size. Crossroads has a MUUUCE leadership team that meets for eight months to design an event with middle schoolers in mind: the messages, the worship, the games and the discussions are all geared towards helping middle schoolers realize they are loved by God, they’re important to the church, and that fun can be a big part of their faith journey.
Crossroad’s has over 200 volunteers who serve throughout the three days, many of whom take vacation time and have done so for years. It takes over 35 volunteers just to run the Welcome Party alone. Others arrive at Lake Middle School (where everyone slept in the gyms) at the crack of dawn to set up breakfast, while others work late into the night cleaning bathrooms, vacuuming and setting up for the next day. There was even a team of volunteers who created a “lounge” for when adult leaders needed a break and stocked it with homemade treats and strong coffee.
As one youth pastor put it: “It’s my favorite event of the year. It’s with our Covenant family, it’s super for building relationships with students and I don’t need plan any of it.”
Another one said: “It’s great for smaller churches that typically don’t have access to these kind of events or experiences. It’s a function that brings jr. highers together where they can be focused on God with a little fun mixed in.”
Twenty-six families from 13 different churches converged on First Covenant Church in St. Paul, MN, on May 7 for NWC Family Go: Serve, a day of service and experiential learning for families.
This is the third year for NWC Family Go: Serve, an event designed for families with children in PreK-upper elementary school. The day was an opportunity for families to learn and grow together in a family-friendly, yet stretching environment suitable for younger children.
One parent summarized the most meaningful part of the day this way: “Being able to expose my children to some of the brokenness of our world and what it means to help make those things right. I find meaning in seeing my children find joy in helping others in need. Loved the exposure to other cultures!”
The event kicked off with activities for kids, including puzzle piece prayers and a binocular-making craft to help remind us all to be careful observers of the world around us. We transitioned into worship led by a team from Crossroads Church in Woodbury, MN.
Pastor Touger Thao of Roots Covenant Church shared with the group how the Twin Cities became the home of the largest urban population of Hmong in America, due to refugees settling here after the Secret War in Laos. Attendees learned some Hmong words, and he helped the group get excited to sample Hmong food and culture at Hmong Village later in the day.
Kids were given an official Go:Serve passport to carry with them throughout the day, to be stamped at each ministry site. They were also in charge of the family debriefing in the car, using the questions provided in their passport books.
Families served at two ministry sites, both focusing on homelessness in the Twin Cities. Serving at the Union Gospel Mission and making sandwiches for the Sandwich Project showed that even families with young kids can make a difference. Allan Law came to pick up the sandwiches the groups had made and shared how he will take those same sandwiches out for delivery to homeless men and women that night. In addition, those who wanted to could make themselves a bologna and cheese sandwich so they could experience eating the same meal a homeless person would eat.
Union Gospel Mission in St. Paul invited families to decorate placemats with messages of hope for residents, then led attendees on a brief tour of UGM facilities. Families learned about the importance of donations—specifically nice work clothes people can wear as they gain job skills and interview for positions. Families were given coupons for a free meal that can be given to homeless people they meet out in the community.
“We loved being able to work as a family in a service capacity,” said a parent. “It was incredible to see our children’s faith come out in the form of Bible verses, ‘God Loves You,’ etc., on the placemats.”
At Hmong Village, the group was warmly greeted by the general manager before exploring this indoor mall that houses well over 200 vendors, including a full a farmers market, meeting rooms and many food vendors. Families tried egg rolls, noodles, boba tea, fried plantains and other delicious and curious treats. A few people were brave and ordered a whole fish!
Families gathered back at First Covenant for ice cream sandwiches and a chance to share highlights from the day. We hope families from your church can join us for Go: Serve next year, or dream about hosting a similar event in your own community!
On April 15-16, 200 students and youth workers from throughout the Northwest Conference converged on Minnehaha Academy’s south campus in Minneapolis for MOVE 2016—a weekend of teaching, worship, service and experiential learning.
This 2016 theme of “Unsung” focused on the truth that God still uses the average person to do amazing things. With examples like kids in the Bible stepping out in faith to help feed over 5,000 people, or the ordinary people who risked their lives for their Christian faith, students were challenged to step out of their comfort zones and allow God to show them how to be “unsung” followers of Christ.
The weekend kicked off with a session that featured the returning Blue Oaks Covenant Church worship team, led by Nicoshia Wynn. This multi-generational group brought high-energy worship that had students on their feet.
“We loved them last year, and we loved having them here again this year!” said one student, who was deeply impacted by the passion, excitement and spirit-filled worship.
The evening continued with a message from Hector Saucedo, a dynamic speaker out of Norwalk, CA, who was featured at CHIC and works with Urban Ops Music. He spent the weekend challenging students to think about obstacles, options, opportunities and obedience.
“If out of obedience you can give God a little of what you have, God is going to do great things with it,” Saucedo said.
Messages throughout the weekend encouraged students to use their past, present and future to be a light for God and in their communities.
“God desires to do in your neighborhood what you allow Him to do in you,” Saucedo told students.
Friday night, churches were given time to talk and pray as a group and prepare themselves for the following day of service and learning experiences. Before the night ended, all of the churches joined in Minnehaha’s hockey arena (sans ice) playing games like Nine Square in the Air and eating late night pizza.
On Saturday morning, youth groups spread out across the Twin Cities to serve at 11 different organizations. They played with children at a domestic abuse shelter, sorted donations at a thrift store, made and served breakfast at North High School in Minneapolis, helped sell shoes for a food shelter ministry and cleaned several churches. Each of these ministry sites is deeply grateful for the servant-hearted work that was put in by these students and leaders—the impact is long lasting.
After a morning of service, students headed to the Boy Scout Base Camp at Fort Snelling to grab a quick lunch. Churches were then split into small groups and sent out on Light Rail trains for a community exploration tour addressing justice issues in the urban context.
Groups had a chance to travel through Minneapolis, making stops at places like Government Plaza Station, the new US Bank Stadium, the Cedar/Riverside neighborhood and Lake Street, to hear speakers talk about issues such as the Black Lives Matter movement, sex trafficking, immigration, Native American concerns and urban gentrification. Tour guides included Mike Hotz and Marque Jensen of Sanctuary Covenant, Amy Long of Redeemer Covenant, Bob Slandered of the Dakota Tribe, and Leya Copper of InterVarsity. Each guide offered a unique perspective on these major issues that surround the Twin Cities and beyond.
“I can’t think of a better way of engaging our Covenant students on issues of faith and justice than MOVE 2016,” said Hotz, who guided the session on Black Lives Matter. “It’s in struggling with complex issues like the ones we tackled that a vibrant and lasting faith is inspired!”
At the completion of the tour, groups headed back to Minnehaha Academy for a time of worship and another powerful message from Saucedo.
“It was awesome to see students come together through teamwork,” said Tyler Menssen, the new director of Solid Rock Discipleship Program at Lake Beauty Bible Camp. Solid Rock students participated as leaders and volunteers throughout the weekend. “This event was truly a chance to see the fulfillment of the mission of Christ carried out in our youth. It was an incredible weekend and we are thankful for the opportunity we had to be there.”
Some might say that “youth ministry” and a “youth lock-in” go hand in hand. For many youth, few things are more exciting than staying up all night with their friends being loud, eating junk food and playing crazy games. For youth pastors like Zach Klein of Maywood Covenant Church in Foley, MN, it is a strategic and potentially hugely influential event that is not for the faint of heart.
In 2013, when Klein started at Maywood, he was told that part of his job would be to host a lock-in for the youth group at the church. Although around 25 kids showed up to the first lock-in, Klein knew that he needed to do something different in order to bring more kids to this event and allow for the lock-in to play a bigger purpose in the lives of the students in Foley.
The following year, he decided to ask another local youth pastor, Nick Benson of New Life Church of Foley, to join forces to create a new level of excitement for the lock-in. They used the local high school’s swimming pool for part of the evening and planned for 60 students to attend. That year, the lock-in brought 93 students. They knew something was changing and agreed to keep planning for bigger and better.
The 2015 lock-in was a spectacular event. They were given permission to use the local high school for the entire night, brought in a speaker, and amped up the level of games and activities. The final count was 167 kids
“The night went off without a hitch, and we were very excited with how God worked that night,” Klein said.
Students had a blast, and most importantly, they deepened their relationships with Jesus. There were even several first-time commitments that evening.
God was doing huge things and Klein and Benson were ready to continue trusting that greater impact was in the future.
That is why in 2016, when 256 students showed up, Klein and Benson were not surprised. They rented inflatables, played games and even had a special concert from John Chuck & The Class. Students from the Solid Rock Discipleship Program at Lake Beauty Bible Camp were recruited to help out for the night. As an incentive to bring friends, Klein promised to let kids give him a makeover—including hair dye, makeup and waxed legs! The evening also included a special worship band and a guest speaker, Phil Johnson from the Twin Cities, who gave an altar call to which many students responded.
“This event has really shown me that God can use anyone,” Klein said. “Even two mid-20s guys can do great things for His Glory.”
After three great years at Maywood, Klein recently accepted a new call and has just moved into the position of Youth Pastor at United Covenant Church in Clear Lake, WI.
Imagine 661 middle schools students and their leaders gathered together for three days of amazing worship, fantastic teaching and awesome fun. The energy, the passion, the laughter, (okay, and the smell) all melded together to make the 29th annual MUUUCE (Most Unbelievable, Ultimate, Urban Camping Experience) an incredible event. The team from Crossroads Church in Woodbury, MN, again did a fantastic job designing and hosting the event with a team of over 160 volunteers working different shifts to make it run seamlessly.
From the Welcome Party to worship, students knew they were at an event designed with them in mind. Whether it was giant inflatable games, a huge GaGa ball pit, color hair spray experts, mini-donuts and sno-cones, or Cesar Castillejos’ highly-visual teaching, students got the message that there is a God who cares for them. One student reflected, “You have a lot fun but you also learn about God.” Cesar (who also spoke at MOVE earlier this year) drove home the Amplify theme with this perspective, “Our true identity is the cross and that’s what we amplify—His work in us.”
MUUUCE provides a great opportunity for youth leaders and pastors to build relationships in their youth ministries and help their students connect with Christ. Youth pastor Mikey Bechtold (Crossview Covenant, North Mankato, MN) put it this way, “I love MUUUCE because it creates a space for middle schoolers to engage in faith and to build a close relationship as a group.”
Luther Brown (Lakeview Covenant, Duluth, MN) noted, “Kids are on fire and are finding their light in Christ.”
As one middle schooler put it after a full day of fun and worship, “This was the best day of my life!”
Roughly 1,300 attend from NWC
CHIC happened! Over 5,500 people attended the Evangelical Covenant Church’s triennial youth event, CHIC, July 12-17 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Roughly 1,300 of those were from the Northwest Conference, and we certainly made our presence known.
The theme of SHIFT invited students to make a shift in their worldview, commitment to Christ and view of the Holy Scriptures. In addition to powerful speakers, robust worship, interesting and educational morning base camp sessions, students found time for rafting, hiking, cave tours, swimming and other activities on and off campus.
In case you have people at church wondering if all the fund-raising, long road trip, and sleepless nights are worth it, read youth pastor and CHIC council member, Ben Kerns’ thoughts on why CHIC is so important.
CHIC is more than a one-week experience for high school students. Click here for a free 6-week, all-church discipleship curriculum, written specifically as a follow-up to CHIC. The SHIFT curriculum includes a sermon series, adult bible study, and youth and children’s ministry program elements.
Click here for a link to music, stories, devotionals and information about Project Blue, the clean water initiative in partnership with Covenant World Relief, the Hindustani Covenant Church and Water First.
By Kara Stromberg
Nearly 40 families from 14 different churches converged on Redeemer Covenant Church in Brooklyn Park, MN, on May 2 for NWC Family Go: Serve, a day of service and experiential learning for families.
This is the second year for NWC Family Go: Serve, an event designed for families with children in PreK-upper elementary school. The day was an opportunity for families to learn and grow together, in a family-friendly, yet stretching environment suitable for younger children.
The event kicked off with worship music led by First Covenant Church of St. Paul’s youth worship band and an interview with Pastor Yeak Monneh, a local pastor who grew up as a World Vision-sponsored refugee child in Liberia, now serving the Liberian community in Brooklyn Park. Families learned about Pastor Yeak’s desire to ensure families back home in Liberia had adequate medical supplies during the Ebola crisis.
Pastor Kari Jacott from Linwood Covenant Church in Wyoming, MN, asked Yeak why so many Liberian families came to live in cold Minnesota. Yeak replied, “Because we have family and friends here! We come here to take care of each other.”
Pastor Amy Long from Redeemer explained the contents of bags given to each family, full of supplies they would need that day—a magnifying glass to encourage them to look more closely at the world around them, a puzzle piece to help them remember that they were an important piece of doing God’s work in the world, and a rubber band to remind them that they will feel stretched.
Before families dispersed to assemble sandwiches, they watched this news story that showed how these sandwiches are distributed for homeless people in the twin cities.
After the morning session, families grabbed boxed lunches, then drove to ministry sites to serve.
Serving at the ministry sites showed that even families with young kids can make a difference. Families sorted through over 1,500 pounds of clothing at ARC’s Value Village Thrift Store (the equivalent of 30 hours of work for one ARC employee), packed 24,192 meals which will be sent to Haiti to feed 66 kids for a year at Feed My Starving Children, prepared and packaged 600 sandwiches for the homeless, and collected food for the Brooklyn Park Area food shelf, serving homeless youth in the Brooklyn Park area.
Food was a big part of the day. After serving at their ministry sites, families were given a map and $5 with instructions to visit a local ethnic grocery store and purchase food they would like to try. As families wandered through the grocery stores, they pondered whether to buy frogs, seafood, durian fruit, Asian jello cups or plantain chips. As families made their purchases and trickled back into the church for a late lunch, the energy changed as everyone shared their food items. Families also enjoyed homemade Kenyan bread—fried donut-like treats made by a friend of one of our pastors.
Said one parent, “Anytime you give families a shared experience where they can talk about this stuff, it’s a win. This was awesome.”
“I loved serving at ARC! I want to go back there next year,” said a second grader.
Families were sent home with a guidebook that included debriefing questions, additional service ideas and space for families to write their next step as they seek to live lives of service and generosity.
On April 10-11, 217 students and youth workers from throughout the Northwest Conference converged on Minnehaha Academy’s south campus in Minneapolis, MN, for MOVE 2015—a weekend of teaching, worship, service and experiential learning.
This year’s theme was “Now What?” based on James 2:14-17. Students go to church, attend Bible studies, and head to camp where they’re learning what it means to become followers of Christ. But with all that input, the questions arise—“Now what? What do I do with all that I’ve learned? How do I put it into action in my community?” At MOVE, over 200 students and leaders considered what it means to take a holy risk of faith where they live.
The weekend kicked off with a worship service that featured Blue Oaks Covenant Church’s worship team, led by Nicoshia Wynn. This multi-generational group brought high-energy worship that had students on their feet. In the words of one ninth grade boy, “That was the best worship I’ve ever experienced in my life.”
Friday night’s message was brought by Cesar Castillejos, from Young Life. He challenged students to consider, “Now what? You get out of the boat, you’re here, now believe in the power and presence of Jesus and see where he calls you to go … then go.”
Before heading to bed Friday night, students spent time in Minnehaha’s hockey arena (sans ice) playing games led by the staff of Lake Beauty Bible Camp and students from Solid Rock Discipleship School. The massive space was filled with students playing Gagaball, Nine Square in the Air, and board games while chowing on pizza. Youth groups gathered to end the day to discuss what they learned and to prepare for the next day’s experiences.
On Saturday morning, youth groups fanned out to serve at 10 different organizations across the Twin Cities. They played with children at a domestic abuse shelter, cleared out insulation at a local community ministry, sorted donations at a thrift store, and cleaned several churches. This gritty servant work is deeply appreciated by the sites.
Students returned to Minnehaha that afternoon for the first-ever Shark Tank: MOVE edition. Each youth group identified a need in their community and developed a plan to deal with the challenge. Some groups dreamed about community gardens that would address the need for fresh vegetables in their communities, while others developed plans to connect with the local senior center through art.
The youth groups were coached by a “shark”—someone who was experienced in starting their own ministry or knew how to create a ministry based on community needs. For example, one shark was Dawn Anderson from Bloomington Covenant Church, who started Closet of Hope to help meet the clothing needs of that area. Another was Mike Hotz, who guides the process of awarding MicroMission Grants through Sanctuary Covenant Church.
The Evangelical Covenant Church of Bemidji won the $500 Shark Grant. Their idea: start an annual 5K “color run” to draw attention to drug dependency among adolescents in their area. The $250 People’s Choice Grant went to Crossroads Church in Woodbury, MN, for the idea of developing a peer-counseling network to address bullying and depression at their schools.
MOVE 2015 concluded with yet another powerful worship session and message from Hope Smith, Young Life leader and Sanctuary Covenant member. As Brooke Shannon from New Life Covenant Church said, “[It was] so cool for us to serve side-by-side, out of our comfort zone and for the Kingdom. For a small, rural church, what a gift to be part of the larger NWC church worshipping and serving together!”
Nearly 200 children and family members from throughout the Northwest Conference converged on Redeemer Covenant Church in Brooklyn Park, MN, on April 26 for NWC Family Go: Serve, a day of service and experiential learning for families.
Go: Serve is a new Northwest Conference event, designed for families with children in PreK-upper elementary school. The day was an opportunity for families to learn and grow together, in a family-friendly, yet stretching environment suitable for younger children.
The event kicked off with a visit from “supernintendo” Mark Stromberg, and an opening session that framed the day for families. Each family was given a bag with supplies they would need that day—a magnifying glass to encourage them to look more closely at the world around them, a package of Gushers so they can burst forth with the love of Christ, and a rubber band to remind them that they will feel stretched.
After the morning session, families grabbed a snack to go, then drove their own family vehicles to four different ministry sites near the church.
Serving at the ministry sites showed that even families with young kids can make a difference. Families sorted 3,000 lbs. of clothing at ARC Value Village Thrift Store, packed meals to feed 63 kids for a year at Feed My Starving Children, prepared and packaged 600 sandwiches for the homeless and collected 310 pounds of food for the Brooklyn Park Area food shelf, serving homeless youth in the Brooklyn Park area.
“After I packed food for hungry people at Feed My Starving Children, it made me not really want to eat my lunch,” said Ben (age 8).
“Serving others made me feel good in my heart,” said Baevinn (age 5).
Food was a big part of the day. After serving at their ministry sites, families were given a map and $5, with instructions to visit a local ethnic market and purchase food they would like to try. As hungry families trickled back into the church for a late lunch, the energy changed as everyone shared their food items. All ages sampled quail eggs, papaya, dragon fruit, African bread, Asian jello cups, pickled rattan shoots and assorted wafers, cookies and treats.
Families were amazed at the range of ethnic markets in the northern suburb of Minneapolis.
“I had no idea Brooklyn Park was so diverse!” said one participant.
Everyone was encouraged to reflect on the role food plays in our lives, and what it feels like to be hungry. In addition to the food families bought at the markets, Jon Villa worked with a team of volunteers to create an amazing menu of Japanese noodle stir-fry, tortilla soup and Indian daal. Children and families were encouraged to try new food that was enjoyed by people from other cultures.
After lunch, children and families added their prayer requests to the prayer wall by tracing their hands and writing a prayer request in the space, then placing their hand over someone else’s request and praying for what was on someone else’s heart. Prayers ranged from “Hungry people” to “That my brother does not be mean to me!”
Families were sent home with a passport booklet that included processing questions, additional service ideas and space for families to write their next step as they seek to live lives of service and generosity.
On April 4-5, 268 students and youth workers from throughout the Northwest Conference converged on First Covenant Church in Minneapolis, MN, for MOVE 2014—a weekend of teaching, worship, service and experiential learning.
This year’s theme was “Lose Yourself,” based on Matthew 16:24-25.
The weekend kicked off with a worship service that featured a performance by hip-hop artists Urban Jerusalem, praise music by Dan Rodriguez and his band and a challenging message from Tim King, chief strategy officer at Sojourners.
King shared about his experiences at North Park University, first spending a night on the street with homeless people in Chicago, and then going back, bringing food, home cooked meals and “hanging out and sharing stories.” He said that getting a chance to serve and get to know those being served began to challenge his assumptions about homeless people.
“It’s when you begin to get to know Jesus, and when you begin to lose your life, that you begin to find it again in some unexpected places,” King shared with students during the Friday night session. “What is it that is so hard, back in your town or back in your school, that Jesus might be calling you to do?”
Before heading to bed Friday night, students spent time with their youth groups preparing for the next day’s experiences and playing games facilitated by the staff of Lake Beauty Bible Camp.
On Saturday morning, youth groups fanned out to 12 different organizations and ministry sites across the Twin Cities for three hours of service, which included painting walls at churches, bundling up old clothes for thrift stores, cleaning storage spaces, and more. This unglamorous work is deeply appreciated by the sites. Many of them look forward to MOVE to get things done that they otherwise wouldn’t have the resources to accomplish.
After students painted a high profile wall at Crosstown Covenant in Minneapolis, Pastor John Jacobi said, “This was an incredible gift of the Holy Spirit at the right time. They did high quality work.”
When one of the Crosstown parishioners asked, “Why did they do this for us?” Jacobi responded, “This is one of the many advantages of being part of a larger church body.”
Saturday afternoon students and leaders came back to First Covenant for three different learning experiences. One experience concentrated on identifying issues in students’ home communities and helping them learn how to advocate for change. Another was a video that focused on what it means to live on minimum wage for 30 days. And the third was an interactive worship experience designed by worship curator Lilly Lewin.
MOVE 2014 concluded with yet another powerful worship session and message from King, who challenged students to serve even if they were never noticed for doing so.
The next Daybreak Human Trafficking Awareness Forum, which will feature a student focus on identifying dating violence, alertness to trafficking risks, and making safe choices, will take place Feb. 22 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Bloomington Covenant Church.
“It is a student-focused event, so we are encouraging youth groups as well as individual students to attend,” said Bethany Abramson. “The event is not limited to students though, and like our other events we will offer CEUs for educators, nurses and social workers.”
The forum will feature experts from Cornerstone and The Dwelling Place.
The event is free for students, and there is a suggested Donation of $10 per others. To pre-register for the event, email email@example.com or call 952.831.8339.
Some were bleary eyed and quiet, others who had been to VIVE before, arrived bouncing with anticipation for the day. A mix of students and parents and adult leaders milled around Crosstown Covenant Church in Minneapolis with massive donuts and orange juice in hand, talking to several college representatives as they waited for the day to kick off.
This was the day where students moved closer to their dream of going to college. There were seniors who were making their final college selections, all the way to 5th and 6th graders who were starting early to plan for their futures. It was a day filled with hearing from expert college-prep coaches, inspirational speakers, recent college grads and current college students.
Students were challenged and led by former Denver Broncos player Steve Fitzhugh, as well as Richard Harris, college guidance counselor at Minnehaha Academy. Parents and leaders learned the ins and outs of preparing for college from Marcio Thompson, a financial aid counselor at University of Minnesota, and Meshia Jones, an admissions and outreach associate at North Park University. One of the highlights of the day was hearing stories about former VIVE students who were now succeeding in college and passing on their wisdom to younger students.
On April 12-13, almost 300 students and youth workers from throughout the Northwest Conference converged on First Covenant Church in Minneapolis, MN, for MOVE 2013—a weekend of teaching, worship, service and experiential learning. This year’s theme was “Invisible: Who are you not seeing?”
The weekend kicked off with a worship service that featured a performance by hip-hop artist Stephone, praise music and a challenging message from Amy Williams, an 18-year youth ministry veteran who ministers to teens involved in gangs, youth on probation or parole, and those lost in the juvenile justice system. As a certified Gang Intervention Specialist, she heard God’s call to move into a Latino gang neighborhood in Chicago’s Humboldt Park community to be a “Hope Dealer” doing street outreach.
“Your perception of someone determines your reaction toward them, but perception is not reality. There’s more to a story,” Williams said. “People are invisible because of the way you see them. The responsibility is on you to make sure they are not invisible.”
Williams challenged students to take a “helicopter view” of those around them—to try to see people as God sees them.
Before heading to bed Friday night, students spent time with their youth groups preparing for the next day’s experiences and enjoying games facilitated by the staff of Lake Beauty Bible Camp.
On Saturday morning, youth groups fanned out to 13 different agencies and ministry sites across the Twin Cities for three hours of service, which ranged from preparing meals for homeless, to organizing storage rooms and cleaning stained glass windows along with other cleanup projects, to playing with shelter kids, to the restocking of supply shelves at thrift centers and distribution warehouses.
Steve Moen of Living Hope Ministries expressed how grateful he was for the MOVE help. The groups moved massive storage shelves, cut insulation, tested computers and more. One of the leaders brought out his tool belt and pitched in with carpentry needs.
“They did the things that I don’t have the time to do [with a busy ministry schedule],” Moen said.
Saturday afternoon students and leaders were given $1 each and were challenged to go out into the neighborhood to find lunch. Some creatively pooled their resources and figured out how to create a lunch for their group. Others chose to fast and donate the money to other people looking for food. Later that afternoon, students had the opportunity to hear stories of invisibility arising from their own group. These stories highlighted the personal sense of invisibility that can come from family struggles, physical limitations and the awkwardness of feeling left out.
“This year’s MOVE experience was valuable for our group because it opened our eyes to the hard work being undertaken by urban ministries to meet the needs of often invisible populations, and helped us come to grips of issues of invisibility in our own communities and selves,” said Ben Pease, youth pastor at Salem Covenant Church in New Brighton, MN.
MOVE 2013 concluded with another powerful worship session and message from Williams, who shared her insights on spreading hope to those around us.
“It doesn’t sound like much, but boy, hope is a powerful thing,” Williams said. “As Christians, hope is an assured thing for us. We know that there’s hope—it’s not a ‘maybe,’ it not an ‘if.’ … Hope is being a light in someone’s darkness.”
Visit the Children, Youth and Family media page to see a video and photo gallery from the event.
Can high schoolers lead? Sure they can lead their peers, but can they lead the church? The Northwest Conference is banking on it.
Developing strong Christian leaders is a core value woven throughout the NWC’s priorities. For over 20 years, they’ve fostered this value with high school student leaders via Adventures in Leadership, an experiential leadership challenge in the north woods of Minnesota.
This annual leadership development experience took place June 16-23. Twenty-one high school students and a group of youth pastors and wilderness guides joined together at Adventurous Christians in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) where they learned what it means to be a Christian leader.
“Participants were challenged in conversations, teaching times and time out on the trail, to discover what gifts and talents God has given them for leadership and how they need to steward those gifts in ministry and in their communities,” said Ginny Olson, NWC director of youth ministry. “They discovered how their personality impacts their leadership, how to collaborate together under difficult circumstances, how to cultivate a disciplined spiritual life, and how to serve sacrificially when that’s the last thing you want to do.”
This year, the group experienced over five inches of rain while on their 4-day canoe trip in the BWCA. Being a servant leader took on new meaning for the students as they slogged through soggy and sometimes overgrown portages, carrying packs and canoes, while soaked to the core.
“They learned how to make difficult decisions for the team and to consider the needs of others before their own,” said Jon Kramka, NWC director of congregational vitality, and a key planner and facilitator of the event.
Upon their return to base camp, common themes voiced by the students were: the importance of relying on God as they discovered their own leadership abilities in relation to the leadership role, a realization that they actually could lead others, and a deeper appreciation for their teammates—and for dry socks.
As youth pastors around the country wrestle with how to develop strong leaders among their students, Adventures in Leadership is becoming recognized by others as a strong and effective way to raise up young leaders. In late July, youth pastors from several other conferences will head to Adventurous Christians to experience this leadership adventure with some of their students.
On March 30-31, 250 students and youth workers from throughout the Northwest Conference converged on First Covenant Church in Minneapolis, MN, for M.O.V.E. 2012—a weekend of teaching, worship, service and experiential learning. This year’s theme was “TRU: Faith. Justice. Love.”
The weekend kicked off with a worship service that featured praise music and a challenging message from Chris Brooks, vice president of GoodCities and organizational leadership expert. Brooks asked students to consider their responsibility to others, and to think about who the orphans and widows of today are.
“Once you have yourself figured out, and love yourself, Jesus is always going to push us to overflow,” Brooks said.
Before heading to bed Friday night, students spent time with their youth groups preparing for the next day’s experiences and enjoying games facilitated by the staff of Lake Beauty Bible Camp.
On Saturday morning, youth groups fanned out to 17 different agencies and ministry sites across the Twin Cities for three hours of service, which ranged from preparing meals for homeless, to lawn care and clean-up projects, to playing with shelter kids, to the restocking of supply shelves at thrift centers and distribution warehouses.
“The Dassel and First Covenant Minneapolis teams that came to Hospitality House Youth Development were amazing: hard working, responsive, great teens and leaders! We so enjoyed them and appreciate all their help,” said Deb McCullough of Hospitality House.
Saturday afternoon M.O.V.E. participants embarked on a Light Rail Tour of Minneapolis. Students and leaders were divided into eight groups and boarded the train near the Metrodome. At each of five stops between downtown and the Mall of America, groups got off the train and heard presentations about issues facing that part of the city, including: Immigrant Issues, Urban Development and Gentrification, The Historical Treatment of Native Americans, Human Trafficking and Homelessness.
“Our group had a great time, and they’re not always easy to please with this event,” said Mark Hakanson, youth pastor at Community Covenant Church in Minneapolis. “Thanks for all the hard work piecing together the light rail experience. It was a highlight.”
M.O.V.E. 2012 concluded with another powerful worship session and message from Brooks, who challenged students to “live the life” of a true Christian.
“There should be something about us as Christians that makes us different,” Brooks said. “Do you have a passion for the lost? Do you have a passion for those people you come into contact with every single day?”
Visit the Children, Youth and Family media page to see a video and photo gallery from the event.
MUUUCE 2011 marked 25 years of gathering junior high students from across the Northwest Conference for a weekend of high-energy activity, worship and learning Aug. 18-20. Featuring a pirate theme, the Most Unbelievable Ultimate Urban Camping Experience was a “grand, splendid, extraordinary time full of fun and deep spiritual growth,” according to Adel Irwin, student leadership coordinator at Faith Covenant Church in Burnsville, MN.
Groups of students packed out two roller rinks, and enjoyed rides at Valleyfair and waterslides at Cascade Bay. Back at Faith Covenant Church, students participated in C.H.A.O.S. (Crazy Humans Attempting Outrageous Stuff).
“They started out with a rockin’ dance off, then bobbed for treasure, completed a peg-leg relay, had a spaghetti-eating contest, and enjoyed seeing their youth leaders shove their faces into whip cream pies,” Irwin said.
The weekend also offered many opportunities for students to connect with God through worship activities. When asked if she liked the worship band, one junior high girl responded, “Did I like the worship? No … I loved it!”
Speaker Kara Stromberg encouraged students to place their treasure in Christ. Highlighting the passages Matthew 6:19-21 and Matthew 13, Stromberg helped students learn how the treasure they find in Christ is so exciting that nothing else matters in comparison.
At the end of the weekend Stromberg shared jolly ranchers with each student. As they rode home enjoying the sweet taste of candy, they were reminded to not keep their treasure to themselves but to share it freely with others.
Junior high students at MUUUCE gave $1,765 in offering, which will be donated to Alaska Christian College to help the school buy desks for classrooms in its new building. Alaska Christian College is geared toward bringing a Christ-centered education to Alaska’s native population.
To see photos from MUUUCE 2011 visit NWC Youth Ministry Photos page.
On April 1-2, 320 students and youth workers from throughout the Northwest Conference converged on First Covenant Church in Minneapolis, MN, for M.O.V.E. 2011—a weekend of teaching, worship, service and experiential learning. This year’s theme was “The Price of Justice.”
The weekend kicked off with a worship service that featured praise music and a challenging message from Eugene Cho, pastor of Quest Church in Seattle, WA, and founder of One Day’s Wages. ODW promotes awareness, invites simple giving (one day’s wages), and supports sustainable relief through partnerships, especially with smaller organizations in developing regions.
“We have to act upon our convictions. We have to act upon our faith in Jesus Christ. Everyone loves the idea of justice until it involves a personal cost or sacrifice,” Cho told the students. “We do justice not only because it matters to God, but because in that process we will be changed.”
Before heading to bed Friday night, students spent time with their youth groups preparing for the next day’s experiences.
On Saturday morning, youth groups fanned out to 18 different agencies and ministry sites across the Twin Cities for three hours of service, which ranged from preparing meals for homeless, to lawn care and clean-up projects, to playing with shelter kids, to the restocking of supply shelves at thrift centers and distribution warehouses, to packaging books for Africa.
Saturday afternoon M.O.V.E. participants experienced “Face the facts: Understanding Urban Poverty,” a simulation exercise created by Urban Immersion Service Retreats and the Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches to help people step into the shoes of a family struggling with their finances. During the experience, participants were broken into families of five and given a scenario based on current statistics for people living at the poverty level here in the Twin Cities.
While “playing” the game, students found themselves having to navigate systems and make difficult decisions to secure housing, employment and transportation, among other basic needs. By keeping a ledger of their finances and reflecting on both the positive and negative consequences of their decisions and situations, participants became more acutely aware of the realities of the working poor in our society.
M.O.V.E. 2011 concluded with another powerful worship session and message from Pastor Cho. Cho reminded everyone that justice requires faith, compassion, collaboration, perseverance and creativity. As a statement of support to Cho and the efforts of One Days Wages an offering of $850 was collected to support ODW’s rebuilding efforts in Haiti.
M.O.V.E. 2011 once again lived up to our expectation of expanding the worldviews of the participants and reinforcing how every individual motivated by God’s spirit can make a profound difference in the world.
Visit the Children, Youth and Family media page to see videos and a photo gallery from the event.
The Northwest Conference is happy to announce that Eugene Cho has agreed to be the speaker at M.O.V.E. 2011. Cho is the founder and Lead Pastor of Quest Church, an urban, multicultural, and multi-generational Covenant church in Seattle, WA, and the founder and Executive Director of Q Cafe—an innovative nonprofit community cafe and music venue.
The strategy of ODW is to create a collaborative movement via integrating Human Relationships, Social Media/Technology, and the Power of Story.
ODW promotes awareness, invites simple giving (one day’s wages), and supports sustainable relief through partnerships, especially with smaller organizations in developing regions.
M.O.V.E. is “Mission Outreach Venture and Experience,” an opportunity for senior high students (9th-12th grade) and youth leaders to have a “hands on” mission experience in an urban setting. In addition to Cho, John Lee and the Church of All Nations praise team will be leading in worship. Look for more details coming soon!
On April 9-10, 350 students and youth workers from throughout the Northwest Conference converged on First Covenant Church in Minneapolis, MN, for M.O.V.E. 2010-a weekend of teaching, worship, service and experiential learning. This year’s theme was taken from Micah 6:8:”Act Justly…Walk Humbly…Love Mercy.”
The weekend kicked off with a worship service that featured praise music, spoken word, and a challenging message from Efrem Smith, pastor of The Sanctuary Covenant Church in Minneapolis. Before bedding down in sleeping bags throughout the church building, the students spent time with their youth groups preparing for the next day’s experiences.
On Saturday morning, youth groups fanned out to 22 different agencies and ministry sites across the Twin Cities for three hours of service, which ranged from lawn care and clean-up projects, to playing with kids, to the restocking of thrift centers and distribution warehouse supply shelves, to spending time serving at homeless shelters.
Upon returning to the church, the students participated in a Global Lunch Experience, which was designed to illustrate the disparities of wealth and food across the globe. A small fraction of the students received a full-service, multi-course meal with fine linen and table service. Another portion of the students were served a more basic, but still filling meal at tables. The bulk of the students received a small portion of beans and rice, warm water, and were all seated in mass on the floor.
Following lunch, youth groups participated in an Issues Tour where groups rotated through three presentations entitled, “The Immigrant Journey: The story and choices of a Somali refugee,” “The Culture of Poverty From a Local Perspective” and “Sankofa: Looking Back, Looking Forward at Cultural Patterns of Discrimination.” M.O.V.E. 2010 concluded with another powerful worship session and message from Pastor Efrem.
M.O.V.E. 2010 once again lived up to our expectation that participants would have their worldview expanded, be inspired as God’s Kingdom workforce in the world, and to have opportunity to extend the hope and love of Christ with those experiencing unmet needs.
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By Sarah Zulkifli, Science Writer, Communications & Outreach
A LKCMedicine-led study has validated a medical technology that could improve the treatment of the most serious bleeding peptic ulcers, which affect an estimated eight per cent of the world’s population.
Led by Professor Joseph Sung, LKCMedicine Dean and NTU Senior Vice-President (Health & Life Sciences), the international team of gastroenterologists reported that applying a mineral powder directly to the ulcers using an endoscope had a 91 per cent success rate in stopping bleeding and starting the healing process, in a study of 67 patients diagnosed with the most serious forms of peptic ulcers.
Combined with other treatments, the mineral powder had a success rate of 97 per cent. The study, which involved doctors from hospitals1 and universities2 in Canada, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Hong Kong, also reported that the mineral powder was found to be easy and effective to administer, with a success rate of 88 per cent after being applied once.
The results of the study were published in the peer-reviewed academic journal Gastrointestinal Endoscopyin March.
Peptic ulcers are open sores that develop on the inside lining of the stomach and the upper portion of the small intestine. They are mostly caused by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and long-term use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ibuprofen and naproxen sodium.
Elderly populations are particularly affected by peptic ulcers. If left untreated, they can result in internal bleeding in a fifth of cases, which results in death in up to 10 per cent of cases, according to the team of doctors.
The ulcers can also result in complications such as a hole in the stomach wall, blocked passage of food through the digestive tract, as well as a higher risk of developing gastric cancer.
The study was to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the technology, named Hemospray®, as a singular therapy for patients with actively bleeding peptic ulcers. It was developed by Cook Group, an American medical devices manufacturer, and had shown promise in treating peptic ulcers, but required further studies into its efficacy.
In the presence of active bleeding, Hemospray® ejects a mineral powder to form a barrier on contact with the peptic ulcer to stop bleeding. It is nontoxic and is neither absorbed nor metabolised by the body, being expelled from the stomach and duodenum within 72 hours of administration.
Prof Sung said, “Peptic ulcers and their complications, especially bleeding and re-bleeding, are one of the most difficult conditions for gastroenterologists to treat. Despite recent advances in treatments for the disease, ulcers lead to high morbidity, particularly among the elderly. With our global study evaluating the effectiveness of this novel treatment, we hope that progress can be made into improving the treatment and outlook of those suffering from peptic ulcers.”
One of the world’s most renowned gastroenterologists whose research has had a major impact on the practice of gastroenterology, Prof Sung led a team of doctors to first prove the relationship between Helicobacter pylori and peptic ulcer diseases. His team was also first in demonstrating that a course of antibiotics lasting a week can cure the bacterial infection and successfully treat peptic ulcers and minimise their relapse.
Hemospray® has been used to treat thousands of patients for gastrointestinal bleeding throughout Europe and Canada and was granted approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for mainstream use in 2018.
With this study demonstrating its efficacy in patients with active bleeding peptic ulcers, the doctors are working towards further understanding its effect on other types of bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract, as well as if it is effective for subsequent use on peptic ulcers that bleed again.
1 Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, the Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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It's no surprise that we happen to be big IKEA fans. We love the Swedish retailers' affordable prices, extensive inventory, and the silhouettes-making their products great, even for small nurseries. Here are 25 IKEA nursey ideas to inspire your nursery design, so you can create a nursery that's lovely and affordable.
You might think that IKEA products are just for starter homes or the products are everywhere. But if you are mindful of the price tag when designing the nursery-don't underestimate IKEA products and hacks. While we appreciate high-end products- there's simplicity and beauty with a high/low mix. Using IKEA nursery items alongside some unique high-end finds in your nursery design creates tension in the space, making the space interesting.
Below, browse 25 IKEA nursery ideas that look expensive without breaking the bank.
25 IKEA NURSERY IDEAS FOR A DREAMY SPACE
1.COLORFUL NURSERY DRESSER
We adore this nursery featuring the IKEA HEMNES dresser. The dresser got an update with a lovely shade of green paint and a set of slender, gold drawer pulls.
Here is a gorgeous Boho-inspired nursery designed to perfection with products from IKEA, Pottery Barn, and Target-mixing high/low products. The IKEA SNIGLAR crib and IKEA HEMNES dresser are simple yet charming.
In this darling neutral nursery, an IKEA crib, dresser, and shelves take center stage while the beautiful Livettes Wallpaper helps create the perfect accent wall.
Take inspiration from this natural nursery design featuring an IKEA crib and dresser that adds simplicity and warmth to the space. Meanwhile, the botanical wallpaper creates a stunning backdrop for the nursery design.
For a minimalist nursery look, an IKEA crib, changing table, and armchair accomplish the aesthetic.
6.SAGE GREEN IKEA NURSERY
Take a peek at this IKEA nursery idea that's practical, pretty, and easy on the wallet. This lovely fern leaves wallpaper creates a beautiful backdrop. An IKEA SNIGLAR crib adds warmth to the design. The IKEA TARVA dresser got an update with a beautiful coat of green paint.
7.LAYERED IKEA NURSERY
This layered nursery is proof that IKEA nursery products-don't disappoint. The IKEA crib and dresser, lovely nursery chair, and layered materials add depth and interest to the space.
8.WHITE AND BRIGHT NURSERY
Below is a beautiful nursery painted in crisp white paint and featuring an IKEA HEMNES dresser. The addition of warm wood, woven materials, and textured rug-adds warmth to the space.
9.IKEA NURSERY CLOSET
Take inspiration from this nursery where a builder grade closet got an update with the help of the popular IKEA PAX closet system.
10.PLAID + IKEA
A black and white plaid wallpaper accent wall sets the tone for this nursery design. The IKEA SNIGLAR crib, with its natural look, adds just the right amount of contrast and warmth, while family heirlooms make the space special.
11.SPACIOUS IKEA DIAPERING STATION
The IKEA MALM dresser makes for a wonderful diapering station with ample storage for baby's clothes and other diapering essentials in this nursery. The lovely beaded mirror above the changing area instantly elevates the space.
12.NURSERY DRESSER STYLING
Here a wood tone mirror, wreath, shelves, and accessories complement the IKEA HEMNES dresser turned changing table.
13.MINIMALIST AND FRESH IKEA NURSERY
Take a peek at this lovely minimalist nursery with a mix of coastal and mountain vibes. It features an IKEA dresser, crib, lighting, and accessories. It is the perfect example of how a curation of high/low items can create an impact in a space.
14.IKEA SCANDI NURSERY
Tap into the Scandinavian design trend and go with minimalist furnishings such as the IKEA crib to create an inviting nursery. Complete the look with texture and natural tones.
15.IKEA CRIB HACK
In this nursery, the IKEA SNIGLAR crib gets a whole new look with the help of a can of Rust-oleum flat black paint.
The solid beech IKEA SNIGLAR crib with its unfinished look is one of the favorite IKEA nursery products. Here the crib got an upgrade to a warm wood tone with a stain.
17.SIMPLY GORGEOUS IKEA NURSERY
The stunning board and batten nursery accent wall makes quite the statement in this nursery. The IKEA crib, dresser, and lighting add contrast, warmth, and simplicity to the space.
18.IKEA NURSERY WITH A VINTAGE TOUCH
If you ever needed proof that IKEA nursery products look great in nurseries, this is it. The beautiful IKEA crib and light fixture sits pretty alongside a vintage mid-century cabinet.
19.SMALL SPACE IKEA NURSERY
From an IKEA crib to dresser and spice racks- this nursery cleverly uses IKEA products to maximize space, while the white walls make the room feel larger and brighter.
Create a sophisticated nursery like this one by combining minimalist, pared-back IKEA furniture with more high-end nursery products like this popular Crate and Barrel crib to add a touch of luxury.
21.BOHO BABY NURSERY
Embrace the boho style in this nursery design, complete with an IKEA dresser and light fixture.
22.COZY IKEA NURSERY
Look at this cozy nursery decorated with an IKEA crib and shelves. The nursery chair, rug, and lighting give the space a laid-back feel.
23.modern eclectic nursery
This beautiful modern eclectic nursery features the Babyletto Gelato crib alongside an IKEA dresser and light fixture.
The IKEA bookcase styled with accessories makes a statement in the nursery.
Crisp white walls, a gorgeous rug, an IKEA crib, and other decor give this nursery a calm, laid-back atmosphere.
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Tinda or Indian squash is a small, flattened-round fruit in the Cucurbitaceous family eaten as vegetable in India, Pakistan, and some East African countries.
Scientific name: Praecitrullus fistulosus.
|Tinda gourd. Note for light green, smooth skin produce.|
Tinda is a monoecious plant, grown as annual climbing or trailing crop in well-drained sandy soils. After a couple of weeks of seedling, it bears many tiny yellow flowers that may require honeybees for pollination.
Tinda is a flattened round squash and in size, ranging between 2 to 4 inches across. Externally, often its light green skin surface is hairy, especially in young, immature fruits.
Inside, its while flesh is soft, with soft, ovate seeds located chiefly at its core. Tinda has a neutral flavor and tastes somewhat described as light-sweet like a bottle gourd.
Tinda are ready to harvest in 12-15 weeks from sowing, depending on temperature and growing conditions. Young fruits are harvested while just short of full maturity to use as vegetables.
Tinda gourd is very low calorie vegetable; just holds 21 cal/100g, relatively same calories as in pumpkins (26 cal/100g).
Nonetheless, it carries ample concentrations of vitamins, minerals and fiber that help in overall health nad wellness.
Indian squash peel is a good source of dietary fiber which helps in smooth bowel movements and offers protection against colon cancers by eliminating toxic compounds from the gut.
Tinda squash is gluten-free food items and is one of better alternative food substitute in people suffering from spectrum of gluten-related disorders. Gluten is a protein molecule in foods that causes severe food intolerance in non-celiac (gluten sensitivity) as well as celiac disease patients.
Fresh Tinda squash holds relatively more amounts of vitamin-C (18 mg/100 g or 20% of RDA /100 g) than cucumbers. Vitamin-C is a water-soluble anti-oxidant that plays role as immunity booster, collagen synthesis in bones, cartilage, and blood vessels, and aids in the absorption of iron.
It provides small amounts of (5 μg/100 gm) of folates. Folate is an essential element for cell division and DNA synthesis. When taken adequately during early pregnancy, it may help prevent neural-tube defects in the newborn.
Being a squash vegetable, it is very low in sodium but compose higher amounts of potassium, an important intra-cellular electrolyte. Potassium is a heart friendly electrolyte and helps bring the reduction in blood pressure and heart rates by countering pressing effects of sodium.
Further, Tinda squash carry modest levels of other B-complex groups of vitamins like thiamin, riboflavin, and minerals like calcium, iron, manganese, phosphorus, and zinc.
In traditional ayurvedic medicine, Tinda squash has been thought to be alkaline in nature, and hence its consumption has a cooling and neutralizing effect on stomach acids and as such used effectively for treating digestive ailments like hyperacidity, dyspepsia, and ulcers. It is also used to treat diabetes.
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Tinda gourd is available around the year in the Asian markets. Tinda squash can be easily bruised owing to its smooth, delicate skin and should be handled with care. Farmers generally pack them in cardboard boxes to markets to protect their skin.
Choose firm, bright, young, and spherical tinda squashes in season. Buy fresh, average-sized fruits with clean blossom tips and stem spots.
Avoid large, tough skin as they are over mature and therefore, unappetizing. Also, avoid any, if spotted with a surface blemish, damaged, cuts/punctured, etc.
At home, keep in a vegetable tray inside the refrigerator for use within 1-2 days. Avoid extended storage in the refrigerator since they sustain a chill injury.
Before employing them in cooking, wash tinda squash in clean running water and dry using a clean cloth. Peeling is not always necessary. If you wish so, gently peel very superficial skin.
Given their spherical shape, tinda squash makes perfect vegetables for stuffing. You can also use them cut diced or in slices as you desire in the recipe. They can also be employed as a wonderful substitute for recipes that call chappan kaddu (Indian summer squash), bottle gourd, small squashes, or similar cooked cucurbit fruits.
Here are some serving tips:
Peeled, fresh and tender tinda squash cubes/slices can be eaten raw in salads.
Tinda squash consumption rarely causes allergic reactions. However, inadvertant consumpton of unfit, bitter fruit results in poisoning due to toxic compounds such as cucurbitacin. Toxicity occurs when a raw bitter (toxic) tinda gourd consumed either directly or in the form of juice.
Incidents of serious illness and deaths have been reported in India after consumption of bitter tinda gourd and bottle gourds. Symptoms may include vomiting, stomachache, diarrhea and can occur within minutes of ingestion of poisonous juice which may follow serious illness like bleeding from the gut, shock, and death.(Medical disclaimer).
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Where Are They Now
March 23, 2022
Liana Rosenstiel, of Pearl City, IL was named to the Dean's List for the fall semester of the 2021-22 academic year at Illinois Wesleyan University. Rosenstiel is a junior majoring in Elementary Education.
Rosenstiel was among 734 students from 28 states and 17 countries named to the Fall 2021 Dean's List.
To qualify for the Dean's List, students must earn a GPA of 3.50 or better during the semester, based on 4.0 for straight As.
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Looking for Catherine J. Adams Betterhelp?…Lets talk about something called better help which is an online treatment platform and I’m also going to tell you how you can get two weeks without much better aid services but initially if you’re brand-new to the channel my name is Lauren and I make articles about what it resembles dealing with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder all right so before I begin I just want to let you understand that there is a link in the description listed below to access the two weeks free trial subscription to much better assistance you can try it entirely run the risk of free no strings connected and see how you like it um so what is much better assistance better assistance is an online treatment service that is kind of an alternative to in-person treatment a membership to better aid offers you
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From the age of about 13 onwards, I’ve suffered from higher-than-seems-normal levels of stress and anxiety, and while I have actually mostly come to terms with being tense and a bit doomy, I certainly would not mind being less so. I have actually had counselling prior to, and it does help.
And drawing back from my own (fairly low-key) concerns for a moment, could e-counselling be the answer to the mental health concerns intensifying among under-30s? With cuts to psychological health services truly starting to bite, digitised therapy could be simply the ticket for young adults who already filter nearly every element of their lives– buddies, work, sex, home entertainment– through a screen.
Not everybody is totally encouraged that shifting psychological health care online is the way forward. “For me, what operate in therapy is when you fulfill somebody face-to-face, in the same space,” states London-based psychotherapist Sandra Tapie. “You are familiar with not only what it’s like to speak with the individual, but how it feels to be in a space with them. Utilizing Skype is the next best thing: it’s ‘good enough’, but it does not produce the nearness, the intimacy, that truly gets individuals to open up and check out things.”.
” I’ve carried out some research study into Skype counselling,” states London-based psychotherapist Dr Aaron Balick, “and it’s not the ‘practical equivalent’ of standard counselling; it’s simply not quite the exact same thing. It’s actually crucial that people who engage in it know that it’s a different experience from remaining in the room with someone, speaking in person.” Catherine J. Adams Betterhelp | <urn:uuid:b5b9153c-aaf5-49ae-af7d-dd3e966d752b> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.nyctherapistbeth.com/catherine-j-adams-betterhelp/ | 2023-09-27T12:24:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.956162 | 956 |
Vote YES on Measure T – Invest in Our Oakland – on November’s ballot so that we can transform our business tax structure and provide protections to our most impacted communities. The measure will generate over $20 million for essential city services to address our unhoused neighbors’ needs, provide public safety alternatives to police, clean our streets and our parks, and keep libraries open.
Did you know a new tax structure could save essential city services and provide protections for small businesses without increasing the tax burden on residents and homeowners? It’s time to modernize Oakland’s outdated regressive business tax structure. This is our chance to hold big wealthy corporations accountable to paying their fair share of taxes and provide tax relief to more than 20,000 small businesses in Oakland struggling to make ends meet. | <urn:uuid:b61039b1-d26f-4f4f-b5a3-6467add7c9d9> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.oaklandrising.org/invest-in-our-oakland/ | 2023-09-27T11:31:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.939963 | 161 |
In a March 29, 1975 Chicago Tribune article, the late Bobbie Raymond, founder of the Oak Park Regional Housing Center, remarked, “We all have our areas of ignorance,” adding, “and I think some people like to see other communities fold.” These words continue to resonate today, particularly when Wednesday Journal refers to the space south of the current Oak Park Village Hall as an option for a new free-standing police station. After perusing the May 26 Wednesday Journal editorial, I explored southeast Oak Park and discovered what they meant.
The proposal is to destroy the public “park” referred to as the “village green” and replace it with a concrete structure. I disagree with the Wednesday Journal’s option as this land, bordered by Lombard and Taylor avenues and Adams Street is not “open space,” but rather, a public “park” explicitly designated as such in the municipal plaza plan adopted by the Oak Park Board of Trustees in June 1972.
The article, “Who Benefits from Public Green Space” states “lack of green space reinforces the urban heat island effect, causing low-income areas to experience disproportionately higher temperatures and worse air quality than their wealthier counterparts.”*
A UNICEF article, “The Necessity of Urban Green Space for Children’s Optimal Development” notes, “A simple walk in the park can significantly improve children’s ability to concentrate. Green views out of school windows correlate with improved academic performance. And children who grow up in greener neighborhoods are often less depressed, less stressed and generally healthier and happier.”**
Is Wednesday Journal promoting and the Oak Park Village Board genuinely considering demolishing, this village green, a public “park,” and replace it with a concrete building that will add to climate change, jeopardizing a thriving ecosystem, and negatively impact neighborhood children and the community as a whole?
*Richards, M. (2020). Who Benefits from Public Green Space. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/mallory-richards (September 19, 2020)
**UNICEF. https://www.unicef.org/armenia/en/stories/necessity-urban-green-space-childrens-optimal-development (July 26, 2021)
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This Would Make For A Great Movie Plot
F.H. disagrees with my assessment of the chances that China’s decision to tax its nonresident citizens on their worldwide income as the United States does will lead to every country taxing citizens no matter where they live. In short, I say it won’t happen.
“This is the future, and the complexity will shrink like snow under the sun. The very next step is going to be a ‘world’ social security number that will be mandatory to open a bank account. Then, and it’s currently running, the automatic exchange of tax and banking information. You just have to match this with that and send the bill, wherever the guy lives.
“The countries that persist on not taxing their citizens, Bahamas, Belize, etc., will comply or be invaded.”
Maybe I’m naïve, but I find it hard to see how the scenario that F.H. lays out evolves without a bigger military play than simply invading Belize. This country doesn’t have a standing army, by the way. The U.K., its former colonizer, is required to protect it. So now we’ve got some global military unit engaging in combat with the U.K. over Belize’s tax structure.
OK… crazier things have already happened…
But who runs the imagined “world social security number” program? Who collects the taxes? Who distributes them? Most important, who gets the distributions?
Certainly an apocalyptic scenario in which the United States and China, desperate for tax revenues, engage in the systematic hostile takeovers of countries and their tax bases to continue to feed their government industrial complexes is entertaining. Should we cast Liam Neeson or Brad Pitt as the hero of this movie?
The 1% New-World Order
With reports out this week that the top 1% of the global population holds more than 50% of the total global wealth, I’d like to propose an alternative storyline. How about if the 1% get together to decide that the world’s governments are too incompetent to be allowed to continue? The world’s wealthy then fund a joint private army that rivals anything the United States, China, or Russia could pull together. Then they eliminate government altogether everywhere and set up economic fiefdoms. I like Harrison Ford for this flick if we can get him.
Speculation and paranoia are rife in the offshore world. Without them, how would all the scammers hawk their wares?
The rest of us have to live in the here and now, which is why I advocate a straightforward strategy. Diversify your life offshore. It’s the only sensible thing any of us can do.
You can’t worry about doom-and-gloom scenarios or fantastical predictions built around things like global social security numbers. Bet all your popcorn on that scenario, and you’re likely to find yourself sitting alone on a suitcase of gold coins in a remote region of Borneo.
Protect your assets under current rule of law. Set up a trust if you have sufficient assets to warrant it. Spread your investments around both by asset class and location (that is, in different countries). Open bank accounts in different countries, too, to increase your chances to have access to at least some of your funds should one bank or banking system shut down. Hold some gold where you’re physically located as a last resort for feeding your family. Better still, buy some land where you can produce your own food.
Bottom line, though, you need to keep things in perspective. You need a plan to keep and protect what is yours, but you also need to enjoy your life.
If you buy into F.H.’s apocalyptic scenario, you could take yourself off the world’s radar altogether, I guess. Harder to do this all the time but still possible. You could run away to try to avoid the impending doom, whatever form it takes. But where would that leave you? Alone with your box of gold in some Bornean jungle…
I’ll continue to take my diversified chances. Alone in Borneo, eventually you’d run out of your meds.
“I’m curious about the interest in Colombia. About 20 years ago, a friend of mine and her family purchased a farm in Cali, Colombia. They were there for four years when the government took the farm away from them, and they had no recourse but to return to the U.S. empty-handed. Can investors feel more secure these days? I see your emails and shake my head and say ‘No way!'”K.C.Without knowing the circumstances, it’s hard to speak to something that happened 20 years ago, but we’re comfortable and confident with our investments in Colombia today.
This country is a very different place today than it was two decades ago. That’s why I’ve planned a conference in Medellin in May. You want to be looking at what Colombia has to offer; I’m putting together a team of experts, expats, and investors to help you do that as efficiently as possible.
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Victory Ride Stakes at Belmont Park Results
Las Vegas, NV - Belmont Park in Elmont, New York was the scene of the $150,000 Grade 3 Victory Ride Stakes Saturday, June 29. The two longest shots in the field finished 1-2 in the race. Paul Pompa Jr.'s Baby J at 10-1 odds emerged victorious in the reduced field of five (multiple grade II winner Kauai Katie (entrymate of Teen Pauline), Native One, and Lighthouse Bay were all scratched prior to race time). Bridgehampton finished at 5-1 odds second while Fusaichiswonderful, the 7-5 favorite, was 2 1/4 lengths back in third. Teen Pauline was fourth and was followed by I'm Mom's Favorite.
Victory Ride Stakes Race Results & Payouts
Times In 100ths: :22.14 :45.13 :57.56 1:10.84
Winning Trainer: Reynolds Patrick | Owner: Pompa, Jr. Paul
Scratched: Kauai Katie, Lighthouse Bay And Native One
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Also Ran: Teen Pauline And I'm Mom's Favorite
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What Not to Miss at The 20th New York African Film Festival
Previews Nairobi Half Life, Dolce Vita Africana, Burn it Up Djassa & Fuelling Poverty at the 20th New York African Film Festival
For the 20th consecutive year, the venerable and groundbreaking New York African Film Festival is opening its doors, and as usual there's a ton of goodness worth seeing. Between 3rd-9th April, a total of 14 films will be screened; under the theme 'Looking Back, Looking Forward' the newest of the new will screen alongside vintage films like Ousmane Sembene's Guelwaar, Moussa Touré's TGV and Abderrahmane Sissako's La Vie sur Terre. We've already previewed Chinonye Chukwu's (initially promising but ultimately melodramatic) Alaskaland, reviewed Frances Bodomo's brilliant short Boneshaker and expressed our excitement over Touissaint l’Ouverture. Check the full programme and browse our previews of some of the newest offerings.
1. Nairobi Half Life (2012) | dir. David Tosh Gitonga
When it was released last year Nairobi Half Life caused a stir because of the alleged 'gay kissing scene' (it's actually a peck on the cheek followed by a failed kiss). David Tosh Gitonga's debut feature picked up a Best Actor award at the Durban Film Festival, and he's said that 'it's about time' that Kenyan film explored queer identities in something other than 'a negative light'. By the looks of the trailer, Nairobi Half Life looks like a classic smalltown boy in the big city flick, as the lead, an aspiring actor, moves to Nairobi to start a new life and quickly discovers the meaning of the capital's nickname 'Nairobbery'.
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2. Dolce Vita Africana (2008) | dir. Cosima Spender + Q+A U.S. premiere
Grandaughter of Arshile Gorky, director Cosima Spender travelled to Mali to film Dolce Vita Africana, her 60-minute documentary on one of the grandfathers of west African photography, Malick Sidibe. His photographs of young, stylish west Africans found a second life in the 1990s when the west caught on to his and Seydou Keita's brilliance. It'll be interesting to see whether Spender's doc broaches the fraught power dynamics which continue to underscore the Western/West African art relationship, but whether it does or doesn't, it's worth seeing Sidibe's captivating images on a big screen.
Thursday 4th April @ 6pm + Tuesday 9th April @ 4pm more
3. Death for Sale (2011) | dir. Faouzi Bensaidi + Q&A
Set in Tetouan, in the north of Morocco, Death for Sale is a film noir/heist-gone-awry movie that follows three characters through the streets of Tetouan, a port city in the north of Morocco. Last year it was tipped as an Oscar favourite, and though some reviews have been tepid, Variety noted that it's at the very least a good-looking movie: 'the alluring, technically rigorous craft package has Euro polish.' European and polish apparently synonymous when it comes to European film. That said, Bensaidi's film promises to grapple with problems that are ever-more prevalent given the ongoing global financial crisis: poverty, disaffection, unemployment.
Saturday 6th April @ 6pm (for Q&A) + Tuesday 9th April @ 1:30pmmore
4. Burn it up Djassa (2012) | dir. Lonesome Solo (Bamba Souleymane)
Lonesome Solo's Burn it Up Djassa is perhaps the one film we're most excited to see at the festival, given its reputation as herald of a new Ivorian artistic movement. Shot in the Abidjan neighbourhood of Wassakara a few months before the Ivorian civil war broke out, the film is performed by a collective of actors from Wassakara, together with writers and a production team that hail from the same neighbourhood, they've created a vérité-style fiction that resonates with their daily experience.
Saturday 6th April @ 9pmmore
5. Fueling Poverty (2012) | dir. Ishaya Bako + Q&A
If you love the sound of Wole Soyinka's voice this film will be instantly compelling. It opens at a leisurely pace with Kongi telling us the story of Nigeria, and quickly gains momentum and develops into a snappy 30 minute takedown of the government's mismanagement of Nigeria's oil wealth which was the source of protests across Nigeria at the start of 2012.
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Important Whaling Map of Spitsbergen
"[Greneland]", Purchas, Samuel
Period: 1704 (published)
Publication: A Collection of Voyages and Travels
Color: Black & White
12.8 x 11.4 inches
32.5 x 29 cm
This map highlights the importance of the whaling industry to the English in the early 17th century. Expeditions by Willem Barentsz in 1596 and Henry Hudson in 1607 explored portions of Spitsbergen and noted the abundance of whales in the surrounding waters. Both the Dutch and English took note and began sending voyages to the island to hunt whales, walruses and polar bears. The Muscovy Company, who had been granted a monopoly charter on whaling in Spitsbergen by Queen Elizabeth I, sent a number of expeditions to the region, including those headed by Jonas Poole, Thomas Edge, and William Baffin. Letters and journals from these explorers found their way to Samuel Purchas, who incorporated their records in his Purchas his Pilgrimes, including a map of the known parts of Spitsbergen. Awnsham Churchill had the map re-engraved to use in his A Collection of Voyages and Travels, which first appeared in 1704. This example is the re-engraved map, which is a close copy of the original with small changes to the typography and decorative elements.
On the map, Spitsbergen is erroneously named Greneland due to the English belief at the time that the land was connected to Greenland further north. Numerous English-based place names fill the map, some of which reflect explorers in the area, such as Edges Iland, Mount Edge, Sr Thomas Smyths Inlett, Charles Iland, and Hackluits Headland. Surrounding the map are eleven vignettes recording the manner of hunting and killing whales, walruses and polar bears. The term "seamorse" was used to denote walruses.
The Dutch, who were competing with the English for whaling rights in the region, were simultaneously publishing maps of Spitsbergen with Dutch toponyms. It wasn't until the whaling industry became of greater importance to the English and Dutch that maps focusing on Spitsbergen began to appear on the market. However, by the end of the 17th century, whaling interests had moved further west and individual maps of Spitsbergen were generally no longer included in atlases. As such, maps of Spitsbergen are relatively uncommon.
References: Pool (IMCoS Journal #121) pp. 35-42.
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You’re probably wondering how much Leadpages will cost you. You can try Leadpages free for 14 days to get an idea of all its functions.
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What is Leadpages?
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On August 1, 2017, The Kings County Sheriff’s Office received a call from a representative of the Fresno Educational Employee Credit Union fraud division. The credit union representative reported three EECU customers had fraudulent purchases made on their bank accounts this past week. All of the fraudulent purchases were made in southern California, and all three customers had visited the Valero gas station in Kettleman City last week, prior to the charges being discovered.
With this information, Kings County Sheriff’s deputies went to the Valero gas station in Kettleman City and began inspecting the gas pumps for credit card skimming devices. During the inspection, a deputy discovered two credit card skimming devices that were located inside two different gas pumps.
The Kings County Sheriff’s Office believes the skimming devices were placed inside the gas pumps sometime last week and the people responsible for installing the skimming devices are currently unknown.
Credit card skimming devices have become a nationwide epidemic, affecting thousands of people, and resulting in millions of dollars lost. These devices are most often found inside gas pumps at gas stations throughout the US.
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In an effort to prevent this from occurring, the Kings County Sheriff’s Office recommends purchasing gas inside the gas station rather than paying at the gas pumps.
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As soon as the lighting design is finalized, our experienced personnel will begin the installation of your new lighting system. Our staff will finish off the setup and leave if it's still early in the day; they'll return later that night. They'll be able to address any concerns and make the necessary lighting modifications once the lights are properly seen in the dark.
Flexible Outdoor Lighting to Suit Your Needs
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According to the AMTA, only 37% of therapists use word of mouth as a part of their advertising. Most therapists are using Social Media, Websites, and Networking amongst other forms of marketing.
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Thermal Meibomian Gland Expression
Meibomian gland expression is a simple yet effective procedure performed in the office to improve the function of the Meibomian glands, which are responsible for producing the oily layer of the tear film. During the procedure, a gentle pressure is applied to the eyelids to express the thickened and obstructed secretions from the glands. By unclogging these glands, Meibomian gland expression helps to alleviate symptoms of dry eye syndrome and improve eye comfort and vision.
Follow-up is patient-specific, but usually patients will return anywhere between 3-6 months for the next expression.
Step 1: LOCALIZED HEAT
A specialized heat mask delivers localized heat at 3 different temperatures to your eyelids for 10-20 minutes.
Step 2: EYELID PREP
The next step is to sterilize the eyelid and eyelash area.
Step 3: GLAND EXPRESSION
Our doctor will instill an anesthesia drop in both eyes, then we will use a specialized tool to push excess meibum out of the meibomian glands. Your eyes may feel a bit sensitive for the next 1-2 days. | <urn:uuid:df6aede9-9fa1-4f8b-9064-5b63c168b954> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.pacificoptometry-group.com/general-4 | 2023-09-27T12:09:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.865161 | 248 |
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