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Whether you’re familiar with RewardStyle and Like to Know it or not, it’s time to pay attention.
The platforms have the power to transform your online presence (and sales), and below I’ll walk you through exactly what they are, how they work, and why you need them.
RewardStyle is a business that connects influencers with select retailers.
The middle-man, if you will.
It’s invitation-only and targets primarily beauty, fashion, and retailer bloggers. RewardStyle forms relationships with retailers, then invites bloggers with the right social following to promote the brands through affiliate links.
Using it, bloggers make a commission (usually 5-15%) from items sold through their affiliate link.
Buyers, of course, pay the usual amount. There’s no added cost for using your favorite influencer’s link. Influencers and bloggers can’t see who purchased what using the link, only how many ultimately clicked on their link and the resulting commission.
RewardStyle currently works 11,000 hand-selected influencers in 80+ countries.
RewardStyle currently works with 1 million global brands. To work with RewardStyle, brands have to go through a pretty straightforward application process before they’re accepted and connected to influencers.
Its model seems to be working, with over $1.6 in sales to retail partners since 2011, and an annual growth rate of 78%.
Working with rewardStyle costs a flat fee, and they manage the campaign at every stage, from initial connection with an influencer to campaign execution.
Throughout the campaign, brands will have access to detailed analytics and reports to show the retail impact and branding influence.
It also provides brands access to the exclusive Like to Know it platform.
What is Like to Know it?
Here’s what you need to know: Like to Know it is a social based shopping service that allows users to purchase whatever it is their favorite influencer is wearing or using in a given post.
You’ll recognize a Like to Know it post by a small white heart in the right bottom corner of the image and Like to Know it URL in the caption.
Those icons signal that particular post is enabled through Like to Know it, meaning that you can easily see where everything featured in the post comes from.
For example, if you follow a fashion influencer and love the jeans they’re wearing, you can get information on who makes the jeans and where you can get a pair of your own.
Like to Know it used to be web-based, but now works best through the app.
Step 1: download the LIKEtoKNOW.it app from your app store.
You can also use the platform by simply opening the app and searching for bloggers or influencers through the search bar. This will take you to their individual page where you can view all Like to Know it enables posts by that particular blogger.
The benefit here – for both brands and shoppers – is the ease of use.
Shoppers no longer have hunt down their favorite outfits; they’re connected almost instantly to a page where they can purchase the items they like.
For brands, it delivers prospects straight to the end of their sales funnel. It delivers brand awareness, generates interest and engagement, and in the best cases, a sale. And it’s also as easy as signing up with RewardStyle.
But let’s take a deeper look to uncover whether RewardStyle and Like to Know it are right for your brand.
Also, keep in mind your target audience; 75% of RewardStyle consumers are between the ages of 18-35.
If those industries and audience fit the bill, you should give RewardStyle and Like to Know it serious consideration.
Why? Because it connects you directly with influencers.
74% of people turn to social networks for guidance on purchase decisions.
49% of people say they rely on recommendations from influencers when making purchase decisions.
40% of people say they’ve purchased an item online after seeing it used by an influencer on Instagram, Twitter, Vine, or YouTube.
The impact isn’t lost on businesses, and in the past two years “influencer marketing” as a search term on Google Trends has risen by 400%.
While influencers come in many forms – industry experts, celebrities, journalists, etc. – one group, in particular, has emerged as particular in demand: the lifestyle expert.
They know their audience – this particular form of influencer has built a following from scratch, without the added benefit of name recognition. Doing so makes them very aware of their audience – what they like, what they don’t, what content resonates with them, etc. – which increases their authenticity.
I mention all this because lifestyle experts are exactly who RewardStyle partners with.
Usually, forming influencer relationships takes time and plenty of trial and error. Not only does a brand have to identify the most relevant influencers in their space, but reach out to them with irresistible offers to collaborate.
Naturally, this process is much easier said than done. But using RewardStyle, that side of the process is covered.
Remember – the platform’s your middleman. All you have to do is supply the best product possible.
Who Should Consider Using RewardStyle and Like to Know it?
While RewardStyle and Like to Know it are ideal for retailers, they may not be the best platforms for everyone.
Keep in mind, it’s entirely lifestyle-focused, and will perform best in conjunction with brands that sell lifestyle products like fashion, home furnishings, beauty, etc.
Also, the platform is powered heavily by Instagram users. It’s imperative (as always) to have a fully-formed marketing strategy that outlines the channels your customers are most likely to use.
If you find that your target audience isn’t as active on Instagram, RewardStyle likely won’t generate the same returns.
However, it is ideal for many smaller brands who don’t generate as much business on name recognition. Using RewardStyle and Like to Know it allows some smaller retailers to compete head-to-head with larger labels on social media, and connect them to influencers who may not otherwise interact with your brand.
Is your target audience between 18-35?
Does your target audience use Instagram and social media regularly?
If the answer’s yes, then RewardStyle and Like to Know it are likely for you.
1. How Do I Become a Like to Know It Influencer?
Before you can become a Like to Know It influencer you must first become… an influencer.
In other words, you have to generate a significant following on social media. If you’re not at that point yet, then get busy.
Beyond that, though, you need to have a following that’s interested in one or more of the brands that use RewardStyle.
Also: RewardStyle won’t allow just anybody to participate in its program. Influencers have to demonstrate that they’re posting quality content.
Once you’ve made it past the screening process, you can start earning a commission by promoting RewardStyle brands on social media.
2. Which Brands Pay Commission Via Like to Know It?
There are several brands participating in the RewardStyle program. They span a variety of industries.
There’s a misconception that Like to Know It is only designed for people in the fashion space. As you can see from the list above, there are brands representing other industries that rely on the influencer marketing program as well.
3. Why Don’t I Receive a Notification When I Screenshot a Like to Know It Image?
You only get notifications when the Like to Know It app is running. If it’s closed, it can’t detect when you take a screenshot and therefore it can’t send you a notification. Just tap the app icon to open it.
Standing out on social media is no easy task.
But using the platforms above will streamline the process and lead customers directly to your (virtual) door.
If you operate in the retail or e-commerce space, RewardStyle and Like to Know it are certainly worth a look, and quite possibly, a sale.

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I took up photography when I was 18, receiving my Associates Degree in Photography from Grand Rapids Community College in 2015. I'm married to my best friend Logan, and together we have three fur babies: a cat named Wilma, and two pitties named Wallace and Poncho.
I am a Disney lover, a music lover, and an animal lover. Feel free to ask me anything you want to know about these topics and I'll surely talk your ear off!
I can be pretty goofy at times but my true self shines in my art. I would love to give you a unique experience showcasing exactly what makes you so unique.

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Those who want to be active during your vacation, which offers 18-hole golf course Fajara Golf Course a varied golf experience.
The golf course is the Fajara club, a member of the Gambia Golfers Association, operated and administered. Is a special challenge to the oil sandy soil, which distinguishes the idyllic place near the beach. In addition to members and tourists are welcome to tournaments and Private golf.

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The Pavement Performance Festival was a meaningful, fun, and intense street event in Portland's Pearl District. It was curated by Tracy Cameron Francis, who you can see standing near me in the photo below. It was an honor and a pleasure to be part to be part of this wonderful festival!
3 photos by Meg Nanna of me playing my homemade instruments at some choice locations at the festival.
Melody Erfani presented MOVEMENT, a piece inspired by recent interviews with immigrants and refugees in collaboration with NY based actors Muge Karaguille and Buket Gulbeyez, whose performances were riveting.
Urks Kurth: Purification of Corruption Process- "Led through the crowd by an Alchemist, a person with the power to transform bad into good- performers act as an embodiment of our social ills until purified": a very powerful piece!
Laura Allcorn and Traci Sym- Insecurity Screening- A TSA-style security screening session set up on a sidewalk. In this piece audience members went through insecurity screening, putting their insecurities into security bins and then casting them away. A very creative, timely, humorous, hands-on piece!
Kushi Beauchamp- STORY TENT- "A 1-on-1 experiment in public vulnerability, intimacy, and story telling".
Teatro Calamari- WALK/DON'T WALK. A Love Story Inbetween the Lines.
The story takes place on a crosswalk and is about the two white walking figures you see on automated cross walking signs, who sadly are never able to connect.
Above: Claudia F. Salleeby Savage, with John Savage- Thick in the Throat, Honey- After the Khadijah Queen line, "I heard a howling but did not run." two separate stories meld into one.
Right: Wendy Allegaert- Red, White and Blue- A piece about panic and love. Love and panic. A clown in a window. photos by Meg Nanna.
!MICHAEL ESPINOZA – Burying Queer Ancestors: Leslie Feinberg, Jean Genet, Michel Foucault and Walt Whitman – "A ritual burial wherein the lives of remembered queer ancestors are forgiven, celebrated, and sent back into the ground with our offerings as ambassadors of our sadness". Michael read passages from these authors, then in a ritual performance, put their books in a casket, then closed the festival with a dance party- a nice ending to a great little festival!


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Hartlepool first-team coach Mick Wadsworth says midfielder Gary Liddle is out of the running for Saturday's trip to Stevenage in League One.
The 25-year-old has been issued with a face mask to allow him to take part in training despite a broken cheekbone, but will not be risked this weekend.
"He's a little bit tender," Wadsworth told BBC Tees.
"Even though he's got permission to train or play when he feels like it, there's no chance for this Saturday."
Wadsworth added: "I'm sure by next week, we'll be looking at him thinking there's a chance for him a week on Saturday."
Liddle picked up the injury in last weekend's 1-1 draw with Walsall at Victoria Park and was able to continue for the full 90 minutes, but has since undergone surgery to correct the damage.
"The key issue was one of safety, and our medical people said that where the fracture was it wasn't in a dangerous place,"
"That being the case, Gary was happy to carry on, and he played the whole game as you know with great ferocity, tenacity, and certainly with no fear of making further challenges.
"But it needed sorting out, that's been done now, a little time was needed for it to settle down and I'm sure we'll see him back on the pitch in a week or so."
Middlesbrough-born Liddle moved to Victoria Park in August 2006 after leaving his home-town club academy and has since scored 17 goals in 244 appearances for the club.

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text: Ethical dilemmas and moral compromises abound in our society as advancements in technology, protection of personal freedoms, and desensitization through entertainment continuously blur the lines between right and wrong. And such blurred lines tend to create tension in the life of the Christian who is called to be in the world but not of the world (John 17:15-17; Romans 12:2). In this series of lessons we will discover the Bible’s definition of morality and utilize it to determine a Christian ethic. Join us this Sunday at 10:00 a.m. to discover why morality matters.

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Please introduce yourself and your Start-up Moodnode to our readers!
Hi, I’m Michal. I’m a technology passionate working on a hardware, software and business development. Two years ago together with my friend Małgorzata – a former architect, currently delivering industrial, user experience and brand design for our project, we’ve founded Moodnode.
How did you get the idea to your startup?
It was back in 2014, my friend Mark just installed Philips Hue in his apartment. The idea of an easy retrofit home automation seemed appealing, but then Mark complained that as soon as he flips the switch on the wall, the Hue becomes unresponsive. That sparked the idea of putting the control into the switch, which is far better than having it within the light-bulb. Soon, I’ve learned there are several products that address that need, but they are all designed for the North American electrical/mechanical standard, and I was unable to find one available in Europe. The idea was simple – we do enable european users with the simple home automation light solution. It looked like a clear show.
First, we could clearly see the market opportunity as the new IoT trend in home automation was at the moment in picking up. Secondly, we were very inspired by the maker’s movement and the fact that in the second decade of our century, producing physical products is easier than ever before, and even such a small team as ours can make an impact. Lastly, we both felt we need to shift to a new challenge in our lives.
How does your company has developed since it was founded?
I created a proof of concept on the desk of my hotel room. It was big as shoe box, but it was doing the job. I used this prototype to attract Margaret and ask her to prepare enclosure design. Similar to the most startups we were working during the weekends and in the evenings. We first focused on creating the prototype – something we could show to our potential consumers and gather feedback. This took a long time – in May 2015, we still had no complete product. We quit our daily jobs and fully focused on Moodnode – I think we had simply realized that in a part-time mode, we would get nowhere. That worked very well! In September 2015, we had our MVP ready. We presented it during the Demo Day of HugeThing [pre accelerator] and allowed first people to interact with our product. I remember clearly the first person approaching our shiny, glass-covered-touch-sensitive-state-of-the-art device. That person was clueless on how to operate it. I reacted as every creator would react in this situation – I blamed the user! After that, there were twenty, maybe more, people that had exactly the same problem. We couldn’t deny the truth any longer: our user interface sucked. It’s hard to explain how devastating it was to our morale. We quickly got back on track and in February, we had our second improved version of the device. We have had run the second validation round, and then we knew our product was already marketable. Having our prototype and a complete business plan, we went on a hunt for an investor that would help us to bring the product to the market. It was tougher than we assumed. There are not that many investors feeling comfortable with investing in hardware. Moreover, most of them want to see that the company can generate revenue. It’s a kind of the chicken-egg problem: you can’t market the device without external financial support, but you also can’t get a financial support without marketing the device. Our runaway was ending with the last day of June, and we were hopeless – true startup near death experience. We had our last shot: the Startupbootcamp Istanbul selection days. It was an unbelievable event. Enough to say, I had one-on-one sessions with fifty mentors in two days. Exactly on 30th of June we were accepted to the program – it’s hard to imagine a better timing. Our runaway got extended and since then, we have been working closely with the fabulous team in Turkey and are looking forward to launching our product in the last quarter of this year.
What was the biggest challenge in starting your business?
For me personally, it was a mind shift from a mature corporate structure to a startup organization. I was always good at strategy and planning, but usually, I had a team that would execute it. As a person keeping an eye on the execution, you are more interrupt driven and act when things yaw from the original plan. With a startup, on the other hand, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.
We want to provide smarter home experience to people who will enjoy everything from setting up the light moods with one touch through automatic ambient tracking finishing on integrating it into the universe of IoT devices (Amazon Echo, SmartThings or Hue). The Moodnode is simple to install and does not need a hub or rewiring of installation. Just remove your old switch and replace it with our device, connect it to your WiFi and you’re all set.
Who is the target audience of Moodnode?
We are focusing on the people who love new technologies and gadgets. In particular, people with a software development background proven to be great people to interact with. They are very problem-solution driven and provide great insights on what they like/dislike about the product and usually, they also have ideas on how to improve it. At an early stage of adoption, you cannot dream of a better audience than that.
Why do you apply for the Long Night of startups in Berlin?
It looks like a great place to showcase our product, and it is happening at the same time as IFA, which is at the end the largest consumer electronic show in this part of the world.
You are one of few startup companies of the Long Night of Startups. How motivating is it for you and what do you expect from the event?
We are motivated by being chosen from a big group of startups that applied; it is definitely a recognition of our efforts, and it reminds us we are on the right path.
How important is this step for you? From the aspect that by many prospective clients and media attention to you?
Five years predications for a company that is working in a fast-pace changing environment is quite in the air, however we are having ambitions of turning Moodnode into a global brand.
Be persistent on your goal and realistic about how much you can deliver. Assume that you are alone on your path and build as little expectations of others as you can. Always have a plan B.


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The crazy ideas you get when you have a voucher you don’t know what to with and which is just about to run out.
The black lids still haven’t arrived.
If there’s space in the end, these will go into the shelf to create some breathing space for all that music.

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In the past, a ferry ran past the current Cheongpyeong Training Center from Cheongpyeong Dam all the way to Mogok. A guy from Gangwon province ran the ferry line. True Parents always used the ferry whenever they travelled to the Original Sanctuary site.
Before they moved the fishing site to the front of today’s Original Sanctuary, they used to fish across the river, down the valley, below the Cheonyu Jang (summer house).
Then, with a small rowing boat, they paddled upstream to check the waters from Hongcheon River all the way to Nami Island. They had lower a rope into the water to measure its depth. After thorough exploration, they found out that the deepest water was under Seonin Peak. They also climbed every mountain around the area. They poured out their heart and effort to select the right holy ground. The inter-denominational movement officially began at the end of 1970 and early 1971. Through this movement, Christian pastors from all over the nation swarmed to Cheongpyeong. The tents for conferences to promote moral living and public hearings became today’s Cheongpyeong Training Center. Originally, the area was a mulberry patch. True Parents used to pitch a small tent when they came fishing. And, when they decided to carry out a public hearing with pastors, they brought large military tents and evened the ground. This work officially began with True Parents digging the first stones on June 17, 1971. They began the work early to avoid the monsoon season. The leaders of 36 couples also helped with the work, and since they had nowhere else to sleep, they slept in tents at night.
When the big tent was ready, True Parents held several conferences to promote moral living as well as public hearings. However, there was a limit to how many people they could educate under a tent. Therefore they decided to build an official training center and began with the construction. In order to complete the building before the monsoon rain, They began shoveling before anyone else. The 36 couples dug the earth and piled the stones. And later, centering on Rev. Do-sun Lim, 30 theology students (yet to be dispatched) joined the workforce as a special unit.
At first, they brought professionals to build the ground up high. But with the rain, the workers refused to come. So True Parents, themselves, had to come for work. Under their guidance, the 30 special workforce students carried out the construction. It was True Parents who taught them how to do the work by pointing with their stick and saying “Put the stone here. Put it there,” “Pile it up like this.” They did as they were told. Later, the monsoon brought a lot of rain which flooded the front yard. When the waters were drained, the stones set by professionals all crumbled. But those set by True Parents were firmly put. They were all surprised at True Parents’ work. This tells us that since True Parents knows everything, if we work with their heart in our mind, we can achieve anything. Under countless conditions and continuous guidance of True Parents, the Cheongpyeong Training Center (Original Sanctuary) was completed on July 12, 1971.
The Original Sanctuary was the work of True Parents and elder members from the embankment to the completion of the building.
If you observe the remaining embankment, the lower part is dark and the upper part is relatively white. The lower part was built by True Parents in 1971 and the relatively white part above was built at the time of the construction of the Cheonseong Wanglim Palace in 1999. True Parents, who started fishing in Cheonshim Lake in the late 1960’s, initially borrowed a wooden boat for their fishing condition. Since it was inconvenient to borrow every time, they purchased a wooden boat from a nearby wooden boat merchant. This boat was used until a motor boat was purchased. This wooden boat has been discarded because of deterioration.
Cheonseung-ho left Incheon and arrived at Cheongpyeong Training Center on Sept. 21, 1971. The 3rd fl. of the ship was further built under the direction of True Parents at the shore of Cheonshim Lake (near the present CheongShim Peace World Center). Cheonseung-ho was used by many members who visited the Cheongpyeong Training Center and it was docked at the rear site of the current HyoJeong Café.
On Sept. 9, 2017, the HyoJeong Café dedication ceremony was held with 300 members with True Parents. At 10:25 am, True Parents arrived in front of the bridge connecting the HyoJeong Cafe and the Cheonseong Wanglim Palace to officiate the first part of the ceremony. The Dedication Ceremony was carried out by Vice President Myong-kwan Lee (Master of Ceremony) and The event then proceeded as follows: Opening Remarks, Bow of Greeting, Floral Tribute, and Unveiling Ceremony of True Parents’ Cornerstone. They walked over the bridge and entered the 3rd floor of HyoJeong Café where they gave the sanctification. After this, they visited the HyoJeong Food Court on the 2nd floor, Jaemiin shop on the 1st floor and the Marina. They also sanctified the Marina, blessing the newly bought boat ‘HyoJeong No.1’.
“You did a great job today.
In the same year, on 9.16 by the heavenly calendar (November 4) at 5:09pm, the Tasting Event to celebrate the opening of the HyoJeong Café was held with True Parents. True Parents first tasted tonkatsu, tonkotsu ramen and then fish cake udon.
Then, at 5:50pm, True Parents moved to the Café Kona Queens on the 3rd floor where They drank a cup of tea and ate Las Vegas cheesecake. True Parents asked the leaders who attended to sing songs; it was a joyful moment for all attendees to join together as being in Heaven on Earth.


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Trying to find out how to become a medical assistant in Delaware? Delaware medical assistants are among the most sought after in the nation due to the wide variety of medical practices available in the state and large amount of medical and clinical trial research that takes place there. Medical assistants make significantly more than home health aide workers and may even command a salary commensurate with Delaware paramedics. In most states, you can become a medical assistant immediately out of high school and begin to work in a variety of settings, including small practices and larger hospitals with outpatient care.
Medical assistants in Delaware are largely responsible for administrative tasks in a clinic or hospital setting. For example, they may handle billing, patient scheduling and other matters. Although they do not work directly in a medical capacity, many will have some basic medical training; they must be familiar with the different kinds of procedures and treatments available at their place of work. A medical assistant enjoys an entry-level position that can lead to several more advanced roles in the clerical side of the medical world. As a Delaware medical assistant, median salary approaches $30,000, while the Delaware starting salary may be between $18,000 and $20,000.
Starting salary will vary depending on the work environment that the medical assistant selects. Virtually every medical practice, no matter how large or small, will make use of a medical assistant. Because Delaware, like most other states, has few credentialing expectations for medical assistants, members of this profession can begin their career anywhere they find they fit in. In Delaware, medical assistants working for major hospitals like Kent General, Milford Memorial or Christiana Hospital will generally make more to begin and have more opportunities for on the job training. However, highly specialized small clinics may also offer a very competitive starting salary package.
To advance their careers, many medical assistants will choose to expand their skill set by enrolling in medical assistant programs in Delaware. The specific type of courses they take will depend on their ultimate career goal. For example, many a medical assistant in Delaware will choose an associate's degree aimed at becoming a Certified Nursing Assistant. This career requires intensive medical and anatomical study in Delaware, as well as a battery of tests. Others will focus on the administrative side of the job and may become medical billing specialists through any number of community college or online courses, increasing their median pay well over $32,000. Some eventually become medical sales representatives.

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Andy Murray’s comeback was sidetracked on Monday as he lost 6-1, 1-6, 6-4 to Lucas Pouille in his opening match at the Cincinnati Masters. Pouille had lost his previous three matches to Murray, the last at Dubai in 2017.
Murray, playing as a wild-card at an event he won in 2008 and 2011, saved a match-point in the penultimate game on his serve and another moments later when Pouille was serving for the win. But the Frenchman, who produced 40 winners, closed it out on the third attempt.
Pablo Carreno Busta scored a 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 win over Richard Gasquet, while Kei Nishikori put out Andrey Rublev, 7-5, 6-3.
Important results (first round): Men: Pablo Carreno Busta bt Richard Gasquet 6-3, 2-6, 6-3; Kei Nishikori bt Andrey Rublev 7-5, 6-3; Lucas Pouille bt Andy Murray 6-1, 1-6, 6-4; Denis Shapovalov bt Frances Tiafoe 7-6 (6), 3-6, 7-5; Jeremy Chardy bt Fernando Verdasco 6-1, 6-2; Benoit Paire bt David Ferrer 6-2, 6-2; Sam Querrey bt John Isner 6-4, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5); Novak Djokovic bt Steve Johnson 6-4, 7-6 (4); Stanislas Wawrinka bt Diego Schwartzman 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.
Women: Victoria Azarenka bt Carla Suarez Navarro 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-4; Svetlana Kuznetsova bt Stefanie Voegele 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (5); Serena Williams bt Daria Gavrilova 6-1, 6-2.
Alize Cornet bt Jelena Ostapenko 1-6, 7-5, 6-0; Aryna Sabalenka bt Johanna Konta 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.


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Government, historical & genealogical records & exhibits in historic archives. Guided tours offered.


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History of Traveling Shows In America Is Rich And Colorful!
The final decade of the 19th century witnessed a procession of giant fairs, which, in turn, promoted dozens of state-wide events and hundreds of county and city fairs, each one copying some features of the huge world expositions. Chief among these expositions in America was the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
716,881 people attended the World’s Columbian Exposition for “Chicago Day,” October 9, 1893.This day commemorated the anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
The World’s Columbian Exposition, celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing in America, was actually held in 1893, a year later than had been planned. New York City, Washington, D.C., St.Louis, and Chicago had all vied for the honor of housing the exposition, and it was during this vigorous and often vocal competition that Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, dubbed Chicago “that windy city.” Chicago’s lobbyists finally won out and, on April 25, 1890, President Benjamin Harrison signed the act that designated Chicago as the site of the exposition. It took three frantic years of preparation and work to produce the exposition. Although dedication ceremonies were held on October 21, 1892, the fairgrounds were not opened to the public until May 1, 1893. The exposition closed on October 30, 1893.
This World’s Fair sold more than 25 million tickets and introduced the world to a nation not only conceived in liberty but convinced of its own greatness, and eager to try just about anything as long as it was new, electrical, and enormous, or simply bizarre.
The Chicago World’s Fair tapped into imaginations both for the visitors and inventors. This imagination built t a new-classical colossus–an inspiration for an entirely new wave of beautiful architecture that would remake the American civic plaza. This imagination also brought the world’s first midway: a mile-long amusement corridor, attached at one end to the main fair site and at the other to a wide variety of emerging cultural experiences and curiosities.
The exposition occupied 630 acres in Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance. The main site was bounded by Stony Island Avenue on the west, 67th Street on the south, Lake Michigan on the east, and 56th Street on the north (see map). The Midway Plaisance, a narrow strip of land between 59th and 60th Streets, extends west from Stony Island to Cottage Grove Avenue.
On the midway, Little Egypt danced her hootchie-kootchie–a dance that would soon arrive, in some derivative form, in nearly every small town in America. “Oddities” from around the globe, and villages of savage peoples amused the hordes of Midwesterners and served as a reminder of the advances of (white) civilization. The imagination of inventors like George W. Ferris building his first great wheel, soaring 250 feet into the air. But perhaps the most popular attraction at the Exposition was novel uses of electricity. From the creation of the first moveable sidewalk to the first all-electric kitchen, electricity sparked a bonfire of imagination among fairgoers. Tom Edison and George Westinghouse competed to outdo each other in the creation of an entirely new world of light and mechanical wonder.
In 1893 the Chicago’s World’s Columbian Exposition (also called the Chicago World’s Fair) was the catalyst for the development of the American Traveling Shows. At the Chicago World’s Fair was an avenue at the edge of the grounds called the Midway Plaisance. This avenue of the fair had rides, games of chance, freak shows, wild west shows including Buffalo Bill whose show was set up near the fairground and burlesque shows.
The first Ferris wheel constructed by George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr who was an engineer and bridge builder. He had an idea and made a proposal to build a huge observation wheel, 250 feet across, supported by two towers 140 feet high, Attached to the wheel would be 36 cars, each able to carry 40 passengers so that 1,440 people could ride at one time. That was in October of 1892 and as they say, the rest is history.
After the Chicago World’s Fair, traveling carnival companies began touring the United States bringing the entertainment to the people of America. The financial success of the midway at the Chicago World’s Fair led to a proliferation of smaller traveling carnival companies in the ensuing years that continued to use the name “midway” to refer to their entertainment offerings. The term “midway” was adopted from the Midway Plaisance to denote the area at county and state fairs where sideshow entertainment was located.
Most of these early carnivals did not survive for long, as their dependence on guaranteed crowds and money was significantly challenged by the sparse population outside urban centers in North America. Many of the smaller carnival groups joined together, thereby creating a single carnival company, which made them far more attractive to the general public and guaranteed them more bookings over the carnival season.
Otto Schmitt, who was a showman at the world’s fair, formed Chicago Midway Plaisance Amusement Company. The company featured thirteen acts, including some from the World’s Fair, and began a tour of the northeast United States. His company closed due to poor business practices before completing its first tour. Some members of his company formed their own successful traveling carnivals after Otto Schmitt’s company closed. The appeal of this new type of entertainment was embraced.
In 1902 there were seventeen traveling shows in the United States. The number grew to forty-six in 1905 and by 1937 there was an estimated 300 traveling shows touring the country. One such show, The “IT Shows” set up yearly on probably every empty sandlot in NY’s Brooklyn, Queens, and the surrounding area.
One of the first spinoffs from the Chicago and other great expositions was the establishment of permanent state fairgrounds and annual fairs as a normal operation of state government. And no state fair worth its salt would deny the midway its place on the grounds. In fact, the size of the midway, more than any other feature, became a boasting point for the state fairs. The mushrooming of state and county fairs opened a wide door for thousands of new carnival entertainers, from comedians to death-defying high-divers.
The surviving medicine shows attached themselves to these events as well when they could, and small traveling circuses added midway entertainments as sideshows to capture more of the crowd’s cash. In the cities, the beginnings of vaudeville formed from the ranks of circus, medicine, minstrel, and carnival performers. By the end of 1900’s, there were 67 theaters in the United States devoted to vaudeville, and two in the works in London.
The population of the United States had nearly doubled in twenty years between 1881 and 1901, and much of this new population headed to the cities and towns, where a new feature of the leisure industry was about to take off: permanent commercial amusement sites. Traveling medicine shows were now in full decline, in part because of new state regulations on the contents and distribution of patent medicines. In their place, carnival operators moved in to bring entertainment to annual holiday celebrations, fairs, and tournaments in small towns.
The first documented traveling carnival, the Canton (Ohio) Carnival Company, opened its first show in Chillicothe, Ohio, on May 30, 1899, and it heralded a continuing relationship between carnival commerce and social service clubs in America’s small towns. For the next century, Elks and Moose and Kiwanis clubs raised money for their local charities by sponsoring annual fairs and hiring traveling carnival organizations to bring amusements to vacant lots on the edges of almost every small town in the United States.
However, there were also carnivals that arranged to play without local sponsorship, but rather with a donation to the local constabulary that allowed a sideshow to run without regulation. And here, the carnival might live up to its dangerous reputation. It’s outrageous entertainment, however, came straight from decades of grandiose American showmanship.
By the turn of the century, Wild West shows had expanded their cowboy-and-Indian theatrics with displays of horse riders and “savages” from around the world. Famous battles from recent wars around the globe were reenacted as spectacular performances, and the military riders paraded out daily from the exhibition grounds to traverse the city’s streets. Meanwhile, the oddities and ethnographic others of the great expositions and circuses were also exhibited in more permanent “dime” museums. “Zip the Pinhead,” “Krao, the Missing Link,” Francisco Lentini, the “three-legged boy,” and hundreds of other freaks migrated between the traveling carnival circuits and appearances in these urban showcases. In New York, another product of the excesses of the Gilded Age was under construction: Coney Island.
Through most of the history of the 19th century, rural North America enjoyed the entertainment of traveling shows. These shows could include a circus, vaudeville show, burlesque show or a magic lantern show. Through the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair a new form of entertainment was given to America. The American Traveling Shows early years went from town to town by horse and wagon. Later years would see the American Traveling Shows use of railroad cars.
Modern traveling shows today mainly use tractor-trailer rigs playing both state and county fairs along with smaller venues such as church bazaars, volunteer fire department fundraisers and civic celebrations.
A traveling show is an outdoor amusement show that may be made up of rides, food vendors, merchandise vendors, games of chance and skill, thrill acts, animal acts or sideshow curiosities. A traveling carnival is not set up at a permanent location, like an amusement park, but is moved from place to place.


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Favorite Liberty Quotes Discussions Liberty.meI do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon—if I can.
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In 2018, adidas continues strives be the most sustainable swimwear brand and beyond. The SS18 adidas AMPHI range will be available online from 1st April 2018 on adidas.com/swimming and in adidas retail stores worldwide.


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The dangerous and insanitary building policy is proposed to be updated to take into account changes in legislation, to correct referencing errors and to reflect the name change of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust to Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga.
This policy review will allow Council to meet their legislative requirements more effectively and will provide clear information to the public and Council staff.
No submissions were received and Council will make a decision on the proposed Policy at the Strategic Planning and Policy Committee meeting on November 2, 2017.

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Swarovski's SLC 10x42 are real multipurpose binoculars that have had their optics and coating system optimized specifically for contrast and focus. The 10x magnification brings details that are far away close to you. This model also stands out for having a large field of view and being extremely rugged thanks to its magnesium housing. The ergonomic design ensures optimum viewing and operating comfort even when observing over long periods. Sturdy in any weather, day in day out, and also stand out thanks to their particularly high optical quality. You will enjoy these rugged, ergonomic binoculars for many years.
The Swarovski SLC 42 mm objective lens size is considered to be the most useful all around binocular size due to their form factor, weight and performance. These SLC 10x42 binoculars are under 6 inches long, only 28 ounces in weight with a 91% light transmission.

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I’m excited to talk to you about the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) and the support they offer evaluators of informal science education (ISE) experiences. CAISE is a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded resource center for NSF’s Advancing Informal STEM Learning program. Through InformalScience.org, CAISE provides a wide range of resources valuable to the EvaluATE community.
ISE is lifelong learning in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) that takes place across a multitude of designed settings and experiences outside of the formal classroom. The video below is a great introduction to the field.
Outcomes of ISE experiences have some similarities to those of formal education. However, ISE activities tend to focus less on content knowledge and more on other types of outcomes, such as interest, attitudes, engagement, skills, behavior, or identity. CAISE’s Evaluation and Measurement Task Force investigates the outcome areas of STEM identity, interest, and engagement to provide evaluators and experience designers with guidance on how to define and measure these outcomes. Check out the results of their work on the topic of STEM identity (results for interest and engagement are coming soon).
InformalScience.org has a variety of resources that I think you’ll find useful for your evaluation practice.
In the section “Design Evaluation,” you can learn more about evaluation in the ISE field through professional organizations, journals, and projects researching ISE evaluation. The “Evaluation Tools and Instruments” page in this section lists sites with tools for measuring outcomes of ISE projects, and there is also a section about reporting and dissemination. I provide a walk-through of CAISE’s evaluation pages in this blog post: How to Use InformalScience.org for Evaluation.
The Principal Investigator’s Guide: Managing Evaluation in Informal STEM Education Projects has been extremely useful for me in introducing ISE evaluation to evaluators new to the field.
In the “News & Views” section are several evaluation-related blogs, including a series on working with an institutional review board and another one on conducting culturally responsive evaluations.
If you are not affiliated with an academic institution, you can access peer-reviewed articles in some of your favorite academic journals by becoming a member InformalScienceorg. Click here to join; it’s free! Once you’re logged in, select “Discover Research” in the menu bar and scroll down to “Access Peer-Reviewed Literature (EBSCO).” Journals of interest include Science Education and Cultural Studies of Science Education. If you are already a member of InformalScience.org, you can immediately begin searching the EBSCO Education Source database.
My favorite part of InformalScience.org is the repository of evaluation reports—1,020 reports and growing—which is the largest collection of reports in the evaluation field. Evaluators can use this rich collection to inform their practice and learn about a wide variety of designs, methods, and measures used in evaluating ISE projects. Even if you don’t evaluate ISE experiences, I encourage you to take a minute to search the reports and see what you can find. And if you conduct ISE evaluations, consider sharing your own reports on InformalScience.org.
Do you have any questions about CAISE or InformalScience.org? Contact Melissa Ballard, communications and community manager, at mballard@informalscience.org.
At the STEM Program at WestEd, we are in the third year of an evaluation of an innovative, hands-on STEM curriculum. Learning by Making is a two-year high school STEM course that integrates computer programming and engineering design practices with topics in earth/environmental science and biology. Experts in the areas of physics, biology, environmental science, and computer engineering at Sonoma State University (SSU) developed the curriculum by integrating computer software with custom-designed experiment set-ups and electronics to create inquiry-based lessons. Throughout this project-based course, students apply mathematics, computational thinking, and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Scientific and Engineering Design Practices to ask questions about the world around them, and seek the answers. Learning by Making is currently being implemented in rural California schools, with a specific effort being made to enroll girls and students from minority backgrounds, who are currently underrepresented in STEM fields. You can listen to students and teachers discussing the Learning by Making curriculum here.
We derived our evaluation design from the project’s logic model. A logic model is a structured description of how a specific program achieves an intended learning outcome. The purpose of the logic model is to precisely describe the mechanisms behind the program’s effects. Our approach to the Learning by Making logic model is a variant on the five-column logic format that describes the inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impacts of a program (W.K. Kellogg Foundation, 2014).
Are the professional development (PD) opportunities and resources for the teachers increasing teacher competence in delivering a computational thinking-based STEM curriculum? Does Learning by Making PD increase teachers’ use of computational thinking and project-based instruction in the classroom?
Does the classroom implementation of Learning by Making increase teachers’ use of computational thinking and project-based instruction in the classroom? Does classroom implementation promote computational thinking and project-based learning? Do students show an increased interest in STEM subjects?
Without effective teacher PD or classroom implementation, the logic model “breaks,” making it unlikely that the desired outcomes will be observed. To answer our questions about outcomes related to teacher PD, we used comprehensive teacher surveys, observations, bi-monthly teacher logs, and focus groups. To answer our questions about outcomes related to classroom implementation, we used student surveys and assessments, classroom observations, teacher interviews, and student focus groups. SSU used our findings to revise both the teacher PD resources and the curriculum itself to better situate these two components to produce the outcomes intended. By deriving our evaluation design from a clear and targeted logic model, we succeeded in providing actionable feedback to SSU aimed at keeping Learning by Making on track to achieve its goals.
One of the most impactful learning experiences from the ATE Principal Investigators Conference I attended in October 2016 was the growing use of Business and Industry Leadership Teams (BILT) partnerships in developing and implementing new STEM curriculum throughout the country. This need for cross-sector partnerships has become apparent and reinforced through specific National Science Foundation (NSF) grants.
The need for empirical data about networks and collaborations is increasing within the evaluation realm, and social network surveys are one method of quickly and easily gathering that data. Social network surveys come in a variety of forms. The social network survey I have used is in a roster format. Each participant of the program is listed, and each individual completes the survey by selecting which option best describes their relationships with one another. The options vary in degree from not knowing that person at one extreme, to having formally collaborated with that person at the other extreme. In the past, data from these types of surveys was analyzed through social network analysis, which necessitated a large amount of programming knowledge. Due to recent technological advancements, there are new social network analysis programs that make analyzing this data more user-friendly for non-programmers. I have worked on an NSF-funded project at the University of Nebraska at Oaha where the goal is to provide professional development and facilitate the growth of a network for middle school teachers in order to create and implement computer science lessons into their current curriculum (visit the SPARCS website). One of the methods for evaluating the facilitation of the network is through a social network analysis questionnaire. This method has proved very helpful in determining the extent to which the professional relationships of the cohort members have evolved over the course of their year-long experience within the program.
The social network analysis program I have been using is known as NodeXL and is an Excel add-in. It is very user-friendly and can easily be used to generate quantitative data on network development. I was able to take the data gathered from the social network analysis, conduct research, and present my article, “Identification of the Emergent Leaders within a CSE Professional Development Program,” at an international conference in Germany. While the article is not focused on evaluation, it does review the survey instrument itself. You may access the article through this link (although I think your organization must have access to ACM): Tracie Evans Reding WiPSCE Article. The article is also posted on my Academia.edu page.
Another funding strand emphasizing networks through the National Science Foundation is known as Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES). The long-term goal of NSF INCLUDES is to “support innovative models, networks, partnerships, technical capabilities and research that will enable the U.S. science and engineering workforce to thrive by ensuring that traditionally underrepresented and underserved groups are represented in percentages comparable to their representation in the U.S. population.” Noted in the synopsis for this funding opportunity is the importance of “efforts to create networked relationships among organizations whose goals include developing talent from all sectors of society to build the STEM workforce.” The increased funding available for cross-sector collaborations makes it imperative that evaluators are able to empirically measure these collaborations. While the notion of “networks” is not a new one, the availability of resources such as NodeXL will make the evaluation of these networks much easier.
Evans Reding, T., Dorn, B., Grandgenett, N., Siy, H., Youn, J., Zhu, Q., Engelmann, C. (2016). Identification of the Emergent Teacher Leaders within a CSE Professional Development Program. Proceedings for the 11th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education. Munster, Germany: ACM.
Recently, I attended the Building Pathways and Partnerships in STEM for a Global Network conference, hosted by the State University of New York (SUNY) system. It focused on innovative practices in STEM higher education, centered on increasing retention, completion, and cultural diversity.
Research opportunities! Students should be exposed to real research if they are going to engage in STEM. This is not only important for four-year degree students, but also community college students, whether they plan to continue their education or move into the workforce.
Internships (PAID!) are crucial for gaining practical experience before entering the workforce.
Partnerships, partnerships, partnerships. Internships and research opportunities are most useful if they are with organizations outside of the school. This means considerable outreach and relationship-building.
One-on-one peer mentoring. Systems where upper level students work directly with new students to help them get through tough classes or labs has been shown to keep students enrolled not only in STEM programs, but in college in general.
The main takeaway from this conference is that the SUNY system is being more creative in engaging students in STEM. They are making a concerted effort to help underrepresented students. This trend is not limited to NY—many colleges and universities are focusing on these issues.
Being flexible. Many methods are brand new or new to the institution or department, so implementers may tweak them along the way. Which means we need to pay attention to how we assess outcomes, perhaps taking guidance from Patton’s Developmental Evaluation work.
Thinking beyond immediate outcomes. What do students accomplish in the long-term? Do they go on to get higher degrees, do they get jobs that fit with their expectations? If you can’t measure these due to budget or timeline constraints, help institutions design ways to do this themselves. It can help them continue to identify program strengths and weaknesses.
Keep these in mind, and your evaluation can provide valuable information for programs geared to make a real difference.
Along with co-PIs Michelle Moore and Max Josquin, I am a recent recipient of an NSF ATE grant aimed at increasing female enrollment and retention in my college’s Information Systems (IS) program. Our year one activities included creating a daylong Information Technology (IT) camp for incoming eighth and ninth grade young women.
In our original plan, we had set aside money for five IS college students to help us for eight hours during the summer camp. We decided to meet weekly with the students during the months leading up to our event to stay on task and schedule.
1st surprise: Nine students showed up to the initial meeting, and eight of those remained with us for the project’s duration.
2nd surprise: Instead of waiting for our guidance, the students went off and did their own research and then presented a day-long curriculum that would teach hardware, software, and networking by installing and configuring the popular game Minecraft on Raspberry Pi microcomputers.
3rd surprise: When asked to think about marketing, the students showed us a logo and a flyer that they had already designed. They wanted T-shirts with the new logo for each of the campers. And they wanted each camper to be able to take home their Raspberry Pi.
At this point, it was very clear to my colleagues and I that we should take a step back and let the students run the show. We helped them create lesson plans to achieve the outcomes they wanted, but they took ownership of everything else. We had to set up registration and advertising, but on the day of the camp, the students were the ones in the classroom teaching the middle-graders. My colleagues and I were the gofers who collected permission slips, got snacks ready, and picked up pizza for lunch.
Drive a project to completion.
Express your point of view taking into account the complexities of a situation.
Synthesize others’ points of view with your ideas.
Ability to come up with creative ideas that take into account the complexities of the situation.
Help a team move forward by articulating the merits of alternative ideas or proposals.
Engage team members in ways that acknowledge their contributions by building on or synthesizing the contributions of others.
Provide assistance or encouragement to team members.
For year two of our grant, we’re moving resources around in order to pay more students for more hours. We are partnering with community centers and middle schools to use our IS college students as mentors. We hope to formalize this such that our students can receive internship credits, which are required for their degree.
Our lessons learned during this first year of the grant include being open to change and being willing to relinquish control. We are also happy that we decided to work with an external evaluator, even though our grant is a small grant for institutions new to ATE. Because of the questions our evaluator asked, we have the data to justify moving resources around in our budget.
If you want to know more about how Terryll and I collaborated on the evaluation plan and project proposal, check out this webinar in which we discuss how to find the right external evaluator for your project: Your ATE Proposal: Got Evaluation?.
Federal STEM education programs have also been affected by this increasing focus on evidence and evaluation. Read, for example, the Federal Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education 5-Year Strategic Plan (2013),1 which was prepared by the Committee on STEM Education of the National Science and Technology Council.2 This strategic plan provides an overview of the importance of STEM education to American society and describes the current state of federal STEM education efforts. Five priority STEM education investment areas are discussed where a coordinated federal strategy is currently under development. The plan also presents methods to build and share evidence. Finally, the plan lays out several strategic objectives for improving the exploration and sharing of evidence-based practices, including supporting syntheses of existing research that can inform federal investments in the STEM education priority areas, improving and aligning evaluation and research expertise and strategies across federal agencies, and streamlining processes for interagency collaboration (e.g., Memoranda of Understanding, Interagency Agreements).
Another key federal document that is influencing evaluation in STEM agencies is the Common Guidelines for Education Research and Development (2013),3 jointly prepared by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences and the National Science Foundation. This document describes the two agencies’ shared understandings of the roles of various types of research in generating evidence about strategies and interventions for increasing student learning. These research types range from studies that generate fundamental understandings related to education and learning to research (“Foundational Research”) to studies that assesses the impact of an intervention on an education-related outcome, including efficacy research, effectiveness research, and scale-up research. The Common Guidelines provide the two agencies and the broader education research community with a common vocabulary to describe the critical features of these study types.
Both documents have shaped, and will continue to shape, federal STEM programs and their evaluations. Reading them will help federal grantees gain a richer understanding of the larger federal context that is influencing reporting and evaluation requirements for grant awards.
2 For more information on the Committee on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education, visit https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/nstc/committees/costem.


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One of the universally acknowledged facts regarding a healthier lifestyle is the use of a plant-based diet. Not only will this type of diet benefit your health, but it will also benefit the health of the plant. According to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the vegan diet is one of the most advantageous alternatives for a person’s health and a plant’s health. Evidence showed that approximately 8 million deaths could be avoided per year if more people used this dietary option.
Vegan diets are similar to vegetarian diets; however, they exclude eggs and dairy, as well as meat, fish, and poultry.
As vegan products are becoming readily available with shops like Whole Foods and vegan product websites like this selling cruelty free alternatives, having a plant based diet is more easily achieved.
Celebrities, such as Jared Leto and Alicia Silverstone, have embraced the vegan lifestyle, but is it for you? To determine if veganism is the best option, it is important to take several considerations into account. This article will provide information on the various vegan diet benefits and disadvantages.
What Are The Different Benefits To A Vegan Diet?
One of the greatest and immediate benefits to a vegan diet is promoting weight loss. According to lecturer, Reed Mangels, at the University of Massachusetts, the vegan diet is lower in calories than any other type of diet. By removing meat from the meals, Mangels indicates that you are removing any high fat dairy products. Monica Montag, the found of the BeWell holistic nutrition practice, agrees with Mangels; however, she purports that the weight loss is also due to the reduced fat content in fruits, vegetables, and grains.
Scientific research published in the 2015 Proceedings of the National Academy of Science journal indicate that vegan diets reduce the risk of serious illness. Evidence showed that veganism can protect a person against cardiovascular conditions, type-2 diabetes, and hypertension. According to the study, it is the reduced amount of saturated fats in the vegan diet that promotes prevention of illness.
According to the United Nations, significance must be placed on the nutritional value of pulses and their benefit to sustainable agriculture. Pulses are a segment of the legume family, and have been a staple food product for different global cultures. This type of legume is an example of the different types of alternative protein sources that are available for people adopting a veganism lifestyle.
While animal products provide a full package of amino acids for the body, pulses (kidney beans, dried peas, fava beans, chickpeas, adzuki beans, and black beans) are strong sources of plant protein. As a type of plant protein, the pulse contains all necessary amino acids required by the individual.
What Are The Different Drawbacks To A Vegan Diet?
While there are several benefits to losing weight, a rapid decrease in weight can have a detrimental effect on the individual. As vegan diets are restrictive, the majority of ‘newbie’ vegans will find they are hungrier than usual and will opt for the less beneficial food products, such as fatty foods or vegan-formulated snacks. According to nutritionist Jackie Keller, this is why a gradual shift from a non-vegan to vegan diet is recommended.
While the vegan diet does have benefits, the removal of all animal products can result in nutritional disadvantages. As time progresses, the lack of nutrients from animal products can lead to medical health problems, including a loss of muscle mass and bone density. According to Jackie Keller, an inadequate amount of Vitamin B-12 can disrupt the functioning of the central nervous system. Evidence has found that it is difficult to gain efficient amounts of Vitamin B-12 from vegetables and fruits exclusively; therefore, the person will feel fatigue, weakness, lack of appetite, and constipation.
While it is possible to benefit from legumes and alternative types of protein, it is necessary to combine these with the correct grains to ensure adequate nutrition. To do this, nutritionists state that it requires a certain level of planning. Furthermore, digestion of alternative protein sources can be distressing for people who are not used to legumes. This can result in feelings of being bloated and constipation.


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One of the things I talk with organizations about when they are considering agile is the way in which the culture supports teaming. Agile is intentionally light on processes and requires strong self-organizing teams to replace the externally governed processes of more traditional approaches. If you remove the processes without adding the teaming, you can get anarchy or total confusion. Neither of these is the intended outcome of agile.
Most organizations will not admit that they are not supportive of self-organizing teams and in fact most pride themselves in strong teamwork, at least verbally. But when you ask the individuals on those teams how they feel about their level of autonomy, most will express quite the opposite. This is usually reflected through comments and actions that indicate a strong culture of cascading command and control with heavy oversight and micromanagement.
One cultural norm that can undermine even the best work of a team is the lack of autonomy.
There are lots of qualities that make up high-performing teams, such as trust, transparency, commitment to a shared vision, strong communication, and comfort with healthy conflict. But one cultural norm that can undermine even the best work of a team is the lack of autonomy; a level of independence that is reasonably free from external influence and control. While the first set of qualities of high performing teams can be self-generated, meaning the team can themselves work on developing those characteristics, autonomy is to a large degree something that is granted or afforded external to the team, usually by higher levels of management and their associated leadership shadow.
Typically, while working with teams on items like trust, transparency and commitment, I also work with managers, executives and other stakeholders on creating and fostering a culture that truly supports teaming. Supporting and encouraging self-organizing teams is a scary proposition for most managers. Managers find themselves facing an interesting decision: "Am I willing to let go of some control in order to take advantage of the benefits associated with Agile?" The general feeling is that the people on those teams lack the expertise or experience, as well as the organizational purview, to effectively govern themselves, so they need some oversight. Unfortunately, this oversight usually comes in the form of prescriptive direction and control, stripping the team of their sense of self-determination and allowing them to abdicate responsibility for their success to the higher powers.
As parents, we know this feeling all too well. I felt this way when the girls first started driving and dating, when they went to college, and during most of the other new beginnings I felt I knew more about than they did. I still feel it when they enter new stages in their life -- new jobs, marriage, a house, etc. There is a compelling urge to over-direct or control their behavior to avoid an outcome I believe they can't perceive or anticipate. After all, I am their Dad (or manager) and that's my job, right? Having lived more years than they, I certainly feel justified taking this position. The challenge with this view -- whether with children or teams -- is that until they develop a sense of autonomy, they will never develop a sense of responsibility.
Autonomy is scary to allow and just as scary to accept.
Autonomy is scary from both perspectives. It is scary to allow and just as scary to accept. But it is necessary if teams and children are going to develop a sense of responsibility and ownership. When organizations start out on their agile journey they face the classic conflict of autonomy and control. They resist the typical command and control measures that are inherent in many traditional organizations while still being uncomfortable with the responsibility of autonomy. Self-organization is an elusive management concept. How can we organize something that is supposed to organize itself? How do we step into this space effectively?
Alignment is what enables autonomy.
The counterpart to autonomy is alignment. Alignment is getting people to all pull in the same direction. Alignment is what enables autonomy. The stronger the alignment within the team, department or organization, the more autonomy you can grant, because you don't have to worry that people are going in a million different directions.
The leader's job is to communicate what problem needs to be solved and why, and the teams collaborate with each other to find the best solution. So top-down communication about where we are going, why we are going there, and what it looks like to be in that future state helps provide direction and purpose. Setting this direction with some guidance and organizational guardrails is what I call Guided Autonomy.
In this state, people are treated as widgets and progress relies on continuous micromanagement. People don't know how what they do contributes to the larger goals, or even what those goals are. Morale and personal investment in their work product is low. There is an indifference to their work because it has no motivational meaning to them. Classic mushroom management.
Under this paradigm, fear is the primary driver. People feel compelled to conform and align with those above them in the power chain. These cascading levels of control often have competing priorities at each layer. This can create latency in decision making that undermines the intent of the authoritative alignment itself. While there are situations where this autocratic approach can work, it can only be sustained through continual control. It is not self-sustaining because people have not bought in and therefore require regular management oversight. Teams may be doing the right things, but they are not internally motivated to do them well. Traditional command and control.
Organizations with low alignment and high autonomy can be highly entrepreneurial and for a while, a fun place to work, but usually only as individuals. These environments will also be chaotic. So, as the company grows, for the business to sustain itself, it will eventually have to align or die. In the chaos of lack of focus, teams will struggle to produce products and services that are sustainable. The natural tendency toward entropy will take over. By definition an organization exists for a collective purpose, but in these organizations the purpose is often unclear or diluted through things like unhealthy politics, mismanagement, hidden agendas or even being at odds with the people you hire. Teams may be doing things well, but they may not be doing the right things.
People in self-organizing teams thrive on the self-centered elements of autonomy and mastery, but they also need alignment and an elevating sense of purpose. We all desire to be part of something larger than ourselves. In high autonomy/high alignment cultures, the job of managers and leaders is to help people make progress and make sure everyone's on the same page about what progress looks like. They do this by providing guidance and support, and by making sure people have what they need without usurping autonomy with an autocratic style management.
Autonomy with alignment taps into the collective intelligence of the team, so people can come up with better solutions in a shorter time. It relies on transparency, clear processes and shared goals to define the boundaries of authority; and the greater autonomy promotes engagement and team learning. Autonomy is also incredibly motivating. People crave some degree of control and self-determination to produce innovative products rather than just doing what they are being told to do.
Agility requires a delicate balance of autonomy and control. Of course we put some limits on the exercise of autonomy both with our children and within the teams. Those limits are most appropriate when their actions could harm others, violate stated policies, or otherwise cause social disorder. But, for the most part, the things we tend to over prescribe as parents and managers are not life threatening. If we see our role as parents and managers as developers of potential, the fear of taking the risk will be less and the outcome may be well worth the experiment, but easier said than done.
In next month's article we'll dig into tools and techniques for the creating the alignment that guides children and teams to autonomy. Until then, enjoy the beautiful fall, wherever you are.


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Celebrex (Celocoxib) is a powerful nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory used in people. It was tested extensively in dogs when it was being developed. Unfortunately its margin of safety (the difference between effective and toxic levels of a drug) was very narrow and the number of unacceptable side effects and toxicity problems kept it from being marketed for use in dogs.
I think you would be better off feeding him a bland diet and possibly giving him Pepcid-AC to reduce stomach irritation. You can use canned Hills I/D, a veterinary bland diet, or make one at home. Make a homemade bland diet by boiling hamburger chunks (or ground chicken if he is sensitive to beef) until fully cooked (10 to 15 minutes, the color of fully cooked meat should have no red or pink) then mix in a 50:50 proportion with fully cooked plain white rice. Feed 1/4 of a cup per 10 pounds of dog 2 to 3 times daily. If you are concerned things aren't passing as they should you can add a tablespoon or two of Metamucil to each meal to bulk up the diet and push things through. Feed this diet for 3 to 4 days and then gradually start mixing in his regular food and convert him back to his regular food slowly over 4 to 5 days.
Pepcid-AC can be given at a dose of 1mg per 5 pounds (one 10 mg tablet per 50 pounds) orally every 12 to 24 hours. You can give this medication for a week or two without any worries of side effects. You can stop abruptly or wean him off by slowly decreasing the dose and time between doses.

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System Electrical Ltd have successfully procured the contract to undertake the electrical upgrade works on these three Railway Stations.
Working with Arm4Rail Limited and in conjunction with Network Rail & London Midland, the platform, walkway and station lighting upgrade works is well underway with Bournville and Kings Norton completed and Lye station commenced with an estimated completion of the end of April.
New containment systems and lighting to platforms and walkways.
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Supply and installation of new column mounted lighting.
Distribution and OLE earthing upgrade works.
Replacement of electrical services to foyers and ticket offices.

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UNCASVILLE, Conn. - Jimmy Buffett picked the perfect autumn weekend to wrap up the last session of his “Summerzcool” tour, playing a show at Mohegan Sun Arena in front of a sold out house on Saturday night.
Warm and sunny was the order of the day outside the building, and grass skirts and beach balls were part of the standard uniform inside as Buffett turned Uncasville into Margaritaville for a two hour stretch.
Buffett hailed the late-blossoming Indian Summer, hitting the stage barefoot and in beach shorts much like the rest of his Coral Reefer Band. He opened the show with "Lage Nom Ai," and followed with "Stars on the Water."
After offering up "Summerzcool," and "Its Five O'clock Somewhere," with band-mate Mac McAnally, Buffett commented on his own late arrival in the region.
Buffett relayed a story about sitting in a Boston bar with Bruin great Derek Sanderson, drinking too much and eventually stealing a cab.
The break was short as the pair returned in less than 10 minutes and continued their acoustic set as a segue into the full band version of "Jamaica Mistaica."
Buffett, who has a sailor's knowledge of the New England, called out to Buzzard's Bay and Point Judith to introduce a new song "Surfing in a Hurricane," and led the audience in a full-sail sing-along of the Crosby, Stills, and Nash hit "Southern Cross."


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Editor's Note: Below are a couple interesting excerpts from a recent institutional research note written by our Demography analyst Neil Howe. To access Neil Howe's research research email sales@hedgeye.com.
Neil Howe: The survey shows that Millennials are as likely as older generations to believe in the American Dream and almost as likely to say that "owning a home" is part of that dream. (They are also more likely than Boomers to include "having children" as part of the dream and more likely than all older generations to include "marriage" as part of the dream.) So why the post-purchase regret? Apparently, affordability is pushing many Millennial buyers to borrow from or cash out their retirement savings in order to make the down payment--or to buy fixer-uppers that require more work and/or skills to fix up than they initially imagined. Either way, they worry they did not make the right choice.
Neil Howe: Agreed: This Pew analyst concludes on a perversely complacent note. By any phase-of-life reckoning, young adults in their 30s (Xers, by Pew's definition, ranged in age from 27 to 42 in 2007) should have been looking forward to the steepest upward trajectory in wealth accumulation of their lives. Real median net worth typically doubles between age 30 and 40 or between age 40 and 50. Instead, after nine years, these Xers are simply getting back to the starting line. This bottom line should not be accompanied by celebratory fanfare. Gen X remains in deep trouble.
Neil Howe: For several years, I have been defending the finding of the vast majority of economists and national accounts statisticians--that productivity growth has fallen sharply since 2005--against some Silicon Valley and VC types who keep telling me it's just not so. So I thank Greg Ip, imo the WSJ's best economics journalist, for elegantly summarizing one more large Brookings study confirming the "decline" consensus. For the wonks among you, please peruse the full study at your leisure. Provocatively, the author says that the decline may indeed be even greater than the official data show. Yes, there are price, quality, and indexing conventions that have, over time, given the deflator a slight upward bias and thus have given output and productivity a slight downward bias. But, the author argues, this bias is almost certainly less today than it was in the 1990s before a variety of improvements (many inspired by the 1996 Boskin Commission) were implemented.

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We recently completed our strategic plan, NECC2020, that will guide us in serving our students, employees, and the community through 2020. We also use Appreciative Inquiry, a positive, change-based philosophy and team-building approach that seeks to learn what works best in an organization, and then to build on it.
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Monday, September 6, 1999 the car was unveiled on the 30 anniversary of the revolution, which propelled the Libyan leader to power. The Saroukh el-Jamahiriya (Libyan rocket) a five-passenger saloon in a metallic Libyan revolutionary green with tinted windows was launched at a special summit of the Organization of African Unity organized by Colonel Gaddafi. "The leader spent so many hours of his valuable time thinking of an effective solution. It is the safest car produced anywhere," Mr Meghareff of the Libyan Arab Domestic Investment company which produced the prototype said.
A year earlier the regime last reported that 393 infected with HIV virus, 40 of them with the deadly Aids. Where is the new status of numbers and situation? Or the Aids cases in Benghazi are not important?
The court for the Bulgarian medical staff had been postponed for eight times, because Qadhafi is solving his International problems with the law. The regime also had blamed the Bulgarians and the sanctions. The regime medial officials even blamed the parents of the victims on moral issues. While Qadhafi spending the millions of dollars on his court fees and compensating foreigners for his international terrorism –Re-France, Libyan children are denied the proper medical care, instead they were injected with the deadly HIV virus.
Qadhafi must be held responsible for these Crimes of Negligence. BIG TIME..!

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Muslim police are being prevented from playing a part in fighting terrorism, a senior Muslim officer has pointed out.
Supt Dal Babu was speaking at the first annual conference of the National Association of Muslim Police Officers.
Only a few Muslim officers work in counter-terrorism, he told his audience, who included Home Office minister Tony McNulty.
Several chief constables also attended the conference at the Police Training College in Ryton, Warwickshire.
Supt Babu added: "The NAMP believes the current vetting system is putting obstacles in the way of recruiting and promotion of BME (black minority ethnic) officers.
"This may result in low morale and the feeling of obstacles to promotion; furthermore it's likely to impact on the operational ability of the police service and its capabilities within counter-terrorism operations."
About 300 delegates listened to Mr Babu, the association president, and other speakers including the Metropolitan commissioner Sir Ian Blair and the West Midlands chief constable Sir Paul Scott-Lee.
How can we play our part if we're stopped from joining important units?
The Police Minister Tony McNulty told the audience he agreed with the Superintendent's comments.
Afterwards, he told the BBC he promised to look at the vetting procedures.
"The overall process is slower that we would like. We will look at it but security is paramount and if there are ways in which we can reform the vetting process, without challenge to security then that's what needs to prevail."
The minister said it was important that more Muslim officers joined counter-terrorism units and he knew the police service was aware of this.
One delegate who did not want to be named said that Mr Babu's words go to the heart of the debate among Muslims in a post 7/7 world.
"How can we play our part if we're stopped from joining important units?"
Supt Babu said there are only a handful of Muslim officers in counter-terrorism.
He now wants more so that, by reaching out to Muslim communities, hearts and minds can be won to counteract the alienation being felt by them.
Can the police ever say 'not for me'?


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Online applications are invited for “National Scholarship For Higher Education ST Students” for academic year 2018-19.
ST Students is intended to encourage meritorious ST students to pursue courses at Graduate/Post Graduate level in identified Institutions of excellence, Government and Private, in professional fields such as Management, Medicine, Engineering, Information Technology, Law etc.
** The student will be eligible to join only the list of Institution identified by Ministry.
** The total family income of the candidate to be eligible for this scholarship from all sources should not exceed Rs.6.0 lakh per annum.
The total number of fresh Scholarship each year is 1000. There is no ceiling in Institution wise and stream wise number of slots for the Top-Class Institution. The remaining left out candidates from ST category admitted in the institute in different courses may apply for the Post-Matric Scholarship.
The scheme is implemented through National Scholarship Portal (NSP). Just follow the below steps to apply for the National Fellowship & Scholarship For Higher Education ST Students 2018-19.
Step 2 : Then Select Central Schemes tab and Click on Ministry of Tribal Affairs link in the drop down list.
Step 3 : After that Click Apply link in the National Fellowship & Scholarship for Higher Education of ST Students – Scholarship.
Tuition Fees Full tuition fee and other non-refundable dues in respect of Government/Government funded institutions. There will be a ceiling of Rs.2.50 lakhs per annum per student for private sector institutions.
Computer & Accessories Rs.45000/- One time assistance during the tenure) Computer may be Desktop/Laptop etc. The accessories may, interalia, include all kind of printers, CDs/DVDs, Keyboard, Mainboard, Motherboard, Hard Disk Drive, Mouse, Sound adapters, Toners, Speakers, USB Hubs/Cables, Memory Chips, Memory Card readers etc.
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If A.R Rahman becomes intensely engrossed over a project, he makes sure of emblazoning them with his uttermost creative levels. Remember the musical maestro giving out a new version of Maangalyam Thanthunaanena song for Alaipayuthey. Similarly, he had composed an additional song ‘Naan Varuven’ for Mani ratnam’s ‘Raavanan’.
Now his ritualistic practice spreads towards Gautham Menon as well. While most of the tracks are reprised from the original version for Ek Deewana Tha, the academy award winner has scored an additional track titled Mohabbat that goes in a classical style of Elvis Presley.
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With Macron’s party now possessed of a parliamentary majority his coalition ally Bayrou can be dispensed with so a convenient “scandal” turns up.
No sooner were the parliamentary elections in France out of the way, leaving Emmanuel Macron’s now “party” En Marche with a parliamentary majority, than a purge has thrown his coalition partner Francois Bayrou and four ministers belonging to Bayrou’s party out of the government.
I say “purge” though of course that is not how it is being presented. Instead we have the usual game, which has accompanied every step in Macron’s rise: the corruption allegations based on misappropriation of public funds aired in the satirical weekly Le Canard enchaîné, the criminal investigations, and the removal from the political scene of those involved.
In every case Macron – of course – plays no part, even though he somehow always turns out to be the beneficiary of every “scandal”.
Macron needed Bayrou’s help to win the Presidency and – still more – to win a majority for his party in the parliament. With that majority now secured he does not need Bayrou any more, so he can be dispensed with. Very conveniently, directly after the election, a “scandal” leading to the resignation of Bayrou therefore turns up.
The beauty of this is that in every case the allegations are true. The cosily corrupt French establishment has always known how to look after itself. It has taken Macron – or those behind him – to turn this fact to political advantage.
Macron nonetheless needs to be careful. There is no enthusiasm for him in France. The abstention rate in the parliamentary election was so high that his party gained a majority of the seats in the parliament with the votes of just 14% of the French electorate.
Meanwhile the veteran figures of the French political elite – people like Fillon, Juppé, Valls, Bayrou, Sarkozy and the rest – would not be human if they did not resent the meteoric way Macron’s rise has happened, and the ruthless way it has been carried out, even if at times they have felt obliged to give him a helping hand up.
As for the two genuine outsiders -Mélenchon and Le Pen – they are still there, even if in Le Pen’s case she has been significantly weakened by her failure in the Presidential election and by her party’s poor showing in the parliamentary elections.
In the meantime Macron’s party – hastily cobbled together over the course of the last year – has a makeshift look about it, making it vulnerable if it comes under pressure.
Should the tide ever turn against him – which in France it invariably does – Macron could find his political base dangerously shallow, and himself dangerously short of friends.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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