In 2013, Jim Joseph Foundation convened more than a dozen local and national funders of Jewish teen programming for a series of discussions on expanding teen involvement in Jewish life. The funders learned together and commissioned groundbreaking research—and ultimately began to design responsive local teen engagement initiatives in communities across the country.
This group evolved into a robust, collaborative community: The Jewish Teen Education & Engagement Funder Collaborative. This innovative learning and sharing network has created an environment that fosters risk-taking, experimentation and ongoing reflection. Funders serve as resources and thought-partners to their practitioner colleagues who are at different points in the process of launching, growing and refining their initiatives. Members share a commitment to transparency, with the goal of increasing knowledge and contributing tools to help advance the entire Jewish teen engagement field. The Funder Collaborative also shares its internal process and findings with others who may choose to embark on their own co-funding endeavor.
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The insights our research generates is reshaping the national conversation and influencing the practice of Jewish teen education and engagement.
We are uncovering valuable information about the desires, beliefs and motivations of Jewish teens, and discovering and refining the most promising engagement practices.
Our initiatives signify a shift in traditional Jewish programming and offer diverse new ways to reach, educate, engage and inspire unengaged teens.
Initiatives draw on the strength of partners and respond to the needs and desires of local teens.
We invest heavily in two concurrent evaluation efforts to create shared frameworks and universal tools so we may analyze outcomes across communities.
Evaluative efforts allow us to understand our process and outcomes; all of our findings are published to benefit the field of teen engagement.
The collaborative is comprised of ten communities of varying sizes and demographic composition. Each has embarked on responsive teen initiatives informed by rich, ongoing conversation with community stakeholders, local organizations, collaborative colleagues and teens.
What is the mission of the Funder Collaborative?
We are an unprecedented endeavor in which local and national funders collaborate in the work of education, relationship-building and co-investment in multi-faceted local Jewish teen education and engagement initiatives.
We believe the work of the Funder Collaborative, and the teen initiatives underway in each of the communities, can actively build the field of Jewish teen engagement. We strive to improve the existing landscape by driving deep change in local communities to catalyze broader impact.
Through the work of the Funder Collaborative and participating communities, new programs are being incubated, existing program providers are being incentivized to expand or deepen their work, youth professionals are receiving serious professional development – and all are taking evaluation seriously. It is part of our mission to share all that we learn so that others may bring successful strategies to scale.
Who are the professionals that make up the Funder Collaborative?
Sara Allen is the Director of the Jewish Teen Education and Engagement Funder Collaborative. She is the first full-time Director is works in consultation with an Operating Committee and Evaluation Advisory Group drawn from participating communities. Sara has nearly two decades of experience in both the private sector and Jewish organizational worlds, with expertise in strategic planning, marketing and development, millennial engagement and leadership development, and new technology. Most recently, she was Senior Vice President at The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, where, among other responsibilities, she led the multi-million dollar NuRoots engagement initiative.
She welcomes you to be in touch at sara@teenfundercollaborative.com.
Which organizations participate in the Funder Collaborative?
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How were the participating communities selected?
The Jim Joseph Foundation sought out local funding partners who share a desire to invest in new experiments to reach substantially more Jewish teens. Communities were selected for their willingness to engage in community-wide programming, experience developing strong partnerships – locally and nationally – with Jewish teen education organizations, capacity to fundraise for the matching grant, and interest in the teen audience.
Local or national organizations, or lay leaders, seeking more information or interested in exploring programmatic partnership with a local community may contact Funder Collaborative Director Sara Allen at sara@teenfundercollaborative.com.
Can my city/ organization receive funding for teen programs through the Funder Collaborative?
The ten communities reflect the full membership of the Funder Collaborative, and neither we nor Jim Joseph Foundation are accepting requests for funding.
Local or national organizations interested in exploring programmatic partnership with a local community may contact Director Sara Allen at sara@teenfundercollaborative.com.
Who are the evaluators working with the Funder Collaborative?
Rosov Consulting is responsible for the Cross-Community Evaluation, aggregating and analyzing data from the participating communities. Additionally, they serve as local evaluators for several of the communities. Informing Change is also retained as local evaluators for several local communities.


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In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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Waldorf's Birthday PresentGabriele Annan
Vol. 21 No. 1 · 7 January 1999
Waldorf's Birthday Present
Gabriele Annan
The Langhorne Sisters
by James Fox.
Granta, 612 pp., £20, November 1998, 1 86207 071 7Show More
By the time she got married in 1895, Irene Langhorne was 22 and had had 62 proposals. Getting proposals was what Southern belles were brought up to do. Irene was the second of the five Langhorne sisters of Richmond, Virginia. She married Dana Gibson, the inventor of the Gibson girl. Famous for her beauty from coast to coast, she never got divorced and never gave any trouble, so she doesn't come into James Fox's story much; and neither does the eldest Langhorne sister Lizzie. Lizzie just got on the others' nerves and was poor. There were also three brothers, but they don't come into the story at all. They drank a lot, as did many Southern gentlemen after the Civil War.
It isn't difficult to connect drink with defeat, but James Fox thinks that the cult of the belle also was the result of defeat: 'The belles became the pure white maidens of Provençal romance, antidotes to the surrounding blackness, whose honour was, literally, worth dying for ... The adulation of the belles had a direct relation to Virginia's sense of defeat, the sense of injustice that could hardly be addressed in conversation.' It sounds plausible, and true or not, it is an interesting notion. Fox often drops in speculations of this kind, usually with a psychological slant, and always imaginative, humane and stimulating. He doesn't go on about them for too long but they are one of the small pleasures of this hugely pleasurable book. He is a natural storyteller (see White Mischief), and if his prose isn't exactly elegant, it makes up for it with sparkle and an engaging irony.
The three younger Langhorne sisters all crossed the Atlantic and married Englishmen. They are not to be confused, though, with Edith Wharton's New York 'buccaneers' or millionairesses like Consuelo Vanderbilt, who married the Duke of Marlborough. The Langhornes despised jumped-up Yankee 'dollar princesses': their own blood, they knew, was blue, and it seems never to have occurred to them that they might be considered gold-diggers. Besides, both Nancy, the third sister, and Phyllis, the fourth, were divorced by the time they arrived in England. Divorce was still a disability at the turn of the century; that was why they moved on.
Nancy accumulated no more than 16 proposals; but then, she was only 17 when she accepted, and 18 when she married 24-year-old Bob Shaw. He was the playboy son of a rich Bostonian family and kept a permanent mistress. Nancy found she hated sex. She was still complaining about it after she had borne a daughter and four sons to her second husband, Waldorf Astor, and she 'proudly' informed them that they had been 'conceived without pleasure, born without pain'. She also maintained that Bobbie, the child of her first marriage, was conceived only because Bob Shaw chloroformed her one night.
Phyllis Langhorne was a year younger than Nancy. On the photographs, she looks the loveliest of the five beauties, and she also sounds the nicest, and certainly the most soulful, though not without faults: she was terribly self-absorbed and self-pitying. James Fox is her grandson, but he gives her only just over two columns of entries in his index, while Nancy has four and a half, with a long section on 'character'. It has subheadings for 'ambition', 'attacks on children' (only her own), 'bullying', 'cruelty', 'energy', 'as entertainer', 'friendliness', 'generosity', 'inability to show affection', 'loyalty', 'possessiveness', 'tactlessness', 'as tomboy' (she did cartwheels for Plymouth constituents while electioneering there), 'wit', 'yearning for good'. The longest entry is for 'possessiveness', with 'wit' the runner-up. Nancy's wit was in-your-face. To a man who claimed 'that his family had never married beneath them, she replied: "I know they can't but I never knew they realised it." ' Fox's list tells you all you need to know about Nancy, but leaves out her charm, which was 'such that we all fell easy victims', Lord Brand wrote when he first met her. It must have been colossal to make her friends put up with some of the qualities in Fox's inventory, not to speak of her relentless interference in their affairs.
Phyllis gets no 'character' subsection in the index, but one instead on 'interests': it has just three entries – 'horsemanship', 'hunting' and 'intellectual circles'. Nancy's divorce coincided with difficulties in Phyllis's marriage to Reggie Brooks, a sporting Southern gentleman whose drinking was getting out of control. So the sisters set off to England for the hunting season. Nancy took Bobbie, and Phyllis took her sons Peter and Winkie; they also took horses and a governess or two, and went out with the Pytchley. Nancy met and married Waldorf Astor, who owned the Observer and was MP for Plymouth; his brother John owned the Times. The Astors were so rich that occasionally it embarrassed her: 'My dear what do you think Mr Astor' – her father-in-law William, later the first Lord Astor – 'has done,' she wrote to Phyllis. 'Don't breathe it even to Reggie or a soul. He has given Waldorf the Waldorf Astoria for a birthday present. It sounds like a joke, but it's a jolly good one – about 40,000 pounds more a year.' The Langhornes were a loyal clan (Nancy's son Michael Astor called his memoirs Tribal Feeling), so it's not surprising that Nancy was always giving money to her poorer sisters and buying them houses, nor that she financed her eldest child throughout his life. Bobbie was chucked out of the Army for being gay, jailed for the same reason, exiled to a Kentish farm bought by his mother, and eventually committed suicide. Nancy adored him and he her, and they telephoned each other every day.
Nancy and Phyllis also adored one another and were heartbroken when Phyllis had to go back to Reggie in the States. But in due course she, too, got a divorce, and then she was back with Nancy and the Pytchley, and in love with the Hon. Henry Douglas Pennant, a dashing captain in the Grenadier Guards, who embodied all the chivalrous romance she yearned for. Nancy thought him thick, and was determined that he should be swapped for one of the brilliant young men she was meanwhile collecting for weekends at Cliveden, the gigantic Astor château on the Thames. Pennant died in the trenches in 1915, leaving Phyllis shattered but free to find a beau 'in intellectual circles'.
Nancy recruited her circle from Lord Milner's Imperialist 'Kindergarten' (the group that helped him sort out South Africa after the Boer War). The Kindergarten evolved into the Round Table, a proto-think tank named after a quarterly started by Milner and edited by Philip Kerr. Much later the group metamorphosed into the Cliveden Set. Fox calls his chapter about the Kindergarten alumni 'Brain Fag' (Kerr's coinage), 'a form of anti-climactic stress ... contracted from years of cerebral overload at the altitude of Johannesburg'. They were a high-powered, high-minded lot, and Kerr in particular was also highly-strung, over-conscientious, sickly and a hypochondriac. Still, the last adjective applies to all their society: Nancy frequently took to her bed with various psychosomatic complaints, Phyllis with depression (relieved only by hunting), and all of them were always rushing to quacks and Continental spas for cures for this and that.
The two men in Nancy's collection who are most important in this story are Bob Brand and Philip Kerr. Kerr became the Marquess of Lothian on his father's death, and a hate figure because of his pro-Hitler stance in the Thirties. Fox does not try to exonerate him, only to explain why he behaved as he did. Appeasement, he says, was Lothian's second great mistake about Germany, and he made it in order to atone for the first. He had served as Lloyd George's secretary at the Versailles Peace Conference, and there he took the most savage line about reparations. In the Thirties, he saw the dire economic and political consequences of his policy; remorse overwhelmed him and he went too far in the other direction, doing everything he could to conciliate Germany. Fox presents him as a brilliant man of overwhelming charm, a deeply religious cradle Catholic with a conscience so over-developed that he seemed to hover hysterically on the brink of nervous breakdown. You can tell the kind of charm he had from one of the photographs (and a brilliantly telling collection they are): tall, thin and aquiline, he leans gallantly over Nancy to share one of her jokes, while his posture expresses disarming upper-class self-deprecation.
He fell in love with her and she with him. They were inseparable until he died while Ambassador to the United States in 1940. Their relationship was intense, but Platonic. 'Not that Nancy would have welcomed the sexual aspect of any affair. But Philip was too full of deep inhibitions when it came to the opposite sex ... he was never to get closer with any woman than he became with Nancy. He was happier pursuing the monkish ideal.' The affair was not at all furtive, which made it easier, Fox thinks, for Waldorf ('saintly but not scintillating') to tolerate. He behaved impeccably. In the English phase of the Langhorne story all the men behave better than the women.
Nancy had been a fervent Low-Church Christian from the age of 13, when she fell under the spell of an Evangelical preacher. She irritated Phyllis by reading her Bible in the grandstand at Newmarket. But Christianity didn't stop her from wounding people with her savage tongue or buying great chunks of jewellery whenever she had the chance. Still, she strove to be good and was truly outraged by the lot of the poor. She worked hard to help them, especially when she became the first British woman MP, taking over from Waldorf, who had to give up his Plymouth seat to succeed his father in the Lords. Fox points out that although she was a dyed-in-the-wool Conservative, her social policies were reformist to the point of socialism. In 1914, just before the war, she was converted to Christian Science by a Mrs Maud Bull, who had been invited to Cliveden 'by chance': 'Nancy went up with her to have a talk one night before going to bed and came down a Christian Scientist,' wrote Bob Brand. It took her no time at all to convert Kerr, who by this time was hunting around among the world religions for one that met his considerable need.
By far the nicest man in the book, the wisest, most intelligent and the most tolerant (though possibly also the most hypochondriacal), was Bob Brand (later Lord Brand). A Fellow of All Souls, he, too, belonged to the Kindergarten, the Round Table, the Peace Conference and the Cliveden Set, though he was to the left of the rest of them. They rather deplored his becoming a banker; especially Nancy, who nicknamed him 'the Jew' for choosing such an infra dig profession (she was a gut anti-semite). 'I thought you were absolutely middle class,' she said to him on one of his early weekends, surprised to see his mail addressed to the Hon. Robert Brand. Brand fell in love with Phyllis, and watched in agony as she flirted with Pennant and several other men. (She was a 'callous and provocative allumeuse'.) He saw himself and his friend Kerr as inept at wooing. All the same, two years after Pennant's death, Phyllis accepted his proposal in a faute de mieux kind of way. She soon learnt to love him, though, and the marriage turned into a 'mutual love affair sustained for twenty years'. Phyllis wrote to Bob every day when they were apart (and because of his glittering public career they often were). She was able to express what he adored her for – her ability 'to feel happiness as well as sorrow intensely'. He wasn't used to that. His childhood had been emotionally deprived to an unusual degree even for an upper-class Victorian Englishman.
Fox is a shrink to the extent that every modern biographer has to be. He exhibits relief when Brand's doctor at a Black Forest spa turns out to be a follower of Jung
whose break with Freud had occurred that year, 1913. It was the first time Bob Brand, or anyone in his circle, had encountered these theories about the irrational side of human nature, of the conscious and the unconscious and the interpretation of dreams, or had heard the word 'complex' mentioned in terms of psychology. It had a profound effect on him and he wrote exhilarated passages to Phyllis from his clinic, thrilled with his discoveries and the newfound jargon. He was not suffering from a bad heart, which he had believed for 16 years, but from a 'sympathetic nervous system' that was exceedingly sensitive to pain, pleasure, beauty etc which caused his pulse to race.
In Fox's account, the marriage is the fairytale story of a sleeping prince awakened from the wicked fairy's spell (English upbringing) by the kiss of a lovely princess. He is particularly moved at the thought of little boys separated from their mothers and sent away to school, and quotes heartbreaking letters home from Bobbie Shaw and Peter and Winkie Brooks. All three committed suicide. So Fox has no need to labour his point and he doesn't.
The Langhornes brought transatlantic brio to chilly English society: 'gaiety, laughter, high spirits, spontaneity' plus, in Brand's view 'exceptional fascination and charm'. In Phyllis's case these qualities were combined with a loving nature. 'Despite her bountiful and compassionate heart Nancy never acquired the gift of selfless love, a virtue she hammered out in repetition, exhorted in others, and carried as her banner. She never understood why ... total devotion from her children ... had eluded her. She had assumed exclusive rights of ownership over them, for many years with a clear conscience, believing she was doing God's work, and that they were better off under her improving wing.' And she was horrid to her servants, too.
The youngest of the sisters was every bit as devastating to men as the others, and a caution. 'It's not that Nora has no sense of right and wrong, it's just that she's got no proper sense at all,' they said. A mythomaniac shopaholic, she sent astronomical clothes bills on to Nancy or Phyllis, and 'had a heart like a hotel'. She was also very funny, played the guitar, sang, tap-danced, and was always getting engaged, once even after she was married. Nancy insisted on her doing a London season, and that was how she met her first husband, Paul Phipps. He was an elegant English architect, impecunious, often out of work, and the best dancer in London. They produced two children. The eldest became the famous comedienne Joyce Grenfell. Nancy put them on the family payroll, which gave her the clout to 'order them into' Christian Science. While in New York in 1914, Nora eloped with Lefty Flynn, a former star fullback on the Yale football team (his nickname had nothing to do with politics: he used his left foot for kicking goals). She returned to Phipps quite soon. Nearly twenty years later she re-eloped with Lefty, married and later divorced him.
The Langhorne saga is as crammed with amazing characters as the Nibelungenlied and just as funny. Fox writes with real sympathy – even about hard-to-love Nancy – and with an endearing mixture of affection and irony about every player, including the servants. Preposterous as some of the cast are, he makes them believable and never lets them degenerate into caricatures.
Unfortunately, but unavoidably, he has to devote the last part of his book to the Cliveden Set myth, which concerns only one Langhorne: Nancy (Lizzie and Phyllis were dead, and the others out of the picture). By this time, she was metamorphosing into a vituperative harridan who shrieked insults at her fellow MPs in the House of Commons, turned against her children and wouldn't speak to her husband. 'There had been sudden political differences as Nancy moved, or jerked without any particular process of thought, to the right'. Fox calls one chapter 'Cockburn's "Cliveden Set" ' (my italics) and reiterates convincingly the now generally accepted view that the Cliveden Set, in the sense of a pro-Hitler cabal, was the invention of the Marxist journalist Claud Cockburn. Nancy may have invited Ribbentrop to lunch, and she didn't like Jews: but she didn't want Hitler to be beastly to them either. As for her set, Fox points out, it included fervent anti-Hitlerites such as Churchill, Eden, Macmillan and Bob Brand, who regretted that he hadn't a gun to shoot the Führer when he found him sitting nearby at a concert in Berlin. Fox is a pushover for charmers, and makes Cockburn sparkle with intelligence, funniness and allure. But even Fox can't exonerate Lothian: if his intentions were noble, then he was a fool and not the brilliant mind his contemporaries thought him. 'With his stubborn blind eye, he was the last person in that band of influence, apart from Dawson and Chamberlain, to admit the true nature of the disaster.' Still, even if there wasn't a Cliveden Set, or if it wasn't as awful as its reputation, there was a Langhorne set: not so much a mutual admiration society, as a case of group narcissism.
Gabriele Annan is a writer and journalist who lives in London.
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It takes about an hour to get from the harbor in Kumai to the entrance of Tanjung Puting National Park. The first stop is at Tanjung Harapan where the orangutan feeding takes place at 15h.
We continue the cruise as the jungle is at its noisiest. We hear Proboscis monkeys, Macaques, Silver Langurs and colorful birds. Finally, it is time for a candle light dinner, and an exciting night in the jungle.
After breakfast, we cruise through the habitat of the Proboscis monkeys and the crocodiles as we go to Pondok Tanggui.
We visit the orangutan feeding here at 9 am. Then, we continue the cruise, turn in a junction of the river where the water color changes and gives a surreal dark reflection of the jungle.
We arrive at Camp Leakey, a research- and rehabilitation center for orangutans. The feeding takes place at 2 pm. If you are lucky you will meet here the "King of Camp Leaky": a male orangutan named Big Tom.
After Camp Leakey, we cruise down slowly to the Nipa Palm Area, where we may see fire flies in the evening depending on the weather. We will have candle light diner and spend the night in this area.
After breakfast we cruise through the lush jungle back to Kumai. You say goodbye to your staff and will be dropped off by car at Pangkalan Bun airport or at your hotel (around 10-11 am).
After breakfast, the boat cruise continues as we enjoy the sunrise and go through the habitat of the proboscis monkey and the estuarine crocodile.
At some point we'll make a turn in a junction of the river where the water color changes from bright orange to dark black. The river narrows and the reflection of the dense jungle in the water gives a surreal feeling.
We arrive at Camp Leakey, a research- and rehabilitation center for orangutans . If you are lucky you will meet here the "King of Camp Leaky": a male orangutan named Big Tom. Here, we take an exciting, short jungle trek. We return at 2 pm to witness the orangutan feeding.
Then, we cruise down to Pondok Ambung. We get a candle light dinner, and then take a brave night trek through the jungles in search of glowing mushroom, tarantulas, deers, and tarsier (unique to the region).
After breakfast we cruise down towards Pondok Tanggui; a ranger camp home to pre-wild and adolescent orangutans, as well as deer, boar and many bird species. We'll visit the orangutan feeding at 9h am.
Back at the boat, we get lunch and we proceed to the reforestration site Camp Pesalat, where you learn about the importance of their conservation initiatives, and can donate through planting your own tree.
Then, we visit the Sekonyer village, meet locals and view hand made souvenirs. In case there is any time left, we visit for the second time the feeding at Tanjung Harapang.
We cruise down to the Nipa area, where we may see fireflies depending on the weather. Here, we'll have a candle light diner, and spend the rest of the night.
Then, we visit the Sekonyer village, meet locals and view hand made souvenirs. In case there is time, we visit a nearby palm oil factory. Then, we return to the boat for a candlelight diner.
After breakfast, we prepare for an exciting jungle trek of 3-4 hours! Rangers accompany us. This special activity gets us away from the crowd and into the untouched jungle!
At the end, we get into a canoe and take a exciting cruise in the small river back to our boat in the Sekonyer river. We have a well-deserved lunch, and then visit the feeding at Tanjung Harapan for the 2nd time.
We relax as we cruise through the noisy jungle, and try to spot animals from the lounge area. We end the day with a candle light dinner around the Nipa Area, where we may see fireflies.
Comfortable shoes, insect repellent, light trousers and shirts with long sleeves, flashlight, small backpack, towel, mobile charger, malaria pills (according to your doctor's advice).
Accommodation in Pangkalan Bun is excluded. The best hotel is the Grand Kecubung Hotel .
We arrive at Camp Leakey, a reserach- and rehabilitation center for orangutans. The feeding takes place at 2 pm. If you are lucky you will meet here the "King of Camp Leakey": a male orangutan named Big Tom.
After an early breakfast, we cruise down to Kumai where you say goodby to the boat staff, and then get a ride of ~4 hours by car to Kudangan Dayak village. We meet the locals, and explore the village.
In the evening, you get a warm welcome dancing ceremony from the villagers. You end this evening a diner and traditional drinks with villagers. Overnight in a Dayak house.
After breakfast, we start with our jungle trek, usually to one of the waterfalls. Along the way, we may spot animals, and the Dayak villagers may teach us some basic hunting and survival techniques.
Upon arrival, we can swim in the waterfall, and enjoy the serenity of the jungle and river landscape. We spend the night in a tent in the jungle (alternatively, you can also spend the night back in the village).
After breakfast in the jungle, we return to the village. In case you wish, we could do another jungle trek before the drive back to Pangkalan Bun to your hotel (excluded). Enjoy the well-deserved warm shower!
Pick-up at your hotel at your desired time, and drop off at Pangkalan Bun airport.
We arrive at Camp Leakey, a reserach- and rehabilitation center for orangutans . If you are lucky you will meet here the "King of Camp Leakey": a male orangutan named Big Tom. Here, we take an exciting, short jungle trek. We return at 2 pm to witness the orangutan feeding.


I wanted to show you how to make a ribbon in Gimp 2.8.
1. Open a new image, size 900x900.
2. Add a new transparent layer. Using the paths tool, draw a line from left to right as shown.
Next, click in the middle of the path and drag it down a bit as shown.
Then just 100 pixels into the path on the left, drag that up. And 100 pixels to the right, drag down as shown.
3. In the layers box, choose the PATHS box. The path is shown, R click on the path in the box and choose STROKE PATH. Place settings as shown.
4. Delete the path by R clicking and choosing DELETE PATH.
5. Click on the LAYERS box. Name the new layer "Ribbon" then r click and ALPHA TO SELECTION on the Ribbon layer. Add a new transparent layer.
6. Click on POOL BOTTOM Pattern and click and drag into the selection. Name this selection "Texture." Your canvas should look like the pic below.
Go to COLORS>DESATURATE with luminosity selected, hit OK. In the MODE box at top of layers box, choose HARD LIGHT. Then R click and choose MERGE DOWN.
7. Add another transparent layer and name it COLOR. Choose a foreground and background color within the same scheme. I am using colors- ec364c and fe7c91. Click on the BLEND TOOL and the setting should be as shown.
Click within the Ribbon selection and drag upwards about 100 pixels and let go.
8. Move the Color layer below the Ribbon layer in the layers box. On the ribbon layer, go to Mode and choose SCREEN. Then move the opacity slider to 28. R click and MERGE DOWN. Your canvas should appear as shown.
9. Add another transparent layer. With this layer, we're adding a bit more dimension to the ribbon. Choose a blend called Flare Rays Size 1 and change Offset to 0, then click and drag from lower left corner of canvas to the top right of canvas. Go to Mode and choose OVERLAY then R click and MERGE DOWN.
10. Duplicate the layer. COLOR>DESATURATE just to differentiate this layer for the next couple steps, then drag it up just so a little of the bottom of the ribbon is showing. R click on this copy layer, ALPHA TO SELECTION. Then to SELECT>INVERT.
11. Add a new layer, name it Brush. Click on brush in tool box and use settings as shown.
12. R click on the Color Ribbon layer, ALPHA TO SELECTION, up to SELECT>INVERT, click on the Brush layer once in layers box to activate then hit the DELETE key on keyboard.
You can change the paths up, the textures, the colors to get a ribbon specific to your project!
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Clostridium botulinum toxin
Where is Clostridium botulinum Found? C. botulinum is prevalent in soil and marine sediments [Top of Page]. How is the Toxin Produced in Food? C. botulinum spores are often found on the.. Clostridium botulinum is an anaerobic, rod-shaped sporeforming bacterium that produces a Mixed toxin production by a single strain of C. botulinum may be more common than previously realized What is Clostridium botulinum? Clostridium botulinum is an obligate anaerobe that makes spores and secretes a botulinum toxin, which causes botulism Clostridium botulinum is a gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium and pathogen that is prevalent in marine and soil environments around the world (Figure 1). As obligate anaerobes, Clostridium botulinum must live in low oxygen habitats, as higher concentrations are toxic to the cells Toxins produced by some Clostridium botulinum bacteria are non-proteolytic, which means that affected food may look and smell normal (Cherington, 1998). 4 uses/circumstances of..
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The botulinum toxin comes from the bacteria clostridium botulinim and causes the disease known as botulism. Symptoms of botulism can onset very quickly and lead to a violent death Clostridium botulinum bacteria secreting botulism toxin type E have been reported as contaminants of improperly processed or smoked fish and fish eggs. Approximately 24-36 hours after ingestion of.. The neurotoxins produced by Clostridium botulinum are the most potent acute toxins known and are the causative agents of the neuroparalytic disease botulism Botulinum toxin is any of several distinct types of a neurotoxin protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. Botulinum toxin is one of the most poisonous naturally occurring substances in the world, and the most toxic protein known (Montecucco and Molgó 2005) This toxin is made by Clostridium botulinum and sometimes Clostridium butyricum and Clostridium baratii bacteria. These bacteria can be spread by food and sometimes by other means
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Introduction. Classification. Clostridium botulinum. anaerobic gram + rod. ingestion of exotoxin causes adult botulism. botulinum toxin is absorbed into bloodstream from mucosal surface
NAME: Clostridium botulinum. SYNONYM OR CROSS REFERENCE: Botulism(1-3), allantiasis(2), and botulinum toxin(4). CHARACTERISTICS: A gram-positive (at least in early stage of growth)..
Clostridium botulinum are rod-shaped bacteria (also called C. botulinum. They are anaerobic, meaning they live and grow in low oxygen conditions. The bacteria form protective spores when..
Botulinum neurotoxin produced by Clostridium botulinum is one of the most potent poisons we Botulinum toxin has no smell or taste, it is not possible to know beforehand if the food eaten is..
Clostridium botulinum bacteria produce a toxin that leads to respiratory failure through paralysis of Where Clostridium Botulinum Is Found. The bacteria that cause botulism are widely distributed..
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Botulinum toxin (abbreviated either as BTX or BoNT) is produced by Clostridium botulinum, a gram-positive anaerobic bacterium. [1] The clinical syndrome of botulism can occur following ingestion of..
Clostridium botulinum is notorious for producing a toxin, called botulinum toxin, which causes botulism. Historically, to preserve foods, processes like sausage making and canning became popular
Botulism is a disease caused by botulinum toxin (botox), a potent neurotoxin produced by Clostridium botulinum or closely related microorganisms such as C. baratii or C. butyricum
called botulinum toxin, produced by Clostridium botulinum bacteria. This poisoning results most frequently from the eating of improperly sterilized home-canned foods containing the toxin
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Botox is a drug made from a toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. It's the same toxin that causes a life-threatening type of food poisoning called botulism Botulinum toxin is a neurotoxic protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Botulinum toxin (cosmetic treatment) The bacteria Clostridium botulinum produces the deadliest toxin known to mankind. The lethal dose for one person is under one microgram [one billionth of a kilogram]. One kilogram of the toxin could..
Clostridium botulinum (and some isolates of C. argentinense, and rare isolates of C. butyricum and C The botulinum toxin produced by. neurotoxin-producing Clostridium spp. cause four forms of NAME: Clostridium botulinum. SYNONYM OR CROSS REFERENCE: BotulismFootnote 1-3 C. botulinum (botulinum toxin) is defined as a biothreat level A organism by the Centers for Disease.. Purified botulinum toxin from Clostridium botulinum, purified from culture via dialysis and acid Botulinum Toxin Type A blocks neuromuscular transmission by binding to acceptor sites on motor or..
Doctor insights on: Toxin Clostridium Botulinum. Share. Food poisoning: Improperly canned food, contaminated with bacterium clostridium botulinum lead to production of botulinum toxin that.. Clostridium botulinum - Botulism (Clinical forms). Tests for diagnosis of botulism. Detection of toxin in patients, food, feed, sludge or aquatic sediments; waterfowl, other samples Clostridium Botulinum Toxin Type A is a medicine that is used for the treatment of Temporary improvement in the appearance of moderate to severe glabellar lines and other conditions
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Pathogenesis of Clostridium botulinum. Botulinum toxin blocks acetylcholine neurotransmitter release, which prevents muscle stimulation. This causes nausea, vomiting, headaches, double vision..
Clostridium botulinum is the bacterium that causes botulism. Botulinum toxin is an extremely potent neurotoxin that causes botulism, a serious paralytic condition that can lead to death
Cite this article. Hambleton, P. Clostridium botulinum toxins: a general review of involvement in disease, structure, mode of action and preparation for clinical use. J Neurol 239, 16-20 (1992). https..
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Clostridium botulinum is a Gram-positive , rod-shaped , anaerobic , spore-forming , motile bacterium with the ability to produce the neurotoxin botulinum . [1] [2]. The botulinum toxin can cause a.. Chemical structure of a botulinum toxin molecule. Description Clostridium botulinum is a Gram-positive, anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium that produces toxins (in particular neurotoxins)..
Botulinum toxin causes flaccid paralysis by inhibiting neurotransmitter (acetylcholine) release from the presynaptic Botulinum neurotoxin type A. Gene. botA. Organism. Clostridium botulinum Botulism (Clostridium botulinum). Latin for sausage disease, Botulism can unquestionably bring Botulinum toxin also has a number of more serious medical uses. It can alleviate muscle spasms.. Neurotoxin produced by Clostridium botulinum;1 3 5 31 37 70 79 disrupts neurotransmission by inhibiting release Uses for OnabotulinumtoxinA. Currently, 3 botulinum toxin type A preparations.. Your search returned 46 Clostridium botulinum A Toxin Antibodies across 11 suppliers. QED Bioscience Inc. Anti-Clostridium botulinum Toxin A Antibody. Applications: ELISA, ICC, IF
Botulismus ist eine durch das Botulinum-Toxin (Clostridium botulinum ) verursacht Vergiftung. Clostridium botulinum - Botulismus. Um diese Seite zu sehen, musst Du Dich anmelden oder einen.. Apr 26, 2015 - Clostridium botulinum (botulism bacillus). This bacterium secretes a very powerful Why Scientists Held Back Details On A Unique Botulinum Toxin. Scientists have discovered the first.. Clostridium Botulinum Clostridium botulinum toksininin neden olduğu bir hastalıktır. Besin kaynaklı botulizm, ticari ya da evde hazırlanan konserve, sucuk 08/02/2020
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Botulinum toxin is a neurotoxic protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum and related species
Clostridium botulinum is a Gram-positive rod-shaped bacteria. Clostridium botulinum is in the family categorized as Gram-positive bacilli. This bacteria produces a neurotoxin which leads to paralysis. Clostridium botulinum are based on seven different distinct types
Botulinum toxin produced by Clostridium botulinum is the cause of botulism.[9] Humans most commonly ingest the toxin from eating improperly-canned foods in which C. botulinum has grown
Adı ise Clostridium Botulinum. Botulinum toksini aslında bu bakterinin ürettiği bir nörotoksin. İlk olarak 1897 yılında Van Ermengem tarafından gösterilmiştir. Aslında bu toksine Van Ermengem'in..
THE ORGANISM/TOXIN Clostridium botulinum is one of the most important pathogens associated with food. The organism forms spores that are resistant to many common food process controls
Meaning of Clostridium botulinum medical term. What does Clostridium botulinum mean? We now know that the raw toxins from Clostridium Botulinum, as well as the toxin from its relative..
Figure 2. A photomicrograph of Clostridium botulinum type A viewed using a Gram stain technique. The bacterium C. botulinum produces a nerve toxin, which causes the rare, but serious paralytic.. About Clostridium botulinum Clostridium botulinum is the name of a group of bacteria. They can be found in soil. These rod-shaped organisms grow best in low oxygen conditions Clostridium botulinum je grampozitivní anaerobní tyčinka tvořící za určitých okolností spory. Spory jsou klidovou formou bakterie s minimálním metabolismem a takovou morfologickou strukturou, která zajišťuje bakterii vysokou odolnost vůči teplu, vyschnutí, záření a dezinfekčním látkám Clostridium botulinum is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped, anaerobic, spore-forming, motile bacterium with the ability to produce the neurotoxin botulinum.[1][2]. The botulinum toxin can cause a severe.. Clostridium botulinum is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped, anaerobic, spore-forming, motile bacterium with the ability to produce the neurotoxin botulinum. The botulinum toxin can cause a severe flaccid paralytic disease in humans and other animals and is the most potent toxin known to mankind..
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Tag words: Clostridium, clostridia, C. tetani, C. botulinum, C. perfringens, C. difficile, C diff, endospore, tetanus, lockjaw, botulism, infant botulism, food poisoning, gastroenteritis.. The bacteria produces botulinum toxin - a powerful neuro-toxin. Clostridium Botulinum better known as Botulinum is a Gram-positive,Rod-Shaped,Anaerobic,Spore-Forming,Motile bacterium with.. Botulinum toxin is a naturally occurring protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. Botulinum toxin can be used to treat all wrinkles which are the result of normal facial movement
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C. botulinum types A and B toxins required larger amounts of antitoxin for neutralization when fractions of the test dose of toxin were used than would be expected
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C. botulinum, Clostridium butyricum, Clostridium baratii, and Clostridium argentin-ense (86). The toxins are classified into seven serotypes, A through G, on the basis of their immunological properties
Clostridium botulinum Toxin Type A - indicated for the prophylaxis of headaches in adults with chronic migraine. - indicated for the treatment of urinary incontinence due to neurogenic detrusor..
(2011) Analysis of Clostridium botulinum serotype E strains by using multilocus sequence typing, amplified fragment length polymorphism, variable-number tandem-repeat analysis, and botulinum..
Clostridium botulinum bacteria are found worldwide in soil and sediments. Clostridium botulinum produces one of the most potent (strongest) toxins known and tiny amounts can cause paralysis Botulinum toxin Botulinum toxin Systematic (IUPAC) name ? Identifiers CAS number ? Botulinum toxin is a neurotoxin protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum Alle Produkte und Preise mit Clostridium botulinum Toxin Typ A vergleichen und günstig kaufen beim Medikamenten Preisvergleich medizinfuchs.de Clostridium botulinum Toxin production. Botulinum toxin is probably the most toxic substance known to mankind. Minimum lethal dose, of this toxin, for a mouse, is 0.03 ng and for human may be..
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Clostridium botulinum is clinically significant bacteria, which cause a very rare but a severe The botulinum toxin thus behaves as a neurotoxin that blocks the release of a neurotransmitter refers as.. ..bacteria of the genus Clostridium (Clostridium botulinum, Clostridium butyrricum, Clostridium barati A. Genetics and Structure of Botulinum Neurotoxins and Their Progenitor Toxin Complexes
Botoks yapılırken Clostridium Botulinum adlı bakterinin toksinlerinden kullanılıyor. clostridium botulinum, oksijen olmayan ortamlarda optimum 10-20 derecede gelişebilen bir bakteridir. toksini en.. All the botulinum toxin serotypes are made by Clostridium botulinum bacteria as inactive single chain proteins which must be cleaved or nicked by proteases to become neuroactive Botox, Botulinum toxin A, OnabotulinumtoxinA, BOTOX, Clostridium botulinum toxin, Botulism toxin, Botulinum toxin, Botulin toxin, AbobotulinumtoxinA, Dysport, Nuceiva, Jeuveau, XEOMIN
Rabbit Polyclonal Anti-Clostridium Botulinum Toxin A Antibody. Validated: WB, DB, ELISA. There are currently no images for Clostridium Botulinum Toxin A Antibody (NB110-17098) Clostridium botulinum C2 toxin is an ADP-ribosyltransferase, causing depolymerization of the actin cytoskeleton in eukaryotic cells. The C2 toxin is a binary toxin consisting of the enzymatic subunit.. Botulinum definition, a soil bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, that thrives and forms botulin under an anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, whose toxins (botulins) cause botulism: family..
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Clostridium botulinum is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium that produces several toxins. The best known are its neurotoxins, subdivided in types A-G, that cause the flaccid muscular paralysis.. Clostridium botulinum, from toxin and flagellin M. Henri-Jean Boulouis, Professor, Veterinary College of Alfort, France. President . of cattle botulism (Bienvenu et al., 1990; Kennedy and Ball.. Botulinum toxin commonly known as botox, is a powerful neurotoxin made by a bacterium Clostridium botulinum. It works by blocking the transmission of the electrical impulse from a nerve.. The toxin is specific for peripheral nerve endings at the point where a motor neurone stimulates a Wound botulism is caused by toxins produced from a wound infected with Clostridium botulinum.
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Clostridium botulinum anaerobik, Gram-pozitif, spor oluşturan çubuk şeklinde bir bakteridir. Güçlü bir nerotoksin üretir. Sporları ısıya dayanıklıdır ve hatalı veya eksik işlenmiş gıdalarda sporları canlı.. The Clostridium botulinum type C 16S progenitor toxin contains a neurotoxin and several nontoxic components, designated nontoxic nonhemagglutinin (HA), HA1 (HA-33), HA2 (HA-17), HA3a.. Botulinum toxins - cause of botulism and systemic diseases? Clostridium botulinum and bio-compost. A contribution to the analysis of potential health hazards caused by bio-waste recycling
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Botulinum toxin can also be produced by Clostridium butyricum and Clostridium baratii bacteria but human poisoning by these bacteria is rare. Consuming contaminated food is the most common means.. 2018 The toxin that leads to botulism is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum or sometimes strains of Clostridium butyricum and Clostridium baratii, as SELF reported previously Botox, or Botulinum Toxin A, is a very common cosmetic chemical that also happens to be one of the most toxic things in nature. This neurotoxic protein is produced by the bacterium Clostridium..
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Red Wings snap 9-game skid with 4-3 shootout win over Sabres
By JOHN WAWROW
Updated 10:28PM
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Dylan Larkin scored twice and converted one of Detroit's two shootout goals, and the Red Wings snapped a nine-game skid with a 4-3 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday night.
Andreas Athanasiou sealed the victory by scoring on Detroit's second shootout opportunity after Jonathan Bernier stopped Jack Eichel and Sam Reinhart on Buffalo's first two attempts.
Bernier finished with 29 saves through overtime and Tyler Bertuzzi also scored in a game the Red Wings rebounded after squandering a 2-0 third-period lead.
By improving to 1-8-1 their past 10 and winning for the first time since a 3-2 shootout victory at Ottawa on Jan. 10, the Red Wings avoided their second 10-game losing streak of the season. Detroit went 0-10-2 during a stretch spanning November and December.
Detroit also ended a nine-game road losing streak dating to a 2-1 win at Montreal on Dec. 14.
The Sabres earned a point when Evan Rodrigues tied it at 3 with 47 seconds remaining. That came some six minutes after his high-sticking penalty led to Bertuzzi's power-play goal putting Detroit up 3-2.
With Buffalo's net empty, Sabres defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen blocked Trevor Daley's clearing attempt. The puck bounced into the slot, where Rodrigues gathered it and flipped it into the open right side of the net over Bernier's out-stretched arms.
The Sabres erased a 2-0 third-period lead when Jimmy Vesey and Scott Wilson scored 2:41 apart in the third period to tie the game at 2 with 11:31 remaining.
Larkin's goal in the shootout was similar to the goal he scored to put Detroit up 2-0 in the final second of the first period to cap a 2-on-1 break.
Each time, Larkin sped in from the left wing and cut across the front of the net before backhanding a shot in behind Jonas Johansson, who was making his first career start.
Athanasiou then scored by firing a shot inside the left post.
Johansson finished with 18 saves.
The Sabres were booed off the ice after each of the first two periods in dropping to 1-4-1 in their last six. The slump has dispirited a fanbase that's become familiar with late-season collapses and the team missing the playoffs.
Buffalo (23-23-8) is in jeopardy of extending the NHL's longest active playoff drought to a ninth season. And the Sabres, under first-year coach Ralph Krueger, spent much of this season vowing this year won't be a repeat of last season, which Buffalo closed by winning just 16 of its final 57 games.
Just last week, Eichel mentioned the wheels previously falling off before vowing: "That's not happening here."
Buffalo instead closed a five-game homestand with just one win.
Larkin's first goal 4:23 in ended Detroit's goal drought at 133:34 following consecutive shutout losses to the New York Rangers and Philadelphia.
The Sabres had a goal disallowed following a coaching challenge 6 1/2 minutes in. Officials ruled Wilson interfered with Bernier when deflecting in Lawrence Pilut's shot from the left point. Seconds before Pilut's shot, Wilson parked one foot inside the crease just behind Bernier.
NOTES: Red Wings D Gustav Lindstrom made his NHL debut. ... The game featured teams with a combined 35 wins, one fewer than Washington, which has a league-leading 36. ... Sabres D Rasmus Dahlin missed his second game with an upper-body injury.
Red Wings: At the Columbus Blue Jackets on Friday night.
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West Penn Aggregates, Inc
PPP Loan Data — West Penn Aggregates, Inc, Portersville, PA
Entity: Subchapter S Corporation
Industry: General Freight Trucking, Local
Location: Portersville, PA
West Penn Aggregates, Inc is a subchapter s corporation located at Po Box 296 in Portersville, Pennsylvania that received a Coronavirus-related PPP loan from the SBA of $3,008,600.00 in April, 2020.
Citizens Bank, National Association
West Penn Aggregates, Inc in Portersville, PA received a Paycheck Protection Loan of $3.01M through Citizens Bank, National Association, which was approved in April, 2020.
This loan's status is reported by the SBA as "Paid in Full", which includes both loans repaid and those fully forgiven from repayment under PPP guidelines. The loan's status was last updated by the SBA in September, 2021.
For West Penn Aggregates, Inc, the calculation used to estimate payroll costs is shown below:
Based on the standard PPP eligibility formula, it may be possible to estimate the payroll expenses represented by a company on their PPP application (see details above). In order to qualify for the PPP loan amount received, West Penn Aggregates, Inc's 2019 payroll expenses are estimated to be at least $14.44M.
On the PPP application, West Penn Aggregates, Inc reported intending to use the proceeds of their PPP loan for the following expenses:
Because the loan received by West Penn Aggregates, Inc is at least $2M dollars, it is subject to a full review by the SBA to ensure eligibility and compliance with PPP program requirements.
Business Information - West Penn Aggregates, Inc in Portersville, PA
Portersville, PA 16051
General Freight Trucking, Local
Butler County, PA — SBA Office 0358 — Congressional District: PA-16
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PPP recipients in this industry report an average of 4 employees, 98% lower than West Penn Aggregates, Inc's reported 186 employees, and received an average PPP loan of $37,823, 99% lower than this company's loan of $3.01M.
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Public Sector Reforms in Africa : Nigerian Perspectives. Edited by Funmi Adewumi & William Idowu. Dakar, CODESRIA, 2012, 136 p., ISBN: 978-2-86978-538-0
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"Public Sector Reforms in Africa"
The public sector in Africa has come under severe criticism over the past few decades, particularly since the mid-1980s when many countries in sub-Sahara Africa were forced to adopt structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) to address fundamental economic problems confronting them. The public services of these countries were variously accused of inefficiency, ineptitude and even of constituting a clog in the wheel of development. This is the background against which these countries were forced to embark on reforms of the public sector. The impression created then was that once these reforms were in place, all would be well.
The six chapters in this book represent a critique of the Public Sector Reforms in Nigeria that were initiated by the Olusegun Obasanjo regime in the late 1990s. The book examines the various components of the reforms that were implemented at the behest of the Bretton Woods institutions and exposes their inadequacies. They also question the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings on which the reform programmes were based.
The conclusion of this book is that the reforms had only further deepened poverty levels among the vast majority of Nigerians. Essentially, through the privatisation and commercialisation of public enterprises, and the mass lay-offs of thousands of public servants, Nigerians have been denied of some of their citizenship rights. It is the contention of the contributors, therefore, that there is a need to put in place public policy and institutions that would champion alternative development strategies which put people, and not markets, at the centre of development.
This book is a very useful companion for students and scholars of development, administration and management, as well as policy makers, trade unionists, political activists and those involved in development work.
Funmi Adewumi is a Professor of Industrial Relations at the College of Management and Social Sciences, Okuku Campus, Osun State University, Nigeria. He is currently the Editor, Nigerian Journal of Industrial Relations.
William Idowu is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.


Shalom! I'm Amy of What Jew Wanna Eat and ModernTribe.com, and I'm pumped to guest post about one of my favorite holidays- Passover! For real. I love Passover food. Matzah ball soup, chopped liver, even gefilte fish. It's all delicious.
Over on my blog, I take the traditional Jewish recipes I grew up loving (or trying to love) and add my own twist to it with modern flavors and techniques. Bourbon and Coffee Braised Brisket, Potato Latkes Eggs Benedict, Bagel, Lox and Schmear Bites, or Manischewitz Truffles (really) are some of my favorites.
Even though I LOVE classic matzah ball soup, I couldn't leave it alone. Cheesy mozzarella stuffed matzo balls in a slightly spicy tomato broth with – my favorite part- matzah grilled cheese! Is a hearty lunch that will ensure you won't even miss the chametz.
Diced tomatoes, fresh chiffonade basil and Parmesan for garnish.
First, make your balls! In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, olive oil and seltzer water.
Then add matzo meal, onions, baking powder, salt, Parmesan and chili pepper. Mix just until combined. Do not overmix.
The mixture will be sticky, so refrigerate batter for 30 minutes or up to 4 hours so it is not as sticky.
Bring the stock to a boil in a large stockpot, and then reduce to a simmer.
Shape the matzo mixture into 12 or so 1 ½ -inch balls, flatten, stuff with a piece mozzarella, and refold with the matzo batter to cover the cheese and make a ball and place in the stock. Cover and cook for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, make the tomato soup! In another large stockpot, heat oil over medium heat. Add onion, lower heat to medium low and sauté while stirring for 10 minutes or until onion is translucent and soft. Add the garlic and chili pepper flakes and sauté for 1 more minute.
The add the Parmesan rind, tomatoes and stock and bring to a simmer over medium to medium-high heat. Simmer for 20 minutes until thick and soupy! Cool slightly, remove the Parmesan rind, and blend with an immersion blender or leave chunky. Season with salt and red chili pepper flakes to taste.
To make the matzah grilled cheese, heat 1 tablespoon butter in a large non-stock sauté pan over medium heat. Top 1 piece of broken matzah with cheese and then top with the other half. Cook 1-2 minutes per side until cheese is melty. Repeat with other piece of matzah.
When the matzo balls are cooked, add 2-3 to each bowl for tomato soup, top with tomatoes, basil and Parmesan for garnish and serve with matzah grilled cheese!
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John Robertson's most recent commercial project is paintings for the new MLB Atlanta Braves stadium opening in April 2017 and the remodel of the NFL Green Bay Packers stadium opening in July 2017. He has created work for the Minnesota Vikings Football Stadium ( U.S. Bank Stadium ) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, opening summer of 2016. He also created five large-scale paintings for the new San Francisco 49ers, Levi Stadium. Sports Artist John Robertson has created art for Fox Sports, Fox Sports Net, Prudential Sports Arena (at the time home of the New Jersey Nets and the New Jersey Devils), the Amway Sports Arena, Orlando Florida home of the Orlando Magic and various other commercial projects. He has also created a number of images for private clients.
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I have a dream tucked away in the shadows of my mind but I don't know exactly what it is yet. I'm hoping that one of these days the shadows will lift and the dream will emerge, like an Emerald City glowing in the distance. Meanwhile, it exists out there in the darkness, a land I've never visited in a world that doesn't exist.
I've been thinking about this for two reasons. One has to do with ( sports artist ) John Robertson, whom I'll get to in a minute, and the other with a play at the Ahmanson called "TheFlight of the Lawnchair Man". It was in a trilogy of one-act plays about fate and goals and where life takes us. Sometimes whether we want to go there or not.
In 'Flight," a childlike man named Jerry had always wanted to learn to fly, but his ambition had been thwarted for one reason or another. In middle age, knowing it is then or never, he attaches 400 helium-filled balloons to a lawn chair and drifts off into a fantasy-filled sky, feeling the sun, tasting the distance. When last seen, he was floating away in his dream.
It was a lovely little play that I thought about a lot, because I'm a dreamer too. Most of us are, I think, but we never get around to living our dreams, except for one or two of us who tie balloons to lawn chairs and take to the sky. Which brings me back to John Robertson.
Robertson is 57 and lives in a hilltop house trailer overlooking the ocean. He's a slight man with a graying beard and the kind of enthusiastic attitude that glows in the dark; a guy doing exactly what he should be doing. Robertson paints. Not with fancy oils and acrylics on textured canvas but with house paint on those rolls of canvas you put on the floor when you're redoing the ceiling. It was a question of economics at first. Drop cloths and cans of paint are a lot cheaper than the stuff you buy in art stores. Later it became a choice.
He began painting about a dozen years ago in all kinds of styles and sizes, but what he's become known for are the faces of musicians and writers he puts on 4 1/2-by 6-foot canvases in a techniques vaguely reminiscent of Jackson Pollock's. Faces glow through streaks and lines of color. Mine is one of them.
Robertson heard I was going to read and sign my novel "The Last City Room" at Village Books in the Palisades and asked if he could paint my face to hang in the window. He took a photograph first and painted from that. The somber, meditative visage of a journalist stares out. Me in a darker mood.
He was working as an executive for a large chain furniture store when he became ill. He took six months off then worked part-time for a year and a half. No one has ever figured out what was wrong with him. ...(until later when he was diagnosed with Aerial Fibrillation)... It caused emotional problems, he says, so he went to a psychiatrist who asked him what he'd liked to do as a child. Robertson said he'd always like coloring books. So the shrink said, "Then go color."
A lot of things happened after that. He was fired from his job, his marriage fell apart and he went to see a Van Gogh painting at the Getty. It's called "The Irises," and it took his breath away. "I used to wonder why anyone would spend $50 million for a painting," he said. "Then I saw, 'Irises' and broke into tears. I stood there for two hours just staring at it. I've been trying to create the same emotional feeling ever since."
forests and fields of flowers at first, pursuing the surge of emotion Van Gogh had engendered, like the lawn-chair man searching for something beyond his range of vision. But it was mostly the faces on large canvases that Robertson liked doing, seeking the elusive nature of those whose features he describes in streams of color.
"Life is good," he said the other day. He meant it. Here was a guy who had walked away from a workaday world without looking back. Who discovered a talent he never knew he had, entwined with the dream he never knew he was dreaming. Here was a happy man. He sells enough paintings to pay the rent and buy food. It takes him about three days to do a large portrait, and he'll sell you one for what you earn in your own three days of work. Musicians and writers get them for a little less than, say Bill Gates might pay.
"It's a bohemian life," Robertson says, "I only have time to paint. It's nothing great. I'm just putting paint on canvas. That's what it's all about. That's what I want."
I stopped along the ocean on the way home to think about that, where sky and sea merge in a wash of gradient blues. I stared toward the horizon for a long time, wondering about my own dream. And as I drove away, I couldn't help but envy the lawn-chair man, colored balloons radiant in the sunlight, soaring off toward the far distance.


By the onset of the 2010/11 season, the field was amidst the beginning of the worst austerity driven labor disputes for the last half century. Collective bargaining agreements were being reopened in order to incorporate concessions designed to forestall financial collapse and when stakeholders were unable to reach mutually agreeable terms, vitriolic public disputes erupted, oft accompanied by prolonged work stoppages. Nonetheless, the average orchestra executive experienced a 5.32 percent increase in compensation.
Executive compensation figures were obtained from their respective orchestra's IRS Form 990 for the 2010/11 concert season.
Total Expenditures were also obtained from each respective orchestra's IRS Form 990 for the 2010/11 concert season (due to their relationship within a larger performing arts structure, Total Expenditure figures for National Symphony and Atlanta Symphony are unavailable).
You beat me to it Raymond. That seems crazy out of line. Drew, do you know if there are circumstances that surround Toledo's number that explain it?
According to the 990 form, it appears there was a large one time payment in addition to the annual salary and if I am not mistaken, I believe that was the final season for their long time executive, William Bell. If that's accurate, then the additional payments are likely part of some form of severance, benefit conversion, and/or deferred compensation package.
Typical American farce–the management takes the money, the people who actually do the work(and have some special skills) get screwed. Management is a non-skill. Anyone can manage an orchestra, Hardly anyone can play the French horn really well. American business has committed suicide by paying managers a lot(noticed how nothing is made in the USA any longer?) Orchestras are doing it ,too. 1.6 million to the manager of the LA Phil. What a sick joke.
I think this is an extreme response Robert; although I understand where a visceral response such as this comes from it is important to remember that successfully managing an orchestra is far from easy and a successful executive deserves to be compensation in accordance with his/her success just as the remaining staff and musicians do. At the same time, it is certainly fair to examine the conditions for evaluating and assigning compensation and for stakeholders, having the information is the first step toward determining if the institutional leaders for their respective orchestra is deserving. To that end, transparency promotes accountability, which is a key component to building an institution that maximizes potential, provides a satisfying workplace for all the employees, and advances the art form.
I have no problem with high level managers being well compensated (to a point) as long as they are successful doing their job. In my view their job is to generate enough income so that the organization can support the very best orchestra possible, and that means paying musicians and support staff competitive wages.
If musicians and staff are being asked to take pay cuts and reduction in numbers, then the CEO is failing at the job they are paid to do. In the real world (for profit corporations) CEOs who fail in their job get sacked, not raises.
Well, it is extreme all right because the situation is extreme. America has created for itself–with a lot of help from CEOs and their minions, the illusion that management is what deserves big payoffs and labor deserves very little. Everyone knows this is true. But no one seems to be able to do anything about it. I know a lot of MBAs, Almost any of them could be plopped into a CEO position and do fine. There is a little skill, but not much. On the other hand, most of them are not making anything like CEO salaries. Orchestras are not as bad as other businesses. but the trend is there. It is just stupid to pay an orchestra manager 1.6 million dollars. This is more than any musician except the conductor makes. It is outrageous overpaying. Everyone knows this. It is just that the CEO club has sold this model. The President of the University of California makes more money than any faculty member, even the Nobel Prize winners etc. This is an abuse of the public's money–and in the end, it is ALL the publics money. People do not like this. They just do not know how to stop it. Managers think they are important. But they really are not. The LA Phil was the same (good) orchestra after Fleischmann as during Fleischmann. He thought he was important and he got himself paid a lot, but he was not important at all. Management people are servants. The real work is done by the musicians(and the faculty at universities and the workers in businesses).
I'd gladly pay $1.6 million a year to someone who would make the Minnesota Orchestra as attractive and dynamic an institution as the LA Philharmonic.
It's simply not true that anyone can manage an orchestra. Look at Michael Henson.
You wish! In the business world , executives who bankrupt companies get huge "separation packages" and go their merry ways to other companies, leaving behind defunct pension plans and fired employess. What world do you live in? Check out what happened at United Airlines when they went bankrupt. (I know this directly–I almost bought a house from a United pilot who had had his pension dumped and could not longer afford to live where he had been living for that reason–he had to cash in his equity to survive. Not something that happened to the executives). It is one thing to be screwed. It is another thing not even to know you are being screwed.
fires burning. Management had almost nothing to do with this. Of course management can mess up. But it is not necessary to pay huge salaries to get people that won't mess up. This is the big illusion. When a company does well. everyone says wow that CEO was worth the big bucks. When the company goes belly up and the CEO takes his "separation package", everyone says of oh well it wasn't his fault. One wonders if the people writing here follow what goes on in business in general at all.
Robert, your point is well taken. Sadly.
However, I do stand by my point that if upper mgmt is doing a good job, and the orchestra is thriving, they deserve to be paid well (again, to a point). If the orchestra is not thriving, the CEO should not be getting a raise.
I think orchestra CEO and board performance can be evaluated rationally. This should include "big" personnel decisions (music director, players, programming, financial management, endowment growth and performance, marketing, fund raising, operations, community and audience relations, board composition and management), plus the actual results of these activities. Also a creative vision for what the orchestra and organization will be working toward. Also the ability to create and reinforce a work environment and culture that is effective and builds loyalty. When things are not going well this also includes the ability to fix the problems, which often takes stronger judgement and leadership skills. When these are done well, and if you can identify particular actions that led to good outcomes, then high salaries can be easily justified.
I very much doubt that Deborah Borda is the only CEO who could have managed the LA Phil to its present level (meaning very good artistically and outstanding financially) , but she has been successful with multiple orchestras and has not screwed up anywhere.
Of course, as one from Minneapolis, I keep having to come back to the fiasco with the Minnesota Orchestra. I look at the criteria above and do not see any obvious strengths with Michael Henson other than the ability to gain board support. If you are going to take the risks that Henson and the MOA board did in trying to completely change their relationship with the orchestra musicians, then you had better win and win quickly, and if not you had better have a plan B. If you don't know the risk you are taking, then maybe you shouldn't be in an executive position.
Part of the justification for generous executive salaries is to buy the loyalty of valued employees.
Major league baseball teams at this time of the year place some players on "waivers" either to get rid of them or more often to get a sense of their value in the market. I think it would be useful for the MOA to put Mr. Henson on waivers to see if any other orchestras with open positions would pick him up. Not likely in this country, even if the board chair and the author of the orchestra's strategic plan were thrown in to sweeten the deal.
Here's the difference – mgmt at LA obviously let their conductor (and music director, I'm assuming) have lots of rein to do these things. In contrast, the MOA mgmt basically wants to have total control over EVERYTHING.
I'm thinking that hiring not-top-shelf musicians as orchestra managers isn't a good idea (no names here). In contrast, didn't the Milwaukee Symphony hire one of the musicians as CEO on Edo De Waart's recommendation, and they seem to be very harmonious. I've talked to a former board member who is very pleased with the results, as well as several supporters/donors who feel the same way.
Obviously there was no Plan B. And Henson's past experience managing orchestras isn't all that lengthy, which is why I am wondering why he was hired. Hmmm . . . .
The LAPO has a long history of good management, under Ernest Fleischmann (who was evidently a real SOB but an outstanding manager) and now under Borda. The size of her compensation is a little mysterious, considering that Mark Volpe in Boston and Brent Assink in San Francisco make 1/3 of her salary. Volpe and Assink have both done a superb job of keeping their orchestras financially sound, by increasing the size of their orchestras' endowment during some very tough economic times.
I'm no defender of CEOs, but being an orchestra CEO is a really tough job. Ideally, you would have fabulous people skills, both for fundraising and for leading your board in the right direction while giving them the impression that they are leading. Also, you have to have an understanding of numbers and business and a creative vision that works for both the art form and the public. In my experience observing 6 or so CEOs, noone has it all, and you have to hope that either the organization can cover for them or that they are modest enough to know their limitations and delegate.
Good management is noticeable mostly in its absence.
Can anyone manage an orchestra? I suppose they could try. Do it well? That's another story.
Freudian slip, Drew. Bill Bell was a tuba player – I'm afraid his compensation was unlikely to be at that level. BOB Bell was with the Toledo Symphony for over 50 years starting as a percussionist and finishing with many years as a very successful CEO with a uncanny sense of what his community would and could support.
Freudian slip indeed and thanks for catching that Henry! And for those unaware, I am a tuba player, hence the source for the switch.
OK, I have a beef. The chart at face value is alarming. The executive pay listed in the locked out Minnesota Orchestra makes me wince knowing that their players are currently collecting $0 but behind the numbers is an even more troubling trend. Non-profit boards increasingly are beginning to structure arts organizations after the model of their own for profit companies. Just as in industry, devaluation of the humanity which creates the product, and widening executive to laborer income disparities, are rearing their ugly heads in our business as well.
When searching for any type of senior management, you of course want to attract a great candidate, but where do we draw the line? As musicians (labor), it is very difficult for us to make the argument with boards that the corporate structures in which they work, do not work in the arts. Avoiding discussion of the obvious inequities in corporate America, how do we tell a CEO of a corporation, whose position and inflated salary allows him the ability to serve on an arts board that an arts executive's value is not equivalent?
To a board, there when there is an executive opening, it seems that this is the most vital investment to sustain the health of the organization. Bidding wars, headhunters and consultants to attract a prestigious figurehead is par for the course in the corporate world but can be an absolutely devastating squandering of limited resources in the arts. In both worlds, this is often done with bewildering ignorance of the plight of the laborer struggling to make rent.
Performing musicians are not the only ones to suffer. Those choosing to work within arts administration are most often highly trained former musicians themselves. Especially as they begin their careers, dedicated staff work endless hours beyond the workday and through the weekends for pitifully small salaries, because they too passionately love music and solemnly believe in the importance of music to our society.
I recently observed the following scenario in a small regional orchestra which plays ~10 weeks/year. From the looks of some of these figures, it is representative of priorities throughout our industry. The average member of this orchestra makes about $4,000 annually. Many staff work year round for wages which could not bring keep a small family much above the poverty line. Musician and staff pay was frozen, some for half a decade, with a skeleton staff working overtime to keep the ship afloat after a steady office exodus to better employment opportunities.
When faced with vacant executive positions, even with the ship piloted admirably by a small but dedicated staff, alarm bells rang and blood magically appeared from what staff and musicians had been told was an utterly barren stone. Suddenly, while educational concerts were cancelled and musicians were being asked for yet more seasons without even a token increase, huge investments were made in ineffective search firms, executive courtship visits, consultants, board expense accounts and commitments to bolster the salaries of un-named and unproven employees yet to be hired.
Where was this healthy six figure investment before? Why does the allure of a new Messiah warrant such great investment in a roll of the dice which could end up being a dud? Why the ambivalence about the humanity which has weathered the storm and is still committed? Why not invest in and promote from within the organization those who already possess the institutional knowledge and have proven their dedication to the mission to gain traction for an already moving train instead of starting from a dead stop anew?
So, back to that chart. It illustrates executive pay vs the total budget of the orchestra. Especially when viewed through the lens of the trying economic times of 2010/11, when so many collective bargaining agreements around the country got clobbered, any increases are suspect. However, those of us in the business can also look at those numbers with a good basic understanding of what the average player makes in those orchestras. This is where the smaller orchestras show the greatest income disparity between the executive and labor.
How can we ask a potential donor in good conscience to "support your local orchestra" when even the board of directors would rather invest in anything but the people who create and support the music? What happens to the artistic integrity of the orchestral product we all hope to promote with a demoralized workforce? How effective is a staff which feels under-appreciated in promoting and supporting the orchestra?
Do we want inspired and passionate executives to lead our organizations? Of course, but at what cost? Orchestras earn zero revenue selling tickets to watch an ED do his job and it is the experience of an orchestra on stage which generates the contributed income. Let's get our priorities straight.
Those are all good questions and exactly the sort of topics stakeholders should be discussing at their own institutions and along with the cost issues are those of accountability.


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Regarding the 39,763 new domestic cases, 18,003 are male and 21,746 are female, while the gender of the other 14 cases is under investigation. They range in age from under five to above 90 years. Of those domestic cases, 7,431 were reported in New Taipei City, 5,196 in Taichung City, 4,687 in Kaohsiung City, 4,062 in Taoyuan City, 3,781 in Taipei City, 3,394 in Tainan City, 2,191 in Changhua County, 1,384 in Pingtung County, 909 in Hsinchu County, 869 in Yunlin County, 869 in Hsinchu City, 828 in Miaoli County, 728 in Nantou County, 686 in Yilan County, 684 in Chiayi County, 552 in Keelung City, 480 in Hualien County, 468 in Chiayi City, 269 in Taitung County, 139 in Kinmen County, 136 in Penghu County, and 20 in Lienchiang County.
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Looks like even if one has declared <action android:name="android.media.action.IMAGE_CAPTURE" /> in the AndroidManifest.xml, only standard pre-installed camera app can handle the intent.
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