This was the former Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Company mill, and I mentioned in an earlier post that in an interesting Twin Peaks-related twist, some of the timber that used to hold up the lumber mill is now used in the shed protecting the Giant Log from the opening credits. So it all comes full circle.
Funnily enough, the mill grounds are now part of a rally racing circuit.
But yeah, the mill itself is basically gone. In fact, it was mostly gone already during season one of the show, when it was downsized into a much smaller mill.
The giant log as seen in the Twin Peaks credits sequence is still there in Snoqualmie, exactly where it always was, but it looks quite a bit different than it did in the series.
While the series had it sitting imposingly out in the open on a cart on the tracks, the town of Snoqualmie has now built a protective shed around it along with viewing benches and a large iron fence. This has the effect of diminishing its stature, although it was probably a necessary evil as rain is the enemy of dead wood and even with the fence, kids are still figuring out ways to write graffiti on the log. That damn Bobby Briggs!
You can see that the log itself has deteriorated somewhat, but the telltale bark pattern on the left side of the log is still there, as are the holes for the 2x4's that used to hold it steady. It's clearly the same log; time has just had its way.
The Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Company sawmill is the Packard Sawmill. In the lower right box there, you see that the timbers used in the building of this woodshed were recycled from the remnants of the old mill. So even the shed here has a connection to the TV show - this same wood may have been seen in the Packard Sawmill interior in the pilot episode!
I'll have more on what's left of the Packard Sawmill in another post.
One of the central events of the Twin Peaks pilot was when a partially clothed and obviously battered Ronette Pulaski stumbled across this railway bridge the day after Laura Palmer's murder, then immediately fell into a coma. Their cases must be related, but how? Their fellow students all agreed the two girls barely knew each other. Ah, yet another piece of the mystery unfolds!
We stumbled onto this bridge by accident, although we had planned to seek it out eventually. But it is literally down the road from the Twin Peaks welcome sign - as we were driving, it suddenly appeared out of the wilderness in front of us.
As a New Yorker, I like to think of this as "The Ronette Pulaski Bridge" - that sounds fitting and familiar to me. Its real name is the "Reinig Bridge", and it was originally a trunk line meant to shuttle lumber from the Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Company mill (aka the Packard Sawmill).
In person, it's obvious to me why Lynch and/or Frost wanted to use this bridge in the show. It sticks out oddly as a dilapidated, imposing, industrial structure in the middle of beautiful forest greenery.
Agent Cooper's go-to place for a damn fine cup of coffee and a slice of cherry pie still exists, and in fact looks basically like it did in the show. Its real name is now Twede's Cafe, formerly the Mar-T (or T-Mar, depending on who you ask) after an ownership change or two over the years.
Twede's is in North Bend, one of the two main towns that make up the "town" of Twin Peaks.
You will notice the "RR2GO" graphic above - in fact this is one of the few Twin Peaks locations that really embraces its connection to the show.
Some may actually find this off-putting - it's clearly a tourist attraction at this point. We were surprised that that was still the case, 25 years later. But the waitstaff told us they got Twin Peaks fans from all over the world.
BUT - and this is a big BUT - they do have a damn fine cup of coffee and the best cherry pie this side of the Mississippi.
Yes, it really is amazing pie. My wife and I even went to our favorite local bakery after coming back just to make sure, and their pie IN NO WAY COMPARED.
The pilot episode was filmed inside the real Mar-T Cafe, on location as most of the pilot was. Obviously, that meant a lot of traipsing around the Pacific Northwest with heavy equipment, not to mention the framing and lighting challenges that seem obvious above. But if you were to visit the Mar-T Cafe right after the pilot filmed, it would have looked exactly the same as the show inside.
In fact, it's now laid out and styled pretty much just as it originally was, with most of the same decor, right down to the wood paneling. (The wall to wall carpeting is gone, with a floor more of an homage to the later episodes - an understandable tradeoff.) There does seem to be one fewer stool - I'm not sure if the counter is smaller or there's just more space between stools.
This apparently was actually paid for by Showtime specifically for the Twin Peaks reboot. Lucky timing on our part! But it is a permanent remodel.
The Double-R in Twin Peaks was a set in California after the pilot episode, rebuilt there for ease in filming and transport costs, and consequently the diner you see through most of the series - while the actual Mar-T/Twede's Cafe exterior - is actually quite a bit bigger inside. It's styled to look like Twede's, but just keep in mind it is a set, lest you start wondering why certain things don't look quite right ("there are too many booths!" or "there's too much space in front of the jukebox!" or "why don't they ever show the view out the windows?").
We even felt like we got the full waitress experience - I'm sure our particular waitress is probably sick to death of hearing it, but she was a pretty good ringer for Shelly Johnson. Unfortunately the waitstaff no longer wear those 50's style uniforms - they should!
They have t-shirts in black and green as well, all with different designs. I liked this one the best. Unfortunately it runs a bit small, so it's probably just a souvenir now - wore it once and that's probably it. If only Twede's had a web store, I'd get another one a size up.
The Twin Peaks Roadhouse is one of those locations I almost didn't think of as worth visiting - it looks nothing like the show inside, it's been painted green since the show, and I somehow knew they were actually showing the back of it in the series. It was even called the Colonial Inn until very recently.
The exteriors used in the show were filmed a little further to the back (this is mostly the right side of the building; the back side is on the left), but there's now a gate and fence there that prevents you from moving any further. I'm guessing they used this angle both for the unpaved parking lot (the other side has a paved parking lot) and the fact that it hides the road out front, especially when filmed at night as it typically was.
Yes, it is actually popular with bikers!
That's the Roadhouse Burger with caramelized onions added.
The interiors of the Roadhouse were actually filmed in Seattle, at a place that was once a gay bar but is now apparently a dance studio. I didn't visit there.
The beginning of the pilot episode opens with Pete Martell discovering Laura Palmer's body just outside his home at the Blue Pine Lodge, setting off the central mystery of the entire series. Her body had been deposited along the river banks at high tide next to an enormous toppled log.
These scenes were filmed at the real-life Kiana Lodge in Poulsbo, Washington, one of the more faraway locations from the rest of the "town" in the series. Even in the series it looks like it's probably on the outskirts, but Kiana Lodge is literally about 60 miles away from Snoqualmie and North Bend, on the other side of Seattle!
Believe it or not, Kiana Lodge is mainly a wedding space. It's rentable for events, but it's marketed specifically for wedding planners. No, nobody lives there (that I know of) - it's not a private house, though it is private property and we called while on our way just to make sure that nothing was going on that day and that the staff wouldn't mind us poking around a bit. They were very nice and even directed us how to get to the (in)famous log.
There are actually several buildings at Kiana Lodge - the one shown in Twin Peaks as Pete's, Catherine's and Josie's residence is the one closest to the water (making for the best on-camera views). Fittingly, they were doing wood-cutting while we were there!
They've done some work since the show, and the lodge looks a bit different now. Its basic structure is instantly recognizable, though, and the totem pole is still there.
Laura's log is just to the right of the above photo - in the image at the top of the post, you can see the lodge peeking out to the right of Pete's head. The log is literally just across from the lodge.
And here's the log itself. To think, Sheryl Lee was lying right there.
The text says "A pivotal scene in Twin Peaks' pilot episode was filmed here in 1989. Laura Palmer was discovered right next to the immense log tethered before you."
There's the Blue Pine/Kiana Lodge with the log next to it.
Funny story: when jumping off that 2 foot high wall above the beach, I did a total faceplant. Sand and rocks all over myself and my camera. There's a lot of seaweed down there and the rocks are such that you can't really predict how your feet will sink in. So now I can say I faceplanted on Laura Palmer's beach!
Again, this may not be the same branch (remember there's been 25 years worth of extra growth, though), but there were only about three there hanging out like this and this one had the best angle. The real branch may have been cut, or it may have actually been a different branch that they held out at a specific angle. It's really impossible to know, but it was definitely one of the branches from one of the trees in this specific spot.
The Real Twin Peaks: Welcome!
When Showtime announced a new season of the David Lynch/Mark Frost-helmed TV show "Twin Peaks" more than 25 years after its last, I'm pretty sure I squealed like a little schoolgirl. This has always been my favorite show of all time, and I'd always wanted to visit the various real-world locations used in the pilot and throughout the series. If you've never seen it before, do both me and yourself a favor and check it out on Netflix, because the next ten or so posts here are all going to be about it.
Did you know that most of these locations are still there? In fact, many of them barely look any different than they do in the show. Some things have changed, but many locations are surprisingly well-preserved after a quarter century. I was finally able to visit them just last week, along with some of the famous locations in Poulsbo and Fall City, and my plan is to show them to you starting now.
There are other web sites out there that go in-depth with the many shooting locations of the show, both in Washington state and in California. (Only the pilot and prequel film were shot on location in Washington, with the series itself mainly shot on sets in California, using previously-shot footage from Washington for exterior establishing shots). I didn't visit every single location and I'm not going to go that in-depth. But many of those web sites are several years old - some almost a decade old! While they definitely helped me in finding some of these places, I want to show you how the locations I visited look today, in 2016, and how they may look (assuming some of them are used again) in the upcoming season of the show.
A little more growth (and a tree or two cut down over time), but overall still looks pretty close, right?
This spot is not that difficult to find - believe it or not, it is actually searchable in Google Maps!
In reality, it's one of the many turnouts on the roads in this area, where cars can either park for scenic views or turn around. In fact, this spot is really impressive in real life, as many of the real-world locations are. Those mountains loom large - something that doesn't come across on a small TV screen. The real-world beauty of this entire area just can't be stressed enough, and it's obvious when visiting all of these locations why Lynch fell in love with Twin Peaks.
The sign spot is actually just down the road from Ronette Pulaski's bridge, which we found by chance on the way to this turnout. Watch for that in a later post!
I'll have more very soon.


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TBILISI, DFWatch–83 percent of residents in Marneuli, a city in southern Georgia, are Azerbaijanis.
Nearby villages are inhabited by Azerbaijanis too. Lack of knowledge of the official language, deficit of jobs, almost nonexistent infrastructure – this is a short list of the problems that people living here complain about.
Also, there are issues that Azerbaijanis do not often pay attention to, busy as they are with handling day to day challenges.
One of these issues is gender equality. Even in the city Marneuli, which is a bit more developed than nearby villages, men's approach to women's rights is that they think women should only be concerned about family and children. They think this is a tradition and does not need to be changed.
But women are of a different opinion. Turac Ibrahimova is 26 years old and this is the 8th year she has been earning her own money. She's a deputy coordinator at Marneuli Center for Civil Engagement/USAID and often has to organize presentations and events related to gender issues. Turac says, even the meetings, held to inform women, men attend without their wives, who are left at home.
Turac found her first job at Marneuli TV after attending English and computer courses. The courses were free, provided by Azerbaijani Women Union, but only a few girls studied with Turac.
There are 8 schools in Marneuli, and at 3 of them the study language is Georgian. The Georgian University in Marneuli was closed, and now here are only two universities left: Ukraine University and Heidar Aliev Univeristy.
"In these universities, the teaching language is not Georgian. Even in the schools, pupils study in Georgian only till 5th or 6th grade, then it's getting harder to study physics or chemistry, so parents transfer their children to Azerbaijani Schools. That's why the older generation does not know the state language, but youngsters started learning it," Turac said.
The government's new initiative "4+1" has been implemented since 2010. The program was developed especially for ethnic minorities who pass entrance exams at Georgian state universities. The first year, these students are taught only Georgian language, and after that they are allowed to start their four-year bachelor course.
Sabina Talibova, an active member of several NGOs that work on women's rights, thinks that this program has caused changes in the state language studying process and gender issues.
"It's very good that students have to visit Tbilisi daily. They perceive themselves more as a part of the country, become more independent, make new friends, etc. They are eager to study," Sabina said.
Kizil-ajlo is one of the biggest villages near Marneuli. Besides, it's very close to the city, Turaj says. Here people do not think women need education and they support marriage at an early age.
One street in Kizil-Ajlo that ends at school is quite long and small houses are lined along both sides of it. Men can be found in cars or at Chaikhana (tea house). Gates are permanently opened and closed, women work, come out in the street for the water that flows all along the street in a small channel.
As soon as women see strangers, they close the gates and hide in the houses. Even when we managed to get closer to a few women, they refused to talk to us and said that they don't know Georgian or Russian.
Only one girl, who did not introduce herself, said that even if women knew the language, they would not speak with journalists.
"Probably, if I was born here, I would not talk to you too, but I grew up in Moscow, I know Russian. Then I fell in love and got married, moved to Marneuli with my husband and then we came to live here […] There is nowhere to work here, so I'm unemployed, as my husband," she said.
"In some families, the husband is unemployed and does not let his wife work, too, and thinks it is a shame. Only being a teacher is not disgraceful, it's considered a woman's job," Sabina said. She is a 24 year old teacher who lives in the village Sabirkenti, near Marneuli, and works in the schools very close to her house.
Her husband is an employed engineer. Sabina says she feels fine in her village and belongs to a small group of women living here who do not have problems.
"In the school where I work, there are four girls in 8th grade who are married. One of them is pregnant. (…) Girls get married early, at the age 13-15, because they want to," said Sabina.
"After marriage which mother-in-law will allow a girl to study? […] Only a few girls who are married are employed, and the number of girls who are single and work is very low too," Turac said.
Sabina Talibova claims women can have an affect on their spouses and change their attitude. She tells of how she overcame her husband's resistance to accompanying her on business trips.
According to Sabina, in the past women preferred to be silent even when they were victims of family violence, while nowadays approximately every fifth or sixth family is breaking up because women have a feeling of protest. Even though Sabina thinks divorce is not the best option, she considers women's protest to be a positive process.
"Women who are victims of violence are often afraid to file for a divorce due to their fear of ruining their public image, also the organization/administrative body which would support the woman who is left alone with kids is non-existent. The court decision obligating a husband to pay child support/alimony also needs time. Even in case such a decision exists, if a man is unable to pay, he usually prefers to go to prison. The amount of alimony varies from 50 to 100 lari, and 100 lari is not enough to raise a child," Sabina says, and adds that divorced women are mainly supported by their parents.
She thinks Turkish soap operas greatly contributed to these changes, because women might even know they have rights but be unable to make use of them. When Azeri women see how women defend themselves in a neighboring country, they repeat those actions themselves. Their attitude towards education has also been altered, girls prefer to get education instead of getting married.
"In the village Sadakhlo I have witnessed how boys make fun of girls: 'They are wearing trousers, going to Tbilisi, as if they will become professors. Who is going to marry them?' However the number of such girls increases, it's like a virus, and boys will have to marry one of those girls one day," says Sabina.
However, she still thinks th echanges should come from a different direction.
"The problem will not be solved before women are involved in the local government. Moreover, local government budget should be organized along gender lines," she says.


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Jaime ManriqueJAIME MANRIQUE is the author of "Our Lives Are the Rivers," a historical novel about Manuela Saenz, the great love of Simon Bolivar.
I RECENTLY RETURNED from a visit to La Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino, a former sugar plantation on Colombia's Caribbean coast. It is where Gen. Simon Bolivar, liberator of five South American nations, died of tuberculosis on Dec. 17, 1830, at the age of 47. At the time of his death, Bolivar was preparing to go into exile in Europe. The country he had liberated from the rule of the Spanish crown 10 years earlier had come to revile him. More crushingly, it had become clear to Bolivar that it was just a matter of time before his creation, Gran Colombia, would be dissolved. He had dreamed that the unification of Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador would equal in might the great powers of Europe and the emerging United States.
More than 170 years later, Bolivar's influence in South American politics has never been greater. In the Andean nations, newly elected presidents and large numbers of young people call themselves Bolivarianos and invoke his name when criticizing U.S. foreign policy. The cells of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, call themselves Milicias Bolivarianas. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has turned Bolivar into the patron saint of his Revolucion Bolivariana. If Bolivar were alive today, he probably would be baffled by how his name is being invoked.
The liberator was a visionary thinker, an eloquent writer and a nobleman who sacrificed his wealth, health and family for the cause of independence from Spain. But he was also full of contradictions, which may help explain why his name has been co-opted for quite different purposes.
FARC began as an army of peasants who took up arms to defend themselves during the period known in Colombia as La Violencia. Later, it evolved into a Marxist guerrilla group advocating the overthrow of Colombia's ruling class. Today, in addition to its penchant for violence, FARC is responsible for exporting 50% of the cocaine consumed worldwide. It's hard to believe that Bolivar would condone FARC's methods and ideals.
Chavez, on the other hand, uses the liberator's legacy to chastise the Venezuelan and Latin American oligarchies, conveniently downplaying that Bolivar was born into one the wealthiest families in Venezuela. The war he waged against the Spanish empire for the liberation of South America was not exactly fought to bring economic and social justice to the masses, the central goal of Chavez's Revolucion Bolivariana. Rather, Bolivar's larger goal was to ensure that the criollos -- descendants of the Spaniards born on South American soil -- had the same rights as the Spaniards.
The mestizos -- the fusion of European, African and Indian races -- were not one of Bolivar's main concerns. Further, even though Bolivar was an abolitionist and promised to abolish slavery, near the end of his life he asked the forgiveness of South American Indians for having paid so little attention to their needs. Bolivar's position on race issues -- like Thomas Jefferson, he was a slave owner -- makes us feel uncomfortable. His disdain toward Colombian Gen. Francisco de Paula Santander, who would become his mortal enemy, was not only because of Santander's advocacy of the American model of democracy and his lack of a European education but also because of his Indian ancestry.
Bolivar's European education accentuated his natural reserve, which made him incapable of demagoguery and populist speechifying. He never viscerally connected with the Colombian people, who preferred pomp and flowery speeches from their rulers. Chavez's brand of populism -- a blend of Castro and Peron histrionics -- would put off Bolivar.


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Last week, we went to the first family camp of the year. We plan to attend three different weekends of camp this year, hosted by two camps for families dealing with brain tumors. The first was Jack's Camp, hosted by a support group called We Can. The camp site, Camp Arroyo, is run by the YMCA and The Taylor Family Foundation, and hosts camps for kids with special needs through the year. The camp founder, Elaine Taylor, had a nephew named Jack with a brain tumor, so she decided to invite a group to use their camp in order to support the kids and families in the area.
The view from the dining hall patio
Past the pool, over the whole Livermore Valley
Scarlett exploring our cabin.
Watching the campfire
The camp is beautiful. It is in Livermore, about 20 minutes from us. It overlooks the hills, valleys and vineyards in the area. There are wild turkeys and deer wandering through the camp, and there is plenty of space for kids to run around. Campers stay in cabins with solar-powered radiant-heated floors, huge handicapped-accessible tile bathrooms and bunkbeds, and eat in the big dining hall where healthy food is prepared for us.
Meeting the chickens at the all-organic camp garden
Adventures for mommy and daddy, too! We got to do climbing and a zipline during one of the parent sessions.
During the weekend, the camp staff and volunteers take the kids, both patients and siblings, to play while parents share their stories and share information, resources and support. Meeting other parents (and their kids) is an invaluable part of these camps. There are many issues we are dealing with for Scarlett that only others with similar issues can understand. And, since Scarlett is the youngest in the group, we get a lot more insight into the issues that kids who have been through similar treatments are facing as they get older.
It is emotionally draining, but also gives us a new energy to find new resources and solutions to the problems that we are all struggling with. The children we see now, including Scarlett, are part of a trailblazing group; they are some of the first to survive these tumors, and there is no structure to support them yet. The treatments our kids are going through, and especially what was done 10-15 years ago, has life-long effects; very few of the kids are able to lead independent adult lives. It is up to parents like those we meet at camp, whose kids are becoming some of the first adult survivors of childhood brain cancer, to lay the groundwork for what we hope will continue to be a supportive community for kids who have undergone such drastic treatments.
In a few weeks, we will go to a different camp, and then in September, we will get to visit Jack's Camp again. We feel very grateful that these camps offer these weekends to us - some of our only chances to get away - for minimal cost to us. We look forward to them all year, and are so glad that camp season has arrived!
How amazing there are camps like this out there available at a low cost. I hope you are rested a wee bit from your time away.
Praying for you Scarlett.
It's June! said...
Glad you had this time to recup and get some support!

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STRASBOURG, France - Kristyna Pliskova recovered from a tough first round win less than 24 hours ago to dispatch Olympic Gold medalist Monica Puig, 6-2, 6-3, to reach the quarterfinals at the Internationaux de Strasbourg.
"It's my first quarterfinal here, and I don't even know who I play!" she joked after the match.
Pliskova has long excelled on quicker surfaces, reaching the third round at both Wimbledon and the Australian Open, but has begun coming into her own on clay, powering into her second WTA final at the J&T Banka Prague Open three weeks ago.
.@KrisPliskova gets on top of the forehand!
She and Puig last played at the 2016 Australian Open, where the Czech youngster struck a record 31 aces in a heartbreaking three-set loss.
"I remember the match. It was a big one, and I had a few match point. I expected a tough match today because she's a good player. She's, like, shooting the ball, playing so fast. It was a bit windy today, so it wasn't easy at all. But I'm happy it was in two sets."
.@KrisPliskova advances to @WTA_Strasbourg Quarterfinals!
Karolina's twin sister didn't break any records today, but nonetheless played a pretty clean match, striking 13 aces and hitting 22 winners to 25 unforced errors, and saving all seven break points she faced.
Up next, she plays either Magda Linette or defending champion and No.5 seed, Caroline Garcia.
"Whenever I want to play someone, they end up losing, so I don't know who I prefer. I'll watch some of the match before I play doubles."


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Local Non-Profit Lender, Justine PETERSEN, Participates In National Program Improving Capital Access For Small And Micro Businesses
$2.7 Million Sam's Club Giving Program Grant Fuels TILT Forward Initiative
Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO)
ST. LOUIS, June 9, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Justine PETERSEN, a non-profit lender based in St. Louis, announced today that it is participating in the TILT Forward Initiative, which has received a $2.7 million grant from the Sam's Club Giving Program to improve access to capital for millions of small business owners and entrepreneurs across the country.
Launched by the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO), the TILT Forward Initiative brings best-in-class product, capital and marketing solutions to a network of community and non-profit lenders, such as Justine PETERSEN. The Initiative allows small businesses, including 11 million Main Street businesses located in underserved communities, to have better, quicker and fairly-priced access to capital.
"As a lender that is forever in need of an additional source of capital to meet the seemingly unabated demand from small businesses, we at Justine PETERSEN view the TILT Forward Initiative as a vital part of the solution to this capitalization conundrum," said Rob Boyle, founder and CEO of Justine PETERSEN.
During a TILT Forward pilot program, more than $1 million in loans were originated by Justine PETERSEN, and The Intersect Fund in New Jersey, two high-performing non-profit lenders known as CDFIs (community development financial institutions). AEO licensed the technology enabling the screening, servicing and underwriting of loans from OnDeck® (NYSE: ONDK), a leading platform for small business loans.
The $2.7 million grant from the Sam's Club Giving Program is enabling AEO to launch TILT Forward nationwide.
AEO President and CEO Connie Evans said the TILT Forward Initiative addresses a "market failure" in business lending, noting that 8,000 business loan applications are declined each work day by financial institutions, according to the Treasury Department. Those declines cause an estimated capital shortfall of $44 to $52 billion annually, which is slowing job growth and negatively impacting the nation's economy.
"The TILT Forward Initiative is a cross-sector collaboration with non-profit lenders that will provide community and non-profit lenders, such as Justine PETERSEN, with cutting edge technology and innovative products to simplify the loan process, help create jobs, and boost local economies," Evans said. "We want to remove the barriers for small businesses so their owners can do what they do best: run their businesses."
Michael Temm, owner of Wedding Wonderland Cake Shop in Florissant, Missouri, is a Justine PETERSEN client. When a local wholesale cake shop went out of business, his bakery picked up 33 new accounts. But Mr. Temm had to max out his credit cards to purchase more equipment to service the new customers. He also needed the funds to pay his employees. After paying back high interest credit cards for several years, he sought bank loans, but was repeatedly turned down despite his good credit.
Finally, a local bank told Temm about TILT Forward. He was approved, and within days the funds were deposited into his account and his business was on the road to solvency. "It wasn't stressful at all," he said. "It was a hassle to apply to the traditional banks. It's wonderful to know that I can go back to the same program and get the funds that I need to keep growing my business."
AEO, a trade association representing more than 400 mission-driven lenders and business support organizations, developed the TILT Forward Initiative to help community and non-profit lenders and business service providers dramatically expand their capacity to empower entrepreneurs to start and grow businesses. The program benefits small businesses and microbusinesses (businesses with five or fewer employees) from coast to coast.
To learn more or schedule an interview with Rob Boyle, please contact Galen Gondolfi, Justine PETERSEN'S chief communications officer, at 314-565-2223 or Kimberly N. Alleyne at [email protected] 202-650-5580, X56.
Learn more about Tilt Forward at http://www.tiltforward.com/.
Learn more about the Association for Enterprise Opportunity at http://www.aeoworks.org/.
Galen Gondolfi, 314-565-2223
Kimberly N. Alleyne
[email protected] 202-650-5580, X56
SOURCE Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO)
http://www.aeoworks.org/


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Apollo is the first app to use the depth data of your portrait mode photos to calculate photorealistic light and shadow. Using a proprietary processing algorithm running on your iPhone's graphics card, Apollo is able to render light sources on a portrait scene or selfie in real time.
Apollo allows professional photographers and amateurs alike to try things that are not possible in the physical world. You can shape scene lighting by adding or even removing light. Since lights are computationally rendered in the scene, it is possible to put a light source within the frame: say hello to invisible lamps!
The UI is optimised for use with one thumb, allowing you to always view the entire photo. One price, no in-app purchases and no subscriptions.
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David Haye vs Joe Fournier: Hayemaker eyes a future fight with Lennox Lewis
Published: 19 Aug 2021, 9:29
David Haye says he would love to fight Lennox Lewis in the future after his comeback fight against Joe Fournier.
The former heavyweight champion announced his retirement from boxing after back-to-back losses to Tony Bellew because of injuries.
Haye will now face close friend and billionaire Fournier on September 11 but has already set his sights on another super-fight if he emerges relatively unscathed.
"Now I have to admit that if this goes great then exceptional circumstances could trigger another five to ten percent chance of me doing something more serious," he told The Daily Mail.
And asked for a potential opponent, he said: "Lennox. I've always idolised him.
"In all honesty, I wouldn't be able to resist the honour of sharing a ring with this giant of the game who is not only one of the best heavyweights of all time but in my opinion arguably the greatest British boxer ever."
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Lewis, for his part, has repeatedly teased a comeback over the last few years and recently claimed he has 'unfinished business' with his old heavyweight rival Riddick Bowe.
The 55-year-old became the first British fighter to become undisputed heavyweight champion when he outpointed the dangerous Evander Holyfield in November 1999.
When asked if he would consider a return to the ring, he replied via The Daily Express: "Sure! It seems like a lot of fun.
"You look at Mike Tyson, he's been doing a lot of different things.
"He's been doing wrestling, he's been doing acting, he had his own one-man-band show, he knows about entertaining people.
"He knows what to do in these types of situations.
"Let me tell you, when I was commentating for HBO I thought they had me commentating to put me right next to the action so I'd feel like coming back.
"But I just never caught it, it was never a thing. I looked at the history of why boxers came back and most came back because they had nothing else to do.
"It doesn't do better for them, it makes them look bad so I always stayed away. But, you know, if it's right I may come back.
"There's been talk that Riddick Bowe wants to fight me still, there's some unfinished business there."
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Most of us occassionally have the unfortunate experience of having our airsoft gun jam on us, so when this happens, how do we fix it?
3. Turn your hop-up all the way OFF. Neglecting to do this could result in damage to your hop-up bucking or the hop-up itself.
4. Take your unjamming rod (you should have recieved one in the package with your airsoft gun) and carefully take the wedge shaped end and run it down the barrel. Once you get to where the bbs are jammed, gently ram the rod against the jammed bbs a few times and they should come out.
Now that we have learned how to unjam our airsoft gun, let's take a look at how we can aviod jams in the first place.
1. Use only HIGH-GRADE BB's!! This is one of THE most important aspects. In addition to preventing jams, high quality bbs will also help you get the best performance out of your airsoft weapon.
2. Keep your gun barrel clean; be careful not to get dirt or other debris in the barrel. It is also a good idea to clean your barrel fairly often, after every few games or so.


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Karl May ist eine sechsteilige deutsche Miniserie, die 1992 im ZDF ausgestrahlt wurde. Sie basiert auf Karl Mays Autobiographie "Ich", die als Band 34 in den Gesammelten Werken Karl Mays erschien. Regie führte Klaus Überall.

Handlung
Das Leben von Karl May (als Kind: Florian Knorn; als Jugendlicher: André Wiedner; als Erwachsener: Henry Hübchen), der in großer Armut aufwächst, bis zu seinem fünften Lebensjahr blind ist und viele Rückschläge hinnehmen muss, bis er seinen ersten Abenteuerroman veröffentlicht. Zu seiner Familie gehören sein Vater Heinrich August (Hanns-Jörn Weber), seine Mutter Christiane Wilhelmine (Petra Kelling) und die Großmutter (Evamaria Bath). Emma (Ulrike Mai) ist Karls erste Frau, nach der Scheidung heiratet er ihre Freundin Klara (Anne-Kathrein Kretzschmar).

Die Serie mit dreiviertelstündigen Folgen wurde anlässlich des 150. Geburtstags des Dichters gedreht. Sie lief samstags am Vorabend.

Kindheit (1842–1856)
In seiner "Villa Shatterhand" in Radebeul berichtet Karl May im März 1912, kurz vor seinem Tod, einem Journalisten aus seinem Leben. In Rückblenden erfährt man, dass der populärste deutschsprachige Autor 1842 in ärmlichen Verhältnissen als Sohn eines Webers und einer Hebamme in dem Städtchen Ernstthal (Hohenstein-Ernstthal) bei Chemnitz geboren wurde. Bis zu seinem fünften Lebensjahr ist er blind, und von seinen 13 Geschwistern sterben neun schon im Kleinkindalter; nur drei Schwestern wachsen mit ihm auf. Der strenge Vater will, dass sein einziger Sohn "etwas Besseres" wird. Nicht selten handgreiflich bleut er ihm das Wissen ein. Privatunterricht muss er sich als Kegeljunge verdienen. In den Pausen im Wirtshaus-Hinterzimmer schmökert er in Abenteuerromanen. Seine ohnehin blühende Phantasie wird auch von Märchen, die seine Großmutter erzählt, und von Anekdoten über blutrünstige Indianer und rachedurstige Beduinen beflügelt.

Für die Rolle des so komplexen Charakters Karl May fiel die Wahl auf Henry Hübchen, zu Drehbeginn 1990 Schauspieler an der Ost-Berliner Volksbühne. Besonders gereizt hat den damals 40-Jährigen die Aufgabe, sowohl den jungen als auch den alten Karl May zu verkörpern.

Gedreht wurde an den Schauplätzen, die Mays Leben prägten: im Erzgebirge, wo er geboren wurde und seine Jugend verbrachte, sowie in Dresden und Umgebung, wohin er später übersiedelte.

Seminar und Lehrzeit (1856–1862)
Mit 14 Jahren, nach seinem Schulabschluss, schicken die Eltern Karl May auf ein Seminar nach Waldenburg. Lehrer soll der einzige Sohn werden, "etwas Besseres" als die armen Weber. Auf dem streng geführten Seminar ist Karl als Armeleutekind sofort der große Außenseiter. Er wird von Mitschülern und Lehrern schikaniert und zieht sich in die Welt seiner Phantasie zurück, schreibt erste Geschichten. Eine erste Anstellung als Hilfslehrer an der Mädchenschule in Glauchau dauert kaum 14 Tage, dann ertappt ihn sein Vermieter mit dessen junger Frau. Die Folge: Rausschmiss – auch an der Schule. Die nächste Anstellung an einer Fabrikschule findet bereits unter Vorbehalt statt. Schon bald gerät er unter sehr mysteriösen Umständen mit dem Gesetz in Konflikt. Sein Weg in die Kriminalität beginnt.

Vagabunden- und Haftzeit (1862–1874)
Karl May hat sechs Wochen im Chemnitzer Gefängnis zugebracht, weil er angeblich die Taschenuhr eines Mitbewohners unrechtmäßig benutzt hat. Daraufhin wird ihm untersagt, weiterhin als Lehrer zu unterrichten. Zunächst schlägt er sich noch mit dem Vortrag eigener Gedichte und als Chorleiter durch, doch bald beginnt er mit Hochstapeleien und Diebstählen. Als falscher Arzt untersucht er einen Kranken und schreibt ein (richtiges) Rezept aus, in Chemnitz erschwindelt er Pelze, und als er auch in Leipzig mit einem simplen Trick einen teuren Pelzmantel ergaunern will, wird er geschnappt und zu vier Jahren Arbeitshaus verurteilt, aus dem er wegen guter Führung vorzeitig entlassen wird.

Redakteur und Schriftsteller (1874–1882)
Karl May hat als Wiederholungstäter wegen Betrügereien, die man heute eher als Köpenickiaden bezeichnen würde, vier Jahre im Zuchthaus gesessen. Als er entlassen wird, ist er 32 Jahre alt. Siebeneinhalb davon hat er hinter Gittern verbracht. Erste schriftstellerische Versuche sind in dieser Zeit entstanden, und Heinrich Münchmeyer, ein Dresdner Kolportage-Verleger, ist auf ihn aufmerksam geworden. Er bietet ihm an, bei ihm als Redakteur zu arbeiten; May greift freudig zu und geht in die sächsische Hauptstadt. Da er jedoch in seiner Heimatstadt Ernstthal unter Polizeiaufsicht steht, muss er dorthin zurück, führt aber seine Geschäfte aus seinem Elternhaus weiter. Er verliebt sich in die 14 Jahre jüngere Emma Pollmer, die bei ihrem Großvater, einem Barbier in Ernstthal lebt. Gegen dessen Willen zieht die Lokalschönheit zu ihm nach Dresden, wo sie das Großstadtleben in vollen Zügen genießt, während May sich abrackern muss, um durch Schriftstellerei das nötige Geld herbeizuschaffen. Als der Großvater Emmas 1880 stirbt, heiratet May sie – ein Schritt, den er noch oft bereuen sollte.

Jahre des Erfolges (1882–1899)
Ab 1882 verfasst Karl May mehrere Kolportage-Romane. In den nächsten Jahren legt er den Grundstein für seinen Ruhm durch Reiseerzählungen in Ich-Form, in denen er seine berühmten Helden Winnetou, Hadschi Halef Omar und andere kreiert. Seinen endgültigen Durchbruch verdankt er der Initiative des Freiburger Verlegers Fehsenfeld. Der gibt die in Fortsetzungen erschienenen Erzählungen als "Gesammelte Reiseromane" heraus. Bis zur Jahrhundertwende erscheinen 27 Bände. Im Jahre 1896 erwirbt May in Radebeul bei Dresden ein Haus, nennt es "Villa Shatterhand" und stattet es mit exotischem Mobiliar aus. Zum Wohlstand kommt die Berühmtheit. Leser und Presse halten ihn für einen weit gereisten, gelehrten Weltbürger. Seine enorme Popularität ist der Anfang vom Untergang Karl Mays, denn man befasst sich nun genauer mit ihm. So beginnt der Chefredakteur der Zeitschrift "Sachsenstimme", Rudolf Lebius, Mays Vergangenheit zu recherchieren.

Der "Schund- und Schmutzliterat" (1899–1912)
Es kriselt in der Ehe von Karl und Emma May. Die Witwe eines Freundes, Klara Plöhn, zieht in die "Villa Shatterhand" und führt die umfangreiche Korrespondenz des Schriftstellers. Auf einer Reise mit den beiden Frauen nach Tirol trennt sich Karl endgültig von Emma. Am 14. Januar 1903 wird May geschieden. Schon zwei Wochen später heiratet er Klara. Er ist ein anderer geworden, sehr zum Missfallen seines Verlegers Fehsenfeld, der verzweifelt ist, dass May keine Abenteuer-Romane mehr schreiben will. Dafür soll ein Gedichtband unter dem Titel "Himmelsgedanken" herausgebracht werden. Weihnachten 1904 beginnt der Redakteur Lebius, die Vorstrafen Mays publik zu machen. Vor allem die katholische Presse greift diese Enthüllungen auf. Die letzten sieben Jahre seines Lebens ist er vorwiegend damit beschäftigt, den Schaden, der ihm aus den Verleumdungen und Enthüllungen entsteht, durch Prozesse und Gegendarstellungen zu begrenzen. Er erlebt, wie Herkunft und Vergangenheit, denen er mit Mühe entkommen zu sein schien, ihn einholen und seine erlangte Bürgerlichkeit zu vernichten drohen.

Kritik

Weiterführende Informationen
Literatur
 Michael Petzel: Karl-May-Filmbuch, Bamberg/Radebeul: Karl-May-Verlag 1998, 2., veränderte Auflage, 1999, ISBN 978-3-7802-0153-9.

Weblinks
 http://www.karl-may-filme.de/fern/tv-11.html

Belege

Karl-May-Verfilmung
Fernsehserie der 1990er Jahre
Fernsehserie (ZDF)
Historienfilm
Literaturverfilmung


Some Inspiration Crazy cakes! In a jar Wonderfully Frilly Simply Lovely For the Gift Giver: Part 1 For the Gift Giver: Part 2 Definitely going on my Christmas List! Remember, you're loved so stay happy!
A little boogy woogy Modern AND Retro I need to make this A Cleaning tip Cool gadget! For my dishes addiction Probably making these SOON We should do this! Enjoy your weekend and remember, you are loved so stay happy!
Good afternoon! I hope you are having a pleasant day. It's kind of rainy and dreary so I wanted to post a bunch of awesome movie theme songs to brighten up your day! Well… at least they brightened mine. 🙂 Feeling epic yet? No? Okay, here's one more for you then. 🙂 You are loved so stay happy!
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Q: Advanced Custom Fields Relationship - Basic loop + reversed? I want to connect companies with products using Advanced Customs Fields. These are some pages on my website:
www.example.com/companies/apple/
www.example.com/companies/microsoft/
www.example.com/products/iphones/
www.example.com/products/ipods/

For example I want to connect Apple with their products (iPhones and iPods).
I have added a relationship field in ACF that is called related_articles that is only available when the pages parent is the /companies/-page.
So on Apple's company-page - the products iPhones and iPods have been selected in the custom relationship field related_articles.
On page.php I added the following:
<?php

$posts = get_field('related_articles');

if( $posts ): ?>
    <?php foreach( $posts as $p ): // variable must NOT be called $post (IMPORTANT) ?>
            <a href="<?php echo get_permalink( $p->ID ); ?>"><?php echo get_the_title( $p->ID ); ?>

    <?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

On the page www.example.com/companies/apple/the following is returned:
iPhones

iPods

Which works exactly as I want.
The problem is that http://www.example.com/products/iphones/ and http:// www.example.com/products/ipods/ is empty. Here I want the relationship to be reversed and Apple
 to be displayed. How can I solve this? Is it possible with a code that is compatible in both ways?
I do not wish to make a second "connection", from products to the companies - this needs to be handeled from a single page and not two. Custom post types is also a no go.
Updated - New code from the Querying relationship fields documentation:
<?php

$related_articles = get_posts(array(
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'meta_query' => array(
        array(
            'key' => 'related_articles', // name of custom field
            'value' => '"' . get_the_ID() . '"',
            'compare' => 'LIKE'
        )
    )
));
?>

<?php if( $related_articles ): ?>
    <?php foreach( $related_articles as $article ): ?>
        <a href="<?php echo get_permalink( $article->ID ); ?>"> <?php echo get_the_title( $article->ID ); ?>

    <?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

This dosen't return anything (blank).

A: This is certainly possible - ACF allows for 2 way or reverse querying of related items. So, your product page, you could do the following (with your own relevant acf names)
global $post;
$related_company = get_posts(
    array(
        'post_type'=>'company',
        'meta_query'=>array(
            array(
                'key' => 'related_product',
                'value' => '"'.$post->ID.'"',
                'compare' => 'LIKE'
            )
        )
));

The whole process is explained in detail on the ACF site: http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/querying-relationship-fields/
Although, whether this is possible without using Custom Post Types, I'm not certain.


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Dockworkers' union threatens one-day strike on US East Coast
Daniel de Vries
The International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) has threatened to call a "day of action" to shut down ports along the East and Gulf coasts to protest "government interference" in hiring practices and job losses on the docks. The union is expected to soon announce the date for the work stoppage, which would also include a march on Washington, DC.
Dockworkers around the world are coming under relentless pressure on their jobs and working conditions, intensified by the global economic downturn. Over the past decade ports and terminals have committed massive investments to expand capacity and accommodate mega-size ships. US East Coast ports anticipated a bonanza from the expansion of the Panama Canal, which finished last year. However, the rapid growth in world trade, which far exceeded overall economic growth in the 1990s and early 2000s, has given way to a sharp slowdown in recent years, with little improvement on the horizon.
Longshore workers are on the front line of the drive by shipping line owners and terminal operators to recoup investment through imposing changes to work rules, forcing through cuts to wages and benefits, and increasing deployment of automated machinery. Throughout the world state-owned terminals are also being privatized.
The call for a work stoppage follows a number of recent job actions, including a one-day unsanctioned walkout in New York and New Jersey in January, 2016 and a slowdown at the Port of Charleston, South Carolina earlier this year. Internationally the situation is just as volatile. Most recently, 6,000 Spanish dockworkers have carried out protests and are preparing to strike in March to defend jobs against attacks by employers and the Spanish and EU governments.
Over the past month, informal negotiations resumed between the ILA and the United States Maritime Alliance, which represents employers, well in advance of the September, 2018 contract expiration. The main issues, according to the ILA, are ensuring local contracts are settled concurrently with the master contract and preventing full terminal automation.
In a statement last week announcing the walkout plans, however, the ILA stressed the forthcoming action was limited to appealing to Washington to end "overregulation." "It's up to the Congress to save our nation's ports. We can't do it alone," the statement read. The ILA cited policies at the Port of Charleston, South Carolina and the Port of New York and New Jersey as examples, which have caused "immeasurable damage to the nation's economy."
At the Port of Charleston, the union denounced the state-run port authority's partial use of state employees to operate cranes and perform other duties typically carried out by ILA labor at other ports. As state employees, these dockworkers in South Carolina are barred from collective bargaining under state law. A provision in the 2013 master contract encouraged state-run ports to alter port business models to allow the jurisdiction of ILA to expand. However, this "agreement" has not resulted in any significant changes.
The ILA also decried the role of the Waterfront Commission in New York and New Jersey. The Commission, set up in the 1950s ostensibly to combat graft and the influence of the Mafia on the docks, maintains authority to oversee the hiring process of longshore workers. Itself plagued by corruption, the bi-state agency began aggressively asserting its power over the past few years after a long period of dormancy. They have held up hundreds of new hires, charging that racial minorities and women were underrepresented. The charges by the Waterfront Commission were backed by Newark, New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka, whose hand-picked referrals failed to obtain longshore jobs. Under the last contract, the ILA and employers have a near-equal share in determining new hires. At present hundreds of jobs remain vacant or filled with temporary workers.
The dispute over who will control hiring has nothing to do with protecting the jobs, living standards and work conditions of dockworkers—of all races and nationalities—which have continued to deteriorate.
The Port of New York and New Jersey faces intense competition from its southern neighbors in Norfolk, Virginia, Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia for discretionary cargo destined for the interior states. With the expansion of the Panama Canal to accommodate larger ships, these and other ports have scrambled to deepen harbors, expand terminals, and in the case of New York/New Jersey, raise an 85-year-old bridge to attract more cargo.
Yet despite these ongoing, often poorly planned and partial investments, the port and inland infrastructure remains ill equipped to process the huge surge of containers with each large ship call. Even before the largest vessels arrive on the East Coast, horrific congestion has plagued ports around the country. Twice this past week, police were forced to restrict truck traffic on the approaching roads to port terminals in New Jersey where trucks waited several hours to pick up containers.
The response by port business has been to push towards automation as a means of improving productivity. On the East Coast, terminals in Norfolk, Baltimore and Jersey City, New Jersey have already implemented semi-automated cargo handling technology. Port operators are also seeking to change work rules put in place to protect the safety of longshoremen working above, below and in-between thousands of bus-sized cargo containers.
There is growing concern among cargo owners and port interests that opposition to these attacks by longshore workers will erupt in open conflict. With many billions of dollars of cargo moving through US ports each day, the economic stakes are immense. As an indication of the nervousness, an industry group, Agriculture Transport Coalition, responded to the planned one-day shutdown by asking Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao to intervene to prevent the stoppage. The coalition cited Chao's intervention as labor secretary under George W. Bush to seek a back-to-work order for locked-out West Coast longshore workers in 2002.
In 2015, Obama's Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, just elected to the chair of the Democratic National Committee, intervened to force an end to the dispute of 20,000 West Coast dock workers and push through a concessions contract with the collusion of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).
ILA officials last week addressed a rally of protesting dockworkers in Spain. The union, however, is thoroughly opposed to a common international fight against the global corporations and big businesses that defend them.
The ILA's call for the limited port shutdown is an attempt to redirect dockworkers' anger and dissipate their resistance to job losses and speedup. The union negotiated a no-strike clause into the current contract, leaving the port owners legal recourse to go after striking workers. The ILA's focus on jurisdictional issues is meant to ensure a continued dues base, not to defend workers' rights. The invocation of "overregulation" and "overreaching bureaucracies" is an embrace of the anti-working-class agenda of Trump, as ILA Vice President Kenneth Riley made clear in a statement last week. "We are protesting damage to the nation's economy that is caused by the kind of interference that President Donald Trump promised to stop," he said.
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package uk.ac.shef.wit.simmetrics.similaritymetrics.costfunctions;

/**
 * Package: costfunctions Description: InterfaceSubstitutionCost is an interface for a cost function d(i,j). Date:
 * 24-Mar-2004 Time: 13:26:21
 *
 * @author Sam Chapman Website, Email.
 * @version 1.1
 */
public interface InterfaceSubstitutionCost {

    /**
     * returns the name of the cost function.
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    /**
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    /**
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Q: Action on form.addButton in suitelet 2.0 I am trying to add a custom button in suitelet 2.0 and I want an action to be performed on click of that button.
I tried doing same like this
form.addButton({
                id : 'reset',
                label : 'Reset',
                functionName: 'setButton'
                });

But it doesn't do any action.

A: If you're actually looking for a reset button, try the builtin:
form.addResetButton({
    label : 'Reset'
});

Otherwise, if you need customization
form.addButton({
    id : 'reset',
    label : 'Reset',
    functionName: 'setButton'
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form.clientScriptModulePath = 'SuiteScripts/setButton-clientscript.js';

With setButton-clientscript.js containing your function definition ala:
define(['N/currentRecord'],
    function(currentRecord) {
        function setButton() {
            //your code here
            //example: location.reload();
        }
        return {
            setButton: setButton
        };
    });

A: You need to include the function in a clientscript file and then attach the clientscript to the form with:
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Our 1st Cohort for 2021 is Live.
Scope of EduTech|NEW Education policy of India, 2020
Team TheCodeWork
16 September 2020 6 minutes read
The new National Education Policy (NEP) got approved on July 29, marking a huge change in the face of academics in India. This program is expected to bring in some changes starting from the schools to the university paradigm.
Now, this is a huge change in the academic interface of the country. India has mostly been following the education policy that had been framed by the British with minor changes over the years.
This is a colossal change not only for the students but also for various industries that run in the same loop indirectly. Especially the EduTech sector and EduTech start-up ventures. We will get to that in this very article.
Follow up!
Core features of the National Education Policy (NEP)
Before getting to the scope of EduTech in the new education policy, do have a look at the major snippets of the policy.
Digital education services will be improved for student facilities, to deliver a decent distance learningfacility.
Board exams will be in modular forms. It will be based on pure understanding and knowledge.
The MPhil program will be terminated.
Coding to be a part of the syllabus, starting from the sixth standard itself.
5+3+3+4 structure of education at schools. This will comprise of an introductory phase (5 years) starting from class 3 to 8. This will be followed by pre-primary education starting from class 8 to 11 (5 years). Then comes the elementary stage (3 years) from 11 to 14. This will be followed by the secondary stage (4 years) from 14 to 18 years.
The private and public institutes for higher education to follow common rules.
The basic knowledge structure of schools to be purely conceptual. Also, it will be combined with national education policy from the sixth standard.
The Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) to expand by 50% in higher education, by 2035.
A common entrance examination will be conducted for admission to higher education institutions and universities.
Around 6% of the GDP will be dedicated to educational purposes.
The medium of instruction will be the mother tongue or the local language, until the fifth standard.
Report cards are to be an inclusive description of aptitudes and skills, instead of numbers only.
There won't be different streams of Science and Arts from now on.
EduTech and the NEW Education policy, 2020
So as you can see, digital learning is going to occupy a huge space in the academic front of the country. The education platform is tilting towards technology and it is good for the students as well as the industries here.
Consequently, it is the best time for the EduTech industry to bloom. This is also a huge opportunity for the various EduTech start-up sectors of the country to rise and shine in the market.
The global pandemic had anyway generated a surge in demand for digital learning. In addition to this, the new education policy has paved a way for the EduTech industry to grow.
The major scope of the EduTech sector can be listed as:
EduTech ventures and start-ups can multiply the customer base now.
EduTech ventures and start-ups can explore fresh niche markets, particularly in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities.
More mergers and acquisitions will add to the capital and revenue flow.
For higher education platforms, the new education policy will frame guidelines for digital learning. This will add to the growth of digital implementation by various institutions.
EduTech start-ups can enable new guidelines with schools and universities adopting digital learning. The guidelines can be crafted according to the benefit of the EduTech sector.
Under the new policy, the government is reportedly planning an independent body (National Educational Technology Forum or NETF). This will enable a valuable exchange of innovative ideas on the utilization of technology to improve digital learning.
With a lesser focus on regulated exams, conceptual assessments will be highlighted. Fresh EduTech business models will arise that will emphasize learning involvements instead of shallow scores.
The reaction of EduTech start-up ventures
Here is a comprehensive review of the reaction of numerous startup founders to the new education policy.
BYJU'S
As per the CEO of Byju's, Byju Raveendran, the focus of the new policy to provide the students with digital education services and flexibility is a huge welcome.
According to the group, digital learning is the finest way to deliver knowledge. That too, irrespective of physical barriers or absence of proper infrastructure.
He further lauds that the emphasis on creativity and conceptual learning will inspire students to grow as self-motivated individuals. In addition, it is also a great opportunity for the EduTech sector.
Added that the push to increase gross enrolment ratio, and topics like coding is a great step.
Coming to coding, Byju's has recently acquired the Mumbai based ed-tech startup, WhiteHat Jr. WhiteHat Jr. is a digital platform for imparting coding classes to students to encourage them to make a career in game design, app design, etc.
Coding Ninjas
The co-founder of Coding Ninjas, Ankush Singla, said that it is a great initiative by the government with the new education policy. He further added that, with the lockdown situation, digital education services are the best that could happen to the academic sector.
Ankush further suggests providing better equipment and tools to the students of remote areas. This would further help them to avail of the digital education services in the best way.
With the decision of imparting online classes, the students are at an advantage. They can use the time at home in a positive way and not lose the years to the global pandemic. As he rightly says, the EduTech industry is great support at this time.
He further adds, that e-learning adds more value than the traditional form of learning. The initiatives broadcasted by the government will aid many students if implemented judiciously. In addition to that, this is also a great opportunity for the EduTech sector.
Toppr
The CEO and Co-founder of Toppr, Zishaan Hayath, welcomed the move. He says that technology is the adhesive to mend cracks in the education system.
He further adds that, as a team, Toppr is very excited about this change. They are happy to be a part of this by being a platform for online education. This includes the new coding basics at the elementary level as well.
He assures their availability as a team for the academic progress of the country.
KopyKitab
The CEO and Co-founder of KopyKitab, Sumeet Verma,says that the education policy focuses on technological advancement in the academic line, which is purely welcome.
He says, that the courses being online and being delivered in the native languages are innovative and refreshing. He goes on to assure that, e-learning will evolve to be the core part of the Indian education system.
Leverage Edu
The CEO and co-founder of Leverage Edu, Akshay Chaturvedi, says that the abolishment of science and arts as two different streams will evolve the Indian students to become "global students".
This will help the students from India to be accepted in colleges abroad and vice versa. This will further step up the quality of education and students on a wide scale.
He further adds that this will give the higher education-tech companies a great opportunity to build career growth tools for the betterment of education in our country.
The reaction of other Industries
We had a look at the reaction of the start-ups to the new education policy. Consequently, let's have a peek at what the other industries have to say to this:
Dr. Akhil Shahani, MD of the Shahani Group
Dr. Shahani welcomes the policy by saying that the education system of India should have changed years back.
He further adds – "The focus on light government regulation, multidisciplinary institutions and creating equivalence of vocational and academic streams are welcome, but these have been a part of other countries' education models for years."
Mr. Ramananda SG, Sales & Marketing vice president, of Pearson India
Mr. Ramananda welcomes the change by saying that the new education policy is expected to enhance the quality of the education system in India. Not just that, he says that this policy is also going to boost the EduTech start-up ventures of the country.
He adds that – "The announcement regarding 6% public investment of the GDP in the education sector will provide a much-needed boost to the quality and scope of education in the country."
Mr. Abhishek Patil, Co-Founder of Oliveboard
Abhishek from Oliveboard expresses how positively this new education policy is going to impact the education paradigm of the country. He says that this policy will mark an over-all development of the educative mind of a student. The fact that it focusses on extracurricular activities, is a plus point.
He further adds – "The introduction of vocational learning & coding from 6th std onwards would help develop students the skill set required to grow in the modern world."
As we can already infer from the various business viewpoints, the new education policy is good news for the country. As per reaction of the start-ups to the new education policy, the core features of the National Education Policy (NEP) is a major boost for the EduTech industry.
Consequently, there stands a huge opportunity for the EduTech sector. Along with the involvement of the EduTech start-up ventures, the academic system is going to be at a huge gain.
With the global pandemic changing the outlook of education globally, it is time for the EduTech industry to welcome new ventures.
Also if you want to have a quick review of how the pandemic is affecting the EduTech industry, have a look at our business report for a crisp view.
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Right and Wrong. How we travelled.
I don't want to jinx it, but I think I've learnt how to pack a suitcase. For the very first time I managed to go away without needing to duck into a shop for a new toothbrush or a pair of socks. It's only taken twelve years, but I reckon I might have cracked it!
There were a few things I would have done differently in our travels though. And in keeping with the over-sharing theme of this blog, I thought I'd write a little list.
KLM you were fantastic. The plane ran on time and your plane was clean. But best of all, you were cheap. You were unbelievably cheap! If it wasn't for you and your cheap flights we wouldn't have gone to Paris – so thank you for that.
Oh and the best thing about flying with KLM, if you're around my age, you won't be able to get THIS song out of your head. KLF, KLM, it all sounds the same after the drinks trolley has made its way past you for the third time. Ahhhhh bound for Mu Mu land.
What we also did right.
We took two lightweight backpacks. This meant we had somewhere to stash water, bagels, ham and a bottle of wine. Having two meant that we could balance out the weight and departmentalize a bit more. The third little traveller was happy to carry one of the backpacks as he had his eye on it for future use (possession being nine tenths of the law). Carrying food and water meant we weren't held captive to stopping in expensive restaurants. Apples were often suggested when people complained of being starving. Amazing how kids can be starving for nutella crepes and not apples. I think the medical term is Selective Starvation.
We packed two umbrellas. I probably would have only packed one, but G was on to it. Two meant that both G and I had one to hold. Much better than one umbrella and six bodies to fit underneath it.
2 shirts, 2 pair of jeans, 2 hoodies, 2 t-shirts, eleven hundred pairs of socks and jocks. This is what I've learnt. You can wear yesterday's dirty t-shirt but if you can't find a pair of socks – life will be miserable. I packed multiple spencers and singlets to keep the kids warm.
We'd read something about there being a Relay shop in the airport and figured we'd pick up a SIM card there. When they didn't have any and weren't particularly helpful in suggesting where we could go to fix our problem, we were a little stuck. We had plans on using the ipad to find our way to where we were staying, so those plans were quickly squashed. We ended up finding an Orange when we went into Paris that afternoon. It was no biggie but it was a reminder to have a backup plan.
We were going in school holidays so our dates weren't flexible, but early April is a bit dodgy in Europe. If you're thinking of a trip, try and push it back to the end of April. The weather in Paris right now is superb. We had hats, gloves and three layers of clothes but travel is harder when it's cold and wet. What's really hard though – is travel when it hails! Particularly if you're driving in peak hour traffic on a Friday afternoon with a head cold and a grumpy husband who's angry with the GPS.
If you're travelling with small children, think about some sort of laminated card or bracelet with your contact details on it. Last year I wrote out our name and contact number on a piece of paper that went into the kids pockets. If my guys were smaller I might want to get something that was more of a bracelet (think hospital ID), the piece of paper inevitably goes through the wash.
Perhaps also take a picture of the kids each morning as you leave, if they're lost it'll make it much easier to track them down if you can remember what colour hoodie they had on that day.
Take your own corkscrew and pate knife. We had to borrow.
Take a photo/screen shot on your iPad or phone of the map you'll be using that day. Then if your connectivity goes down it won't matter.
If your heading into dodgy weather, think about a plastic poncho. We hopped on one of those tour busses on the very first day and the second little traveller and I eyed off the "free" ponchos. G was horrified at the idea of wearing "a human condom" around Paris and suggested we could do without.
He was even more horrified when he had to fork out 10 EUR per poncho in Disneyland when it was raining sideways and the umbrellas were deemed useless.
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Economics, Economist, Financial Times and Nigeria By Garba Shehu
Global Patriot Staff June 7, 2019	Local, News, Opinion Leave a comment 13 Views
Malam Garba-Shehu
One would imagine that business papers like economic success stories; apparently not. Instead, they feast and thrive on negatives. Financial Times, for instance, is worried about a government policy that is enabling boom in rice production in Nigeria. And the Economist is panicky about toothpick manufacturers springing up following tariffs that protect local manufacturers to get off the ground and compete globally.
Both papers only see negatives. Specifically, Economist dwells on out-of-date statistics. Deliberately it turns away from the positives as it will complicate already tailored narratives. Some foreign correspondents keep the storyline simple: Africa is home for all bad things: poverty, disease and crime. And unremitting bleakness lives on the continent, and success is the aberration.
Since only negative reports on Africa make it to the international media, a backward picture of a nation is painted succinctly and efforts at growth in different ramifications, both investment and diplomacy are ignored. From the content of these stories, readers must be baffled that Nigerians know toothpicks, let alone be able to manufacture them.
The fact remains that with squeeze in media budgets there are not enough knowledgeable foreign correspondents based on the continent to report accurate news and uphold journalistic standards. And the parachuting style clearly defies ethics and quality. To cut cost, many media houses rely on the expedience of technology. The highly revered and sacrosanct fact-checking skill of journalism slips as a result. Anyone with a laptop is trusted as credible source. Cogent arguments no longer have a place, instead we have jumbled and emotive criticisms.
For instance, the Financial Times declares proudly that President Buhari failed to spur rice growing, whilst stating that production was at record levels up 60 per cent in 2018 from what we had in 2013. The Economist talks about overdependence on oil, yet criticises policies such as subsidies or financial incentives that allow local businesses to compete and diversify the economy. It frowns at power shortfalls, but turns around to attack Alhaji Aliko Dangote – the man building the world's largest oil refinery and improving power infrastructure in Nigeria.
Fundamentally, the foreign correspondents fail to appreciate context – understandably if they have to cover a large "patch'' with shoe-string budgets, but never-the-less it is impermissible as facts must remain sacred. The Economist states that the economy was "sputtering'' when President Buhari's first term began in 2015, and still concluded he made a "bad situation worse". "Sputtering'' sounds euphemistic. The reality is that the economy was on its knees. The overdependence on oil, paired with impending global commodity crash, made the entry into recession at the beginning of the term inevitable. Now, however, the first quarter growth of 2019 has been the strongest.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently said analysts and onlookers must recognise "how deep the shock" was to the economy. As a famous American business magnate observed: "Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked." Indeed, Nigeria had been awash in oil dollars (over $100 a barrel), yet previous governments failed to add muscle to the economy.
Since the recession struck (crude oil went below $40 per barrel), the government has taken measures to redress weaknesses in our economy. The IMF goes on to praise the strong diversification in the economy and welcome the focus on public investment. For instance, the government has spent record figures on infrastructure in the past two years and capital expenditure is now around 30 per cent of the budget, rather than inadequate 10 per cent in 2015.
There has also been a drive to self-sufficiency where possible. It makes no sense for Nigeria to import rice, yet foreign shipments were dumped to maintain dependency. Farmers needed help: strategic tariffs were applied to allow for initial competition, whilst the Central Bank of Nigeria financial initiatives allowed growers to access capital for fertilizer and equipment. Over the past three years, production has risen year-on-year. Nigeria, as of 2018, is Africa's largest producer of rice. Self-sufficiency has almost been attained.
From reading some foreign articles, you would be surprised to find these success stories mentioned; amazed that anyone would cheer the decision on tariffs to ward off desolation. And the failure to see or present any achievement perpetuates stereotypes that serve as disincentives to Foreign Direct Investment and partnership.
Granted, there are challenges in Nigeria. The country is a large and diverse nation with structural challenges that have been passed down through decades. But foreign reports ignore the complexity, and instead offer platitudes as solutions. This diminishes the difficulties facing those in governance: they must merely "stamp out corruption" or "improve governance" – common advice amongst those quick to criticise, but barren in tangible and measurable solutions.
Similarly, we are told to "harness the vim of Nigerians'' – which is true. But this seems obvious as to even need mentioning. It is – to be sure – how you do that. We in governance have no illusion about this. Vim is harnessed when a nation has decent infrastructure that connects the economy, and thousands of miles of road have been constructed, as well as the expansion and upgrading of colonial-era railway network. When children have good education; we are currently ensuring 9 million free school meals daily across the nation and it has boosted enrolment and attendance. And when business reforms create enabling environment; already Nigeria has gone up 24 places in Ease of Doing Business ranking since 2018, and the country is currently one of the top 10 global reformers, which is good news!
Garba Shehu is Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media & Publicity.
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