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Shamokin, Pennsylvania
City in Pennsylvania, United States
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Location of City of Shamokin and adjacent Coal Township in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
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Coordinates: 40°47′21″N 76°33′17″W / 40.78917°N 76.55472°W / 40.78917; -76.55472Coordinates: 40°47′21″N 76°33′17″W / 40.78917°N 76.55472°W / 40.78917; -76.55472
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John J. Brown
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Daniel McGaw, Director of Parks and Recreation
John J. Brown, Director of Public Safety
Charles R. Varano, Director of Public Works
Barbara S. Moyer, Director of Accounts and Finance
8,466.43/sq mi (3,268.83/km2)
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Shamokin (/ʃəˈmoʊkɪn/; Saponi Algonquian Schahamokink, meaning "place of eels") (Lenape Indian language: Shahëmokink [3]) is a city in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, surrounded by Coal Township at the western edge of the Anthracite Coal Region in central Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River Valley. It was named after a Saponi Indian village, Schahamokink. At the 2010 decennial United States Census, the population was 7,374, approximately half what it was in 1950.
2 Distressed city
6 Mayoral election history
The first human settlement of Shamokin was probably Shawnee natives migrants.[citation needed] A large population of Delaware Indians (also known as the Lenapes) were also forcibly resettled there in the early 18th century after they lost rights to their land in the "Walking Purchase" (also known as the "Walking Treaty") along the eastern border of the colonial Province of Pennsylvania in the upper northern reaches of the Delaware River in 1737. Canasatego of the Six Nations, enforcing the Walking Purchase on behalf of George Thomas, Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania (1738-1747), ordered the Delaware Indians to go to two places on the Susquehanna River.
The city of present-day Shamokin was founded as a village by colonists in 1773, but did not develop much until the following 19th century. The discovery of anthracite coal resources in the region, known as "hard coal," became the basis of much industry. Railroad companies, such as Reading Railroad, bought interests in coal and became major employers of the area, building railroads to ship coal to markets and controlling most jobs. Workers gradually organized into unions to develop means of bargaining with these powerful companies. During the nationwide Great Railroad Strike of July 1877, workers in the 1877 Shamokin Uprising at that time marched and demonstrated during the summer period of labor unrest.
Shamokin was incorporated earlier as a borough under the Commonwealth constitution on November 9, 1864, and subsequently as a city 85 years later, on February 21, 1949. In addition to anthracite coal-mining, it became an industrial center in the 19th century, with silk and knitting mills, stocking and shirt factories, wagon shops, ironworks, and brickyards. The dominant Eagle Silk Mill became the largest textile manufacturing building under one roof in the United States.
Famous inventor, scientist and entrepreneur Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931), briefly a resident of nearby Sunbury, established the Edison Illuminating Company of Shamokin in the fall of 1882. When the Shamokin power generating station on Independence Street started on September 22, 1883, St. Edward's Roman Catholic Church which was connected, became the first church in the world to be lit by electricity.[4] Until 2017, Jones Hardware Company was located at the Independence Street site of the former 1882 Edison electrical station in Shamokin.[5])
In the 1877 Shamokin Uprising, railroad workers and miners angered by unexpected cuts in wages begun by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad joined what developed across the East with the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, which began with strikes in neighboring Martinsburg, West Virginia, then others in Maryland including the headquarters of the B. & O. at its Camden Street Station in downtown Baltimore then spread north and west into Pennsylvania and to Pittsburgh and other sites conducted in several major industrial cities in Pennsylvania, as well as more cities in the Northeast and as far west through to St. Louis and Missouri. Mayor William Douty commissioned a citizen manned local militia unit to help during the unrest. They shot into a group of strikers, wounding 12 and killing two bystanders who were not even involved in the protest. Five strikers were convicted of rioting and jailed for up to eight months for their part in the actions.
At the turn of the 20th century, resident William A. Conway wrote Murder at Hickory Ridge (1905) as a "dime novel", hoping to cash in on their popularity. It was a fictionalized account of an unsolved murder in the Shamokin area. His two brothers, Alphonsus E. and John J., printed the book on a press in their garage. They continued their business, starting the Conway Print Shop. With the profits from the sale of the novel, the Conway brothers later started the Black Diamond Publishing Company in 1905 and founded Black Diamond Magazine to disseminate news of the anthracite coal region. The brothers developed a way to print a roll of tickets, planning to market them to the new movie theaters being built in the area. To meet a request by the nearby Hazleton Baseball Club, they partnered with merchant Nicholas R. Ludes to make a big purchase of colored paper.[6]
Together the Conway brothers and Ludes founded what became the National Ticket Company, located in Shamokin since 1907. At one time it was the largest ticket manufacturing company in the United States. Their first production facility was built in 1911 at the corner of Pearl and Webster Streets. A 1942 fire gutted the plant, although the brick shell still stands. The replacement building at Pearl Street and Ticket Avenue was completed in 1950 and has since served as company headquarters. The business is still owned by descendants of the Conway and Ludes families. In the 21st century National Ticket has developed international customers as well to grow its business.[6]
Edgewood Park, also known as Indian Park, was operated in Shamokin as an increasing popular amusement park from 1905 through the late 1950s, featuring a roller coaster and other rides and entertainments, and attracting regional crowds. Its 97 acres (390,000 m2) included a large pond. Faced with different needs in the 1950s, the Shamokin area school district developed this property for new elementary and high schools.
The Victoria Theatre in town was listed on the National Register of Historic Places maintained by the U.S. Department of the Interior in 1985. It unfortunately was demolished in 2004 and delisted.[7]
Distressed city[edit]
From the post-World War II period, there has been massive restructuring in the railroad and other industries, causing a massive loss of jobs in areas that had enjoyed industrial prosperity, with good working incomes for union people. In addition, there has been pressure on the coal industry due to changes in law to improve air, water, and land quality and prevent environmental contamination. By the early 21st century, Shamokin was part of an economically depressed area.
In June 2014, Shamokin was approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development for Act 47 Distressed City status after several banks refused it loans for outstanding bills.[8] The designation enables loans from the Commonwealth. Shamokin city officials are required to develop a plan to achieve long-term financial stability and eligibility to leave the program. Only one city in Pennsylvania has ever exited Act 47 status by 2015.[9]
In February 2015, the City was approved to raise its earned income tax to 2 percent a week. Out of the total revenue generated from the tax, 50 percent would go to the school district. By law, municipalities can tax citizens only 1 percent a week in the earned income tax, but financially distressed cities can petition the courts to increase it to 2 percent a week.[10]
In December 2013, Shamokin City Council cut several full-time police officer positions in an effort to reduce budget overruns into compliance.[11]
The Shamokin City Council unanimously approved a 2015 budget of $3.7 million setting property taxes at 58.1 mills. Salaries and benefits of city employees cost $1,956,257, which is 69 percent of all general fund spending.[12] The 2014 real estate tax levy is 47.35 mills. The city adopted a $2.3 million budget in 2014.[13] Bartos had received a $9,350 raise approved by city council in 2012. He had successfully applied for several grants including: $3.4 million for a creek channel preservation project, a grant to expand Claude Kehler Community Park, and another to restore the "99 steps," a city landmark.
A coal pile near Shamokin, Pennsylvania from Shamokin
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km2), all of it land.
Shamokin has two small creeks that divide the town. Carbon Run merges with Shamokin Creek in the north of the town and ultimately empties into the Susquehanna River just south of Shamokin Dam near Sunbury.
1930 20,274 −4.4%
1950 16,879 −10.3%
Est. 2017 7,061 [2] −4.2%
Sources:[14][15][16][17]
As of the census of 2000,[16] there were 8,009 people, 3,742 households, and 2,028 families residing in the city. The population density was 9,601.9 people per square mile (3,725.7/km2). There were 4,674 housing units at an average density of 5,603.6 per square mile (2,174.3/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 98.8% White, 0.1% African American, 0.1% Native American, 0.3% Asian, 0.0% Pacific Islander, 0.1% from other races, and 0.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino people of any race were 0.6% of the population.
There were 3,742 households, out of which 24.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.4% were married couples living together, 13.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 45.8% were non-families. 41.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 22.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.13 and the average family size was 2.89.
In the city, the population had 22.2% under the age of 18, 7.2% from 18 to 24, 26.2% from 25 to 44, 22.6% from 45 to 64, and 21.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 86.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 80.6 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $20,173, and the median income for a family was $30,038. Males had a median income of $28,261 versus $19,120 for females. The per capita income was $12,354. About 19.3% of families and 60.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 34.2% of those under age 18 and 21.3% of those age 65 or over.
Map of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania public school districts
Children residing in Shamokin may attend the local, public schools operated by the Shamokin Area School District. They may also opt to attend a private school with tuition at the parent's expense. The public school district is required by state law to transport children to any school within ten miles of its borders. Local private schools include the Darul Uloom Al-Qasim School, Our Lady of Lourdes Regional School and Meadowview Christian Academy. In 2015 and 2015 the Pennsylvania Department of Education placed the high school on the state's lowest academic achievement list.[18] This makes pupils at the high school eligible for the state's Opportunity Scholarship Program to attend other schools both public and private.[19]
Shamokin Area School District provides taxpayer funded half day preschool and full day kindergarten through 12th grade, with an enrollment of 2,375 pupils in 2016.[20] It had an enrollment of 2,522 pupils in 2013.[21] In 2011, Shamokin Area School District enrollment was 2,356 pupils.[22] The District's enrollment was 2,443 pupils in 2005-06.[23] Shamokin Area School District operates four schools in two buildings: Shamokin Area High School (9-12), Shamokin Area Middle School (7 & 8), Shamokin Area Intermediate School (5&6) and Shamokin Area Elementary School (preschool-4th). In 2014, Shamokin Area School District's graduation rate was 82.8%.[24]
Shamokin Area School District statewide academic ranking declined further to 445th out of the 493 ranked Pennsylvania school districts, in 2016, by the Pittsburgh Business Times.[25] The District is the lowest ranked school district in the CSIU16 region. In 2014, the Pittsburgh Business Times ranked Shamokin Area School District 407th out of 496 public schools for academic achievement of its pupils.[26] In 2012, Shamokin Area School District achieved Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) despite the low academic achievement at the high school.[27]
High school age students can attend the taxpayer funded Northumberland County Career and Technology Center, in Coal Township, for training in the building trades, auto mechanics, culinary arts, allied health careers and other areas. Northumberland County Career and Technology Center is funded by a consortium of the school districts that includes Line Mountain School District, Mount Carmel Area School District and Shamokin Area School District. It also receives state and federal government grants.
Shamokin residents may also apply to attend any of the Commonwealth's 14 public cyber charter schools at no additional cost to the parents. This includes SusQ Cyber Charter School, which is locally operated. The resident's public school district is required to pay the charter school and cyber charter school tuition for residents who attend these public schools.[28][29] The tuition rate that Shamokin Area School District must pay was $7,050.50 in 2012. Residents may also seek admission for their school age child to any other public school district. The student's parents owe annual tuition set by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit #16 provides a wide variety of services to children living in its region, which includes Shamokin. Early screening, special education services, speech and hearing therapy, autistic support, preschool classes and many other services like driver education are available. Services for children during the preschool years are provided without cost to their families when the child is determined to meet eligibility requirements. Intermediate units receive taxpayer funding through subsidies paid by member school districts, direct charges to users for some services, state and federal competitive grants, and private grants.[30]
Luzerne County Community College (LCCC) has a satellite campus in the Careerlink Building, Arch Street, Shamokin.
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is a public university in Bloomsburg. It is one of the 14 state universities that make up the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE). Eleventh and twelfth grade students may attend Bloomsburg at a significant discount through its dual enrollment program, earning college credits while still working toward their high school diplomas. Bloomsburg also operates a summer college program, ACE,[31] where high school students can earn credits at a 75% discount. The credits are transferable to many other Pennsylvania universities through the state's TRAC system.[32]
Mayoral election history[edit]
2017 - John Brown (R) over William Milbrand (D)
2013 - William Milbrand (D) over Daniel McGaw (R)
2009 - George Rozinskie (D) over Betsy Richardson (D)
2005 - Ronald Bradley (R) over Edward O'Donnell (D)
2001 - James Yurick Jr. (D) over Betsy Richardson (R)
1997 - James Yurick Jr. (D) over Ronald Bradley (R)
1993 - Daniel Strausser (R) over James Yurick Jr. (D)
1989 - Harvey M. Boyer (D) over Daniel Strausser (R) [33]
1985 - Harvey M. Boyer (D) over Malcom C. Farrow IV (R)
1981 - William L. Rickert over Harvey M. Boyer (D)
Bill Barke, Chairman of US Higher Education and Pearson Canada, 2012-2014[34]
Harry Coveleski (1886-1950), Major League Baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers in the American League. In his sports career he was an Earned run average (ERA) record holder
Stan Coveleski (1889-1984), a Major League Baseball pitcher and now noted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. He began his professional baseball career in the minor leagues in 1908. He pitched for four major league teams - the Philadelphia Athletics, Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators and the New York Yankees - all in the American League.
George H. Cram (1838-1872), Union Army colonel in the American Civil War (1861-1865) and brevet general in the post-war Reconstruction era.
Jake Daubert, Major League Baseball player with two National League batting titles He was selected as the "Most Valuable Player ("MVP") in the 1913 season.
Herbert G. Hopwood (1898-1966), United States Navy, four star admiral and commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, 1958–1960
Eddie Korbich, Broadway, film and television actor
Mary LeSawyer, operatic soprano
Harry J. Lincoln, early 1900s popular music composer
Michael Luchkovich, first ethnic Ukrainian member of the House of Commons of Canada (1926–1935)
Fred Rhoads, cartoonist of Sad Sack
Captain Holden C. Richardson, (USN) (1878-1960), pioneer in U.S. naval aviation; the Navy's first engineering test pilot; assisted in the development of the first Navy-built seaplane.
Ronald L. Thompson, Pennsylvania state legislator
Thomas I. Vanaskie, federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Bud Weiser, Major League Baseball player, played for the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League.
Joseph Zupicich, crewmember of the steamship RMS Carpathia, which assisted in the rescue operation for the RMS Titanic which hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage in the North Atlantic Ocean in April 1912[35][36](1892-1987)
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^ "History of Jones Hardware and Home Center". Joneshardware.com. Retrieved 2013-11-27.
^ a b "Our History". National Ticket Company. 2016.
^ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
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^ Emily Previti (Jun 5, 2014). "Last resort becoming reality for Shamokin". WITF.org.
^ Justin Strawser (February 26, 2015). "Shamokin gets OK for $1 a week Earned Income Tax increase". The Daily Item.
^ PA Homepage.com (December 24, 2013). "Shamokin Council Budget Cuts".
^ Eric Scicchitano (December 4, 2014). "Shamokin votes to adopt 2015 $3.7M budget". New Item.
^ Eric Scicchitano, (February 7, 2014). "Bartos resigns as Shamokin City Clerk". The News-Item.
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^ PDE, Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit Program 2016, 2016
^ PA Department of Community and Economic Development (2017). "Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit Program".
^ PDE (October 4, 2016). "Shamokin Area School District Fast Facts 2016".
^ Pennsylvania Department of Education, District Fast Facts - Shamokin Area School District, November 6, 2014
^ NCES, Common Core of Data - Shamokin Area School District, 2011
^ Pennsylvania Department of Education, Enrollment and Projections by LEA 2005-06 - 2020, July 2010
^ Pennsylvania Department of Education (November 6, 2013). "Shamokin Area High School School Performance Profile 2014".
^ Pittsburgh Business Times (April 12, 2016). "Chester County district leads statewide Honor Roll 2016".
^ Pittsburgh Business Times (April 6, 2014). "Guide to Pennsylvania Schools Statewide ranking 2014".
^ Pennsylvania Department of Education (September 21, 2012). "Shamokin Area School District AYP Overview 2012".
^ Pennsylvania Department of Education (2013). "Charter Schools".
^ Pennsylvania Department of Education, What is a Charter School?, 2013
^ Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit 16 Administration (2014). "About the CSIU". Archived from the original on 2014-10-29.
^ Bloomsburg University Administration (2013). "High School ACE".
^ PA Transfer and Articulation Center (2014). "Take Your Credits with You".
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Whole Foods Market Inc. has opened its first "wellness club" in a Boston-area store, the Austin-based grocer said Tuesday.
For a $45 monthly fee, shoppers can get food discounts, as well as unlimited cooking and nutrition classes and partnerships with area businesses. The clubs will also include pantry makeovers, guest lectures and dining clubs, in which diners pay a fixed price to eat healthy meals.
Whole Foods officials have said they will test the prototype clubs in a number of cities, including New York; Chicago; Oakland, Calif.; and Princeton, N.J. The initiative is part of the company's consumer health education efforts, which were first introduced last year.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Home Depot Inc., two of the nation's largest retailers and bellwethers of the U.S. economy, on Tuesday joined a string of other merchants that have raised their outlooks for the year, despite a flow of bad economic news that suggests they have no reason to be optimistic.
Macy's Inc., Kohl's Corp., Nordstrom and TJX Cos., which owns TJ Maxx and Marshall's, have all boosted their profit outlooks in the past week. Retailers' results are a closely watched barometer of how willing Americans are to open their wallets, which is important since consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of the economy.
U.S. automakers rebounded in July to boost factory production by the most since the Japan crisis. But homebuilders broke ground on fewer single-family houses, leaving home construction at depressed levels. The mixed data suggest that the economy remains fragile but is not on the cusp of another recession.
Overall industrial production, which includes output by utilities, mines and factories, rose 0.9 percent last month, the largest gain this year, the Federal Reserve said Tuesday. The auto industry accounted for nearly all of the factory production gains.
The Commerce Department said builders began work on a seasonally adjusted 604,000 homes last month, a 1.5 percent decrease from June. That's half the 1.2 million homes per year that economists say must be built to sustain a healthy housing market.
NEW YORK — Investors who lost billions of dollars in Bernard Madoff's massive multidecade fraud are not entitled to recover fake profits that were described to them in phony statements, a federal appeals court said Tuesday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that a trustee's calculation of the investors' losses was "legally sound" and that a bankruptcy court was correct when it rejected arguments from lawyers for investors who said their clients should receive more than what they initially gave to Madoff.
Allstate Corp. is suing Goldman Sachs Group Inc., claiming the broker fraudulently sold it more than $123 million in mortgage-backed securities in 2006 and 2007, before the housing market collapse sent the investments' value plunging.
The insurer claims in a lawsuit filed in New York that the documents Goldman provided at the time "contained untrue statements and omitted material facts" about the mortgages underlying the investments. "Goldman knew these types of securities were, to use Goldman's own words, ... 'junk,' 'dogs,' 'crap' and 'lemons,' " according to the complaint.
SAN FRANCISCO — Netflix Inc. is giving kids and their parents a new reason to embrace its Internet video subscription service as it raises prices. A "Just For Kids" tab has been added to subscribers' accounts on Netflix's website. Clicking on the feature will pull up a list of kid-friendly recommendations drawn from about 1,000 movies and TV shows in Netflix's video streaming library.
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Which leads me to this: What the hell is a 'casual' relationship anyway?
A bunch of dinner and movie dates minus the empty promises?
An in-between relationship before the 'right' person comes along?
A manifestation of fear of commitment, disguised in a seemingly aloof affair?
Or is it simply what you choose to call it, for lack of a better term?
I'm not here to try and define what a casual relationship is, or force you to accept a certain interpretation of it.
A casual relationship is whatever you choose it to be. There is a reason you call it 'casual', and you know that reason better than anyone else.
Once you know your reason for being in a casual relationship, you'll know whether not you're getting what you want out of it.
If you are, then congratulations, you've cracked the casual dating code.
If not, then you know it's time to let go.
Your friend is very wise.. 🙂 But then again, the heart wants what it wants (especially what it can't get)..
Awesome way to capture and explain! Love this! Good job!


As well as the fishers, the canneries required an army of inside workers to wash, gut, butcher and pack the fish. With the completion of the transcontinental railway, Chinese workers became available in large numbers. Canneries hired them under the contract system. At the beginning of the season a Chinese labour contractor negotiated to provide a crew for a set price. He paid the workers and appointed a "Boss Chinaman" to look after their requirements. At Port Essington (shown above in 1915; source: BC Archives) , the Chinese crew began arriving on the coastal steamers in the spring, before the fishing season opened. Their first job was to manufacture the cans that would hold the salmon. Using shears, they cut out the can bodies and tops from large sheets of tinplate, then formed and soldered them.
Boas described the industry in its early adolescence. If he had returned a few years later, he would not have recognized the cannery floor because the plants innovated relentlessly. What began as a series of manual processes -- fishboats were rowed; nets were hauled by hand; cans were cut individually; workers on the line butchered the fish one by one and stuffed the pieces into the tins – quickly became a mechanized assembly line. The steam retort, a large pressure cooker, replaced the ordinary kettles which had been used to cook the cans. Soldering machines replaced hand soldering, and the automatic can-making machine was introduced to mass produce the tins. Multi-bladed gang knives cut up several fish at once into uniform sized pieces. Then, in 1906, the Smith Butchering Machine was introduced. Also known as the "Iron Chink" because it displaced so many Chinese workers, it cleaned and butchered several fish at once, sixty to seventy-five per minute.
The fishery also mechanized. Gillnetters began adding small gas engines so that by 1913 more than eighty percent of the Fraser River fleet was motorized. At Port Essington and other north coast canneries, the adoption of engines was delayed. On the Fraser, many fishers owned their own boats but in the north the canneries continued to own most of the boats and they wanted to spare themselves the expense of gasoline and motor repairs. Still, by the mid-1920s, gas engines became the norm north of Cape Caution as well. As Duncan Stacey points out, in the decade before the outbreak of World War One the canning industry shifted from manual production to mechanized production, with resulting increases in productivity. The number of plants fluctuated from year to year, reaching a peak of 84 in the middle of the war, but the size of the pack increased steadily until by 1930 it exceeded 2.2 million cases annually.
The cannery workforce lived close to the plants in neighbourhoods that were as racially segregated as any big city ghetto. The Chinese occupied "China houses", wooden dormitories provided by the company, where they spent their off hours sleeping, eating, gambling, playing with their children, making bootleg liquor, and tending to the pigs and chickens they brought with them to supplement their diet. In his memoir about growing up in Port Essington, E.A. Harris recalls that the Chinese workers used to make kites which they flew in their spare time. As the years passed, Japanese fishers joined the Aboriginal boat crews, though the Japanese seldom took inside jobs. They lived in their own part of town, sometimes with their families if they brought them along. Many of the First Nations workers were from the local Tsimshian reserve; others came from around the north coast and lived in huts they rented from the company. Supervisors were always Euro-Canadians, who lived in large houses away from the clamour of the waterfront.
Though the canneries at Port Essington remained in operation, the town itself did not fulfill the promise of its early years. Robert Cunningham, the founder, died in 1905 but his son George carried on the family enterprises: the sawmill, until it burned in 1908, the steamboats and the general store. (The cannery was sold to BC Packers in 1902.) In the spring of 1914 the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway opened its main line along the north bank of the Skeena to Prince Rupert. With the opening of a rail connection to the interior, steamboat traffic on the river dwindled and Port Essington lost its strategic position as a port of call. Economic activity dwindled and life took on a slower pace. After the last cannery closed in 1936, the community limped along until it was snuffed out altogether by two major fires in the 1960s that destroyed almost all the buildings.


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Perhaps your company already has a language strategy. Good start!
A step further is using the power of translation to not just speak a new language, but to exploit a language to create a differential advantage with competitors.
Make your firm's products or services distinct from rivals by creating and maintaining a superior more than just a competitive offering.
A proactive approach to gaining sustainable market share is possible through the coin of the realm in the international economy – information.
Of course, not all of the valuable information in global business is in English.
When you operate in a Spanish-speaking or Portuguese speaking market, for example, your company needs business intelligence gleaned from information sources in these areas.
Your #translator is a business partner to increase satisfaction and positively impact the bottom line.
While researching, designing, delivering, and marketing your product or service, your translation strategy can operate alongside.
A systematic program (outlined below) can gather and convert data to fuel the business intelligence (BI) your company needs.
Internet research in Spanish or Portuguese, for example, can be conducted and translated into English.
Your translator is a business partner, a part of your team, to increase satisfaction and positively impact the bottom line.
Tell Professor Winn about your translation project.
A blueprint for a translation strategy begins with a consultation with a certified translator.
An initial discussion should center upon conducting a comprehensive translation needs analysis.
I wrote an entire book on the value of a translation strategy for your company – How to Use Translation to Grow Your Business.
What are the company's goals in the next few years?
Is management on board with implementing a company-wide translation strategy?
Is the company website in the target market language?
What markets does the company currently operate or plan to operate?
What are the languages spoken in these markets?
What type of information and possible sources in Spanish or Portuguese, for example, should be consulted?
How often will information be consulted and subsequently translated?
What other types of documents will you likely need to translate?
What is the expected deadline for these translated documents?
Who or which department will be responsible for managing the translations in the company?
What is the expected budget to fund translations throughout the year?
Above all, the Pareto Principle – the so-called 80/20.
That is to say 20 percent of your activities will account for 80 percent of your results.
Thus, think of the most important facts and details first.
A company could then quickly and effectively draw up a road map for using translation to gain an "unfair" competitive advantage over your peer rivals.
A company's investment in a translation strategy yields three main results.
First, gain a competitive edge.
However, with methodical preparation for managing translations, your company would be a step ahead of the competition.
If you have a report in Spanish or Portuguese, for example, you have a process in place.
Time is saved and fast information ahead of rivals helps your business to nimbly outwit peers in a market.
Any edge – especially linguistic when operating in international markets – is a definite advantage.
If your company submits bids for contracts, letter-perfect English translations from original Spanish or Portuguese texts could make the difference in the competition for business.
Second, learn more about your market (customer).
Your own translation strategy allows your company to expand its plans for its growth and service to customers.
Internet marketing research in Spanish or Portuguese can help a company select the right media, such as TV, radio, newspaper or print to reach customers.
Product or service-driven companies may struggle to keep pace with changing or evolving marketplaces.
A corporate translation strategy allows the collection of business intelligence in the language of international markets.
Third, discover new products or services for your company.
An enterprise that enters a new market can especially take advantage of translations to create products or services to meet customers' needs.
Add a systematic approach to #translation to gain an edge over your peers and to maximize profits and customer satisfaction.
Expansion of a product line or offer of services could result from more consumer information from business intelligence gained through translation.
Internet market research not only yields publicly-available information about competitors and customers alike.
A report about a new trend in an international market is likely to appear in a local newspaper or magazine.
An effective translation strategy allows a rapid response to ensure the customer has the product or service desired in shorter production time and delivery to market.
Lastly, a company can save on translation costs.
Even the smallest enterprise, from time to time, needs translation.
Instead of ad hoc projects, a comprehensive language and translation blueprint for your business yields greater consistency and uniformity.
Thus a company can control costs better with good planning and a retainer fee for translation.
Your translator is always available to help you expand the reach of your products and/or services and acquire more customers which is good for the bottom line.
Companies are on a constant search for differentiation from their peers, even more so in the global economy today.
Because many corporations do not have a translation strategy, those who do have a distinct advantage to compete for greater market share.
As stated above, any company that seeks to truly be a leader in international markets needs a methodical approach to managing different languages.
As a Spanish and Portuguese translator to English, any enterprise entering or already in a market where those languages are spoken can benefit from a translation strategy.
Now, add a systematic approach to translation to the blueprint and gain an edge over your peers to maximize profits and customer satisfaction.


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Purplebricks cuts jobs and ups cost savings target in turnaround plan
Written by First Choice Radio on 8 December 2022
Digital estate agency Purplebricks has revealed it is making redundancies across the business as it announced plans to further slash costs in an effort to return it to profit.
The company said it has increased its annual cost savings target from £13 million to £17 million.
Initial savings have been achieved by reducing the numbers of staff working across the business, closing offices and cutting the marketing budget, it said.
Purplebricks said it has a redundancy programme in place and the new savings target will involve a further reduction in its overall headcount.
The firm would not comment on the number of jobs that it has cut or plans to cut due to it being an ongoing process.
The tech-led platform confirmed it had closed a London office and another regional office as part of turnaround plans.
The savings will shed excessive overhead spending and leave it "leaner and healthier, ready for growth", it said.
It comes as the firm reported adjusted operating losses of £8.4 million from in the six months to October 31, increasing tenfold from the £800,000 in losses reported this time last year.
Revenues also fell by 16%, from £41.3 million last year to £34.5 million this year.
But Purplebricks' chief executive Helena Marston told investors that its turnaround plan was being delivered "at pace" and she expects to see the benefits begin to show in the second half of the financial year.
She said: "The turnaround plan is working and is being delivered at pace, with the financial benefits starting to come through in the second half of the year.
"We have taken further steps to reduce our cost base, from an initial £13 million of annualised savings to £17 million, while also investing in our strategic priorities and increasing the efficiency of our field.
"We are ever mindful of the current economic environment. Our relevant, low-cost proposition, effectively communicated via our new marketing campaign, supports our customers and is especially attractive in these economically challenging times."
The platform, which connects buyers, sellers and landlords with local property experts, also announced it is launching a new mortgage product ahead of schedule.
It will provide enhanced help for people looking for a loan or to re-mortgage, meaning it can sell additional finance products, such as insurance, to customers and bumping up the firm's revenue per mortgage by threefold, it said.
Furthermore, the company emphasised that it is well positioned to support people looking for low-cost estate agents amid the cost of living crisis.
It stood by its full year earnings expectations, which estimates adjusted operating losses of £8.8 million, but could drop as low as £11.3 million or narrow to £4 million according to the consensus.
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?By then I was an old hand at the confessional essay format. I would string together a series of exaggerated clichés, glossing over offenses wherever possible. Then I would attach meaningless labels to the misdeeds that I could not side-step and conclude with a self-reproach and a promise to do better.?
You may be tempted to see this memoir as just another opportunity to cluck and shake your head over communist atrocities and to thank your lucky stars you live in a democracy. But if you are a creative, independent thinker, you will find much common ground here.
From pressure to study science instead of humanities to the keeping of clandestine diaries to ubiquitous propaganda, many a circumstance in Kang's life resonates with a similar experience of thinkers in the West. Even though we live in what is generally believed to be an open and free society, there is sometimes a price to be paid for being open. Airing nonconformist views about politics, religion, race, feminism, and prosperity in any culture is to some extent a risky venture.
I've never been forced to work in a brick factory or been publicly beaten and yet I have often been silenced, ridiculed, robbed of freedom, denied jobs, lost jobs, and sold short for standing my ground on some divisive issue or even for failing to be sufficiently enthusiastic about widely held beliefs. I have watched the same happen to others. And I have often noted the kowtowing and evasive language of those whose material success depends on mechanically currying the favour of those in power.
And yet there are glaring differences between my experiences and those of Kang, the main one being communist China's maniacal, erratic enforcement of subjective interpretations of Marxist ideology.
Another contrast is in attitudes toward literature. My greatest fear as a writer is that my outpourings may never be read, but in Kang's world, diaries, personal letters, and even marginalia are considered so significant that you have to go to great lengths to keep them from falling into the wrong hands.
In a twisted way, totalitarian repression forms an incubation zone for writers, a negative enabling of talent and effort. It's not something Western writers might trade freedom for, but it is something. And yet although we should assume that much excellent writing was produced in China during the Mao years, little literary writing has survived the government's ruthless purges.
Kang is both threatened and redeemed by his reluctance to deceive as well as by his fear of being annihilated as a thinking individual. His cultured, middle-class family background, considered undesirable by the state, grants him continuity with Chinese classical literature, Buddhism, and traditional values.
It is clear that the Zhengguos? pre-revolution culture is a source of strength and solace for Kang during the Mao years, and that Kang gains a measure of self-esteem and objectivity from classical literature. But it is these old things that are always under attack by a state which would make all things new.
Confessions lives up to five of The Mindful Bard's criteria for books well worth reading: 1) it is authentic, original, and delightful; 2) it confronts and mocks existing injustices; 3) it renews my enthusiasm for positive social action; 4) it gives me tools enabling me to respond with compassion and competence to the suffering around me; and 5) it harmoniously unites art with social action, saving me from both seclusion in an ivory tower and slavery to someone else's political agenda.
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Get Speaking Engagements: The Speaker's Edge with Ken Lizotte
May 13, 2016 by John McDougall Leave a Comment
John McDougall: Hi, I'm John McDougall and welcome to the Authority Marketing Roadmap. Today my guest is Ken Lizotte, Chief Imaginative Officer at Emerson Consulting Group where he helps turn professionals into thought leaders.
A thought leader in his own right, Ken is the author of The Expert's Edge and The Speaker's Edge. Welcome Ken.
Ken Lizotte: Well, thank you. I'm glad to be here, John.
Why Speaking to Groups Is Important
John: Yes, absolutely. And why is speaking to groups so important and how can it help us build our businesses?
Ken: I think there's nothing like getting right out there in front of real live human beings and being able to make an impact on them so that they understand what's inside of you and what needs to get out. What your expertise is all about. Your products, your services, etc.
You know, many, many years ago, decades ago, literally, there was a best-selling book called, Megatrends, and a guy named John Naisbitt had written it. At the time, with TV running so strong – this is the 70s if I recall exactly when this was. [Editor: Megatrends was published in 1982]
There were predictions that we would stop going to the movies. And this is like 40 years later with on-demand and Internet entertainment and all of that, one would – first of all, wonder why it hasn't happened already – but still make that prediction.
But he said that will never happen because it's very important, no matter what the technology, for human beings to be with other human beings. So that's the impact of speaking, and webinars can do it and blogging and social media can do it, but there's nothing like human beings being in the same room with each other, like I'm here with you.
John: Absolutely, it makes a difference. We were going to do this over the phone and you came in person and we were just saying how it deepens the relationship and your connections.
Ken: Yes, absolutely, yes.
How to Find and Obtain Speaking Engagements
John: In your new book, The Speaker's Edge, you explain how we can all locate and obtain lots of speaking engagements. What are the primary avenues for doing that?
Ken: Well, the primary avenues are – they seem pretty obvious when I say them – the formal or the informal.
So the formal is, say that you targeted some conferences, big conferences or business events that you would love to speak at. They generally require you to make a formal presentation, or rather a proposal, and that takes place typically online and there's a form to fill out and if you've filled out a lot of these, you'll find that they're all different, but you've got to spend some time making a formal proposal for yourself.
The other is the informal, and that's when we might know somebody who is always looking for speakers for a group that we've been involved in, or we ask around our friends and our colleagues if they know about some groups that are looking for speakers, and that sort of thing.
Those things can just happen. I actually was at what's called a launch party for a client of mine who's got a new book out the other night and one of the people who was attending works for a company called Fitbit. Everybody I think has heard of Fitbit because it's really getting very, very popular and very strong and does a lot of commercials on TV and all.
Anyway, she said she works in the Fitbit office in Boston and they often bring in speakers and just by being there without planning it at all, she was impressed with the book and impressed with my client, the new author, and she told him that she would try to see if he can be brought into Fitbit to do some speaking in-house there.
So that's the informal. The formal. And those are the two major ways that one goes about looking for speaking engagements.
John: Okay. What about – have you heard of the Association Executives, the big master book of all the meeting planners?
Ken: Yes.
John: I bought a copy of that a ways back and man, that thing is massive.
Ken: It's overwhelming. It's so complete. Yes. That's the directory of trade and professional associations. There's one for the national association. There is one for states. State by state. It's also got an online version. I think it called –
John: — TheAssociationOfExecutives.com or something like that. [Editor: https://www.associationexecs.com/]
Ken: Yes, that's what it is, yes. They got an online version as well, which is probably going to become the main version, but that's how you would do your research. You would go to a resource like that to find national organizations, conventions, events, expos, things like that. And what you want to do, if you're in business, is to look for those that are going to have the target audience that represents your market that you want to speak to, and you can find what looks like the right match, that's when you'd go on their website and make a formal proposal.
John: Yeah, it's amazing — there's a group for everything, albino mini horses, you know, it's everything.
Ken: I spoke a few years ago at an annual convention. I think it's called The New England Mystery Writers, or Mystery Novelists, or something like that. There were probably three or four hundred people at this meeting at a hotel in, I believe it was in Dedham, Massachusetts, and the atmosphere was so high-spirited. People who are writing mystery novels were so happy to be together and I was on a panel about getting your book published, and it was just jammed. So, you just never know what kind of groupings there are.
John: What kind of niche little group could actually turn into a great client list for you.
Ken: Yeah, exactly.
Keynotes Aren't Everything
John: And, you say in your book that keynotes aren't everything, that people mistakenly presume that a keynote is always the prize to shoot for. How is that a mistake?
Ken: Well, it's not a mistake to shoot for it. It's a mistake to overlook all the other possibilities in terms of speaking. There aren't that many keynote spots, obviously. Usually a conference has one keynoter, maybe two if it's really large. So, you really limit yourself if you assume that being the keynote, being the star of the show, is the only way you really can get enough attention.
For example, I just mentioned this New England Mystery Writers group — I was on a panel. As I said, the room was jammed. So, you're going to get a chance to display your expertise and to make comments and offer your opinions and insights in a way that's going to get the attention of the right audience.
So, overlooking the fact that you don't have to be a keynote is important so you don't just spend your time spinning your wheels, and maybe you're lucky to get one keynote a year and that becomes the only speaking engagement that you get.
Other Mistakes When Looking for Speaking Engagements
John: Are there other mistakes that people make when looking for speaking gigs, and also when actually speaking? In other words, what will work against you in terms of building your chances of speaking frequently?
Ken: Well, the biggest thing that I learned when I did research for the book and talked to event planners, in particular, is trying to sell yourself on stage. Trying to sell your services, or a product you have, or a book you have, or whatever.
Get up there, and give your audience the best of your knowledge, the best of your insight, answer questions in the Q&A period, be giving. That is important. As soon as you shift into a sales person, rep, whatever, you start to lose your audience and you lose the event planner's recommendation.
The event planner will then say, "I will never have this person here again, and I will never recommend this speaker to anyone else." So, don't try to sell yourself. I once saw a very, very, stark display of that at the CEO Club of Boston, which typically will bring in two speakers every other month here in the Boston area.
Of all things, there was a speaker whose expertise was, how to get past the gate keepers in order to sell to – what do you call it – VIPs. Very Important Persons in a company; high level, C level executives, the CEO, the highest executives. And this guy knew what he was talking about, and he had written a few books on the subject, and he was giving great advice and great information and all of that.
At the end of his talk though, he shifted. He pointed over to a table behind him where he had all his books and his tapes lined up and he said, "I just want you to know, that I've brought books and tapes for sale here for you, and if you act now, for a three hundred dollar set of tapes or some books, I can give you guys some special CEO-club price of $259 and then if you want the other package–" and he went on and on like this in the hall and then he waited — he waited for somebody to say, "That sounds great. Yeah I'll take one," and no one did. It was amazing.
John: Awkward, the way it was presented.
Ken: Oh, one guy did raise his hand and said "I'll take one." And you had the feeling that this guy felt sorry for the speaker and was willing to buy this just because it was an awkward moment. You know the irony was this was an expert on selling and he did this, and I talked with the director of the club later and he said to me "Yeah that was bad."
John: But at the same time there is a whole audience of people, Dan Kennedy for example, has quite a routine of managing to sell quite an incredible amount of stuff from the back of the room so there's a way to do it and build up in your talk this excitement of what you do and then have that available, but how you do it, you have to be — if you give a walking sales speech the whole time, that is just…
Ken: That just turns it off, I don't know personally how Dan Kennedy — I know who you're talking about but I don't know how he does it — but I certainly can believe that there's some people who have learned how to sort of integrate it and to do it subtly and this and that. But if it's blatant, and if it feels as though all the speaker — you the speaker — are here to do is to sell me in the audience, I'm gone as an audience member and that's blowing it.
And see, the important thing about that point is that when you are asked the — if you are asked the other question which is how do you get — what's the best way for one to get more and more speaking engagements? Because that's the focus of my book, how to land lots of speaking engagements. The way to do it when it really came down to it in terms of what the experts had to tell me was go out and speak, speak as well as possible, deliver a great a presentation as possible, just be there and do your thing on stage, not sell yourself. Just give of yourself and be good at it.
Practice, practice, practice so you'll be a better speaker and what will happen then is someone in the audience perhaps might see you and come up after or contact you later and say, "You know I saw you give your talk, and it was fantastic, and I actually know of a group and I am part of a group that needs someone to give a similar talk and would you be interested"? That's what will sell yourself.
The More You Speak, the More Engagements You Will Get
John: So some of the best ways to get more speaking gigs is to just do as many as you can in a sense?
Ken: Yes. The more you speak, the more likely you are to get more speaking engagement. That's what the experts who are successful at it tell me.
John: At the same time if, from that advice, you then go and say, "Okay I'm going to speak always for free, does that also, maybe in a way, shoot yourself in the foot because some experts say you should put on your website a minimum $5000 speaking fee to let people know you are of some stature and then you hope that they say, "Oh geez, we don't have $5000 but we have $500." What do you think of that whole routine or game or whatever you want to call it?
Ken: Well it depends on what your goal is. Now there are a lot of good reasons to speak pro bono, and two of them are, one, if there's some sort of charitable event or some sort of group that's a good cause where you know they can't afford to pay you but you would be in front of maybe a very influential audience that could lead to business at some point.
The other is if it's a target audience of yours that really, again there are potential prospects, and you could even see the point of, for example, paying your own way to fly to an event somewhere else and pay your own expenses and your accommodations and all. If it was quite possible that that was — if it was likely that that was a good match.
But having said that, what you are alluding to is very significant thing to do also and that's to set a certain value for yourself, whether it's $5000 or $8000 or $10000 or whatever so that you can then negotiate it down. I, for example, once gave a talk at a conference in Washington D.C that was on the topic of diversity in business, and I have to confess to everybody that at the time in my career when I gave the talk, I was not a diversity expert but what this was, was that there were a number of speakers already on the agenda. There were about eight speakers on the agenda and they represented all sorts of the diversity spectrum. There were people who were black, there were people who were Hispanic, people who were gay, there were Native Americans, etc., and I happened to run into the conference organizer and he said to me, "You know what I don't have; I don't have a white guy."
John: [Laughs] You were the minority.
Ken: Yes. I said well, I could do that. So I put a proposal together for him and my topic, I called it Workplace Diversity: What's In It for White Guys, and he said, "okay". He brought me down there and I looked at the other speakers and they really were diversity experts and when it was all over, I was curious about the fee that I got because I did give them a proposal and it did have a fee structure on there and they did decide to give me a fee. It wasn't a whole ton of money — to be frank, it was years ago and it was $1500, but they did agree to it and paid expenses and all that.
When it was all over I asked them about that and said, "I'm just kind of curious, where did my fee stack up against the other speakers?" Take this note; there were two keynoters at that particular event. They said, "Well, you are number two behind one of the keynoters." I said, "Wait a minute, one of the keynoters got less than I did?" "Oh, yeah, sure." "And what did some of these other people get?" because they seemed like quite strong…
John: Knowledgeable, professional crowd.
Ken: Yes, well, some got maybe $500 and others didn't get anything. I said, "What was the difference?" They said, "You asked for it." That's all it was. "You asked for it". So, put it out there but do know — again the premise of your question is important to keep in mind — don't be rigid about it, put it out there. Let the person say it's good or that's fine or let them say, "Well I don't know if we can afford that," and then start to try negotiate it down. You might still end up with a fee that's a good one for you.
Publishing a Book Helps Get Speaking Gigs
John: Absolutely. You and I share a similar philosophy about how businesses can stand out from the competition, specifically by offering a book among other tactics. How useful is publishing a book in the search for speaking gigs?
Ken: I think it's really important. I don't think you'd never get to speak without one but I think it's really important partly because of what happens. Not only that a lot of event planners want to see a book, that you are an author of a book, it doesn't have to be a best seller but they give you certain credibility with that. Also, I think your audience gives you credibility.
Once again, if you think about what a speaker is like that does not have a book. Typically we will see speakers with diagrams or PowerPoint or whatever it might be and they don't particularly have — they might have some handouts and they are not even published articles, they are just handouts, they're handouts of the PowerPoints or they promise to email you those the next day or whatever. There's just nothing like having a book for the credibility, that you really are an expert or a thought leader or guru. You really stand out from the crowd, even of public speakers.
John: We were joking earlier, if you want to show off your book a little bit then have some weight to it. You kind of drop it on the table when you come into a meeting.
Ken: That's the way your book is. You drop it on the table and…but I noticed there's nothing on the pages inside. [Laughs]
Does the Size of the Book Matter?
John: I did get a book like that once, but they did that on purpose. Someone has told me there's some philosophy around the size of your book, not necessarily the volume or the decibels when you drop it on the table but the size of your book matters, the length of it, when you are getting a speaking gig in terms of the amount of fee that you get. Do people take a more comprehensive book more seriously or what's the rule of thumb, or does any book help you get [speaking engagements]?
Ken: I think it depends. I think it's always the topic, when you get down to it. Or if you are a really big name like Malcolm Gladwell or something, then that will always draw but below that upper tier, I think it's the topic, I think what matters is the topic. Remember two of the biggest, best-selling books of all time had almost no words in them. One was called Who Moved My Cheese and another was called, before that, The One Minute Manager. So those are thin books, both of them, but the authors who did those are still in the speaking circuit many years later.
John: Yes. Those are actually great examples; I had, way back, the cassette tapes of Who Moved My Cheese. My father got it and he just turned us all on to it; and that was short.
Ken: Well look at that, the cassette tape, yes. So that's how it gets expanded. I don't know how much the size of a book is important, but certainly the topic is going to be important, and it's not just the topic because it can't be a dry topic, it needs to have a certain pizzazz to it, or panache or flair; so that helps as well.
Other Important Steps to Win Speaking Engagements
John: What else is important? Your book includes a checklist of essential items for ensuring you're fully equipped to search, find and win lots of speaking engagements.
Ken: There are a number of items on my list — the one that pops out at me is, you asked the question, a video. It used to be, years ago, that if we were on a program planning committee, if some speaker's name came up somebody might say, "Woah, is there any chance we could go see him or her speak?"
John: And you go in person. There was no YouTube.
Ken: Yes. It sounds incredibly archaic now, but now we can go on a website and we can see a one-, two-, three-minute, fifteen-minute or whatever, video, and we can get a sense. Not everybody has that, but it's a good idea to have that, so that's really important.
I put a book on the list, having a book. Again, I think that's very important. I think there's also something I have in my book, The Speaker's Edge, that I call an "info sheet", and if you're really going to do a diligent search for speaking engagements, this info sheet is something that you could use so that before you start, you can have, right in front of you, all the various information that you might be asked for, so you don't have to start from scratch every time you're filling out a formal proposal.
You wouldn't be asked for all of it because they all are variations of each other, but I found it really helpful to have everything comprehensively in front of you, so you just copy and paste and that would make the filling out of the formal proposals go a lot faster.
John: Much quicker, yes. And you have to be somewhat rigorous about finding gigs, you have to maybe, several or ten times a month fill out these forms, or how often do you recommend your clients to pursue it?
Ken: It's funny because we were talking about a book being important. You and I know both know that doing a book means hiding out or squirreling your time away or carving out time, this kind of thing. Looking for speaking engagements is similar, you're going to have to carve out some time, discipline yourself and set aside a certain amount of time. It's not necessarily fun, but you can embrace it and try to make it fun.
The other way to do it through the informal method is to integrate it as much as you can in your day to day actions. You could, for example, get an email from somebody about something or other, and it occurs to you that that person maybe does a lot of speaking and you might say to them in an email, "By the way, I'm trying to do more speaking right now and I'm looking for executive groups to speak to, would you have any suggestions?"
How long would it take to bang out that question on your email? So you could do that; having lunch with somebody, maybe it would come up. I don't mean bug everybody at every chance you get, but keep it in mind. This is a fair question to ask and you'd be willing to do the same for that person as well. So integrate it, in other words, with your normal networking.
The One Thing People Can Do To Get Speaking Engagements
John: When all is said and done, what is the one thing that people can do to locate and land lots of speaking engagements?
Ken: I think we've already discussed it. I think that it really is, go out and speak; try to do the best you can, don't try to sell yourself blatantly, shamelessly on there. And then maybe the last piece, though, that we haven't discussed is the follow-up. A big mistake a lot of speakers make is to just, no matter how great they do it, to get off the stage and cross their fingers that somebody in the audience will come to them, "I've done everything I can." Well no you haven't done everything you can.
Try to get all the business cards from the audience that you can, maybe raffling off a book is one way to do it, and then send a follow-up email to everyone thanking them and saying you appreciated their coming to listen to you. And then put them on an email list. Now I didn't really talk about that but again that's one of the follow-up techniques you should have.
You should build an email list adding any audience that you speak to and then sending something out from time to time that will be a reminder, in some way, of the expertise that you have. That way you stay in contact with them over time; and too many speakers, it seems to me, just don't bother to do this, and I think it's kind of like getting off the stage and saying, "Well we had a good time today that's the last we're going to see of each other so good luck everybody."
And I think that's a mistake. But that's a way to extend of what we might call your speaking community, or a fellowship is what I used to call it in the book, and stay in contact. So that they're going to be able to come to you, invite you to do a speaking gig sometime in the future when the time comes for them to have that occasion to come to you. Don't become a speaker that was great that I saw two years ago or three years ago and I can't remember the name of the person anymore.
John: Yes, I like the insights of the people that just saw you speak, to pitch to them. They just saw you speak, if they were happy, a good audience…
Ken: Yes exactly, make sure that it's more than just a one-time gig with all those people.
John: Absolutely, thanks for speaking to us today, Ken.
Ken: Great, this is a speaking engagement too, for me, you know.
John: Yes, absolutely, a podcast.
Ken: That's actually that's the last thing I would say is that when we were talking earlier about keynotes, and don't forget, the panels, as we said earlier, can be a speaking engagement. Don't forget that what they call breakout sessions can be a speaking engagement. And frankly, those dreaded elevator speeches that we're asked to do frequently at networking events, if you create the best elevator 20-, 30-second elevator pitch that you can create — and by the way I have a great exercise in the book that will help people do that — those 30 seconds could be the most impactful speaking engagement you've ever done if you do those right. So there's always an opportunity for doing speaking engagements, not necessarily the star of the show.
John: Great and tell us how people can get in touch with you, what's your website address?
Ken: So my website address is thoughtleading.com, that's T-H-O-U-G-H-T, thought as in thinking, L-E-A-D-I-N-G, leading as in leadership, thoughtleading, it's one word, dot com. This is the way I have to say it when I'm on the phone with Comcast, thoughtleading.com, they can find me.
John: No dashes, that's good.
Ken: No dashes, no underscores, nothing else.
John: Okay, I hope you enjoyed today's discussion. Check out authoritymarketing.com for more interviews and information on Authority Marketing and review us on iTunes and Stitcher. I'm John McDougall — see you next time on the Authority Marketing Roadmap.
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The Pavilion Cafe that overlooks the lake in Victoria Park provides the first, and perhaps tenderest, example of these values in action. The cafe was one of Khan's first architectural commissions and an ongoing collaboration with owner Rob Green: a cod-Victorian pavilion from the '80s given a new lease of life by opening up the interiors and juxtaposing its huge domed roof with soft black walls and canopied seating area. For all the appeal this lends to the burgeoning class of East Londoners, Khan draws attention to one of the most unassuming aspects of the cafe. You still get an old fashioned cup of tea for just one pound. This means that longstanding local residents who might not necessarily be able (or indeed want to) spend the best part of ten pounds on smashed avocado on sourdough toast ("the best sourdough bread in London," apparently) can still come and enjoy the cafe and its surroundings. Upon learning this you suddenly realize the importance of the outdoor seating that Khan designed: by removing the need to cross a threshold into the interiors of an establishment, one also removes any stigma that might potentially be felt by those who want to use the cafe in a different way to other patrons.
Asif's latest project, the MINI Living installation Forests, feels a little like a culmination to date of all these long-gestating ideas. It is there he heads next, after a brief detour via the new playground he recently designed for the Hackney school his children attend. Installed as part of London Design Festival and executed with input the horticulturalist Jin Ahn of Conservatory Archives, Forests themes of community, collaboration, and contemplation run throughout every aspect of its being. Spread over three sites in close proximity to Old Street, each cuboid forest is constructed from unassuming polycarbonate sheets and filled with verdant plant life courtesy of Jin. Each is designed with a different use in mind—to 'Connect', 'Create' and 'Relax'—but all with the overwhelming intention to bring communities together. As we arrive at the first forest, Asif illustrates this by gesturing around at the immediate surroundings.
A promenade of permanently-busy, buzzy bars stretches off in the direction of Shoreditch High Street whilst at Old Street's roundabout looms the unmistakeable hallmarks of manic tech investment: huge, contemporary office complexes staring glassy-faced down on the kebab shops and council housing that occupy the interstitial gaps in between. He explains that everyday he sees these three distinct communities—the business guys, the night-time revellers, the bemused locals—living side by side, but never actually "overlapping" as he puts it. 'Forests' provide a location to disrupt this. Stopping for a moment on a bench inside the 'Connect' forest, he explains that not only does the corridor-like installation act as a plant-filled alternative for a brief stretch of commuting but also as a place people might stop for lunch away from the jarring hustle and bustle outside. Almost as if on cue, a father and his two young children sit down with sandwiches and juice cartons to do exactly that—and as a result, find themselves in dialogue with an internationally renowned architect. It is a beautifully noble and understated project and one that arguably deserves a more permanent lifetime than the nine days London Design Festival gives it.
The 'Connect' forest is an alternative walkway that allows commuters and tourists alike to bypass a brief part of the Old Street intersection. It also features benches upon which one can sit and take a moment; eat a spot of lunch.
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New Russian government data on August 8 explosion reveals that a nuclear reactor was definitely involved
Severodvinsk. July 2019
Sergey Bobylev / TASS / Scanpix / LETA
Russia's National Weather Service (Roshydromet) released a report on August 26 that detailed the radioactive substances found in the atmosphere following a testing accident near Severodvinsk on August 8. Roshydromet's data indicates at the very least that there was a nuclear reactor at the site of the explosion, though state officials have insisted otherwise. Below, we explain what other conclusions can be drawn from the Russian government's meteorological report on the blast.
What happened near Severodvinsk and what Roshydromet reported
According to official Russian government data, an explosion took place during August 8 tests for an unnamed device at the Russian Navy's Central Missile Polygon. The facility is located near the village of Nyonoksa, about 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) from the city of Severodvinsk. Seven people died in the accident, including five employees of Russia's state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom and two military servicemembers.
At first, military officials said that the device involved was a standard liquid rocket engine. However, that position changed after local government officials began reporting heightened radiation levels and journalists found that those injured in the blast had been checked into hospitals capable of treating radiation-related injuries. Russia's Defense Ministry as well as Rosatom began reporting that the engine of the missile in question contained an atomic battery.
A few days later, Donald Trump announced on Twitter that U.S. officials believed the explosion took place on a Burevestnik missile, known in NATO terminology as Skyfall. The Burevestnik is one of the superweapon models Vladimir Putin announced in the spring of 2018. Putin said that the missile uses new nuclear designs to achieve an "unlimited range." Nuclear experts surmised that the model's engine contains a compact nuclear reactor. An atomic battery would be insufficient to provide a missile with an "unlimited range," assuming that term indicates a capacity to stay in the air for days or even weeks.
American officials did not provide direct evidence that it was a Burevestnik missile that had exploded in Nyonoksa. The indirect evidence they publicized included a satellite image of the Nyonoksa base that included what appeared to be a Burevestnik launching device.
It later came to light that Russia had cut off four radionuclide detection stations from the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) monitoring system. CTBTO leaders indicated that the four stations in question would have been capable of recording identifying data about the isotopes released in the August 8 explosion. That data, in turn, would have enabled scientists to determine whether the device that exploded in Nyonoksa was a nuclear reactor or an atomic battery and whether any dangerous substances were emitted into the atmosphere as a result of the blast.
On August 26, Roshydromet published a report on the isotopic composition of the chemicals emitted in the explosion. The report indicated that the emissions included the radioactive isotopes strontium-91, barium-139, barium-140, and lanthanum-140.
What we can tell from Roshydromet's report (in brief)
The accident was preceded by a nuclear chain reaction. This means it almost certainly involved a nuclear reactor. Roshydromet's data is fully compatible with the possibility that a nuclear-powered missile like the Burevestnik caused the explosion.
The body of the reactor was not destroyed: Only radioactive noble gases, the products of the nuclear chain reaction, were able to escape it. The half-life of these isotopes is only a few seconds. They decay into the isotopes Roshydromet detected. However, even those resulting isotopes decay relatively quickly over the course of hours or days, and the products of those nuclear reactions are not radioactive.
It is difficult to say exactly what happened to the reactor and what killed the explosion's victims using isotope detection data alone. However, if Roshydromet's data is accurate, it is fair to suggest that the isotopes emitted in the explosion did not present any danger to individuals located outside the Nyonoksa military facility.
Believing Roshydromet's data would mean believing official reports that the cesium-137 found in one local doctor's tissues came from some source other than the explosion. After the doctor treated patients who had been injured in the blast, the radioactive isotope was detected in his muscle tissue.
The Russian branch of the environmental organization Greenpeace noted that while Roshydromet's report was sufficient to conclude that the Nyonoksa explosion originated near a nuclear reactor, refuting the Russian government's previous claims, the report lacked two kinds of basic information. Without data on the concentration of the isotopes released in the accident as well as an account of the numerous other isotopes that are typically released in similar explosions, Greenpeace argued, it is difficult to assess the risk posed to Russian residents.
What we can tell from Roshydromet's report (in detail)
Strontium-91, barium-139, barium-140, and lanthanum-140 typically form due to chain reactions of heavy isotopes like uranium-235. Those chain reactions can be controlled, as in a functioning nuclear reactor, or they can be uncontrolled, as in an atomic bomb explosion or an accidental accumulation of a critical mass of reactive materials. Uranium-235 and its oxides were considered as possible fuel sources for a nuclear-powered missile in the 1960s and 1970s in the United States.
Strontium-91, barium-139, barium-140, and lanthanum-140 are not the direct products of nuclear chain reactions. Instead, they follow from the nuclear decay of short-lived noble gases like krypton and xenon that do form immediately in those reactions. Strontium-91, barium-139, barium-140, and lanthanum-140 themselves are highly likely to decay within hours or days. (In terms of human health and safety, this puts strontium-91 ahead of isotopes like the more common strontium-90, which has a half-life of 28.8 years.)
All of the isotopes Roshydromet listed decay into stable — that is, non-radioactive — nuclei. Only strontium-91 passes through one other radioactive state before decaying into a stable isotope. This means the radioactivity of an emissions cloud containing these isotopes decreases rapidly over time.
Barium-140 and lanthanum-140 are not as readily absorbed by living organisms as, for example, cesium-138, which became infamous for its disastrous effects in the Chernobyl disaster. The short half-lives of these isotopes prevent them from causing long-term damage to doctors who treat those injured in the epicenter of an explosion.
Experts believe Roshydromet's data provides a feasible explanation of the picture they have been able to observe in Severodvinsk: A short-term but high-magnitude jump in radioactivity levels that left some isotopes at up to 16 times their typical concentration. The radioactive isotopes of noble gases can escape a reactor during an accident because they are difficult to contain through filtration, unlike the airborne forms of other isotopes. This means that if Roshydromet's data is accurate, both the fuel for the reactor in question and most of the products of that fuel's decay remained within the reactor itself. If the reactor really did remain whole, then the cesium-137 found in the tissue of a local doctor really can be said to have entered his body from a source unrelated to the explosion.
It is difficult to say exactly what happened to the reactor, what the reactor really was, or what killed the explosion's victims using isotope detection data alone. Boris Zhuykov, who leads a laboratory in the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told Meduza that the victims may have been injured by an explosion that took place outside a nuclear reactor and then been exposed to a dose of short-lived isotopes.
"People may have been killed by radiation if the reactor's biological defense system was destroyed even if the reactor itself remained whole. The patients may have been exposed to a lot of barium-140, but the doctors would not have been able to experience contamination from their patients in turn," Zhuykov explained.
There is a well-known historical case that bears a number of similarities to the current situation in Russia as far as isotopic composition is concerned. In 1999, operators at the Tokaimura nuclear facility in Japan accidentally allowed a nuclear chain reaction involving uranium-235 and a uranium salt solution to reach a critical mass. Two of the operators suddenly saw a bright blue burst and felt a wave of extreme heat. Ionizing gamma rays emit blue light in liquid environments. Both of the operators nearest to the blast died. A third who was located in a neighboring room suffered severe radiation damage but survived. Following the explosion strontium-91, barium-140, and lanthanum-140 were detected on the victims' clothing and in their hair.


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