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Culture – François-Xavier Lalanne and His Parade of Woolly Sheep
When it comes to art and furniture (in this case a combination of the two) that makes us drool, only one comes in fluffy sheepskin. Today on The Journal, we look at why having sheep in your living room, as opposed to armchairs or a sofa, is not only pure fun – but also pricey, with a group of ten sheep fetching nearly $7.5 million at Christie's a few years ago.
For the 1965 Salon de la Jeune Peinture in Paris, French artist François-Xavier Lalanne wanted to make a statement. "If you come with a snail as big as a thumb, nobody notices," he said. "You have to go with something immodest and slightly embarrassing."
The result? Twenty-four sheep. Lalanne fashioned the faux livestock in the living room of the Paris apartment he shared with Claude, his wife and artistic partner. Four sculptures received impassive faces of patinated bronze while the others remained headless; all were swathed in fluffy sheepskins. The artistic duo then trotted the surrealistic herd off to the storied Palais de Tokyo exhibition hall, where the moutons – making their grand debut as art furniture, complete with casters in their hooves for easy mobility – were placed prominently at the salon's entrance.
Le Tout-Paris was charmed and covetous. "Having a sheep in your living room, as opposed to an armchair or a wood bench, is just pure fun," says garden designer Madison Cox, a longtime friend of the Lalannes. That fun was as instantaneous as it has been enduring (and pricey too; in 2011 a group of ten sheep fetched nearly $7.5 million at Christie's).
But whatever the price, both François-Xavier and Claude believed that art should be part of the everyday, an idea that was initially swatted aside and judged harshly by critics in the art world. Yet Les Lalanne refused to conform, and soon their work was everywhere, from photo shoots in magazines to Paris's most fashionable galleries. "I thought that it would be funny to invade that big living room with a flock of sheep," François-Xavier once explained. "It is, after all, easier to have a sculpture in an apartment than to have a real sheep. And, it's even better if you can sit on it."
Several of the sheep were commissioned by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, who positioned them throughout their library in Paris and in their gardens, sometimes used to lounge upon. "They help me pretend I am on a farm in Normandy" the couturier wistfully observed. When Adelaide de Menil got wind of artist William Copley's third divorce, in the 1970s, she sent her condolences: a rare black sheep to add to his collection.
There are quite obviously more fans than there are sheep, with François Catroux (the decorator of choice for aristocrats, moguls, fashion queens, royals, and oligarchs alike since 1968) recently gathering a trio in a Paris apartment, saying that he "always prefer them in a big mass".
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Use of Interactive Content on the Rise [Research]
Do you use interactive content to influence the buyer's journey? Fifty-three percent of content marketers we recently surveyed said they do. And what do you think is their top reason for doing so?
You may suspect that it's engagement (I know I did). I was pleasantly surprised, however, to see that educating the audience was the No. 1 reason (75%) for using interactive content. Sure, 59% said engagement, making it the No. 2 reason (followed closely by lead gen and brand awareness), but educating the audience — one of the key tenets of content marketing — reigned supreme.
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With experience, comes more interactive content
Fifty-one percent of respondents have been using interactive content for three years or longer, with 14% using it for seven years or more. Marketers with three or more years of experience reported that interactive content made up, on average, 23% of the total marketing produced by their organization in the last 12 months (versus 18% for the overall sample). Seventy-five percent of respondents who use interactive content said they anticipated that their organization's use of it would increase in 2016, compared with 2015.
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Types of interactive content used at various stages of the buyer's journey
The survey inquired about the use of 11 types of interactive content for content marketing purposes. Assessments were the most-cited type (54%), followed by calculators (52%), contests (50%), and quizzes (48%).
We also asked respondents at which stage of the buyer's journey they found each type of content to be most effective. Contests and games were the most highly rated types for the early stage (awareness/discovery), educational types were most highly rated for the middle stage (awareness), and configurators were most highly rated for the late stage (decision).
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Users cite numerous benefits of interactive content
The majority of survey respondents reported that interactive content provides numerous benefits:
81% agree that interactive content grabs attention more effectively than static content.
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Respondents who said their organizations are not currently using interactive content cited lack of staff/bandwidth as the top reason (55%). Lack of budget (38%), lack of technical expertise (31%), and still researching it (31%) followed.
Fifty-two percent said tools to simplify the process would encourage them to use interactive content, followed by education on how to use (45%), best practices (42%), and ease of use (42%).
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In this article, I'll show you the 5 tactics which we applied to our WooCommerce abandoned cart email series that worked for us to a great extent and increased our abandoned cart sales by a whopping 185%.
But before that, some sneak-peek as to why cart recovery emails are a necessity for your WooCommerce store.
We don't bother as to who abandons the cart. We assume it may be a random user just testing or someone just trying out.
But what if that user really was interested to buy your product but abandoned the cart due to some reason. What if his cart value was a whopping amount?
If by some means, if you're able to convert such potential leads, just imagine how much revenue you would end up with?
You have almost ended up losing that customer but cart recovery emails are your hope to win them back. That's the power of WooCommerce abandoned cart emails.
Cart recovery emails are your highly engaging bait to bring back users to your WooCommerce site and encourage them to complete a purchase.
But that doesn't mean writing an email and sending them will get customers back.
It requires proper planning – subject line, timing, content and number of emails sent.
We at StoreApps achieved an average conversion rate using our first set of emails. But as they say, if better is possible, good is not enough.
We wanted to convert more visitors and here's where we observed what was missing in our first email series and rectified in our second email series.
Here's a one-on-one comparison of the email series, each series run for a period of six months. It will make it clear as to what worked in the second email series compared to the first.
For the entire case-study, we will refer our previous set of emails as Email series-1 & the revised emails which boosted our conversions as Email series-2.
Can you make out the difference between the subject line of both emails?
Janet, you forgot this behind on StoreApps!
In the first email of our first series, we were directly telling users to complete their purchase.
While in the first email of our second series, we are reminding users that they were interested in something before. We also address user with the name to add a personal touch to the email.
Here also, we are encouraging them to make a purchase but not directly.
Result – The change in subject line boosted email our open rates by 19%.
Similar positive results for Email 2 of Email series-2.
In the second email of the first series and second email of the second series, the difference is the Urgency trigger. Notice the word – Final Call.
That impacted the conversion rate.
Result – The change in subject line boosted email open rates by 24%.
Chris, can we help with your order?
Oops…Was there a problem checking out?
Last call, grab it before it's gone!
Yelena, you sure you want to miss this?
A good subject line doesn't guarantee good engagement. You need proper headings as well.
That will make your users read your emails.
Umm… Was there a problem checking out?
The element of surprise worked better in the email-1 of email series-2.
You sure you want to miss this?
The sense of scarcity invokes the desire to make a purchase as seen in the second email of email series-2.
Your user may be a first-time purchaser. He may not trust your brand immediately or easily. Hence, addressing their concerns beforehand at-least gives them a sense of authority about your brand.
As shown in the above email template of series 1, we addressed the objections and trust after mentioning the products.
But if you see the email template of series 2 below, we addressed the objections and trust before mentioning the products.
Addressing customers objections beforehand make them trust the product more than asking them to buy first and later address their concerns.
Yes. We don't want to lose customers. But that also doesn't mean we keep on bombarding them with a lot of emails to buy.
It gives an impression you are just behind customer's money.
If the person is interested in the product, he may have got converted at the first place itself. If not, then give another chance with the second email.
That's the reason why we reduced our emails from three to two.
The poor open rate of the third email also gave a fair idea to scrap it from the series.
Tip: If users are not converting via the first email, add a small discount offer in your second email to encourage them to make a purchase.
You can't predict the exact reason why the user abandoned. But major reason could be pricing, competitor check and then come back later.
So sending an email immediately may strike him off a little. Give him some time. An email after a delay of two-three hours may help the user gain more trust in your product.
Moreover, it doesn't seem like a forceful act for the user to buy.
End Result – We got a 185% increase in sales from our revised WooCommerce abandoned cart emails by deploying all these five tactics in our emails.
These were the results we observed for our WooCommerce abandoned cart email series. It may differ from brand to brand. But the core thing remains same – proper email sequence and timing, address objections and avoid forceful bombardment to make a purchase.
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D.C. Dispatches
Minnesota Republicans pitch Obamacare agenda for 2014
By Devin Henry | 12/20/2013
Buttons reading "Repeal Obamacare" on display at last years' Conservative Political Action Conference.
WASHINGTON — Congress is leaving town on a note of bipartisanship, passing a budget resolution that won support from more than 160 members of each party in the GOP-controlled House last week.
But that bipartisanship followed a bitter months-long tussle over President Obama's health-care law, and House Republicans are gearing up to take another go at the law when they return in January.
Leadership hasn't identified what approach it intends to take, which has the rank-and-file lining up with suggestions. Minnesota's three Republicans have their own wish lists: Reps. John Kline and Michele Bachmann say the House should take another shot at fully repealing the law, while Rep. Erik Paulsen said the focus should shift to other health-care issues while waiting for the law to peter itself out.
Most hard health-care policy proposals have taken a backseat this fall while the GOP waged a public campaign against the fumbled Affordable Care Act rollout. For now, the call to pass any health-care legislation, repealing the law or otherwise, has quieted – instead, Republicans have used their control of House committees to highlight ACA concerns ranging from the cancellation of low-end health-care plans to the glitchy federal exchange website to niche items, like a Kline hearing last month on the impact of the employer mandate on schools.
House Speaker John Boehner hasn't said what Republicans will look to do to the law next. Paulsen said leadership hasn't laid out a strategy with members, who will meet in January to discuss one, and in his last weekly press conference of the year last week, Boehner didn't tip his hand.
"We've spent the last year trying to protect the American people from the consequences of this health-care law," he said. "And if you look toward next year, we're going to continue to look for ways to protect the American public from what's happening out there."
For now, Minnesota's three Republicans have some ideas.
Bachmann hasn't wavered: she's still on Team Full Repeal.
"People want us to get rid of the current system, they don't like it, so my position hasn't changed, which is: fully repeal Obamacare, and that's what we need to do," she said.
Kline is right there with her.
"Trying to go fix a piece or tweak a piece isn't the right way to go, we still firmly believe that it should be repealed and go from there," he said.
But as to whether it will happen, Kline said he has no more information than anyone else.
"The crystal ball is always a little bit murky as we go forward."
Democrats waging campaign against repeal
There are seemingly dozens of Obamacare-related polls released every week, and even as they find the law dragging down Obama's popularity (his approval rating is around 37 percent), much of the public remains opposed to repeal itself.
Because of that, Democrats' PR pushback at this point has focused on highlighting popular provisions in the law, like the pre-existing conditions ban, and reminding Republicans that a full repeal would remove those elements as well as the controversial ones.
This week alone, they've focused on the law's required refunds from companies that spend too much on overhead costs and the provision allowing those under 26 years old to stay on parents' plans. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has dubbed its campaign "The Cost of Repeal," and launched a website and web ad — focused in Minnesota on Kline, Paulsen and 8th District candidate Stewart Mills — to that effect on Tuesday.
But Kline said he doesn't think there's a way to pick and choose between what works in the law and what doesn't. He said Congress "ought to clean our plate," repeal the law and start over.
"The law is very intertwined, it would be very difficult to go in and fix a little piece of it and solve the problem," he said. "As more and more Americans see what is happening, we'll see momentum continue to rise to say let's get rid of this thing."
Paulsen: Repeal won't happen under Obama
As much as Republicans might want to get rid of Obamacare, Paulsen said he's under no illusions it's going to happen while Obama himself is in office.
"The realty is the law is not going to be repealed while this president is there," he said, "and unless the Senate changes its make-up after the next election, then there's an opportunity to make significant changes and put some things on the president's desk that will force accountability."
In the meantime, Paulsen said the focus could be on health-care fixes outside the realm of the ACA. Lawmakers are working on repealing the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate reimbursement formula, and Paulsen has proposed working on chronic care funding reforms as well.
As for Obamacare, "I talk to more and more people now, both in the health-care world and otherwise who say you know what, maybe the best way to get rid of this law is to just let it be fully implemented and let it collapse under its own weight," he said.
Bachmann still considering lawsuit
Bachmann said she's still considering a potential lawsuit against the Obama administration's tendency to delay implementing parts of the law, and there are a couple of House resolutions on that subject as well. (The courts are still considering bits and pieces of the law, regardless of what Congress is doing with it.)
In the meantime, Bachmann said the GOP has a list of health-care plans they could consider as an Obamacare replacement, such as allowing beneficiaries to purchase insurance across state lines, or enacting liability protection measures for doctors.
"That's really the untold story," Bachmann said. "For years, Republicans have been offering free-market solutions. The easiest way to tell people is: We want people to be able to buy whatever health insurance they want, that works for them, from anywhere in the United States with no federal mandate."
Theda Skocpol, a Harvard University political science professor who's written books on both health-care reform and the Tea Party, called these plans "pieces that have been around for ages."
Republicans adopted a strict anything-but-Obamacare agenda after Obama took office, she said, but haven't really looked to move anything legislatively beyond repeating the law as a whole.
"There's no possibility that Republicans could come up with an alternative," she said. "I don't think they think they need to … I think they're going to stick with 'Obamacare is a train wreck we need to get rid of it.'"
Even if Democrats come back next year with a slate of potential fixes — most of those are coming from potentially vulnerable red-state Democrats at this point — Skocpol predicted they're not likely to find willing or able partners in the GOP.
"I don't see [Boehner] trying to work out all the wrinkles in the Republican positions short of 'repeal' on health care," she said. "Democrats are going to own the 'we'd like to make fixes message,' but they're probably not going to make any of them."
Devin Henry can be reached at dhenry@minnpost.com. Follow him on Twitter: @dhenry
Congress ends year with little to show: So, how much do lawmakers work?
WASHINGTON — Congress enacted only 57 new laws this year, but by some measures its members worked long hours.
Franken: Focus needs to be on fixing health-care exchange website
WASHINGTON — Franken said he'd be consider moving back the open enrollment deadline if healthcare.gov isn't operational by Dec. 1.
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Submitted by Tom Christensen on 12/20/2013 - 08:37 am.
Has anyone received an answer?
With over 40 attempts to repeal Obamacare not once have the Republicans said what they will replace it with. Over forty failed attempts, but Bachmann wants to give it another go because that is the only answer she has. The Republicans don't have a leader! Being leaderless is why we get every Republican feeling like they are the leader and they have the answers. Everything they propose has a very purposeful poison pill included. They know they are not going any where with their poisoned ideas but they have to be able to claim they proposed something. Another reason the Republicans want to talk about health care is because they don't want to talk about income inequality. They will get their chance to talk about it during the 2014 election year.
Submitted by Dennis Tester on 12/20/2013 - 09:19 am.
58% of Amercans oppose
the individual mandate, so I would start there.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/health_care_law
Once Obamacare is voluntary, most people couldn't care less what happens to it.
And the people who like Obamacare can still keep Obamacare. Period.
Submitted by Bill Gleason on 12/20/2013 - 12:20 pm.
Rasmussen, Dennis, Really?
People are not fooled, sir. The way you frame the question influences the answer you will get.
Are you against mandates? You are not against freedom of choice, are you? Are you for motherhood and apple pie? Mr. Rasmussen wants to know. Especially since those who support him can use the results for … well we won't go into that.
Sadly for these kinds of polls, Dennis, most voters realize that we have terrible problems with health care and that they are not going to be easy to fix. People want to see changes and respect those who try to do something about problems rather than ignoring them. There is a quote that I won't dig up right now but it goes something like this: Any fool can knock down a barn, it takes a carpenter to put one up.
Just say no is an idiotic position on policy. In the beginning this may have worked but when the failure to come up with alternative solutions that will work becomes obvious, people tend to make choices – at the ballot box. See you there.
Submitted by Dennis Litfin on 12/20/2013 - 11:53 am.
2014 is the starting point
Elect responsible, credible congressional representatives. Remove those who have absolutely nothing to offer other than negativity and obstruction and who feed at the taxpayer trough to the tune of $174,000. per year……i.e…Bachmann and Kline.
Submitted by Todd Hintz on 12/20/2013 - 12:19 pm.
So when are the Republicans going to suggest universal health care? It's not enough to say they want to repeal Obamacare–they have to come up with a plan to replace it with as going back to the previous system was a disaster. They need to come up with something better–not make it worse.
Submitted by Ray Schoch on 12/20/2013 - 12:43 pm.
It's a fine illustration
Of the myopic vision of the current Republican Party.
The ACA was enacted because there were 44 million Americans who had no health care coverage at all. They relied on emergency room charity care, if they got any care at all, which drove up costs for everyone, including me and Mr. Tester. Many thousands of people were going bankrupt every year due to medical bills, a phenomenon unique among "civilized" nations. Those that saved Mr. Tester and I money by getting no care at all had the good taste to die earlier than they might have otherwise.
So far, and amid a host of mistakes and false starts, what the ACA offers to those people – that is, those people who, unlike myself and Mr. Tester, have no health coverage at all in a murderously expensive and inefficient health care system, or who have older children unable to afford their own coverage – is a modicum of health care that they would not otherwise be able to afford. Whining about the mandate, as Mr. Tester so often does, comes almost exclusively from people in good health, who have at least decent health care coverage already, or who are wealthy enough to spend huge sums of money on their own well-being, consigning their fellow-citizens to a "free market" that doesn't exist in medicine, and that wouldn't exist if every shred of regulation were removed.
When I was younger, and had no health insurance at all, I'd have been happy to have taken part in a system that didn't cost me the equivalent of a 2nd house payment, and more importantly, that would cover me when I had a pre-existing condition. I would not have been among the 58% cited by Mr. Tester. Readers should note, however, that Mr. Tester is careful to avoid mentioning that less than half of those surveyed in the latest Rasmussen poll oppose a government-run single-payer system.
That the numbers in general are negative for the ACA, as well as for some of the individual parts of it (e.g., contraceptive coverage) shouldn't surprise anyone who's been paying attention, since the usual right-wing loonies and misogynists, in and out of Congress, have been relentless in providing falsehoods, half-truths, and any other off-the-wall arguments they can muster in opposition. Most telling of all, of course, is that, as Tom Christensen points out, none of the criticism of the ACA from the right includes even a hint of an alternative for those 44 million hung out to dry by the current system. The best that Minnesota's Republican Congressional representatives can muster is either another lawsuit, or a vague suggestion that it might fail from its own multiple flaws. Neither of those is the least bit helpful to Minnesotans without health care coverage.
Submitted by jason myron on 12/20/2013 - 01:18 pm.
Well, good luck with that narrative…
ABC News is reporting a 40% increase in sign-ups from states running their own exchanges. As this gets smoother, the GOP will be back to yelling about Benghazi by March
Submitted by Tom Christensen on 12/20/2013 - 02:26 pm.
Debunking the Republican political healthcare spin
In that Republicans have not proposed an alternative to Obamacare, which they so badly want to repeal, suggests they are satisfied with the current system. To back that up John Boehner has said many times America has the best health care system in the world. Proof positive that Republicans don't deal in facts is that our healthcare system is 46th out of 48 countries. Our healthcare spending is higher in both percent of GDP and per capita spending. Our life expectancy is less than many of those who have a better system and their system costs less. No matter how the Republicans look at this chart "http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/best-and-worst/most-efficient-health-care-countries" they can't get to the point where they say we have the best system in the world. It is more Republican political spin without any basis.
Submitted by Ginny Wheeler on 12/20/2013 - 02:58 pm.
If Rep. Kline was genuinely concerned about his constituents, he would have offered to help them sign up for health care rather than put his efforts into repealing the ACA. School districts would be better served by alternatives that help them save money rather than the status quo. Rep. Kline could have put his efforts into finding ways for our public schools and other public employee groups access health care alternatives through the exchanges, particularly small public employee groups that struggle to find affordable care for their families.
What makes Senator Klobuchar so popular is that she works for her constituents, all of them, to help solve real problems. Rep. Kline could learn for her example.
Submitted by jody rooney on 12/27/2013 - 10:58 am.
The irony that Rep. Kline was for years under the only
completely publicly funded health care system where the government pays the doctors, builds the hospitals and pays for all treatment without costing him a nickle and then complains about Obama-care is priceless. I imagine he is still eligible for VA care too. He earned all of it through his service.
But for a man whose pay checks, housing and health care have been subsidized or paid for by the government for his entire career he has little room to talk about other subsidies. He's done pretty well with them.
While I don't agree with Representative Kline often I do appreciate his pragmatic side. Why is that disappearing during this particular debate?


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Not a huge apple fan but wanted to try this one on a whim. I like a few of the other caramel flavors they carry so thought this one might be good too. I think the caramel makes it much better than it being just apple. This one is on the sweeter on side.
Decent but wish it had more of an apple taste. Caramel you can taste though. And it is sweet and a bit sour as well. Shipping was very quick and I like that it shipped same day.
I liked this one. But I did this it was a little bit too heavy on the caramel. I did really like the apple taste that it had. I think if people like the Green Party then they will like this one too because its fruit and dessert in one.
I really love caramel flavors because they remind me of a good light brown sugar. I'm not sure why! But I like this one because it is a great green apple taste and the caramel makes it pretty sweet. Haven't had a good caramel apple flavor in a long time!
I've tried multiple caramel candy apple vapes since I began vaping but this one is my favorite out of all of the ones that I have tried. Apollo always does e-liquids the best! You can taste the sweetness from the caramel and the tartness from the sour green apples when vaping. I taste both on the inhale and exhale. Cannot put this one down.
nice clouds great flavor !
Switched to this one after having tried an alternative e-liquid bought in a shop downtown for the same price and believe me, the difference is absolutely disconcerting.
To be fair, it's not even a contest.
Hats off to the Apollo e-liquids! Bravi!
Like this one, especially to mix.


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belong to a local cloth diaper group called the DFW Cloth Diaper Group. It is Facebook-based and in addition to our very active Facebook page, we also have meetings twice a month. It was founded by Brenda Barnhart a little over a year ago and we have grown to over 875 members in that short amount of time. I can't believe what a huge network of cloth diapering parents we have in Dallas & Fort Worth, Texas. I feel so fortunate to have found such an incredible support group of amazing parents. I am proud to say that something else incredible has come out of the DFW Cloth Diaper Group - The DFW Cloth Diaper Project. As of November 21st 2011, the DFW Cloth Diaper Project is accepting applications to lend diapers to local parents in need.
The DFW Cloth Diaper Project was started in August of this year. Brenda had been in a grocery line behind a girl who had to make a hard decision. The girl didn't have enough money for both the pack of disposable diapers and the food that she had in her cart. Around that same time, we started hearing stories of families who were reusing disposable diapers.
It's rough out there, and a lot of families are struggling. Mine included. My husband was a financial advisor who was hit incredibly hard. We realized early this year that we actually met the income requirements for WIC. That's since changed, but at the time I had never been so thankful for cloth diapers. If we didn't use cloth, I don't know how we would have been able to afford diapers. We were just stretched too thin. So when Brenda asked me to join her in starting up The Project, I jumped on it.
We rely on donations of diapers in order to lend them out to local families (within a 50 mile radius of DFW airport). Our applicants must meet certain income eligibility requirements in order to receive diapers from us. We meet with them personally to discuss the care and use of the diapers. We hope that by meeting with them in person and being readily available to answer any questions that may come up, we will give them a better chance of succeeding with cloth. We're currently raising funds to become a 501c3 and also to fill in the holes in our inventory.
I've talked about Brenda, who is our chairperson. I'm Lori, treasurer and social media marketing guru. We also have Tara (fundraiser extraordinaire), Elise (application queen), Ryley (marketing master), Natalie (diaper doctor), and Nadine (jack of all trades). We are all very different moms with two things in common - a love for cloth diapers and a desire to help moms in our community.
There are so many reasons to fall in love with cloth diapers! Here are a few of my favorite benefits of cloth diapering:
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On average, disposable diapers cost $2,000 - $3,000 per child from birth to potty training. On average, cloth diapers can cost anywhere from $100 - $400 birth to potty training, depending on the types of cloth diapers you use. If you use the same cloth diapers for multiple children, the savings are even more!
Reason #2: Cloth Diapers are Better for Baby!
Babies who wear cloth diapers have fewer diaper rashes than those in disposables. Disposable diapers are full of plastics and chemicals (dioxin, sodium polyacrylate, dyes, fragrances, toluene, xylene, ethylbenzene, and dipentene), all of which can potentially be harmful to young babies whose immune systems are not fully developed. When a child wears cloth diapers, they are not exposed to all of these harsh chemicals. If your child is prone to rashes, has sensitive skin, or eczema, then cloth diapers are a great option for you!
Reason #3: Cloth Diapers are Better for the Environment!
Some sources say that just one disposable diaper can take up to 500 years to fully decompose in a landfill. One child might go through approximately 6,600 diapers in just the first 2 years. If you have 2 children in disposable diapers, that is at least 13,200 disposable diapers in a landfill from your household alone that will still be around when your grandchildren become grandparents. Reusable cloth diapers do require washing, which takes up more water and energy to wash. But that does not compare to the resources and raw materials needed to make, distribute, use, and dispose of disposable diapers. By using cloth diapers, you have the potential to cut your household waste in half (if not more).
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What started as just an idea and a Facebook message is finally launching. We've put a lot of work into it and we know it is just the beginning. It's so exciting! We're one step closer to our goal of making sure that no families in our community ever have to choose between food and diapers again.
If you are interested in helping out with donations or diapers or anything else, please email us! If you or someone you know could benefit from the Project, please contact us or send them our way! You can find the DFW Cloth Diaper Project's website here. You can also find us on Facebook and twitter.
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Messages general
Conference 2010 / 2011 messages
Bible Book Series
Bible Subject Series
Kamloops Conference Messages, July 2 - 4, 2010
(please scroll down for the Conference 2011 messages)
Left click message icon to "play" and right click to "save target as" to download to your computer.
Ian Gibson, Winnipeg, MB. Seeking Things Above Colossians 3:1-4
Gordon Williams, Grande Prairie, AB Who shall roll away the stone? Mark 16:3
These two messages are on one recording from July 2, 2010 prayer meeting.
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Gordon Williams, Grande Prairie, AB The Ethiopian Eunich, Acts 8:26-40, July 3, 2010
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Bryan Funston, Vancouver, B. C. The Checkup List for Divine Birth, 1st John 2:29, July 3, 2010
Dave Richards, Kamloops, B. C. Happy Christians in a Happy Assembly, Psalm 144:11-15, July 3, 2010
Ian Gibson, Winnipeg, MB, Christ's Glories, Hebrews 1:1-3, 13, 14, July 3, 2010
Gordon Williams, Bible Reading, Ephesians 4:1-16, part one, July 3, 2010 Bible reading outline: download pdf
You may need to turn up the volume, the recording quality is not the greatest. The Bible reading is in two parts.
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Gordon Williams, Bible Reading, Ephesians 4:1-16, part two, July 3, 2010
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Dave Richards, Faith acts upon what God has revealed, Hebrews 12: 1, 2, July 3, 2010
Saturday evening Gospel meeting, Ian Gibson and Dave Richards, July 3, 2010
Gordon Williams, The Good Samaritan, Luke 10:25-37, July 4, 2010
sun2.mp3
Ian Gibson, The Sovereign Priest - The Believer's support, Hebrews 7:23-8:1, July 4, 2010
Bryan Funston, Timothy/Daniel, Living for God, 1st Timothy 4:12-16, July 4, 2010
Dave Richards, Pictures in John's Gospel, Lazarus, John 11, July 4, 2010
A technical problem caused the reading of the scripture portion to be missed in Dave's message.
Sunday evening Gospel meeting, Bill Adams and Gordon Williams, July 4, 2010
Left click the file icon to "play" and right click the file icon to "download" to "save target as"
Ian Gibson, Pictures of the Death of Christ in Genesis, Kamloops July 1, 2011
conf1.mp3
Stan Wells, The New Testament Assembly, Kamloops, July 2, 2011
Gaius Goff, The Christians Responsibility, Kamloops, July 2, 2011
Gordon Williams, !st Thessalonians Ch. 1, Kamloops, July 2, 2011
Dave Richards, Sanctification, Kamloops, July 2, 2011
Gordon Williams, Bible Reading, 2nd Thessalonians, 2:1 - 3:5, Kamloops, July 2, 2011
Note: You will need to turn up turn up the volume to hear the conversation.
Bible Reading outline or DOWNLOAD pdf
conf6a.mp3
Ian Gibson, Christ and His Church, Kamloops, July 2, 2011
Stan Wells, How a person can be saved and know it and be in Heaven when life on earth is past.
Kamloops, July 2, 2011
Gauis Goff, Do you think God should take you into Heaven? Kamloops, July 2, 2011
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Gordon Williams, 1st Timothy 3:14-16, Kamloops, July 3, 2011
conf10.mp3
Ian Gibson, The Sacrifice of Calvary, Kamloops, July 3, 2011
Stan Wells, 1st Thessalonians ch. 4, Kamloops, July 3, 2011
Gaius Goff, Moral Maturity, Kamloops, July 3, 2011
Ian Gibson, The way of Cain and the way of Abel, Kamloops, July 3, 2011
conf14a.mp3
Gordon Williams, Refuge from the storm, Kamloops, July 3, 2011
conf14b.mp3
Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures 1st Corinthians 15:3


The suite of four prints was created in collaboration with master printers at the Lower East Side Printshop, fully sponsored through the Special Editions Residency Program. Concept and collaboration on the new work began in 2008, and was published by the Lower East Side Printshop in early 2009. The print edition has been exhibited in the Armory Show, the E/AB Fair and IPCNY.


On Wednesday Feb. 3 at 6:30 p.m., join Debbi and Adam Wetzel for an evening of armchair travel to the western end of the Great Wall of China at Rockingham Free Public Library, 65 Westminster St. in Bellows Falls.
Their 17-day journey followed the modern-day version of Marco Polo's Silk Road trade route that portions of the Great Wall protected. The Wetzels will share their view of the architecture, culture and countryside through their camera lens.
This program is free and open to the public. For more information, email programming@rockinghamlibrary.org, call 802-463-4270, go to www.rockinghamlibrary.org or stop by the library.
Chester Rotary Club hosts Sean Buchanan, president of Black River Produce, as speaker at First Thursday Rotary at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 4 at the Fullerton Inn, on the Green in Chester. Doors open at 5:15 p.m. for socializing with guests and members, hors d'oeuvres and a beverage. The program is open to the public.
Buchanan will talk about the commitment of Black River Produce to local farming and its growth over 39 years. Its promotion of localagricultural communities at one time made it an anomaly, but now Black River Produce has become a national leader and model for others to follow.
For information, call Bill Dakin at 802-875-4000.
Author Jane Marks Hart discusses her book The Hidden Children at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 4 in the Ludlow Town Hall Auditorium at 37 S. Depot St. in Ludlow.
The book tells the story of Jewish children who, in order to survive the Holocaust, were sheltered by other families constantly at risk of being discovered by Nazi officials. Hart will open her presentation with a discussion about the consequences the survivors encountered as they matured.
The Hidden Children explores the lives of 23 men and women whose courage and ingenuity as young children and extraordinary luck allowed them to survive.
This program is co-sponsored by The Book Nook of Ludlow and Friends of Ludlow Auditorium. For information, call 802-228-7239 or visit their website at www.fola.us.
Experience Chad Perron's music at Grounded4Life this week.
Claremont, N.H., native Chad Perron and his band will take the stage for a free performance at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 5 at Grounded4Life coffeehouse downstairs at the First Baptist Church at 162 Main St., Chester.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The coffee bar and refreshments will be ready when you arrive. For a sampling of Perron's music visit http://cpmministry.com.
On Saturday, Feb. 6, the Children's Room at Chester's Whiting Library, 117 Main St. in Chester, offers opportunities for children to practice reading with Oreo, a certified therapy dog.
Children can read to Oreo at Whiting Library.
Reading sessions are available from 1 to 2 p.m., the first Saturday of each month. Reading to animals provides companionship without criticism, helping children as they master the complex skill of learning to read.
Children are welcome to bring a favorite book from home or choose one from the library's collection. The library also has a number of wordless books for children who would rather tell Oreo a story. Call the library at 802-875-2277 to sign up for a visit or email whitinglibrary@yahoo.com.
Saturday is also Take Your Child to the Library Day, which is a great time to sign up or renew your library card. Library membership is free for residents of Chester and Andover. Non-residents are welcome to join for $15 annually. Library hours are Monday and Friday 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Wednesday 10 a.m.–8 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m.–2 p.m.
The Mountain Painters and Artisans Gallery is hosting a book reading and signing with writer Sandy Wilbur and illustrator Kim Ray, co-authors of Good Night My Honey Bunnies.
The event takes place 4 to 6 p.m. on Saturday Feb. 6 at the gallery at Vermont Route 100 and 11 in Londonderry.
Along with the reading and signing, the author and artist show a slide presentation about their collaboration in creating this book and music. A reception with refreshments will follow the event.
For more information call 802-824-6555.
Friends of Ludlow Auditorium's next free movie is The Imitation Game.
The film will be shown at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 6 in the Ludlow Town Hall Auditorium, 37 Depot St. in Ludlow.
Based on the real life story of legendary crypt-analyst Alan Turing, The Imitation Game portrays a race against time to crack the Nazi's Enigma code at Britain's top-secret Bletchley Park facilities during World War II.
Rated PG-13, the film stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightly. The event is free but donations are appreciated. The Berkshire Bank supplies free popcorn and FOLA supplies bottled water. For information call 802-228-7239 or visit FOLA's web site, www.fola.us.
At 7 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 8, Rockingham Library at 65 Westminster St. in Bellows Falls will screen The View From Table Rock, Lyle Sorensen's documentary film about two antique bird's-eye view lithographs depicting Bellows Falls from Fall Mountain in the 1800s.
The film will be followed by a discussion with Sorensen. Local resident Marguerite Janiszyn, Larry Clark and Annette Spaulding will also be on hand to answer questions and share related archival items.
This program is free and open to the public. For more information, call 802-463-4270, email programming@rockinghamlibrary.org, or stop by the library.
The initial steps of becoming fully enrolled in Medicare can be confusing, so Neighborhood Connections is bringing Medicare insurance expert Marguerite Mason in one day a month for private appointments to answer questions and help in completing Medicare enrollments.
She will be available for two-hour appointments beginning 10 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 8. There is no charge, but an appointment is necessary. If you are turning 65 within the next three months, call 802-824-4343 to make an appointment.
Neighborhood Connections is a community-based non-profit social services agency serving individuals and families in south-central Vermont and located at 5700 Vermont Route 100, in Londonderry . Visit their website at www.neighborhoodconnectionsvt.org for more events and services.
Photo copyrighted by Michael Stern.
St. Luke's Annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper takes place at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 9 in Willard Hall at the church at 313 Main St. in Chester. The Pancake Supper is an annual tradition always held on the Tuesday evening before Ash Wednesday, when the 40 days of Lent officially begin the church's liturgical calendar.
The menu includes pancakes with Vermont maple syrup, savory sausages and fruit salad. The church encourages the public to invite friends. The event is free, but each table will have a free-will offering basket for those who choose to donate. For information, check the website www.stlukesepiscopalvt.org. Go to the special events menu under the Learn More tab.
St. Luke's Episcopal Church at 313 Main St. in Chester will hold two services on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 10. One service will be held at noon and a second at 6 p.m., which will include the spoken Eucharist and disposition of ashes.


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Q: Encrypting sensitive data with mcrypt Hello guys I have a security question regarding encrypting/decrypting personal sensitive information: Identity(Name, Address, Phone number), Bank details(Sort code and account number) almost anything is encrypted and it is accessible only by the person himself and by the authorized person to use personal data. And now the main questions are:
1. Is my method secure enough?
2. Is there any better way of doing so?
3. Where shall I use the keys from database or from $_SESSION?(Where is the best plase to use them for decryption for the user to review hes details)
Here is the code:

$iv = mcrypt_create_iv(32, MCRYPT_RAND);
$key = mcrypt_create_iv(32, MCRYPT_RAND);
$encrypted = mcrypt_encrypt(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256, $key, $unencrypted, MCRYPT_MODE_CBC, $iv);

That is for encrypting the data before I send it to the DB
$decrypted = mcrypt_decrypt(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256, $key, $encrypted, MCRYPT_MODE_CBC, $iv );

And this is the decrypting method.(Using the $encrypted, $key and $iv from the above sample).

A: There is no security advantage in encrypting any sensitive information and storing keys in the database. It's the same as locking safe and leaving keys in the keyhole. At least you need to store keys on the file system, not in the database. In this case if your database is leaked (for example because of SQL injection attack), attacker will not ba able to decrypt it because they don't have keys.
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There is no way to secure file that contain the key, because PHP need to read it in order to make required operations. However you can use HSM (Hardware Security Module) device to store keys there. Look at YubiHSM for example.

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Never seen that call in 21 years, and the center was set for a second, so I'm not sure what the call was.Jeff Teague comes into this contest averaging 15 points per game while playing 32 minutes per night so far this season for the Pacers.Samford, most likely because he was slightly banged up and just wasn't needed.
Read more about NBA Predictions.Thursday vs.Santana went 1-for-1 with a walk and a two-run homer in Monday's Cactus League win over the Reds.So, too, is the fact that Watson was able to return last season after rupturing his Achilles in '16 and missing that season.
Good seeing everyone, appreciate you all being here.Washington as a pitching staff has walked 431 batters and struck out 1.It's obviously not pretty, we know we have to do better across the board.No Credit Card.Extra points for all the delicious-sounding pastries.
The Reds pitchers collectively have given up 1 base hits and 804 earned runs.Leonard Fournette ran 24 times Sunday, a third of their total offensive plays.Blake Griffin is most certainly going to be taken No.Their team WHIP is 1 while their FIP as a staff is 3.NBA Playoffs Betting: Cavaliers-Hawks Predictions by Josh Nagel – 05 2009 If this series goes as scripted – and there's no hard evidence to suggest it won't – the Cavaliers' second-round series against the Atlanta Hawks should be akin to ripping the Band-Aid off a week-old cut.
But rebuilding doesn't necessarily mean we're not trying to win right now.Thomas Greiss has a total of 3 wins and 1 loss this season in the crease for the Islanders.If you are very confident in a horse's abilities and believe that horse will win the race, you will likely play a straight exacta with the No.Fix-Wolansky is more of a playmaker and his 21 assists lead the league, but he likes to shoot the puck, too.
In his past three games �?Lynch was suspended for the team's Week 8 clash with the Buffalo Bills �?the Oakland-native has carried the ball 51 times, totaling 191 yards and three touchdowns.It is said that the Knicks, Nets, Raptors, Pistons, and Heat are interested.If they can we are in for a good game.Auburn Auburn 09 15 DL Carl Lawson Hip ?Kevin Durant scored 13 of his 35 points in the final 12 minutes.On DE Alex Jenkins, an international practice squad player, getting a sack: I'm excited for him.
Oregon at No.Kyle is very important to us, defensive coordinator Eric Washington said.Top prospect Jahlil Okafor has had a great start to his freshman year by averaging 17 points per game while also pulling down nearly eight rebounds per game.
After an embarrassing Game 3, James Harden came back in Game 4 with revenge on his mind.The deal Philly did with Embiid is an interesting template for what you could do for a guy coming off a major injury.Their first match is against Slovakia and will be played at 7 a.m.Schilb: I think both.Oakland 10 15 CB Craig Mager Hamstring ?The offensive line is one of the greatest strengths of this team, and they have played exceptionally well thus far.
His huge 4-year, $77 million contract has expired, leaving the Dolphins with a team-option this offseason.There's certainly some intrigue on both sides of the ball here, as the right-hander produced a 3 ERA in 81 innings last season and holds a .250 .500 slash line with six homers in 92 MLB plate appearances.
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One of the difficulties in doing this is the fact that I am curious about many different things. Its a strength and a weakness. But seeing the world as a system makes me believe that the things I am interested in are in some way connected. Once you see the world as a system then everything is connected. The trick then is to work out how things are connected.
Having identified some areas to look at I particularly want to explore the connections between the different contexts and networks in which I work – the find the liminal spaces where things collide and perhaps find the places where they don't. Is everything connected? Or are some connections so tenuous as to be meaningless?
In all of those I am situating my thinking in the context of the emergent network society and in an exploration of the role of the networked individual in that emergent society. This brings with it many assumptions and preconceptions which will need unpacking as I go along.
The relationship between technology and change. This is the artist that would formerly be known as digital transformation but is now much more about the craft of change in a digital context. I want to look at the effect of design thinking on the strategy/delivery process and at how you co-create strategy as part of iterative (agile) delivery approach. I am asking how we create context for change as well as ensuring that change is done in a way which minimises the unexpected byproduct. I will be looking at where (if anywhere) the 9 tribes fit in here as well as the digtial mindset model. This is where the 'full stack change' model I am working on fits in as well and builds on the long piece I did last year on all change being system change (I think).
The effect of networked social movements and their relationship to change. This one contains the changes we see in the way that people campaign and organise and its effect on our democracy but it also contains how networks like these operate across organisational boundaries; organisations are made up of people not defined by their structures and those individuals are part of networks which work across organisational boundaries. More specifically – what does it mean to see your supporters as a social movement? How can an organisation redefine its relationship with the public as networked individuals – citizens and not customers? How do you make sure staff have agency within the boundaries of an organisational construct and strategy?
The third theme is democratic innovation but in here its not just about our formal structures of democracy but also about how we can design democracy into our everyday decision making – to have a bit of democracy everywhere – to help us make better decisions in all parts of the system. This idea of making better decisions operates organisationally as well as in the wider context. In this theme I also want to explore the role of deliberation and sense making; tools that force us to face up to ambiguity and human emotions and not just to make technocratic decisions based on 'hard facts'. In this theme I may not be able to resist also taking a look at what is going on with respect to new publics as this links so closely to the Public Square project.
I also have a personal enquiry into leadership. I have not included this here as I see it as how I am personally improving my practice. I will share my experiences as I am going on but its an area where I am trying to learn and make sense for myself – I am not sure what I will have to offer anyone else on this.
I am approaching this as I have approached the rest of my research; firstly find the areas you are interested in and then read and ask questions until you find The Question. at that point form a hypothesis and then see how you go about testing it in the real world. Simple!


Total ignorant about DNA but could it fill in a tree branch?
Is there enough information for a decision?
WikiTree rejects a father/son match between Daniel Gage-126 and William Gage-175 while the 6 great grandson was told by family research it is .
At least as the data appears today, the DOB of William Gage is 9-10 months before Daniel Gage's marriage. That doesn't mean the relationship is wrong, but it does make it slightly less likely.
As to your question at hand: DNA certainly *could* be useful to prove this connection. However, because you'd be dealing with more distant relationships, you'd have to triangulate three known ancestors with verifiable paper trails. See the Triangulation Guide. Additionally, triangulation augments traditional genealogy, so you still require a confirmed paper trail linking William to Daniel, which it seems may not exist given the comments on the profiles.
A good first step would be to find a valid triangulation to Daniel Gage, not through William. If a descendant of William then shares the same segment, that would be significant evidence in favour of the relationship, though I cannot personally say whether it would be sufficient - I would check back in at that point.
Is it worth triangulating with this DNA?
You need 3 tests to match on the same segment. You'll be very lucky at that distance.
But where does the date of birth come from, if the parents aren't known?
Running the numbers on GEDmatch for F93595 & T103489, the biggest matching segment is 3.6cM - MUCH too small for triangulation. Basically, they don't match each other (and you'd need them to).
So sorry, but you need some better matches.
George - it's always worth checking to see if you have a valid triangulation between three people. However, at minimum you need 7 cm, and not all sites allow triangulation (Gedmatch is best for this). For 6+ cousins, triangulation is possible but not very likely - most 6th cousins will not share very much DNA anymore.
Thank you all for the education! It was worth the try to get past the wall.
It would not be the first marriage to occur some time after the mistake.
To be clear, if any two of the three matches do not have at least the minimum required cM, then the three together can't possibly give you a triangulation. The overlap of three matches can only be less than, or equal to, the overlap f any two of them.
In this case, the two matches quoted that are on GEDmatch only have 3.6cM at best, and even the most generous triangulation requirement would require at least 7.0cM. So there's no way these two could ever be used to triangulate with a third match.
Jeff, you are correct. Research of the Branford, Ma town clerk's ledger showed an entry for birth of oldest known child followed by the next entry months later of Daniel's and Martha's (parents) marriage. Followed by births of 12 more children, most of which are not on WikiTree.
I wanted to merge my ancestor on my Smith tree branch but i'm not sure if i'll do it right.
Tried to upload raw dna data so I could get started but it said my file was too large, what do I do?
When my tree uploads will it fill in?
Is it possible to use Gedmatch to fill in blanks on a compact tree?
Can anyone help fill out Margery Allingham's family tree?


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229. We recognise that we have a system of education and skills that works well for many. It is also clear that the system has worked hard to better align itself over the last ten years. We see this in the numerous examples of school-college partnerships and in the progress with college to university articulation.
230. We also note some of the 'sticking-points' which are beginning to suggest the limits of progress than can be reached by existing collaboration. There are also increasing expectations placed upon the system by the need to do more for our young people. We hear this through the voices of young people themselves. We see this through the expectations of the Commission on Widening Access and also in the ambition of the Developing Young Workforce programme. We also see it in a changing external environment, and in, for example, the challenges expressed within the Scottish Government's Mental Health Strategy, 2017 and the ambitious set out in, Every Child, Every Chance: the Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2018-22, the first Child Poverty Delivery Plan under the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017.
231. Interestingly, we also see new emerging partnerships, seemingly taking shape in response to the limits of the system and increasingly linked to employer need. For example, the work of the South East Scotland Academies Partnership as evidenced in the submission received from Universities Scotland.
232. These new collaborative approaches to engender new ways of working and overcome the existing limitations of the current system suggest an appetite for deeper and more purposeful collaboration between schools, communities, colleges, training providers and universities. This is critical since, within an aligned education and skills system, there should be fair and equal responsibility shared across its respective parts.
233. Throughout this report we have made reference to our longer term vision. This is an attempt to set out a course of travel that we know will take time and that will develop incrementally as levels of collaboration increase.
Scotland to see itself as possessing a unified learning system in which practitioners across all sectors are working toward the same vision. This includes CLD, training providers and all teaching that takes place out-with the classroom.
Leaders of sectors, institutions and agencies to guide and support staff toward contributing to this shared goal and make decisions to achieve it. This will require a strengthening of behaviours to prioritise a learner's entire journey and the development of cross-sector collaborative practice in support of this.
Greater shared understanding and a common language fully embracing the SCQF to describe and chart progress of our young people as they move through the different forms of learning.
The measurement of the system to consider the added value of each part with an equal focus on the shared ownership of impact, rather than a focus on institution or agency success; and, that this is used to foster collaboration, measuring SCQF attainment rather than specific qualifications.
A balanced curriculum across the Learner Journey that gives sufficient value to work based learning and is well matched to local and national current and projected economic needs that avoids duplication and makes maximum use of shared approach to estates, resources and expertise.
A curriculum offer that is mutually agreed by partners in the system and informed by need and opportunity.
The delivery of the curriculum that maximises blended approaches, with digital solutions embedded as appropriate for different groups of learners, and which is structured and scheduled together from the outset.
That this curriculum is underpinned by an embedded approach to learner support and guidance and partnership working with business.
235. We are at an important point in time, with the recent education reforms providing the opportunity to develop and enhance regional collaboration between schools and with their partners and with the development of digital learning approaches showing how this collaboration can be extended to all parts of the country.
236. Our ambition has to be greater than the promotion of good partnership practice.
237. Our test should be that alignment within the system is sustainable and guarantees the equity of learning opportunity across Scotland. This is because Scotland's education and skills system can only justifiably be world class if it systematically works together for all.


We are proud to announce that the 2018 Academy of NICE will be hosted by the Faculty of Management and Social Communication of the Jagiellonian University of Kraków in Poland from September 5-8, 2018.
NICE Academies are structured learning and networking events for professionals and academic trainers in the field of career guidance and counselling. Through its annual Academies, the NICE Foundation aims to support excellence and innovation in the academic training of career practitioners across Europe and to promote the professionalization of career guidance and counselling.
Part of the academy will be dedicated to networking. For this purpose, we will organise a large poster session as a kind of "market of good practices and ideas" (45 minutes plus lunch break). At the poster session, we will welcome presentations of good practices, new project ideas, presentations of past projects, presentations of educational offers and innovative learning materials, and presentations of research findings. Posters of different sizes will be welcomed. We are especially looking for posters that share good practices in career counselling, career education, career assessment and information, career service management, and social systems interventions. At the Gala Dinner, we will present an award for the best "good practice poster". If you would like to present a poster at the networking session, please inform johannes_katsarov@hotmail.de until August 31, so that we can reserve sufficient space. Please indicate (1) the preliminary title of your poster (e.g., name of the project idea), (2) who is involved, and (3) what size of poster you are planning (e.g., DIN à 1).
Jenny Bimrose, PhD, Warwick Institute for Employment Research (UK): Why Does Career Theory Matter?
The integration of theory into career and counselling practice aligns closely with the concept of professionalism. Definitions of a professional include adherence to ethical standards and 'possessing special knowledge and skills in a widely recognised body of learning derived from research, education and training at a high level, and who are prepared to apply this knowledge and exercise these skills in the interest of others' (Professional Australia, undated, http://www.professions.com.au/about-us/what-is-a-professional). It follows that without research-informed theory underpinning their practice, those providing career and counselling support services cannot (and will not), be regarded as professionals. Quite apart from framing professional identity, theory offers many other advantages for practice. These include helping us understand complex phenomenon (like occupational choice behaviour) and, because of its predictive value, giving direction about the best action to be taken. There are, of course, also disadvantages with theory, which make its implementation into practice sometimes difficult. It can be complex to understand. Because of resource constraints (like time available for an intervention), it can simply be hard to integrate into practice in the way it was intended. There is also an inevitable time lag between completion of the underpinning research and the publication of theory, so it can be perceived as out of time and out of date. Then the form of career counselling intervention is a consideration. Is it a face to face encounter, through the use of technology (e.g. ICT self-help menu or database) or group work, other? Little research exists that has scrutinised the influence of delivering services using ICT and whether existent theory helps with this modern phenomenon of practice. There is the further challenge of choosing amongst the many theories available. Debates on the relative merits of different theories continue. Theoretical integration and technical eclecticism are concepts that help us make sense of how theories are selected to be applied in practice. This presentation will consider the complex interplay amongst theory, research, practice and professionalism in career counselling.
Systems thinking is found in applications we use in our daily lives such as computer systems and transport systems. In career development, systems thinking is about taking an "individual in context perspective" (McMahon, Watson, & Patton, 2014, p. 30). Systems thinking considers complexity in, and avoids over-simplification of individuals' lives and careers. Individuals live in complex familial, social, historical, cultural, geographic and socio-political systems. They construct and tell stories of their experiences in these systems in order to make meaning of them. Telling stories is fundamental to how individuals live and is a valuable tool in career guidance. Career practitioners may encourage clients to tell systems stories constructed by them at different times and in different contexts with a view to constructing a future story. But, how do career practitioners learn systems thinking and how to apply it in their work? Based on the Systems Theory Framework of career development, this presentation considers techniques and strategies that may assist beginning career practitioners to develop and use systems thinking skills.
Built around Parsons (1909) original vision, until recently our career development and vocational psychology profession has been dominated by a career choice and decision-making paradigm. Within this paradigm, the preferred service delivery is to ensure that individuals receive individual career counseling from qualified career specialists that help clients identify careers that best match their interests by using validated survey assessments or narrative interviews. This presentation describes an emerging paradigm whereby personalized career and education planning strategies is used to develop the individual's self-exploration, career exploration, and career planning and management skills. There is converging evidence that skills based strategies are showing promise as a powerful strategy for improving a range of positive youth and adult development outcomes, such as proactivity, resiliency, self-determination, self-efficacy and motivation. Case and program examples will be used to showcase this paradigm shift with an emphasis on operating at the mesosystemic level in order to enable youth to gain access to work-based learning, early access to college, and other community supports. The presentation will also discuss how this new paradigm can be responsive to a number of contemporary challenges to finding decent work such as neoliberalism, globalisation, technology disruptions, intersectionality, and income inequality.
– Explore the concept of 'social justice' from a variety of theoretical perspectives.
– Better understand the intersections between career guidance and social justice.
– Reflect on the impact of neoliberalism on mainstream notions of career guidance.
– Consider how 'problems' are represented in ways that are detrimental to social justice.
– Identify ways in which career guidance can promote a social justice agenda.
– Discuss opportunities for and obstacles to increasing social justice in the current European and global climate.


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Salix kusanoi is a species of willow in the family Salicaceae. It is endemic to Taiwan. It is threatened by habitat loss.

It is a deciduous tree growing to  tall. The leaves are alternate, 9 cm long and 4 cm broad, with finely serrated edge and glands. Both sides of the leaves are green and have dark orange fine hairs. The hairs on the underside of the leaves are more obvious, and the hairs can be easily wiped off. The flowers are produced in early spring before the new leaves appear. It is dioecious, with male and female catkins on separate plants. The male catkins are 8–9 cm long; the female catkins are 3 cm long.

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The overflow of a fruitful relationship with Jesus is that we ought to consider each other, especially fellow Believers, and encourage one another to receive more fully His love which produces the fruit of good works. Key is to keep our attention on Him, which then enables us to share with others what we have received from God.
As we mature and grow in our walk with the Lord, so does our loving. Our ability to love people—including those who might be difficult to love—is not based upon our own strength or effort, but it is in direct proportion to our receiving the love of Christ for ourselves. The more that we receive His love, the greater our revelation of His love, the more will we be able to be channels and instruments of His love for others.


The deep red color tells you the pomegranates are rapidly ripening. But Madera farmer Alex Lehman said the recent rains have caused splitting in some fruit. He explained, "You'll see this rind or skin, leathery portion right here, which is the outer skin of the pomegranate. It's absorbed some water and then it's dried and this is the result. It cracks."
Fortunately Lehman specializes in pomegranate juice sold under the Home Grown Cellars label. Otherwise he'd be stuck with a lot of damaged pomegranates. Lehman said, "If it begins cracking it's a serious issue for fresh market pomegranate grower."
Lehman also grows pumpkins. With Halloween fast approaching some jack-o-lanterns are already showing mold damage. "This is what happens when you get too much water on a pumpkin. It will start, in general terms, start rotting."
The wet weather also made valley raisins susceptible to mold problems. They need more time to dry. Some of the valley's cotton crop got a good dousing. But growers haven't reported any major damage or staining problems.
Fresno County Deputy Ag Commissioner Fred Rinder said, "I haven't seen a lot of split bolls yet but those aren't too bad. If it turns dry and we get a nice wind it will all dry out."
Rinder added some growers may have to re-apply defoliant, which dries up the leaves and causes the cotton boll to pop open.