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SUNY Plattsburgh Microbiologist Dr. Kathy Lavoie Goes Underground In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave
After taking one look at her office, a visitor can be sure of one thing: Dr. Kathy Lavoie likes bats. After all, her shelves teem with stuffed animal versions of the mammal.
The dean of arts and sciences is an expert, a researcher and a constant observer of these creatures. She is also an explorer who often takes research trips through caves.
When she officially steps down from her deanship at the end of this academic year, she will be able to devote more time to such studies and to caving expeditions like the one she took in 2004, which landed her on the National Geographic channel's "Amazing Caves."
Visit to Mammoth Cave
This past summer, she took students and alumni to central Kentucky's Mammoth Cave for research.
With more than 300 miles of passages, Mammoth is home to bats, crickets, salamanders and fish. Lavoie and her team spent their time counting cave crickets, also known as Hadenoecus subterraneus.
"They are a keystone species," Lavoie said. "They are critical in the functioning of the terrestrial ecosystem in these caves. So, by monitoring the crickets, we are monitoring the health of the entire cave ecosystem and the surrounding surface ecosystem since they feed on the surface."
How does one take a census of tiny bugs in a gigantic, dark cave? Carefully. The team marked the site into 10-meter sections and then counted all the crickets in each section. The number of sections marked off within a specific cavern can range from two to 20, with the biggest ones taking four or five hours to complete, Lavoie said.
"The students start to see crickets in their sleep by day two," Lavoie said.
'Opportunities for Students'
Lavoie has visited Mammoth Cave at least 40 times since coming to Plattsburgh in 1997. Often, she brings students with her.
"In doing the work, they learn a lot of about ecology and biology," Lavoie said.
Lavoie has also brought students to Carlsbad Caverns, Florida Caverns and even to a sulfur cave filled with poisonous gas in Tapijulapa, Mexico.
"Usually I bring four to six students to Kentucky but only one at a time to Mexico because the cave is just too dangerous," she said.
These visits often lead to further student trips to present the research results at conferences. Many students have also presented at Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Society) meetings on campus, and many are co-authors of Lavoie's publications.
'Research and Teaching to be Continued'
Having already conquered caves in South America, England, Italy, Australia, Mexico, Hawaii and the Galapagos, Lavoie will continue her research in the Czech Republic and Slovakia next summer as part of the International Congress of Speleology, an annual conference for caving associations.
She also plans to take a sabbatical next fall, when she will team up with the University of New Mexico to research the molecular identification of microbes from caves in Carlsbad Caverns, the Azores and Hawaii, before returning to SUNY Plattsburgh in the spring to teach full-time.
"I teach every semester, even though I don't have to, because it's my entertainment," Lavoie said. "It's the most fun I do."
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Women & Design: is Design a matter of gender?
Save the date: Design Month Graz 2019, from May 10 to June 9. This year, Design Month Graz focuses on the topic of "Women & Design".
Apart from new formats and well-established highlights, in the course of Design Month Graz from May 10 to June 9 2019, you can once again look forward to the design festival assembly and international flair, due to the cooperation with Istanbul, Mexico City and other "Creative Cities" of the UNESCO network.
In the last year, Design Month Graz with 100,000 visitors at 121 events, workshops and exhibitions within 30 days broke all previous records.
This year's event will also provide new insights into the local creative industries, international contributions and many opportunities for exchange and networking.
Experience the whole essence of design in Graz – in 31 days, like when the river Mur turns into the Bosporus as Istanbul dominates the Murinsel for three days in terms of design activities.
The diverse program completes the exhibition "Istanbul City of Design Collection" at designforum Steiermark.
The poster exhibition "To Death with a smile", organized and curated by MUMEDI – Museum of Mexican Design from Mexico City, shows international works on the subject of death from a satiric point of view.
Month Graz highlighting selected design from the UNESCO Cities of Design.
For the sixth time, Graz-based shops open their doors for "Design in the City" and for the period of one month turn their retail spaces into showrooms, hotspots and meeting places for designers and interested guests.
In addition, the design festival assembly is back and invites you to delve into the world of fashion design in May.
The program features another highlight, namely the "Fifteen Seconds Festival", which has become an interdisciplinary and international business festival within a few years.
Design is a story full of misunderstandings and clichés, especially when it comes to the issue of gender. Hence, in 2019, Design Month Graz focuses on the topic of "Women & Design".


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The Rench Valley Railway (German: Renchtalbahn) is a 29.1 kilometre long branch line from Appenweier to Bad Griesbach (Schwarzwald), that mainly follows the valley of the River Rench in the Black Forest with maximum inclines of 1:99.

The first section between Appenweier and Oppenau was opened on 1 June 1876 by the Rench Valley Railway Company (Renchthal-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft). It was taken over by the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railways on 31 May 1909, who had in any case operated the line from the outset. The Deutsche Reichsbahn extended the line on 28 November 1926 to Bad Peterstal and on 23 May 1933 to Bad Griesbach.

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TULSA - Tulsa's most wanted is the third suspect in the May murder of a 14-year-old girl during an attempted robbery .
"37-year-old Adam Schrier of Atlanta was shot and killed at his home early Wednesday morning. Police are looking for two gunmen responsible.
"We understand that this is robbery motivated. Apparently two suspects," said Maj. Don Woodruff with Duluth Police Schrier's girlfriend and her 8-year-old daughter were also shot during the attack. They were taken to a hospital and later released. Schrier's 4-year-old daughter was also in the home but was not injured.
"Physically they expect to be okay but they're going to need a lot of prayers and support for all of the mental things they'll be going through because this is just the hardest thing," said Diane Happel, after her family wrapped her in support as she wept for her nephew."
US Marine in a coma after racially motivated lynching in Mississippi. Police Chief insults victim.
Black on White senseless deadly hatecrime in College Station, Texas that happened in 2012 just now getting out!
Amid the chaos in Ferguson, the mainstream media seems intent on reporting on every little incident—except those, of course, that demonstrate hate crimes against white people in the area.
Instead, the media is choosing to focus on the oppression of the black community. It has not mentioned, however, that this so-called oppression has turned to anger. And this anger is being taken out on the white population in the form of violent attacks. Most recently, a white man who was standing outside of a St. Louis McDonald's found himself suddenly surrounded by a group of black men. The men continued to beat the man, in what is being deemed a "backwards attempt at justice" for the death of Mike Brown at the hands of a white officer.
While the media ignored the incident, the story did circulate through social media. The story about the Washington University student who was attacked by the black group was shared across the community.
"It looked liked the knockout game," one user commented.
What do you think? Are you sick of being told the half-truth by the media?
Most recently, a man was simply standing outside of a St. Louis McDonald's where he was surrounded by a group of black man who punched the man in the face for no reason whatsoever. Seemingly unprovoked, the group intentionally targeted this man for nothing more than his skin color in a backwards attempt at justice for Mike Brown.
We've been hearing a lot about racism, especially in the case of the Ferguson riots. However, there seems to be a double standard when it comes to who is allowed to be racist, and it's starting to show.
The response the woman received was shocking. "F___ you, you f______ white b____," one woman in the group yelled. Another black male jumped from a bush and yelled, "F___ white people." The group then left the scene, leaving the elderly woman injured and crying. Luckily, she was brought to a hospital and treated shortly thereafter.


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Cory Monteith's Mother Remembers Late Actor on Fifth Death Anniversary
Matthew Scott Donnelly Published: July 19, 2018
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Cory Monteith's mother has penned an emotional note about her late son five years after the Glee actor died of a drug overdose.
Ann McGregor said in a new issue of People that her "world stopped" when Monteith died and she didn't think "she'd ever get up from it."
"He was a very vulnerable young man all the way through his life," she said, noting that he began experimenting with drugs when he was 13. "I raised him to be honest and open and I raised him with love. But I did not teach him about the other side of the world. There's a bad side out there."
And while Monteith tried time after time to seek treatment in rehab, McGregor ultimately realized it would never be a permanent solution to her son's issues.
"I realized that rehab is not the answer," she said. "You have to get these children before they get into that stuff. I never had the power to stop him."
Ultimately, Monteith had sunk too deeply into a world — Hollywood — that he hated, McGregor said, and couldn't cope any longer.
"He called that world plastic," she said "It was too superficial for him. He was just too grounded and his heart was too intact. He couldn't become hard enough...He was stressed because he wanted to get out of that world but he couldn't because he had two more years left on his contract. Drugs were his way of checking out."
Still, McGregor insists that she can see a scenario in which things didn't have to end so drastically.
"He didn't want to die," she insisted. "There's no doubt about that. He was looking forward to his future. And he had so much to live for."
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Seattle-based cancer immunotherapy company Juno Therapeutics handily beat analyst expectations for the fourth quarter, posting $21.2 million in revenue, compared to an expected $14.6 million, with a loss of 51 cents a share, better than the expected loss of 61 cents.
But the biotech company also announced a possible setback: it will be dropping its most-advanced drug, JCAR015, an immunotherapy treatment that was being studied as a treatment for patients with advanced lymphoma.
Juno's stock stayed relatively steady in after-hours trading Wednesday, dipping a few percentage points to $24.64 by 2 p.m.
A clinical trial of JCAR015 was suspended in July after three patient deaths, resumed after the company tweaked the chemotherapy drug used along with it, and then suspended again after two more deaths in November. On today's earnings call with investors, Juno CEO Hans Bishop said the company has decided to drop the drug in favor of a similar product that is still in early stages of development.
"The delay with JCAR015 means it no longer makes sense to continue its development as we can instead bring forward a defined cell product candidate in a similar time frame," Bishop said.
The failure of the JCAR015 trial means Juno has fallen behind competitors in the race to get the first CAR T immunotherapy on the market. Competitor Kite Pharmaceuticals announced positive results from its CAR T trial yesterday and is neck-and-neck with Novartis AG to get the first treatment approved by the FDA.
During the call, Bishop said the company had pinpointed the reason that JCAR015 proved toxic to certain patients: the genetically altered T cells used in the treatment expanded too quickly and attacked patients' healthy tissue along with their cancerous cells.
Bishop said characteristics of the immunotherapy treatment the patients received, including the number and type of T cells used in the treatment, was one of three reasons that the patients developed toxicity that eventually killed them.
Other factors were the treatment given immediately before the cell infusion and factors related to individual patients, including their previous cancer treatments. The changes that Juno made to its protocol during the trial lessened the risk for toxicity, but did not eliminate it, he said.
Despite the setback of JCAR015, the company did see several clinical successes during the year, including an early study of drug JCAR017 in which 60 percent of advanced leukemia patients went into remission, with almost no sign of the toxic side effects that have plagued the JCAR015 trial.
For the full year, the company posted revenue of $79.4 million compared to the expected $70.6 million. Juno's bottom line for the year also beat expectations, with a loss of $2.42/share compared to an expected loss of $2.60/share.


Sheffield ENIHL Scimitars call themselves the Spartans, as that used to be the ENL Sheffield team after the original Scimitars moved to EPL. Then, the Spartans became part of the Sheffield Ice Hockey Club and were renamed the ENIHL Scimitars, although to help everyone out they call themselves the Spartans.
As regards Colegate's fight, well, it was his first for two years and it was a more even match this time than last. It's also the second fight of the season for the Lions that falls into the "not heavyweights but a decent showing nonetheless" category.
Yeah i saw that fight, was pretty good, was shocked to see he was fighting with what looked like an already damaged hand/wrist.
Would anyone going to Whitley this weekend do me a favour and say hi to a couple of people - specifically, the programme seller (go on, ask him how much!) and the woman in the green fleece.
OK I will do, but last time we were there, IIRC, she wasn't wearing a green fleece!
What can I say? Lions were unlucky last night. Warriors ran into major penalty trouble - they got 82 PIM with 3 10 minute misconducts, and Bryan Dunn got a Game at the end for a 2nd 10 minute.
We had the better of the play, at times we put so much pressure on them but as usual we were stopped by a goalie on top form - Thomas Murdy kept them in it without a doubt. They scored 2 SHG from defensive errors, and one that floated in off Levers' shoulder.
Again, the scoreline did flatter the victors - we comprehensively outshot them but it's difficult to know where the goals will come from.
Oh and Ed, Mrs Green Fleece wasn't there, but we still had to deal with some "fans" who couldn't understand why we weren't really cheering, calling us miserable....!!
99% of Whitley fans have no sense of humour. Sadly, the other 1% can't ever make it to games. You guys may have been miserable - and having gone that far to see your team lose it's understandable - but that Whitley lot are a bunch of smug, overbearing gloaters. You know, like me, but they have silly accents.
To the Lions fans who went up there last night, I'm sorry I couldn't make it, but to recreate the experience I sat in the cold for two hours, and then right at the end I turned off all the lights at the cafe end of my living room.
A 4-1 reverse is generally good going for trips to Whitley, or as I like to refer to it, a town called The Past (seriously, if you've not been, the "welcome" sign says "set your watch back to 1959", and I don't mean 'almost 8pm'). The Warriors are consistently outshot and are always happy for the opposition to dominate possession, because their breakout offence is so lethal that all they have to do is wait and catch teams on the break. Their two SHG attest to this. While this result means the Lions probably won't win the league this year (even though it's early), it doesn't really affect our playoff chances.
This weekend's game against Blackburn will though. The Hawks have been struggling for form recently and this weekend lost 5-3 to Kingston and Billingham. If we can get two points against them it will really help us out. We're one quarter of the way through the season and are in 5th place. The top four make the playoffs, and it's Sheffield (Lions lost twice), Whitley, Billingham and Coventry ahead of us. The chances are Sheffield and Whitley will get away from us, but if we can take points from the other two then the race will definitely begin to hot up. Bring on the Hawks!
Who was the coach for the Lions in that game, I heard from a friend of a friend that it was a youngster from Nottingham.
It was Adam Morris who is one of the junior coaches (sorry, don't know which team). He's a Level 2 coach which is good that we have young players and coaches coming through.
Martyn was unavailable due to work commitments, and Mike was with the U-18's.
Still we move on to Blackburn on Sunday, which will be after the Panthers game. Feel free to drop by, and keep an eye out for some news about possible changes that we may have to make for the weekend.
Games against t'Awks are usually good, close, edge of the seat affairs and are often won by the odd goal. Earlier this season the Lions came back from Blackburn with the points.
The team played better on Sunday than the scoreline suggests, but there are still points to work on and hopefully we can continue our relatively good home form, and stop this run of defeats.
Nottingham Lions are offering tickets for just £3 for anyone with a ticket for Sunday's Panthers vs. Coventry game.
The Lions take on rivals Blackburn Hawks in a game that is usually a high-tempo, tense affairs.
The Hawks aren't getting the results so far this season, and are near the bottom of the table - they'll be looking for this result to kick-start their season, and the Lions are looking to halt their run of 2 successive 4-1 defeats, to Sheffield at home and Whitley Bay away last weekend.
Also the Lions are looking for a couple of helpers for the game on Sunday. You'll have free entry but please remember you may not be able to watch the game. As it's going to be busy on Sunday we'd like people to help us on the door. If you'd like to help out on Sunday then please PM either me or Shaggy.
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Scorers for Lions were Chris Colegate, Sam Bullas, Joe Wightman, Ben Bliss and Josh Ward. Hawks' goals were scored by Carl Slater and Chris Arnone.
Strange decision given by the ref (Hewitt) when there was a scuffle behind the net - saw 2 players from each side given straight 10's. I would have thought that it would have been 2+2s on each side.
Still a far better display for the Lions. We're getting there finally! There were definately times when the Lions were just far superior to the Hawks - the lines have been mixed round and the Colegate - Bullas - Wightman line is looking dangerous at long last.
Blackburn look to have some problems - which is a shame because they've always been a good team at this level. I hope that they pick themselves up soon becuase it's still going to be tough to call who's going to get what this season.
It was a pretty good game with the Lions playing about the same as ever. This week we won because we had the speed to outskate Blackburn and the skill to beat their D and goalie, which ultimately led to a sieve chant, and because the team decided to stop playing defence at 4-0 this week, rather than 0-0. That having been said I thought the last ditch goalline stop, which I think was Norton, showed fantastic presence of mind. I had a similar view to the ref (I was just to the side of his right arm) and it definitely did not go in.
Hopefully we can get a similar result next week against Whitley, although they will be a much tougher task than a struggling Blackburn side. If we can hit them early and get them on the back foot, then we may have a chance, but they are more than happy to sit back and wait for the opportunity to counterattack. Hope to see you all there.
For anyone who is coming to tonights Game Vs Whitley Bay I have just been told it is in the main arena.
Well it is with a very heavy heart that I am writing this post. On Tuesday of this week I put pen to paper and signed for the Solihull Barons, and I have just received confirmation that my release form has been signed. I wanted to say thank you to everyone that has helped me in my four seasons with the lions, but as I probably wont get to a lions training or game for a while i thought it appropriate to post on here.
The decision to leave Nottingham was a hard one and it has taken me over a month to finally decide to sign for Solihull. I have had a great 4 years at a great club, and hope that one day when the time is again right i will be able to return. Winning both the league and Championship last season has got to be the highlight of my career so far and something that i will never forget. However, i just wasnt getting the ice time needed to improve my game this year, and so i have had to look elsewhere, where i have more of a chance of playing week in week out.
Thanks to those on the cage who have supported me, especially thanks to Wigwam who was my sponsor last season. Thanks to all the friends of the lions for their hard work, and to Rich and Katie for putting up with me this season even when i was been a grumpy so and so!
Good luck for the rest of the season, and hopefully i will see you all soon.
all the best for your return to the Barons - you'll have your work cut out helping them try to catch up to current pacesetters Telford and Flintshire.
The cat was let out of the bag on THF so thought i may as well post a farewell on here!
I was going to put something together tonight to post on here, but you've saved me a job!
Seriously, we wish you all the best for the future Luke. Sorry that your time here in Nottingham seemed to come to a bit of a sour end, but I'm glad you enjoyed yourself and that you are going to continue playing.
Tell Adz to stop mucking around with rec and move his bum so i can come watch both of you!! don't worry, your 'ickle cheering section will be there!!
Lions winning 2-0 after a period away tonight.


Surely you do online banking and do your taxes with the help of software, but would you depend on artificial intelligence or ask a machine for financial advice?
What if you need an email written in Mongolian translated into English in a rush? Enter Google Translate or any other number of software solutions, powered by machine translation. In 2012, I spoke with Larry Adams, one of Narrative Science's representatives at the time, about the main features of their program, which mines data to author a piece of writing that is indistinguishable from what a human writer would create. What drives the translation of large volumes of content is speed, not quality.
For the sake of argument, I'll oversimplify the issue a little bit. There are large translation companies that operate in bulk and outsource language services to the cheapest providers, from India to Argentina. Other companies try to stay competitive by emphasizing quality, and then hire a more expensive professional workforce in developed countries. The downward push on translation costs continues. After all, translation is a necessary cost of doing business, like buying office supplies or ordering printer ink cartridges.
While American business owners recognize the need and advantages of addressing the translation of documentation for their products or services, it's hard for them to see the direct connection between higher sales and better-written translations. Hence, the advantages of quality translation are intangible ones, great concepts in an abstract world.
Companies with overseas offices trust their salespeople in their different geographies to check the accuracy of the translated documents. In-country reviews are an established quality control, but translation managers often face an uphill battle to perform these analyses according to quality translation standards because the reviews' completion depends on the time and availability of the reviewers — the people who are in charge of selling and marketing the products. Their primary job is to market and sell, not to sit down and review translations, a task that is not a natural part of their role.
In the meantime, companies are offered a variety of technologies to automate most of the translation process: translation memories, terminology databases, automated quality controls, confirmed translations with the lock-out of changes (so that future translators or editors cannot modify them once approved), and, of course, machine translation.
As machine translation reaches new, more robust performance markers, a question insinuates itself: Will it be possible to completely automate the creative process of translation by sheer data mining and parsing of linguistic patterns in the corpus? Once the engine is properly customized, software solutions devised by companies like Narrative Science may make the high cost of writing standard sports news and financial articles a thing of the past. There seems to be a technological answer to our most pressing problems. Will translators be relegated to the minor role of editors, no more creators of original translations?
Machines and software, regardless of their level of automation, still operate in a GIGO fashion (garbage in, garbage out). The machine is no better than the operator that programmed it. Intuition, creativity, the right turn of phrase, the cumulative sound judgment that comes from years of writing experience cannot be automated. Your business uses sophisticated software and complex machines to churn out products and project sales. But, who do you turn to for sales, marketing or financial advice vital to your business? A machine? A software bot?


[New] The submission deadline has been extended to Saturday April 6th.
The third edition of "Learning and Automata" (LearnAut) will be held at LICS 2019 in Vancouver (Canada) on June 23, 2019.
Grammatical Inference (GI) studies machine learning algorithms for models defining recursive computations like automata and grammars. The expressive power of this kind of models and the complexity of associated computational problems are a major research topic within the LICS community. Historically, there has been very little interaction between the GI and LICS communities, though in recent years we have seen some important results starting to bridge the gap between both worlds, including applications of learning to formal verification and model checking, and (co-)algebraic formulations of automata and grammar learning algorithms.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts on logic that could benefit from grammatical inference tools, and researchers in grammatical inference who could find in logic and verification new applications for their methods.
The LearnAut workshop will consists of a number of invited talks, other talks from researchers who submitted their work to the workshop, and discussions. An important amount of time will be kept for interactions between participants.
Similarly to how main machine learning conferences and workshops are organized, all accepted abstracts will be part of a poster session held during the workshop. Additionally, the Program Committee will select a subset of the abstracts for oral presentation. At least one author of each accepted abstract is expected to represent it at the workshop.


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Bills to boost oversight of assisted living homes pending
By Deborah Schoch
Ten bills that tighten regulation of California assisted living facilities have been sent to Gov. Jerry Brown for his signature. He has already signed two assisted living reform bills passed earlier in the legislative session. (Photo courtesy of Neon Tommy)
This article originally appeared in the U-T San Diego
Ten bills that tighten state oversight of assisted living homes are headed to Gov. Jerry Brown for his signature, the most significant overhaul since regulations were first enacted in 1985.
One bill increases the maximum civil penalty to $15,000 from its current $150 if poor care leads to the death of an assisted living resident.
Two bills require more rigorous training for the staffs at the 7,570 homes in the state, including 638 homes in San Diego County. A fourth creates a Bill of Rights for residents similar to the law for patients in nursing homes.
"If these bills are signed, I think it's historic," said Pat McGinnis, executive director of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, the state's best-known watchdog for residents.
Not only will seniors have new rights, she said, but tools will be added for the Department of Social Services to protect the lives of facility residents.
"We made a lot of very good progress this year," said Sally Michael, president of the 500-member California Assisted Living Association, the state's largest industry group. "We're looking at stronger oversight."
Overall, the Legislature approved 12 proposed reform bills this year and defeated five. Brown has already signed two of the bills.
For a complete list of the bills, click here.
One big defeat for consumer advocates: A bill to require the state to post online all inspection reports and related documents for every facility in the state. Such records are now kept on paper in unindexed files stored in offices scattered around the state, forcing families to travel long distances and rifle through voluminous reports if they want to compare homes they are considering for aging relatives.
Legislators also blocked a bill that would have required DSS to inspect facilities every year — not every five years, as the law now requires — after administration officials raised budget concerns.
A newly formed industry group called 6 Beds Inc. targeted bills that it said would unfairly impose regulatory and financial pressures on small, less expensive homes, forcing some to close and close off options for seniors.
"We were very successful in voicing our concerns," Beth Miller, a spokeswoman for 6 Beds, said Friday.
She echoed the disappointment of other advocacy groups in the defeat of the bill to require annual inspections, saying the once-every-five-years schedule was not effective.
The bills were sparked by a 2013 burst of news reports on problems in assisted living facilities in California, including an investigative project produced by U-T San Diego and the CHCF Center for Health Reporting.
The "Deadly Neglect" investigation found that at least 27 seniors died because of neglect or abuse over five years in facilities in San Diego County. Of those, the state fined 12 homes $150 each for the deaths, the highest penalty allowed under state law. The highest penalty for similar deaths of residents in nursing homes is $100,000.
The investigation also found that the state collected only half of the $2.9 million in fines it levied against facilities from 2007 to 2013.
Four county legislators — Sen. Marty Block, D-San Diego, and Assembly members Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, Brian Maienschein, R-San Diego, and Marie Waldron, R-Escondido — introduced a total of six reform bills following the series.
Brown has until Sept. 30 to sign or veto the bills. He has not expressed his views publicly about their contents. However, he has already signed Atkins' bill requiring homes to have liability insurance, and his office was involved in guiding several of the current group of bills to passage.
Assisted living homes once primarily served healthy, active residents. That that has changed significantly in the past 20 years, with facilities now housing many seniors who would once have lived in more expensive nursing homes.
Two of the 10 bills just approved by the Legislature require more administrator and staff training. One, introduced by Block, would increase training for administrators from 40 to 80 hours, 60 of which would involve in-person training.
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China dominated the Free Combination and Russian world champion pair Mikhaela Kalancha/Aleksander Maltsev ruled the mixed duet on the second day of the 11th FINA Synchronized Swimming World Trophy in Yangzhou (CHN) on Sunday.
China repeated the feat of last year as the host team, consisting of the Jiangsu provincial team, and claimed four titles out of five up for grabs this weekend. The competition of the mixed duet was the world top level as the top two finishers were world champions and runner-ups from Kazan 2015 World Championships.
Mikhaela Kalancha/Aleksander Maltsev of Russia, World champions in mixed duet free routine, performed the newly-composed Swan Lake and won the title in 92.6000 points.
"I am satisfied with their performance because they showed emotional part in the routine, just like the actor and actress, not only competitive swimmers. Maybe they were not perfect technically today, but perfect in art expression. We made some changes to this routine that they performed at the Kazan World's" said Gana Maksimova, long-time coach of the mixed pair.
"We train about 8 or 9 hours every day and just the same way like all the other national team members. I think the best way to promote the mixed duet and men synchro swimmers is to add the men's solo event to the World Championships. It is not a good idea to have more mixed duet competitions since we need enough time to prepare the routines according to the limited men synchro swimmers," Maksimova said.
World silver medallists Giorgio Minisini/Manila Flamini came second in the mixed duet in 91.2000 and Atsushi Abe/Yumi Adach of Japan finished third. Meng Xinyue/Deng Zeyang of China ranked fourth.
Over the theme of the "Nutcracker", China performed joyful and flexible dancing elements in the Free Combination routine and brought the local fans into the fairy tale world. China earned a total of 92.4667. Italy choose "Swan Lake" to clinch the silver medal in 91.0667 while Russia finished third (89.6000).
"We made some changes to the Nutcrackers which was the routine we showed in our National Championships two months ago. We performed our best and improved after each competition. It is a great honour and opportunity to learn from the other strong teams of the world and to represent China in the World Trophy," said Wang Fang, coach of Jiangsu team.
About 80 synchro swimmers from 7 countries competed in the two-day World Trophy which came to an end on Sunday November 27.


Pixel participated in the third and last meeting of the European project entitled 2IMINED - Improving the Initial Education of Adult Immigrants held on 13 September 2018 in Vilnius (Lithuania). The European project entitled 2IMINED was funded by the European Commission in the framework of the Erasmus+ Programme, KA2 - Strategic Partnerships in the field of Adult Education. The European project has been written and coordinated by the University of Klaipeda (Lithuania) and involves Pixel in the transnational partnership. This European project is aimed at improving the competencies of educators working with immigrants as far as formal and non-formal education provision is concerned. During the third meeting, the European project partners described the testing and the evaluation, carried out at a national level, of the e-learning platform produced, whose function is to help immigrants to more successfully integrate into the host society. More information about the 2IMINED European project is available on the e-learning platform MigIS: http://migis.eu/.


Does anyone know if you have 2 iPhones that share the same computer to sync with Outlook Calendar/contacts, etc.... does each iPhone have a separate calendar to sync, or do BOTH phones have to use the SAME Outlook Calendar/contacts/etc?
I hope my question makes sense, and not too confusion... THANKS!
...so NOBODY here has TWO iPhones in their household?
We are a 2 iPhone family but only one of us sync's to Outlook so I'm afraid I'm of no help.
Perhaps somebody more tech savvy then me will stop by to help but personally, I can't see how that would work, sorry.
I have two iPhones but they use different computers.
thanks, but it still doesn't answer the original post question..
My daughter and I each have an iPhone and we use one computer running Vista. You have to make 2 separate user accounts on the computer, one for you and one for the person with the other phone. Then when each account syncs with their iPhone it will sync his/her own contacts, playlist, video's, etc.
I'm running Vista and I don't typically use profiles since it takes longer to long in and me and my wife don't need separate settings. In Outlook, I created a profile for me and i'm hoping to make one for my wife hoping that when she syncs her iPhone, it will ask which profile to use but i'm not so sure about that.
Add an account in Outlook and have it prompt you to choose a user when you log on, that way you would each have your own account.
Also one of you could use Outlook Express as his/her e-mail client. It is also supported by iPhone and I'm pretty sure it is standard with all Windows based OS's. Just export selected contacts out of Outlook and import into Outlook Express. Relatively same functionality as Outlook. Then when the person using Express syncs just make sure to choose Windows Address Book in the drop down box under the Contacts tab in iTunes.
Finally as far as contacts go you could turn off auto-syncing in iTunes. Then in Outlook separate your contacts into 2 folders one for you and one for the other user. Then under the Contacts tab in iTunes select sync only checked folders. Check the folder with just your contacts and sync.
my wife and i each have an iPhone, and we use the same computer. The computer is running xp and office 2007. We each have a user account on the computer. the only drawback to doing this is, you need to close iTunes before the other user opens iTunes. but, our separate music and outlook work flawlessly.
My wife and I also both have iPhones.
On a WinXP machine we log into the same account to sync media (music, etc.). We share the same iTunes library, but we have our own playlists set up. When docking a phone, iTunes detects which iPhone it is an remembers which playlist it corresponds to. This works well.
However I tried the same thing with contacts (sync-ed with our respective Yahoo accounts) and that didn't work. So only I use this account to sync my PIM data, and she uses another machine for hers (though logging into another user account would presumably work too).
Use COntact Groups in Outlook. You'll only need one account and can choose which contact group to sync for which iPhone, in iTunes.
That's what we do (as I get the syncing job), and it works superbly.


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Ben Shriver, son of Jeff Shriver, slides the metal name plate into place during the dedication. Photo by Jackie Gorski, Times-Union.
The Jeff Shriver Viking Room was dedicated to Shriver, a former Tippecanoe Valley School Corporation teacher and football coach, Friday.
During the dedication, Shriver's son, Ben, slid a metal name plate in place over the room's door.
"Jeff is dearly missed by everyone. Everyday, we think about him and we appreciate how much he sacrificed for our school corporation…," said Superintendent Blaine Conley after he thanked everyone for being at the dedication.
He thanked Shriver's family for sharing Jeff with the school corporation.
Shriver died in December due to cancer.
Shriver served as TVSC's head football coach from 2006-2013, compiling a record of 47-34, while guiding the team to three Three Rivers Conference wins in 2006, 2011 and 2012. Shriver was one of TVSC's assistant coaches during other TRC title years in 1993, 1994 and 2004 and sectional championship team in 1992.
Conley said Shriver was a teacher at TVSC for about 30 years.
Tippecanoe Valley School Board voted to rename the Viking Room for Shriver at its meeting Aug. 17.
During Thursday's school board meeting, Conley said the Viking Room used to be one of Shriver's old classrooms and the murals that had been painted in the room were "just very fitting."
Shriver is painted in the viking ship that makes up one of the murals.
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What is Spacehive? How does it work?
Spacehive is a crowdfunding platform designed for projects that enhance our shared civic life, be that sprucing up a local park, holding a community event, or repurposing a disused building.
We aim to revolutionise the way communities grow, making it easy for locals to choose the changes they feel their community needs, and back their idea up by collecting funds not only from neighbours but also from local business, councils, and grant bodies.
Our verification system and grant app makes Spacehive projects appealing to big backers, so make sure to check for Funds you might be eligible for – we'll match you up with them automatically, no laborious grant forms needed!
You can use Spacehive either as a Project Creator, a local backer, a business backer, or as a grant body/council backer.
It's a fast and fun way to transform where you live: just find a project you love using our map tool or find a Movement in your area and pledge a contribution. Payments are only charged if projects hit their funding targets, so you only pay if the project goes ahead!
We are an independent company based in London that launched in 2012. We love what we do and who we do it with. If you like what Spacehive is about say hello, check us out on Facebook or Twitter or check out our job listings!
What are the fees? Is there a charge?
Spacehive charges a 5% fee (+1% VAT) on funds raised if, and only if, you hit your target. The 5% fee pays for the development and maintenance of our technology platform, the process of verifying projects, and the support that we provide.
This is 5% (+1% VAT) of your total project costs and is automatically added onto your campaign total. So if a project needs to raise £100, a £5 fee and £1 VAT will be automatically added, giving a total of £106.
There are also transaction fees; PayPal at 3.4% + 20p per pledge and GoCardless at 0.5%. These are estimated at the beginning of your campaign and are automatically added onto your total project costs. Because these are estimations you might notice your campaign target fluctuating depending on the payment methods used by backers and the pledge sizes. Generally the transaction fees are overestimated so you'll probably see your target decreasing, especially if you get a big pledge or if you mostly receive GoCardless pledges.
Spacehive and transaction fees are shown in the Costs tab of project pages.
How does the all-or-nothing crowdfunding model work?
Spacehive operates an all–or–nothing model, which means that if you don't hit your target, none of the pledges are collected. This can seem daunting at first however it has many benefits.
It helps you raise more money than possible with a keep-it-all model due to the sense of urgency it creates.
It's less risk for everyone. If you need £5,000, it's not much good having £1,000 and crowd of people expecting you to complete a £5,000 project.
It's easier to make backers part with their money. They will only be charged if you hit your target and deliver some community transformation.
It works. 53% of Spacehive projects are successful, which is much higher than the crowdfunding industry standard.
Once the initial funding target has been reached, projects can continue to raise additional funds to make the project even bigger and better in overfunding. If the project has overfunding enabled, details of how the extra funds will be spent are explained on the project page and backers can choose whether to keep pledging towards those cost items too. Find out more about overfunding here.
If you're an individual, community group, school, company, or council, you can create a project on Spacehive, as long as the project idea itself is eligible. You can check our eligibility criteria here.
Is my project eligible for Spacehive?
Spacehive is all about transforming spaces and places!
Projects cannot be solely to fund courses, classes, or ongoing work.
Projects cannot be solely for charitable fundraising.
Projects must be in the U.K.
Projects can be led by any type of organisation or individual.
A project on Spacehive must clearly show how it could impact a public space for the benefit of the community. This can be something that directly improves an area, such as painting a street mural or repurposing a disused building, something that can lead onto neighbourhood improvement, such as a feasibility study or planning consultation, or something temporary that brings people together such as organising a festival or event. The project can be either permanent or temporary, and funding can be sought for both revenue and capital costs.
Spacehive projects happen in shared spaces, which can be owned and managed either privately or publicly, but for the purpose of the project must be open and accessible to the community, and anyone else who wants to see it be used, or use it themselves.
Still unsure if your idea is one for Spacehive?
If you can answer yes to these questions then your idea is probably eligible for Spacehive.
Does my idea transform a shared, or publicly accessible space in the UK, either temporarily or permanently?
Am I crowdfunding for a project with a clear deliverable for my backers, as opposed to funding running costs of an organisation?
Would my project help to enhance our shared lives and bring communities together?
Upload the basic shell of your idea and send a link to info@spacehive.com- we'll check it and offer advice on how best to proceed.
Spacehive is open to anyone looking to create something amazing within their community but we do have a few guidelines all project makers must follow.
Number 1. Everything on Spacehive must be a project.
A project is something with a clear end, like building a playground, planting a tree, or putting on a festival. A project will eventually be completed, and something tangible will be produced as a result. Success.
Number 2. Projects must be civic.
Projects must have a civic value, meaning the benefit should be felt in the places we share, rather than our private homes and offices. Projects can be permanent (like a new playground) or temporary (like an event) and they can include revenue as well as capital costs.
Number 3. It doesn't matter who you are.
Creating projects is open to any organisation or person over the age of 18 and based in the UK. If you're an organisation it doesn't matter what your legal structure is – for example whether you're a charity or a for-profit business. Everybody is welcome to get involved.
Are those the only guidelines?
Those are the main three, but below is a list of specific uses of Spacehive that are not allowed.
Spacehive cannot be used to raise money for causes, whether it's a charity run for Oxfam or a fundraiser for the work of a local conservation group. Other sites will be better suited to fundraising for these causes.
Projects cannot offer equity or financial incentives (share of profits, ownership, the repayment of loans or cash-value equivalents).
No offensive projects (e.g. murals with racist content) or projects that promote political or religious ideologies. And keep it clean folks. You know who you are.
Projects cannot offer rewards that offer entry to raffles, lotteries, or participation in gambling. That includes Vegas style blackjack to the Village tombola.
No projects outside the UK. Yet.
You can change your name in your Settings > Your Account.
If you've agreed to be the Project Delivery Manager of a project you won't be able to edit your name. Please contact support@spacehive.com for help with this.
You can change your email address in your Settings > Your Account.
You can change your password in your Settings > Your Account.
You can edit your biography by going to your Profile from the drop down menu in the top right of your screen.
You can edit profile image by going to your Profile from the drop down menu in the top right of your screen, then clicking on the circle photo space.
You can request for your account to be deleted in your account settings, by clicking Delete Account as in the screenshot below.
Spacehive will then check if your account for deletion, and if so remove all data immediately. Your account may not be able to be deleted automatically if you have a project that is either fundraising or successful, or you have backed a project that is currently fundraising. If your account falls in to one of these categories, please email info@spacehive.com with a request to delete your account.
After checking your idea is eligible for Spacehive, create a project through our Create page, here. To find out what information you'll need to enter and how to create a great looking project, check out our Ultimate Guide to Crowdfunding, here.
You can save each step as you go and return to add more, or make edits, at any point up to submitting your idea for verification. What's verification?
What do I need to do before creating my project?
All crowdfunding campaigns require planning before they begin. If you prepare well, you'll boost your chances of having a successful and exciting campaign.
How much money do you need? Are you raising the full budget or a portion of it? Do you have a suitable contingency? Avoid later headaches by doing your research, and be as transparent as you can. Supporters will appreciate it.
The majority of our projects take place in shared spaces that require permission from the landowner, or even local authority. If this is relevant to your project, then consider who owns the land, and who will maintain it once delivered, to see if additional permissions will be required.
Spacehive is not a magical source of money. Funding comes from a variety of sources — your friends and colleagues, your broader social or business networks, and, if your project does well, strangers from the broader Spacehive community and even broader world wide web. It's up to you to build that momentum for your project – it won't happen automatically.
Once you've researched your budget and considered your reach, you're ready to set your funding goal. Because funding is all-or-nothing, you'll only collect what you raise if you hit your target – so make sure it feels realistic. Think about out how much money you need to complete your project as promised (while considering how much funding you think you can realistically generate), and select an amount close to that. Remember that you can add any additional items that would make your core project even bigger and better to either your Wish List, for in kind contributions, or as Overfunding targets, when more cash would help.
What's Overfunding? What's a Wish List?
Funding can last anywhere from one to 365 days, however a longer duration is not necessarily better. Short projects that prepare well for their campaign, and push hard during it, tend to do better because they create a sense of excitement and urgency. Longer projects tend to encourage procrastination and lose momentum.
Can I run a crowdfunding campaign by myself?
The majority of projects on Spacehive are created by organisations who have either formed to create a specific project, or an existing organisation that has recognised crowdfunding as a way to raise funds for a new project.
Individuals run a lot of great projects too though, and a lot of our biggest and best campaigns have been organised and delivered by one person. Once the campaign's off and running you'll often find people want to add support with more than their money as well, and can help form a team around you.
If you are planning a campaign as an individual, it's a great exercise to map out where your current strengths in fundraising are, and where you could benefit from some added support. Have you got a good social media network and decent marketing ability for example, or could someone really add a lot to your campaign by supporting you with that? If you could use some extra help the first thing to do is to approach like minded people and friends and family, your core crowdfunding supporters, to see if they can lend a hand. And remember that Spacehive are always here to help as well, starting with our ultimate guide to crowdfunding all the way through to bespoke support helping you unlock cash from the business and funding community. Drop us a line at info@spacehive.com throughout your campaign if there's anything we can help with.
Should I create the project as an individual or organisation?
If an organisation you're a member of is running and will be delivering the project you're creating, please make sure you register the account as an organisation when signing up. This is important as some Funds will only pledge to projects ran by organisations and some Funds will only pledge to projects ran by individuals. If you register the account as an individual when you're acting on behalf of your organisation, you may be matched to funds that aren't relevant, and vice versa.
If you're unclear about the type of account you should create, you can consider which bank account will be accepting pledges and paying to deliver the project. If it's a personal bank account then you're probably running the project as an individual, if it's a company bank account you should probably register as an organisation.
If you're unsure about which account type to create, please get in touch at support@spacehive.com.
Do I need a video?
To get the project page and campaign up and running you just need an image for your project, not a video. A video can be added to your project at any point during the set up or running of your campaign.
If you haven't already got a video, you should think about creating one as a video is by far the best way to get a feel for the emotions, motivations, and character of a project. Crowdfunding projects that have videos are generally 20-30% more likely to succeed than those without.
Some videos are professionally made, but most videos are just someone telling their story straight into the camera. You can spend days shooting and editing, or you can just knock it out with a couple friends on a Saturday. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be you.
Tell us the story behind your project. Where'd you get the idea? What stage is it at? How are you feeling about it?
Talk about the benefits your project will bring.
Clearly and openly ask for people's support, explaining what the funding is for.
Explain that if you don't reach your goal, you'll get nothing, and everyone will be sad.
Finally, make sure your video is 100MB or less, formatted in MP4.
Top tip: If you're shooting your video on your mobile phone, hold it horizontally so you get a nice wide shape instead of a tall skinny one.
Head to the Save Madeira Terrace project page to check out the amazing video they used for their campaign.
Spacehive is a donations based platform where Backers pledge money to improve their local area. Having the spaces people care most about improved by renovating a playground, creating a community hub, or saving a historic building, is the reward of the crowdfunding campaign.
Because of this, Spacehive doesn't ask Project Creators to offer additional rewards as an incentive to back a project, asking instead to focus on the core project they want to deliver.
If a rewards system could help engage a community around a project idea you have, please get in touch at info@spacehive.com to discuss the best way of displaying them.
Can I collect Gift Aid on pledges?
Projects created by charities or CASCs can set up an automatic email to Backers, asking if they'd like to claim Gift Aid on their pledge. The email requests the Backer to provide the information needed to claim GiftAid, which is a postcode and confirmation statement (confirming they've paid more in income tax than the value of their pledge).
You will then need to collate their details using the spreadsheet template and make your claim online.
Because donations on Spacehive are conditional (only taken from backers if the project reaches its target) you cannot make the claim until the project has hit its crowdfunding target, meaning Gift Aid donations you collect will not count towards your crowdfunding target. Claims made via Charities Online are normally paid within 20 working days of HMRC receiving the claim.
Please email support@spacehive.com if you'd like the automatic Gift Aid emails set up for your project.
How can I show money or items I've already received before crowdfunding?
If you've already begun the fundraising effort for your project before coming to Spacehive, you can show any funds raised or items received as pledges on your project page. Showing that there's already funds raised towards the project will help get your campaign off to a good start, by showing Backers there's already others supporting it.
To do this, list out the full budget for your project in the costs section, adding any items already received or purchased as an in-kind cost, and any funds raised pre-campaign (cash or grants, for instance) along with evidence. In-kind cost items will show as both a cost to the project and a donation – as it's a good already received – whereas funds raised will show as a pledge towards the project.
Anything raised and added in to the project before the campaign begins is not subject to Spacehive's 5% fee.
Please note that to ensure transparency, once you've begun fundraising you cannot swap out Cost items for additional in-kind donations. You must raise the full target amount that you agreed upon and Locality verified at the start of the campaign.
How can I hide my project whilst I'm making changes?
Once the first 5 steps of creating your project have been completed, you'll have enough information to share a project page. No information is locked at this stage and you can continue making edits up to submitting for verification (what is verification?). Publishing a project page allows you to share a link with friends or other members of your organisation to get some feedback on the page, whilst still editable.
By default the page will remain hidden and you can toggle the visibility of the page between being public and hidden by clicking the 'Project is publicly' switch in your project dashboard.
Having a live page doesn't allow people to make pledges yet, you must be verified before being able to start fundraising.
Should I include VAT on my costs?
VAT is charged by UK companies providing goods and services that are VAT registered. The current rate of VAT in the UK is 20%. When creating your Project please consider any VAT you will be charged within your project cost lines with the costs section. To ensure your crowdfunding target is accurate please use the total including VAT checking with your suppliers if VAT will be payable if required.
Which parts of my project are shared publicly?
There are 9 steps to creating a project, each containing different pieces of information relevant to your project. Some of these steps are shared with the crowd so they have all information needed in order to understand your project idea and make a pledge, and other pieces of information are shared with our verification partner, Locality, to help them assess the viability of your project idea, and make sure it can be delivered.
Project description – So Backers can read about your project and understand your idea.
Images and video – An opportunity to shows the faces behind the project and what the final project might look like.
Location – So everyone knows where it's going to happen.
Milestones – Outlines the timeline of delivering the project once the funds are raised.
Cost items – Everyone can see how much the project will cost and where the money will be spent.
Any additional information requested by Funds whilst making an application.
Visit some of our live project pages to get a feel of how your campaign will look once publicly visible.
What are Funds, and how do I apply?
Spacehive partners with Local Authorities, Companies and Funding bodies across the U.K who are like minded in their support of local projects, and want to help the community to fund them. To do this they set up a 'Fund' on Spacehive, which is a pot of money that projects which match their funding criteria can apply to, whilst creating a Spacehive project.
After the initial Project Idea has been created, everything from entering the main description to the project costs, you'll be matched to Funds whose criteria you meet. The criteria is based on the type of project you're creating, (Green Space, Sport & Play etc) the impact it will create (Help the Environment, Boost the Local Economy), the type of organisation you are, and often most importantly, the location of your project.
The Funds you're project has been matched to will then be promoted to you in your Project dashboard so you can review them, and submit a pitch to any you feel could benefit your campaign with a pledge. Because Funds make up 35% of funding to Spacehive projects on average, they do have the option to ask some additional questions that might be expected of larger funding bodies in order to submit a pitch, but usually no more than 3 or 4 additional documents or answers are needed.
Please note you can only apply to Funds before submitting your project for verification. After this the Funds will be locked, so please consider applying to each Fund before submitting for verification.
To view the full list of Funds your project could be matched to, have a look at our Fund directory, here.
How will the funds I applied to pledge to my project?
There is no guarantee of any Fund pledging towards a particular project, they make their decisions on the same basis as the rest of the crowd: how much they like your project idea, and how much support it has from the community. If a Fund likes the idea and you can show that the community do too through some smaller but equally important pledges, the Fund may well make a pledge.
Should the Fund do so, the pledge will be added to your campaign in the same way as any other pledge from the crowd, and will help you reach your overall funding goal. There's no set amount that the Fund will pledge, it can be any amount up to their maximum pledge per project which is outlined on the Fund overview page during pitching, or on the Partners profile page.
Visit the Fund directory for more information on Funds.
What is verification? How long does it take?
Before a project can start crowdfunding it must be verified by Locality. This involves inspecting the project to make sure it's viable and trustworthy.
What do I need in order to get verified?
The verification process takes on average 2-5 days. It is quicker the more prepared the project creator is for Locality's questions, which depending on the nature of your project are likely to pertain to the following things. Have these to hand to insure a speedy verification.
Before you can submit your project for verification you must fill in all the Project Details in your project Dashboard. You'll know when you've filled in all required fields because a button will appear asking you to submit for verification.
After submitting the project for verification you will not be able to edit your project page, except from your 'Video and Images'. Locality will email you within 48 hours.
If Locality are unsatisfied with the project proposal they'll give some feedback then send your project back a step so you can make some edits and hopefully rework your proposal until it's ready for verification again.
Once you've been verified you need to set your campaign end date. Check out these tips on how long to run your campaign for.
Spacehive does not guarantee projects but, to help reduce risk, all projects are verified to try and establish if they are viable before they start funding. Verifying projects helps to protect potential funders, makes it more likely projects will succeed, and maintains confidence in the system.
What's GoCardless? And what other payment systems can I use?
Spacehive projects can use PayPal and/or GoCardless to collect pledges. PayPal allows backers to pledge directly from their PayPal account, whereas GoCardless is a direct debit system that allows people to make payments directly from their bank account, via a one-off direct debit. The direct debit is set up when Backers pledge, allowing Spacehive to collect the funds from their bank account at the end of the campaign, should you reach your funding goal. Because it's a one-off direct debit, only one payment can ever be taken.
It's well worth adding both if possible as it gives potential backers more choice, and each platform has different benefits. PayPal allows Backers to pay from anywhere in the world, and GoCardless has lower transaction fees for UK based pledges.
For more information on setting up a GoCardless account visit our guide, here, and the table below has more information on both platforms.
How long should I run my campaign for?
Spacehive projects can run for anytime up to 365 days, but we recommend keeping to the guidelines below. Please note, your fundraising campaign period cannot be changed once your project is live.
Shorter projects set a tone of confidence, excitement and urgency, which helps to motivate people to get behind you. It can be hard to maintain interest and momentum over long drawn-out campaigns. Short campaigns do require a great deal of pre-planning, including things like warming up your backers and drawing up a campaign timeline. The more work you put in beforehand, the easier time you'll have throughout the campaign!
When choosing your campaign launch date, please take into consideration that verification typically takes 1-7 days depending on the complexity of the project. To speed up the verification process, make sure to have proof of quotations and permissions ready to present if need be.
Similarly, if you need the funds by a certain date, please bear in mind that it can take up to two weeks for the funds to come through after hitting your target. Unverified PayPal and GoCardless accounts are the main cause for delays, so please make sure your payment accounts are verified by the time you hit your target.
Overfunding is a feature that allows you to continue collecting pledges if you hit your funding target before your campaign period ends. Projects that overfund can continue fundraising for an extra month beyond their original campaign end date.
There is no limit to how much extra money you can raise when you are overfunding – but you have to explain how you will use it. You can stop overfunding and end your campaign whenever you want.
Overfunding can be useful if you have a core project that you need to raise money for but can also see ways to add to it, if your campaign proves popular.
Great, how do I do this?
You can enable overfunding within the costs section of your project dashboard. We'll ask you to list the things that you'd spend the extra money on. This will be displayed on your project page.
You can only enable overfunding before your project is verified.
What sort of costs should I overfund for?
Overfunding should be used to raise funds for added extras – things that would make your project even better, rather than things that are essential to getting the core project delivered.
If you do decide to use overfunding, be careful not to mislead your backers by telling them that your core project includes things you can only deliver if you overfund.
If I have more questions what should I do?
If you can't find what you need in our FAQS please contact us here or tweet us @Spacehive.
Can I edit my project after verification?
Not sure what verification is?
From the moment you submit your project for verification, to the moment your project is delivered, you won't be able to edit your project page (e.g. the description, costs, or payment details).
This is because your project, as it is packaged up for verification, is the idea that gets reviewed. Being able to edit your project post-verification would render the verification process futile.
You can however add or remove photos, post updates, and edit your profile information.
If there are any other changes (e.g. typos or event date changes) please email support@spacehive.com and we'll endeavour to fix these for you.
How do I communicate with my backers?
Spacehive Update Tool; sends an email to your crowd and posts an update on the project page. Try to send an update every week or two with an image and maybe some social media post templates for them to copy, paste, and post.
Social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc.); use post scheduling tools Buffer/Hootsuite to ensure a steady stream of posts, and Canva to make interesting accompanying graphics. Consider posting short 10-sec videos of your backers explaining why they're supporting the project.
Newsletters; use your own mailing lists as well as those of others to promote your campaign far and wide!
Events; re-spark your audience's excitement with wine and pizza at a 50% event. Getting everyone together in one room is very powerful and will catalyse another wave of pledges.
Leaflets and posters; bright and colourful, help them to imagine what they'll get if the campaign succeeds. Don't forget to use your project link/URL!
How do I post an event on my project page?
During your crowdfunding campaign there are a few things you can do in order to garner support from those who may not come across your project online.
Organising an event is a great way to engage your community and reach new prospective backers, driving support for your project.
Once your event is planned and you've set a date be sure to let your backers know by posting it on your project page. To do this, just log into your Spacehive account and go to your project dashboard. On the left hand side underneath 'Posts', you'll see 'Events'. Click the yellow button that says 'Add Event' and you'll be given the chance to add details such as the location and start time, as well as an eye catching image.
You can also post press pieces on your project page, click here to learn how.
How do I post a press piece on my project page?
Approaching local and national press can be a great way to gather momentum for your crowdfunding campaign. People are more likely to back your project if they see exciting coverage from newspapers, magazines, bloggers, or other publications.
To post an article on your project page just log into your account and go to your project dashboard. On the left hand side underneath 'Posts', you'll see 'Press'. Press the yellow button that says 'Add Press Coverage' and you'll be given the chance to add details such as the publication date and the journalist's name, as well as a link to the article.
Be sure to encourage your backers to share the article and spread the word. You can also post events on your project page, click here to learn how.
Why does my Spacehive target keep changing?
Your crowdfunding target fluctuates according to the transaction fees (PayPal transaction fees are 3.4% + 20p per pledge, whereas GoCardless charge a flat 0.5%).
Spacehive estimate your total transaction fees at the start of the campaign and add this onto the funding target. Spacehive over-estimate the fees so you're likely to see the fees come down throughout your campaign, especially if you're getting more pledges through GoCardless than PayPal, or if you're have a series of large pledges.
The Wish List is similar to overfunding as it's designed to make your core project even bigger and better, but instead of asking people to pledge money like in overfunding, it gives them the option to donate items instead. You can add items to your Wish List at any point during your campaign.
The public can then view the Wish List on your project page and either offer anything you've requested, or offer anything else similar that they think could help. Should you then choose to accept the offer, at which point it will appear on your project page as being received.
How do I verify my PayPal/GoCardless account?
Spacehive uses external payment providers to accept and collect pledges to each project, PayPal and GoCardless. You can set up and add either account to start fundraising, but the accounts must be verified by the end of your campaign in order for you to receive the pledges. PayPal/GoCardless ask that you verify your payment accounts to comply with anti-money laundering laws.
The steps below briefly outline the process of creating and verifying a GoCardless account, please read Spacehive's guide on creating a GoCardless account here to see the process in full.
Log in to GoCardless via their website.
Once logged in, click on 'Settings' in the top right corner. Click on 'Company Info'. You should see a list of criteria, some might have green ticks by them.
To verify your GoCardless account click on 'Company Details' and fill in all the required fields.
Once your account is successfully verified a green tick will appear by 'Company Details'.
If you need any help verifying your account then get in touch with GoCardless.
To start the verification process log in to PayPal and click the 'Add bank account' option in the dashboard. PayPal will then make a deposit of £0.01 into the designated bank account with a 4 digit confirmation code in the reference. Check the bank statement online for the transaction, enter this code when prompted in the same 'Add bank account' section, and the account should be enabled to accept payments.
For a business account the email address on the account may also need to be verified. To do this log in to the profile section of PayPal where there should be an email address on the right hand side. Click update email and enter an address, then check your inbox for a verification email from PayPal.
Once this is complete and the bank account has been verified, your account should be ready to accept payments.
If my project falls through, what should I do?
In the event that circumstances change and you are no longer able to deliver your project please contact us as soon as possible and we will end your funding campaign, meaning none of your backers will be charged. We recommend you use the Update Tool to notify all of your backers before we end your campaign.
When we set your project back to Idea Stage you will still be able to access the names and email addresses of all your backers in the Your Crowd tab of your Dashboard, should you wish to try running the crowdfunding campaign again.
How do I approach businesses for a pledge?
As you're adding value to the neighbourhood, local businesses will be keen to put their name to the cause. However, approaching them at the right time is essential to making sure that your efforts aren't in vain! Businesses will only wish to back projects that already have a significant amount of backers, so make sure not to approach them prematurely. When the time is right, pop in and ask for a chat with the store manager 'to hear their thoughts on a local community project you're running'. If they're not in, arrange a time to come back, or if that's not possible ask for an email address/phone number.
When you meet them for the first time, make sure to take a carefully put together info pack.
How do I get media coverage?
Getting media coverage is a great way to build awareness and get more people pledging to your campaign but it's not always the easiest to do. Follow these seven steps to write a press release, contact journalists and let the world know you're a community crowdfunding hero.
Running a crowdfunding campaign isn't in itself newsworthy (we obviously think it's pretty great though!), so it's important to wow the media with your story instead. Is your project the first of its kind? Will it break records by being the biggest, oldest, longest, most superlative of projects? Find the angle that makes your project special and selling your story will get much, much easier.
For more guidance, check out our article on how to write a powerful press release here.
Your story is immediately more relevant to people in the area (and importantly they're the ones most likely to pledge to your campaign!) so start by contacting your local newspapers and radio stations first.
Is your project helping the environment? Or creating jobs? Or making something beautiful, weird or giant that people will want to know about? Consider which publications would be most interested in covering your story and contact them first.
Reach out to influencers, not just media.
Zoella is a YouTube celebrity with more than double the online following of the Financial Times. She might not be the best person to promote your project but it's a good idea to think outside of mainstream media and make a list of local bloggers, tweeters and community influencers (whether the head of the local Mumsnet group or the landlord of the most popular pub in town) who could help promote your project to an even larger audience.
Contact journalists early on in your campaign so that there are more opportunities for them to cover your story and so that any subsequent press coverage can help you to raise awareness and funds for your campaign.
A picture speaks a thousand words and can often sell your story better than your most powerful paragraphs. Oh and journalists always appreciate it when they don't have to go finding appropriate images themselves. Fact.
So they didn't bite when you sent them the press release about your campaign launch? No worries. Get in touch again whenever you hit significant milestones – a crowdfunding campaign may not capture a journalist's imagination but 100 or more local backers, celebrity supporters or significant donations may well do. Because if at first you don't succeed, then do what the All Blacks rugby team would do… Try and try again.
And if you do manage to get your crowdfunding campaign in the press? Post the press piece on your project page!
How do I receive the funds? How long will it take?
A pledge is a promise that the backer will pay the project delivery manager if they hit their target. When a project hits its target Spacehive sends an email to all backers, informing them that their pledge will be taken in the next couple of days and reminding them to make sure they have sufficient funds available.
After this email, Spacehive will collect the pledges and endeavour to send them to the project delivery manager within 1-2 weeks. It's very normal for a small percentage of pledges to fail during the collection. If a pledge fails Spacehive will send an email to the backer reminding them what the pledge is for and asking them to check that their GoCardless/PayPal account is set up to make the payment. Spacehive will attempt to re-collect the failed pledges twice more. Once 90% of the funds raised are collected Spacehive will then transfer the funds to the project creator. Backers who cancel their pledge after the target is reached, or whose pledge fails three times will be emailed individually with instructions on how to pledge to the project creator outside of Spacehive. Please note, if Spacehive cannot collect enough pledges that they deem sufficient for project delivery (e.g. less than 90%), then all collected pledges will be refunded to the backers.
For funds received via PayPal you will receive several individual deposits from each of your backers in your PayPal account. PayPal will notify you when the deposits are made. Once you have received your funds you can extract them to your bank account.
For funds received via GoCardless you will receive a single deposit directly in your bank account. GoCardless will notify you when the deposit is made.
If a project creator has not verified their GoCardless/PayPal accounts then the funds transferal is delayed. In order to make sure your account is set up sufficiently to receive funds, please either log into your GoCardless/PayPal accounts or contact their respective customer support teams.
Can I relaunch my project if it's unsuccessful?
Yes. However, if it wasn't successful the first time, it's worth considering whether you need to adapt the idea or your crowdfunding plan before starting again. For example by reducing your costs, increasing its appeal/widening your audience, or improving your social media reach.
What do I need to do after I've received the funds?
After you've reached your target and the funds have been paid out, the main thing to do is focus on delivering the project. Along the way though you should keep your Backers up to date with regular updates, as explained here, and once it's delivered you need to let them know, explained here.
There's no further requirement to provide any more information to Spacehive, apart from filling in a delivery report once the project is up and running to share the impact you're making. For the majority of projects this is optional, although we do strongly recommend you complete it to share the impact with your deserving backers, and to use as a project CV which may help you unlock further funding, or to raise money for another project. However, some Funds require impact reports from projects they pledge to in order to assess how their funding is being spent. This will be made clear during a pitch to a Fund, and also in follow up communication from the Fund via Spacehive.
Find out more about Impact reporting here.
How can I keep backers up to date about my project?
After your project has been funded and the pledges paid out, it's important to keep your Backers up to date with any developments in delivering the project. This can start with an invitation to a celebration event for the campaign, and run all the way through to a launch event when the project is open and ready to use.
Posting updates through the 'Posts' tool will send emails to your Backers and Followers, and post the information on the timeline of your project page, so everyone can see the great work you're doing.
How can I show people my project is delivered?
Once your project is delivered people will want to start using it, so let them know they can! You can tell people it's delivered via an update from the 'Posts' tool, and by sharing the impact you've been able to make through Spacehive's impact reporting tool.
The reporting tool asks you about the tangible impact your project has made, as well as any other benefits gained from running the campaign and delivering the project. Whether you've provided jobs or volunteering opportunities, improved or created a local green space, or increased access to public art or sports facilities, you can share the impact to all your Backers and Funds through the one tool. The data you enter will then be turned into an easy to read, colourful report that's shared on your project page, and via an email to your followers.
How do I pledge? What payment methods do you accept?
To pledge to a project, just click the yellow "Back this project!" button on any project page. You will then be asked to enter your pledge amount and select if you want your pledge to be anonymous or not.
If you're not logged into a Spacehive account you'll be directed to log in or create an account. Spacehive require basic account info (name, email address, and password) so that we can contact you regarding your pledge if need be, and so that you can edit your email preferences. It's a nice touch to also add a photo to put a face to the pledge.
After creating your Spacehive account you'll be able to select your payment method. There will be (either or both, depending on project creator preferences) PayPal (debit or credit card) and GoCardless (bank account Direct Debit).
You will be asked to authorise the payment but will only be charged if, and only if, the project hits its funding target. If the project doesn't succeed, you won't be charged anything.
Can I pay with a cheque or send cash in the post?
To quickly and easily collect pledges for projects, Spacehive use two secure, widely used, external payment platforms, PayPal and GoCardless.
We strongly recommend pledging through these mediums. However if you can only pay via cheque or cash feel free to contact the project creator. If you create a Spacehive account and revisit their project page you'll be able to send them an email by clicking 'Ask me a question'.
Please note, if you pledge in cash/cheque this pledge might not be returned by the project creator if the fundraising target is not reached. If you pledge online, Spacehive only collect your pledge if and when the project hits its crowdfunding target.
Yes. Just check the 'Pledge anonymously' box. This will hide your name but show the amount.
If you make an identified pledge then wish to make it anonymous, please email support@spacehive.com.
Can I make a pledge from outside the UK?
If you are pledging from outside the UK please choose PayPal as your payment option.
This will allow you to pay from a non-UK bank account or credit and debit card linked to a PayPal account.
If you don't already have a PayPal account you'll be able to set one up, and link it to your bank account or card, at the same time as making your pledge – it's quick and easy.
Please note, if PayPal isn't a payment method offered on the payment screen please contact the project creator who may be able to set up PayPal so that you can pledge this way.
Why is my pledge appearing as a Direct Debit?
When pledging through GoCardless the pre-authorisation is set up via Direct Debit, so although it is only a one off, it will appear to be the same as any other DD's on your account and statement. You will only ever be charged once for your pledge, and only if the project succeeds in hitting its target.
Can I amend my pledge?
You cannot amend the amount you've pledged directly through Spacehive.
However, you can cancel your pledge in your PayPal account or your bank account (GoCardless) in your pre-approved payments or direct debits, then you can go back onto Spacehive and re-pledge the amount you wish to give. You cannot cancel and re-pledge if the project has already come to the end of its campaign.
You can also top up your support to the project by simply pledging again!
Can I cancel a pledge?
By pledging, you are committing to supporting that person's project; cancelling that commitment is discouraged.
PayPal – navigate to your pre-authorised payments and cancel your pledge.
This will be updated on the project page on Spacehive.
I have a question about the project, who can I contact?
You can do this by leaving them a message (in the comments box at the bottom of their project page), by tweeting them, or posting on their Facebook wall. Alternatively you can send them an email; just create a Spacehive account then revisit their page to click on 'Ask me a question'.
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