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Pabst Steinmetz Foundation Arts and Wellness Innovation Award Winners Enhance Mental Health Resiliency
The winners of the 2021 awards accomplished great things with the $25,000 awards. This year, applicants are invited to submit proposals through Dec. 16 for projects that strengthen our sense of community through arts and wellness.
By Madeleine Mulford | November 29, 2022
Act Out Justice participants watch a performance at a school. (Photo courtesy of Orlando Repertory Theatre)
The arts and humanities have a unique power to resonate with the human soul across time, place and socioeconomic status. When this power is harnessed by the community through sustainable, evidence-based and cross-disciplinary initiatives, the potential for positive human impact is limitless.
Based on this idea, the Pabst Steinmetz Foundation Arts and Innovation Award gives $25,000 grants to two proposals each year that combine programs in the College of Arts and Humanities with another UCF college as well as an external organization. The awards were founded in 2018 to build sustainable models for arts and wellness innovation at UCF and in the Central Florida community.
Winners of Pabst Steinmetz Foundation Arts and Wellness Innovation Awards exemplify the award's ability to bring departments across campus together to create positive change in the community. Proposals from 2021 responded to that year's theme of strength, resolve and resilience.
Last year's two winning projects focus on using the arts and humanities to strengthen mental health resiliency in critical populations.
Strengthening Social-Emotional Resiliency for High Schoolers
Mind Matters: Building Social-Emotional Resiliency for High School Students Through Theater is a collaboration with UCF's School of Performing Arts and Department of Psychology. The project builds on Act Out Justice, a youth theatre for social change program created through a partnership between Orlando Repertory Theatre and Orange County Public Schools (OCPS). Act Out Justice develops plays that address social justice issues inspired by students' personal experiences. Mind Matters expands this programming to create plays and educational materials that focus on issues surrounding mental health in high school students.
During the listening stage of the project, a professional development day was conducted with theatre teachers from local high schools to identify the most prevalent issues surrounding mental health in the classroom. Twenty-four survey responses were collected, followed by general discussions and one-on-one conversations. Twelve teachers were then selected to participate in the project.
"The big things we noticed in the data was that anxiety and depression are some of the most prevalent things that our young people are navigating, and that is disproportionately impacting our students of diverse backgrounds, including students who identify as LGBTQ and or students of color," says Emily Freeman, director of community partnerships at Orlando Repertory Theatre.
An Act Out Justice workshop. (Photo courtesy of Orlando Repertory Theatre)
The project team commissioned 12 diverse playwrights from across the nation to develop plays that address the issues identified in the surveys. The playwrights conducted Zoom sessions with each assigned classroom to discuss and develop the plays together. The anthology of plays will be published for teachers to use in future lesson plans addressing mental health resiliency.
"Theater classrooms provide rich opportunities for students to explore these important issues, because the art form inherently promotes dialogue and builds empathy." — Elizabeth Horn '10MFA, associate professor
"We know that the mental health needs of young people in the United States are critical. Theater classrooms provide rich opportunities for students to explore these important issues, because the art form inherently promotes dialogue and builds empathy," says Elizabeth Horn '10MFA, associate professor of the theatre for young audiences MFA and researcher for the project. "Right now, we're at an exciting point in our process. All 12 playwrights have submitted the first drafts of their plays. UCF psychology students and theatre teaching artists, many of whom are students, have completed residencies at 12 high schools in Orange County, during which they guided conversations around those plays."
Psychology graduate students on the project team are conducting research on the mental health issues covered in the plays and providing additional resources, ensuring the plays present the issues accurately and mindfully. Clinical psychology professors Brian Fisack and Steven Berman are also collaborating with teachers in the program to discuss how to address mental health issues in the classroom.
"One of the things that interests me about this program is that there is a substantial need for mental health services, especially in schools. That includes not only treatment, but also prevention and early intervention —helping students know where to go to get resources if something were to come up, or if their friends have a problem," Fisack says. "It's a matter of improving dialogue and decreasing stigma surrounding mental health issues. And through that, this project will help kids increase their coping skills, help them become more willing to talk about this stuff and be aware of when somebody might need help or additional services."
Supporting Mental Health Resilience in Nursing
Strengthening Hospital Nurses' Mental Health Resilience Through a Peer Support Training Program Using Comic Testimonials builds upon UCF RESTORES' REACT program with researchers in the College of Nursing and the Department of Writing and Rhetoric to introduce comic therapy to healthcare professionals.
UCF RESTORES, a nationally acclaimed nonprofit clinical research center and treatment clinic, developed the REACT (Recognize, Evaluate, Advocate, Coordinate, Track) peer support program to better acquaint first responders with evaluating and responding to mental health stress injuries. This project expands that program to also include peer support training for healthcare professionals, starting with nurses.
"REACT is a course designed specifically up until this point for the first responder community. And we have created the same course and adapted it more for healthcare workers, changing up scenarios and certain situations, to separate it from first responders," says Caylee Neisler, medical outreach coordinator at UCF RESTORES. "It's designed to introduce, improve and strengthen peer support skills amongst peers in the healthcare setting. What we teach is how to recognize mental health, stress, injury, stress, illnesses amongst each other, and what to do in the situation that someone needed professional intervention or support."
Blake Scott and Nathan Holic, writing and rhetoric faculty, are introducing the creation of autobiographical comics into those workshops as an innovative method of art therapy and reinforcement of peer support skills. Currently, the team is conducting research, preparing a series of comic workshops, and creating comic-based materials to incorporate into the REACT workshop's case scenarios. The team has created five different surveys to measure the effectiveness of the training and how prepared nurses feel to help their peers following the REACT and comic workshops.
"At the end of last spring, we put together a 2 1/2-hour prototype workshop to see what it would look like to introduce comics and graphic medicine to healthcare professionals and figure out what sort of small disarming activities we could use to help nurses produce their own short autobiographical comics," Holic says. "We were able to gather feedback about what it might feel like for somebody who is in nursing, but is not primarily an artist, to be able to go through this kind of workshop."
According to Jean Davis '19PhD, assistant professor in the College of Nursing, the Pabst Steinmetz Arts and Wellness Innovation Award arrived at the right time to help the team create programming that responds to mental health issues faced by healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The Pabst Steinmetz award funding was helpful and very timely, because the pandemic has been a traumatic experience for many nurses who are taking care of COVID patients." — Jean Davis '19PhD, assistant professor
"The Pabst Steinmetz award funding was helpful and very timely, because the pandemic has been a traumatic experience for many nurses who are taking care of COVID patients," Davis says. "This training will help nurses not only work through the issues they are facing through comic therapy, but it will also help them recognize when a peer, another nurse or healthcare provider, is having a problem and needs support, perhaps from similar trainings."
Do you have a vision for a cross-disciplinary project to strengthen our local or national community through the arts, humanities and community wellness? Whether introducing a new initiative or building on an existing one, the 2022-23 Pabst Steinmetz Foundation Arts and Innovation Awards will grant project proposals with resources to put plans into action.
Applications for the awards are open through Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. Projects that include a program from the College of Arts and Humanities, another college at UCF and an external community organization are encouraged to apply. Awardees will be announced in late January 2023.
This year's theme is "No Place Like Home," building on the idea that shared experiences, access, and community engagement promote physical, mental and social wellbeing and strengthen our collective communities – the places we call home. As such, proposals should focus on collaboration with organizations, diverse communities or populations to strengthen our sense of place through arts and wellness and seek solutions to help our local, national and global communities heal.
Preview the application and view past award winners here.
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Yes, I am a Cubs fan. So yes, there will be many GO CUBS pages, so there will be part, 3, 4, etc.... What makes that fun is that is a part of who we are. I get to document my son and his different stages of interest in Baseball. Sadly, it didn't last very long. But I have fun pictures that go with the memories.
This was the big "sign writing" stage that my son was in. He was in 2nd grade. He knew how to write fairly well. He was so into his markers. He was always writing, drawing, coloring. I love that he decided to make a sign to take to the game. Why am I telling you this you ask?
For Father's Day, we gave Dad tickets to the game, as well as a personalized brick that would be placed on the new walkway in front of Wrigley Field. We had received a letter with our copy of the brick, telling us how to find the one at Wrigley. I think I was as excited as they were about going to the game!
I realized as I was working on this page that I am running out of baseball themed papers! I started with a Creating Keepsakes sketch, grabbed what baseball stuff I could find, and just put the page together. I'm happy with the way it turned out.
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Here's how Sony can get back to the game: Offer a free Typo-like keyboard case with its flagship phones
September 19, 2014 by Dusan Belic - 3 Comments
You may'be heard that the other day Sony announced an everything but bright outlook for its mobile phone business. Put into numbers, the Japanese company is foreseeing $1.2 billion loss, all while the entire smartphone market is booming; so what gives?
Sony, a premium product?
Sony has a problem explaining to the users its high prices. The Japanese company may stand for premium quality in other markets, but in the smartphone business, that's not the case. Simply put, other companies are making better devices.
Take the newly announced Xperia Z3 as an example. Aside from a different design and few minor changes, it's practically the Xperia Z2 under the hood. It has no metal body, no Quad HD display (like LG G3 does), and doesn't rock the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 chip. We keep pondering why Sony had to launch that phone in the first place.
Brand itself won't get you a long way
Samsung has already realized this and has decided to add some metal to its phones (with the Galaxy Alpha). Sony should follow suit.
The Japanese company includes its own software with every phone and tablet it sells, but that doesn't make for a huge difference in the eyes of customers.
Perhaps Sony could preload some of its movies with every device it offers, or they could preload some really useful software, like premium Evernote subscription. Samsung is already doing this; but I think there's one thing they could do to make their products really stand out in the market.
Offer free keyboard cases / covers with flagship phones and tablets
You may've seen that Typo keyboard for the iPhone 5. Imagine something like that for your Android device. I would get one the second it was available for purchase.
Now imagine a great phone that comes with such keyboard case free of charge. Or tablet for that matter.
Said keyboard case is selling for $100 but I doubt it costs more than $20 to make. That additional $20 could make for all the difference in the world.
Smartphone margins, while shrinking, are still high. And this is where Sony's brand could kick in – they would be able to keep their high margins, minus the cost of the case, while offering a really unique product.
Not just Sony
This isn't something Sony could do, only. Pretty much every handset maker could benefit from this. Despite most users prefering all-touchscreen devices these days, there are still millions of people craving for a physical QWERTY keyboard. And as far as we can see from Typo, these users are willing to pay a hefty premium for the benefit.
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Uganda: The battle against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is one oft the worst humanitarian crises in the world. By following Uganda�s politicians and The Hague we witness a story of the miscommunication and different perceptions of 'justice' and peace.For almost 20 years, the government of President Museveni in Uganda has been battling the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency in the northern part of the country. The conflict has been described as one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. Having failed to end the conflict militarily, the government of Uganda invited the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the activities of the LRA with the intention to prosecute the rebel leaders, who are responsible for the most egregious human-rights abuses (kidnapping children and forcing them to fight) that have been perpetrated in the conflict. The ICC investigation has resulted in the indictment of the LRA's five most senior leaders. However, they have yet to be apprehended.
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Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil.
But while we continue to pay for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields.
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Welcome to the mysterious and dangerous world of a clan of belly dancers in working-class Cairo.Seldom has Egypt's capital been so evocatively captured. A fly-on-the-wall doc exploring the mysterious and hard-knock reality of a typical Egyptian belly dancer clan in working-class Cairo. Unparalleled access to this hidden world leaves the viewer fascinated and surprised that at night they dance.
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Can one be a Catholic priest and an Observant Jew at the same time? 12 years after he was ordained as a Polish Catholic priest, Romuald Waszkinel discovers that he was born to Jewish parents, and that his name was Jacob Weksler. The film follows his amazing journey: from conducting mass in a church in Poland to life as an observant Jew in a religious kibbutz in Israel. Romuald is torn between two identities, between being Romuald Waszkinel or Jacob Weksler. He is unable to renounce either, and therefore is rejected by both religions and the state of Israel. He is required to choose.
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LOS ANGELES, June 11 (Reuters) - Members of the Los Angeles-area gay community were expected to walk en masse through the city on Sunday in a so-called Resist March against President Donald Trump, an event taking the place of the annual pride parade.
Organizers of the Resist March say the 3-mile (4.8km) walk will begin in Hollywood at 8 a.m. PDT (1500 GMT) and culminate with a rally in gay-friendly West Hollywood featuring U.S. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and groups such as GLAAD, Planned Parenthood, Black Lives Matter and the American Civil Liberties Union.
"This was not the year for parades. This was the year to take to the streets and march," said Stephen Macias, a spokesman for the organizers.
"The march is still about celebrating our community but its also about recognizing the climate we live in and the delicate balance around civil rights," Macias said.
The move has brought criticism from some in the Southern California gay community, who say the one day of the year set aside to celebrate their lives should not be given over to other political causes.
It marks the second year in a row that Los Angeles Pride organizers have faced dissension. In 2016, some activists boycotted pride events on the grounds that they had lost their focus on the larger gay community to become a music festival catering largely younger people.
This year's march comes a day after anti-corporate protesters briefly blocked the route of a Washington, D.C., pride parade, in part in opposition to such corporate backers as Wells Fargo & Co and weapons maker Northrop Grumman Corp .
The Washington protestors also demanded a transgender minority woman be added to the board of parade organizer Capital Pride, and that police be barred from marching.
In response, Ryan Bos, executive director of Capital Pride Alliance, released a statement on Sunday acknowledging the importance of considering differing points of view.
"We encourage a robust, civil, and healthy conversation within the community about all of the issues that impact us and look forward to having a mutually respectful conversation in the days, weeks, and months ahead," Bos said.
Macias, the Los Angeles march spokesman, said the complaints about this year's Resist March were due largely to a misunderstanding about its intentions and that the weekend still would feature gay pride festivities across the Los Angeles area.
"The march is still about celebrating our community but it's also about recognizing the climate we live in and the delicate balance around civil rights," he said.
Gay pride events are scheduled for major cities across the United States this month, some of them this weekend.
In San Francisco, pride organizers have not dropped their parade in favor of a protest but the SF Weekly newspaper reported the event will include a "resistance contingent" and an immigrant rights speaker.


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Even In A Formula Two Car, Steve McQueen Is Cooler Than You
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In fact, he's cooler than the entire current Formula One field with their square haircuts, too-neat sideburns and carbon fiber cars which don't kill them on impact.
This photo was taken in France on July 18, 1970, during filming for Le Mans. McQueen is sitting in a Formula 2 Brabham and the dude with the bowl haircut showing him the controls is none other than British racing driver Derek Bell, a stuntman in the movie.
After surviving a nasty accident in a Ferrari during filming, Bell went on to become one of the most successful endurance racers ever, with three victories at the 24 Hours of Daytona and an incredible five at Le Mans.
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Senate approves prompt payment legislation
By Keith Ackermann on	 May 24, 2017 News
Prompt payment legislation passed third and final reading on May 4 in the Canadian Senate. The Canada Prompt Payment Act (Bill S-224), sponsored by Manitoba Senator Don Plett, is designed to address the systemic problem of delays in the construction industry and ensure that contractors and sub-contractors on federal government construction work are paid in a timely manner.
"As a former trade contractor, I know that in the construction industry it is a tolerated practice that there are no strict timelines for payment, even when all parties are satisfied with the work completed," said Plett. "Delay in payment is the number one reason small and medium sized businesses in the construction industry are going out of business in Canada."
The bill was widely supported by industry associations, including the Mechanical Contractors Association of Canada (MCAC) and the Contractors Division of the Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Institute of Canada (HRAI), both of which are members of the National Trade Contractors Coalition of Canada (NTCCC), a group of associations that has been advocating prompt payment legislation.
The Canadian Institute of Plumbing & Heating (CIPH) has also expressed support.
Among other things, Bill S-224 ensures that government institutions must make progress payments to a contractor on a monthly basis, or at shorter intervals provided for in the respective contract. This payment requirement is consistent down the contractual chain. The bill also accounts for milestone payments, when applicable, and permits contractors the right to suspend work, terminate a contract and collect interest on late payment.
"It's all about doing the right thing, said MCAC president Del Pawliuk.
The bill is somewhat unusual in that it was introduced in the Senate prior to being approved by the House of Commons, which is the next step.
"This is not a partisan issue. The NDP supports this. The Conservatives support this. And several Liberal MPs have indicated their strong support for this bill. I have every reason to believe that Bill S-224 will pass the House of Commons and quickly. They owe it to Canadian workers," said Plett. Liberal MP Judy Sgro is expected to sponsor the bill in the Commons.
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The Diana Viets Memorial Award will be presented to the winner during the Awards Luncheon, Wednesday, July 24, 2019, at NCIL's Annual Conference.
Please complete the nomination form by Friday, May 31, 2019. I look forward to seeing you at the NCIL Conference.


Netflix Inc. is expected to report its third-quarter earnings after the bell. Analysts tracked by FactSet expect the streaming giant to post per-share earnings of 7 cents and revenue of $1.75 billion. How the company performed in its overseas expansion, as well as subscriber growth will also be key.
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Netanyahu Gives Boot to Illegals Who Thought They Were Safe
By Will Racke April 3, 2018 at 2:10pm
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has canceled a deal with the United Nations to relocate illegal African migrants to the West and allow some to stay in Israel, shortly after the agreement was announced to jeers from his core supporters.
In a post to his official Facebook page late Monday, Netanyahu said he was putting the deal on hold pending further review.
Then, after meeting Tuesday with residents of south Tel Aviv, an economically depressed area where many African migrants have settled, he declared the agreement void.
"I have listened carefully to the many comments on the agreement," Netanyahu said in a statement, according to Reuters. "As a result, and after I again weighed the advantages and disadvantages, I decided to cancel the deal."
The agreement with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees would have transferred roughly 16,000 illegal African immigrants to Western countries, in return for a guarantee to "formalize the status" of those who remain. The remaining migrants would have been allowed to stay and work in Israel for another five years.
As soon as the deal was announced, many supporters of Netanyahu's right-wing government protested, accusing the prime minister of caving to liberal demands to allow the migrants to stay.
Some ministers in Netanyahu's Cabinet also voiced opposition to the agreement, saying they hadn't been consulted or notified about the impending deal.
Before Israel completed a barrier along its border with Egypt in 2013, about 60,000 African migrants — mostly from Sudan and Eritrea — crossed the desert frontier and settled in the Tel Aviv area. Many of the illegal immigrants say they fled violence and persecution, but Israel treats them as economic migrants.
Roughly 38,000 African migrants are still living without immigration status in Israel, immigration officials say. Israel has granted asylum to fewer than 1 percent of those who have applied, with the aim of getting most of the migrants to return home.
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Israel developed a repatriation plan in 2017 that gave the Africans two options: leave voluntarily or be sent to prison. The plan involved offering the migrants $3,500 payments and free airline tickets to return home or to "third countries" such as Rwanda and Uganda.
Any illegal immigrants who did not have pending asylum claims were to be deported beginning in April.
The question of what to do about the African asylum seekers has opened political divisions in Israel, which was founded as a home for Jews fleeing persecution around the world.
Netanyahu has characterized the resettlement of African migrants in Israel as harmful to the country's social cohesion and Jewish character.
Some progressives, on the other hand, say Israel has a moral obligation to shelter refugees fleeing violence and poverty.
Netanyahhu's government had intended to move forward with deportations until Israel's Supreme Court ordered a freeze on the operation in March.
Under pressure from his nationalist base, Netanyahu says he will seek alternative plans to repatriate the African migrants.
"Despite legal restraints and international difficulties that are piling up, we will continue to act with determination to explore all of the options at our disposal to remove the infiltrators," Netanyahu said Tuesday, according to Reuters.
A version of this article previously appeared on The Daily Caller News Foundation website.
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58. The State of Nature in Language Ideologies
Published 31 August 2021 | By mercem
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Linguistic naturalism is a belief found among professionals as well as laypeople that language is an autonomous natural entity not subject to speakers' will (Joseph 2000). As an ideology, it conflates the is and the ought: naturalness is seen as good, with both social and linguistic implications. Although naturalization is a central topic in language ideology studies, it is less often recognized that it takes various and competing forms that are worth distinguishing since they may have different consequences for language and society. This essay will briefly characterize several variations, drawing illustrations primarily from Spanish and Catalan contexts, although linguistic naturalism is by no means peculiar to them.
At its most general, linguistic naturalization transforms history, the process by which things in the human world are made, into nature, a supposedly harmonious display of essences, as do all ideologies (Barthes 1972). However, rarely are all linguistic varieties treated as equally natural. In a familiar version, linguistic naturalism bestows the inevitability and transparency of nature almost exclusively on nation-state languages, and this courtesy extends mutually among independent states. For example, the British Guardian drew on linguistic naturalism to intertwine transnational immigration and the Catalan sovereignty movement as problems:
The influx of millions of immigrants into Spain…has transformed parts of Catalonia… The biggest single group is from Romania, followed by Morocco, Ecuador and Great Britain…..Those in Catalonia face an immediate problem: the language. This has put pressure on the education system as immigrant children have to learn Catalan before they can be taught anything else. (Burgen 2012)
This account erases the identical challenge of learning Spanish that Romanian, British, and Moroccan children would face before they could be taught in Spanish-medium schools. The naturalization of Spanish licenses a false implicit distinction between dominant and minoritized languages in Spain, even in English media.
Linguistic naturalness is often linked to linguistic superiority and dominance, but in two distinct ways. A linguistic variety may be represented as naturally superior in and of itself (stronger, more euphonic, or communicatively precise). The invisible hand of a linguistic free market supposedly moves naturally toward the most perfect form for communicative function, which thus becomes dominant naturally, not through arbitrary historical developments. Thus the Spanish academician Gregorio Salvador is quoted as writing: "a great part of Castilian's success has to be attributed to its five cleanly differentiated vowels, the most perfect vowel system possible" (Moreno Cabrera 2010, 11).
If linguistic dominance is natural, then a multilingual state is unnatural. For example, in debates over language policies in the Second Spanish Republic, Miguel de Unamuno endorsed the survival of the fittest, in which "lawmakers have no business." Unamuno argued that the problem of multiple languages would resolve itself because dialects would fuse with the "strongest language, in accordance with the laws of nature" (Monteagudo 2013, 111-112).
However, the causal arrow between the natural and the superior can be reversed, to hold that whatever is most natural is best. In the earliest example, Dante characterized the vernacular as nobler because it is natural to us, in contrast to Latin grammar, which is artificial. The 16th century Spaniard Juan de Valdés asserted that popular refrains revealed the true character of Castilian, whose unaffected essence couldn't be deliberately learned because vernaculars couldn't be represented in grammatical rules. In the modern era, professional linguists have often suggested that some linguistic varieties are the more genuine object of inquiry than others, because they are allegedly more natural, acquired without study and uncontaminated by the artificiality of grammar or literature (Joseph 2000).
The perspectives evidenced by Dante and Valdés lead toward a more specifically socio-linguistic naturalization that links each individual to a specific language variety. This version celebrates not the referential fit of language to the world, as do ideologies of linguistic dominance, but rather the iconic fit of language to the speaker or writer's authentic self. There is only one true form for each person, usually the "mother tongue." The consequence of sociolinguistic naturalism is that speaking in a language other than the first acquired may be felt as false, a betrayal of self, if not simply impossible. In turn, only native speakers can use a language whose value is based in this kind of natural authenticity (Woolard 2016). Entire languages are seen as almost impossible to acquire deliberately, as Valdés wrote; these are the minoritized languages of the modern period.
This naturalistic equation of language and the sincere self is the ethos of contemporary hip-hop just as it is of Protestantism and of Romantic nationalism, of which it has been a central feature. The political theorist Judith Shklar summarized the social effects of Romantic naturalism generally, which apply to language par excellence:
Romantic morality may reflect…the anguish of people who leave the social world of their childhood behind them and adopt new manners and roles. The true inner self is identified with one's childhood and family, and regret as well as guilt for having left them behind may render new ways artificial, false, and …a betrayal of that original self. This personal self is seen as having a primacy that no later social role can claim; and indeed the latter may be despised as demeaning…simply 'fake'…less genuine than the primordial self. (Shklar 1984, 75-76)
This anguish of Romantic naturalism inhibits second language learning, as epitomized in Barcelona by the "monologic truth" espoused by some young working class Castilian-speaking men (Pujolar 2001). Their masculine sense of self could only be expressed in a direct voice they viewed as their own and as incompatible with Catalan, and possibly with any secondarily acquired language.
Is this sociolinguistic form of naturalism not simply natural itself? Undoubtedly, a primordial, habitual linguistic variety will feel more "natural" – available without conscious effort – to its speakers than some other forms they might acquire. But this kind of bodily and mental naturalness does not automatically confer value on a linguistic variety, which is the case in sociolinguistic naturalism. This linguistic window on the speaker's primordial being could logically be disparaged as childishly unformed (and is in some other linguistic ideologies), but this specific naturalizing ideology valorizes it instead.
Naturalness in language is obviously not always valued, nor is artifice always seen as inauthentic (in the Spanish tradition, see Góngora's culteranismo, for example). The late modern period has brought some ruptures with primordialist naturalism generally, as captured by the reflexive American novelist Philip Roth:
Being [myself] is one long performance and the very opposite of what is thought of as being oneself…. The whole Western idea of mental health…:[tells us that] what is desirable is congruity between your self-consciousness and your natural being. But there are those whose sanity flows from the conscious separation of those two things … recognizing that one is acutely a performer, rather than swallowing whole the guise of naturalness. (Roth 1986, 319-320)
Increasingly, sociolinguistic studies are finding a similarly non-naturalizing sense of linguistic authenticity. For example, In Catalonia in the 2000's, some Castilian-speakers who had rejected Catalan when young came to embrace the language later, as an expression of a freely chosen self: "A person is a speaker of whatever languages s/he feels like speaking" (Veu Pròpia Bages 2008). Those I interviewed saw their youthful rejection of Catalan as immature foolishness and were proud of the personal growth that allowed them to take up a language they had considered alien. The Romantic relation of originary linguistic form to the self had broken down for them. Speaking Catalan was a different kind of act of identity that expressed not where they came from, but who they believed they had become: flexible, tolerant, mature, and above all, individual.
A Castilian-speaking journalist similarly reported the pleasure he took in speaking Catalan with a Castilian-speaking taxi driver in Barcelona:
We both know that we're making an effort to speak in Catalan, and even so, we know that it's an effort that we enjoy. An effort that connects with a self that is not the one that life has given us randomly, but rather part of the identity that we have chosen. We've decided to be a person who speaks Catalan, and we do it with pleasure. (Puente 2016)
Commodification, hybridity, superdiversity, and a neoliberal emphasis on self-formation have all been described as characteristic of late modern language. One thing these all share is an anti-naturalist, anti-primordialist character that dissociates essence from origins to enable new projects of linguistic identity, in place of Romantic authenticity and its accompanying guilt. However, the rejection of primordialist sociolinguistic naturalism also naturalizes a narrative itself, just a different one. My interviewees' accounts cast movement into bilingualism as the normal process in a diverse society (related to views found in communities described as "superdiverse" and "metroethnic"). This too is an ideology of linguistic naturalism, but it represents human beings as naturally choosing to acquire languages that are present in their environments. As a form of naturalization it is polyglot rather than monoglot, and it privileges agency, choice, and openness over primordialism, nativism, and eternal essences.
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Burgen, Stephen. 2012. Immigration complicates Catalonia's separatist picture. The Guardian, November 20.
Joseph, John E. 2000. Limiting the Arbitrary; Linguistic Naturalism and its Opposites in Plato's Cratylus and Modern Theories of Language. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Monteagudo, Henrique. 2013. Spanish and other languages of Spain in the Second Republic. In A Political History of Spanish: The Making of a Language, ed. José del Valle, pp. 106-122. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.
Moreno Cabrera, Juan Carlos. 2010. Lengua/nacionalismo en el contexto español. June 29, 2010. http://bretemas.blogaliza.org/files/2010/06/Texto_Juan_Carlos_Moreno_Cabrera.pdf.
Puente, Arturo. 2016. Una batalla cultural contra la demanda de drets polítics. NacióDigital, February 22. http://www.naciodigital.cat/opinio/12616/batalla/cultural/contra/demanda/drets/politics
Pujolar, Joan. 2001. Gender, Heteroglossia and Power; A Sociolinguistic Study of Youth Culture. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Roth, Philip. 1986. The Counterlife. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux.
Shklar, Judith N. 1984. Ordinary Vices. Cambridge, MA: Harvard.
Veu Pròpia Bages. 2008. Perquè un immigrant parla català? Veu Pròpia Bages. May 13, 2008. http://bagesveupropia.blogspot.nl/2008/05/perqu-un-immigrant-parl-catal.html.
Woolard, Kathryn A. 2016. Singular and Plural: Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia. New York: Oxford University Press.


As it stands, the bill would see EU responsibilities in devolved areas initially transferred to Westminster.
Scotland's minister for leaving the EU has blasted the UK Government, saying it is "unacceptable" that there are no plans to change key Brexit legislation in parliament next week.
The changes to the bill were called for by the Scottish and Welsh governments to address concerns over the impact of Brexit on devolution settlements.
Despite Scottish Secretary David Mundell telling MP's in December that the amendments would take place in early January, Michael Russell said this had been delayed.
The Minister for UK Negotiations on Scotland's Place in Europe told Holyrood: "The UK Government said they are not ready to bring forward such an amendment and are suggesting that they may bring forward such an amendment at the House of Lords stages.
"This is unacceptable. Negotiation will continue. I am not giving up on that negotiation, but quite clearly the Scottish Government and the Scottish Parliament have to prepare themselves for circumstances that would otherwise be a cliff-edge."
The Scottish and Welsh governments have already said they cannot sign up to the Bill as it is currently drafted.
Their dispute with UK ministers centres on clause 11 of the legislation, which deals with the devolved administrations and the powers coming back from Brussels.
It would see EU responsibilities in devolved areas initially transferred to Westminster.
The UK Government said this will allow common frameworks to be created ahead of further devolution - but the first ministers of Scotland and Wales have branded it a Westminster "power grab".
Failure to reach an agreement between the two sides could result in the need for "continuity" legislation in Scotland, with Mr Russell stating he would bring forward further plans for this later in the week.
The Scottish Government's stance has the backing of opposition parties and Holyrood's Constitution Committee.
Scottish Conservative deputy leader Jackson Carlaw said he believed amendments to the bill would be brought forward but he was "not entirely persuaded" the UK Government could not have done more.
"Let us be clear, clause 11 is not acceptable to Scottish Conservatives," he said.
"I don't blame the Secretary of State himself - there are officials who I think the urgency of the resolution of this point has been made very clear to, who in protesting that there has not been sufficient time, I think could have done more to ensure there had been sufficient time to get to that final agreement."
Labour's Neil Findlay said he would "work closely" with Mr Russell on the issue of legislative consent.
Meanwhile, in a report published on Tuesday, MSPs on the Constitution Committee unanimously agreed that clause 11 "represents a fundamental shift in the structure of devolution" and could damage "the integrity of the devolution settlement in Scotland".
The committee, which includes three Conservative MSPs, made clear in an interim report it cannot recommend the Scottish Parliament gives formal consent to the legislation as it currently stands - calling for the clause to either be replaced or removed.
It has said it will produce a final report on whether the Bill should get legislative consent after these changes are made.


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At this point, Kaylee was periodically having to use a wheelchair because the curve was so shifted to the right – she couldn't stay upright to even walk. Doctors decided to wait until there was more evidence to suggest what was causing the significant growth in her curve.
After multiple spinal taps, EMGs, pulmonary function tests, and genetic testing, the doctors were stumped. There was nothing to help determine what was causing the scoliosis or the pain. By May 2009 Kaylee's curve measured at 63 degrees. Breathing became more and more of a struggle as the rotation became more and more severe. She was given 5 years to live due to her crushed lungs. Through it all though, Kaylee stayed positive. She refused to let the scoliosis take over her life.
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As the doctors began to push for surgery, Kaylee's uncle, a patient at Janzen and Janzen Health Center (now Scoliosis Care Centers), mentioned her scoliosis case to the doctors. Interested in seeing Kaylee for a consultation, they called her mom and asked to have her come in for an appointment.
In the one hour consultation with Scoliosis Care Centers, Kaylee and her family learned more about her back then they ever did with the professional orthopedic surgeons at one of the top hospitals in the country. Kaylee began treatment in August, and not once did she have a lazy day while being treated. She knew what it was like to have her life taken away, and that would never happen again. Kaylee was home-schooled to be able to complete treatments at Scoliosis Care Centers every day for up to 5 hours a day. Even though the scoliosis flexibility trainer hurt, she knew it was her only option. She told the doctors to go tighter and do more even when she felt as though she couldn't take it anymore. Her hard work paid off in what was nothing short of a miracle and a truly inspiring scoliosis bracing success story.
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Self 1991
MediumBlood (artist's), stainless steel, Perspex and refrigeration equipment
Dimensions208h x 63w x 63d cm
Self is a self-portrait of the artist, but one that literally uses his body as material since the cast of Quinn's head, immersed in frozen silicone, is created from ten pints of his own blood. In this way, the materiality of the sculpture has both a symbolic and real function.
The work was made at a time when Quinn was an alcoholic and a notion of dependency – of things needing to be plugged in or connected to something to survive – is apparent since the work needs electricity to retain its frozen appearance. A further iteration made every five years, this series of sculptures presents a cumulative index of passing time and an ongoing self-portrait of the artist's ageing and changing self.
Artist's body
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The high level of interest currently being shown in challenging various offshore passage records is a matter of great satisfaction to the members of the World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC).
For a number of years now, WSSRC, which is an organization affiliated to the International Sailing Federation, has been accepted as the official body for ratifying all sailing speed records both inshore and offshore.
One problem we have faced several times recently is that potential record setters seem to think that they can sail first and contact us afterwards to obtain ratification. Of course, this is impossible because the arrangements for timing the start and finish of any passage have to be discussed and agreed well in advance. We have representatives in many parts of the world who stand ready to inspect boats, interview skippers and make all the necessary arrangements in good time but they cannot reasonably be expected to drop everything and rush to some gale-blasted headland at a few hours notice.
In the most extreme example recently, we heard by chance about a record attempt planned to start the following day!
There is also the small matter of payment. Time, travel and administration inevitably cost something and although our fees are as reasonable as we can make them, we do expect to be paid in advance as this matter can easily be overlooked after a passage is completed - or abandoned.
To all sailors intending to challenge any sailing record may I implore you to contact our office WELL IN ADVANCE. We are there to help in any way we can; we just need a little time.


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A Moment with Paul Edmondson
We sit down with president & CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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This story was originally published in Traditional Building magazine.
Paul Edmondson
1 How did your professional career begin? How have your roles shaped your perspective? After graduating college, I worked for several years in Upstate New York as an archaeologist. Most of that work was to fulfill the requirements of federal and state environmental and preservation laws—laws that were intended to ensure that projects supported with federal or state funding did not damage historic or archaeological resources. That intersection of law and history fascinated me, and after a while I decided to pursue the legal side. My goal was somehow to combine my interest in preservation with my interest in law, but it was totally a long shot—I didn't know any preservation lawyers, and the field of preservation law was really in its infancy. Thirty-plus years later, I consider myself very lucky to have spent most of my professional career as an advocate for historic preservation.
2 What brought about a passion for preservation? Why do you believe it's important? My passion for preservation really began as a passion for history. I'm one of those people who firmly believes that we can't tell where we are going without understanding the path that others have taken before us. And nothing makes history more real than standing in the place where history happened, whether it's a Civil War battlefield or the corner of Haight and Ashbury. Preserving historic places helps us to define our identity, at the personal level, at the community level, and at the national level. These places resonate with the past, good and bad, and can inform and inspire the future. They can help us celebrate our successes, and also illuminate our mistakes. But the more I learned about the preservation movement, the more I understood that preservation has many other benefits at the community level. These include environmental sustainability, economic vitality, and simply the benefit of defining community character in a society that finds it easy to fall into a pattern of favoring the new and nondescript.
3 Are there certain types of places you feel are more worthy of preservation than others? Say homes vs. public buildings or vice-versa? Each has its place. Iconic landmarks serve as statements that speak to the higher aspirations of our society, or define major events or movements in history, or that represent important architectural achievements. But the places we live, work, learn, play, and pray—the more ordinary places—are important too, because they represent what we value in our daily lives, or tell individual stories that reflect our history as a society. There are challenges in preserving each type of resource. Many iconic landmarks are threatened because of disinvestment, or changing societal norms, or because their original uses are no longer viable; preserving them as monuments or museums is rarely the answer, and so the challenge is to find opportunities to repurpose and reuse those places in a way that respects their history but gives them economic viability. And historic neighborhoods are living, breathing places. The goal of preservation isn't to stop change, but to manage change in a way that respects and celebrates the historic character and distinctiveness of our communities.
South Side Community Art Center Chicago, IL
Designated a National Treasure by the National Trust and recipient of grant funding from the AACHAF.
4 Can you tell us what plans are on the horizon for the National Trust for Historic Preservation? The National Trust is currently pursuing four major strategic priorities.
The first of these priorities may seem obvious, since it is the core of our mission: to save historic sites. We are doing that in two interrelated areas of work that reflect the mission of the organization across its 70 years of existence—stewardship and advocacy.
Our stewardship is grounded in our 28 National Trust Historic Sites, which we began acquiring in 1952, and where we care for complex cultural resources—historic buildings, landscapes, and collections—while also developing relevant and inclusive uses and programs for them. We do this work with a host of remarkable partners and we do it with the shared goal of ensuring that these remarkable places are vital community assets for the long term. We also support saving historic sites through our grant programs and technical assistance provided by our field offices, as well as initiatives that highlight and support these special places, such as our Historic Artists Homes and Studios network or our Distinctive Destinations program.
The other way in which we save historic sites is by taking direct action through our advocacy campaigns, such as our National Treasures program, that bring to bear the full range of our expertise in legal, policy, media, and other forms of public engagement. These campaigns take many forms but they are always opportunities to model solution-oriented preservation. We also take direct action to save historic sites through our easement program that protects commercial and residential properties while allowing them to continue to evolve and remain in active use.
This combination of stewardship and advocacy is a powerful one, and we intend not only to continue this work, but also to increase its impact across all the incredible historic places where we are involved.
Little Havana Miami, FL
Named to the list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places and also later designated a National Treasure.
Our second strategic priority is telling the full American story. What we choose to preserve reflects our current values, and for too long the places that represent the history of minorities and women in this country have not been well-recognized, and their stories have not been properly told and celebrated. We are working to change that, and will continue to invest in programs like our African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, as well as our newest initiative, a Campaign for Where Women Made History. Both of these programs are bringing important new investments in areas that have been underrepresented in the way that we tell the history of this country. We are also focused on telling the full American story at our own National Trust Historic Sites, working to address their complex histories and sharing that process with the public and our colleagues along the way. Through programs like our National Treasures and 11 Most Endangered Historic Places campaigns, we also are telling and celebrating the stories of Latino communities, Asian American communities, as well as the struggle to establish LGBTQ rights.
Our third strategic priority is to build stronger communities. Main Street America, for example, a program created by the National Trust in 1984, is thriving today by helping communities recognize and celebrate the cultural and economic value of historic downtowns. On the policy side, we have worked closely with local partners to improve preservation planning in communities as different as Philadelphia and Miami's Little Havana. We are also working hard to improve access to incentives like tax credits for preservation at both the federal and state levels, since investments in anchor preservation projects can spark transformational revitalization across communities. We don't just talk about this work; each year we invest millions of dollars in grant support for preservation projects, and we connect investors with developers to support the use of rehabilitation tax credits to help underwrite preservation projects through our National Trust Community Investment Corporation.
The fourth strategic priority is investing in historic preservation's future as a field, and we are doing that by building stronger connections with our preservation partners across the country, and improving our training, convenings, and educational programs for practitioners. Our annual PastForward conference draws people from around the country who are passionate about preservation and connects them to each other and to the broader movement. Right now, we are taking a fresh look at our approach to all our trainings and content—and how they can best serve the entire field—and I'm excited to see where that leads us. Ultimately, preservation is best done in partnership with local advocates, community leaders, and ordinary citizens, and we intend to strengthen those partnerships going forward.
Nina Simone's Childhood Home Tryon, NC
Designated a National Treasure and also AACHAF grant recipient.
Nancy Pierce
5 What are your biggest challenges? Perhaps the biggest challenge is to address the broad misconceptions about our work, and particularly the idea that preservation means freezing historic places, as if we could suspend them in amber. If historic places are not considered to be living assets in the communities in which they are located, they will be at risk—and to be assets they must be economically viable. Often people don't realize how much these places are part of their communities until they are threatened or even lost. Part of our work is to help people see and appreciate the distinctive old places all around them, and then to find ways to keep them as useful parts of community life. Sometimes that means maintaining historic uses, but often that means adaptive reuse. Both require creativity, flexibility and adaptability to realize the full potential of these important places for people today.
6 What is inspiring you right now? Probably the most inspiring work that we are doing today is our effort to recognize and support historic places associated with African American history. There are a tremendous number of historic sites associated with African American history, but many of these places have been ignored, and in many cases neglected. Their stories deserve to be told. With support from a number of major foundations we are well on our way to our $25 million fundraising goal for this initiative, through which we are providing grants, technical assistance, and direct support. The need is great. For example, we just closed applications for our latest round of about $1.6 million in grants, and we received 540 applications for projects representing almost $58 million in funding needs. We can only serve a small fraction of this need.
Shockoe Bottom Richmond, VA
Named to 11 Most Endangered List, named a National Treasure, and AACHAF site.
7 How do we keep preservation relevant in today's world? It is not so much a matter of keeping preservation relevant, but articulating how it is relevant in today's world. In fact, preservation often has an essential role to play in the hottest topics in American society. What could be more relevant than our work through the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund to tell the full story of America?
And we shouldn't be defensive about wanting to preserve our history and the character of our communities: we have seen first-hand how preservation provides a host of benefits, among other things serving as a catalyst for revitalization, economic development, tourism, and sustainability. The National Trust's role—as both a stewardship organization and an advocacy organization—is to help define and demonstrate those benefits, and in the months to come we will be very focused on doing so.
8 How will your expertise as a lawyer with a depth of experience in historic preservation shape your leadership at the Trust? As a lawyer, I believe in the power of advocacy—of standing up and shouting "no!" when the bulldozers are on the threshold. But through my experience as the National Trust's general counsel, I have always worked to find common ground. Litigation, for example, is an important tool, but it should always be a last resort. Coming up with the creative compromise has been an essential part of the success that we have had. In many cases the forces that threaten historic places can be redirected to less sensitive locations, or demolition can be avoided by identifying incentives for preservation. But often alternatives won't be given a chance without the tool of strong public advocacy.
9 Do you see a backlash against preservation in the current political environment—roll backs on local preservation commissions for example? How will you address such challenges? Overall, historic preservation has strong support across the political spectrum; we like to think of our movement as "purple," not red or blue. At the same time, of course, opposition does exist—particularly around the issue of local preservation controls, even though local historic districts represent only a small portion of the overall building stock in most communities. Arguments made in opposition to local preservation laws are often based on isolated anecdotes and generally ignore the broader benefits that such laws provide, including stabilized property values, walkability, diversity of business uses, community cohesiveness, and environmental sustainability, among others. Again, it is important that we articulate those benefits.
Pope-Leighey House Alexandria, VA
A National Trust Historic Site, this Usonian house was developed by Frank Lloyd Wright as a means of providing affordable housing for people of moderate means.
10 How is the drive for net zero and other energy conservation matters shaping the role of historic preservation today? As far as energy conservation goes, historic preservation is one of the most sustainable practices possible: the high carbon footprint of new construction, even of the most energy-efficient buildings, far exceeds the sustainable practice of preserving and adaptively using buildings that were constructed years ago. And that doesn't even count the enormous amounts of waste materials that go into landfills when older buildings are demolished and replaced with new buildings. The saying that "the greenest building is the one already built" is absolutely true. In addition, many historic buildings already come with sustainable building features designed to keep their original occupants cool in hot summers and warm in cold winters.
At the same time, preservationists are as sensitive to the climate crisis as anyone else, and we are working to incorporate green practices in the management of historic sites. Building rehab projects often include such features as solar panels, green roofs, and sustainable landscape features that lessen water use or minimize runoff. At the National Trust, we have initiated a project we are calling "Sustainable Stewardship," through which we will identify and implement sustainable practices within our portfolio of 28 National Trust Historic Sites, as models for other historic sites across the country.
11 Where do cultural diversity and historic preservation intersect? Cultural diversity and preservation intersect at all levels. Part of our responsibility as a national organization is to ensure that the work we are engaged in as preservationists reflects the diversity of America, which is why one of the National Trust's priorities is to tell the full American story. We also have a responsibility to ensure that the field itself reflects the diversity of America, which is why the National Trust has a number of paid internship programs and scholarship funds which are helping to make the broad field of preservation more inclusive of people with a variety of different backgrounds. Programs such as our HOPE Crew are engaging young people, including participants from Job Corps training programs and architecture students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, with Hands-On-Preservation-Experiences, while our Mildred Colodny Scholarship program helps to make graduate studies in a preservation-related area of study more affordable.
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A National Trust Historic Site that is owned and operated by the Pueblo of Acoma, the adobe houses, plazas, and walkways on the 367-foot tall mesa have been used for nearly one thousand years, making Acoma Sky City the oldest continuously inhabited community in the United States.
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12 Are there specific strategies the Trust is undertaking to attract corporate or foundation support for its work. The most effective strategy to attract corporate and foundation support—which is critical to our work—is to combine impactful, ambitious work with true partnerships around issues and values that we hold in common. Our longstanding partnership with the American Express Foundation, for example, reflects our common appreciation of cultural heritage as a valuable resource that benefits all Americans and together we've given away millions of dollars in funds to great preservation projects in communities all around the country and demonstrated the power of social media engagement with preservation. Our African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is the largest fundraising campaign every undertaken on behalf of these resources and it has attracted strong support from foundations that recognize and celebrate diversity as a fundamental value in our society, including the Ford Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the JPB Foundation, and other major funders. Our National Fund for Sacred Places just received its second $10 million grant from the Lilly Endowment so we can continue to provide critical support for historic religious properties across the country through capital grants and technical assistance that are combined with capacity-building and development training from our long-time allies at Partners for Sacred Places.
Our relationships with these and other funders and partners reflect an alignment of our interests, with the public as the real beneficiary.
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The Pinheirinhos Sustainable Development Reserve () is a sustainable development reserve in the Atlantic Forest biome and the state of São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil.

Location

The Pinheirinhos Sustainable Development Reserve is in the municipality of Barra do Turvo, São Paulo.
It has an area of .
The reserve is for the use of three traditional communities with 60 families on the border with the state of Paraná.
The reserve collaborates with the Agroforestry Project for Community Development and Conservation of the Atlantic Forest developed by Cooperafloresta in the Vale do Ribeira region, which aims to improve agroforestry practice and to support 112 families.

History

The Pinheirinhos Sustainable Development Reserve was created by state law 12.810 of 21 February 2008.
This law broke up the old Jacupiranga State Park and created the Jacupiranga Mosaic with 14 conservation units.
It is administered by the state forest foundation (Fundação para Conservação e a Produção Florestal do Estado de São Paulo).
In April 2011 residents of the community of Pinheirinhos das Dúvidas in the reserve, with 30 families, still had no electric power supply despite being registered since 2008 under the  Luz para Todos program.
The power company said work would start soon.

References

Sources

Sustainable development reserves of Brazil
Protected areas of São Paulo (state)
Protected areas of the Atlantic Forest
Protected areas established in 2008
2008 establishments in Brazil

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what major in business is for me?
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Find a college where you can major in Entrepreneurship. Any accounting past basic Financial and Managerial classes will be a waste to you.
Well, if you don't know what kind of business you want to start, it is a bit hard to get started. It's also hard to start a business without any capital. So, if you don't have anyone backing you, I'd recommend working for a few years and then starting a business.
Yeah I agree...unless you have the resources and personality, i suggest you get some experience in the work force before you go ahead with your venture. Work experience can make a BIG difference in the way you eventually handle your business.
Depends on the program. Some programs place a great emphasis on guiding existing entrepreneurs and granting them resources to get started. Without a business idea, you may not benefit from those programs.
I would certainly take a class, but I don't think a major is necessary or provides much value over most management programs. I would look at schools with good business schools, extracurriculars (networking, networking, networking) and a supportive environment (alumni, entrepreneurship funds, student-run campus businesses).
Some of the top entrepreneurial schools (at the undergraduate level) are Babson, Indiana, and Carnegie Mellon.
But realize that the points made by others on this board are very valid--that is that it helps to have at least some business experience working for a company before starting your own. Still, you don't want to wait too long to start your own company, because it is easy to get comfortable in a career--and then not do your own business.
I started my own business--but only after working for others for 25 years. In hindsight, I wished I had started a business of my own much sooner--because I think I would have had more initiative and could have been a lot more successful if I had done this about 10 years earlier. As it was, I still made a very decent living (made about $175K per year while running my own business for about 5 years), but now I'm back working in a regular job for about 4 years--but one that still allows me to travel the globe on a regular basis.
I've known people that started their own business and were broke in 6 months and I've known people that started their own business and were making $75,000 per day profit (no kidding) within 9 months of starting it up (I actually worked for this guy over 30 years ago while still in college--I was only 20 when I graduated from college). Since I know you may not believe this, let me tell you about this company (see below) Both of these people had really good ideas, but the difference was that the second person had the necessary business experience to know how to make the business successful.
Here's the guy I worked for (30+ years ago): There were two guys, Louis Carabini and a doctor (I forget his name) who put in $5,000 each to start a firm that would sell American silver coins (prior to 1964 all quarters minted were made of 100% silver, after that (and now) they were copper clad with silver exteriors). Since America was still on the gold standard until 1973, you couldn't sell gold bullion, but you could sell gold coins, which they did (Mexican 50 pesos, Austrian Kronas, American Liberty $20 dollar pieces, etc). Anyway, they sold these as investments. Their sales went from $10,000 per week to $50,000 per day in 1972, which is when I started working there (while a sophomore in college). By 1974, they were selling $9 million a day and the price of gold had gone from $32/ounce to $800 an ounce (it later went back to $400 an ounce by 1975). Anyway, they made 4% on the sale (investment in), and then 4% out (investment out). Thus, they were making $360,000 gross--and $150,000 net--or $75,000 each per day (and remember this was 30+ years ago--so $75,000 then is worth a lot more now).
The market slowed down, of course, and the firm changed their name (from Pacific Coast Coin Exchange, it's now Monex International), but the firm is still in existence--and located in Newport Beach today.
USC also has a great Entrepreneurship major (actually ranked number one by princetonreview) and has churned out some brilliant entrepreneurs in the past.
On a personal note, howver, I beleive entrepreneuship is definately not something that you need to learn is a college. Its something you need to experience during or after college.
this is why i hate asking question on board, i ask one question and get many different answer. i am stuck..
That's because your question was so vague. You haven't given us any details.
Seriously though..it's common sense. If YOU want to start your own business, you will need work experience and you need to start somewhere. Do you even know what your "business" will be? You need an outline.
^Exactly, vague question = vague response. An entrepreneuer needs an idea. If you have no idea and no direction as to which way to go, how can we possible help you.


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