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Q: How can I delete photos from the photo library in iOS 8? I'm using an iPhone with iOS 8.4, and a Mac with Yosemite using the Photos app and syncing with iTunes. iCloud Photo Library is turned off on both the Mac and the iPhone.
After syncing with iTunes there are photos on the iPhone that should not be there; they are not included in the "selected albums" list in iTunes. Some of them are no longer in my Photos library (on the Mac) at all. But after many syncs they still appear on the iPhone.
When I look at the offending photos there is no trash can icon (like there would be if they were in the Camera Roll), and tapping the Edit button brings up the message "This photo is not editable".
How can I delete these rogue photos? An ideal solution would be one that actually "syncs" my phone to the selected albums list in iTunes (ie. removing any photos that aren't in that list). But a way to manually delete photos would also be appreciated.
Edit: None of the photos in question were ever shared with iCloud sharing. They do not appear in any Shared Albums, and turning off iCloud sharing has no effect.

A: The only way that I have been able to delete photos that didn't have the trash can icon is with an app called Cleen.  Available from the Apple app store. I don't remember if it was free or not.  Once downloaded, pull the app up and you will see all your photo albums listed.  Click on the album that contains the photos you want to delete, which is probably the All Photos album.  When the next screen pops up, you will see the first photo in that album in the center of the screen.  Then you will see a little row of blank squares going across the top and bottom.  All you have to do is swipe the photo shown up, if you want to keep it, or swipe it down, if you want to trash it.  Keep going through the album until you get to the photos that you want to delete.  (Just in case you have some photos that you are not sure if you want to keep or delete, you can swipe them to the left and decide on them later)  Once you get those photos that you want deleted in the bottom row, hit the trash can.  The next screen will show you all the photos that are being deleted and if all is okay, hit Delete at top right.  Then a message will pop up saying "Allow Cleen to delete photo from album" and then you click Delete All.  It sounds like a lot, but it is really easy.  Doesn't take hardly no time.  I hope this helps you.  This is the only way that I have been able to delete photos when there was no trash can option available.

A: I found this article in Apple's support documents: Delete photos and video synced from iTunes when you can't access the originals. It also works as a generic solution for deleting all photos on an iOS device and syncing from scratch.
To paraphrase, the solution is:

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*Create a new empty folder on your computer and put any one photo
in.

*In iTunes, go to the tab for syncing photos and select that folder as the source.

*Sync your phone. All photos will be deleted except the camera roll and the 1 photo in your folder.

*Go back to the photo sync tab and restore your previous settings.

*Sync again.

This seems to work for me. It's hard to believe there isn't a better solution though.

A: If iCloud Photo Sharing is on, you may have pictures from other people in a Shared Album you joined, which you won't be able to delete or modify directly. You can locate and delete the whole album on the Shared tab on your iOS device.


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Tools and tricks for adding followers and spending more time on what really matters -- your writing. This article is for newbies and intermediate Twitter users who want to boost their platform.
- Then, each day click on folks listed in the "Who to Follow" box on your Twitter page. You don't want to add too many people too quickly for two reasons: First, Twitter will slap your hand. If you ignore the slap, you may lose your Twitter account. Though Twitter won't divulge it's recommended ratio of following to followers, if you keep those numbers with in 10 to 20 percent of each other, you're probably fine. So, if you have 1,000 followers, you should be able follow up to 1,200 people without a problem. Also, if you follow a lot of people and have few people following you, you look like a loser and may have problems getting people to follow you back.
- Dump useless followers. Twice a month -- or whenever I get a nasty note from Twitter about following too many people -- I use ManageFlitter to dump people I'm following who are not following me back. The free version allows you to dump up to 100 people a day. Though there are other free apps, such as FriendorFollow, I found ManageFlitter to be the easiest to use.
Add too many followers too fast, and Twitter will slap your hand.
ManageFlitter offers a free, easy way to dump people who are not following you back.It also provides details on people, so you can think twice before giving them the heave ho.
There are numerous Web sites and schemes for adding lots of followers using follow back services. Google "twitter follow back" for a list. The problem with follow back schemes: you may end up with a lot of useless followers -- people who not interested in your writing, but only interested in boosting their numbers.
A search on Google for Follow Back services and sites. These sites also offer follow back for adding Facebook Fans and blog followers. Personally, I think these services are a waste of time.
My experience: I once used a follow back option on World Literary Cafe, a site for writers. It turned out to be too much work, so I abandoned it. (You're supposed to visit the site and follow a bunch of folks, who then follow you back. You're also supposed to mention World Literary Cafe when you follow folks.) The other problem with the site: if your audience is not writers, you'll be adding a lot of useless folks, which negates future use of strategy listed above in "Tips for Adding Followers."
World Literary Cafe offers follow back options Twitter, Facebook, and even blogs.
This article discusses general strategies for making money as a creative writer, offers inspiration to keep going, and includes one writer's personal plan for the next 12 months. I've also included an unpleasant dose of old-school reality.
- You need to determine if the writing you love is going to be a nice hobby or a real job.
- To do that, you need objective third-party confirmation -- from people other than friends or relatives -- that you've got talent.
- For most creative types, if you do what you love, the money will NOT follow.
Note: The photo above is my car, which is now old enough to buy its own beer and cigarettes. Keeping this babe-magnet for 20 years has allowed me to save a lot of money on transportation.
- Winning a significant writing contest, grant, or award.
- Getting published in significant magazines and top-ranked literary journals.
- Being chosen for a prestigious fellowship or residency for writers.
- Finding an agent and mainstream publisher.
- Self-publishing and selling lots of books.
I have tried -- or plan to try -- all of the above. To date, I've had enough success to delude myself, but not enough to pay for a bag of groceries.
- I've also sent stories to literary magazines. Though none of the major ones took my stuff, several smaller ones did. Also, I was a finalist in a small, local fiction contest that had "dozens of entrants." I received no money, but my piece appeared in two very small literary journals. Upshot: Theoretically, I can say I'm a published fiction writer. However, the small business expert told me to quit noodling around with publications no one has heard of. Agreed.
- Recently, I pitched a one-hour, one-man show based on my novel to two fringe theater festivals. I was accepted to both festivals, but I'm unclear how selective they are. One festival chose entrants using a lottery system. The other will cost me $700, but I'll get to perform five shows over a two-week period. Fringe theater festivals look for new and/or experimental performance pieces. They also give out awards and you have the opportunity to earn money from box office receipts. A list of fringe theater festivals.
There are a number of strategies for funding your writing. None are easy.
I believe this is what writer Richard Bach did. I remember reading something in one of his books about him working odds jobs, saving money, quitting the jobs, writing until the money ran out, and repeating until his first book, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, took off (pun intended).
But according to What Should I Do with My Life by Po Bronson, once people start making decent money, it becomes tough to quit a job. That was my experience. I had always wanted to write a novel, be a stand-up comedian, and do a bunch of other impractical things with slim odds of making money. But I had a nice editing job at PC World magazine with a nice title, a nice salary, working with nice people. I'd probably still be there, if I hadn't gotten laid off after 15 years in 2007.
Note: Quitting a full-time job is particularly difficult if you're single. One bit of advice from Bronson's book: Get used to being alone. Since I started working on my novel five years ago, my dating life has gone down the tubes. It seems many women my age are not impressed by 50-year-old dreamers. Other don't seem to be impressed by my car. (I have plenty of other issues. For a full accounting, see "Why I'm Over 40 and Still Single.") These days, I frequently go 24 hours without talking to anyone except the check-in clerk at my gym.
I have several writer friends with generous spouses. I'm still looking. Other friends are living on family money. Several others are veterans who receive free healthcare. All of us are on tight budgets, rarely eat out, and most drive cars like the one in the photo at the top of the page.
3) Work part time, write the rest of the time.
This is also tough to do in the current economy. Making a living as a freelancer often means you have little control over your schedule and can't turn down jobs that come your way. In 2009, I lucked out and found a two-day a week Web marketing gig. The job was every Monday and Tuesday -- which left me three to four days to do what I wanted. It paid $35/hour and the guy I worked for was a pleasure. To finish my novel, I needed extra time, so last April I quit this job.
4) Work full time, write in spare time.
I don't know how people do this, but they do. And they finish books. I don't have the discipline to pull this off.
5) Develop more outlets and revenue streams for the work you love.
1) Self-promotion advice for writers.
2) Humor and naughty fiction.
Here are ways I could make money with each product line.
- Google Ads on this blog. I'm currently earning $10 a month. (If you click and ad, I get some dough. ) If I can increase my page views from the 3,000 a month I get now to 30,000, I'll make some money. Odds of making real money: slim.
- Ebooks: Self-publish excerpts of this blog as Kindle Singles, write an ebook on self-promotion for writers. Odds of marking real money: no idea, but probably slim.
- Teach/Lecture at local adult education centers, colleges, any place that will take me. So far, this looks promising. I approached several instutions in Boston and am scheduled to teach seminars or be on panels. The pay rate is low: $20 per hour of teaching. One of the panels will pay around $200. This is also a good way to promote my blog and ebooks. Odds of making real money: best option, depending on your definition of real.
- Ebooks: I'll repackage and self-publish my writing into three ebooks: humorous erotica, weird travel tales, excerpts from my novel. I've been selling the novel excerpts off my site using Paypal. Odds of making money: longshot.
- Readings and Performances: I'll pitch more fringe festivals, colleges, and any venue that will have me. Also, a good opportunity to sell ebooks and printed booklets of my writing. Odds of making real money: best option.
- Getting a book deal with an advance. Odds of this happening or me making real money: Ha!


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Hal David, Legendary Songwriter, Dies at 91
Hal David — known for hits like "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"— died of complications from a stroke at 91 years old Saturday in Los Angeles, Hollywood.com has confirmed.
He certainly will remain a legend in the music industry — David and longtime writing partner Burt Bacharach wrote for famous acts like The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, and Dionne Warwick, who collaborated with the duo on many hits, including "Do You Know the Way to San Jose," "I Say A Little Prayer," and "Walk on By."
Considering how many Top 40 hits David and Bacharach penned since meeting at New York's Tin Pan Alley song factory in 1957, it was only a matter of time until Oscar took notice. David — a former president for the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers — picked up nominations for writing Casino Royale's "The Look of Love" and the title tracks from Alfie and What's New, Pussycat?, and, in 1970, an Oscar for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid's "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head."
Even the White House took notice of David's influence on pop culture. In spring 2012, President Barack Obama rewarded David and Bacharach with the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. ("These guys have still got it," Obama said at the event, which David was unable to attend due to health reasons.)
The duo might have scored their first hit in 1958 with Perry Como's "Magic Moments" — and broke up in 1973 after poor reviews for their Lost Horizon work sparked a tenuous relationship between the two for a long 19 years — but their collaborations will continue to hit airwaves. Acts like Alicia Keys record Bacharach and David originals today.
Paul Williams, the current President and Chairman of ASCAP, released the following statement to Hollywood.com about the dearly departed songwriter: "Hal David has been a great inspiration to me both as a songwriter, a mentor, and as a leader of ASCAP. As a lyric writer, Hal was simple, concise and poetic –conveying volumes of meaning in fewest possible words and always in service to the music. It is no wonder that so many of his lyrics have become part of our everyday vocabulary and his songs… the backdrop of our lives. ASCAP enjoyed Hal's devoted service and leadership for nearly four decades as a Board member and six years as President. He was always able to see the big picture when it came to the music business and was one of the most respected and valued voices in our music community. His concern for his fellow ASCAP members was always paramount. To me, he was a faithful friend and supporter, whom I will miss deeply. I know that all of ASCAP's members join me in mourning his loss."
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Transitions -Brother George Christopher Conine, OBL, OSB, April 24, 2011
Brother George Christopher Conine, OBL, OSB, of Eureka Springs died April 24, 2011 at Washington Regional Hospital in Fayetteville of medical complications associated with a stroke.
Brother George lived and taught in Morrilton and Fayetteville schools. He was an alumnus of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and had enrolled in their organ and body donor program.
Brother George led a dedicated life as an associate Oblate of St. Benedict.
Known living family members are his brother, Charles (Jan) Conine of Little Rock; a nephew, Chuck Crawley of Lowell; and a niece, Tammy Rauch of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Brother George was a member of St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church of Eureka Springs. He was an associate of the Benedictines at Subiaco Monastery in Subiaco, Ark., and he was a dear friend of the Brothers and Sisters of Charity in Berryville.
A Memorial Mass will be celebrated for Brother George at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in Eureka Springs on Thursday, April 28, at 11 a.m. by Fr. Shaun Wesley, celebrant, and Fr. James Fanrak, con-celebrant.
In lieu of flowers, please donate to Subiaco Abbey, 405 N. Subiaco Ave., Subiaco, AR 72865.


Androst-4-ene-3, 17-dione (AD) and androst-1, 4-diene-3, 17-dione (ADD) are generally produced by the biotransformation of phytosterols in Mycobacterium. The AD (D) production increases when the strain has high NAD+/NADH ratio. To enhance the AD (D) production in Mycobacterium neoaurum TCCC 11978 (MNR M3), a rational strategy was developed through overexpression of a gene involved in the phytosterol degradation pathway; NAD+ was generated as well. Proteomic analysis of MNR cultured with and without phytosterols showed that the steroid C27-monooxygenase (Cyp125-3), which performs sequential oxidations of the sterol side chain at the C27 position and has the oxidative cofactor of NAD+ generated, played an important role in the phytosterol biotransformation process of MNR M3. To improve the productivity of AD (D), the cyp125-3 gene was overexpressed in MNR M3. The specific activity of Cyp125-3 in the recombinant strain MNR M3C3 was improved by 22% than that in MNR M3. The NAD+/NADH ratio in MNR M3C3 was 131% higher than that in the parent strain. During phytosterol biotransformation, the conversion of sterols increased from 84 to 96%, and the yield of AD (D) by MNR M3C3 was increased by approximately 18% for 96 h fermentation. This rational strain modification strategy may also be applied to develop strains with important application values for efficient production of cofactor-dependent metabolites.
The authors would like to thank the members of the Industrial Fermentation Microbiology Laboratory in the Tianjin University of Science and Technology for their valuable comments and helpful discussions. This work was supported by the Key Project of Chinese Ministry of Education (213004A); the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21276196 and 21406167); Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Commission (17PTGCCX00190); and Tianjin Programs for Science and Technology Development (15ZCZDSY00510).


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About ioby
Case Study: The Hampline
October 22, 2014 Awesome Project, Meet Vision, Memphis, Recipes for Changebest bicycle cities, better block, binghampton, CD Council, hampline, jason roberts, john paul shaffer, livable memphis, Mayor AC Wharton, memfix, memphis, midt, pat brown, sarah newstok, t clifton arts, tommy pacelloErin Barnes
The Hampline is one of ioby's favorite campaigns for a lot of reasons. It's not only because the Hampline was ioby's first campaign in Memphis, ioby's first campaign to raise funds for hard infrastructure, and ioby's highest grossing campaign to date. The project is to us a brilliant collaboration, blending commercial revitalization, placemaking, cycling infrastructure and the arts in a community suffering from disinvestment. It's an important and rich story, and we're proud to play a role in the success of the project.
Like many U.S. cities, Memphis, Tennessee has suffered from residents moving out from the urban core to the suburbs. Between 1970 and 2010, the city population grew by 4% while the geographic area grew by 55%. The city limits doubled in size, but population remained flat, and residents packed up and moved to the outer edges of the city. Dispersion created lower density, leaving the core looking like Swiss cheese, with more than 50,000 vacant lots in the city.
Population shifts were coupled with the construction of I-40. Although Memphis is home to the notorious Supreme Court case Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe (1971) that stopped the construction of 1-40 through an established neighborhood and central park, not all neighborhoods fared so well. Similar to the way that the Cross Bronx Expressway cut off the South Bronx from the rest of NYC and compounded socio-economic barriers with a lack of physical geographic access, I-40 cut right through Binghampton, putting five lanes of high-speed traffic between the residential area and the established commercial district on Broad Avenue.
Binghampton, lovingly nicknamed "The Hamp," is today a neighborhood of about two square miles and 9,000 residents. The median income is $26,000, and nearly 50% of residents have average household incomes below $20,000. Of the residents, 35% live below the poverty level. In recent years, the neighborhood has suffered from 30% population decline, with a 10-14% vacancy for homes in the area.
It's not surprising that this is the case. It's not easy to live in the Hamp. There are two active rail lines and an expressway with dangerous cross traffic. Vacant properties have led to an increase in blight.
But the neighborhood is literally surrounded by assets. To the west are the famous Overton Park, Rhodes College, the Vollintine-Evergreen Greenline, Downtown Memphis and its historic Beale Street, and the beautiful Mississippi River. To the east are Shelby Farms Park, the Greenline Extension, the Wolf River Greenway, and thriving neighborhoods. The opportunity was that connecting these assets, through Binghampton, and several other neighborhoods, would strengthen Memphis' urban core.
In 2006, the city of Memphis began a charrette process using Broad Avenue as a test case, and the planning galvanized the neighborhood and created a business association. Together, residents and business owners came to believe that Broad Avenue could be a place for economic vitality.
In 2008, there was just one lonely mile of bike lane in Memphis, and the paths to the 4,500-acre Shelby Farms Park were unsuitable for biking, giving Memphis the unenviable position of "Worst City for Biking" (as ranked by Bicycling Magazine—along with another ioby priority city, Miami—in 2008 and 2010). Inspired by advocates, Mayor A C Wharton set about changing that, by hiring the city's first bike-ped coordinator and setting a goal of adding 55 miles of bike facilities within city limits. Soon to follow was the Shelby Farms Greenline, a 6.5 mile bike lane connecting Midtown Memphis, just on the other side of Overton Park, to Shelby Farms.
Livable Memphis, a program of the Community Development Council of Greater Memphis, saw an opportunity to connect these two great assets—grounding a major cycling highway while bringing traffic through an emerging business and arts district. As with many neighborhoods of disinvestment and blight, Binghampton had a reputation for crime to overcome. Although Binghampton's "actual" crime rate was decreasing, nascent revitalization efforts and connecting assets would further reduce Binghampton's "perceived" crime.
To jumpstart the pre-vitalization process and overcome perceptions, the Livable Memphis, the Broad Avenue Arts District, and the Binghampton Development Corporation, and the owner of an anchor business, T Clifton Arts, drew on a tactical urbanism tool from Dallas, Texas, called Build a Better Block.
The Better Block method, developed by Jason Roberts, uses a 24-hour intervention to reimagine small public spaces in commercial corridors, as if the corridor were thriving, as it perhaps was in the past. Pop-up businesses, public arts, and temporary installations allow residents to reimagine the use of public space, without the investment and the time to make permanent capital improvements.
For Binghampton, the Better Block method was translated for the locality, and A New Face for An Old Broad was born. For a single weekend, the desolate Broad Avenue was transformed into a thriving commercial district, with protected bike lanes and cultural programming. Watch the videos about New Face for an Old Broad here.
And this was just the beginning. What followed over the next year was $2.5 million in private investment, and in the next 3 years, more than $18 million. By the fourth year, the commercial district had 95% occupancy. As investments in local business boomed, cycling advocates began fundraising for the infrastructure to build the two-mile connection between Overton Park and the Shelby Farms Greenline, at that time called the Overton-Broad connector.
The $4.5 million bike lane would be the first of its kind in the United States. A two-way, protected, signalized cycle track would run straight through the emerging commercial district. Neighborhood and cycling advocates, businesses and the City raised federal, state, city and private funds, but in August of 2013, was faced with a $70,000 gap.
They could wait for the next city council cycle to request the remaining funds and delay the project, or compromise the safe and innovative design for the route. Or, they could raise the funds themselves from their friends, neighbors, and folks who would like to use the route.
The groups leading the charge – the Broad Avenue Arts District, Livable Memphis and T. Clifton Arts – and their leaders – Pat Brown, Sarah Newstok and Sara Studdard — approached ioby with their challenge to raise $70,000 by Thanksgiving. Raising the remaining funds would mean groundbreaking would begin in April and the construction would be completed in phases through Spring 2015.
The leaders agreed that their catchy fundraising campaign needed a title that would be easy to remember and authentic to the Hamp neighborhood's unique character. After some deliberation, the Hampline was born.
The Hampline team started their campaign by asking their closest networks – friends, family, and colleagues – to donate $50 each. At the same time, a local bicycle club called the Memphis Hightailers came to the table with $2,500 in matching funds for donations made by their members. The team prudently decided to cap the amount of match funds applied to each donation at $50, so that donors with large contributions would not drain the pot too quickly. Using this match fund as an incentive, the team raised $2,530 in citizen philanthropy within the first four days of launching. By the end of the first week of the campaign, the team had raised close to $8,000 and the press was starting to pick up on this exciting new effort. They repeated this successful strategy with the Evergreen Neighborhood Association.
Recognizing that a $70,000 goal seemed daunting and unattainable for many donors who were only capable of making small contributions, Pat, Sarah, and Sara wisely began to make asks in bite-sized chunks. Rather than focus on the lofty total that they needed to raise, they began to ask many of their donors for $55, which they calculated to be enough to sponsor exactly one foot of the Hampline.
About two weeks into the campaign, with about half of the money raised, the Hampline's tremendous progress started to plateau. The team worked with ioby's team of strategists to reorient and reenergize their campaign. They assigned fundraising roles and responsibilities to the campaign's most ardent supporters, added some new prospects to their list, and identified new opportunities to make in-person asks.
Working in tandem, the team made a series of phone calls, sent out emails, and appeared at community gatherings to share their work, make asks, and recruit new supporters. The Hampline also benefited from two additional matches over the course of the campaign, thanks to generous support from Alta Planning and Design and the Hyde Family Foundations. Ultimately, the combination of matching funds and the team's direct and explicit style of making asks were enough to get the team across the finish line on time.
The result was that more than 700 people, living with just a couple miles of the future bike lane gave to the campaign, the median donation was $50, but many people giving just $9.01 (the city's area code). Not only did the local giving demonstrate a groundswell of community support, but it also fostered a culture of ownership and local stewardship of the space.
Donating to the Hampline became the cause célèbre of the city. Groundbreaking took place as planned in April, and the archway went up. Today, Broad Avenue has more than 95% occupancy. Additional private funding has supported cultural amenities in the area, creative bus stops and an archway made of bicycles at the entrance of Overton Park. The ArtPlace America grant has enlivened the avenue to zumba, dancing and performance arts on weekends. All of this transforming the neighborhood nearly unrecognizable to its former self just five years ago.
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I was wondering when is the good time to start working on Assignment # 1 , is it now? after module 2? after module 3? Will the assignment reflect on the material/discussions/acitivites of modules 2 & 3?
Thanks for the question about Assignment #1. It is due at the end of week 6 (to be precise, by midnight Pacific Time on Sunday, October 18th), so that there's no reason you shouldn't be thinking about it now. The content of Modules 2 and 3 will probably help you a lot with A1, so if you want to get started on A1 now you might simply review all of the materials for M2 and M3.
An Environmental Analysis refers to analyzing, as a group, a set of things that are closely related, such as a geographically-bound set of universities, or a group of companies offering the same set of products or services. In A1 you can focus your analysis on a single venture or some kind of marketplace environment.
In trying to get my head around assignment 1 is it wide open as to which venture or marketplace environment we choose?
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Prezi:The 3D Alternative to PowerPoint
July 20th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in General, Science & Technology
Prezi is having the biggest impact on business presentation tools since Microsoft's PowerPointtook us from transparencies to computer monitors. The three-year-old company made a splash in 2009 with its Prezi software, and now the company has introduced a new version of its cloud-based software that has an even cooler feature set.
Prezi's original claim to fame was the way in which it allowed a presenter to pan and zoom around a contiguous presentation, versus the serial one-slide-at-a-time productions that conventional programs such a PowerPoint allow. The latest version of Prezi adds two new features: 3D backgrounds and fade-in animations.
In a Prezi presentation such as this, you'll first see only the area inside the green circle. Click in that area, and the slide will zoom out reveal the entire scene.When you use a 3D background for your presentation, Prezi creates a parallax motion for the image. Now when you pan around and zoom into the presentation, the background image adjusts accordingly, as though your text and other presentation elements were floating inside the background. With fade-in animations, you can reveal elements in your presentation slowly by having them fade into the frame, instead of showing the frame with all the elements already in it.
Third-party developers are producing 3D backgrounds that can be used for Prezi presentations.Being SaaS (Software as a Service), you produce a Prezi on the company's website at prezi.com. There is a free version available, dubbed Public, but presentations created using that tool are public–anyone can see them–and they bear the Prezi logo.
Business users will want to use one of Prezi's paid subscriptions, which render your presentations private and allow you to use your own logo. The oddly named Enjoy subscription costs $4.92 per month (or $59 billed annually) comes with 500MB of cloud storage; a Pro subscription costs $13.25 per month (or $159 billed annually) and comes with 2GB of cloud storage, plus a desktop version for creating presentations offline. Group licenses are also available, and there is a version for students and teachers.
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Nathalie Creste is French. She entered as an EU official in 1991 in the General Secretariat of the Council, working successively in the Department of Agriculture, the Cabinet of the Secretary General of the Council and the Legal service. In 2005, she joined the European Commission where she occupied the posts of Head of Unit "Communication" in Directorate General Justice Freedom and Security, Head of Unit "Monitoring, Reporting, Verification of Greenhouse gas emissions" in Directorate General CLIMA, Adviser /Head of the Task force responsible to put in place the EUlaissez-passer and Head of Unit "Ethics and Ombudsman" in Directorate General Human Resources and Security. She is currently Adviser to the Director for Mobility of workers in Directorate General Employment and Social Affairs where she is notably in charge of the relations with the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) for Employment and Labour matters. Recently, she was in charge of the organization of the 4thUfM Ministerial Conference on Employment and Labour in Cascais Portugal – 2-3 April 2019.


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2020 is a big year for the museum with Gilbert White turning 300 in July we are already working with more than fifty partners to make this year a celebration of Gilbert White as well as our usual events and activities, we're getting tired just thinking about it! January We
2019: A Recap
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2019 Recap! 2019 was supposed to be a restful year between the craziness of opening our new galleries in 2018 and the craziness of Gilbert White's tercentenary in 2020… how wrong we were. January: Hampshire Scout Joe, made his way from Selborne in November to the South Pole in January!
Gilbert White's Christmas
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Gilbert White was a clergyman and thus for him Christmas was ultimately a festival of faith. The lead up to Christmas is of course advent, rather than this being associated with opening little doors on your calendar each day; advent was a period of fasting and reflection. White would have
The Quest for Frank Oates
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On the 5th February 1875, Frank Oates died of fever on his way back from visiting Victoria Falls. Less than a handful of people know where this great pioneer, naturalist, artist, is buried. Ice Tracks a travel company is teaming up with the museum to offer a once in a
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Christmas Decorations 'Tis the season to deck the halls, fa la la la la, la la la. It's always worth coming to see the house in all it's Christmas splendour, each room has a different theme based on the history of the house! 2. Mulled Wine Weekend Our Annual Mulled
Mulled Wine Weekend
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas and we are gearing up to our annual Mulled Wine Weekend. This free event is perfect for everyone who is looking for some festive cheer, come and see the beautiful decorations and get taken on wassail an historic yuletide tradition. We will
Get Free Entry at Gilbert White & The Oates Collections between 23 November to 1 December National Lottery funded attractions say #ThanksToYou for 25 years of support Gilbert White & the Oates Collections is offering free entry to National Lottery players between 23 November to 1 December 2019. They
GW300 Exhibition Announcement
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2020 marks Gilbert White's Tercentenary and Gilbert White & The Oates Collections will be celebrating from the get go! Our first temporary exhibition will open on the 3rd January; entitled 'Gilbert White around the World' it will explore Gilbert White's international impact. The Natural History of Selborne, Gilbert White's pioneering
Gilbert White & The Oates Collections Commended at Tourism Awards
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Gilbert White & The Oates Collections have been awarded commended at the Beautiful South Awards, in the category best Small Visitor Attraction. This year saw a near record number of entries (170) in 23 categories from all parts of the region – 40% more than last year. They were shortlisted
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Halloween as we know it today divides opinions. It's certainly not a festival that Gilbert White would have celebrated, but the Halloween of the 18th Century surprisingly didn't look too dissimilar to today's festivities. The roots of Halloween are wildly debated, it thought that it comes from the Celtic festival
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There Is a Secret Apartment at the Top of the Eiffel Tower
by Caitlin Morton
When Gustave Eiffel designed the Eiffel Tower, he included a private apartment for himself at the top.
Gustave Eiffel was "the object of general envy" among Parisians during his lifetime, and it wasn't for designing one of the most famous monuments of all time. Rather, it was due to the fact that he had a private apartment at the top of the tower—and almost no one else was allowed access to it.
divpMannequins of Gustave Eiffel and Thomas Edison inside Eiffel's apartment.
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In his book La Tour Eiffel de Trois Cent Métres (The Eiffel Tower of 300 Meters), author Henri Girard explains that Parisians would offer up "a small fortune" to rent the space for a single night, but Eiffel consistently refused. However, he would occasionally entertain guests of the utmost prestige (Thomas Edison is one notable example).
Unlike the scientific marvel of steel and hard lines it's housed in, the pied à terre is cozy and romantic—think paisley wallpaper, wood furniture, and oil paintings. All in all, not a shabby place to view Paris from the best vantage point in town.
divpAnother angle of Gustave Eiffel in his private apartment.
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While Eiffel Tower visitors were previously denied access to the apartment (what Monsieur Eiffel would have wanted, no doubt), vacation rental site HomeAway made a second tower "apartment" (more an unused conference space) available for limited stays in the summer of 2016. At long last, we mere peasants could see what it's like to live at the world's most enviable address.
This article was originally published in April 2015; it has been updated with new information.
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Women take centre stage in the UK New Year's Honour's List
Since George V founded the Order of the British Empire in 1917, the New Year's Honours List - which rewards contributions to the arts, sciences and work with charitable and welfare organisations - has been dominated by men. However, in 2016, the New Year's Honours list is made up of 578 women – 48% of the total.
It seems as though the Honours List is beginning to reflect the reality of thousands of women in the UK who are making leaps and bounds in breaking the glass ceiling, while helping to reshape and revitalise the traditionally male-dominated world of business.
One person on the List is Jacqueline Gold, Chief Executive of Ann Summers and Knickerbox, who has been recognised not only for her personal career success, but also for promoting women in business. Ms Gold works tirelessly to encourage entrepreneurship and social enterprise throughout the UK. Having grown her father's business in to a multi-million pound empire, Ms Gold has shifted some of her focus to encouraging other women to enter business too. In 2015, she set up the Women on Wednesday campaign in which she promotes the best businesses on Twitter to her 36,000+ followers. Ms Gold stays in touch with the winners and offers them advice and guidance in establishing themselves as a brand.
At RSM, the concept of women supporting other women is something we are particularly excited about. According to 'Under the Microscope', a report published by Prowess in 2015, existing female business owners are the most influential figures for women who are deciding whether or not to start a business; in other words, simply recognising and publicising women in business can have a snowball effect. Add to that, the Government Equalities Office recently reported [LINK] that 10% of women in the UK are currently considering starting a business.
There is no doubt that those 10% (and more) should be encouraged – a 2015 RBS report showed that boosting female entrepreneurship could deliver approximately £60bn extra to the UK economy. According to the report, this is because female entrepreneurs are more likely to create a product or service unfamiliar to the market, to have fewer competitors, and they are more likely to be using technology in their products or services than their male counterparts.
This week has seen public voting open for the 9th year of the European Business Awards, sponsored by RSM, and over the years there have been some shining examples of female entrepreneurship being celebrated among the great businesses in the programme. The European Business Awards exists to promote business excellence in Europe, and at this stage, we are getting a taste for the sheer variety of businesses involved. After witnessing the high level of quality of the entrants and meeting many of them, I am sure that one day there will be a European Business Awards winner named on the New Year's Honour List.


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Growth in the number of jobs in the aged and disability sector has been rapid and is expected to continue. Many employers are looking for staff with communication and organisation skills.
Many Health Care and Social Assistance related jobs are growing strongly as Australia's population ages and the National Disability Insurance Scheme rollout continues.
Aged and Disabled Carers is one occupational group that has shown a significant increase, with employment over the past five years growing by 36.2 per cent, compared with 10.4 per cent across all occupations.
This growth equates to an extra 46,600 jobs for workers in the occupational group, the second largest rise in employment over the period of all 474 occupational groups.
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This weekend I thought that I would join the other weekend gardeners.
This is a Chocolate Plant.
Well, that's what it is called but, it really isn't the same as the chocolate that we eat.
This plant is known for it's velvet, burgundy flowers with chocolate aroma.
I've never seen one of these but, I am interested in hearing from anyone who has.
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Ahalia Alternate Energy Pvt. Ltd. (AAEPL) is an establishment of renewable energy development and consultancy. It belongs to Ahalia Health, Heritage & Knowledge Village (AHHKV) at Palakkad, in the state of Kerala, India. AHHKV is an integrated campus of a group of specialty hospitals, Ahalia Heritage Centre, an Ayurvedic Medicine Manufacturing Unit (AMMU) and another group of institutions of higher education. The vast and beautiful campus is spread over 1500 acres of land that offers a perfect blend of nature and technology.
AAEPL has a mandate to develop all the energy requirements of the campus from natural and renewable resources like wind, solar and biomass – all these three are abundantly available in the campus. Installation of 8.4 MW of grid-connected wind turbine generators is currently going on in the campus. This wind farm has a few generators to supply electricity to the public electricity grid, besides one used for captive power generation.
AAEPL has expertise in wind resource assessment, wind power development, solar PV system design etc. AMMU boards a boiler run completely on biomass. AAEPL has developed roof top SPV plant for its Ayurveda clinic and it is used in off-grid mode. AAEPL has also initiated a project of Wind Power Management which involves Hybrid Electric vehicles and Electric Cooking ranges to replace oil and cooking gas with available wind power so that the carbon foot print of AHHKV will be negligibly small. It also envisages development of a smart campus using ICT that will help maximum utilization of green energy.


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Before she joined us at The Pachamama Alliance, one of our hard-working Development interns participated in a year-long Medicine Wheel program while attending college in Portland, Oregon.
Through an experiential weekend retreat once every three months, she explored the wisdom of this ancient knowledge. I interviewed her about this experience and learned how these sacred teachings continue to play a significant role in her life (just recently she painted the image used above).
What follows is Part 1 of a fascinating glimpse of her journey with the Medicine Wheel. Part 2 covers the significance of the Four Directions and her special connection to the hummingbird.
Not many people in their early twenties dive into the world of shamanism, how did you end up in this program?
I had a real need to connect with a tradition and a healing practice that would really be there for me, that would really help me to help myself, heal myself, and heal others. My mother died in 2009 and that just really cemented my resolve to find something that I could really connect with.
And as soon as I asked for that, and as soon as I felt that I was ready for that, I found free crystal meditation sessions that were only a couple blocks away from where I was living in Portland, Oregon. The very first one that I went to I was given a flyer for an event on Peruvian shamanism. I wasn't sure what to expect, but I actually loved it.
I loved everything about it. They called the Four Directions, the Pachamama, and the ancestors; everybody was interactive. Then we were asked to get into pairs and use our ability to connect with our higher intuition and read something about the other person.
I felt like the information that I got and the information that I told, and everything that happened within the sacred space was amazingly accurate. It was like this light switched on and I wanted to know more.
From that class I got a flyer for a Medicine Wheel session which was going to be held in Portland with El Rosenthal. She works sometimes with Q'ero shamans in Peru and had original training through The Four Winds Society, which was started by Alberto Villoldo.
So what does it mean to be trained in the Medicine Wheel?
Alberto Villoldo says that the Medicine Wheel is an exploration into the nature of time, energy and the essential self, the mystery teachings that can be known and experienced but not told.
For me, it also represents what El was imparting to us, which is that shamanism is actually one of the best forms for direct experience. You are experiencing directly. You're having your own dialogue with spirit and the nature of the universe, and the nature of the world.
You're trying to trust your own experiences, your own intuition, your own inner guide. I think for me that was really challenging, but also really expansive too because I was always looking for things to back up my own feelings or intuitions or opinions instead of just trusting them.
The more I trust myself, my own intuition, my own experiences, the more whole I feel. And it leads me on the path where I need to be. It always takes me to the places that I need to be at the exact right moment.
What are some specific techniques or rituals that you learned?
In our journey meditations, for example, we learned how to journey in the Middle World, which is this plane, the Lower World, where things are hidden, and the Upper World where you can connect to spirit forms like angels.
Another thing that we experienced was how to connect someone's heart to the earth, to the Pachamama. That involves having the person lay down while you place your hands underneath their back and just hold them and connect their energy with the Earth. I've had those last fifteen minutes to an hour.
Sometimes, just simply doing that, holding someone, and holding space for their heart to connect with the earth energy, with the Pachamama energy, is amazingly effective. It's so healing for the person. You'd think you're not doing much but you are, you're holding that space for the person so that they can feel comfortable.
What happens at the end of the course?
There is no big fanfare, no big ending to it because there's really not an end. One of the really important teachings I came away with is that you don't ever get to a point of being done. You don't ever become so enlightened that you can't learn anything else.
These are sacred medicine tools that we get to take with us and hold in our hearts for the next generations. We get to use them for our lives and pass them on so that other people can use them for their lives.
What does the future hold for you?
I hear this all the time for other friends and other people but it's also true for me, I would like to find more like-minded people. So that could be finding a local "tribe" or a local group of people where I can either facilitate another Medicine Wheel or bring other shamans in to facilitate something like that.
Really, I'd like to see modern shamanism groups being more supportive, having more support groups after the Medicine Wheel has ended so there is continued support. In Buddhism I believe they call it the "sangha," you practice with others because that helps you stay with it.
I think that's essential for shamanism, especially here in the North because you've got so many distractions, so many energies here that are trying to vie for your attention. I think it's really helpful to have that support network.
I'd also like to do more readings, to do more healings, to do more work. I am a singer and I have been looking into sound healing and things like that for a long time trying to figure out how I can fit that into things as well.
I also have a connection to Tibetan Buddhism as well as Celtic roots, so I have all these different things to try and incorporate. I think working with what comes to me, when it comes to me, that's all I can ever really do.


What Do You Know When It Comes To Blog Posting?
Blogs and the people who write them are an important fixture of the Internet today. It seems like everyone has an opinion on something – and they want to share it. There are so many reasons for people to blog, it can affect what you must keep in mind to build your blog to great success. Implement the ideas in this article to assist you in developing a successful blog.
Find blogs within your niche and comment on their posts. You should consider creating a separate folder in Google Reader and using it to keep up with the selection of blogs that you choose to follow. Comment regularly, if you'd like to say something.
For your blog to be successful, ensure that search engine optimization is utilized within the content. Your blog needs this in order to appear in search results and be seen by readers. Choose unique keywords and sprinkle them throughout your blog's titles and content to attract new readers.
Frequently update your blog's content. In order to maintain and increase the amount of traffic that your blog receives, you must constantly provide new content. Without a relatively steady supply of interesting, relevant content, readers will have few reasons to come back. Try posting on a daily basis for your blog at minimum.
You should let visitors leave comments on your blog posts. This helps you develop relationships with other blog owners and can come in helpful. Never underestimate what the power of having good relationships can do. You could need a small favor in the future, and you will then find that bloggers that you invited to post on your blog, will be happy to help you.
Choose topics readers will be interested in for your blog. Everyone has certain activities and chores that they do each day. Such content would have to be presented in a unique way to get readers to care. Chose subject material that you feel confident readers will be interested in. Keep in mind that your goal is to attract people to your blog.
A site with no new content will also gain no new readers. Great blogs usually post at least one time a day. If that kind of frequency intimidates you, stockpile a few days' or weeks' worth of posts before your blog goes live. This gives you plenty of useful content ahead of time, just in case you get stuck with it in the future.
Keep your blogs as clear and concise as possible. Providing the detail your readers are seeking is important, but too much information can be boring. Those that read blogs aren't likely to appreciate a Shakespearian ability to describe the most mundane details of a setting. They want the key content, not the extra fixings.
Address all feedback on your blog without ever taking anything too personally. Even if you choose the perfect topic, and write about it well, some people will have a negative opinion to share. Use the constructive feedback to improve your position and make your blog more interesting. Any that don't offer something of value, you should reply to let them know you've read it and forget about it. You will give readers the impression that you are a mature individual who cares about what readers have to say, helping to grow your relationship with all of your site visitors.
Try to invite other bloggers to write on occasion on your blog and possibly bring their readers to your own blog. This is a simple way to add more high-quality content to your site. It also means more traffic for your blog once people find out about your guest writers. Use several bloggers to do this and create more rich content.
Use lists in your blog posts. Regardless of your subject matter, lists can make your blog easier to read and more enjoyable to navigate. Lists help to make important information front and center, so your readers can quickly find it.
Add interest to your posts with images. Everyone knows that a picture can represent more than mere words. This holds true when discussing blogging. Images are able to add more interest to a post. Make sure to incorporate images in your post.
Maintain the health of your blog. Doing so means maintaining your blog properly and varying things from time to time. This will prevent your followers from becoming dissatisfied with your blog and possibly losing interest in visiting your site.
Stay patient and eventually your readership will grow on its own. It will take some time for people to discover your blog. Additionally, you will have to build up your content so there will be a lot for the readers to view. By having your blog longer you will have more content and you will be able to draw more readers.
It's important to select unique, non-competitive keywords for your site. If you put in the same words as everyone else, your site may not be seen by others. If you want multiple views, your content must be unique.
Be patient when trying to build a readership. It takes time for your blog to be discovered. Content is key to gain readers, and it will take a bit of time to have a broad range of content to attract large numbers of readers. The longer your blog is around, and the more you post content, the more your readership will increase.
The content of your blog is important if you want to increase traffic. Be sure your blog has useful and interesting content. The readers will come back if you offer content that is of the highest quality and has a focus on being personal, honest and informative.
Creating relevant blog posts will improve your chance to get your website found by the search engines. When a bigger audience can find your site, you'll see a very big boost in your blog's traffic. The higher your search engine rankings, the greater your readership.
Don't just write one paragraph after another off the top of your head when creating blog entries. Make sure you do research and write about a topic you feel is right for you and your blog. If your content is not meeting the needs of your readers, then your blog will not be successful. Remember, the content you create is the most crucial component of your blog and its success.
Use bold and italicized type for all your keywords. That will help your keywords stand out to all of your readers, and is also good for search engine spiders. If a keyword is easy to spot, more visitors will click on it, which is just what you want them to do.
One of the most important aspects of having a blog of your own is to have fun with it! Avoid boring writing by paying attention to the topics you choose to write about. Always choose topics that actually interest you rather than writing something because you feel you should be writing something. Find what you love writing about and have fun. If you are creative and are enjoying what you're doing, it is only natural that your enjoyment will flow over into your work and that others will find enjoyment in it too!
Determine why you are starting the blog and what you'd like to get out of it. Do you aim to be seen as an expert, or do you simply want to get your opinions read? Maybe your main goal is to increase your income. Maybe you have many different goals. The style of your blog should reflect these goals.
Include social media in your blogging strategy. Do not overlook the power of social media as the latest and best way on the internet of connecting you with the people you want reading your blog. If you want to post your blog to Facebook or even Twitter, you can get lots of new visitors to make your blog a success.
Be sure that your "contact us" page has been set up. Then readers can contact you directly if they have any input about your blog. This is helpful to both of you. Anyone could be following your blog, so let them contact you to get further feedback.
Try to have a focus on a simple topic when designing your blogs. Overcrowding your blog articles with many topics may make them confusing and be a turn-off to readers. This technique for simplistic writing is easy to implement and will immediately improve the quality of your content.
You can attract visitors to your blog by giving items away for free. Everyone enjoys free things, and it doesn't even need to be something significant. Freebies will pay dividends in the long run if used properly. People will frequent your blog on a more regular basis so that they don't miss the chance to win!
Writing A Blog is a very social experience. This means you should be very accessible to any and all of your readers. Be sure to put yourself out there by talking to other people in your market niche. You will never be successful if you just sit back and wait. You must be proactive for your blog's success.
Pay attention to what other people blogging about your topics are up to, and try to surpass their activities. These blogs are your direct competitors. Like any business, knowing your competition is the best way to beat them. Similarly, your blog can be used by others within your industry to learn about topics that are of interest to them.
You need to practice attention getting techniques so that readers will stop and read your blog instead of continuing to surf the web. Use of attention-grabbing headlines and font enhanced keywords will allow you to do this. You can create attention by using bullet points as well.
It is necessary that you use the appropriate font for your blog. Considering the fact that people come to your blog for the written content, the font size has to be correct. You want something that has the perfect balance. It shouldn't be so big that it dominates the page or so small that your readers need a magnifying glass to view the text.
Consider putting your recommended articles into tabbed zones. One key hot spot is the area next to your sidebars. You can create a custom tabbed zone that contains the most important articles for your most relevant categories. This gives your readers easy access to your best work, thereby increasing your click rate.
Bloggers are taking over the world wide web as we speak! There are cat blogs, dog blogs, ice cream blogs and 1968 red Mustang blogs. That said, though, there is room for bloggers of all niches in the blogosphere. Apply what you've learned, from the article above, to become the best blogger you can be.
If it is financially viable for you to do so, try going to blogging conferences. These are attended by a wide variety of different bloggers, and you can pick up some valuable advice. You can also meet successful bloggers and business owners who share your interests, and who can provide you with helpful advice to achieve success with your blog.


TeNo stainless steel rounded rectangular stud earrings with 5 diamonds in each earring, 0.08ct. total weight.
TeNo jewelry is made of the finest stainless steel that is free of nickel. In terms of allergic safety and high durability this material is superior to most precious metals. Experienced master goldsmiths combine the steel with diamonds, 18 ct. gold, ceramic inlays or rubber. This is how individual pieces of jewelry with an exclusive quality are made. Every single piece becomes genuinely unique. Please Note: The chain does not come with this pendant.


Organised by the NUS Students' Science Club, STEPUP! Charity Run-Walk is a charity run and walk-a-thon which hopes to not only raise funds for their beneficiary, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) but also to promote the interactions among the Science staff, alumni and students. The event held on 27 May, was well-attended by 120 participants, 36 volunteers, 6 members from SPCA and 4 adorable dogs. The NUS Students' Science Club raised a total of $1,850 for SPCA through overwhelming contributions.
Photo credits to Wei Jie and Yun Hui.


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Making it in Northeast Indiana
Assembly Magazine
By Jim Camillo
Manufacturing tours are always fun and informative for me. Last year I experienced my first, spending a couple days in Virginia visiting four companies that make products ranging from engine components to satellites.
Recently, I took another two-day manufacturing tour. This time I visited six companies based in Fort Wayne and Northeast Indiana. The tour was hosted by the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership and Indiana Michigan Power, and organized by Development Counsellors International.
"Manufacturing has always been important to our region," says John Sampson, president and CEO of the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership. Sampson started the partnership in 2006. "We had always been first in and last out of a recession, but this time we were first in and first out."
What a Ride!
All-terrain vehicles (ATVs) have been around for decades, although the number of U.S. ATV manufacturers has significantly dwindled in recent years. Since 2008, Shipshewana, IN-based Mudd-Ox Inc. has made six- and eight-wheel ATVs for use on land and water.
The company's diverse customer base includes fire departments, utility companies, surveyors and duck hunters. In 2012, Mudd-Ox won a manufacturing innovation award from the state of Indiana.
Editors were given a ride in an 8-wheel vehicle through a small forest area, up a steep hill and across a 15-foot-deep pond. Without a doubt, it was the most fun we had during the tour.
"We make everything for our vehicles except radiators and vacuum-formed bodies," says Matt Oxender, owner of Mudd-Ox Inc. "We use locally made steel and tires, and nearly all of our vendors are within 30 miles of us."
All fasteners on the vehicles are installed with hand tools, and torque is verified with torque sticks. Vehicle frames are hand welded. The company makes harnesses for its custom ATVs, but hires a supplier to make harnesses for standard ATVs.
Currently the company has nine employees and three interns. However, in early July it will break ground to add 14,000 square feet of capacity for offices and a showroom.
Another vehicle manufacturer we visited was Forest River, based in Goshen, IN. The company has been making pop-up tent campers, traveler trailers, fifth wheel and park models since the 1990s. In 2005, Forest River was purchased by Berkshire Hathaway. Annual sales will exceed $3 billion this year.
Forest River also manufactures Class A, B and C motorhomes (gas and diesel); a full range of cargo and landscape trailers; and pontoon boats. In addition, the company produces commercial and school buses, and commercial vehicles.
"We have 45 plants in Indiana and two more under construction," says Doug Gaeddert, general manager of Forest River. "We like it here because it helps us serve our customers on both coasts. And we're not alone. More than 80 percent of RVs and 95 percent of fifth wheels are produced in Indiana."
The company also operates several other plants outside of the state. Facilities are located in Texas, Michigan, California, Georgia and Oregon.
Three series of RVs are made at the Goshen Toy Hauler plant we toured: Viper, Thunderbolt and Hyper Lite. Workers assemble all harnesses at the 100,000-square-foot plant, and fasteners are installed manually. An RV is moved along a rail to a workstation every 12 to 45 minutes. There are 28 workstations in the plant.
"The next 8 to 10 years look amazing for our industry here in the North America," notes Gaeddert. "This is because we're great at marketing a lifestyle, not just specific products."
The final vehicle-related plant we visited was Tenneco Inc. in Ligonier, IN. Workers there make exhaust systems, catalytic converters and mufflers for various automakers, primarily Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler. At other plants, the company makes after-market replacement auto parts, and air-cleaning systems for trains, mining and agriculture equipment.
"All P473 exhaust systems are made here, and they're used on the Ford Super Duty diesel truck," says Doug Bonecutter, plant manager at Tenneco Inc.—Ligonier. "We also make catalytic converters for the F150. Plus, this past February we started making mufflers for Ligonier's Chrysler Program. Normally, mufflers are made at our Marshall, MI, facility."
The Ligonier plant has 480 employees, 80 of which are welders. The plant also features several automated welding machines. Each weld cell has an arc counter to ensure that no part is released from the cell until the part has the proper number of welds.
In 2010 and 2011, the Ligonier facility received Tenneco's health and safety award in the large plant category, which are those having more than 200 employees. It also received a World Excellence Award from Ford in 2012 for warranty improvement.
Several companies in Northeast Indiana make medical devices. Columbia City, IN-based Micropulse Inc. is a contract manufacturer that, since 2003, has focused solely on making prototypes, instruments and implants for orthopedic applications.
"About 60 percent of our manufacturing is for instruments, 30 percent is for implants and 10 percent is for delivery cases," says Brian Emerick, CEO and founder of Micropulse Inc. "We sell to some of the biggest medical companies."
A small percentage of instruments and a large percentage of delivery cases require some fastening. Screws are manually tightened, inspected and torque tested. Rivets are inserted into hand-held parts with a small press. The company has a five-person assembly and measuring cell.
"For the last several years, we've experienced annual growth of 10 percent annually," says Emerick. "More importantly, about 15 to 20 percent of what we make every month we've never made before."
Fort Wayne Metals was founded in 1974 and is located in Fort Wayne, IN. It is a leading manufacturer of wire for medical devices such as implantable pacing leads, cardiovascular catheters and orthopedic implants.
Hollow and solid wire is often welded with automated laser equipment to ensure precision, says Mark Michael, president of Fort Wayne Metals. When wire needs to be crimped, it is done manually with either a hand tool or small press.
Editors got to see a worker perform an assembly process on a solid wire that is 0.012-inch thick and 45 inches long. After sliding a tiny barrel onto the wire, the worker places one end in a gripper that keeps the wire in place as it is stretched. Next, the worker positions the barrel in a tiny press and places a small, soft-metal piece over the barrel to keep it aligned. Once activated, the press quickly crimps the barrel to the wire.
Another regional company that makes implants and instrumentation is C&A Tool Engineering Inc. The company also manufacturers tools for the aeronautical, defense, transportation and other industries.
Assembly at the Churubusco, IN, plant is minimal and manual. Small fasteners are installed with hand tools and torque tested. Tiny rivets are installed with small presses.
However, C&A Tool impressed me greatly with its four direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) machines located within the plant's "medical device" pod. Rob Marr, general manager of C&A Tool Engineering Inc., says the EOSINT 270 machines are used extensively to create medical-device prototypes.
Parts are built up with 20-micron layers. More importantly, notes Marr, the machines create parts that, metallurgically, are high quality and not porous.
"Our favorite customer is one that needs a project done now because we always try to maintain excess capacity," says Marr. "We focus not only on our customer, but also on our customer's customer."


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The First Battle of Excarga was a battle initiated by the Confederacy of Independent Systems after discovering the valuable ore on Excarga less than a month after the First Battle of Geonosis. Garr's parents were separated from him in the battle.
The Separatists succeeded in their invasion, and, in addition to taking control of the ore-processing facilities, took everybody on the planet prisoner.