IT'S DUSK BY THE TIME WE REACH Marker 340 on the Pan-American Highway, where it connects with an unpaved road penetrating the Ocucaje Desert. My guide, Roberto Penny Cabrera, turns off the highway here. After several miles he stops the jeep, backs up 50 feet, drives off in another direction, stops again, then wheels the vehicle in disorderly circles over the sand. Satisfied that he's thrown off anyone who might be trying to follow his tracks, Penny cuts the headlights and we continue on, in search of bones.
Paleontologists use a German word to describe lands like this barren stretch of Peru's southern coast:lagerstätte, or "resting place." A palimpsest of extinct and exotic marine animals—red-feathered mega-penguins, marine sloths, whales with legs—lies interred in a former seabed that rose when the Andes were squeezed out of the earth's crust 140 million years ago. Encompassing more than 7,000 square miles, Peru's southern desert contains what may be the richest trove of ocean fossils in the world, which has made it a target for rapacious collectors, unscrupulous scientists and legions of black marketeers.
Penny, who's been exploring this desert for three decades, has an unusually detailed understanding of what's out here (and, importantly, where it is), a knowledge that he believes brings great responsibility. "Whatever I have in my mind," he says, "I will take to my grave." Actually, this isn't 100 percent true: As a professional guide, Penny makes a living taking people on fossil tours. But he insists he is selective about what he reveals, and to whom.
FOSSILS, PENNY TELLS ME, have a habit of going missing here. Part of the problem is that Peruvian conservation laws tend to be a little vague. It's lawful to gather fossils for personal collections but not to remove them from the country, which means, in effect, that half the smuggling process can be carried out in broad daylight. After that, all you need to do is sneak them across the border. Nobody knows the rate at which the Ocucaje's treasures are being ghosted out of Peru, but in 2010, agents at Lima's Jorge Chávez International Airport seized almost 2,000 cultural items protected by law, most of them fossils.
In light of what Penny sees as officials' indifference—to them, he says, "fossils are a business"—he has established himself as one of the most vocal critics of the government's track record on protecting fossils. But he's willing to go even further, sometimes taking matters into his own hands (he claims, for instance, to have collared a French paleontologist who'd been excavating without permission).
You get the sense that this cat-and-mouse game with fossil scavengers is something Penny rather enjoys—along with his image as a desert fox. When my bus arrived in the city of Ica the day before we set out, he approached wearing a safari shirt and fatigues, a long blade tucked into his belt and a cellphone strapped to his wrist. At 57, Penny is tan and sturdy, with blue eyes and a Burt Reynolds mustache. He shook my hand firmly and, seeing my surprise at his presence (I was supposed to call him from the station once I arrived), he explained that he'd had a hunch about what time my bus would get in, and even managed to guess the right gate. He took this as a good omen. "Look at these chicken bumps," he said, holding up an arm.
Penny descends from Capitán Doctor Gerónimo Luis de Cabrera y Toledo, a Spanish conquistador who founded Ica in 1563. He lives alone, occupying a single room in a semi-decrepit yellow mansion built on Ica's main square by his grandfather a century ago. His cluttered quarters resemble an archaeologist's lair: satellite maps on the wall, dusty glass cases containing skulls and teeth, a desktop strewn with rocks. There's also a teakettle, a mini fridge and a bedpan. On the balcony outside, he keeps a rope tied to the railing so he can make a quick escape in the event of an earthquake.
Penny doesn't put much stock in domestic comfort—he is most at home outdoors, living simply and quietly. Our first night we dine on ramen, which Nicky prepares, and beans straight from the can. (Even in the city, Penny rarely goes anywhere without beans in his vest pocket and a spoon around his neck.) I drink water to stay hydrated; Penny has a Coke. Reclining in a lawn chair, he lights another cigarette, and—appropriately in these surroundings—starts to ponder life.
Penny explains that he used to own a mining company, earning a good living extracting minerals used in fertilizer. But in the late 1990s, a bridge he relied on to move his product washed out in a flood, wrecking his business and, ultimately, his marriage. He turned to booze. The desert had always held an appeal for him—his mother brought him here as a kid—but during this difficult period he found peace here, and eventually sobered up. The Ocucaje, he says, saved his life.
Moving deeper into the desert, Penny guides Deborah over steep dunes and into dun-colored valleys where the process of erosion has made neighbors of creatures that lived eons apart. At a burial ground dating back thousands of years, ossified human remains are strewn around the openings of looted graves. Scavengers have taken the valuable textiles, Penny says, and left the bones. "Who's the guard here taking care of this!" he shouts, incensed, as a braid of human hair flutters in the breeze.
PENNY HAS A BIT OF A TENDENCY to romanticize the pre-Columbian natives of this desert. "They were wise people, and kind to each other," he says that night by the campfire. His own family, he tells me, was torn apart by greed and materialism— and those traits are also driving today's lucrative black market in fossils.
Given the clamor for these relics and the absence of hard-and-fast rules in Peru, it can be tricky to distinguish the good guys from the bad. Penny sees himself as the desert's most ardent defender, but he isn't above slipping a tooth into his pocket from time to time. His personal policy is to never dig for fossils, but once they are unearthed naturally, he figures, they'll return to dust anyway—so it's either him or the elements. He also makes clear that he never sells the stuff he finds.
One thing's for sure, though: Penny's stance on fossil scavenging has made him some enemies. On the final day of my visit, we drive by a whale skeleton that Penny often visits. A nearby rock face has been etched with writing that slanders Penny by name, calling him "thief" and much worse.
The midday heat is unbearable, so I seek shade in Deborah's passenger seat. But Penny insists on continuing the hunt: He's noticed whirlwinds sucking up sand on a nearby slope, and wants to investigate. Once there he cries out, holding up a palm-size rock the color of oxidized copper. He pulls out a compass and holds it over the rock. The needle goes haywire. "A meteorite!" he exclaims, doing a celebratory shuffle.
A few minutes later, walking back to the jeep, Nicky points. "Look, Papa!" Lying in plain sight on the coarse gray sand is a 3-inch megalodon tooth. Then Penny spots something else. Not 10 feet from the tooth is a motorcycle track—the mark of the scavenger. Somebody was here before us, and missed the tooth.


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With the December sire summaries, Genex Cooperative, Inc. will update the Ideal Commercial Cow (ICC$) index to include three new proprietary health traits: Subclinical Ketosis (SCK), Metritis (MTR) and Foot Health (FH). This change will enable members and customers to breed for even healthier ideal commercial cows.
The ICC$ index is a sire ranking tool that was first released in August 2014. Building on its reputation for innovation, Genex created the index after producers asked for a better way to rank sires that create cows which excel in commercial conditions.
ICC$ is the summation of five easy-to-use sub-indexes: Health, Production Efficiency, Fertility and Fitness, Milking Ability and Calving Ability. The sub-indexes enable producers to narrow their genetic emphasis to specific areas of farm management, if desired. SCK, MTR and FH are being added to the Health sub-index.
Ketosis is a common and costly metabolic issue that puts cows at higher risk for other early lactation metabolic diseases. With its impact extending beyond the digestive system, ketosis costs producers an average $289 per case. One culprit causing ketosis is a build-up of blood-based beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHBA) due to a negative energy balance after calving. With the addition of the SCK breeding value, ICC$ can help producers breed for lower BHBA levels and therefore lower incidence of ketosis. The SCK breeding value is the only one of its kind that takes into consideration both clinical and subclinical ketosis.
Metritis costs producers an average of $396 per case. While working to prevent, diagnose and treat metritis are first steps in lessening the economic impact of this disease, use of the updated ICC$ index with inclusion of the MTR breeding value can help to jumpstart prevention through genetic selection.
Similarly, breeding for better foot health by using ICC$ will help to improve animal welfare and lessen the financial impact of lameness, which ranges from $130 to over $450 per case depending on the specific condition.
With ICC$ selection, a producer has the most effective tool to identify genetics that excel in real world commercial conditions. ICC$ puts greater emphasis on health traits, addresses the alarming trend for increased stature and body size, and incorporates science and data-driven genetic evaluations from multiple sources. ICC$ creates cows that are ideal for any commercial herd situation.
To learn more about the ICC$ index and the three new Genex proprietary health traits, visit http://genex.crinet.com or call 888-333-1783.
Genex Cooperative, Inc., headquartered in Shawano, Wisconsin, is the trusted provider of world-class animal genetics, progressive reproductive solutions, value-added products and innovative services to members and customers across the U.S. This is accomplished through 950 dedicated employees working in three product and service segments: cattle genetics and reproduction, livestock marketing, and milking and farmstead equipment. Genex is a subsidiary of Cooperative Resources International. Learn more at http://genex.crinet.com.


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Here are Benjamin, Julie, Amandine, Quitterie, Romain and Maily, together in the Philippines for 3 months to develop a sustainable project
1° What does your project consist on?
We are currently on a mission within a community of the Gawad Kalinga Association. The purpose of the mission is to help the community create a social business. The project chosen is the manufacture of jam from fruit purchased at local markets and then processed in the community.
What do you expect from it in the long term?
The company's objective will be to provide an activity for people who do not have one (mainly women) and to create a new source of income.
What role does the Gawad Kalinga association have in your project?
The Gawad Kalinga association has assigned us to the community where we are staying. She organized our arrival in the Philippines and our transportation to the community. The association is supposed to support us and ensure the viability of the project, but we do not have a direct coordinator.
Could you develop the aspects of "sustainable development" within your mission?
To ensure the sustainability of the project, the first concern is to involve community members as much as possible so that they can take ownership of the project and make it sustainable. The objective is that the final result will be a project built by the community for the community with a product made from local and fresh produce, available at an affordable price for the vast majority of the inhabitants of the surrounding area (relatively poor population).
2° Is the working environment as you imagined it?
Not knowing the name of the community we were assigned only a few weeks before departure, it was difficult for us to get an idea of the working environment that awaited us.
Do you find yourself in difficulty?
We have easily adapted to our environment and we do not currently have any difficulties that we have not been able to solve. We would sometimes have appreciated more support from Gawad Kalinga, but since we do not have a long-term (LT) intern assigned to our area, our direct contacts with the association are often unavailable coordinators. We refer to other LTs who answer our questions if necessary.
What are your views on the people and the region where you are currently located?
The experience is very exotic and disrupts us a lot in our references and habits. However, the Filipinos in our community, whom we met during our stay, proved to be very welcoming and caring people. The exchange and discovery of their culture therefore becomes a very positive experience. We were also able to understand and apprehend a facet of poverty.
3° Do you think you have a secret boot that would lead to the success of your mission? If so, which one?
There is no miracle recipe a priori. The success or otherwise of the mission will undoubtedly lie in the involvement of community members and our ability to make them take ownership of the project in order to make it sustainable.
4° What essential advice would you give to a person who would like to embark on a similar adventure?
Take your time at the beginning of the mission to integrate yourself, identify needs and determine a project that is relevant to the community. Also not being shy and being able to adapt, even if we all experience morale drops, that doesn't mean it won't work!
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Pass the security guards in their navy blue uniforms and white epaulettes, through the metal detectors that invariably beep (although no one seems to care), and you're inside Jakarta's glistening, marbled alternate reality: fluffy white clouds painted on the ceiling, gold lion fountain heads and glitzy designer stores that sell handbags that, for some, would cost an entire year's wage.
For many well-heeled inhabitants of this steaming hot megalopolis, the megamall has all the answers you need – starting with air-conditioning. But there are also restaurants and playgrounds, nightclubs, bars, bookshops, gyms, salons, dentists, and doctors; there are supermarkets, gardens, karaoke parlours, cinemas, art galleries, and even evangelical churches. In Jakarta, the mall is a literal one-stop shop.
The city has an astounding 170 malls – so many that, in 2011, worried authorities issued a moratorium on new ones in central Jakarta. Nevertheless, in a city with next to no open public space, Jakartans still invariably find themselves inside a mall with alarming frequency.
Over the years, mall upon mall has been tacked up in Jakarta – a resulting "mall sprawl" that has seen some malls situated just hundreds of metres away from one or even two comparable others, sharing many of the same shops.
But it's not just about shopping. Malls in Jakarta effectively function as pseudo public spaces: a place to meet up with friends and family, take a walk, go out for meal or have a business meeting. Although the city's planning law stipulates that 30% of land in Jakarta should be allocated as green space, in reality it accounts for less than 10%.
Whether malls really offer Indonesia's women more real freedom, however, is more hotly debated. "At least we can learn diversity, but I'm still not talking about social justice," says Indonesian author Ayu Utami. She says malls offer women a level of protection they don't have on the streets, but it's a false form of freedom.
Yet in the artificial bubble of the mall, she adds, Jakartans can learn new habits – such as a respect for diversity and non-smoking spaces. Before smoking was officially banned in malls, the only smoke-free spaces that were respected in the city were mosques and petrol stations, says Utami, only half jokingly.
One mall manager, who asked to remain anonymous, revealed that some of the high-end designer stores pay minimal or no rent; the idea being that their presence imbues the mall with glamour and prestige. And while malls function in lieu of public spaces, they are hardly free. Even going to the mall costs money – you have to pay for parking, and if you want to sit down you have to order in a cafe or restaurant.
"You pay perhaps 10 to 50 times more for your food just because it's in the mall," says Marco Kusumawijaya of the Rujak Centre for Urban Studies, over a coffee at one of the few independent coffee shops in the city. "You pay for the marble floor, you pay for the freezing air-conditioning, the useless atrium and these expensive guards and sweepers." It all seems rather bizarre in contrast to how millions of Jakartans actually live.
Waiting for his afternoon shift near the Green Bay Mall on the Pluit waterfront in north Jakarta, Ahmed Setiawan is busy feeding flies to his caged birds. He's never been to Green Bay mall, and has no desire to go.
"That place is just for rich people. We can't afford to go there. The salary of fishermen is just Rp20,000 [US$1.50] a day.
Around the corner, Rohani is selling rice and snacks from her wooden cart. She's been to Green Bay once since it opened several years ago. "I went there when it was the birthday of the mall and there were fireworks," she says. "I just looked once. Only once." Rather than malls, traders and fishermen like Rohani and Setiawan go to traditional markets. These are clusters of bustling street-side stalls, wooden tables stacked with cheap clothing, fruit and vegetables, and meat carcasses hanging in the heat. They also buy goods direct from street vendors, whose traditional wooden carts circle the local kampung neighbourhoods, selling everything from buckets and brooms to mountains of fruit.
It's this colourful street life that is threatened by the ubiquity of malls – and the social inequity they represent, says Kusumawijaya.
Many malls in Jakarta grossly exceed the dimensions stipulated in the city's 2010 spatial planning bylaws. Yet developers are permitted to build wider and higher by paying compensation. Kusumawijaya believes this is a form of "spatial injustice".
Still, the realities of the outside world are easily forgotten in the mall, especially the fact that many Jakartans cannot afford to spend time there – including some of the employees. But for many others, mall culture is the only type of urban experience they've ever known. At the Carnivalle section of GI – a virtual theme park – Herdi Herdiansyah, 32, a marketing consultant, rocks a pram with his six-month-old son amid the din and flashing lights.


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Prospects for passage of Bush's free trade agreement (FTA) with Colombia are dwindling in the face of pressure on Congress from U.S. and Colombian unions coupled with widespread reports of anti-labor atrocities, and new evidence of Colombian paramilitary and government collusion with the violent union repression. The deadline for passage is June 30.
Congress was supposed to have passed a package of agreements with Peru, Panama and Colombia by March 31. Yet, Colombia's record "sets it apart from Peru and Panama," said William Samuel, the AFL-CIO's legislative director.
U.S. and Colombian trade ministers signed agreements Nov. 22, 2006, calling for elimination of barriers to trade and exchange of services. Bilateral trade amounted to $14.3 billion in 2005.
But with such "free trade" comes workers' blood. The AFL-CIO said 236 trade unionists were murdered from 2004 through 2006. Only one murderer was convicted. Since 1991, 2,262 unionists have been killed, with only 30 convicted for the murders. During the five years of Alvaro Uribe's presidency, there have been 400 murder victims.
Negotiations over the FTA resumed on April 16. The AFL-CIO's Samuel, in a letter to Congress, insisted that Colombia must meet "an established set of human rights benchmarks." Its government must break ties with paramilitary networks, prosecute crimes against unionists, protect union members and adhere to labor standards set by the International Labor Organization, he said.
Recent confessions by paramilitary leaders in exchange for light sentences — part of a program for demobilizing paramilitary groups — brought to light murders of hundreds of political activists, including labor leaders. They revealed tight paramilitary relationships with legislators, government ministers and local officials.
Uribe's former intelligence chief Jorge Noguera was arrested in February and charged with allowing paramilitary figures to infiltrate government agencies. Paramilitary operative Rafael Garcia, once part of Noguera's intelligence service, is prepared to testify that the agency complied lists of union leaders targeted for death and that Noguera gave names to paramilitary enforcers. Garcia, now in protective custody, fears for his life, according to the Washington Post.
He is set to testify also for victims' families and a Colombian mineworkers' union at an upcoming trial in Birmingham, Ala., against Alabama-based Drummond coal mining company. The civil suit, joined by the United Steelworkers and the International Labor Rights Fund, charges that Drummond officials ordered the deaths of three labor leaders at its La Loma Mines in Colombia in 2000.
Recent news that Chiquita Banana, with headquarters in Ohio, paid $25,000 to paramilitary groups and may have facilitated delivery to them in 2001 of 3,000 assault rifles pushed Congress to dig a little deeper into the free rein U.S. corporations enjoy in Colombia.
In Colombia, workers will be marching on May 1 and going out on a general strike on May 23 to protest the U.S.-Colombia trade deal.


Centre Stage: TV presenter and comedian Steve Royle.
There'll be fun among the flowers after comedian and radio presenter Steve Royle was announced as the compere for this year's colourful Floral Bling Fling business ladies' lunch.
It is, once again, expected to raise thousands of pounds for the Forget Me Not Children's Hospice.
This year's event will have a floral theme, with beautiful single stem flowers on every table for guests to buy to enter a special prize draw, plus more chances to win throughout the event.
He is co-founder of the Slaughterhouse-Live character comedy nights, with the group regularly performing at The Comedy Store.
The first, Diamond Bling Fling, with its glittering jewellery theme, raised an impressive £17,750 for the hospice, which supports families of children with life-shortening illnesses.
Bling Fling organisers are seeking sponsors to help make this year's event a huge success and top the previous fund-raising total. There are many ways to back the event, from donating raffle prizes, to taking out an advert in the event brochure and more.
There's even a chance for businesses to create their own Bling Fling sponsorship pack and to support the event in a way that works for them.
Vicki Davenport, joint managing director of The Pink Link distribution company in Huddersfield said: "We're thrilled that Steve has agreed to compere this year's event. As well as raising money for a wonderful charity and giving businesswomen a promotional opportunity, the Bling Fling ladies' lunch is also a chance for guests to let their hair down and have a good time.
Anyone who would like to get involved, donate, or sponsor you can get in touch via the website www.theblingfling.co.uk.


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US-terror links kept in the dark as former Bush associate refuses to testify
Virginia terror network
Fearing for his life, Sami al-Arian, an admitted terrorist financer and one-time acquaintance of President George W. Bush, has refused to provide information to a federal grand jury regarding a Northern Virginia-based criminal network with connections to the U.S. government.
For nearly five years, investigators have been attempting to untangle the complex web of corporations, charities, and think tanks, which have allegedly been used by al-Arian and his associates to launder money for terrorist activities overseas and in the United States.
Although it has been grossly underreported in the mainstream media, the network under investigation has been intimately linked to the U.S. government, suggesting that some of the group's activities have been sanctioned, protected, and possibly even coordinated by U.S. intelligence.
Sami al-Arian and another convicted terrorist supporter, Abdurahaman Alamoudi, both of whom have alleged links to 9/11, met several times with senior Bush Administration officials in the run-up to the attacks.
In June 2001, for instance, as a member of the American Muslim Council (AMC) (which was founded by Alamoudi) al-Arian was "invited to the White House complex for a briefing by Bush political adviser Karl Rove."
Bush with al-Arian and friends
Similarly, in 2000 Alamoudi "was one of several Muslims invited to meet with [presidential] candidate [George W.] Bush in Austin, Texas"; and remarkably, just three days after the 9/11 attacks, Alamoudi was invited to a prayer service with the president.
Bush with Alamoudi
In addition to founding the AMC, Alamoudi also co-founded a U.S. government-contracted company known as Ptech, which U.S. intelligence officials have described as a CIA front "on the level of Iran-Contra." More after the fold...
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Ford Fund Invests THB 53 million (US$1.75 million) to bring Ford Resource and Engagement Center (FREC) to Bangkok (2)
News Releases 06 October 2019
First Ford Resource and Engagement Center (FREC) in Asia, and fifth of its kind globally, opens in Bangkok's historic Nang Loeng neighborhood
Ford Motor Company Fund, working with their international grant making partner, GlobalGiving, is investing THB 53 million (US$1.75 million) in the new center through 2023
FREC Bangkok's eight founding partners are some of the city's most creative social enterprises, nongovernmental organizations and foundations, and are using the space to run environmental, education, technology, community engagement and arts programs
To officially open FREC Bangkok, Ford and its partners will host an 'Open House' on Saturday, Oct. 5, with a day of free community workshops, classes and activities
BANGKOK, Thailand, Oct. 5, 2019 — Ford Motor Company Fund, the philanthropic arm of Ford, today opened its first Asia-based Ford Resource and Engagement Center (FREC) in Bangkok's historic Nang Loeng neighborhood.
FREC Bangkok is being funded through a THB 53 million (US $1.75 million) investment from the Ford Fund through 2023 – and is run by eight founding partners, which include some the city's most creative and up-and-coming nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), social enterprises and foundations.
With the aim of serving thousands of Bangkok residents, FREC Bangkok's partners run programs that focus on food waste, environmental protection, education, technology, community engagement and the arts.
To open FREC Bangkok, Ford is hosting an open house from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. today. Members of the community have been invited to drop by and explore the available services and activities.
"Like our first FREC in Detroit, Michigan, FREC Bangkok is a long-term commitment to a neighborhood brimming with untapped potential," said Jim Vella, president, Ford Motor Company Fund. "In Bangkok, through food rescue programs, conservation projects, plastics upcycling, and some exciting technology, art, and urban planning initiatives, our FREC stewards have an opportunity to deliver services that directly benefit people in the neighborhood – as well as the city as a whole."
FREC Bangkok is located at the Satri Julanak School in the city's historic Pomprapsattruphai district, famous for its Nang Loeng food market – as well as its arts, dance and publishing history. Bangkok's first book was published in the neighborhood, and several families in the community have for many generations created costumes and choreography for traditional royal Thai dance.
"Bangkok is changing rapidly, and this community has a special place in the city's history," said Wichit Wongwatthanakan, managing director, Ford Thailand. "FREC Bangkok is an opportunity for Ford to work with our NGO partners, community leaders and officials to help us retain the city's heritage, while also moving forward with new technology, environmentally-friendly initiatives and exciting community projects."
FREC Bangkok is part of a $15 million global network of community centers that Ford Fund launched in 2013. The original FREC in Detroit has returned $3 in services to the local community for every $1 invested by Ford and participating nonprofits. In addition to FREC Bangkok and two FRECs in Detroit, there are centers in Pretoria, South Africa, and Craiova, Romania.
"Our pioneering FREC network demonstrates how Ford Fund is taking a community-first approach to corporate philanthropy," said Vella. "By listening to community leaders and working with strong local partners, we are leveraging the power of Ford to make people's lives better."
Ford CSR efforts in Thailand
Giving back to the community is a core part of what Ford stands for in Thailand and the Company runs several projects that focus on safety, education, and protecting the environment.
Ford's award-winning Driving Skills for Life program was launched in Thailand in 2008 and to-date has provided training, free-of-charge, to more than 12,000 licensed drivers, equipping them with hands-on skills that can help save lives on the road.
The Company also responds to community needs during natural disasters – donating vehicles, supplies, human resources, and funds. For education, Ford runs the 'Go Further Innovator Scholarship', and 'Building for Thailand's Future' work-study apprentice program with the Thai-Austrian (Sattahip) Technical College.
Touching both education and environmental protection, Ford's clean water community project, 'Water Go Green,' has improved water access with purification systems, washbasins and restrooms in 13 rural schools.
ABOUT OUR FREC PARTNERS
The Bangkok center is a partnership between the Ford Fund along with their international grant making partner, GlobalGiving, and eight NGOs, social enterprises and foundations.
Scholars of Sustenance
Anchor FREC partner, Scholars of Sustenance (SOS), will use FREC Bangkok as headquarters for its food rescue operations and its fleet of six trucks that collect up to two tons of excess food daily from the city's restaurants, grocery stores and hotels. After inspecting the food for safety, SOS distributes the food to more than 30 shelters across Bangkok.
www.scholarsofsustenance.org
www.facebook.com/scholarsofsustenancefoundation
Nature Inc.
Bangkok's oldest environmental association, Bird Conservation Society of Thailand (BSCT), and conservation education organization, Love Wildlife Foundation, have teamed up at FREC Bangkok to create Nature Inc. – the city's first nongovernmental organization co-working green space. At Nature Inc., environmentally-conscious nongovernmental organizations can share office space, meeting rooms and IT facilities, freeing up administrative resources to focus on programming.
Love Wildlife www.lovewildlife.org, www.facebook.com/lovewildlifefoundation
Bird Conservation Society of Thailand https://www.bcst.or.th, https://www.facebook.com/bcst.or.th/
Urban Studies Lab
Urban Studies Lab (USL) is an urban research center and consultancy based at FREC that offers a comprehensive suite of services to support their mission of taking action for a more inclusive, resilient and diverse city. USL brings academic, government, business and communities together to partner and collectively resolve contemporary urban issues. With deep focus on authentic participation and transparent decision-making processes, USL creates strategies and actionable plans for projects. USL collaborates with its robust network of universities on impactful research work and provides real-world learning opportunities for students in "urban classrooms."
www.facebook.com/urbanstudieslab
Precious Plastic Bangkok
Precious Plastic Bangkok (PPB) is a community-based plastic recycling solution that uses simple-to-build machines to turn plastic waste into new products. At FREC, PPB houses both a shredder and extruder machine so it can train people how to manage plastics recycling themselves. PPB's goal is not simply just to recycle a small number of plastic bottles and boxes, but to change society's attitudes towards plastic pollution in general and for people to start seeing plastic as a valuable resource that is too precious to throw away or discard on the street.
https://www.facebook.com/PreciousPlasticBKK/
FabCafe
"Fab" refers to the "fabrication revolution" that is spreading across the world. The term stands for both "fabulous" and "fabrication" that is unconstrained by mass production and market theory. FabCafe is a space that conveys the FAB spirit in a fun, user-friendly way. FabCafe at FREC houses digital fabrication tools in a community space where people can gather, network and connect. FabCafe believes that, with the opening of FabCafe at FREC, the creative collaboration that takes place in this cozy setting will transform the next generation of fabrication.
https://fabcafe.com/bangkok/
https://www.facebook.com/fabcafebangkok/
Next door to FREC is our "sister project" Bangkok 1899 – a new cultural and civic hub that officially opened last month, representing an intersection of art, design, urbanism and social innovation.
http://bangkok1899.org/
https://www.facebook.com/bangkok1899
Located at Bangkok 1899 are two FREC partners:
Creative Migration
Creative Migration is an international arts nonprofit with the mission to advance cultural diplomacy through art, public engagement and sustainability. With a focus on art and social practice, this organization continuously supports projects to build relationships and develop collaborations through artist residencies, site-specific installations and transmedia projects. Creative Migration established Bangkok 1899 to encourage everyone to pursue the lost art of leisure through its open space and public garden. Its programming includes an international artist residency and locally/globally themed events with the goal of becoming a living model of sustainability through its everyday practices.
www.creativemigration.org
https://www.facebook.com/creativemigration/
Na Café
Na Projects is a collaborative space using food and drinks as a medium to connect, inspire and create social impact. Programs that run through its café include: vocational training programs for at-risk youth; training and workshops for urban refugees; a regular chef's table; suspended coffee & beverage programs; zero Waste practices. Na is a platform that connects many nonprofits such as Sati, AAT and several others NGOs that work with at-risk communities.
https://www.facebook.com/naprojectsgroup/
As the philanthropic arm of Ford Motor Company, Ford Fund's mission is to strengthen communities and help make people's lives better. Working with dealers and nonprofit partners in more than 60 countries, Ford Fund provides access to opportunities and resources that help people reach their full potential. Since 1949, Ford Fund has invested more than $2 billion in programs that support education, promote safe driving, enrich community life and encourage employee volunteering. For more information, visit www.fordfund.org or join us at @FordFund on Facebook and Instagram and @fordfund_ on Twitter.
Ford Thailand
Ford Thailand manages the production, distribution, sales and servicing of Ford brand vehicles through its local market headquarters in Bangkok, and a nationwide network of 155 authorized Ford dealerships. Ford employs more than 10,000 people in Thailand between its corporate offices and two manufacturing facilities – its wholly-owned Ford Thailand Manufacturing and Auto-Alliance Thailand joint-venture. Supported by the Ford Fund, the Company has trained more than 12,000 licensed drivers in Thailand through its flagship Driving Skills for Life campaign, which equips new drivers with hands-on training to drive more safely. Ford employees volunteer for a number of initiatives each year to deliver tangible benefits to local communities in Thailand, including building new homes with Habitat for Humanity for underprivileged families, and renovating schools near its manufacturing facility in Rayong.
For more information, visit www.ford.co.th.


A few years ago this Grade II listed barn was nothing but a romantic ruin. Now, after a careful restoration, it's been converted into a two-bedroom rural retreat that oozes rustic charm. Inside you'll find intriguing original features from its agricultural past. Timber cow stalls form the kitchen area and original high stone walls are met by the timber frame ceiling. There's a cosy sitting room complete with wooden floors and a log-burner and a spacious galleried bedroom upstairs.
Upon arriving at Widdop Gate Barn you'll be greeted with sweeping views of rolling hills and the wooded valley of Hardcastle Crags. From here 15 miles of footpaths unfold through unspoilt woodland, where waterfalls tumble into rocky steams.
The market town of Hebden Bridge is only two miles away and the city of Halifax is 10 miles to the east. You're also about an hours' drive from the Yorkshire Dales which is to the north.
Kitchen, with original cow stalls in place, stone steps leading up to open-plan dining area, twin bedroom, shower room and lavatory.
Open-plan sitting room with multi-fuel stove, gallery master bedroom with king-size bed and single bed.
Children: There is a large gate at the end of the driveway to stop children wandering out.
Utilities: The washing machine and tumble drier are combined.
Garden: Small patio and large walled grass area.
Parking: Parking area for two cars.
Television: This cottage offers FreeSat television service.
Please note: Water is from a spring so visitors are asked to use water carefully.
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Pedersen, Anne-marie and R.G. Moyles. "Salvation Army". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 04 March 2015, Historica Canada. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/salvation-army. Accessed 21 April 2019.
The Salvation Army (sometimes referred to as the Sally Ann) officially began its work in Canada in London, Ont, on 1 June 1882. Introduced by fervent believers Mr and Mrs William Freer (Toronto), Jack Addie and Joe Ludgate (London), the Army corps was established in several Ontario towns.
"Soup to Salvation" was the response of disaffected METHODIST preacher William Booth in 1865 to "the bitter cry of outcast London." From it emerged the Salvation Army, dedicated to physical and spiritual reclamation: "soup" included men's hostels, women's shelters, farm colonies and other similar institutions; "salvation" was preached along Methodist doctrine by an army of officers - with flags, bands and war songs - building their congregations from society's less fortunate. By the century's end the Army had become a permanent feature of English society and had spread to many other countries.
The Salvation Army (sometimes referred to as the Sally Ann) officially began its work in Canada in London, Ont, on 1 June 1882. Introduced by fervent believers Mr and Mrs William Freer (Toronto), Jack Addie and Joe Ludgate (London), the Army corps was established in several Ontario towns. By 1886 the Army religion was being practised from Victoria to St John's, although its unusual methods of worship such as the "hallelujah joy-jigs," "free-and-easy meetings," and "noisy open-airs" raised considerable ire and resulted in some legal battles. Eventually, through persistent social welfare work, the Army won nationwide respect.
In 1886 the Rescue Home for "fallen" girls opened in Toronto, followed by similar homes in Winnipeg, Montréal, and Victoria. In 1891 the Army opened its first Prison Gate Home in Toronto to help rehabilitate inmates released from prison, and to assist them with reintegration into mainstream society. Children's shelters, prison farms, and men's hostels were also established, and in 1904 the first Grace Hospital opened in Winnipeg. In 1905 an Army officer became the first Dominion Parole Officer and the Army's first emigrants sailed from England; by 1914 more than 150 000 had settled in Canada under its sponsorship. Salvation Army officers served as chaplains for Canadian soldiers during World War I and World War II, managing programs to provide comfort and support for the troops abroad.
Today the Army continues as a Christian church with an acute social conscience. Its current brand promise is "Giving Hope Today." As the largest non-governmental direct provider of social service, the Army serves about 1.5 million people in Canada each year through a variety of programs. Its 100 000 members in Canada still espouse a Methodist theology with strong adherence to prohibiting alcohol, and expressing their beliefs both in worship and through service to their communities.
Its membership, worship style, and evangelical outreach have designated it as a suburban community church. There are still evangelical pockets of members who call themselves primitive Salvationists and evangelize, as the Army had done in the past, to the underprivileged.
On the whole, most of the corps hold middle-class values and practise a style of worship very similar to other modern evangelical churches. Salvationists are set apart by their uniform (compulsory for officers, less frequently worn by soldiers), by the use of brass bands in their meetings, by their abstinence and non-observance of the sacraments, and by their large number of female preachers. Today the Army's evangelical style is generally less confrontational and aggressive than it was in the past.
The officer-training program under the evangelical wing of the Army has undergone considerable change and now places greater emphasis on academics. The Army has consolidated its training programs from colleges at St John's and Toronto, to one program at Winnipeg. Cadets attend courses offered by the Army's liberal arts institution, William and Catherine Booth College (est 1982). Future Army officers are encouraged to achieve the organization's expectation that each officer earn a bachelor's degree.
The Army's social wing has been affected significantly by government cutbacks and changing social attitudes: one of the most significant changes was the closure of the Women's Social Services at most of its Grace hospitals. As federal and provincial governments decreased their funding to charitable agencies, the Army was forced to withdraw many services offered at the Grace hospitals in Halifax, Labrador City, Calgary, Ottawa, Windsor, and St John's, leaving only Winnipeg Grace and Scarborough Grace as fully-run Salvation Army hospitals. The Army offers continuing and rehabilitative care through the Toronto Grace Health Centre and the Catherine Booth Hospital in Montréal, and four hospices in Calgary, Regina, Richmond, and Winnipeg. It also operates four centres for developmentally delayed adults, 16 long-term care residences for seniors, six multi-service centres for women and single mothers, and two children's treatment facilities.
Apart from these programs, the Army's chief areas of social service are addiction and rehabilitation programs for people addicted to drugs and alcohol; residential services that provide hostels and emergency shelters for men and women in more than 40 Canadian cities; community and family services in approximately 175 towns and cities that distribute food, clothing and furniture to needy families during emergencies; and correctional and justice services including community program centres and residential centres for young adults.
The Army also offers camps for underprivileged children and staffs suicide prevention call centres. Its Red Shield campaigns, Christmas-kettle appeals, and its thousands of civilian volunteers make valuable contributions to many Canadian communities.
R.G. Moyles, The Blood and Fire in Canada (1977).
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October 1, 2015 | 9:58 PM | Rachel Zimmerman
How Childhood Stress May Lead To Disease Later In Life
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What are the childhood origins of adult disease? Might there be certain developmental periods in a child's life when he or she is particularly vulnerable to stress? And might psychological distress early in life lead to heart and other health problems later in adulthood, even after that stress is gone?
A recent study on early childhood stress published this week in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology doesn't definitively answer these questions. But it does suggest that a high level of psychological distress in childhood may lead to a heightened risk of disease in adults, even if the stress doesn't linger on.
The study, led by researchers at the Harvard School of Pubic Health, concludes:
Psychological distress at any point in the life course is associated with higher [cardiovascular and metabolic disease] risk. This is the first study to suggest that even if distress appears to remit by adulthood, heightened risk of cardiometabolic disease remains.
An editorial accompanying the study notes "the possibility that there are sensitive periods in childhood during which some seemingly irreversible physiological, emotional, or behavioral processes are established that affect [cardiometabolic risk]. That is, perhaps there are critical windows of risk linking childhood distress and [cardiometabolic risk] that point to windows of opportunity for intervention."
The new study was based on an analysis of data from the 1958 British Birth Cohort Study, a longitudinal look at people born in Great Britain during a single week in March 1958. Individuals completed measures of psychological distress and a biomedical survey when they were 45 years old after repeated assessments over the course of their lives, from age 7 to 42.
I asked the new study's lead researcher, Ashley Winning, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, some followup questions. Here, edited, are her answers:
RZ: In this study were you able to determine what, exactly, constituted "stress" for these children? Trauma, illness, abuse? If not, might you speculate on what types of stressors might be linked to later heart problems?
AW: High levels of distress in childhood may be the result of early life adversity (such as trauma, illness, abuse, neglect, poverty) and this may be one reason children in these environments are at heightened risk of poor health. However, symptoms of distress may be in response to less dire exposures too — chaotic environments, parental discord, stressful circumstances — normative responses to difficulties that may become chronic in the absence of appropriate adult capacity to help the child learn to navigate these challenges.
It's also possible symptoms of distress are early signs of an underlying mental disorder in childhood (which may or may not have a hereditary component). We suspect that distress occurs in response to a range of difficult circumstances but what other research has suggested is that ongoing distress is less likely to occur when there is a nurturing adult or supportive environment available. Continue reading →
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March 3, 2015 | 10:06 AM | Dr. Steve Schlozman
In Memory: A Fat Kid's Love For Mr. Spock
By Steven Schlozman, M.D.
I remember the exact moment I realized that I could be Mr. Spock.
I was 9 years old, trapped in the "Husky" jeans section of the local Macy's department store. Looking around at the selection of very big pants, I understood viscerally what I had known intellectually for years.
"Husky" meant "fat." It meant that I was fat.
Not super fat, but fat enough to be in the Husky section.
I was awkward, developing in that tortured way that evolution see's fit to make us endure. Staring at the mirror while my Mom gathered trousers for me try on, I was pissed off that because of this shopping trip, I was missing the rerun of "Star Trek" that aired on weekday afternoons.
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"What would Spock think about the 'Husky' designation?" That's what I was pondering. I was wondering how the master of logic would justify and make sense of the clearly derogatory way I was feeling about myself.
"Fascinating," I imagined him saying, and he would raise that patented eyebrow.
Then I looked in the mirror, furrowed my brow, took note of the barely present peach fuzz growing under my nose, and with all the power of a Vulcan mind meld, I imagined that my right eyebrow was being pulled by a thread towards the stars. That one eyebrow was to boldly go where no eyebrow of mine had ever gone before.
And I did it. I raised that eyebrow.
"Fascinating," I muttered. And then I did it again, and again. It was like a teeny Bar Mitzvah moment. "Today, I am a Vulcan."
Spock meant that much to me. Spock could be friends with a tough guy like Kirk. Spock was unfazed by McCoy's insults. Spock tolerated with admirable self-control the romantic advances of Nurse Chapel. Spock would, I was certain, be emotionally impervious to the Husky section of Macy's.
"Fascinating," I said, and again I raised my right eye brow.
I share the world's sadness for Leonard Nimoy's passing. I am grateful that he stuck around so long after he began his "five year mission." I feel like a kid every time I hear his voice in the Imax theater at Boston's Museum of Science. Every time I hear his voice, I am wearing Husky jeans but feeling OK about it.
These days I'm still raising one eyebrow on an almost daily basis. I even had a patient's parent give me Vulcan ears for Christmas a few years ago.
"They're not because you're emotionally cold," she explained.
No, I thought, Spock wasn't cold.
"They're because you're not freaked out by our child. They're because you're interested." Continue reading →
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May 9, 2014 | 10:35 AM | Sarah Baker
Unraveling My Childhood Asthma: Did Motherhood Cure It?
By Sarah Baker
I recently started singing lessons — a rather mind-blowing pursuit, since for much of my life, singing was out of the question. How can you sing when you can't even breathe?
At 18 months old, while my dad, mom, older brother and I were driving from Virginia to San Francisco for my father's new Naval deployment, I started wheezing. The asthma attack landed me in the hospital.
Emergency room visits and hospital stays punctuated my childhood and early adulthood. I could have been a tour guide of any Intensive Care Unit: "Over on the right is a shot of adrenaline, or epinephrine — try that first. If that doesn't work, try the nebulizer on the left and IV over there." These visits became so routine that as I got older, I often told the doctors and nurses what medicines I needed: Prednisone. Albuterol. Theophylline. These were the mainstays, but there were many others over the years. I took them in such large doses that one time they made my blood toxic.
Circa 1970: The author, center, with her brother and mother, shortly before the discovery of her mom's fatal brain tumor. (Courtesy)
Emergency was a word my family understood. My mother was diagnosed with a brain tumor when I was 3 years old; she was 28. For five years, until her death, she battled her disease in and out of the hospital, too. I went to Bethesda Naval and she went across the state to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. I don't remember ever seeing her hospital nor do I recall her ever seeing mine.
A Motherless Child's Stress
Asthma is a disease of the respiratory system. It is serious business. Seneca, the Roman philosopher and Stoic dedicated an essay to it, called "Asthma," in which he said that of all the ailments he'd suffered, asthma was the worst of them all. "Doctors have nicknamed [asthma] 'rehearsing death,' he wrote.
But asthma also has a powerful psychological or psycho-social component; with symptoms potentially exacerbated by emotional stress. As a child, I never realized it, but looking back I see it clearly: for all my suffering, asthma distinguished me. Got me noticed. In a childhood of disorder — marked by my mother's death, and family chaos and constant moving — my own illness provided order. It wasn't until the birth of my first child that my symptoms truly ceased. Continue reading →
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December 6, 2013 | 12:45 PM | Rachel Bloom
Will They Ever Leave? What It Takes To Nudge Millennials Out Of Nest
How do young adults who successfully move out overcome adversities? According to a new study, it all boils down to peer support. (ibm4381/Flickr)
Truth be told, my position in life is somewhat confusing. While I'm no longer a teenager, at 21 I can't say I feel all that adult-like. I've finished one degree, but I'm not ready to commit to any one career. I recently moved into my first apartment, though I have no idea where I'll be living 10, five or even two years from now. According to developmental psychologists, these are all indicators that I am in my emerging adulthood.
But what exactly is "emerging adulthood"? It's the period of life between adolescence and full-fledged adulthood, between the late teens and late 20s, where people explore their options before committing seriously to a career, home, or family. And according to experts, it's happening later and later. Dr. Jeff Arnett of Clark University, who coined the term "emerging adulthood" in 2000, points to the fact that North Americans are delaying adopting a permanent residence until reaching their 30s.
The reasons are complex and diverse, Arnett says: they include a shift in the economy that necessitates more education, a rising marriage age and, more nebulously, an increased sense of personal freedom over the past several decades. All this makes conventional adulthood "a less attractive destination," he says. (I'll say.) And then there's the job market, which makes the decision to move out even more complicated.
This doesn't mean that today's young adults aren't feeling the itch for independence, however. Some friends of mine who remained at home after college say they "would've preferred to have gone elsewhere," and cite being "treated like a child" by parents as both a positive reason why they stayed at home and a negative — why they didn't want to be there. Fortunately, my parents conveyed confidence in my ability to live on my own. In moving out, I benefitted greatly from knowing my parents had my back, should I need financial or emotional support.
For foster-care children, the lack of a parental support system presents a huge issue. Professor Varda Mann-Feder knows this problem intimately, after having spent decades working with foster children as they transition into adulthood. But there may be good news for emerging adults in foster care: a new study headed by Mann-Feder and her colleagues at Concordia University shows that peer support systems could be even more important than parental support in facilitating the transition to independent living.
While parents played an important role in how confidently participants experienced the transition — particularly based on parents' willingness to provide a financial safety net — Mann-Feder found that Millennials "much preferred to turn to their friends for help if they needed it," and "benefit greatly from watching their peers who have already moved out." Conversely, young adults who opted to stay in their childhood home pointed to friends who were doing the same. Because they tend to model their peers, "when, how and where a young person moves is to a large degree determined by what their friends are doing," says Mann-Feder. Continue reading →
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May 22, 2012 | 2:21 PM | Rachel Zimmerman
Commentary: How I Talk About Sex With My Kids
By Dr. Annie Brewster
My thirteen-year-old daughter is now in the throes of seventh grade Sex-Ed. Yesterday, while lingering at the table after dinner, just the two of us left, she asked: "Rubbing the clitoris is what makes sex feel good, right?" I swallowed hard, hesitated for half a second, and then said "Yes. That's a big part of it." And the door was open for further discussion. What are the other ingredients of sex that "feels good"?
We have always talked openly about sex and the human body. I am not squeamish on these topics, perhaps in part because I am a doctor, and when my children (now ranging in age from 5-15) ask questions, I believe in answering directly and honestly.
Dr. Annie Brewster says her three-year-old daughter loved asking questions about baby-making. That daughter is now 13 and the questions are more explicit.
My now thirteen-year-old, a relatively uninhibited and curious child, asked about how babies are made when she was three. Her favorite book was "It's So Amazing" by Robie Harris, and she begged me to read it to her over and over again, so I did. She asked questions, and I answered. We talked about the sperm and the egg, the penis and the vagina, and how the sperm and egg meet up (i.e., the penis goes into the vagina), and for a while, we stopped there. At some point, she discovered my diaphragm in the bathroom drawer, and, more than once, I found her using it as a frisbee. "That's not a toy," I would tell her. "That's mommy's." For a while, that was enough, and she would obediently put it away. It was a few more years before she pressed for more details, and I told her about birth control, after explaining that grown-ups sometimes have sex even when they don't want to make babies. Now, we have moved on to the clitoris and the concept of pleasure.
In our house, we are not shy about nakedness, or at least I'm not. Continue reading →
FILED UNDER: Personal Health, childhood, parenting, sex
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Scott Heiferman, co-founder of Meetup and investor in Mobilize, spoke with our team about how to scale a tech company and the importance of organizing.
Heiferman's founder story
Heiferman founded Meetup in 2002 after experiencing the power of in-person connection first-hand on September 11. From the roof of his apartment in downtown Manhattan, Heiferman watched the World Trade Center collapse and shared sorrow with his neighbors, whom he had never before spoken to. He found a calling in counteracting the decline of community in America, and sought to create "an internet tool to get people off the internet."
"How is it that people find and form communities? And what impact can those communities have?"
Heiferman went on to be CEO of Meetup for 17 years, during which over 100 million people signed up for an event on the platform. In 2017, Meetup was acquired by WeWork and Heiferman moved to the role of Chairman. Two years later, struggling WeWork sold off Meetup and parted ways with Heiferman.
Making data-driven decisions and adapting quickly
Heiferman's first piece of advice for a growing tech company: use data to make decisions. Everything he thought Meetup would be used for never came to fruition, and he learned quickly to make decisions based on observed user behavior. "Focus on the way people use the technology—not how you think they should use it."
Creating a tool vs. a network
"It's important to know that you're building a good tool, but even more important to understand that it's a network." Meetup, like MobilizeAmerica, can function as a standalone organizing tool, but its real value comes from the network effects. When someone signs up for a Meetup, the tool enables them to discover more Meetup opportunities. Through these experiences, they're also prompted to start their own Meetups; repeat attendees become organizers. Each attendee is prompted to bring their friends, and each new organizer brings their own network, growing the Meetup universe rapidly. This growth benefits every person on the platform.
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Change is constant in today's sales world.
There's often downsizing or reorganisation going on. These programs are created to invoke change.
All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear... One Small Step Can Change Your Life - Robert Maurer PhD.
Here at SG Partners we work with senior leaders who want to grow their businesses or at the very least stop their current decline. Many sales leaders have witnessed the decline within their sales teams for some time before they act.
When the pain is acute enough, they want a quick fix.
One common approach to fix sales decline is to run a sales training program. This will teach new skills and create a belief that salespeople will change. However, will the sales team change just because they have to attend a sales workshop and bring back a book full of notes?
When there is extra pressure on sales leaders and their sales teams to perform/change, fear kicks in.
Especially when the goals of change are set far too high. The limbic system in our brains is triggered, and we therefore find it harder to focus on long-term goals.
But the 'training will fix the problem'?
People can be overwhelmed by taking in new information in such a short period. Even if your salespeople are highly motivated, they will often struggle to implement a fraction of the new learning.
In his book 'One small step can change your life' by Robert Maurer, Robert explains what he means by taking small steps towards a goal. We can avoid the brain's fight/flight mechanism. We can also avoid distractions or procrastination.
Our minds can be easily overwhelmed, so a safety net is to seek certainty/comfort and do nothing.
Coaching and mentoring are the gold standard in sustainable change.
By modelling a Kaizen approach (using by Japanese manufacturing companies), a great mentor/coach observes a person's behaviour in the field and works with them to pick one thing and improve just that.
These micro improvements implemented with a solid sales accountability plan will create the change required for your organisation with less stress and exponential growth over time.
"How will I make this huge budget by 31 July" will trigger fear.
These questions trigger ideas that inspire actions that will move towards the BIG goal.
Many tasks must be done to achieve a BIG goal. Many of these tasks may even be unpleasant in the short term and only provide rewards later. For example, take cold calls. I know only a few people who love making them.
Cold calls are key to developing new business, and they are very likely to be part of the process of achieving an ambitious sales goal.
Develop the ideal client profile – build a list of potential target companies, research and find a possible contact in each, batch into a series of call blocks, make the calls in one block.
Each time a step of the entire process is completed, reward yourself.
This reward might be a favourite lunch or a cup of coffee.
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"I am always trying to come up with new ways of wearing jewellery or pushing the boundaries between embellishment and fashion" says Rebecca Onyett, a young jewellery designer based in Kent. With a passion for the creative industry, she found herself drawn to jewellery, whilst studying for a 3D design course at Plymouth University. Onyett is fascinated by the "relationship between a person and the specific piece of jewellery that they choose to wear", in as much as it "creates a strange bond that only the wearer of the piece truly understands." A change of course and having taken evening classes in making silver pieces, led her to UCA for a dedicated jewellery course and she hasn't looked back.
Onyett's designs are bold and different. "I like to experiment with themes that intrigue and captivate but also offend and repulse. The darker, more sinister things in life that we know as a viewer we should shy away from but instead for some reason are drawn to".
The theme is recurrent throughout her collections and her interests in Jenny Saville, Francis Bacon and Egon Schiele echo a outlook for the more "darker themes in life". She tells us that "when I worked on my 3D course at Plymouth, I created furniture and household objects (fruit bowl) that were covered in spikes giving them a dangerous, edgy look. When I finally moved into jewellery my first project was inspired by celebrating the inside of the body by bringing it to the forefront and I looked at creating large scale ribcage necklaces, intestine scarfs and lung printed t-shirts". More recently, Onyett is still following this theme but also trying to create a more commercial collection that appeals to a wider audience.
The first piece of jewellery she ever designed was a brooch made of silver that was covered in acrylic dolls eyes. "I still have it now", she say "it is really creepy but when people ever see it they really love its weirdness. It would look great on someone's jacket as it looks like a monster staring at you." Away from the safety of university, the young designer has an appreciation for what the course has taught her, as it gave her the skills and a structure to her workflow.
Her most recent collection is entitled Skin Deep and "emphasises the desire for perfection and immortality by recasting over sections of the skin and adding unique embellishment to questions themes of disease and disfigurement." It seeks to question humanities perception and ideals that causes us to judge and determine what makes something beautiful or what makes it ugly. Using a method of "recasting parts of the body, the jewellery mimics over the surface of the skin, in sections that would not normally be embellished, creating unique jewellery embellishment for odd parts of the body."
Previous collections have included Seven Sins, a modern take on the theme, each piece symbolic of one of the Seven Cardinal Sins with each having a story to tell. The collection entitled All that Glistens is evocative of "cabinets of curiosities", taxidermy animals and insects, much collected and admired in the 18th century. Through the techniques of lost wax casting, Onyett recasts different parts of different birds, mammals and insects, transforming them and giving them a new life as jewellery. She tells us that "Taxidermy seeks to preserve life by celebrating death: it is a strange half-live, a suspension, an illusion. Insects on the other hand, through their lives, destroy this illusion: they feed on death, breaking down, demolishing, creating movement from a silent arrangement, forcing change and action." She brings these two themes together by making a series of bird and insect pieces that "explore the idea of decomposing, preserving, death and immortality."
On her work and how it has been received, there is a selfishness she says comes from "designing things that I like rather then what other people would like, but still my work does have some commercial feel about it and definitely fits within current trends." Extensive research and creating a story around each collection go into the work, that she admits "some people will love and others will not." The observer in her likes watching people see her work for the first time at exhibitions "they either have a real intrigued and surprised look or they instantly screw up their face and walk away. I guess it is like Marmite you either love it or hate it." There is strong fascination with life it seems and all that has to offer. Her favourite things to do are going to low-key gigs to see new bands, "I love festivals in the summer as it gives you a chance to really let loose for a long weekend, experience and meet new people from all walks of life."
Life is Onyett's biggest inspiration, "I am always thinking about new ideas and looking at what people are wearing around me. Inspiration could come from a tree, a paper, a documentary. It is that random and that's why I love it so much because its nature and just happens. You cannot push creativity or control it," adding "I love how right now the seasons are changing and there is an autumn crispness in the air. I just love finding new things that I have never seen before, it could be an unknown magazine left in a shop or someone selling work in Brick Lane that really catches my senses"
Jewellery, all over the world, is universally appreciated and Onyett tells us she "would love to see how all the different countries make jewellery or wear embellishments. That is one of my big plans for the future, to make some time to see the rest of the world."
Personal commissions give Onyett a direct and real personal link to the wearer, seen from her casts of peoples body parts that she says "creates jewel lery that is specifically a part of them. My dream would be to do this for a celebrity such as nipple covers for Rihanna, as i think they would look amazing on her with her very provocative way of dressing".
Of future plans, Onyetts tells us "For next summer I would love to do a bikini range that has jewels embellished onto it. I would also like to venture into men's jewellery and how it could be incorporated onto shirts, blazers and bow-ties." Onyett currently has her work exhibited in Diana Porter in Bristol and will have it in the Jewellery Emporium in Folkestone over Christmas and is "looking to set up my own online shop for the Christmas period and will exhibit/sell at any shows that come my way."
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"Big-budget action video games are not, and never will be, a writer's medium."
- Writer Tom Bissell, speaking on the "Microtalks" panel at GDC 2013.
Why do video game writers exist?
To hear author and Battlefield Hardline writer Tom Bissell tell it at GDC 2013, it's not to dictate the course of a game's story. Rather, it's to work with designers, artists and programmers to make the game's characters and world "pop" with vivid detail.
In the course of a six-minute microtalk, Bissell handily deconstructed some common misconceptions about what it's like to write for video games (and how it compares to being a journalist and author) while exploring practical ways writers can contribute to big-budget game production.


The government has ordered investigation to be carried out by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) into the affairs of 107 companies and seven limited liability partnerships (LLP) pertaining to multi-crore fraud in Punjab National Bank (PNB), Lok Sabha was informed on Friday.
"The government has ordered investigation into the affairs of 107 companies and 7 LLPs under the provisions of Section 212(1)(c) of the Companies Act, 2013 and Section 43(3)(c)(i) of Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008 on 17.02.2018 belonging to Nirav Modi (Firestar Diamond group) and Mehul Choksi (Gitanjali Group) to be carried out by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office connected with Punjab National Bank Fraud wherein all matters in their entirety will be examined," Minister of State for Corporate and Law & Justice, PP Chaudhary said.
The investigation is under progress, he informed. On March 7, continuing the probe into the PNB fraud, sleuths of the SFIO questioned the bank's Managing Director and CEO Sunil Mehta for five hours. The SFIO had also summoned top executives of ICICI Bank and Axis Bank for questioning into this matter.
The RBI's decision to discontinue the Letters of Undertaking (LoUs) or Letters of Comfort (LoC) might increase the credit cost for imports as it will lead to a shift towards "other off-balance sheet" products, said a State Bank of India (SBI) report on Friday.
According to SBI Ecowrap report, the shift to "other off-balance sheet" products will be "administratively time consuming" and in the short-term might impact export funding as well. On March 13, RBI decided to discontinue the system in the wake of the Rs 12,600 crore fraud at the state-run PNB.
"Banning LoUs/ LoCs might lead to shifting to other off balance sheet products - LCs, Bank Guarantees, other fund based facilities or on to balance sheet," the SBI Ecowrap report said.
Earlier, banks were permitted to issue guarantee/LoU/LoC in favour of overseas supplier, bank or financial institution up to $20 million per import transaction under the automatic route for a maximum period up to one year in case of import of non-capital goods. As per the latest available RBI data, guarantees given on behalf of constituents outside India stood at Rs 1.95 lakh crore as on March 31, 2017.


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Q: HLR LOOKUP service building Newbie here. Can someone teach me like im 6 years old?
How can I do my own hlr lookup without paying a companies?
I see some people send some company links who offer hlr lookup.Thats not what I'm looking for...
I made some research and couldn't find much about how can I build a hot lookup.
Any help would be great.

A: Hi sdaassadasdasd asdasdsad,
TL;DR you can't perform your own free HLR lookup against telephone numbers on the public telephone service (formally called the PSTN), which is why you can find online providers who provide it as a paid service. There is always a charge, even to the HLR lookup providers.
It also depends what do you want to achieve. A HLR Lookup will let you know if a mobile phone number is assigned to a subscriber of a mobile network operator (MNO), and which MNO it is assigned to.
HLR lookups don't provide location (aside from some rudimentary country-wide location based on the Mobile Switching Centre that the telephone handset is being controlled from). They also don't usually provide an IMSI if that's what you are looking for, because these days most MNOs will implement home-routing which gives a temporary IMSI matched on their router so that they can conceal the real IMSI (to avoid fraud).
So, if you do want to perform a HLR lookup to check if a mobile phone number is "real" and assigned to a subscriber on a public network then I'm presuming you want to send a HLR request to query an external MNO - i.e. a public telephone number, not a local one running on your own equipment.
To query an external MNO then you will need to send a request, usually over the SS7 network, to the mobile network operator who was originally assigned the telephone number you want to know about. Eventually, if you have done everything correctly and the MNO wants to respond, you receive a response back which gives you the details you need to then ascertain if the telephone number is assigned to a subscriber, and if the subscriber is active on the network or not.
To send the HLR request, without going through an online provider, you will need at least:

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*equipment that talks the SS7 protocol (specifically to include MAP requests because a HLR is a type of MAP request)

*somewhere to host your equipment

*an SS7 interconnection from an SS7 backbone provider

*point codes allocated from the SS7 backbone provider

*someone to setup program the equipment

*your own telephone prefix range for the far-end MNO to be able to respond back to your original request. You may be able to lease someone else's telephone number range if you don't have your own.

Once everything is setup then there's an additional per MSU (message signalling unit) cost. You can think of an MSU a bit like an IP packet, you send "one" and you get a response. You are charged by the SS7 backbone provider for every MSU you send that transits their network, regardless of if you get a response back from the MNO you want the message forwarded to.
I'm happy to answer any other questions on it, but I can't think of a way you can perform your own HLR lookup without incurring charges somewhere along the line.

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