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Capitalist Sage: How Business Mentorship Empowers Entrepreneurs, with Erin Igleheart [Podcast]
Have you ever had a business idea, wondered what tools you needed, or wanted to know how to just start? Join Rico Figliolini and Karl Barham as they interview Erin Igleheart, program manager with the Start Me accelerator program. Erin has experience and answers to all of the questions you may have about starting a business.
Resources: StartMeATL.org
Social Media: @StartMe
Podcast transcript – generated from voice recognition software.
Karl: [1:11] Welcome to the Capitalist Sage Podcast. We're here to bring you advice and tips from seasoned pros and experts to help you improve your business. I'm Karl Barham with TransWorld business advisors. My co-host is Rico Figliolini with Mighty Rockets Digital Marketing and the publisher of the Peachtree Corner Magazine. Hey Rico, how're you doing?
Rico: [1:27] Good. Good, Karl.
Karl: [1:28] Excellent. Why don't we talk about our sponsors for today.
Rico: [1:32] Sure. Let's give a shout out first to Atlanta Tech Park located here in Tech Park Atlanta, like the name switch, in the city of Peachtree Corners. Robin Bienfait and her innovative team is curating this place. Allowing accelerator startups and small companies to be able to grow in it. Phenomenal organized environment here that allows for workshops, seminars, all sorts of supportive groups that can take a small company to its success. So one of the podcasts from here is located in that place, and it's a good place to be.
Karl: [2:11] Absolutely you could always stop by, check out its website; AtlantaTechPark.com check out upcoming events. You know in November, I think November 14th, is a tech showcase going on here from North Atlanta. Lots of events and you happen to be on the path of the shuttle, the driverless shuttle.
Rico: [2:28] Curiosity Lab of Peachtree Corners and Ollie the Driverless Vehicle. We just saw that before driving up and down as we were coming in.
Karl: [2:36] Absolutely. It's a free shuttle, you have to get a ticket, a virtual ticket online and you're able to ride that. So just a lot of really cool things happening in Peachtree Corners in the Atlanta Tech Park Village area. Well today, I'd like to welcome our today's guest; Erin Ingleheart, program manager with the Start Me accelerator program and affiliated with the Emory University business school. Which is an outstanding program that helps local entrepreneurs help grow their business, learn some critical business skills, and help skills that help them to grow their business. How're you doing today Erin?
Erin: [3:18] I'm great. Thank you so much for having me.
Karl: [3:21] Well, we're here to talk today about business mentorship and how it could impact the community and in entrepreneurs that are starting businesses. One of the things that is amazing when you get into small communities, especially communities that may have more economic disadvantage, entrepreneurs are thriving in those areas. But the success rate could be a challenge there because they don't have access to some of the critical things that companies, if you're in Silicon Valley, there's plenty of capital. There's plenty of expertise, there's network, there's mentors. But in other communities they may not have those same resources as readily available. And so creating an ecosystem where that can thrive is really one of the missions of the Start Me accelerator program. I'd love to talk about that some more. So why don't we tell,
start off by telling us a little bit about yourself and how did you get started in this passion of yours?
Erin: [4:20] That's a great question. So Prior to joining Emory, my background was really all in private sectors. So I started out in banking at Morgan Stanley. I did a grad-degree in Silicon Valley and sort of saw some of that, a little bit of that divide if you will, in the support for entrepreneurs operating in the tech space particularly in that area. And perhaps some of the other small businesses that were struggling a little bit more to get started. I worked actually right around here and kind of proximate to Peachtree Corners for a start-up consulting firm for a few years and then switched over to the Social Enterprise Center at Emory just over three years ago where I was really looking to, kind of marry those business skills with more of a community focus and community impact component.
Karl: [5:07] So tell us a little bit about this social enterprise at Emory. What is that for folks that may not be familiar with that?
Erin: [5:13] That's a great question. So it's a research center within Emory Business School and the overarching focus is on making markets work for more people in more places in more ways. And we do that through research that several of our faculty members are doing. We do that through student coursework so several classes around social Enterprise and nonprofit management. And then we do that through fieldwork. And so we run a couple of different field work programs. Start Me in particular is focused on the Atlanta Community and several sort of historically under-resourced to communities in Metro Atlanta. But we also run the entrepreneurship database program, which is a large research study of accelerators and incubators around the world really looking at what works and what doesn't in acceleration and incubation. So it's the largest longitudinal study of those types of programs globally and then we also run a program that's called Grounds for Empowerment that supports female coffee growers in Central America.
Rico: [6:16] So can I ask you, since you were out in the west coast like that, how'd you find that? I mean being a woman in the midst of, I guess stereotypical of what the research shows right now, it's mostly men being there. How'd you find that working in a field like that in that environment? Erin: [6:33] That's a good question. So I was in grad school while I was out there, so you're in a little bit of a bubble as it is. And I really loved living out there but I didn't necessarily get the bug, if you will, to stick around. I felt like I answered, a lot of times, the question of like why I didn't have an app or why I didn't have my own Tech startup. Which I respect as a path for entrepreneurs, absolutely, it just wasn't a path that I was on. A conversation I felt like I sort of had over and over again. But I think what you see is so much passion in and around tech that it creates the, almost this bubble of enthusiasm and excitement that I really respect and enjoy and I think that it's nice to be able to replicate that in other places that frankly are maybe more accessible to local populations if you will. So, you know, I think one challenge that we're faced
with in Atlanta or any major city that has wonderful young people and wonderful entrepreneurs with tech ideas, that we don't want to lose everybody to Silicon Valley. We want to create that same vibrancy and keep people in communities and the same is true for other types of businesses. You want to see that enthusiasm for all of your makers and bakers and fixers and doers. We're operating in community.
Rico: [7:48] Which from what I understand isn't really the type of company Silicon Valley wants to fund. They do want to fund the apps and the tech. And they don't understand maybe the baker's the makers and all the…
Karl: [7:59] You can't eat an app.
Rico: [8:01] No you can't. And it's not sexy and it doesn't provide the return in the short term that they want. It's a lot different, you know. So coming into an area like Metro Atlanta where most of the startups are not necessarily tech startups. They're mainly business things that we would normally eat drink and be merry with. But real different than in Silicon Valley.
Karl: [8:24] Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I've looked at data and studies shows. It's probably somewhere north of 95 percent of businesses are not tech businesses. Your Main Street businesses, your neighborhood pizza shop, the person that fixes your car. These are the businesses that drive our economy and they're found in every neighborhood. And these business leaders also are really important in the community that they're in, they're typically community leaders. They're making sure that resources are being applied to problems. Their sense on the pulse of that area in there. It's a great foundation for leaders and community, which is interesting. When you think of the program Start Me probably, describe what it is and in particular, I'm going to put you on the spot because you know part of the Emory School You got to tell me; what is the problem that Start Me is trying to solve?
Erin: [9:19] Yeah, absolutely. So it actually ties back to your question about the work that we do at Social Enterprises, so the program kind of originally grew out of research and so a lot of our fieldwork programs are kind of tied to research in that way. But one of my colleagues, Professor Peter Roberts, was really looking at what some of the differences are between communities with higher concentrations of poverty and lower concentrations of poverty across the United States. So kind of zip code by zip code. And one of the things that he found was that there really isn't a market difference in the number of big businesses per capita, but there's on average about a 26 percent gap in the number of micro businesses per capita. And so those are your local Moms and Pops. It's your auto body shops, it's your catering companies, it's your local hair salons and natural hair care providers. And if you're not finding those in and around your community, you're finding them elsewhere. They're not necessarily creating jobs. They're not necessarily offering a gathering space for people who live there and they're not attracting outside resources into the community. And so, you know, twenty-six percent gap for kind of an average population neighborhood would translate to 125 to 150 local small businesses. And so the program really originally grew out of that as we were looking at other cities or other neighborhoods around
Metro Atlanta that maybe aren't necessarily served by the wonderful services you can get at Atlanta Tech Village or ATDC because they're not necessarily as tech focused.
Rico: [10:50] So did you find the economic issue as part of that? I mean was there a correlation there as far as poor neighborhoods had a bigger gap?
Erin: [10:59] Poorer neighborhoods have that gap and so that's where if you're looking at high poverty residential neighborhoods, residential urban neighborhoods versus low poverty residential urban neighborhoods. What you'll see is about a 26 percent gap and so, you know, you're not seeing that gap in Midtown or Buckhead but you're seeing that and in some of the neighborhoods that we operate in and then and also in many other neighborhoods in and around Metro Atlanta, and frankly cities across the United States. So this is not an Atlanta specific thing, but we particularly operate in those communities that are historically under-served, really trying to foster and build the businesses that are growing there that have a tide of those communities and that feed into that local economic and social vitality.
Rico: [11:45] So what can you do? What does the organization do that's actionable that's ground, that's on the ground that you know… I mean, yeah, that's on the ground accessory that you can say you can do this and within weeks or months, you'll be at a better place.
Erin: [11:59] Yeah, and we try to do everything physically on the ground in the communities that we operate in. So we, Start Me as a 14 Session placed base accelerator program for small businesses. So we're really focused on those micro businesses. Typically that's one to five employees, including the founders, less than fifty thousand dollars in start-up capital. Oftentimes far less than fifty thousand dollars in start-up capital and you know, we've worked with everything from farmers to freight truckers to beer brewers to natural hair care providers. So it really runs the gambit of what you find in and around your neighborhood or what you might be looking for. If you're a resident or an employee of a particular neighborhood. We run in three Metro Atlanta communities. We originally started in the Clarkston Community serving entrepreneurs and that economic corridor that also is kind of inclusive of Tucker and Stone Mountain. We also operate in the Economic Corridor of Edgewood Kirkwood and Eastlake and then the southside of Atlanta, which is a really large geography, south of I-20 ITP. But really try to support the entrepreneurs who live there, who work there, who provide valuable products and services to those communities. We deliver sessions in community. So we're meeting at local schools from meeting at local community centers, and we're really trying to bring an injection of business know-how, what do you need in order to effectively operate an early stage small business. Networks are really frankly that probably the most important piece of that and that's peer entrepreneurs who are operating different businesses. But also going through a very similar entrepreneurial journey, all the ups and downs and kind of empowerment and challenges that that entails and having a network to draw upon there. And then we bring in with each cohort of 15 to 18 businesses, we bring in 20 to 25 volunteer business mentors from all walks of life, but with a lot of collective expertise and collective passion for small business who really work hand in hand with those entrepreneurs to build and grow businesses. And then each
Community has a peer selected capital component as well. So we have ten thousand dollars in grant funds for each community and the entrepreneurs and mentors peer select and allocate that capital over the course of the program.
Karl: [14:16] So one thing that you mentioned in each one, what is a typical session feel like? Give us a sense of.. what if I'm an entrepreneur and I show up in one of these what can I expect?
Erin: [14:27] That's a good question. So, I mean it is an accelerator. It's not a class and so we don't want it ever to feel like, I read at people for three hours from a book or any of my colleagues do either. We open every session with dinner. It's a great way to break bread with your neighbors, build connections with entrepreneurs and with mentors. We like to share some accelerated moments if you will and so that's both the things that have gone really well in your business. That's towards achieving major goals or milestones and then also the struggles. Things don't always go well and sometimes it's really hard to find a safe space to share that and we try to foster that safe space. We have a short curriculum component to every session and each one is a little different but you know, whether we're introducing the key components of a business plan or walking through business financials, whatever that piece is, we try to keep that really short and then you spend the rest of the time applying it to the actual small businesses in the room. So entrepreneurs and mentors are working hand-in-hand to take those concepts and start to put that into place. So we want every business over the course of 14 sessions to exit of course with strong relationships and good networks, but also a short concise actionable business plan that they use and continue to build upon. We want them to have a good understanding of their financials. We want them to have really good comfort telling their business story to a wide variety of different stakeholders and to feel like coming out of an intensive and yet also very short 14 session roughly three month period of time that they kind of have that acceleration to their business and are kind of moving towards their strategic goals for where they want to take that business.
Rico: [16:09] This way they don't feel alone out there on the prairie doing the work. And sometimes you feel alone. But yeah, just doing the work in a small business and sometimes you just gravitate to what you do best. I think you mentioned that. And you know to rejoin, you get stuck doing things maybe you shouldn't be doing and other people should be doing and you have to grow that business.
Karl: [16:31] There's a simple example of that that plays out. You take the financials and if you were to ask most small business owners, what's your goal on profitability? And they'll answer the question probably saying; make profit. But if they had to break that down and say well, where is that going to come from? How much? How much revenue do you need? What are the costs are going to have to do? They often don't sit down and kind of put that on paper. But in a session where they're putting that down on paper with peers, with other entrepreneurs as well as mentors, they start realizing; maybe I'm not charging enough to cover my costs. Now imagine not doing that math on paper before you actually go out there and start implementing it. By the
time you find out that you're not, that the math isn't working. You're already in debt. You're already struggling, you're already frustrated. So you could avoid a lot of those things just by getting some of those ideas and said well, you know, maybe I can increase the price but can I lower the cost? Or my portion is this. If a simple caterer may do a delicious meal but you look at the portion that it can serve four people and most people aren't going to eat four people's worth of food. And so there's a cost savings of maybe they only serve for two people. So that's some of the exciting things that in the session you see people actually the light bulb going off and clicking and it's just wonderful to see that.
Erin: [17:58] I think it also helps, again, to realize that you're not alone. I would say the biggest fear that folks, and this is broad strokes, but that we see kind of coming into it as most folks are either afraid of standing up and talking about their business or they're afraid of that financial session. You start to see people even been with well, I might be sick that week. You're probably not sick that week, that's in two months. And you know part of that is saying, is making it clear to them that they're not by themselves. They're not the only person who's been kicking that can down the road and you do definitely get people who are like; so I've finally crunched the numbers and I've realized I'm losing X number of dollars on every single thing I sell, what do I do? And then you at least have something to act on and you can start to think about what the right lever is that you can tweak. But otherwise you're just doing what you love and you don't realize that it's not necessarily working for you.
Rico: [18:54] Right, until it's too late. The mentors that you bring out do they stay consistent with it? Do they sort of hook up with the individual entrepreneurs or startups? You know, are they in relation with them for a period of time? Or does it vary?
Erin: [19:09] So it's a bit of both. So we work with the cohorts of about 15 to 18 businesses. 22-25 mentors and we have people rotate around for the first several weeks. And that's so that everybody kind of gets a feel for the different businesses in the room, the different skill sets in the room, and trying to find a little bit of that art, if you will, of who clicks. And around week 4 we assign dedicated teams, and typically that's about two businesses and about three mentors. And we try to really match people with those that they've clicked with. So you know, kind of expressed a particular interest in continuing to work with. But then also mentors that have a variety of different skill sets and so perhaps they have particular industry expertise that's related to the businesses at their table. But otherwise trying to make sure that you know, we're putting together folks who have experience with operations and marketing and communications and finance at the same table so that collectively they have that expertise that really serves the needs of the small businesses.
Karl: [20:08] And I would say it also extends beyond the room. It's been about a couple of hours, 2 to 3 hours working on it, but then the phone calls after, midweek where, here's my second iteration on my plan. Can you take a look at it? Or it could be an introduction to someone. Here is a retailer that might carry the product that I'm doing. They mentored me, have networks or people that they make those introduction they may bring them to events. So the role of the
mentor plays, is expands beyond just a session and years later, you will see the mentors. And even if you don't directly work with them during the session, through the social events that happened you might connect with someone else that's in another business and you might help them along a path as well.
Rico: [21:00] It's all about networking.
Karl: [21:02] Yeah, it's a critical component. I see it in a lot of successful businesses. You would think, you know, you have a better product and you execute, but the relationships you build, the people that could open doors. I heard the term the other day; the rich uncle. And most successful businesses, I thought it was a beautiful way of describing it, you might have someone that, I know a guy. You need printing material done in particular way, I know a guy. and when you're a struggling entrepreneur and some of these communities you may not know that person that knows how to do that thing. And if you can get connected that can help you, you know, get over a hurdle that like.
Rico: [21:42] That's funny, in New York we used to call it, it would be the rabbi. I had the rabbi. My rabbi tells me this, even though I'm a Catholic, doesn't matter. Everyone has a rabbi.
Karl: [21:51] Everyone has someone that's able to do that. So if someone was starting a business, you know early on, so your experience of working with all these entrepreneurs. Any tips and advice you'd give to someone that's either thinking about starting a business or in that early stage of starting it? Any advice you'd give to those folks?
Erin: [22:12] That's a great question, you know, we're actually in the midst of the application cycle now, and so I'm meeting with lots of entrepreneurs who are thinking about starting businesses. Are currently operating businesses and looking for additional support that have been operating for a long time. So I've been having similar discussions and you know, I tailor it a little bit around what they want to do and where they are, but with a lot of folks it's encouraging people to just start. Sometimes they're waiting for the perfect moment, that exact perfect confluence of events. If you will, they want the perfect program the perfect partner, the perfect market conditions. And if you wait it might never happen. And if you know that you're passionate about it, you just start and that way you at least can start doing it on your own time on your own terms and you can figure out what you're looking for. Sometimes what you figure out is; you didn't really need any of those things that you were waiting for in the first place. You know, there are tons of different resources out there both online and then in person. Lots of workshops to get people started, regardless of where they are, if they're a serial entrepreneur and they've done this a bunch of times or this is the first time and they're thinking about starting out on their own. There are so many different support programs out there and kind of resources that they can access.
Rico: [23:28] So you don't have to feel alone.
Erin: [23:30] Exactly. You're not alone.
Rico: [23:32] Right. You always ask about the bookkeeping or the money. I have this idea for an app or I have this idea for a clothing company. How do I get that process going? That could be scary. I mean, I love talking shop, but that could be scary to a young person not knowing what they're doing.
Erin: [23:49] Yeah, and actually what's interesting, you know, we run a program with High school students in the summertime and the younger people are less fearful in some ways. Like they come up with an idea and they're like, I love it, I'm doing it, and I'm going to make this work. And I think sometimes there's a little bit of that fear as you maybe get a little further on in your career. Or maybe even a little more afraid to put that idea out there with the risk that someone will say they don't get it or they don't like it. And maybe that person's probably not your target audience.
Rico: [24:17] And that person could also be paying the bills and because they're too far along in life, maybe. Where they're thinking, I've just got to pay the bills.
Karl: [24:27] You even find very often, a lot of people that work for large corporations get trained on having all of the data. And having you know, a business plan that's 40 pages with with all of that. And I've seen people that will write all of that stuff for years and they never start doing anything. So this concept of agile, being quick, fast fail. A business plan could be drafted on a piece of paper. There's a couple of key questions you've got to answer. It doesn't have to be complex, but it's enough for you to examine the business model on what you're trying to do and who your customers are and how you're going to make money and how you're going to find your customers to get you started and guess what's going to happen. Even if you did a 40 page business plan, three months in guess what? The world changes, you've got to pivot, got to change. So it's more dynamic.
Rico: [25:19] But doesn't that, isn't that a little different from how, I mean the world is funny. That's my rent yet the bank wants to see a business plan. But then venture capitalists really want to see the passion, they don't are about the business plan. They just want to see what you're doing and they want to see proof of concept maybe. Or if it's way before that, they just want to know that you're really so into it that you can bleed it before you leave. Yeah, I mean so different ways.
Karl: [25:46] It is. But I'll also say the the 40 page business plan can be a way to hide that you don't know what's important. If someone's asking to invest money, whether it's a bank lending you money. The people that do better can explain what their business is. They could explain who their customers are, they could explain how they're going to make money out of it and what's critical to success. And whether they do it on one page or a five minute pitch or they do it on a half hour or an hour long presentation and 40 pages. The essence of that, you gotta still answer those questions in there. And so for small businesses, if we're talking micro-businesses,
you don't need a 40 page business plan. You know to get started you need to, you need to think through some things, but it's about taking action and being prepared to put yourself out there. There's no illusion, every entrepreneur I think would tell you it's a lot of hard work at the beginning but the passion carries them through a support network around them. A little bit of knowledge will carry them a pretty long way.
Erin: [26:55] And I think it's okay to be comfortable with the fact that it's not going to be perfect the first time. The first time you outline or draft your business plan. You're going to get a bunch of things wrong, but you've got to make smart assumptions and figure out what you don't yet know and then revisit it. And it's a living document that will grow and change over time or you hope it grows and changes over time. But I think taking that first leap and putting some words down on paper goes a long way and then doubling back a little bit to what we were talking about before. You know, find a network, find people who have gone through a similar experience, who are micro business owners and in different industries or the same industry. And find mentors who can coach you and support you and are really just excited to see you thrive. And there are different ways that you can do that, whether you're an extroverted person and you love to go to networking oriented events, or there are a lot of ways that you can do that work for more introverted individuals as well. But I think finding those people who are good sounding boards who don't have as much of the emotional investment that you have and maybe can see past some of the flaws can be invaluable in helping you cultivate that early stage business idea.
Karl: [28:08] So I'm curious. This sounds, this is a great program and it's out there for folks. But what if you're in the business community and you know, you want to get involved. What are the ways that they can help their communities and/or get involved with this program?
Erin: [28:25] That's a good question and there's a couple of different ways that we sort of broadly engage different people. So one is in investing in local community programs. So that's you know in supporting programs like ours that are free and support local small businesses in Metro Atlanta. But there are also other organizations and programs out there that are doing really important work. And in order to do that, you need financial resources in order to make that continue to work. You can also invest your time. I mean a big part of the value of what we bring together is bringing together networks of excited and engaged passionate people who are really passionate about supporting the entrepreneurs in the room. And so, so much of what we need is really good business skills, really good passion and you know, kind of that passion for helping others and asking the right questions. And you know, kind of supporting the growth and interests of others who are starting small businesses. And then the last thing is, you know, being a good community member yourself. You know, some of that is captured in small business Saturday, you know one day a year. But that is supporting your local businesses. That's sourcing locally. That's you know, finding local providers if you're looking for a website or you're looking for a wine shop or whatever it might be. And that doesn't mean that everything you buy needs to be local, but you can find a lot of wonderful local businesses through business owners associations, by looking at the shops around you, by figuring out what the kinds of businesses that your neighbors are operating formally or informally out of their homes and supporting that.
Karl: [30:04] And you think about the holiday season is coming up and I know lots of people are going to be doing gifts for various reasons. Not only is it around Thanksgiving, the season for giving, there's a lot of gifts that are being given. Supporting your local small business in these communities is a great way. If they wanted to learn, where they can find some of these businesses out there where they can purchase things and support in that way how do they find that?
Erin: [30:31] So we, on our own website keep a kind of a Shopping Guide if you will of our local small businesses. So we worked with about 200 businesses across Metro Atlanta and you know, they do everything. If you think about it, so, you know, some are offering the kinds of products and services that you might typically see around the holidays, so lots of different caterers. You know for after the holidays, we've got lots of folks that are focused on health and wellness and physical fitness. You know, we have folks who are doing lawn care and repair and help people get their homes ready with spring cleaning, you know for small business owners. We have those who work in, you know, digital media and build beautiful websites. So they kind of run the gambit. But you know, those are two hundred businesses that collectively are doing wonderful things in Atlanta, but you can also find lots of great businesses right around you, wherever you are. I mean looking around Peachtree Corner, there are corners, excuse me. There are so many right here that you'd be able to draw upon and that's you know, walking into a local shop and asking. That's you know, when something pops up in a social media news feed that's a local business that's checking it out. There are great festivals and events and Becraft experience is always a really fun one if you're interested in makers and you know, kind of handmade and vintage products.
Rico: [31:54] And Johns Creek Festival just had, I think it was this past week. Lots of local makers there.
Erin: [32:01] Yeah Refuge Market over at Refuge coffee. And in Clarkston is a wonderful one and that's a lot of new Americans and refugees that are building and selling beautiful products and a lot of times those are really fun things to pick out for others. I'm not necessarily much of a shopper myself, but I love shopping for other people and I think it's really fun to find something that looks like it would be really special to a parent or significant other or a child. And feel like I put a lot of thought and energy into selecting something for them.
Rico: [32:32] It's always nice to find something different rather than going for the same product at the same three stores that's mass produced.
Karl: [32:38] And there's often a story behind it. When you see a lot of these products, where it was made, how it was made, the traditions or culture that's built into it is also a great way to get. And what if somebody wanted to be a mentor, how do they get involved in that process?
Erin: [32:53] That's a great question. So we do engage a lot of mentors. We have about 80 volunteer mentors across our three programs. Our programs largely run from January through the very beginning of April. And so what we really have mentors do is they're there week in and week out meeting and working with entrepreneurs. So it's a very much a Hands-On role. And then throughout the rest of the year we do other programming. You had mentioned some of the social activities. We do also mentor office hours for mentors continue to kind of plug-in. So we do try to continue to foster that network. Folks can really find a lot of that information on our website. So we're at StartMeATL.org there is a mentor tab for under a kind of get involved and you know who we're working with but you know, we work with business professionals from across Metro Atlanta with a wide variety of different skill sets. Entrepreneurs often times make fantastic mentors, they get what it's like to work on a business and in a business and balancing wearing all of the hats with also everything else going on in and around their lives.
Rico: [33:54] And if people aren't ready yet they can go to Facebook or Instagram for Start Me ATL.
Erin: [33:59] Exactly, yeah. We're all over our social media as well. That's where you can certainly also find out about local small businesses to shop. But we can all, you can also find out about ways to continue to engage and I think it's a fun way to put your business skills to work in supporting other individuals. And you know, I find it to be really rewarding to be there week in and week out. But it's really fascinating to see how much ground you can cover in a small business and how much excitement people have coming out of a 14 session accelerator for you know what the months and years after that hold.
Karl: [34:37] So the website is StartMeATL.org. If you want to find out more information about the Start Me program fine, and I know there's a deadline coming up soon for entrepreneurs people that are looking. When are applications due Erin?
Erin: [34:54] They're due this weekend. So it's an exciting stretch for us. Yeah, we're approaching the very end of our application cycle for entrepreneurs interested in going through the program come January. So we're open through October 20th, and then all applications go through a detailed paper review. We do a selection night and from all the applications were selecting 15 to 18 businesses per cohort and then we're running also all those cohorts in parallel. So we've got, we're in Eastlake on Tuesdays, Clarkston on Wednesdays and the Southside on Thursdays working with entrepreneurs, you know, kind of night after night after night to build those businesses.
Rico: [35:30] If they miss the 20th and the sessions start in January is there another set of sessions later in the year next year?
Erin: [35:38] That's our next set of sessions for kind of accelerator for this particular program. We do also keep a really detailed resources page. So we think, not only is it important to support entrepreneurs through our program but really important to connect people to other
resources in and around Metro Atlanta and then also online. So we keep a running calendar of upcoming events that we think are really helpful to small businesses. And then we have links to the different organizations that are doing really important work in these different communities. Whether it's for those who are just trying to decide if entrepreneurship is a good fit, to those who are operating really established businesses and just looking for that support system as they're kind of taking the next step in scaling or expanding or even thinking about selling.
Karl: [36:25] Well, I want to thank you so much Erin for joining us today. Erin Is programmatically with Start Me and works at Emory University business school. You shared a lot of information, a lot of insight for people. And I don't know if people realize how much is going out there in the community. And just being aware that there's resources available for people to be entrepreneurs. And it's not always have to be a big tech idea. It could be as simple as a micro business that is being grown and there's support there for that. We'd also like to thank Atlanta Tech Park for hosting The Capitalist Sage podcast. We're here every month and get to talk with folks and have a great conversation about business. Great place to work, great environment to follow your entrepreneurial pursuits as they come through. Rico, what do we have coming up?
Rico: [37:28] There's so much going on. I just don't know where to start sometimes. But so let me hold this up. The Peachtree Corners magazine, yes, this is one of the jobs that I do, I own this magazine. It's a great magazine I think, I'm hoping everyone enjoys it. It comes out six times a year. The next issue is December/January. If you have someone under 20 that you want to nominate to our first 20 under 20 issue list, that would be great. It has to live in Peachtree Corners Middle School to High School, college. Someone that has had either an impact on the community or success with their own within their own lives. Whether it's sports or writing, performing, sciences. That's who we're looking for. Someone, an individual young person that would inspire others is essentially what we want. So that'll be the next issue. Deadline for that is October 31st. Visit our Facebook page, Instagram, or come to LivingInPeachtreeCorners.com and you'll find the page with information there. Aside from that I also do social media marketing, I do other things I'm in the middle of a product video I'm doing for a client. And the first time I'm ever doing stop-motion animation in my garage. I've set up the studio and it's a learning experience, but it's cool because you get, even at my age, you get to learn a lot of stuff that you haven't done before.
Karl: [38:52] Oh, fabulous. Well, I'm Karl Barham with TransWorld business advisors of Atlanta Peachtree. We help entrepreneurs at any stage, whether they're looking to find a business, to acquisition, where they're looking to exit their business and sell their business. We help them with that but where our passion is around, is really supporting the entrepreneurial, the small business community here in the Metro Atlanta area. You could find out more about our process and what we do at www.TWorld.com/Atlantapeachtree and just reach out if you're thinking of becoming an entrepreneur, I'd love to have a conversation with you and help you start planning for it. And if you're been in business for a while and you're looking for your next adventure, there's plenty, it's a good time to find the next leader of your business and we can help you with
that as well. Again, thank you Erin for joining us today. And we want to thank everybody out there for listening to this podcast and following us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube.
Rico: [40:01] You can listen to the YouTube Video from this which is well, when I post it. Or you can get the podcast on iHeart, Spotify, Boxcasts, SoundCloud, anywhere, iTunes. Anyway, you can find it.
Karl: [40:14] And LivingInPeachtreeCorners as well.
Rico: [40:16] LivingInPeachtreeCorners.com.
Karl: [40:18] .com. Absolutely. Well, thank you everybody. Have a great day.
Rico: [40:21] Thank you.
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It was a hot and smoky room as we filed into the Zepp Tokyo theater. Not to be confused with the Zepp DiverCity Tokyo theater just 1/2 a mile away, this one can be found under the giant Ferris Wheel on Tokyo Bay. The room was packed to the rafters – 800+ strong – and we all stood in anticipation. Suddenly there was a helpful announcement from the front – "This is a 3-hour show….


Wooden flooring is chic and stylish looking. It can be costly as well as labor consuming. Nordic Style Interlocking floor tiles are pure teak wood tiles that can be easily put together. There is no need for a professional help for you with this. It comes in options for the normal floor, shower tiles, as well as that suits for the pools.
The specialty is that it is made of teak that has many benefits. It is durable and resistant to all insects and termites. If you need any wood, it would be teak. Let's see what all we can find at the Nordic Style LLC.
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Where can you use Nordic Style interlocking tiles?
Why are the benefits of using teak for flooring?
Where Can You Use Nordic Premium Wood Interlocking Tiles?
These tiles are fit to use in balconies, patios, decks, roof tops, terrace, kitchen, closet, cellars and wine room, boats, office, salons, studios, showrooms, and almost anywhere.
When it comes to wooden flooring the best option is teak wood, for its endless qualities. For starters, it looks elegant and is there to stay for not just years but count it in centuries.
Strong and durable: teak wood is stronger and durable than any other wood. The flooring will last longer than you. Having the teak tiles from Nordic, you can even use it for the leased houses. Lay them when you move in taken them out when you are moving out. The teak quality stays the same everywhere in all climates.
Resist insects and termites: Teak is naturally resistant to wood insects and wood eaters. You will not find a single insect on this flooring. It is also not succumb to fungus or fungal stains.
Weather proof: Teak wood is weather proof and can maintain the temperature inside the home or room. It will not get too cold or too hot as in the case of other types of wood.
Rot and decay proof: Teak wood does not rot, no matter how long you put it in water. The wood is high density and cannot rot like the other wood. It is also resistant to the acidic or alkaline substances. You no longer need to worry about any hot liquid spills or of any kind for that matter. There will be no damage or stains.
Does not shrink: Teak wood does not expand in damp weather or shrink when it is too hot. It is moisture resistant.
Versatile: Teak wood looks elegant and can be matched with any kind of metal or furniture in the room. Having a teak flooring will not jeopardize your interior design in any manner.
There are 3 varieties of teak interlocking floor tiles. They are shower mat, string tile, and teak floor tiles. You will get 5 types of shower mats of varying sizes, 3 types of string tiles and 3 kinds of floor tiles to choose from.
The tiles are available in square or rectangle shapes. They have a rubber grip at the bottom to keep it in place. The tiles are exclusively distributed in USA. Being teak would make it resistant to weather and other damage. It takes only a few minutes to make the floor. The step by step instructions are also provided for you.
All the shower mats have slats with 1.1 inches thick. They are shipped in convenient sized boxes for each size. All the boxes are more than 2 inches thick for enough padding.
Teak shower mat 17.7 x 23.6 inches with frame: As mentioned there is a frame on all sides and the slats are fitted inside the frame. It makes a firmer mat and the slats stay in place. This is the smallest available shower mat made of teak. It comes oiled. It is easy to use or remove. It is non slip and is quite comfortable to be used for both indoor and outdoor showers.
Teak shower mat 19.6" x 19.6": This is a square shower mat with non slip finish. It has the slats placed at evenly spaced. The slats are joined at the base through 3 slats placed at the 2 sides and centre. It does not weigh too much as is easy for installation or removal. The slats are 1.1 inches in thickness. Rubber knobs are provided at the base of the connecting pieces.
Teak shower mat 19.6 x 31.4: This is a larger rectangle shaped shower mat with the slats evenly spaced from each other. The connectors are provided across at the bottom. One each on both ends and one is provided in the center. It fits for a larger shower space and can be used for both indoor and outdoor use. One large is enough for a stylish pool side shower for the look as well as finish. The teak wood is sent premium oiled and is made in easy to handle design.
Teak shower mat 19.6 x 31.4: This is also the same size as the previous one but differ in the design. Here the slats are arranged in zig-zag manner. The slats are placed in centrifugal manner. The bas connectors are also placed, 3 in normal across manner and 2 each on both sides are placed in slanting position to connect the designer slats above. Rubber knobs are added on all the connecting slats. This shower mat can be more stylish than all other designs.
Teak shower mat 19.6 x 31.4 inches with wide end slat: Once again a similarly larger sized teak shower mat with a better stability. Here, instead of 3 connectors there are 4 provided. 2 each on the sides and two are placed closer to the center. In addition to this, it has wider slats added at the ends. This shower mat is quite ok for heavier people to have better stability. The teak comes oiled and easy to place and handle.
The teak string tiles use thinner slats that are only 0.5 inches in thickness. The slats of the specific length are strung together with the slats spaced evenly. The mat can be rolled for keep sake. The slats have rubber knobs provided at the base for grip. It stays on the place and avoids any slipping accident.
Teak String tile 19.6" x 19.6": This square shaped string mat uses 19.6 inches long slats. Enough number of slats is added to make it square shaped. It folds in the same manner the slats are placed. Two strings are used to join the slats together. The product is rolled and shipped in convenient sized box. Using thinner slats make the string tiles light weighted than the other shower mat. The square string tile is dark oiled for a darker look.
Teak String Tile 19.6" x 31.4" with wide end slat: Here the slats used are longer and measures to 31.4 inches long. They are connected width wise and folds in the same manner. The slats used here are 0.6 inches thick. This teak string tile is premium oiled. Another special feature is that the end slats are wider than others. This is suitable for shower use indoors or outdoors. Rubber knobs are provided at 4 places in each slat for this teak string tile from Nordic Style.
Teak string tile 19.6 x 31.6": Here the slats used are shorter, measuring to 19.6" and are placed in enough number to make it 31.6 inches long. This premium oiled teak slats does NOT have rubber knobs attached to them but is firm on the floor it is placed. The design is non-slippery. It can be used for indoor and outdoor showers. The slats used are 0.5 inches thick.
The interlocking tiles come in square shaped tiles. The tiles differ in number of slats in each tile. There will be 10 pieces in each box. You may measure the room intended and find the total area. Choose the tiles according to the size.
The teak interlocking tiles can be cut to fit on the sides or corner. The tiles can be connected through the corner and side locks, so cutting will not affect its fitting. There are 3 types of teak tiles, one with 9 slats per square, and another with 12 slats, and the last one with 18 slats. More the number of slats, lesser will be the size of it added in the tiles. All the tiles measures to 11.8 x 11.8 inches with 0.9" thick slats.
The slats are placed over an elastic PVC resin and secured with stainless steel wood screws. Each tile weighs about 1 ¾ lbs and each box with 10 tiles would be 22 lb in weight when packed.
Teak tile 12 slats: the 12 slats used are placed in zig-zag fashion. The floor will have this mixed feel and looks quite fashionable. Each box will have 10 pieces of tiles. The tiles can be interconnected in either direction. The teak is premium oiled, smooth, beautiful, and comfortable.
Teak tile 9 slats: These 9 slats interlocking teak tile has the slats paced parallel to each other. The tiles are quite flexible to use in any manner you choose like. It can be placed horizontally, vertically or on zig-zag positions. The wood is premium oiled and looks stylish. Once placed parallel to each other it is difficult to note that the wood is tiles joined together.
Teak tile zig-zag 18 slats: This one is my favorite. The smaller slats are added 18 in number per sq ft area. as usual there are 10 pieces per box. The wood is premium oiled, long lasting, non-slippery, and versatile in use.
Start with measuring the floor and choose appropriate sized tiles, enough in number. The tiles can be cut easily so no need to worry about the smaller spaces left. Be careful to use only sharp saw and cutting tools.
Clean the intended surface. Start laying the tiles from one corner to the other. Lock the tiles together with just a click and the tile is secured in its place.
For the sides, if the tiles are too big, cut it to size and use the corner and left over sides to lock the tiles together. The finishing would be professional looking and would be difficult to find one end of the tile from the other. It makes a completely seamless floor once finished.
Once you get the knack of it, it is only a matter of minutes before you see the brand new flooring of your chosen room. If you want to remove the flooring, find one end of the tile and un-click the lock to remove. This is better option for roof top than other types of tiles. In case of a leakage, locate the spot and remove one tile to check the damage and repair it. When you are done, replace the tile in its place. No demolition or extra work needed. Jut un-click and click.
Once paid the amount all products are shipped within 24 hours, as long as it is in stock. Items are shipped via UPS or fed ex by ground. It may take 2-3 days or an optional overnight delivery. Shipping takes about 5 business days to reach the East Coast. Places closer to Nevada will get the items faster.
All shipments are insured. The customer HAS to check the products upon receiving for any damaged happened during the transportation. If there is any damage, get the signature of the driver for you to be able to return the product and get the insurance. Taking a picture of the damage is also recommended. All products are shipped bubble wrapped.
The return policy is quite strict. The customer will have to bear the return shipment charges for any damage that is not from the company's side. The return period is 15 days from delivery date.


The third block for the Block A-Palooza was posted on Monday. On Tuesday, once I dropped the girls at the sitter I decided to piece the block. I've found it very therapeutic AND piecing is not an easy thing for me – I'm not super good at being precise so it's been a good practice in patience.
And here are all three of the blocks in row! I'm really loving the mystery of all this!
Love the variety of these blocks. I can't spot the fabric from my shop though. Which is it?


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Vibration white finger
Title: Vibration white finger
Subject: Coalclaims, Electrical burn, External cause, Acoustical engineering, Chronic mountain sickness
Collection: Lawsuits, Mechanical Vibrations, Overuse Injuries, Skin Conditions Resulting from Physical Factors, Tort Law
Vibration white finger (VWF), also known as hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) or dead finger,[1]) is a secondary form of Raynaud's syndrome, an industrial injury triggered by continuous use of vibrating hand-held machinery. Use of the term "vibration white finger" has generally been superseded in professional usage by broader concept of HAVS, although it is still used by the general public. The symptoms of vibrating white finger are the vascular component of HAVS.
HAVS is a widespread recognized industrial disease affecting tens of thousands of workers. It is a disorder that affects the blood vessels, nerves, muscles, and joints, of the hand, wrist, and arm. Its best known effect is vibration-induced white finger (VWF), a term introduced by the Industrial Injury Advisory Council in 1970. Injury can occur at frequencies between 5 and 2000 Hz but the greatest risk is between 50 and 150 Hz.
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Excessive exposure to hand arm vibrations can result in various patterns of diseases casually known as HAVS or VWF. This can affect nerves, joints, muscles, blood vessels or connective tissues of the hand and forearm:
Tingling 'whiteness' or numbness in the fingers (blood vessels and nerves affected): This may not be noticeable at the end of a working day, and in mild cases may affect only the tips of the fingers. As the condition becomes more severe, the whole finger down to the knuckles may become white. Feeling may also be lost.
Fingers change colour (blood vessels affected): With continued exposure the person may suffer periodic attacks in which the fingers change colour when exposed to the cold. Initially the fingers rapidly become pale and feeling is lost. This phase is followed by an intense red flush (sometimes preceded by a dusky bluish phase) signalling the return of blood circulation to the fingers and is usually accompanied by uncomfortable throbbing.
Loss of manual dexterity (nerves and muscles affected): In more severe forms, attacks may occur frequently in cold weather, not only at work, but during leisure activities, such as gardening, car washing or even watching outdoor sports and may last up to an hour causing considerable pain and loss of manual dexterity and reduced grip strength.
In extreme cases, the sufferer may lose fingers. The effects are cumulative. When symptoms first appear, they may disappear after a short time. If exposure to vibration continues over months or years, the symptoms can worsen and become permanent.[2]
The symptoms were first described by Professor Giovanni Loriga in Italy in 1911, although the link was not made between the symptoms and vibrating hand tools until a study undertaken by Alice Hamilton MD in 1918. She formed her theory through following the symptoms reported by quarry cutters and carvers in Bedford, Indiana. She also discovered the link between an increase in HAV symptoms and cold weather as 1918 was a particularly harsh winter.
The first scale for assessing the condition, the Taylor-Pelmear scale, was published in 1975, but it was not listed as a prescribed disease in the United Kingdom until 1985, and the Stockholm scale was introduced in 1987. In 1997, the UK High Court awarded £127,000 in compensation to seven coal miners for vibration white finger. A UK government fund set up to cover subsequent claims by ex-coalminers had exceeded £100 million in payments by 2004.
The Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005, created under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.[3] is the legislation in the UK that governs exposure to vibration and assists with preventing HAVS occurring.
Good practice in industrial health and safety management requires that worker vibration exposure is assessed in terms of acceleration amplitude and duration. Using a tool that vibrates slightly for a long time can be as damaging as using a heavily vibrating tool for a short time. The duration of use of the tool is measured as trigger time, the period when the worker actually has their finger on the trigger to make the tool run, and is typically quoted in hours per day. Vibration amplitude is quoted in metres per second squared, and is measured by an accelerometer on the tool or given by the manufacturer. Amplitudes can vary significantly with tool design, condition and style of use, even for the same type of tool.
In the UK, Health and Safety Executive gives the example of a hammer drill which can vary from 6 m/s² to 25 m/s². HSE publishes a list of typically observed vibration levels for various tools, and graphs of how long each day a worker can be exposed to particular vibration levels. This makes managing the risk relatively straightforward. Tools are given an Exposure Action Value (EAV, the time which a tool can be used before action needs to be taken to reduce vibration exposure) and an Exposure Limit Value (ELV, the time after which a tool may not be used).
In the United States, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health published a similar database where values for sound power and vibrations for commonly found tools from large commercial vendors in the United States were surveyed. Further testing is underway for more and newer tools.
The effect of legislation in various countries on worker vibration limits has been to oblige equipment providers to develop better-designed, better-maintained tools, and for employers to train workers appropriately. It also drives tool designers to innovate to reduce vibration. Some examples are the easily manipulated mechanical arm (EMMA)[4] and the suspension mechanism designed into chainsaws.
Reactive monitoring
A simpler system, known as re-active monitoring, may be used by, for example, monitoring rates of usage of consumable items. Such a system was introduced by Carl West at a fabrication workshop in Rotherham, England. In this system, the vibration levels of the angle grinding tools in use was measured, as was the average life of a grinding disk. Thus by recording numbers of grinding disks used, vibration exposure may be calculated.[5]
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UK Health and Safety Executive
NIOSH Power Tools Sound Power and Vibrations Database
HSE webpage HAV case studies
Mechanical vibrations
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Occupational safety and health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Psychology, Medicine, Washington, D.C.
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Hey y'all! I am so excited. For me, designing my own kitchen is probably the best part of this whole remodeling process. After all, the kitchen is the 'heart of the home', right? This week we had an appointment with Lyndsey Davis Nicklas at Kitchens by Clay right here in Naples. My husband and I met with Lyndsey several weeks ago to discuss the project and today she showed us 3 different layouts for our new kitchen.
Before I show you the layouts, I want to show you how the kitchen looks now. Totally gutted. Bad cabinets, gone. Bad countertops, gone. Bad laminate, gone. Wall that separated the living to dining room, gone. It is so much more open. Looks good, right? haha!
Layout 1 – This is sort of how the kitchen was before, with an L shape on one side. See my huge island? It is 130″ long and remains the same size in all the layouts. It is HUGE. Over 10 feet long. Just what I wanted! Now, finding a countertop this large might be hard (and expensive) but we will cross that bridge later.
Layout 2 – L wall upper cabinets gone but peninsula remains.
Layout 3 – Totally open, L shape gone.
We are going with option 3! We will also be adding at least one more upper and lower cabinet to the wall with the stove/fridge. The island will have cabinets on both sides and maybe even a wine fridge. Any other items that are must haves? Any advice?
Jodi love number 3! Just a suggestion I wish we had an ice maker seep rate from the frig in our kitchen.
I'd definitely plan for a pull-out trash and recycle bin. I had it installed and I love it!
LOVE option 3! So excited you are doing this project, we are adding on right now and doing an all new kitchen,living room, etc and I love how you decorate so I'm excited to 'borrow' ideas 🙂 one thing we did we have an island going in that is 9.5 feet we made it so the seats are an L and put all the cabinets at one end and are using legs to support the other end. This way we aren't in a straight line and can talk easily. We are using this in place of a kitchen table. And I agree with the other post the pull out trash and recycle we out one in the island and one near the sink. I can't wait to see more!!!
Thanks girls for the idea's. I've had a trash/recycle pull out in our MA house and will most definitely putting one in here!
Kristin, that is so cool! Love your island idea. Decisions, decisions, decisions!
a pull out fridge that looks like a cabinet just for the kids for their drinks and cold snacks!
ooooh, I like that idea! Thanks Alicia!
I love option 3…can't wait to see the rest!


锘? Healthy lifestyles have been on the news today. First we saw a video of a day in the newly created city of ten million people people on the Pearl River delta near Hong Kong in China. We see a before photo of a quiet rice farming valley http://www.teampackersmall.com/c-25-packers-ha-ha-clinton-dix-jerse... , and then as it is now. a valley of high tower buildings with a massive harbor, apparently with that vast harbor in Japan, now largest harbor in the world. How did this happen in a decade?
China basically recreated and doubled nearby Hong Kong. They allowed ten million peasants to leave their farms and pour into town. Most high tech factories have vast scales of mostly female workers who earn an average of $120.00 a month. They stay about two years and then go home for a while, to be replaced by another. It is an amazing, magnificent, brand new city that has much of the industry of China, and we walk along massive wharves piled high with cargo crates.
We are told that a ship leaves one of the harbors every second, day and night, every day of the year. Mostly to America, these manufactured high tech goods fill each ship on the way to America. We are told they return with scrap metal and scrap paper.
Then a news story that Tata Motors of India are growing so fast that their feel they have outgrown their one billion people market of India. So they have bought Jaguar and Land Rover, in hopes to further expand. The empires are being struck back at and bought up.
So http://www.teampackersmall.com/c-46-packers-eddie-lacy-jersey.aspx , naturally, the next news story is that the French President had a lovely reception and ride through London town with the Queen of England in her most fancy white horse and carriage parade, with the British playing the French national anthem. Then to show today's inheritor of modern France, not Napoleon, but the newest chap with his young girl friend. She and Prince Phillip chatted in the lesser carriage that followed the Queen and Napoleon.
And then, not using an Indian owned Jaguar, nor an Indian owned Land Rover, they made their way out of town to her English created Windsor Castle, which the grandson of her ancestor Queen Victoria, born in Germany, changed the family name to. And as this was such a special occasion http://www.teampackersmall.com/c-44-packers-don-barclay-jersey.aspx , our modern Napoleon would not have his historic sleep at her modest town house of Buckingham Palace. No, this was to be the real old thing.
Napoleon so ached to sleep here, but never forced his way in. And never had an invitation. So it is good and healthy that those two old mortal enemies are realizing their common blood, bonds, heritage and humanity. Even those common enemies our modern Napoleon says we share in common, and we do, are human as well.
So even while another tiger from Asia arrives on the world scene, it is a good balance perhaps that India outbid China on this purchase. Because the next show was British sports, which includes cricket, soccer, and rugby http://www.teampackersmall.com/c-41-packers-demetri-goodson-jersey.... , and I saw India beat New Zealand in one of those sports. Which here in Canada is all Greek to us. That is perhaps news to an American, that we here in Canada are well known as outside the club in those good British sports.
Cultures merge and blend. With the British Empire, certain sports became embedded around the world. Yet in Canada, instead we watch our local hero Steve Nash be the best basketball player in America, and we beam with pride. We tell ourselves he is best because he is a giver; he hands off the ball when he steals it, where the loud taller stars are takers, and do not help their mates excel as does our Canadian icon, Steve. I happen to know the local original school coach for Steve.
The high school coach of Steve Nash of basketball says Steve devoted himself to whatever he tried. Too short for basketball in the big leagues, he tried harder.The coach saw the change one day, when Steve changed from kicking a soccer ball to bouncing a basketball to and from school each day.
Steve fondles that ball so much he feels an empathy with the basketball, sleeps with it I am sure.And on the floor http://www.teampackersmall.com/c-45-packers-david-bakhtiari-jersey.... , if it is in the hands of someone else, it is not theirs, and he must rescue it, and so he does. Steve has found that Gretsky sense of steal and pass to who is closest the net. And this has caused Steve to make greater those around him, or the net. Such leaders as Steve who do that are truly great.When Steve Nash from Victoria and Phoenix outplays men a foot taller than him, we all cheer. We could paraphrase JFK that even if a wall is built between Canada and America, we will still say "ich bin ein Phoenixer". And if Canada has a cricket hero, I have never heard of him.
Canadian are too close to the Americans, the rest of the old British Empire says. Canadians even understand, and play those American games. It is true. Cultures merge in various ways, and hold to their common center. The irony here is that all the world except Canada and America know that game of soccer we call http://www.teampackersmall.com/c-22-packers-dave-robinson-jersey.aspx , football they call, is the sport of the world. When France won the World Cup, Paris was ablaze with fireworks, and all French knew they were the emperors of the world, and every nation from every continent saw this game as their own.
I had the strange experience a decade ago of arriving in London the morning after a sports event related night long riot. My English son in law and I witnessed Germany beat England in their football, and he then drove me to the airport with my youngest daughter. We were sleep deprived, but astounded to see London in such disorder.
The one hundred thousand good English fans felt that Hitler had won after all, and every schnitzel bar and lamp post took a beating. We drove in one of those London cabs through as the crowds were being placed into police vans as the others straggled away. Welcome to sports in politics in the new united Europe!
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Q: Make UIImageView use parsed photos to animate I want to use photos I parse from my API to make an UIImageView animate.
I get an the urls of the photos in an array but I can't figure out how to download the photos, put them in an array and then in the image view.
Could anyone help me with this? I can't figure it out :(
Thanks in advance.

A: You need to download them using NSData method : initWithContentsOfURL:options:error, then create an UIImage from this NSData.
After you download all the images, and you have an array of UIImage, set the animationImages property of the UIImageView with that Array.
Of course, download the images in a thread so you won't block the UI.

A: To add image to imageview from a url the solution is straightforwared:
imageView.image = [UIImage imageWithContentsOfURL:theURL];

For lot of images thought it is better to load them asynchronously and use image caching. There are many open source libraries for this like SDWebImage.

A: use this download images
or use AFNetworking library link for downloading images. download the library and add AFNetworking folder  to your project. Add required frameworks(Security, MobileCoreServices and SystemConfiguration) and use the AFImageRequestOperation class.
Use this code to download images
    -(void)downloadImage:(NSString *)imageUrl {

    // download the photo

    NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:imageUrl]];
    AFImageRequestOperation *operation = [AFImageRequestOperation
                                          imageRequestOperationWithRequest:request
                                          imageProcessingBlock:nil
                                          success:^(NSURLRequest *request, NSHTTPURLResponse *response, UIImage *image)
                                          {
                                              if (image != nil) {
                                                  NSLog(@"image downloaded %@", image);
                                                  [self.imageArray addObject:image];
                                              }

                                             //put code to add image to image view here
                                          } failure:^(NSURLRequest *request, NSHTTPURLResponse *response, NSError *error) {
                                              NSLog(@" error %@", error.description);

                                          }];

    [operation start];

}

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Tag Archives: New Jersey
This story was originally published on our new Medium blog platform
This year's severe storms underscore the power of nature and the vulnerability of our coasts. While nature can destroy, it can also defend. Supported by federal funding for Hurricane Sandy recovery, we're working with partners to restore and strengthen natural systems that provide not only habitat for wildlife, but also protection against rising seas and storm surge. This is one in a series of stories highlighting results of our ongoing efforts to build a stronger coast.
On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy plowed ashore near Atlantic City, N.J., with sustained winds of 75 miles per hour. In its wake, state officials declared it the most destructive natural disaster in the history of New Jersey. It changed communities dramatically.
There were flooded roads, fallen power lines, and 346,000 damaged homes.
Storm damage along the New Jersey coast after Hurricane Sandy. (USGS)
Natural features of the coastline underwent significant changes too, but in some cases, those changes presented new conservation opportunities that could protect people and wildlife in the face of future storms.
"We were able to identify places where piping plover habitat had been enhanced by the storm," explained Todd Pover, a senior biologist for the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey who has been involved in monitoring the federally threatened shorebird for 25 years. Places like Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, where the storm erased the dunes in a three-quarter mile stretch of beach, creating an open expanse from ocean to bay.
Senior biologist for the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey Todd Pover releases a piping plover, a species he has helped monitor for 25 years. (Jim Verhagen)
"It's what we refer to as an overwash fan," Pover said. "The most desirable habitat for plover."
It was a good sign for the future of these birds in New Jersey. Although the number of nesting pairs along the Atlantic coast has nearly doubled since piping plover was placed on the Endangered Species List in 1986 — the species has since been downlisted from from endangered to threatened — New Jersey's breeding population has failed to launch by comparison. There were 94 nesting pairs in the state in 1986. In 2017, there were 105.
Piping plover with a chick on sandy beach. (USFWS)
More nesting habitat meant the potential for more nesting pairs.
It was also a good sign for the New Jersey shore. Those overwash fans where piping plover like to nest are the product of wind and wave action continually reshaping the coastline, sometimes dramatically as in Sandy. Allowing coastal processes to play out naturally in areas like these helps absorb impacts of future storms.
"In a sense, piping plover represents coastal resilience," explained Brooke Maslo, assistant professor of ecology at Rutgers University.
But although the creation of habitat gave biologists a reason for hope in the wake of this storm, it also gave them a reason to plan ahead next time. Agencies that typically respond to natural disasters, like the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, follow standard operating procedures — a sort of playbook that identifies roles, responsibilities, and actions to make sure all the bases are covered.
Assistant professor of ecology at Rutgers University Brooke Maslo focuses on developing science to support habitat for beach-nesting shorebirds, including piping plover, black skimmer, and American oystercatcher, the bird in her hands in this photo.
"There wasn't a similar protocol for biological conservation," Maslo said. If there was a way to quickly assess and communicate benefits for endangered species, they could incorporate that into the response process too.
Now, thanks to collaboration between Rutgers and CWF New Jersey, there is.
With support from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Hurricane Sandy resilience funding, the partners have developed a standard assessment protocol for identifying opportunities to protect functional beach habitat after big storms based on what they learned from the last one.
They started by comparing nesting habitat for four beach-nesting species — piping plover, American oystercatcher, black skimmer, and least tern — before and after Sandy.
An example of the modeling results showing suitable habitat for American oystercatcher, black skimmer, least terns, and piping plover in Avalon and Stone Harbor, N.J. (Maslo et al. 2016)
"Where did habitat persist? Where was it lost? Where was it newly created? We wanted to be able to quantify habitat changes that occurred as a result of the storm, and to quantify the new habitat areas that could be prioritized for conservation," Maslo said.
The results have already proven useful as a screening tool when working with communities to develop beach management plans — mandatory for towns that receive federal funding to protect piping plover.
"We suggest what could be the most suitable habitat based on the results, and they give us feedback about what they know to be true about that site on the ground," Pover said.
It also helps natural resource managers plan for constant change. "The beach will change, so creating set-aside areas interspersed throughout the state gives the birds someplace else to go when it does," Pover said.
A map showing habitat suitability for piping plover at the Holgate unit of Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge after Hurricane Sandy. Any area in color in the above image is considered "suitable", with warmer colors indicating higher suitability. (Maslo)
It's like habitat insurance for plover, and it's clear they will make the most of their safety net. Although most of the new habitat created by Hurricane Sandy was stabilized to pre-storm conditions, resource managers were able to let nature take its course at the site at Forsythe — a wilderness area where no human infrastructure was at stake.
"In the years after Sandy, we went from 12 to 25 pairs at that site," Pover said. With a secure place to nest, the birds became more productive, with twice as many fledglings as a typical pair in New Jersey.
"Forsythe is a poster child for what could happen if we protect these sites," he said.
Biologists now know what to look for in potential nesting sites. With the protocol, resource managers, landowners, and town officials can look for these opportunities in their own communities as well.
And because it was developed with input from agencies like NOAA and FEMA that are on the front lines after a natural disaster, the protocol will help factor benefits for wildlife into the existing response process. That will benefit people too. Wildlife tend to good indicators of threats to communities, or as in New Jersey, a sign that they have reason to hope.
This entry was posted in Blog entries, coastal resilience, Coastal Restoration, Endangered Species, Migratory birds, Partnerships, Science and research, Strong After Sandy, stronger coast and tagged Brooke Maslo, New Jersey, piping plover, Rutgers University on November 13, 2018 by bridgetmacdonald.
Time Lapse: Dam Removed at Weston Mill
Watch this dam be chipped away before your eyes…
Aaaand it's gone! Thanks to a close collaboration between the Service's New Jersey Field Office, New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association, and other partners, the obsolete Weston Mill Dam was removed from the Millstone River in 2017.
"Dams such as the Weston Mill often present a threat to kayakers and canoers, and cause stagnant stretches of water that don't hold enough oxygen for fish," said Melissa Foster, senior fish and wildlife biologist at the field office. "With it gone, we've opened 4.5 miles of the Millstone River that had been blocked to migrating fish, such as American shad and river herring, for centuries."
Weston Mill is the latest in a series of dams to be removed as part of a multi-partner effort to enhance ecological health and recreational opportunities in New Jersey's Raritan River Basin. Funds for the dam's removal were provided as partial compensation for natural resource damages caused by chemical releases at the American Cyanamid Superfund Site in Bridgewater Township, New Jersey.
Staff from the New Jersey Field Office's Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration program worked closely with co-trustees NOAA and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to secure the settlement. The remaining funds will be used for other
Check out the time lapse video of the project above, and watch a drone video about the river below!
(Video Courtesy of Stony Brook Millstone Watershed Association)
This entry was posted in aquatic connectivity, Blog entries and tagged aquatic connectivity, dam removal, New Jersey, recreation, river restoration on March 9, 2018 by isaacburke94.
Looking for Love in the Right Places
Today we hear from Elizabeth Rogers, with the National Park Service at Fire Island National Seashore in New York State. Elizabeth spent some time this spring and summer working as a Public Affairs Specialist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sharing the stories and science of resilient coastal communities and systems. On her days off, she can be found exploring the outdoors or dabbling in the kitchen.
Millions of people come to beaches along the Atlantic Coast every summer to swim, stroll, and sunbathe. Piping plovers, federally protected beach-nesting birds, return to sandy stretches from Newfoundland to North Carolina each year to look for love.
When it comes to finding the right place to nest and raise their young, piping plovers are picky. Nests are often found along the upper beach in sparsely vegetated areas of sand, pebbles, or shells above the high tide line.
Piping plovers nest along the upper beach in sparsely vegetated areas of sand, pebbles, or shells above the high tide line. Credit: Dave Frederick/Creative Commons
Ideal nesting habitat has long been identified and protected with string fencing at federal, state, and local parks across the Northeast. Until recently, however, there was little information to help land managers understand the importance of local nesting habitat within the broader range of this species.
Two studies funded through Hurricane Sandy relief aid are helping to change that.
Since Hurricane Sandy struck, researchers from Virginia Tech have banded and monitored piping plovers near a channel, or breach, that opened during the storm within Fire Island National Seashore's wilderness area in New York. The study shows that natural, unmodified channels like this breach are a big deal for breeding plovers. Annual surveys have shown that the breach shoreline and nearby overwashes and flood shoal islands are attracting new piping plover pairs.
Due to the dynamic nature of sandy coastal environments, there is an abundance of flat, open habitat with little vegetation. An ample supply of potential nest sites and edible insects make the shoreline near the natural inlet a draw for an increasing number of piping plovers.
When Hurricane Sandy struck in 2012, it opened a channel in the wilderness area at Fire Island National Seashore, seen near the top of this photo. Credit: NPS
Since the storm, researchers from Virginia Tech have been banding and monitoring piping plovers near the channel. Credit: NPS
Over the course of the five-year Virginia Tech study, more than half of the adult birds have returned to the site year after year. One adult flew over 30 miles from its nesting site to feed near the breach and was observed the following year nesting at the wilderness breach. This year, two adult plovers banded as chicks from different nests have returned and paired up — a true summer love story.
An inventory compiled for the North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (NALCC) by coastal geologist Tracy Rice identified piping plover habitat on a regional scale during three distinct time periods: before Hurricane Sandy in 2012, and after the storm in 2013 and 2015. The Fish and Wildlife Service is a supporting partner in the NALCC.
The inventory shows how sands — and potential nesting habitat like natural tidal inlets — have shifted over time across the Atlantic Coast. With a broader view of breeding grounds, the location of prime piping plover habitat and the impacts of habitat modification come into clearer focus.
Little Egg Inlet on Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey is one of just two unmodified tidal inlets in a 350-mile stretch of coastline within the breeding range of the piping plover. Credit: Google Earth
Rice's inventory found the wilderness breach at Fire Island and Little Egg Inlet, an opening into Great Bay in the wilderness portion of Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey, are the only natural, unmodified channels in a 350-mile stretch of coast from Montauk, New York, to Chincoteague, Virginia. Beaches near natural inlets, shaped and reshaped by the tides, can provide an abundant supply of nesting habitat and food resources for shorebirds. Identifying these natural assets on a regional scale provides land managers an important perspective.
Taken together, these studies deepen our understanding of how landscape change within a species' range can influence breeding success. This new information will guide how shorebird nest sites are protected in the future. Good news for piping plovers looking for love along the Atlantic Coast.
This entry was posted in Blog entries, Endangered Species, Migratory birds, Science and research and tagged Blog, coastal, endangered species, Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey, New York, science, wildlife on August 23, 2017 by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.


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A billion-dollar plan to train youth in Red belt
NEW DELHI: For school dropouts and unemployed tribal youth in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada and Maharashtra's Gadchiroli, poverty and hopelessness have long been two key binding factors in their lives.
Now the government wants to lock them, and with them youth in 32 districts spread across seven other states, in one tight embrace to keep them away from the third factor common to these areas: the Maoists.
Aware that the spreading menace cannot be tackled purely as a law-and-order issue, the government is readying a 'hearts and mind' plan to send youth from Maoist areas to industrial training institutes in major cities such as Kolkata and Hyderabad, while simultaneously rolling out a network of brand new training centres in 34 districts across nine states.
Under this plan, about 5,000 school dropouts and unemployed youth from the country's so-called "red corridor" districts will, starting August this year, board trains to travel to the country's best industrial training centres, a senior government official told ET.
"We want to give them a glimpse into the outer world and access training facilities that are not available in their districts," said the official, adding that the second leg of the plan involves placing youth trained under this plan with industries in neighbouring states and cities such as Mumbai and Hyderabad.
Conceived by the labour ministry, the plan has the backing of the home ministry, which is at the forefront of battling the Maoist problem and suffered a major embarrassment after 76 paramilitary personnel were killed in the Dantewada jungles early this month. The plan is estimated to cost around $1 billion and will be bankrolled by the Centre.
"Trained youth can work anywhere in the country, but we have seen that young people in strife-torn areas are averse to being too far from their families. So a Jharkhand resident should be able to get a job in Orissa, if he or she prefers," the official said requesting anonymity.
The plan that has the support of the Planning Commission needs to be okayed by the finance ministry, but a prominent Left leader told ET that training and reskilling could wait until issues regarding land are sorted out.
"Segregating the population and taking the young people out of the region is a very short-sighted approach. What will happen to the middle-aged and old people there?," asked D Raja, national secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI).
He said the government must have a comprehensive approach and implement existing land-related laws such as the one against land alienation and the Forest Rights Act immediately. "Ensure that the employment guarantee scheme and public distribution system work in these areas and people have access to health and schools. Training and jobs come after that," Mr Raja told ET.
While Mr Raja's statement is in line with the broad stand taken by the Left on the Maoist issue, the new government plan is aligned with the vision of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the subject.
"We cannot overlook the fact that many of the areas in which such extremism flourishes are under-developed and many of the people, mainly poor tribals, who live in these areas have not shared equitably the fruits of development," Mr Singh told civil servants last week.
The new plan, conceived after a cabinet secretary-led task force on left-wing extremism asked ministries to come up with special interventions and development programmes for Naxal-affected regions, has the backing of the Planning Commission, and is awaiting the finance ministry's approval.
More than 95% of administrative blocks in districts worst hit by left-wing extremism have no training institutes or higher education opportunities.
Work is underway to build 1,500 new industrial training institutes (ITIs) and 5,000 skill development centres (SDC) across the country using the public-private partnership model, but this does not include Naxal-hit areas, as the private sector is reluctant to venture there.
To remedy this, the new plan wants to set up at least one ITI and three SDCs in every block of these 34 districts. That translates to 228 ITIs and 927 SDCs, and until they come up over the next couple of years, the Centre will sponsor school dropouts and unemployed youth in these districts to train at existing institutes outside.
While some skills like construction or advanced electronics are in demand across the country, the Centre and states will consult industries close to the affected districts on what skills they need. States would be asked to nominate some youth from each district for training in those specific skills.
With an envisaged training capacity of 601,000 persons, these ITIs and SDCs would cost the Centre about Rs 4,800 crore over the next five years. The cost of sponsoring training for 5,000 youth per year is pegged at Rs 56 crore till 2014-15.
The naxal threat has been described by the PM as the greatest internal threat to India's democracy. Attacks by Left wing extremists on economic targets such as the Railways, telecom towers, power plants, roads and even schools doubled in 2009, compared with 2008.
The government has been urging the Naxals to abjure violence and join the mainstream. Those giving up arms have been offered a stipend of Rs 2,000 for three years, an immediate grant of Rs 1.50 lakh and vocational training.
(Economic Times, 28th April)
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Evan Seeman concentrates his practice in land use and zoning, real property litigation, and municipal law. He is a member of the firm's Real Estate + Development Group, and he represents developers, landowners, municipalities, corporations, and advocacy groups.
Religious Land Use Litigation
Evan defends municipalities nationwide in cases involving the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). He advises municipalities on religious land use issues by:
Revising municipal zoning codes to comply with RLUIPA;
Counseling municipal land use agencies during the zoning application process to avoid or mitigate potential liability; and
Defending municipalities in RLUIPA litigation in federal court.
Evan has been involved in RLUIPA cases across the country concerning the permitting of a mosque, a rabbinical college, cemetery, and other religious uses. Evan also has experience representing religious institutions. He represented St. Vincent de Paul Place, Norwich, Inc. and the Catholic Church in three federal lawsuits over the denial of zoning relief to operate a soup kitchen and food pantry serving hundreds of individuals daily, and he helped negotiate a favorable settlement to allow their continued operation. He frequently speaks and writes about RLUIPA, and he writes for the firm's widely acclaimed RLUIPA Defense blog.
Land Use – Zoning
Evan advises clients on meeting requirements for land development and coastal management development and securing necessary municipal and state permits to do so. He appears before municipal land use agencies and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP). He also works with planning professionals, and currently serves as the chair-elect of the Planning and Law Division of the American Planning Association.
Evan successfully represented applicants in contested administrative hearings before DEEP hearing officers for coastal development projects. He represented a municipality and obtained the dismissal of an injunction action brought by neighboring property owners who were contesting municipal approval of a 130,000-square-foot ground-mounted solar array system to generate energy for a local elementary school. Evan has been involved in more than a dozen administrative appeals. Most recently, Evan secured a judgment upholding a planning and zoning commission's issuance of a special permit to a food pantry to construct a new facility to serve those less fortunate. He previously served as the chair of the Planning and Zoning and Municipal Law sections of the Young Lawyers Section of the Connecticut Bar Association.
Evan represents property owners in eminent domain matters, challenging both the condemning authority's right to take property and the authority's compensation for the property. He serves as an affiliate member of the Owners Counsel of America, a national network of condemnation lawyers protecting private property rights. Evan represented a landowner whose plans for a mixed-use development were thwarted when part of his land was condemned by a state agency. He was part of a team that tried the case and obtained nearly double the amount of damages assessed by the agency (almost $400,000 more in damages). He also has experience in advising condemning authorities in the eminent domain process.
Articles in the National Law Review database by Evan J. Seeman
SCOTUS Overrules "State Compensation" Ripeness Requirement for Takings Claims (Posted On Friday, June 21, 2019)
Supreme Court Refuses to Take Tree of Life RLUIPA Case (Posted On Wednesday, May 22, 2019)
Church Ministering to Homeless/Needy Can Proceed with Most of its Religious Discrimination Claims (Posted On Monday, April 29, 2019)
New Jersey Islamic Group's Religious Discrimination Claims May Proceed, Rules Federal Court (Posted On Wednesday, February 13, 2019)
4th Circuit Rules Ethnic Bias Gives Rise to RLUIPA Claim (Posted On Wednesday, February 13, 2019)
7th Circuit Rules Church's RLUIPA Claims Against Markham, Illinois Ripe for Review (Posted On Friday, February 1, 2019)
Clifton, NJ Pays $2.5 Million to Settle RLUIPA Dispute (Posted On Thursday, January 10, 2019)