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£5.2m Talent Match pilot
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GHoPA (Mark Fenty) has represented the N E Lincs VCS (Voluntary Community Sector) organisations in their attempt to secure part of a £5.1m Big Lottery "Talent Match" Humber wide regional bid.
Successful at the 1st stage, the core partnership led by HLC (Humber Learning Consortium) are currently working hard on completing stage 2 of the bid.
The vision is that, over 5 years, Talent Match Humber will support 1,500 young people with multiple needs, aged 18-24, who are long-term unemployed, or economically inactive.
We aim to get 330 (22%) into sustained jobs or self-employment and 450 (30%) into apprenticeships or further learning / training. We are realistic that some will not achieve these outcomes, but we believe, with our support, 1200 (80%) young people will improve their ability to cope with long-term unemployment, develop greater self-confidence, and increase their sense of optimism about the future.
We will particularly target the 'hidden third' of long-term unemployed / economically inactive young people who are not in receipt of support and are living in 22 NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) 'hot-spots' in the Humber (See below). Specifically, we will target 8 thematic NEET groups:
• homeless or in temporary accommodation
• ex-offenders
• BME
• gypsies and travellers
• lone parents
• young carers
• physical and / or learning disabilities
• mental health
Through open competitive tendering processes we will engage innovative, high quality organizations and partnerships from all sectors to deliver holistic programmes of support that respond effectively to young people's needs.
Each young person's programme will be personalized, providing flexible entry points and pathways and variety of services and activities, including, specialist wrap-around support, such as debt advice, housing support etc. Through these activities and services, young people will be more able to secure (self) employment, take up apprenticeships, or enter further learning / training.
Talent Match Humber will act as a management hub, improving and coordinating 18-24 pathways/progression routes locally and sub-regionally and importantly, identifying and levering additional funding streams in support of our beneficiaries, Through a strategic partnership approach.
We will operate in a complementary way to other agencies, programmes, and networks working with unemployed young people, e.g. Job Centre Plus, Work Programme, Youth Contract, Future Hull, etc.
We will consciously balance our programme's focus between the supply and demand-side, working pro-actively with Talent Match and other learning & skills providers to improve access, drive up quality (of training opportunities), and ensure relevance to local labour markets. At the same time, we will engage extensively with cross-sector employers to secure relevant and stimulating work experience, structured volunteering placements, supported and meaningful employment opportunities, and apprenticeship vacancies. We will also strive to improve employer and media perceptions of long-term unemployed young people.
The funding will allow many grassroots young people's agencies across the Humber regions of Hull, East Riding, North and North East Lincolnshire to work in local partnerships to provide innovative packages of support to young people who need it the most.
It is hoped that soon documentation will be available to all those interested in providing meaningful support packages helping young people into paid work, training or enterprise.
The advice form Mark is to visit the website link below to express an interest and register to receive the Humber Learning Consortium newsletter which will inform you automatically of updated news and new opportunities. http://www.hlc-vol.org/learning/training-news.
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Q: How to hide UITableViewCells while not violating AutoLayout constraints I'm currently working on an app to learn iOS programming and Swift. I have a view which contains two main subviews, a MKMapView and a UITableView. When a certain annotation is selected in the MapView, I want certain cells in the TableView to be hidden. If the annotation is deselected the cells should reappear. Currently I do this by setting the height for the cells to be hidden to 0 and calling tableView.beginUpdates() tableView.endUpdates(), however this causes all kinds of AutoLayout constraints inside my custom cells to break. I've also tried to set the hidden property on the cell to true before setting the height to 0, but AutoLayout constraints are still being broken.
What would be the proper way to do this?
Thanks in advance.

A: My 2 cents: just try to lower the priority of one of the conflicting constraints to a lower value, like UILayoutPriorityDefaultHigh (750 if used in Interface Builder) or even lower, it depends on how you cell is composed.
It should be enough to give the auto layout system a hint about which constraint can be safely broken. Probably you will want to break the constraint that defines the distance from the bottom margin.

A: Implementing  heightForRowAtIndexPath: like below. also you need to set the height constraint to 0
Objc version
-(CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    if (shouldHideCell)
        return 0;
    }
    else {
        return UITableViewAutomaticDimension;
    }
}

Swift version
     override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, heightForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> CGFloat {
  if shouldHideCell {
            return 0
        } else {
            return UITableViewAutomaticDimension
        }
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Myles Turner's blocked shots give him top-15 value
Ryan Knaus knows it's only January but he can't ignore what Pacers' Myles Turner is doing and thinks he's an "upgraded version" of Brook Lopez.
RYAN KNAUS: Myles Turner comes into the month of January as a top 15 fantasy value for one simple reason: blocked shots. He's averaging well over three blocks per game, including a career high eight blocks in a single game, putting him on pace to shatter his previous career high of 2.7 swats in the 2018-19 season, when he led the entire NBA.
The Pacers are leaning into his rim protection, having their wings and guards step up on their man, knowing that if they get beat, Turner will erase mistakes more often than not. New Pacers' coach Nate Bjorkman has referred to rim protection as Turner's number one priority, but he's also very involved offensively. He's averaging 12.7 points in line with his career average, and he's attempting a career high 5.23 pointers per game. He's been almost flawless at the free throw line at above 90%, racking up steals at a career best rate and getting just enough rebounds to satisfy most fantasy managers. He's basically the upgraded model of late career Brook Lopez with the twin fantasy pillars of 3-point shooting and blocks. Only Myles Turner happens to be eight years younger.
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Garth Brooks announced today that he will perform at Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' swearing in ceremony on Wednesday.
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This Envestio review is 100% unbiased and based on my own experiences only.
Envestio works in the field of providing bridge financing/equity replacement loans to the owners of investment projects. At the moment, main industries are real estate development, energy production, urban mining, and production of equipment/hardware for crypto-mining.
Envestio started as a private investment fund in 2014 and decided to go public in the end of 2017. A total of 22 projects have been successfully completed. 5 active projects are currently available on the website.
At the time of writing 736 active investors have raised 1.246.273 EUR on the platform.
Good question! Investment rule #1 is "Never loose your money".
Scammers usually shy away from personal contact. So what better way to find out, than flying to Riga and meeting them in person? Let's see if the people fits the pictures and if the information on the website can be trusted.
Spoiler alert: Envestio is not a scam. They are a legit company trying their best to build a good investment platform with premium returns.
On June 28th I boarded a Bombardier CS300 and traveled from Denmark to Riga, Latvia to meet the Envestio team.
I invited my mom to come along because she also invest in different projects and platforms. Short trips like this is a good opportunity to spend some quality time with your loved ones.
As you can see from my savings rate, I don't spend much money on luxury. However, when I travel I like to spoil myself a bit with a nice meal on the plane. It usually costs 11-16€ per meal, but I enjoy it so much, it's worth every cent to me.
Even though we are saving up for financial freedom one has to enjoy the present and not only focus on the future.
Appetizer: Smoked salmon with lime, potato pancake and salat. Main course: Oven roasted chicken breast with fried potatoes, bread, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes and sweet peas. Dessert: Dark chocolate cake.
When we arrived in Riga I opened my Taxify app, which is the Baltic version of Uber. I found and used this app when I was visiting Bondora's office in Tallinn in January 2018. Taxify is a great and cheap way to get around.
A few minutes after plotting our pickup and final destination into the app the driver arrived. The 30 minute from the airport to the hotel ended up costing us 8,50€. In Denmark, it would cost me the same in starting fees, just to enter the taxi.
Monika Centrum Hotel was going to be our home for the next 2 days. It's a nice hotel within walking distance to the "old town" in central Riga.
Evgeniy (I call him Eugene), the COO of Envestio, was so kind to welcome us at the hotel, just to say hi and to tell us about the schedule for the next day. We would meet at 10:00 the next morning in their office about 1 km down the road. After a small office tour, we would go on a day trip to see 3 finished crypto currency mining projects and 3 actual real estate and development projects which are already available for investment on the platform.
When everything was clear, we said good-bye for now and parted. Now we were ready to explore Riga on our own and get some dinner.
When I'm traveling I'm always using TripAdvisor to find good restaurants. I'm searching for restaurants nearby and filter the results by highest rating. I've never been disappointed with the experiences, all the restaurants have been absolutely incredible. This was no different!
The highest rated (and probably the most expensive) restaurant is called Vincents. We didn't go for this one though. From experience, it's almost impossible to get a table on the highest rated venue with a few hours notice.
The second highest rated restaurant in the area is Milda. I called them and I was able to reserve a table, so we decided to try it out. We ordered a 3 course menu with wine and it was a very pleasant experience.
If you enjoy finer dining, I would definitely recommend traveling to the Baltic countries. The food is delicious and the prices are very affordable.
The next morning at 10:00 AM we met the Envestio team in their office in Riga. It's a really nice office space that they acquired 3-4 months ago.
Envestio's headquarter is based just outside Tallinn in Estonia but they have an office in Riga as well on Elizabetes eila 85.
We spent about half an hour talking and asking questions. Most of my questions had already been addressed in the endless stream of emails I had sent to Eugene in the weeks prior to the meeting. But it was nice to meet them in person and have a little chit-chat.
The first stop on our day trip was to see some of the finished crypto currency mining projects.
The mining container in the picture below hosts hardware, assembled and sold to the client "Baltreit" SIA. In the list of finished projects these are labeled "Mobile Mining Unit A03", Mobile Mining Unit A04", and "Mobile Mining Unit A05".
Please remember, that Envestio provides funding to companies which are looking for capital to expand their current business. Envestio is not involved in any crypto currency mining activities itself.
The mining equipment is directly attached to a power plant for cheap electricity.
You can read a lot more about the current projects on the Envestio webpage. Click on Projects in the top menu.
The next stop on our day trip was to see the "Power Plant – Development" project.
The power plant was originally built in 2012. Envestio co-funded an expansion in the first half of 2015 (April-May), where the second phase went into operation. Now, in 2018, it's ready for further development.
The power plant is an effective, environmental-friendly facility that uses modern equipment and renewable energy source (wood chips) for production of thermal and electric power. The power plant provides hot water and electricity to the nearby municipality.
Especially during the summer, the power plant produces excess heat and energy that is not currently monetized. This is why they want to build a new grain drying facility that could make good use of the excess heat. The money raised by Envestio participants will fund this purpose.
A big pile of wood chips in front of the power plant.
This is the second section. It looks almost identical to the first section.
The wood chips are burning within the walls of this orange framed oven.
A live animated illustration of the combustion process is shown on nearby computer screens.
Investors get a nice 18% interest rate for investing into this 10 month project. The first 3 interest repayments have already been returned to the investors.
The second stop was to see the location of the Modern "Slowfood" Street Market, which is now available for investment on the platform.
Latvian company SIA "Zelta Jumts" owns a land plot with a total area of 815 m2 in the very centre of Riga at the corner of Bruninieku and Kr. Barona Streets, surrounded by historical buildings and well-developed infrastructure. They have received a construction permit to build a number of 1-2 story wood pavilions with total useful area of 300 m2.
The company is looking forward to attract 350,000 EUR through bridge-financing from Envestio participants. Valuation of the land plot without construction is 870,000 EUR.
Investors get 17% interest rate for investing into this 9 month project. The first interest repayment was already returned to the investors.
Current state – Construction is scheduled to start in October.
Architectural drawing – The tree will be preserved and is a key design element.
Architectural drawing – Expected final result. I look very much forward to eating here next time I visit Riga.
The third project is located just on the opposite corner of the Slowfood Street Market project described above.
SIA Baltic Real Estate Holding, an experienced Latvian real estate developer, is launching the construction process of 2500 m2 apartment building at Krisjana Barona Street 72, Riga and is planning to attract medium-term mezzanine financing for 24 months.
Barona 72 (the official name of the project) will be a modern 22 apartment property, located on the cross of two historical streets in the central part of Riga: Krisjana Barona Street, which is a pedestrian devoted vibrant boulevard with lots of restaurants, cafes, and small shops, and Bruninieku Street – quiet and cosy avenue which is perfect for a slow walk among Riga art nouveau heritage.
Investors get 18% interest rate for investing into this 24 month project. The first interest repayment is scheduled for 15.07.2018.
My first impressions of Envestio and the team are very positive. They are kind, helpful, professional people with a great attitude.
Even though that platform is quite new, Envestio's private investment fund has operated since 2014, so it functioned for 3,5 years before going public. The amount of completed projects shows they know what they're doing.
The key distinction from many other Crowdinvesting and P2P platforms is that they are financing real business ventures that brings tangible added value to the economy, instead of simply refinancing personal loans. I really like that.
On top of that, the interest rates offered are very generous. Currently from 17-22% per year. And because the platform is young, it's actually possible to get a share in the projects. Other popular platforms have too many investors and not enough projects.
Overall, I'm very positive and truly excited to see what the future holds for Envestio.
I will make a part 2 of this Envestio review at a later stage. The second part will be about the platform itself and I will show you how everything works in more detail.
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This was my first trip to Latvia. It's a really nice country! Have you been in Riga? If not, I will finish this review with a small photo collage for you to enjoy.
Canal boat tours are available. Unfortunately, we didn't have time to try it.
Restaurants and café's have heated terraces. It's very cozy in the evening. If you ate too much, a bicycle taxi driver will happily transport you to your hotel.
Excuse my ignorance. I'm not sure who this statue is.
I was lucky to capture this shot of a guy giving his girlfriend a romantic boat ride experience. The canals light up in the evening. The colors change seamlessly between blue, green, red, yellow etc.
I've never seen a flag this big. Compare it to the Radisson Blu hotel buildings right next to it. The flagpole must be close to 50 meters high.
Did you know that Envestio, Mintos, Grupeer, Robocash, Crowdestor, Twino and Swaper all have offices in Riga? I will probably come back another time to visit all of them.
Some people say I have a lot of numbers on my blog. For this reason, I tried a different approach this time and created a post with a lot of pictures and shared more details of my journey with you.
If you liked it and would like future posts to be more like this, please hit the like button below! Are you here for the numbers or do you appreciate personal stories as well?
Have you invested with Envestio? Do you have any questions or concerns? Please share your experience or thoughts on the platform below.
As investors we are all equal, small or big, it doesn't matter. Let's unite and prosper from the combined intelligence of our community!
Really cool post. Thank you for sharing all this information about Envestio, living in the south of Europe it would be hard to make this trip so your perspective and experience is very important!
You're welcome Sérgio. Thank you for the feedback, I really appreciate it!
Living in the true West of Europe.
Money on the way to you – I just joined via your referal link.
And to you! Thanks a lot buddy.
Great post. I will look at the Envestio site. Thanks for the referral link.
Thank you Ash. I'm glad you liked it.
Good stuff – as a "thank you" I'll register with your code!
Thanks Vitor. I wish you all the best with your investments!
Hey Jorgen, thanks for the review. I really liked it!
By the Way: i think Crowdestor also has an office in Riga, but i am not completely sure about this.
You are right about Crowdestor having an office in Riga. I just wrote to Gunars Udris and he confirmed. Good observation!
Thank you for link & blog.
Thank you Borut. I truly appreciate your support!
Thanks for the deep research. Somehow I came across your blog recently and immediately started following you. I like the way you presented the Envestio. In fact, I also read your Crowdestate post. I signed up for both platforms and have started using/testing them.
Looking forward to more interesting stuff from you!
Thank you so much for the kind words. Comments like yours is what keeps me motivated to spend countless hours on writing new blog posts.
I will do my best to provide interesting content to all of you.
Do you know is it possible to invest in Envestio as a company?
I didn't find that option in Envestio registering page.
How do you invest in crowfunding sites, as private investor or as company?
So it's definitely in the cards, but I don't know if it's possible yet. If you want to start investing as a company just drop him an email.
I'm investing as a private person. Maybe I will switch to a company later on.
Ps. The statue is Alexander Pushkin. The Russian author.
Pleasure is mine! Feel free to look around and don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions.
Thanks for enlightening me. In a way it makes me feel less stupid. I have not read any books by Russian authors. Maybe I should!
Thank you dirk. Too many rumors and opinions on the internet. Much better to go directly to the source and find out for yourself right?
That's for sure. It's always better to have a look for yourself.
Have you tried to withdraw money from Envestio? I did not readily find any info on their website (e.g. processing time/potential fees).
I have not tried to withdraw money yet but I'm not concerned about it. For whatever it's worth, I have tried to use the buyback guarantee (sell an investment) and receive 95% of my principal back into my account. That worked like a charm.
There are no fees for investors on Envestio and I guess the processing time will be 2-3 days like all other P2P platforms.
To tail this question as it has come up more than once does this mean there is no way as of yet to get 100 percent of principal paid back at the end of say a year or however long i decide to invest?
Well, you get 100% of your money back when the project maturity date has been reached (unless the borrower defaults, then you get at least 90%). Most projects have less than 12 months duration.
I think Envestio will introduce a secondary market at some point, but right now you should only invest in short duration projects, if you would like to withdraw your money in the near future.
When will you post the second part of the review of Envestio? I'm looking forward to read it!
Thanks for sharing your concerns. It's good to do some research to ensure everything is like it should be.
Is it a problem that Dagre only has 1 employee, if the company relies on one advanced machine to extract the precious metals from the equipment? I don't think so.
20-21% interest doesn't look strange if you understand how bridge financing works.
@Eduard – I checked the VAT numbers and history of the companies – so far all seems legit. Some of the companies operate since 1996 or 2008, others are at least 3-4 years old.
Really good Job Jorgen !!
I have been using Envestio for about 2 months now. Interest are coming and all looks good. My question is have you tried to get your money transferred back to your bank account? Is there any fees?
Asbjorn asked the same question last month. See my answer from 06/09/2018 AT 14:15	(or press CTRL + F and search this page for "buyback").
I don't mean buyback. I mean getting your money back from Envestio site to your bank account.
I've started to receive my first interest payments from Envestio, and I must say that this is by far the most promising platform that I've tried. I really like that you get a monthly payout, which will allow me to re-invest my interests every month. Do you know of similar platforms (that payout the interests on a monthly basis)?
I like the real estate projects, so I'm looking for a site that can rival envestio, both in terms of interest rate and in amount of projects.
I couldn't agree more. Monthly interest payments and high interest rates and buyback guarantee ticks all the right boxes for me.
Crowdestor is the closest rival I can think of. They haven't released as many projects though. And there is no buyback guarantee.
Crowdestate is another good option, they have several projects released every month. The interest rates used to be high, but lately, most projects give around 11%. No buyback guarantee here, but very high success rate.
Grupeer is a great option as well. Several business and real estate projects are released every month. Interest rates up to 15% and you get a full buyback guarantee on the platform.
I understand. I don't mind though, when the interest rate is the same and there's buyback guarantee, I'm okay with both options.
Signed up through your link and made 2 nice investments. 🙂 I do have 1 question though: why is their office and most of the projecst located in Latvia, but is the company from Estonia?
Hi Jorgen, thanks to you I have an Envestio investor and was wondering about the so-called new investments that appear in the platform. For instance, this "Fruits wholesale – factoring 6" is from the same borrower (SIA MERKURS-RIGANTE) as the ""Fruits wholesale – factoring 5"; the same happens with projects from "SRR JSC" – Renewal of freight containers – Tier N.
– the second case is similar but the loans actually overlay: Tier 8 is 100k and started Nov 7th and Tier 9 is 90k and started 14th Nov, so actually 190k of loan amount!
This seems strange from a risk management perspective and not very reassuring for the investor, shouldn't the new projects come from different companies? And what about the same company with 2 active loans? What are your thoughts on these issues?
I agree to your point and for me I do not invest in the other tiers. With the effect that there are a poor amount of really new investments, sadly!
Envestio creates several Tiers because the borrower needs 500.000€ for example. They know this from the beginning, but it can take time to raise a big amount, especially if the borrower has no previous repayment history. That's why they create smaller Tiers and start with lower amounts. This way the borrower get some capital and can start working on the project. At the same time he proves to the investors that he pays back, so it's easier to get the next Tiers funded.
I wouldn't call it an issue, it's a common way to get funding from investors.
Their buyback promise seems a bit strange to me. If they have cash to immediately buy back 95% of all investors' investments at any time, why would they need to collect retail investors' money in the first place… And if they don't have such pile of cash, then they're promising something that they won't be able to deliver under a negative scenario (too many investors triggering buyback). Am I missing something?
They currently have money to buy back 90% of defaulted projects. The possibility of all projects defaulting at the same time is very small, so maybe they don't need all of it to safely give a guarantee?
Remember, even though the buyback is similar for all projects at the moment, this could change for future projects.
Hi. Unlike most platforms where only late loans are bought back, if I understand correctly Envestio undertakes to instantly buy back current ones. It's not impossible to fathom a confidence crisis (with general industry or Envestio itself) with investors requesting buy back en masse (there is no state depositor protection). Like a 'bank run' on Envestio.
I would believe it more if they guaranteed like 5-25% of the future loans. (But such buyback guarantee would be near to useless.) If they claim they're "well capitalized" to guarantee 95% buybacks, it would be good to see it backed up with some specifics: Envestio capital vs. total outstanding loans. Perfectly audited?
Envestio allows you to sell your investment back to them for 95% of the principal invested. I don't think there will be any rush to do this.
I think it is weird to pay 20+ percentages incentive on real estate loans. Why not to use regular banks and euribors not to mention longer time period for loan.
They do use regular banks as well. However, sometimes more funds are needed for downpayment and other expenses related to the project. Try to google "bridge financing" or read more on Envestio's FAQ.
How long time did you guys wait from uploading your documents to getting them verified?
I consider Envestio too risky to use them.
That's alright, we all have different risk profiles and we should only invest where we feel comfortable. I'm happy with my investment so far. I don't see anything alarming in the links you provided?
Yes, you are correct about risk profile, and before I invest I try to understand the basics from the company.
– Envestio hasn't provided any financial information -> no knowing how much loss they made on their first year and how much assets they have (left) -> no knowing if they have enough funds for withdrawal or will they have second year. (as a comparison Mintos reached profitability on third year and has published annual reports).
– One of Envestio's value is transparency which is in direct contradiction with bullet above.
– Envestio has been late in tax filings -> This could be sign of lack of funds, or at least bad company management.
– Three of Envestio's CEO's companies have missing annual statements or late tax payments -> This with bullet above gives rather negative image on management. If management is not able to file taxes and other paperwork in time, are able to make Envestio profitable?
As Envestio hasn't disclosed anything about their financial status investor can only guess where they are and where they are going. Guesswork, as you know, is not strong foundation for investment.
I understand your concern about the lack of information regarding their financials. Envestio is not even a year old yet, so I guess that's the main reason for the lack of financial statements. I expect reports from 2018 to be available medio 2019. If you email Eugene, I'm sure you'll get a good answer.
I'm reading your reviews from a while and I have already register in Mintos and Envestio with your referral. Envestio today!
FastInvest and Grupeer are the next!
I'm trying to start the same journey to independence.
When I invest I turn off my imagination and look at facts. Whether it's profitable or not to do crypto mining in 2019 is really none of my business 🙂 Envestio has done the due diligence and decided The Ostbin Group had enough assets to make the loan secure. I trust their decision. If The Ostbin Group happen to default, I'm still covered by the 90% buyback guarantee.
The Ostbin Group already successfully paid back the last Crypto project called "Crypto-mining Farm 130GTX1080ti" where I was an investor as well. All interest and principal payments were on time. In addition, all interest payments on the Phi200 project has been paid on time as well.
Money from other projects will never be used to cover losses in other projects. Envestio is just the middle man, connecting borrowers with investors. To use money from another project would be comparable to Coca Cola giving money to Nestlé if they had a bad year – It just doesn't happen.
first congratulations for the post and all information.
I don't have any particular strategy on Envestio other than trying to diversify between many different projects. The best way to get acquainted with a platform is to start with small amounts and see how it works out. You can always add more if you feel comfortable.
One thing that makes me wonder is why these companies pay so much interest on Envestio, and why they don't borrow from banks at a much more reasonable rate… It would be nice to talk to them as well and see their reasons for choosing Envestio.
Try to start your own company and seek funding, then you'll know the answer 🙂 It's not easy for companies to borrow money in the banks.


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Q: Is this a valid partition? Say we have the $S$ which is the set of all compositions of n >= 0 with an odd num. parts.
Define $S_1$ to be the set of all compositions of n >= 0 with an odd num. of parts where at least one part is <= 9
Define $S_2$ to be the set of all compositions of n >= 0 with an odd num. of parts where each part is >= 10
Is $S_1$ union $S_2$ a partition of $S$? I can't seem to wrap my head around it...

A: Yes they are. These sets are complements of each other.
If not all of the elements are greater than or equal to 10, then at least 1 element is less than or equal to 9.
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A kickoff meeting would be held with the ISO 14001:2015 EMS implementation management team before the process begins. At this meeting, each clause of the standard will be reviewed and the team selects employees who will be the process owners. The process owner is responsible for soliciting employees who are internal customers and suppliers for that process to help develop the related procedure. These employees will then attend the procedure development meetings. Once the documents are developed, this team is responsible for training the employees.
Internal System Auditors will be trained in the requirements of the ISO 14001:2015 EMS standard and system auditing techniques. Once the training is completed, they will perform audits of the system to determine compliance and effectiveness of the implementation of the system.
All employees would attend an ISO 14001:2015 EMS awareness session to become knowledgeable of the standard requirements, their responsibilities and what to expect when the registrar conducts the registration / certification audit.
Conducting Internal System Auditor ISO 14001:2015 EMS Training.


The news that the Department of Veterans Affairs has removed more than 500 employees in 2017 rekindled the age-old debate about firing federal employees. Does the government fire enough people? Does it deal effectively with poor performers? Is the disciplinary and adverse action process effective?
At the risk of offending a few folks, I have to say the answer to all three questions is probably no. The government does not fire a large percentage of its employees in a typical year. The data is available in OPM's excellent Fedscope tool. In Fiscal 2016, the number fired was 10,519. At the end of fiscal 2016 the government had 2,097,038 employees, so roughly 1 in 200 or 0.5% of employees were fired. If we look only at permanent employees, 9,579 of 1,951,334 employees were fired (1 in 204 or 0.49%). The VA fired 2,575 employees (1 in 145 or 0.69 percent) in FY2016.
The Department of Homeland Security fired 1,825 employees in 2016 (1 in 105 or 0.95 percent). Most of the DHS removals were in TSA. DHS, VA and Commerce (1 in 134 or 0.75 percent) fire more people relative to their population than most agencies and departments. In fact, they are the only departments that fire more than 1 in 200 employees (0.5%) per year. If you take a look at the Fedscope data, you will find some agencies firing far fewer people. One department fired 1 in 613 (0.16 percent) employees, while another fired 1 in 2,181 (0.05 percent). Direct comparisons to the private sector are not easy, but if we compare the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) "layoff and discharge" rate we see that the private sector lays off or fires about 1.2 – 1.3 percent of employees. Government rates (adding in the small number of RIFs as well) are much lower than that of the private sector. However, the private sector numbers are lumping layoffs and discharges together, most likely because the line between those is often blurred. Companies often characterize removals as layoffs, while the government does not.
It is important to note that firing people is not the only measure of how agencies and companies deal with poor performance and misconduct. For example, it is not uncommon for an employee who is about to be fired to resign. That means the number who are "fired" is probably higher than it appears. Agencies also deal with misconduct through other disciplinary actions, such as suspensions. That said, the number is almost certainly too low, because more than two thirds of federal workers do not believe their agencies do a good job dealing with poor performers.
No one knows what the right number is. In a perfect world, the right number would be zero. Agencies would hire great people who do great work, and the rare performance/conduct problems would be resolved before getting to the point of firing people. We all know that we do not live in a perfect world, so that is never going to happen. We also know that there are a lot of reasons why the government does not do a good job in this area. They include managers with inadequate training, a process that is cumbersome and takes too long, and agencies not supporting managers who actually want to deal with problem employees. We also know from the BLS numbers that the private sector, with far fewer constraints, is not firing massive numbers of people every year. If the government rate matched the private sector, we would expect to see about 25,000 people fired or laid off per year. Given the employee and manager perceptions about problem employees, it is safe to conclude that there is a backlog of poor performers who might be fired if it were easier to do so.
So how do you fix the problem? More importantly, how do you do it without politicizing the federal workforce and having federal employees becomes pawns in a political game? The VA Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017 is not a bad start. I know there are folks who have concerns about the Act, but for the most part it is not bad legislation.
The federal civil service was designed with protections from arbitrary actions because it was, and is, in the best interests of the American people to have a government with qualified employees who are not hired and fired for political reasons. That was true when the Pendleton Act was passed in 1883 and it is still true today. But – like many things in Washington, something good can be bureaucratized into something bad. That is what I believe has happened with civil service job protection. It has become so difficult to deal with problem employees that many managers give up and many (71 percent) in the workforce do not see their agencies dealing with problem employees.
Like many federal workers, I have worked in agencies that had too many people who were ROAD – retired on active duty. In some cases the employees were reassigned multiple times in hopes that a miracle would occur and they would start performing. Their coworkers picked up the slack and did the work they should have been doing. No one was happy, except maybe the person who had did not have to work but still collected a paycheck. Getting those folks out of government would have been a service to the taxpayers and to their coworkers.
While the idea that federal employees cannot be fired is false, so is the idea that the process is working fine. It is not. I believe it is time to rethink the entire disciplinary/adverse action process government wide. The goal should be a government where good work is recognized, great work is rewarded, and poor performers and people with conduct problems either get better or get gone. Here are the core principles for a process that I believe would work.
Due process is essential. Unless the law is changed to make federal workers completely at-will employees who can be fired for absolutely no reason, constitutional due process is required. There are a number of Supreme Court decisions that support the idea that when a government hires someone who can be fired only for cause, the job becomes a property right and due process is required to take it away. Changing feds to at-will employees who could be fired for no cause at all would be a practical and political mess that, in time, could result in having the equivalent of 2,000,000 political appointees. I do not know anyone who thinks the solution to our government's problems is having a lot more political appointees.
Time does not equate to due process. Providing more time to do everything does not protect an employee's rights. The time limits in the VA Accountability Act are reasonable. In fact, the one change I would make in those time limits would be for MSPB. I would prefer to see the MSPB process cut in half. Keep in mind that every time MSPB concludes that an agency fired an employee without good cause, the employee gets back pay. That means it is in the government's interest to get a quicker decision. There is no way MSPB could issue every decision in 3 months or less without additional staff. Because it is obvious that dealing with poor performance and misconduct is important, the Congress should appropriate additional resources to enable MSPB to meet a much tighter time limit on the appeal process.
The burden of proof should generally be "a preponderance of the evidence." That simply means there is more evidence that the employee committed the offense than evidence that s/he did not. It is not unreasonable to expect an agency to prove its case to that level. Agencies win the vast majority of MSPB appeals with that burden of proof, so there is ample evidence that agencies can meet that burden. The VA Accountability Act reduced the burden for VA to "substantial evidence." That change may make it more likely that problem employees will be fired. If it does so and does not result in the appearance of unfair treatment of employees, Congress may extend the lessened burden of proof to other agencies. I doubt we will see the lessened burden used to fire employees who have not committed a firing offense. The government experience with employees who can be fired with virtually zero burden (probationary employees) is that not many are fired.
Some offenses should be mandatory removal offenses (MROs). I know there are folks who hate the idea that some offenses will get you fired, but the truth is that absent MROs, some managers simply do not have the will to fire an employee. Having MROs does not remove the requirement for due process, but it does simplify the process and reduce the impact of ineffective managers. I recall one case of a bus driver who tested positive for cocaine. Most reasonable people would agree that we do not need bus drivers who use cocaine. Apparently his supervisor disagreed. He suspended the employee for 3 days and two of those days were Saturday and Sunday. The employee lost one day of pay and continued to drive his bus. I believe there are offenses that should get you fired. Lying on the application you used to get hired, using illegal drugs, stealing from the government, and committing a prohibited personnel practice are just a few examples. We can make the argument that we should help people improve, but do you want to be sitting in the bus that is being driven by the cocaine-using driver?
Neither MSPB nor arbitrators should be able to mitigate penalties. Mitigating a penalty means the arbitrator or MSPB judge concludes that the agency proved its case, but does not agree with the penalty. So a removal may be mitigated to a 30-day suspension. In some cases, an agency may have charged an employee with multiple offenses, but can only prove some of them. The Board or arbitrator is left to decide what the appropriate penalty would be for the charges that are proven. The problems with mitigation are that it substitutes the hearing official's judgment for that of the agency and that it leads to baby-splitting decisions. That is particularly true with arbitration, where arbitrators who are viewed as too pro-management or pro-union will have trouble being selected to hear a case. Most agency tables of penalties lay out a wide range of penalties for a given offense. As long as they stay within the range of penalties they lay out in their own policies, I believe the agency should be able to decide on the penalty. We trust agency leaders to spend billions of dollars and carry out missions that are critical to our nation. We should also trust them to decide whether an employee gets fired or is suspended for a month.
Employees should have one venue for appeal. An employee should be able to appeal to MSPB, file an EEO complaint, or go through the grievance/arbitration process, even in mixed cases where an employee alleges both discrimination and is appealing an adverse action. Employees should not be allowed to forum shop or file through multiple processes. The time limits that apply to MSPB should apply to arbitration and EEO complaints as well.
Every manager should receive extensive training on dealing with employee misconduct and performance issues. The typical 40 hour supervisory training course is inadequate to meet the need. Such training should include showing managers how to have conversations with employees to provide feedback, including discussing performance or conduct problems. People who have never been in supervisory jobs think doing that is easy. It is not, and many supervisors have no idea how to have that kind of conversation.
Agencies should have a dedicated office to set policy on misconduct/performance and to coordinate among the offices that get involved in these matters (HR, EEO, Counsel and IG). The processes in many agencies have so many hands involved, and so many people who are afraid to lose a case, that getting action taken is often too hard to do. Frequently managers who want to deal with problem employees tell me that they simply give up when they cannot get all the parties to agree to do something. I would put in in the CHCO's office, but it probably does not matter where such an office is located, as long as it actually has the authority to get things done.
The issue of firing federal workers is not simple, nor does solving the problems mean we will suddenly have more effective government. It would most likely have a somewhat positive impact on morale, due to getting non-performers and disruptive people out of the workplace. On the other hand, it could have a negative impact when employees see their friends being fired. As I have said before and must say again, dealing with the problems does not address the 90+ percent of employees who do their jobs and do them as expected or better. We cannot lose sight of that. If we truly want more effective government, we need to spend more time on the people who do the work.
It is also likely that simplified due process, once the HR/Counsel/EEO/IG offices and managers adapt to it, could lead to a surge in removals. If there truly is a backlog of performance/conduct problem employees to be dealt with, it would be a surprise if that did not happen. Once that backlog is taken care of, it would also be logical to expect a drop-off in the number of actions being taken, with the number of removals then leveling off at a higher rate than it is today.
Very well thought out and presented. Not much to argue about in the presentation.
Wow, re: #7. I enjoy reading your take on things, would that current HROs would speak so candidly so that our agencies might be more aware that people are what gets the mission done. Leaders are no more responsible for an organizations performance than a conductor is for the sound of an orchestra. The can set the mood and the pace but other than a few clicks on the podium they have no sound.
I have no disagreement that leaders, managers, and supervisors need more training on options to deal with problem employees (without breaking the law) but we owe them more education and the workforce more emphasis on fully engaging the majority who are not problems. Clear out the dead wood all you want – but you also need to examine why the trees died to begin with. No one hires dead wood, something happens along the way, and it usually points to organizational culture or the leadership chain cannot support the needs of the diverse workforce that it hires. We tolerate OJT for first level supervisors who make the multitude of talent management decisions and set the stage for the workforce and capabilities of the future. We need people in those roles that understand their impacts on people first. But what we get now are more often people who can't transition from an individual contributor role to a leadership role and they just make it up as they go along.
We have to expect far more from leaders with people responsibilities and we have to invest in leaders who can bring out the best in people – not simply get rid of employees they can't get along with.
You noted that TSA has one of the higher removal rates in the Federal Government. That may be because most TSA employees (Transportation Security Officers and other front line employees) do not have MSPB appeal rights. Managers aren't afraid to fire a poor performer and get dragged into an MSPB hearing. Removed employees can appeal to the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) Appellate Board (OAB) which is internal to TSA. It is a paper review – no hearing but still overturns or mitigates about 20% of cases that are appealed. It is efficient and effective.


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  set -x
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      local SOURCE=$DOTFILES_RELATIVE_BASE/$(basename $THIS_DOTFILES_DIR)/${FILE:2}
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Green skies are on the horizon: The aviation giant Boeing is trying to make the skies more environmentally friendly by having its aircrafts fly on "green diesel." Boeing has recently announced that it's planning to expand the use of sustainable aviation biofuel and is currently seeking approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The newly proposed biofuel cuts down aircraft emissions to at least half of the traditional petroleum-based jet fuel. It's derived from feedstock such as non-food plant oils, waste cooking oil and animal fats, and algae, and is chemically very similar to other green aviation biofuels, which are already approved by FAA.
How few companies take green chemistry mainstream: Currently ten organizations from the Green Chemistry & Commerce Council including Seventh Generation, Timberland and Valspar are leading a one-year collaborative project focused on taking green chemistry into the mainstream. Since chemicals and toxins have been in the public eye for several years now and awareness of green chemistry is growing, the movement to reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances has reached another level. Many companies have been replacing their products with safer alternatives. For example, company Segetis, a small bio-based chemical manufacturer, has introduced a solvent made from waste wood trimmings and corn stalks that is already used in cleaning products of companies Seventh Generation and Method, delivering results so far unseen in green cleaning.
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Home Boards and Commissions planning Design Review Panel
The Design Review Panel (DRP) was established by Section 32-4-203 of the Baltimore County Code 2004, as amended. The goal of the DRP is to encourage design excellence through the application of design guidelines contained in the Master Plan, the Comprehensive Manual of Development Policies, adopted community plans and/or Section 260 of the Baltimore County Zoning Regulations, as applicable. The DRP's general charge is to assess the overall quality of a project.
The DRP acts in a technical consulting capacity; its recommendations are binding to the Hearing Officer and county agencies.
The Design Review Areas are designated areas that help ensure high design standards. There are two types of areas:
Commercial (non-residential) review areas
Residential review areas
Projects that are referred to the DRP are discussed at their monthly meeting on the second Wednesday of every month except for August. All meetings are open to the public. Three members constitute a designated panel for the purpose of making recommendations on a particular project. Resubmittals of previously reviewed projects can be submitted within 10 business days of the meetings.
No meetings will be held when County schools are either closed for the day or subject to early dismissal due to inclement weather. Cancellation of meetings held during normal working hours will be decided upon on a case by case basis. Unless otherwise noted, the meetings are in Room 104 of the Jefferson Building (105 West Chesapeake Avenue, Towson, Maryland 21204), beginning at 6 p.m.
If, because of a disability, you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this event, call the Department of Planning at 410-887-3480 or via TTY, at 1-800-735-2258 or 711, at least two working days before the event.
Information For Presenters
It is advised that individuals giving presentations to the DRP present visual materials i.e. maps, plans, etc. using a digital format such as PowerPoint. Contact Jenifer Nugent in Development Review at 410-887-3480 at least 48 hours in advance. Rendered site plans must be mounted and GIS aerials must be mounted or easily visible on an overhead projector.
How to Provide Comments
Staff will provide instructions at the beginning of the meeting on how to submit comments via Webex chat:
Select the chat feature to send your written comments to the meeting host (staff).
Include your name, address, relationship to the project and the item you would like to provide a written comment on. Indicate whether you would like your comments to be read aloud or if you would like to speak.
Written comments will be read aloud during the public comment period for that specific agenda item. If you chose to speak, you will be called upon during the public comment period.
Mailed, written comments are also accepted by the Department at 105 West Chesapeake Avenue, Suite 101, Towson, Maryland 21204. Please mail to the attention of the Design Review Panel.
The attendance and recommendations of the DRP are recorded in the meeting minutes. The tentative agenda for each meeting is available approximately two weeks prior to the meeting.
To view upcoming meeting details, select from the list below or view the full 2021 calendar for past meeting details. Subscribe to receive email notifications when the latest DRP meeting details have become available.
DRP Meeting: February 10
Virtual WebEx Meeting,Jefferson Building, Room 104
DRP Meeting: March 10
Jefferson Building, Room 104,Virtual WebEx Meeting
DRP Meeting: April 14
DRP Meeting: May 12
DRP Meeting: June 9
DRP Meeting: July 14
DRP Meeting: September 8
DRP Meeting: October 13
DRP Meeting: November 10
DRP Meeting: December 8
Submittal Date
6 p.m. December 19, 2019 Jefferson Building, Room 104 Cancellation Notice
6 p.m. January 23 Jefferson Building, Room 104
6 p.m. February 20 Jefferson Building, Room 104 Cancellation Notice
6 p.m. March 19 Jefferson Building, Room 104 Cancellation Notice
6 p.m. April 23 Jefferson Building, Room 104 Meeting canceled.
May 21 The Board meeting will be held virtually via Webex. The public can listen in, but cannot participate.
Watch the meeting online.
Listen to the meeting by phone. Call 1-415-655-0001; access code 476 054 767
6 p.m. June 18 Watch the recording.
6 p.m. August 20 Watch the recording.
6 p.m. September 24 Watch the recording.
6 p.m. October 21 Watch the recording.
6 p.m. November 19 Watch the recording.
The department has prepared handbooks that describe the DRP review process and include an application for requesting a DRP review.
DRP Commercial (Non-residential) Review Handbook with Application (PDF)
DRP Residential Review Handbook with Application (PDF)
The Design Review Panel (DRP) consists of a panel of nine members knowledgeable in matters of design, including architects, landscape architects, engineers and other design professionals. The professional members are appointed by the County Executive and confirmed by the County Council. The County Executive appoints the Chairperson.
For residential development proposed in a Residential Review Area, the DRP consists of a minimum of two, professional members designated by the chairperson, and one resident member appointed by the County Council. The appointed resident member must be a resident of the councilmanic district in which the development is proposed. The County Council appoints a revolving panel of resident members.
DRP members may serve no more than two, three-year terms. Apply for a vacancy online.
Cecily Beldwell 2/17/2016 12/31/2019 County Executive
Matt D'Amico 2/25/2019 12/31/2020 County Executive
John DiMenna
Chairman 2/27/2019 12/31/2021 County Executive
Kelly W. Ennis 2/25/2019 12/31/2021 County Executive
Donald Kann 2/28/2019 12/31/2020 County Executive
Hyon K. Rah 7/14/2020 12/31/2022 County Executive
Matt Renauld 3/27/2019 12/31/2020 County Executive
Julie Soss 7/14/2020 12/31/2022 County Executive
Joseph Ucciferro 2/25/2019 12/31/2021 County Executive
Contact the panel by calling 410-887-3480 or by emailing the following staff:
Jenifer Nugent, jnugent@baltimorecountymd.gov
Brett M. Williams, bmwilliams@baltimorecountymd.gov
Marta Kulchytska, mkulchytska@baltimorecountymd.gov


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Inside Daniil Simkin's New Guggenheim Project
Courtney Escoyne
Late one Friday night, Daniil Simkin and Cassandra Trenary are running a new duet inside the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda in New York City's Guggenheim Museum. Trenary drops her weight back into Simkin's arms and lets him slide her, spinning, into the ground. They clasp hands like children to pull each other close, an intimate moment that lasts for a breath before it slips away, lost in a cascade of slippery, detailed movement.
Alejandro Cerrudo (top) directing Simkin and Trenary. Photo by Jim Lafferty
Viewed from several stories up, Alejandro Cerrudo's gliding, seamless partnering becomes otherworldly. The dancers stir vaporous clouds or cast multi-hued shadows which battle each other for primacy—depending on what effect the video team is experimenting with at the moment.
The two American Ballet Theatre dancers, alongside Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's Ana Lopez and Andrew Murdock, are at work on Falls the Shadow, set to premiere September 4-5. (Brett Conway has stepped in for Murdock, who appears in these rehearsal images.) The site-specific piece, which will feature costumes designed for the project by Dior, was commissioned by Works & Process at the Guggenheim as part of its new Rotunda Projects initiative.
Jim Lafferty
Though Simkin's project is the second to premiere since the program was announced last summer (Michelle Dorrance performed the inaugural work in February), in some ways it's the original: Simkin and his father, Dmitrij, helped spark the push for new dance works created in and for the rotunda when they asked about 3-D–mapping at the Guggenheim.
The idea is for video designed by the elder Simkin to be projected onto the floor and the ramp that spirals up the edges of the space, reacting in real-time to the dancers and amplifying their movement to fill the massive seven-story structure as the audience looks down from above. Though Cerrudo had not previously worked with multimedia, the choreographer leapt at the chance to work with the ABT star and was intrigued by the possibilities presented by this particular project in which video and dance "have reason for coexisting together and enhancing each other."
Alejandro Cerrduo. Photo by Jim Lafferty
The projections add another layer of complexity to an already intricate set of logistics. Though Cerrudo and the dancers have created substantial movement material in studios both in New York and Chicago, rehearsals in the rotunda are vital to making the marriage of the choreography, projections and space work. But these are entirely contingent upon the museum's opening hours, after-hour events and load-in/striking schedule for exhibitions—in other words, limited. They enter the museum at 6 pm so the marley and video projectors can be set up; the dancers get into the space around 7 pm, and Cerrudo spends the following five hours switching between working with the dancers on the floor and watching from above, conferring with Dmitrij on new projection designs.
At work on the real-time projections. Photo by Jim Lafferty
The peculiar acoustics of the space make communication between the floor and the ramp challenging; there's an additional lag caused by the security caveat that Cerrudo must be accompanied by a staff member every time he ascends the ramp. By 11 pm, the dancers are mostly marking while the video staff races against the clock to tweak designs. When midnight rolls around, everything has to be reset so the museum can open the next morning.
"It's quite draining," Daniil says matter-of-factly. "You need sort of a different energy than our usual days, when we have class in the mornings, so it's a bit of a shock to the system. But we're making it work!"
Daniil Simkin and cast. Photo by Jim Lafferty
"This is the first time that I'm rehearsing in socks! Which I'm very happy about," he adds. "You have a different traction, you've got to get into the ground a bit more, be more in tune with your core in a different sense than in ballet."
Schedules being what they are, the creative trio have much left to do entering their final block of rehearsals in late August. "There's still a lot to figure out, and many things could drastically change," Cerrudo says. "I don't set things one day and it stays like that until the premiere. I change—and change my mind—a lot. We're discovering an atmosphere, a world, that we're creating."
Cassandra Ternary. Photo by Jim Lafferty
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Christmas trees used to be a big fire hazard, back in the day when lit candles adorned the trees. But 15-year-old Albert Sadacca helped put an end to that in 1917 by to add pizazz to the holiday—without the potential for burning the house down. Get the inside scoop on . Plus: Holiday lights can be very finicky; don't give up on those stubborn dead strings just yet.
One of the very youngest inventors was Robert Patch, who was when he was just six years old, back in 1963. He built his prototype out of bottle caps and cardboard, and his invention was meant to be taken apart and refashioned into different types of trucks—like a very early Transformer. Plus: 6 easy home tech add-ons you need to see.
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Like many amazing inventions, . Eleven-year-old Frank Epperson accidentally left a cup filled with soda powder, water, and a stirring stick on his porch overnight, where it froze—and the delicious dessert was born. Nearly 20 years after his accidental discovery in 1905, he started selling his sweet treats. Now, we eat nearly 2 billion every year. Here are more .
Alissa Chavez was upset about the stories of children who died when they were accidentally left in hot cars—and she wanted to do something to help prevent it. In 2014, at age 14, she came up with the idea of the , a small cushion with a sensor that's placed in the car seat and connects to the parent's smartphone. If the cushion senses that the smartphone has moved more than 20 feet from the car with the baby still in the seat, it sounds an alarm. Plus: Never buy these 32 items at a garage sale.
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John R. Bowles was chaplain of the 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. He was a schoolteacher and is known to be the first African American public school teacher in Ohio.
Bowles was born on June 13, 1826, in Lynchburg, Virginia. Little is known of his youth. By 1848, he had relocated to Ross County, Ohio, where he married Sarah Bryant. Records show they had at least two children. Bowles was a schoolteacher and a minister in Chillicothe, Ohio. Before the Civil War, he served as minister of Chillicothe's First Anti-slavery Baptist Church, also known as First Baptist Church. While he was pastor, Bowles helped organize a renowned choir, which traveled across southern Ohio; during the performances, the choir resonated support of Anti-slavery.
With the Civil War's outbreak in April 1861, Bowles became convinced that his conflict would lead to slavery's destruction. He had actively assisted runaway slaves along the Underground Railroad in pursuit of freedom, and had hoped to enlist in the Union military to support Anti-slavery. However, the federal government had prohibited African Americans from military duty, which was changed after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Bowles enlisted in the Company K of the 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. In February 1864, he enlisted as a Chaplin, becoming the first African American in the regiment to be a commissioned officer. His commission service ended at the conclusion of the war and he resigned on June 12, 1865.
Upon leaving the military, Bowles returned to Ohio where he continued to minister and teach in the public schools in Chillicothe and then in Cincinnati and Xenia.
John R. Bowles died in Xenia, Ohio on September 3, 1874.
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These were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall and straight, and unwavering, they pledged: "For the support of the declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor."
This Independence Day, remember those that risked everything for liberty.


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Filling Our City With Disciples
by Brian Gray
Throughout Denver and Boulder, church leaders are engaging in conversations about the integration of faith and work, and inviting young professionals to do the same – to connect Sunday to Monday. To see all of life in light of the gospel. To invite Christ into day-to-day work, no matter the sphere or industry.
As one cohort leader from the 5280 Fellowship shared earlier this year, The Deloitte Millennial Survey 2016 shows that today's young professionals prioritize improving the skills of the workforce, providing services/goods that make a positive difference in people's lives, and generating and supporting jobs. These priorities reflect a desire to build into the common good.
Hear from a couple of Denver Institute's church partners about how these values play out for the flourishing of our area in the 5280 Fellowship:
Do you feel challenged to connect your deepening faith to the work you do? Do you know a young professional looking to dig into discussions about faith and work alongside other Christians?
The 5280 Fellowship is a rigorous and selective leadership program in Denver and Boulder for full-time professionals who are committed to applying the gospel to their work. The curriculum is a mix of theology, community, cultural analysis, leadership development, and Christian spiritual formation.
Learn more and invite young professionals in your network to an upcoming 5280 Fellowship info session or join our email list.
This post was published March 3, 2017
Brian is the VP of Formation here at DIFW and also leads our 5280 Fellowship program. Prior to landing at DIFW, he served in pastoral ministry for thirteen years and at Denver Seminary for four years. His vocation includes moving ideas out into life through relationships and conversation – whether that applies to God, work, the Church, good beer, or Liverpool Football Club. He married way out of his league, and spends most of his free-time being parented by his two daughters.
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Kenneth Goldsmith's writing has been called "some of the most exhaustive and beautiful collage work yet produced in poetry." Goldsmith is the author of eleven books of poetry, founding editor of the online archive UbuWeb, and the editor of I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews, which was the basis for an opera, Trans-Warhol, that premiered in Geneva in 2007. An hour-long documentary on his work, Sucking on Words, was first shown at the British Library that same year. In 2011, he was invited to read at President Obama's "A Celebration of American Poetry" at the White House, where he also held a poetry workshop with First Lady Michelle Obama. Earlier this year, he began his tenure as the first-ever Poet Laureate of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
I recently sat down with Goldsmith to discuss his new book, Seven American Deaths and Disasters.
Since your practice emphasizes the value of the selection process over the creation process, how do you choose what to include and exclude from Seven American Deaths and Disasters?
I began with the assassination of JFK, which is arguably the beginning of media spectacle, as defined and framed by Warhol. His portrait of Jackie mourning iconizes that moment forever. Although he made Marilyn'ss, he never memorialized her death, thus it never entered into the realm of media spectacle in the same way. From JFK, I naturally proceeded to RFK, an eyewitness account of his shooting at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It's an incredible linguistic document—you really feel the newsman's struggle to find words to describe what is unfolding before his eyes. John Lennon is taken from a cassette tape made by someone scanning the radio the night of and days following his assassination, which feels like an audio document from a lost time. Space Shuttle Challenger is from a TV broadcast of the event and its long, weird, silent aftermath. Columbine is straight transcript of a harrowing 911 call. The World Trade Center, the longest piece in the book, is from several sources—talk radio, news radio, color commentary—stitched together into a multichapter epic, thus mirroring the gargantuan scale of the event. And Michael Jackson is from a catty FM station, where the shock jocks have no problem cracking jokes and making racist comments at his expense.
I wish there were air checks available from Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, but in those cases, the media doesn't show up until well after the assassination and the reporting is pretty slick stuff, lacking the struggle to find words to express the horrors that they were witnessing. I do have a great transcript from the shooting of Ronald Reagan, but it's mostly Secret Service men talking to each other in numerical code, which just didn't fit in well with the other, more transparently textual pieces.
Sadly, new material keeps on coming. I heard the language of the Newtown shootings in a very different way after having written this book.
This book feels both like an important historical document and a beautiful example of what the Great American Novel might look like today. Yet you identify it, and much of your other work, as poetry. I'm curious why that particular genre is so important to you?
I suppose that the work has become more novelistic as time's gone on, but when I started down this path some twenty years ago, it was only the poets and the poetry world that could accept what I did. So I hung out with them. You take your love where you get it. But you're right, I've never really written a poem—I don't think I'd know how to. Yet there's some sort of openness in the poetry world concerning writing that I haven't been able to find elsewhere. Some of the Language poets, in particular, sort of blew apart notions of prescriptive lineation in favor of margin-to-margin madness. I'm thinking of works like Ron Silliman's Tjanting.
As with many of your projects, I notice that time, duration, and history seem rather significant to this book, especially in terms of the tension created between our personal and cultural experiences of chronology. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on how Seven American Deaths and Disasters intersects these issues.
These are all tragedies I lived through, so each one is tied to very specific memories and periods in my life. You could say that we are defined by these tragedies—and more so by the spectacle emanating from them. But it's curious to see who is moved differently when I do readings of this work. For younger people, the Kennedys are cold, distant historical figures while Michael Jackson grabs all the heat. And vice versa for the older people, who tend to write Jackson off as a joke. As a result, the book—although based on objective public events—is read and strained through one's unique subjectivity.
Following Vanessa Place and Robert Fitterman's claim in Notes on Conceptualisms that "failure is the goal of conceptual writing," in what ways do you see Seven American Deaths and Disasters succeeding in failure?
I'm not sure I agree with this statement. I prefer the definition made by Peli Grietzerhere, when he claimed that conceptual writing can be evaluated by an "aesthetic of sufficiency." In order to succeed, a book must simply fulfill its requirements—no more, no less. If I set out to, say, retype a day's issue of The New York Times, and I actually do just that, then the book is a success. But if I begin to get "creative" with the text, and I overdo it, the book fails. Likewise, if I skimp on the task—omitting certain portions of the text—the book also fails. But if I accomplish what I set out to do, the book is a success.
Regarding your aversion to "getting creative with the text," could you clarify what you mean in terms of your perspective on the boundary between "creative" and "uncreative" writing?
Creativity is about the most worn-out, abused concept that used to mean something remarkable, something that differentiated someone, something that made them special. It's a term that's been usurped by the creative class, by people like Richard Florida, and reduced to a base concept that has come to stand for the opposite of creativity: mediocre, middle-of-the-road, acceptable, unadventurous, and so forth—so that creativity is no longer creative. What was once creative is now uncreative.
Of course modernisms used these strategies, and they were proven fairly resistant to co-optation by mainstream culture. So you're starting to see a lot of these inverted terms emerge in order to describe various attempts to reenvision cultural production—like Marjorie Perloff's Unoriginal Genius and Against Expression, the title of the anthology of conceptual writing that I edited with Craig Dworkin.
I've noticed that you often cite Brion Gysin's quip about writing being fifty years behind painting. If it's safe to say writing is now in its conceptualist stage, what can we expect next in terms of postconceptualist poetic practices?
You can map this out if you look at the historical precedents of the art world. Following the period of high, pure Conceptualism and Minimalism—Judd, LeWitt, et cetera—you get counterreactions that at once reify and violate the first generation's precepts. The LeWitt-ian grid, for instance, gets wrapped in cloth, creating a soft grid. Later, people start to hang objects off that soft grid, bringing in notions of narrative and subjectivity. After a while, it gets so covered that you lose the grid entirely, thus clearing the way for other types of discourses.
If we extend this into a post-Conceptual narrative for writing—and I'm not sure it's such a one-to-one correspondence—we see younger writers melding rigorous strategies with kitschy and ironic texts in works such as Andy Sterling's Supergroup, which is 426 pages of nothing but listings of sidemen and engineers from forgotten LPs. Another example would be Steven Zultanski's Agony, in which he performs insanely complicated mathematical equations and applies them to absurd propositions like how many average-size breasts stacked on top of one another it would take to get to the height of the Burj Khalifa. For years, Kim Rosenfield has been constructing quirky, hard-to-categorize texts from appropriated material. She puts it together in ways that are not explicitly process-based, leaving a lot to whim and taste. I think these are all ways the discourse is moving forward. If you want to get a glimpse into the future of this discourse, have a look at the sites of the young online publishers of this sort of work, Gauss PDF and the Troll Thread Collective, which are full of next-generation works.
And for you, any idea what's next or where your work is headed?
For the past eight years, I have been working on Capital, a rewriting of Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project set in New York City in the twentieth century. As of today, the book is about seven hundred pages, nearly three-quarters of the way to the thousand-plus pages that constitutes Benjamin's book. The idea is to use Benjamin's identical methodology in order to write a poetic history of New York City in the twentieth century, just as Benjamin did with Paris in the nineteenth. Thus, I have taken each of his original convolutes, and, reading through the entire corpus of literature written about New York in the twentieth century, I have taken notes and selected what I consider to be the most relevant and interesting parts, sorting them into sheaves identical to Benjamin's. It's an impossible project, and if it ever is published—I have my doubts that, due to size and copyright issues, it's publishable at all—I'll be sixty-five before I see it in print.


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Pembina report calls attention to escalating freight emissions
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Most Canadians don't spend a lot of time thinking about the carbon footprint of freight. But we should and we must think about it, according to Bora Plumptre, Eli Angen, and Dianne Zimmerman, authors of The State of Freight: Understanding greenhouse gas emissions from goods movement in Canada. This comprehensive new research report was released in June by the Pembina Institute and made possible in part by Metcalf Foundation funding.
After the oil and gas sector, transportation is the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, accounting for 24 per cent of total emissions. Within it, freight – the movement of goods by road, rail, air, and marine – is the fastest growing segment. Since 1990 emissions from freight have increased 125 per cent. By 2030 these emissions are expected to surpass those of personal vehicles.
"Emissions from goods movement are almost as big as the electricity sector, yet they receive relatively little public attention," according to Eli Angen, one of the study's authors.
The problem of increasing freight emissions is serious enough that it could jeopardize Canada's ability to meet its climate targets under the Paris Agreement. Though the study's authors conclude that there is "no silver bullet" for reducing freight emissions, they remain hopeful that improvements can be made, and point to paths forward. Jurisdictions like California, for example, are working to improve the environmental sustainability of goods movement.
Closer to home, Ontario's Peel Region freight-management efforts are cited in the report as a "leading example of what municipalities can aspire to do" through their systematic approach to improving efficiencies of goods movement within their borders. And while the authors state that there is "not always a clear technological 'solution'," they point to the addition of SuperTrucks as a move in right direction. Since 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy has been working with four different major industry manufacturers to improve the fuel efficiency by 50 per cent of Class 8 combo trucks, which currently haul 70-80 per cent of all U.S. freight tonnage.
The State of Freight is the second report in an ongoing series on freight emissions. To download the full report or any other work by the Pembina Institute please visit www.pembina.org
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She is the new favourite internet sensation these days.
Can you imagine a seven-months-old baby having more Instagram followers than you? Her followers are not just limited to hundreds but thousands now! This cute six-month-old girl has 96,000 followers on Instagram thanks to her incredible mop of hair.
Baby Chanco is what people call her. She is the new favourite internet sensation these days. After many celebrity kids that break the internet with their cuteness and innocence in Bollywood as well as Hollywood, she is a non-celebrity kid.
What makes her unique from all other babies on Instagram is her super amazing hair. She is a hair inspiration for people now.
Meet Baby Chanco, the tot who's amassed over 96,000 Instagram followers thanks to her incredible bouffant. This little baby girl was born in Japan in December 2017. It is since then that she is leaving everyone awestruck with her flawless locks.
Instagram account of this little girl is named a "hair diary".
Chanco has an impressively huge head of hair and her mother styles her hair with different bows and accessories for cute pictures.
This baby has a massive fan following because who doesn't like cute babies on their Instagram feed?
Comments on her most recent pictures include: "She is so cute! Congratulations from Brazil," and, "She looks like a doll".
Describing her impressive 'do, one admirer wrote: "It's so thick and beautiful.""What a miracle," chimed another.
We reckon Baby Chanco is already set up for the future - job as a hair model, anyone?Check out some other cute and hairy videos from the baby's account.


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Hip Hop Aadhi's next is Anbarivu, a family-entertainer- Cinema express
Hip Hop Aadhi's next is Anbarivu, a family-entertainer
The film has a huge star cast that includes Vidharth, Kashmira, Napolean, Urvashi, Saikumar, Sangeetha Krish, and Dheena
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Hip Hop Tamizha Aadhi's next film is Anbarivu, a family-entertainer set in a village. The film has a script written by Pon Parthiban, with debutant Aswin Raam directing it and Sathya Jothi Films producing.
The film has a huge star cast that includes Vidharth, Kashmira, Napolean, Urvashi, Saikumar, Sangeetha Krish, and Dheena.
Director Aswin tells us the film will be a "family-centric laugh riot that is set in a village in Madurai district." On casting Aadhi in the lead, Aswin says, "For the first time, the audience will get to see Aadhi in a village-based film. It will be interesting to see him speak in Madurai slang."
Aswin adds that both Vidharth and Napolean "will play prominent lead roles. They read the script and immediately agreed to do it."
The music of Anbarivu will be composed by Hip Hop Tamizha. Madhesh Manickam will handle the cinematography, while Pradeep E Raghav is the editor.
The shooting for the film will begin in mid-January after Pongal. The team is currently scouting for locations around Madurai, Theni, Coimbatore, and Pollachi.
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