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American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. History
Detroit, Michigan 48212
Telephone: (313) 974-2000
Toll Free: 800-299-2953
Fax: (313) 974-3090
Website: www.aam.com
Incorporated: 1994 as American Axle & Manufacturing of Michigan, Inc.
Employees: 11,800
Sales: $3.68 billion (2003)
Stock Exchanges: New York
Ticker Symbol: AXL
NAIC: 336399 All Other Motor Vehicle Parts and Accessories; 551112 Offices of Other Holding Companies
Company Perspectives:
American Axle & Manufacturing and its associates are committed to meeting customer requirements through measurable quality improvement, cost reduction, and on-time delivery of products and services, while achieving profitable growth and increasing shareholder value.
Key Dates:
- 1994:
- An investor group led by Richard Dauch acquires General Motors' Final Drive and Forge Business Unit, leading to the formation of AAM.
- 1997:
- Blackstone Capital Partners acquires a controlling stake in AAM.
- 1999:
- AAM completes its initial public offering of stock.
- 2002:
- AAM is awarded a contract with General Motors worth $1.5 billion annually.
- 2004:
- AAM dedicates a new world headquarters building in Detroit.
Company History:
American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. (AAM) designs and manufactures driveline systems, chassis systems, and forged products for trucks, sport utility vehicles, buses, and passenger cars. AAM relies heavily on General Motors Corporation (GM) for its business, deriving more than 80 percent of its sales from the car maker. AAM also supplies driveline components (the parts that transfer power from the transmission and deliver it to the drive wheels) to DaimlerChrysler AG, Ford Motor Company, Nissan, Renault, Visteon Automotive, and others. AAM operates 17 manufacturing facilities in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and the United Kingdom. Company-owned sales and business offices are located in Tokyo, Japan, and Ulm, Germany.
The dominant figure behind AAM's impressive success was the architect of its development, Richard Dauch. Dauch was a 30-year veteran of the automotive industry when he decided to resurrect a handful of manufacturing plants neglected by GM. A hard-nosed, pragmatic executive, Dauch began his illustrious career at GM, joining the car manufacturer in 1964 after earning a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial management and science at Purdue University. Dauch spent a dozen years at GM, rising from an entry level position to become the youngest plant manager in Chevrolet's history. From there, Dauch moved on to Volkswagen of America, serving for four years as the company's group vice-president of manufacturing operations. Dauch was becoming an expert in his field, something of a manufacturing evangelist whose views were regarded as visionary. His reputation as a forward-thinking executive drew the admiration of Lee Iacocca, Chrysler's influential chairman.
In 1980, Iacocca recruited Dauch from Volkswagen, tapping the rising executive to apply his salubrious touch to Chrysler's troubled manufacturing operations. At Chrysler, Dauch confirmed his reputation as a manufacturing guru, becoming the driving force behind the car maker's well-publicized resurgence during the 1980s. Chrysler's comeback made Iacocca a household name, but those in the industry were quick to bestow the company's executive vice-president of worldwide manufacturing with a large portion of the credit for the company's revival. Dauch's success at Chrysler prompted him to write a book about his favorite subject, the title of which neatly described its author. Passion for Manufacturing, published in 1993, contained 280 pages of wisdom from the renowned automotive authority that eventually would be sold in 80 countries and used as a textbook in numerous colleges and universities. One year after finishing his book, Dauch directed his manufacturing zeal toward the dilapidated factory where he once worked as a GM employee.
During the early 1990s, Dauch turned his attention to a business unit of his former employer. The Final Drive and Forge Business Unit of GM's Saginaw Division was a collection of neglected manufacturing facilities that represented the car maker's axle, forge, and driveshaft driveline assets. GM executives thought little of the business. They viewed the business of making axles and driveshafts as a low technology, low profit-margin business and their attention to the factories reflected their ambivalence. Dauch, on the other hand, saw a perfect opportunity to demonstrate his manufacturing acumen and apply new technology to the business. With the help of two investors, Raymond Park and Morten Harris, Dauch acquired five plants from GM for an undisclosed sum, though industry observers speculated that the trio paid approximately $300 million for assets located "in a horrible part of town ... surrounded by abandoned houses, crack houses, prostitution, and plenty of bars," as described by Crain's Detroit Business in a July 26, 2004 article.
Dauch incorporated his company, initially called American Axle & Manufacturing of Michigan, Inc. in March 1994. (American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. was adopted as the company's corporate title in January 1999.) From its inception under Dauch's control, AAM was a more than $1 billion business with more than a half-century of existence behind it, but its assets were in dire need of a visionary's touch. Dauch began with core manufacturing operations based in Michigan and New York and a commitment from GM to be the car maker's sole-source supplier of the components it previously had made for itself. To turn this base into a flourishing enterprise, which AAM did become, Dauch applied his three decades of experience to the company's improvement. He focused on improving product quality, manufacturing efficiency, and, perhaps most importantly, he demonstrated an unwavering commitment to research and development.
Cash Infusion in 1997
The rehabilitation of AAM's assets turned the company into one of North America's largest and most profitable suppliers to the automotive industry. The development toward such status was consistent but slow during the company's first years in business, as Dauch faced the daunting challenge of breathing new life into the massive and neglected facilities that supported GM. The establishment of a new research and development center in 1995--a facility treated with several expansion and improvement programs before the end of the decade--was one of the first significant successes achieved by Dauch. His investments and changes in manufacturing techniques drove the company's sales up to $2.2 billion in 1996, by which point his efforts had produced sufficient tangible results to attract a large cash infusion. A New York investment firm, Blackstone Capital Partners II Merchant Banking Fund L.P., looked at Dauch's work and decided to invest substantially in the company's future. In October 1997, Blackstone acquired a controlling stake in the company, giving Dauch as much as $700 million to funnel toward AAM's expansion and improvement.
In the wake of Blackstone's leveraged recapitalization of AAM, Dauch assumed a more aggressive posture as the company's chairman and chief executive officer. In 1998, the company acquired Scotland-based Albion Automotive (Holdings) Limited, a supplier of front steerable and rear axles, driving heads, crankshafts, chassis components, and transmission parts. Albion's parts were used in medium-duty trucks and buses for customers in the United Kingdom and continental Europe. In 1999, when AAM completed its initial public offering of stock, Dauch completed two acquisitions on the domestic front, paying roughly $223 million for two forging companies, Colfer Manufacturing Inc. and MSP Industries Corp. He also built an axle plant in Mexico and acquired a majority interest in a joint venture in Brazil that machined forging and driveline components. The acquisitions represented Dauch's efforts to vertically integrate AAM, aping what GM had done roughly 70 years earlier. Dauch's purchases were intended to allow AAM to forge more parts for the company's axles and drivelines, part of his plan to nearly quintuple sales within five years to $10 billion. "We are a consolidator," Dauch announced in the May 17, 1999 issue of Crain's Detroit Business, "the goal is to be a strategic supplier." Dauch fell well short of reaching his financial goal, but his accomplishments hardly could be dismissed as AAM entered the 21st century.
In 2000, after six years of working to improve AAM's manufacturing capabilities, Dauch could point to convincing evidence that his expertise had worked wonders. Between 1994 and 2000, roughly $1.5 billion was spent on capital expenditures. During that period, the average number of axles produced per day increased from 10,000 to 16,000. The number of defect parts for every million parts shipped to GM plummeted from 13,441 to 89. The dramatic improvements drove the growth of the company, enabling it to edge past the $3-billion-in-sales mark in 2000, 84.5 percent of which was derived from sales to GM.
As Dauch focused on improving manufacturing methods, he also concentrated on developing another area of AAM's business. The company's relationship with GM was a strength, with the car maker's success translating into commensurate success for AAM, but the company's dependence on GM was also a potential weakness. Dauch, wishing to reduce the company's reliance on a single customer, worked to develop relationships with other car makers and other automotive suppliers. By the end of 2000, the company's sales to customers other than GM had more than tripled in comparison to 1998. In 2001, progress in the company's customer diversification was highlighted by two contracts. In September, the company was awarded a contract to supply gears for automatic transmissions in selected Ford Motor Company vehicles. The following month, AAM announced it had been selected to supply front and rear driveshafts for DaimlerChrysler AG's heavy-duty Dodge Ram pickup truck program. Dauch's continued attention to customer diversification enabled the company to reduce its dependence on GM in subsequent years. GM accounted for 87 percent of the company's business in 2001. In 2003, when sales to non-GM customers were up nearly 50 percent, the company derived 82 percent of its sales from GM.
AAM in the 21st Century
Investments in new technology underpinned the company's progress during the first years of the new decade. By 2002, three-quarters of the products AAM was supplying had been developed within the previous three years, putting Dauch's offerings on the technological vanguard. At this point, the company was supplying the driveline systems for the long-wheelbase versions of the Chevrolet TrailBlazer and GMC Envoy sport utility vehicles, the Hummer H2, and the heavy-duty version of the 2003 Dodge Ram pickup truck. The company received a new contract to supply GM with a new driveline system in 2006, a deal of tremendous importance to its future business. The contract, which potentially was worth more than $1.5 billion annually, was hailed by Dauch. "This is the largest driveline-system award program by any vehicle manufacturer in the world," he explained in a May 20, 2002 interview with Crain's Detroit Business. "It will secure our revenue (from 2006) through 2015 with this one program," he added. Revenues at the end of the year reached a record high of $3.5 billion, and the company's net income, after increasing 53 percent, reached a record high of $176 million.
As AAM entered the mid-2000s, it continued to register significant improvements in its manufacturing methods. The number of defects per million parts shipped to GM, which stood at 13,441 in 1994 before being whittled down to 89 in 2000, was only 15 by the end of 2003. The company was producing 19,300 axles per day by this point, nearly twice the daily production average in 1994. New-technology-related sales represented only 3 percent of the company's business when Dauch took control of its factories. By the end of 2003, AAM derived 80 percent of its revenue from products featuring new technology. The influence of Dauch on the company's operations was immense, representing more than a restoration of the facilities formerly owned by GM. Dauch reinvented the business, creating an automotive supplier that ranked as the most profitable enterprise in its industry. As the company plotted its course, its future success rested almost as heavily on the presence of Dauch as it did on the business supplied by GM.
AAM dedicated its new headquarters facility in mid-2004, a seven-story, 250,000-square-foot, $40-million building that promised to be the focal point of the company's future success. The dedication occurred during the company's 10th anniversary, an occasion marked by Dauch in a July 23, 2004 AAM press release. "When this company was formed in 1994," he wrote, "it was a priority for us that we locate our headquarters in the city of Detroit, the motor capital of the world. The new AAM world headquarters tops off more than 10 years of improvements and contributions that we have made in the community. It is a true capstone for our corporation. Now, we have all our functional capabilities under one roof, for the first time in AAM's history."
Principal Subsidiaries: American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc.; AAM Receivables Corp.; American Axle International Sales, Ltd.; Colfer Manufacturing Inc.; MASP Industries Corporation; MSP Team, LLC (99%); American Axle & Manufacturing de Mexico Holdings S. de R.L. de C.V. (99.99%); Guanajuato Gear & Axle de Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V. (99.99%); American Axle & Manufacturing de Mexico S.A. de C.V. (99.99%); AAM International Holdings, Inc.; Albion Automotive (Holdings) Limited (Scotland); Albion Automotive Limited (Scotland); Farington Components Limited (U.K.); AAM Comercio e Participacoes Ltda. (99.99%); AAM do Brasil Ltda. (Brazil).
Principal Competitors: ArvinMeritor, Inc.; Dana Corporation; Metaldyne Corporation.
Further Reading:
- "American Axle's Dauch Rewarded Handsomely for Company Success," Crain's Detroit Business, April 21, 2003, p. 4.
- Crain, Keith, "A Success Story," Crain's Detroit Business, July 26, 2004, p. 8.
- Fahey, Jonathan, "Consumer Durables," Forbes, January 12, 2004, p. 162.
- Kosdrosky, Terry, "American Axle Continues Forging Biz Consolidation," Crain's Detroit Business, May 17, 1999, p. 16.
- ------, "American Axle Dedicates HQ," Crain's Detroit Business, August 2, 2004, p. 15.
- ------, "American Axle Hopes New 4WD Unit Can Shift into High Gear," Crain's Detroit Business, December 23, 2002, p. 17.
- ------, "2 Suppliers Compete for Sport-Utility Steering Business," Automotive News, July 15, 2002, p. 20J.
- McCracken, Jeffrey, "Parts Makers to Cut Suppliers," Crain's Detroit Business, February 21, 2000, p. 1.
- Morath, Eric, "American Axle Still Covets GM Work but Pursues Others," Crain's Detroit Business, May 20, 2002, p. 6.
- Sherefkin, Robert, "American Axle Gets GM Boost," Automotive News, May 20, 2002, p. 8.
- Strong, Michael, "Some Manufacturers Defy Slow Economy, Increase Revenue," Crain's Detroit Business, July 7, 2003, p. 12.
- Williams, Fred O., "Investment Group Purchases American Axle," Buffalo News, September 26, 1997, p. A11.
- Zoia, David E., "New Vision," Ward's Auto World, January 1, 2004, p. 45.
Source: International Directory of Company Histories, Vol.67. St. James Press, 2005.


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WFIU's Featured Artist for the month of June is horn player Dale Clevenger. After a long and distinguished career as principal horn with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Clevenger will join the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music in the fall of 2013.
Teaching is important to Clevenger, who has long been active worldwide coaching and leading masterclasses. He has directed and participated in numerous festivals, including the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Marrowstone Music Fesitval, and the Affinis Music Festival in Japan. Before being appointed to the faculty of the Jacobs School, Clevenger taught horn at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Horn players coached by Clevenger have gone on to perform in ensembles from the New York Philharmonic to the San Francisco Symphony, and as far away as the Berlin Philharmonic.
Before joining the Chicago Symphony in 1966, Clevenger was a member of the Kansas City Philharmonic and the American Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski. He also served as an extra player for the New York Philharmonic and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
As a member of the CSO, Clevenger performed under well known conductors including Sir Georg Solti, Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Muti, and Claudio Abbado. He appeared as a soloist with the ensemble many times, including in 35 subscription concerts and 23 performances at the Ravinia Festival, the summer home of the CSO. In 2004, Clevenger premiered a horn concerto written for him by John Williams.
WFIU will feature performances by Dale Clevenger in our classical music programming throughout the month of June.


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text: Victims of 2013 flood celebrate new beginning through Habitat for Humanity Bus Tarbox breaks ground on his new home from Habitat for Humanity, built after losing his home on the Big Thompson River in the 2013 flood. (Sam Lounsberry / Loveland Reporter-Herald) By the end of the month, two people who lost their homes along the North Fork of the Big Thompson in the 2013 flood, Bus Tarbox and Joyce Kilmer, will be neighbors once again. The two are soon to be neighbors in homes assembled with the help of Loveland Habitat for Humanity. A crowd of about 40 that included Loveland city councilman Ralph Trenary, who lived near Tarbox and Kilmer before their homes were destroyed while his was spared, gathered Saturday at Raven Place off of St. Louis Avenue to celebrate the groundbreaking on each of these homes. "Today is a day of healing and new beginnings," said Gwen Stephenson, executive director of Loveland Habitat for Humanity. "The flood was a great tragedy in our community, but it brought our community together." Kilmer lost everything but the clothes on her back in the flood when the river swept her house away, including her art studio full of paintings, sculptures and materials for crafting. But she is excited for her new home to finally be completed so she can resume her artistry, using the garage as a studio. She plans to enter her work in a September show in Grand Rapids, Mich. The winner will receive $250,000, Kilmer explained in an interview as she crossed her fingers. Tarbox was able to salvage only his most-treasured possession after the flood: a Kimball grand piano that he says he played four to five times per day. "You can tell me when to quiet down, I'll shut the window," Tarbox said to a future neighbor in the crowd at Raven Place. Tarbox has been living with his two grandsons since the flood, but frequently visits Kilmer and his piano in her rented living space. She assisted recovering and restoring the instrument from flood damage. He is looking forward to the day he can have the piano back in his own home. "It's just a miracle," Tarbox said of finally having a new home of his own. "You don't expect to be back to the way you were." Trenary also stood before those gathered holding hands with his two former neighbors along the river. Joyce Kilmer, center-right, shares a laugh with Phyllis Kane, center, and Susan Briggs, right, as Kilmer is presented with her Habitat for Humanity nail apron to wear while she breaks ground for her new home near downtown Loveland. Bus Tarbox, center-left, who also lost his home in the flood, will be her next-door neighbor, and was presented his nail apron by Sarah Porro, left. (Sam Lounsberry / Loveland Reporter-Herald) "The losses and heartfelt pain that has been felt and is being worked through — I hope for all of us to a large degree — will be resolved by seeing two fine homes built here, by seeing two friends making a new start," he said. The two modular homes are being delivered from Albuquerque, possibly as soon as the end of next week, before finishing touches are made and the houses are placed on their foundations, according to Sarah Porro of the Long Term Recovery Group, which has assisted in flood relief. Trenary expressed contentment with the project nearing completion for multiple reasons. "It's exciting on a personal level because of how long I've know Bus and Joyce," Trenary said in an interview. "And it's exciting on a professional level and official level because every time Habitat closes a project like this, it shows what an asset it is to the city of Loveland. Habitat is a consistent, reliable partner for affordable housing." Tarbox hopes he can continue to put on musical performances for Kilmer when they're next-door neighbors — perhaps in exchange for some of her home cooking. "The thing is, he doesn't cook, he can't cook, and he says 'Now I can come right next door and eat dinner,'" Kilmer joked at Tarbox. "He does come by once in a while and I feed him." "I can play the piano lots better than I work the microwave," Tarbox said with a chuckle. Sam Lounsberry, 635-3691. On Twitter: @SamLounz. elizabeth2018-11-08T23:48:59-07:00 Share This Story, Choose Your Platform! 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This text by CAROLINE SECK LANGHILL is published alongside BARBARA BALFOUR'S Living & Dying exhibition.
Text and Perception in Living & Dying
by Caroline Seck Langill
The sixties are endless. We still live within them.1
Barbara Balfour's recent body of work haunted me in unusual ways since I began to contemplate its meaning for this essay. Memories of the era, of my own coming of age resurfaced and implicated themselves as part of the extended cognitive system I was drawing upon in order to consider these canny lithographs. On first viewing, this series of prints with their pulsing blurred stripes referenced the faded colour fields found across media, from the street to the gallery, during the 1960s. The bands of colour vary from a psychedelic spectral range to a more consistent patterning which fades betweenthe chosen colour of ink to white, and back again, giving the text printed with paler inks a ghostly glow. At closer proximity the stripes disappear in favour of two words: living, dying. Each line repeats living living living living and then at roughly half the distance of the width of the paper, the words switch to dying dying dying dying. Each word is distinct. Each line is distinct. But viewed together from a distance, in their tight juxtaposition, the combined effect generates a cohesive typographical field with waves of colour and light. The words hold and bind the ink to the page, they pulse with the frequency of the colour they transmit, so that the illusion is not just clever, but is also physiological. Our rods and cones and our emotions are piqued, as the words are relentless in their evocation. A subtle plaid of colour and text is produced between them, implying the weaving of the two; the warp and weft of life and death.
If we are to assume Pamela Lee's observation of the endless sixties to be true, then it is not surprising that these works hearken back to that period. Living & Dying speaks to the present from the past in the way the works in the exhibition sit between two eras informed by technology in new and surprising ways. It is not just the formal aspects of these works that take me back however, but also the text and its handling by the artist. Considering the argument thus far, it makes some sense to leapfrog over text-based works of the 1980s informed as they were by structural and semiotic imperatives, and instead consider the conceptual and durational works of Ed Ruscha and On Kawara. Ruscha's faded colour fields and landscapes overladen with slogans have some bearing on Balfour's works since they locate and appropriate the aesthetics of dip-dyed street wear for purposes of fine art. In the late sixties, Seth Siegelaub organized exhibitions of Ruscha's and Weiner's work adhering to his mandate to focus on printed matter, its form and process of distribution. The simultaneous withdrawal from the field of the visual and a staging of that withdrawal as a form of spectacle, was a paradox integral to the works in question.2 Balfour's works are similarly strange. They are unsettling in their ability to play with our eyes and our mind as the words come and go with distance. They are also distinct from the aforementioned works of Ruscha's and Kawara's where the focus was on language and its reference to everyday events and objects. So perhaps we need to go a bit further back to find a peer for Balfour. Bridget Riley, a British painter working in the early 1960s was, the reluctant heroine of this sixties phenomena. 3 For her optically arresting paintings Riley depended on the retinal response, as does Balfour with this series, where the marks on the page dots for Riley, words for Balfour craft optical tricks. Pamela Lee sees a fetish of visuality in Riley's paintings that suggests a reading of the body under the conditions of a shifting technological culture and how the time of that body speaks to the repressive consequences of a burgeoning technocracy. 4 Well the technocracy is no longer burgeoning; it has arrived, and we are complicit in our embrace of it.
We have hurdled forward, to a post-millennial culture where analogue and digital media fight for legitimacy, and relational practices signal the ultimate dematerialization of art. These polarities of media, more integrated than anyone cares to admit, make Balfour's decision to approach her text and its production all the more surprising. In his Today Series, On Kawara hand painted the text, emulating machine-made sans-serif type. As with Kawara's work, it is not in order to legitimate the labour that Balfour takes a handwritten approach to her matrix, but to emphasize embodiment. In previous works Balfour actually used software that formatted her own handwriting to generate a signature font, but she eschews this method here, favouring unpredictability
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As our eyes adjust their focal lengths to the words or the stripes, we move in and out of our connection to living and dying. Our secular culture has created a situation where we are unable to respond to these two states with any certainty. Death surrounds us in popular culture, fundamentalism proliferates in sectors of virtually all world religions, and the children of the sixties are approaching their senior years. Susan Sontag states: Every era has to reinvent spirituality for itself. 5 Having channeled the sixties in order to emphasize her idea as a machine that makes art 6, we are confronted with the meaning of existential questions surrounding living and dying, questions grappled with by conceptual artists in the sixties. Balfour's beautiful and haunting series Living & Dying boldly re-joins this company with two words and her master printer's hand, connecting the concerns of that era to our present worldview.
CAROLINE SECK LANGILL is a Peterborough-based artist whose practice encompasses visual and new media art, curatorial projects and scholarly writing. Over the past decade, she has pursued research pertaining to the intersections between art and science as well as in the related fields of new media art history, criticism and preservation. Presently, she is an associate Professor in liberal Studies at OCaD University where she teaches courses revolving around technology and digital culture.


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Today we took our final exam in 7th grade. It covered the Elements of Design, color theory, and basic ceramic terms and tools.
The animal whistles are in the kiln and will be ready on Monday!
Good luck with the rest of your year, and I will miss all of you!
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We're offering a lucky winner a free place on the next Catalyst course (usually $1400) which starts Feb 10th – think this could be you? then read on for how to enter and why we're sharing this opportunity with you.
I've been reading, revisiting some wisdom from Ken Robinson lately (some of you may know his TED talk on how Schools kill creativity, its had over 21 million views), and in that video (and his books) he shares many insights- including this one:
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original
It may seem like an obvious statement, but if you have a change project in mind, you may find this time of year, on the edge of new possibilities that your momentum can stall. Many of our best procrastination techniques kick in when we're on the edge of doing something really important. And this can happen for many reasons, but the biggest is fear of failure.
When it comes to Innovation and creating change though; the only failure is if you don't try.
Change is a process, you become a success because you try- you get started, and you allow your idea to develop. You iterate which is to adjust and improve as you go, as the process unfolds.
In 2014 we want to make sure that if you have a great idea for a change project, or if there's something you see that could be done better and you have an inkling of where the possibility for improvement lies………that you get yourself juiced up with the tools to get started and make it happen!
Starting Febuary 10th, we're offering a course called Catalyst, which will walk you through the Design thinking process, apply it to your idea and get you into action. Design thinking is about believing we can make a difference and having an intentional process in order to get to new, relevant solutions that create positive impact. Its a structured approach to generating and evolving ideas.
Our Catalyst course is a sequence of 4 workshops spaced over 2 weeks. It begins with full day workshops on Feb 10th, then 12th, 13th and final workshop is on Feb 20th. It will be held in Peel St in Adelaide's CBD.
The workshop price is $1400. In 2014 we want to make sure that everyone who dreams for change, has the opportunity to discover their agency and realise the change they dream of. So we're offering you the chance to win a place on the course in a special competition so you can start your year of change on the right foot.
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Email the following to email@example.com by 6pm on Feb 1st.
1. What is the change project you want to get started on? (In strictly 50 words or less)
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Then review what you wrote, and try to concentrate the who, what, when, where, why elements of it to a phrase each. Eg. Who is it targeting?, when do you want to do it (in summer, during the next 12 months etc), what change are you seeking (in a phrase), where (where will you see the results? in a particular place or online or as evidenced by what benchmark/outcome or change?)
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They line up north to south, a 10-minute walk on Harvard's campus: the Kennedy School of Public Policy, the School of Business, and the youngest of the group, the Innovation Lab. All three may have important roles in resolving a central question in civil discourse: how to get people to at least hear each other out on the issues of the day.
It was the Kennedy School's Robert Putnam who surveyed the American landscape in 1995 and, in his landmark book, Bowling Alone, raised an alarm about the decline and fractionalization of American civic engagement. Fast-forward to 2016, and to a Harvard Business School student, Laura Carpenter. Trained as an engineer, and having relocated to Boston from the American South, she is dismayed by the growing toxicity of political dialogue during the presidential election. She's also intrigued by what she's experiencing in her B-school classroom. There, each case begins with a set of accepted facts and moves on to a discussion, where various points of view are encouraged and heard. The case resolution may not be tidy, but at least everyone in the class understands the range of viewpoints.
In 2017, seeing an opportunity, Carpenter teams up with computer scientist David Byas-Smith to explore whether the approach that worked so well inside the Harvard Business School could gain traction in the larger world. They set up shop in the freewheeling Harvard Innovation Labs and launched their venture, called Abridge News, as a digital platform to improve how Americans obtain, digest and comment on news.
Abridge starts with a topic chosen by a group of human moderators and offers readers a selection of recent articles representing a variety of views, from conservative to liberal, and points in between. Passionate advocacy is encouraged, but no false facts allowed. Readers can see a story from multiple points of view and have the opportunity to understand—and even empathize with—how others form their opinions.
Topics featured on Abridge are straight from the headlines and generally political, although questions on business, sports and culture have also been covered.
A reader clicking on a topic is given three options.
First is Quick Facts, a set of relevant, well-researched facts about the issue at hand. Each fact is scrupulously checked. Says Carpenter, "We imagine the reader coming across the topic with little or no background context and we ask: "What essential information is needed before a reader can engage with the opinions?"
Then comes the Opinion Spectrum. This includes up to four op-ed style articles selected by the Abridge moderators from the wide expanse of American journalism. As many as 20 different articles are considered for the final cut. If the topic is political, Opinion Spectrum features conservative, centrist and liberal viewpoints. If the topic is nonpolitical, the team finds articles that explain the pros and cons. No "personal feeds" or algorithms are involved. Readers can toggle from one article to the next to explore contrasts—and common ground.
The third option is Reader Reaction. Here, readers are prompted to provide their opinions by selecting statements ranging from "Surprisingly, I agree" to "This doesn't paint the full picture." They can also view the opinions of others in the Abridge community.
Our goal is not to bring people towards the middle, but to build empathy and understanding between people who hold different opinions.
Since its launch in 2017, these reactions have generally shown that Abridge readers aren't as polarized or one-dimensional as people may think. Says Carpenter, "Our goal is not to bring people towards the middle, but to build empathy and understanding between people who hold different opinions."
The co-founders report that Abridge is seeing sharp month-over-month gains in readership. In 2019, to continue to build readership, Abridge News launched a native iOS app to provide wider, easier access to its curated content. This app was handpicked by the App Store editors as an "App We Love Right Now" in spring 2020.
There are no ads or fees on the Abridge News platform and the co-founders plan to keep it that way. Abridge News is not focused on making money — instead, the team is motivated by a mission: "to increase empathy and critical thinking in the world by exploring diverse perspectives." The company recently converted to a non-profit and is taking inspiration from an iconic internet giant: Wikipedia.
Carpenter recently explained, "We plan to scale our content via a Wikipedia-style contributor network. We recently built and launched an internet browser extension as part of a broader program that we call the "A-Team." Using this extension, any person reading an interesting opinion article online can highlight an argument they like, right click, and submit it directly to our content management system. Members get points for submitting highlights to Abridge News, and as they gain more credibility, they gain additional content moderation privileges."
The "A-Team" already has a small group of passionate volunteers that review submissions and moderate content that gets featured on the platform. This group of volunteers engages via a leaderboard (they get points for submitting content) and a Slack community.
Carpenter says that "the success of the 'A-Team' will be critical to our success as a platform. It will help us keep content scaling costs down, and it will build trust. Ultimately, we want Abridge News to be community driven, rather than a platform run by perceived ivory tower elites."


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Abimelech əbĭm´əlĕk [key], in the Bible.
1 Name or title of a king of Gerar who had various dealings with Abraham and Isaac. 2 See Ahimelech 1. 3 Son of Gideon. He murdered his 70 brothers, except Jotham, and became
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With its blocky feel and bold use of color, the work of Hungarian-born artist Zsofia Schweger feels as informed by graphics as it is by fine art. As such, it comes as little surprise that the London-based image-maker takes a keen interest in graphic design—so much so that she interned for a time at Base Design in New York.
"I'm definitely interested in graphic design's ability to communicate ideas and deliver messages effectively, and I appreciate the huge role it has in society," says Schweger. "Graphic design is everywhere, we're all influenced by it. My paintings are less functional than graphic design, but there are definitely similarities for me, especially when it comes to process, which is pretty methodical: I make preliminary versions of my paintings and edit both the composition and color scheme before going on to produce it."
I'm particularly impressed with her Sandorfalva, Hungary series, depicting stark, unpeopled domestic interiors. They're part of her wider exploration of "notions of home and belonging, local identity, and the emigrant experience," says Schweger, whose family lived in Sandorfalva for 20 years before moving to London. "Our furniture and belongings are still there, kind of frozen in time, waiting for eventual moving or disposal.
"It's all very familiar and foreign at the same time. It's my home by definition, it's a space that I know well, but it's been so long since I lived there that I don't actually feel at home. There are hundreds of thousands of Hungarians like me who left the country in the past few years for economic and political reasons. My story really isn't that unique, and I think that's why my paintings, when paired with the narrative of my project, can sometimes be seen as political."
Using a mixture of grays and pastel tones, Schweger's images are rendered in a way that manages to show her human hand, with gentle inaccuracies and wavering lines. "The colors in my paintings are mostly intuitive and made-up, although I do reference the colors of the actual objects I paint, and the general light conditions of the interiors. I always choose colors that work well together because I want my paintings to provide a sort of aesthetic pleasure. I want colors that are alluring enough to make you want to stay with my paintings a little bit longer, and look at them a little bit closer."
Zsofia Schweger's debut solo show BLOC is at London's Griffin Gallery until 30 September.


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Bomb City
Bomb City movie was a blockbuster released on 2017 in United States. Story: A crime-drama, about the cultural aversion of a group of punk rockers in a conservative Texas town. Their ongoing battle with a rival, more-affluent clique leads to a controversial hate crime that questions the morality of American justice..
Actor: GlennMorshower, LoganHuffman, LoreleiLinklater,
Country: United States
Duration:94 Min
Release: 2017
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Jimmy Buffett to perform for Gillum, Nelson in West Palm Beach
Jimmy Buffett will perform in West Palm Beach on Saturday in an effort "to energize Democrats and Parrot Heads across the state" to vote for Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum and Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson.
The event is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Meyer Amphitheatre in downtown West Palm Beach, according to a post by the Gillum campaign.
Palm Beach resident Buffett is no stranger to Democratic politics. A few days before the Aug. 28 Democratic primary, he performed a free concert in Hollywood for Gwen Graham, who finished second to Gillum in the five-candidate race.
Buffett also performed in get-out-the-vote concerts for 1998 Democratic gubernatorial nominee Buddy MacKay in West Palm Beach and for 2002 Democratic nominee Bill McBride at Palm Beach International Airport. He also performed at fundraiser for 2010 Democratic gubernatorial nominee Alex Sink.
Buffett has also appeared with Nelson at least once before — in a 2000 get-out-the-vote concert at PBIA with Nelson and other Democrats during Nelson's first run for Senate.
Gillum faces Republican Ron DeSantis in the governor's race. Nelson, seeking a fourth Senate term, is being challenged by Republican Gov. Rick Scott.


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Planning for Halloween
October is a busy month in our house. It consists of making Halloween costumes for the kids, my daughter' Zoe's birthday, plus we host an annual Halloween party which means invitations, food and decorations.
In order to get through the month without dropping the ball I've learned to rely on my 3 P's (and pills are not one of them!) plan, prioritize, and practice.
1. Plan: With so much to do and so little time, it's imperative to have a solid plan of action to know exactly what needs to be done, bought and prepared. Pay attention to things that will require extra lead time like ordering costumes(pay attention to shipping dates), ordering food for a party, or any other factors that may affect your timeline.
2. Prioritize: Your to-do list is endless; that's a fact. Take 10 minutes at the beginning of each day to prioritize the top 3 tasks you need to accomplish. I typically use my calendar as my guideline. For example, I try to get through my daughter's birthday before worrying about the menu for my Halloween party since I have a two-week buffer in between each event.
3. Practice: If you're more of a "fly by the seat of your pants" type of person, this structure may seem rigid. Developing a routine requires time and practice. Being organized comes naturally to some, but not everyone. The good news is that organizing is a learned skill. Just like an instrument or a sport, the more you practice the better at it you will become.
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Here it is I am starting my very first Blog. Im very excited because I have so much to share with you but I really don't know where to begin. Well let me first begin by saying THANK YOU!
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Blooms traditional taxonomy which was published sometime in the middle of the last century was revised in 2001 and henceforth was labelled Blooms Revised Taxonomy. This revision is a little bit different from the original one in that it replaces nouns with verbs and places emphasis on the process of creating by putting it on the top of the thinking continuum.
With the emergence of web 2.0 tools and mobile apps, Bloom's Revised Taxonomy has been re-adapted to incorporate the digital element within it. One of the major contributors to this shift is Andrew Churches whose wiki page features some primer resources on what comes to be labelled Bloom's Digital Taxonomy.
Bloom's Digital Taxonomy is an attempt to wed technology with the different thinking levels constituting Bloom's taxonomy. We have already reviewed some of the web tools and iPad apps that correspond with the 6 cognitive levels of Bloom's taxonomy and today we are sharing the Android version of this taxonomy. These are Android apps to use to meet the requirements for each of the thinking levels. Check them out and share with us your feedback. Enjoy
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Try this juicy and flavourful bell pepper, tomato, eggplant, and onion paste. You can eat it just after cooking or preserve the paste and open a jar in winter and enjoy the taste of stewed piquant vegetables.
- 1 kg (2,2 lb) eggplant
- 500 g (1,1 lb) bell pepper
- 500 g (1,1 lb) bulb onion
- 1 kg (2,2 lb) ripe tomato
- 150 g (0,33 lb) apple
- 1 chili pepper
- 200 ml vegetable oil
- 1 tsp sugar
- ground black pepper – to taste
- salt – to taste
Preheat sunflower oil in a frying pan. When steam appears add peeled and finely chopped onions. When the onion gets golden color (in no case it should be overdone) add chopped tomatoes. Cover the frying pan with a lid and continue to stew tomatoes over medium heat. Stir the ingredients from time to time. Wash eggplants and dice them (you don't need to peel the vegetables). Wash bell peppers and peel them. Chop the peppers. Peel and grate apples. Add the prepared ingredients to the pan and stew them over low heat. Stir the paste frequently. When the eggplants become soft, open the pan in order to let extra water evaporate. Peel a hot pepper and add it to the mass. Cook the paste over low heat until you get necessary thickness. Add ground black pepper and sugar at the end of stewing.
Serve the vegetable paste as garnish. If you want to preserve it for winter, then pour the hot vegetable paste in jars and cork them up hermetically. Sterilize the jars for 20 minutes. If you get very thick paste you may omit the process of sterilization.
Enjoy your meal!
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It's a new year, new decade and I always try to start low carb or low calorie. I happen to love devil eggs and love to eat them whenever I can, eating healthy or not. I used Trader Joe's seasoning but my local Publix sells it, Amazon sells it and Sam's Club does too. You can easily make your own Everything But The Bagel seasoning too. I will give you the instructions below my recipe.
8 hard boiled eggs
Salt and pepper to taste
3 Tablespoons Mayonnaise
3 Tablespoons Mustard (your choice of Dijon, yellow, grainy, your favorite)
Everything But The Bagel Seasoning (recipe below for homemade)
Slice eggs in half and scoop out yolk and place yolk in a separate bowl. Mash eggs with a fork or potato masher. Season with salt and pepper. Stir in mayonnaise and mustard, blending well. Spoon back in the egg whites and sprinkle with Everything But The Bagel Seasoning.
1 Tablespoon sesame seeds
1 Tablespoon poppy seeds
1 Tablespoon dried onion flakes
1 Tablespoon dried garlic flakes
1 Tablespoon coarse sea salt
Combine above ingredients and store in an airtight container until ready to use. There are a lot of recipes for this seasoning and I have always heard Sunny Anderson say equal parts of said ingredients. That's what I go by if I am making it myself. I typically buy it because it's cheaper to purchase than buying all of the ingredients.


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I love it when someone takes an old business model, shakes it up, and creates something pretty fantastic for the buying public. Sydney eyewear company Bailey Nelson has done just that with their super-affordable optical glasses and sunglasses designed in Australia.
By taking away huge overheads, creating their own brand (rather than relying on an established designer name) and focusing on good lenses, Bailey Nelson can offer gorgeous frames for only $95 - brilliant!
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Oklahoma City mother of 11 heads to Harvard
Allyson Reneau dropped out of the University of Oklahoma in 1981 to get married and start a family.
She promised herself she would return to school after her first child turned 5.
Thirty years and 11 children later, Reneau is finally fulfilling her promise, and then some.
The Oklahoma City woman is just three credit hours away from earning a bachelor's degree in communications from OU.
Somehow, she has maintained a 4.0 GPA while raising her children — nine girls and two boys, now ages 6 to 29 — and running her own business.
Starting Monday, Reneau, 50, will begin graduate studies in international relations at Harvard University. Once a week she will fly to Massachusetts for classes. School officials are allowing her to finish the three undergraduate credits she has left at OU later this year, Reneau said.
"Sometimes those dreams, you bury them," Reneau said. "You get so busy raising your family that you forget your identity."
Read more: http://newsok.com/oklahoma-city-mother-of-11-heads-to-harvard/article/3598824#ixzz1WFBgBgru


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Jewellery Scale IM Model is basic weighing scale used for Gold, Silver, Imitation article, Pharmaceutical etc. This is a highly successful Jewellery Weighing Scale with a solid rugged body with windshield and excellent quality and accuracy. We use best in class SMD based motherboards for scales for better reliability and durability. This scale is made of ABS virgin plastic outer body with windshield.
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I think after making these I said cute like ten times. But, seriously, these are SO cute! Honestly, St. Patrick's Day is one of my least favorite holidays. Maybe it's because I don't drink beer or love the color green, but I've just never gotten into it. I also blame it on the fact that I've never had fun plans for St. Patrick's day, ha! Which is shocking because it normally falls on Spring Break which should be the best, right? Anyway, I've been doing Big Brothers Big Sisters for a year now and am constantly trying to come up with fun activities to do with my little. Because I love holidays so much (had to fake my love for this one a bit!), I want to try to instill that love in her (#priorities).
I don't make Rice Krispies often but I always forget how easy they are! The green food coloring and Lucky Charms make them so festive and cute (there, I said it again!).
A few tips that always make making these so much easier:
*Line a 9×13 pan with parchment paper before pouring in your rice Krispie mixture
*To flatten out your Rice Krispies into a flat mixture, cut a piece of parchment paper and put over your hand to manually flatten out to the shape desired
*Refrigerate for 15 minutes before cutting into pieces so you don't have a sticky mess!
Lucky Charm Rice Krispies
Ingredients –
4 tablespoons butter
16 oz. marshmallows (I used the jet puffed)
½ teaspoon vanilla
3 – 4 drops green food coloring (or more if you want a darker green)
6 cups Rice Krispie cereal
1 cup Lucky Charms (only the colored marshmallows!)
Directions –
- Line 9×13 pan with parchment paper
- Melt butter in a large sauce pan over low heat
- Once butter is melted, add in marshmallows and cook until melted (keep stirring so it doesn't burn!)
- Remove from heat and add vanilla and green food coloring, mix
- Mix in Rice Krispies and Lucky Charms
- Pour into pan and press down into a flat mixture (use parchment paper on your hands to push down!)
- Refrigerate for 15 minutes before slicing into bars


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World Time is the best way to keep track of what time it is in different locations throughout the world. ★★★ NEW in World Time 4.0 ★★★ World Time is the first application that lets you pin your city to the start screen and show the time in that city... in real time... and you can ask Cortana to do this for you with voice commands such as 'World Time pin Toronto to start screen' or 'World Time add Paris'. Its features include, among others the day/night map (terminator line) that is generated internally so it does not use the Data services, and Time Zone Calculator that allows you to easily check what time it's in other cities at a certain time of day. The app is free, supported by ads and in app purchases. For more details check the settings purchases page Choose from over 2000 cities to show the time with daylight savings and sunrise/sunset times. 5TCZCHK
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New in v 4.1.5 - 2016 DST updates New in v 4.1.4 - Fix time not updating bug New in v 4.1.3 - Added 1500 new cities - Fix bug on city page. New in v 4.1.1 - Fix Live tile issue and remove World Time branding from tiles for a cleaner look. New in v 4.1.0 - City info page: Select a city in the list and navigate to the city details page to see more information about it. Move the slider to see the details for any day of the year. - Sort Page: Easily sort the cities manually, by name or by timezone. - Automatic updates: Enable World Time to automatically check for city updates when it starts. Enabled by default, disable from settings - updates New in v 4.0.2 - Cortana integration: Add or pin cities directly from Cortana via voice commands such as "World Time pin 'Toronto' to start screen' or 'World time Add Paris'. It also answers to 'World Time when does daylight savings time stars in 'Toronto'?