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LONDON — Global financial markets drifted lower Monday as investors' growing concerns about the state of the global economy offset any remaining optimism over central banks' stimulus efforts.
Stocks have risen in recent weeks as the U.S. Federal Reserve and monetary authorities in other major economies announced measures to support economic activity. The European Central Bank unveiled a new plan to restore investor confidence in the government finances of the 17-country eurozone.
The latest indicators, however, suggest the global economy is still slowing down and will take some time to recover.
On Monday, Germany's Ifo index of business confidence fell for a fifth consecutive month, evidence that even the continent's largest and so far strongest economy is suffering headwinds.
"The reality of weak growth and underlying structural tensions is coming back to haunt markets," said Mitul Kotecha, strategist at Credit Agricole CIB.
By late morning in Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British companies fell 0.6 percent to 5,818.09 and France's CAC 40 dropped 1.3 percent to 3,484.89. Germany's DAX shed 0.7 percent to 7397.37.
Wall Street was poised to fall on the open — Dow futures were down 0.4 percent to 13,450 while the broader S&P 500 futures dropped 0.5 percent to 1,444.90. Asian markets closed lower.
Looking ahead, Europe's debt crisis will remain a point of focus for investors. Spain is due to unveil a new series of cost-cutting measures and structural reforms that could pave the way for a demand for financial aid from its fellow eurozone countries.
Spanish stock and bond markets have been volatile in recent days as hopes that Madrid will apply for the aid alternated with concern that it was delaying the move.
On Friday, the country will also release a final estimate of the financing needs of its weakest banks. The figures will help the government determine how much of an existing €100 billion ($130 billion) eurozone rescue loan — earmarked for the banks — it should use.
Earlier, Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index dropped 0.4 percent to close at 9,069.29 while Seoul's Kospi index was roughly unchanged at 2,003.44.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 0.2 percent to 20,694.70 while Sydney's ASX S&P 200 fell 0.5 percent to 4,385.50. Benchmarks in Singapore, Indonesia, New Zealand and India also fell.
China's Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.3 percent to close at 2,033.19, reversing losses earlier in the day. However, the benchmark is still at its lowest point since January 2009.
Chinese stocks are being hurt by a confrontation between China and Japan over disputed islands that have heightened tensions between Asia's two biggest economies.
They're also under pressure as investors worry about what Chinese authorities will do to restart growth amid the country's economic slowdown. Analysts say it's unlikely that Chinese authorities will unveil any major stimulus measures ahead of the National Day holiday next week or an expected but still unscheduled Communist Party meeting to hand over power to a new generation of leaders.
In currency markets, the euro weakened to $1.2902 from $1.2989 in late trading Friday while the dollar fell to 78.02 Japanese yen from 78.15 yen.
U.S. benchmark crude for October delivery was down $1.46 to $91.43 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 47 cents to settle at $92.89 on Friday.
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Among the vitamins contained in the product can be isolated vitamin A, B1, B2, B3, B9, P. Micronutrients are presented in the following range: potassium, magnesium, calcium, sodium, iron, phosphorus.
Also in the tavern contains pectin. Thanks to him, squash normalizes water-salt metabolism in the body, removes toxins and radionuclides, purify the blood, stabilizes cholesterol levels.
In pubs there are substances that are considered natural antioxidants. This means that the pub takes care of the skin elasticity, reduces the risk of cancer, reducing the pace of aging.
Vitamin C and carotene cause the restorative properties of the product. Courgettes normalize the water-salt metabolism and purify the blood. They have an active diuretic and help get rid of excess salt and water in the body.
Fritters of squash: utility, indications for use
Fritters of squash can be included in the diet of those who suffer from obesity and seeking to lose weight. They have a lot of pectin, which is almost are not digested in the body and contribute to the removal of excess moisture the body. When used dishes feeling of fullness occurs quickly. As a result, the number of consuming a high-calorie food is reduced considerably.
Pancakes from courgettes are recommended for patients with diabetes mellitus. Diuretic effect exerted squash, makes it possible to use meal in edema. Pectin and crude fiber stimulate intestinal motility, so the meal is useful to those who suffer from constipation.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW — Accusations that Google pays women less than men have resurfaced in a new version of a lawsuit, which now makes specific claims that the female employees affected include engineers, program managers, salespeople and at least one preschool teacher.
A judge had tossed out an earlier version of the suit — which seeks class-action status — but had invited the plaintiffs to resubmit a new version narrowing down the purported affected class.
The amended lawsuit adds more pressure to the cultural upheaval taking place in Silicon Valley over treatment of women in the technology industry. High-level heads have rolled at a number of high-profile firms, including Uber and financial technology startup SoFi, in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct.
Google is under federal investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor, which has accused it of "extreme" pay discrimination against women. Google has denied that allegation.
In the amended lawsuit, plaintiffs Kelly Ellis, Holly Pease, Kelli Wisuri and Heidi Lamar claim Google discriminates against women and breaks California law by slotting women into lower salary levels than men, giving women lower-paying jobs, promoting women more slowly and less frequently, and generally paying female employees less than men for similar work.
Lamar, a former preschool teacher at Google, was not named in the original complaint but was added to the amended version, which was filed Wednesday in California Superior Court in San Francisco.
"Her story, and the additional detail added in this complaint, highlight how Google's use of prior salary is a mechanism that causes women to be underpaid at Google for the same work performed by men with similar or lesser qualifications," the women's lawyer Jim Finberg said in an email Wednesday.
Google said it disagreed with the "central allegations" of the amended legal action.
"We work really hard to create a great workplace for everyone, and to give everyone the chance to thrive here," said spokeswoman Gina Scigliano. "Job levels and promotions are determined through rigorous hiring and promotion committees, and must pass multiple levels of review, including checks to make sure there is no bias in these decisions."
The lawsuit claims that Google's use of previous salary information was a key factor behind unequal pay for women. State lawmakers have already concluded that asking potential hires about their previous compensation could perpetuate pay differences between men and women.
It's now illegal, as of Jan. 1, for California employers to ask prospective employees about previous salaries, after Gov. Jerry Brown in October signed into law a bill designed to help close the gender gap in pay by outlawing such inquiries.
The women's lawsuit, first filed in September, was dismissed in December by a California state court judge who said it cast too wide a net by defining the affected class as all women employed at Google during the previous four years.
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Mary Wiss gave the plaintiffs 30 days to file a new complaint limiting the scope to women who faced pay discrimination at Google.
The new version of the complaint specifies particular job classes and positions allegedly affected by unequal pay between women and men.
Google's alleged "segregation" of women into lower-paying jobs saw it "channel" Pease into the job of managing business-systems integration, where she supervised software engineers, instead of giving her the better-paying software-engineer management position for which she was qualified, and in which men with equal or lesser qualifications were serving, according to the amended complaint.
Wisuri was "channeled" into the job of "sales brand evangelist" rather than the higher-paying sales representative job she was qualified for, the amended complaint alleged.
Also, Wisuri was paid the same amount as her prior salary, at the compensation level for people without experience, despite having 2 1/2 years of experience, and similarly qualified men were hired at a better-paying salary level, the complaint alleged.
Ellis, too, was asked about her prior salary and received the same amount, the suit alleged. Google hired her as a software engineer at the entry-level salary, when she had four years of relevant experience as a software engineer. But a man who graduated from college the same year, and had less experience, was brought on at a higher salary level, the complaint said.
Lamar, also asked about her previous salary, brought a master's degree in teaching to the job of preschool teacher at Google, which paid her $18.51 per hour, while giving $21 per hour to a man hired for the same job who didn't have a master's in teaching, the complaint alleged.
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Tensions between police officers and demonstrators fluctuated throughout the course of a campus protest Thursday, culminating in a violent scuffle when one man was carried from Tolman Hall by his arms and legs.
At about 9 p.m., after over seven hours of protest inside the building, protesters were chanting in the lobby of Tolman and police officers began to move towards the doors to prevent a small crowd of demonstrators outside from entering the building.
(Watch a five-video series of UC Berkeley's day of action)
Protesters then began running toward the west doors and an altercation with officers ensued. One man was carried away and arrested after being forced to the ground by police officers.
During the altercation, protesters became riled and threw objects at police, resulting in a cracked window.
The demonstrators left the building around 9:10 p.m.
Propelled by persisting state budget cuts to the University of California and accompanying tuition increases, a group of around 150 left a noontime rally in Sproul Plaza and marched through campus. Led by a small contingent of about 20 bandana-clad protesters carrying makeshift shields adorned with artwork from famous works of literature, the group eventually reached Tolman Hall around 1:20 p.m and stayed for over seven hours.
A crush of around 70 protesters rushed the western doorway of the building, urging the crowd to follow them.
Police and protesters scuffled as officers tried to pull several protesters away from the doors.
In the melee, at least one protester was pepper-sprayed by two police officers, said UCPD spokesperson Lt. Marc DeCoulode.
Once inside, protesters continued to rally, their clamoring cries of "They say cut back, we say fight back" and other chants reverberating down the halls. After marching the length of the second floor hallway, demonstrators eventually gathered in room 2308.
In the classroom, the tenor of the demonstration cooled to a largely calm discussion — save a few tense reactions to the presence of police officers and local television media — in which the demonstrators introduced themselves to one another and shared thoughts about the condition of the university and the state.
"My dad is a gardener, my mom is a maid — I come from immigrant families, and how the hell am I supposed to afford this education?" asked freshman Stephanie Benitez.
Should the UC Board of Regents approve a multi-year plan that could send tuition and fees skyrocketing to over $22,000 by 2015, Benitez said she would no longer be able to afford her enrollment.
After discussing mounting student debt, the conversation shifted to building momentum for a planned walkout in early November.
Several protesters stressed the need for a thorough organizing effort in order to get large numbers of students to turn out. The walkout is being organized for Nov. 9 and 10 by United Auto Workers Local 2865, a union representing UC graduate students, readers and tutors.
Campus spokesperson Janet Gilmore said the campus agreed with the motivations behind the demonstration.
"We share the students' frustrations over the state's disinvestment in higher education, and we support their right to protest," she said.
One protester, Shane Boyle, said the group chose to "reclaim the space" at Tolman Hall because the campus closed the building's 13 regular classrooms starting this semester.
Tolman — which houses the campus's Graduate School of Education — was deemed seismically "poor" in a 1997 study of campus buildings. A lack of state funding to replace the building prompted the closure, though staff and faculty remain in the building.
After the demonstrators' discussion ended around 4:15 p.m., they remained in room 2308 until making their way down the hall to room 2320 at about 5 p.m. in order to view a film about the Black Panthers.
The demonstrators regrouped in 2308 and began another meeting at about 7 p.m. One man was arrested around 8 p.m. because he grabbed a magazine clip from an officer's belt earlier that day, DeColoude said.
Alisha Azevedo, Jaehak Yu and Aadia Samad of The Daily Californian contributed to this report.


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Malawi Queens lose narrowly to England in final test series
Malawi Queens went down again to England Roses in the final match of the three netball international series but there positives for Wednesday evening at at the Genting Arena in Birmingham with a narrow 62-60 scoreline.
For the first time in the three-match Series, the Queens started strongly and threatened a first win over their illustrious hosts but the Roses retained their composure to win a match which, at one stage, had seen them fall nine goals behind.
Having started on the back foot in the previous two games, the Queens came flying out of the blocks and caught England cold.
Led by an inspired captain Joanna Kachilika and towering up and coming GK Lauren Ngwira , Malawi Queena defended with remarkable discipline and intensity to make it tough for the hosts mid-court to feed the attack.
At the end of the opening fifteen minutes, the Queens were 18-10 ahead.
Malawi Queens suffered a major blow when mid-court chief negotiator Takondwa Lwazi hobbled off and was replaced by Rose Mkanda.
Injury struck again for Malawi Queens as Mkanda was forced from the court with a similar knock to the one which befell Lwazi earlier in the quarter, but the latter was now fit enough to return to the action.
When England introduced Rachel Dunn at GS, Malawi responded by switching Kachilika into GK.
A composed double finish from player of the match Haythornthwaite finally saw the Roses take a lead but lost possession in the mid-court saw the momentum swing one final time in the quarter as the Queens netted twice to take a 46-45 lead.
The final quarter was a tense goal for goal affair in the early exchanges until fantastic defensive pressure forced a turnover with Dunn levelling.
Again ill-discipline cost Malawi from their centre-pass as the Roses snuck ahead once more. A three goal lead with five minutes remaining saw the home side under immense pressure with the Queens coolly taking the ball to goal and defending with renewed ferocity.
The pressure eventually told and the teams were once more tied at 59-59 with just two minutes left on the clock.
Composure was required and with Malawi sensing a first ever victory over their hosts, they went in search of a killer goal.
A fired feed into the waiting Mwawi Kumwenda was placed two inches too high and drifted long, advantage England as they scored and finally seal a dramatic victory.
The Queens will return to Malawi with their heads held high as they showed they can certainly mix it with the top nations.
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text: Susan Bird is CSR Co-ordinator in the DG Employment of the European Commission and part of the EU High Level Group on CSR. In this interview with Dr Wayne Visser, Director of CSR International, she discusses CSR in Europe and the work of the High Level Group on CSR. The interview was conducted in Brussels on 12 May 2010.


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Oregon Environmental Quality Commission Takes Action to Protect North Fork Smith
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Earlier this month the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission unanimously voted to designate the waters of the North Fork Smith River in southwest Oregon as the first Outstanding Resource Water in the Pacific Northwest.
Outstanding Resource Waters are high quality waters that constitute an outstanding state resource due to their extraordinary water quality or ecological values, or where special protection is needed to maintain critical habitat areas. American Whitewater worked with our many partners to support this designation and hundreds of paddlers who know how exceptional the North Fork Smith is weighed in as part of the robust public process to establish this protective designation.
The authority to establish Outstanding Resource Waters comes under the Clean Water Act and the Environmental Quality Commission adopted Oregon's ORW policy, part of the state's antidegradation policy, in 1991 (OAR 340-041-0004).
"The Environmental Quality Commission's action recognizes that the North Fork Smith River is a special place with exceptional water quality," said Thomas O'Keefe, Pacific Northwest Stewardship Director for American Whitewater. "In a state with many spectacular rivers, paddlers throughout the region know the North Fork Smith as a river with great rapids and crystal clear water."
This action by the state complements the recent administrative ban on new mining claims for the watershed that was adopted in January of 2017 as well as the efforts of U.S. Senators Wyden (D-OR) and Merkley (D-OR) and U.S. Representatives DeFazio (D-OR) and Huffman (D-CA) to secure permanent federal protection of the North Fork Smith watershed.
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In the last four presidential elections, the Republican nominee has never received less than 90 percent of the Republican vote. The Republican candidate, however, only won the popular vote one of those times, in 2004, and when he did, he carried 93 percent of Republican voters. Donald Trump has defied the odds before, but they are against his achieving this degree of party unity.
Trump has won more primary votes than any previous nominee, and he is going to add to that number in the weeks to come. But he will also be a nominee with a record number of primary votes cast for his opponents.
To say the race has been divisive is an understatement: The day he clinched the nomination, he suggested, insanely, that Ted Cruz's father was somehow involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Cruz responded by mentioning that Trump once bragged about his close calls with venereal disease.
A lot of Republican officeholders – past, present and would-be-in-the-future – will rapidly endorse Trump, regardless of what they previously said about his psychological stability, honesty and all-around fitness for office. Trump's numbers in polls against Hillary Clinton may improve as many Republican voters accept him as their nominee. Then again, they may not, depending on whether Democrats start running ads attacking him.
Some Republican officeholders and voters will still consider Trump unfit for office and not a true conservative – but his supporters, old and new, will try to shame them into supporting the presumptive nominee. Newt Gingrich, who has for months been backing Trump without explicitly endorsing him, told Sean Hannity on Tuesday night that if you're not for him you're "functionally for Hillary Clinton" and therefore for a "radical Supreme Court."
Gingrich and other Trump supporters will have to overcome five problems in making this case.
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Second, his most vocal supporters have spent the primaries trashing the Republican Party and declaring anti-Trump conservatives irrelevant. It's a little late to flip the script now. Third, the message – vote Trump, you idiot crybabies – may just fall flat because a lot of voters dislike being addressed this way.
Fourth, conservatives don't have much reason to trust Trump on the Supreme Court. He has given no indication of caring about judicial conservatism. If he put up nonconservative nominees, he would win praise for his bipartisanship and could make one of those deals with the Democrats he is always promising. What would hold him back? His word?
Fifth, and I think most important, Trump may spend much of the campaign too far behind Clinton for all this shaming to have any force. If the candidates are neck and neck, then maybe Republicans on the fence could be swayed by the argument that they have to vote for Trump or see Clinton in power. If Trump is behind by 8 points, on the other hand, then a lot of Republican voters won't see themselves as having to make the agonizing choice to back Trump to stop Clinton.
If Clinton has a consistently large lead, Trump won't get the 90-plus percent of the Republican vote that his predecessor nominees got. A significant fraction of Republican voters will feel free not to vote for Trump because they will assume, accurately, that Clinton will be president whatever they do. And the root cause of that assumption will be that Trump is such a weak general-election candidate.
In that case, the functional allies of Clinton, the enablers of her judicial nominees, will turn out to have been those, like Gingrich and Hannity, who helped that weak candidate win the Republican nomination.
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Postback and Callback
Before we appreciate the feature of Callback, let's see how current Postback feature in a typical ASP.NET page works
In a normal Postback situation, when any page event is triggered on ASP.NET page, a HTTP post request will be sent to web server, which then processes the request with the IPostbackEventHandler and runs the request through a series of page events. These events include loading the state (ViewState), processing data, processing Postback events and finally rendering the page to be interpreted by the consuming browser.
This process completely reloads the page in the browser, which is what causes the flicker and the realignment to the top of the page.
But in a Client call back situation, any page event is triggered on ASP.NET page; it causes the event to be posted to a script event handler (a JavaScript function) that sends off an asynchronous request to the web server for processing. ICallbackEventHandler runs the request through a pipeline similar to what is used with the Postback- but you notice that some of the larger steps (such as rendering the page) are excluded from the process chain. After the information is loaded, the result is returned to the script callback object. The script code then pushes this data into the web page using JavaScript's capabilities to do this without refreshing the page.
Let's see an example to see how Callback feature works. Following page will generate Current date when end user clicks the button on the form, the callback service is initiated and current date is populated into the textbox. You can download sample Callback ASP.NET project, used in this tutorial.
Page Language="VB"
Class _Default
Clicking the button on the page invokes the client callback capabilities of the page, and the page then makes an asynchronous request to the code behind of the same page. After getting a response from the part of the page, the client script takes the retrieved value and places it inside the text box - all without doing a page refresh.
Now take a look at the .aspx page, which simply contains an HTML button control and a TextBox server control. Notice that a standard HTML button control is used because a typical <asp:button> control does not work here. No worries. When you work with the HTML button control, just be sure to include an onclick event to point to the JavaScript function that initiates this entire process:
<input id="Button1" type="button" onclick="GetDate()" value="Get Date" />
You don't have to do anything else with the controls themselves. The final thing to include in the page is the client-side JavaScript functions to take care of the callback to the server-side functions. GetDate() is the first JavaScript that's instantiated. It starts the entire process by calling the name of the client script handler that is defined in the page's code behind. A string type result from GetDate() is retrieved using the GetDateFromServer() function. GetDateFromServer() simply populates the string value retrieved and makes that the value of the Textbox control - specified by the value of the ID attribute of the server control(TextBox1):
Now turn your attention to the code behind.
The page class of the web page implements the System.Web.UI.ICallbackEventHandler interface.
Class _Default
This interface requires you to implement a couple of methods - the RaiseCallbackEvent, and the GetCallbackResult methods, both of which work with the client script request. RaiseCallbackEvent enables you to do the work of retrieving the value from the page, but the value can be only of type string.
Sub RaiseCallbackEvent(ByVal
eventArgument As String)
The GetCallbackResult is the method that actually grabs the returned value to be used:
Function GetCallbackResult()
As String
In addition, the Page_Load event includes the creation and placement of the client callback script manager (the function that will manage requests and responses) on the client:
cbReference As String
= Page.ClientScript.GetCallbackEventReference(Me,
"arg", "GetDateFromServer",
The function placed on the client for the callback capabilities is called UseCallback(). This string is then populated to the Web page itself using the Page.ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock that also puts <script> tags around the function on the page. Make sure that the name you use here is the same name you use in the client-side JavaScript function presented earlier.
Now, you have a page that refreshes content without refreshing the overall page. This opens the door to a whole new area of possibilities. One possible caveat is that the callback capabilites described here use XmlHTTP and, therefore, the client browser needs to support XmlHTTP. Because of this, this .Net Framework 2.0 introduces the SupportCallBack and the SupportXmlHTTP properties.
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When I appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" show recently to discuss my new book, Hamilton's Curse, one of the first things fellow guest Pat Buchanan said to me was, "How could you criticize Hamilton? He's the architect of the American economy!" Hamilton biographer Ron Chernow claims that Hamilton was "the prophet of the capitalist revolution in America"; and New York Times columnist David Brooks has written that Hamilton single-handedly "created capitalism." Forrest McDonald gives Hamilton almost all of the credit for America's becoming the richest nation "in the history of the world."
What have these men been smoking? If the study of economics has taught the world anything over the past 250 years, it is that a capitalist economy is the result of human action but not of human design, as F.A. Hayek said. It is the result of the efforts of thousands, or millions, of workers, consumers, entrepreneurs, inventors, marketers, and business managers of all kinds. Not even the Russian communists claimed that a socialist economy could possibly be the work of one man: They "planned" their economy with politburos and central-planning committees.
Hayek's most famous insight, which was the topic of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, was that no human mind could possibly process all of the information that is required in even the smallest market society. This is because most of the information that is used is not scientific information but "information of time and place," i.e., the nitty-gritty, detailed information that millions of individuals utilize to perform their jobs, from the butcher at the local grocery store to the automobile technician, the school teacher, the farmer, to the CEOs of the largest corporations. No computer is capable of processing this information, which is constantly changing, day by day. Hayek called the bogus notion that one man, or one committee, could possibly be the "architect" of an entire economy "the pretense of knowledge" and "the fatal conceit." It helps to explain why socialism never worked, and it also explains the foolishness of the claims about Hamilton that are made by his worshippers who seem to think of him as some kind of Wizard of Oz rather than as the rather egomaniacal, statist politician that he was.
Nor was Hamilton "the prophet of capitalism," as Ron Chernow has said. Chernow apparently does not know what capitalism is, for Hamilton was an enemy of free-market capitalism and early America's foremost proponent of mercantilism, the system of government-granted monopolies, corporate welfare, protectionist tariffs, and other policies that generally benefited politically-connected businesses at the expense of the rest of society. It was exactly this system that the real prophet of capitalism during Hamilton's time, Adam Smith, criticized so effectively in his great treatise The Wealth of Nations. Thomas Jefferson knew what he was talking about when he said that Hamilton's interventionist schemes, from protectionism to corporate welfare to central banking were "the means by which the corrupt British system of government could be introduced into the United States." In his 1905 biography of Hamilton William Graham Sumner wrote that Hamilton's entire being "quivered" with the urge to personally regulate and plan all commerce in America. This impulse of Hamilton's was not on behalf of capitalism but of central planning, the hallmark of early twentieth century socialism.
Hamilton ignored or was unaware of most of the scholarship of economics of his time, as well as the history of capitalism. As Nathan Rosenberg and L.E. Birdzell, Jr. wrote in How the West Grew Rich, "By 1750, three hundred years of gradual expansion of markets had been accompanied by a corresponding expansion in production, both in agriculture and handicrafts." And all of this occurred without any one "architect." Indeed, the attempt by communist Russia to impose committees of "architects" as central planners of the Russian economy destroyed generations of accumulated capital and production, and placed that country far behind the more capitalistic countries like the U.S. in terms of economic growth and prosperity.
The institutions of capitalism that were developed in Europe were imported to the U.S. by British culture. Economic development was occurring all around Hamilton as a result of the free market, although it was hindered by various government regulations and taxes. Hamilton seems to have been oblivious to all of this in his voluminous writings on economics, which William Graham Sumner concluded were a mass of confusion, "befogged in the mists of mercantilism."
By the eve of the American Revolution, New England had developed a highly successful commercial fishing industry that accounted for 10 percent of all exports to Europe. New Englanders pioneered the whale oil industry (the chief source of light) and had become master shipbuilders with the third largest fleet in the world.
The South and the Mid-West developed America's agriculture industry, and by 1776 the American economy was ten times larger than it was at the turn of the century. All of this occurred long before Hamilton wrote any of his "reports" to Congress on manufacturing, public debt and central banking, and without the benefit of any central-planning architect.
The notion that any one man could possibly be an "architect" of an entire economy seems to be a form of adolescent hero worship that some people have never outgrown. Opinion makers, columnists, and book authors who make such claims are behaving in an extraordinarily negligent way when they refuse to educate themselves on some of these most elementary economic concepts — concepts that are routinely taught to college freshmen — while making pronouncements about the origins of American capitalism. Sometimes this negligence becomes totally absurd. A recent historical exhibit in New York City was labeled: "Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made America."


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Results of vascular access using a new ePTFE graft show "satisfactory" primary patency rates at one year, and are similar to those achieved with an autogenous access. In the experience, conducted in one centre in Italy, the graft also demonstrated a low thrombosis rate.
Vascular surgeon Matteo Tozzi, Department of Surgery and Morphological Sciences, University of Insubria School of Medicine, Circolo University Teaching Hospital, Varese, Italy, presented the results with the Gore Acuseal (Gore) for prosthetic vascular access at the Society for Vascular Surgery Annual Meeting (5–7 June, Boston, USA).
Tozzi explained that the structure of the new graft has been specifically created to reduce the complications seen with previous ePTFE grafts for vascular access, but most importantly to allow a rapid cannulation. He said that with this device, cannulation can be carried out in the first 48 hours from the graft implantation.
The Acuseal graft is composed of three layers: the external layer consists of ePTFE; the middle layer is an elastomeric membrane that allows the sealing during anastomosis and cannulation; and the internal layer consists of ePTFE with Carmeda BioActive Surface (CBAS Surface) on the luminar surface. This surface is thromboresistant due to the heparin covalent bond to ePTFE (Fig1).
"Autogenous vascular access is the gold standard in patients with end-stage renal disease, due to long-term patency and lower frequency of complications such as stenosis and thrombosis. The disadvantages are the long maturation time of autogenous vascular access, of around 2–3 weeks before usage, and the fact that 10–24% thrombose directly after operation or fail to mature," he said. "Prosthetic vascular access is an alternative in case of autogenous vascular access failure or when the native vessels are poor."
Tozzi noted that from 2011 to 2014 his group performed early cannulation with the Acuseal prosthetic graft in 60 patients (mean age 63.6 years; range 34–85 years, 39 men and 21 women). The most frequent causes for prosthetic vascular access was autogenous vascular access failure (42.6%) and malfunction of central venous catheter (22%). All patients had an average of at least 2.2 previous autogenous vascular accesses and the mean interval time from the start of haemodialysis and prosthetic vascular access was 28.4 months.
"We prefer the loop configuration of vascular access in the upper arm. The most common procedure is the radio-basilic/axillary vein vascular access. We have also performed straight configuration in the upper arm and loops in the lower limb (Fig 2–3)," Tozzi said.
He further commented: "The Kaplan-Meier analysis showed unexpectedly favourable results. In fact, the graft freedom from thrombosis at one year was 83% with a secondary patency of 93.5% at one year. However, the mean follow-up is still short at 10.7 months. The mortality rate was 6.7% but the deaths were not related to our intervention."
After surgical treatment the patients were treated with dual antiplatelet therapy: clopidogrel (75mg) and acetylsalicylic acid (100mg) and also with fish oil capsules (4000mg) for three months after surgery and with clopidogrel only thereafter.
Tozzi concluded that his group's preliminary experience with Acuseal for prosthetic vascular access was satisfactory—the graft proved to be safe and effective in patients with end-stage renal disease undergoing haemodialysis.
"Primary patency rates were satisfactory ranging up to 70% at 12 months, similar to those of an autogenous vascular access. The low thrombosis rate of this new graft could be related to the heparin bonding on the endoluminal surface, a characteristic that might help restoration of the graft as documented by the overall high secondary patency rate of 90%," he said.


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When I'm short on time or simply don't have the energy to prepare a satisfying, yet healthy meal I head towards the deli section of our market and pop a rotisserie chicken into the shopping cart. The easy meals you can create from a precooked chicken, aside from just carving it up, are virtually endless: quick pot pies, chicken soup with rice or noodles and loads of vege, tortilla soup, a super easy green chile chicken enchilada casserole, or even simple tacos. These chicken tacos - topped with just salsa, queso fresco cheese, jalapeños and egg - are perfect for breakfast or dinner. I love them loaded up on a double layer of corn tortillas (less breakage!) with shredded strips of chicken breast, lots of spicy salsa and pickled jalapeños, Mexican cheese, then topped with a sunnyside up egg. I also love to add some thin slices of onion and fresh cilantro. Serve them with a side of black refried beans and you've got a super duper satisfying meal!
Chicken Tacos with Pickled Jalapeño and Fried Eggs
Start to finish: 20 minutes
1 rotisserie chicken, meat pulled from the bone and chopped into small pieces
1 jar high-quality salsa, local if possible
1 package flour or corn tortillas
1 wheel queso fresco or cotija cheese, crumbled
1 jar pickled jalapeños
2 eggs, over easy or sunny side up
Thinly sliced white onion and fresh cilantro for garnish, optional
In a large sauce pan over medium heat, add salsa. Cook until it simmers, about 3 minutes. Add chicken and stir until hot and mixed together, about 3 minutes.
Heat your tortillas up in the microwave for 10 seconds, just enough to warm without becoming too stiff.
To serve, layer two tortillas on top of each other (there is lesser chance the taco will break while eating if you use double layers). Scoop the chicken and salsa on the warm tortilla and garnish with queso fresco and a couple pickled jalapeños, or a lot of jalapeños if you like it hot! Top with egg and enjoy!
About this recipe: By Chef Rigato | Photo © Joe Vaughn
Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham has teamed up with renowned chefs Hari Nayak and James Rigato to create custom recipes for guests to make in their Hawthorn Suites kitchenettes. The Homemade@Hawthorn collection of easy recipes can be found here. All 14 recipes are designed for the home chef, using simple and fresh ingredients, and range from healthy to hearty. They take under 55 minutes to make with the majority using under 10 ingredients.


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 25, 2017
Ennis Announces New General Manager of B&D Litho of Arizona
Midlothian, TX – Ennis, Inc. (NYSE: EBF) announced that Kevin Potter is now the General Manager of B&D Litho of Arizona. Located in Phoenix, B&D Litho of Arizona is one of the largest trade-only printers in the Southwestern United States.
Kevin previously worked for Ennis for 12 years as Vice President of Manufacturing for Alstyle Apparel. In that role, Kevin was responsible for all facets of manufacturing to support more than $250 million in annual sales volume and managed a team of approximately 4,000 employees. Ennis sold Alstyle to Gildan in May of 2016.
Prior to his time at Alstyle, Kevin served as Vice President of Sales at The Knitting Factory Ltd. and as National Sales Manager at Future Knits, Inc., where he led business development projects and drove significant revenue growth.
The Ennis management team is excited to welcome Kevin back and believes that his manufacturing and sales experience makes him a natural choice to lead B&D Litho of Arizona. His extensive knowledge of the Southwestern United States and Mexico will be applied to B&D Litho's expansion efforts in those regions.
For more information about B&D Litho of Arizona, call the Ennis HOTLine at 800.972.1069.
About Ennis
Since 1909, Ennis, Inc., has primarily engaged in the production and sale of business forms and other business products. The Company is one of the largest private-label printed business product suppliers in the United States. Headquartered in Midlothian, Texas, the Company has production and distribution facilities strategically located throughout the United States to serve the Company's national network of distributors. The Company manufactures and sells business forms, other printed business and commercial products, printed and electronic media, presentation products, flexographic printing, internal bank forms, secure and negotiable documents, envelopes, tags and labels, advertising specialties, adhesive notes, plastic cards and other custom products. For more information, visit ennis.com.
For Further Information Contact:
Steven Osterloh, Vice President of Marketing
Ennis, Inc.
2441 Presidential Pkwy
Midlothian, TX 76065
Phone: 972.775.9801
Fax: 972.775.9820
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The "Planet Earth Report" connects you to headline news on the science, technology, discoveries, people and events changing our planet and the future of the human species.
Organoids Are Not Brains. How Are They Making Brain Waves?--Clusters of living brain cells are teaching scientists about diseases like autism. With a new finding, some experts wonder if these organoids may become too much like the real thing.
The First Fatal Car Crash –-Mary Ward, a naturalist and astronomer, decided to go for a ride in her cousin's homemade automobile.
"The Invisible Extinction" –Before the Dinosaurs, Earth Lost 3/4's of It's Life
China's lunar rover has found something weird on the moon's far side –The discovery prompted scientists to postpone other plans and focus instead on trying to figure out what the substance is.
AlphaZero –"The 'Lucy' of the Emerging AI Epoch"
Life Is Imitating Stephen King's Art, and That Scares Him –In his 61st novel, "The Institute," children with supernatural abilities are taken from their parents and incarcerated. Sound familiar?
Coming Soon to a Battlefield: Robots That Can Kill –Tomorrow's wars will be faster, more high-tech, and less human than ever before. Welcome to a new era of machine-driven warfare.
Are there any aliens out there? We are close to knowing for sure
The Cosmos –"Is a Conscious Universe" –The question that intrigued the great American quantum physicist John Archibald Wheeler in the last decades of his life was: "Are life and mind irrelevant to the structure of the universe, or are they central to it?"
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? –More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they're on the brink of a mental-health crisis.
Hurricane Dorian Is Not a Freak Storm –-Its record-breaking power is in line with recent, worrisome trends
Gel that makes teeth repair themselves could spell the end of fillings
Quantum supremacy is coming. It won't change the world –If quantum computers are to help solve humanity's problems, they will have to improve drastically
The science of senolytics: how a new pill could spell the end of ageing
"47 Degrees Celsius" –The Death of Earth's Ocean World and Silicon-Based Life
The hellish future of Las Vegas in the climate crisis: 'A place where we never go outside'
Google says hackers have put 'monitoring implants' in iPhones for years
The Hemingway Scene That Shows How Humanity Works –The novelist Téa Obreht describes how a single surprising image in The Old Man and the Sea sums up the main character's identity.
Planet Earth Report –"Top-Secret Drone Orbiting Earth to Douglas Adams Was Right"
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Aaah, death metal. The sweet sounds of destruction.
Relapse Records are really knocking it out of the park currently, with releases from Primitive Man, Mammoth Grinder (I previously posted about their masterpiece "Cosmic Crypt" here), Gatecreeper, and now Genocide Pact.
Genocide Pact is a melting pot of all the good stuff from death metal; the fast, the slow and the brutal. I don't really know what else there is to say other than you should get this in your ears right now!
FFO: death metal… death metal… DEATH METAL.


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In our initial year of operation, the Flagler Tiger Bay Club Scholarship Committee began working with the Flagler County Education Foundation and has designed scholarship guidelines for students interested in a career in public service, politics, or related fields that affect our politics; pursuant to our mission and guiding principles. As you renew your membership, we are asking you to strongly consider contributing to the Flagler Tiger Bay Club Scholarship Fund in an amount equal to last year's initiation fee or any other amount. Together we can raise over $10,000 and provide a tremendous impact to deserving students from Flagler County. With your contribution and support we will make this program a success, providing a positive impact on our community.
flagler tiger bay club scholarship PROGRAM
The Flagler Tiger Bay Club gives scholarship(s) to graduating high school seniors of Flagler County Schools annually. The scholarship winners are invited to be our guests for lunch at an early summer meeting. Members can contribute directly to the scholarship fund when they renew their annual membership dues. Flagler Tiger Bay Club seeks 100% participation level from our members.
Last year, thanks to you and the generosity of a major donor, we were able to provide scholarships to ten (10) deserving students, totaling $20,000. Though our lives and times look vastly different now, our current high school seniors are working hard to adapt and secure a bright, productive future!
Since we have lowered our membership fee for this year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are asking all members to minimally donate $200, the difference between the old and new fee (lunch portion) to the scholarship program. Please help us to do our part to assist our worthy college bound students!
Donations can be made by credit card. To make a donation now, submit the donation form below.
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Part of the Flagler Tiger Bay Club mission is to foster the development of tomorrow's leaders. We are dedicated to fostering youth interest in civic leadership and public involvement. One of the Club's guiding principles is to engage, support, and mentor the next generations of leaders. The Flagler Tiger Bay Club Young Tiger Program was created to encourage our young adults to take interest in public service and civic responsibility. During the school year, we invite high school students (juniors and seniors) and college students (all classifications) to be guests at our meetings. The cost of Young Tiger attendance is subsidized by individual and corporate contributions from our members throughout the year.
We are proud to welcome WastePro as a Young Tiger Program Sponsor. Monthly, WastePro sponsors a specific number of high school students from partner schools to attend one of our events.
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A cute little flower with shiny elongated evergreen leaves with toothy edges that grow in pairs or whorls of 3 or 4 from stem. Pinkish white flowers grow in little umbrella shape, 4-8 at a time. Delicious scent and flavor. Used to flavor candy and soft drinks. Indians used to boil it for tuberculosis and drink tea for urinary infections, rheumatism, colds, kidney stones. Antiseptic, antibacterial, astringent, diuretic. Contains hydroquinones, a natural antibiotic to fight cystitis, urethritis, gonorrhea. The whole plant is edible and used as powerful medicine.
Edible Plant Guide © 2012 Markus Rothkranz


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Port Canaveral offers infinite entertainment, whether you are an early bird who is in the mood for a few drinks with your other half or a night owl who's in the mood for a wild night out dancing with other partygoers. The Port is the ultimate destination for those in Central Florida who are looking for a vibrant, enjoyable and unique night out. The party doesn't stop when the sunsets, in fact it gets crazier! There is something to do every night in Port Canaveral, whether it's watching a live band outside on the tiki deck or dancing to the hottest DJ's all night long.
The Port's vibrant nightlife includes multiple bars, restaurants and major block parties. The bars and lounges in Port Canaveral are unlike anything you've ever seen before. What makes the nightlife so different in the Port than anywhere else in Central Florida is the location. Surrounded by water and in such a tropical climate, most of the bars are outside. The outdoor bars offer such a casual atmosphere, with comfortable seating, beautiful views of the water and delicious cocktails.
What's so great about the bars in the Port is you don't have to go far for completely different atmospheres. One spot you can sit down in a relaxing environment, enjoy drinks by the candle light and catch up with old friends. However, if you are in the mood to party, just around the corner everyone is dancing the night away with tons of fellow party goers. Experience Port Canaveral's nightlife, while dancing under the stars and moonlight or have a seat at the tiki bar and order your favorite tropical drink, as the cool breeze blows through your hair. No matter how you choose on spending your evening, it will be a night you never forget.


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Boston, MA
Tuesday, August 24, 2005
Paul Clenahan
Bjorn Freeman-Benson
Boris Kapitanski
Anurag Gupta
John Kellerman
Georg Lenz
Martin Klaus
Philip Ma
Mike Norman
Mike Milinkovich
Karl Reti
James Saliba
Melissa Traynor
Karl Frank
Here were the main discussion topics, as distributed prior to the meeting:
Quality. Continuing our quality discussion starting with a discussion of the draft Guidelines and the feedback received from the community about these Guidelines. Please note that this documentation also addresses the action item from the last meeting "ACTION: Bjorn and Mike are to define the exit criteria for a checkpoint review."
Roadmap. The days are growing shorter and autumn will be upon us in no time at all, and with autumn comes the Eclipse Roadmap process. Last year's Roadmap is available online.
Mike would like all representatives of Strategic Members to come prepared with their input into the Roadmap process. Last year, each person prepared a brief document and/or presentation on their firm's key requirements and presented them to the RC to help kick-start the process.
Roadmap debrief: What worked last year, what changes would be like to see to the process?
Requirements Tracking. From the minutes of our last meeting: "Bjorn is to propose a requirements tracking process for Requirements Council. How will the data be tracked and reported?"
The Requirements Council approved the draft Guidelines without modification.
The Requirements Council reviewed the themes and priorities approved for 2005 and gave the following assessment of progress.
Progress made:
Scaling Up
Enterprise Ready
Design for Extensibility: Be a Better Platform
Rich Client Platform
Simple to Use
Appealing to the Broader Community
No progress made, but high hopes for 2006:
Embedded Development
Disappointment continues:
Enable Consistent Multi-language Support
First, there was a general consensus that the themes and priorities established in last year's process are expected to continue "as is".
In looking ahead to the 2006 Roadmap process, the requirements council observed that the process was low on precision. For example, there was a great deal of effort in creating the themes, but relatively little focus on prioritization. To help address this, this time around:
Each RC member will assign Bugzilla bug #'s to each line item in their RC input.
The RC will attempt to prioritize the input it provides to the AC and PC. (This will be an experiment, success TBD.)
There was a great deal of discussion on how to best track the requirements council inputs in Bugzilla. The alternatives discussed included:
modifying Bugzilla so that we could directly assign themes to bugs;
implementing a separate requirements tracking system and link it to Bugzilla; and
try a simple hack on Bugzilla to track the bugs with a minimal amount of infrastructure support
In the end, the decision was made to pursue the third option. To that end, for each theme, we will create an email list with digest entitled firstname.lastname@example.com. Then each bug will be annotated to put the themes mail id into the cc field for the various bugs that map to the theme. (This would be done by a mix of people, including Council members and project folks.) People interested in the progress on a particular theme can either subscribe to the mail list or read the digest. A similar approach could also be used for bugs which are of particular interest to particular companies
It should be possible to also create BIRT reports which query Bugzilla for particular email addresses in the cc field and report by status
The remainder of the meeting was spent on reviewing the requirement inputs from the council members. A consolidated list of these requirements is below.
Coordinate release of Eclipse projects (IBM)
Roadmap visibility needs to longer than 3 mo timeframes currently in project plans (Borland, HP)
Robust distributed build process
(Borland, Intel)
Scalable build processes, robust maintenance, and support for x86, x86_64, and ia64 on Linux and Mac OSX for official Eclipse builds.
Release engineering improvements (Borland)
Certification Program for Plug-ins (HP)
More emphasis on upward
compatibility of public APIs (Actuate)
Issue with GEF was a problem for BIRT 1.0.1 (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=103442)
Common project model (Borland, Wind River)
Developers and developer tools think of projects as collections of physical artifacts. Move viewpoint to support methodology and project management.
This requires support for roles linked to capability sets and process definitions. (Roles depend on Process)
Solve the problem of dealing with read-only files and directories by separate project content from project metadata.
Project files (e.g. .project) should be created in the workspace optionally.
Logical Resources (IBM, Borland,
Wind River)
Better support for logical/physical resource separation
Update manager enhancements (IBM, Wind River)
Extensible Navigator
Ability to access resources in other locations than the file system
Better language support (Intel, Wind River)
Support for mixed mode (VM-based + compiled) code development
Develop industrial strength development environments for compiled time languages.
The ability to replace a build system with custom implementations.
Adopt recommendations from the DSDP/DD Project in the Platform Debug model
Shared database engine to store, read, and manipulate data that can be used by multiple plug-ins.
Plug-in profiler
Build Listeners: Listeners that listen to Build Notifications should:
get information about the resources (projects) that are about to be built
be able to hold off the current built until some additional prerequisite is fulfilled
be able to cancel the current build if desired
Accessibility (Section 508)
Support (Actuate, but general agreement)
The belief is that Eclipse has strong support for accessibility, but need guidelines to ensure projects conform in a standard way
Progress on Vista, nee Longhorn (IBM)
Better Linux support (Intel, HP)
Make Eclipse as good on Linux as it is on Windows.
Use LSB packaging by default
GTK Improvements such as performance, accessibility, globalization
Better Unix Support (Wind River)
Better support for Solaris and Motif-based window managers. Quality is a real issue on Solaris
Support for remote X connections. Eclipse is pretty much unusable over a slow network connection:
Include an open source JDK
e.g. SableVM, Harmony JVM
Grow OSGi community at Eclipse.org (IBM)
Support for all commonly used
standard views for RCP applications (Actuate)
Today: Navigator and Problems view both require full IDE framework and are not intended for use with RCP applications
Improve Eclipse configurability to enable more effective control of welcome screen, splash, and perspective (Intel)
Monitoring and systems management solution (Intel)
Support for JMX (HP)


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I'm honored to be featured on one of my favorite blogs today!! Kelley's Breakroom is a place where you can take a break from the serious, heavy world we live in and have a laugh- even for a minute. I think the world could use a few more Kelley's.
The flattery I'm seeing over there today makes me think she likes me. She really likes me! So do me a favor and don't tell her about any of my flaws. It would just crush her.
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The idea engine keeps inventors, innovators and entrepreneurs in business. "Successful inventors accumulate over a thousand ideas in the course of bringing a creative concept successfully through the innovation process from an idea to market reality," Penn State professor Jack Matson wrote in his book Innovate or Die .
Yet everyday people also generate a steady flow of ideas from their everyday experiences. Daniel Burrus, in a blog post on The Huffington Post, suggested that useful ideas can come not only from inventors, innovators and entrepreneurs but also from anyone with in-depth knowledge or experience of a subject matter or domain.
On the heels of successful TV programs such as Shark Tank , Damon D'Amore created the Beverly Hills-based WayFounder, born out of the idea that not all idea generators desire to become CEOs of a startup. During a recent Money Talk radio interview, he explained to me that in his experience, many people have ideas "but very few wanted to take the life risk inherent in going to try to launch a startup."
"Good ideas come from everywhere," D'Amore wrote on the WayFounder blog. "However, for most people, without a full-time commitment there are few great options for turning their ideas into a successful product or business." So he created WayFounder to serve those with a great idea but no domain expertise or people with domain expertise but no desire or time to launch a startup.
Related: Championing Patient-Centered Innovation
"Say you are a high school track coach but you have an idea for a great dog toy," said D'Amore."Wonderful!" I'd like "to give you cash right now and reward you for your idea."
D'Amore will provide funding to domain experts in the dog-toy category -- people who know how to design, produce and market dog toys. If the product is successful, the idea generator will be rewarded with royalties and a stake in the company.
WayFounder receives ideas through a quarterly competition; the ideas for products and apps are evaluated by a panel of judges (from various industries) according to specific criteria.
Each quarterly competition has at least one winner, who's granted a $10,000 cash prize, as much as $50,000 to bring that product to market and a 5 percent royalty fee on all sales (if the product makes it to market).
If the product is successful, WayFounder will invest an additional $250,000 to hire an experienced CEO to build the business from producing the single product into a viable and sustainable operation. The inventor receives 5 percent founder equity in the new company.
Related: Want to Get on Shark Tank? 8 Secrets From the Show's Casting Producer.
While many crowdsourcing platforms and shows require inventors to share their ideas with the public, at WayFounder the ideas are vetted by industry professionals with domain expertise and ideas are kept private. Only the WayFounder team and the judges view the submissions.
WayFounder provides a cash payment up front. When the product reaches the market, WayFounder provides revenue-sharing and equity participation.
With WayFounder focused on early-stage ideas, a participant might have a concept but not have invested any meaningful time or money in its development. These participants don't have the luxury of dropping everything in life and committing full-time to building a business.
Entrepreneurs may take issue with WayFounder's business model, seeing it as a way of making off with great ideas at a fraction of their true value.
D'Amore defends WayFounder's business model, noting that some idea generators may also be entrepreneurs. "Other folks are just great idea people," he said. "And if you are not an entrepreneur, it's OK to say, 'I'm an idea generator.'"
Although crowdfunding sites can provide entrepreneurs with money to finance projects, the challenge for many is that they are left on their own to figure out how to bring a product to market. The hurdles faced by the inexperienced can include figuring out how to obtain legal protection, identify manufacturers, build websites, develop necessary technology and create a marketing and sales plan.
D'Amore believes that as many crowdfunding efforts fail because would-be entrepreneurs don't fully understand what it takes to start a company. "People who don't know anything about fulfillment, delivery, manufacturing -- they go over their costs. They think they can just call somebody in China, order a product, and it just magically appears here."
To get WayFounder off the ground, D'Amore raised venture funds last year (to support its operations, competitions, investing in winning ideas and funds scaling those ideas).
In mid-August, WayFounder announced the winners of its first quarterly competition. in the home and garden category, a mobile app idea for brides and a parenting product.
As the late comedian Robin Williams once said, "No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world." D'Amore and WayFounder have created a mechanism that provides everyday people with a platform to put their ideas into action and change the world – while earning a reward for their effort.


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"That was way better than the book," declared the young girl seated behind me when the lights went up following the September 22 performance of the Children's Theatre Company's Charlotte's Web. I don't know if I'd go that far, but director Greg Banks has crafted a graceful and moving production that's true to the spirit of E.B. White's classic novel.
With 45 million copies in print, the 1952 book has a plot that's well-known: Wilbur the pig is in danger of being slaughtered until his friend Charlotte the spider uses her web to weave words of praise for Wilbur (some pig, terrific, radiant); the attention drawn by Charlotte's web makes the pig a local celebrity and the farmer reconsiders his plans to turn Wilbur into bacon.
While populated by charming characters including Wilbur, Charlotte, Templeton the rat, and other barnyard creatures, there's a bleak edge to the story: I know from my experience teaching preschool science classes that many youngsters don't make the connection between farm animals and the dinner table, so Charlotte's Web could be an eye-opener in that respect. Further, Farmer Zuckerman is forthright about the fact that he'll only spare Wilbur so long as the pig continues to inspire evidence of arachnid sentience.
Joseph Robinette's adaptation is forthright about those details, but doesn't dwell on them. The value of friendship is the showcase theme here, and all the characters are likable—even Templeton, the gluttonous and unreliable rodent, has a heart of gold.
The principal challenge of staging Charlotte's Web is that you have humans playing animals alongside humans playing humans; Banks and his team handle this nimbly, rightly trusting the abilities of their talented cast to suggest their species through physical characterization. Mary Anna Culligan's costumes are elegant and minimally suggestive—Templeton gets a tail, but Charlotte doesn't get any extra legs. Joseph Stanley's set also sets the mood without getting in the way: the most elaborate stagecraft here is a simple but effective trap-door trick that allows Wilbur to magically transform from a stuffed animal to the young Ethan Davenport.
Davenport strikes just the right tone of wide-eyed innocence, and Joanna Harmon is marvelous as Charlotte. Literature's most lovable spider could be portrayed as starchy and maternal, but Harmon's Charlotte is more like a chill BFF. Among the supporting characters, Reed Sigmund gets a lot of laughs with his trashy Templeton—he seems to be channeling Michael Keaton in Beetlejuice—but the show is stolen by Dean Holt as the narcissistic pig against whom Wilbur must compete at the county fair, hilariously costumed in a bovine muscle suit.
This Charlotte gets a long goodbye—perhaps too long, with the show dragging a bit through its last ten minutes—but even so, you (and your kids) will be sad to bid farewell to this winning production.
Read an essay about the Twin Cities theater scene written by Traci Allen, a new member of the Children's Theatre Company.


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Win with blogging? Seriously? That's so 2003.
I get it. You're skeptical about blogging because you've been let down. Maybe there was a time you spent hours at your computer, typing your masterpiece. You hit publish with giddy anticipation, and…crickets.
"What a waste," you thought. "Winning with blogging is a myth. Maybe it worked once upon a time, but its ship has sailed."
You know what? I understand your frustration, anger, and the feeling that you've been misled. The truth is the majority of blogs fail. But not all. Our success with blogging, for Pronto and our clients, says otherwise.
In fact, if you've read some of the earlier posts in this series, like Why you'll never rank on Google's 1st page by tinkering with keywords, metadata, and similar SEO tactics" or "What is the most powerful SEO technique? (And how to take advantage of it)", you'll already know that we've landed hundreds of clients from our blogs.
But to understand what separates a top-ranking blog from one buried in the bowels of Google, we first need to understand how blogging plays into search engines' algorithms. So let's start there.
Understand why "Content is king" is an outdated phrase
You heard that right. The popular phrase has been heralded for decades, but it needs an update for 2019: quality, fresh content is king.
Why do we need to incorporate the words "fresh" and "quality" into the phrase? Two reasons:
- The internet is flooded with mediocre blogs covering the exact same topic. Write a hundred posts, but if that content simply rehashes other articles, your blog will go nowhere.
- A few quality posts a year leaves visitors (and Google) wondering if you're alive. There's more to it than this (see below), but yea, inconsistent blogging is a recipe for wasted time and a losing blog.
Blogs that succeed create both quality and fresh (or consistent) content. If you do those two things and follow the advice later in this post, blogging will improve your SEO. And you'll do it at a price any SMB can afford — spending far less money than you ever would with Google Ads. Why is this?
Well, we don't expect you to drink the Kool-Aid and simply take our word for it. Instead, to get to the bottom of this question, we need to examine how search engines work.
Bear these three points in mind:
1. Search engines are smitten by fresh content
In other words, they love it. The reason has to do with Google customer preferences (more on this later) and the fact that search engine "crawl spiders" are constantly scouring the web in search of fresh content. Think of it like this:
A shoe store always wants the newest pair of Nikes on shelves, so employees keep tabs on the market to ensure they're in stock. Search engines do the same. They want the freshest, most valuable content at the very top of search. Why? A valuable new product, or blog, captures interest and customers. And that's exactly what search engines (and shoe retailers) want.
What's more, fresh content also tells search engines your site is healthy and active. An outdated website that blogs a few times a year is as valuable to Google as a pair of New Balance M998s. Yes, that's a sneaker from the '90s; and not exactly a hot seller today.
2. New articles foster loyalty
Let's keep with this shoe metaphor for the rest of this section. Say your buying team gets a bit lazy. Instead of stocking the latest Jordans, the New Balance M998s and L.A. Lights are piling up. New shoes aren't coming in and your shop now looks more like a rummage sale than a retailer.
How do you think your customers feel? Would they want to come back? Probably not. New products create repeat visitors interested in your latest offerings. They also show you're current with trends and perhaps even cutting-edge (if you provide hot-ticket shoes not found anywhere else). By offering fresh, quality products, customers become loyal, repeat visits happen, and you may even become an authority if you "wow" them consistently enough. The same goes with blogging.
Your website is essentially like a shop in the mall of Google. The more fresh, quality content you produce, the more likely you'll gain repeat visitors who hang out at your website. Google likes this, and in time you'll see a boost in ranking because of it.
3. More blogs provide more entry points into your website
What if your store starts selling a new brand of shoes? Or hats or apparel? Now I'm not talking about off-brand products like Rolling Stones t-shirts; but more like shoe brands and clothes that compliment your current merchandise, like Reebok shirts or perhaps Raf Simons sneakers. Doing this attracts a new customer base. Blogging works the same way.
A blog that revolves around a niche keyword — whether related to a new product or a core service — creates a doorway into your website. The more blogs you write addressing customers' specific questions, concerns, or problems, the more ways a searcher can find you online.
Crack Google's code for irresistible, high-ranking content
Why is Google king of search? Well, remember how I mentioned "Google customer preferences" in the last section? This has a lot to do with it.
You may not have realized, but everyone who uses Google is one of their customers — even if you just use their search engine to browse the web for free.
Google succeeds because they put searchers first. They want the easiest, most effective search possible, constantly tweaking their algorithm hundreds of times each year to do just this. The result is they're the world's most popular search engine and advertisers pay them a premium. What does this have to do with Google's code for high-ranking content?
Google's secret formula for ranking content is directly related to their customer: the searcher. When you please the searcher with an outstanding blog, you please Google because the tech giant wants satisfied customers (searchers). Google then rewards you with a higher rank. Now the real question: How do you make searchers happy?
Give your customer what they want: answer their questions. That is why they're searching on Google after all, right? Most early-stage buying processes begin with questions. So when you answer them, you've got a good chance to pop to the top of search.
So how can you create articles that answer questions? It all starts with the headline. Below we'll show you how to write headlines that answer questions, using some of ours and our clients' most popular blogs as examples:
Whose blog is this: A client of Pronto
Traffic: 439 organic visitors in 6 months
Let's start off with an easy one. The above article is from a client of ours that launched their blog in February 2018. And as you can see from the traffic stat above, this individual blog has done pretty well.
Why is it so effective?
It answered a question on readers' minds. And the title shows you don't necessarily need to get fancy with your headlines — you can simply write the literal question your reader may be wondering. In this case, "What's the life expectancy of a typical office PC?"
How can you use this formula in your headline?
Make your headline your clients' literal question.
Whose blog is this: A client of Pronto
Traffic: 558 organic visitors in 6 months
Above is another blog we wrote for one of our clients. From the stat above, you can see it gets slightly more traffic than the first example in this section.
As for the question this blog answers, what do you think it is?
It shouldn't be too difficult to guess. I imagine the question would be something like this: "How can I protect my computer from hardware failure?"
How can you use this formula in your headline?
Use a list post to answer one question in multiple ways. For example, the headline above provides four answers to the question, "How can I protect my computer from hardware failure?"
Whose blog is this: Pronto's
Traffic: 2,089 organic visitors in 6 months
You probably noticed that the blog above reels in a substantially higher amount of traffic than the previous two. I'll explain why shortly, but first, let's examine the headline.
What question is being asked?
Just add a question/interrogative word to the beginning and punctuate the end with a question mark, and you'll get something like this: "How can I increase my sales with social media?"
How can you use this headline formula?
When you answer a question, you solve a problem; or in other words, you offer a benefit. So ask yourself, "What benefit is my article offering the reader?"
Whatever your answer is, put that benefit in your headline and elaborate on it in your blog. As you can see, the headline "Increase sales with social media" answers a question and offers a clear benefit to the reader.
Why does this last blog get the most traffic?
The main reason is the sheer amount of blogs we've written. Since 2011, Pronto has published 450+ articles, whereas the two client blogs have been in existence for a year and posted less than 50 articles each. In the world of blogging, numbers matter. And remember what I mentioned earlier about website entry points?
Every blog is a potential doorway into your website. And the more blogs you have, the more opportunities you have to be found online. If the two clients above stick with our Custom Blogging program or continue blogging on their own, in the coming years, they'll likely see the same kind of traffic numbers as our social media blog.
Also, bear in mind that when multiple blogs on your website start attracting regular visitors (like the examples above), then your traffic really begins to snowball as your cumulative website visitors and ranking increase exponentially.
Learn how to read your client's mind
Now that you see the effectiveness of answering questions, how do you figure out what searchers are wondering? Well, you need to read their minds. And while this may sound difficult, it's not as hard as you think.
Below are four ways to do just this:
1. Ask them. Yes, it's that simple
Years ago, I was teaching a class on goal-setting to a group of high school students. And one of the first lessons I taught was this: tell people your goal and ask for help.
One student's goal was to get an iPhone, and the very next lesson after I taught this principle, she walked into class sporting a new phone. What did she do? She asked her parents, and they granted her wish. While I certainly didn't teach this young lady the importance of hard work, I did illustrate the point that sometimes to get what you want, all you need to do is open your mouth and ask.
When it comes to reading your clients' minds, why can't you do the same? Just email your clients and ask them what they need help with. But let's be honest, getting people to reply online is a challenge, which is why you need to make the response-process easy. How do you do that?
I recommend you create a survey. No matter what email marketing platform you use (Mail Chimp, Aweber, Convert Kit, etc.), making a survey is super simple. To learn, type "how to create a survey in [platform name]" into Google or your email marketing service, and you'll find an answer in minutes.
Next, devise a handful of potential customer questions, insert them into the survey, and give recipients an option to enter their own query. As long as you have at least a hundred engaged members on your subscriber list, a good response is almost certain.
2. Listen to common questions asked to customer service reps
When it comes to understanding your customers, your customer service and sales reps are at ground zero. They're in the trenches, listening in on valuable information: concerns and questions of your clients. When you hold meetings with these employees, maybe you'll notice that some specific client questions or concerns are often brought up. If so, answer them in blog posts. If not?
Return to step one in this section: ask your customer service and sales reps what are the frequently asked questions heard in client or prospect conversations.
To streamline this process between yourself and employees, have your customer support teams keep a shared Google doc (or the like) of questions repeatedly heard in client interactions. Use this list as a source for future blogs.
3. Consult the internet's most famous sumo wrestler
You may have heard of a little website that analyzes internet trends. In fact, we just cited them in our last article ""What is the most powerful SEO technique? (And how to take advantage)". The name? Well, it brings up images of one of Japan's most iconic professional athletes: the sumo wrestler. The site is called BuzzSumo. And their purpose is to help you identify the popular content online. How do you leverage the service?
Follow the four steps below:
- Research blogs that provide products or services similar to yours
- Type the first blog's URL into BuzzSumo. A list of results will appear that reveal the most popular posts on a given website, the number of article shares on social media platforms, the amount of inbound links pointing to each blog, and more.
An example of data from a BuzzSumo search (using Forbes as the searched site).
- Note the data and the question each popular post's headline is answering
- Repeat this process with each blog URL
Once you're done, look for patterns: examine whether the most popular headlines answer the same or a similar question. If yes, then you have a winner. So write a blog post that offers your own take on the question or provides a better, more thorough answer.
Sound like a lot of work? If you're willing to pay for BuzzSumo's service, their Plus plan can do the legwork for you. Its Question Analyzer feature finds you the most commonly asked questions on internet forums, Quora, e-commerce sites, and more.
4. Join the online conversation (or become its spokesperson)
Conversations about your customers' most frustrating questions happen around the internet every day. Where? Well, common places include online communities and Facebook or LinkedIn groups. These hangouts are a gold mine for learning what's on your target clients' minds. So get involved.
There are literally thousands of communities online, some free and others paid, and you're likely to find a group dedicated to your target clients with a quick search of Google, Facebook, or LinkedIn. In the rare case you don't, then what?
Start a group. Actively managing an online community positions you as an authority and, as a bonus, can produce a consistent stream of customers. But remember, listen to the common questions group members ask. Write them down and you'll have content for dozens of blog posts.
When it comes to writing high-ranking blogs, hopefully you see there's no need to reinvent the wheel. Just find the questions already on your customers' minds, and then answer them.
Be your clients' hero and you'll be rewarded tenfold
Be it Batman, Iron Man, or Thor, almost everyone loves a good superhero.
But there's one group who loves their hero more than anyone — your customers. You make a direct impact on their lives as you solve their real-world problems. And in the end, you stand to benefit.
When you answer customers' questions in a blog, their trust in you snowballs. You position yourself as an authority, grow a fanbase, and the clients eventually roll in on autopilot.
And, of course, Google and other search engines reward you for your feats, and you'll fly to the top of search rankings. That's right — no more cold calls. No more desperate emails begging prospects to choose your business. No more lowering your prices to compete with villainous competitors.
As a superhero, you get to charge superhero prices.
But don't be fooled. You may have caught a telling word in the last sentences that allude to the challenge ahead: "feat". The phrase "blogging is dead" is popular not because it's true, but because building a successful blog is in fact a monumental challenge of persistence, skill, and time.
If you want an easier route to the top of Google, simply follow one of our tried and true tips in this blog: ask.
Give us a call and ask how our Custom Blogging program can help you succeed. Not only does our service provide you consistent, quality content on a monthly basis, but we can also help you transform new visitors into leads and sales. Let our wordsmiths help you by doing what they do best, so you can do what you do best — focus on running your business.
Whether you blog with us or alone, just remember to publish fresh, quality content and answer your clients' questions. Follow the steps above, and you will reach Google's mountaintop.