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- Steve Swanson
Alan Newman became a leader of the environmentally friendly household-supplies sector when he started Seventh Generation. The self-described serial entrepreneur repeated that prescient success in the early years of the craft beer movement as cofounder of Magic Hat Brewing.
Now Newman, 71, is betting the farm, so to speak, on the future of global livestock agriculture — in a Williston industrial park.
The lobby of Flourish Farm's 2,500-square-foot space on Avenue D feels like the foyer of a fitness club, with bright logos on merchandise and huge posters of athletic people enjoying nature. Few of these visuals trumpet the crop produced here. Flourish Farm raises chirping critters to become food: seasoned whole crickets and a ground-cricket product that married founders Steve and Jen Swanson believe can compete with whey, soy and other protein powders.
"We're trying to get the bug image out of people's minds," explained Jen, a Rutland native. As Ethan de Seife reported in Seven Days in 2015, she and Steve, now both 36, started the company in 2014 as Tomorrow's Harvest, raising crickets in their home.
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- Crickets
"We wanted to focus on the product, not so much on the cricket," Jen continued, "to talk about how it can benefit both the environment and our health." Crickets, she said, produce "the highest-quality and most sustainable protein.
"Our goal is to contribute to the sustainability of our planet by way of our food system," she declared. "This could change the world if it works."
Newman met the Swansons at two Vermont business startup pitch events over the past couple of years. They won neither but attracted his attention.
"I saw two passionate, enthusiastic, smart founders who were probably ahead of their time, which is where I've lived most of my life," Newman said.
After several months of discussion, Newman pulled together half a dozen investors with an interest in nutrition and the environment. A first round of $600,000 enabled the couple to move the cricket farm out of their basement in February, and it is expected to power the business through the proof-of-concept phase.
Flourish currently sells only directly from the farm and online but will seek retail distribution as it scales up. A facility in Williston processes its cricket snacks and cricket powder. (Flourish also sells plant fertilizer made from cricket poop.)
The snacks, flavored with maple, Buffalo seasoning, or garlic and sea salt, are light and crunchy with a slight seaweed aftertaste, reminiscent of biting through the shell of small shrimp. Like shellfish, crickets have exoskeletons containing chitin, which is why Flourish's products must bear a seafood allergen warning.
Newman has taken an active role in Flourish's marketing and branding, developed by Burlington's Solidarity of Unbridled Labour. He also brought on his longtime operations partner, Steve Hood, to help with business management and financials.
"I learned years ago that ideas were a dime a dozen," Newman said. "A lot of people have ideas, but moving them into a fundable and executable business is another thing."
- Luke Awtry Photography
- Flourish farm t-shirts
Steve Swanson works full time at Flourish as "the cricket whisperer," or farmer, while Jen squeezes in her involvement around a job in medical device sales that pays the family bills.
Steve was the original driver behind the project. "We were very concerned about climate change already," he explained. When the couple had the first of their children — now ages 4, 3 and 9 months — "it got real," he said.
Researching online, Steve stumbled across a 173-page report published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 2013. Noting the precipitous growth of both global population and hunger, the authors touted insects as a way to deliver nutritious food at low environmental cost, while acknowledging that "people in most Western countries view entomophagy [eating insects] with feelings of disgust."
Steve's first pitch was to his wife. "He put together a PowerPoint presentation for me," Jen said. Then he started experimenting in the garage.
At the time, the few cricket farms in North America were raising them primarily for pet food or fly-fishing lures. The species, Acheta domesticus, is the same, but crickets raised for human consumption have different feed and record-keeping needs. Research is lacking, because entomologists, Steve noted, are generally "focused on killing insects, not farming them."
The U.S. lacks specific guidelines for insects as human food. Not being considered livestock, they fall under the jurisdiction of the Food & Drug Administration (like seafood), rather than the Department of Agriculture. At the state level, the health department gets involved only when crickets are processed into food — and when, ironically, inspectors would normally penalize facilities for the presence of insects.
The growing cricket-farming industry is secretive, Steve said, but Flourish Farm wants to pull back the curtain. "It's really important that people can come see what the heck this is," he said. "Education is obviously a huge part of this."
Visitors to the Williston operation can see into the main cricket-raising room through a large window. It will soon be equipped with cricket cams for close-up views into the custom-built cricket "condos."
Eggs hatch in a cozy, silver-lined grow tent kept at 88 degrees. "If crickets don't work," Steve joked, "we'll grow weed."
Crickets are independent as soon as they're born, he noted, so farmers don't separate mother and offspring, as most dairy operations do, for example. "That speaks to the morality and ethics of eating insects," Steve said.
The crickets are harvested five weeks into an six-week life cycle that's accelerated beyond the normal 12- to 16-week cycle by a controlled climate. Placed in a freezer, they fall asleep before dying. "It's as humane a way to kill animals as there is," Steve claimed.
Flourish Farm has yet to do its own close analysis, but other sources, including the UN report, show that production of cricket protein requires significantly fewer resources than does production of other animal proteins or even many vegetable proteins. According to Entomo Farms, a large Canadian producer of cricket-based food, crickets require one-thirteenth of the water and one-twelfth of the feed needed to produce an equal amount of beef protein. Plus, crickets don't contribute to greenhouse gases and produce zero processing waste; the insect is simply dehydrated and offered whole or ground into powder.
To mitigate the biggest environmental input, heat, Steve believes that "insect farms of the future will be in extremely well-insulated buildings, ideally powered by solar and wind."
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- Steve Swanson checking on the crickets
The Swansons hope to develop two lines of crickets, one grain-fed and one fed on food waste. "Crickets are omnivores. The question is, what do they thrive on?" Steve said. He's successfully fed some on spent brewers' grain. "That's when the sustainability argument gets crazy."
Sustainability alone may make a solid case for Americans to jump on the cricket-eating bandwagon. But then there's what everyone calls the yuck factor.
"We started this before we had the courage to eat a cricket," Steve admitted. "We sat down and had maybe a little tequila before we tasted our first one. We understand that hesitation."
"I think, intellectually, there's really good reason" for people to buy insect-based foods, said Newman. "But nobody buys things for intellectual reasons."
That said, the needle seems to be moving. "Over the last three years, the conversation is completely different," Steve said. "From 'You're a crazy person; get away from me' to 'I've heard of that. Tell me about it.'"
The Flourish team cites the success of the popular Mexican snack chapulines (chile- and garlic-sautéed grasshoppers), launched last season at the Seattle Mariners baseball stadium. A major Canadian supermarket chain recently started selling its own private-label cricket protein powder.
Newman believes the youth influence will be critical. "As the younger generation comes of age, they'll define their culinary tastes," he said, noting that, 30 years ago, most Americans wouldn't touch sushi. "You get a 10-year-old. They think [eating crickets is] the coolest thing since sliced bread. They're the reason I'm optimistic."
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- Cricket taco at El Cortijo
Steve delivered an inaugural custom-seasoned batch of whole dehydrated crickets to El Cortijo Taqueria y Cantina in Burlington three weeks ago. They were featured in a taco special that sold surprisingly well, said executive chef Tom D'Angelo. "People have come in just to try them."
Restaurants are culinary trendsetters, Steve noted: "They're more willing to experiment."
El Cortijo is also a natural fit because insects, especially grasshoppers (in the same family as crickets), are integral to Mexican culinary traditions, said Luis Vivanco, professor of anthropology at the University of Vermont, who taught and researched in Oaxaca over a period of eight years.
Beyond Mexico, Vivanco said, insects have been an important source of protein for societies all over the world, including Native Americans. But "European culture has always looked at insects [as food] as the last resort," he acknowledged. "We see insects as pests. We see them as dirty."
In contemporary America, Vivanco sees potential for cricket-based foods to become more culturally acceptable if companies market them, as Flourish does, with an "aura of hipster, alternative, virtuous, doing something good for yourself and the world."
Even so, the Flourish team recognizes that whole crickets are probably not going to be the breakout product. "We're not expecting people to eat a pile of crickets instead of a steak," said Steve. "It's more of an ingredient."
Cricket powder has the most potential, he believes. With a relatively neutral flavor and fine texture, it can be blended into protein shakes and used to improve the nutritional value of sauces, stews or baked goods. The Swanson family eats it in pesto, tomato sauce and cookies.
The Flourish team likes to call their product a "superfood" (for which there is no official definition), based on its protein level of 60 to 70 percent. Other nutrient levels vary depending on what crickets are fed, but they are generally a strong source of calcium, iron and vitamin B12. The Swansons envision a not-too-distant day when packaged cereals and kids' snacks such as Goldfish crackers will be fortified with cricket protein.
Further into the future, Steve said, the goal is to open up the entire edible insect world. "We call crickets the gateway bug," he said, "but I'm really bullish on ants. They have formic acid; it's super-citrusy."
Newman is fully on board — until talk turns to cockroaches. "I'm going to draw the line there," he said.
Double Chocolate Chirp Cookies
This recipe from Flourish Farm swaps ½ cup cricket powder for ½ cup white flour, adding about 40 grams of protein to the whole batch. For our Seven Days test, reporter Melissa Pasanen added cocoa powder, substituted brown sugar for half of the white sugar, and upped the vanilla to balance the flavors and mask the darker color of the cricket-powder dough.
- 1 ½ cups flour
- ½ cup cricket powder
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Pinch fine salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, at room temperature
- ½ cup white sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- About 2 cups chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease or line cookie sheets with parchment.
- In a small bowl, whisk together flour, cricket powder, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. In the large bowl of a stand mixer or using a handheld electric mixer, cream butter with both sugars until fluffy (about five to seven minutes), stopping to scrape down side of bowl once.
- Mix in egg and vanilla extract just until blended. Beat in dry ingredients to form a dough. Stir in chocolate chips.
- Drop 12 rounded tablespoons of dough onto each baking sheet. Bake for nine to 12 minutes until firm and darker brown at edges. Allow to sit for a few minutes before moving from the sheet to a cooling rack. Yields about 48 two-inch cookies.


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10 Ways to Improve Your Social Circle
Adult-ing can be really hard. One thing that makes it easier is having a healthy social circle of people you can rely on in times of stress. However, I often hear from clients how difficult it is to expand their social circle and increase their supports. After college or high school we kind of run out of the large pool of prospective individuals that we can potentially make into long lasting friendships. After school, we move away, have difficult schedules that don't seem to match up or just end up with very different life stages or interests. So where do we go from here? Here are some ideas for working on strengthening and expanding your social-circle:

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Blake Lively Responds to Martha Stewart's Choice Words About Preserve
Turns Out She Doesn't Care What We Think
Poor Blake Lively. Well, not really (at all), but still — I can only imagine how much it would suck to get really bad feedback on your so-called passion project, especially from a supposed good friend. That's exactly what happened when Huffington Post asked Lively's wedding hero/icon Martha Stewart what she thought about Preserve. Stewart didn't have the nicest things to say about it ("It's stupid!"), sort of implying that Lively should just stick to her day job. Blake Lively responded to Martha Stewart's comments and, according to E! News, she wasn't too affected by the remarks, continuing to idolize her.
"Who doesn't want to be Martha Stewart? Martha Stewart has been a huge inspiration to me my entire life. She's a huge source of inspiration for my mom. She's how I came to know and love Martha," said Lively. "I always say that Martha Stewart Living is the only magazine I ever had growing up. I never had Tiger Beat or any of that stuff."
Lively knows that she's a successful actress and all that, but considers Preserve just as important of a career as acting. "I want to have my own path professionally and even as she said, I'm an actress. I'm doing something totally different so now I sort of have two careers going on and it'll be interesting to see how it all pans out." Still, she's realistic and knows one will "pay the bills better than the other."
It's nice to see that Lively is standing strong behind her website and not letting anyone take her down, despite all of the terrible reviews that keep coming. Lucky Magazine shared a photo of the awful packaging they received when they ordered some of her pricey spoons. Jezebel polled a bunch of "real dudes" on what they thought of the products she was selling and, as you may have guessed, their evaluations were not exactly glowing. Gawker just called it "the most disturbing site on the web." Womp, womp.
I may not have totally fallen in love with Preserve either, but I am hoping that she can take all this negative feedback and turn it around into something that would make her frenemy Martha Stewart proud. You can do it, Serena van Der Woodsen!


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Sunday August 05,
Tags business ethics, work ethic, top engineers, competetors, firing, get rid of, updating resume, goes as planned, hideous disese, felt useuful, threatening employment
Boss: Wally, I'm sending you to a conference for the world's top engineers. With any luck, one of our competitors will try to poach you. That will save me the trouble of firing you. You'll be going with five other people I want to get rid of. I took the liberty of updating your resume. If this goes as planned, you'll destroy one of our competitors from within. Like a hideous disease. Make me proud! Wally: It was the first time I ever felt useful. I didn't like it.
Monday January 10,
Tags sharing meeting, project, pathetic series, poorly planned, random acts, emotional desparation, things are fine, need a hug
The Boss: "Let's go around the table and give an update on each of our projects." Man: "My project is a pathetic series of poorly planned, near-random acts. My life is a tragedy of emotional desperation." The boss: "It's more or less customary to say things are going fine." Man: "I think I need a hug."
Wednesday October 19,
Tags algorithim, higest salries, overstatement, reduce headcount, scientific algorithm, who goes
"I've been asked to reduce headcount." "To be fair about it I created a scientific algorithm to decide who goes." "I thought you were firing the people with the highest salaries." "Okay, maybe 'algorithm' is an overstatement."
Saturday January 28,
Tags great idea, first idea, tougest, urge goes away
A new worker says to Dilbert and Wally, "I've only worked here one day but I thought of a great idea." The Boss runs in with a fire hose and soaks the new employee with a stream of water. Dilbert says to the drenched worker, "The first idea is always the toughest." Wally adds, "The urge eventually goes away."
Saturday January 06,
Tags manager ted, planned better, pushed down stairs, soul left body, evil entity, performance reviews
The Boss pokes his head into Ted's office and asks, "How do you like being a manager, Ted?" Ted replies, "Yesterday my staff pushed me down ten flights of stairs. My soul left my body and now I'm a lifeless evil entity." The Boss says, "Just in time to do performance reviews!" Ted responds, "I couldn't have planned it better."
Saturday January 25,
Tags decompose, digits, million dollars, planned obsolescene, upgarde, upgrade now, version, newest software
Dilbert is meeting with a salesman. The salesman says, "For only a million dollars, you can upgrade to our newest software version." The salesman continues, "Or you can slowly decompose in the miasma of our planned obsolescence." Dilbert says, "We can't afford to upgrade now." The salesman holds up a device and replies, "Say goodbye to the digits three and nine."
Saturday May 14,
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Could I have a few days off to see if my stress hump goes away? The boss: "Stress is all in your mind. I should fire you and your hump right now for even asking!" Dilbert: "Just because he said no?" new guy: "It was the way he said it."
Monday April 28,
Tags planned merger, fast food chain, employees, source of protein, perfect situation, business
Dilbert says, "I recommend we cancel our planned merger." Dilbert says, "They plan to open a chain of fast food restaurants using our employees as a source of protein." The Boss says, "If we always waited for the perfect situation, we'd never get anything done."
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A man says, "I'm here for an interview in a conference room named..." The man says, 'Where Hope Goes to Die'" Carol says, "It's the first one past 'The Rectangle of Futility.'"
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Wally says, "I need to spend the next year optimizing the WDNW system" Boss says, "I've never heard of the WDNW system." Wally says, "You only hear about the systems that have problems." Wally says, "If everything goes as planned, you'll never hear about WDNW again." Boss says, "What does the WDNW system do?" Wally says, "It keeps our zeros and ones from accidentally forming tens." Boss says, "That can happen?" Wally says, "Not on my watch." Dilbert says, "How's the 'Wally Does No Work' project?" Wally says, "The acronym helped."


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- 1 1/2 oz gin
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- 1/4 oz lemon juice
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- Aromatics of choice, such as Pure Relief raw flower, lime wheels, or grapefruit peels
- Combine the gin, tonic water, and lemon juice in a glass. Top with ice.
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Brazil's president-elect threatens Amazon rainforest
Jair Bolsonaro aims to boost mining, farming and dam building in Amazon.
Next year's climate talks were due to take place in Brazil, but that has now been reversed by the President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, who has also made no secret of his desire to open the Amazon to mining, farming and dam building.
The world's biggest rainforest is already threatened after a year in which Brazil broke its own deforestation record. Latest satellite images show that in a 12-month period, almost 8,000 square kilometres of forest were cut. That amounts to five times the size of Mexico City.
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Donald Trump's Pro-Discrimination Spokesperson Once Sued Employer for Racial Discrimination
Katrina Pierson is an impressive figure, if only for her ability to out-batshit her employer, Donald Trump. She serves as a campaign spokesperson and talking head, frequently appearing on cable news to offer summaries of Trump's, discriminatory policy proposals and his general hardline xenophobia and bigotry—which makes it, perhaps, a little funny that once she sued her boss for racial discrimination.
Pierson's most outright racist statement so far (November is still pretty far off!) came after Trump's startling pledge to completely ban Muslims from entering the United States. When challenged on CNN about barring "regular Muslims," Pierson scoffed: "Yes, from Arab countries. You know what? So what? They're Muslims." The ability to deliver this line with a straight face ought to require either a very stiff drink, or a sincere and abiding belief that a particular ethnic group is inherently unworthy of rights enjoyed by more favored groups.
In 2008, before her ascent to Tea Party star (Texas-area regional division) and a failed run for Congress, Pierson worked for Sanofi-Aventis, a pharmaceutical company, marketing prescription drugs to doctors in the Dallas area. Two years later, she filed suit against the company, claiming that they "engaged in practices towards her which willfully discriminated against her on the basis of her race." In her complaint, uncovered by Gawker, she demanded restitution for lost wages and "emotional pain" due to her treatment as a non-white person.
Pierson, who is black, said a former manager spoke "down to her as if she were a child," behavior she blamed on racial bias. She alleged said she was sabotaged by the company "by failing to provide her with advanced notice of periodic training tests and not granting her standard time out of the field to prepare and study," which she said was typically afforded to white employees. According to a later filing, Pierson and her former employer (which denied her allegations) settled out of court, and the suit was dismissed.
Multiple attempts to contact Pierson regarding the suit and whether or not racial discrimination is actually bad were unanswered.
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July 7 2014
John Stark Associates
Volume 16
Number 14
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* Welcome *
Welcome to 2PLM, an e-zine distributed about every two weeks. This issue includes :
The era of corporate innovation began roughly fifteen years ago, started by industry leaders in the mid-1990s with successful targeted disruptive innovations and chasm crossings. Today, most companies have now tried out many new approaches, and at least changed some of their historical innovation practices to lead, compete, or to just keep up.
The innovation body of knowledge is still expanding rapidly as industry's demand continues to grow. Initially, there was a wave of tools, techniques, and software to facilitate improvement. Some 250 enabling tools and/or software were developed and marketed to industry. Then, business models began adapting to the likes of "open innovation" and "monetizing intellectual property." New service industries emerged to assist with open innovation scouting and intermediary work, and public auctions began a generally accessible marketplace for IP. Now, corporate infrastructure is being built to systematize the business activities that are working; while leaders continually experiment with new-to approaches and enablers. Organization, process, management software, and metrics development for specific types of, and approaches to, innovation are now day-to-day activities in a surprisingly high number of corporations.
Bradford Goldense, a renowned subject matter expert in R&D and product development, recently led a research effort to assess the innovation practices that industry now uses and their respective penetration levels. 2PLM readers having an interest in innovation may benefit from our thirty-year relationship with GGI. Over the next five months we will publish research results not available to the public. These will include a number of the findings from each GGI research area:
We aim to include the first set of findings in the next issue of 2PLM.
For more information about Goldense Group Inc.'s (GGI) R&D, Product Development, Innovation, and Metrics research approach and topics, ongoing since 1998, please visit their research portal. Licensed pdfs of the 2014 findings and other research are available in GGI's iStore or through regarded distributors including Baker & Taylor and MarketResearch.com.
Bradford L. Goldense, NPDP, CMfgE, CPIM, CCP, president of Goldense Group Inc. has advised over 300 manufacturing companies on four continents in product management, R&D, engineering, product development, and metrics. GGI is a consulting, market research, and executive education firm founded in 1986. Brad writes a monthly column in Machine Design magazine for product creation professionals.
* Making Sense of American and European PLM [2] *
by Roger Tempest
The previous issue of 2PLM (June 23) gave an overview of the very real differences in the way that PLM is implemented in North America and in Europe.
Insights gained in Boston during the PTC Live Executive Exchange were reviewed last week in Geneva, Switzerland on Day 2 of the PLM Financial Framework Workshop.
This was a detailed examination of how companies in the USA might respond to the comprehensive methodology that has been developed in Europe over the past 18 months. Not only did this confirm that an American-oriented approach to PLM Financial Management is necessary, but the session also defined how the current material should be reshaped so that American users can apply it to full effect.
Over the next six to eight weeks these findings will be built into a completely new PLM Financial Handbook toolset for the American market. This new material will be validated at a 3-day event to be held in the USA during September. We need to choose the dates and location for this, and if you have any preferences or would be interested in hosting then you can reply via the address below.
Roger Tempest is co-founder of the PLMIG. More information about the toolset or the workshop is available via email@example.com.
* PLM References *
According to Google Scholar, as of July 1, Product Lifecycle Management: Paradigm for 21st Century Product Realisation, the most popular PLM publication, had been cited 457 times in journal articles, books and theses.
In recent weeks it has been cited in:
Stages in Product Lifecycle: Trans-disciplinary Design Context presents a stage-based framework for analysing transdisciplinary design processes in engineering product design and manufacturing. The framework provides a stage-wise, product lifecycle centric frame of reference for comparing design processes in industries from different industrial sectors involving multi-disciplinary stakeholders. The framework is based on literature analysis in the domain of design theory and methodology, as well as from models in product lifecycle management. The paper also reports insights on application of the framework for design processes analysis of 23 industries based on the mapping of their individual design processes to the developed framework.
* The Foundation for Advanced PLM Research *
It is generally agreed that PLM is an important new technology with far-reaching impact and application world-wide.
For similarly important new technologies there are well-structured, highly-visible research programs. Yet, despite the best of intentions, research into PLM across the world remains fragmented, low-profile, and limited to very specific subject areas.
This is a significant long-term problem for industrial companies. Lack of research means that PLM is heading towards a "plateau of sameness" in which future capabilities will be no better than were envisaged a decade ago. If manufacturing performance is to make genuine advances in the future, then new PLM concepts must play their part.
There is now a proposal to establish a PLM International Research Foundation as an independent platform to support advanced research into Product Lifecycle Management. The Foundation would work with industrial companies to identify their most important research issues and then with academic and other research organisations to achieve them.
The proposal has been put forward jointly by the PLM Interest Group, the IFIP Working Group 5.1, and the PLM Institute in Geneva.
To launch this we are gathering the views of PLM researchers from leading universities and institutions worldwide to establish a general academic viewpoint about what might be possible. This is being carried out by means of a global survey during July 2014.
The survey is now being carried out by the PLM Institute, and PLM researchers from around the world are invited to respond. You can take part by contacting Killian Murphy at email@example.com.
* Culture Change & PLM *
by Scott Cleveland
Those of us who have implemented a PLM [product lifecycle management] solution realize how important it is to manage culture change.
A PLM implementation can impact your user community in 2 ways:
Note: It is possible to have a successful implementation without a strong champion, but all of the successful implementations that I have witnessed had a strong champion.
Contact me to learn more about PLM and see how it can help your company ....
Scott Cleveland can be contacted on +1 408-464-6387
* GM 2014 Recalls *
On June 27 2014, General Motors announced four safety recalls covering 428,211 vehicles in the United States. These recalls address: the driver's side air bag inflator; transfer case control module software; the windshield wiper module assembly; rear shock absorbers. Details
On June 30 2014, General Motors announced that it will conduct six new safety recalls in the United States involving about 7.6 million vehicles from the 1997 to 2014 model years.
GM has made changes to every process that affects the safety of its vehicles, and the company has acted or will act on all 90 of the recommendations put forward by former U.S. Attorney Anton Valukas in his independent report to the company's Board of Directors.
GM expects to take a charge of up to approximately $1.2 billion in the second quarter for the cost of recall-related repairs announced in the quarter. Details
The June 30 version of the table titled "GM 2014 year-to-date North American recalls including exports" shows 54 recalls including those of June 16 mentioned in the June 23 issue of 2PLM.
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* Corporate *
PTC announced that it has completed its acquisition of Atego. Details
SofTech, Inc. announced that it received a total of $1.3 million in new capital from EssigPR, Inc. Details
* People *
Aras announced it welcomed Professor Dr.-Ing. Martin Eigner to the company's Board of Advisors. Details
* Implementations *
Aras announced that Dedicated Computing has selected and implemented the Aras enterprise solution suite. Details
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Concurrent Systems Inc Ltd announced the release of DDM 2014.5. Details
CoreTech System Co., Ltd. announced the release of Moldex3D R13.0. Details
ENGINEERING PLM Solutions announced that RuleDesigner gives the possibility to integrate KeyShot data in PLM processes. Details
Flow Science, Inc. announced the release of FLOW-3D Cast v4. Details
Formtek, Inc. announced that the Formtek Auditing Extension is available for Alfresco 4.2. Details
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Hexagon Metrology announced the Hexagon Probe Laser 20.8. Details
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The IntelliCAD Technology Consortium (ITC) announced IntelliCAD 8.0 operating in the cloud. Details
Lectra announced Kaledo V4R1. Details
MecSoft Corp. announced VisualXPORT 2014 for SpaceClaim. Details
PDF3D announced PDF3D V2.10. Details
Tech Soft 3D announced HOOPS Communicator 2.2. Details
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TransMagic, Inc. announced the release of MagicCheck R2. Details
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Zuken announced E3.series 2014A. Details
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Luxion announced that SpaceClaim has chosen Luxion's KeyShot as its new rendering solution for SpaceClaim Engineer. Details
Missler Software announced the upcoming conclusion of a strategic agreement with Sandvik Coromant for the integration of the tool library system, Adveon in TopSolid7. Details
Optitex and Alvanon announced a collaboration. Details
* Other *
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Delcam announced it continues to be the world's largest specialist supplier of CAM software and services. Delcam employs over 700 staff. Details
Detecon announced publication of "Complexity Management of Intelligent Products in the Energy & Utility industry". Details
Gerber Technology announced it was presented with a Gold level award for product innovation from the Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Inc., an affiliate of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Details
Lectra announced the opening of its South Korean subsidiary. Details
NGC announced Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine has named NGC to the Supply & Demand Chain Executive "100" for 2014. Details
PDT Europe announced a pre-conference PLCS/OSLC Workshop. Details
ProSTEP announced Isuzu Motors signed ProSTEP iViP Association's Code of PLM Openness (CPO). Details
PROSTEP announced that OpenDXM GlobalX received two awards. Details
Siemens PLM Software announced IDG's CIO magazine announced Siemens PLM Software as a recipient of the 2014 CIO 100. Details
Vero Software announced its position as the world's number 1 CAM focussed software business. Details
Virtalis announced that Boston was the venue for the first public display of its VR Extension for PTC Creo View. Details
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Bonus antlerless deer permits available beginning Aug. 17
The Department of Natural Resources will begin sale of bonus antlerless deer permits on Aug. 17.
The authorizations are in addition to those included with Wisconsin deer hunting licenses in many management zones.
Final antlerless permit levels were approved by the Natural Resources Board at a special July 30 meeting.
As a result of the board's action, the DNR will offer for sale 164,100 private land and 41,110 public land bonus antlerless permits.
After another mild winter in most of the state, the deer herd is faring very well.
Only one local deer advisory council – Forest County – recommended a zero antlerless quota for 2020. The NRB later added the forest regions of Oconto and Marinette counties to "bucks only" regulations.
However, at least some form of bonus antlerless permit is being offered for sale this year in 88 management zones, mostly defined by county borders.
The authorizations allow additional harvest opportunities for motivated hunters.
Bonus permits cost $12 each for Wisconsin residents, $20 for nonresidents and $5 for any person under age 12.
Where available, bonus antlerless harvest authorizations may be purchased at the rate of one harvest authorization, per person, per day until the unit is sold out or the hunting season ends.
The permits apply to any bow or firearm season, but are specific to a unit and land type (public or private).
At time of purchase, hunters must identify the deer management zone and unit and whether the harvest authorization for public or private lands.
In order to hunt antlerless deer on private lands enrolled in the Managed Forest Law and Forest Crop Law lands programs designated as open to public hunting as well as Voluntary Public Access lands, hunters must have a valid public land antlerless harvest authorization.
Sales of the permits will initially be staggered, beginning on Aug. 17 for Forest Zones (Northern and Central), followed by Aug. 18 for the Central Farmland Zone and Aug. 19 for the Southern Farmland Zone.
On Aug. 20 authorizations remaining in all zones will be available. They will remain on sale until sold out or the season ends.
Sales begin at 10 a.m. each day.
Permits may be purchased through the DNR's GoWild system at gowild.wi.gov or at authorized license sales outlets.
To prepare for the sale, each day at 9:45 a.m. an online queuing system will be put in place to manage volume in the GoWild system.
At 10 a.m. all online users that are on the site will be randomly assigned a number and staged into a virtual queue.
Customers who enter the site after 10 will be added to the end of the queue.
The 2020 Wisconsin archery and crossbow seasons begin Sept. 12, with the nine-day gun deer season running Nov. 21-29.
NRB meeting: The Natural Resources Board will meet Wednesday for its monthly meeting. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the event will be conducted by video conference.
The agenda includes an emergency order to regulate use of PFAS-containing fire fighting foams, a review of a simplified Wisconsin hunting regulation booklet and an update on Great Lakes commercial fishing issues.
A webcast of the meeting may be viewed via a link on dnr.wi.gov.
Boating safety: The DNR on Thursday issued a boating safety reminder about the need to wear life preservers.
In nine of the 10 confirmed boating-related fatalities in Wisconsin this year, the victim was not wearing a personal flotation device, according to the agency. Four other boating accidents in the state that resulted in deaths are still being investigated.
The 2020 statistics are in line with historical data. In 2019, 89% of victims of boating-related accidents in Wisconsin were not wearing a PFD.
"Put on your life jacket before you get in the boat, or your canoe, or your kayak or paddleboard or wade along the shoreline," said Casey Krueger, DNR chief warden. "Keep it on until you get back to land. Once your life jacket is on, you can focus on the fun."
The DNR has tips on boating safety, as well as links to safety classes, on dnr.wi.gov.
Hoye to join Governors office: Sarah Hoye, who has served as DNR director of communications since March 2019, has accepted a position in the office of Gov. Tony Evers.
The change is scheduled to take effect Monday.
Hoye holds a bachelors degree in mass communication from UW-Milwaukee and a masters in journalism from the University of Maryland. She has held reporting positions at CNN, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Tampa Tribune.