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Brother SE400 Embroidery Machine Review
The Brother SE400 is a versatile sewing machine designed for both experienced and novice sewers. This model provides the perfect balance between basic and creative sewing and it comes as a complete package designed to do everything from quilting to sewing and decorative embroidery.
Most of the features found in this machine are similar to that of the previous Brother SE350 model. But unlike its predecessor, the Brother SE400 computerized model comes with the addition of a USB port. With this new feature, you'll get to download machine updates and customize the large library of embroidery patterns, which will come in very handy for your sewing projects.
Preloaded with 100+ Built-in Embroidery Designs and Stitches
Some sewers own several machines – one for basic sewing, another for embroidery, and an additional serger for finishing garments. Brother's SE400 combines functions of all these three machines into one. The stitch patterns add up to 67, including 10 styles of 1-step buttonholes.
With an assortment of straight, stretch, zigzag, eyelet, patchwork, overcastting, appliqué, heirloom, smoking, quilting, and decorative stitches, the Brother SE400 can sew fabric in so many styles.
The slide cutter stitches trim fabric at the seam to create finished edges, much like a serger. Although these slide cutter stitches won't have double or multiple spools of threads like those created by an overlocker/serger, they're still very sturdy and will help to prevent fraying and rolling at the seam. Take note that you would have to buy a slide cutter foot separately in order to create these stitches. But despite this slight inconvenience, an extra $30-$40 would allow you to produce serger-like results without having to buy a separate overlocker machine.
Stitches can be adjusted in length and width to a maximum of 7mm depending on the selected design. In addition, there are 98 stitch functions to use, which creates more possibilities to become creative when working on highly customized garments.
Further adding to the impressive 67 stitches available, the Brother SE400 sewing machine also comes with 70 embroidery designs. These built-in embroidery designs are pre-programmed into the machine, but you can expand your collection by buying Brother Embroidery cards to connect via the card reader slot or import new designs online using the USB port.
All embroidery designs are created on the 4 x 4 inch frame that comes with the machine. There are 12 stitch styles and 10 frame types to choose from, which give you a selection of 120 framing options to use for different projects.
For those who like to embellish garments with motifs, Brother's SE400 also offers 5 lettering fonts, which are ideal when working on monogramming projects. The provided font options allow you to either imprint small, medium, or large letters on your fabric designs or garments.
Works with 8 Snap on Presser Feet for Added Functionality
Modern sewing machines from Brother come with easy to attach snap on accessory feet, and the SE400 is no exception. In total, it works with 8 presser feet that you can easily snap on and off the foot control. The presser foot offers a choice of 3 settings, namely down, regular up, and extra up. The latter setting helps to sew through multiple layers of denim or thick fabrics. Additionally, pressing the leveling button on the zigzag foot will allow you to maneuver through thick seams or fabric edges with ease.
Simple to Use Touch Screen and Controls
For a computerized sewing machine, Brother's SE400 comes with fairly easy to use controls that won't confuse even a first-time user. The backlit LCD touch screen can be operated with your fingers or the provided touch pen. It provides an interface for selecting stitch patterns, controlling design features, and even viewing step-by-step instructions.
After selecting a stitch pattern, the machine is programmed to show you which presser foot to use, whether or not twin needles are required, as well as the optimum width and length settings. There's even an option for saving selections so you can quickly reuse them for a particular project. What's more, the on-screen help button provides quick access to pictures and instructions for common tasks such as threading, bobbin winding and loading, foot replacement, and more.
When sewing, you can opt out on using a foot pedal thanks to the convenient start/stop button mounted on the front of the sewing machine. It's also possible to access the speed control slider from this area as well as the thread cutter, needle up/down and reverse/reinforce buttons. Thread tension is adjustable by simply turning the dial at the top.
Can Connect to PC via USB Port
The USB port on Brother's SE400 computerized sewing machine makes it possible to import new embroidery designs. This machine uses .pes and .pen files from iBroidery.com and other online sources. With the USB cable, it's also possible to receive software updates for the sewing machine.
Equipped with Reliable QuickSet Bobbin plus Automatic Needle Cutter and Threader
Threading has never been easier when using Brother's SE400 sewing machine. With the help of the automatic needle threader, there's no need to use tweezers or a magnifying glass when trying to poke thread through the needle eye anymore.
As the name implies, the QuickSet Drop-in Bobbin facilitates fast and easy threading when preparing the machine to sew. And when there's excess lint at the end of a seam or fabric edge, simply press the thread cutter button.
Package Details
- The main sewing machine (model SE400)
- 4 x 4 inch embroidery frame
- Embroidery arm
- 1 spool of white embroidery thread
- Medium-sized embroidery sheet
- Free arm with in-built accessories compartment
- USB cable and stylus pen
- Power cord
- Soft cover
- 7 accessory feet: embroidery foot, monogramming foot, zipper foot, blind stitch foot, button fitting foot, as well as overcasting, and buttonhole foot.
- Accessory pouch with a pack of 6 needles, four bobbins, 3 bobbin clips/spool caps, extra spool pin, spool net, twin needle set, cleaning brush, eyelet punch, 2 screwdrivers, seam ripper, and cleaning brush.
The Brother SE400 measures (L) 18" x (W) 12" x (D) 8" in size.
- Equipped with USB port for easy machine updates and importing of additional designs.
- Offers a combination of more than 100 stitches and embroidery designs from which to choose.
- Versatile sewing machine idea for constructing clothing, mending, making alterations, embroidery, and quilting.
- Jam-packed with user friendly features such as needle up/down button, speed control slide, start/stop button, and touch screen control panel, just to name a few.
- Comes with soft cover case.
- Designed with a non-adjustable presser foot pressure (however, the machine can handle thick fabrics because of the leveling button).
Consumer Ratings
While Brother's SE400 computerized sewing machine has no doubt elicited a bag of mixed reactions from past purchasers, the majority of reviewers still agree that it's a great sewing machine. The fact that the vast majority of buyers vouch for this machine goes to show the level of quality you can expect.
Whether it's hemming jeans, quilting, designing clothes, embellishing bags, or paper craft sewing, Brother's SE400 computerized sewing machine can do it all. With more than 100 stitch patterns and embroidery designs, 120 framing options, 98 stitch functions, and 8 presser feet, this machine offers versatility at its best.
However, Brother didn't just pack in a ton of cool stitches, presser feet, and embroidery patterns to lure buyers. The SE400 incorporates modern sewing technology in its operation in order to ensure easy set-up, fewer jamming issues, and solid performance. Overall, it's worth a serious look if you're looking for a feature-rich and affordable embroidery/standard sewing machine.


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MSc Students
Bailey Eagan
Growing up on a hobby farm in Ontario, I was very fortunate to have had many opportunities to interact with, and learn from, animals. From donkeys to dolphins to dogs, I have always had an interest in finding ways to help improve the lives of animals.
I completed my B.Sc. in honours Biology at Queen's University in 2013. I have had opportunities to work in veterinary clinics, farms, animal shelters, a wildlife rehabilitation centre, and a marine mammal research facility. Recently, I piloted a successful project to increase land-based whale watching and cetacean data collection in British Columbia.
Through my experiences, I have strengthened my resolve to contribute toward animal welfare research. In September 2017, I became an M.Sc. student in UBC's Animal Welfare Program where I will be working with the BC SPCA conducting a project to help understand and improve companion animal welfare in shelter environments.
Thomas Ede
In 2016, I graduated from a French agronomy school (Bordeaux Sciences Agro) with a specialisation in animal production. During my education, I worked as an intern and research assistant on an organic market garden (France, 2013), an experimental sheep farm (Lincoln University, New Zealand, 2014) and UBC's Dairy Education & Research Centre in which I took part in Becky Meagher's study on cow's motivation to participate in learning opportunities (2015). I joined the Animal Welfare Program in 2016 as a Masters student to study potential refinements of sedation procedures in calves. My current research investigates the negative experience caused by injections and the use of xylazine.
Katie Mills
I graduated from UBC in 2015 with a BSc (Honours) in Applied Animal Biology. During my undergraduate degree I began to explore the field of animal welfare science and had my first introduction to research through the Animal Welfare Program in 2013. From there I had the opportunity to work on a variety of projects including my undergraduate thesis on public perceptions of medically unnecessary surgeries in companion animals. After graduating, I became a research assistant before starting my MSc in September 2016. I am interested in how the understanding of stakeholder attitudes can help to improve animal welfare; specifically, my research will focus on farmer attitudes towards management practices for cows during the transition period.
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Geoff Nemeth
I was born and raised in Vancouver B.C., and spent most of my time outdoors on the North Shore as a child. This instilled in me a deep respect for nature, and as a teenager I developed a curiosity about how we attempt to describe and explain the natural world scientifically, from the molecular level to the ecological. Therefore it was no surprise that I decided to study biology in college, and although my previous interests were focused on ecology and molecular biology, I've always had a strong passion for animals and understanding the science behind animal behavior. This love for animals brought me to the UBC Animal Welfare Program as an undergraduate in 2010, where I found a tightknit and collaborative community of animal researchers and advocates that welcomed me into the program. In 2012, I graduated with my B.Sc in Applied Animal Biology, and completed my undergraduate thesis project under the supervision of Joanna Makowska and Dr. Dan Weary, which investigated the potential of anaesthetic gases such as isoflurane and sevoflurane as humane alternative to carbon dioxide for laboratory rat euthanasia.
After taking a few years off to work, I returned to the Animal Welfare Program in 2015 to pursue my M.Sc where I will be investigating abnormal lying behaviors in dairy cattle, and the factors that contribute to why some cows fail to adapt to freestall systems properly, which is a common and significant welfare concern regarding the housing of dairy cattle.
Anna Ratuski
I graduated from Dalhousie University in 2017 with a BSc in Biology. During my time at Dalhousie I worked as a technician in an animal research facility, which sparked my interest to learn more about improving the lives of laboratory animals.
I joined the Animal Welfare Program as a research assistant in May of 2017 after receiving an NSERC undergraduate research award. Since then I have been involved in Lucia Amendola's study on laboratory rat personality and how it relates to variation in responses to euthanasia agents. In January 2018, I began my MSc with the Animal Welfare Program. My research will focus on the effects of housing conditions on laboratory rats.
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Joyce Sato-Reinhold
I received my B.A. in neuroscience from Pomona College and from 2010-2012 worked as a research assistant in human cognitive neuroscience at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). While at UCSB, Buddhist teachings and my two pet rats turned me towards laboratory animal welfare. In 2012-2013 I enjoyed a visiting scholarship with the UBC Animal Welfare Program where I explored elements of social cognition in rats that were kept in complex environments, well-socialized to humans, and were trained to voluntarily participate in behavioural trials. After three years focusing on Tibetan Buddhist study and practice in Canada, the US, and India, I returned to the Animal Welfare Program to begin my M.Sc. in 2016. My research interests lie in improving the welfare of research and companion rats (and the humans who interact with them) with a focus on socialization and improving rat-human interactions. I am a member of the Rat Superstar Project at UBC.
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Devon Wilson
I grew up in rural Saskatchewan where I developed a love of agriculture and animals. This lead me to the University of Saskatchewan where I began an animal science degree at the College of Agriculture and Bioresources. I then entered the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, graduating in 2015. While in university, I spent my summers working on research topics including rumen physiology, spinal cord injury, and bovine reproduction, and thoroughly enjoyed each experience. This prompted me to start my veterinary career in feedlot medicine where I could participate in research trials on antimicrobial resistance and sheep pathology. During my time in vet school and particularly as a feedlot veterinarian, I became interested in farm animal welfare and its role in the sustainability of animal agriculture. I joined the animal welfare program in September, 2017 as a Masters student to study dairy bull calf welfare.
PhD Students
Lucia Amendola
I have a B Sc. degree in general Biology, with a specialization in behavioural ecology. For my B Sc. degree, I did research on "the development of dominance relationships in the domestic kittens at weaning" under the supervision of Drs. Hugh Drummond and Robyn Hudson. My M Sc. in animal production and health was on "behavioural indicators of cattle welfare in Silvopastoral Systems" with Dr. Francisco Galindo. I started my PhD at the UBC Animal Welfare Program in September 2014. My main interest is the variability in behaviour and its relationship to animal welfare. My research is focused on individual variation of rats' responses to CO 2.
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Ruan Daros
I come from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC/Brazil) where I graduated in Agronomy in 2012. My background is in dairy cattle production and farming systems. Throughout my Master's (2012-2014) I worked on cognition and emotional states of dairy calves under the supervision of MJ Hotzel and DM Weary in a partnership involving UFSC and UBC. In June of 2015 I started my PhD at AWP focusing on welfare of transition cows that have access to pasture. As we move forward public interest on animals' natural living has increased and thus my interest on understanding how grazing systems may improve dairy cattle welfare.
Hanna Eriksson
Previously unacquainted with the species, I fell in love with cows during my veterinary studies. So after obtaining a Master of Science in Veterinary Medicine in 2002, I returned to my home province in the north of Sweden to work with them as a field practitioner. To continue my education in ruminants I moved south in 2006 to work as a Junior Lecturer in Ruminant Medicine at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala. There, I worked with a lot of common diseases in dairy calves. Because disease risk is greatly connected with the way we take care of calves, I became interested in looking into the potential causal connections between common management practices and animal health.
I joined the Animal Welfare Program as a PhD student in January 2015. My research will focus on how different management practices influence how cows use their time to perform different behaviours and how these behavioural changes can affect their health.
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Benjamin Lecorps
I come from France where I studied animal biology and specialized in the study of animal behavior (Master's degree at University Paris 13). I became fascinated by the study of the emotional life of animals. My first research experiences aimed at describing non-invasive methods to measure emotional states of laboratory mice. I first came to the Animal Welfare Program in January 23016 for a six month research internship. I soon realised a wanted to continue my graduate studies with the Program, and began my PhD in September 2016. My primary research focus is on the psychological welfare of dairy cattle. I'm currently leading studies on individual traits of dairy calves and cattle. I'm interested in understanding how these traits can affect the way individual animals cope with the farm environment.
Katie Koralesky
While earning my BA in Spanish and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008, I became interested in sustainable agriculture and began working on farms that grew produce and also raised chickens, turkeys, and rabbits. I became specifically interested in farm animal welfare, and since then, have sought opportunities to learn more about animal welfare issues from other farms, and as a volunteer at the Humane Society and a feral cat rescue program.
I joined the Peace Corps in 2009 as an extension agent and worked for three years in the West African country of Togo. I appreciated learning about local animal husbandry methods, and sharing what I had learned about animal welfare. I helped start a rabbit-raising project, and held frequent training events with youth and adults. This project encouraged collaboration throughout the community, and created a place to teach and discuss practical, inexpensive methods for improving the welfare of animals.
I received my MSc in August 2017 and started my PhD in September 2017 with UBC's Animal Welfare Program. Focusing on the practical application of scientific research on dairy farms, I plan to collaborate with dairy producers to develop outcome-based welfare measurement tools for on-farm use. Hopefully these tools will be both effective and useful for producers, and lead to improved welfare for dairy cattle.
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Julia Lomb
I graduated in veterinary medicine in Germany in 2008, focusing on the well-being of dairy cows. I held two different field practices in Germany before coming to Canada in April 2013, to deepen my knowledge in animal welfare, primarily dairy cattle welfare. I joined the animal welfare program as a PhD student in January 2014. My research focuses on the behaviour of cows during the transition period and how this links to common dairy cow diseases (ketosis, metritis, etc.). Of particular interest to me is the inclusion of lameness in this transition cow disease complex. Due to physiological changes during the time of calving, the claw of the cow is more sensitive to risk factors inflicted by common dairy management and housing. Thus, with changing housing and management towards the cows' behavioural needs in the transition period, we might be able to decrease lameness incidence later on in lactation.
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Amelia MacRae
I earned a BA in English literature at the University of Victoria and completed a BSc (Honours) in the Global Resource Systems Program at the University of British Columbia. My love of animals led me to join UBC's Animal Welfare Program, where I completed my MSc in 2009. I did my thesis research at the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Centre, where I examined ways to improve the feeding and survival rates of orphaned harbour seal pups. I have worked as an enrichment coordinator at the Calgary Zoo, a marine mammal trainer at the Vancouver Aquarium, and I continue to work as a senior staff member at the Marine Mammal Rescue Centre. I returned to the Animal Welfare Program in January 2012 to undertake a PhD.
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Ana-Carolina Moncada
I'm a DVM with a MSc degree in sustainable livestock systems from the University of Antioquia, Colombia. Despite being born and raised in the city, I couldn't stop thinking that there was something wrong in the way humans relate with animals and nature. My thoughts were confirmed when I started Vet School. Trying to be part of the "solution", I decided to focus my further education and professional activities on topics related to environmental restoration and animal welfare; trying to find ways to reconcile current human activities, particularly those related to farm animal production, with nature. I became a researcher at one of most prestigious Colombian research centers in sustainable agriculture (CIPAV), known for their work in agroforestry, ecological restoration and nature conservancy. I was part of their sustainable livestock research team for 3 years. This gave me the financial support for my Masters research, which focused on the integrated management of ticks in tropical livestock systems. From 2013 to 2016, I taught courses in environmental sustainability and animal health, welfare and ethology, at the Vet School and the Animal Science Program at the University of Antioquia. My main focus was to encourage students to see beyond the indivudal animals and concern themselves with the influence of the environment on animal health and production performance. I started my PhD with UBC's Animal Welfare Program in 2016, focusing on understanding the welfare implications of a limitated expression of grooming behavior in dairy cows. Overall, my main interest as an animal science researcher is to understand those relations that link and separate animals and humans, and work to find a balance between animal welfare and human welfare in animal farms. Ideally, this will help find ways to further dignify the lives of farmers' and their animals.
Heather Neave
I first was introduced to the dairy industry during a co-op work placement with Agriculture Canada. When my term came to an end, I knew I wanted to continue research with dairy calves and returned to the UBC Dairy Education and Research Centre with the Animal Welfare Program in Sept 2011 with an NSERC research grant. During my MSc, I developed a cognitive bias method of assessing emotional states in dairy calves, studying how the pain from dehorning affects their cognitive processes. I began my PhD in 2014 with a focus on personality in dairy calves and the relationship with feeding behavior, coping styles and long-term consistency into first lactation. I also aim to relate sickness behavior and susceptibility to disease during the transition period with personality traits. Additional research interests include promoting positive experiences by providing enrichment opportunities for dairy calves and goats.
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Anne-Marieke Smid
I am a PhD student in the Animal Welfare Program from the Netherlands. My interest in animal welfare started at an early age. As a child, I was always questioning myself what the perfect life of my little rabbit Bennie would look like. From there, I started to wonder what was important for other animals to live a good life. Eager to learn more, I joined Wageningen University in the Netherlands, where I completed both a Bachelors (2013) and a Masters (2015). During my studies at Wageningen I was also able to complete a minor in Animal Welfare through a joint program offered with the University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. During my Masters I completed two research projects: the first on the effects of housing changes on the affective states of pigs and the second on the effects of regrouping on dairy cattle behaviour. This second project provided me the opportunity to visit the UBC Animal Welfare Program as a visiting scholar and to undertake research at the UBC Dairy Education and Research Centre. These experiences set the stage for my Ph.D. which will focus on dairy cattle welfare!
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Christine Sumner
I have worked on the management of a range of exotic and domestic animals, including great apes and farm animals. As an animal care giver, I realized that good animal welfare required more than just knowing about the animals themselves – it also requires an understanding of the role that people play in how animal welfare is prioritized. I earned my Master's in Public Service at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service exploring the human side of animal welfare, including the challenges that institutions face in incorporating this issue into their policies and operations. Prior to attending UBC, I was a research fellow with Heifer International, conducting fieldwork that informed the organizational policies and procedures for monitoring animal welfare in their global projects. My PhD work at UBC will focus on engaging farmers as stakeholders in developing and implementing interventions that affect on-farm animal welfare. I hope this work will improve understanding of the challenges in translating knowledge into practice and will help identify more sustainable solutions to animal welfare problems.
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Jane (Yanne) Stojkov
I obtained my veterinary degree from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia. During the next 8 years, I worked as a veterinary practitioner and animal disease control expert, primarily focused on disease prevention, surgery, reproduction, and herd health management of dairy cattle. Before moving to Canada I learned about the research conducted at UBC's Animal Welfare program and recognized it as an excellent opportunity to expand my knowledge and contribute to cattle welfare. My M.Sc. research at UBC focused on assessing visceral pain in dairy cattle diagnosed with an infection of the uterus (metritis), which occurs in 10-30% of the cows after parturition. After my M.Sc. I worked closely with dairy veterinarians and producers in the Fraser Valley regarding alternative (flotation) treatment for downer cows. Through this collaboration, I was able to visualize major problems in the dairy industry such as the lack of management protocols for vulnerable cows and management practices for cows intended for culling. The lack of research in this area motivated me to start a PhD directed towards improving the welfare of cull dairy cows, and contribute to improving this immense problem that often brings public criticism of the dairy industry.
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Laura Whalin
While earning my BSc (2015) at The Ohio State University, I focused on animal sciences, but also diversified by minoring in a variety of disciplines. I was most intrigued by the growing field of animal welfare; contributing to several projects examining swine welfare (behaviour, piglet care, and lameness). I joined the Animal Welfare Program (AWP) in 2015, completing my MSc in 2017, looking at social housing for dairy calves. I began my PhD with AWP in September 2017, continuing my research in the field of dairy calf welfare.
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Faculty Publications
The Role of International Diversification in Public Pension Systems: The Case of Pakistan
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Pakistan's pension system is in the process of increasing funding in anticipation of providing for a growing elderly population. The pension assets are mainly invested domestically, as it was just in January 2007 that regulations changed to allow the purchase of international assets. In this paper, we quantify how diversification of the pension funds to include world financial assets could help a great deal in improving the sustainability of Pakistan pensions by simultaneously increasing expected returns and decreasing volatility. These arguments are made using historical data, and the robustness of our findings is demonstrated using a large variety of alternative assumptions about future asset returns, risks, and correlations. We find that international diversification could dramatically help to create sustainability for Pakistan's main public pension system available to private workers.
Recommended Citation
Pfau, Wade, "The Role of International Diversification in Public Pension Systems: The Case of Pakistan" (2009). Faculty Publications. 218.


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2017 SOBC Summer Games: Families & Fans
Welcome families and friends! We look forward to cheering on the athletes and coaches with you in Kamloops in July.
Games schedule
This schedule page will include, as and where available:
- divisioning schedules
- event orders
- golf tee-off order
Exact playing times for basketball, bocce, soccer, and softball teams will not be known until after the Friday morning divisioning round determines when and where teams will play in competition. Their divisioning play determines their schedule, so nothing will be known until that is done.
Venue information
Please click here to find details on venues and information for spectators.
For those who can't join us in Kamloops, please click here to watch livestreaming of the Opening Ceremony and a selection of Games sports!


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As your child begins the school years journey there are lots of new experiences that they will encounter. During this stage of development many skills being to come together for many children. School will push your child to deal with daily events that require their social and emotional development to be strong. For children with special needs, starting a mainstream school can be very stressful and confronting. Parents can also feel very over-whelmed and stressed wondering if their child is coping in the classroom and the playground. Our Therapists will ensure they have communication with classroom teachers to give them advice on strategies. During group they use a number of different techniques including video segments from the Model Me Kids social program, role playing (including video feedback). Some children who have never had strong friendships often form their first friendship within the group program and then transfer this over to school.
'Watch Me Grow' Playing with Friends (Prep – Grade 2)
This group teaches children about basic social skills and friendship skills using various activities. Children learn about making friends, initiating friendship and skills needed to be a good friend. They also learn about topics such as; empathy, team sports, dealing with rejection, comprising, winning and losing, dealing with anger and stress.
'Watch Me Grow' Buddies Vs Bullies (Grade 2-6)
This group will move your child through more advanced social skill situations. Children will participate in fun activities and discussions each week on a topic that will encourage them to understand social situations better and work on strategies that can help them through an interaction. There is a strong emphasis on the children learning about themselves; their personalities & behaviours so that they can understand why they react a certain way in different situations. Topics of discussion include; empathy, flexibility, conflict resolution, perspective, positive self talk, anger management, dealing with anxiety and stress, dealing with bullies, choosing the right friend.
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For our first mainstage show of the 2016 season, The Kiss and Tells will be retelling a story from a previous year. With new actors taking on established characters as well as classic Tells reviving existing roles, this reprisal will provide all in attendance a new twist on a Kiss & Tell favorite!
A nosey journalist, a hollywood starlet, a widow persuing love, a musical mob boss, and vigilant valet are just some of the characters waiting for you at Kiss & Tell Mansion… It'll be a night to DIE for!
Join us in your 1920′s best for this hilarious, debaucherous, musical, who-done-it tale of murder, intrigue and pasties…
Performances by:
AJ Marion
Bettie la Bootie
Clev Thunderbird
Ginger Bangalore
Phoenyx Rayne
Roxy MisBehavin
Sofie de Sade
Sugar Kane
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Hello, Crafters.
I had fun brayering the three "plain" patterns in the Irresistibly
Floral Specialty Designer Series Paper (DSP).
It started because I
decided to make a video for tomorrow showing how I decorated one of the
floral designs in this set, and how I added my own decoration before
actually using it as a background.
combined my playtime with using more of my pre-die cut shapes in
Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper, which is something I've been trying to
do over the last couple of weeks.
For today's card I chose a pre cut
Bloomin Heart to create a wedding card.
I was brayering the various designs, using various ink colours, the
pleasure was equal which ever combination I used.
I didn't finish up
with a favourite because I feel they all have their own individual merits.
challenge was deciding how to use the background to its best advantage.
found the plain patterns fractionally more versatile because the design
didn't distract too much if it could be seen through the die cuts.
Having said that I did find it better to put a sheet of vellum behind
the die cut.
I didn't do this on the 60 diamond design card and I think
it would have looked better if I had.
I did put a layer of vellum behind
the die cut heart and that was it definitely a great improvement.
cut the heart-shaped vellum, I drew round the largest normal shaped
heart in the Sweet & Sassy Heart Dies with a pencil and then cut around it.
Mr & Mrs sentiment is from the That's the Tag Stamp Set, and has
been heat embossed with White Embossing Powder.
I tied the ribbon around
the top two layers of the card and then mounted it onto a Mint Macaroon
Cardstock (CS) base.
adhered a sheet of Whisper White CS inside the card and decorated it
with a small flower in the bottom right hand corner.
I used Mint
Macaroon Ink and the flowery stamp that's in the That's the Tag Stamp
That's it for today. Until tomorrow, happy crafting.
Tuesday, 28 March 2017
Bloomin Heart Wedding Card
4 comments:
I like the idea of using vellum behind the die cut. Thank you JanReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Rob I. Yes, I think it looks better than putting a solid background behind it and leaving it totally open just wasn't an option! LOL! ☺ Happy crafting, JanB.Delete
Thats a lovely idea for a wedding card, it will stand out in the growdReplyDeleteReplies
Hi, Kaye. Thanks. I think the bow behaving itself helps too, although it could have been a tad bigger! I cut it too short! ☺ Happy crafting, JanB.Delete
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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 145149
modem is now ttyS14 was ttyS4
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:15:37 EST
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0
Description of problem:
Since the above kernel versions my modem has moved from ttyS4 to
ttyS14. Why did this happen? I have an actiontec call waiting modem
(internal PCI).
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.10-1.737_FC3, and 2.6.9-1.724_FC3
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use one of the two kernels
2. with an actiontec call waiting modem
Actual Results: My modem is at ttyS14
Expected Results: My modem should still be at ttyS4
Additional info:
This sounds like a dup of bug #144339
This is a dup of the above.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144339 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.


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Body Electric
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Body Electric may refer to these artworks, all named after "I Sing the Body Electric", an 1855 poem from Leaves of Grass by the American poet Walt Whitman:
- The Body Electric, a 1979 book on Kirlian photography by Thelma Moss
- The Body Electric (book), a 1985 book on bioelectromagnetism by Robert O. Becker and Gary Selden
- The Body Electric, a 2002 book on cybernetics by James Geary
- "Body Electric", a 1982 song by The Sisters of Mercy
- "The Body Electric", a 1984 song by Rush off the album Grace Under Pressure
- Body Electric (album), a 1999 album by Steve Roach and Vir Unis
- "We Sing the Body Electric!", a 2009 album by indie rock group The Lonely Forest
- "Body Electric", a 2012 song by Lana Del Rey that appears on her third EP, Paradise
- "The Body Electric", a 2014 song by Hurray for the Riff Raff of their 2014 album, Small Town Heroes
- The Body Electric (TV show), a Canadian television show named for the Rush song of the same name.
- Body Electric, a PBS fitness and aerobics series hosted by Margaret Richard
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As an update to an earlier post, on Aug. 1, the president signed the Knowledgeable Innovators and Worthy Investors Act (KIWI Act) granting E-1 and E-2 status to certain New Zealand nationals under mutual considerations. This will permit citizens of New Zealand to apply for U.S. visas to carry on significant trade with the United States… Continue Reading
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On Dec. 14, the Office of Management and Budget Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OMB) published the biennial Unified Agenda. A long-standing outgrowth of previous regulatory reform efforts, the Unified Agenda offers the public the "current thinking" of federal agencies on upcoming Agency regulatory priorities. Of importance to the immigration community, DHS USCIS posed… Continue Reading
U.S. Resumes Limited Nonimmigrant Visa Services in TurkeyPosted in E-Visa, Immigrant Visa, Travel, Visa
The U.S. Mission in Turkey has resumed limited processing of nonimmigrant visas following the earlier suspension of nonimmigrant visa services in all U.S. diplomatic posts in Turkey back on Oct. 8, 2017. The U.S. Mission in Turkey will process nonimmigrant visas on a limited basis with a reduced number of appointments in both Ankara and… Continue Reading
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For over a decade, filing an extension of nonimmigrant status in visa categories such as the H-1B was a fairly routine process for cases involving the same employer and same underlying facts. This changed yesterday. As part of the Trump Administration's Buy American, Hire American: Putting American Workers First initiative, USCIS rescinded a long-standing policy… Continue Reading
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The U.S. Embassy announced it was suspending all nonimmigrant visa services in all U.S. diplomatic posts in Turkey. Turkey responded within a few hours of the U.S. Embassy's announcement by saying it would no longer issue visas to U.S. citizens, including the physical "sticker" visas at border posts as well as the online Turkish electronic… Continue Reading
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National Visa Center (NVC) Confirms it is Working To Restore Cases Affected by October 2016 Retrogression: Notice on Employment 5th Preference Cases at NVCPosted in National Visa Center, USCIS, Visa, Visa Bulletin
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In June/July 2017, the National Visa Center (NVC) issued notices for a large number of the immigrant visa cases, which had been previously confirmed completed and awaiting interview scheduling by NVC. As a reminder, in October of 2016, NVC began issuing immigrant visa fee bills and processing cases when their priority date became current based on… Continue Reading
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Greenberg Traurig Shareholder Kate Kalmykov was recently quoted in The Jerusalem Post's article, "Trumps Visa Policy May Harm Israeli Hi-Tech Innovators." In the article, Kalmykov addresses Israeli hi-tech companies options for visas when looking to relocate employees to the United States. To read the full article, click here.
USCIS Releases New Edition of Form I-526 with New Changes and Information Requested From InvestorsPosted in EB-5, EB-5 Program, I-526, Immigrant Investor, USCIS, Visa
USCIS recently announced the release of a new edition of Form I-526, with the new edition dated 04/10/2017. Starting on June 9, 2017, USCIS will only accept the 04/10/2017 edition. Until then, investors can use the 12/23/2016 edition. Both editions of Form I-526 are available to download at no cost on the USCIS website. Investors… Continue Reading
New Travel Ban Order to Temporarily Halt Entry for Those Seeking New Visas from 6 Muslim-Majority CountriesPosted in Executive Order, Immigration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Visa
The heavily anticipated new Executive Order (EO), "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States," banning nationals from six countries from entering the United States, was signed by President Donald Trump on March 6, 2017 with an effective date 10 days following on March 16, 2017. This new EO revokes and replaces the… Continue Reading
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Greenberg Traurig's Nataliya Rymer Cited in the USCIS's Proposed Rule Addressing EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program ModernizationPosted in EB-5, USCIS, Visa
Greenberg Traurig attorney, Nataliya Rymer, was recently cited in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) seeking to amend the current EB-5 regulations, which was published in the Federal Register pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act. Rymer's article U.S. Department of State Announces EB-5 Visas for China Unavailable Until October 1, 2014, which appeared in the National… Continue Reading
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In much anticipated news for both the United States and Israeli companies and entrepreneurs, Israeli nationals will soon become eligible for the E-2 Treaty Investor visas. The Israeli authorities have announced that the procedures and rules for the B-5 investor visa for U.S. citizens are expected to be released in March 2017. One of the vital… Continue Reading
Greenberg Traurig Post-Election Immigration UpdatePosted in EB-5, EB-5 Program, Eb-5 Regional Center, Events, Immigrant Visa, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Visa, Webinar
On November 10, 2016, Laura Foote Reiff, Bob Maples, and Rebecca Schechter presented an Immigration Post-Election Update webinar highlighting some of the anticipated key changes to U.S. immigration policy (click here to listen to the webinar). President-elect Donald Trump will likely begin the change on current U.S. immigration policy as soon as he takes office. … Continue Reading
State Department Issues Cable on Extension of EB-5 Program and Issuance of Immigrant VisasPosted in Department of State, EB-5, EB-5 Program, Eb-5 Regional Center, I-526, Immigrant Visa, Visa, Visa Bulletin
On Oct. 5, 2016, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) issued an unclassified cable on the Continuing Resolution signed into law on Sept. 29, 2016 that extends several important immigration programs, including the EB-5 Regional Center program. The cable explains that the EB-5 Regional Center program (immigrant visa categories R51 and I51) now is set… Continue Reading
A Briefing on the EB-5 Investor ProgramPosted in EB-5, EB-5 Investment, EB-5 Program, Visa
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EB-5类别移民签证审理程序的更多政策指导Posted in EB-5 Program, USCIS, Visa, Visa Bulletin
投资美国协会(IIUSA)EB-5大会于2016年10月10日至11日在加州洛杉矶举行。参与会议的发言嘉宾包括国务院签证办公室主任 Charlie Oppenheim先生。Charlie Oppenheim先生在会议上讨论了中国大陆出生的EB-5投资者的优先日的变动。 具体来说,Oppenheim先生表示,2016年12月签证排期表中最终裁定日排期表 (表A)截止日会推进到2014年3月22日。另外上周发布的 2016年11月签证排期表中表A的截止日也略微前进到了2014年3月8日。正如我们以前报告的,国家签证中心预计将与大陆出生的EB-5移民签证申请人联系,以便根据每月签证排期表中的申请递件排期表(表B)的截止日,目前仍是2014年6月15日,来启动启动移民签证的案件处理。 值得注意的 是,移民局宣布,在2016年11月,EB-5类别调整身份的申请人必须使用最终裁定日排期表(表A)的截止日期来确定是否能递交调整身份申请。除了EB-5外其他职业移民类别的调整身份申请人则可以根据表B的截止日期来递交调整身份申请。 此外,在最近一次与美国移民律师协会(AILA)国务院联络委员会的会议上,国务院对受案件积压的EB-5投资者就另一个重要问题进行了澄清。具体来说,国务院重申,在最终确定投资人的子女是否可以根据"儿童身份保护法"(CSPA)受到超龄保护而随同父母一起移民时,递交调整身份的日期将根据排期表的最终裁定日(表A)来计算。因此,提交移民签证申请表格(DS-260)或支付移民签证费帐单本身不会,也不能保证投资人子女的年龄不会超龄,也不能保证投资人子女可以随同投资人取得永久居民身份。相反,投资人子女的年龄的计算方式是在根据表A 有配额的情况下(I-526优先日在表A的截止日期之前)冻结子女年龄,再减去I-526申请到批准的案件审批时间。根据国务院的澄清,提交DS-260表格或支付签证费用将被认为可以证明投资人子女 "寻求"他们的移民签证。值得注意的是,上述国务院的指示适用于根据排期表表B中当前优先日期提交的DS-260申请和签证费用的支付。上述指示并未涉及I-526申请批准后不久但优先日不在表B的截止日期之内情况下递交的DS-260申请和签证费用的支付。很有可能,在上述两种情况下,只要在根据排期表表A有签证配额内的(1)一年之内提交DS-260申请或签证费用的支付,就将会认定投资人的子女或配偶满足"寻求"移民签证的要求。我们将在移民局以及国务院发布新的指示后,对此重要法律问题提供进一步澄清。
Additional Guidance Issued on NVC Processing for EB-5 Based ApplicantsPosted in EB-5 Program, USCIS, Visa, Visa Bulletin
The Invest in the USA (IIUSA) EB-5 Conference, which took place on Oct. 10-11, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, featured Charlie Oppenheim, Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division of the U.S. Department of State as one of its speakers. Mr. Oppenheim discussed the movement of priority dates for the mainland China born EB-5… Continue Reading
国家签证中心将根据签证排期表中表B的截止日期来启动EB-5类别移民签证的案件处理Posted in Department of State, EB-5, EB-5 Investment, Immigrant Visa, Visa


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Human Needs: Overview Entry Published Open Access
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Human Needs: Annotated Bibliography Published
A member of ISQOLS, Michael A. Dover, a social worker and sociologist at Cleveland State University, has published Human Needs, a 15,000 word annotated bibliography appearing in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Social Work, Edward Mullen, editor. New York: Oxford University Press, April 1, 2016. This entry is a substantial update of the author's 2010 entry in the same publication.
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We have recently published a report (online book) about "Health and Quality of life in Institutionalized Older Adults with Dementia", in Spanish. The book has been edited by M. João Forjaz and Carmen Rodriguez Blazquez (Health Institute Carlos III) and authored by researchers in several Spanish institutions.
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by admin • August 18, 2010 • Grief, To You, Trust • 1 Comment
Okay, so there's a lot I have to say, and not enough time for me to actually say it to you, so I'm typing it up in this nice little letter that I know you'll never read just so I can vent.
A few days ago, you told us that if you ever offended us that we should tell you. The thing is, when you say things that offend me, I'm either so frustrated or so upset that I know when I go up to you to tell you, I'll either come off as rude and unappreciative or whiny. I'm sure that this letter will make me come off as one or both of those things, but I feel like I can say more in a letter and I'm much more comfortable with crying in my bedroom while I write this than I am crying in front of you and the rest of the band.
I completely understand that Mr. V started to not care, and that Mrs. Mac wanted to move on, and I'm incredibly glad that you're here, helping us get better, but the way that you talk and laugh when a band member asks a perfectly innocent question makes me not like band as much. Before, we weren't laughed at when we didn't know an alternate fingering for a note, we were just taught. I don't know about everybody else, but even though you weren't talking to me personally, I felt bad when you did that.
Mrs. Mac and Mr. V were more like parents to me than my parents have ever been. At the last awards ceremony, the last band con I used to think of the band hall as home, because things at my house usually suck, and being at the band hall always calmed me down. Everything was welcoming and calm and I could totally be myself. When I walk in now, I'm constantly thinking about what you've said to and about others, and I hold myself back and censor myself because I don't want you to say something like that to me. I'm not afraid of criticism, but I don't want to feel like I've felt when you were criticizing others.
Whenever you say that the rest of America does something differently or that we've been living in a vacuum, just the way you say it makes me upset. It feels like you're trying to make us feel bad, even though I know you aren't. I would walk right up to you and say that you've hurt my feelings, but half of the time I know that I would end up screaming at you instead of simply speaking, and I don't want to do that.
I realize that you're trying to make us all better musicians, but I also know that I was already doing perfectly fine before you decided to come in and tell me that what I'm doing is wrong. The band has earned several, and I personally have over ten band awards in my room at home, and I know that by the end of the year I will have at least two or three more, but the way you try and correct what I've already perfected scares me.
You came into my life and totally flipped it upside down, and now I feel lost. I don't think that I will ever feel like the band hall is home again, and that terrifies me. I don't think that I have any place to be myself anymore, and it feels like you took that away from me.


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Bryan discusses some voice effects in his latest Dunesteef Production, Plague Birds by Jason Sanford.
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The short version of the story is that I have janky feet and a spastic colon. Thus, the title, duh!
I could end this post right here - but, I'm not. I know you are just dying to learn the deets on my feet and colon. That and I'm greedy - perhaps someone will read this and have a suggestion for me.
I will get to my ailments. But first I begin the story of how I fell in love with running.
I graduated from college in July 2002. I was fat when I moved to the metropolitan Washington DC area for my first big girl job. I was leaving late night Taco Bell runs, cheap beer, and all day Lifetime movie marathons behind for the glitz and glam of the big city. The big city came with style and fashion. I finally had a pay check and great stores so I really started to care about what I looked like.
In January 2003, I joined Weight Watchers. I followed the program and for some reason I decided I wanted to start running. I lost 30 pounds and for the first time in a long while was feeling good about myself.
I started running with just the mindset that I wanted to burn some calories. Somewhere along the way, I decided that I wanted to run a 5k. To train I just started running until I was tired and then I stopped and walked. Eventually, I got up to the point where I could run the 3 miles so I signed up for my first 5k. I did it, loved it and decided to up the bar. I put my sights on the Army 10-miler and registered to run it in October 2004.
I trained for it but not properly. At the time I just didn't know there were the running resources available. I was too broke for the Internet, so it wasn't like I could just google that shit. I have no idea how far I ran before the actual race but my best guess would be 6 - 7 miles. This was before the days of my beloved Map My Run app.
I will add that I never stretched.
I did it all wrong.
Despite improperly training, I ran it and ran it pretty well. My time was 1:31:24.
|I'm to the right, in the orange, stopping my watch.
It was an awesome and moving experience. Not only to accomplish a goal of mine but to do it in a race that is so military centric. I was hooked. I wanted to do it again. That is until reality set in.
The day after the race, I could barely walk. My feet ached and they have never been the same. Obviously, I can walk now - but after eight effing years they are still eff'd up.
When people ask what is wrong, I describe my pain like this: after standing still for 10 to 15 minutes they feel like I've been walking around Disney World all. damn. day. They do not hurt at rest, they don't hurt when I am running. But they hurt when I am standing in line waiting to vote or to ride a roller coaster. If I do a lot of walking/running they get irritated and I always have to wear good shoes. But my biggest issues is just standing still.
I've been to countless doctors and have have tried a number of things over the years. Desperate people do desperate things.
I've been to a podiatrist, neurologist, and chiropractor. I've had custom orthotics, cortisone shots, nerve testing, physical therapy, endoscopy, acupuncture, x-rays, MRIs, prayed, and slept wearing a boot. You named it, I've tried it. My feet are still janky.
In an effort to not cause additional damage I really cut back on running and focused on lower impact activities. I was one sad panda for a long time. And my weight started to creep back up.
Then in 2008, my colon decided to turn on me too. Very, very sad panda.
[Turn your head away now if you get grossed out easily.]
Bloody number twos and bathroom emergencies became common place. I was in denial for a while, but finally I got the courage to go see a gastroenterologist. I mean, who really wants to have their butt examined? A colonoscopy later - (OH. MY. GEE. the prep is the worst!!!!!) - I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, which is an autoimmune disease that causes ulcers in the colon.
The disease is terrible. Humiliating is an understatement. And as you runners know (or hopefully you don't know) running sometimes gives you the runners trots. Well imagine running for someone who has a spastic colon.
I tried to push past my feet and colon issues and occasionally run. But countless times it did not end well. I've had to dodge into the woods and cornfields to GO. And yes, I've shit my pants. There, I said it.....I know you were wondering.
Humiliating. Effing humiliating.
It has brought me to my knees bawling. There's been countless breakdowns.
It took me three years (and multiple colonoscopies) of working with my doctor to find a treatment that works for me. Three long years of being afraid of being active. Last summer, I finally got relief from a drug that requires me to go to the hospital for an infusion every eight weeks. The treatment has been a miracle and I am now in remission.
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No more bathroom emergencies for me! My feet still bother me but I feel like running is such a blessing so I do it anyway. Last December, I ran my first race, a 5k, since 2004. I followed that up this year with two more 5ks and running 4.7 miles as a member of a relay team for the Pittsburgh Marathon. It feels so good.
|My sister and I at the Pittsburgh Marathon. She ran the whole 26.2 miles.
I want to do more though. Sometimes I get so jealous of you broads training for your half marathons. I want to do 13.1 miles. I could do it and I know I could do it decently. But after the trauma on my feet from those 10 miles, I am scared. I try to talk myself down from the ledge of jealousy. There is no point in it. Because the moral of the story should be how far I've come. I fought back and the only person I need to be in competition with is myself. And the same goes for you - YOU are your only competition. We are individuals with unique strengths and weaknesses. We all have our own hurdles that we must overcome. That said our victory laps may look differently but it's sure as hell still a victory.


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For my friends & family who have been watching my pace over the last four years, that pace has been relentless, and for the most part, all consuming. The 4+ years that I have spent at Cylance where I started as employee #7 and working on fold up tables in a living room had progressed to over 700 employees. Cylance has grown from an idea our founder shared in a coffee shop to now a multi-national company with operations in 10 countries and billings in excess of 9-figures, while protecting some of the most recognized company names.
As with most chapters, there comes a time to turn the page and start a new one. I'm so incredibly proud of the team I have been able to work with, what has been accomplished, and what they will likely continue to accomplish. The next chapter is not about quickly finding a new opportunity, but reflecting on the incredible experiences & team that I had the privilege of helping to create.
I look look forward to sharing the experiences I collected at Cylance & the insane hypergrowth pace we found ourselves in. From the early stages of transient office spaces, to system decisions, preparation for modest growth levels, financing rounds, vendor relationships, as well as the cultural challenges created in such an extreme growth environment. I leave behind an amazing team and know our paths will likely cross again and will look forward to that possibility.
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William A. Pettigrew. Freedom's Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. 272 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-1181-5.
Reviewed by Nancy L. Rhoden (University of Western Ontario)
Published on H-Albion (February, 2015)
Commissioned by Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth (Red Deer College)
William Pettigrew's study of the Royal African Company (RAC) from its charter to its final demise looks at "the slave-trade protagonists, analyzing the ideas, the disputes, the compromises—in short, the politics—that established England's involvement in and later dominance of the transatlantic slave trade" (p. 4). This is a deeply researched, persuasive study on the political disputes between the RAC and what the author calls the independent slave traders who opposed the RAC's monopoly and were victorious by 1712 in deregulating Britain's slave trade. Pettigrew argues that independent traders were more politically astute than supporters of the RAC, more effective in their lobbying and pamphleteering, and more savvy about the ways British politics had changed following the Glorious Revolution. More uniquely, Pettigrew attributes their victory to their successful championing of liberty, or their right as Englishmen to be free to trade in African slaves.
Whereas the politics of abolitionism are well known and a better fit with a British narrative of freedom, Freedom's Debt explores an earlier story of Britain's slave trade, its architects and advocates, and the "process of politicization and its influence on the regulation, deregulation, and re-regulation of the slave trade" (p. 7). The first part of the book, "Deregulation, 1672-1712," offers a profile of independent traders, an exploration of their arguments and those of the RAC, and an examination of their strategies. It draws its findings chiefly from evidence of lobbying in Parliament and the Board of Trade, petitions, and pamphlets. Pettigrew explains the separate traders' victory in deregulating the English slave trade in terms of a coalition of diverse interests, expansive and popular ideas of liberty, and "an ingenious political strategy" (p. 7).
Responding to the Nightingale decision, the RAC launched in 1690 a campaign to secure parliamentary and statutory recognition for its royal charter. The RAC had little reason to worry, given its strong connection to the monarch and influential merchants and friends, but this appeal "exposed it to an opposition interest group" that would prove highly effective (p. 48). The RAC petition began almost a quarter century of parliamentary deliberations, referred to as the Africa trade debates, and produced more than two hundred parliamentary petitions and almost another two hundred pamphlets. Lobbying groups opposed to the RAC, including independent slave traders, expressed various antimonopoly arguments that resonated with the public, Parliament, and the Board of Trade. They tapped into a growing popular opposition to the RAC and developed a huge constituency of Atlantic supporters for deregulation. Meanwhile, the RAC argued that a monopoly was the better way to secure the British state's interests in America and in Africa. In 1698 Parliament acknowledged the charter, but also endorsed partial deregulation by letting independent merchants engage in the slave trade if they paid a 10 percent duty to help support the RAC's trading forts in Africa. By 1712 the independent traders had achieved their victory: a complete deregulation of the British slave trade.
Although Pettigrew acknowledges briefly that separate traders enjoyed "undoubted economic advantages over the African Company" (p. 17) and had made the slave trade more efficient and profitable through cost-cutting measures and by lowering slave mortality rates, he writes, "the expansion of the slave trade resulted, not from the separate traders' economic success, but from the separate traders' innovative political strategy" (p. 19). Whereas the RAC needed a statute to confirm its monopoly, the separate traders needed only a "legislative vacuum" to trade freely (p. 117). The chapter entitled "The Strategies" answers clearly why separate traders were effective. They did not need a law, but rather they needed to prevent one. Consequently, petitions, pamphlets, and lobbying offered strategies to filibuster parliamentary deliberations while simultaneously building popular enthusiasm for deregulation that discredited the RAC. The RAC, by contrast, relied on "traditional lobbying … [that] … envisioned the Africa trade as best managed with the help of the coercive power of the state," which only confirmed, for its opponents, that it was patrician and corrupt (p. 138). By neglecting to court popular and parliamentary interest, the RAC failed to recognize the new political and institutional context, while the independent traders had an "astute appreciation of the post-1688 legislative and regulatory processes" (p. 149). As much as one may legitimately wonder more about what role the economic advantages of the separate traders played in their ultimate success, Pettigrew's examination of their effective political strategies is convincing.
Another particular strength of the book is its elaboration of the context of post-1688 English politics, and its relationship to the slave trade. The Glorious Revolution provides the watershed moment. Whereas the political and constitutional context supported monopoly and chartered companies in the 1670s and 1680s, the 1690s witnessed the expansion of parliamentary powers and growing interest in popular participation, a situation that opponents of the RAC were able to use to attack the company's monopolistic royal charter and to argue that statute law was a superior authority to royal prerogative. Separate traders successfully appealed to Parliament, the Board of Trade (after 1696), as well as a British political climate that favored the public's consent for slave trade deregulation. As Pettigrew writes, "Each side claimed to advance liberty, each believed its position was the most British" (p. 82). Pettigrew's point about contested strains of Britishness, while not a major theme of the book, is intriguing. What also might have been examined in some more detail is the meaning of different strains of liberty in this era. Pettigrew argues that the RAC "later co-opted the separate traders' rhetoric by citing the company's freedom to enjoy property and the ways in which monopoly could best uphold national liberty" (p. 84). Claims of freedom on the part of the RAC were strategic, given its use by independent slave traders. Yet freedom or liberty in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world, as David Hackett Fischer in Liberty and Freedom (2005) contends, had divergent roots and meanings, some that promoted individual rights, others that focused on corporate or community-oriented goals. Since liberty could refer to a set of rights enjoyed by a privileged few and systematically denied to others, on the basis of class, race, or other criteria, the RAC could argue, as Pettigrew notes, that the separate traders, presumed to be social-climbing provincials, were a "self-interested" and "socially corruptive force" acting against the "national liberty" (p. 85). For separate traders "freedom primarily involved the political right to defend individual economic self-interest" (p. 111). Independent slave traders and the RAC were advancing different ideas on what was most British, but also divergent views of liberty.
Part 2, "Re-regulation," follows the RAC from 1712 to 1752, revealing its efforts to develop new trading opportunities with the South Sea Company and to promote commercial trading with the African interior. Overall, Pettigrew argues "the maintenance of the Royal African Company between 1712 and 1752 had sought mostly to generate income for the company's directors from stock market manipulation" (p. 177). More controversially, the last chapter ("The Legacies) argues there is a connection between later RAC policy and abolitionism. Blaming separate traders and deregulation for the evils of the slave trade, the RAC argued that a monopoly could "rein in the slave trade's unique brutality" (p. 180). Pettigrew suggests that "the political disputes between the African Company and the separate traders helped produce from the 1680s to the 1760s the ideological and policy underpinnings for the antislavery movement" (p. 180). Yet if, as Pettigrew notes, the RAC was "one of many institutions that celebrated this ethic [of benevolence] and reconceptualised the public image of the African," then its contribution seems less unique, less critical to later abolitionist thought (p. 208).
This book is deliberately a political history, and not an economic history of the RAC, its opponents, or the British slave trade. As such, it contains little or almost no discussion of the New World demand for slaves, the impact of wars and slave prices (or the prices of sugar, tobacco) on the slave trade, or how demographic changes (improving mortality rates, balancing sex ratios for slaves in the Upper American South) affected demand. More curiously perhaps, there is nothing on the African experience of the slave trade, except for the political leverage the RAC attempted to gain by arguing about the inhumane practices of rival independent slave traders. The author's nearly exclusive focus on the politicization of the slave trade reveals a good deal, but can leave a somewhat unbalanced impression. For instance, the primacy Pettigrew gives politics in his analysis seems to imply, if not outright argue, that politics is responsible for the expansion of the slave trade. Pettigrew writes that "the politics of slave-trade escalation also influenced which colonies received an increased supply of enslaved Africans.… [T]he Chesapeake colonies … received more slaves after the African Company's demise because their merchants had been persistent and energetic political opponents of the company" (pp. 13-14). Later, there is evidence presented of "a Virginia interest combining London tobacco merchants with a handful of influential Virginian expatriates and resident planters" that opposed the RAC (p. 55). Yet how critical was this lobby's success to the importation of slaves to Virginia? What role did the expansion of the plantation system in America play in providing the strong economic impetus for the growth in the slave trade and consequently for these political discussions? In short, how did politics and political ideology of the RAC and independent traders complement and coincide with economic reasons for the slave trade's expansion?
As a study of the politics of the RAC and its independent slave trading opponents, this is a successful book. What it does particularly well is offer a "lens of politics" (p. 16) through which to understand the British slave trade, and the victory of separate traders concerning deregulation. It is equally strong on the British political context and its detailed understanding of how post-1688 political institutions and culture shaped responses on the slave trade. These are valuable contributions, particularly the argument that understandings of liberty and popular consent after the Glorious Revolution provided an effective ideology for both the deregulation of and the growth of the slave trade. Less convincing is the argument about the impact of the RAC on later British abolitionism, however much one might admire the attempt.
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Nancy L. Rhoden. Review of Pettigrew, William A., Freedom's Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752.
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