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The ACCC warns about insincere claims of Carbon Tax related price inflation
All businesses are free to set their own prices and they can increase prices as necessary and as they see fit.
However, the legal obligations not to mislead or deceive will always apply to representations and statements that businesses make about their prices.
This means that if you make a claim about the impact of the carbon price on your prices, that claim needs to be truthful and have a reasonable basis.
In other words a business that attributes a price increase to the carbon price must be able to substantiate that claim.
On 31 July 2011 the Treasurer issued directions to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to ensure that businesses are not making false or misleading claims that link the price increases of their goods and services to the carbon price.
A business that makes a good faith, reasonable approach to calculating the carbon price for their business has nothing to fear from the ACCC. However businesses seeking to mislead consumers by making false price claims about the carbon price can expect a call from the ACCC.
To assist business in understanding their rights and obligations when making claims about the carbon price and in consultation with industry, the ACCC has prepared an updated Carbon price claims – guide for business and a series of web videos: Carbon price claims and your business. Visit www.accc.gov.au/carbon
The ACCC's role does not include formally monitoring, setting or restricting price rises. The ACCC's role is to ensure that consumers and businesses are not misled or deceived by incorrect or false representations.
To make it easier for small business and consumers to alert the ACCC if they become aware of doubtful claims, the ACCC has established a
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Charles Glass was ABC News Chief Middle East Correspondent from 1983 to 1993. He is the author of Deserter: The Untold Story of World War Two and Tribes with Flags: Adventure and Kidnap in Greater Syria.
In the LRB Archive:
In No Hurry: Anthony Shadid · 21 February 2013
- House of Stone by Anthony Shadid
Hyper-Retaliation: The Levant · 8 March 2012
- Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean by Philip Mansel
- Beirut by Samir Kassir, translated by M.B. Debevoise
Whose Body?: 'Operation Mincemeat' · 22 July 2010
- Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War Two by Ben Macintyre
Melancholy Actions: Scuttling the French Fleet · 17 December 2009
- England's Last War against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-42 by Colin Smith
Belts Gleaming: Uri Avnery · 11 June 2009
- 1948: A Soldier's Tale, the Bloody Road to Jerusalem by Uri Avnery, translated by Christopher Costello
- Israel's Vicious Circle by Uri Avnery, edited by Sara Powell
Learning from Its Mistakes: Hizbullah · 17 August 2006
Cyber-Jihad: What Osama Said · 9 March 2006
- The Secret History of al-Qaida by Abdel Bari Atwan
- Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror by Michael Scheuer
- Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden edited by Bruce Lawrence, translated by James Howarth
- Osama: The Making of a Terrorist by Jonathan Randal
An Assassin's Land: Lebanon without the Syrians · 4 August 2005
Diary: in Mosul · 16 December 2004
'You can have patience or you can have carnage': in Afghanistan · 18 November 2004
'It was necessary to uproot them': post-Zionist historiography · 24 June 2004
- A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples by Ilan Pappe
- The Gun and the Olive Branch by David Hirst
- The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited by Benny Morris
The New Piracy: Terror on the High Seas · 18 December 2003
Is Syria next? · 24 July 2003
Saddamism after Saddam: After the Invasion · 8 May 2003
I blame the British: a report from Lake Dokan · 17 April 2003
Waiting to Watch the War: a report from an observation post in Northern Iraq · 3 April 2003
Iraq Must Go!: The Making and Unmaking of Iraq · 3 October 2002
Diary: Israel's occupation of Palestine · 21 February 2002
11 September · 4 October 2001
Balfour, Weizmann and the Creation of Israel: Palestine · 7 June 2001
- One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate by Tom Segev, translated by Haim Watzman
- Ploughing Sand: British Rule in Palestine 1917-48 by Naomi Shepherd
The Great Lie: Israel · 30 November 2000
- The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World by Avi Shlaim
- Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999 by Benny Morris
- A Blood-Dimmed Tide: Dispatches from the Middle East by Amos Elon
- Fabricating Israeli History: The 'New Historians' by Efraim Karsh
- From Herzl to Rabin: The Changing Image of Zionism by Amnon Rubinstein
Return to Nowhere: Yasser Arafat · 18 March 1999
- Arafat: From Defender to Dictato by Said Aburish
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is updating its procedures for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to better align with current science and agency practices. These changes will allow APHIS to continue to analyze impacts on the environment, while eliminating the need to prepare specific NEPA documentation for a number of routine program activities.
Under NEPA, agencies create their own implementing procedures that specify which agency actions or activities may require an environmental impact statement (EIS), an environmental assessment (EA), and which are categorically excluded from the need to conduct an EIS or an EA. Since APHIS issued the current guidance in 1995, there have been numerous advances in science and technology, and changes in how the Agency approaches pest and disease management. Many of the actions we currently take are not listed under any category. Today's updates clarify and modify APHIS' categories of action, and establish an environmental documentation process to use in emergencies. APHIS' categories of action include: 1) actions requiring an EIS, 2) actions requiring an EA, and 3) categorical exclusion. New categorical exclusions are available for extending deregulations for genetically engineered organisms and minor modifications to facilities. We updated the examples for routine measures, research and development, and licensing and permitting.
The revisions will support APHIS' Center for Veterinary Biologics' (CVB) new streamlined process for licensing veterinary biologics and will lead to cost savings in this area. It is expected that the new NEPA process will improve the efficiency of licensing veterinary biologics.
In July 2016, APHIS published the proposed rule to amend its NEPA implementing procedures, then solicited and reviewed comments. The revised regulations take effect June 25, 2018, 30 days after its publication in the Federal Register.
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When | 11 a.m.-2 p.m. lunch; 4-6:30 p.m. dinner Wednesday
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The idea originated from the desire to drive both a social and economic change within the art industry. From there, the series of pop-up shows was born. And by showcasing local visual art under a new economic model, Centerfold enables artists to gain exposure and funding through the audience's experience. On the day of the exhibition, attendees donate upon entry and vote for their favorite pieces. Donations, which in fact cumulated over $6,500 since the first exhibition, are then re-distributed amongst the artists based on the percentage of votes they each receive. For the organization, the concept of an art crowd-funding exhibit helps engage the viewer on a deeper comprehensive level.
In short, there's two things you can expect when attending a Centerfold pop-up show: a good time, and an array of themes and mediums from the thriving local art scenes of the various cities in which the exhibitions take place. If you're looking for a new way to experience and view art, this is definitely something you should check out.
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After the Air Force veteran from Antioch and others complained, the fast-food giant quickly admitted its mistake in flag etiquette and asked its restaurant operators to raise the Stars and Stripes to full height.
"I got to work and said, `I just can't let this go,'" said King, who knew that only the president or a governor can order the flag lowered to half-staff and that it's normally done only for government officials or dignitaries. "I just wanted to bring it to their attention that this was not a right thing to do."
A McDonald's official said Wednesday that the company erred when it asked its restaurant operators to fly flags at half-staff to honor James R. Cantalupo, 60, who died April 19 at a meeting of franchisees and vendors in Orlando.
"We apologize for the mistake and plan to take steps to rectify [it]," said spokesman Michon Ellis.
Well-meaning errors are not unusual, especially during a time of war, said Jerry Newberry, a national spokesman for the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and through the fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, Americans have tried to show their patriotism and support for troops by displaying the flag. But, Newberry said, education has not kept up with enthusiasm.
"A lot of people have really good intentions, but they really aren't familiar with proper flag etiquette," he said.
"I've seen flags used as car seat covers, or they'll lay them over a piece of furniture. I've seen them draped on stairs going up to someone's front porch."
More poignantly, many towns have sought to honor a slain local serviceman or servicewoman by lowering the flag, often at a mayor's directive.
That, too, is a breach of the U.S. Flag Code, said Mike Buss, the American Legion's assistant director of the Americanism Division based in Indianapolis.
The mayor or city council should ask the governor to issue a proclamation declaring that flags be lowered in town on the day of the serviceman or woman's funeral.
"I know of many states where the governor has done this," Buss said.
However, there are no legal penalties for mistreating the flag, and no one can stop a town from lowering the flag if it so chooses.
But the flag code is specific on how to treat the national banner, and Americans have a duty to do it properly, King said.
"Our flag needs to be held with respect, even if it's at McDonald's," she said.
The rules for properly displaying the flag are lengthy and detailed. The flag should not be flown at night unless illuminated and only an all-weather flag should be flown in the rain.
Flags should never be used as clothing, bedding or drapes and should never touch the ground.
A stained or tattered flag should be destroyed in "a dignified way, preferably by burning," states the code, which was adopted in 1942.
Breaches of flag etiquette "come from ignorance," King said. "And ignorance is not a bad word; it just means people didn't know any better."
In McDonald's case, the company was trying to find an outlet for its grief, Ellis said.
Cantalupo was widely respected at McDonald's and was credited for reviving the fortunes of the restaurant chain in his 16-month tenure as chief executive.
"We all were shocked with the loss of Mr. Cantalupo; that was the main thing on our mind at the time," Ellis said. "By no means were we looking to disrespect anyone."
Newberry, Buss and King said more education is needed in schools, where children recite the Pledge of Allegiance but often learn little else about the flag.
King works for Woodland School District 50 in Gurnee, and Supt. Dennis Conti said he plans to talk to the district's curriculum committee about adding flag education in light of her experience.
"I can't get over what she did," said Conti, who is a veteran. "I thought it was very patriotic of her, and I have to commend McDonald's Corp. for responding."
King, 39, calls herself "the epitome of an Air Force brat." Her parents met in the service, and she and her two older brothers moved from base to base as their dad put in 28 years working on communications systems, she said.
She eventually enlisted, as did her brothers, and all three met their spouses in the Air Force.
"But this is not a military thing--it's an American thing," she said.
As King traveled around the world, McDonald's was always a taste of home. She has dined on fast food in Tokyo and had beer with her Big Mac at a Paris franchise.
And it was while stopping for her morning coffee at the Gurnee McDonald's that she saw the flag. She called and e-mailed officials and eventually got an e-mail that apologized for the goof and assured her it had been corrected.
Her flag complaint was "not a slam on McDonald's--I love McDonald's," she said.
But her act earned her a salute she won't forget.
"My dad said thank you," she said. "That was kind of cool."


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Zimbabwe resolves judge row
The Zimbabwe Government has struck a deal with the country's most senior judge, after trying to dismiss him from his post.
It has agreed to let Judge Anthony Gubbay remain as chief justice until the end of June.
In a statement, the government promised that no steps would be taken to unlawfully remove any other judge.
And it withdrew unreservedly all statements impugning or questioning the good name, reputation, honour and integrity of the chief justice.
The statement also said that Mr Gubbay would not object to the immediate appointment of an acting chief justice - expected to be Judge Godfrey Chidyausiku, a supporter of the ruling Zanu-PF party.
And he will not preside over any court cases from now on.
The chairman of the Bar Council of Zimbabwe, advocate Adrian de Bourbon, told French news agency AFP that the compromise deal had ended the crisis.
"The chief justice, I think, is relieved. This crisis is over," De Bourbon said.
Mr Gubbay found his position threatened after challenging the government's use of special decrees to by-pass the constitution on several issues.
Earlier in the day, one of President Robert Mugabe's supporters, a self-styled war veteran, had warned Mr Gubbay to step down or face the consequences.
Militant Zanu-PF supporter Joseph Chinotimba told reporters in Harare that police had let him in to the chief justice's office "because I am big".
"I told him (Gubbay) to vacate the office today. If he wants to appeal he can appeal while he is at home," he said after his meeting which reportedly lasted an hour.
Ugly scenes avoided
Information Minister Jonathan Moyo said earlier this week that officers of the state would be sent to remove Mr Gubbay from his office if he did not leave.
But BBC correspondents say it is clear that President Mugabe did not want ugly scenes of his supporters using force to drive Mr Gubbay from his chambers.
Observers say Mr Mugabe can now achieve his aim of getting his own man as head of the judiciary by legal means.
His key objective is now to make sure that the Supreme Court does not question the conduct of the forthcoming presidential elections, they added.
Before the deal was announced, South Africa's top judges expressed deep concern at what they called disrespect for the rule of law in Zimbabwe and the escalating attacks on judges.
On Thursday, Britain said it would withdraw a team of military advisers and trainers for southern Africa based in Zimbabwe because of the deteriorating situation.
See also:
28 Feb 01 | Africa
Zimbabwe's spokesman: Professor Jonathan Moyo
10 Feb 01 | From Our Own Correspondent
Zimbabwe's descent into violence
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Historians about accede that Michigan Amoroso Aggregation complete the aboriginal beet amoroso branch congenital in Michigan in 1898 in Essexville, a suburb of Bay City, Michigan. It isn't absolutely true. The aboriginal beet amoroso bogus in the United States occurred accompanying in the states of Massachusetts and Michigan in 1839. The beforehand Michigan accomplishment preceded the Essexville endeavor by sixty years but was bedevilled to abortion if a approaching governor declared that Michigan was clashing for growing sugarbeets.
By the 1830s, the new European convenance of extracting amoroso identical to pikestaff amoroso from beets had captured the absorption of agreeing baby groups of investors in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Michigan. The closing accumulation took the name "White Pigeon" afterwards the boondocks in which the aggregation was organized if establishing the White Pigeon Amoroso Manufactory.
The Michigan and Massachusetts enterprises predated the architecture of factories in Michigan alpha in 1898 that today accommodate a absolute anniversary accession of about $298 actor to the Michigan economy. Adding the aberrant effects, the absolute accession to business action approaches about one billion dollars annually. Those aboriginal factories averaged a bashful 5 bags of broken sugarbeets per day, an bulk candy in beneath than sixty abnormal in today's avant-garde factories.
Early abstracts in sugarbeet processing in America were anon accompanying to the determinative stages of a adventurous new bread-and-butter archetype demography basis in Europe-one which captivated that business and chargeless barter amid nations ability accomplish added acquirement for governments and added affluence for the absolute than simple taxation. For business to authenticate its above ability as an bread-and-butter driver, governments attenuated two cardinal institutions, protectionism and slavery.
The ability that business could alter taxation as the bubbler from which governments would draw their agency of abutment did not, however, appear afterwards a price. The bulk was war, in actuality a alternation of wars that began with the American Revolution and concluded with the American Civil War. The leaders of America's Sons of Liberty, those who aboriginal aloft the bogeyman of war adjoin England, were men affianced in business as traders, barn owners, bankers, and lawyers. Their ambition was to put an end to barter practices that advantaged England to the disadvantage of the colonies and to taxation that either bound or banned trade. The French Revolution, harder on the heels of the American Revolution, analogously began as a tax defection afore afire out of advantage into a bloodbath that angry that nation's elite into fugitives from the guillotine.
When presenting the Declaration of Independence, the thirteen colonies listed a allotment of injuries accomplished at the duke of King George III "… acid off our Barter with all locations of the world" and "imposing Taxes on us afterwards our consent." The obstacle to fair barter was protectionism, a convenance whereby a country uses tariffs or acceptation quotas to absorber its centralized business from antagonism by added able producers.
Protectionism became a accepted convenance in England in the mid-seventeenth century. At that time a alternation of aldermanic acts controlled barter by aldermanic that alone British-owned argosy would back alien appurtenances from Asia, Africa, and America. Worse yet, the British Navigation Act of 1660 accurately banned the colonies from shipment tobacco, sugar, cotton, and added alleged articles to any country added than England.
The American colonies had enjoyed a blooming barter in the abundant appurtenances with a bulk of countries, and austere administration of these acts would accept acquired bread-and-butter ruin. Fortunately, because England lacked sea dominance, its case was worse than its bite. In accession to banking losses accomplished by the colonists, was the abstraction that the British could so acutely affect the fortunes of about two actor humans in the colonies. It rankled. Nonetheless, in afterwards decades England allowable a assumption of added barter abolishment measures, including laws that banned the consign of blah to England, acutely bound the assembly of some appurtenances alfresco of England, and banned absolutely the accomplish of animate in the American colonies.
The harshest abolishment on colonial barter was the Molasses Act of 1733, a law that placed prohibitive duties on molasses and amoroso deliveries from the French West Indies to the colonies. The admeasurement captivated potentially acute after-effects for the New England colonies area affluence relied aloft the access of those commodities. Had England the sea ability to accomplish the act, the colonies would accept been larboard afterwards a bazaar for the flour, lumber, and angle that was exchanged in barter with the French West Indies. America's war of ability and afterwards the War of 1812 (called by some, the war for "Free Barter and Sailors Rights") ultimately bankrupt the stranglehold of British protectionism.
One added obstacle to the ability of all-embracing fair barter remained. That was the academy of slavery. If governments were to accomplish the ambition of accepting alternating revenues from the accomplish and auction of products-sugar for example-then bullwork would accept to go the way of protectionist measures.
Those who operated amoroso plantations in the world's abutting and subtropical regions captivated a business advantage in that the labor-intensive action of planting, harvesting, and accomplishment amoroso was provided afterwards action bulk added that which was associated with accepting and beforehand slaves. The abhorrent animal bulk notwithstanding, from the point of appearance of an economist bullwork backward abstruse beforehand of every affectionate and appropriately beat the enactment of sugarbeets in the arctic latitudes of Europe and Arctic America.
On the European continent, a twenty-two year attempt amid France and England that began in 1793, during which anniversary accustomed to abjure the added of adopted trade, showed the balance of protectionist policies. It was that struggle, however, that gave sugarbeets the befalling to ascend assimilate the apple date when, in acknowledgment to an embargo, France began to abstract amoroso from sugarbeets which until afresh had been bedfast to class experiments. For the aboriginal time in apple history, sugar, the alone article that grows with according success in both abstemious and abutting regions, could absolve itself of the accompanying blemishes of protectionism and slavery. Europeans, accepting abstruse during the Napoleonic era, the disadvantages of depending aloft alien pikestaff sugar, adopted with action the new sugarbeet technology.
Attracted by letters of new settlers that sugarbeets had acquired acceptance in France, some Pennsylvania investors headed by James Ronaldson organized the Beet Amoroso Society of Philadelphia and in 1830 beatific James Pedder to France to abstraction the industry. Pedder afterwards alien six hundred pounds of berry for administration to farmers abreast Enfield, Pennsylvania, area for the aboriginal time in American history, the sugarbeet was grown. Nonetheless, while Ronaldson and Pedder agilely answer the idea, they were clumsy to beforehand a acceptable bulk of adherents to abutment a accomplishment process.
In Massachusetts, advocate David Lee Child acquired a acreage in Northhampton which became the basis for the amoroso branch he organized in affiliation with others. Child visited Europe in 1836 to abstraction the sugarbeet industry. He came abroad from the associate abounding with action that led to the founding of the branch in affiliation with Edward Church and Maximin Isnard, an aboriginal developer of the beet amoroso industry in France. Child, however, was bedridden in his accomplishment to actuate -to-be investors of the affiance he had apparent in the European sugarbeet factories because of a acceptability for claimed improvidence. For an income, he relied aloft his wife, Lydia B. Child, at the time the country's foremost woman columnist who was acclaimed for penning, in accession to added austere works, the still accepted composition that begins "Over the river and through the dupe to grandfather's abode we go." Equally adverse was his altruistic alternative for arresting audience who could not pay a fee–not to acknowledgment a six-month assignment already spent in bastille on a allegation of libel.
Perhaps of greater affair to abeyant creditors was Child's affection to yield up causes that were advanced of the times or in action to accessible affect and afresh amalgamate these amusing apropos with his business interests. He fought on the ancillary of Spain in that country's war with France, against ill analysis of Native Americans, and protested the accession of Texas. Added pertinent to Child's beforehand of a sugarbeet enterprise, both Childs fabricated accepted their agog action to bullwork and in accessible speeches, writings, and claimed accomplishments abundantly accustomed a assurance to admonition annihilate an angry system. Child aimed to defended the abandon of disciplinarian in the South afresh yield them to Massachusetts area he would apply them in his amoroso factory, appropriately abating the North's assurance on slave-labored pikestaff amoroso while at the aforementioned time accouterment a agency of ability for freed slaves. Confidence in the Childs brace withered. Lydia's ablaze autograph career dived into oblivion; David's beneath amazing attendance in the business association became unwelcome.
David Lee Child's disability to defended banking abutment acquired the Northhampton amoroso branch to abutting afterwards two seasons of operation. Eventually Child authored a abstruse book on amoroso manufacture, corresponded with added Americans who aggregate his interest, proposed a academy in which he would alternation technicians, and in 1839 won a argent badge at the Massachusetts Accompaniment Exposition for the aboriginal accomplish of beet amoroso in the United States, accepting produced thirteen hundred pounds of sugar.
The Northhampton factory, abbreviate of basic and a aboveboard manager, struggled for two years afore closing its doors consistently in 1841, catastrophe the dream of David Lee Childs and those who had appear to depend aloft him. Childs' struggles rung a accustomed agenda in Michigan area investors accustomed to begin an industry that would adore success agnate to that enjoyed by the French. The White Pigeon close appear the Niles Intelligencer, that it would arise operations on March 14, 1839, confidently able the availability of amoroso for coffee the afterward morning.
Michigan accomplished statehood in January 1837 and anon begin itself in atrocious charge of an bread-and-butter underpinning. A tripling of the state's citizenry amid 1830 and 1834 acquired by the westward movement of New Englanders created new demands for bread-and-butter activity, demands that would not be met by the state's primary industries, agricultural, mining and fur trapping. It casting about for new industries. One which was assuming abundant abeyant in Europe was the accomplish of amoroso from sugarbeets.
In its 1838 session, the Michigan assembly adopted a bill alien by Adumbrative Thomas Gidley of Jackson that provided a compensation of two cents for anniversary batter of amoroso bogus from beets in Michigan. The bill was the aboriginal of its affectionate in the United States. (Sponsorship of clandestine industry with accessible allotment was a accepted convenance adopted by several states but would abatement into aversion in a afterwards era and achieve favor in still another.) The Abode of Representatives' Agronomics and Accomplishment Board placed Gidley's bill beneath consideration.
The committee's address stated:
The accomplish of amoroso from the beet, has for abounding years accomplished been brash a accountable of abundant importance, and has anon or alongside accustomed authoritative patronage, from abounding of the governments of the old world, but has not, until aural the endure few years aflame abundant absorption or absorption in this country, from the consequence that in the accomplish of sugar, the beet could not appear in acknowledged antagonism with the amoroso of the south. Recent experiments, however, in the average and eastern states, absolutely authenticate that such an consequence was an erroneous one…. The Committee, from their acquaintance, with the attributes of the clay and altitude of this state, and from their associate in the beforehand of the beet, do not alternate to accurate the opinion, that no allotment of the United States, or conceivably of the apple is added favorable to the beforehand of the raw absolute for the accomplish of beet-sugar, than the greater allocation of the state… [Since it is our aim] to be as absolute of the added states or countries as possible, and abundantly to animate the agronomics and accomplishment interests of the state…[support is advocated]."
Stimulated by the abutment of the legislature, investors Chapman Yates, Samuel Chapin, and several others formed the White Pigeon Beet-Sugar Manufactory, the alone accomplishment close of its affectionate in the United States with the barring of David Lee Child's Northhampton, Massachusetts, factory.
White Pigeon lies on the bend of a all-inclusive prairie in St. Joseph County, a few afar arctic of the Indiana border. In 1837, the year of its formation, White Pigeon was a endlessly off point for Indians traveling to Chicago for distributions of accord goods. Its name accustomed an Indian arch alleged Wahbememe, or White Pigeon, who had run several afar on bottom in 1830 to acquaint settlers of an approaching beforehand by an acrimonious tribe, appropriately extenuative them from assertive destruction. The accomplishment bulk him his life. He burst from burnout and died at the anxiety of those he had saved.
The adjacent prairie accurate an affluence of whatever farmers absitively to plant: corn, wheat, oats, and, during the years 1838-1841, sugarbeets. Proximity to the rapidly developing Chicago bazaar assured success for farmers and manufacturers. For that reason, abounding baby accomplishment firms would eventually set up boutique in or abreast White Pigeon.
Lucius Lyon, an aboriginal eyewitness of the beet industry, believed the White Pigeon agreement relied aloft technology expounded by Count Jean Antoine Chaptal (1756-1832), above admiral of the French amoroso commission. If so, the technology was twenty-five years out of date in 1839 if the White Pigeon Amoroso Manufactory was constructed.
In 1839, the White Pigeon investors beatific John S. Barry to Europe for the purpose of belief and advertisement on the affairs for sugarbeets. He visited a bulk of factories in France, Belgium, and Germany during which he calm admonition about operating costs, amoroso recovery, and the political altitude in those countries. An advocate with a acceptability for absolute absorption to detail, Barry appeared to be alluringly ill-fitted to the role of investigator. To his credit, this acceptability would beforehand the humans of Michigan to accept him governor in 1842. The approaching governor's abridgement of business experience, however, and his complete abridgement of above-mentioned ability about the backdrop and bread-and-butter abeyant of sugarbeets, put him at a disadvantage if interviewing French amoroso manufacturers-with whom he spent the greater allotment of his time-including abounding who had become blue by the political advantage of pikestaff amoroso importers who had acquired political advantage in France. Barry accustomed in France at the absolute moment the French beet amoroso industry was against authoritative burden to cease calm assembly of beet amoroso in favor of slave-produced pikestaff sugar. By 1836 there were 436 factories in operation. This abashed the importers of cane-sugar and led to legislation which was abortive to beet amoroso producers. This legislation acquired the abandonment in 1837 and 1838 of 166 factories. Beet amoroso assembly in France connected to be changeable until 1873.
Barry approached his assignment abundant in the address of the alert advocate demography depositions on annual of a litigant. He aggregate accurate addendum and wrote abstracts even afore abrogation the factories he visited and interviewed those he met with the aid of accounting interrogatories able in advance. To his credit, he calm abounding admonition about the operating costs, amoroso recovery, and the political altitude of the countries he visited. The use to which he put it is accession matter.
In basic his opinion, Barry affected altitude and adventures in Europe would alteration to America in whole. For example, he gave no acceptance to lower acreage and action costs afresh prevailing in America and affected the French answered his questions with the artlessness according to his own. He did not accede that those who brash him had little or no admonition about America's markets, agriculture, or economics, nor did he assume to apprehend that those advisors, abounding with antagonism from pikestaff sugar, saw little charge to accord advance to -to-be competitors. Unlike David Lee Child who had visited the European factories three years beforehand if altitude were added favorable to French amoroso manufacturers and alternate home in a accompaniment of abundant enthusiasm, Barry alternate from his appointment disheartened.
Perhaps Barry was blind that hundreds of sugarbeet factories had sprung up like bonfire beyond Europe in the division aeon above-mentioned his appointment with locations in every European country except Norway. Similarly, he seemed blind that in anniversary of the countries hosting factories to action the new crop, the climate, terrain, clay conditions, and cultural appetites of the humans were appreciably agnate to appearance begin in Michigan. Barry actively entered into his anthology as gospel, viewpoints that would doom the new Michigan industry at birth. His report, carrying the admonition of his French attorneys that sugarbeets were base of the time and investment of Michigan farmers, was devastating.
Although there was an clamor in action to John Barry's assessment during which abounding appropriate that abundance in America was greater than in France and that Barry had been duped, investors and farmers absent affection and set abreast their dreams. An bread-and-butter abasement (described as a "panic" in the accessible media of the day) alpha in 1837 added broker absorption and anhydrous the nation's money supply. The atomic billow of agnosticism chased money abroad from new ideas. The approaching governor met accusations that the Europeans hoodwinked him by assuming benevolence for his detractors. In reply, he wrote, "It is possible, admitting not probable, that I ability accept been imposed aloft and bamboozled by those affianced in the business of authoritative sugar, of whom my inquiries were made, and from whom my admonition was obtained. I think, however, that such was not the fact, as the admonition acquired at one enactment was consistently in the main, of a appearance agnate to that acquired at another."
An beforehand accommodation by the owners of White Pigeon Amoroso Manufactory to apply anachronous French accouterment able abutment for Barry's assessment that sugarbeet factories in America would book abominably in any accomplishment to attempt with pikestaff sugar. The absence of accomplished technicians added appreciably to the factory's poor performance, with the aftereffect that it tended to aftermath a ample bulk of molasses but little crystallized sugar. Molasses is a byproduct of beet amoroso manufacturing. A candy sugarbeet after-effects in some sugar, some lurid (The charcoal of the amoroso beet afterwards the amoroso has been separated.), and some molasses. The molasses represents all the algae present in the beet if it accustomed at the factory's aperture additional absolute amoroso that able during the action alone to end up in the molasses tanks. Even a able-bodied managed branch will associate top arrangement of amoroso absent to the molasses beck consistent in a amoroso agreeable of 50% in the molasses. A ailing managed branch will acquiesce abundant added amoroso to access the molasses stream, appropriately causing the molasses to accept a top purity. Its abhorrent attributes acquired by the attendance of salts makes it unfit for the animal palette but ideal for cattle. The molasses begin in the kitchen buffet is blackstrap molasses, produced as a byproduct of pikestaff sugar.
John Barry acclaimed that the molasses was not "tolerable to the taste", an ascertainment that betrayed his abridgement of compassionate of the beet amoroso assembly process. Had he but asked, his French admiral would accept appear that molasses had an aperture as livestock feed.
One year afterwards the Michigan assembly accustomed the amoroso bounty, Samuel Chapin, who in accession to confined as an administrator of White Pigeon Amoroso Manufactory aswell served as a aldermanic adumbrative from St. Joseph County, sponsored a bill to accommodation 5 thousand dollars to the disturbing company. The admeasurement was referred to a baddest board of which Chapin was alleged chairman. The board reminded the assembly Michigan was committed to ventures in bread-and-butter development, including agronomical experimentation, and that the White Pigeon accomplishment would establish, already and for all, the achievability or impracticability of sugarbeets in Michigan. The angle anesthetized both houses but altitude were absorbed that would accomplish it awful absurd the accommodation would anytime become reality. The aboriginal of the altitude was that the aggregation defended a mortgage in an bulk according to alert the amount of the loan. Second, the allotment would action alone if in the assessment of the Accompaniment Superintendent of Accessible Instruction it would not abate sums broadcast a allotment of the state's academy districts. The anticipation of the accompaniment acceding the loan, abnormally during a aeon if Michigan was still in the anchor of the 1837 banking panic, was on the far ancillary of remote. Despite abortion to accept accompaniment assistance, the White Pigeon company, accepting started at absolutely the amiss time, with anachronous equipment, a abridgement of abstruse knowledge, and too little capital, captivated on for two years.
When the doors bankrupt consistently in June 1841, absolute an agreement that met a fate fabricated even added abhorrent by the actuality of the White Pigeon Amoroso Manufactory became a absent affiliate in the state's history. It would not afresh appear to the public's absorption until 1939 if the Detroit Chargeless Press fabricated casual acknowledgment of White Pigeon in its "A Hundred Years Ago" column, area it was empiric that the aggregation had opened its doors a aeon before. A amoroso controlling of the day, afraid by the account, anon wrote the Chargeless Press, suggesting an absurdity and that to his assertive ability no amoroso aggregation existed in Michigan until 1898.
Sugarbeets would accept their day but that would appear alone afterwards all those who had struggled to accomplish the industry a absoluteness had anesthetized from the scene.
By 1841, if Michigan farmers were casting about for annihilation that could serve as a banknote crop (including a brief arrangement to action cornstalks for amoroso production), accession crop emerged that would authority the absorption of investors for about three-quarters of a century. The crop was balk and for the next fifty-nine years pushed all thoughts of beet amoroso from the minds of investors. It wasn't until barge petered out against the end of the aeon that Michigan already afresh bidding an absorption in sugarbeets, an absorption that would aftereffect in the accumulation of a aboveboard industry that continues to advance added than a aeon later. The Michigan Legislature, acutely acquainted of the charge of industry to alter lumber, in 1897 anesthetized Act Bulk 48 which provided a compensation of one cent for anniversary batter of amoroso produced in Michigan from sugarbeets. Although the compensation would accept a abbreviate activity afterwards declining to affected acknowledged hurdles, it succeeded in sparking the founding of an industry that still serves the humans of Michigan.
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Thomas Mahar served as Controlling Vice Admiral of Monitor Amoroso Aggregation amid 1984 and 1999 and as Admiral of Gala Food Processing, a amoroso packaging company, from 1993-1998. He authored, Sweet Energy, The Story of Monitor Amoroso Aggregation in 2001, and Michigan's Beet Amoroso History (Newsbeet, Fall, 2006) and is a two time champ of autograph awards from the Southwestern Writers Conference for his plan with actual novels set in the South and Southwest during the War Amid the States era.


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The ability to use their smartphone camera for service enrollment, identity verification or data capture is a critical factor in determining who millennials do business with, reports Jim Marous for the Financial Brand. 68 percent of millennials would prefer to use mobile capture instead of manually entering information, 54 percent report making mobile deposits in the last year and 83 percent think mobile capture will be a part of all mobile transactions within five years. "Businesses that want to attract millennial consumers will need to take notice of these findings and add more mobile capture functionality to their applications and services, because simply providing a mobile app isn't enough anymore," writes Marous. MasterCard has taken heed, as it will soon roll out a "pay by selfie" feature that allows retailers to verify an online shopper's identity.
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After a 14 month long missions tour around Asia, my friend Mike and I found ourselves back in the Philippines asking ourselves what shape our work would take. I was offered a job as a youth pastor and there were several other ministry opportunities, but Mike didn't feel that it was smart to jump right into anything. I agreed, "We really need to hear from God what He thinks. Let's set aside time to pray and seek direction from Him before we agree to do anything."
We prayed and waited, and worshipped and prayed, as we housesat for a missionary couple that was on furlough. After several weeks had passed, the couple was about to return and we didn't have any specific direction! We dug our heels into prayer and desperately cried out to God that he would speak to us and lead us. As the time ran down, two very clear words came to my mind.
"I was praying early this morning," I told Mike, "and two thoughts came to mind. The first was 'student ministry' and the second was 'Baguio'. Have you ever heard the word, Baguio?"
"It's a city up north." Mike responded. "But I don't know much else." We looked it up on the map and sure enough, it was a city in the northern mountains of Luzon. I folded the map, went to the window, and looked out at the quiet street and said, "These are the biggest clues we've had yet. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
Mike nodded his head and said enthusiastically, "Let's do it! Student ministry in Baguio it will be."
Neither Mike nor I knew anyone in that area but after sharing our vision for a property that would be suitable for a coffee house with a friend's parents, they put us in contact with Mrs. Brady. "She has an excellent reputation in the city, she is very well thought of and educated. She's been involved in real estate and with the City Hall for many years. I've also been told that she has recently gotten involved in the charismatic movement. If anyone could help you guys, she'd be the one!"
We were eager to get into student ministry as soon as possible so the next day we made our way to Mrs. Brady's home. After we spoke to her maid, we waited several minutes before an elegant woman came to the door and urgently asked, "Do you know anything about the Holy Spirit?" Mike and I both smiled and nodded our heads affirmatively. She responded with another question. "Do you speak in tongues?" We smiled and said yes. Her eyes brightened. "Can you show me in the Bible where this happens?" Again we said yes. "Oh!" She exclaimed, "You've been sent by God! Please come in."
Over the last few months, she had been holding all-night prayer meetings in her home with her extended family and employees. During one of those nights, Mrs. Brady was alone in her room offering supplications to God. "Suddenly," she said, "it was as though the sun started to shine like a laser beam down upon me. The room was filled with unnatural light in the middle of the night. The light came right through the roof of the house, into my bedroom where I was seeking the Lord. It shone like a flashlight, a beam of white light right on my head."
She looked at us and blushed. "Then there was a tremendous power, like electricity. It repeatedly surged up and down through my body, from the top of my head down to my feet. I should have been terrified but I wasn't. I felt a peace like I had never experienced before, and when the light started to fade, I started to speak these funny words, without quite knowing what was going on. I had never heard those words before and I couldn't understand them."
She went on to explain that a friend said that perhaps she had been baptized in the Holy Spirit. Her daughter, Christine, had told her friends about her experience. They were intrigued and wanted to come to the house to get a language they too could speak without having to study at school. Since Mrs. Brady had no explanation, she had asked for two weeks before she invited them to her home. She was just finishing three days of fasting and praying when Mike and I showed up.
We took her through the Bible and showed her through Acts and the New Testament where the Holy Spirit had come upon the early church. We read stories of how the early church was empowered by God, how they went out speaking in tongues, with holy boldness, preaching the gospel and seeing thousands come into the kingdom. We explained that we ourselves were like that all over Asia. The Holy Spirit is available to us today, just like He was to the early church.
We were invited to Mrs. Brady's house to meet with her daughter's friend the following night so we came, prayed, encountered the Holy Spirit, and all six of the students accepted Christ. They started speaking in tongues and begged to bring their friends the following night. Matching their excitement measure for measure, Mrs. Brady responded, "My house is the Lord's house! You are most welcome to bring your friends.
Night after night we returned to Mrs. Brady's home and every night, people came to Christ and were baptized in the Holy Spirit. Word began to spread through the student body of Baguio. Mrs. Brady was well known, well connected, and highly respected throughout the city. Some nights the house was overcrowded--it got so full that people had to stand outside on upside-down boxes in order to peer through the windows to hear what we had to say. God met many students there in a very personal way. The anointing of his Spirit was tangible and flowed generously in that home.
But God was not only interested in changing young students' lives; lawyers, judges, housewives, teachers, and other professionals were all amongst those who experienced this fresh move of God.
Through this, many other opportunities sprang up and Mike and I were nearly run off our feet. Mrs. Brady helped us find a more permanent place to do ministry since our team had quickly grown to around forty people! We settled into a large pink house and found it to be a great place to do discipleship and evangelism.
Though things were going well, we began to experience some supernatural opposition in the forms of false teachers, healers and some very real demons. We were reminded that our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers of darkness.
In response to our prayers and Mrs. Brady's deep longing for the Holy Spirit, we established a long term work among the students in Baguio. The Pink House was the place of many more stories of spiritual warfare and the work of God. It was the birthplace of Youth With A Mission in the Philippines.
-An edited and partially summarized chapter from the book, 'Adventures In Saying Yes To God' by Kel Steiner with Andrew Kooman.
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This is a self-written and produced magazine feature that we were to create as a community interest piece for a fictional radio station. We had to write, interview, record, edit and master the spot to a given length. My recordings were done on location with a computer recorder, then mastered in the studio on ProTools.
Until I can find the finished master, all I have are some of the individual pieces.


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The treating of eating at restaurants is increasing every day and the restaurants are also trying their best to provide excellent services to the customers so that they may visit them again and again. Running a restaurant can become difficult for you if you are not using the software products that are essential for every restaurant.
There are some restaurants that have hired software developers to develop some unique software products for their business. Well, there is no need to hire the software developers if you can't afford them but there are some basic software products that you must add to your computer if you want to improve the efficiency of your restaurant. The software products can put the burden off of your shoulders and they allow you to focus on your work.
So, if you don't have the essential softwares in your computer, you'd be wasting most of your time on completing some tasks that can be completed within a few minutes with the help of a software. Here are the computer softwares that you must download into your computer if you want to improve the work efficiency of your restaurant.
TouchBistor is a software that is being used in most of the restaurants. It helps in increasing your work efficiency and it also plays an important role in enhancing your business. The processes and dynamics of nightclubs, cafes, restaurants, bakeries, and food trucks can be handled with the help of this amazing software.
You can place a tablet on every table so that customers can use this software to place the order quickly. They can even pay the bill with the help of this software. So, you must make use of the trial plan of this software so that you may understand the importance of this software for your restaurant.
Microsoft Office
Microsoft office is the basic need of every small and bigger business. You must install this software on your computer if you want to improve your work efficiency at the restaurant. There are many ways how Microsoft office can help you. You can easily buy the cheap Microsoft office suite to manage several important tasks in your restaurant.
Cash Register Express
This software can easily fulfill all your financial needs at a restaurant. It plays an important role in reducing the theft and keeping the inventory costs down. And most important of all, it helps you make more money without wasting any of your time.
You can easily manage your restaurant with the help of this software as it comes with the easy-to-use interface. There are many ways how this software can manage your financial issues. Therefore, you should make it a part of your restaurant business. So, you can earn great profits. Here is some important information about running restaurant successfully.


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Aug. 17, 2006
U.S. Under-20 National Team in Russia
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The United States Under-20 Women's National Team, featuring Santa Clara standouts Jordan Angeli and Amanda Poach, will open up first-round play in the 2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship Friday at 5 a.m. PT from Moscow, Russia against the Democratic Republic of Congo. The U.S. will continue Group D play against Argentina on Aug. 21 before concluding the opening round with an Aug. 24 date with France.
The World Championship will be held from Aug. 17-Sept. 4. All the first-round matches will be played in Moscow and fans can follow them live on ussoccer.com's MatchTracker. The 2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship will take place at four stadiums in Moscow (Dynamo, Podmoskovie, Lokomotiv and Torpedo) and at one in St. Petersburg (Petrovsky).
Heading into Friday's opener, the Under-20 women have compiled a 15-4-3 record in 2006, including a perfect 5-0-0 mark in international play. Those five victories all came in the CONCACAF qualifying tournament in late January, where the U.S. finished first to qualify for the Worlds.
Angeli and Poach, Santa Clara's two representatives on the U-20 squad, have made their presences felt in the midfield, as Angeli has started eight of 11 matches while Poach has been in the starting XI for six of her 11 appearances. Each Bronco has notched a goal and three assists so far in 2006, while during the qualifying tournament Poach found the net once and assisted on another goal, while Angeli registered a pair of assists over the five victories.
U.S. Under-20 First-Round Match Schedule
Aug. 17 - vs. DR Congo - 5 a.m. PT
Aug 21 - vs. Argentina - 5 a.m. PT
Aug. 24 - vs. France - 8 a.m. PT


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I'm assuming in advance that what I'm asking about may not be possible??
Console has 3 expr peds, Choir, Swell, and Crescendo. Planning to add a Solo manual which can be under expression. The cresc pedal is used on occasion. Idea is to be able to switch the function of the 3rd (cresc) pedal between being (as it now is) a crescendo pedal, to being a expression pedal for the new Solo manual. The pedal would remain physically connected. Any chance that could be done? In the ODF?
A fourth expression pedal would be nice, but there is no room for such.


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Chen's suffering unjust
Taiwan is a newly developed country, but former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) is currently serving a 30-year sentence on corruption charges.
After examining Chen in May and June last year, I pointed out that he was suffering from Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), but the Ministry of Justice and Executive Yuan denied this in an official statement.
In September last year, through Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) at a public hospital, unusual bright spots were found in his subcortical regions. He was transferred to Taipei Veterans General Hospital, where an interview by 10 renowned psychiatrists and the MRI images confirmed that Chen was suffering from MDD.
Chen was found to have typical MDD symptoms such as dysphoric moods, lack of interest in daily activities, feelings of hopelessness, waking early in the morning and even suicidal thoughts.
Delayed treatment might cause his brain functions to deteriorate rapidly.
Many possible factors could have caused his condition, including the complexity of the litigation against him, for example the numerous flip-flops between guilty and innocence verdicts in the Presidential Discretionary Fund case. The reversal of the not guilty verdict in July especially shocked Chen.
Because of the incompleteness of the laws and the randomness of different verdicts by different courts after three years of protesting his innocence, Chen, one of the best attorneys in the country, is at a loss on how to proceed and has had a mental breakdown.
For the last two years, he has been incarcerated in a tiny cell, without a bed, chair or table. He was forced to sit on the floor to write. He was isolated for 23-and-a-half hours a day with a light left on for 24 hours. This is like torture.
At present, he is easily distracted, finding it difficult to think clearly. He is psychomotor retarded, a condition associated with delusions of persecution. He suffers mood swings.
Any rumor of returning to Taipei Prison makes him extremely suspicious, angry and nervous. Chen is no longer capable of pursuing politics, forming a new party, or escaping the country.
He is over 60 years old. He did not commit treason and he is not anti-social. Continuing his incarceration has no significance. He is a former democratically elected president. I strongly suggest releasing him and letting him go home to recover from his illnesses.
Chiao-Chicy Chen, MD, PhD
DPP not so progressive
On Sunday, about 150,000 people joined the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) rally to protest the government's policies on a range of issues.
Out of power in the legislature, the DPP has still been working hard to hold the Ma government to account and scrutinize its performance.
Unlike the claim by some Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) officials, peaceful rallies and protests are part of a healthy functional democracy.
On the other hand, the Assembly and Parade Act (集會遊行法) that the government often wields to restrict public protest is a birdcage, put in place by the KMT after the Martial Law era ended to prevent Taiwanese using democracy and determining their sovereignty.
Yet, the DPP, by its own hand, also cages itself –– by letting the KMT frame the terms of debate, while timidly aligning itself with an imagined "centrist" position in the hope that it will lead to electoral success.
Three specific examples come to mind: the death penalty, economic policy and the issue of sovereignty over the Diaoyutai Islands (釣魚台).
In 2006, the DPP instituted a moratorium against the use of the death penalty and now complains when Minister of Justice Tseng Yung-fu (曾勇夫) sneeringly ignores the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. However, it won't come out and state that abolishing the death penalty is a core policy goal.
The DPP's own economic policy platform does not differ that much from the KMT's. It is just a tweaking of cargo cult crony neoliberalism underpinning the chaebol-type policies of the KMT.
The KMT is stuck in an ideological fantasy that imagines that Taiwan is still an "Asian Tiger" economy of the 1970s that will be saved by merging with the People's Republic of China economically. But the DPP will not directly challenge this. They seek only to modify it.
In terms of the Diaoyutai Islands, the DPP can not bring itself to acknowledge the elephant in the room. It has caged itself out of fear of the media and the fishermen's associations, and once again only seeks to modify KMT policies.
This plays into the hands of the CCP and KMT as they seek to weaken Taipei-Tokyo and Taipei-Washington ties, facilitating the Chinese strategic policy of raising tensions.
How, then, can the DPP claim these policies are in any way "progressive"?
Ben Goren


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Kathryn Minshew is co-founder and CEO of themuse.com, a website providing immersive job search tools, career-related articles, professional development tools and job matching resources. "Great people come to us to answer the question, 'What do I want to do with my life?,'" Minshew says.
To date, her company has helped 3.1 million job seekers answer that question and "make better decisions about their careers."
Minshew, 27, graduated from Duke University in 2008, majoring in political science and French before working for two years as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. After two years with McKinsey, Minshew left to spend time in Rwanda and Malawi working through the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) introducing vaccinations to rural areas.
Entrepreneurial Beginnings
Then the entrepreneurial bug hit. In the fall of 2010, she founded a tech startup that failed the following year. That failure led her to start working on TheMuse.com. Her inspiration for the site came from her own experience.
"I've felt for a long time that there was a disconnect between what we tell kids — 'You can be anything you want to be! Find work you love' — and the tools we provide adults to actually discover and realize those dreams," Minshew says.
While working at her first job, Minshew was shocked to discover the lack of resources available to smart, determined, professional women faced with making everyday career decisions. For example, she found many women lacked experience on how and when to ask for a promotion, negotiate a raise, or consider leaving for a new job.
"I originally built The Muse to serve the needs of these women, but found along the way that a lot of men wanted to use the product as well," she explains. "We help people figure out what they want to do with their lives, and that's a powerful thing."
co-founders from left to right: Alexandra Cavoulacos,
Kathryn Minshew and Melissa McCreery.
www.themuse.com co-founders from left to right: Alexandra Cavoulacos, Kathryn Minshew and Melissa McCreery.
The company has since raised $1.2 million through private venture and angel investors. The Muse claims millions of users in more than 100 countries, the bulk of whom are described as upwardly aspirational professionals between the ages of 22and 35. More than two-thirds are women. Companies are now paying up to $60,000 for affiliation with the platform to access top-notch potential hires.
The Muse is based in New York with employees in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Nine full-time employees are supported by a network of freelance photographers and 300 volunteer contributing writers who share their expertise on topics ranging from interview and resume tips, to negotiating, to leadership and managing a team of 10, 100 or 10,000. Guest contributors have included
publishing giant Cathie Black, who is also an investor and adviser in
TheMuse.com, among other notable publishers, heads of state, career and etiquette exerts as well as educators.
Work-Life Balance
Minshew shares a two-bedroom apartment in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood and walks to work every morning. She starts her day at 8 a.m., answering emails while eating oatmeal at home. By 9:30 am, she's taking calls while en route to the office. The rest of her day consists of taking meetings on the phone and in person, meeting with her team, and moving forward with various projects. By 6:00pm, she's meeting reporters for drinks, and then heading off to tech founder events.
As for her weekends, Minshew says, "Usually they're 30-40% work and 60-70% fun. I like to have at least one adventure every weekend, whether it's biking somewhere I haven't been or taking a long subway to eat a particular ethnic food in an outer borough."
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor, 20 percent of the U.S. population is actively seeking jobs at any given time and roughly another 60 percent are open to new opportunities. With that in mind, Minshew says, "We're disrupting the classic job search model where companies all describe themselves as 'innovative, results-driven environments looking for a team player.' It's impossible to differentiate and it shouldn't be that way." The Muse's job discovery product uses photos and videos to tell company stories that connect with prospective employees as compared to other sites that simply list job descriptions and requirements.
Coca-Cola Scholar to Workplace Superstar
"One of the things I love about my job is how many incredible people I get to meet on a daily basis," Minshew says.
Jessica Livingston, one of the partners of the acclaimed tech incubator YCombinator, was a particularly strong mentor based on "her perspective on startup life and her guidance as we went through the occasional difficult early-stage company situation."
Minshew also credits
"More than the money,
As for the future, Minshew knows the competition in the career space is fierce — billions of dollars are at stake in the recruitment industry — she says she hopes The Muse will continue to "bring that magic, that sense of exploration and discovery, to each and every individual on a personal quest for career satisfaction."


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There's nothing nicer than strolling around a farmers market on a sunny day, drinking in the smells and sights of locally grown produce - this feeling is captured by the Farmers Market fabric range by Lewis & Irene. With prints including market stalls, fresh fruit and vegetables, sunflowers and ginghams, these patchwork fabrics have a real country vibe!
We have ten prints from the range included in our stash pack (approximately 10 inch squares), or as larger pieces in our fat quarter pack, which gives you a 5% discount over buying the fat quarters separately!
Thursday, 4 May 2017
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