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Conservation leaders fight change
Years ago, Missouri conservation officials actually came close to opening their vaults.
It was 1986, and they were taking heat for a never-ending sales tax that was pumping millions into their department year after year.
In an attempt to appease critics, one conservation commissioner suggested giving residents a chance to vote on the tax sometime in the future.
In fact, the department's director said, the agency may even consider helping needier state programs if the sales tax kept providing so much money.
How times have changed.
Conservation officials now fight every attempt to tamper with the agency's money, presenting an aggressive defense that has warded off critics for years.
"If you say a word against them you're accused of being against wildlife and trails," said Rep. Bob Johnson, a Lee's Summit Republican.
Johnson and other legislators have suggested several ways to reform the department, which still enjoys a torrent of cash while other state agencies are running dry. The tax windfall — twice what it was in 1986 — allows unchecked and often unwise spending, they say.
Some legislators have proposed that the Conservation Department share its tax revenue with other agencies, or even take over state parks from another department.
But the most frequent proposal — and the one that commissioners especially dislike — has been to let voters decide whether to renew the tax.
"I don't see how you could be a commissioner and support it," said Stephen Bradford, a commissioner from Cape Girardeau.
Commissioners say the tax is still crucial even though they've surpassed the goals of the "Design for Conservation" plan that voters approved in 1976.
"Some have criticized us for doing more than what the Design for Conservation proposed," Bradford said. "Why should we have to apologize for being the best department of conservation in the United States?"
But state Auditor Claire McCaskill says a vote on the tax is needed — not necessarily to take it away but to keep the department accountable.
"I am very supportive of conservation," said McCaskill, who is running for governor. "I think having them go back every so often to check in with the voters would help their stewardship and accountability."
The department answers only to its four commissioners, who are appointed by the governor. The agency, which gets almost its entire $160 million budget from the sales tax and hunting and fishing permits, needs no money from the state.
Critics say commissioners should be providing stronger, more objective oversight of the department.
"Trying to promote the tax, that's not their job," said Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, a Republican from St. Elizabeth. "They should be making sure the department's accountable and doing a good job of handling those funds."
But the commissioners are unbending in their defense of the sales tax.
"When this was raised before, our former commissioners raised $50,000 in a week to fight it," said commissioner Anita Gorman of Kansas City.
The department has changed and grown since 1976, adding many new programs that it can't abandon now, said Howard Wood, a former commissioner from Bonne Terre.
"It's kind of like doing a free-fall parachute jump," Wood said. "You can't just stop in the middle."
Recruiting clients
But some people question whether the agency really needs so much money for new programs. After all, the department is working hard to find hunters and anglers to use them.
In fact, it is spending millions to recruit those new clients.
Critics say no government agency should be trying to create a need for the work it does.
"A state agency shouldn't be using taxpayers' money to perpetuate itself," said Sen. John Cauthorn, a Mexico Republican.
Just this year, the agency spent $500,000 on TV ads designed to interest the public in conservation activities.
"Together we can keep Missouri thriving — forever," said the 30-second spot.
The ads ran on network affiliates in Kansas City and St. Louis, some during prime-time shows. The campaign included a sponsorship of National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" program in the two cities.
The TV spots directed viewers to a conservation Web site, which asked them about their interests and encouraged them to sign up for free materials. Hits on that site increased by 200,000, the department said.
Critics called the ads extravagant.
"When I saw them advertising on TV, I thought, 'That's a good waste of taxpayers' dollars,' " said Rep. John Quinn, a Chillicothe Republican. "That shouldn't be the mission of a state agency."
Conservation officials said the ads were a legitimate way to get out their message.
"Here's an opportunity for us to introduce ourselves to, we hope, a new clientele," said Dan Witter, who just retired as the department's outreach programs chief.
The department also conducts numerous polls to help create programs, spending $30,000 a pop for surveys by The Gallup Organization in addition to scores of its own polls. One just completed with the University of Missouri cost the agency more than $155,000.
"We're talking to the citizenry, trying to find out what to do," Witter said. "We ask the tough questions: Are we as important as we used to be?"
In some cases, the answer is no.
Conservation officials face a graying of their clientele. The average age of Missouri hunters is steadily rising, from 34 to 42 in the past decade. As a result, the agency is trying to recruit new customers.
For example, its surveys show African-Americans take part in outdoor activities at a lower rate than the white population. In June, commissioners approved $47,000 for a pilot program in St. Louis designed to recruit more black anglers.
The department also is working to attract youths — a tough task in a time when sports, big-screen TVs and video games compete for their attention.
In the mid-1990s, the agency paid an assistant professor at Southwest Missouri State University $51,000 to survey Missouri sixth- and 12th-graders about conservation. Among her findings: Boys fish more than girls, and rural students more than urban students.
Much of the recruiting focuses on schools.
The agency distributes quarterly newspapers named Woolyworm, Tadpole and Crawdad to about 250,000 kindergartners and first- and second-graders throughout the state. It held focus groups in the St. Louis area last year with middle and high school administrators to try to develop a school conservation program.
Such aggressive marketing tactics are unusual for a government agency, experts say.
"I'm trying to think of someone else who markets like this, and I have no clue," said Burdett Loomis, chairman of the political science department at the University of Kansas. "Everybody promotes themselves a little bit … but nothing like this."
But John Hoskins, conservation department director, defends the agency's approach.
"Marketing for us is about finding out what people want in the Department of Conservation and then providing that as a service to them because they're paying for it," Hoskins said.
A sunset vote
For years, legislators and other critics have sought another public vote on the conservation tax.
But efforts to "sunset" the tax — in other words, bring it up regularly for a vote — have always failed.
A sunset is difficult to enact because the tax was passed as a constitutional amendment. That means either the legislature would have to put it on a ballot or the public would have to do that through a petition drive. And then state voters would have to pass the proposal to sunset the tax.
All that would have to happen before any vote on the tax itself could ever occur.
Moreover, the Conservation Department and its many allies have always been quick to attack the idea.
When Cauthorn proposed a sunset this year, the agency's defenders turned out in strength. "They come hard and heavy on you," Cauthorn said.
At a March hearing, the president of the Conservation Federation of Missouri (CFM), Judd Kirkham, warned legislators:
"CFM has the membership and resources to successfully defend the conservation sales tax and will take whatever measures necessary to defend it."
Joel Vance, an outdoors writer who worked for the Conservation Department for 21 years, told lawmakers that the agency would be thrown into chaos if voters were allowed to decide whether to keep the sales tax.
"Missouri's conservation program is the best funded, most envied in the nation," he said.
The measure languished and died, which may be no surprise considering that more than half of Missouri's legislators formed the Sportsmen's Caucus in 2003. This year the Conservation Department helped with two shooting events and sponsored an evening of food and drinks to tell the caucus about the state's bobwhite quail population.
Now, however, the public is looking at the sunset issue seriously, said Leslie Holloway of the Missouri Farm Bureau, which wants a vote on the tax.
"People are starting to pay more attention to where is the funding coming from and realizing conservation is about the only program that has this dedicated funding source that has no sunset," Holloway said.
The Department of Natural Resources has its own sales tax — a tenth of a cent that goes to state parks and soil conservation — but it comes up for a public vote every 10 years.
Cauthorn said he will probably offer his proposal again next session to require a vote every 10 years for conservation, too.
"They have a forever stream of money," Cauthorn said. "We're in a tough time now in state government, where every dollar counts. I don't particularly want to take their money away, but I do want them to be responsible."
In fact, some sunset supporters say they would still vote for the tax — they just want a regular chance to keep the agency more accountable to taxpayers.
Yet a renewed sunset proposal is seen as such a threat that Gorman, the commissioner from Kansas City, said conservation backers are already calling their legislators.
"That's our biggie," she said.
Hoskins said the sunset provision would be a mistake because simply knowing that the tax regularly will come up for a vote would make the department less innovative.
"There are things that we do today that may not show success or impact for decades," he said.
Once a sunset is on the ballot, the tax could ultimately be voted down — and that would present Missouri residents with some terrible choices, Hoskins said.
"What are you willing to do without in the way of conservation programs, services and facilities?" he said. "Or if you're not willing to give them up, how do you intend to alternatively fund them?"
The department shouldn't be afraid of a vote, said Sen. David Klindt, chairman of the Senate conservation and agriculture committee. He said his constituents would vote for the tax again if they support the department's record.
"The voters have proved over and over that if they like the way something is going, they're going to support it," said Klindt, a Bethany Republican. "You've got to come to a point that you trust the people. It has a tendency to make you more responsive."
In fact, McCaskill said she would probably vote for the tax again even though she wants a sunset.
"Earmarked taxes that never sunset are just not a good idea when you talk about accountability," she said. "I just think it's a bad idea not to trust the voters."
Other options
Besides the sunset, other conservation proposals have emerged in recent years:
Hand off some money.
A proposal last year would have given half the conservation tax money to education. It had 60 sponsors but died without a hearing.
"The Department of Conservation is the wealthiest agency in the state," said Johnson, a co-sponsor of the proposal.
"They go out and purchase things that they don't need because they have the money so they think they have to spend it. It never dawns on these people that maybe they just ought to return some of this back to taxpayers for other purposes. Like highways."
Although conservation officials were prepared in the 1980s to give up some of the tax money in hopes of warding off critics, they don't consider that an option today.
It wouldn't save the state any money, Hoskins said.
"The citizens would still demand the services we provide and there would have to be another way to fund them," he said. "And that would put us into competing for the money that's needed to improve our roads and schools."
Besides, Hoskins said, the department is comparatively small, and its sales tax money wouldn't go very far to help larger agencies such as education.
Take over state parks.
In the 1980s, commissioners offered to take over management of state parks from the Department of Natural Resources when it appeared that legislators would divert half their tax money. Neither side followed through.
In recent years, suggestions periodically have surfaced to move state parks to the Conservation Department.
Some other states combine their entire natural resources and conservation departments.
Ken Kuster, director of audits in the state auditor's office, said some Missouri state parks illustrate the confusion of two departments.
"You've got DNR doing the lodging and the concessionaires and stuff, and then you've got conservation in there running the trout parks," Kuster said.
"There's got to be some duplication there."
At a minimum, he said, the state parks and historical sites could be put under the Conservation Department. The DNR could still regulate landfills and water and sewer systems.
Gorman said such a move would hurt conservation because no proposal has ever included any extra money for the parks. "Clearly that's not something we want," she said.
Restrict land purchases.
Several times in the past decade, including last year, lawmakers have proposed measures requiring that new land purchases by the conservation commission be approved by the legislature.
"It could get to the point, if they just keep purchasing land, that it's going to take all of their money just to take care of the land, and we want to be careful that that doesn't occur," Klindt said.
The Missouri Farm Bureau supports the measure.
"The overall concern is that property should be kept in private hands as much as possible," Holloway said.
Hoskins said the department already has cut back on its land purchases. "Our focus today is on taking care of what we have," he said.
Expand the commission.
Secretary of State Matt Blunt, McCaskill's Republican opponent in the governor's race, wants to expand the commission from four to six members to add more geographic diversity.
"With such a small number (of commissioners), it is difficult to ensure adequate representation and input for all regions of the state," he said, noting that two of the current members are from metropolitan areas.
Although an expansion would not automatically save money, some say it would increase accountability.
But current commissioners said expanding the panel would make it too political.
"If you start choosing additional people based on their geographical area, you run the risk of commissioners becoming much more parochial," Bradford said.
Gorman puts it more simply:
"The dumbest idea I've ever heard of."
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The director
John D. Hoskins became director of the Missouri Department of Conservation on July 1, 2002, after rising through the ranks of the agency. Hoskins, 50, started with the department in 1977 and has worked as a conservation agent, regional protection supervisor, chief of general services and protection division administrator.
He has a bachelor's degree in education from Southeast Missouri State University and a master's degree in public administration from the University of Missouri.
Hoskins, who lives in Jefferson City, is the department's seventh director since the agency was formed in 1937.
"Conservation in this state is an institution, a system that I think has served the citizens of this state very well," Hoskins said. "Are there flaws? Have we made some mistakes? Sure. But on the whole, I believe it's a wonderful program."


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He shuffled forward, almost like his boots were too big; they probably were. His body, frail and small after years of health problems. My dad and my uncle flanked him on either side and moved him slowly forward. He reached out his hand and I nearly missed that moment. I quickly grabbed my camera because I knew we were about to witness something special. Grandma stood and reached out her hand too. And then it happened~barely a whisper but his voice got stronger as he spoke. A beautiful language I did not understand. Though I didn't need to. It was between him and his Maker. "The Creator" is what he calls Him. A blessing from one friend to another. Tears rolled down my cheek as I listened and watched. And he touched my grandpa's hands and his face. A final farewell from the Indian to the Cowboy after nearly eight decades of friendship. I can't imagine the stories or the adventures these two have shared. Most will never be heard or known by human ears. For barely two months later, Old Bill went to meet his Maker too. I suspect he was homesick for his friend, The Cowboy.
Everyone has a story. It doesn't matter where you've come from or where you've been. If matters not if your skin colour is brown, white, black or red. And for my grandpa and his friend Bill, the story is full of love, respect and friendship that stood the test of time and bypassed all political,racial and economical barriers. I am glad they aren't around to see what has become of their people and their country. Protests and name-calling are dividing families and friendships for nothing more than greed and status.
I was called a racist this week. I was called ignorant and uninformed. Someone told me I couldn't possibly understand what it is like to grow up on a reservation or have ones rights stripped. If only they knew….
If everyone has a story and we're all fighting for the same thing, do you want to hear mine? Some people don't. It seems we've come to this moment in history where no one's story matters except those of one specific race. But how different am I from them?
I grew up living on the threshold of an Indian Reservation on the Alberta Saskatchewan border in the north. Our neighbours were Cree. I don't remember knowing or understanding anything about the difference between them and me. They were our friends, and our family. In our home, my mom and dad often had young people around. Some played their guitars, others sang. Dad had moved an old school building onto our property before I was born and that became the meeting house for weddings, potlucks, gatherings, baptisms, Bible studies, and Christmas concerts. In a world where the "Us and Them" mentality decided where you lived and where you didn't, where you shopped and where you ate, we managed to live harmoniously and obliviously happy for decades. My grandpa pushed bush and built a thriving ranch from nothing. He was a man in tune with the land and all of its resources. A businessman for sure but before that and always thereafter, a lover of life, nature,horses and the Cree people who he called his friends. That's why it's no surprise really, that his children fell in love with this indigenous people too.
If you've lived on the prairies of Canada for any length of time, chances are that you too, have family and friends who call themselves First Nations. That's a perplexing label to me. Indian, Metis, First Nations, Aboriginal….whatever you call these people, it doesn't really matter; they are our neighbours and they are fellow Canadians. This is where I find myself confused and somewhat hurt. My great-grandparents were either born just prior to coming to Canada or born following the migration of their own parents to Canada. At what point do I become First Nations? Doesn't the idea of "first" mean the place of your birth? The place of your heritage? The place of your family's beginnings? And what is the beginning? Is the beginning 3 generations back? Or ten? Does it really matter?
Yesterday the news came out that a high court in Canada had decided that all people of First Nations/Aboriginal/Metis descent , whether living on reserves,settlements or in cities,off reserve or elsewhere would benefit from Indian status. What does this mean? Well, as best as I can tell it means that they can apply and be approved for any funding, health care, privileges that people on reserve are privy to. Now, as far as the concept goes, I agree. If people on reserves are getting special privileges for their racial background then in all fairness, those of the same race should receive those privileges regardless of where they live. I absolutely 100 % agree with this. However(and you knew I'd have a big BUT right here), this is exactly where the system is wrong and broken. The idea that a group of people, based on race alone, are treated differently than the rest of the country is absolutely offensive to every race, Aboriginals included. This is not equality. This is segregation. And it now muddies the waters of inter-racial heritage. It also encourages the ongoing labeling of people based on country of ethnic origin which is silly and pointless.
Back to my story…..
My mom's family, both sides, are Mennonites. Mennonites from Russia to be precise. They fled the Ukraine in the late 1870s because of religious persecution. Some stayed but most left. The Canadian government helped them to get here because the land in southern Manitoba and southern Saskatchewan was uninhabited and the ground needed to be broken and worked. Thousands upon thousands of Mennonites , Ukranians, Irish and Scottish Europeans came over with little idea of what they were about to face. Can you imagine not speaking the language, facing your first prairie winter in little more than a shack for shelter? And the process of homesteading required that the land be lived on for the entire year before land titles were turned over to the owners. I have seen some of these "homes" that could only be called mud huts at best. But they did it, to be free and to have a hope of a future. This is my family and this is the family of my husband. In the 1920s the government of Manitoba took over the education of all immigrant children. Up until that time, Mennonites, Hutterites, Ukranians and any other ethnic group were free to educate their children in their mother tongue. But the Canadian government and provincial and territorial governments of the day decided that English must be taught as well as government approved curriculum. There is a part of me that totally understands the fear and anger that my family must have felt during this time. They had just become accustomed to a new way of life in a new country and now their rights were being taken away. And so, many fled. South to Mexico and other points in the US. There is , to this day, a very large community of Mennonites in Mexico and more communities in Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil and other South American countries. My great aunt was one who fled and died a short time after, leaving many children without a mother. But I do not blame the government. I do not advocate for compensation for my family who were persecuted and driven from their homes. (There was a threat of government intervention and children were forced by authorities to attend these schools. It was not optional.) But that was then and this is now.
In the 1940s following the bombing of Pearl Harbour, there was a mass round up of Japanese Canadians. They were interned in camps and forced to work in often treachorous conditions. Japanese men were separated from their wives and children and laboured on the Trans Canada Highway that we all now enjoy the freedom to drive. This was less than 70 years ago but you don't see Japanese Canadians demanding compensation or restitution for the time or property lost(their houses and possessions were sold and they didn't receive the proceeds). It was a different time and a different place. That doesn't excuse what happened but it is no more Stephen Harper's fault than it is my own. It is a sad part of our history but it is in the past. The stories of these people is no less important than that of Aboriginals who were forced into residential schools.
So why does any of this matter? It matters only in the context of each family's history and story. And all of our stories matter in the context of what Canada is and who we are as Canadians. Why an aboriginal who is 28 gets more privileges, rights and protection than I , at 41, when we both have been born here, our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents were born, worked, paid taxes here is beyond me. I get treaties. I understand promises and the shaking of hands. I also understand that the day a treaty was signed in the 1860s or 1910s it was a very different world than it is today. No vehicles relying on gas and oil, no homes powered by electricity, no hospitals with NICUs keeping preemies alive long before they ever would have survived in more primitive times. The leaders of the day shook hands in good faith and they promised in the context of what they knew and what they could imagine only years ahead of where they were. Not decades and not centuries. I am Canadian. My kids are Canadian. My cousin and brother and sister and aunts and uncles and nephews and nieces are all Canadian. Some of us have darker skin and some of us are pasty white. But we are still family and we love the land which we came from and which we still hold dear.
A year ago, we laid my grandpa to rest a mile or so from the border of the Indian Reservation where he lived most of his life. I was in the minority at his funeral. As I looked out across that room full of friends and family there were definitely more brown faces than white. And it made me smile. This is how my grandpa would have wanted it:Friends and family all together~Laughing, hugging and sharing stories of times gone by.
How do I , a white woman, introduce the brown-faced members of my family? Like this:
He's my brother.
She's my sister.

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I've got to get this boy grown without crushing his wild side, but keeping him calm in all the right ways.
4 months with Breaker
Breaker turned 4 months old on July 10.
I had a hard time choosing which chair picture to use this month. He was so cute in each one!
To get Breaker's monthly chair picture, I always have to wait for Joey to get home because Breaker gives his biggest smiles to his daddy.
So this month:
Breaker still hates being on his tummy.
He started giggling and he's really ticklish on his chin. Shep is always coming up to him and tickling him, saying "give me that chin!"
Already in Size 3 diapers. 2s just we're not cutting it anymore.
Started reaching for the toys that hang from his playmat.
Usually goes to bed around 7:30, wakes around 12/1 to nurse, goes back to sleep easily and wakes again at 5ish, then sleeps until 7:30ish.
Some of my favorite Breaker pictures from his 4th month...
I love all the pictures we got of him with our family and friends. We loved introducing him to Kentucky!
Pretty accurate representation of my boys. Sweet Shep, calm Breaker and crazy Maj.
Always happy. And I love this outfit.
No more pictures, Mom!
Major climbs in bed with him and steals his paci every chance he gets.
Breaker went to Yellowstone.
And got to see Old Faithful!
Wish I could stay like this all day.
Trains <3
Hilton Head 2016 :: 4
The last of our Hilton Head pictures!
Angel baby asleep at the beach.
Angel baby asleep at the beach.
Hilton Head 2016 :: 3
I love these pictures of Breaker and Madelyn.
How sweet are they!?
All 6 of them before we headed out to dinner.
Dinner at Carolina Crab Co.
This angel timed his naps every single night with dinner. So with Shep happy with his friends and Breaker asleep, Joey and I ate uninterrupted. It was wonderful.
We got poured rain on and somehow Amy and Laura's hair still looks perfect and mine looks like a wet cat :(
After he was done eating Shep kept telling me he wanted to go to "the chip store." Ok.
When everyone's staring at you because you're letting your kid get soaking wet.
Best buds.
Amy was standing with the babies and people kept asking about her triplets.
The big boys.
Ending the night with wine slushies and watching The Bachelorette. My kind of night!
Hilton Head 2016 :: 2
Another morning at the pool. Breaker's first time in the water! He just dipped his toes in.
Joey, Shepherd, Tyler, Grayson...and some random kid that wouldn't get out of the way ;)
Little miss Madelyn is already as sassy as can be ;)
At dinner.
Side note: Please disregard my hair in every single picture from our 2 week vacation. I'm just going to go ahead and warn you. First of all, it has a mind of its own in humidity. Second of all, I get every other person in my family dressed and happy and then I do myself last, which means I usually look like a hotttt mess. Third, I am kicking myself for cutting it. Long hair is easier to style, even if short hair is easier to manage. OK, moving on.
So the best thing ever, is having a child that is old enough to sit at the other end of the table with his friends and eat his meal without your help and you can relax and enjoy your meal for the first time in like, four years.
The child whisperer:
So I was done eating and Shep was getting restless so I took him outside to walk around. This is what he does when I try to get a picture of him.
Side note: He also wore this shirt on our Hilton Head vacation 2 years ago. Yes I remember stuff like that. He gets a lot of wear out of his clothes since he grows at such a slow rate.
Went back and got his friends to walk around with us. Little boys are just the sweetest. I love watching them explore!
Breaker Blue's 1st vacation!
Just missing our Maj!
Ok, so Tyler made up the most fun game. I was obsessed and I wish I could play it right now.
You play in couples and everyone has to write down however many random questions they can think of. We were googling trying to come up with good ones. After we played this the first time, I spent the entire next day brainstorming good questions and writing them in my phone.
So to play, put all of the questions in the middle and each person takes turns reading a question. If a girl reads it the guys have to answer and vice versa. Then your spouse has to guess what your answer will be. If you both say the same thing, you get a point. It was so fun!
We had questions like:
"What does your spouse do that annoys you?"
"What was your favorite vacation?"
"Who would play you in a movie?"
"If your spouse was famous, what would it be for?"
"If your mother in law was an animal, what would she be?"
(Rhonda - I know you're reading this and I said dachsund! ;)
Once all of the questions are up, whoever has the most points, wins!
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We also supply to our patients several generic medications which we are happy to provide at wholesale cost. While it is hard to believe, this will often save our patients even more money than if they used the big pharmacies' discount medication lists.
We work with laboratories to negotiate tremendous cash discounts on blood tests, which we also provide to our patients at wholesale cost, avoiding the mark up experienced at other labs that can be as high as 2000%!
- Hutchins Trucking will cover the cost of the monthly subscription, as well as any laboratory studies and vaccines that are deemed to be preventative in nature.
- The wholesale cost of any generic medications prescribed and dispensed through Ciampi Family Practice that we have in stock or custom order for you
- The cost of any laboratory studies obtained by Ciampi Family Practice and sent to an outside lab for processing that are not covered by insurance as preventative, (plus a $10 lab draw fee).
- The wholesale cost of any vaccines that are not considered preventative or supplied by the State of Maine
- Any special services that are not covered under the agreement we have with Hutchins Trucking, such time spent on depositions for legal cases, etc.
(We are happy to provide receipts for above services with information needed to submit to your insurance company for reimbursement and/or deductible purposes.)


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Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) is a great area of emerging technology, but there don't seem to be a whole lot of positions available to work in it. What gives?
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Tube Toolbox has been in business for 5+ years and we've only had one previous case where users account were suspended (May 31st, 2012). Today (Nov 19th, 2012) we had several people email us and say that their YouTube account was suspended. We have thousands and thousands of users who seem to be just fine but the fact that all of you were suspended raises red flags and means that something is wrong.
Can I get my Channel back?
Hopefully. The truth is, no one knows exactly who the mystery people are on the other side of YouTube.com who will decide your fate but there is a webpage set up where you can appeal your suspension: http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/request.py?contact_type=accountdisabled. People have definitely been known to get their accounts back so make sure to fill out that form. In a worst case scenario that you can't get your Channel recovered, keep in mind that Tube Toolbox has all of your synchronized contacts and Subscribers in a list. So you do have a list of your Subscribers and if you build a new channel, you can contact those people directly and hopefully get them back on board. To get to your list of subscribers, log into Tube Toolbox with your suspended account and when it says "login failed", click the "more options" link and it will let you into the program to get access to your data. I know building a new channel is not what you want to hear and hopefully you will never even need to think about it but we want all information listed here that can help in any way.
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If you've been meaning to get a copy of The Fugue and would like to meet me in person, this weekend is a great chance.
It's Wicker Park Fest, and Volumes Book Cafe is doing a number of things, including hosting live acoustic musicians and letting me chat with customers. I might be inside or outside in the tent, depending on the hour, but you're sure to find me if you come between 1:00-4:00 today and tomorrow (July 23, 24).
Volumes Book Cafe is at 1474 N Milwaukee. Wicker Park Fest is one of America's very best outdoor street festivals. It features food vendors, live music, arts and crafts and fun for everyone. Come buy a book and hang out in the heat.
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Canada's Digital Technology Supercluster
The technological innovation has all the time supplied the humanity with the sudden development that has always served as the path for progressive developments. Theories of technology usually attempt to predict the future of technology primarily based on the high technology and science of the time. Telemedicine is a process of connecting physicians and sufferers via modern-day technology, such because the web. On this context, it is the current state of humanity's information of how you can mix sources to provide desired products, to unravel problems, fulfill needs, or fulfill needs; it includes technical methods, abilities, processes, techniques, instruments and raw materials.
When one thing new and "better" is revealed, the "older" technology turns into extra inexpensive, permitting it for use in academic settings, even when faculties are on a good budget. By aligning with technology, using The MovieMaking Course of as a studying and teaching device; human growth, through pretend play, can declare authority over simulation and simulacrum, overruling them with a significant, shared expertise.
Technology ("science of craft", from Greek Ï"Îχνη, techne, "art, talent, cunning of hand"; and -λογία, -logia 2 ) is the gathering of techniques , abilities , strategies , and processes used in the production of goods or companies or within the accomplishment of aims, equivalent to scientific investigation Technology could be the information of strategies, processes, and the like, or it can be embedded in machines to allow for operation with out detailed knowledge of their workings.
By streamlining enterprise processes to extend effectivity, hence leading to improve of productivity. Real life shows increase this experience on an area degree, and the Web turns into the wormhole we slip via to share what we create on a worldwide scale. Not solely does the product need to be designed and developed, but so does the manufacturing process, production facility and entire provide chain – which may cause issues bringing a product to market Lithium-ion batteries have a 25 12 months headstart in these areas.
Technology is often thought-about too narrowly; in line with Hughes, "Technology is a artistic process involving human ingenuity". It primarily focuses on analyzing, making use of, implementing and improving existing and rising technologies and is aimed on the utility of engineering rules and the implementation of technological advances for the benefit of humanity.


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The most common question I get is 'How do you stop the snails eating everything in your garden?'
'If snails are a nuisance: eat them! That's what they're for.' That's my reply.
Yesterday I spent the hottest day of the year so far out in the sun at Slow Summer Snail Farm trying to persuade my snails to strut their stuff before their audience. They took the commonsense approach of opening one eye to see if there was any food around then going back to sleep – it was Sunday after all!
So I got on with some weeding. I had a local radio station on the phone one day last week asking me why slugs and snails only eat the plants we value and don't eat weeds. I tried to explain that I didn't think their assumption was true so they asked if there was an expert they could talk to instead of me. My answer was the wrong one and presumably they were only interested in hearing they were right. If it's a small delicate newly formed leaf then it's fair game – weed or not.
I find the best method of stopping slugs and snails from eating my vegetables is to go out at dusk with a jar of salty water and catch them at it. There are copper strips, beer traps and all sorts of clever devices on the market for keeping them off your lettuces and out of your pots. If you feel compelled to use those nasty blue pellets don't spread them all over the place and especially not round the plants you are trying to protect because they are attractive to slugs and snails. Put just a few in the places where snails might congregate to sleep during the day – under flower pots or piles of bricks.
But I think garlic spray is worth a try. I heard you can just make up a solution of garlic and spray it onto your treasured plants and it will keep those little teeth away – they don't like the smell of garlic. Rain would wash it off of course so you'd have to repeat the exercise until the leaves are tough enough to survive. I'm going to try it at home.
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Everyday Emergency: Silent Suffering in Democratic Republic of Congo (MSF, March 2014) [text via ReliefWeb]
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Federal government taps NC State experts to explain nanotech risks
The arm of the federal government responsible for coordinating nanotechnology research and regulations across the country has called on experts from North Carolina State University to craft a white paper that will lay out how government and industry officials should communicate potential risks associated with nanotechnology to the media and the public. NC State communication expert Dr. David Berube has been negotiating this project for nearly 18 months.
NC State's Dr. Brenton Faber, who is also associated with the project, says the goal of the white paper is to advise the government on how it can "accurately communicate the risks and opportunities presented by nanotechnology." Faber explains that "people want to know if nanotechnology is something they should worry about, and it is important for the government to be able to explain any potential risks to the public in a manner that they can understand – because what is the point of developing these technologies if people don't trust them?"
Berube notes that the white paper could also be used for years to come to inform how the government, industry and researchers convey information about the risks of any new technologies. "The last time a white paper on risk communication was done was in 1989," Berube says, adding "there is little doubt this could craft the direction of risk communication for some time. This is quite an honor and a challenge."
The paper is due July 31 and will be followed up with a one-day workshop in Washington, D.C. This workshop and others planned will feature the report's authors, who will advise government officials on some of the better ways to communicate accurately with the media and the public.
The National Nanotechnology Coordinating Office (NNCO) coordinates activities relating to the National Nanotechnology Initiative. Dr. Vivian Ota Wang, the communication director of the NNCO, who also serves on the National Science and Technology Council of the Executive Office of the President, selected Berube to author the white paper. Drs. Faber from NC State and Dietram Scheufele from the University of Wisconsin, as members of NC State's new Public Communication of Science and Technology project, agreed to assist.
Funding for the white paper will support one graduate student and one doctoral student, who will work on the project at NC State this summer.
Nanotechnology is generally defined as technology that uses substances having a size of 100 nanometers or less (thousands of times thinner than a human hair), and is expected to have widespread uses in medicine, consumer products and industrial processes.
Faber is a professor of English at NC State. His research focuses on communications related to science and technology.
Berube is the author of Nanohype: Beyond the Nanotechnology Buzz, a contributing author to the anthology Nanotechnology & Society: Current and Emerging Ethical Issues and teaches graduate courses in risk communication and rhetoric in science and technology at NC State.
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How to love- when the feeling isn't there
"But love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; the state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people." – C.S. Lewis
The quote above is from C.S. Lewis's book, Mere Christianity. (affiliate link) The command from Jesus, to love your neighbor as yourself (Mark 12:31) is clear, leaving no room for argument. It's a basic tenant of Christianity. Even people outside the faith know about this rule…and yes, they're watching, to see how we do (or do not) follow through on it. It sounds simple, but what does it really mean to love your neighbor as yourself?
Truthfully, I don't always feel loving towards myself. So in the times when I don't feel like I love myself, does that let me off the hook for loving my neighbor? Sorry, but no.
I get just as, if not more, irritated with my own shortcomings as I do anyone else's. I'm not always proud of my behavior or thoughts. But then I read this,
"…our love for ourselves does not mean that we like ourselves. It means that we wish our own good." – C.S. Lewis
Yes, that rings true. I can't deny my own inclination to wish for my own good. In that regard, I do love myself- all the time. That same idea can be applied to how I love my kids. Of course I get annoyed with them, occasionally, but I've never wished for anything but their own good. Loving my kids in this way comes as naturally as loving myself does. What about everyone else? That's the part that doesn't always come naturally.
What I have felt ashamed of is my ability to love my neighbor, even when I try, because the feelings aren't always there. The first thing I'll point out, is that Jesus already loved perfectly, and because I am in Him, forgiven, His perfection covers my inability to love perfectly. There's no room for shame. (Romans 8:1) But because I love God, and want to bring Him glory, I do want to love my neighbor well. How do I do that when the feelings aren't there?
Once again, C.S. Lewis helped me out here,
"The rule for all of us is simple. Do not waste your time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor, act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him."
This, I can do, not by myself, but with the help of the Holy Spirit in me. My part is to just begin, to behave as if I wish for the good of all people. If the feeling isn't there yet, that's fine. I'll trust the Holy Spirit to change my heart.
"And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules." Ezekiel 36:27


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My job can be pretty awesome. Today was one of those really special days. I visited the Air Force Research Laboratory's Shiva Star. It is the Air Force's largest pulsed power system. Shiva Star will store nearly 10 million joules of energy (equal to 5 pounds of TNT). It produces a pulse of 120,000 volts and 10 million amps in one millionth of a second to produce a power flow equivalent to a terawatt.
Shiva Star has evolved from a 1 mega joule system in 1975, a 2 mega joule system in 1979, to its final form as a 10 mega joule system in 1982. Shiva Star has been used over the years for many different types of experiments such as pulse compression to increase energy in the pulse, plasma liner implosion for production of xrays, solid liner implosions to compress matter to high density and pressure, compact toroids for generating high energy plasmas, and simulation of explosive pulsed power generators. In addition, the facility is used for diagnostics of high-energy pulsed power systems by using magnetic probe arrays, laser interferometry, time and space-resolved optical spectroscopy, x-ray grazing incidence, photodiode array spectroscopy, x-ray pinhole photography, and fast optical photography.
Today they were setting it up to conduct an experiment where they will attempt to fuse plasma and aluminum and achieve fusion. It's not easy. And this device can make quite a boom. On one occasion the Shiva Star facility's roof was partially blown off. "Oops, we might want to dial that down next time."
It was truly fascinating to watch these scientists and researchers work hard to understand fusion science.


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A Rough History of Sanitation in the West
Written by molly on November 28, 2012 — Leave a Comment
Check out our guest post on PHLUSH's blog. We jammed packed it full of citations and resources for those getting ready for the Toilet Hackathon happening this weekend.
Posted in history, sanitation advocacy, toilets | Also tagged history of sanitation, sewers, toilethackathon
Commonly held wrong assumptions about Sanitation
Written by molly on February 4, 2011 — Leave a Comment
"At all levels: • Improved water supply alone leads to better health. There is no need for sanitation. • Sanitation improvements have minimal health benefits and no socioeconomic benefits. • All good sanitation options are expensive and difficult to implement. • Water, air, and soil are free goods and we should not have to pay [...]
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Firewall enabled
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subnet mask - empty
tunnel mtu setting - 1500
Tunnel UDP Fragment - empty
Tunnel UDP MSS-Fix - enabled
nsCertType verification - unchecked
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Connect to a remote machine via a SSH-secured connection and type on it's console to administer it.
This is very simple:
ssh user@remoteaddress
Move data between machines in an encrypted and secure way. It basicly works like the standard "cp" command, but it has got a different name: "scp"
scp /home/me/a_file.txt user@box_B:/home/me/
SSH offers the "-D" option to provide a SOCKS proxy on the local machine:
ssh -D 1234 user@box_B
You'll have a proxy listening on localhost port 1234. Now you just have to setup your webbrowser to use the "SOCKS proxy" on localhost port 1234 and all your surfing will go through Box B. You can check if it worked by visiting a website that shows your IP.
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NetstatTo find IP addresses accessing your computer:
# netstat -ntu | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
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MPD + MPCThese are the two programs of choice when playing and serving large music collections.
I am currently up to almost 9,000 songs and counting.
This post will describe my setup and config files.
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Gamecocks still rounding into final product, even as impressive wins mount
It's the price for winning so much for so long. When a team isn't playing like those teams before, it becomes a problem instead of what it is – the cycle.
USC coach Dawn Staley never said this team would be as monstrously overwhelming as her previous two. She knew she was losing three starters who each started for most of three years, including a three-time All-American and a point guard.
But when you've gone 67-5 over two years and have won 37 of 38 games against SEC competition, the narrative becomes one of invincibility. Yes, losing Tiffany Mitchell and Khadijah Sessions and Asia Dozier would hurt, but it's not like Kaela Davis and Allisha Gray and the freshman class were the first six women Staley saw on the street and signed them to scholarships.
It would take time for the freshmen to develop. Gray and Davis were stars at their previous schools, but they hadn't played in over a year. Of course they wouldn't be nearly as up to speed as they need to be in March by December, because there's only so much one can learn in practice.
So when they weren't tightening on defense early, but still whipping Ohio State and Louisville, nobody could really understand. It took the loss at Duke to illustrate the point, and from then on, USC's issues glared as the wins kept notching.
"Just still thinking back to the Duke loss," center Alaina Coates said, after USC overcame another rough start to dispatch No. 9 UCLA on Sunday. "The defense from that game, that's something that we've gotten better from, but we haven't taken a great leap from."
That's what Staley was trying to make her team understand from the get-go. She knew they could score from any spot on the floor and often, that would be enough. But there would be times where shots wouldn't fall or fouls mounted, and that's when the team would truly be tested.
That was in the first half against the Bruins. Bianca Cuevas-Moore was trying to outplay Jordin Canada at her game – speed – and while she was getting to the rim, she couldn't get the ball through it. Davis, who shed her year's worth of sitting with 37 points at Ohio State, finished Sunday 1-of-13 from the field.
The defense, when it could get set, was pretty stout. But the Bruins wouldn't let USC get set all that much, trying to run, run, run past USC's trailers so Canada could get to the rim. The Gamecocks had the right idea of doubling Canada. Doniyah Cliney was playing her finest minutes of the year and hounding Canada off her spots, but when every loose ball came up blue and gold, UCLA was going to convert some of those chances.
The halftime plan? Confidence. Staley felt a second-half explosion from her frontcourt was imminent after Wilson and Coates sat on the bench most of the second half. So just get them the ball.
USC did, Canada had to sit with her fourth foul, Gamecocks made a run. Win.
"Jordin was definitely their engine, so the whole thing was to shut down Canada," Gray said. "Once she got in foul trouble, it was kind of just go from there."
Staley shrugged. Some things need to be tightened. Some are just where they need to be. It was USC's third top-10 win of the season and Sunday was the only one of them at home.
The one loss of the season, on the road to an unranked opponent, still rankles. But as the outsiders have learned to accept a different brand of winning USC women's basketball, Staley's team has as well.
"It's a mark of a pretty good team that can play anywhere, any time, and get wins," Staley said. "But not everybody's going to be top-10. It's those other competitive games, like Duke, that our players don't take as seriously that we have to be concerned about."
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Three-time Olympic kayak medalist from Canada, Adam van Koeverden, provides some insight into his healthy lifestyle. We thank Adam for his time.
Be sure to check out Adam's website to keep up to date with his racing and lots of other interesting stuff. Adam is also an athlete ambassador for Right to Play.
Healthynomics: What advice would you give someone looking for ways to motivate themselves to start or maintain a fitness program?
Adam van Koeverden: Well I don't believe you can force yourself to do something you don't like in order to accomplish your goals, I don't think that's the route to success or fitness or happiness or anything. So, finding something you like to do that's a great aerobic workout is key. Mixing that with a resistance program, or some kind of anaerobic, strength building activity which you also enjoy, and fantastic nutrition… Then you've got a starting point. I think people who want to be more active or fit need to think in terms of lifestyle changes, not so much in short term aspirations or modifications. Finding a motivational environment in which to make these changes is also really important… From my perspective, if I didn't have my teammates, training partners and club-mates, I wouldn't be able to work nearly as hard or effectively as I do on and off the water.
HN: Do you have any mentors or other athletes that you admire?
Adam: Yeah, a lot! Big Steve Nash fan, my coach Scott Oldershaw and Larry Cain (both Olympians from my sport, the former a gold and silver medalist), lots of current Olympic athlete friends I look to for inspiration like Simon Whitfield (we've done some training camps together, and I wrote the forward to his book…) and the Canadian cross-country ski team, cause I love cross-country skiing… My teammates, guys like Mark Oldershaw and Angus Mortimer and tons of others…
HN: What do you do right before a race to prepare yourself to compete? Any race day rituals?
Adam: No rituals. I get myself ready, go paddling a few hours before my first race of the day, something short just to wake up, 3 or 4km with great technique at a moderate speed. I listen to some tunes and get a quick standing-up massage from our therapist and professional performance guru slash barrista Bernie Irvin… While he's getting the knots out he's also brewing some bean. I knock back a few turbo-javas and hit the water just a little wired with about 20min to start.
HN: What types of exercises are important for kayakers to perform to improve their performance and avoid injuries?
Adam: Mostly just kayaking. I hit the gym a lot all year, swim, bike, run and cross-country ski a lot all winter so cross training is important when the water is frozen. We do a lot of kms on the water, 150km+/week… so that takes up most of our time.
HN: How important do you feel nutrition is to maintaining your ability to perform at a high level?
Adam: Essential. Garbage in, garbage out. I travel too much to carry a lot of dietary restrictions, and thankfully we train so much and so hard that I don't limit calories at all. Basically as much good food as my schedule and appetite can take (yes, it takes time to eat 5500 calories a day), and I can indulge once that's down.
HN: Do you have any particular websites or products you love?
Adam: I take 7systems vitamins everyday. Often use COLD-FX while traveling and competing. Turbo paddles, Nelo kayaks, Asics shoes and training clothes keep me moving fast. Roots for home grown Canadian high fashion and my Mazda gets me to practice on time.


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"…Earth has guessed much and rhythm
the hymn behind the world in the stroke of her waves.
Saves hope like the Mother of Joy, believing. Grief like Our Lady of Sorrows, treasuring.
Measuring the swift flight of her son's feet on the san against the day he shakes the giant awak
and, with us all, leaps like silver to heaven."
- Mark Shea, from Rosario, published in Convivium Journal (volume 2).


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People go mad for the NCAA Division I Championship each year. Beloved by schools and alumni alike, college basketball teams attract fans of all ages and shot ranges.
Find out how much you know about NCAA basketball with this quiz. Then, tell us in the comments section below which team are you rooting for this year!
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The NCAA division that gets the most attention during March Madness:
The NCAA Division I schools get all the television coverage and media attention, but there are playoffs for the smaller Division II and Division III men's and women's teams as well.
The team that's won the most NCAA Division I men's basketball championship titles:
UCLA holds the honor of having the most men's b-ball championships, with 11 titles. The next closest is Kentucky, with eight.
Athletes on the winning championship team automatically get:
While many players are on full scholarships and others do go on to play for the NBA, these perks are not a given. NCAA rules prohibit the amateur athletes from getting paid for their sport, but players do get a championship ring if they win!
Which team became the first in history to win back-to-back championships with the same returning starting lineup?
The University of Florida Gators became the first team in history to win back-to-back championships with the same returning starting lineup.
Another nickname for the NCAA men's basketball tournament is:
Sixty-eight of the best college basketball teams go to The Big Dance.
An underdog team that goes further in the tournament than expected is called a _____ team:
Just like the girl who wasn't supposed to be the belle of the ball, the school that proceeds further than anyone expected in the Big Dance has a Cinderella team.
The chart which displays all the teams in the tournament is called a:
This chart is called a bracket. It looks a little like a family tree and has spaces to fill in as the winners of each round proceed to the next, along with the dates and locations of each game.
The tournament's elimination rounds do not include:
There's no special name for the 32 teams left standing after the first round of tournament play, but there are nicknames for subsequent rounds. Those teams in the regional semifinals are the Sweet Sixteen, regional finals are the Elite Eight and the conference semifinals are the Final Four.
The first NCAA tourney was held in:
The first NCAA men's basketball tournament was held in 1939. Oregon took down Ohio State with a score of 46-33.
Who won the 2017 NCAA championship?
The North Carolina Tar Heels beat the Gonzaga Bulldogs to win the 2017 NCAA championship.
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Start-ups – innovators want to establish them and investors want to be part of them.
These companies have reached cult status in recent years thanks to their ability to drive innovation, meet market needs and deliver solid return on investment.
But what is it about the start-up sector that has the world scrambling to get a piece of the action?
What is a start-up?
The Merriam Webster dictionary defines a start-up as "a fledgling business enterprise". This is amusing for those familiar with the start-up sector because fledgling insinuates that the person or organisation is immature, inexperienced or underdeveloped – an assumption that completely contradicts the inventive and visionary nature of start-ups.
A more accurate description of a start-up is a business that meets a global market need and is designed to experience rapid growth, regardless of geographical barriers or industry culture.
While thousands of businesses are created every year, not all are start-ups. To hold this prestigious title, your business must be scalable, have the ability to meet the needs of a large market segment and – most importantly – reach the market segment quickly.
The rise (and rise) of Australian and New Zealand start-ups
The start-up revolution is booming worldwide, and the Australian and New Zealand start-up sectors are no exception. In fact, Australian and New Zealand tech investment grew from $32 million to $96 million between 2011 and 2016, peaking at $279 million in 2014.[1]
As you might expect, Sydney is home to the majority of Australia's start-ups (35 per cent), followed by Melbourne (15 per cent) and Brisbane (nine per cent).[2] In New Zealand, thriving start-up communities exist in Auckland, Wellington and Queenstown.
"Australia and New Zealand are unrivalled as places to start and grow a business," says Richard Earl, founder of Talent International and the Talent Unleashed Awards.
"Sydney was recently voted the fourth best city for local connectedness and a region to watch for developing fintech and adtech companies by Start-up Genome. And New Zealand was ranked first for ease of doing business by World Bank in 2017 (the payoff of no capital gains tax)."
Government initiatives growing opportunity
In the last state budget, Western Australia pledged $16.7 million to support emerging tech start-ups. In 2017, the New South Wales government contributed $35 million towards Sydney Startup Hub. This unprecedented investment aims to drive innovation, create jobs and strengthen Australia's start-up ecosystem.
And it's working.
Tenants, including Microsoft and co-working provider, Tank Stream Labs, have cemented Sydney Startup Hub as an unofficial headquarters for local tech activity.
The Entrepreneurs' Programme is another Australian Government initiative that promotes business competiveness and productivity. The programme accelerates commercialisation, strengthens start-up incubators and provides tailored business management support to start-ups.
In New Zealand, LookSee Wellington works to attract tech talent to the city. Successful candidates are supported to relocate by Immigration New Zealand, helping to boost the tech ecosystem and address the talent gap.
Investing in a bright future
As interest in the start-up sector grows, so too does investment. Venture capitalists and angel investors are increasingly seeing the value of supporting innovation.
In 2015, Temando (a Talent Unleashed alumnus) secured $50 million Series B investment from Neopost S.A. Temando is using the funds to further product development in APAC and leveraging Neopost's global reach to continue its growth in the United States and United Kingdom.
On a smaller scale, investment opportunities like Shark Tank and crowd-funding enable start-ups to connect with interested parties, explore opportunities to work together and access funding.
Comparable to the increase of investment in start-ups is the impact of technological advancement. Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and robotics are creating more opportunities for automation and helping businesses establish economies of scale quickly and cheaply.
The social side of start-ups
The recent explosion of social media use has given start-ups a global audience. They can easily connect with target markets through Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, conduct business internationally using Skype and recruit talent on LinkedIn.
Speaking of being social, what do you get when you put a group of entrepreneurs in a room together? The answer is collaboration, creativity and connectivity, making co-working spaces breeding grounds for innovation, especially in the technology industry.
Nurturing talent
Talent International is dedicated to growing the success of the start-up community – because it was once a start-up business.
"A major – and often overlooked – challenge for start-ups in Australia is a lack of skilled staff to drive development and deployment of disruptive new technologies," says Earl.
"A unique blend of compensation structure, staff incentives and workplace culture is required to attract and retain top talent. We're proud to provide this advice free of charge to some of Australia's best and brightest through the Talent First Fund."
In partnership with Tank Stream Labs in Sydney and Perth, Little Tokyo Two in Brisbane and BizDojo in New Zealand, Talent representatives offer free on-site HR support, resume screening, salary advice and recruitment strategies, and reduced price recruitment services and consulting. This $1 million pledge, and the establishment of the Talent Unleashed Awards, demonstrates Talent's commitment to the start-up sector.
Recognising and supporting innovation and disruption, the Talent Unleashed Awards counts Andiamo, Domain, Fishburners, CancerAid and Lotto NZ among its alumni. Finalists have the opportunity to pitch their innovation to a judging panel – led by Sir Richard Branson and Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak – and receive expert feedback.
"This recognition of winning a Talent Unleashed Award has helped with validation and credibility when we engage with customers, investors, partners and even patients," says Dr Nikhil Pooviah, co-founder and CEO of CancerAid, 2017 winner of Best Global Start-up and Best Start-up Creating Social Change.
This year, 2017 winners – including Pooviah – will embark on an all-expenses paid trip to Silicon Valley to tour leading tech companies and attend a VIP lunch with Steve Wozniak. In 2015, winners attended the Igniting Change Leadership Gathering on Sir Richard Branson's, Necker Island.
Investment, connectivity and support are essential to the success of any start-up. Luckily, the velocity with which the Australian and New Zealand start-up communities are growing is equally matched with enthusiasm from governments, investors, accelerators and incubators.
Continued collaboration can only cement Australia and New Zealand as start-up ecosystems to rival New York, London or San Francisco.
Are you a disruptive entrepreneur, an innovative start-up or a bold and inspiring leader? Register your interest in the Talent Unleashed Awards 2018.
[1] Pollock, T. (2016, Apr 26). New Zealand's tech scene is hotter than yours. Retrieved from https://medium.com/@tristanpollock/new-zealands-tech-scene-is-hotter-than-yours-ac02da0109bb
[2] Weisfeld, Z. (2017, Aug 10). The rising success of start-ups down under: inside Australia's entrepreneurial ecosystem. Retrieved from https://www.forbes.com/sites/groupthink/2017/08/10/the-rising-success-of-startups-down-under-inside-australias-entrepreneurial-ecosystem/#7fcf75841cda