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Don't be so quick to judge someone else's ability to empathize, or you may just demonstrate a lack of empathy yourself.
There's a lot of talk these days about the rift between Baby Boomers and Millennials in the workplace, a squabble between parents and their children. Boomers says their young colleagues are self-entitled and aloof. Millennials say their elders are micromanaging Luddites. What is old is outdated and what is new cannot be trusted. Neither are actually right.
So what's the beef really about? Both generations think the other is incapable of empathy.
The rise of technology has transformed our society and social norms have changed drastically, both at home and at work. The laws that govern our behaviors have been rewritten. How we relate to one another, how we communicate, what activities we choose to engage in, how we pick our friends, how we manage our careers — it's all different. New technology enables us to make new choices, and therefore new decisions are being made.
That doesn't necessarily make the decisions of Millennials any better (though greater access to information may mean they're more informed). It certainly doesn't make those decisions any more meaningful to the person who's making them. And I think that's where the generational divide really stems from: one cannot see the world from the other's perspective, no matter how hard they try.
The lack of empathy between Baby Boomers and Millennials isn't the result of an inability to understand the attitudes and motivations of people born into a different generation. I think it's caused by a deep-rooted conviction that a whole generation has a lesser capacity for empathy than your own.
Empathy cannot successfully occur when you're busy accusing the other of apathy. You have to be willing to accept empathy before you can be in any position to give it.
Millennials "Lack" of Empathy
In a recent article in The Huffington Post titled Embracing the Culture of a Younger Generation, the author makes the case for why the accusation that Millennials have a lack of empathy made by older generations is just a lack of empathy on their part.
Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings. It isn't surprising then that younger adults, the Millennials, are labeled by Boomers as unable to hold meaningful face-to-face conversations, not doing what it takes to achieve long term success or unable to show empathy for others.
Studies released in the last few years point out that the ability for Millennials to show empathy is declining. Sara Conrad, a researcher at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, released findings describing college students as scoring 40 percent lower in empathy than their counterparts did twenty years ago. But the studies don't tell the whole story, because they measure empathy by analyzing individuals' heart rates, their face gestures or voices fluctuations. They don't measure the online behavior that demonstrates Millennials do care, and they are well connected – and not just with one another, but with causes that benefit society at large as well as local communities.
What the studies don't take into account is how differently Millennials communicate as compared to the way we communicated 20 years ago. This change is driven by the exponential increase in the dissemination of information and the methods in which it is processed. With the launch of the Internet twenty one years ago, communication tools around the world began to change drastically and permanently. The Internet proved to be a game changer for nations, organizations, and individuals alike. Once social media was introduced, it enabled a new way for people, particularly the younger generation, to connect with one another, based on common interests, goals and even values.
The Millennial Workplace
In a piece in Time Magazine earlier this year, Millennials vs. Baby Boomers: Who Would You Rather Hire?, the author goes into depth on what Millennials expect out of their careers, how they want to conduct themselves, and most importantly why. It can be easy to see how these attitudes can be misconstrued by Boomers as carelessness, irreverence and laziness. I've strung together a few excerpts for you:
Among other things, millennials (those in their 20s and early 30s) want flexible work schedules, more "me time" on the job, and nearly nonstop feedback and career advice from managers. They're also more likely than average to think the boss could learn a thing or two from their young employees. Oh, and they really want to be able to wear jeans at work.
Gen Y will also reshape the workplace—sooner than later, if they have their way. Among other characteristics that stand out, millennials, who have come of age with the text message and social media, are an impatient bunch: They're hyper-connected, tech savvy, entrepreneurial, and collaborative. They also favor fast-paced work environments, want quick promotions, and aren't fans of traditional office rules and hierarchies.
For the most part, millennials aren't fans of having to wait six months or a year to get a formal review of their work. Boomers, on the other hand, are more likely to prefer a structured system where feedback is given at certain times of the year. Instead of seeking constant feedback, boomers prefer to take the "Give me my objectives and get out of my way" approach.
An overwhelming 93% of millennials say they want a job where they can be themselves at work, and that includes dressing in a way that makes them comfortable. Boomers, on the other hand, are more prone to believing in the importance of maintaining a standard professional look in the workplace. It seems as if millennials also prefer casual attire because they don't separate their personal and professional lives in the same way that baby boomers do.
Whereas more boomers feel the office environment and the traditional workday is the best way to get the job done, millennials prefer a flexible approach, including the right to be remote workers who go into the office only sometimes, or perhaps never. They maintain that as long as the work gets done, the amount of time spent in the office shouldn't matter.
Millennials want to feel like they are part of a community at work—nearly 9 in 10 want a workplace to be social and fun—and have a genuine desire to listen into organizational strategy sessions. Instead of being a small cog unaware of any larger mission, millennials like being in the loop regarding their company's vision, and how it is going to innovate to stay ahead of the curve.
An "ideocracy" should reign in the workplace, most millennials believe, in which everyone should be heard from and the best ideas win out, regardless of who has been on the job longer, or who has a corner office.
Disinterested in authority. Impatient. Leisurely. Not even willing to come into an office? Of course this all can be seen as unacceptable on the surface of things. It seems selfish and disrespectful. But the Millennial attitude on what work looks and feels like isn't due to a disinterest in work; it's quite the opposite. Millennials want work to look and feel more like life, because work is much more integrated into their lives. They're so deeply focused on the meaning and the purpose of what they're doing, they don't want all the niceties and etiquette to be a barrier to getting the real work done.
The Millennial Roots
Ironically enough, Millennials are the way they are — with big, lofty goals for changing the world and self-confidence in their ability to be a part of that change — because that's who their parents taught them to be. Their parents, the Baby Boomers.
When people are caught up in accusing one another of wrongdoing, criticizing others' behaviors and attitudes rather than taking the time to understand them, they miss the opportunity to recognize just how similar they truly are. More often than not, these misconceptions are covering up a simple fact: they actually agree.
In the Forbes article, Millennials And Baby Boomers: At Odds Or Peas In A Pod?, the author makes the point that Baby Boomers and Millennials are pointing the finger at the other for slowing down progress or making risky decisions, when their hearts are very much in the same place.
"One of the biggest stereotypes about Millennials is that they only want to communicate through technology," says Lindsey Pollak, the author of Getting From College To Career: the Revised Edition who's made her own career as a Gen-Y expert from the neutral perch of a Gen-Xer. "It's said all of the time: they don't want to communicate face to face." In contrast, Baby Boomers are often described as technophobes, hesitant to adapt to the rapidly advancements in technology both at work and at home. "They're largely reluctant to communicate via IM and text message, particularly at work where they prefer to sit down and discuss issues in person," says Pollak.
But technology and "coolness" aside, the number one source of generational stereotypes about Boomers and Millennials is the discussion of work ethic. Millennials, we've heard, are coddled, entitled and expectant of a trophy for showing up at work every day. Conversely, Boomers are micro-managers who don't respect the talents of young employees. Unfortunately for both cohorts, there is undeniable truth to these particular generalizations. More unfortunately for the Boomers, they've got only themselves to blame. Helicopter parents, it seems, have become helicopter managers at work. "Boomers can say what they want. They call Millennials coddled," says Pollak, "but deep down they know that—as their parents—they made them that way."
So before you judge another, judge yourself. Is your colleague apathetic to the needs of the business, incapable of understanding others, obsolete or inexperienced, and has a lot to learn…or is it you?
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Radio Show Interview - all about Sweden, Prefab, USA New Wall & Swedish Platform Framing
Sunday afternoon I was on an internet radio program called Burning Down the House hosted by architect Curtis Wayne and discussed the broad range of topics that have been covered in our Letters from Sweden series.
Burning Down the House covers all matters of Design and Architecture and appears on the Heritage Radio Network - essentially an internet broadcast, the show went out by live stream on Sunday afternoon and is subsequently available as a Podcast. Heritage has a bunch of great shows on cooking and food, wine and beer, so all you foodies following out there may enjoy some of the shows they offer.
Curtis had done his homework and proceeded to lead us through the broad range of topics that we have covered in the course of our study of Swedish housing. As you might expect, we were not able to plumb the depths of all this content, but we did speak in some detail about many points. Curtis suggested I come back for another show where we could delve into some of these areas in greater depth, an opportunity I'd welcome.
There are several ways to listen to the show. Its on iTunes if that's your thing. Or you can listen online on their site, or download the audio file. If you are looking on the list it is show #81 from 11/13/11. Its best if you up the volume a bit since I was mumbling - I really got to work on my radio persona!

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How to get rid of runners side stitch
One of the most irritating things runners get when they are out on their run is getting a stitch. I've put together my top 6 tips to avoid getting that dreaded side stitch.
1. Hydrate, Hydrate, Hydrate
Make sure you are well hydrated. Water or juice will suffice.
2. Don't over Indulge
Eating is good eating is important just try not to pig out before your run
3. Use The Bathroom
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Colossians, CHAPTER 1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
to the holy ones and faithful brothers in Christ in Colossae: grace to you and peace from God our Father.
We always give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the holy ones
because of the hope reserved for you in heaven. Of this you have already heard through the word of truth, the gospel,
that has come to you. Just as in the whole world it is bearing fruit and growing, so also among you, from the day you heard it and came to know the grace of God in truth,
as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow slave, who is a trustworthy minister of Christ on your behalf
and who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
Prayer for Continued Progress.
Therefore, from the day we heard this, we do not cease praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding
to live in a manner worthy of the Lord, so as to be fully pleasing, in every good work bearing fruit and growing in the knowledge of God,
strengthened with every power, in accord with his glorious might, for all endurance and patience, with joy
giving thanks to the Father, who has made you fit to share in the inheritance of the holy ones in light.
He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
He is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn of all creation.
For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth,
the visible and the invisible,
whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers;
all things were created through him and for him.
He is before all things,
and in him all things hold together.
He is the head of the body, the church.
He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead,
that in all things he himself might be preeminent.
For in him all the fullness was pleased to dwell,
and through him to reconcile all things for him,
making peace by the blood of his cross
[through him], whether those on earth or those in heaven.
And you who once were alienated and hostile in mind because of evil deeds
he has now reconciled in his fleshly body through his death, to present you holy, without blemish, and irreproachable before him,
provided that you persevere in the faith, firmly grounded, stable, and not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, am a minister.
Christ in Us.
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body, which is the church,
of which I am a minister in accordance with God's stewardship given to me to bring to completion for you the word of God,
the mystery hidden from ages and from generations past. But now it has been manifested to his holy ones,
to whom God chose to make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; it is Christ in you, the hope for glory.
It is he whom we proclaim, admonishing everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.
For this I labor and struggle, in accord with the exercise of his power working within me.


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Manzanar Free Press (newspaper)
Publication Name | Manzanar Free Press |
Camp | Manzanar |
Start of Publication | April 11, 1942 |
End of Publication | October 19, 1945 |
Mode of Production | mostly printed |
The Manzanar Free Press was the longest running of the concentration camp newspapers, spanning Manzanar 's time as an "assembly center" as well as a War Relocation Authority camp. It was also one of three typeset, printed newspapers. Its run was interrupted for twenty days in December 1942 due to the riot/uprising at Manzanar.
Background and Staffing
The War Relocation Authority camp newspapers kept incarcerated Nikkei informed of a variety of information, including administrative announcements, orders, events, vital statistics, news from other camps, and other necessary information concerning daily life in the camps. (See Newspapers in camp ). Story coverage was comparable to what one might typically expect of a small town newspaper, with nearly identical coverage in all ten camps of social events, religious activities (both Buddhist and Christian), school activities and sports , crimes and accidents, in addition to regular posts concerning WRA rules and regulations. Nearly every paper included diagrams and maps of the camp layouts and geographical overviews to allow residents to get a bearing of their locations; payroll announcements, instructions on obtaining work leaves and classified ads for work opportunities; lost and found items; and some editorial column that was reflective of its Japanese American staff editor. Reporters and editors were classified as skilled and professional workers respectively and received monthly payments. The wage scale was set at $12 or $16 a month for assistants and reporters and $19 for top editors, although no labor was compulsory. All ten camps had both English and Japanese language newspapers. Despite its democratic appearance, the camp newspapers in reality were hardly a "free" press. All newspapers were subject to some sort of editorial interference, in some cases even overt censorship, and camp authority retained the power to "supervise" newspapers and even to suspend them in the event that they were judged to have disregarded certain responsibilities enumerated in WRA policy. [1]
The Manzanar Free Press was launched on April 11, 1942, by a group of ambitious ex-newspaper men and women in what was first a Wartime Civil Control Administration "assembly center." The center was later converted into a War Relocation Authority concentration camp, which retained the Manzanar Free Press as its community bulletin. The paper began as a four page bi-weekly that was typed and mimeographed, before growing into a six-page bi-weekly. Manzanar's growing population and additional daily activities led to the paper increasing production to a tri-weekly newspaper. By July 22, 1942, the staff acquired a printing press and began releasing a typeset, printed newspaper.
The name of the newspaper itself implies freedom of speech and the presence of a democratic media, which the administration and editors frequently alluded to. In the paper's first printed issue on July 22, 1942, they wrote: "We want to repeat again that the Free Press belongs to the people of Manzanar, that, instead of being merely the mouthpiece of the administration, it strives to express the opinions of the evacuees in the solution of immediate and forseen problems." [2] Despite the enthusiasm, former Manzanar Free Press editor Sue Embrey admitted that aside from the enjoyment of the work and the relatively liberal minded staff, "The human element did not appear in the printed pages. There were no personal views of the writer. We did not write about what was happening to us, the poor food, the poor medical care, the lack of privacy, having to take showers together. We knew if we wrote about a certain thing, it wouldn't get in the paper. The complaints of the internees were not voiced in the Free Press." [3]
Editing the paper during its infancy stage were journalists Joe Blamey, Chiye Mori, Dan Tsurutani, Roy Hoshizaki, Tom Yamazaki, and Sam Hohri. Former Rafu Shimpo editor Togo Tanaka was added to the staff by May 1942 and in the summer of 1942, well-known journalists such as Harry Honda, Mary Kitano, Carl Kondo, and Helen Aoki were feature writers for the Free Press . A Japanese language section was added on July 14, 1942, though each issue was accompanied by an English translation of its contents.
Coverage Highlights
From the beginning, the Manzanar Free Press promoted a pioneer spirit to its readers, envisioning the mass removal and confinement as a chance to settle new communities in the wilderness, and immediately began to distribute information, often directly from WRA bulletins, on organizing a working system for the camp.
The Free Press covered events such as the founding of the Children's Home in May 1942, an institution unique to Manzanar. Criminal activity was another staple, with the paper reporting that gambling and speeding the two main offenses under investigation by Manzanar police in 1942, while reports of gang fights and thefts (especially from shower rooms) were on the rise. However, it was not mentioned in the Free Press on May 16, 1942 when a resident, Hikoji Takeuchi, was shot and seriously injured by a guard, with wounds that indicate that he was shot in the front. [4]
With the institution of a loyalty questionnaire and subsequent segregation of the "disloyal" from the "loyal," the Free Press ran articles that attempted to explain the purpose of the segregation process, and then published procedures for those leaving or arriving at Manzanar as people shifted from camp to camp.
Several articles covering resistance outside Manzanar, including the April 1944 arrest of nine Kibei at Fort McClellan, Alabama, for refusing to obey army orders were included in the Free Press that spring. (See Military resisters .) On June 28, 1944, the newspaper reported on the "Biggest Mass Trial in Wyoming's History," a major story covering sixty-three Nisei from the WRA camp in Heart Mountain , who were charged and found guilty of violating the Selective Service Act, in the only formally organized resistance to the military draft. (See Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee .) Of related interest was the story run on August 5, 1944, claiming the arrest of eight men, including James Omura , former English editor of the Rocky Shimpo newspaper of Denver, who were charged with an indictment for conspiracy in counseling other Japanese Americans or for direct evasion of the Selective Service Act.
The Manzanar Riot/Uprising
In November 1942, a general strike roiled the Poston , Arizona camp. In response, the Free Press ran a sidebar mourning the news of the Poston strike as "another setback," by drawing negative press to the camps, without investigating the root cause of the camp protest. The paper also discussed inmate dissatisfaction with the controversial camouflage net factory, which was in operation from June to December 1942 and a November 30, 1942, arson at the General Store amid grievances against the community co-operative store due to "smoldering resentment against the Cooperative by some of the people for quite a while, caused chiefly through misunderstanding of the workings and policies of the Enterprises."
On December 5, 1942, Fred Tayama , leader of the Japanese American Citizens League , was attacked and seriously injured. When Harry Ueno , a cook who had been active in organizing kitchen workers and who was a vocal critic of the JACL, was arrested for the attack, a center wide riot/uprising ensued. For twenty days, the Manzanar Free Press was shut down entirely, publishing its first issue after the incident on Christmas Day, December 25, 1942, which made no mention of the attack, arrests, or military police shootings. (See Manzanar riot/uprising ; Homicide in camp .)
Immediately following the December uprising, an almost completely new staff took over the Manzanar Free Press , which included Sue Kunitomi, Ray Hayashida, Reggie Shikami, and Mas Hama, and the paper was changed back to bi-weekly.
Early January 1943 issues of the Free Press ran excerpts from other American newspapers under the column "From the Nation's Press" related to the 'incident at Manzanar' and other issues related to WRA camp conditions, but otherwise it feigned normalcy by focusing on stories of the new clothing allowance, offerings at the cooperative stores, and developments in the growing resettlement project.
Shutting Down
When Nisei eligibility for the draft was restored, most of the paper's stories covered the exploits of the all-Nisei 100th / 442nd Regimental Combat Team along with lists of their military honors and the death count. Meanwhile controversy surrounding the political turmoil at Tule Lake and the fate of those who elected for repatriation to Japan lingered. By late March 1944, the first glimmers of reopening the West Coast area to Japanese Americans were reported in the papers, although polls from the Los Angeles Times and other papers indicated public opinion was still largely in favor of barring all Japanese from returning.
On December 17, 1944, the mass exclusion orders were rescinded, allowing Japanese Americans to return to the West Coast, and by early January 1945, the first Manzanar residents begin re-populating their former homes in California, Oregon, and Washington. While the Free Press was dominated with successful stories of relocation, the newspaper also covered numerous acts of discrimination and hate crimes against returning Japanese Americans between January and June 1944. (See Return to West Coast ; and Terrorist incidents against West Coast returnees .)
As the final days of Manzanar wound down, the Free Press primarily functioned as a board for classified ads for jobs and housing. The last issue of the Manzanar Free Press ran on October 19, 1945, and the camp closed permanently on November 21, 1945.
- ↑ Takeya Mizuno, "The Creation of the 'Free Press' in Japanese American Camps," Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 78.3 (2001), 514.
- ↑ Specific issues referred to in the text can all be found by searching the Densho Digital Repository at http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-125/ .
- ↑ Diana Meyers Bahr, The Unquiet Nisei: An Oral History of the Life of Sue Kunitomi Embrey (New York: Palgrave MacMillian, 2007), 68.
- ↑ Hikoji Takeuchi, Manzanar ID Card, Manzanar National Historic Site, 2008, http://www.nps.gov/manz/forteachers/id-booklets.htm .
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The more states spend on home-delivered meals under the Older Americans Act, the more likely they are to help people who don't need nursing home care to stay in their homes, according to a newly published Brown University statistical analysis of a decade of spending and nursing home resident data.
"Despite efforts to rebalance long-term care, there are still many nursing home residents who have the functional capacity to live in a less restrictive environment," wrote gerontology researchers Kali Thomas and Vincent Mor in the journal Health Services Research. "States that have invested in their community-based service networks, particularly home-delivered meals, have proportionally fewer of these people than do those states that have not."
Nationwide in 2009, 12.6 percent of nursing home residents were considered "low-care," meaning they did not need much of the suite of services that a nursing home provides. That proportion had declined from 17.9 percent in 2000 because of a variety of efforts, including OAA programs as well as Medicaid-sponsored home- and community-based services (HCBS).
But the percentages every year vary widely between the states. A major reason for that state-to-state variation turns out to be the difference that home-delivered meals can make. The researchers wrote that their analysis boils down to this ratio: For every $25 per year per older adult above the national average that states spend on home-delivered meals, they could reduce their percentage of low-care nursing home residents compared to the national average by 1 percentage point.
How meals help seniors keep their homes
Thomas and Mor's calculations didn't merely associate each state's meals spending with its percentage of low-care residents in nursing homes. They also statistically controlled for the overall decline over time and a wide variety of factors that might also have affected the rates. Those factors included state spending on Medicaid HCBS, as well as a variety of long-term care market pressures, such as excess capacity or nursing home reimbursement rates, that could create incentives for nursing homes in different states to pursue or forgo relatively profitable low-care residents.
The data included state spending on OAA programs and performance information from each state between 2000 and 2009 as well as variety of public health and nursing home data sources compiled by Brown University's Shaping Long-Term Care in America Project. In all, 16,030 nursing homes were included in the research.
After all the analysis, home-based meals, which served more than 868,000 people in fiscal 2010, emerged as the only statistically significant factor among OAA programs that affected state-to-state differences in low-care nursing home population. Home-delivered meals account for the bulk of OAA spending.
Other factors keeping low-care residents out of nursing homes in some states included a high proportion of residents receiving skilled nursing care, which provides nursing homes with higher revenues. Factors that drove more low-care residents of some states into homes included high nursing home capacity and a high percentage of residents with not-so-lucrative Medicaid funding.
Meals mean a lot
Lead author Thomas said that as a Rhode Island Meals on Wheels volunteer and the granddaughter of a Meals on Wheels beneficiary, she was not surprised to see that the program has such a significant impact.
Until her grandmother died in October, she was able to live at home despite suffering from macular degeneration that made it impossible for her to cook.
"My 98-year-old granny was able to remain at home, independent in her house until she died, and we have always, even before I did this research, attributed that to Meals on Wheels," Thomas said. "She lived four hours away from any family and refused to leave her house. We had comfort in knowing that every day someone was in her house to see how things are."
Drivers, after all, not only bring food every day but also observe the condition of their clients. If the elderly beneficiary doesn't answer a delivery, drivers report that. The volunteers therefore provide food and a "safety check" for many older adults.
For retired journalist and state worker Bill McNamara, 90, of Warwick, R.I., Meals on Wheels helps because he and his wife Catherine, also 90, have developed arthritis in recent years that makes food preparation too difficult. Since 2009 they have lived in an in-law unit of their son's house, but because his son and daughter-in-law both work, McNamara said, asking them to prepare all their meals would be a significant burden.
Instead, Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island provides that service, McNamara said. The food is great and the drivers work hard to ensure consistent and timely delivery, he said. They even faithfully worked around the recent obstacle of the road being closed for a time.
"We feel it's even better than we would have anticipated," McNamara said. "We look forward to hearing the bell ring."
For many seniors, especially those who don't live with such a supportive family like the McNamaras, research shows that meal delivery is what allows them to remain where the ring of the doorbell is for their own door.
The National Institute on Aging (grant PO1AG027296) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (grant 5T32HS000011) supported the research.


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In the summer of 2003, Ryan Allis dropped out of the University of North Carolina to launch iContact, an online-marketing-software company, with co-founder Aaron Houghton. Now 27, he runs a 280-employee company that serves 1 million customers, brought in $50 million in revenue in 2010 and has offices in Raleigh, Miami and London. Here's his story:
On Dropping Out of College
I figured I had little to lose and could always go back to school. I'd caught the entrepreneurial bug at an early age, setting up a computer consulting business when I was 11 years old. For $5 an hour, I taught local senior citizens how to use the Internet to keep in touch with friends and family. By 14, I had moved on to website design, and at 16 I founded a Web marketing consultancy.
Bootstrapping It
For the first three years following the launch of iContact, Aaron and I worked without a salary to keep costs low. I lived in the office for the first few months. I was 18 years old, sleeping on a futon, cooking on a George Foreman grill and showering at a friend's house every few days. I once jumped into a dumpster to recover the proof-of-purchase tag from a chair box to claim the $50 rebate. We worked until we fell asleep, and we slept until we woke up. Time was amorphous. Our fundraising strategy was simply to acquire customers and reinvest the revenue. We started by giving iContact away to a local sandwich shop called Jimmy John's. There was a fishbowl on the counter for customers to drop in business cards. Once a week we'd collect the fishbowl and type the contacts into Jimmy John's newsletter database. When they began seeing an increase in returned visits from customers receiving the newsletter, Jimmy John's became a paying customer.
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Learning to Grow
By September 2003, iContact had 10 customers, and we even hired our first employee to help with customer service and marketing. By the end of 2003, we had a grand total of $12,000 in sales and $17,000 in expenses. We had spent a year of our lives building iContact, and all we had to show for it was negative $5,000 in earnings. Our sole server crashed that Christmas, bringing the website down and product offline for a week. We lost a third of our customers. But we persisted. iContact had a basic business model. We charged between $10 and $699 per month to manage a client's contact database, send out e-mails to customers and potential customers and track the results. The average customer paid $50 per month and remained a customer for three to four years. Over time, we found that, on average, it cost us $500 to acquire a customer who would pay $2,000 in revenue over time. It was clear, in other words, that if we could invest more in marketing, we could grow the company profitably — but we needed outside funding to make that happen quickly, before other companies filled the niche and the opportunity disappeared. In 2006, we hired a CFO to help us raise a $500,000 seed round of funding, which we invested primarily on pay-per-click ads on Google and kept a close eye on return-on-investment metrics. We saw that for every $1 we spent in Google ads, we earned $5 over time — so naturally we kept scaling the advertising model and doubled in size from 12 employees and $1.3 million in sales in 2005 to 30 employees and $2.9 million in sales in 2006.
Building a Team
With the scalability of our model demonstrated, iContact closed an additional $5.3 million in funding in 2007. We invested in building out iContact's senior management team, hiring experienced heads of technology, sales, support and marketing. I was now a 23-year-old managing a 100-employee company and overwhelmed with my newfound responsibilities. Fortunately, I was surrounded with a strong executive team to help grow the business. Over the next two years, iContact revenues grew 271%, ending 2009 with $26 million in revenue and 500,000 users. The execution was hard work, but the formula was simple. Build a product customers love, and market it aggressively across search engines, websites, partners and the radio within very clear mathematical guidelines.
Discovering the Bigger Picture
Our success turned bittersweet when iContact co-founder Aaron Houghton was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in late 2009. He underwent surgery and, happily, was declared cancer-free a year later. But the episode made us reflect deeply on our current situation and our goals. We wanted to build the company in a way that represented our belief that businesses earn the best financial returns when, in addition to driving returns for shareholders, they work to make a long-term difference in the world for customers, employees and community. We launched a program called the 4-1s, under which we would donate 1% of the company's payroll, equity, product and employee time to local and global communities. iContact hired a corporate social responsibility manager and became a B Corp , a designation from a nonprofit organization called B Lab certifying iContact as a socially responsible company. We firmly believe that to attract the best people you must create a fun environment and have a deep sense of collective mission.
The Next Phase
In 2010 we closed on a $40 million round of funding from JMI Equity, which we hope to use to grow to $500 million in annual revenue in the years ahead. Our customers send 1.5 billion e-mails every month to their subscribers. This quarter we'll be launching a social-media marketing product to propel iContact into new opportunities. We've come a long way from the days of sleeping in the office and eating Ramen noodles.


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Aquaman sucks. These are his adventures.
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An animal welfare group is offering a $1,000 reward after it was confirmed a dog near Creston died of strychnine poisoning.
Andrew Stolz was out for a run up Mount Cowley in late March with a friend and his German Shepherd, Topaz.
The trio came to the crest of a hill, they saw three golden eagles fly off from a what turned out to be a raccoon carcass with its tail cut off further down the bank.
They kept running, until Topaz dropped to the ground.
Her back leg seized in mid-run," Stolz said. "She collapsed."
He thought she might be having a stroke, so he sent his friend to go get his truck.
"I carried her, and she was having horrible seizures. I tried to give her water, but she didn't want it."
Topaz took her last breath, suffering an "excruciating" death, and he carried her body back down the trail.
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Later that day, Stolz's friend's wife, a dog walker, said a dog in her care recently had to be rushed to the vet after eating strychnine-laced meat.
Stolz went back to the raccoon carcass with a conservation officer, and saw two plastic bags of meat nearby – one eaten.
"Some pieces of meat had slipped down on to the road and Topaz must have got some while we were running."
Lab tests later confirmed strychnine in the meat. Samples were sent for further testing.
"In my investigation, what I saw at the scene is troubling," said the officer, James Barber. "If this is a poisoning, it will be very hard to find the culprit and we are going to need the public to help with information."
Stolz wondered if the meat had anything to do with the Creston rod and gun club's competition to kill wolves and other predators in an effort to protect farmers' livestock. Some cattle at ranches across B.C. have been decimated by an overpopulation of wolves over the past decade.
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Conceived for Pizza Delivery Businesses, but flexible enough to serve any restaurant type.
Maintain your restaurant menu online and accept cash on delivery orders.
Set categories, multiple prices per item and descriptions.
Several layouts inbuilt(Default, Responsive, Grid).
New order notifications.
Opening/Closing times per day.
Allow tips/gratuities.
Simple discounts.
Multiple taxrates.
Order reports.
Multilingual Frontend (just update labels in admin settings page and/or widget as required). WPML compatible.
Multisite enabled.
Keeps track of your online orders.
Shortcode enabled. (see complete shortcode list)
Many other additional options inbuilt.
To see the plugin in action with different themes try it at demo.wp-pizza.com
If you wish to allow your customers to add additional ingredients to any given menu item, have a look at the premium "WPPizza Add Ingredients" extension
Premium extensions available:
- Add Ingredients (Toppings) – (Demo)
- Delivery By Post/ZipCode – (Demo)
- Cross-Sells – (Demo)
- Pickup Prices – (Demo)
- Preorder – (Demo)
- Stockmanagement – (Details / Screenshots)
- Coupons and Discounts – (Demo)
- Timed Menu – (Demo)
- Rewards – (Details / Screenshots)
- Confirm | Reject | Notify – (Details / Screenshots)
- PDF Invoices – (Details / Screenshots)
- Mailinglists – (Details / Screenshots)
- Autoprint – (Details / Screenshots)
- Goodcom Printers – (Details / Screenshots)
Additional payment gateways to process credit card payments instead of just "Cash on Delivery"
Translations provided by:
- Italien: Silvia Palandri
- Hebrew: Yair10 [הלב בניית אתרים ]
- Dutch: Jelmer
- Spanish: Andrew Kurtis at WebHostingHub
- German: Franz Rufnak, Witali Opfer
Many, many thanks guys and girls.
Note: As the plugin gets updated over time and has some other strings and features added, the translations above (and future ones) are likely to have some not-yet-translated strings. If you wish, feel free to provide any of those missing and I will update the translations accordingly.
If you want to contribute your own translation, feel free to send me your files and I will be more than happy to include them.
Demo Icons:
Please note that the icons used in the demo installation are iconarchive.com icons and not for commercial use.
If you do wish to use any icon from this set commercially, please follow this link to purchase it.
Allergen/Foodtype Icons (credit where credit is due):
Allergen/Foodtype Icons – though modified and with the exceptions stated below – are courtesy of icon-icons.com
Foodtype Vegetarian/Vegan Icons courtesy of vectorstock.com
Halal/Kosher Icons specifically created for this plugin.
Note: Allergen/Foodtype Icons included with this plugin can be used on your site 'as is' and without any attribution
Loading Icon:
"Double Ring" Loading Icon SVG (v3.13+) generated at loading.io
- Download the plugin and upload the entire
folder to the/wp-content/plugins/
Alternatively you can download and install WPPizza using the built in WordPress plugin installer. - Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
- You will find all configuration and menu options in your administration sidebar
Things to do on first install
For consistency, this document has now moved to the following location :
** I strongly encourage you to read it **
Please note:
Although all options, menu items and menu categories get deleted from the database along with the table that holds any orders you may have received, you will manually have to delete any additional pages (such as the order page for example) that have been created as i have no way of knowing if you are using this page elsewhere or have changed the content/name of it.
The same goes for the 3 example icons that come with this plugin as they might be in use elsewhere.
General Faq's
for consistency and manageability the faq's have been moved to https://docs.wp-pizza.com/faqs/
please refer to https://docs.wp-pizza.com/shortcodes/
How can I submit a bug, ask for help or request a new feature?
- leave a message on the wordpress forum and I'll respond asap.
- send an email to dev[at]wp-pizza.com with as much info as you can give me or
use the "contact form", "feature request" page or support forum on www.wp-pizza.com
additional premium add-ons can be found at www.wp-pizza.com
* Maintenance Release
11th July 2024
* Fix: potential xss vulnerability in edge scenarios
* Fix : some potential php notices eliminated
03rd June 2024
* Added: option to display allergen icons in menu item title
* Tweak: minor css adjustments in admin display
26th April 2024
* Test UpTo: 6.5
* Update: Maintenance release to address edgecase error 10001
11th April 2024
* Update: adding some more user capabilities checks in some places
* Added: Some more tracing info in transaction errors column
8th March 2024
* Fix: Shortcode attributes may throw error in edgecases
* Fix: Some deprecation notices on install
* Update: Regenerate openingtimes widget on pickup / delivery change (as opening times may differ)
* Added: Distinct filters for options 'settings', 'layout', 'localization', 'order_settings', 'openingtimes'
* Added: js trigger to 'wppizza_event' class to allow other plugins to listen to and react to events such as change delivery type, cart/order update etc
13th February 2024
* Fix: Some js actions might have run twice unnecessarily with certain settings
25th January 2024
* Tweak: display name (see changelog 3.18.7) not shown
24th January 2024
* Fix: some more php 8.2 / 9 warnings
* Tweak: added display name (typically equals username and/or nickname) after user id in email/print templates (if enabled)
* Tweak: more robust page reloading when waiting for webhook notifications
* Dev: some encryp/decrypt helper functions added
24th January 2024
* Fix: Localization strings when shop is closed due to holidays were not correctly applied
* Fix: some more php 8.2 / 9 warnings
* Tweak: Make dynamically loaded scripts follow async / defer attributes
* Dev: additional arguments added to some filters
6th January 2024
* Fix: potential fatal error with report custom from/to date range
* Tweak: Account for plugins/themes that inexplicably output stylesheets and othermarkup directly (in selected ajax request) instead of enqueueing them
* Dev: adding some convenience helper function (webhook listener)
* Dev: allow gateways to be loaded depending on (added) 'gatewayInitType' parameter
* Dev: add gateway input filed to be of type password
* Dev: add classes for consistency to admin gateway input fields where missing
15th December 2023
* Fix: custom opening times not always applied
* Fix: some php 8.2 / 9 warnings
* Tweak: some minor sanity checks
* Tweak: some minor css tweaks
* Tweak: added some id's to some elements
* Tweak: changed some "lable"s to "span"s for consistency
* Tweak: added tips column to summary report overview
* Dev: adding additional sales data query filters
30th October 2023
* Fix: potential xss vulnerability
9th September 2023
* Fix : alternative taxrates for items from pre v3.15 might not always have been correctly applied
* Compatibility/Fix : make sure wppizza related phpmailer_init actions get removed after altering for wppizza related emails
28th August 2023
* Added : allow to load a locally hosted version of the smoothness jquery ui css for better gdpr compliance
* Fix : more potential php notices and warnings eliminated
23rd August 2023
* Performance improvements: Bestseller shortcode
* Tweak : Minor css declaration adjustment
* Fix : more php notices / warnings (php 8.2+) eliminated
* Fix : Multiple taxrate array might get key truncated resulting in potential display errors
* Fix : Order details odd/even class names not always coirrectly applied
* Fix : Edgecase json encoding error in js cart contents (when using confirmation page and html tags in order form labels)
* Dev : Added some more dedicated filters (tips, gateways localized parameters)
* Dev : Added localised js currency parameters
* Dev : Added missing 'sortname' passthrough parameters
* Dev : Added some additional helper validation functions
* Dev : Adding optional parameters to some functions
* Dev : Improved some consistency in some methods
* Dev : Update in gateway development examples
* Dev : Add localised wppizza.extend parameters to all ajax calls
15th August 2023
* Fix: Addressed issue of custom closing hours being sanitised incorrectly
* Maintenance: removed outdated v3.13 to 3.15 from WP repository
10th May 2023
* Added: accordion as layout option and/or shortcode attribute (accordion=1)
* Tweak: always remove click cursor / hover-underline on prices when disabling online orders
* Tweak: minor css adjustments
* Fix: remove some php notices/warnings for some edgecases
8th May 2023
* Fix: added missing valdation on some parameters
* Fix: Some more potential php 8.2+/9 notices/errors fixed
* Dev: improving consistencies across a few functions
* Dev: adding some helper functions for convenience
* Dev: adding some odd/even css classes to cart items for convenience
25th April 2023
* Fix: Fatal error (due to typo) in newly added holidays opening times class
* Fix: Some more potential php 8.2+ notices fixed
12th April 2023
* Added: Allow to set dates to be closed between a range of 2 dates (e.g. holidays)
* Fix: Some JS functions potentially not re-initialising when updating cart
* Fix: Number of php 8.2+ notices fixed
* Tweak: More consistent localization capitalisation on install
* Tweak: Help verbiage updated
* Dev: Replacing some depracated (php8.2+) functions
* Dev: Added some autocomplete=off in a few admin text inputs to aid usability
* Dev: Selected filter priorities tweaked
11th April 2023
* Fix: Potential (but inconsequential) php warnings due to inverted conditional
* Fix: Additional (premium) gateways may not have had their license options displayed in the license tabs
* Dev: Make wppizzaCartJson (js object) available on confirmation page too
13th February 2023
* Fix: wppizza_validate_array might save an single key with an empty value in edgecases
* Fix: Symbol for CZK currency missing diacritics
* Fix: Eliminated some potential php notices/warnings
* Fix: Some gateway update functions might have run unnecessarily in admin
* Dev: Sanitise sprintf outputs to make sure to only allow permitted number of placeholders
* Dev: Passing on gateway ident parameter to gateway classes in some places
* Dev: Display any placeholders attached to radio outputs in admin gateway settings
* Dev: Added language code(s) to js parameters
8th February 2023
* Fix: Eliminated some more potential php(8) notices/warnings
* Fix: Repurchase of a whole order might result in 'unknown' item added to cart if quantity > 1
* Dev: Allow filtering of template options
* Dev: Allow filtering of get_orders() query arguments
* Dev: Added globally available wppizza_order_table() and wppizza_meta_table() helpers
* Dev: Added example COD type gateway for development (/add-ons/)
16th January 2023
* Fix: Backwards compatibility fix
15th December 2022
* Fix: Incompatibilities introduced in 3.16
* Fix: Some double escaping in edge cases
* Tweak: wrap formfield values (confirmation page) in label element (instead of span) to aid theme consistencies
* Added: Allow checkout formfields to be omitted entirely if no value is required to be entered
13th December 2022
* Fix: Rollback – for the time being – to 3.15 as 3.16 potentially and unintentionally broke some plugins
09th December 2022
* Fix: Eliminated some more potential php notices/warnings (especially with php8)
* Fix: (No)Milk/Lactose Icon not always displayed if used
* Fix: Order form multicheckboxes, radio , checkbox inputs were not necessarily saved/updated in user profiles (if enabled)
* Update: Some more consistency in capitalisation of localisation strings on install
* Update: Updated/added info on some help screens
* Update: Prevent session_start where sessions are not needed (selected scripts / feeds / cronjobs)
* Update: Updated some language files
* Added: Added distinct "Spend x save y" localisation string, replacing separate "spend" and "save"
* Dev: Added some language identification constants for convenience
* Dev: Added helper "wppizza_surcharges_total()", "wppizza_is_frontend()", "wppizza_set_userdata()" , "wppizza_get_userdata()", "wppizza_prevent_session()"
* Dev: Make orderpage dropdown and radio inputs use numeric indexes as values instead of strings
* Dev: Additional parameters added to – now filterable – wppizzaCartJson object
06th December 2022
3.0 – 3.15.x
* changelogs for versions 3.0 to 3.15.x can be found in /wppizza/changelogs/
1.0 – 22.214.171.124
* changelogs for versions up to 3.0 can be found in /wppizza/changelogs/


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Package Renaming Process
For a variety of reasons it may become necessary to rename a package in Fedora. The goal of this page is to outline the process that must be followed when such an event occurs.
Re-review required
When you wish to rename a package, you MUST request a re-review of your package through the Package Review Process. In this review request, you MUST state that this is a re-review request for a package rename, and the old package name that this is replacing.
The reviewer of the package MUST explicitly acknowledge this fact, and check the package for the proper Obsoletes and Provides (see relevant Packaging Guidelines for more information.) They MUST document in the review request that they have done so.
After the review
After the review is completed, and is satisfactory (for the avoidance of doubt, the lack of a clean upgrade path for users of the package in the form of proper Provides and Obsoletes is considered a blocker to the review), request git for the package as you normally would for a new package.
After the new package is imported into git, you can follow the Package Retirement Process for the old package.
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Fly Control Around Horse Barns and Stables
ENTFACT-514: Fly Control Around Horse Barns and Stables | Download PDF
by Lee Townsend, Extension Entomologist
University of Kentucky College of Agriculture
House flies and stable flies are common pests around horse barns, stables, and corrals. Persistent house flies are very annoying and potential carriers of human and animal pathogens. Stable flies give painful bites making activities unpleasant for humans and making horses nervous and difficult to manage.
House flies visit most any moist material from manure and decaying organic matter to garbage to blot up a liquid meal with their sponging mouthparts. They can carry a range of pathogens for such things as intestinal disorders and eye infections on their restless journeys. Females may deposit batches of eggs as they feed on a variety of moist, fermenting organic matter, manure, rotting hay, feed silage, or garbage. The cycle from egg to adult takes from 7 to 14 days, depending on environmental conditions. Mature larvae will crawl to drier sites to pupate and emerge as adults.
The stable fly resembles a house fly but has a distinct piercing mouthpart that projects from the front of its head. Males and females are blood feeders, usually attacking the flanks or below the knee causing horses to stamp or kick themselves. The fly is on the animal for only a few minutes; after feeding it moves to walls, fences, or other surfaces to digest its meal. Stable fly maggots develop in decaying organic matter. A fermenting mixture of straw, spilled feed, or hay, and urine or water is ideal. Horse manure is usually too dry but becomes suitable if moistened. Females lay several batches of 40 to 80 eggs. Development from egg to adult takes 21 to 25 days during the summer.
House flies and stable flies need breeding material, moisture, and warmth to develop. A successful fly control program must rely on timely elimination of breeding sites and moisture control. Insecticides can help to provide some temporary reduction of house fly and stable fly populations but cannot be the basis of effective fly management.
Elimination of breeding site is the key to a successful fly control program. Barns and corrals should be cleaned once a week to break fly life cycles. Removed manure and other fly breeding materials should be spread thinly over an appropriate area or composted, if practical.
Maintain good drainage to eliminate wet manure, spilled feed, and hay or straw. Check for and correct wet areas around animal waterers. Dry manure and accumulated organic matter are not good breeding sites.
Mechanical Control
- Screening is an excellent way to keep flies out of feed and tack rooms and box stalls.
- Fans that direct a downward and outward air flow will keep flies from entering barns.
- Fly traps and sticky paper will capture flies. They may be most useful as a means of documenting fly numbers over time. A significant increase in catch from one week to the next can be a warning to check on sanitation and to increase fly control measures.
- Several commercial firms offer a fly parasite (predator) release program that can be used to supplement fly control. Aspects of using biological control are covered in Entfact 502, Biological control of flies.
Insecticides as Supplements to Fly Control
Insecticides are used to kill adult flies after a problem has developed. While they can help to reduce fly numbers, they do not address their source – moist breeding materials. There are many alternatives for fly control but they should be viewed as a temporary solution until the root cause of the problem can be corrected. Large numbers of flies mean lots of breeding sites and a situation that cannot be corrected by insecticides alone.
Residual insecticides are applied to walls, ceilings, and rafters of barns and sheds where flies rest. General observations and accumulations of fly specks (waste drops) will help to identify these spots. Be sure to protect water and feed when making applications. In order to minimize control failures due to insecticide resistance, do not apply the same insecticide or insecticide within he same chemical class repeatedly throughout an entire season.
Space sprays, fogs, and mists can provide a quick knockdown of flies, especially in enclosed areas. Systems vary from foggers to timed release aerosols. Usually, these are pyrethrins with very short residues so treatments have to be repeated.
Pyrethrins – many ready-to-use and concentrate formulations
Fly baits can be placed in bait stations. They are most effective when there are few competing food sources in an area. Baits attract and kill house flies but are not effective against blood-feeding stable flies. Animals must not have access to these materials.
Larvicides are insecticides that can be applied to breeding sites where large numbers of maggots are present and the area cannot be cleaned in a timely manner.
Feed through insecticides are administered specific levels in animal feed and pass out in the feces making the manure toxic to developing maggots. Each animal must get the correct amount every day. While they can reduce fly production from manure, they do not address problems with wet spilled feed and straw.
The instructions for use of the recommended insecticides are not as comprehensive as the pesticide labels and are intended to be used as guidelines only. Before using any pesticide, READ THE LABEL for more specific instructions. Many insecticides are sold under brand names not listed in this publication.
Issued: 5/07
Revised: 5/07
CAUTION! Pesticide recommendations in this publication are registered for use in Kentucky, USA ONLY! The use of some products may not be legal in your state or country. Please check with your local county agent or regulatory official before using any pesticide mentioned in this publication.
Of course, ALWAYS READ AND FOLLOW LABEL DIRECTIONS FOR SAFE USE OF ANY PESTICIDE!
Images: University of Kentucky Entomology


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As noted above, systematic, nationwide data on school bus contracting are scarce, but some state-level analyses exist. Economists E. Bruce Hutchinson and Leila J. Pratt at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga have twice acquired state data that allowed for a rigorous statistical analysis of school bus contracting costs.
Their first study, published in 1999 in the Policy Studies Journal, involved a comparative analysis of in-house and contracted services for busing in 19 school systems in Tennessee.[44] They found that savings were indeed possible: 15 of the 19 districts had average costs that were 27 percent lower as a result of privatization.[45] At the same time, costs rose by an average of 21 percent in four of the districts following privatization.[46] The research accounted for variables such as the type of buses used, the price of labor and fuel, and what the authors called a "localization factor." The latter was designed to account for such things as differences in the individual contracts, labor rates and geography.[47]
The second study, completed in February 2006 and accepted for future publication in the Journal of Private Enterprise, examined district or "parish" contracting in Louisiana. In this case, Hutchinson and Pratt found that privatized school bus transportation was 10 percent more costly on average than in-house systems. The authors suggest that hybrid systems, where school boards contract for some routes but provide others in-house, may generate savings by retaining less costly bus routes in-house while outsourcing more expensive portions to contractors.[48]
Hutchinson and Pratt's second finding indicates something that will be discussed in more detail later in this primer: Privatization can fail to save money if school districts do not arrange the contracting process to maintain the pressure of monitoring and threat of market competition on the vendor.


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Postcard, no date or postmark.
Dear Cousin,
I hope you will have a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year.
Mabry Bills
Master Herchel Logan
Windfield Kan
Found in "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Published by Houghton Mifflin, circa 1900.
Note, the name Herchel (or Herschel) Logan sounded familiar, so I did a quick Googling. Turns out Master Logan was a fairly well-known artist and author.
Now the name sounded really familiar. Sure enough, we have one of Logan's miniature books in stock:
The book is about 2.5 inches tall.
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This month, join a Crafty Pumpkin Party!
We are excited to present "Crafty Pumpkin Parties" this month as special events in select locations! TONS of fun with 2 take home projects, music, story time and snack! Must sign up in advance so we can prepare materials! LEARN MORE HERE!