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GENEVA - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and five foreign ministers launched an intensive diplomatic push Saturday to close a deal curbing Tehran's nuclear program while cautioning that significant obstacles remained on the fourth day of marathon talks.
Diplomats refused to spell out details of the talks, held in a five-star Geneva hotel. But comments from both sides suggested they were focused on wording of the final agreement.
The goal is to hammer out an agreement to freeze Iran's nuclear program for six months while offering the Iranians limited relief from crippling economic sanctions. If the interim deal holds, the parties would negotiate final-stage agreements to ensure Iran does not build nuclear weapons.
Only then would the most crippling sanctions on Iranian oil sales and financial transactions be rolled back.
Despite the high-powered diplomatic participation, it was unclear whether the current round, which began Wednesday, would produce any first-step deal.
The Iranians, mindful of opposition to any restrictions among hard-liners back home, have insisted on retaining the right to produce nuclear fuel by enriching uranium, saying they need it to produce electricity and for scientific research.
They also are holding out for maximum relief from sanctions hurting their economy, while the United States and its allies want to relax sanctions in small, incremental steps.
Talks on Saturday appear to have included ways Iran could retain some level of enrichment, albeit at a level far below what's need for weapons. Other roadblocks were believed to include the level of sanctions relief and the future of a plutonium reactor under construction at Arak that the six want closed. Plutonium can also be used to make weapons.
It was also unclear whether the negotiations would continue Sunday. Kerry's spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, said he still planned to travel to London on Sunday for meetings on other Middle East issues.
Kerry is to meet with Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan in London to discuss the security situation and ongoing political reforms in that country.
Kerry and his counterparts from Russia, Britain, France, China and Germany joined the Geneva talks after Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and top European Union diplomat Catherine Ashton reported progress on enrichment and other issues Friday.
Their participation raised speculation that an agreement was close — an interpretation that the foreign ministers themselves sought to discourage.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague spoke of "very difficult negotiations," over issues that blocked agreement at the last round earlier this month.
"We're not here because things are necessarily finished," Hague told reporters. "We're here because they're difficult, and they remain difficult."
Among the key stumbling blocks, uranium enrichment is especially sensitive. Iran insists it has no interest in nuclear weapons but needs to enrichment to generate electricity and for scientific and medical purposes.
Washington and its allies are skeptical because of Tehran's earlier efforts to hide enrichment. Israel, which is not a party to the talks, opposes allowing any Iranian enrichment capability.
Iran has suggested it could curb its highest-known level of enrichment — at 20 per cent. But critics worry that Iran could ramp up to weapons grade enrichment quickly if the 20 per cent threshold is allowed to remain.
The U.S. administration has not confirmed details of what concessions on economic sanctions it might offer. But a member of Congress and legislative aides have said the White House was considering releasing about $6 billion to $10 billion in Iranian funds frozen in foreign banks.
Iran would also be allowed to sell petrochemicals and be supplied with auto parts to revive its car industry and exports of automobiles to parts of Asia. The aides and the member of Congress demanded anonymity because they weren't authorized to divulge the estimate publicly.
A senior U.S. official told reporters last week that Iran is losing $5 billion a month in lost oil sales alone and $120 billion in total from all sanctions since their imposition, although he did not give a time frame. The official demanded anonymity in keeping with rules established by the U.S. administration.
The U.S. administration is keen to keep rollbacks limited to placate influential members of U.S. Congress who argue that pressure has brought Iran to the negotiating table and cannot be relaxed until Tehran offers significant concessions
At the same time, Iranian hard-liners are suspicious of talk of nuclear compromise since moderate President Hassan Rouhani took office in September, fearing his team will give not get enough in terms of sanctions relief over the six-months of any first-stage agreement.
France's concern that the negotiators were rushing into a flawed deal with Iran helped delay an agreement during a session nearly two weeks ago.
Zarif appeared to allude to the toughening of demands after France's intervention. Iran's Mehr news agency quoted him as saying that back then, "the two sides had agreement on issues but now it has reached a stage that there are various viewpoints and it is somehow difficult."
Associated Press writers Deb Riechmann and George Jahn in Geneva, and Robert H. Reid in Berlin contributed to this report.


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DWTS Lacey Schwimmer Choreographs Las Vegas Show "Magic And Mayhem"
America's Got Talent and Master illusionist, Michael Turco, and Dancing With The Stars Pro, Lacey Schwimmer have teamed up for a 'mashup' Las Vegas production called "Magic and Mayhem" that will debut Feb. 16 at Saxe Theater in Planet Hollywood's Miracle Mile Shops. Below are some more details from Vegas Deluxe if you'd like to take in the fun event while visiting.
The show is described as a fusion of illusions and audience interaction combined with the stylings of choreographer Lacey, who grew up in Las Vegas. "The time was right for me to make the leap to Las Vegas, and Saxe Theater is the perfect fit," Michael said in a news release. "I am living my dream and couldn't be happier to bring my show to the Entertainment Capital of the World."
Theater owner David Saxe added, "This show is perfect for all ages. Its youthful energy and innovative style will definitely set it apart from the rest." Lacey said she's proud to add Las Vegas show choreographer to her resume. "I'm excited to be working with Michael Turco. I'm thrilled to be part of it!" "Magic and Mayhem" will run 4 p.m. daily.

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--June 7, 2018.
QAHN is pleased to announce that it has just received funding from the Chawkers Foundation, with the help of its community partner the Townshippers' Foundation, to continue its educational programming and outreach activities -- and more specifically, its popular "Heritage Talks" lecture series, launched in 2017-2018. The amount of the Chawkers grant is $10,000.
QAHN Executive Director Matthew Farfan is delighted with the support. "We're really grateful to the Chawkers Foundation," he said, "and for for the foundation's recognition of the work we're doing to bring quality educational programming, particularly in terms of the heritage and history of Quebec's English-speaking population, into Quebec's regions. This is what QAHN's mission is all about."
Farfan said that QAHN would be laying the groundwork for a second round of "Heritage Talks" in the coming weeks. Events will take place at heritage and cultural venues around Quebec, he said, and will be similar in format to the talks held this past winter and spring.
The 2017-2018 program varied widely in theme. For example, one Montreal conference (by historian André Cousineau) focused on a tragic school fire that occurred in the city in 1907, claiming 17 lives, including a young teacher (Sarah Maxwell) who perished helping her pupils to safety and for whom a local park has been named. A conference in Knowlton, by Caitlin Bailey of the Canadian Centre for the Great War, examined corporate profiteering during the First World War. In Stanbridge East, participants learned about the history and ecosystem of the Pike River in southern Quebec. A talk by Grant Myers explored the deadly outbreak of spotted fever that devastated local communities and families in southern Quebec in the nineteenth century. Two talks spotlighted Aboriginal heritage. In Wakefield, guest speaker Chief Roger Fleury led an impassioned discussion on archaeological findings from an Anishinabe (Algonquin) cultural site near the confluence of the Gatineau and Ottawa rivers. This event was packed, and one attendee called it "a game-changer... Canadians are interested in learning and engaging more with respect to Indigenous issues." QAHN continued its exploration of Canada's First Nations heritage in Ormstown, where Mohawk storyteller Darren Bonaparte enthralled over 200 students at Chateauguay Valley Regional High with a presentation on Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) culture and diplomacy, as recorded through the medium of wampum.
"The 2018-2019 program should be just as interesting," Farfan said. "Stay tuned!"
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A recent blog post from Drew Crawford has generated many comments and tweets about the relative performance of web and native apps. Drew's well-written post is notable for its thorough documentation.
So should we all pack our mobile web app work and go native? Well, no.
First, the performance of JavaScript needs to be put in perspective: it is only a subset of the performance profile of most web apps. HTML, CSS, SVG and the network also consume CPU/GPU cycles. For some web apps, the layout and rendering of HTML/CSS/SVG consume the majority of CPU cycles (it is even possible to write a game without any JavaScript code albeit a limited one.) Not only does it mean garbage collection only affects a fraction of an application's overall execution budget, but a large part of the platform can be optimized and improved for all apps. So JavaScript is only one portion of mobile web apps's code and its strengths and shortcomings alike only affect that portion.
Figure 1: A web application's CPU budget
One may argue that this does not matter: why would anyone ever want to use a language that is slower than native? Wouldn't you always want the faster option?
As Drew's article points out, productivity is also important to developers. Drew uses the example of hashmaps: while managed languages usually build those in, native apps either rely on harder-to-use versions or roll out their own. Thus a big motivation for using a language such as JavaScript is its ease of use and dynamic nature. While not perfect it remains a language that is more accessible to more people than native code. It also is the same language across many platforms and devices, while native code is inherently platform-specific. Trading off some performance (for a fraction of the application, as explained above) for broader reach is appealing for many applications.
Granted, there exist native libraries that provide similar graphical, animated or layout features to what browser engines offer (and more). However, no solution that I know of has the the flexibility and ubiquitous reach that the web platform brings to the table.
Finally, a web app is not just client code. At the very heart of the web is the concept of distribution, of content as well as code. A web app can leverage the web and distribute its computing needs. The collaborative 3D authoring application Lagoa is a shining example of that possibility, as it distributes computation-intensive work to the cloud, operations that even the most powerful client code could not handle as well. Web apps, by nature, have access to the flexibility of this powerful architecture.
Web apps are way past the hype phase and climbing up the slope of enlightenment. Articles grounded in hard data like Drew's are certainly useful. But we need to be mindful about decisions we make and consider a web application's overall context before making the jump to native, and forego the many benefits of the web architecture.
In some cases (e.g., highly computationally intensive game), native code may indeed be the appropriate answer. But in most cases, web apps demonstrate the way of the future, even though the 'puppet master' code will run slower than its native counterpart. Remember that this relative slowness is a trade-off for other important benefits, such as higher productivity and unparalleled reach.


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Fans of the F/V Wizard–If you're in the Bellingham, Washington area on August 8th–this weekend, you can shmooze for a while with Captain Keith, eat some barbecue, tip back a cold one, and hopefully win a prize!
People can meet Capt. Keith Colburn from the TV show "Deadliest Catch" Sunday, Aug. 8, during a barbecue cook-off at The Market at Fairhaven.
Colburn, captain of the crab boat The Wizard, will sign autographs, take photos and give out prizes from noon to 2 p.m.
The barbecue competition will be from 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and will feature live music, a beer garden and food; $5 public sampling for the competition is Sunday.
The Market at Fairhaven is located at 3125 Old Fairhaven Parkway.
For more information, call (360) 714-7744.


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Rock City Trying To Convince Akon That Their Album Is Ready To Released! (Things Get A Bit Heated)
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Or maybe more like just a bit wonky.
A little tiling pattern design I was playing with a few weeks back. I think friends on kids fabrics or papers is an amazing idea, so you can have stories everywhere. These guys are a bit weird, a bit off kilter, but those are the most fun people to hang out with anyway. I'd like to have some printed fabrics with my patterns on soon, so I'm going to keep working on my pattern design!


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St. Edward's University student and a graduate of Tascosa High School, Briley Dockery, is featured in the upcoming Enduring Women exhibit at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin.
Briley photographed Connie Kirkham of Cross Plains for the Enduring Women exhibit, which will be from Saturday to May 19.
Enduring Women is collaboration between St. Edward's University and the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum as an exhibition of 12 women in Texas whose identities and lives are deeply immersed in the land.
This exhibit couples audio interviews with photography to enable the audience to glean a colorful and unique understanding of interesting and significant Texas women who exemplify what it means to live on and for the land.
Teams of advanced students from St. Edward's University, made up of an historian and a photographer, produced the interview materials and photographs.


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Cycling in Toronto: Why Can't We Get it Right?
We have a pent up, unsatisfied demand for cycling in Toronto. And what a good thing that is -- less pollution, less noise, healthier population, less congestion, less carbon and happier people. So why can't we get it right? While we rip up, at great cost, the one real bike lane that was created and sit and debate whether to build a subway or LRT for the 47th time, bikers are getting killed and congestion becomes unbearable.


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Copenhagenkō´pənhā˝gən, –hä˝gən [key], Dan. Københavnkö˝bənhoun´ [key], city (1992 pop. 464,566; metropolitan area 1,339,395), capital of Denmark and of Copenhagen co., E Denmark, on E Sjælland and N Amager islands and on the Øresund. It is a major commercial, fishing, and naval port and is Denmark's chief commercial, industrial, and cultural center. It is also a rail hub. The Store Bælt Bridge, between Sjælland and Fyn islands, links the city to Denmark's mainland; the Øresund Fixed Link (2000) connects the city with Malmö, Sweden. Manufactures include ships, machinery, pharmaceuticals, processed food, beer, textiles, plastics, marine engines, furniture, and the celebrated Copenhagen ware.
Copenhagen is the seat of a university (1479), a technical university (1829), an engineering college (1957), a music academy (1867), an economics and business administration school (1917), and a college of veterinary science and agriculture (1856). Frederiksberg and Gentofte are Copenhagen's largest suburbs and, although independent, are intimately tied to the city. Frederiksberg is the seat of the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain factory (1651), a palace, and a zoological garden.
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- Points of Interest
- History
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Hong Kong Day 3
I started the day at 6AM with a 6 mile run/hike/walk through the streets of Hong Kong with the usual workout gang–sista, BIL, and myself. All the locals were flipping out at the length of the skorts my sister and I were sporting… not short by any means according to CA standards but here the women wear skirts below their knees!
After that long ordeal we went back to the hotel to clean up and went back to Cafe One to eat our breakfast buffet. Eggs + hashbrowns have become "the usual" for me.
The fam bam wanted to go to Kowloon after, though our efforts were delayed a bit when out of nowhere it started POURING!!! It's the weirdest feeling when it's still 90 degrees Fahrenheit outside but it looks like a typhoon's about to hit. It was over within 15 minutes though and we left to catch the MTR.
We checked out a few 'communist shops' (my Momma swears you can see the difference, but I saw absolutely no difference in stock, people, or atmosphere). I walked away with nada. My sister found this really cool shark backpack in the streets but they only had one left. We were able to find more later though, so she got me one! After some intense shopping we were all exhausted and thirsty so stopped for some mango sago. So good!
Since we took the MTR to Kowloon, we decided to do something new and took the Star Ferry back to the mainland. We were a little discombobulated leaving the station, but -I'm glad we were because if we weren't I would have totally missed the best smile inducing compliment EVER.
There was a slim Asian girl–short spiky hair with bleached tips, an off the shoulder grey top and some stunna shades. She had her back tattooed as well as her upper arm. I was admiring her work when I looked up at her face and realized she was checking mine out, too. Before I knew it she said in the most awesome raspy voice ever, "nice tattoos". I smiled and said thanks, but was so shocked by her compliment I didn't get the chance to tell her hers were nice also. She headed for the escalators and I happily told my twinny what happened. I looked back to show him who the raddest girl I've seen in all of Hong Kong was and she was looking back at me. As lame as it sounds, I felt like I just saw a celebrity. She just exuded coolness. You have to understand–not only was she the most tattooed person I've yet to see in Hong Kong, but she was a she and hers were actually nice! Also, in HK people's manners are lacking. The phrase "excuse me" doesn't exist really, so her compliment totally made my day. Should have asked for a picture, argh!
We wandered the streets for a looooong while before heading to the market where everything is dirt cheap. DIRT CHEAP. I was quite 'over it' by the end–I had run 6 miles and was able to keep up with the two runners, but it was quite the effort. I had sprained my knee yesterday on the treadmill and the morning run + afternoon shopping really made it angry.
Eventually we made it back to the hotel. Everybody else went out to dinner and I'm here in the hotel by my lonesome. They said they were going to eat somewhere 'local' but the whole idea of not knowing exactly where we would eat and the possibility of us having to walk quite far deterred me. Risk=not worth it. So fur lunch and dinner I'm eating left over birthday cake. Healthy, right? It's chocolate mousse with rasberry!
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DR Strings Strings
Although the DR difference is something you can hear in their sound, you can get an idea of them even before you've listened to them firsthand. All you need to do is turn to the list of artists who use DR strings regularly. Take Sting and U2's Adam Clayton, for example. Or, how about Muse, Coheed & Cambria and Vampire Weekend? With musicians at this level trusting their tone to DR, you know in advance that they're following through on their commitment to quality.
In DR's lineup, you'll find plenty of strings for electric and acoustic guitars - not to mention bass guitars, which may even be what they're best known for. It's not hard to understand why that is: the heavier gauges and overall bigger size of bass strings show the benefits of hand-winding even more prominently than guitar strings. Something else that sets DR apart is their Hi-Def NEON series. Made with a UV-reactive coating, these strings literally shine onstage. And, naturally, they're every bit as well-made as any of DR's strings, promising a much longer lifespan thanks to the protection their coating provides.
One more thing you might want to think about is DR's selection of signature strings. These are perfect choices when you want to follow in the footsteps of an iconic guitarist. For rocking like Dimebag Darrell, or grooving on the bass like Bootsy Collins or Marcus Miller, DR signature strings are the way to go.
There's no doubt that DR strings set the standard when it comes to quality and tone - and you don't have to be a pro to play them, either. All over the world, beginners and guitar veterans alike swear by the results they get when they play with DR, so if you're serious about your sound, you've come to the right place.


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In the first large-scale, quantitative study of nascent social entrepreneurs, researchers from Harvard Business School and Echoing Green examine the rise of hybrid organizations that combine aspects of nonprofits and for-profits and the challenges hybrids face as they attempt to integrate traditionally separate organizational models.
Recent news coverage of Hot Bread Kitchen reads as if it were written about two different organizations. The New York City bakery is widely acclaimed for its innovative selection of international breads, but it is simultaneously an award-winning workforce development program. Hot Bread Kitchen is a hybrid organization: Its employees, mostly low-income immigrant women, bake bread inspired by their countries of origin, while learning job skills that can lead them to management positions in the food industry. In this way, Hot Bread Kitchen combines two traditionally separate models: a social welfare model that guides its workforce development mission and a revenue generation model that guides its commercial activities.
To outside observers, combining social welfare and revenue generation models might seem unnatural. But Hot Bread Kitchen's founder, Jessamyn Rodriguez, whose professional experience includes training at Daniel Boulud's flagship restaurant as well as a decade working in international development, pursued a vision for how each would complement the other. The business model would use product sales to fund its social mission, reducing dependence on donations, grants, and subsidies, as well as to scale up the organization. Rather than take a nonprofit model and add a commercial revenue stream—or take a for-profit model and add a charity or service program—Hot Bread Kitchen's integrated hybrid model produces both social value and commercial revenue through a single, unified strategy.
Hot Bread Kitchen exemplifies a larger trend among social innovators toward creating hybrid organizations that primarily pursue a social mission but rely significantly on commercial revenue to sustain operations. Such hybrids have long existed in certain sectors, such as job training, health care, and microcredit—but in recent years they have begun to appear in new sectors, including environmental services, consulting, retail, consumer products, catering, and information technology.
As part of the first large-scale, quantitative research study of nascent social entrepreneurs,1 a collaborative team from Harvard Business School and Echoing Green, a nonprofit with a 25-year record of supporting early stage social entrepreneurs, reviewed more than 3,500 recent Echoing Green Fellowship applications2 to better understand hybrid models. Over the last five years, applications from organizations that combined earned and donated revenue grew significantly: In 2010 and 2011, almost 50 percent relied on hybrid models vs. 37 percent in 2006. These entrepreneurs sought to address social issues in domains as diverse as hunger, health care, economic development, environment, education, housing, culture, law, and politics. This recent increase in the number of hybrids results in part from social entrepreneurs' willingness to be less dependent on donations and subsidies, as well as from an increased interest in creating sustainable financial models in the wake of the 2007-08 financial crisis.
Like hybrid species in nature, hybrid organizational models can be a fountain of innovation. But they also face distinct challenges that may prevent them from thriving. When organizations combine social mission with commercial activities, they create unfamiliar combinations of activities for which a supportive ecosystem may not yet exist. Hybrids also must strike a delicate balance between social and economic objectives, to avoid "mission drift"—in this case, a focus on profits to the detriment of the social good.
This article examines hybrids and the specific challenges they face in legal recognition, financing, pricing of goods and services, and creating a balanced organizational culture. We also explore emerging solutions to these challenges for those seeking to combine the value-creating potential of for-profits and nonprofits.
Integration as the Hybrid Ideal
The organization of the commercial and social sectors has long been governed by an assumption of independence between commercial revenue and social value creation. For more than a century, activities necessary to create commercial revenue, it was assumed, could not substantially affect or improve on social welfare, and vice versa. Thus most organizations that sought to pursue social value and commercial revenue simultaneously pursued differentiated strategies.
For instance, corporate philanthropy programs were viewed as a nonbusiness activity and were conducted at arm's length from corporations' core activities. On the other hand, many nonprofit organizations attempted to sell products or services, creating revenue streams to reduce dependence on philanthropic and public funders. Yet earned income programs, often unrelated to the core activities of nonprofits, did not always live up to expectations.3
Today it is clear that the independence of social value and commercial revenue creation is a myth. In reality, the vectors of social value and commercial revenue creation can reinforce and undermine each other. The social consequences of the recent financial crisis demonstrated with great clarity the danger of "negative externalities"—social costs resulting from corporate profit-seeking activities. But in some cases, "positive externalities" may also exist. It is this possibility that integrated hybrid models seek to exploit.
When we talk to entrepreneurs and students about hybrid organizations, a common theme that emerges is what we call the "hybrid ideal." This hypothetical organization is fully integrated—everything it does produces both social value and commercial revenue.4 This vision has at least two powerful features. In the hybrid ideal, managers do not face a choice between mission and profit, because these aims are integrated in the same strategy. More important, the integration of social and commercial value creation enables a virtuous cycle of profit and reinvestment in the social mission that builds large-scale solutions to social problems.
Perhaps the most visible example of the pursuit of the hybrid ideal is microfinance. For many, the revolutionary appeal of the microfinance movement was that poverty might be alleviated in a way that does not require continuous subsidies. When carefully managed, an additional loan can equal both more revenue and more of the desired social impact. As we have seen in microfinance and other industries where hybrids have grown, however, the real-world pursuit of the hybrid ideal is fraught with potential missteps. Recent scandals and critiques of microfinance institutions have focused on a drift away from social mission to more typical for-profit priorities—leading many observers to question whether social problems, such as extreme poverty, can be solved through strategies that also produce revenue.
Despite these obstacles, our research reveals that some hybrids manage to integrate social and commercial activities sustainably. Still, even when leaders manage to avoid mission drift, integrated hybrids can struggle to find a suitable place between the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, especially in their quest for legal recognition and access to capital, markets, and labor. We review these challenges in the four sections below.
Challenge #1: Legal Structure
Until recently, organizations in most countries had two main legal structure options, each offering certain benefits. For-profits focus for the most part on shareholder value maximization and are permitted to distribute returns to investors. Nonprofits singularly pursue a charitable purpose, and in return, governments offer substantial tax benefits. Nonprofits also benefit from social legitimacy and goodwill that attracts grants, donations, volunteers, pro bono professionals, and other free or inexpensive resources.
In this context, an entrepreneur seeking to create a hybrid organization faces a difficult and often confusing dilemma. If the organization becomes a nonprofit, selling products or services, it may have to pay tax on revenues associated with those activities and it could also lose its tax-exempt status if the activities are sufficiently disconnected from its primary charitable purpose. Yet, if the organization becomes a for-profit, it may be discouraged from pursuing social impact by the pressures of competitive markets as well as fiduciary responsibilities that generally prioritize profit maximization over other concerns. In other words, hybrid entrepreneurs can claim the organizational benefits of only one of the multiple forms of value they create.
Indeed, a hybrid that registers as a nonprofit cannot access equity capital markets because it cannot legally sell ownership stakes to investors. But if a hybrid incorporates as a for-profit, it cannot offer the same tax benefits to donors as registered nonprofits can, even if these approaches lead to the most effective social solution. Further complicating the choice is the reality that entrepreneurs cannot fully anticipate their future resource needs at the time legal registration choices are made, and thus risk being prematurely locked in to one sector or the other.
One solution adopted by a number of hybrid entrepreneurs is to exploit the benefits of both legal structures. This typically entails the creation of two separate legal entities, one a for-profit and the other a nonprofit. Embrace, an organization attempting to commercialize a low-cost incubator for premature infants, was originally a nonprofit social enterprise. After testing the product in India, the organization explored various options for financing further growth—but found the financing alternatives under the 501(c)(3) umbrella to be limited. To access a wider pool of capital and scale up its operations, Embrace created a for-profit called Embrace Innovations. The nonprofit owns equity in the for-profit, a structure that gives the nonprofit power to control the activities of the joint venture while protecting its social mission.
Despite its benefits, this multiple-entity approach also entails complex design requirements and administrative separation that can burden management. To create better options for hybrids, several efforts are under way to establish new types of legal structures. In the United States, there are three such forms: the L3C (Low-Profit Limited Liability Company), the Benefit Corporation, and the Flexible Purpose Corporation. The L3C is a variant of an LLC, designed primarily to enable companies to access investment from tax-exempt sources such as private foundations. The Benefit Corporation is a corporate form passed in seven states and pending in four others that requires organizations to consider a designated social purpose and corresponding social impact alongside financial analysis in making strategic and tactical business decisions. The Flexible Purpose Corporation, which has passed in California and Washington (where it is called the Social Purpose Corporation), requires boards and management to agree on one or more social and environmental purposes with shareholders, while providing additional protection against liability for directors and management.
Around the world, other hybrid legal structures have emerged. In the UK, for example, a Community Interest Company (CIC) provides tax benefits to hybrids that agree to limit their distributions to investors. A CIC, once given governmental approval, has its assets "frozen" and designated for general community benefit. Investors can receive capped dividends on their investment, but the principal is never retrieved. Yet in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere, legal registration is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of how legal systems affect the growth and success of hybrids. Areas of corporate law, such as the tax code, were not built for organizations that pursue social and financial value. Still, the emergence of new hybrid legal structures will likely encourage increased hybrid activity. What remains to be seen is which legal structures will be the best fit for hybrids.
Challenge #2: Financing
As in the case of legal structures, financing has evolved for for-profits and nonprofits, but not for hybrids. On the one hand, the for-profit sector has sophisticated vehicles for financing through equity and debt. On the other hand, a smaller but similarly specialized infrastructure of national and community foundations, early stage fellowship grantors, and venture philanthropists exists to provide funding to the nonprofit sector. Although these sources of nonprofit capital are scarce, they have long been the typical source of funding for organizations pursuing a social mission.
The current pathway to funding for hybrids is not so clear. One approach is to adopt a differentiated funding strategy that accesses profit-seeking investors for commercial activities and nonprofit fundraising and public subsidies for social activities. Sanergy Inc., a waste conversion startup that installs toilets in some of the poorest slums in the world, leverages such an approach. During 2011, Sanergy's leaders created two organizations: a nonprofit and a for-profit, each of which is uniquely dependent on the other for its sustained existence. Under this hybrid structure, the for-profit develops and scales up capitalintensive sanitation technology and infrastructure, and the nonprofit supports sanitation infrastructure and services within low-income communities. Reflecting on this funding approach, David Auerbach, Sanergy's co-founder, said: "We've found that grant funders are comfortable with the social mission priorities in the nonprofit, and that investors like the fact that we cannot fulfill our financial goal without actually providing hygienic sanitation. Both are inextricably linked."
Instead of relying on a differentiated funding strategy, many hybrid entrepreneurs focus initially on getting funding from the nonprofit sector. Apart from traditional nonprofit sources of funding in the form of grants or donations, program-related investments (PRIs)—which enable private foundations to allocate investments through equity, debt, or a mixture of both—have increased access to capital for US hybrids. We find that many hybrid entrepreneurs have been able to find supportive capital partners through this type of early stage financing.
Meanwhile, some hybrid entrepreneurs have started targeting more typical for-profit sources of funding. In the case of Frogtek—a for-profit social venture that develops business tools for microentrepreneurs in emerging markets—CEO David del Ser decided to incorporate as a for-profit because he believed startup financing could come from mainstream venture capital, enabling faster growth. But del Ser admits that attracting venture capital has been significantly more challenging than initially envisaged. He attributes the difficulty to investors' inability to quantify Frogtek's risk even though the return potential is attractive. Still, Frogtek has been successful in engaging angel investors whose values align with those of the organization.
Clearly, traditional early stage equity financing methods used by the venture capital industry are not suited to social ventures. Rather, investors who embrace the same dual objectives as hybrid entrepreneurs are needed. One such group is impact investors who are comfortable with hybrid models and their blend of social value creation and commercial revenue. Despite recent estimates that the global impact investing market will be at least $500 billion within the next decade,5 most hybrid entrepreneurs we have encountered still experience difficulty in raising capital. Solving this challenge will require changes in the mindsets of investors, who will have to accept a return that can range from a below market to market rate, as well as improved capital placement structures.
Challenge #3: Customers and Beneficiaries
Traditional businesses usually think of their consumers as customers, whereas traditional nonprofits think of their consumer base as beneficiaries. Hybrids, however, break this traditional customer-beneficiary dichotomy by providing products and services that, when consumed, produce social value. When consumption yields both revenue and social value, customers and beneficiaries may become indistinguishable. This kind of integration is powerful, in part because it resolves the deeply felt tension between mission and growth. When customers and beneficiaries are the same, focusing on growth doesn't take away resources from beneficiaries; rather, growth of sales and fulfillment of mission are inseparable. It should be no surprise that many of the fastest growing hybrids have this feature, including microfinance and other models in the developing world that produce goods and services for the bottom of the pyramid.
Depending on the social issue that they aim to address, however, hybrid entrepreneurs may not be able to integrate social value creation with earning commercial revenue in a single transaction. An obvious challenge to this type of integration is that many beneficiary groups lack the financial means to pay for the value they receive from a product or service. Even when products or services create financial value for beneficiaries, the realization of that value may be so distant that it is impractical to recapture. For example, educational programs might increase a child's future earnings, but organizations cannot recoup the child's future wealth. For this and a myriad of other areas addressed by the social sector, integration of customers and beneficiaries may never be possible or desirable.
Hybrid organizations addressing these types of social problems typically differentiate between customers and beneficiaries. Mobile School, a Belgian nonprofit, for example, provides educational materials to children who live on the streets through a "mobile school," basically a box on wheels containing blackboards and educational board games. Because Mobile School serves poor children, it cannot sustain its operations through selling materials or equipment to its beneficiaries. Instead, founder Arnoud Raskin launched a consulting business, Streetwize, which is incorporated as a social purpose company in Belgium. Streetwize's activities, which are separate from Mobile School, generate revenue to sustain the nonprofit's operations. The board members of Mobile School are shareholders of Streetwize.
Although they can be effective and sustainable, such differentiated approaches raise a number of challenges for hybrids that may need to make trade-offs between serving customers and beneficiaries. As Raskin puts it, "When we created Streetwize, there was a risk for Streetwize and Mobile School to grow into two disconnected organizations. Although they are two separate entities, engaged in different activities, the challenge is to make sure that they both remain focused on the mission of Mobile School. I view my role as making sure that we never compromise on this."
Yet such differentiated approaches are not the only options for hybrids. Some still have different populations of customers and beneficiaries, but their social and economic activities are more integrated. The beneficiaries of Hot Bread Kitchen, for example, produce and sell a product for customers, while learning job skills. In this case, social value is intimately related to sales, but is not contained in the product or service itself. Certain products and services that are valuable to both customers and beneficiaries create opportunities for even more integrated models. Indeed, for some hybrids such as commercial microfinance organizations, the beneficiaries of the service are the only customers of the organization. This overlap enables the organization to focus on one set of activities that fulfill its social and financial objectives. Like all hybrids, however, these organizations are still subject to the risk of mission drift, as they may give priority to profit seeking over social mission. This drifting may lead them to either start charging higher prices or expand their customer pool by targeting wealthier and more profitable market segments.
Challenge #4: Organizational Culture and Talent Development
All hybrid organizations face the challenge of remaining focused on their missions. At early stages, the passion and dedication of the entrepreneur can organically communicate such commitment within the organization. But as organizations grow, the influence of entrepreneurs on new staff becomes less direct and powerful. When direct influence weakens, culture becomes a critical means by which beliefs and values are communicated and maintained. Hybrids face the special challenge of building an organizational culture committed to both social mission and effective operations.
To keep the mission on course while still making enough money to sustain their operations, the leaders of hybrids must make deliberate cultural decisions. First, they must identify and communicate organizational values that strike a healthy balance between commitment to both social mission and effective operations. Equally important is the selection, development, and management of employees who are capable of recognizing and pursuing social and economic value.
Because hybrid organizations not widespread, job candidates with extensive experience or training in hybrid working environments typically do not exist. The alternative for hybrid entrepreneurs is to hire either people who have work experience in only one sector—be it the social or market sector—or a mix of people from both. Hiring people who all previously worked in the same sector decreases the likelihood of organizational conflict, but it significantly increases the risk of mission drift, as employees are likely to slip into the habits and skills they learned in their previous work. On the other hand, hiring a differentiated combination of people from disparate sectors can help the organization better balance its social and economic objectives but risks conflict between employees.
Bolivian microfinance NGO Banco Solidario (BancoSol) was one of the first to spin off its lending operations into a regulated commercial organization in 1992, transitioning from a typical nonprofit organization to a hybrid. As a nonprofit, BancoSol could not keep up with demand for loans from low-income entrepreneurs. The newly created hybrid organization would be in a better position to achieve this mission, as it would be financially self-sustaining. Needing both social work and banking skills, BancoSol hired a combination of employees from the social and business sectors and planned to train them to work together to achieve common goals. According to Francisco Otero, BancoSol's first CEO, a balanced organizational culture would be created by "converting social workers into bankers and bankers into social workers." Despite BancoSol's training efforts, however, the single-purpose backgrounds of their employees made it hard for them to adjust to the hybrid model. Those with a social work background and those with a financial background ended up resenting each other and fighting constantly, so that the organization could hardly operate.
Another Bolivian commercial microfinance organization, Caja de Ahorro y Prestamo (Los Andes), launched three years after BancoSol. It learned from BancoSol's experience and adopted a radically different hiring and socialization approach. Rather than look for job candidates with experience in either social welfare work or finance, Los Andes hired college graduates with essentially no work experience and then trained them to be microfinance loan officers committed both to the social mission of the organization and to effective operations. The idea was that without social-based or profit-based experience, employees would find it easier to adhere to the hybrid mission. Although this approach constrained the rate of growth at first, it proved to be more sustainable. Later, BancoSol changed its hiring and socialization strategies and adopted an approach closer to Los Andes'.6
Los Andes' strategy of hiring inexperienced people and socializing them into a hybrid organization work environment may not always be ideal for early growth, but many hybrid entrepreneurs we have studied adopted this approach. For example, Adive, a French nonprofit that aims to transform the workforce of French corporations by connecting them with ethnic minority suppliers and entrepreneurs, has adopted the same strategy. "In the hybrid space, it is often easier to work with junior people who have no preconceptions as to what the job entails," explains co-founder Majid El Jarroudi. "They can be trained to do the work, while embracing the social mission and the need to have effective operations."
No matter which hiring approach they choose, hybrids face the additional challenge of designing compensation systems, tasks, and governance policies that reinforce an organizational culture committed to both social mission and effective operations. Los Andes, for example, developed an incentive system for loan officers that tied pay to the number and quality of the loans in their portfolios. The quality criteria used were meant to ensure that the pursuit of the social mission would remain Los Andes' priority.
The Future of Hybrids
In the aftermath of the 2007-08 economic crisis, the global economic system is still regarded as broken. Calls for reform have been particularly strong among youth. Vast unemployment, ballooning debt, and entrenched inequality have left a generation of young people frustrated with modern capitalism and motivated to change it. Among the voices for reform, hybrid entrepreneurs are opening the way for a reformulation of the current economic order, combining the principles, practices, and logics of modern capitalism with more inclusive humanitarian ideals.
The essence of this movement is a fundamental convergence and reconfiguration of the social and commercial sectors, from completely separate fields to a common space. (See "The Hybridization Movement.") Hybrid organizations that are currently being created serve as a testing ground, and we expect that the most successful models will be replicated (see yellow arrow in the graphic). Yet hybrid entrepreneurs are not the only actors through which the hybridization of the economy is happening. Existing for-profit and nonprofit organizations are also part of this trend.
Using the guideposts of value creation and strategic integration, one can map the movement of organizations from the commercial and social sector toward more integrated hybrid forms. Whereas corporations' social programs were once primarily philanthropy, fully differentiated from business core, many are moving toward the adoption of more integrated social responsibility programs, in which the creation of economic and social value are coupled (see orange arrow in the graphic). Similarly, many nonprofit organizations continue to seek ways to adapt their existing models to generate some revenue to be less dependent on donors (see blue arrow in the graphic).
We expect this hybridization movement to be slow and gradual, as existing organizations are already embedded in models and stakeholder networks that constrain major strategic change. For full hybridization to occur, for-profit and nonprofit organizations and hybrid entrepreneurs need resources that align with their goal of creating both social and economic value. Hybrid organizations will require innovations in legal status, professional training, and capital financing, so that they do not need to make constant trade-offs between social and economic goals. At the field level, a critical step will be the development of measurement and reporting systems that recognize both social and financial value. The development of this ecosystem will not be the work of any heroic individual or organization; rather, it will require the creation of new systems by elected officials, policymakers, social impact investors, educators, and consumers who lift up a generation of hybrid organizations and their managers.
We are not suggesting that all nonprofits should seek profits. Some critical solutions to social problems will never be commercially viable, and it is important that we continue supporting these through grants and subsidies. Nor do we believe that all corporations are likely to become fully integrated hybrids. But for many entrepreneurs, integrated hybrid models offer a promising vehicle for the creation of both social and economic value. Someday, we may look at the advance of hybrid organizations as an early step in a broad reformulation of a current economic order, which for all of its successes has left many disenfranchised. Hybrid organizations offer a bold, sustainable infusion of humanitarian principles into modern capitalism. Yet, as with all sweeping social changes, success will require leadership and persistence. The promise of hybrids is very real, but much work lies ahead.
1 We selected a random sample of more than 3,500, or approximately 40 percent, of
the total applications received by Echoing Green between 2006 and 2011. We then
developed a codebook aimed at capturing the demographic profile of the applicants,
their social enterprise initiative goals, their resource and funding strategies, and
their approach to measuring future performance. All projects were double-coded by
two independent experts, who formed a database for our analyses.
2 Echoing Green Fellowship applicants self-identify as nascent social entrepreneurs
using Echoing Green's broad definition of social entrepreneurs as "visionaries" who
"develop bold new solutions to society's toughest problems." Applicants' organizations
tend to be less than two years old. Although we do not claim that Echoing
Green Fellowship applicants are a representative sample of the broader population
of social entrepreneurs, they provide a window of unprecedented depth and breadth
into the field of social entrepreneurship. Also, because Echoing Green's criteria for
defining social entrepreneurs are so inclusive, the sample provides a great platform
for us to look into the rise of hybrids and to examine their characteristics.
3 William Foster & Jeffrey Bradach, "Should Nonprofits Seek Profits?" Harvard Business
Review, 83, Feb. 2005.
4 In the hybrid ideal, social value and commercial revenue are non-divisible. This idea
has been explored at length in work by Jed Emerson and others on blended value; see
5 Two independent reports produced this estimate: "Investing for Social & Environmental
Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry," Monitor Institute,
2009; and "Impact Investments: An Emerging Asset Class," J.P. Morgan, 2010.
6 Julie Battilana & Silvia Dorado, "Building Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The
Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations," Academy of Management Journal,
53(6), 2010.


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My research interests focus on understanding how gene expression is regulated and the consequences of that regulation at the molecular, cellular, and developmental levels. My research at Iowa State University and at Plant Research International in the Netherlands concentrated on transcription factors and their role in developmental processes by the mediation of hormone or metabolite levels. Changes in the concentration or location of these transcription factors altered the initiation and development of the potato tuber and maturation of the tomato fruit. Next, I focused on the role the cell plays in the regulation of gene expression. Using a collection of plants with fluorescently tagged chromosome regions, we found that the physical location of the gene within the nucleus directly affected the expression of the gene. During my time at Harvard University, I turned my attention to the evolution of floral development. Rather than examining individual genes, I tracked thousands of genes to see how the transcriptional program of an entire organ has been modified to direct three key innovations in columbine flower development. My research has intensified my interest in the complex interactions controlling gene expression and their developmental consequences. Rather than simply turning a gene on or off, transcription factors, small RNAs, chromatin modifications, and nuclear architecture all interact to ensure a gene is expressed at the proper time and place, and that, consequently, the organism develops properly.
- Karlova, R., F.M. Rosin, J. Busscher-Lange, V. Parapunova, A. Fernie, P.T. Do, A.R. Fernie, P.D. Fraser, C. Baxter, G.C. Angenent, and R.A. de Maagd. 2011. Transcriptome and metabolite profiling show that APETELA2a is a major regulator of tomato fruit ripening. Plant Cell 23: 923-941. (abstract)
- Rosin, F.M. and E.M. Kramer. 2009. Old dogs, new tricks: Regulatory evolution in conserved genetic modules leads to novel morphologies in plants. Developmental Biology 332: 25-35. (abstract)
- Rosin, F.M., W. Watanabe, J.L. Cacas, N. Kato, J.M. Arroyo, Y. Fang, B. May, M. Vaughn, J. Simorowski, U. Ramu, R.W. McCombie, D.L. Spector, R.A. Martienssen, and E. Lam. 2008. Genome-wide tagging reveals location-dependent effects on transcription and chromatin organization in Arabidopsis. Plant Journal 55: 514-525. (abstract)
- Jovtchev, G., K. Watanabe, A. Pecinka, F.M. Rosin, M.F. Mette, E. Lam, and I. Schubert. 2008. Size and number of tandem repeat arrays can determine somatic homologous pairing of transgene loci mediated by epigenetic modifications in Arabidopsis thaliana nuclei. Chromosoma 117: 267-276. (abstract)
- Schijlen, E.G.W.M., C.H.R. de Vos, S. Martens, H.H. Jonker, F.M. Rosin, J.W. Molthoff, Y.M. Tikunov, G.C. Angenent, A.J. van Tunen, and A.G. Bovy. 2007. RNA interference silencing of chalcone synthase, the first step in the flavonoid biosynthesis pathway, leads to parthenocarpic tomato fruits. Plant Physiology 144: 1520-1530. (abstract)
- Rosin, F.M., N. Watanabe, and E. Lam. 2005. Moonlighting vacuolar protease: jobs for a busy protein. Trends in Plant Science 10: 516-518. (abstract)
- Hannapel, D.J., H. Chen, F.M. Rosin, A.K. Banerjee, and P.J. Davies. 2004. Molecular controls of tuberization. American Journal of Potato Research 81: 263-274. (abstract)
- Rosin, F.M., J.K. Hart, H. Van Onckelen, and D.J. Hannapel. 2003. Suppression of a vegetative MADS box gene of potato activates axillary meristem development. Plant Physiology 131: 1613-1622. (abstract)
- Rosin, F.M., J.K. Hart, H.T. Horner, P.J. Davies, and D.J. Hannapel. 2003. Overexpression of a knotted-like homeobox gene of potato alters vegetative development by decreasing gibberellin accumulation. Plant Physiology 132: 106-117. (abstract)
- Rosin, F.M., A. Aharoni, E.M.J. Salentijn, J.G. Schaart, M.J. Boone, and D.J. Hannapel. 2003. Expression patterns of a putative homolog of AGAMOUS, STAG1, from strawberry. Plant Science 165: 959-968. (abstract)
- Chen, H., F.M. Rosin, S. Prat, and D.J. Hannapel. 2003. Interacting transcription factors from the three-amino acid loop extension superclass regulate tuber formation. Plant Physiology 132: 1391-1404. (abstract)
- Graves, W.R., C.M. Foster, F.M. Rosin, and J.A. Schrader. 1999. Two early nodulation genes are not markers for the capacity of leguminous nursery crops to form root nodules. Journal of Environmental Horticulture 17: 126-129. (pdf)
- Rosin, F.M., D.I. Shapiro, and L.C. Lewis. 1996. Effects of fertilizers on the survival of Beauvaria bassina. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 68: 194-195. (abstract)


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Todd and I would like to offer our best wishes to the Jewish community as they celebrate Hanukkah. Known as the Festival of Lights, Hanukkah commemorates the eight-day miracle that took place when the Temple in Jerusalem was rededicated. Though there was only enough consecrated oil for one day, the flame miraculously burned for eight – just long enough to prepare more. This beautiful story is rich with life lessons for members of all faiths. With hope and dedication nothing is impossible, and the Almighty never abandons those who seek the light.
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"I live and work in an aesthetic informed by jazz principles and I practice true democracy as art and religion in a world resistant to all three." –J. Otis Powell!
Noted Twin Cities writer and performance artist, J. Otis Powell's first full album THEOLOGY: LOVE & REVOLUTION was a ground breaking work bringing together three of the Twin Cities finest musicians and five word performers in a cataclysmic word-funk-jazz-playground! The album, which was originally released in 1998, is reissued and re-mastered by Tru Ruts/Speakeasy Records and available for download online beginning April 6, 2010. The re-mastered version breathes new life into the album illuminating the already rhythmic possibilities. The reissue attempts to expand this innovative work to a broader audience regionally and nationally.
The form of THEOLOGY defies convention. The music palette of the album almost evokes an outer-worldly audio response. Appearing like prose, its very genesis and thrust is poetry, and it must be read as such, the rhythms of the words contributing as much to the meaning of the piece as their literal definitions. Further, the plurality of voices heard in this recording is an integral part of the piece. While THEOLOGY purports to examine the different dimensions of self, in its larger context it is about community, and how the community of voices around us can inhabit beings, and help us to become ourselves. There is also a deliberate fluidity in its time frame, expressed through an ever-changing verb tense, that imitates the fluidity of the spirit in conversation with itself and the rest of the world: "I am ever-changing, liquid like time. I am not a destination but a journey. I am changing seasons, I am the reason I traveled such distance to love. I am at once my lover/myself, we are one with the theology of time, space, and an ancient dream coming true." Be advised that this is not your typical spoken word. To be transported simultaneously through the musical and theatrically delicious way that Powell does is a delight!
His interdisciplinary background informed the selection of star talent. Word performers Lynette Rieni-Grandell, Venus De Mars of All The Pretty Horses, Dee Henry Williams, and Earcie Allen provide vocal layering that at times is threaded into a one voice harmony such as the opening track titled "So There I Was, Right?" Music is provided by musicians including Impulse label artist José James (UK), Rene Ford (TX) and Malina D. Rauschenfels (MN), who do a brilliant job constructing a landscape that is highly adaptable while never losing shape. Visual artist Jennifer Davis' cover painting accompanied by Del Bey's design accented the album with minimalist yet sensual imagery.
"…we jumped inside a freedom train to ride its rhythmic sound, we got aboard a love supreme to lay our burdens down." (Powell!)
The album is a combination of stories, thoughts, dreams, and visceral–sometimes–spiritual statements centered around love. The titles of each of the 7 tracks are perhaps as provocative as the pieces themselves: Cliché, Disbelieving Hearts, Dancing Dead, Consequences, The Woman At The Well, Flow Ago and Tell. When the album was first released over 10 years ago, Powell! moved it into the realm of performance art, producing staged performances of "THEOLOGY: Love & Revolution" at Studio 6A in Hennepin Center for the Arts and at the Knitting Factory in New York.
"In linking the exploration of divine spirituality to the dialogues of love, J. Otis Powell! is furthering a longstanding tradition, heretofore more visible in music than in poetry, which now finds its expression in the music of this poetry. Listen, the voices of everylove can be heard in the study of THEOLOGY." – Lynette Rieni-Grandell
In addition to the prose poem Theology this recording includes two bonus tracts recorded in Tucson AZ with tHE eDGE eNSEMBLE featuring Steve Roach, Linda Kohanov and J. Otis Powell!
You can listen to the album here.


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NEWMARKET — The ball changed hands, bodies collided and the fouls piled up from the opening tip to the fourth quarter.
In the end, all confrontations were settled at the free-throw line — and the Newmarket High School girls basketball team cashed in like it won the lottery.
The Mules got to the line 39 times, scored 24 points and held off Epping's second-half rally to secure a 40-30 Division IV win Monday night at Newmarket High School.
"We took care of the basketball; we didn't force anything," Newmarket coach Randy Edgerly said the success. "And we made free throws."
Connect they did — at a rate not often seen.
Newmarket (5-4) scored so often from the line, it needed just seven made field goals to win the game by 10 points. Epping made 12 field goals, but in the game's most obvious discrepancy, finished just 6-of-12 from the line.
Two of Newmarket's baskets were first-quarter 3-pointers by Liz Hamel, who along with Maddie Teague came off the bench to score eight points. It was a Hamel three from the elbow that helped ignite Newmarket's 17-1 run to close the final nine minutes of the first half, which ended with the Mules leading 25-9.
The Blue Devils, shaking off a one-point second quarter, responded with a run of their own — a 14-0 stretch in the third that brought it back to a two-possession game at 29-23.
"We stopped boxing out," said Newmarket senior Taylor Linck, who finished with six points. "We started getting a lot of turnovers. We just kind of broke down."
But run-stopping free throws by Katrina Holmes and Annaliese Schmidt helped the Mules hold a 33-23 lead entering the fourth quarter, and senior Jess Selling hit three foul shots in the final two minutes of regulation to help keep Epping at bay.
Holmes, Schmidt and Selling combined to score 16 points in the game — all from the foul line.
Epping (2-7) got a game-high 15 points from Carleigh Baer — the leader of its third-quarter surge — and seven points from Sarah Nadeau.
The teams were tied, 8-8, until Newmarket closed the final 1:17 of the first quarter with an 8-0 run. The spurt carried into the second quarter, with Hamel scoring on a fast-break layup and the Mules converting 7-of-10 from the line. Teague, fouled under the basket as time expired, made two foul shots as the teams prepared to jog off to the locker rooms.
The Mules led by as many as 19 points in the third quarter before the Devils came alive offensively, starting with Nadeau's driving layup. Baer scored seven straight points, Sabrina Rivers converted an offensive rebound, and Nadeau hit two foul shots to pull Epping within six with two minutes left in the frame.
"I was in the zone," said Baer, who scored all but two of her points in the second half. "I just wanted to win. I was trying to get the girls psyched up. Trying to get them into it. Trying to tell them that we can get a lead here."
The Blue Devils, though, never got closer. Both teams finished with seven points in an even fourth quarter.
"It wasn't anything we didn't expect," Epping coach Tim Hopley said of the up-and-down game. "They're going to attack you. You're either going to hold your ground and not give an inch, or you're going to get overwhelmed.
"We don't have a lot of quit in us. We didn't back down."


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Statutes and Rules
Arkansas Rules of Criminal Procedure are here
Court Structure and Jurisdictions
A diagram of the Arkansas court structure is here.
A map of the Arkansas judicial circuits is here.
What is the Division of Drug Courts?
Nationally, drug courts first began in Dade County (Miami), Florida, in 1988, in response to the massive clog in the criminal court system created by the increase in illicit drug use and the resultant overcrowding of the prison system. The first court in Arkansas was piloted in the 6th Judicial District (Pulaski County) under the guidance of then-Chief Justice Jack Holt and former Sixth Circuit Judge Jack Lessenberry in 1994. Funding for this court was provided by the federal Department of Justice and the Arkansas Department of Health.
There are now 39 drug court programs functioning throughout the state of Arkansas. Some are pre-adjudication venues while others are post-adjudication. Some are a combination of both. This varies based on the particular needs of the community in which the court program is established.
Drug court programs are an interdisciplinary, non-adversarial judicial process for diverting an offender (or alleged offender) who has a demonstrated dependence on alcohol or an illicit drug, into a strenuous treatment program that includes frequent drug testing, required employment, treatment and counseling and regular court appearances to monitor program compliance. Drug courts are typically staffed by a team consisting of the judge and court staff, a prosecutor, a public defender or private attorney representing the offender, a probation or parole officer and drug counselor. Treatment services are provided through community providers. Most treatment programs last an average of eighteen months.
Although data in Arkansas is limited, initial reports indicate that drug court programs are cost effective and do save the state in incarceration costs. It costs approximately $4.50 per day for an offender participating in a drug court program. By contrast, the average cost per day for incarceration in Arkansas is $45.00. The treatment program in drug court averages eighteen months while the length of incarceration is frequently much longer. In addition, many participants perform public service in their communities while maintaining employment during the treatment program, thus avoiding additional welfare costs and foster care expenditures by the state in support of their families. The final savings is realized in the improved health of the participant once they have successfully transitioned from drug or alcohol dependency to a healthier lifestyle.
For additional information about Arkansas Drug Courts, contact Kari Powers, State Drug Court Coordinator, Administrative Office of the Courts, 1-800-950-8221, or email@example.com
Court Rules
Rules of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the State of Arkansas are here.
Electronic Copies of Pleadings
The pleadings for many circuit courts (and a few district courts) in Arkansas are available through Court Connect.
Court Websites
The Court of Appeals and Supreme Court website is here.
Attorney General Information
Clerk Websites
Sheriff's Websites


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- hotdog
- bell pepper
- carrot
- sibuyas
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- bread crumbs
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Host Master Chef Pablo "Boy" Logro and his celebrity guests will have viewers savoring sumptuous dishes and learning how to create these themselves.
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Induction-maintenance of Lopinavir/r in HIV-infected Subjects
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00159224
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : September 12, 2005
Last Update Posted : September 7, 2015
- Study Details
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- How to Read a Study Record
This study will assess the safety, tolerability and antiviral activity of a simplified PI-based treatment regimen (Kaletra,ä) compared to conventional HAART regimens in patients infected with HIV-1 who are on their first boosted-PI antiretroviral treatment regimen.
The potency of the antiviral activity of Kaletra has been clearly demonstrated in a wide spectrum of patients in a number of different clinical trials.6-9 The durable viral suppression seen after 4 years of therapy10 proves that it can provide effective, long-term treatment for people with HIV-1.
Data from one of these trials (M97-720),6 an ongoing Phase II study of lopinavir/ritonavir in combination with NRTIs suggests there may be a role for monoclass therapy with Kaletra in the treatment of HIV-1-infection.
|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections
|Drug: Lopinavir/ritonavir simplification strategy
|Phase 4
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|100 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Study ACA-ARGE-04-001 "A Pilot, Open-Label Study Assessing Safety, Tolerability, Efficacy of a Simplified Lopinavir/Ritonavir Induction/Maintenance Therapy in HIV-Infected Subjects on Their First Protease Inhibitor-Based Regimen".
|Study Start Date :
|April 2005
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 2009
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|December 2009
Experimental: Lopinavir/ritonavir monotherapy
Patients with undetectable viral load while on 1st line ARV therapy will be randomized to the expermental arm: Lopinavir/ritonavir monotherapy
Drug: Lopinavir/ritonavir simplification strategy
Other Name: Kaletra monotherapy simplification strategy
Active Comparator: Lopinavir/Ritonavir plus 2 NRTIs
Patients randomized to this arm will continue with standard of care triple therapy, based on Lopinavir/Ritonavir plus 2 NRTIs
Drug: Lopinavir/ritonavir simplification strategy
Other Name: Kaletra monotherapy simplification strategy
- Proportion of patients remaining undetectable below 50 copies/mL at 48 weeks [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subject has confirmed his or her willingness to participate in this study after being informed of all aspects of the trial that are relevant to his or her decision to take part, by signing and dating the IRB / IEC approved informed consent form.
- Subject is HIV positive and on their first antiretroviral treatment regimen, based on any two NRTIs plus lopinavir/ritonavir or a ritonavir-boosted PI combination. Subject must have had no previous exposure to other regimens.
- Subject has a viral load <50 copies/ml at the time of baseline evaluation for at least 6 months.
- Subject has a CD4 cell count ³ 100 cells/mm3.
- Subject is aged >18 years.
- Vital signs, physical examination and laboratory results do not exhibit evidence of acute illness.
- Subject has not been treated for an active opportunistic infection within 30 days of screening.
- If female, subject has a negative pregnancy test and agrees to use, for the duration of the study, a barrier method of birth control that has a history of proven reliability as judged by the investigator.
- Subject does not require and agrees not to take, for the duration of the study, any medication that is contraindicated with any of the antiretroviral drugs in their treatment regimen. The subject agrees not to take any medication, including over-the-counter medicine, alcohol, or recreational drugs without the knowledge and permission of the principal investigator
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subject has current uncontrolled substance abuse or psychiatric illness that could preclude compliance with the protocol.
- Subject has a viral load of > 50 copies/ml
- Subject is HBsAg +
- Subject has active tuberculosis or an opportunistic infection.
- Subject has active malignancy (except Kaposi's Sarcoma).
- Subject has liver failure as evidenced by ALT / AST > 5 x Upper Limit of Normal (ULN).
- Female subject is pregnant or lactating.
- Subject has received an investigational drug within 30 days prior to the initiation of the study.
- Subject has modified his/her antiretroviral therapy during the 3 months prior to baseline or is intending to do so during the course of the study.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00159224
|Helios Salud
|Buenos Aires,, Argentina, 1141
|Fundacion Huesped
|Buenos Aires, Argentina, C1202ABB
|Canada, British Columbia
|University of British Columbia
|Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
|Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutrición "Salvador Zubirán
|Mexico DF, Mexico
|Study Chair:
|Pedro E Cahn, MD, PhD
|Fundacion Huesped, Buenos Aires, Argentina
|Principal Investigator:
|Julio SG Montaner, MD
|University of British Columbia
|Principal Investigator:
|Isabel L Cassetti, MD
|Helios Salud, Buenos Aires, Argentina
|Principal Investigator:
|Juan Sierra Madero, MD
|Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricio Salvador Zurbaran, Mexico
|Responsible Party:
|Pedro Cahn, Scientic Director, The Huesped Foundation, The Huesped Foundation
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|September 12, 2005 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|September 7, 2015
|Last Verified:
|September 2015
Treatment Naive
HIV-1 infection
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-HIV Agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors


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SFA Football Holds High Scoring Spring Game
In the Spring Game at Stephen F. Austin on Saturday, the White (offense) beat the Purple (defense) 87-65. That only happens in the spring!
Jeremy Moses made a splash for the Lumberjacks three years ago, and players this spring have their sights set on playing just as well.
Many of them made a big impression over the weekend at the annual spring game.
It sounds more like a basketball score than a football score actually.
SFA says the spring game was played using a modified scoring system by head coach Clint Conque.
The offense ended up with 542 yards on 94 plays, and they completed 44-of-66 passes for 438 yards. The Lumberjacks ran for 104 yards on 32 carries. And there were no injuries, which bodes well for the fall.
The spring season is behind the Lumberjacks now, so SFA will start prepping for the fall season. The athletes will concentrate on finishing the current semester academically, and then they'll be back on campus in June.
The first game of the 2014 season will be at Kansas State on August 30th.


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- 360 ml coffee (with sugar), room temperature
- 8 g gelatin
- Whipped cream
- Thyme/Mint leaves for garnish
- In a glass bowl, mix small amount of coffee with gelatin and mix well. Put in the micro, select the "milk" heating function and press start. Or you can use manual selection, the point is not to over heat, around 60C is good.
- Add in the rest of the coffee, mix well and heat up again. Transfer to bowls or molds, cool in room temperature then transfer to the refrigerator to chill for about an hour.
- Before serving, top with whipped cream and green if desired.
This recipe was featured in Y3k Recipes issue no. 68, together with three other dessert recipes. Click on the photo and it will bring you to the related post and recipe.


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After renewed interest in california drones….. report of sightings + analysis..coming soon
Posted by dandare on March 27, 2008
After recent renewed interest in the california drones, seen in articles:
"UFO reports draws national attention to Capitola" (mercurynews.com- 27th march, 2008)
"UFO Investigation centres on Capitola" (Kcra.com- 26th march, 2008)
"A UFO cold case" (posted 18th march,2008….latimes.com)
A similar article can be seen at upi.com "detectives seek ufo answers" (posted 18th march,2008).
And also from comments in UFO Update (34), i have decided to attempt to put together all the sightings, and analysis the drones, plus the Isaac paperwork. This will be in 2 parts (first part – the sightings themselves…. second part – the analysis and possible answers to the drone effect).
However, due to time constraints, i am not quite sure when they will be available…. although i have got through quite a bit of what will make up part 1. I would be glad of any input, and welcome your comments.


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from miket
On the main board, the topics are not in chronological order.
Is there any way I can alter this?
What is the logic for the current order?
Also when I click on the back button, it takes me two windows back and the I have to click on the bulletin board to go one window forward to the main board.
I am using firefox rather than ie6. Does this make a difference?
I appreciate the effort in trying to improve the format and I guess an old f--t like me will have to learn some new tricks.
ps I am double spacing right now as single spacing does not work for me and all my sentences run into one another
Re: a few questions about format(7/29/2010 - 7:17am)
Regarding your first question: I think the posts are ordered chronologically (by the date of the last reply).
It's just that the first two topics are sticky, i.e. always on top for now.
Re: a few questions about format(7/29/2010 - 8:02am)
The posts on the bulletin board are ordered chronological order by date of the last reply. The first two posts will always be on top for the first few days and then I will remove them.
Yesterday we encountered a few issues with the editor. I will see what we can do fix the double spacing. Thank you for bring this to our attention.
Re: a few questions about format(7/29/2010 - 12:10pm)
The issue with double-spacing has been fixed. Please let me know if you still run into issues. - Kathy


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Sandra Bullock and Meryl Streep tied for Best Actress at the 15th Annual Critics' Choice Awards on Friday night — and the "Blind Side" star wasn't happy about it.
"This is bulls***!" Sandra yelled upon taking the stage following Meryl's acceptance speech.
But the star soon showed her good humor, planting an on-the-lips kiss on Meryl that wowed the audience.
"Meryl's a great kisser," Sandra joked after, calling the award "an honor."
"It is a great honor to be in the company of the extraordinary women I was so lucky to be nominated with, because this one here inspired me to do everything better," she said.
For her part, Meryl, who won for "Julie and Julia," didn't think she'd gone to great lengths to embody her role.
"I love acting and I love to work and I love food and I love sex — so did Julia Child, so it wasn't that much of a stretch," she said.
Other winners at the awards show included "The Hurt Locker," for Best Picture; Jeff Bridges, for Best Actor in "Crazy Heart"; Christoph Waltz for Best Supporting Actor in "Inglorious Basterds"; and Mo'Nique for Best Supporting Actress for "Precious."
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