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February 26, 2018 - February 27, 2018
The 7th Annual European Family Office Winter Symposium will explore the challenges and opportunities in today's global investment climate. This family office event is the premier event for high net worth individuals and family offices. Private investors and asset managers from around the world will visit this intimate setting to discuss the latest trends and issues in the industry. The program blends educational discussion panels led by thought leaders, and pre-arranged One-to-One meetings. This symposium aims to provide an educational environment for productive networking and the fluid exchange of ideas.
Jakub Adamowicz, Director of Development, Trigon Investment Fund Company
Karl Beinkampen, President and CIO, Wilshire Private Markets
Keynote Speaker
Simon Bloom, CEO, Simon Bloom Consultancy
Susanne Bregy, Managing Director, Rhodanus Capital
Kevin Corrigan, Chief Investment Officer, Sandaire
Fred Ellis, Financial Intelligence Analyst, SARs Desk - Financial Investigation Unit, City of London Police
Vince Knowles, Investments & Strategy Manager, Ceniarth (SFO)
Deepak Lalwani OBE, Chairman, LALCAP (UK)
Tom Minney, CEO, African Growth Partners Ltd.
Vinod Nair, Managing Partner, Altavista Investment Management
Michael Parsons, Chief Executive Officer, Wren Investment Office (MFO)
Tushar Patel, Managing Director, Dhandsa Family Office/HFIM
Markus Schuller, Founder, Managing Director, Panthera Solutions
Tor Svensson, Chairman, CFI.co
Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar, Head of Cyber Policy Coordination, European External Action Service
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Sean West, Global Deputy CEO, Managing Director, EMEA Region, Eurasia Group
Giles White, Chief Investment Officer, Rampart Capital LLP (MFO)
Professor Trevor Williams, University of Derby, Member, Institute of Economic Affairs
Grant Wilson, Chief Investment Officer, Asset Risk Consultants (UK) Limited
Theo Vermaelen, Professor of Finance INSEAD, DIM Funds
Dominik von Eynern, Principal, Blu Family Office (MFO)
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... I stand on stage and play Maria Stuart. I am waiting for the appearance of a messenger. Instead, after some time, my bank advisor comes on stage and says to me: "It does not go on like that, you are insolvent!
Beautiful women in old pajamas tell their dreams.
You can listen to them for hours, but also go to the bar or smoke a cigarette. Again and again they ask themselves personal questions. They are merciless. A cosmos of desires and delusions, claims and reflections is kindled.
We place a precarious, unpredictable stage arrangement at the center of the performance, which requires the constant playful attention of the improvising actresses. There is no consistent direction, but a formal framework and rules of the game. The fact, that the evening lasts at least three hours, challenges and overstretches the actors and causes them to act and react here and now. Actor's fears, their nightmares and wishdreams form the narrative base of this work, their course is determined by the (co)incidence in stage.
This women meeting live on stage are not only narrators, players and actresses, but also contemporaries, who have something to say in life.
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Brooklyn's Smoove L Celebrates Interscope Deal With "Palm Angels" Video
Is there another city in Hip-Hop more on fire than Brooklyn, New York? Yes we know Brooklyn is a borough but the buzz that the birthplace of legendary acts such as The Notorious B.I.G & Jay – Z is generating can rival any city currently.
Smoove L is up next out of Brooklyn. L generated most of his buzz from his smash hit "New Apollo's" (you might've heard that beat on Travis's Scott's latest project). In an interview with Complex Smoove announced that he inked a deal with Interscope.
Wasting no time the young Brooklyn rapper dropped a visual for "Palm Angels".
"She rockin Palm, she rocking Angels I feel like she match my fly"
In ode to designer brand Palm Angels, Smoove L releases yet another energetic track filled with charisma. If Palm Angels sales increase cut Smoove that check because this record is going to be big.
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9 Nov, 2011
Europe Visa Process "Worse Than Tax Audit" – Indian Tour Operator
The executive director of one of India's major tour operators has blasted the UK and European visa application process as being "worse than an IRS audit" and said they would have to find ways of simplifying the process and clearing out its inconsistencies if they wished to attract Indian visitors.
Mr Peter Kerkar of Cox & Kings made the comments on Nov 8 during the annual UNWTO and WTM Ministers summit which focussed on the theme "How Tourism Can Prosper In Times of Uncertainty." Although a range of issues were discussed, there was no room for doubt about the new emerging world order, as ministers and senior executives from a number of Asian, Arab, African and Latin American countries ripped into European visa policies, travel advisories, security hassles and the UK Air Passenger Duty.
The European travel industry which has for years harangued the receiving countries in the so-called developing world about everything from consumer protection rights to environmental regulations is set to discover that accountability is a two-way street.
The frustrations are important in the broader context of policy issues which many political and economic leaders in the developing countries feel smacks of a return to the colonial era. The patience with double-standards and hypocrisy in Western policy-making is running thin. Travel is just one sector, and the visa bottlenecks are just one component.
Palpable Anger
Indeed, the anger is palpable because in many developing countries, the lop-sided visa policies mean that all the worst of European undesirables, ranging from mafia gangsters to football hooligans, paedophiles to right-wing terrorists enjoy the privilege of walking into many developing countries without a visa while even the most respected citizens of developing countries have to deal with the cumbersome and complicated visa processes of Europe and UK, not to mention the United States, Canada and Australia.
Setting the stage for the discussion, UN World Tourism Organisation Secretary-General Dr Taleb Rifai said, "When we (the UNWTO and WTM) started to prepare this year's summit in early January the title chosen was "How tourism can prosper following the global downturn? As is often the case we were overtaken by the events; and from "following the downturn" we moved into "times of uncertainty".
"This is an example of the framework in which we operate today – change happens by the day and we need to be prepared. We are not here to do futurology – many before us have tried and failed but to share our views on how, knowing we will continue to live with an uncertain economic landscape, continued geopolitics shifts and other events beyond prediction, can the tourism sector advance and continue to grow?
Dr Rifai noted that global economic challenges are significant. "There is a risk of recession in advances economies while growth is moderating in emerging markets; unemployment continues at unacceptable high levels; consumers and investors face mounting difficulties, and more importantly, the political will and coordination born out of the G20 London Summit in 2009 was still absent from Cannes last week where world leaders although agreeing to a common plan on growth and jobs still failed to show a strong commitment to jointly address these challenges."
Right Side of History
It helps to have at least a few Europeans who are firmly standing on the right side of history. That came in the form of Mr Trond Giske, Minister of Trade and Industry from Norway, who was attending the UNWTO-WTM summit for the first time, and made some of the most forthright, frank and forward-thinking comments.
He did not mince words about the economic challenges facing Europe. While in the past, European governments could deal with economic problems by increasing demand and lowering interest rates, "these two tools are not available any more," Mr Giske said. "There is a big difference between companies going bankrupt than countries going bankrupt," he said. "Even profitable projects can't find finance as banks are out of liquidity."
He said that Europe needs "solid, transparent financial institutions to solve the crisis. These institutions are not there." Furthermore, the situation in Greece is already a threat and if the "markets stop believing in Spanish or Italian bonds", there could be even further trouble. However, he added, European leaders have a way of coming up with last-minute solutions."
Much of the discussion focussed on the economic importance of tourism in national development agendas, and the rise of the new source-markets, specifically the BRIC countries (Brazil, India, China and Russia). There was a general agreement that if the Europeans wish to attract these markets, especially India and China, they will have to change their marketing strategies and methods in ways they have never done before.
The South African Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk noted that three things would need to be fixed in order for tourism to prosper: visa problems, a revamping of the archaic Chicago convention (an ICAO agreement which covers the global aviation industry), and the involvement of poor communities in tourism. He said that in an era when everyone was a "citizen of the Internet", there was a need to move forward with issuance of electronic visas that would be less costly and far more convenient. The security issues can be dealt with.
The Chicago convention, crafted 64 years ago, was all about regulating aviation on the basis of bilateral deals and reciprocal access. Now, he said, "bilateralism is dead and we need system that reflects that." As for the poor communities, he said, he said that it was important for tourism to be developed more equitably so that it does not lead to "islands of poverty" amidst seas of prosperity. All across the developing world, poor communities are being excluded from tourism. Finding ways to take them along "will make huge qualitative intervention." He got a round of applause.
Humiliating Process
Picking up on the visa issue, Mr Peter Kerkar blasted the cumbersome visa applications process that Indians are required to undergo for a visit to Europe. "It's worse than an IRS audit," he said. Citing the huge volume of information required about the applicant's personal, professional, educational and financial status, he added, the "humiliation of this process is incredible. And then there is no consistency in terms of rejection. If a family applies, the father and two children may be accepted but the mother will be rejected. There is no explanation."
Why are we still stopping people from travelling? he asked, calling on the Europeans to stop seeing Indians and visitors from the BRIC countries all as potential illegal immigrants. "We don't want to leave our countries, we love our countries. We just want to visit yours."
The chairman of the Qatar Tourism Authority Mr Ahmed Abdulla Al Nuaimi concurred, noting that many Gulf citizens were now visiting Asia instead because of the visa restrictions in Europe.
The UK Airline Passenger Duty was the subject of numerous attacks, especially the African countries. The Gambian tourism minister said that with so many economies dependent on travel & tourism for jobs and income, any decline in arrivals due to the APD could impact on internal peace and stability.
The Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala backed the issue of clearing up visa bottlenecks, but also blasted the travel advisories which he said never seemed to change to reflect the real situation on the ground. "They make it look as if we are always under constant threat of terrorism." He also criticised the APD, which he said is now having an economic impact that exceeds the amount of aid and development assistance the UK is giving."
The Nigerian tourism minister also weighed in on the travel advisories which he described as being "one daunting challenge." He also attacked the security apparatus and creeping racial profiling. "Our citizens are humiliated at virtually every airport of the world. I don't see any justification for treating every one of us according to the standards of a few thousand miscreants in a land of millions of people."
The Uganda minister joined the attack. "They remove my hat, shoes, jacket, belt under the guise of security, if you ask why, they say it is for your own security." He said the assumption that "most of want to migrate has become almost a phobia. How can we reach out to our colleagues and get them to understand that freedom to travel is like a human right and we must balance the issue of security against the need for promoting tourism."
What About the Action
Martin Craigs, the new CEO of PATA, called on the participants to get out of their comfort zones and follow up the talk with action. "Talking to yourselves is easy. Combatting the politicians is difficult," he said. Having met the UK tourism minister at a dinner one evening, he said he had taken up the issue of the APD and been asked to write the minister a letter about it. He said he would be happy to write the letter but "I would be even happier if all (the panel participants) would co-sign it or at least agree to be copied in on it."
Finally, it was the remarks of the Norwegian minister that went to the root of the problem. He suggested that Europe was losing sight of the advantages of multi-culturalism in a globalised world. "One of the biggest threats to this industry is xenophobia and intolerance," he said, adding that multi-culturalism was a huge resource for Europe. "Why are we not taking advantage of this? If we don't take advantage, we wont be able to profit." When internal racial and cultural problems break out, it is the local people who suffer more than the tourists.
To better understand why the Norwegian minister feels so strongly about this issue, and why his words need to be taken seriously by the entire travel industry in the years to come, click here. He sounded an early warning alert par excellence.


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New GFFR lieutenants promotion ceremony, assistant chief announcement planned next week
Great Falls Fire Rescue is celebrating the promotion of eight lieutenants next week and is in the process of hiring new rookies.
The department is also in the process of appointing a new assistant chief since Ron Scott retired at the end of December. GFFR Chief Steve Hester said he expects to announce his selection on Feb. 2.
Depending on who he selects, that could create some other movement within the department which will determine whether the next rookie class is three or four candidates.
The firefighters being promoted to lieutenant are Jerry Pospisil, Mike Pancich, Trevor Johnson, Spencer Swingley, Jerry Lyons, Bryan Painter, Troy Weir and Nate Schmidt.
The lieutenant position was created last year and approved by the City Commission in the firefighter labor agreement.
Firefighter labor agreement up for commission vote
Lieutenants fall between engineer and captain in the evolving rank structure at GFFR.
Fire Chief Steve Hester said that the promotions were competitive like other promotions within the department.
Hester said the department had acting captains, but they weren't getting enough time in an acting capacity to gain practical command experience before moving up to captain.
Final decision on fire engine donation to Neihart set for Tuesday
"We can teach knowledge, we can teach skills, but we can't teach experience," Hester said.
Lieutenant duties include managing programs and projects delegated to them from captains and battalion chiefs, serving as the acting captain, acting as an officer in charge of additional apparatus should they be needed for disasters, special events or other times the department deems it necessary.
New engines rolling at Great Falls Fire Rescue
The lieutenant position is common in the fire service and other departments in Montana have the position in their rank structure. Those in the lieutenant positions would be the only members assigned to these duties in the absence of a captain, allowing for more direct experience and training prior to promotion.
The move also saves the city from spending on acting captain pay and under the current system, all of the acting captains are eligible to take the promotion test. That also makes preparing, testing and selecting new officers difficult.
The new lieutenant position will limit the pool of firefighter eligible to take the captain promotion test to eight people, allowing senior officers to focus their attention on training and preparing them and be better able to evaluate the lieutenants performance.
The promotion ceremony is Jan. 31 at 4 p.m. at Station 1, 105 9th St. S. The public is invited.


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Peter Studebaker, his brother, their wives and a cousin arrived in America from Germany in 1736. Industrious, they began making farm equipment, then wagons and Army wagons. The families burgeoned and so did the business – Studebaker became the largest wagon manufacturer in the world.
They advanced to making fancy horse-drawn carriages. In the 1850s, you could purchase a luxury carriage that held 12 for $20,000. That's about a cool half million today! Budweiser purchased wagons, to be drawn by their famous Clydesdale horses.
Peter's son John had five sons. As the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company, they developed an electric car in 1902 but quickly moved on to gasoline drive vehicles in 1904.
The first all Studebaker manufactured car hit the road in 1912. Studebaker produced quality cars of beautiful design. The last of the five brothers, John, died in 1917. Albert Erskine took over but the Great Depression took its toll. Deeply in debt, both personally and at Studebaker, and suffering from illness, he ended his own life in 1933.
Studebaker struggled along, joining with other companies to stay in business. In 1953, they produced the beautiful aerodynamic Studebaker Commander Starliner. You can buy one today on eBay for $60,000.
In 1954, they joined with the Packard Company, but that did not last and they were on their own again by 1962. The last Studebaker was produced in 1966. From electric cars to streamlined design, Studebaker could probably hold its own today!


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Srinagar: An elderly woman died on spot after she came under a mound of snow that came crashing from the roof of her house in Kashmir capital Srinagar.
The incident occurred on Sunday night at Kani Devar Hawal area of old Srinagar city.
Sources told KNT that the 50 year old woman ventured out from her house when she came under snow. She felt unconscious and died on spot.
"Despite this, she was shifted to SKIMS where doctors declared her brought dead," family sources said.
The deceased was the wife of Muhammad Yasin Rangreez Shah. Her funeral was held today and was buried at her native graveyard.
This is the second death in Srinagar that has been reported since January 3 when massive snowfall lashed Kashmir Valley. Earlier, a CRPF officer on guard duty in the house of National Conference leader Syed Muhmamad Akhoon at Habak Srinagar died when he came under snow falling from a roof top. (KNT)


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I have transferred through Frankfurt's airport more times than I can possibly count, but have only spent the night in the city once or twice. On my most recent trip though to Germany, in partnership with the German Tourism Board, my goal was simple. I wanted to explore Frankfurt and to find its traditional culture beneath the glitz and glam of the large and important international city that it is today. Turns out, it was a lot easier to find than I had originally thought and within a few hours of landing I had discovered some incredibly tasty traditional foods that now rank amongst my most favorite. Here's what should be on your own Frankfurt foodie to-do list.
Apple wine
To help me better understand traditional Frankfurt cuisine, a local food pro took the time to share with me his favorite hotspots, starting with the traditional restaurant Daheim im Lorsbacher Thal. Located in the sometimes rowdy Sachsenhausen neighborhood, the restaurant was so good I returned the next day on my own for another meal. It was also here where I was first introduced to Frankfurt's most famous food staple, apple wine. Known locally just as Ebbelwei, they've been making this beverage in Frankfurt for centuries, although today there are only a handful left who produce the tart drink. There are a variety of different kinds though, as the enormous apple wine menu (bible) at Lorsbacher Thal proved. We started with the basics though as my guide showed me the proper way to enjoy Ebbelwei. Trying the most traditional version, I was surprised at how light a drink it is, which is probably why it's also a popular summer beverage. Especially good when paired with food though, I quickly understood why it's been so popular in Frankfurt for so very long. Apple wine is easy to find when you visit Frankfurt, but be sure to stop by a traditional restaurant like Lorsbacher Thal for the real experience.
Green sauce
I usually shy from anything in this part of the color spectrum, but I knew I couldn't visit Frankfurt without trying the city's most popular savory dish. Made from seven different kinds of herbs, this culinary staple of the city first entered the scene in the 19th century and has been popular ever since. Normally served cold over hard-boiled eggs and boiled potatoes, I was shocked as soon as I took my first bite. Not only did I like the green sauce, I loved it and quickly finished my small portion. Tasting a lot like a flavored sour cream, it's especially good when served with schnitzel, a combination I tried on my second visit to Lorsbacher Thal.
Cheese salad
When I first heard about cheese salad I got excited. I mean, who doesn't like cheese? As I quickly learned though, the Frankfurter version isn't your normal cheese. Handkäse is a sour milk cheese that is small and fairly pungent. It's also very much an acquired taste. Normally served as an appetizer with some apple wine, it's common to find it topped with chopped onions or caraway. To be honest, it wasn't my favorite but in small portions, it was a good accompaniment to something heartier like sausages.
You can't visit Frankfurt without trying their famous sausages – there is, after all, a reason why we call hot dogs Frankfurters. There are a wide variety of different kinds particular to Frankfurt, but the most common and popular are long, thin versions that are lightly smoked and very flavorful. Traditionally, they are served with a little bread, mustard and horseradish and make for a great snack or meal. They're not they only kind endemic to the city though, there's another version that is hard to find, but still delicious. Made only in a few shops in Frankfurt, the zeppelin sausage was first developed in 1909 by Stephan Weiss from his own love of zeppelins. Made using liver and smoked in a natural casing, it's not for everyone but I personally enjoyed it.
From bustling markets to artisanal chocolatiers and everything in between, finding delicious and very traditional cuisine in Frankfurt isn't just easy, it's a lot of fun. So the next time you visit, steer away from those international mega-brands and the glitzy allure of the central business district and instead look for these classic dishes that define what Frankfurt is really all about.


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Comedy sequels can be great. But they can also be terrible. Warner Bros' other three-man tale of inappropriate behaviour is of course The Hangover trilogy. The first film in said trilogy was fresh and original, and a huge success. Then came The Hangover Part II and Part III. Part II was basically just a remake of the first, where Part III was like something out of a completely different trilogy. The first Hangover still has a lot of fans, but the sequels disappointed on almost every level. Anchorman 2 was poor, and the upcoming Ted 2 could go either way. Who saw the first Horrible Bosses? A lot of you, right? And how many of you felt it needed a sequel? …Anyone? Yes, Horrible Bosses 2 comes as a bit of a surprise but a surprisingly pleasant one. It's nowhere near perfect. Hell, I'm not necessarily even saying it's a good film in terms of quality, but it succeeds at what it is.
Directed by Sean Anders and out now on Blu-Ray and DVD comes Horrible Bosses 2, a film that doesn't suffer from the same repetitive plotting that The Hangover Part II did and mixes up the formula in the sense that the characters foolishly attempt a different crime. It would've been easy for the sequel to focus on them killing their new bosses. But thankfully that isn't the case. In the film, our three heroes are now their own bosses, having designed a product and hoping to make their fortune off it. When they're screwed over by a slimy businessman, they come up with a mad scheme to kidnap his son and hold him for a huge ransom pay-out. But, obviously, things don't go to plan and hilarity ensues.
For the most part, the guys still have great chemistry together. For those of you who don't know or can't remember, the heroes are played by Hollywood's current go-to funny men; Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day. Jason Bateman again plays the sensible, serious one of the group – just as he did in Arrested Development, his job is to stare in disbelief at the other oddball characters and make sarcastic comments. Jason Sudeikis (We're The Millers) and Charlie Day (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) are the juvenile and clumsy characters who bring the majority of the comedy to proceedings as they bounce off each other. The supporting cast is excellent, with newcomers Christoph Waltz, Chris Pine and Jonathan Banks alongside returning stars Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston and Jamie Foxx. Everyone seems to be having a good time.
But it's not all fun and games. The first 20 minutes or so were very weak, with a particularly cringeworthy opening sequence involving a VERY dated and unoriginal joke that even felt old when Austin Powers did it. On top of that, the delivery style of some of the dialogue was irritating. Just like in the first film, Sudeikis and Day's style is to mumble over each other which gets rather tedious. Whilst we're on the subject of Day, he's as annoying as ever for the first portion of the film. But like with all of his performances, you eventually learn to accept him and ignore his shortcomings – and hey, whenever I get angry at him, I remember his character Benny in The Lego Movie and all is forgiven. SPACESHIP!
The film brings nothing new to the table and is quite a predictable and unoriginal romp, right down to the obligatory use of The Heavy's How You Like Me Now. But hey, most American comedies these days are the same. Nobody watches them for their artistic merit or intellectual entertainment. You watch them for the inappropriate humour and escapism (and dick jokes). Who cares if it isn't a fresh, unique piece of cinema? It isn't trying to be!
So, in conclusion, is it better than the first? I haven't seen the first since its release, but I'm tempted to say yes. Horrible Bosses 2 made me laugh more than I expected, and more than I remember laughing at the first film. The cast are on pretty good form, the script is full of funny dialogue, the plot is decent enough…Look, at the end of the day Horrible Bosses 2 isn't trying to win Oscars here. It knows what it is. It isn't a good film. But it's a good bit of fun. And sometimes, that is exactly what you need. I went in expecting to be angry and bored, I left with a lil' smile on my face. Who can ask for more from films like this?
Horrible Bosses 2 pulls off the crime and gets 3/5.
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Is your enrollment pipeline leaky? Do you ever wish you had a system for nurturing student prospects through an automated email marketing funnel? You won't want to miss this episode of the College Marketing Podcast.
Today we talk to Dale Stowell, who is the Executive Director of Institutional Advancement / Foundation at Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, Oregon. He recently gave a mind-opening presentation called "Your Enrollment Machine - Some Assembly Required" at the 2016 NCMPR conference.
Linn-Benton Community College has developed a systematic approach to stabilize enrollments and manage student prospects from start to finish - from the time they first become aware of the college through the point they actually enroll.
This podcast examines the college's new system that relies on a "progression-based model" involving marketing, outreach, admissions, registration, advising and instruction. There are some great takeaways to be had from this interview.
Stowell: Yeah. I'll start by saying that my own higher education journey started right here at LBCC as a student so it's a thrill to be back here. In my career, I began as a journalist. I did that for 10 years and when I transitioned to marketing and public relations, I wanted to do something meaningful. Really, I wanted to work at a community college, because it had meant so much in my life, but unfortunately I couldn't find one to hire me.
I got a job at a catholic hospital in Tacoma, Washington and that's where I really learned the power of systematic marketing. I worked with a brilliant vice president there. When she came on board, the hospital was losing about $500,000 a month and by the time she left 7 years later, it was posting a net gain of about $1 million a month, just a huge turnaround. While I played a relatively small part in that, I sure learned a lot.
From there, I ended up working in a couple of Tacoma area community colleges, where I tried to adapt what I learned in healthcare. I did that for almost 20 years. What finally got me back to LBCC was really a fluke. Every time I went to a community college marketing conference, if somebody from LBCC was there, I'd always go up and introduce myself and so I got to know the people who worked in the marketing office here.
At a conference back in 2011, I saw Joe Sherlock, the marketing working manager here to this day and I said, "Hey, what's going on at my old alma mater?" He said, "Well, my boss is retiring and so we're waiting to see who is next." After a couple of days, I started to wonder what Joe's boss did. I went on the LBCC website. I wasn't looking for a job. I was very happy with where I was at, but it was like, it was a perfect fit. I'm back now helping the institution that really set me on my way. It's great.
Stowell: There are certainly a lot of parallels. You've got, the gate keepers in healthcare are different than the gate keepers in education. The political structure is, there are similarities there too. They both tend to be large bureaucracies, so understanding how to navigate those is a key to success, but yeah, there are a lot of parallels out there to higher Ed.
Stowell: As always, it's a great conference. Some of it is learning and some of it's confirmation that you're on the right track. Some of it's mutual support and then when you do what we do, that's a good. A good conference, yeah it was great.
Medford: That's awesome. Did you get to enjoy St. Louis a little bit?
Stowell: I did. I walked down and I touched to the arch.
Medford: Oh wow. How did you I do that?
Stowell: You see now, I know you were there. You can't let the fences deter you. There was actually a part of the arch that you could get to, so I just walked down and touched it. I had dinner with my district compatriots at Pappy's. Best ribs in America according to the Food Channel.
Medford: Yes, it's very good.
Stowell: It's good to appreciate St. Louis a little bit.
Medford: Absolutely. I went to Pappy's myself and it did not disappoint, that's for sure.
Stowell: No, not at all. I was warned to not order the large portions and I'm glad I took that advice.
Medford: I went a day where I fasted breakfast, lunch, so by the time I got to Pappy's, I was like, "You know what, I'm I'm getting the full rack of ribs." It was good though.
Stowell: It really goes back to the idea of being systematic in your marketing approach and so we picked a title, the enrollment machine that some assembly require because, we do have all of the pieces at the college, but they tend to be separated organizationally. We're not all located in one area and so identifying what the gaps are in a typical community college or a traditional community college's marketing approach.
Really wanted to spend some time with my colleagues doing that, sharing my thoughts and our experience here at Linn-Benton and how we figured that out, worked through the issues and are making it work for us.
Medford: That's awesome. There's so much more technology available today to allow you to do what you're talking about and I think it's definitely a valid topic, a very timely topic.
Stowell: Yeah and that is the key because without it, it would be so labor intensive, it has to be almost impossible.
Stowell: One of the key things that we have to work to overcome in the marketing areas is, this idea that if people just knew our story, all of our enrollment problems would be solved. There's no doubt that people need to know us and love us, but there's a big gap between that and getting people to enroll. If you don't address that, you don't really have good control over your enrollment program.
Stowell: Going back to the basics, it's never bad. One of the reasons it's important to have the 4 Ps in your pocket is, they're a great way to talk to people who aren't marketers. I think one of the key issues that we face is we understand it so well that we don't know how to talk about it. The 4 Ps give us at least some vocabulary. Product; what is it that we're trying to get people to use? Place; where can people get it in relationship to where they are?
Price; what does it cost them? I think cost is almost a better description, because that … Cost isn't always about finance, it's about time as well. Then promotion, do you know the story? Obviously there is a story that has to be told and one of the fundamental challenges we face in marketing offices at community colleges is, almost all of it started off as public information offices and our structures still reflect that. We are the storytellers.
We're getting the information out there and even though we're often called marketing, the pea that we're really resourced to do is that last one. Promotion, but it leaves a gap.
Stowell: Price is one of those. When I was a student here at LBCC in the late 1970's, I'm old. My tuition adjusted in today's dollars would be $390, but our tuition, our actual tuition today is now $1500 for a full time student. To think our work much easier would be to market it to the institution with the tuition rate of $390. We like to talk a lot about how we are affordable. We're really not. If you don't have a good financial aid package, even people who are gainfully employed have a hard time coming up with $2,000 every 3 months that's not already in their budget for tuition and books.
There are just a lot of other options now. There are online colleges. There are other ways of learning, particularly YouTube. You can learn how to do almost anything on YouTube now. I'm always on YouTube trying to figure something out. There's CodeAcademy. There's a ton of different ways now. It's not yet credited, but there are just different ways. We have much more competition and we cost much more than we used to.
Medford: No, absolutely. I really see YouTube really having a pretty big impact on a lot of continuing education courses.
Stowell: Absolutely.
Medford: If you want to learn pottery or just a number of different things. If you're working on your car. I think a lot of people are just kind of skipping out on the process of taking the time to go to a pre-scheduled class and go on the YouTube route.
Stowell: Yeah. I can't tell you how many repairs around my house I have done via the support of YouTube.
Medford: Absolutely. Me to. That's how I learned how to do this podcast.
Stowell: Yeah. I think first it really should look like a pipeline without gaps. The graphic that you're referring to was titled the leaky pipeline from interact communications and it showed every step where your students can leak out of your roman pipeline. Whether it's financial aid or a bad experience in admissions or not being able to get the classes that they want when they when they need to get them.
One gap that really even missed it in the show was the gap between knowing about college and enrolling. I don't think that there are many people honestly who see a college, a billboard or hear a radio ad and think, wow, I better head down to the college and enroll. It only happens if you're just reminding them of something that they already decided and committed to. A pipeline needs to be built to systematically take people from image and awareness, to a place where they can express the interest that grows from that.
We can then be in a relationship with them and move them towards commitment and enrollment. It takes the process. I think historically somebody has always been doing that. Somebody has recruited every student that is in our college. A lot of times though it's been parents, friends, siblings, spouses. Somebody is recruiting them for us to get them from "I'm interested" to "I'm committed."
If we want to be stronger with our enrollments, we need to be involved in that as well and particularly if we're trying to reach out to new populations. Under-served populations. First time college students. We need to be in in that game as well or to move them from I know about you and I think there may be something there for me to be getting them to commitment.
Stowell: We're lucky. Actually when I interviewed for the job here I said I'm a lucky person. Hire me or hire my luck. That was part of my ticket to be hired because I've always … Things just seem to happen magically when I'm around and it's happened here too with a structure called The Progression Council. That as they got everybody that needs to be involved in marketing in the room at the same time and at a very high level and to hide in a group that we had created called marketing outreach that involved the marketing group outreach, admissions, registration and interaction, to talk about the issues that affect enrollment.
It wasn't just we need a better billboard or more ads, it's we need a better approach to communicating and getting people off on the right foot so that they not only get in here, but they're successful once they do get here.
Stowell: Yeah. For sure. I think that that's the hallmarks of bureaucracies and large institutions that there's always going to be a bureaucratic structure, it is going to be there. It's not like we can suddenly become something else. Everybody is in their lane, they're doing their jobs and really they're doing them well as they're defined, but when there's a gap between the lane, that's where the problems start and when you're in your lane, doing your job well and there's a gap, it has to be somebody else's fault.
I think it's that gap between image and awareness and commitment that has marketing offices and admissions offices pointing fingers at each other and it doesn't lead to good relationships and they're co-presented with our global services director Danny Aynes at the conference who oversees those areas. We didn't start off having a very good relationship. Really starting out, I've seen that at every community college I've worked at.
The only way to deal with that or at least the only way I can think to deal with it, is to get everyone in the same room at the same time and go through what is always an uncomfortable process that takes months of turning a bad relationship into a good one because cooperation outside the lines is really the only way you can get to the strategies that gets areas working together and getting along.
Stowell: Yeah and this really was the key for us. I think that, so we brought marketing obviously, the outreach personnel, admissions personnel, instructional leadership, so we've had a rotation of means depending on what programs we're having a specific focus on. I am, there are different ways to do this, I'm not sure I would recommend my approach to everyone, it depends on your personality.
I'm not process oriented and so the idea of trying to design things by committee or write things by committee, I don't think that's a good … It hasn't been a strategy that I can figure out how to make work for myself, so really I brought a plan. I wrote a plan and had people react to it and of course when the relationships were strained to be, the first reactions weren't really positive, but I think that if you're working with an idea, you could show how it's worked in other places.
You're respectful of people's differences of opinion that the process of making adjustments to an existing plan and getting people on board to implement it is something that worked for us.
Stowell: We use a platform called Audition Soft, there are many platforms that do this. What it really allows us to do is to collect information online about prospects and they tell us what they're interested in. They're just check boxes and give us contact information. From there, we can communicate with them through highly personalized but pre-built information campaign where we drip out Information.
Now, by drip I mean a little bit of information at a time rather than a 3000 word e-mail. We can do that via e-mail or text. We can text people reminders, send them to places online and it all depends on their preferences. We can build a campaign so that they're tailored specifically to people's age and their interests.
Stowell: Yeah, it really goes back to looking at what's your gap in the pipeline? Is there a gap between the billboard and the 'apply now' button? What we have, there are all kinds of indicators along the way that if you have a system like this that can give you an idea if you're on track, so we're trying to get X number of prospects into our main system, so even that's something that we try to get. We're trying to get X number of applications, so we're trying to move them through the series of messages.
Sometimes these messages can be stretched over years. We're back to far half time's break as now and we plan to go all the way back to junior high we're still the building up the various and message campaigns. That the idea, is to give them something that is a low commitment, just tell us what you're interested in and we'll send you some information, but we're building that either by inviting them to events, being in contact with them, texts and e-mails. We definitely are trying to get them to the 'apply now' button.
Then once they apply, we've got, we have another set of things that we do to get them to enroll. We have a lot of applicants who applied and we never heard from them again.
Stowell: Yeah, exactly. Now and since they've told us things that they're interested in, interspersed with the things that we really think is important for them to know is our messages that they've asked for. It's a lot easier to keep somebody interest If you're actually sending them stuff that's of interest too. I know it sounds obvious but sometimes we overlook that.
Medford: It's like what you said in your presentation you have to know your audience right?
Stowell: Right, absolutely.
Stowell: Yeah, I think I talked a little, ultimately our goal was to, our goal, we really had 2 main goals and their bottom line goals. One, we wanted to increase our number of new students then when we get into the results of I'll tell you that we did that. The second one is and really the plan is we've been fully implemented for about 15 months, so we don't really have the data on this one yet, but the second one is if you are in communication with someone over a period of time and you get them to enroll.
I really believe if you sent them the right information, they'll be more successful once they get here. That they'll be better prepare, that they'll have more problems solved, that they'll have made more decisions about what they want to study and how they want to deal with any financial challenges. They'll have more time to have prepared by the time they get into that first class and that should increase their chances to succeed. That's the second goal.
First goal obviously we want more students. The second goal we want to keep the ones that we get here. There are all kinds of other things going on to keep students. We've transitioned, I mentioned progression council, that group the first year was most interested in attracting new students. This year retention has become our focus so there are a lot of other things going on at the college but ultimately your involvement is those are the 2 things, the traction and retention. If you want strong enrollment, you have to have both.
Stowell: Absolutely.
Medford: With this campaign because you can't just say, "All right I got them here. I'm hands off now."
Stowell: Yeah, good luck, that doesn't work.
Medford: Right, because then that means you're just going to have to recruit more students right?
Stowell: Exactly right. Yeah it's our business is not like, it's not unlike any other business where it's much more efficient to you to keep the customers that you have than to lose them and have to get new ones.
Medford: Absolutely and it's a good way to think of it as a business.
Stowell: Yeah, so we have in terms of that of pre-built campaigns we're 10th through 12th grade and then we have a kind of a general adult learner campaign as well. Then we also in the, depending on what people say they're interested in, we will send them interspersed information about specific programs, so we have at least one message and in some cases more than one on every program at the college. It comes from the program coordinator or a faculty member.
It includes information about the program, few lines about job prospects, if it's a job related program and the contact information. Contact information of some actual human being, not some general info lines. A lot of times faculty are terrified that a lot of people are going to have their contact info. It really turns out that very few people call and the ones who call are really interested and they're people that they want to talk to because they will be in their program and that's understanding that people are qualifying themselves in terms of level of interest.
That's an important point to make to the people who have to be involved in the college. Particularly faculty who are even busy with all of the other things that they have to do here. Somebody who uses that contact information is really interested. It's not a large volume of calls. We also use it to … When we have tours or open houses, everybody in our program … In our database gets a message on that.
If when we have a chance that are program specific, we send an invitation to the people who've expressed interest in that program. We have a degree partnership program with Oregon State University. We have today one time, more 2,000 thousand students that are dual enrolled in LBCC and OSU and because OSU is only 10 miles from their Albany campus of LBCC. We make sure that we push that option to students because a lot of our students, that's going to be their transfer schools. We include information on that as well.
Stowell: Yeah. When it also starts the relationship. Honestly, my experience at LBCC was so good looking back because I had such a great relationship with my journalism professor who taught my journalism courses. One of the reasons that I even came in here it is because he visited by high school newspaper class and talked. I knew who he was, so that … It's very impactful for somebody to have direct contact with someone who's going to really become someone who's very important in their lives.
Stowell: Well, on our website, we looked at the analytic of our site particularly as it applied to new visitors. We figured out which pages new visitors were going to most often. I think we looked at the top 10 pages. On those pages there is … When you go there, there's a pop up that invites you to sign up for inside LBCC, which is our automated prospect operation management system and that when you click the link, you just enter your name and email address to all. We don't … That first contact, we're not asking for a lot.
Because we don't want to scare people away and then they're in the system and the first message that they get, which is a welcome message, "Thanks for signing up" is something that invites them, so a little bit more involved a page where they can tell us what they're interested in. We've gotten a couple of … We've gotten a couple of thousand people into the system that he had the pop ups.
Stowell: The automation stays the same, but we do have things that are plan ended and depending on … If we can urge somebody to do something at a better timing. Our application deadlines. We really do have continuous applications, but it's advantageous for somebody who's starting and it is advantageous for somebody who's starting in fall to apply by spring, because there are a whole series, things that we can help them through so that they don't show up on 3 days before the quarter begins and have a bunch of problems that they can't solve in 3 days. We have … We timed things based on … Really based on helping the student be successful.
Stowell: Yes. I did. It was so bad. Honestly for me, it's like it was such a horrible experience that blocked it from my memory so I can't exactly remember what it used to be, but it was this multi-step process of filling out an online application and then you had to go somewhere else to pay your application fee and then at some point, some week later, you received a piece of mail that told you that there were 6 things you had to do before you became a student.
Unfortunately, it's gone. We don't do that anymore. You fill out an application online. You schedule your next step, right from the application page, so your advising appointments, sit right there. You automatically schedule it. There's nothing else that you do. What you get in the mail is a welcome packet with coupons to the bookstore and the coffee shop and stickers throughout the college in a letter congratulating you on becoming a student.
Stowell: Well, we … Not yet. We're a Banner school and like some early adopters of banner, we customized it heavily and so we actually really are in the process of getting a back to basics so that we can use some of the modern modules that would make that kind of an integrated more feasible.
Stowell: Yeah. That's one of those beautiful things that seemed to happen by magic. It grew out of a subgroup of the progression council. I'd like to think that the fact that one of the leaders that was also on the marketing outreach group that's helping you deal with this, but what basically is it, is it's a pop up center. The first one was pop up in the student coffee shop, on campus. It comes up on as-needed basis, weeks ahead of the beginning of the term.
New students get a specific appointment. They come in. They have a very personalized experience where people work with them one on one on different things like how to make good decisions about which programs they choose. A lot of times we find that people have just checked a box on the application about what they're interested in studying to check the box. They're not really interested in that or they didn't understand what it was that they were checking and so we make sure that there's somebody there to make sure that they're starting off in the right program, that they're getting the classes they need to get first.
Then there are people there that can provide very specific support on how to take care of any barriers a student is facing. It's just … It's like the … Again, with that another one of those gaps that was addressed and then this one actually wasn't even in the marketing plan that we reduced. Something that came out of the program and council, but it is a perfect add on it. It's just beautiful.
Stowell: Well, I mean so … With the new student center, I tell you one of the things we know for sure is that new students are getting gateway classes in l English and math earlier, which is encouraging because we have all kinds of data here that shows that students who do that succeed at a much higher rate. In all honestly, the whole system approach should be concerned like we talked about with retention and not just enrollment, but the overall of that is our new student numbers have been more than 10% for the last 4 quarters in a row.
Enrollment has been holding steady. We had mild growth in fall, but when you look at as a relative to other organ community colleges, that's growth. Everybody else has been declining. We've been holding our own and so … Obviously tons of factors in enrollment that you don't control, but it's always good to benchmark yourself against others, if you're really trying to figure out how the plan is working and the new student growth is something that's very encouraging.
So far, even with the relatively young implementation, we're seeing things that are very, very encouraging.
Stowell: My email is always good. In fact, I did hear from lots of people after the NCMPR Conference, so I really believe in what we're doing. I really believe in community colleges, so if there are people out there who think that they can be helped by that, they can just email me at firstname.lastname@example.com and sure, there will be some way on your website that you can write that out so that it will be easy for people do.
Medford: Absolutely. We'll be sure to put that in the show notes. Dale, thank you so much for coming on the show today. I really appreciate it.
Stowell: It was fun. Thanks for having me.
Medford: Yeah, no problem. I might reach out to Danny at some point. Maybe he'll want to come on and talk about some of the follow up on more specifically about how you guys are implementing these campaigns, that'd be really great.
Stowell: Danny will be here and Danny is the detail guy, so you would get a lot of information from him.


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This has been a year of reflection for a lot of industries. Across the board, different sectors are re-evaluating how they trade, how they source, how much of their scale is sustainable, and where they are most exposed to risk.
Fashion has had to weigh up all these considerations and more. Retail channels have shifted, physical premises have been shuttered, and both brands and retailers have found that their supply chains were more fragile and risk-prone than they realised.
But while COVID itself is the direct cause of the sudden change in retail's downstream dynamics, a lot of the risk in the offshore sourcing model of apparel production had been present for years, and just uncovered by the pandemic.
This is why we have been tracking changes in the industry's sourcing patterns over the first half of this year. Between Q1 and Q2 we have seen a substantial shift in business operations across the apparel and textile sectors – one that suggests that both the pre-existing conditions and the immediate disruption of coronavirus could have a long-term effect. Assuming those industries resist the temptation to go back to normal.
After the initial lockdowns were eased this summer, we have seen activity rates on the Sqetch platform rise. After analysing the data further, we could see that the disruption in the global supply chains that had characterised the first few months of this year had prompted brands to re-architect their supply chains to source closer to home.
The reasons for this seem fairly clear: local suppliers can ship prototypes, samples, and finished products faster than suppliers on another continent; and closer collaborative relationships and resource-sharing arrangements can be established with partners who share the same time zone.
In the first half of 2020, the search for viable local suppliers has turned into something very much like a gold rush. Rather than relying on the long-established model of producing in China, India, or Bangladesh, brands were trying to forge new relationships that could sidestep the industry's incessant push for speed and price, and instead thrive on mutual growth.
To put those claims into context: in January of this year, nearly 72% of sourcing projects commissioned via the Sqetch platform, which specialises in connecting brands with specialised local manufacturers, were made by brands in Europe, and that rose to 80% in June. In the first half of this year, our top customers were brands in the UK, USA, and Germany, and our most popular manufacturers were in Portugal, Germany, and The Netherlands. Portugese manufacturers saw an increase in order numbers of close to 50% in the same period.
Looking at this pattern more qualitatively: we know that there has been a big increase in the number of short run enquiries made through our platform, indicating that brand customers were favouring suppliers who had the right level of flexibility, automation, and added-value services like logistics to deliver closer to an on-demand model. This trend towards lower minimum order quantities existed prior to COVID, but the pandemic has seen smaller and smaller orders being placed by brands, and more agile suppliers stepping up to fulfil that requirement.
This is, of course, a far more sustainable model according to all the major metrics; worker rights are protected in Europe, carbon costs are cut by reduced shipping, and overall industry waste can be slashed by shifting from a model defined by overproduction to one that's more agile, responsive, and attuned to actual market needs.
But what happens in a crisis does not necessarily turn into lasting change. So should we expect to see this near-shoring trend last into 2021 and beyond, or is it destined to run its course when the pandemic eventually ends?
The most important thing we need to consider is that, while a lot of brands and a lot of overseas suppliers have invested heavily in technology, most of those relationships have not reached the stage where they could be defined as truly collaborative and agile. They rely on volume, scale, and predictable patterns to be profitable. For SME and even larger brands to work with smaller, more specialised manufacturers on much shorter production runs, more comprehensive digital and commercial infrastructure needs to be put in place.
What might that infrastructure look like? Pre-ordering platforms such as Crowdlify, order pre-financing tools like Fundlify and Lectra's Fashion on Demand service give us some clue, and they can help us to define the requirement for interconnectivity, data sharing, and accessibility for different stakeholders.
Building that infrastructure, though, will not be a small investment. So what are the incentives for brands to carry on sourcing closer to home once the immediate threat of disruption disappears, and how will this impact overseas suppliers?
The first complication is a humanitarian one. By producing in countries where they are confident in enforceable labour standards and where production can be reliably monitored and controlled, brands can be more confident in their sustainability credentials. But at the same time, it will not be a desirable outcome to shift production of every style and every collection to nearshore models – not least because the garment production industry sustains the economies of many sourcing destinations. So while automation and nearshoring can power on-demand production, a mass shift would leave huge numbers of underpaid workers around the world without a lifeline. The only long-term solution is for the same kind of relationships to be established with suppliers the world over, but this is a complicated prospect in a world without international travel.
The second complication is technical. The last six months have shown that brands are willing to digitise their sourcing processes and to look at alternative approaches to production, but digital processes are a prerequisite for making that change last. Whether they are direct to consumer brands that are agile enough to explore outside the box of traditional manufacturing, or large retailers whose sourcing options in Asia are looking precarious, the appetite for change is there, but so is the inertia.
This year has seen the world disrupted in a way that none of us have ever experienced, which is clearly a catalyst for change, but that change is being stacked against the long-running offshore production model – an industry that's been running for three decades, and that's made up of more than 1 million manufacturers, all competing on speed, and cutting price however they can.
I do not claim to be able to predict what will happen from here, but I can say with confidence that consumer demand for better products, ethical and environmental regulations, and the broader adoption of digital ways of working are creating a world where the existing sourcing paradigm has a shelf-life.
Solutions like sqetch are designed to make the transition to what's next as seamless as possible, and in that role we've spent a lot of this year thinking about how the upheavals of the last six months can be translated into change for good. The data used to inform this article is part of a wider report we've generated, so if you are interested in exploring a different kind of production, you can request the full report here and get our free whitepaper on sustainable transformation here.
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Former Nottingham Forest boss Steve McClaren has been linked with a return to management – at Oxford United.
The 56-year-old has been out of work since leaving his role as a coaching consultant at Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv in December.
Last month it was reported he was interested in buying a Championship club as he looked for a route back into football.
But now, according to the Daily Mirror, he is in the frame for the vacant Oxford job, almost a year to the day since he was sacked by Derby County after his second stint at Pride Park.
It could mean a return to the club where McClaren had a spell as a player and where he started his coaching career.
The League One U's have been without a manager since Pep Clotet was axed six weeks ago.
It had seemed former Wales forward Craig Bellamy was in line for the job, but he withdrew from talks and ruled himself out earlier this week.
Oxford were taken over by Thai businessman Sumith Thanakarnjanasuth last week. He said on Monday that Bellamy was one of four potential candidates and he hoped to make an appointment "in a day or two".
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This tutorial covers reversible nucleophilic addition reactions to ketones and aldehydes. Specifically, the video presents the reactions of nitrogen nucleophiles on the carbonyl carbon of ketones and aldehydes to form imines and enamines. (Runtime = 12:38)
Student Learning Outcomes
After viewing this tutorial and practicing problems from this website and your textbook, you should be able to:
• Identify enamine or imine functional groups.
• Draw the mechanism for reversible nucleophilic addition reactions of ketones and aldehydes with nitrogen nucleophiles.
• Predict the major and minor products of reversible nucleophilic addition reactions of ketones and aldehydes with nitrogen nucleophiles.
Practice Problems
Here are some problems to get you started. You should first try each on a piece of paper. Then, place your cursor over the graphic and click on right arrow that appears to see the answer. The right and left arrows allow you to move back and forth between problems. Please note that these are not the only types of problems/questions that exist on this topic. Refer to your textbook and any problems your instructor provides you for more practice with this subject.


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We are discussing a Global Network of Schools for sharing information, leveraging resources, and fundraising which will be linked by internet. It will enable on-site and remote learning opportunities using mobile communications technologies and will be capable of connecting to our Aquaculture Learning Centres and other projects.
The idea came from Marine Science Magnet H.S., Groton, CT, USA, who have raised funds for AwF (See 'Connecticut High School raises $500 for AwF'), and has been further developed in discussions with Huon Valley Trade Training Centre, Tasmania, Australia (See 'Young Tasmanians lead by example').
If your school is interested in working with us, please complete the GNS Registration form which will shortly be available on this website.


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Donkey Whisperer Farm ® Link line, made with premium soft yacht rope. Walk two donkeys close to the same height using one lead line attached to the Donkey Whisperer Farm ® soft yacht rope halter. The link line has two Stainless Steel (ss) scissor snaps spliced onto each end with a SS O ring spliced in the middle, the length is 24 inches. Size matters when using the link line, walk two miniature donkeys or two burro size donkeys of the same height. The link line will not work with a really short donkey and a tall donkey.
I highly recommend Donkey 101 & 102 Video On Demand to train your donkeys and our halter/lead lines are made to fit a donkey, not a horse. The stick and string are 3ft for miniature donkeys used in Donkey 102 as a training aide, extension of your arm never to hit the donkey to touch the donkey. The 4ft Stick and String for the burro/standard or Mammoth size donkey touch is never to hit used as an extension of your arm.
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RE: Paint off closet doors
This topic is available here on The Repair-Place forum
Moved into a house, the previous owners were sloppy w/ their paint job. Paint on closet doors. They are stained closet doors, what is the best way to remove the paint spots?
Well it would depend on the kind of paint the spots are. There are a lot of products designed to do just this. There is Goof Off, ( nasty chemical though) which will remove most dried paints and adhesives but not latex, there is Goof Off2, which is for dried latex paint spot removal.
You could use a Q-tip and try one spot that is not too visible and see how it works. Just try to get the chemical ONLY on the spot so you minimize damage to other areas. Use a knife with a curved blade to carefully scrape just the spot once the chemical has softened it.
Once removed you might have to touch up the area with some stain and poly to bring back the luster.
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Work Package 1
Evidence generation throughout the entire product life cycle
Work Package Leads:
AstraZeneca, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
|Contact Persons:
|Solange Rohou
|Jacoline Bouvy
Work Package 1 has two core objectives:
- Analyse and monitor activities that occur both within and outside of IMI programmes that provide and generate evidence about MAPPs;
- Develop a gap analysis of the current and future needs of evidence generation to support MAPPs.
These objectives will be realised through a review of current and future research projects and assessment of tools and methods to support evidence generation and data interpretation throughout the product life cycle. The focus will include practical issues around data generation, validation of biomarkers and endpoints such as patient reported outcomes, interoperability of data standards and innovative methods for data generation such as use of registries and data mining of electronic Health Records (EHR). The challenges of pharmaceutical development will be also considered since modifications to the traditional CMC (Chemistry and Manufacturing Controls) development paradigm will need to be supported.
Work Package 2
Designing the MAPPs pathway
Work Package Leads:
Lygature, Servier
|Contact Persons:
|Andre Broekmans
|Patricia Maillère
All stakeholders, including patients, regulators, HTA/payers, practitioners, and industry, must align on the evidence package and success metrics early in the development and access journey, and continue to assess the performance of the therapy through the life-cycle of the product.
The topics addressed in WP2 include the following:
- Develop a glossary of standardised terms to be used in MAPPs;
- Identify knowledge gaps that allow for a seamless pathway from pre-clinical research, to clinical development, and ultimately to a new therapy being used by patients;
- Define the selection criteria and the timing for using the MAPPs pathway in "beneficial treatment" and how stakeholders will be involved in that decision;
- Uncover any potential legal constraints to implementing a MAPPs pathway;
- Create the tools to ensure appropriate prescribing and appropriate use by patients in MAPPs;
- Integrate the findings of the EMA pilot project and other global initiatives that are relevant to MAPPs;
Share best practices, case studies, modelling, and simulations of pathway options in MAPPs.
Work Package 3
Decision-making, sustainability and their implications
Work Package Leads:
Centre for the Advancement of Sustainable Medical Innovation, Sanofi-Aventis Research and Development (Sanofi Genzyme)
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|Richard Barker
|Alicia Granados
It will identify all decision points in adaptive approaches throughout product lifecycle, and the steps required to align all the stakeholders around evidence needed and implications. It will also assess and communicate the impact of MAPPs on health ecosystem, including the dissemination of the learnings from early access pilots and on-going research initiatives.
This includes:
- R&D efficiencies and inefficiencies;
- Pricing arrangements, risk-sharing, effective patient access and business cases for sponsors;
- Ethical implications for patients and clinicians;
- Intellectual property and regulatory data protection;
- Legal implications for all decision makers;
- Personal data protection considerations.
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The key objectives are to:
- Support and monitor the effective execution of the work plan including the control of deliverables, milestones and budgets;
- Enable collaboration between the various work packages, and making regular progress reports to the Navigator Group and IMI JU office as required;
- Organize and prepare meetings for project governance;
- Inform partners as well as European and global stakeholders on the project's progress;
- Manage key interactions of consortium;
- Plan and coordinate a broad platform of external communication;
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Decratex Quartz Smooth
A decorative floor coating system – very tough and versatile
- Very easily applied
- Incredibly impressive
- Withstands heavy traffic
- Chemical resistant
- Extremely tough and hard wearing
€703.69 (ex VAT)
Decratex Quartz Smooth Product Details
The Decratex Quartz system consists of blended decorative aggregates tenaciously bonded into a specialist resin base coat and encapsulated with a highly advanced clear two-part resin coating. It creates a stunning aesthetic effect normally associated with carpets and vinyls, at the same time providing an extremely tough and hygienic industrial floor surface with excellent abrasion and chemical resistance.
Medium Finish – Achieves a slightly textured slip resistant surface. Ideal for kitchens, bathrooms, food factories, receptions, etc
Very easily applied
Supplied in pre-measured 15sq.m. units
Create company logos and designs using colour coded aggregates
Natural Finish – aggregate left with a full bodied appearance
Medium Finish – achieves a slightly textured slip resistant surface
Smooth Finish – resin encapsulating the aggregate leaving a superb easy clean decorative finish
Typical Uses: Reception areas, entrance halls, corridors, stairways, shower, swimming pool surrounds, kitchen, food processing areas, commercial & industrial, hospitals, schools, offices, leisure centres, hotels, shops, warehouses.
Colour Options:
Pot life:Resin: 20-30 mins @ 20oC
Sealer: 30 mins @ 20oC
Application temperature:10oC – 25oC
Initial cure time:Resin: 8-10 hours
Sealer: 6-8 hours
To accept traffic:Sealer: 24 hours
Overcoat (if required) time:Sealer: within 24 hours
Full strength cure time:7 days
Full compressive strength:68N/mm2
Full tensile strength:45N/mm2
Full flexural strength:85N/mm2
Elastic modulus:2.8KN/mm2
Number of parts supplied:7
Coverage:Available in 15 or 30 sq.m. packs
Primer required:Yes
Please consult the technical data sheet for full technical product data.
Preparation:Thorough surface preparation is essential.
The floor must be as even and level as possible, otherwise the top coat may form puddles in any depressions before curing.
Please refer to Polycote WD Primer data sheet prior to priming, and follow surface preparation guidelines with care. If the surface is damaged, uneven, contaminated with oil or damp, please contact Polycote technical helpline for advice.Please note: Decratex™ Quartz 'Smooth' finish should only be applied to totally level floors (eg. powerfloated concrete or self-levelling screeds).
Applying the Resin:
Follow directions on separate version data sheet supplied. It is imperative that the resin totally covers the entire surface – Decratex Quartz aggregate will only adhere to the resin.
Applying the Aggregate:
The Decratex™ Quartz aggregate must be sprinkled onto the wet resin immediately.
Larger areas will require at least two persons, one to roll the resin on to the floor and the other to follow up broadcasting the aggregate, walking on the wet resin using spiked shoes (available from Polycote UK).
For best results, first pour the aggregate from the sack into a clean dry bucket. This will redistribute the various particle sizes and colours for an even blend and provide a convenient container from which to sprinkle the aggregate.
The wet resin must be totally blinded with Decratex Quartz Aggregate – no resin should remain visible and any wet spots that appear (due to depressions in the sub-floor) must be filled with aggregate immediately. Avoid sprinkling a thicker layer than is necessary to achieve total coverage, as the surplus cannot be brushed off until the resin has cured, causing a shortage of aggregate.
Take care to avoid disturbing the sprinkled aggregate until the resin has cured.
After 12-18 hours ensure the aggregate has firmly bonded before sweeping or vacuuming off the excess.
Keep area clean and free of traffic and overcoat with a sealer within 48 hours.
Applying the Sealer Coat:
Follow directions on separate sealer datasheet for mixing, curing times, etc.The coverage rate will depend on the desired finish and the consequent quantity of resin supplied per 15m2 unit.
'Natural' finish – using a roller, apply two light coats of Decratex™ Quartz Sealer @ 2.5kg per 15m2 per coat (6m2 per kg) allowing 24 hours between coats.
'Medium' finish – using a roller, apply two heavy coats of Decratex™ Quartz Sealer @ 5.0kg per 15m2 per coat (3m2 per kg) allowing 24 hours between coats.
'Smooth' finish – first apply one heavy coat of Decratex™ Quartz Sealer with a serrated squeegee @ 10.0kg per 15m2 (1.5m2 per kg). Any trapped air bubbles should be removed by rolling the entire wet coating using a spiked roller. Spiked shoes must be worn to avoid disturbing the wet surface.
After initial cure of the squeegee coat has taken place (approx. 24 hours) apply a further coat of Decratex Quartz Sealer using a roller @ 5.0kg per 15m2 (3.0m2 per kg).
A sealer with greater UV resistance is also available. Please contact Polycote Technical Helpline for further information.


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Friday, March 28, 2014
Where Is Spring?
There is a robin that hangs out in my back yard, and Bobra is terribly distracted by him. He "talks" to the robin from the safety of his indoor perch, and I wonder what he'd do if I ever let him outside (which I won't.)
Also, I've made a lot of pretty trash lately, so the other day I tried to combine a few challenges to jump-start my mojo. I tried to combine the now-expired Colours and Sketches color challenge:
(though mine ended up more on the blue side), with the also-expired Merry Monday Christmas Challenge:
where I used the sketch as a starting point, but I didn't make a Christmas card ... you see how this is going, right?
Here's my card, then I'll explain more:
I used (for the first time!) my Stampotique bird that I water colored as a robin. And yes, he is spitting.
You can see my attempts at layering in order to follow the sketch, but I only managed three of the banners. Also, my sentiment is wonky since I am old and my hands are no longer as steady as they used to be. Plus, I was too lazy to draw lines. I think the wonky letters go fine with the spitting robin, though.
I heat-embossed the robin, and knowing that Copics don't like black embossing (they seem to do fine with white, though), I chose to watercolor the robin. I smooshed some Distress Spiced Marmalade and Black Soot inks onto my craft mat, spritzed them with some water, then used a dry brush to spread it on the image. I only slipped once or twice. ;/
Then, even knowing Copics don't like black embossing, I went around the outside with a very light blue Copic, being very careful not to touch the embossed edge.
With all the layers and banners, I had to raise up the horizontal piece, so I added two black brads since the backs wouldn't be a problem. I think they anchor the horizontal piece, too.
I kinda like how this turned out, and it definitely expresses our collective sentiment about Spring. I am sooo ready for it. In fact, I've arranged for my garden to be tilled early next month. I cannot wait!
Thanks for stopping by!
Products used: Stampotique Shouting Bird, vat of clear embossing powder, SU Calypso Coral card stock, misc black brads, Tombow adhesive, and the following:
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I feel just like that robin - where IS Spring?? The wonky letters do go perfectly with him.ReplyDelete
I love that robin! So cute! In S. CA, we didn't have a winter, which is hard to believe with the rest of the country suffers. In return, our earthquakes are shaking things up here.ReplyDelete
Yup! That's how I feel!ReplyDelete
Oh, your birdie is adorable! I think he is crying, not spitting, lol. Weather is the same here in MN; nice today, tho.ReplyDelete
Oh, your birdie is adorable! I think he is crying, not spitting, lol. Weather is the same here in MN; nice today, tho.ReplyDelete
I am crying along with your robin...as a so cal transplant this winter in maryland has gone on long enough. We just might be in spring, its been raining all day, but it is warm enough out for open windows. I love the smell of rain.ReplyDelete
My sentiments exactly! Great card, that robin's expression is perfect...ReplyDelete
All hail the mighty spitting robin! This is a very cute card. That is one upset robin I tell you and for good reason too. That spring thing certainly is elusive and slippery this time 'round.ReplyDelete
I'd love to hear what you really think! :-)
PS: I've had to disable Anonymous comments, because the spammers were killing me. If you are unable to comment, please email me your comment and I'll get it posted for you. Sorry. (stoopid spammers)


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Did you know that as of February 2018 Makerere University pays 480,689,353Uganda shillings on electricity bills alone? This was one of the shocking realizations some of the students had to experience during the Go Green week. The "Go Green" was a five day sustainability program coordinated by the Planning and Development Department of Makerere University with the Estates and works Department, World Wide Fund and CREEC. CREEC participated in the week from 26th to 28th February 2018.The aim of the program was to create awareness about sustainable energy efficiency practices within the University under the theme "Save Energy and Protect our Planet"
Some of the activities included a social media campaign and a Think Tank session where students made a presentation on energy use. From there presentation, it was clear that many were misusing the electricity made available to them by simply leaving the lights on or plugging in appliances that are not in use. According to them, they have paid for the electricity so why not use it in the way they deem fit? CREEC used this platform to encourage students to utilize the energy that has been provided for them and to become ambassadors of energy efficiency. As a continuation of this program, CREEC will be carrying out an energy audit on one of the Halls of residence in the University. So in the spirit of the Go Green week, switch off the light as you leave the room, use energy saving appliances and don't leave appliances plugged in when not in use. The energy you save can be used by the 80% of Ugandans who do not have access.