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StopPests is offering three free webinars on IPM in affordable housing, covering bed bugs, cockroaches, and rodents. See the descriptions and the registration links below. Although housing professionals are the target audience for these presentations, we invite pest management professionals and anyone whose work and life is impacted by pests in affordable housing to join us. See these announcements and previous StopPests webinars here at StopPests.org's webinar page.
Turning Failure into Success: Bed Bug Management in Affordable Housing
Presenter: Rick Cooper, PhD - Rutgers University, Cooper Pest Solutions, Terminix
Date: July 11th 2018
Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm Eastern
Register: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WelM7euuSa6xiyfh8BUYyA
Chronic bed bug infestations and severe bed bug infestation rates in multifamily buildings are becoming more common due to the lack of effective bed bug management programs. This webinar presentation will increase housing professional's understanding of how bed bugs are successfully controlled with examples of assessment-based management plans. Participants will learn 1) how and why bed bugs spread throughout living communities resulting in high infestation rates and escalating management costs, 2) why bed bug management has been largely ineffective in affordable housing communities 3). what methods are most effective for controlling bed bugs, 4) to apply a scientifically proven method for complex-wide management of bed bugs in affordable housing communities that results in long-term cost savings and improved quality of life for residents.
If you work in affordable housing you don't want to miss the opportunity to register for this free training to hear Rick Cooper. Rick worked in the pest management industry before earning his Ph.D. at Rutgers University where his research focused on bed bug management with an emphasis on affordable housing communities. He is currently the Director of Special Programs at Terminix and is also serving as Technical Director for Cooper Pest Solutions. His unique background combining industry perspective and real-world experience with scientific research will provide you with realistic and effective solutions specific to the challenges found in the affordable housing environment.
Developing a Pest Exclusion Program for Cockroaches and Rodents
Presenter: Matt Frye Ph.D. - NYS IPM Program, Cornell University Cooperative Extension
Date: September 12th 2018
Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm Eastern
Register: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x-C5zHgrSFqEuVziojCrcA
To date there are no training guides on how to implement exclusion for pest management, which may prevent company owners from creating an exclusion division. However, housing staff, especially maintenance and facilities staff and pest management professionals are uniquely qualified to identify entry points and harborage for cockroaches and rodents. This session will emphasize the steps in developing an exclusion program from the basics of identifying entry points to recommendations for sealing openings of different sizes and for different pests.
You don't want to miss this free training with pest exclusion expert, Matt Frye Ph.D. The focus of Matt's work at the NYS IPM Program is to help people prevent issues with pests such as rodents, bed bugs, ticks, cockroaches, and indoor flies. Take advantage of the Q&A time for the opportunity to ask for recommendations for existing problems. Housing and pest management professionals who join StopPests for this webinar are guaranteed to see your buildings and homes with a new pest proofing perspective.
Integrated Pest Management—A Simple Solution to Problem Pests in Elderly and Disabled Public Housing
Presenters: Dawn H. Gouge, Ph.D., Shujuan (Lucy) Li, Ph.D., Shakunthala (Shaku) Nair, Ph.D. - Arizona Pest Management
Center, University of Arizona–MAC, Maricopa
Date: November 14th 2018
Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm Eastern
Registration: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dy_hKHuxRymPX6VAPIQdew
Join us for this free webinar training to hear Drs. Gouge, Li, and Nair describe efforts to implement an IPM program in HUD subsidized multiunit properties that house low-income elderly and persons with disabilities. Results over 2.8 years, across 5 buildings, showed significant reduction of German cockroaches and bed bugs. Averaging reductions across all sites there was an 87% reduction in units with German cockroaches and an 93% reduction in units with bed bugs. Learn how the team accomplished this with available pest management tools, regular inspections and monitoring and adopting strategies appropriate for residents and staff. These tools can be applied to your housing site to achieve similar success. Managing pests is not out of reach in elderly and disabled housing. Pest management and housing professionals can tune in to find out how to duplicate this successful approach in their own buildings and developments.
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I recently had the opportunity to work with acclaimed rodentologist, Dr. Robert Corrigan, and learn about a particular tough type of mouse infestation found in multifamily housing, the "resident" mouse or "appliance" mouse. These are mice that live and breed within individual apartments or residences. Even when building maintenance staff and the pest control contractors do everything I typically recommend, this type of infestation persists. You can seal entryways from outside, seal access to wall voids around pipes and other utilities, use glue board traps, and place bait boxes with rodenticide around the buildings, without impacting the populations within individual apartments. The sealing, exclusion, and rodenticide placement can prevent new mice from entering the building but only have a minimal impact in reducing the mouse population inside already. Without Dr. Corrigan's insight I would have been at a loss as to what further recommendations I could give beyond these typical management techniques.
With Dr. Corrigan's guidance I learned the breeding colonies in the apartments themselves need to be the focus of the pest management efforts. The real story behind a heavy mouse infestation has to be seen by visiting the apartments with the heaviest infestations. Dr. Corrigan always starts by asking the residents where they frequently see mice and for how long have they been seeing mice. The answers can provide guidance as to where pest management efforts should be applied. Dr. Corrigan calls these mice living within apartments "resident" or "appliance mice". Often mice live in hard to access places like under refrigerators, in cabinet voids, and even in the open spaces under or inside couches, and most frequently in stoves. Upon inspection (pulling out the broiler drawer and opening up the top of the stove) evidence of mice nesting in the insulation in the sides of the stoves can easily be seen.
While it's common to see building management and maintenance staff at sites we visit doing a great job with exclusion, keeping common areas clean, managing trash, and hiring a reputable company to trap and bait with rodenticide, mouse infestations can persist because these efforts do not reach the mice living within the apartments. The mice find warm places to live in kitchens and happily raise their families with all the food they need within a few feet of their nests. Mice rarely live beyond 10 feet of their food source and can reproduce quite quickly under these hospitable conditions. Many people don't realize the top of their ranges can be opened and cleaned. Regardless of the cleanliness of an apartments, under the stove top there is typically plenty of spilled food and the signs that mice are happily feasting undisturbed. When the broiler drawers are removed the signs of mice can be evident too. Often the insulation material from the sides of the stoves is pulled out. It makes excellent nesting material the mice certainly will take advantage of. Glue boards can be placed in these spots to monitor for mice but will not control them. Typically these traps will only catch a few mice and mostly juveniles. When we see juvenile mice on glue boards this is a good indication there is a nest nearby. There is a lot of work involved in eliminating the "resident mice" but it must be done to eliminate the allergens and multiple pathogens mice carry that can cause breathing problems and make the tenants sick.
Recommendations for "resident" mice include:
For tenants:
For maintenance staff and pest control contractors:
See the StopPests Pests Solutions Rodents page for more information on rodents in multifamily housing.
*this article was first published in Pest Management Professional Magazine and was written by Dr. Mark Sheperdigian. It is published here with permission from the author and publisher. The original article can be found here: Bed-bug-infested furniture: Deface, defile or deconstruct?
Even though 15 years have passed since the reintroduction of bed bugs, it's still common to hear of people who discard their furniture as soon as they learn they have an infestation. This practice only serves to spread the infestation around, as discarded furniture is often picked up by others and taken home.
The cruel truth is that discarding furniture rarely, if ever, solves a bed bug problem — it only results in two infested homes. Ending the cycle requires education and training, where communities are taught the proper response to bed bugs and, if necessary, the proper way to discard furniture.
De-infest first
The best course of action is to eliminate the bed bugs and have the furniture cleaned. If the furniture has been fouled beyond cleaning, it should still be de-infested before it is discarded. Eliminating bed bugs from a heavily infested piece is quite difficult, and should be left to pest management professionals (PMPs).
After treatment, mattresses can be encased. Encasements can even be put over other pieces of furniture as an alternative to throwing them out. If the appearance is unacceptable, couch and chair covers can be purchased to put over the encasements.
When heat is going to be used, the time to discard furniture is after the heat treatment. One of the major advantages of heat is its ability to penetrate to the very core of mattresses, couches and other complex pieces.
Deface, defile or deconstruct?
Most of the common strategies for the safe disposal of infested furniture usually involve defacing, defiling or deconstructing. Some communities require furniture or mattresses to be spray painted in large letters BED BUGS – DO NOT TAKE. Oddly enough, if the bugs aren't evident, these items may still be taken.
A more effective method for disposal is to have furniture slashed and/or broken apart. For apartments, condominiums and other multi-family housing, a large dumpster is often used so discards aren't visible to the public.
Three things to keep in mind before discarding furniture:
StopPests note: Download our poster to warn residents not to pick up discarded furniture here: Discarded Furniture Warning Poster
Download The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Guidance Proper Disposal Of Bed Bug Infested Household Items
Hoarding, poor sanitation, and excessive clutter are potential barriers to the success of an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program in affordable housing. These conditions create harborages and food sources for pests, not to mention the fire and tripping hazards, blocked egress, structural problems and possible evictions. Pest infestations are rarely confined to just one apartment in multifamily housing. An infestation in one unit can quickly become a building-wide issue. With help of researchers from Boston University and the University of Nebraska and funding from the Northeastern IPM Center, John Kane at the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) set out to address the association of pest infestations and levels of clutter with an intervention program aimed at helping residents.
First, they looked at the prevalence of hoarding among their resident. Residents were identified with hoarding, clutter and unsanitary conditions in their units in four public housing developments (approx. 1600 units - two elderly and disabled and two family housing sites). Staff were trained to use the "clutter image rating scale" (CIR) to identify residents in need of assistance. Living unit inspection forms were changed to include the clutter image rating score to flag units for follow up.
3260 Living Unit inspection forms and all pests reports from these housing sites were collected from April 2011 to March 2013 and compiled. It was determined that 4.8% of residents living at BHA sites had hoarding, excessive clutter or unsanitary condition in their homes, and this was associated with an increase in pest reports (5.03 more pest visits per year than all other units) (see Figure 1.).
The response plan included an intervention based on the work of Christina Bratiotis, PhD (University of Nebraska) and Jordana Muroff, PhD (Boston University). This intervention strategy includes setting goals, motivation enhancement, harm reduction and safety planning, organizing, problem solving, sorting and decision making and providing additional resources and referrals.
All residents who received the intervention in the pilot project were able to reduce their CIR score during follow-up inspections. Preliminary results show the intervention program successfully reduced the level of hoarding and clutter among residents but further examination of the effectiveness of this case management model on a wider scale is needed. Next steps include implementing this intervention program by training staff and enhancing the living unit inspection form at all housing sites within the housing authority.
In an effort to share these results and methods beyond the BHA, the Northeastern IPM Center's StopPests in Housing program hosted a webinar in August of 2015 to share these results and train a wider audience of affordable housing staff on how to identify and respond to residents with hoarding or clutter management challenges. http://www.stoppests.org/go/hoardingwebinar The Boston Housing Authority has made resources on hoarding available at www.masshousing.com/hoarding.
John Kane, Boston Housing Authority
Christina Bratiotis, PhD, University of Nebraska
Jordana Muroff, PhD, Boston University
Residents and Managers, Boston Housing Authority
Lori Luce, Boston Housing Authority
Jesse Edsell-Vetter, MBHP
Eugenia Smith and members of the Community Committee for Health Promotion
On August 4th, StopPests in Housing hosted a webinar about a new approach to address hoarding in multifamily housing, and its impact on pest control. To view the recording of this webinar visit our website.
Through a partnership with the Boston University (BU) School of Social Work, BU School of Public Health, and the University of Nebraska, Omaha, the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) learned that clutter is often associated with an increase in pest reports among their residents. This can certainly be an obstacle to implementing a successful integrated pest management program. In this webinar, learn how you can use their experience, tools, and intervention program to train your own staff to help residents with clutter and hoarding issues. You and your staff will learn how to recognize, flag units, and rate the severity of clutter or potential hoarding, and then offer an intervention that can empower residents to address hoarding behaviors.
Join us and our speakers, John Kane (BHA) and Jordana Muroff (Boston University), for this FREE 90 minute webinar by registering here: Hoarding Webinar Registration
Email firstname.lastname@example.com for more information or if you have any questions.
Our webinars are planned based on your needs and challenges as we learn with your input. Their goal is to provide useful tools and information that will serve many of you to advance your pest management program and efforts. We hope you can attend this upcoming webinar and welcome any feedback, comments, and ideas for future topics!
In the previous part of this post we talked about some of the principles of working with residents in multi-family housing for successful pest control.
One of the keys to success is preventing a feeling of disconnect between the residents and the housing management, professional contractors and external trainers. A mutual lack of trust and miscommunication can cause the failure of any new program or initiative. In many cases, because we learn best from our friends and people we relate to, peer-to-peer education and outreach can be a very helpful tool. However, there needs to be some interest and willingness within the community.
But what does peer education actually mean? It is basically teaching or more informal sharing of information, values and behavior with other peers — who typically share similar social or cultural backgrounds and life experiences. Sometimes the information a resident receives on pest control and housekeeping is better received and trusted when it comes from a known neighbor, rather than housing staff.
These shared background and experience are a key point! They're the reason behind, and the basis for this whole model. Peer educators are often familiar with the knowledge gaps, concerns and preferred learning styles of their peers. They can also motivate others by using a familiar language, or slang, or calling upon a shared situation.
The role of peer educators in a multi-family housing setting is to be the 'bridge' between residents and management (including staff, as well as external professionals), and be a resource to their neighbors. They work with staff and others to correct misconceptions and misinformation, provide new information through various means and formats, help tenants think through decisions and actions, and come up with better options for how to respond to different issues or situations. They can also play an important role in connecting and referring people to the proper resources, services and organizations.
In some programs, there may be paid positions for peer educators and community advocates, while in others they're set up as volunteer positions, or through resident councils. Whatever the case, the goal is to provide the educators with relevant and updated information (on resources, support services and more) and the necessary tools to help their fellow neighbors. Such tools may include, for instance, instructional or educational training, which —if done correctly— can increase their effectiveness without affecting their natural ability to connect with others.
Having said that, if and when possible, let peer educators organize and implement activities or initiatives of their own — a feeling of pride and ownership can make peer educators an extremely valuable asset!
So what makes for a good peer educator? Desired qualities and skills may include: enthusiastic, inclusive, self-confident, respectful, open heart and minded, motivated, trusting, well-organized, positive, etc. And certainly empathy! Identifying the needs of others and knowing when not to interfere are key strengths for this kind of work.
To wrap up, I'd like to share an example of a housing program that successfully implemented IPM interventions with the help of peer educators:
"In partnership, the Boston Public Health Commission, the Boston Housing Authority (BHA), Boston University School of Public Health, the Committee for Boston Public Housing, and the West Broadway Task Force (WBTF) led an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) intervention in Boston's public housing developments. Key to the success of the program was recruiting residents to participate.
Residents who were trained as Community Health Advocates (CHAs) at the West Broadway Development in South Boston, Massachusetts, recruited over 300 homes, the highest recruitment rate among the 15 BHA developments targeted for the IPM intervention.
… As residents, CHAs were able to recruit better than outsiders because they knew the living conditions and the culture, and could help residents in practical ways."
These community advocates also used different topics and issues that were relevant to residents to help them build relationships and open communication lines:
"Addressing topics that are on their radar is a way to build trust, and to get a foot in the door. Then people remember CHAs as women who work for the task force and have health information. Residents who were not initially interested in IPM often had other interests or concerns."
This program resulted in high recruitment rates, effective IPM intervention in a large portion of participating developments and households, residents feeling more confident in themselves and more comfortable discussing pest infestations, while at the same time empowering the resident educators. Read more about it here.
To learn more about employing residents in IPM programs, visit http://www.stoppests.org/working-with-residents/getting-help/employing-residents-in-ipm-programs/
Also suggested: http://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/implement/improving-services/peer-education/main
Conventional pest control —with an initial flush-out followed by routine spraying— has generally failed to provide long-term protection from pests in low-income multifamily housing. The results? Often frustrated tenants take pest control into their own hands. They turn to over-the-counter, off label, or even illegal pesticides, risking their own health, their neighbors', and the environment. Sometimes they also become mistrustful of housing staff or contractors. This might lead to residents denying access to units or not following pest control advice.
Combine this with a general lack of knowledge or misconceptions about proper pest management, and you've got some of the main challenges —and motives— for switching to IPM (Integrated Pest Management).
And key to your success? Engaging residents and community members throughout the process. In fact, they are among the most important partners in pest control.
So what is the residents' role in IPM? Basically, it is the same as that of the whole IPM team: controlling pests by preventing access, detecting infestations quickly, and making sure food, water and shelter are not available. Some of the specific tasks tenants should do to achieve this include:
Now, you might be raising an eyebrow when looking at these last couple tasks (whether you're a manager, staff, or even a resident). And sure, resident feedback can be hard to manage sometimes, or residents may think it won't matter. However, many believe it is this kind of involvement and participation that makes people feel, and thus become, true partners in such a program. When they are treated with respect as equal partners and have developed trust, they are more likely to respond positively 1.
Encourage and welcome their input, commend their efforts, and above all let them know they're a crucial piece of the puzzle!
Also, tenants are more likely to change their attitude and behavior when they feel management is working with them and for them. People need to know they are not being judged —a key factor when dealing with culture differences—, lectured, or simply criticized. At the same time, they must realize (and you need to convey) that the ultimate goal is to make their lives better, safer and healthier.
Little things, like explaining a tenant that you're inspecting their home, or wearing protective gear while at it, to protect them (as well) from bringing pests into their house, can make a big difference. They will probably collaborate and appreciate your efforts much more!
Having information and educational materials in many (relevant) languages can also be a powerful way to show residents that you care — you want everyone to be able to understand and participate in IPM; you want everyone to be safe. Several extension, public health organizations, and pest/pesticide management groups have created brochures, videos and other resources in various languages, mostly aimed toward under-served populations.
Visit StopPests.org to find links to some of these resources (search by topic or specific pest).
Same goes for inviting your pest control operator to talk to tenants and staff about their work — it can be a valuable training opportunity, while building positive relationships and gaining trust.
Overall, there are many ways and tools for involving both staff and residents in an IPM program 1, 2. Building awareness and understanding of the program is a key step from early on. One strategy that can be very helpful for this purpose —and much more— is the use of peer educators, mentors, or community advocates. This approach is often seen as complex and time consuming (which it is!), but it can also bring great value if it's set up properly… This will be the topic for the second part of this post, so stay tuned!
1 IPM Guide for Managers & Owners of Affordable Housing, Boston PHC.
One of the services we offer affordable housing providers who sign up for StopPests' free consulting and training is reviewing leases for property managers. We look for all the ways IPM principles can be incorporated into a lease and existing lease language can be interpreted to to make implementing IPM a little easier in multifamily housing. In a previous assessment of nine housing authorities we worked with, all stated that delivering a lease violation notice for poor housekeeping with specifics on how to remedy was the best way to motivate residents to do their part in an IPM program.
There are often vague references to housekeeping and pests control, but many leases lack the specifics. Your version of clean and uncluttered may not be the same as your neighbor's. Ultimately, cooperation from residents (or lack of) may determine if a pest infestation gets under control. When expectations and obligations are clearly laid out for residents and housing staff, the lease can be another tool in the IPM program. What follows are some common IPM leverage points that you can look for in your lease.
First, we look for any mention of exterminating or exterminators. This is an outdated term, but this isn't just about word choice. The term extermination implies just killing pests. Good pest management is more than that. It includes inspection, monitoring, and making recommendations for eliminating food, water, shelter, and entry points. We suggest using pest control, pest management professional, and IPM as replacement terms to shift the focus from just killing off pests.
Vague language like "within a reasonable time period" is also noted. We suggest replacing undefined time periods with defined time periods. For example, one of our recommendations is to conduct a housekeeping inspection within 90 days of move in and at least annually thereafter. Tenants should have a clear understanding of how many visits and inspections they can expect at a minimum.
One thing we hear from property managers is that sometimes residents don't report pest infestations. Are residents aware property management covers the cost of pest control? This should not be one of the reasons pests go un-reported. We suggest including a reference to pest control in the list of utilities and services covered by management. In addition, make sure residents know exactly how to report in order to generate a work order.
Another issue we often hear is residents don't cooperate with pest control visits. For those who can't do their part, we strategize about support options. For those who won't do their part, we have the lease. Does your lease clearly state that failure to comply with preparations for pest management and allowing access by contractors can result in adverse action? Lease termination, transfer, and extra charges can all be repercussions for failing to comply with maintenance visits and pest control preparation. If there are no repercussions for not cooperating with pest management visits (or failing housekeeping inspections for that matter), it makes pests control extremely difficult, even impossible.
In all leases there is a section describing the tenant's responsibilities. Tenants are typically responsible for reporting maintenance issues. We suggest defining what those issues are and referencing specific examples such as: signs of pests, presence of wildlife, drainage issues, leaks, moisture issues, mold, holes greater than ¼ inch, broken or missing window screens, and any unsafe or unsanitary conditions. Again, if there are no stated repercussions for not reporting issues, it makes it hard to enforce a lease.
We know that garbage, and how we dispose of it, plays a huge role in managing pests. Does your lease describe garbage and waste disposal guidelines? A good lease will describe the tenant's role in garbage disposal. We look for statements like: Garbage should be disposed of in a sanitary and safe manner, incovered containers and should not sit in a unit for more than a week. No trash or items should be stored in yards. Doors and hallways should be accessible and free from clutter.
Often leases state residents are prohibited from storing flammable or highly volatile materials. Many people do not realize "bug bombs" or total release foggers are volatile materials. Because the use of these pesticides is ingrained in some communities (despite the hazard and ineffectiveness of the formulation), we think it's best to directly reference bug bombs in a list of prohibited items. We also encourage looking for these materials in housekeeping inspections…but that's a topic for another blog post!
Although it's not easy to make changes to a lease, keep these points in mind when the opportunity does arise.
For more information on changing lease language to help implement IPM in multifamily housing, see the StopPests Lease Guidance.
Do you have residents asking for advice on pest control or residents taking pest control into their own hands? Use the information below in a newsletter or as reference for building staff who give pest control tips to residents.
Feel free to modify….
Do-It-Yourself Pest Control: What Really Works?
What do you do when you see a cockroach? A mouse? Hopefully, you'll ask us for help. Do not use bug sprays or "bug bombs"! Save your money and leave it to the professionals. Too often, store-bought sprays or do-it-yourself (DIY) fixes may only kill the pests you see. The ones that are hiding are happily starting families. Worse yet, you could be exposing your family and yourself to dangerous chemicals. Report any pests to us at {insert contact info here}. Either trained staff or our pest control contractor will help you get the bugs or rodents out for good—for free.
While you wait for us to respond, there are things you can do. Try these non-toxic, DIY suggestions to keep bugs and rodents out of your home.
Here's what works:
*Using a clothes dryer for bed bug control does not take the place of a pest management professional. Report suspected bed bugs so we can help!
No, these efforts will not take the place of a professional but they can make a huge difference. The best time for do-it-yourself pest control is before you see any pests! Have all these tips be part of your weekly routine. For more information on what you can do for specific pests ask us or visit StopPests in Housing's "Pest Solutions" page: http://www.stoppests.org/pest-solutions/
Below you will find a newsletter article for your residents. Feel free to add your contact information at the bottom.
Why Should You Report a Pest?
Heard a squeak? Seen a roach? Been bit by a bed bug? Now what?
{Insert Housing Name} is here to help. Report the pest problem to us. Not sure who to call? Try the office and ask. Do not try to handle a pest problem yourself with sprays, foggers, or other pesticides you buy at the store. Leave pesticides to the experts. We provide pest control services free-of-charge. Safe and decent housing is pest-free!
If you're having a pest problem, your neighbors may be having one too. Pests don't respect walls! They will crawl, chew and skitter through cracks and crevices making most pest problems in multifamily housing widespread—not just your apartment. We need to address pest problems building-wide. We can help, but first we need to know where the pests show up.
Need more convincing? Here are a few more reasons to report pests:
Reminders about your lease:
Reporting a pest problem is the first step in eliminating unwanted visitors! Report your pest problems to: {Insert contact info here}


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Good food. The phrase means different things to different people. Aside from the obvious (parents: vegetables; kids: candy!), even our location—farm, suburban, urban—affects how we access food and think about nutrition. Connecting City To Farm, a nonprofit organization founded by Kris Habashy, connects food producers and consumers by teaching families about safe and affordable nutrition through the lens of agriculture. Kris is passionate about promoting the American farmer, educating urban-dwellers about modern agriculture and its far-reaching benefits. She also believes that something as physical as food has a profound effect on our spiritual lives.
CP: What inspired you to start 'Connecting City to Farm?"
Kris: I grew up on a commercial farm, and I've lived in the city for the last twenty years. Both cultures have stolen my heart! It's my observation that the widening gap between urbanites and agriculture is being too easily filled with fear and confusion through effective marketing and clever headlines. Connecting City To Farm was created out of a desire to bridge the gap between consumers and our food source by digging past food labels and finding out what really happens on a modern farm.
CP: How does "hunger and health" relate to our relationship with God?
Kris: In this context hunger refers to lack of nutritiously rich food, not just the absence of calories. In many underserved neighborhoods in the US there is limited to no access to healthy foods. The only places to buy food in these areas, which are labeled "food deserts," are convenience stores and fast food restaurants, which offer meager choices, empty calories, and very little nutritional value. Children living in these neighborhoods miss the window of physical development when their bodies desperately need nutrients to develop muscle strength, bone density and brain functioning. As they mature, they develop an unfortunate number of health issues like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, high-blood pressure and cancer. The vicious cycle of poverty continues as they are physically unable to work and bring dignity to themselves and their families. The epidemic of childhood obesity has even become a national security concern because many young adults do not qualify for military service due to poor health.
The Bible tells us multiple times to care for the poor, so Connecting City To Farm created an action piece called Farm Camp to launch kids into a healthy lifestyle. Farm Camp is a four-day learning adventure where we take diverse groups of kids (some from affluent neighborhoods and some from underserved communities) to our commercial farm so they can see first-hand where their food is grown. We also teach this eclectic group of students simple, accessible healthy-living strategies like Drink Water, Get Up and Move, and Eat Real Food. And more importantly, we get to teach them the motivating factor behind all these choices: they are valuable to the Sovereign God of the Universe. He loves them so much that he sent His son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for their sins and rise again so they can be in a personal relationship with their Creator. As a response to His love, we can be good stewards of the resources He has given us—resources like our bodies, our minds, our soil, our water, our environment, our atmosphere. All these things come together in a beautiful blend of age, gender, race, and background at Farm Camp as we learn truth together that applies to all of us.
CP: What does God have to say about our role in growing and providing food?
Kris: Everyone needs food. Our world population is growing and is estimated to be approximately 9 billion by the year 2050. When this estimation was first published in 1985, brainstorming groups in the ag industry began meeting to create ways for farmers to keep up with the demands that were predicted to unfold over the next sixty-five years. Agriculture professionals have the unique responsibility of making sure there's enough food for all those people, and they take that responsibility very seriously. In the same way we learn in Genesis chapter 41 that Joseph planned ahead by storing food for the drought that God told him was coming, farmers are planning ahead to ensure that their levels of food production keep up with the rising population. So far, the estimation is on track. We have seen a decreased rate of infant mortality and an increased rate of life expectancy. More life is a good thing.
CP: How can our food choices influence our spiritual life?
Kris: Food is a tool God uses throughout his word to show his character, favor, and faithfulness. He designed us not only to need food, but to enjoy it. Several festivals were designated by him for the Jewish people that involve food, and they were often coupled with weddings and celebrations throughout the Bible. In addition, he used it to show his faithful provision by showering manna on the Israelites when they were in the wilderness. Conversely, Jesus fasted while being tempted in the wilderness to acknowledge his dependence on the Lord. Out of his love for us, God has created us with miraculous bodies. In response to that love, we want to learn to be good stewards of our bodies and choose foods appropriately. We won't be perfect in our pursuit of healthy, nutritious food choices. Curbing our appetites is a spiritual discipline in lots of areas of our lives that goes beyond food. Like other areas of conviction, we can choose to obey, listen to the Holy Spirit, and yield our diets to the Lord. He may call us to fast for a period of time. He may call us to abstain from a certain food, such as sugar. He may call us to experience hospitality by graciously accepting the meal offered to us by our host. The fascinating thing about connecting our food choices to our spiritual life is that we have that opportunity several times each and every day. His hand provides, sustains, blesses, and instructs through meeting a basic universal need.
Take a peek at the most recent Farm Camp during Spring Break in March 2017!


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KUWTK: Season 7 PremierPost Originally Published: May 22nd, 2012
My favorite TV family of power girls/bad bitches is back!
Even though it seems like they're everywhere all the time – in the tabliods, on celebrity blogs, and their spin-off programming – the original show is still my favorite way to keep up. I love all things Kardashian, even their drama queen mom. What keeps me tuned in is their willingness to honestly share themselves with the world.
Keeping it real with the people you love is something that resonates with me. How the Kardashians choose to cope with, and overcome, difficult situations inspires me. When it comes down to it they treat one another with love (after they bicker). They always put family first, and they force each other to be honest. Aside from the glitz and glamour their Kardashian family values are what make the series so popular with women. Their fame and wealth in no way exempts them from any number of hardships and personal dramas. It's easy to say their fame and over-exposure is what causes their problems, but in life each of us is free to choose our paths, and follow our dreams, and no path is necessarily easier than another.
Don't Be So Dramatic.
In the season premier Kris is forced to deal with lingering anxiety from her revelation that she'd cheated on Robert Kardashian around the time she got pregnant with Khloe. She convinces her first three kids to submit swab samples for a specialist to test against Khloe's DNA, to put an end to speculation. I'm team Khloe all day because she keeps it the realest.
She was spot on when she said there would be no need for the test to begin with if Kris hadn't revealed her infidelity in the book. Kim was also on point when she called her mom out for pretending she wanted the test for Khloe's peace of mind, when it's obvious she wanted to make herself feel better. My favorite was when Kim tells her mother "don't be so dramatic." See, Kim does say smart things!
Team Work Makes The Dream Work!
Kim's feelings are hurt when she finds out Kourtney's been meeting with realtors on her own, looking at new spaces for their Dash boutique. Kim feels left out of the decision-making and tries to remind Kourtney that Dash is group effort.
I'm team Kourt on this because just like Khloe she keeps it a trillion times real in the field, and she's got that killer one range monotone when serving it up. My favorite is when she looks right at the camera and is like "Kim's mad because she suddenly has all this free time…" [shots fired, re:divorce] "and I'm the bitch because she didn't come look at spaces because she had a dentist appointment."* [shots fired, called her out for being self-centered.]
Finally, Kris intervenes to remind Kourtney that Kim wants to feel useful and at the end of the day Dash is their shared, group venture.
I Love This Mess. I know every season is more of the same; Bruce is old and neglected, Kris is full of herself, Khloe and Kourtney couldn't give less of a crap about anyone's drama, and Kim lives in her own world. You've got Kris managing Kim's fame, keeping the family's wealth flowing, and trying to put forth this particular image and then you've got her husband and kids calling her out non-stop on her bullshit. It's the mixture of their personalities and the sprinkling of Scott Disick's wide-eyed confusion that really makes it for me. Keeping Up With The Kardashians is utterly priceless (and ridiculous) and I love it.
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Climate change is one of the most debated issues of the 21st century. The debate is multifaceted, as it ranges from whether the phenomenon should constitute a top international concern to how information on greenhouse gases should be locally collected. Little is know, however, about which issues are most systematically raised in political realms, by whom and under what circumstances. My research sheds light on these points by providing new rigorous measurements of national preferences at the international talks of the United Nations climate negotiations.
Background: The International Climate Policy Debate
When defining the global climate change debate, the key word to keep in mind is uncertainty. Much about the politics of climate change is based on the definition of uncertainty — and, consequently, whether the risk of doing nothing is more costly than the cost of acting.
Debates over these costs can lead to large disagreements. For example, an electorate often disagrees on how climate change affects different regions or sectors within their country. Similarly, nations frequently disagree on how to design international regulations to cap global greenhouse gas emissions while protecting cross-national interests. While the existence of disagreements is common knowledge, it is unclear how systematic these disagreements are, whether they are based on material conflicts or normative frictions, and if they explain why global climate negotiations have led to so few successful outcomes, with the exception of the growly 'old' Kyoto Protocol.
I argue that the lack of clarity on the causes and consequences of climate change disagreements is due to the lack of good data on countries' preferences. In other words, we do not know what drives climate policy coordination (and failure) because we do not have precise measurements of what decision-makers want. Focusing on the international politics of climate change, I tackle this research gap in a recently published paper. To advance the study of climate change policy debates, the paper introduces a new dataset on national positions at the annual climate change negotiations of the United Nations.
States' interests at international climate negotiations: new measures of bargaining positions
I collected the new data through an original text analysis of two rounds of National Communications of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The dataset is rich, as it comprehends scaled positions for more than 90 countries over more than 25 issues at two points in time (2001-04 and 2008-11). Overall, the dataset improves over previous measurements of climate policy preferences methodologically and substantively. Methodologically, I combined qualitative issue identification and structured coding in order to (1) select the contentious issues across the annual climate negotiations, and (2) gather issue-specific climate positions with the use of state-of-the-art text-analytical methods. The issue-specific positions are mainly 'loaded' — with some exceptions — on a dimension that distinguishes more and less cooperative countries. The validity of this scaling is supported by a significant correlation between the factorization of the issue-specific positions and a Wordfish text analysis of the National Communications (see Figure 1).
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Substantively, my data inform the state of the debate on global climate cooperation by disclosing theoretically interesting patterns across countries and years. The position scaling points to an important distinction between developed and developing countries, but it also indicates that several emerging countries like China and Brazil have comparable positions to countries like Canada and the US. Additionally, the data helps unveiling some of the drivers of climate policy making within countries. For example, in a separate paper that uses this dataset I find that less pro-active (or less cooperative) positions belong to countries where agricultural and mining sectors profit from domestic protection, such as high import tariffs. This suggests that the national positions expressed at the UNFCCC are rooted in important domestic economic structures.
Outlook: Upcoming International Negotiations and the Future of Climate Policy Debates
In sum, the new data offers a 'map' of national preferences over climate change-related issues that can be indicative for future international climate meetings, such as the UNFCCC Paris conference in December 2015. Based on my data, it is hard to imagine the delegates in Paris to avoid a fight. It is presumable that developing countries will try to extract as much climate aid and adaptation funds as possible from whatever new model of international climate governance a new treaty may bring. At the same time, it is plausible that a majority of developed countries will accept an agreement as long as the economic incentives to engage with carbon policy are strengthened over time. The data ultimately suggests that the future steps of the international climate negotiations will be hard bargaining, but not an impossible coordination game. If international meetings seem stalled is because of the combination of conflict of interests and institutional inefficiencies, but not only the former.


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EXCLUSIVE: "New Crusaders" Strike Back In "Dark Tomorrow" Variants
In 2013, change is coming to the world of Red Circle/Archie's "New Crusaders." But one face that will continue to contribute to the young superhero team is artist Ben Bates.
Archie offered CBR an exclusive first look at the original series artist's variant cover for "New Crusaders: Dark Tomorrow" #1 -Â the May-shipping continuation of the digital-to-print series. With a new #1 under its belt and both regular and variant covers by artist Phil Jimenez, the now day-and-date monthly comic is following on the heels of the shocking events that wrapped the "Rise of the Heroes" era with a new story foretelling grim tidings for the teen heroes.
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Mr Baldwin, aged 68, has arthritis and respiratory problems, resulting in poor mobility and breathing difficulties. Prior to contacting Warm Zones he had recently been admitted to hospital twice.
The old boiler in his home was inefficient, the controls had broken and it kept breaking down, leaving Mr Baldwin without heating for periods of time. This was directly contributing to his poor health and hospital visits.
Warm Zones arranged for a new boiler to be installed, with funding contributions secured from Gateshead NHS and local Warm Zones gap funding, including some via a Department of Health initiative.


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Advances in basic sciences related to cognition, motor control, and neuroplasticity offer exciting opportunities for treatment advances in neurorehabilitation. Maturation of promising discoveries to validated treatments faces the translational research challenges familiar to all biomedical domains, while also encountering some rehabilitation-specific obstacles.
Research collaborators from Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute and Behavioral Neurology and the Center for Functional Neuroimaging at the University of Pennsylvania join forces to offer a post-doctoral research training program in Translational Neurorehabilitation Research, built on the platform of more than 10 years of multidisciplinary collaboration.
The program will train 3-4 postdoctoral fellows at a time, recruited from basic science and clinical disciplines, using a mixture of didactic and hands-on training methods.
Program faculty collectively have expertise in five key themes that are critical to maturation of treatments from initial concept to validated treatment, including: Theories of normal and abnormal processing; Impairment assessment; Naturalistic assessment; Modulation of neuronal plasticity and learning mechanisms; and Theory-driven treatment trials, and are experienced in a range of cutting edge research tools, including structural and functional neuroimaging, eye- and motion-tracking, computational modeling, virtual reality, psychopharmacology, transcranial magnetic stimulation and transcranial direct current stimulation.
Moreover, several individual faculty and collaborative groups have demonstrated expertise in advancing assessments and treatments toward clinical implementation. Thus, trainees have the ability to learn specific tools and perspectives that are applicable to neurorehabilitation research, while benefiting from mentored exposure to the process of translating scientific advances into clinically useful assessments and treatments.
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PORT CHESTER, N.Y. A 25-year-old man was arrested Saturday in Port Chester for allegedly ramming a shopping cart through the front door of a Pathmark, causing $500 worth of damage.
Around 5:13 a.m. a worker at Pathmark, 130 Midland Ave., reported to police that a man was trying to get into the closed store. The man was yelling and banging on the door, so the worker told him the store was closed and would not open it, police said.
Shortly after the worker went back to his duties, he heard a large crash and found the man had broken the door with a shopping cart, police said.
Sean Fields, 25, of 35 Davenport Ave., New Rochelle, was charged with criminal mischief, a misdemeanor.
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NewslettersTable Talk is an every other month publication of Ascension Lutheran Church. To view the most current issues, please click below. Additional information may be found in the full issue, available in the Members' Only section.
Mother/Daughter Tea a Success
Our Mother/Daughter Tea was a huge success. Many thanks to all who supported this event, a special thanks to Kim Cates for putting the whole event together, to Mark Johanson for music, to Robin Domeier for catering, and to the 14 ladies who sponsored a table, each decorated with a theme of their choice and filled with family and friends. Including the 9 young ladies, we had 89 in attendance. We must have some budding models from this event, the 8 young ladies (ages 6-9), and not quite so young ladies who strutted their stuff with fun costumes. Check with Kim Cates for information of our vendors if you are interested in making a purchase.
For the Women's Ministry, Marilyn Lindgren, Sandra Talbert, Patia Bowman, and Kim Cates.


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Here's a great spring sweater...or a fabulous swimsuit coverup!
Small/Medium (Medium/Large, Large/XL)
Bust 42 (46, 50)"/106.5 (117, 127) cm
To Fit Bust Sizes 34-38 (38-42, 42-46)"/71- 86.5 (91.5-106.5, 112-127) cm
Length 18½ (19½, 20½)"/47 (49.5, 51.5) cm, with edging unrolled
• 7 (7, 8) balls S. Charles Collezione
ECLIPSE 92% cotton, 4% polyester, 4%
nylon (1.75oz/50g; 162yds/147.5m) in color
#06 citrine
• One pair size 8 (5mm) needles
• One size 8 (5mm) circular needle, 16"/40cm long
• One size 4 (3.5mm) circular needle, 16"/40cm long
• One size 4 (3.5mm) circular needle, 40"/100cm long
• One pair double-pointed needles (dpn) size 4 (3.5mm) for I-Cord
• Waste yarn
• Stitch marker
• Yarn needle
17 sts and 25 rows = 4"/10 cm in Rib
Pattern, using larger needles
Reverse Stockinette stitch (Rev St st) Purl on RS, knit on WS.
Stockinette stitch (St st) in rows Knit on RS, purl on WS.
Stockinette stitch (St st) in the round Knit every row.
Rib Pattern (multiple of 4 sts + 2)
All Rows: *K2, yo, k2tog; rep from * to last 2
sts, k2.
NOTE: PULLOVER is worked in one piece
from center BACK, across FRONT, to center
BACK. Armhole sts are worked in waste yarn, then Sleeves are picked up after BODY is complete.
Using larger needles, cast on 75 (79, 83) sts. (RS) Slip 1, work Rib Pattern to last 4 sts, work in Rev St st (beg with a purl row) to end. Work even, slipping first st and purling last st of every row, until piece measures 7 (7½, 8)" from beg, end with a WS row.
Establish Sleeves
(RS) Work 35 sts, change to waste yarn, k27 (31, 35), turn, p27 (31, 35), turn, change to working yarn, work to end. Work even until piece measures 35 (38½, 42)" from beg, end with a WS row.
(RS) Establish second Sleeve as for first. Work even for 7 (7½, 8)", end with a WS row.
Bind off all sts. Sew cast-on and bound-off edges together.
Carefully remove waste yarn and place 54 (62, 70) sts on larger 16" circular needle.
With RS facing, rejoin yarn, pick up and knit 1 st, work in Rib Pattern to end, pick up and knit 1 st – 56 (64, 72) sts. Work even, slipping first st of every row and keeping last st in St st, until piece measures 13" from
beg, end with a WS row. (RS) Change to smaller circular needle and
St st; work even for 6 rows. Bind off all sts.
Block piece to measurements. Sew Sleeve seams.
Bottom Band
With RS facing, using smaller 40" long circular needle and beg at BACK seam, pick up and knit 137 (150, 163) sts along bottom edge (opposite rolled Rev St st edge) . Join for working in the rnd; pm for beg of rnd. Beg St st; work even for 6 rnds. Bind off all sts.
I-CORD TIES (make 2)
With dpn, cast on 3 sts. Work I-Cord 40 (44, 48)" long. Fasten off. With RS facing, beg at center FRONT, thread first TIE through eyelets just below Rev St st edge. Thread second TIE through eyelets above Bottom
Weave in ends.
With drawstrings on both top and bottom of the pullover, it is versatile enough to wear in different ways. To wear as shown in the image on the left on page 1 of the pattern, let the bottom hem fall around your hips, then tighten the bottom drawstring loosely around the hips. Tighten the top drawstring around the top of your shoulders and adjust the
fabric to create an even "ruffle" around the neckline. To wear as shown in the image on the right, bring the bottom hem of the pullover around your waist, then tighten the bottom drawstring more tightly to keep it at
waist level. The top drawstring can be loosened as much as possible (or removed if you prefer) to let the neckline droop in the center, forming a frame for the camisole or top you choose to wear underneath it.
I-CORD: On dpn, cast on [or pick up] number of sts indicated in instructions. DO NOT TURN. *Slide sts to the opposite end of the needle and knit them, pulling yarn firmly behind sts; rep from * to desired length. After a few rows, you will see that you are knitting a tiny tube; give it a gentle tug now and then to adjust any loose sts. Bind off all sts, leaving approx. 12" tail for finishing.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Drawstring Pullover
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15 Aug 2018
Ambra Night - SAN TEODORO (OT)
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Not really. Just super busy with the usual. Add in a little relapse into dwarf fortress and just like that, your blog isn't being updated.
I love Dwarf Fortress, I really do. My computer can't handle it usually but I've been able to play again. I usually get frustrated by the fourth or fifth wave of migrants and delete everything.
If you could turn the micro management down a notch, it'd be a "never stop playing" game for me. As is, I go on week-long jaunts.


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As I am sure you are all aware...The V-day is almost here!
Valentine's Day is pretty polarizing.
You have the folks that think V-Day is unnecessary and money-sucking. It's the "Big Pharma" holiday of February.....like "Big Hallmark"...or "Big Ganong Chocolates".
(If you look up Valentine's Day Grinch in the dictionary...you might see my hubster pictured... He is an accountant after all.)
I get it. I get it. We should be showing our love everyday...in every way.....and we don't need a lame-ass piece of paper from the dollar store or overpriced rose to say so....yep.
But doesn't that get lost in the shuffle sometimes?
I really like Valentine's Day....not for the chocolate or flowers or cards necessarily...although I do enjoy all of those things...but because it's a reminder to be thankful for the love in our lives...whether it be to our kids, our spouses, our friends, our families. You don't need to have a spouse or gf or bf or whatever, to be thankful to those that love you.
To say...Thanks for sticking around me!
There isn't too much wrong with that, is there?
(Emma after she was interviewed by our friend, Adam Graham re: Valentine's day. She told me the other day that love was when you show other people your privates.....great..)
And honestly? Everybody's drab February could use some red and pink....even if it is from the dollar store.
And it material goods aren't your thing? Even just verbally sharing something you love about another person is a good gift...because sometimes it's the emotion sharing/vulnerability sharing thing, that's the hardest...
If you enjoy the material goods things...
Check out some etsy favourites:
|Heart Garland
|Felted wool Love cat!
|I gotta girl that would love these leggings..
|Love these Hearts you can wear year round
|Punny Cards!
|Sweetest Balloon Photo
Hope you all have a wonderful valentine's day...whether you are a fan or not :)


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Event Recaps
2017 Holiday Luncheon & GMM
December 7, 2017
Nearly 250 UPSTAR Realtors, Affiliate members and their guests celebrated the holidays with their colleagues on Dec. 6, 2017 at the Parkview Mirro Center. The event featured the presentation of the 2… Read More
UPSTAR YPN Chase the Chill Campaign
November 29, 2017
UPSTAR YPN, with the help of all UPSTAR members, collected scarfs, hats and gloves to support Fort Wayne's Chase the Chill Scarf Bombing, an annual event that distributes scarves and other winter w… Read More
2017 UPSTAR YPN Turkey Drive
November 17, 2017
With the support of UPSTAR REALTORS® and Affiliates, the 2017 UPSTAR YPN Turkey Drive delivered! The YPN campaign supports the Community Harvest Food Bank (CHFB) Turkey Rally, which raises funds fo… Read More
2017 UPSTAR Night at the Civic
November 10, 2017
Nearly 600 REALTOR® members, their families and friends, plus local legislators attended a private showing of The Civic Theatre's "White Christmas: The Musical" at the Arts United Center o… Read More
UPSTAR YPN Waynedale Trail Cleanup Day
October 16, 2017
On Saturday, October 14, 27, UPSTAR YPN volunteers set out to cleanup a two-mile stretch of trails along the River Greenway in the Waynedale community. Members of UPSTAR YPN, as a part of their missi… Read More
OktoberFest 2017
October 9, 2017
More than 150 members and their guests attended UPSTAR's first Oktoberfest food truck festival on October 5, 2017. The event was a tremendous success with delicious food, team games, great ente… Read More
UPSTAR YPN Remembrance Walk/Run
September 13, 2017
UPSTAR YPN members participated in a Remembrance Walk/Run, held September, 11, 2017 in the neighborhood around St. Francis University. The Wallk/Run honors veterans.and the sacrifices they made for o… Read More
2017 RPAC Fundraiser
August 25, 2017
UPSTAR wrapped up the 2017 RPAC Fundraising event on August 24, at the History Center. The evening featured a live and silent auction, live music and the big reveal of the RPAC raffle winners. With c… Read More
UPSTAR Day of Caring 2017
June 26, 2017
Thanks to all the volunteers who participated in the association's first Day of Caring event on June 22, 2017. UPSTAR REALTOR and Affiliate members performed lawn maintenance (mowing, pulling … Read More
May 2017 General Membership Meeting
May 4, 2017
Nearly 200 UPSTAR members attended the April 27th General Membership Meeting and Safety Program, featuring keynote speaker Carl Carter, Jr, at Ceruti's Banquet Center. Carl, the son of slain A… Read More
2017 Affiliate Pancake Breakfast
April 25, 2017
UPSTAR hosted the 2017 Affiliate Pancake Breakfast on April 19, 2017 at the Landmark Centre. The event was a tremendous success with over 150 members attending. Members visited the Affiliate tables d… Read More
2016 Holiday Luncheon & General Membership Meeting
December 8, 2016
UPSTAR REALTOR® members gathered together to enjoy the 2016 Holiday Luncheon and General Membership meeting, held December 6, 2016 at Parkview Mirro Center. At the luncheon, UPSTAR announced the 201… Read More
2016 UPSTAR YPN Turkey Drive
November 14, 2016
Once again, UPSTAR YPN conducted a Turkey Drive campaign supporting the Community Harvest Food Bank's (CHFB) 2016 Turkey Rally to raise funds for holiday meals during the Thanksgiving season. W… Read More
2016 UPSTAR Night at the Civic
November 11, 2016
Nearly 600 REALTOR® members, their families and friends, plus local legislators attended a private showing of The Civic Theatre's "A Christmas Carol" at the Arts United Center on Nov. 10, … Read More
UPSTAR Huntington Division Check Presentation
November 8, 2016
UPSTAR held a check presentation, Nov, 1, 2016 to officially donate over $30,000 to seven Huntington County charities. Huntington Mayor Brooks Fetters, UPSTAR 2016 President Brenda Williams, Executiv… Read More
2016 RPAC Fundraiser
September 15, 2016
UPSTAR wrapped up the 2016 RPAC Fundraising Campaign on Sept. 8, 2016 at the new Embassy Ballroom and Rooftop Patio. The evening featured a live and silent auction plus the big reveal of the RPAC raf… Read More
2016 UPSTAR Golf Under Renovation
August 30, 2016
This year, UPSTAR members and guests hit the links at the Autumn Ridge Golf Club on Thursday, August 25, 2016 with a construction theme, "Golf Under Renovation". With 32 teams participati… Read More
2016 UPSTAR Wild West Hog Roast
June 17, 2016
The UPSTAR Wild West Hog Roast is the association's summer picnic event, which brings REALTOR and Affiliate members together with their families for food, fun and networking. Proceeds from the … Read More
May 2016 General Membership Meeting
May 30, 2016
Safety was the focus of the May General Membership Meeting, held May 25 at Ceruti's in Fort Wayne. UPSTAR brought in two Indiana detectives to talk to the membership about personal and cyber sa… Read More
2016 UPSTAR YPN Great American Cleanup
May 21, 2016
Lima Raod was looking fabulous shortly after 17 dedicated UPSTAR YPN members and their families volunteered to pickup trash on North Lima Road as a part of the Great American Cleanup Day on May 21, 2… Read More


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It may have attracted some of the biggest and brightest brains in the galaxy, but the global March for Science last weekend was a spectacularly dumb idea. On Saturday, spearheaded by a march on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, thousands of people protested at around 600 locations across the world, including London, Bristol, Manchester, Edinburgh and Cardiff. Yet anyone who wants to think in a scientific way should oppose this movement for the following five scientific reasons.
It's illogical
Many of those who demonstrated no doubt have several degrees and understand more about the human genome or quantum tunnelling than I ever will. But they seemed pretty clueless when it comes to irony, not to mention politics. 'Yes, this is a protest but it's not a political protest', said one of the organisers ahead of the event. If you're marching from the Science Museum to Parliament Square with placards, banners, chants and public speeches, you're doing something political. To do it in the name of stopping political interference in science is, as Mr Spock might say, illogical, Captain.
The website of the London march declares that one of the campaign's key principles is 'to support… political leaders and policymakers who enact evidence-based policies in the public interest'. You don't need to be an expert in forecasting algorithms to predict that, in the run-up to a General Election, this kind of talk will do nothing to shoo politics out of science. And that's ignoring the fact that, for over a generation, ministers and civil servants have been straining every muscle to claim their initiatives are evidence-based.


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This bread…omg! I absolutely love it! Made without refined sweeteners, butter or gluten!
It's made with blanched almond flour and coconut flour, such great use of the two!! This bread is a household favorite, I honestly could eat a piece every morning with my coffee. Its is so moist, so flavorful, and HEALTHY! Now that is a winning combo!
I got all my ingredients from my favorite grocery store, aka Trader Joe's. I pretty much love that place! Make sure you use balanced almond flour not almond meal, it will totally change the texture if you choose to use almond meal. I hope you enjoy this banana bread as much as me!
If you try this recipe, leave a comment and don't forget to tag your photo with #kayscleaneats on Instagram. I love to hear from you guys!
Easy, delicious and healthy banana bread!
- 2 large ripe bananas
- 3 tbsp honey
- 1 egg, room temperature
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp coconut oil use refined to avoid coconut flavor
- 1 cup blanched almond flour
- 1/3 cup coconut flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- dash salt
- 1/3 cup walnut pieces
- 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a loaf pan with parchment paper and spray with nonstick cooking spray.
In a mixing bowl whisk together flour's, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
In a blender, blend bananas, egg, honey, vanilla, and coconut oil till smooth. (This can also be done with a hand mixer)
Pour wet mixture into dry mixture, and mix till well combined.
Fold in chocolate chips and walnuts.
Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake for 35-40 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. My loaf was perfect at 40 minutes. Allow loaf to cool before serving.
To make Vegan you can Sub with, a Flax egg, Chia egg, or apple sauce.
Make sure you use spotty bananas.
Taste amazing when served with some nut butter spread.


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10 of the best CRM software tools for small business owners
10 of the best CRM programming instruments for entrepreneurs sixth May 2016 in Resources/Tools
With more prospects enquiring about your items or administrations, long haul clients giving rehash business, and warm leads in the pipeline – a group of post-it notes with their subtle elements connected to your work area essentially won't do.
You're a developing business, and you have to continue top of potential, new and existing customers significantly more successfully than you've been utilized to.
This is the place a decent old CRM apparatus will change your reality. Be that as it may, with several frameworks accessible available, which do you pick? We've chosen 10 of the best CRM frameworks for specialists and entrepreneurs, so you'll never need to stress over forgetting about a customer or client until the end of time…
1. Insightly
CRM and extend administration that is simple, capable and reasonable. That is the guarantee from Insightly – a device that doesn't simply consider client relationship administration, yet permits you to deal with the majority of your messages, date-book occasions and undertakings too. With Insightly, you can monitor each customer and client that you've supported and free up your opportunity to focus on the things you do best – whether that is planning, fabricating, making or making.
There's a free trial and after that a Free arrangement in case you're cheerful to remain with Insightly. The most developed arrangement costs $29 per client/month, if charged every year.
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2. Pipedrive
Mirroring the regular stream of the business pipeline, Pipedrive will suit the individuals who are more visual and like to see things laid out basically on screen. It's a simple to-utilize interface that permits you to concentrate on the correct prospects or customers at the perfect time – while giving you a strong diagram of where you're at. With a portable application that makes it available from anyplace, and a modest cost to boot – this device offers a reasonable, straightforward and advantageous answer for your CRM needs.
A 30-day free trial is accessible, then it's €12 per client every month from there on.
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3. Freshdesk
Freshdesk calls itself the client bolster programming that gives you all that you have to enchant your clients. It may be slight pointless excess for the modest specialist, however it permits you to remain on top of correspondences successfully with its multi-channel bolster.
A 30-day free trial is accessible, and after that you can look over five changed arrangements – beginning from a free choice directly through to the most developed at $70 every month.
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4. Base
Base likes to separate itself from other CRM frameworks. It trusts it's a cutting edge deals profitability stage with simply effective deals apparatuses that will affect your business. With Base, you can deal with the client travel in a way that cultivates deep rooted business connections.
How? It can: help you know whether your customers are perusing messages you send them with view warnings; spare you time with customized email formats; give constant updates at whatever time, anyplace with its versatile applications; keep subtle elements records of all client cooperation in one area; mechanize assignments to help you keep up a relentless correspondence rhythm with clients.
Attempt Base for nothing and after that get on to its Starter get ready for $25 per client/month.
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5. Capsule CRM
Container is perfect, clear and simple to-utilize. Utilize it to monitor the general population and organizations you work with incorporating every one of your interchanges with them, openings in the pipeline, and what should be handled next.
There's a 30-day free trial and afterward it's £8 every month from that point for the Professional level. This incorporates 2GB stockpiling for every client, 50,000 contacts and boundless open doors and cases. Premium incorporations incorporate Xero, FreshBooks, MailChimp, Wufoo and that's only the tip of the iceberg. For the specialists out there, you'll be content with the Free choice – which gives you all that anyone could need to begin.
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SAP offers across the board client engagement and unites deals, administration, and showcasing to give you all that you have to grow a gainful business. Track all your client associations in one place, and create and sustain leads. It's one single stage that permits you to make focused on email crusades, score your leads and measure battle viability.
A 30-day trial is accessible, and after that it's £15 per client, every month for a three-month arrange.
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7. SalesforceIQ
SalesforceIQ cases to be the keen, straightforward CRM to develop your business. It permits you to associate your Gmail or Exchange record to its framework, and after that your messages, gatherings, and telephone calls are naturally caught, staying up with the latest so you're allowed to concentrate on making. With a portable application and Chrome augmentation you can likewise get moment access to your CRM information, appropriate from your inbox. It implies you can remain on top of each lead with prescient notices, email alternate routes and element booking.
You can attempt it for nothing, and after that it begins from £17 per client, every month if charged yearly.
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8. Nutshell
Win more arrangements and manufacture client connections that last – that is the guarantee from Nutshell. Nutshell's CRM instrument will help you support connections and discover open doors for upsell. It likewise helps you recall when to interface with your most critical clients. It's a straightforward arrangement and one that offers contact administration, 360-degree experiences, lead administration and execution following.
There's a free 14-day trial and afterward it begins from $20 per client, every month – if charged yearly.
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9. Daylite
Daylite is the Mac CRM concentrated on efficiency. It permits you to assemble astonishing client associations with enhanced client benefit, more powerful procedures and the opportunity to spare time and enhance productivity. Conveyed to you by Marketcircle.
Taking after a 30-day free trial, expect a month to month arrange valued at £22 per client every month.
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10. Zoho CRM
Zoho CRM cases to give you a 360-degree perspective of your total deals cycle and pipeline. You can recognize patterns, spot openings, increment proficiency and decrease costs with the correct answers, at this moment. A pleasant little component is the capacity to catch leads from your site with without spam shapes. You can likewise enhance your work process by streamlining your business forms.
Offering only a 15-day free trial, Zoho's arrangements begin from $12 per client/month if charged yearly.
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Don Black started out as a stand-up comedian and blames himself entirely for the death of Variety. He made his West End debut as lyricist with composer John Barry on the musical Billy, starring Michael Crawford (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane).
Theatre: Adaptation of the French musical Romeo & Juliet (Piccadilly Theatre); together with Christopher Hampton, the book and lyrics on a musical version of Dracula scheduled to open later this year on Broadway; three collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber notably the book and lyrics for the award-winning Sunset Boulevard (with Christopher Hampton); Tell Me On A Sunday - developed to form the basis for Song & Dance and Aspects of Love (with Charles Hart). Don Black also wrote the love duet Next Time You Fall In Love for the re-vamped Starlight Express.
Film: Over one hundred songs for films including The Italian Job, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, True Grit, Dances With Wolves, Out of Africa and a quintet of 'James Bond' theme songs – Thunderball, Diamonds Are Forever, The Man With The Golden Gun, Surrender from Tomorrow Never Dies and The World Is Not Enough. Other credits include Michael Jackson's Ben and Lulu's To Sir With Love (both US number one hits).
Recording: Don Black has worked with some of the world's leading contemporary composers including, Jule Styne, Henry Mancini, Quincy Jones, Elmer Bernstein, Michel Legrand, Marvin Hamlisch, and Charles Aznavour.
Awards: Don Black has enjoyed a career with many glittering prizes including an Oscar (for his song Born Free), five Academy award nominations, three Tony nominations and two Tony awards (for best book and best lyrics for his work on Sunset Boulevard), five Ivor Novello awards, a Golden Globe and many platinum, gold and silver discs.
Don was recently awarded an OBE in HM The Queen's Birthday Honours list.
Shows Associated this writer
Songs Associated this writer
- Anything But Lonely
- Capped Teeth And Caesar Salad
- Capped Teeth And Caesar Salad Reprise
- Chanson Denfance
- Come Back With The Same Look In Your Eyes
- English Girls
- English Girls U.s. Version
- Everybody Loves A Hero
- Exit From Tell Me On A Sunday, Song & Dance
- Falling
- Finale From Tell Me On A Sunday
- First Letter Home
- First Man You Remember, The
- Hand Me The Wine And The Dice
- I Love New York - So Much To Do In New York
- I Wont Change Places
- Im Very You, Youre Very Me
- Ive Been In Love Too Long
- Its Not The End Of The World If Hes Married
- Its Not The End Of The World If Hes Younger
- Its Not The End Of The World If I Lose Him
- Journey Of A Lifetime
- Last Man In My Life, The
- Leading Lady
- Let Me Finish
- Let Me Finish Reprise
- Lets Talk About You
- Letter Home
- Love Changes Everything
- Married Man
- Memory Of A Happy Moment, A
- Mermaid Song
- Nothing Like Youve Ever Known
- Opening Ceremony Barcelona 1992 Games
- Opening Ceremony Olympic Games 1992
- Orchestral Introduction To Act Two
- Other Pleasures
- Parlez-vous Francais?
- Second Letter Home
- Shed Be Far Better Off With You
- Sheldon Bloom
- So Much To Do In New York
- Stop, Wait, Please
- Take That Look Off Your Face
- Take That Look Off Your Face Reprise
- Tell Me On A Sunday
- There Is More To Love
- Third Letter Home
- What Have I Done?
- When You Want To Fall In Love
- You Made Me Think You Were In Love


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An American Heart Association Affiliate
StartCPR, Inc. is Chicagoland's Preferred educator for Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), Basic Life Support for the Health Care Provider (BLS), Heartsaver CPR / AED / First Aid for laypersons, as well as BSA Wilderness First Aid training. We are an American Heart Association Heartcode Skill Session testing facility. Located conveniently near I-294 in Hinsdale, StartCPR offers instruction in a relaxed atmosphere.
American Heart Association course completion ecards are awarded immediately following class.
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support builds on the foundation of lifesaving BLS skills. This advanced, instructor-led course highlights the importance of team dynamics, early recognition of respiratory, cardiac, and peri-arrest conditions. Acute Coronary Syndromes and related pharmacology are practiced. Megacode scenarios are performed, whereas various algorithms kindly challenge students. Healthcare professionals who direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest and cardiovascular emergencies will greatly benefit from this course
Basic Life Support is the foundation to patient resuscitation through proper oxygenation of the patient, which helps to improve cardiac viability during a lethal cardiac event. Aggressive Rx is the cornerstone of assuring the best possible outcome. StartCPR maintains an aggressive approach to proper technique - CPR is a workout - it needs to be.
Pediatric Advanced Life Support uses a series of simulated pediatric emergencies to reinforce the important concepts of a systematic approach to pediatric assessment, basics life support, PALS treatment algorithms, effective resuscitation, and team dynamics. The goal of the PALS course is to improve the quality of care provided to seriously ill children, resulting in improved outcomes.
StartCPR, Inc. is an accredited affiliate of the American Heart Association. Our certified instructors routinely perform skills sessions for all AHA online courses obtained through us or other venues (such as the AHA) in our Hinsdale office.
ONLINE / Blended Classes?
Yes. Complete your ACLS, BLS, PALS, or CPR / First Aid course at your convenience. You can take up to 60 days to complete it.
ONSITE Classes?
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