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The Proven Step-by-Step System that Builds
Million-Dollar One-Person Businesses
Whether you are new to consulting or an experienced consultant, The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Consulting Business has the business building strategies, tactics, and processes to help you build a thriving consulting business. In fact, the seven-step system builds million-dollar one person businesses.
The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Consulting Business contains a structured step-by-step approach to starting a thriving consulting business and creating a portfolio of recurring revenue that gives you financial and time independence. It is based on
30+ years of consulting with Global 1000 and Fortune 1000 companies, the same business systems used by Silicon Valley investors to start new companies , and the latest strategies and technology in digital marketing.
More than 7,000 people subscribe to Critical to Success.
It's an incredible asset for independent consultants.
The business of consulting is straightforward - consulting uses your extensive expertise and experience to help others make decisions and solve problems.
Consultants work in a wide range of fields, including areas like medical technology, plastic extrusion manufacturing, personal healthcare, digital marketing, financial analysis, business strategy, and small business startup. .
Having been an independent consultant for 30+ years I can say that in "most cases" consulting is a lot of fun. It's intellectually exciting and challenging, and when done right, it producers a great sense of contribution, a great income, and it's all combined with personal independence.
The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Consulting Business contains the proven strategies, tactics, and step-by-step "how to's" that take you from startup to a six-figure or seven-figure consulting business.
The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Consulting Business uses systems proven by successful consultants and startups in Silicon Valley. These systems help new consultants get their businesses running faster and without having to go through the feast-and-famine cycle. These same systems help experienced consultants break through the upper-limits that stop many from reaching high six-figure incomes and having time for a great personal life.
This guide won't make loud, flashy, and unrealistic promises, like,
Work a Four-Hour Work Week and Make a Million Dollars! (NOT)
This guide will show you proven strategies, tactics, and processes to start and build a thriving consulting business. Follow this guide and you can realistically,
What you will learn in this guide comes from 30+ years of management and strategy consulting, writing 27 business and technical books published by Macmillan and
J Wiley (including four international best-sellers), making a million-dollars a year in consulting, and lessons learned from the Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Silicon Valley business methods.
The Ultimate Guide is a growing document. This page outlines what it takes to create a powerful consulting business. Additional details are available through the links from this page and the blogs.
If you want to create a thriving consulting business, then subscribe to the Critical to Success newsletter.
The initial part of the guide helps you understand your market and clients, identify the niches where you will be most successful, learn which problems have the greatest value, and find and turn prospects into clients.
The middle section of the guide shows you how to escape the "feast-or-famine" cycle that traps many consultants. In these stages you learn how to create marketing engines and public relations machines that fill your prospect pipeline.
Finally the guide shows you how to step out of the "hourly gig" and move to a higher level where your are paid for the value you produce, not the hours you work. You also learn how to deliver a layered portfolio of services and products that create continuous recurring revenue, whether you are working or not.
The Great Recession of 2008 in the United States stunted the growth of the US consulting industry. However, in just a few years consulting rebounded with vigor. Multiple international surveys show growth rates in business consulting of 4% to 10%. Opportunities for consulting are immense.
The growth of new startups, increased use of independent professionals, and continued use of new technology has created a rapidly growing world-wide need for consultants and independent professionals in all fields.
As a consultant who wants to build a thriving business you must know the industries and expertise fields with the best current and future growth. You must also know how your consulting can take advantage of the three major changes facing consulting and how you need to change your business model to stay ahead.
It's an old saying, but it's still true.
The riches are in the niches!
Unless you are already a world-renown expert in your field, building your client list and starting a consulting business will be easier and more profitable if you find a niche where you can make an impact. You want to select a niche where,
Hope and trial-and-error will not find your niche. Trial-and-error when looking for the right niche is an incredible waste of your time and loss of opportunity.
What you want to do is use proven processes and tools to quickly find two or three niches that have high-value problems you can solve and that you have access to. The best techniques for finding the right niches are the same techniques used by Silicon Valley startups and by digital marketing experts to find their high-value markets.
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You need to know who your clients are, their highest-value problems, and the journey you must take them on as they go from prospect to client.
Talking knowledgeably with prospects about high-value problems and solutions makes them sit up, pay attention, and ask how soon you can start work. To quote a marketer of old, Robert Collier,
"Always enter the conversation already taking place in the prospect's mind."
Once you find two or three great niches you need to learn the high-value problems in these niches that demand your expertise. There are a couple of places on the internet that make it very easy to dig into your client's minds and see what problems they are most concerned with.
Even with the right niches and skills, you can't help prospects until you turn them into clients - that's where many consultants fail.
To convert prospects into clients you must know their needs and the psychological triggers that will move them from being a prospect to being a client.
There is a science to converting prospects into clients
and it's a science you can learn.
Prospects go through multiple stages in their journey to becoming your client. This "customer journey" starts with a prospect becoming aware of their problem. They then must become aware that you have a solution. At that stage you need to gain their trust in you as a recognized authority. Only then can you gain commitment and turn the prospect into a client.
Many consultants are never aware of the stages in the customer journey, the customer's needs at each stage, and the psychological triggers that move prospects forward. Many consultants sit and wait for prospects to "magically" turn themselves into clients. It doesn't happen! You have to know your prospect's needs at each stage and know which triggers will move them forward.
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Great consultants give prospects two things that turn them into eager clients. The first is a vivid image of how life will improve when you solve their problems. The second thing you must give them is confidence that you know how to solve the problem.
Great consultants give their clients an image of a better life and
the confidence that they are the consultant that can take them there.
Your professional brand must give your prospects the confidence that you can guide them to achieve the image the want of their future. That confidence and the story of how you will guide them is your brand. Your brand is not a slogan or logo.
One of the best ways to deliver both a vivid image and confidence in your skills is through a brand story. That's a story of how you help clients become heroes – like Obi Wan Kenobi mentoring Luke Skywalker or the head wizard Dumbledore and Harry Potter.
With guidance from Critical to Success you can create a two or three line story that paints your client as the Hero and you as the head wizard.
When you have your brand story developed it's easy to put that story in your LinkedIn profile and in your professional website. These are the first places prospects will look to confirm your authority.
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One problem that almost every consultant faces is filling their prospect pipeline.
You need a proven process that identifies and attracts qualified leads so you can engage them as prospects and convert them into clients.
New consultants often find it easy to initially fill their pipeline with referrals from their personal and work connections. But, sadly, those referrals usually dry up within a year. To start a consulting business and continue to thrive you must have a method of filling your pipeline until your marketing engine is operating at full speed.
In the previous stage you identified your prospect's problems, needs, and triggers. To fill your pipeline you need to use that information to find high-quality prospects that will value your consulting.
Many consultants complain they can't find enough quality clients, but with the right internet search tools you can build a list of high-quality prospects. With three things you can then fill you pipeline: your list of high-quality prospects, your list of their high-value problems, and proven scripts that engage them in conversations.
I've learned that almost every prospect loves to talk about the problems they've faced and how they solved them, or tried to solve them. And, they love to hear how other are working on the same problems. When you engage your prospect's management team in brainstorming sessions on these problems you become the obvious consultant to hire.
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A great marketing machine does three things: it attracts lots of leads, qualifies leads into prospects, and expands the depth and scale of your authority.
A well-designed marketing machine focused on your niche
will produce a steady stream of prospects and clients.
Most independent consultants have faced the consultant's feast-or-famine cycle. The cycle drives a consultant's income from high to low and back again as the consultant shifts their time between either working or marketing.
A good marketing machine eliminates this feast-or-famine cycle. While you work with clients your marketing machine continues to boost your brand, gather leads, and qualify a stream of prospects. It keeps working even while you are on vacation.
You don't have to be a technical guru to build an internet marketing machine. What you do need to know is how to structure the information on your website, which topics attract your client's interest, and how to use keywords that attract search engines and prospects.
Your internet marketing machine can attract leads and qualify prospects, but you still need real-world publicity, testimonials, and one-to-one relationships to spread the word and build your authority.
Publicity and real-world marketing take many forms. It can be as local as building relationships at monthly meetups and association meetings. Or it can be as global as being quoted in national magazines and speaking at industry conventions.
As an independent consultant it is almost impossible to live a well-balanced life, work with clients, and fill your marketing and publicity machine with content. But, of course, there are solutions to help you. The way to make it work is to leverage high-value content and client cases so you can use the same knowledge in blogs, webinars, public speaking, and quotes for high-profile reporters.
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Winning new business takes a lot more than just being good at the value you deliver. You must be able to offer clients a tiered package of services, products, and fees that are flexible and difficult to refuse.
If you are going to create a thriving consulting business you must charge appropriate to the value you deliver. Most consultants devalue themselves.
Many consultants start their first consulting or sub-contracting jobs charging an hourly fee like a freelancer, but to build greater income you need to move away from hourly or project-based fees. You need to understand and use packaged and tiered solutions, retainers, and value- or ROI-based fees. To do that you must present proposals to your client's that show the value you will deliver.
Getting a request for proposal is a great feeling, especially if you helped the client write it. But even then, you can't look at a proposal as guaranteed business. There is both art and science to winning proposals.
There is a step-by-step process to guiding prospects into asking you for a proposal. Once they ask you for a proposal, you need to craft a proposal to their issues, goals, time frames, culture, and vision. Boilerplate is fine to start with, but you need more.
You must show them how only you can deliver the solution they need. You should also present tiered solutions so if they don't like one of your proposed solutions an alternative is already there for them. And, in all cases, you must give them a clear vision of the future and value you will deliver.
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You do not want to create a business that depends solely on the hours you work. This will kill your business, your work-life balance, and your soul.
In older consulting businesses, consultants traded hours and projects for income. The old model pushed consultants to work longer hours and expand each project's scope to bring in more revenue.
New consulting models leverage your value by delivering your value through a broad portfolio of services and products using multiple channels. These new consulting models are rapidly replacing consulting hours. You must be ready to adapt.
New ways of consulting deliver value through a variety of channels,
Delivering your consulting value through multiple services and products in multiple channels has a lot of advantages. One service can can be turned into multiple products. For example, client work on onboarding new hires can be turned into a webinar, online course, Kindle book, speaking engagement, and more.
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BBC man loses cancer battle
Date published: 06 November 2012
POPULAR . . . Ken Stephinson
KEN Stephinson, the renowned BBC director and producer, who had lived at Saddleworth Station for 34 years, has died.
A native of Sunderland, where he spent his formative and family years and where he broke into broadcasting, Mr Stephinson (79) died peacefully at home. He had been ill for several months, having suffered a return of lymphoma cancer.
Mr Stephinson was one of the most foremost creative people at the BBC before setting up his own business in Saddleworth, capturing and chronicling events in the valleys with his his second wife Marjorie.
On leaving the RAF on completion of his National Service, he took a job in his home town as a cinema projectionist and so began his first love affair, life behind the lens.
When Tyne-Tees Television was set up in 1958 he applied for a job in the film-handling department.
Mr Stephinson ventured into editing and began directing in the late 1960s. His move to Tyne-Tees was the making of the man and the start of a remarkable career.
Working in those early days with Syd Waddell, who became the voice of darts on Sky Sports, they hit upon the idea of laying music over a news item and because there was no-one to tell them otherwise, they simply did it and changed the face of broadcast news for ever.
He relocated to work in Oxford Road, Manchester, for the BBC and bought the former Saddleworth Station where he lived for 34 years with his second wife Majorie Lofthouse, a renowned broadcaster in her own right.
It was Mr Stephinson, when asked to produce a programme on railways, convinced former Monty Python man Michael Palin to front the programme. Palin has since become one of the foremost travel journalists on British television.
Mr Stephinson is survived by his daughters Joanne and Jacqueline, from his first marriage, their respective partners Paul Thompson and John Kirkbride, and grandsons Samedi and Alphin.
The funeral service is at St Chad's, Saddleworth, on Thursday at 2pm followed by committal at Oldham Crematorium.
Chronicle business correspondent Martyn Torr said: "Ken was one of the most delightful, entertaining and polite men I have had the pleasure of meeting in a 48-year journalism career. He was a supremely talented filmmaker and broadcaster."


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Should you bill routine vision or medical insurance?/
One of the more challenging decisions eye care professionals face is when a patient has both medical and vision plan insurance. It can be confusing and difficult to decide which one to bill, especially when patients want to be part of the decision and are concerned with what they will have to pay. However, there are many circumstances where you can bill vision and/or medical.
The best practice is to select the insurance plan based on the patient's chief complaint and medical diagnosis, but sometimes it's not that simple. Our Fast Pay medical billing and coding experts can help you determine how to bill the visit and make sure claims are clean and free from errors, before we submit them. At Fast Pay, we know that being FAST and preventing rejections in the first place means you get paid FASTER.
Case Study Example
An established patient who has both vision and medical plans is seen for a routine annual vision exam. During the dilated eye exam, the doctor detects a choroidal nevus, sometimes called a freckle in the eye. Because melanoma can resemble a nevus, the doctor performs extended ophthalmology services on the same day. The exam can now be billed to the medical insurance since the doctor used medical diagnosis codes. In addition, always list the medical diagnosis codes as primary diagnosis codes to avoid rebilling.
Best Practice Tips
Verify both medical and vision plans prior to the office visit; scan or copy both sides of the cards.
Inform the patient what deductibles and co-pays you will collect before you see the patient.
Many medical plans are no longer paying for eye exams with a diagnosis of blurred vision or a headache. These are considered a routine vision exam.
Clearly document the patient's history, exam, assessment and plan.
When you document the chief complaint, provide a concise description of the problem or laboratory test—this will help you in case you are ever audited.
A missing chief complaint can result in a claim denial based on incorrect levels of care.
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The benefit of a CrossFit box over a regular gym
I'm aware of that one big hurdle that comes with joining a CrossFit gym: The membership fee. I know that we are talking about numbers that make pretty much everyone of us thinking twice. At least. When I started CrossFit, I was a student, doing an technically unpaid internship in New York City, the most expensive city in the world. Boxes there charged up to 300US-$ per month, which equals to almost 420 Singapore Dollar. It took me a while to accept. If I was able to, so are you!
A regular gym can not replace a CrossFit box. But this is totally an insight view, or in other words: You must have seen both worlds. On the first glance, the box seems even poorly equipped in comparison to the gym. When there is no treadmill, how do I run in the heat, dark or heavy rain? When there is machines, how do I train my biceps isolated because, well, that is the muscle that's important for my look? Do I really have to learn all these complex free weight exercises, only because you didn't invest in the equipment? And also, the CrossFit box might miss out some comfort: 24/7, sauna or isotonic drinks. And again: It is still more expansive?! Doesn';t seem to be a good deal then. But in this calculation you miss out an important, if not the most important factor: The fitness level you can achieve.
We all want to be fit right? Fitness is permanently required, and live is much better when you can participate in everything because no weakness, tiredness or even sickness holds you back. To everyone who goes to the gym to become fitter I want to say: Great, whenever you get physically active, you have already done a lot for your health! And it doesn't even have to be the gym - go for a walk or do yoga. You don't need to get out of breath to take some small
actions against our inactive everyday life. But if you want to come anyhow close to what the human body is able (and supposed) to do, CrossFit is the training method without alternative.
We are made for the "real sports" - heavy, fast, intense. Things you don't see people do in a regular gym for different reasons - because they don't have the space, the equipment, the instruction, the knowledge, the motivational environment. Before I started CrossFit (I apologize by the way for talking that much about myself - let's keep in mind that my story is one of thousands quite similar), I went to the gym almost daily for more than 5 years. I
moved weights and ran long distances. I thought I was fit and so did people around me. Then days came I had to move a barbell from to floor above my head, in combination with sprints and jumps. I had to do pull ups and push ups in high two or even three digit numbers, or climb a rope. And I didn't do really well in the beginning! Noticing that you have been actually pretty weak in a physical and mental way all the time is not the best of all feelings. Ok, the stuff I did before gave me a kind of basis. Still I wasted time, no doubt about that.
So in conclusion: Yes, there are some pro-gym arguments. But the training environment a CrossFit box provides can't be outweighed by money or a drinking flat rate (btw: of course we will offer free water as well).


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Why do we need to confess our sin to others? Meredith Cook
I recently finished reading If You Only Knew: My Unlikely, Unavoidable Story of Becoming Free.1 You can read my review of it here but suffice it to say that it's a good book and you should read it. One thing about the book that has stayed with me is the idea of confessing sin to other believers. This is something I've pondered over the last couple of years.
I struggle with a great deal of fear and anxiety on a regular basis. These are the outworkings of my sinful heart, not a clinical diagnosis (which is a very real thing for many). I struggle with fear and anxiety because of a lack of belief in the truths of the gospel and in Christ as sufficient. And I repent of them to the Lord.
But I've also come to believe in the importance of confessing sin to other believers…except without really knowing why. So, thanks to Ivey's book, I've been asking the question: Why should we confess our sins to one another? …Read More.
6 Questions (and Their Answers) About "The Marriage Challenge: A Finance Guide for Married Couples": Art Rainer
My newest book, The Marriage Challenge: A Finance Guide for Married Couples, releases on June 1. I am thrilled about the release and hope you get a copy. I was given a few questions to answer about The Marriage Challenge. So I decided to share the questions and my responses with you. …Read More.
10 Leadership Statements That Spell Trouble: Chuck Lawless
Over the years, I've worked with a lot of church leaders in struggling situations. I hear their pain, and I even understand it when I learn about their situations. At the same time, though, I always get concerned when I hear these kinds of things from leaders, as they often suggest that somebody's about to give up. …Read More.


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TEDPIX Ends Wednesday Trade 0.52% Higher
EghtesadOnline: Tehran Stock Exchange's main index gained 706.40 points or 0.52% on Wednesday to end trading at 137,472.36.
About 3.74 billion shares valued at $97.91 million changed hands at TSE for the day.
Trading at TSE and Iran Fara Bourse starts on Saturday and ends on Wednesday.
Bank Mellat was the biggest winner, as its shares went up 16.64% to 1,276 rials per share, according to Financial Tribune.
Iran Carton Company incurred the biggest loss among all TSE-listed companies and went down 5% to 6,692 rials per share.
Mobarakeh Steel Company was the biggest laggard behind the benchmark's fall, followed by Iran National Copper Industry Company and Khuzestan Steel Company.
Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company gave the biggest boost to the benchmark index, followed by Bank Mellat and Pars Petrochemical Company.
The Price Index gained 206.62 points to close at 40,210.88.
The First Market Index was up 210.55 points to post 101,291.38.
The Second Market Index added 2,895.99 points to reach 273,726.48. The Industry Index gathered 336.11 points to register 125,796.72.
The Free Float Index was up 696.02 points to hit 146,399.10.
The TSE 30 went up by 6.73 point to settle at 6,730.5 and the TSE 50 ended 18.30 points lower to finish at 5,971.1.
IFX Up 0.4%
Iran Fara Bourse's main index IFX gained 6.17 points or 0.4% to close Wednesday trade at 1,556.36.
About 566.68 million securities valued at $29.61 million were traded at the over-the-counter exchange for the day.
Esfahan Steel Company had the highest number of traded shares and trade value, as 83.25 million of its shares worth $1.61 million changed hands.
Tabarok Company, Tolid Darou Pharmaceutical Company and Parvardeh Tabas Coal Processing Company registered the highest value increase.
MobinOne Kish Company, Kowsar Insurance and Bahman Leasing Company suffered the biggest decline.
Shiraz Oil Refining Company, Esfahan Steel Company and Khorasan Petrochemical Company had the most positive impact on IFX.


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Though his prose is uncluttered and straightforward, he breathes fresh narrative life into the most mundane details ... His dialogue, often spiced with sarcasm, is bang-on ... There are those readers who will balk at a book like this, saying, "I live domestic realism every day. Why would I want to read about it?" Which explains the popularity of fantasy. But, for those who don't flinch at honest portrayals of the way we live, this is as good as it gets.
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text: Transportation Then and Now - Read a Book In this Clicker Book, students read about vehicles from the past and their modern-day equivalents, and on how they have changed over time. Students can make their own book using the set "Transportation Then and Now – Make a Book." For other resources related to this topic, search for transportation on LearningGrids. Age:For ages 5 to 7 Author:Crick Software Date:July 10, 2018 Use this resource with Clicker 7 for Windows and Mac, or Clicker Books on your iPad. If you'd like to try Clicker and this resource, you can download our free 28-day trial. LearningGrids.com contains hundreds of free teaching resources and learning activities like this. You can search and open these directly from within your Clicker or DocsPlus app by using the 'LearningGrids' button. Alternatively, to download any of these learning materials to your computer please Log In or Register.


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My name's Vittorio and I am the creator of Wild Society App.
Before being the founder of Doodle Apps, which helped me building and developing this fantastic project, I am first of all a passionate lover of nature in all its forms.
I began hunting at a young age, thanks to the passion of my father who took me with him on his many outdoor adventures when I was still a child.
I got close to the Fly Fishing only a few years ago, and I appreciate the great difficulty needed to handle this technique which has given me already great satisfaction.
I spend all my spare time into the wild along with my pointing dogs, Nana and Perla, travelling as much as possible always getting to know new places and animal species.
I decided to dedicate myself to Wild Society App as hunting and fishing are my biggest passions and the idea to turn them into a full-time job makes me feel very excited and committed to the project.
We released our App three months ago, and we have seen so much enthusiasm coming from our community's people that we decided to create this blog to give them the opportunity to be an active part of it!
Wild Society App is a long-term thing, which is evolving and improving day by day also thanks to these people's effort which makes working on it just an extreme pleasure.
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Mar 1, 2013
Is Allure alluring for you? Like to peruse People? In need of news from the News-Register? Psyched for Smithsonian?
We're in the process of sprucing things up at Dr. Diesburg's dental clinic in McMinnville and going through the magazine rack in our waiting room is at the top of our list. And since we know that many patients look forward to the waiting period before their appointments at the dentist as a time to relax, sit back and do some fun reading, we're taking a new look at what kinds of magazines we want to offer you in our office.
What magazines do you like to look at while you wait? Is there any magazine or periodical that you don't get at home that you would like to see when you visit us? Put your ideas in the comments section below or drop us a line at email@example.com
We're hoping to make your visit to the dentist something you are excited about. When we're done, you can expect you will find the best dental waiting room in the county!
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The quickest way to determine if your child is ready for the dentist
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Dr. Diesburg's 12 Days of Giving
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Space Week: Human limits, gravitational waves and beekeeping on Mars
It's an opportunity for schools and the wider public to explore and engage with this incredible Universe that we are all part of
Ruth Connelly of third class Ballintemple National School at the Discovery Science Festival in Cork City Hall. Photograph: Clare Keogh
Aina Andreu from Barcelona looking at the stars during the Global star count in Orion at Blackrock Castle Observatory at an Earth Hour event. Photograph: Miki Barlok
Whether it's a solar eclipse, Cassini's stunning images of Saturn and its moons or humans floating around in the International Space Station, space has the power to capture our attention and imagination.
This year Space Week (October 4th-10th) will harness that power to help us learn about the science, technology, engineering, maths and humanity involved in space phenomena and exploration.
The aim is to increase awareness of the Universe, explains Clair McSweeney, general manager of Cork Institute of Technology Blackrock Castle Observatory, which is organising Space Week with the support of Science Foundation Ireland.
"There's a big drive to increase people's awareness of the beauty of the Universe," says McSweeney. "It is an opportunity for people in schools and the wider public to explore and engage with this incredible Universe that we are all part of.
Look to the skies
Numerous events will run during Space Week, including talks on pushing human limits to the extreme, by former Deputy Administrator of Nasa Prof Dava Newman and designer Gui Trotti, who has worked for Nasa on lunar bases, Mars vehicles and the International Space Station.
Dublin City University will host public talks by its researchers about their fields of interest, including exoplanets, black holes and gravitational waves. The talks at last year's event were "out of this world", according to Dr John Regan, a researcher at DCU's Centre for Astrophysics and Relativity.
"This year promises to be even better and we're going to include some cool new talks on recent gravitational wave breakthroughs," says Regan. "Did you know that the collision of two black holes observed was more powerful than the output of every single star in the Universe? Come along to find out more."
The European Space Education Resource Office (ESERO) Ireland in association CIT BCO will provide resources for special courses for teachers about engineering in space, there will be workshops for kids and with the help of online resources you can build your own models of a spacecraft, a star lantern and even the International Space Station from everyday objects.
Social media alerts will remind us to look to the skies for moonrise, sunset and the passage of the International Space Station, and a campaign will encourage us to look for objects in the sky and record where light pollution makes that more challenging.
Bees on Mars
Irish engineer, scientist and performer Dr Niamh Shaw will unveil a new theatre piece during Space Week, which looks to a future where humans have set foot on Mars.
Diary of a Martian Beekeeper will premiere in Cork and sees Shaw, who is artist in residence at CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory, working on the red planet in 2036.
"My character's mission is to prepare for the arrival of bees, because that will give us a self-sustaining possibility of providing fruits," says Shaw, who received support from SFI to develop the piece.
The performance will feature multimedia clips from astronauts and footage from Shaw's time at the Mars Desert Research Station, a Mars simulation facility in Utah.
"While this role of bringing bees to Mars seems like a small one, it's part of a much bigger picture and a shared goal," says Shaw, who worked with Sarah Baxter on the play and who will host post-show discussions after some performances.
"I'm taking a very small human story to reflect the bigger story of how humans are working collectively to advance our exploration and understanding of space."
Space Week runs from October 4th-10th, 2017. See spaceweek.ie


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Matthew Zajic, PhD Candidate, Education, University of California, Davis
The context for writing a response to the Lifespan Group's Statement on "Taking the Long View on Writing Development" could not have occurred at a more opportune time. Over these last few weeks, I have had the great pleasure of attending three separate yet highly interrelated (at least to me) academic conferences: the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and the International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR). Depending on your background, I'm imagining you might be familiar with at least one if not two of those conferences. CEC is the flagship conference for special education research, AERA is the flagship conference for education research, and IMFAR is the flagship conference for autism research. Three very different worlds for most people, but three worlds I am quickly calling home. But what does any of this have to do with the lifespan statement? I'm getting there, I'm getting there.
As I had mentioned, rereading the Lifespan Group's statement on the way back from IMFAR created the perfect context to reflect. This year's IMFAR program highlighted a number of organized panels on lifespan perspectives on autism spectrum disorders (or ASD), including increased efforts to incorporate voices and collaboration opportunities from those with ASD across the lifespan. These lifespan perspectives pushed our understandings beyond the early years of life, with some discussions encompassing development across 30 years of life or more. Within ASD research, much is still not known beyond the early years of life, though recent years has seen a growing amount of research focusing on school-age and beyond. However, our current understandings of ASD as a developmental difference, something that changes across time and impacts lives differently at different life points, is still very much within its infancy. To me, this echoes directly with the current perspectives stated regarding current lifespan approaches to writing development: we know a lot but only about a very little segment and not nearly enough to inform the larger developmental picture.
I did not realize my own interest in a lifespan perspective until very recently, but I should have seen it coming. When I finished my undergraduate degree at the University of California, Santa Barbara, I reached out to a faculty member in education interested in research on writing and composition studies because I wanted to know more about the field; I had a bit of a background in professional writing, but I really wanted to know about how people learn to write. I realize now how much I had lucked out when that faculty member was Charles Bazerman and that the first class I ever had on formal writing development was titled "Writing Development Across the Lifespan." (I also want to give two major thank you's to Karen Lunsford and Linda Adler-Kassner as two other faculty members and now colleagues who allowed me to sit in and learn a little bit more from them as well during my "pseudo graduate student" year.)
That was five years ago. Now as I near the end of my graduate program, I was fortunate enough to become a member of this new lifespan collaboration. And while I had no idea of the opportunities I would have over these last few years, my research interests have remained the same: to further understand the writing development of individuals with ASD informed by both ASD and writing theoretical perspectives. (I will say that my interests have shifted beyond development to also include how we assess writing and intervene with writing difficulties.) In a way, reading this lifespan statement just following numerous discussions on the needs of individuals with ASD across the lifespan came together as a beautiful interdisciplinary opportunity of two fields in very similar places. And yet at the same time, this collaborative statement reminded me why I became interested in writing to begin with.
Writing is difficult, hard, and, often times, ugly. But here I am writing this blog post wondering if I am writing this blog post because I was asked to, because I want to think through how I navigate in an interdisciplinary space, because I needed something to do while on the bus between San Francisco and Sacramento, or perhaps a combination of all the above? Never mind that for now; let's go back to that first thought: writing is difficult. This is not a new belief whatsoever, and I love Lifespan Group's contextualization of this concept in their second main takeaway, "Writing development is complex because writing is complex." I have always been fascinated by the complexity of writing from cognitive and social perspectives (and am intrigued by the up and coming community intersections), and I have always been amazed at the coordination and the complicated feat we do every time we sit down and turn our thoughts into these tiny lines of symbols we call text.
But even more so, I love when people tell me they hate writing. Why? Because I know I'll get to learn a little bit more about them just after they say it. I'll get to learn about what parts they hate, who made them hate writing, why they feel like they cannot do it, why everyone else writes better than them, or why they just do not understand why so and so thinks what they wrote is not good enough. And to a certain degree, writing will always be a difficult feat (which is something I feel we don't always share enough).
And though I could go on and on about writing development for everyone, I want to shift to thinking about the writing development of those with ASD. I was pleasantly surprised to see autism mentioned explicitly in the statement, and here's a little context as to why. When I was an undergraduate student, I tutored numerous elementary, middle, and high school students, and I had the privilege of working with one high school student with ASD for three years across all the subjects, including writing. Now, he loved creative writing, and he had filled books upon books since he was in early elementary school with some of the most creative stories I had ever seen (and yes, he had some amazing pictures to go along with these stories). However, though he loved creative writing, he found academic writing to be a little bit of a different beast. I wondered why he found academic writing more difficult, so I turned to the research literature; the literature mainly said these children hated to write. Well, either I had found the one child who loved creative writing, or something seemed a bit off here. Little did I know that this inquiry would lead me to graduate school and leave me (hopefully) investigating it for years to come.
As I dug into the literature, I noticed that much of the beliefs echoed by the Lifespan Group were not present in the ASD literature. These theories I'd come to know were absent, and theoretically informed writing research seemed absent. While this has often been the case for research investigating writing difficulties in general (Graham and Harris (2011) provide a wonderful overview of this), informed writing research looking to better understand the writing difficulties of children with ASD seemed to be absent. And the tenets that the Lifespan Group highlight as needed pieces for exploration within a lifespan approach to writing echo almost too well with what must be done regarding better understanding how ASD may affect writing development (to both work with struggling writers with ASD but also to understand how investigating ASD may benefit our understanding of how "typical" writing develops).
The foundational knowledge we have pertaining to writing development across more than just a few years echoes with what is needed in the next steps with understanding writing differences in individuals with ASD. Reading the statement made me reflect on why writing development is difficult to capture in a neat little box. Theoretically informed research has been my attempt thus far in graduate school (Zajic et al., 2016), and we have a lot to understand still regarding how the social and cognitive features of writing development intersect and intertwine with the social and cognitive differences in ASD (Zajic, in submission). But development is ever ongoing, and much of what we currently know about ASD is either from an early development or school-age development perspective, often focusing on the difficulties over the strengths. Many individuals with ASD become highly proficient writers, especially when looking to the work exploring autistic biographies.
All of this is to say that a developmental, lifespan perspective is needed, and I plan to take that approach to the field of ASD research. We have much left to understand, and learning more about how children with ASD develop and use writing from multiple theoretical perspectives allows for better understanding what we may take for granted within writing (instructional, assessment, development, and intervention contexts), ultimately with the research being able to inform and benefit all children. But even then, at the larger picture, many teachers may feel as informed about ASD as they do about proper writing instruction, which we have learned isn't all that great. We have opportunities to further the knowledge of the educators working with our children and benefiting not only classrooms that appreciate and prioritize the learning of all students but do so in ways that are meaningfully informed.
Returning briefly to the original comment, I have had the great privilege of finding my own researcher identity not only amongst groups of researchers who may never interact with one another but also amongst some amazingly thoughtful mentors offering guidance and thoughtful discussions along the way. I am grateful to Charles Bazerman for helping me view writing from a developmental perspective from the very beginning, to Peter Mundy for his mentorship in autism research, to Chris Thaiss and Steve Graham for their mentorship in different yet related areas of writing development, to Nancy McIntyre and Emily Solari for always pushing me to view the interconnectedness of reading and writing, and to Megan Welsh for welcoming me into the world of psychometrics. Academia thrives off collaborating with and learning from colleagues much more knowledgeable than you, and I look forward to the ongoing conversations that will come from our own lifespan collaboration as we stand on the shoulders of the giants and continue to wrestle with writing development across the lifespan for all writers.
Graham, S., & Harris, K. R. (2011). Writing and students with disabilities. In L. Lloyd, J. Kauffman, & D. Hallahan (Eds.), Handbook of special education (pp. 422-433). London, UK: Routledge.
Zajic, M. C., McIntyre, N., Swain-Lerro, L., Novotny, S., Oswald, T., & Mundy, P. (2016). Attention and written expression in school-age, high-functioning children with autism spectrum disorders. Autism. doi:10.1177/1362361316675121


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Until summer 2014, the family vehicle was a 1996 Ford Taurus hatchback in the 13th round of a 12th round boxing match with the US highway system. My mom's philosophy was to never, and I mean never, walk into a dealership when desperate. Emotional buying leads to impulsive purchases. So, we actually started looking for a new car as early as January 2013. At that stage, my mom's search was really vague. Her famous line was "a car is four wheels that gets you from point A to B". At the beginning of our car hunt, I liked cars in a detached sense but I wasn't nearly as versed in their vocabulary and models as I am now. Throughout the course of our car search, I fell in love with cars of every make and model.
Even as I grew more comfortable with the vernacular of car dealerships, it was still a stressful and difficult experience until the second we put the keys into the car we actually purchased -- about one and a half years after the day we first walked onto a lot. We ended up getting a 2013 Mazda 6 in the summer of 2014. Even as late as 2014, electric vehicles and hybrids were not as common or popular as they have grown to be today.
Yet, electrics and hybrids can still be more expensive than your average sedan/small SUV; as such, the question most people ask themselves on the lot is: is the higher price of an electric/hybrid vehicle worth the higher initial price? (or MSRP).
This guide is aimed at helping to answer some of those questions by comparing the 5 Year Cost to Own of popular gas-powered cars with premier electric and hybrid models. I have taken all 5 Year Cost to Own data from Kelley Blue Book's tool on their website.
The Plan
We are going to compare popular car models on the basis of their initial MSRP off the lot and how much it costs to own them for a five year period, once you include costs like maintenance, fuel/electricity, repairs, and depreciation.
According to Kelley Blue Book, fuel accounts for up to 26% (over 1/4) of out-of-pocket expenses for car owners in a five year period. On that note, let's investigate the savings of cars that fun on less or no gas!
How is Fuel Cost Estimated?
Kelley Blue Book estimates 5 Year Fuel Cost "based on 15,000 miles per year (or the customized mileage you provided) and reflecting 45% highway driving and 55% city driving".
2016 Toyota Camry (Gas Fueled) vs. 2016 Toyota Prius (Hybrid)
(initial cost): $23,905
5 Year Cost to Own
2016 Toyota Camry Total 5 Year Cost:
= $ 60,973
(initial cost + 5 year cost to own)
(initial cost): $25,035
5 Year Cost to Own
2016 Toyota Prius Total 5 Year Cost:
= $ 60,325
(initial cost + 5 year cost to own)
2016 Toyota Prius (Hybrid) vs. 2016 Nissan Leaf (Electric)
(initial cost): $25,035
5 Year Cost to Own
5 Year Cost Breakdown (from KBB)
2016 Toyota Prius Total 5 Year Cost:
= $ 60,325
(initial cost + 5 year cost to own)
(initial cost): $29,860
5 Year Cost to Own
2016 Nissan LEAF Total 5 Year Cost:
= $ 77,768
(initial cost + 5 year cost to own)
2016 Ford Focus (Gas Fueled) vs. 2016 Chevrolet Volt (Plug-In Hybrid)
(initial cost): $18,100
5 Year Cost to Own
2016 Ford Focus Total 5 Year Cost:
= $ 51,100
(initial cost + 5 year cost to own)
(initial cost): $33,995
5 Year Cost to Own
$ 51,223
2016 Chevy Volt Total 5 Year Cost:
= $ 85,218
(initial cost + 5 year cost to own)
Conclusion Notes
To be honest, I was not expecting the electric and hybrid vehicles considered here to have such a high 5 year cost. It is a well known and accepted fact that hybrids and electric vehicles are more expensive off the lot than their gas-fueled counterparts of similar size, but the 5 year cost to own seriously shocked me.
With that said, the highest single cost on the electric and hybrid cars was depreciation. That makes sense, as the MSRP of Evs and hybrids is inflated by manufacturers right now. Additionally, since all EV and most hybrid cars are so new to market, it is really hard to find pre-owned models, forcing you to purchase a new model... and any new car is going to have significant depreciation the second you drive it off the lot.
You also have to consider that if you keep your car longer than a five year period, the fuel savings amplify further as there is less depreciation and other costs in year 6+. However, once you get around year 10+, you're going to be facing increased maintenance costs, so the "fuel savings are more in later years" statement is kind of a double-edged sword.
If you have more questions about electric vehicles vs traditional gas fueled cars, feel free to ask questions in the comments section. Also, I found this AMAZING Consumer Reports article with a wealth of information on "Electric Cars 101".
Patrizio Murdocca is Chief Web Developer at Drover Rideshare, a student at Vanderbilt University, and President of Interfaced Ministries (www.interfacedministries.org).


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'Your Honor, I'm dying'
Inmate's death followed two months in Cobb jail
Donna Sanders was sick, getting sicker and afraid she wouldn't leave prison alive. When she was finally given the opportunity to describe her condition in a Cobb County courtroom, she didn't sugarcoat it.
"Your Honor, I'm dying," she told Superior Court Judge Robert Flournoy III at a probation revocation hearing in February 2013. "I just don't want to die locked up. I want to be with my children."
As it turned out, Sanders knew exactly how bad off she was, even if no one else did.
She pleaded for more care at the Cobb County jail. Then, on only her second day at Pulaski State Prison, the Moultrie woman was found on her bunk crying and struggling to breathe. Three hours later, she was dead.
An autopsy report said Sanders, 52, died from congestive heart failure in conjunction with end-stage renal disease. It also cited numerous other health issues, including diabetes, high blood pressure and HIV.
But that was just a final accounting for 68 tortuous days in custody, first in the Cobb County Adult Detention Center and then at Pulaski, as a seriously ill woman got lost in the margins of the correctional system and never made it out.
"She was so sick," said Amanda Stuber, who grew close to Sanders when both were incarcerated in Cobb County. "You could see it. She was in her bed most of the time. She was never stable. It killed me to watch this happen."
Medical records and other documents examined by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution raise questions about Sanders' care at almost every turn.
In the Cobb County jail, Sanders was hospitalized seven times in two months for respiratory problems and for other issues as her regular dialysis treatments were reduced from four a week to three.
Then, when her breathing became labored at Pulaski, she was placed in the prison infirmary for observation with no doctor present even through her blood oxygen level was dangerously low.
The upshot was a downward spiral that shocked even those who knew Sanders was in fragile health.
"Sometimes I wish I could have done more," Sanders' daughter, Tonya Edwards, said recently through tears. "But, you know, I just thought she was coming home. Even though I knew she was sick, I thought she'd be coming home."
A change in treatment
Sanders worked some as a cosmetologist, but most of her life was spent in and out of prisons and jails for offenses that included robbery, forgery and bad checks.
During a January 2013 traffic stop in Valdosta, authorities found that Sanders had an outstanding warrant in Cobb County for failing to comply with the terms of her probation from a 2004 robbery of a Marietta hair salon. Sanders stole $464 and threatened to shoot a salon employee, although it was later found that she didn't actually have a gun, records show.
Diagnosed with kidney failure two years earlier, Sanders at the time of the traffic stop was undergoing dialysis four times a week instead of the standard three to remove the buildup of fluids on weekends, records from her health care provider show.
"That's the only way she could survive," Edwards said.
But that regimen changed when Sanders was booked into the Cobb County jail, according to her written statements and other documents.
"I'm still having to go to the hospital for fluids," she wrote in a complaint she filed against the jail physician, Dr. Clarence Hendrix. "I've tried to explain to him (that) at home I had to go to dialysis four times a week — Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday — to be able to make it through the weekend."
She also mentioned the issue in a letter to her daughter.
"They still are not doing dialysis on me four times a week," she wrote a month into her stay. "They said they are only going to pay for three treatments."
Stuber recalled one Sunday when Sanders was so bloated that she had trouble walking and finally fell. Stuber said she tried to help, but a correctional officer shooed her away, saying, "Don't matter, she's gonna die anyway."
Reducing a dialysis patient's treatments from four to three a week could, over time, places added stress on the heart and lungs, said Dr. Leslie Spry, a Lincoln, Neb., nephrologist who serves as a spokesman for the National Kidney Foundation. Patients with conditions such as hypertension, heart disease and diabetes are particularly vulnerable when their treatments are altered, he said.
"If we have people on (dialysis) four times a week and they have to go back to three, they end up with more fluid (built up), worsening high blood pressure, strokes, those kinds of things," Spry said.
A spokesman for WellStar Health System Inc., which provides medical services in the jail under a contract with the Cobb County Sheriff's Department, declined to comment on Sanders' treatment.
Speaking generally, the spokesman, Tyler Pearson, said the number of dialysis treatments for any particular inmate is based on the inmate's needs as determined by the jail physician. The cost of the treatments is assumed by the county, he said.
Hendrix, a WellStar employee, did not respond to phone messages left at his office by the AJC.
Robert Quigley, a spokesman for Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren, said no one from the sheriff's office would comment for this story.
The judge rules
When Sanders' probation revocation case went to court, her health quickly became the main topic of discussion.
Her guilt or innocence wasn't an issue. While on probation for the robbery, she had pleaded guilty to another felony, a forgery charge in Colquitt County.
Sanders could have been sentenced to up to eight years in prison, but her court-appointed attorney, Michael Syrop, argued that she shouldn't serve any time.
"I mean, the fact of the matter is, even if she doesn't do what she's supposed to do from this point forward, it's unlikely that she will ever survive to come back in front of this court again," Syrop told Flournoy.
"Sometimes I wish I could have done more. But, you know, I just thought she was coming home. Even though I knew she was sick, I thought she'd be coming home."
Tonya Edwards, Sanders' daughter
Flournoy decided on a nine-month sentence, with credit for the time served in the Cobb jail. He gave no explanation other than to tell Syrop, "You have done a good job for your client." He also noted that Sanders would at some point be subject to revocation proceedings in Gwinnett County because of an outstanding warrant there.
"And so you'll go now to Gwinnett County and hopefully get that thing resolved and then get out and go on with your life, I hope," the judge told Sanders.
Flournoy did not respond to an interview request from the AJC. His administrative assistant, Christa Flint, said the judge has long had a policy of not commenting on cases.
In a recent interview, Syrop said he believes Flournoy had no choice but to impose some prison time.
"As a judge, I think his hands were tied," Syrop said. "Just because someone is sick, they're not immune from the consequences of violating probation. The judge is going to assume that she's in custody and getting medical care."
'I need an ambulance STAT'
A month after the hearing, Sanders was moved from Cobb County to the state prison system. A jail-to-prison transfer form prepared by the county listed her many illnesses and noted that she required dialysis "three x/week."
Incarcerated as Virginia Wilson, a name she once used as an alias, Sanders spent just hours at the Department of Corrections' diagnostic center at Lee Arrendale State Prison in Alto before being transported to Pulaski, a facility where inmates can receive dialysis.
However, on her second night at the Hawkinsville prison, her health turned in a way from which she would not recover.
Sanders was found struggling to breathe in her dormitory, so she was moved to the infirmary. There, records show, the nurse on duty determined that her blood oxygen level was at a dangerous level and contacted the prison physician, Dr. Yvon Nazaire.
"Writer called Dr. Nazaire about abnormal finding (of) 89 percent," the nurse, Ruth Beamon, wrote in a witness statement that was included with Sanders' medical records. "Order received to keep her in the infirmary for 23 hours observation."
A blood oxygen level below 90 percent means a person is suffering from hypoxemia, a condition that can lead to cardiac arrest if allowed to continue.
Sanders' condition improved at first, Beamon wrote. But over the next 45 minutes the inmate became "restless" and her blood oxygen level and heart rate were "low," the nurse wrote.
Beamon called Nazaire again. This time she was directed to send Sanders to the hospital.
911 call
"I need an ambulance STAT, please, to take a patient to the ER. I think she's in heart failure," the nurse told the 911 operator.
The call was too late. An hour later, Sanders was pronounced dead in the emergency room of Taylor Regional Hospital.
Nazaire, asked recently about Sanders, said there was no need to send the inmate to the hospital earlier because she had been dialyzed when she arrived at Pulaski the day before.
"Somebody who has been dialyzed, what do you send them to the hospital for?" he said.
Edwards said she doesn't understand why her mother wasn't immediately sent to the hospital.
"I can't see why they would choose to monitor someone who can't breathe," she said. "What was there to monitor?"
For Edwards, the circumstances are more painful because of the thoughts expressed by her mother in her last letter.
Writing from Pulaski just hours before she died, Sanders said there was hope she wouldn't have to serve the entirety of her sentence.
"The parole people also (saw) me yesterday and explained to me that I could be coming home soon," she wrote. "They don't understand why they bother sending me to prison. I say the same thing."


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3D Printing Accelerates Toxicity Testing with Nanomaterials/
As a fan of nanotechnology innovation, it doesn't take a lot of digging to find inspiration in new developments with potential for radical shifts in how we as a society meet our needs and wants. 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, has captured my imagination, as a tool for safer technologies, more efficient manufacturing, resource conservation, and innovation. Combine these two technologies, and see how close the future really is.
Today's focus is on bioprinting. Using magnetic nanoparticles, people are commercializing ways to build 3D cell systems for testing toxicity of substances to organs. Talk about high throughput screening! These systems can conduct thousands of tests to screen new drugs, chemicals, additives in systems that mimic human organs. Wait, they mimic human organs? With 3D printing, now researchers are able to "print" tissues in 3D – like your hip, or your liver. Can you imagine, on your next trip to Fatima, a new shop just outside the shrine custom printing anatomical models of ears and lungs made from 3D printing instead of mold injection? More seriously, by the time some of us need hip replacements, 3D printing will custom fit our new hips, with biocompatible materials. And, by then, our toxicology testing paradigm may be based on these alternative testing strategies using bioprinting to mimic systems biology.
That is the goal, anyway. If you've read my book, you know I assign less weight to in vitro, or cell based assays, as predictive toxicology tools, because they are models with limited ability to capture the complexity our bodies have. I'm all for screening methods that focus and prioritize further testing, as long as they are reliable as indicators of behavior. Standard cell culture assays study interactions at the cellular level, not the organ level, a critical piece to understanding the potential effects. These 20th century tests (back in the days of the first test tube baby, they were state of the art) were developed to screen drugs, and have been applied with some success to screening chemicals for toxicity. Part of the issue is the geometry. The cells form a layer in a petri dish (or more often now a microarray vial), which is very different than a 3D organ system. Now, we have the ability to create 3D models of our tissues, and this steps us firmly into the 21st century of toxicity testing innovation. Bioprinting is a real example of the power of converging (bio, nano and info) technology to advance us more quickly to developing safer and more sustainable products.
Stay tuned for more about these fascinating developments, including upcoming workshops to learn more about how advanced these techniques are for conducting risk assessments of nanomaterials. In the meantime, liver anyone?


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Since sea trials wrapped up last month, what has been happening with the first of HH Catamaran's hulls to hit the water - HH6601?
Around the middle of May the HH team wrapped and packed up the boat and placed her into a shipping container bound for Europe. Last week she completed her 3 week journey, arriving in Valencia, Spain where her owner was waiting. Over the next week or so the HH Catamaran team will work together with the owner's captain and crew to ready the boat for final hand over. HH6601 'R-Six' makes her official debut at the Cannes boat festival in September. Its going to be quite an event so be sure to watch this space


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A professional user-friendly website is essential for most business in today's competitive world.
It's important to keep up with all the latest web design trends if you want to keep your present customer base happy and attract new customers.
It may only be spring, but several new web design trends have already sprung up in 2015 – and here's a list of the ones that are making the most headlines.
1) Responsive Design
If you're going to do just one thing to improve your website this year it should be to incorporate Responsive Design. Responsive Web Design allows your website to adjust to all mobile devices including phones and tablets, allowing it to fits perfectly within each device's screen. This user-friendly feature means that people who surf the internet via their mobile devices are more likely to spend time looking at your website, crucially avoiding the "bounces" that can have an adverse effect on your Google rankings and other Search Engine Rankings.
2) Parallax Scrolling
This relatively new technique allows you all your business's relevant information on its website's homepage, allowing visitors to get an overview of your business without having to click onto any more pages. Parallax scrolling web design is becoming increasingly popular on corporate and e-commerce websites.
3) Flat Design
Infographics are the most common example of flat-design, and allow creative blends of information, colours and shapes to be used to convey a concise message. One of the most popular current flat-design interfaces is Microsoft's latest Windows 8 interface design.
4) Ghost Buttons
Ghost Buttons are transparent buttons that allow users to easily click on other pages of your website, yet help maintain the aesthetic qualities of your landing page or homepage.
5) Show the real you
Graphics still have their place on websites; however photographs are increasingly being used as backgrounds. Popular photographs are shots of business premises, employees at work or a combination of the two – and these give your business a sense of truth that customers relate to.
6) Storytelling
No matter how good your products or services are – nothing sells them as well as a great story. Stories allow you to engage current and new customers by showcasing the various nuances of your business and show how great your products and services are.
7) Less Pop-ups
Pop-ups are often annoying to the user, and pop-ups on mobile devices often look out of place and make visitors leave.
8) Animation
Animation is becoming increasingly popular, and it's a great way of getting marketing across in a light-hearted manner whilst engaging your customers at the same time. Of course they're not for everyone and every kind of business – so always seek some advice before incorporating them into your website.
TMA understands the needs of both businesses and customers, and our ethos is to design and build websites that help form a long-lasting bond between them.
To learn more about how TMA can help your business, please call us on 0141 221 2090, or drop into our Glasgow studio and discuss your requirements over a cup of coffee.
Whether you are an existing business or starting your journey, we will tell your story. One that inspires and sparks the imagination, turning lookers... into bookers.
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CJ Williams
It all started in my garage, in 2013.
After spending years in management at a transportation company, I decided to change things up after turning 30.
I started with me training clients in my single-car garage. The first boot camp was held in January 2014. 3 years later, I'm established in my own gym.
BA in Psychology from UNCC
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When Heather first messaged me about writing a guest post on her blog, I had already gone into defense mode about why I could not. I had nothing important to say. How could I compete with the brilliant writers who had been guests before? Etc.
You all know the routine, when something is out of our comfort zone. Every excuse in the book runs a race in our mind as to how we are not "good enough."
Comparison and inadequacy are the two most common things that keep us from God's purpose.
One of my morning devotionals said this, "God doesn't need two people just alike!" So, during my "inadequacy arguments" God kept repeating one word to me over-and-over in my mind and through those arguments, and as usual, His voice was lovingly persistent and predominant!
Every excuse I came up with, He answered one word....FREEDOM.
So before I even said yes, before I could try to come up with one brilliant thing on my own that would "inspire the world," before I could run and hide from the task before me, He whispered "FREEDOM!" And so the subject selection was made!
The funny thing about The Father, when He has something for us to do, and we are less than enthused at the prospect, He equips! Remember what He told Moses from the burning bush? "I will be with you"...so the plan was set in motion.
The Fourth has come and gone, and we have celebrated the freedom we have as Americans, but the FREEDOM I am talking about is our Freedom in Christ. And while the definition for freedom in the dictionary is "liberated from restraints, limitations, oppression, and slavery," it still applies to our spiritual life too.
I learned what restraints and limitations felt like last December in a whole new way. I had fusion back surgery that two weeks later developed into full-blown massive blood clots in my right leg, sending me for a six-day stay in ICU. The catch was, I had to lay flat on my back, with a large catheter behind my knee, attached to a tall IV tower with 6 bags connected, and not move for six days. To make matters worse, I had not yet been able to lay on my back after the surgery without severe pain. Talk about restraints and limitation! Wow! And even though these limitations and restraints were physical, they were mentally exhausting.
Fear crept in! I was a slave to it and the depression and oppression of the enemy was real and strong.
But the Lord sent a human form of Jesus to me in a man-of-God nurse, named Godwin. How perfectly fitting....God Wins! And slowly, but surely, those restraints, limitations and fears were dwindled down through the reminder of God's grace by this kind representation of Christ. Godwin reminded me of all God had for me to do.
Today, as I write, I remembered the firefighters instructions "Stop, drop, and roll," translated for me as "quit borrowing worry, pull up by the faith boots, and move on to better."
We can choose to be restrained and burdened, or we can SURRENDER and be released to FREEDOM, blessed FREEDOM!
I am still working on learning this TOTAL FREEDOM as I lean into Him for release from my fear of the blood clot that still remains—a work in progress—I repeat, a WORK in progress!
But HE is ABLE, and with Him, I will be ABLE too!
Another quote from one of my morning devotionals said this, "Sometimes the things that bring peace, take the most work!" I am finding this so true. EVERY DAY that I wake up is a reminder there is still more for me to do to make my God smile so He can proclaim in the Heavens..."That's my girl!"
And last, the best part of FREEDOM—the right to assembly, free to fellowship together.
Anyone who knows me well, knows my devotion time is spent every morning on my front porch before the busyness of life gets in the way, a FREEDOM to sit and "assemble together" with the Father, just the two of us. And yes for those who live near me, the lil' old white-headed lady out on the porch with her coffee and devotions and God's Word is not in a rocking chair. Not yet anyway! But the time I spend with Him and listening to Him speak wisdom, strength and peace to my weary soul is the BEST FREEDOM I know.
I don't HAVE to, I GET to!
I can cry with Him, talk with Him, be vulnerable with Him, and bask in the beauty of His new creation each day because of FREEDOM, BLESSED FREEDOM!
What restraints do you have, and what limitations have kept you from enjoying all God has for you? Is it fear, depression, lack of self-esteem, not being as smart as someone else? What restrains you from liberty?
I pray that this speaks to your heart and releases you from what keeps you limited, that your restraints will be broken by the agape love and FREEDOM of Jesus, because, folks, there's just nothing better!
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 2 Corinthians 3:17 HCSB
You can be free today, don't waste another minute...like the commercial says, "Don't leave home without it!"


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The new year always provides an opportunity to assess where we've been and make plans for where we want to go. It's become a tradition of mine on the first Sunday of each new year to share those thoughts with my church. I value a dynamic, healthy, vibrant church that seeks the will of God for our lives together, so that's why I take time frequently to look within and look ahead. Here are a few of my thoughts for the essentials in 2017:
e will be starting our Feasibility Study on our church facility. s you know, the challenges of our aging facility continue to be problematic for us, consuming our financial resources and energy of our people, particularly our leaders. We own our building free and clear, but we need to take a deeper look at the structural issues in our building so we can make informed, faith-filled decisions. It is highly unfair for us to kick this down the line to the next generation.
e will be investing a lot of time in building our ministry teams and leadership. s we make changes in how we "do business", we need to support those who have taken steps of faith to serve God in this church. Including every member of the body in service is a sign of a healthy church and healthy individual relationships with Jesus. Remember, we're in this together!
e will reexamine our membership. n the years our church was struggling with day to day survival, a lot of things were left undone. Consequently, we do not have any records of who actually holds membership in CCC or not. We want to hit reboot and invite people into a committed relationship with each other and the church. In a world in which no one is committed to anything but themselves, commitment is a sign of vitality, health, and Christian maturity.
Here's what I need from you:
1) Guard our unity. Is your presence uniting or dividing? Are you looking out for just yourselves or for the church? Each one of us -- in love for God and the church -- should do our part to build and preserve our unity.
2) Cultivate healthy Christian relationships where healthy boundaries and grace flourish (marked by forgiveness where required). Guard yourself against complaint toward your sisters and brothers. Be careful not to dump your toxic waste on to those you love.
3) Renew your commitment to Jesus Christ and His church. How is our relationship with God being prioritized in our life? How is our relationship with Jesus being reflected in our relationship with his Body, the church?
4) Be present and pray. Your presence in this place encourages us all. Pray for the church and pray for your leaders. As your pastor, I need this from you.
My number one responsibility in the church is this: to teach and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This doesn't deserve my left-overs, so it has to receive my top priority. A mentor of mine once told me this: "Don't work to hold on to people in your church; work to grow your people." Teaching those who earnestly run after Jesus energizes me. I can give to that end over and over again.
Thank you for your faithful presence in my life and in our church. For those who've given their service, their time, their care, their finance, and their love, I'm grateful!
So we look forward to 2017...


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"And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors"
Meditation 3: "Debts" is Legal
Though we know to pray for our forgiveness, it is important to full understand why. As God's creation we are supposed to obey Him. When we don't we "steal" His glory (Rom 3:23) by exalting ourselves.
This type of behavior is unpleasing to God. Being a just God He "pays us" for these debts (Rom 4:4) in a judgment of death (Rom 6:23). Just like having no money but needing to pay, we owe God glory that we cannot produce. Thus we must be forgiven by God this debt. God can do this because Jesus paid it for us (1 Pet 1:18-19). We can pray for forgiveness of our debt in confidence because it has been paid for us.


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Haven't been on in a while, but I will post more often! Promise! Today I had the greatest time shooting with two of my besties. I cant wait to show you more but here's a quick look at what I've been working on...
Sneak Peek to my Vintage Shoot
Crazy, Wonderful Family!
I was lucky enough to enjoy the holidays with my nutty fam.
Glamour Punk Beauty
from my shoot yesterday... it was so much fun! A big shout out to my sister Cary for helping out and my lovely Model Isa! xoxo!
Fantastic weather for a shoot today....
All you need is great weather and a couple in love!
Beautiful Jock!
One of my model's makeup... she is just breathtaking! Mac Naked eyeshadow, L'Oreal foundation, Mac Ruby Woo lipstick, Bobbi Brown black eyeliner and Ardell lashes.
Lip Beauty!
I love when Sephora has their "Sephora Favorites" compilation of great makeup. This is a great way to try brands you've never even heard of! I got the "Give me more lip" box from Sephora as a birthday gift and cant wait to show it off! Let me show you what I'm talking about:
Trip to Washington D.C.
I finally traveled North of Florida! Road trip much?! We went to Washington, D.C. not only to see the amazing Monuments but to also see an old friend, Dane Cook! It was so much fun! It is true that I wasn't forced to drive, which is great because I hate driving, and so props go out to my peeps Sam, Rebecca, and Bob.


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The new AFX FX-41 is a Dual Sport/Adventure helmet that AFX has added to its line. The FX-41 is not replacing the FX-39, and will be sold as an additional model. The new FX-41 looks aggressive and futuristic with its sharp lines and many vents. I have previously tested an FX-39 and was hopeful AFX had worked out the kinks of the older helmet.Read More
XRs Only Exhaust Pipe - Honda XR600R /XR650L review
I had been wanting a new exhaust for my 94 XR650L for quite some time but wasn't sure purchasing one would be the best use of my hard earned money. I also wasn't all that impressed by the options offered by other aftermarket manufactures.Read More
AMP Aluminum Case Guards
Manufacturers use lighter materials to save weight, but these lighter materials are often weaker than steel or aluminum parts. On the Suzuki DRZ400 and the Suzuki DR650se the engine case covers are both made of magnesium. While this saves weight over an equivalent aluminum or steel part, magnesium is not as strong.Read More
Olympia Motoquest Guide Pants
The Olympia Motoquest pants are a versatile and protective piece of riding gear. They have enough protection for street riding and a fit that is also compatible with adventure and dual sport riding. They are a perfect complement to the Motoquest Jacket.Read More
Green Chile Adventure Gear Pecos Value Bundle
Green Chile Adventure Gear is not a common name in the dual sport or adventure market yet. GCAG, as they call themselves, is a relatively new company with a completely different opinion on luggage systems for dual sport and adventure motorcycles.Read More
Olympia Motoquest Guide Jacket
The Olympia Motoquest jacket is a full featured four season riding jacket. It has the flexibility and comfort needed for dual sport riding while maintaining the protective features required for street riding. Simply put, this jacket is a do-it-all motorcycle jacket.Read More
ADV Protective Gear Explained
It wasn't too long ago that I purchased a used Kawasaki KLR 650 and I was faced with an entirely new style of riding. Now that I could venture offroad I knew my street riding gear was not going to be well suited for that type of riding. I also knew that I would be falling and I didn't want to trash my street gear by knocking it about in the gravel and dirt.Read More
Best Adventure Bike Gadgetry
We live in a digital world and even though riding an adventure bike is all about leaving the modern world behind, electronic gadgets can help you ride better, smarter and safer.Read More
How To: ADV Bike Ergonomics
When handling adventure bikes, ergonomics become more important and complicated than on standard motorcycles. Ever since I took my very first dual sport ride I have been upgrading and changing my 2004 Kawasaki KLR 650 to suit my riding needs, and you should too.Read More
Seat Concepts KLR650 Low seat
I have found that often people overlook important things when customizing their motorcycles. The seat of a motorcycle plays a large role in how enjoyable your riding experience is, how long you can ride, and the fatigue you feel. Often overlooked, an aftermarket seat can help these things tremendously.Read More
Sena 20S Bluetooth Communication System: First Impressions
The SENA 20S is the newest bluetooth intercom to enter the market taking the top spot on the SENA line from the popular SENA SMH10. The 20S is both a helmet to helmet communicator as well as a bluetooth headset for a multitude of other accessories like a phone, gps or radar detector.Read More
Features to Look for in an Adventure or Dual Sport Glove
There are a ton of different motorcycle glove options out there for us to pick from, but what features make a good adventure or dual sport glove? I will break down some of the common features in motorcycle gloves and you can use this article as a guide to help you find a glove that suits your needs.Read More
Adventure and Dual Sport Crossover Jackets
When I started riding my dual sport bike I found a whole new type of gear was needed. I never had a dirt bike as a kid so I had no idea what offroad riding gear would be best for what I was doing. I also found that the available choices for gear that successfully crosses over between street and offroad is pretty limited.Read More
Sidi Discovery Rain Boots
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Viking Bags AXE-30 Motorcycle Backpack
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Wolfman Expedition Dry Saddlebags
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About this Event
Cranford Street Fair & Craft Show
Sunday, August 25, 2019 from 11:00am to 5:00pm.
On the Streets of Downtown Cranford, NJ.
The absolute Best way to sell your goods and services.
Artists, Crafters, Vendors, Food, Rides, Live Music & more.
FREE ADMISSION for Spectators.
Avg Event Attendance: 20,000
For More Info and applications, go to: http://StreetFairs.org
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Phone:(908) 654-1400
Live Music, DJ, Dancing, Delicious foods, Performances and more!
Children's rides, Game Trailer, Petting Zoo, Martial Arts exhibitions, and More!
Come on down for a day of family fun with original & interesting Arts & Crafts, shopping, kid's rides and great FOOD!


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…the PA legislature might finally act on the Atkins v. Virginia decision from the U.S. Supreme Court that ended the execution of the mentally retarded. The Court ended the practice but left the states to figure out how to git it done.
But wait! Even when directed by the SCOTUS, this bunch in Harrisburg still might find a way to screw it up. Tomorrow the PA House Judiciary Committee will take up House Bill 698, a bill that only a prosecutor could love. HB 698 would require that the determination on retardation be made after conviction by the jury. After going through an entire trial and recognizing the defendant's guilt, the jury is expected to give an objective opinion on whether or not the defendant is retarded. Plus, this procedure means that everyone on said jury is "death-qualified", which means they all support the death penalty. Like I said, it's a bill that only a prosecutor could love and that only a PA legislator could think is constitutional.
Meanwhile, out here in the rationally thinking world, advocates for the mentally retarded, church groups, and civil libertarians support HB 1410, which would require that the determination on retardation be made pre-trial by the judge.
According to The Death Penalty Information Center, eight states have implemented post-Atkins standards. Six have opted for pre-trial determination, Virginia chose post-trial, and Louisiana is pre-trial, if the prosecutor agrees. (Stop laughing.) Fittingly, a Louisiana state court found the state's procedure to be unconstitutional for multiple reasons, including the use of a "death-qualified" jury.
Andy, Harrisburg