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At times I have seriously thought about writing down some of my unwritten rules. I actually found that someone else has done that! Swanson's UnWritten Rules of Management was written by William H. Swanson when he was the Chairman and CEO of Raytheon. He compiled these thoughts and his unwritten rules became written! There are 33 of them ranging from #1: Learn to say "I don't know," to #33: Never be afraid to try something new. Seek this book out – it is a great reminder to all of us and it supports Mr. Swanson's views of the qualities of leadership: confidence, dedication, integrity and love.
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They think I have obligations, and that I have en-
couraged him."
Felix smiled at her, as if she had been telling
him an amusing story about some one else. " I
can't tell you how this interests me," he said.
" Now you don't recognize these reasons these
obligations ? "
k ' I am not sure ; it is not easy." And she
picked up her parasol and turned away, as if to
descend the slope.
" Tell me this," Felix went on, going with her :
" are you likely to give in to let them persuade
Gertrude looked at him with the serious face
that she had constantly worn, in opposition to his
almost eager smile. " I shall never marry Mr.
Brand," she said.
" I see ! " Felix rejoined. And they slowly de-
scended the hill together, saying nothing till they
reached the margin of the pond. " It is your
own affair," he then resumed ; " but do you know,
I am not altogether glad ? If it were settled that
you were to marry Mr. Brand I should take a cer-
tain comfort in the arrangement. I should feel
more free. I have no right to make love to you
myself, eh ? " And he paused, lightly pressing his
argument upon her.
" None whatever," replied Gertrude quickly
too quickly.
" Your father would never hear of it ; I have n't
a penny. Mr. Brand, of course, has property of
his own, eh ? "
" I believe he has some property ; but that has
nothing to do with it."
" With you, of course not ; but with your father
and sister it must have. So, as I say, if this were
settled, I should feel more at liberty."
*' More at liberty ? " Gertrude repeated. " Please
unfasten the boat."
Felix untwisted the rope and stood holding it.
44 1 should be able to say things to you that I can't
give myself the pleasure of saying now," he went
on. "I could tell you how much I admire you,
without seeming to pretend to that which I have
no right to pretend to. I should make violent
love to you," he added, laughing, " if I thought
you were so placed as not to be offended by it."
" You mean if -I were engaged to another man ?
That is strange reasoning ! " Gertrude exclaimed.
" In that case you would not take me seri-
" I take every one seriously," said Gertrude.
And without his help she stepped lightly into the
Felix took up the oars and sent it forward.
" Ah, this is what you have been thinking about ?
It seemed to me you had something on your mind.
I wish very much," he added, " that you would
tell me some of these so-called reasons these ob-
" They are not real reasons good reasons,"
said Gertrude, looking at the pink and yellow
gleams in the water.
" 1 can understand that ! Because a handsome
girl has had a spark of coquetry, that is no rea-
" If you mean me, it 's not that. I have not
done that."
u It is something that troubles you, at any
rate," said Felix.
" Not so much as it used to," Gertrude re-
He looked at her, smiling always. " That is
not saying much, eh ? " But she only rested her
eyes, very gravely, on the lighted water. She
seemed to him to be trying to hide the signs of
the trouble of which she had just told him. Felix
felt, at all times, much the same impulse to dissi-
pate visible melancholy that a good housewife feels
to brush away dust. There was something he
wished to brush away now ; suddenly he stopped
rowing and poised his oars. " Why should Mr.
Brand have addressed himself to you, and not to
your sister ? " he asked. " I am sure she would
listen to him."
Gertrude, in her family, was thought capable of
a good deal of levity; but her levity had never
gone so far as this. It moved her greatly, how-
ever, to hear Felix say that he was sure of some-
thing ; so that, raising her eyes toward him, she
tried intently, for some moments, to conjure up
this wonderful image of a love-affair between her
own sister and her own suitor. We know that
Gertrude had an imaginative mind ; so that it is
not impossible that this effort should have been
partially successful. But she only murmured, "Ah,
Felix! ah, Felix!"
" Why should n't they marry ? Try and make
them marry ! " cried Felix.
" Try and make them ? "
" Turn the tables on them. Then they will
leave you alone. I will help you as far as I can."
Gertrude's heart began to beat ; she was greatly
excited ; she had never had anything so interest-
ing proposed to her before. Felix had begun to
row again, and he now sent the boat home with
long strokes. " I believe she does care for him ! "
said Gertrude, after they had disembarked.
" Of course she does, and we will marry them
off. It will make them happy ; it will make every
one happy. We shall have a wedding and I will
write an epithalamium."
44 It seems as if it would make me happy," said
" To get rid of Mr. Brand, eh ? To recover
your liberty ? "
Gertrude walked on. " To see my sister mar-
ried to so good a man."
Felix gave his light laugh. " You always put
things on those grounds ; you will never say any-
thing for yourself. You are all so afraid, here, of
being selfish. I don't think you know how," he
went on. " Let me show you ! It will make me
happy for myself, and for just the reverse of what
I told you a while ago. After that, when I make
love to you, you will have to think I mean it."
" I shall never think you mean anything," said
Gertrude. " You are too fantastic."
" Ah," cried Felix, " that 's a license to say
everything ! Gertrude, I adore you ! "
CHARLOTTE and Mr. Brand had not returned
when they reached the house ; but the Baroness
had come to tea, and Robert Acton also, who now
regularly asked for a place at this generous repast
or made his appearance later in the evening.
Clifford Wentworth, with his juvenile growl, re-
marked upon it.
" You are always coming to tea nowadays, Rob-
ert," he said. " I should think you had drunk
enough tea in China."
44 Since when is Mr. Acton more frequent ? "
asked the Baroness.
" Since you came," said Clifford. " It seems
as if you were a kind of attraction."
" I suppose I am a curiosity," said the Bar-
oness. " Give me time and I will make you a
44 It would fall to pieces after you go ! " ex-
claimed Acton.
44 Don't talk about her going, in that familiar
way," Clifford said. " It makes me feel gloomy."
Mr. Wentworth glanced at his son, and taking
note of tliese words, wondered if Felix had been
teaching him, according to the programme he had
sketched out, to make love to the wife of a Ger-
man prince.
Charlotte came in late with Mr. Brand ; but
Gertrude, to whom, at least, Felix had taught
something, looked in vain, in her face, for the
traces of a guilty passion. Mr. Brand sat down
by Gertrude, and she present^ asked him why
they had not crossed the pond to join Felix and
" It is cruel of you to ask me that," he an-
swered, very softly. He had a large morsel of
cake before him ; but he fingered it without eat-
ing it. " I sometimes think you are growing
cruel," he added.
Gertrude said nothing ; she was afraid to speak.
There was a kind of rage in her heart ; she felt as
if she could easily persuade herself that she was
persecuted. She said to herself that it was quite
right that she should not allow him to make her
believe she was wrong. She thought of what
Felix had said to her ; she wished indeed Mr.
Brand would marry Charlotte. She looked away
from him and spoke no more. Mr. Brand ended
by eating his cake, while Felix sat opposite, de-
scribing to Mr. Wentworth the students' duels at
Heidelberg. After tea they all dispersed them-
selves, as usual, upon the piazza and in the gar-
den ; and Mr. Brand drew near to Gertrude again.
" I did n't come to you this afternoon because
you were not alone," he began ; " because you
were with a newer friend."
" Felix ? He is an old friend by this time."
Mr. Brand looked at the ground for some mo-
ments. "I thought I was prepared to hear you
speak in that way," he resumed. " But I find it
very painful."
44 1 don't see what else I can say," said Ger-
Mr. Brand walked beside her for a while in
silence; Gertrude wished he would go away.
44 He is certainly very accomplished. But I think
I ought to advise you."
44 To advise me ? "
44 1 think I know your nature."
44 1 think you don't," said Gertrude, with a soft
44 You make yourself out worse than you are
to please him," Mr. Brand said, gently.
44 Worse to please him ? What do you
mean ? " asked Gertrude, stopping.
Mr. Brand stopped also, and with the same soft
straightforwardness, 44 He doesn't care for the
things you care for the great questions of life."
Gertrude, with her eyes on his, shook her head.
" I don't care for the great questions of life. They
are much beyond me."
44 There was a time when you did n't say that,"
said Mr. Brand.
44 Oh," rejoined Gertrude, " I think you made
me talk a great deal of nonsense. And it de-
pends," she added, " upon what you call the great
questions of life. There are some things I care
" Are they the things you talk about with your
cousin ? "
" You should not say things to me against my
cousin, Mr. Brand," said Gertrude. 4t That is
He listened to this respectfully ; then he an-
swered, with a little vibration of the voice, 4t I
should be very sorry to do anything dishonorable.
But I don't see why it is dishonorable to say that
your cousin is frivolous."
44 Go and say it to himself ! "
44 1 think he would admit it," said Mr. Brand.
44 That is the tone he would take. He would not
be ashamed of it."
44 Then I am not ashamed of it ! " Gertrude
declared. 44 That is probably what I like him for.
I am frivolous myself."
44 You are trying, as I said just now, to lower
" I am trying for once to be natural ! " cried
Gertrude passionately. u I have been pretend-
ing, all my life ; I have been dishonest ; it is you
that have made me so! " Mr. Brand stood gaz-
ing at her, and she went on, " Why should n't I
be frivolous, if I want ? One has a right to be
frivolous, if it 's one's nature. No, I don't care
for the great questions. I care for pleasure for
amusement. Perhaps I am fond of wicked things ;
it is very possible ! "
Mr. Brand remained staring ; he was even a
little pale, as if he had been frightened. " I don't
think you know what you are saying ! " he ex-
" Perhaps not. Perhaps I am talking nonsense.
But it is only with you that I talk nonsense. I
never do so with my cousin."
" I will speak to you again, when you are less
excited," said Mr. Brand.
" 1 am always excited when you speak to me.
I must tell you that even if it prevents you
altogether, in future. Your speaking to me irri-
tates me. With my cousin it is very different.
That seems quiet and natural."
He looked at her, and then he looked away,
with a kind of helpless distress, at the dusky gar-
den and the faint summer stars. After which,
suddenly turning back, " Gertrude, Gertrude ! "
he softly groaned. "Am I really losing you ? "
She was touched she was pained ; but it had
already occurred to her that she might do some-
thing better than say so. It would not have alle-
viated her companion's distress to perceive, just
then, whence she had sympathetically borrowed
this ingenuity. " I am not sorry for you," Ger-
trude said ; " for in paying so much attention to
me you are following a shadow you are wast-
ing something precious. There is something else
you might have that you don't look at some-
thing better than I am. That is a reality ! " And
then, with intention, she looked at him and tried
to smile a little. He thought this smile of hers
very strange ; but she turned away and left him.
She wandered about alone in the garden won-
dering what Mr. Brand would make of her words,
which it had been a singular pleasure for her to
utter. Shortly after, passing in front of the house,
she saw at a distance two persons standing near
the garden gate. It was Mr. Brand going away
and bidding good-night to Charlotte, who had
walked down with him from the house. Gertrude
saw that the parting was prolonged. Then she
turned her back upon it. She had not gone very
far, however, when she heard her sister slowly
following her. She neither turned round nor
waited for her; she knew what Charlotte was
going to say. Charlotte, who at last overtook
her, in fact presently began ; she had passed her
arm into Gertrude's.
" Will you listen to me, dear, if I say something
very particular ? "
44 1 know what you are going to say," said Ger-
trude. 44 Mr. Brand feels very badly."
44 Oh, Gertrude, how can you treat him so ? '"
Charlotte demanded. And as her sister made no
answer she added, 44 After all he has done for
you ! "
44 What has he done for me ? "
44 1 wonder you can ask, Gertrude. He has
helped you so. You told me so yourself, a great
many times. You told me that he helped you to
struggle with your your peculiarities. You told
me that he had taught you how to govern your
For a moment Gertrude said nothing. Then,
44 Was my temper very bad? " she asked.
44 1 am not accusing you, Gertrude," said Char-
44 What are you doing, then ? " her sister de-
manded, with a short laugh.
44 1 am pleading for Mr. Brand reminding you
of all you owe him."
44 1 have given it all back," said Gertrude, still
with her little laugh. 44 He can take back the
virtue he imparted ! I want to be wicked again."
Her sister made her stop in the path, and fixed
upon her, in the darkness, a sweet, reproachful
gaze. " If you talk this way I shall almost be-
lieve it. Think of all we owe Mr. Brand. Think
of how he has always expected something of you.
Think how much he has been to us. Think of
his beautiful influence upon Clifford."
44 He is very good," said Gertrude, looking at
her sister. " I know he is very good. But he
should n't speak against Felix."
" Felix is good," Charlotte answered, softly but
promptly. " Felix is very wonderful. Only he
is so different. Mr. Brand is much nearer to us.
I should never think of going to Felix with a
trouble with a question. Mr. Brand is much
more to us, Gertrude."
" He is very very good," Gertrude repeated.
" He is more to you ; yes, much more. Charlotte,"
she added suddenly, " you are in love with him ! "
44 Oh, Gertrude ! " cried poor Charlotte ; and
her sister saw her blushing in the darkness.
Gertrude put her arm round her. " I wish he
would marry you ! " she went on.
Charlotte shook herself free. " You must not
say such things ! " she exclaimed, beneath her
44 You like him more than you say, and he likes
you more than he knows."
" This is very cruel of you ! " Charlotte Went-
worth murmured.
But if it was cruel Gertrude continued pitiless.
" Not if it 's true," she answered. " I wish he
would marry you."
" Please don't say that."
" I mean to tell him so ! " said Gertrude.
" Oh, Gertrude, Gertrude ! " her sister almost
" Yes, if he speaks to me again about myself.
I will say, ' Why don't you marry Charlotte ?
She 's a thousand times better than I.' '
" You are wicked ; you are changed ! " cried her
" If you don't like it you can prevent it," said
Gertrude. " You can prevent it by keeping him
from speaking to me ? " And with this she walked
away, very conscious of what she had done ; meas-
uring it and finding a certain joy and a quickened
sense of freedom in it.
Mr. Wentworth was rather wide of the mark in
suspecting that Clifford had begun to pay unscru-
pulous compliments to his brilliant cousin ; for the
young man had really more scruples than he re-
ceived credit for in his family. He had a certain
transparent shamefacedness which was in itself a
proof that he was not at his ease in dissipation.
His collegiate peccadilloes had aroused a domestic
murmur as disagreeable to the young man as the
creaking of his boots would have been to a house-
breaker. Only, as the house-breaker would have
simplified matters by removing his chaussures, it
had seemed to Clifford that the shortest cut to
comfortable relations with people relations which
should make him cease to think that when they
spoke to him they meant something improving
was to renounce all ambition toward a nefari-
ous development. And, in fact, Clifford's ambition
took the most commendable form. He thought of
himself in the future as the well-known and much-
liked Mr. Wentworth, of Boston, who should, in
the natural course of prosperity, have married
his pretty cousin, Lizzie Acton ; should live in a
wide-fronted house, in view of the Common ; and
should drive, behind a light wagon, over the damp
autumn roads, a pair of beautifully matched sorrel
horses. Clifford's vision of the coming years was
very simple ; its most definite features were this
element of familiar matrimony and the duplication
of his resources for trotting. He had not yet asked
his cousin to marry him ; but he meant to do so
as soon as he had taken his degree. Lizzie was
serenely conscious of his intention, and she had
made up her mind that he would improve. Her
brother, who was very fond of this light, quick,
competent little Lizzie, saw on his side no reason
to interpose. It seemed to him a graceful social
law that Clifford and his sister should become en-
gaged ; he himself was not engaged, but every one
else, fortunately, was not such a fool as he. He
was fond of Clifford, as well, and had his own
way of which it must be confessed he was a little
ashamed of looking at those aberrations which
had led to the young man's compulsory retirement
from the neighboring seat of learning. Acton had
seen the world, as he said to himself ; he had been
to China and had knocked about among men.
He had learned the essential difference between a
nice young fellow and a mean young fellow, and
was satisfied that there was no harm in Clifford.
He believed although it must be added that he
had not quite the courage to declare it in the
doctrine of wild oats, and thought it a useful pre-
ventive of superfluous fears. If Mr. Wentworth
and Charlotte and Mr. Brand would only apply it
in Clifford's case, they would be happier ; and Ac-
ton thought it a pity they should not be happier.
They took the boy's misdemeanors too much to
heart ; they talked to him too solemnly ; they
frightened and bewildered him. Of course there
was the great standard of morality, which forbade
that a man should get tipsy, play at billiards for
money, or cultivate his sensual consciousness ; but
what fear was there that poor Clifford was going
to run a tilt at any great standard ? It had, how-
ever, never occurred to Acton to dedicate the Baro-
ness Miinster to the redemption of a refractory col-
legian. The instrument, here, would have seemed
to him quite too complex for the operation. Felix,
on the other hand, had spoken in obedience to the
belief that the more charming a woman is the
more numerous, literally, are her definite social
Eugenia herself, as we know, had plenty of lei-
sure to enumerate her uses. As I have had the
honor of intimating, she had come four thousand
miles to seek her fortune ; and it is not to be sup-
posed that after this great effort she could neglect
any apparent aid to advancement. It is my mis-
fortune that in attempting to describe in a short
compass the deportment of this remarkable woman
I am obliged to express things rather brutally. I
feel this to be the case, for instance, when I say
that she had primarily detected such an aid to ad-
vancement in the person of Robert Acton, but that
she had afterwards remembered that a prudent
archer has always a second bowstring. Eugenia
was a woman of finely-mingled motive, and her
intentions were never sensibly gross. She had a
sort of sesthetic ideal for Clifford which seemed to
her a disinterested reason for taking him in hand.
It was very well for a fresh-colored young gentle-
man to be ingenuous ; but Clifford, really, was
crude. With such a pretty face he ought to have
prettier manners. She would teach him that,
with a beautiful name, the expectation of a large
property, and, as they said in Europe, a social
position, an only son should know how to carry
Once Clifford had begun to come and see her by
himself and for himself, he came very often. He
hardly knew why he should come ; he saw her al-
most every evening at his father's house ; he had
nothing particular to say to her. She was not a
young girl, and fellows of his age called only upon
young girls. He exaggerated her age ; she seemed
to him an old woman ; it was happy that the
Baroness, with all her intelligence, was incapable
of guessing this. But gradually it struck Clifford
that visiting old women might be, if not a natural,
at least, as they say of some articles of diet, an ac-
quired taste. The Baroness was certainly a very
amusing old woman ; she talked to him as no lady
and indeed no gentleman had ever talked to
him before.
" You should go to Europe and make the tour,"
she said to him one afternoon. " Of course, on
leaving college you will go."
"I don't want to go," Clifford declared. "I
know some fellows who have been to Europe.
They say you can have better fun here."
" That depends. It depends upon your idea of
fun. Your friends probably were not introduced."
" Introduced ? " Clifford demanded.
" They had no opportunity of going into socie-
ty; they formed no relations" This was one of a
certain number of words that the Baroness often
pronounced in the French manner.
" They went to a ball, in Paris ; I know that,"
said Clifford.
" Ah, there are balls and balls ; especially in
Paris. No, you must go, you know ; it is not a
thing from which you can dispense yourself. You
need it."
" Oh, I 'm very well," said Clifford. " I 'm not
" I don't mean for your health, my poor child.
I mean for your manners."
" I have n't got any manners ! " growled Clifford.
" Precisely. You don't mind my assenting to
that, eh ? " asked the Baroness with a smile. " You
must go to Europe and get a few. You can get
them better there. It is a pity you might not
have come while I was living in in Germany.
I would have introduced you; I had a charming
little circle. You would perhaps have been rather
young ; but the younger one begins, I think, the
better. Now, at any rate, you have no time to
lose, and when I return you must immediately
come to me."
All this, to Clifford's apprehension, was a great
mixture his beginning young, Eugenia's return
to Europe, his being introduced to her charming
little circle. What was he to begin, and what was
her little circle ? His ideas about her marriage had
a good deal of vagueness ; but they were in so far
definite as that he felt it to be a matter not to be
freely mentioned. He sat and looked all round
the room ; he supposed she was alluding in some
way to her marriage.
" Oh, I don't want to go to Germany," he said ;
it seemed to him the most convenient thing to say.
She looked at him a while, smiling with her
lips, but not with her eyes.
" You have scruples ? " she asked.
" Scruples ? " said Clifford.
" You young people, here, are very singular ;
one doesn't know where to expect you. When
you are not extremely improper you are so terri-
bly proper. I dare say you think that, owing to
my irregular marriage, I live with loose people.
You were never more mistaken. I have been all
the more particular."
" Oh, no," said Clifford, honestly distressed.
" I never thought such a thing as that."
" Are you very sure? I am convinced that
your father does, and your sisters. They say to
each other that here I am on my good behavior,
but that over there married by the left hand
I associate with light women."
" Oh, no," cried Clifford, energetically, " they
don't say such things as that to each other ! "
" If they think them they had better say them,"
the Baroness rejoined. " Then they can be con-
tradicted. Please contradict that whenever you
hear it, and don't be afraid of coming to see me
on account of the company I keep. I have the
honor of knowing more distinguished men, my
poor child, than you are likely to see in a life-time.
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300W Solar Generator, FlashFish 60000mAh Portable Power Station Camping Potable Generator, CPAP...
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- Enjoy Outdoor Activities: Our generator has an easy-to-carry handle, convenient for camping, fishing, travelling, other outdoor activities and emergency usage. Eliminate your worry about no electricity in your devices and power outage at home.


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The rapper, who is known for profanity in his lyrics and music videos, leading to some of his songs being banned from airplay by the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, considers money, fame and material things as nothing but vanity.
The multiple award winner told Vanguard that the biggest achievement he craves is heaven.
"The biggest achievement in this world is seeing my people grow, everybody living good; everyone living fine, living their dreams and making heaven.
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Bishop Arnold Muwonge who is currently in the UK today sent household items and food relief to families in the ghetto of Wandegeya in Katanga where hundreds of families live stranded amidst the covid-19 pandemic. Bishop Arnold Muwonge through Spice Diana has donated matooke, posho, soap, suger, rice, basins, plates cups all amounting to about 15M shillings.
"It has always been my calling to reach out to the young children and less privilaged and that is why I have a dedicated children's home in Wakiso, to cater for children" Bishop Arnold Muwonge said.
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Kristof and Gordon join the show today to delve into why they wanted to bring together perspectives from academics and animal advocates on why so many people are able to be involved in the exploitation of animals for food, clothing, and entertainment while also professing to love animals. They discuss how we can better understand our relationship with animals through well established findings in political psychology and how maintaining speciesism comes at a psychological cost to individuals who must maintain the denial necessary to continue behaviors deleterious to animals. Kristof and Gordon also share their thoughts on how animal advocates can structure their messaging to highlight the disconnect between loving animals and eating them without alienating people.
Episode 550: How Dogs Saved My Life ft. Zach Skow
In the intro to the show Mariann talks to Jasmin about her new favorite book, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk and what a pleasure it is to read a book that really gets it about animals. Jasmin announces that she'll likely be participating in The Goat Games, a virtual event that challenges participants to finish a 5-kilometer run, walk, bike, hike, or swim at a location of their choosing between August 8 and 16 to raise funds for Catskill Animal Sanctuary. Recently, Catskill, like many other sanctuaries, has lost 30% of it's funding due to COVID-19. Then, in our continued effort to support vegan-owned businesses, we're shouting out Charlie Fyffe and his amazing guide to 70+ Black owned vegan businesses in Los Angeles. Over 70!
Then, Jasmin talks to Zach Skow. Zach is the founder of Marley's Mutts, an animal shelter with a difference in Kern County, California. He turned to his dogs to help him when his diagnosis with end-stage liver disease meant that he had to battle to stay sober to access a liver transplant. When Zach recovered, he was prompted to start the rescue to give back, and, since its inception, Marley's Mutts has now rescued over 5,000 dogs and started a pioneering prison program called Pawsitive Change.
In this episode Zach joins us to dive into how his love for his dogs and their unwavering acceptance of him pulled him through the darkness and brought him back to his authentic self. He shares why Marley's Mutts is not only an animal shelter, but is a positive force for change in the community, and how the Pawsitive Change Prison Program works to take rescue dogs into local prisons to train with inmates and give both a second chance. Zach also discusses how he sees Marley's Mutts developing and expanding in the future to support vulnerable humans and animals in need.
Episode 549: The Ethics Behind Animal Planet's Saved by the Barn ft. Kelly Holt and Dan McKernan
In the intro to the show Jasmin announces that she's moving back to New York, so start spreading the news! Jasmin and Mariann also announce their new Director of Operations, Jen Riley. Jen is a long time animal rights activist and organizer and has long been the mastermind behind the Animal Rights Conference. In other exciting news, Jasmin will be speaking at the Farmed Animal Conference E-Summit. This year the summit will be happening virtually. We also continue our Supporting Vegan Businesses program by shouting out the LA Food Truck, Lettuce Feast.
Then, Jasmin speaks with Kelly Holt and Dan McKernan, stars of Animal Planet's Saved by the Barn and founders of Barn Sanctuary, in Chelsea, MI, which has rescued around 400 farmed animals from abuse and neglect. They launched Barn Sanctuary from Dan's family farm after the decision to go vegan inspired them to look into the treatment of farmed animals across the world. Their mission is to give their rescued animals a safe place to live out the rest of their lives, and with their Animal Planet show, they want to show how wonderful these animals are and how they deserve to not end up on someone's plate.
Kelly and Dan join us to share why they gave up their jobs in marketing and technology, respectively, to open a sanctuary for rescued farmed animals. They share how the series Saved by the Barn came into being after Dan's picture of a tender moment with one of the cows went viral, why he rigorously interviewed all of the production companies that wanted to make the show, and the conditions he imposed during filming. Kelly also shares why she feels it's so important to connect and work together with other farm sanctuaries and organizations to build a collaborative way forward.
Episode 548: Liz Marshall on her new film, Meat the Future
In the intro to the show, Jasmin and Mariann debate the idea of a vegan company hiring non-vegan employees, and a recent "article" from Safeway in the Washington Times about plant-based foods. We also continue our Supporting Vegan Businesses program by shouting out Sam & Gertie's Vegan Jewish Deli and Uptown Veg. Mariann talks to filmmaker Liz Marshall about her new film Meat the Future, a documentary about the "cultivated meat" revolution in food production. Liz talks about the making of the film, the impact she hopes it will have, and trying to market a film during a global pandemic. (24:55) Mariann brings us the latest Rising Anxieties from the industrial animal ag world. (1:06:45). This episode is brought to you in part by the Barnard Medical Center. To set up a telehealth appointment today call 202-527-7500 or on pcrm.org.
Episode 547: Deb Olin Unferth on her chicken liberation novel, Barn 8
In the intro to the show, Jasmin and Mariann present virtually at Main Street Vegan Academy, Jasmin's interview with Joaquin Phoenix is now available, and Mariann recorded a new Animal Law Podcast episode. We also talk about the new collection of essays Jasmin edited for Encompass and the ongoing quarantine. We also continue our Supporting Vegan Businesses program by shouting out Compton Vegan. Later in the episode, Mariann brings us Rising Anxieties! Mariann talks to author and activist Deb Olen Unferth about her new novel, Barn 8, and how she came to the story of auditors going rogue and plotting to free one million chickens. She delves into the research she did leading up to writing the book, how her investigations into the egg industry informed the book, and the inspiration she took from recording the chatter of chickens. (23:10) Mariann brings us the latest Rising Anxieties from the industrial animal ag world. (1:05:17) This episode is brought to you in part by the Barnard Medical Center. To set up a telehealth appointment today call 202-527-7500 or on pcrm.org.
Episode 546: Dr. Neal Barnard on his new book, Your Body In Balance
In the intro to the show, we play a sample of a new song from Neal Barnard's band, CarbonWorks. Then, Jasmin and Mariann reflect on the tragic death of animal activist Regan Russell, and the pain of grief. We also continue our Supporting Vegan Businesses program by shouting out Planet Protein, Nina Raizel Jewelry, and Elife Restaurant. Later in the episode, Mariann brings us Rising Anxieties! Jasmin speaks with Dr. Neal Barnard about his new book Your Body In Balance and how some of the common health conditions that people face may be the result of hormone imbalances caused by foods we eat. Dr. Barnard also tells us about how Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is responding in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the challenges of and opportunities for tele-health services during the Coronavirus pandemic. (18:45) Mariann brings us the latest Rising Anxieties from the industrial animal ag world. (57:45) This episode is brought to you in part by the Barnard Medical Center. To set up a telehealth appointment today call 202-527-7500 or on pcrm.org.
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I love this podcast and recommend it to everyone!
I love the content, guests, hosts, topics, humor, seriousness, education, and I'm so happy I can binge on the episodes every day. I really like Anxieties Rising - Maryann is lovely! I don't feel so alone when I listen to Jasmin and Maryann. Love!
Absolutely LOVE this podcast!!!
I started listening to this podcast over 3 years ago and I haven't missed a week since. Jasmin and Mariann make me laugh, make me think, and I'm constantly learning something new. The interviews are incredible and the chemistry between Jasmin and Mariann constantly makes me smile.
For those of us vegans who want to stay in the loop, this is the podcast to listen to.
Don't forget to listen all the way to the end because the best moments are in Mariann's segment "Anxieties are RISING!"
Thank you Mariann and Jasmin for being there for us every week.
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I have to listen every Saturday! I love Jasmin and Mariann's relationship, getting to learn about all the amazing things being done to help animals, and of course the ridiculous rising anxieties! I wish so much that I could be part of the flock and I will one day (hopefully near future). My family is currently in dire financial straits, but it's on my plan and will soon be on my budget. $10/month is really not a bad deal at all and I recommend anyone who is able should do it to support media and get some bonus content! I'm looking forward to it!


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Apricot Review
- Ability to search by many fields
- Ability to link related individuals
- Prevention of duplicate participant profiles
- Adding permissions for users could be streamlined
- I would like to copy a profile's information (or parts of it) - we have many participants who are siblings and reentering the address and contact information takes time.
- Adding individual dates for each class is cumbersome
Ideal for small do-it-yourself agencies!
- Technical Support and Training are on point. Their Knowledge Base is extensive and Tech Support Personnel are super friendly and helpful.
- Account Managers are never far from your fingertips if you have questions about how Apricot by Social Solutions can be leveraged in new ways for your agency.
- Overall functionality of the system is smooth. I rarely hear from my users with problems that can't be easily diagnosed as operator errors.
- The future functionality of the system, the ways it WILL work, blow me away. Kudos to their R&D folks.
- Form and Report Creation is cumbersome if you recreate sections with duplicate formatting often.
Getting the most bang for your buck from Apricot by Social Solutions
- Ease of Use + Ease of Configuration
- System Flexibility
- Highly Effective Support Team and Tools (Knowledge Base, Training, etc.)
- Release management - surprise feature changes
- Lack of proactive communications about the product and transparency
- Timely development of features prioritized from customers
- Data integration/integration with other data systems
However, that does not limit Apricot Core to organizations that are more mature in the areas of process and data management maturity. With sufficiently thought-out organizational change management (OCM), implementation, and sustaining strategies, Apricot Core can be a catalyst to transform an agency into a data-driven and evidence-based organization.
It is worth putting emphasis on the need for well-thought-out OCM and sustaining strategies for the system. The system has the flexibility to support any workflow. With sufficient organizational change management and the right sustaining strategy, it will enable cohesive continuous improvement in standardizing and organizing the infrastructure to support your organization's goals.
If, however, the organization is not willing to commit to investing in these strategies, Apricot Core might not be the right platform. This is primarily why I've rated it a 7 out of 10 on how likely I am to recommend it to a colleague.
A similar example is a difference in compiling information used to respond to RFPs or to apply for grants. We are able to gather in minutes what used to take weeks, and the information is more meaningful and more accurate.
The improvements we've made to the quality of the services we deliver are equally meaningful. An example in this area is the way we've configured follow-up reminders for our Case Managers, which supports consistency and improves the quality of service delivery for our program participants.
Apricot - great program with great capabilities!
- Extensive options for customization
- Powerful reporting functions
- Intuitive for front-end users
- Would like to see some additional functionality added to Essentials program
Figuring it out
- It allows you to build out what is necessary for your organization.
- It is easy to use.
- We were told at the time of purchase that it would do some things it doesn't.
- We paid for a member of Apricot to "help" input our records and formulate things from our old system to Apricot. We didn't receive the level of service we anticipated.
We love Apricot!
- Easy to navigate database! We appreciate the user-friendly aspects of Apricot. It makes it easy to train new employees.
- Affordable for the quality received. As a nonprofit we needed something affordable but good quality. Apricot was the perfect choice for us.
- Room to grow. In the 3 years we've had Apricot we've grown by 33%. Apricot supports our organizaitonal growth and offers services to meet our needs.
- AMAZING Customer Care Team Members! The customer care team members are knowledgeable and quick to respond. They go above and beyond in the customer care department!
- Upload and edit. I would love to be able to upload a template into Apricot and edit it from there rather than always having to build out forms.
- Billing. The billing page can be confusing. We've had some issues with understanding what we currently owed and when payments were processed. This area could become more user-friendly.
After 1-year of services, clients in 2019 saw the following outcomes:
92% of families were housed in a stable rental.
80% improvement in child health including access to preventative care, sick care, dental, and immunizations.
Almost 70% of moms showed improvement in mental health including depression/suicide, management of mental illness, and self-esteem.
Almost doubled rate of children's access to educational childcare.
30% increase in moms' self-esteem.
In 2019, 86% of moms were employed and/or pursuing education.
A review of Apricot from Mexico
- It is infinitely flexible.
- The report engine is intuitive.
- Service response is fast.
- Initial system design is very difficult for a lay person.
- The report graphing features are too limited.
- No ability to make global changes to selected records.
Just a small homeless shelter playing around with big kid software.
- Having a cloud based case management software is a huge plus.
- Having a blank canvas so we can create the software the way we want it to look.
- Having the Arizona Self Sufficiency matrix already a form to use has been huge.
- Capability of a dashboard.
- Capability of a form that is a text box that does not limit text.
- An easier way to track who has intake matrices and who does not. Comparing data is a challenge.
that option doesn't exist.
There's always room for improvement
- Customer service is very accessible.
- Form design is flexible and accommodating.
- Capable of maintaining various types of database info in one system.
- Positioning of data records is efficient.
- Tutorials are not always easy to understand by a novice user so one has to resort to contacting Customer Support.
- The ability to retrofit standard form design to our agency's specifications needs expansion.
- No connectivity between other Apricot users, outside of our organization, for us to share common clients and/or data.
- The development of the client roster is cumbersome. Must be exported and manipulated to remove duplications.
The Last Database You'll Ever Need!
- Extremely powerful search features.
- Advanced reporting abilities that are very easy to set up and use.
- Entirely 100% customizable to our org's precise needs.
- AMAZING tech support!
- Super user-friendly, even for non-tech types.
- Location/heat maps are limited to a relatively small number of data points.
- Would be nice to print reports from the document folder (i.e. full list of records).
- More a la carte features.
Apricot: A real peach!
- Support is excellent: I find this a very important part of the product.
- Most things I need to do are done easily.
- Setting up reports that I can export is fairly easy.
- The biggest gripe I have with Apricot is the constraints on the pages. I have little control over the real estate used. For example, if I use the "Name" on a report it takes the entire line and I cannot edit that. When I create entry forms, questions take up too much real estate and the users have to constantly scroll down the page. It makes their task look daunting even before they have started.
- I have difficulty importing data to fill forms when there is a drop-down. This should not require me to make all sorts of changes. This should be fixed by Apricot.
- From time to time, I use a feature only to find out that it was something that was temporary and has since been removed. One that caused us extreme problems was when the ability to delete a calendar entry no longer deleted the entry on the Outlook calendar. The only way I found out was after many rides had been confused, I called support to find out that this "benefit" was no longer available.
- When updates are done to the system, I believe that Apricot should let us know how to exercise the system to make sure that the product is working the way we expect.
I would like to have the ability to set up some "shortcuts," for example, <CTRL> S to save. Keyboard shortcuts are a big help when you are entering data. Constantly leaving the keyboard to use the mouse and then move back to the keyboard again takes time and there really should not be any reason why keyboard shortcuts can't be set up either by Apricot or individualized by the end-user.
I think Apricot is very good for certain uses. It appears to me that this database was created to run a school and has bee adapted to do other things. Generally speaking, this is not always adaptable to our business model.
We have not had any issue of adding data fields needed as governing bodies change their data requests. That is such a plus for me! I can make these changes on the fly and that is a very good thing. If, however, we had selected a database that 90% of our piers used, these changes would be made automatically. But the fact that I can make the changes has worked thus far.
Apricot is a very helpful database
New User Experience
- Apricot Core brings efficiency to the database build-out process. This is particularly important for non-profits with limited financial and IT professional support.
- For non-IT oriented employees, the user interface is simple and intuitive.
- None at this time.
Great Compliance Tool
- Apricot is great at capturing implementation metrics.
- Apricot is great at allowing you to capture compliance within a program.
- Apricot needs to improve at capturing outcomes.
New User and Program
Our resident services program is fairly new and still being developed. Apricot gives us the tools to track our work with residents all in one place without being tied to paper documents and physical files. It allows us to develop reports to provide our partners and donors. The database will possibly help attract more funding.
- Apricot's sales staff are very informative and professional. They work at the pace of the organization without pushing a sale, but instead, providing feedback and assistance in making a final decision.
- I appreciate that you are provided with a decent amount of initial users (10), which can be cost effective to smaller organizations that can't afford to necessarily pay per user if they only have a few staff members using it.
- The ability for participants to access and complete forms online has been particularly helpful during the COVID-19 pandemic. In general, just being able to access all of our residents' data remotely has made the immediate transition to working from home much easier.
- It would be helpful if you could 1) reassign tier two forms, and 2) replicate forms or create custom templates to reuse.
- Tracking attendance and scheduling functions are very challenging to navigate and add to forms.
- The initial training felt very unstructured. We weren't given a lot of information on what to expect ahead of time and then we were left with little guidance on how to actually best utilize the training, especially for organizations building a new program vs. moving existing documents online.
Apricot is also more affordable for smaller nonprofits and/or programs compared to other options.
While Apricot has functions that clients can access remotely, it does not seem to be the best option if this is something that your organization is primarily looking for.
Apricot was a life saver when we transitioned out of the agency due to COVID
- Track client data with reports.
- User friendly for creating new forms.
- Customer service is always available.
- The jump from essentials to the core price point is way too steep.
- Training my team on how to use it after was cumbersome. It would be cool if there was a training module automated for my specific forms.
- I had to find a lot of work arounds using email triggers to automate notifications that were necessary especially referrals and notifications to managers.
Best program investment we have made!
- Apricot has great customer service! There has never been a time where a team member has not found a solution to my problem. Their representative are always quick to assist and attentive.
- Reporting functionalities are phenomenal. The simplicity of creating a report is appreciated but most importantly, the accuracy of the reports is great. Reports are not generated if the system thinks there is an error.
- Customization! As a program that is ever evolving, it is great to have a database that allows such flexibility.
- Training material that is basic enough for someone who has never operated a database platform to understand.
- I'd suggest having monthly refresher courses where user could have a Q + A session with a representative. I have found it most helpful when requesting a Zoom call and following along with the representative on resolving the issue.
Spilling the Tea on Apricot by Social Solutions
- Customer service: This is an area of strength for Apricot by Social Solutions in that the team managing our account is always responsive and willing to go above and beyond to answer any questions or rectify any issues being experienced.
- Tech support: This is another area of strength. Apricot's tech support is always very knowledgeable, helpful, and quick to resolve technical issues being experienced by the end-user. The tech support team is also very courteous and respectful in their communications and service.
- Ease of Use/Learning: The functionality of Apricot is intuitive and user-friendly in that it is fairly easy to learn with limited formal training as long as you are database literate.
- One area of improvement is better communication of changes implemented to both the look and functionality of the database. Sometimes significant changes are made literally overnight with no advanced warning. It doesn't bother me as much as it bothers the other users on the team, but this could definitely be smoothed out a bit.
- Another area of improvement would be to allow for "phrase searches" of contact note content through reporting instead of just being able to query on single, keyword searches.
- More online tutorials on reporting and other more advanced features of the database without always having to pay an additional fee for the content.
Apricot - Great but can be Greater
- They system is easy to use. It is also easy to build reports, create documents and edit them.
- The tech support does a great job. They usually have a 24 hour response and are very accurate and easy to work with.
- I like how you have different levels of security and you can have different views for different levels of user access. For example our application evaluations that are completed for volunteers can not be viewed by the applicants.
- The one thing that I could like to see is in the drop down user badge for administrator use. We provide both applicants and volunteer access. They all appear in one list and there is not a way to have them organized. I would like to be able to have these organized so I don't have to scroll through all of the users to find the one that I am looking for.
- I would also like to have access to reset another administrators password. We have add two occasions where users have forgotten there passwords and we would need to contact tech support to reset.
- It would also be helpful to only be able to pull out certain information out of the reports instead of it pulling all of the data that has been entered.
Apricot by Social Solutions--Love it!
- Human service organizations are often required to provide efforts-to-outcomes reports for their stakeholders. There are different databases that can provide standard templates and query wizards that can be tailored for customized reporting, depending on size and needs of the organization. We chose Apricot because it fits the needs of smaller organizations. Our package came with both a small number of templates that are easily adaptable to required reporting forms, and the ability to create forms from scratch.
- As an administrator, I can easily save and publish forms and reports, and then view them either as administrator or as one of the user accounts without having to log off as administrator, which saves a lot of time and keystrokes.
- Apricot's online Help Center (tab available on user dashboard) is very comprehensive, offering, in addition to instructional articles, short, simple how-to videos for users and administrators. I have used them for myself and for training staff.
- Apricot is built on a "file folder" structure, using categories called profiles. Our main profile is for our clients. Each client has a profile with static demographic info (the "file folder"), and within that profile structure, forms are completed and filed for that client, easily searchable and accessible. If a complete, to-date historical record is needed for the client in a presentation format, everything for that client can be produced in with a simple menu command for that purpose.
- Reports can be created to include data across multiple profiles. Data is reported in real time as entered or updated. Data fields in the report can be filtered easily. No queries or wizards needed. Reports are accessed without need for third-party platforms. Graphic enhancements are very attractive and available during report-building.
- Administrators get a very thorough hands-on training through basic "boot camps" and additional follow-ups, depending on level of services purchased.
- I found it very easy to train staff down-line because of the navigational ease in Apricot's user dashboard. No way to get lost!
- Drag-and-drop features in right pallette of report-builder could be improved. Space is small for too many drop-down and scrolling options.
- Systems Field section on all forms could include more comprehensive historical data entry record. It currently includes the form creator and the latest user to update or edit data in the form (plus dates for same); would be useful to include latest two or three user edit/update records.
- Incorporate a true auto-populating feature, rather than a linking system beween records or profile data. Correcting, deleting, or revising data links when creating or revising forms has, at times, been confusing or complicated.
Apricot One Stop
- Real time data and being able to see what's going on across our network. Our program staff is able to work at the same time tracking programs and services.
- Manage and build reports at all levels of the organization, including our board and leadership.
- User friendly and intuitive with minimal training required.
- The look and feel of the site could be improved and allow for some branding and customization, even from a basic coloring scheme.
- Easier access to account and features.
- More complex reporting compatibility.
Looking at the reports, we've been able to get more immediate feedback and staff at all level has been able to take that feedback to better provide program and services or identify specific programs and services necessary to support a participant's success.
Empowering Small Non-Profits through Easy Data Use
- User-friendly data entry
- Easy search and navigation features
- Ability to create reports on data points of interest
- Not able to restrict access of certain information to just one person or team
- Multiple users can edit a form at the same time, but only the last one saved will be retained. An alert was created to let the second user know that someone else was working in the file. However, we wanted a read-only option such as what exists in shared word documents.
- We have two distinct programs with 2 different tier-one forms. This has created a problem because it is like having 2 separate data bases that do NOT talk to each other. When I came into the company in 2016, it had already been built this way. I was told the only way to fix it was to basically start from scratch. We opted to leave it as 2 separate databases.
New to Apricot
- Create Forms: This system allows for creating almost any form that you need and pull information from.
- Multiple programs: Apricot has the ability to host multiple programs within the agency so that information is tailored for users under certain programs
- Fairly user friendly: This can be utilized by almost anyone who is not the most tech savvy.
- Usability: while it is fairly easy to use, you have to be taught and some of the language is difficult (tiers ).
- Reports: I feel as if reports could be pulled a little easier (just a little).
Apricot is the bomb!
- Incredibly intuitive design that is very easy to use and understand even to non-techy people
- Very easy to create your own forms to best fit your actual need
- Very easy to pull data and reporting for funders and monthly updates to the team
- A dashboard for showing client improvement at a glance would be helpful
Apricot helps nonprofits streamline workflows and data entry
- Customization makes Apricot specific to your organization's services & workflow.
- Reporting is flexible to gather data that you wish to use.
- Sending and storing emails within the database.
- Would love the ability to change field names or field types without exporting and re-importing all the data.
- More affordable.
However, unless you purchase additional functionality, it's hard to prevent errors when multiple people are entering the same data. Additionally, it's difficult to map out how the system works. It can be a bit of a challenge to manage multiple users at an agency without a dedicated data person.
Apricot by Social Solutions Scorecard Summary
About Apricot by Social Solutions
Apricot by Social Solutions is a cloud-based solution for nonprofits of all sizes. The vendor says it brings strong, reliable data to the forefront in order to bolster a nonprofit organization's impact. Additionally, the vendor says organizations that use Apricot save time and resources because they have a powerful tool that makes managing data more efficient than ever. As a result, they increase their time spent delivering mission.
Apricot is responsive and offers configurable forms and fields so organizations can customize their Apricot experience to their clients and mission. It allows nonprofit organizations to track what matters and follow clients throughout their entire lifecycle in a single, unduplicated record.
With Apricot, nonprofits can ensure data integrity through functionality that tracks whether the data in the system is complete, entered correctly, and unduplicated. With simple drag-and-drop functionality and outcomes management capabilities, Apricot helps nonprofit organizations transform more lives for the better.
Apricot users get real-time access to their data to facilitate collaboration and quick insights into program performance. Those insights can then be shared by creating streamlined reports within the system to present to organization stakeholders, board members, and funders. The vendor's value proposition is that Apricot is a comprehensive solution that meets a nonprofit's needs because it was made with them in mind!
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Traditional leaders step up the fight against GBV in Dora MUTARE- Traditional leaders in Dora ward 35 under Chief Zimunya have pledged to fight all forms of violence against women and children calling on all community members to report cases of violence. The commitment was made during a Gender Based Violence (GBV), HIV and AIDS Awareness Campaign that was conducted by the DREAMS Consortium at Kuh...
World AIDS Day CommemorationsWorld AIDS Day Commemorations
Family AIDS Ca ring Trust Zimbabwe (FACT) joined the people of Zimbabwe and the world at large in commemorating World AIDS Day on the 1 st of December 2019 running under the theme: "Communities make ...
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Annual ReportAnnual Report
FACT is dedicated to providing healthy communities free from poverty. This 2017's annual report , highlights just a few of FACT's efforts to help communities. The report features four pillars from ou...
ICASA 2015 ReviewICASA 2015 Review
From the 29 th of November to the 4 th of December 2015, Zimbabwe was proud and honoured to host the 18 th International Conference of AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) at the prestigious Harare Intern...
Calender of EventsCalender of Events
FACT hosts CDC/Zambian Delegation Family AIDS Caring Trust Zimbabwe (FACT) hosted a five member delegation from Circle of Hope- Zambia and from the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) Atlanta for a one ...