When you’ve decided you’re ready to commit to mold remediate, you’re probably anxious to take the next step. But your next move may not be as obvious as you’d like it to be. Should you start by reading general entrepreneur books? By setting up a meeting with an established business owner? By studying tax law and licensing requirements? Each business owner will do things their own way but there are a few general things to keep in mind before moving forward.
A mold remediation business can get its start in one of two ways: you can either choose to franchise or you can go it alone. If you go it alone, you'll need to devise a solid business model, create a targeted marketing campaign, and establish a trustworthy business reputation. From the size of your staff to the structure of your invoices, you're responsible for making choices that will give you an edge in the market.
The biggest challenge for any company is trying to establish a strong and steady client base. You’re looking for people who will not only hire you, but who are willing to recommend you to their friends, family, and co-workers. Commercial property owners with multiple buildings or units can provide a steady stream of business, but you need to build trust with them first to succeed.
Here are a few questions that can help you overcome some of these challenges:
What percentage of buildings in your area experience mold growth a year?
What species of mold is most common?
How many health problems could be avoided with the help of mold remediation?
What effect does mold have on property depreciation?
Why should property owners hire a professional for mold remediation?
The answers to these questions are often what property owners need to take action on a mold problem. No homeowner or business owner wants to endanger their health or their property values because of a mold infestation.
The life of an entrepreneur is always going to be hectic. They need to be comfortable putting out multiple fires throughout the day if they have a hope of making it to the next level. But if you're choosing this industry as your new career, you can simplify matters with the help of a mold remediation franchise.
Unseasoned entrepreneurs may view starting from scratch as a way to build an empire from nothing. It may even seem like the fastest way to achieve financial independence beyond their imagination. But the rough reality of independent business spells a different story.
Most small businesses actually fail within the first few years of operation. In fact, just over half don’t even make it through a single year. Those that do keep going are statistically more likely to either lose money or break even than to be profitable. And while mold remediation offers more stability than other industries, it can still be difficult to get a new business off the ground.
Franchising is a way to take some pressure off your shoulders during an incredibly stressful time. When you first get started in mold remediation, you’ll be met with challenge after challenge. From learning the details of new species to picking the type of gloves for your workers, it’s going to be extremely labor-intensive — regardless of whether you franchise or not. Decision fatigue is real, and it can bring down even the most motivated entrepreneurs if they don't have outside support.
This option can also give you the tools you need to hit the ground running. This choice can significantly reduce the challenges you face on a daily basis, while still giving you the freedom to make your own choices. You can still set your own hours, hire your own staff, and serve the clients and territories you want to serve. An established partner in the industry can provide you with professional insight and advice that will pave the way for a profitable business.
AdvantaClean creates franchising opportunities that work for entrepreneurs from all backgrounds. A diverse and talented team only strengthens the name, reach, and reputation of our company. It's why we go the extra mile when it comes to supporting our franchise owners. They know they can depend on us because we trust them to protect our brand. This mutually beneficial relationship spells bigger profits for everyone.
We give you everything you need so your path is as smooth as possible:
Business model: We have a proven business model that works for property owners across multiple territories.
On-site training center: Get the hands-on training you need to at our on-site training center. We even have a model house where you can perfect your extraction techniques.
Name: Property owners already trust the name AdvantaClean. Even property owners who have never heard of us only have to do a quick search to see who comes out on top.
90-day success plan: The first 90 days are some of the most perilous ones for a company. We layout a plan for you so you can concentrate on building strong relationships with new clients.
The first year of your business is the most vulnerable. It’s the one where you’re most likely to fall prey to competitive forces that are seemingly beyond your control. Instead of being a slave to a never-ending to-do list, a franchise can give you the business tools that make it easier to springboard to where you want to be.
Perhaps most importantly, AdvantaClean gives you the marketing and advertising you need to start growing your customer base right away. As soon as someone searches for mold remediation in their area, we provide the search engine power to catapult your franchise to the top of the list. We also have the name recognition to encourage word of mouth, so you don't have to rely on grassroots campaigns that may or may not gain traction in the community.
Whether you franchise or not, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed at the beginning by the work ahead of you. Hopefully, the excitement of this amazing opportunity is enough to power you through the discomfort though. True entrepreneurs know that their ability to handle the uncertainty and the hard work ahead of them are the drivers of their future revenue. AdvantaClean can be the partner you need to power through the fear of the success that lies just beyond it.
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Festac ’77 – Second World…
Let a new earth rise
Let another world be born
Be written in the sky
An anthem that reminds many of one of the greatest black festival held. It is a song recited during the closing ceremony of FESTAC 77 (Festival of Art and Culture) , the wordings conveys a message of hope, hope for a new generation, a call for the Africans to realize what it means to be free and make proper use of the resources available at their disposal to develop their various countries. FESTAC 77 is known to b1977 (The first was in Dakar, Senegal, 1966). The festival took place in Lagos, Nigeria. Spanning from 15 January 1977 to 12 February 1977, this festival celebrated African arts, music, religions, drama, and so much more.
Also, according to Uchenna Ikonne, renowned poet and former Senegalese President Leopold Sedar Senghor was instrumental in using Nigeria as a beacon of unification.
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FESTAC 77 is closely tied to the history of the Blackman and his struggle for recognition and equality with the rest of the human race. The blacks sought for identity, their own values of civilization, they were anxious to rediscover their own personality. It forever is a festival to be remembered, it was a moment of pleasure that held a lifetime of bittersweet years ahead. It is a lesson and an inspiration to many. From your perspective you would see the faults in a mission they undertook. This little run through is enough to give the younger generation time to learn from our ancestors mistake and never repeat it again.
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Shares of cement producers were mixed in morning trade Monday, after President Trump said over weekend that the border wall he wants could be made of steel, rather than the concrete wall he had promised during his campaign, in an effort to reach a deal to re-open the government. Among shares of the companies that were expected to benefit from a concrete wall, Cemex SAB de CV CX, +4.14% rose 0.2%, Heico Corp. HEI, -1.38% slipped 0.8%, Vulcan Materials Co. VMC, +1.38% rose 0.5%, CRH PLC CRH, +0.39% shed 1.6% and Martin Marietta Materials Inc. MLM, +2.33% eased 0.1%. Elsewhere, U.S. Concrete Inc.'s stock USCR, -1.43% fell 0.9% and Summit Materials Inc. SUM, +5.60% advanced 0.9%. Meanwhile, steel maker shares were also mixed, with U.S. Steel Corp. X, -1.11% down 0.2%, AK Steel Holding Corp. aks trading flat%, Steel Dynamics Inc. STLD, -0.60% up 0.6% and Nucor Corp. NUE, -1.04% slipping 0.5%.


We’ve all experienced different levels of isolation and being disconnected from loved ones during the pandemic. Connection and community is such a big part of emotional wellbeing. It’s important for all of us to focus in a little more on build more meaningful connections as we connect back into the world.
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In match 13 of the Road Safety World Series T20 2022, West Indies Legends will play New Zealand Legends at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Dehradun on Wednesday (September 21).
The West Indies are having a good campaign, winning two of their three matches, with their second game being washed away by rain. They defeated England comprehensively in the previous opening match.
West Indies Legends vs New Zealand Legends Match Details
Competition: West Indies Legends vs New Zealand Legends, Match 13, T20 Road Safety World Series, 2022
The pitch at Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium is a well-balanced track. The surface can support new pitchers. as they can get some lateral movement away from the surface. Overall, the surface looks good for hitting the ball and a high scoring match is possible.
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The West Indies are undefeated in the league, while New Zealand is back on track after a failed start. Both are balanced units, so expect a tough competition.
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With Cecilia in town, we wanted to take a trip somewhere fun! We settled on Cambodia – flying Silk Air into Siem Reap and spending the weekend exploring Angkor Wat and hailing tuk-tuks through the dusty roads of the country!
All chores are performed in the water including the bathroom. This means washing clothes, dishes, or yourself is done in the same water as the toilet. It also means the fish and food that they catch have been living in the dirty water before being eaten.
Since the weather was not good, we were unable to go out into the actual expanse of the lake to see the other floating villages. There are over 100 villages in total that float on Tonle Sap Lake, housing almost 1 million residents.
We learned that the villages themselves move as the seasons change. During low season with less water in the lake, they sit where we saw them. When rainy season comes and the lake swells, some houses are flooded and residents have to move out to a different home and wait to return once the water recedes. Other structures are built to float along the river and rise up with the swelling tides. So each year the floating villages can move to different spots depending on the rain and the lake, and get higher or lower, if they are built to move up and down with the water.
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While O’Neill has leaned on the staff during recovery, the staff have found comfort in O’Neill’s jovial approach to life during a difficult time.
O’Neill’s positivity also helps him stay focused on his goals. “I'm going to make even more progress, a lot more. O'Neill was recently discharged and is now recovering at a local rehab facility.
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And so are lots more tributes to England’s most loved naval commanders thanks to a new exhibition which will be on Wearside in time for The Tall Ships Races.s.
The exhibition, Naval Heroes: Nelson and Collingwood, will feature a famous portrait of Nelson by artist Lemuel Francis Abbott, painted in 1797,.
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The exhibition is free and will be open between 10am and 4pm from Mondays to Saturdays and between noon and 4pm on Sundays.


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It was nice to revisit some old friends from the first book in the series. Serenah and Charlie play a pivotal role in this story. Elizabeth and Nathan have decided to spend a weekend away from the kids. They stay at the quaint Inn ran by Senenah. It is no accident that they are there , as God has a divine appointment for them. I loved the struggles that the characters dealt with in their marriage. No one has a perfect marriage and the author touches on a subject that for many is hard to forgive. As Elizabeth and Nathan slowly slipped away from God, they lost their way in the marriage.
I think the hardest thing for a spouse to do is to forgive . The lies, betrayal and hurt is overwhelming. Elizabeth had been deeply hurt and felt betrayed. The time she spent with Serenah in prayer was very moving. I liked how the couple reached out for guidance and were willing to work on their marriage. The story is filled with pain, betrayal, trust issues and pride. Will Elizabeth and Nathan be able to work on their marriage? Will they invite God back into their marriage? It's a great book that gives readers a glimpse into a troubled marriage and how they seek God for answers.


Who paid for this advertising to encourage people to vote for this amendment? Was it paid for by tax dollars or was the marketing paid for by private funding from the Thrasher/Horne group or other interested parties?
52% of the voters approved the amendment, and it was celebrated by all in the kingdom except the 48% who voted against it. The voters who only checked the yes box because, might have had no idea of the consequences of their decision in the "booth". There are voters like that – yes, there are!! They don't take the time from their busy daily lives to do their own research, and they shouldn't have to if they had trustworthy representation.
MCS: There is nothing radical about the proposals. The review commission's proposals deserve a chance to take effect.
Comment: So…if two more positions are added at additional overall costs to the taxpayers (including benefits) one being a weak executive and the other being an additional at-large position, approved by 52% of the voters deserves a chance, but the original amendment for single member districts approved by 64% of the voters, doesn’t deserve a chance for success with an all new board of 5 commissioners elected by their districts and serving the county overall. I do not understand the logic and common sense of that argument.
Oh – and one final question/comment: Republicans supposedly believe in smaller government, and less taxes. I don’t see that happening in Clay County. Can you please explain the 5% utility tax and the additional property tax of $180 per year for mandatory waste collection? And now we seem to need a weak executive who was never voted into office as commissioner and now runs unopposed for that position? Originally, Commissioner Rutledge threw his hat in the ring, but then changed his mind...why was that, I wonder.
Again, I ask for a logical explanation as to how we reached this point as I don't understand how this is for the greater good of the citizens of Clay County. Karen Lake's glowing endorsement and comparisonsstate and national levels just doesn't cut it. In my humble opinion, that is moving backwards, not forward.
I would like to say that according to the editiorial by MCS and Karen's blog they got it right. Sunflowers first question in response to the article.
Statement in the editorial- Add two at-large seats to the commission, expanding it from five members to seven. One of those members would basically be a weak executive assigned to ceremonial and planning duties.
In Clay County under the Charter form of government the county manager is the executive branch of our government. The Commissioners are the legislative branch of our government.
The citizens by voting for this weak executive is just going back to a single Commissioner running the county as they all were illegally doing prior to the FBI coming here and investigating the county with all the problems.
The citizens need to vote for the amendment to remove those positions unless they want to go back to the same thing we have prior to the FBI showing up.
Once you invested the power of a single commissioner to bet who is left for oversight. We have no higher government such as a Mayor or a President. Then to put the clause in there that additional power can be given by ordinance then the voters are again cut out of the picture.
The only time you as a voter will have oversight is 4 years later and you will be in competition with special interest working to get them back in there. Just like the Fitzgerald issues Sunflower talks about in her post.
Folks CTLAC has done some great work for the county and the opportunity they have given the voters of this county to revisit this subject is awesome. This is an important matter and needs to be carefully thought out as to how much power you want to give one citizen in this county. Think about it because to me that's not moving forward but a legal maneuver to get us back to where we were prior to the investigations.
Now lets get out the vote!
I don't know if you really believe that is what the new Charter Amendment actually says, or if you are just mis-informed. As adept as you are with reading public records, I have to believe you know the Charter Amendment as well as anyone.
The statement you wrote that I C&P is just flat out wrong. Isn't it?
Can't you just say you don't agree with the Charter Amendment that was approved by the voters without resorting to either intentionally misstating the facts, or making uninformed incorrect statements?
Which is it? You were wrong by mistake, or you are intentionally making false statements to sway others to your side?
No just pointing out that MCS Editorial didn't get it right as Karen blogged. And if people believe just like MCS does, or did, or made a mistake. Then they need to understand it is not a weak executive position and if it is it's in violation of our Charter form of government.
Even more was Commissioner Bush's statement at a meeting that he didn't like giving up his authority to have items put on the agenda and turn that over to the new Chairman's position which gave only the Chairman and the County Manager the right to put items on the agenda.
The preception which is being presented by MCS is in violation of the Charter but to close to look like a weak executive position for comfort for me. Then with the clause that gives them additional power by an ordinance should concern the people.
If that is what people think they are getting then they are wrong. If this is what people feel that position is then it wrong. If this is being sold as that weak power in the MCS editorial then it is wrong.
I think alot people have a wrong preception but you know what they say preception is reality. It was placed in the MCS newspaper as a weak executive position. With additional powers given by ordinance it can then morph into anything with a few votes on the Commission.
I don't know who is the MCS Editorial Staff and where they obtained that information to write that article but they didn't get it righclearly.
I had briefly touched on this in the post Obstructionist posted abovenment being seperate. That was the problems that was the cause of the investigation. Commissioners running the county and not the county manager.
Thanks for keeping this civil. This issue deserves a fair, civil debate on its merits and not its misperceptions.
I have always hated the term "weak mayor" or "weak executive". You are right - the Elected Chair is NOT executive at all. Weak or strong. Thank you again for setting that point straight. The Elected Chair is nothing more than the current Chair with a four-year term that we get to select (elect). A better analogy would "Speaker" of the BCC. Be the face of the county, its Elected leader.
Sorry, another bogus statement. The responsibilities and authority granted to ANY official governed by the Charter can only be changed by a Charter Amendment, which would have to have voter approval. Another widely argued misperception.
It boils down to me wanting to VOTE for the Chair of the BCC, expecting that person to state a vision for the future of the County, and through their leadership skills, help, help guide us in that direction. He/She is only 1 of 7. Good luck. And God's speed.
PS - I'm glad this conversation has elevated past, "I know you are, but what am I?"
Baxley I think this is a very important matter. It is something I hope every voters is working to understand just exactly what this will mean for the county. I want the debate to be civil.
The reason I say by ordinance according to the Charter it.
As long as any additional powers given to the County Chair and as I read by a county ordinance and is consistent with the charter it is legal.
To me that means a weak position can become a strong position as long as the position remains legislative and does not cross over to the executive branch. Seperation of the 2 Branches of our Charter government.
It does not say the position remains with the specific powers and duties decided upon at the time elected.
It states it can be changed by ordinance as long as it remains consistent with the Charter.
Well, maybe I'm the one that is wrong. I want to read the whole clause, but the way you've got it posted it sure seems as if you are right and I am wrong (about how the position can


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Sign ups end — MAY 21st!
This summer The Pocket Theater invites you to dive head first into two exciting days of interactive workshops where you will collaborate with peers, learn from professionals, and ignite new work. Over 6 art filled hours each day you will:
-Network with peers, professional artists, and venue managers
-Engage with a broad range of instructors and disciplines
-Brainstorm future projects with new collaborators
Do you love creating new work? Are you always looking to learn new skills to grow as a performing artist? Do you love engaging with multiple artistic mediums? Do you want to learn about new disciplines but you don’t have the time to commit to a multi-week workshop? Are you looking to meet new friends to collaborate with? Do you value being involved in the community? Are you a performer who self produces? Do you want to have a ton of fun?! Well Fringe Con is for you!
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During this two day convention you will:
Choose 4 immersive workshops taught by local specialists. Explore your passion in interactive workshops where you will learn and practice new tangible skills. Hear first hand experience from experts in different disciplines. Have fun!
You will have ample free time in between workshops to:
-Connect with new collaborators from multiple disciplines
-Decompress and integrate the experiences from your workshops
-Share your knowledge with your peers
-Dream up new projects
After we’re done with workshops we’ll go and hang out at a bar in the neighborhood.
-Christine Longe: A Fresh Perspective- The Clown's World — Clowns see the world through the eyes of a curious newborn, with wonder and marvel. Clowns live in the realm of «Yes, I can!» and endless possibilities. In this supportive class environment, reconnect with your inner child and rediscover the art of play. Learn (or revisit) techniques to enhance your creativity and deepen your sense of pleasure in performing for an audience.
-Bret Fetzer: Asking for Money- Writing a Strong Grant Application- You can make art purely out of love and commitment, but money helps. There are government agencies and private foundations who give money to artists to make art, and you should be asking them for money. This workshop will help you shape your ask. This will be partly a presentation of some good basic principles, partly a Q&A about your specific efforts, because getting into the details can sometimes be more revealing than broad principles.
-Veronica Lee-Baik: The Finger — Solo finger — Using the individual point to single in on meditation via movement. Duet finger — Using the individual point to make a connection with another person. Group finger — Allowing the individual point to bring us together as a collective.
-Graham Downing:The Only Dance There Is — The practice of immediacy and awareness are part of the vast overlap of improv and spiritual practice. Using the writings and lectures of spiritualist Ram Dass (author of the seminal work «Be Here Now») as a framework, the class will explore parallels between mindfullness in our daily lives and in our creative work. Through readings, meditation and original improv exercises, we will learn to let go of the fears and attachments that stops us from surrendering to the best improv we can do.
-Troy Mink: Creating Instant & Lasting Characters — All too many times improvisers & sketch writers/performers lament that they feel «trapped» into playing the same characters or only playing themselves in their comedic work. Most will say that there seems to be «something missing» or lacking in their portrayals. In this workshop participants will begin learning how to create & commit to on the spot characters & end up with the know-how of how to take the all to prevalent «SNL» (one beat) characters to the next level of making them more «truthful» & 3 dimensional
-Sara Porkalob: Solo Performance Workshop — Access your imagination, stories, secret talents and wildest visions to create a short solo performance. In a strong, trusting ensemble atmosphere, we will use fast paced writing exercises, improvisation, character work and a variety of performance techniques to create a draft and begin staging your show.
-Eddie DeHais: Let's Do the Thing — Practical Devising — Shut up, stop thinking, and let's get on our feet and see what happens. In this tightly crafted workshop, you will collaborate with the rest of the class to explore a text through a variety of exercises, and will spend almost the entire time actually creating, rather than worrying about what to create. This is a physical workshop, so be ready to move, sweat, and have a damn good time! No experience necessary, but an open heart, focus, and a playful attitude a must.
-Clayton Weller: This Show AGAIN! — You did an amazing show… and now you want it to happen quarterly, monthly, weekly, all the time. But how do you do a show regularly? How is that different than a one time deal? How do you retain and build an audience? Let's get into the nitty gritty and try and create some new Seattle institutions.
-The Libertinis: Using Silence — Creating Physical Comedy — Silent physical comedy is both an important free-standing form and a great means to a clean spoken joke. In this Libertinis workshop, you'll get a crash course in bit building from three of the city's joke pros. Build clean beats into your physical jokes for use independently or part and parcel to accompanying text.
-Lyam White: Warrior Clown — Effective stillness, concise and purposeful movement, a body that is simultaneously activated and relaxed — these are all valuable physical tools for the actor to have. They are also the core principles of martial arts. Beginning with basic stick fighting technique, moving into empty hand work, kata (forms), and even some light partner/pad drills, this workshop will follow the progression of various classical and modern martial arts into an application of their principles to stage work -creating a template for dealing with objects, offering appropriate reactions to action, weaving expressive «sentences» from gestures, and locating the points in the body where we receive, and/or from which we derive, force.
-Mark Siano: Producing Original Work — Your vision is headed to the stage and you need to make sure it's up to snuff. Here's a list of best practices and insider tips.
-FEELINGS (Natasha Ransom & Kinzie Shaw) — Intersectional Feminism in Improv — We'll work on how to navigate situations on and offstage while living in a white-cis-hetero patriarchy. We will talk about how to get in touch with one's own feminist experience to generate content, and also how to deal with toxic situations in shows and with other performers
Sign up now to have your first choice of workshops!
When: Saturday June 10th and Sunday June 11th from 10:00-4:00pm
Where: 4th floor of the TPS Armory in the Seattle Center, 305 Harrison Street Seattle,WA 98109
Who: All experience levels welcome. 18+ unless accompanied by an adult.
What to bring: Clothes and shoes easy to move around in. Business cards or flyers if you have them.
Cost: Early bird price through April 23rd — $125
Standard price — $140
Can only come 1 day? That’s ok! Per diem cost — $75
-4 workshops (2 per day)
If this these prices are prohibitive, please talk to us. We can work out some other way for you to pay back The Pocket. Or if you’d like a breakdown of where the money will go please let us know.
Sign up now! — bit.ly/FConJune
If you have any questions contact Emily Rychlick at emily.rychlick@gmail.com or Clayton Weller at clayton@thepocket.org


We see another scene with Bruce and the Shaman and he is still working on Bruce, brainwashing him for more to come. Has Bruce gone over to the dark side?
So after they lock her up, Bullock and everyone figures out where she most likely buried him and a massive search is put into action to find Jim, but time runs out and he takes the virus to escape. Okay, you're buried alive and you can't muster thea wooden box unless you take this stuff that makes you act like you overdosed on Angel Dust?


And Jeremiah prays for the people anyway!
And then Jeremiah's life goes from bad to worse. The people of Judah begin to treat him as a debtor and his life is in danger (Jer. 15:10). Jeremiah criesill not be accused of wrongdoing!
As we read Jesus' prayer in John 17 – we can have confidence that, unlike Jeremiah's prayer for Judah, God listened to Jesus' prayer for us. We are his children, and He keeps us, He sanctifies us, and most of all, He loves us!


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When a business aims to expand beyond its domestic or regional boundaries, technology is a key enabler in the process.. Technology such as “cloud computing” where IT resources are hired over the Internet on demand basis is help. No large upfront investments in hardware or software are needed, and companies can be up and running quickly without being dragged into long implementation projects. When expanding globally, scalability becomes a must and that can be achieved by technologies such as cloud computing. Following are the main ways in which technology can be used to expand or run a global business:
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Many students in the K.D.D. College Primary School are from several regions, particularly from underprivileged areas, and places where less opportunity for Buddhism Learning. Even, there are some students who belongs to no any family. Hence, this institution provides them all the basic necessities: accommodation, food, clothes, medication and education to acquire better life.
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ock Social Studies Regents Exam they were faced with three hours of Multiple Choice Questions, Document Based Questions, and two essays. Because no one classroom could hold all the students we went down to the auditorium where I was able to hold a review session. Many of the students were simply knocked out. That's a good thing!


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We live in a time of self-driving cars, virtual reality, and meat that's grown in a lab. There's no doubt that we're living in the future. So why are so many brands still stuck in the past when it comes to customer engagement?
Think ofon a daily basis. How many times do you pick up the phone and call them? Every now and then, sure, but the bulk of our communication happens over messaging channels whether that's via iMessage, Messenger, or WhatsApp. The world's most forward-thinking brands have already acknowledged this and are engaging with their customers on the channels of their preference; not forcing them into the same old archaic never-ending phone tree of "Press 4 for accounts". And here are four reasons why.
Waiting on hold sucks. In a world where customers are more impatient than ever, leaving them waiting in a queue is a sure-fire way to eradicate any loyalty you may have built. People want answers and they want them now. Whats more, take our 'new normal:' consumers don't have time to wait on hold with homeschooling and queueing in line to get into a grocery store.
Messaging is asynchronous; it's not based on a single session. It's an ongoing conversation with no hold times. Although, we're sure you already know this as you likely use messaging every single day. The main benefit of being asynchronous is that customers can send their message and then get on with their day. They're not glued to their phone or laptop for hours on end.
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With phone calls, agents simply work their way through the queue, handling one customer at a time. Messaging works a bit differently. Agents can have multiple conversations happening simultaneously. With customers replying when it's convenient for them, agents are free to maneuver across multiple conversations at once. In fact, in the same time that it takes to handle one phone call, an agent can manage up to as many as five conversations over messaging.
When a customer calls a brand, customer support has to waste a lot of time getting up to speed with the issue the customer has been facing. With messaging channels, agents always have access to full conversational history - it happens natively. It's baked into its very essence. Messaging isn't session-based, it's a continuous thread of communication that stores all customer interactions. In a sense, messaging is its own CRM.
The asynchronous nature of messaging means there are no disconnections. Agents and customers can pick up conversations exactly where they left off, in the same way that we do when messaging our friends and family. This helps agents save the customer's time. If a customer has an ongoing issue, the agent is already up to speed with the situation and can advise the customer without them having to repeat their entire experience thus far. It also ensures agents are in a better position to empathize; "I can see you had an issue with this yesterday, I'm so sorry. Let me work out how we can get this fixed soon as possible."
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What's worse than waiting on hold? Well, an automated phone system might just take gold for crappy customer experience. It's 2020, you shouldn't have to enter your 16 digit credit card number followed by a hash.
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These are all conversations that can be automated over messaging to save time for both customers and agents. There are no robotic voices and no dead end IVR trees. It's simplySo, Will You Hang Up the Phone?
Companies have been scrambling to adapt to a new normal where customers have more questions but brands have fewer agents to answer them. With the increased efficiency of messaging, its seamless automation, and CRM-like capabilities, isn't it time brands start hanging up the phone and move to messaging?
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A Step-By-step guide on how to nail your latte Art by the girl in the cafe Celeste Wong.
Position your steam wand well under the milk surface when you turn on the steam. This will prevent any unnecessary weak milk bubbles on top – which only makes it harder to get smooth milk and draw with.
Place the steam wand closer to the side of the jug (but NEVER touching) will allow the steam jets at the end of the wand to ricochet off the side of the jug to create that swirl. This will allow the fatty acids to bond as they heat. My 'whirl pool' is usually anti-clockwise, but either way is fine.
Some people like to use a temperature gauge to begin with, which can help.
A general ‘rule’ I use when I’m training people is to place your left hand (or whichever hand is free) and place it firmly around the outside of the jug and count “1,2,3"“ and if your “4” is an "Ouch” then that is usually around 65 degrees! Not very scientific but I have tested it for myself and have been doing this forever, so my judgments are consistently accurate! Try it!
For the full article and to check out even more of Celeste's amazing pouring tips - read her full blog here. Or why not catch The Girl in the Cafe and other world class barista showcase their pouring skills before having a go yourself on the Latte Art Live stage at the festival.


“I feel shaken. I don’t even know how to think. I can’t sleep at night because of this. It has made me really paranoid,” said 17-year-old Christin Evans.
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mpact resistance and density of softwoods. However, there are hardwood species that have the same density but very different impact resistance. Softwoods are largely composed of tracheid cells (30-50 mum across); hardwoods have smaller fibre cells and also contain vessels (50-500 mum across). We examined white oak, beech, hickory and spruce. Compressive deformation was identified as the main mechanism for energy absorption in the type of impact test used. The disparate size of different wood cells in the hardwoods results in heterogeneous compressive deformation. During compression, large vessels cause smaller surrounding cells to be deformed more than in regions without vessels, increasing the energy absorbed. However, vessels that are too close together initiate kink banding at low loads and less energy is absorbed. The different morphologies of hardwoods are probably responsible for the variation in impact resistance between species of similar density. Drilling small holes along the grain of spruce, which naturally lacks vessels, mimicked the effect of vessels and did not reduce the energy-absorbing capabilities of the wood, despite the density being reduced. These findings could be used to increase the energy-absorbing capacity of synthetic foam materials.


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Ocean Vuong's debut poetry collection is beautiful, poignant, and an absolute marvel to witness. I was stunned, amazed, dazzled, spellbound, [insert every adjective for "completely in awe"] by the immense heart in his words. Pick up a copy and give one poem a skim—you might just realize that Vuong's command of the English language will up the vibrancy of your view of the world, reminding you of everything that makes life so worth living. (Warning: If you're an annotator like myself, your copy will quickly be overtaken with sticky tabs, intense highlights, underlines, hearts, and exclamation points galore.)


Being a positive workplace role model is not an impossible task
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With leadership comes great responsibilities. A leader’s duty does not end with ensuring that the team meets the departmental or organisational goals. In managing a team, a manager needs to ensure that he/she adopts the correct approach, corrects mistakes and provides the requisite motivation, acknowledgement and encouragement to ensure the success of the team.
Therefore, the leader bares ttheir team and is responsible for promothrough setting the correct standards for their attitudes, values and behaviours. By doing so, he/she becomes a workplace role model.
Workplace role models exhibit positive attitudes that people look up to. A role model is described as an individual whose successes and behaviours others try to emulate, or at the very least, look up to.
This concept can prove to be both easy or difficult for a leader. The easy part is the fact that the team or employees already look up to the leader for motivation and inspiration, however, the difficulty arises in ensuring that one meets the team’s expectations as well as ensuring that he/she becomes a positive rather than a negative role model.
The importance of leadership is based on the fact that at their core, businesses are comprised of people carrying out ideas. In making these ideas a success, the people need good leadership, such leadership is further enhanced through the leader being a good role model for their team.
This in no way means that the leader is expected to exhibit superhuman or flawless behaviour or traits. That being said, however, there are certain basic characteristics that are expected of a leader who is also a good role model.
Being a good leader does not entail for one to simply stand by the side-lines, while instructing the team regarding what to do or what not to do, without actually taking up any of the responsibilities or hard work required for the achievement of the organisational goals. Effective role models work hard and pitch in when their team needs help, always demonstrating a commitment to organisational goals. This attitude and behaviour promotes an environment of team work and collective action, inspiring the team to act in a similar manner.
This does not mean that for one to be a great leader they need to abandon their leadership responsibilities and role while taking on the tasks assigned to the team in an effort to ‘inspire them through working with them.’ A leader needs to strike the correct balance in this regard.
achieve success. They are resilient, don’t give up easily and persevere even when confronted with obstacles.
One cannot be a good role model without great communication skills. Role models are able to clearly explain their plans or the strategy of the organisation, yet they listen just as well as they express themselves. In communicating with others role models are always respectful towards all, regardless of the social standing of a person. They are able to show appreciation, admiration and gratitude when it is owed.
In the process of communicating and interacting well with the team, the leader and role model may be required to repeat messages in order to ensure proper understanding and alignment by the team. It is in this regard that consistency becomes vital. leader one needs to be skilled and knowledgeable, however good role models are not content with the status quo, but are always willing to learn more, challenge themselves and move outside of their comfort zones in a process of continuous development.
In order to be successful at this, the role model needs to have a good measure of self-esteem. In order for one to not only be a good teacher but to also be a good learner, they need to surround themselves with those who have greater knowledge than themselves, they need to un able to build on them and stretch themselves.
The ability and willingness to learn requires one to have a measure of humility. Humility enables a role model to understand that they cannot know everything, nor do everything right all of the time. Humility is a vital element in enabling the leader to recover, to learn and to teach others from their mistakes, without expecting them to fall into the same trap. They are also able to admit their mistakes without self-deprecating themselves.
A good role model is one who is able to take accountability for their actions and correct their course, in doing so, they are able to inspire others to do the same. Those lacking the ability to take accountability will always look for someone to blame whenever things go wrong and will most probably never learn from their mistakes.
The ability to take accountability stands a good leader well, as they work on building the trust amongst their team. A true leader and role model, models the positive behaviour which they expect from their team. In building trust, a leader or role model needs to follow every rule which they expect their team to follow. It is a classic case of “what is good for the gander, being good for the goose.” They need to lead with integrity because trust is earned, not given. A good role model is someone who is trustworthy, fair, honest, and consistent.
An important aspect of building trust in employees, or a team, is through empowering them with decision making abilities based on their skills and levels of accountability. Although the process of building trust in a team is not an overnight task, that long term project is always worth the time and effort invested, as it leads to a positive and healthy environment.
Great role models often stand out as they are not afraid to be unique, nor do they pretend to be who or what they are not. They embrace their uniqueness, even in the face of ridicule, especially from those who do not align with who they are.
Truly great workplace models do not stop being role models after office hours or outside of the work environment, they are also role models outside of the work environment. These are individuals who are ablsome other public service in their spare tim affect us in a way that inspires us to be better people. They contribute to our growth and progress. They help to pave the way for us to take the lead on the issues that we truly believe in.
Through practicing the traits of successful people, you too can .
Being a boss may be easy, but being a leader and a positive role model can be challenging, although not impossible!
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2021/09/07/how-to-become-a-positive-role-model-for-your-employees/?sh=377a7469346f
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Mental Illness Awareness Week, otherwise known as Mental Health Awareness Week, was first established in 1990 to help educate people and increase awareness about mental illness. The week brings together mental health advocates and mental health organizations to help advocate and educate the community. Sponsored events and activities are help to assist in community outreach. The events can include anything from art and music events, educational seminars and sessions, benefit runs, movie nights, health fairs, and more.
With all the efforts that have occurred during this week in the last 17 years, the organizations behind MIAW hope to have difficult to diagnose due to the lack of people who bring themselves in for help. According to mentalhealthscreening.org, up to 80% of people who have received treatment show an improvement in symptoms, and usually within 4-6 weeks. It also affects more than 15 million American adults per year and is a leading cause of disabilities. If we can get more people to feel comfortable getting screened and getting treatment, more and more people can be helped every year. For more information regarding mental health screening, different disorders and their symptoms, and more, visit www.mentalhealthscreening.org for a very informative outline.


Watch this remix video to see how the news channels "produce" news in a typhoon. Can't believe these so-called "reporters" or "professional news channels", looks more like lousy actors. Kill me please, or take these junk back!
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I joined Joost beta test program to check out this new thing from the founders of Skype and Kazaa. A P2P-style video watching experience sounds cool to me. To learn more, check out the official site. Unfortunately I can't get pass the firewall in my office, and my Mac back home with broadband connection is not Intel-based which otherwise would allow me to run Joost on OS X. So what's left? I have invitations for you! Ha!
My son turned four months old yesterday. On this day, I found an interesting company in the same building as my new office. The name of this company is exactly the same as my son's name. How about that?!
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A spider (Nephila clavata?) decided to stay on my balcony. We didn't know where it came from -probably ride with the wind from nearby some hill. It just appear with a tiny web one day. As time goes by, the web grows both in size and complexity. Very soon it has become a very complicated and strong structure hanging 30 meters above ground.
And then here comes the biggest challenge -Typhoon Sepat. With heavy showers and strong winds at 50 mph, the category 5 storm did cause some damage. The spider tightly hung to its net and tried to fix or reinforce it whenever possible. In the end, the spider won.
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I found a young female singer and songwriter when I was browsing YouTube. Kim DiVine is her name. Her music is fresh and lively, and her voice is just great. You've got to listen to this!
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This weekend my son experienced his first typhoon. Typhoon Sepat was category 5, the third typhoon to hit Taiwan directly. Fortunately it couldn't resist the deadly attraction of the rivers on the east coast, so when it hit the island, it was rapidly weakened by the 10,000-feet-high Central Mountains.
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Joined a new service called BlogLive. The idea seems interesting, but with my experience losing interest quickly on CyWorld, let's see how this new service suits me.
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Video of My Son
Finally put a video of my son on web. I tried uploading to YouTube several times, but it always stuck at 6% and never finished. So I switched to Wretch, it worked! For more videos to come, go to my wretch video page.
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Hello to Brenda's Son
Brenda delivered a healthy boy last Wednesday, the very first Father's Day for her husband. The expected day was last Monday, and Brenda went to the hospital one day after that to seek help from the doctor when the boy was still reluctant to come out. With some help of medicine, the baby was born; 3750g and 55cm. Congratulations to the new parents, and to the boy, welcome to the world.
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I found a cool stuff to manage multiple RSS subscriptions -RSS Mixer. I tried it with my three sites to produce this single RSS feed for all my stuff, and here's the resulting link: http://www.rssmixer.com/everything_rwcutter.rss. The resulting mix can be saved for web pages, iPhone and widgets. If you're subscribing RSS feeds or you need a simple RSS address for your friends, try it.
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Cool Sony Bravia Ad
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Like the fireworks of Taipei 101? Watch this! A Sony Bravia ad using real paints and realbuildings for a spectacular version of water dance and fireworks.
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Today I resigned from my current company. The main reason is that I'm going to another company where I can get a better package. Actually my current job is not too bad - 20 minutes from home, moderately paid, nice colleagues, leaving office on time - not much to complain about. However, I joined this company at a wrong time. It seems that I can do more at another place. So, in two weeks I'll start over again in another place.
My previous boss who interviewed with me said he has lots of plans for me, and promises me for promotion and raise in a few more weeks, but I guess it's a bit late since I've made up my mind. My new boss is a very nice guy, but he's too NCTU-style for me (a negative word in my school). He's kind of unsure whether to ask me to stay because we haven't begun to know each other yet.
I'm not complaining, because people here are really busy working on plans for the impact from the merger of our biggest customer. If I were not leaving, I'll be traveling to USA early September to knock on the door of HP, the buyer in the merger. Now my last job is to help prepare the materials they'll need for the trip, and hope that things will go well.
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It's my first and my father's 24th Father's Day. There was nothing in particular for me, but my father might be having his worst one ever. He's been having unknown fever for one week, and went to a nearby clinic twice. The diagnosis was common cold, and his blood test for Dengue Fever came out negative. Yesterday he got a call from the health authority that he's got Dengue Fever. Luckily he seems to be getting better already.
As for my sister Monica, it was not a day she would've expected, either. She ordered a pizza delivered to my father to celebrate the day. My father, however, doesn't like pizza at all and perhaps in a bad mood with the fever, gave the pizza to some neighbor and called Monica never to do it again. Happy Father's Day to you, too.
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Trying and interesting utility called foto-mosaik, and freeware from a German. This is something to try when you have a large pool of photos to play with. As suggested by its name, this utility analyzes your photo pool and picks best matches to be used as tiles to make a mosaic of any photo you choose. I used a relatively small pool with about 1000 photos in my test, and the result turned out pretty good.
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Last night he was somehow very happy and was laughing for quite awhile. Allie took photos with her cell phone to capture the moment. See his photos at my Flickr album.
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My Son Going Public
My son is on newspaper, sort of.
I got a request to share his photo from NowPublic, an online news agency that uses original, eye-witness photos, story accounts and videos as materials for its news source.
Here's the article and the page where his photo is seen.
Okay, it's not really about him. He's just one of the dozens babies drinking from bottles. But what gets me excited is the connectivity in the world of Web 2.0. I started my blog and photo album more like a personal log of my life, without the intention of being noticed or getting popular. As time goes by, I'm more comfortable as part of the community and is now enjoying as a member of the club.
By the way, I don't know why eastern Europeans are more attracted to my style. One of my photos was linked by a Czech, and this time the editor requesting my photo is from Hungary.
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In the first three months, my son gained 3875 g, or 42 g per day in average. That's not quite a number to show off, but I can feel that he's getting heavier compared to the first months. Now he spends more time awake and playing, responds to voices and smiles more often. I know that all parents thinks their children are lovely even though others may disagree, but he is really adorable.
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The dictionary tells us that the word 'Worship' can mean 'extravagant respect or devotion to an object of esteem'.
At Southside we believe that every person on earth worships something. It could be a (singular) god, many gods, or 'no god', the self, a career, family, a house, holidays, power, comfort, relationships, or prestige. But none of these are truly worthy of our worship because we have a far greater purpose: to worship and live in relationship with the living God who created us.
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Stylist contributor Moya Crockett has an aversion to the whole hipster-festival-flower style vibe - and presents four alternative festival looks for those in search of something a little less clichéd:
Festival season fills me with dread.
Don’t get me wrong: I love festivals. (I’m fun, I swear!) I love waking up under canvas next to my best friend, our wellies still on from the night before. I actively enjoy not showering for three days, and successfully putting up a tent still gives me a slightly pathetic Girl Power thrill, even if it’s just a pop-up from Argos. I love the spiralling sense of freedom and hedonism, the sparkle-eyed conversations under a 5am sunrise, the feeling of being reprieved from adulthood for one whirlwind weekend.
But I hate, hate, hate festival chic.
But beyond that, I find the ubiquity of festival chic strangely depressing. Music festivals were originally supposed to be tiny little pockets of freedom; of rebellion, even. Isn’t it weird that so many of us end up dressing exactly the same? To paraphrase Will Ferrell as demonic fashion designer Mugatu in Zoolander: “There’s only one look, for Christ's sakeGrey lyocell dress, £24.99, H&M (hm.com); MAC lipstick in Velvet Teddy, £15.50 (maccosmetics.co.uk); suede biker jacket, £185, Topshop (topshop.com); oversized crystal hoop earrings, Claire’s (claires.co.uk)
Biker jackets were everywhere at music festivals, but this suede number from Topshop is still unusual enough to be interesting. Worn over a simple grey shift, it’s sleek and practical. Team with a warm rosy lipstick and enjoyably glitzy earrings.
Lace top, £29.99, Zara (zara.com); faux leather A-line skirt, £15, Boohoo (boohoo.com); silver bum bag, £11.99, Spiral (spiraluk.com); Stila Magnificent Metals Foil Finish eye shadow in Comex Platinum, £33.50 (stila.co.uk)
Embroidered bralet, £32, Topshop (topshop.com); gold leaf hoop earrings, £6, Asos (asos.com); check trousers, £35.99, Mango (mango.com); Daniel Sandler Luxury Matte Lipstick in Marilyn, £13.25 (escentual.com).
Bomber jacket, £48, River Island (riverisland.com); Rock’n’khol liquid eye pencil in Bedroom Black, £19, Charlotte Tilbury (selfridges.com); blue off-the-shoulder dress, £65, & Other Stories (stories.com); green cat-eye sunglasses, £19.99, Mango (mango.com); Glam Lipgloss in High Society, £7, Nyx (boots.com).
Rich pastels look great with a summer tan, and this & Other Stories dress has a casual hippy vibe without being too on-the-nose. Smoky black eyeliner and bright green sunglasses keep things from being saccharine.


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THERE ISN’T REALLY A UNIT OF TIME MEASUREMENT that aptly captures the duration of what we might call, for lack of a more elegant phrase, an “art scene.” Art spaces, art magazines, art bands, art websites, art collectives, art what-have-you — they tend to have a natural lifespan of anywhere from four to seven years, folding when there’s no more time, energy, or money left to sustain them. People get older, get married, or have kids. They max out their credit cards, or they get 9-5 jobs, or freak out and move to Alaska to become hippie survivalists. Maybe it’s not even anything that extreme: people just get tired of devoting fifty unpaid hours a week to their projects. Or, perhaps these labors of love do end up thriving, becoming established non-profits which are lavished with foundation money at some point. Even then, though, such projects transform into something else in the process. The people initially involved go off to do other things, their roles filled by eager 22-year olds who step in to take their places. The 22-year olds run things for a few years, until they get tired and cede their positions to their younger siblings’ peers. These aren’t “generational” cycles, exactly, and describing them as “epochs” is certainly too grandiose. I’m not sure what you’d call it.
Whatever it is, I’ve gotten the sense this summer that we’re nearing the end of one of these units of time. Bedlam Theatre (along with its beautiful second-story patio) is being evicted from its West Bank building, to be relocated to an as-yet-determined space elsewhere. Art Of This Gallery in South Minneapolis will leave its Nicollet Avenue storefront in September. And, of course, Art Review and Preview! (ARP!) also recently completed its several-year run. For the past couple of years, it was possible, even likely, that if you were an artist or at least a friend of an artist, a regular Friday night would involve some interaction with one or more of these places and projects. Perhaps you’d glance at the ARP! calendar, find out about some of the week’s openings, and organize a multi-stop bike ride between them all, ending at the Bedlam. All have been essential to artistic life in the Cities; this isn’t to suggest they won’t continue to be. No doubt, the individuals responsible for these projects will still produce work in Minneapolis, and those endeavors will undoubtedly take on new and equally interesting forms going forward. But it still feels like the end of…
Well, something, anyway.
And whatever that something has been, I’d personally put ARP! at the center of all of it. It was a forum for artists and others to read about what was happening around them, and it was written mostly by other artists. Of course, it seemed insular at times — the culture of artists’ communities (or any niche community, for that matter) inevitably is on occasion. But, in general, the commentary and design in the quarterly’s pages served to draw readers in — the offerings were smart, mostly inclusive, and never dry or academicn’t write objectively about ARP!. (you may have figured as much from the sentimentality-stained tenor of the preceding paragraphs.) My writing appeared in nine of the twelve issues, and, at one point, I was even listed as “staff writer” in the masthead. In fact, the first art writing I ever had published was in ARP!; prior to that, the only thing on my imaginary writer’s CV consisted of a handful of album reviews written for a music ‘zine back in my hometown (“most of the lyrics sound like the sort of thing a 14-year old AC/DC fan would write, translated into Bulgarian and then translated back into English again”).
So, my part-time career as an arts writer began with ARP! — specifically, with a brief overview of historic artist-run spaces in Minneapolis which ran in the second issue of the magazine. Like most of the writers who came to the magazine, the editors didn’t set out to recruit me — I had no idea who they were when I found a copy of the first issue at the Soap Factory. While reading that first issue, I noticed the editors were soliciting pieces about the history of the Twin Cities’ art scene for the upcoming issue, and I tracked them down to offer my services. Mostly, I was just excited that someone somewhere was thinking about these things.
Those editors, Tiff Hockin and Ariel Pate, had been thinking about art together for a long time. They first met ten years ago while high school studentBoth went off to college at the Kansas City Art Institute together, and when they completed their undergraduate degrees in 2006, they decided it was a good time to go back home to Minneapolis and begin something in their hometown.
What that something might be wasn’t initially clear. At first, they were thinking they might begin an artists’ residency program, idealistically dubbed “Neutopia.” (in fact, art.neutopia@gmail.com remained ARP!‘s only email address for much of their run). Before making any firm decisions, though, Hockin and Pate wanted to reconnect with the artists working around town during their absence. The duo interviewed, formally and informally, dozens of artists they met around town, asking them what was missing from the community. “A discussion” was the answer that kept coming up in the course of these conversations.
ARP! came along at an interesting time for arts criticism and coverage in Minneapolis-St. Paul. “Interesting” is, of course, a euphemism; “bleak” would be a better word. There hadn’t been a magazine devoted solely to visual art since Artpaper had folded in 1993. City Pages had employed some great arts writers throughout the 1990s and early ’00s, but by 2006, most of that paper’s arts coverage had disappeared. The dailies, of course, were slogging towards obsolescence, and had long since ceased to be relevant to any arts-minded reader younger than 40.
ARP!’s early issues, in particular, for all they lack in slickness, are little monuments to ambition, and to gleeful experimentation with ideas and forms unique to print.
This is not to say it was all gloom and doom; certainly there were a few venues for arts writing, this online journal included. And artists have always complained about the lack or quality of arts writing. It’s a constant theme in arts writing. But the economic models for publishing have changed so profoundly in the past ten years that the unease felt by artists in the 2000s about the future of the way their work would be discussed, critiqued, and engaged in print seems less like the usual kvetching, and much more like a real crisis than it has in the past. And it’s from this roil, specifically, that ARP! emerged. As Hockin and Pate envisioned it, ARP! would be a proudly print-only venue for good arts writing, calendar information, news, some gossip, and a healthy helping of shit-stirring. Hockin refers to herself and Pate as “folk journalists”; they did not, she points out, “start ARP! because we knew what we were doing.” From the second issue on, Hockin and Pate brought in their roommate Troy Pieper, a graduate of journalism school and a veteran of a number of local collectives. And almost all of the work of the magazine was done by those three people. It was not a publication run by professionals. They strived for the highest possible quality they could muster, in terms of content and execution, but the fact that the quarterly was printed on newsprint imparted to the venture a defiantly a low-tech attitude.
The name ARP! itself is a retronym: when Hockin and Pate decided to create the paper, they were going to call it Art Neutopia Press, or ANP. The name ANP was already claimed by another quarterly arts-and-culture magazine, so not knowingopted for a slight modification and garbled it into ARP. “Art review and preview” was retroactively assigned to those initials, with an exclamation mark added as a self-deprecating flourish. “Self-deprecating and willingly so,” points out Hockin, proudly. The first issue, themed around “Public/Private,” came out in the spring of 2007. “This paper may be amateur / critical / wonderful,” wrote Hockin and Pate in an editorial letter. “We hope it engages you — either in pleasure or disgust.”
Those second and third issues To wit: the second issue, about the history of artist-run spaces in Minneapolis and St. Paul, includes a comprehensive, fold-out timeline stretching back to the 1940s; the third issue is completely hand-written, from start to finish. Neither would have worked in an online format.
The list of the magazine’s contributing writers is an interesting one. ARP! had a reputation for being somewhat youth-driven — in fact, Hockin and Pate told me an amusing story about how much easier it was to work with potential advertisers when they posed as interns — but the stable of writers actually came from a variety of backgrounds. Certainly, there were some students and recent graduates among the contributors, but many were veterans of the art scene; there were first-time arts writers and artists approaching middle age, professors, and a few experienced journalists. All worked for nothing, or almost nothing (the writers were treated to dinner a few times a year).
As I noted above, it’s too early yet to have much critical distance from ARP!. The definitive account of the Twin Cities contemporary art in the 2000s, of which ARP! was a part, will have to be left to some enterprising young writer twenty years from now. Even from this vantage point, though, it’s easy to see how unique ARP!‘s position was. A newsprint magazine published at the very tail end of the newsprint magazine era, with no real web strategy and whose publishers never bothered with mastering the online format. Yet, like an online magazine, it was given away free of charge.
Most importantly: unlike an online magazine, ARP! was created to be an object, something to be held and felt and left around coffee shops and apartments and bus stops. It was always intended to be something one picked up at openings and book shops and art materials stores. Such objects tie us to the physical world, the world of people. To experience ARP!, you needed to go out into the world and physically obtain one, and copies were generally most plentiful in spaces where other artists would likely be around. And it’s for this reason that I so closely tie ARP! with the other art spaces of its time and place. Even in the simple act of heading out into the world to pick up a copy to read, engagement — with one’s peers and neighbors, with fellow artists — was a necessary part of the process.
As this unnamed unit of time measurement draws to a close, it is worth remembering the accomplishments of Art Review and Preview!. As per its mission statement, the magazine engaged. And that is just about the best thing one can say about any piece of work that is hand-crafted and sent out into the world. I hope that the artists of the next few cycles are lucky enough to make something for themselves that will do so equally well.
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About the author: Andy Sturdevant is a writer, curator is the host of Salon Saloon, an arts and culture live magazine performed at the Bryant-Lake Bowl on the last Tuesday of every month. The fall 2005 issue of Bejeezus Magazine, from which the album review excerpt in the fifth paragraph of this piece first appeared, can be back-ordered from the publishers.
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I am truly impressed and excited byI am using TMS in my practice, and the benefits are remarkable.
During medical school and neurology residency in the 1980â€™s (before TMS existed), I was occasionally involved with the delivery of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for functionally impaired patients with extreme depression or psychosis refractory to medical treatment. I and my colleagues would marvel at the patientsâ€™ frequent rapid recovery after ECT, but it required anesthesia, induced a generalized seizure (convulsion), and often caused long-term cognitive problems. In those days, I and my colleagues woula less extreme and more localized way to electrically stimulate the brain for treatment of depression and, potentially, other neurological disorders. Now, this new way actually exists through advancement in the understanding of brain physiology in major depression and the development of TMS.
The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex frequently has decreased metabolism and blood flow is is the target for TMS. TMS involves the use of magnetic coils to deliver targeted electromagnetic pulses to the brain. High frequency pulses are, generally, neuro-excitatory, and can lead to release of key neurotransmitters (brain chemicals) that favorably effect depressive symptoms. In other words, the advancement of brain science and technology now allow us to provide the less extreme and more localized treatment for depression we dreamed of 30 years ago through TMS!
The first day of TMS involves motor threshold determination and cortical mapping. In order to be effective, we must be sure that the electromagnetic field strength is strong enough to penetrate through the patientâ€™s scalp, skull, and dura (the skin-like covering around the brain). We want it strong enough to be effective but not excessive in a way that expands the risk of seizure. The motor threshold determination is done by determining the lowest magnetic field intensity required to create a motor twitch by stimulating over. Once the motor threshold is established, it is time for cortical mapping.
Non-contrast CT Head: The arrow is pointing to the TMS Treatment Target for Patients with MDD (Note: The rights side of the photo is the left side of the brain)
More patient-specific methods to target the TMS treatments customized to an individualâ€™s brain anatomy and/or chemistry through advanced imaging exists and is intellectually appealing. So, it would not beady availability of this less generic approach to TMS is not too far off in the future! Clinically, it is likely that this more individualized approach to targeting TMS will lead to an important step forward in the efficacy and durability of TMS for MDD and, likely, other brain diseases.
There are different TMS treatment systems available. The most established and studied system is calledÂ NeuroStarâ„¢, manufactured by Neuronetics. The Neurostarâ„¢ system allows reproducibie patient positioning, consistent individualized targeted treatment during each session, and feedback throughout a treatment session to assure consistent high-quality head contact. The importance of this contact feedback should not be underestimated. These unique qualities of the NeuroStarâ„¢ TMS treatment systems are critical to optimizing the benefit of TMS treatment AND building patient and physician confidence in its consistent effectiveness. I use the NeuroStarâ„¢ system for these reasons even though it is considerably more expensive on a per treatment basis relative to other systems available.
Most TMS treatment centers use a technician-driven model for TMS treatment delivery. With this model, a physician will conduct the on treatment day 1, and a technician will provide the subsequent 35 treatments. While TMS technicians can be outstanding, this is not the method I use to deliver TMS.
With this viewing point, I approach TMS differently than most providers. I have at least two prolonged sessions (2 hours each) with the patient before commencing with TMS. The first session is more medical and involves extractingn, after the first visit, I make contact with the patientâ€™s mental health providers and, sometimes, other health care providers to assure that I have an accurate view of the patient. The second visit involves a more thorough discussion about TMS to emphasize that it must be viewed as anÂ activeÂ process that must go beyond arriving on time and passively receiving the treatments. To capitalize on the beneficial alteration in brain chemistry that is achieved by TMS, the patient must adjust various habits and lifestyle issues to optimize its benefit and achieve the best durability after the TMS treatments. So, we set to planning what those adjustments should be in cooperation with the patientâ€™s mental health providers. Sometimes, I choose a book for us (the patient and me) to read between sessions and discuss during the treatments.
Authorization for TMS by Medicare and other insurers require the patient to meet specificÂ qualifications. Most often, this involves proving that the patient is refractory to numerous medication trials and combinations. This approach to approval relates to the fact that the clinical efficacy trials focused on including patients with MDD who were refractory to medical therapy.
High quality counseling, cognitive and behavioral therapy, and thoughtful medication selection are clearly well-founded approaches to helping patients with depression. However, I believe that TMS should and will have an expanding role in treatment of patients with depression earlier in the course of management. Unfortunately, it will take time for clinical trials to demonstrate TMS efficacy in a broader population sequenced earlier in the treatment course. Then, it will take even more time for insurers to â€œcatch upâ€ and provide coverage for new treatment regimens of proven clinical efficacy.
While all medical advancements take time and research to responsibly determine their â€œplace,â€ it is my hope that, in parallel, nd the general public will increasingly appreciate the benefit of TMS asdepressed patients and, eventually, other neurological and psychiatric disorders. And, even without clear data about its enhanced benefit, I will continue to use a model of treatment delivery that takes advantage of the patientâ€™s unique receptivity and my years of clinical experience to guide their recovery in cooperation with their mental health providers.