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FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) — A group of about two dozen homeless people and community activists came together Monday to speak out against the City of Fort Lauderdale.

This comes after 70 homeless people, who have been staying at the Rodeway Inn & Suites on State Road 84, were given an abrupt notice they would have to pack up and leave sooner than expected.

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They were there as part of a voucher program set up by the City of Fort Lauderdale to help accommodate the homeless during the coronavirus pandemic.

Shanta Cain says she was taken aback Sunday when she received a letter from the city, which stated they would all have to move out by 11 a.m. Monday.

“They gave us no notice, and it was, like, in 24 hours you’ve got to be out of there,” she says. “It was devastating to actually get that note saying, yeah we helped you guys, now you’ve got to go.”

Later that night, tenants received another memo, changing course, which said they no longer had to leave by Monday. However, it provided no further timeline.

Bertisha Jones, with organization New Florida Majority, says they just want some transparency.

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“Friday, they were told that they would be getting placement to know where they were going to be placed in long-term housing,” she explains. “Instead of getting long-term housing on Monday, they got that letter.”

Rodeway Inn & Suites says they are working with the city to continue the program, which was already extended from the original length.

“It was actually a 30 day program with the option to extend for another month, so they did extend for an entire month,” Nadine Bankley, Director of Sales and Marketing for the hotel explains. “So they doubled the length of the program, plus a week.”

The city issued a statement Monday morning that reads:

“The City of Fort Lauderdale has secured funding from the Governor’s Office to continue to provide temporary housing to the homeless at the Rodeway Inn. The individuals being housed at the Rodeway Inn and the hotel staff have been informed that the program will not be ending today. All of the participants in the program are working with case managers who are coordinating referrals for them from mental health, medical, social service and other providers, while also working toward securing permanent housing. The City of Fort Lauderdale welcomes and encourages other local governments, organizations, and agencies to join us in this effort so we can continue to address this need in our communities.”

At this point, there is no exact timeframe for when the people there have to move out.

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Chaz Adams, spokesperson for the City, says, so far, more than $530,000 has been spent to cover the costs of “vouchers/temporary housing, meals, case managers, private security, and other expenses related to the program.”

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A new law in India makes it harder for foreign aid to reach Covid patients, critics say.

India’s devastating Covid-19 surge has galvanized corporations, nonprofit organizations and individuals in the United States to raise millions of dollars and send medical supplies to assist the nation of 1.4 billion.

But a sweeping change to India’s law governing foreign donations is choking off aid just when the country needs it desperately. It is struggling through a second wave of coronavirus that, since beginning in mid-March, has more than doubled the country’s total confirmed infections to over 24 million and raised the known overall death toll to more than 266,000 — numbers that experts say are vast undercounts.

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A detailed map shows the extent of the coronavirus outbreak, with charts and tables of the number of cases and deaths.

The amendment, abruptly passed by the government in September, limits international charities that donate to local nonprofits. Almost overnight, it gutted a reliable source of funding for tens of thousands of nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, which help provide basic health services in India, picking up the slack in a country where government spending in that area totals just 1.2 percent of gross domestic product.

The amendment also prompted international charities to cut back giving that supported local efforts in fields such as health, education and gender.

Newly formed charities are rushing to find NGOs that can accept their donations without tripping legal wires. And nonprofits are being smothered in red tape: To receive foreign funds, charities must get affidavits and notary stamps and open accounts with the government-owned State Bank of India.

“Everyone was caught off-guard,” said Nishant Pandey, chief executive of the American India Foundation, which has raised $23 million for Covid-19 efforts. On May 5, his group wired $3 million to an Indian affiliate to build 2,500 hospital beds. A week later, Mr. Pandey said, the money still hadn’t cleared.

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Inclusion and Accessibility For All

 In Accessible Website, AcessiBe, Advocacy, Assistive Technology, Newsletters

Ever since the advent of the Americans With Disabilities Act, all persons with disabilities have been striving to help society understand the need for inclusion and accessibility. You will note here that I do not mention “diversity”. This is because I believe that diversity as a concept has been so narrowly focused that anyone with a disability has been left out of the “diversity discussion”. How many times, for example, did anyone mention persons with disabilities during last year’s political campaigns? How many times did Hollywood over the past several years as it discussed the Need To movement, Times Up and its other “diversity conversations” ever mention disabilities? The answer is, of course, very few times.

The Internet is no different. The Americans with Disabilities Act mandated that society needed to create and provide reasonable accommodations so that persons with disabilities would be able to truly participate in all aspects of society. While some progress has been made especially in making physical locations more accessible to persons in wheelchairs, not nearly so much progress has been made in improving accessibility for all with the Internet. In fact, some companies, while being sued because they would not make their Internet sites accessible, even went so far as to say that the ADA only applied to physical locations and not the Internet because the Internet came into being after the ADA was signed into law. The courts mostly have disagreed with this assertion. Even so, overall, very few Internet sites have become truly accessible. Some attempts at accessibility have occurred. Mostly, however, real inclusion and accessibility regarding the Internet has not taken place. Schools do not usually teach accessibility concepts and their computer science and Internet coding courses. Software that helps web designers create Internet pages may have some features that allow designers to include accessibility, but there is nothing that forces designers to make sure that their sites are accessible.

In 2018, the U. S. Department Of Justice determined that the Internet is in fact a place of accommodation which means that all Internet sites must become accessible and inclusive. This is a great step forward, but it is a difficult one to achieve. Web designers and coders mostly don’t know the first thing about screenreader access, much less access for hearing impaired, mobility impaired, and other kinds of accessibility needs. Some companies do specialize in making websites accessible. However, the price for making websites accessible, especially fairly large ones, can run into the $10,000-$40,000 price range. Even small websites will cost thousands of dollars to include accessibility, especially if a designer has to take the time to learn what it means to make a website accessible before they begin the work.

When I began working with a website developer to update my site, I started running into problems because he knew nothing about what to do to make a website accessible. This wasn’t his fault as he is really a victim of the same problem that most all website designers have which is nobody has taught them anything about web access.

Around the same time that my website updates began, I began hearing  on a few websites a message at the top of my screen that said, “press alt +1 to enable screen reader access”. When I followed this command my access to the sites became much greater. This was intriguing. After a bit of research, I learned that the company that had made accessibility for these websites was called accessiBe. You can check it out here.

AccessiBe was founded in 2018. Over the past 3 years it has made over 130,000 websites around the world accessible for persons with disabilities. How? Instead of rewriting the code on each website, accessiBe only requires that a few lines of code or a simple plugin be inserted into a website to make that website accessible. Then, using artificial intelligence and the cloud, accessiBe creates what some call and “overlay” that is invoked whenever someone visits that site. The overlay is invoked on the user’s browser when they visit and accessiBe modified site. If you visit the link above, you can conduct your own website audit that will show you how accessible your website actually is for persons with disabilities using a website audit tool called ACE.

Of course, the question you’re going to be asking is “how much does this cost?”. For a website with up to a thousand pages the cost is $49 a month. Why is it a monthly charge? The answer is because accessiBe will continuously monitor your site and make any changes in the accessiBe information available to users that will keep your website accessible no matter what you do to it. Assuming a web developer would only charge you $5,000 to make your website “accessible”, if instead you used accessiBe, it would take you 120 months, or 10 years to incur the same cost with accessiBe. The other aspect of this is that once a developer makes your website accessible, either you’re going to have to incur an ongoing maintenance charge to keep it accessible, or, from time to time, you are going to have to pay additional costs for someone to come in and update the accessibility elements on your site. AccessiBe is a great way to go.

I would be happy to talk with you about what happened when I made my website accessible. If you would like to chat, let’s arrange a Zoom call and I will show you my website before accessiBe and after accessiBe. This is the easiest way for me to demonstrate the kind of incredibly improved access my website now exhibits.

Make no mistake, accessibility is here in so far as the Internet is concerned. By you fully updating your website or websites and making them inclusive for all you are doing the right thing. You are making sure that everyone can get the information you want to put out to the world. Making the Internet accessible has now become a legal issue, but rather than talking about litigation and what someone can do to you if you don’t make your website accessible, I would rather you look at it as something appropriate, especially since the cost to make it accessible using accessiBe is so inexpensive. Please reach out and let me help you make it happen for you and your websites. By the way, if you want to learn more about some of the reasons a business chose to make their website accessible, register for our upcoming webinar about Bridging the Accessibility Gap to be held this Monday at 12 Noon Pacific time. You can register here,

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Apple DEP and Citrix XenMobile Invalid Profile Error

Setting up Apple DEP is relatively straight forward (start here). Once setup, connecting your DEP account to your Citrix XenMobile instance is again, pretty straight forward. The Citrix guide (here) is easy to follow and there are some great “step by step” guides elsewhere on the web – Antonvan Pelt’s is one of my favourite guides

After following the guide(s) everything appeared to be working correctly. Two or three handsets managed to enrol successfully and everything was looking good. However, after a while, devices started to fail to enrol with the message “invalid profile“.

Looking through the xCode logs the only error was as follows:

Jan 20 09:38:39 iPhone Setup(ManagedConfiguration)[224] <Notice>: Failed to parse profile data. Error: NSError:
Desc : Invalid Profile
US Desc: Invalid Profile
Domain : MCProfileErrorDomain
Code : 1000
Type : MCFatalError

Not much to go on here! After working with Citrix support an error was found in the support bundle created within XenMobile. When DEP devices are added to XenMobile they are initially created under the “Device Enrolment Program User” identity. Once a “real” user signs in to the device it switches owner and is assigned to the real person.

In our setup we had the “devices per user” setting capped at five. As such, any user wishing to enrol a sixth device would receive an error. Looking at the support bundle, it stated that the “Device Enrolment Program User” had exceeded the number of devices allowed (5) and was unable to add any more devices.

Logging in as a full administrator (need to access the enrolment setup tab) you can change the number of devices permitted. The Citrix guide is here. By setting the enrolment limit to “unlimited” the “Device Enrolment Program User” was able to bring in all the devices allocated under our DEP account (more than five!).

The downside to this quick fix was any “real” user would also be able to have an unlimited number of devices. Citrix advised that for DEP enrolment you could create a new enrolment group/profile and assign it to just the DEP accounts. This would restrict normal users whilst allowing DEP to function correctly.

This “bug” took a while to hunt down… The use of a “user” account (Device Enrolment Program User) to manage the DEP import activity is, in my personal opinion, a weakness of the Citrix implementation. User based policies, such as number of devices etc, should only apply to “real” people. System accounts should sit outside of these controls. The key point here, a reasonable setting applied to an end user breaks the DEP function.

Hopefully the above will save someone else going around in circles… let me know in the comments!

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What we are witnessing—from a Southern White Woman’s perspective

“We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership.” —Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis, June 2020

I actually don’t think that’s all we’re witnessing. I think our problems run much deeper. Four hundred years deep, dating back to the day the first slave stepped off the ship onto the soil that would one day be the soil of the United States.

Oh where were our visionaries then?

I suppose we could look to our founding fathers. Well, not all of them. But Benjamin Franklin allowed himself to be educated on the slave situation, though he remained pessimistic about integrating Black people into society. However, a thoughtful, intelligent man could not help but be troubled by what he himself saw as “an atrocious debasement of human nature”.

Yet he owned two slaves himself. And Benjamin Franklin was the best white man we had to offer at the time.

Jump ahead a few centuries. On June 16, 2015, Donald J. Trump announced he was running for president. Less than a year later, it was obvious he had the support to win. To the befuddlement and consternation of thoughtful, intelligent people everywhere, Donald J. Trump went on to become president of what was once the greatest nation in the world.

Life went on, but from that moment, the rights of the marginalized were under attack and in danger. As Mattis says, we haven’t had mature leadership. We have had evil leadership. Ignorant leadership. Leadership with the rights and privileges of the rich and powerful and white (and mainly male) prioritized. And our institutions have suffered because so much of them is controlled by that very demographic. It’s hard to stand up for what’s right when your stock portfolio is soaring. It’s hard to be concerned about “the others” when your race/religion/party is on top.

“The founding fathers, in their genius, created a system of three co-equal branches of government and a built-in system of checks and balances. I feel as though that is under assault and is eroding.” —Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, May 2017

Turns out Clapper was right. Our institutions have crumbled. Our checks and balances are nearly gone. And now we have a choice to make. The economy is on the verge of recovering after the blow it was dealt by Trump’s mismanagement of the coronavirus crisis. We haven’t seen the last of COVID-19, but people are learning how to live with the danger. That’s not even the wrong thing to do. We had to adapt. We are strong that way. Where we are weak is remembering the bad times.

Black Lives Matter has a chance for the first time in our history to make a difference. As a Southern White Woman—which I put in capitals because I worry constantly that it defines me to others, but, worse, to myself—I know this is important. It is important to every marginalized human being in our country including women, but it is most important to the Black community, which may finally throw off four hundred years of oppression.

Can we as a nation find the strength to resist a government which would oppress all of us—all but the powerful, white, and rich? Can the powerful, white, and rich find it in themselves to resist the call of more power and more money? Some have. James Mattis was one of them. There have been others.

“We have a moral obligation to continue in our just cause, and we would bring more than shame on ourselves if we don’t. We will not thrive in a world where our leadership and ideals are absent.” —Senator John McCain, October 2017

“Without fear of the consequences and without consideration of the rules of what is politically safe or palatable, we must stop pretending that the degradation of our politics and the conduct of some in our executive branch are normal. They are not normal. Reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior has become excused and countenanced as telling it like it is when it is actually just reckless, outrageous and undignified.” Senator Jeff Flake, October 2017

Can others follow? Can we all come to realize what is wrong is wrong even when it is not in our own interests? I don’t know. In November 2020 I hope I will find out. I pray what has been normalized—whether that has happened over four years or four centuries—will be rejected. Only then will the symbols of freedom we treasure mean anything at all.

Southern White Woman signing off.

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Happy 4th: Losing focus and the American flag

It’s a quandary for me right now. I love the American flag. I want to feel proud of my country and celebrate what is wonderful about it. But everything is out of focus. I can’t fix on any one thing that makes us special. We’ve drifted so far from what our founding fathers wanted us to be, but I think it’s all a result of a series of mistakes.

Maybe the first mistake was in ever thinking that the wounds a civil war inflicts upon a nation can ever be fixed. Or maybe it was in believing that such a huge expanse of such varied terrain—which, by nature, requires differences in the people who seek to live there—could ever be united in one cause. But I believe the mistake came when white men first set foot on this land, which already belonged to someone else.

You can’t own what’s not for sale. You can steal it, but you’ll never really be the owner.

Think about that the next time you’re feeling particularly possessive of all your survey, whether it’s the view from a penthouse, the beachfront, or just your neatly mown front lawn. It’s all stolen. Or maybe just borrowed.

It’s easy to lose focus. It’s easy to forget and whitewash and remember only what we wish. The big picture is made up of many small pictures, after all. But every so often, it’s useful to study those small pictures and remember, divided as we might all be, we are all, at best, borrowers—at worst, thieves.

And when we pledge allegiance to our flag, we’re promising to continue the tradition.

Jesus Walked Into the Waffle House

Between sexual harassment and racial discrimination, it sometimes seems as if our nation is tearing itself apart at the seams. I wonder if we stopped and looked at the other person’s point of view if we’d see how these things happen—not planned violence or gangs or murder or anything truly evil, but the moments of passion that humans get carried away by. The moments when our failings all add up and someone suffers for it.

I wrote this story in response to several news stories. It might not be popular among those who think every choice they make is the right one, but try to see our world as Jesus, who—according to every Bible story and every preacher—loves us all, would. (For another Jesus story, you could try Jesus Walked Into Planned Parenthood.)

Jesus Walked Into the Waffle House

By Michelle Garren Flye

On the night of the local prom, Jesus walked into the Waffle House. He didn’t want waffles or pancakes. He smelled the frying bacon and shook his head. Hadn’t His Father warned them about that?

He smiled at the hostess, an older white woman who worked the night shift so she could take care of her daughter’s two fatherless children during the day. The hostess didn’t smile back, but Jesus knew it was because the baby had skipped his nap that afternoon and she was simply too tired to smile. As He walked past her, however, her head lifted and she straightened her shoulders. As if she felt a surge of strength to carry on.

He moved peacefully into the dining room where a trucker sipped coffee and thought about his family at home. His wife was pregnant and her father had just gotten sick. The trucker worried that the stress would be too much for her. Jesus laid a hand on the man’s shoulder. “She’ll be all right.” The trucker looked up and nodded. He had faith but sometimes it was sorely tested.

The waitress was taking a break. Her feet hurt. She’d already worked six hours when the manager asked her to work another shift. But she needed the money. She had tuition to pay and no one to help her. She wanted nothing more than to graduate and really get her life in order.

Jesus leaned on the counter beside her. The manager came over. “There’s some prom kids outside. We’re likely to have a rough couple hours of it.” The manager saw prom kids every year at this time. Sometimes drunk or high—and always rough and rude—they often came to the Waffle House for a late night snack after prom. The very thought of them exhausted him. He shook his head and muttered, “Two a.m.? Those kids should be home.”

Jesus knew he couldn’t stop what was going to happen. He could see it now. The manager’s daughter had been raped once and he felt protective of the young waitress who was just trying to make her life better. When the young black man dressed in his prom tux complained about the food to the waitress, the manager would interfere. The black man, who was still young enough to think every choice he made was the right one, would reply, rude and indignant that he had been challenged. The trucker, still worried about his wife, and the hostess, tired and thinking of her daughter and grandchildren, would call the police at the first signs of trouble, long before anyone could calm down and think about what they were doing.

And when the police arrived, a pissed off cop would see a sobbing young white waitress and an angry black boy surrounded by the patrons and employees of the Waffle House, all arguing. And the cop would direct his own anger—born of years of these kinds of nuisance calls—at the boy. The boy whose grandmother was so proud of him for his last report card, and whose teachers had promised he would do great things. The boy who wanted to go to college and get an engineering degree, but who had made a bad choice by smoking a joint behind the gym at the prom and now felt invincible.

Jesus could only watch as the cop proved he wasn’t.


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Holiday Prep-Baking and Meal Prep

Holiday Prep-Baking and Meal Prep

Hi all,

It’s our final post from our Holiday Prep Series. So, we’ve made our lists, finalized decorations, prepped our gift wrap stations and made our gift list. Now, it’s time to get our meal planning on! Are you sticking with the family traditional meal, or setting new traditions with new dishes? Whatever it may be, it’s never too early to start prepping. Here are a few tips to get you ahead of the grocery game and leave no room for rushing when it comes down to cooking.

1. Stock the pantry with essentials. Consider what dishes you will be making or desserts you will be baking and pick up the non perishable items in advance. Flour, sugars, baking powder/soda, spices, canned foods and frozen goods, etc. No one likes standing in long in mile long checkout lines during the holidays for a mere bag of flour! Here’s a list of pantry essentials to help you remember the must-haves.

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2. Once you’ve finalized your meals, take inventory of your pots, pans and serving dishes. Make sure you have one for each dish on the menu, otherwise now might be a good time to borrow or buy! Like that set of Le Creuset collection you’ve had on your wishlist.

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3. Cook ahead, for last minute holiday guests or a pre-made meal that isn’t takeout when you want to focus on gift wrapping or family game night. Need some ideas, or 150 ideas? Taste of Home has some great suggestions.

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4. Schedule a baking day. Years ago I started a tradition of taking a work day off for a full baking day with a girlfriend.  Kids are in school, husband is at work, turn up the Christmas music and bake away! So much more fun with a good friend. And, we each plan ahead with a few favorite recipes, bring all the ingredients and not only bake together but share our baked goods at the end of our day! It’s a fun day we spend together.

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5.  Calendar time block – block out the time on your calendar on which days you will accomplish these tasks.  The tricky part…sticking to it! I know I struggle with this.  But honor yourself and stick to your schedule and you’ll be much happier when you are on track with the prep and stress free! Or at least stress reduced, we’ll aim for that!

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6. Then create a cooking schedule for the day. Make an hour by hour list of what needs to be cooked and in what order it needs to be cooked. When to prep veggies, what time to put the turkey in the oven, how long will it take bake your sides, etc. This is also a great way to delegate tasks to your kitchen helpers.

7. A final, and very important piece of advice – don’t hesitate to go with a pre-made dish or two. Whole Foods has some delicious options. Not baking from scratch will make you no less of a wonderful host or hostess!

I hope you’ve enjoyed our series? Happy prepping and happy upcoming holidays!

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Michelle’s Tote-full of Loves

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Today I’m sharing my likes, loves and every day must haves. From shopping to shoes and designing to reading, here is my tote full of loves!

For the farmer’s market or a beach day, this J. Crew woven tote is the perfect carrier. What’s in the bag? For design inspiration or some light weekend reading, House Beautiful is my go to. For my soul food reading I have daily devotions tucked away in my purse with the First5 app. As an avid believer in supporting local businesses, I find the sweetest gifts and home decor pieces at Hedge & Vine. (Visit them on Facebook). For fresh food and blooms, the Town & Country Markets on Lakemont Blvd is my favorite. Mood lighting is a must in any home, Currey & Company has some wonderful options, like the natural Capiz shell lamp. Looking for trendy, classy and everything in between baubles? I love Kendra Scott! There is nothing that sets the mood more than a candlelit space. Aerin Lauder is one of my favorites for, well, everything – her candles have the most wonderful scent and gorgeous packaging. My designer go-to’s? Durable and luxe everything! Perennials is at the top of my list for indoor-outdoor fabrics. Pental Surfaces has an endless selection of materials to beautify surfaces in the home… from backsplashes to countertops, they have some of the best options. And, of course, there’s nothing like shopping in fabulous shoes! Tory Burch’s wedges are divine!

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How to build banquette bench seating

In this article, I’m going to teach you how to build banquette seating for your home, including blueprints, materials list, and all the instructions you should need to make your own bench seating.

Before getting started, download the full blueprints for reference

In this article, I’m going to teach you how to build banquette seating for your home. When I was just getting started, I came across a bunch of helpful articles online, however none of them quite described exactly what I was trying to do, specifically:

  • Using pre-made cabinet drawers for the base (in order to match the rest of our kitchen)
  • Constructing an angled back, which requires a bit of simple math
  • Install electrical outlets on both ends of the banquette

Long story short, this article is the one I wish I’d had. It describes the exact process by which I built my bench seating, but also calls out opportunities for you to take your own creative license as well – because that’s where all the fun is! Enjoy!

Plan Phase #1: Measure your space

First order of business is figuring out what you’re working with. Grab your sketchbook and make a very loose drawing of the space you’re working with, making note of any important measurements. This includes things like:

  • Length of walls the benches will be against
  • Location of windows
  • Location of light switches and outlets

The important thing to remember here is that you want to make note of any and all features (existing or future) that might impact how and where you build this thing.

  • One thing I like to do is actually visualize the build process from start to finish and try to anticipate any potential obstacles/issues that I could possibly run into. For example: So I’m going to build the base, and I’ll need to watch out to not build it longer than this electrical outlet. Then I’m going to build the back, and I need to make sure it’s lower than the lowest light switch and window. . .

Plan Phase #2: Create a sketch (or 50 sketches)

The first step of any great project is to draw it up on paper. For some people this can be 1-2 simple drawings. For me, I like to nerd out in all the details and I end up with about 50 sketches in my notebook.

As you move from lower to higher fidelity plans, there are a few key measurement to consider. The good news is that as long as you stay within these broad ergonomic guidelines, you really can’t go wrong and the final product is going to work great.

Seat height & depth

Optimal seating height is anywhere between 17-20″, and optimal depth is 16-18″. Depending on the thickness of the cushions, simply adjust your dimensions accordingly. I went with 17.25″ seat height (16.5″ cabinet height + 3/4″ plywood topper) and a seat depth of 19″ (planning for some thick backrest cushions).

Back angle

Building a bench with a straight back is definitely simpler, however comfort-wise an angled back is definitely the way to go – and it’s really not that hard to do. Ideal back angle is 100-110°. I went with about 105° for this project.

Back height

Back height is really up to you. Some benches look good with a really low back and some nice long cushions, others have wainscotting backs that go way up the wall. Your call. For this project, I decided on 17″ after experimenting a bit with cushion height and what felt like the right distance below the bottom of the window ledge we’re working with.

Seat Angle

A seat base that is a bit higher in the front than the back can help mitigate that feeling of sliding forward out of one’s seat. Some resources recommend a negative incline (aka “dump”) of a couple degrees or more. For this project I was working with pre-made cabinet bases, and thus decided to just keep the seat flat.

Build Phase #1: Base

In order to match our existing kitchen cabinets, and to make my life a bit easier, I ended up going with some prefab KraftMaid Pedestal Drawers that are really easy to install, and look and function great.

If you decide to build your own base instead, there are a ton of great tutorials out there. Either way, there are really just a few key things to keep in mind when building out the base.

Level ALL the things

Start by drawing a level line along the wall where the top of your base will go. If you’re building it yourself, just choose your height. If you’re using prefab cabinets, put them in place and then mark the highest point, then draw your level line from there.

Use shims and a nice long level (like 4′) to ensure that your base top is level. This means level along the length of the bench, as well as the perpendicular axis from front to back. Ideally if these axes are in order, then with prefab cabinets like the ones I used, vertical faces should all be relatively square as well, but if you’re building your own base you’ll want to verify they’re square as well. You can even use shims between the wall and the back of the base to vertical-ize things if needed. Basically, level all the things, you won’t regret it.

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Attaching (or not) to the floor

Ideally you’re installing cabinets directly to the sub-floor (e.g. concrete), as this makes a lot of things easier. In this case, you can go ahead and bolt/screw them in and then run the flooring up to within a 1/2-1/4″ of the cabinets edge (to allow for thermal expansion). We already had flooring in place, and so I just went the lazy man’s route. If you’re placing the cabinets on top of existing flooring, you do not want to attach them to the floor, since the floor boards can expand and buckle if they run up against screws/hardware. In this case you just want to attach to the walls.

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Build Phase #2: The Seat

Once the base cabinets are in place, the actual seat base goes on top. I simply used some nice ¾” oak veneer plywood, cut to size. You can cut it yourself with a circular saw and straight edge, or if you know your exact measurements and are feeling risky, you can have Home Depot (or wherever you buy the wood) cut it for you.

Making the cuts

An L-shaped bench requires cutting at least two rectangles. It doesn’t really matter which side you make longer, there are really just two main things to think about:

  1. If you’re going to include a lift-up door for the corner storage, you’ll want to make sure you design it to play nicely with the rectangles you cut, so that you can cut it out of a single piece and not have to deal with cutting across two panels.
  2. Cut the plywood so that it overhangs the base cabinets by 1-2″. If you have cabinet drawers, make sure this overhang is enough to extend beyond the door/handle faces in whatever way looks good to you. Note: keep in mind that you’ll eventually be adding an ~⅛ veneer finish to the side edge of the plywood, so factor that into you calculations.
  3. If you’re running electrical like I did, you may need to make a cut-out in the seat base to allow for cables. Making these cuts before attaching the seat base will make your life easier (read ahead to the section on electrical).

Attaching the seat to the base

Once you’ve got your rectangles, and you’ve made any additional cuts you’ll need (e.g. electrical cut-out, corner storage door), you’ll want to attach the plywood to your base. You can do this a number of ways, and there probably is a best way, but here’s what I learned:

  • Mark your plywood so you know where you will be able to nail into the base.
  • Run flexible caulk along the surfaces of the base to which you’ll be nailing your plywood. Avoid using glue or anything else that dries brittle, as this will lead to creaking sounds whenever you sit down – I made this mistake.
  • Pre-drill holes where you want to nail.
  • Use some small nails to attach the plywood to the base, ideally using a nail set to sink the nails below the top surface of the wood so that you can late fill them in with wood putty.

Build Phase #3: Backrest

The back is probably the most complicated piece of this whole puzzle, and is actually a lot of fun. In summary, the back consists of the following:

  • 1×2” header and 2×2” footer to secure the ribs to
  • Plywood ribs
  • Backrest base (plywood)

I’ll go through each of these in some detail below.

Header + footer

The header and footer will attach to the wall and bench base, and will provide stability for the vertical ribs. First things first, use a stud-finder and mark the studs in your wall all along the bench length. You’ll want at least two marks:

  1. 2½” above the base (visible right above the 2×2” header)
  2. 17½” above the base (visible right above the 17” tall ribs)

Next, you’ll mount the 1×2” header to the wall. Cut the 1×2” headers to run the full length of each bench segment minus ½” to allow space for the end caps you’ll be adding toward the end. Assuming everything is perfectly level, you should be able to just mark a line across the wall 17” above the seat base, and use this as a guide for the top of your 1×2” header to the wall (long side against the wall). Pre-drill your holes and then screw the header into the wall where you marked your studs earlier.

Header + footer highlighted in red

Next, cut the 2×2” footer just like you did the header. Pre-drill your holes and then screw the footer into the bench base. For added stability, you can also screw the footer into wall using your stud markings.

At this point you should have your 1×2” header running almost the full length of your bench at 17” above the seat base, as well as your 2×2” footer running the same length right where the seat base meets the wall.

The ribs are what provide the actual structural support for the backrest, and they should be solid enough, and spaced closely enough, to minimize flexing of the actual vertical backrest. I used ½” plywood spaced every 1½’. As mentioned above, I wanted about a 105° angle for my backrest, and so my ribs ended up with the following dimensions:

  • Height: 17”
  • Top: 1⅛”
  • Base: 4⅞”

Once you’ve cut all the ribs you’ll need (including one for each end of the bench), you’ll want to make cutouts for the 1×2” and 2×2” headers that you will actually attach the ribs to. Trace the outline of these headers on each rib, and then use a jigsaw to make the cut:

  • The 1×2” header goes at thetopof the rib, and hangs vertically
  • The 2×2” header goes at thebottomof the rib

Lastly, if you are planning on installing electrical outlets in the bench end caps like I did, make sure to drill ½” holes through each rib, centered about 1½” up from the base.

Once your ribs are all cut, you’re ready to secure them to your header and footer. Place your ribs every 1½” as described above, and make sure all your cutouts properly fit your header and footer. Once everything is in place and looking good, you’ll go ahead and pre-drill holes to attach the ribs to the header/footer. At the base, you’ll drill through the side of the rib and into the footer at a 45° compound (doesn’t have to be exact, just whatever lets you fit your drill into this tight space). At the top, the rib is thin enough that you can drill right through the length of the rib. Pre-drill your hole about an inch down from the top of the rib, and then make sure to countersink the hole so that your screw head isn’t protruding above the front face of the rib. You can now go ahead and set your screw and you’ve got your ribs in place!

If you are running electrical, now is the time to make that happen before attaching the backrest face. I won’t say much about the electrical specifically because I’m not a licensed electrician, and you really want to make sure you get this part right. Long story short, here’s what I did:

  • Removed an existing wall socket and instead added a new extender box
  • Ran properly-gauged electrical wire from the extender box through the holes I drilled in each set of ribs
  • Installed electrical outlets in each end cap (this is done after the end caps are installed in build phase #5, but worth noting now.

That’s it. The work is really simply, you just want to make sure everything is to code and you don’t burn your house down.

Plywood back

Next up is cutting your plywood to size for the backrest. Measure the exact length of the front face of your ribs – this is how wide your plywood needs to be. You’ll now cut two strips (one for each backrest) that are exactly this wide.

Note: When making these cuts, you’ll ideally want to set your saw blade to 15°-off-perpendicular to mirror the angle of the backrest and minimize the gap at the bottom and top of the backrest. It’s not the end of the word if you can’t do this however (e.g. if you have Home Depot make the cuts for you), and you can simply fill these gaps with caulk later on.

You should now have two pieces of plywood that are the correctheightfor your backrest, and you now have to cut it to the correctlength.

Note: Since the two pieces of plywood meet at a non-90° angle, there’s a little bit of complexity here, but nothing too bad. We could do a compoun mitre joint, but since this is simply a structural layer, there’s really no need, and it’s much easier to simply abutt one piece of plywood directly against the front face of the other. If you want to do a compound mitre for fun, more power to you.

The first piece can be imprecise, in that it will sit behind the second piece, and any extra will simply be hidden behind the scenes. Take the end of the plywood sheet that will be in the corner (at the intersection of the two benches, and cut it roughly at 15° (note, this won’t match the exact angle of the ribs on the perpendicular bench, but that’s okay for the same reason as mentioned above). Slide the board into place such that it rests flush against the ribs supporting it, and so that the angled end you just cut is tucked nicely in the corner. Make sure that this end of the board is:

  • slid far enough into the corner that it will indeed be overlapped by the perpendicular backrest when that is placed next
  • not blocking any holes you have cut for electrical wire

Once in place, at the other end of the board scribe a line on the backside at the outer edge of the outermost rib. Then cut along this line to finish your first backrest. Pre-drill holes, caulk the bottom edge and the supporting rib faces (to mitigate squeaking), and then screw this backrest into the ribs behind it.

The second backrest requires a little bit more work. Take your sheet of plywood and slide it as far toward the corner as possible, until the bottom corner touches the first backrest you just installed. Ensure the board is pressed tight and flush against the ribs behind it while you follow the next steps.

We now need to scribe the exact angle of the first backrest against the second one. The easiest way to do this is to take a straight-edge and lay it against the second backrest board. Now slide it firmly against the first backrest (the short edge of the straight-edge will now be touching the first backrest). If your straight-edge is wide enough, this will now allow you to scribe a parallel line on the second backrest board. Draw your line and cut. Then follow the same steps as above to cut this board to length and then attach it.

Build Phase #4: Beadboard

Note: I used 3 ft. x 7-1/4 in. x 1/4 in. Vinyl Reversible Panel Wainscot Moulding  from Home Depot, however you can use anything that fits your stylistic preferences.

This step is optional, however I highly recommend it, as it adds a very classic farmhouse look to the finished product. Basically, all of the steps are the exact same as for the plywood with a few call-outs:

  • Beadboard comes tons of different styles and types (e.g. strips vs. sheets) – it’s totally up to you what you want to use.I used strips for this project, and chose to orient them vertically.
  • Unlike the plywood, it arguablydoesmatter how the beadboard lines meet at the corner. I actually didn’t even think about this until it was too late, but I recommend you do as it adds a nice touch. I’d say, either make sure the lines align perfectly, or they’re as far off as possible so it doesn’t look like you just barely missed the mark.
  • When attaching the beadboard to the plywood base, use finishing screws instead of nails, which will be less obvious later. You’ll also want to use plenty of caulk spread nice and thin to assure the board is nicely secured.

Build Phase #5: End Caps + Trim + Finish

To finish everything off, we’ll first add some nice end caps to either side of the bench to hide the unfinished edges of our backrest base and beadboard. Take a square piece of the ½” plywood that’s at least 17” x 6”, and place it flush against the outer face of the outermost rib on one end of your bench. Ensure the bottom edge is flush against the seat base, and the inner face is flush against the rib. Now, on the inside face, trace a line along the outer perimeter of the abutting rib and the front face of the beadboard. Cut out this profile and verify that it precisely covers the outer rib and unfinished edges of the backrest base and beadboard. Once that’s done, attach it with finishing nails to the outermost rib, and repeat all of these steps for the other end cap as well.

Next up is the top rail, which I’ve designed to overhang the top of the backrest by an ⅛” or so to augment that farmhouse look. My math worked out such that a 2½” x ½” strip worked great, but you may have to finesse things a bit depending on the thickness of your beadboard. Go ahead and cut to length so that you have two pieces that meet nicely in the corner (a miter looks great, but a square abutment will work just fine too) and sit flush right in alignment with the end caps you just put in place. Use finishing nails to attach these to the top of the header/ribs they’re resting on.

Next comes the facing trim that sits atop the beadboard in hides the final exposed edge (the front edge of the end cap. I used some primed 2½” x ⅜” trim from Home Depot as it had the nice shallow profile I was looking for. You don’t want something too tall otherwise it might be a bit uncomfortable to sit against. Follow the designs below, and simply attach your trim with a bit of evenly spread caulk and finishing nails.

You bench is now structurally complete! You can now sand and paint the whole thing, caulk any noticeable gaps between the frame and the wall/floor, and kabam – you’re all done! Enjoy your new seating and storage!

The Final Product

After finally sanding/priming/painting, caulking, and adding some nice brass drawer pulls, I am really happy with the final product:

I really hope someone out there finds this helpful! I had a ton of fun researching and building this bench seating, and hopefully my learnings can support you in your own build.

Please let me know if there are any questions or pieces of feedback that come up as you dive in – I’d love to update the post to clarify any missing pieces. Good luck, and happy building!

4 thoughts on “How to build banquette bench seating”

  1. Nicely done! I’m going to tell your brother to stop hassling me to build him a house and recommend your services instead!!!

  2. I found this super helpful as I am trying to also build a banquette bench with drawers storage, but want to avoid having to build the drawers myself. Could you please tell me how did you find those pedestal drawers so that each of them have a base? I cannot seem to buy them individually… All I could find was kitchen base cabinets with multiple levels. Any help is appreciated!

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42 thoughts on “160 in ONE”

  1. Yes, one of my first electronic projects!
    I still have the kit itself, but lost the manual.
    someone there that made the effort to scan it ?

  2. I came a cross a 150 in 1 kit a couple of years ago and had one in my earlier years but no manual. I really appreciate your 160 in 1 post and download. Thank you!

  3. I just purchased a kit that has this manual, as my kids really want to play with it. I’m going to make a PDF copy of the whole manual. I’ll need to sell the copies for a fair amount to cover my time to make it. Depending on how many people respond with interest, the cost will go down dramatically. Should be in the $2 to $10 range. I’ll make sure it’s a high quality copy. Please e-mail me direct (ryan@evsource.com) if interested.

        1. Hi Jeff,

          I understand it looks like I’m trying to sell this as a business venture, which is the wrong impression. I spent over $40 to buy a kit that had the manual, paid an employee about $50 in time to get it scanned, and then I spend company time responding to the inquiries. I’ve sold to date two copies and based in inquiries I’ve had, expect that I’ll sell maybe another 10 or so this year. So you see, I’m still subsidizing this. You’ve seen that in over two years of people inquiring how to get the manuals, nobody has stepped forward to make a scanned copy of it. Why? Because it takes time and money, and nobody has been willing to do that yet. I finally took the plunge and did it. Again, I’m not doing it to make a profit, but I wouldn’t mind making back somewhere close to what I put into it. I have a hard time seeing why it bothers you that I’m “advertising” them on them forum – aren’t I finally providing what people wanted? A copy of the hard-to-find manual at a very fair price?

          If someone steps forward and makes a “free” copy, then they are a more altruistic person than I am. I understand wanting things for free, I take whatever I can find that is and I need. But sometimes, it’s worth spending a little money to get what you need and to compensate those that have spent time making it possible for you to get that.

        2. By the way, I actually took the time to call Radio Shack to ask if there was any problem with me copying the manual, even if I sold the copies to cover my time and cost invested. The nice lady I talked with there said that there wasn’t any problem with that, since it’s helping people out and they can’t get it anywhere else (including from them direct).

  4. can anyone please help me source a copy of the 150 in 1 science fair manual a scanned or photocopy would be great and I would pasy for it.

  5. I also need the manual. If I find one, I’ll post it. Copies fall under the “fair use” copyright law for scholarship.

    1. I am also looking for a 150 in 1 or a 160 in 1 manual.
      Please contact me if you have one.
      Dave Simmons

  6. I am looking for a copy of the 150in1 manual and the 30in1 manual. If any one has a scanned copy htat they could send me a copuy, it would be appreciated.

    I have a 40in1 I could scan and send if anyone neads that.

  7. If anyone could scan these manuals and make them available, please do so. I have my original 150-in-1 although the manual is missing and I just bought a 130-in-1 at goodwill in the hope it had a manual, but it didn’t, although it’s in better condition than my badly worn 150-in-1 unit. My son has expressed an interest in the units currently for sale at Radio Shack, but I’d rather give him one of the old fashioned ones.

    As for those who are worried about copyright, may I point out that this is not like a regular book which has “value” on it’s own (ie. can be read independently). These manuals are only usable (as far as I know) to people who own the kits and Radio Shack received their payment for the manual with the purchase of the original kit. Also, I”m 99% certain that copyright law permits the creation of a copy for archival purposes to replace damaged media (ie. you are allowed to keep one copy if you purchased the original item). I’m pretty sure this applies to manuals as well as CDs and DVDs.

  8. I’m not sure if anyone is still following this thread, but I just found my original 150 in one kit today in the attic and was thrilled. I did every project in this kit and am glad i kept it. Surprisingly, I kept it all in tact, including the original earphone unit and the original wires and manual! I’m cleaning it up and with the book am going to see if the components still work.

    1. Scott,

      Cool! I’m sure the components will still work. I guess it’s possible that the electrolytics have dried out, but I doubt it.

      Have fun with your kit!

    2. Hello Scott,
      Just picked up the 160 in one for my 8 year old son. Did not know at the time there was a manual till my brother said there should be one. My son is excited to use this. Do you still have the manual? Would you be interested in sending me a copy or the original if worried about copy rights? Let me know.

  9. Jeff,
    You’re right, forgot about copyright. If anyone has a manual for the Science Fair 160 that they no longer have need of, let me know. Of course, I’ll pay for shipping. My son loss the original:)

    1. VanO – I’m not aware of an electronic copy of the manual. There may be copyright issues that would prevent us from scanning and posting it here.

  10. I recently found the book for my original kit. The kit itself is long gone. The book is in kind of sad shape, covers missing, last few pages might be missing as well. But if anyone wants it, contact me and I’ll send it to you for the price of shipping.

    1. You have the manual for the 160 in 1 Kit? I have the kit but no manual. I found the kit at Goodwill. I like to collect old handheld games and restore them. When my grandkids get older, they should have a lot of fun while learning. Please e-mail me. thanks -mike

    2. Do you still have this manual? I’m searching high and low for one! I have the kit, and lost the manual in a move. Now my son wants to play with the kit.

      1. Ryan,

        I sent my original, somewhat tattered copy to Michael a couple months ago.

        Since then I have come up with another copy, in much better condition. This would be a good candidate for someone to scan and make available online. However, I suspect that the manual is protected by copyright and I’m not sure what we would need to do to get permission from Radio Shack (who may not be interested in protecting this 25+ year old instruction manual anyway).

        1. Anyone still have the manual? I’ll pay to have it copied. I was given 6 of these, none with a manual. I want to use for my cub scout group. any help would be appreciated.

    3. I would appreciate your offer, I would gladly pay for the shipping of this manual if you still have it. Please let me know. Thanks.

  11. I still have my 160 in 1 kit, salvaged a capacitor and the 9v battery connector from it, but otherwise it’s still intact. It was a great learning toy that kept me out of trouble for hours! My son has taken an interest in it, he’s 8 and want’s to be an electronic tech like his old man. I have to dig up the book though, it’s somewhere in my piles from yester-year.

  12. I didn’t have 160-in-ONE, only 150-in-ONE! I feel cheated. No wonder my life is only exactly 93.75% of what it could have been. 🙁

    I remember hours and hours putting circuits together. I wish I could recapture that excitement.

  13. I still have a Radio shack 10 in 1, 50 in 1, 75 in 1, and 150 in 1, all with the manuals and wires… Got each of them for Christmas, various years of my childhood…
    A wonderful gift for any kid…

    I’m keeping mine, and giving them to my son when he gets a bit older…

  14. Mine came with the manual. They do show up on ebay fairly regularly, you may be able to find a manual missing it’s kit or maybe an entire kit for under $20.

  15. I had one similar to this as a kid and actually received this exact kit at a white-elephant Xmas party this year but no project manual. I’ve been scouring the web looking for a copy of the manual, but no luck… I think my son would love this, but without the project guide it is fairly useless.

    1. I have this kit too. If I get a copy of the manual I’ll let you know, maybe I can scan it and e-mail it to you.

  16. I had one of these exact items as a kid. I got it used, from a cousin. I love it – I did most of the experiments, it was very fun. I eventually trashed it while trying to ‘strike out on my own’. Some of the components never worked after that, and I shelved it. Recently, I picked the same one up NEW IN THE BOX at a garage sale for 50 cents – can’t wait to try it out! The wires are still tied in their little bundles with tinned ends

  17. Same here. My Dad (hi Dad!) bought me one when I was very young – maybe 7 or 8. I didn’t know how the circuits worked either but it was easy enough to put them together. I remember showing them off to people and carrying the kit around everywhere. The most impressive circuit was probably the morse code transmitter.

  18. Stephan,

    That is one of the first circuits in the book and the first one that I made when I bought my kit off ebay last year – my original kit was torn apart during my darker teenage years. 🙂

    It turns out you can still buy kits like this new, although not this exact model.

    Every kid should have one of these. It’s probably the best way to get exposure to electronics at a young age, period.

  19. Oh yeah. Wasn’t there a sample circuit in the instructions that used the “CdS” cell and speaker to make something that sounded like a theramin?

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If you could choose one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?

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Ice cream is my lifeblood. I cannot and will not live without it. The problem is ice cream is not exactly healthy. I love this sweet, creamy, delicious concoction, but I know it does not love my waistline. To add insult to injury, its not too cheap either. A pint of Ben & Jerry’s can cost up to $8 in NYC!

Fun Fact: I once went on a mission to try every Ben & Jerry’s flavor. Every Sunday I would buy a new pint and house it. It was an electric time in my life…

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Many Latin American countries, which have disclaimed the authoritarianism and opted for democratic changes in the period of the late 1970s-1990s, faced the weakness of new political institutions, a number of unresolved social-economic issues, and a huge gap between wealth and poverty. Millions of indigenous people lived in poverty and demanded social equity. A potential conflict became imminent because of the denial of Latin American electors to trust the right parties and vote for the leftist parties in many countries of the region. Latin America has become a place in the world where the alternative to neoliberalism was manifested the most. A distinctive feature of the “left turn” was the establishment of the radical left-populist regimes with different levels of anti-imperialist direction and attraction to “socialism of XXI century” in a range of countries in the continent (Venezuela, Bolivia, Equator, and Nicaragua). The profound changes in the economy in the late 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s were caused mainly by external impacts. The expected financial growth was supposed to reduce poverty and thereby lead to concentrating a public sector on the social policy. Despite that, the government tried to stabilize the economy, thus improve the general state of the region. Nevertheless, the changes brought positive influence only on the economy and politics, but people’s conditions of social life remained not as good as expected.

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The main reforms implemented in Latin America between the late 1970s and 1990s

The reforms started when John Williamson shaped the so-called Washington Consensus – the list of recommendations, which has become “the clearest enunciation of the basic premises behind neoliberal reform” (Burdick et al. 217). The Pinochet – a “radical conservative experiment” (Burdick et al. 217) in the 1960s had resulted in “an endemic, poverty-multiplying economic malaise” (Corrales 44), an unprecedented level of inflation, and the high rates of unemployment. In the period between 1975 and 1981, the Latin American countries often misused funds and the region was highly indebted, which had led to the crisis in 1981-1982. During the 1980s, they have tried to return the national debts, which caused inefficient transfers, and that, in turn, led to the negative growth rate in the income per capita. After this, between the 1990s and 2000s the region had met larger foreign direct investment, which was used to get existing assets, thus made it possible to recover and change the economy. A few years after 1998, net capital inflows still remained negative, so Latin America fell into a stagnation period. An important step in implementing the reforms was the reduction of tariffs. Due to the so-called Lerner symmetry, tariff reduction correlates with the export growth, since the taxing imports and exports have the same influence on the international trade, which means that reducing tariffs contributes to the exports. Neoliberalism had actually saved the region from the economic instability and kept the new Latin America in democracy. However, the new economic model had different outcomes in various countries. For instance, the experiment in Uruguay and Argentina “were of short duration and ended in the debt crisis of the early 1980s with poor results” (Reinhardt and Wilson 3).

Turning to Williamson, his Washington Consensus included 10 recommended policy instruments that introduced a basic ideal of macroeconomic policies, free-market capitalism, and outward-oriented economy, mainly – stabilization and liberalization. Stabilization was a necessary step towards economic growth, and it stressed the importance of implementing the reforms. Liberalization, on the contrary, had to change the way of economic development. Both of these policies equally form the basis of the “World Bank’s call for a market-friendly approach to economic development” (Reinhardt and Wilson 3). The documents served as a base for the reforms and for the implementation of some items that were modified. The first part of the reforms occurred by the late 1980s, which mainly included stabilization: the region restored from liquidity in the international banking system, recovered export prices, and established a secondary market for the region’s debt. These enabled to reduce widespread activities and introduce liberalization in such specific markets as the financial system, the foreign trade, and the labor market. The reforms started first in Chile, Bolivia, Mexico, and Costa Rica in the mid-1980s; and then extended to Argentina, Venezuela, and Peru at the beginning of the 1990s; and eventually, in fact, the most important reforms were in Brazil. This country has started to improve its economy in 1990, and soon after 1994, it developed a strong program of privatization. However, almost all countries of the region were fulfilling economic reforms by the mid-1990s, even though their intensity and scope varied. The term “neoconservative,” which was popular at the time of Pinochet’s governance, was “replaced by a variety of terms, including ‘structural adjustment programs,’ the ‘neoliberal’ model, and finally, the ‘new economic model’” (Reinhardt and Wilson 3). It must be mentioned that the content and logic of the new economic model were the same as the original neoconservative forebear.

Turning to the left parties, they received the benefit from the crisis in two ways. First, incumbent parties became weaker due to the economic conditions, and after 1998 they have lost the presidency. Many of those parties were Right, so when they have lost their power, the Left could obtain that power. Second, public support for the economic status quo enshrined in the Washington Consensus was lowered: “Support for neoliberal policies like privatizations started to wane in the late 1990s” (Levitsky 10). In essence, the Left could renew their activities in the region owing to the two factors. The first is inequality, since “despite economic stabilization and the resumption of growth in the 1990s, Latin America remained plagued by severe poverty, inequality, and social exclusion” (Levitsky 7). A second factor was “the institutionalization of electoral competition” (Levitsky 7). These two conditions have made it possible for the Left to overcome its internal crisis caused by the Cold War and restore the political o?ensive in the late 1990s.

Social outcomes of the reforms

Positive outcomes of the implementation of the reforms in the social life of the people in the region consisted in intentioned improvement in the delivery of public services. As a matter of fact, healthcare, housing, and other social indicators were significantly enhanced in the 1990s, even in the countries that faced a period of stagnation.

Table 1

Colombia: poverty as measured by unsatisfied basic needs, selected years percent of all households, 1973-2005

Source: Departamento Nacional de Estadistica de Colombia.

Although the reforms of the market had a positive influence and resulted in stabilization and economic liberalization, they also had negative outcomes. As Latin American countries had to handle stagnation at the same period when social reforms had to be introduced, the manufacturers had to devise a way to combine those two processes. Obviously, the situation when the country cannot receive any external help and the numbers need to be changed has positive perspectives, since the quantity comes under the quality. The manufacturers decided to spend less money on the workspace environment, which would give them the ability to hire more workers. From the operational point of view, that, in fact, will not bring positive results for the company in a long-term perspective. Additionally, payroll was very low and many prices increased, which only led to the growth of unemployment percentage: “wages and employment benefits for some workers in some privatized firms declined, while prices of some privatized services increased” (Corrales 50). As soon as workers do not have enough workspace and payments, it is clear that the unemployment rate would increase further.

The above-mentioned issues concerned both agricultural and industrial employment. Table 2 shows how the employment rate of the mid-1980s was lower than both the rate of 1970s and 1990s. As a result of the crisis in the early 1980s, firms started to diminish investments and employment rates with the purpose of reducing the costs. Owing to implementing the reforms, multiple firms started to act differently at that period: they focused more on cost reductions on inventories, reduction by reorganizing production process, and reduction in product diversity. It is clear that with such strategy in business they could still propose workplaces, but the new accent negatively influenced the final product of manufacturing and lowered the conditions at those workplaces.

Table 2

The economically active population (EAP) sectoral average annual growth rates, 1970-1997

Sources: Calculated from EAP data in ECLAC (1998) for 1970, 1980, 1990; and from data provided by Jurgen Weller, ECLAC, for the early 1990s and 1997.

Table 3

Sectoral employment shares, Latin America 1970-97

As may be seen from Table 3, the growth of employment was mainly concentrated in the service sector. At the same time, the growth of industries through the years was positive only for the services and agriculture, while industries only gradually declined with a flow of time. Numerous problems with employment have undoubtedly led to many social issues. For instance, a person who cannot get a job especially wanted one, becomes to feel unnecessary, inefficient and deceived as the government did not fulfill the expectations entrusted to it. On the society scale, this leads to degradation and the later this period of unemployment ends, the bigger degradation society will encounter.

It is evident that the countries of Latin America have faced difficulties during the 1980s and 1990s. The change of contrary directed leading parties several times during that period, new strategies in politics and broken management of industries have triggered a huge economic crisis that caused the biggest level of inflation in some countries. Moreover, it is obvious that the new economic model made a significant impact on producers’ decisions in the region, which, in turn, directly influenced the employment rate. Economic and social lives are always correlated and each of them influences another one, but it is certain that the economy has a crucial role for both of these factors. It is important to remember that the outcomes of reforms can be checked for their efficiency after some period after their implementation. Probably, the very first problem in the current issue was the fact of increasing social unrest. Many politicians succeed in the elections just because they represented critical economic and social policies. However, the new politicians and parties proved to be incapable of implementing the necessary changes in social and economic life.

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The 9th International Flotation Conference (Flotation '19) was organised by MEI in consultation with Prof. Jim Finch and was sponsored by Magotteaux, Maelgwyn Mineral Services, FLSmidth, Axis House, Promet101, Metso, Glencore Technology, Eriez, Outotec, BASF, Clariant, Kemtec, ZEISS, Senmin, Hudbay Minerals, Nouryon, Solvay, Festo & Gold Ore. Media sponsors were International Mining & Imformed.

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This two day symposium focused on the application of flotation, and included sessions on:

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