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Camino de Australia Update

Since our last update three weeks ago we have travelled another 900km!

We are now just 50km from Portland and looking strong to reach Port Melbourne by the semester break. Over the last few weeks we stopped very briefly a Seven Hills and St Ignatius College Adelaide.

Here are a few things we learnt during our visit:

Seven Hills

• Located in the Clare valley and is the first winery established in South Australia by Jesuits who migrated from Germany in 1851.

• The winery was established to produce sacramental wine for Australia.

• Seven Hill is still owned by the Jesuits today and produces sacramental wine and high quality table wines that are available Australia wide.

• Fun fact: Sacramental wine in Australia is fortified. This is uncommon in the Church and was approved so that wine would not 'go off' as priest travelled large distances on horse back in the early Church in Australia.

St Ignatius College Adelaide

• Established: 1951

• Structure: Co-educational over two campuses. Junior (K-6) and Senior (7-12).

• Motto: 'Deo gloria' - Glory to God.

• Size: 1500 students

• Principal: Peter Coffey

• Vision: "Saint Ignatius’ College reaches beyond academic achievement to shape the morals and ethics of the whole person. Our unique approach to pastoral care champions inclusivity and compassion, relying on the development of one’s conscience. In doing this, we seek to form men and women who live fully when they live not just for themselves, but for others too".

As we finish up for the term I anticipate that this may be penultimate blog post for the Camino de Australia as if we continue at the current rate we will travel around Tasmania and arrive back at school (virtually) before staff and students return physically at the beginning of Term 3!

Read the blog and check our progress here: https://sicgwolfpack.weebly.com/camino-de-australia.html

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I work with the open source content management system Drupal on a daily basis, I've designed sites for local and international organisations. Modules are essential for my work, these are the ones I work with everyday and use in some fashion on almost every website.

1. CCK - Content Construction Kit

Almost every website will need to define content fields in some way so that it is easy for the user to enter data and to report off, the CCK module gives you this flexibility to do this. These can be anything from simple number and text fields to select boxes, radio buttons and image upload fields. CCK is one of the main reasons Drupal is a flexible platform allowing for the quick development of website.

Being able to store all your data is great however what really matters is how you display this data to the end user. By being able to select what fields you want to display, pass arguments and setup filters, Views is incredibly powerful and goes hand in hand with CCK.

3. Panels

Panels is a great way to mix different views and blocks into the same page in different columns. The panels module comes with either two or three column layouts giving some great flexibiltiy to page design.

4. Pathauto

Clean URL's are a great way to give a more descriptive URL, the path auto module allows you to automatically generate different urls for different types of content. For example on ImAFish it differentiates and .

5. TinyMCE

TinyMCE integrates a Javascript WYSIWYG editor into Drupal providing an easy way to add formatting to pages. It doesn't matter about the type of site I'm building, the client always needs a way to easily edit a pages content. TinyMCE makes this goal possible, I don't think there has been a Drupal site to date where I haven't integrated TinyMCE in.

IMCE integrates an image upload box into TinyMCE and provides basic controls for resizing images. IMCE is here for a similar reason that TinyMCE is, people love to put pictures on web pages and usually these start out on a users computer. IMCE provides an easy way to upload these images so that they can be positioned on a page with TinyMCE.

Good selection of essential Drupal mods Pete.We've just released modules for our 3 image zooming tools. They're free for non-commercial use, or a small fee for commercial sites. As a result, we can't include them on I'd be pleased to hear what you think of them . Here is the module page for Magic Zoom Have a look at Magic Thumb and Magic Magnify too!

Jake, many thanks for the comment - I really like your module, its a nice alternative to the lightbox module. Does it integrate with imagecache and the imagefield modules??

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Howard Yu on how consumer brands can escape the retail wasteland – from Harvard Business Review

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No industry is failing faster than retail. Recently, the 125-year-old Sears—once the world’s largest retailer—filed for bankruptcy. The public has more or less come to expect the shuttering of stores such as Macy’s, Sears, Toys ‘R’ Us, Kmart, Kohl’s, J.C. Penney, and Barnes & Noble. The ones that manage to escape are discount chains—such as T. J. Maxx and Marshalls—which compete aggressively on price.

Price competition hurts. It also hurts the brands sold inside the stores, which in part explains why consumer product giants like Procter & Gamble are seeing their sales stagnate for products like Tide detergent, Gillette razors, Pampers diapers, and Crest toothpaste.

A recent report by the consultancy BCG documented a general decline in sales among consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the United States during 2017, with mid-sized and large companies losing market share and small companies increasing theirs. Consultancy Catalina also revealed that 90 of the 100 top brands had all lost market share. In dollar terms, small players—defined as those with sales less than $1 billion—grabbed approximately $15 billion in sales from their larger peers between 2012 and 2017.

Shoppers now purchase more online, making fewer trips to stores and seeing fewer in-store promotions. A small but trendy razor club with a hip logo, Harry’s, attracts more Instagram followers and product subscriptions through its website than a fully stocked Gillette aisle in a supermarket ever could. And so Harry’s has been growing 35% year-on-year between 2014 to 2016, three times faster than the industry average, commanding 9% of all online razor sales.

Whereas the Gillette aisle in the local supermarket targets exactly one neighborhood, Harry’s website reaches millions. Harry’s bolsters the subscription habits of its recurring consumers, whereas Gillette relies on in-store impulse buying. When someone buys a razor in a store, Gillette has no clue who’s buying what and when; Harry’s knows it all.

Newcomers like Harry’s still represent only a fraction of the overall market, but they’ve captured the majority of the growth in that time—a defining feature of disruptive innovation. That’s why P&G has been restructuring for 20 years “without much to show for it,” according to one former finance manager. No matter how well P&G reorganizes itself, it can’t reverse the decline from $83 billion in sales in 2008 to $65 billion in 2017 without learning some new tricks.

I came across a report by the Wall Street Journal about Johnson & Johnson and how the sluggish sales of its baby shampoo have forced the company to make a desperate bet. J&J will take out the yellow dye from its iconic golden-hued baby shampoo and make it clear. Whether this will help J&J in the long run, no one knows. But the sluggish sales reflect the same dynamics that P&G’s been facing: market share lost to smaller brands, over-reliance on traditional retailers, and an inability to create direct relationships with consumers at a time when e-commerce is exploding.

Last year, P&G went to war to clean up the online ad market and used its pull as the world’s biggest advertiser to squeeze more information about the effectiveness of digital ads out of Google and Facebook. It slashed digital ad expenditures by more than $200 million and issued an ultimatum for tech firms to become more transparent. That’s a good start. But it also needs a new vision.

Activist investor Nelson Peltz, who sit on P&G’s board, has such a vision. He argues that P&G “must acknowledge that others will inevitably come up with new ideas, new opportunities for growth, and new products that are on-trend with consumers.” He also suggests that “P&G must be proficient at acquiring small, mid-size, and local brands and using its R&D and marketing clout to take them to the next level.”

What Peltz suggested is exactly what Xiaomi is already doing.

By March 2016, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi had invested in some 55 startups, generating products from power banks to air purifiers. Of these companies, 29 were incubated from the ground up by Xiaomi, and four were already unicorns worth over $1 billion. What Xiaomi offers to startups is a combination of funding and incubation by “taking non-controlling shares” and “leaving maximum interests to the startups” so that “they are much more incentivized and willing to fight on the front line,” explained Liu De, co-founder and vice president of Xiaomi.

Startups typically get access to Xiaomi’s brand and distribution—its online channel, its app, and its 300 offline stores. As a result, Xiaomi is poised as not only a low-cost phone maker but also an emerging powerhouse among the makers of the all-important “connected home devices.” “Our ecosystem even gives customers unusual new products that they never knew existed,” said Wang Xiang, Xiaomi’s senior vice president, referring to the company’s Bluetooth speaker, internet-enabled rice cooker, and air purifier (the first affordable one in China)—products that the company claims are not only best in class but also cost less than their existing counterparts.

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P&G should follow suit. It can no longer be a mere “industrial corporation with a future based on technology” but rather must become a house of startup brands that runs pop-up stores, makes home deliveries, celebrates communities with parties, fosters subscription models, and curates compelling product personas, all while gathering comprehensive consumer data to guide new product innovation. In effect, it becomes a sort of coherent conglomerate. It makes a lot of bets, owns numerous largely separate businesses, but uses a few key centralized capabilities like branding and retail distribution to provide each of its subsidiaries with something independent CPG companies can’t match.

This structure would better enable P&G to copy what scrappy upstarts like Harry’s or Warby Parker do. These startups, despite being manufacturers, digitalize all customer touchpoints (like Netflix), control the user experience by forward-integrating into the brick-and-mortar realm (like Amazon buying Whole Foods), and then run data analytics to optimize merchandise mix and inform product innovation (like Alibaba’s Taobao).

So, are such steps too bold for a $235-billion (market cap) company from Cincinnati? The 180-year-old house of brands hasn’t managed to survive this long without making bold steps in the past.

When the first boxes of Tide went on sale in 1946, it was the first synthetic detergent that could deep-clean clothing “without making colors dull or dingy.” Before Tide, all soaps were “naturally” made by heating animal or vegetable fats with water and an alkali base. The benefits of a synthetic detergent that makes “white clothes look whiter” were so apparent that within just three years, Tide outstripped all other brands on the market and became the number one detergent. In the wake of Tide’s introduction, P&G would “no longer be a soap company” but “would become an industrial corporation with its future based on technology,” its technical staff body tripling that of the pre-Tide year of 1945.

But inside P&G, managers had feared the new products might cannibalize their beloved Ivory soap. Only Chairman William Cooper Procter, the last family manager of P&G, remained a staunch supporter of synthetic detergents. In a memorable remark addressed to his staff, he said, “this [synthetic detergent] may ruin the soap business. But if anybody is going to ruin the soap business, it had better be Procter & Gamble.”

P&G made bold moves to save itself in the past. Now it just needs to rediscover that chairman’s mentality. And that might well go for any consumer brand, not least P&G, looking to escape the utter ruins of the retail wasteland.

Howard Yu is the author of LEAP: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied (PublicAffairs, June 2018), and LEGO professor of management and innovation at IMD. In 2015, Yu was featured in Poets & Quants as one of the Best 40 Under 40 Professors. He was shortlisted for the 2017 Thinkers50 Innovation Award, and in 2018 appeared on the Thinkers50 Radar list of 30 management thinkers “most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led.” Yu received his doctoral degree in management from Harvard Business School.

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English teacher: how to use to and too

It's Thursday, and time for another lesson from the English teacher!

Today I'll explain the proper usage of two tiny but important words: to and too. Lately I've noticed that many people--even really smart people who are good writers--have trouble with these little words. Like many words in the English language that present problems, these two words are homonyms. Of course, homonyms give us no trouble when we're speaking. Since they all sound alike, someone listening to us just hears the word and decides on the right meaning in the context of the sentence. When we're writing, though, it's up to us to choose which word is correct.

To is a preposition that indicates direction, such as in these sentences:

I'm leaving now to pick up Mary from her piano lesson.
Lee, give this to your brother.
Can you teach me how to use this word correctly?

Too is an adverb that means also, extra, or very.

I want to go, too!
There's too much ice on the tree branches.
I'm afraid we'll have a power outage before too long.
He's not too happy with his new job.
That is too funny for words.

There's a simple way to remember which to/too word to use: To is your go-to word; you'll use it a lot. Too is the word to use if you mean also or extra; that's easy to remember because it has an extra o.

One of the reasons that writers sometimes have problems with these words is that spell checkers won't catch them. To and too are both legitimate words, so they won't register as misspelled words. It's up to the writer to choose the right word.

Remember this rule:

If you mean to say "also," "extra," or "very much," use the word with the extra "o"!

**Note: There is a third homonym of to and too: the number two. This one doesn't usually cause too much confusion, though.**

Please let me know if you have any specific grammar questions! I'll be very happy to help you if I can.

  1. That is brilliant! I taught 4th grade for a couple of years and this was one of my pet peeves in writing!! Thank you for sharing!

  2. Yes, that's a good one!! I'm always curious about making last names plural/possessive when they already end with "s"

    1. That is the Willis' dog...OR That is the Willises' dog.
    2. The Jones Family...OR...the Jone's Family

    My old boss used to do it one particular way that I was pretty sure was wrong, and it drove me CRAZY. After 5 or 6 years of working with her, she wouldn't fix it!!!

  3. I always enjoy reading your English teacher Thursday posts. I would like to know more about the proper use of "if I were" and "if I was."

  4. you are the most beautiful, fun english teacher i ever had :) does it bug you that i type comments with no capitals?

  5. I could be the English teacher's assistant. :) Thanks for posting this one too!!!! It's another pet peeve of mine. Someday, can you address the apostrophe issue? Like when people add apostrophes in for no reason. Example: Look how many car's are on the freeway.

  6. What a great lesson! One of these days you might have enough posts to use for a book!

  7. I'm trying to drill this one into my 8 year old.

    I have a question/pet peeve. My friend says, "Have you ate yet?" I keep correcting him with "Have you EATEN yet?" Whose right?

  8. I love this series! It helps me remember why I love English so much and that we should always, always, always use correct grammar! Do you think you could do a post on 'a lot' and not 'alot'--it drives me batty to see it on so many blogs!

    thanks! (and I love your blog, too!)

  9. Thank you so much for doing English teacher Thursdays. I am hoping to see one soon on the use of through, threw and thru. Is thru even a word? I think I have it mastered but would love to know for sure.

    I also have trouble with plural/possessive when the name ends in "s" as Amanda does.

    You're such a great help!!

  10. I'm a new subscriber to your blog. The grammar question I have is, when do I use "it's" and when do I use "its?"
    I've already given up on the proper use of "good" vs. "well!"
    Is there any hope for my english speaking abilities? I is a college graduate! :)

  11. So right after I posted my comment/question I scrolled down a few more posts (Google sends me the latest 10 posts when I subscribe) and there's my answer! It's amazing! (I used that correctly, right?) :)
    Thank you, I'm feeling smarter already!

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a comment! I read every one; they make my day. If you have a specific question, please be sure your email address is attached to your profile or leave your email address in the comment; I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Every blessing!


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It was an ironic paradox. Here, David Gilvar and David Burr had built a hugely successful business helping other companies project the right image. But now the growth of their own company was threatened by the image it projected.

Their product -- a lightweight, versatile trade show, or visual communication, exhibit system called Outline -- had done well, with sales climbing from $260,000 in 1980 to $2.5 million in 1982. One of the keys to that success had been the decision in early 1982 to shift from offering the hardware alone to offering finished exhibits, with client-designed panels installed in the folding framework.

That meant trying to reach the design specifiers at advertising agencies and corporate marketing departments who would incorporate the Outline system into the exhibit designs they prepared. But in going after that market, Outline's sales staff actually had to battle against the image the company put forth in its literature. Outline Inc. -- then called Extraversion Inc. -- wanted to present itself as a graphically sophisticated company and attract a design-conscious buyer. But the image the company projected, from its logo through all of its promotional ma terial, was still that of a hardware manufacturer relatively unconcerned about graphic presentation.

"Our brochures and literature were the type of thing that any design-oriented person would probably throw in the wastepaper basket," recalls Gilvar, chair man of the Waltham, Mass.-based company. "[The salespeople] would makes a demonstration, and the fellow would say that's the greatest thing I've ever seen. And after they left, they left behind this terrible brochure that was, if anything, detrimental to marketing.

"Or they'd call up a vice-president of marketing, who'd say, 'Send me a brochure. If I like what I see, I'll make an appointment.' Then they'd send this terrible brochure and never get in the door."

In late 1982, Gilvar and Burr, Outline's president, decided that what the company needed was not just a new brochure, but a complete graphic redesign that would put the company's image in tune with its market. The makeover took more than a year to complete, but it has given Outline's marketing a powerful boost. "We are now getting to people who I'm sure were not in our corner at all with the older version of our marketing pieces," says one Outline executive. Revenues this year, meanwhile, are expected to hit $10.5 million.

"We knew if we could ever communicate to people that our product was that good and that we had something that would make people's lives easier and they could really use it -- if we came up with a promotional piece that could do that, we'd lie off and running. We didn't have anything that did that, but we knew we had [a product] that was unique and could be sold throughout the United States -- not a $10-million company, but a $100-million or $200-million company."

So, in December 1982, Outline began its search for a design firm. The task was beyond the reach of its in-house graphics staff. "Within our framework, there's no one on staff that's involved in a day-today corporate identity program," says David Peck, manager of Outline's visual services.

They had some trouble, however, in finding the right firm. They began by checking out some of the bigger design houses in New York. "We knew, however, that when push came to shove, we'd be 53d on the totem pole in terms of priority," says Burr.

"These big firms were trying to sell us on giving us a new look and a new fancy brochure, a fancy mailing piece, a fancy logo. But they never identified with us and our marketing problems and goals," says Gilvar. "They didn't make us feel like we would be part of the creative process and that our ideas would be valued."

Finally, they discovered a communications-design firm that seemed to suit their needs: Lapham/Miller Associates Inc., of Andover, Mass., and New London, N.H. "They said to us, 'Now, we'll have to sit down and learn about your company, your customers, and your competition so that we can solve that communications problem,' " says Gilvar. "We said, 'Okay, let's talk about it.' "

During that initial meeting in February 1983, "We spent about 85% of the time talking about their product," recalls Ken Miller, president of Lapham/Miller. "Their enthusiasm was infectious. We became equally excited about what we could do for them." There were three more preliminary meetings in which Miller and Ralph Lapham, vice-president of the design firm, probed further into Outline's market, goals, and problems. "They got into our heads and found out exactly what our problems were, what we wanted to accomplish," says Gilvar. Lapham/Miller proposed a thorough graphic makeover, including a new logo, a new brochure, and a mailer -- the first in the company's history. Gilvar and Burr gave the OK, launching a series of intensive meetings with the designers.

Through those meetings, Gilvar and Burr hammered out with Lapham/Miller a whole new identity for Outline -- more consistent, more sophisticated look with an entirely new approach to presenting their product. "Traditionally, people in our industry show what they produced for other people," explains Gilvar. "The idea of selling using a generic ad and showing it in a classy way and being able to sell our message without peddling the greatest exhibit we just did for Sears or American Express was the direction in which we decided to go."

"We had to present their exhibit system as a tasteful complement to an end-user or design specifier and stimulate interest in the various configurations," explains Miller. "We wanted the end-user to dream along with its possibilities. There's very little of 'Put tab A into slot B,' which to all of us distinguished Outline's product from the competition."

As the generic graphic display on the exhibit system, the image of a lemon, they decided, would be their initial theme. "We tried to show that if we could sell something as generic as a lemon and make it attractive, prospective customers could make their own judgment about carrying the system," Miller recalls.

"We were in and out of 10 to 15 meetings with them, doing sketches, then coming back and forth with new ideas," says Lapham. "We must have tried at least 100 different approaches, all of them with the idea that it would be clean, with a kind of Germanic-European look, primarily playing with the most important part of the exhibit, the unfolding part of it."

Lapham took those ideas and translated them into a logo and a capabilities brochure using the lemon premise. The final product went to the printer in March 1984. Other than the color of the lemons, the brochure's chief colors are mauve and gray, "very contemporary colors in the design and architecture world," according to Lapham. The direct-mail piece has the same look as the brochure, carrying out the theme of making a lemon look good. Even Outline's sales offices were painted the same mauve and gray to reflect the new identity.

Outline's direct-mail piece is intended to generate leads for the sales staff. The first mailing was dropped on June 15, and the company plans to mail to a different segment of the market each month. Says David Peck, "One week after it had been dropped, out of the 25 responses we've received a day, 4 or 5 would have some thing extraneous written on the card, like 'Keep up this great image."

The overhaul didn't come cheap. After a year and a half, Outline has run up a tab of nearly $150,000 with Lapham/Miller, including production and printing costs. But Gilvar is enthusiastic about the results. "It's been tremendously successful. But it's the quality of the response we're getting that's most important. The brochures have given us tremendous credibility. None of our stuff gets throw in the wastebasket.

"Now, when we leave a piece behind a an advertising agency, it is well received. We're working on a big order for Estee Lauder in their Clinique area. Now a graphic designer working for a cosmetic company thinks if we're chic, we can make them look chic."


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After a three-month break, due to the unfortunate coronavirus pandemic that brought all sporting events to a halt, cricket is set to resume as England host West Indies at Ageas Bowl, Southampton for the first Test. Also Read - IPL 2020: From Cheerleaders to WAGS, Things You Will Not See During T20 Tournament in UAE Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

The hosts have already announced a 13-man squad for the Test and the side would be led by Ben Stokes – who will lead the side for the first time in the absence of regular skipper Joe Root – who has become a father for the second time. Wicketkeeper-batsman Jonny Bairstow and off-spinner Moeen Ali are set to miss the opening Test. Also Read - India Confirmed Hosts For 2021 ICC T20 World Cup, Australia to Host T20 World Cup in 2022

This is a much-awaited Test as it will be the first time international cricket will resume in the post COVID-19 world. Also Read - Naseem Shah's Nasty Bouncer Hits Chris Woakes Flush on The Helmet | WATCH VIDEO

England will have a good pace battery going into the Test. They have Jofra Archer, Mark Wood, Stuart Broad, Mark Wood, James Anderson.

Squad: Ben Stokes (C), James Anderson, Jofra Archer, Dominic Bess, Stuart Broad, Rory Burns, Zak Crawly, Joe Denly, Ollie Pope, Dom Sibley, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood

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Red Lake shootings case not over despite plea

Although a criminal trial has been avoided, legal action over the March 21, 2005, shootings on the Red Lake Reservation is far from over, The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.

Louis Jourdain, 17, who pleaded to one count to sending threatening messages over the Internet, still has to be sentenced. He could be released with probation or he could be confined until he turns 21. Sentencing could come by the end of December.

In addition to the Jourdain case, a number of civil suits are possible. The families of some of the victims have notified the public school system on the reservation that they intend to seek damages. The mother of Jeff Weise, the 16-year-old shooter who killed nine people before turning the gun on himself, has also taken some legal steps.

Jourdain, the son of Red Lake Nation Chairman Floyd Jourdain Jr., was the only person charged in connection with the shootings. As part of his agreement, the more serious charges were dropped.

People on the reservation are still reacting to the plea. Many say they are still searching for answers. Some say it's too early to tell what will happen as the legal cases proceed.

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Disney World Reopening Ignites Fierce Backlash and Creepy Parody Videos

The park's July 11 reemergence arrives as Florida sets the record for the most new COVID cases reported in a single day.

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“Welcome home,” Disney World employees tell us in a controversial new ad announcing the Florida theme park’s reopening. Maybe not so fast? The Orlando vacation destination opened its doors back up for the first time since March on July 11 with capacity limits and strict mask requirements, but the event was not without some fierce backlash online. The reopening occurred just ahead of the latest COVID-19 totals out of Florida, which set the record on Sunday for the most new cases in a single day reported for any state since the pandemic began, at 15,299.

The ad released on July 8 encouraging parkgoers to return to Disney World inspired a series of parody videos on Twitter, with the announcement’s soundtrack replaced with everything from the music to the trailer for Jordan Peele’s “Us” to the soundtrack for “The Shining.” The video was even repurposed into an A24 trailer, using footage and branding from the preview for Ari Aster’s “Midsommar.” The ad also inspired Twitter users to imagine what the fictional Jurassic Park might look like if it, too, were to reopen during a pandemic. Check them out, along with Disney World’s original ad, below.

The Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom both reopened on Saturday in Florida, with Epcot and Disney’s Hollywood Studios set to follow on July 15. Meanwhile, the Anaheim-based Disneyland has only partially reopened in California, with the Downtown Disney District welcoming back patrons on July 9. According to The Hill, as of July 8, Florida is the global epicenter for the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 270,000 confirmed cases and nearly 5,000 deaths.

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How to customize Requirement Type for hosted SpiraTeam instance

Monday, December 22, 2014
Hi All,

In SpiraTeam release 4.2 the Requirement Type has a default values of Feature, Need, Package (Quality, Use Case, User Story), and for the hosted customer we can't modify these values.  I'd like to be more concise on the requirement types, I could create new Custom Properties to specify Theme, Epic, User Story and label them as Classification for example.  But that seems to be redundant of what out-of-the box intention of the Requirement Type.  Is there any reasons why we can't edit the default values, and a good workaround?
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re: Nguyenphub Monday, December 22, 2014
Hi Ben

Those fields are not currently editable for either hosted or on-premise customers, we do have plans to make them so in v5.0 in 2015.

Also in terms of Epic, Theme, etc. those are really meant to be served in other ways, please take a look at: at the bottom is a table:

SpiraTeamExtreme ProgrammingScrumAgileUP / DSDM
Summary RequirementEpicEpicFeature Group
RequirementUser StoryBacklog ItemRequirement
Test CaseAcceptance TestAcceptance TestTest Scenario

Thursday, February 2, 2017
re: inflectra.jimx Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Version 5.0 (Spirateam)  is released but we still cannot edit "requirement types".

Was the plan to make it customizable dropped?

Thursday, February 2, 2017
re: willy.tongen Thursday, February 2, 2017
Hi Willy,

Sorry, yes, the scope of 5.0 changed. SpiraTeam does not have the ability to customize requirement types yet. That feature is still planned, but I don't know for which version.

Wednesday, June 21, 2017
re: inflectra.kat Thursday, February 2, 2017

Hello, any idea when this functionality is going to be available. I see the need to customise requirement types as key functionality for a test management system, and although we have a workaround in place - it's clunky.

Any ideas, if this is on your product roadmap? if so in what version?

Thanks in advance

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Any idea how long i need to wait to get a respond to a question on here? 6 months is pretty long in my opinion!

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Things to Consider When Creating a Clever Infographic Design

Things to Consider When Creating a Clever Infographic Design

Things to Consider When Creating a Clever Infographic Design

An infographic (information graphic) is a representation of information in a graphic format designed to make the data easily understandable at a glance. People use infographics to quickly communicate a message, to simplify the presentation of large amounts of data, to see data patterns and relationships, and to monitor changes in variables over time.

Almost every niche of businesses is using Infographics to promote the work that they are doing, whether they provide products or services. There is a small quantity out there of infographics which are visually attractive, engaging and educational.

Getting the formula for infographic design can be tough as content marketers do not have the skills to create professional quality graphic design. There are many ways you can improve your homemade infographics but first let’s find out more about this top marketing trend.

Why Is Infographic Design So Popular?

You have probably been living on mars if you haven’t seen an infographic kicking around blogs and social media. Humans are programmed to prefer visual design – it’s a fact! 40% of people will respond better to visual information than plain text and this is why adding imagery to your content marketing is so important.

There is a reason why infographics go viral. Millennials are programmed to share and engage with content which inspires or attracts them. First impressions do count when it comes to infographics as you only have a split second to catch your user’s attention.

Today’s society is surrounded by content and getting it right can be tricky if you have no previous experience in design. Right now there are 3 billion internet users worldwide, and each of us are engaging with social media and sharing per minute more than ever before:

  • Twitter users tweet 277,000 times
  • Google receives over 4,000,000 searches
  • Facebook users share 2,460,000 pieces of information

In the business world, infographics are fatly becoming one of the most popular types of sharable content. If your business hasn’t invested yet, you are at risk of leading an out of fashion digital marketing campaign.

Creating Visual Content for Consumers

What type of people are buying my product/ What Do They Know About My Business?”

“Where are my users hanging out online??” (Instagram, Facebook, Blogger)

“How can I incorporate my marketing plan into my online strategy?”

“What Type of Users/Business will share my content?”

These are the questions you should consider before creating any form of visual content. Keep in mind, content is only effective if there are users reading it. Many businesses spend hours on content which will never be read. Experts in infographic design; Create an Infographic explain that;

“Infographics are a visual way to communicate data and facts quickly. They allow for lots of information to be collated, simply, in one place, meaning the viewer does not have to do lots of arduous reading.”

Infographics and SEO

On the other side of the coin, search engines love infographics SEO stands for search engine optimisation and it is what modern business are using with a digital marketing strategy to promote their business online.

Businesses and consumers are specifically looking for website which feature infographics. Why? Infographics are easier to understand and engage with. If you are a new business, then featuring infographics on your website is essential if you want to get on Google’s much desired page one of search results.

Things to Remember When Creating Infographics

Have a plan. Infographic design requires skill and a systematic approach. Thing of infographics like a deconstructed essay, with a lot less words.

  • The title must be relevant to the content inside
  • Introduce your users to the topic at the start
  • Add statistics which will support your topic
  • Make sure there is a conclusion
  • Add a call to action (contact details/website) that will encourage your users to engage with your business.

Before you rush off to Adobe Illustrator, make sure that you are creating content which will appeal to your audience not just to fill up space of your business timeline. The key to success with infographics is that it must benefit you and your consumers. Create something which will tell your users something they don’t know which directly affects your business.

They will walk away knowing something about your business and something that is of interest to them at the same time, keeping everyone happy. Soon enough you will have user sharing and engaging with your revolutionary new content and that’s great news for any millennial business.

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Wildlife Photography + Field Ethics

The animal is more important than the photo

I believe in the ideas of compassionate conservation ** — where the welfare of individual animals is also important in a conservation context. As a general rule and to the best of my ability, I reduce my impact by observing best field practices, respectful distances, and noting important behavioral cues from the animals.

Ethics Committee Member: North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA)

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My Personal Guidelines

• I use the NANPA Ethics Guidelines and the Audubon Guide to Ethical Photography as models. I’m always learning more about animal behavior and natural history, to better understand the wildlife I photograph.

• I photograph with long lenses, my primary wildlife lens being the Oly 300mm f/4 (which has an effective 600mm reach)

• I don’t bait or lure wild animals like owls or foxes, a practice common in some areas

• I don’t use calls or decoys, electronic or other

• I’m cautious about (and generally avoid) nesting/denning areas

• In macro photography of insects, all photos are taken as I find them, in their natural settings, no staging.

** Compassionate conservation is a debated idea as it challenges the current norms. You can read more about that discussion here.

Young and Nesting Animals

I am especially cautious about photographing young animals and nesting areas, and don’t photograph nests often out of concern for interrupting feeding behavior or alerting predators to the area. Predators can follow scent trails, etc. There are situations, however  — like certain urban heron rookeries or Osprey nests — where, with adequate distance, the birds are accustomed to human presence and are generally not disturbed. Again, I use my best judgment and try to get the pulse of other photographers and birders who also know the area and the local animals.

Natural Light for Wildlife

With wildlife, I shoot in natural light, no flash or artificial illumination. It’s less intrusive to wild animals, and I enjoy the challenge of working with the nuances of available light. Because I appreciate photographs as emotive and story-telling devices, I see difficult light — darkness, fog, and high-contrast situations — as a call to adapt and find something new in the frame. If I use artificial light in any situation, I’ll note it in the description.

On “Anthropomorphism”

The term anthropomomorphism is often used to deny animals their rightful entitlement to complex emotional and social behaviors. I don’t believe in stripping an animal of his or her individuality because she belongs to a different species, and prefer to grant nonhumans the benefit of the doubt.

• Related: The Benefits of Anthropomorphism

Why I Often Don’t Disclose Wildlife Locations

I encounter frustrating human-wildlife interactions often enough to feel protective of the wildlife and birds I photograph. I feel an obligation to contribute to their well-being, and not detract from it. It has nothing to do with hoarding a choice photography spot. In fact, most places where I’ve photographed wildlife are quite open to the public and well-known by birders and photographers throughout the year.

• Related: Wildlife Locations – When Sharing Endangers the Animals

The Feel-Free-to-Comment Policy

Feel free to comment, disagree, to challenge. I’m a believer in the First Amendment. I come at my subjects from the perspective of an observer and an artist, not a scientist, so there’s obvious subjectivity inherent in my views.

“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.” ~ John Muir

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University of Utah, Google seek answers for autism

Researchers use workshops to teach job skills and to learn more about families with children on the autism spectrum

These days, we hear a lot about the disorder of autism, but researchers at the University of Utah have created a program that helps kids with autism focus on building their skills and utilizing an aptitude for visual-spatial thinking, computers and other electronic media.

One of the program participants is 12-year-old Christopher Charles, who was diagnosed with what's now known as high-functioning autism when he was 18 months old. His parents started him in therapies early on, but hadn't found something that seemed to hold Christopher's interest or accommodate his behaviors.

Chris has participated for the past year and a half in workshops at the University of Utah to teach 3D modeling software by Google called SketchUp. Cheryl Wright, associate professor of family and consumer studies, coordinated the workshops in partnership with Google's Project Spectrum, an initiative to teach job skills to kids with autism. Steve Gross, a certified SketchUp instructor and designer for Universal Creative theme parks, leads the workshops.

Wright and her team soon found far greater benefits to these workshops than acquiring a skill set for potential employment, however. The sessions facilitated social engagement among the students and their peers, parents, siblings and even grandparents.

They have published a study about these findings in the December issue of Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal. The study focuses on the effects of the workshops on individual students involved as well as on multiple generations within their families—an uncommon opportunity in the research on social interactions of people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

After just weeks in the workshops, Christopher Charles' parents noticed a big difference. "Christopher spends hours on his design projects," says his father Nik. "There are few activities that have been able to hold Christopher's attention like SketchUp." In fact, Christopher once noted that he wouldn't miss the SketchUp sessions "even if aliens invaded the Earth."

Each session was two hours long and included hands-on training in the use of the design program as well as time for students to share their design projects. At the end of six weeks, the participants, all boys, presented their designs to classmates at their schools and at community events.

"One of the most compelling parts of this program came from when the boys presented their findings to their classmates," says Wright, who notes that children with autism sometimes struggle in a regular school setting, where their disability is highlighted more than their talents.

"Their talents are often invisible. In our program, we provided a platform for their talents to shine," she says. Many of the parents of participants were pleased that the workshops had developed self-confidence in their children, and noted that this made the parents more confident about what their children will be able to accomplish in the future.

Parents enrolled their children in the workshops with a bit of skepticism. Like Christopher's parents, they had experienced prior failures and had found few activities their sons enjoyed. The parents soon noticed that these workshops were different than other extracurricular activities, and seemed to be more aligned with their son's interests.

In turn, the success of the workshops led to greater self-confidence in parents, who began to rethink what they expected of their parenting ability and began to feel more effective.

They also noticed their sons' sincere concern about friends in the workshops – something that hadn't happened in other social interactions. The parents and grandparents who noticed these changes began to feel optimistic that the boys would be able to develop genuine relationships with children and adults in the future.

"Many of the boys were in inclusive, regular educational settings so when they presented to their peers, it was the first time some of their classmates had seen the boys in control of a situation and teaching something the other kids didn't know," Wright says.

She uses the example of a 10-year-old in the program who taught his class how to use SketchUp in a 40-minute training session. "It was great; he kept saying, 'I need to hear from someone else,' modeling his teacher's behavior. That modeling is something not always seen in these kids, and it showed their peers that kids with autism can contribute too."

Chris' mother Kay notes, "Chris was always off-task, but it's been amazing to see him develop the ability to stay on task for something, even with different groups of kids, not just in the SketchUp workshops. He is now very comfortable in front of a group of people, and he even will wait his turn to answer questions if he's with other presenters."

A second-grader who attended the workshops and who had struggled on a daily basis with attention issues and self-esteem problems was asked about his presentation and he said simply, "It went great. I was awesome."

Just as an engineer might use SketchUp to design a bridge from one side of a canyon to another, Wright and her team noticed that the SketchUp sessions were building bridges between generations within a family.

"This is a very exciting outcome of this study," Wright explains. "We were really given a wonderful opportunity to study a different aspect of ASD with the multi-generational model that we used in the workshops."

Wright says that there were different types of intergenerational relationships that the researchers were able to analyze: parent-to-child, grandparent-to-grandchild, and grandparent-to-adult-child. In addition, the sibling relationships of the boys were studied.

The parents of the workshop participants mentioned a greater ability to connect with their child with ASD. As Chris's father noted, new conversations were sparked in speaking about what they learned and in sharing their designs. "He now teaches me how to do things with SketchUp. The other day, we designed a wall for his bedroom. I don't see us doing that before the workshops, even if we had the technical ability to use the software."

Similarly, the boys' siblings no longer viewed their brother as a source of embarrassment, but as someone who could teach them and others how to use the design tool. "You can just see the pride on his sister's face when Chris is presenting his work," Kay says. "She even acts as his assistant sometimes in the presentations. That did not happen before."

Wright's program provided many opportunities for grandparents to participate in the workshops. Six grandparents were labeled by the researchers as "active" grandparents and had a particular investment in their grandsons with ASD.

The researchers noticed that the communication between the grandparents of the boys with their adult child (the boys' parent) increased significantly after the workshops. There seemed to be less shame associated with the child's autism. One parent noted the grandparents now had something "they could be proud of."

The researchers explain that grandparents often feel added frustration when coping with a grandchild with autism because they empathize with their own child as well as their grandchild and are concerned about the well-being of both.

A parent of one of the participants said the program gave her parents a renewed hope for her son's future, and also gave them a forum to discuss their feelings in coping with their grandchild's ASD.

In October the team presented their research at a Google Tech Talk in Colorado.

"Cheryl and her team have brought an amazing amount of professionalism, data, credibility and excitement to the SketchUp/autism connection and, because of it, people in the larger ASD community are taking note and wanting to learn more," said Tom Wyman, leader of the SketchUp team in Boulder and business development manager for Google, after their presentation. "We're excited to be partnering with the University of Utah on this project."

Wyman says he looks forward to a continuing partnership between Google and the University of Utah's project, now named iSTAR.

Wright and her colleagues have served 18 students in a school-based version of their program. The researchers surmise that workshops that incorporate familial participation with multiple generations will likely be most successful in affecting the social engagement and computer skill development of the children.

The research team also plans to replicate this program with larger samples of children and incorporate additional types of technology and software. They hope to soon create a virtual community that will provide resources by way of learning tools and a support system for youth with ASD and their families. They have presented their program at national conferences and developed a free teacher-training toolkit so that educators may start a similar program in their own classrooms.

More information about these workshops and resources for parents and teachers of kids with ASD can be found at The complete study by Wright et. al is available by contacting University Public Relations.

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Meeting Minutes

April 24, 2019

I.        Call to order

Chairperson Kris Kesterson called the meeting to order at 9:00 a.m. in the conference room at 150 Des Moines Street, Des Moines, Iowa.

II.        Roll call

Members present:          Kris Kesterson, Wayne Sims, Kerry Dixon, Kathleen Uehling, Craig Clabaugh, Marvin Schumacher, Justin Carleton, Amy Infelt (via phone), Peggy VandenBerg (via phone)

Members absent: None

Ms. Caroline Barrett, Assistant Attorney General 2, also attended.

III.        Approval of agenda

Mr. Schumacher moved to approve the agenda and Mr. Sims seconded the motion. The Board approved it unanimously.

IV.        Approval of minutes from February 26, 2019

Mr. Sims moved to approve the February 26, 2019, minutes. Mr. Carleton seconded the motion and the board approved it unanimously.

V.         Items for Action

  1. Variance request from Sean Flattery regarding addition of a new elevator to an existing building owned by the Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation (E2019-008).

Mr. Marvin Schumacher recused himself from the meeting for this variance request.  Ms. Infelt joined the meeting via conference call at 9:04 a.m.

Mr. Sean Flattery, President, Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation, and Mr. Kory McDonald, Schumacher Elevator, presented the variance information to the board.  They are requesting a variance from the height restriction of 7’.  This is a 2-story office building built before 1900 and the basement is 6’10” and slopes to 4’ at the front. There is no better area to build a mechanical room.  The general public does not access this area.

Ms. Dixon moved to approve the variance with the following conditions:

  1. The door leading to the basement and the elevator machine room access door shall be marked on the outside with signs stating “Warning- Authorized Personnel Only” and “Caution- Low Overhead.”  Letters shall be no less than 1 inch in height on contrasting background.
  2. Lighting leading to the elevator equipment room shall be installed to provide a minimum of 19 foot candles.
  3. Demarcation striping shall be applied to any obstruction below the nominal 6’10” height along the passageway to the elevator equipment room.
  4. All electrical wiring along the passageway shall be enclosed as required by NFPA 70.
  5. Elevator equipment shall be installed to meet the requirements of ASCE 24 Flood Resistant Design and Construction or be mitigated to local jurisdiction requirements. A copy of any documentation showing compliance with ASCE 24 shall be kept on site.

Mr. Clabaugh seconded.  Mr. Schumacher abstained and the rest of the board unanimously agreed.

Mr. Schumacher rejoined the meeting.

  1. Variance request from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for an extension of the annual safety test deadline for 15 elevators and extension of the five-year safety test deadline for 11 elevators (E2019-009).

Mr. Troy Tiedeman, Operations Manager, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, spoke to the board regarding the variance.  Mr. Tiedeman narrowed the variance to cover only state ID numbers 2977, 7536, 13893, and 177.   The University Hospitals would like an additional 90 days due to difficulty getting parts for older elevators.

Ms. Dixon moved to approve the variance for 90-days for ID numbers 2977, 7536, 13893, and 177 with the condition that the units pass safety tests before they are returned to service.  Mr. Clabaugh seconded the motion and board approved it unanimously.

VI.        Division of Labor Report

The new Labor Commissioner, Rod Roberts, introduced himself to the board and gave a brief history of his background.  The Commissioner stated he has an “open door” policy and all are welcome

The Commissioner stated he is in the process of filling some significant positions in the Division of Labor.  He also noted that the budget is status quo.  The Commissioner invited everyone to the Worker’s Memorial Day, Monday, April 29th at 11 a.m. on the west terrace of the Capitol.

Mr. Jim Borwey, manager of the elevator program, introduced the new clerical staff person, Tisha Scovel.  Mr. Borwey stated that the department hired an Inspector, Stan Niemeier, for the Cedar Rapids area.  The other hire anticipated at the time of the last meeting didn’t work out.  That position is now being reposted.

VII.       Presentation by Eric McClaskey, National Coordinator, Elevator Industry Work Preservation Fund, on the Elevator Industry Safety Partners Alliance

Mr. Eric McClaskey distributed to the board a draft of an alliance between all 10 regions of national OSHA and elevator industry partners.  The elevator industry partners include International Union of Elevator Constructors, National Elevator Industry, Inc., National Association of Elevator Contractors, Elevator Contractors of America, Elevator Industry Work Preservation Fund (EIWPF), and National Elevator Industry Educational Program.  The EIWPF is working on how OSHA programs administered by states can participate in the alliance.

The goal of the alliance is to reduce the number of accidents in the industry.  Since 2012, there were at least 40 fatalities in the U.S. and Canada.

Mr. Joe Mullen, Bureau Chief, Iowa OSHA Consultation, observed that Iowa already participates in some alliances and would welcome more.

The board thanked Mr. McClaskey for his presentation.

VIII.      Communications

IX.        Next meeting dates

  • Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. 150 Des Moines Street
  • Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. 150 Des Moines Street

X.         Next meeting agenda

  • Tabled Tip Top Tux variance (E2019-007)
  • Adoption of ARC 4376C

XI.        Public comments

XII.       Adjournment

Mr. Sims moved to adjourn the meeting. The board approved.  The meeting adjourned at 9:44 a.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Ms. Kerry Dixon, Secretary

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