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If you're planning a big family gathering for Thanksgiving, you might be dealing with the reality that you simply can’t fit everyone around one table. This is where the Thanksgiving kids' table can save the day.

Sitting at the kids' table can actually be a lot of fun. And we want to make sure that all the kids are having a great time while also feeling like they're part of the bigger family celebration.

Here are 10 of our favorite ideas for making sure your kids' table is the best spot in the house.

1: Place Cards

Pheasant Place Cards and Party Favors

Avoid any conflicts and make sure each kid knows exactly where they’re sitting at the table. These adorable turkey place cards are easy to make and will keep the kids happy with some sweet treats before the meal gets going.

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2: Mocktails

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Help the kids feel like adults with their own kid-friendly versions of the cocktails you might be serving. These small martinelli apple cider juice bottles are a fun upgrade from a standard juice box. You can simply add a cinnamon stick and a pretty paper straw, and they immediately feel like a special, grown-up drink.

3: Kid-Friendly Sides

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Consider making some smaller, more kid-friendly versions of your Thanksgiving side dishes. Turkey-taco macaroni and cheese would be a big hit, as well as these delicious sweet potato balls.

4: Centerpiece

Dining Table With Paper Leaf Centerpiece

This easy-to-create paper leaf centerpiece would be a great choice for the kids' table. You can work with your kids and keep them busy ahead of time while you work on the Thanksgiving meal prep by asking them to find the needed branches and cut out the individual leaves.

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5: Cupcakes

Turkey Cupcake

These adorable turkey cupcakes will definitely put a smile on all of the kids' faces. You can make them from scratch or simply buy store-made cupcakes and doctor them up with frosting and extra candy.

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6: Gratitude Boxes

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It would be lots of fun to set up an art project for the kids to keep themselves busy before everyone sits down for dinner. These gratitude boxes are an awesome way to teach the kids to start thinking about what they are truly thankful for. Once the kids finish each box, they can bring them to the table and share them with the rest of the family.

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7: Plates

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You might want to stock up on durable melamine plates to avoid any accidents. These fun turkey chargers would look fabulous, and they pair well with any other Thanksgiving-themed accessories you might already have.

8: Table Runner

Crayon & Craft Paper Runner

Give the kids something to do during dinner by covering their table with brown craft paper and putting a small cup with crayons by each place setting. The kids can draw right on the paper throughout the meal, and you won’t need to worry about ruining any of your delicate table linens.

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9: Necklaces

Thanksgiving Kid's Table Crafts

Another fun project for kids are these leather cord necklaces. You can put small bowls with colorful wood beads at each place setting, and each child can use their leather cord to make their own Thanksgiving necklace or bracelet.

10: Snack Mix Station

Thanksgiving Snack Station for Kids

Keep kids busy either during or before the Thanksgiving meal by setting up a snack station. If you want to keep them busy during the cocktail hour, you can include snacks such as nuts, pretzels or candies. You could do a variation of this during the meal and include a small buffet with items such as French fries, mac-n-cheese balls or chicken nuggets. This would also work great as a dessert bar with small cookies, brownies and chocolate candies.

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10 worst reasons to stay friends with your ex

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10. You have the same friends.

Research suggests that if your friends and family want you to stay friends with an ex, you are more likely to do so. But that doesn’t mean you have to. Staying friends with your ex for the sake of social harmony is a noble goal, but if it’s your only reason for maintaining the friendship, it can be problematic. You have a right to spend time with your friends without your ex present, and you also have a right to decline invitations to events that your ex is also attending. Even if you are okay running into the ex from time to time, this doesn’t mean you need to be friends. It may be hard to see your ex as just another acquaintance when you have so much history together, but over time that history won’t be in the foreground anymore.

9. You feel bad for them.

If you initiated the break-up and your ex is not taking it well, the last thing you probably want to do is hurt them even more by rejecting their friendship. But it’s not your responsibility to nurse them through their heartache, and your support may actually make them feel worse. Research suggests that people like to know that support is available if they need it, but they do not like to feel needy. In the moment, your ex may crave your comfort, but at the end of the day your support is unlikely to help them move on if they continue to feel dependent on you. Instead of shouldering the burden yourself, make sure they are getting support from other people in their life. And if you owe them an apology, give them a genuine one, but don’t drag it out.

8. You want to keep tabs on them.

Even if you know that a relationship wasn’t meant to be, it can still be painful to think of your ex finding happiness with someone else. Staying friends may allow you to stay in the loop about their dating life and even give you some influence over it—a tempting prospect. But becoming your ex’s confidant may not benefit either of you in the long run, especially if you have mixed feelings about their efforts to move on. Even just remaining Facebook friends can give you a window into your ex’s life, for better or worse: in a Men’s Health survey of 3,000 people, 85% admitted to checking an ex’s Facebook page, and 17% said they did it once a week. But Facebook “stalking” tends to increase anxiety and jealousy. If you have trouble resisting it, you may be better off de-friending your ex, both on and offline.

7. You’re lonely.

When you go through a break-up, it can feel like there’s a hole in your social life, and that hole can take time to fill. If you’re feeling lonely on a Saturday night, having your ex over for a movie and take-out might sound more appealing than making the effort to go out and meet new people. But it can also lead you onto the on-again/off-again relationship rollercoaster, which research suggests is characterized by lower satisfaction, less love, more uncertainty, and more communication problems. It’s understandable to miss the intimacy of a romantic relationship, but putting yourself in the danger zone of hooking up with an ex may not be worth the short-term comfort. When you’re feeling lonely, turn to friends and family instead, and find ways to make the most of your alone time.

6. You’re having “grass is greener” syndrome.

If you’re not totally satisfied in a new relationship, research suggests you may feel more interested in keeping up contacts with your ex. It’s easy to romanticize the person you’re not with, since you’re no longer regularly exposed to their irritating habits. But this way of thinking is a trap, because if the grass always seems greener somewhere else, you’ll never be satisfied wherever you are. If you’re unhappy in your current relationship, it’s worth trying to address those feelings with your current partner rather than turning to an ex for support or as an escape. Adding the ex to the mix when your relationship is already in a complicated spot is only likely to complicate things further.

5. You hope that maybe someday they will change.

Maybe you broke up because your ex was unfaithful or drank too much, but you’re holding out hope that they will learn from their mistakes and eventually grow into the kind of partner you want. By staying friends, you’re able to keep them in your life and maybe even help them make changes. In some cases, hope for reconciliation can motivate people to improve, but if your ex senses that it won’t be so hard to win you back, they may be more focused on trying to prove that they have changed than on making real changes, and you may be setting yourself up for more disappointment.

4. You want to keep them on the back burner.

A more cynical version of the preceding item is this desire to keep your ex around just in case you can’t find someone better. Needless to say, this approach is unfair to your ex, but it can hold you back as well. As I wrote in a previous post, playing it safe is not always the best approach when it comes to love. Sometimes you have to close one door, and close it fully, if you want another door to open.

3. They won’t take no for an answer.

You might not want to stay friends, but what if an ex does, and won’t leave you alone? As stated above, you have every right to say no to friendship. Make sure that you are direct with your ex about your feelings (and don’t be afraid to get the police involved if they push things too far). While a little Facebook “stalking” may be relatively harmless, true stalking is scary and unacceptable. And it is surprisingly common. In one set of studies, 40% of college students surveyed reported engaging in at least one stalking behavior following a break-up, and approximately 10% engaged in six or more. These behaviors included things like contacting an ex after being told not to, or showing up at an ex’s residence uninvited. Anger, jealousy, obsessiveness, and need for control all predicted greater stalking behavior, so beware of these traits.

2. They still love you.

If your ex is still in love with you and you don’t feel the same way, the best thing you can do for them is to let them go. Spending time with them might make you feel good about yourself—who doesn’t enjoy being adored?—but it could be painful and confusing for them, especially if it gives them false hope. Even if you make it clear that you just want to be friends, it may not be clear enough to your ex. People see what they want to see, and rest assured they will be on high alert for any sign of returned affection. Your best bet in this situation is probably to minimize contact and let your ex move on.

1. You still love them.

Being in love with your ex, and secretly hoping to win them back, can be a powerful motivation for staying friends with them, but it’s also unfortunately one of the most dangerous ones. If your ex doesn’t want to be with you, there is probably little you can do to change their mind. Trying in vain will only lead to repeated heartbreak and make you feel bad about yourself. Spend time with friends who make you feel loved and appreciated. This ex is probably not one of them.

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June 27, 2018

Executive Vice President, Karen Serinis was featured in the Rochester Business Journal’s Inaugural Path to Excellence publication. The article, “Cashing in on Opportunity,” discusses how four (4) prominent women have left their mark on the banking and finance industry here in Rochester.

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Women in banking and finance make their mark in Rochester

By: Gino Fanelli

This article was featured in RBJ’s Path to Excellence magazine published June 22, 2018.

What does it mean to be a woman in the financial world? There is, of course, a lasting stigma of a “boys club,” a sense that the upper echelon of the banking community is dominated by older, predominately white, men. Perhaps that image derived from the stereotypical view of the world of Wall Street as a testosterone-driven, aggressively masculine environment, or perhaps it’s simply an image cultivated from almost all other industries in which, at the end of the day, there is always a glass ceiling to shatter.

But this is, for the most part, not the case for the women who work tirelessly in the Rochester-area banking community. They describe their success not in measures of their gender, but more so in their dedication, their passion for the work and their never-ending pursuit of betterment. And they say they are fortuitous that that is the case.

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The Way to Play the Cyprus Crisis, Buy This Currency

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Uncertainties surrounding the Cyprus bailout are set to continue for some time, but one way to play the fallout is to buy the Australian dollar, one analyst told CNBC.

Since news of the Cyprus bailout first broke in mid-March the euro has been under pressure falling against the U.S. dollar, as renewed fears over the euro zone crisis resurfaced and unsettled investors.

(Read More: Remember Euro Breakup Fears? They Are Back)

According to Chris Weston, chief market strategist at Melbourne-based trading firm IG Markets, the optimal way for investors to play the crisis in the short-term is to invest in the euro/Aussie dollar currency pair.

"The euro/Aussie looks a good way to play the concerns," said Weston. "This is because we believe the euro will continue to weaken, and secondly because the best way to express that weakness is against a higher yielding currency like the Aussie dollar," he said.

There is evidence of this trend gaining traction, according to Weston. The euro has fallen around 5.3 percent against the Aussie dollar since early February, suggesting investors are ditching euros and buying the Aussie dollar.

(Read More: Aussie Dollar at $1.30: Are You Kidding?)

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Weston expects the euro to continue on its downward spiral as nervous investors consider parking their cash elsewhere, making the euro/Aussie dollar pair even more attractive.

Cyprus and its international lenders struck a last-minute deal on Monday to help rescue the small economy's struggling economy. The terms of the proposed deal involved a levy on uninsured deposits over 100,000 euros ($127,842) in the Popular Bank of Cyprus - known as Laiki - which is set to be wound down. The move has prompted panic among investors, who are now worried a similar template will be used for other European economies.

(Read More: Holy Thursday! Will Cyprus Mess Up the Market?)

"There is a possibility that people in Spain, Italy and France with sizeable deposits will consider taking their money out and moving it to the U.K, U.S. or Australia. These flows out of Europe will lead to continued weakness in the single currency," said Weston.

The optimal way to play this trend is to buy the Aussie dollar, said Weston, because Australia is the highest yielding currency among G-10 economies.

Australia's interest rates have held steady at 3 percent since December 2012 and most analysts agree its central bank will not move to cut rates in the near-term. Meanwhile interest rates in other major western economies like the U.K., the U.S. and the euro zone remain at record lows of less than 1 percent.

"Traders who are shorting euros and going long the Aussie are also getting the benefits of the carry trade, where essentially they are being paid just to be in the trade even after the adjustment of inflation," added Weston, referring to the trade where investors borrow money at low interest rates in order to invest in higher yielding assets.

Adding further impetus to the trade is the fact that the euro/Aussie dollar currency pair has hit some critical technical support levels in recent weeks, said Weston, including 1.2264 on Tuesday, meaning a move to 1.2160 against the Aussie dollar was now possible. On Thursday the euro was trading around 1.2257 against the Aussie dollar by midday in Asia.

"The euro/Aussie pair has been oversold to an extent, but it is in a firm downtrend and has closed below some key technical support levels," he said.

However, a risk to this trend will be the danger of too many traders coming to the party, added Weston.

"When too many people are short the euro, you get a lot of short covering, which pushes the price up," he added.


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Appliance Science: The illuminating physics behind LED lights

LED lights are the latest thing in home lighting, using less energy and lasting longer than their incandescent cousins. How do they work? Find out in the latest installment of Appliance Science.

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Where does the light in your house come from? Chances are that it comes from a variety of different types of light sources, but an increasing number of you are bathed in the soothing balm of light generated by light-emitting diodes (LEDs). This new breed of light source is fast replacing incandescent and fluorescent lights as the main way to curse the darkness.

The main reason for the ascendance of the LED light is the holy trifecta of consumer goods: cost, efficiency and reliability. Thanks to recent developments, the price of LED lights is falling -- nearly as low as the old bulbs in some parts of the US. They're also cheaper to run and last a lot longer. All of that is thanks to the work of legions of scientists and engineers who took a 100-year-old scientific oddity and made it into a multibillion-dollar business.

LEDs were first developed early in the last century, when a researcher noticed how applying a current to a certain type of crystal diode (an electrical component that only allows electricity to flow in one direction) made it give off a faint light. The material was not heating up; it was emitting light through another unknown method. This phenomenon (later called electroluminescence) remained a scientific oddity without much practical use until the 1950s, when companies started harnessing it to produce LED lights.

The first were infrared LEDs (or "semiconductor radiant diodes," as the inventors called them), made from a compound called gallium arsenide (GaAs). Later, other researchers used similar materials to create LEDs that gave off red and yellow light, and made these more efficient to create bigger, brighter LEDs.

There was one major problem with these devices, though: they only emit one frequency of light, which means one single color. That's fine for a calculator display, but it doesn't work for the lights that illuminate your house. These need to give off a range of frequencies of light across the visible light spectrum, producing the same white light that the sun does. Incandescent light bulbs do this, but LEDs only give a very small, narrow band of frequencies because of the way the electroluminescent effect works.

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Single frequencies

Inside an LED bulb is a small semiconductor chip, which is the part that gives off the light. This is made of two layers of a crystalline material like GaAs that have been contaminated with different materials (chemists call this doping). This contamination means that one layer has lots of high-energy electrons that it wants to give away, while the other layer has spaces for electrons that it really wants to fill at a lower energy level. In the technical language of electronics, one layer is n-type (the one that wants to give them away), while the other is p-type. The combination forms what is called a pn-junction.

To the electron, this junction is like a waterfall: give them a bit of a push one way and they will fall over, but they can't go back up. If you apply voltage so the negative end of the circuit is on the n-type layer, the electrons flow between the two layers easily. If you apply the voltage the other way, the flow is blocked. These layers form a diode (from the ancient Greek di, for two and ode, for way, or path). Like a waterfall, the flow can go one way, but not the other.

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And, like a waterfall, interesting things happen at this point where the flow is controlled. Whereas a waterfall makes noise, electrons flowing across the pn-junction of an LED release light. As the electrons flow from the n to the p layer, the energy level of the electrons falls, dropping from the higher energy level of the p-type layer to the lower one of the n-type. This energy is released as a photon, which we see as light.

How much energy this is depends on the difference between the energy levels of the two layers, called the band gap. To use our waterfall metaphor again, the energy gap is the height between one side of the waterfall and the other. So, an electron moving down this waterfall falls from one energy level to the lower one, releasing the energy difference as a photon of light.

The larger this band gap, the more energy is released, and the shorter the wavelength of light that is emitted. Early LEDs had a small band gap, which meant longer wavelength photons, which you see as red light. As the engineers figured out new ways to make LEDs, they learned how to make a larger band gap, which means the wavelength of the light these LEDs gave off decreases, and the light shifts across the spectrum from red, to orange, green and eventually blue.

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That gets complicated, though, because creating a pn-junction with a large band gap is very hard. The larger the band gap, the less the two layers want to be next to each other: the crystals that they are made of break down more easily. The best material to make them from is gallium nitride (GaN), but this material is fragile, and the doping that makes it an n- or p-type semiconductor interferes with the way the crystals are grown. The bigger the crystals you can grow, the bigger the final LED can be, and the more light it outputs.

Recently, three scientists figured out a new way to make these big crystals for blue LEDs. The Nobel Prize was given to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2014) because they figured out in the late 1990s how to grow these crystals by zapping the growing crystal with electrons. Apparently, they figured this out by accident while examining a growing crystal with an electron microscope. This electron beam stops the doping material from affecting the structure of the crystal as it grows, so it can get larger.

White light, no heat

The blue LED that their process allows is the holy grail of LEDs, because blue light can be converted to other colors by phosphors, chemicals that absorb light and then give it off at a different, higher frequency. There are plenty of phosphors that can convert blue light to green and red, so if you combine a blue LED with some of these phosphors, you get white light, and a white LED.

The spectrum of a white LED, showing the light from the blue LED (left peak) and the converted light from the phosphor (right).Deglr6328 at the English language Wikipedia

The result is a light bulb that is much more efficient than the old incandescent type. While an incandescent bulb may use 60 watts of energy to illuminate a room, an LED bulb can produce the same amount of light using less than 10 watts. And, because there is no heated filament or unusual gases required, the bulb will last longer. LEDs do break down over time (as the doping materials migrate and the crystals gradually break down), but that takes much longer than an incandescent light.

So, LED light bulbs are more efficient than incandescent ones. And now that manufacturers have worked out how to make these bulbs quickly and cheaply, they can replace these incandescent lights for a new era of cheaper, cleaner and more efficient lighting in your home.

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The future of LED lights

As we have seen in our tests, LED light bulbs are far more efficient than incandescent or compact fluorescent ones. They last longer and use less electricity. But they aren't perfect. They can't be dimmed in the same way as incandescent lights, because the light output doesn't change if you reduce the voltage. Instead, the LED light has to fake it, rapidly turning the LED on and off to reduce the light output which sometimes creates an unpleasant flickering effect. Many modern LEDs avoid this by carefully controlling how the individual LEDs inside the bulb are turned on and off, creating a non-flickering light. The latest Phillips 100W replacement bulb, for instance, had no visible flicker in our tests.

Engineers are also looking at new ways to make the light from these bulbs more appealing by using different materials to create the different frequencies of light that make up white light. Most LEDs use a mix of different phosphors to create the mixed white light, but the University of Georgia recently demonstrated a new type of phosphor that creates a wider mix of frequencies, which could make LEDs easier to make and even cheaper.

So, the future of LED lights is cheaper, more efficient and more comfortable lighting. It remains to be seen how many Nobel Prizes they will earn, but the LED light bulb is likely to be the thing that finds its home in your light socket for some time to come.

Correction, Wednesday 10:30 a.m. ET: Edited to clear up confusion between frequency and wavelength in the paragraph beginning, "The larger this band gap". Our thanks to the commenters who pointed out this error.


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Making money with "free-to-play" games

Free-to-play games carry similar challenges to open source products--confusion in what customers get and where they can find value isn't helping.

Free-to-play games are looking more and more like open source products as commercial entities behind the development and operations figure out ways in which to add value and monetize their user base.

In the open source world this typically consists of a split between "Community" and "Enterprise" versions of the products. For casual and free-to-play games, the split tends to be associated with some kind of premium offering or a payment mechanism like micro-transactions.

David Chang, Executive VP of Business Development and Marketing at online game publisher Gamescampus discusses the challenges of "free-to-play" in a recent editorial.

In terms of a solution, I propose calling our games "MTS Games" (Micro-Transaction Service) or even MTG (Micro-Transaction Games) if you prefer. I think this label, while a bit technical, gets rid of the "As seen on TV" quality stigma and cynicism that "free to play" engenders (it really can't be free--can it?) Equally important is to define what an MTS game is (and what it is not). An MTS game would be a game that: An MTS game would be a game that:

1. Requires no purchase to download and play the game
2. Does not have a level-cap or content-cap beyond which you need to pay
3. Is at least partially monetized by sales of in-game goods

By calling our games MTS games, I hope to separate our games from the cynicism associated with the "free to play" label. I think the definition above also addresses the bait-and-switch concerns as well as an MTS game as defined above would not require any purchases to play.

There are obvious parallels with commercial open source efforts, including the challenges associated with the word "free." It's perfectly acceptable to charge people for software (and really anything else) that they find value in. The important thing is to make it clear what is free and why you might want to pay.

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Sony E-Ink slate concept is mega-thin, built for learning

The mooted new tablet is roughly A4 size, and takes doodling in class to the next level.

Idle doodling in class has just been taken to the next level, as Sony reveals an A4-size E-Ink tablet that -- it hopes -- will become the future of education.

The 'digital paper' concept measures 13.3 inches, making it significantly bigger than most tablets, and is a mere 6.8mm thick. That's thinner than super-slender smart phones like the 7.6mm iPhone 5.

An accompanying stylus can be used to scribble on the touchscreen, which is equipped with Sony's swanky electronic paper and has an impressive 1,200x1,600-pixel resolution.

Best known for living on Amazon's Kindle ebook readers, electronic ink only sucks up power when it's refreshing what's on screen. That makes it much better for battery life -- Sony reckons this new toy would last a whopping three weeks before needing to suck on its charging cable.

Sony says editing PDF documents will be on the cards, as well as Wi-Fi capability for sharing your pointless doodles crucial documents. A microSD card slot will give you plenty of storage space.

You might wonder why anyone would prefer this Magna Doodle over, say, a laptop or iPad. I'd wager that the simple components could make this new concept a good deal cheaper than more advanced rivals -- something that could make it more likely to be bought in bulk by schools or colleges.

Sony says the concept will be trialled in universities, and aims to start making money from the device in the 2013 fiscal year, which means before April 2014.

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Strengthening a Cooperative Through Vision Building

By: Ann Savage, CNFA Farmer-to-Farmer Volunteer and Business Consultant with Savage Enterprises International, and Victoria Treski, CNFA F2F Program Coordinator

This article is a contribution to a four-week blog series celebrating 30 years of USAID’s John Ogonowski and Doug Bereuter Farmer-to-Farmer (F2F) Program.

From November 16 – December 11, 2015, partners of the Farmer-to-Farmer (F2F) Program are sharing their knowledge and experience in providing volunteer technical assistance to farmers, farm groups, agribusinesses, service providers, and other agriculture sector institutions in developing and transitional countries. Closely aligned with Feed the Future, the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative, the F2F Program works to support inclusive agriculture sector growth, facilitate private sector engagement in the agriculture sector, enhance development of local capacity, and promote climate-smart development. Targeted volunteer assignments address host-led priorities to expand economic growth in ways which increase incomes and improve access to nutritious food. This blog series aims to capture and share the experiences of hosts, volunteers, and program partners.

The Congo River is a source of life in the northwest region of Angola, sustaining a variety of agricultural activities and a burgeoning fishing industry. Citizens of this region are hard-working and dedicated, striving to enhance their livelihoods through a process of continual learning, and passing along acquired knowledge to others in the community. In 2013, a group of these farmers from the Municipality of Soyo, Angola established a cooperative named CAPIPAZ. In English, CAPIPAZ stands for Cooperative Agro-Livestock Industry for Fishermen’s Friends of Zaire -a fitting name given the organization’s relationship with both the agriculture and fishing industries. The cooperative collectively farms on 2,385 hectares, growing a variety of vegetables ranging from tomatoes and onions to sesame and okra. The cooperative also maintains a symbiotic relationship with local fisherman, whereby the Board of CAPIPAZ purchases and provides fishing materials to fishermen in return for fish they catch that the Board then sells at the market.

In addition to a booming farming operation, CAPIPAZ members own a restaurant and hotel, both of which provide additional sources of revenue.  As their first venture into the tourism industry, CAPIPAZ members were anxious to ensure that their business operations not only succeeded but had room to grow.  However, the cooperative lacked management training, as well as an agreed upon strategic focus and formal business plan.   After identifying these internal challenges, CAPIPAZ requested assistance from CNFA to work with cooperative members to enhance their business capacity by building their technical skillsets and guiding them to develop a business strategy.

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CNFA responded by creating an assignment in which a volunteer would impart the basic building blocks and practical application of business management tools necessary to expand and maintain a successful enterprise. Fortunately, locating a volunteer in CNFA’s network up for such a challenge is often just a phone call away. In May 2015, business consultant and Farmer-to-Farmer volunteer Ann Savage travelled to Soyo to work with CAPIPAZ. Ann previously traveled to Angola on almost a dozen occasions and brought a unique level of contextual experience to catalyze CAPIPAZ to maximize its potential.

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To ensure that every member’s voice was heard, Ann first conducted a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats). This empowered cooperative members to examine their thoughts about the cooperative’s existing structure, and allowed individuals to reflect on diverse viewpoints regarding the strengths and weaknesses of the organization. She then worked with CAPIPAZ to identify trends from the SWOT analysis and encouraged them to find practical solutions to their weakness and ways to bolster the existing capacity of their organization. With Ann’s guidance, the Board and members wrote their own business plan, as well as devised a clear mission statement which now serves as a unifying directive for all current and future members. She also supported stakeholders in updating the cooperative’s bylaws and made a recommendation that they hold annual general meetings to vote on and approve changes in the bylaws.

When a F2F host like CAPIPAZ invites a volunteer to support their organization they are doing more than just expressing a curiosity about American business and culture. They are expressing a commitment to a cultural exchange that involves the potential for transformation, the potential for the changing of mindsets, and the progression of skills.  But it can’t be one-sided or just about the host identifying a need. This assignment worked due to both parties’ mutual commitment in learning from each other and collectively identifying a course of action in which the organization could focus on and grow from. This kind of organic volunteer support, along with the relationships and human resources that maintain it after the term of a single assignment, provide the backbone for sustainability and continued success.

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Our Traditional Alrewas Butchers shop was first established in 1867 and taken over by the Coates family in 1900. Today the business is run by the family’s third and fourth generation, father and son Peter and Antony Coates and we now have a further three shops located in Tamworth, Staffordshire, Borrowash, Derbyshire and Wollaton, Nottinghamshire.

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BHV/Marais Department Store
Beginning July 3, BHV/Marais (part of the Galeries Lafayette group) is the first Paris department to open on Sundays as a result of the Loi Macron (Minister of the Economy, Emmanuel Macron) of August 2015. This law permits new areas to be designated “international tourist zones” (the Marais falls into this distinction). The other large department stores in Paris along Boulevard Haussmann, les Galeries Lafayette and le Printemps are allowed three July Sunday openings (considered Sundays “du maire” – by decree of the Paris Mayor, Anne Hidalgo).

Loi Macron and tourist zones for shopping in Paris

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A mutually rewarding experience.

Work. Realize your ambitions. And realize there’s more to being in business than just making a profit. That’s the Mars philosophy. And the opportunity we offer every one of our Associates. An opportunity to take what you do and make it mean more for you, for those around you and for the planet.  What you get here is challenging, interesting work. You get the tools you need to do a great job and you get to have the best possible people on your side to help you do it. And at the same time as getting to find ways to do business better today than we did it yesterday and driving a great career, you also get to build a more enlightened business and drive sustainability.

Because it’s never just about a single person, a single project or a single brand. It’s about how you can grab everything that’s within your reach here and use it to pursue mutual, long-term gain. It’s about having ideas. And ideals. Being prepared to risk failure because the promise of success means we’ll all be a little better off. It’s that mix of integrity and ambition that makes Mars such a special place to work. And why working here is always about more than just a job.

About Mars, Incorporated

Mars is a family-owned business with more than a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love. With almost $35 billion in sales, the company is a global business that produces some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, UNCLE BEN’S®, MARS DRINKS and COCOAVIA®. Mars also provides veterinary health services that include BANFIELD® Pet Hospitals, Blue Pearl®, VCA® and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire its more than 100,000 Associates to create value for all its partners and deliver growth they are proud of every day.

The Role:

The Stationary Engineer is responsible for the operation and of all plant centralized utility systems including high pressure boilers, turbine generator set, gas high pressure compressors, centrifugal refrigeration chillers, cooling towers, centrifugal air compressors, and HVAC systems. The Stationary Engineer must have multi-craft skills (mechanical, welding & electrical) and be able to troubleshoot and make repairs to a wide variety of equipment. The Stationary Engineer is expected to complete preventive maintenance on equipment and identify/implement continuous improvement opportunities.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Operates building HVAC equipment, including high pressure boilers, all heating and ventilating equipment, assuring a properly-controlled climate.Responsible to maintain the safe and efficient operation of equipment including boilers, chillers, centrifugal air compressors, cooling towers, turbine, centrifugal and positive displacement pumps, steam and cooled water coils and HVAC system.

  • Have mechanical, electrical, controls expertise to identify and repair equipment problems.

  • Follow safety/LOTO procedures.

  • Conduct routine audits of operating equipment.

  • Maintain an open and professional line of communication with associates in both the production and SAR areas.

  • Maintenance - routine activities; responsible for: Troubleshoot, adjust and initiate repairs to equipment in all SAR areas.

  • Inspect and monitor the condition of equipment.

  • Identify and follow-up on improvement opportunities.

  • Enter planned work orders into the MIS system.

  • Complete preventive maintenance and/or planned work orders.

  • Provide maintenance assistance during routine shut-downs.

  • Performs preventive and corrective maintenance on the mechanical HVAC production and distribution systems, lighting, life safety systems and electric machinery.Maintains inspection and testing records.Evaluates the condition of electrical systems and recommends repair or replace actions.Documents off normal incidents.Coordinates maintenance with outside contractors.

  • Responds to emergency malfunction events, assesses situation and takes action to stabilize situation to avoid further damage and make safe.Documents off-normal incidents.

  • Traces out proposed utility service shutdowns to identify affected areas and activates service shutdowns and reactivations.Reviews the building systems installation by outside contractors and records deficiencies on punch list.Participates in system start-up, training and commissioning.

  • Utilizes and maintains tools and instruments associated with the HVAC operations and maintenance trade.

  • Records time and materials expended on computerized SAP system.Following manufactures and regulatory specifications reviews and updates building systems and equipment preventive maintenance records and schedules.

  • The position actively follows regulatory agency compliance requirements, supports the Company and goal objectives, the department quality improvement and operating goals, as well as principles goals, individually and as an effective team member.

  • Be a resource during project installation.

  • Assist in the startup of new project.

  • Work with Engineering resources and/or other associates to implement continuous improvement.

  • Training.

  • Assist in training other associates as required.

  • Assist operators to develop basic preventive maintenance and repair techniques.

  • Responsible for own personal development.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • A high school or trade school diploma or equivalent with coursework in math, science, reading blueprints and equipment schematics is required.

  • MUST HAVE Current City of Chicago Stationary Engineering License.

  • A minimum of two (2) years previous experience as a licensed stationary engineer engaged in the operation of high pressure boilers is preferred.

  • Experience in a manufacturing or comparable institution is preferred.

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.

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Lactation Consultant-Night Shift

Looking for your next opportunity? If so, choose Parkland and discover what a meaningful job feels like. Whether you work directly with patients or use your talent to support our care, you’ll be part of a team that’s providing valuable health services to Dallas County residents. And here, you’ll have the opportunity to put all your skills to work, and the support to grow and advance in your job and your field. Step into a career that will make a substantial difference for our patients—and for you. We blend cultures, talents, and experience into an exemplary health and hospital system.  Parkland has earned distinction as one of America’s Best Hospitals by U.S News and World Report every year since 1994.

Serves as a lactation consultant in the Lactation Services program in the WISH and Parkland Education department, in order to ensure that patients and their families receive proper education and training related to breastfeeding.

- Must have a Bachelor's degree in Nursing, Health, Nutrition, Education, or a related field.

- Must have two years of experience in maternal/child health, to include one year of experience in lactation consulting.

Equivalent Experience:
- May have an equivalent combination of education and/or experience in lieu of specific education and/or experience as stated above.

-Must have current CPR-Healthcare Provider course completion card or obtain during initial orientation at Parkland
o American Heart Association
o American Red Cross
o Military Training Network
- Must be certified as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners.

Skills or Special Abilities:
- Must be able to demonstrate competency in the physiology and clinical management of breastfeeding.
- Must be able to demonstrate effective interpersonal skills and possess good oral and written communication skills.
- Must be able to communicate effectively with patients, families, and hospital staff.
- Must demonstrate patient centered/patient valued behaviors.
- Must be capable of handling complex or clinical specialty care.
- Must be able to initiate changes utilizing independent judgment with minimum supervision.

Parkland Health and Hospital System prohibits discrimination based on age (40 or over), race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, disability, national origin, marital status, political belief, or veteran status.

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Dallas, TX 75201, US


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At their conference, the New Jersey Library Association is the ubiquitous library marquee slogan, "cool down with a hot book" personified: Over 1 thousand librarians gathered together at the height of Spring, sharing ideas, ice cream, a great beach location, and most importantly loads of books together for a weekend. And with the recent restoration of over $4 million in public funding (bringing the total to over $8 million), this near double in available funding should start a new trend of being able to spend their yearly budgets a little more openly. However, they can't spend their share without knowing about your book, so be sure to get it on Combined Book Exhibits shelves for effective exposure!

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Welcome to Riverdale, the home of everyone's favorite teenager, Archie Andrews -- and his closest friends! Dive into these beloved and classic Archie stories, which feature all the elements that have become an important part of pop culture. See the love triangle that includes girl-next-door Betty Cooper and wealthy socialite, Veronica Lodge! Share a burger with Archie's best pal, Jughead Jones! Square off with tough-talking Reggie Mantle! Sit back and enjoy a chocolate shake at Pop's! It's all here for you to enjoy. Prepare to experience wonders of the teens' beloved hometown with stories like "The Finer Things!," "Nothing is as It Seems!," and more!
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IT WAS THE spring break of a lifetime for Logan Nijhoff

Talented hockey trio tour Europe

Spring break excursion included great hockey and great friendships

Three Comox Valley boys – Caleb Dolman, Logan Nijhoff and Matthias Smith – had the fantastic opportunity of playing hockey in Europe during their school spring break.

A year-and-a-half ago, the boys were scouted at a tournament in Victoria where they were playing with their local rep hockey teams. Caleb was scouted for the 1999 team and Logan and Matthias for the 2001 team. The boys were invited to try-outs held near Edmonton in August 2012 and were thrilled to be invited to play with these two touring teams this spring.

Players on the two Canadian AAA Explorers teams, coached by Peter Lumir of Bashaw, Alta., came from B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories.

The two teams played more than 25 games each in five different countries: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and the Czech Republic. The boys (and their parents) had a fabulous time and have lots of great experiences to remember for years to come.

The boys enjoyed touring a UNESCO-protected village in the Czech Republic as well as the capital city of Prague. Castles were a big hit throughout their travels and the boys marvelled at how many castles there are in the countries they visited.

They played in a tournament in Füssen, Germany where the local people complained about the coldest and snowiest early spring there in 110 years. The boys had a fantastic time playing hockey in spite of the cold weather (but they loved the warm days in Italy, too).

A special tradition that the boys enjoyed were the opening and closing ceremonies of the tournaments where players from the many different countries gathered on the ice and talked to each other and exchanged gifts (pins, flags, even team jerseys at the last game).  Caleb said that the highlight of the trip for him was the opportunity to represent Canada and proudly wear the Maple Leaf on his jersey. He was able to meet other boys from all over the world, who may not have spoken the same language, but were brought together by the game they love.

All of the boys enjoyed having the chance to play against and to talk with players from other countries; they also enjoyed having their pictures taken together at the end of each game.  Logan and Matthias travelled on the same bus with the 2001 team and they really enjoyed meeting players from other countries and making some awesome new Canadian hockey friends.  Their tournament win in Vipiteno, Italy was another highlight for these young players.

It was the trip of a lifetime featuring some great hockey, wonderful cultural experiences and terrific new friendships that these boys will never forget.

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PoliceThe David Miranda story has proved rather confusing – and not just because the constant use of "Miranda" to refer to the case conjures up images of Miranda Hart prat-falling her way through airport security.

As with any Glenn Greenwald scoop, the picture is not as simple as it was first presented.

Rather than being stopped simply for being the partner of a journalist, it has now emerged that Mr Miranda was travelling as part of a Guardian investigation, assisting Greenwald's research and allegedly carrying some of the leaked Snowden information about his person. Nor was he refused access to a lawyer – he rejected the one offered to him.

To stop a journalist's family is crude intimidation of the grubbiest kind, but David Miranda was much more than simply a family member, he was acting as a journalist himself.

Of course, intimidating journalists is almost as grubby as intimidating their families – but the distinction is enough to suggest Greenwald's version of events was partial at best.

Similary, we cannot be certain that the Government's account of the processes and decisions that led to Mr Miranda's encounter with the Terrorism Act is necessarily true or complete.

As we've seen all too often in the past, once the security services get mixed up in political communications things have a nasty habit of being forgotten, or "mis-spoken" as Hillary Clinton would put it.

So, unable to fully trust either story, we now have to deal with the news that "senior Whitehall figures" pressured the Guardian into allowing GCHQ officials to destroy computers at their office, supposedly in order to wipe the Snowden data they held.

Destroying a couple of computers in an age when things can be copied and sent around the world at the click of a button – and when others are couriering copies by airplane – is a bizarre decision. GCHQ may not be perfect but they surely know that taking an angle grinder to a Macbook is of little practical use (though it is a neat analogy for what the newspaper-buying public is doing to the Guardian, as it happens).

Evidently we are yet to discover the full story – indeed, we may never know exactly what went on and why – but there are a few initial conclusions we can draw:

State influence on the media is not a pretty sight

While the Guardian was more than happy to support state control of the media when they thought it meant Leveson kicking Rupert Murdoch, it turns out they don't like it so much when it applies to them.

The media has an essential role in any democracy to scrutinise those in power, including the security services. We should be deeply uncomfortable about the idea those services have apparently used anti-terror powers to try to deter journalists from carrying out that role – whether we agree with the journalists' politics or not.

The Terrorism Act is too loosely worded…

I have been stopped, albeit briefly, under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act for protesting outside a Labour conference (against ID cards, appropriately enough), and I can confirm that its logic is troubling.

We are used to the idea that the police only get to exercise their powers when they have some reason to suspect wrongdoing – be it evidence, intelligence or the observations of an officer on the spot. It is out of keeping with the traditions of British law (as well as a colossal waste of police time) for officers to go stopping people with no grounds for suspicion at all.

In Opposition, the Conservatives rightly criticised the Blair government for its abuse of freedom in the name of security, and for its failure to understand our legal traditions. We should be proud of following through on those criticisms by destroying the ID card scheme, for example – but it is clear there is plenty work left undone.

…and its use is too lightly supervised

Section 7 of the Terrorism Act has never previously received much attention, but now that it has several inconsistencies have come to light. While the Act states that officers need no grounds for suspicion to use its powers, the Home Office guidelines state that it should not be used "arbitrarily". This makes little sense – what can be more arbitrary than the police detaining someone for questioning and investigation about their links to terrorism with no reason to suspect the person in question of any terrorist activity whatsoever?

As Louise Mensch argues, it may well be that there were legitimate security grounds for stopping David Miranda. The documents he was allegedly handling relate to American and British security services. The Snowden files were certainly stolen. Even if he and Greenwald had no malicious intent, their computers are likely less well protected from Chinese hackers than GCHQ's or the CIA's.

But, as Big Brother Watch point out, none of those issues constitutes terrorism. Unsurprisingly, the Terrorism Act is meant to be used on terrorists, not troublesome journalists.

Why not use another law relating to official secrets, or the transporting of information which poses a threat to national security or the lives of any agents who might be exposed? For that matter, why did they wait until he was passing through Heathrow rather than use the European Arrest Warrant to get him brought in custody from Germany?

The answer is that those alternatives would have required evidence and due process – neither of which, it seems, the security services wished to be troubled with.

As Conservatives, we should be concerned with preserving the security of our nation. But we should also remember that freedom of the press and the rule of law are essential elements of the nation we seek to defend. Balancing those competing concerns, often to the annoyance of all involved, is a difficult task but it is also an essential one.

Conservatism means dealing with these issues as they are in the real world, not just steamrollering one side in order to look tough – that was Tony Blair's approach, and it created this mess in the first place.

More information is certain to come to light in this story – claim and counter-claim, assertion and rebuttal. Things will probably get a lot murkier before they even start to become any more clear.

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