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Matt Mayberry
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About Matt Mayberry - Former NFL Linebacker and Healthcare Business-Development Professional, Entrepreneur Magazine Columnist, Peak-Performance Strategist:
Matt Mayberry, a former NFL linebacker for the Chicago Bears, is currently one of the most-read columnists for Entrepreneur Magazine - as well as an acclaimed keynote speaker, author, and peak-performance strategist. Using a real-world approach, he specializes in maximizing the performance of organizations, teams, and individuals all over the world.
As an athlete and business professional, Matt has a real-world understanding that success is based on the key areas of peak performance, overcoming adversity, motivation, culture, and teamwork. From the football field to being the head of business development for a multi-million dollar healthcare company, to becoming a successful entrepreneur - Matt has the credibility to deliver a keynote speech with a strong focus on actionable ideas and strategies designed to maximize business and personal performance.
Matt is Indiana University's current record holder for most sacks in a single game - and was the team recipient of the prestigious Howard Brown Award, which exemplifies leadership, courage and work ethic. Because of his world-class speed, on-field success, and superb leadership background, Mayberry was signed by the Chicago Bears in 2010. However, after reaching the pinnacle of his sport, he suffered a life-changing injury against the San Diego Chargers - which cut his dream career short.
Matt created success after football, earning his way to becoming the head of business development at Infinity Healthcare, where he put the fundamentals he learned as an athlete and in life to practice. Soon after, Matt embraced his true passion - taking his personal story, with a smart mix of football and business - and began his training and consulting company, Matt Mayberry Enterprises, to help others achieve massive success by learning how to lead through change and create transformational breakthroughs.
Matt has been featured on numerous media outlets including Forbes, NBC, Fox News, Business Insider, MSN Lifestyle, Fox Business, ABC, and ESPN to name a few. A partial list of his clients include the FBI, National Kitchen & Bath Association, Fifth Third Bank, Farm Bureau Financial Services, Cosentino, NAPA Auto Parts, USA Hockey, DuPont, Union Pacific Railroad, and Lowe's.
As a keynote speaker, Matt provides strong take-home value, as well as an inspiring experience, for every attendee. With a combination of powerful and personal stories, along with current research - attendees leave with a detailed action plan for their own success. Matt has been rated one of the top speakers at every event he's keynoted.
Matt's first book, Winning Plays, is available in stores everywhere.
He currently resides in Chicago, Illinois. His personal interests include sports, fitness, golf, reading, the arts, spirituality, and spending time with his family and friends.
What Matt Mayberry Talks About:
Winning Plays: Tackling Adversity and Achieving Success in Business and in Life
In this paramount message, Matt shares his personal story of being on a downward path to destruction, struggling through drug addiction and a career-ending injury in which he eventually transformed into meaningful and lasting success. Matt introduces key insights and techniques about personal motivation, overcoming adversity, goal setting, and turning circumstantial hardship into opportunities for winning plays. He provides actionable strategies and thought-provoking dialogue that is sure to maximize the performance of individuals and teams.
Learn Matt's unique seven-step process on how to turn any failure or adversity into a gift
Learn how to create powerful and positive momentum shifts in your personal and professional life
Discover the importance of creating a clear vision for your life or organization – and how it will power you through every setback and hardship moving forward
Dominate Today!
We live in a complex world of constant distraction. It is our job to clearly prioritize the areas of importance – and minimize the obstacles preventing us from becoming the best version of ourselves. This motivational and action-packed presentation challenges attendees to step out of their comfort zone and expand their vision as to what's possible for their life. Matt shares breakthrough insights on human potential, performance – and coaches attendees through personal and professional goal-setting exercises, personal branding, and peak performance strategy.
Learn how to minimize distraction, diminish obstacles – and increase daily productivity
Learn how to create your own personal and professional growth plan that ensures you grow somehow, someway each and every day
Explore why most people fall short in the achievement of their goals and learn Matt's proven goal-setting method that will change the trajectory of your life – one moment, one day at a time
Transformational Leadership
Matt explores the challenges that leaders face and how to break through the barriers, lead through change – and make a significant impact on your team and organization. Whether you run a team of five or 5,000 – the outcome of this keynote will be leaders who are inspired and prepared to lead more effectively, increase employee morale and retention, and drive the performance of everyone within the organization to the next level.
Discover transformational mindset shifts that separate a leader with a title to a leader that changes the game
Learn how to lead confidently and effectively through change
Learn how to create a personal action plan that will increase your effectiveness to lead
Learn how to increase employee morale, engagement, and performance by effectively transforming your leadership style
Building a World Class Team and Culture
Matt examines what top performing teams are doing differently to continually win, innovate, and maximize performance in an ever-changing world. Being an athlete for much of his life, and majoring in Sports Management – Matt uses his expertise to teach how success extends far beyond talent. Matt has been on teams that reached the top and teams that didn't get anywhere. Since moving away from the playing field, he has drawn the parallels to the business arena. He outlines the importance of teamwork and culture, and how the two can carry your vision to the end zone – every single day.
Learn how to recruit, attract, nurture – and retain a world-class team and culture
Learn how to drastically increase employee engagement, morale – and retention
Discover the importance of individual, team, and cultural development as an unyielding necessity to the success of your organization
Breakthrough Sales Performance
Much like athletics, sales is a constant battle. They both require a relentless desire to work on your craft, know your competition – and elevate your game every single day. They both demand an enormous amount of preparation in order to perform at the highest level. This dynamic keynote is guaranteed to challenge, educate, and provide sales professionals with the tools and strategies that will revolutionize breakthrough sales performance. Matt teaches how to create a mindset shift that will serve as a catalyst for breakthrough growth. The outcome of this keynote will be sales professionals who will understand how to create value, increase sales, build relationships, stand out from the competition – and crush quotas.
Discover how to capitalize off of rejection – and let it inspire you instead of discourage you
Discover one mental shift that all sales professionals must commit to in order to achieve breakthrough performance
Learn how to nurture relationships that turn into lifelong customers
Matt delivers an emotionally charged, motivational & inspirational speech. He simplifies goal setting with a "do it now" call to action & leaves you with takeaways we all desire from attending any program. While he was given amazing athletic ability, I believe he was put on this earth not to entertain us as an NFL linebacker - but to teach life lessons that inspire & change lives.
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After years of working as a chef and running his own food service businesses, Paul Owl decided to leap into the food and beverage manufacturing industry with his business, TreeTeas Brewing Co.
TreeTeas Brewing creates natural teas and syrups with flavours inspired by the region of Serpent River
First Nation, located just west of Sudbury, Ontario.
The idea for the business started when Owl wanted to create a beverage to serve with meals at his previous business, Rez-Q Smokery. Drawing inspiration from his love of chai growing up, he came up with the idea to create an iced tea from scratch.
"I was like, 'you know, I can't just serve Pepsi and dull juices. I'm going to create a berry chai cedar tea.' What I came up with was really nice. It was super flavourful, and people really loved it," says Owl.
"I was like, 'Okay, I got a business here.'"
Perfecting the recipe
Owl then started adjusting the recipe because the way he initially made it would be too expensive to bottle and sell at a reasonable price. His first product was an adaptation of his original wild berry chai iced tea, packaged and sold in Mason Jars.
To get feedback from potential customers, Owl took four cases of the product to a local powwow he was emceeing.
It sold out in minutes.
"People were coming up to me and telling me old stories. It was a reminder of when their grandparents used to have cedar tea on the stove all the time and the different things they did," he says. "I knew right then and there that I was on to something."
Owl decided to invest in equipment that would allow him to make larger quantities of the product from his home, and it continued selling out at local powwows. He added a few additional flavours and started selling them at some First Nations stores.
Then Covid-19 hit.
With live events, one of his biggest sales vehicles, restricted, Owl tried to adjust to a delivery subscription model. Though this worked, it wasn't where he ultimately wanted to take the business. He wanted to grow and expand into more retailers. To do that, he needed to boost capacity and find a co-packer to can his products for wider distribution.
Educating through tea
Today TreeTeas Brewing Co. works with a co-packer in Ottawa. The products are being sold in more First Nations retail stores and continue to sell out at live events. Owl also recently won first place at the Pow Wow Pitch finals, a grassroots competition that supports Indigenous entrepreneurship. This gave him the funding needed to add nutritional labelling to the products.
In collaboration with Madahoki Farm, TreeTeas Brewing now offers flavours such as Cedar Wild Mint and the Cedar Wildberry Chai. They also launched Ziibiins Nibi (stream water), in June 2022 for the Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival.
Owl says TreeTeas' products have the potential to help educate others on First Nations culture.
"This gives us the opportunity to open up conversations and educate people in a good way, where the icebreaker is the drink," says Owl.
"This is our opportunity, whether it's through the branding on the box or something on the can that brings them to a website, to start educating about First Nations, our culture, our treaties, and the responsibilities on both sides of that. Doing things in a good way, that really sparks me."
In the fall, Owl says TreeTeas Brewing plans to expand to more First Nations retailers, as well as bigger retail chains going into 2023.
"I know our growth is absolutely crazy based on what we're looking at. Once the barcodes and nutritional labelling are on there, then those conversations [with bigger retail chains] really start to happen," says Owl. "By 2023, I'm hoping within Ontario, we're looking at somewhere around 500,000 cans a month."
Advice for food and beverage entrepreneurs
Though running your own food and beverage manufacturing business has its own unique set of challenges, Owl says it gives him the freedom he never had while working for someone else.
"I've always wanted to do food on my own terms. When I was in restaurants and resorts, you weren't really on your own terms," he says. "You always had someone saying 'well, that's not what our clients like,' or they're worried about their image as well."
Owl's advice for aspiring food and beverage entrepreneurs? Nail down your recipe so you will be able to accurately calculate your production costs.
"You need to know your recipe down to the gram size of what's going into each can or into each package. Because that's going to be your cost, and you really need to know your costs," says Owl.
"As long as you know your costs, you can start to visualize where you want to go with it, who you want to target and who you want to go after. The most important thing is knowing your numbers on what you're creating and making sure what you're creating is staying true to what you want."
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If you've been waiting to update your turf care equipment, now is the time. Toro is launching dozens of new features, products and innovations to improve the appearance and playability of your course — as well as your crew's productivity. Visit toro.com/golf2011 or read more for a quick look at the highlights.
Toro is making headlines with four new Greensmaster® models. The TriFlex™ and TriFlex™ Hybrid are the first riding greensmowers to cut with the precision of a walker. And the Flex™ walk greensmower lineup features improvements to the standard gas models and new lithium ion battery-powered eFlex™ models that can mow up to nine greens on a single charge.
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The Toro Loyalty Counts parts reward program has grown, along with the catalog of rewards. In addition to Toro merchandise, you can now redeem TLC points for credit toward future parts purchases or factory service education, myTurf subscriptions and Toro consumer hand-held products.
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Today got a task to collect the users with Full Access and Send-As permission in my organization and didn't expect that I can finish the task but PowerShell make it as simple.
You have to use the PowerShell command below to get all the users who have Full Mailbox Permission for the user mailboxes or shared mailboxes, etc. other than their own NT account.
You may get more rows and columns in the result and you may not be able to view all those information. To check all the information, just append Export-CSV to export the result in a CSV file.
You have to use the PowerShell commands below to get all the users who have Send-As permission for User Mailboxes or Shared Mailboxes, etc. other than their own NT Account.
You may get more rows and columns in the result and you may not be able to view all those information. To check all the information, just append Export-CSV to export the output in a CSV file.
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This Creamy Pesto Sausage Pasta made with whole wheat pasta is one of my favorite pasta recipes!
Simple pasta recipes are my favorite recipes to make! It usually happens on the exact night I'm making dinner. This creamy pesto sausage pasta was a huge hit with the family and it could not be more simple to prepare. Serve with a nice loaf of crusty bread and a salad and you'll be good to go!
Transfer the cooked pasta and browned sausage to a nice pot. Add about 1/4 cup prepared pesto to the pot. For a stronger pesto flavor feel free to add more. We like more of a "slight" pesto flavor.
Add cream, stir until hot and top with grated Parmesan and fresh basil. Just like that dinner is done in under 30 minutes. Love this one.
Quick and simple weeknight dinner friends. Note that if pasta is left out before serving, sauce will thicken slightly. Add more cream or milk to thin.
*So many things go with pasta! Personalize your pasta according to your family's favorite ingredients.
*Switch up the protein. Chicken, shrimp, beef….it's all great.
*Use other chopped vegetables you have in the refrigerator. I give them a quick saute and add them right to the pot.
Place sausage in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook, crumble and brown. Transfer cooked pasta and sausage to large pot over medium low heat. Slowly stir in pesto and cream. Cook until hot. Before serving sprinkle with Parmesan and fresh basil.
If I hear the words "creamy" and "pasta," I'm always in! This dish looks to DIE for!
Such a healthy pasta recipe!
Looks like a dish my family will love!
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What's the Value of NaNoWriMo?
At Salon, Laura Miller protests National Novel Writing Month (a.k.a., NaNoWriMo) and its participants, saying the month-long writing marathon is a waste of time. At the Los Angeles Times book blog Jacket Copy, Carolyn Kellogg disagrees.


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Study across an island divided by a border, but joined in history. The program takes you to both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. From Dublin, the capital of the Republic, we'll uncover the cultural significance behind Glendalough, Trinity College and places made famous by such writers as James Joyce and Jonathan Swift. Then we'll head to Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdom), tracking the history of Ireland, ancient and modern, stopping at the magnificent coastal World Heritage Site, the Giant's Causeway, and visiting locations associated more recently with the Troubles in Belfast and Derry. Then it's off to the beauty of the mountains, valleys and islands of the West of Ireland where Gaelic and traditional music can still be heard. Discover the beauty and the tragedy, the history and the hope that define this land still struggling to be united.
The schedule, subject to change, includes stays in Dublin, Belfast, Derry and Sligo (or nearby), and Galway. Included are day trips to locations such as Glendalough and Aran Islands.
Participants will reside at Dublin City University's (DCU) Glasnevin Campus the first 6 nights of the program. Individuals will be assigned to standard apartments, which consist of 5 private en suite bedrooms (including toilet, sink and shower) with access to a spacious shared kitchen/lounge area.
Each apartment's shared kitchen area is equipped with refrigerator, oven, cooktop, microwave, toaster, kettle, 2 pots, 2 frying pans, cutting board, tableware, drinkware, cutlery and general utensils.
All bedrooms are equipped with an en-suite bathroom and shower, tea and coffee making facilities, and a work desk. Bed linens and towels are provided.
Wi-Fi and wired internet connection is available in all bedrooms.
A laundry room is located at the residence (extra fees apply to use this service).
24-hour on site security is provided, and all bedrooms are accessed using a key card.
Restaurants, cafes, pharmacy, grocery store and ATM machine are available on campus.
Breakfast is served in the main campus restaurant, a short walk (approximately 3 minutes) from the accommodation.
While traveling from the east to west coast of Ireland, the group will be housed in hotels. Hotel accommodations are based primarily on double occupancy with occasional use of triple rooms. Singles may be available at an additional cost.
During the 3 nights in Galway, the National University of Ireland's (NUI) Goldcrest Village will be home base. Participants will be assigned to standard apartments, which consist of 4, 5 or 6 private en suite bedrooms (including toilet, sink and shower) with access to a shared living room/kitchen. Bed linens and towels are provided.
Each apartment's shared kitchen/living area is equipped with seating, digital TV, coffee table, either a dining table w/chairs or a breakfast bar w/high stools, iron and ironing board, refrigerator/freezer, oven, cooktop, microwave, toaster, kettle, pots and pans, crockery, and cutlery.
All bedrooms are equipped with an en-suite bathroom and shower, bookshelves, study desk and chair, wardrobe, and desk lamp. Bed linens and towels are provided.
24-hour WiFi is accessible throughout the village.
A self-service launderette is located at the residence (extra fees apply to use this service).
The residences have security outside of office hours (with regular patrols).
Apartments can only be accessed with key cards.
Breakfast is provided daily. Participants will be responsible for lunch and dinner each day.
Scott Boyd
Scott Boyd, Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Middle Tennessee State University, currently serves as the Head of Theatrical Design. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree in Theatrical Design and Technical Production from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Bachelor of Art degree from Xavier University in Ohio. At North Carolina, he studied under world-renown designer Andreas Nomikos and four time Tony Award winner Patricia Zipprodt. His extensive design and technical production experience includes work on The Chocolate Soldier for the National Opera Company (Washington, D.C.); Camelot's Ruby and Empire Gas for the Lost Tribe Theatre Company (New York City); and Shirtwaist and Sus Manos for the Flying Fig Theatre Company (New York City.) He has been a consultant for many community, educational, and regional productions across the American Southeast. Professor Boyd is a nine-time finalist for the First Night Awards for Outstanding Design and a three-time winner for his designs of The Tempest and The Tide Shall Cover the Earth. He served as Resident Designer/Technical Director for the acclaimed Nashville Children's Theatre for five years and spent nine years on the faculty of Austin Peay State University before joining Middle Tennessee State University in 2004. He has recently served as the Fred Coe Artist in Residence at Vanderbilt University. Scott is a member of the United Scenic Artists Local #829 .He has taught and directed London and Ireland programs for CCSA for 20 plus years.
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The East-West Cultural Divide in Irish Society
Course Description: Designed for majors in anthropology, sociology, and history, this class explores the hypothesis that the real dividing line in Ireland is not so much between Protestant North and Catholic South, as it is between the rural Hibernian West and the urban Anglo-Irish East. The governments of both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland and traditional industries have been in the east, while the west remains agricultural and home to native reservations called Gaeltacht. We will visit sites that illustrate these themes, such as government offices in Belfast and Dublin, museums such as the Titanic Centre and the Museum of Country life, and booming urban areas and rural sites such as the fabled Aran Islands.
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Selfish Selfies: Developing a Campaign Against Harmful Tourism in Ireland
Course Description: Explore some of the great tourist destinations that highlight Ireland's natural beauty while also exploring how the pursuit of the perfect Instagram photo has led to overcrowding and put stress on nature-based tourist destinations. Through observing practices and current methods for deterring harm to the environment in sites such as the Cliffs of Moher as well as Dublin, students will learn about behaviors that lead to undesired effects such as littering, eroding natural landscapes, and overcrowding. After analyzing the issues and witnessing firsthand many of the tourist destinations of Ireland, students will develop a public relations campaign encouraging tourists to respect the environment they are visiting.
WKU Course: COMM 415
Dr. Jerrica Rowlett | 3 Cr. Hrs. | U
English Language & Literature / Psychology / Sociology / Pop Culture
Castles and Cliffsides: Literature of the Emerald Isle
Course Description: Gain an understanding of the rich historical and cultural background to Irish literature by experiencing the locales that have inspired Irish authors over the centuries, including ancient churches and castles, Ireland's beautiful and mystic landscape, and the historic pubs where iconic music still flourishes. From the Cliffs of Moher to the Giant's Causeway and from seaside villages to Dublin's vibrant urban culture, this class will focus on the sources of Irish literature and the magnificent range of ways that Irish authors have depicted the human condition in such literary genres as romanticism, mysticism, satire, Gothic and realism.
WKU Course: ENG 399
Prof. Bill Mullen | 3 Cr. Hrs. | U
Gender Studies / Interdisciplinary / Pop Culture / History
Enchanted Women of Ireland
Course Description: What do supernatural creatures, like wailing banshees, prankster fairies, and shape-shifting morrigans, have in common with Ireland's businesswomen, herbalists, widows, and otherwise misunderstood women? In this course we will visit sites in both city and country that provide cultural, literary, and artistic depictions of women in Irish society to gain a better understanding of how women in Ireland have made indelible contributions to Irish history while remaining marginalized. Literature, museums, and natural locations will be our learning sites in our exploration of the evolving roles of women in Irish society as reflected in Irish culture.
Prerequisite: Students should have completed their college's basic writing requirement
WKU Course: GWS 470
Dr. Lisa Day | 3 Cr. Hrs. | U
Nursing / Health Care Administration / Social Work
Self-Development of the Healthcare Provider: A Cross-Cultural Examination
Course Description: In this class comparing the American and Irish health care systems, you'll learn how culture shapes our professional self by influencing how we understand and value the world around us. Awareness of sociocultural influences on health beliefs and behaviors can equip future healthcare providers with skills to transform personal and professional practice. Interaction with healthcare providers while visiting hospitals, pharmacies, public health agencies and research facilities will deepen students' understanding of how Irish and American health systems compare in such areas as healthcare education and public health policies. We'll also learn how cultural and historical influences shape modern healthcare practices by touring historic sites.
Dr. Miranda Peterson | 3 Cr. Hrs. | U/H


This Teen Mom has another baby on the way.
Maci Bookout is expecting her third child, a son, she revealed Monday on Instagram.
"Baby boy coming soon! happy valentine's day!" she captioned a photo of herself kissing fiancé Taylor McKinney, with whom she shares daughter Jayde, 9 months.
The MTV reality star also shared a sweet picture of the little girl lying on top of her belly.
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On The Ground At The Massive Women's March In LA
"I wanted to be a part of the resistance"
Stacey Leasca
Saturday, January 21 marked Donald Trump's first official day as president of the United States. However, according to the freshly minted commander in chief, he doesn't technically start work until Monday. As he said in an interview in early January,
"Day one—which I will consider to be Monday as opposed to Friday or Saturday. Right? I mean my day one is gonna be Monday because I don't want to be signing and get it mixed up with lots of celebration."
Of course, that didn't stop him from spending his Friday evening scaling back the Affordable Care Act. While he might be taking the rest of the weekend off, for the millions of Americans who took to the streets to oppose his presidency and policies, day one is today.
An estimated 500,000 participants took part in the March on Washington in D.C. In Los Angeles, organizers are estimating the number of participants to be nearly 750,000.
Nearly 600 sister marches also took place across the country in all 50 states and on seven continents (yes seven). There is, in fact, a march in Antarctica.
The editorial team at GOOD ventured out into our hometown here in LA to get a sense of why people wanted to take time out of their hectic lives to create signs, sew hats, and march on the streets.
"I wanted to be a part of the resistance," Heidy, a local resident told GOOD while holding a sign reading "Undocumented Mujer."
"Because we believe in democracy and because we need our leaders to be kind," Kim said while standing proud next to her daughter, Gigi.
The march itself was subdued but strong, with women, men, and children all standing shoulder to shoulder, flooding the streets of downtown.
As for after the march, Kelli Soto, community and policy advocate at the American Civil Liberties Union in LA, shared her advice:
"There are a lot of ways that you can engage, depending on your capability and zest. You can start at the level of talking to friends and family, that's really important. Educate yourself, that's really important. Know what your rights are so you can tell other people. You can also contact congress, contact your local legislators and let them know what you believe in and what you're going to stand for."
Check out more of the sights from Los Angeles in our slideshow.


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The title is taken from Frank O'Hara's poem "Mayakovsky," in which O'Hara references Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and suggests that the self is dependent on who we surround ourselves with, reflecting the multiplicity and fluidity of identity and authorship. In the exhibition Burr examines how personality takes on "an external form, an otherness," and how this extension of oneself develops a fortuitous narrative. As O'Hara invoked Mayakovsky and other artists in his poems, Burr selected the artists in this show based on his own connection to them and to their artwork.
For both O'Hara and Burr identity becomes an indeterminate product of interaction with others, and a contingency of relation. The artists' connections and shared experiences relate to Burr's interest in the external forces that shape our identity and the autobiographical and corporeal nature of objects. Thus all the artists in the exhibition are connected, sometimes it is a literal connection like a shared studio wall – Ull Hohn shared a wall with Burr during their time in The Whitney Museum's studio program in 1988 and Burr now listens to Charline Von Heyl paint through their shared dividing wall. The connection can also be emotional, as is the case with Elizabeth Peyton, an old classmate of Burr's whose subjects over the years have included many of his intimates. Other connections are best described as tangential for Burr in which social and narrative functions of the persona yield "traces, imprints and remains, and objects that have been located and then located again," said Burr.


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The Euroguidance Germany is represented by the Federal Agency of Employment (Bundesagentur für Arbeit); the ZAV (International Placement Services) is a specialised department within the Federal Agency of Employment and responsible for fulfilling the associated tasks within the Euroguidance network.


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Day 1 Wednesday, April 9
7:00–10:00 p.m.
Reception and Dinner; Conversation Over Dessert
Knowledge for What? Have Universities Lost Sight of Their Purpose?
Moderator: David Remnick '81, Editor, The New Yorker
Serge Haroche, Director, Collège de France; 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Christine Musselin, Vice President for Research, Sciences Po, Paris
Alexander Nehamas *71, the Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Princeton University
Location: Westin Paris-Vendôme Hotel
Fifteen years ago, a UNESCO summit on higher education in Paris declared that access to higher education was a key pathway to citizenship and social mobility in a knowledge-based economy. It cited the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, especially Article 26's assertion that "everyone has the right to education."
But what kind of education? What kind of knowledge? Cardinal Newman's famous preference for "liberal knowledge" over "useful knowledge" has fewer and fewer adherents. If universities are not to pursue knowledge for its own sake, what is their purpose? What makes them distinct from the societies that surround and support them? How should higher education respond to multiplying and diverging demands? When attempting to strike the delicate balance between public good and private interests, how should decision-makers think about achievement and innovation, and those who benefit?
View a video recording of this session.
Day 2 Thursday, April 10
Location: All Thursday and Friday Sessions Will Take Place at the Hôtel de Ville de Paris
8:30–10:30 a.m.
Session I: Conversation
What Models Are Available for Sustainable Success?
Moderator: Matthew Bishop, U.S. Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief, The Economist
Vincent Berger, Special Advisor to French President François Hollande for Higher Education and Research
Helga Nowotny, Immediate Past President, European Research Council; Professor Emerita of Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich
Wendy Piatt, Director-General and Chief Executive, The Russell Group
Cecilia Rouse, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and the Lawrence and Shirley Katzman and Lewis and Anna Ernst Professor in the Economics of Education, Princeton University
A target set by the European Commission's growth strategy for the coming decade, known as Europe 2020, calls for 40 percent of young people to earn higher education certificates in an effort to move millions from low-skill destinies to high-skill careers. In Africa, governments are scrambling to keep up with the soaring demand for higher education. And yet, institutions around the world are expected to cut budgets and meet competitive higher standards. The last decade has seen a great deal of experimentation—some might say "structural adjustment"—in financing and partnering in higher education.
Is it possible to educate more people with limited public purses? What works? What doesn't? Should the rewards generated by discovery be subject to private intellectual property rights or belong to institutions? Is a successful adjustment to the realities of demand and supply possible? And if so, what makes it sustainable?
10:30–11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Session II: Lecture
New Technologies: What Are the Risks and Rewards of Online Education?
Moderator: Tamar Lewin, Domestic Correspondent, The New York Times
Featuring: Daphne Koller, the Rajeev Motwani Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University; Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Coursera
Respondents:
Bruno Latour, Scientific Director, Sciences Po Médialab, Paris
William Lawton, Director, Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, London
Gideon Rosen, the Stuart Professor of Philosophy; Chair, Council of the Humanities; and Director, Program in Humanistic Studies, Princeton University
Once defined by their spires, universities are increasingly shaped by their wires. Online technologies have changed the way we shop, how we socialize, and our access to public services. They're now transforming the classroom. In the past year and a half, with the inauguration of Massive Open Online Courses, a debate has developed: is this a threat to core values of higher education or a solution to the obstacles presented by cost and access? One platform alone, Coursera, had over five million students and 107 partner institutions by October of 2013.
The effects are hard to measure. While the data are still inconclusive—the landscape has changed, as a recent survey from the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education has indicated. What are the hazards of going digital? What do we gain? In the polarized debate, what voices or issues are being lost? Will digital learning eclipse or embellish the classroom?
Break - Lunch on Own
Session III: Conversation
How to Expand Access for a Diverse Population
Moderator: Michel Wieviorka, Director, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
Pankaj Chandra, Professor of Production and Operations Management, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Caroline Hoxby, the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Lillian Tibatemwa-Ekirikubinza, Lord Justice Professor, Constitutional Court of Uganda
Universities face contradictory pressures. As societies become more diverse, these institutions are under increasing pressure to be integrative forces. Indeed, universities are often held up as models for seeking excellence through diversity by treating social differences as resources for learning. Not only are institutions of higher learning expected to look like the societies that support them, they are asked to be mechanisms of inclusion that reverse inherited patterns of unearned privilege.
In the scramble for rankings, recognition, and status, there has been a growing public sentiment that higher education—and elite universities in particular—have returned to old habits of enhancing social distinctions and inequalities. The result has been a decline in public support for higher education.
What tools render complexity and difference into assets for learning? What interventions have not worked, and why? How do we reconcile conflict, disagreement, and collaboration within the halls of academe?
Reception for Conference Attendees
Session IV: Public Conversation
How to Think About Universities in the Global Age
Moderator: Christopher L. Eisgruber '83, President, Princeton University
Paulina González-Pose, Chief, Section for Higher Education, UNESCO
Bernd Huber, President, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and Chairman, League of European Research Universities
Jeffrey Lehman, Vice-Chancellor, New York University Shanghai
The marketplace for ideas is, for better or worse, global. What is the nature of the university when knowledge and its carriers transcend boundaries? Nearly four million students cross borders every year to study. The result is a shift in the territorial horizons of higher education: some universities create satellites; others position themselves as magnets for global talent; others forge networks and consortia, like the European Erasmus program or the fledgling BRICS (Brazil, China, India, Russia) University League, or the Pan African University.
Emerging partnerships are reinventing the 20th-century model of "study abroad" to include research collaborations and inter-institutional curricula. How do cross-border mobility and collaboration redefine the mission of higher education? How should we assess the competing models of university governance in an age of globalization? What alternatives remain to be explored?
Day 3 Friday, April 11
Session V: Lecture
Universities and Development: How Are Universities Agents of Social Change?
Moderator: Francisco Marmolejo, Lead Tertiary Education Specialist and Coordinator of Network of Higher Education Specialists, The World Bank
Featuring: Bernard Ramanantsoa, Dean, HEC Paris
Ambuj Sagar, the Vipula and Mahesh Chaturvedi Professor of Policy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Lan Xue, Cheung Kong Chair Professor and Dean, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing
While higher education has been regarded as an engine of social mobility for those who have access to it, universities have also become instruments of social intervention for those who lack access. "Service" is an increasingly prominent facet of education. This is perhaps most evident in the burgeoning field of global public health and legal training.
The notion that institutions of higher education should be at the vanguard of innovation and invention has paved the way for new partnerships with the private sector. This has been especially pronounced for institutions in developing societies, where it has fallen upon universities and colleges to promote the acquisition of skills combined with a social mission to "catch up."
How should we think about the balance between objective inquiry and social engagement? Does this challenge the traditional organization of teaching and research framed around classical disciplines? Does it overstretch the mission of already overcommitted institutions? Are service and development ornaments or organic parts of learning?
Session VI: Conversation
The Future of Undergraduate Education: Breadth or Depth?
Moderator: Olivier Bouin, Director, Network of French Institutes for Advanced Study
Cheryl de la Rey, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Don M. Randel '62 *67, President Emeritus, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the University of Chicago
Pauline Yu, President, American Council of Learned Societies
Once upon a time, Cardinal Newman envisioned a university-educated citizen as prepared to "master of any subject with facility." With the rise of the modern research infrastructure, its broadened scale, and diversity of functions, there has been a push to vocational and professional education—and corresponding resistance.
The knowledge economy requires ever more complex and refined skills, many of which need to be developed at an earlier age, and pursued for more years of study. The notion that a broad-based curriculum and multi-disciplinary learning— the vaunted liberal arts tradition— should be the foundation of an undergraduate learning experience is under unprecedented pressure to give way to specialization and concentration.
Should university leaders and stakeholders in societies embrace this new model? Is there a case to be made for a "liberal arts" for the 21st century? If so, what would this broad exploration of various disciplines look like? Or is it destined to be a luxury limited to those who can afford it?
Last update: February 2, 2015


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December 19, 2018 February 13, 2019 SAFPO (Strategic Affairs and Foreign Policy Observer) Asian Geopolitics, Internal Security, Political Risk, Social Risk
Israel-Palestine Region: Int Brief
Time Period: [30 Nov'18-14 Dec'18]
Current Situation:
Reports indicate that Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Palestinian Authority (PA) and Fatah leader Mohammad Abbas intends to force sanctions on Gaza to coerce Hamas cede the governance of the strip to PA. Iran backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement leader Ziad Al-Nakhaleh, called for reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas for a united response for the survival of the Palestine freedom movement. Also, on 30th November 2018, Fatah condemned US resolution against Hamas as a show of political support, as it is a fundamental element of Palestine freedom struggle. However, the internal power crisis remains evident, as, on 9th December 2018, Palestine President Mohammad Abbas said that Hamas dominated Palestine Legislative Council (PLC) will soon be dissolved.
Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have been fighting a three-front war in West Bank, along Gaza-Israel border, and Golan Heights over the weeks (30 Nov-14 Dec) under observation. There has been a spate of protests including some attacks by Palestinians on Israeli soldiers in Northern (Ramallah, Nablus, Tulkarm) and Southern areas (Hebron) of the West Bank. Also, there have been reports of heightened protests by Palestinians (from Gaza) along the Gaza-Israel border in a bid to return to the West Bank. Finally, Israel has launched operation Northern Shield on 04th December, in order to destroy the underground tunnels in Southern Lebanon and Hezbollah strongholds in Golan Heights along the Syrian border.
There has been a notable increase in Right Wing Nationalism and race-based hate crime in parts of West Bank along Israeli settlements located among Palestinian households, leading to launch of IDF operations in the areas. Calls for increasing Israeli settlements in West Banks from prominent Israeli leaders, like Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein on 2nd December and allocation of $187 million for Israeli settlements near Gaza strip by Benjamin Netanyahu, have fueled right-wing activities. Also, on 2nd December, there were reports of Israeli settlers vandalizing vehicles owned by Palestinians in Kufr Kassem area.
As per the prevailing geopolitical trend, the bilateral relations between the Israel and Gulf states, especially Saudi Arabia gained momentum, with the delivery of critical espionage software. The mutual interest has been driven by common enmity towards Iran and its affiliated groups. Even though the relations remain below the threshold, there have been reports on cooperation such as the use of chemical products of SABIC (a Saudi company) in Israeli factories located in settlement areas of Salfit Governorate (Northern West Bank)
1. Palestine Authority (PA)-Hamas struggle for political authority
The Palestinian Authority (PA) led by Mohammad Abbas of Fatah party, has been at odds with Hamas since 2007 when the former failed to accept the result of parliamentary elections and was kicked out of Gaza strip. Since then PA governs West Bank while Gaza remains under Hamas. With a fundamental difference in their approach regarding Palestine Statehood movement and working relationship with Israel, both parties have missed several opportunities for reconciliation including the last meeting in Egypt in October 2017. The recent attempt led by Ziad Al-Nakhaleh, the political bureau chief of Palestinian Islamic Jehad Movement, met with similar fate.
In this context, the differences between the two parties have further deepened over the last few weeks. While, PA continues to consider Hamas as an indivisible and inalienable part of Palestine movement, pledging it political support through PLO at various diplomatic forums including UN, the ideological difference have been causing anxiety among supporters over the possibility of a united front. The crisis further deepened, with Mohammad Abbas devising means to wield political and moral authority from Hamas either through a dissolution of Hamas dominated Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) or by imposing sanctions on Gaza. This was evident on 14th December, when PA authorities used force to suppress Hamas led a protest march against Israeli settlements in Hebron.
Given the political differences between two parties in the Palestinian political scene, there will be a spike in protests by supporters of either party in the areas surrounding Israeli settlements leading to heightened violence. Frustration among supporters arising out of political push-pull between two parties will further increase the level of violence. This would compel Israel to divide its force deployment between East Jerusalem and Areas (A, B, and C) affecting daily life.
2. Israel's three front war
With the presence of Iran backed Hezbollah along Golan Heights, the continuing great return march protests since March 30, 2018 by Palestinians along Gaza-Israel border and attacks on Israeli settlements in the northern and southern areas of the West Bank have forced Israeli Defense Force (IDF) to engage in a three-front war along its Northern, Eastern and Western border. Protesters backed by Hamas have been attacking Israeli settlements in Tulkarm, Ramallah, Hebron and Nablus. There had been reports of an Israeli soldier killed by the protestors, leading to IDF house demolition operation in AlAmri refugee camp. On its western frontier with Gaza strip, IDF has been confronting Palestinian refugees on the protest, for opening up borders and unification with the West Bank. To its northern borders with Lebanon and Syria, IDF launched Operation Northern Shield, in order to identify and destroy underground tunnels and Hezbollah strongholds using airstrikes.
The commemoration of Land Day to celebrate the events of March 30, 1976, led to a mass congregation of Palestinian refugees along the Gaza-Israel border, requiring the deployment of IDF soldiers along the separation barrier. However, this led to the diversion of focus from protests and attacks on Israeli settlements taking place in Northern, Central and Southern parts of West Bank, making it hard for IDF to coordinate on both the fronts. The chances of escalation remain high. The overall security situation of the region remained worse, as the ongoing civil war in Syria, have caused the development of Hezbollah's logistics and supply hub along Golan Heights. Having sensed a possibility of an imminent attack by Israeli forces, Lebanon has been mobilizing field guns to its southern borders. The above developments led to the launching of Operation Northern Shield by IDF, so as to destroy the overland structures and underground tunnels through a combination of airstrikes and mobilization of land troops.
• The protest marches and attacks by Palestinians on Israeli soldiers and Israeli settlement will continue, given the political situation prevailing in West Bank. While Israeli troops have so far been successful in suppressing the protests, an internal power struggle among Palestinian political faction will fuel anger against Israelis and may result in occasional attacks in Israeli settlements located among Palestinian households.
3. The rise of Right-Wing Nationalism in Israel
Over last few weeks local media have reported an increasing trend of hate-based crimes perpetrated by Jewish Israelis living in Jewish settlements among Palestinian households in various parts of the West Bank. This trend was further confirmed by an independent poll conducted by the Israeli Democracy Institute in which the majority of Jews preferred to have a companion, neighbors, and colleagues from the Jewish faith and household. Calls from prominent Israeli political leaders for building new settlements, along with a host of recent decisions by Israel's Supreme court on the legitimacy of the existing settlements in the West Bank areas, have been a catalyzing factor.
Since, passing of Jewish Nation-State law by the Knesset, with degradation of Arabic language to a special status, there has been a developing trend of racism among Jewish communities residing in the West Bank. On November 30, Israeli supreme court ruled in favor of Gush Etzion settlers thereby ending a 22-year legal battle. Soon after that on 2nd December, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein called for expansion of Israeli settlements across West Bank. Also, on 3rd December, the Israeli government approved $187 million for development and support to Jewish settlers along the border with Gaza. The chain of events has been reinforcing the systematic state-based support for the promotion of Jewish first sidelining Arab-Israelis and non-Jewish Israelis.
In light of recent political and judicial decisions, it is expected that the race-based attacks will be increased in the future. While right-wing Israelis will certainly attack Palestinian protestors along Jewish settlements, there's a high chance of Non-Jewish and Arab-Israelis may face racial attacks both verbal and physical in different parts of Israel.
4. Emerging Israel-Saudi Arabia relationship
The bilateral relationship between Saudi Arabia and Israel has been on upward swing driven by mutual interests with the change in regional power politics. Iran and its affiliated groups such as Hezbollah can be credited for the new entente cordiale between two former regional opponents. There have been reports regarding the sell of Pegasus espionage software by Israel to Saudi Arabia through its shell companies. It has been reported Israel has been using chemical products manufactured by Saudi Arabia based company in its settlements in Salfit Governorate. In the absence of complaints from fellow Arab states, keen to develop a relationship with Israel has given Saudi Arabia free hand to elevate itself in Pan-Middle Eastern politics.
Over last few years, the emergence of Iran as a regional power with a strong military force, and its ability to influencing military operations beyond its borders in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq have caused worry among Gulf states. Hence in an attempt to bridge the power and technology gap, they have been desperately courting allies from around the corner. With receding U.S influence in the Middle East and the emergence of Russia as a balancing element both in economic and military terms in the regional power politics, Gulf states such as UAE and Saudi Arabia have been developing their bilateral relationship with Israel, so as to maintain an upper hand.
Hence in the context of above development, the strategic cooperation between Israel and Saudi Arabia will continue to grow in the future. While Saudi Arabian aid to the Palestinian Authority will continue to exist, there are chances of the violent edge of armed struggle led by Hamas will face problems
We advise against all non-essential travels to areas in the West Bank at this time due to an uptick in violence and threat against Non-Jewish, Arab Israelis, and Jewish Israelis.
In the light of recent hate-based crimes, Foreign corporations operating either in parts of Israel or in areas close to West Bank have advised increase security of their premises and personnel.
Avoid all kinds of travel to Tulkarm, Ramallah, Nablus, and Hebron due to the potential for violence by Palestinian protestors supported by Hamas, and its militia groups. Night time travel in the above areas should be avoided at any cost.
Non-Jewish foreigners traveling in Israel must avoid moving around during Night hours due to the potential for hate-based crimes.
Avoid the immediate vicinities of government buildings, police stations, media outlet offices, Israeli settlements, and Palestinian households, given that these areas have been frequently targeted by militia groups and protestors.
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Loving Our Father But Not Our Brother
The rich man refers to Abraham as Father which reveals he is a religious Jew. He probably went to synagogue every week. He may have prayed, fasted, and even given significantly to the building fund. But his relationship with God did not carry over into his relationship with the man who suffered at his gate. He knew Abraham as his father, but he did not recognize Lazarus as his brother. This failure to recognize the brotherhood of humanity created a chasm between him and Lazarus in this life that carried over into the next life.
In this context, hell is not meant to create dividing lines between Christians and non-Christians, but to draw our attention to the chasms we create between ourselves and others, especially the invisible and ignored. Hell is not meant as a religious weapon we use to threaten others that have different religious beliefs as we do, but as a warning for us not to ignore the poor and suffering in our own backyard.
- Shawn Casselberry, "Is Hell for the Rich?" Red Letter Christians e-newsletter for 4/9/13.
http://www.redletterchristians.org/is-hell-for-the-rich/


Android Phones have totally changed the way we looked into Smart Phones, they have created a whole new genre. We have seen the Android standing up and developing against OS like Symbian, Meego, and Ios. Right now, the most irritating thing I find is that companies are loading their Android devices with lots of Junk apps that nobody uses. Some are custom apps designed by the company for their device and some belong to their partners. That is why most of the people go for Nexus and One devices, that ships the original Android version without junk apps. These apps hog up the system, occupy space, keeps running in the background and engages RAM which in turn leads to the battery and resource drainage. Here, we have come up with an easy tutorial that will enable you to take control of the bloatware and stop or remove them.
If your Android device is not rooted and you are planning to get rid of the bloatware it is little difficult. As root Android devices allow hiding such apps, not all but the Samsung Galaxy series devices are those that support these options.
If you are one such willing Android owner, we are telling you how doing it. First of all, open the app Drawer on your Android device then select the options/ menu button and then select "Hide Applications". Now, check the apps you want to remove on the next screen and then select "Done" on the top bar. The apps you've selected will get removed from the apps list but they will still be active in the background and thus consume your battery juice and RAM. Further, in the future whenever you want to get back those apps, select "Show Hidden Applications" options to get back the one's you want.
Done with hiding, now we should stop them from working so that they do not consume battery and RAM. Go to Settings, then go to Application Manager and then select it. You will see apps in three categories: 1. The third party or Downloaded apps, 2. Running apps, 3. All apps. Just swipe your finger from right to left to see the list of all apps that are present on your device. Now, just scroll down within the list to find the apps you want to stop from being active.
You will see a new screen, select "Force Stop" and "Disable" buttons. Now, the hidden and active apps have been disabled.
Prerequisite: You will need to root/ Jailbreak your Android phone first. Check out our Tutorial to root ICS and Jelly Bean devices.
The Google Play Store provides lots of file manager apps and terminal emulators that make things easier for you. Though this method is considered safe and easy, but you need to keep in mind certain things before proceeding with this kind of performings.
The warranty on your Android device voids once you have rooted it. But, if you want to reclaim the void warranty just install the stock firmware. There are many ways to unroot your Android device and are available over the internet but you never know which one is the reliable one. Users who own a Samsung Galaxy device, rooting your device will increase the binary flash count but if you reset it to "0" using the Triangle Away app by Chainfire.
Before removing any of the apps just ensure that it is not essential for the operating system and is also not associated with any other important function.
Whether you are a fresher on Android or old geek, it is advised that you read the steps below carefully before actually performing it on your device.
Step 1: First of all, download the recovery flashable Bloatkill.zip script. Don't extract it.
Step 2: Now, double click on "bloatkill.zip" to open it up.
Step 3: Next, browse to "META-INF\com\google\android\".
Step 4: Now, right-click on the "updater-script" and then extract the file into a folder onto the desktop.
Step 5: Next, open the file with a suitable program like NotePad++, or Adobe Dreamweaver or any such application.
Step 7: Now, the area you see in the red box is what you have to edit. Place the names of the APK and Odex files with those you want to remove from your phone.
Step 8: As soon as the editing is done, save the changes and exit the editor you used for the operation.
Step 9: Now, go to "updater-script" file back to its place: META-INF\com\google\android\ folder in bloatkill.zip.
Step 10: Next, copy the bloatkill.zip file to the root/ main directory of your device's SD card.
Step 11: Now, enable USB Debugging, go to "Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging".
Step 12: Next, reboot your device so as to enter it in Recovery Mode. To do so, when your device, press and hold the special combination of keys that are required to press according to your device.
Step 13: Now, from the main recovery menu, select "apply zip from sd card" and then select "bloatkill.zip" file.
Step 14: Reboot your device when the process has completed.
Once rebooted, see the app drawer you will be delighted as all the bloatware must have gone.
Want to share your joy or experiences? Feel free to do so; we are always here for you.


Recognizing the importance of the next wave of fresh produce consumers, leading Dutch fruit importer Cool Fresh has undertaken a unique research project with Dutch students to analyze how best to communicate with the so-called Generation Z. Cool Fresh's Nic Jooste will present some of the key points that have come out of focus groups and other research work carried out with hundreds of 14-21 year olds. He will then explain how his business intends to use the findings to help its customers improve their communication with the next group of economically active shoppers.
Join Charles Dunn as he tells a journey of how the traditional family farm boy from a 200-plus-year old company meets the UK "under 40's fruit growers" and is catapulted into a realm of networks and business opportunities around the world.
Corporate Social Responsibility is one of the buzzwords of our times, but in Mexico, Campos Borquez and its customers make it happen — and they are making a significant impact. Sergio Borquez will outline how his family's company is working with like-minded organizations and the end consumer to ensure that every step of the value-chain has CSR at its core. Sergio will illustrate that getting the process consistently right for just one product and one retailer can provide real sustainability and potentially save thousands of lives.
by the issues and play a role in the solving problems… in this case, increasing produce consumption.
Backed by research conducted by a powerhouse marketing firm and facilitated through Wageningen University and other partners, an effort was undertaken to improve consumption of "light users" by presenting food in different ways to boost mindful eating. This presentation will give insights into consumer behavior as well as how a coalition of groups can rally around a common cause to create significant change.
If you think the US and Canada are the only markets for imported produce from Latin American countries, you might want to think again…Asia and Europe are competing for the best products grown in these countries and, in many cases, their importers will pay top dollar for the best quality product. Join our panel for a thoughtful discussion on the latest developments in Free Trade Agreements, logistics opportunities, and other elements contributing to expansion of international trade from these countries.
The berry industry in the UK is a $1.5 billion industry at retail. Ten years ago, it was around $300 million. It is now the Number One category, contributing 20 percent of fruit category sales and an annual growth rate in excess of 16 percent.
This session will show how the berry category has grown in the past 10 years, and how it has evolved as a year-round product with local production and imports. Many micro-economic factors have contributed to the success, but there has also been tremendous leverage gained by a year-round consumer PR campaign that British Summer Fruits supports. This session will look at the effectiveness of that campaign and give some examples of best PR practices.
With a 100-year history of produce transactions done via a clock auction, the Cooperative Growers' Association (ZON) has seen many changes over the years. As "relationship-selling" has forced auction selling to diminish, growers have seen their returns fall. The impersonal nature of auction-selling and the true supply-and-demand forces of each day result in a better return to the growers, so there is a move to bring back the auction clock on a bigger global scale.
This presentation will bring us up-to-date on the reincarnation of the Dutch auction system and how its methods can be used on a global scale with collaboration from retail.
When Fruit Buyer Amy Lance was given the opportunity to take a 12-month sabbatical from UK retailer Waitrose, she jumped at the chance to gain real-life experience working with growers in different regions of the world. With tickets to California, Senegal and South Africa, Amy set out on her agricultural odyssey, worked in the fields of a fruit grower in California, then she trekked across the world to Senegal for work in the fields with a grower-exporter of row crops. Now Amy is planning for her final trip to South Africa scheduled in April 2017. Amy will be speaking about what she has learnt during her sabbatical and how this is helping her to gain a better understanding of the needs of growers so she can apply that knowledge back into her fruit buying role.
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